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the Pioneers of Alaska and he recently completed his term of office as President of the Grand Igloo. In the Alaska-Yukon sourdough groups in the States ne had many friends and a frequent visitor at theT annual meetings
 His interest in Juneau included all phases Dl city development. He was always active in aflars of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Back in 1906 he was on the City Council and he served two more terms on the Council before he was Mayor for two terms from 1914 until 1916
 For more than half ascentury he has been one ol the stalwarts of town He has earned his nonors
 And The Empire joins the town in eXtendlhg sympathy to his family and his business associates.
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ENGINEERS BEGIN
 SURVEYS FOR SE
 ALASKA THIS YEAR

Survey crew of four or five men are due here shortly from Anchor age to join R. J. Mckinney who has arrived from the Portland U. s. Corps of Engineers office. They will conduct surveys of water resources in Southeast Alaska as part of a comprehensive report on rivers, harbors, flood control and power development for the entire Terri tory.
 Arnold Henny, engineer from the Portland office, has been in South east Alaska for the past week in connection with this report and ex- poets to leave for the south today.
 He said that the reports on the Cook Inlet area and Copper River Basin have been completed and work is going forward on the Ta- mana Basin The survey in the pam handle is just being initiated. Sur veys are being made according to natural geographical areas of which there will be seven or eight finally when the report is completed in 1853.
 Survey Authority
 Authority was given to make hese surveys in 1948 and work vas started in April of 1949. The york will cover any possible project |
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JOHN RICK - PIONEER

With the death Tuesday of John Beck, Alaska has lost another of it's pioneers and Juneau has lost foremost citizen.
 Since the days of '98 when he came to Juneau until his death his service to the town to the enter prses in which he was interested and to his lodges the Pioneers of Alaska, the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Moose-has been con- tinuous and unfailing
 For years than many now Ill Juileau ie member MT Beck was president of the First National Rank and since his retirement from active associa- tion with the bank years he has been char man of the banks board of directors He has been the agent in Juneau of R. F. Lewis, owner o1 the Juneau Water Company, for many years
 There have been few enterprises in Juneau Ill vb;cb he has not had a part-f nothing more than a word of safe advice to a potential investor
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that wifi aid in the economic de- velopmeut of Alaska, but they must be economically justified before they are recommended for con- struction, Henny said.
 Last winter preliminary small boat harbor surveys were carried on at HcOnah, Tenakee, Pelican Port Alexander, Hydaburg and Rake.
 Current work is planned for Deer Harbor, Lorenzo Harbor, the portage between Hawk Inlet and Young Bay for canal, the portage be- tween Oliver Inlet and Seymour Canal for a possible canal, improve ment of the Keku Strait channel further study for improvement of the small boat harbors at Keteh- ikan and Juneau, the deepening of the Petersburg small boat harbor and a survey for revision Of the Wrangell harLsor
 Paul Stang Land, also from the Portland office. will come to South east Alaska later on to make power studies.
 Any one knowing of feasible pro- jects not yet considered for this survey may petition the Portland U. s. Engineers office, or contact Mckinney who will be headquart- ering in Juneau for the coming month.
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History Repeats

Herbert Hoover, who has been the chief confidante of General MacArthur during the present DE debate, paradoxically was on the other end of somewhat similar situation when he was President of the United States.
 Hoover made the mistake of or dering the court martial of Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, popular Marine Corps figure, after Butler had stated in a lecture that Benlto Mussolini, then dictator Of Italy, had run over child with his car but failed to stop. General Buffers court martial was ordered after Italian Ambassador Di Martino had protested officially.
 But immediately there arose a tremendous outcry from the Am erican press and public, and for weeks Hoover was the butt of pos sibly more scathing criticism than Harry Truman.
 The situation was somewhat comparable to the present MacAr- thur debate in that the Admirals did not like General Butler any more than some of the leaders in the Pentagon love General MacAr- thur.
 It was also significant that Hoovers popularity at that time had sunk to an extremely low ebb, comparable to that of Truman's today.
 In the end, Hoover did what Harry Truman has not done. He abjectly surrendered and called off General Buffers court-martlal.
 Note-Hoover privately has been something of an admirer of Pres ident Truman, extolled his virtues at a gridiron club dinner, and has expressed private appreciation of the fact that Truman brought him back to Washington in various ad- visory capacities after the thirteen year, Hoover boycott by FOR.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA 9y LEE

