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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-24

JANUARY "A M. L. MacSpadden Mrs. A. B. Phillips Charles D. Baker. James Fraser Joe Mullins Erling Martinson Charles c. Bloxham Dolores Smith Geraldine Maddox George Routsala Mrs. Claudio Gissberg Ed Zigler Patricia Andrus Edwina Snethen Bill H. Wilson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-24
FROM KETCHIKAN

| T. R. Curtis of Ketchikan, a salesman, is a guest at the Cas- tineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-24

Douglas Harry special four announced dance which Scandinavian o featured.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Indian Boy, IA, Hangs Self
In Ancient Tribal Rite
BY the Associoted Press

TOPPENISH, Wash, May 30
The body of 14-year-old Yakima
Indian boy, clad in an old night
gown belonging to his grand
mother, was found hanging in his
grandfather's shed early today.
His death was laid to an ancient
tribal custom.
Deputy Sheriff Bud Burleson
said the boy. Theodore Peall, ap-
parently followed out the out
moded tribal law that a good
warrior" must take the role of the
"old woman" or "frail one" if he
fails at something in which he
believes he should have succeeded.
The grandfather, Alex Saluskin.
said the boy had been trying out
Tor an American Legion baseball
team and was discouraged over
his prospects. He had been in good
spirits Sunday, but disappeared
about $50 pm.
A coronoer's report gave the
time of death as approximately
10 O'Clock Sunday night.
Mr.. Burleson, who listed the
death as suicide, said young Peall
had taken off his play clothes,
donned the nightgown, climbed
on an old oil drum. strung a wire
to the rafters of the shed, then
kicked the drum away.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Wallace Calls Cold War
Path 10 Destruction
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May 3O.-Henry A.
Wallace said last night. THE cold
war is the devils path to destruc-
ton for both Russia and the
United States"
He blamed both countries for
keeping the cold war going.
In a transcribed radio address
the former Vice President said:
The people of both nations long
for an end to the cold war but
both peoples have been trapped by
their diplomatic and military lead
ers into following road which
can only end in hot war"
In third world war, Mr.. Wal
lace said, THE United States will
lose more men by far than in any
other war, and the United States
civilian will feel war at first hand
for the first time since 1862
The 1948 Progressive Party
presidential candidate said the
Soviet government believes the
cold war will hasten the destruc-
tion of capitalism, and that United
States leaders believe it will weak
en- communism.
But, Mr.. Wallace said. neither
side could expect to gain.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
No Whitewash' Pledged
By Mid-C Century Farley
BY the Associoied Press

CHICAGO. May 30.-The direc-
tor of the Mid-Century Confer
ence for Peace told delegates yes
terday that the conference will
not whitewash" either of the
power giants s'-the United States
or Russia.
DR.. Willard Uphaus, Chicago,
said the aim of the $50 delegates
is to unite all persons of all faiths
and occupations who hope for
peaceful alternatives to replace
cold-war strategy and hydrogen
bomb warfare"
1--WE have used our armed might
and money to uphold Fascist re-
gimes, mainly out of fear and hate
of the Soviet" DR.. Uphaus said
1T is true that both of these
power giants are terribly guilty.
Il assure you that the Mid
Century Conference will not
whitewash either one. But, do not
be surprised if we pay consider
able attention to the beam in our
own eye"
The conferences opening session
was attended by Representatives of
TasS. a Russian news service: Ra-
dio Moscow and the Russian news
paper, Pravda.
DR.. Uphaus said the conference
was formed by sending 10000
notices of its purpose, "a call for
peace" to clergymen. scientists and
educators. from the New York and
Chicago offices.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
BY the Associoted Press

HONOLULU, May 30.-Millions
of flowers today frightened the
graves of Ernie Pyle and 12,500
American war dead in Punchbowl
Crater overlooking this city.
1t was typically Hawaiian out
pouring of reverence, expressed in
the fragrant carnations and gin
ger, the colorful orchids and
plumeria which grow everywhere
here.
Islanders were asked to make a
lei for Memorial Day. From every
corner of the island the flowers
poured into Honolulu, 42,500 leis,
in all about $780, 900 blossoms.
Boy Scouts last night draped
the leis on the white crosses of
Punchbowl.
Some one placed two baskets of
f1owers-and two gardenias-on
Pyle's grave. The beloved war
correspondent of the little guy"
was killed on Ie Shima, near Oki-
nawa. late in the war.
1t was, too. the first Memorial
Evening star., 1950-05-30

