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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
The Excise Taxes
Fairbanks News-Mine

Fairbanks News -Miner)
 It has become increasingly clear in recent weeks that any to free the nation from the burden of the 50 wartime excise taxes will not be initiated by the White House MT. Truman is tax chopper He clings tenaciously to every taxing device his administration planners have been able to provide and wants
 Meanwhile, Americans are becoming less and less willing to continue their submission to levies which supposedly designed solely to raise revenue for war. The travel tax, source of irritation to most Alaskans is an example It was voted to raise money and to discourage travel at time when the nations transportation facilities being strained to the limit. It is still being extracted from travellers for business and vacation trips five years after the end of hosttes.
 It is possible as the elections draw near that Congress will not hold with MT. Truman on this ques- ton The Congressmen are beginning vaguely worry over the mounting costs of government in the economy drive in the Senate and opposition which has arisen to the Presidents foreign arms program.
 They also fully aware of the growing demands among consumers, merchants, industry and unions for slash in excise But before there can be tax cuts there must be a reduction in government expenditures
 The President has never been for a major tax decrease The aversion to tax reduction has become occupational disease of the White House. Admit edly, foreign aid and military expenditures do not make budgeting easy However, the President has voiced little the increased government costs, except to inform the nation in his economic report that his administration has started on a new era of deficit financing.
 Last month, MT. TrurAan suggested that the levy transportation of goods be repealed. This led to renewed demands for an end to the excise taxes. But the President unimpressed and the next appears to be up to Congress.
 There is precedent for action by the legislative branch It was Congress that forced lowering of war income taxes-over the Presidents veto. Now apparently relief must be sought the same way from the excise taxes. ft'sf 'Nhf@ ~SMt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
20 YEARS AGO HMn {sir EMPIRE
AUGUST 31, 1929

Everything opening September At high school studies Eeber intermediate and Sister of kindergarten primary grades Mrs Bern higher grades at the Allen teach inter- media grades Mrs Harold Smith, primary.
 w. been graduated from the School of University Washington north with the Rev Edgar Gallant and was to go by seapane skagwas where Busse to be in the auditing department Railway He Gallant While in Juneau the two Gabriel Menage ssfsf.& ssf tf Hfts, j ..sh
 Apartments Lower Front Street which work had comped ready for The building the latest thing the of apartment comfort finishing and furnishing
 MT and w. their home in the States
 Mr. and Mrs H. C. Davs Marguerite and H. Mo- Dermot Ketchikan going over Mendenhal and Hasselborg Lake Mr. and Mrs visit to their and fishing interests were Gastneau Hotel.
 was in similar business acod ing Juneau friends {Yh4 S.fneE g
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Daily Lessons in English v. v [. GORDON

4 WORDS OFTEN MIsUSED: say, whereabouts do they do they lve?7 4A
 OFTEN MIsPRoNOUNCED Pronounce ba-na first in in first syllable
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Prevenive PREVENTATIVE
 understood, recognized familiar
 times and is yours" Let Toda word Pronounce A in syIabe His faith in God a panacea O his ills"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
"FIVE-PERCENTERS"

Commerce Secretary Charles wyers announcement that his field offices will provide business men with information of govern ment contracts free of charge is causing no concern to "5-percent- CTS" Reason is, the intricacies of government procurement are so complex that only an insider can make any headway against them. All big corporations have their own business representative in Wash ington and hundreds of other con- scerns employ part time agents. Most of them are legitimate con- tact men who know their way around and make no claims to in- side influence.
 All the publicity given "5-per- centers" has boomed their business greatly in recent weeks
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new act. Albany is the first small town to get such development. And right up front to get his pie ture and name in the papers Wes Cox-who had so violently fought the lepislation.
 NOTE-Sinee the enactment of the measure, PHA has been flood ed with applications for low-cost housing projects, many of them from the home towns of Congress men and Senators who tried to kill the bill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
DEMOCRATS ASK OBSERVANCE OF
 PARTY PROCEDURES

Third Division Democrats meeting in Anchorage last week passed resolution that threatened to with draw support from Democratic Territorial officials who fail to clear with the party before making ap- pontments to Alaska positions, according to report of the meeting of the Anchorage Democratic Club in the Anchorage Times
 "The resolution accused Gov Ernest Gruening and other officers of the government of making ap- pointments in their own manner and recommend an
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
KEEP ALASKA GREEN

