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The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05
TRUMAN HAS NO PLANS FOR VISITING ALASKA

WASHINGTON, (P) Charles c. Ross, Presidential press secre- tary, said yesterday that President has made no plans whatsoveer" for a visit to Alaska. and Hawaii.
 Ross said he had talked with MT. Truman mad that the chief ex- ecutive informed him that he had not made any vacation plans at all.
 The President is planning, as he has told newsmen, to get away
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05

FAIRBANKS, (P) - The Ladd air force base yesterday identified as Sgt. James F. Hartigan, 2l, the soldier who tok his own life Sun- day night.
 Investigators said he shot him. self fatally and attributed his ac- tions to despondency over separa- ton from his wife Dolores.
 The sergeant came here in June.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05

SAN FRANCISCO, (P)-Harry Bridges, head of the CIO long shore union, had passage on the 1O:3O am. PST flight to Honolulu today.
 His trip to Hawaii was linked with the strike which has tied up ports there since May 1.
 George Hillenbrand of the U. S.. conciliation service and Louis Goldblatt, longshore union off cial, left by plane last night for
 Continued on Page Four)
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05
JUNEAU, (P)-The Alaska Ma

JUNEAU, (P)-The Alaska Ma tive Services supply ship, North Star-converted from the Coastal Rider-left Seattle Monday to car ry supplies to Arctic stations.
 Its first stop is to be Mount Edgecumbe, near Sitka. Other stops are scheduled for Mekoryuk, Tanunak, Golovin, Kotzebue, Xii valina, Point Hope, Point Lay, and Wainwright.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05
Col. Peter Sather. son of Pete

Col. Peter Sather. son of Pete Sather of this city, now stationed at Anchorage passed through Nome enroute to Pt. Barrow with a group of navy officials on We'd nesday who were to witness Barex, the navy re-supply expedi- tion which passed through Nome on Saturday night.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05

from Washington sometime after the adjournment of Congress, but this vacation" has not reached the point of planning.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05
SEATTLE. (R) - Territ 0 a

SEAI ILEs tH) - leffu O d treasurer Henry Roden announc- ed fhe million dollar bank loan is virtually assured for the Territory. He said the only barrier is getting private guarantors for the three per cent interest involved. He said fifteen private citizens will be asked 10 guarantee $l.o60 interest each. pending action by the Ter riforial Legislature.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05

FAIRBANKS, (P)-The Tanana river was reported receding yes- terdal at the central Alaskan vil- lage of Nenana, ending the imme- diate threat of a flood.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-05
News of the World At AClance --
Thursday. August 4. ls4s By The Associated PreSs)

Americ an commanders an- nounced today in London they have reached a complete under standing with Britain, Norway and Denmark on mutual defense plan.
 Adm. Louis E. Denfield, spokes- man for the U. s. joint chiefs of staff said: We are going home, I am sure, with q very much better understanding of the situation than when we came over"
 The U. s. commanders are on a 1O-day tour of Western Europe to discuss defense plans of North At lantic treaty countries. The con- ferences are held in strict secrecy.
 Norway and Denmark both were overrun by the Germans in World War II. Norway borders on Russia in the north. Atlantic pact framers say the pact is entirely defensive. Russia contends it is an act in preparation for war against the Soviet Union.
 The Norwegian commanders said they are seeking military equipment from both the United States and Britain and are ex- changing ideas on military train ing.
 The American chiefs, Gen. Omar Bradley, army; Adm. Louis Den field, navy; and Gen. Hoyt s. Van denberg, air force; planned to go to Paris later today.
 A CzechOslovakian army news paper said the jailing of Roman Catholic priest by the commun- ist Czech government is only the start of the governments fight against the Vatican's ex-commun- ication decree.
 The official Prague radio an- nounced last night that Rev. Alois Fajstl has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for treason. The priest was accused of refusing to administer the last sacrament to a sick old woman until she handed in her communist party membership card. The priest de- nied the charge.
 One army newspaper Obrana Lidu said: This just sentence must be a decisive proof to the Vatican that we are not afraid of it's decrees and that we shall be merciless in the defense of our Peoples Democratic regime.
 Tn Rome, a Vatican informant said the Czech trial may have been ga communist trick to try to discredit the church and it's faith full" Vatican spokesmen have said the communication decree acts or the conSciences of WayWard Catholics and requires no overt act to put it into effect.
 Reports reaching Seoul, capital of non-communist South Korea, said communist border guards numbering 5000 men have struck across the border at three points and their object seems to be the capture of rich rice growing pe- ninsula. American troops have been withdrawn from South Ko- req.
 Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo- slavia is beckoning other Balkan nations to walk out from Russian nation. In a speech at Skoplje,
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-01
Here's thot nondote ogoin!. by Bernie AsbeI

