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Evening star., 1947-10-01

L n ey n ave Constantine Brown.
worked hard, investigated matters
carefully and attempted to go deeply
into the problems they have set
themselves to investigate honestly
and without bias.
Some of them have spent time
probing the feelings and views of
the man in the street and have
been assisted in their task by reli-
able Interpreters, whom they either
have taken with them or have OBJ
tained from American officials in
the various capitals.
Little Winning and Dining.
They have done little winning and
dining. They have foregone the
elaborate functions which foreign
governments would give distin-
guished guests who carry so much
weight In future Congress debates
on billions of new appropriations
Frugal, short meals have followed
long and searching discussions with
the leaders of the countries the
American lawmakers were visiting
Most of the Congress members
have been appalled, by conditions in
Great Britain, where the suffering
is intense. People can buy nothing
since most commodities are intended
for export. Food is scant and OF
such poor quality that even the most
frugal legislators were hungry
throughout their stay in the United
Kingdom.
The island of coal' is trying its
best to buy coal wherever it can be
found, provided 1t does not have tt
be paid for in dollars. Yet there is
insufficient effort being made to gel
more work from the laboring classes
This is because of two circum-
stances: % England has beer
through so much and has suffered
so many tragedies that the people
do not believe anything in store fol
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Writer Charges Law Partners Picked
Davis for Interiors Island Division Post

The United States Government
cannot be in the position of assist
ing private attorneys in litigation,
regardless of the identity of in
terest that might exist in parti-
cular matter; nor can the United
States Government make an ar
rangement directly or indirectly
with private attorneys which as
practical matter would be construed
as, and would have the effect of,
excluding other private attorneys
from participation in the law bust
ness which is being farmed out to
private counsel y"
View Changes Drastically.
Thus did Undersecretary Fortas
write in a precise and monitorial
manner to the Governor of Puerto
Rico. But when he engaged in
the private practice of law, his view
changed drastically. He lost no
contract for his firm to attend to
the legal affairs of Puerto Rico
although, only a short time pre-
viously, he had insisted that it
would be both "unsound and un-
wise" to entrust public business
to a private practitioner. Doubt
less Mr.. Fortas will recall that Mr..
| Warner Gardner, the then Solicitor
of the Interior Department, agree
ing with the sound position that
Mr.. Fortas himself had taken, wrote
to Gov. Tugwell a letter to this
effect, a copy of which he sent to
Mr.. Fortas. Mr.. Gardner quoted,
with approval, from Undersecretary
Fortas' prior letter to Gov. TugWell
in which the former questioned so
convincingly the propriety of Puerto
Rico engaging private counsel
Whether Mr.. Fortas ever replied
to this letter of Mr. Gardner's in
an effort to justify a course of
action that he had so severely
condemned little less>than year
previously, T am not advised.
OF further interest in this re-
vealing situation is the fact that
whereas needy Puerto Rico under
took to pay $12,500 a year to the
F'ortas firm, legal services would
have cost nothing if performed by
the Interior Department. Moreover
I am prepared to say that Interior
could have rendered services that
4 would have been at least as good
as Puerto Rico could hope to get
elsewhere.
Subsequent to the making of the
Puerto Rico-Fortas contract, Mr.
Porter became a member of the
firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter
Mr.. Davis had served as regional
administrator in the Office of Price
Administration under Mr.. Porter
and doubtless Mr. Fortas was will
ing to join in the recommendation
of man for whom his law partner
was able to vouch enthusiastically
The predecessor of Secret'ry
Krug, shortly after taking office
, signed an executive order forbid
ding any official retiring from the
department to practice law before
it for a period of two years. As
write this, that order is still ir
effect.
/ (Copyrisht, 1947)
Evening star., 1947-10-01

Peron. I expected to be razzle-
dazzled by her beauty, but she'd be
a dime a dozen when it comes to
looks in half the towns of this coun-
try. i. Her hair has been blon-
dined so many times it doesn't
look like human hair, and her COM
plexion is bad. She just happens
to be photogenic, that's all.
Chilean Women Praised.
The best-looking Latin woman
were the Chileans. Also the smart
est dressed But, again, they just
can't tie the shoes of the North
American gals. Or am I pref
udiced?
The toughest customs men I met
in South America belonged to
Argentina They didn't want you to
bring your own head of hair into
the country. Peron may not be up
to any mischief, but I had the same
feeling when I landed in Argentina
that I did when arriving in Berlin
in 1896. MILITARY here, there and
everywhere.
I want to take time out to thank
DR.. Charles Glenn Curtiss, of Brea,
Calf. I was half dead with
cold in Quito when I met DR.. Cur
tiss, there on a vacation. He didn't
speak any Spanish, and it was a
Sunday, but he routed out a
pharmacist, got some penicillin, and
cured me. Think I'll send him
some good Florida oranges for
Christmas.
Note to Mr.. Hamm of Pan-Am in
Belem, Brazil: Don't forget that
monkey you promised to send me. I
have the perch already built.
Tomorrow we go through the
Panama Canal. I'll let you know
how it feels.
Distributed by xMcNaught Syndicate, Inc }
Evening star., 1947-10-01

