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usal because of the large number of adults stricken with polio. No less than 290 patients are now being assisted in King County by the foundation. As result of this drain the King County chapter compelled to obtain S1O75O from the national headquarters to tide it over until additional funds available from the 1850 March of Dimes.
 In the State as a whole 590 persons contracted polio last year and s365 OOO was spent their care Snohomsh County had to draw nearly $100,O0O from the foundations epidemic fund.
 It is absolutely essential that the foundations depleted funds be replenished-not only to finance it's vital research work and to care for victims but also to help those who still under treatment.
 The March of Dimes cards which being de- livered in Seattle this are, therefore, messages which cannot be ignored
 Everyone who receives one should recognize a personal responsibility to return it-with as many dimes possible or better still, much folding money as the individual householder can afford
 The Ketchikan News, under the caption Dime at a Time" also recently said edtorally
 This is the month of the March of Dimes D This is the month when little money from each of lot of people will pour into the fund that fights our battle against infantile paralysis
 Throughout the year the battle goes in the laboratories and hospitals Nothing spared to gain inch against the polio germ. But the number of IHe UuIDer or nOSplldlS anu IHe Der of scientists that be arrayed against the enemy limited by the amount of money available.
 So the whole complexion of the battle is decided in the week that the March of Dimes" jars displayed in public
 This is lot like war bond drive The funds go to fight war against ruthless enemy. The money is not given away but is returned with nerest-only in this the interest and the principal paid back in different coin in lives saved and lives mended
 No one knows exactly whose lives at stake in the March of Dimes, so it is different from the drives staged to help others. the March of Dimes one might be saving ones own life or future by dropping dime in the jar The higher the pile of dimes the shorter becomes the period in the future when polio continue to strike hit and miss throughout the world, and the less we have fear this disease that cripples often it kills.
 Some day in the future the of polio will be under control but that day is not yet, mean time dimes needed by the jarfu
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ate. Certainly the man is essential ly honest and scrupulous, for he noted that he had given his patient dose of TO co of air." fatal dose when injected into an artery.
 Thus, pr. Sander made Euthan- asia, or mercy killing,' matter for judicial procedure. Should he be convicted, there is a possibility that the case will go up to the Supreme Court of the United States for final determination
 But what will it be that the courts may ultimately have to Ge- eide? It can only be whether any man is entitled to private judg- ment in ending the life of another, even for compassionate reasons.
 Certainly, this was a difficult decision to make for man of the high character, as all his neigh tors attest, of Dr. Sander. He wearied of Mrs. Borroto'S suffering and he eased her out. Whether that is a more general practise than we know, no one can say. We are in the hands of our physicians whose object is to heal and cure, not to act as the angel of death.
 Who is to say that cure will never be found for cancer? Actually many sufferers of cancer are now cured When my father was my resent age, diabetes was a dread ed illness. Today, one who has this disability can with care and obed- fence to simple rules, live useful life to ripe old age. There was a time when nothing could be done about a great many illnesses; today, medical, chemical and biological knowledge is SC expanded and sur- gical and laboratory techniques so advanced, that many live who even half century ago would have been given up for lost.
 Who then can, as matter of private judgment, say that another's
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Newspapers Curb Jackets

