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Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
COPS DEWEY:
New Liberalism

For a man who was strangely
reticent about plans while seeking
the presidency of the United States.
New York's Thomas E. Dewey
turned vocal and voluble in his Lin
coin Day address in Washington.
In the diminutive governors re-
marks there was no apology for
defeat and no supine bid for favor.
Instead, he lashed out vigorously
against party policy and advocated
a purge of "anti-liberals" from
COP ranks.
That there was noticeable para
dox in his position apparently dis
turbed him not at all. While cry
ing for those who oppose ''liberal
progressive" policies to get out OF
the party, he struck out also at
New Dealish elements inside the
organization.
Urging his party to stop bemoan-
ing the past, he recommended that
it dedicate itself anew to forward
looking programs of social progress
but without trying to outbid the
Democrats with the public money"
1t was Dewey's first public ad-
dress since his defeat last Novem-
ber, and in it he reminded his lis
teners that the last COP platform
expressed wholehearted belief in
unemployment insurance, increased
old-age assistance, broader social
security generally, slum clearance
and public housing, public develop
ment of water power. and farm
price supports.
These words must have left some
of his hearers stunned. Surely, they
must have asked themselves, why
weren't some of these things men,
toned during the multiple appear
ances of their presidential candi-
date last year?
But, Dewey, ever the realist in
facing a situation, however he may
react to it, conceded that the par
ty was split wide open in a fight
between two extremes of thought.
And then, he uttered a remark
which must have brought some sly
smiles. He said: ''What we ought
to do is to make it everlasting
ly clear to the country where we
stand and why"
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25

Operating overland and by air,
the federal government was en-
gagged in the business of caring for
its snowbound Navajo wards.
Caught almost as helplessly as
cattle in the worst blizzard to strike
the plains states in years, Indians
on the vast Navajo reservation
were being fed by 30O-mile life
line maintained by the government.
With sheep and cattle starving
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25

Congess was quite willing to
authorize the department of agri-
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
HELP GIVEN NAVAJOS
Government Feeding Snowbound Indians

and freezing, with horse transporta-
ton impossible, the Navajos were
in actual distress.
The governments Indian service
doctors reported the health situa-
ton was fairly good among the
10000 Indians living within the
reservation area.
Workers toiled with all kinds of
mobile equipment to get through to
families cut off for six weeks.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
ALLIGATOR:
Nothing Futul

In Alencon, France, Santos Du.
mot, circus performer, stuck his
head into the mouth of 300-pound
alligator-his regular act. AS us.
ual, the audience oohed and aahed.
But this time, the alligator snap.
ped his big jaws shut.
The actors father rushed to the
rescue with an iron bar and forced
the jaws open.
The younger Dunot suffered desf
head wounds, but will live.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
MINDSZENTY:
Gets Life Term

The trial Of Cardinal Mindszenty,
primate of Hungary, was over and
the verdict came as no surprise.
The Cardinal was sentenced to life
imprisonment On charges of trea-
son and black marketing. If there
were an unexpected element in the
outcome it was that the primate's
life had been spared.
But at trials end even that hung
IN the balance. Cardinal Mindszen-
ity still could lose his life. Under
Hungarian law, while his sentence
OF life could be appealed, the SUI
preme peoples tribunal, last court
OF appeal. could increase the sever
ity of the sentence which, in this
case, could mean only death.
THE CARDINAL was doomed
from the outset. His plight had so
stirred the Christian world that de-
nunciations of the Hungarian gov
ernment's actions were almost uni
versal. Powerful western nations,
Through their leading churchmen,
had attacked the trial procedure
ano this, in turn, had incensed the
Communist-dominated Hungarian
court to a point where the issue was
never in doubt.
It was generally believed that it
was only reluctance to make a
martyr out of the Cardinal that
averted the death penalty.
Hungary lost no time in assail-
ing American representatives who
actually, or purportedly, sided with
the cardinal. Among targets of
these attacks were Cardinal SPELL
man, of New York, who delivered
a scathing sermon against prosecu-
ton of Mindszenty, and Selden
Chaplin, U. S. envoy to Hungary.
AMONG OTHER THINGS, Cardi-
nal Mindszenty was accused of
gathering information for Chaplin
In scheme to overthrow the Hun
garian government. Chaplin inn
mediately branded this charge as
''pure fantasy"
General opinion was that in the
prosecution of the Cardinal Rus
sian communism had made it's
first great blunder. For in the
move was discerned the fact that
religion and religious concepts -
whether Catholic or Protestant -
would not be permitted to stand in
the way of Soviet aims of expansion
and domination.
The Russians had resurrected a
policy which once before had so
alarmed them that they had for
sworn it. But now they were pub
Icly and dramatically recommitted
to it-a policy of the Kremlin ver-
sus Christ, and this time the Soviet
Union was up against an adversary
for whom there can be no defeat.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
Was s.! a!zZ[:lIs{sy Digest
American Know How Aids
In Development of Nations
By BAUKHAGE
News AuaLyst and Commentator.

