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The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
PRESIDENT SIGNS
CANADIAN SHIP SERVICE BILL

WASHINGTON - President Tru-
man has signed a bill permitting
limited operation of Canadian
ships in Alaskan service until next
June 80.
The legislation allows Canadian
vessels to operate between Skag-
way, Haines and other Alaskan
ports, and between Hyder, Alaska
and other Alaskan and United
States ports.
Sponsors of the legislation said
it is necessary because United
States ships do not adequately
serve some isolated Alaskan cities
and may not be in a position to do
SO until next year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
COST OF LIVING DOWN

WASHINGTON = The govern.
ments cost-of-living index fell six
tenths of one per cent from mid
June to mid-July. The Bureau of
labor statistics said mid-July living
cost was 1856 per cent of that of
1858 average which is figured
at 100. The index said living cost
was three per cent over a year
ago, but was 7O.9 per cent over the
month of August, 1889.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
TRAP FINED

KETCHIKAN = Libby, Mcneil
and Libby has been fined $4,000
and the Waterman, George E. Barr,
was fined $500 by a U. S. Commits
sioner at juneau Tuesday after the
Fish and Wildlife Eervice filed
charges that the trap was being
fished over the regular closed per-
iod last week end. The trap was at
Spasski Bay. Several thousand fish
in the trap were confiscated.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
WEDDING TOMORROW NIGHT
AT ST. PHILIPS CHURCE

Invitations were issued this week
to friends of Miss Emma Gertrude
Glover and Mr.. James Arthur Ivy,
whose marriage will take place to-
morrow night at st. Philips Epis-
copal church with the Rev. Hugh
F. Hall officiating.
Following the church ceremony
a reception will be held at the
Frank Webb home.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26

! I
August &c, 1949
Dear Friends:
Last Monday the annual Finan-
cial Drive for the Salvation Army
began.
l wish to call your attention to
this worthwhile organization and
urge you to donate financially at
this time.
1t is scarcely necessary for me to
mention the fine work that it's Of
ficers do here in Wrangell. At a
recent board meeting 1 was
shocked to learn of the meager sum
that this fine group has had to
work on. l sincerely urge you to
give freely to the Salvation Army.
Sincerely,
JOHN o. BANGEMAN, M. d.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
AFI HEAD HERE

Kenneth Bowman, American Fed
Grafton of Labor head in the Ter
ritory, was in town this week in
connection with the iurisdictional
vote taken last Sunday at the can
nary.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
SOUTHBOUND

Mr.. and Mrs. II. Strowbridge and
Mrs. Magdalena were passengers
out OF Wrangell for Seattle on the
Aleutian Monday evening.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
ELKS ANNUAL
MILK FUND
DANCE
SAT. SEPT. 10 - A.N.B. HALL
NO TUNA FOUND
BY SURVEY SHIP OREGON

BY SURVEY SHIP OREGON
KETCHIKAN = The Fish and
Wildlife Services exploratory alba
core tuna vessel, the Oregon, has
been surveying the Queen Char
lotte area without finding any
tuna, according to a report receiv-
ed here by Harris Magnusson, dir
etor of the fisheries products lab
oratory.
The Oregon, which last worked
in the Delwood hill area, said 1t
was leaving there and moving
northward and westward in search
of albacore.
1t said a Canadian fisheries yes
sci also searching for the fish had
not been able to find any off the
Queen Charlotte Islands.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26

MRS. COULTER HOME
Mrs. John Coulter, proprietor of
The Gift Shop, returned home from
buying trip to Seattle yesterday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
$4,000 REWARD

For information leading to ar
rest Of person or persons who
ransacked and stole various
items from Gut Island gun
club on Stikine Flats.
ALSO $4,000 REWARD
For information leading to ar
rest Of person or persons who.
in the future. break into
above said house.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26

Alaska Historical Library
Juneau, Alaska --.a-.ss
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-08-26
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COMMUNICATION

