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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
T HESE D A Y S
GEORGE +. SOKOLSKY
ALREADY IN THE RECORD

ALREADY IN THE RECORD
All the material in this ar
ticle is taken from the Report OF
Subcommittee w of the Committee
On the Judiciary of the House OF
Representative" published in 1916
"On June 6, 1945, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation
caused the arrest of Philip Jacob
Jaffe. and Kate Louise Mitchell
editor and co-editor Of Amer
asia ;; Andrew Roth, lieuten-
ant in the United States Naval
Reserve, stationed in Washington:
Mark julius Gayn, a magazine
writer :; and Emmanuel Sigurd
Larsen and John Stewart Service
employees of the State Depart
ment in Washington, D. C. 49,.
Among the documents seized in
the possession of Jaffe at the AM
erasia office in New York City at
the time of his arrest were 267
prepared by the State Department
including copies of top secret
classification, 20 originals or dup
licate originals and IA copies OF a
secret classification, and 81 origin
ais or duplicate originals and Ia
copies of a confidential classifica-
ton; SO prepared by OSS, including
2 originals or duplicate originals,
and l copy of a secret classlflca-
ton and II originals or dulicate
originals of a confidential clasSifi-
cation; 10 prepared by ON Office
of Naval Intelligence), including l
original or duplicate original OF a
secret classification and 3 originals
or duplicate originals of a conflden-
tial classification; "a prepared by
MID military Intelligence), includ-
ing copies of secret classlflca-
ton, original or duplicate orig
inal and IL copies of confidential
classification; So prepared by owl
including 3 copies of secret class
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Wall Street." replied Judge Pecora
who served as counsel for the Sen
ate committee during that invest
igation.
Can you give me the date OF
that incident?" continued Clifford
Yes, it was about May %, 1888
Fine" SAG .GliHoYs "knas
just what we wanted to know
Now, one other question. Did the
investigation of Wall Street come
before or after the Senate munitions
investigations"
THE Wall Street investigation
came first said Pecora and then
added: "One other thing. The
incident to which you refer did
not occur during a Senate Comm
ittee meeting. Neither l nor the
Senate Banking and Currency Com
mittee were present when the mid
get sat on j. P. Morgan's knee
1t occurred before the committee
came into the room"
Clifford thanked Judge Pecora
and hung up.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
MARTHA SOCIETY
GOING TO OBSERVE
50TH ANNIVERSARY

The Martha Society of the North
ern Light Presbyterian Church is
this year celebrating the 50th ami
versary of its founding. The organi-
cation came into existence in 1900
and was first known as the Ladies
Aid Society This name was changed
to the Martha Society in 1922.
At the monthly business meeting
of the society Friday tentative plans
were made for golden anniversary
tea to be given September Is. Com
mittees were also appointed for the
annual picnic on June 2.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
TRUMAN ON STATEHOOD

Last Saturday The Empire carried an Associated
Press dispatch regarding President Trumans view
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. The text of the
Presidents view is contained in letter to Chairman
OMahoney, Democrat of Wyoming, of the Senate In
terror Committee Here is the complete letter.
My Dear Senator OMahoney
1 am highly gratfed by the thorough and objective
consideration which your committee is giving to H. r.
33 and H. R. 40, bills which would enable the
tories of Alaska and Hawaii to take their righu place
members of the Union AS you know, have long
supported the detectives of these important bills which
carry out the pledges made to the people of the two
territories sincerely hope that the Congress- during
its present session. will enact legislation granting
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. The need is more
urgent today than before BY such action, we
will not only promote the welfare and development of
the two territories but also greatly strengthen the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
20 YEARS AGO { fTn I EMPIRE .p1'R1
MAY 8, 1890


Portland arrived May
Aeuan the bride of Mr. Albert
Clark u Commissioner officiating
in the Spcket Apartments
Friends were catching
married Miss Beula
Canada months
accepting position with the Associated
his bride,
the Apartments The
Gabriel Menager officiating
the bride the fifth
Capt Gascok had brought the crack new liner Autn
late the previous from Seattle
dock watch her manev to the wharf
dsembarked
Stewart local had booked
the Aeutan.
position druggist in Btts Pharmacy Donald New
brough former seattlete hada the Aleuian
low, 8; clear
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Truman's Low Ebb

