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Evening star., 1949-03-23

Score one for q correct solution TO
the first five problems. The last
counts five.
/. Which one of these creatures
is suggested by the world "howling?"
Lion Fox Tiger Wolf
2. Which one of these species is
the original source of veal steak?
Black Angus Plymouth Rock
Hampshire Belgian
8. Which one of the following is
not a textile term?
Wangle, Warp Woof Weft
4. In which one of these months
do telephone wires sag the most?
March July October January
S. Which one of the following
berries should make one think OF
"gobble?"
Strawberry Blackberry
Cranberry Gooseberry
| s. Some of the characters o1
mythology are associated with wings
Try to distinguish on this basis be.
tween the five listed below. Place q
check mark under the appropriate
Evening star., 1949-03-23

The Indians in the heart of Brazil
may well be called children of the
forest" They live in some of the
densest forests to be found any
where.
The trees are of hundreds of
kinds and so are the vines and
shrubs. There are aerial plants, in
cluding orchids, which cling to the
trunks and limbs of trees, with their
roots dangling in the air. When
these blossom they lend touches OF
color to the forest.
The birds of the Amazon forests
also are colorful. They include
many types of parrots, also tanagers
and fycatchers. Strangely enough
there are fewer songbirds in this
area than in some places where
birds are less plentiful. Yet there
is one singer of an extremely inter-
esting kind-the organ bird.
insect life is rich. In small sec
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Take Nv Word for 1t
Fronk Colby

Enormity-enormousness Enor-
nifty means Outrageous wickedness," ,"
as: We are appalled, at the enor-
nifty of his crime. Enormousness
means "of very great size" as: We
were awed by the enormousness Of
the mountain.
Gantlet gauntlet. These words
are confused by many capable writ
ers. But the words have altogether
different Origins and meanings.
Gantlet Is from the Swedish eat-
lopp, "a running down lane A
gantlet originally was a form OF
punishment practiced by soldiers
and by American Indians. The
offender. stripped to the waist, was
forced to run between two lines OF
men who trounced him with ropes
or clubs. Gountlet French gante-
let) Is a kind of glove.
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Goren on Bridqe

A hand on which various attitudes
we're displayed by the contestants
who held it in the recent Life
Masters Individual Tournament held
in New York City is shown today.
The field included 36 of the lead
ing players of the country, each OF
whom played four hands with 35
other players as partners, over flve
sessions of play, a total of 140
hands. The significant feature of
the event, as view it, is the degree
of Standardization in bidding meth
ods that has been brought about
among the leading players. In the
early years of this event long pre-
lininary huddles by partners meet
ing for the first time were the ac-
cepted practice. Now scarcely a
word other than the social amenities
was exchanged when partners from
remote portions of the continent sat
down to play together.
Nevertheless personal idiosyncra-
sizes account for numerous variations
IN the development of the same
hand. Some players opened the
above hand with one diamond and
after the routine response of one
heart leaped to two no-trump, for
which the proper values were held
In most cases North proceeded mere
ly to three no-trump and ended the
auction. One player permitted his
enthusiasm to run away with him
and raised to four no-trump mot
Blackwood, and South accepted the
invitation on the basis of the five
card diamond suit and the pro-
NOTED value of the queen of hearts.
North should be satisfied to raise to
only three no-trump, for calcu-
lation of the assets will make it
clear that not enough high cards are
held to justify slam effort. South
has promised about 10 and North
has only II, which adds up to only
30 points, distinctly short of the
prescribed number (33 or 3D.
When the two of clubs was opened
declarer found himself in his own
hand and tried the heart finesse by
leading the nine. He followed with
the queen, which also held and here
there was divergence. In an ef-
fort to pick up the queen of dia-
monds some players led first to the
king and then back with the jack,
losing to Vests queen.
The top score was attained by the
player whose partner had virtually
catapulted him into the slam. After
the club opening and the successful
test of the heart suit he turned his
thoughts to the most efficient man
ner Of handling the diamond suit.
Proper technique called for the play
Of a low diamond from South,
finessing the jack in dummy. There
exists no clue as to who has the
queen, so that the chances of finding
that card on one side or another are
equal, but there is this considera-
ton that is the deciding factor: BY
playing to the king first. declarer can
win all five diamond tricks only if
the suit breaks 3-3. If East has, for
example, the doubleton queen. he
will cover the jack and promote his
partners theoretical nine to win
rer. But if West has the doubleton
queen, declarer can pick up the en-
tire suit by finessing the jack on the
1irst round.
Played in this manner declarer
took all 13 tricks, reward for
proper dummy technique. but 1t
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Word Come
Find 81 or more words in

