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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
Brewster's Ambition

Owen Brewster Maine Senator
and friend of the wiretappers, is
running a sly campaign to grab a
prize plum-chairman of the Sen
ate Republican Policy Committee.
The big hurdle is Robert Taft,
present chairman, who shows no
intention of stepping out. But
Brewster figures that Taft, as lead
ing claimant for the 1852 Presiden-
tial nomination, can be persuaded
to turn over the Craftsmanship to
more neutral" Senator.
So Brewster has been tiptoeing
around promoting a draft Taft
movement.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
ALASKA COASTAL HAS
II ON WED. FLIGHTS

Alaska Coastal Airlines flights
yesterday carried total of II
passengers with three arriving and
eight departing.
Departing for Gustavus were
Roy Downing, o. Reynolds; for
Hoonah: Sig Bendiksen; for An
COON: Mr.. and Mrs. Cyril George,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Jones; for Ten
akee: Sam Cotton.
Arriving from Excursion Inlet
were: Stanley Harris, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Walker.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
COMMUNITY Events
T Cd A Y

At 7 pm.-Senior Scout Folk Dance
ing group in Parish Hall.
At 1880 pm. Juneau Rifle and
Pistol Club meets ABB Hall.
At p.m.-Scottish Rite, 30th De-
gree.
AT 8 pm-40-8 holds social meet
ing and elects officers in Dugout.
At 5 p.m.-Basketball game, Doug
las gym.
At 8 pm.-Women of Moose meet
in Moose Lodge rooms.
At 8 p.m.-Members of WAA will
meet at home of Mrs. Dean Will
liams.
At $3.50 p.m.-Juneau Singers re-
hearse at Methodist church.
December s
At noon-Soroptimist Club meets
at Baranof.
At 1:30 pm. - In City Council
Chambers, Hallene Price invites
women to attend demonstration
of Christmas gifts, decorations.
At $50 pm-Scottish Rite banquet
AT 7:30 pm.-Doubleheader basket
ball game in Juneau High gym.
At 8 pm.-Scottish Rite, Sind De-
gree.
At 8:45 pm.-Juneau Community
Chorus full rehearsal in Metho-
dist church
December 8
At l p.m.-Sewing, Rummage Sale
at Memorial Presbyterian church.
At p.m.-Special meeting of ACCA
Board, AELP penthouse.
At 8 pm-Sourdocey Square Dane
ing Club will meet in Parish Hall.
At $50 p.m.-Days of '98 with Elks
host to troop of cowgirls and cow
boys from Skagway and Kangaroo
Court of Injustice.
December IL
AT 10 a.m.-BPW rummage sale in
Dugout. No luncheon this day.
At noon-Lions Club meets at
Baranof.
At pm. = Womans Missionary
Society of Church of God meets
in parsonage, 526 East Street.
At 8 pm-American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
December IL
At noon-Rotary Club, Baranof.
At 5 pm.-Concert at goth Gen.
fury Theatre by Desire LegetG
and Marcus Gordon.
AT 8 p.m-Eastern Star Christmas
party. Scottish Rite Temple.
At 8:45 p.m.-Community Center
Night for Adults at Teen Age
Club.
December Is
At noon-Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
At $50 pm.-Couple Club meets at
Northern Light Presbyterian
church.
At p.m.-ElkS Lodge.
At 8 pm.-Turkey Shoot of Cardi-
nal Club in Catholic Parish Hall.
December ID
At noon-Chamber of Commerce
meets at Baranof.
At 8 p.m.-Emblem Club annual
Christmas party will be held in
Elks Lodge rooms.
December Is
At 8 pm-Senior Ball of Juneau
High in High School Gym.
December 16
At 8 pm. = ANB-ANS ceremonial
dances for Library Fund in High
School gym.
At 10 p.m.-Sons of Norway dance
in Elks Ballroom. All kinds OF
music to be featured.
December II
At pm-Christmas program pre-
sented by First Church of God
in IOOF Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
MARINE TROUBLE
NOW THREATENED
(By Associated Press

A so-called right-wing group is
asking San Francisco warehous,
local members of Harry Bridges
International Warehousemens anc
Longshoremens Union to support a
plan banning Communists from
any active part in the Union. Spok-
esman Howard Piva explained the
move arose becauSe-in Pivas own
words certain officers and GER
tain members of the local have been
most brazen in their consistent
support of the policies of the Com
munist Party"
A tie-up of Puget Sound ship
yards threatens today. The hide
pendent Machinists Union says il
will strike. Business agent I. A
Sandvigen says it's definite-the
machinists will go out to back
their demand for Is cents more an
hour If the strike comes, work
will halt on at least 10 Military Sea
Transport Service vessels in Puget
Sound yards.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
SOPERATE ON MUELLER

