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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
Cardinal Conuicted Of Treason Is Giuen Life
I'VE DIDN'T DO IT." SAYS ATFL SECY. ON LIQUOR PAMPHLET

Disclaiming any responsibility or knowledge regarding the An Analysis of the Alaska Beverage Control Act" appearing in pamph- let form and commented upon in Fridays Empire as having been authored by the Alaska Territorial Federation of Labor, T. D. Ericksen says that his organization had nothing to do with the pamphlet and has made no comment other than that in the resolution oppos- ing the Bill passed at the ATF of L convention in Sitka in January
 Ericksen. ATE of L executive secretary, said that his union is vitally interested in the Bill be- cause we have 1000 or more mem bers directly employed by the liquor dispensers.
 Our only comment on the Bill, a copy of which we had at the convention, is contained in the Sit ka Resolution, in which we went ] on record against it." the lrrF of L secretary said today.
 1; The Resolution, a part of which appears on the cover of the pamph- let, is presented here in full: RESOLUTION
 WHEREAS, In the Nineteenth Regular Session of The Alaska Territorial Legislature bill will be introduced known as the AL coholic Beverage Control Act and
 WHEREAS, the purpose of said , bill will be to establish liquor control board, which in turn will be empowered to appoint liquor control administrator, and WHEREAS, said powers, when invested in such an administra- trator and control board could be arbitrary and harmful to the liquor industry, and
 WHEREAS, the liquor industry is one of the largest contributors to the Territorial Treasury; the enact msnt Of such a bill would leopard ] lze the livelihood of many of oui members employed in the liquor industry, and the creation of such a board is contrary to the wishes of the liquor dealers and their en- ployees, therefore
 BE IT RESOLVED, that The l Alaska Territorial Federation oi Labor in convention assembled go on record as opposing the bill known sas the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.
 January 10. 1949, The AL
 aska Territorial Council of Culinary Workers, Bar tenders and Hotel Service 1 Employees, AT'F of L Con- vention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
Asst. Secretary
 Of Navy Resigns

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.--tR-Mark Edwin Andrews resignation as As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, was accepted today by President Tru- man. effective next Tuesday.
 The President, in a letter, said he was accepting the resignation with very genuine regret" The letter said MT. Truman was famil- jar with the "impelling personal reasons" which prompted the resig- nation and said T have no recourse but to comply with your wish"
 MT. Truman commended him for his part in the development of the Armed, Services Procurement Act of l947.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
BUSINESS TAX LICENSE COMES
 UP IN HOUSE
By JAMES HUTCHINSON


 Attempts to make major revisions in the business license tax bill fail- ed in the House this morning.
 The measure, embracing one of the basic tax. proposals mentioned by Governor Gruening in his mes- sage to the special legislative session last month, finally came up for second reading after being stranded on the House calendar for three straight days previously.
 It calls for tasic $25 license fee for businesses and professions, with one-half of one per cent levy on gross income above s20,000. Rep Warren Taylor, Fairbanks Demo- crat, introduced the bill. An opening attempt to drop the starting level of the percentage levy to $l0.000 failed by vote of 12 nays and II for it. It was Ways and Means Committee proposal.
 Then an amendment by Rep Alfred Owen, Anchorage Democrat to cut the levy down to one quarter of one percent was defeated 2l to after extensive debate, during which Reps. Doris Barnes and James Nolan, both of Wrangell labeled it as fin effect, gross sales tax"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
WINDS FROM ALA5kAGULF
 HIT SOUTH
New Storm Heads 10 Friqid Montand-2 Washington
 Passes Are Closed
cBv The Associated Press)

