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Seward seaport record., 1953-02-20

Lovely lot, 3rd Ave, will FILA. On terms.
Seward seaport record., 1953-02-20

BALMAT REALTY 338 4th Ave. Main l32
Seward seaport record., 1953-02-20

2 Fuel Filters on all models to assure cleaner fuel and cleaner engine. Floating Oil lntoke selects clean oil at top of crankcasc.
 Waier Distributing Tube on all mod els cools valve seats means longer valve life.
 4-2ing Pistons on all engines save oil, upkeep.
 Independent Parking Bruke on all models is simple, efficient, powerful. Rivetless cyeIebond Broke things last longer, are tapered and molded on many models for quiet stops. OriAow Shock Absorbers on 12-, 34- and 1-ton models give smoother riding, greater driver control on toughest roads.
 Better-baIaneed Weight Distribution for extra payload.
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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-03-05
Tomsie Tops
In Exchange
Sr. B. League

The Tomsic Tigers defeated the
Wuertz Cubs 28-19 to take over
possession of the first place spot
Saturday in the East Cleveland
Exchange Class F Basketball. The
two teams were undefeated prior
to Saturdays contest. The Tigers
led 1913 by the close of the half,
at the end of the third quarter
the score read 1915 with the
Tigers in the lead. The Tigers
caught fire in the final quarter to
ice the victory. Klug led the Tigers
with II points. Foreman had 10
points, Miller was high for the
Cubs with z points.
The Centa Foxes edged the Re-
liable Bears in tightly contested
game 1915. The Foxes led 81 at
the end of the first quarter and
by a 6-3 score by the half. The
Bears led 1910 at the third quarter
mark although the Foxes finished
fast to win. Biscotti was high with
6 points, Cunzolo led the Bears
with 8 pts.
The Sneller Lions won its first
contest of the season by a 1888
score over the Diamond Wolves.
The Wolves led in the first three
quarters by 8-4; 14-11; 24-23 scores
although they were unable to hold
back the Sneller Lions, who roared
ahead in the closing minutes.
Russo led the Lions with II points,
Brown had 10 points, Dayton was
high scorer of the game with 18
counters.
The Wheeler Hawks held on to
their second place tie by defeat
ing the Magnus Sharks 1925. The
Hawks were never in trouble and
led in every quarter. Wormald led
the Hawks with 10 points. Taylor
was high for the Sharks with IL
points.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-03-05
December 1852
Breaks Record
For Accidents

Last December was the worst
month for accidents since 1943,
when $50 Onions met death, nine
more than in the worst previous
year, 1888.
Edwin H. Davis, president Ohio
State Safety Council reports 1850
persons met accidental deaths in
1852, 188 more than in 1851; 2,046
perished in motor vehicle accidents.
The states increase in traffic
deaths was 51a times the national
rise; the public fatality increase
was four times the national figure.
Davis believes the drop in deaths
from collisions with railroad trains
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1953-03-05

was due to the campaign for
greater caution at railroad cross
ings.
The safety head was asked if
there was any solution, other than
education, for the increase in acci-
dents. He said, II guess everyone
knows we need modern roads in
this state. Everytime there is an
occasion that generates a lot of
traffic we have a rash of accidents.
More places with an extra lane
uphill might be a temporary re-
lief for some of the congestion.
Motorists must recognize that they
can't go as fast as they want to-"
81 suspect that there are some
people now driving, who should not
be. There are some vehicles on the
road that are not safe for 1868
traffic. Unsafe drivers and unsafe
cars should be taken off the road
and kept off. The security type
financial responsibility law eff
fective March 1st, may be help
on these points. We certainly need
compulsory inspection of vehicles.
| hope the Tooth General Assembly
enacts legislation for that purpose!
More enforcement would help
but the unpleasant fact is that
we cannot have a good traffic
record until more drivers realize
that poor driving, hurry, discour-
tesy, produce accidents. Education
is still our mainstay."
This applies in the field of pub
lie accidents too, where drowning
has zoomed into a major problem.
Water deaths totaled 229, second
only to falls-244, as a producer
of death in the open. The safety
council, sportsmen's groups, the
Division of Parks, and the U. S.
Coast Guard are working on a
comprehensive program to reduce
casualties on and in the water dur
ing this year.
Davis remarked, eve spent five
years on a concentrated program
against home accidents, and it is
beginning to pay off. A similar
crusade against outdoor accidents
should produce comparable results. |
Each Ohioan owes it to himself, |
his family and his community to
do things away from home safer |
than he ever did before. Our lives
depend on it."
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Metropolitan Scene
Rumor, Fact and Deductions on Why
No Commissioner Has Been Named
By John W. Thompson. Jr

