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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-12-07
col. MOVES WILL
INSPECT INTERIOR
WINTER ROAD WORK

To inspect the winter mainten-
ance of Alaska Road Commission
Roads in the interior and to confer
with district engineers in charge,
Col. John r. Moves. Commissioner
of the ARC. was scheduled to
leave Juneau today. He will visit
the Valdez, Anchorage, Fairbanks
and Nome areas and plans to re-
turn to his headquarters here about
December 10.
The ARC Commissioner will be
Joined in Fairbanks next Wednes-
day by George M. Tapley, Chief OF
the Engineering Division who Will
make the trip back with him over
the entire main road system Kept
open in the winter months.
Donald II. Miller, Chief OF the
Administrative Division will leave
Juneau Sunday for Valdez, Anchor
age and Fairbanks to take up ad-
ministrative matters with the ARC
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WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
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some of the important road work
which involves rock excavation.
Every effort will be made, Col.
Moves said, to find some solution
so that work vitality important to
the national defense program may
not be impeded.
Sale Asphalt Stopped
Col. NoyeS said he will also confer
with municipal authorities in An
chorage and Fairbanks regarding
recent ruling from the Interior
Department that the Alaska Road
Commission will no longer be able
to sell asphalt to Alaska cities or
private individuals not concerned
with ARC contracts, on the ground
that the authority is not clear for
the Road Commission to carry on
such action The Road Commission
has been selling bulk asphalt from
its storage tanks at Valdez anc
Anchorage
SOIllCICilCtS VIII dloO NC llClu Wy
the Road Commission with Alaska
Defense officials, the Alaska Rail
road management and the Bureai
of Land Management chiefs in An
chorage.
After his return to Juneau this
month preparations will be under
way for the big annual conference
of Alaska Road Commission for
district engineers, division chiefs
and other staff members, to be
held in Juneau, January to IL.
At this time the entire program of
the Alaska Road Commission for
the ensuing season will be discussed,
and awards for safety and other
operations during the past year
will be presented.
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MOOSE WOMEN TO
MEET AT 3 TONIGHT

The Women of the Moose, Chap
ter No. 439, will meet in the Moose
Lodge room tonight at 8 o'clock.
Senior Regent Beatrice Albegoit
announces she would like a repoic
from the following committees
publicity, child welfare, ritual, child
care. hospital guild and member
ship.
Pat Kimes, chairman of the social
service committee. announces that
the post office sale will be held
after the meeting.
1t is also requested that all Ac-
ademy of Friendship members at
tend tonight's meeting as there
will be an important announcement
made.
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emergency or disaster, according to
Mrs. L. w. Richards. She is the
instructor under the Civilian De-
Tense for the Red Cross first aid
and home nurses courses. Boxes
for the first aid kits are being made
by the Douglas High School When
the boxes are completed, the kits
will be placed in strategic places
throughout the city, said Mrs.
Richards.
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a six weeks vacation, part of which
both spent receiving medical care
The couple spent their vacation
with their parents, in Weiser and
Cour diane, Idaho. Mr.. Matson
is with the US. Veterans office
with headquarters at Juneau.
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Admitted to st. AIMS hospital
yesterday were. Tom Powers, Carl
Mueller, Anton Sandnes, Tilford
England, Mrs. Stanley Tyler.
Dismissed were George Osborne,
Mrs. Merritt Mitchell and baby
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offices at those points.
Thompson Pass Work

