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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
PRESIDENT
 HOLDS OFF
 0N2 BILLS
No Action on Tax or Labor Legislation UntiI Fri E
 day dt Earliest

WASHINGTON, June 9--tRt-- President Truman will withhold ac- ton on the income tax reduction and labor bills until he returns next Friday from Canada.
 Telling reporters this today. Pres idential Secretary Charles c. Ross said thousands of letters" have flooded into the White House on both measures.
 Most of the mail is concerning the labor bill, and most of it urges a veto," he said The mail comes from both individuals and organi- cations.
 The President will leave Wash ington tonight at g pm. and will address the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday. He is to arrive back in Washington Friday night.
 He has until next Monday to act on the tax bill which reduces in- come taxes by 10.5 to 30 percent Unless he signs or vetoes it by Monday midnight, it will become law without his signature.
 He must act within 10 days (ex- cluding Sunoays) after a measure reaches him.
 The labor bill has not yet reach ed the White House, but probably will arrive late today. Congressional action was completed last week.
 The, President fliew back to the Capital from Kansas City yester- day after two-day reunion with his World War I huddies and an address criticizing the budget cuts voted by the Republican Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
Armour GetS
 Nomination
 5fafe Dept.
Career Diplomat Is Sutees- sor 10 Braden, Who Re-
 signed Last Week

WASHINGTON, June 9.-R- President Truman today nominated Norman Armour to be Assistant Secretary of State replacing Spru- file Braden, who has resigned.
 Armour a career diplomat, was Ambassador to Argentina in 1889 and his appointment is regarded as a gesture of good will toward that country.
 The White House announcement that he will succeed Braden was made orally by Eben Ayers, press aide. Ayers did not specify that his duties will be exactly the same as those of Braden, but gave that irn- plication.
 Armours last pest was Ambassa- dor to Spain. He has been in re- tirement since Dec. 31. 1945. His home is Gladstone, N. J.
 Braden was Assistant Secretary for American Republic Affairs. He resigned last Wednesday after MT. Truman's announcement that he is satisfied Argentina has fulfilled her anti-Nazi commitments.
 Long at odds with Argentine of ficialdom, Braden was an expolient of finn" American policy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
WEEK DISASTERS KILL 23 PERSONS
Komesleads for Veterans Is
 Threat 10 Timber Industry
 Claims Alaska Lulnberllarl

WASHINGTON, June 9.-lR- An Alaska lumberman has opposed veterans homesteads in Alaska as a threat to the timber industry.
 F. V. Wagnel, representing a lumber company at Wrangell added in testimony before a House sub- committee considering homestead legislation, that the proposal would turn over 80 O0,O00,000 board feet of timber to veterans monopoly.
 He based his statement upon ar guments that because of the Alas kan terrain and need for smooth water on which to form lumber rafts, homesteaders in quiet coves could control timber shipments.
 Fifty or 1co veterans under the terms of tl-,s legislation" Wagner said, can control all the timber along the shores and force owners of timber away from the shores to pay them to cross their land"
 Charles F. Brannon, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Robert K. Coop, of the Interior Depart men't Land Management Bureau also opposed the legislation.
 Brannon said that if the timber areas of Southeast Alaska are turned over to veterans, companies proposing to build paper and pulp mills will drop their plans because they would lack assurance of a continuous supply of timber under individual ownership.
 He said the companies negotiat- ing for timber rights for mills would furnish jobs for thousands of per- sons.
 Coop said the Interior Depart ment opposes the measure because of the acreage proposed-from 320 to 1920 acres-and urged that the present limit of 160 acres for each homestead be retained.
 The testimony by Brannon and Coop concluded the hearing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
HOLDING UP OPERATIONS,
 BRISTOL BAY
Fishermen and Employers Called Balk Into Con-
 trdct NeQotidtions

SEATTLE, June 9.-tR-Alaska salmon fishermen and employers were called back into contract ne- gotiations today by Albin L. Peter son, Federal conciliator, in an at- tempt to reach a settlement so that operations can get underway when the season opens June B in Bristol Bay.
 The fishermen, members of the Alaska Fishermen's Union (CIO) last week rejected the latest offer of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. employer group. in elections here, in Portland and San Fran cisco.
 The offer included a 12h per- cent wage increase. no-strike clause and other provisions.
 Peterson said he had called meeting for tomorrow between em- ployers and herring fishermen, members of the International Fish ermen and Allied Workers Union (CIO). It is expected an offer from employers will be available to sub init to herring fishermen at unicn membership meeting tomorrow eve ming.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
RAIN DOES
 DAMAGE. IN
 NORTHWEST
Cherry Harvest is Struck in Oregon, Washington
 Deaths in Flood
(By The Associated Press)

