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The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
NOTICE

UIUILeuS O4 ErIoh--44 e. s cautioned agaInsU o44O 4.,s water faucets to run anu a-e requested Uo repar any Iean5 In water pipes. The water sit uatiOn Is critical. II a resident is found wasting water. ms water supply will be shut off until such leak IS repaired or until he complies with this re- quest.
 COMMON COUNCIL
 TOWN OF WRANGEL
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
OCEAN MAIL AFIRE
 AT DUTCH HARB0R

SEATTLE - The motorsh in Ocean Mail, With 200 tons Of wheat aboard and bound from Seattle to Shanghai. put into port al Dutch HarbOr after crew mem bers were unable to extinguish a blaze in No hold. The fire broke out Monday.
 The Coast Guard cutter Cedar today was taking aboard the wheat and said it had removed all equipment from it's No. l hold 10 take the grain from the ship.
 The Ocean Mail is an S476-toL vessel of the American Mail Line.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
CALL FOR BIDS

The City will accept bids, begin ming April 8, on purchase of the former Light Plant truck and one grader-tractor no longer used by the City. Bids must be in by April ID and the City reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 COMMON COUNCIL
 Town of Wraugel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
POSTPONED

The basketball game scheduled TOT tomorrow night between the Stikine Stampeders and the Wrangeu Hi All-Stars of 1921-22. has been postponed until Friday. April 16. It is reported the date was adVanc- ed so boards would be long enough to pull - something that is not covered in basket ball rules at this time.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
ASK FOR. BUILDERS

Anyone Interested in building 2 floats for the City should contact the Harbor Committee or see City Clerk, Robert Wickman.
 TOWN COUNCIL
 Town of Wrangell
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
NOTICE

Boats must be removed from the Light Plant loading ramp and from alongside the ramp at once or the City will take steps to remove them.
 TOWN COUNCIL
 Harbor Committee
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02
HAVE SON

Winston Babe, nine pounds six ounces, arrived at Bishop Rowe General Hospital Saturday March 27, son of Mr and Mrs. Winston Davies.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02

FACE FOLIAGE CULTIVATORS - ATTENTION A prize will be awarded the best beard in town at the ELKS DAYS OF '98 DANCE
 JUNE 5. 1948
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-04-02

Aiaska Historical Library Juneau. AlaakA
Evening star., 1948-03-04
The Great Pinup

In one of it's very first acts Prague'S new
Communist dictatorship has decreed that
all schools in Czechoslovakia will hence
forth display pictures of Generalissimo
Stain. Presumably, his kind, smiling face
will look down daily on the assembled
young in every classroom in the land, from
kindergartens on up to postgraduate
lecture halls in the universities.
Presumably, too, as elsewhere through
out the satellite empire OF the new
democracies," public buildings, without
exception, will have his portrait adorning
the outside IN heroic dimensions of about
twenty by thirty feet. There will be the
thousands and thousands OF his likenesSes,
small ones and gigantic ones. The Czechs,
just like the Bulgars, the Poles, the Ro-
manians, ETC., will never fail to see him.
He will be everywhere-an omnipresent
icon, looking as pleasant and benevolent
as anybody could be.
Of course, over here in America thing
like this puzzles us, and very probably
great numbers of Czechs, who have not
had enough time to get used to it yet
must be puzzled by it, too. In free world,
pinups like Betty Cradle or Marlene
Dietrich are more or less understandable,
and one can fall secretly in love with them
in the quiet of ones room without really
being too serious about it, especially when
one remembers that they are nothing but
pictures, after all, framed in modest
dimensions of about five inches by seven.
But the same cannot be said OF the
great pinup behind the iron curtain. If
one lives within the Soviet domain. one
Evening star., 1948-03-04
DR.. Bowmun's Retirement

