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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-10
Daily Lessons in English y L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN NdISUSED: angry ABOUT a thing and
angry a person
NIsPRoNOUNCED Parliament Pronounce par i-ment
syIables
MISSPEILED: Ennui; pronounced in All.
SYNONYMS magician
times and it yours" Let us
word:
I'll
speakers
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-10
STARTED AS OFFICE BOY

Now SO years old, the Secretary
General of the United Nations was
born in Oslo, the son of a carpen-
ter. His first job was as an office
boy in the headquarters of the
Norwegian labor party. At l6 he
became President of a local labor
branch, and at % he was one OF
the leaders of the party. AT the
outbreak of the war, Lie was Min
lister of Commerce in the Nor
wegian government and by Feb
ruary, 1941, was appointed Minister
of Foreign Affairs, then in exile in
London.
Lies catapult into U. N. affairs
came during the San Francisco
conference which founded the Uni
ted Nations, where he served as
chairman of the commission which
drafted the charter of the secur-
ity council.
At that time-and since-he
has sometimes sided against the
United States and Great Britain.
In fact, during the early U. N.
days, he was nominated by Am
bassador Gromyko to be the first
President of the General Assembly.
Now his influence is emphatically
against his onetime supporters.
In New York, Lie gets along well
with Mayor O'Dwyer and Bob
Moses, with whom he confers every
two weeks or SO regarding the
great international city on the
East River of Manhattan, which
the Rockefellers are erecting as a
symbol of international peace.
This, of course, has put him in
touch with various New York civic
leaders such as Tom Watson of
International Business Machines,
Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase
National Bank, and John w. Davis,
former Democratic candidate for
President, who have come to regard
Lie almost as a fellow New Yorker.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-10
MODERN ETIQUETTE k e LEE

leave the the when drinking
drink
quickly?
A. always placed in the
the stirred.
insists cigarettes should she offer
cigarette
A. Yes it would show good
wedding reception preede the bridesmaids
the aisle?
A.
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Man is allegedly the most lnteHlgent creature Oh
earth but so far as we been able to ascertain
there is no other species dumb enough to be feversh
working toward the goal of being in position TO an
initiate ITSELF Cincinnati Enquirer
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Three, the other between Lie and
the Kremlin in Moscow. In effect,
Lie is now serving as an ambas-
sador of good will between the two.
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IAN inventor has made an electric motor SO small
it can be placed in thimbe." That's small but not
nearly so small as the built-n dynamo possessed by
the lightning bug.
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20 YEARS AGO {rfm EMPIRE
MAY 10, 1880

MAY
Assets than its liabilities
according consolidated balance sheet prepared by
Haberno had completed his annual audit for the
city listed at s345,l7891
a Sowerby
his duties Immediately
designated Phil acting che1
police Getchen had Seattle
weeks. ass@4f #f
Allen of Resurrection Lutheran Church
WASH then to
speaking Lutheran churches He to
OF
Thema Engstom the only
faculty return the following year
Katherine her Hazel Jonn
Dorothy and Coach Myron King New
Pberton Edla
Painter and Lloyd Rinden
C. proprietor, opened Cutting Paro To-
newly adjoining Ludwig Nelson's
Jewey finished canay-yelow and BLACK
mirrors added to 800candlepower
hacuttng department Brown operated
a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-10

