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Evening star., 1948-03-17

nually. The program aims to as
sure militarly trained pool to re-
place the present reservoir of war
veterans, supplement the regular
services In time of emergency and
build up the National Guard and
Organized Reserves.
Army Outlines Stand.
Concerning veterans and emer-
gency legislative powers, the Army
said:
Only the President has the power
to call the National Guard to Fed
eral duty for service within the
continental United States. Con-
gressional action is required to per-
init service by National Guard units
outside the United States.
ut Is the view of personnel and
legal officials in the Army that new
legislation would be required to re-
call to duty veterans of World War
II who served under the Selective
Service Act.
Powers to call members of the
Onacers' Reserve Corps and the En-
listed Reserve Corps to active duty
against their will expired last year.
1t was emphasized that the Army
Is not now calling and has not called
members of the organized reserve to
active duty against their will"
Full Reserve Study.
The Selective Service Act pro-
vided that leach man, after the
completion of his period of training
and service shall be trans
ferred to q reserve component of
the land or naval forces until
he attains the age of As or until
the expiration of 10 years"
In view of the ruling that new
legislation would be necessary to
recall such veterans back to active
duty. the Senate Armed Services
Committee hearings were believed
likely to go extensively into the re-
serves question in discussing the
advisability Of universal military
training.
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Sneak into your tobacco store for
some DILL's BEST. Flavor Cut for
cooler burning and cleaner smok-
ing. Flavor-Cut to bring you all
the faVortnl nsiIdness of choice
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Green Sees Breakup
OF Unions Toying
With TofaIitarianism

AFL President william Green to-
day forecast ultimate dissolution"
OF labor groups which "have been
experimenting with totalitarian
ideas" He spoke at the biennial
meeting of the AFL Textile Workers
Of America at the Hotel Statler.
While not mentioning the CIO by
name, Mr.. Green's implication was
plain. He noted that the AFL had
never compromised with the Com
n'unists, but that other organiza-
tions had.
How are they going to harmonic
those conflicting points of view?"
Mr.. Green asked the delegates.
They cannot"
Ching Urges Unity.
The AFL chief also predicted that
II American workers went to the
polls next winter to defeat enemies
of labor" then I'VE can meet and
celebrate one of the greatest victor
les organized labor ever won in the
political field"
Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
Federal Mediation and Cancellation
Service, warned the convention that
the serious international situation
called for labor and industry to
demonstrate to the world that I'VE
as Americans can live together"
The $50 delegates from 80 Safes
and Canada yesterday heard two
other top AFFL officials call for de-
feat at the polls next November of
members of Congress who voted for
the Taft Hartley Act.
Woll and keenan, Speak.
j. Albert Woll, AFL general coun-
sci, declared that Labor's League
for Political Education will lead the
way in seeing that friends of labor
are voted into Office in the elec-
tions.
Joseph keenan,, executive assist
ant of the AFL league, charged that
provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act
are not being enforced strictly be-
cause this is an election year.
League to Concentrate.
He indicated the league will con-
centrate on between Is and 80 con-
gressional districts, where the mar
gin of victory for 1946 candidates
was only several thousand votes.
Mr.. Woll predicted the Supreme
Court will uphold Mondays deci-
sion in District Court, which held
unconstitutional the Taft Hartley
ban on union political expenditures.
The 10th biennial convention will
end Friday night.
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Rents
Continued From First Page

talk the House out of transferring
full powers to the local boards"
Senator Cain said the constitu
tionality OF such a transfer of Fed
eral power is doubtful and added
1T would take away every conceiv.
able reason for a national rent law
Senator Myers, Democrat, O.
Pennsylvania said the House actor
raises "a grave constitutional oues.
ton" and might destroy" rent con.
trolls.
During the hot House debate yes
terday, Democrats cried that the
local option decision is "an abdica.
tion Of responsibility" by Congress
Some said many of the 655 local
boards are stacked" in favor o1
landlords.
COP Convention Cited.
Republicans, however, contendec
that home town people know best
how to take care of local problems
In the showdown vote, 1852 Repub-
licans were joined by SO Democrats
in support of the bill. Opposing
were 81 Republicans, 70 Democrats
and the two American Labor Party
members.
Both the Senate and House bills
provide that rents could be in
creased Is per cent in cases where
tenants and landlords agreed to a
lease running through 1949. However
tenants who accepted a Is per cent
voluntary increase last year could
not be charged another.
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in front of the apartment build
ing as four squads of police ar
rived. When detectives attempted
to enter the Tomaszek apartment
William shot an arrow halfway
through the front door.
The police sent for tear gas
grenades. AS they approached the
rear OF the apartment, William
fired shot at them from a 90
caliber revolver he had fashioned
from toy pistol. Police tossed
the tear gas grenades into the
kitchen while other officers broke
in the front door which the youth
had barricaded with furniture.
William was found lying on the
floor overcome by the gas.
The youth, after being ques-
toned by police, was turned over
to the juvenile home. No formal
charge was placed against him.
His father, truck driver, said
William had quit his third year
high school class and had been
under physicians care for a
nervous condition.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Boby Killed as Mother
FoIIs on Her in Faint

