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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-11
CONFLICTING JOBS

Territorial Labor Commissioner Henry Benson has declined to comment the dual position of Fred Orme of Juneau, who works under Benson in the Alaska Industrial Board and who also holds the job of Secretary for the Juneau CIO Industrial Council.
 Despite some comments heard around the city that government official employee should not be connected with private enterprise during his stay in office gave his tacit approval to Ormes posi- tion in his refusal to comment or take action.
 At present Orme is a leave of absence in the States for medical treatment but is expected to return to his position in few months He is considered, by many to be a top notch worker on his job but some persons have expressed themselves that he should re- sign from his union job particularly while employed in his close relation to the Labor Department
 The fuss, on Ormes status, began when his name appeared on CIO resolution condemning the CIO International Woodworkers of America for returning to work at the Juneau Spruce Corporation.
 Orme, however is not the only Territorial official who has a sdelne. Wendell P. Kay, head of the Alaska Housing Authority, practices law on the side at Anchorage. Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Williams writes weekly column for his Wrangell newspaper, the Sentinel
 Others, however, have given up their private interests when they accepted their government jobs. s To name a few. U. s. Marshal William T. Mahoney relinquished his Ketchikan bottng business and U. S. District Attorney P J. Gilmore. Jr gave up his law practice to hold their jobs. Others, who have done similar acts include Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers and Public Welfare Director Russell Maynard.
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Catholic Picnic
 Scheduled Sunday

The Catholic Parish picnic will Ee held, at the Shrine of St. Terese, this Sunday, August 18th. Mass will be celebrated at the Shrine at Il 100 o'clock.
 Buses will leave from the Catholic Church at 9.30 and 11:30 am. There will be small charge for transpor- tation for adults.
 An afternoon of fun and merri- ment will include games, races and swimming. Food will be provided according to arrangements made pre- viously. Each person is reminded to bring his own cup, plate, fork and spoon.
 Committees for the picnic are as follows: Food: Mrs. Miles Godkin, Kay Gleeson, Mrs. Felix Toner, Mrs Olav Lillegraven, MT. and Mrs. Pas ter Bigornia and Betty Louden Transportation Pete Schneider and Evan Wruck. Sports: MT. Herman VanderLeest, Franz Nagel, Mrs. Ray Schuller and Arleen Godkin.
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TRUMAN MOVES FAST

A group of veterans got such prompt action from President Tru- man the other day that they did not have time to finish asking him for what they wanted.
 The veterans called at the White House to urge Truman to use his influence on House minority lead CT Sam Rayburn. They wanted Sam to quit stalling and sign the discharge petition to force vote on the Taft -Ellender- Wagner hous- ing bill
 As spokesman Jack Garter, repre- senting the Veterans Of Foreign Wars, began to explain their mis- sion, the President interrupted.
 Sam has already signed" he explained.
 Carter recalled that the last time the veterans came to the White House they had pleaded for a special session of Congress. They got results that same week.
 This time" laughed Carter. the results were so fast that We got them before we even got around to asking"
 President Truman informed his callers that he had just finished
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American Superliners
(New York Times)


 For at least two decades bold shipping men have proposed American liners which in size, speed and luxury were to surpass anything built in Europe When Theodore Ferris discussed such vessels before the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 1881 there little thought of war but much thought of subsidies. Every shipping company knew that it could not compete with European rivals for the luxury transatlantic trade unless it received governmental subsidy in some form. Despite their lower building and operating costs foreign companies all to their governments for direct or indirect financial assistance The great fourday and fiye-day liners were thus constructed On the whole the policy justified itself When Germany and Japan pre- cpitated war and had to be transported almost around the world the fast liners proved invaluable.
 The issue of superliners is again presented for consideration, this time by the United States Lines What type of ship the Maritime Commission is to approve disapprove has not been revealed Indeed, nothing is known except that the displacement is to be 48O00 tons so that we must picture something smaller than the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, yet large enough fer engines that will make speed of thrtyone knots possible Under the Maritime Act of l936 Act which created the present Maritime Commission subsidies may deray at least part of the cost of building and operating fast vessels in these days of high wages and expensive materials Foreign costs used to be about one-third of what they in this country What they may be today is not known exactly The Maritime Commission is said to be making study in Europe to find out Presumably the United States must know at least approximately what the European costs Assuming that the old ratio of one to three still holds out, its willingness to spend $25OOO0O0 of its money indicates total cost of 750O0000 A figure of $70000000 has been given out which is close enough to the oneto-three ratio but which also shows how wide is the gap be- tween American and European costs.
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Daily Lessons in English " L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: instructions Omit HEREWITH. write full instructions herewith" OFTEN MSPRONOUNCED: SET in NO unstressed accent first syllable
 OFTEN MISSPEILED Plaque SYNONYMS Behavior bearing breeding conduct manner WORD STUDY "Use word three times
  FURTIvE; sly; seahy "The urve uncomfortable"
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WOOING BACK DEMOCRATS