In Fresno, as in Kansas City. the rackets have also been curbed by elert newspapers. The watchful Fresno Bee has crusaded against Ccstelloism, while in Missouri, the Kansas City Star has cracked down on every move Binaggio has made. Nevertheless, the Kansas City po- lice force, which became a model of efficiency after Boss Pendergast went to jail, is now in state of jitters.
 Binaggio has demanded the rein statement of a former police chief, previously denoted, together with a new chief of dectectives, Thomas J. Higgins, despite the fact that Higgins, was once indicted for perjury in connection with the Kansas City Union Station killings.
 Furthermore, the new police com missioners appointed by Gov. For rest Smith, following his election with gambling support, have urged these changes.
 Binnagio is quite frank about it all: T want to open up the town" he says. And his political power has been so strong that even President Truman's old friend, Mayor Roger Sermon of Indepen- dence, has hoped on the Binag- gio bandwagon.
 That's why the Justice Depart ments grand jury probes in Kansas City, Miami and southern Calif- ornia, plus fortnight Sen. Estes Kefauver's investigation of inter- state gambling, are among the healthiest things that have hit this country.
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it can be stopped.
 Tcday in Kansas City only two out of l3 gangland murders have been solved by the police in the last two years. And as a result oi the current Justice Department probe in Kansas City, one witness before the grand jury, Daniel w Robinson, was murdered recently. Another witness, Sam Butler, after being badgered by the gang, com mitted suicide.
 The invasion of Costelloism is always slow, almost imperceptible At first it can scarcely be detect ed.
 Nearly always it gets a foot in the door through heavy political contributions to a candidate for public office. He may be complet- ely honest, but he needs the money and doesn't think twice about the obligations he must fulfill after he takes office.
 In Kansas City, for instance, it was Democrat Forrest Smith, run- ming for Governor of Missouri in l948, who accepted the backing of the Binaggio gang. Now that he's in the governors chair, Smith has no love for the gamblers or what they stand for. Nevertheless, Binaggio's political power is an unacceptable fact. Binaggio has even been ad- mitted, since Smiths election, to the secret Democratic caucus of the Missouri legislature, while two Bin- aggio friends have been named by Governor Smith to the Kansas City Police Board
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MARCH OF DIMES

While no special requests are being made for the annual March of Dimes, Juneau will have tag dag next Friday, jars being placed in stores and tributions may be mailed to P O. Box 1539
 Under the caption Join the Parade" the Seattle PostInelligencer recently had the following editorial
 The March of Dimes, conducted each year by the National Foundation for Infantie Paralysis is gen eraly recognized of the most worthy appeals for funds that is made to the public
 This year it deserves more generous support than usual = because the need both nationally and locally is greater than before.
 This is because 1949 was the worst year in Amer can history far polio is concerned. Thirty million dollars spent for the care of polio pa- tents in the nation a whole, exhaustng the founda- tions epidemic aid fund well the funds of most county chapters.
 Fortunately the disease did not reach epidemic proportions in Seattle but expenses higher than
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lis had been so close to Cannon that the gambler used to sit in his office and send members of the rolice force out for coffee with such an air of authority that rookie cops thought Cannon was a mem- Der of the staff. Lieutenant Ellis took the Civil Service Exam, along with others, and flunked. But deS- pite this he was still urged on Mayor Dunn as police chief
 Instead the nave newcomer to politics sent one of his best men, Lieut.. Henry Morton, to Washing ton to train at J. Edgar Hoover's national police academy and study exactly the opposite law enforce ment methods from those the gambling fraternity wanted.
 Some members of the Fresno Po- lice Force, however, continued to be palsy-walsy with the gamblers. Only recently, gambling chief Can- non walked into Tony's restaurant at am. waving loaded revolver.
 A waitress calmed him down, and unloaded the revolver until the police could arrive. But when a patrolman did arrive he failed to arrest Cannon because of the tech nicality that the revolver, at the time of his arrival, was not loaded. Other citizens do not get such len tent treatment.
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Gamblers Guessed Wrong