KALISPELL, Mont, Mar. 17.-An
infant was killed when her mother
tainted and fell on her yesterday
Coroner Harry Campbell reported.
The coroner said Mrs. Alvin Mel
lem fell while carrying Sandra Car
oline. 2 weeks old, In her home at
Somers. Neighbors revived the
mother and brought the two to a
Kalispell hospital. The child was
dead on arrival and the mother was
given treatment for shock and
injuries.
Mr.. Mellem was not ut home at
the time of the accident. Mrs.
Mellem is British war bride.
There are now more than 2,500, 900
acres of tree farms in the Douglas
FIR region of the Pacific Northwest.
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one about 10 or IL feet wide and the
other about feet wide. No permit
has been found for this work, which
was performed in 1908 or 1909.
In 1882 another opening was
made in the wall, from to 13 inche!
wide. Thus only about feet
inches of the wall remained to carry
all the weight originally sustained
by 80 feet of wall.
Suspended Ceiling Added.
In 1947 Mr.. Papanicolas, the own
er, had interior ref1nishing done II
the first floor of the building. Thi.
work included addition of the sus'
pended metal lath and plaster cell.
ing weighing not less than 10 pounds
per square foot. No permit was OBJ
tained for the installation of this
ceiling, the board declared.
The board found that drawings
accompanying the permit for the
1882 cut in the wall contained a note
by Hugh Dollins. the engineer COM
puter in the building inspectors Of
flee, to the effect that piers under
beams (are) to be of hard burned
brick and cement-sand mortar" +"
The drawings, according to the
boards report, failed to indicate the
true conditions existing in regard to
construction loads above the second
floor, and failed to indicate the true
loading conditions at the second
floor level.
Instructions Not Followed.
The board found that the late
Moss c. Lee. the contractor, who
performed the 1882 work, did not
rebuild the pier in accordance with
Mr.. Dollins' note. The field inspec-
ton reports to the building inspec-
tors office by Oscar Estep and Will
liam Newman filed with the permit,
the board declared. indicate the
work was performed in accordance
with the drawings.
The report said examination of
remnants of the pier after the COL
lapse showed approximately inches
of pier standing above the floor
level, and the top level had assumed
a pyramidal shape. The wall was
13 feet and inches high before the
collapse. This pyramidal shape, the
board said, is typical of a compress
sion failure in masonry and test re-
suits show that the masonry in
the pier had sustained compression
stresses.
Consideration was given to the
possibility that the failure started in
the upper stories and progressed
downwards. Examination of the
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wreckage, however, revealed thai
this was not the case. All indica.
tions were that supporting beam.
resting on the pier had fallen to the
floor before the fall of the masse.
of material from above.
The report was handed to thu
Commissioners by Engineer Com.
missioner Gordon r. Young at 8
special meeting this morning. Gen
Young ordered the investigation
shortly after the collapse. A COPY
OF the boards finding was to be
sent to Coroner A. Magruder Mac.
Donald, who has not yet issued
death certificates in the cases OF
the four persons killed in the col
lapse.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


CHICAGO, Mar. 17.-Police used
tear gas to quell an uprising by q
16-year -old boy, armed with bow
and arrow and a homemade revol-
yer, in his Northwest Side apart
ment last night.
Before four squads of police were
summoned, the youth shot his STEP
brother with an arrow and forced
other members of the family to flee
from their second-f1oor apartment.
Police Sergt. Joseph Rudnick said
the youth, William Tomaszek, with
out any apparent reason, had shot
his stepbrother, James Gernes, %,
a postal clerk, with a steel-tipped,
20-inch target arrow. His wound
was not serious.
Then the youth, Sergt Rudnick
said, threatened to shoot his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Tomaszek, and
their two other children, Robert,
18 and Eugene, IA. They seized
James, fled to a neighbor's apart
ment and called police.
More than 100 persons gathered
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3 Hurt in Georoio Wreck

