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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
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THINGS TO MAKE AND DO
HOW THE CONJURER
NFAKEc VyVc

Everyone has a liking for bright
dimes, SO we r going to tell
you a way of making" them for
yourself-not imitation coins, but
real money. The only drawback
is that each dime you make costs
the same amount to produce, but
you need not tell your friends
that!
To coin money, OF course, you
need a die" The die, in this
case, is in two parts. as illustrated
in picture la sort of little anvil
(A) and a cover OBJ, the one
fitting over the other. With this
are used three "blanks' of bright
metal, supposed to be silver, but
in reality tin.
To show the trick, you pu; one
of these on A, which is just large
enough to receive it, and cover
it with B. You stamp it by bring
ing down one end of your magic
wand smartly upon it. If you don't
happen to have a magic wand, a
ruler or even a lead pencil will
do just as well. You now lift oft
the upper die. The blank is found
to be transformed into a bright
dime.
You take this off, put another
blank on the little anvil, cover it,
and stamp it as before. When the
upper die is lifted, the second
blank has been coined into a
dime, Once more the process is
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14

position where, if he vetoes the
bill on the basis of sincere judge
|ment and official responsibility.
he can and will be charged with
having yielded to threats of non
compliance by labor. Also as a
result of their campaign, if Con-
eres follows through to the limits
Of its constitutional powers, should
IL veto make that necessary,
every member who voted for the
conference report and then to
sustain a veto will be publicly
marked as surrendering to threats.
The challenge is to constitu-
tional government by one group
of the poulation, and extension
If the technique of resistance to
law and order that has previously
been expressed in violent mass
nicketing and contract-bre aking
in the form of Illegal strikes.
The courage as well as the func-
|+;on Of Congress have been put
Ito a rude test by these labor lead
ers as the Presidents will be if
the Taft-Hartley bill becomes law.
And all of this vas explicitly fore
told ten years ago.-New York
4A1Aess s
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
BY PETER T 0SON

WASHINGTON - Secretary of
Agriculture Clinton =. Anderson's
select list of nearly 100 bankers,
insurance executives, farm organ
ization leaders ard government
agriculture and financial experts
met in Washington June 9 to take
another look at the big initiation
in farm land values. The session
was closed to public and the press
so as to encourage the specially
invited guests to say what they
really think.
What the conference could do to
stop the farm land boom at this
late date wasn't much, except to
pass a few pious resolutions de-
ploring it, calling attention to It's
dangers. asking farmers not to
borrow so much and suggesting
lenders cut down their loans.
Early in the war then-Secretary
Of Agriculture Claude Wickard
saw this boom coming and tried
to get Congress to pass a law
which would check speculative
sales of farm land by taxation.
But the wreckers in the real estate
lobby got busy and killed it, fear
ing their sales on city property
might be similarly taxed. So to-
day it's too late to do anything
about farm real estate initiation
Underlying cause Of tn farm
land boom is. of course, the gov
ernment's price support program
on farm products. Farm prices
and produce prices are linked like
Siamese twins. When there is a
big demand Cor farm products and
the prices farmers receive are
high, the demand for good farm
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repeated, and a third dime is the
result.
The secret lies in the construc
ton of he little anvil GAY. This
looks like a solid bit Of brass, but
it isn't. 1t consists of four distinct
parts GA, c, D. E. as shown in
picture 2. These are, in fact, mere
shells, fitting one over the other
in regular order. The cover OBJ
has no specially.
To prepare for the trick, pro-
vide yourself with three ten-cent
pieces-the newer and the bright
err, the better. One of these you
place on A, and cover it with c.
You place another dime on c and
cover it with D; and, lastly, place
the third coin on D, and cover
it with E. So arranged, the whole
looks exactly as A does in our
first picture.
In doing the trick, you lay the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
AMERICANS IElH
MARK ON LEBANON

