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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-03-19
C0MMyNITY EVENTS

TOD JAY At 6:30 32nd anniversary of American Legion. Potluck dinner with Auxiliary.
 March 20 At roon = Rotary Club, Baranof. At 6:30 pm. - Couple Club dinner in Social Room, N.L.P. church. At 7:30 pm. - Delta Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi meets in Gold Room, Baranof. At 8 pm. -Folkateers will meet at Grade School gym. At 8:45 pm. = Community Center Night for adults at Teen-Age Club with square dancing.
 March 21 At noon - Kiwanis Club, Baranof At 8 pm. Public pinochle party at Moose Club At 8 pm. - Elks Lodge. At 8 pm. Teamsters' meeting AFL hall.
 March 22 At noon - Chamber of Commerce meets, Baranof hotel. At 6:30 pm. - Maundy Thursday supper and ceremony of extin- gushing lights. For 18th degree Scottish Rite Masons. At pm. - Coast Guard Wives meet in City hall chambers.
 March g At II am. - Rebekah Drill team food and apron sale at Sears. From noon to pm. - Good Fri day Union services at Northern Light Presbyterian church.
 March "A At 1 pm. = Easter Egg hunt for children of Rebekah members in Odd Fellows hall.
 March 25 At 2 pm. = Easter Day ceremony of Re-lighting the Lights. Scot tish Rite Temple. Public invited to attend.
 March 26 At noon = Lions Club, Baranof. At noon = BPWC meets in Terrace Room, Baranof
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20 YEARS AGO {F?f {fzr EMPIRE
MARCH ls, 1851


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 Coliseum band dancing would sponsored by the Eks the Elks Hall
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 Weather: High, low 27 cloudy
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STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA IS NOT
 QUESTION OF DEFENSE

The following is editorial appearing in a recent Seattle Times and is just what The Empire has been stating for months and months:
 It has long been the contention of The Times that whatever arguments may be advanced for grant, ing statehood Alaska the Teritoys need for ade- uuate defenses is not one of them. The Bremerton Sun evidently has reached the same conclusion
 The Sun notes report of Senate committee which asserts that the big defense needs of Alaska are additional facilities for personnel housing for de- pendents roads heating plants storage facilities and the like The committee The Sun observes was not quoted "as saying that anything hinged on whether the Territory becomes state, despite what some of our colleagues have been insisting.
 "The matter of statehood, we take it. still resolves
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J. fERNEY HERE TO HEAD NEW OPS
 PUBLIC RELATIONS

Julius Ferney, well-known former Alaska newspaptrman, arrived in Juneau yesterday via Pan Ameri- can plane from Seattle where he and his family have been living since last September.
 Ferney will be head of public re- lations for the Office of Price Stab- ilization in Alaska which in charge of F. G. Hanford as regional di- rector
 For two years Ferney was con- nected with the Sitka Sentinel which he edited and published un- der lease from MT. and Mrs. Harold Veatch. In September, 1949, he mov- ed to Wrangell, leasing The Wran- gell Sentinel, which he published until September, 1850, when, be- cause of illness of Mrs. Ferney, the family moved to Seattle.
 Mrs. Ferney and their two chil- dren will join Ferney in Juneau at the end of the school year.
 EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY
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Theories on unsolved Mystery

Meanwhile, Mrs Noel Field left Switzerland on August to seek her husband in Prague but she, too, disappeared from sight on August IT. A year later, with the Fields whereabouts still unsolved, their friend, Erica Wallachs, wife of Washington attorney, persua- ded her husband to let her go to Switzerland to locate them. Mrs. Wallachs went to Berlin alone, re- portedly was met by Leo Bauer, editor of the Soviet-controlled Ber- lin radio whom she knew. She has never been heard of since.
 Several theories are given for these disappearances. One is that Field had been working with the Communists and, when the Con- gressional investigations got too hot he wanted to be taken into protective Communist custody. An other theory is that the Fields had worked with the Communists in their early days, knew their vital secrets, and became too dangerous for them to have on the loose. An other is that they wanted Noel Field as a witness against key fig
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Disappearance Unplanned

