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The Arizona post., 1948-06-04

MRS. LENA CRANE has an
elaborate itinerary tour which
takes her to Vancouver, British
Columbia, and thence to Banff
and Lake Louise and back via
Denver and San Francisco visiting
with relatives. MIR. AND MRS.
MORT GREENE and little LUCY
just left to spend some time at
Grier before going on to Los An
geles and then motoring down to
Hermosillo. MR.. AND MRS.
S. GLASSBERG are at Indian Hot
Springs, Ariz.
The Arizona post., 1948-06-04

such novelties as leather earrings
and bracelets, you're invited in
to jeans Leather Centre.
, 1948-01-08

ing what it gets, a committee
could quickly outline a pro-
gram for future action. This
is not the time for skeptics to
scott and stand back. This is
not the time for people to in
quire from which direction
the suggestions came in order
to even recognize them as
having value. That is very
unimportant. What matters is
if the suggestion itself has
merit. Nor is this the time for
people to seek Individual Gre
dit.
WE ARE ON the threshold
of a great new day in the life
Of these Islands. A little plan
ming and effort will bring it
to pass. Are we going to let
it slip through our hands?
, 1948-01-08

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that the Trademark
shown below which was regis
tered in the United States Pa
tent Office, Washington, D. c.,
on July Is, l947, in the name
OF Swift and Company, Of Chi
cago, lllionis,, a corporation or
ganized and existing under the
Laws of the State of Illinois,
and Trademark certificate No.
431,251, issued therefor, has
this date been registered in
the Office Of the Government
Secretary of the Virgin Islands
of the United States at Saint
Thomas, in accordance with
the provisions in the regula-
tons governing the registra-
ton Of Patents andTrademarks
in the Virgin Islands, approv-
ed April /, 1916.
, 1948-01-08
PUBLICATION

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that the Government
of the Virgin Islands of the
United States has this date au-
thorized the Reverend L. Lo-
gan to perform civil-religious
ceremonies in the Municipa-
lily of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
of the United States.
Government of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States
St. Thomas
November "a, 1947
Morris F. de Castro !
Acting Governor
, 1948-01-08
T TO PROVIDERS


Trespassing. with or without
firearms on the estates Jerusa-
lem. Hope and Blessing will be
dealt with according TO law.
All roads leading into Estate
Jerusalem have been closed
against traffic by motor vehi-
cles. Fishermen carts will be
permitted to pass through the
yard. but moi during the night.
G. EDWARDS
Manager
, 1948-01-08
LOST

On Northside Road. between
St. Johns Airport and Chris
tiansted Town on Saturday.
! Brown Wallet. bearing The
name Of Holger G. Nielsen.
Has Federal Identification pa
pers and owners picture.
A suitable reward offered.
December 20. ls47
, 1948-01-08
TO WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN

/, M N. FRANCIS
will not be responsible for
any debt contracted by Viii
helmenia Francis or against
Property No. 18B & 10 Queen
Street, Frederiksted, st. Croix,
Virgin Islands.
James Nathaniel Francis
, 1948-01-08
NOTICE

Trespassing, dumping, or US
ing of Lot No. 43C King Street,
located to the west of what is
known as Old Yard, in Chris
tiansted, St. Croix, v. l., with
out the permission of the own
or. is strictly prohibited. and
siolations will be dealt with
according to law
ERIK r.
, 1948-01-08
Thursday, Jan. 5, 1913
EDITORIAL
WE VENTURE A FEW
SUGGESTIONS

RECENTLY. Dec. 80, we
spoke of the great opportunity
which these Islands have in
getting a return of the Inter
nal Revenue Taxes. The Memo
randum, as we said, was a
well done job, and SO far as
that goes, it should carry its
effect. That memorandum set
forth the reasons and justifica-
tons, and is indeed effective,
but what we need is a follow
up. This is not the time to let
the matter drop, and just sit
and wait for others to take ac-
ton for us. Action, about
action, might swing the tide
for us. Let us, therefore, while
we have the chance, use it.
BEING "A L interested
in this matter, as we are con
WINGED all Virgin Islanders
ought to be, we venture forth
with a group of suggestions.
H. The appointment Immediately
of a committee to formulate
plans for carrying out a cam
paign to get this matter through
This committee should do no.
thing more than present plans
either to the separate legisla-
lures, or a joint assembly.
IA delegation of legislators
from these Islands to Washing
ton at the time the matter is be-
ing taken up in Congress.
81 Close cooperation with Virgin
Islanders on the mainland, & a
delegation from New York to
Washington also in interest of
, 1948-01-08
FOR RENT OR A

10 ACRES Of fertile land at
Retreat. Abundance Of guinea
grass.
IL ACRES at Catherine $
Rest.
INQUIRE at AVIS OFFICE
, 1948-01-08
~furtherance of the bill.