WASHINGTON
ucators, missionaries. ' doaan q
scientists have left thew sT',pFs' ii:
ancient Lebanon, Where marx !
mentary elections have paFls
the inauguration Of = rs9@ so,loNs.
In this Mediterranean Ian,
Of Palestine, many young mal a'H
women have been tsu nlsr ~
Americans and have Ie learn.
use American products, NOTE,
National Geographic soc iS,eS b.
cream parlors long sincs N
Beirut the capital, by Storm 10y
Also the Lebanese have ls,.
touch with the United Sta Hep'
corresponding with relative Grss y
have emigrated to this couS.. %a
AS when the Phoenicians NY
rom its ancient ports Of tss.
and Tyre mountain-draped S.aa
non serves to link the de,s. S
its east with the Western W.T.
About 10000 of its l,O5OON "V'e
habltants are Christians.
Replacing sidon and TYR.
shrunk to comparative jnsi,..
canoe, are Beirut and 'Tr1..
farther north on the coast ,ra.-
ing Beirut, with nearly a o, :'
million people, has d duty ~
zone for transshippius. Tsntr,'a
predominant in the harbn,
Tripoli, terminus O. a pjp,,,,
from the cilfields Of lrao'
Poised between mountain ,,
sea. Beirut, with its artificial ss
Dor. is a triumph OF man , ="
nature. Red sand has been "rsT.,
down" with pine trees. Bar.,,
groves spread along the "a,
DRINKING water has been piped NJ
from a mountain source.
In Beirut and the rest O, A,
Lebanon, the people speak Arab,
Literacy is the highest in the Mil
die East, and all classes inis.
forceful phrases of French, F,,'
lish, and other tongues into 4,
language of the Koran. At al
capitals memorial to Lebanes|
soldiers who died i'll, World v,,|
l.. yelled Moslem and unveils
Christian women clasp hands \
common sorrow.
Located at Beirut is the Tim.
honored American UNIVERSITY sI|
there also is a French jesuit mi.
versity, each with courses in mai
icine, engineering, and law. AT a.
American University, some 2sI
students, representing 80 nato,.
alities, carry on a 'perpehl
peace conference in the intersn
Of international good will"
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land and its value go up too.
For the past six years, there
fore, U. S. farm land values have
been going up / per cent a month.
Today the average U. S. farm
value is 90 per cent above its
1859 average value. The range
of initiation has varied from lows
of 20 per cent in Massachusetts
and Al per cent in Maine to highs
of 146 per cent in Tennessee and
172 per cent in Kentucky.
The significant thing about these
increases in values. according to
Bureau Of Agri cultural Eco
Monies, is that one farm out OF
every seven sold in the war period
has been resold within two years
Ono out Of three resales involved
land held less than six months and
three out of five were held less
than a year. That shows how the
SPECTATORS have been at work.
About half of the recorded sales
have been Cor cash. They're all
to the good. It's the farmers who
have bought on credit at high
prices and on short term loans
who are headed for trouble. For
on Jan. !, 1919, the governments
wartime price support program
runs out. There will then be a
free market. With reduced world
.,d dores+ic demand. prices of
produce and farms may drop.
For the first few years OF this
prosperity farmers did all right.
They paid off their debts and re-
duced their mortgages Total U,
S. farm mortgages de"''"ed from
$40 billion in 1941 to e. N!lion IN
1915. Then last year trend
turned. That was when the get
rich-ouick boys got into the mar
ket. Mortgages increased. Short
term loans for crop production
and installment buying went up.
Recordings Of these loans o
the last half Of 1916 show that
81 per cent were made by COM
mercial banks. IS per cent by IN
dividua1s, - per cent by insur-
ance companies. onlv 9 per cent
by the conservative Federal Land
Banks, 7 per cent by miscella1e-
Gus lenders. The people who stand
to take the worst losses r the
commercial banks and the lndl'
v;dual lenders. They are the ones
who will have to be bailed out
If there is a crash.
Federal Land Banks and their
borrowers are IN excellent con-
dition. They have refused to loan
on inflated values Aprraisals
have been made solely on the
basis Of each farms long : term
earning power - calculated at
average produce prices instead Of
wal inflated prices. p
So good is the financial position
OF these Land Banks that Farm
Credit Administration Governor. I.
". Duggan, has announced the St.
Paul bank win this month pay
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
BY WILLIAM z. MCKENZIE
Americas Gard Authority
Written for NEA Service

