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Evening star., 1949-05-08
THE THINGS THEY SAID
Continued fros page t,eeniy- sesen

hear him. Iimmy u0s pretending. think
the one great compensation child has to
make up for the awful agony and suspense
of being child. is that if he wants some
thing terribly he can pretend it and so far
as he's concerned. for the time being any
way. it's real"
f1E STEPPED slowly across the space that
separated him from her chair. DO you
blame US, Timmy and me. on the one day
we've been together in so long. for trying to
make the day seem little happy for US by
pretending that you were here with us?'
His words and the thing in his voice when
he spoke them. unneIved her again If only
he had done his pretending alone instead of
with that woman!
She began to cry, taking out little hand
kerchief and shifting into it, but with her
eyes on his as he went on.
"Tse tried to pretend it ever since you
left"
Don't do this to me, Tom," she whis-
pered. 'Oh, I'll admit it - I've tried to
pretend too - don't mean with another
man, mean alone. IL guess you can't
just stop loving somebody just like that be-
cause you get mad at him. ] thought you
could, but coming here and seeing you -
and the house-and-and Timmys things
on the lawn" She lowered the handker-
Chief looked at him out of streaming eyes.
But don't you see you've spoiled it -
for good?"
Spoiled it?''
SHE got to her feet, turned her back to
him. staring out of the window
That womanr she cried. who was so
very very, very darn beautiful and so very,
very, very. rery tall!'
She felt his hands on her shoulders, turn
ing her, against her will, so she was facing
him, looking up into his face. looking at the
humor that had come back into his eyes.
Mary" he said. Il look tall to you,
don't II" She nodded. Then can't you
imagine how tall you might look for all
you're only five feet four to a very little
boy?"
The silence now that was not a full silence
lasted until the house was dark and lights
were sprinkling on in the houses across the
bay and in the summer sky.
Where in the beginning they had found
no words to say there was now no need to
say them. The End
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
UNIVERSITY OF AiA5KA
 INSTRUCTOR TO HEAD
 DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

Clyde G. Sherman, 49, an in structor at the University of Alaska, was appointed yesterday to replace George w. Gasser, "A, as Territorial Commissioner of Agriculture.
 Gasser is retiring January l under the terms of the Territorial Legisla- ture's retirement act.
 Appointment of Sherman was made by Gov. Ernest Gruening.
 Sherman was born in Muhall, Okla. He was graduated from Okla homa Agricultural and Mechanical School in 1927 with bachelor of science degree. He received his master of science degree at the University of California in 1850.
 Sherman has been a field agent for the Indian Service, a major in the U. s. Army Air Force, and a board member of the Veterans Ad- ministration.
 He has also been produce exam iner under the agriculture commits sioner and production and market ing specialist in the University of Alaska's extension division.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
EUGENE BAND E HERE TONIGHT IN
 MUSICAL EvENl

This evening at o'clock in the nigh school gym the Juneau public will have an opportunity of hear ing one of the best school bands in the northwest, the Eugene, Ore, High School Band, directed by Bly, ron Miller.
 A varied program will be present. cd, including well known overtures such as Rossinis Barber of Sev- ille," popular selections such as Cole Porter and South Pacific. v A featured number will be a trumpet trio in swingtime, "The Three Jacks"
 Solos include the clever "Child Prodigy" for piano with band; stars in a Velvety Sky" for cor net with band; and "Cubana" solo for violin with band
 For a stirring finale Juneaus own popular 45 piece concert pano will join the visitors for the per- formance of two numbers. FOLLOW ing the concert the nine piece dance orchestra of the Eugene pano will play for the De Molay dance at the Scottish Rite Temple.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
? CRITICAL PARTY .BRAWLS F0RESEEN
 BEFORE ELECTIONS