0AA4 4CLkC4O Ii Olll
Virgin Island organizations in
New York to Senators and on
gressmen, reminding them of
the importance of the bill. And
the same thing should follow
from the Islands. And certainly
there arc such organized groups
az the Chambers of Commerce
which could make themselves
heard.
). Mass meetings in New York
to which certain Congressman
r invited. Such a meeting in
which legislators and represent
atives from these Islands meet
with leaders on the mainland
and supported by thousands of
Virgin Islanders there could be
very effective.
Endless publicity on the main
land, in national magazines and
newspapers, and possibly the
radio.
z. Publicity in the local papers,
each and every day constantly
reminding its readers of the
problem.
8. The publication Of a Virgin
Islands Magazine, such as the
Daily (St. Thomas) News pub
fishes from time to time. Such
a magazine could be given
wide distribution on the main
land. It might not be beyond
the bounds of possibility if this
local government, along with
the Chambers of Commerce
could underWrite such project.
Finally, a wave of letter
writing by each and every res
ident of these Islands to friends
and relatives on the mainland,
and to the national legislators
WE REPEAT that this is
vitality; that this is no time to
stand back and let things
For once cooperation
and understanding can be
turned into effective action
for the benefit of all. Too long
have we suffered from an
ebbing treasury, from the in
ability to carry out the normal
functioning of the local gov
without having to
worry ourselves sick each
and every year for the neces-
sary funds to balance the bud
get. Should Congress pass the
bill, all of these problems will
pass away.
THESE ARE mere sugges-
tions, but they may well
serve a pattern. A committee
appointed for the purpose
, 1948-01-08
SWIFT'S

Government of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States
St. Thomas
November u, 1947
Morris F. de Castro
Government Secretary
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
FOOD PRICES:
Logical

Not that it makes it any easier
to pay the grocery bill, but the rea-
sons why food prices are so high
are no mystery.
u. S. has been channeIing food
and resources into foreign countries
at a rate and volume never before
approached. Also, every American
able to digest solid food is eating II
per cent more than he did before the
war.
Finally, until just recently, con-
surners have been spending their
money on food because there was
nothing much else available to buy.
Those conclusions were reached by
University of Wisconsin economists
after an investigation into the causes
of current high price levels.
Center of the whole spiral are
grain prices.
Strong exports Of corn and wheat
caused an upswing in prices on the
commodity markets. More expen-
sive grains cause prices of flour,
bread, ham, pork loin and rib roasts
to 60 up.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
OREGON:
Nest Up

After whirling breezily through
Ohio to the thorough disgruntlement
Of Sen. Robert Taft, campaigning
Harold E. Stassen set his political
sights on the May 81 Oregon primary
election where he was due to joust
with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for
that states Republican convention
delegates.
In a kickoff address in Portland
Stassen refurbished his foreign and
domestic policies for the edification
of Oregon voters who will elect the
12-member COP delegation.
Stassen was taking his Oregon
campaign seriously because large
measure of Importance was being
attached to the election insofar as it
would provide the first test of West
coast opinion on Republican presi-
Dental contenderS.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14

We explained briefly, and waited
for the skies to fall. They didn't.
The officer continued his speech
without even dropping his mOnOcle
just to be sure-editing it slightly
to make it apply as he went. There
was no question that he thought
we were going to be, certainly
OUGHT to be GoebbeIs.
The formation melted away, the
truck which had been requested to
transport sound equipment started
to load, all but one of the staff cars
skunk away. There was only one red
face, the airforce commanders, and
he felt not embarrassment but rage.
This was purely military field and
I had held up the German war effort
for half morning, thus contributing
my bit to Allied victory even before
America was in the war.
For the rest, the only significant
memory, except for my interview
with those British boys, was the
questioning by the German officers.
Obviously they didn't share the COM
placent assurance of victory Of the
Nazi higher-ups-they remembered
World War I.
Today the greatest danger to the
peace is the possibility that the will,
the purpose, the power of the United
States will not be understood in time
by the Russian command-that they
will fail to recognize the risk Of
decentralization they are taking in
their "cold war;" as the Kaiser and
Hitler failed to realize it.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
SMASHER:
For atoms

