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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
46 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN HERE BY pAA
 SATURDAY, SUNDAY

Pan American Airways reported 27 passengers flown to Juneau from Seattle on Saturday and 19 on Sunday Outbound passeng- CTS numbered 15 on Saturday eight on Sunday to Seattle
 The passenger lists for the two days follow:
 Seattle to Juneau, Emil Samuel son, Georgia Samuelson, Alfred St Germaine, Bertha Ward, Takshi Ando, Charles Webber, John Nor ey, Gene Marks.
 J. MacKay, William Hilberg, J Galssini, Carl Paulson, Eric Nor en, Edward Erickson, Ruben Swan berg, Jack Baker.
 J. Springer, Ollie Galland, Mar tin Martinsen, Albert Guylor.
 George Crowley, Ann Johnson Verel Henderson, Volney Stephens Wilma Stephens, Charles Praeger Emil Nelson.
 Steig Ossman, F. Stockwell Hans Floe, H. Swanson, Minnie Lea, Harry Lea. Clarence Milligan Nathanel Thomas.
 Erma Fitzpatrick, Mary Ann Til son, Betty McGraw, Capt. Henry Sterner, Ragnvald Simonson.
 s. Ohman, James Campbell Magnus Bostrom, Lowell Bradeen Arthur Twaddle, Lloyd Boring.
 Juneau to Seattle, Phillip Schaf- fer, William Reed, H. M. Stephey Sharon Collier, Mrs. w. H. Collier Mildred Maynard, Mary Maynard
 Dr. Tillie Samaha, Mrs. Harold Hansen, Ronald Hansen, Mary Serum, Loren Helmer, Virginia Secrest, Russell Secrest.
 Alice Ballangrud, Earl McGinty Maudelle Farrell, Warren Houston Charles Mcdonald, E. Brott.
 Juneau to Ketchikan, Harold Blanton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
R. R. RATE RAISE
 UPHELD BY COURT


 WASHINGTON. May 12.-lR-- The Supreme Court today upheld an Interstate Commerce Commis- sion order raising railroad freight rates 10 percent in the north and east and lowering them 10 percent in the south and as far west as the Rockies.
 The Commission ordered the changes after officials of south ern states complained that high CT rates in their region gave nor thern manufacturers competitive advantages.
 Affected are so-called class rates. These apply principally to manu- factured articles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
MA(HINI5T5
 ACCEPTING
 CONTRACTS
Granted Increase of 12k PerCent-A Are Already
 Flying North

SEATTLE, May 12.-iR-First ot approximately 700 machinists em- ployed in the salmon canning in- duStry were to be cleared for Alas ka today following acceptance of a new contract granting average wage increases of 1912 percent, it was announced by I. A. Sandvigen, bus mess agent of the machinists' un- ion (independenD local 79.
 Sandvigen said both the Seattle and Bellingham locals voted during the weekend in favor of the settle ment. reached after lengthy nego- tiations with employers.
 The machjnists represent four percent of the salmon canning in- dustry workers, and will be the first to go north for the 1947 season Sandvigen said.
 The agreement provides that foremen now will have the same schedule as other employees instead of taking over their jobs week before and quitting a week after the regular season. Watchmen will work eight hours day instead of 12.
 Sandvigen said a few other points remain "to be ironed out, but they will be taken care of"
 FLYING NORTH
 SEATTLE, May 12.-tR--Machin- ists working in the canning in- dustry began leaving by plane for Alaska this afternoon after an agreement on wage increases was reached by the International Asso- citation of MachinistS Cindependent) and the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc
 Machinists lined up this forenoon at union offices at the new labor temple getting clearance for the Alaska work. The first plane load which left carried men to work for the Copper River Packing Co. and other planes were to leave this af- ternoon for other destinations. The machinists represent about four per- cent of the canning industry work CTS and are the first to go north.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
SOVIET FILM
 TAKES RApAT
 U.5., BRITAIN
Shows StdIin Accusing AL lies of Wanting 10
 Bleed Russia White
By EDDIE GILMORE

