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Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-31

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR TEE TERRITORY OF ALASKA THIRD DIVISION, KODIAK PRECINCT Filed 10.29-53
 No. 406 Probate
 In the Matter of the Estate of
 Harold Cass Bettinger, 1 Deceased ! ORDER APPOINTING TIME FOR HEARING FL NAL ACCOUNT AND RE- PORT
 1 Lee F. Bettinger, adminis- tratorcum testamento annexo
 of the estate of Harold Cass Bettinger. deceased, having :, this day filed in this Court ,, and matter his First and Final
 Account and Report and Peti- 1 ton for Final Distribution
 and Discharge, praying that day be appointed for the hear. ling thereof, it is hereby
 ORDERED that Thursday, the 4th day of February, 1854,
 at the hour of 2 o'clock in the 1 afternoon of said day be, and
 the same hereby is, appointed ] and designated as the time.
 and the office of the United
 States Commissioner, Ex-Of. l ficio Probate Judge for, the ]; Kodiak Precinct, Third Divi- ! sion, Territory of Alaska, as , the place, for the hearing of 1 objections to the said Account
 and Report, when and where all persons interested in said
 estate may appear and object
 to said account and where and i when said account will be
 heard and settled; and at
 said hearing the Court will
 determine what persons are to take the estate under the in
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-31

terstate laws of the Territory 1t is further
 ORDERED that notice of such hearing shall be given by publication of a notice of the time and place thereof, once 8 week for four consecu- tive weeks in the KODIAK MIRROR. a newspaper of general circulation, published
Kodiak mirror., 1953-10-31
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dajIt :x""rt except Sundays and e a holidays in Kodiak. A 8 "a, and that proof of such publi"aticn be filed herein. Done In Open Court, this 18th day of October, 1853. Probate Seal
 Isl A. M. Vokacek
 Probate Judge 1st Publication 10-3l-53 Last Publication li-2l-53
Evening star., 1953-12-27

were more than 80 years OF
age Cnot young adventurers as
the East claimed.
Riots involved 274 cities and
towns in all corners of the
zone. One-third of the dem
onstrators were skilled work.
ers. Only 2 per cent were for
mer army officers, 3 per cent
former Nazis. One out of
every seven was a member of
the Communist Party itself.
Winter Test
Allied intelligence now re-
ports:
The winter in the East zone
will be a tremendous test for
the Reds. Cold and hungry
people seldom riot but the
German has thrown most of
the accepted rules out the
window.
Evidence indicates the So
Wet zone labor force is still
strongly opposed to the re-
gime. Workers are now work.
ing enthusiastically.
"The regime must get higher
production. It tlas tried to
WOO the workers with wage
increases, the return to the
work norms of April /, reduc-
ton in income tax rates and
price cuts. This has not pro-
duced any significant changes
yet"
A final bugaboo for the East
is the crop situation. The
harvest is 20 per cent below
last year and 70 per cent of
prewar normalS. There are
severe local shortages. espe-
cially of the German diet
staple--the potato.
The Russians and their sat-
elites have increased imports
to the Soviet zone by as much
as Is per cent. Western in
formantS maintain this is
'only a temporary shot in the
arm"
Foreign missions in Berlin
are reporting to their govern
ments that the East zone may
go through the winter with
out any major outburst Of
violence. But, they add, if it's
a bad one-and all signs indi-
cate it will be-look out for
the first buds of spring.
ASSOCIATED Press.)
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mitted production had fallen
in some big plants as much as
so per cent. Appeals were
useless. So the government
went back to terror. tactics.
There matters stood as the
icy Baltic winds swept in, her.
aiding another brutal winter
for the impoverished East
zone.
For all their talk of the new
course" and generous Russian
aid, the Communist tub
thumpers were scared. Rapidly
they:
. Instituted a new identity
card system organized in such
a way that a man had to stay
close to the area where he was
normally supposed to be.
Q Appealed frantically to the
people to save electric current
so factories could turn out
more consumer goods for
them. (They dreaded ad-
ynitting a shortage of coal for
heating homes to a public that
had demonstrated it could
take matters in its own
han6S.D
. Reduced the military and
heavy industry budget, in
creased the textile and con-
Sumer goods subsidies.
. Transferred millions Of
eastmarks from reserve funds
to construct apartments for
workers.
o Boosted that return of 33
major plants from Soviet con-
troll to East German hands
January / would boom the
economy; kept plugging the
theme that reparations to
Moscow had halted and oc-
cupation costs had been cut to
a minimum.
Nevertheless, the East Ger
mans who could make it con-
tinued to flee to the West and
with them came a graphic
picture of the feeling among
the 18 million trapped.
From these refugees West
Berlin screening teams dis
covered how widespread was
the resistance of June II. They
came up with such percentages
as these:
Two-thirds Of the rioters
Evening star., 1953-12-27
By Tom Reedy