honor those who fought and died
for us.
Let us on this day fold our
hands in prayer. praying:
o. Almighty God. our help in
ages past and hope of years to
come, we thank Thee for the cour-
age Of our forefathers who found
ed this Nation and gave us both
civil and religious liberties. We
thank Thee for the men of valor
who were ready to lay down their
lives on the altar of patriotism
TO preserve and perpetuate the
principles upon which our Gov
ernment is founded.
We ask Thee to greatly comfort
those today who remember their
loses in our heroic dead. Give the
spirit of patience and submission
TO those who are in our national
hospitals. May Thy Heavenly
Arms enfold those of our COM
rades who have gone before us and
who fought so valiantly on the
battleflelds of the world and who
gave us their all for the cause Of
freedom.
May their sleep be uninter-
rupted until that great day when
Thou shalt gather those that art
Thine into Thy Heavenly King
dom
tReIeaSed by North American Newspaper
Alliance
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Ruegger, World Red Cross
Official, Here for ParIeys

Paul Ruegger. president of the
International Committee of the
Red Cross, was in Washington
today for a visit with American
Red Cross and Government Off
cials.
The International Committee
which meets at Geneva, Switzer-
land, appealed last month to all
nations that signed the 1949 Ge-
neva conventions to take "all steps
to reach an agreement on the pro-
hibition of atomic weapons and,
in a general way, of all non-di-
rected missiles"
At a press conference yesterday
Mr.. Ruegger said the committee
had so far received a few replies,
but declined to reveal the nature
of them. He disclosed, however,
that he had not received any COM
munication from any of the iron
curtain countries.
Mr.. Ruegger visited Gen. George
C. Marshall, president of the
American Red Cross. yesterday,
and tomorrow will visit State De-
partment officials. Before coming
here he met with leaders Of the
Canadian Red Cross in Toronto
and will visit Mexico after leaving
Washington.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
By Mortin S. Hayden
North American Newspaper Alliance

American flags fly today over the
foreign graves of nearly 100000
World War II dead and, from
Margreten in Holland to Fort Nc
Kinley outside Manila, peoples of
foreign lands are assembling for
simple memorial services.
At the same time 848 American
soldiers and civilians are drop
ping-for a day-the tedious task
of finding the still-unrecovered
dead and tracing. perhaps scrap
of letter, or a weathered shoe, or
the key to a high school boys car
which may identify yet another
young man who went abroad not
to return.
On this fifth Memorial Day since
VI day Army quartermaster Off
GERS, charged with final burial and
identification, wherever possible,
of the war dead. reported that
most of their work is done.
At 16 European, African and
Pacific locations the remains of
nearly 100000 identified American
fighters have been placed in GEM
eteries which will be permanent
memorials to the men of World
War II. With them lie $500 9TH
ers identified only as unknown
soldiers
Another 1915 bodies have
been returned for burial at home
and 1852 more are awaiting final
family orders before being re-
turned or buried overseas.
Finally, the Pentagon reports
something over $4,000 unrecovered
American dead. Some rest in lost
graves where comrades buried
them during combat days. Others
are beside wrecked planes on un-
scalable mountain peaks. in ships
at the bottom of the sea or in
hidden jungle clearings, INDICATED
since the war ended.
Scrap of Letter Identified One.
These unrecovered men and
the unidentified now buried have
been the subject of the greatest
detective hunt in a Nations his
tory. More than 1000 of them
have been run down and listed
with the identified dead in the
past year.
Once identification came from
a scrap of letter found in the
pocket of a torn field jacket and
carrying only a girls first name
and the postmark of a small town
Postal inspectors and Army anc
FBI agents canvassed the towr
looking for girl with the righ
name who could identify he
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Hawaii Flowers Brighten Graves
OfErnie Pyle, 72,5OOWorDeo

Day for the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific. The
cemetery was opened last July 8.
with the burial Of Pyle. 1t was
dedicated September 2. fourth an
niversary of the end of the war.
Punchbowl is a long g-quiet vol
cano thrusting upward from the
heart Of Honolulu. One can see,
from the crater. the glistening
lochs of Pearl Harbor, where the
war started.
The dead buried here are those
whose next of kin wanted them
to remain in the Pacific, where
they died in service of their coun-
try.
Memorial services were planned
at midmorning. And later the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
strew flowers over the sea in
memory Of those who died on the
Pacific Ocean.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
CIubwomen Face
Battle for 30ffices
BY the Assoeiosed Press