The warning issued yesterday by the Forest Serv- ice and the plea to Keep Alaska Green are good ones.
 Up to yesterday this section of Alaska, especially Juneau, had had twelve days of good old summer time.
 The woods and the grass along the highway have become dry.
 The Forest Service that motorists and mixers should be especially careful to refrain from throwing burning material including cigarettes into the woods along the highway and thus Keep Alaska Green.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
SHORTS

Members of Congress who want to hit the lecture trail can now do so through new speakers bureau organized in Washington to han ale exclusively Congressional clients Sen. Edward L. Leahy, D., R. l., appointed to fill the seat form erly held by Attorney General Howard McGrath, is rated one of the ablest tax experts in the coun- try .. Capital politicos are read ing with relish advance copies of Joseph L. Dinneen's hilarious The Purple Shamrock" plain talking biography of Boston's colorful May or James Curley The book goes on sale September T.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
TRUCK VANS HAUL CARGO VIA HAYNES
 HIGHWAY; INFERIOR

By noon today, IA Cotton big bruiser semi trailers were headed up the Haines Highway with full loads, bound for the Interior with food to feed Uncle Sams Alaskan based c. I.'s. Trucks kicked up the dust on the Highway as they high-balled it out of Haines on their weekly run from Alaskas only highway outlet from , the Inside Passage to the Interior. Drivers who have been running ! the freight up the Highway since June for Alaska Freight Lines, Inc, pioneers of the route, figured they'd be at their destinations within 19 to 25 hours, depending on wealth CT and road conditions" ~t.
 The big refrigerated vans, pulled by OO-horsepower tractors, carried frozen and perishable food products bound for Armed Forces mess halls, as well as a good tonnage of gen. eral cargo. b-..3 g |,
 Cargo had made the trek by rail from the West Coast to Prince Ru- pert and thence by barge to Haines first operation of it's kind for Alaska.
 Eleven refrigerated v'.ns, dupii- cates of those pulled by tractors over the Highway, are lashed to an Ocean Tow barge for the water transport leg of the cargo haul. Running-gear was taken off the van- -trailers at Haines this June, with vans permanently installed on the barge at the Port Chilkoot Terminal Co., wharf.
 The barge, with the tug boat Shinn supplying the power, nosed into Portage Cove at Haines on it's weekly run at 5 :45 yesterday morn- ing. Port Chilkoot Terminal Go. stevedores were on the spot to tie her up and whip into action dis charging the more than 250 tons of cargo aboard.
 Two electrically operated con- veyer belts-first to be operated on an Alaska dock-were lowered into the open doors of two vans on the barge. Two trucks backed up to the dock end of the conveyors. The switch was turned on and car- go began rolling out of barge vans into land vans before the sun had cleared the peaks flanking Lynn Canal. When cargo from two vans was transferred, the barge moved down two notches and two more semi trailers backed into position for loading. Conveyor belts were installed at the Port Chilkoot wharf specific cally for the barge trailer opera tion, but are available for all side port loading vessels. according to E. c. Koenig, Jr, president ger of the terminal company. |ss Skipper of the tug boat Shinn, Otto H. Barkhousen, estimated running stime from Prince Rupert to Haines at about 40 hours. Tugs and barge are under time charter to the Alaska Freight Lines from Ocean Tow, Inc. .g
 The trucking company first put its semi-trailers on the sHaines Highway back in September. l94T Tonnage hauling has increased steadily ever since with peak haul this season. ca
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
STRAINED RELATIONS

Behind-the- scenes, diplomatic re- lations between the U. s. and Iran are at the lowest ebb since the '20's, when the State Department deport- ed a member of the Iranian lega- tion for smuggling opium.
 Curious aspect of the current strained relations is that Shah Mo- hammed Riza Pahlevi is making a state visit to Washington this fall His mother and several other mem bers of his family already are in the U. s. Authorities are at loss as to the reason for Iranian gruffness.
 Iran put on a huff last month at the turndown of an opium scheme.
 Famine conditions exist in Azer- baijan, northwest Iranian province. Despite large oil royalties Iran ask ed the U. s. for 100000 tons of free grain. When that was refused, Iran proposed to swap opium for the wheat.
 U. s. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger vehemently ob- jected
 He cited the fact that Iran is the most fragrant exporter of il- legal opium in the world, and has persistently defied United Nations attempts to curb this vicious traf- fic. Alto, that due to these notor- ious violations, the U. $. ceased buying medicinal opium from Iran. Anslinger's fortnight pro- tests blocked the swap scheme.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
PUBLIC HOUSING PAL

