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Evening star., 1947-06-17

thoroughly ex-
ork: good wages
Apply on job at
II Springs, Nd.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17
We May Get Slapped
(AnchOrage NeWS)

Anchorage News)
 THREAT by the powerful Alcoholic Beverage In- dustry of the United States it's influence to have Territorial other laws of limitations enacted for the control of liquor in Alaska was made public recently It must be that Alaska's reputation for hard drinking is than meets the local eye when the people who make the liquor that Alaska drinks thinks it is time to call halt
 This unusual threat to the city council in the form of recommendation from the Alaska Retail L- quor Dealers Association who asked that no - censes be granted in Anchorage.
 Alaskas consumption of liquor according to the A. R. L. D. which quoted figures from the National Acohol c Beverage Association is four times high per thou sand it is in the United States proper That is bad It would indeed put in the category of naughty t- tie boys if the Alaska Liquor dealers at the nsstence of the Alcoholic Beverage Industry should take it upon themselves to spank if don't behave but that is exactly what they say they will do.
 Perhaps should take strong hint.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17
One Mans Opinion By WALTER HERMAN

President Truman is precedent smasher and even the Republicans know it. - One Republican said mo president in office has failed reelection but watch Harry bust that one" Of course the Republicans are just jealous because Harry picked part of per- feet man by ten New York models {. . . The girls said their perfect would have Cary Grants chin Tyrone Powers ears and MT. Trumans bow tie. If they want their perfect to get out of the house they had better also give him Menjou's pants.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17
France Is Sick, But---

(Rocky Mountain News) ONCE AGAIN THE Communist minority has forced the fall of French government.
 The aged Leon Blum, thrice premier, has failed to form new cabinet, following the resignation of his fe flow-Socialist Paul Ramadier. But if Blum had won parliamentary majority, his regime would not likely last long.
 The reasons are personal political mad economic. Blum is scholar and gentleman, respected elder statesman. He has integrity and selfish patriotism He is most hated by the Communists, because his brand of democratic Socalism-ike that of the British even in his prime, Blum not forceful political leader and is much less at 75 He is older Att lee without Bevin-Cripps backfied.
 On the political side, Blum support is not broadly enough based The problem is to get stable coalition o center parties which represent majority of French men between the Communist left and the extreme right
 The basic trouble Of cOurSe is economic Imitation top of wartime destruction and demoralization has ated chaos in which the black market is supreme and the desperate people are cynical.
 This is the Communist opportunity. Though unable to win at the pos the Reds find it easy to pull out half million workers in key industries, they have done
 So far there is government in sight strong enough to stop nfation blast the black market break farm hoarding collect elusive taxes and keep the factories and mines producing despite Communist sabotage
 Nevertheless, the French situation is not diScour |agng it seems There three factors which must not be- forgotten One is the great material and moral benefit which can accrue France from the Marshall plan if it comes in time and is properly applied. Second is the possibility that the Communists may overplay their hand-Red violence may be the one thing which finally will the French majority to needed discipline teamwork and spirit Third is the fundamen- tai democracy and courage of the French people. If we Americans remember these things shall not say that France is hopeless that it is too late help which is just what Stain is trying to make us think
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17
That's That
 By BRUCE GUSTIN,

isiana university speech. "It really calls for sacrifice today to join the resistance movement against American Fascism, but thank God we can now operate above ground" he said. Tomorrow it may be necessary to use the basic political right of revolution to re- store democracy" That revolution talk is right down the Communist alley.
 1 This is good time to remember that taxes are just as important an | item in the high cost of living as , anything else. In fact, the Ameri- can people pay out more for gov ernment than they do for food When food prices go up, they have to pay. Two things, we are told, are unacceptable in this life-death and taxes.
 Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky says "the Soviet econ omy based on the public and state ownership precludes in the Soviet Union possibility of crisis and unemployment, this true scourge of modern capitalistic society," Of course, there is no unemployment under a slave system. If this suits the Russians, that is their business. But there is no room in the United States for such system. Ameri- cans believe in individual free dom.
 You can see from what has been i happening in France why the Communist strategy is to infiltrate and, if possible, get control of la Dor unions. Revolution and over throw of existing governments are Communist aims. Paralysis of nations economy endanger it's form of government. In France, Communicated strikes precipitat- ed crisis which forced a reor- ganization of the government. Neither industrial nor political peace is possible in France while the Reds have control of powerful 1 labor unions.
 Why talk about Canada offering an incentive bonus" of $7 an ounce for increased gold produc- ton should cause alarm in the United States is mystery. If Ca nadians increase gold production, they can buy more American goods. Suppose most of their gold does flow into the United States. That would be nothing for us to cry about. Gold is the one money" which always is good. Anybody who has plenty of gold can buy anything, any where, any time. According to World Report of Nov. II, "the French people are facing hunger this winter because of government farm policy that did not work" This years wheat crop in France was the smallest since 1915, amounting to only 3,200,0O0 tons as compared with 6 and one-half million tons last year and an average of million tons a year during the 30's. Bad weather was partly to blame, but World Report declares responsibility for the extent of this years crop dis aster rests jointly with the govern ment and wheat farmers"
 Wheat prices in France are con-
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17

