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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
FIGHT DOPE

Here are results of fights pulled eff last night:
 At Cleveland = Sandy Saddler, 130, New York, stopped Lauro Salas, l30, Mexico City, g.
 At White Plains, NY. = Jimmy Flood, 160h, New York, outpointed Geramine Caboche, 159la, France. 8.
 At Los Angeles = Art Aragon, 1361a, Los Angeles, stopped Guil- lermo Gimeneg, 1852, Argentina, 9.
 At Portland, Ore. = Roscoe Toles, 195, Detroit, outpointed Bill Peter sen, 207, Chicago, 10.
 At Seattle -- Eddie Cotton, 167, Seattle, outpointed Don Lee, 165, Edison, Neb., 10.
 At San Jose, Calf. = Rudy Cruz, 136, Los Angeles. outpointed Tote Martinez, 137, Stockton, .Calif., 12.
 FROM PORTLAND
 D. c. Wise, of Portland, is re- gistered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
N E w GRIDIR0N N GOES INTO USE AT BOAT HARB0R HERE

The new gridircn at the small boat harbor is being kept busy.
 Although the 640-foot structure is not quite half finished, it has heen continually in use since Sum- day, when the halibut boat Dixon, owned by Emil Samuelson of Ju- neau, was first to tie up on it.
 The same day the halibut boat Belle J., owned by Arthur Vienola, and the trolling boat Argus, owned
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
COACH NEWELLI5
 NOW IN BIG TEN

EAST LANSING, Mich, April 19 IR-Peter F. Pete) Newell, who made reputation at the Univer- sity of San Francisco, is the Big Tens newest basketball coach.
 Michigan State signed Newell yes terday, ending long search for a new coach. State makes it's debut in Big Ten basketball next season.
 Newell, 34, takes over team that won only four games in p last sea- son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
STANLEY cup PLAY
 I5 NOW TIED up

DETROIT, April 19 = R - The Stanley Cup hopes of the underdog New York Rangers were on the up- grade today after they beat the De- troit Red Wings 4-3 in overtime last night to even the series at two games apiece.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
W|LGAkE5

Final scores of games played yes- terday in the WILL are as follows: Yakima 8, Wenatchee 3. Spokane 5, Victoria 3.
 Tacoma 4, Salem 2.
 Vancouver 8, Tri-City 3 Q1 in nings).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
MOTHER SURPRISES
 DAUGHTER WITH VISIT

Mrs. Harvey Frietag, mother ot Mrs. Ned Zenger, arrived here on the Baranof for surprise visit to her daughter and son-in-law.
 This is Mrs. Frietag's first visit to Alaska. She came from Albany, Oregon, with Mir and Mrs. Claude Carnegie, close friends of the family.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
Joe Louis Is
 Off 10 Brazil

NEW YORK, April 19+R-Joe Louis, accompanied by Manager Marshall Miles and Trainer Mamie Searnon. departed at midnight by plane for Brazil to engage in a series of exhibition bouts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
ON FIELD TRIP

Tn Alaska on a field trip for the U. S. Bureau of Mines are Frank Flanagan, of the General Account- ing Office, Kenfield Bailey, U 8. Bureau of Mines and Miss Irene c. Smolder, also of the Bureau of Mines, who are registered at the Baranof Hotel. Miss Smolder is registered from Pittsburgh, Penn., and Flanagan and Bailey are from Arlington, Va. with offices in Washington, D. c. The party will be here about a week before going to San Francisco on business for their departments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19
FROM SEATTLE

Among the Seattle guests re- gistered at the Baranof are: Mrs. James w. billiard, Ralph s. Aag- aard, Frank Olsen, Dow l. Gallo way and Donald D. McFeeley, the latter, of the National Labor Re- lations Board,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19

The New England catch of ocean perch or rosefish, increased from 118,Ooo pounds in 1881 to 245,000, 900 in 1949.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-04-19

FROM PETERSBURG Registered from Petersburg. l.. Tinfjard, is a guest at the Cas- tineau
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Senate Office Building
Urged by Truman in
$40 Million Request

President Truman has recon-
mended to Congress appropriation
of $40 million to start construction
of the controversial new Senate
Office Building.
His recommendation, sent to
the Senate yesterday in the form
Of supplemental appropriation
request, was referred to the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee.
Senato1 Ellender, Democrat. of
Louisiana. chairman of the sub
committee that will study the bill,
led an economy fight last year to
postpone construction of the new
building. He said today he will
open hearings at 10 am. Monday
on the legislative fund requests.
These will include the disputed
Senate ONCE Building item.
He has contended that, instead
of building the new structure,
Congress should extend the east
front of the Capitol, long pend
ing proposal.
Champion of the proposed new
structure, which would be built
Immediately east of the present
Office building, is Senator Chavez,
Democrat, of New Mexico. He is
also chairman of the Senate Pub
lie Works Committee.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
British Evangelist 10 Speak
AT Youth Mission Here