On May 5, 1949, Field went from Switzerland to Prague and on May 12 he failed to keep an afternoon appointment He has not been heard of since. Apparently he did not plan to disappear because his room showed no signs of departure. He did not notify the friend with whom he had the appointment nor his wife, Herta, who planned to join him in a few weeks.
 Five months later, however, when the Communists tried Hungarian foreign miniser Laszlo Rajk, the Hungarian press reported that Rajk testified that Field had per- suaded him to become "A servant of American Imperialism" Later, in the fall of 1950 six East Ger man Communists were charged with dealing with "The American spy, Noel Field" More recently Czech refugees have reported that Field would testify in the trial of Czech foreign minister Vladimir Clements, though there has been nothing to substantiate this.
 Meanwhile, Fields brother Her man. in August, 1949, decided to go to Prague to find his missing brother. He boarded a plane in Warsaw on August 9. Friends ac- companied him to the airport and the American Embassy, checking the planes manifest later, found his name was on it. However, when the plane arrived at Prague Her man Field was not on it. He has never been heard of since, either, except in one respect
 On Feb 25, 1850, Vilem Novy, editor of the Czech Communist newspaper, Rude Pravo, was de- nounced by a member of the cen- tral Communist committee for hav- ing betrayed state secrets to a western espionage agent when Novy was refugee in Krakow in 1939 Herman Field, who was then doing refugee work among Czech refugees in Krakow, knew Novy and was apparently that alleged agent.
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ures, such as Hungarian foreign minister Rajk. Field not only worked with refugees during and after the war but also with the OSS in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in an effort to unseat Hitler'S puppet governments.
 Meanwhile, until Field and his family are heard from direct, his whereabouts remains the No. l un- solved mystery of Europe.
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Daily lessons in English v %g. L. GORDON

MISUsED Do to have you while Say you,' intended you" OFTEN le-tha k, as in LEE All, second syllable OFTEN ISSPEILED: opening of  Appropriate adapted becoming, suitable times and is yours Let us
 
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itself solely around the question of whether that vast and underpopulated is ready for the grave re- responsibilities and otherwise-which go with statehood Frankly, doubt whether Stan would inquire about statehood for Alaska before sending his bombers that way"
 The doubts of The Sun on that point are fully shared by The Times Alaska would be equally as vulnerable to the Soviets Territory as it would be as a state
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The Washington MerrY-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)

with or in the wake of Noel Field are: Field himself, who disappeared in Czechoslovakia May 10. 1949 His brother Herman vanished Aug ust 9 that same year while trav- cling in an airplane between War saw and Prague. A few days later NsG~ Noel Field disappeared while trying to find her husband in Prague Then, one year later, Er- ica Wallaehs, a friend of the Fields, went into the Russian zone of Berlin in search of them and never came back. All these disap- ' rearances occurred during about the same period of three mysterious deaths in the Hiss case. They were:
 Death No. 1 Harry Dexter White, former assistant secretary Of the treasury who reportedly died of heart failure Aug. Is, 1948, after testifying before the Congress s,onal Committee at which Eliza beth Bentley had charged White with being a member of the Elite Communist group inside the govern ment. Whites death was not an- nounced until one day afterward and he was buried hastily. Later it was reported the real cause of his death was an overdose of digi- tails, not heart failure.
 Death No. = Walter Marvin Smith, Justice Department attor- ney found at the base of the Jus tcie Department staircase where he had fallen or jumped Oct. 20, 1943, shortly after the house un- American activities committee had questioned him on his notorization Of the transfer of title of a Ford automobile from Hiss to William Rosen, described in the Congress sional testimony as a Communist organizer. Hiss, according to Whit taker Chamber, insisted on turning over his car to the Communist or ganizer. Smith was the only actual witness to the transfer.
 Death No. and the most mys- terious of all was that of Laur- ence Duggan, the former State De- partment official who, While put ting on his overshoes to go home, |" fell through a New York skyscraper window. Duggan had been ques- toned a few days earlier regard ing Communist spies in the State Department. Insurance investiga- tors believed it unlikely that man would commit suicide while put ting on his overshoes and paid his widow nonsuicide death bene- fits.
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CoNvENTIONERs RETURN

