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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
MAC TELLS 0FFREEzING
 5-DAY VIGIL
Mertado's Partner, Andy Haffner, Cried for Aid But
 Lost in Icy Wafer

The story of his fight for life when his troller sank and the five days of maddening loneliness in bare unheated cabin while his feet slowly froze was told simply but dramatically today by D. B Filipino Mack" Mercado from his Led in St. Ann's hospital.
 Mercade, 46 years old, was brought to the hospital late yesterday af- ternoon after being found in a cabin on the beach at Boat Harbor. a few miles north of St. James Bay yesterday morning, two days after B. H. Jack Manery discovered eight inches of trolling pole from Mercado's sunken fishing vessel pointing skyward from the waters of the bay.
 WAS GIVING UP"
 Manery found Mercado, weak from hunger and exposure and thinking of giving up"-after nearly week in the cold with his feet swollen and only icy water to fill his stomach.
 Mercado said that seeing Jack Manery come into the cabin was the happiest moment of my life"
 He isn't sure what happened to 59-year-old Andy Haffner, who was with him when the boat sank. He heard Haffner shout twice. Just twice. Haffner was wearing shoe paks and the water of St. James Bay was ice cold.
 But some hope was held for Half ner, as Coast Guard headquarters here received report Monday from Sentinel Island light station telling of fire sighted in the vicinity of St. James Bay Saturday.
 Mercado, with a weeks stutble oi beard on his face and a small metal frame keeping the blankets off his bruised and frozen feet, told the story:
 ON TRAPPING TRIP
 Andy and I were going to do some trapping up there. But the weather was pretty bad and we couldn't put the tent up, so we stayed aboard the troller and caught few crabs"
 WIND FORECAST
 Wednesday night, as Mercade remembers it, the forecast was for high winds in the area. But he and Haffner were confident the 40-foot troller could weather it.. They were lying in the northeast part of the bay with good anchor out, and the vessel had once before gone through storm in which the winds hit 70 miles an hour.
 He and Haffner were in their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
CONSUL DENIES
 CONNIE CHARGE
 OF U. S. SPY RING
Ward Says Mukden Con- suIate Not Headquarters
 fo American Espionage

ABOARD LAKELAND VICTORY ENROUTE TO PUSAN, Korea, Dec I4-tR-Consul General Angus Ward today denied that the Mukden Consulate was United States spy ring headquarters, charge tie Communists said they used as a basis for deporting the last Ameri- cans from Manchuria.
 The decree came in a verdict from a Mukden criminal court which convicted eight Japanese and Chinese on charges of being American spies. They were sen tenced to prison terms ranging from two to four years each.
 The court also found them guilty of plotting rebellions and upris- mgs and undermining the revo- lutionary enterprise of the Chinese people,"
 The court. which during the trial said it had evidence" that accused Japanese and Chinese worked with American intelligence agencies op- erating out of the Mukden Con- sulate, then decreed the Consulate endangered the national welfare of the peoples republic of China and said "the entire group of for eign personnel of the former American Consulate should be de- ported from China"
 Ward denied intelligence agents worked out of the Consulate while he was in Mukden. He said an American detachment, which the Mukden court termed "an Ameri- can espionage organ" had an office in Mukden while he was there but he denied there was any connec- ton between it and the Consulate.
 The Consul General said he knew several American officers whom the Mukden court listed as intelligence agents but denied they were attached or worked out of the Consulate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14

BURNING HULK OF VESSEL |S FOUND; NO
 SURVIVORS, REPORT

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. IA = R - A Coast Guard search plane found the burning hulk of the Dutch rotorship Doros 300 miles due east of Miami today and radioed tersely no survivors sighted
 Sixteen men were missing fol- lowing an explosion and fire aboard the craft. Eight others were res- cued.
 A Coast Guard PBM from St. Petersburg said there wasn't any de1ris near the smouldering motor ship and no sign of other lifeboats ill the area.
 PLANE MAKES SEARCH
 Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue Headquarters said a plane planned 10 meet the American tanker Spar rows Point at the hole-in-the-wall about noon to pick up all eight of the survivors, including one man reported badly burned.
 The hole-in-the-wall is at the southern end of Abaco Island in the Bahamas.
 Meanwhile air and surface craft continued to search the area in the hope of locating other survivors.
 The chief engineer was among the eight picked up from a life boat.
 None of the men aboard were identified.
 EXPLOSION FIRE
 The explosion and fire occurred about 10:45 am. Monday. The chief engineer said he believed the cap tain, chief mate. second and third mates, apprentice electrician, sec and third assistant engineers and the steward were lost.
 Twenty-four men were aboard the Doros when it left New York Dec. 8 for Port -Au-Prince, Haiti.
 The Doros was built in Holland in 1889 and its. home port was Am- sterdan. It was vessel of 92l gross tons. M
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
FRONT OF
 BUILDING
 BLOWN OUT
Death Toll Estimated-P sibIe 200 Injured in
 Freak Explosion

