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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
Telephone Democracy
(New York Times

Among the many "firsts" of which this country can boast is the fact that we lead the world in the number of telephones in Last year people carried forty-two conversations that instru- ment This statistic which has been supplied by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in a pamphlet it issued recently giving facts about tele- phones throughout the world without doubt estab- fishes the "talkingest" nation in the world And that characteristic, perhaps as much as any other single factor explains why this country is the worlds outstanding democracy.
 Even if did not have anything else to talk about than telephones, the huge number that we have would lead to a good many conversations At the beginning of the year. for instance there were 3 ell 900 telephones in the United States and that was ST per cent of all there in the world. We had one phone for every four persons compared with a world average of one for every forty-three Sweden has for every five persons Canada for every six and the Soviet Union for every 140
 Which leads us to the thought that our Congress might well consider these statistics They show, cer tainly that besides technical talents we have forensic abilities that could be put to valuable use in this day of international propaganda. Instead of curbng us, Congress in sense did when it cut down the amount of mCrey we could spend to tell the rest of the world apout ourselves it should let us talk and the whole world would probably benefit
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

done a better job politically in their zone than We have in ours. This doesn't mean that the Ger mans love them but it does mean that the Russians have carefully built up a German army, trained to take orders from Moscow Also, they have indoctrinated some thousand able German leaders with enough Communist allegiance to gradually take over the other zones Of Germany once Germany is unified
 2. We know from experience that the Russians will be absolutely ruthless in opposing the LISA. once Germany is unified In other words. theoretically American newspapers would then circulate in the rest of Germany, but they wouldn't they would disappear in sewers
 Theoretically, also, American businessmen could do business in the Russian zone but they couldn't obstacle after obstacle would be placed ill their way. Theoretically also. Americans could travel all ever a unified Germany. Actually they would be arrested or kicked off trains on phony pretexts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
Tale of a Trail of Blood
Cincinnati Enquirer

Some 900 school children between the ages of six and 13 in classes at the Danforth Elementary School in Texas City, Tex, when ammunition laden ship blew up in the harbor setting off terrific chain of explosions and fires elsewhere The blast shattered the windows in every classroom; in instant hun dreds of children cut and gashed with the flying glass Blackboards topped plaster cracked and the air became dense with choking dust
 In one room the doorknob was blown off and the sagging wall jammed the door tightly Tn another room an entire wall fell Debris blocked some the stairways.
 What happened then is one of the most amazing stories to come out of that Texas City disaster Ma tional Parent Teacher Magazine tells it.
 There were dotted lines of blood along the floors and corridors to show what happened-bood which drpped from the and wounds of the children The children marshaed perfectly in their accustomed fire drill lines. The trail of blood led down stairway to where it blocked-then described a sweeping and went back down the hall to the alternative exit The leader of the line when he encountred the obstruction, had raised both hands above his head in standard signal. To every child that meant Turn back and go to the secondary exit
 The teacher in the room where the door blocked had the children stack up their chairs to form a ladder; they climbed on it through the tran and then formed in their regular fire drill lines Tn all of the evacuation from the blasted building a single child injuredl
 Except for the regular pansaking fire drills in which the teachers and children had been coached great of those 300 injured and frightened chil- dren would have been rampled suffocated and killed In other schools under circumstances much less hor rifying as many as TT children have died a single jammed stairway.
 The moral is obvious How many schools in the country have their pupils and teachers thoroughly coached in fire drills that they will leave building quickly and orderly despite bleeding and falling walls? Not too many All too often, fire drills perfunctory things joke to the children and bother to the teachers Little thought is given to possible Instructions things like jammed doors Children allowed time to get their wraps Seldom does anyone think of immediate roll calls so that of actual fire building failure the absence of any child could be spotted at once
 It's trouble yes, but because of just such trouble the Danforth Elementary School one bright spot in Texas Citys bleak picture of tragedy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