that a rift has been developing
between him and Mr.. Donohue.
Mr.. Camalier turned over to
Republican Chairman Joseph
McGarraghy part of the list
of low-number District license
tags for assignment-to the
disgust of Mr.. Donohue, who
felt that was a responsibility
of the Commissioners.
This rapprochement CFrench
for playing footsie) helped Mr..
Camalier, of course. Another
thing working in his favor is
that some Republican leaders
feel that forcing him out
and creating another vacancy
might increase the chance of
appointment of a Negro Com
missioner. This is a sound
mathematical conclusion.
So the net result is a deci-
sion to stick with the ever
lovin' Mr.. Camalier until his
term expires, by which time
confusion may be less con-
founded.
When Mr.. Donohue's re-
placement will be named is
still uncertain, but next week
is always a possibility.
X X x 4
Liquor Dispensers
What's one mans bourbon is
another mans poison.
In the Maryland State Legis-
lature Senator Anders R. Lof-
strand. jr., Republican, of
Montgomery County has in
troduced two bills which would
hamper seriously the present
tight county dlspensary con-
troll of liquor in Montgomery.
At the same time Delegate
William R. Hughes, Repub-
lican, of Prince Georges, which
has a county licensing system.
is pushing for legislation to
set up a gradual dispensary
system there.
One of the Lofstrand meas
ures would allow residents of
Gaithersburg, where the
county council has just au-
thorized a new liquor dispen-
sary, to vote on whether they
want liquor sold there. Another
would authorize a referendum
in the Silver Spring Bethesda
areas on whether residents
there want liquor sold by the
drink in certain high-clasS
restaurants.
The Hughes plan for Prince
Georges would be not to renew
existing licenses as they ex-
pire, are revoked or are aban-
doned. County owned and
operated stores would replace
these where the need was
shown.
Privately. observers don't
give any of the bills much of
a chance.
Evening star., 1953-03-15
RecIonnotion-
Small Landowners, industrial Farmers
Getting Set for Another Big Battle
By Jack jonas

Opponents of the Nations
reclamation policies and laws
are girding for another battle,
and the tone may be even more
clamorous than that in the
80th Congress.
The struggle over water and
land has not always been this
bitter. but it has lasted nearly
a hundred years. Everybody
got along pretty we'll when
there wasn't much money be-
ing spent on building dams to
furnish water for the thirsty
lands Of the arid West.
But in less than 10 years
the Government has laid out
more than two-thirds of every
thing spent since the Reclama-
ton Act was passed at the turn
Of the century. And the howls
are growing louder.
The bitterness in the irriga-
tion and public power program
stems from something which
happened under the country's
first Republican President, Alb
raham Lincoln. That was the
Homestead Act of 1862, a law
based on the theory that 100
acres was enough to give any
good farmer a living for him
self and his family.
Biqs vs.. LittIes
There was a battle over that
one, too-the same big-land-
owner VS.. small-farmer fight
that exists today. Some felt
that the country should con-
tinue to develop under the big
land companies such as opened
the Midwest. Those who IA
vored homesteading on public
lands won.
The 160-acre feature was
incorporated into the reclama-
ton laws of 1902. That's what
today's fight is all about. Under
the 1902 laws water from the
vast irrigation projects won't
be furnished to any one who
owns more than 100 acres un-
less he sells the excess.
Industrial farmers" - the
big agriculturistS who own
thousands of acres-look on
this as unfair. But their ef-
forts in the 80th Congress to
get the law changed or to ouSt
those who stick to the letter
OF the law have been unsuc-
ceSSful.
The prospective battle takes
on more Importance because of
the plans for expanding Cali
fornia's Central Valley Author
ity. These plans have been in
the works for some time, but
they were drawn under the
Democratic administrations.
They call for spending more
than $266 million to develop
the Trinity River area and
Sacramento River Canals in
Northern California. Both
projects had the approval of
former Interior Secretary
Evening star., 1953-03-15

