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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

Rollie Kirkby was voted into the
University of Washington's own
private hall of fame.
His teammates picked the senior
halfback as the 42nd winner of the
Guy Flaherty Inspirational Medal,
but they went even farther. They
demanded that Kirkby's number
az be retired for all time.
Even George Wilson, usually re-
garded as Washingtons greatest
PLAYER, was not so honored.
Kirkby came from Burlington,
Wash. In his four years at the Uni
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
WILBUR b. CONVERSE is
MARRIED, SAN FRANCISCO

Announcements have been re-
ceived in Juneau of the marriage
of Wilbur Bernie Converse and
Marvel Ann Leidecker, November 2
in San Francisco.
Converse is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Converse of Juneau and
was born and reared here. He has
been a member of the Armed Fore
es the past two years and is now
stationed at Fort Mason, San Fran
cisco.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
BOB WOOD, BLACK MANU-.
MAN HERE FROM WEST

Bob Wood, Black Manufacturing
Company representative in Anchor
age and northern Alaska, arrived in
Juneau by Pacific Northern Air
lines Wednesday and is at the Bar
anof Hotel.
Wood will make a trip to Sitka
before continuing to company head
quarters in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

John Willis was elected to fill the
vacancy.
The next annual Arts and Crafts
exhibit has been scheduled for the
latter part of March so that mem
bers of the 1850 Territorial Legis-
Iature will be able to attend. The
exhibit will be held in the Elks
Hall as it has been the last two
years. People who would like to
contribute to the next annual dis
play are urged to keep the exhibit
in mind.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
CAPT. JOHNSON WILL
INSPECT SITKA STATION

Capt. Melvin A. Johnson, sector
Commander, Alaska Communica-
tons System, left for Sitka Wed
nesday to make the semi-annual
inspection of the Sitka ACS Sta
ton.
Capt. johnson expects to return
to his Juneau headquarters next
Sunday or Monday
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

The Senate Armed Services COM
mittee has called for closed door
hearing today on several unidenti-
fled witnesses before acting finally
on the nomination Of Mrs. Anna
Rosenberg as top manpower official
in the Defense Department.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
HON0RS FOR LITTLE
MAN, HU5kIES SQUAD

SEATTLE, Dec. 7--A1-Don Helm
rich made America.
Heinrich, Hugh McElhenny. Ted
Holzknecht and Dick Sprague
landed on the All-Coast team.
But last night the players player
the little man with the big heart
the guy who always just missed
the All-Star selections-last night
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

versity he has played in every game
five as a freshman and 20 year
with the varsity.
The team elected HoizlEecht, jun
ior guard, to captain it in 1861.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
ARTS, CRAFTS EXHIBIT
TOEE HELD IN MARCH;
Club Has NEW pREXY

At an executive board meeting
of the Alaska Arts and Crafts held
at the home of Vance Blackwell
it was with regret that the board
accepted the resignation of Alice
Tilton Thorne as President. Mrs
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

The pohutukawa tree OF New Yea
land may be gnarled and twisted,
saws the National Geographic So
ciety. but it blazes every year with
red blossoms.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

TIE self-confessed atom spy, Harry
Gold, will be sentenced today in
Philadelphia. The 39-year- old Swiss
born chemist has been under arrest
since May.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

Legislation to extend rent controls
is before both the House and the
Senate today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
sOURDOCEY CLUB MEETS

The Sourdocey Square Dancing
Club meets Saturday evening at
8 at the Parish Hall All members
are urged to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07

FROM EXCURSION INLET
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Walker OF
Excursion Inlet are at the Bar
anof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
ANCHORAGE VISITOR

r. L. Wood of Anchorage is STOP
cling at the Baranof Hitel
Evening star., 1950-03-15
A Modern Good Samaritan

