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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-07

Sealed bids it duplicate. subject to the conditions contained herein. will be received until 200 pm, May 10, 1948, at Anchorage, Alaska, in the Office of Superintendent of Motive Power and Equipment of The Alaska Railroad and then publicly opened in this office for the painting of flee hundred (500) Gondola Cars At- tention is directed to the special conditions of bidding set forth in the specifications. Upon application. two sets of drawings and specifications will be supplied free to each car painting contractor interested in submitting a proposal. The above specifications must be returned to this office. Contractors requiring additional sets may obtain them by purchase from this office at a cost of 5000 per set, which will not be returned. Checks offered as pay ment for drawings and specifications must be made payable to the order of the Treasurer of the United States. Specifications will not be furnished to contractors who have consistently failed to submit pro- posals.
 First publication April g, 1948.
 Last publication, May 8, 1948.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-05-07
SALvATI0N ARMY TO
 HAVE SALE. SPECIAL
 EVENTS AT WEEKEND

Tomorrow night, May at 7:30 o'clock is the date and time. The place, the Salvation Army Hall on WiRoughby Avenue, for the spring sale of fancy work, childrens dress es, and handmade flowers for Me morial Day. Refreshments will also be served.
 This is sponsored by the Ladies Home League of The Salvation Army which will present a short program before the sale.
 On Sunday, special Mothers Day services will be held with the Home League women taking leading parts. At the afternoon service which com mences at 2:30 o'clock, gifts will be yiven to the oldest, youngest and newest mothers present, also the mother with the largest number or children present at the service.
 At 7:30 pm. there will be service with special music, poetry and tri- sutes to Mother with mothers talk ng part in the program.
 The public is cordially invited to lttend these services.
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Evening star., 1948-02-19
House Backing Seen
For Basic Wage Rise
BY the Asseciofed Press

Representative Lands, Republic
an, of Indiana said today the House
Labor Committee is about ready to
change its mind and approve a bill
to raise the minimum wage.
Mr.. Lands predicted a boost from
40 to 60 cents an hour.
Last year the committee kept a
wage increase bill bottled up.
"This year." Mr.. Lands told re-
porters, "it may be more popular
politically. I've talked it over with
several committee members who
were opposed to the bill. Now they
say they have changed their minds
and will support it.
He figured the committee will act
in about a. MONTH" Mr.. Lands
ranks next to the chairman.
The present minimum wage law
says all employers whose goods cross
State lines must pay their work.
ers at least 40 cents. an hour. ,..
President Truman has asked sew
eraI times that the limit be raised
House Republican leaders also got
behind a boost last year.
That was after passage Of the
Taft-Hartley Act, unpopular with
nearly all labor leaders. Some law
makers figured a minimum wage
boost might soothe the feelings OF
union officials a bit.
But the Labor Committee balked.
Several members were against the
idea then of holding out a mini
mum wage boost to labor to make
up for passing the aft-Hartley law.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Better School Pay Means
Better Teaching Group Told

Better salaried school teachers
would mean better teaching and
less child delinquency, Lester T,
Walter told the Citizens Forum Of
Columbia Heights last night.
Mr.. Walter, principal Of the Cor
don Junior High School, where the
meeting was held, said the teachers
are going to ask for 10 days sick
leave with pay for personal illness
and five days leave for such emerg-
encies as death in the family. Un-
der present conditions teachers
must pay substitutes when they are
out.
DR.. Lyman r. Kebler, chairman
of the Safety and Health Commit
tee of the association, told the men,
bers of the present-day menace Of
rats in the United States.
Forty million dollars worth Of
foodstuffs and garins are destroyed
a year." DR.. Kebler pointed out. He
pointed out rats also transmit in
fectious diseases.
The meeting was conducted by DR..
G. J. Fernald, president.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Koop Heads D. {. Unil
OF Siiqma Delta Chi

