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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
The W ashington Merry -Go Round
lCopyright. l949. by Bell Syndicate. Inc. By ROBERT s. ALLEN, Substi- tuting for Drew Pearson, Who
 Is On Annual Vacation

HASHINGTON-President Tru- man, who has complained repeat edly about lobbying, is due to get a similar complaint against a mem Der of his own official family.
 He is John D. clark. of the White House Council of Economic Advis- erS.s
 The former Standard Oil of In- diana official, has aroused the ire of a group of anti-monopoly Con- gressmen. They charge he has been quietly lobbying to restore the passing point price system outlaw ed by the Supreme Court.
 Chief complainers are Reps. Wright Patman, D., Tex, and John Carroll, D., Colo. who were largely instrumental in putting through the House recently the bill barring business mergers. This measure is the most important antitrust legis- lation enacted in many years.
 Patman and Carroll are taking their lobbying complaint against Clark directly to the President.
 Their contention is that it is fu- tile for them to seek to strength en the Governments hand against monopoly when a member of the White House staff is opposing them. They want the President to muzzle Clark.
 His position on this issue is cur ious.
 Last summer, he vigorously backed the Federal Trade Commis- sion when a committee headed by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
VAUGHAN TO
 BE KEPT ON
 BY TRUMAN
Will Not Fire Army Aide. President CurtIy
 Tells NeWsmen

WASHINGTON, oept. l-tR- President Truman said today he will keep Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan as his army aide.
 That was just about all the comment MT. Truman would make at a news conference about the Senate investigation of Vaughan's activities.
 To other questions, MT. Truman said the hearing was held on Capi- tol Hill, and that it would not be continued up here tmeaning the White House).
 A reporter asked whether he thought Vaughan had got a flair deal' from the committee. MT. Truman declined comment.
 Although the committee has dis missed Vaughan as witness, Sem ator Mccarthy tR-Wis) said 1t is just getting started' in it's inquiry about him.
 Mccarthy talking with reporters in advance of the Presidents news conference, also said that for MT Truman to keep Vaughan as his military aide would amount to en- dorsing not only the New DeaP and the Fair Deal" hut also "all of Harry Vaughans deals"
 Vaughan himself has indicated that one former White House figure John Maragon-won't be seen around there in the future.
 Vaughan said yesterday that Maragon needs to be washed up fumigated."
 A reporter told MT. Truman that Vaughan had said Maragon was his 'lovable" friend, but ought to be "fumigated" before he re-enters the White House.
 The reporter wanted to know what the President thought about that.
 It was then that MT. Truman as serted that the committee hearing was being held at the Capitol and it would not be continued at the White House.
 The word that Vaughan would stay as the Presidents aide came when a reporter asked MT. Tru- man if he contemplated any change in army aides.
 The President said. T do not. .
 Vaughan, in re-ribboned sum- mer uniform, was standing behind the President at the meeting with reporters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
RUSSIA WON WORLD WAR
 TWO, CLAIM
That Is Crack Made on 10th Anniversary of Start
 of that Conflict
(By the Associated Press)


 Today is the 10th anniversary oi the beginning of World War Il in Europe and the fourth anniver- sary of the Japanese surrender ceremony.
 The Moscow Weekly New Times seized the occasion to declare tht Soviet Union won the European war single handed.
 "The Soviet people bore the en- tire IEurden of the war against tht German Fascist invaders it said
 FINE IN JAPAN
 Tn Tokyo twhere it Was Friday Japanese time), Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur reviewed Japan's four years under Allied occupation and de- clared Communism is no longer g major threat to Japan.
 "The Japanese people said Mac Arthur. have fully and faithfully observed their surrender commit ments and advanced steadily along the road to spiritual regeneration and phys,cal reconstruction" In four years Japan's popula- ton has grown by 9,500,000, Mac Arthur reported, yet there ha. been no mass unemployment, nc social unrest and no large-scalt dole"
 West German newspapers noted the 10th anniversary Of Hitler's march into Poland with chorus of we don't want another war. soviet-licensed newspapers in Der lin said the American Army is pre- pairing for another war on German soil.
 The Russians are just concluding their summer military maneuvers east of the Elbe. The Americans will marshal 10000 men in mock warfare in West Germany next week.
 IN CHINA
 In China, Communists continued their march southward. Canton dispatches said Communist irregu- lars have captured Hs.ngning, 12s miles east northeast of Canton, and another town, Meihsien. was aban- doned by Nationalists without fight.
 DOWN IN BOLIVIA
 Rightist Rebels have made fur ther gains in Bolivia. The middle of-the-road government reported the National Revolutionary Party (MNR), which began the revolt Saturday, now holds at least foul key centers. The government saic the Rebels had taken over Yacuiba an oil center on the Argentine frontier, and Sucre, 250 miles south east of La Paz. The Rebels also control Santa Cruz and Potosi.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
AMER. LEGION WILL ELECT CHIEF TODAY.
Delegates Unanimously Approve SeIf-He|p Plan
 -0bjeets 10 Any Bonus

