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Evening star., 1947-09-28
World Role
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THE UNITED STATES IN
WORLD AFFAIRS
BY John C. Campbell. (Harper
G. Bros; $5J

BY john g. Campbell. (HGrpeT
G. Bros; $5.J
Reviewed by
CRESTON B. MULLINS.
After a lapse of seven years this
valuable series, begun by the Council
on Foreign Relations, is resumed
with Mr.. Campbell taking over
authorship from Whitney H. Shep-
ardson and William o. Scroggs.
There is actually lapse of only
five years in the councils annual
survey series, for the present volume
covers practically two years-from
We day until the first months OF
1947. The war years will be taken
care of in subsequent historical
work prepared by Prof. William L.
LANCER of Harvard.
The transitional period between
wartime relations and peacetime
diplomatic relations has been diff
ficult to assess at such close range
and 1t has been as trying to write
about as it has been to live through
Yet Mr. Campbell has done a re-
markable job of compiling the facts
OF this first postwar era and its
multitude of complex and inter-
connected foreign policy issues.
1t has been not only a period OF
attempts to re-establish peace in
Europe and Asia, but one in which
the United States has assumed re-
sponsibility for keeping peace in
practically every part of the world
Along with peace-making and peace
keeping responsibilitie we have. had
the need to reconstruct world trade,
the necessity of giving relief to
War-stricken peoples, and the obliga-
ton to try and make the new agency
of world co-operation-the United
Nations-Work effectively in all its
diverse aspects.
The author admittedly has avoided
trying to weave his work around a
central theme. If he had chosen,
he says, it would have been Ameri-
can-Russian rivalry for power. His
study is less dramatic, but probably
more accurate and wen-balanced
this way. Even the atomic bomb,
which seems to overhang all dis
cussion of world politics, is relegated
to relatively minor place in a
chapter on security and disarma-
ment. With this de-emphasis on
what, is the most startling fact in
postwar relations many probably
will quarrel, perhaps we have been
prone to overemphasize the inf1u-
ence of "the bomb in world affairs
The volume contains the usual
useful list of suggested readings
chronology of events in the period
covered and series of maps.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
The Side Door
ToNuvoI GLORY
BORN TO FIGHT
The Life of Admiral Halsey
BY Ralph Jordan. mckay; ST.
Reviewed 0y
EDWARD A. GREENE.

Here is what the author claims tc
be the real story OF Admiral Will
liam F. Halsey, jr The colorful life
of our Sd Fleet commander is not
what some people think due to the
nickname hung on him by war
time press, but rather it tells us how
he reached the top of his profession
and won the hearts of all Americans
Admiral Halsey grew up in an
atmosphere of Annapolis and the
Navy, as his father before him did
Unable to enter the academy as a
regular midshipman, he decided to
study medicine at the University of
Virginia, and enter through the side
door" as a doctor. OF his campus
life we learn he made somewhat of
a name for himself on the football
squad even though he didn't weigh
very much. After his brief stay at
Virginia he finally got in Annapolis
and upon graduating, was given duty
on the old battleship Missouri and
years later he was destined to finish
the war on another ship of the same
name-rounding out 'life span of
ba5tle" with the Navy.
1t was Halsey who combined fast
carriers with fast battlesilips and
cruisers that made a task force the
japanese could not hope to defeat,
for speed and plenty of firepower
was the only way to conquer an
enemy so deployed throughout the
well-defended vastness OF the West
ern Pacific.
Admiral Halsey reached the climax
Of his career when he saw the
surrender ceremonies aboard the
massive Missouri.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

PIRATE LAUREATE, by Willard
Hallam Bonner (Rutgers University
Press; So. The life and legends OF
Captain Kidd by a professor of Eng
lish at the University of Buffalo
This carefully documented book
shows Kidd's villainy is largely
legend.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
This New Dealer
Is IsDiscouroged
BUT NOT YET SLAIN
BY Benjamin Appel. "A. A. Wyn
Inc3 s2.50J
Reviewed by
GEORGE KENNEDY,


