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Wednesday, October 24, 1951
BRITAIN IN TROUBLE
British prestige and authority in the Near East,
already damaged by the action of Iran in seizing the
property of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, were
further weakened when Egypt moved to evict the
British from tl)e Suez Canal Zone and announced
that the Sudan region would be annexed to Egypt.
Following these developments, the Government of
Iraq requested revision of a 1930 treaty, which granted
the British Government the right to maintain two
air bases and some troops in that neighborhood.
Iraq includes most of Arabia and is a nation of
about five million Arabs, scattered over desert tracts
or into teeming cities along the fertile river valleys.
The Iraq leaders are proceeding, it seems, upon
a proper basis, suggesting that the treaty, Which is
supposed to run until 1955, be amended. It should
also be noted that British ground troops were with
drawn from Iraq in 1947 and that there are now in
the country only Royal Air Force detachments.
We cair attention to these disputes, which center
around the vital and strategic Near Eastern area, not
because the United States is primarily concerned in
the relationship between Great Britain and the other
countries, but because this country would be seriously
affected by any change in the status of the nations
which would result in military- advantages for Soviet
Russia.
The basic policy of the United States is to pre
vent the spread of Russian aggression. Whatever
action is necessary to safeguard the defense of West
ern civilization from military encroachments will have
#to be done regardless of the difficulties involved.
Even so, there is every reason to believe that Iran, I
Iraq and Egypt will have substantial concessions made
o them and some assurance as to their future
status if they cooperate with the free nations of
he world.
POPULATION CENTER SHIFTS
The center of population of the United States,
according to the Census Bureau, is now eight miles
aorth, northwest of Olney, Illinois. This town is j
some forty-two miles west and seven and one-half
miles south of the 1940 center of population, which
was Carlyle, Indiana.
The reader may be interested in knowing what
he center of population is. As we understand it,
ntricate calculations are made to determine what
place in the country constitutes a center, upon which
j theoretical plane would rest level. This involves
the assumption that each individual would exert .In
influence proportionate to his distance from the point,
which means that the leverage of a dozen persons in
California might counter-balance one hundred persons
in New York.
This may be a scientific method of determining
the center of population. It may be the only possible
method of making such a calculation. Nevertheless,
in our minds, the center of population in the United
States is the place where one can reach, in the
,hortest time, the greatest number of individuals.
We certainly have no desire to take from Olney,
Illinois, the distinction that came to it on October
' 8, when a marker was dedicated, with appropriate
.adio broadcasting of the event. It may be, and wc
tope it is, that Olney is likewise the particular spot
rom which one can reach all of the people in the I
Jnited States in the most convenierft time.
It is much better, a lot easier and less expensive, J
to keep your health than to regain it.
When politicians have nothing to say they are
waiting to see which way the cat jumps.
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Highway signs, reading “slow” are put up for j
your protection whether you obey them or not.
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Arguments directed to the emotions and prejudices !
of men suggest a lack of reasonable support.
We are not among those who look to Asia, Africa
and other wayside points for guidance in life.
The trouble with life today is that there are too
many people who recommend themselves too highly.
There seems to be so many systems that about
the only way to expedite anything is to leave ’em
alone.
Those who orate about free enterpise rarely reject
a governmental appropriation that gives a cash
benefit.
Does anybody want to go back to the time when
people worked twelve and fourteen hours for a dollar
a day?
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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into their own foreign legion they
would like to get a crack at the
Communists in control of their
countries. »
SENATE PROBE OF ESCAPEES
Meanwhile, a group of farsighted
Senators has introduced a resolu
tion proposing a Senate investiga
tion of escapees in western Europe.
Behind this is the fact that both
American and allied officials in
Europe have so badly mufied hand
ling these escapees that some want
to go back behind the Iron Cur
tain. Russian escapees are handed
back and forth between U. S. count
er intelligence, central intelligence,
and military intelligence, then
either turned loose to find a job
on the Germany economy or allow
ed to go to seed in refugee camps.
The Senators who sponsored this
investigation are: Nixon and Know
land of California, Bennett of Utah,
Bridges of New Hampshire, Brews
ter of Maine, Carlson of Kansas,
Hendrickson of New Jersey, Ives
of New York, Monroney of Oklaho
ma, O’Connor of Maryland, Smath
ers of Florida, and Wiley of Wis
consin.
