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Evening star., 1948-04-02
Iran Reminds Reds Treaty
Bans Internal MeddIinq
BY the Assoeioted Press

TEHERAN. Iran, April Russia
has a fresh reminder from Iran to-
day that she Is pledged by treaty to
keep out of internal affairs of this
country.
Premier Ibrahim Hakimi al Molk
pointed out yesterday that In 1921
and 1927 treaties, Soviet Russia has
undertaken not to interfere in
Iranian internal affairs"
He did so in his reply to a Rus
sian note objecting to the activities
of American military advisers in
Iran. The Premier's communica-
ton said, THE Iranian government
is free to make any decisions re-
garding improvements in the coun-
try's situation and organizing her
own system Of organizations" :"
The new 1ranian note was the
latest in a series that have passed
between the two countries.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Death Of One Of -Four
In 6aIIinuer Ruled Natural

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
yesterday released a complete report
on the death Of Charles Higgenbot-
tom, 36, of 1888 Stanton terrace
Sc, one of four men in police Gus
tody who died at Gallinger Hos
pital within a 15-hour period about
two weeks ago.
DR.. Macdonald said chemical
analysis Of the mans stomach con-
firmed an earlier opinion that Hig-
genbottom. who was colored, had
died Of congestive heart failure.
Higgenbottom had been arrested
the afternoon before his death and
booked On a drunk charge.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Three Here Convicted
As Drunken Drivers

I A busy day in the Municipal Court
jury branch yesterday ended with
three persons convicted and one
acquitted of drunk driving charges.
Emmett Maurice Woolard, A, an
auto parts salesman Of 1904 Suther-
land road, Silver Spring, Md, was
found guilty on a year -old charge.
He was arrested January %, 1947,
while driving on Brentwood road
Evening star., 1948-04-02

Freed BY Jury verdict vas
Aldred Lacy. II, colored, Of 124s
Kearney street NE. who had been
charged with driving under the In
fiuence of intoxicating liquor, after
he was arrested March 16 in the
500 block of North Capitol street.
Evening star., 1948-04-02

500 block Of Franklin street NE,
after he had sideswiped three parked
cars, will be sentenced Saturday.
Slaughter, arrested March II at
Third street and New York avenue
NV, was sentenced by Judge Thom-
as d. Quinn to pay a 500 fine or
serve 80 days in jail.
Evening star., 1948-04-02
Workers Vote to End
AustruIion Rail Strike
By the A..oe;o,.d pr...

BRISBANE. Australia. April q
Striking Queensland railwaymen
voted today to end their two-month-
old walkout. Their wage increase
demands were not met.
Only few of the 5000 men who
met in Brisbane and Ipswich voted
to continue the strike, which has
crippled transport and caused BIT
ter feeling between labor and the
Queensland states labor govern
ment.
No date was set for their return
to work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
LOAN BENNETT I5
 STARRED IN BILL,
 CAPITOL THEATRE

One of the most gripping dra- matic offerings of the year, RKO Radios "The Woman on the Beach" is at the Capitol Theatre for the last times tonight.
 Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford are co-starded in this absorbing story of conflicting human emotions set in the locale of lonely coast.
 The story follows an unusual pat tern. Lovely Peggy Butler mar Iried to a noted artist who has become blind. attracts It. Scott Burnett, in command of the Coast Guard sta- ton. Although he is in love with Eve Geddes who runs a boat yard his infatuation for Peggy is so strong he is helplessly unaware that she has inspired murderous hate in him for Tod, her husband.
 The husbands story is that Peggy covets his paintings, Scott hears other rumors, too, but is too infatu- ated to believe them. He has sus- picion that Tod is shamming blind ness, and in trying to demonstrate i it, nearly causes his death The sus- pense builds up to terrific climax in which Scott, now a wiser man, goes back to Eve.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
10TH CENTURY TO HAVE TWO BILLS
 TONIGHT, FRIDAY

There will be a two feature bill at the 2Oth Century tonight and to- morrow
 One of the features is Big Brown Eyes" and said to be a distinctive movie production.
 Frontier Feud is the other fea- ture and has a cast of western favorites with Johnny Mack Brown in the starring role Raymond Hat ton is featured as Browns faithful, smiling sidekick. with Christine Me Intyre providing the feminine inter- est Others in the cast are Dennis Moore, Jack Ingram, Edwin Parker, Frank La Rue, Steve Clark, Jack Rockwell Mary MacLaren, Edmund Cobb, Lloyd Ingraham and Ted Mapes.
 There is plenty of action in this production.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
AIR RESERVE AND
 CIVIL AIR PATROL
 E POSSIBLE HERE
U. 5. Air Force Answers Resolution of Juneau
 American Legion

