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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ALASKA
 presents Scrambled
 Eggs

If a SatiriSt were to cast apout TOT a subject he could use to illustrate the fuddled bunglings of bureau- cracy, he'd never find better one than the current egg situation. l Here we have the government ex- horting us to observes one egg less day week.
 At the same time, we find that this very same government has on it's hands more eggs than it knows what to do with.
 The government itself actually owns a total of 29 million pounds of dried eggs and more than 61 million pounds of frozen eggs.
 These eggs were purchased by the government fer the express purpose of keeping egg prices up.
 The money used to buy these eggs, which came originally, of course, from the American taxpayer, was spent for the purpose under law which was designed to protect egg producers against the harsh eco homie effect, on them, of a big egg surplus.
 Now Americans are asked to go without so we can feed Europe, but the bureaucrats who are busy ad- ding the egg muddle say they can't send this egg surplus to Europe be- cause it would cost too much.
 This is no fantasy, parody, or Caricature.
 It is a dismal and lamentable reality and it is happening right now
 If the government sends it's sur plus eggs, which it owns to Europe, it will have to pay for them all over again.
 The price it will have to pay will be more than the current market price of eggs.
 The government has to pay par ity" prices for eggs when it buys them. and this parity" level from time to time is somewhat above the regular market price.
 (Indeed, the main purpose of gov ernment egg purchases is to jack up the price when it dips too far below the parity levelD
 The bureaucrats have so rigged the government egg handling that, in their way of doing things, these surplus eggs can't be sent to Europe without, so to speak. robbing the American taxpayer to pay Peter to pay Paul.
 We are egged on to go eggless, because of scarcity, while at the same time we have a surplus.
 Which came first, the scarcity or the surplus? The moral of this paraphase of the classic chicken and-egg riddle is obvious:
 Whenever bureaucratic govern ment sticks it's thumbs into the normal workings of the economic machinery of supply and demand it unfailinglv, to use the parlance of the show business, Hays an egg Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
FORMER SKAGWAY TEACHER
 Is MARRIED AZ ANCHORAGE

Inez M. Mauder oI Goshen, Ind, and George M Parkko of Anchor age, were recently married in the Cook Inlet metropolis. The bride is a former teacher in Anchorage, recently with the Alaska Railroad, and Parkko, electrician with a pri- vate firm at Anchorage, is a former teacher at SkagWay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE
Without Calomel And You'll Jump Out of
 Red in inc Morning Karin to Go

The liver should pour out about pints of bile juice into your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food may ,, not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Then gas bloats up your stomach. You get con, stipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk.
 It takes those mild, gentle Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these pints of bile How, ing freely to make you feel ''up and up, Get package today. Take as directed. Effective in making bile flow freely. ASK for Carter's Little Liver Pills.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
WANTED! MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE
 HARD OF HEARING

To make this simple, no risk hearing test with Ourine drops used with simple syringe
 If you are deafened bothered by ringing
 buzzing head noises due to hardened or coagulated wax tcerumen), try the Ourine Home Method test that SO many say has enabled them to hear well again. You must hear better after making this simple test or you get your money back at once. Ask about Ourine Ear Drops today at Butler, Mauro Drug Co. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
WElLMAN H0LBR00kS TO TOUR CANADA AND Il, S.

MT. and Mrs Wellman Holbrook left on the Princess Louise for Prince Rupert. From there they will drive to Banff, Jasper Nation al Park and then into eastern Canada. After touring Canada, they will visit with Mrs Hol- brooks family in Minnesota and then drive as far south as Florida and across to California via the southern route. They will spend the remainder of the winter in California, returning in April to their home at Point Louisa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

Most political writers agree Re- publican will be elected President in 1948. With the Territory of Alaska s sad plight, it's mining ruined and at a standstill due to Democratic policies; the depletion of Alaska Fishing due to incompetent rules and regulations by the Democratic Administration, the only relief is to be on the 1948 Republican swing to insure Alaska a remedy. There is no other remedy available for our ills so get Republican NOW. HE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL
 COMMITTEE OF ALASKA.
 (Paid adv.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
WANT ADS
MURPHY & MURPHY