furnished from coal bins in
Near North Side Easements
where tenants have waited liter
ally months for action on rent
OverchargeS, while ShOgren
promised landlords three weeks
service in processing rent raises.
So far as I know, Shogren re-
manned on Jackson Blvd, look
ing for a mandate from some
body. His boss, Oscar C. Abern,
regional expediter, came up
with the 80th Congress idea.
They passed a law to relieve"
landlords, the argument went.
1t is a mandate to us, the adj
ministrators, to follow the spirit
of their intent.
Not meaning to get off spirit
ual level, it is said that Shogren
and his friends had their man
dates crossed. It seems the rent
chief, himself a former real
estate operator, figured the cleo
ton Wrong-even, perhaps, as
you and I. How was he to know
that Dewey would lose? What
was good enough for the 80th
Congress would suit a Republi-
can 81st. Why change mandates
in midstream?
The 80th Congress now is
inundated into oblivion, and the
Dewey Congress was stillbOrn.
The people voted for housing.
They voted against gouging by
landlords. They voted against
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-01
Why not FEPC, too?

After several years of inactivity, the Chicago division
of the Religion Labor Foundation has returned to life
Its initial indicates that concentration is going to be
on the safe issue Illinois whitfield down Workmens COM
pensation law, passed in 1911.
pensaton rates the by at least so percent. The
Foundation points that if Illinois worker is killed
in an industrial accident, his boss pays as little as
$4,000 which is $500 less than Wisconsin employer
must pay for loss of a thumb
The 50 432 paid workman here for loss of foot COM
pares with ST. 900 paid in Wisconsin.
We agree with the Religion and Labor Foundation on
the need for action correct thisand quickly And
agree that fight should be carried at Springfield in
organized way making enough noise to outshout the
ulti-nion dollar lobby of the insurance companies and
mine owners.
At the same time, marvel at the Foundations
failure mention the forthcoming campaign for ll
nois Fair Employment Practices Law equaly-and
perhaps more-important. Certainly FEPC is issue
around which religious and labor have united in
creasingly in recent years.
True FEPC bills have been opposed in recent Assembly
sessions Illinois Federation of Labor lobbyists Victor
Oander and Reuben Soderstro for at which
only guess
Among prominent Chicago AFL leaders in the newly
Foundation group Nick DiPietro Tom
Slater and Anton Johansen And former CLIO Education
Director Kermit Ely also the executive board Sure
w. these men not deliberately avoiding the FEPC
fight merely because of the unspeken possibility that
TFT leaders will renew their opposition this year. Or
they?
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Editorial
Greetings one and all!

We have but single New Years resoluton-to make
the Illinois Standard quadrupe its circulation during 1949
with the help of it's good friends.
But we offer heartfelt New Years greetings to:
Mayor Martin Kennedy and may crusade to put
pantes the Madison Street shippers be draped with
success,
Colonel Jacob NJ Arvey, and may you remember in 49
YOUR Convention herocs Race Greed and Color in 49,
Q John (Bunnie) East and may you never regret the
millions dollars you accused of pouring into Pro-
pressve Golfers while your eutenans in Springfield were
voting to keep Wallace off the ballot
Q Superintendent Herod c. Hunt and may you bear in
mind during 40 that the good people of Chicago brought
YOU here to clean up the schoos-not whitewash them
O Governorelect Adlai Stevenson and may you of the
noble brow remember often that not machine but the
neople sent YOU to you there
from
Rent Director Norman Shogren, and the New Year
you replaced by willing to see the side
of the case as important at least as the landlords
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the books when the 81St Con-
gress first session ends come
summer.
Willingness to compromise"
and retain the better" features
is expressed not only by some
Alters, but by many OF the
group around CLOS Murray.
Even more dangerous than the
use of TIL weapon by employers
against unions has been its use
by unions against unions. Shock
ing-that's the only word for
raiding and intra-union knitting
which rightist leaders have peg.
ged on the TIL non-communist
affidavit requirement.
Desire to keep this require
ment in whatever new law is
enacted is key reason for the
willingness to talk "compro-
mise" as if you can COM
promise with an A-bOmb!
But more sinister than lack of
unity on complete TIL repeal
is the refusal of top AFL, CLIO
and Brotherhood officials to
recognize the need for a bang-up
backbone mobilization to clinch
their election victories in the
place where it counts-on the
ctafl1ta hoOkc
was broadcasting a labor
commentary for the Chicago
Federation of Labor in tn e
spring of Al when the Taft
Hartley bill was up for debate.
It's hard to forget that when
worried rank-and-filers got the
idea of a cross-country caravan
to Washington, to dramatic the
nations opposition to the bill,
CLOS Murray and AFL's Green
would have none of it.
They relied on two things:
- expensive newspaper ads and
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vwner-s manuate? Well, they
wouldn't put it that way.
In absence Of a good claim,
it was named a mandate of the
80th Congress. And here's its
payOff: Three out of every four
landlords who asked for a rent
raise last year got one. A SINH
lar comparison for tenants ap-
parently would be SO bad, none
has been made public.
Three weeks ago, this reporter
asked Norman B. Shogren, Chi
cago rent chief, to leave his
office for an afternoon to visit
some of the sagging shacks for
which his office has approved
rent boosts.
He was asked to 60 and see
just once families of five and
six living in single rooms re-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-01