thompson PaSS WORK
Col. Moves said he is particularly
interested to see the progress on the
maintenance work at Thompson
Pass on the Richardson Highway
which is being kept open this winter
entirely by the ARC. He said that
while this season it is an expert
ment toward future all year round
operations it has so far been wholly
successful.
Two buildings, a clubhouse and
garage are in the final stages of
completion on the Pass and are
now occupied. Commercial and
military traffic to Anchorage and
Fairbanks is being carried on at
normal rate.
A road crew is doing improvement
work preparatory to paving of the
first 35 miles out from Valdez for
which contracts have been let for
the job to be started next season.
This section includes the Keystone
Canyon and Thompson Pass. Re-
building and charging of the tun-
mel in the Keystone Canyon is in
progress.
Col. Noyes said advices received
by him report all roads kept open
at this time of the year are in nor
NAL state. In spite of the recent II
inch snowfall at Anchorage the
roads there have been kept open
and maintained for the usual traf-
fic
Conference at Anchorage
Colonel Noyes will participate at
an important conference with the
Association of General Contractors,
and Army and the Alaska Railroad
officials scheduled to be held in
Anchorage, December 9. to discuss
the dual subjects Of the construc-
ton program for next season and
the matter of steel priorities. The
steel priorities present a consider
able problem at the present time,
the road commissioner said. due to
the demands for the defense pro-
gram
Restriction on Explosives
Another problem which now faces
road builders. Colonel Noyes said,
is the new Coast Guard restriction
on the unloading of explosives at
Alaskan ports. Regulations have
been issued, he said. pursuant to an
Act of Congress forbidding the
handling of more than 500 pounds
of any one shipment Of explosives
at any dock near human habitatlon
or activities. The Commissioner OF
Roads pointed out that owing to the
general lack of any docks not near
human habitation the regulations
pretty nearly shuts off the posi-
bility of obtaining explosives Tor
road construction. This, he SAID,
means a threatened shut down OF
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EMERGENCY HOSPITAL

An emergency 10-bed hospital
has been assembled in the Douglas
Government School for use in war
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girl, Henry Messerschmidt. Diane
Stroebel.
Admitted to the Government
hospital was Sixty Moore of Kanak-
anak. Mrs. Thomas Chulik and
baby boy of Angoon were dismissed.
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MATsONs HOME

Mr.. and Mrs. George Matson re-
turned home on the Baranof after
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WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Suit in Oklahoma Town
Charges Influencing Of
Schools by Church
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. IT.
School officials of Bethany. Okla,
were charged yesterday with vio-
lation of the First and Fourteenth
Amendments of the Constitution.
The charges were included in
an amended petition filed in
District Court by 10 Bethany
citizens. A hearing is set for to-
day.
School patrons claim the
schools administration is infiu-
enced by the NaZarene Church.
Bethany is a blue law" town of
$500 ten miles west of Oklahoma
City. Bethany-Peniel College.
Nazarene school. is located there.
Cites Illinois Case.
Kissing in public and sale of
cigarettes and beer is prohibited.
A queen kissing" incident at
the high school several weeks ago
touched off q student walkout
which led to the suspension of
several students. They later re-
turned to classes.
! Charlotte Mclean, 16. was Sc
lected as the schools basketball
queen. During her coronation
she was kissed by her escort, 16-
lyear-old Riddell Riggs. The town
squabble followed.
A suit was filed earlier this
month seeking the resignation of
the f1ve-man school board, dis
missal of Supt. of Schools Harry
Edwards, Mrs. Alonzo Norwood,
the high school principal, and
three teachers.
w. E. Bleakley, spokesman for
the citizens committe, cited a case
lin Champaign, Ill, which he said
lsets a precedent for the commit
Etee's new action.
Taken to Supreme Court.
The Illinois case, brought by one
woman against a school board
was carried to the United States
Supreme Court The petition said
the Illinois case charged religious
influence in a public school.
Mr.. Bleakley said the Supreme
Court ruled that this was a viola
ton of the First and Fourteenth
amendments.
The First Amendment guaran-
tees freedom Of speech and Of the
press and prohibits establishment
of any religion by Congress. The
Fourteenth, in effect, applies the
same restriction to State govern
ments. 1t forbids any State law
which would abridge the priv
ileges and immunities of citizen
of the United States.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
West Virginia Census
Crew Leaders Named
BY the Asseeiaied Press

ELKINS, w. Va, Mar. II. -
Supervising crew leaders for the
1850 census have been named for
Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan
Counties.
James B. Willis, district super
visor, announced these appoint
ments:
Ernest Whitelock, Martinsburg
supervisor for Berkeley County;
P. P. Marshall, Shepherdstown
jefferson County, and Miss Mar
garet Ann Scott, Berkeley Springs
Morgan County.
Mr. Whitelock will be in charge
of % enumerators for Berkeley
County. Seventeen enumerators
will work in jefferson and Is in
Morgan.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
By the Associofed Press