The announcement that DR.. Isaiah Bow
man has decided to retire from the pres
idency of Johns Hopkins University has
been received in Washington with regret
that the great Baltimore center of learning
is to lose it's principal executive officer but
with pleasure in the realization that free
dom from regular duty will enable him
more conveniently to pursue scholarly
interests which are very dear to him.
The world properly regards DR.. Bowman
as geographer since it was in that branch
of science that he first achieved fame.
But his Interpretation of his speciality
includes every aspect of human aspiration
and attainment. He is actually an ethnog
raphist in the largest meaning of that
term The whole field of culture has been
his realm.
Yet he has possessed the ability to con-
centrate successfully-a power denied to
many otherwise gifted contemporaries.
His "millionth' map of South America and
his historical geography of the United
States are but two examples of DR.. Bow
mans particular talent. They cost him
long years of labor. Meanwhile, he served
as director of the American Geographical
Society, chairman OF the National research
Council and vice chairman of the Science
Advisory Board and special adviser to the
Department of State. He also was pres
ident of the Association of American
Geographers, the international Geograph-
ical Union and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. When
he came to Johns Hopkins in 1885 he
was an acknowledged leader in education
with background experience at Harvard
and Yale His first problems in Baltimore
were financial. Having balanced the
budget, he set about developing new scho-
lastic standards and new stabillties In
teaching. He accomplished those reforms
with tact and patience.
Now still young at SO. DR.. Bowman elects
to give up his administrative obligations.
That naturally does not mean that he pro-
poses to "veget0.e" or "ruct away" The
world WHICH he has studied with so much
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Redistribution Comes First

Advocates of a cost-of living increase
for Federal employees may be expected to
continue their efforts to induce Congress
to pass some sort of f1at-pay-raise leglsla-
ton, irrespective of what is done about
reclassification of salaries. But President
Truman and the Civil Service Commission
have placed the emphasis where 1t properly
belongs-on reclassification rather than
sporadic piecemeal revision of the Federal
pay structure.
The piecemeal approach of recent years
already has thrown the Governments
whole pay setup for the classified service
out of kilter. The pay raises granted in
1945 and 1946 were based on sliding
scale percentages that favored employees
in the lower brackets. Those in some of
the higher brackets were awarded smaller
percentage increases and those receiving
ceiling" pay received no benefits at all.
The basic salary schedule of 1923 thus
has been thrown out of joint by patchwork
attempts in intervening years to bring
Government pay more in line with out
side wages.
Another across s-the-board pay boost now
with or without lifting of the ten-thou-
sand-dollar ceiling-will only further dis
tort the pay framework and aggravate the
inequities now tending to disrupt the
morale of some groups of employees. The
Civil Service Commission undoubtedly has
the best interests of all employees at heart
when it urges Congress to abandon fiat or
percentage increases in favor OF an overall
revision of the Government pay schedules
1t proposes to accomplish this revision by
enactment of completely new classifica-
ton program under which all employees
would be grouped by grades only. There
would be no professional, scientific, cler-
ical and similar classes. Such a regarding
would have the effect of reducing the
number of grades from As to approx
mately II, thus greatly simplifying the
classification system. The plan has much
to commend it.
Congress should heed the advice of the
Civil Service Commission and give priority
to an overhaul of the outmoded reclassi-
fication law, rather than to pending pay
raise legislation If it concentrated on
this necessary reform, there is no good
reason why the required legislation could
not be passed at this session. Under the
commissions plan, the new schedule would
go into effect automatically upon passage,
with but little administrative labor in
volved. The cost of the program would
be whatever Congress saw fit to make
1t. The revised system concevably could
be put into operation with but slight
increase in payroll costs. Or the pay for
the new grades could be raised as might
be deemed advisable. The important thing
is that reclassification legislation should
be taken up now-ahead of and in lieu of
any other Federal pay proposals.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Charity for Helpless Animals

To the Editor OF The Star
While the Community Chest Is the subject
of constructive criticism with recommended
tions for the elimination OF agencies not
strictly charitable, we thoughtfully should con-
slider the meaning of the word "charity"-in It's
popularity limited sense. Then we should apply
that definition to the frequently criticized
Animal Rescue League.
If charity is to be restricted to cases OF COM
plete dependence, what more obviously COM
plies with that than the necessities OF our
domesticated dumb creatures? Those who
oppose civic responsibility for animal protec-
ton surely are ignorant of the service rendered
humanity by domestic animals, and likewise OF
the revolving suffering prevailing among the
neglected Or must 1t be concluded that these
objectors do not know what charity means, IN
any sense?
Ignorance can be corrected by inquiry OF
those sources with statistical information,
organizations which deal daily and nightly with
the plight of injured and abandoned animals
on the streets and in the alleys OF our city
Here is pure charity, with no portion OF prof1t
in it, except for our PHYS sake
M. W. KIRSHER.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Good Work by the Police