the Rent Act of 1948. There is
your mandate.
Whether Harry Truman will
now order change of policy is
of little matter to those who are
so behQlden to mandates. The
people have ordered one. Match
up the campaign promises
against the vote and see what
the people ordered.
Tenants of Chicago have the
right to demand of the rent off
ice that it stop being a Land
lords Aid Society. They have
the right to demand that
tenants complaints of over
charges get first call on investi-
eating personnel, and let land
lords park their "hardships" at
the door, if the office is under
stated.
One Franklin D. Roosevelt
demonstrated more than once
in the period of Norman Sho-
gren's government service
how the people can be protected
even within the limits of a bad
law, until good one has passed.
The CLIO last week called for
the removal of Tighe Woods,
Federal housing expediter, for
spineless administration of the
rent law nationally. AS the
people of Chicago organize for
a new rent law, Mr.. Shogren
may need hindsight to see which
side his mandate was buttered
on.
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0uR1QvtEE ]!
BY Peter WiIIioms

Pass the morphine, Pappy.
This hurts.
Pumpkins, loyalty checks, spy
scare-all kid stuff. Here is the
last word, the final coup of a
world seeing red: 1t is now dan
gerOus to teach people how to
read.
Dangers of Literacy" is the
heading of an editorial i'm the
(Springfield) Illinois State Reg
lister. 1t announces that comes
the next generation, 50G,000,000
people will have learned to
read. 1t goes on:
"This would seem tc be all to
the good. But the serious
query is: What are they read
ing?"
And it tells what: .
"They are reading Communist
literature in its most realistic
Interpretation. Yes, Iteracy
has its hazards. The chal-
lenge is greater than the threat
of war"
Holy Name Cathedral packed
solid-and then some-for an
nual Midnight Mass on Christ
mas Eve. However, WBKB tele-
vised the ritual for the first
time. Which posed the problem
for the hundreds turned away:
S h uld we miss the colorful
spectacle and chorale-or 60 to
the nearest bar and catch it on
TV?
For niftiest piece on anti
Semitism you'll ever see, pick
up g. is it true what they
say about Cohen?" new pam
phlet put out by Jewish Labor
Council. Text by Bill Levner,
art by AID Reinhardt. Local JIG
office at 166 w. Washington.
M e mo to AL page 81
Vaughan: In last weeks list of
sports 'bests' for '43 you forgot
one item:
BEST FIGHT-Ringside Chi
cago Stadium, between an irate
wife and the blonde that hubby
had no business out with.
O.
Neither the Chicago Sym
phony nor Chicago papers are
talking bout symphony SUBJ
scribers who are going to seek
their culture elsewhere if Will
helm Furtwaengler, swastika'd
swayer of the swizzle, becomes
=
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need for COM
plete repeal.
And almost as
m u C h d i S :
agreement "a
mong labor as
among m a n :
a 6 e m e n t on
what kind of
! a b or l a w
should b e o n
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r e n t o + t i C e.
E v e r y b o d y
claimed it and
no one k n e w
whose mandate
it was. A pee
pulls mandate?
No ope. Presi-
Dental m a n
date? Not ex-
actly. Property
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l
useful but never replace the
hard job of mobilizing mass
protest actions; p Harry S. Tru-
man. Result: the Taft Hartley
law was enacted. y
If anyone doubts the feaSibili-
ty of sending mass delegations
to Washington to demand COM
plete TIL repeal, let him talk to
Chicago's union printers, who've
had the whole book thrown at
them. Let him talk to the down
state miners, who've had two
injunctions hit them as they
fought for pensions and pay
boosts.
Let him chat with the CLIO
clearinghouse workers, who lost
their strike last spring because
of weakening by TIL pressure.
Or the CLIO oil workers, whose
west coast strike has been
ground to standstill by TIL.
My hair-what there is left
of it stands on end when I
read Washington reports that
delegations from AFL, CLIO and
BrOtherhOOds have conferred
separately, of course with
Labor Secretary Tobin and
agreed on TIL repeal, on restO-
ration Of Wagner Act, and
amendments to the Wagner Act.
It's on that last point
amendments to the Wagner
Act"-that the good old-fashion-
ed sell-out is being readied.
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NEWSPAPERS played up
IN story about the little Love-
joy, Georgia girl born with only
stumps for arms, who is being
outfitted with artificial arms and
a college education by workers
on a railroad that runs by her
house. But no mention of fact
the collection was started by a
member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Engineers, and that
hundreds of members in various
Brotherhoods kicked in.
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Illinois State Federation of
Labor is cOndIIctiho an claim
ra e-and expensive-referen-
dunn election for top officers
and executive board members.
The new two-year term begins
next April /. Reuben C. Solder
strom is undisputed in the race
for president, as is candidate
Victor A. Olander, running for
secretary treasurer. John M.
Fewkes, president of Teachers
Local l, Chicago, is running for
a vice-preSidency.
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Among those figuring to ditch
their subscriptions is Mrs. Char
lOtte FaIstein-se cretary to
Democratic Boss Jake Arvey.
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"A ANDATE, mandate, who's
NI got the mandate?