MACON, Ga. Mar. II (P).-A fire.
man and three other persons were
injured when Central of Georgia
passenger train and freight collided
on siding yesterday at Lorraine, IL
miles north of here. None was cri-
tically hurt
Evening star., 1948-03-17

BUFFALO, N. Y.-SOUGHT BY
FBI - Mark A. Hanna III,
great-grandson of the late
Senator Marcus Hanna, Re-
publican, of Ohio, is sought by
the FBI on warrants accusing
him of depositing $4,000 in
checks bearing the forged sig
nature of his uncle, c. H. Han
ma, Cleveland industrialist.
-AP Wirephoto.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
Sophomores Withdraw From Skit Contest

Members of the sophomore class of Palmer high school have announced their withdrawal from the competition in the re- cent Skit Night presented at the school gymnasium. The sopho- mores relinquished all claim to the first prize, which then passed to Mrs. Harder's fourth grade for it's production of "You Can't Have Everything"
 Miss Skule's seventh grade placed second with Reunion in 1862" and Mrs. Lyons third grade was third.
 The sophomores took their ac' tion, when members of the Palmer faculty protested what they termed irregularities in balloting on the night of the | presentation.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
Is Our Face Red

The editor of the Valley Frontiersman is extremely sorry that last Saturdays announce ment of Wasilla's church services somehow placed those services under the guidance of Rev. Vic tor Alfsen rather than Rev. Wen ter Harvey. We sincerely apolo- gize. The wrong name somehow just slipped out through the type writer keys.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
MVFCA Meets Wednesday

The first quarterly meeting of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association for 1948 will be held on Wednesday, March 31, it was announced this week by secretary Carl Rasmus- sen. The meeting will be held in the Palmer gymnasium and will commence at 8 o'clock.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
Homemakers Clubs
 To Be Honored In May
BY AL CAPE

Plans for the observance of home demonstration month, to be held in the Valley during May, are already well under way, it was announced this week by Miss Marilyn Johnson, home demonstration leader. She said special programs, news artlcces and demonstrations would be featured during the entire month.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
TUNES PIANOS

Miss Mae Colburn of Anchor age, a piano tuner, arrived in Palmer for several days stay last weekend. She may be reached a% the Lodge, if any Valley resident is in need of her services.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
Named Scout Scribe

Edison Thuma has been ap- pointed official scribe for Pal mer Boy Scout troop No. 654, 1t was announced this week by Scoutmaster Victor Alfsen.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
Hospital Ins and Outs

Among the new patients ad- mitted to the Valley Hospital last week were:
 Mrs. Richard Wade, June Granger, Harold Falk, Mrs: Lewis Todd, Jimmie Wilson and Ruth Custer.
 Patients who had been dis missed to their homes by Satur- day included:
 Mrs. Karla Duff, Mrs. Trent Johnson of Wasilla, Mary Acton of Kodiak, Mrs. A. H. Wether- bee and son, Mrs. Myles Hyland and Harold Falk.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
VETERAN "SET-ASIDE" ITEMS

FA1RBANKs) eps Oil Truck 1aton ton Pickup Trucks: Command Cars 24-ton Command Cars; s4.ton Weapons l2ton to 21aton Cargo Trucks
Valley frontiersman., 1948-03-31
ON-SET-ASIDE ITEMS

tFA1RBANKs) Trucks 21a ton Dump Trucks 2 ion Tanker Truck Tractor 212 ion Wreckef r~vrke Light Plants Generators Rork crusher Platform Trucks Asphalt Hyoraune Lubricating Oil Lubrlcafins eoos NaoA1uN Exension Solo
 por+ahle Floodliqhts Parachutes Fire Exinouishers Photoprint Nails Hooans ad"o
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17

