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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
MAN BROWNS. AT FAIRBANKS.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Sept. l5.-- lR-W Warren Steele, about 32 drown ed Saturday night in the Cinema River then he backed his loaded oil truck too close to the stream i'll at tempting to turn around.
 His companion, Bonnie Carr, of Fairbanks, kicked out window as the truck sank into l5 feet of water and managed to reach shore. Steele's father, Bob Steele. is a former Postmaster of Eagle, Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept 15.-R-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is As, American Can 86, Anaconda 34. Curtiss- Wright 53s, International Harvester 84. Kennecott 45, New York Cen tral l47s, Northern Pacific 19a4, U. s. Steel 6812, Pound S403.
 Sales today were 500,000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows In- dustrials, l75.38: rails. ALTO: utili- ties. 35.2l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
FIRST AID GLASS
 GETS ITS VICTIM

MORRISVILLE, Vt. -iR-Rest- ing from a trip up Elmore noun tain, group leader Richard Law renee showed his All club boys how to bandage an injured ankle.
 A few minutes later the group put the first aid demonstration to good use. Lawrence sprained an ankle on the downward hike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
AWAIT FORD's RETURN

Local 1-16. ILWA, reported no information concerning the reported strike settlement agreement reach- ed yesterday in Ketchikan beyond a b.ief confirming telegram from then representative there, George sord
 Secretary Alex Laiti stated this morning that any announcement by the local would await Fords return rom Ketchikan,
 Dispatches received in Juneau said the Ketchikan agreement cov- CTS Juneau and the local long ihoremcn will work ships just as ioon as the agreement has been ratified at meeting here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
DISCHARGE OF SHIPS CARGO BEGINS TODAY
Issues Left Unsettled Und- CT Agreement No Ju-
 neau Developments

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. l5.-- R--L --Longshoremen started unload ing 1856 tons of cargo from the ship Sailors Splice here today after an agreement was signed yesterday ending Alaska's five -week-old wat erfront tieup.
 The ship, which had been taken north last week to Wrangell and Petersburg. returned to Ketchikan.
 The agreement was signed be- tween the O-mternationa Long shoremens and Warehousemens Union and officials of three steam snip companies.
 The longshoremen said they struck for guaranteed minimum wage and protection from suit under the Taft Hartley Law.
 Under the agreement the princi- pals will continue negotiations for 30 days in an effort to settle two points still at issue and if no set clement has been made by that time the controversy will be referred to Federal mediation.
 The questions still to be settled are the Taft Harley Law issue and the division of work between long shoremen and sailors.
 However the longshoremen agreed not to claim any work presently done by the sailors.
 The strike was climaxed last week when the Sailors Splice arrived and ketchikan merchants closed their stores in retaliation against the strike and offered to unload the craft themselves
 At Seattle Harry Lewis, Federal Conciliator. who attended confer ences here, said the issue of the Taft Hartley Law the major ques- tion to be settled in the coming negotiations The union demand for a guaranteed minimum annual wage was not pressed. Lewis said. and the agreement was signed without it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
NEW CITY CLERK AND
 TREASURER, ANCHORAGE

Appointment of Ben w. Boeke by the Anchorage City Council as new city clerk and treasurer, has been announced there. He was named to fill the post left vacant by Tom Downes' termination of service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive probably late tomorrow.
 Alaska, scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail rom Vancouver 9 p. m. Wednc5- day
 Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Princess Norah. scheduled to ar rive from Skagway at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow morning and sails south one hour later as 8.30 o'clock.
 FROM ARKANSAS
 Caroline Miller of Hot Springs, Ark, is registered at the Baranof notel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
YAKIMA COUPLE HERE

MT. and Mrs. George Martin of Yakima are staying at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
FROM ARKANSAS
WEATHER REPORT

Temperature for 24-Hour
 } Period Ending 7.30 O'Clock
 This Morning
 In Juneau Maximum, 49; } minimum, 45.
 At Airport Maximum. 49; ) minimum A.
 WEATHER FORECAST Juneau and vieinity) } Fair and cooler tonight, } Increasing cloudiness and
 } slightly warmer Tuesday.
 PRECIPITATION
 , tPast 24 hours ending 7;3o m. today
 In Juneau .75 inches: since Sept. l, 9.13 inches,. } since July 1. 2235 inches.
 At Airport 69 inches. } since Sept. 1, 5.32 inches;
 } since July 1, 15.64 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15