A hammering rain, striking at the height of the cherry harvest in the rich fruitlands of Oregon and Wash ington, took one life over the week end and slashed a $2,000.000 hole in the wallet of the Northwest farm CTS.
 Mrs. Michael Yallup of Toppenish died when a flash flood swept her from a tent near The Dalles. Her husband said an eight-foot wall of water slammed into their camp and that he clutched at a fence wire to save his life. Mrs. Yalllup's body was found a mile beow the camp.
 T. O. Duncan, whose home is at Baker, Ore, rescued his children from a truck just before the ma- chine was swept away in The Dalles food. The Red Cross at the Oregon City said more than 50 persons sav- ed themselves by clinging to debris, fence wires and by climbing trees.
 Fruit growers estimate the damage to orchards from the rain and hail storm that brought on the flood would exceed $1.000,000.
 Hail, rain, high winds and flood ruined 5000 acres of sugar beets and much wheat in the Walla Walla region.
 Farmers there and in the central Washington fruit growing area from Okanmgan south through the Wen atchee and Yakima valleys placed their losses at another $1,000,000. Floods also struck the lower Yakima Valley, covering fields, filling base ments and washing out roads and ditches.
 More rain throughout the Notrh- west was in prospect today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
WEATHER BUREAU SCORES HIT WITH
 PICNIC SATURDAY

The local Weather Bureau office staff scored hit Saturday when they invited the CAA personnel and their families to picnic in Ever green Bowl. People and food were in abundance, according to all re- ports, and entertainment for the grown-ups was provided by a soft ball game between the CAA and the Navy team from the destroyer U. S.. s. Thomasen.
 At the close of the picnic, wealth ermen patted their stomachs and gleefully forecast thickening skies for less fortunate picnic-planners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
T0RNAD0E5,
 FLOODS IN
 WIDE AREA
High Wafer Sweeps Along Mississippi River-Low-
 lands Inundated
cBy THE ASSOCIATED pREss,


 Lowland residents along the mid dle reaches of the Mississippi river were struck by flood waters today as the death toll in other wide- spread weekend floods and tornadoes mounted to at least B.
 Damage to crops and city prop erty was estimated in the millions of dollars.
 Ottumwa. hardest hit by floods, had seven of Iowa's II deaths as the Des Moines river receded from about one-third of the homes in the city of 32,000 population. Her. shel Loveless, director of rescue op- erations, said, however, that he ex- pected to find other bodies down. stream but added that he had mo idea" how many.
 The Mississippi, swollen by high water from the Des Moines, rolled on over thousands of acres of H. linois and Missouri farm lands af- ter breaking six levies and flooding the village of Alexandria, Mo, and forcing more than 1000 families to evacuate their lowland farm homes between Warsaw, Ill, and Hannibal, Mo. yesterday
 Mayor Merl Hamill of Alexandria said the stream appeared to- have crested there with six inches of water in the main street.
 A l5-block area of sharon. Pa, was leveled and five persons were killed by tornado which ripped into western Pennsylvania late Sat- urday from Ohio,
 Red Cross officials estimated the storm damage ill Sharon at $660,- 900.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-T final deci- sion to sell arms to President Per- On of Argentina and to oust Per- on's enemy, Spruille Braden, as As- sistant Secretary of State probably will go down in history as one of the most momentous the United States has made in many years. It was attended by some soul-search- ing conferences inside the State De- partment with Braden lined up on one side ana various military ad- visers on the other.
 Because the decision was so im- portant, it nay be well to review some of the backstage arguments put forward by both sides.
 Chief polnt which big, burly Spruille Braden made to Secretary Marshall was that the United States and Argentina enjoyed perfectly normal relations in every possible way except one-namely the U. s. de- clined to sell Peron arms. We ex- change ambassadors We buy all the goods Argentina will sell us except fresh meat. And we have unfrozen all Argentine credits in the United States. However, argued Braden Argentina is a dictatorship sus- pected by. other Latin-American ueighbors of having designs on their territory. Therefore, the Unit cd States should not increase her power by selling arms.
 others of Marshalls advisers, es- pecially his old friends in the War
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
FAMED HANDLES WAR VET MISSES
 SERIOUS INJURY