President Truman is taking his
swing through the Northwest at a
time when his political barometer
is the lowest since he lost control
of Congress in 1916. The Pepper
defeat in Florida plus the neck
and-neck Dixiecrat race in Alabama
all 60 to support what the political
dopesters previously predicted-that
Truman stock is in the cellar.
There are four general reasons
for his slump, as follows:
/. The Mccarthy Charges-have
cut deeper than Washington re-
allied. While most people don't
sympathize with Mccarthy they
believe that where there's SMOKE
there's fire. Also they wonder why
the administration has lacked CO.
hesive rebuttal.
O. The Kansas City Murders
have focused attention on Truman
and the Pendergast machine. Act
ually, Truman had sent his ace
investigators into x. c., and de-
serves credit rather than blame in
the Binaggio shootings. However
most folks don't know this-again
due to poor public relations.
g. Economic Unrest-Farmers arr
irked at falling prices. Housewives
are irked at wasted potatoes and
price supports. The public is fed
UP with strikes and business is
grousing about taxes,
4. Lack of Leadership-Gradual-
ly, the public is coming to the con-
clusion that there isn't much lea
dership in Washington. They cam
put their finger on anything def
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
Merry-GO-ROund

Jolly Senator Alex Wiley is at
raid the Joe Mccarthy business
may bounce against him in Wis
| consin. Wiley, senior COP Sen
Iste sfEDm, wisccNsin,, rs ab xfor ne
election in November. Of every
visitor Wiley anxiously inquiries
What are they thinking at home
about Joe's charges? They aren't
saying I'm mixed up in them, are
they?" =. One reason why Harry
Truman vetoed the Kerr Natural
Gas Bill is 5000 letters and tele-
grams in protest received in one
hour +. Reasonable young Dave
Lloyd has succeeded Clark Clifford
as Harry Truman's chief ghost
writer :. /. Jay Franklin, the
Washington columnist who ghosted
for the President in the l948 cam
paign, is now penning prose for
Gov. Tom Dewey-and doing a
good job Keith Himebaugh,
the crackerjack public relations di-
rector for the Department of Ag-
riculture, has just turned down a
big job with the oil industry.
Anti-Histamine
The American Medical Association
is the backstage partner of the
Federal Trade. Commission in it's
order against the commercial Anti
Histamine drugs. Tip-off was a
hot editorial in the A. M. 4. news
complaining of promotional cam
paigns that rival those for vita
minis a few years ago."
Despite the Medical Associations
opposition, doctors prescribed some
100000 tablets and some 11,OO0,-
coo doses of the Anti Histamine
drugs in 1949. The Food and Drug
Administration also okayed the An
ti-Histamine drugs commercially in
November 1949. One of the COM
mercial -Histamine drugs, In
histon, is owned by the United
States Government through the
alien property custodian.
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Daily Lessons in English " . L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED I
Disappointed glad that went if
disappointed"
STAY.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: respectable going
DOWN.
confidence credence
WORD STUDY: a and is yours" us
mastering Todays
fiction 1T Pigment
of a poets fancy"
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The Washington
Merry-Go-Round

Continued from Page One)
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Weather al
Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
am. 10th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
BETTY anne TApLEY
GIVEN SCHOLARSHIP
TO MILLS COLLEGE

Betty Anne Tapley of Juneau,
Alaska, a senior student at Juneau
High School, has been awarded a
Trustee Scholarship to Mills College
in Oakland, Calf, according to adj
vices received by The Empire. Miss
Tapley is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George M Tapley.
Trustee scholarships are offered
in national competition and repre-
sent the most distinguished scholar
ship award given by Mills College.
Each one offers $4,000, payable at
the rate Of 81 900 for each OF the
four years of undergraduate study
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08