lContinNed on PaQc EtQhN
Evening star., 1947-08-10
By Edward A. Greene

Whhemna orme A. Of Chevy Chase better known willie
around the Ambassador pool outstanding
swimming circles In less than
ship meets for the Ambassadors joined
September Cup
Regatta Philadelphia her
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
st1tutton avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by great
masters. Chiaroscuro prints. In
aissnous t Art Of the Americas,
xAMSSaL 'rfSSkn sHsR6sRRRfs H1sRSM n Rational, COL
lection Of Fine Arts, Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can paintings. from private coliec-
ARTS AND 1S6TsrssEss Hs9ss sss s1f 1SsRs
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
SMITHSONIAN BUIEDiNG. Division
| Of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
by Childe Hassam through Sep
rEsRR asHeet taA4iLERY OF ART. Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-orientai
and etchines BY whistler and other
american artists; changing ex-
coRCORAN GALLERY OF ART.
seventeenth street between New
s.n Yo,k n.,e1,n avenue and : :srestEAmeri; Amei
the W. A. Clark collection. Water
colors BY artists of Washington
and vicinity. Sculpture by Heinz
PHiILiFs MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-nrst street-Chang-
ing exhibitions, paintings and
prints. Small paintings. drawings
ana prints. Arthur Dove retro
LISfAkY OF CONGRESS, East Capt.
Prints. Fifth annual print exhihi-
tion: Recent accessions to Rosen-
wald collection. Utah centennial.
Arts CLUE, 2017 I street NV
summer nI show OF members work.
THE WHITE GALLERY At u,,,.d
street Nw.-summer exhibition Of
Washinston Artists Guild. through
sAkNETT sass1,r, AR.N 15!.S . GALLERY, \. M 1e7
ington painters. extended throaeh Tssan
WATKINS GALLERY, American UNI
versity campus--Watkins memorial
collection and student works. sun
days' 2 Pm to Pm: weekdays,
inss BY art faculty members.
FUBLfC LIBRARY. Mshth and X
streets sN.W,-Exhibition of water
coiors by Andre Pizzini. through
HoWARDi UNIVERSITY GALLERY
OF ART. Founders Library. Sixth
street and Howard place NV
r,SsIn student 2 Eork z
I5os Thirty- S second thStapN, street SWM,
, Byzantine art. Closed to septem-
Pan n AMER1cAN nj UNION. Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street
E.W-EIxhibition by, Felipe Or
AEffsTGs AEfi7fsGi 'esSooa cSoofEkHtTifvE. EAkatTft 1920 NJ
street N;W;-Exhibition BY Po-
tomae Plein Artists. through
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Girl, 9, Finds Sewing Is Fun

are the old ones, and I like to sew
for the small ones best, because
small scraps of cloth can be used
I am looking forward to Christ.
mas, because I want new sewinf
set with mannequins to model ir
fashion shows. I also want a small
sewing machine.
I have even helped my mother
sew hens in my play clothes. ]
liked that. I do not like clothes
that are bought ready to wear, be-
cause they never do look as neat
or as pretty as those designed and
made for me by my mother. We
have so much fun planning clothes
together. We draw each dress or
coat, carefully, then color them
before cutting the cloth.
I do the same when designing
for my dolls, plan on paper, then
carry out my designs on cloth.
I spend a lot of time sewing, and
sometimes invite my friends in to
have a sewing party.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Prize Contribution
By Jeanette Twiford, 9

I have many hobbies, but my
favorite Is sewing. I have sewed
for as long as I can remember.
On my 9Th birthday my dad
gave me a sewing set, complete
with q small doll for a model, and
all the things used by designers.
There were dresses stamped on cloth
ready to be cut out and sewed.
After I made those, I tried cut
ting clothes by patterns, and en-
joyed making coats and dresses.
Most Of all I like to design my doll
clothes without patterns, using my
own ideas. I especially like to dress
my dolls as natives of other lands,
particularly in styles of south
of the border"
I have many dolls, some old, some
new, large and small; my favorites
Evening star., 1947-08-10