MOSCOW, May 12.-(R-When
 Russian audiences see the forth coming Soviet cinema "The Battle of Stalingrad' they will see Prime
 Minister Stalin depicted as accus- ing Britain and the U. s. of break ing a solemn promise to open a western front in Europe in 1922 so that Russia would be "bled
 white" and her allies could dictate the terms of the peace.
 Excerpts from the script pub
 lished yesterday in the Moscow
 News, only English language paper
 in the Soviet Union, show Winston Churchill as the principal mover against the second front. President Roosevelt is presented as opposing
 him, but powerless to alter the British Prime Ministers determ- ination.
 The script has Roswell saying
 at one point: There is only one thing for which I am too old and , that is to drag Churchill across the channel in chains"
 !, At another point Stalin is de-
 picted as saying to the audience, following a Moscow conference at tended hy Churchill and former U. S. Ambassador to Russia w.
 Averell Hartman:
 Tt is clear. A campaign in Ar
 rica and then Italy They simply want to reach the Balkans first. They want us to be bled white so they can dictate the terms later. y [ At one point it quoted Roose- welt as telling a newsman: Unfortunately, it does not de- pend on me. What can you do against inertia? It is like hitting a punching bag of wet manure. You can only soil your hands
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
TWO FEARED LOST
 COOK INLET AREA

ANCHORAGE Alaska, May l2.- R-Missing eight days since leav- ing in dory loaded with house. hold goods and supplies for Cook Inlet island, Balsor Howell and his wife were feared lost today.
 The two had bought the island for home in Kashemak Bay, near Homer. They were both war veter- ans and former employees at Fort Richardson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
50ApB0x DERBY BOYS
 WILL MEET TONIGHT

A meeting of the Soap Box Der by boys will be held tonight at 7;30 o'clock in the Grade School audi torium, Dr. c. c. Carter, General Chairman, has announced.
 Weather permitting. test runs will be made over the course on Twelfth Street.
 All boys who have not yet taken out their entry blanks are urged to attend tonight. get the blanks and fill them in.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

Petition Filed by Alaska Requests Suspension Rate
 Increases Pending Hearing

WASHINGTON, May l2.-lR-- Alaska formally asked the Marine Commission today to suspend rate increases filed by three steamship companies to become effective in the Alaska trade May 21.
 The Territory, in a petition, said, ITO show the extent to which the proposed changes will, if they go into effect, do serious damage to the economy of the Territory and harm to both individual and classes of Alaska shippers and re- ceivers of freight"
 The Territory asked suspension. pending a hearing, of new tariffs proposed by the Alaska Steamship Company, Northland Transporta ton Company and Alaska Trans portation Company for freight and passengers between Seattle and Alaska and between points in Alaska.
 The carriers have not made a conscientious effort to eliminate soma of the wasteful duplication of services in Southeast Alaska which is in large measure, the cause of the operating losses in- cured in that area" the petition stated.
 The savings possible under the curtailing of passenger servic; and consequent removal of losse, hitherto carried by freight, requir, a re-examination of the schedule: of the Alaska Steamship Company
 The tariffs now newly filed arc shown to perpetuate all the in- equalities and discrimination which existed in previous tariffs ="
 The Territory proposed that reg ular passenger service be confin- ed to a direct route between Se- attle and the Gulf of Alaska. II cited figures which is said show ed this could be handled by two vessels.
 Asserting the carriers propose tc operate more vessels than the needs of the trade justify" the petition said:
 The Territory expresses nc preference for any of the com peting lines. However, it cannot afford to pay for the jockeyinp for position which is implicit ir the proposed schedules for south east Alaska, and the resulting hike in the tariff which is necessary to maintain these schedules.
 Before the war the freight services of Alaska Steam, North land and Alaska Transportation overlapped in Southeast Alaska The experience of the War Ship ping Administration shows that they overlapped also during the war. The result was a waste of shipping
 Now it is proposed to perpet- uate this situation by a substan- tlal increase in freight rates"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Palisana, from s1-aItle, in port
 Square Sinnet, from Seattle, in port
 Princess Louise is scheduled to arrive from Vancouver Tuesday afternoon or evening.
 Sailors Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle May 20.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
TRUMAN ASKED TO
 VISIT IN MONTANA
 DURING WEST TRIP

