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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
ROWING

ITHACA, N. Y.-Navy defeated Cornell by four-foot margin in two- mile race on Cayuga Lake, rowing distance n 10:34.2.
 OAKLAND, Calf. California varsity crew won over Wisconsin by more than five lengths in three mile grind. Favoring incoming tides helped Bears turn in time of 15 minutes, IA seconds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
ATTENTION MASONs

Called Communication Wednes- day at 1: 80 pm. for the purpose of conducting the funeral service of Bro. Geo. A. Getchell. By Order Of the w. M.
 J w. LEVERS, Secy.
 -adv. 595-t2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
LEGION WINS FROM ELkS
 BY 1 1 TO 4

The American Legion oau club once again walloped the Elks, play ing yesterday aftei noon on a new!y rolled ball field hardened by Sat- urday's rain.
 Both Rollison for the Legion and Palmer for the Elks pitched good games, with Rollison getting eight Strikeouts while giving eight hits, and Palmer allowing 12 hits for 10 strikeouts.
 Both Cope and Mierzej jewski of the Legion got four hits for four trips to the plate; while leading the Elks were Rustad with three for five and Cantillion with two for four. Frank Cashen was a new man on the Legion lineup yester- day, snagging three long flies into his right field spot. Although he didn't get hit, Cashen made enc run after reaching first on an er- TOT.
 In the first inning nobody scored. Houston, leadoff man for the Elks, to Cope at first.
 Eddie Nielsen led off for the Le- gion, and went down on strikes. Mierzejewski and McDaniels were both sent to first after being hit by pitched balls. Jensen came up, struck out, and Jim Nielsen fol- lowed to retire the side.
 Again in the second the ElkS failed to score Cantillion sent a grounder to center field for a single, and Guy walked Woods infield fly was missed by J. Nielsen, but his |. brother at short picked it up and tossed it back to force Cantillion at third. Smithherg fouled out to Cope, and w. Palmer flied out to Mier- zejewski at second.
 First Scores
 First man up for the Legion in the bottom ralf of the second was Rollison, who lined out to Rustad at short. Cope got a single off Guy at third, and Vuille sacrificed to put Cope cn second Cashen made first as Cantillion dropped fly into center field and Cope came l. to score the first run as Cashen advanced to second on the throw.
 Eddie Nielsen singled, and Cash en scored, with Nielsen going to second on the throw to home. .Mierze- jewski beat out hit to short, but Snow at first threw home to catch Nielsen coming in for the final out.
 EIks Score
 In the third inning the Elks got three hits and three runs. Houston walked, followed by B. Palmer with a hit to left field. Jensen funbled the ball in the field and Houston went to third, Palmer to second.
 Rustad singled to left field SCOT ing Houston. Snow flied out to Cashen in right field. but Palmer came in to score. CantilliOn singled to left field, and Guy followed him with a fly which landed in Cashen's glove in right field. Rus tad came in to score and Cantil- lion moved to third. Wood sent a grounder to Mierzejewski at sec end, and was thrown out at first. 
 McDaniels, Jensen and Jim Niel- sen struck out in order for the Le- eion, and for the Elks, Smithberg, w. Palmer and Houston did the same.
 Up once more for the Legion in the bottom half of the fourth, Rol- lison sent a grounder to short and was out at first, then Cope singled to center field Vuille attempted to pull a sacrifice bunt once more, but pitcher Palmer caught it and ran Cope out before he could re- turn to first.
 In Fifth
 In the first of the fifth, B. Pal ner went to first on balls. Rustad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
GOLF

NEWTON, Mass Bobby Locke of South Africa came from behind to win the Sl0,000 Goodall round robin tournament with a plus 37 total. His e0-hole total was a l3-under- par 347.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
TENNIS

LONDON-South Africa, France and Czechoslovakia marched .nto semi-finals of European zone Davis Cup elimination by respective vic tories over Britain, Monaco and New Zealand Yugoslavia led Belgium: 2-l, in other pairing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
WALTER E. MITCHELL,
 SEATTLE BANKER, HERE

Walter E. Mitchell, Assistant Vice. President and Manager of the AL aska Department of the National Bank of Commerce at Seattle, ar
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02