Theodore Koop, Washington news
director of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System, last night was elected
president Of the District Chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi, national profess
sional journalistic fraternity. The
annual election took place in the
Press Club.
Mr.. Koop succeeds Luther Huston
of the New York Times, Washington
Bureau. Mr.. Huston was made ma
tional president at recent society
convention here.
Other chapter officers elected last
night for 1948 are Edward Jameson,
Washington correspondent of the
Houston Chronicle, vice president;
Dick Fitzpatrick, associate editor of
Quill magazine, secretary, and Law
renee Sullivan, business news writer,
treasurer. Mr.. Fitzpatrick and Mr..
Sullivan were reelected.
Grifing Bancroft, chairman of
the standing committee of the
Congressional Press Galleries, and
Sol Taishoff, publisher of Broad
casting Magazine, were elected to
the chapters Board of Directors
Peter Edison, Scripps-Howard COL
umnist, was reelected to the board.
The national society's annual
citations for outstanding Washing
ton news coverage were awarded to
Wallace r. Deuel., Chicago Daily
News foreign service; Herman Lowe
Philadelphia Inquirer, and James
Marlowe, Associated Press.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Three Held for Questioning
In $50 900 Harvard HoIdup
BY the Asseeiafed Press

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. 1e.-
Police today held three persons for
questioning in connection with a
$50,000 holdup at Cambridge, Mass.
Detective Sergt. Peter Stewart
said Anthony Novicki, 80, of Ded-
ham, Mass, was arrested when he
met q couple alighting from plane
at Miami international Airport yes
terday.
The couple, Benjamin Frank
Tilley, 80, and his wife, Jeanette
D. Tilley, SO, Of Boston, also was
sought for questioning in the rob-
berry, Sergt. Stewart said.
Detective Pat Perdue and two
Massachusetts officers were await
ing arrival of the Tilleys from the
North, hoping they would lead them
to Novicki.
The Tilleys and Novicki were
taken into custody, booked on va
grancy charges and held for inves-
tigation, Sergt. Stewart said.
In Cambridge, District Attorney
George e. Thompson said Noyicki
would be charged with armed rob-
berry and the Tilleys with being
accessories after the robbery of the
Harvard Cooperative Society on
January 8.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
B-29 Trainers Fly From Reich
To Middle East, Avoid BuIkuns

United States to Germany. On ar
rival in Germany few-from single
ships to four or five-are assigned
from a nine-plane squadron to make
the run to Dharan and back.
The training flights are so planned
that one squadron Is In the Euro
pean area most Of the time.
But with the exception Of the
visiting B-29s, the only actual Amer
ican aerial combat unit in Europe
today is the 86th Fighter Group.
"a fighter group normally consists
of three squadrons Of "a planes each
or a total of u aircraft0
While jet fighters have been sent
to the European theater at times
for test purposes none of these
planes is regularly stationed there
by the Air Force. The seth uses
wartime Pals.
Aside from the fighter group, the
American Air Force in Germany
consists of two troop carrier groups,
a reconnaissance squadron, a wealth.
er observation group and supporting
units such as communication Or
ganizations.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Anderson Says Agents
|0f Ferguson Group
Seized Office Files
Mihs As.aeiafsd Prs,

Secretary Of Agriculture Anderson
said last night that Senate Commit
tee agents, without notice to major
officials Of his department, recently
seized office records there for the
commuters commodity speculation
investigation. The files were re-
turned promptly on request, how
ever, he said.
Mr.. Anderson, confirming a report
Of the seizure, told q reporter he
had no objections to the files being
subpoenaed. And he wanted It made
clear there was no raid"
"But do think the way to do it
would have been to bring the sub
poena to my ofIice or some such
place, and not to serve 1t on the
girls" he said.
StenograRhers Called.
Mr.. Anderson said his first infor-
nation on the matter came when
stenographers were subpoenaed to
transcrihe shorthand notes which
were among the files taken. That
came on February 10, about TWO
weeks later.
He said the papers were needed
for department business and he
called Attorney General Clark
about it.
"He told me to demand the return
Of the material" Mr. Anderson re-
lated. .....
He said he telephoned Chairman
Ferguson Of the Appropriations SUBJ
committee making the speculation
inquiry, and got the material back
'.in about 80 minutes" I
Doubts Part by Ferguson.
Mr.. Anderson expressed belief that
the seizure was carried out without
Senator Ferguson's knowledge. He
said he did not believe the Senator
would have agreed to such a pro-
cedure.
The papers, the Secretary said, re-
lated to the Lathrop Grain Co., a
Midwest concern whose operations
in purchasing grain for Mexico have
been under scrutiny.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
CzechosIovakia Tense
As Reds Campaign for
Parliament Majority
BY the Associated Press