MT. and Mrs. Val Poor returned home on the Baranof from Mt. Edgecumbe where they attended the sixth annual convention of the Alaska Lions Clubs. They report the greatest convention yet, with the Mt. Edgecumbe and Sitka hos pitality the finest.
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pean director of the Unitarian Service Committee which took him to Poland and Czechoslovakia, where he established medical cen-
 ters and childrens' homes. He had thus become we'll acquainted with these two countries and, after the war, remained abroad to write a book on Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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TACOMA CONTRACTORS
 INTERESTED IN ALASKA
 OFFICE BUILDING WORK

Fred Urban of Urban Plumbing and Heating Co.,, Tacoma, and Philip Grayson of Central Supply Co.,. Plumbing and Heating, left Juneau for Seattle on PAA Sunday after conferring with contractors and architects in the Territory on sub contracts on construction jobs.
 Urban has the subcontract on the plumbing and heating in the Men denhall Apartments here and has handled numerous other jobs in Alaska. He is interested in the sub- contract on the new Alaska office building
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NUGGET CHAPTER MEETS

Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern Star, will hold their monthly meeting Tuesday, March 20, in Masonic Hall. This is a regu- lar meeting with refreshments and instruction.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE Ry,nExrA py LEE

O. visited frequently for almost by young weekend his all right for her to accept? A. invitation from the young mans 
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 O. place serving dish of food when it table?
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SHUMAN HOME

Richard Shuman, Fish and Wild life official, arrived home yesterday from weeks confluence of meet ings with the industry and other fisheries representative in Seattle.
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FIRST AID FIREMEN

Douglas Volunteer Bremen are reminded of first aid classes to be held this evening in the Gov ernment School, at 8 o'clock.
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DOUGLAS
 NEWS
LoRArN, WILCOX, RETURN

s. H. Lorain, Regional Director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Lawrence Wilcox, office manager ef the Mines Office, returned yester- day via PAA from a weeks business trip in Washington, D. c.
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Duggan- Field Link Clue to Mystery


 It now develops there was a per- sonal link between Duggan and Field which may supply one small clue to this international mystery. Duggan and Field not only served in the State Department at the same time but. for one period, they shared the same house to- gether off Judiciary Square in Washington. Duggan informed his superiors during the war that he had once attended Communist meetings in Alexandria, Va, during his early days in the State Depart ment but he had never joined the party and became unsympathetic with their ideas.
 Field, meanwhile, had left the State Department in 1886 and joined inc League of Nations Secretariat. During the war he served as Euro
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HOT CROSS BUNS

Order your Hot Cross Buns early for Good Friday. Phone 31. Purity Bakery, 124 2nd St.
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Weather al
 Alaska points

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 a.m., 120sh Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows:
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FROM SEATTLE John w. Rowe of Seattle is reg istered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Weather: High, 36; low, 27; cloudy.
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WANT ADS PAY
Evening star., 1951-07-12
FTC Says Publishers
Violate Fair Trade AcI
BY the Asso.Ioted Press