conspicuous position when the
cheese-paring Mr.. Taber casts his
baleful eye over the next budget re-
quest of the department.
The news about Mr.. Davis is not
nearly so interesting as what was not
said about his appointment. Did
the Secretary find Mr.. Davis ripen-
ing on limb, ready to be plucked,
or was he suggested for the job and,
| if so, by whom and why? The fact
is that Mr.. Davis was chosen by
Abe Fortas, former Undersecretary
of the Interior, and Paul Porter,
former administrator of OPA. Mr.
Krug merely signed on the dotted
line. !
Partners in Law Firm.
Mr.. Fortas and Mr.. Porter are
partners in the law firm of Arnold
Fortas and Porter. By happy CO.
incidence, this law firm is under
retainer of $12,500 a year to repre-
sent Puerto Rico before the In
terror Department and as counsel in
any litigation on the mainland. This
tcontract with Puerto Rico was made
by Mr.. Fortas shortly after his reSig-
nation as Undersecretary. So
naturally, he has an interest in the
personality of the director of this
particular bureau which is in direct
/ charge of Puerto Rican affairs. In
cidentally, it was also Mr.. Fortas
who was influential in the appoint
ment of Mr.. Arnold, the predecessor
of Mr.. Davis, but, at that tlme-he
was Undersecretary of the Interior
so that no one could question the
legitimacy of his interest
When Mr.. Fortas was Under
secretary of the Interior, Puerto
Rico wanted to employ its owr
counsel in Washington. But Mr.
Fortas protested. Under date o.
March 13, 1915, as Undersecretary o.
i Interior, he wrote to the then Gov
ernor, Rexford G. Tugwell, Of Puerto
Rico to the following effect:
II believe that continuing repre-.
sentation of government or 6
governmental agency by private
attorneys is unsound and lnwist
" =. In my opinion, it is neither
seemly nor appropriate for govern
mental agencies to be represented
by counsel who are not regularly
constituted public officials.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

W1IllOuG pdI dl1Ci
since the heyday
of Hitler and
Goebbels. The
refrain is the
same as then:
Any one who op-
poses anything
done by us is
a "warmonger." ="
The defender is
thus cast as ag-
gressor, with the
difference that
t h o u g h the
United States is,
in Gaeh bel s.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

nave 7 E d { II e q
two conclusions:
CD E u r op e a n
countries an
use every kind
OF commodity
t h e U n / t e d
States produces;
and CD they are
doing very little,
If anything at
all, to h e ! p
themselves.
The investi-
eating Congress
members are not
on a Joy ride.
Evening star., 1947-10-01

Edwin u. Arnold
who, simultane-
ously, was ap-
pointed special
assistant to Sec
rotary Krug on
international as
p e C t S Of t h e
work of the de-
p a r t m e n t" -
S e cr e t airy of
S t a t e to the
secretary OF tne
Interior, as it
were. This kick
ing upstairs Of
Mr.. Arnold will
AL L;n, ip q
Evening star., 1947-10-01

I submit the phrase regardless OF
origin involves basic and funda-
mental points.
''You will understand that I am
not writing in any spirit of criticism
or complaint. I simply want to
make clear to you, for your future
reference, my Interpretation OF
Article XIV"
Reproduction Rights Reservedo
Evening star., 1947-10-01

CildllSeQ more
than flags today,
though. At noon
W e were in
Quito, Ecuador,
with SnoW-cov-
cred mountains
all a bout us.
Now we are at
S e a level, or
darned close to
1t, and it is hot
Ter IMAM a SET
ting hen on a
wool nest.
In my luggage,
and tucked away
Evening star., 1947-10-01
By Constantine Broavn

From private letters written to
friends and relatives by American
Congress members who are touring
Europe, 1t appears that the latter
Evening star., 1947-10-01
to Man
Bv Harold L. Ickes