GEORGE KENNEDY.
1t appears that a New Dealer has
committed suicide, leaving his coat
with a note in it on Key Bridge
Here is an opening fascinating to
the journalist reviewer. For what
ever. their agony in real life under
the Truman administration, none
Of the New Dealers have yet been
guilty of the unforgivable sin OF
self destruction.
Mr.. Appel, who wrote speeches
FOR War Manpower Commissioner
Paul McNutt, IS a moralist. His
character, Federal agency infor-
nation chief, is guilty of that most
grievous of sins, intellectual pros
titntion." In the end Mr.. Appel
seems to have the same difficulty in
pinning his man down as did Sen
ators Brewster and Ferguson with
Messrs. Elliott Roosevelt and
Hughes. He lets him off-lets him
forget his coat and walk off Key
Bridge mot yet slain," but ready
ito rise and fight again" Despite
the promising opening it is an un-
satisfactory book.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

or five, particularly those of top
secret Hitler talks to his generals
before he launched his war. They
show how badly the Fuehrer de-
clared his intentions and how coldly
he calculated his chances. Among
all Mr.. Shirer's comments as he
winds up his Berlin diary, this one
probably has the most meaning to
us: There will always be a Ger
many, guess, and. in our lifetime
at least, it will always be the same"
Evening star., 1947-09-28
The Racial Problem
From All Angles
STRAW FIRE
BY Kathleen Crawford. (Willian1
Morrow G. Co., Inc; $2.75.)
ZANNE BINGHAM.

A Virginian, Kathleen Crawford
perhaps has a better right than
many to discuss the ever-present
race problem. And she does it from
all angles, considering the viewpoints
of the Jew, the gentle and the
Negro-the prejudices of, as well as
against, all three. She leaves it
unsolved, of course; but she leaves
the reader feeling that solution
is possible.
Frances Acheson, a young lady
brought up in the Southern tradi-
ton, finds herself in sympathy with
ideas contradictory to those of her
family and friends. When the Rev.
McDonough seats his deacons, in
cluding Fran's father, next to
Negroes at a dinner, his congrega-
tion forces his resignation. Frances
is among those who follow him in
establishing another church.
To the horror of her parents, she
conducts an interracial meeting.
Then, to complicate the already diff
f1cult impasse in her home life, she
falls in love with Jewish violinist
Paul Revkin.
Fran's father and mother fight
frantically to save their daughter
from throwing away her life"
When the new minister in her
fathers church, Hugh Andrews, pro-
poses to her, Frances is forced to
decide her future. 1t is more than
a decision between Hugh and Paul.
1t is decision between two ways of
life, between the familiar, we'll
established old and the unknown
new.
Miss Crawford has a delightful
way of expressing the things we
think and never dare to say. STRAW
Fire. her first novel, burns with
dilemmas which constantly face
those who try to be fair in their
attitude toward men of other races.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Shirer Not on Hand for Events
OF Berlin Diary Postscript
END OF A BERLIN DIARY
BY William L. Shirer. (Knopt; S3.50)
Reviewed by FLETCHER F. Is

=
William Sher best-seing Berlin Dary h,st after
ne left Berlin December defense crisis was Al
egnt and the public was avid for information
lords Mr. sher supplied it, for he had right place
right time Now he pushes matters further. Il
The trouble that has not been able to
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Love for the Sea
YOU ROLLING RIVER
BY Archie Binns. (Charles Serb.
ner's Sons, S3.)
Reviewed by
CHARLES G. BROOKS.


Reviewed by
CHARLES G. BROOKS.
. Centered against a background of
the wild Columbia River is story
of harbor pilot whose love for the
sea subtly overcame his love for his
wife; of two brothers in revolt
against their father, disciplinarian
and tyrant: Of law students in
PRODUCTION to life by his childhood
sweetheart who made a sudden in
trusion into his existence when she
came through the rain to his garret.
One feels the pervading freshness
of sea fiction capable of holding the
interest, if not the intellect, for the
story is, itself, unreal and overly
melodramatic
At best, it is light reading for
casual relaxation.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
A APreview of Our New Atomic Age Navy
Defensive Force of Grim Tomorrow

THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER IN WORLD WAR II ;;
BY Capt W. D. Puleston, u (Retired) (Yale University
Press So
~
Reviewed by REX COLLIER.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

THE WORKING ELECTRON, by
Raymond F. Yates. CHarper.) A
Popular Science writer offers ian
introduction to electronics."
Evening star., 1947-09-28
A Reporter Tells
His Story

FAI MAN IN n PHUNE BOOTH
BY Niver w. Beaman. (Cloud, ;.
$780,
Reviewed by
CHRIS MATHISEN,
Niver w. Beaman helped to per-
petuate an outrage for which many
New Dealers have never forgiven
him-he launched the political ca
reer of Connecticut's first lady
Representative"
So states Mrs. Glare Booth Luce
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Grenodine Etching Is AmberIike Heroine
Of a Satire That Just Isn't Too Funny

