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The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-12-24

legislature.
 His one wish, that he five long enough JU see the Alaska Pros pector" unveiled, was not fulfilled He passed away in November, 1946. Now, however, his memory will live forever along with his permanent symbol of the pioneers who made Alaska the great coun- try that it is today. The unveil- ing of this tribute to the Alaska sourdough can we'll be looked for ward to as a signal achievement and a gala day in the history of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-12-24
REV. HUGH HALL

REV. HUGH HALL
 sage Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior ." That is the message. But that was not what the world was looking for tk2n, or now. The
Evening star., 1948-03-28
By Jacques FutFeIIe, L
The Stnr's TsaxsI Editor

the sunny Southeast through the
Coastal Plain to the Piedmont
Plateau and into the Blue Ridge
Mountains, will continue through
May. intermediate climaxes Of the
tours will be the Biltmore House
and formal gardens In Asheville, a
three-day azalea festival in Will
mington, Airlie Gardens and Orton
Plantation around Wilmington and
numerous old homes in New Bern
and winston Salem.
Orton Plantation is located on the
west bank Of the Cape Fear River,
on the river road and Just of U. s.
II, south of Wilmington.
Closer home, the. Garden Club Of
Virginia will sponsor Garden Week
from April "a through May !. Mary
land garden clubs observe their
tours from April "a through May 3.
I'm other parts of the Old Domin-
ion," Mr.. Hubbard said, on consult
ing reports coming into AAA Offices.
"the Towering dogwood and redbud
VI CCo Wil4 NC SI1oWAAS up ct VAACh
best during the next two weeks. In
Gloucester and Mathews Counties,
the huge daffodil farms will be in
full bloom at the same time. The
80 acres of the Norfolk azalea gar
dens, with more than $4,000 mature
azalea plants of different varieties,
will be at their colorful best from
early April to June.
West Virginia's scenic beauties
have been too often glossed over or
ignored. It's dogwood will show
in snow-white profusion within a
week. The peak bloom in the apple
orchards, however, Is not expected
until the last week in April-both
the pink and white varieties-with
the peach blossoms coming = week
earlier
West Virginia's fruit growing re-
gion covers the three easternmost
counties In the Potomac River Basin
and extends westward into Hamp-
shire County-an area within easy
driving range from Washington.
Redwood blossoms may be seen
through most of April, the season
varying with the altitude. Cherry
Evening star., 1948-03-28
he I raveIer's Notebook
Springs Flowery Scenes Begin to Draw Motorists

and crabapple will also bloom in
most parts Of the State during April
and May"
May / to 3 inclusive will feature
the Washington State Apple Bios
som Festival at Wenatchee, greatest
fruit-growing area in the North
west. Nova Scotia's foremost apple
blossom display, centering around
Kentville, Wolfville and Grand Pre-
Is toward the last of May and the
first part of June. Festival events
are to be held this year May 1881
Dogwood will be a spectacular
"side show" for those who visit the
shrine of Continental Army activi-
ties at Valley Forge, Pa, next week
There may be seen at various times
the mountain laurel. cherry and
crabapple blossoms, violets, daisies
trailing arbutus, yellow pinks, SNOWY
ladyslippers and the trillium, and
such priced rare varieties as fringed
genetian.
Newport News, Va, is holding its
annual rose festival the second week
in May, while the Portland (Oreg)
celebration takes place in mid-June.
Around the third week in May,
the Tulip Time Festival is held at
Holland, Mich. 1t is an annual
affair that dates back to 1929. The
toWnsfolk turn out en- masse the
Saturday nearest May Is every year
this time it will be on the 15th-to
scrub and clean mile of the city's
main street in Holland. An eight
day flower festival follows, with at
least 5000 of the "Dutchmen" dom
ming the costumes OF Volendam
Marken and iceland to add a pic
turesque bit Of color to the festiv-
tiles,
Evening star., 1948-03-28

