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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

An aerial search today failed to disclose reported distress signal in the snow in Northern British Columbia.
 Canadian Air Force officials said no further search planes would be sent over the area, known as the Peace River block, unless new re- ports are received.
 A US. Air Force plane crew re- ported yesterday they had sighted what appeared to be distress mes sage tramped in the snow, outlined by tree branches.
 Canadian officers said today that land clearing operations might have been mistaken for a distress signal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

schools themselves need cash. as do other departments, such as Vet erans Affairs.
 But despite what's owing, Roden
 "As of this date we are on pay was cheerful He said:
 as-you-go basis and will be able to run along that way for some time to come"
 This was interpreted as meaning that expenses may be met, but does not include appropriations granted various departments-still amounting to some S5,000,00O after the half-million "thaw" takes effect which must be met as time goes on.
 He listed sums coming in from taxes enacted by the 1949 assembly. Approximately s387 800 has come from the tobacco tax; Sl,326,000 from the so-called fresh fish tax" pr more aptly, the fish pack tax" and the newly enacted trap tax which has yielded more than ST. GOO, ,OOO. Half of this, however, should be credited to 1949 income, Roden explained.
 Property Tax Pending
 The only tax still disputed is the property tax of 10 mills. Its out come may not be known for months as no time has been indicated as to when the courts will hear it.
 But the dawn is breaking, ana Roden summed it up this way.
 While some of the Territory's financial hurdles have been over come. there are others yet to De met before the field is clear.
 Nevertheless, the outlook IS brighter than for some time, ana with continued careful manage ment, and strict economy on the parts of various departments, the H. nancial slate will look greatly lm- proved when the new set o1 law makers take over next January
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
SAARELA BE. GUEST SPEAKER AT BPW(
 LUNCHEON MONDAY

At the noon luncheon Monday of the Business and Professional Women, Leo Saarela, Territorial Commissioner of Mines, will speak. This is one of the club program meetings and members may take guests. Miss Helen Maslanka, chair man of the Public Relations Com mittee. is in charge of the pro gram for Monday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

of Fort St. John. The area is about 250 miles south of the Yukon B.C. border region where the big scale search centered after the C-54 was lost.
 The Air Force crew reported sighting the letters T F" in the snow, outlined by three branches. This is the Air Force code for ser ious injuries, doctor required, food and water needed" It was sighted on the main north-south airway route. It is about $50 air miles northwest of Edmonton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
TONIGHTS THE NIGHT

Doors open at 7:30, music at 7:45. Mikes vs. Columbia Lumber at 8. Tragedy then begins with Rotar- ians vs. Lions. You cannot afford to miss this event of the year ht the Juneau High Gym.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
TONIGHTS THE NIGHT

Doors open at 7:3O, music at 7:45. Mikes vs. Columbia Lumber at $. Tragedy then begins with Rotar- ians ys. Lions. You cannot afford to miss this event of the year nf the Juneau High Gym.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
ToNIGHTs THE NIGHT

Doors open at 7:30, music at 7'4o. Mikes vs. Columbia Lumber at 5. Tragedy then begins with Rotar- ians vs. Lions. You cannot afford to miss this event of the year nt the Juneau High Gym.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
NOTICE

Please leave rummage for JWC sale at Juneau Hotel, White Sew ing Machine Gift Shop, or phone Mrs. D. w. Heron, Blue 786 by Monday. 6o-2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

In Vancouver, Canada, the freigh- ter Argovan is being picketed after an appeal by the Labor or-Progressive Party to keep it from sailing. It has 75 surplus US. tanks for the Chinese Nationalists. Sailing orders have been delayed.
 There are indications that Chrys- Ter and CIO United Auto Workers negotiators are a bit closer to- gether today in their talks. But observers in Detroit say the two sides still are too far apart to in- dicate a quick end to the unions 59-day-old strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
STORY BOOK DOLLS

A new shipment of famous Nancy Ann Storybook Dolls has just ar rived at "Alaska's Finest Hardware ord E,,rn;t,,re Store. 60-tf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

Wickman, Miss K. Hendrickson, Joe M Edward, Buell. Nesbitt and Don. aid and Jack Clark.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
LUNCHEON & SEWING SALE

By Missionary Society Memorial Church pm. Saturday-West 9th and F. S,ts. 60-2t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
FROM WALLA WALLA

Margory Eilliard of Walla Walla Wash, is guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
sOURDOCEYS TO DANCE