An Associated Press story from Cochran
Georgia, Monday filled only three inches Of
one column of space in The Star, but many who
read it will remember it long after supposedly
more important matters have been forgotten
1t told how man and his wife were on their
way to hospital with their infant daughter
when their car broke down. The parents vainly
tried to persuade other travellers to give them
lift. But nobody stopped-that is, nobody
stopped until unidentified colored man came
along, saw their signals and pulled up by the
side of the road and took them in. With his
help, the distressed little family finally reached
the hospital
The story ended on tragic note. Doctors
pronounced the baby dead on arrival. The child
had pneumonia and might not have survived
the trip even If there had been no delay But
her parents are not any the less grateful to their
unknown friend. He passes into history simply
as another anonymous Good Samaritan, neigh
Dor when neighborliness was needed.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Statistics Are Small Comfort


The airplane disaster at Cardiff, Wales, pro-
vides a grim lesson in safety statistics This
single crash added eighty deaths to Britain's toll
of aviation casualties for this year. The larger
the capacity of passenger planes, the greater
their impact on accident statistics Thus,
although air accidents per passenger mile are
growing fewer both in Britain and the United
States, the death toll for each accident tends to
grow greater.
Statistics showing that air travel is becom-
ing safer, year by year, small comfort in
time of such tragedy as has overtaken the
chartered Tudor airliner. Yet the airlines OF
both nations have a right to be proud of the
progress they have made in reducing accident
risks Despite the loss of ffty-1ve lives in the
Eastern Airlines crash here last November
Americas scheduled airlnes last year had the
lowest accident rate in aviation history. Not to
be lost sight of in connection with the Cardiff
accident is the fact that the Tudor plane
although it performed well during the Berlin
airlift operations, was barred in 1948 from
British overseas service because of its accident
record. The inquiry ordered by the British gov
ernment should reveal whether steps should be
taken to withdraw this postwar commercial craft
from all public service. Until the inquiry is
completed, the public is in no position to judge
whether the plane the pilot or something else
was to blame for the catastrophe.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
This and That

The fattest robins ever seen are in
vading the District of Columbia and
environs this spring.
Recent reports show many arrived and
thousands on their way.
And every last bird of them is glorious
ly plump and in good color!
"They are the largest and healthiest
we've seen," writes E..A. T. of Edgewater,
Md.
mo doubt they are well fed in their
winter quarters"
The comparatively open winter in the
South gave the birds all the food they
needed.
Probably there are cycles in such
things. One year is a good" year for
robins, the next bad" year. and not
always is the explanation easy.
The first thought, Of course, is food.
Storms cover UP certain berries or in
sects, or lack of growth in some vege-
tables or fruit line makes for sparse
eating among the tribes of the air.
The robin normally has about 40 per
cent of it's food as insects, with the re-
mainder made up of small fruits and
berries
Scientific examinations of stomach
contents show that, Of the animal mat
ter. about 10 per cent consists Of beetles,
one-third of which are regarded as USE
full to man. These beetles, however, are
eaten only In spring and fall, when
other insects are hard to md.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

GraSshoppers and caterpillarS come
next in popularity with robins.
Spiders, snails and angleworms also
are eaten.
All of these, with the possible excep-
ton of the angleworms, may be regarded
as injurious to man.
Therefore, the robin is held to be a
useful bird, since most of its insect food
comes from the teeming ranks of the
insect tribes injurious to the desires and
doings of mankind.
Nearly So per cent of the robins diet
comes from the vegetable world, includ-
ing wild fruits. OF the cultivated fruits
only very small portion Is taken. and
this only in June and July.
It eats wild fruits about half the year
1t is believed that persons who protest
the little cultivated fruit the robins eat
might keep them away from it by plant
ing the Russian mulberry especially for
say this mulberry is a great pest, in
itself, and ought not to be planted at all
1t is sometimes puzzle to bird lovers
to know that robins are migratory. and
yet some of them are found in Rock
Creek Park every winter.
This is explained by the fact that
these specimens are birds which had
gone far north in the spring and sum-
mer, and hence found the District of
Columbia south" enough for them when
they began to migrate.
Usually our robins in the fall ny as
Evening star., 1950-03-15
By Charles E. 7roceweH

