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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-28
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM GIVEN
 BRIEF OUTLINE
IS were officially announced

Plans were officially announced today for the program to be given here Friday for Memorial Day ob- servance.
 The program will start sharp at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the Capitol Theatre. Edward Keithahn will make the principal address following an assembly, singing of America" by the audience, read ing and voca. quartet number.
 At 10:30 o'clock, or following the indoor services, the parade will form with Color Guard, Firing Squad and Juneau City Band in lead. Club Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, VFW and American Legion units following in the order nam- ed.
 There vii be brief exercises at the Alaska dock then the parade vii go to Evergreen Cemetery for final observance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-28
HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
 V!0LATORS FINED

Joseph McNulty was fined $50 yesterday by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray on charges of driving an automobile while under the in- fluence of intoxicating liquor. Judge Gray also suspended his drivers li- cense for 30 days. McNulty was arrested Saturday by Deputy U. s. Marshal Syd Thompson who report ed that he was driving in an cratic manner near Duck Creek on the Glacier Highway.
 James Trueblood was fined $20 for speeding on the Douglas Highway. He was arrested Saturday by Terri torial Highway Patrolman John Monagle who charged him with driving his taxi at 55 miles per hour
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-28
ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING

Kenneth kbodelly was arrested yesterday by City Police for speed ing at the rate of 32 miles per hour on Willoughby Ave. He will face trial before City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-28
DIVORCE GRANTED

Earl J. Conkle has been granted a divorce from Dorothy O. Conkle by Federal Judge George w. Folta in U. s. District Court here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-05-28

When you pay for QUALITY why not get the FINEST-Buy FLOR SHEIM SHOES at Graves.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

the telephone engineers found that none of
the voracious varmints could chew through
the new tape wrapped cable, although prizes
were undoubtedly offered by leading gophers
and interested mole groups On l5-mile
section, however, the outer covering over
the tape was recently stripped at $500 diff
ferent places, ranging in length from a few
inches to several feet, thus exposing the
thin steel to rusting and further attack.
In the meantime. things have not been
idle in the bird department. One of the
early indications of threat from that
quarter came i'm Colorado through the
courtesy of feet of crows. Around 1890,
a pole line was completed across desolate
stretch between Denver and Lamar. And
in the first year of its existence, nesting
crows caused IS per cent of the trouble
on that section of line.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

This might not have been so bad, but a
shortage of natural nest material in the area
obliged the crows to fall back on scrap wire.
Unfortunately for the telephone company.
there was an abundance of this around -
broken, corroded fencing wire, odd bits of
hay-baling wire and other scraps.
A little of this hardware on bare telephone
lines makes lot of short circuits, and
trouble-shooters took about 900 pounds off
the lines each year in the early thirties.
BY terrorizing the crows in various ways
Evening star., 1947-03-16

The telephone has had some
strange saboteurs, including
crows, prairie dogs and bears
An AsPfIALT-coATED, jute-wapped, lead
IA covered transcontinental telephone
cable doesn't sound like very attractive
diet, but squirrels and gophers love it.
Their appetite for this peculiar nourish-
ment was discovered after puzzling epi-
demic of short circuits in telephone lines
in the Midwest. Linemen found that both
species - and prairie dogs - chewed right
through to the conductors inside the cable.
Or, at the very least, they opened holes
through which corrosive moisture would
eventually leak, obtaining the same results.
Alexander Graham Bell, who was born
Evening star., 1947-03-16

Crows. which are not
overly popular anywhere,
prefer to nest in high
places. There they are
protected from their nat
ural enemies and they
can see well in all direc-
tons. The Denver-La1nar
area was virtually barren
of suitable facilities until
the new pole line solved
the crows housing prob
lem. They moved right
in and enthusiastically
built nests on the tele-
phone-pole cross-arms.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