The Sourdocey Square Dance Club will meet Saturday evening, March
 25, at 8:30 pm at Parish Hall
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
T l D E T A B L T
MARCH g

High tide 5:11 am, 13.9 it. Low tide 12:17 pm, .2.7 it. High tide 6:l3 pm, 10.6 it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24

BIKES AT MADsENs
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-03-24
HALF-M|LL|0N LEFT OVER TO 'THAW' FUNDS

Continued from Page. One)
Evening star., 1950-02-12
REASONS FOR ATTENDANCE

Sometimes it has been found
wiser, where no particular de-
nomination is dominant, to build
a non denominational church.
Frequently this is done with a
denomination, whose members are
slightly more prevalent than
others. Loyalty to professionalism
rather than to any one branch is
the keynote, though Worshipers
are encouraged to retain their
demominational preferences. In
this way the community church
can survive while the church of
one Protestant branch would die.
In this connection one speaker
said people join urban churches
because Of accessibility. person.
ality of the minister, friendliness
of the congregation, church pro-
gram and music. Surprisingly few
people were influenced by their
denominatlonal ties, he pointed
out.
Suburban churches tend to be
class churches, the convocation
learned. 1t is rare indeed that
such a church includes in its
membership persons from a diff
ferent social level or of another
race. How to solve this situation,
so as to keep church within the
cross-section of a Christianity
whose appeal is to all men. is a
grave task.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS

But Lincoln has proved he was
all things to all men. AS Carl
Sandburg has noted, "he was
internationally adopted by the
family Of man." and so 1t Is
quite understandable that in this
same speech at New Haven 80
years ago, the Great Emancipa.-'
tor dropped this testament to
capital that can be spoken with
equal reverence at a manufac-
turerS' meeting today.
II take it that it is best for all
to leave each man free to acquire
property as fast as he can. Some
will get wealthy. I don't believe
in a law to prevent a man from
getting rich; 1T would do more
harm than good. So while we do
not propose any war upon capi-
tai, we do wish to allow the
humblest man an equal chance
to get rich with everybody else"
And four years later. in a reply
to committee of the Working
mems Association Of New York,
Lincoln said, Property is the
fruit of labor: property is desir-
able; it is a positive good in the
world. That some should be rich
shows that others may become
rich, and hence Is just encour-
agement to industry and enter
prise"
North American Newspaper Alliancs.)
Evening star., 1950-02-12
GI Education Arqued

Here is one example Of an
alleged abuse:
A man opened a trade school
in a building he owned and got
State approval to give CT bill
training. He then sold the
building to his wife. and she
rented it back to him at an in
fated rental. VA paid the bill
until it learned the facts, after
which it allowed only deprecia-
ton Of the building, to be
charged. Operators OF profit
schools are entitled to a 10 per
cent profit under the law.
The report Is really only q
sidelight to the spotlight issue
of whether veterans should be
allowed to use their entire edu-
cational entitlement regardless
of "readjustment."
But it is bound to affect con-
gressional thinking, and Repre-
sentative Wheeler, Democrat.
of Georgia says it may result in
an administrator victory.
distributed by the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Weismon
Continued From Page C-1.)

pendent of capital. Capital is
only the fruit of labor and could
never have existed if labor had
not first existed. Labor is the
superior Of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration.
Capital has it's rights. Nor is 1t
denied that there is, and prob
ably always will be, a relation
between labor and capital, pro-
ducing mutual benefits. To
secure to each laborer the
whole product of his labor, or
as nearly as possible, is the
worthy object of any good gov
ernment. Labor Is the great
source from which nearly all,
if not all. human comforts and
necessities are drawn
And once, In talk at New
Haven, Conn, March 6, 1860,
Lincoln said: IT am glad to see
that g. system of labor prevails
under which laborers can strike
when they want to. I like the
system which lets man quit
when he wants and wish 1t
might prevail everywhere"
Evening star., 1950-02-12
SOME RESERVE JUDGMENT