that economy and promote permanence in Alaska which is essential"
 Also, in the article is quoted foremost cham pion for the DIP movement here" who says:
 We need people who not afraid to open up land and put lot of good hard labor into it. We cannot expect our American people with their high standard of living and their expensive luxury appe-
 es to settle this land and grub out the stumps and put it under the blow
 That, somehow, does not appeal as reason for bringing DPS to Alaska.
 There are we hope enough people, enough Ameri- cans with pioneer qualities to do the grubbng, if grubbng has to be done. Let the DPS north too. Alaska's share of them. Those absorb into our limited population without disturbing our own peculiar "lopsided" economy. But don't bring them to Alaska to do the work too soft to do ourselves. To make softer To break our labor market.
 That would not be good for the Alaskans. Nor the DPS.
 The Governors admoniton is well taken that per sons DPS or otherwise, should not north unless they can establish themselves successfully
 Of course if you want some good cheap labor here is your chance to establish DIP successfully to offer home to homeless person family. Just write the International Rehabilitation Organization
 No matter how much warmth one feels toward these homeless people who have endured much that gfubbnlg out nome m a lree country would be heaven to them, the problem involved remains complex.
 And the only thing to do about it, it would seem at this time is to meet the situation when it comes. If it is matter of individuals, sponsored individuals, they cans be welcomed. Should any organized move ment to Alaska appear imminent that would be an- other matter unless that organized movement should be so planned not to upset our present employ ment our crowded housing, our lopsided seasonal economy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
I'll LAW COMES SECOND

The Fair L Dor Standards Act-not the Taft-Hartley Law will get first attention from the new Democratic Congress, accord ing to Sen. Ebert Thomas Of Utah who will succeed Sen. Robert Taft as Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee.
 The scholarly Mormon ex-mis- sionary points out that the 30th Congress not only passed the Taft Hartley Law but crippled the Fair Labor Standards Act, which affects 20.0O0000 unorganized workers. He believes these 20000.00o need legis- lative help ahead of the l5,0OO.00O organized workers who oppose the Taft Hartley Law.
 Thomas is determined, however that there will be no undue delay in tackling the Taft-Hartley Law But noting reports that Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin is pre- pairing to rewrite the labor laws Thomas emphasized that his con- mittee, not the Labor Department will do the rewriting.
 Note-Senator Thomas has 3
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
TRUMAN TROUBLES

Although the Democratic cleo ton sweep may stop the GOP-led Senate Expenditures Committee from skeleton hunting in the ad- ministration's closets, President Truman won't be able to breathe easily long,
 For the Senate Expenditures Committee will be inherited by Democratic Senators never friend ly to Truman. In the order of seniority, they are
 Senators John Mcclellan of Ar kansas, James Eastland of Miss issippi. an out-and-out Dixiecrat Clyde Hoey of North Carolina who has voted against most key Truman policies, Glen Taylor of idaho, Henry Wallace's vice-pres- idential running mate, A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, a member of the anti Truman Byrd machine and Herbert O'Conor of Maryland a Republican,.
 These are the Democrats whC will now be charged with keeping an eye on the executive depart mentS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17

for an opinion. He pointed out that Kerr might not be responsi- ble for expenditures which he knew nothing about.
 Deranian admitted the Commit tee had not explored the law.
 From Texas, the Committee also had affidavits charging election irregularities against Senator-elect Lyndon Johnson, but similar con- plaints had been received against Johnson's opponents.
 Elsewhere, the Committee had not even received formal affidavitS to back up the complaints against Senators-elect Clinton Anderson in New Mexico and Estes Kefauver in Tennessee.
 The file was also opened on Sen. Harley Kilgore of West Virginia whose election has been under in- vestigation for two long years. It
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
DPS FOR ALAsKA-125 OR 125,OOo