Winds romping out of the Gulf of Alaska brought rain to Western Washington today.
 Snowslides closed both Snoqualmie and Stevens Passes temporarily.
 The new storm, centering to the east and heading on a bee-llne for frigid Montana, was expected to hit that state late today.
 The freezing breath of the cold wave plummeted the mercury to 16 and 20 below in North Dakota and Montana early today. It went down to 36 below at Big Piney, Wyo.
 FRESH DRIFTS PILE UP Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois braced for temperatures of zero to 25 below tonight and tomor- row morning.
 Strong winds piled fresh drifts ot snow over the western states, bring ing new hardships to the snow- bound, storm-weary area. Relief operations, by land and III the air, were halted or sharply curtailed in many parts of the west ern Blizzard disaster area 25 TRAINS SNOWBOUND Some 25 Union Pacific trains were snowbound in Wyoming, stranding more than 4,0O0 travellers. A state ot emergency was declared in Idaho ] A snowslde buried and killed two Pocatello, Idaho, children, Joseph Papetti, II, and Merlene Holbrook I9, as they played near their homes l A blizzard swept northern Idaho closing some schools.
 A snowslide killed Herbert Savage 54, silver miner at Park City, Utah
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
ENTHUSIASM. LACKING ON.
 TAX MEASURE
Finance Committee Cool Toward Properly Levy
 -Tobacco Tax Due
By JAMES HUTCHINSON

The General Property Tax Bill, one of the most controversial mea- sures before the legislature, was due to come back to the Senate floor today.
 Finance committee members said they voted to report it out to the floor with three committee mem- bers withholding recommendation, end one-victor Rivers, Anchorage Democrat-recommending do-pass.
 The three without recommenda- ton were Republicans John G.. Butrovicn. Jr., and Charles Jones' and Democrat Frank Peratrovich
 In normal Senate procedure the Bill is likely to be on the calen- dar for a second reading and amending tomorrow Then it is likely to come up for debate on final passage later in the week.
 Another tax proposal appeared on the legislative horizon today. Tobacco Tax Due
 A bill was reported under pre- paration for taxing cigarettes and other tobacco products in Alaska to provide an estimated $2.000,0 revenue year.
 Rep Warren Taylor, Fairbanks Democrat. said he was preparing the bill for three cent tax on the standard package of cigarettes. He said the proposed tax would be two cents on cigar or any tobac- co selling under 15 cents.
 Taylor said he has talked to numerous legislators and found considerable support for the pro- posal. The tax would be far stiff
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
FAST FLIGHT MADE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-lR-An Air Force jet bomber today covered a 2,289 mile course here from Moses Lake Air Base, Wash, in three hours 46 minutes. This was an average speed of 607.2 miles an hour.
 The six-engine, pt-wing bomb CT, streaked over Andrews (Md) tase at 11:08 am. PST.
 It took off from Moses Lake al 7:22 am. (PST).
 The bomber first crossed the field at an altitude of l3,O00 feet but quickly descended for landing.
 No official record was set since the course is not the recognized transcontinental contest route anc no official timing by representa- tives of international sporting avia- tion was made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
LIQUOR DEALERS
 NOT AUTHORS OF BEVERAGE ACI
Jack Altman States Posi- lion of ALRDA on
 Liquor Law

Few measures have caused the stir in Alaska that has accompan-
 jed the Alaska Beverage Control
 Act, and few measures have had as
 many people praised or blamed for
 it's contents.
 Because, in some quarters, the bill
 has been called liquor industry measure, Jack Altman. Executive Secretary Alaska Retail Liquor Dealers Association. has made the following statement regarding his connection with the controversial bill:
 AS Executive Secretary of the AL
 aska Retail Liquor Dealers Associa- tion have been asked so many quest ons and heard so many con flicting stories about the Alcohol Beverage Control Act (H.B. 33) that I feel statement of plain facts from the viewpoint of the liquor dealers, is in order.
 Inevitably I'm asked: Where did the bill come from?" The answer to that is easy. The decision to estab- l-sh centrally responsible enforce
 ment authority was made following
 meeting held in the Governors office in July or August of l946 Present at this meeting were the [ Commissioner of Health, Commis- sioner of Education, Director of the Department of Public Welfare, Gen. eral Superintendent of the Alaska
 Native Service, Counsel at Large
 two Federal field representatives ithe Attorney General and the Gov ernor.
 Attorney General Rivers tn prepared an act which, as II. E. 5l was defeated at the l947 session ! $ A-.f
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
Maj. Gen. (hennauIf
 Daddy of Girl Baby