BRIMFIELD, Mass, June 0.--IR Harold Russell, handless World War II veteran who received an Oscar award for his acting in the motion picture Best Years of Our Lives" escaped serious injury yes terday when the automobile in which he was riding skidded and over- turned.
 Russell was taken to a hospital where he was released after treat ment for head and facial lacera- tions
 John Hamill of Hudson, who po- lice said was the driver of the car, also was released after treatment for body bruises.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
BUS, AUTO
 IN CRASH;
 ! KILLED

SPANGLE, Wash, June 9.-R- Two persons were killed and eight injured near here yesterday when Greyhound Bus and passenger car collided at the top of a small hill.
 The dead, both of whom were riding in the car, were identified as Robert Cole of St. John, Wash, and Eugene E. Nelson of Rosalia, Wash.
 Andrew J. Calhoun, g, of Rosa lia, and Bill Schaffer, 20, of St. John, who were also passengers in the car, were the most seriously in jured. Calhoun is in local hos pital suffering from fractured skull. Possible leg fractures and a crushed hand and wrist Schaffer received severe head and facial cuts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
(ANNERYMEN COME NORTH
 BY AIRpLANE
Modern Meth cd Will
 Redeh Peak During Present Week

SEATTLE, June 9. (R-The movement of cannery workers to Alaska by air, tried out on large scale the first time this year, reach es it's peak this week. Officials of Northern Airlines said today more than 1,500 workers, headed for 21 different canneries, are being flown from Boeing Field here and Bel lingham to Naknek. Cold Bay, Ko- diak and Anchorage. The largest group is being flown for Pacific Am- erican Fisheries of Bellingahm. The shorter air run north saves oper- ators wage costs, as workers are paid from the time they leave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
K. V. MACK I5 WINNER IN
 WASHINGTON
Republican Elected 10 Con- gress Over Savage,
 Bd(ker of Wallace

OLYMPIA, Wash, June 9.-IR- Russell V. Mack, Republican. ranked today as the newest addition to the Congress of the United States and Charles Savage, Democrat, who had the backing of Henry Wallace, re- mained an exCongressman after Sat- urday's special election gave the G. o. P. and the Hoquiam publisher the victory by l,500 votes.
 Mack said he viewed hi election as a decision by the people of Wash ington's Third District to stand "solidly back of our nations bi- partisan policy" He succeeds the late Fred Norman, the Republican who defeated Savage by 1000 votes in the 1946 election.
 The loser accused the Republicans of resorting to smear tactics to con- fuse the voters during the election in which the Wallace stand was played prominently by both parties He added, however, that the vote indicated trend away from the backward Republican program
 Tn the primary election which sent the two into the finals the Demo- cratic vote was 29,O0O and the Re- publican 17,000, Savage polling IT, 900 and Mack 5000. Tn Saturdays general election Mack boiled an un- official 32,449 to Savage5s 30,939, with 573 of the districts GOT pre- cincts reported. Savage conceded four hours after the polls closed.
 Of National Interest
 The off-season election. watched nationally for it's possible indication of trend, brought from House Democratic Leader Mccormack tMass.) an echo of the losers s,lg- gestion that it reflected gain for the party because the margin of Re- publican victory was less than in 1946.
 Tt is fair to assume" Mccormack added. that MT. Savage had some people voting against him, because of extraneous issues, who would have voted for another Democrat" !"
 Chairman Carroll Reece of the Republican National Committee said in Milwaukee the Mack triumph "repudiates the Democratic Party of Washington and it's radical sup port"
 Mack, who is 55 years old and a veteran of the first World War. rolled up his biggest margin in agri- cultural Lewis County, where Demo- cratic County Chairman James Sareault said he was opposed to the ideolgies and political philosophies for which he stands"
 Savage carried five of the dis trict's nine counties, including the
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
COLD STORAGE E PLANNED, ,5HUMAG|M BY SEMAR

SEATTLE, June 9.-tR-Organiza- tion of the Aleutian Cold Storage Company, which will build plant at Sand Point in the Shumagin Islands, center of the rich halibut fishing grounds of western Alaska, is announced by William Semar, general manager of the Northland Transportation Company. The new company has been capitalized at S500,0 ,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
AT HOTEL JUNEAU