HaraSSed DemOcratlc Cnalflllall, Senator Howard McGrath tried to coax Southern Senators back on speaking socially, if not poli- tically-by inviting the entire Dem- ocratic flock to a harmony par ty"
 The idea was to wash out the Mason-DiXon Line with free drinks and the promise to keep politics off the program. Despite this, a i large Southern bloc, led by South ; Carolina's obstinate Senator Olin Johnson, sulked at home. All of them were set to attend when McGrath suddenly announced that segregation would be abolished at Democratic National Headquart- CTS. Unhappily the timing was the same day as the McGrath party.
 However, several less sensitive Southerners, such as Florida's Spessard Holland and Alabama's John Sparkman, showed up anyway, and led the Democrats in singing Dixie"
 Florida's senior Senator, Claude Pepper, who opposed President Tru- man at the Democratic National Convention, got the gathering off to a good start by proposing toast to Truman All the South erners rose except Mississippi's stubborn Jim Eastland. Finally, when other Senators ribbed him, Eastland rose and joined in the Truman toast.
 Senator Jim Murray of Montana followed up with a toast to Mo Grath. Vice-Presidential candi- date Alben Barkley was next toast ed, after which McGrath announc- ed that the only speeches tolerated would be stories Senator Pepper
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holding press conference at which he had given Congress the devil"
 AmVet representative Bob Mc- Laughlin commented that his or ganization had been studying Ju- venile delinquency. had found that most cases could be traced back to slum conditions which the Pub- lie Housing bill would correct.
 That, said Truman, was one of the reasons he favored the Public Housing bill.
 Note-Thanks to the real-estate lobby and Senator Taft's change of mind about his own housing bill, slum clearance and public hous- ing was vetoed at the recent spec ial session.
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ENGINEER WILL STUDY AlASKA MINERALS AS
 BASIS FOR INDUSTRY

w. F. Dietrich, head of Morse | & Associates, chemical. metallurgical and mining engineers of Capitola Calif., arrived here yesterday to serve as consulting mining engineer for the U. s. Bureau of Mines. He was accompanied by Al Ransome, super vising engineer of the mineral eco monies branch of the U. s. Bureau of Mines. Ransome is touring the Territory and will return here in
 several months to be stationed in
 Juneau.
 Dietrich plans to spend about a
 week here and then go north. He expects to be back in about month.
 He is in Alaska to conduct studies relating to the utilization of Alaska $ minerals as a tasis for developing industries for the Territory.
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petual ice and snow of possible concern to our work-a-day life
 But last week, as part of routine assignment, a Post -Intelligencer reporter and photographer were at Point Barrow Americas arthest north outpost ering the annual arrival of the supply fleet to the naval station there.
 The military services fly planes out of the Pacific Northwest to that Arctic settlement only few hun dred miles from the North Pole, regularly and casually as they fly to any nearby post in Con- tinental United States
 The actual flying time of normal transport plane out of Seattle to Point Barrow via Fairbanks is only 10 hours.
 Thus within a short lifetime, fantastically re- mote region known only to few Arctic explorers has become close the next county.
 This is wonderful you say.
 But it is also frightening.
 For out of the shattered dreams of perpetual peace has grown a monstrous nightmare of global warfare which fight some day wnging across the top of the world with the speed with which the armed services now fly their peaceful missions to and from the Pacific Northwest.
 Since the promise of peace in world torn with hatreds and suspicious seems remote and elusive as the fickering Arctic aurora, what are we doing about our defenses in Alaska?
 The American people have received only vague and confusing reports in this respect that are far from comforting
 Occasional reports of apparently substantial build ing at Alaska bases forthcoming, but there has been no assurance that these not half measures of the same kind that lulled into false of security in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor.
 There still is no railroad linking Continental Uni ted States and Alaska, obvious first measure of defense
 The next Pearl Harbor-if there should be other one most likely will be somewhere in the shadow of the Arctic Circle
 Will we be any better prepared than in December, 194l?
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U. S. WILL PROTECT.
 WITNESS
Secretary Marshall Prom. ises Safety 10 Indivi-
 duaIs Who Testify