longs to the beginning of this period.
Cezanne's portrait of Nine. Ce-
zanne, another important acquisi-
ton, is hanging in the music room
at the Phillips Memorial Gallery.
The subject, seated, Is dressed in
fresh, bright blue against back
ground of warm brown and tan.
In the small drawing room there
is a newly acquired Corot, gentle
Landscape with distant hills and a
cloudy sky, entitled Mountains and
Plains"
In the main gallery on the second
Ifoor is Rouault's portrait of the
French lyric poet Paul Verlaine: not
a formal likeness in any sense, but
an imaginative reconstruction of
that unusual personality, in the
artists characteristic stained glass"
technique.
The late Arthur Dove, whose
retrospective is still on view at the
Phillips Gallery, is the only artist
Of whose work two examples have
been acquired: Lake Afternoon
and THE Park" both of which are
in the current show. In these paint
ings, one can identify the starting
points from which the distractions
were developed. incidentally, the
Phillips Gallery has the largest col
lection in existence of works by
Dove (excepting that in the hands
of the artists New York dealer.)
BY Charles Burchfield is a beauti-
full work, ''Sultry Afternoon" SIM
pie rural scene of trees and rolling
land, painted looking toward the
sun.
Five Washington artists works
are among the acquisitions: John
Gernand's engaging little "Vignetted
Bouquet" which was in his one
man show at the Phillips Gallery a
few months ago; Sarah Baker,
semiabstract Pitcher" Bernice
Cross BLACK Pitcher" Robert
Gates Cows in Moonlight" little
nocturne seen from . height, and
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Maple Trees Beauty
Inspires Girl, II, Who
Grew Up With 1t
Prize Contribution
By Mildred Lee Reid, II
Plum Point School

When God created man, He en-
dowed him with many gifts. He
gave him golden sun, great rivers,
high-peaked mountains, vast grassy
plains and lofty trees. All these
things and many others are the
treasures God gave man, so why do
men forget that God created the
trees, too? I do believe a tree re-
quired as much creation as man.
I remember one fall morning
when I was just a little girl, my
mother pointed out a little maple
to me. She told me how it had
struggled to grow. how the cater
pillar had tried to rob It's life, how
the sun had burned its limbs, and
how the long, cold winter had
chilled 1t. One morning I noticed
this tree was every color of the
rainbow, and I ran into the house
and asked mother, why does the
little maple tree have all those
colors?" She said, "Why, don't you
know cold weather is coming?"
During the next summer ]
watched the maple grow. I couldn' t
see 1t grow, but I knew 1t sprang
higher and higher. Long hours I sat
in the shade Of the tree and played
with my toys, painted my picture
books. and often fell asleep in its
cool shade. My daddy often came
over and told me stories.
Today, the tree stands straight
and strong. I stand and gaze at
the tree and often wonder whether
II I will grow to be as strong and
straight as this tree of Gods?
Evening star., 1947-08-10
That's Life

Prize Contribution
BY Thomosino D. Anderson, II
Dunbar High School
Deep blue, sometimes black or grey
Where sun and moon have learned
to stay
That's the sky.
Deep meadows and open plains.
Mountain peaks and blossomed
lanes
That's the earth.
High waves rolling to and fro
Sometimes fast and m e m s
slow
That's the sea.
Wood, bark, and live leaves Of green
Making for birds nests a screen
That's tree.
Sky and sea and earth and tree
Were before we came to be
That's the truth.
But until the day we die
We rule tree, earth, sea, and sky
So we think!
The flag of the United States was
Axed except for the disposition Of
the white stars IN 1918.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Vim a Cash Prize
flirting, Drawimg
for Junior Star

If you are not more than 1s or
have not yet finished high school
you are eligible to write or draw for
The Junior Star. AS many as five
cash prizes of 81 are awarded for
the best contributions published
each week, and writer's of stories
which, in the opinion of the editor
are of sufficient merit are issued
cards indentifying them as Junior
Star reporters. Here are the rules:
l. All contributions must be original.
b, z stor,es articles sa. poems etc.
Drawings must be in black ink or black
crayon on white paper and must b.
mailed: nat, not rolled or folded.sY ~
). Name, age, address, telephone mum
Der and school Of the contributor must bt
in the upper left-hand corner of written
contributions and on the back of drawings
and he reserves the right to publish an,
contribution. in whatever form he thinks
best. regardless Of whether 1t is awarded
q prize. He may also withhold prize.
awarded for contributions found not to b.
Checks for contributions awarded
prizes today will be mailed this
week. Address your contributions
to: Junior Star Editor, 727 Stal
Building, 110l Pennsylvania avenue
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Evening star., 1947-08-10

