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The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
Tourist Travel I'm
 Alaska Sets Record

during l949-approximately ST 900 persons journeying north to the Territory-according to a survey just completed by the Alaska De- velopment Board. Total travel ex- penditureS, including transporta- ton, food, lodging, and miscel- laneous expenses, were estimated at 25,000,000 a new high for Alas ka.
 In making the survey, the first of its kind ever conducted in Alaska, all scheduled land, sea, and air carriers were boiled, as were ports of entry maintained by the U. S. Immigration Service.
 The survey covered five month period, from May through September, and excludes seasonal workers such as cannery and de- fense project construction per- sonnel. However, travelling resi- dent Alaskans, representing only small percentage of the overall traffic, are included in all figures shown.
 About 35,0O0 persons made the trip to Alaska aboard vessels of the Alaska Steamship Company, Pacific Cruise Lines, Canadian Pacific Steamship company, Ca nadian National Steamship com pany. Union Steamship company, and private cruisers and yachts. The major portion of this traffic some 32,000 persons-Were round trippers who visited Southeastern Alaska ports as far north as Skag- way, while the balance proceeded on to Seward, railhead for Inte- rior Alaska.
 Planes of Pan American Air ways, Northwest Airlines, and Ca nadian Pacific Airlines carried about 22,00 travellers to the Terri tory in the five months. More than 50 per cent of that figure terminated their flights at An chorage and Fairbanks.
 Passenger traffic figures for on-scheduled airlines to Alaska were not available for the survey but were known to be large. In addition, number of private air planes visited both Southeastern and Interior Alaska.
 g Private automobile traffic over the Alaska Highway reached un- precedented heights. From May to September, more than 10000 per sons passed through Tok Junction, U. s. port of entry on the wartime constructed 1500-mile highway. An additional several hundreds persons turned off the Alaska Highway short of Tok Junction to enter Southeastern Alaska through Haines.
 Expenditures for transportation alone weer estimated by the Alas ka Development Board at more than $l6,OOO,OOO. That figure does not include special travel within Alaska, such as local airplane, bus, and railway tours. Local traffic, however, is known to have been substantial. For example, large increases in travel to Mount Mckinley National Park, Circle Hot Springs, and the Arctic coast have been reported.
 Average expenditures for food, lodging, recreation and miscellan-
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
 MISSION METHODIST Pastors-Rev. Theron McGrew
 Rev. Paul B. F. Carlson Rev. Robt. Treat. Methodist pastor Sunday
 1000 am. Eskimo Speaking Service.
 1l:00 am. Sunday School. 7:30 pm. Evening Service. Wednesday,
 200 pm. Children's Miracle Book Club. Thursday
 7:30 pm. Mid-week Service.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Masses:
 500 am. 11:15 am. 1000 a.m.-M. A. F. B. Chapel
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

total of almost sS,OOO,OOO in the Territory. q.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
Bible Readings

Each year the American Bible Society presents list of Bible se- lections for reading each day from Thanksgiving through Christmas. The 1949 theme is "The Book to Live By" and the Scripture selec- tions chosen bring out helpful truths concerning it.
 The readings for this week are listed below:
 Thursday, Dec. John IA Friday, Dec. 2 ................ Psalms 8 Sat. Dec. B.. Revelations 21:1-7 Sunday, Dec. All Timothy 2 Monday ....-...-............... Mlcah 6:l-8 Tuesday --.,...............Acts 17:16-34 Wednesday ......Revelation 22:1-7 Thursday ....-................John 3:1-17 Friday.....I Thessalonians 5:12-28
 .-.-.-------- ------- 4n4,1 of o1vooe+ co n0o nno l.: 4L 1
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Investigation Started
Into Streetcar Mishap
|njuring 9 Persons

