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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-02
A Very Special Treat

In order to determine who the three very for
tunate Mothers are we wish to have all replies by
Friday NOON May 9Th Based upon the answers in
our office then the following plans will be made for
YOUR Mothers Day entertainment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-02
Dinner at The Country Club

After the show she will be met at the Theatre en-
trance with another Alaskan Cab in which she will be
taken to the SALMON CREEK COUNTRY CLUB for
Special Motehrs Day dinner as guest of the Club and
of Tom George, Manager
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-02
sITKA VISITORS

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tooke and
son are visitors from Sitka regis
tering at the Gastineau
Evening star., 1949-09-09
SorrowfuI Mother Novena
Offers Prayers for Peace

Special prayers for conversion
of Communist Russia and for
world peace will be offered at
services marking the 10th anni-
versary of the Sorrowful Mother
Novena at 7:45 o'clock tonight in
the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Eighth and N streets
NV.
Invitations to the service have
been sent to President Truman.
Cabinet members and members Of
Congress and the diplomatic corps.
Already planning to attend are
Labor Secretary Tobin and Am
bassadors Ricardo Martinez VAR
gas of Bolivia and Mario A. Esqui-
vel of Costa Rica, it was said.
The Rev. C. M. Brissette Of
the Servite Fathers, Chicago. ma
tional director of the Sorrowful
Mother Novena, will deliver the
sermon. Part of the service will
be broadcast over Radio Station
WWDC at 7:45 pm.
The novena, held in more than
1000 Catholic churches in the
United States, is also observed In
81 foreign countries.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
D. G. Professor Honored
By Association for Book
By the Associoted Press

STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
Calf, Sept. 9.-The Modern Lam
guage Association of America to-
day honored two university pro-
fessors for books they wrote.
They are Kenneth N. Cameron.
associate professor Of English at
Indiana University, and Helmut A.
Hatfield, professor of romance
languages at Catholic University.
Washington.
Mr.. Cameron's book is "The
Young Shelly; Genesis of a Rad
ical." Prof. Hatfield wrote "Lit-
erature Through Art; a New Ap-
proach to French Literature"
They each received $500 and a
contract for publication of their
books.
The associations annual con-
vention ends today.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Il Gambling Suspect!
To Fight Extradition
To Prince Georges

Twelve gambling suspects among
81 indicted last May by the Prince
Georges County grand jury an
nounced in Municipal Court to-
day that they will contest extra
dition from the District where
they now live.
The defendants, through their
lawyers. took this stand when
they were summoned on fugitive
warrants before Judge Aubrey B.
Fennell.
The judge allowed their present
$1,000 bonds to remain and re-
ferred their cases to District
Court for extradition hearings.
A short while later District
Court Judge Matthew F. MCGUIRE
set hearings for October 10. de-
spite efforts of Assistant United
States John OLeary to have the
hearings called next week.
Defense Opposes Move.
Defense Lawyers William H.
Collins, Myron Ehrlich and
Charles Ford opposed Mr..
OLeary's move. and the judge
said he could see no reason for
having the hearings next week.
The defendants, who were named
in the county grand jury indict-
ments two months after United
States Attorney George Morris
Fays sweeping antigambling raids
in the Metropolitan Area, are:
William "Snags" Lewis. 1900
block of Blagden avenue NV, de-
scribed by Mr.. Fay as a "big shot"
gambler; George P. Scott, 1000
block of E street Sc; Fred SUIT
ton, colored. 1900 block Of Sixth
street Sc; Lonnie Black and Mae
M. Cooley, both colored, 600 block
of L street Sc: Ralph Spots
wood, colored, 300 block Of North
Henry street, Alexandria, Va;
Edward L. Hinkle, who gave his
address as Presidential Gardens
in Alexandria.
Gregory Seger, 2800 block OF
Thirty second street Sc; Sterling
ID. Welch, $500 block of Verplanck
place NV; Ellis Solet, 2800 block
of Lee boulevard, Arlington; Philip
Samakow, 1900 block OF Peabody
street NV, and Helen Danhakl,
1900 block of Second street NE.
All are charged in Maryland
with bookmaking and participate
ing in the operation Of a lottery.
Some of them were caught in
Attorney Fay's March rs raids, as
a result of which they face charges
in the District as well.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Police Search for Girl, 13,
Reported Missing Here