Six of the Nations biggest book
publishers have been accused by
the Federal Trade Commission OF
unlawfully giving book clubs an
unfair advantage over retail
stores.
Two of the firms promptly de-
MED it: one said it was studying
the FTC's complaint, and three
refused comment.
The commission complaint, is
sued last night, said it has reason
to think anti-monopoly and fair
trade laws have been violated and
that it started proceedings ito
determine whether the publishers
alleged practices are illegal" !"
The Companies were allowed 20
Cays in which to answer. A COM
Evening star., 1951-07-12

mission hearing was called fol
September 10.
The commission said such clubs
as the Book of the Month Clut
and the Literary Guild benefited
from what it said was a practice
of the six companies of leasing
some printing plates and OF al
lowing the clubs to sell at lowel
prices than the fixed minimum
retail levels.
In New York, a Simon & Schus-
ter attorney said the firm take:
the position it has not violated
any law or fair trade practice. A
Milton Runyon, executive vice
president of Doubleday & Co., al
Garden City, Long Island, N. Y.
issued a similar denial.
Harper & Bros. and Random
House, both of New York, anC
Houghton Miff1in Co., of Boston
refused comment. An official o1
the sixth firm, Little Brown & Co.
of Boston, said the firm was study
ing the complaint.
Evening star., 1951-07-12
AZ More Aliens Seized
In Roundup of Seumen
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July 12.-Forty-
two more aliens were seized yes
terday as Government agents
continued a roundup of seamen
suspected of entering the country
illegally by jumping ship.
Twenty-one seamen were seized
in the Newark IN. j. area and
the others on the New York water
front.
The arrests by Immigration
and Naturalization Service officers
raised to 178 the weeks total ir
the New York harbor area. About
CTS have been seized in the past
month.
Deportation proceedings will
start soon. Most of those arrested
are free on bond.
Evening star., 1951-07-12

A larger area is expected to be
devoted to rice cultivation In
France this year.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
State Division
Southern Regional
Council Meeting

The Mississippi Division of the
Southern Regional Council will
hold its annual meeting here Tues
day, November 18th, it was an
nounced this week by Mrs. Ruby E.
Suits Lyells, of Jackson, secre-
tary of the organization.
The one day meeting will open
at 10 o'clock in the morning and
will be held in the Parish House
of ST. Andrews Church at Capitol
and West street across from the
main postoffice building.
A large delegation of both races,
representing every section of the
state is expected to attend the
meeting.
Outstanding speakers, including
DR.. George S. Mitchell of Atlanta,
Ga, executive secretary of the or
ganization, will be heard during
the meeting.
Many pertinent issues bearing
on the subject of race relations
will be discussed during the meet
ing which will be presided over
by DR.. John Long, of SCI College,
who is chairman of the Mississippi
Division.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
Cross Burned On
Governors Lawn

BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. s.
A six-foot cross, draped with cloth,
was burned on the lawn of the
governors mansion, city police re-
ported.
Officers Sam Crosentino and
Alvin Valentine, reporting their
investigation, suggested:
"In all probability the burning
of the cross was a pre-Halloween
stunt"
Gov. Earl X. Long was reported
out of town and unavailable for
comment. Mansion attaches said
they doubted whether he even knew
of the incident.
Officers Corsention and Valen-
tine said they went to the mansion
after receiving an inquiry about II
pm. from Morning Advocate re-
porter. They said the newspaper
had received numerous calls"
They found the WOODEN cross a.
bout six feet tall and draped with
cloth, on the front lawn, the Of
ficers said, adding:
"It had burned itself out and
fallen to the ground. No odor,
such as kerosene or gasoline, was
detected"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
Shriners Pledge
About Fight
Against Cancer

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 3.-Dr
Raymond E. Jackson, Imperial Po-
tentate of the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, said here Sunday "Shriners
have just begun to use their
sources" and will continue to be
behind the positive leadership in
the field Of medicine" until Cancer
is whipped.
DR.. Jackson was presenting the
Shriners' tuberculosis and Cancer
Research Foundations check in the
amount of S15,600 for Cancer re-
search at Homer G. Phillips Hos
pital. Praising the work Of the
medical staff and the hospital Dr.
Jackson said with the great COM
bination of intelligence all we need
now is fortitute to help support
a positive program"
The check was presented before
more than 5000 people who crowd
ed the lawn of the hospital. The
honorable John O'Toole, director
of Public Welfare received the
grant.
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
Human Relations
Unit Is Quietly
Cutting Many
Race Problems
Illinois Agency Fights
Discrimination
In Jobs