proper parents daughters engagement?
 Engraved engagement usually usually accomplished verbally written through the newspaper
 O. When girl walking proper for her to be helped by him?
 be need of assistance, it emergency the
 high school college. and a should do?
 A of congratulation
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Daily lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED S always two words PERCENTAGE word
 MSPRONOUNCED Panegyric formal eulogizng) pane unstressed both principal third syllable
 Annulment observe the MN and the
 remuneration 
 WORD STUDY: times and it yours" Let word each Today word INTERVENTION; any may the of great saved ives
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BOY SCOUTS AID CANCER CRUSADE

With the distribution by Gastineau Channel Boy Scouts of $500 May Day baskets to collect funds Tor the Alaska branch of the American Cancer Society we are learning of a new kind of May Day.
 There are few fund campaigns that bring as reaoy a response as tlle Cancer Fund drive.
 The research to which one contributes with a Cancer Fund donation is a long term investment with precious dividend of life itself.
 Every day new techniques of cancer control are being developed which may sometime save the life ot a relative frieud-someone dear.
 This 1851 crusade of the American Cancer Society gives everyone the privilege of joining the only national voluntary agency devoted to the cause Of cancer control exclusively.
 Twenty-Five cents of every dollar contributed IS used for research
 The Alaska division, American Cancer Society, of which Mrs Mildred Hermann is commander, was ? top contributor by population ratio ln the l9oo cam pagn.
 The 1851 campaign has Tom Morgan as Terri torial director and Norman c. Banfield as Juneau director which is promise of a 100 per cent re- snonse to Cancer Crusade solicitations this year
 The Juneau Boy Scouts who are distributing the May Dav baskets throughout the channel area are contributing much toward the Cancer campaign They are giving their services and we can respond with dollars
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quantities of American equipment which we supplied the Nationalist forces fell into Communist hands, and in turn made the Red con- quest of China much easier ana quicker.
 In one case a big allied supply base at Chinchows was left virtual ly and mysteriously undefenoed' Considering the amount of Ameri- can equipment stored there, the actions of the Nationalist Chinese had all the earmarks Of a sellout to the Communists who shortly thereafter captured it. It was not long before all Manchuria fell to the Communists.
 General Barr testified that he believed Chiang himself was hon. est, but that his troops, lacking leadership, long ago had lost the will to fight. For while the wal against the Communists on the Chinese mainland simply depended upon how rapidly Mao Tse-Tung's men wanted to travel.
 For reasons best known to him. self, John Kee of the House For eign Affairs Committee has beer sitting on this testimony for two years.
 Note-Another witness who could shed great light on Chiang Kai- Shek's fighting qualities and his real feeling toward the United States is Col James McHugh, re- tired Marine Corps officer. McHugh was aide to Chiang Kai-Shek dur ing the war, speaks Chinese, and is one of the few Americans who have written a textbook in tht Chinese language. Experts such a Colonel McHugh and General Barr who have lived in China and know Chiang Kai-Shek intimately, should be called as witnesses before tht Armed Services Committee.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
T o Y

" D A At 8 pm. Special meeting of Alaska Potters at home of Mrs. Florence Holmquist. At 8 pm. Meeting of Fourth of July committee at Baranof to elect chairman.
 May { At 1.90 pm. - Martha Society des- sert luncheon at home of Mrs. Tom Morgan. At 8 pm. = Regular meeting of Juneau Shrine Club. At 7:30 pm. = Skating in AB hall. At 8 pm. - Regular City Council meeting.
 May At 8 pm. = Majority service and Grand Gross of Colors, Rainbow Girls, Scottish Rite Temple to be followed at 10 pm. with dance by DeMolay boys and Rainbow girls. At o:3O pm. Circle Fighters Square Dance, parish hall.
 May G At l pm. Picnic at Aux Bay recreation area honoring visiting Grand Officers, Rainbow Girls. At 6:30 pm. - Annual Primary Con- ference at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 10th and E streets.
 May ! At noon = Lions Club, BaranOf. At noon - BPW meets, Baranof. At 6:30 pm. Banquet honoring visiting Grand officers, Rainbow Girls, Scottish Rite Temple, fol- lowed by special initiation. At 8 pm = American Legion meets in Dugout.
 May 6 At noon - Rotary Club, Baranof. At 8 pm. n Civil Defense Council meets in Elks auditorium. At 8:45 pm. = Community Center Night for Adults at Teen-Age elut with Square Dancing. May At noon - Kiwanis Club, Baranof At 8 pm. = Elks Lodge.
 May 10 At noon - Chamber of Commerce meets at Baranof
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POLICY IN  KOREA IS
 BOOSTED