IOflCc CLASS lTccoGylc championship.
Three weeks later she swan with
the team against Penn Hall Junior
College In Chambersburg, Pa, and
won the 40-yard freestyle, the 40
yard backstroke and was member
Of the winning relay team.
During last winter she was unable
to swim with the team because of q
throat infection which bothered her
for five months. She was back in
training in May, however, and July
II she won the District senior wom-
ems AAU 50-yard freestyle title Cher
time for this event was 305 COM
pared with the Districts record of
29.D and was on the winning medley
relay team where she took freestyle
honors, and Leola Thomas and Car
olyn "Punky" Prescott won the back
and breast strokes, respectively.
Wilhelmina began swimming at
the age of 3, and when she was 8,
could swim the 25-yard distance at
the Columbia Country Club, and was
unlimited champion of the club at
the age OF 10.
Bill Armstrong, her coach at the
Ambassador, says, She is one of the
most promising women swimmers in
this part of the country, but we
have to train her slowly so we won't
have a recurrence of her throat
Infection"
Championship swimmers seem to
run in the Orme family, for her
father, Jimmy Orme. was a member
Of the YMCA medley relay team of
some years back.
Wilhelmina is tall, slim girl with
the right body for a swimmer. At
the rate she is progressing she may
soon be challenging the top SWIM
mers Of the Nation. but right now
she Is out to break the District So
yard freestyle record she almost
eQualled in July.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
UncleRay's
Corner
By Romon Coffman

In the year 1877 a German youth
went to Vienna. He was 16 years
old In his native town, Bonn, he
had won note for his ability in
music. but the great wide world
knew little of him. The youth was
Ludwig van Beethoven.
AS a tiny lad of 4, Ludwig had
been fond Of playing the piano, but
his father, singer and music
teacher, tried to take from him the
love of music, which was his nature.
Many time the child was whipped
because he did not want to practice,
or because he did not play in the
manner his father desired.
While in Vienna, Ludwig met the
famous Mozart, who was 80 years Of
age and was known as a genius all
over Western and Central Europe
He listend to the playing of young
Beethoven and afterward remarked,
Keep your eyes on him. He will
make stir In the world"
Became Pupil Of Haydn.
Five years after his first visit to
Vienna, Beethoven returned to the
city so famous for its masters of
music. Mozart was now dead, but
the young man became pupil OF
Haydn. another noted musician.
It was not long before Beethoven's
name spread over Vienna. Not only
was he a great pianist, but he COM
posed music as WELL His work
seemed to grow finer with each
passing year.
The time came when Beethoven
had to fight against despair. Before
he was 80 years old, his ears began
to whistle and buzz" as he de-
scribed it himself. He was becom-
ing deaf.
A man less strong than Beethoven
might have permitted deafness to
spoil his life, but not so with this
musician. II will bid defiance to
my fate" he declared.
Reasons for Ill Temper.
To most persons who came to know
him. Beethoven seemed ill-tempered,
even rude. Study of his life shows
that there were more or less secret
reasons why he did not get along
well with people.
More than once he appears to
have fallen deeply in love. Each
time something happened to keep
the course of his love from running
smoothly.
He was deaf. He was lonely. He
was without the help which q kindly
wife might have given him. Yet he
struggled on to compose new work
Another trouble came to him
through his nephew. When one of
his brothers died. he left 9-year-
old son, and Beethoven gave the boy
a home. The nephew was sent to
school, but did poor work in mis-
studies. His uncle then sent him to
learning a trade, but he failed in
that as we'll. At length he left
Vienna and became a soldier.
Wrote moonlight Sonata"
Beethoven wrote music for the
violin and for the orchestra, as well
as for the piano. Much of his best
work was done after he became deaf
Among the works of Beethoven
are many symphonies and sonatas
One piece Of music he called Sonata
IN c Sharp Minor" but 1t has be-
come famous under another name,
the Moonlight Sonata"
There is story that the Moon
light Sonata" was composed while
Beethoven was playing the piano to
please blind girl in a cottage. AS
he played, we are told, moonlight
shone through the window on the
piano.
Beethoven died at the age of Sc.
1t seems that he had few close
friends during his lifetime, but the
public loved him for his music.
Thousands Of persons gathered
around his home at the time of
his funeral
Evening star., 1947-08-10

Mitchell Jamieson's study of q
bombed town, shown in his one man
exhibition at the Whyte Gallery
early this year.
Away from the gallery at present
are a number of new acquisitions
among them Christopher Woods
Tigers and Arc de Triomphe," seer
in his one-man show last season
and now being shown elsewhere, as
is the case with Maurice Sterne'
"Benares" in the Pioneers OF
Modern Art" travelling under auspi-
ces of the American Federation OF
Arts.
Other acquisitions include Karl
Knath's Mexican Platter" an ab-
straction with marked equilibrium
Stuart Davis abstract Mandolin
Evening star., 1947-08-10
Art
and
Artists
Phillips Memorials
New Works Include
Girl With Pitchfork
and Mime. Cezanne'
By Florence S. Berrymon