A loose mandate was found
lying around at 226 West Jack
son. That's the Chicago area
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-01
Looking at
BY Rod HoImsren

ILLUSION still persists in
] many minds that there's unity
among labor on at least one
issue - Taft-Hartley.
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There's not even unity on the
Evening star., 1949-07-14
ca THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c.
1.-THE Fan, Playhouse Film,
Mere Shadow of Old Self
By Joy Cormody

would like to what the movies can DO Wnen ney
literary work. The Fan at the Play
picture this week.
"Mange" word Daryl zanuck used when
writer's loose this adaptation OF
surely have
Evening star., 1949-07-14
New Vacation Spot

A new Danish vacation town,
opened recently at Lonstrup. COW
ers an area Of 165 acres and has
shops, restaurant, theater and
movie house.
Evening star., 1949-07-14
HOLLYWOOD.

IAoAA L NNooOs
Rita Hayworth's next picture is
with Glenn Ford. her old romantic
sidekick. That is one of the i'm
portant matters Harry Cohn. Co.
lumbia boss, is discussing with
Rita in the south of France.
Cary Grant will have a COM
plete checkup in the Johns Hop
kins Hospital.
Gloria de Haven tells me mo
reconciliation with John Payne)
yet" But she's keeping the door
open, so to speak. by not selling
their big house. I'm just rent
ing it out for short periods. y
Gloria says.
June Haver gets Gene Nelson
of the New York Lend an Ear"
cast for her leading man at War
ners in Daughter of Rosie
O'Grady."
Jane Darwell, old-time actress.
plays a good role in THE Big
Cage" Jane Is among those con-
sidered as jinxed by winning an
Academy Award. Since she got
an Oscar for her supporting role
in Grapes of Wrath" jobs have
not been plentiful.
Danny Kaye will do 26 one
night stands to boost his Happy
Times" picture in the fall. And
Mrs. Danny (Sylvia) Kaye will
be right there with him. There
will be no more long separations
for them.
Hollywood is betting on Paul
Evening star., 1949-07-14
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
Meridian Hill Park-"The I'M
portance of Being Earnest; $50
pm.
Catholic University Theater-
ARMS and the Man; $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"The Wizard of o.:
IL am, 1:45, 4:30, tbs and 10
pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, $50
and 9:15 pm.
Edward. My Son.;
11:10 am. 1:15. 1925, 5:35, 7:45
and 9:55 pm.
Dupont-"Operetta";; 1:20, $40,
b:25, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Dumbo"; 11:45 am,
2:20, 4:55, 7:30 and 1905 pm.
Hippodrome e-"Abraham Lin
coln";: 2:25. $50 and $3.50 pm.
Sitting Pretty; 12:45,
4, 7:10 and 1925 pm.
Metropolitan - THE Fountain
head: 11:10 am, lis, 800, $50,
7:35 and 9:45 pm.
National-"The Green Promise:
11:25 am, 1:25, 1928, 5:25, 7:25
and 9:25 pm.
Palace-"House of Strangers"
l0:40 am, 1855, $40, 5:25, 7:40
and 9:55 pm.
Pix-"Living in a Big Way;
s:45, $50 and 9:55 pm.
Playhouse-"The Fam: II am.
12:45, 2:30. 4:15. 6. 7:50 and $40
pm.
Warner - "Sorrowful Jones':
l1:15 am. 1:20, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45
and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1949-07-14
Hollywood Diary
Rito and Glenn Team Again
'By SheiIoh Grohom-