Senator Taft also argues that
the Lodge -Gossett amendment
does not make it certain that an
elected President will have a ma
jority Of the popular vote-one of
the virtues of the new system
claimed for 1t by its supporters.
He says that an application of
the amendment to the elections
In 1895 and in 1900, when William
Mckinley, Republican, defeated
William Jennings Bryan. Demo-
|crat, would have elected Bryan,
although In both elections Nc
Kinley received a majority Of the
total popular vote cast, as well as
Of the electoral votes To this Sem
Evening star., 1950-02-12
CONTINUED From Page c-lo

erans' organizations and private
school associations.
In the House Representative
league. Democrat, of Texas in
troduced a companion bill. 1t
has been reported from the
House Veterans Committee, but
with one important amendment.
The league bill would only al.
low changes from one course to
another "in the same general
field"
But even with this amend
ment, the league bill is not
given a good chance of passing
the House. One reason is that
VA has sent to the Senate q re-
quested report on the current
status of the whole education
program.
This report highlights what
VA calls abuses" in the pro-
gram, especially in courses be-
low college level and in profit
schools.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
HOW IT WOULD WORK

The Lodge -Gossett amendment
eliminates the electoral college
but retains the electoral vote sys-
tenn, with each State having a
number of electoral votes equal to
the number of its Senators and
Representatives in Congress COM
bined.. Instead, however, of hav-
ing the total electoral vote of a
State go to the presidential can
didate who has plurality-or a
majority-of the popular vote,
under the Lodge-Gossett amend
ment the electoral vote is divided
proportionately among, or be-
tween, the candidates. But any
candidate, to be elected, must
have at least 40 per cent of the
total electoral vote of all the
States. If no one has 40 per cent,
then the election goes into a
joint session of the Senate and
House. with each individual men,
Der having a single vote. A
majority of the combined votes
is necessary for election, and the
choice will lie between the two
candidates having the highest
number of electoral votes.
Here is an example of the
manner in which the Lodge
Gossett amendment would work in
an individual State. A State has
IL electoral votes. OF the 2,400, 900
popular votes cast in that State,
the Republican candidate receives
100000, the Democratic candi-
date receives 100000 and a third
party candidate receives 100000
Under the present system, all of
this States IL electoral votes
would go to the Republican can
didate. Under the proposed sys-
tenn the electoral votes would be
divided in proportion to the popu-
lar vote-8 electoral votes for the
Republican, 3 electoral votes for
the Democrat and l for the third
party candidate.
Although the Lodge 2Gossett
amendment started out as a non-
partisan reform of the election sys-
tenn, it is now tending to become
partisan-political. Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, is a Republican,
and Representative Gossett of
Texas, is Democrat. They are
both still struggling to keep parti-
sanship out of the contest. In the
Senate, however, where the vote
stood 81 to q in favor of the
amendment, the Republicans di-
vided 18 for and % against. The
18 were headed by Senator Lodge,
and the % by Senator Taft of
Ohio. Only Democrats voted
against the amendment and 46
supported it.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
TAFT OPPOSED

Senator Taft, who lead the op-
position in. the Senate, says fatty
that the adoption of the amend
ment would be a serious blow to
the hopes of the Republican Par
ty to elect a President" The Ohio
Senator makes Strong argument
against the amendment. He points
out that ''it gives a tremendous
advantage to one-party States,
and particularly to the IL South
ern States (the solid South'D in
which there is an overwhelming
Democratic majority"
''Thus," Senator Taft continues,
IF the Republicans carried Ohio
by 125,000 votes, which would be
a fairly good majority, the 25
electoral votes of Ohio would be
divided 13 to the Republicans and
IL to the Democrats. On the other
hand, in Georgia, which has less
than half the population of Ohio
and IL electoral votes, the prob
ability is that the Democrats
would. get 8 and the Republicans
3 electoral votes. Thus Georgia
would give the Democrats 6 net
votes in the total calculation
against / for the Republicans in
Ohio"
Senator Lodge by no means con-
sents to this kind of picture. He
insists that If the amendment is
written into the Constitution it
will give great impetus to the two
party system in all the States, in
Ecluding those of the South, and
that in the end the Republican
Party will gain thereby-and be-
come in fact a national party.
which it cannot be as long as it
has practically no vote in large
section of the country-or a vote
that is not counted
Evening star., 1950-02-12

