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Evening star., 1951-04-10
Coral Snake.

One Of our most deadly snakes is
the most beautiful. Known by some
as the Harlequin, this reptile of the
Southeastern part OF the United
States is common in South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida. It is not un-
common to plough one out Of the
sweet potato patch, though to those
known how deadly 1t is, not a
pleasant experience.
Ranging into Mexico, the coral
snake undergoes a wide variation in
pattern. One phase shows the red
rings of great breadth, d constric-
ton of the black ones and almost
entire obliteration of the yellow.
Among the species they rank low
in mental powers. appearing stupe-
| fed in captivity. Their aim is to
avoid the light and publicity. If
they have any facilities for burrow-
ing, they lose no time in doing so;
otherwise they coil beneath any
object present. Once hidden, they
are so relieved to be out of sight
they forgo all thought of food.
Like many of the Elapine snakes
given to burrowing habits, coral
snakes are cannibalistic. They en-
lgulf other species of snakes and
lizards. Their method of feeding is
much like that of the king cobra
though the coral snakes display less
ingenuity in overpowering their
victim.
Evening star., 1951-04-10
Natures Children
By LilIion Cox Athey

It's methods are to quickly grasp
the prey and urge it along in its
jaws until the head points down
the throat, when swallowing COM
mences. The poison is slow taking
effect on cold-blooded prey. The
Ifangs can be seen to be repeatedly
employed; the poison appears to be
Iof small aid in suhduing the
struggling quarry. The coral snake
is apparently undisturbed by the
vigorous efforts to escape, knowing
his victim Is unable to do so.
After engulfing meal almost his
own size, the killer is rendered toe
rigid and thick of body to coil
properly. At this stage the scales
are SO widely separated, they ap-
pear like rows of glossy spots. The
stuffed consumer takes 1t easy fol
hours.
When fasting In a zoo, the coral
snake appears to be thirsty AND
will take a long drink when it is
presented. though it will refuse
food.
| The II or more eggs must be kept
warm for 13 weeks. The young
are marked like the parent, only
more vivid. They are exquisitely
slender and dig. like earthworms
into soft soil. They swallow small
prey in the same fashion as the
adults, their fangs inserting poison
as the meal is urged downward
These reptiles are beautiful, but not
for pets-indee
Evening star., 1951-04-10
Pronunciation Clinic.

@. In one of my classes we are
studying the location of the prime
meridian in Greenwich, England.
We have had friendly debate on
how to pronounce Greenwich. Will
Iyou please give us the correct
Ipronunciation?--Marie.
/ A. Apparently Greenwich has as
many pronunciations as has the
name Los Angeles, for Webster's
gazetteer lists: GREEN witch:
lGRIN-witch GREN- itch.
| Los Angeles: In this State we
have Palo Alto, Palos Verdes and
Palo Mar. Now we know that alto
means high" that verde means
green" and that mar means 'sea.
But what is the meaning of palo?-
N. G. P.
Answer: It is Spanish for stree;
timber" Palo Alto means ''tall
timber" Palos Verdes is green
trees or timber" Palo Mar IL
equivalent to timber (near or att
the sea-"
@. Our Bon Mot Club has beer
iargling over the pronunciation OF
'reeiuse. Is 1t rik-LOOSE or REX.
Evening star., 1951-04-10
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Evening star., 1951-04-10
7 axe NY Word for 1t
By Fronk Colby

loos? There's money up, so be
careful.--L. L. G.
A. You all win. Standard Ameri-
can usage recognizes both pronun-
Citations. You pays your nickel and
takes your choice: Ri-KLOOS OF
REX -looss.
| @. To settle dispute in oul
speech class, will you please tell US
the correct pronunciation of aqua
and aquamarine? We thought il
was pronounced as it is in Latin
but others say that "a" is pro.
nounced as in Adam" In the die.
tionary long "a is given, too.
A. In American usage the wore
aqua, as well as the prefix aqua
is customarily pronounced AK-wuh
Some dictionaries prefer AY-kwuh
or list it as an alternative pronun.
citation, but 1t is obsolescent.
| The best pronunciation for aqua.
marine is: AK-wlh-muh- -REEN'.
Milwaukee: Will you please givt
me the correct pronunciation O
caliope?-E. S.
A. It's kuh-LY- -oh-pee; or, II
circus and carnival usage. KAL-ee.
! lohp.
Evening star., 1951-04-10
A One-Minnte Test of You,
NetDs knowledge
NEWS QUIZ
By Tom Henry