shall look at our very filthy streets
and at no police being around when
you need them, and at all sorts of
breakdowns of public efforts and
say to myself: Our standards of
living are going down"
For the standard of living of a
people is to be measured as much
by. what one gets for the taxes he
pays as by any other yardstick
The Post Office used to be the ex-
ample par excellence of communal
effort. In fact, the Socialists used
to say that if a nation can run
Post Office SO well, it can run
the railroads and about everything
else.
But the fact is that the Post
Office constantly costs more mon
ey and gives less service. We
used to put two-cent stamp on
an envelope and it Travelled swiftly
in the horse and buggy days
everywhere in this country. Now
we put a three-cent stamp on the
envelope and accept casual hand
ling If you want to see, in big
city like New York, some real slow
motion, put a special delivery
stamp on the envelope and tele-
phone to find out when it arrived.
All this is just lowering the
standards of living. Or maybe it
is due to a lowered tone. Now,
Harry Truman's homely attitudes
have a great appeal to me, because
l like the little people of the
Earth. Stuffed-shirts bore me as
they must most of you. But does
Harry Truman have to wear that
funny outfit when he goes to
Florida? Every time I look at his
picture down there-cap with the
long visor, funny colored shirt and
the cane, I think of sports at an
Atlantic City convention walking
the boardwalk of an evening to see
what's around I just can't help
thinking of that. 1t does not mean
that he isn't good guy maybe;
but the tone is wrong.
So maybe he sets the tone and
by now it has worked its way down
to everybody in government. Tone
is a standard of living. There
used to be homely phrase, high
toned" We don't use it anymore.
We no longer say, THAT is high
toned family" by which we meant
that they were well set up, acting
according to the traditions of the
race, fine looking, sometimes, you
have the feeling about heightened,
when you see oldsters; but in our
generation, we level down.
And that is exactly what our
Post Office is doing: 1t is level
ing down. Maybe the next reform
will be mail delivery every other
day or come to the post office to
get it. Maybe they will set up
some self-service machinery so that
you can grab your own, like in
cafeteria. Anything can happen
when the standard of living goes
down. And it can go awfully low.
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Weather al
Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3O
am. 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. -
SECOND and FOURTH -
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Worshipful Master;
JAMES w. LEVERS. Secretary
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meeting of the City Council Ike Soweby had been ap
city Immediately
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MOTHERS DAY SALE
Needle Work-Home Cooked Foods
Parsons Electric Tomorrow 10 am
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Mayor Phil HERMAN acting chief
police Geche had to Seattle
oyeeks
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DORCAS SOCIETY SALES
SCHEDULED TOMORROW

Tuesday evening the Dorcas Soc
iety of Seventh-day Adventists met
at the home of Mrs. Edmond Hinke
in Douglas to put the finishing
touches on the needleWork articles
which they have prepared for the
sale to be held at 10 am. tomorrow
at Parsons Electric Co.
Also to make final preparations
for the tempting dishes of home
cooked food which will be offered.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-10

Weather: High, So; low, AZ; rani.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
DZnkMnHr

ECONOMY or SCARCITY: Noting with
alarm that the town water supply was dwin-
ding, the officials of New Jersey community
recently launched big campaign. Save
waterr' they shouted at their people. The
civic-minded citizens responded nobly. They
saved, skimped and went without. In fact.
consumption was cut so sharply that the City
Water Department suffered heavy loss in
revenue.
What then? Why, the officials thanked the
people for their extraordinary efforts and
slapped 30 per cent tax on their next months
water BILL
Evening star., 1950-08-20

AMT MlSBEHAvNs: It came to our
notice last week that when girl calls herself
"stripper," she does not necessarily Z. ah
:. .um :. strip. She may very well be ciga-
refractory employee who cuts the stems
off tobacco leaves.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
my FIRST MILLION"
Story From
BERNARD BARUCH

TN THE home of Bernard Baruch there is large
Il gold-framed portrait of man in gray suit
with deep-set inquiring eyes. No matter in which
part of that room you sit, those eyes follow you.
The man is DR.. Simon Baruch, father of Bernard
Baruch and onetime surgeon in the battalions led
by Stonewall Jackson.
One day I asked MIR. Baruch to tell me some
thing of his fathers life. He crossed one long leg
over the other.
When was still quite young man made my
Evening star., 1950-08-20

WELL DOME. We recently had dinner in
New York with Kansas rancher. and were
delighted when he made good use of gag
we hadn't heard before.
Our friend ordered steak - well done.
When it arrived he made one cut, saw it was
raw and red, and brusquely pushed the plate
aside.
MY friend, ," he drawled at the waiter, 'Tve
seen cows hurt worse than this and get well!'
Evening star., 1950-08-20

first million. I was so excited that rushed out of
my Office to our home uptown to tell my father.
Father, Father said, I have made mil
lion dollars
He looked up at me and didn't seem at all
impressed. repeated the fact that had made
million dollars. Finally he answered me.
Well he said. what good are you going to
do with it?'
I have spent lifetime trying to answer that
question" - JAMES GORDON
Evening star., 1950-08-20

This Week
THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE
WILLIAM |. NICHOLS, Editor
Editorial Offices; 40 lexington
Avenue, NesU York II, Neso York
NVSOSt x9i. ........s................
BY Vincent Skseon
by e. Hoseksss
TAiL-FEATsIER SWEEPSTAKES. ................ 10
MeoARRv AND The BEAUTY QUEEN. ....... 1a
by AA0ff ToyioS
GLlDOGRAM. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Is
HOOTERS AT HOME. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
by Louis Berg
<AOsA ENN''.'.'. ......................... w
Ws1iiE NLlEk. .......................... -
BY CsroId Mysuff
HOW AMERICA EATS. Ts................... rs
wALlYS WAGON. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
EvERyBoDYs ETIQUETTE. rE.................... 70
Cover by Arthur Doisy
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Car With Firecrackers
Is Destroyed by Blaze