Today's hand from DR., PAU
Stern of London, England, VA
played by Dr.. Hans Lest at IN
Lyndhurst Club. Although the ham
may not seem too difficult lHf
ing at all of the cards, l 'nh
you will admit that declarer VA
confronted with a tickllsh &'
alton in actual play.
The opening lead was won y
declarer with the ace of dlanloa.l
and DR.. Leist then led a CLUB an =
finessed dummy's jack, Wnen t., y
held. he returned to MS hand y
playing a small heart and guns
up with the ace. 49,,
Remember that the bidding 10.
placed most of The missing ns'
cards in the West hand.
Another club was led and Nv, u'
queen finessed, the ace Of s,,s'
was cashed and the four OF ns s',,,
discarded. Now the nine Oh t W..
was led, and even though Aas, ~ +.
on the ten, declarer d~lscafosu ~
nine of hearts. .u,-4,
East returned the ter OF n
which West won with the q arsl,
The king of hearts was p.a'i ~.
declarer trumped and lea ' h,mr,
of diamonds, trumpins IN r aa'i it,,
with the three Of spades tn n,nrsj
Of spades. but West ovef,f oa.is,
with the king. The ten o. wy sp N.
was won by deciarer WIN 4 4' rns
West now was down to ,as i ,
and deuce of spades %nnG ,,.,ct
my had the queen and S os i,
Declarer led the seven ~ W vii,
monds. And when West rullsu -,,pst
the deuce, dummy ovsL rid
with the six and won me a."
with the queen. ~
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first Of your blanks on E, and
cover it with B. After stamping
it as already described, you lift
off B, pressing its sides lightly.
The effect Of this is that E comes
away inside B. carrying off the
blank between them, and leaving
the uppermost dime exposed. The
process is repeated for each dime.
The little apparatus, which is
known as the Magic Mint, is so
neatly made that, when duly pre-
pared with the Dimes. you need
have no fear, unless you are ex-
ceptionally clumsy, Of lifting off
more than the proper shell or
shells.
Copyright, 1916, BY The Grolier
Society Inc, based upon The Book
OF KnoWledge)
distributed BY United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
MONDAY: - Life of Shakespeare.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
True to Form

Recently a Georgia farmers wife
fell into a muddy little. river flow
ing by their property. A group OF
neighbors gathered to search for
her body. Reaching the point where
the woman had disappeared, the
husband, strangely enough, start
ed upstream.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
An Essential Paving Project

When Wilmington holds it's initial
azalea pageant, probably about the
middle of next April, Orion plantation
will be one of the three chief objectives
Of visitors.
1t must become a primary project
OF all units that will promote the event
to encourage the State Highway Com
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-14
GOOD MORNING

There is SO much difference in mems ideas
Of elementary truth, as is generally thought.
A greater difference lies in their power Of
reasoning from these truths.-Emmons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
Alaska Air Cargo Rates
 Are Reduced by Pacific
 MA, WoodIev Announces

SEATTLE, June 5-tR-A new air cargo tariff schedule drastically reduces rates and charges on all commodities carried over it's routes in Alaska, some as much as 75 per- cent A. G. Woodley, Pacific North ern Airlines head, announced to- day.
 The changes included 100 pound shipments Juneau to Anchorage, old rate $35, new rate SIS; Juneau to Cordova, old rate $37.50 new rate SIP; Anchorage to Naknek, old rate $25, new rate $9; and Anchorage to Kodiak, old rate SPA, new rate $9
 This is another indication of our desire to help the business men and residents of Alaska meet their daily needs" Woodley said
 Pan American World Airways all so announces in newspaper adver tisements a reduction in Clipper express rates on many commodi ties. the reductions range from 24 to 56 percent on such goods as fresh foods, movie films. sea foods, furs and on southbound household goods
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
Christmas Shopping
 Underway
Two Sisters Purchasing Extras" for Alaska
 Mission Riddles