Whether l25 or l25 GOO DPS come to Alaska, the announcement from the Department of the Interior that mo organized movement of displaced persons to Alaska is in prospect" mean assurance to Alaskans who may have been alarmed by extravagant stories of colonizng the Territory with the homeless of Europe.
 It was only ten years ago that plan was under way to send refugees to the Territory but war came and it vas already too late to undertake a scheme of such size if details could have been worked out in a satisfactory to Alaskans and the planners who had the colonization underway.
 Should Alaska take it's share of the DPS who must find homes in the United States-and we are sure Alaskans would be more than willing to give homes to their proportion of these tragic homeless people- would be- the basis of population, about l25 of the total 2O5,0O0 people who will be admitted under the Displaced Persons Bill passed by the Con- gress last year.
 In the Christian Science Monitor of September 3 is story from Anchorage that has to do with Alaska and Europe's DPS. The correspondent quotes the Governor of Alaska:
 Now that the bars have been let down to the extent they have for the entire United States see no reason why qualified peope-whether DPS whether recently arrived immigrants or any others-shouldnt come to Alaska We must bear in mind, however that we have a grave housing problem and that It IS certainly not desirable to encourage persons to come here unless there is reasonable that they can establish themselves here successfully
 Certain professions and crafts are distinctly understaffed in Alaska. European woodworkers, wood carvers and furniture makers might do much with our largely unutized timber resources. There are numerous little indusries-famly size little larger which do not now exist in Alaska but which could furnish not merely livelihood, but would, by di- versfying present lopsided economy based almost wholly on fisheries and on gold mining strengthen
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
CONDITIONS or WEATHER
 ALASKA pTS.

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, for 24- hour period, ending at 4:30 this morning, and released by the Weather Bureau, Juneau, follow:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
consistent, pro-labor voting rec ord in the Senate.
SENATOR JENNER COOLS OFF

SENATOR JENNER COOLS UT
 Humbled by Democratic victory, COP Senators, once hell-hent on probing senatorial elections from Tennessee to Texas, pulled in their horns last week and spoke loftily of "nonpartisan Investigations A few days earlier, fire-breath- ing COP Chairman Bill Jenner ot Indiana was screaming fraud against certain Democratic candl- dates, and his investigators, one of them the law partner of ku Klux Klansman Bob Lyons, had gene on a rampage in Oklahoma and Texas.
 IL was much subdued Senator Jenner, however, who reviewed these same cases at a cloSed-door session of the Elections Subcom- mittee. It wouldn't be necessary to hold hearings after all, said the gentleman from Indiana, but would turn complete reports over to the Democrats who inherit the Com mittee.
 Sen. Frank Myers Of Pennsylvan- ia, only Democrat present, asked why the Democrats hadn't been consulted before the Oklahoma and Texas Investigations were launched. Jenner ducked the ques- ton but sputtered back that mo political motives whatsoever" had influenced the decision.
 Then why" asked Myers, were reports released to the press just before the election?"
 oh" fumbled Jenner, the news papers were piling up on us
 Myers also demanded an explain ation from the Committees chief counsel. Nelson Deranian, who had been quoted in the press that same Gay as planning to rush the ln- vestigations in order to finish be- fore the Democrats came into con- trol. Deranian was put in this key committee spot Dy BOD Iyoils of XXX and chain-store fame, the man who engineered Jenner's elec- ton to the Senate.
 Deranian had no adequate ex- planation for the newspaper stor- ies, but he did give the Committee a verbal report on each case. From the Oklahoma file, Deranian pull ed out affidavits charging that Senator -elect Bob Kerr had spent more than the legal limit on his campaign.
 Myers asked whether the Con- mittee had inquired into the law or consulted the Attorney General
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17
Great Chance for Natives
(Ketchikan News)

It well can be said that the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Ssterhood convention to be held at Stka November may be of the most important vet held in Alaska.
 Indian problems are ndebly intertwined with white problems Both are citizens of growing empire, soon to become a State. There is no reason for a conflict of racial interests What benefits one will benefit the other.
 Canishness for purely Indian privileges will prove backward step. Any such action will tend to in crease discrimination and draw line between the two races
 Moreover, constructive program will serve as a lever to get needed action from the Territorial Leg isature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-11-17

not building up new blood for the presidency. Therefore, if the man ne picks as secretary of state is able to iron out the tangled state of the world, he would be Truman's logical successor in 1852.
 The man tops on Truman's list if he were not Chief Justice of the United States-is his old friend Fred Vinson. Once before. Vinson was asked to step down from an important judicial post-the Court of Appeals--to take over the thankless job of Economic Stabiliz- CT. And, unquestionably, if Tru- man asked him to he would step down again.
 However, rather than ask Vinson to make this sacrifice, the Presi- dent is considering Justice Will jam o. Douglas, 48 years old, With 6 great record on the Securities and Exchange Commission, and g man whom FDR himself recom- mended side-by side with Truman as presidential timber.
 So keep an eye on Bill Douglas as the next secretary fo state.