Police searched today for a 13-
year-old girl said to be missing
since yesterday when she was to
have arrived here on a TrailWay
bus from Richmond.
Mrs. Opal Hickman. 1887 North
Carolina avenue NE, mother Of
the girl, Alice j. Hickman, told
police she could not find her
daughter at the terminal when the
bus arrived at 6:15 pm.
A woman passenger on the bus
said a girl answering Alice's de-
scription had sat beside her on the
trip and had alighted at the sta
ton here, apparently before Mrs.
Hickman arrived.
Mrs. Leo Harris, Mrs. Rickman's S
sister who also lives at the North
Carolina avenue address, said Mrs.
Rickman apparently went to
Richmond today to learn whether
the girl had left there. She had
been visiting for three months
with her grandparents. Mr.. and
Evening star., 1949-09-09
DeudIine on ntries omorroW
In $4,000 Snapshot Contest

prizes of $25. And these final
winners-one in each of the
contests four subject classes
will be entered in the 18th
annual Newspaper National
Snapshot awards to compete
for 167 prizes ranging from
$25 to $1.500.
Rules of the contest are avail
able at The Star business coun-
ter and at many photo supply
counters. Send or bring your
entries to the Snapshot Con-
test Editor, Room 727, Star
Building.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Two Fined and jailed
On Lottery Charges

Two men who pleaded guilty to
numbers charges were fined 500
each and given 30-day Jail
sentences yesterday in Arlington
County Court by Judge Hugh Reid.
Joseph w. Cain, 35. Centreville,
Va, arrested August 10 in the 900
block of South Buchanan street,
and James w. Henighan, 81,
colored, taken into custody August
26 at Tenth street and Lee boule-
ward, were charged with operat-
ing a lottery.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Weather Report

District Of Columbia - Sunny
with highest in low 70's today
Fair and continued cool tonight
with lowest about SIS degrees. To-
morrow mostly sunny and a little
warmer in the afternoon.
Maryland-Fair tonight and to-
morrow. A little warmer tomor-
row afternoon.
Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow. A little cooler in the
south portion tonight.
Wind velocity, 20 miles per hour;
direction, west-northweSt.
Five-Day Forecast for Washing
ton and Vicinity-September 10-14.
Mostly fair except for showers
about Tuesday amounting to less
than one fourth inch. Moderately
cool tomorrow and Sunday. Some
what warmer Monday and cooler
again by Wednesday. The tenn
perature will average 2 degrees
below normal. Normal maximum
for the Washington area is 79,
minimum 81.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
u. 5. Crop Report Due
Today With Controls
On Corn a Step Closer
BY the Associated Press

The Government today will is
sue a new crop report which is
expected to bring corn farmers a
step closer to a return to prewar
production controls.
The report is scheduled to be re-
leased at 3 pm. by the Agriculture
Departments Crop Reporting
Board.
While it will give latest produc-
ton estimates on all grains, live
stock forage, food, fruit and to-
bacco crops. the reports feature
will be its forecast for corn-the
Nations biggest grain crop and
the backbone. of its livestock in
dustry.
A month ago. the department
forecast corn at 3,538,257 900
bushels, or about 3 per cent below
last years record, but nearly 80
per cent above the 10-year Q938-
194D average.
Controls May Be Set Up.
officials have indicated that if
this years corn crop turns out to
be 3,400,000.000 bushels or more,
controls of some sort will be set
up for the 1850 crop. The con-
trolls would be aimed at prevent
ing the accumulation of excessive
supplies requiring vast outlayS by
the Government under it's price
support program.
Added to this years crop will
be record carryover or reserve
of probably 8O0,000,000 bushels
from last years supplies.
Officials said it is probable that
controls would be limited to acre
age planting allotments-a volun-
tary device for achieving adjust
ments in crop production. Be
cause of conflicts in overlapping
farm laws relating to marketing
quotas, it is not likely, they said,
that quotas would be invoked.
Quotas, which are much more
restrictive in their effect on pro-
duction than planting allotments,
would have to be approved by at
least two-thirds Of the growers
voting in a referendum. Quotas
have never been applied to corn.
Move Would Be Futile.
Even though there were no legal
tangles surrounding quotas, it
probably would be futile, officials
said, to invoke quotas on corn as
long as the Government is without
authority to limit production of
such competitive livestock feed
grains as oats. barley, rye and
grain sorghums.
Secretary of Agriculture Bran
nan has asked for legislation au-
thorizing quotas on the other
grains, but Congress has not acted
on his recommendation.
Acreage allotments would be de-
signed to hold next years corn
crop down to about 3,000,000,000
bushels. Farmers would be free
to comply with or ignore allot-
ments. But only those complying
would be eligible for Government
price support aid.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

