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CITY IN FESTIVE LIGHT — St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter's
Square Colonnade, Vatican City, are bathed in light after beatiiication of Pope Pius X,
COOS E GIRL — Marcella
Koulette, 19, Los Angeles City
College student, shows one of
geese she will tend at infield
j>ool during Summer meeting of
Hollywood Kace Xracit, Cat
I
COURT FASHIONS — Gloria [Sutler (left) and Mrs.
1’ irV ra S. ; . i,,- ; > > i, n, attir-.l in l.tl si tennis fashions, clut
on coui t dui.ni . .mis ci\wii|>: n -liips, Beckenham, England/
! Girls Scouts'
Summer Camp
i Host Successful'
i List week saw the close of a
| ;i( ( r ; sful Girl Scout summe:
(.•mping season, under direction f
■ np chairman Mrs. Morton Flint
and a hard-working corps ol us
s lants.
( Brownie day camp was held in
'tin Evergreen Bowl over a two
! week period, three days each week
j ' acting June 19. For the older si iris
, VO ten-day camps were conducted
a; Eagle River, with many Scouts
enrolling for both sessions.
Headed by Miss Mildred Kcoii
:. . a school principal iron) San
L'n;n, Caliiornia, an able staf; mi
p. rv;. ed the activities of the Gill
| Scouts. Several teachers from Cal
I norma including Dorothy Arnold.
I Lit anor Ehermah, and Margaret
{thaw acted as councilors; while
A t.) Ostllnd was the nurse..
■ : he local council feels fortunate
0 have secured the aid of this
1 ained personnel," she said.
The scouts were vocal in their
p:: . :e of camp cook Mrs. Ed Brun
i on who baked home-made bread
i for their meals. She was assisted
jy her sister-in-law1; Mrs. Hans
Botes en, a visitor here from the
'■ ih. . Mrs. Paul Sorensen, whose
daughter was enrolled at camp,
volunteered her services as counsel
(lor.
| "The camp committee expresses
; .real appreciation to the many per
| io'.s who hrlpcd make the Eagle
i r and Brownie outings a sur
|. v ’ said Mrs. Flint. "Including
| ,.li .y Niiinis who made available
j a panel truck at the end of the
j i! ul in ca .? of emergency; those
1 who moved upplies and baggage:
. liar l a! Eiwin, Douglas Babcock,
J r;d Peyton, John Erbland, Frank
: a iicn, James Brunett, Kay Abra
! ti, Edward Cowan, John
Gibbs, Rcbert Kake, Morton Flint,
. Yiti.>r Tydlacka anil Haroid
| Schultz.”
IH: M. 1. McSpadden, Mrs.
cltz anti Mrs. Flint worked at
■ he opening of camp, helping with
. »:e many details. Parents and
! rirnds who helped with transpor
ts cn were Don Hollenbeck, John
:.r; land, Monty Grisham, Jack
’.Varntr, Elroy Ninnis Den Morri
cn, Art Mantyla, William Niemi,
Victor Tydlacka. Marshal Erwin, A.
■ . Gliiglione, Morton F'lint, Elton
’ ll ,strom, Dr. John Clements and
sirs. Kay Rice.
| l ■ cel women who helped wifch
i : ovvnie Cay camp were Mesdames
Arnold Larsen, Melvin Johnson, J.
; -..niiey. reed Faires, J. D. Mar
tin. John Brantner, Arthur Adams,
|j;: k Burford, John Argetsinger
and Mis Alice Jean Davis,,
Following a breakfast Sunday
Homing at the Baranof hotel for
ouncil members and leaders, the
! Mb Kershner, Arnold and Sher
:... ii departed by Pan American in
ue a tier noon for Fairbanks where
; : , . will round onotfid vout
| -amn. After a plane t<. W;> ka
unday, MLsse O a Stmm
I left by plane Monday to.- Seattle.
THESE DAYS
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
(Copyright, 1951. Hi,. Features
I ndicate, Inc.t
The United Nations gradually,
: rough its various committees, is
moving into world 'government, and
;he country that it uses as its test
. i ground is the United States.