100 years ago this month,
probably never anticipat-
ed this kind of difficulty
when he assembled his l~k
first telephone, but his ,h
successors in the business RN
run into it continually. 49,
OoaSt D1xk wv
You may be irritated w 4
yourself at the phone peo- ~
pie sometimes. but don't -,
bark at them until you
hear what they have to 90
through.
Any reasonably good
hurricane, food or blizzard will, of cour
bust things up pretty well along telepho
lines. Whenever this kind of hell brea
loose, the company has emergency ere
ready and they're out there stringing W
as soon as anybody can get out there.
not fun but they're used to it.
It's the wild life, however, which caus
even better complications. The answer
the gopher problem turned out to be til
steel tape. After burying few test sectio
otcable for few test gophers to wrestle wi,
Evening star., 1947-12-19

delay than with the present socaed Through sleep
ing cars" Why should the train traveller be the only
one penalized? Why should the railroads give the
airlines strong and unnecessary advantage-in the
competition for coast-to-coast passengers?
Evening star., 1947-12-19
YugosIav Taxation Order
Threatens Private Shops
BY the Associated Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec. 49,
Hundreds of privately owned shops
throughout Yugoslavia were threat
ened with extinction today by a new
government order requiring them
to pay back taxes.
The order, a brief official notiflca-
ton which almost went unnoticed
on the inside pages of Yugoslav
newspapers, requires that income
taxes for 1945, 1916 and 1947 must
be paid in full before any additional
purchases of supplies will be per-
mitted. Merchants purchase their
supplies from government-operated
stores and warehouses.
A government spokesman ex-
planned that the order was not &C
tually aimed at closing private
shops. He described 1t as a legal
measure designed to enforce lag
ging income tax collections. The
spokesman added that Yugoslavs
can get everything they need from
government-owned shops and that
in most cases. private owners could
get Jobs In the state stores.
Evening star., 1947-12-19
To the New York Central:

To the New York Central:
Knowing your sincere interest in improving passen-
ger service, the C&O urges your immediate consider
alton of through coast-to-coast train.
It is badly needed It is perfectly practical There is
every evidence that it would pay.
Why should American businessmen have to lose
thousands of manhours every year Sitting it out in the
railroad yards at Chicago?
The coast-to-coast traveller is given what Is
called Through service" But that service is more
phrase than fact It is true that he longer has to
change cars but his trip still interrupted by several
hours of waiting around at Chicago He has the option
of killing the time in the city wasting it staring at
freight cars in switching yard.
The C&O, whose appeal to the public won the first
steps in through service two years ago. still believes
that through passengers not being ,OeU served.
Why shouldn't we have through train, by arrange
ment with western road, that would 60 through
Chicago with delay than other through trains
have at Kansas City, Washington or New York?
The airplanes go through Chicago without ayovers.
You can travel through Chicago by bus with less
Evening star., 1947-12-19
DR.. Wasse|I Resiqns,
Hits Church Hospital
BY the Associated Press

HONOLULU, Dec. 19.-Dr. Cor
dyon M. Wassell, famed medical
missionary, yesterday announced his
resignation as superintendent of
Shingle Memorial Hospital, operated
by the Episcopal Church on Molo-
kai Island.
DR.. Wassell said the hospital "is
being administered as a CONNER
cial, public institution and not as
a missionary hospital"
Hence" he added, eve do not
feel that we should give our serv-
ices without pay, and we do not
want pay"
DR.. Wassell is a retired rear ad-
miral who was decorated for hero
ism in the Java campaign. He en-
phasized that his statement was
made with the knowledge of the
Right Rev. Harry S. Kennedy, Epis-
copal Bishop OF the Honolulu mis-
sionary district, at whose request
ne came here October %.
DR.. Wassel and his wife, who
acted as superintendent Of nurses
at the 32-bed hospital, said they
would leave today on the Matsonia
for the mainland.
Evening star., 1947-12-19
|Romania Is StaIIinq
On Mihai' S Marriage,
King's 's'Unc|e Charge!
BY the As.oeioisd Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Dec. 19.
king Mihais uncle, Prince Nico-
las, says the Communist -bossed Ro-
manian government is "stalling for
mysterious reasons" in giving its
approval to the marriage of the
26-y year old Romanian monarch and
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
Il do not think they have any
thing against Princess Anne per-
sonally," he told reporters last
night. They probably would have
done the same thing with any girl
the King wanted to marry.
They are stalling for some mys-
terious reason =, probably be-
cause they do not want the royal
wedding in Romania at this time.
It would mean lot Of foreign visi-
tors in the country and they may
have good reason for wishing to
avoid that"
Prince Nicolas, who makes his
home permanently in Switzerland,
said Mihai fell in love with the
beauteous 24-year-old Anne "at first
sight" when he saw her in London
at the wedding of Princess Eliza
beth and Prince Philip.
He said the Romanian government
had not rejected the Kings request
for permission to marry the Princess,
who once worked in Fifth avenue
shop in, New York, but had given
only "evasive and indefinite re-
plies"
Princess Anne and her mother left
Lusanne yesterday for Luxembourg.
King Mihai drove them to the sta
ton and kissed the Princess an af-
fectionate au revoir.
The Kings private secretary said
Mihai would leave for Romania with
his mother to spend Christmas with
his people.
Evening star., 1947-12-19