Summary Triple: Mierzejewski. Two base hits: Rustad, 3; Vuille. Double play Cope. Bases on balls off Palmer, one; off Rollison, four. Struck out: by Palmer, 10; by Rol- lison, 6.
 Umpires: Plate, Shaw; Bases, Lowe and Magorty.
 Time of game: two hours even.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
DIkAGGI0,
 MIzE ARE
 SWEATERS
New YorkFans Hope Tanks and Giants Will Meet
 in World Series
By JOE RICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer

Jubilant New Works fans, envision- ing the possibility of their first Giant Yankee subway world 5erieS since 1887, proudly pointed today to the slugging Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees and Johnny Mize of the Giants as the belting bellwethers who may lead their respective flocks into the October classic
 Big lawn leads all major league batsmen with mark of .370, is first in homers with IA and trails Boston's Earl Togeson by one with 35 runs batted in.
 Mixes superior slugging is .ne number one reason Mel Ott's charges are leading the Chicago Cubs by one-half game, after having been al- most unanimously picked to finish in seventh or eighth place.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02

ONE-PIECE ALL-PLASTICS BOAT, first kind display the
 Electric Company
 nodded material plastic resin the nnefcot dinghy weighing only 30 pounds and immune to salt water tensile durability lift This mcde five mainway gunwae Outboard attached
 nodded demonstrating Qnternatonal)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02

Empire ,yant-ads for results!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
Bangs TWO Homers

DiMag banged two round trippers yesterday, one with the bases loaG ed, to lead the Yankees to an 11-9 victory over the Cleveland Indians before 47,l32 fans at Municipal Stadium. With the first game of the double header delayed by rain, the second was halted by darkness
 Mize contributed five hits in eight times at bat as the Giants came from behind to earn split over the Cincinnati Reds before 45,795 fans at the Polo Grounds. The Reds, aid ed by Eddie Miller's 10th home run in the ninth inning with one on, won the opener 5-3, but the Giants slugged out 13-9 victory in the nightcap.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-06-02
Cubs Beat Phils

Clyde McCullough's triple after Bob Sturgeon had reached first on Jim Tabor's error in the eighth in ming broke 3-3 tie and gave the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies before 14,84l rooters in Philadelphia.
 The Boston Braves advanced into third place, one game behind the Giants, by sweeping both ends of a double header, 20 and 8-7, with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Boston
 Rookie righthander Harry Taylor came through with another fine pitching performance. holding the St. Louis Cardinals to five hits in hurling the Brooklyn Dodgers tosa 6-1 win at Ebbets Field.
 Two Home Swats
 Home runs by Jeff Heath and Vern Stephens, combined with the six-hit pitching of Jack Kramer, gave the St. Louis Browns an easy 7-2 win over the Philadelphia Ath- letics. Rain washed out the second game of the scheduled double head CT in St. Louis.
 Rain also caused the postpone ment of the twin bills between Chicago and Boston and Washing ton and Detroit in the American League.
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Read the want-ads for pargalnsl
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20
WELL DONE

KANSAS CITY (P)-Firemen-- battling a stubborn blaze in a tavern and restaurant-remem- bered the three-pound meat loaf they had put in the oven at No. 9 station two hours earlier for their Sunday dinner.
 Patrolman William Redmon eased their worries by hurrying to the station and basting the mea, loaf at noon. But the dinner was not rescued until Fireman B. F. Merino was overcome by smoke and was sent back to the station at 2 pm.
 Even so, "it was the driest meat loaf I ever ate," Meriso sad later. "I thing it was overdOne.' For Good Printing Call Main l25
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20
Cities
 Business Men To Visit Alaska

Thirty-four leading Twin Cities businessmen will fly to Alaska January 23 on an unprecedentea traue ana goodwill trip to srreng- then tne newly developed business bona oelween the Territory anu the upper Midwest area.
 Announcement of the trip, sym bolIzing the wider trade horizons made possible by Northwest Air lines new inside route to Anchor age, was made today by Emmer. SaASOuIy, president of the Mn neapollS Chamber of Commerce and Paul Anderson, president of the St. Paul Association of Com merce.
 4nG announcement was made following a meeting of representa- tives of these organizations, spon- SorS of the trade mission.
 The flight, they pointed out, will be the largest of it's kind eve. undertaken by Twin Cities busi- ness leaders and probably the first to go beyond the borders of the country in a concerted attempt to find new markets.
 Men high in the ranks of Twin Cities manufacturers, wholesalers, bankers, and civic leaders will comprise the passenger list. Repre- sentatives of the Twin Cities press will be aboard to report the dis cussions with the AlaSkans.
 Tentative plans call for stops at Edmonton, Canada, refueling point on Northwest's Alaska flights, at Anchorage and Fairbanks in the Territory. Arrangements are al ready being discussed fo meetings at these points with local business and government leaders. A. B. Hayes, regional traffic manager for Northwest Airlines at Anchor
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20
Flashes of Life
LITERAL TRANSLATION