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Dec. 14-tR-- An explosion blew the front out oi the main office building of the Swift & O., packing plant today ard the death toll was estimated at between 30 and 35.
 Brig. Gen. Charles Grahl, Adju- tant General of the Iowa National Guard, said in Des Moines that Guard officers told him by phone that "30 or 35 were killed"
 Walter w. Lindgren. superinten- dent of Public Safety for the city. called it probably the worst dis aster in Sioux City history"
 Lindgren said firemen and volun- teers had donned gas masks to go into the debris-choked basement where cries of the injured could be heard.
 200 BELIEVED INJURED
 Estimates of the number of in- jured ran as high as 200.
 Al Wright, city sales manager tor Swift who was in the company restaurant in one corner of the five-story brick office building at the time of the explosion, said:
 There was big puff. That's all I know"
 The south side of the office building was demolished and early reports said the greatest force of the explosion seemed to come on the first floor. FATALITIES UNESTIMATED
 Walter Krebs, a spokesman for the firm, said there is no telling how many may be dead or in- jured."
 Krebs said natural gas leak may have caused the explosion. The gas issued in several depart ments. he said.
 All emergency equipment and units, including the National Guard Companies and the Naval Reserve were sent to the scene.
 It was believed most of the vic- tlms of the blast were office work CTS.
 GAS HAMPERS RESCUE
 Lindgren said escaping gas was hampering rescue work.
 In Des Moines, Gov. William s. Beardsley directed Brig. Gen. Grahl to make available everything we've got to aid.'
 It. Comdr. M. w. Feddersen, head of the Naval Reserve Unit. took over the work of identifying the dead.
 Fedderscn said a special center had been set up at the Naval Re- serve Training Center in downtown Sioux City.
 Auto wrecking companies sent their mobile small derricks to the scene to help pull away steel gir- ders which collapsed in twisted heaps as result of the blast. Nine known dead had been counted by early afternoon.
 Bodies identified at one hospital were those of Andrew Wisner, Charles Kurtz, and Arthur de Laughter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
TERRITORY DEFENSE
 SOUGHT FOR NORTH
 BY ASSOCIATION

NEW YORK, Dec. l4-lR-Or- ganization of the All-America De- fense Association which seeks "ade- quate defense of American terri tory, was announced today by Fred w. Aver. executive secretary of the group.
 Aver said the association with offices in San Francisco, Detroit and Washington, DC, will give vigorous support to the unoffi- cial joint Congressional Committee on National Defense.
 The unofficial committee IS headed by Sen. Magnuson tD-Wash) and Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bob" Bartlett.
 Robert K. Christenberry, Presi- cent of the Hotel Astor Corpora ton, heads the new association.
 Aver said the immediate aim of the association was to secure action at the next Congress for the forti- fication of Alaska as the key to Pacific Coast defenses.
 Other officers of the Association were listed as A. J. Hayes, Mil waukee. Wis, President, Interna- ,ional Association of Machinists; Edward F. Hotter, Middleton, Md, Master, Maryland Grange; Clyde A. Lewis, Plattsburg, NY, National Commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Murray Lincoln, Columbus, O., President, Cooperative League of the United States, and Ben Brown Edwards, Tulsa, Okla. Fly ing Tigers, Inc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
AIR vIoLAToRS FINED
 $36,O0o BY STATES, CAA SURVEY SHOWS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-R- Thirty states. acting under their police power against violators Of air safety regulations, .have pros ecuted 349 cases and levelled fines totalling nearly $36,000, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said to- day.
 The survey, described by CAA spokesman as incomplete and un- official, covers reports received dur ing two-year period ending this fall.
 Alaska reported one violator and one jail sentence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
Other Targets Unavailable,
 Natures Arctic b0mbers
 Would Play Hob with Enemy
By Frank Carey
Associated Press Science Report