ROANOKE. Va, Mar. 1.-THE
lB Baptist Woman'S Missionary
Union of Virginia has elected Miss
Ellen Douglas Oliver of Richmond
as executive secretary, and the
Rev. Kenneth Burke of Richmond
as treasurer.
All other officers were reelected
at the closing meeting here yester-
day. They are:
Mrs. Lester L. Knight, Ports
mouth. president; Mrs. Lynn Dick
erson, Harrisonburg, and Mrs. A.
G. Carter. vice presidents; Mrs.
E. L. Dupuy, jr., Spencer, record
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Prosecution 10 Open
Case Against Student
In Iowa Coed Staying
BY the Asseeiofed Press

IOWA CITY, Iowa. Mar. IT.
The State will present it's opening
statement today in the murder
trial of Robert E. Bednasek, and
there were indications it will not
ask the death penalty.
1t was expected that testimony
would open today, the fourth day
of trial of the University of Iowa
student. The defense said it
planned to call about 20 witnesses,
including Bednasek. The State
has indicated it will call so.
The 24-year-old defendant, q
senior student in psychology, is
accused of strangling blond Mar
garet (Gee-Gee) Jackson, 20, also
a psychology student, last Decem-
ber II.
Jury Selection Completed.
The fact that two members of
the jury said they did not approve
of capital punishment was seen
by courtroom observers as an indi-
cation the prosecution did moi
plan to demand death for the
husky Bednasek..
The two are c. Jay Miller, Iowa
City, 44-year-old Mennonite father
of seven children. and Vernon
Moore, so, farmer.
Their declarations against cap.
ital punishment came in answer
to questions whether they woulc
assume responsibility of fixing the
death penalty if the court so in
structed them. The State In all
it's questioning never asked pros
pective juror his opinion on cap
ital punishment.
Selection of jury of eight nier
and four women was completed
yesterday.
May Not Call Parents.
The average age of the jurors is
501s years. The youngest is 27
Mrs. Ellinor Green, Iowa City
housewife and University of Iowa
graduate and sorority member
The oldest is Joe Kadera, Sd, Cor
alville farmer.
The defense said yesterday il
believed it would not be necessary
to call Bednasek's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Bednasek of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, as witnesses.
Mrs. Bednasek said her only
son always has been good boy
and we are sure this trial will
prove that he is innocent"
She said Miss Jackson'S death
"could have been nothing else but
an accident" and "I would fee
that way even if I were not hi
mother" she added.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Armed Forces Strenqth
Declines to 1,4o0,3OO
BY the Asseeioted Press

The total strength of the armed
forces declined 22,4O0 during
February to 1.490,300.
Reporting this today, the De-
fense Department said all serv-
ices shared the decrease. During
the month Army strength dropped
from 615,7oo to GOT, 800, the Navy
from 4o1,9o0 to 1886, 400, the Ma
rine Corps from so,1oO to 79,50o
and the Air Force from 415,000
to 414,60O.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Viroinio Boptists Elect 2 From Richmond

ing secretary; Mrs. r. c. Daniel
Richmond, assistant recording Sec
retary; and Miss Rees Watkins,
Richmond. young peoples secre-
tary.
Miss Oliver succeeds Miss
Blanche Sydnor White, of Rich
mond, who held the post for 25
years. Frank T. Crump, of Rich
mond, is retiring after 30 years
as treasurer.
Evening star., 1950-03-17

A school for Navajo children
has been opened at the Army's
former Bushnell hospital at Brig
ham. Utah.
Evening star., 1950-04-16

laborer at the 10th Century-Fox
studio.
you haven't met him yet, said
Miss Gibson, or Mrs. Griffin. Hes
just a plain workingman. He's
bald and he's skinny, but we love
him. And don't you think he isn't
the breadwinner of the family"
Top Billing
lHE center of attraction in the
household was decidedly not
Debra, but Marsha, the two-year-
old. Marsha, rather than Debra,
had her pictures everywhere, on
the piano, on the coffee table, and
framed on the walls. And she has
mt even gone for her screen test
yet.
"I'm forgetting my manners,
said Mrs. Griffin, during a mo-
mentary lull when Marsha be-
came absorbed in one of Debra's
scrapbooks. Wont you have
some tea?"
This is not the general notion
of how one is entertained in
the home of a top movie star.
But we had tea, and fresh-made
rolls, and four kinds of jam, and
choice of cream cheese or sardines,
and some rich, gooey cake that
Teala had baked. All in all, this
was scarcely the kind of home
Evening star., 1950-04-16