1. ORATOR - At what
United States university will
Winston Churchill speak on
May 8?
2. SPARE-Why will all new
cars be delivered without a
spare tire from now on?
N3. TOLL-How do U. N. cas-
ualties in Korea compare with
Communist casualties esti-
mated at 100000?
4. STAR-Who has been
named outstanding track and
field athlete for 1851?
5. QUOTES-What is the
Government job of Charles E.
Wilson, who said: Without
effective stabilization policies
our defense program could de-
feat it's own purpose by de-
stroying the economy which is
the bedrock of our strength?
Answers.
I. The University of Penn
| sylvania whose president is
| Harold E. Stassen. 2. 1t is
part of the order to cut civil
ian use of rubber by 1900 tons
| a month. 3. The Is nations,
including South Korea, have
had 228, ,941 casualties. 4. The
Rev. Bob Richards, second
man in history to surpass the
:15-foot pole-vault mark. S. Di-
rector of the Office of Defense
Mobilization.
Tom Henry's "Quiz EN-"
appears every Sunday in This
Week Magazine with The
Star. ..- .e
Evening star., 1951-04-10

Washington needs civil defense.
Civil defense needs you. Volun-
teer now at the Veterans Service
Center. 1400 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. ~
Evening star., 1951-04-10
Eeypt's People Agricultural

{ About 80 per cent of all Egypt,s
1S million people are said to OBJ
tain their living from agricultural
pursuits.
Evening star., 1951-04-10
Goren on Bridge

SVs III O
East, West vulnerable. South
deals.
NORTH.
AA4
2A72
o942
%KJ753
WEST. EAST.
1o862 AJ9
E VQ4 V10985
: oKQJ86 o10753
a. &984
( SOUTH.
A753
8 2KJ63
GA
S &AQ 1862
4 The bidding:
South. West. North. East.
4 club spade 3clubs Pass
3 hearts 4diamonds 4spades Pass
% clubs Pass Pass Pass
q Opening lead, king of diamonds.
The principle of percentages
should be applied in the play of
the cards only when there are no
concrete clues available from the
conduct Of the participants. Theories
that are suggested by the bid or
play of an adversary are more to
be relied upon then are those indi-
Gated in the matemathical tables!
It is no doubt too obvious to re-
xxx,;va x,aa,,f;oy, that x,1,ara q hond
can be made against any possible
holding, scant consideration should
be given to the law Of probabilities
& Yet, today's hand provided a pit
fall for one of the ranking cham
pions simply because he was so
much taken up with calculations
of probabilities that he completely
forgot to make sure of the hand.
/ The bidding was interesting.
VESTS action when vulnerable may
appear to be quite bold, but his dis
Itribution was very attractive and
he reasoned that If any sort of pref
.erence could be expressed by East,
surely no great disaster would re-
suit. When North coupled his
previous jump with cue bid in
spades. South was quite justified
In contracting for slam.
He was lucky to get the diamond
opening, since a spade lead would
have proven embarrassing. Trumps
were drawn in three rounds and
declarer proceeded on the assump-
sfio,. SI,o{ yxyac% Y,oy,e% I,o wa = eix, m ,.-l
distribution for his vigorous bid
ding, possibly even a six-six, so
that East had a great majority of
the outstanding hearts. He, there
fore, played the ace of hearts and
.finessed the jack on the return,
losing to the queen. Declarer was
unable to avoid the loss of a spade
trick and was defeated a trick.
Had the spade been the opening
lead, declarer's play would have
been sound, but, since South had a
sure thing at hand, it was hardly
the time to think in terms of per-
centages.
The proper play after extracting
trumps was first the king of hearts
and then the ace. When the queen
falls, declarer's troubles are over.
If the queen does not appear, the
low heart is led from dummy to-
ward the jack and the same effect
Is achieved as though the finesse
were taken. If East comes up with
the queen, the jack becomes good
for a spade discard out of the
dummy.
If the jack of hearts loses tc
Vests queen at the third lead Of
that suit, then the 18th heart Is
good for spade discard. There
was only one holding that declarel
really feared and that was double.
ton queen in the West hand. A
simple precaution against such q
holding would have paid a hand.
some dividend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
MADE IN MADRID