BERLIN.-In bone-chilling
winter fog. Communist police
of Germany's Soviet zone are
patrolling IN pairs.
Night-riding squads burst
into a luckless Germans home
and drag him off to a dun
geon. Red courts may send
him to the gallows or to back
breaking labor without hope
of reprieve.
Sullen men and women plod
daily to their jobs and do only
what they have to. It's warmer
in the factory than at home
where one has the choice of
either coal or food. To have
both is a luxury only for the
favored.
In mine, mill, store, railroad
station, trench-coated secret
police spread discomfort with
hard-eyed Stares. To them,
suspicion often becomes fact.
From the Elbe to the Oder,
from the Baltic to the Czech
border. East Germany is a
vast prison camp far grimmer
today than ever before. The
reason: A Notwithstanding date
in German history.
A little more than six
months ago. June II burst on
the Soviets like an atomic
blast.
Freedom for q Doy
It was a day when bare
listed German workers, 2 mil
lion of them, threw off the
yoke of Red dictatorship for
one day and def1ed Russian
tanks and guns, ripped open
jails and freed political pris-
oners. They beat Communist
officials to death, shouted,
Down with the government"
demanded elections for Ger
man unity in democratic free
dom and spread dismay all the
way back to the Kremlin.
The East German is paying
for it now. If he utters one
word against the iron chains
that hold him he is doomed
He can only bide his time.
Above him is a regime in
constant upheaval. So long
as Moscow wills it. the regime
is in power and no pitchfork
Evening star., 1953-12-27

service tax, motor vehicle
registration. gasoline, beer.
distilled spirits. cigarettes.
communications, insurance
and transit levies. The re-
vised plan will be sent to the
District legislative commit
tees when Congress returns,
while 1855 budget minus any
capital improvements in the
general fund will go to the
House Appropriations subcom-
mittee. What happens to this
works plan next year will be
vital to the District for the
next decade or more.
Personalities-Key personal
ity in the District during the
year undoubtedly was Reor-
ganizer Schuyler Lowe, who
put over his program in the
face of maximum opposition.
Also worthy of mention would
be Juvenile Judge Edith Cock
rill, a prominent figure in the
current search for an answer
to the juvenile problem.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

legions can remove 1t. The
men who run it, Party Boss
Walter Ulbricht, Prime Min
lister Otto Grotewohl, Presi-
dent Wilhelm PECK and the
others, in effect are no longer
Germans. They are so deeply
mired in communism that
their thoughts, actions and
words are Russian. Even their
accents when they speak Ger
man have Russian overtones.
Fifty THOUSAND secret police,
a peoples army" of another
125,000 and a regular beat
patrolling force of 100000
"volkspolizei" stand between
the bosses and the population.
Behind the German vassal
force is the 3O0.00O-man Soviet
army which smashed the June
revolt. The outlook would
seem hopeless.
Yet the German stares right
back at the whole monolithic
fortress and seems completely
confident that sit too will
pass" and he'll outlive it.
No one knows this better
than the Communist nerve
center, with its thousands of
spies and denouncers. At
times. even the government
appears to lose its poise and
gives away the true state of
affairs. Public announcement
of spy" and sabotage" trials
is a daily occurrence since
June II. Top officials whimper
that the Soviet zone-what
they call "the German Demo-
cratic Republic lis rampant
with underground warfare"
shot through with a fifth
column" They blame the
West for sending in agents.
an alibi that fools no one.
They ignore the fact that the
workers hate the so-called
workers state"
It has been the top-layer
Communist, not the German
man in the street, who has
been confused in these six
months. This has led to many
mistakes and the little man
has had some pleasure noting
that even highly placed bu-
reaucrats have fallen into the
police net. The atmosphere is
Evening star., 1953-12-27
By Grohom Hovey