Spanish War Veterans and Grace
Baptist Church.
Survivors are his widow. Mrs.
Emma J. Burton, a Treasury Depart
ment employe; two sons, J. Robert
Burton, 1888 w street Sc, an
employe Of the Naval Ordnance
Laboratory; 1st 1t. Edward K. Bur-
ton, Army Transportation Corps;
three brothers, John Austin Burton,
Evening star., 1947-12-19
Rites 10 Be Held Today
For Claude J. Burton

Funeral services for Claude Jack
son Burton, 76, retired Naval Gun
Factory machinist, we're to be held
at 2 pm. today at the Simmons
funeral home, 2007 Nichols avenue
Sc, with burial In Cedar Hill Gene
terry.
He died unexpectedly Wednesday
in his home, 1347 Maple View place
Sc.
Mr.. Burton was born near Bates
vile, Va. and was graduated from
Miller School in Albermarle County
in 1888. He was machinist in
Virginia until 1898, when he enlisted
Evening star., 1947-12-19

in the Navy. He was discharged in
1901 after serving In the Spanish
American War.
He came to work at the Washing
ton Navy Yard in 1908 and was
retired in 1888.
He was a. life member Of the
International Association Of Ma
chinists and member Of Local 174
for 80 years; also a member Of Ad-
miral George Dewey Camp Of the
Evening star., 1947-12-19

Hagerstown, Md; George Burton,
crozet, Va: Henning H. Burton,
2l3 Eighth street NE. and two
sisters, Mrs. Julia Dollins, Bates
Evening star., 1947-12-19

vile, and Mrs. Molly Burton Pugh,
Crozet.
A tendency 10 develop arthrids
may run In families.
Evening star., 1947-12-19
Is it Practical?

When the CSC first urged through service, other
railroads objected that there wouldn't be enough
demand to support it. There is so great demand
today that the through eepers at Chicago represent
the most profitable sleeping-cor business in the countW
These cars average more than $4,000 year from
sleeping car tickets alone. There is clearly enough
demand to Justify transcontinental train.
The traveller from New York to Los Angeles or
San Francisco today must leave hours earlier than hs
Evening star., 1947-12-19

A pord to the public:
It's unusual circumstance phen the largest ownsrs
Of business must present their ideas to the management
in the public press instead Of In Directors meeting.
But though the Geo Is mow the largest opner Of the
New York Cenral our officers may not SIT on its Board
Of Directors, nor may the GEO haze any voice in the
Centraps AFFAIRS until the wheels Of the Interstate Com
n,erce Commission grind out an approval.
1t appears moU that this 1uay take months to ,otn.
Meanwhile we making recommendations IN this
poy. What you scU find here is merely sample Of the
kind of thinking the GEO wouM like to, contribute to
the Cetral-im the interest Of the railroad and you the
trapeler.
Evening star., 1947-12-19
Why not Do it Now7

The CSC strongly urges this improvement. We
believe that the Central would initiate it, you would
roads servcng the coast-to-coast traveller Both the
Centras customer and it, stockholders would winl
Evening star., 1947-12-19

should And he must spend three to six hours mark
ing time in Chicago before his train for the Coast Is
ready to leave
The traveller from the Coast to New York Is even
worse of. By the fastest route from Los Angeles to
New York he must depart at noon, arrive In Chicago
at noon, and then hang around until Century time at
6oclock Certainly there is way for the Central and
western road to combine through train that
would avoid all this needless waste of time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Appropriation 10 Meet
House Bank Shortage
Studied by Senator'S