JET PLANE SHORTAGE
Crippling strikes have put jet
plane manufacturers so far be
hind schedule that more than a
million pounds of aluminum sheets
have piled up in aircraft factories
waiting to be used. As a result,
friends of the industry inside the
National Production Authority are
now maneuvering to divert this
backlog of precious aluminum into j
civilian goods.
Meanwhile, sabre-jet pilots are i
fighting against five-to-one odds
in Korea, because of the shortage of
jet planes .
THE DIPLOMATIC POUCH
U. S. Ambassador Robert Murphy
in Brussels has handed the Bel-1
gians a tough note virtually de-1
manding that Belgium send some1
of its army to help the United Na
tions in Korea. So far, Belgium has
sent only a few hundred volunteers
. . .The United States is also pres
suring the Netherlands to do itsJ
part to reinforce General Ridgway’s j
army. The Dutch contribution has:
been no greater than the Belgian, j
. . .American reports on Russian
A-bomb tests have been so accurate I
that the Russians are reported pre
paring a new and distant proving
ground for future tests. It’s report
ed to be in the Takla Makan desert
across the southeast Russian border
in China. This desert is shut off,
from the outside world by some 1
of the world’s highest mountains. . . \
U. S. experts believe England’s
rearmament program will danger
ously lower the British standard of
living and make another U. 3. loan
necessary by the middle of next
year. It'll be around $2,000,000,000,
and will occur whether Churchill's
elected or not. (Actually a change
In Britain's ruling political parties
is not expected to make the slight
est difference in Britain's economy.)
. . .All of our new F-84 jet fighter
bombers are now equipped to be
refueled in flight. This gives them
a range thousands of miles greater
than the fighters ip the last war.
CROP SECRETS
In headline-crazy Washington,
the issuance of a monthly crop re
port by the Department of Agricul
ture may seem mere routine news.
However, newsmen reporting on fu
ture cr i.s are treated to a spectacle
of mystery and suspense that rivals
the launching of a new atomic
weapon.
The ceremony, believe it or not, is
climaxed by Secretary of Agricul
ture Charles Brannan getting locked
up in his own department.
All this is because back in 1905
a report on the estimated cotton
crop leaked prematurely and specu
lators made a big killing. Since
then the department has devised an
ironclad "security system” to make
sure it doesn’t happen again.
The night before general crop
estimates (on wheat, corn, cotton,
etc.) are to be released, field re
ports from farm states are secreted
in a box, reinforced with two locks,
in the main agriculture building.
At 5 a.m. the next day, the box
is removed, under an armed guard,
to a corridor on the second floor
of the adjacent south building.
Here the whole corridor is lock
ed off, with armed guards at each
end. Nobody can get in without a
special pass and, once in, there’s no
getting out until the 3 p.m. dead
line for releasing the crop report.
To make sure there is no com
munication with the outside world
in this agricultural "Shangri La,”
all telephones are disconnected.
Guards even lower and latch the
Venetian blinds in the large room
where the crop estimates are pre
pared, so there will be no signaling
from windows. (This was how the
1905 "leak” occurred.)
At noontime, lunch is wheeled
in for members of the crop report
ing board and their aides, but not
even the food bearers can get out—
once they're in—until 3 o’clock.
Secretary Brannan, who usually ar
rives about 2 o’clock to read and
sign the finished report, also must
sit it out, a prisoner in the depart
ment he rules.
Just before the deadline, copies
of the report are taken to a special
press room and placed on a table
near a battery of telephones. Across
the room, reporters fidget behind a
white line painted on the floor, like
trackmen toeing the starting mark.
Not until S. R. Newell, assistant
chief of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, yells “go!" on the stroke
ol 3 p.m. can the newsmen cross
the line and phone in their stories.
Then Secretary Brannan, a free
nan again, returns to his office.
Home Mail Carrier
Works City 'Route' |
There may not be home mail
service in Juneau but there is one
first class letter carrier.