During the bitter House battle over the Presidents low-cost public housing bill, one of the most acrid foes was Rep Gene Cox D, Ga. At one point. his trigger temper flared to where he struck Rep Adolph Sabath, aged dean of the chamber.
 But Cox sang another tune the other day at the Public Housing Administration
 Officials of Albany, Ga, his home town, appeared at PHA to sign up for housing project under the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
TICKETS

Rep. Arthur Klein, D., N. Y, telephoned the District of Colum- bia Corporation Counsel for infor- nation about local picketing laws.
 This is the first time in five years we have had a query about that" was the answer. The last time a member of Congress call ed us on this subject it was the late Senator Bilbo of Mississippi
 What did he want to know?" asked Klein.
 He called early one morning and said There's a bunch of pick cts outside my apartment. Is 1t le- gal for me to shoot them? We explained that in Washington pick cts could not be molested as long as they kept moving and did not obstruct traccic Bilbo replied. Tn that case, I guess I can't shoot 'em' and hung up"
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Against the possibility that Russia might capture and use against the send to Europe, why not design these weapons they will not operate when aimed in general easterly direction?
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overhaul of the procedures2 the Times story said.
 similar resolution had previously been passed by Fourth Division Democrats meeting in Fairbanks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-31
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

O. Is a wishing girl happiness after ceying an her engagement?
 A. may brief but should be sincere.
 while eating the table?
 A. 0 possibly be avoided.
 O John Joseph Brown Mrs J. J. Brown" a visiting invitation? A name is correct
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government is spending large sums. It has just completed a $500,O0O engineering survey for Iran.
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There's always something. Now somebody com- plains that boost in wages would cause the several millions of unemployed to lose more money through ideness.
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NOTICE

I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anyone other than myself.-Annie c. Keep sg 3t
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Crude oil is carried to refinerieg through some 390,000 miles of steel pipe lines.
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sChwlNN BIKES at MADsEN's
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es .
 Roses were among the first of all fragrant flowers to be used as perfume
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The Washington kerry-Go-Round
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Weather: High, 66; low, 45; clear. {
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T I D E IA B | E
SEPTEMBER I

Low tide, 2:50 am, Ia it. High tide, 9:34 a.m.. 1l.3 it. Low tide, 2:5l pm, GA it. High tide. 9:03 pm, l3.9 it.
Evening star., 1949-11-04

us up for this one" F'eerick was
idle against Baltimore.
Four Bombers hit for double
figures last night as Mike Todoro-
vich led the scoring parade with
19 points as against 18 for Mac
Auley; II for John Logan, and
10 for Red Rocha. Todorovich,
6-5 forward. was the National
Professional Basket Ball Leagues
rookie of the year. in 1918 and
top scorer of the Sheboygan Red
skins with an average of IA points
per game last season.
MacAuley, 6-8 and 100 pounds,
and Bill Roberts, 60, will alter
nate at center for the Bombers
tomorrow night, and will be COW
cred by Washington's CT Jack
Nichols and 6-9 Chuck Halbert.
The Bombers will introduce one
of the tallest squads in profess
sional basket balls history against
the Caps. Roberts, 60; MacAu-
ley and Red Rocha, 6-8; Todoro-
vich, 6-5; Ace Maughan, Ga; Easy
Parham. 6-3; John Logan, Belus
Smawley and D. c. Wilcutt, 60,
and Mike McCarron and Don
Putnam, 60. comprise their rep
resentation.
A Catholic Youth Organization
preliminary scheduled for 7:15
o'clock tomorrow night pits Holy
Name against st. Joseph's.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
ST. Anthonys 13O-Pounders Click Like College Eleven
Youngsters Unscored On Since AZ Season Foe Unbeoten St. ep

"They are like miniature
college team" says Father
Dressed, athletic director of the
team. They're getting splen-
did coaching from Jack Bohne
and Ed Moyle. They perfect
five new plays a week from
the T-formation."
The team-weight limit, 130
pounds-follows the same pro-
cedure used in most colleges.
They have to keep up in
their studies." says Father
Dressed. otherwise we bench
'em. And they have to fol-
low regular training rules.
Every boy must be in bed by
9:30 and we check on them,
too. Every Friday night be-
fore a game we call three or
four of them to make sure
they're in bed. They're re-
quired to take 10 minutes of
self-given calisthenics every
morning and evening. Other
wise they wouldn't be able to
take it. It's rough game"
Bohne, who is EMPLOYED by
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Smooth st. Louis Impresses
Cups in Botterinq Baltimore