cite Goddard to keep the $780,
900 farm over which she and
Burgess Meredith are currently
battling. Paulette has never lost
an investment.
George Raft is asking his new
romantic interest. Marlene Diet
rich. to be his leading lady in
his next picture. That would be
quite a sultry combination.
Angela Lansbury won't have a
long honeymoon in Paris with
Peter Shaw. Before she took off
for London with him. Metro called
her to say she must return in
August to do Devils Doorway"
with Taylor and Totter.
With Bette Davis positively re-
Evening star., 1949-07-14

FIRST LOVE - Leo Brady,
,oho seems destined to be-
come a beSt-selling noueliSt
eUen before publication OF
his Edge Of DOOM" has not
headed for Hollywood and a
swimming pool ,Dith the sale
of the book to the nloDieS.
Instead. the Catholic Univer-
sity speech and drama de-
partment faculty member has
headed right back to the
oreasepaint for 1Dhich he feels
a strong affinity. He plays
Petrof in the departments
production OF ShaD's Arms
and the Mun," Which Uill
play through July ~ at the
university theater.
Evening star., 1949-07-14
Seal Life Film
On Keith S Bill

A Walt Disney film which is not
cartoon. Seal Island" accom-
panies the re-release double-bill
of the masters "Dumbo" and "Sa-
ludos Amigo" at Keith's.
Financed by Disney, Seal Is
land was filmed in Technicolor
by Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred G. Milotte
on one of the Arctic Pribilof Is
lands in the Aleutian chain. 1t
pictures in detail the domestic life
cycle of a seal herd there-the ar
rival of the male seals in the
spring, the setting up of families
within the herd and the feeding
and education of the young.
Evening star., 1949-07-14


thought this was the verb he used,
for what Walter Reisch, Dorothy
Parker and Ross Evans have
wrought is as near to total de-
struction as a rewrite can come.
What they have saved of the
original, believe it or not. is the
plot; one of the sleaziest in dra-
matte history and one which
Wilde himself could not defend
against an attack by a spirited
kindergarten pupil. The bright,
brittle dialogue with which Wilde
garlanded the tale and by which
it was kept alive all these years
they threw into the handiest
wastebasket.
The purpose Of this presumably
Is to make a sentimental romance
out of what once was a sharp,
satiric comedy. Yet in curious,
undesirable way, the picture is
funnier than anything the pro-
ducers bargained for.
X X y X
The characters in the screen
play. whose stars are Jeanne
Grain, Madeleine Carroll and
George Sanders, have the names
by which Wilde christened them.
The principal of these is still
Mrs. Erlynne, played by Miss Car
roll. She is not Wilde's Mrs. Err
lynne, however. a flashing widow
whose wit blistered the veneer
of the London aristocracy and
whose conquest of its males was
second in its triumph only to the
feats of William the Conquerer,
1866.
This Mrs. Erlynne is movie
mother, veritable sacrificial
heifer of a woman, a kind of Ed
wardian Stella Dallas. Her only
interest in life is seeing her beau
tiful chez lid, Lady Windermere,
wrapped warm and safe in a rich,
durable marriage at the top OF
London's social heap.
This is not the glittering woman
Wilde taught the succeeding gen.
erations to expect. Because she
is not, neither are the others OF
the play. especially that coterle
of males who had such brave,
wicked and amusing things to say.
The Fan" therefore, is just
anybody's old fan. not Lady Win
dermeres.
What has happened to Wilde's
durable comedy probably comes
under the heading of moderniza-
ton. AS if the present had to
be tied visibly to the past before
ls49ers could possibly understand
the latter's existence. the story
opens in postwar London.
A fan is being auctioned at one
of those sales of bomb debris
and an old lady rises to claim
1t as her own. This is all right
with the auctioneer. If she can
find some one TO prove title to
the pretty trinket. That takes
her running over to old Lord
Darlington's house. there to find
that London's once most dash
ing bachelor has become
crochety 80.
A mere fashback later. how
ever, everybody is back in his
or her flaming youth and the
Evening star., 1949-07-14

fusing to play Jane Wyman's
mother in THE Glass Menagerie. "
look for Lillian Gish to step into
this terrific role.
Just learned that Marilyn Max
wells Prince Pahlavi is the same
Persian who pursued Rita Hay
worth and Yvonne de Carlo two
years ago. Seems to be a national
characteristic-a fondness for
glamor gals.
I'm wondering if Elizabeth Tay-