[ WASHINGTON, Dec. 31-- tR -
 lgns ogoppod up today from op- fosite sides of the continent that tlere will be some tough crawling within both the Republican and Lemocratic Parties before the Nov- .mber elections.
 Gov. James H. Duff tossed his hat into the Republican Senatorial contest ill Pennsylvania with 8 pointed challenge to the forces of Senator Martin R-Pa) and Joseph Grundy, long big voice in COP councils.
 Tn California Welburn Maycock a friend of President Truman, an- nounced he will enter the Demo- cratic California Governorship race against James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late President.
 Maycock, former Chief Counsel of the Democratic National Con- mittee, will be running without any outward blessing from his friend Mir. Truman.
 But it's a poorly-kept secret that the President hasn't forgiven James Roosevelt for the latter's opposition to MT. Trumans nomination at the 1943 Democratic Convention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
JAp RIGHTS SET FORTH:
 MACARTHUR
CBy the Associated Press)

The Japanese people were told today by Gen. Douglas MacArthus in his New Years message that they still have "the inalienable right to self-defense against un- provoked attack"
 At the same time Gen. Mac Arthur backed the Japanese no-war constitution and the prohibition against Japanese armed forces.
 Does the combination of these two ideas-the right of self detenss by nation without armed forces- mean the United States will de- mand bases in Japan after the Japanese peace treaty is signed2
 Officials at the State Department n Washington declined to give all immediate answer. But the nation $ four top military men will go to Japan in February, probably to discuss with MacArthur a proposed new American policy for Asia,
 CHIEFS NAMED
 The Defense Department last night announced the Far Es.;t Hsi.l would be made by the Jo.nt Chiais of Staff, consisting of Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman, the Alniyis Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Air Force Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenherg a1d Navy Adm. Forrest P. Sherman
 They will not visit Formoea, last Nationalist Chinese stronghold, which is considered vital to Alner1- Ican defenses.
 Sen. Connally D-Texas) of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee urged the United States to send military mission to Formosa to help hold it against Chinese Com munists.
 The plan was also backed by Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) who favored keep ing For1nosa out of Communist hands even if the US. Navy were needed to defend it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
Navy Is Sighting for New Coach Who Is Familiar fo Problems

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Dec. 31.-tR-- Navy scanned the horizon today for a new football coach-the job tossed overheard by George Sauer in a One -For-All7 gesture when his two assistants were fired
 Sauer's sudden resignation yester- day left Naval Academy athletic bigwigs with an early New Years Eve hangover.
 Looking for pilot to replace him shapes up as real headache, par ticularly at this time of the year, lamented Capt. Howard Caldwell Director of Athletics.
 So unexpected was his move that Sauer himself later admitted he hadn't "even thought" of the future yet. But the 39-year-old head coach indicated wherever he goes he'll take the two assistants--Bob Ingalls and Vic Bradford-right along.
 During their tenure Navy won three games, lost 13 and tied two. All three of those victories were registered in 1949 and one of the ties was the memorable 21-2l dead- lock with highly favored Army in 1948.
 Sauer was the first civilian to pilot Navy's football team in Is years, and Caldwell said his sue cessor also will be civilian. He added the Academy Athletic Asso- ciation-governing body of the in stitution's sports affairs-is looking for someone familiar with the peculiar problems" associated with Navy football. Caldwell didn't ex- plain the problems
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
Roaring 4Os Now Whisper:
 Hello, 1950!'
(By Associated Press)

The tired old "Forties," having run their stormy course of life and death, bow out tonight, and turn the world over to a brand new decade.
 At midnight, men and women around the world clasp hands with a new year, and a new era. It is an occasion of cherished hopes and promise, of new determination, of optimism mingled with tremb- ling fear, of echoes of the past sounding future of good or evil, of an end and beginning.
 And of all of this, men will celek. ate in many ways.
 They will kneel to pray in the churches of Rome and Tishomsngo, Olka. They will sing in the streets of Rio, clink wine glasses in the sidewalk cafes of Paris, and on West Sand Street in New York.
 Chorus girls will prance across stages in glittering Hollywood night spots, and a Moscow orchestra will blare a symphony of welcome to the 1950s.
 To some, it is time for count ing the hours of the decade that is done, for remembering the re- cord and studying it's lessons.
 In high places of government and in humble homes of the earth, men did that today.
 And what was written in the history of the "Forties?' mostly, it was story of war, of many dying, of bomb, and of new bloodless but menacing kind Of conflict between two ideologies.
 But it was also story of TO- nance, or more money for most, of a million men coming home in ships to hunt their dreams, of a new international kind of charity, of brides brought from across the seas, of new hope for the perse- cuted of Europe, of the birth of an uncertain thing called the Uni ted Nations and of new develop nnent called television.
 These were few of the things horn in the "Forties," and many of them must find their maturity and their success or failures in the "fifties."
 The outlook was not all good, but it was better than it was 10 years ago, when that period was ushered in to the fury of marching armies and sounding cannon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
HAPPY NEW YEAR, SAY JUNEAUITES;
 EVENTS PLANNED