o I t icialS now Joseph Aouhk'
say that the veterans protests
are justified and that the regula-
tions will have to be rewritten,
with the offending phrase struck
out.
Veterans groups contended the
phrase "in order to promote the
efficiency of the service" would
give agency heads a strong
enough excuse to keep non-
veterans on the job and fire
veterans.
A compromise has been worked
out whereby agencies still will be
given limited discretion to keep
non-veterans ahead of veterans in
extreme cases. This will be based
on language that will declare that
non-veteran careerists cannot be
displaced by veterans in their
particular jobs, unless the veter-
an is fully qualified" to perform
the duties Of the position.
In other words, agencies will
be given some leeWay in retaining
nonveterans, if the situation abso-
lutely warrants it. But the vet
erans' group have won their battle
to- limit such exceptions. Commis-
sion officials say they agree the
clause "in order to promote the
efficiency Of the service" is too
broad a delegation of authority
to agency officials.
+ X + 4
GAO-The General Accounting
Office next week is expected to
lift its job freeze, which has been
in effect since April 13.
The agency has not done any
hiring since then, except in a few
emergency cases, nor has it made
any promotions from within. But
now GAO knows where it stands
in the matter of 1850 appropri-
ations and will begin hiring and
promoting again.
BEAUTY-The second in the
series of beauty and charm
courses for Government girls will
begin Monday in the Commerce
Department cafeteria. The first
program is devoted to fashions
and wardrobe planning, while the
second and third programs, to be
held on Tuesday and Wednesday,
will be devoted to beauty and
grooming.
The courses start at $50 pm,
and employees from other depart
ments and agencies are invited to
attend.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES re-
of Federal depart
ments and agencies usually result
in reduction of personnel or in an
increase?
The Joint Congressional Com
mittee on Non-essential Federal
Expenditures, headed by Senator
Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, has
issued figures on the newly COM
bined General Services Admins
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Hurricane Moving
Off in Atlantic
By the Asxoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. "a mighty
tropical hurricane churned HARM
lessly through the Atlantic today
after brushing past Bermuda.
The huge storm, with winds
still up to 1870 miles near the
center, moved northeast toward
the Atlantic shipping lanes with
out posing a threat to any land.
Early today it was about 375
northeast of Bermuda. All ship
ping in the Atlantic was advised
to give the big tWister a wide
berth.
Bermuda experienced sustained
winds up to SIS miles an hour and
gusts of near hurricane force. A
few tree limbs blew down as the
weakest side of the storm buffeted
the islands. but there was no
property damage and no injuries.
The island has been boarded up
and waiting for the storm for
two days.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 (P.-
Southern Californians relaxed to-
day as weather experts reported
that a tropical storm, originally
of hurricane proportions. appar-
emily was dissipating off the coast
of Mexico.
However, the Weather Bureau
here reported that another tropi-
cal storm has been sighted 100
miles southwest of Manzanillo,
Mexico. Meager reports give the
new storm 60-mile winds within
100 miles of the center. 1t is NOV
ing northwest at eight miles per
hour.
The original storm was $50 miles
southwest of San Diego and was
moving out into the Pacific.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