An investigation was under way
today into an unusual accident in
which nine persons were injured
fleeing smoke filled streetcar.
The accident occurred at $50
pm. yesterday at Georgia avenue
and Irving street NV, when the
controlling device apparently
grounded on the old-type street.
car.
This evidently created a Short
circuit. and caused an overhead
trolley wire to fall on the car with
a spectacular arc.
Capital Transit officials said
heavy smoke filled the car, and
while none of the so passengers
was endangered by the accident
itself. many of them stampeded
for doors and windows.
Cut and Trampled.
In their efforts to get out of
the car, the passengers broke sew
eral windows, and those hurt suf-
fered their injuries from flying
glass or being pushed or trampled
upon by others. according to the
transit company.
The operator of the car, George
H. Oliver, "a, of 7430 Georgia ave-
nue NV, was credited with con-
siderable presence of mind in saw
ing additional passengers from
injury during the rush-hour acci-
dent.
With the power to his vehicle
cut off, he used manual control
to open both the front and rear
doors, so that the passengers could
alight.
Service on the line was restored
shortly after pm. and the home
ward bound rush-hour traffic re-
sumed.
Taken to Hospital.
Those treated at Freedmen's
Hospital, mostly for cuts. were
Minnie Coleman. "a, of 756 Nor
ton street NV; Lucie Malloy
Evening star., 1949-12-06

| 26. of TAO Newton place NV;
Irma McCloud. 54. of 723 Ninth
street NV; Katherine Bailey
"a, of 1421 Florida avenue NV;
Maude Paschall, %, of 1902 Park
place NV; Charles Epps, %, OF
1925 D street NE, all colored,
and David Ward, IS, of 5618 Ninth
street NV.
Richard Summers, colored, As,
of 3740 Ninth street NV, and
Mrs. L. D. Martin of 731 Girard
street NV, were treated on the
scene.
Robert Able. 81, of 2315 Lincoln
road NE, declined medical treat
ment for possible shoulder in
jury, in second accident. which
occurred at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV, shortly
after 8 pm. One Streetcar appar-
emily split a switch and collioed
with another streetcar at the in
tersection, according to transit
officials.
The car which engaged the
Evening star., 1949-12-06
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. ca Ais
DEcEMBER g. l949

times the size of the present
square. But minority opposed
this plan.
General results of yesterdays
session were announced by State
Budget Director J. H. Bradford,
chairman of the body. He said
full reports on both majority and
minority findings will 60 to Gov.
Tuck.
If the Capitol Square area is
developed, it presumably would
be the site of a new State Office
building for which the General
Assembly has appropriated ST.
100000.
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Richmond Board Split
On Office Center Site
by the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 6.-Vir-
ginia's nine member Public Build
ings Commission has encountered
dissension within its ranks on the
recommendation of a site for long
range development to meet the
needs of State governmental
agencies.
A majority of the group voted
late yesterday to recommend, in
effect, the expansion of Capitol
Square eastward into a State Of
flee buildings center some three
Evening star., 1949-12-06
Boy QuintupIets Born
In CoIombiun Town
BY the Associated Press

MEDELLIN, Colombia, Dec. g.
Quintuplets-five boys and all ir
good health-were born severa
days ago to Maria Arroyave in the
little town of Angostura.
Report of the births arrived by
telegram from the Mayor of An
gostura only yesterday.
The quintuplets have been bap-
tized Fermin, Ramiro, Rodrigo
Nabor and Francisco. Thei,
fathers name is Alfonso.
Evening star., 1949-12-06

switch was operated southbound
on Fourteenth street by Douglas
Price, 81. of 433 Jefferson street
NV, according to police, and the
second car was operated by Ray
mond Heiser, 81, of 808 Whittier
street NV. 1t was going north
on Fourteenth. Mr.. Able was a
na SSenper in this vehicle
Evening star., 1949-12-06

Satin-Striped Pajamas
LuxuriousIy toi|ored louneng Po-
jonnos of smooth to : the touch
royon sotin. Choose this hand
some gift in blue, wine, cocoa or
nile stripping. Notohed collar,
three pockets. Sizes A to D.
l2.so
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Drive Begun 10 Draft
|Dirksen for Senate
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

Illinois Congress members yes
terday started a drive to draft
former Representative Everett M.
Dirksen to run for the Senate next
year.
"The party should jump at the
chance to nominate Dirksen and
make Illinois the spearhead Of the
drive to stage Republican come
back in 1885," a member of the
Illinois congressional delegation
said.
Should Mr.. Dirksen gain the Re-
publican nomination, he would run
against Senate Democratic leader
Lucas, who has been in Congress
Is years. the last II in the Senate
Mr.. Dirksen represented Illinois
in the House from 1888 until last
year. when he did not stand for
reelection because Of an eye all
ment. His friends say he has
completely recovered.
Mr.. Dirksen. now in Washington
had no comment to make on his
future plans. except that he has
a number of speaking engagements
in Illinois and elsewhere. The Il
linois members of Congress who
are behind the "Dirksen for Sen
ate" drive asked that their names
be withheld.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Dr.. Samuel N. Pierre,
Washington Physician
For s. Years, Dies

