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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
LAST WORD FROM SON

NEW YORK, Feb. l4.--R-- Pfc Charles J. Brayton. Jr., i9-year-old U. s. Marine killed by Commun- ists in China, had been stationed in that country two years and was due home this month on furlough, his parents said today
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Brayton said the last word they received from their son was at Christmas, when he wrote telling of his ex- pected iurlough He sent gifts of roses. recording and a photo- graph of him and four buddies. The four were captured by the Reds at the same time as Bray ton. but still are alive.
 Young Brayton was born in New York City. His father. veteran of the First World War has been living at Fort Jay on Gov einor's Island in New York Bay, and is a civilian electrician there.
 In addition Co the son, the Braytons have one daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Whitmore, 20. Washington. D c.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
TEN DAY SENTENCE

John H. London was sentenced to serve 10 days in the City Jail by City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer this morning on a drunk charge
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
FIRE PATROL TONIGHT

City Street Department Fore man Bert Lybeck announced this morning that the City will keep four men on fire patrol all night because of the extreme weather
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
SCHOOL PARTIES

The Douglas Public School ob- served Valentines Day yesterday with the several classes naviug parties or exchange of valentines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
MINNEAPOLIS VISITORS

Harry and Edward Suiarz of Minneapolis, Minnesota. are regis tered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
SEATTLE MEN HERE

Don E. Lillei and J. w. Duddle- son of Seattle are registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
CALIFORNIA VISITORS

Charles D. Buttrey and Eliza beth Buttrey of Alhambra, Calf, are registered at the Baranof Ho- tel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
FROM TEXAS

Jack Matthews and George W Hawthorne Of Houston. Texas. art registered al the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
NEW STEN0GRApHER
 ARRIVES HERE FOR
 GOVERNORS OFFICE

Miss Elizabeth Buttrey and her brother Charles, have arrived via PAA from Alhamhra, Calf. and arc stopping temporarily at the Baranof Hotel until they secure living accommodations. Miss But trey, who was formerly employed at Fairbanks by the Alaska Terri torial Federation of Labor. came here 10 accept position in the Governors office.
 She will replace Mrs Dorothy Killewich. who has been promoted to replace Mrs. June Martin. Her brothers plans are indefinite as vet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
IN FROM FAIRBANKS $

Ray Woveford of Fairbanks is registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
OREGON VISITORS

H. H. Christy of Portland. Ore. Is staying at the Baranot Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

(copyright, 1s4s, by The Bell Syndicate,
 Incl
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-02-14

Thomas Hardware
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20
No soft peace with Dixiecrots by s.s,.en Kennedy

lists, Greek Royalists and Chinese
Nationalist in the name of
democracy.
While it may not presently be
possible to deny seats to all
members of the BilbO- Rankin
tribe in Congress, it is possible
to unsaddle them from domina-
ton of congressional committees
and if labor will just buck
hard enough, it can throw them
over the fence.
The whole idea of the Dixie
crat movement was to blackjack
the Democratic party back into
the white supremacy fold, by
proving that the Demos could
not elect President without the
Solid South's support.
Well, that was just one more
rotten applicant which was up
set Nov. 2. The Dixiecrats were
unable to take more than four
southern states out of the Demo
column.
Two decades ago the Dixie
Gratis O. that era-calling them
selves Hoover Democrats
succeeded with the aid of the
Khan in splitting off the same
number of states. In '28 it was
religious prejudice against the
Catholicism of AL Smith; in '48
it was racial prejudice against
the civil rights program of
Harry Truman; but it was the
same counterfeit coin.
But Truman won - wit h
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

The Dixiecrats are knocking
on the Democrats door, not with
hat in hand, but arrogantly, as
though they owned the joint.
In so doing, the New Con-
federacy is merely following in
the footsteps of the Old Con-
federacy, which browbeat the
Union into readmitting it on
Confederate terms.
But this is one case in which
history need not repeat itself.
The Democrats do not have to
conclude a Munich with the
Dixiecrats. A soft peace with
the fascists of the south could
be as disastrous for democracy
as a soft peace with the fascists
of Germany.
Natl. Demo Chairman How
ard McGrath's post-election as
sertion that the great bulk" of
the Dixiecrats had understand
able motives" and hence will
not be ousted from positions of
leadership in the party and
Congress, is the equivalent of
Chamberlain's assertion that the
Hitlerites had understandable
motives in launching their blitz-
krieg.
For McGrath to speak of
unity" with the Dixiecrats in
the hope of winning their sup
port for the Truman program is
as futile-and possibly as fatal
as all the talk of unity" with
German Nazis, Spanish Falang-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