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.-lRt- Legionnaires, warming up to the election of new national Ameri- can Legion commander, gave unani- nous approval today to the Legion's self-help plan to bring new jobs and industries to Americas cities.
 The Legion's 31st annual con- vention approved a resolution back ing self-help plan based on the initiative of the people in their own communities without reliance on the Federal government in solv- ing unemployment problems
 Under the proposal, town and city councils would confer with industrial and civic leaders and pool their resources on a commun- ity plan. It is key part of the Legion's 1850 domestic program.
 The election of a new command CT was the main item of busi- ness on the last day of the four day convention.
 The Legionnaires howled down with a booming chorus of noes a proposal by George Nicholas of Miami. Fla, that the Legion go on record as opposing federal bonus for World War Two veterans at this time.
 The convention voted an in- crease of 25 cents per capita in 1850 dues, effective October l, to a total of SIPS 8 year.
 Resolutions adopted included one urging Congress immediately to admit Alaska and Hawaii to statehood
 CRAIG ELECTED
 PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 1.-tR- The American Legion today elect ed George N. Craig, 4O-year-old Brazil, Ind, attorney as National Commander. He is the first veter- an of World War Two ever named to the post
 Craig reached the needed ma- jority of 1873 votes when Texas gave him 104 of its 106 votes. He succeeds retiring Commander Perry Brown of Beaumont, Tex.
 James Green, B, Omaha, Neb:, was a close second with two other candidates, Earl Cooke. Jr., ot Dawson. Ga, and Donald Wilson, Clarksburg. w. va., mastering only a few scattered votes.
 A total of 3,344 delegates ballot ed.
 Earlier the Legion, at it's 31st an- nual convention meeting, demanded in a resolution that the U. $. "curtail as far as possible any further immigration at the present time."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
COLD WAR 5LA(kENS,
 E BELIEF
President Hopes for Sur. render" Discusses
 Congress Actions

WASHINGTON, z Sept. l.--lR-- President Truman said today the war of nerves between Communist and Democratic governments is very decidedly slackening off.
 He expressed sincere hope that this war will end in surrend- CT just as the shooting war did.
 Then, he told a news conference, everybody could get in the mood for peace, the United Nations would work as it should, and he hoped generations of world peace would follow
 Asked to explain what he meant by hoping the cold war would end in surrender, the President replied he meant just what he said. He would not elaborate, but nobody had any doubts which side he hop ed would surrender.
 Mir Truman's remarks were in re- sponse to a request for comment on the tenth anniversary of the start of World War II.
 Turning to domestic matters, the President repeated prediction that his program will pass-all of it-by the time the 81st Congress ends next year.
 He said the first session is not over yet and no one can draw any conclusions until the 1850 session is finished.
 Mir Truman said he is pleased over the Senate's action in de- feating all appropriation bill rid- CT which would have required him to cut all appropriations five to ten per cent.
 He said the rider was absolutely the wrong way to go about achiev- ing economy and the Senate did the right thing in turning it down.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
By ELTON c. FAY

