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Evening star., 1950-01-05
Short Circuit Blamed
For November Fire in
Postal Department

Public Buildings Commissioner
w. E. Reynolds today placed blame
for the three-alarm November /
fire at the new Post Office Depart
ment Building on a short circuit
in the eighth-f1oor electrical sys-
tenn. He recommended installa-
ton of automatic protective de-
vices to prevent a recurrence"
In a report released, by Mr..
Reynolds, damage, mostly caused
by explosions. was placed at about
$205, 900.
Fourteen persons were injured,
eight of them flremen, the report
said.
Prompt Action Cuts Loss.
But it added that prompt ac-
ton of the (Government) group
forces, the District Fire, Depart
ment and personnel of the Fed
eral Communications Commission
prevented much more extensive
damage to life and property"
The report said the short cir
cult. in cables above the eighth
floor electrical panel might have
been caused by water dripping
from a roof leak into a pull box
above the panel. Another possi-
bility, it said. was that rubbing
cables damaged insulation on
wires.
The investigators said inflam-
mable gas which became vapor-
lied in the ducts was ignited and
acted "as giant blow torch"
The report said that construc-
tion damage amounted to SITS, 900,
electrical system damage, $30,000l
with $4,000 listed as additional
expenditure for recommended i'm
provements. .. /
Fire Drills Proposed.
The report said there is a large
water pipe Immediately over the
panel where the fire started, but
that the pipe was not found tol
be leaking after the fire. There
fore, the report said, "circum-
stances point to a roof leak as
the most probable cause of the
short circuit" In addition to ex-
tensive electrical repairs, the re-
port asked for special protection
over panel boards to prevent water
leakage.
1t also proposed fire drills for
prompt emptying of the building
in case of emergency. /
These recommendations apply
with equal force to any buildings
in which circumstances are SIM
liar" the report added. /
Evening star., 1950-01-05
General Merchandise
Leads In Sales Tax Yield

Food and beverage sales con-
tinued to lead all other categories
except general merchandise In
sales tax yield. according to figures
In the District Sales and Use Tax
Once today.
OF total of $1,1s1 ,924 in taxes
tabulated between November 20
and December 20, food and bever-
age sales were responsible for
$1s8.199 from 2,908 returns. Gen.
eral merchandise brought in $371,-
S63 from 1857 returns.
Third in line was apparel, with
$166.472 from 942 returns. Figures
on other categories included:
Furniture and appliances, $101,-
127 in 765 returns; lumber, build
ers and contractors, SOC, ,888 from
1.l45 returns; automotive, $50, $50
from e23 returns; utilities and
transportation, $43,806 from 3s
returns; use tax. 1904 from Is
returns. and miscellaneous, $l62,-
604 from 3,427 returns.
Evening star., 1950-01-05
iSIeep-Inducing Record Played
In Court, but No One Shores

lids feel like lead you are
getting drowSee-ee-ee SO
Sleepee e-ee-ee ;"
The record was introduced in
Federal court, Brooklyn. yesterday
in the Governments attempt to
show that its author, Ralph
Slater, had violated the Federal
Pure Food and Drug Act when
he claimed the record would cure
insomnia.
The charge accuses the author
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Last Two -Fugitives
From Arkansas Prison
Wounded, Captured
By the Associated Press


LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. s.
-Four convicts who shot their way
to freedom Saturday and touched
off one of Arkansas most sensa.
tional manhunts are back in Gus.
tody today-two of them in g
hospital with bullet wounds.
The end of the grueling FIVE
day chase through rain and finally
sleet and cold weather came last
night when the last of the des-
peradoes were captured in North
Little Rock.
I'm glad it's over" said o.
year -old Jack Rheuark of Sapul-
pa, Okla, one of the wounded
men. THE cold was hell"
Prison Supt. Lee Henslee said
he, too, was glad the hunt was
over.
Defy Officers Command.
Rheuark and James Perry Will
liams. 20, of Sheridan, Ark, were
the only two fugitives who lived
up to Mr.. Henslee's prediction
that the convicts would not be
taken without a fight.
Cornered in a shack, the pair
def1ed officers commands to sur
render.
Come and get u.s." they yelled.
The posse of about IS opened
fire on the shack. Then the off,
GERS called again:
Come on out. You haven't a
chance"
From the splintered shed came
a plaintive cry:
1--WE can't come out. We're shot
to pieces"
Conditions Not Critical.
Williams was wounded in the
back. thigh, neck and shoulder.
Rheuark was hit in the leg, back,
ear and hand. Their conditions
were described as mot critical"
however, at University Hospital.
Less than an hour before, the
second fugitive. 28-year-old David
Dyer of Oklahoma City, was taken.
Like the first of the gang appre-
hended-Odus Eaton, Is. of Still
well, Okla.-Dyer didn't resist.
All four Of the men were armed.
Eaton separated from his COM
panions Sunday night and was
caught the next day near Scott,
Ark, not far from Tucker Prison
farm from whence they escaped
early Saturday, killing a ,trusty in
their flight.
Recluse Killed by Mistake"
A mistake" shooting Monday
night during the height of the
manhunt cost recluse his life.
A member of the posse was wound
ed. And an officer was wounded
Sunday night in a brush with the
fugitives
The search reached the out
skirts OF North Little Rock Sun
day night. Journeys end for the
three remaining fugitives began
when police. spotted three men
apparently trying to steal a car.
One man-Dyer-ran one way;
his pals-Williams and Rheuark-
the other. Dyer was tracked to a
garage and quickly captured. It
took a little longer and more force
to run down tie other two.
Williams, a killer before Satur-
day, was serving an armed robbery
sentence. The three others were
doing time for kidnapping and
robbery.
Evening star., 1950-01-05

of making false and misleading
statements" in advertising litera-
ture concerning the record, called
Time Sleep"
When the lights came on after
the sample playing, Judge Leo F.
Rayf1el scanned the courtroom for
dozers, but didn't spot any. The
trial continues today.
Evening star., 1950-01-05
By ths Assoeiatsd Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Window
shades in the courtroom were
drawn, and the lights we're turned
low.
Then. from a record player,
came a soothing voice, accom-
panied by gentle music.
Your eyes begin to feel heavy
-" said the voice. Your whole
body is beginning to feel numb :.
your eyes feel heavy your eye
Evening star., 1950-01-05

York after a brief illness. school
officials said today.
DR.. Corning left today to attend
the funeral tomorrow.
DR.. Corning's brother had re-
tired as head of his dental supply
business in New York known as
the Corning Rubber Co. The
business now is operated by his
son, Hobart E. Corning. He also
is survived by his widow.
Los Angeles 1910 population of
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Clarence J. Corning Dies;
Brother Of School Head

Clarence j. Corning, brother
of District School Supt. Hobart
VI. Corning, died last night in New
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Varieties Of RottIesnoke

The southwest region has 10 of
the 13 varieties of rattlesnakes
known to exist in the United
States.
Evening star., 1950-01-05

Los Angeles 1910 population of
100000 has increased 10 times.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

FOR SALE-Newly furnish ed small house on Leite Addition lots, IA and 15 block 8, each 50 x 15O it. Contact Mrs. Veazey, Box SAP, Kodiak, or call NOE 253 8 to 5.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22
Seldovia Brings Fish

The Seldovia, power barge of the Island Seafoods Com pany, brought several thou sand cases of salmon to Ko- diak this week for shipment to the states.
 The barge picked up another supply of cases and cans and left Wednesday for Cook Inlet. Earlier the floating cannery had gone to Chignik but because of the curtailed
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

fishing season there they went to the inlet.
 Mrs. Nan Geiger left aboard the barge to work in the float ing cannery. She previously worked for Southwestern Fisheries at Iron Creek.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22
NOTICE

If you can not get us on phone 3131, call 43O3 for oil delivery. Office hours, pm to 5 pm Monday through Thurs day. 1 pm to z pm Friday.
 Thompson Transfer.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22
PAGE ?

Mrs. Ann Williams, who has been working at the Island Fountain, left on the Denah for Portland, where her young son Jimmy is living.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

Mrs. Janet Saunders was a passenger for Anchorage Tuesday evening on the PIMA plane, en route to Nome to join her husband.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

FOR SALE-One Air Flow oil range. good working con- dition, $75. Phone 4581 after 1:30 pm.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22
0ossifieds
FOR SALE Rubber stamps made to order, notary seals. Plain or printed envelopes. MIRROR office.

