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Evening star., 1950-09-28
KonodO Dragon

In 1912 a crew of pearl divers
visiting the Island of Komodo in
the East Indies, brought back exag-
gerated accounts of 20-foot dragons
encountered.
Further expeditions brought back
some of the dragons, though none
exceeded nine feet in length. But
they are the largest living lizards
and they do look like dragons.
There was pair domiciled in
the London Zoo-Sumba and Sum-
bawa, who lived in a specially con-
|structed den of artificial rocks which
concealed electric heaters ON which
the lizards reclined enjoying the
synthetic heat and sunshine pro-
vided by special lamps in the CELL
ing.
Though partial to beefsteaks and
hen eggs, they settled for pigeon,
which they swallowed in one gulp,
feathers and all, and would tackle
any other food offered them.
Komodo lizards or dragons are
extremely active and carnivorouS.
They inspire terror among the ma
tives. The dragons rush upon their
victims, tearing them to pieces.
Any creature IL feet long weighing
$50 pounds or more and hungry
is fearsome foe to meet.
The armor consists of bony scales
arranged in rows across the body.
The creature appears to be clad
in studded metal. His great mouth
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Natures S Children
By LiIIion Cox Athey

lis filled with long sharp teeth and
his toes equipped with sharp strong
nails. His deep-set eyes are re-
markably bright when he sights
food. sn
Douglas Burden organized an ex-
pedition in 1926 to make pictures
and observations on the Komodo.
At that time the giant lizards were
quite common and when wild swine
were shot and staked on the rocky
hills, the lizards would race each
other to the coveted bait and tear
it to pieces.
The Dutch government was de-
termined this species should not be-
come extinct and was not too eager
to issue permits permitting the
removal of few specimens for the
American Museum of Natural His
tory and the New York Geological
Park.
Visitors by the thousands fiocked
to the Zoo to gaze upon the largest
lizard in the world. The dragons
plinked back without any show of
interest or hostility. But some vlsi-
tors later remarked that their
dreams were considerably disturbed
after their first closeup Of the
dragon.
Much is yet to be learned about
the dragon, whose scientific name
is VaranuS KomodoensiS. The only
written facts are those of Maj. P. A.
OuwenS, late Director of the Buiten.
zorg Museum in Java.
Evening star., 1950-09-28
ADVERTISEMENT.

But we're always dubious about
the butcher that takes it ''in
the back room." There's no
doubling what our butchers do.
They grind the steak RIGHT
BEFORE YOUR EYES. So you
know that the cut you've Sc
lected is the cut you're getting
to take home to your family.
THERE are thirty-five (35,
count them) meat stands in
Center Market City, and it's
easy to find one that specializes
in your fav0rite meat. No other
market in the city can claim as
many meat merchants under
one roof. That's why our mer-
chants have to be good. -.
Here's what you'll find on a
typical day at the Market:
Pork products ESQ firm, so
fresh, SO recently ground), !,
lunch meats of almost every
description, country style sau-
sage-knOw of anything bet
ter? Cooked tongue, for in
stance, is a wonderful dish.
Cooked ham for that party of
yOurS--if you want it baked or
boiled, you'll find it at our meat
stands.
Hickory smoked ham? Why,
Of course. SmithfieId hams
right from the farms Of Vir-
ginia. Genuine spring lamb,
hog maws and tripe, corned
beef, Kosher meats, and of
course, rOaSts, steaks and every
kind and cut of meat that is
sold can be found at our stands
in this great Market.
EVEN though we know our
meats are great drawing cards,
we know that you like our
FREE PARKING LOT and our
attractive little twO-wheeled
shopping carts. And as &C.
static as we can get over our
meats, we want you to remem-
ber that both the parking lot
and the carts are still part of
the service of
); CENTER MARKET CITY,
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Evening star., 1950-09-28
I axe NV Word'for 1t
By Fronk Cobb,

gro dialect of Harlem, or the Yid-
dish dialect of the Bronx.
Of course, Standard American
speech is nothing like the Standard
English. But one is not superior to
the other. Both are correct in the
countries where they are~ spoken.
Likewise, both are incorrect when
assumed by non-native speakers.
That is to say, it Is incorrect and
ridiculous for an American to ape
the British manner Of speaking,
and vice versa.
In discussing the American speech
pattern, this column does not dis
cuss the dialects Of any of our
minority groups, for obvious rea-
sons. My recommendations are
based on Standard American (also
called General American) - the
speech that is standard among the
great majority Of the people. It is
the speech that is accepted as good
usage everywhere in the nation.
Moreover, it is non-sectional; t.e..
it does not type the speaker as an
fastener, q Northerner, q South
Evening star., 1950-09-28
LET'S GET 1T STRAIGHT
ABOUT AMERICAN SPEECH.