1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 11-tR-Sec-
 retary of State Marshall today made it plain the American government will protect any individual testifying in the Communist spy investigation If he complies with the United Sta teS laws.
 Marshall stated this flatly as a general principle at his news con- ference. He did not specify that 1t applied to any particular indivi- |duals.
 The sceretarys remarks were in- terpreted to mean that Michael Ivanovitch Samarin, Russian school teacher, can expect full pro- lection of the U. s. Government.
 Samarin and his wife have been sutpoenaed to testify before the House Committee in connection with its investigation of Communist es- pionage operations. The subpoenas were served yesterday.
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20 YEARS AGO {yfr fTs EMPIRE

 The first commercial apane owned
 
 Bradley Consulting Engineer and directing Alaska Company visit Spokane preceding Skagway Lee Mrs Rapuzz of Skagway. Gray left the for Seattle Oregon College Corvallis the fall. H. Strong Ketchikan visiting Shatuck for First City aboard the Yukon
 Miss Eva N outbound aboard the She expected o speed a the States. Mir and Mrs Jack Langh of Douglas entertained at dinner visiting Dakota. t. Weather: Hign low,
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got him on the witness stand, was not absolutely sure.
 But the defense attorney made a great mistake" said Senator Connally. He tried to cross up the old Negro.
 "You say you can't identify this man positively" he asked. "'Then why do you still insist there is doubt in your mind that he may be guilty?'
 "Well, replied the witness, me an the hired man used to hunt with nah dog. or Blue. Nose. Af- ter I seed this man at the jail An couldn't rightly say if he wuz or he wuzn't the man who done this murder. But as An was leavin' the jail he up and asked me how wuz or Blue Nose.'"
 Note-The party wound up by serenading McGrath with When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" singing My Old Kentucky Home" foi Barkley and Deep In The Heart of Texas" for Senator Tom Con- nally
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FLEIS(HMAnn YACHT
 DEPARTS FROM HERE

The 167 foot yacht of the year" owned by Major Max Fleischmann, left Juneau yesterday after a two day stay in port. With four pas sengers and sixteen man crew, the Haida left Seattle July 12 and has been fishing at every likely spot en- route to Juneau. The luxury craft is from Newport, California.
 Aboard for the present cruise are Major and Mrs. Max Fleischmann who joined the vessel July 16 at Vancouver and MT. and Mrs. Fred Burnham from Oregon.
 The party plans to return to the States around Sept. 1.
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HMCS ATHABASkAh
 DUE HERE SEPT. }

H. H. Davies, CPR agent in Ju- neau, received further correspon- dence today concerning the contem- plated visit of the Canadian de- stroyer HMCS Athabaskan which is due in Juneau Sept. for three day visit.
 H. R. White, acting British Con- sul in Seattle. said in his letter that the BIT footer which displaces 274s tons is anxiously awaiting her delay ed trip to the Territorial capitol
 Commanded by J. s. Davies, R. O N, the ship is manned by 20 officers and 220 men.
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EAGLE SCOUTS
 VISIT JUNEAU
 ON WIDE TOUR