ification, / original or duplicate
original and copies of conf
Dental classification
CA number of documents simil-
arly detailed were found when Lar
sen was arrested at his home In
Washington, D. c.
q. The records made available
to this committee indicate B. that
Roth, who had been under sur
veillance, was the contact man or
go-between for Jaffe in Washing
ton Four items which were
seized by the FBI in the possession
of Jaffe, and which bore no official
classification, were subjected to
laboratory analysis, with the result
ing disclosure that they were copies
of official reports on Indian poll
tics written in longhand by Roth.
or typewriter on Roth'S machine
g. Virtually all of the late
1914 and 1945 items seized from
Jaffe, which on their face indicated
them to be government property,
were removed from the State De-
partment. Many originated else
where, but had been routed to
State. Larsen had authority enab-
ling him to take such items from
the State Department, although un-
der the regulations he could not
retain them or disclose their con-
tents. Although the various parties
were frequently observed in the
company of one another by trained
investigators, no one of them was
ever seen to deliver any government
items to another. In the govern
ment agencies to which the various
reports or documents were routed
there was no real control or rec
ord of the whereabouts OF copies
From the Minority View of Frank
Fellows, member of the commi.,ee
Larsen, when arrested was a
research specialist in the Far East
Division of the Department oil
State. The Department of State
had no system worthy of the name
for protecting the files OF that
Department. A man with a gold
badge could, without question, carry
away any document he wished. AL
he needed was gold badge, and
this could be borrowed
HE (Jaffe) was photographing
and publishing some of them, there
by, through the medium of his
magazine, at least, selling the con-
tents of some of the CLASSIFIED
documents of this government at
the time when the United States
was fighting for its very existence
These papers were seized from
Jaffe at the time of his arrest in
his business establishment, where
IlG Was a. AAAo0~~
They were not his own documents
They were not seized as the result
of searching his files. They were
found in suitcaseS and pasteboard
containers on the tables and desks
of his business offices. I do not
see how anybody could claim these
papers were illegally seized. The
circumstances clearly indicate that
Roth, who had previously worked
for him in this very office, was
delivering papers to him . :"
The activities reported above by
a Congressional Committee, the
chairman of which was Sam Hobbs
of Alabama, Democrat, occurred
while this country was engaged III
a war which involved an armed
force of 100000 men and women
and cost this country more than
$500, 900 100000.
What has been done about this
report?
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mite, but they feel that the White
House is drifting rather than lead
ing.
All of the above means that the
President not only has to make
some real speeches on his trip, but
has to organize more consistent
teamwork after he gets home
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
No FDG background

An interesting sidelight can be
drawn from this conversatios. Any
newsman covering Washington, OF
any government official close to
the Roosevelt administration would
have remembered wildly the fam
GUS incident involving the circus
midget and j. p Morgan during
the Senate probe which cleaned
up Wall Street and led to the
formation of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
And what the Clifford-Pecora
conversation illustrates is that Tru-
man has no one around him who
knows the background of the Roos-
evelt reforms on which the Truman
administration is now building.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
MODERN ETIQUETTE $ * LEE

proper bridegroom
especially not acquainted with the bride?
wedding bride.
customary a wedding present
to talk with his neighbors at the
table whether not they have been introduced?
A. Certainly This both customary and courteous
O. transportation provided clergyman a
ai. A. Yes
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
LOOK and LEARN & sy' e GORDON !:


Russian Navy?
the crime for which
ately be held and tried?
legatee?
people opposed
to the paicians?
in
seuh, Poirot figure?
ANSWERS:
l.
Q. Perjury.
whom legacy bequeathed.
plebeians
S.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-05-08
DANCING CLASSES

Now enrolling in Tap, Acrobatic,
Toe, Ballet, Baton Twirling, Aero
bate. Glass for boys. Social dane
ing for beginners. Phi. Blue 1863
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of the same professions there and also talked with University of Alaska staff members on matters relating to registration, making tentative arrangements with them to assist in drawing up question: naires to determine the qualitica- tions of applicants. The knowledge he gained, and further study and suggestions, will be incorporated in discussions which will be held in Juneau when the Board meets, ten tatively set for April IT. Members of the Board are: Stewart, Presi- dent William Manley, of Anchor age, Vice-President; Lynn Forrest, Juneau, Secretary; Harold Foss, Juneau; Homer Nordling, Juneau; A. F. Ghiglione, Juneau; Leo Saarela, Juneau; Victor Rivers, An chorage; Frank H. Mapleton, Fair banks.
 Mrs. Stewart flew to Fairbanks
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March 2, to meet her husband and they were house guests of MT. and Mrs. Ralph Rivers. MT. Rivers was former Attorney General, with headquarters in Juneau. They vis- tied many old friends.
 Fairbanks was enjoying it's winter carnival and on one occasion Mrs. Stewart was a guest at luncheon at the country club, attended by about POO women from various states and Alaska. Selected at random, women were asked by the Master of Cere- monies, to get up before a mike and give a short talk on their home town. Mrs. Stewart won first award for her effort-her prize being two .low-bush moose" (snow-shoe rab- bits to the unitiated.
 MT. and Mrs. Stewart returned home Monday afternoon via Pan American plane.
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RUSS MADE MONEY
 BUT U. }. LOST IN
 RECENT GOLD WAR

