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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
SOLAR HEAT MAY
 SOON BE ANSWER
 TOFUEL PROBLEM

CHICAGO May l2-iR-Were you alarmed at the size of your fuel bill this past winter? Solar heat, which enlists the warming rays of the sun, may be the answer to your home-heating problem.
 That's straight from Dr. F. w. Hutchinson of Purdue University, who has just concluded a two-year study of the possibilities of solar heat. Tn his experiment, he used two small houses. They were identi- cal, except that one had large windows of double -paned insulat- ing glass on it's southern exposure
 According to Professor Hutchin- son, the house with the big, insul- ating picture windows was much easier to heat. More heat entered those windows than escaped through them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
ABA Asking Change
 !n Gl Bill 10 Aid
 Lawyer Veterans

WASHINGTON, May .2-iR- The American Bar Association to- day asked Congress to change the GI Bill of Rights so that young Iawyer-veterans could receive cn- the-job training grants for the first two years after being admitted to the bar.
 Sidney P Simpson, Chairman of the Associations committee on con- tinuing education, told a Senate Welfare Subcommittee that it is common knowledge that a young man just out of law school, al- though he ne admitted to the bar. is not yet ready to practice law"
 But the Veterans Administration has ruled that man, once admit ted to the ear (authorized by the courts to practice) is ineligible for allowances, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
Asks S15,000
 For Governor

WASHINGTON, May 12-lR- The Interior Department today urged Congress to increase salaries of the Governors of Alaska and other territories from $l0,000 to $15,000 yearly.
 Irwin Silverman, Chief of Divi- sions of Territories told the House Territories Committee it was be- coming harder to find qualified governors without personal wealth.
 Delegate Bartlett supported the increase proposal.
 Chairman Crawford, Republican of Michigan, asked Silverman to submit a list of all income expense funds, housing and personal service allowances for each governor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
BRITISH LORD
 pR0TE5Ts FOOD
 PRICES ABROAD

LONDON. May 42.--'R--Lord De Law War told the House Of Lords athat Britain was forced to buy food abroad in ''blackTnail market"
 Wheat from Canada. the Conser- vative Peer said fiji q discussion of Britairs food shortage, '1s cost ing as much as we are paying our own farmers in this country"
 Wheat from America is costing even more and wheat from the Ar gentine 50 far as | i8 available, ia great deal more" he said At the present moment we are buying whatever we are buying on q blackrnail market"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

managed retail meat market fol three years.
 Mansfield came to Alaska ir
 l940 and was assistant manager oi Copstead's Twentieth Century Meai Market. He entered the Navy 1T 194I and returned to Juneau up- on his release in l946 He has been in this city ever since.
 Les Fragner was born at Che halls, Wash, and finished his schooling at the nearby town ot Grandview, Wash. He served for a time in the U. s. Marines, then went to work for Safeway Stores at Wenatchee, Washington. After seven months. he was promoted to manager of the Safeway stores at Wenatchee, Cashmere and Ckanogan After six years with Safeway, Fragner went to work for the ARP and for most of the next six years was manager Of the A&P store in West Seattle.
 He came to Juneau as grocery manager when Roald Copstead and Harold Bates opened the Twentieth Century Super Mar ket in 1946. On January l, 1946, Fragner took over Copsteads in terest in that store, and contin- ued as grocery manager.
 As of May l. this year, Frag- her disposed of his interest in the Twentieth Century and with as partner entered into final neootiations for purchase of the California.
 The new owners stated that Tommy Mierzejewski, driver, and John Hogins will continue on the staff, with Lee Lucas being employed as accountant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
WILLIAM yPRIGADE
 DIES !M HOSPITAL

William Sprigade, for many years connected with the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, pass ed away last eveniAs at 8 o'clock in St. Ann's Hospital at the age of II.
 Sprigade, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, was single He had worked with the Juneau Fire Department as cook and more recently as caretaker of the Ball Park
 Funeral services are pending ar engagements at the Charles w Carter Mortuary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
ALAohANS IN TOWN