In Louisiana, Huey Long got started through exactly the same process. Frankie Costello arrived with S100,000 cash contribution tc Huey's campaign. In return for which Huey opened up the state to slot machines.
 This looked harmless at the time, and was the most painless way for Huey to raise money to fight the big oil companies and utilities then bent On defeating him. But it pay ed the way for the most ruthless state dictatorship this country has ever seen.
 Or take another town which is pretty much average city-U.SA"- namely, Fresno, California.
 Here the gambling fraternity used exactly the same technique to put a friend in office, and would have succeeded had they not picked the wrong friend. In Fresno, shrewd and likable public relations coun- sel, Robert Franklin, with manifold connections, became the campaign manager for Republican candidate Gordon Dunn, newcomer in pol itics.
 And it was only a couple of weeks after Dunn's election that he was approached by the man who helped elect him to "open up" the city of gambling and houses of prostitution.
 Dunn, naive but courageous, re- fused. However, the pressure has continued, with the approaches be- ing almost identical to those made in Kansas City.
 Among other things, Lieut.. Ed Ellis, a friend of the city's gamb- ling boss, Joe Cannon, was pro- posed as police chief of Fresno. El-
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Nine persons were admitted to St. Ann's Hospital over the week end. They were: Mrs. John Dodge, Mrs. G. A. Milton, Alberta Horton, Peter Wood Jr., Sigurd Edwards, Mrs. Sigurd Edwards, James Single ton, Mrs. Nalared Soley, and Mrs. Blake Kinnear
 Eight persons were dismissed from St. Ann's: Ernest Herzcg, Donald Hudson, Roy Minor, Mrs. Joe Snow and baby daughter, For rest Nottingham, Walter Barron, and Mrs. c. A. Melton.
 Lonnie Houston of Hoonah and June Goenett and Mary Nelson of Juneau were admitted to the Gov ernment Hospital over the week end. /
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life must be brought to an end? This involves a fundamental moral question in our society which has become, in many respects, anarchic
 For instance, Edda Ciano an- nounces, apparently with pride. that she was born before her father, Benito Mussolini, married her moth- CT. Ally Khan, in a moment of gar rulcus mendacitv, announces earlier than anyone could scientifically know that his wife would give birth to a premature baby. Then there is all the commotion about Ingrid Bergman being pregnant while she is married to one man with whom she is not living and is associating with another man to whom she is not married.
 All this is supposed to be TO- mantle but it violates cur basic morals which come to us from the Ten Commandments and upon which stands the whole of cur civil ization. It is unfortunate enough that we are frail and err and mis- k2have; it is unfortunate that we cannot and do not live up to our principles and ideals. But when we discard our principles and ideals, we have nothing to live up to. When that happens, a society with CTS, decays and dies.
 The right of free choice is not contested when society defends itself against the evils which may result from such exercise of pri- vate judgment as can destroy so- ciety itself.
 While anyone may own, in our free society, an auto and drive it, he is nevertheless subject to talk ing a test for a license, and he is required to pay attention to red and green lights and to other traffic regulations. While the road is open, it is not open to destruction. AL though ours is free society, it is not an anarchy, where each one does as he chooses, no matter what he does to others.
 So, Euthanasia involves the fun damental question as to who has the right to kill a person because that person is "incurably" i'll? A judgment that involves such finality cannot be the province of one man, whatever his vocation.
 Admitting that Dr. Sander meant well, ths peril is that his act may become a legal precedent for whole sale murder, even by those who do not mean well.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

MISUSED to Say, NOWHERE
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Au o-re-vwar o IS HER, in All, principal syllable
 d1npretentious) maker).
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 a three i yours" vocabulary mastering word each Todays economy Industry frugaity her left"-Proverb
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Canadian Lumber Tariff Boost Is
 Now Being Sought
(Rv Associated Press)

Representative Russell V. Mack of Washington says Pacific North west lumber mills rapidly are los ing Eastern markets to Canadian firms. He wants an increase in tariffs on Canadian lumber.
 According to Mack, cargo vessels carried nearly three times as much lumber from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast states in the first II months of 1949 as they did in 1948. Mack added the hourly minimum wage in British Columbia lumiter mills is 40 cents under the minimum in oregon and Washing ton.
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THESE DAY s
 GEORGE :. SOKOLSKY
EUTHANASIA

It may be possible for Dr. Her mann Sander to argue, or even to establish in a court of law. that when he gave Mrs. Abbie Borroto a hypodermic injection of air, he knew that she would soon die; that he saved her few hours of agony;
 that his purposes were compassion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-23
CADETS FROM ALASKA
 AT ARNOLD'S RITES

Two Alaska boys now cadets at West Point, Robert F. Pfeil of An chorage and Alfred F. Lawrence of Sitka, were among the four acad- emy companies representing West Point at the funeral of General Henry (Hap) H. Arnold in Wash ington.
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Weather af
 Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3o am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau at Juneau. follow:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-23