To expand further the constantly
widening fields of atomic research,
a gigantic new cyclotron will be
built at the University Of California
at a total cost of nine million dol
lars.
In announcing the project the
atomic energy commission said the
new cyclotron-commonly known as
an m-smasher-would be 20 times
more powerful than the 4,9O0-ton ma
chine currently in operation at the
Berkeley institution.
David E. Lilientha1, Acc chair
man, provided a hint as to the kind
of long range planning for peace the
commission is visualizing when he
said that the new cyclotron "serves
notice to the world that it is the in
tent Of the people Of the United
States to be pre-eminent in the de-
velopment of fundamental science of
all kinds"
Engineering already is under way
on the huge atom-splitter, but it will
take five years before it is COM
pleted. Conceived as 20 times more
powerful than the most powerful cy-
clotron now operating, it will pro-
duce atomic bullets ranging in force
from six billion to 10 billion volts.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
DEFIANCE:
TWO Issues

In a surprise speech at a dinner
given by Michigan chambers OF
commerce for the states congress
sional delegation, Sen. Arthur Van
denberg served notice on Russia
that:
The United States may join west
l.. ern Europe in a military alli-
ance against Communist aggression.
and
- I'VE shall not surrender to Com
&" munist conspiracies in the Unit
ed States"
Thus, the chief Republican propon-
ent of bipartisan foreign policy split
the rind on two issues which, like
grapefruit, will come more and more
to be in the public eye as this year
wears on.
Simply stated, those two issues
are: Whether the U. S. should line
ND militarily alongside the recently
formed union Of western European
nations, and whether the Communist
party should be outlawed In this
country.
They could become decisive issues
in the presidential campaign. In
deed, Harold Stassen already has
introduced one of them by coming
out bluntly in favor Of outlawing
Communists in the u. S.
Vandenberg said, 1--WE are sui
cidal fools if we do not root out and
destroy any treason at home which
may dream Of bringing world revolu-
ton to the United States"
The Michigan senator only limited
at a U. S. military alliance with
western Europe, but his remarks
hardly could be misconstrued.
What Vandenberg didn't say is that
while the U. S. has no formal or Off
cial role in the union of western Eu-
ropean nations, American aid and
support, military-w Of that union
almost inevitably is implied.
Whether or not this nation will
grant that assurance will come to
be towering question in the public
mind soon.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
CLIMAX:
Palestine

With a claShing of arms and
babble Of alarmed voices, events in
Palestine appeared to be piling up
for another minor but bloody climax
in human history.
This particular crisis had its i'm
mediate beginning in a savage at
tack on the Arab city of Jaffa by
members of Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jew
ish underground force. Fact that
the Irgunists' foray against Jaffa
was made in defiance of orders by
Haganah, the regular Jewish militia.
carried no weight in the rush of in
cidents that followed.
From Palestine's coastal plain, site
Of the neighboring cities of Jaffa
(Arab) and Tel Aviv (Jewish), the
focal point of the disturbances
moved swiftly inland to the holy city
of Jerusalem.
Arabs and Jews hastily deployed
their on-the-scene forces in prepara-
ton for what stacked UP to be
major battle for possession OF Jeru-
salem. Facing each other across a
scant 200 yards of no-man's land,
each side had its eyes fixed on the
strategic Alamein camp which the
British were evacuating.
But that wasn't all. 1t soon be-
came apparent that the Arab league
nations surrounding Palestine did
not intend to stay out of this fight.
Reports were current that six Arab
nations had decided to invade the
Holy Land with ground, sea and air
forces before the British ended their
mandate on May IS.
The whole thing was shaping up in
the form of a more or less total
Arab effort to crush completely the
Jewish intention Of creating Zionist
state in Palestine.
Worried United Nations delegates,
meanwhile, cast about for means
to prevent the inevitable carnage,
or at least to preserve the city OF
Jerusalem.
France pushed its sponsorship Of
q heavily-armed volunteer U. N. po-
lice corps to safeguard Jerusalem.
Hint Of the makeup of such force
was given in the suggestion that 1t
might include 100 New York police
volunteers, but no Russians. This
protective army would number from
500 to 800 members.
While the Palestine s i t u t i o n
leaped into a frantic state of flux,
the United States kept discreetly out
of it all in conformation to its re-
Gently adopted policy Of apparent
disinterest to what happens in the
Holy Land.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
MINERS:
Temporary