ROME.-Is Fascism on its
way back to power in Italy?
Many thoughtful Italians
fear SO. And many more are
pondering the question more
seriously today than they did
after the elections of last June
z. when the neo-Fascist Ital-
ian Social Movement (MSD
polled a million and a half
votes and won % seats IN the
Chamber of Deputies.
The boiling UP of the Trieste
question, with its appeal to ex-
treme Italian nationalism, is
mostly responsible for this re-
newed-or at least intensified
attention to the question Of
FasciSm.
Italians not at all fright
ened by the MSI as such are
worried about the after-effects
and by-products of the ultra
nationalism and xenophobia
which the Fasclsts and their
allies have been able to arouse
in the country over the Trieste
issue.
An American arriving in
Rome is apt to be shocked at
the lengths to which these
Italian supernationalists have
gone.
War ToIk
Several neo-Fascist spokes-
men have fatty demanded war,
if that should be necessary, to
"liberate" the Trieste Free
Territory from the Yugoslavs,
British and Americans. These
demands were heard often in
Rome after the violence of
early November in Trieste,
when several Italians were
killed by British-trained police
in Zone A of the Free Ter
ritory.
The MSI demanded that the
Italian government send an
ultimatum to London, demand
ing dismissal of Gen. Sir John
Winterton, British military
governor of Trieste; punish
ment of those responsible for
what is called the slaughter"
and immediate transfer of
Zone A to Italy.
And if the British and Ameri-
cans should not meet these
demands? Then; said the
MSI, "the Italian divisions ar
rayed on the borders of the
bloody Trieste Free Territory
should, without further ado,
enter the martyred city to de-
liver the Italian population
from the prosecutions and car
mage"
Senator Franz Turchi of the
MSI called for Italian armed
intervention to defend from
further massacre the Italian
people of Trieste" He said
immediate action was neces-
sary because Italian blood
gushes with every instant lost"
The MSI newspaper, II
Secolo. said the time had come
for an appeal ito courage,
rather than to calm" It de-
clared:
Trieste has celebrated her
Evening star., 1953-12-27

assessments, the lower assessed
counties getting more aid.
Prince Georges on the other
hand has been considering a
10 per cent cut because of a
county surplus of more than
81 million. Some local civic
groups have protested the pro-
posed cut on the ground that
the money is needed for i'm
portant county projects.
Montgomery too frowned on
the idea suggesting it was a
device to get more State
money.
Sanitary CommiSsion-Resi-
dents of both counties were up
in arms over what they said
was arbitrary action by the G.
0. P.-controlled commission in
raising rates without public
hearing. There was plenty of
sound and fury, but the rate
boost stood.
Peace Cross - Residents Of
Bladensburg fought a winning
battle to block a project to
raise the level of the roadway
around the Peace Cross as part
of the flood-control project.
The State finally postponed
the whole project.
County Building Mont
gomery got into its expensive
new county building in Rock
vile.
Maryland City Study was
given and continues to be CIV
en- to the idea of combining
several small communities be-
tween Hyattsville and Green
belt into an administrative city
to save money on police, fire
protection, etc.
Personalities - Controversial
Montgomery County Manager
Irving McNayr resigned and
was succeeded by E. T. Beall,
former manager of Ports
mouth, Ohio. Edwin w.
Rroome. who for some 40 years
had headed the Montgomery
school system. retired to be re-
placed by DR.. Forbes Norris of
Winchester, Mass. Prince
Georges Police Chief Alan
Richards was fired by the
commissioners after one Of
Evening star., 1953-12-27