NEW YORK, May --lP- War ren R. Austin, chief U. s. Delegate to the United Nations, declared that victory in Korea involves much more than military defeat of the enemy and that the LIN has scored some important triumphs in the 10 months of war in Asia.
 This was Austins reply to a charge by Gen Macarthur that a policy vacuum exists in Korea. His speech to the New York State con- vention of Masonic Grand Masters was regarded by many observers as an indication of the stand the Tru- man administration would take in the congressional investigation of MacArthur's custer as LIN com mander, which opens tomorrow
 Austin said LIN policy in Korea is clear, positive and consistent" It has, he said, reused the free peo- pies of the world to the need for mobilizing their strength, alerted them to the danger of aggression, brought them to a peak of unity and strengthened their will to re- sist.
 Among the triumphs, he said, were these: Russia's timetable of conquest was upset; Communist puppets fail ed to occupy all Korea; Chinese puppets failed to drive the LIN from the peninsula; Russia was served notice of collective resistance if she strikes elsewhere; and Russia's de- signs for future conquest have been exposed
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Taft and MacArthur

Friends of Senator Taft repor
 that the Senators visit with Gen
 eral MacArthur at the Waldorf
 Tower, New York, netted only two
 things-Taft's firm conviction that
 MacArthur meant what he saic
 about keeping out of politics, and second, that the General could out talk the rather loquacious Senator from Ohio.
 Taft went to see MacArthur to find out discreetly whether the General had any political inten- tions; and second, if not, to lay some diplomatic groundwork so that the General might later get on the Taft bandwagon.
 Macarthur was cordial, but po- litically negative. He gave Taft a shortened version of his Congress ional speech, quoting it in such verbatim detail that it almost seemed as if he had memorized it. Taft, who is no mean talker him. self, could hardy get word in edgewise.
 , Taft's friends say that he did not tell the General that he, the Senator, was a candidate for the though he did hint that the Republicans were most grate- Ful to Macarthur for what he had ione and that they would certain y want him to be leading defense banner if they won in 1852.
 However, Macarthur was notice- bly cool toward every political ov-
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SKATING ON FRIDAY

It was announced today there will be skating in the A. B. Hall Friday night, May 4, from 7:30 to 1O:3O o'clock. This skating period will take the place of the usual Saturday and Sunday skating hours. All interested skaters, young or old are urged to be present Fri day night.
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LOOK and LEARN z. sy c. GORDON

the following nicknames: Windy City, Smoky City; City; Mound City? population the length the pencil? stated the law of gravity? "avuncuar"
 ANSWERS:
 Chicago (b) Pittsburgh; Brooklyn d) New orlean St Louis. About one-fourtl. TIE Sir Isaac Newton G642-172D
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4TH OF JULY MEETING
 TONIGHT AT BARANOI

A number of Juneau civic organ izations have sigIlified intentions of representation at the Fourth of July celebration meeting at s o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel tonight, Mayor Wai- no Hendrickson said today.
 All organizations are urged to participate in this meeting at which a chairman will be elected to head this years event.
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T. P. HANSEN HERE

T. P. Hansen of the Union Oil Co., at Ketchikan, is in Juneau on regular monthly trip. He is at the Baranof Hotel.
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Forty-een pounds of haibu through the auction market of the Exchange today senng Fish Company bought 8500 pounds and 560 cents per pound and the with Wallis George buyer 293OO pounds
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of All Alaska Chamber of Commerce was effected at delegates Territory Robert Anchorage, elected president Johnson Ketchkan: Nome;
 banks cpresdents Whittier secretary
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Russell Cthero prepara- salvage gold from the snken Islander be the shanower September Skagway with
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meeting of the Juneau PTA night program was presented Torkelson reading featuring eighth grade Marjorie lotson was accompanist.
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Criminals and politicians who protect them ooh make strange bedfellows they're as alike as u"o skunks
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Weather ai
 Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am. 120th Meridian Time, and released hy the Weathe1 Bureau
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Miss Elsie sc1ramen
 were featured Teachers meeting Douglas Next
 meeting would which would Ibe
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erture and in effect repeated hi ambition to fade away"
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20 YEARS AGO FIFE TIT EMPIRE
MAY 3, 1881