Associated Press Science Reporter
 TAMPA, Fla, Dec. 14-IA-Any nation planning to attack the Unit ed States by way of the Arctic Circle should be prepared to cope with "the worlds worst mosquitoes.'
 Mai. Robert Traub an Army scientist who described these insects did not say anything about enemy attacks.
 But he made 1t implicit that any, one fooling around in the Arctic should be ready to fight the hung riest, most numerous and most per- sistent swarm of creatures in the whole nasty family of mosquitoes Traub knows whereof he speaks, because he spent lot of time in the Malayan tropics where mos quitoes are by no means minor leaguers.
 Up in the Arctic" he told re- porter after he had addressed 8 meeting of entomologists here, i've have the worlds worst mosquitoes from the point of view of biting and numbers.
 There is little other food for them up there, so they seek out humans. You can hold out your hand for a couple of minutes and you'll have as many as 200 of them trying to bite you.
 No Natural Control
 There are unlimited breeding areas for them in the swamps and hcgs, and apparently the Arctic does not have enough natural in- sect enemies of the mosquito to keep it under control"
 He said research by civilian in the Army's chemical corps, em- ploying radioactive materials to put markers on mosquitoes, had shown that the Alaska dive bomb- CTS have a flight range of at least five miles.
 Then while you wipe them out of a given area, others will swarm in from outside
 He also said that Alaska sports "a lot of Siberian fleas ostensibly imported. he said by flea infested rodents followingA the route across the Boring Straits from Siberia to Alaska that was later taken by ab- originals.
 Traub, on the staff of the Army research and graduate school Washington, D. C.. addressed joint meeting of the American Associa- tion of Economic Entomologists and two other related societies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
Senalor Iait Says
 There Is NO "S|ide
 Toward Socialism
(By Associated Press)

Republican Senator Robert Taft has report about how the people Tn his own state of Ohio feel about government finances. He has just spent 13 weeks stumping his state. And he says Ohio voters are most concerned about the size of the public debt and atout the govern ment's spending policy.
 He says he is convinced there is no slide toward socialism" among his constituents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
WAYNE RICHEY JOINS
 J. E. BURFORD STAFF

Wayne c. Richey, formerly Chief Accountant for the Alaska Road Commission, has joined the staff of the J. B. Burford Company as sales representative.
 Richey came here in November, 1948, from Baltimore, Md, where he'- was associated with F. w. La frentz and Company, C.P.A. firm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
More Government Consolidation Is
 Suggested, Reporl
(By Associated Press)

The White House has made pub llc report by Secretary of Com n,erce Charles Sawyer suggesting consolidation of government aid programs in the field of air, land and sea transport The consolida- ton would be along lines suggested by the Hoover commission. The President would like to have the views of all federal transportation officials on the report.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

tCopyrignt l949. by Bell Syndicate Inc.'' WAsHINGToN-Henry Wallace has come in for some vigorous criticism from this column, but it is only fair to give the real facts regarding Wallace's connection with atomic energy.
 Gen. Leslie Groves stated last week that he withheld most atomic secrets from Wallace, then Vice President, because he was fearful of leaks. But the ironic fact was that Wallace probably knew as much about atomic development as Groves and in the long run was more responsible than Groves for the birth of the atomic bomb.
 Here are some facts, now pretty well forgotten, which may give per- spective to the present furore over atomic energy.
 First proposal to crack the atom camesfrom Dr. Einstein in letter delivered to President Roosevelt by Alexander Sachs of Lehman Bro- thers. Einstein reported that he had learned via the underground that the Germans were working on at omic energy and that he believed. refugee scientists could develop it ahead of the Germans. He espec- ially had in mind the use of atomic energy for the powering of naval vessels
 Following Einstein's letter, Roose- welt appointed Henry Wallace as Chairman of super-secret govern ment board to ascertain whether the highly speculative goal of att
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
Here's News About Rita's Expetfed Babe