DR.. Samuel M. Pierre, rs, one
of the oldest colored physicians
in Washington, died yesterday at
Emergency Hospital.
DR.. Pierre, who had practiced
medicine here for Sc years, was
one of the early secretaries of the
Medico- -Chirurgical Society. His
Office was at 2124 L street NV
until two years ago when he
opened an Office in his home at
3033 Eleventh street NV. and
took only Office patients due tc
i'll health.
DR.. Pierre was born in Wash
ington, the son of Samuel Pierre
"a Government employe, and Mrs
Mary Bates Pierre, an early Wash
ington elementary school teacher
He became interested in a medical
career in his early teens when he
took job driving a horse and
buggy for a white doctor.
In 1893 DR.. Pierre was gradu-
ated from Howard University
Medical School.
He was a founder of the Young
Mems Protective League of Wash.
ington, a trustee OF Union Metho-
dist Church and member of the
Pleasant Plains Civic Association
and the Twelfth street YMCA.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs
Gonevia Pierre; a son, Samuel, jr.
and a daughter, Mrs. Mary An.
derson, both teachers in Jersey
City, N. j.
Funeral services will be held al
l pm. Tuesday at Peoples Con.
gregational Church, 624 M street
NV. Burial will be in Harmony
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
|Citizens Decree
| StorIings' Death;
|FoiI to Suy How

The Federation Of Citizens AS
sociations sentenced the starlings
to death last night, but failed to
arrive at a legal method Of execu-
tion.
In the birds favor. 1t was ad-
mitted they eat Japanese beetles.
but the good doesn't Offset the
bad, the verdict indicated.
The civic leaders were debating
whether to approve amending the
present law which legalizes the
killing only of sparrows in the
city. Mrs. Henry A. Bartlett OF
Burroughs Citizens Association
took up defense of the starlings
for their beetle appetites.
L. A. Meadows of Manor Park
Citizens Association charged his
group was seriously troubled" as
their busline ends in q startling
hangOut.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
ItoIy's Film Stars Rally Today
Against HoIIywoodTs Exports

| QuireS theaters to show Italian
films that many days in the year.
The committee posters, calling
people to the rally, protest that
the government is pumping bill
lions of lire into other industries,
but burdening Italian movies with
a 35 per cent production tax.
A government reply to the Ma
tional Cinema Association, given
by Giulio Andreotti, 30-year-old
undersecretary to Premier Alcide
de Gasperi, said in effect that not
every Italian film was an open
City"
Mr.. Andreotti wrote the asso-
citation that inspection of Italian
films this year showed that by
far the greater part of them were
inferior to production of preced-
ing years.
Italian newspapers, among them
the Giornale d'Italia, retorted
that many imports also are in
ferior.
Evening star., 1949-02-20

There are two living species of
walrus, one found in the Atlantic,
the other in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
By the Assoeioted Press

ROME, Sunday, Feb. 20.-Star.
and extras Of Italy's prize winning
films will rally in Piazza del Popolc
today to protest against importa-
ton of foreign films that threaten
they say, to swamp Italian produc-
ton. Most Of the foreign films are
from Hollywood.
The rally was called by the Ital-
ian Committee Of Permanent
Agitation"
Its leaders include Anna Mag
mani, winner of international ac-
claim as a tragic actress for her
role in Roberto Rossellini's "Open
City" Others are Vittorio de Sica,
director of the recently acclaimed
Bicycle Thieves" and Giuseppe
de Sanctis, writer.
The committee says that unless
the government changes its pres
ent movie laws by April 30, Italian
film production will cease auto
matically. It also asks enforce
the "80-day law" that re-
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Mother Gets Jail Term
For Abandoning Twins
BY the Associoied Press

KANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb. 10.
"A young mother went to jail to-
day because she was not able to
care for her four months -old twin
boys.
And she had no more than
started her sentence than the well
fare Office was besieged with calls
from persons wishing to adopt the
boys, Warren Lee Likins, and
Thomas George Likins.
Their mother, Mrs. Virgie F..
Likins, 18, pleaded guilty to a
charge of child abandonment.
She was sentenced to serve 100
days in jail.
She told Judge j. Earl Thomas
the father had deserted her and
she did not see how she could
support them.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Clio Union Defies Chiefs
In Protest on Mindszenty
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-The
spokesman for a CIO local said
today that it had defied orders
from it's parent union and gone
on record protesting the trial and
imprisonment of Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty.
Edward Murphy, president of
Local SAL of the CIO interna-
tional Mine and Smelter Workers,
said the protest was voted unani-
mously last night at meeting at
tended by 1000 members. The
local represents Long Island re-
finery workers.
He said the locals action was
taken in face of repeated instruc-
tions from the unions interna-
tional Office in Chicago not to do
so. The unions district represen-
tative, Perry Foy. also appeared at
the meeting to argue against the
protest, Mr.. Murphy said.
The local officer said copies of
the protest were sent President
Truman and the State Depart
ment.
Wolves became scarce in the
British Isles in the 18th century.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Reds Beaten in Attack
Against u. 5. System,
OF Licensing Exports
by the Asseeiatsd Prsss

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 10,
Western Europe rejected de-
cisively tonight a Communist
complaint that the trading policy
of the United States works
against the Communist bloc.
Communists in the trade COM
mittee of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe
had sought to indict the Ameri-
can discrimination policy the
export licensing system-as HARM
full to the economic recovery of
Europe.
In its last action of a six-day
session. the committee rejected by
vote of II to 6 q Czechoslovak
resolution demanding an investi-
cation of the American practices.
The United States and "a Euro
pean countries took part in the
discussions, but only U. N. men,
bers where entitled to vote.
Major Issue of Session.
The discrimination charge was
the major political issue of the
session, which also produced an
extensive East-West agreement on
measures to spur trade across the
Iron Curtain.
The Czech resolution charged
that the trade discrimination
practiced by the United States
Government is harmful to the
economies of many countries and
to the expansion Of trade in
Europe"
1t called on the committee to
order a full report" by the eco
nomic commissions secretariat.
In particular" the defeated
resolution said, this report shall
indicate the range and total value
of the commodities involved. At
tention should also be paid to the
economic effects of the United
States discrimination policy"
West Fights Resolution.
Delegates from Britain, France,
the Scandinavian countries and
the United States argued strongly
against the resolution, describing
it as a political diversion" to
waste time and make agreement
on expanding East-West trade
more difficult.
Major achievements by the
committee during its conference
included unanimous agreement on
immediate action to plan three
fold increase in trade.
The committee instructed the
secretariat to draw up detailed
lists of potential exports of raw
materials from the East to the
West and potential exports of
machinery and equipment from
the West to the East. The lists
will be consolidated at another
committee meeting next May and
eventually could form the basis
for European multilateral trade
agreement
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Death Notices Censored
By Russians in Germany
BY the Associated Press

by fhe AsSoetofed Press
BERLIN.-The Russians have
imposed censorship on death no.
tices and grave markers in their
zone Of Germany. according to
press reports from Saxony.
This censorship. announced
through the Communist Depart
ment Of the Interior, concerns
death notices Of German prisoners
of war repatriated from Russia.
A German press service report
from Saxony says that henceforth
relatives of ex-PWs who die are
forbidden to publish public death
notices. And when they're buried
the grave marker must contain no
reference to cause of death or to
the fact that the deceased had
been in Russian confinement.
Evening star., 1949-02-20

pledge to take military action
in the future cannot controvert
the past record of American pur-
pose to defend democracy"
f,PThe Atlanta Journal said of the
pact:1 LAS a logical sequence to
the Marshall plan and practical
step in American preparedness.
it commends itself to our peoples
earnest consideration"
Evening star., 1949-02-20
'Mountuin Lions Believed
Afraid of Docs Bark
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

By the AsSociofed Press
SALT LAKE CITY.-A dogs
bark, not the dog. frightens noun.
tain lions.
That's the belief Of Owen w
Morris. agent for the United State:
Fish and Wildlife Service. HI
says:
Sometimes in deep snow dogs
will tree a cougar and their voices
will wear out before the hunter
can get to the spot. Then the
cougar comes down and kills the
dogs"
Deep snow forced many hungry
deer into Salt Lake City and its
suburbs this winter. Later, cou-
gars followed the deer. says Mr..
Morris, and made kills near houses
Evening star., 1949-02-20

Wolves became scarce in the
British Isles in the 10Th century.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
= Pound
Continued From First Page)