one would expect from the studio
biography.
With all this build-up, what
chance has Debra of crashing the
Big Timer She is an excellent
dancer, and the studio is inn
impressed by her ability to
squeeze out a genuine tear
without onions) on short no
tice.
It is part of the quick build-up
of the favored starlets to thrust
them, with small preparation. into
a feminine lead role opposite an
established male star. In Debra's
case, she has the lead opposite
James Stewart in Broken Arrow"
This establishes her, of course, as
Jimmy's new leading lady.
NSink or Swim"
Her previous experience was what
you might expect from her tender
years. At II, she has taken dane
ing lessons, studied drama under
Queenie Smith, played minor roles
in stock and had a fair part in
'House of Strangers"
The studio seems to operate on
a sink or swim" theory. In
Debra's case, we hope she swims.
We should like her distinguished
ancestry and her wonderful family
to be very proud of her. The End
Evening star., 1950-05-28

plies in that war. One of the
worlds greatest oil refinery cen
ters is located at Abadan.
Within the past 10 days
agreement was announced be-
tween Iran and the United
States by which the former is
to receive ornaments under the
Military Assistance Program.
The British are now engaged
in building a gigantic new mill
tary installation in Kenya. an
other British colony, on the east
coast of Africa.
While this weeks three-power
declaration provides both mill
tary and political comfort to the
Near East, economic encourage
ment also is headed their way in
the foreign aid authorization
legislation which finally cleared
its last congressional hurdle on
Thursday evening. Two sections
of this omnibus measure pro-
vide for American contribution
to a United Nations program of
work relief and resettlement for
some 100000 displaced Arabs.
and for beginning of the point
four program of extending
American technical assistance to
development of countries pos
SeSsed of potential resources.
Evening star., 1950-05-28

everywhere except where 1t
touched them
1t was he who advanced rea-
sons, three OF them for the
defeat of the five plans re-
jected. He said they had three
strikes against them from the
start.
First, he said, plans reached
Congress without adequate pre-
paratory work and busy Con-
gressmen were left insufficient
ly informed. For example. he
cited the Treasury reorganiza-
ton and said all that many
Senators heard about it was
the effect that bankers said it
would have on the Controller
of the Currency. He said many
Senators committed them
selves to oppose the plan be-
fore they realized that the
personnel of the Controllers
Office amounted to only 1.3 per
cent of all personnel affected.
Lacked Senate Support
Secondly. he said the plans
lacked effective support in the
Senate itself, although both
major parties declared them
selves in favor of Government
reorganization.
Thirdly, the millions of citi-
zens throughout the Nation
favoring the proposals failed
to make their voices heard by
Congress, he said. He added
that the Citizens Committee for
the Hoover Report had neither
time nor money to Offset the
pressure of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, rail-
roads (Which opposed the Mari
time Commission reorganiza-
tion as we'll as that of the
ICC lawyers who practiced be-
fore the regulatory commits
sions and the Patent Office,
and others.
Evening star., 1950-05-28

supply of oil. hardly tapped yet
in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia.
Both of these elements of
value are today available to the
Western powers but they are
seriously vulnerable to assault
from the north. Thus far, Tur-
key has been developed as the
strongest point of defense with
Greece on one flank and a
rather tenuous barrier in Iran
on the other flank. Military
and political strengthening of
the other Near East countries
would not only support these
potential front lines but would
help protect the more important
core of the area.
Both Buy Arms
On the armament side the
three power announcement,
agreed upon by the Council of
Foreign Ministers a week earlier,
is significant principally for it's
emphasis on defensive needs and
its disclosure of assurances from
the Near East states that they
do not intend aggression against
each other. I Both Israel and the
Arab states have been buying
arms, some from the United
Evening star., 1950-05-28

States, and the big power dec
laration is not expected to result
in any substantial increase in
that traffic. With a policy liai-
son established, however, it will
be easier for the Big Three to
evaluate the overall defensive
needs and potentialities of the
Near East countries.
No immediate increase in size
or number of American, British
or French military activities in
the Near East area is expected.
Bases Already Set
American Air Force op-
erations are now in being at
Mehalla. Libya. on the Mediter-
ranean coast west of Egypt. and
at Dhahran. Saudi Arabia, Just
below the Persian Gulf origin
of a new oil pipeline shown by
the dotted line on the accom-
panylng map. British troops
are stationed in the Suez area
and Cyprus, a British crown
colony, IS serving as British
American listening post for air
and radio purposes. Habbani-
yah Airport in Iraq was a giant
British base in World War II
and the Basra-Abadan area was
q great staging point for SUD-
Evening star., 1950-05-28
Strength for the Middle East Arm
Big Three Decision
To Stabilize Area
Important Step
By John c. Henry