James P. Davis has been appoint
ed director of the Division of Terri
tories and Island Possessions in the
Interior Department. He succeeded
Evening star., 1947-10-01
McLemore
Miscellaneous Notes
On South America
By Henry McLemore

ANCON, Canal Zone, Panama
We'll, here we are back on United
States soil. with the Stars and
Stripes flying overhead. We have
Evening star., 1947-10-01
By Dorothy Thomson

Since the September 18 speech of
Mr.. Vishinsky before the United
Nations, the United States is being
subjected to a propaganda barrage
Evening star., 1947-10-01

(Copyright, 1947.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
ARREST TWO FOR
 BANK ROBBERY IN SWEET HOME, ORE.
Man, Wife Taken into Gus. fody in Oklahoma by
 FBI-No Resistance

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 36.-tR
 Arrest of two additional spersons in connection with the $58,000 rob- hery of the Bank of Sweet Home, Ore, Aug. 29, is announced by D. A. Bryce, Chief of the FBI Blu reau here.
 Bryce said Henry Clay Green, 27, was arrested on warrant charg- ing participation in the robbery and that his wife, Fornie Lee Green, 21, was being held as material wit ness.
 Bryce said the two were taken into custody near Woodsville in Marshall County (Okla) this morn ing.
 Green was armed with a rifle but offered no resistance.
 The two arrests brought to four the number held in connection with the robbery.
 Henry Clay Tollett, Oklahoma ex- convict, was arrested in Bakers field, Calf, Sept 19 after the arrest at Hugon, Okla, of Joe Berry Bishop, Sept. l2
 Both Tollett and Bishop have been returned to Oregon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
ANOTHER BOY BABY
 IS BORN TO DeR0UXs

Word has beer received from Ketchikan, that g baby boy was born to MT. and Mrs. Harold De- Roux on Wednesday, September 24 Hhis is the second son for Mir and Mrs. DeRoux. Their first son, Kenneth Royal is three years old.
 Mrs. George B. Rice, tEe proud grandmother, was in Ketchikan for her grandson's arrival. She will return to Juneau in three weeks. MT. and Mrs DeRoux are well known Juneauites and are both members of the class of AZ, Juneau High School. MT. DeRoux is in the U. S. Coast Guard and has been stationed in Ketchikan for the past year where he is at 1 tacLoi to the Photographic office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
'WARM0NGER' CARTOONS IN
 RUSS PAPERS

MOSCOW, Sept. 26-R-A car tocn in Izvestia today depicts Gen, Eisenhower as waving an atomic homt and shouting through megaphone labeled Daily Hearst that "The U.S.S.R. is going to at tack America"
 A cartoon in Trud shoWeg Franklin D. Roosevelt looking down on a dance of ''warmongers9 and saying to himself: Where are they taking America?' The dan cers included Winston Churchill with his son Randolph on his lack, an American General way ing a Bacteria War" bottle and an American capitalist beating a drum on which Greece and Turkey rode
 The weekly Literary Gazette re- ferred to Secretary of State Mar shall as "Shylock from Wall Street" and called the American Legion "Warmongering Organi- zation.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
ESTKER GEORGE HERE
 ON VACATION; DOES
 EMERGENCY NURSING

Miss Esther George and her par ents arrived here Tuesday follow ing her graduation exercises at the Providence Hospital in Seattle.
 Miss George had been home only one day when she was called to the St Anns Hospital to care for the emergency patient, Mrs. Kristen Hancock, who was shot and critical ly injured by her ex-husband. Loren Hancock. This was her first post graduation case.
 Although she came to Juneau for a six weeks vacation, Miss George is still working on the case.
 MT. and Mrs. Tom George flew down to Seattle Sunday to attend their daughters graduation Fol- lowing the ceremony they gave q reception for her friends in their apartment at Exeter Hotel
 Miss George, who has been in training at the Providence Hospital for the past three years, will con tinue there as a nurse after her vacation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
"BLA(kMAIL" CHARGE MADE AT RUSSIANS
Australian Claims Soyfefs Try 10 Force J. X. to
 Admit Satellites