WASHINGTON, Sept. l-tR- Canadian and United States ground and air units will work out fighting techniques this winter for combined defense of the critical Arctic from tier.
 The Army announced today that Exercise Cross Index" = involving comparatively small units of the armies of the two nations, supported by the US. and Royal Canadian Air Forces-will be conducted in the Yukon and Alaska areas near Whitehorse, VT, during January and February.
 BATTALION COMBAT TEAMS Each army will provide a one battalion combat team including infantry-some of which will be employed in a parachute role artillery, engineers, signals and other supporting arms and serv- ices" the formal announcement said.
 Army officials declined to specify the total number of men involved, pointing out that the size of a combat team varies widely, de- pending on it's mission. The two Air Forces will provide fighter cover for troops and bomber, reconnaissance and transpor planes.
 Tn addition to existing com- munications, mo2ile RCAF and USAF signals equipment will be used," the Army sald Mobile Air Force radar and control centers will also be employed
 RADAR DETECTION CHAIN
 Canada and the United States are undertaking to build perma- nent chain of radar aircraft detec- tion stations across the northern rim of the continent to warn of the approach of hostile craft across the polar cap.
 The overall commander of the Arctic exercise will be named by the United States, as we'll as the Army commander, while Canada will appoint the Allied Air Forces commander. Most of the troops will be flown into the Whitehorse area, with the rest moving in over the Alaska highway. In some instances troops will travel as much as 5000 miles.
 "The objectives of the exercise are to develop procedures, doctrines and techniques for the employ ment of the combind Canadian United States Army and Air Forces operating in the Far North" the Army announcement said.
 The exercises apparently will be in the western Command of the | Canadian Army. That command with headquarters at Edmonton Alberta, includes British Columbia and Alberta, the Northwest Terri tories and the Yukon. The Canadian defense of the Arctic rests with two command
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
WAGE MAY BE UppED,
 40 TO E CENTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1-R-An increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour was virtually assured today.
 The Senate voted for it yester- day; the House did so earlier. All that remains now is for the two branches to compromise other points in the bills each passed to revise the 1888 wage-hour law.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
STEAMER kOvENF| .''IS

Prince George from Vancouver scheduled to arrive tomorrow after noon.
 Princess Norah scheduled to ar rive Saturday afternoon or eve ming.
 Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.
 Aleutian from west scheduled southbound Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
TROOPS TO BE USED
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-R-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3h, American Can 94A, Anaconda 27, Curtiss- Wright ITS, International Harvest CT 26as, Kennecott 451a, New York Central lOA, Northern Pacific l2% U. s. Steel 22As, Pound $4.03.
 Sales today were 840,000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows industrials 179.53, rails 45.65, util- ities 36.73.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
RICHARD50N FINED
 S75o, THIRTY DAYS
 IN JAIL, SUSPENDED

PETERSBURG, Alaska, Sept. r. R-Fishing with gill net Aug. l9 yesterday cost Frank Richardson $750 in fines and 30 days in jail suspended. He said he would serve out the fine in jail. US. Commis- sioner Dale H. Hirt passed sen tence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
HEAD OF SEATTLE PORT COMING FOR
 ARMY CONFERENCE

SEATTLE, Sept. l-tR-Brig Gen. Fenton s. Jacobs. Commanding General of the Seattle Port of Elm tarkation, will sail for Alaska to- morrow on the US. Army transIort Frederick Funston. He will confer with US. Army Alaska officials on transportation and supply questions resulting from the recent reorgani- xation of deep sea transportation under Navy control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
HEINMILLERs TO HAYNES

MT. Carl Heinmiller and his bride. the former Betty Haggarty were passengers yesterday on AL aska Coastal Airlines for Haines The bridegroom is manager of the Port Chilkoot Company there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
MISS WHEELER TO SAIL

Miss Bonnie Wheeler plans to sail on the Aleutian Sunday. re- turning to. California after sum- mer visit with her father, Ross Wheeler. Miss Wheeler, who will celebrate her seventeenth birthday tomorrow, is returning to continue her studies at San Jose high school. On her annual visit with her fath- CT, she has been in Juneau since June.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01

Some 150,000 tons of steel wire were sold annually for hoop skirts when they were the fashion in 1860- 1870.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
FIRE DEPT. TO MEET

Members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department will hold their monthly meeting in thier quarters this evening, starting at o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-01
u. S. and Canada Plan Winter
 Maneuyers Near Whifehorse
 For Joint Arctic Defense