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Evening star., 1949-11-17
Atlanta Jury Convicts
Driver in Death Of
Margaret Mitchell
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ATLANTA, Nov. ia jury
ignored Hugh D. Gravitt's cry thai
he was being prosecuted and con.
victed him yesterday Of involun.
tary manslaughter In the traffic
accident death Of Margaret
Mitchell.
The jury reached its verdict
against the slim, 29-year-old for
mer cab driver in less than ar
hour. It recommended that he
be sent to jail from - to IL
months for the death Of the
world-famed author Of "Gone
With the Wind"
Superior Court Judge Walter C.
Hendricks delayed the sentence
until he could hear an appeal from
Gravitt's attorney.
The ex-cabbie also was charged
with drunken driving, speeding.
driving on the wrong side of the
street and other traffic violations.
His police record showed he had
been charged with % traffic Of
fenses since 1914 but 8 Of them
were dismissed or suspended.
He was off duty and driving
his own automobile when he struck
Miss Mitchell on Peachtree street
the night Of August II. He said
the accident was unavoidable.
He and his lawyers asserted he
was prosecuted by newspapers and
politicians because Of his victim s
fame. He said that as a result he
lost his job as a cab driver and
had to work as a laborer.
Gravitt heard the verdict with
out any display Of emotion. His
wife, who sat with him In the
courtroom, burst into tears.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
House Group in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. IT tP).
Three American Congress men,
-bers who are making a Latin
American survey with relation to
President Truman's aid program
for underdeveloped countries were
received yesterday by President
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla. They are
Representatives Carnahan, DEM
ocrat, Of Missouri; Burleson. Dem
ocrat, Of Texas, and league.
Democrat. Of Texas.
Evening star., 1949-11-17

izing the ECA Office here and
guiding 1t through q trying and
difficult period"
Mr.. Hanes, SO, was a banker
and business executive in VIM
ston-Salem and a former North
Carolina legislator. He was chief
of the ECA mission in Belgium
for five months before coming to
Germany.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
New ECA Chief Appointed
For Western Germany
By The Associoted Press

bf Ine ASScciGIeo FTeSS
FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov.
17.-Robert M. Hanes of Winston
Salem, N. c., was appointed yes
terday as chief of the Economic
Cooperation Administration mis-
sion in Western Germany and
director of economic affairs In
the cabinet of John j.. McCloy.
American high commissioner.
Mr.. Hanes succeeds Norman H.
Collision of Washington, who
opened the ECA mission here q
year ago. Mr.. Collision will return
to Washington. He said his plans
are indefinite.
In announcing Mr.. Hanes' ap-
pointment, Mr.. McCloy praised
his "superlative" work in organ
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Poles Dealing With West
To Be Watched Closely
BY The Asseeiatsd Ir.s,

WARSAW, Poland, Nov. H.
Polish officials who have to deal
with the West had better hold
strictly to the business at hand.
President Boleslaw Beirut said
all Poles holding responsible Of
flee" whose duties put them in a
permanent contact with Western
diplomats and other representa-
tives must be checked regularly.
He indicated they must be
watched closely to make sure they
don't become spies against the
Communist government.
Evening star., 1949-11-17
Lodoe to Hold Dinner

The ladies Of Trinity Chapter
Order Of the Eastern Star. will
serve q turkey dinner at B pm
tomorrow in the Northeast Ma
sonic Temple, Eighth and F
streets NE.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Dickerson chosen
NAACP legal head

Earl B. Dickerson, south side
attorney and former member of
President RooseveIt's FEPC, this
week was elected head of the
legal staff of the Illinois branch
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
The legislative program to be
pushed by Dickerson and his
committee includes a state fair
employment practices law. Pres
ident Herbert L. Wright of May
wood, Ill, state the NAACP
will conduct "a relentless fight
for civil rights for Negroes"
during 1949. A goal of 10000
members and statewide youth
movement was set for this year.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
DON'T Take your
Business to :"