BOSTON, May 30.-A club
women's battle for three impor-
tant Offices loomed today as the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs nominated candidates at the
first business session of its 59th
annual meeting.
Unopposed for president and
first vice president. respectively,
are Mrs. Hiram c. Houghton of
Red Rock. Iowa. and Mrs. Oscar
A. Ahlgren of Whiting, Ind.
Their nomination to top posts
was tantamount to election.
Mrs. Houghton. the prospective
head of the federation with some
II million members throughout
the world, is the current first
vice president.
Her Office will be taken over by
Mrs. Ahlgren. now second vice
president.
The fight is for second vice
president. recording secretary and
treasurer.
Presented today by their State
declarations for the contested
Offices we're:
Second vice president: Mrs.
Jefferson D. Atwood of Roswell,
N. Mex; Mrs. Leonard j. Nc
Caffrey of Miami, Fla, and Mrs.
Earl B. Shoesmith of San Leandro,
Calf.
Recording secretary: Mrs. Will
liam B. Chandlee of Hillsboro,
Greg; Mrs. William B. Fowler
of Memphis, Tenn, and Mrs.
Leonard J. McCaffrey of Miami,
Fla.
Treasurer: Mrs. G. Whitfield
Gowrie of New Haven. Conn, and
Mrs. R. I. c. Prout of Wakefield,
Mich.
Voting will begin Thursday
afternoon and election results will
be announced at the evening
session.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Lehman Dep|ores Blaming
Roosevelt for Red trouble
By the Associated Press

HYDE PARK, N. Y. May 30
Senator Lehman, Democrat. of
New York. said today that 'to
attribute the present tragic state
of world affairs to failure or error
on the part of Franklin Roose-
velt is a base injustice"
In a speech prepared for Me-
mortal Day services at the grave
of the wartime President, Sena-
tor Lehman said:
Because I knew the man, and
his patriotic devotion to his coun-
try as well as his boundless de-
votion to mankind, I am appalled,
at the endless repetition of the
slander that President Roosevelt
was naive. or short-sighted. or
weak, or even worse, in his deal
ings with the Russians"
The Senator described Mr..
Roosevelt as "the grand architect
of our victory over a savage and
ruthless enemy"
Senator Lehman added: THAT
this strategy did not succeed in
solving the basic problem of the
relations of Soviet Russia with
the world is not to President
Roosevelt's discredit any more
than to the discredit of Winston
Churchill"
The problem. he said, "had
been with Europe and the world
since 1917"
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Pardoned Slayer Of Son
Barred From Law Practice
BY the Assoeiafed Press

BOSTON, May 30.-John F.
Noxon, Pittsf1eld attorney con-
victed of murder in the death of
his infant son. was barred from
practicing law in Massachusetts,
by an order entered yesterday in
Suffolk Superior court.
Noxon, now living in Stonington,
Conn, was condemned to the elec-
trio chair in 1945 in the child's
electrocution death, but this later
was commuted to life imprison-
ment.
The then Gov. Maurice j. Tobin,
now Secretary of Labor, commuted
the sentence. His successor, for
mer Gov. Robert F. Bradford,
pardoned Noxon in 1949 after
Noxon had served four and one
half years in State prison.
Evening star., 1950-05-30

the terraces Of Roosevelt High
School"
Later, the audience moved out
side to the front of the school
where the plaque was unveiled be-
fore parents of the dead, students
and guests.
Among those present were DR..
Hobart M. Corning, superintendent
of schools: DR.. John Queally, pas
tor of TRANSPORTATION Episcopal
Church; Mrs. Elva c. Wells, prin-
cipal of Roosevelt High School;
William w. Rodgers, assistant
principal of Roosevelt; Rabbi
Henry Segal; Leon Cooper, chair
man of the Flagpole Committee of
the schools alumni association
and c. Melvin Sharpe, president of
the Board of Education.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Assyrian Observatory
OF 1000 Be. Found
BY the Associoied Press

CAIRO, Egypt, May 3O.-Brit-
ish archeologists have discovered
an observatory used 1000 years
ago in the ancient city of Nimrod
In Iraq. a Baghdad dispatch to
the Arab news agency said today
The dispatch said the archeolo-
gists under Prof. Max Mallowan
OF the University of London also
had unearthed halls, aqueducts
and the storehouse of a palace in
the city, which was the capital
of Assyria about 1000 B. C.
The observatory. the dispatch
said. consisted of three floors and
a tower. At the top of the tower
was temple where King Ashur
Nasserpal III performed rites as
a high priest.
According to the report. the an
cient Assyrians knew how to plot
star movements and to calculate
the days of the year.
Mallowan was quoted as saying
The excavations at Nimrod would
take so years to complete.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Flood Rovoees Iron City