| spring Out"OI .QOOTS mower SHOW,
which began to sweep over the
Washington area countryside last
Sunday. has awakened pleasure mo-
torists. Day-long and weekend
trippers are stirring from their win
ter Information, and their routes
generally lie along highways where
colorful blossoms are most likely to
be found.
The increasing interest Is reflect
ed in calls for motoring infortna-
ton. Inquiries have yet to strike
their full stride. however, for aside
from Washington's own cherry
blossom display, the more famous
spectacles In the northern half of
the United States are a month or
so away.
In preparation, such motoring
clubs as the American Automobile
Association have extracted from the
files their master list of Spring
Flowers and Events" and revised it
for changed dates and added at
fractions. They are ready to direct
their members to sections of the
country where dogwood. laurel, aza-
leas and tulips bloom in profusion.
The motorists trip can be timed to
catch q display at the peak of its
loveliness.
Walter w. Hubbard of the AAA
points out that the Greater Ma
tional Capital area is particularly
blessed with Natures most popular
miracle-the bursting of colorful
blossoms and flowers" The WASH
ington motorist, he reminded, easily
may see two of the Nations most
famous flower festivals. The first of
these, centered around the cherry
blossoms, is at hand. The second,
the Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Festival, is scheduled for April 29-
80 at Winchester, Va.
Such beautiful displays rs these
send motorists to far corners of the
country-to the tulip fields Of Hol-
land, Mich, the carpet of wild fiow-
ers in the Mojave Desert, the land
scaped gardens of Charleston, s. c.,
and the apple orchards OF the An
napolis Valley in the Evangeline
country OF Nova Scotia, d.
For several weeks the attention
Of local motorists has been centered
on the gardens around Charleston
Scores of routings to the Palmetto
State have been prepared fol
Washington's AAA members WHIT
longed to meet spring half way ir
Cypress Gardens or Middleton
Place. So keen has been the al.
lure of South Carolina's world.
famous flower settings that hote
accommodations have begun tx
crowd up. Some travellers are find.
ing more success, If their dates ar.
inflexible, in obtaining accommoda.
tions in tourist homes in and around
Charleston.
The flower season in South Caro-.
lina's Low Country will be higf
lighted by the famous Azalea Festi'
val in Charleston April 13 through
16. Generally speaking. the grea'
gardens of the area will remair
open until May /. These includ.
iMdSuOlld IdTQeI1S, llSCco Dy DAG
deker as one of the three-sta,
sights In America: old Middleton
Place gardens, the oldest land
scaped garden In America; Cypres
Gardens, with its bright azaleas
Mulberry Plantation, opened for tn
first time last spring: Mateeba,
luxuriant informal garden, AM
IPierates Cruze, comparatively new
with q sweeping view Of the harbo
and Fort Sumter.
| II n
Spring is touching the garden
of North Carolina with color Il
time to mark the opening of tn
annual Garden, Club tours mex
week. The display, creeping fror
RESORTS.
TENNEGSEE
Evening star., 1948-03-28
TRAVEL.

Visiting Europe This Ysar7
YsH set xaaximsm Dlsassre, semfsrt and
ssnveniencs when .ysu hire ''Dige Cars"
Siannsa, ineiaains hsts:, sishtsssins,T at st
ecenemic "all-expense" rates frsm e41 so
per day vsf person. Ask ysur lseai Travel
Aren't far Aefails
Evening star., 1948-03-28
SWIFTWATER, PA.
YOUR HONEYMOON
MUST BE PERFECT

Just the right sort Of place, the kind Of
companions you like. the things. you enjoy
doing, Here IL gracious old homestead.
stream. All our guests are starting married
life together in friendly, Informal atmos-
phere. Here you haye easy going leisure.
pleasant company 81 cordial. intsiiigsns
young bsople. You may have cottage al
your own (hsatsd with BATH. OF {. cheery
sss. ss:h: sss uSsn meath .a s.nss ssa 1ss a:i ~
wish our Three Honeymoon Plans" The
Farm on the Hill. Boz 316, saltwater. Pa.
, 1948-12-13


Other world leaders hailed
the accomplishments of the or
ganization after its IL weeks
meeting, pointing to the major
steps toward solution of many
world problems.
Soviet delegate Vishinsky
took an opposite view, how
ever, and said that the session
would be remembered as the
one which destroyed the work
for peace.
Secretary-Gehera Lie said
that he hopes for a lasting set
Element between great powers
and expressed also that when
the UN reconvenes it will re-
ceive a report from the great
powers renewing final efforts
for final settlement.
US. Delegate Austen in
Washington said he is con-
WINGED that the gains made
were appreciable and real, &
that the prospects for world
peace were good. The issues
between the free states and
the block Of Soviet states have
been clearly defined.
, 1948-12-13
FORECAST
for the
Virgin Islands u Puerto Rico