MISUSED: Do not Because o the tram being deraied Because of the trains dealed"
 MISPRONOUNCED: Initiative Pronounce m-lsh-l-a-tN all Is second syllable second arya syllable
 Religious; ELI Sacrlegious; llE
 Affectaion emulation, mannerism
 word three times and is yours Let us word day Todays word: He that apprehend all her bats and seeming pleasures and yet abstain IS he risanH-Mlton
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

of which makes life tough for a columnist
 Secretary of State Marshall held only two press conference during the entire London conference and ! then only for background tCharles Evans Hughes used to hold two press conferences per day). Marshall wasn't really sore at his alleged adviser, John Foster 1 Dulles, when the latter went to Paris to see General De Gualle. It was Foreign Minister Bidault who was sore and for obvious req sons-the conference between Dull es and De Gualle meant that the American delegation didn't trust Bidault, but went over his head to get the views of the man they figured would be the next Premier Of France. It was like going over Truman's head to ask Senator Taft about future American policy.
 When Marshall and Dulles re- alized how clumsy this was, they carefully leaked a story that Mar shall hadn't known Dulles was go- ing to see De Gualle and was sore at him for so doing. Nobody was fooled by this story, however. One Frenchman observed that American <, diplomacy will have to be smarter than that.
 One thing Dulles asked De Gualle was whether the French Army would resist in case the Rus sian army tried to cross France and take channel ports. De Gualle replied that they would resist if the LISA helped arm and equip forty divisions.
 Copyright, 1947, by The Bell
 Syndicate, Inc)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
As IN l945

So, despite weeks of London de- Alterations the United States Ger many and Russia are right back where they started at Potsdam in the summer of l945. All the talk at London. all the hours used up in interpreting speeches, all the money spent on cablegrams to Washington giving minute details of the conference, all the hotel bills rolled up by delegates-all went Ter nothing. In fact. the Amerl- can delegation knew it would be for nothing even before the con- ference started They just didn't want to be in the position of admitting it publicly.
 So as the last day of the con ference arrived the British Foreign Minister remarked. "Is there any one who would care to suggest a date for reconyening this confer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

he gave neWsmen an off-the-rec- ord fill-in on what had happened This is an old trick-one that the Russians learned from Jimmie Byrnes when he was Secretary of State and decided that the best way to handle the press was to give the newspaper the truth about what happened in a secret confer ence.
 Since then it's been a question as to which Foreign Minister can leak the most and the quickest All
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

ence?"
 General Marshal looked away. Foreign Minister Bidault sat, arms folded staring straight ahead Molotov pretended not to hear, and thus ended the long awaited, much advertised conference of For eign Ministers to arrange peace treaty Tor Germany and Austria.
 Now we wonder what will hap pen when the Russians get wise and quit talking about separations. Their demand for separations gave the American delegates the excuse they wanted for deadlockin9 the conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
LEGION WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY
 MONDAY EVENING

A joint Christmas party of the American Legion Post 4 and it's Auxiliary will be held Monday eve ming, December 29, at 8 o'clock in the Dugout. All members and friends are invited to attend the festivities.
 There will be plenty of fun, gifts will be exchanged and refresh- mentS will be served
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
LOOK and LEARN h. C. GORDON

when with others and they dis cussng about which know nothing?
 attenively also ask occasional question to the others that well informed, try change the subject.
 minister Mister? Yes, of Doctor Then one Brown" Dean Brown
 O. kind of entertainment usually follows dinner? popular of enter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
TOUGH ON COLUMNISTS

The Russians are gradually walk Ing up to the importance of bet ger press relations. At London, they held a brieiing for the press every day This meant that, after
 he Foreign Ministers finished talk ing, Russian interpreter Polakoff held a press conference at which
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
MODERN ETIQUETTE RoprprA by LEE

Connecticut schoomase captured and during Revolutionary War? percentage of alien population? 8 tibia located? Nile"? That made
 ADVISERS:
 
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
20 YEARS AGO fME fyG% EMPIRE
DECEMBER 27, 1927