TACOMA, June 2-tRl-Two Ia coma sisters, Frances and Esther Sautebin, have completed some Christmas shopping for north bound Santa Claus trek.
 The two will carry Yuletide pres ents, by boat and airplane to Bethel Alaska, so that B Eskimo young sters at the Moravian Mission Or phanage near there will find a little extra" under their Christmas tree next December
 Their sister, Constance, is now finishing her first year as teacher at the orphanage and when they wrote of taking vacation trip north only hint was necessary. So much of their 55 pounds luggage for the air legs of their trips consists of plastic toys, light weight books, hair ribbons, dolls, bean bags and bal looms.
 Frances is a USO service mem Der and Esther a doctors secretary. They will sail tomorrow night from Vancouver, B. C., for Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
ALASKA COASTAL
 AIRLINES FLIES Y
 PERSONS MONDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines dispatched eight flights yesterday, and touched at Sitka, Hood Bay, Pelican City, Hoonah, Tenakee, Kelp Bay, Lake Florence, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ket- chikan, and at Tulsequah, B. c.
 Passengers from Juneau to Sitka were Mir and Mrs. Fred Eagles, N. A. McEachran, Dave Dribelbis and E. Kluckholm; to Hood Bay, J. P. Wolf; to Pelican City, G. c. Fulton, Sanford Ligene and William Jones; to Hoonah, B. w. Craig and Tom Dyer.
 From Juneau to Tenakee, c. A. Good; to Lake Florence and return, Louis Anderson, Ben Rowland, Ed ward Arola, Barbara Rowland, B. J. Cozean, D. Bolton, V. Bolton and Ruth D. Brooks.
 From Juneau to Petersburg, G. H. Simpson, Paul Prouty and J. w. Jones. to Wrangell, Edward, Rose and Punchy Kalkins; to Ketchikan, Leonard Smith and William Irvine; to Tulsequah, J. Amundsen, R. Cald- CT and L. Patterson.
 Inbound to Juneau from Pelican City were Dorothy Mccain, Maud Jones. K. Raatikainen, H. Lifirts and Floyd Johnson; from Tenakee, J. A. Berg; from Sitka, Charles E. Dillman, Cliff Gallagher, Eddie Johnson, Dorothy Anderson, Neill Anderson, Lavella Anderson and w. J. Johnson.
 From Ketchikan, J. Shortbody and Mrs. Rutherford; from Wrangell, Elinor Lucas, Marie Craig and Joan Mccormick; from Petersburg, Dean c. E. Rice, A. Nyquist, Art Nyquist and A. Kirk.
 From Tulsequah, w. J. James, MT and Mrs. Peter Odynsky, Anne and Peter Odynsky, H. Brynelson, and MT. and Mrs. B. Parliament. Charles Forward and William Roh- man went out on a charter trip to Petersburg and return, on Forest Service business; and H. R. Blood took plane on charter for timber cruise to Kelp Bay
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
AT 0 M CON TR0L
 WARNING
Unified States 10 Maintain Supreme Position,
 United Nations Told

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, June B. R-The United Nations struggled to reconcile American and Russian differences on atomic control today in the face of warning that the United States intends to maintain and increase its supreme position in the field of atomic energy and atomc weapons.
 David E. Lilienthal Chairman of the U. S. Atomic Eenergy Cornmis- sion, told the United Nations yes- terday this would remain the pur- pose of his country until interna- tional machinery for control was established by the world agency.
 With this warning before them, delegates of the LIN Atomic Energy Commission met to continue their efforts at bringing Russia and the United States into agreement on whether or not the veto can be used in the Security Council if country commits an atomic crime.
 Lilienthal told the Commission delegates that their task of chart ing a program for international control was of supreme importance to the peace of the world"
 You can have no security-but only fraud-Without international cooperation, he declared during a closed session of the Commission at which he had been invited to speak.
 Soviet deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko was absent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
INDIA WILL BE EXTENDED
 FULL POWER
British Government Makes AnnounCement-A
 Now Up fo People

LONDON, June 3.-R-The Bri- tish government announced today that it would transfer power in India to the Indians almost immed- lately and let the Indian people decide whether there shall be one or two governments.
 The announcement was made si- multaneously by Prime Minister Attlee in the House of Commons; by the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, in broadcast to the Indian people; and by the British government in a white paper.
 Legisls tion Will De introduced during the present session of Par lament for the transfer of power this year-on a Dominion status haSiS-to one or two Indian govern ments, depending on which system the Indian people subscribe to.
 Thus pnt4 ,l,e absolute with drawal of the British, scheduled for July of l948, India will be con- posed of one or two self-governing countries which will belong to the British Commonwealth of Nations.
 Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill threw the backing of the Conservative opposition behind the principle of temporary dominion status for India whether as a united country of 390,000,000 or as a separate Pakistan (Moslem) and Hindustan (Hindu)-he reserved the right to oppose details of the plan.
 Churchill said a blood bath" for India may stand very near" He added that the partition proposal might offer to India some pros- pect of escape from one of the most hideous calamities that has ever ravaged the vast expenses of India"
 Communist Willie Gallagher of fered the sole opposition to the plan. He said he was the more suspicious of the solution because MT. Churchill, who has bad re- cord in connection with India, gives it such support"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
U. S.-MADE DICTATORs