WASHlNGTON-When the various departments of the
began gather data for the President to be used the
basis preliminary legislation for his bold program of
tabsng the machinery of world cooperation for the develop
undeveloped countries learn
than these starting from scratch
The department of agriculture of has had the longest and
1889 had
all evident that world the flow of trade
threatened andemorac had to look
produce home
and they could but not produce
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
INCOMES:
,Ayeruoe $1,000

The average annual income Of
the American family was climbing.
In 1947 the average was $4,000,
highest ever recorded up to that
time.
The federal census bureau, which
issued the report, found that in
come was distributed among the
country's 81 million families in this
manner:
FOUR MILLION had under
81, 900; six million had $1,000 to
$4,000; eight million, $4,000 to
$4,000; eight million, $4,000 to
$4,000; four million, $4,000 to
$1,000; three million, $1,000 to
Sc, 900; three million $4,000 to $10,-
900, and one million, $4,000 or
more.
Thus only four million families
or slightly fewer than one out Of
each nine families in the country
had in that year the $4,000 which
President Truman has suggested
as the starting point for the income
tax increase he asked Congress to
consider.
An interesting factor is that in
one fourth of the families, women
earned Is per cent or more of the
family income, and more than two
million families were supported en-
tirely be female breadwinners.
Who Jared best in the average
income increase?
Farm wage-workers came out
best. The income of this class had
jumped from an average of $500 in
1889 to 5000 in 1947.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25

culture to lie n d
some of it's techni-
clans to other coun-
tries and to help
such countries as
we're willing to CO.
operate to set up
agricultural st "a
tions for the pur-
pos e of putting
American techni-
ques into action:
For those w h o
m ay have ques-
toned the expendi-
ture in this connec-
ton, there is some
SatiSfa ction in not
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
HayIift Whips
Winter Billiards

The winter storms which attacked
the range country and presented
what looked for awhile like major
tragedy to the cattle industry didn't
turn out to be as bad as some people
feared, but it might have been con-
siderably worse if it hadn't been
for what happened in the Pacific
islands in World War II, The Japs
used to say that the Americans
most terrible weapon was the bull
dozer and, of course, the Sea-Bees
wrote epic history on clean slate.
The same might be said of the
air force, so far as the snowbound
ranchers, especially those in Neva-
da were concerned. There the hay
lift took them over the first, worst
hump of the storms.
The Great Plains always have
furnished hazards unknown to
other parts of the North American
continent.
AS G. Warren ThOrnwaite,
soil conservation expert Of the
department of agriculture says
of the Great Plains: 'Tn q
desert, you know what to ex-
pect of the climate and plan
accordingly. The same is true
of humid regions. Men have
been badly fooled by the semi
arid regions because they are
sometimes humid, sometimes
arid, and sometimes a cross be-
tween the two. Yet it is pos
sible to make allowances for
this, too, once the climate is
understood"
One of the worst blows in the
winter storms was struck in the
southwestern part of the area af-
fected, southern Nevada and north
ern Arizona, where ordinarily there
is all-winter feeding. There are
low altitude ranges there which
make it unnecessary, under normal
conditions, to provide winter feed.
When these were cut off there just
wasn't any feed available.
The early settlers who struck
west were suspicious of the plains.
They didn't realize that the gama
and the buffalo grass which COW
cred those plains and provided
plenty of sustenance for the mill
lions of buffalo which roamed them
unmolested, could resist drought as
efficiently as it does. For miles
there would be no water in sight
to the men in the prairie schooners,
so they took for granted the land
was not liveable and pushed on to
the coast. The grass, as long as
it was there-and the buffalo were
good conservationists and didn't
overgraze it-reduced the run-off
after rains and prevented erosion.
But the first adventurers had
westward-ho written in their hats
anyhow, and they headed toward
the coast.
Then came the farmers. The
cattlemen were driven further
west, the plOw broke the plains
and dug the dust bowl. ~
But agriculture is a closer-knit
industry now and it had many
means of assistance besides the
army upon which to draw to help
combat the recent blizzards-help
which the early plainsmen didn't
have; the department of agricul-
ture had its organization; the for
esters had equipment easily pressed
into service.
Arizona sun., 1949-02-25
A-BOMB DATA:
Reds Demand Ii