An appendectomy was performed
on Carl Mueller, Juneau Police pa
trolman. at st. AIMS hospital this
morning. His attending physician
reported that Mueller was doing
very well.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
TOMMY POWERS IS IN
ST. AIMS; FRACTURED
KNEE, TUESDAY GAME

Tommy Powers, one of Juneau's
well-known athletes playing guard
with the Columbia basketball club
this season, is in st. AIMS hospital
Tommy fractured a knee in the
game Tuesday night, Columbians
VS. High School.
FROM SEATTLE
M. j. Lynch of Seattle is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
RUMMAGE AND WHITE
ELEPHANT SALE

Mon. Dec. IL, at American Leg
ion Dugout-Sponsored by Business
and Professional Womens Club.
675-5t
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

Sewing machines Tor rent at the
White Sewing Machine Center.
.sa-s- 642-tf
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
campaign for the Senate.

Note-Senator DoWney is now 60
ing into the practice of law. Friends
say he will represent some of the
oil companies.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. l47
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday OF each month *
In Scottish Rite Temple IN
beginning at 7:30 p. m. WY
Carson A. Lawrence, ~
Worshipful Master;
JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

Weather: High, A; low. Al; cloudy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

proportions the steamship Admiral Farragut bated her
slow bell arriving Juneau
o'clock morning behind schedule
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
Taft Labor
BAG er Termed
a Turncoaf
DAYTON. OHIO (LPA)

DAYTON, OHIO (LPA) -
Marion Patten, local head OF
Taft's Labor League, is a ''turn-
coat" and ga prize opportunist,"
d declared the Montgomery
County CIO Council.
Patten, said e statement,
"only recently jumped from the
Communist Progressive b a n d.
wagon on to the Taft reaction
airy bandwagon." Patten was
accused of working closely with
"left-wingers in the UE even
after it was ousted from the
.CIO."
The statement was signed by
William Shoots, CIO council
secretary-treasurer. He is also
secretary-treasurer of t In
ternational Union of Electrical
Workers, chartered by the Go
last fall after the CIO kicked
out the United Electrical Work
ers for following the Commu-
mist line.
The statement said, "obstruc-
tionists like Taft and the Com
munists have every reason to
work together, for they care
nothing about, the fate of free
peoples throughout the world.
Eat last Patten and his ilk
have found a home in the Taft
isolationist C a m p. The Go
membership in M o n t G omer y
county can only pity such con-
fused and disloyal members.
For CIO members have known
for a long time that Taft's
money comes from big business
i interests. Virtually every
wealthy person in o h o has
been touched for a big contri-
button to Taft"
Taft's campaign blurbs on how
the Taft-Hartley act protects the
working man "is lifted COM
pletely from the official propa-
ganda of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, and is a
slam at democratic unionism."
While Taft "has tackled his
name to many Understanding
bills" the statement reports,
Taft deserted the side of hui
man welfare every time to run
errands for the greedy and the
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
Negro Democrats
AT Columbus Call
For Defeat OF Taft

COLUMBUS, Ohio (LPA) -
Plans for a gigantic registra-
ton and go-out-the-vote drive
were made at rally of 75O
Negro Democrats here from all
over Ohio. They roared their
approval of a resolution call
ing for defeat of Senator Taft.
Jack Knoll, president of the
Ohio CLIO Council and director
of national CIO-PAC, calle d
Taft the darling of the mil
lionaires," and said "T ( is
earning the $2R million Big
Business is spending in tn s
campaign by opposing every at
tempt to end the huge profits
business is making out of the
Korean fighting"
Attacking Taft's fight to keep
price controls in the hands OF
Congress, Knoll charged "He
wants controls to be tied up by
political finagling and filibusteI
and that's another way he's
earning the $2R million slust
fund Big Business has set up
Democratic Senatorial Candi-
date Joseph T. Ferguson said
my opponent is a Dixiecrat.'
Waving a copy of a Taft pam
phlet being distributed among
Negroes, Ferguson tore into
each of the Taft claims, label
ing them as "lies and distor-
tons and proving his charges
by reading the record.
Rep. William L. Dawson I'd,
Ill.), one of the two Negroes in
Congress said Minority prob
lens will never be settled until
you, here in Ohio, take men
like Taft out of the Congress-
Dawson C harged that or
basic foreign-policy votes, Taft
stood shoulder to shoulder with
Rep. Vito Marcantonio of New
York, whom he labeled as "the
nearest thing to a Communists
in the United States Congress-
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