USED CARS-will sell or buy them. Sell at one third down, the rest in install ments. See Jake Foley at Legion Club or phone 3242.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

rnolesting or damaging any livestock belonging to the members of the Kodiak Livestock Growers Associa- tion.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

FOR SALE Pansy, lobelia. petunia and marigold plants. The Flower Basket.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22

CONTINUING Throughout the summer a Rummage Sale each Saturday at the Baptist Mission. Open til 9 pm.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-07-22
ROLL FILM FINISHING Quality Prints and Speedy
 Service Margo Lester Studio

FOR SALE atromberg Carl
 son radio-phonograph com bination, cost $500. Two years old. Any reasonable offer. Phone NOE 528. 7-29
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20
SANTA CLAUS AT NOME HARDWARE THURSDAY


 The Nome Hardware Store which has always had visit from Santa Claus since taken over by it's present owner Larry Calvin, has announced that Santa has made date with that store for to- morrow afternoon.
 According to Larry, Santa has stated that he will listen to all re- quests for gifts from children ages 2 to 80 years old, and do his best to see that they all get some thing.
 Larry states that he has a tur- key for one of Santa's children and unless the owner of the tur- key claims 1t tomorrow it will be given to someone else tomorrow evening. Look for full details while in the store visiting Santa, he suggests, as the turkey may be yours.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20
COMMERCE
 CHAMBER OF

Representative Degnan was a guest of the Chamber on Tuesday noon at their regular luncheon and among other things promised to work for the Solomon Road and for other legislation for the native and white population of this division. He stated he was very anxious to receive letters from all residents of the districts
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20
Hospital News

Admitted to the hospital are Daniel Wright of Kotzebue, Ellen Tookaydok, Solomon; Ho w d .Konagoh and Mark Numowhotuk of Gambell; Andrew Nakarak of Ghaktoolik, Lillian Daniels, Film; Ronald Morris, three year old son of Waldo Morris.
 MT. and Mrs. Tom Beltz are the parents of daughter born yesterday who weighed six pounds six ounces.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20

Marie Grant. the Public Health Nurse, states that over 670 per sons were given BOG in Nome by the Alaska Health Department.
 She stated that all those who failed to come for the reading of their tests may complete them Thursday afternoon at her office in. the M-M-M Hospital.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20

with their views on problems be- fore the Legislature.
 In response to letter from G. R. Jackson in connection with the reinstating in the budget of the ARC of the Solomon Road, the Chamber voted to take immediate action and several letters were or dered written to support the ac- ton. /. a44~.f r...
 There was also report on the Good Roads Assn, which has al- ready been published in Mondays press. ~
 C~~rsS. o~1 > .~>s~. -A YsA~
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20

Mrs. Jim Frye left today for California where she has been called due to the serious illness of her mother who is eighty-eight years of age.
The Nome nugget., 1950-12-20

Gossips are the spies of life.
Evening star., 1950-11-19
ECUMEkiCAL. . RELATIONSHIPS

operation among the denomina-
tions. This feeling. increasing in
strength since 1900, resulted in
representatives of the eight agen-
cles meeting in December. l941, at
Atlantic City, n. j. They unani-
mously recommended "the crea-
ton of a single corporate agency
Ito succeed all of the existing
councils" 49,
Since then, under the careful
direction of a Planning Commit
tee, headed by DR., Luther, A.
SWeigle, dean emeritus of the Yale
Divinity School, the idea has
grown slowly but surely to its
present status. ...
d. C.. to Cooperate
It may be stated at this point
that, as pointed out by DR.. Fred
erick E. Reissig, executive secre-
tary of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches. the local fed
erations will remain autonomous,
continuing as the agency of the
local Protestant churches. The
Washington federation will CO.
operate fully with the national
council"
The proposed constitution, set
ting forth the purposes and make
up of the national council, pro-
vides for five% representatives for
each communion, plus an addi-
tional representative for every
100000 communicates or major
fraction thereof. Representatives
chosen by each communion, are
to be adequately apportioned
among ministers, laymen, lay
women and young people.
With practically of our Nations
great church leaders on hand tc
launch the new ship of faith
hopes are high everywhere for q
successful voyage into a distan,
port rich with the promise of great
achievements.
Evening star., 1950-11-19