GRENADINE ETCHING: HER LIFE AND LOVES
BY Robert C. Ruark. doubleday & Co.; $275)
Reviewed by PHILIP
Evening star., 1947-09-28

Inc annual cumberland valley Herbert Gerst Mrs M
Bridge Tournament j. E. Folne and Mrs
Evening star., 1947-09-28

Potomac Bridge League, Septem-
Der 10, Francis Drake and Frank
B. Lord, first; Mrs. Charles Geier
and Carl A. Lewis, second, and
Mrs. Henry A. Walker and John
T. Griffith, third.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
MRS. A. FREMLIN
 AWARDEDCkR kT
 CATHOLIC BAZAAR

still in wonderful daze today is Mrs Arthur Fremlin who was awarded the Plymouth Deluxe Se- dan at the Catholic Bazaar Sat urday evening Mrs. Flemlin said This is the very first time I have ever won anything" MT and Mrs. Fremlin. who live at Aux Bay, have been in Juneau for year. Other awards made were an electric Mix-Master to Mrs. Homer Garvin and a doll to Mrs. Tom Rudolph
 Hugh J. Wade, general chair man of the two-day event, stated that although it was large under taking, his work and that of the Executive Committee was made comparatively easy by the fine support of the many volunteer workers. He especially mentioned the fine efforts of Charles Waynor and Mrs. T. ODay, his secretary, who devoted many hours working on the accounting in connection with the awarding of the automo- bile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
'METCALF MOVES
 INTO OFFICE OF
 HIWAY ENGINEER
Local Engineer to Fill in for Late w. Leonard Smith
 Pending Appointment

Frank Metcalf, Juneau engineer, today moved into the former office of the late w. Leonard Smith, Ter ritorial Highway and Aviation Engineer. Metcalf has not yet been appointed by the Governor to suc- ceed Smith but is filling in until action is taken.
 Metcalf, former City Engineer in Juneau, was defeated by Smith in the last Territorial elections for the Engineers job. He is wellknown in engineering fields in Southeast Alaska.
 At Saturdays meeting of the Territorial Board of Road Com missioners, who are the Territorial Governor and Treasurer, Metcalf reported on the conditions of air plane floats at Skagway and Haines. He had just returned from an in- spection trip there accompanied by Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, a Federal agency.
 Construction of new plane floats at both cities was authorized by the Board as a result of Metcalf's report. It also authorized some air. field maintenance in both places in cooperation with the Alaska Road Commission.
 According to a statement issued today, no other projects were au- thorized by the Board but Metcalf was directed to inspect various pro- jects being sought at Angoon, Craig, Klawcck, Wrangell and Ketchikan.
 Mrs Agnes Adsit also began work in the Engineers office this morn ing. She will replace Mrs. Gene H. Carr WHO w.ll resign this week and leave for the States next week. Mrs. Adsit was previously with the Of flee of Price Administration and tic Territorial Auditors Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
I5HIpBUILDERS
 BID FOR FIVE OCEAN LINERS
Govt. 10 Subsizide 500-ft. Passenger Ships for
 World Trade

WASHINGTON. Oct. 6.-lR-The dream of a crack American pass enger fleet has moved forward with the announcement that U. s. ship builders have bid about $l0,000, ,000 to Sl7000,000 per vessel to build five ships for round world trade.
 This is the first postwar price tag on the cost of turning out modern ships to compete on the waters of the world with foreign tonnage
 The government started ten years ago to revive the American Mer- chant Marine as CD a means of livelihood for thousands of citi- zens and @ a defense measure.
 The war interrupted these plans and when it ended, left this coun- try with plenty of war shipping, but few tip-top cargo ships, and even less passenger ships.
 The American President Lines, San Francisco, applied to the Maritime Commission for a con- struction- -differential subsidy to build five 500-foot passenger cargo vessels. The subsidies make up for the higher cost of building ships in the United States than in for eign yards.
 The Maritime Commission has opened lids from four companies whose prices ranged from $9,690. 900 to S16,83l 900 per vessel.
 The Commission took no im- action on the bids, but the Newport News, Va, Shipbuilding and Drydock Go. apparently was low bidder for three of the ships the maximum allowed one firm. The ships will hc operated by the American President Lines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
RITES FOR YOUNGMAN
 TO BE HELD TUESDAY

Funeral services for Howard Youngman, Gastineau Hotel desk clerk who died Friday night of a heart attack, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
 Officers of the Juneau Local of the Hotel and Restaurant En- ployees will conduct the services, with the Rev. Robert Treat giving the eulogy. Ernest Ehler will sing two numbers, and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
 Pallhearers at the services will be Paul Xavier, Carl Eckel, Frank Hungerford, Clifford Hills, Julius Heinemann and Oscar Whiteside.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
GOVERNOR TISSUES
 FIRST PARDON TO
 MIGUEL D. zAM0Rh