Juneau will see the old year out and usher in the infant 1850 with numerous club celebrations, large fireworks display, and church watchnight services.
 The Eugene, Ore, high school band, which played to standing room only in Ketchikan when it began it's Alaska tour, will play in the High School gymnasium at 8 o'clock-not as portion of the New Year celebration, but because of their schedule in touring north ern communities.
 The New Year ushering begins officially at pm, when fiery pyrotechnical display begins to shower down over Gastineau Chan mel from a barge tied up at the Government Dock. It will continue for slightly less than an hour.
 The band concert begins at o'clock.
 Also at 8 pm, the Juneau Shrine Cluh begins its New Year Party at the Baranof Hotel. Later, the annual Elks Hi-Jinks gets under way at their ballroom. The Douglas Eagles hold their New Years dance at their hall across the channel At the Parish Hall in Juneau, a square dance party answers the calls to see the old year out.
 Numerous churches will hold serv- ices for their congregations to watch the New Year approach.
 Only scheduled event for New Years Day itself is get-together of the Shrine Club at the Scottish Rite Temple from to pm. on Monday.
 Stores, offices and drug stores will be closed Monday. On Sunday two drug stores will be open. No Empire will be published on the off cial holiday of January 2.
 Happy New Year!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
POLICE CAPTAIN
 STEPHEN MIKULA5
 DIES IN FAIRBANKS

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31-tR Stephen A. Mikulas, 31, former police department captain, died of a heart attack early yesterday
 Stanley Nichols, United States Marshal, termed his death "a great loss to the city and territory"
 Mikulas was a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy in Washington. DC. He attended an annual Boy Scout Christmas party as cubmaster shortly before his death.
 He was born in Struthers, Ohio, in 1918 and came to Alaska in 1941.
 His widow, Helen and daughter, Connie, 3, now are visiting rela- tives in Youngstown, Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
DOCTORS PRESIDE
 AT BIRTH BY WIRE;
 SAVE MOTHERS LIFE

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 31-R Mrs. Fred Pete had a baby by telegraph this week.
 Mrs. Pete, wife of an Alaska Rail- road section worker at Berg, was critically ill with measles and a throat infection when birth of a premature five onth infant neared
 Nurse Dorothy Vinson of the St. Marks Mission at Nenana, bundled up against the 40-degree below zero weather and travelled 50 miles down the railroad ill tlan9e- wheeled "gasmobile" Thursday.
 Jack Swift, Nenana railroad agent kept telegraphic communications open from Berg to Fairbanks while doctors owen Cranmer and William smith of Fairbanks passed along instructions to the. nurse.
 Today doctors said Mrs. Pete probably would have died had 1t not been for Nurse Vinson's work. Mrs. Pete was in much improved" condition.
 In the excitement, Swift appar- aniy forgot to telegraph the sex 3f the newborn chile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
PONCE DE LEON DRUG AIRED AT
 SCIENCE SESSION
By Hov,.rd W. BIakesIee

Associated Press Science Editor) NEW YORK, Dec. 31-Ri-Man's oldest dream, an elixer for longer life, was revived today at the closing sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 The new hope came from studies of cortisone made at the Uniyer- sity of Utah.
 Cortisone is a new hormone that stops the pain of rheumatoid ar thitis, and helps half dozen other diseases.
 The report that it might be a key to keeping certain body tissue younger and lengthening the life span was made by Dr. Thomas F. Dougherty.
 He is an histologist, student of the speciality of minute struc- ture of tissues. His work is sup ported by the American Cancer Society.
 One of the very few known facts about growing old is a change in those parts of your body known as connective tissues. These tissues are fibers and sheaths, which arc in effect the walls and girders of all the hody's organs. They per- meate the skin, vital organs, bones and form the covering of blood ves- sels. Leather is good example of connective tissue.
 In aging, these tissues become mere tibrous, process called fib- rosis. This fibrosis process, Dr. Dcuglterty said, appears to be slowed down by cortisone.
 Connective tissues are by. no means all that must be kept youth ful if we are to live longer. But they are apparently one of the key structures in long life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
SECURITY TAX 10
 JUMP; PENSION
 BOOST PENDING