Here is an unusually interesting
comment from an Englishman who
writes from London. after spending
a few weeks in New York City:
"Oh, American speech is shock
ing! You say desc for these, and
dem for them, and call girls 'goils.
Really, I've become convinced that
America, for its richness and power,
Is nation of barbarians."
Our British friend is guilty of a
quite natural error of observation,
i.e., the assumption that the "dese,
dose, den:" sidewalk speech is rep
resentative of the nations speech.
Suppose an American were to
visit London, then come home and
report that the English speak with
a cockney accent. What false and
unfair indictment that would be!
Our Briton was impressed by the
sidewalk dialect simply because it
| is SO unusual, and not because 1t
is customary. He might ais well have
said that Americans speak the Me-
Evening star., 1950-09-28
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Evening star., 1950-09-28
Word Come
Find 81 or more words in
STIP END,

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meaning, wages" Average Is SO;
limit, Is minutes.
Rules-Words must be Of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
by the addition Of IS" such as ''bats,
cats" are not used. Only one form Of q
word is used. Proper names are not used
A list will be published tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-09-28
Answer to ARCHoLoGY.
erner, q Middle e-Westerner or o
Westerner.
1t is simply American; and that's
good enough for me.

Dc you have difnculty in using the
words CAN-COULD and MAY-MIGHT?
II 50. Mr.. CoIby's leaflet, C-21, will help
you. For Q copy. send 10c In coin to him.
care OF The Star, P.O. Box 90. Station
G, New York 10, N. Z.
Evening star., 1950-09-28

Mother-Throwing things down
and then picking them up makes
us handle them twice. We save
time by putting them where they
belong In the first place.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
ASKS FUND
 WAR DEAD
 MEMORIALS
National Cemetery af Sifka Is Put Down for Sum
 of S75,O0O

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-lR-An $875,000 sum for erecting memorials to war dead in National Cemeteries in Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico is proposed for the next fiscal year.
 The memorial at the Sitka, Alaska, cemetery would be the smallest of the three-$75,0 ,000. The Honolulu memorial cost is budgeted at $7OO,000 and the one in Puerto Rico at $100,000.
 The figures were presented to the House Appropriations subcom- mittee handling the budget for Army civil functions. The next fiscal year starts July Il.
 The budget also includes pro- posal for expansion of six national cemeteries in the states.
 There was no indication of what type of memorial was proposed at Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
. UNIONS MUST STOP
 pI(kETING
Permanent Injunttion ls- sued Against Cl0 in
 Lothrop Ship Case

TACOMA, Wash. Jan. 25-lR- Superior Court Judge Hugh J. Rosellini handed down a decision yesterday permanently enjoining four CIO unions from picketing the freighter Asa Lothrop.
 The vessel, owned by the newly formed Alaska Ship Lines, Inc, has been the center of union dispute since Oct 3, 1949 when CIO picket line was set up. The Lothrop was manned by an AFL crew.
 A temporary injunction restrain ing the pickets was issued the same day, but tefore it was served sev- eral pickets were beaten by men who arrived at the dock in cars.
 The Lothrop crew had voted in favor of the AFL in bargaining election held at Port Angeles, Sept 30, 1949. The CIO unions con- tended that since only AFL men voted, the election was farce.
 Judge Rosellinis decision was the result of a petition filed by owners to make the temporary injunction permanent.
 The AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific has been engaged Tn a jurisdictional dispute with GIG unions for several years over ves- sels in Alaska trade.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
CHR YSLER IS
 I FED U ? B Y BIG WALk0UT
Nationwide Operations Hii by Strike of 5000
 Auto Workers