PRAGUE, Feb. 19.-Growing
tension is gripping Czechoslo-
vakia in a prediction CAM
paign.
The date for the election has
never been agreed on. Parliament
and its committees move slowly in
an attempt to draft a new constitu-
ton before an election is held.
The Communists want to win a
parliamentary majority. Last time
their total was 38 per cent, but for
more than a year the Social Demo-
Gratis have gone along on major pro-
grams, giving the Communists So
per cent edge.
The Social Democrats have been
saying louder and louder that they
are independent. Some Of the bit
terest charges Of Communist ter
roism in factories have come from
Social Democrat sources.
The last week has seen an upsurge
in charges. The Communists as
serted the right wing parties were
plotting a revolution before the
election; right wingers said the
Communists were trying to do away
with Parliament and were using the
security police as political servants.
Anti-Reds Appeal for Funds.
The Communist Party issued a
statement calling on workers, peas
ants and party followers for wig
lance against the seeds of reac-
1ion." The National Socialist
Party, most outspoken Of the anti
Communist parties in Bohemia and
Mcravia, made an appeal today for
funds ito help victims Of Com
munist terror in the factories"
Premier Klement Gottwald, a
Communist, charged the right wing
parties were preparing a putsch to
set up government Of civil serv-
ants and head off Communist sue
cess in the elections.
Strained meetings of the Ma
tional Front, the coalition OF party
leaders which steers the govern
ment, and Of the cabinet added to
the tension this week. President
Eduard Benes was known to be
squirting new peace-making efforts.
'-''" Politics Argued Nightly ''@'-' .
Hundreds of persons gather night
ly in the Vaclavski Namesti, Prague's
main square, to argue politics.
Two nights ago Alecei Cepicka,
the Communist Minister of Internal
Trade, was booed when he entered
the winter stadium to attend the
Canadian Czechoslovak hockey
match.
I'VE are cold; give us clothing, "
the audience jeered.
Cepicka recently froze textile sales
and then diverted their wholesale
distribution to state centers, taking
them out Of private dealers hands.
Evening star., 1948-02-19

Clifford was 40 Lersy A. wilson.
when he took the same job In 1925
Like MIR. Clifford, Mr.. Wilson
started his business life with the
telephone company as young man
fresh out Of school.
Born in Terre Haute, Ind, in
1901, Mr.. Wilson was graduated from
Rose Polytechnic Institute there In
1921. He started to work steadily
for the company in 1922 after work
ing during the summer Of 1919 while
he was in college.
In 1927 he became traffic super
intendent Of the Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Co. A few years later he
transferred to A. T. & T.'s New York
headquarters. From then on he
moved up fast.
In 1912 he was made general
commercial engineer, and two years
later he was elected vice president.
In 1916 he became financial vice
president. With appointment as
president, he was also named a
member Of the Board Of Directors.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Southeastern u. to Give
Course in SuIesmunship

A salesmanship course is sched-
uled to begin March / at Southeast
ern University, 1876 G street NV,
under joint sponsorship of the
school and the Sales Executive Club
of Washington.
Glasses, meeting once each week
for two hours, will be open to sales
statesmen and prospective
statesmen, it was announced. Not
more than 60 students will be &C
cepted for the course, officials said.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
By the Associated Press

B-29 Superfortresses are flying
training missions from American
bases in Germany to the Middle
East.
Their course describes a careful
half circle to avoid the politically
delicate area of the Balkans.
However, the giant bombers do
fly over Tel Aviv in Palestine on
their way to Dharan in Saudi
Arabia.
That huge wartime base is being
used as a terminus by agreement
with the Saudi Arabian government.
The B-29s make the 3,600-mile
Jump nonstop, headquarters of the
Strategic Air Command said today.
The flights are part Of a general
training program designed to give
air crews experience on long trips
under various climatic conditions
and to familiarize them with re-
mote routes.
The number of B-29s making the
hops to the Middle East is compare
lively small. They are part of rou-
tine training missions from the
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Auto Purchaser Wins Suit
On Non-ResaIe Clause
Ry fha Asseeiaisd Press