WASHINGTON Dec 3l--tR-At midnight tonight the Social Secur- ity Tax on the paychecks of about 39,000,000 workers will jump from percent to 1ls percent.
 The rise, first in the l3-year his- tory of Federal Old Age and Sur vivors' Insurance, will bring a tax of $45 year on each worker who gets $3,000 or more in annual pay
 Employers, an estimated 2,700,00C of them, will increase their con- tributions to match. The 50 per cent rise will take about $700 ,000,- 900 more each year from the in- come of wage earners and manage ment.
 For the present, Old Age Pensions won't be any bigger They start at $10 a month minimum. The av- craze is $26. The maximum now is $4520.
 Pending in the Senate is a bill, already approved overwhelmingly by the House, to increase the pen sion and insurance benefits by an average of 70 percent.
 If approved by the Senate-as most legislators say it will be-this measure will boost the minimum pension to $25. The maximum ben efits for an aged man and wife would jump from S85 to $126 a month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
'kER(Y'DEATH 5TIR5 DEBATE;
 DOCTOR FREED

GOFFSTOWN, N H., Dec. 31--tR A country doctor resumed prac- tice today as spirited debate rose over his part in the admitted mercy killing" of a mortally-.1 cancer patient.
 After spending one night in Hills boro County Jail, Dr. Herman N Sander 40-year-old former Dart mouth ski champion, was freed yes- terday under $25,000 bonds.
 Dr. Sander is charged with mur- der in the death of Mrs. Abbie Bor- roto, 59, of Manchester, wife of an oil salesman, last Dec 4 The gov- ernment accused the young physi- clan of injecting 10 cubic centi- meters of air into her veins with a syringe
 Experts explained that air bub- bles in blood vessel find their way to the heart or some other part of the system and stop circulation "a fatal condition.
 T am not guilty of a legal or moral wrong" Dr. Sander eJ1d newsmen after he was released. Ultimately, my position will be vindicated," he said.
 The case which has stirred wide- spread discussion will be presented to the January session of the grand jury scheduled to open next Tues day.
 Strong support for Dr. Sander came from the dead waman's sss. band. Reginald Borroto. Describ- Ing the doc ,1r as a wonderful man." Borroto declared.
 T cannot believe that he is in any way to be blamed for my wife's passing. He has my com- plete confidence.'
 Mrs. Borroto's three hrssshers were divided in their opinions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
PARTY H0N0RS RETIRING
 TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS

A party was given yesterday after noon in the office of the Territorial Department of Education in the Federal Building in honor of three retiring Territorial officials.
 Honored guests were B. D. Stew art, Commissioner of the Territorial Department of Mines, Mrs. E. J. (Josephine) White, assistant cura- tor and librarian of the Alaska His torical Library and Museum, and Norman Cook, accountant for the Territorial Department of Educa- ton.
 The party was arranged by mem- bers of the staff of the Department of Education and the Department of Mines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
Longest Troop
 Trek 10 Join
 Units in Yukon

