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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
ANGELS, SEALS TIED FOR TOP
CBy The Associated Press)

The Los Angeles Angels supplant the San Francisco Seals as Pacific Coast League leaders today by a flyspeck margin.
 Actually the teams are tied on percentage, at 500 each, but Los Angeles has half game edge by virtue of having played five more games than the Seals.
 Los Angeles moved up front by trimming San Diego, 5-2 last night, while San Francisco split doubleheader with Sacramento. The scores were the same but reversed, in the two Seais-Solons contests. Sacramento won the seven-inning first game, 6-2, on a l3-hit attack as pitcher Rex Cecil limited the Seals to six hits.
 In the regulation length second game San Francisco won, 6-2.
 Oakland moved into third place in the standings by beating Port land, 7-2.
 Hollywood and Seattle tied for the cellar, set out to play a double header hut the first game, supposed to be a seven inning affair, last ed F before Seattle won, 4-3. They started the second game but had to fquit in 1-1 tie after the fourth inning because of the PCL time limit.
 Scores of games in the two ma jor leagues yesterday were as follows:
 National League
 St. Louis 1 Chicago 0.
 Philadelphia 10; Brooklyn 2.
 Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 3.
 New York 3; Boston l.
 American League
 Cleveland 8; Detroit 3.
 Washington 5; Philadelphia 3 tten innings).
 Boston 4; New York 0.
 (Only games scheduled)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
OSCAR BENE(KES RETURN
 AFTER TRIP IN STATES

Mir and Mrs. Oscar Benecke and family returned to Juneau aboard the Princess Louise after six weeks vacation and automobile trip in the states. Mrs. Benecke's mother, Mrs. Emma Rudolph of Downey, Calif., returned to Juneau with them and expects to visit here for month.
 The Beneckes picked up'a new au- tomobile in Seattle in March and drove to Minneapolis where they spent ten days with MT. Benecke's parents. They then, motored to Downey, Calif., for long awaited family reunion occasioned by the 10th wedding anniversary of Mrs. Benecke's parents. While in the Los Angeles area they visited the John G. Youngs, former residents of Ju- neau. and celebrated theirs and the Youngs wedding anniversaries.
 A trip to the Grand Canyon was also in order while in the states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
FIGHT DOPE

One knockout and two outpoint- ed events took place in the fistic game last night as follows:
 At Hollywood, Calf, Mario Trigo. l30, Monterrey, Mexico, out pointed Lauro Salas, 127, Monter- rey, in 10 rounds.
 At Philadelphia, Elton Evans, I'll, Philadelphia, knocked out Jimmy Richards, ITS, Philadelphia, in the fifth round.
 At Minneapolis, Harold Guss, at 1811s, St. Louis, outpointed Jackie Thompson, 19l, Detroit, in an eight round go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
BOUNCE GLOVES
 WORN BY BOXERS

HOLLYWOOD, April 24.-R- The fighters wore eight ounce gloves when Mario Trigo, l30ls won the unanimous decision from Lauro Salas, 127, at Legion Sta- dium last night. Both are from Monterrey, Mexico.
 The State Athletic Commission ordered use of the pillows as a safety measure intended to re- duce the possibility of serious head injuries. Heretofore boxers have worn five-ounce gloves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
TO THE VOTERS

When you ask for a ballot to vote on the 27th, you will have to register as Democrat, a Republi- can or a member of no Political Party before you can vote. Polls open 8 am. to pm. 867 St
 Alaska Tax Payers League.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
MR., MRS. HAYES HAVE
 BABY BOY AT ST. ANN'S

A hapy boy was born to MT. and Mrs. Howard Hayes of Tread well yesterday morning at l0:45 o'clock in St. Ann's Hospital. The new arrival weighed six pounds and four ounces and joins two brothers and one sister.
 Hayes is co-owner of the Hayes Whitely Logging Co. The grand parents are Mrs. Lottie Long of this city and MT. and Mrs. John Wesley Hayes of Eria, Pa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24

One out of every IA persons in the United States is 65 years of age or older.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
SIX ELDERS FROM
 LATTER DAY SAINT
 COMING TO ALASkA