flnd 81 or more WOroS IN
ONTRARY,
meaning. opposed; adverse" Av-
erage is 49, limit. Is minutes.
Rules-1 Words must be OF four or
more letters. =. Words which acquire four
letters by the addition of s. such as
bats" cats" are not used. 3, Only one
form Of q word is used. 4. Proper names
are not used. A list will be published
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Watch These Words.

!
All ready - already. All ready
means quite prepared as: We are
all ready for the inspection. Al
ready means "by this time" as: We
have already mailed the letter.
All together-altogether. All to-
gether means with one another,
as: We are all together at last
Altogether smeans wholly, COM
pletely," as: The report is alto
gether false.
Beside-besides. Beside means "at
the side Of" as: He walked beside
me. Besides means except, in addi-
ton to-" as: No one was there
besides us.
Capital-capitol. Capital means
"a capital city; accumulated wealth;
capital letter." as: Austin is the
capital of Texas. The company has
a large capital. A sentence should
start with a capital. Capitol means
"a building where Congress or a
State Legislature meets" as: Presi-
dent Truman took the oath of Office
as thousands gathered in front of
the Capitol.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Con-
temptible means inspiring con-
tempt" as: He behaved in con-
temptible manner" Contemptuous
means lin a manner expressing COLL
tempt" as: She gave him con-
temptuous look.
! Correspondent - correspondent A
correspondent is "one who commune
Gates by letter." as: Letters are ex-
changed by correspondents" A CO.
respondent lone ''r'J is the third
party figuring in an action for di-
vorce," as: She is suing for divorce,
naming Helen Blank as correspond
ent.
Disinterested-un Dis
interested means mot Influenced by
selfish motives" as: His advice was
wise and disinterested. Uninteresteo
means mot interested" as: He was
careless and uninterested In hi!
work.
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Outcrop Raises Hopes

Discovery of an outcrop of high
grade anthracite coal on farm
in the foothills Of the Cambedoo
Mountains, 20 miles from Aber-
deem, South Africa, has aroused
high hopes. A coal mining COM
pany has taken options and will
sink six test shafts.
Evening star., 1949-03-23

Opening lead, two of clubs.
seems to me a miscarriage Of justice
when one has regard for the un-
soundness of the auction.
(CopyrlRht. 1919. by Charles II GnrenD
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Points for Parents By Edy'h 7Ao"os wo''s:
occupations after children ready for bed are more
conduciue sleep than hurried bedtime preparations aeT


Mother-NOW That you've nau
your baths and are ready for bed,
would you rather have q story.
sing some songs or color pictures?
Evening star., 1949-03-23
Answer TO LAUREATE.
Bio Elevator BOUGHT

Argentina is buying, for about
ss.000,000, the largest grain stor-
age and shipping elevator in the
Southern Hemisphere from a Brit
ish engineering firm. for Buenos
Aires. It's mechanical and elec-
trical equipment will take grain
from railway cars at the rate of
1000 tons an hour.
Evening star., 1949-03-23

/ Score yourself as follows: o., poor !;
3-6, average; 10, superior; 9-l0,
very superior.
Answers.
! Wolf 2 Black Angus. 3. Wange
T. July. ;. Cranberry. 6. Jason Is the
only wingless one of the Ave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
SUDDEN HALT, 5 pER(ENTER
 PROBE TODAY
Private Memo of Vaughan duplicates Truman in
 Military Permi!