uniOnists, and without white
supremacists. He cannot make
a soft peace with the Dixiecrats
without betraying the unionists
who elected him.
Unionism and racism won't
mix.
If the Demos bed down again
with the racists, they will
eventually be divorced by union
lists and go down in defeat.
To admit the Dixiecrats to
the Democratic fold would be
the equivalent of inviting fascist
Spain and unidentified Ger
many into the United Nations
fold.
Having failed to defeat Tru-
man, the Dixiecrats would ma
turally. like to carry on their
sabotage operations from inside
the Democratic party. They
want back in, but on their own
despicabIe terms - feudalism,
pIutOcracy and white supremacy.
Truman has a chance to do
what even Roosevelt failed to
do-purge such elements from
the party.
The time has come to tell the
south in no uncertain terms that
the price of admission to the
Union is her unconditional ac-
ceptance of the responsibilities
of American citizenship as set
forth by the Constitution and
Interpreted by the courts of the
land.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

Screen Office and Professional
Employees Guild and the Screen
Publicists' Guild, UOPWA, is
getting hot!
Union is concentrating in Chi
cago on picketlines before Bala-
ban and Katz theaters, although
the strike affects Paramount,
Columbia, RKO, Fox, Loews
and Republic Pictures, and the
movie houses owned by them.
Last week rowing picketline
walked the pavements alternate
ly before the doors of the State
and Lake, Chicago, Roosevelt,
Garrick and United Artists
movie houses.
Why the strike? The multi
millionaire movie magnates
have refused to negotiate a new
contract with the $23.OO-a-week
Hollywood office workers.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20
Editorial
Editorial
Block that blanket boost!

ANDLORDS all country apparently alarmed
IL the election of Congress pledged the principle
of contnued-and stronger-rent controls
AS result we find landlord organizations in many
Cities including Chicago and New York. putting the heat
local Rent Advisory Boards under the 1913 Fed
ea Rent Control Law approve blanket rent increases
before the Congress convenes
Obviously if blanket increases are granted between
and January-or up to March 81, when the
rent rent control law expires-any law will freeze
rents the higher levels Once the increases have
into effect highly unlikely that the Congress will
order them rolled back to their current levels
The Cook County Fair Rent Committee, which our
local landlord lobby calls itself at the moment has just
pettoned the Counts Rent Advisory Board hold hear
ngs at which property would prove they deserve
money for their apartments.
Fortunately the Board has put off any such hearing
for the moment-and instead is making its survey
of rental conditions here.
But until Congress passes and far tighter rent
control which closes the big loophoes through
which landlords have been jumping in the last year
tenant is safe
AS matters stand landlords are able to
adequate relief from the Office of Housing Expeder, if
rented properties. And many many thousands of them
been granted such relief in the form of higher
rentals
Certainly blanket increase is needed least of all in
Chicago the city in which 900 Of 100000
terrorized in the of 947 into agreeing pay
Is percent return for leases lasting Is months
Between now and March 81 all tenants living in the
Cook County have good be the alert and
watch the maneuverngs of the socalled Fair Rent
Committee"
Any blanket rent increase granted during the next
Congress merely phony trick freeze hikes under
the mask of rent control
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20
R1QkN But:
iHR212U4S H2922&
ss-Ru1-
BY PETER WILLIAMS

II EN- PETTUS and Sherman Marks, both
IL wel-known around OF, are scripting
ABC's "Meet the Meeks" show Herman
Hogan, on vacation from Sun Times, was
slated to appear on Mary Margaret Nc
Brides radio show in connection with publ
cation of "Bet Million" biography of the
late John Warne Gates, which he wrote in
collaboration w i t h tn e Tribune's Lloyd
Wendt. Hogan and Wendt worked together
on Lords of the Levee," published a few
years back.
JUSTIN GRAY, former assistant director
of American Legion's Americanism Com
mittee, now in New York resting up after
elections. Progressive Party's state di
rector, Bill Miller, off to Mexico with wife
Ruth for same reason. James Wishart
former researcher for United Auto Workers
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20
(CIO), now on staff of Init. Fur & Leather
Workers Union (CIO) here.