WASHINGTON, May 12.-tR- President Truman was invited to- day to stop over in Montana on his proposed trip to the Pacific Northwest next summer.
 The invitation was extended by President Harry B. Mitchell of the Civil Service Commission, a resi- dent of Great Falls, Mont
 Mitchell told reporters he wanted MT Truman to view the International Peace Park, created by the unification of Glacier Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes Park in Alberta, Canada.
 MT Truman is tentatively sche- duled to visit the Northwest sometime after the adjournment Jf Congress, now set for July 31. He plans to visit Seattle and other points in Washington State and make a long delayed trip into Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, May l2.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is A.. American Can 90, Anaconda 36, Curtiss-W Wright 47s, International Harvester SIS Kennecott 44A, New York Central IA, Northern Pacific 16A, U. s. Steel 66ai, Pound $4O27s.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials l67, rails 44.33, utilities 33.88.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
TAKING PRISONERS OUT

Deputy U. $. Marshal Walter G. Hellan was scheduled to leave today for the Federal Penitentiary at Mo Neil Island, Wash, with two pri- soners who are to be transferred there. The prisoners, Archie D. White, Jr. and Edwin Lindoff, of Sitka, were recently convicted here of burglary charges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

SEATTLE, May 12.-R- Waller Griffin, Seattle, State Depart ment of Labor employee, told the police yesterday that this wallet containing $1 ,408 apparently was taken from his pockets Saturday night. A button cut from his hip pocket indicated his pocket had been picked, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

PHOENIX, Ariz, May 12.-LR- Winnie Ruth Judd, who killed two Juneau women and shipped their dismemhered bodies to Los Angeles in a trunk in 1881, escaped early today from the state hospital for the insane, Dr. John A. Larson, Superintendent announced
 It was her third escape from the institution since she was saved from execution by being adjudged insane.
 Her escape from a second floor cell-room was discovered by an at tendant at l2:30 am. She was last seen at 9 pm.
 Dr. Larson used the word "con- nivances" in explaining escape of the 41-year-old murderess.
 He said she was believed to have used key which opened two doors, one on the second floor-which all lowed her to descend a stairway and another on the ground level. - A gate on the north side of the hospital grounds was found open, Dr. Larson said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

Coffee loses 12 to 20 percent of it's weight in the roasting process but increases it's bulk by one-third.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
WINNIE RUTH JUDD MAKES 3RD ESCAPE,
 INSANE HOSPITAL
Slayer of Two Juneau Women in 1931 Makes
 Break ' Inside Job

BULLETIN - Phoenix, AriZ., May I2.-tR-Mad trunk mur- deress Winnie Ruth Judd was captured today about 12 hours after she escaped from the state hospital for the insane.
 The sheriff's office said she was seized near the exclusive Arizona Biltmore Hotel, lux uriOus winter resort on the edge of the desert north of the city.
 She is being brought to the sheriff's office in patrol car.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7.30 O'Clock
 This Morning

, In Juneau-M Maximum, AS; , minimum, 38.
 At Airport-Maxlmum, 46; , minimum, 38.
 , WEATHER, FORECAST . tJuneau and Vicinity
 Cloudy with rain showers this afternoon and Tuesday.
 Little change in temperature.
 Light southeasterly winds. , PRECIPITATION
 . (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 tm. today) In Juneau = .67 inches; , since May l, 265 inches; . since July 1, 87.87 inches. . At Airport - .92 inches; . since May 1, 1.55 inches; . since July 1, 55.65 inches.
 . .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01
Star Program

State pul,a W 18th Wilmington wore
IN proportion with Its resources. to IN
clude public terminals tobacco stor
age warehouses. ship repair facilities
nearby sites for heavy industry am
35-foot Cape Fear river channel
CITY auditorium large enough !
,neet needs for years to come
Development of Southeastern NortF
Carolina agricultural and industrial
through better markets anr
food processing pulp wood productloT
and factories
Emphasis on the regions recrea
ton advantages and Improvement O
resort accommodations
Improvement OF Southeastern North
Cardinals farn1-to-market and prl'
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head is
land
Continued effort to atiYs~t more IN.
dustries
Proper utilization OF B~luethentha
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southe astern North
Cardinals health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals. and IN
Guiding a Negro Health center.
ENCOURAGEMENT Of the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and County
governments
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01