An automobile containing two
baskets filled with firecrackers was
virtually destroyed by fire early
today at Lee boulevard and PERISH
ing drive.
When Arlington police arrived
ut the scene, the ywere told that
two youths had been seen running
from the car toward a nearby
woods.
Both youths, servicemen sta
toned at Fort Myer, were caught
and turned over to the Army post.
After checking ownership of the
car, police charged the service
men with operating a vehicle with
improper tags. The car belonged
to one of them. police said.
The youths told police they
didn't know where the fire.
crackers came from" Possession
Of explosive firecrackers is illegal
In Arlington.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Rites Set Tomorrow
For Miss Mary H. Green

Funeral services for Miss Mary
Helen Green, 81, a member of
one Of Charles County's (Md.)
Oldest families, will be held at 10
am. tomorrow at st. Joseph's
Catholic Church, Pomfret, Md.
Burial will be in the church ceme-
terry.
Miss Green died Friday al
Providence Hospital here after ar
illness Of two weeks. She had re.
sided at the Sacred Heart Home
Hyattsville, for the last eight
years.
Until that time. she lived in he
ancestral home, Green Park.
Pomfret. Md. where she was born
She is survived by a sister, Mis-
Mary Roberta Green Of the Sacre'
Heart Home. Hyattsville. and tw
nieces, Mrs. Stephen Latchforc
Mount Rainier, and Miss Cecil
Spalding, Waldorf, Md.
A brother, Joseph Green, die
last January.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
MaryIand's S Population
Shows 28 Per Cent Gain
BY the Asseeiated Press

BALTIMORE, July 3. - Mary.
lands population in the last 10
years has jumped % per cent to a
total of 2,329,263, State Census
Bureau records showed today.
The figures. though official, are
provisional, the bureau said. Final
figures will be released later,
Baltimore became the country's
sixth largest city. and its 941, 800
persons amount to more than a
third of the States total. This
figure represented a gain of 9.6
per cent over the past decade.
Prince Georges County was the
only county which more than
doubled its population. It. in
creased from 89.490 in 1910 to
193, 1896, a gain Of 1855 per cent.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
3-Hour Fire Sweeps
Two Upper Floors
OF Radford City Hall
BY the Associated Press

RADFORD, Va, July 3.-Flames
'roared through the two top floors
of the four-story City Hall here
last night and early today for
more than three hours before fire.
men brought them under control.
At least one fireman was injured
and several were overcome by
smoke.
r. s. Hopkins. a Radford fire.
fighter. was taken to a hospital
here with undetermined injuries
when a live wire struck a ladder
on which he was standing and
knocked him about 2 feet to the
pavement below. Firemen did not
believe he was hurt badly.
Fire Chief Walter w. Garden
said that the damage would run
into thousands of dollars"
City Manager w. A. woodward
said that automobile tires were
kept on the third floor and that
nOtHlng OF importance was con-
tanned on the fourth floor.
Firemen from Radford and Pu-
laski managed to limit the blaze to
the top two floors. Chief Garden
said the cause of the fire has not
been determined.
Telephone calls to the police de-
partment were being handled
through a nearby grocery because
the officers had. been routed from
their regular quarters by the
blaze.
The flames were discovered
about 9:45 pm, and seven prison.
ers in the City Jail, located in the
basement, Immediately were re-
moved to the Montgomery County
Jail at ChriStiansburg.
Bystanders were. pressed into
service to remove court records
from the first and second floors.
The building is more than so
years old.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Colonial Beach Gambling Ship
Ties to New Pier and Prospers

since it was completed about a
week ago."
Whisky by the drink and slot
machines, illegal in Virginia, both
may be found on the ship, as we'll
as on the other pierheads jutting
out into the Potomac River. This
type Of activity is legal in Mary
land which has jurisdiction Of the
river to the low water mark on the
Virginia shore.
The new pier is an estimated
so feet long from the shore line
and about 80 feet out beyond the
low water mark.
Town Attorney George Mason
jr., said he understood complaints
of late hours and noise had been
received by other city officials
since the Pleasure Island moved in
last Friday. Formerly, patrons
were taken out to the ship and re-
| turned by small boat.
Evening star., 1950-07-03