Agreement among the Big
Three-United States. Britain
and France - to coordinate
their policies toward the Near
East is an important step In
tightening the western side of
the iron curtain.
AS announced on Thursday,
the three-power decision has as
its primary objective the estab-
lishment and maintenance of
peace and stability in an area
which has been in both political
and military ferment since ter
mination of the Arab Israeli
hoStilities in 1948. To accom-
plish this end the three nations
with great common stake in
the Near East in effect "froze"
the status quo in that part of
the world.
Recognizing the right of the
states Of that area to have de-
fensive arms, in fact encourage
ing them to prepare to play their
part If defense should be re-
quired. the Big Three showed
their strongest hand in the con-
cluding sentence of their Joint
announcement.
Frontiers Held Inviolate
"The three governments"
they said. Should they find that
any of these (Near East) states
was preparing to violate from
tiers or armistice lines, would
consistently with their obliga-
tions as members of the United
Nations, Immediately take ac-
ton, both within and outside the
United Nations. to prevent such
t1Old GlUI1.
While the exact nature of such
preventive action is not spelled
out, the guarantee to both Arab
states and Israel that aggression
or expansion by force will incur
Big Three countermeasures is a
political reinsurance as well as a
warning.
To a world at war the Near
East historically has been an
area of strategic value. First
element in this value has been
its functions as a communica-
tions crossroads between Europe
and southwest Asia. This func-
ton is as important in today's
air age as it has been in the
centuries of sea and land trans
port. Second element is the rich
Evening star., 1950-05-28
By Froneis P. DouoIos

the authority of the Secretary
of the Treasury than he is al
ready. Bankers generally are
among the supporters of
Government reorganization.
Leaders of various farm
groups attacked the Agriculture
reorganization, fearing it would
upset various agencies in the
department with which they
were concerned. A number of
witnesses before the Senate Ex-
penditures Committee gave as
surance they did not oppose the
Hoover Commission recommen-
dationS-but.
Opposition to the 1CC and the
FEC plans was generally on the
ground they would concentrate
too much power in the hands of
the chairman of those bodies.
The same arguments applied to
plans to reorganize other
regulatory bodies, but those
plans survived.
The American Bar Associa-
ton is listed as cooperating in
reorganization. Patent lawyers,
however, opposed the Commerce
Department reorganization fear
ing it would change the setup
of the Patent Office, which is in
that department, or lead to
changes in laws and regulations
affecting patents. The Com
merce Department reorganiza-
ton also survived.
Three Strikes on Them
Senator Benton, Democrat, of
Connecticut. a member of the
Senate Expenditures Committee,
said witnesses had come before
that committee to tell "solemnly
and piously" how they favored
Government efficiency and econ
omy. but that they favor it
Evening star., 1950-05-28

are all for reorganization-ex-
cept where it applies to the unit
in which they are especially
interested"
The five plans which failed of
acceptance by Congress, through
Senate action in each case, were
these:
Plans Nos. and 4, to reorgan-
ize the Treasury and Agriculture
Departments respectively. The
plans provided chiefly that au-
thority held by officers and
agencies in those departments
should be transferred to secre-
taries. While it was the pre-
sumption that the secretaries
would delegate the powers back
again, they still would have the
authority to meet their respon-
sibilities.
Exceptions Made
Plans to reorganize the Inter-
state Commerce Commission
(No. y, the Federal Commune
cations Commission tNo. ID
and the National Labor Rela-
tiors Board (No. 12).
These would have made the
chairmen of the three bodies
the chief administrative officers
and, in the case of the NLRB,
would have abolished the con-
troversial Office of the general
counsel. held by Robert N. Den
ham.
This last plan was the only
one of the 81 which President
Truman sent to Congress which
the Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report did not back. It
was felt it was a measure which
already was in the realm of
partisan politics.
The Treasury reorganization
was attacked by bankers who
did not want the Controller of
the Currency any more under