b While the Colorado Assocai-
ton. was meeting in Denver the
other day a hundred Of the
teachers attending the gathering
were chosen at random and
agreed to take a test on Ameri-
can history on condition that
their names would be withheld,
When the examination papers
were graded it was revealed that
they averaged 81, and that some
were as low as 20. Twenty-Five
questions were taken from the
standard text. books used in the
state, and these questions were
on matters which might well be
expected to be a part of the
historical stock and trade of
Americans, even Americans
whose knowledge Of history is
but rudimentary.
American history as re-writ-
ten in the answers turned in by
some of these teachers is sur
prising and amazing. George
Washington was credited with
writing the Declaration of indie
pendence; it was stated that
Robert E. Lee was President of
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01
BY JOSEPH LSO

VIENNA, Oct. 81. - Here in
this great and once lovely city,
the Soviet Union has launched
upon a venture of economic i'm
perialism of really unparalleled
%crassness and ruthlessress.
Furthermore, the ultimate pur-
pose is to enthrall a civilized,
innocent and angrily unwilling
people, who stand among the
founders of Western civilization.
This is the real meaning OF
the problem of German assets
in Austria about which the ex-
perts have already written so
much. Since the drama of this
strange situation has somehow
been lost in transmission, an in
expert explanation seems worth
trying.
Very briefly, the Soviets were
granted at Potsdam all Ger
man assets" in Austria in part
payment of their greedy bill for
PREPARATIONS. Those were the
days when even the makers of
American policy had not learned
from hard experimental it was
vain to seek a true settlement
with the Soviet Union at this
time. Under the delusion which
a few still cherish, they granted
Stain this concession among
many others. They even did so
without spelling out what was
granted.
Thereafter. under the guise of
taking PREPARATIONS, the Soviet
command here seized control of
almost every valuable piece of
industrial property in their zone
of Austria. Eastern Austria, oc-
cupied by the Soviets except for
the little quadripartite enclave
in Vienna. was the country's
chief industrial area.
Altogether, they took more
than three hundred industrial
plants of all kinds. plus such
banks as they could lay their
hands on, the Danube Shipping
Company, the Zistersdorf oil
wells and tens of thousands of
acres of farm land. Definition
of German assets" was mirac-
ulously broad. 1t even included
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
In reply to several articles
appearing in your paper about
the appointment of Mr. Walter
M. Standard as Sheriff of
Brunswick county, also as to
the wisdom of the action of our
County commissioners in doing
so, I wish to state as a citizen,
voter and tax payer of Bruins
wick county, while it is true
that Mr.. Standard was con-
victed of charges and sentenced
on circumstantial evidence, he
paid the debt to society as the
courts decreed. What more
could he do? Should he be made
to pay continually?
Since that time he has been
a law abiding citizen, highly re-
spected by his neighbors and
fellow citizens. The voters Of
Brunswick county placed con-
fidence in him and his judg-
ment or they would not have
elected him as Recorder Judge
again in 1898. He also served
as a county member Of the
Board Of Welfare for several
years, having been . appointed
by a former board of commits
SionerS about 1910.
There are some factions of
the Democratic party that seem
determined to cruelty him.
Why has he changed so? When
in 1910 they elected him as
chairman of their party, which
ne led to victory and in 1916
II it had not been for MI. Stana-
land the Republicans would
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01
Guilford's ABC Proposal