The Rev. Stanley A. Baker,
Evangelist of Birmingham, Eng
land, will speak for the Evangelis-
tic Mission to Youth here at 8 pm.
Sunday through Friday.
The mission is sponsored oy
the International Society of
Christian Endeavor. Mr.. Baker
is president of the British Chris
tian Endeavour Union.
Mr.. Bakers speaking schedule
is as follows:
Sunday. National City Christian
Church, Thomas Circle and Four
teenth street NV; Monday. Me-
mortal Evangelical United Breth-
rem Church, 1700 North Capitol
street: Tuesday, Eastern Presby-
terian Church, 609 Maryland ave-
nue. NE; Wednesday. John Wes-
ley A.M.E. Zion Church, 1915
Fourteenth street NV; Thursday
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist
Church, First street and Rhode
Island avenue NV, and Friday,
Wallace Memorial United Presby-
terian Church. Randolph street
and New Hampshire avenue NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-14
Point Four Speaker
Urges u. 5. 10 Stir
Social Revolution
Ry the Assoeioted Press

PHILADELPHIA, April IA
The United States was challenged
today to help bring about so
cial revolution" in the under
developed countries of the world"
President Truman's Point Four
Program is not enough the Ameri-
can Academy of Political and So
cial Science was told by George
Hakim, counselor of the Legation
of Lebanon.
5 Mr.. Hakim was one Of half
dozen speakers at a symposium
on Point -Four at the academy's
54th annual meeting.
Calls Program Too Small.
The Point Four Program. as
conceived by the President would
supply United States economic
know-how to the war-ravaged
countries of the world. The Presi-
dent called it a bold new pro-
gram"
Mr.. Hakim said the program Is
"too small to provide any effective
contribution" to the economic de-
velopment of poverty-stricken
nations.
The masses of the underdevel-
oped lands, which Mr.. Hakim said
make up two-thirds of the worlds
population, "are not interested in
concepts of free enterprise. free
competition, democracy and hu-
man rights. It is necessary
first to live and not to starve. !"
he asserted.
And, he said, Point 4 improperly
places too great an emphasis on
Cd free enterprise and CD private
capital.
Awakening to Misery.
1.-THE poverty-stricken, disease
ridden masses of what have been
called the underdeveloped coun-
tries of the world" Mr.. Hakim
said, "are slowly awakening to the
misery of their condition.
what is needed" the Lebanese
official said, "is no less than a
social revolution involving the
transformation of semi-feudal
reactionary social order into a
new industrial system under
which the forces of production
can develop and expand freely so
as to raise the standard of living
of the people as whole"
And, he said, 80 far the West
ern Powers have allied themselves
with the reactionary forces in the
underdeveloped countries which
stand for the maintenance Of an
outworn social system"
Netherlands Advisor Speaks.
In other addresses:
DR.. Herman j. Friedericy, spec
ial advisor on Netherlands -Indo-
nesian affairs at the Netherlands
Embassy. said that only "Ameri-
cans of my generation" can ans
swer the question: "1s Point -Four
too little or too much?"
DR.. Robert r. Nathan. consult
ing economist, in praising rapid
strides in industrialization of the
Middle East. said "the economic
development of Israel will help in
the preservation and broadening
of the democratic process through
out the Middle East"
Evening star., 1950-04-14

The only "drunks" fined last
year at Newberry, England. were
visitors.
Evening star., 1950-10-15

a wide assortment of jobs. He
helps when there are serious
strikes. assemblies studies of vari-
GUS kinds and so forth. His work
is purely administrative, outside
OF politics. He is the man who
watches the store" when the
President is out of town.
Mr.. Steelman, son of an Arkan-
sas farmer, is the most highly
educated man at the White House.
Although a Phi. D. is among his
degrees. he doesn't like to be
called doctor"
He came to the White House
after a phenomenally successful
career as head of the United
States Cancellation Service. He
works like a human dynamo,
sometimes all night and all day
Sunday. He is friendly, beaming,
ingratiating. Mr.. Truman once
offered him the position of Secre-
tary of Labor. but Mr.. Steelman
said he thought he could be more
useful where he was.
Three other men have the
Presidents ear every morning
and, as one important Washing
tonian said: You'd be surprised
how you can get across an idea
over there when you're able to
bring it up in one way or another,
day after day:
Gen. Omar Bradley. 81, chair
man Of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
briefs the President on military
developments and on affairs af-
fecting military policy. Gen. Brad
ley, a fellow Missourian, is friend
ly, informal, humorous. He speaks
the Presidents language, direct
and simple. He uses no notes for
his brief1ng.
Sidney w. Souers, So, special
consultant to the National Sc
Evening star., 1950-10-15