CHICAGO, Nov. 4-The new
Illinois Commission of Human Re-
lations is quietly undermining rae
ial discrimination in job opportuni-
ties and recreational facilities
throughout the state. The most
useful tools the commission has,
according to Russell B. Babcock.
executive director, are education
and persuasion.
The State Legislature created
the Human Relations Commission
this year out of the Illinois Inter
racial Commission that was formed
in 1947
The Legislature gave the COM
mission specific jobs to do:
/. Investigate the most effect
Continued On Page Three
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
ATLANTA PROMISES End
TO CITY AUDITORIUM BIAS

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 8 Re-
percussions from the City Audi
torium discrimination of Negroes
at a concert Friday night resulted
in a committee of the Atlanta
Negro Voters League comforting
with Mayor William B. Hartsfield
Tuesday to seek relief from a re-
currance Of the embarrassing stu
alton. Protesting against the Man
agement of the auditorium for re-
quiring Negroes to enter the con-
cert through side door, the COM
mittee was told by the Mayor that
the management of the auditorium
had no instructions from him to
make such decision, and assured
them that "this would not happen
again."
He promised, also, to present
the matter to the auditorium COM
mittee of the City Council for
further consideration.
John Wesley Dobbs, Attorney A.
T. Walden, C. A. Scott, Rev. M.
L. King, and j. H. Calhoun COM
prised the committee. Auditorium
manager H. H. Niebruegee dis
claiming responsibility was call
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10

trict Nine Convention of UERM-
WA go on record urging President
Truman to cause this indictment a.
gainst DR.. Dubois and his asso-
ciates to be dropped Immediately"
Prominent Negro leaders from
many areas Of the country ad-
dressed Statement to the Presi-
dent and Attorney General of the
United States. They said: "We,
the undersigned Negro Americans
co not believe that DIR. w. E. B.
Dubois is or ever was a foreign
agent; and we fear that his pros
ecution for alleged violation of the
Foreign Agents Registration Act
is designed to intimidate into sill
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
Tobias Sails
For Paris

NEW YORK, Nov. although
DR.. Charming H. Tobias already
has sailed for Paris as an alternate
delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, his approval by
the U. S. Senate is still the object
of much discussion.
Westbrook Pegler, in his column
October %, took another blast at
DR.. Tobias because of his supposed
membership in Communist front
organizations.
Drew Pearson, in a recent column
said that DR.. Tobias record was
worse than that of Phillip Jessup,
who was not approved by the Sen
ate as a delegate to the General
Assembly. Jessup, however, has
been given an interim appointment.
Continued on Page Eight
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thyroid Held On
Dyer Act Charge

YAZOO CITY, Miss, Nov. a.
A II year old Negro youth was
arrested here last week charged
with violating the Dyer Act.
The youth, Alonzo Maddox
Brooks was charged with trans
porting a stolen automobile from
st. Louis, Mo-, to Yazoo City.
The youth was transferred to
Jackson, where his bond was set
at $1,000 after a hearing before
the U. S. Commissioner. He is be-
ing held in the Kinds County Jail
in Jackson pending trial.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-11-10
Sue Taxi Company
For $15,000.00 In
Husbands Death

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Nov. a. A
$4,000 damage suit for the fatal
stabbing of her husband while a
passenger in a taxicab, was filed
here last week by Negro woman.
The woman, Mrs. Vertia Mae
Smith, charged in her bill that her
husband, Excel Smith, was fatally
stabbed by another passenger in
the cab who was drunk.
The $4,000 suit was filed against
the United Taxicab Company, Inc.