Let not the public be deceived by
the spell of quiet that is reigning in
the nations soft coal mines and the
temporary evaporation of John l.:
Lewis from the stage.
AS it looks now, this peaceful situ-
alton is good only until June 80.
Even while the miners continue to
chop coal in the pits, they make it
clear that they expect to go back
to their fishing on that date.
June 80 is the day the present
wage agreement between the United
Mine Workers and the coal operators
expires. It is possible, Of course,
that a new agreement may be
reached before then, but it is prac-
tically impossible to find anyone
who thinks so.
After Lewis tuss1e with Federal
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough in
which he and the union were fined
a total of 81, ,420, 900, the miners went
back to work after hearing John LIS
wish that they do so. This, how
ever, is regarded as merely a tenn
porary truce.
One of the reasons advanced for
Lewis cantankerous delay in coming
to terms on the pension dispute was
that the mine leader was eking out
the work stoppage as long as pos
sible in order to deplete the nations
coal reserves and so put himself in
a better bargaining position when
the contract negotiations came up.
That he accomplished that end
there is no gainsaying. Coal stocks
went down almost to zero all over
the country, resulting in curtailment
of steel production, a cut in rail
travel and various major and minor
industrial shutdowns.
It is a fact, too, that industry will
not have recovered its balance suffi-
GENTLY by June 30 to cope adequately
with whatever emergency Lewis
might precipitate this time.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
SHORTACE:
Farm Machinery

Behind the present shortage Of
farm machinery in the U. S. lies ?
now all-too-familiar story: More
such machinery is being produced
than ever before but It isn't enough
to meet the demand.
Waiting list for farm machinery
Is phenomenally long, yet 131 per
cent more tractors, cream separa-
tors and other pieces Of farm equip.
ment were produced In 1947 than
were available In 1889.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
OUTLOOK
The Dim Peace

Gen. Omar N. Bradley, army chief
of staff, was taking a dim view of the
possibilities Of peace.
In fact, he admitted to the senate
armed services committee, the pros
pect of a war is appreciably greater
now than it was three months ago.
Adding forcefully to the pattern of
evidence which U. S. armed forces
Representatives have been construct
ing, to support their requests for
military draft and universal train
ing, Bradley said:
''I think we would be neglecting
our duty if we did not try to tell you
that we are little bit more afraid
something will happen than we were
three months ago when we were talk
ing in terms of reserves"
And he added ''we are not so sure"
that war might not be looming in the
immediate future.
To his testimony Bradley appended
this clincher:
1--WE know that we are all speaking
about Russia"
There it was-a responsible ap-
praisal by the chief of staff of where
the present talking war between
Russia and the U. S. might lead.
What caused General Bradley to
think the situation is more critical
now than it was three months ago?
He didn't say, but there is only one
apparent explanation.
The tide of power politics has
turned against Russia and is moving
in favor of the western democracies.
With ERP beginning to channel
money and supplies into Europe, the
fields most favorable to Communist
growth-poverty, hunger and dis
satisfa ction-are starting to be re-
claimed.
AS far as getting control Of west
ern Europe was concerned, Commu-
nists saw their main chance go
glimmering when they lost the 1tal-
ian election. They have, in short,
gone beyond the stage where they
can carry out territorial acquisitions
through political coups.
In order to expand further now,
Russia probably would have to apply
force, which, in this case, would be
the Red army.
And that may be why General
Bradley thinks war is more OF
likelihood now than it was three
months ago.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
Money Talks

Now an inventor has come up with
a check that not only will talk but
will scream If it has been forged
or tampered with.
Burgess Smith, who used to do
legal counterfeiting for the U. S.
treasury, claims that his check will
identify itself verbally when it is
passed through q special machine.
And II it has been tampered with 1t
will emit a shrin screech, indicating
that il Is worthless.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
Easy to Pluck Chickens

Now chickens can be plucked
mechanically by water spray, says
National Patent council. Patent has
been granted on a device on which
fowl is vertically suspended head
downward in a frame, which is ro-
tated on it's vertical axis between
water pipes so that jets of water
strike against the grain on the
feathers. The fowl Is subjected to
a spray Of hot water at IS pounds
pressure to soften the feather fol-
ncles, followed by jets at about IS
degrees and $50 pounds pressure.
Practically all feathers thus may be
removed.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
Good BOokkeeper, Too