Partly cloudy to occasionally
cloudy with few scattered show
ers today, tonight and tomorrow.
The same as above for the coas-
tai waters of the Virgin Islands
and Puerto Rico.
Moderate easterly winds.
Maximum temperature 81
Minimum temperature IA
Precipitation
"a hours ending midnight 0
Total this month ..O.91
Total since January ..... 34.73
Total December 1947 ia
ReldtiOe Humidity
at II a. m. ,...............61
Wind direction & velocity ENE17
, 1948-12-13
ANGLICAN.

day season. Those to whom the
Christmas spirit is not a secu-
lar and worldly thing, will not
fail to see the picture again
this year. Those who saw and
enjoyed it SO thoroughly last
year will return again this
year, thus contributing their
part in the upholding of a de-
finite Christmas spirit, regard
less Of Church utilization.
The Rector, Father Mac
Laughlin, is making arrange
for transportation. All
females must, Of course, wear
a hat or other head covering
, 1948-12-13
MUNRoE c~LENDENEN

ST. LOUIS
The Christiansted Cricket
club, winner Of the 1913 tour
nament, will be presented with
the same trophy at the open
ing of the 1949 season.
, 1948-12-13
UN ASSEMBLY.

reduced from 9 tot. AT its own
request, Canada was dropped
and suggested that the Tx
raine be dropped also, because
it boycotted the first commits
sion and again announced its
intention Of boycotting this
one.
, 1948-12-13
N oTIcE

The regular Old Years
Dance will be kept as usual by
Munroe Clendenen at the
Congressional Hall on Dec.
81, 1913 from II o'clock until
Z o'clock in the morning.
Everything at the bar.
Music Hot. Fee 75c
MUNROE cLENDENEN
, 1948-12-13


Fine Wines and Liquors
For the Christmos HolidoYs...
From Canada: Seagran's ". O."
Hiram Walkers Canadian Club
Schenley,s Fine Canadian Whisky
France: Well known brands Cordials and
Fruit fl0uored Brandies
White Wines
Dubonnet. Whether its cocktails
for tOo Or drinks for d group
Drink Dubonnet
Champagne
BrdndieS
Holland: Geneoa Gin
London: London Dry Gin
Scotland: Famous Vat SO" Scotch Liqueur
Denmark: Cherry Herring-Wora famous
US. al Old Grand Dad Bourbon
MT. Vernon Rye, Light on the pal
ate, light on the purse.
3Rheingold' Beer, NetO Yorks
most todnted Beer.
Italy: Vermouth
BUY BY the CASE and SAVE
Il pays to shop at the
FIRM Of JOHN ALEXANDER
The House Which sells the Best
Evening star., 1948-03-17
The OIeo Gout

In voting sixteen to ten to shelve legiS-
lation to repeal Federal taxes on oleo-
margarine, the House Agriculture Com
mittee ought to be thoroughly ashamed OF
Itself 1t has voted to prevent Congress
as a whole from debating and deciding on
the issue. It has voted in favor of the
proposition that it Is perfectly all right to
keep on making a goat of the American
consumer as. long as the American con-
sumer carries less weight than the butter
lobby.
Reason, common sense, the democratic
process and simple ordinary fair play have
had nothing to do with the committees
action The only thing that has counted
is the dairy industry's selfish, sectional in
sistence on making a kind of pickpocket
out of the Federal Government in order
to penalize any American who chooses to
buy margarine instead of butter. Although
generally conceded to be as agreeable to
the taste and at least as nutritious as
butter, margarine can be produced more
cheaply, and 1t is therefore such an evil
thing to dairymen that they have been
browbeating and abusing it in the market
place for years past.
More particularly, the American con-
sumers have been browbeaten and abused.
For no reason except to protect butter,
they have had to take their margarine
loaded down with iniquitous levieS. Any
one manufacturing it must pay an annual
license fee of 5000, and wholesalers and re-
tailers are similarly taxed, with a special
high rate on the colored variety. Then, to
top everything off, the housewife must pay
ten cents pound extra if she buys it
colored, and a fourth of cent If she buys
1t white and goes to the trouble of coloring
1t herself. Moreover, in addition to these
outrageously unjustified Federal taxes
several of the States take sharp bites of
their own out of the oleo dollar
What the House Agriculture Committee
has done is to vote for the perpetuation
of this public c-be-damned situation. 1t has
not had the courage or the sense of fair
ness to let the repeater proposals get to
the floor for democratic decision. Unless
a majority petition can force its hand or
unless the test can be brought about by
means of rider to the Senate tax-cut
bill, Congress thus will be able to do
nothing about the issue until the next
regular session. Accordingly, as things
look now, the American consumer will
continue to pay through the nose for the
privilege of eating margarine.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Lobor's Political Riqhts