TERRITORY OF ALASKA - TREASURERS OFFICE
 Juneau, Alaska
 STATEMENT CONDITION
 Close of Busness-November 90. ls47 Bank Balance November 3O $2 l87, ,862 95 Less Outstanding Warrants 563, SIT Al Cash November SPA 285 5 Less Special Funds and Funds incorporated in the General Fund which available for the general operation of the Territory: Public School Permanent 55898 University of Aaska-Permanent 39250 Smith-Lever Engineers Architects .......~...-....... 457525 Museum Request and Donation 165104 Pioneers Home Trust 12,6988 Radio-Telephone 216416 Teachers Retirement 99O53 Vocational Education Federal 7,02985 School Lunch Program |" 289582 ..............-....-. Old Age Assistance-IrantS ." 9999.9 Old Age Assisance-Administration "' Child Welfare Services 646088 Allowances to Mohers-Grants-. 43924 Allowances to Mohers-Admnisra
  Unemployment Compensation Com
 mission ....-......-..-.......-. 538l4.91 Tuberculosis Emergency Maternity & Infant 9434.5l Maternal Child Health, Crippled Children Venereal Disease Con- trol and General Health |" 61375.2O Hospital Survey ...............-..y. 5O43.79 Fisheries Experimental " 1507707 Veterans Administration Special 745654.89 Alaska Tuberculosis Association 1855.64 Vision Conservation ]" 498.99  Oil 292O43.l0 Drivers Licenses ..-..-...-.......... |" 2287e8l Teachers Salaries-Kodiak Naval
 Federal l328.00 certified available to U S. Treasurer for Old Age Assistance !" 96,957.50 certified available to U. S. Aid to Dependent Children % - lZ481oO $l0liS14O
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-17
Treasurer's Report

TERRITORY ALASKA TREASURER'S OFFICE
 Juneau Alaska
 STATEMENT OF CONDITION Close of Busness-November 90. ls47
Evening star., 1947-11-24
Funeral Rites Today
For {. W. Davenport,
Retired Bank Official

Ernest Warren Davenport, 76, re-
tired head of the credit department
of the Chase National Bank, New
York, died yesterday at his home.
1901 Sudbury lane NV. He had
been i'll for two years.
Funeral services we're to be held
at 3 o'clock this afternoon at his
home, with burial in Woodlawn
Cemetery, New York.
Mr.. Davenport was the brother OF
Frederick M. Davenport, chairman
of the Council of Personnel Admin
istration of the Civil Service Com
mission.
He came to Washington in 1884
after he retired.
He was born in Salem, Mass, and
was graduated from Columbia Uni
versity. After his graduation be be-
came associated with the Fourth
National Bank of New York City.
He was a vice president when the
bank merged with the Chase Ma
tional Bank.
/ For many years Mr.. Davenport
was chairman of the board OF St.
Paul's Methodist Church in New
York and was active in church af-
fairs.
! Besides his brother, who lives at
5000 Parkside lane NV, Mr.. Daven-
port is survived by his widow, the
former Maude Wimbrow of Sails
bury, Md; two nieces. Mrs. Karl E.
Stromsem, 1910 Yorktown road
NV: Mrs. Ernest Griffith. l94l
Parkside drive NV, and two neph-
ews, Frederick M. Davenport, jr.
New York, and Winthrop Davenport
Binghamton, N. Y.
Evening star., 1947-11-24
40-Foot Canal Banks

