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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01

Grand Rapids and why Heidi has
signed him to a long-term con-
tract. Russ was called back for
three encores by the appreciative
audience Tuesday night. His years
of diligent practice will soon pay
off as he can't miss becoming a
big-time tap dancing star unless
he develops bunions and charley
horses in both legs.
-JOT
WHILE preparing your fishing
w equipment for the summers
sport, think about these figures:
Last spring from the Put-in-B Bay
Glass Jar Hatchery, 117,240,000
whitefish fry (baby fish, and ST.
6sO,OO0 yellow pikeperch (pick-
ereD We're distributed in Lake
Erie. Several years from now,
perhaps you'll be lucky enough to
snare one of these fish.
-JOT-
WHEN Rev. John Braun speaks
w on the subject "The Pause
That Refreshes" at the Union
Chapel, Catawba Island, Sunday
evening, he isn't giving free ad-
vertisement to a soft drink. The
sermon is based on the Bible. St.
John Lutheran church's Senior
Choir will sing at the Catawba
Island church services.
-JOT
T OCAL Kiwanians and Rotar-
- tarians are making plans to
charter buses for round-trips to
Cleveland, Wednesday night, May
II, for the first Cleveland Indian
night game. The New York
Yankees will be the opponents
The buses will be stopped in Lo-
rain or Vernilion enroute, where
dinners will be served. There is
possibility that non-members
may be included and those inter
ested should notify Tom Leavy
secretary of the Rotary Club.
-JOT-
JIMMY WAGNER and Other
) postal delivery men are mighty
proud of the new mail truck which
arrived last week. We're not
sure, but we think the older mai
truck had been in service since
the Civil War Legion Com
mander Adair Wilber should bt
looking a little trimmer these
days. He purchased a reducing
machine last week-garden trac
tor style.
A MOTHER local amateur com
4 poser is having his first song
published. He is Rollie Pean, 221
! Ash street, delivery man for Swar
+ Cleaners. Although he has beer
writing songs for his own amuse
ment for the past year, Record ot
Love" is the first he ever tried tt
/ sell. His lyrics were purchased
by Nordyke Publishing Company
/ Los Angeles, and a staff member
wrote the melody. The compan!
has contracted to publish the song
Other local composers Include
Ruth Eurenius and Gerald Robin
son.
-JOT-
lI OCAL veterans of the 5th Ma
rine Division should begil
making plans to attend their frs
annual convention to be held il
Philadelphia during August. The!
are veterans of Two Jima and tn
Occupation of Japan.
-JOT-
WHILE shopping in Sorensen'
" Market two weeks ago, Mrs
Clifford Christensen noticed tina
her favorite dish, fresh shrimp, wa
advertised. AS no one else in tn
family likes shrimp, Mrs. Chris
tiansen asked Mabel Sprenger fo
pound. When Mrs. Sprenge
went to the refrigerator, sh
| -.:o1.al ,,xo , cn ,1r o-l xros rboA n
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01

Whats Mabel mao about ?"
"She stepped on one Of those
scales with loud speaker and it
called out, 'One at a time, please
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01
POTLUCK PLANNED

Members of St. Thomas Episco-
pal Church will attend a Lenten
Family potluck in the Guild Hall
at 6:15 Thursday evening, April
7, when members of the House
Group will be hostesses. After
the dinner, services will be held in
the church.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01

Coterie Club rummage sale at
City Hall, We'd, Thurs. and Fri,
April 6, 7 and 8; 1000 q. m. to
600 p. m. CIT
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01
Elrnore Seniors
Plan Annual Plav

Mrs. Dora Coleman will direct
the comedy, "Those Websters"
which the senior class of Harris
Elmore high school will present
April 20 and 80 in the school aud
itorium.
Included in the cast are Bruce
kontak, Raymond Hinderlich, Eve
lyn Richardson, Lola Lowry, Mary
Dolph, Tom Schemmer, Martha
Dibert, Rosemary Ling, Donald
Chasteen Lois Haar, Marvin Bark
ham and Willard Eversole.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01

"We certainly have a small con-
gregation."
eyes. It's so small that when
the minister says, Dearly Below
ed,' | feel like Pm receiving a pro-
posal."
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-04-01

You won't find many success
rules that'll work unless you do.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
''NIGHT SONG" AT
 CAPITOL THEATRE
 LA5T2 5H0WING5

