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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-19
Gets Caught on Cotton

Some people might not worry too
much about a senator's buying
commodities if it were not for the
fact that Thomas used his official
position and his inside informa-
ton to influence the market.
For instance, it has been shown
above that the senator's family and
friends were long" on cotton in
1916. They were holding for fur
ther rise in price. But in October,
1916, instead of rising further, the
cotton market broke, causing Mrs.
Thomas to lose her contemplated
profit of $4,000 Other Thomas
spectators lost varying amounts.
immediately there came a cry of
pain and anguish from the SEN
ator from oklahoma. The drop in
the price OF cotton, he said, must
be officially investigated. Hit
where it hurt most, his pocket
book, Thomas sent indignant tele-
grams to the heads of the cotton
exchanges and the Secretary OF
Agriculture, claiming a bear raid. .
There has been definite and
Well-laid plan among cotton ex-
changes, cotton brokers and their
clients" Thomas protested. And
since he was chairman of the Sen
ate agriculture committee, his word
carried weight.
Thomas also threatened further
legislation. to control cotton prices.
But in none of his indignant tele-
grams did, he breathe the fact that
his wife, his secretary, his cam
paign manager, and his own per-
sonal brokers had lost heavily in
the break in the cotton market.
Actually there was no bear raid,
nor anything else wrong with the
cotton market, except that price
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-19
Ten Carloads of Eggs

Since then the senator from
Oklahoma has tried to tell farmers
that he was only trying to keep
their prices up. What he has not
told them is that he also spec
ulates on various other commodities
wheat, beans, eggs, even silver
and that sometimes he has worked
Just as hard to bring prices down,
In the fall of 1919, Tor instaHeeD
the senator from Oklahoma wanted.
the price of eggs to drop. In fact,
DE wanted eggs t0ucome, down. Just
! as ardently as he had previously
wanted the price of cotton to go up.
Most farmers in Oklahoma who
raise chickens want egg prices to
stay up, but not their senator il
I Wa ~ "a aaGi4 u11oa so
Z There was Ia good reason for
Thomas's position on eggs, though
did not tell anyone i'm OkH1a-
homa$ about it, His broker, Dyke
Cullum, had bought 10 carloads of
eggs-short. In brief, he was COM
mitted to deliver 10 carloads OF
eggs on the futures market, and
if the price went down, the SEN
ator and his broker made money
So the senator proceeded to
lombard the Agriculture Depart
ment with letters and ideas for
bringing down the price of eggs,
also wrote a letter to Sen. Clinton
Anderson of New Mexico, chairman
of an agriculture subcommittee,
asking him to investigate the price
support of eggs. ~. is ssrG3.
Il am taking the liberty of re-
ferring two bills to your subcom-
mitteef for consideration and re-
port Thomas wrote Anderson.
These bills are Sl75l, bill to
amend the commodity exchange
act and S24S2h a, bill to repeal the
! mandatory price support authority
! for Irish potatoes and eggs for the
balance of the current year, l949"
Thomas went on to give his own
ideas on eggs, but at no place in
his letter did he intimate that he
and his broker had personal,
pocketbook interest to the tune of
/ 10 carloads of eggs. In brief, what
the senator was doing was using
the investigative machinery of the
U. S. Senate and his prestige as
chairman of the Senate agriculture
committee to influence commo-
dity in which he had made a per-
sonal investment.
He knew, OF course, that the
mere announcement of an egg in
vestigation by the Senate was likely
to send down the price of eggs
following which he and Dyke Cul-
lum could deliver their 10 carloads
at profit. A -
Thus has the senator from Okla
homa despite Is years in the high
est legislative body in the world
used that body for his own per-
sonal pecuniary profit.
Note-the 10 carloads were pur-
chased through the William Hager-
ty Grain Corporation in Chicago
in the name of the National Con
modify Corp, the concern which
Dyke Cullum set up to cover his
and Senator Thomas's speculations
Cullum himself appeared on the
floor of the Chicago Exchange and
placed the 10-carload egg order
with broker Ralph Root of the
Hagerty firm.
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Land Office