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-lRs- Senate investigators today turned up a memo from Maj Gen. Harry H. Vaughan to State Department authorities saying President Tru- man was personally interested" in prospective European trip for John Maragon in August 1945.
 Agents of Senate Investigating subcommittee introduced into it's records memorandum by Vaug- han, dated Aug. 3. l945, which said that MaHagon was interested in visiting Italy for the Albert H. Verley Perfume Co.,, of Chicago.
 The memorandum contained this renoilled note in the lower left hand corner:
 Col. Vaughan informed Mrs. >hlpley (Mrs. Ruth E. Shipley, Chief of State Department Pass port Bureau) that the President is personally interested in Maragon's trip to Italy Col. S. agrees that he is 1-D."
 It was signed JFS 8-28-45.
 The military permit procedure in effect at the time listed as I'D" persons whose travel is authorized oy the President" The Senators, digging into the question of whether there has been improper influence in the conduct of government business, have wanted to know how Maragon and other agents of the perfume com- pany managed to get passage on military transport planes to Europe in 1945.
 It was on the return from the July trip for the perfume company that Maragon got into difficulties with customs agents who found he had valuable perfume oils disguised as champagne for the White House.
 MARAGoN PAIJ,
 The committee was informed to-, day that Maragon settled that case for $1,500-.ncluding $1,145 assessed as penalty.
 Francis D. Flanagan, Assistant Counsel. introduced the various documents, including the State De- partment memorandum.
 Flanagan said "JFS" was MT. Scanlon," assistant to Mrs. Ship ley.
 Senator Mundt (D-SD) com- mented that he thinks President Truman probably" had no personal knowledge of what Vaughan was doing.
 Maragon was waiting to testify when the documents were intro- duced.
 But Chairman Hoey DINO sud- denly announced the hearing would recess until tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
INTER-UNI0N FEUD E INDICATED, ALASKA, BY DENOMINATION

CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 25.-IR -Cordova district leaders of the CIO Fisheries Union declared to- day it would refuse to join in any merger with the Harry Bridges led longshoremen's union.
 The local has directed circular to all other affiliates of the In- ternational Fishermen and Allied Workers of America. It stated that if the International votes for a merger with the CIO longsnoremen, the Cordova union will withdraw from it.
 Observers viewed the stand of the Cordova local as the possible makings of a future inter- union feud in Alaska.
 H. J. Lannen. agent for the Cor dova district union, said one of the prime reasons for the decision against the merger was the reluc- tance of the group to submit to the leadership which the long, shoremen's union has. He said the Cordova action against any merger was taken May ', but had not been made public until balloting of other units of the Information al Fishermen's Union was nearing completion.
 He said other Alaska units ot the union will complete their votes within another week or two.
 Despite the unwillingness to sub- init to the longshoremens union leadership, the Cordova union said in the statement that it would continue to support the CIO long shoremen.
 A key figure from longshore lead CT Bridges San Francisco head quarters, Germain Bulke, was a Cordova visitor this week. He said he was lon an inspection tour"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
HOUSE TO
 ADJOURN N
 TOMORROW
Action Taken Regardless of No" Resolution
 of Senate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-tR- Speaker Sam Rayburn says the House will adjourn tomorrow until September 21, regardless of the Senates refusal to approve an ad- journment resolution.
 We are going away anyhow" Rayburn told his news. conference.
 The House adjournment, he said, will be accomplished by passage of simple resolution by which a few members of the House will agree to meet twice weekly until September 21 with the understand ing that no business will be trans acted Such a resolution coes not require Senate approval.
 Rayburn said that procedure Will be followed if the Senate does not reconsider its rejection of reso- lution which would give the House a straighaway adjournment
 He said the Senate's action was "the first time in history" as far as he could recall that one cham her refused to agreed to procedure approved by the other in respect to meeting. The action, he added, certainly does not" promote com- ity between the two branches of Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
SOUTH FLORIDA E
 ALERTED, HURRICANE

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 25-tR-South Florida today has put on the alert for hurricane.
 An cratic hurricane in the At- lantic had recurved to the west northwest during the morning after following a northwest course for a time.
 The new course caused Grady Norton, chief storm forecaster at Miami, to inform the Northern Bahama Island to take hurricane precautions and Southern Florida to stand by on the alert.
 An older storm, known as "Harry's Hurricane" because it coincided with President Truman's visit to Miami Monday, brought high seas to the North Carolina coast and a boatman drowned there when he attempted to retrieve & loose skiff
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
pRIBIL0F TAKE E
 70,S91 SEAL SKINS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-tR- The Fish and Wldlife Service says it harvested 70,89l fur-seal skins on Alaska's Pribilof Islands this year.
 The total was only 749 more than last year, but it was good sea- son nonetheless, the agency said.
 Other banner years have been 1941, 95,O0O skins and 1943, after a full year of no hunting, 117,000.
 The sealing season began June 10 and ended July 27 Killing is con- trolled by the Fish and Wildlife Service, and 20 percent of the take of skins goes to Canada, a partner in the seal hunting regulations.
 The services said the Navy supply vessel Titania is at the Pribilofs unloading an annual shipment of supplies. It soon will load the furs and typroducts of this years kill about $50 tons of meal, 14000 gall Ions of carcass oil and 33,00O gallons of blubber oil-and return to Seattle.
 The government estimates the seal population of the Pribilofs at about 3,837 900.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
ANNUAL TRAVEL
 SEASON 5TARTED
 BY C0NGRE55MEN
(By Associated Press)