The Alaskan Air Command has taken action to fulfill the request of a recent resolution passed by the Juneau Post, of the American Le- zion, asking for Inauguration Of civilian defense programs in Alaska.
 Two U. s. Air Force Officers and four officers of the Civil Air Patrol came to Juneau yesterday to take preliminary steps for establishing
 defense programs in Juneau in which civilians can partake. Such as the Air Reserve and the Civil Air Patrol
 Major H. E. Wilson, Chief of the Organization Branch of the Alaskan
 Air Command and Captain O. w.
 Baron, Chief of its Civilian Com
 ponents, met with group of local officers and enlisted men of the U.
 5. Air Reserve who live in Juneau to
 discuss preliminary steps necessary for a proposed Air Reserve pro-
 gram here. While nothing definite was decided, arrangements are to be made to determine possibilities of some type of Reserve activity here as soon as it can be accomplished. The two officers expect to return aere in two or three weeks for fur
 her conferences and to meet all Air Reservists. All men, who are members of the CAP organization Carr explained, is similar to that oi the Air Force. Its members perform many of the same duties. In addition to flying planes, the CAP will oper- ate it's own communications net work and take part in photographic engineering and administrative ac- tivities. It will also operate in search and work on a voluntary basis.
 ] Membership is open to any man or woman over IS years of age. The group was first formed in l940 and
 was used extensively as supple ment to the Air Forces during World War II. Applications and informa- ton may be secured from Norman jJ. O'Brien at the Civil Aeronautics Administration office in the Mc- Kinley Building, Juneau.
 Besides Carr, the group, which
 came here to create interest in the
 CAP program, included Frank Mer- rithew. CAP Training Officer; Vir-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01

gil Stone, CAP Executive Officer and Don Bovee, CAP Adjutant, all of Anchorage. They will return to Ju- neau in another two or three weeks for further organization plans.
 Air Reserves at present, or who are interested, are urged to contact Neil Friedman at the Veterans Ad- ministration office in the Coldstein Building before the next meeting so that an accurate survey of pos sibilities may be made.
 Civil Air Patrol
 Jack Carr, Director of Operations of the Alaska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol was more explicit in his story on the Civil Air Patrol which he said is a component of the U. s. Air Force although it's members re- main civilians at all times. Carr ex- plained that the CAP is a voluntary advanced training program which does not pay or cost anything to its participants.
 Carr said that small unit has already begun to organize at Mer- Till Field near Anchorage and that the CAP has requested 26 airplanes and several Link trainers from the Air Force for its own use. The or ganization depends on Air Force sur plus equipment which will continue to re maintained by the Air Force while in use by the CAP.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
IN(oRpoRATI0N5

The following concerns have filed their Articles of Incorporation in the office of Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle:
 Petersburg Lumber Co.,, Inc, oi Petersburg, formed by Oscar and Florence ArnesS ard Lars Eide. It is capitalized for $l0O,000 with stock divided into 100000 shaees having e par value of $l each.
 Conroy-Rushton Co.,, Inc, of An chorage. formed by M. J. Conroy Thomas and Susie Witt, to enter the mining business. It is capitalized for $l00,000 with stock divided into 1000 shares having par value ol S100 each.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
pAA BRINGS 1e TO
 NORTH, TAXES 22
 FARES TO SEATTLE

Pan American Airways carried 68 passengers to and from Juneau yes terday
 Nineteen arriving from Seattle were. John and Helen Hulberg, Wal lis George, Bob Martin. Richard Brinton, Donald and Barbara Bach em, Neil and Louella Anderson, Mrs w. H. Dyer, LeRoy Purpro, Lloyd Speer, Betty Coyle. Charles Straub, Elizabeth Congdon and three children and Virginia South we'll.
 Twenty-Five leaving for Seattle were: w B. Johnson, Winitred Lindsey Gail, Michael Hill, c. c. zigler, J M. Oldham, G. A. Roelke, H. c. Larson, Duane Peterson, Mrs. D. Peterson and infant. Thomas Peterson, Stanley and Gail Perry, F. w. Knowles, Elva Kregs, Weston Nelson. V. Zaporazan, A. J. Fraser, Cliff Clark, Mrs G. A. Roelke and Clay Littlejohn.
 To Annette: Sam Baker, Bessie Elliott, Emma Blankenship, Lottie Reider, Margaret Lewis. Pauline Wick, Fred and Mabel Willard Blanche Lloyd, Frances Payne, E. D Stewart, Jay Goodman, Roy and Florence Eckert.
 From Annette Elias HOZar.
 To Fairbanks. Bill Crawford, Cole Holmes and wife, George Dunn.
 From Fairbanks: s. B. Fracker Don Irwin, A. J. Perry, Louis Vein and L. D. Cochran.
 To Whitehorse: E. Smith, w. Ac- kerley and Dr. E. s. Rabeau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
WHITE ENROUTE JUNEAU
 FROM PHILADELPHIA MEET