About IA months ago Post Advisor Jack Vincient of Detroit, Mich. spoke to his group of nine first class scouts, and what he had to say was more than inspiring I'll tell you what, fellas,' he said, If you'll all get busy and make the Eagle grade by the last of this year, we'll begin collecting newspapers, save the money, and take trip to Alaska when the summer of AS rolls around" They all did make the Eagle scout mark, accumulated $37OO from the newspaper collection, and were aboard the steamer Aleutian last night when she docked in Ju- neau.
 The boys came from Detroit to Seattle by Automobile, and reported it to te an extremely interesting leg of the journey. One of the highlights was when they slept in the jail of Couer d Alene, Idaho. "It was rain- ing pretty hard and we took the cops up on it when they said we could sleep there" one scout said.
 At other points, the scouts slept in Municipal park in Lewistown, Mont, and pitched their tents in the back yard of friend when in Seattle. From Juneau they plan to go to Anchorage, then to Fairbanks, and back to Seattle by plane where they will load up their two automo- piles for the return to Detroit.
 Those in the party are Jim Bates, Harry Bradley, J. Donaldson, Jack Fehlberg, Bob Goddard, Dick Laan- sma, Jack Vincient, Bill Vincient, Jack Vincient, Jr, Ron Rosche and Don Williams. While here the scouts visited the museum and other at fractions and contacted Malcolm Greaney and Tony Thomas, who are former eagle scouts from the De- troit troop.
 The only Eagle Scout Troop in the world left Detroit the 30th of last month and plans to return the lat ter part of August after full month of land, air and water travel.
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REPUBLICAN DINNER
 SET FOR AUGUST 1S

Jack Carroll, Chairman of the Ar Irangement Committee for the forth coming COP dinner, said today that ticket sales for the Salmon Creek "get together" event are going along very well and that further plans for the decorations are being made.
 Carroll re-emphasizes that free bus service from Juneau and Douglas will be available to Salmon Creek the night of August IS, and that tickets may be had at the present Republican headquarters in the White Building.
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!pAF Executive Is Here from Western Fisheries Areas

i Stanley Tarrant, vice-president and production manager of Pacific American Fisheries, is in Juneau af- ter two months in the Bristol Bay,
 Kodiak, Alaska Peninsula and Cooks Inlet. In all areas, with the exception of Bristol Bay where PAF had an average run, Tarrant said, there was a smaller pack than had reen expected. Tarrant will be in Juneau foI several days and is at the Baranof Hotel.
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OLD BLUE NOSE

"A hired hand was brought back to Texas to face murder charge Is years after he had disappeared, said the Senator from Texas. Wit ness after witness testified that he looked like the hired man who committed the murder, but none could identify him positively. and definitely. Even the star witness, an old Negro who used to hunt
 with the hired hand, when they
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MODERN ETIQUETTE y syoerpr. ,rp

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 A. Not if he leaves girl of his alone the table
 O. signature a typewriter letter placed on with rubber stamp?
 write the with pencil type writer, rubber stamp. s~*s@ssAe18 s<AF&4asskT
 O. It good form engraved invitations
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FLEECING CON0REssMEN

Using a two-year-o girl as an accomplice, phony Baptist preacher" fleeced soft-hearted Congressmen the other day.
 Calling at the office of Rep. Dwight Rogers, Florida Democrat, he told, about his little church in Oakland Park, Fla Rogers office took up a collection of s35. Later the same gyp artist, pushing the two-year-old in play-cart, touched Rep. Preston Prince, Georgia Democrat, for another $10. This time the false preacher des- cribed his little church in Savan- nah, Ga.
 God bless you,' he intoned as he pocketed the ten-spot. Amen" !" chirped the two-year-old solemnly.
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B JULIE I l N 5

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. H. R-Democratic Senator Claude Pep per of Florida has taken crack at the whole Communist investigation.
 He calls it smear campaign" de- {; signed to discredit the administra-
 tion Another Democrat, Senator
 John Mcclellan of Arkansas says
 the Presidents statement that the spy investigation is nothing but a red herring" is almost indefensible. BERLIN, Aug. 11-lREA mass
 meeting of 5000 Berliners tonight cheered demand that no compro- mise be made at Moscow which might turn over control of this block
 aded city to the Communists. | TOKYO, Aug. 11-LR-Russia to- iday demanded that General Mac
 Arthur withdraw his suggestion to the Japanese Government to ban
 strikes by government workers. HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 11-R-
 The Dixiecrats formally opened <, their national campaign today. To-
 night, South Carolina Governor J.
 Thurmond will accept the nomina- ton as the States Rights candidate
 for President. The rally will te picketed by supporters of Henry
 Wallace.
 i SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1l-lR-- Francis A. Garrecht, presiding Jus
 tice of the Ninth U. s. Circuit Court
 of Appeals, died early today of a
 heart attack at his home here. He was TT.
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GIVE HIM ENOUGH ROPE