The absorbing romance of needy
 young blind composer and wealthy society girl is dramatically develop
 ed in the John Cromwell produc- tion Night Song, at the Capitol Theatre tonight for the last show Iings.
 Co-starring Dana Andrews, Merle
 Oberon and Ethel Barrymore, the picture blends the creation of a brilliant new concerto with an un-
 usual type of love story. Andrews portrays the composer, who becomes embittered when he loses his sight in an automobile accident Miss
 Oberon plays the sympathetic social ite who recognizes his talents and strives to have him resume his ca Ireer.
 Her unique method of gaining her end, and the striking climax that is reached when the composer concerto is played by Artur Rubin
 stein and the New York Philhar- monic-Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, give the picture a spectacular climax. Coming tomorrow in teehnicolor is Deborah Kerr in Black Mar cisuS."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11

post is to meet at the home of the Commander at eight o'clock Thurs day evening.
 The AmericaniSm Committee will meet in the office of the Boy scouts headquarters at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Plans are also teing made for an Americanism ob- seryance in February.
 Past Department c Com m n d Q r Perry H. Lewis is not a newcomer to Alaska, he having been in the Interior on several occasions. This is, however his first trip to Ju- neau He is Assistant Regional Di- rector of the Federal Mediation and Cancellation Service, his jurisd.c- tional area the states of oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming and the Territory oi Alaska Tn addition to having serv- ed a. State Commander for Wash \ington, he Is a post post command CT of the elite University Post II, at Seattle.
 Commander Zenger reminded Le- gionnaires that visiting members ot the organization, as well as veter- ans who may not te members of the Legion currently, are invited to attend the regular Monday night meetings in the Dugout.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
MASS CHEST x-RAY
 COMPLETED, ARCTIC; BRISTOL. BAY IS NEXT

The mass chest X-ray survey for Western Alaska above the Arctic Circle has just been completed by a team headed by F. Leigh Kerr, X-ray technician for the Alaska Department of Health. Kerr. who took 2800 X-ray films of Eskimos and white residents during the last four and a half months, under the tuberculosis control program of the Health Department, said that the Eskimos are ready and anxious to . improve their health standards. Health improvement among the Eskimos is a complex problem de- pendent upon education, h e a t h services and economic factors" he said, "and cannot be successful , without the combined efforts of all Territorial and Federal agencies ! concerned" A rasa
 Kerr travelled by planes of all kinds and sometimes by dog sled to reach the communities to be X-rayed. He carried the lightest X-ray equipment available to the Department, but even this was fre- quently too heavy for the light planes and improvised l a n d n g strips of the Western Arctic. He was able to determine, through his ex- periences, what improvements would make DOT a b e equipment more I suitable for future work.
 One hundred per cent coopera- tion from the Alaska Native Service l teachers and other government per sonnel in the far North was giver him throughout the survey, Kerr reported. Dr. Erwin Rabeau, ANS physician of Kotzebue Hospital, es- 1 pecially helped the x-ray team ir
 its work by announcing its itiner. i ary over his radio clinic of the
 air" and emphasizing the impor.
 tance of total attendance.
 A second x-ray team left Juneal
 last weekend to begin a mass surve.
 in the Bristol Bay area. Individuals
 who work in the canneries during
 the fishing season are to receiv, special attention.
 The threefold purpose of the mas
 X-ray survey is, first, to discover
 tuberculosis cases; second, to ob
 tain statistics on which to bas, future planning in tuberculosis con
 trol; third, to determine by ac.
 tual experience the best design fol
 X-ray equipment in Arctic areas
 The survey will have to be mad,
 periodically over the next decade
 until all cases have been discovered
 and isolated and the disease stamp.
 ed out. The initial survey will b.
 finished during this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
|SNAppY DEBATE
 6 FEATURE OF
 LEGION MEETING
Visitors from States Are Introduced to Large
 Group of Veterans