far as Florida and Texas, particularly
along the Gulf coast.
This year they began their migration
very early, specimens having been re-
ported near Washington late in January,
with dozens variously reported in Feb
ruary.
The robin is really thrush. This is
shown not only by its old name of
migratory thrush" but more by the
spotted breasts of the young.
Food to put out for the early robins
may range from doughnuts and raisins
to coconut cake.
The latter was used very successfully
by one resident. who swore that the
robin ate every crumb Of big slice.
Surely, knowing robin!
It has been only since 1913 that the
robin has been classed as migratory
game and insect-eating bird, which pro-
tects it through the Federal migratory
bird law.
Before that it was regarded as
game bird" and killed for food. Cherry
and berry growers inveighed against it..
Today it is universally regarded as a
friend Of man by ieason OF the large
quantity of noxious insects 1t destroys,
it's wonderful friendliness and its war
bling song The latter is music one must
get to know. Many persons actually do
not hear it, because it blends so we'll
with the rest of the spring and summer
outdoors sounds. Once caught by the
hearing ear and the knowing mind, 1t
remains ID ones heart for life.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Letters to The Star .

ing public confidence and making rea-
sonable, constructive criticism less effec-
tive?
Apparently these men either do not
know, or are too much interested In
the coming elections to care.
The world situation is too dangerous
for us to allow ourselves the luxury
of using the State Department as q
target in a game of political darts. We
cannot afford a partisan foreign policy
the situation is too dangerous for even
a bipartisan foreign policy. What we
need Is non-partisan, united policy for
world peace and security from aggres-
sion.
1t is to be hoped that responsible Re-
publican leaders will realize the error
of their ways and at least tone down
the outbursts of their more outspoken
colleagues. GENE BRAKE.
That New Navy Uniform
Strikes A Discord Here
How any right-minded citizen can
tolerate the new tradition breaking
naval uniform pictured on the front
page of The Star last Friday, to which
it has been reported that 93.9% of the
sailors themselves object, will not try
to fathom. suppose the Upper, for all
it's drab lack of picturesqueness, can be
defended on the usual tedious utilitarian
grounds, and perhaps also the unsightly
pockets; but what possible purpose is
served by removal of the cuffs from the
Jumper? The substitution of plain,
cuffless sleeve for the stripes that used
to encircle the wrist seems to destroy
virtually the last vestige of the aura OF
romance and adventure which once
made the naval calling an attractive
one to young men.
1t is a safe prediction that this latest
slap at the sartorial splendor which
has traditionally characterized the blue
jacket, for which the admirals on the
Navy uniform board are drawing hand
some salaries, will result only in lowered
morale and further recruiting difficulties
NAUTILoPHILUs.
Federal Worker Says Employees Pile Up
Leave Out Of Zeal, Not Out of Greed
Regarding Mr.. Schoen's letter on Fed
eral leave-cutting:
1t seems unfair to say that Federal
eulployeS have 4dl &c 1edVC SlCoio' VIM. -
they are saving in case OF lay-oH. .
The reason some people have accumu-
lated so much leave is that work has
been too pressing to enable them to
take the time allotted. know OF two
cases in my Office where the individual
has, for five years, lost up to 20 days
leave each year because he has accum-
ulated the maximum number of days
allowed. This means that these people
stick to the job and would rather lose
Evening star., 1950-03-15
School Building P|ons-A New Look
By Colt HendIey, jr.

THE TRANSFER of Central High
l. School to colored students prom
ises to alter drastically the long range
school building program for Negroes in
the city.
Just what it will do to the plans the
Board of Education adopted number of
years ago is still in the conjectural stage.
Board members are waiting for School
Supt Hobart M. Corning to make study
of the question before setting their sights
again.
But it is already clear that with the
transfer of Central and the construction
of Spingarn High School, expected to be
completed within two years. Dr. Corning
and the Board will have to take two
factors into considerations:
l. There will be plenty of space in the
school buildings assigned to colored high
school students. Overcrowding theoret-
ically will be thing of the past.
2. Although there will be plenty OF
space, two of the colored high school
buildings and Dunbar-are
considered antiquated.
For some time to come, in other words,
new construction of colored schools will
be occasioned by need for better facili-
ties, rather than need for more space.
But it is possible, too, that building reno
vations in the colored divisions will lose
priority on school construction schedules,
now that the pressing space problem has
been solved.
This much is certain: All plans for
new Cardozo building to replace the
present structure at Ninth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV. automatically
are cancelled. The transfer of Central
High was made permanent by the School
Board.
Similarly, the likelihood that other
white high schools will be transferred
now appears remote. Mckinley High
School, for example, had been mentioned
by some groups as one which might
logically be transferred to the colored
division.
The transfer Of Central leaves the two
other colored senior high schools. Arm
strong and Dunbar, overcrowded for the
present, but not critically so.
The School Board has had plans for
some time to replace Armstrong with
new building. The site. in Brentwood
Park NE, Is available. The project was
authorized in the 1948 appropriation act
at cost not to exceed $2,505,0 900, and
planning money was appropriated in the
amount of $75,150.
But 81 million request for money to
Evening star., 1950-03-15
The jolly Penitent