He does all dental work on the
reservation. including that of the
women's division.
1--WE don't have many break
outs" Mr.. Welch stressed. He
knocked on wood before describ-
ing the system of guard towers.
Discipline, he said. is evoked in
what the officers call the control
building and the inmates call "the
hole" Here a man is "calmed
down" by monotony and restric-
tive diet. three small-portion
meals with no trimmings.
The second corrective institu-
ton. headed by Mr.. Fleming, is
more agricultural than industrial.
And the tall. Virginian, who took
over the institutions dairy barn
in 1918. is quick to say:
"I was raised on one Of the larg-
est farms in the State, and could
handle any kind of farm machin-
cry by the time was TO-"
Besides the field squads, the
superintendent each day checks
on the activities Of the inmates
90 days to year, working in
the brickyard. the shops and the
piggery.
Tive seen a lot of men come
and CO." Mr.. Fleming saws of his
division which receives and dis
charges an average of 10000 in a
year. "A man who was on the
first load that came here still is
coming back"
On Saturday mornings, Mr..
Fleming holds interviews with the
young boys" of the $50 to 1850
population. He tries to find out
why they got into trouble, listens
to their problems.
How much good it does, I don't
know" he says. "But occasionally
I'll get a letter from a former in
mate telling me he's going
straight. That makes me feel
awful good"
After more than 81 years in
prison work. which includes serv-
ice at the Virginia farm near
Richmond. Mr.. Fleming has a sense
Of humor. Looking at the work
house ball diamond, the "best one
south Of Clark Grifith's." he
laughed.
MY recreational director tells
me we are short a good pitcher
and catcher. Maybe the judge
will send a couple down"
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Star Staff Photo.

Railroad CRIME smears its
broken window panes now, covers
its once highly waxed floors and
darkens its walls to a rain-streaked
pattern.
Wrecker Has Orders.
The wrecker has his orders
to salvage enough stone from the
building to erect a marker on the
spot.
There is. a marker near there
now. put up for the Thomas Via
duct, which was built between
1882 and 1885, and still carries
trains over the Patapsco. On its
completion, In August. 1884, the
line opened into Washington.
John Thaxton Of Baltimore,
Alex King and Rufus Bradley
stood atop the third floor wreck
age, hurting timbers to the floor
below. Did they know President
Taft once stayed there?
I've heard of him." said one of
them. II guess he probably did
stay here"
Evening star., 1950-07-03
speeial Dispaseh 10 The ssor

COLONIAL BEACH. Va, July 8.
The gambling drinking ship,
Pleasure Island. did a thriving
business over the week end after
it lifted anchor 500 yards offshore
and moored at the end Of q new
pier in the center Of this summer
resort town.
The pier, according to city off,
cials, was built by Charles F
Gerber. plumbing and heating con-
tractor. who lives at 1905 King
street. Alexandria. The ship il
operated by Norfolk corporation
Asked If the pier. next to the
New Atlanta Hotel. was built tc
accommodate the ship, a city off,
cial replied:
II wouldn't want to say that. ]
would say that the pier has not
been used for any other purpose
Evening star., 1950-07-03

in the nearby Patapsco River
when it was considerably more
than today's trickle.
Remembered as Resort.
The hotel was a midway eating
point before dining service went
on the B. & o. That fact Is one
of the sharpest recollections OF
82-year-old Mrs. George Burns,
who has lived in sight OF the
station all her life.
With more than a hint of nos
talgia, Mrs. Burns "can remember
how those white coated porters
would help people on and of the
trains to get something to eat" !"
She remembers, too, the place
as Patapsco resort, when people
came down from Baltimore and
Washington for gay weekends and
vacations.
Baltimore & Ohio files, referring
to Relay then as Washington
Junction" described its new hotel
and station as a beautifully de-
signed hotel, with auxiliary gar
denS and sweeping lawns"
Evening star., 1950-07-03
William Miles Heads
Damascus Lions Club

william w. Miles, agriculture
teacher at Damascus High School.
has been elected president Of the
Damascus (MdD Lions Club.
Other officers are Cover D.
Armstrong, Jerry T. Williams, and
J. Francis Barber, vice presidents:
Paul Martin, lion tanner, and G..
Kenneth Howes, tailtwister. Direc-
tors are Howard Norton, Everett
Jones, Roland Green and DR..
Howard Taylor.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Maryland Boy, 3
Falls in Paint Con,
browns in Water
BY the Asseeioied Press