confidence. He is we'll rounded-a
politician, lawyer, an expert on
taxes, a successful administrator
Others who have been with Mr..
Vinson and the President when
the two are together say, how
ever, that he isn't a presidential
counsellor at all, that they are
just good friends. They say that
the two men seldom talk about
governmental affairs.
An even closer friend, possibly,
is Mr.. Snyder. who is 81. The
Secretary is continually walking
across the street from the
Treasury to drop in on the Presi-
dent. He is usually not on the Of
fetal calling list. The two tele-
phone each other a great deal.
Their wives are very close
friends, and the two families visit
each other frequently. The Tru-
mans often drop in to see the
Snyders at their apartment. Their
two daughters, Margaret Truman
and the former Drucie Snyder
were schoolmates at George
Washington University. Margaret
was Drucie's maid of honor when
she was married.
Nevertheless, practically all in
formed persons say there is very
little Snyder influence in the
executive branch of the Govern.
ment-that the President sup
ports Snyder without reservation
in financial matters but that
Snyder's conservative views on
domestic affairs fall on deaf ears
when Mr.. Truman hears them.
Mr.. Snyder and Mr.. Truman
met when they were both artillery
captains in France in the First
World War. AS Reserve officer.
they attended 20 summer camps
together. Both had become Re.
Evening star., 1950-10-15
White House Inner Circle Has Been Redrown
Political Chieftoins
Displaced by Policy,
Mobilization Bosses

such as the President would APP
preciate.
w. Stuart Symington, chair
man of the National Security Re
sources Board, sees Mr.. Truman
almost daily. He is the arbiter
and policy maker for the home
front mobilization program. His
influence in the executive branch
Of the Government is getting
stronger all the time.
He Is from q socially prominent
Baltimore family, but he went into
business in st. Louis while Mr..
Snyder was there. Mr.. Snyder
introduced him to Senator Tru-
man. Soon after he took Office
as President, Mr.. Truman put him
in charge of disposal Of surplus
property.
Mr.. Symington gets along
smoothly with Congress. And he
obviously has managed to keep
on good terms with the President
despite the fact he favored a
70-group Air Force when he was
Secretary Of the Air Force at a
time the President was oppos-
ing it.
At 40, he is tall, handsome,
genial. He has been achieving
extraordinary things all his life.
He got second lieutenant's COM
mission when he was II In the
First World War, He had made
fortune in manufacturing by the
time he was SO.
Charles S. Murphy, II, sue
ceeded Clark Clifford as special
counsel to the President. He has
the highly strategic job of presi-
Dental speech writer. He blocks
out and develops ideas after talk
ing them over with Mr.. Truman.
The President does the final draft.
But don't discount that job" !"
said one White House intimate.
THE man who writes the speeches
is in a spot to make policy,
whether he or the President
realizes it or not. The President
says, Well. what1l I talk about
now?' And Murphy's answer
goes a long way toward forming
presidential policy. consciously or
unconsciously."
Daily Callers
Mr.. Truman found Mr.. Murphy,
q North Carolina lawyer. in the
Office of the legislative counsel at
the Capitol, where he served from
1884 to 1916. He became an ad-
ministrative assistant to the
President in 1947 and took his
present position last February.
Mr.. Murphy has been described
as "the quiet. enigmatic type"
John r. Steelman, so. "the as
sistant to the President" handles
Evening star., 1950-10-15

terminal point. In October, 1912,
the Sterilization Act became effec-
tive; April, 1945, is the closest
month to We day for which data
on what BIS calls urban wage
rates" is available.
The October, 1912, index figure
for urban wage rates was 119-up
10 per cent from 1899. The April,
1945. figure for urban wage rates
was 1873, up another 10 per cent.
Turning to the Consumers Price
Index, for the same months, we
find at the beginning that the
cost-of- living index was 119.7-up
a bit more than l9 per cent from
1889 and at the end, April, 1945,
it stood at 1913, up another per
cent. On this basis, despite con-
trolls, urban wage rates OUT
stripped the cost of living, but in
each index the advance was mod
crate.
How moderate becomes appar-
(See WAGE-PRICE. Page C-51
Evening star., 1950-10-15
Korean Crisis and
Attendant Problems
Are Responsible
By Clarke Beech