/ bought him II, a dusty shop in Chinn-
A Buddhist Doing Pendnce, carued OF
teak.
He rides his pony, backwards and he
carries
An umbrella that has sprung mon
strouS leak.
His garments are much tUisted :. and
the pony
Looks sDor1, from having trotted many
But, ah, the one doing penance sits
complGcent .,,
And, though he's being humbled, still
he snsilesl
I gaze on him at days end snch az
Recalling many foolish things I'us
done
And pray that, w1en the time comes to
do penance,
/, too, may act as IT / found It tlni
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
Evening star., 1950-03-15

leave than take time off just for tn
sake of getting all that's coming to them.
The point might be made also that
for scientific personnel, private industry
pays up to double the salaries offered by
the Government. The educational re-
quirements and background of exper-
ience required by the Government are
as high as those required by private
industry, If not higher. It seems the
Government should have something to
induce highly skilled workers to make
careers in the Federal service. J. S. M.
Japanese Visitors Puzzled
By Districts Voteless Status
I had the pleasure recently of being
in civic group which was visited by
several japanese women now in this
country for study of the customs and
institutions which comprise our Ameri-
can way of life. The purpose of their
visit is to see democracy in action SO that,
on returning to Japan, they may help
other citizens learn the ways Of respon-
sible participation in government.
I wish every American could have
witnessed the bewilderment Of these visi-
tors when they learned that the citizens
of Washington cannot vote. Their puzzle
ment was complete. When the facts were
at last made plain they were very evil
IDENTIFY shocked and disillusioned. Clearly
they had expected better things of
democracy than this.
Others in the group shared with me
the feeling of embarrassment and apol-
ogy at having to explain that the res
idents of the Capital of the United
States are denied the basic rights OF
citizenship. find it most disturbing to
think of the impressions on this issue
carried away from Washington by these
and other foreign visitors.
It is the duty of every resident of the
District to make such incidents known
to their friends in the States in order
that they may Immediately request the
signatures of their congressman on the
Discharge Petition No. 10 which would
bring the Kefauver Home Rule Bill be-
fore the House of Representatives for
vote. ROSALIE S. GOODMAN.
Highway Bridge Cars, Please Space Out
Hardly a week elapses without the
traffic over Highway Bridge being
brought to standstill during the morn
ing and evening rush hours because Of
bumper to- bumper" collisions.
This type of collision frequently occurs
in lane of closely spaced vehicles when
a driver suddenly applies his brakes. If
motorists would allow greater distances
between their cars, there should be fewer
bumper bumper" collisions; and, in
cidentally, much stop and go driving
would be eliminated.
2OBERT L. BURCH.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Toft-HoytIey Policeman