I'VE are being asked" Per-
kins said, ito yield in our posi-
ton that workers who incur a
permanently disabling injury or
disease before retirement age,
are entitled to protection against
the resulting loss of the right to
work. Let us think first of this
issue in terms of people we
know; of a man of SO who has
worked hard all of his life, has
contributed his share of the So
cial-security payroll tax regu-
larly each quarter. And then
one day he suffers a severe
heart attack or is instantane-
ously mashed up in the mines
and his doctor says he can
never return to work"
What, Perkins asked, should
be the answer of a member of
Congress to the problem of such
a man? Should Congress say to
such a man, Perkins asked,
you are not entitled to any
benefits-not until you get to
be 65 years old"
If the present bill is approved
by the Senate and signed by
President Truman by August 26,
the increased benefits would be
paid on September claims for
aid-checks which would reach
the beneficiaries in October.
The Senate is expected to act
before then.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
Profits Keep Rolling
But Big Business
Keeps On WaiIing

NEW YORK LPA) The
reports of lush profits keep
coming in, but industry means
about how the Fair Deal is ruin
ing business, and how wicked
an excess profits tax would be.
Latest reports show that the
profits of Philco Corp. for the
first six months of 1850 are ga
per cent over the same period
in 1949. Goodyear profits were
up as per cent. B. F. Goodrich
profits were up 80 per cent.
Eastman Kodak reported profits
no 81 per cent or an increase in
sales of less than ! per cent,
Western Union converted a loss
of $3,672, 241 i'm the first six
months of 1949 to a profit of
3,206, 300 for the first six
months of 1850.
Kaiser Aluminium e. Chemi-
cal Corp. r r { e d a drop in
sales for the IL months ended
May 81, 1850, but the earnings
of the three months ended May
81 were the highest in its his
tory. The figure was $4, 053, 683,
against the comparable period
a year ago of $2,769, 200.
Food Fair Stores reported
earnings up 81 " per cent over
last year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
NY-Chieago
Radio Relay
Sept. |

Communications history will
be made September / when the
Long Lines Department of the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company places in regu-
lar service its new radio relay
system between New York and
Chicago. u S d on a standby
basis in recent weeks, the new
super-highway of communica-
ton is the first link in a relay
system that will eventually span
the continent.
Capable of carrying hundreds
of telephone conversations and
several television programs, the
new system will augment exist
ing coaxial cable routes to the
midwest, strengthening one OF
t h e most important backbone
routes in the nations network
of communications.
Built at a cost of approx
mately 1000, 900, thu n e W
route is the longest chain OF
radio relay stations in the world.
Video signals or telephone mes
sages span the 838-mile route in
a series of "a hops of about rs
miles each, all quicker than the
blink of an eye. En- route, the
system also provides additional
service to such intermediate
points as Pittsburgh, Johnstown,
Cleveland and Toledo
When the radio relay system
has been extended from coast
to coast, it will provide another
large capacity route o n 6
which any type of communica-
tons can be flashed across the
nation. Construction is n o W
completed and exhaustive tests
are being made on the relay
system from Chicago to Omaha.
This 458-mile leg will be ready
for service September 80.
Construction of the Omaha
Denver section got underway
last April and installation of the
complex microwave relay equip
ment is to begin soon.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