Land OffIce
Anchorage, Alaska.
May 16, 1850.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that John
L. Wilson, has made application for
domestic, Anchorage Serial 010104,
under the act of May 26, 1884 (48
Stat. 809D, for tract of land sit
late on the northeast side of Gas
tineau Channel about miles south
east of Juneau, Alaska, embraced
in Plat of U. S. Survey No. $3.50.
containing 2.67 acres, latitude So
IS 29~ N. longitude 1912 49, III w.
at witness meander corner No. /,
and it is now in the files of the
land office, Anchorage, Alaska. :.
Any person claiming adversely any
of the above mentioned land should
file their adverse claims in the land
office, Anchorage, within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statutes.
GEORGE A. LINGO,
Manager.
First publication, May 81, 1850.
Last publication, July 26, 1850.
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1T lis announced that renovation
of the Mormon Chapel at 10th and
E Streets Has been completed and
the structure is ready for dedica-
ton July %.
The two conference sessions are
scheduled at 10 am. and 4 pm.
Elder Joel Richards, (cut above) :,
President of the Northwestern
States Mission of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
will officiate as presiding authority
at this dedicatory conference.
Friends and the general public
are cordially invited to attend.
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Who Was the Liar?


When this column revealed in
1916 that Thomas had been spec
ulating on the cotton market
through his wife, the senator's
reply was. Pearson is a liar"
Two yeal JEhuary, l948 q
an official report by the Agricul-
tural Department showed Mrs.
Thomas was 300 bales long" on
cotton I'M July, 1896, Therefore,
Senator Thomas suddenly reversed
himself and decided to tell the
truth. s
Il have been on, the long side
of cottonltor many years., hes told
the United Press. Then, appar-
emily forgetting the liar charge
and his previous efforts at con-
cealment, he added: MY deal
ings are open and aboveboard. 1
have nothing to hide. From time
to time 1 have turned money over
to Dyke Cullum and asked him to
invest in cotton for me-"
incidentally, the Agriculture De-
partment's official report also
showed that Thomas's broker, Dyke
Cullum, was long 500 bales; that
his campaign manager Marty Hef-
lin, held 400 bales; that Ralph
Moore, another specializing crony,
was long 1890 bales. and that Miss
Beth Gage, the senator's secretary,
was also inthe market. Miss Gage
is the secretary who caused Thorn
as to threatene "a, Senate investiga-
ton of the u. S, Lines when she
could not set d, .stateresnl to-, her
self while, Saccomtaayiig the sem
ator to Europe. IN. 1916.
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UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska.
April 81, 1850.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION q
Notice is hereby given that Carl
F. Hagerup, has made application
for Homesite, under the act Of
May 26, 1884 (48 Stat. 5000, An
chorage Serial 010S71, for tract of
land situate on the northeast side
of Gastineau Channel about miles
southeast OF Juneau, Plat of U. S.
Survey No. 1890, containing 4.93
acres, latitude So Is "a, N. .longi-
tude 134' 19' or w. at witness
meander corner No. l, and it is now
in the files of the Land Office. An
chorage, Alaska. a. a
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely any of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claims
in the land office. within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after. or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statutes.
CHESTER w. McNALLY,
Acting Manager.
First publication, May "a, 1850.
Last publication, July 10, 1850.
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facture newsprnt will welcome the market Marshall
Dana, Portland Journal editor said was awaiting us
there
We have little to sell? Well, we have our scenery
and Alaska as tourist area.
We welcome Oregonians to Alaska They are kind
about rain
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau Of Land Management
Land Office