BERLIN, March 15-R-Russia makes an annual profit of s500,- 100000 from the cold war in Ger many while the United States loses at least s7O0,000,0O0, western allied economists estimated today.
 The economists put it this way
 Untrammeled by four-power res trictions, the Soviet government takes it's profit in the form Of cur rent production from east zone in- dustries.
 Labeled "reparations," east Ger man heavy machinery, chemicals optical goods, electrical apparatus and other manufactures flow stead fly to the Soviet frontier. In addition, the Kremlin phys ically owns 30 percent of east Ger man factories as Soviet stock com- panies.
 By contrast, the United States has pumped as much as Sl ,000, ,000,- 900 dollars a year into west Ger many as postwar relief and recov- cry aid. Such American expenditures during the current year are expect ed to reach s700,O0O,000.
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EXILE IS
 DELAYED
 BY 5T0Rk

LONDON, March 15-tR-Prime Minister Attlee took cognizance to- day of the stork and modified the hotly controversial order making Seretse Khama and his white bride exiles from their African tribal Kingdom.
 Attlee said the Negro king might live in his British protected home land until his English wife bears the child she expects late in June.
 News of the governments modi- fled position leaked out after a pri- vate caucus of Attlee and Labor party members. Many of them had angrily criticized their leaders, say ing they were pandering to the race prejudices of British Commonwealth nations in Africa.
 But both Attlee and Patrick Cor don Walker his minister for Com monwealth relations, stressed the governments five-year banishment order would be invoked after Ser etse's wife has her baby. Then all three of them will be called on to leave.
 Seretse will be asked to promise not to stir up tribal antagonism. Whether he accepts remains to be seen.
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FIRE ISLAND BIDS
 OPENED; FIRM IN
 SAN FRANCISCO LOW

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 1s -iR-Pomeroy and Co.,, San Fran cisco construction firm, was ap- parent low bidder yesterday foi military project, IA miles from An chorage.
 The California firm was low or both bid forms-one for completion by Sept. l, 1851, and the other for completion by Jan. 31, 1851
 The bids by completion date:
 Sept l, 195l-Pomeroy and Co., San Francisco, s2,685, ,795; Southern Constructors, Fairbanks, Alaska $3,- 15O,00O; Patti Mcdonald, Kansas City, Mo, $3,201, ,758.
 Jan. 31, 195l-Pomeroy and Co., $2,695, ,795; Morrison Knudsen and Peter Kiewit Co.,, Boise, Idaho, $2,- 843,OOO; Boespflug Construction Co.,, Billings, Mont, s2,989,39
 Bids will be sent to Washington, D. C., for evaluation and the final award will be announced there.
 The island project will be a cofn- plete military establishment with bachelor officers quarters, Airmen's barracks, central heating, power plant, operations building, ware house, mess hall, recreation build ing, utilities and roads.
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JUNEAU MAN IS
 GIVEN H0N0RS,
 MINER5' DINNER