TOKYO, (P)-This story filter ed in today from the 28th general hospital in Osaka:
 The librarian announced one day before the holidays that "after lunch we'll all trim the Christ mas tree"
 She returned to find the Japan ese assistant librarian already busy at work trimming it--limb by limb with a pruning shears.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20
AFL Leader Tried On Tax Evasion

NEWARK, N. J. (P)-The de- fense and the government complet- ed their cases in the federal court trial of Joseph s. Fay, AFL union leader, on charges of evading pay ment of income taxes.
 The defense rested at ll:45 am, and few minutes before noon '. s. attorney Edgar H. RoSbach an nounced the governments case h2i been completed. Final defense witnesses today were various con tractors and businessmen who teS- tificd to Fay's excellent reputa- tion for honesty, integrity and fair dealings" as a union labor leader
 There remained Summat;Ons by both sides and U. s. District court Judge Thomas F. Meaney's charge to the jury. It was not determined immediately whether the case would reach the jury of II per sons today. (One juror was d:s- missed early in the trial when it was learned he had been a former member of Pays unionD.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20

age, with headquarters in the Westward Hotel, is handling de tails.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-20

|" Ninety-fiVe percent of Ameri- can families include canned goods in their diet regularly.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Bill for Corporation
To Aid War Widows
Before Senate Unit

A bill to establish corporation
to promote the welfare of war
widows is awaiting a hearing before
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It was introduced at the request
Of one of the orginators Of the idea,
Mrs. Lillian Richards, 1900 Six
teenth street NV, widow of the
late Rear Admiral c. M. Richards.
It's sponsor is Senator Ferguson,
Republican, of Michigan.
The measure would authorize in
corporation of the National Com
mittee for All War Widows with
headquarters in Washington to
assist those In need among the
country,s $4,000 widows of veterans
and their dependents.
Mrs. Richards would be honorary
life chairman of a board of original
founders. Members of this group
include Elsie P. Carter of Chevy
Chase, Md; Frederick s. Latham
and William H. Brewer of Wash
ington, and Raymond Hughes OF
Baltimore, Md.
Only widows of veterans would be
eligible for beneficiary memberships
Mrs. Richards said. The founder
members would be empowered to
form an organization to help needy
war widows by improving their job
status, aiding in support of minor
children, devising plans for group
insurance, making provision fol
legal or medical aid and the like
The bill provides for a General
Accounting Office, audit of the books
corporation, and specifies officers
can receive no loans or compensa-
ton from the organization except
for legitimate expenses.
The bill would designate Septem-
Der 6 as WAR Widows Memoir Day.
and the observance would be marked
by wearing morning glories in honor
OF deceased husbands.
One of the main objectives of the
corporation, Mrs Richards said
would be to train widows to be self
supporting through an educational
program conducted whenever pos
sible in the homes. Mrs. Richards
also Is working on plans to establish
a memorial site in or near Wash
ington where widows and their
children will be housed.
One source of revenue, 1t was said,
would be funds derived from "in-
ventions and applications" Mrs.
Richards has developed.
The corporation would be author
lied to acquire assets of the exist
ing organization know as National
Committee for All War Widows -
after payment Of the groups liabili-
ties.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Fort BeIvoir Engineers
To Exhibit New Projects

Laying of a pipeline by hell
copter and dozens of other recent
developments of both wartime and
peacetime utility will be demon
strated Wednesday and Thursday
when the Engineer Research and
Development Laboratories at Fort
Belvoir hold open house.
Approximately 300 top Army and
Navy officers and 200 representatives
of scientific and industrial organiza-
tions are expected to attend the
first day.
On the second day, the public will
be invited to inspect displays and
view demonstrations of newest
developments of the laboratories and
OF civilian engineers who have
worked with Army specialists in
many projects.
The open house will begin at
9 am. each day and end at 4. =
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Miss Greater Washington
Contest Starts tomorrow