DETROIT, Jan. 25-tR-A strike of 39,000 auto workers hit Chrys- Ter Corporations nationwide opera eions today.
 Six months of negotiations failed to bring agreement in pension plan dispute between the company and the CIO United Auto Workers. Talks broke off 15 minutes before the 10 am. walkout.
 From the bargaining room, the union flashed the message to To- calls in 25 plants:
 Hit the bricks, boys"
 Assembly lines ground to halt as day shifts in the sprawling De- troit plants, first to get the word, swarmed out. Workers in the rest of Chrysler's factories followed suit.
 Before long almost all Chysler's 10000 employees across the na- ten will be idled.
 The big snag in efforts 10 avoid the strike was union demand that Chrysler make dollars-and- cents commitment in a new con- tract. Benefits worth 10 cents were asked as the ''rockbottom" figure.
 Chrysler stuck to its offer of a S1OO-a-month plan administered en- 5irely by the company. It would be financed on -as-you-go basis. The company rejected the idea of jointly run trust fund, upon which the union insisted
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
CANADIAN NURSES FIGHT DIpHTHERIA IN
 FREEZING B. {. CAMP

VICTORIA, B.C.. Jan. 25-lR-- The provincial public health de- partment told today how two nurses fought for three weeks in the filth, fear and freezing cold of Northern British Columbia In- dian camp against an attack of diphtheria which claimed five lives.
 The department identified the nurses as Aileen Bond and A. Will son and said the village was To- cated in Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John. B.C.
 The nurses made trips as far as 60 to 80 miles from the village to immunize other residents. The thermometer ranged between 40 and 60 degrees below zero.
 Miss Wilson said funeral pyre for the third victim was burning when she arrived in the village.
 One of the later victims, she said. cied in an Edmonton. Alta. hospital despite the primitive methods of another Indian who had reached into the patients throat and pulled out the diphtheria mem brane with a pair of silver pliers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
AR M Y ASK S. TO EXP 4 N D
 ALASKA WORK.
Communications, Housing Pressed-E Prob-
 lem Is Bad in North

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-IR-The Army is pressing Congress for $6,- 100000 to provide better radio and wire communications facilities for the armed forces and civilians in Alaska.
 A House Appropriations subcom- mittee made public today testi- mony in which the Army Engineers described importance of the pro- gram and it's tie up with Alaska s defenses.
 Maj. Gen. S B. Akin, Chief Sig nal Officer, testified the Army needs S3,100,000 in the year starting July l for installation and main tenance of new telephone, telegraph and catle facilities and expa1so on of the radio system.
 An additional $3,0OO,0Oo for build ings to house equipment and the men to operate it also is needed urgently, he said.
 
 tenn, General Akin said, is used 65 percent by the Army and Air Force, Is percent by the Navy and other government agencies, and 20 per cent for commercial purposes.
 "This system is essentially the arterial communications system of the Territory, which has an area of 586 400 square miles and per manent population Of approxl- mately 94,00O persons, an increase of 20 percent since 1945,' he sad.
 MAIN LINK
 It provides the main communl- cations link between Alaska and the states, provides needed swift service between military posts and between towns, its radio stations can reach out to ships at sea, and the entire setup offers services essential to the civilian population, he said. It connects with 300 prl- vate radio and telephone stations already operating in Alaska.
 The work also will tie in, he said, with the SSO,0OO,O0O four-year pro gram to rehabilitate the Alaskan Railroad; a big road expansion pro gram, and the Civil Aeronautlcs Administration S8,0CO, O,CsO-a-year plan for air port development at
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
} RIDDLES LOSE LIVES,
 kAkE BLAZE
Home Fire Fought Unsu1- eessfuIIy with SnowbalIs
 and Bucket Brigade

PETER SBURG, Alaska Jan. 25- R-Snowballs and a salt water bucket brigade failed to stem fire at midnight Monday which burned three children to death and de- stroyed their home in the Indian community of Rake near here.
 US. Commissioner Dale Hirt of Petersburg returned from there yesterday ai4d told about it.
 Most of the village Inhabitants were attending a Salvation Army food sale when the alarm sounded.
 The towns water supply had been frozen for weeks so "the old men started throwing snow on the two room house while the young men and boys formed bucket brigade to the beach," William Dugaqua, an eyewitness, recalled
 Although the tide was low and the temperature was likeWise-be- low zero-Hirt said heroic efforts were made to try to rescue the children: Ellen June, 5; Peter Jr., I and Raymond Ernest, 3, whose father is Peter Quick. Mrs. Quick and two other children were at the food sale when the fire struck
 While snow and salt water were being pelted unavailingly on the flames, Chester James dashed into the burning house and found two of the children already dead from burns and suffocation. A few sec- onds later Dugaqua and others broke into the bedroom and found the body of the third tot.
 The visiting Metlakatla tasketeall team helped fight the fire.
 Hirt said it was believed the children might accidentally have set the fire when they tried to refill the small homes wood stove.
 The children will be buried ill Rake.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
BRIDGES TALKS AT
 C|0 MEET
Declares Immigration Ser. vice Trying 10 Bust Un-
 ions-Vote on Merger