relevant. Until there is q final
ruling, any witness attempt
ing to cite a rule of pertinence
Is taking a chance on landing
before a judge who sees things
differently.
Even if Congress someday
were held to relevant ques-
tions, it could get around that
obstacle when it really wanted
an answer. The assigned task
of a Committee or subcommit-
tee could be broadened by the
House or Senate to cover the
question asked. Or, as in the
surplus tankerS case in 1851,
a witness who claimed the COM
mittee had no jurisdiction over
his case could be sent to teS-
tify before a group which
clearly did have the proper
Jurisdiction. In the tanker
case, the witness was sent
from Senator Fulbright'S RFC
investigating committee to the
Investigations subcommittee of
the Committee on Government
= Operations-which can probe
anything related to the exec
utive departments.
A witness cannot, however,
claim that Congress is invad-
ing his privacy in an investiga-
ton. Private welfare is con-
sidered to be subordinate to
the public welfare in congress
sional investigations as well as
in court trials.
Nevertheless, as many per-
sons, including Congressman,
have pointed out, the legal
right to question a man and
expect an answer does not
carry with it the moral right
to blacken unfairly the repu-
tation of an innocent man.
Congress has been urged to
adopt a great variety of added
projections for witnesses. Re-
form of procedure would not.
however, curb the legal right
of Congress to investigate
whatever it feels should be in
veStigated.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

Oscar Chapman, but Congress
never provided the money.
Opponents of the anti-land-
monopoly feature of the recla-
nation laws may be able to put
off approval-in the present
economy-minded administra-
tion-until they can train their
big guns on the 160-acre law.
If they wipe out that provi-
sion. they'll be back on the
other side again. Pumping for
approval of the dams and irri-
cation canals.
Big Competitors Feored
On the other side of the pic
ture are the small landowners,
who look aSkance at the posi-
BILE competition in irrigated
lands from the industrial farm
ers. In the II Western states
covered by the Reclamation
Act. there were 81 900 small
farmers under contract, with
another $4,000 scheduled to be
brought under contract through
proposed new construction.
The reclamation program
does not scare the anti-spend-
ers in Congress as much as the
Governments rat-hole pro-
grams, where the money is
lost forever. Most of the money
spent on reclamation will come
back to the Treasury sooner
or later. In California, for
example, it is estimated that
of the $580.5 million already
spent and the $266 million to
be spent under present plans,
all but $3.50 million will come
back to the Government in
SO years.
So far, of the $580.5 million
spent, the Government has
taken in a net of $45.5 million,
mostly from electric power rev.
enues-a source which is Incl
dental to the irrigation fea-
lures Of the program, but
which precede them by sew
eral years.
Most of the Governments
return will come from electric
power. This will amount to
a little more than half the
$80.5 million. Those who bene-
fit from the irrigation-the
owners of 160 acres or less
will pay back about a quarter
of the total amount.
During the past eight years.
the Government has spent SIT
billion in reclamation work. 1t
has expanded irrigation to
another / 1920, 900 acres and in
creased public power output by
los per cent. The year 1858
will see the first billion dollar
irrigated crop yield.
Despite the attitude Of the
Californa landowners and the
outlook which appears to be de-
veloping in the Interior De-
partment, reclamation as it has
been in the past has strong
friends in Congress. It's future
depends on the outcome of the
big battle.
Evening star., 1953-03-15

said, it would be up to the
courts, not Congress, to pun
ish the guilty.
interpretations of Congress
power to investigate broad
ened after that, however, until
in 1927 another Supreme Court
ruling, in effect, told Congress
it could shoot the works. If
the real estate operators were
to object to a congressional
probe today, the courts would
probably rule that Congress
might want to write a law af-
fecting real estate transac-
tions. Therefore, Congress
would have the right to inves-
tigate the affairs of any group
of real estate men, honest or
dishonest.
There are four main pur-
poses for congressional investi-
cations:
. TO md facts needed to
make law. House and Senate
committees, for instance, have
spent almost 10 years investi-
eating claims of ownership of
"tidelands" oil. Another law
fixing control of the lands now
is on it's way through Congress-.
. To supervise the execu-
tive branch of Government.
The so-called watchdog COM
mittees do nothing but keep
an eye on the administration
of laws. The Atomic Energy
Committee makes a perpetual
study of the handling of
atomic energy. The Prepared
ness subcommittee watches the
defense program. Without
these watchdog groups, Con-
gress would not know how it's
laws were being carried out
and would be legislating in
the dark.
. To inform the public.
The House Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee does moth
ing but study and inform.
Under the law it may investi-
gate subversion wherever it
can be found and "all other
questions in relation thereto
Evening star., 1953-03-15