This is the annual Congressional travel season-the time for trips and tours by Congressional Com mittees at the taxpayers expense. Officially, all the projected tours will be on government business.
 The first will come Friday when Judiciary subcommittee sails on the Queen Mary for England and Europe to study immigration prob lems and population trends. The subcommittee will be gone about six weeks, returning late in Sep tember.
 Other trips now in the. planning stage include the following:
 A tour of England, France, Nor way and Sweden by House Con- merce Committee group which says it wants to study medical pro- grams in those countries.
 A trip to the continent by an Armed Services Committee to study military morale.
 And various other trips to the farm areas of Europe, to Mexico, Panama, Japan and Puerto Rico.
 According to one veteran House member who has not missed a foreign trip in years, about half the members of the House will soon be out of the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
Alaska Wage Case Decision Is Made
 By (ireuit Court

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25-tR- The Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Seattle Federal Courts dismissal of overtime wage suits brought against three contractors by six wartime workers on Aleutian Island air bases.
 The court sad it was convinced that the portal-to-portal pay act of 1947 was intended to cover a situation such as here presented"
 The suits consolidated before Fed eral District Judge John c. Bowen at Seattle, were those of H. A. Las sitter and others against the Guy F. Atkinson Company; Vernon O. Tyler, William Leslie Cole, Owen McNally and Arthur Sessing against s. Birch and Sons; and Raymond M. Naylor against the Western Construction Go.
 The workers sued for overtime and attorney fees under the Fair Labor Standards Act for work done in 1914 and 1945. Originally, they won judgment, but the employers appealed to the Circuit Court and the case was remanded to Seattle. On March 2, 1948, the Seattle Dis trict Court held the employers had proved proper defenses under the portal-to-portal act.
 The employees appealed, holding the portal act, as applied to them, was unconstitutional This claim was rejected by the Ninth Circuit Court, one of seven of the country's 10 Circuit Courts which has upheld constitutionality of the portal-to- portal act.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
C0NCRE55MEN ARE CAUGHT IN
 SQUEEZE PLAY

WASHINGTON aug. 25.-tR- Members of Congress found them selves squeezed today between military economy drive many of them had demanded and the out ragged cries of constituents affected by the proposed cuts.
 A typical example was offered by a western House member. He said he has been deluged up to now with letters urging him to vote for cuts in appropriations Now. he said, the same people are com blaming bitterly against military cutbacks in his district.
 The predicament resulted from Secretary of Defense Johnson's announcement yesterday that the Armed Forces plan to fire 135,000 of their 905,000 civilian employees, while returning 12,073 Reserve off, cers from active to inactive status.
 That program aims at a $200,- 100000 saving during the fiscal year which started July l, and sav- ings of $50O,0O0.000 a year there after. It would help bring next years military budget down to $13,- 400,000,000 The 1949 budget totals $14,9O0, ,000.
 Despite Congressional protests military officials were reported pushing ahead with plans for the cutdown.
 AS the first step they were pre- pairing quotas to be used as a guide by unit commanders ordered to cut down Reserve officer strength.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
WILLIAMS VIEWS ALASKA FINANCES
 WITH OPTIMISM