Some stretches of the 79-mile-
long Albert Canal in Belgium run
between 40-foot embankments above
the surrounding country.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Romanian Royalty Receives
Congressional Committee
By the Associated Press

BUCHAREST, Romania, Sept. 29
king Michael and Queen Mother
Helen yesterday received members
of an American congressional group
investigating the State Depart
ment's Office of Information facili-
ties abroad.
The Senators and House men,
bers, who arrived here by plane from
Hungary, were introduced indiv-
idually to the King and Queen by
American Minister Rudolph F.
Schoenfeld.
Wine and cake were served to the
visitors during an informal chat
which lasted for an hour and a
quarter.
The Congress members will meet
the Romanian cabinet at an official
luncheon which Mr.. Schoenfeld will
give today.
Members of the group include:
Senators Barkley, Democrat, OF
Kentucky; Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico; Hickenlooper, Republican
of Iowa; Smith, Republican, of New
Jersey; Representatives Jarman
Democrat, of Alabama; Judd, Re.
publican, of Minnesota; Mansfield
Democrat, of Montana; Mundt, Re.
publican, of South Dakota; Pfeifer
Democrat, of New York, and Smith
Republican, of Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
| |MussoIini Mural
| Emerges After
7-Yeor Eclipse
BY the Associated Press

MONTREAL. Sept. 29.-The figure
Of Mussolini astride a horse has
emerged from a 7-year eclipse in
the huge fresco of the Church of
Notre Dame de la Defence.
How it came about was related
by the Rev. S. Chei of the Notre
Dame parish.
In 1927 parish heads, members of
the Servites de Marie order, en-
gagged Guido Nincheri, Montreal
artist, to paint a mural. He began
his flve-year project by painting
the Virgin Mother and chorus of
angels, and then added the figures
OF the Pope and cardinals.
In 1929, when the Italian gov
ernment and the Vatican concluded
the Lateran Concordat, Nincheri
sought to immortalize the event.
He painted in the head of the
Italian government, Mussolini, and
several other italian leaders.
When the war came the parish
toner's covered the figure of the
Duce with paper.
This summer the paper began to
peel. The parishioners hired a con-
tractor. Mussollni emerged, brighter
now than any of the other figures.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
.Synagogues Celebrate
Thanksgiving Festival