The Stars Amateur Snap
shot Contest, offering a chance
to share in cash prizes total
ing more than $4,000, closes
tomorrow.
Entries postmarked not later
than midnight will be judged
for the last set of weekly prizes
$40 first prize, two prizes OF
SIS and an honorable mention
award. From these and the
winners of previous weeks
prizes will be selected the win
ners of the four local grand
Evening star., 1949-09-09

tration which tend to show that
personnel increases in such cases.
The various units, bureaus and
agencies that were combined into
GSA had a total personnel of
29,562 employees before the merger
Now, employment at GSA has in
creased by 14o workers to a new
total of 29,702.
The Byrd Committee made no
generalizations on what the fig
ures mean. GSA officials say the
reorganization has just gotten
under way and it's a little toe
early yet to Jump to conclusions
one way or the other.
However, there are many Fed
eral officials, as well as some
members of Congress. who con-
tend Government reorganizations
won't bring about any personnel
reductions to speak Of. History.
they say. always has shown that
every time you reorganize, 1t re-
suits in more employees. They
declare that the only way sizable
personnel reductions can occur is
to eliminate Government func-
tions and services. And this, they
say, is strictly up to the President,
Congress and public policy.
X X Il X
EXAMINERS PROBE-A Sen
ate Civil Service Subcommittee is
scheduled to begin its investiga-
ton of the situation among Gov
ernment hearing examiners next
Friday. The subcommittee is
headed by Chairman Johnston of
the full committee.
Recently, the Civil Service Com
missions advisory board on hear
ing examiners, composed of
private citizens, quit in a huff over
a disagreement with the COM
mission on policy. The board
charged the commission with
laundering.
Previously, many Of the Gov
ernment'S hearing examiners who
were found to be unqualified by
the board. after years of Federal
service, charged the board with
political, social and racial bias in
disqualifying them. Some of the
examiners asserted the board
were political reaction
aries who disseminated" against
them because they were appointed
to their examiner jobs during the
days of the New Deal.
Besides Senator Johnston, other
members of the subcommittee will
be Senators Humphrey, Democrat,
of Minnesota, and Dulles, Re-
publican, of New York. The
groups members say they are
holding their. investigation with
an open mind, with the object of
finding out who and what is
wrong" Among those who will
testify are members of the ad-
visory board, some of the hearing
examiners and top Civil Service
Commission officials.
(Be sure to listen in Sundays
at 11:15 am. over WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast Uersion of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
ne1Ds and DietUs of the Govern
ment SerDice.)
Evening star., 1949-09-09
There Oughto Be q Law
Is New Sunday Comic

The treatment Clarence
Carbuncle gets from life in
general, and from his little
daughter Bratella in particu-
lar, isn't good-but it's funny.
MIR. and Mrs. Carbuncle and
their miSchievous daughter,
along with Mr.. Carbuncle's
quick tempered boss, Mr..
Bulgebottom, will move to
Washington this week end.
You can strike up a laughing
acquaintance with them In
There Oughta Be a Law" in
the 16-page color comic sec
ton of
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Congress in Brief
n, A. A.x.~4J px>..
By the Assoeioted Press

Senate:
Resumes debate on extending
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees meet ir
closed session to begin a final
study of the military aid bill.
Judiciary Subcommittee con-
tinues hearings on displaced per-
sons legislation.
House:
Meets only to adjourn until
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
800 See Conservation
OF 5uffragan Bishop
In Alexandra Rites