Toke il TO q Standard 3D.
vertiser. For good reasons. y
You're sure of getting on
even break 1--WE only accept
legitimate, honest odvertis-
ers). p You're helping The
STANDARD grow (port of the
money you spend at q Stand
ard advertisers place comes
back to The Standard in the
form Of a repeat of his od).
81 MOI all of our advertisers
are necessarily progressive
or liberal, but when you po-
fronize one, you are olwoys
certain that you ore not en-
richine q reoctionory (reoc-
tionories and US just don't
seem to get toeetherl.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
HERE'S A MOVIE WORTH SEEING,
Even THOUGH 1T DUCKS PROBLEM

Thoeren build this to a per-
sonal drama that is genuine,
moving and profound.
But when the trial begins and
the film comes down to grips
with the problem of euthanasia,
an inquiry into the morals of
"mercy killing" it falters and
stumbIes and the problem is
braZenly evaded.
March, as judge, never gave
any consideration to the human
element in applying the law.
But in the end, on the basis of
his own experience in the dock,
he goes forth acquitted and con-
WINGED of the fact that a judge
must not only consider the law,
but also the people to whom the
law is applied.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
MOVIES

upright American judge, takes
fate in his own hands when he
can no longer endure the suf-
fering of his wife, stricken with
an incurable disease, and ar
ranges a double suicide. The
wife, played by Miss Eldridge,
dies, but March survives and is
brought to trial.
To this point the movie is a
remarkably sensitive and NOV
ing portrayal of tenderness and
love-a situation which is too
often ludicrOus ON the screen.
The MARGINS aided by Michael
Gordon's direction and a script
by Michael Blankfort and Robert
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

most inspiring contributions to
the cause of public health any
where in the world"
The big brass of ANA knew
they could not defeat the Fund
in open argument. So they set
out on the simpler task of de-
stroying the Fund altogether.
SUPPORTED BY BORDEN
1t was no secret that the Fund
got most of it's income from
shares it owned in the Borden
Milk Co.
AS though out of nowhere,
boycott suddenly appear d
against Borden products. Hospi-
tails cancelled standing orders.
Doctors dropped verbal grim
aces t patients about Borden
products - and what mother
would buy a milk product not
recommended by her doctor?
The company felt the pinch soon
enough-and the result was un-
conditional surrender.
Mr.. Milbank, chairman of the
fund, was honestly interested in
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Medical society
here probed in
antitrust case

Justice Department agents
this week began an investiga-
ton of the Chicago Medical
Society, an affiliate of the
American Medical Association,
for possible antitrust law VIC
lations.
The probe was ordered by
Justice Department officials at
Washington following a COM
plant by the Civic Medical
Center, a private clinic at 20
E. Jackson Blvd, that the elm
les doctors have been denied
membership in the Society.
The Medical Center has op-
Grated under a prepayment plan
for more than IL years. Indi-
vidual subscribers pay So a
month, families, Sc.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Chicago CRC to
present drama
Trial by Fire.

Janice Kingslow, formerly in
the cast of Gamma Lucasta," and
Fred Pinkard, widely-known ra-
dio actor, will star in Trial by
Fire" anti-discrimination play,
to be presented at the 9th Street
Theatre Friday, Jan. 81.
Sponsored by the Civil Rights
Congress, the play will feature
actors from the Hull House Play
ers, She'll House, Columbia Col
lege, Friendship House and Chi
cago School of Expression.
The three-act play has been
called by Langston Hughes, zone
of the most effective, provoca-
tive, and moving plays on race
relations that I have ever SEEN"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

public health. But the same Mr..
Milbanx, chairman of the BOr-
den Co. board, was honestly in
terested in milk profits. He
fired John A. Kingsbury, sec
rotary of the Fund, as a gesture
of making amends. Next came
a Borden advertisement in the
ANA Journal in which the
company offered a sO-sOrry and
promised to be good.
All the time the medical boy
colt was on against the Borden
Co., the ANA denied part in it.
But as soon as the Borden
apology appeared in the Jour
nal, the boycott magically came
to an end.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Hickman to lecture
at 5th ward class