The ancient Jewish festival OF
Observation-Disclosures ushered
in last night with special services
in Washington's synagogues. +
One of three pilgrim festivals
celebrated by Jews, Sukos means
booths" and refers to the Old
Testament custom of dwelling in
small thatched Enclosures during
the harvest time The other two
festivals of import are Passover and
Pentecost
Some Jewish authorities believe
the establishment of day OF
Thanksgiving by the Pilgrims was
inspired by this Jewish festival.
The festival is celebrated by re-
form Jews for seven days, with a
service the first and last day. Or
thodoX and Conservative Jews cele-
brate the feast for eight days, with
services on the first two and last
two days.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Coordination Needed
To Cut Home BuiIdinu
Costs, Bankers Told
By tine Associated Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept, %
Banks could contribute greatly te
reduction of home building costs by
Welding local elements of the in
dustry into a cooperative team
members of the American Bankers
! Association were informed as they
opened their 73d annual convention
here today.
| Not until such coordination is
achieved between architects, rea
iestate men, contractors, distributors
and financing agencies will the
lowest cost and greatest efficiency
in construction be possible, Arthur
A. Hood, Chicago magazine editor
said in an address at a session o1
the savings division.
"Today's new home is a complex
machine OF 10000 parts coming from
hundreds of widely scattered
sources" he said, "and I don't think
that all the Government bureaus
and politicians will be able to make
it very simple again"
Coordination Improved.
Elimination of wasted time. effort
and material is the key to price re-
duction in home building, as in any
industry. he added.
Mr.. Hood, editor of the American
Lumberman and Building Products
MerchandiSer, noted that co-ordina-
tion on a national level is now being
achieved through the so-called in
dustry-engineered house. This pro-
gram provides for standard dimen-
sions and parts which eliminate
much cutting and fitting at the site,
and for simplif1cation of erection
methods. -
Local factors in construction are
today customarily "as uncontrolled
as group of jealous prima donnas
without a maestro" he commented.
Nominating the mortgage banker
as a logical co-ordinator Of these
factors, Mr.. Hood said the bankers
interest was identical with that of
the home buyer and that he was dis
interested as compared with the
other groups who were rivals con-
stantly struggling for a greater indi-
vidual share of the local consumers
dollars"
Sees No Reason for Depression.
DR.. Marcus Nader, professor of
finance at New York University, in
an address before the State Bank
Division said policies of the banks
will determine to a considerable ex-
tent the outcome of an biological
war he said was raging between
private enterprise as practiced in
the United States and totalitarian-
ism.
Asserting there was mo sound
reason why this country should not
enjoy an indefinite period of good
business from which the violent
swings of the business cycle have
been eliminated" DR.. Nader said
the banks can aid in attaining this
end by policy of caution in ex-
tending loans and by preventing q
too rapid increase in the volume Of
deposits"
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Albania 10 Execute is
Accused Of PIottinq
Revolt With U. ). Aid
By the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept
29.-Sixteen perSons-accused OF
planning to overthrow the Com
munist regime of Albanian Pre-
mier Enver Hoxha with British
American aid-have been re-
ported sentenced to death by
the Supreme Court at Tirana
Albania.
Three face hanging and Is death
before a firing squad, Tirana dis
patches said. Four defendants re-
ceived life terms and four were
sentenced to imprisonment from
Is to 20 years on charges of "crimi-
nal terroristic activities against the
people and State"
During the trial, which began
September 5, some of the "a de-
PENDANTS were reported to have
testified that their organization
received monetary and arms aid
from British-American mission
in Tirana.
Members also were linked with
the defendants in alleged acts of
sabotage and an armed uprising in
Scutari in Northwestern Albania
on September 9. 1946.
Witnesses testified that the
Scutari incident took place at the
request of the Americans, who
promised" that American troops
would land in Albania" three days
after the capture of the city.
The State Department accused
Albania last Monday of sad act
of ingratitude" in "fabricating''
charges that American officials
were involved in attempts to sabo-
tage Premier Hoxha's Communist
government.
The United States said the
charges involving Americans were
entirely untrue" and called the
Tirana trials IAN attempt of the
Albanian regime to perpetuate it
self by means of oppression and the
terrorization of Albanian liberal
patriotic opposition elements"
Evening star., 1947-09-29
S.Prosecutors Open
Case Against Nazis
In Million Sayings
BY the Associated Press


NUREMBERG, Sept. 29.-Twenty-
three Nazi commanders whose ter
ror squads are accused of Staying
more than 100000 Jews, Russians
and Gypsies, were assailed today
by American prosecutors as the
greatest killers of all time, worthy
of only the hangman's rope.
Trial of the 'Einsatz Gruppen
GROUP" officers opened with the
prosecutions declaration that any
leniency for such men means the
world must live in fear"
Prosecutor Benjamin B. Ference
of New York asserted that he would
prove from the Gestapos own record
that the defendants were guilty of
at least 100000 murders in the
planned determination of whole
races.
Admitted Goal Was Murder.
1--WE ask the court to affirm by
penal action mans right to live in
peace and dignity regardless of his
race or creed" Mr.. Ference told the
the three-man tribunal headed by
President Judge Michael A. Mus
manno. Mr.. Ference said the Elm
satz groups were formed by Gestapo
Chiefs Heinrich Himmler and Rein
hard Heydrich in 1941 to follow the
Wehrmacht'S dash into the East and
Systematically execute all persons
considered inferior to the Nazi mas
ter race.
They were organized for murder, -
Mr.. Ference said. This aim was
openly admitted"
The prosecutor recalled testimony
of the chief defendant, S. S. Mai
Gen. Otto Ohlendorf, before the in
ternational military tribunal Mr.
Ference quoted Ohlendorf's admis-
sion of 10000 killings by his group
1850 Sayings Each Day.
Mr.. Ference said the commands
never numbered more than 5000
men recruited from the Security
Police, the SIS and the Gestapo, who
he said averaged 1850 murders daily
for two years.
The prosecutor asserted that the
Nazis collected the victims, stripped
them of their possessions and herded
them to bitches for shooting or to
gas vans for determination.
Paradoxically, he said, they kept
records of all their transactions, y
which he added would constitute
evidence in the case.
Killed $4,000 Jews in Two Days.
Mr.. Ference said Allied troops
captured Gestapo records in Berlin,
including Einsatz daily reports, list
ing how many liquidations had been
accomplished by each unit.
One of the high points of the
squads work, he said, was the slay-
ing of $4,000 Jews In Kiev over a
two-day period.
For this job, Mr.. Ference said. the
group was highly praised by Field
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Iran Fears 0ffense
To U. 5. in Ratifying
Russian Oil Pact
by the Associated Press