J. Gerald Williams, Attorney Gen. eral of Alaska, is not nearly as worried aEout the financial future of the Territory as he was before his trip to Seattle this week. There, he interested himself in the mat ter of lean to ease the Territorial Treasury.
 Seattle banks" he said today, twill help out, if the Territorial banks will only take the initiative.
 Leading legal authorities in Seattle" he continued, agree that the method is legal. Surely" he added, the Territory is sound enough financially for banks to take the risk of lending such a comparatively small amount"
 Williams referred to his efforts to borrow $1,ooO,0oO from Seattle financiers.
 Commenting on tnls, Williams said, While there is approximately $40O,0 in outstanding warrants. a loan for a million would enable us to get things going on a current basis+all Territorial warrants could be paid on presentation. The loan could be repaid by January 3l.'
 Williams also has conferred with Robert Baker of the First National Bank of Anchorage, and quotes the banker as saying it is advisable for Alaska tanks to lend to the limit of their legal ability.
 If local and Seattle banks are not interested" he concluded, there is some possibility that Eastern capital will be-"
 The Attorney General was pleased with results of his oratory the last day of the Washington State Bar Association Convention. He talked on statehood, after which the group passed a resolution unanimously endorsing it.
 q found lot oI favorable re- sponse on the question: said Will Hams today.
 Many leading Seattle attorneys expressed the opinion that Alaska needs statehood and that Seattle definitely should be concerned with Alaskan problems
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
ALASKA DEFENSE PROJECTS GIVEN
 APPROVAL BY COM.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-tRl-A bill authorizing defense construc- ton totaling $26,6O2000 in Alaska and $l2,324.000 in Washington state has been approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Cain (R-Wash) announced.
 He listed the following proposed Alaska expenditures:
 Alaska = Adak, $22,616,000 for Navy defense installations; Kodiak Naval Air Station. $2,548,000, run way extensions and additional quar- ters for personnel; Ladd Field, Fairbanks, $5,610,O00, extension of fighter squadron facilities and establishment of a cold weather test detachment; Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, $28,l56, 200, addi- tional plane and personnel facili- ties; Fort Richardson, $3,644, ,000
 Details of the approved Alaska projects were withheld for security reasons, Cain said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
Two Bond Issues Are
 Proposed, E airbanks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 25.- R-Plans for two bond issues, totaling $4,5OO,00O, to finance con- struction of city-owned power plant and utilities system, should be completed this month, Mayor Ray Kohler says
 The mayor said the program in- wolves a $4,OO0,0OO revenue bond issue and a s5Op000 general obli- gation bond issue, both of which are under consideration for financ- ing by the B. J. Van Ingen Munich pal Bonding Company of New York.
 Kohler made his announcement in answer to a resolution passed last week by the Fairbanks Central Labor Council The resolution criticized the city for spending $125,oOO on the program without a comprehensive report" on the ex- penditure.
 The mayor said the unions ac- ton resulted from transformation or lack of information" and added that the latter possibility is "ob- viously due to the City Councils inability to anticipate questions that arise in the mind ot the pub lic."
 Work to date has consisted in de- veloping a plan economically feas- ible for marketing the bonds Kchler said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-25
'r0NFlDENTIAL DATA" DIvULGED
 IN BOMBER CASE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-R- The suspended Navy official who wrote the anonymous memo that touched off the B-36 investigation acknowledged today he put "confi- dential data into it.
 Cedric Worth also told the House Armed Services Committee he had given copy of the document to plane manufacturer Glenn Martin without knowing whether Martin was entitled to secret information.
 The document now has reached many hands.
 ENEMY GETS FACTS
 Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan suggested that parts of it's relating performance figures of the giant, six-engine intercontinental comber, might help an enemy or potential enemy"
 T don't doubt that they had it." Worth said
 The exchange on confidential material came shortly after Worth had backed down on part of yes- terday's testimony.
 At that time he told the House Armed Services Committee, making the investigation, that he told his Loss, Navy Undersecretary Dan Kimball, four or five days ago that ne wrote the memo.
 Today Worth said what he &C., tually told Kimball was that Chair man Vinson of the committee was saying Worth was the writer.
 EMBARRASSING
 The whole situation was embar- rassing to the Defense Department in it's efforts to smooth out friction between the supposedly unified Army, Navy and Air Force. The Navy and Air Force in particular have had disagreements, mainly over strategic bombing assignments.
 The 49-year-old Worth was un- cloaked yesterday as the author of memorandum which Chairman Vinson D-Ga) said reflected on the integrity of high government officials. The memorandum im- piled that the Air Forces billion dollar B-36 bomber program was a mistake, deliberately fostered by politics.
 Following the disclosure, Worth was suspended from his post by Secretary of ,the Navy Francis P. Matthews. pending a departmental investigation.