The Russians just couldn't stay
out of the news.
But in an utterance which COM
manded American headlines, they
revealed themselves as almost
childishly naive.
With the cold war as hot as it
could be, short of the bullet stage,
the Soviets had the gall to. demand
that the United States tell them
how many A-bombs this country
has and provide full data on armed
forces and armaments.
Never modest in demands, the
Soviets set a deadline for receipt
of this information. 1t was March
81, 1949
HOWEVER, they wouldn't be
completely selfish about the matter.
They demanded that the report on
these matters be made to the
United Nations, of which Russia is
a member.
Warren R. Austin, U. S. delegate
to the U. NJ, dubbed the Soviet res
olution a "succotash of all the
beans and different constituent"
Russia has put to the U. N. on the
arms and atomic questions since
the world peace organization was
formed.
Even a non-betting citizen might
be excused for risking a sawbuck
that the Russians would have moth
ing but their pains in proposing
that the u. S. bare its atomic war
potenLials to the Kremlin.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
II IN, ~ OUT ON
ALASKA COASTAL
MONDAY FLIGHTS

On flights YESTERDAY. Alaska
Airlines carried totsi Of 56 pas
sengers with 81 arriving and 29
leaving.
From Tulsequan: E. Moushan, D.
Collins, Edward Brown, Henry Cook,
C. Robinson, j. Barnett, w. Watts,
w. bareback, L. Batty ]. LOTUS.
From Pelican: Douglas Wahto
From Hood Bay: F. E. Campbell,
C. w. Campbell, Scotty Campbell,
Mrs F. Campbell.
From Taku Lodge: S hirley
O'Reilly.
From Haines: r. NJ Akervick, P.
B. Allen, Pauline Abbott, G. E. Gal
liant, G. r. Taylor, Robert Taylor.
From Tenakee: Helen Williams.
From Fish Bay: Ed Vogel.
From Hawk Inlet: H. Arnes.
From Sitka: F. Whitney.
For Angood: Anzell Adams.
For Wrangell: Jack Burford, Burt
Lime.
For Tulsequah: Ronald Ed, Mrs.
Alex Ed, Frances ED, G. Todd, MIR.
and Mrs. Cummins, H. Pickell, a.
Leatherwood, H. Haverstock.
For Pelican: r. Christensen, Mrs.
George Harju, Elmer Mork.
For Hoonah. Johnny Fawcett,
Eliza Lawrence.
For Skagway: Vic Power, Larry
Lindstrom.
For Haines: Austin Earl.
For Taku Lodge: Norman Turn
er, Robert Lange, Ted Haley, Fran
els Pooles.
For Tenakee: Mrs. c. L. Craig.
For Sitka: Barbara Jocoby, Lottie
Long, Mrs. Robert Suite, Bobby
Suite.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
20 YEARS AGO fri fHn EN- PRE- RE:
JUNE %, 1929

28, 1929
Mr. returned the Prince George Mrs
Dunn spent their Clarence attended
the University Washington convention
in Los while outside.
Louise Fazenda
trip on the dock by number Of
pulled waived gay and
the a for day.
Charles the Hall installed up-to-dae
Lloyd WEIGH formerly head
of Russia the Orient
Mr. and E. OF Army being
birth of IS in ST. AIMS Hospital.
After days splendid
Iindbeghs flight to return,
Coliseum THE Greyhound Limited starring
Murphy Leace Joy and Charles Ray
Vanity"
Berkeley arrived visit
weeks with her cousin White family
Weathe &c; low 49, light rain
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28

businessman's habit to give him dime every day.
Business finally took the businessman out of town
for a month On his return, passing the begger he
tossed him dime. Wait minute, Macs cried the
beggar You owe me $3l"
We smiled at the filler joke-for that's all it
intended to be- But then after moments reflection
wondered just how much of joke the supposed
incident really is.
Tie viewpoint expressed by the beggar in the joke
comes painfully to the psychology instilled
by recent years of governmental philosophy. con-
siderable number of people feel that government
owes them living, or employers them living
or the general public owes them thing or
other Even acts of real charity taken for granted
and instead of being greeted with appreciation when
performed, give rise only to resentment when they
cease
The morale is old one Many true word is
spoken in jest
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
COAL OPERATORS
DISCUSS TERM
MADE BY Lewis