TRANSFER Business, including garage, trucks, etc; nice oil in
 come. Priced right. SEVERAL good homes on Glacier
 Highway; Peterson and Tuttorm-
 son, 1o1s mi; Bednar, Aukc
 Bay, etc.
 DECKER Bldg, apts. and commer-
 cial rents.
 3-BEDROOM home, large base ment, garage, baths, cleo. kit chen. furn., etc. DUPLEX, nice location, fully fur
 nished, oil heat, priced to sell ALBATROSS, 30 1t. -cng, fully
 equipped for fishing, $3,75O. PARTIALLY completed rooms
 and bath, Douglas, SACRIFICE
 for immediate sale. ' ROOM house, Douglas furnished. ONE ' tube Console Radio, one
 table model radio priced for
 immediate sale.
 48 BASE Accordian, practically new, $75.
 BEAUTIFUL SUMMER cabin, Point
 Louisa, fully furnished, large
 sleeping quarters, unsurpassed view. Priced for immediate sale. COMPLETE modern home, 18th
 St. with rental addition Can be seen by appointment. only. BEDROOM house, Star Hill. MURPHY & MURPHY
 REALTORs-ACCoUNTANTS Phone 676 over r1rst Nat,uEel H.,ns
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
FROM SEATTLE

Ernest A. Smith, MT. and Mrs. J w Meyer, and Earl Doebke of Se- attle are registered at the Baranof
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
AT HOTEL JUNEAU

Hubert V. Niemi of Wolf Creek, Oregon, is registered at the Hotel Juneau He arrived here via PAA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
LOST AND FOUND

FOUND-Fur lined glove. Owner may have same by paying for this
 adv. (d.h)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

Mattresses ana rS-1tain Girls wanted at Percy's Cafe. 665 If
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

Sell it with an Empire wantad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

APT. HOUSE, ten apts. Phone 428
 618-tt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
FOR SALE

FOR SALE - New three bedroom house complete with garage, full concrete basement, oil furnace, electric range, electric hot water heater, hardwood floors. Located
 on Behrends Avenue, the High lands" Phone TOT or 641. 707-t5
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

FOR SALE-Three houses and lot, houses in good condition and best location. Inquire Trevor Davis
 Box 576. Juneau. 472-tf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
FOR RENT

CLEAN steamheated rooms, clean
 beds. 315 Gold St. 656-tf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15
HISTORIC
 0UTBURST
 AT NEE !

(Conttnued rom Pane one
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

? OFFICES for rent in Simpson
 Bldg. 624-tf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-15

ROOM-kitchen privileges = Home Hotel. Phone 886.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16

and veterans. This is the type of folly that
America absolutely cannot afford. Our daily
press and our political speeches are full these
days of militaristic warnings and rumblings.
If our foreign policy should ever lead to war,
we are going to have to rely in great part on
the same veterans and war workers to fight
it as fought the last one. The war de-
partment maintains an enlisted reserve for
veterans. There is no formal enlisted reserve
of war workers, but their stategic value to
any future war effort would be proportion
ately the same as seasoned veterans to the
building of a new army. Let us not be fool
hardy enough to miss this opportunity of
creating stable rooted citizens out of veter-
ans. and war workers.
A bill introduced Thursday in the banking
committee does provide for government
guaranteed loans, long term credits, and a
system of priorities. Certain provisions of this
bill we shall discuss in detail next week. We
suggest to all veterans and war workers who
want Congress to provide liberal credit terms
rather than require full cash payments in
disposal of FPHA housing, that they write
their views to Rep. Bill Colmer and to Sena-
tor Jim Eastland.
Representative Colmer went to bat very
vigorously in recent weeks to help kill the
FPHA rent raises and in the same manner
can help assure a sound and liberal program
in the disposal of the FPHA units here.
We should like to see the community make
the same hard-hitting concerted drive in
this matter, seeking to achieve a just method
of disposal and liberal credit, as it made in
the successful drive to block the rent raise,
when veterans organizations, labor groups,
the Chamber of Commerce, women's clubs
and most civic organizations joined in ex-
pressing opposition to the raise.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
n HOUSING UNITS