When George Washington accept.
ed command of the continental
army he said that he would make no
charge for his services but that ne
would keep an account Of his ex.
penses, which he "did not douot
congress would repay" His account
book, made out at close of the war,
shows that he expended more than
S1eO, 900 or $4,000 pounds in lawful
or coin currency. SO accurate were
Washington's accounts that the
treasury found a discrepancy OF
onlv 1890 of one dollar more due
Washington than his book shows.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
SKY-HICH:
Bombing

A team of air force and army
ordnance men is seeking better
methods Of hitting pin-point bomb
targets from extremely high alti-
tudes, out Of reach of most anti-air-
craft guns or fighter planes.
This joint organization is conduct
ing most of its secret tests in the
California desert at Muroc air base.
IT'S assignment is to carry out re-
search In bombing techniques. par
ticularly ut high attitudes.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
~ Ez:y5{ ] {S't!!!lg[:]Is{sy IL! l({:23SS
Case Of the Nozi Reception,
Or Misleading Propaganda
By BAUKHAGE /
Ne1VS Analyst and Commentator

WASHINGTON-Last month there memorandum
former war correspondents subject: Army Day. 1948 It sug
gested that perhaps had story that stood out mind
randum didn't state which preferred if but
posed that it didn't matter long it wasn't the next
the landing the Normandy beaches the Battle of the
the other important events of the last warom
mcophone connection with World War less
Gettysburg Chapultepec, Yorktown Hastings little haz
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
Roses, But Never
A Spray of YesU

There are many good garden
books, and for one had about come
to the conclusion that the final word
on gardening had been written. when
along came the Woman's Home Com
panion Garden Book (P. F. Collier
and Son corporation, p u b l i s h r,
New York City, with many new
angles. Edited by John c. Wister,
director Of the Arthur Hoyt Scott
horticultural foundation, Swarthmore
college, this book speaks with au-
thority.
LIT is correct" it states on page
472, ''to speak of narcissus, and also
correct to use the English term daf-
fodn for all species and varieties Of
narcissus. There is confusion about
this, popular impression being that
daffodils are the yellow kind, and
narcissus the white kinds. There also
has been confusion about the name
jonquil. All the daffodils of the jon
quill group are distinguished by their
narrow, garlic-like foliage and by
their chara cteristic bright yellow
color, which is the same shade
throughout the flower"
All of this interested me nightly
as 1 had just been studying a
photograph of a clump of narcisSus
in a popular magazines "name
this picture' contest. The leaves
on the plant shown were broad,
though the answer given by the
editor was "jonquiI.' Obviously,
even contest editors may err.
The narcissus discussion is a SAM
pie Of Editor Wister's directness in
this new garden book and there is
more like it on every page.
Not the least interesting writing
in this book is the foreward by the
well-loved Liberty Hyde Bailey, dean
of all gardeners, whose accomplish
ments need no eulogy here.
Another intriguing feature is the
discussion and diagramming of va
rious geographic areas according to
their geological and climatic condi-
tions. Most Of us. have been frost
bitten too often for comfort by blind
ly following the usual maps.
Additional data and measuring
qualities have been added to long
established material in making a
broader and yet more personal pre-
sentation of his problems to the
gardener in any given section of the
United States and Canada. The net
result is the Qualification of many
heretofore-vague statements.
It would be unfair to other ex-
celIent books to say that this is the
best garden book yet published.
In some ways it excels all others,
but still there are other volumes
which may contain more informa-
ton on specific subjects.
Perhaps the way to size up this
1,O0O-page volume is to say that re-
gardless of Whatever other garden
ing books you own, you need this
one too if you seek fresh angles on
your favorite hobby.
With its fine cover and paper stock,
it's "a Photographic pages in full
color, it's So pages of black and
white Illustrations and more than
100 how-to-do-it pictures, the Wom-
ans Home Companion Garden Book
IL completely satisfying.
Arizona sun., 1948-05-14
IndOnesian Farmer

Indonesia is a preponderantly
AGRICULTURAL country, the result of an
auspicious combination of favorable
climate and - especially in Java
"a soil enriched with the fertile
ashes and lava from numerous vol
canoes. Consequently, more than 30
per cent Of the Indonesian peoples
work their own farms, either full
time or at least as their principal
occupation.