Like a lot of other jobs, this
one has been taken over by a fe
male. Her name is “Goofy.” And
"Goofy” is a dog, a part-Pomeran
ian, but in Uncle Sam’s regular
service there is no more zealous
guardian of the mail. •
Como mail time, and “Goofy” is
a regular sight on Juneau streets,:
strutting proudly beside Gus Nic
ketis, her equally proud trainer,
with the day’s mail in her mouth.
The dog is owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Joe McNallen, but she’s a sidekick
cf Gus’ and was trained by him
“Goofy” won’t cross a street with
her precious cargo until Gus gives
her the word. Gus will leave the
mail up on a fence or on a post,
and she won’t leave until she has
it again in her mouth.
The mail goes through when
"Goofy” takes charge.
Young birds at times eat more
than their own weight in a day,'
according to the National Geo- !
grapic Society. I
i OCTOBER 24 • j
Conrad Kirkebo • j
Mrs. T. M. Reed • i
Mrs. Robert Schwartz •
Sarah Lee Atkinson •
Carol Je^n Carup •
Dick Allen •
Charles Gray •
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
tures at various Alaska points also
an the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m.,
l£0th Meridian Time, and released
by the Weather Bureau are as
follows:
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Anchorage . 32—Cloudy
Barrow. 22—Clear
Bethel . 38—Cloudy
Bordova . 32—Cloudy
Dawson . -4—Clear
Bdmonton . 8—Snow
Fairbanks.*. 12—Cloudy
Haines .•-. 28—Clear
Havre . 24—Cloudy
Juneau Airport. 22—Clear
Annette Island . 3a—Clear
Kodiak ...... 43—Rain
Kotzebue .. 19—Cloudy
McGrath . 25*—Cloudy
Some .. 31—Snow
Northway . -1—Cloudy
Petersburg . 22—Clear
Portland . 48—Rain
Prince George . 17—Snow
Seattle .- 45—Cloudy
Whitehorse .. 10—Clear
Yakutat .. 27—Cloudy
Pacific NW .
Grid Notes
SEATTLE, Oct. 24—bB—Pacific
Northwest football notes:
Washington — Don Heinrich took
hir, /regular position in the backficld
yesterday for the first time since
he injured his shoulder in pre
season practice. The All-American
quarterback said later his arm still
ached after his short passes and
Coach Howie Odell said Heinrich
Drobablv will not be available for
either the Stanford game Saturday
or the Oregon State contest a week
later.
Washington State — Coach Forest
Evashevski has assigned Wavne
Berry, a sophomore from La Or aide,
Ore., to replace left hnlftwck
Dwight Pool, Walla Walla junior
who was injured in the Oregon
State game last week. f
Berry will start against Oregon
at Pullman Saturday. f
Oregon — An underdog in Satur
day’s game against Washington
State, the Ducks worked to stiffen
their defenses yesterday with the
Jgyvees taking the part of the
Cougars frfm the Palouse.
Oregon State — Three injured
Beavers will be left behind when
OSC leaves for Berkeley and Sat
urday’s coast conference game
against California. A doctor said
yesterday linebacker Bob Redkey,
left guard Fred Burri and left half
Kay Booth probably will not be
able to make the trip. Redkey was
injured in the game against Wash
ington State, Burri has a sprained
ankle and Booth a leg infection.
Shore stations usually can track
down a break in a trans-occanic
cable to within half a mile.
THE AMERICAN WAY
Power • Drunken Drive.
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20 YEARS AGO the empire j
OCTOBER 24, 1931
James Connors Jr., of the Cononrs Motor ■ Company, was a south
bound passenger on the Princess Norah. Combining business with
pleasure, Connors said that he planned to attend the annual football
came between his alma mater, Santa Clara University and St. Mary's
at San Francisco.
The famous old wooden steamer Humboldt which had carried more
than $100,000,000 in gold dust and bullion while plying between Seattle
and Alaska was to be scrapped. The ship had been sold to a company
in Alameda and was to be burned for the copper, iron, and steel in her
hull'.
Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne returned to Juneau following a six
week vacation in the States. Their daughter, Dana, had accompanied
them south to reenter a Victoria, B. C., school.
Miss Marietta Shaw, principal of Juneau grade school, had entered
St. Ann’s Hospital for a tonsilectomy.
The Right Rev. J. R. Crimont, Catholic Bishop of Alaska, returned
from the States on the Princess Norah.