PITTSBURGH, June 28.--iR- A
big bloc of northern and western
coal operators met behind closed
doors today to debate John L. Lew
is new share-the-w work program.
Their answer--which may be CIV
en- the United Workers president to-
morrow when contract sessions re-
sumo at White Sulphur Springs, w.
Va, may determine whether the ma
TONS 100000 soft coal diggers stop
work again July 6.
An operators spokesman said any
reaction to the Lewis proposal
would probably be kept a close sec
ret until the operators negotiators
gather around the conference table
with Lewis
Lewis has put this proposal before
them:
He will change the mo contract,
no work" policy of the United Mine
Workers and keep the miners in the
pits after the present contract ex-
pires, provided:
The industry goes on uniform
three-day work week during nego-
tiations for new pact.
The alternative is a shutdown of
all bituminous mines. The UNIV
leader made that proposal to north
ern and western operators at White
Sulphur Springs, where he and the
management officials have been
talking contract terms.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
ALASKA GAME DECLINING

The Izaak Walton League of America, which has
been meeting in Denver, has called on the Federal
Government halt depletion Of Alaskan recreational
resources which it says vanishing at alarming
rate"
In a resolution unanimously adopted at its annual
convention, the league held that under present
methods and measures of control of these resources
Alaskans appear powerless to prevent this decline p"
It said that the government, through the Fish and
Wildlife Service, maintains little than skele
ton force for policing and management and the service
grossly handicapped by lack of adequate funds and
personnel"
The league resolved that it "call to the attention
Of Federal authorities at all levels of control the need
for quick solution to this problem in the long range
public interest
The convention acted after hearing reports from
Alaskans that the Terrtory's game, fish and related
recreational disappearing at appalling
rate
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
LATE MILITARY RECOMMEN-
CATION

The Joint Chiefs Vi Staff held one
of their most significant meetings
last week with Secretary of Defense
Louis A. johnson.
johnson was about to testify be-
fore the Senate Armed Services
Committee and, before he did so,
the heads of the Army, Navy and
Air Force told him that they SER
iously questioned the ACCESSIBILITY of
sending large amounts of arms to
Europe under the North Atlantic
Pact.
The joint Chiefs of Staff were
cautious in making their statement,
pointed out that they we're making
no recommendation, that the final
decision was up to the State De-
partment. Nevertheless, from mil
itary viewpoint they said they could
not justify the expense Of arming
Is European divisions. They also
expressed doubt as to what would
become Of these arms in the hands
CT Western European armies, II
Russia invaded.
Note Private comment of Sem
ators who heard about the joint
Chiefs of Staff recommendation
was: Why tell us SO late? Without
arms the North Atlantic Pact be-
comes an empty she'll"
Note 2-While details weren't dis
dussed at the above meeting, it's
understood that the nub of the
problem is tanks. The u S. Army
could send rifles, machine guns
some artillery with no loss. But il
has no tanks to spare. European
military, especially the French
point out that modern army
without tanks is like an army with
pitchforks. 1t couldn't last week
against the Red arny's Stain tanks
considered the most powerful in
the world. Russia has eight tank
divisions between the Vlstula anc
Oder Rivers alone.
Note 3.-The joint Chiefs of Staff
include Army Chief Gen. Omar
Bradley. Navy Chief Adm. Loui.
Denfeld, and Air Chief Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
DIAz SPONSORS
MAKE PLANS FOR
BIG TURKEY SHOOT

An open air Turkey Shoot to
boost the candidacy of Juanita Diaz
in the Fourth of July Queen con-
test will be held this week. 1t will
be either Wednesday, Thursday or
Friday evening, depending on the
weather. The time and place will
be announced later, as soon as the
weather man gives assurance OF a
good evening.
The residents of Juneau will be
given an, opportunity to meet Ju-
anita Diaz personally, to hear her
sing, and to vote for her for
Fourth of July Queen. A good time
is promised for all.
Bob Thibodeau is chairman of
the committee in charge of ar
rangements. He will. he assisted by
members of the organizations
sponsoring Juanita Diaz's candi-
dacy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES

Three Senatorial Scalps- Presi-
dent Truman has ordered the Dem
ccratic National Committee to get
the scalps of three Republican Sen
ators at the next election at any
cost Taft of Ohio, author of the
Taft-Hartley Act; Hickenlooper OF
Iowa for smearing the Atomic En-
ergy Commission, and Donnell OF
Missouri because HIST. doesn't
relish COP. Senators from his
home state
Mes senger- Boy Vishinsky- The
Foreign Ministers conference con-
WINGED Secretary Acheson of one
thing: Molotov is still boss of Rus
sias foreign policy, not Vishinsky.
The Paris conference took twice as
long as it should, because Vishin-.
sky couldn't make even the most
minor decision without sending to
Moscow for instructions. When Mo-
lotov was Foreign Minister, he had
much more authority.
Commanding Asia Intelligence
sources have learned that the So
Wet has sent 1862 key Comintern
agents to Siam to set up a base in
Bangkok to win over southeast
Asia. The Russian agents arrived
with printing presses, paper sup
plies, and short-Waye radio. They
even have their own air force
private planes for the use of the
Russian diplomats. The Red agents
are concentrating their fire on the
whole southeast Asia perimeters, all
the way to Manila.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
REV. MUESSIGGANG TO
FRISCO; RESUMES DUTIES

The. Rev Emmanuel Muessiggang,
O.F.M., left yesterday aboard the
SIS. Aleutian to resume his duties
at ST. Boniface, San Francisco, af-
ter three week visit with the
Messerschmidt and Hermle families.
He has been the house guest of the
w. H. Riggs during his visit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28

and best documented presentations
I have ever heard" said the Con-
gresham. mo questions are nee
essary."
The witness could not see the
Congressman. She was blind. She
had come to urge government funds
for research into diseases causing
blindness, which is increasing every
year, with little being done to find
out why. Every year 10000 are
stricken with polio, whereas 10000
lose their vision
Miss Wiesenfelds story began
three years ago when she founded
the National Council to combat
blindness with a capital OF eight
dollars and no office. Now she is
the Joan Of Arc" of the blind and
near-blind people all over the coun-
try.
Among the things she told the
Congressman: There are 100000
blind in this country s. Relief and
welfare for them costs the govern
ment $30,O00,0O0 in a single year.
Yet only 100000 is spent annually
for research into the reasons for
blindness. In most cases of fading
vision, the doctors must sit helpless
ly by doing nothing.
But l have never lost faith in
the heart of America concluded
Miss Wiesenfeld. 1T is too late to
help me but there's still time to
save the sight of thousands OF
Americans who are gradually going
blind, many without knowing it."
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
Daily Lessons in English y %. l. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN N1ISUSED: say of those who
is expected" Say, those ARE expected"
OFTEN sPRONoUNCED pronunciation
ell al OF.
excursion expedition pilgrimage
WORD STUDY times and yours" Let
vocabulary by mastering word each Today word
INCOMPATIBLE incapable
faculty not of itself incompatible
with imaginative -Stedman
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28

read Russian :. Frantic search Tor
a translator An hour passed
Jessup hid the secret docu-
ment under his desk blotter . +.
Another hour passed E. Headlines
in the press: mo Reply From Mos
COW"
Finally, after three hours -
translator Jessup hurried to his
desk, took the fatal document from
under the blotter, and said. Here,
translate this quickly I'm tired Of
acting like a character in a 6ime
novel,"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
MODERN ETIQUETTE $ RoRrRrA LEE

O. it permissible
stationery?
No. plan notepaper should hand for this
purpose.
guests staying
hire?
whenever convenient for
him
O. Is proper engaged girl the
newspapers?
A. family, close friend, should attend
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
BLIND JOAN OF ARC

There will be no questions said
chairman Percy Priest of Tennessee
when pretty, 28-year-old Mildred
Wiesenfeld of New York finished
testimony last week before a Con-
gressional subcommittee
You have made one OF the finest
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
HOSPITAL NOTES

Admitted to st. AIMS yesterday
were Karen Wahto, Paul Thomas, j.
Raymond Hope, David Graves.
Discharged were Mrs. Elmer
Jones and Mrs Fred Dawley.
Admitted to the Government
Hospital were Pauline Abbott of
Haines, Peter Howard of Juneau
and Mary Bell of Angoon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
CONDITIONS
OF WEATHER
ALASKA PTS.

Weather conditions and temper
stures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3C
a. m. i2Oth Meridian Time. and
released by the Weather Bureau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-28
THE MODERN SPIRIT?

The following tdbit appeared recently in the
Boston Globe "A beggar used to have his station near
the office of wealthy businessman. and it the