ClO), now on staff of lntl Fur & Leather
Workers Union (CIO) here.
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Have you heard the one about the psy-
chiatrist who couldn't understand why the
sweet, demure little lady's family wanted
her committed to a mental institution?
"What seems to be your trouble?" he
asked her gently.
ooh, it's really nothing at ALL" she re-
piled. cts just that I'm so fond of pam
cakes"
"Is that all?" he said with surprise
"Why, I'm very fond of pancakes myself"
"You are?" she exclaimed joyfully. ooh,
doctor, you must come over to our house -
I've got seven suitcases full of them!"
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Two Cat holic publications, Catholic
Worker and COmmOnweal, are feuding over
quest on Of socialism VS.. capitalism.
Speaking of capitalism, business firm
placed this ad in the Des MOines UOwa)
Register: Observation-Disclosures. Sell copy
right anti COmmunist seals Run your own
deal. Timely proposition. Earn $500 to
$1,000 commission weekly"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20
AL political arm
will keep pitching

tractors who use pre-glazed ma
terials in construction.
Enjoined were George Mey-
ers, business representative Of
the union for Al years, and
John R. Hoffman, employee Of
the local.
The order came despite de-
Tense arguments of Daniel D.
CARMEL, attorney for the AFL
union, who declared that glazi-
ers, on their own initiative, re-
fused to touch pre-gIazed jobs,
and that they had not been in
fluenced by the union or its
officers.
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JAMES C. PETRILLO and the
record companies have come to
terms on a proposed five-year-
contract-and an end to the re-
cording ban in effect since last
Dec. 81.
The new contract, which is
said to provide a minimum of
about $41.25 for three-hour
recording session, went to the
attorney generals office in
Washington last week for a ruI-
ing on the legality Of a royalty
arrangement under the Taft
Hartley Act.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

JUDGE Walter J. LaBuy last
week held with the NLRB that
the Glaciers Union, Local q
(AFL), had violted the Taft
Hartley Act. He ordered the
union to stop preventing glaz-
iers from working for Joliet con-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

at
BY ANNA MUELLER

LABOR'S LEAGUE for Politi-
cal Education, the political ac-
ton arm of AFL, is here to stay
in Cook County, at least.
Decision to keep the LLPE in
business here was made by more
than 100 top AFL leaders in the
county at luncheon meeting
the other day, chaired by Joseph
Keenan,, the Chicago Federation
o. Labor's secretary-treasurer.
keenan, disclosed that a new
committee will be created to
make recommendations for ap-
pointees to state posts, includ-
ing the position of state director
of labor. The Cook Count y
LLPE, born last spring, will
seek a state charter.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

MAJOR motion picture COM
panies are getting cold feet over
what's happening in Chicago.
Here, the "Cold Strike" of the
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-20

LOCAL 546, ALL Meat Cut
tiers and Butcher Workmen' S
union has approved wage in
creases of SIS a week retroactive
to Oct. 2.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
ADVERTISEMENT.
BOOKLET ON
HEARING LOSS
T!0FFPRESS

Western Electric announced
today that it is once again
able to make available to the
public, at no cost, a fasclnat-
ing booklet about hearing loss
and how it can be helped.
More than 100000 copies OF
this booklet have already been
printed and distributed. A
new supply is just of the
press to take care of the addi-
tional requests for this amaz-
ing popular discussion OF
hearing problems.
Entitled Modern Science
and Your Hearing" this book
let was prepared by bell Tele-
phone Laboratories and West
ern Electric. 1t contains a
wealth of comforting and In
formative material for the
hard of hearing. Fully illus
trated, it is written in non
technical language that Is
easy to understand.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Dewey Aides Prepare
To Handle Problems
|0fD. {. Government
By @ ssoff Correspondent Of The stor