Miss Helen returned home from the hospital the first of the week and was recuperaing rapidly
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round

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Weather: High, 55; low, 49; rain.
Evening star., 1951-01-12

first answered a few questions.
Then the telephone began to ring.
The entire family, including the
newlyweds, decided to 60 into
secluSion.
Before this, however, Virginia
told a newsman: II love my hus-
band and I'm glad we got mar
ried."
The magistrate who performed
the ceremony, George w. johnson,
didn't know the girl was only 12.
In applying for the license, Vir-
ginia gave her age as 10. The
magistrate said he had no reason
to doubt it.
Even as the news spread, a
child bride of another day re-
turned home from hospital after
giving birth to her fifth child, a
girl, on January 6.
The mother is Mrs. Iva Queen,
18. Married at 13, she is happy
about her family.
"I'll still be young when they are
grown" she said.
Her husband is %, a $2Oe-a-
month employ in the city garbage
collection department.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
By the Associated Press


ST. LOUIS. Jan. ia 12-
year-old girl has swapped her
siXth-grade school books for
kitchen utensils and has taken up
housekeeping for her 1e-year-old
husband.
She is the former Virginia Pen
nell. one of nine children. Her
husband is Donald Eugene Gray,
furniture factory employe. He's
the boy who used to live next door.
How long they collrted before
they were married December %
is their secret. In fact, the mar
riage itself was a secret until yes
terday
Virginia's mother didn't learn
of it until four days after the
ceremony. She was surprised and
said:
II didn't agree to 1t at first
but now that they've married,
what can I do?"
The couple is living in a little
basement apartment. Young Gray
is described as a steady worker.
When word of the marriage
leaked out. Virginia's mother at
Evening star., 1951-01-12
.83 % Of Goal Reached
In Arlington Chest Drive

With 83.5 per cent of the goal
contributed. Arlington residents
so far have given more to the
Community Chest and Council
campaign than ever before in the
county's history.
The figure is $52,O72. When the
campaign closed last year. the
amount given totaled $51 1894. This
years goal is $62, 800.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Plane Bomb PIotter
Hanged in Canada
BY The Associated Press

MONTREAL. Jan. 12.-J. Albert
Quay, the little Quebec jeweler
whose yen for quick riches led him
to kill his wife and % others by
time bombing an airliner, died on
the gallows in Bordeaux Prison
today.
Quay, convicted'of a plot to get
his wife's insurance, mounted the
scaffold at 1926 am. and seven
minutes later he was pronounced
dead.
To the last, Quay retained his
yearning for public attention. In
formants said he boasted to his
guards, shortly before he was led
to the gallows. "At least I die
famous"
Quay was convicted of having a
bomb placed on a Quebec Airways
plane. which exploded and crashed
Evening star., 1951-01-12
BY the Associated Press

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan.
12.-The price comes high for
Pvt. Hubert Reeves Korean war
experience. He'll lose both feet
and parts of both hands.
Percy Jones Army HOSPITAL
here scheduled start of the am
putations today.
Frosbite blackened the 19-year-
old Joliet ull.) soldiers hands and
feet one frigid Korean night as
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Pope Tells Rome's S Mobiles
Not to Weep for Past
eY the Assoeioted Press

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 12.-Pope
Plus XII told Rome's nobility yes
terday that weeping for times
past would lead to nobility's "in-
evitable decline"
The pontiff received 200 mem
bers of Rome's noble and pa
trician families in traditional and
annual audience during which
they express their greetings for
the New Year.
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Percy Jones public information
officer.
Maj. Davis said surgeons will
amputate both feet above the
ankle, all the fingers of the right
hand to the second (middle)
joint, and all the fingers of the
left hand back to the knuckle.
Maj. Davis said Pvt. Reeves
may later be able to get a grip
with both hands through use of
plastic surgery. He'll have to
Evening star., 1951-01-12