James S. Mcclellan, Branch President of the Latter Day Saints Church for the Juneau-Douglas area has received word from Mission Headcuarters at Portland. Oregon, that six missionaries will arrive here May 14 for active duty in the AL aska District.
 Elders Douglas Smith and Ernest Shimmray have teen assigned to la Dor in the Juneau Branch and the ether four will continue to Fair banks and Anchorage to take up missionary labors there.
 Mcclellan stated that the mission aries labor without remuneration from the church and. pay their own mission expenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24

Lake Geneva is an expansion of the Rhone River
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24

Knowing that worms come to the surface when it rains, the kiwi bird of New Zealand stamps on the ground to initiate the sound of rain and decoys a meal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24

am not supported or financed by any group nor is my name on any sample ball. Iof. have no obligations 10 fulfill other than obIigafing myself as a Pioneer Alas kan to do all in my power 10 see that prop CT legislation is passed that will better our great country and give our children inc same chance that we had providing they realize these opportunities and work as we have and sometime fake hardship with smile.
 do not believe in a sales fax, but ] realize that millions of dollars are going untaxed or if taxed if is very small com pared to what they are taking out of Alaska and a more fair system of taxa lion can be set up making those who can afford if to pay their just part.
 Alaska was and sill is a land of plenty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24
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l. $ T E N
 MONDAY, APRIL 26, ' D. m. Program, Speaker, Albert White, KINY. Alaska Tax Payers League.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-04-24

but if is gradually being stripped of its natural resources and in inc near future there will be Iitt|e. 10 fax but # proper legislation is put in effect our natural resources will support a larger populd- lion and make a GREAT NORTHERN EN- FIRE for the future population and l am sure we all want to see ihis happen.
 served one year in the Legislature and this taught me great lesson in legis- lafive procedure.
 now operate two successful Drug Stores, one in Ketehikdn and one in Ju nedu, but ] have also worked hard in Logging Camps and fishing and know what hard work means and will! do all in my power 10 better conditions for the working man and also for inc small busi- ness man and we are all small in Alaska
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

government offices in Nanking were
preparing to scatter-to the old war
time capital of Chungking in the west,
Canton to the south, and to FOrmosa.
Equally dramatic was the fight to
Washington by Madame Chang, wife
of the generalissimo. She came to
plead for all-out American arms and
aid to back the fight against the Com
munists.
Here is a diplomatic battle. But out
right defeat for Madame Chang may
go down in history as a more crush
ing blow to the Nationalist cause than
any defeat at Marking by the Com
munists.
Madame Chang is a global per-
sonality about whom there is much
disagreement. She is past so, but like
most we'll born Chinese women, she
does not look her age. She is Welles-
ley-educated, an excellent speaker
and more at home using English than
Chinese.
Her partisans say she is a powerful
force for international friendship and
understanding. Her detractors call her
an international glamOr girl"
Both agree she is a person of
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
YugosIavia
Tifo's New Line


What's behind the current wave of
self-criticism of Yugoslavia's top po-
litical leaders?
Foreign observers believe it does
not mean any bow to the COminform,
which recently attacked Premier Mar
shall Tito and MS aides for deviating
from the party line
1t should be recalled, however, that
one of the COminform charges was
that Tito's leadership did not adhere
strongly enough to the Marx-Lenin
policy of self-criticism, that it did not
admit its shortcomings.
A supreme shortcoming in the eyes
of Moscow was that Tito has failed to
sovietize the peasants.
Two weeks ago, addressing the
CrOatian Communist Party, Tito said:
''The people must be convinced that
this Communist regime) is the best
authority and you (the Communists
must prove this to the people by your
deeds and actions. You must go to the
masses and you must teach yourselves
and others"
Then Tito added: you can't order
peasants around. You must explain to
them fully and carefully"
Last week Yugoslavia's Vice Pre-
mier Eduard Kardelj admitted that
not all of the much publicized "volun-
tary" work of YugOslavs in rebuild
ing their country had been truly
voluntary.
In trying to assess the new wave oi
frankness and self-criticism, political
observers agree it might be an indi.
cation of Tito's confidence in the
strength Of his regime.
The marshal's current campaign:
seek to govern the people along line!
of newly-defned popular Communism
and independent Socialism.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Weather: Spell 1t Whether