 Mrs William the hospital for meolcai improving rapidly according to attendants today University shortly after she started Alameda Christmas Eve to again up college work
 on the Alameda She was on her way for a Portland and Tacoma attending the Alaska Agcutua GOT for the Alameda for two weeks with his parents.
 be 1l5 of age passed away Funeral arrangements were uoel Funeral Parors but no time ao been o funeral
 meerschaum pipe presented by M h. lrueoe the the Juneau Gun Club Guy MNalghon that given the booby prize Hendrickson higher the E tournament rolling 242 in
 Weath low, 1O clear
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
PETE sEMARAvICH DIES

Word has been received here by U S. Marshal William T. Mahoney that Peter Semaravich, a former resident of Juneau, recently died in San Francisco. Semaravich was an oldtimer who left here about six years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

William Geddes who had been in the hospital TOT meoca treatment for the days improving rapidly according today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

The blast furnace was invented in the 18th century.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

Miss Mamie Reck was an outbound passenger on the was on her way visit in Seattle Portland and Tacoma
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

It will pay you to shop Home Beautiful. 755 If
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27
The Washington Merry-Go-Round

tOontinued from Page One
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

Edward Naghe who had been attending the Alaska Aei ege for the last year came to the Alameda for visit with his parents
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

CT: High, 20; low, 10; clear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-27

F. Morris the meerschaum pipe presented py M n the 5oround event held yesterday the Juneau Gun ,Nauphton won the bar pipe that given the booby
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
PIT Princess St. Phone 2-32
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Automatic steam heat,
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Attached garage. Large lot.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07

Foster-Hill Values

A MODERN BRICK HOME
Situated on New Wr.ghtsville
Beach Highway, Plney
woods vicinity, nine rooms'
all brick. Almost new. Has
five rooms and bath first
floor, three room and bath
second floor. Lot has 'front.'
age of 100 feet on highway.
PRINCESS PLACE
5o3 Lake Drive. Five rooms
all hardwood floors, auto
matte floor furnace heat
Entirely modern.
SUNSET PARK
251o Harrison street, rive
rooms, modern, all marc
wood floors, automatic not
water. In excellent CON-
dition.
WINTER PARK
sos Wrightsville Avenue ok
rooms large lot. Nice COM
Portable garage apartment
in rear. A dandy place to
live with convenience:
ao5 SOUTH FIFTH STREET
A comfortable, substantial
five room home on broad
an popular Fifth avenue
Convenient to busses'
schools, stores. Excellent
condition.
1922 SOUTH FIFTH SIHEhi
Five rooms, nice bath, located
on corner just across from
school and church. A neat
desirable home.
SUMMER REST
AT Wrightsville Sound, tour
room house on lot 20 feet
x 200 feet. Not on water
but convenient to it.
$40 WRIGHT STREET
Seven rooms, nice bath, VIDE
porches around two SIDES;
Corner lot. Just repalnted
inside and out. Better let
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ly.
lust BEYOND CITY LIMITS
On Newton Avenue, one five
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Convenient and comfort
able. Priced right for i'm
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INVESTMENT PROPERTY
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
l80-Legal

+ha superior Court of New Hanover
County IN a proceeding entitled City Of
I Wilmington, ct al, against Samuel B.
sanders and wife, Blanche Sanders ct
al, the undersigned Commissioner Will on
| friday December 10, i947 at 1900 noon
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
l75-Realiors
FOR SALE

Ill SOUTH FIFTH. Nice
brick double apartment
seven rooms each, steam
heat, well located. Price
much less than building
alone.
AT CASTLE HAYNE. Five
rooms, modern convent
ences, on highway. Price
reasonable.
AT ROCKY POINT o. high
way III. Nice home, two
acres land beautifully
planted, pecan trees, grape
vine shrubs.
TWO NICE LOTS near
Breaker Hotel, Winning
ton Beach.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
lSo illegal.