Heparin is used by surgeons to prevent formation of clots in blood vessels after operations.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE SoRrRrA Sy LEX,

should the invitation godpaent A. Either verbally formal The hardly should consider asked child.
 introducing of necessary to group?
  a repeated. May bride white and veil in a
 The traditional white reserved church weddings going away
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funniest basketball battles the this 58 2 in the High School Gym plays both sides recalling the old football was high point the evening" totaling 12 points
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water when not use order responsible the existing of shortage by nighta creating hazard evening.
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wild goose is no goose. Before the weather turns cold he goes South.
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20 YEARS AGO fHE FIT EMPIRE
JANUARY 23, 193O

which ceiling fire at 6:30 the n
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The Washington kerrY-Go-Round
it can be stopped.

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B. local contractor reported that 1929 had been
  or year afforded unusually reception eevn on nights disappointed
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Weather: High, 31; low, 20; clear.
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William Hardware Company the hospital operation
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pnoch talent displayed when Moohear the guaranteed Ramsey, and John Covich.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11
CLASSIFIED ADS

FOR SALE 2 lots, 45x90, on
Adelite between Lakeview and
Mccall. Ideal spot for resi-
dence. Call He-1076. tt
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11
SPORTS ....
concluded from page u

concluded from page -
Lutz in centerfield, Boone walked
and Vernon Tucker, playing inthe
place of Larry Dolby, who is at the
All Star classic, swung hard at
the sharp breaking curve served
by Hoskins. Maybe Dave would
make a difference in the Dayton
Indians chances of becoming a
threat in the central league pen
nant race. Who knows. Anyway,
Skipper, Ellsworth a trial. Getting
back to Lucious Luke, who was
swamped with request for his
signature of every fan in the park,
told this reporter, he is one of
the happiest players in the game.
Said "big" Luke, 81 appreciate
everything the fans over the cir
cult has said about me, and the
many sport writer's are boosting
me-" AS far as the booing around
the loop during my "bad days, I
pay no attention to it,. The other
boys on the team have told me, 1T
is only natural for ball fans to
express themselves toward ball
players" when you are good, you
get the cheers, and when you're
bod, we'll you get the sneers and
boos." So far as tn players on
the club, ''they are a great bunch
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11

FOR RENT Furnished cabin in
the woods. Picnics : Vacations
Day or weekly. Me-9375 eve.
t-31
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11

FOR RENT Rooms. 4 single
girls. Morn. Ad-5398 Eve. MI
1928. t-33
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11
EDUCATION NEWS

concluded from page 81
pointed chaplains and religious
workers in higher educational in
stitutions. More than 800 persons
are on the mailing list, with $50
active members, 80 Of whom at
tended last years conference.
Officers for the 1950-51 are
DIR. William J. Faulkner, dean Of
the chapel at Fisk university,
president; Chaplain Kenneth Nor
gan, of Colgate, vice-president and
program chairman; DR.. H. LeMarr
Rice, Temple university chaplain,
secretary-treasurer; and the fol-
lowing executive committee mem
bers Bradford S. Alternately, Of
Rutgers University, immediate
past president; George M. Dean,
Lehigh; Samuel l.. Candy, Virgin
ia State College; c. A. Neyman,
University of Southern California
and Robert Rankin, Oberlin col
lege.
The religious workers of the
host school, including DR.. Miller
and Charles q. Flax, secretary for
the Student Christian association,
are responsible for local arrange
ments of the conference.
White Boston Celtics Sign
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11