Coach Grady Lewis towering
and powerful St. Louis Bombers
today had served a warning on
Coach Bob Feerick's Washington
Capitols as they awaited tomor-
row nights National Basket Ball
Association game with the local
pros at Uline Arena at $50.
While Feerick, Bones Mckinney
and other Caps looked on. Easy
Ed" MacAuley and the Bombers
swept their second successive NBA
game in Baltimore last night by
beating the Bullets. 8l-65. They
previously had throttled the Tri-
City Blackhawks in st. Louis,
72-51, and appear the circuits
early-SeaSon sensation.
The Capitois. who were ex-
tended in defeating the Bullets
here last Wednesday night, 66-61,
were impressed by last nights
performance. and admitted that
they must show improvement in
order to meet the challenge of
the invaders.
"They are big and good"
Feerick conceded today, land it's
going to take a smoother. better
rounded team than we were last
Wednesday to beat, st. Louis. I
plan to play tomorrow night, and
will do everything possible to get
Evening star., 1949-11-04
North-South Golf Due
For Tight Finish With
Snead One Shot Up
By the Associated Prose-

PINEHURST, N. c.. Nov. "A
slam bang finish loomed today for
the 47th North and South Open
Golf Tournaments 36-hole windup.
Leader Sammy Snead still was
clinging to a one stroke advantage
he carved out in the first round,
but the wolves were at his heels.
Snead's 1873 was under par
for two trips over the No. 2 Pine
hurst Country Club course. a
G, 6,952-yard strip. But he was only
a stroke ahead of Johnny Bulla,
veteran Pittsburgh pro and two in
front of National Open King Cary
Middlecoff.
Dangerous rivals at 141, three
strokes off Snead's pace, were
Johnny. Palmer, the Badin IN. c.
pro, who went to the finals of the
PGA championship won this year
by Snead; Denny Shute, PGA
champion 13 years back, and Ted
Kroll, Philmont (Pa.) professional
One at Par Mark.
Alone at 142 was the only other
player under par at the halfway
mark, Dick Mayer of West Palm
Beach, Fla.
Still possibilities at par 144 were
National Collegiate Champion
Harvie Ward of Tarboro, N. c..
and Pros Arthur Doering, Henry
Ransom and Jack Burke.
Snead added a 10 to his open
ing SO in his bid to repeat his
1941 victory in this 47-year- old
tournament which carries a ST.
500 price tag. He had a IS on
each nine.
Bulla, never off the fairway for
his first SO holes, continued his
steady performance with a 1896.
Middlecoff Has 50.
Middlecoff came up with the
rounds low score, 33-36-69, to
establish himself as a threat. It
was here four years ago that he
became the only amateur to win
the tournament.
Back of Ward, the low amateur
with his 73-71-144, came Skee
Riegel, former national amateur
champion, with 146.
One of yesterdays biggest eye
peppers was the 38-40 turned in
by Frank Stranahan. the Ohio
strong boy who spends several
weeks here yearly. Frank was
one under through three, then
things got rough. He went over
par on three Of the next six holes
to turn two over. Coming back,
he slid over par five times, picking
up q lone birdie on Is. It was
one Of his highest scores in long
while.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Phelps Battles 10 Tie
with Carver Vocational

Carver Vocational School OF
Baltimore and Phelps of Washing
ton played to a 6-6 tie yesterday
in football game at Brooks
Stadium.
A 35-yard pass play from Ed
Haley to Sandy Freeman earned
Phelps its score in the first period,
while Carver tied the game in the
second with a 20-yard pass from
Vaughn to Barnes.
PHELPS.
Ends-Jones Freeman.
Guards-Brown, Peterson.
Tackles-Sams, Tabron.
Centers-Jones, Robinson.
Backs-Payne, Ivy, Isley, Hawkins Hill
Ross, Jackson, Hillman.
CARVER.
Ends-Barnes, Jones'
Guards-Taylor, Rayneld.
Tackles-Harry. Robinson.
Center-Marshall.
Back-Quarles, Lewis, Rogers, Vaughn
raeres rnelps --------------- 6 g 9 6
Touchdowns-Freeman. Barnes.
Evening star., 1949-11-04

divers also were present in goodly
numbers, gorging themselves with
sinners to the point where several
of them approached by our boat
could not even get into the air
and Topped away, humping across
the wave tops in ludicrous fash
ion. We saw no bluebills, red
heads or canvasbacks to recog-
nize them. Our guess is that the
weather north of us has not yet
been rugged enough to send them
down in any numbers.
Black bass anglers, except those
who have access to lakes and
ponds. are having their difficulties
these days, constant rainfall
added to falling leaves having
made streams and rivers prac-
tically unflshable. Added to this
is the habit of bass to become
lethargic as the waters chill be-
low certain temperature. This
takes place much more rapidly in
streams than 1t does in pond
waters.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Star Staff Photo.