The Allowing registered at the Juneau Hotel over the weekend w. Kopeczky and O. Berger of Anchor age, A. F. Taylor of Ketchikan, Gordon Burlington from Gustavus, Glen Reynolds of Sitka and Frank Legace of Red Deer, Alta.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
CRITICISM |S HURLED
 AT TRUMAN
President Charged with Building oIitiedi
 Fences" in Speech

WASHINGTON, June 9.-R- Republicans accused President Tru- man today of trying to build poli- tical fences" in his Kansas City speech outlining a broad domestic welfare program and criticizing the -contrulled Congress for cut ting appropriations.
 But Democrats took the view the Chief Executive simply was restat- ing his position on issues confront ing the nation.
 Senator Dworshak (R-Idaho) told a reporter he thinks the country's reclamation program - mentioned specifically by the President-has become involved in politics "by those who are more interested in building political fences than they are in building reclamation pro- jects"
 Tt is unfortunate that the Presi- dent, who wants reclamation pro- jects built rapidly, should have seen fit last August to freeze reclama- tion development by an executive order tying up 50 percent of the funds for construction" Dworshak declared.
 Senator Baldwin (R-Conn) said he thinks MT Truman's speech, de- livered Saturday night before vet erans of the 35th Division, sounds like campaign document"
 MT. Truman called. among other things, for an increase in minimum wages, broadening of social security, decent housing and equalization of educational opportunities.
 He said critical shortages" in electric power must be overcome, that laws designed to conserve na- tural resources are lin grave dan ger" of being made ineffective by Congressional refusal of appropria- tions and that the farm program may be endangered for the same reason.
 Depicting water control, reclama- tion and power projects as "in- vestments," MT. Truman said he hopes that lon careful reflection and consideration" Congress will provide money for them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
AT BARANOF

Four registered from the east at the Baranof Hotel over the week end. were Mrs. J. H. Weaver Jr., of Saltwater Oklahoma and J. Paul Rusk, Robert G. Kelly and Fred Rip petol, who are from Charleston, West Virginia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
HERE FROM SEATTLE

The following are registered at the Baranof from Seattle: Stewart H. White, H. R. Ambuhl, G. s. Newhouse, w. E. Mitchell, R. P. Emery, Howard J. Hanson, F. R. Dent and Eldon B. Davis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
HERE FROM MIssOURI

MT. and Mrs. Daniel s. Reid of Parksville. Missouri, arrived on the steamer Princess Louise for visit of several weeks at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. w. P. Blanton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
HERE FOR SUMMER

Accompanying his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. Robert Killewich, on their return to Juneau from Cali fornia, was Earl Lockhart, who will spend the summer visiting here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
oRDos RETURN

Joe Ordos, Acting Commander of Juneau Post No. 4, American Legion, has returned by PAA from a one month vacation in Washington and Oregon. Ordos, who is on the U. S. Post Office staff, said that he, and Mrs. Ordos, spent considerable time on the beach at Newport, Ore. Mrs. Ordos will remain at Elma, Wash, for an additional two weeks before returning to Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
IN FROM ANCHORAGE

Fred F. Lewis and Alfred s. Bab- inec of Anchorage, arrived here over the weekend and are registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
RAINBOW GIRLS TO
 INITIATE TUESDAY

Rainbow Girls will meet Tuesday night( June 10D at 7.30 o'clock at the Scottish Rite.Temple to conduct a special initiation at which time they will exemplify the degrees for the Order of Eastern Star
 This is the last meeting before summer vacation and good attend ance is expected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
COAST FISHERMEN FLY TO SHANGHAI
 TO AID CHINESE

OAKLAND. Calif.. June 9.-tR- Twenty fishermen from Seattle and San Pedro left yesterday on Pan- Overseas Airways plane for Shang- hai to teach Chinese to operate purse seiners under sponsorship of the UNRRA.
 Robert Wedemeyer, POA Traffic Manager, said his company also was flying Chinese currency, printed in the United States to Shanghai.
 Birmingham is England's second largest city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09
MCGEE FROM wRANGELL

Louis J. McGee of Wrangell is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09

There are about I'll million acres of land in Texas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-09