its project. It said: Experiments
proved the seeding of clouds has not
caused rain in amounts sufficient to
be of economic significance"
But Vincent Schaefer, the GE scien-
tist who pioneered dry-ice rainmak-
ing, did not give up so easy. He said:
Il am at loss to understand how
it is possible at this time to say there
is little economic Importance attached
to cloud modification.
In contradiction to the Air Force
viewpoint, Schaefer said Every i'm
portant developments" in rainmaking
techniques will be disclosed January
Is at joint meeting of the American
Meteorological Society and the InSti-
tute of AerOnautical Sciences in New
York.
Laboratory studies and fight ex-
periments of Project Cirrus, said
Schaefer, were primarily concerned
with physical processes which occur
in cloud systems Accordingly there
was no active concern with economic
aspects Of cloud seeding.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
SideIiehts

o The British Colonial Office says
that 8 per cent of the British people
think the United States still is one Of
the colonies.
O In Berlin, new telephone direc-
tories are scarce. They can be had in
the black market for about $50. To
get one through official channels, a
subscriber has to turn in Is pounds Of
old paper-a difficult task for the
average German citizen.
Q A Boston juvenile court judges
prescription for roWdyism at football
games: Put offenders in diapers, make
them drink from IMPLIED bottles and
play in a baby-pen for "a hours. No
one, he says, subjected to this "cure"
ever comes back to his court.
@ In Nantes, France, Jean Pipart, ale
a pacifist, was outraged at Christmas
store window displays Of lead soldiers.
He attacked the toy armies with paw
ing stones. Police put him in jail for
breaking and entering. ....
O In London, a manufacturer Of
canes for sChoOlmasters to use on
students was given a dose Of his own
medicine. While addressing Horsley
Hall, a private school, on retention Of
corporal punishment, he was seized
and caned on the platform by seven
husky students.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
No EosYWoY

Two years ago a General Electric
Co. scientist dropped some dry ice on
a cloud and made it rain.
Immediately, enthusiasts believed
man had the power to make it rain at
will. They enVisiOned the desert trans
formed into fertile farms, hurricanes
diSsipated harmlessly at sea and fog
bound ports cleared for plane and
ship traffic. Military strategists saw in
it weapon to bog down enemy trans
port in a sea of mud.
Particularly in the parched west,
ranchers sent up planes to sprinkle
every cloud with dry ice. Sometimes
it rained, more often not.
Last March, the Air Force started a
research project on artificial rainmak-
ing. One squadron of All~Weather
planes went hunting hurricanes in the
Caribbean Other experiments were
conducted with Weather Bureau ex-
pertS in the midwest.
Now the Air Force has abandoned
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

boundless charm and graciousness.
But her critics say she turns on the
charm when she wants to and can
turn it off just as quickly.
One old Chinese friend in Shanghai
told an AP reporter her present trip
was China's final move of despera-
ton, the playing of the last trump
card-therefore, not too dignifed."
Official Goodness
Madame Chang faces heavy odds in
Washington. AS the wife of China's
president, she is being accorded
every courtesy. But it is apparent that
official, Washington looks with cool
ness upon her mission.
In providing her with a naval plane
for the trip from China, the State De-
partment stressed it had been made
available "at her request" Sen. Tom
COnnally (D-Tex), who is to head the
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

influential Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in the new Congress, said
the joint watchdog" committee on
foreign aid might hear Madame
Chang privately but not as an Of
fetal representative of the Chinese
government.
On one hand, American officials
wish to avoid any word or action that
would embafrass Chiang's govern
ment in a critical hour. Very ap-
parently, they hope some formula
may be found by which limited aid
can help prevent a Communist con-
quest of all China.
On the other hand, Administration
leaders apparently have lost conf
dence in Chang Washington's view is
said basically to be that Chiang's mill
tary defeats stem not from lack of
American equipment or American. ad-
vice, but from his own failure to lib
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Bowls