About 160 members of the milin; and architectural professions iron all over Alaska were guests at i; testimonial dinner in Anchorage ol February 23, given to honor B. D Stewart, former Commissioner O Mines who retired January 1 after 40 years of active mminl work in the Territory. The dinnel was given by the Alaska Institute of Metalurgical Engineers, which represents all branches of mining engineering.
 Harold Stransberg, of Anchorage was toastmaster and gave US. Fed eral Judge Anthony J. Dimond the privilege of introducing MT. Stew art whom he has known as long as the retired mine commissioner has been in the Territory.
 In recognition for his valuable contributions and service to the mining industry over the past years an Anchorage newspaper said, MT Stewart was presented with a beau tiful gold Hamilton watch suitably inscribed from his mining friends To the watch is attached chain made up of 27 Cash Creek nuggets and a gold pen knife.
 The dinner was given at the Aleutian Gardens and was attended by a distinguished company Of guests among whom were: Dr. Ter ris Moore, President of the Uni versity of Alaska; Earl Beistline, Dean of the School of Mines at the University of Alaska; Leo Saarela, Commissioner of Mines who suc- ceeded MT. Stewart; George Folta, US. Judge, First Division; Ludlow Anderson, US. Bureau of Mines; Harvey Hieber, Supt. Evan Coal Co.,; Evan Jones, veteran coal miner, Phil Ellsworth, Supt. Snowblrd Mine; D. G. Hosler, operator ot the Kantishna Mine; Merritt Peterson, Supt. Independence Mine, Emil Pfeil, President of Buffalo Coal Co.,; Emil Isabelli. President of Isabelli Coal Co.,; Roy Erling, Supt. US. Smelling and Refining Co.,, of Fair
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$500 DONATED AS
 ANONYMOUS GIFT
 TO LIBRARY FUND

The Juneau Memorial Library fund got a resounding thump on its downward trek today with an- nouncement of $500 anonymous oft bv a Juneau business firm.
 Dr. James c. Ryan, commissioner Inf education and acting director of the drive, was sitting i'll his office and thinking about the sum of approximately s6,oOO remaining to be raised before work on the sl4O.OoO structure can begin, when his door opened and a gentleman laid the big check on his desk
 The education commissioner was instructed to say mot word about the contributor" for reasons not explained.
 Several other contributions-one for 0O0-have been received rom anonymous givers early in the cam paign, shortly after the building site was obtained. This is the first in recent weeks, as the drive gets closer and closer to its goal ol 5000
 Going Down
 The large donation brings the remaining sum to be raised doWh to the neighborhood of S5,ooo. Dr. Ryan. not having access to the books of the library board, IS uh- able to know exactly how much IS left on the red" side.
 When B. Frank Heintzleman, the drives director, left for Washing ton not a month ago, the sum re- maining was in the neighborhood of SlO,00O. He left things in charge of B. D. Stewart, retired mines commissioner, who shortly after Heintzleman's departure, took OH for Anchorage to attend the Fur Rendezvous.
 While Dr. Ryan has had custody of the campaign, the drive mas spurted forward with energy, With large and small sums almost sr1oth- ering him some days.
 Everyone interested in the drlve- and that means practically everyone in Juneau-is watching for the time when the needed money drops to the platform" of $5,0Oo. A slooe drop is considered 6 milestone. II seems the drive takes a momentous drop when it passes such a plat form, because the numbered figures in front of all those zeroes seem to get smaller more quickly.
 The acting director has taken OH for Sitka, where he must spend few days on school business. But he said as he left: My office is always open"
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banks and many other top notchers in the mining field. Telegrams of good wishes were also read from many who could not attend.
 In 1910, MT. Stewart came to Alaska as a young mining engineer for the Treadwell Mining Co.,. in Douglas. During the next many years he mined in all parts of the Territory and finally was appointed to the high post from which he retired January l.
 MT. Stewart is also president of the Territorial Board of Engineers and Architects Examiners Board and while in Anchorage held a meeting with various engineers and architects to discuss regulations and requirements by law under which aspiring engineers and architects may be registered. On March l, he flew to Fairbanks to consult men
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.BRIINH BOMBER
 CRA5HE5;; KILLS il

LONDON, March l5-R-IWo Royal Air Force four -engined 5omb- CTS crashed within an hour early today, killing at least II men.
 The planes were Lincoln bombers, modernized version of the wartime Lancasters and now the standard RA.F. bombing ships
 The first crash occurred when a plane returning from a training flight overshot the runway at Hens well RA.F. station. Five crewmen were killed and the sixth was in- jured.
 The second crash came almost an hour later as another Lincoln bomber struck a Welsh mountain side in the darkness. The plane crashed about 2,000 feet up on the slopes of Carnedd Llewelyn, 3,484- foot peak near Showdown, Wales All six men aboard were killed.