DA]A <AAe NAGANA OX i liz A4v 4 GNAO1b
Bureau Of Land Management
Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska.
June /, 1850.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Will
liam L., Fitzpatrick has made ap-
plication for a homesite under the
Act of May 26. 1884 (48 Stat. 5000
Anchorage Serial No. 0l42s5 for
tract Of land described as Lot "B"
Smugglers Cove Group of Home
sites, situated at end Of Fritz Cove
Highway, on Auke Bay, Plat Of U. S.
Survey No. 1892, containing 0.99,
acres and it is now in the flies Of
the Land Office, Anchorage, Alasks. :,
ANY and all persons; claiming adj
versely any of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claim
in the Land Office within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statutes.
GEORGE A. LINGO,
Manager.
First publication, June 81, 1850.
Last publication, Aug. 16, 1850.
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look and LEARN. % sysc 6. GORDON s1u N

Where Aleuian Islands? lAl ar 2Gbrs2at OF p
Which the short
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present
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beginning with
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
q Land Office
Il Anchorage. Alaska.

l. fIlCllOI age, @AAoono'
May IL, 1850.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
. Notice is hereby given that Her
bert Willard Stelting, entryman,
together with his witnesses Thomas
Marshall Helms and <. Edward
.Test6n, all of Haines, Alaska, has
submitted final proof. on bis home
stead entry, Anchorage SERIAL No.
01261o for the NWANEA and lots
il and 2, Sec. SO T. 80 s. R. So E.
C. R. M, containing 1878 acres,
and it is now in the files OF the
District Land Office, Anchorage,
Alaska, and if no protest is filed
in the District Land Office within
the period of publication or thirty
days thereafter, said final proof will
be accepted and final certificate
issued.
CHESTER w. McNALLY,
Acting Manager.
First publication, June 81, 1850.
Last publication, July 10. 1850.
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PIANO TUNING

and repairing. Factory trained
over 35 years experience. Call
George w. Wigg, Gastineau Hotel,
Phone 10. 55-tf
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UNITED STATES
OF THE INTERIOR
U,roou nf land Mana Uamonk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska.
June /, 1850.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that Linus
Carlson has made application for a
domestic under the Act of May 20,
1884 as Stat. 809) Anchorage Serial
No. 014905 for tract of land de-
scribed as Lot %, Hood Bay Group
of Homesites, situated on Hood Bay,
Admiralty Island, Alaska. Plat OF
u. S. Survey No. 24l2, containing
500 acres and :. is now in the files
of the, Land Office Anchorage
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any Of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claim
in the Land Office within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statutes.
GEORGE A. LINGO.
Manager.
First publication, June 81. 1850.
Last publication, August l6. 1850.
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The Washington
Merry-Go"Round
Continued from Page One) 1.

sttffsSt sstif s.st.t.fir
not do, ana to speculate in. com
modities for his own persona, profit.
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Weather al
ALASKA Points

Weather conoiu1onstand temper'
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at A &c
am, 10th Meridian Time. sod
released by the weather bureau
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70 YEARS AGO t fTn EMPIRE
JULY 10, 1880

Langnfeld OF the sso-
estimated that $4,000 would be
realized Mendenhan Valley fur farmers.
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It'd E T A B L E
JULY 20
ATTENT,uS TOURISTS.

ATTENTION. TOURISTS -
Ride the MailEoat' Yakcai tor an
intimate acquaintance with Sc Ala
aska. Leaving every Wednesday,
arrive juneau Saturday night. 9ti
Fresh herring-Sturm's Locker
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had scared too high and the Thorn
as group got caught.
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Enroue Vancouver Can
Budale The three injured occupants
were hospital officials
Of the England Company Vancouver and two from
Boston; o. 81 Z. .
pack the Bristol Bay district
would $4,000 $780,
900 was estimated of form that in
1929 - m .. it.. ~ uH ra1ts' 9Gf
Douglas entertained luncheon in honor
residents who
William Robertson and
Ketchkan Bridge prizes were
and Mrs. Graham.
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Construction leading Ralph Beisine resi-
session OF the
Council otherwise, described routine
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sCHwINN BIKES AT MADsEN's
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Weather: High, Sc; low, 81; cloudy.
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Business seldom expands by magic = it usual.
grows because somebody with brains is working.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Cracks Down On
'One-Cent-SaIeS'
OF RexaII Chain