Judge Ben Moore's decision holding url-
constitutional that section OF the TAFT
Hartley Act which forbids expenditures by
labor unions in connection with Federal
elections comes as no surprise. For the
validity Of this section has been seriously
questioned, even by those who were most
sympathetically disposed toward its stated
objective.
The immediate effect of the courts
ruling is to nullify an indictment against
the CIO and its president, Philip Murray,
for an expenditure made in connection
with a congressional election in Baltimore.
The expenditure was made deliberately to
seek test of the constitutionality of the
applicable provision of the law, and Judge
Moore's decision sustains the correctness
. Of the essential ground on which Mr..
Murray based his challenge.
The Department of Justice has an
nounced that it will appeal the case
promptly to the Supreme Court and while
there seems to be no reason to doubt
that the highest court will uphold Judge
Moore the appeal nevertheless should be
taken. For the issue at stake is i'm
pOrLanI not alone IN lISeI1, puI 1Or Ine
effects final ruling can be expected to
have on such additional questions as the
right of corporations, under other statutes,
to spend money in an effort to influence
the outcome of Federal elections.
Meanwhile, there is not much in the
case for any one to get excited about.
Properly viewed, it is laudable example
of demOcracv in 9ctjon-1audahle because
it helps to establish a pattern of settling
legal disputes in the courts and abiding by
the decisions of the courts. Our system
cannot function successfully for long in
any other way.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Weedinq Them Out in Britain

The British Labor government certainly
cannot be accused of headlong or impetu-
Gus action in deciding to remove Com
munists and fellow-travelers from Jobs
involving national security. The program
which covers FasciStS as wells sur
prising only in the sense that Prime Min
lister Attlee has taken this long to get
around to it.
Although the problem apparently is not
one of serious dimensions in Britain, Mr..
Attlee himself admits that persons of
questionable loyalty are in positions that
could give them access to state secrets.
The fact that they have not been weeded
out before now suggests that the Labor
government has been slow in taking warn
ing from events that happened many
months ago, notably the exposure of the
Communist spy ring in Canada and the
agents elsewhere. In short, until shocked
by the recent Czech coup, the British seem
to have been relatively Indifferent to the
danger.
But If the Attlee governments action
thus has come belatedly, it is better to
have it late than never. Under the new
program, all Communists, Communist
sympathizers and other suspects will be
removed from places of trust and trans
ferred to nonsecurity jobs or discharged
entirely. Only few dozen individuals
may be involved, but that is few dozen
too many. The sooner they are tossed
out, the less chance the Kremlin will have
to do such things as 1t did in Canada, and
the safer Britain will be.
In these days the British, like every
other free people, must protect themselves
from disloyal public servants. The Soviet
Union-which has taken over one. country
after another with the help of native Com
munists-has made the danger grimly
clear. To ignore it or laugh it off is to
be at once reckless and simple minded.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
A Look at Austria