A large attendance marked the Monday night meeting of The Am |erican Legion, which was called 10 order at o'clock sy Post Com mander Chester Zenger.
 Visitors from the states were ln- troduced and reports were made which indicated healthy ana growing organization. Highlghting the evening was brief talk gwen by Perry H. Lewis. Past Department Commander of The American Le- ion tor the state of Washington, he having served in that high Le- zion office in 1882 and 1883.
 Charles Turnbull, now assigned to the Fairbanks office of the Alaska Department of Public Health, and whose home has been East Orange, N. J., was introduced to the group.
 Col. John R. Moves, Commissioner of Roads for the Territory, was like wise presented to the group. He submitted his transfer to the local Legion group from his home post of the Legion at Sherrill, New York.
 Harry Bartels, member of the Sit ka American Legion Post, and the Legion's Department Chaplain, was also present, and reported progress in 1949 for his home post. He is here with the basketball and boxing teams of the Mt. E6gecumbe School.
 Among the suggestions put for ward by the Chaplain, was that in favor of the program which became the subject of decate during the posts, deliberations.
 Reported by First Vice Com mander, Robert N. Druxman, was the tentative sponsorship by the Legion, of a series of public enter tainments and musical programs. Participating with the Legion will be a group of local musicians and the members of the Civic Theatre Players. The outcome of this spon- sorship, Druxman said, might well be a civic orchestra and he report ed that a representative group of local musicians had indicated their willingness to participate.
 Numerous other routine reports were giver, and refreshments were served at the conclusion of the meeting, with Maurice Powers and Joe Alter officiating. Refreshment Committee assigned to the task for the meeting of Monday night, Jan- uary IT, are A. L. Zenger, Sr., and Ted Smith.
 Plans are in preparation for the initiation of another class Of new and reinstated members.
 The Executive Committee of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
FILM "zIEGFELD F0LL|E5" TONIGHT
 AT 10TH CENTURY

"Ziegfeld Follies,' full of beauty, song and gorgeous girls, all in breath taking technicolor. opens at the 2Oth Century tonight and only for two night run.
 MGM has gathered one of the top casts of all time to sing and dance and entertain audiences. Tn 1 I names are a roster of Hollywood's s best talents: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremen, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, K hry n Grayson, Lena Horne. Gene Kelly, James Melton. Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, William Powell Edward Arnold, Marion Bell, Bun ins Puppets, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn. William Frawley, Robert Lewis, Virginia O'Brien and Keenan Wynn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
LU(ID0R LOADS FISH
 FOR SEATTLE, RUPERT

About 100000 pounds of frozen salmon, bound for Seattle and points east via Prince Rupert, is to be loaded on the Alaska Steam freighter Lucidor today and tomor- row. The vessel put in here from the Westward at 2:30 this morn ing. Wallis George of Juneau Cold Storage said about 20 car loads will go aboard.
 Captained by D. Peterson, the Lucidor left Seattle Dec. g calling at Whittier, Kodiak. Pelican and Sitka before putting in here today. She will sail for the South tomor- row with Petersburg, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert as ports of call.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11

DEEP SEA FISHERMAN'S
 Unions regular weekly meeting, Tuesday night. Jan. II, at 7:30 p. m. Be there. 89 2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
ARC GARAGE BIDS

The Alaska Road Commission is asking for bids for the construc- tion of two-story steel and con- crete garade building at Fairbanks Bids will be received at Juneau and publicly opened at 10 am. on February Is. The building com- pletion is scheduled for October 15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
RECLAMATION HEAD
 WASHINGTON BOUND FOR EKLUTNA FUNDS

J. M. Morgan. director of the Alaska Investigation office of the Bureau of Reclamation, will leave at the end of the week for Wash ington, D. C., to be gone for about two months.
 While in the nations capital, Morgan will appear before the House and Senate Committee to seek authorization of funds for con- struction of the Eklutna hydro electric power project near An chorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
BERT LYBECK RETURNS

Bert Lybeck is back in Juneau and bursting with pride over the way George Martin and others of his staff took care of street clear ance during his leave of absence
 Lybeck visited relatives and friends in Tacoma, Kent and other Puget Sound cities, returning to Juneau aboard the Baranof after nearly week of suitcase drill to and from Boeing Field Seattle. He went outside December 21.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
ILL. FAULKNER RETURNS

H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, returned aboard the Baranof from Seattle. He has been in San Fran cisco for the past four months. He underwent an. eye operation and will return in the spring for a second operation.
 Mrs. Faulkner remained in San Francisco where she is visiting with her daughter, Jean and fam ilY.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
CUNDERSON ENLISTS

Gilbert Gunderson of Sitka has enlisted in the Armed Forces for three years, according to T-Sgt. E. s. Craig. Juneau recruiting officer.
 .Gunderson will be assigned to the armored forces in Japan upon com- pletion of basic training at Fort Greedy, Kodiak.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
SCHOOL EXAMS START