Washington (LPA)-The FEEDER
al Trade Commission has cracked
down on the "One-Cent Sales" of
the Rexall Drug Co. and its wholly
owned Subsidiary, the Owl Drug
Go. The ETC has found that the
chain "misrepresented the extent
of price reductions in some stores
by listing as regular price S
amounts that are higher than the
usual selling prices, with the re-
suit that the public has been mis-
led" The ETC order prohibits the
chain from misrepresenting prices
in connection with such sales.
Contrary to the representations
made in this advertising material,
said the ETC, ain many of the
franchise stores the purported
regular prices for some merchan-
disc are higher than prices usually
charged so that the price for two
units is actually more than the
regular price of one unit plus one
cent
Rexall, formerly known as Unit
ed Rexall Drug Co. and United
Drug Co., distributes its products
through the Owl Co. and Liggett
Drug Co., also a wholly-owned sub
sidiary, and through Independents
ly-owned drug stores which get
franchises to operate as "ReXall
Stores.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
National Figures
Ask chrysIer To
End Auto Strike

Washington (LPA) = Six Con-
gressmen and Is other national fig
ures have called on Chrysler Corp
oration to end the strike in its
plants by accepting the demands of
the United Auto Workers. The de-
mands are neither extravagant
nor novel;, the 21 declared.
"As a tremendous economic pow
er" Chrysler has commensurate
responsibility to both the public
and its own workers as well as it's
stockholders, the statement de-
clared.
Members of Congress who sign
ed the statement are Reps. Andrew
j. Biemiller Cd, Wis.,, Hugh Nit
chell I'd, Wash.), Chet Holifield
Cd, CALI, Eugene Mccarthy Cd,
Minn.), Abraham Multer Cd, N.
W, and Helen G. Douglas Cd,
CALI.
Other signers were DIR. Reinhold
Niebuhr, noted Protestant theolo-
gian; Prof. Alvin Hansen, Harvard
economist; Francis Biddle, chair
man, Americans for Democratic
Action; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
Harvard historian and author; Roy
Wilkins, acting secretary, NAACP;
p. Il. Ellsworth, u. of Wisconsin
economics professor; Charles M.
LaFollette, National Director,
ADA; Bryn j. Hovde, President,
New School for Social Research;
James M. Burns, professor of poll
tical science, Williams College;
Elizabeth Christman, executive sec
retary, National Womens Trade
Union League; Jonathan Bingham,
New York attorney; David Gins
burg, Washington attorney; Mort
| inner Hays, New York lawyer; AL
fred Baker Lewis, Connecticut bus
|inessman, and DR.. Liston Pope,
Dean of Yale Divinity School.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Profits Go Up Although
Sdles Drop, Survey Reveals

New York (LPA)-Whole giant
segments of the American economy
managed to increase profits last
year, while at the same time then
volume of sales dropped off. In ad
dition, other whole industries re-
ported increased profits all out OF
proportion to their rising sales
volume.
The ability of the electrical
equipment and chemical industries
to make record profits in the face
of falling sales, and the sharp i'm
crease of profits ahead of sales ir
the auto industry, has been pointed
out, not by union economists, but in
page-one story in the N. Y. Jour
nal of Commerce.
Reporting on a survey of 25C
| aiding industrial corporations
Journal of Commerce reporter Vic
tor Morris concedes:
~"Greater la bor productivity
made possible by modern equip.
ment installed since the war, is the
most significant offset to higher
wage rates and pensions, according
to many of the annual corporation
reports"
"There was a marked bias in
favor of the larger firm" Morris
observes, with General Motors and
DUPONT hitting the jackpot.
Fourteen iron and steel corpor-
ations reported sales down S.5 per
cent in the year, and profits rising
five percent.
Ten chemical corporations re-
ported sales down one percent
while profits rose six precent dur
ing the year.
Eleven electrical equipment man
ufacturcrs reported sales down 81
percent, at the same time that pro-
fits rose 20 percent.
The industry practice of main
tanning high profits and high prices
in the face of declining sales, union
economists point out, is exactly
the situation which President Tru-
man and his Council Of Economic
Advisers warned against in Janu-
airy when they reported to Con-
gress that "If there is any room
for price change in some vital in
dustrial areas, it is in downward
and not in an upward direction
Earnings are generally rewarding
though not so high as year ago
and they can best be protected and
advanced by those policies which
will maintain and expand volume
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20