SideIi9hfS 81 Golf
(continude from page -
She has been coached by Leonard
Reed.
Estimates Of the number of
people in the galleries went as
high as athousand, Of course, you
konw who the big attraction was.
Many of the males who went to
gaze at ole, found themselves
gazing at the many members Of
the alleged week sex in shorts.
The press had a difficult time
of it getting the results in time
to meet headlines. Suggest an i'm
provement in the tabulating of
scores and in getting the news of
the winners and scores to the
press, particularly the scores of
those the public watts to read "a
bout.
The next big sporting event
which will attract performers
from all over the nation to this
vicinity will be the national ten
mis- tournament at Wilberforce
from August FL to 26.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11

of fellows" "From the manager
to the bat boy they all treat me
SWELL" Said the big one, Jimmie,
it's just differant in the "Big
Show" all you have to think about
is playing ball." NJ worry about
the bus breaking down, wondering
about pay days as in the old days
with "our teams. No sleeping on
the road side and many other
things we had to think about when
you were Fostering me about my
batting averages with the Cleve-
land Buckeyes" And so the Day
ton fans have become acquainted
with Big Luke, AL Rosen, Ray
Boone, Mitchell, Bob Kennedy
and others, and wish for them
sucess in bringing to the Cleve-
land stadium, another pennant and
the 1850 World Series winner.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11
D~uquesne's Cooper
BOSTON CAMP


BOSTON (ANP)- The Boston
Celtics professional basketball
team announced last week that it
had signed Charley Cooper, form
er Duquesne university court star.
Cooper is % and, at six feet
five inches and 215 pounds, is an
other addition in the Celt plan to
build a team of big men. He was
named to Looks 1850 All Ameri-
can team for his ability to COM
bine offensive and defensive tai
ents.
Last year the Celtics tried out
Tom Blair, mainstay on the North
western team here, but Blair fail
ed to make the grade.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11
RAILROAD WORKERS

(COnC1nuoO from rage ~
cult Court of Appeals in 1913.
| Violated Fifth Amendment a
The plot to GUST colored porter
brakemen violated the Fifth
amendment to the U. S. Constitu-
ton, in that it denied the workers
property rights without due pro-
! cess of law, the court declared.
Following Westbrooks' sharp
line Of argument, the Court agreed
| that the adjustment boards COM
position made its 1912 ruling un-
| constitutional. Here is a-summary
of the half-century old job strug-
gle:
In 1899, the Sante Fe hired
| colored workers to inspect cars
test signals and brake apparatus,
close switches, engines, attachment
hose, couple and uncouple cars,
keep passengers cars in a near
condition, and perform duties of
brakemen. They were paid an ave-
rage Of $50 per month.
They performed these duties
with cush efficiency that in a few
years every rail system in the
nation hired them in similar capa-
cities.
- They e given a tremendous
increase in pay and shortly after
the turn of the century they were
considered permanent fixtures in
all major rail systems.
This was the signal for the all
white Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen to move in. They exert
ed every available pressure on
railroad companies to replace
porter-brakemen with white mem
bers of the union.
Following the negative 1912
award, two porter-brakemen were
fired by Santa Fe. This. formed
the basis for a test case, involving
Porter-Brakeman Obie Fauster
Hunter of Pampas, Tex, and 35
other colored workers. This was
a class suit, backed by the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Not Allowed To Argus Defense
Westbrooks argued that colored
porter-brakemen we're being dis
charged without having had the
opportunity to utter one word in
their defense. He exposed records
ofthe board to prove porter-brake-
men had not been informed that
their discharge was being consid-
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-11

her birth, a birth hat amazed the
medical profession. One foot long
at birth, baby Margaret was one
ofthe smallest babies ever to be
delivered at Chicago's Presbyteri-
an hospital. She was two months
premature and scaled one pound
and ID ounces.
concluded in next issue)
If you don't learn anything by
your mistakes : there is no use
for you to make them.
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cred and had not been invited to
testify.
Job rights is property right, he
argued, thus the Fifth amendment
was violated. At the same time, he
exposed the "all-white jury COM
position of the board.
The NRAB consists of five re-
representatives. of rail companies
and five representatives of all
white rail unions. They are paid
$4,000 each a year. When the
board was stalemated by a tie
vote in 1912, a white representa-
tive from the South outside the
First division was called in to
break the tie in favor as the white
union.
He told Judge La Buy the set
up was illegal and that paid rep
resentatives could hardly rule
against their financiers. West
brooks reminded the court that
such a board previously had been
declared illegal by a special court
of three federal judges.
In unmistakable language, Judge
La Buy agreed this line of reason
ing and signed the historic decree.