Guests at the Baranof Hotel over the weekend included the follow ing Alaskans Hans Floe from Hawk Inlet Cannery; Esther Bacon from Wrangell, Roy c. Avrit from Sitka and MT and Mrs Wayne A. Brown from Summit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
AT TIE GASTINEAu

Newly registered guests over the weekend at the Gastineau Hotel were L. E. Ensign Of Anacortes and Robert F Bridge of Hamilton Wash. Statesmen H. B Crewson Of Seattle was registered. and the fol- lowing persons from Pelican City Basil Riley, MT. and Mrs. |. Edge ccmb, Betty and Margaret Edge comb.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
BAvARDS SELL OUT CALIFORNIA GR0C.
 TO NEW PARTNERS
Frdgner and Mansfield Take Over Second 0ld-
 est Grocery Store

Sale Of the second oldest business in Juneau was announced today by MT and Mrs. N. J. Bavard- Nick and Mary, as they are most generally known-who are retiring from operation of the California Grocery and Market. Only the grocery department of B. M. Behr- ends Go. has been longer estab- lished in that line here.
 i Final negotiations for the sale to new partnership, of Les Fragner and Ray Mansfield, were completed on the past weekend. The trans action involves the store stock and i business, purchased outright, with "a lease on the store and apart ment building in which the Cali l fornia is located, also owned by the Edwards.
 The California, then a grocery store only, was opened in 1917 by Steve Lagos, uncle of Nick Bavard. Shortly later it was taken over by Nick and his brother Mike Bavard. The brothers operated the store together until 1883 when Mike Bavard died. Since that time Nick and his wife Mary have been in full charge. The store has always been in it's present South Franklin street location MT. and Mrs. Bavard stress that Juneau is their home and they have no intention of leaving here, even though they are retiring from the grocery and meat husi- ness. They will continue to reside in their apartment over the store and at their place at Aux Bay They may take trip in the fall, tut yet have no definite plans. Their son John will enter college next fall and their daughter Katherine will continue her studies in Juneau High School. Both son and daughter were born and raised in Juneau
 Branch Out
 When NICK and Mary Bavard took over the California, it was still just a grocery store, but un- der their management has steadily expanded to become enc Of the finest in the Territory A com plete meat market was added little over 10 years ago and for several years liquor store was operated adjoining the main store The Edwards held the first retail liquor license issued in Juneau af- ter the repeal of prohibition. The California Liquor Store was sold a year ago to John Marinovich and removed from the building, with the grocery being enlarged to oc- cupy the vacated space.
 Nick Bavard first came to Ju- neau, from Portland Oregon, in 1917, when the store was opened. In 1924 he married Mary Connor, a Juneau girl who became also his business partner.
 New Owners Young
 The new owners, F'ragner and Mansfield, are young men, both unmarried and both grounded in the retail food business besides beire established in Juneau.
 Ra" Mansfield was born in Wirnebago, Nebraska, and graduat- ed from school there, after some schooling at Oakland, California. He began to learn the meat busi- ness while attending school in his home town in Nebraska, and after finishing high school went ito Denver, Colorado, where hc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
BACK FROM STATES

Mrs Don McGraw and Mrs. Frank Tilson Of Sitka. arrived by air from Seattle over the weekend, and registered as guests Of the Bar anof Hotel Mrs. Tilson was join ed by her husband, who flew over from Sitka with Alaska Coastal Airlines
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
HERE FROM ARLINGTO,,

Stanley Alcins, Gene Skinner and Jerry Page, all from Arlington Wash. arrived in Juneau by air on Saturday and registered for rooms at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
SHABALDAKS Go SOUTH

MT. and Mrs. Sam Shabaldak proprietors of the Triplex Cleaners lett on the steamer Aleutian Satur- day night, on long planned trip to the States. their first in about 19 years. Their plans include pick ing up a car in Seattle and then just driving around wherever they feel like going, Shabaldak tolo friends before leaving.
 errands. CT cap and efficient.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
BACK FROM TRIP SOUTH

MT and Mrs. Harry Lea returned by PAA plane over the weekend after yacationing in the States the past several weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
IN ON TIE ALEuTIAN

Mrs Edith Y RooertDn of Sew ard arrived ln Juneau Saturday night on the Aleutian, and register ed as q etles. of the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
FROM SALT LAKE CITY