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, Dec. 31-tR-What officers describ- ed as the longest motorized troop movement in American military history is underway with forces leaving here for Arctic maneuvers.
 U, s. ski troops and other winter specialists will join units of the Canadian Army and U. s. and Canadian Air Forces at WhHe- horse, Yukon Territory, more than 2,000 air miles north of here.
 The combined task force will op- crate against a common aggres- sor" in the frozen Arctic waste land The exercises are designed to test men. clothing, equipment and tactics under Arctic conditions.
 The first unit-the Fourth Field Hospital-left here yesterday. The 229th Signal Operations Company heads north Wednesday. Other units of the combat team formed around the First Battalion, 14th Infantry, will leave Camp Carson here Jan. 8.
 Infantry units which just com- pleted training at Camp Hale, Colo, will go to Whitehorse in two airlifts late in January.
 Motorized units are following U. s. 87 to Great Falls, Mont. From there they'll go by way of Ed monton, Alberta, Dawson Creek and the Alcan Highway to White norge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
TRUMAN WILL ASK EXCISE TAX CUTS,
 WANTS NEW LEvIES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31-tR-A top adviser said today President Truman will ask Congress in a special message to cut some ex- else taxes, then enact new levies to get the government out of the red.
 This Presidential confidant, whc asked not to be named, said MT Truman feels the time has come to eliminate at least some of the luxury taxes" levied during the war on such items as jewelry, lug gage, transportation tickets and telephone bills.
 He said the State of the Union message MT. Truman will deliver in person to Congress Wednesday will give a picture of the Presi- dents broad objectives" in the field of taxation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
$73,ooo SUIT WON AGAINST ?. J. CUTTING

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 31- lR-Oregon investors suing the Kougarok Dredging Corp, to knock out 8 contract won a $73,000 court victory in Judge Anthony Dimond's Federal District Court yesterday.
 Dimond ordered the dredging cor poration, headed by Percy J. Cut ting of Anchorage, to return to Kougarok Consolidated Placers Inc. 349,556 shares of stock valued by the placer firm at $73,000.
 The judge denied the Oregon in- vestors claim for $20,000 advanced to the dredging corporation on the grounds at least part of the money was for operating expenses.
 Neither party is to recover costs of the action except Audrey Cutting, the defendants wife. The court ruled she was not properly de- fendant, and is entitled to recover costs from the Oregon group which brought the suit against the dredg- ing corporation and Cutting.
 Cutting currently is serving an unfinished portion of years sen tence at the McNeil Island Federal detention camp near Tacoma, Wash
 Ultimate decision in the five weeks long case rested with the presiding judge. But an advisory jury heard the testimony and re- turned a verdict Oct. 27 against Cutting on five issues up for de- cision.
 Bailey Bell, Cuttings attorney, in- eated he would file a motion for new trial and, that failing would appeal the judgment to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
 The Oregon investors who make up Kougarok Consolidated Placers include:
 The president of Oregon Motor Stages and part owner of Yellow Cab in Portland and Seattle; Al Schneider, general manager oi Oregon Motor Stages, Portland Douglas E. Owens and Charles C. Stearns, partners in a Medford Ore, construction firm; Earl Me- Mutt, former mayor of Medford his brother John McNutt and Thomas Chapman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
TERRITORIAL TAX
 STATEMENT SOON

With books closing for the year today. Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney and his staff will be hard at work early next week preparing the annual statement for publica- ton.
 Acording to Title 48-2-17, ACL.A. that office is required to publish statistics annually as to revenues derived under the laws administered by the Tax Commissioner.
 Commissioner Mullaney reports that approximately $9o0.0o0 was turned over to the office of the Treasurer of Alaska in December. This figures compares with ap- proximately $651. .000 in November, and $574,000 in October.
 January is an important month in tax circles. Mullaney has cir culated virtually everyone on the tax register in regard to due taxes.
 Anyone who has not received ap- rlication or tnx forms may obtain them from the Taxation Depart ment office in the Simpson Build ing, Juneau, or in the Departments offices elsewhere in the Territory.
 Of the new Territorial taxes now in effect, the average person is most concerned with two: the husi- ness license tax formerly collected for the Federal Government through the clerks of court, and the net income tax.
 In cases where income tax with holdings are not made by employers, persons should make declaration immediately, and pay the estimated tax not later than January 15, 1850.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-31
VETS CHECKS TO ROLL JAN. 15;;
 100000 A DAY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31- ta = Millions of World War II veterans will start slicing the $2,800,000, ,000 GI insurance refund Melon Janu- ary Is.
 The Veterans Administration said that on that date checks will start rolling out at the rate of 200, ,0o0 a day. June 30 is the target date for completing the operation.
 The checks, ranging from go cents to $528, will average about SITS per veteran.