While Moyle has good reason
to be proud of his foreward
wall, Bohne also can be elated
over his backf1eld, which oper-
ates from the T like a we'll
tended machine.
I'VE have two good heavy
backf1eld men," says Bohne, "in
Fullback Jerry McAleer and
Halfback Bernie Diver. They
each weigh 1870 pounds. Nc
Aleer is the surprise of the
team. He and Diver are our
runners, while Bill McGraw and
diver do most of the passing"
Little McGraw, only 95
pounds, operates the T like
general. He can shift, fake and
hand off with the best of them.
Other backs include Larry
Hamlet. John Renne h a n,
Charles Facchina, Mike Cahill,
and Skippy Lennon.
But the boys aren't taking
tomorrow's game lightly. st.
Joseph's Home has been laying
for them. Something has to
give.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Western-W.-L. Game
Lone Night Offering
On SchooIboy Grid

Scholastic football fans in this
area won't have to decide which
after-dark contest to take in to-
night. There is only one on the
schedule-Western High School at
Washington-Lee in Arlington.
Other Virginia schools which
have been playing under lights
are either away or idle.
George Washington will be at
John Marshall in Richmond, Fair
fax at Lane in Charlottesville and
Falls Church at Culpeper. Mount
Vernon has an open date.
Fans should get their moneys
worth at Arlington tonight. The
affair takes on added interest for
District public high school fol-
lowers in that they'll be able to
see how Western stacks up against
a team that held defending cham
pion Central to tie.
The Generals will have their
first-string intact for the first
time since their opener, for
Johnny Herrlein will return fol-
lowing recovery from hard
knock on the head received in
the st. Johns game.
Bruce Hillenbrand, who leads
schools in the Northern Virginia
area in touchdowns, will be back
at tailback, while Jack Gilf1llan
will be at fullback and Eppie
Riddle and Herrlein in the wing
backs.
Western, of course, practically is
out of the Division l title race
in the District League. But the
Raiders meet Wilson next week
with chance to knock the Tigers
out OF the title.
Wilson was expected to win over
Roosevelt today, while Central en-
tertained Eastern, Chamberlain
played Tech and Coolidge visited
Anacostia.
Longwood School will visit
Georgetown University freshmen
tomorrow. while in other games,
Bulls will play at Fork Union,
Alexandria Episcopal at Virginia
Episcopal and st. Andrews at st.
Adams. st. Johns and George
town Prep will meet at George
Washington High in a night game.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Officials Douse
Use Of Spouse
Students Grouse
BY the Associoted Press

EAST LANSING, Mich, Nov.
3.-A group of Michigan State
college students have turned to
Webster's dictionary in their
fight for extra tickets to the
Notre Dame game. Tickets are
at a premium for the game
here Saturday.
Some Is single students OBJ
tained spouse books" emitting
them to extra tickets on the
theory they were married. The
college discovered the hoax and
took the tickets away.
Now the students claim the
dictionary defines a spouse as
a f1ance or flancee as we'll as
a bride or bridegroom.
The college is taking a dim
view of the argument.
Evening star., 1949-11-04

the Group Health Association,
and Moyle, who is studying at
the University Of Maryland, are
volunteer workers. They take
their work seriously and almost
any day in the week you'll find
them sending the boys through
their PAGES at Priory School
field.
Moyle coaches the line.
They're good" he says.
Good thinkers. good blockers.
good tacklers. Take Dick Reed
at guard, for instance. He is
only 95 pounds. but he has
what it takes. Dick was with
us last year. So was Center
George Neitzer, Tackle Franny
Dimond and End Eddie Col
Inns"
Other stellar 1inemen include
Guards Jack Grady, Nordy
Muckelbauer and Jack F'itzpat-
rick; Tackles Hank Hebb, Bob
by Powers and Jim Lawless;
Ends Pete Manning. Bobby
Iannucci and Kevin Shields
and Center Joe Sullivan,