New advocacy of the Alcoholic Bever-
age Control system as the most practical
means of fighting the bootlegger was Civ
en- . few DAYS ago by the Guilford county
Grand jury as it recommended establish
ment Oh ABC stores as a method of cor
rectlng the county's liquor problem.
The jury gave sound reason for its ac-
ton. 1t reported sit is our recommendation
that the liquor which is now being distrib-
uted illegally in this county be taken out
of the hands of the bootleggers as quickly
as possible and placed under the legal
control of ABC stores, and that the profits
now being reaped by the bootleggers be
used to help pay the expenses of our coun-
ties ant cities therein"
The jury simply admitted that prohibition
doesn't prohibit liquor in its county.
1t is certainly a body well qualified to
express an opinion and make recommen-
dations on this subject. Each term of court
sees many liquor case defendants, many
of them repeaters, appear. The line is al
most endless. And who supports these
shady characters? The people of the com.
munty who purchase their wares.
We cannot refrain from believing that
the reported early success of the ABC
system in Mecklenburg county was an in
fluence on the Guilford jury. Greensboro
has long kept a close eye on what Char
lotte was doing because conditions bust.
ness, social and otherwise - in the two
large cities are quite comparable.
And M~ecklenburg, from all we hear has
established and is maintaining it's ABC
stores in a sound manner.
The Guilford Grand jury's action
brought a slumbering issue quickly to
the foremost of public discussion. Much
will be said and written regarding the
body's proposal. But the final decision will
be up to the people of Guilford them
selves. That is one Of the ADVANTAGES of
the local option feature of the ABC ar.
rangement. In the good citizens of Green's
boro and High Point, as well as all other
communities and adjoining rural country
side, do not want legal liquor they will
have the final say-so with their votes at
the polls. If they concur with their Grand
jury, Iney can express tnIS agreement with
their ballots.
We are not primarily concerned with
what Guilford does.
But we are glad to see such an august
body as the Grand jury suggest a new
approach for the county to its bootlegger
problem. That it is tired of seeing millions
OF dollars go into the pockets of criminals
rather than the public treasury is quite
evident. Twenty-six other North Carolina
counties looked upon the matter in a COM
parable light and did the best thing posi-
ble-adoption of the ABC system about
it.
Whether Guilford will be the 9th is q
matter for its citizens to decide.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01

cultural land of western Europe about as
fast as she could move her armies. They
should lead no one to believe that Russia
would be a pushover.
Nevertheless, DR.. DeGraff's story is in
teresting and encouraging. Certainly the
same. story is known and it's significance
understood in the Kremlin. And it may
be one of the factors in Prime Minister
Stains mind when, despite the contrary
evidence of his underlings, he insists re-
peatedly that Russia does not want a war
and does not mean to start one.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-01
Farms Behind Iron Curtain

A country fights about the way it farms,
says DIR. Herrell DeGraff in the current
issue of Sideways magazine.
DR.. DeGraff, professor of agriculture al
economics at Cornell university, explained
his statement to mean that a nations agri-
cultural methods are an index to it's in
dustrial production and complete war po-
%tential. The more workers kept on the
farm by antiquated methods and equip
ment. the fewer workers there are to pro-
duce goods and services, and to fight bat
ties.
From this premise he advances, with the
help OF a good many statistics, to the con-
clusion that in the possible event of a war
between the United States and Russia, the
latter would 60 into the conflict suffering
from a severe agricultural handicap.
DR.. DeGraff finds three roots of this
Russian weakness geographical position,
lack of sufficient modern farming nipple
ments and lack of individual incentive in
der the Communist system. The Soviet
Union embraces an area more than two
and a half times greater than the United
States but the harvested crop acreage of
the two countries is about the same.
America has all the climatic advantage;
the Black sea port of Odessa, in southern
Russia, is the same latitude as Duluth,
Mimi, and Aroostook county, Maine. P1ac-
tically all the rest of the vast country lies
to the north.
The figures that DR.. DeGraff quotes
arc nrpyU9r hnf fho1y re1,oo1 %Lo4 A~oor;
can agricultural productivity has never
been as low as Russia's was in 1888, since
our Civil war. Our prewar harvests were
~one-and-a-haf times as large as Russia's.
Here are some comparative prewar sta
tistics on the number of hours of labor re-
CURED to grow and harvest an acre of
various crops in the two countries. Corn:
hours-16 hours in the corn belt - and
double the yield. Cotton: Russia, 800
hours; America, 81. Wheat: Russia, AZ
hours; America, 9 hours and a greater
yield. Sugar beets: Russia, $50 hours;
America, go. Potatoes: Russia, 265 hours:
America, SO.
The average Russian farmer in the 30's
spent 46o hours a year in caring for a
dairy cow The American farmer spent 40
hours and got twice as much milk per
COW.
1t is evident that DR.. DeGraff did not
write this story out of a desire to make
Americans feel complacent, or to lend sup
port to those who say ''let's go ahead and
drop the bomb and get it over with"
His figures do not take into account the
present satellite states of the Soviet Union.
They do not take into account the proba.
bility that if Russia chose to 60 to war
next year or five years from now. she
| could swallow up the industries and agri.