Michigan and Notre Dame rank
one, two in The AP national
football poll. Neither is sched-
uled to play in any of the post
season bowl games, once touted
as emblematic of the national
championship.
Here is the lineup of four of
the major BOWL games on New
Years Day:
ROSE BOWL, Pasadena-Cali-
fornia VS.. Northwestern.
SUGAR BOWL, New Orleans
North Carolina VS.. Oklahoma.
COTTON BOWL, Dallas
Southern Methodist VS.. Oregon.
ORANGE BOWL, Miami
Georgia VS.. Texas.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

The new mediation plan was de-
Vised by Juan Bramuglia, Argentine
foreign minister and retiring presi-
dent of the United Nations Security
Council.
It calls for a neutral commission of
experts to handle the technical and
procedural phases Of the east-west
conflict over currency and the Soviet
land blockade Oi Berlin. It apparently
is a plan designed to save face for all.
The Neutral Nations
Lined up with Argentina in the
mediation effort are the other FIVE So
called neutral" nations on the Sc
curity Council: China, Belgium, Col
ombia, Syria and Canada. Experts of
these six nations would make up the
study commission.
Russian delegate Andrei Vishinsky
repeatedly told Bramuglia: Il trust
you. And / trust your plan for set
tling the Berlin situation. only hope
the neutral nations will keep up your
good work after you have left"
The western powers Immediately
accepted the plan in. principle. Official
confirmation was to come from Wash
ington, London and Paris after de-
tailed study of the formula.
Yet western ENJOYS said it was diff
ficult, in the light of developments
from Berlin, to hold much hope for a
final agreement with the Russians.
Separate City Government
In the four-power occupational cap
ital, Russian-backed German Commu-
nists set up r separate city govern
ment, totally disregarding the one
duly elected In l946. That admins
tration, in which Communists held
only a small minority, was to stand
for reelection this Sunday. Moscow
banned the election in the Soviet Sec
tor, however, and ordered German
Communists all over the city to boy
colt it.
Balloting in the western sectors
where about two-thirds of the city
population liVes-was to go on as
scheduled:
At a Communist rally on Tuesday
five days before the voting in west
ern sectors - Friedrich Ebert wa'
chosen as mayor Of the whole city. HC
is the son Of Germany's first presiden
under the Weimar Republic.
The Communist rally also named I
magistrat (executive government
for the whole city. Places were giveI
to nominal representatives of the non
Communist c h.ristian n Democratic
Union, Social Democrats and Liberia
Democrats. The men chosen, however
had long been disowned by the regu
lar. organizations of these parties
which gave the Communists a trounc
ing in Berlin's 1946 elections.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Radio
coHle Of the Networks

Radios big ABC comics-Allen,
Benny and Charlie (McCarthy)-
made news this week.
Fred Allen said he intends to quit
the airWaves for at least a year when
his contract expires next June. His
agent and sponsor are taking it with
a grain of salt. The NBC vice presi-
dent in charge of worrying about Mr..
Allen said June was long way off.
His agent said: Fired has his ups and
downs. He's usually down about this
time Of year and comes back up again
in March"
Jack Benny will switch his Sunday
night comedy show from NBC to CHS
on January 2.
Charlie Mccarthy and his mentor,
Edgar Bergen, also are reported on
the verge Of switching to CHS with
change of sponsors scheduled around
the year-end.
The Jack Benny deal Is a victory
for CHS in a lOngstanding battle of
the networks. The transaction report
edly includes Benny's Amusement
Enterprises, Inc, which has the per-
SOLAd4 management COIILIdCIS OF EuIl
Harris, Alice Faye and Denis Day.
There is speculation that the Harris
Faye show, which now follows Benny
on NBC, might also switch to CHS if
program problems can be ironed out,
and that Days Saturday night NBC
show may follow suit.
CHS refused to say whether Ben
ny's move was a capital gains trans
action involving lifetime sale of
Amusement Enterprises as a business.
Such a deal would make the lump
sum payment subject only to a 25 per
cent capital gains tax instead of the
much higher personal income tax ne
now pays. Sums as high as $4,O0O,OOO
were mentioned in connection with
the negotiations
Earlier this year CHS got Amos
m Andy away from NBC in a capital
gains transaction repeatedly involv.
ing lump sum payment of $2,OOO,O 900
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
In Short