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25-lR- Harry Bridges told CIO fishermen that the U. s. Immigration Ser vice is an amateur Gestapo" out to bust the unions"
 The CIO longshore leaders was guest speaker at yesterdays open ing session of the annual conven- ton of the CIO International Fish ermen's Union. He spoke during the noon recess of his trial for perjury in Federal court here.
 Bridges defended policies of both the Fishermen's Union and his Longshoremen's and Warehouse mems Union both of which have been at odds with the national CIO because of their left wing leanings.
 Liar" Tells Bridges
 Anybody that says either oi our organizations has violated the Constitution, or even the policies of the national CIO, Is a lar, ne declared, and added that their ac- cusers don't have the guts to hold public trials"
 But, they're not pushing uf around" he said. We're too haro to push"
 Delegates to the convention, re- presenting some 20,00O Pacific Coast fishermen voted earlier in the day on a proposal that the fishermens and longshoremens unions be mefg- ed. Results will be announced later Bridges approved the merger be- cause it would "bring more se- curity to the unions"
 To File Affidavits
 The union, which has been ac' cused by the national CIO of having leftist tendencies, will file non Communist affidayits under tht Taft-Hartley Law. the convention was told yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
RAIN, SNOW,
 SHEET TIE
 UP TRAFFIC
Singing Cold Wave with Thermometer Far Below
 Zero : Roads Iced
(By the Associated Press)

Subzero cold-30 to 40 below froze blizzard swept Northern Plains today.
 Rain. snow and sleet pelted Gen. tral States, delaying traffic.
 New England was sheeted with ice after an overnight storm that killed at least two persons.
 But it was warm as Florida in parts of the east and lower mid- west for second straight day, and almost like summer in the south.
 sTINGING COLD WAVE
 A singing cold wave struck North Dakota in the wake of one of it's worst blizzards in history. Cnly 149 miles of the states 1000 miles of roads were open early Wednesday.
 A snowstorm whipped Nebraska. Drifting snow piled from three inches high in Omaha to seven in the western parts, tut all roads were open.
 Two to three inches of sleet iced Southeastern Iowa roads. Western Iowa had four inches of snow.
 The warm spell in scores of East ern, Midwestern and Gulf areas didn't die out with darkness. Dur- ing the night 1t was warm as 66 in Louisville, Memphis and Nashville, 68 in st. Louis and Little Rock. 69 in Galveston and New Orleans, and | 72 in Miami. But It. was zero to 40 below m parts of Minnesota, Nebraska. Iowa, Montan, Washington and the Da- kotas.
 IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST
 The Pacific Northwest's sub-zero cold drove the mercury down to a 6O-year low in Spokane early to- day.
 The inland city's 22 below zero was listed as the lowest since 23 below on Feb. 26, 1890.
 Winter clamped an icy grip on 10th Eastern and Western Wash ington. It was the second time tnis month that rare sub-zero tempera- lures were recorded on the west side of the Cascades. OUCH = 50 BELOW To the north, in British Column hia, it was even colder. At Prince George, 500 miles north of Van- couver in the interior, it dropped to 50 below. Banff, Alta, reported -oS and Rouard, on Lesser Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, a -65.
 The prediction for today and tonight was slightly warmer out continued cold Snow was in pros rect generally in Washington, with flurries in Oregon. The coldest spot reported in the Washington Oregon frigld zone was at Harrington, about 60 miles south west of Spokane. It was 27 below. Many rural schools remained closed in Western Washington.
 Most train, air and bus schedules were being maintained.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 25 - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is SIS, American Car IA, Anaconda 29, Curtiss- Wright 8, International Harvester 27, Ken necott 5334, New York Central l21s Northern Pacific 141s, U. s. Stee- 277s, Pound $2.S01s.
 Sales today were 100000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials 1889, rails 54.5l, util- ities 41.43.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
The W ashingion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