Fire this forenoon in the home of William Franks near Fifth and
Kennedy streets, caused damage of about $200, fully covered by insurance.
C. F. Wyller left for Ketchikan on the Northland.
Weather: High, 40; low, 32; partly cloudy.
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J Daily Lessons in English w. l. cordon s
WORDS OFTEM MISUSED: Do not say, "I feci like I had slept
for days.” Say, "I feel AS IF (Or, AS THOUGH) I had slept for days.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Appreciate. Pronounce third syllable
as SHI, and not a-pre-si-ate.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Nonpareil; the EIL is pronounced as ELL.
SYNONYMS: Exhilarate, animate, elate, invigorate, inspirit, glad
den, enliven, cheer.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word -three times and it is yours." Let us
increase cur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
DISPARAGEMENT; diminution of esteem or standing. “«is attempted
disparagement of the governor had no effect upon that man's" popu
larity."
MODERN ETIQUETTE ifoBERTA LEE 1
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Q. Is a man obligated to give up his seat in a bus to some women
whom he knows?
A. While men no longer give up their seats in public conveyances
indiscriminately to women, it is still considered the polite thing for them
to extend this courtesy to women they know well.
Q. Should letters of invitation be sent to a home christening?
A. These invitations are usually telephoned, or else friends are
personally asked. But it is both correct and polite to write notes.
Q. What is the correct position of the bread and butter plates on
the breakfast or luncheon table?
i A. At the upper lefthand side of the plate.
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!} LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON
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1 Which continent has the greatest number of inhabitants?
2. What are considered the oldest architectural structures in the
world?
3. What is a dermatologist?
4. In what countries are these two famous lakrs situated — Lucerne
I and Lomond?
5. What fruit tree has leaves 10 feet long?
ANSWERS:
1. Asia.
2. The pyramids of Egypt.
3. A skin specialise.
4. Switzerland and Scotland
5. The banana tree.
RIOT SQUAD
SINGAPORE,—(ffl—The police of
Singapore are going to have a spec
ial riot squad modeled on the lines
of the one that operated in Shang
hai.
The founder of the Shanghai riot
unit, Lt. Col. W. E. Fairbairn, may
come to Singapore from Britain for
three months to organize and train
the squad.
' The government has approved
$16,650 for equipping the new unit.
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COP IN A CAB
OMAHA,—Ufl—A rookie police pat
rolman decided to resign from the
Omaha force rather than face
charges of “unbecoming" conduct
after Police Chief Henry Boesen
caught him covering his beat in a
taxicab.
The rookie's explanation was that
he was delayed and took a cab to
reach his phone by check-in time.
The National Geographic Society
says there are nearly 100,000 movie
theaters in the world.
ACROSS
L Displease
7. Tropical fruit
13. English
landscape
painter
14. Accustomed
IB. Pay attention
16. Relieve
18. Staff
19. Butter
substitute
20. In a line
21. Belgian
commune
22. Grown girls
24. About
25. Exclamation
of disgust
28. Vegetable
29. Wrath
32. Incarnation
34. Bright
35. Small Hebrew
weight
36. Native metal
37. English river
38. Double: prefix
39. Censure
41. Cry of the
crow
43. Partly fused
glass
44. Tear
48. Constellation
49. Put on cargo
50. Island in
Fukien
province,
_ China
61. Soup dish
53. Having a flat
„„ „ breastbone
65. Egg dish
56. Beaches
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
DOWN
1. Masculine
name
2. Matter used to
produce beat
3. Liberate
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4. Enrich
6. Compass point
6. Visionary
7. Buffalo
5. Afresh
9. Greek letter
10. Planned
11. Gas of the air
12. Puts with
17. Surface
23. Brilliantly
colored fish
24. Unit
25. Sack
26. Hail and
farewell
27. Metal
merchandise
29. Exclamation
30. Before
31. Cereal grass
33. Burmese tribe
34. Mouths of
volcanoes
36. Having an
offensive
smell
39. Genus of small
wild geese
40. Muse of lyrio
poetry
41. Roman
statesman
42. Starch
43. Run from
45. Turkish
commander
46. Promise to pay
47. Stains
52. Elevated
railway:
colloq.
54. Exclamation
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