Some of the old cronies and
political friends of President Tru-
man are not so conspicuous around
the White House as they used to
be. In their places have come men
on whom the President is rely
ing to help him meet the Korean
crisis and push the mobilization
program.
Daily and almost hourly Mr..
Truman Is getting the views and
information of Acheson. Marshall.
Hartman and Symington. Farther
in the background now are the
politically wise Barkley, Rayburn,
Biff1e. Boyle and Connolly.
No one has emerged as "the
power behind the throne" There
Is no Col. House, Louie Howe or
Harry Hopkins. Practically all
White House observers concede
that Mr.. Truman alone is the
boss. But they say he welcomes
information and advice and will
listen to strong arguments against
his views.
About 18 men now compose the
Truman Inner circle" About
one third of them are Missourians.
Many are World War I veterans.
Only about five can be said to be
Roosevelt carryovers. Nearly all
are younger than Mr.. Truman,
who is 66. Some are in their 30s
and 40s, and most Of the re-
mainder are in their sos.
His Close Friends
Three men are apparently on
more intimate terms with the
President than any others within
the charmed circle. But most OBJ
servers doubt that they exert
much influence on Mr.. Truman's
policies. They are Chief Justice
Vinson, Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder and Charles Ross, secre-
tary in charge of press relations.
Mr.. Vinson. so, is one of the
Presidents best buddies. Mr.. Tru-
man likes Mr.. Wilson's Kentucky
stories and Kentucky mountain
laughter. The Truman grand
fathers on both sides were from
Kentucky. Mr.. Vinson plays. a
good poker hand, and the Presi-
dent likes poker. Mr.. Vinson is
tactful. canny. The good-natured
folds of his face droop like a
hound dogs. He is a comfortable
person to have around.
Some persons consider Mr.. Vim
son the wisest counsellor Mr..
Truman ever had. They say there
is no one in public life that the
President regards more highly or
in whose judgment he has greater
Evening star., 1950-10-15

not because it has become Scared
in battle for a righteous cause, but
because it has become tarnished
and rusted through neglect.
Hard to Arouse
In the presidential election of
1914 there were in round numbers
sc, ,537 900 citizens of voting age
The actual vote cast for President
was 47,976, 900, or about 55.4 per
cent Of the total. For various rea-
sons, more than 38,560,000 men
and women failed to participate in
the election. But, it may be said,
1914 was a war year, with mil
lions of men in the armed services,
scattered all over the globe. New
ertheless, the most elaborate ar
rangements were made for polling
the soldier vote. Practically every
State in the Union enacted spe-
cial legislation to meet the situa-
ton, while a Federal ballot. to be
counted by the proper State au-
thorities, was made available. to
Evening star., 1950-10-15

President for foreign affairs, is an
adviser who is both close and i'm
portant. He is in and out of the
Presidents Office two or three
times day. The President sees
him. probably, more than any
other official. He is constant
contact between Acheson and the
White House, sits in on all meet1
ings of the cabinet and the Ma
tional Security Council and helps
to coordinate the work of all
Government agencies dealing with
foreign affairs.
Marshall's Place
He has long been a favorite
instrument of both President
Roosevelt and President Truman
in high policy matters. serving as
Ambassador to Russia and to
Great Britain. as Secretary of
Commerce and as the Economic
Cooperation Administration rep
|resentative in Europe.
Fifty EIGHT years old. he is shy,
quiet. tall, iron gray and hand
some. He is far from the rollick-
ing. jesting type of the old Tru-
man crorlies.
He is the son and one of the
heirs of fabulously wealthy 10Th
century railroad tycoon. E. H.
Hartman. From a family of Re
publican stalwarts, he became a
convert to the New Deal in 1884
and has been with the Govern
ment as a loyal Democrat ever
since.
Secretary of Defense George c.
Marshall. SO, now stands alone as
the White House adviser on mill
tary matters. No one approaches
him in his influence in this field,
although there is not a lot of
social contact between him and
the President.
Mr.. Truman considers Mr.. Mar
shall the greatest American of his
time. He has never paid such
high public tribute to any other
man. He considers him utterly
patriotic and unSelfish.
His sentiments may stem from
any Army Reserve officers venera-
ton for former Chief of Staff
Or the fact that he has always
had a hankering for military life
he would have gone to West
Point if he hadn't had bad eye
sight.
They came partly, undoubtedly,
from Mr.. Truman's vast reading
in military matters. He has read,
probably, as many biographies of
famous generals as any man alive.
He thinks Marshall is the greatest
Of them all because nobody else
ever had to handle so many men
and SO much equipment and no
body ever solved such vast prob
lens of strategy.
Symington's Role
Some say their acquaintance
began when Mr.. Truman, then a
Senator, went to Marshall asking
to be placed on active duty. Gen.
Marshall turned him down, say
ing, This is a young mans war
we don't need any old stiffs like
you"
I'm younger than you, Gen.
Marshall" Mr.. Truman is said
to have replied. /
yes. but I'm a general, and
you'd only be a colonel. You stay
where you are"
Mr.. Marshall is a Democrat.
but has avoided any active par
ticipation in politics. More than
once, however, Marshall as Sec
retary of State went to the sta
ton or airport to see Mr.. Tru-
man off or welcome him home
when he went on political trip.
It was a little nolitica1 "aSsjsf"
Evening star., 1950-10-15