The proposals which rave been made with
in the House banking committee which would
require "cash-on-the-barrelhead' payments
by purchasers of FPHA housing units seem
short-sighted in the extreme and we trust
that no such folly will be finally adopted by
gest cut-throat speculation scrambles and
wholesale evictions of tenants that this
country has ever seen. The vast majority of
the occupants of these housing projects are
war workers and veterans who have been
moving in under their priorities since being
discharged. Neither group has the money to
finance cash purchases of their housing units.
This type of housing is not a sound real estate
risk and credit would be hard to get. AS a
result, literally thousands of these houses
would be bid in by big spectators. The men
who built ships and made munitions for six
or seven years and the veterans who gave
years of their lives in service could then be
evicted, or scalped for rent when rent con-
trolls come off.
Housing is still the most desperate shortage
in the country and these permanent wartime
housing units should be held Internationally
from such speculation. Purchase of these
houses must be made available by small
down-payments and ~long-term credits guar
anteed by the government. A sound, fair, and
sensible policy of priorities must be estab-
lished governing who is to be allowed to buy
these units. The first and fundamental prin-
ciple governing the governments disposal of
these houses must be to provide conditions
making sound and productive citizenship pos
sible for the occupants thereof.
To turn these houses over to speculation
would be to create overnight a justifiably
d~isgruntled group out of former war workers
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
Lend Debt Talks
Open Way For Old Score

ed, rather than helped the war
effort.
During lengthy periods Of
fices were dispersed, disrupt
ed and disturbed generally be-
cause of the complications
caused by moving.
Since the war moving acti-
vities have ceased less than
most other government activi-
ties.
The present State depart
ment move is cited as a case
in point.
Offices were moved out of
the historic old department to
the new building, a half a
mile away, which soon will be
completed by Secretary of
State Marshall and his top adj
visers.
Many people already in the
new offices, meanwhile, will
move back to their old ones
when Marshall is shifted.
Generalissimo Francisco
Frances announced intention of
setting up a monarchy in
Spain left the United States
cold. The State department
says the move will not change
the already-distant relations be-
tween the Madrid dictator
ship and Washington.
1t was pointed out that there
has been no real indication that
Franco plans to surrender any
of the major powers which
have put him and kept him
safely as the dominent figure
in Spain.
Look for a COP drive on
Capitol Hill to probe the Fed
eral Communications commits
sion. y
Both Senate and House COP
leaders are agreed on demands
for an investigation.
Rep. John Wolverton (E),
New Jersey, has asked for an
inquiry and Senate Majority
Leader Wallace White, of
Maine, COP communications
expert, is amenable.
The probe would be under
taken to determine whether
FEC policies are up-to-date,
whether there is discrimina-
ton against radio stations and
whether leftists WELD influ-
ence in the commission.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16

cred in the halls of Congress,
there is considerable difference
of opinion on the matter and
the measure is almost certain
to be holly debated.
Farming Big Business
American farmers have the
largest private business in the
world. Their land, buildings,
machinery, equipment, live
stock and crops on hand were
worth over $90-billion last year.
This, of course. is not just
one big business. 1t c9mes
from more than five million
independent farming establish
ments. each producing on an
average between $4,000 to
$4,000 worth of products a year.
If a farmer contracts a debt
expecting to pay it with 40c
cotton, and cotton goes down
to Zoe a pound, the debt of
the farmer is, in effect, doubl-
ed. Therefore, it is very de-
sirable that the farmer get
out of debt on high prices, and
a Surprisingly large number
of them are doing just that.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
Food Prices

While the Federal Govern
ment has guaranteed to hold
prices of farm products at 80
percent of parity" Ga price
that yields the producer a pur-
chasing power equivalent to
that of the 1909-l914 base pc
riod), the food prices which
have been giving American
housewives, and others, con-
siderable concern during recent
years r in most cases prices
fixed by the law of supply
and demand. 1t so happens that
at this time practically the
only food commodities which
are being Government-sup-
ported T potatoes and tur-
keys. Wheat and corn are be-
ing purchased by the Govern
ment for relief abroad but not
for the purpose of price sup
port.
At the present time food
prices in general are higher
than the level at which the
Government must step in. AS
a matter of fact a 26 percent
cut would have TO occur in the
average prices paid to farm
ers before this wartime guar
antee would have to be full
filled. The fact that housewife
es have refused in some in
stances to pay exorbitant
prices for certain food commod-
tiles is a very wholesome sign
and if such buyer resistance
continues it is reasonable to
assume that, barring any ma
jor setbacks in farm produc-
ton, prices will continue to
ease off.
In this connection it is inter
esting to observe from the fol-
lowing figures how far food
prices on the basic commodities
can fall before Uncle Sam
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
You're Telling Mel
BY WILLIAM I T
Central Press Writer

