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Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05

Walter Sfpprell, local Alaska Steam hip agent. left by plane Monday for Seward. for a con ference with officials of the com pany who are arriving there from Seattle
 De- ails of MT. SipprelPs ex- pected transfer to Seward will be among the things discussed.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05
Center Program

 6:80 Mems softbaB schoolgirls, goo Dance LIBRARY CLOSED Sunday Open 1 pm 800 to 500 Library open. Mrs, Floyd Cook 700 Ping-pong championship Monday 10 to 4 Craft classes 2:0e pm Junior Folk Dancing (c ,uples onfY| 6:30 pm SoftbaII, school grnds
 (Women's) 2 to g Library Open Esther Wiley Tuesday, l0:00 on Craft classes 200 Jr. Folk dancing (adv.) 6:30 pm Softball (men) 2 to 9 Library open Margaret Lightfoot 8:l5 American Legion 6 Aux diary meeting Wednesday, 2:00pm Beginners folk dancing
 (under l21 3 to 5 & 7 to 9 Library open Sister Hilary Audrey Kraft Bertha Saeman 800 pm Square dancing Thursday 200 Adv. Jr. Folk-dancing 6:30 pm Women's Softball 7-9 Library open
 Marion Curtis 7;30 Adult leathercraft class 6;s0 Bingo (adults) Friday 2 % Beginners Folk dancing 
 (under 12)
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05

Bill Erskiue engineer on a boat at Port Williams arrived here yesterday by plane to visit his father w J. Erskine
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05

The party of 8 tourists arrived on schedule Sunday, to be met by one of Kodiak's sunniest
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05
: to g Librsry open Dorothy Clark 700 Oil Painting class
 Paul Bond) 800 pm Pot O Gold Dance

Receipt of a number of attract i've new children's books was re- ported by the Kodiak Commun- ity Library at the Community Center this week.
 All of the fiction and mystery stories in the several thousand book collection at the library are now on the shelves in alphabeti' cal order according to authors and work is progressing on the task of sorting and cataIoguing the non-fiction.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05

Kodiak's fast Community Center softbaIl team will play three games in the NOE League during the coming week.
 The Bears will meet the Fleet Weather nine on Saturday Ju- ly } evening. Next Tuesday they play the Civilian Club pas timers and on Wednesday will tangle with the PCS 400 team.
 The squad will leave che Com munity Ceuter at 6 pm on each of the above evenings. All inter- ested softball players are cordial ly invited to make the trips
 The Townies scored their sec- ond win of the week Thursday night when they defea ed the Marines, 3 to 2, in a sparkling game Jack Wagner's home run scoring Elmer Dean ahead of him, won the game for the 1 calls
Kodiak mirror., 1947-07-05
NOdiak nlOrOr ''S(eus of o4n,erica's Last 9ronfier

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Evening star., 1947-08-07
|Lt. Col. Cox Reports
As Gen. Young Third
Engineer Assistant

A third Assistant District Engi-
neer Commissioner has reported for
duty at the District Building. He
Is 1t. Col. Lavonne e. Cox, Corps
Of Engineers.
It is the first time since 1899 that
the city has had its full quota OF
three assistants TO the Engineer
Commissioner.
Col. Cox's duties will not be de-
fined until Brig. Gen. Gordon r.
Young, Engineer Commissioner, re-
turns from a vacation.
In general, however, Col. Cox and
the other two Assistant Engineer
Commissioners, 1t. Col. Kenneth E
Madsen and 1t. Col. Vernon A
Shurm, help Gen. Young in super
vising the physical upkeep and de-
velopment of the city.
A native Of Florence, Ala, Col
Cox is 80 and married to a native
Washingtonian, the former Anr
Moore, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
William Hull Moore They have 9
son Stepnen, 4, ana make tneil
home at 516 North Irving street
Arlington.
Col. Cox is a graduate Of Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute. He en-.
tered the Regular Army upon gradu'
alton. After engineering duty IL
New Mexico during the early stages
OF World War II, he spent two ane
a half years in the China Burma
India theater, where he received {
Bronze Star for his work in build
ing the first overseas airfields fol
B-29s near Calcutta.
He has Just completed work OF
his masters degree in civil engi
neering at Massachusetts, Institut,
Of Technology.
Evening star., 1947-08-07
Progress in Preparedness
is Lauded by Gen. Devers.
By the Assoeiotsd Press