The first pardon ever issued by the Governor of Alaska has been granted to Miguel D. Zamora who has served eight years of a 20 year sentence at the McNeil Island Fed eral Penitentiary, for setting fire to the home of his step-fatherin- law at Petersburg in 1889.
 His sentence was commuted to what he has already served by the Governor because it would seem that the ends Of justice have al ready been amply served and the best interests of society fully pro- tected." and that the evidence is circumstantial
 The Governor was granted par don powers recently by the 80th Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
POSTMASTER WILL
 DISCUSS ROUTING
 OF JUNEAU MAILS
Mrs. Jenne Leaves on Com bined Vacation and
 Business Trip

Mrs. Crystal Jenne, Juneau post master, was scheduled to leave via PA Atoday on a 60-day leace of absence. She will visit her daughter, Mrs. Corinne Kenway and granddaughter, Virginia, at Seattle. Her son-in-law. David F Kenway, is with PAA in Seattle
 From October 12-16, Mrs Jenne will attend Postmaster's Con- vention at Los Angeles. From there, she will go to Santa Rosa, California, to visit Mrs. Jesse Peter former Juneau High School teacher.
 Mrs. Jenne will also visit her birthplace and relatives at Sonora, Cal. From there she will trav- el to Lafayette, Indiana, and visit with daughter Phyllis. Her hus- tand, Howard M Mcclellan, is at tending Purdue, University.
 Mrs. Jenne will also visit the U. S. Postoffice Department in Wash ington, D. C., to discuss the rout- ing of Juneau mail via slow freighter from Seattle. She will return to Seattle in time for Thanksgiving with her daughter Corinne and her family She in- tends to return to Juneau by De- cember g.
 Mrs. Martin Laxinek, assistant Ju- neau Postmaster, will be in charge of the local Post Office during the absence of Mrs. Jennc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
PEDAL FLUSHING HARRY TO BE STAR ATTRACTION NFFE LUNCH WEDNESDAY

Pedal pushing" Harry Sperling, who with his son and daughter covered a rough and ready 1000 miles by bicycle over the Alaska Highway this summer, will pro- vide the entertainment for the Wednesday luncheon of the Nation al Federation of Federal Employees when he will show color slides and describe highlights of the three months trip.
 MT. Sperling returned to Juneau last week, reporting that all threF made the trip successfully excep' daughter Mary, who had to resor to bus travel part of the distance following a rough spill
 The oct 8 luncheon will te helo in the Gold Room of the Baranoi Hotel, starting promptly at l2 For reservations phone Katherine Nordalc, 590, up to noon Tuesday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
BLAST FROM HIGH COURT
 MADE TO-DAY
Justice Jackson Makes Al. taCk on 5 Z Decision
 Announced Last June

WASHINGTON, Oct G. - R- Short one Justice, the Supreme Court began it's new term today with blast from Justice Jackson against 5-2 decision announced last June 23
 Associate Justice William A Douglas was absent. He underwent a tonsillectomy during the summer recess and is recovering from a throat infection. Aides said he probably would rejoin the court next Monday,
 Jackson's blast was a dissenting opinion in a case in which the court upheld a Securities and Ex- change Commission order. That ord- CT prevented the management Of company undergoing reorganization from profiting by purchases of se- curities during the reorganization.
 Justice Murphy delivered the courts majority decision in June. At that time Justice Frankfurter announced that he and Jackson dis sented but had not had opportunity to write their opinions. Their dissent was handed down today by Jackson.
 Jackson asserted that there was admittedly no law for regulation to support the commissioner ord CT" and said that he found the only reason the majority upheld the order was that it followed the principles of judicial deference to administra tive experience.
 The truth is,' Jackson added that in this decision the court ap- proves the commission assertion of power to govern the matter without law xxx
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
LIONS CLUB MEETS
 FOR LUNCHEON

The Lions Club met this noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel with Milton Furness presiding. Dr. Joseph Rude gave a report to the club on the establishment of a re- creation area on the Treadwell Beach. Other business included the appointment of George Danner to the Gastineau Channel Public Health Council
 Del Hanks announced that O. D. Sharpe, Boy Scout Executive for Region Il will be principal speaker at next weeks meeting.
 Guests at the meeting were Don E. Lillie, Vice-Prcsident and Sales Manager of Lomen Equipment, Inc; Wendall Kay, Director of the Alaska housing Authority; Edwin c. Clark Superintendent of Schools, and Eld- CT Keith Sohm. Also at the meeting was Robert Hooper, Assistant Man ager of the Veterans Affairs, who was elected member of the club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
GLOVE HITCH IN PORT