tCopyright, l9oO' py bei Ssnuiease' -S' WASHINGTON secret month- long poker game between an ex- Georgia priest and Chinese peas ant may settle the fate ot all Asa This is the confidential advice given President Truman by Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
 The game is in Moscow and the players are Josef Stalin, shrewd and impressive, who sits opposite Chinas Communist boss. Mao tze-tung. The prize is Manchuria, the rich north ern. province of China eyed with sharp desire by both Czars and politburos for more than century.
 Mao went to Moscow December 16. He is still there. Coded cables to Washington say a stupporn quarrel over Manchuria has pro longed what should have been a brief formal visit. Stalin has proposed an autonomous Manchur- ia under an out-and-out Moscow stooge, Ii li-San. Mao, on the other hand, is insisting Russia live up to it's Aug. IA, 1945, treaty with China which recognizes Chimes full sov- ereignty" over Manchuria.
 Mao is a tough customer who knows he must show streak of ln- dependence to keep his hold over the Chinese people. Like Yugoslav- ia's Tito he has complete control over his own army, but if Mao re- turns home without Manchuria and with commitments to supply Rus sia with troops, laborers and food, his authority will be weakened.
 While the. poker game goes on in Moscow, the Soviet is secretly trying to undermine Mao. Hundreds of Soviet officials, parading as farm advisers, military experts, engineers and welfare officials are moving into the Chinese Communist gov- ernment and now control it's pro- paganda machine.
 A few days ago at the State De- partment there was round-table
 Continued on Page Four)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
GREEK STEAMER GOES
 AGROUND IN SOUTH

The Coast Guard radio station at Point Higgins early this morn ing intercepted a message from the Greek steamship Kostis Lemos reporting that the vessel had gone aground in Sansum Narows near Sansum Point at the south end of Vancouver Island.
 The Greek vessel radioed 1t was awaiting high tide before making an effort to free itself, Coast Guard headquarters here said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
HISS GETS FIVE YEARS;APpEAL T0HIGH(0URT
Three Top Justices May Disqua|ify Selves If Case
 Heard-bail Continued

NEW YORK, Jan. 25-IR,-Alger Hiss was sentenced today to five years in a federal penitentiary
 Sentence was pronounced by Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard in the courtroom where Hiss was convicted on two perjury counts last Saturday by a jury of eight women and four men. He was not fined
 The former State Department official had denied slipping secret state papers to a prewar Soviet spy ring. E
 After sentence was pronounced defense counsel filed notice of appeal with the clerk of the court and submitted a defense motion that Hiss be continued in bail pending decision of the higher court of appeal
 The next step for appeal beyond the circuit court would be to the United States Supreme Court. Should it 20 to the highest trl- bunal, at least three judges are ex- pected to disqualify themselves.
 They are Felix Frankfurter, Stan ley Reed and Tom C.. Clark. The first two testified as character wit nesses for Hiss at the first trial last June. Justice Clark was US. Attorney General while the govern ment worked up it's case against Hiss
 DISQUALIFICATION
 A decision to disquallty himself is up to each justice. He is not compelled by law. However. jus tice customarily steps down in q case when he feels that either side might be aggrieved by his consid- ering it.
 Judge Goddard set bail at $10,OO0 pending appeal.
 The five year term was imposed on each of two counts, the terms to run concurrently. Maximum sentence could have Teen five years imprisonment on each count ana S2 ,OOO fine on each count.
 The jury held that Hiss lied when he denied passing secret State Department documents to Whitaker Chambers, self-styled courier for a Communist spy ring and lied again when he denied see ing Chambers after Jan. l, 1887.
 Judge Goddard denied defense request that the 45-year-old Hiss not be imprisoned saying:
 This should be warning that crime of this character may not be committed with impunity." The government had recom- mended that Hiss be sentenced to five years on each count, to run concurrently. The government pro- secutor of the case, Assistant Us. Attorney Thomas F. Murphy, did not recommend fine. Murphy had requested a 325,ooo bail but Judge Goddard said that was "too high"
 Defense counsel Claude B. Cross of Boston told the court T think the defendant can raise S10,00O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL
 SESSION TOMORROW

The City Council will meet in special session at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Council chamber of the City Hall to set a date for the special election at which voters will decide upon the annexation of the Highlands to the city of Ju- neau.
 Election officials will also he chosen, Mayor Waino Hendrickson said today.
 City councilmen will continue work on drawing up the new traffic code for the city, Mayor Hendrick- son declared.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Baranof from westward sched- uled to arrive Sunday evening.