SHANGHAI, Feb. 8.-tR-Retired U. S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, 59, today became the father of a baby girl in Canton, his commercial airline office here was advised.
 The daughter, named Claire An na, weighed seven and half pounds
 The mother, the former Anna Chan, Chinese newspaper woman was reported doing fine.
 The couple was married Dec. 2l 1947.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
The W ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Copyright. l949. by Bell syndicate, Incl

VASHINGTON-One of the fa- nous names of France is "Quai dOrsay' which actually means Dock of Orsay," but which has come to mean the French Foreign Office, because of its location alongside the Dock of Orsay.
 Almost unknown is a railroad station alongside the foreign office called Care d'Orsay." It is a little used station. No important persons ever arrive there. But just a month ago this station became most im- portant to the American people.
 Just a stones thrown from it at the Quai d'Orsay, the gentle men in the grap-striped pants con- tinued busy at their professional task of maintaining the proper relations between countries. But at the Care d'Orsay a new kind of foreign relations was taking shape-a project in amateur di- plomacy straight from the hearts of the French people.
 For on the platform of the Care d'Orsay were piled thousands of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
General motors'
 Dealers Give Biq Sum, Gamer Fund

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.--tR-A check for $1,525,167 from 10000 General Motors automobile dealers through out the country to be used for can- cer and other medical research was received last night
 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr, chairman ot the Board of General Motors and donor of the Sloan-Kettering Insti- ute for Cancer Research, received the check at a dinner in his honor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
BARBARA JOHNSON HERE

Miss Barbara Johnson today re- ported for work as clerk-steno- grapher for the Division of Law Enforcement of the U. s. Fish and Wildlife Service. She arrived Sum- day by Pan American from Se- att.e, having come from her home in Vernal, Utah.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
CA MEN HERE FOR
 VISIT TO STATION

W. P. Plett, Regional Admins trator. Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration, and three associated CAA representatives are here from An- chcrage to visit for a short while. The group arrived here yesterday by plane, pilots of which are James Hurst and R. J. Rogers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 8.--tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3h, American Can 87, Anaconda 3212, Curtiss- Wright 8%s, International Harvest CT 25A, Kennecott AS, New York Central II. Northern Pacific l5h U. s. Steel 7lh, Pound $4.03A.
 Sales today were 960,000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials l73.7l, rails 49.90, util- ities 3430.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
TALBOT TO SEATTLE

Sgt. 1st. cl. Ernie Talbot was passenger aboard the Alaska. going to Seattle to report for ACS duty there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
FROM ANCHORAE

At the Baranof from Anchorage are s. B. Ritzhugh and John R Freeland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
KETCHIKAN PUBLISHER HERE

Paul s. Charles, co-publisher with his father, Sid D. Charles, of the Ketchikan Daily News, arrived from Ketchikan by plane today for an overnight stay in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
FROM KETCHYKAN

Louise w. Miller of Ketchikan a guest at the Baranos Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
AT THE BARANOF'

A. B. Muldron of Fairbanks is a guest at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
FROM UNALAKLEET

Frank A Degnan is guest at the Gastineau from Unalakleet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-08
FROM YAKUTAT

Mrs. Philip Mason of Yakutat registered yesterday at the Gastin- eau Hotel.
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Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
HARRINGTON

Miss Marion Kohl spent Sunday
with Miss Grace Wanda Quillen.
Mrs. Frank Jester, who has been
i'll, remains about the same.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace CULLEN
spent last week in New York.
Mrs. Violet N. Goodwill, Home
Demonstration Agent for Kent
County. announces an officers
training school will be held on
Wednesday, December 14th, at. las
p. m, in the board room of the
State Board Of Agriculture Build
ing, Dover.
The purpose Of this meeting is to
give to the incoming officers a few
rules in parliamentary procedure.
and to explain the general set-up
of Home Demonstration Club work.
A question and answer period will
be held after a short discussion of
business procedure.
G. Douglas Mills was elected
chief of the Harrington Fire Com
pany, Monday evening, at the an
nual election at the regular month
ly meeting at the fire house. Jehu
Camper was un-opposed for re-
election as president.
Other officers elected were: Paul
Neeman, vice-president; L. GOoden
Galloway, financial secretary:
Lewis Clymer, treasurer; and
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Captured German
Science Aids u. S.