This week marks the half f-way point in the school year and first semester examinations will be held at Juneau High School on We'd nesday, Thursday and Friday. Re- port cards will be issued at the end of next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
MINNESOTAN HERE

John E. King of Duluth, Minn., arrived on the steamer Baranof, and is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-11
JUNEAU WOMAN'S CLUB

Luncheon and business meeting will be held Jan. 12 noon, in Bar anof Terrace. Elizabeth Peratrovich, Sec'y. 89 2t
Evening star., 1949-01-30
By Saul PETIT

NEW YORK.-One night just 20
years. ago a stocky, thick-lipped
fight fan was making his way to
a ringside seat when an iron Brace
let was slipped on his wrist.
The man was Ralph Capone,
known as Bottles" oldest but not
the brightest of the busy Capone
brothers Of Chicago. Ralph wasn't
very important, but his arrest was.
1t started a chain reaction of Jail
doors closing behind some of the
biggest, most feared gang leaders
of all time. Until then, the pro-
hibition mobs were fiourishing with
apparent immunity - numbering,
bootlegging. stealing, running gam
bling joints and houses Of prostitu-
ton.
Some in Jail, Some Dead
But suddenly, in a crash Of head
lines, the big payof for the Roar
ing '20s" began. The great gangster
hunt was on. With the FBI and
internal revenue agents pacing the
chase, one after another of the
gilded and glamorized hoodlums was
caught or slain, imprisoned or ex-
ecuted.
Twenty years later, where are the
chief targets of the great crime
purge? Some like Roger Toughy
and Basil "the Owl" Banghart are
still in Jail. Others, like Al Ca
pone, died after serving their SEN
tences. Some, like Jack Legs" Dia-
mond and Dutch Schultz were
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Fe1v Bic Shots of the RACKET BUSTING 7entes Are Still Around

year Waxey paid an income tax OF
$10.76. 1t was a grievous oversight.
He was indicted in April, 1888. 1t
was q tossup as to who would get
him first, the Government or his
competitors. Just few days before
the indictment, Waxey's two part
ners were shot to death in an Eliza
beth, N. j., hotel. Waxey had
crawled out the window. Federal
agents finally arrested him in q
Catskill hideout.
Like Capone, Gordon never signed
anything. But Dewey, with $50 wit
nesses and more than 1000 docu-
ments, set out to prove that Waxey
owed the Government upward of
$500, 600 In back taxes for 1880 and
1881.
Despite shivering witnesses and
disappearing bank records, Gordon
finally was convicted late in 1888 and
sentenced to 10 years and fined
$4,000 plus court costs.
With time OF for good behavior,
he emerged from prison in 1910 and
announced, ''Waxey Gordon is dead.
From now on its Irving Wexler,
salesman"
But two years later Wexler (or
Gordon) was in the clink again,
serving q year for black market deal
ings in sugar. In 1947, Gordon was
arrested on q charge of possessing
stolen watches, but the case was dis
missed. Now in his COS, Gordon Is
believed living quietly In the New
York area.
distributed hy the Assostatsd Prsss.)
Evening star., 1949-01-30

went nosing through dummy bank
accounts and safe deposit boxes.
After q long search it turned out
these accounts had handled more
than s1,75o,0oo in five years.
Late in 1929 Ralph was convicted
of cheating on his income tax and
sentenced to three years and
$4,000 fine. With time off for good
behavior he emerged from Jail in
less than three years. At last re-
port he was running a cocktail
lounge in Wisconsin.
The technique was now established
and after sending off a couple of
Capone lieutenants to jail, the Gov
ernment was ready to take on the
Zig guy himself-Alphonse Capone,
Public Enemy No. l, lord of
rackets syndicate whose annual
take" from bootlegging alone was
estimated at $25,000,000.
al Capone was indicted in 1881 for
neglecting to file returns on $1,000,-
600 traced to him for the years 1924
1929. He pleaded guilty, thinking he
would get less than three years. But
the court indicated otherwise and AL
quickly changed his plea. After two
weeks of trial, the gangland boss
was sentenced to II years in jail and
a $4,000 fine.
Income tax detectives then shift
ed their scene to New York, where
two men were busy going in oppo-
site directions. One was 28-year-old
Assistant United States District At
torney Thomas z. Dewey.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Dindng
Of