that would aid Congress in any
remedial legislation" So un-
der the law the Velde COM
mittee may ferret out suspected
Reds in Government, industry.
Hollywood, the schools, or even
in the churches (though what
can be done legally is not al
ways politically the bright
thing to do).
Q To resolve questions con-
corning Congress own men,
bership. SubcommitteeS in
both houses now are studying
alleged frauds in the 1852
elections. An investigation of
Senator McCarthy's fitness for
Office technically still is hang
ing fire. Without the power
to control it's own members,
Congress conceivably could be
stymied in its work.
The power of investigation
would be a worthless tool with
out the power to compel per-
sons to tell what they know
and to produce records. So
the courts recognize that Con-
gress may Subpoena witnesses
and documents and punish for
contempt persons who refuse
to cooperate.
Congress may not override
constitutional rights of a wit
ness, however. A reluctant
witness may recite the fifth
amendment and decline to
answer on the grounds of pos
sible self determination. That
is a sure way to get off the
hook.
Question of Pertinence
Some witnesses have sue
ceeded in another defense of
silence; they have claimed the
question asked was not peril
nent to the investigation. Low
er courts have more and more
in the last few years tended
to recognize a rule of peril
nence.
But the Supreme Court so
far has not insisted that Con-
greSs prove its questions are
Evening star., 1953-03-15

Here's what military par
lance might call a CO." of
the delay in filling the Com
missioner vacancy.
You can take it for what it's
worth It's not guaranteed.
Some of it is rumor. some of
it fact, some of it putting two
and two together.
President Eisenhower is TAX
ing little personal interest in
the matter. Presidential As
sistant Sherman Adams will
make the appointment.
He has consulted with
Chairman Case of the Senate
District Committee, who fa-
vors District Budget Officer
Walter L. Fowler; with the
local Republican organization,
which likes Claude owen, and
with the L. Corwin Strong
group, which is pushing SAM
uel Spencer. In addition the
name of Raymond Dickey has
come to the fore as a possi-
BILE compromise candidate,
based upon the desire OF the
G. o. P. organization to re-
ward him for services rem
dered at the Chicago conven-,
ton.
A key factor in the whole
picture is race. Mr.. Fowler
and Mr.. Owen are understood
to be unacceptable to the Ne
gro organizations. These
groups also are still hoping
for appointment of a. Negro
which, despite administration
willingness, some Republican
bigwigs are not yet ready to
accept.
At this point the party
chiefs have decided they have
only one vacancy to flll-the
replacement of Commissioner
F. Joseph Donohue, who has
resigned. They called in DEM
ocrat Commissioner Renah
Camalier, who still has more
than two years of three-year
term to serve, and asked him
to resign. He refused. His
friends tossed out a trial bal
loon-that he might quit if
offered Municipal Court
judgeship. But the Republi-
cans didn't give that one a
second thought. To have done
so would have had all the ear
marks of an unsavory deal
and, anyway, the judgeShip
carried a 10-year tenure.
With Mr.. Camalier deter
mined to fight to the last per-
Quisite for his employment.
the administration backed off,
unwilling to risk a bloody po-
litical scrap that could end in
the courts.
Coincidentally, Mr.. Camalier
began playing it very friendly
with the G. o. P.-so much so
Evening star., 1953-03-15
Skys the Limit on Congress Probes
By Richord Fryklund