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 26.-'R- Australian Delegate w. R. Hodgson has accused Russia of using black mailo aimed at forcing the Security Council to admit Soviet satellites to United Nations membership.
 Hodgson m d e the blackmail charge in referring to a statement bv Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromvko that Russia would vote for admission of Italy only if the council also admitted Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland.
 Gromyko, sitting as Council Presi- dent for this month, then ruled that each of the five ex-enemy states would be taken up separately since majority of the council favored that procedure. He had advocated voting on them all together.
 Gromyko finally ruled that the applications would be taken up in the order of their receipt: Hungary, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria and Fin land.
 The fight ove4 admission of ex- enemy states was highly significant from the standpoint of how these countries would lineup in the grow ing East-West split.
 Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria were definitely in the Soviet camp. The present Italian government could be expected to go along with the western powers. Finland's posi- tion was not definite.
 Herschel V. Johnson, Deputy U. s. Delegate, entered the debate over individual applications with a violent attack on the Communist-d dominated Hungarian regime. which he accused of making brutal assaults on op- position leaders. Johnson said he did not believe the Hungarian gov ernment was either able or willing to carry out" it's obligations under the U. N. charter.
 Gromyko replied that Johnson had distorted" the facts in describing the Hungarian government.
 Russia, he said, rejects such at tempts to bring about interference in the internal affairs of other na- tons
 The council adjourned without voting on any of the five applica- tions under consideration. It will resume debate on this subject Mon day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
Housing Was Too Much, 90
 Man Suicides

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-tR-Since last spring Raymond Thill, 4l spent most of his spare time hunt ing for a place to live for his wife and six young children.
 He always received the same dis couraging answer from landlords: No, we couldn't possibly rent to anyone with six children
 After Thilps family had been evicted from their home last spring, he succeeded in finding one room flat for his wife and their baby son of less than year. Four other children were sent to a children's home and the eldest child, Raymond, Jr., 12, went to the country and lived with rela- tives.
 The boy returned to the one room flat when school re-opened and Thill slept in one of the parked vans owned ty the storage company where he was employed. Earlier this week the children's home advised him he must find a place for his four children or the home would start court action to declare them abandoned.
 Yesterday Rogers Park police were called to the storage company after employees had found Thill's body hanging from rope from an upper beam of a parked van.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
MOUNTAIN GOAT HANGS BY HORNS
 ON RIVER CABLE

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Sept. 26.-R -Murl Emery, veteran Colorado River boatman, couldn't believe his eyes but there was this wild mountain ram hanging by his horns from a cable stretched across the river 30 miles below Boulder Dam
 The animal, Emery opined, had hooked a horn on the cable-put there during dam construction to measure rise and fall of water = slipped and struggled to midstream, where the cable slacked
 T pulled him off the cabel,' 7 the boatman concluded. and left him near a grasspatch. Half an hour later he got his legs back and scampered over a hill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
CARLANNA LAKE
 ROAD CONTRACT
 K AUTHORIZED

The Territorial Board of Road Commissioners announce that contract for road construction in the Carlanna Lake area was re- gently awarded to E. N. Thomas of Ketchikan on the basis of a price negotiated last June. This is the first, and to date the only read construction project author i9ed since the illness of w. Leon- ard Smith, Territorial Highway Engineer, by the other two mem ters of the Territorial Board Of Road Commissioners, the Governor of Alaska, Chairman, and Oscar Olson, Secretary, the Board stated. Since MT. Smiths departure to Seattle for medical treatment, the other two members have been carrying on the work of the Board.
 Construction on the Carlanna Lake road will get under way next week in accordance with revised specifications submitted by En- eineer Amer Erickson.
 Bids previously called for were rejected as too high by w. Leon ard Smith, Territorial Highway Engineer. Plans were later modi- fled by Erickson and negotiations then proceeded with the previous ly lowest bidder, E. N. Thomas. The Territorial Board of Road Commissioners authorized Erickson to let the contract following re- duction of the price to Sl0,3690o
 The Carlanna Lake project VII open up a new residential dlstrlc' on the outskirts of Ketchikan.
 In the meantime, Mrs. Smitf left Juneau yesterday for Seattle to attend the bedside of her hus- band whose condition is reported now to to worse. It was said thai he has required several blooo transfusions and that he is now in an extremely serious condition
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
Soroptimist Club
 Has Banquet Honor
 Of Founders Day