Alaska Transportation Company's freighter Glove Hitch, under Capt. Chris Ross, arrived in port yes terday at l pm. She discharged about 50 tons of cargo for Juneau before sailing at l0:30 pm. for Haines and Skagway.
 The Glove Hitch will return here southbound tomorrow to discharge some 200 tons of cargo still on board for Juneau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
Several Red Te(1nitians
 Missing

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-R- Senator Ferguson tR-Mich, re- ported today that a number oi Russians, admitted to this coun- try for technical industrial train, ing, have disappeared.
 Ferguson said the Justice De partment's immigration service ha' written him that it does not know where Russians admitted for train ing by the Clark Equipment Co at Buchanan, MichY are now.
 In the same letter, Commission CT of Immigration Watson Miller told Ferguson he is unable to learn immediately the number of Rus sians who have been admitted to the United States and who are now in the United States for train ing purposes"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
(H URCHILL URGE5pARTY
 TO BE READY
Says Labor Govt. Ready 10 FaII-Is Only Cling
 ing fo Office

1 BRIGHTON. :.1g., Get. 6.-tR- Winston Churchill told the annual conference of the Conservative party today to be ready for a rev national election "at any time this year or next"
 Tt does not rest with us when general election will take place" :" Churchill said in a speech deliv- cred to the convention, but it is quite certain that we should be most imprudent not to be ready for one at any time this year or next
 We have every reason to believe that the Socialist government, which, even in the hour of it's tri- umph, did not represent majority of the electorate, is now a sub stantial minority and is ruling without tEe support and against these wishes of the large part of the nation" the former Prime Min ister declared.
 Churchill declared that the econ omic crisis will not hc mastered except by the election of a new House of Commons" He said the Labor government has no moral right to deny the electorate a free expression of their opinion at an early date" Experience shows that when governments or parties turn on the downgrade they very rarely recover by clinging to office.
 Tn the present circumstances. when the consequences of Social ist spite, folly and floundering are about to fall upon every home and business in every sharper form, we can safely say that time is on our side"
 Churchill, speaking as leader -of the Conservative party, closed the three-day annual conference at which Tories launched a drive for a 0,000-pound -(S4 ,000000) - Fighting Fund" and called for the election of new parliament to pull Britain out of it's economic crisis.
 CALIFORNIA VISITOR
 R. M. Shepard of Modesto, Calf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
BEGIN WORK ON DOUGLAS TRAIL
 FOR SKI SEASON

The first trail work on the Doug las Island Ski Run was begun yes terday by a crew of three Juneau men. They took power tools and fuel up to the Second Cabin and began the clearing of two clumps of trees which have hampered mo- vices on the practice slope.
 The clearing work was approved hy Larry Zack, of the U. $. For est Service. Work was done by Jack Glover, Matt Gormley and Larry Parker.
 Volunteers are asked for help in next weeks project which will be to buck up logs for firewood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
OLIVER RESIGNS

Frank L. Oliver, Assistant Terri torial Attorney-General, has re- signed from that position according to word received here by Attorney General Ralph J, Rivers. Oliver and his family are now in Port land, Oregon on leave of absence. He said he will enter private law practice in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
SOUTHEASTERN HERE

Briggs Steamship Corporations freigther Southeastern arrived in port yesterday, and was unloading this morning a cargo of 35 tons of frozen meat and butter, and 30 tons of general cargo.
 The Southeastern will load lumber for Petersburg and Wrangell, and is expected to sail this evening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
TOWNSEND CLUB
 MEETS TUESDAY

The members of the Townsend Club will meet tomorrow night Clues day) at o'clock in the Moose Hall in the Seward Building opposite Fred Jennings Clothing Store.
 The meetings of the Townsend Club will now be every Tuesday eve- ming throughout the winter months.
 The Townsend Club Orchestra, in full regalia. will be on hand and will furnish music for reels and square dances galore.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-06
SITKA PRISONERS

Lola Deveney, Eugene McRoberts and Richard McRobertS were brought to Juneau yesterday from Sitka by Deputy U. s. Marshal Max Rogers They were sentenced at Sitka by U. s. Commissioner Ernest Dennis on charges of dis orderly conduct.