the Western and the Quebec com
 mands. The area of the latter stretches up through Baffin Land toward Greenland.
 MAN, PATROL AND WATCH The Canadian theory of defense for the vast and uninhabited
 northland is to man strongpoints
 and patrol the other strategic
 zones, watching for the presence
 of any strangers in the remote 1 Arctic land.
 The defense collaboration between the two nations, started before the l war and carried on since, includes
 an interchange of information and temporary exchange of officers
 Loth at headquarters and in the field.
 STANDARDIZE WEAPONS
 As part of the beginning of a i general standardization program,
 the two nations have adopted com mon communication systems and battle orders.
 Moreover, the Canadian govern
 ment has announced that it desires l to standardize weapons "as far as practicable Canadian Defense
 Minister Claxton disclosed recently that i've have a list in Canada of all weapons we are prepared to standardize to American designs" AS an example of the progress in this program, he pointed out that
 Canada will build the F-86 jet fighter, the newest type of fighter in operation by the USAF. TROOPS TO BE USED i FORT LEWIS, Sept. 1.-lR-Ft.
 Lewis officials said today they as- stunned the infantry units to be
 used in arctic exercises by the
 Canadian and United States forces I will be from this post.
 l They said a Fourth Regimental l Combat Team Regiment which cur I rently is in the Far North probably
 would be used although no word i has been received from Washing
 ton.
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Evening star., 1949-10-09
Ann WinsIow's Characters Tell Their
Story 'ThrouQh q Mist of Gentle Reqret'

press. They seem less justified
here than in the case of Henry
Green.
Mr.. Liddell's is a story of a
lonely, disflgured old woman, who
is reluctantly befriended by a pair
Of devoted, artistic brothers. While
severely exclusive of their society
and frightfully panied at any in
trusions, Stephen and Andrew are
brought to pity poor Mrs. Foyle,
whose only comfort is her delu-
sive memories of her now titled,
but always selfish, daughter Mi
randa. The brothers are gradu-
ally involved in her tragedy which
is climaxed by her removal by
Miranda's instructions to the
county poorhouse to die.
This woe is told in a typically
light, crisp British manner, with
a wealth of understatement and
moments of poker-faced humor
The time of the story. which on
the eve of the outbreak of the war,
and the place, which is the uni
versity town of Christminster are
most sensitively conveyed. But
somehow the whole thing seems
precious and slightly sententious,
two qualities which rob it of its
true force,
Evening star., 1949-10-09

seen of the 10 ingredients neces-
sary for Antoine's oysters Rookie
feller, although he does leave out
the proportions.
And Lagniappe, Too.
All in all Mr.. Kane covers just
about everything from st. Rose to
Concord Switch. with 80 pages of
pictures and maps for lagniappe,
and other omissions are slight. He
does scamp the Reconstruction
riots, and his space runs out be-
fore he gets around to the COM
mercial and industrial revival of
the last few years. but what I
wish he could have informed us
about is the indigenous growth of
that accent known as the Bronx
which led a bitter taxi driver to
say once: 1"He said he wanted
to go to Boorbon street. How did
I know he meant Boibon?"
New Orleans has it's vices and
its piety; it smells, and the camel
LAS blow sweet in February; it
has a dozen nationalities and al
most as many tongues, but there
lis a homogeneity about all. (Some
say this extends a little too far
in the case of the coffee, which,
loaded with so per cent of the
country's chicory. seems to absorb
the color and tang of the adjacent
MlssiSSippi.) Mr.. Kane has put
it all together in volume that
is in the vanguard of any bibliog-
raphy on the subject.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

husband away. Is having an affair
with a neighboring captain. Her
mother in-laW, Mrs Tenant, re-
CARDS maintaining the place as
her war work. So the servants
dust the ancient half-empty, cas-
tie, light the fires to keep the old
masters warm, while the peacocks
parade on the demesne, the doves
flutter in their dovecote and two
Mrs. Tenants take their daily
walk with the hounds to the
Greek theater on the grounds, and
Mrs. Welch, the cook, drinks her
gin.
Edith artfully fends off Charley,
while learning a few Of his arts.
Charley, who manages to keep his
staff terrorized with alternating
threats of the ferries, the l. R. A.
and the British armed services,
steers clear of blackmail, prefer
ing to keep the small, steady
scrounging on the household ac-
counts. Such plot as there is
arises from the disappearance of
one of Mrs. Tenants rings and
various efforts on the servants
part to exploit the loss; but the
real and continuing interest arises
from the skillful revelation of the
characters through their char
acteristic speech, their conspira-
cies, longings and their rare
flashes of kindness.
Interspersed with these sardonic
studies of the intense lives of the
servants are scenes of almost
poetic beauty. In all, Loving"
is a rare treat. Mr.. Green's writ
ing is naturalistic but never
clinical. He writes realistically of
an unreal, and even fantastic,
world. And the final irony is
that any pity you may have for
any of these steadily seen charac-
ters might be reserved for the two
ladies of the house. who are, it
would seem, at the mercy of their
servants.
Evening star., 1949-10-09
Peter Bourne Writes
New Novel of Mexico
FLAMES OF EMPIRE