came in for abuse because it's
London correspondent handled
Foreign Secretary Eden's
Commons speech on Trieste
in a calm, objective manner,
without even a tone of spa
triotic grief" This attack
came from the newspaper
Roma, personal organ of
Achille Lauro, Mayor of Ma
Piles and president of the
Monarchist Party.
Roma wondered if this Ra-
dio Italiana correspondent felt
1.-The baseness of his profess
sion, the cowardliness of his
position"
Little wonder with such tub
humping going on daily,
that the Rome students dem
onstrated wildly for parts of
two days in a manner that re-
minded many Italians Of what
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Metropolitan Scene
Review Of the Year in District Maryland and Virginia
Neorby vKginio

them had Richards investigat-
ed by a private detective.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

Also contributing to the
general reStlesSneSs in the area
was the death of rent control.
One by one the nearby coun-
ties gave up controls. The last
died in the District June 80.
Immediately many landlords
jumped their rents and many
tenants began the move to
cheaper quarters. Downtown,
white families continued to
move to the suburbs and were
replaced by lower-income col
ored families.
Area Inteerotion
The move by the District
and nearby counties to deal on
q regional basis with common
problems that observe no ju-
riSdictional boundaries made
some progress during the year
principally in the field of
planning. The main items
under attack in this field are
the best location for additional
badly needed trans-Potomac
bridges and Maryland high
ways entering the District.
E street and Jones Point were
familiar in headlines as sug-
gested bridge sites, as was
Route. 240 among the high
ways.
There was a move at the
Capitol to set up an area
transit authority to unity pub
lie transportation operation.
Opposition from Virginia and
the District brought this to a
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Foscism Back in Italy?

vespers Of rebellion and re-
venge. Trieste has given the
initiative to chasing out the
foreigner. The foreigner must
go: the enemy (meaning, ap-
parently, the Americans and
British, as well as the Yugo-
slavs) must CO."
The newspaper Meridiano
d'Italia went further. It said:
1--WE should move the Ber-
saglieri toward San Giusto
and free the Triestines.
Blood calls for blood =.
blood wants justice"
The Italian radio network
Evening star., 1953-12-27
:ost Germans Needle Confused Reds, Wait for Spring