Al White, legal counsel of the Alaska Republicans, is expected to return here the first of next week, after attendance at the Philadel- phia convention.
 At the close of the Philadelphia convention, White and wife left by train for Vancouver, B. O., where they expected to make steamship connections for Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
F&WS NEELa AGENT

The Regional Office of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service put out an emergency call today for patrol agent to operate during the summer months at Tebenkof Bay. The agent must furnish his own boat. Those interested are urged to contact Dan Ralston, Law Enforcement Supervisor of the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Juneau Federal Building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01

(continued from page one) goslav division Tito led during the war elected him a delegate to the Yugoslav Communist Party Congress July 2l, where the coun- try's future may be settled Some 2,0O0 Yugoslavs marched into Pra- que hailing Tito, and some Czecho- slovaks joined the plaudits.
 PARIS The French Foreign Ministry said France has proposed joint action to break the Berlin blockade.
 BERLIN The Russians hinted ,, vaguely they might open the high way to the West. They had indi- cated the day before that train service to the West might be re- stored before the 100000 German charges of the West in Berlin start starving. They allowed a train to run to the West on a sideline but not back to Berlin. 1 More than POO U. s. and Britis.l planes ferried food into Berlin. The U. s. was assembling huge planes from the world over to increase the airflOw.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
JOINS SURVEY OFFICE

Jack Means, formerly With the U. s. Reclamation Bureau in Dem yer, Colorado, has arrived here to join the U. s. Public Survey of flee as Engineering Aide. He will spend one week in Juneau before continuing on to the Westward for the summer months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
N Q T I C E

This is to announce that on and after June 30, 1948, we will not be responsible for debts of the Tur- pin Transfer or Union Transfer Amounts due us should be sent to Post Office Box 2224, Juneau. 1928 3t FRED TURP1N.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
VISITORS FROM ANCHORAGE

Registered at the Baranof Hotel from Anchorage are Francis B. Merrithew, Virgil Stone, N. w. Ro- thacher, J. R. Carr and Donald Bovee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
IT. K. FLOODS HERE

Former Juneau residents, MT. and Mrs. H. R. Blood are visit ing here for a few days. They have just completed a trip on MT. Blood's power barge, the Logger, to the Kasilof River on Kenai Pen insula. The Logger delivered a steel bridge for the Turnagain Arm Highway now under construction in that area. The Bloods, who are now making their home in Sea- side, Oregon, plan to leave at the end of the week. Meanwhile, they are guests at the Gastineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01

Harry Townsend, mining engin- eer for the Anaconda Copper Co.,.
 with offices in Seattle, is Ju- neau visitor. Townsend, a former Juneau resident, was previously employed by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.,, until 1918, but has visited here many times since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
NOTICE TO RETAIL MILK CUSTOMERS

We will have an early morning delivery Monday, July 5th. Please put bottles out early. 928 St
 JUNEAU DIARIES, INC.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
AT BARANOF

Victor Clark of Vancouver, Wash, is staying at the Baranof
 Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01

WASHINGTONIANS HERE
 Mrs. Rose Tennison and Gary Hugh Tennison of Olympia, Wash, are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
FROM PALMER

Don Irwin of Palmer is stay ing at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-01
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Evening star., 1948-07-16
Earlier Takoma Park
Election Date Urged

Recommendations calling for a
60-day advancement in the voting
date and for more polling places
for the municipal election in Ia
koma Park were adopted last night
by the newly organized Citizens Ad-
visory COMMITTEES to Amend the
City Charter. ESQ
The committees, composed of rep
resentatives Of various organizations
the City Council and citizens Of Ia
koma Park, recommended that the
election be set for the first Tuesday
in March. The change was advo-
Gated so that the elections. now held
in May, will not conflict with State
and county primaries.
Under the proposal the council
would take Office the third Monday
in March.
It also was suggested that a mini
mum Of four polling places be estab-
lished. The present charter permits
the use of only one polling place
and elections now are held in the
firehouse. Use of voting machines
for the city's elections also was sug-
gested
Councilman w. H. McClenon, who
is chairman of the group, announced
the committee will meet August 5
to consider an amendment provid-
ing for staggering the terms of city
councilmen. All members now are
elected every two years.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
.bardweII Case.
Is Nearing End
For Grand Jury
All Evidence in Girls
SIoying Virtually In,
Situation Indicates