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Feb. 1s.-
The purchaser won the first Ohio
case involving a non-resale clause in
an automobile purchase contract.
A Common Pleas court deliber-
ated 10 minutes yesterday before
finding for Dean Slavens, charged
by Watkins Motor Co. OF selling a
car to Bruce Stapleton, Ashland,
KY, dealer after having signed an
agreement to keep the car for six
months.
The motor company asked $606
damages, alleging Mr.. Slavens sold
the car for $2,5s0 after purchasing
it for 1888. He had signed an
agreement not to, sell the car for
six months without first Offering it
to the Watkins company, the suit
alleged,
Evening star., 1948-02-19

watch off his wrist and into his
pocket, but the bandits found it.
Suddenly, the driver discovered
the car was almost out of gas. The
bandits headed back into town and
stopped at gas station. Mr.. Selby
said pistol was trained on him and
he didn't dare move. The bandits
paid for the gas with his money
and headed for Seat Pleasant, Md.
There, they drove around awhile,
talking in whispers. MI. Selby
gathered from snatches of CONVEX
sation that they were planning to
hold up drugstore and liquor
store. At one point, they pulled
up in front of drugstore and one
man got out. He returned a few
minutes later, held whispered
consultation and they drove on.
Given Cab Fare; Taped to Tree.
At some point in Seat Pleasant
Mr.. Selby isn't sure just where
he was ordered out of the car, one
of the bandits gave him SO cents
for cab fare and he was taped to
a tree with adhesive tape. A few
minutes after the bandits drove OF.
Mr. Selby freed himself and hailed
a passing motorist, who drove him
to the nearest telephone to call
police.
At 8:45 pm, Ben G. Thompson,
manager of the Suburban Liquor
Store on Hunt place, was prepar-
ing to close the store when he saw
two colored men struggling to open
the door, which stuck a little. A
customer, leaving the store, opened
it for the visitors. One of the BAN
dts held the pistol on Mr.. Thomp-
son while the second hold-up man
covered" George Belden, Uni
versity of Maryland student who
works in the store a. few nights a
week. A customer came in, asked
for package of cigarettes, saw
what was going on and "froze." "
The bandits took $3.50, according to
Mr.. Thompson.
At 600 Bernard B. Larrick, CO.
owner of the Salb Apothecary, was
visited by two bandits who ordered
him to the rear room, of the store.
Mr.. Larrick said they scooped SIPS
out of cash drawer, hit him in
the back of the head with the pistol
butt and made their escape. Mr..
Larrick, g., was treated at Casualty
Hospital, where two stitches were
taken in his head.
Agree ON Description.
The victims agreed generally on
the description of the two men seen
by all three, police said. The first
man was described as S feet
IL inches tall, slender build, aged
1s to 20 years, wearing blue Navy
type raincoat and dark cap. The
second man was described as 5 feet
6 inches tall, very slender, aged Is
to 20 years, wearing green base
ball cap and a waist-length Army
type field jacket. The victims
agreed that the second mans left
eye blinked continuously and looked
swollen, as If he had been in a fight.
Mr.. Selby described the third man
as young, heavily built, dark
skinned and wearing leather
jacket.
The kidnapping victim said he had
worked at the Naval Gun Factory
from 1927 to 1884 and from 1888 to
the present. He is a member Of
Elks Lodge No. is, the same lodge
to which Police Superintendent
Robert j. Barrett belongs.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Collection of Mementos
On Gundhi Exhibited

A collection of Mohandas K.
Gandhi mementos went on display
in the National Archives exhibition
hall this week.
The collection includes consular
reports on the Indian leaders arrest
in 1922 and his 21-day fast in 1924.
The Gandhi display will be shown
daily from 8:45 am. to Sis pm.
and on Sundays from 1:30 to s
pm, until mid-March.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Italian Parties Agree
To Bar Vote Violence
BY the Assoeiaied Press

ROME, Feb. 19.-Leading political
parties agreed today to ban violence
in this springs election campaigning.
Communist Umberto Terracini,
president Of the Constituent Assem-
bly,, proposed the truce. Signers in
cluded Christian Democrats, Com
munists and o-Communist Social
lists. It calls for the parties to re-
spect freedom Of speech for all ad-
versaries and refrain from disturb
ing opponents rallies.
The republic will choose its first
Parliament April Is.
Evening star., 1948-02-19