ator Lodge replies that had his
system been in effect at that time,
the popular vote would have been
different, because of increased in
centive.
The arguments advanced by
Senator Taft are having a reper-
cusion in the House. Republican
leaders there, are reserving their
judgment for the time. They real
ize that it is popular to attack
the Electoral College, which, as
Arthur M. Schlesinger wrote, was
denoted from a deliberative body
to puppet show" with the rise
of political parties. But at the
same time, they look forward to
1852, the next presidential cleo
ton year, with misgivings II the
Lodge amendment should
become part of the Constitution
by that time. They see, too, that
President Truman has come out
in support of the amendment,
and that most of the Democrats
are for it. All Of which gives
them pause. They are in no hurry
to rush into the proposed new
system.
Also some of the more conser-
vative Democratic leaders on the
House side are talking delay, on
the ground they believe the change
is far reaching and they want to
know more of 1t.
One thing. politically, the adop-
ton of the amendment may do.
1t conceivably could restore to
the South its old veto power on
Democratic presidential nomina-
ton. which it lost when the two
thirds rule for presidential nomi-
nations by Democratic National
Conventions was abolished in 1885.
Obviously, if Mr.. Taft is correct
in his line of reasoning, the Dem
ocratic Party would have to rely
heavily on the electoral votes Of
the Southern States and large
Democratic and popular vote to
elect a Democratic President.
APPLIED TO '4S ELECTION
If the Lodge Gossett amend
ment had been in effect at the
time of the 1948 presidential elec-
ton the electoral vote would have
stood: Truman 258, Dewey 221.4.
Thurmond 386, and Wallace 9.4.
Under the present system Pres
ident Truman had 303 electoral
votes to 189 for Gov. Dewey. his
Republican opponent, and 80 for
Thurmond, the States Rights
Democratic candidate. Henry
Wallace. Progressive, received
] none.
] Senator Lodges contention In
that if his amendment had been
in effect, the popular vote would
have been very different in that
election and that certainly the
kind of campaign which was
made by the Republicans would
have been different. with a great
deal more emphasis on the
Southern States. Also, he points
out that in the last five presiden-
tial elections the States with big
popular and electoral votes have
been going Democratic anyway
like California, Illinois, Massa-
chusetts, New York, the later hav-
ing gone Democratic times and
once Republican owing to the
Wallace vote there. Ohio and
Pennsylvania both went Demo-
cratic 3 times out of in these
elections.
Evening star., 1950-02-12

accepted by three fourths of the
State Legislatures to become finally
the law of the land.
AS the Constitution stands to-
day, the electoral college, made
up of presidential electors chosen
in each State by a plurality of
the votes cast, actually has the
authority to elect a President
and a Vice President. With the
rise of strong political parties in
the early days of the Republic,
however, these electors became
virtually bound to support the
candidate of the party which had
nominated the electors themselves.
One argument for doing away
with the electoral college, there
fore, is that it is a mere fiction. A
second argument, however, lies in
the fact that presidential electors
still have a legal right to dis
regard the popular choice and
cast their votes for any person,
qualified under the Constitution,
and make that person President.
Evening star., 1950-02-12

Hartley Act had become law.
On that occasion Mr.. Styles
mentioned that years ago dino
saurs roamed the plains of Texas
and were monarchs of all they
surveyed.
They had one fatal flaw in
their makeup" he added. They
had an extremely small brain
When conditions on the earth
changed, they did not change with
the conditions. Those animals are
now being pumped up from the
subterranean depths as oil.
1.-The labor movement is a big
thing. So far it has had a brain
built along the same lines as its
| body-that is, the brain has been
big enough for the body. How
ever, if you don't keep develop
ing your brain, as we'll as your
arms, you may wind up in the
same position as those dinosaurs
did. ...
My advice to you is to quit
bowling about slave labor law
and to settle down and 60 tc
work and try to develop your or
ganizing and negotiating tech.
niques in accordance with the
new law" ...s- .....
In any event. nomination ol
Mr.. Styles to the NLRB is &C.
cepted by labor unions as cheer.
! full news. and by business interests
with something less than en-.
thusiasm. .a ...
TREND ALARMS DENHAM
The trend within the boaro
toward interpretations of the Law
granting greater freedom te
unions is plain as a pikestaff tt
those who have followed its deci-
sions. This development has
alarmed the boards general coun-
sci, Mr.. Denham, an adherent o1
the strict Interpretation school
who, in a remarkable speech tc
an employer group in New York
recently, accused the board ma
joroity of seeking to repeal the
Taft Hartley law by occasional
attrition" and invited employers
to contest in the courts rulings
of the board which were adverse
to them. . ..-.-
The trend was equally apparent
to the American Federation o1
Labor, whose weekly news serv-
ice to trade union papers this
week carries a story beginning
Surprise! The Taft-Hartley la
Dor relations board has finally
seen labor's point Of view in 8
few crucial areas in the admin
istration of the law"
The AFL story goes on to sum.
Marie some recent decisions oi
the board, largely the same de-
cisions Denham referred to in his
criticism of the board majority.
Among them were decisions
which held that publication of ar
unfair list" of employers with
whom unions have a primary dis
pute is not an. unfair labor prac-
tice; that pickets may follow the
trucks of an employer with whom
they have a dispute and picket
the trucks when they stop te
make deliveries; that unions may
seek to persuade employers to ac-
cept contracts in which the en-
ployes will have the right to refuse
to handle struck goods, and that
the prohibition against second
ary boycotts in the Taft Hartley
Act is not violated when a union
seeks to induce one employer not
to handle or process goods of an
other employer against whom the
union has a primary dispute.
(By Special Advancement with the ct.
Louis Post-Dispatch.)
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Portisonship May Enter
Electoral College Issue
Republican Leaders Reserve Judgment
On Move to Change System After Toft
Says 1t Would Be Blow to 6. O.P
By Gould Lincoln