"regards this matter extremely
important and will therefore re-l
view from time to time the extent'
to which this type of housing is
actually used." Prevailing wage
standards would be applied to
laborers and mechanics employed
in on-the-site erection of moveable
houses, under the Senate's version
of the bill. The wage provision
would not cover workers in the fac
tory turning out the houses or
house parts.
How important the development
of movable houses is to the mill
tary planners is seen in this state
ment by the Natl Security Re-
sources Board, made to the Atomic
Energy committee and later ode
classified. with all our large
housing resources and construction
capacity, the amount of mobile or
portable housing in this country is
negligible" the NRSB reported.
"Much can be accomplished in
building up this resource if we
give greater consideration to mob
ility, speed of construction, con-
servation of labor and materials,
and economies of mass production
in our peacetime housing and con-
struction programs"
The peacetime uses of such fac
tcry-built housing have been en-
phasized by Chairman Walter Reu-
ther Of the CLOS Housing Commit
tee, who started campaign about
"a year ago to get Congressional
and White House encouragement off
development of new-type building
methods.
/ Both the government military
planners and the supporters of in
dustrially-built houses to meet the
needs of the civilian population are
expected to put heavy pressure on
the Senate to stop any action to
hand over the present military
BODYBUILDING program to the con-
servative architects.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20

The only people | envy and ad-
mire are those who seem to have
fun while working.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Congress Ignores MilitorY
Planners On New Housing

Washington (LPA)--A series of
acknowledgements decisions that
may do to the home-building indus
try what Henry Ford's develop
ment of the Model-T did to the
auto industry have been reported
to Congress by the top military
planners of the country. However,
Congressional leaders are pushing
through at least one bill which will
perpetuate the same old-style build
ing methods that have been retard-
ing the home building industry for
years.
In a secret session of the Joint
Congressional Commi tee on
Atomic Energy in late March,
spokesmen for the Natl Security
Resources Board reported that one
prime element in protecting the
nation from atomic attack would
be development of a "moveable
house." They anticipate.that a sud-
den atomic attack would force the
moving of large numbers of people
to more-protected areas, and the
defense planners warned that the
nation should start "tooling up"
for industrially-built housing now,
to avoid being caught unawares.
Meanwhile, the military auth
orites want to try using movable
housing to care for military per-
sonnel and their families. Shock
ing housing conditions exist around
nearly every military establish
mentl in the US, and in such key
defense outposts as Guam and
Alaska. The Defense Department
figures that 100000 home units
must be built to erase the slums
and trailer colonies and unsanitary
overcrowding around army camps
and navy bases.
A bill which would encourage
just the opposite approach to that
of the top military planners is now
being pushed through Congress,
without any discussion in the
House, and without extensive pub
lie hearings before the Senate
Banking committee.
/ AS passed by the House, it auth
orizes the Secretary of Defense to
obtain the services of architects
and engineers to plan dwellings for
military personnel, with no limits
On the compensation, with only an
offhand reference to use of prefab-
ricated methods. However, since
the architects of the country are
the most vigorous opponents of
new-type industrially-built housing
they're the ones who would be
out of jobs-it is highly unlikely
that any moveable house program
would get very far.
The Senate Banking committee
on April 13 reported an improved
version of the bill, which would
limit money paid the architects to
the fee schedule used on public
housing projects, and would speci-
fically authorize the Defense Sec
retay to set aside certain sites for
construction cf movable houses.
AS for factory-made homes, the
Senate committee reported that it