Persons who cry, They can't
do that" each time Congress
announces an investigation
into some new phase Of Ameri-
can life wrong. Legal prec-
edent indicates Congress can
investigate anything anywhere
at any time.
The Constitution does not
mention the congressional
power to investigate. The
courts, however, have decided
that along with the power of
legislation goes the implied
power of investigation. With
out freedom to investigate. the
courts have ruled, Congress
could hardly carry out its job
of writing the Nations laws.
The investigative power is
viewed as an aid to the process
of Legislation" in the broad
sense. It need not be used
merely as an aid to the
writing of a specific law. An
investigation may properly be
used as a very much general
lied assist to the job of law
making. Thus, Investigations
can be employed to educate the
public on what is best for the
general welfare.
For instance, Congress may
decide that the welfare of the
Nation would be promoted if
the public better realized the
menace of internal commu-
niSm.
Educating the Public
Therefore Congress may edu-
cate the public through the
medium of well-publicized in
vestigations of communism.
The Investigations make the
public more aware of the prob
lens the Nation faces and
make it easier for Congress to
work.
Perhaps no more laws aimed
at subversion need be passed.
Several already are on the
books. Nevertheless, if Con-
gress feels that further en-
lightenment of the public is
desirable, the congressional
studies of communism legally
may continue.
And who is to decide wheth-
er a given investigation is aid
ing the legislative process?
Congress decides.
The courts generally have
assumed that in the absence
of a stated legislative goal.
Congress still must have had
something legitimate in mind.
So the benefit of the doubt
goes to Congress.
The power of Congress to
investigate has not always
been so broadly interpreted.
In 1880 the Supreme Court
ruled that Congress had no
right to investigate anything
it was not prepared to write
a law about. The high court
said Congress could not probe
the affairs of a particular real
estate pool, alleged to be a
swindle. If the group was
crooked, the Supreme Court
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-10

Co Both labor and manage
ment will agree that a clause
covering this arrangement shall
become a part of future con-
tracts as they come up for re-
newal
Last September there were
hearings on air rates at Portland.
Last December there was a fore
mans strike on the Seattle dock.
Now we have another strike
threat on the Seattle waterfront.
AS a positive force for good. in
Seattle we have the Lifeline Com
mittee working to find a common
ground for settlement of all ship
ping disputes between Seattle and
Alaska.
agree and I am sure you will
that transportation is not only
our lifeline but could be called
the blood Of our lives. I would
like to say here that last winter
I believe public indignation was
responsible for the strike lasting
only 80 days, whereas they have
averaged rs days yearly for the
last Is years.
l am sure none of us has any
quarrel when the working man is
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-10

The following is a Letter to
the Editor" reprinted from the
Anchorage Daily News.
Dear Editor:
We have another hearing which
is to be held in Seattle April 8, 9,
and 10 by committee from Con-
gress. For this hearing in the ship
ping troubles, the Seattle Lifeline
Committee has prepared a for
mula for settlement Of our per-
iodic shipping tieups.
The formula, l believe, is so
fair that for either party not to
accept would indicate to me that
they never had bargained in good
faith nor do they intend to in the
future.
The formula l will quote in full
is what the Lifeline Committee
will present at the Seattle hearing:
(a That shipping to Alaska
will continue uninterrupted,
based on company regular sail
ing schedules.
90 Both labor and manage
ment will agree to abide by de-
cisions worked out at end Of
either coastwise or local tieups.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1953-04-10
Cruening's Ii Years As Governor
Marked By Controversy, Progress

ington, DC. They will leave Sun
day-the day they move out Of
the executive mansion.
Gruening said he will attend
the House hearing on statehood
for Alaska if he is in Washington
while it is in session.
The transfer of authority has
been, generally, an amicable one.
The governors office has been on
the third floor and Heintzleman's
on the fourth floor of the federal
building here for many years.
Gruening now age Sc, was APP
pointed governor for the first time
by President Roosevelt on Oct. Is,
1899. He has served continuously
since that time.
A former newspaper and maya
zine writer and editor, Gruening
came to Alaska from the director
ship of Territories in the Depart
ment of the Interior.
He has been a controversial ex-
ecutive during most of his adj
ministration, with political lines
drawn up on a pro- and anti
Gruening basis as much as, and
sometimes more than, on party
lines.
One Of the charges tossed most
frequently was that, as a COVER
nor appointed from outside Alas
ka, he was taking too active a
role in territorial political activ-
tiles. Some of his bitterest foes
were members of the Democratic
party.
The governor often was in the
corridors of the floor on which
the legislative chambers are To-
Gated, comforting with Democratic
legislators, during previous ses-
sions. But in the session that fol-
lowed, in 1851 and 1858, he dis
creetly remained away floor ex-
cept when he was summoned fo1
his session-opening message.
There was a more conciliatory
atmosphere between the governor
and at least part of the Republi-
can legislators during the recent