The police of London, On
tario, Canada, are reported
mystified by a girl stranger
who refuses to talk. Zadok
Dumkopf wonders if she NAV
be a refugee from a. phone
strike picket line.
The jumping mouse, accord
ing to Photographs, can Jump
10 feet. This is adequate-un-
til someone discovers an IL
foot cat.
Denmark's new king, Fred
erik TX, is 6 feet 6 inches tall.
Among the Danes there is no.
mistaking as to who is the big
shot.
China is to take a census of
its population, the first since
1772. Sounds like a steady lob
for someone-counting a half
billion Chinese noses.
III
Ii the suggestion to combine
police and fire departments is
adopted a problem will arise:
should a cop en- route to put
out a fire stop long enough to
issue parking tickets?
Ill!
And think how tough il
would be for some eoppers-
learning to scale speedily up
a ladder on two flat feet
april showers bring Nav
flowers = plus dandelions,
erabgrass, plantain, chiekweed,
ragweed and according to
Webster's Unabridged : some
600 other weeds.
And his ideas on balancing
the budget reveal the same
kind of economies that give you
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16

II Is said that no single book
had more influence on the
minds Of ladies and gentle
men in the South during the
10th century than the novel
.."Ivanhoe," by Walter Scott.
All of Walter Scots many
novels of knighthood were
widely popular during this pc
Rod. but his story of Ivan
hoe was the masterpiece, and
almoet everybody, who read
books at all got around to
reading "Ivanhoe."
II was the story of England
under the troubled reign of
King John, during the age of
the Crusades. It's pages were
filled with tournaments and
battles, and knights and lad
les fair and the characters OF
Robin Hood-roving Sherwood
forest with his band of arch
ers, stealing from the rich and
aiding the poor-was brought
to full development, and Rob-
in Hood almost stole the
story" from the main charac-
ter for whom the book was
named, Icanhoe.
Many historians claim that
Ivanhoe and the other Scott
novels were largely responsible
for the idea of "chivalry" in
the South. and for that mat
ter in the whole country dur
ing the latter part of the past
century. The word "ehivalry"
today means a code of color
full and courteous department.
carrying with it something of
the suggestion of exaggeration.
In the old days chivalry meant
"knighthood," and the word
came from the French word
for horse. "cheval" Knights
rode on horses, and did bat
tie on horseback with lances;
SO the French word for horse
has, in this connection, UNI
dergone many changes with
the passing years and today
"~chivalry" means simply very
gallant" and perhaps exag-
gerated conduct. "Chivalry" is
not the same word as honor"
A person can be honorable in
a quiet, retiring way. But
when a person is chivalrous, he
does it with a bit of show.
That at least is the modern
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
BY NOLLE T. ROBERTS