Few Americans are conscious of this
: ct ivity oi the United Nations and
! many of those who know what is
ing done by the various commit
ce. refuse to believe that any of
can have any permanent effect
,u American institutions.
Yet under the charter of the Uni
od Nations, which in the Ameri
an political system is a treaty
irned by the president and rati
fied by the Senate, decisions of the
United Nations have already been
replied to cases in our courts with
the fuil weight of the law.
One of the committees of the
United Nations which has concern- .
(1 itself with questions tremend
ously important to the United
States is the special committee on
lie draft convention on freedom of
information. As the work of this
committee is studied, it is clear
hat it’s interest is not in freedom
of information hut in the right of
,overnmcnts to limit and suppress
information and for the harassment
of reporters. Thi., is done under the
Vesopian word, “Responsibility.”
Carroll Binder, of the Minneap
olis “Tribune,” the American repre
entative on this committee, has
men waging a losing fight trying
o educate some of the Europeans
about freedom of the press, as
practiced in the Unites States,
where the imperfections of man are
recognized and often a: aimed to be
natural and therefore unpunish
able.
In those other countries, the
theory i that tlie “great mind" |
alone can determine what the peo
ple ought to know and that com
ps tent reporter , who check their
data, are t pie.- or irresponsible.
Carroll Binder de. cribe.s their at
titude:
1 These governments are engaged
in a terrifying experiment to ren
dition the minds of hundreds of
millions of person: in an attempt
[to make them re p aid automatically
to the command of their rulers. In
t a dr hands information ^as been
t:i sin:med from a means of en
lightenment and understanding
, i.v.o a poliu .ii weapon taking any
Americans
Granted Use of
Spanish Bases
(Continued from Page One' i
split with Britain and France on
the question.
Acheson declared in a statement
read to his news conference that
military authorities are in general
1 reement that Spain is of strategic
: importance to the general defense
f Western Europe.”
Acheson said he understands the
Spanish government may make an
announcement tomorrow about
changing some of its policies which
have been criticized here as dicta
torial.
Referring to Adm. Forrest Sher
man's talk with Franco on Monday.
Acheson said it was "natural” that
talks should be started to find out
what Spain “might be willing and
j able to do" to build up the common
• defenses against possible aggression
Sherman, chief of naval operations,
1 i on a European tour concerned
1 mainly with Atlantic Pact defenses.
Spain is- not a member of the De
fense Alliance.
In his statement Acheson said:
"We have been talking with the
British and French governments for
many months about the possible
role of Spain in relation to the
general defense of Western Europe.
We have not been able to find a
| comm :i p Alton on this subject
I with the-c governments for reason?
i of iviv.ch we are aware and under
| stand. However, for the strategic
reasons outlined above, the United
States has initiated these explora
tory conversations.’'
—
COLONEL AND MRS. ROBERTS
ARE SI PPER GUESTS HERE
Before their departure for Anch
i irage and a trip through the terri
: tory, Col and Mrs. T. E. Roberts
j were guests at a buffet supper at
I the home of Mr. and Mrs. John L.
i McCormick. Members of the Selec
tive Service office force were other
guests.
Col. Roberts is in Alaska making
a fiscal report on the Selective Ser
vice operation.
| form or shape required by the sit
uation. It has become a knife to
assassinate reputations, a drug to
dull the senses, or a poison to in
,ti!l suspision and fear.
"Of course, when they have sought
. upport for their view in the Uni
ted Nations, they have been care
ful to present it in the most dis
arming disguise. They have main
tained that to promote friendly in
lernational relations it is first ne
ceary to define what information
and then to suppress the dissem
.nation of anything which does not
conform to the definition. ...”
i
I
What these countries seek to do
in the t'nited States is to make the
newspapers and the journalists
•‘responsible.’’ They do not recog
nize that the laws of libel are suf
ficent; they demand that, by ad
ministrative procedure, a govern
ment shall be enabled to take ac
tion against a newspaper or a re
porter who is not “responsible.” By
responsibility, they mean that no
reporter should write nor should a
newspaper print anything that an
no; s the politicians of any coun
try.
<Ed. Note: This last paragraph
strikes „ directly home to Juneau.