The obligation of Service Clubs as groups, and their members, as individuals to feel and to display an active interest in government at all levels, thus saving their pub lie officials from the necessity of operating in a vacuum, was key noted last night in an address delivered by Alaska's Governor, wko was the principal speaker at the Founders Day Banquet held by the Soroptimist Club. at the Salmon Creek Country Club.
 The feeling of transience, which is Alaska's greatest drawback, he declared, should te replaced with feeling of permanence, if Alaska is to go forward. He cited the need for improved library facil- ities, and better recreational ac- tivities as immediate objectives toward which all civic groups might work, stressing the need for each member to address himself .o the task as if he expected to live in Alaska forever.
 Mayor Wano nendrickSon, and Mrs. Scott Murphy, President Of the Club, also spoke briefly, the Mayor pointing out local needs with which the club can well con- cern itself, and Mrs. Murphy in dicating plans a--eady under way for developing community solidar- ity to meet community problems.
 The banquet assembled approxi- mately 50 guests, including not only members and their personal guests, but representatives of the other service groups in Juneau, who were guests of honor of the Club for the occasion.
 Music for the event was con- tributed by Juanita Diaz who sang two groups of songs, accompanied by Danny Constantine on the mandolin. delighting her audience with the fresh clear sweetness of her charming voice.
 Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann was an effective toastmistress, who handled with dispatch a varied program which began with the introduction of guests and an nouncement of members classifica- tions with their original slogans. and ended with the ceremonial cutting of the birthday cake, bear ing a single yellow birthday candle, after which everyone who had a speech in his system was permit ted to get it out, and the entire assembly joined in on lustily sing ing Alaska's theme song: T Like Humpback Salmon" as a finale.
 Mrs. Robert Thorne was general chairman in charge of the ar engagements for the Clubs first birthday party and responsible for the attractive corsages and bouton- nieres with the club colors, which adorned the placecards, and Mrs. Wayne Johnson scored a decided success with her table decorations featuring charming arrange ment of gold and blue tapers, and festoons of smilax, with the huge birthday cake, also decora- ed in blue and gold, as a center piece. Miss Alice Brandebury was in charge of reservations and in yitations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
ALASKA VETERANS BOARD INITIATES
 DECISION APPEAL
Suif Over S35O,OOO Ap- propriaiion Now Goes to
 Cir. Court of Appeals

The Alaska World War II Vet erans Board today filed an ap- real bond in U. s. District Court tc bind it's intention to appeal to a District Court decision against the Board in suit by the Terri tcry of Alaska for s350,0o0 The eppeal will be taken to the Ninth District U. s. Circuit Court Of Appeals.
 The Territory on orders of the Board of Administration, through Territorial Treasurer Oscar Olson sued for the morey in order to meet a deficiency in Territorial funds The Board maintains that the money was appropriated to IL hv the Terri onal Legislature for a specified pe.icd of time which the Territory is attempting to shorten and eircumvent.
 Federal Judge George w. Foha' last month, upheld the arguments of the Territory and directed the Board to return the money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
ALASkA COASTAL
 AlRLINE5 FLIES S4
 ON THURSDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines report ed flights yesterday to Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Haines, Swagway, Sitka, Hood Bay, Hoo nah, Port Althorp and Excursion Inlet.
 Passengers from Juneau to Wran- gell were Lin Gardner, Ralph Gardner, George Gardner, Helen Claiman, Onessia Derendy, and Sam Derendy; to Ketchikan, L. Gingeris.
 Flying to Skagway were J. Pi- chotta. Louis Selmar, Mrs. Flynn and child, L. Knutsen, M. Gallant, IE. Griffin; to Sitka, MT. and Mrs Brewer and daughter Vicki, MT. Me Mahon, Ralph Knudsen, Betty Martin, c. D. Handy, L. Miller Kenneth Nashen, A. Mcintyre Dean Rice, Eugene Mourdcn ano George Anderson
 Passengers to Hoonah were MT and Mrs. Eli Hanlon, Wilber Lin doff, Ron Livingstone and MT. ano Mrs. w E Night; to Port Althorp Curtis Shattuck; to Excursion In let, Shirley Johnson and Mrs. c
 Martin.
 Inbound to Juneau from Ketchl- 1 kan was Sam Young, from Haines
 John w. Thompson; from Skag' way, Edna Lundstrom, J. L. Me [ Namara and Burr Johnson; iron Sitka, Glen Leach, MT. and Mrs Vern McGraw, J. w. Clayton, E L. Bartlett and R. L. Clifton. Flying to Juneau from Hoot Bay were Dolly George and Char ! les Swan; from Hoonah, Jame and Lilly Johnnie and Wnll
 James.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-26
FINDS DEAD BODY OF STEpFATHER
 HE'D NEVER MET

WINSLOW, Me, Sept. 26.-lR- Anthony Robinson discovered the battered body of his stepfather, whom he had never seen before, on highway near here.
 Robinson was unaware of the mans identity until he heard his -Rexford Thompson, 35, of Bingham, Canadian World War q veteran. Thompson married Rotinsons mother after Robinson had left home and the men had never met.
 Thompson apparently was struck by an automobile while riding motorcycle.