Joseph w. WaWrZynldk, 90
former City councilman, who
was active in 14th Ward poll
tics, died Wednesday morning
at his home, 1892 Tecumseh st.
after a 4-month illness.
A lifelong resident of Toledo
Mr.. Wawrzyniak was educated
in Toledo public and parochia.
schools and was a graduate Of
old st. Johns University.
He was mailing-room superin-
tendent at the Paryski Publish
ing Co, where he had been EN-
ployed 43 years. Occasionally nc
assisted in the mailing rooms OF
the old News-Bee, the Toledo
Times and The Blade. A past
president of the Toledo Mailers
Union, he also was a member OF
the international Typographical
Union, ALL.
He was in charge of mailing
of the Union Journal from Its
inception.
Served 4 Terms
Mr.. Wawrzyniark served four
consecutive terms in City Coun-
ell from 1925 to 1888, represent
ing the 14th Ward when the
City had a 21-man council.
He was president of the juno
ton Civic Club at the time OF
his death, and a past vice presi-
dent of the West End Commun-
ity Welfare Club. Mr.. Wawrzy-
MAX was a member also of the
14th Ward Old Timers Asso-
citation, the Woodmen of the
World, the Bunny Club, the
Commodore Club and the Holy
Society of st. Anthony's
Parish.
Active In Baseball
During his youth. Mr., Wa
wrzyniak was active in semi
professional baseball. He for
merly was umpire for games in
the City Baseball Federation.
Surviving are his wife, the
former Pauline Kujawa; sons
Edwin and Donald Wawrzyniak,
both of Toledo; daughter, Mrs,
Sylvia Jarzeboski; brothers, Cas-
inner, Frank and Chester OF
Toledo, and Louis, Sandusky;
sister, Mrs. Ursula Best, Toledo,
and six grandchildren.
Services will be Saturday al
$50 a. m. in the Czolgosz Flu
neral Home, and at 10 a. m,
there will be a Solemn Requiem
High Mass in st. Anthony's
Church. Burial will be in Cal.
vary Cemetery.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

N. c. of the House Ways and
Means Committee, made it clear
he viewed the K nowland
amendment as a "stop-gap."
Actually, the conference-ap-
proved bill provides for ire
mendous increases in benefits
for retired workers, and for de-
pendents in the event of death
of a covered worker.
The new social security bill
will cover an extra 10 million
workers, bringing the total COW
cred to as million. Those al
ready retired and receiving
benefits. or retiring between
now and the second quarter of
1852, will be paid according to
a conversion table" scale. The
rates will range from 100 per
cent down to so per cent above
present rates. The average in
crease will be about 77h per
cent, government statisticians
estimate.
After the second quarter of
1852, retiring workers will be
paid by either the conversion
table, or the "new formula"
which ever is higher. In most
cases the new formula will
yield the greater benefits. In
der the new formula, basic pay
ment will be so per cent of the
first, 500 of average wage plus
Is per cent of the next $500 for
anyone with a minimum of six
quarters of coverage. Payments
for dependents will be added to
the basic payment, but the fam
lily total cannot exceed $3.50 a
month.
On the day before the vote.
Rep. Carl Perkins 3D., Ky.),
pleaded with his colleagues to
support the Lynch motion to re-
commit, which never actually
reached the floor because of the
parliamentary situation.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
Disability Insurance Out Know|and
Amendment In Onl88-185 HOUSEHOLDS

WASHINGTON (LPA) - A
last-ditch drive to insist on the
disability insurance proposals
contained i'm the House social
security bill, and on eliminating
the Knowland strike breaking
unemployment insurance pro-
vision in the same bill was lick.
ed in the House August 16. The
vote was 1873 to 1875.
The hairs breadth vote came
on a motion which was, techni.
cally, to ignore a motion by
Rep. Walter Lynch Cd. N. "
to insist that Senate House con.
ferees insert the disability sec.
ton originally approved by the
House, and remove the obnoxi-
Gus section inserted by Sen. Will
liam Knowland (R., Calif.).
Lynch, in a final plea to send
the social security bill back to
conference, warned that the
Knowland amendment sis a
real threat to the rights which
labor has gained over the years
through collective bargaining
and progressive legislation" II
is buried under technical Ian
guage," he warned, w h ! C h
would restrict the Secretary OF
Labor in finding out whether a
state is conforming with federal
standards in administering UNI
employment compensation.
These requirements" which
would be virtually wiped out
"by a subterfuge," Lynch told
his colleagues, "were imposed
by Congress to make sure that
unemployment insurance would
not be used as a strikebreaking
weapon or as a means of fore
ing a worker to sign a yellow
dog contract or as a means OF
forcing sweatshop wages, hours,
and working conditions upon
the worker"
Immediately following the
1873 to 1875 vote, and then a 374
to one vote to approve the con-
ference report, Rep. John Din
CELL Cd, Mich.). introduced a
bill to repeal the Knowland
rider. Organized labor is ex-
pected to press for quick action
on the repeater, as soon as the
Senate okays the conference re-
port. Chairman Doughton Cd,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
Public Power Means
Lower Electric Bills
FPC 1850 Study Shows
WASHINGTON HPA)