At the COP closed-door Senate caucus last week, Senator Charles Tobey, the New Hampshire fire cracker, urged giving President Truman all the controls he wanted. Tobey recalled dinner-table state ment, made by Indiana's Bill Jen- ner last year, that the best way to kill off Truman was to give him the controls he asked.
 If so many people want price control" snapped Tobey, why not give it to them?"
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ist Cal Snyder for a new speech, asked for rush service to meet a radio deadline Snyder assigned two of his men to stay up all night to write it.
 Note-The real-estate lobby's most regular customer for speeches and research is Senator Harry Cain, Washington Republican.
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ADM. ZEUSLER VISITS
 ABOARD THE ALEUTIAN

Admiral and Mrs. F. A. Zeusler visited Juneau last night aboard the Aleutian.
 Enroute to Seward, the Executive Assistant to the President of the Alaska Steamship Lines, continued his trip aboard the Aleutian when she departed early this morning.
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vuILLE JOINS SERVICE

The Moose Club has lost one of it's valuable baseball players, Jim Vuille, who has joined the U. S Coast Guard. Jim, son of MT. and Mrs. Gene Vuille, is now member of the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter WachuSett.
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FRED DUNN's HAVE GUEST

Dave Wilson, fuel agent for the White Pass-Yukon Railroad and the British Yukon Navigation Co.,, was expected to arrive here this afternoon from Whitehorse en> route to Seattle. Wilson will be the houseguest of MT. and Mrs. Fred Dunn, and leaves tomorrow for the south. Wilson is broth er-in-law to Dunn.
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Wonderful-And Frightening.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Not too long ago the shores of the Arctic Ocean were as distant the average American the monn- tainS of the moon.
 If he thought of those desolate regions at all, he lightly dismissed them as land of per-
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MARRIED YESTERDAY

Miss Agnes Florence Johnson and Mir. Billy Duncan were mar ried yesterday afternoon in the U. s. Commissioners office by Judge Felix Gray. Miss Louise Skinner and Don Williams were witnesses. MT. and Mrs. Duncan are from Excursion Inlet.
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$. G. Tanant of Pacific Ameri- can Fisheries, Inc, Bellingham, is
 new arrival in Juneau, staying
 at the Baranof Hotel.
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promptly clamored for a story from Texas Tom Connally, who led off
 with the tale of "Old Blue Nose"
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TEXANS HERE

MT. and Mrs. Frank .DeKOch of McAllen. Texas, are stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
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MT. and Mrs. c. H. Trigg are wis., itors from Yuma, Ariz., and are staying at the Baranof Hotel.
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Fred Emerson o. Pelican stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
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The Washington 
By DREW PEARSON

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LOOK and LEARN 4 c. GORDON

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 th English speaking in history?
 animal considered the 
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 4. Daniel Webster.
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Miss Eva N. Yurman outbound passenger aboard he expected to spoAd short time in the States
The echo., 1948-04-01

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All Applications for
Membership MUS Come
Through Lodge

We have had some complaints from
local lodges that some of our presi-
dents have been bringing applica-
ton blanks to the General Board to
be o.k'ed by the General President
without having had the lodge to
vote on said applicants. We would
like to inform all concerned that all
application blanks for membership
in the local lodges must come
through the localdodges as our Con-
stitutiOn provides.
Your secretary record should show
when these applications were e -
ceiVed and turned over to the pro
per committee; when the candidates
were initiated; when the certificates
were issued, etc.
Presidents, you are requested to
keep an accurate record of all APP
plications that come through your
lodge.
If you do not have an official sec
rotary record, you should get one
and help us to keep your records.
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Melted paraffin poured over left
over paint will keep the paint in
good condition for future use.