Indications that the Government
virtually has completed its case
for a murder indictment in the slay-
ing of Carol Bardwell were given
today.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay declined to say whether
the grand jury would get any more
evidence after hearing 13 witnesses
yesterday.
The indictment is being brought
against the 31-year-old colored
janitor, Eugene James, of Baltimore.
James, an ex-convict, already has
been charged with the knife murder
of Marsha Brill, 11-year-old Balti-
more girl who was slain under al
most identical circumstances on
July 6-nine days after the Bard
we'll girl was killed in Rock Greek
Park.
Crossing Guard Testifies.
The Government wove it's case for
an indictment around the testimony
of Mrs. Hilda Wiser, Pennsylvania
Railroad crossing tender at Lanham
Md, who claims she saw James on q
freight train coming into Wash
ington the day of the Bardwell
murder.
Mrs. Wiser also said she saw the
same man on freight train headed
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Fredericksburg Reports
44fh Virginia Polio Case
By the Assoeiotsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 16.-One
more case of infantile paralysis-the
44th so far this year-was reported
. to State health authorities yesterday.
The patient is 1-year-old Fred
ericksburg boy,
The possibility of closing SWIM
ming pools, which some experts be-
lieve are q source Of infection, was
discounted by health officials.
Authorities have not definitely
agreed that swimming pools are a
source of polio infection" explained
Mai. Richard Messer, director of
the State Bureau Of Sanitary En-
gineers.
DR.. L. J. Roper, State health COM
missioner, said there is no State law
controlling sanitation of swimming
pools. Other health department
authorities said that In general Vir-
ginia swimming pools are kept in
a sanitary condition and are not
considered a source of polio Infection
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Commission Urges Denial
|0f Beverly Hills Rezoninq

The Alexandria Planning CON-
mission last night recommended
denial of a request to rezone q FIVE
acre tract In Beverly Hills for
apartment use.
The request will be considered by
the City Council at its next meeting
July ~. The application sought to
rezone the tract from A residential
10 ca residential. The property is
situated on Cameron Hills road just
south of Tennessee avenue. Beverly
Hills Is the largest single family
housing development Of its type in
Alexandria.
The commission recommended ap-
proval of two rezoning requests.
One was to change from D-l COM
mercial to d. commercial lots from
lis through 119 North Fayette street
as a site for an automobile show
room. The other was a request for
rezoning of S03 through 811 and BIT
through S19 Prince street from D-1
commercial to A residential.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Virginia Chamber Plans
Silver Jubilee in 1949
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va, July 16.-Reso-
lutions calling for a 25th anniver-
sary celebration in 194s and study
of State fiscal policies were adopted
by the directors of the Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce at an
all-day meeting here yesterday
Plans for a silver jubilee celebra-
ton of the State Chamber of Com
.nerce next year we're proposed by
N. w. Kelley of Roanoke.
A world affairs forum and an in
dustrial exposition were proposed
The board authorized appointment
of a committee to suggest methods
for q drive for funds and new men,
berships in connection with the
celebration. This committee will
also recommend program.
The State Chamber of Commerce
was authorized to take the lead in a
study of State fiscal policies.
Mr.. Kelley told the directors that
Gov. Tuck had pledged his cooper
alton If the study is undertaken
He estimated that it would take le
months to make the study.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Diaries Not Planning
Price Increase e Here