l
ALBANY, Sept. 1S.-Aides of Gov
Dewey are known to be familiariz.
ing themselves with the District ol
Columbia's present system of gov.
ernment, to be prepared to pas
Judgment on various proposals fol
changing 1t II Republican admins.
iration comes into power mex
January.
Gov. Dewey himself had sale
nothing on the subject in recent
months, and probably will not while
the election campaign is still goins
on. From the time he leaves Al.
bany tomorrow for his first swing
through the West, until November
2, he will be busy debating majol
National issues.
Gather Data on Agencies.
Preparedness to meet future~pr
lens is a regular part of the tech.
nique of the young advisers Gov
Dewey has around him, however
and there are reliable indication!
that, as they gather data about the
workings of the various Fedora
agencies, they also are finding OF,
how the City of Washington is gov.
erned and of the large part Con-
gress and the national administra.
ton play in directing local affairs
At least one member of the Dewey
research staff is understood to be
of the opinion that the National
Government should not have to con-
Germ itself with minor details of the
city government. He has not come
to any final conclusions as to just
how much autonomy should be con-
ferred on the local government.
About year ago, when a House
District subcommittee was drafting
the home rule bill which the
Eightieth Congress failed to pass, il
queried the Governors of all the
States to find out how many State
laws would permit citizens tenn
porarily living in Washington tc
take part in local election in the
District without losing their voting
status back home.
Dewey Stand in Record.
The printed record of the con-
gressional hearings list Gov. Dewey
as being mot in sympathy with
the home rule proposal at that time
A staff assistant of the House sub
committee conferred with the New
York Governor on November 4, 1947
His memorandum report, in the
printed hearings, reads in part as
follows:
"Mr. Dewey was very cordial ano
devoted time from an obviously
busy day to this problem. Mr.. Dewey
stated that whereas he personally
was not in sympathy with granting
home rule to a government of the
District, he believed that if Congress
gave such a right of dual suffrage
to the, District through Fedora.
legislation, that intent of Congress
would be respected by New York
State, and that such law woulo
be considered to take precedence
over conflicting State legislation q
legislation which might be con-
sidered."
Evening star., 1948-09-19
FREE TO ANYONE

A Western Electric hearing
aid specialist was quoted as
saying that he believes Mod
ern Science and Your Hear
ing" will be found useful not
only by those who suffer a
hearing loss, but also by peo-
pie who have loved ones and
friends seeking a better way
to better hearing.
This free booklet may be
obtained by anyone mailing
his name and address to Dept.
1901, Western Electric Com
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7, N. Y. western Electric urges
YOU to write Immediately to
take advantage of this present
no-cost offer.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

Indonesia and Malaga, the scene Of
current Communist uprisings.
The paper said three Americans,
three Britons and one Filipino, held
by the Dutch at Tanjong, Penang,
on charges Of smuggling arms to
Airabu in a Catalina flying boat. are
part of the same smuggling ring.
International control for Samoa
was arranged after a hurricane in
1889 wrecked rival United States,
British and German warships in
Apia Harbor during dispute over
sovereignty.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

New York, associate campaign man
aeer for the National Committee.
Mrs. Brown is Republican Ma
tional Committeewoman for the Dis
trict. She also heads special gifts
committee of the Dewey-Warren
Club here, one of the many women's
committees organized under the
general supervision of Mrs. A. Burks
Summers, vice president of the club
In announcing the appointment
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Island Gun Cache Sought
As Dutch Jail 7 Of Rinq
By the Assoeioied Press

SINGAPORE, Sept. 18.-The Sun
day Times said tonight Dutch forces
are searching Airabu Island for a
Million dollar arms cache reported
buried there by an international
arms-smuggling gang.
Airabu is 200 miles northwest of
Singapore.
The paper said information in the
hands of authorities, indicates 1000
Browning automatic rifles with am
munition were smuggled into Airabu
from Manila. The paper said huge
quantities Of arms and ammunition
were available in Manila through
the "connivance of certain Filipino
officials"
1t was believed the arms are being
held for sale to revolutionaries in
Evening star., 1948-09-19

| a S I nlgnt py
Joseph c. Nc
Garraghy, COM
mittee C h a IT.
man.
Mrs. B ro W n
will have gen.
eral supervision
of campaign ac-
tivities of Re-
publican women
in the District.
T he activities
will be part of
the n a t | o n a ]
program headed
by Mrs. Charles
w WeiS ir of
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Burbed Wire Stops Boors

POzNAN, Poland (P.-Barbed
wire defenses are going up again in
Poland. But this time they are
directed against wild boars. not Ger
mans. The boars have been caus-
ing widespread damage to crops in
Western Poland, pushing their way
through wooden fences. Now the
government is aiding peasants to
erect barbed wire barriers.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