On Three-Notch Road, just
over the Mississippi-Alabama
line, lies Copeland Island the
headquarters of the infamous
Copeland Brothers who robbed,
murdered and plnudered in the
northern part OF this county
three-quarters Of a century or
so ago.
The Three-Notch Road ran
from New Orleans to Pensa-
cola, via Howison, Vancleave,
and Forts Lake, thus bypass
ing Pascagoula and the then
believed unbridgable marsh
lands now spanned by the fill
and series of bridges west of
Pascagoula on u. S. Highway
80.
The road was simply nam
ed, as most things were in that
day, because il was merely a
wagon trail with trees barring
three ax-hewn notches mark
ing its winding course, which
the wagon or horseback trav-
elers of that day substituted
for the accompanying, curve
marked sign-plasters thorofar-
es of this faster age.
$50
Copeland Island, too, was
simply named, although it is
not an island at all but only
a portion of Miller Creek
swamp and a few acres of high
land, bounded by Miller Creek,
Big Creek, and Simpsons
Ford.
It was an island in that it
was an isolated spot, safely ac-
cessable only to identified
friends of the Copeland Broth
ers, and a definite danger spot
for all ordinary passers-by-par-
ticularly those known to posses
large amounts of money or
who were driving stock to the
markets at Mobile.
AS the prize desperadoes pro-
duced in this section and the
burners of the first Jackson
County courthouse at Ameri-
Gus, legend has tended TO gla-
mourize the Copelands more
or less in the Jesse James man.
ner. 1t seems more likely, how
ever, that they were the stock
thieves and hoodlums that they
appear to the less romantic
eye.
Our horse trading ancestor,
whom we mentioned in a coll
umn a couple of weeks ago,
was on friendly terms with the
Copelands to the extent of
swapping horses with them
occasionally.
He said that it was perfect
ly safe to go to their hideout
providing that you took two
precautions: Be on friendly
terms with them in the first
place, and let your identity be
known before you came in shot
gun range.
He said that one brother al
ways came to meet you while
you were still some distance
from the house and that the
other would invariably be hid
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16

den inside the house with the
business end of a gun barrel
aimed halfway between your
waistline and eyebrows.
Once they were dead certain
that you had not decided to
cash in on the price on their
heads, they were right friend
ly fellows, he said, willing to
swap horses, serve you a meal,
or extend any of the other cour-
tesies common to that day.
No visitor was left alive to
explain just how an unlimited
and unfriendly guest was dealt
with.
We visited Copeland Island
last Friday in the company of
Uncle Jim Poole, who was born
and raised at Bayou Casotte
and who now lives near State
line on the Mississippi side.
Uncle Jim is sixty-eight
years old and not in as big a
hurry as most of we younger
folks, so he had time to ride
with us to Copeland Island and
show us the approximate spot
where the Copeland place stood
and where old man Copeland
is buried.
One of the brothers was
shot and the other hung, as
we understand it, and no tomb
stone marks their grave. This
may not be a fact and we would
like to hear from anyone who
knows where either is buried.
At any rate, some of their
ill-gotten gold is supposed to
be buried in the neighborhood
of their hideout and Uncle
Jim, Emp Trehern of Bayou
Casotte, and numerous other
folks made extended searches
for it thirty or forty years ago.
They didn't find anything.
but Uncle Jim believes it is
there yet.
Now if any of you get the
idea of looking for that bur-
led gold now, we might warn
you that the land is privately
owned and that the owners
might not approve of. search
ing parties.
1t would be a hopeless bust
anyway, since the island"
contains several hundred acres
and no one could guess where
the brothers might have de-
eided to bury their hoard.
Driving along the road, you
can see where the land breaks
sharply, dropping as much as
seventy-five feet at some
points, almost vertically. 1t
looks as if it might well have
been a perfect hiding place
with big trees and thick IN
dergrowth making it almost
inaccessible.
Somewhere on the island,
beneath leaf mold accumula-
ton of many a year, may lie
a treasure chest of blood
bought gold but it is our guess
that if it exists-it will lie
undisturbed till the Judgment
Day.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-05-16
Hrnrlatttattntt

WHEREAS. May 23rd and oath have been set aside by the
American Legion Auxiliary for our annual observance of Poppy
Day, and
WHEREAS the paper peoples are repicas of the wild flowers
which grow on the batlefelds of France and Belgium and have
come to symbolic memory for those who died in any part of the
world in the service of their country, and
WHEREAS, it is believed fitting that the people of this and
all other cities in the United States should take this opportunity
to honor the war dead and aid the living victims of the two con-
ficts by the purchase of these symbols of the supreme sacrifice.
THEREFORE, ], JOHN R. WATTS, Mayor of the City of Pas
cagoula, do herewith proclaim May %, and "a, 1947, as official
POPPY DAYS IL the City of Pascagoua and do call on all oiti-
Zens to observe j as such.
WITNESS my hand and the Seal of the City of Pascagoula
this 10th day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.
JOHN r. WATTS
SEAL) City of Pascagoula