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7.-Unifica-
ton OF the armed forces will result
In more preparedness progress in
the next year than any one would
have dared predict" says Gen
Jacob L. Devers, commanding gen
eral of the Army Ground Forces
This country cant fight another
war without knowing what the other
fellow is doing" Gen. Devers said
yesterday in a press conference be-
fore his appearance at the Penn
sylvania convention of the Ameri-
can Legion.
1--WE must have a we'll informed
people," he told convention dele
gates I'VE are under theological
attack this very minute and shock
ing number have surrendered al
ready to that attack"
Evening star., 1947-08-07
James I..
Dies Of Heart Attack

James Rutherford Craighill, ST.,
TO, a resident of Naples, Fla. for the
past 18 years, died In Emergency
Hospital yesterday Of a heart all
ment.
Mr.. Craighill, who had beer i'll for
several months, came to Washing
ton from Florida about a month ago
and had been patient in the hos
pital during much of that time.
Born in Suffolk, Va, In 1877, he
was a son of the Rev. James B.
Craighill, Episcopalian clergyman,
whose last post before his death in
1913 was that of minor canon at the
Washington Cathedral. Mr.. Craig
hill attended schools at Bel Air, Md,
and was graduated from the Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute.
| After living for q time in Oak
mont, Pa. near Pittsburgh, he
moved to Florida, where he was a
building contractor.
Mr.. Craighill Is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Anne H. Craighill; four
sons, Capt. Robert r. Craighill, di-
rector of the Navy's Civil Readjust-
ment Section, Washington; Comdr.
Richard s. Craighill. secretary to
the Academic Board at the Naval
Academy; James Rutherford Craig
hill. jr., and Alexander Lee Craighill,
both of Washington. and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ellen Craighill Thomas,
Washington.
A sister, Miss Susan r. Craighill,
is former administrative principal
in the Washington public school sys-
tenn and q brother, George Bowdoin
Craighill, is a prominent Washing
ton attorney.
Funeral services will be held at
1880 am. tomorrow in Christ
Church, Thirty-f1rst and o streets
NV. with burial in Berlin, Md.
Evening star., 1947-08-07

him take his cash box home for
safekeeping.
When thieves got around to his
station, Mr.. Honeywell was pleased
to report to police that they got
nothing more valuable than a few
cartons Of oil. Then he went home
and found the burglars had pre-
ceded him. They carried OF the
cash box containing t45.
Evening star., 1947-08-07
Club to Hear Heqstrom

Harold E. Hegstrom, superSntend-
ent of the National Training School
for Boys, will speak at the weekly
luncheon meeting of the Washing
ton Exchange Club at 1915 Tues
day at the Willard Hotel. His sub
ject will be juvenile delinquency and
rehabilitation.
The best tea comes from paintings
at high elevations.
Evening star., 1947-08-07
Cos Stotion Proprietor
Outwitted by Thieves
By the Assceiofsd Press

INDIANAPOLIS Ind.-A wave of
gasoline station burglaries had NAL
colin Honeywell, local station pro-
prietor, worried enough to make
Evening star., 1947-08-17
By Robert N, Cool

big change American steel economy in prospect
the predicted depletion Of the Lake Superior mines
Though that accessible iron deposits
Mnneso fabulous Mesab will not be played for from
still factor after that
the EasCena States already looking toward the
St. Lawrence River region for their next bonanza.
Research indicates that undeveoped
fields Labrador rival the Mesab About $1,000
eventual mining Like the
hemate which has supplied than of
United States needs for half century, that found Labrador seems
to be of high quality readily mined and plentiful.
Adirondacks Are Re-examined r.
exploration continues railway planned connect the Quebec
Labrador region with the ST. Lawrence River
Another where Mdwestern companies becoming active
York States Adirondack Mountain section Here still found
od!me mining
the Revolution and the Civil War from
Adirondack several steel companies have been
this believed to contain Of 8O
tons hghgrad could not compete with the
pit Mesab back into largescale
accessible Superior
been exhausted
1888 Mdweern steel corporation announced
World War brought prospcors into the mountains
showed THAT lot of remained these
j -,Es s.z14s
Evening star., 1947-08-17