1 he Daily Alaska Empire, which oc
cosionally “annoys” the politicians
in the Federal Building, has often
been termed "irresponsible” by the
Gruening menage. >
Binder says:
“. . . This convention was never,
as I understand it, intended to
deal primarily or even directly with
the work of journalists. I have un
derstood its intent to be the pro
motion and protection of everyone's
right to freedom of information.
To distort it into a punitive mea
sure directed at journalists would
certainly be a mockery of every
thing the. United Nations has at
tempted to do in this field. We
must realize that undesirable
checks placed on journalists would
apply equally to artists and teach
ers, to lawyers and politicians and
in the last analysis to people like
ourselves drawn from every walk
of life. Even if the grievances
against some journalists and news
papers are assumed to be real, this
is certainly too high a price to pay
to settle a few scores!”
The State Department has put
up a good fight against the Eur
opeans who seek to suppress free
dom of the press throughout the
world by means cf the United Na
tions. The American position is:
“We are convinced that the fund
amental principles of freedom of
information can not be the sub
ject of compromise. . . ”
The United Nations is, however,
a complex and enormous organiza
tion in which compromises must be
found among 60 nations. Things
happen there nijd the public finds
itself faced by a condition from
which there is no immediate with
drawal.
It is therefore essential that the
American position be strengthened
to say not that "freedom of infor
mation can not be the subject of
compromise,” but we should say
that the freedoms of the American .
people are not subject to discussion.
Charges Hit
101 Inlet
Fishermen
Added Closure Made
As Area Jammed by
750 Craft, Says Shuman
ANCHORAGE. July 18 —— Au
thorities ordered 101 Cook Inlet
fishermen to appear in U. S. Com
missioner’s court at Kenai today on
charges of violating regulations.
This action, and an additional
fishing closure, occurred after at!
estimated 750 fishing boats crowdc 1
into Cook Inlet in an area usually
occupied by about 250 boats.
Fish and Wildlife Service offic
ials said 99 fishermen would be
charged at Kenai with fishing toe
e’ose together, and two ethers with
using too much gear.
Under regulation::, fishermen are
to restrict length of drift, nets tc
150 fathoms, and keep 600 feet apart.
Officials said some boat: were onij
five to 50 feet apart yesterday a
they jammed into a favored area be
tween Kalgin Island and the town
of Kasilof, where the main red sal
mon run was concentrated before
going upriver.
The FWS ordered an additional
fishing closure in Cook Iniet this
week from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 7 p.m
Thursday. Previously the midweek
closure started at 6 a.m. Wednesday
R. F. Shuman, fisheries manage
ment supervisor, said that with the
present heavy .concentration of
fishermen it was impossible for es
capement to occijr.
Shuman said that with long clos
ures invoked in the Kodiak and
Prince William Sound districts many
fishermen transferred their gear to
Cook Inlet. Others also came from
Puget Sound and the Columbia
river, he said.
GUERTIN GOES TO
KETCHIKAN TO
COMPLETE LOANS
Two Territorial veterans’ loans
will be completed by Floyd Guer
tin, commissioner of Veterans Af
fairs, on his arrival in Ketchikan
Thursday. He is stopping briefly
en route in Petersburg and Wran
gell.
Before leaving, Guertin said that
Edward T. Brehm, assistant com
missioner, left this week for An
chorage where he will assist in the
veterans office there for ten days.
An overload of loan activities in
that area has made work in the
Anchorage office unusually heavy.
Guertin expects to return from
Ketchikan the last of the week.
DIVORCE AND
CHILD'S CUSTODY
ASKED IN COURT .
Pearl Pauline Sphung is the
plaintiff in a divorce action filed
this morning in district court
against James M. Snhuir;. Both
are residents of Petersburg,
i Charging incompatibility, Mr a
| Sphung asks custody of their two
year-old son, Michael, and $100
j monthly for support of the child.
; The tipulation allows the lather
l to visit, the child at reasonable
times.
The couple was married October
Ifi, lTlft in Seattle. No property is
involved. M. E. Monagle is attorney
for the plaintiff.
Wallace G. Walton of Anchorag*
i stopping at the Baranof hotel. '
DR. TED OBERMAN
OPTOMETRIST
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