at the Court House door of New Han
over County offer for sale to the hlenesI
bidder for cash subject to con1lrniatioi, II
property in the City of Wilmington
North Carolina:
BEGINNING at a point in the northern
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
1870 illegal

Twelfth Street; running thence west
wardly in the northern line of Wright
line Of Wright Street one hundred thirty
two Q32) feet westWardly from its in
tersection with the western line of
Evening star., 1947-08-28

Outfit consists OF Montague 2-plece
soIit bamboo salt water fishing rod,
Ocean City Honcton Beech salt
voter fishing reel.
Evening star., 1947-08-28
After Dark
The Bandleaders See a Trend
To Melodies You Can Recognize
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

the Associated Press man on the
Hollywood beat. Even Louis Arm
strong, the great trumpet player
who helped bring from New Or
leans the jazz that inspired swing
noted the trend away from it.
So did Charlie Barnett, who has
made some torrid music In his
time. THE public doesn't go for
the hot stuff any more" he said
Everything I play has to be dance
able"
Tommy Dorsey said the same
thing. I'VE have to play sweet SO
they can dance. If they want to
just listen they'll go to juke joint
instead of a ballroom.
1t was Benny Goodman who pro-
vided a possible clue as to one
cause for the trend. They still go
for swing" said Benny, "if it's good.
But most Of it isn't very good these
days"
Conducting our own brief and
hurried survey, we trapped Sammy
Seymour, whose orchestra plays for
dancing on the Starlight Roof of the
Roger Smith Hotel. Mr.. Seymour
was not on the roof at the time,
since it was a night dedicated to
scattered thundershowers He was
not downstairs in the Cafe Caprice,
either. He was in the Roger Smith
kitchen trying to rush Mini Baker
through a western sandwich so he
could get back on the Cafe Caprice
bandstand.
rs there trend away from swing
Evening star., 1947-08-28

you mark. my words, this hep
cat stuff is on the way out. You're
going to see women wearing longer
skirts and the waltz will come back
It was the late Pete Macias speak
ing, more than a year ago, when no
man suspected that the gals would
be doing this to us and themselves.
Mr.. Macias, who had seen life after
an earlier war. seems to have known
what he was talking about, though,
The hemlines are down to here
already. And there will be no stop
ping them, the fashion editors say,
in spite of the fact that most
women don't want them down to
here. ME, too.-Ed.)
The music isn't back to the waltz,
yet. of course. 1t may never get
back there, but it Is headed in that
direction. Some of the country's
top bandleaders are among the first
to admit that their stock in trade
is not in AS great demand as it
recently was.
X
A few of them were talking about
1t the other day to Bob Thomas,
Evening star., 1947-08-28

toward sweet music7" we asked him.
mot tonight. Tonight there
isn't" he said. every other night
there Is, but tonight I think there
is something in the air. Something
cosmic.
There is a trend, though. think
more people are beginning to agree
with that man in THE Hucksters"
who wanted music loud and on the
beat.
? "You don't have to make all music
sound as If 1t had been written by
John Philip Sousa, but people do
like to hear the melody. If a guy
romancing his girl asks to hear AS
Long as I'm Dreaming he wants to
hear AS Long as I'm Dreaming and
not some improvisation on 1t that
I think improves 1t. People want a
solid beat, too, so they can tell with
out doubt when to move their feet
when they try to dance"
We tried the same question OH
Johnny Robb, whose able trumpet
leads the orchestra at the Madrillon.
There certainly is trend toward
sweeter music" said Mr.. Robb. "If
we play a fast swing tune the
people glare at us and walk off the
dance floor"
Maybe it's the hot weather." we
suggested.
There is never any hot weather
in the conditioned Madrillon," "
said Mr.. Robb, Indignantly. II
know a trend when it comes up
here every night and stares me in
the face. The people want romantic
dance music now. They don't want
to dance to fast swing numbers.
That was enough survey for us.
Guy Lombardo must sit back
among his book lined shelves (bank
book, that isl and roar with laugh
ter every time this change of mood
comes along to worry" the top swing
band boys into modifying their
styles. Guy just stays there with
the sweetest music this side of
heaven and waits for the trend to
come back to him. 1t always does.
y
The aforementioned Sa m m y
Seymour, incidentally, getes only
his usual Sunday off--no vacation
when the Starlight Roof closes this
coming Saturday night. Next Mon
Evening star., 1947-08-28
Roots in Cure-AII Necklace