Died: Frank B. Noyes, IS, former
ly president of The Associated Press
for 38 years, and president of The
Washington Star.
Stayed: BY Gen. Macarthur, execu-
tiOns of Japan's wartime premier Hi
deki TOTO and six other war leaders,
pending appeals to the Supreme
Court.
Presented: By former N. Y. Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman and his wife
$250,O0O building to the Henry Street
Settlement, as a memorial to their
son, Peter, killed in a wartime plane
crash in England
Cut: BY the Army, its draft quota
for January from 10000 to 10000
men.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Science
Atomic Collisions


A special camera sent 10000 feet up
in a balloon cluster has photographed
a multi-collision of atomic particles.
This picture, taken by University of
Chicago scientists, shows a high ener-
gy cOsmic ray particle striking the
core of an atom in the air The col
lisiOn created a meson, which, in turn,
was absorbed by another atomic core.
The second atomic core then exploded.
New Isotopes
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, co-discoverer
of plutOnium, says that creation of 20
new artifcially radioactive isOtOpes
by the huge CyclOtrOn at the Univer-
sity of California has given scientists
a new understanding of the patterns
of radioactivity.
For example, he told the National
Academy Of Sciences, it has been
found that in all elements, from bis
muth to curium, the energy of alpha
particles elected by radioactive atoms
becomes progressively greater, in a
given element, with decreasing weight
of the isOtopes.
From these studies, DR.. Seaborg
says, it also is possible to learn more
about conditions prevailing when the
earth was formed about two billion
years ago.
Mining for Oil
The US. Bureau of Mines reports
that instead of drilling wells, oil men
can mine petroleum in San Luis Obs
po County, Calf, by Open-cut mining
methods.
The oil is in bitumen in sandstone
and can be separated by treatment
with alkaline hot water yielding 26
gallons of oil ton, in addition to as
phalt and coke.
The deposit studied contains a quar-
ter of billion tons of the bituminous
GandstOne.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Food

Revised estimates have placed this
years world wheat crop at 6,285, ,OOO,-
900 bushels--4OO,OOO, more than
1947. ..t.E.
This years total is about 35,00O,000
bushels more than was estimated in
September. The increase came largely
from Europe where supplies have
been short
World wheat output averaged 7,0l0,-
100000 for the 1859 period.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Quote

DR.. Charles Cole, president of
Amherst College, where a college
fraternity initiated a Negro
member even though it meant
suspension of the chapters ma
tiOnal charter: "We are extreme
ly proud of the action and atti-
tude of the Amherst Phi Psis,
which eXemplifies the demo-
cratic spirit of Amherst College"
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

for a battle to save
the capital from
Chinese c o m mu
niStS.
Dispatches indi-
Gated that General
issimo Chang Kali
shek had to cut off
air supplies to the
250,OOO-man Su-
chow garrison to
force it to get out
and fight.
Even as the bat
tie developed, there
vvv1nA - A1-.A
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
The WORLD This WEEK
CHINA: Her Fate Hangs on Two Battles

THE fortunes of Nationalist
1 China hang on the outcome
of two battles on opposite sides
of the glObe-one in Nanking, the
other in Washington.
The critical campaign for CEN
trail China shifted to the very ap-
prOaches Of Nanking, itself, as the
SuchOW garrison belatelY swung south
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
Russian Diplomacy
Is Puzzle TO West

THE enigma Of Russian diplomacy has become evident again the
Berlin crisis At Paris Moscow agreed another mediation plan
the dispute In Berlin however
the whole foupower occupation capital wary
observers appeared Moscow trying thing with
hand quite the opposite with the other.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

eralize his government and inspire
confidence among the masses of his
people.
Call for Macarthur
Meanwhile, Chang appointed a
new premier, Sun Fo, the son of Sun
Yat-sen, father" of the Chinese Re-
public.
In his first interview, Sun Fo said
he believed the United States should
send an outstanding military adviser
to China to direct aid. Sun said that
adviser should be given complete
freedom of action, if necessary. He
suggested an officer like Gen. Mac
Arthur or It. Gen. Wedemeyer.
Reminded that American advisers
to China had encountered inertia and
hostility during the Japanese war,
Sun replied: Il think China learned a
lesson from the Stilwell affair"
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

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