The police who participated in the ap-
parent solution of the ruthless murders
last Friday night of two taxicab drivers
have we'll earned the concentrations not
only of their superiors, but of the public
generally. The promptneSs and vigor with
which the entire department has moved to
meet the latest outbreak of holdups and
killings here are reassuring to law-abiding
citizens and should be disturbing to law
less elements of this area.
Spurred on by Superintendent Barrett,
members of the homicide and robbery
squads at headquarters and uniformed men
in the precincts joined in relentless man
hunt over the week end that was ex-
panded Monday night with the Staying of a
grocer in his store. Some of the investi-
gators working on "hot' tips, missed sleep
and meals in their effort to run down
clues and find the criminals. Under orders
from Major Barrett, they were prepared,
if necessary, to forgo leave and to engage
in extra-duty nightwork for an indefinite
period.
The statements signed by the two
brothers under arrest, who allegedly have
confessed their parts in the murders Friday
night, seem to clear up all angles of the
taxicab shootings. The murderer of
Grocer Meyer Meyrovitch remains at large,
however. Until he is caught the police
cannot afford to relax. If they have as
much success in solving this case as they
had in the taxicab crimes, the department
will fully merit the commendation of the
whole community.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

must take him seriously. And besides
unlike Betty Cradle, he does not wear
tights, and obviously he would not look
half so attractive even If he did Why
therefore, do his minions insist on dis
playing him in practically every available
empty space? Why this colossal exhibi
tionistic urge?
Perhaps the psychiatrists, when they
learn how to psychoanalyze dictators, will
have an answer to the question some day.
Meanwhile, we can only speculate on how
men and women must feel when they weep
over their lost liberty and see nothing,
anywhere, but pictures of Stain smiling
benevolently at them through their tears.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Fayors Jewish Army

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Palestine issue is squarely up to the
Jews. and it is respectfully and sincerely sug-
gested that fighting force sufficiently power
full should be recruited among world Jewry to
oppose the Arabs and ultimately bring about
their complete collapse.
World Jewry should not expect the gentle
popuation of the world to do its bidding while
they remain safely in the background urging
others to battle. H. G. LEEF.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
A Seventieth Anniversary

Three score and ten! A ooodly span Of
years,
Marking the fight Of sspenty bright
springs
That crotDd the memory Utth crototnoz
things.
And Dho shall say ,ohen seventy appears
Old age has come? The soul that pioneers
Is born anew Nth each brave flight OF
1Dtngs.
Into the miracle that morning brings; :
And he is al,oays young pho has no tears.
He uho believes the best Is yet to be,
Will hear the melodies his ears expect;
His spirit uiH direct his eyes to see
The beauty understanding can detect;
And faith ,Dtu ornament and multiply
The blessings of each day that passes by.
ALICE HARTICH.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

care and affection needs. him. He doubt
less will be as busy in his retirement as he
ever was But he will be his own master,
and his friends will rejoice in his ernanci-
patton from routines.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.


@. How many school boys and girls are en-
ployed?-S. B. C.
A. More than 100000 boys and girls OF
teen age were employed in April of this year,
according to figures compiled by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. The total comprised g.
48O0 900 boys IA to 19 years. including 100000 in
the armed forces, and 100000 girls in
the same age group. In both instances the
numbers were far above normal.
@. Did any Of the ancient writer's explain
how the Egyptian pyramids were built?-C. ].
A. Herodotus describes the method employed.
The smooth surface pyramids were first built
as step pyramids, like a staircase Of steps.
landing by means of machines constructed Of
short wooden beams, and then lifted to the
second. The top Of the pyramid was the first
portion to be smoothly faced and finished, the
builders proceeding downward.
O. When was the last Sunday In September
designated Gold Star Mothers Day?-H M. B.
A. The Act of June %, 1886 (49 Stat 1895
ch 1867 established the last Sunday in Septem-
Der as Gold Star Mothers Day.
O. Who starred in Lady Windermere's Fan"
when It was produced In New York about the
time of World War I7-F. o. D.
A. In the 1914 production. Margaret Anglin
played the part Of Mrs Erlynne.
@. What proportion Of the human body is
blood?-D. T..
A. Psychologists vary In their estimates, but
II probably amounts to something like one
tenth of the weight Of the body. healthy
normal person may lose as much as one-third
Of his blood without O. fatal result.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Arms for the Jews
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star
Since November 90, ls47, when headlines
announced that the U. N. had reached an
agreement on a major problem, the Partition
ing of Palestine, newspapers have been carry
ing daily accounts of fragrant violations Of
the U. N decision by the Arabs.
Our Government has imposed an arms en-
barge on the Middle East. This serves only
to strengthen the hands Of the Arabs, who
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Editorial Commended