Until comparatively recently, some
English children wore necklaces of
dried peony roots in the belief that
1t prevented convulsions and aided
the cutting of teeth.
Evening star., 1947-08-28

day night he takes his trio CPianist
Mini. Baker and Bassist Hugh Bar
teman) into El Patio to play for
dancing. Makes nice music with
that trio. The move Is FL Patio's
gain.
Evening star., 1947-08-28

Lot includes Wright & Ditson,
A. 6. spolding, Dunlop, Volt,
Pennsylvania and other foncus
makes. These boIls are oil first
orode and in hernetieolly
sealed cans.
Evening star., 1947-08-28

Req. S2.e5 and $3.50 swim trunks
and tennis shorts included in this lot.
Swimming trunks ore boxer style.
shorts ore regular tennis model. All
woist sizes.
Evening star., 1947-08-28

Brown ond white mocoosin type
golf shoes in ladies' sizes, hos
long wearing rubber sole with
removable Turf Hueeer spikes.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31

just about everything. There
the women had set up their
soup kitchen, and there the un-
ion strategy board planned the
day-to-day work; food was col
lected at Sans place, and
pickets used it as their barracks
and headquarters.
Today, several sand
people gathered around the i'm
provised platform set up at
Sans place, to listen to the
speakers and to take part in
the mass demonstration.
=
HOW serious an occasion it
was they knew well enough;
rumors circulated that the po-
lice were going to attempt
something special, something
out of the run of clubbing and
casing which had marked the
strike from the very first day;
rumors too that a mass picket
line was going to be estab-
lished today.
It was a serious occasion. but
somehow something in the day.
the holiday. the sunshine and
the warm summer weather
made the festive air persist.
Vendors wheeled wagons of
cold pop. and brick ice cream.
three flavors in one. was to be
had at a nickel a cake.
For the young folks, it was
the first strike; they sat under
the trees with the girls, grin
ming at the way the strike COM
mittee worked and poured
sweat; and the women, cook
ing inside the hall, reflected,
as a hundred generations of
women had reflected before,
that mans work is from sun to
sun, but women'S work !.
=
A G r o UP of girls sang.
Strike songs were around, a
new turn in the folk literature
of the nation.
First shyly,. hesitantly, then
with more vigor, with a rising
volume augmented by the deep
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31

$ly540.3I6 - Special fund set
aside ss insurance" against pos
sible decline in inventory.
$s.3s6.707 - Increase in value
of inventories since l94S.
$3.309.s5l - Expenditures in
plant construction and machin-
cry which according to the Re-
port is lin excess of regular year
TO year requirements"
Ssoo.o00 = Special fund set
aside for archaeological improve
ments.
$4l7.7le- Salaries paid TO a
dozen top executives and off
GERS receiving more than $4,000
per year.
$7.sll.s74-Taxes of all kinds.
Total profits, including these
items, amount to $30,363, 626 for
the years operations, or a return
on the total investment of more
than 409o profits in one year.
HOW WAS it possible to make
that kind of profits? The answer
is indicated in a brief admission
in the Report which states: "The
company and its manager of
plumbing and heating sales, to-
gether with approximately 70 other
defendants. both corporate and
individual. are now on trial in the
Federal District Court in Cleve-
land, Ohio, under an indictment
charging conspiracy in restraint of
trade :"
In other words. monopoly con-
troll, and artificial monopoly prices,
which milk the consumer account
for this triumph of business "free
enterprise" Are high wages, and
unreasonable union restrictions re-
sponsible for high prices? The cor
poration Report tells the real
story.