On almost the same day Presi- dent Truman sent his message to Congress proposing U. s. arms for Pan-American countries, Latin American dictator was demonstrat- ing what happens when Pan-Am- ericans get U. s. arms.
 The dictator in question was General Anastasio Somoza of Mi caragua, who deserves to have the trade mark Made In America stamped on his expansive bosom, but who, nevertheless, is just as much a dictator as Hitler or Mus solinii.
 Somozas background and the re- volution he kicked up last week are important They illustrate one of the great dangers in the Truman Arms For La tin America" program
 Back in 1927 when the Coolidge Administration got into hot water in Nicaragua. Henry L. Stimson was sent to patch up the trouble and worked out a deal whereby the U s. Marines trained the Nicaraguan National Guard
 The Marines did an excellent job
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
COAST TIEUp
 OF SHIPPING
 BELIEVED OFF
Contrdei Extension Asked by Unions Will Prob-
 ably Be Granted

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-R- A statement by an employers spokesman that "everyone's talking extension" of the contracts gave hope today that negotiators will avert a west coast waterfront tieup.
 The comment, by an official of the Pacific American ShipoWners Association was taken to mean con- tract extension to June 15, 1948, year from the date on which agree ments with four CIO maritime un- ions and the independent marine firemen expires.
 The Association originally re- jected union demands for a 12- month extension. More recently the employers have been reported as having agreed with the proviso that no immediate wage increases will be asked
 The CIO unions are the Interna- tional Longshoremen and Ware hcusemen, the radio operators and marine engineers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
DECLARES TRUMAN CAN'T VETO BILL,
 INCOME TAX CUT
Senator Taft Makes Stafe- menf Regarding Posi-
 lion of President

WASHINGTON, June 3. P- Senator Taft of Ohio, the Republi- can Policy Committee Chairman, declared today that President Tru- man can't afford to veto the $4,- 900 000,000 income tax cut bill be cause it would put him definitely on the side of high taxes and high ex- penses."
 Taft declared in a statement that all the spenders want to keep the tax "all the spends want to keep the tax is ceipts up to s4o,oo0, 100000 in order to maintain high standard of government spending
 "The quicker we can revise our sights downward. the lower we can keep expenditures, Taft said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
SHOCK 0UOIAIi00N;

NEW YORK, June 3.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3A, American Can 9OR, Anaconda 34A, Curtiss- Wright A, International Harvester 81as. Kennecott AIS, New York Central 1875, Northern Pacific 157s, U. s. Steel 65as, Pound $4.027s.
 Sales oday were 690,000 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials l7036, rails 43.90, utilities 3311.
 High hopes that President Tru- man will sign the tax bill, plus announcement of record first-half earnings for Standard Oil (N.J) lifted the stock market fractions to more than point today.
 Wall Street drew encouragement from a remark of Sen. Robert Taft, (R-O), that he did not believe Pres ident Truman could afford to veto the tax bill because such action would put him definitely on the side of high taxes and high expen- ses."
 At the annual stockholders meet ing of Standard (N.J) F. w. Ab- rams, chairman, said first half pro fit would reach $l40,000,O GOO or S5l2 a share, against $177,610,000 or S6.50 a share for all of 1946.
 Mercantile shares showed gains ranging to more than a point in Macy's and Woolworth Lee Rubber was up more than point. Steels were firm. Motors were up as much as 2h in Chrysler, with General up more than point.
 Trading was quiet during the en- tire day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-03
The w ashingt ion Merry Go Round
By. DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-It isn't advertis- ed outside the inner circle but there's a wide political rift between most members of the Truman Cab- inet and those who guide Demo- cratic National Headquarters.
 Democratic politicos led by Bob Hannegan, Gael Sullivan, Ed Flynn, and various other big-city bosses believe Truman should stick dili- gently to the old Roosevelt left of-center policy.
 But a majority of the Cabinet led by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder-disagree They are middle of-the -roaders.
 Illustrating the rift was private conversation in Miami recently be- tween Bob Hannegan and Assist ant Secretary of War Stuart Sym ington-hoth Democrats, both from St. Louis.
 Symington suggested that Demo- cratic Director Sullivan was being a little rough on big business by de- manding heavy price cuts. To this, Hannegan replied:
 Stew, are you one of those so- and-sos who believes Truman can win by appeasing the Big Business boys? If they're for us, we're lick ed The thing that worries me most is that 75 percent of the press is for Truman. Unless 75 percent of the papers think we're too liberal, the people will think we're too con- servative The Republicans always win in that kind of a setup.'
 Symington started to protest that he wasn't a reactionary, but Han negan continued:
 "The reason we Democrats win is that the people know we're the friend of the little man-that we protect his job and his home, his health and his future. Unless he feels that sbout Truman, we're licked"