A House-approved appropriation
Of $83,879.22 to enable the House
Sergeant at Arms bank" to meet
claims still due as result of
$143,863 shortage discovered early
this year was studied yesterday by
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee.
The item, contained in the sup
Elemental appropriations bill passed
by the House last Friday. represents
the difference between the original
shortage and the amount obtained
to date from a bonding company
and other sources. the Sergeant at
Arms Office explained.
If the. money is provided, the
banking department of the Sergeant
at Arms Office will be able to pay
up all remaining allowances due
members of the 10th and prior Con-
crosses for compensation, mileage
and expenses.
Appropriations Committee experts
told reporters the money was voted
on the theory that 1t was cash the
Congressman had coming from the
Government and which they never
actually received, since it was never
drawn from the bank.
After the shortage in accounts of
former Sergeant at Arms Kenneth
Romney was brought to light last
January, the banking department
of the Office limited Withdrawals to
rs per cent Of amounts on deposit.
The limitation has since been mar
rowed to 97h per cent.
Most of the $83 1922 may be re-
covered eventually If the Govern
ment wins a pending suit to collect
from another bonding company,
which bonded several former en-
ployes during Romney's admins
tration Of the office. House spokes-
men said.
Romney was convicted in District
Court last May and sentenced to
prison for one to three years, on
charges of having concealed the
shortage in false reports to Govern
ment agencies. He appealed and is
free on $4,000 bond.
The shortage, uncovered by Gen.
eral Accounting Once auditors, &C.
CURED mainly between 1928 and
1898.
The banking department of the
House Sergeant at Arms Office is
for the use Of House members, some
300 of whom deposited salaries or
expense allowances during the 18th
Congress as a matter of convent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Badly D;opered
Leaders Blamed
For Worlds Ills

The trouble with the world today
might well be traced to the i'm
proper diapering Of its leaders when
they were babies.
This is the theory of william r.
Cause of Memphis, Tenn, and he's
doing his level best to see that to-
days infant pantie-makers keep
future world peace in mind. Poor
ly pinned diapers, he says, oftimes
cause emotional disturbances which
pop up years later and wreck all
kinds Of havoc.
Mr.. Cause, you see. is president
of the National Institute Of Diaper
Services.
To show the proper method of
pinning, the head diaper man will
conduct a demonstration at press
conference at the Hotel Statler at
$50 am. tomorrow in advance OF a
two-day' meeting of diaper service
men from all sections Of the coun-
try. He also will explain his theo-
ries about diapers and their effect
on the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Dr.. Luther Sheldon, jr., Named
Associate G. w. u. Physician

DR.. Sheldon was retired from the
Navy in August. 1916. He was at
that time district medical officer
for the 5th naval district, Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, in Norfolk
a post which he has held since De-
cember, 1914.
A native of Norfolk, DR.. Sheldon
attended Norfolk Academy and Ran
dolph- Macon Academy. He received
his bachelor of arts degree from
Hampden-Sydney College in 1908
and the M. D. degree from the Uni
versity of Michigan In 1909. In 1943
Hampden Sydney awarded him the
honorary degree of Doctor Of Laws.
He was appointed to the Navy as
assistant surgeon in 1911.
He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the American
College of Surgeons and of Phi Rho
Sigma, medicine professional fra
ternity for men. He is also a Mason
and a member of Omicron Delta
Kappa and Kappa Alpha fraterni-
tiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Air Force Day Shows
Planned August | at
Two Nearby Fields