possibility of increasing foreign
also been suggested seemen Annually the
United States than 1o0oooooo tons Of iron
beginning of this traffic
carried fegters Superior industrial
Riviera behind the southern shores Lake Michigan and Lake Erie
Seaway project awaiting action would
ships the lakesand this
would moving outside the inland steel plants
both
OF World Importance
Recently NJ White president the Republic Steel Corp told the
American Institute Of Mining and MetalurgcaI Engineers:
Northeastern quality after concentration
but ALL the steel industry
with lake Southeastern not this posi-
therefore, steel industry continues
Lakes supply should lake from
lake Newfoundland
where that be poble lesser degree from the Northeastern
future of about 80
industry"
Some industry upon
limestone For Birmingham, Ala has the
leading rival the steel pattern and lately the West has
developed steel industry.
Steel With the high quality Lake Superior passing Its peak author
tiles that almost inexhauible inferior
after sections
in the steel picture
t
Evening star., 1947-08-17
By constontine Brown

So long as Germany and Japan,
two highly industrialized nations
with a total population Of more
than 150,00o,000 persons, remain un-
productive and dependent on the
United States for their minimum
daily ration, there is little chance
for world wide economic and politi-
cal recovery.
The situation is seen clearly by
all American policymakers. But
considerations of high politics have
prevented their taking a definite
stand on this important ques-
ton, which transgresses all the
world plans of the administration.
The Morgenthau plan, which was
adopted by the American Govern
ment at time when resentment
against Nazi crimes was running
high, proved absolutely unavoidable
and devastatingly detrimental to
world economy-particularly that of
the United States.
Shortsighted Plan
Henry Morgenthsu and those who
inspired his plan to convert Ger
many into a pastoral state paid
little attention to what the post
war picture would be like. They
imagined, like the vast ma jority
of the public and most members
of the administration, that the end
of the shooting war would see Big
Three harmony continuing and
projected into the future.
The fact that Allied unity existed
only in name and was preserved,
even during the most difficult days
of struggle, by continuous yield
ing on the part of the United States
and Britain was completely ig-
nored. Liberal political philosophers
felt certain that the postwar policy
of the United States necessarily
would be one of political isolation
ism and economic interventionism. Z"
Benjamin Cohen defined this
cryptic statement in 1914 when he
was counsel for James F. Byrnes
in the Office of War Mobilization.
At a private dinner in Washington
he explained that politically Eu-
rope would adopt some form or
another of neo-Marxism and thus
would be far ahead Of our political
system. Regardless Of what we
might say or do, Europe-and for
that matter the rest of the cold
world-no longer would follow, our
political doctrines of antiquated
liberalism snd capitalism. But after
the war there would be long Pc
riod of dire poverty in all countries
which had suffered destruction. We
would be the only nation capable
Of helping the Others out and
would be compelled to siphon money
and materials into the poverty
. stricken world. This was the
meaning OF the expression, eco
nomic interventionism."'
No one in the highest quarter
of the Government conceived that
there would be an early breakdown
of harmony" between the Big
Three, although those who did not
shut their eyes to facts could easily
Evening star., 1947-08-17
By Robert E. Geieer

America is heading into new
electric light and power crisis.
The margin between demand for
electricity and the capacity Of the
plants to produce it is about as
narrow as 1t ever has been. q r..
But industry leaders say. that next
winter, when the squeeze" on the
reserve. power plants will be the
tightest, the flick Of a switch still
will bring an adequate flow Of elec-
tricity into homes and plants.
The industry is in the midst of
its greatest expansion programs
IS 900 900, 900 job-to meet the un-
precedented demand for power.
Charles E. Cakes, president of the
Edison Electric Institute, says this
program will add more new gener-
ating capacity to local company
plants than is presently installed
in all of the Government-owned
power projects, including iva,
Boulder Dam and Bonneville"
1t may take five. years. An in
stitute survey showed that by next
year the situation probably will
improve slightly but that not until
the spring of 1s49 will the country
be past the tight squeeze"
Consumption Peak in AS
Here is the situation:
At the height Of its war effort
in January, 1945, America touched
a power consumption peak OF 38,-
$4,000 kilowatts, about 10000, 900
above the prewar high.
The power industry expected this
/ peak to decline after the war. It
did fall off for q time but soon
started up again.
The peacetime high that was
reached in the Christmas week Of
l946 was more than one-eighth
higher than any wartime record. It
climbed to 43,ls4, 900 kilowatts.
The equipment available 10 major
utilities to meet this peak. had q
total dependable capacity Of n, ,928,-
600 kilowatts. That means they
were operating with reserve Of
only 2.7s4,o0o kilowatts. Normally
the companies estimate they need q
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Industriali5ed Axis Held U1al~to World RecotOye,,
Germany JpanP and Stop Leaning U.