NICE, France, Dec 14-tR-The Aga Khan said tonight that Rita Hayworth's baby would not be born before the month of January.
 The Aga Khan and his wife, the Begun, left for Rome in Swiss airliner after he made the state ment to an Associated Press cor respondent at the airfield.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. l4-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3s, American Can 1O0ss, Anaconda 28as. Curtiss- Wright 7h, International Harvester 29h, Kennecott 50si, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 1875, U. s. Steel 263s, Pound $2.80.
 Sales today were 2.210.0O0 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: industrials 1975l. rails 51.51. util- ities 4063.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
President Enjoying
 Final Vacation Week
(By Associated Press)

President Truman is soaking up the sunshine of Key West. for the final week of his vacation. MT. Truman will return to Washington next Tuesday. Three days later, he will be off for Independence, Mis- souri, for the Christmas holidays.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
pIot 10 Overthrow Mexican Government Reported Discovered
By Assoc,nted Press

Word in Mexico City regards plot to overthrow the government in favor of Communist regime.
 A Federal attorney says the Mex ican Government obtained evidence of the plot as the result of the ar rest of a leftist labor leader.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
. . . . . . WEATHER REPORT

, (This data is for 24-hour pe- , riod ending 730 am. PSlD In Juneau-Maximum 33;
 } minimum 31. , At Airport-Maximum 34; , minimum 28.
 } FORE c A 5 T
 , yuneau and vicinity,
 , Partly Cloudy with north
 easterly gusty winds tonight , and Thursday. Colder with , lowest temperature tonight |, about 26 degrees. Highest Thursday near 30. RECI PIT A T o N i, tpast 24 hours ending 7:3o am. today
 , City of Juneau-.46 inches; , since Dec. 1-3.25 inches:
 , since July 1-52.l3 inches. , At Airport-.23 inches;
 , since Dec. 1--1.36 inches:
 , since July 1-34.48 inches. . . . . . c
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Baranof from westward scheduled southbound Monday night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
Crashed Flier
 Restued, { Days
(By Associated Press)

A flier who wandered six days in snow-capped California moun- tains after a crash has been res cred. Air searchers spotted him yesterday.
 The flier, Robert Bryant, is re- covering at a Glendale, California hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14
BeeIzebub Is Introduced in
 Bridges Trial
Witness Mentions "Uni. identified" Parsonage
 in Perjury Case

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14-tR- A psuedo-serious discussion of the relationship of Beelzebub (The Evil One of the Bible) to the Communist Party rocked the Harry Bridges perjury trial with gales of laughter here yesterday.
 The break in the solemn and often tormy Federal Court trial of the West Coast longshore leader devel- oped shortly after a government witness Manning R. Johnson of New York had testified Bridges twice had been member of the powerful political bureau of the Communist Party in America.
 Johnson, negro and now inter- national representative of the AFL Clerks Union, testified he had be- come a Communist in 1881 while working as a longshoreman in Buff falo, N. Y, and had quit in 1939, shortly after the announcement of the Soviet-Nazi Germany Pact.
 It was Johnson's explanation of his resignation that brought out the reference to Beelzebub and the roars of laughter that accompanied it.
 Stalin vs. Uncle Sam
 T came to the realization" John- son explained, there was no possi- bility of serving two masters. had to serve constantly Joe Stalin as against Uncle Sam. I could no more do that than serve God and Beezle- bub.
 Defense attorney Vincent Hall inan immediately asked, with a straight face:
 Well, MT. Beezle- -bub is not identified as member of the Com munist Party. Is he one of this gentlemans associates? think MT. Beezle-bub should be identified.
 Maybe" suggested smiling Fed eral Judge George B. Harris, The is the unidentified witness
 Who Beelzebub?
 Chief prosecutor F. Joseph Dono- hue, explained amid more laught- CT that MT. Beelzebub is the Evil One"
 
 Johnson's testimony yesterday opened the prosecutions second phase of it's attempt to convict Bridges of perjury in connection with his naturalization in 1945.
 The longshore leader is charged with perjury in testifying at a naturalization hearing that he was not and had not been a member of the Communist Party. Two un- ion officials-J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt-are co-defendants charged with conspiracy.
 Earlier government witnessse tes- tified that Bridges, 48-year-old native of Australia, had been re- eruited into the Communist Party in the early 1930's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-14