TEHERAN, Sept. 29.-Ibrahim
khajeh Noori, director of propa-
ganda, made 1t plain today that
the Iranian government was
fearful lest ratification of pro-
posed oil concessions to Soviet
Russia cause offense to the
United States.
In a radio address to the nation
last night, Mr.. Noori declared frank
ly that the country was faced with
panic and fear" over the situation,
which is now being debated by the
Iranian Parliament.
Discussing the quandary in which
the government found itself, he said:
Iran does not wish to cause the
smallest ofense to America because
we owe the guarantee for our indie
pendence to the late President Roos-
evelt and to the American people.
1ranians never forget favors."
Difficult to Cooperate.
Mr.. Noori added that now that
Iran knows the world situation very
clearly it is difficult to cooperate
with a very powerful nation"-a
statement which some listeners took
as an allusion to Russia.
The propaganda director said that
while there is some sympathy in
Iran for strengthening Iranian- Rus
sian economic relations, others take
the view that America without
doubt is the strongest, wealthiest
and most democratic country in the
world-and the mother of one
daughter sought by two suitors
would favor the husband who is
most free. quiet and wealthy"
The majority of Iranians. how
ever he declared, believe that 1t
would be foolish to ask some one
else to enter our house and share
our treasureS-we must use our ma
tional wealth for our own good"
Qavam Walks Out on Debate.
Debate over the proposed oil con-
cessions hit new peak yesterday
when Premier Ahmed Qavam stalked
out Of Parliament after stinging
attack by an Azerbaijan deputy, who
assailed the proposals as "the worst
agreement In the past 100 years of
Iranian history"
The debate revolves around nego-
tiations which Mr.. Qavam carried on
with the Russians in 1946-when
Soviet trO0DS still yuero in A1orboi
Jan-for formation of an Iranian-
Soviet oil company to exploit the
Oil resources of that northern prov
ince, which borders the U. S. S. r.
Before Mr.. Qavam walked out,
Abbas Massoudi, Teheran deputy,
threatened to present a bill to Par
lament calling for formation of a
100 per cent Iranian company to
develop Azerbaijan's oil resources.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
BY the Assoeioted Press

DUBOIS, Pa, Sept. 20. - The
grocery business of 7S-year -old
Charles Mike-sold out a year ago
when Mike retired-is open under
the old name again because II want
to divide my profits with my old
customers"
Mr.. Mike, whose brislting mus
tache grew white during his 60
years behind the counter, retired
because he felt he was too old. He
built himself a new house but when
the house was finished time began
to hang heavy on his hands.
Saturday night Mr.. Mike re-
entered the grocery business in a
small room next door to the old
store And the price tags placed
Evening star., 1947-09-29

attended the University of Califor.
MIA. After his graduation he was
an architect on the West Coast be-
fore coming here to work with the
War Department Is years ago. He
had also worked with the Veterans
administration and the Federal
Housing Administration. He had
been an underwriting supervisor
with the FHA for a year and half
before his death.
Survivors are his widow, Julia H.
Book; three sisters, Miss Lucy D.
Book, Miss Amy D. Book, both of
Newark; Mrs. A. D. Landmesser Of
Long Beach, Calf. and a brother,
Fred j. Book of Elberon, N. j.
Evening star., 1947-09-29
Wives Plead With Dean
Over Husbands Reports
By the Associated Pres,

oy me Associofed Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky-Once it was
lrate fathers and fearful mothers
who called on Dean j. j. Open
heimer of the University of Louis
vile to inquire why Junior was
about to funk out of school.
Today, Dean Oppenheimer says
he's plagued with weeping wives,
worried when hubby brings home a
bad report card.
The dean says he has been lucky
so far because veterans wives have
not brought the children along to
plead daddy's case. I'm expecting
that almost any day." he added.
Such scenes aren't the rule, Dean
Oppenheimer continued, because
university records show that vet
erans as a group are above average
students.