For some strange reason the dictators of the world along with pretense that they are not dictators says the St. Louis r-Times.
 Juan Peron of Argentina for instance, has blasted the case of all those who would like to insist that he really isn't such bad sort after all He did by closing down the great newspaper La Prensa throt- tling freedom of the press in Argentina Now Gen erassimo Franco in Spain seems intent on following the Peron pattern
 Francois government has just withdrawn the press credentials of the New York Times correspondent Sam Pope The allegation that Pope filing inaccurate dispatches Yet challenge the Spanish press chiefs admitted they could cite instance of a false report Madrid observers have concluded that the move against Pope is simply part of cam paign to rid Spain of the seven American reporters who are still there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
PAL OF 0DWYER
 E CONVICTED ON
 PERJURY CHARGE

NEW YORK, May 10 -R-James J. Moran, longtime pal of former mayor William O'Dwyer, has been convicted of committing perjury in testifying before the Senate Crime Committee.
 The Federal Court jury deliber- ated only one hour and 35 minutes before it returned it's verdict to Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey.
 Moran was the first U. s. Senate Crime Committee witness to be brought to trial here. He can be sentenced to five years in prison and fined $2,000.
 Morans counsel, Joseph L. De- laney, said he would advise Moran to appeal the sentence. No witnesses were called in Moran's defense, and he did not take the stand. The defendant, former first dep- ] uty fire commissioner, was convict ed of perjury for testifying before the Senate probers that Weber hao visited him in his fire department office no more than six times be- tween 1946 and 1850. | Prosecution witnesses told of al i fpact Ill visits
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
TEE HARB0R SCHOOL
 I5 10 REMAIN OPEN

The Tee Harbor school will re- main open, at least another year, according to a decision reached by the Juneau School Board Tuesday night at it's meeting at the high school Practically every resident of Tee Harbor attended the meet ing to protest against it's closing. Closing the school had been con- sidered as an economy measure and Tee Harbor residents had been invited hy letter from the school board to present their opinions on the matter.
 The decision of the board to keep the school open was influenced primarily, by the narroWness of the road between Mile IT and Tee Har- bor, distance of two miles.
 The local Russian Orthodox church was successful bidder for removal of the Klenke house from the site o9 the new school construc- ton on 18th and Glacier Way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
COMMUNITY EVENTS
T o D A Y

TODA At 4 pm. Marble tournament starts at ball park. At 7:30 pm. = Girl Scout Court of Honor in high school gym. At 8 pm. Alaska Potters meet at home of Mrs. Holmquist. At pm. - Emblem Club meets in Elks Auditorium. Final business meeting until September At 8 pm. Lutheran Ladies Aid meets in church social room.
 May II At noon - Soroptimist Club lunch con in Baranof Terrace. At 2 pm. = World Service Society meets in NLP church. From 10 am. to pm. - Spring bazaar by Ladies of Salvation Army in Red Shield Reading rooms in Decker building. At 6:30 pm. = Scottish Rite dinner. At 7:30 pm. - Scottish Rite con- 11llS OA oNAiA NkSSASt.
 May 12 At 2:30 pm. = Style Show by high school Ec Students in high school gym
 At 8:30 pm. - Sourdocey Square Dance club meets in parish hall.
 May 13 At 8 pm. = Special Mothers Day musical program at Methodist church.
 May IA At noon = Lions club, Baranof. At noon - BPW meets, Baranof. At 8 pm. - American Legion post meets in Dugout. At 8 pm = Rebekah Drill team practice in IOOF hall. May 15 At noon - Rotary Club, Baranof At 8:45 pm. = Community Center Night for adults at Teen Age clut with square dancing. At 8 pm. - High Scout Tennis club meets Apartment 1, Triangle election of officers. At pm. - Civil Defense Council meets in Elks auditorium. May 16 At noon - KiWanis club, Baranof. l At pm. = Elks lodge. | May F At noon Chamber of commerce 1 meets at Baranof. May IS | At 8 pm. - Rebekah Past Nople Brands meet at home of Mrs John Geyer, 320 West 9th street. | May l9 | At 10.30 pm. = Douglas WE'D 53re Annual Spring dance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
Local Police a Problem
(Jessen's Weekly)