Jenn a. seiDy. FOllce SalQ the
same bandits, all colored, robbed
a liquor store at 4347 Hunt place
NE. and, II minutes later, held up
pharmacy in the 300 block OF H
street NE. In the second holdup,
the co-owner of the store was
beaten about the head with the
butt Of a pistol.
Car Found Abandoned.
An hour after the second holdup,
Mr.. Selby's car was found aban-
doned in the 900 block of Fourth
street NV. Police planned to ex-
anime the automobile for finger
prints today.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton came into the case last mid
night to check on the kidnapping
and stolen car angles, but with
drew from the case today after the
United States attorneys Office de-
cided the kidnapping was subordinate
to the robbery and that the case
would be pursued under the robbery
provisions of the District code.
As calls began coming in from
the victims, Montgomery, Prince
Georges and Fairfax County police
were alerted. ALI bridges were
blocked and all District police were
told to be on the lookout for the
car.
Selby's Car Spotted.
The onlv oatroIman who appar-
emily spotted the car before it was
abandoned was Pvt. James w. II.
Poland of the Traffic Division. Pvt.
Poland, directing traffic at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV, reported he saw n car occu-
pied by three colored men speeding
past five stop lights.
He commandeered a cab and gave
chase. Before he lost the car in
traffic, he had taken down the tag
numbers. They were the numbers
of Mr.. Selby's car.
MIR. Selby gave this account Of his
misadventure:
He left home shortly after 7 pm.
for his Elks lodge meeting. At
Fourth and H streets NV. he
stopped for a red light. A colored
man opened the right-hand door OF
the car. fourishing a .38-caliber
pistol. While the first man was CIV
ing Mr.. Selby some unsolicited ad-
vice about keeping his car doors
unlatched, a second man flung open
the left-hand door and pushed the
motorist across the seat. A third
man climbed in the back seat.
Take SIS, Wrist Watch.
The car roared out East Capitol
street, sometimes reaching speed
of IS miles an hour. At the Ben
ming road and Minnesota avenue
overpass, the bandits stopped,
searched Mr.. Selby and took SIS, his
Elks lodge ring and a wrist watch
valued at $75. He had slipped the
Evening star., 1948-02-19
French Assembly Votes
Strict Price-Curb Bill
BY the Associaisd Press

PARIS, Feb. 19-The National
Assembly adopted today stringent
price control bill. It was another
step in Premier Robert Schuman's
efforts to stabilize the wage and
price structure and arrest Initiation.
The bill imposes severe penalties
for .unjustifled increases In whole
sale or retail prices above the Janu-
ary Is, level. Those raising prices
must show the increases are justified
by higher production or operating
costs.
Evening star., 1948-02-19
One Killed, 81 Injured
In Truck-TroIIey Crash
BY the Associafsd Press

By HSSUCtUIS0
PITTSBURGH, Feb. ia woman
was killed and 80 other persons were
injured in the collision of 3 trolley
car and truck.
The woman killed in the crash
yesterday was identified as Mrs. Will
liam w. Thompson, 81. The force
of the impact, police said, ripped
open the front of the trolley as large
pieces of Stag from the truck flew
through the air and buried Mrs.
Thompson.
Evening star., 1948-02-19

using his car to
make their get
away from two
store holdups.
The kidnapping
victim was John
A. Selby, 81, Of
1880 e street
NE, W no set
out for past
exalted rulers
n ig h t a t his
ElkS lodge last
e v e ming and
wound up tied
to a tree in Seat
Pleasant, Md.
pr1fca co}f3 tho
Evening star., 1948-02-19

dent Of Aneri-
can Telephone
& Telegraph Co.
Clifford moved
from the presi-
dency to become
chairman Of the
board, q position
.vacan t since
1923. Such q
move is tradi-
tional for elder
statesmen Of the
business world.
Mr.. wilson
will be Al this
SATURDAY.. Mr..
Evening star., 1948-02-19
[. A. Wilson Assumes
A. I. &T. Presidency,
Clifford Heads Board
~ tho Assoeiu,sd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Walter 8.
Clifford, ruler Of an industrial EN-
pire for 23 years, was succeeded yes
terday by Leroy A. Wilson as presi-
Evening star., 1948-02-19
Three Youthful Bandits
Steal Car, Bind Driver,
In Robbery Getaway

Three youthful bandits were
sought by police today for kid
naping q Naval Gun Factory
painter, tying him to a tree and
Evening star., 1948-02-19
FOUND.

FOTICE PUPPY, approx. 2 months, brown
with black face, found in carole High
land, 81. 6357. -21
Evening star., 1948-02-19

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