ATLANTIC CITY, - Up - The
United States is just beginning to
reap the benefits from the huge
amount Of scientific information
captured from the Germans after
World War II, says Col. Harry A.
Kuhn, U. S. A. (retired) president
of the Armed Forces Chemical AS
sociation.
"The government so far has re-
leased more than 100000 reports
with data en- synthetic fuels, jet
missiles, chemical warfare agents
and other. subjects, but it will take
years to evaluate all the informa-
tion," he told the American Chem
ical Society.
Some of the more important Ger
man develOpements were the Fisc-
her Tropsch process for making
synthetic oil from coal; the manu-
facture of high concentration hy-
drOgen peroxide; production of
white carbon black; the fire fight
ing fuel chlOrObromomethane ;
synthetic substitute for mica, and
new insecticides.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Druggist Denies
He's Scientist

OAKLAND, Md. - (P) - Joseph
E. Harmed is 70 years old. He has
run a drug store here for 81 years,
and he says he is a druggist not a
scientist.
But he has written botany text
book "Wild Flowers of the Alleg-
henies." It is used in schools and
libraries all over the country. The
botany departments of Harvard,
Cornell and other Universities en-
couraged the work and. helped him
with it. He has two honorary doc
torate degrees. He is listed in
Who's Who" and american Men
of Science" Also, he's fellow Of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is the
friend of many scientists and of
the late Thomas Edison.
He insists, however, he is still
"just a country kid pursuing a
hobby" His book has been praised
both for its accuracy and it's pop
ular style. It has brought him let
ters from all over the world.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

George Johnson, fire recorder
Frank O'Neal, Sr., was elected Sec
retary to replace Albert Price, who
had resigned of press Of other du-
ties.
Walter Messick, Eugene Ander-
son and o. T. Roberts, Sr., were
elected directors for three years.
Chief Mills will appoint his first
and second assistant chiefs.
Delegates to the monthly meet
ing of the Kent County Volunteer
Firemen's Association at Clayton
Wednesday, Dec. IA, will be Clar-
ence Barlow, George VOnGoerres
and George Johnson.
Paul Neeman reported on the
monthly meeting of the county or
ganization of which he was elected
first vice-president.
Mrs. W. C. Burgess and daugh-
ters, Kitty Lou and Judy, spen
Tuesday at Smyrna.
st. Stephens Episcopal Church
Fleming Street
Sunday, December II
9:15 a. m.-HOly Communion.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Caesar Rodney School
Notes
Juniors Primed for Play,
Friday, December 8

Juniors Primed for Play,
Friday, December 3
According to Victor Dankewich,
president Of the junior class Of
Caesar Rodney School, the class
play Kay Beats the Band" being
presented Friday evening, Decem-
Der 3, at S:15, will set a standard Of
performance difficult for future
classes to duplicate.
Students will get previews Of the
performance following the Della
ware Day Assembly programs on
Wednesday, December z.
The stage set has been newly
painted and the community is being
secured for authentic properties.
The play is directed by Mrs.
Richard G. Clark, the former Miss
Florence Reynolds, who is a grad
uate member of the University of
Delaware E-52 Players. Assisting
her is Mrs. Mary w. Cool, a class
sponsor.
Members Of the cast, who are dill
igently polishing their lines, are as
follows: Barbara Kelly, Eleanor
Masten, Georgia Lee Hughes, Ruth
Steele, Charlotte Lindale, Shirley
Dunn, Victor Dankewich, Edward
Burke, William Shockley and Mil
bourne Webb.
Veterans Wives Study Child
Care and Care of Sick
With the cooperation of the Red
Cross the wives of veterans enroll
ed in the Caesar Rodney Veterans
Training Program in Agriculture,
have been attending classes at
school.
While their husbands have been
studying dairy husbandry a group
of twenty wives has completed a
course in the care of the sick. Part
of the group is now completing a
second standard Red Cross course
entitled Mother, Baby and Family
Health"
Mrs. Mary c. B. Richards of
Woodside served as the instructor
Tor both courses.
In order to enable the mothers to
attend, members of the Caesar Rod
ney Future Homemakers chapter
have been operating child care
center at school during class hours.
HOmemakers Get New
Electric Range
Members Of the Caesar Rodney
Homemaking Department have re-
Gently had made available for their
use in modern homemaking prac-
tice a new electric double oven
range fully equipped with the lat
est innovations in electric stoves.
According to Mrs. Florence Y.
Smith, hOmemaking instructor, the
addition improves greatly the ap-
pearance Of the kitchen unit and
contributes materially to the con
tinuation of enthusiasm the girls
have for their hOmemaking pro-
jects.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Burglars Believe In
Signs