see that the, U, s.. S. r. was going
to insist that she alone obtain the
chief benefits of Allied victory. II
was obvious to all those who had
attended the Teheran, Yalta and
Potsdam Conferences that Russia
was going to take everything she
wanted and give little in return
u. S. Foots the Bill
In spite of all these clear signs
which far-seeing politicians shoulc
have taken as warning, the ad.
ministration adopted and applied
the Morgenthau plan, which pro-
vided for the destruction of all
German industry and the trans
formation of the Reich into purely
agricultural state.
The Morgenthau plan was put
into effect with a vengeance. But
1t overlooked the fact that the main
German agricultural areas-which
were insufficient to feed the popula-
ton even in peacetime-had been
taken over by the Russians, who
Immediately after the Nazi sur
render, pulled down the iron shut.
ters between the eastern and west
ern zones of the Reich. Whatever
land is titled in the eastern zone is
titled for the benefit Of Russia ano
her satellites alone.
The result of that Russian policy
has been to force the Allies to feec
the, German population west of the
Elbe River from their own stocks
America has footed the bill. Britain
is too poor to do much for the Ger.
mans in her own occupation zone
and France is not much better of
An Economic Vacuum
The various impartial investiga-
tions by former President Hoover
certain congressional committees
and more recently by Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, the American commander
in Germany,smade it clear that w
must put Germany back on her fee'
ndustrially. This was necessary
not only to unburden American tax.
payers, who will have to pay more
than $1,000, 100000 over the mex
three years for the support of theil
former enemies, but also to assis'
recovery in Europe.
German coal and German manu-
factured goods played an important
role in world economy before tn.
war, just as Japanese products did
The war created an economic vac
uum which, apparently, cannot
be filled. After World War I Brit.
ain, France, Italy and Japar
temporarily took the place OF th'
defeated Central Powers. Aftel
World War II Britain and Francs
were so shattered that they wer,
incapable of filling the vacuum
produced by the collapse Of oul
former enemies.
Russia is both unwilling and un.
able to cooperate economical!
with the rest of the world. He
price for providing other countries
with some Of her agricultural sur
pluses, products of the rich Ukraine
is that they become her politica
satellites.
Whatever Russia sends to ItAl.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

rushed to Germany shortly after
ne was sworn in as successor to
Robert Patterson, who had resigned
in disgust. :.
A compromise is likely to be the
upshot of the whole situation. But
whatever is done to alleviate the
German situation, 1t Is obvious to all
American observers that all our
plans for the economic reconstrue-
ton of Europe must remain mere
palliatives so long as the vacuum
produced by the destruction of Ger
lSee BROWN. Page C-2l
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Change in Weather
Would Hurt Orient
By Harold K. kilks

NANKING.-The one bright spot
in china's otherwise dismal pic
ture Is this years crop prediction,
which agricultural experts say
should bring a better-than-averase
yield.
Despite spotty conditions in some
provinces and the usual localized
famine areas in others, the general
expectation is for a rice and grain
harvest at least equal to or larger
than last years average crop.
Reports from Szechwan Province
frequently called chins's breedbas-
ket, say spring crops were "excep-
tionally excellent" and that there
is every expectation Of even bet
ter production for the summer
season.
Unfavorable Factors
Weather in the next several weeks
will determine China's l947 faral
production definitely, but observers
in this capital said that only pro-
tracted drought or excessive rain
fall could pervent harvesting enough
to feed the nation, = =. u.
Against these, favorable. forecasts,
however, are four unfavorable
factors:
l. The heavy military acquisitions
of foods and collection OF land taxes
in kind chat is. in crops) have
placed serious burdens on the
farmers. Several provincial govern
ments have urged the, national ad-
ministration to forgive" the land
taxes in their regions this. year.
2. Transportation blockades pre-
vent easy and cheap movement of
foods from surplus sections to con-
sumers, particularly in the case of
Manchurias surplus soybean crop,
oadly needed in hungry North
China.
3. Many farm areas are implanted
or untended, particularly in Shan
tung Province, because farmers have
fled or been driven of by military
operations. r
Transportation Problem
4. The Communists have shrewdly
planned and executed raids against
government food-coflection centers,
either carrying OH or destroying
large stocks of grain, or in some
cases handing them out to local
populations.
A considerable volume of food
manages to filter through military
olockades, but costs are high, and
sometimes cost alone prohibits
transportation. Heavy melon and
frl1it crops in West, China went to
waste because of the expense Of
moving them to the dense eastern
population centers.
Surveys by NanHng experts in
dicated these HARVEST prospects by
regions:
.r
Szechwan, better than average;
Yellow River regions, grain crops
good; Hopeh, spotty due to some
local drought areas; Lower Yangtze
Valley, at least average; Kwantungi
Province, rice heavily damaged by
worst floods in many years; Human,
Kwangsi and Kiangsi Provinces,
spotty with numerous local famine
areas due to drought. Anhwei
Province, state of emergency de-
clared because Of local rice. riots"
indicating probable food shortages.
Distributed by the Associated Press,)
Evening star., 1947-08-17