The electoral college that so-caed fifth wheel in the presden
tial election system operates be the
amendment the Constitution
approved
the two-thrds
adoption House-f that happens-the
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Puerto Rico's industrial
Plans Interest Neighbors
Munoz Does Something About Program
Of IndustrioIizction While Other
Islands and Countries Dream
By Edword Tomlinson

SAN JUAN. RAt the end of his first year Governor
Of of the talked of
in all the Caribbean.
Here headlines about that
revolutions threats
Republic Haiti the dongs
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Labor Likes Styles
New NLRB Appointee Lenient to Unions
In Tuft-HortIey interpretations
By Joseph HonIon

| Appointment of Paul L. Styles
to the National Labor Relations
Board, assuming his confirmation
by the Senate, will give that quasi
judicial agency which administers
the Taft-Hartley Act a firm ma
jority of members inclined toward
lenient Interpretation of the
restraints the law imposes on labor
unions.
Mr.. Styles, regional director fol
the NLRB at Atlanta, has been
nominated to the board for a
fve-year term by President Tru-
man. He succeeds j. Copeland
Gray, whose term expired in De-
cember and who was not offered
reappointment.
Mr.. Gray, with James j. Rey-
nolds, jr., comprised the solid
nucleus of the strict construction
school of thought within the board
Occasionally they were joined by
either Chairman Paul Herzog OF
Abe Murdock. to form a majority
of the five-man board.
REYNOLDS MAY STAND ALONE
More recently, however, Mr.
Herzog particularly. and Mr.. Muir
dock to a lesser extent, have
aligned themselves with John M
Houston to form a majority which
has given unions the greatest pos
sible leeway under the law.
Mr.. Styles is expected to associ-
ate himself with the Houston
Herzog Murdoch group on the
board. leaving Reynolds a minority
of one for strict construction.
The new nominee, who is 4;
years old, joined the NLRB in
1887 as a field examiner In the
region of which he has been di-
rector since March, 1945. It's
headquarters are at Atlanta, Ga.
and its jurisdiction tends
through Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Tennessee and South Caro-
lima.
His career began as a printer
devil in Huntsville, Ala, when he
was IL years old. At 16 he went
to work in an Alabama cotton mill
as weaver and loom fixer. He
became a member of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union and
at 81 was reporter, editor, type
setter and general factotum of 8
weekly newspaper at Huntsville
He went to the Huntsville Times
daily, as a printer and press
man and in 1888 became presi-
dent of the AFL Trades and Labor
Council in Huntsville. For two
years before he joined the NLRB
he was co-chairman of the in
dustrial committee of the Hunts
vile Chamber of Commerce.
CALLED IMPARTIAL
In February, 1943, he left the
NLRB to become assistant direc-
tor, OF disputes, director of dis
putes and vice chairman of the
Regional War Labor Board at At
lanta. He was the boards public
representative in tripartite panels
which dealt with stabnization ano
dispute cases.
Although Mr.. Styles qualities
among those members of the
NLRB staff who were recently
characterized by it's. independent
general counsel, Robert N. Den
ham. as raised in the religion OF
the Wagner Act" his friends speak
of him as an impartial admins
traitor of the Taft-Hartley Aci
and refer, as indicative of his ap-
proach to that law, to a speech
he made before a union group al