standing up-aS we gaze back
at him-looking beyond us
into the horizon.
Originally, the remarks at
Gettysburg were words spoken
out OF the passionate grief
for American manhood lost in
the tragedy of civil war. It
was a war between States first
united after testing their unity
as colonies. Out of the agony
of fratricidal killing, out of
the profoundly personal grief
that every American family
could feel as it feared the loss
or mourned the loss of it's
sons, Lincoln was driven by
emotional necessity to talk as
he had.
Men are bound to ascribe to
their actions the noblest pos
sible motives. More often
than not, they are attacked as
being hypocrites or spread
eagle orators or worse. There
is no immediate acceptance
of the utterance of an ideal.
Even Lincoln was charged
with going to Gettysburg to
take advantage of the politi-
cal situation in Pennsylvania
and to exploit the dedication
of the Gettysburg cemetery as
a build-up for his renomina-
tion to the presidency the fol-
lowing year.
However Lincoln's purposes
were questioned, his words
were clearly directed to and
beyond his fellow country
men. Their expression of
basic American belief in the
possibility of a new birth of
freedom" is the spirit and
motive, power of our policy in
the world today.
The image of Grass ma
terialism for us as a people
is the caricature of the Amer
ican dream. It is forever
refuted by the simple strength
and goodness of the 266 words
Of the Gettysburg address.
Evening star., 1950-11-19

Films and the Department of
Public Relations will service all
the councils divisions and
branches.
Meetings of the eight agencies,
on November 27 and %, will
precede the constitution conven-
ton. These meetings will dissolve
each body in preparation for
formal organization of the ma
tional council on November 20.
Next Sunday ministers will read
a Call to Prayer" in churches
throughout the country. The call,
signed by 46 prominent church
leaders, will ask Gods blessing on
the new body. The following
Sunday services of rededication,
giving thanks for the spiritual ad-
vance signifled by the national
council, will be held.
Sponsors visualize many bene-
fits from the new council. One is
the added prestige successful or
ganization on a large scale brings.
Through this body Christian
forces will have new and
powerful channel through which
to register their convictions on
the moral and spiritual issues of
the day."
Another advantage will be the
elimination of much duplication
OF services among the eight agen-
cies. with increased efficiency also
anticipated. Also, many projects
not feasible for a small body could
now be ventured by a larger or
ganiZation.
Other expected advantages in
clude:
l. An acceleration in the growth
of cooperation among COM
munions.
2. More Official pos. ions for
women and a wider recognition of
their work for the church. The
new constitution provides that a
Evening star., 1950-11-19
By John HerIino

families in, say Newbury-
port, Mass, or up in Harlem
have been drawn together
into national focus by words
which have become a torch
of American conscience.
1t is a far cry echoing from
the Declaration of Independ-
ence to Gettysburg and from
Gettysburg to Korea. In 1776,
13 Colonies determined on
united action and asserted
for all the world to hear
their rejection of the divine
right of kings. In 1868,
Lincoln spoke the words of
dedication to the belief in
the dignity of men, their
equality. and in government
Of the people, by the people.
for the people" The direct
emphasis, as Lincoln spoke,
was not on the propositions,
but on the people"
In 1850, we find ourselves
in another year of trial and
endurance. The assertion of
democracy is again not
enough. Action in behalf of
democracy becomes the test
Of endurance. It is also
action against aggressive
tyranny. We have at last
come to see that claims for
the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat are as much a con-
Spiracy against the elementary
rights Of all men as the So
called divine right of kings.
The inspiration of the
Gettysburg address on Amer
lean life is as hard to trace
as the influence of Lincoln
himself. The influence is per-
vasive. It is intimate, per-
Sonal, kind. Lincoln has be-
come part of every American.
You have the feeling he was
common like the rest of us.
without any posturing after
simplicity of manner or sim
plicity Of faith. There he is,
Evening star., 1950-11-19
The following charter members of
the National Council constituting convention
November 28-December 3 in Cleveland


Communcant
Communion Membership.
lhe Methodist Church 8792569
National Baptist Convention, u A. 4385 206
National Baptist Convention of America 2594521
presbyterian church In the u s. A. 24O1 849
disciples OF Christ 1738605
FroeStant episcopal Church in the o. S. A. 1671366
american Baptist Convention 1888 $50
United Lutheran Church OF America 1349663
congregational Christian Churches 1184661
African Methodist Episcopal Church 10663O1
Evangelical and Reformed Church ----------- 714583
Evangelical United Brethren Church ------- 711537
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. ---------- 653 5e4
AFRICAN Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 520175
Coored Methodist Episcopal Church -------- 381 900
Augustana Lutheran Church ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3l2326
Russian Orthodox Church in America 300 600
United Presbyterian Church N. A. --- 213810
Church of the Brethren n-------------- 185 o88
Reformed Church in America 179085
Frlenos-flve Years Meeting 69,595
Nomanlan Orthodox Eplscopate of America $4,000
Ukranian Orthodox Church of America - 80 500
MoraVlan Church in America 33,787
syrian Anuochan Orthodox Church 10000
Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church ----- 1881
Seventh-Day Baptist General Conference 6462
Friends of Philadelphia Vicinity
Evangelical Unity of Brethren in A. 5136
Total 81 1873 227
Evening star., 1950-11-19
Experts Start Roking Over Defense Planners