Dr and Mrs E J. Samuelson, of Salt Lake City Utah. came to Ju- neau over the weekend and were registered al the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12
FROM LOS ANGELES

James L. Pray, representing the Americana Corporation of Los Angeles, Cahf., arrived in Juneau on Sunday and is registered as a guest of the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-12

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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
Hot Shots

o In Dallas, Tex, man driving a
convertible pulled up beside bus
stop, emptied a water pistol into the
face of woman, then sped away.
Q In Woodwork, N. D., five town
wags stayed up half one night con-
cocting a flying saucer" planted it
on the lawn of a civic leader. Next
morning hundreds focked to the
scene by plane, car and foot Army
intelligence in Washington ordered it
put under heavy guard and sent to
Fargo security headquarters with "ss
little publicity as possible" Govern
ment agencies made inquiries of
nationally known appliance manufac-
turer, whose name had been painted
on the contraption. The hoax Yves
contrived from the bottom of wash
tub, a lamp shade, some radio tubes,
wiring from meteorological instru-
ments, silver paint and an automobile
fan rugged as propeller.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25

~ popular politically but highly dan
gerous economically since it would
threaten to dry up the most abundant
source of venture capital.
Before his veto message, the Presi-
dent asked Congress for a compre-
hensive flood control program from
the Appalachians to the Rockies.
Earlier the President broke five
months deadlock over his nomination
of Francis Biddle as u S. representa-
tive to the United Nations Economic
and Social Council by withdrawing
the appointment at Bijdle's request.
Biddle, former attorney general
under the late President Franklin
Roosevelt, accused Sen. Arthur Van
denberg (R-Mich), chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations committee,
of bottling up the nomination since
last January. Biddle preferred a
showdown, he said, but there was no
chance of action before Congress adj
journed.
In Biddle's stead, the President
nominated Willard L. Thorp, assist
ant secretary of state for Economic
Affairs. He will serve in both jobs
concurrently without added compen-
Sation, if confirmed.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
Drama
Transatlantic Turtle

London's dignified drama critics
were shocked this week by 1.-THE Voice
of the Turtle" which opened what
promises to be long run in Piccadilly.
The three-character farce has more
than four years on Broadway and re-
Gently brought 100000 from Holly
wood.
The last place l encountered such
morals was rabbit warren" said the
critic of the sedate London Times.
"The allure of semi-juvenile delin-
quency of bedside comedy :. is not
for me- said the London Observer.
But the mass-circulation Express
hailed it as little masterpiece" and
the Chronicle called it best new
comedy in town."
'The Voice" has been edited some
to meet requirements of Britain's
lord chamberlain, who censors the
London stage.
What offended some frst-nighters
was the fact that author John Van
Druten, who writes the New York
language as though he were a native,
is English born and bred.
"He now is completely American"
mourned the critic of the Sunday
Graphic.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
Il Germany
sr,.iissd Policy

$ ,15ed Pollcy ,..s.-
The United States this week re-
vlsed its policy toward defeated Ger
faany, declaring that stable and
productive Germany with higher
standard of living was essential to
European recovery and lasting peace.
The new directive, signed by the
State, War and Navy Departments,
apparently opens the door for Ger
man participation to some degree IN
the Marshall plan for European re-
construction.
The 60,000-word directive is re-
garded by American Military Gov
eminent authorities as the most inn
portant American statement since the
Stuttgart speech last fall of former
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
in which he advocated the return OF
government to the Germans as
soon as possible.
The new policy makes it plain that
theSU. S. wants Germany demilitar-
lied permanently 1t also reiterate:
ar American policy expressed at the
Big Four meeting in Moscow las
spring: The U. S. will not permit any
nation to extract separations good!
out of Germany while American tax.
payers are obliged to pour in funds
IT, keep Germany alive.
The directive states that Americ;
does not wish to impose its own form
q of democracy and social organization
or Germany and believes equal,
firmly that no other government
should.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
Greece
Invasion or Revolution?