learn to walk on artificial feet.
When Mrs. Reeves saw her son
two weeks ago. soon after he
was returned from Tokyo, she
expressed hope that no amputa-
ton would be necessary.
But even then she told re-
porters:
Hubert said if he lost his
feet and hands-he would give
give up that much to be out of
Korea. It was terrible"
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Korea Veteran 49, Lose FeeAnd Parts Of Hands in Suoev

he lay wounded after an attack by
the Chinese Reds.
Brought to the hospital here.
he was in agonizing pain for
long days while doctors waited to
see how much amputation would
be necessary.
His parents. Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Hubert Reeves. prayed it would
be slight.
But yesterday the grim word
came from Maj. Chester H. Davis,
Evening star., 1951-01-12

September 9, 1949, killing the %
persons.
Among those killed was Guay's
wife. Rita, %. Also aboard were
three top New York executives of
the Kennecott Copper Corp, E. T.
Stannard, president; Arthur D.
Storke, who was to succeed Mr..
Stannard, and R. j. Parker, vice
president.
A 25 per cent increase in crop
production is forecast for France.
Evening star., 1951-07-01
FureweIl Exhibition

An exhibition of oil paintings by
Marie D. Barbot was opened last
Sunday at Watkins Gallery. Amer
lean University, to remain only
through today. After two decades
in Washington, Mile. Barbot will
return in few days to her native
city of Cherbourg, France.
She is showing 16 small oils,
traditional in character, pleasing
in color and subject. There are
views of Paris and other French
cities and villages, few glimpses
of Martha's Vineyard, and still
life, fruit and flower subjects.
She began her studies at the
Sacred Heart Convent and the
Cours Complementaire. Cherbourg.
and continued while teaching
French at st. Monica's School.
lKingswood, Surrey, England, and
the Ladies College, Kent.
During her years in Washing
ton, she has taught French in
lprivate schools (Sidwell's, National
Cathedral and st. Agnes and
more recently has been a free
lance translator at international
organization conferences.
She studied painting here with
Clara Saunders, later at the Cor
coran School of Art and also at
La Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
In recent years, she has exhibited
with the group of French artists
Iat st. Johns Church, at the Wom-
ems Club of Bethesda and in pro-
fessional group shows.
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mans senseless plundering o1
island natural life that feeling
creeps in. 1t is easy to share hel
emotion when you read her Won
derful chapter on the making o1
an island and the intricate ano
centuries-long process of stock
ing it, with fauna riding thou
sands of miles on flora and birds
flying staggering distances te
coloniZe.
Many a marine preconceptior
is washed away by the book. The
floor of the ocean. for instance. is
about as fiat, in some places. as
the Rockies. 1t even has an in
verted timberline, If you can be-
lieve it. Miss Carson also ex-
amines such matters as tides ano
currents. the anatomy OF the
wave and "perverse and freakist
doings of the sea-" which are
many and awe-inspiring. She tells
you that the weather is getting
warmer all the time, and that
television may be used to investi-
gate marine life at middepth
And all the time, the sea is eating
away at the continents. It's still
as Miss Carson says, vast. COM
plex and infinitely mysterious.
After reading her story, you will
appreciate it much more.
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A Literary History
OfAmericun Letters
THE LITERATURE OF THE

THE LITERATURE OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE
Edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn.
'(Appleton-C n-Century-Crofts;; $9.J
This 1.172-page literary history
is described as a fresh and lively
approach to Americas authors
from Colonial times to the present.
It is often that. It is seldom
pedantic, despite the collaboration
of five college professors in pro-
ducing it. The judgments, nat
urally, vary among the contribut-
ing critics. Some writers, like
Frank Norris, are dismissed with
scant praise. Stephen Crane, how
ever, is appreciated. It also is a
pleasure to find Poe highly re-
garded in a period when he has
glib detractors. Perhaps you'll be
numbered among many people
of good taste" who assert that
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn is a greater novel than any
of the works of Hawthorne or Mel
vile or James" Henry Mencken
is read out as "robustious and
dogmatic. He Isl far more than
that. The sections on our phi
losophers is one of the best. Con-
tributors to the volume include
Kenneth B. Murdock of Harvard,
Arthur H. Quinn of the University
of Pennsylvania, Clarence Gohdes
of Duke University and George F.
Wicher of Amherst.