TEHERAN, Iran, May 80 R.-
Thirty thousand mud houses and
shops collapsed during a flood in
Meshed, East Iran, yesterday, ac-
cording to reports reaching here.
No casualties were reported i'm
mediately. Official reports said
that following 80 hours of heavy
rain flood waters 8 inches deep
entered the city, which has a
population Of 10000.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
100000 World War II Dead
To Be Honored Abroad TODAY

handwriting They found her and
soldiers body was returned
home.
Again. an auto key in a dead
flyers pocket unlocked the mys-
terry. A prewar jalopy was traced
through a used-car market and
into junk lot where lost boys
father and an Army investigator
tried a fame Scared key in a
rusted ignition switch. It worked
and one of the eight found in a
crashed plane was identified.
Once it was a pair of health
shoes traced through the manu-
facturer that gave an identifica-
ton and. again, the checkers used
a burned piece of letter on which
a girl Government worker told her
overseas sweetheart of trouble
with her department. supervisor
The girls name was not on the
page, but the supervisors was;
she was located, recalled the dis
pute. identified the writer and
returned his name to another
unknown"
Work Almost Completed.
OF the Is foreign resting places
where flags fly today, work has
been finished on all but two. AT
Fort Mckinley in the Philippines
and at Melville -en -Condroz, 9
miles southwest of Liege. Belgium
Workmen under Army direction
are completing the final land
scaping, the construction of chap
els and the installation of perma-
nent markers.
The other IA, in England, Hol-
land. France. Italy, Luxembourg,
North Africa, Puerto Rico and in
Honolulu already have been turned
over to the civilian-operated Bat
tie Monuments Commission which,
for quarter of a century, has
cared for the graves of 3O,9O8
World War I veterans in Belgium
France and England.
Each of the foreign cemeteries
is headed by an American veteran
hired as resident superintendent.
All those from World War II
remained undisturbed when the
sons of the men buried in them
returned to the continent for the
second conflict with Germany.
The principal overseas ceremony
today is being held at Surenes,
outside Paris, where men of World
War II have been buried beside
veterans of 1918 in a common
shrine. There, the American Am.
bassador, heads of the French
government and military repre-
sentatives of all Allied nations
| were to paw homage
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Allies Reported Rejecting
Soviet Demand on Trieste
BY the Associoted Press

The United States, Britain and
France yesterday were reported
planning separate but parallel
notes rejecting Russia's demand
that Trieste be internationalized.
Government officials said the
three governments were consult
ing before replying to Russias
stand that the illegal" British
American base at Trieste must be
eliminated before talks on an Aus
trial peace treaty can be resumed.
The State Departments posi-
tion is that Trieste and the Aus
trian peace treaty are in no way
connected.
Officials take the view that Mos
cow has raised the Trieste issue as
another delaying tactic in it's long
fight to prevent the writing of an
Austrian treaty.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
u. ). Planes for Korea
Put Up 10 Washington
BY the Associated Press


SEOUL, Korea, May 3O.-United
States Ambassador John J. Muccio
said tonight that the highest
levels in Washington will deter
mine if and when the South Korea
republic will get American war
planes.
Mr.. Muccio said discussion of
this matter recently in Washing
ton delayed his return to Seoul
for five days. He returned two
weeks ago.
The Ambassador termed as pre-
mature reports that American
planes now in Japan would be CIV
en- to South Korea when they are
replaced by jet aircraft. But he
said the subject had been dis
cussed.
1T would be comforting to
know that an adequate air defense
were here to protect us should the
(CommunisD North Koreans at
tack u.s." Mr.. Muccio said.
Brig. Gen. William l.. Roberts
urged an early build-up of South
Korea's air strength. He said
its ground superiority probably
would be lost because of North
Korea's superior air. power in
event of an invasion.
Gen. Roberts said: Korea needs
an air force. We know lots of
United States planes such as
CATS and F-51s are going obsoles-
cent and We probably will get some
of them eventually"
The Korean Defense Ministry
said South Korea has 80 planes
compared to more. than 180 in
Communist North Korea.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Whoopinq Crane Buby Lost