(JeSSen'S WeeKly)
 The police departments difficulty n ho4dlhs natrolmen in the face of higher pay offered durhg the construction season is matter ot concern 'o Fairbanks.
 There is no question of the lure of big pay check even though the job is seasonal For the clty to attempt to meet the figure offered by the pig co- tractors would still further increase the ctys expense, at a time when various city jobs being abolished and duties consolidated in order to keep Withm ue budget. ..
 Tn the face of the huge volume of construction work outlined for this with its attenoeo iA of all types of people to Fairbanks, strong ponce denartment is more important than at any other time. IL ~
 The only hone is that men will be found who are tr,1v interested in law enforcement work and are willing to foresake temporary bigger paycheck ioi a lesser maid job in work that they ike and which will be permanent rather than seasonal
 This will require cooperation on the part pi ,le nublic Coupled with lower pay, few men Will SUCK to thankess job that is subject to constant critl- cism The police in the past have been subject to cevere tests bv certain clements of the community who berate them for brutality" "inefficiency ana numerous other alleged faings. If they arrest nara customer they are brutal; if they are unable to ap prehend burglar who has left no clue oehmo' or such clues were destroyed before the ponce "eie N they receive equal abuse.
 Nh man can stand much of that sort of thing. 11 doeent need to- If we want police protection e must nav for it. either in dollars or in gratitude or in both But if the community will pull with the police instead of against 1t, much VII pc ealneu' When an officer does good piece or WorK' tell llili so If he gives you tag for overparKlng ooh pei@'e him If the ordinance does not allow enough tune for parlxing get the law changed. If you are burg larized help the police find the thief but do not blame the local force if it can't match wits Wlth professional gangsters Give them time and encour- agement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
ROB NUGGET SHOP
 FOR SECOND TIME

For the second time in the mat
 ter of weeks the Nugget Shop on
 Seward street was broken into again
 last night. The same method of en- try, by removing the giasa of a dis
 play window, was. used. ; watch, some watch bands and an electric
 razor were taken, Mrs. Belle Si2np- son, proprietor, reported.
 It is believed that entry was made about 4 o'clock this morning. Doc Jackson, steward at the Jeep Club
 across the street, reported to police at 4::35 that window in the Nugget Shop had been removed. The win
 dow was in the jewelry department section which is being moved from the mezzanine to the main floor. Juneau City Police and the U. s. Marshals office are Investigating Fingerprints left on the glass were taken this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

SUSED Do not say The reason that they went divulge "The reason WHY they vent
 OFTEN MSPRONOUNCED Pahos. yhoss, not as path and first syllable.
 OFTEN Load burden). Lode Gore deposiO
 SYNONYS Explanation explaton defniton de- scrpon
 three times and it is yours Let us each Iooays word MISOGYNY mi-sojini, all Is in syllable Tt humorously said that could of msogny
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10

Signs of such a campaign have showed oelore' Censorship is officially abolished in Spam But "ileii correspondents recently tried to tell the facts oi strike in Barcelona their copy was mangieo peloIe transmission Censorship unofficial but stll as oiu as eyer was back Now that censorship apparently is moving toward an actual custer of foreign cor respondents, ringing down of made-in-Madr iron curtain.
 This is the action of a dictatorship, of course for A dictator can never stand free press.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

O. Does receipt obigate to send a gift baby?
 obligation attached but it nice ge ture however gift not nt then congrauaoy card or hand ten not
 mouth into the spoon 
 should removed from the mouth with the foretnger.
 houd man o acknowledge introduction?
 whether being introduced to a old
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10
COMPETITIVE TENNIS
 WILL BE ORGANIZED

For the purpose of organizing com petitive tennis games during the summer, the nucleus of the high scout tennis club will hold its first meeting next Tuesday evening at s in Apartment 1, Triangle building.
 All those interested in tennis are invited to join this group. Marcia Jartun will act as general chair man for the evening. Plans for tournament games later in the sea son will be discussed. There also will be an election of officers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10

yo where it is supposed to be based for the use of the new Tokyo Com mander, Lieut.. Gen. Matt RldgWay.
 The air force made the suggestion to Col. Anthony Story, the air force pilot who has been attached to Macarthur, and who has been fly ing him back and forth between Washington, New York, Tennessee and other points. The plane costs S225 an hour to operate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10