Washington will be treated to
double barreled demonstration of
American airpower on August /,
the 10th anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Army Air Forces
as branch of the Signal Corps.
Air Force Day shows will be
staged for the public at Andrews
Field from 1890 am. to S pm.
and at Boiling Field from l to $50
pm. At 7:30 pm. a banquet spon-
sored by the Air Force Association
and Aero Club of Washington will
be held in the Statler Hotel.
Star of Andrews Fields show will
be the P-80 Shooting Star" fast
est plane in the world, assisted by
such international attractions as
nine B-29 "Superforts" home from
Japan and 16 British Lincoln"
bombers visiting this country with
the Royal Air Forces Squadron GIT.
Ground Display at Boiling.
At Boiling Field air show will be
supplemented by ground display OF
technical equipment, guided missiles
and planes including the C-54
"Globemaster," largest land trans
port, and the independence, "
Douglas C-118 which replaces the
DC-4 Sacred Cow" as President
Truman's private plane.
In it's Andrews Field appearance,
the Poo will take off its wraps for
the first time in the Washington
area and give spectators a close
range demonstration of its speed
and maneuverability. 1t will make
a comparison spectrum with a
World War II PAT ''Thunderbolt"
and escort B-29s and the visiting
British bombers, as well as making
numerous take-offs and landings.
Ground exhibits at Andrews Field
will include a fully equipped air
evacuation CAT and such planes as
the B-29, P-80, Raj Lincoln"
bomber and York" transport, PAT,
Psi, AIS, Bit, Gas and Ga.
Attendants will be on hand to ex-
plain various features of each plane.
A GETAWAY" model of the P-8O
turbo-jet engine, showing internal
parts actually moving, also will be
on display.
Early Engines on Display.
Early airplane engines. propellors
and other equipment from the
Smithsonian Institute will be on
hand at Boiling Field for COMPARE
son with latest AAF types. Other
planes on display there will include
a Fairchild C-S2 Flying Boxcar,"
several Jet planes and helicopter.
A complete air photo laboratory
also will be open to inspection, while
condemned aircraft will be
sprayed with gas and set aflre so
that firef1ghters can demonstrate
their equipment and skill.
Col. Robers L. Scott, jr., Army
pilot and author of God Is My Co.
Pilot" will explain maneuverings
during the show at Boiling Field.
The Army Air Forces Fand will
play. A typical parachute rescue
team will fly over disabled" plane.
bail out, survey the condition OF
the pilot and signal for first-aid
equipment to be dropped. After
first-aid treatment is given, hell
copter will land to pick up the in
jured man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Coal Exports in Year
Reach Record Of
@,837,0O0 Long Ton!
By the A.soeiatsd Press

The United States exported rec
ord breaking 29,837, 900 long tons of
coal during the IL months ended
June 80. the Government reported
today.
Such high shipments must con-
tinue, it added, if world RECONSTRUCT
ton is to 60 forward.
Household and industrial users in
this country, meanwhile, were urged
to stock up next winters supplies
early, both for transportation and
production reasons.
IF this is DONE" Capt. Granville
Conway, co-ordinator of emergency
export programs, said, there should
be adequate coal supplies for all
American consumers next winter
with no conflict with the export pro-
gram"
Released by Steelman.
Mr.. Conway's report was made
public by John r. Steelman, assist
ant to President Truman.
In a separate statement, DR..
Steelman said the report showed
that while essential requirements
for some European countries were
not fully met in the last fiscal year,
American coal exports were of
vital assistance to world RECONSTRUCT
ton"
At the same time, he said the re-
port indicates the need of continu-
ing exports at high level this year.
He declared the shortage of coal,
perhaps more than any other single
factor, has slowed down world re-
covery.-
Exports Gratifying"
ut is gratifying. therefore," he
said, that the United States = y
was able to ship abroad-and to
places where it was most gravely
needed-record-b breaking amounts of
coal, and to do this in spite of pro-
duction and shipping difficulties
without denying the needs of Amer
lean consumers and industry"
France, with 1885, 900 tons, re-
ceiyed more American coal last year
than any other nation. italy was
next with 5,965 900 tons. Others re-
ceiving more than 100000 tons
were Belgium, 2,5a2, 900; the Neither
lands, 1884 900; Denmark, 1856, 900;
Sweden, l, 469, 900; Norway, 1,043, 900,
and Brazil, 1909, 900.
The export figure excludes rail and
lake shipments to Canada and rail
shipments to Mexico which are nor
mally considered United States do
nestle coal markets.
Barbados, British West Indies,
has announced its biggest sugar