To the Editor of The Star:
Please let me thank you for the exceedingly
fine editorial Dangerous Legislation" In The
Star for Sunday, February 20. Can't We have
more on the same and closely related sub1ectsP
It seems to me that We need them.
JOHN A. SIMPSON.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
toriter, although 1t is permissible for a
,Driter knoaDn to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

Interesting is a disclosure that jet
propelled planes and missiles are indis-
criminate. In their fuel requirements,
operating on anything from coal oil to
Napoleon brandy. Sounds like night life
In the '20S
Evening star., 1948-03-04

A Vassar dean calls man the lost sex;
and rightly, too. His last citadel fell when
an Atlanta woman in slacks invaded
pants pressed -while-you- wait emporium.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

A Cleveland Investigator finds women's
memories much better than mems.
Uneven, though-as in recalling every
thing worn at wedding in 1919 and not
knowing what's trumps.
Evening star., 1948-03-04

A critic of our State Department and
foreign policies calls them firm in all the
wrong places-like the mattress in one
dollar tourist home.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question OF
isfs Bureau 1 ss street Ne sn'S WasSinson e e
Please incloss three (3) cents for return postage
Evening star., 1948-03-04

The Army's purchase of 161,172 chairs is
hard to explain, unless we're getting back
to the old between-wars delusion that we'll
sit the next one out.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Time Wasted at License Bureau

line w dStSu at LlSSiSS Dui eau
To the Editor of The Star:
Any one of the hundreds who stood In line
and waited two and three hours for their auto
licenses is aware of the lack of organization,
bordering on sheer incompetence. within the
licensing organization.
1t is nothing new. Every year busy citizens
waste full days or parts of two days being
herded from window to window without any
semblance of a first-come -first-served order
being maintained.
To him who had plenty of time to ponder
the situation while wasting those valuable
hours, the reason is simply lack Of planning.
The remedy is equally simple: Get some one
to organize the licensing department more
efficiently than it is organized now.
The incompetence is at the top.
Representative Dirksen Of the House District
Committee and Senator Buck Of the Senate's
will receive your comments.
THOMAS 3. MECHLING.
Evening star., 1948-03-04
Readers on Daylight Time

KeaQefS OH DdylSAt hhS
To the Editor of The Star:
The partially blind and those with failing
evesieht are greatly benefited by daylight
saving time during the spring and summer
months when they can be outside in the
evenings. To most of these people the dark
ness of night means total blindness. Last
summer many partially blind persons expressed
their sincere appreciation for daylight saving.
I think this Is truly unselflsh reason for day
light saving time. All the arguments l nave
seen against daylight saving seem to be tainted
with personal selfshness. Parents will be
Obliged to spend more time with their chill
dren, but speaking as a parent, believe that
to be great blessing.
I sincerely hope that we have daylight saving
time every year hereafter.
HOMER G. WHITING.
Manager National Workshops for the Blind
Products.
To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to add my protest to others you are
receiving against so called daylight saving
time. 1t seems to be designed for those who
play tennis or golf. I have never seen any
advantages outlined for those who don't in
dulge in sports, and certainly I have never
experienced anything other than inconvenience
in this custom.
If there is any real sense in saving an hour
of daylight, 1t would seem to be more appro-
pirate to apply the custom to winter, when
the dark closes in so early. r. SCOTT.
To the Editor of The Star:
1t might interest those who oppose daylight
saving time in your columns to know that
"the Board of Trade and few other organi-
cations" are not the only ones who disagree
with them as to its desirability. Last spring
I obtained names of some 80 or 40 neighbors
on petition favoring daylight saving time in
just a single evening, and many of these
were persons with small children. Only one
person did not favor it, man who goes to
work about $50 am, and he said he wasn't
really greatly opposed to it. Also, majority
of citizens associations voted in favor OF 1t,
and they are not influenced by the Board of
Trade. M E.. M.
To the Editor of The Star:
I agree with many OF the writer's who are
opposed to daylight saving time. This practice
is very tiresome for middle-aged and elderly
persons such as carpenters, bricklayers and
others, who have to spend long hours outdoors
during the hot summer months.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-06-11
Oklahoma Prince Hall MasOns
Denied Injunction Sought Against
York Rite Grand Lodges