The Rev. Robert Fisher Gibson,
jr., was consecrated Suffragan
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia yesterday at rites in I'm
manuel Chapel on the Virginia
Theological Seminary grounds,
Alexandria.
approximately 800 persons wit
messed or heard the conservation
ceremony, $50 of them crowding
into the small historic chapel and
the remainder hearing the rites
outside by means of loud speakers.
More than 100 bishops, ministers
and laymen marched in the pro-
cession preceding the service.
Climax CT the ceremony came
with the traditional laying on OF
hands by the presiding bishop and
other bishops on the head of the
kneeling bishop-elect. The presid-
ing bishop was the Right Rev.
Henry st. George Tucker, retir-
ing presiding bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church in the
United States.
Conservation Sermon.
Co-consecrators of the new suf-
fragan bishop were the Right Rev.
Frederick D. Goodwin, Bishop OF
Virginia, and the Right Rev.
Wiley Roy Mason. Suffragan
Bishop Of Virginia.
A suffragan bishop is an assist
ant who does not have the right
Of succession as does coadjutor
bishop.
In the conservation sermon the
Right Rev. Robert E. Lee Strider,
Bishop of West Virginia, declared
lone of the most disastrous fal-
lacies in the thinking of our time
says that what a man believes Is
of no consequence.
"No contention could be more
destructive of governmental and
social order, or ultimately more
harmful to the life of mankind.
Indeed, it has had much to do
with creating the chaos which
envelopes the modern world.
What men do is of necessity born
out Of what they think"
Among those in the procession
was the Rev. DR.. Robert Fisher
Gibson, father of the new bishop
and rector emeritus Of Christ
Church, Charlottesville, Va. He
and the Rev. James A. Mitchell,
rector of st. Paul's Church, Engle-
wood, N. j., were attending pres
byters.
Also present at the service were
Bishop Gibson's wife, mother,
brother and three children, John,
Robert and Greta.
Bishops Taking Part.
Bishops taking part in the serv-
ice were the Right Rev. William
A. Brown, Bishop of Southern Vir-
. ginia, and the Right Rev. Henry
D. Phillips, Bishop of Southwest
ern Virginia, presenting bishops;
the Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop
of Washington, reader of the
litany: the Right Rev. Edmund P.
cambridge, Bishop of Tennessee,
reader of the Epistle; the Right
Rev. Efrain Salinas y Velasco,
Bishop Of Mexico, reader of the
gospel, and the Right Rev. Noble
C. Powell, Bishop of Maryland.
The Rev. B. B. Conner Lille, rector
of Christ Church, Alexandria, was
master of ceremonies, and DR..
Robert o. Kevin. Of the Virginia
Theological Seminary, chairman
of the local committee on arrange
ments.
Bishop Gibson, AZ, is a native Of
williamsport, Pa. He is graduate
of Trinity College, Hartford. Conn.,,
and of the Virginia Theological
Seminary, where he served as as
sociate rector of Emmanuel Chapel
from 1941 to 1943. Hhe came to
his present post from his position
as dean OF the theological semin-
ary of the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tenn. He will live in
Richm0nd Va
Evening star., 1949-09-09

from veterans
groups. Th e y
c h a rg e d this
was a violation
of the Veterans
Preference Act,
which provides
t h a t veterans
W ith S t a t u S
m u S t be re-
tanned ahead OF
all non veter-
ans in Govern
ment RIF pro-
grams.
Com mission
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Italy Plans Steamship Line

ROME R.-A new Italian
steamship line from the Adriatic
ports to Istanbul, Turkey, will be
inaugurated soon. The maiden
voyage will be made by the new
2,70O-ton ship Barletta. The ship
carries 80 passengers.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

Mrs. Charles Harris, at Chester,
Va, near Richmond.
The missing girl was described
as being S feet, 2 inches tall, hav-
ing brown hair, blue eyes and a
light complexion. and wearing a
purple dress and white shoes.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Pukistun Launches IVA

The West Pakistan government
has launched its Thai Develop
ment Authority. q development
project to reclaim 100000 acres
of fallow land, on the lines Of the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Projects to Aid JobIess

The Chilean government is
planning low-cost housing con-
struction and irrigation projects
to absorb miners unemployed be-
cause of present low metal prices.
Evening star., 1949-09-09
Tide Tables
FfecfpItati0n.

Egypt is expanding its merchant
marine by building new small-ton-
mage vessels and buying larger
eargo-type ships.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

Of veterans, "in order to promote
the efficiency of the service"
This caused a howl of protest
Evening star., 1949-09-09
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Rule Change to Curb Discretion
OF Agencies in Firing Veterans
By joseph Youno

Civil Service Commission will modify its Government
regulations order the objections Of
veterans
issuing its regulations last week. the commission had in
serted provision
Evening star., 1949-09-09
ID. C.. Pollen Count.

District Medical Society rag
weed pollen count for "a hours
ended 9 am. September 9, 60
grains per cubic yard of air.
River Report.
(From U. 8. EngineersD
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls. Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, rs, at all pm.
Low. 80, at 4:22 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81. on August II.
Lowest, 21, on January 80.
Evening star., 1949-09-09

(Be sure to listen in Sundays
at 11:15 am. over WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast Uersion of the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
ne,Ds and vie,Ds of the Govern
ment SerDice.)