Joseph Hickman, associate
professor of economics, Roose-
welt College, will lead series
OF discussion classes on "Ameri-
can Foreign Policy" starting
Wednesday, January IL.
The classes, to be conducted
at the home of James Teller,
5454 Blackstone Ave, are spon-
sored by the Fifth Ward club,
Progressive Party, and will
meet every other week, accord
ing to Miriam Katz of the clubs
political education committee.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

Legion of Merit and Croix de
Guerre, ran for alderman in the
oath ward in 1947 and for Con-
gress from the 9th district last
November.
He served as executive secre-
tary for the American Veterans
Committee, Chicago area coun-
Gil in -946, and has been a ma
tional leader in the Progressive
caucus of AVG,
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

DIR. Morris Fishbein is editor
OF the ANA Journal, published
in Chicago. AS such he is the
tail that wags the dog. He is
the most powerful spokesman
for American medicine, though
he has never conducted a private
medical practice in his life.
MANY DRUG ADS
More than SO percent of the
Journals pages are taken with
paid advertising for assorted
drugs trusts.
The Journal, through adver-
tisins income, pays for other
ANA activities. 1t is this de-
pendence of the ANA upon the
Journal which gives FiShbein
the power to manipulate and
maneuver the nations medical
prOfessiO:
The associations backward
stand against a public health
insurance laW-which would
benefit small doctors as well as
all the peoples almost en-
tirely explained by this fact.
For the drug trusts fear a health
insurance plan witch would
make unnecessary their best
selling quick cures.
When these companies buy
space in the Journal, they do
it not only to flaunt their wares
before American doctors, but
also to pay ANA for represent
ing their interests before the
public and the government.
MILBANK FUND STORY
In 1926, a group known as
the Milbank Fund organized
preventive medicine program
on a large scale in upper New
York state. By the time the
fund was a year old, mortality
rate for tuberculosis, typhoid
and diphetheria took sharp
drop.
One of the foremost medical
authorities in the country, Prof.
C.E.A. WinslOw, of Yale Uni
versity, called it zone of the
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

tor f or t h e
Progress iv e
Party of I'LL
nois was an
nounced this
week by Will
liam Miller,
state director.
Ord o w e r,
World War II
winner of the
Bronze Star,
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
ANA and CMC

The third and last article
in this series will expose the
attempts made by the medical
trust to smash the Chicago
Civic Medical Center.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Did you know?

Total crop production IN 1913
was the largest in history, III
above the previous high set in
1916.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08

problem Of eu-
thanasia, some
thing t h a t h j.
therto has been
taboo in Holly
wood March. an
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
BY Bob Bennett

FREDERIC MARCH n d h S
I wife Florence Eldridge, two
really fine artists, are given a
chance in a film call
ed Live Today for Tomorrow"
and come up with an interesting,
thought-provoking job.
The movie deals witt t h e
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Drug trusts play big part
in ANA policy decisions
BY John E. Clever

quiz taken in the streets "Who is president
of the American Medical Associations probably well
half of the people answering would say Morris Fishben
He is not has been and probably
to be.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
Ordower new
lobby leader

Appointment of Sidney L. Or
dover as state legislative direc-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1949-01-08
THE ILLINOIS
STAN DARD

is owned and published weekly by
The Illinois Progressive Publishing
Co.. Inc, 1877 N. LaSalle St, Chi
cago /, Ill. Phone; Randolph
1920.
METZ P. locHARD- .-..-.............E Editor
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JOSEPH PERSilY. General Manager
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1913, at the post office at Chicago, Illinois,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Evening star., 1949-02-26
Why Add to Parking Troubles?