ready there are two small camps
on this crest between Quebec and
Labrador, flown in with their dog
teams.
Mr.. Thorning looks year ahead:
IT want 22-foot road all the way,
because it's got to carry Is to 30
ton equipment, and make different
tracks not to sink through the
marsh"
Mr.. Livingstone looks mc-e t---.n
a generation ahead: Il want to
save time for the ene leer that
has to maintain this railroad in
1880. = Creosoted ties last 80 years,
and raw birch ties last 7 years. I'm
going to alternate them then re-
place the birch with creosoted ties
in 7 years. That way the alternate
ties will always be GOOD"
But before the pioneers can attain
the iron and the power, they must
struggle up and down the ravines,
through the rapids, along the cam
yons and across the fatiguing sea
! of eight-months snow.
They may never get there, but
they're on their way.
The red mud of Canada's new
iron bonanza is rich enough to keep
Americas Midwestern steel empire
running redhot for generations
But this red cataract of ore will
run through sluices of financial con-
troll. These sluices determine
whether Canada, Europe or the
United States gets first dip at the
flowing iron.
So far the Ungava iron rush is
strictly private enterprise. Five
companies have exploratory rights,
But only two, both under the Hol-
linger combine of Canadian-Amer-
ican capital, are fighting the Arctic
winter here today And two gov
ernments, Canadian and American,
are peering over the shoulders of the
risk-takers, alert for both their
strategic interests and their taxes
Question of Shaving Costs
Behind the dogsleds and the
planes on skis testing the northern,
winter are American iron interests
anxious to buy more ore cheaply.
But the ore-buyers are less anxious
to lay investors money on the line
to bring 1t out Of the frozen 1900
foot plateau joining Labrador and
Quebec.
Even the Canadian-American pro-
moters, already nearly $4,000, 900
down in their own-not taxpayers
money, call the Ungava a gamble"
and a question of shaving costs to
beat the Mesabi.
The Americans are not yet hard
up for iron. There are a billion tons
left in the Mesabi-so its owners
tell the tax assessors-and it is 81
per cent iron, close to the Ungava
average of SIS per cent.
A billion tons gives the Mesabi
(See WELLER. Page C-ZJ
Evening star., 1949-01-30

Communist control of the Canadian
mining unions that will work this
mine? These are part of the stra-
tegic problem Of iron in the north.
The iron is abundant. In two
hurried summers OF exploration
American and Canadian engineers
have already found absolute proof
of more iron than the Mesabi has
yielded in its whole history.
Blanketed under heavy snow to-
day, the iron in summer lies around
like dirt, bursting through the de-
caying gray caribou moss of this
grassless tundra. The main diff
Guilty in establishing camps is to
find q spot without iron to locate
the buildings.
Testing a churn drill outside the
machine shop, the engineers ran it
into two feet of dirt to see how it
was biting. Instantly they hit ore.
Curious, they followed the ore down
to depth of 367 feet. When they
stopped. the iron still hadn't given
out.
Bulldozers scraping roads leave a
double trail of high-assay ore on
each side of their path.
The Ungava is a sort Of American.
Shangri-la, accessible only by air.
plane. It's about $50 miles north
east of Quebec, the nearest large
city. But the $50 miles of enlaced
lakes and snow-hung black birch
that separate it from the frozen st.
Lawrence are the miles that count.
For the st. Lawrence Is the great
Northern highway that must carry
iron wherever it goes, If it can be
brought out of the wilderness.
Canada Can't Use 1t All
Ungavas iron can change the
face of our continent. melting
Canada and the United States into
new, closer partnership. The
United States has the smelters and
coal; Canada has the iron. Between
them they spell wealth for Canada
and q second chance industrially
for America.
But how is this power to be dis
tributed? Where is the iron going
to meet the coal in the classic mar
riage whose child is steel? In the
United States or Europe?
Canada cannot use more than
2,000, 900 of the 10000, 900 tons need
ed annually to make the Ungava
pay its way.
Probably the iron will go to the
United States. But where? To the
Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrows
Point, Md, our only big seaside
smelter? To some other still un-
built smelters on the Atlantic, or
even on the Pacific Coast?
Seeking coal as fuel, the natural
place for the iron to 60 would be
to already working furnaces that
scar with yellow flame the nights
Evening star., 1949-01-30

the enmity of rivals. Men like
Waxy Gordon, Johnny Torrio, Willie
Blot, George Browne and Lucky"
Luciano.
Luciano, New Yorks former vice
lord, Is in exile in Italy. As to the
whereabouts of the other survivors,
II Government men do know exactly,
they aren't saying. Back in the