The annual search for Miss
Washington" to be the official Dis
trict entry in the 1947 Atlantic City
Beauty Contest, win begin tomor-
row, it was announced today by
Station WWDC, conducting the
Icontest.
This years selection will be known
las Miss Greater Washington, /" the
station said. The contest will in
fclude girls from Montgomery and
Prince Georges County, Md anc
Fairfax and Arlington counties ane
/ Alexandria, Va.
| Girls from any place in this area
may get application blanks and de.
tails from Station WWDC. Mike
4 fHunnicutt, Rise and Shine" broad.
lcaster, will be in charge.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
e. w. Band Plans Concert

The George Washington Univer-
sity Band viii give It's annual con-
cert at $50 pm. Friday at Lisner
Auditorium. TWenty-first and n
streets NV, it was announced yes
terday. Leon Brusiloff, director, Will
conduct concert Of modern and
classical compositions. Admission is
free and the public IS invited.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
PuneI ToIk on Youth Is Set

The Rev. Howard Haworth, min
lister of education, National Me-
mortal Baptist Church, will~lead a
panel discussion on Youth and
Their Place in the Church" at 8 pm.
Tuesday at Western Presbyterian
Church. 1906 H street NV. The
meeting is sponsored by the Or
ganized Bible Glass Association of
Washington.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-29
THE BASIC ISSUE

TO thousands of busy individuals who have neither
time nor sufficient trustworthy information with which
to round out the picture much of the battle over Mis-
souri, Valley development must be confusing After
three years of it, often hear very intelligent people
say, Il wish knew about it and what all is in
yolyed 1T is in this widespread segment of uncer
tanty, doubt and general confusion that determ
nation of what to be done will finally When they
understand, and will to do it, the great masses
American people still be masters of their own
destiny
OF course complete development of the entire Mis-
souri, Valley, covering one-sixth of Continental u S.
a tremendous task With irrigation power, flood con-
troll, navigation, phosphate, COAL chrome and forty
other mine mill and quarry products soil conservation
forestation fish and game Fairgrounds and recreation
areas sanitation domestic water supply, industriaza-
ton and all other development that grows out of land
and water use, there will be plenty of technical and
engineering problems These details to be worked
out by the slide rule fraternity They vitality
tremendous size of the project and worry
its thousands of details the whole thing becomes simple
very simple.
Basically the battle is between the common
people-workers farmers, small business and profess
SIGNALS on the hand and Americas monopoists as
represented by NAM, U. S. Chamber of Commerce
and privately owned Power Trust on the other Of
is the motive force that recruits to both sides
The little handful of Big Fat Boys now own about
seventy percent of all the wealth in the United States
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-29

and would like to have the rest of it. They are ma
they cannot absolutely control exploit in their own
private interest Great masses of the common people
tho people who made this country and still keep it
alioat as going concentrate growing tired being
pushed around, cut off, chiseled on, high priced
iCo pauperlsm, and they want development in which
Iney can snare have a say, and enjoy security
Inc Big Boys have the jack control most of the
avenues OF publicity and able to employ a whole
region OF henchmen and fixers Moreover they finance
d lou Oh politicians into power and able apply
heaVy pressure on those they do not All this
permits them to keep the real issue either or
SO muddled that the in the street often long
he gettlng 1t Strengthened out in his mind Bas-
lcaly thls does not change the actual issue, it only
muddles things and delays final settlement.
10 force settlement in their interest and by
Overwhelming numbers the folks have the
power to the best purpose which is their own sein-
terest 1t is safe bet that nineynne percent of in
dlVlduals who have assured income of $4,000 per
year or more are and will continue to be- against an
MVA N1netynine percent of those with incomes less
imam $4,000 per year should be for MVA The
great majority of them undoubtedly be when thew
understand that selfnterest is quite important to
them as it is to he Big Fat Boys will vote the
other way. After all government was founded on
the political theory of he greatest good the greatest
number 1t is still good principle if we will only
make it work.-JEROME G. LOCKE, Member of Reg
onal Committee for MVA
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-29

