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ing beauties, no cartoons, not even
a crossword puzzle, but the Con
gressional Record, the daily ac
count of what the guys you send to
Washington are thinking and talk
ing about, is the greatest melangC
of humor «intentional and unin
tentional), fact and fiction pub
lished any place, as far as we
know.
Its small print may ruin your,
eyes if you become addicted to
reading it. It may test your endur
ance to read through some of the!
debates, such as that in which
Senator Taylor (Dem.) of Idaho
tried to filibuster the labor bill to
death by talking about eating jack
rabbits and his life as a carnival
trouper.
It may make you mad because
of its inanities or proud because of
the flashes of real statesmanship
•which it reveals.
In it you can read the old
wheeze about the theatergoer who
could not “sit down in front” be
cause he was constructed by na
ture to bend only one way. You
will learn that when a Congress
man gets in a tight spot any old
argument against a bill will do.
including the one advanced by j
Congressman Rich (Rep.) of Penn
sylvania that the “Voice of Amer-1
ica” bill should not be considered
on Friday the thirteenth because it
would be unlucky.
The variety of random informa
tion to be picked up from the Rec
ord should delight the radio quiz;
experts as well as Robert Ripley.
The appendix to the Record is
devoted largely to significant
speeches, reprints of newspaper |
and magazine articles and editor
ials to which the various members i
of Congress happen to take a fancy
and a goodly mixture of pure bom
bast.
For example a recent Record
for a single day included a Flag
Day speech, complete with poetry;,
articles on national health insur- J
ance and your chances of getting
ahead in the world; a report of
the projects committee of the Na
tional Rivers and Harbors con
gress; a reprint of a newspaper ar
ticle on MVA; other articles on
Bernard M. Baruch, Herbert
Hoover, the fight between Con
gress and the President and poli
tics in the postoffice department.
Other articles were on lynching,
war housing, what a good frofes
sion the lawyers follow, air safety
and how many war bonds the late
‘Round World
Solo Flight Ends
Near Start
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CHICAGO, (iP)—William (Bill*
Odom, who took off on a project-1
ed around-the-world solo speed i
flight Monday, was back on tvs
home airport yesterday after hav
ing flown one-sixth of the intend
ed mileage.
Shortly after passing over Hali
fax, Nova Scotia, in his 4.000
horsepower, twin-engined plane, j
the former British ferry command ,
pilot said his ailerons jammed
and he was forced to turn back.
He landed on the Chicago air- '
port at 11:55 central daylight time
Monday night, 9 hours and 24 J
minutes after the take-off. He said
he probably would leave again to
day in another attempt to halve
the round-the-world solo record
of 186 hours set by the late Wiley i
Post in rhe famed single-engined
“Winnie Mae” monoplane in 1933.!
The 27-year-old pilot said he had
covered about one-sixth of the.
projected flight or more than 3,000 ,
miles of his 19.600-mile route in
the trip to Nova Scotia and back.
Although his take-off at 2:31
p.m. Monday appeared to observ
ers on the airport to be smooth
and easy, he reported upon his
return that “I very nearly cracked
up.” He said that the heavy load
of 2,460 gallons of gasoline “dis
turbed the stability” of the-con
verted A-26 army bomber as he
lifted it into the air.
On his next attempt, he said, he
would carry a lighter fuel, load
and make his first stop at Gander,1
Newfoundland, instead of Paris.
The plane in which Odom at- (
tempted the solo record is the one
in which he. Milton Reynolds, and
T. Carroll Callee circumnavigated
the globe in 78 hours. 55l£ minutes
last April.
President Roosevelt bought.
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<(>P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, </P>—Milton C.
James, Assistant director of the
Fish and Wildlife service, said yes- |
terdav the big fish news from .
Alaska is the “rather good” Bris
tol Bay salmon pack—1.400,00'.)
cases, almost double last year’s j
catch.
James, back from a tour ol j
Alaska fisheries, expressed con
cern at the destruction wrought by
forest fires along a 70-mile front
on the Kenai peninsula, in the
heart of Alaska’s big game coun
try.
“The fires destroyed hundreds
of thousands of acres of timber, i
and threw up smoke so thick as
to halt airplane operations in the
Anchorage area.” James told a re
porter.
“We are particularly concerned
over the effect upon game animals,
particularly moose. We have men
in the area, checking the results j
of the tremendous holocaust. Un'.l j
we have their reports, we can i
make no estimate of the wildlife
loss.”
James said the large Bristol Bay j
catch reflected a large escapement i
resulting from the suspension ofj
northern Alaska fishing in 1942,,
after the outbreak of war. The red j
or sockeye salmon has a five-year j
life cycle.
By contrast, the pink salmon of
Southeastern Alaska has a two
year cycle. Furthermore, South
eastern Alaska fisheries continued
to operate during the war even af
ter northern fisheries were cut off.
*
“The Southeastern Alaska run!
had barely started wheij I left,”
James said.
“It. presented a varying picture;
from fairly good to fair prospects, j
“All in all, there is every likeli
hood for a total salmonpack for
Alaska materially larger than last
year but perhaps not greater than
the 10-year overage.”
James devoted most of his Alas
kan tour to the Anchorage, Kodi
ak and Bristol Bay areas. The
agency has seven planes and 14
patrol boats in Territorial waters,
he said, and recently has expand
ed its inter-district radio commun
ications.
“Alaskan Children
Run \\ ild” Says i
Child Psychologist |
SEATTLE, (/P) —“A very dan
gerous trend” in Alaskan juvenile
delinquency, sometimes with vio
lent manifestations, was reported
today by Howard E. Polleys, child
psychologist who formerly was
with the New York police depart
ment.
He returned to the States yes
terday after a year of teaching at
Matanuska and juvenile consult
ant work with Anchorage police.
“Children are in the way up
there,” he said. “Parents farm
them out to homes where they run
wild, just so they (the parents) can
take positions where they can
make more money.”
In the absence of proper recre
ational facilities, he said, the prob
lem children were indulging in car
thefts. He told of one case in
which four 15-year-olds stole a
jeep and then “chopped it up with
an ax so they wouldn’t be found
out.”
The Territory is without reform
atory or correctional institutions.
Spiritual Leader Meets Labor Chief
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CHICAGO. ILL. —Samuel Cardinal Stritch. spiritual leader, left
has an earnest word with labor chieftain, Bill Green, at the 6.»tn
annual A. F. of L. convention Green in his opening address at oil d
dictatorship, Communist;, reactionaries ar'd all ideol-'»T't-o vi.*-a o:n
unsu:lcd to Cj' f;«m «f g«»H>tnr«nf.
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