WOODBINE. Md, July B.
A 2-year-old child fell into
a 10-gallon paint can hold
ing six inches of water and
drowned yesterday.
Milton Mickey jenkins,
jr., greeted his father when
he drove up. then scampered
around to the back Of the
house.
The youngster wasn't seen
for a while, so his father and
grandfather went around to
look for him. They found him,
face down, in the big can.
Mount Airy firemen tried
artificial respiration, but the
boy was dead.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Truck Runs Over Wife
|0f Driver After She
Falls From Cab Here

A 36-year-old woman suffered
serious injuries yesterday when
she was run over by the cab of a
tractor trailer which police said
was driven by her husband.
Mrs. Betty L. Kinser, GOT North
Carolina avenue Sc, is in critical
condition at Gallinger Hospital.
She suffered a fracture Of the pei
Wis and internal injuries.
The victims husband. Horace
L. Kinser. SO. told police he was
driving in the 1900 block of New
York avenue NE. when a vehicle
pulled out Of a side street. Mr..
Kinser, who is to appear before
the corporation counsel tomorrow,
told police he swerved and his
wife fell out of the cab. The rear
wheels Of the truck passed over
her, according to police.
Here Temporarily.
Mr.. Kinser, police said, told
them he was living at the South
east address temporarily and that
his home is in Chicago. He is a
driver for a Macon (Ga.) storage
company and also works as an
attendant at Newbill's Service
Station, 1943 New York avenue
NE.
James Chambliss, colored, q
died yesterday at Gallinger Hospi.
tai several hours after the driver
Of car in which he was passen.
ger told police he leaped from thu
rear seat.
An autopsy was to be held to.
day. The driver Of the car, identi.
fed by police as Joseph Vase
colored, 81, of 1920 e street Sc.
is being held for action of the
coroner. Police, however, said they
learned the victim had been under
treatment at q veterans hospital
MIR. ChambliSS lived at 621
Twenty-first street NE.
Silver Spring Woman Hurt.
The accident occurred in the
600 block of North Carolina ave-
nue. Sc.
In another accident a 43-year-
old Silver Spring woman suffered
a fractured hip in a collision at
Sixteenth and Underwood streets
NV.
The condition Of Mrs. Helen
McD Dormand, 43, 2025 Lucerne
avenue, Is reported by Doctors
Hospital attendants to be not
serious.
Police charged Fred Kogod, So,
Of the $500 block of Sixteenth
street NV. with turning from the
wrong lane. His car struck the
one in which Mrs. McDormand
was riding, police said. It was
driven by her husband, Alfred w.
Mel Dormand. 43. Mr.. Kogod for
feited 500 collateral.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
Star Movies
Playground Film
Proerom for Tonight
WASHINGTON, $3.50 Pm.


(Regi0ns A to F..
Murch. Thirty-sixth and Ellicott
NV; Rudolph, Second and
Hamilton NV; Bunker Hill.
Fourteenth and Michigan avenue
NE; Benning, Minnesota, be-
tween Benning road and Foote
NE; Virginia Avenue, Ninth and
Virginia avenue Sc; Highland
Dwelling, 650-7 Yuma Sc.
(Regions G to K).
Monroe. Georgia avenue and CO.
lumbia road NV; Francis,
Twenty fourth and N NV;
Blow, Ninteenth and Benning
road NE; Douglass-Dwelling,
1000 Alabama avenue Sc.
ARLINGTON, $3.50 PM.
Four Mile Run, Four Mile Run
drive and Vermont.
ALEXANDRIA, $500 PM.
Parker Gray. corner Patrick and
Wythe.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
$500 PM.
Kensington Recreation Center.
Everett street and Kensington
parkway.
(No showing In Prince Georges
County until Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-07-03
By chorIes J. Yorbroush
Stur Sfoff coryespondent

RELAY. Md, July 3.-Rail-
road progress, which had this
peaceful little town on the map
100 years ago. is about to take
away q firiAl landmark.
Workmen who have no senti-
ment about it one way or another
are rapidly wrecking the rambling,
gingerbread-t d-trimmed Baltimore &
Ohio station and hotel, which the
railroad built in 1873 to handle
bounding business.
Progress, which took the plod-
ding horses of the run in August,
1880. demanded replacement of
the old station. which was built
in May Of that year. For years,
the one-story station served as a
Toulouse. Then it, too, was torn
down.
Wreckers have the roof of the
big, weather beaten hotel now,
barring such things as wooden
bathtubs and rooms once occu-
pied by vacationers who frolicked