Invasion or Revolution?
Ten days ago the rightist Greek
government struck a hard blow at the
Fam, communist dominated resist
ance movement, by arresting 5000
leftiSt leaders. An Athens COM
munique said the arrests had been
made to forestall a full-scale revolu-
ton, timed for the following day.
This week Athens reported two
"invasions" of guerrillas from Alba
MIA and girded its nationalist troops
for what might prove to be two cru
cial battles.
First reports of an international
brigade" among the invaders were
discounted as rumors, but Athens
protested to the United Nations Sc
curity Council.
Meanwhile, Dwight Griswold, ad-
miniStrator of the U. S. program OF
assistance to Greece, landed at Has
Sani airport. Before leaving Washing
ton, Griswold said military equip
ment valued at $35,000,000 was en-
route to Greece under the $300,000,-
900 aid program.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
Atom
Security Maze


The Senate War Investigating Come
mittee joined this week in the hunt
to determine whether atomic secrets
have been lost to foreign agents.
Earlier a joint Congressional
Atomic Energy committee cancelled
a scheduled public hearing on asser-
tons that secrets have been leaking
out of the Oak Ridge, Tenn, A-bomh
plant. Ten days ago the Ne1U York.
Sun reported that unknown agents
had removed secret materials from
the Oak Ridge plant.
At first Sen. Bourke B. Hicken-
looper, chairman of the joint atomic
committee, denied that any docu-
mentS were missing from the Oak
Ridge plant as charged by the news
paper. He did reveal, however, more
than a year after its occurrence, that
two former Army sergeants had
taken pictures, negatives and docu-
ments from Los Alamos, N. M.
The two veterans, Ernest D.. Wallis
of Chicago, and Alexander Won der
Luft, "a, a Princeton University stu
dent, were released in bonds of $10.-
900 each to await further hearings.
The men did not enter pleas but in
sisted they had acted inrocently as
souvenir hunters.
Later Sen. Hickenlooper tempered
his outright denial with the assertion
that nothing of vital Importance"
was missing from Oak Ridge files, to
his knowledge.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25

bourg, Ireland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy,
Portugal, Greece and Turkey. They
form the western bloc.
These 16 nations in conference at
Paris set up five committees and a
secretariat to survey Europe's re-
sources and needs in compliance with
the Marshall proposal The bodies
consist of an executive committee
britain, France, Italy, Norway and
the Netherlands) and committees on
food and agriculture, steel and iron,
transport, fuel and power.
To RecOnvene in August
1t will take until late August before
these committees can complete their
audit and the Paris conference then
will reconvene to draft an overall plan
of communal aid and formal request
for American relief.
Meanwhile Moscow laid down a
violent barrage of propaganda against
the Marshall plan and the Paris con-
ference, which it declared was doomed
to failure, The Communist newspaper
Prada declared that eastern Euro
pean nations were interested in OBJ
tanning American credits, but directly
from the us. and not through Britain
and France.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
MILFORD CHRONICLE MILFORD DELAWARE FRIDAY JULY g. 1e47
OF ! !! ) 4 Ell
CONGRESS: Getaway Day Near
The Tax DUeI

Next Saturday is schc d as get
away day for the 8OiE Congress and
the coming week will be hectic one
on Capitol Hill. Both the President
and leaders of the Republican-domi-
mated Congress have indicated there
will be no special session this fall and
when the legislators convene again
next January, it will be in the super
heated political atmosphere of pres
idential election year.
President Trumans second veto of
the $4,000,000,000 income tax cut
evoked new cries of politics" from
Republicans in their persistent but
fruitleSs attempts to make good on
campaign pledges.
The current Knutson tax reduction
bill is identical to the one Mr.. Tru-
man killed last month except that it
would take effect next January l in
stead of July /, 1947. 1t provides tax
cuts ranging from 80 percent in the
lowest income range to 10.5 percent
at the top.
Wrong KInd' at Wrong Time
In his first veto message, Mr.. Tru-
man called the bill the wrong kind"
at the wrong time"
Earlier in the week the Senate
passed the bill by vote of go to 80,
two shy of the two-thirds majority
necessary to override. Senate mem
bership is now 95 (the Goth, Theodore
C. Bilbo of Mississippi, is not yet
sWorn).
All Democratic attempts to amend
the Knutson bill on its second time
up failed-by a narrow margin. The
closest shave was on proposal to in
crease personal exemptions from $500
to $780, Another proposal would have
permitted husbands and wives
throughout the nation to split their
income for tax purposes. At present
that tax-saving privilege is reserved
for residents of Is states with COM
munity property laws.
Politically Popular Program
Republicans claim that next year
the Administration plans to sponsor
legislation designed primarily to lift
the tax load from low-bracket income
workers at the expense of high
bracket groups. Such a program, Re-
publicans predict, would be extreme
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
invention
flew Printing Process