serve colonels by the outbreak of
the second war.
Mr.. Snyder, after having been
a Washington official for many
years, was banker in st. Louis
when President Roosevelt died.
Mr.. Truman's first major appoint
ment was his nomination of Sny-
der as Federal loan administra-
tor.
Charlie Ross, 64, White House
press secretary, seems to be al
most as close to Mr.. Truman as
the other two. They see each
other constantly. No one doubts
that the President has a very
high regard for the ability of Ross,
who has had a distinguished
newspaper career. But most OBJ
servers doubt that the President
asks his advice on matters outside
the public relations field.
The two are practically lifelong
friends. Mr.. Ross and young
Harry Truman graduated to-
gether from high school in In
dependence, Mo-, one year ahead
OF Mrs. Truman's class. AS boys
they once spent a month Of after
nooDs whiting out model
bridge made exactly according to
specifications of one of Caesars
bridges described in the Com
Mr.. Ross also was
among Mr.. Truman's first ap-
pointments. After they had made
the DEAL they both telephoned
their former high school English
teacher in Independence to tell
her that Harry and Charlie were
working together once more.
Important Advisers
The really important presiden-
tial advisers today are:
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son.
Mr.. Acheson. 81, has Mr.. Tru-
mans complete confidence in the
field of foreign relations. One
man who knows the White House
well says that President Truman
hasn't differed with Mr.. Acheson
in one instance on foreign policy.
For all his vast influence, however,
MIR. Acheson never misses an op-
portunity to point out that he
makes no major decisions on his
own. He always says "the Presi-
dent has done this" or "the Presi-
dent has decided so-and-so."
The puzzling fact to observers
is that the two are also warm
personal friends: Mr.. Truman.
the folksy, homespun man from
Missouri with the fiat Midwestern
accent; Mr.. Acheson, the tall. pre-
else. rather austere diplomat.
Actually the difference between
them is superficial. Both are
realists and like good down-to-
earth conversation, facing hard
facts. And in private Mr.. Acheson
unbends. He has sharp wit,
likes amusing stories and tells
them well. That appeals to Mr..
Truman.
One thing that undoubtedly en-
deared Mr.. Acheson to the Presi-
dent was the time in 1946 when
Mr.. Truman returned from In
dependence after his party suf-
fered a humping defeat in the
congressional elections. The visit
home had been a political trip,
for the purpose of voting.
None Of the official family ex-
cept Mr.. Acheson thought of
meeting Mr.. Truman at the train
in Washington. Mr.. Acheson
then was Undersecretary of State
and Secretary Byrnes was out of
the country. His turning up at
the train at such a time was the
kind of thoughtful, loyal gesture
that goes far with the President.
w. Averell Hartman, recently
appointed special assistant to the
Evening star., 1950-10-15

(see wAGE-PRIcE, Page c-5o
Evening star., 1950-10-15
Half Of U.S.. Voting
Power Never Gets to Polls
Most Strenuous Efforts Of Party Workers
Fail to Bring Out Consistent Stoy- -ot-Homes
By Frederic Brenckmon

There has been endless talk in the United States for
about the Of the labor
the of various groups easily
demonstrated that combination
powerful today the
powerful to command than
Evening star., 1950-10-15
Curbs on Prices and Woqes
May Be Pressured Into Law
Economists and Advisers Believe Truman
And Congress Will Act-After Elections
By Joseph HonIon

Despite the reluctance OF Congress and the Truman admna-
ton to adopt price controls checking the
posKorea nhaonary spiral
dicaon that the events will force their adopsnbut
until after the November elections.
This the considered Judgment hghy placed economists and