WASHINGTON will follow Balti-
more's increased milk prices only If
production costs continue to climb,
an official of the Maryland-Virginia
Milk Producers Association said to-
day.
An increase of half cent quart
to 201a cents-was announced in
Baltimore yesterday by the Mary
land Cooperative Milk Producers
Inc. The cooperative has no Gus
toners in Prince Georges ano
Montgomery Counties.
Bruce Derrick of the Maryland
Virginia Association said Washing
ton area milk, because it is of supe-
rior quality, has always been gen.
orally cent higher than thai
distributed by the Maryland CO.
operative.
Milk prices here are 20. 81 and 2:
cents quart.
Mentioning the cost Of feed spe'
cifically, Mr.. Derrick said we're
not planning on a price increase
and we won't unless production
costs 60 up.
DR.. r. r. Shermantine, manager
and secretary-treasurer of the
Maryland Cooperative, said the
organization draws its milk supply
from Hartford, Baltimore. Carroll
Frederick. Howard, Cecil, Queer
Anne's and Kent Counties in Mary
land and from part of Adams anc
Lancaster Counties in Pennsyl-
Vania.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
State Institutions Ask
100000 Projects
By me Asseeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE. July 16.-Expendi-
ture Of more than $4,000. 900 would
be required to carry out the capital
improvement projects already sub
mitted by State institutions for 1850
1851.
State departments recommend
construction projects to the Plan
ming Commission bi-annually, for
inclusion in the States six-yeal
capital improvement program.
The total is expected to jump still
further when final building programs
are received from the University OF
Maryland, the State Teachers Col
leges at Towson, Frostburg. Sails
bury and Bowie, the four tuberculosis
sanitoria, and the four State penal
institutions.
The total of s36,4S2,76S worth OF
suggested projects already submitted
includes only those labeled urgent. "
Even so it is subject to a thorough
screening before a program finally
is reached.
The Board of Mental Hygiene has
not yet put forward specific pro-
gram for the five mental institutions,
but it has estimated that $4,000, 900
will be required to cover recon-
mended construction.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Recall Of Convention
ToAgree on Candidate
Doubted in Virginia
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 16-Vir-
ginia organization Democrats await
ed clarifcation today of the ques-
ton whether the State Democratic
Convention will be called back into
session to name a Virginia presi-
dental candidate.
Chances that the convention
would be recalled-as provided in
the so-called anti-Truman bill of
the l948 General Assembly and the
State convention itself-were re-
garded as slim by organization
sources.
State Senator Edward L. Breeden
jr., of Norfolk, a member of the
State Democratic Central Commit
tee, stated his opposition to the
recall.
Senator Breeden was one who ex-
pressed disfavor of the convention S
action of voting to permit recall by
"a two-thirds vote of the General
Committee
Collins Denny, jr., secretary of
the Platform Drafting Committee
of the State Democratic convention,
said, however, that he thought Vir-
ginla Democrats retained complete
freedom of action after the national
convention.
I'VE can be thankful that we
adopted last winter the new Presi-
dental Elector Act" he said, "and
that provision was made for possible
reconvening of the State conven-
ton
These two actions made it clear
that the Democratic Party of Vir-
ginia and the delegates which it
sent to the national convention are
in no sense bound to accept the
national platform or the national
yOnoipaoc
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Ex-SaiIor Held
In Dagger Death
Of fStepfather
Stepson Wounded
As Family Quarrel
Leads to FutoI Fight

Long standing Ill feeling between
a man and his stepson were blamed
today for a quarrel in which the
father was stabbed to death last
night with a German dagger a foot
and half long.
The family quarrel occurred at
1889 Downing street NE.
The man, Eldridge N. Ford, 81,
was pronounced dead at Casualty
Hospital where he was taken. He
had four stab wounds in his chest.
The stepson, Wilford Diggs Warner,
81, had two wounds, one in his left
forearm and another in the temple.
He was not seriously hurt.
Warner was scheduled to appear
at an inquest today which was called
by Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy. Last night, after he was
charged with "hold for coroner" by
police, he was confined in a strong
room at Gallinger Hospital.
Sister Describes Fight.
Police felt Warner was in no con-
dition to be put into a cell block
because he had an operation re-
Gently.
The father and stepson hadn't
been on speaking terms" for several
weeks. Mrs. Madeline Whitaker, Al,
a sister of Warner, told a reporter.
She was a witness to the fight and
attempted to stop 1t.
Mrs. Whitaker said that Warner,
a former Merchant Marine sailor,
returned home around pm. yes
terday from his job as an automo-
bile mechanic and, as he entered the
home. called to Ford. "Hya, pop"
The older man told her brother
to mind your own business" she
continued.
Father Stabbed Warner.
She said the two began arguing In
tre dining room Of the small brick
two-story home and that Ford hit
nv brother with the sugar bowl
and started the fight"
Police said they learned from
Mrs. Whitaker that Ford then
stabbed the stepson twice with the
dagger ana JIdI GIlc SIcpSoIi ~looeco
the weapon from him and thrust
it four times into Ford's chest. The
bloody dagger and the broken sugar
bowl were found on the dining room
floor.
Ford's wife, who had been suffer-
ing from heart ailment, was
upstairs during the fight. Police
said she had been placed under
the care of a physician today as a
result of the excitement.
The dagger belonged to Warner,
police said.