The Phillips Memorial Gallery
during the past season acquired
more than 20 paintings for it's per-
manent collection. They include
some very important additions as
well as interesting works by the
younger painters. Some Of these
paintings are hanging in different
rooms in the gallery, others are out
on loan and few are stored.
Reproduced here is an early work
by Winslow Homer, Girl With a
Pitchfork," done in 1867, only a few
years after he began to paint in
oils. There is sharp contrast of dark
and light areas. The girls blue
blouse and full brown skirt tone
into the background. Her head and
the haystack are sharply silhouetted
against the pale sunlit sky.
Homer's reputation rests chiefly
upon his marines and nautical
genre, done during the last quarter
century of his career. Since many
of his earlier works seem to be un-
accounted for, it is gratifying to
have another example In Washing
ton, from his first decade Of paint
ing.
Homer Is one Of our three greatest
18th century painters, with an au-
thentic American flavor. He was a
descendant on both sides of his
family of English settlers in New
England in the mid-17th century.
A sea-going uncle, and a mother
who painted in watercolor, afford
clues to Homer's predictions and
gifts.
A boyhood spent in Cambridge,
at that time a country village, gave
him deep love of nature and he
early began to sketch. After an
apprenticeship with a Boston lith-
ographer, he was able to launch
himself as a free-lance artist and
started his successful career as an
illustrator and artist correspondent
in the Civil War for Harper's
Weekly.
A few sessions at the Academy OF
Design, New York City, and q few
lessons on the mechanics of palette
setting and brushwork, from a
French artist, comprised Homer's
instruction in painting. He began
to exhibit toward the end of the
Civil War and created a sensation
with his now well-known Prisoners
From the Front" in the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, New York City.
Just after the war, Homer had
10-month trip to France, and a
group of his war paintings in the
Paris Exposition of 1867 brought
him no little attention. But he was
not Influenced by French painting.
On his return to the United States
he began painting country life,
which general subject was to in
terest him for decade and a half :.
The Phillips Gallery's painting be-
Evening star., 1947-08-10

Critcher. A few years later ne
undertook sculpture with Clara Hill,
and went to Boston to study stained
glass in the Connick studio. Mr..
Pizzini designed and executed the
key exhibit In the Smithsonian
building five or six years ago.
Overseas with Army Headquar-
ters, Communication Zone, Euro
pean Theater of Operations. he
found time to make pencil and wash
drawings. and watercolors. Between
IS and 40 Of these constitute the
show at the Library.
Mr.. Pizzini's work is conservative
in character, but 1t struck me as
uneven in quality. The DRAWINGS
are done gSherally With b 11S li6lS
lousness that indicates some df4cefs
tainty in his medium; q few re-
semble amateur work. d
Several careful drawings OF archi-
tectural subjects, touched with
wash: the Earl of Leicester's Hos
pital, Warwick, King Johns Bridge
Tewkesbury,. Saxon Church, Deer
hurst, and two in Paris, a square
under snow, and st. Germaine des
Pres, seemed to me the best of his
work on view. The strongest and
most assured item is one of the few
American subjects, Gold Mine,
Bullneck Run, Va"
Evening star., 1947-08-10

With Saw; "Cartwheel Inn" by Lee
Catch, in misty blues, orange and
green; a typical head by Kuniyoshi;
a curious work by the British mod
ern artist, John Piper, depicting
ulptural monumentsin harsh
white, brown and gray: Bar
racks" by the late Horace Pippin
primitive painter, which was ex-
hibited last December in the Phillips
Gallery's show Of Three Negro
Artists" Finally there is a little
sketch OF a bombed town. Morn
ing" by Ben Shahn, whose Social
Security murals here stirred up a
small tempest few weeks ago.
Evening star., 1947-08-10
French Moderns

The Baltimore Museum of Art
expects to attract devotees of the
modern French painters 09th and
Goth century, from Washington and
other neighboring cities as we'll as
from the Baltimore area, with its
summer show Of u oils, watercolors,
drawings and gouaches from the
famous collection brought together
during some 40 years of acquisition
by the late DR.. Claribel Gone and
her sister, Miss Eta Cone, the pres
ent owner. They lived in Paris at
the turn Of the century and knew
many Of the now famous figures in
French art when, they were strug-
Cling young artists.
The Cone collection is said to rank
second to no other private holding
in this field, in the United States.
Connoisseurs, critics and other art
lovers have made considerable ef-
forts to obtain private views of the
collection. The public showing of
some of its outstanding works offers
opportunity to interested persons to
study them at leisure. The selection
will remain on view through Sep
tember 7.