HAMBURG, Germany - (P) - A
Bremen department store advertis-
ed a sale with a window poster
which read: "And now off with the
goods"
Next morning the window pane
was smashed, all the goods were
gone and to the poster two words
were added: TITS Deal"
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Films Are Aired

LOS ANGELES II lA9 - Motion
picture films are getting plenty Of
space on television.
For example. this community
now with seven TV stations esti-
mates that 700 westerns and feat
ures were transmitted within a
single year.
Few late release films have been
available to televisi0n. however.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Sixth Grade Won P. I. A.
Monthly Contest


David L. Williams sixth grade
home room won the two dollar
monthly attendance prize by hav-
ing the largest number of parents
present at the December 1 meet
ing Of the Caesar Rodney P. T. A.
meeting.
A Christmas program was pre-
sented under the direction of Mrs.
Jesse Cooper, program chairman,
that featured Yuletide customs here
and abroad.
Mrs William Richardson spoke
on a German Christmas. Noel Gus
toms of Latvia were presented by
Mrs. Oskars O,Zolins. Typical Aus
tralian and English Christmases
were explained by Mrs. Edward
Cooper, and the Rev. Theodore HUFF
per, Dover, summed up a really
American Christmas"
The singing Of carols by the en-
semble under the direction of Mrs.
Jessie G. Duncan concluded the
program, after which refreshments
were served.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Souvenir Opium
Pipes Tab 0 0

BANGKOK - (P An Amer
ican visitor who purchased two sill
yer mounted opium pipes as curios
was fined ($2) the other day and
the pipes, costing 1000 baht Cs1OO),
were confiscated.
The tourist was charged to his
surprise with possession Of opium
pipes without a licence.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Geiger Counter

The Geiger counter used to de-
tect A-bomb blasts is a vacuum
tube housing gas-filled stainless
steel tube. A fine wire in the tube
catches minute atomic rays and
gives the alarm.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

First us. Earthquake
The first earthquake recorded in
the United States was at Plymouth,
Mass, in 1888.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

Leading U. S. producers of pun.
ice and pumicite are California, N
Mexico, Oregon and Idaho.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-06-04
Unique Dramatic
Workshop Conducted
At Florida A & M

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - amp
The institute of Creative and Prac-
tical Arts, inaugurated at Florida
A and NJ college here last summer
under the direction of DR.. Randolph
Edmonds, proved so successful that
the second institute will be held this
summer, July to August 16. De-
signed especially to give compre-
hensive survey of the arts for sum-
mer teachers through an on-campus
workshop, one of the most UNIQUE
features will be the creative arts
and music institute.
Prof. Edmonds feels that if stu
dents are exposed to contact with
people who have had actual expert
ence in the different fields of music,
theatre and recreation as well as
the graphic arts, that more can be
gained than by mere theoretical
knowledge of the subject.
Eta Moten will return as consult
tant in vocal pedagogy, stage de-
pertinent and concert repertoire,
Miss Moten is a graduate of the
School of Fine arts, Kansas univer-
School of Speech, Northwestern
sity and has had graduate work in
University.
Fred Hall, head of the music de-
partment at Alabama State Teachers
college. will be in charge Of choral
work during the six weeks period.
Miss Grace walker of the Nation
al Recreation council of New York
will give demonstrations of COM
munity organization and recreation.
Randolph Edmonds, prolific au'
thor of plays, has had wide expert
ence in the teaching Of dramatic
art. Founder of the Intercollegiate
Drama association and the Southern
Association of Drama and Speech
Arts, he received this year the Nat
ional Urban Leagues citation for
outstanding achievement in the
field of drama for sponsoring the
first institute of creative and prac-.
teal arts.