Mr., McGarraghy said Mrs. Brown
had been especially active and sue
cessfrl In her work both locally and
nationally in the past several CAM
paigns.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Mrs. Thad Brown 10 Aid
Dewey Campaign Here

Appointment of Mrs. Thad H
Brown as vice chairman of the
Dewey-Warren Campaign Commit
tee for the District was announced
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13
MORE NEW NURSES

Two new members of the staff of the Valley Hospital reported for duty this week. First to ar rive was Miss Vivian Chapman of Buffalo, New York, who is a nurse. Miss Patricia Lamb of Cordova arrived on Friday to as sume the duties of laboratory and X-ray technician.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13
TOTAL $515,978.14

TOTAL $515, ,978.14 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TERRITORY OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION I, JACK E. MAZE, Manager of the above named bank, do Sol- emnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
 JACK E. MAZE,
 Manager Correct attest:
 c. H. MEIER,
 Director
 JAN M. KOSLOSKY,
 Director Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of October, 1948 (SEAL)
 KATHRYN R. HAMBY, Notary Public in and for Alaska. My commission expires 1I3/51.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13

second son for the Shermans. MT. Sherman is employed as a grocery clerk in the Trading Post.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13
A YEAR AGO
 THISWEEK

11A1 opoul III OUO1llCOO OINu- pied most of the space on the Frontiersman front page a year ago this week. Dorothy and Maynard Sands of the-then Val- ley Telephone Exchange (now become the Matanuska Valley Telephone Co.,, Incl announced planned 24-hour service on the local switchboard and an expan- sion of service to rural sections of the Valley. The Sands became owners of the Exchange on Oct. 2, last year.
 Al King was announcing the near-completion date of the King building.
 Keeping up with new develop ments of the Valley was the agri- cultural end of living, too. pr. z. M. Fineman, agronomist at the Experiment Station here, was an- nouncing the arrival of new po- tato, Chisago, which he said would be ready for planting this spring.
 Valley homemakers were be- ginning to be troubled by the high cost of living, and were making plans to do something about it. The Homemaker's Coun- cil declared that one of it's chief projects for the year would be a study of how to bring living costs down.
 The Valley Frontiersman had it's own cause for jubiliation, for just year ago today the From tierSman passed a newspaper milestone, when store owner Jan Koslosky brought the first full page ad to appear in the papers columns.
 Nurses were receiving the sym pathetic attention of the Valleys Workmen, who were laboring in volunteer crews to finish Quon- set quarters at the hospital be- fore cold weather set in. The Valley Volunteer Fire Depart ment was planning a fire sta tion, and was Investigating sur plus buildings along the Alaska Highway.
 School physical examinations were progressing well, with the first four grades having been duly weighed and measured at this time last year.
 Lutheran ladies were planning a turkey dinner, which was des- tined to become an annual event. John Hopkins had opened his Popcorn Shop. The Herbert Bry- ans and daughter Betsey were newest Palmer residents, and the Wasilla population had been swelled by the arrival of the E. A. Alexander daughters and par entS.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13

NEW SHERMAN HEIR
 MT. and Mrs. Martin Sherman of Palmer became the parents of boy on Oct. 4. The child is the
Valley frontiersman., 1948-10-13
Coffee Insures Everything
 Remember? Adv.

REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION The MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK Located at PAL MFR, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, at close of business on the 30th Day of September, 1948.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1948-04-24
Hon. Holding Carter Will Be
Commencement Speaker At
Alcorn A. &M. College May II
DR.. J. M. Jackson
Baccalaureate
Speaker

ALCORN COLLEGE, Alcorn,
Miss, April 20 Commencement
Week at Alcorn College will begin
May and May II, with the Honor
able Holding Carter, Editor of the
Delta Democrat Times, Greenville,
Mississippi, as Commencement
Speaker and DR.. Joseph H. jack
son, Pastor of The Olivet Baptist
Church, Chicago, as Baccalaureate
Speaker.
Other activities during the Com
mencement Exercises will include
the Annual Message to the Gradua-
ton Class by President Pipes, Sum
day, May 8, at 600 pm Musical
Festival May 13, and Alumni Glass
Reunion Exercises. Sunday May Is,
at 500 pm. All members of the
Class of 1923 are requested to be
present at this twenty-year Reunion
Exercise Members of other classes
whose years ended in "8's" are also
invited. This promises to be the
biggest Reunion of any class that
we have ever had at Alcorn College.