The reasons given by the Pollce Depart
ment for the sweeping drive on illegal
parking in driveways and other off-the-
street places are not very convincing. II
the only justification for the drastic crack
down is that two or three parking meters
have been knocked over and some pedes-
TRANS have been endangered by illegal
parkers in the downtown area, how will
this situation be cured by adding to the
city-wide parking troubles of motorists?
There are laws against trespassing,
against driving over the curb, against
destroying public property and against
dangerous driving that can and should
be invoked when motorists ignore the
rights and the safety of others. But to
strike at these relatively few violators by
launching a campaign which would harass
even the notorist who, through lack of
q garage, parks his car on his own drive
way would be to add to WaShtngton's
traffic troubles, rather than reduce them
According to Traffic Inspector Arthur
Z. Miller, the proposed police drive will
not affect motorists whose cars are parked
on private driveways constructed wholly
inside their own properties. There are
many privately constructed driveways on
land technically owned by the city, how
ever, especially in the downtown section.
The police plan to arrest owners of cars
parked in such driveways beyond the
building line.
It is hard to see how this enforcement
campaign will help Washingtons already
critical parking and traffic problems. At
a time when every effort should be con-
centrated on taking more automobiles
off the street, it seems unwise to under
take any program that will have the effect
of forcing more of them into congested
arteries, while their drivers search Tor
parking places. And any increase in traffic
congestion increases accident hazards Tor
motorists and pedestrians alike.
Certainly the average motorist who parks
his car in his driveway overnight well out
of the way of sidewalk passersby, is not
endangering any one, even though 1T so
happens that the car projects beyond the
legal building line. The chances are that
he would willingly put the car under
cover if he had a garage or were able
to build one in this era of high prices and
material shortages. Actually, by taking
his car off the street he is helping to
alleviate the parking problem. Such
motorists should not be penalized for the
reckless acts of few irresponsible drivers
In the downtown business district.
Evening star., 1949-02-26
Equality Before The Law

To the Editor OF The Star:
Time is essential to accomplishment; so
the patient East always takes time into
partnership. But, in America, what we want,
we want now-or at the next election!
Consequently, reasonable voting quallf1ca-
ton, which needs time and patient effort
for attainment, meets with lethargy and de-
featism; although unrestricted suffrage has
30 vitiated politics, that both parties bid
recklessly for unworthy votes-creatlng pal
ance of political power, in National Gov
ernment out of those unfit even to govern
themselves Thus. time becomes partner
of growing Federal control, in opposition to
mutual individual freedom.
So I urge prompt "short-circuiting" OF the
threatening current Of time-as follows:
A recent lecturer on Government trends
said: THE American people are becoming
so serf-minded that they are willing to
sacrifice freedom for the thing they call
security" But the situation is far worse.
We are actually sacrificing freedom for the
depths of insecurity.
So-called security is a mere illusion;
mirage developed by fanatical communism,
and exploited by conscious or unconscious
w-travelers for political power or profit
When all are equally secure, who provides
such security, except the individuals them
selves? There will be no mama from
heaven" and Washington has only what it
extracts from the individual, and admins
ters with utmost inefhciency.
Security is measured by production; we
cannot consume more than we produce; we
cannot lift ourselves by our own boot
straps.
Surprisingly few seem to realize that we
have already abandoned the fundamental
basis of representative government, equality
before the law by legally exempting trade
unions, and the like, from the Sherman and
Clayton Acts. which prohibit monopoly in
restraint of trade. If those Acts are un-
reasonable, by all means repeal them; other
wise, we must have and enforce absolute
equality before the law the very essence
of representative government; or be governed
by selfish Notwithstanding anarchy.
We now prosecute vigorously, at great cost
and disturbance, essential organizations, Of
whose technical restraints of trade, 1--WE,
the People" are not even aware; whereas,
the strike weapon is being legally used to
disrupt or destroy individual, community
and national security-including health and
life
The usual explanation of the Declaration
that "au men are created equal denying
Aristotles truism that men are all created
unequal") is that Jefferson did not mean
personal equality, but equality before the
law" So be it,
If representative government is to be SAL
vaged, and developed to its unique possibili-
Evening star., 1949-02-26

son will reduce the subsidies and thus will
reduce the deficits for various types of
service. That is a move in the right direc-
tion But even with the recommended in
creases the postal system still will find
itself about $15O,0OO,OOO in the red when
the books are closed for the year. Perhaps
the remainder can be made up by savings
of the sort suggested in the reorganization
report submitted to Congress recently by
Mr. Hoover If this should come to pass,
it will be the first time since 1945 that the
Post Office Department has been out of
the red.