y. revolutionary. newspaper print
ing method designed to eliminate use
of linotype machines, matrices and
stereotype plates was announced this
week by John H. Perry, Jr., chairman
of the William j. Higgins Co.
Entire pages are printed directly
from single sheet of engraved mag
nesium which weighs less than a
pound compared with As pounds for
conventional stereotype plate.
Composition of body type is done
by proportional spacing typewriters.
Machines have been developed to per-
init head-setting by the same method,
Perry said.
''The process completely changes
the composing room as it exists today"
the announcement claims. Copy goes
directly from typewriters to the make
up boards and from there to the en-
craving room. Copy need not be
proofread as composition errors are.
by the Photographic nature of the
process, completely eliminated"
Research was conducted in the COM
pany's Ocala, Fla, plant. and the
process has been used for several
months in publication of the Leesburg,
Fla. Commercial Ledger, 12-page
weekly paper.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25

for the welfare of the whole continent.
The Paris conference ended all that.
1t brought the division of Europe out
into the open and set two rival eco
nomic systems, capitalism and COM
munism, competing against each other.
Under the Marshall plan, European
nations must agree to help each other
and draw up comprehensive audit of
assets as well as needs. If they still
need outside help after sharing sur
pluses with their 'neighbors, the Euro
pean nations could appeal to the
United States. Whatever help they
get from the US. will not be given
piecemeal anymore, but according to a
master plan.
Russian Refusal
Russia refused to participate in the
Marshall plan, charging that it was
designed to make sovereign nations
subservient to the US. Russia cracked
her whip and eight satellite nations
within her western bloc did not at
tend the Paris conference even though
some of them openly desired to-
Those nations are Poland, Yugo-
Slavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Albania, Finland and Czechoslovakia.
Sixteen nations did participate.
They are Britain, France, Austria,
Bel GUM. the Netherlands, Luxem-
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25
In Short

Won: BY Gov. Thomas f. Dewey,
straw poll for COP presidential
nominee at 18th annual Governors
Conference in Salt Lake City; second
Gov. Warren, third Sen. Tat, fourth
ex-GoV. StaSsen.
Sought: BY Philip Murray, CIO
president, court test of constitutionali-
ty of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act
forbidding union comment in fed
eral election, by endorsing in the
CIO NetUS a candidate for Congress in
a special Maryland district election.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1947-07-25


TENDER 8 in preparation for the annual
ALL convention in San Francisco on
October 6. The convention will do the
actual electing, guided by recommenz
dations of the executive board
Green, who has headed the ALL
since 1924 is a former secretary
treasurer of Lewis United Mine
Workers. Green was Lewis choice for
the ALL presidency at that time, and
since Lewis return to the federation
year and half ago, the two have
been very close.
Now that hard and soft coal miners
are covered for at least year by the
best contracts in their history, Lewis
may again become head of one of
Americas two top groups of unions.
In 1885, he brought about the great
split in labor by taking his miners
out of the ALL and founding the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
which he headed for many years
Eventually, however, Lewis drifted
away and effected a reconciliation
with old line ALL union leaders.
Lewis, 81, could turn over leader.
ship in the UNIV to Vice President
John O'Lea1y, Secretary Treasurer
Thomas Kennedy or A. D. Denny
Lewis, his brother.
AS 18th vice president; his friend:
say, Lewis. wields as much or more
influence in ALL policy matters al
Green himself.
Now. if he wishes to make a fgh
for the leadership, some ALL official
believe, he probably could line VI
enough votes on the executive council
to make it.