inc a capitalist telling US to clean
ly-while their own is piled to the
roof with putrificationi are SO busy
looking for pink pimples that we can
not see the rms-to-the-elbows
of our enemies. We work overtime
running suspects through wringers,
sleeves, separators, fumigators, deny
orators and discolorators If we see
something not totally colorless we
start screaming for the Underhanded
qualification Instigators to bring on
the FBI.
1t has not dawned upon us land
maybe never willy that what we've
got to do Cor perish) is to close ranks
and charge the common enemy with
all we've got-and can get. We've
got to get together instead of getting
more and more parts. We've got to
quit shivering in our boots every time
a pald-mouth-piece yells red If we
keep doing what they tell us there'H
soon be an intra-class war and we'll
be buying guns from the enemy with
winch to exterminate our fool selves.
And it would help a little if we got
some sense into our language What
is meant by that three-pronged road
we hear so much about-Left, Right.
Center? Well, a Rightest is one who
keeps pulling toward tiptop totali-
tarlanlsm. Centerist means a middle
roader, one who stands pat and re-
sists the pull of the moon and the
push of evolution. A Leftist is one
who, in any degree, is opposed to
Centerism and Rightism. In other
words Right means wrong, Left means
right and Center means mug-wump.
Yes, you're right q mean correct),
I'm disguised. For fifty years I've
been water-boy for alleged crusaders
(who usually turn out to be theoretical
hair-splitters) hoping that in MY DAY
Ia see human justice coming over
some hill or around some corner. All
I've seen so far are geysers of smear
mud filling the air. Now I'm an old
man, little doddery, I admit, and
though my knees are a bit shaky
and my head little woosey, vet nv
heart is strong even if my soul is
sick and disguised with those who
insist on saving half the racket along
with all the racketeers.
But I have faint hope that some
day the tail of the comet metagenesis
or something will smack us in the face
and knock some sense into our be-
fuddled heads.
o. NJ. THOMSON.
Willernie, Mimi.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-08-29

steals our soap, then calls us the great
unwashed"
1915-192o
AS the first world war hung over
the land, labor opposed U. S. participa-
ton. On Labor Day 1915 ALL Sec.
Frank Morrison declared: Labor
sees the wolf of militarism concealed
behind the Little Red Riding Hood
pretense of those men responsible for
Ludlow" His reference: the mass
acre of SO women and children in the
historic strike against John d. Rookie
feller's Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Labor
Day 1917 saw most of labor swing to
support the war which the U. S. had
entered.
192o-1e25
End of the war brought quick re-
newal of the onslaught against labor.
Labor Day 1922 saw the union move
ment, threatening a general strike,
rallied in opposition to Atty. Gen.
Harry Daugherty's sweeping injunc-
ton against striking railroad shop
lnCh. Oldl Dctlil OduSn-
erty is exercising a power never
dreamed of in the history of the re-
public" Slogan of the times: 1--WE
fought for democracy and got 23c an
hour"
1o25-1o3O
The so-called Golden '20s brought
a lull in union militancy, slump in
union membership as many thought
the millennium had come to stay
193o-1935
But the end came with crash,
with it bewilderment, bitter
criticism of Herbert Hoover's do |
growing demands for I'M
relief, jobs, security. The
advent of the New Deal brought the
NRA and section (a) and labor's
channeled itself into sud-
len union growth. Employers oppos-
ton drew from ALL Pres. William
Green on Labor Day 1888 a demand
or court action against vioIators of
IRA collective bargaining agree
nents.
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1935-194O


The labor upsurge sharpened the
split on craft VS.. industrial unionism,
brought the sudden bursting birth Of
the CLIO, headed by John L. Lewis.
On Labor Day 1887 as Green hailed
the U. S. supreme courts decision up
holding the Wagner act establishing
labor's right to bargain collectively,
Lewis reported the CLOS organizing
lion new members in it's first year.
1e4o-1e45
Labor Days at the turn of the de.
cade found labor divided on its atti-
tude toward World War H. Some
unions favored all aid to those fight
ing the Axis short of u. S. involve
ment. Others held a hands-off posi-
ton. But Labor Day 1912, nine
months after U. S. entry, found labor
united in support of the fight Labor
Day 1916 was a day of victory and
The war was won. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt was dead.
1945-1947
Keynote of the postwar period was
struck by William Green, Labor Day
1916, when he declared: "The forces
If fascism in America have determined
. to smash trade unions" Said
CIO Pres. Philip Murray: Greed and
threaten our economic
iberty"