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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17

lady, and we are sure she will
be an excellent Editor!
And now, a reminder to our
literary geniuses. Your contribu-
lions simply must be your own.
Anyhow, what fun is it to get
credit for something someone else
made up?
JUST read this Fan" letter
Bernard Howard sent in to us:
''I have more friends than
ever who would like TO join
our club. and I shall send in
a list of names very soon. I
myself enjoyed the club IN
the year / have been in IT,
the best and finest clubs of
Them all"
Well, thanks, Bernard. We hope
all the Starlets feel that way!
We've got so many poems about
Spring, that I'm getting Spring
Feyer!! Pardon me until next
week = I'm going to pick some
daisies!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17
BY MISS LEE

Letters are pouring in from
Starlets who have seen Dora Lee
Wilson's Speed King Roller Skates.
Dora Lee won our membership
contest, and received the skates
as a prize. If any of you boys
and girls would like pair, wen
let you know next week exactly
how you too can win them!
We've sent membership buttons
out to janet Molly. Joanna RundY.
Irene McCane. Barbaraetta La
Verren Foster. Jeanette Colbert.
Dallas Copenhaver. Robert Bern
stein. Willie Bea Fianchu. David
Tepps. Enada RoddY. Ella Mae
Edwards. and Mary Ann Carey.
JOYCE Irene Arnold. Norxeen
Cant. George Kahn. Joyce Watson.
Dolores Summers. Shirley Nichols.
Barbara Dixon. Florence Cunning
ham. Earline Anderson. Isarie
Hartford. Frida Jones. Helen
Vacek. Louise Robinson, and
Louise Lee Nan received buttons
this week. Welcome to our club,
boys and girls!
In response to our invitation
for someone to take over the job
Of Scrap Book Editor, we received
many applications. 1t was very
difficult to make choice, but we
finally picked Kitty Sfempel.
Kitty is a very versatile young
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17

Leagues Is to the credit of the
D o d gers = who, incidentally,
weren't taking much of risk,
considering Rebinson's baseball
career. 800 a5i "a 4oq
However. Robinson must be
considered the First" and not
The only Negro to take his
.rightful place in the top teams
of cur No. l sport.
There are plenty more
where Jackie came EromI
And certainly IFS time that
the management of the two
Chicago clubs realized that
E..-& -aias
b.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17
Ko in the l2th round.

KO in the l2fh round.
But the next year Joe took the
title from James ]. Braddock here
in Chicago, and then proceeded
TO defend it against more con-
tenders than any other champ has
ever taken on.
ON THE cinder path, we could
mention Eddie ToIan and Claude
Buddy" Young, but let's 60 on
to the greatest of them all
fleet-footed Jesse Owens, the lad
who made Hitler eat crow.
On May rs, 1885, at Ann Arbor,
Mich, Jesse, then a sophomore
at Ohio State, achieved perhaps
the finest day any individual ath-
lete ever had," in the words of
sports columnist James S. Kearns.
For more than a week
Jesse had been under a doc
tors care for a back injury.
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he broke three world records
and tied still anotheTl And
later that same year he set
another record for the So
yard dash. Most of his rec
ords still stand. by the way.
IT WAS in the following year,
1886, that Jesse Owens went to
Berlin for the Olympics and set
two new Olympic records, while
equalling a third. His great
prowess forced Hitler himself to
stink out of the huge Sportspalast
rather than bestow the awards on
an inferior" Negro.
The fact that Jackie Robinson
was given a chance in the Big
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-17
Higbe exchange emphasizes
injustices Of trade system
BY BILL MAHoNEY

of
lights Pittsburgh
ownership the athlete
the realized him. other it
will teams
ont making niue difference
few, the healthy
suggers him with
able step into his spot He hasn't been
effective pitcher for four five years
Eigbe's of price is nsersbly
The players tried the right last deal
ing failed. Someday they'll they
Write letter 10 your
brothex
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pitching
Dodgers he hit bali. fan yelled
hoit" Koiby
leaving What
English
A delayed Chandler basebais high
Landi his predecessor.
justice his actions Car Chandler has
plenty comparatively brief
of office.
difference
employed mxp
Charley month going the
baseball let Hickey off with apology and only later when
shouting only MacPha rebuked Larry with
gentle wrist tapping, hsf
EMPLOYS DURocHER. his responsibility?
quit job.
that's what gutier than the
1ure into doing it.
generally having
Hickey formidable
they're still while he isn't that
we see, national pastime.