AUSTWELL. Tex. May 30 (P.-
Rusty, the baby whooping crane,
is believed dead. The little whoop-
er, newest of only 38 whooping
cranes on earth. is missing from
the Arkansas National Wildlife
Refuge, $50 marshy acres near
here. Julian A. Howard. mana
ger of the refuge, reported that
Rusty probably fell prey to a
snake. raccoon or vulture. He
was the first whooping crane ever
born in captivity.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Final Appeals Made
In Fairfax Vote on
School Bond Issue

Final appeals for votes were
made today as Fairfax County
prepared to decide whether it will
issue sos million in school bonds
and $980,000 in bonds for court
house improvements, including a
new jail.
The referendum will be held to-
morrow from am. until z pm.
Voting on the two bond issues will
be on separate ballots.
Principal interest continued to
center on the school proposal,
which cleared the last barrier yes
terday. Judge Paul E. Brown took
just Is minutes to toss out of Cir
cult Court a taxpayers plea that
he cancel the referendum.
Judge Brown said John H.
Kings petition was based on "as-
sumptions" and had no legal
standing. He said the allegations
made by Mr.. King had nothing
to do with the referendum tomor-
row and would come within the
jurisdiction of a special annexa-
ton court.
The taxpayer argued that since
Falls Church and Alexandria are
trying to annex land from Fair
fax county residents should not
act upon the school bond issue
Judge Brown and Circuit Judges
J. r. H. Alexander and Burnett
Miller will hear the Falls Church
annexation case June 10.
When the court rejected Mr..
Kings last-minute effort to block
the referendum, a leading advo-
cate Of school bonds urged citizens
to rally for big vote tomorrow.
II hope" said Newell Blair,
"that the courts action clarifies
the situation and that there will
be no more efforts to confuse the
voters. We can now have the elec-
tion and then get our long over
due new schools"
Delegate Edwin Lynch is among
other elected officials who are
backing the school bonds. Most
officeholders have refrained, how
ever. from taking public stands
on the question. Edward Uhler
of Annandale, chairman of the
county Democratic Executive
Committee, said his group does
not set policy and is not active
in the referendum campaign.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Memorial Day Memorable

DETROIT. May 80 (P).-Me-
mortal Day, 1850, will be a day
long remembered by 18 Detroiters.
They began Jail sentences of from
five to Is days-convicted of
speeding. driving recklessly or
drunken driving. And they can't
drive again for at least so days
by court order. They brought to
1877 the number sent to Jail by
Traffic Judge John D. Watts in
his get tough" campaign.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Naval Forces in Pacific
Adequate, Rodford Says
by The Assoeioted Press

MANILA. May 30.-American
naval forces in the Pacific are ade-
quate to meet any emergency, the
commander in chief of the United
States Pacific Fleet said today.
Admiral Arthur w. Radford
said no immediate strengthening
of naval forces in this part of the
world is contemplated. He spoke
briefly on arriving for a brief in
spection of bases in the Philip
pines.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
Army Chief Chaplain Provides
PRAYER for Memorial Day

President Truman last Ueek.
in a proclamation, called on the
Nation to pray for peace at II
am. on Memorial Day. He also
asked the press, radio and tele-
piston to lend their assistance
ito unite the Nation in a uni
uerSGl prayer for permanent
peace" Accordingly. the Army's
chief chaplain, MAJ. Gen. Roy
H. Parker. offers the tolloWino
prGUer.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
BY Maj. Gen. Roy H. Porker
Chief chopIoin. U. S. Army

lheF ChopToin, q. 5. Amy
On Memorial Day, when the
whole Nation pauses to pay tribute
to her honored dead. it is we'll that
you and pause for a moment to
Evening star., 1950-05-30
FOUND.

COCKER OR PART COCKER, black. found
at 18th and G StS. ne; owner can have
by identifying. Call AT. 1858.
Sousa bridge Sc; identify fully. LO.
5-0S2S or TR. 0342.
sPITZ DOG, female, very fat; evidentally
pet; found vicinity Union Station. Gil.
oes7. 81
Evening star., 1950-05-30

New Zealand has begun top
dressing of soils from phosphate
carrying planes.
Evening star., 1950-05-30

Turkey now sells swordfish to
Britain.
Evening star., 1950-05-30
S500 REWARD

One pair platinum earrings, each contain
ing ! RoSeate fresh-water pearl, lost Sat.
evening, May 90, between Shoreham
Hotel and $500 block Mass. ave. Call
Mr.. PURKS, NE. O3l6 .