one in which every one feels
that no one is safe. It is a
giant tinderbox needing only a
little spark to blaze.
In the minds of many June
II may turn out to be the
longest day in modern Ger
man times. Without being
jocular, Germans will tell you
June II is still going on. There
is considerable evidence to
back them up.
The lid blew off June Is
when workers on the model
Stain Alice housing project in
East Berlin decided they had
had enough of Communist ex-
ploitation. They marched on
the government and were re-
buffed. Excited Communist
agitators kept telling them of
the So-called new course"
dictated by Moscow only a
week before. They promised
this would mean more food.
better living standards. The
workers didn't fall for it They
called a general strike.
The next day $4,000 brawny
men and high-spirited women
swarmed toward the govern
ment headquarters. Word
spread like wildfire to Magde-
burg, Chemnitz, Halle. Leip-
zig, Rostock on the sea. In
the next "a hours there were
2 million on the streets in wild
rioting that halted only when
Soviet Army tanks took over,
martial law was declared and
Germans were executed cut OF
hand.
$50 Die
In two days $50 were killed,
1,744 wounded. Fifty thousand
were arrested. Police Chief
Wilhelm Zaisser was fired;
so was Justice Minister Max
Fechner because he ad-
nlitted publicly the constitu-
ton gave the worker the right
to strike. Other official heads
rolled.
For two weeks, Russian mar
tial law was imposed. That
meant death for any infrac-
ton. But the boiling pot con-
tinued to simmer and no po-
liceman or Communist official
dared walk the streets alone.
During this period, $4,000 East
Germans fled to West Berlin
through tight cordons of Rus
sian and peoples police" It
was a frightful risk for each
to take. There is no way of
knowing how many more
tried, 1alleo ana palo 0early.
The distraught regime un-
locked its food supply safes.
Shops suddenly were loaded
with fruit. vegetables and
meat. Prices were cut as much
as 10 per cent. Work quotas
'were rolled hack IT was hrih-
ery pure and simple. Even
that failed. BY early fall, it
was apparent the rugged East
German had made up his
mind that while rioting was
too costly to the individual,
passive resistance offered a
powerful weapon.
Everywhere. work slowed
down. The government ad-
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sNSSsOy V"S
Political Scene-The nearby
Jurisdictions Of Arlington, Falls
Church, Fairfax, and Alexan-
dria comprise the States new
10th district. 1t sent Republic
can Joel Broyhill to Congress.
Mr.. Broyhill in his first year
has been much concerned
with cuts in the Federal
payroll which apparently have
hit his constituents hard.
Fairfax County was re-dis-
tricted. adding a member to
the Board of County Super
visors and School Board. The
move was spurred by demands
of urbanized areas close to
Washington for greater rep
resentation.
Planning-Arlington has had
its troubles with planning. The
county board disowned the
county planning commission
which the board had appoint
ed. It called for designations
of the Is appointees but only
eight complied. Sample con-
flict: While the board favored
a Potomac bridge at E street
the planners opposed it.
Bonds - Fairfax finally won
the right to market $11 mil
lion in school construction
bonds after a long court tussle
with former Arlington Treas
urer John Locke Green. In
this instance he was attorney
for the Freeholders' Protective
Association. Mr.. Green in a
similar action tied up $2.8
million in Arlington bonds. He
has appealed from a Circuit
Court decision against him.
Only a few days ago Fairfax
supervisors won referendum
approval for a $40 million
sewer bond issue.
choolS When schools
opened, only Alexandria had
enough classrooms for it's en-
rollment.
Arlington opened the first
unit of it's giant So million
Wakefield High School. Fair
fax was building a new high
school at Annandale and the
county's first high school for
colored students at Merrif1eld.
Public acknowledgements
almost lost a big Federal
money grant when its housing
authority tried to reject a low
bid of a Washington con-
tractor in favor of some Alex
andria firms. After some
sparring in court. the matter
was ironed out and the low
rent project is under construc-
ton.
Personalities John Locke
Green, the perennial suit filer,
is probably the best-known
name in the 10th district to
those interested in nearby af-
fairs. One of his principal
legal contentious has been to
try to keep Federal employees
from holding State or county
office. Alexandria Mayor Mar
shall Beverley has feuded with
City Manager Ira Willard over
municipal reorganization and
fought for the return to the
city of two old fire engines
now in other Jurisdictions.
Evening star., 1953-12-27
Nearby Maryland

Political Scene - In Mont
gomery County where the
G. o. P. has been in the saddle
for four years, the principal
effect in 1853 was having Re-
publican Lawyer Dewitt Hyde
of Bethesda elected to Con-
gress. In Prince Georges,
however, Frank Small was the
first Republican to represent
the county in Congress in over
a decade.
ASSeSSmentS-In both near
by counties, assessments were
of top interest. Montgomery
residents have fought through
out the year against the re-
assessments placed on their
properties, complaining that
they were too high and that
they were unequal as between
Montgomery and other coun-
ties. A State tax commission
report agreed they were un-
equal, but said some other
counties were too low rather
than Montgomery too high.
State financial aid is keyed to
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Civil Service
Continued From First Page.)


make a major contribution to
our democratic way of life"
The more than 1000 personnel
officials attending the conference
today got down to the serious
work of discussing the major
personnel and civil service prob
lens in the public service and
how to solve them.
The many Federal personnel
people attending the conference
feel that the personnel problems
in the Federal Government are
the most perplexing and vital
in many years.
First, they feel that the change
in administration made it in
evitable that new personnel
problems would arise.
Secondly, they know that the
new Republican administration
has new ideas of its own on what
should be done to improve civil
service and many of these ideas
will be discussed during the
week-long session.
Another major problem in the
eyes of Federal personnel off,
cialS is how to restore the con-
f1dence of Government workers