FLAMES OF EMPIRE
BY Peter Bourne. (Putnam's:
$780,
During the Civil War, when the
South was trying desperately to
obtain recognition and aid from
England and France, European
capitals drew agents on both sides
of the conflict. Napoleon III of
France embarked on his fantastic
attempt to take over Mexico by
making the Archduke Maximilian
of Austria puppet emperor of the
strife-ridden republic.
Mr.. Bourne has written a novel
around these outer fringes of the
War Between the States. Martin
Ravenel, from a family of Louisi-
ana plantation owners, is a prom
ising youth in 1861. He wants to
fight for the Confederacy, but in
stead finds himself yielding to the
pressure of old friends and becom-
ing a secret agent for the cause in
France. In time he is on conf
dental terms with Napoleon III
and later is embroiled in the plot
to place Maximilian on the Mexi-
can throne. Martin accompanies
Macmillan and his young wife
Carlotta to Mexico. The Amer
lean is lured into the scheme on
the pretext that the new Mexican
regime would be friendly to the
Confederacy, and, when the
Southern cause is lost, he stays on
to help the well-meaning EN-
peror. The royal drama is played
out to its tragic curtain.
AS the publishers say, Mr..
Bourne has painted on big can
vas. Perhaps it is too large. It
brings in so many personalities
and events that a cohesive story
is difficult to sustain. Flames
OF Empire" nonetheless, is in
teresting, sometimes exciting. The
writing is competent, if not dis
tinguished. -C.B.J.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

as you might meet today-farmers
and artisans, wanting to better
themselves, going to Oregon be-
cause of it's promise, yet not obliv-
ious to the excitement of the peril
Gus overland trail, not uncon-
scious of their role as pioneers and
empire builders.
Men of THE Big Sky lived
and died in violence. The men,
women and children of the Way
West" have left a gentler life and
they dream of a new home and
fertile acres in Oregon. The
trek. unlike the constant Journeys
the mountain men made, is only a
means to an end. The months
these families plod westward bring
tragedies, suffering, grim days.
And yet Mr.. Guthrie, with the re-
straint of an artist, has not piled
on bleakness and horror; he has
made it an average crossing by
average people. Without once re-
sorting to melodrama. he has
brought his families so sharply to
life that you feel the same concern
over their problems that you feel
over what happens to your friends.
Mr.. Guthrie's Artistry.
The story of the Oregon trail
and it's covered wagons has been
told many times, in fact and fic-
ton, and yet. under the spell of
Mr.. Guthrie's artistry, felt I
was hearing it for the first time.
Lie Evans, captain of the wagon
train, is as real as any character
in modern fiction that I know.
The writing. always keyed to the
thoughts of such practical. scant-
lily educated men. conveys the
grandeur and the hazard of the
old West. You sense the breeze
blowing out of nowhere into no
where" and nights "broody with
the feel of mountains, broody with
the sense of loss. the campfire
sparkling small against the great
ness of the dark"
The Book-of- the Month Club
has discovered Mr.. Guthrie and is
distributing THE Way West" to
its members. Perhaps even the
Pulitzer Prize Committee, which
strangely overlooked The Big
Sky" will find out about him.
Evening star., 1949-10-09

sus, and whether the term is to
be taken literally or figuratively
has been a matter of theological
controversy.
Aside from debatable points, the
story OF Mary is deeply appealing
Mr.. Asch has woven into it a rich
tapestry of the time. Details OF
life in the Jewish villages of that
day stand out sharply. The Ma
tivity is described with memora-
BILE beauty. The boyhood of Je-
sus Is a touching phase of the
book, and Mary the mother
combines pathos, hope, faith
Joseph, Self-effacing, understand
ing, emerges as a symbol of hon
esty and honor.
Mr.. Asch has used the old Jew
lsh forms-Miriam for Mary,
Yeshua for Jesus, Jochanan for
John. Sometimes, in the case of
certain other characters this is
confusing. Leo Steinbergs trans
lation is superbly done.