lodge; Isaac James Holmes, and
Andrew Fuller failed to carry out
a written and signed agreement to
merge with the Prince Hall lodge
after a fact finding" trip to Bos-
ton in l945 to search the records
in an effort TO determine just
which of the two organizations
was the direct descendant from
the Prince Hall lodge.
Testimony fought out that the
Eureka Grand lodge committee,
Pogg, Holmes, and Fuller, agreed
that the records showed the
Prince Hall lodge is a direct des-
cendant but failed to follow
through with the merger. W. L.
Davis and B. c. Hodges were sent
to Boston by the national grand
lodge at the time to be present at
the findings of the committee. At
ty Hall and Atty. ]. J. Bruce of
Oklahoma City represented the
local Prince Hall lodge on the
trip.
The court room was filled with
spectators, mostly Masons,
throughout the five day hearing.
Attorneys for the plaintiff were:
Amos T. Hall, J. J. Bruce, Primus
c. Wade, Charles P. Gotwolds of
Muskogee, and c. R. Nixon. The
defendants were represented by
}. ]. Roberts, and G. B. Kline.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-06-11
Charles Rogers TO
Address St. Paul
Branch Of NAACP

Charles Rodgers, St. Paul pub
lie school teacher, will be the
principal speaker at the regular
membership meeting Of the St.
Paul Branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Colored People on Tuesday eve
ming, June Is. The meeting will
be held at the Halle @. Brown
House, $50 Aurora, at 8 pm, and
is open to the public.
The first Negro teacher assigned
to Maxfield school, Mr.. Rodgers
has just completed one year OF
service. He will relate his expe-
riences as a school teacher and
discuss the question Of integra-
ton of Negro teachers in the St.
Paul public school system.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-06-11
BY VIOLA D. LEWIS

Tulsa, Okla. (ANP)-DistriCt
Judge John Ladner denied an in
junction against Eureka York Rite
Grand Lodge of Free and Accept
ed Masons here this week after
listening TO FIVE days of testimony
and reviewing ancient documents
brought in by witnesses.
Plaintiff in the case was the
Prince Hall Grand lodge of which
Atty. Amos T. Hall is grand mas
ter. The petition sought TO enjoin
the defendants from using insig-
MIA, emblems and holding them
selves up as Masons. Atty. Harry
E. Davis of Cleveland, author,
lecturer and an authority on Ma
sonry among Negroes, was
brought here as chief witness for
the Prince Hall Grand lodge
w. L. Turner, national grand
master of the York Rite Masons,
author of The York Rite" lee
turer and minister, Of Birming-
ham. was the rebuttal witness.
W. L. Davis, grand master; B. c.
Hodges, grand secretary, both Of
Philadelphia and r. J. Simmons,
national grand secretary of Bir-
mingham, were also here for the
defense.
The suit was filed after w. S.
Pogg, grand master of the Eureka
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1948-06-11
Humphrey Urges
Police Practice
Race Goodwill

In a long bulletin to Police Su-
perintendent Glen MacLean and
all police personnel June 5, May
or Hubert H. Humphrey Of Min
neapolis congratulated the de-
partment on its l947 record. He
urged the personnel to practice
racial and religious goodwill.
One section Of the bulletin said
Every citizen, regardless of his
race, creed or color, is worthy of
the full protection of the law and
equal application of it when he is
in violation Of the statutes, ordin-
ances, rules and regulations.
There is no particular group in
this city that has a monopoly eth
er in decenCy or lawlessness.
There are good and bad people
in all sections of our community.
We deal with people as individu-
ais, not as races, creeds, political
or religious beliefs. We believe in
the principle of equal opportunity
and human equality.
There is no room in modern
democratic system for persons
who are bigoted or intolerant Of
their fellowmen."