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Evening star., 1949-01-27

Underwood. also was successful in
his candidacy.
At the Democratic convention Of
the 9Th district organization, Mr..
Underwood was Endorsed unan-
imously by party leaders of the II
counties in the district. He an
nounced his candidacy then, al
though he again emphasized he
never had harbored any ambition
for public Office.
Mr.. Underwood defeated John N.
Menefee, Republican. by a substan-
tial majority and carried Fayette
County, in which Lexington is To-
Gated and which often has gone
Republican.
He is a former chairman of the
Democratic State Central Executive
Committee and Of the Lexington
Board of Commerce. At the time
Of his election he had served IA
years as secretary of the National
Association of State Racing Com
missioners.
He is a member of the American
Legion and Elks and has been ac-
Evening star., 1949-01-27
New Faces in Congress
Underwood, New Member Of House,
Holds Public Office for First Time

Although an important Demo-
cratic political figure in his district
for more than 20 years, Representa-
tive Thomas r. Underwood of Ken
lucky is holding public Office for the
first time.
Editor of the Lexington Herald
for IA years and a newspaperman
for 80, Mr.. Underwood virtually was
drafted to run for the seat vacated
by Representative Chapman's deci-
sion to run for the Senate. Mr.
Chapman, a fellow Democrat and
lcno-time personal friend of Mr..
Evening star., 1949-01-27

tive in Lexington in work Of the
YMCA and the Salvation Army.
A native of Kentucky, Mr.. Under
wood, so, is married and has two
sons. One of them served in the
Navy in World War II, and now
is studying at the University of
Kentucky.
Arizona sun., 1949-09-30
Why Some Children
Ditch School ,

In the days of the Little Red
School House, it was believed that
only children who were "bad,"
played hooky from school.
Today, educators and child psy-
biologists recognize most of the
causes for truancy among school
age children and have, in many
cases, found simple but effective
sources" for them.
According to the Childcraft Ad-
visory Service in Chicago, the child
who is too bright may start skip
ping classes because the work is
so easy for him, he is bored most
of the time.
The child who is slow to learn
may also start playing hooky, due
to feelings of insecurity and con-
fusion caused by an inability to
keep up with his classmates.
The Service points out that poor
health, defective hearing or vision,
or even fear of other children who
have been bullying him, may cause
a child to avoid school.
It advises the parent to determine
the cause of the child'S truancy
and then to take steps to remove
them. If child is in too low or
too high a grade for his mental
age, this problem can often be
worked out with the help of his
teachers.
If he is afraid to go to school
his fear can be overcome gradually
by a parent who is willing to ac-
company him to and from school
for a while, until he makes the
necessary adjustment.
Arizona sun., 1949-09-30

FIRST there was the overwhelm-
L ing sense of Gods reality and
power and holy majesty. No one
can ever experience a call who
does not take God seriously.
Arizona sun., 1949-09-30
Attend the Church
Of Your Choice

Antioch Baptist Church, 11th and
East Monroe Streets. Rev. R. N.
Holt, pastor.
Bethlehem Baptist Church, 18th
and East Adams Streets. DR.. Joshua
R. Miner, pastor.
First In nstitut o n a Baptist
Church, 5th and East Jefferson.
Rev. L. Butler Nelson, pastor.
Memorial Baptist Church, 5th
Ave. and Apache. Rev. ]. H. Payton,
pastor.
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 18th
Ave. and Yuma. Rev. w. A. Wash
ington, pastor.
New Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
Pueblo between 18th and 18th
Streets. Rev. J. H. Adkins, pastor.
st. John Baptist Church, 18th
Ave-, between Yuma and Gilbert.
Rev. L. j. Dunbar, pastor.
Union Baptist Church, 2S00 E.
B'way and Chapman Road. Rev. c..
B. Allbritton, pastor.
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church,
901 w. Buckeye Road at 9 Ave. j..
D. Daniels, pastor.
Saint James Mission A.M.E.
Church. Services Sunday at II am.
Jr. Elks Building at 7th Avenue and
Tonto. Rev. C. O. Greenfield, pas
tor.
The Greater Friendship Baptist
Church. 19 and E. Jefferson. Rev.
D. D. Dockery, pastor.