1t may be unfortunate, but it is nevertheless
fact, that something more than administrative
efficiency is at stake in the Presidents recon-
mendation for doing away with the independent
functions of the general counsel of the National
Labor Relations Board.
AS a purely administrative matter, the
division of authority between the board and its
counsel has not worked at all well. 1t is, at best
q clumsy arrangement And when to this one
adds the clash of personalities between the coun-
sci, Robert H. Denham and a majority, if not ALL
of the present members of the board, the result
ing situation is little short of intolerable.
From this, it can be argued strongly that
there is clear need for change in personalities.
Mr.. Denham has made certain accusations
against board members, the gist of them being
that they have not done an honest job of admin
istering the law. If those accusations are true,
the offending members have no business serving
on the board. If they are not true, Mr.. Denham
should be given his walking papers.
This is quite a different matter, however,
from wiping out the office of independent gen.
eral counsel. That office was created, among
other reasons, to provide check on the admin
tst,ation of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Presi-
dents hostility against the law is notorious.
There is good reason to believe that majority
of the board members though they may try to
do an honest job of enforcement, are personally
not in sympathy with the intent of the law.
This being so, there is ample reason to question
the wisdom of reverting to status In which the
board functions as Judge, jury and prosecutor.
Under the old Wagner Act, this arrangement
produced condition that was national dis
grace. Certainly we do not want to go back to
those days.
So Congress would be well advised to take
q long look at this particular recommendation.
1t is true that Senator Taft's bill, which passed
the Senate at the last session, abolished the in
dependent general counsel's Office and that will
be strong argument in support of Mr.. Trumans
recommendation. But it is not conclusive
argument. Congress still must consider whether
Evening star., 1950-03-15

ored high school enrolment was 4,736.
There will be enough room for all col
ored students even if the enrolment in
creases, which it is expected to do some
what.
DR.. Corning, when he recommended
against the transfer of Central High to
colored students, warned the Board of
Education the transfer would have "un-
fortunate implications" for the building
program for colored schools.
He said further that, SO far as space is
concerned, he believed the colored high
schools could operate in three centers-
Dunbar, Central and Spingarn. mo
arguments from the standpoint of capac-
ity would remain for the construction Of
new Armstrong and Cardozo High
Schools" he declared at that time.
DR.. Corning did say, after the transfer
of Central had been approved by the
School Board, that he felt new building
still would be needed for Armstrong. But
this, he added, is matter which can
be determined only after further study
by school officials.
Evening star., 1950-03-15
Aprils Daylight Saving Month
And Here We Go Again


And Here We Go Again
Why must we have Daylight Saving
Time? No parent wants 1t. 1t means
children must go to bed before the house
has cooled. 1t is still daylight and i'm
possible for them to sleep. Or we parents
must keep them up late. In the morning
they are awakened by trucks and SO
forth, and they are cross and restless
because Of lack Of sleep.
All of this comes at time when the
newspapers and doctors are advising
plenty of rest as one way Of fighting
polio. It seems to defeat the whole
purpose Of program for good health.
Whow it? Is it the childless people.
so that they can have more fun? It does
not seem to be them. have spoken to a
number of them and even they don't
like it, ~
The sun rises earlier and sets later
during the summer. This results, If 1t
hours. All of this comes about naturally
without any help from mere man.
>e- ELLEN T. BRAGG.
Republican Politicians" Accused
OF Numbering Bipartisan Foreign Policy
Bipartisan foreign policy is either
dead or dying. 1t Is unable to survive
the bludgeoning of Republican politi-
clans who want to use foreign policy as
base for attacking the administration.
1t is shame, too. The bipartisan
approach to a united foreign policy was
only a makeshift affair, but it was better
than partisan pickering.
If there is any issue on which great
majority of Americans should be able to
agree it is foreign policy. The objec-
tive is the same for all of us-survival.
Whether we are Democrats or Republi-
cans, whether we are the ins or the outs.
whether the election prospects look good
or bad for us, we should all be inter-
ested in preserving the American way
of conducting our Government. Any
disagreement should concern only the
best methods of achieving Our goal.
and such disagreements can be resolved
better by sincere, unprejudiced discus
sion than by irresponsible partisan de-
bate.
But now the Republicans are looking
for an issue. Apparently not satisfied
with domestic iSsueS-on which their
views have not proved popular in the
past-they are turning to the field of
foreign affairs. And now every time
Mr.. Acheson as much as trims his mus
tache wrong some Republican Congress
man calls for his resignation.
Do the Congressman who are raising
all this fuss know what they are doing?
Do they realize that irresponsible at
tacLe c,,cb as Senator McCarthy'S are
weakening our efforts for peace, destroy