Probably nowhere have the repercussions
of the Red coup in Czechoslovakia been
more profound than in Austria Czecho-
slovakia's transformation into a Soviet
puppet wholly under Moscow's control has
intensified an already acute situation in
Austria, further strengthening Russia's
hand for the domination of that un-
fortunate country.
Austria is an outstanding victim of
Soviet rapacity and bad faith. AS far back
as the Teheran Conference America, Brit
ain and Russia mutually agreed to restore
Austrian independence and sovereignty.
Although the little country was divided,
like Germany, into zones of Allied occupa-
ton, this was declared to be for the
purpose of rehabilitation and intended
to be of short duration. Furthermore,
elections were promptly held, and the
resulting government obtained Allied rec
ognition aS legal regime.
However, 1t soon became evident that
Moscow had no intention of making good
on the pledges 1t had given its Western
allies. In their zone of occupation, which
covered Eastern Austria, including Vienna,
the Russians acted as complete masters,
ruthlessly exploiting It's resources and
ignoring western protests against such
conduct. Furthermore, by transparent
subterfuge, the Russians interpreted as
German assets" practically everything of
value in the whole country and demanded
that these be turned over to them as the
price of a treaty which would end the
Allied occupation. Since this would have
turned Austria into a Soviet satellite, the
Western Powers very properly refused to
acquiesce.
The result has been continuing deadlock,
with Austria's economic life paralyzed and
recovery impossible. The population has
been kept alive mainly by American aid.
Despite this situation the bulk of the
Austrian people have resisted Soviet blan-
dishments to seek relief by going over to
Communism. But this has merely hard
ened Russian determination to get control
Of the country by other means. The local
Communist minority in the Russian zone
has been regimented and armed against
eventualitieS, backed by Russian army of
occupation which vastly outnumbers the
small forces of the Western Powers in the
other zones.
1t is against this mounting tide of Soviet
pressure that the Red coup in Czecho-
slovakia should be evaluated. Strategically
Austria is now hemmed in on three sides
by Soviet power To the east lies Russian
occupied Hungary. To the north is REQ
Czechoslovakia. To the south is Tto's Rec
Yugoslavia with claims on an adjacent
slice of Aus&ia. Militarily, there is nothing
Evening star., 1948-03-17

to prevent a Red seizure of Austria at any
time. The psychological change is equally
ominous. It is significant that the anti
Communist Austrians no longer want a
treaty which would result in the evacua-
tion of American, British and French
troops They prefer even these token
forces as their last safeguard against a
Red coup on the Czech model.
Thus Austria lies, economically PROSTATE
and psychologically shaken, waiting help
lessly for whatever may be the next phase
in the sharpening crisis between East and
West. Another national tragedy may be
in the making.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Stars, Men and Atoms
Bright-Green Meteor
Sighted in Mid-Pocific
photographic Office Appeal Brings
Response From Ships Officers
By Thomas r. Henry

By Thomas r. Henry
bright-green meteor flashing through the
sky with long tail of green fire has just
been reported to the Nays photographic
Office.
The strange object was observed on watch
by Second Officer D. j. Oldow of the American
ship John T. Mcmillan in the nlid-Pacihc near
Hawaii. He reported the spectacle in response
to the photographic Office appeal to both
naval and civilian ships officers to record any
unusual shooting stars seen during the night
watches.
This program has been undertaken N Co
operation with American astronomical groups
now making an intensive study OF these strange
visitors from space, millions of which, mostly
very tiny, strike the earths upper atmosphere
daily, Most observations in the past have
been made either by professional astronomers
or by amateur star gazers and there have been
practically no reports over the oceans although
watch officers are in an exceptionally fine posi-
tion to see them.
May Aid Wind Study.
Among the subjects of particular interest
on which the observations are expected to
throw light are wind directions in the upper
atmosphere which can be computed by accurate
strange object reported by Mr. Oldow Travelled
vertically toward the earth for about four
seconds and. finally burst in brilliant green
flash. The tail was visible for six more
seconds after the explosion.
The next night about one hundred and fifty
miles northward the same officer reported a
large orange-colored meteor with long tail
of the "same color travelling slowly southwark
across the sky for about eight seconds, finally
disappearing in background Of stars
The green color of the first meteor pre-
sumaby was due to the preponderance of some
metallic element which burst into greenish
flame when it became ignited by the friction
of the air.
Curi0sties of the Sea-
Among curiosities of the seas just reported
to the photographic Office is an area extending
roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston
about fifteen miles off the Gulf of Mexico
Coast where no echo soundings can be OBJ
tanned from the sea bottom. It is known that
the depth Is approximately eleven fathoms
The explanation given by Capt. w. N.
Dawson of the British motor vessel British
Virtue Is that enormous quantities of shrimp
along this stretch constitute essentially
soundproof wall through which returning
echoes cannot penetrate.
The same captain also notified the Hydro
graphic Office of quite narrow strip about
fifteen miles off the Gulf Stream in the main
track Of the Gulf Stream where the compass
goes awry with very large magnetic deviations.
There Is no known explanation since the phe-
nomenon has not hitherto been reported by
ships moving along this crowded track.