PARIS - Some top-ranking
European experts now believe
that a thorough house-cleaning
may be needed by the North
Atlantic defense organization to
save it from disaster.
Others who are privy to the
inside doings of the organiza-
tion are so alarmed by the way
in which it has gotten fouled
up in its own machinery and
off-the-track controversies that
they suggest a completely fresh
start on the whole Western
European defense problem.
So little has been accom-
plished up to date, they feel,
that a fresh start would not
destroy much if anything of
value to the defense of free
Europe.
Here are some of the things
which lead to this alarmist
view:
/. Actual authority in the
whole North Atlantic Treaty
Organization seems to be exer-
cised by two restricted groups:
The Pentagon, which is COM
pletely American, and the
standing group, the ranking
body OF NATO, which is Ameri-
can, British and French.
The current bitter row over
German rearmament which has
brought defense planning to a
dangerous impasse resulted
from a unilateral decision by
Evening star., 1950-11-19

Congress early next year. It is
being held up by the refusal
of the British to accept the
term external aid" in referring
to American assistance.
Example No. 2: There has
been little real progress toward
the Standardization of arms and
methods.
Noting the failure of the
Americans and British to
standardize. the French have
now balled things up even fur
ther by announcing their de-
cision to produce weapons of
their own design.
Bitter laughter was aroused
by French Defense Minister
Moch's recent statement in
Montreal that France had
better tanks, guns. bazookas
and jeeps than anybody else.
- 4. The German rearmament
question which was suddenly
raised by the Pentagon without
any advance warning shows the
need for political Judgment and
the present lack of it.
The American generals who
demanded 10 German divisions
out of blue sky, regardless of
the political consequences, did
so on the ground that it was
necessary for practical pur-
poses. Yet these same officers,
it is alleged. produce a different
figure every time they are asked
how many divisions are needed
for the defense of free Europe.
(Chicago Daily News Foreign Service
Evening star., 1950-11-19

woman must be either president
or one of the vice presidents-at-
large of the council.
3. A stronger voice for laymen
in church affairs.
4. The council will serve as a
clearing house" for information,
and will be used as a focal point
for developing Protestant strategy
on key issues.
5. Help local churches by max
Evening star., 1950-11-19
-Four Score and Seven Years Aqo =

This Nation is twice as old
today as it was in 1868. For
this is November 10, 1850.
What makes the day unique,
never to return, is a historical
coincidence that catches at
American heart and con-
science. Because fourscore
and seven years ago-on No
vember 10, 1863-Abraham
Lincoln stood up at Gettys-
burg and delivered the simple
"dedicatory remarks" which
made a hallowed memory of
a battlefield of wracking
struggle.
On that day-in 266 words
100 Of them words of one
syllable, Abraham Lincoln be-
slowed a blessing on the liv-
ing and the dead which has
become a statement of faith
Americans try to live by.
School children come away
from school knowing those
266 words by heart-if they
come away with nothing else.
They remember the rhythm
if they have memorized moth
ing else. The Gettysburg ad-
dress is not longer than some
radio commercials. But what
it gives to all the world can
not be bought because it is
not for sale. 1t is Americas
expression of it's own essential
being. 1t is the ideal assertion
of purpose for America to
live up to.
Throughout the last 81
years, many surging genera
tions of boys and girls have
looked intently up at the
blackboard in their school,
room to shape their lips over
words so clearly written that
the boy farthest back in the
room can read what Abraham
Lincoln said without straining.
Many new Americans--on
New York'S East Side, or on
Chicago's South Side, or those
who come from old American
Evening star., 1950-11-19
BY WiIIiom H. Stonemon

the Pentagon that Western Ger
many must raise 10 divisions.
In this case the British and
the French were simply told to
get aboard. The French refused.
The standing group is still
boss as far as the NATO itself is
concerned. Among other things,
it takes top-f1ight strategic de-
ciSions. A real row was caused
when the Dutch discovered that
one of its decisions called for the
abandonment of the northern
part of the Netherlands in case
of a Russian attack. The Amer
lean Secretary of State was al
most as shocked as the Dutch
themselves.
Since then steps have been
taken to keep the smaller men,
bers of the organization in touch
with the standing group.
The Council of Deputies,
which was supposed to introduce