Auden, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken,
Louise Began, Katherine Garri-
son Chaplin, Paul Green. Robert
Lowell, Katherine Anne Porter
Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Willard
Thorp, Robert Penn Warren,
Theodore Spencer and Leonie
Adams, the library's consultant in
poetry and English for 1949. MIR.
Spencer died last January 18.
| Pounds Status Recognized.
! The jury took note Of Pound S
present status with this comment:
THE fellows are aware that OBJ
jections may be made to awarding
a prize to a man situated as is Mr..
Pound. In their view, however
the possibility of such objection
did not alter the responsibility
assumed by the jury of selection.
This was to make a choice for the
award among the eligible books,
provided any one merited such
recognition, according to the
stated terms Of the Bollingen
Prize.
ITO permit other considerations
than that of poetic achievement
to sway the decision would de-
stroy the significance of the
award and would. in principle.
deny the validity Of that objec-
tive perception of value on which
any civilized society must rest"
The prize. established by the
Bollingen' Foundation, is intended
to honor the highest achievement
in American poetry for the year
of the award. The jury is author
lied to omit the award in any year
in which it's feels no work of suf-
f1cient merit has come to notice.
Was Voluntary Expatriate.
Pound, 63, is a native of Idaho
who has spent most Of his time
abroad since 1911.
A composer as well as poet. his
writings have been a combination
of iconoclasm. cynicism, exhorta-
ton and lamenting. He has
numbered James Joyce. William
Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway
and Mr.. Eliot among his friends
and has been credited with in
f1uencing their works.
A voluntary expatriate, he full
minated for years in London liter
ary circles. He criticized Ameri-
can cultural standards and moved
on to Italy when he grew dissatis-
fled with England, too. Important
figures of American history ap-
peared from time to time in his
works, however, and he had good
words for number of them.
A casually dressed man with a
red beard and greenish eyes, he
denied angrily in District Court
that he was a Fascist sympathizer
Condition Unimproved.
Hospital officials say his mental
condition has not improved since
he has been there and that "the
prognosis is poor"
He will have to stand trial if
he ever is pronounced sane.
His conversations are described
as rambling, and he is said not
to be able to give a logical state
ment on any phase of the case
against him.
Some of the lines in "The Pisan
Cantos." however, are incoherent
to the uninitiated, although a
jury including a number of dis
tinguished writer's has pronounced
them of a high order.
For example:
AS Arcturus passes over my
| Sm0ke.hO1e
Evening star., 1949-02-20

the excess electric illumination
is now focused
on the bloke who stole q safe
he cdn't open
(interlude entitled: periplum
by camion)
and Awoi's hennia
plays hob
k-lakk -. thuuuuuu
making rain
uuuh
2, 7, hooo
lar iv,o po1,,ho
Evening star., 1949-02-20

A. KAHN INC.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Chinese Characters in Book.

der i'm Baluba
Chinese Characters in Book.
Rural American dialects otter
follow classical Greek in the can
tos. There are many references
to the Bible and mythology. Chi.
nese characters are Sprinklec
through the book.
But there is poetry Of nearer
conventional scheme:
What thou lowest we'll re-
mains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall
not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st we'll Is thy
true heritage
Whose world, or mine or
theirs
or is it Of none?
First come the seen, then thus
the palpable
Elysium, though 1t were in
the halls of hell.
What thou lowest well is thy
true heritage.
THE Pisan Cantos," part Of
a major work on which Poune
still is reported engaged, end:
you can. said Stef dincoln
Steffens)
do nothing with revolution
aries
until they are at the end Of
their tether
and that Vandenberg has read
Stain. or Stain. John Adams
is, at the mildest. unproven
If the hoar frost grip thy tent
Thou wilt give thanks when
night is spent.
THE Pisan Cantos were copy
righted by Pound and published b,
New Directions, 500 Fifth avenue
New York City.
Pound was transferred from the
maximum security quarters where
he first was lodged at St. Eliza
bethS. with the consent OF District
Court. He now is under less re.
straint, but lives in a locked ward
He is allowed to walk about the
grounds when attended, but pre-.
fers to remain inside, writing anc
sitting or lying in contemplation
according to hospital authorities.
He sees his wife regularly ano
friends. including Mr.. Eliot, occa.
slonally. but requires that prospec.
tive visitors state their business
in writing. He is permitted to see
such persons as he wishes.
A written request for an inter-
view was sent him by The Star
yesterday. An official said the
message was given him. but Pound
refused to see a reporter.