and France is simply as a matter Of
propaganda and the goods are con-
signed to the local Communist
parties to bolster party membership.
The result of this Is that America
alone is called upon to expend her
wealth to maintain Europe. We
have spent, or are spending, more
than $4,000, ,000, 900 in foreign as
sistance programs.
The new plan offered to Europe
by Secretary Of State Marshall in
his June address at Harvard Uni
versity will call for an additional Is
or 80 billion dollars. The wealth of
the United States is not unlimited.
We spent $500, ,000, 900 900 during the
war and are reaching the bottom
of the barrel.
London, Paris Protested
Under these circumstances, and
as the result of comprehensive re-
ports from Gen. Clay, the War
Department instructed its repre-
sentative in Germany to scrap the
Morgenthau plan and begin partial
re-industrialization of the Reich,
taking care to prevent the recon-.
struction of plants which might
produce goods for war purposes. ID
This brought an immediate pro-
test from both London and Paris.
The British government, which is
welded to a neo-Marxist policy of
naturalization of all industry,
wanted to apply the same policy in
Germany and consequently disliked
the new instructions given Gen.
Clay. The French protested because
they fear an industrial Germany
might once more become threat
to their national security.
The French position is somewhat
incomprehensible to the average
American, who believes that the
United Nations Is able to prevent
aggression against weak countries.
The realistic French, however, point
out that the League of Nations
which was more efficient-from q
practical point of view, than the
present U. N. organization-did not
prevent the Germans from starting
another war. Moreover, the French
whisper, won't re-industrialization
Of the Reich play into the hands
of the Russians If they can jockey
the other powers into leaving Ger
many?
Clay Fought Change
i Faced with a storm OF protest
from London and Paris the State
Department attempted to change
the orders given Gen. Clay. But
Gen. Clay fought against the
change. He informed the War De-
partment plainly that If the State
Department instructions, which ran
counter to those issued by his i'm
mediate superiors, had to be obeyed
he would resign from the service
which would have Cancelled his
right to pension-and would take
the issue to the country through
the press.
Alarmed at the effect; such action
might have on public opinion In this
fcountry, Secretary Of War Royal
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Another Squeeze Due


But it takes three years to fill an
order for q large generator. The
annual capacity Of generator build
ing plants is only SUFFICIENT to con-
struct equipment with capacity
Of around 1000, 600 kilowatts. So
the manufacturers output hasn't
been great enough to overtake new
demands. E.,
Power experts believe the "squeezs'
next winter will be even tighter
than last Christmas week.
Already they are looking ahead
for ways to meet the situation.
For instance Florida companies
have requested the use Of part OF
the wartime feet >of tankers, now
at anchor in Florida waters, to boost
power output. Each OF these ships
Is equipped with generators sum
Client to supply a small town with
electricity.
Mr.. Cakes says "all customers
demands win be met in 1947 and
the years following"
What can the power commission
do to help Il the power supply be-
comes drastically low?
The Federal Power Act provides
that 1t can order power companies
to interconnect their lines and II
necessary form great "grids' OF
power networks.
In the spring Of l94l the entire
Southeast was interconnected. Re
Gently the commission has ordered
interconnections in the Northwest
and the Gulf States.
tD.stributsd ~ the Associated Press.)