WASHINGTON GPA) -
Average hosuehold electric bills,
in cities of $500 population or
more went down seven per cent
between 1910 and 1850, accord
ing to a study by the Federal
Power Commission.
The changes were startlingly
different from city to city though
the FPC found. During l949 for
instance, rates rose in 423 COM
munities and decreased In 218
communities on the typical bill
for a family using electricity
for lights, small appliances and
refrigeration. This is for a 100
kilowatt-hour consumption.
The effect of public power in
lowering family bills was dra-
matically demonstrated. OF the
10 cities over $4,000 people re-
porting the lowest l00-kwh bills,
all except two are served by a
publicly owned utility, and four
of them are in the Tennessee
Valley area. The cities are: Ia
coma, Wash (S1.70); Madison
Wis. (S2.40); Lincoln, Nebr.
(S245); Glendale, Calf, Coving-
ton, KY, Chattanooga, Knoxville
Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.
(all $3.50 and Cleveland
(S265).
Highest 100 XVIII bills in large
cities, all served by private
power companies, were found tc
be: Mount Vernon, New Rochelle
and Yonkers. NY (all $500,
Allentown, Bethlehem, Harris.
burg, Lancaster, Wilkes Barre
Pa. (all $500; Bronx, NYC
($4.90); Portland, Maine (S4. 70)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

In smaller cities, the differ.
ence between highest and low.
est rates for 100 XVIII was ever
greater. Out of A cities under
$4,000 population listed as hav,
ing the lowest bills, all extepI
two were served by publicly.
owned utilities. OF the IL cities
of the same relative size, which
reported the highest bills, only
two are served by publicly own.
ed utilities.
Further evidence of the fact
hat publicly-owned utilities
sharply reduce the average ia.
mily's electric bill is shown by
FPC's list of the states thai
showed the greatest reduction
between 1910 and 1850. The
Tennessee Valley Authority
area - the states of Tennessee
Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia
all showed great reductions. Ir
Tennessee, which was the low.
est-cost state in both years, bill.
were cut nine per cent during
the ten years. In Washington
state where the Bonneville
power development has beer
built, light bills were cut 49,
per cent.
Another big factor in lowering
bills has been the inclusion, by
the public rate-regulating au,
thorities, of a clause for reduc.
ing or raising rates when tho
costs of fuel for generating cleo.
tricity, taxes on the electric com
pany, and other such costs o.
the electric company are raised
or lowered.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25
clio Brands Amendments To
Control. Bill "A Fraud And A Fake
Vote Taken Without A
Roll Call; Many Absent

WASHINGTON (LPA)-The
CLIO has issued a sharp warning
against amendments to the De-
Tense Production bill, in a letter
to all members of the Senate.
Amendments already voted are
bad enough, said the CLIO, but
pending amendments are even
worse.
Instead of preventing rising
prices and initiation" said the
CLIO, price escalators and profit
guarantees have been built into
the bill by votes taken without
quorum calls, with only a few
Senators present and without a
single roll call vote" These
amendments, the CIO charged,
"are likely to cost consumers,
including U. S. government pro-
curement agencies, billions of
dollars and prevent the achieve
ment of the stated purposes of
the bill"
Pending amendments. if adopt
ed, would make the bill "a fake
and a fraud upon the American
people and an attempt to put
off the economic mobilization
necessary to strengthen u ma
tional security" said the CLIO.
The amendments block expan-
sion of production, prevention
of initiation, and sterilization of
the economy, the CIO declared.
The Senate was expected to
start voting on a number of
amendments Monday, Aug. 81.
The letter to the Senators was
signed by Nathan Cowan, CLIO
Legislative director, and was ac-
companied by an analysis of
amendments already approved or
pending.
Cowan attacked proposals that
wage and price sterilization pro-
grams be based on the same
time period. These proposals, he
said, ';would grossly discrimin-
ate against workers whose
wages were set by contract or
otherwise, months or years be-
fore the sharp price rises that
preceded and followed the
launching of United Nations e
sistance to Communist aggression
in Korea" Such amendments, he
said, would prevent adjustment
of wage inequities within and
among industries and occupa-
tons. Obviously, such adjust
ment is necessary to prevent
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

The Federal Public Contracts
Act requires time and one-half
pay for hours worked after 8
hours a day or 40 hours a week.,
whichever will net the en-
ployee more pay.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-08-25

WASHINGTON GPA)-Themanpower dislocation and pro-