 if he would like to have him, Tru- man, send his letters to Maybank. Send me any letters you want to, MT. President" replied the Sen- stor from South Carolina, But for Gods sake, don't write me any!"
 No Peace - The Indian Ambas- sador to China, Sardar Pannikkar, has cabled Prime Minister Nehru of India an important message ad- vising that there is no chance Of peace with the Chinese.
 His cable is significant because 1t was Ambassador Pannikkar who first warned the United States and the U. N. that Chinese troops were going to intervene in Korea. This warning was made in early Sep tember, and although Macarthur now says he got no warning from anyone, Pannikkar's warning was not only sent him by the State Department but was published in this column on Sept. IT.
 What is important to remember now, however, is that during De- cember and January Ambassador Pannikkar favored conciliation to- ward the Chinese, felt there was a chance for a military truce.
 Now he has reversed himseE, ad- vises that China has no intention whatever of negotiating peace and the United Nations migho just as well get tough.
 Lively Publisher-Copyreadefs of the New Orleans Times-Picayune are in for trouble. They may have to censor Hedda Hopper's Holly wood column in the future.
 The Times-Picayune, now facing Justice Department Antitrust suit, has claimed that publisher Leonard Nicholson is too i'll tc testify. Justice Department lawyers countered that MT. Nicholson was well enough to attend the American newspaper publishers convention al the Waldorf in New York, but Judge Earl Christianberry, former secretary of Huey Long, ruled that Nicholson would only have to an- swer written questions, not appear in court personally.
 Next day, the Times-Picayunc carried a story recounting the court argument and pointing out that its publisher was too ill to testify But on an inside column of tht same paper, Hedda Hopper indica' ted that publisher Nicholson wa. quite a gay blade. She told how ht attended a party in the New Yorl dressing room of Gertrude Law renee, starring in "The King anc l." along with Kent Cooper, Mrs Robert Mccormick, and Johr Horne of the Rocky Mount, N. c Telegram
 Justice Department attorneys feel that if the Times-Picayun' publisher was able to attend { theatrical party, he is well enougi to appear in court. But they art wondering what publisher Nichol. son is saying to his copyreaderi who failed to censor Hedda Hop per's column.
 War Criminal The U. s. I'm. migration office at Los Angeles hal heen holding closed hearings re- garding one of the most notorious war criminals who so far has es. caped punishment. He is Andre
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10

Artukovitch, minister of Interior and in charge of the police for Hitler's puppet government at the time the Nazis occupied Yugoslovla.
 For some strange reason, so lar unexplained, Artukovitch managed to enter the United States, and has been living near Los Angeles, where he is working with his bro- ther. John M. Artukovitch, a con- tractor.
 Why he has been allowed to stay here remains a mystery. For some years, the Yugoslav government has been trying to find him, since, under him, one million Serbs and Jews were killed.
 Macarthur and Central Intelli- gence = Here are the facts about the Presidents charge that Mac Arthur would not let Central h. telligence operate in the Korean Japanese Theatre-A charge that Macarthur described as tommy rot
 Actually Central Intelligence did have two agents in Japan, but Mac Arthur's Intelligence chief, Maj. I Gen. Charles Willoughby, now re- lieved, would not let them operate except under his control. Thus their movements were restricted and they could not collect thelr own information. All they could do was evaluate information col ! lected by Gen. Willoughby's agents. Macarthur upheld Willoughby on this.
 Later, when Gen. Bedell Smith took over Central Intelligence, he asked Gen. Macarthur to give Central Intelligence free rein, of- fered to appoint a man who would | be entirely acceptable to MacAr- thur. This was refused. Later Smith flew to Tokyo to persuade Mac Arthur personally, and it was af- ter this-in January-that Central Intelligence finally was given free 1 rein. This was after the disastrous 1 November December Korean re- l treat in which MacArthur's Intelli- gence appeared to have been so wrong.
 l Struggle For Oil = The British government has accused the United States of double-crossing it in Iran by trying to take over the 1 British government-owned Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Representa- 1 tives of three American Oil Com !! panies have secretly approached the Iranian government with offers to manage the Anglo-Iranian Con- pany now that it is being nation alized.
 As a result, British Foreign Min ister Morrison, furious, told U. s
 Ambassador Walter Clifford il
 London that the United States seems to be playing both sides oi
 the street. On one hand it urges the British to accept Trans decis-
 ion to nationalize oil. On the other hand, it passes word to American oil companies to try to operate
 the wells and freeze out the Brit ish.
 Ambassador Clifford Che used tc be head of American Telephone and Telegraph replied that the U. s. Government had nothing to do with any secret negotiations by American Oil ompanies; on the contrary, tried to discourage any such underhanded trick.
 ] MacArthur's Airplane Mac Arthur's airplane, the Bataan, was returned to the air force three days after the air force had diplomatic ally suggested that it would like to have the plane returned to Tok-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-05-10

Thirty-five vessels are being built in the Ryukyus and 25 in Japan under program to restore per manently the Ryukyuan fishing fleet.