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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 141]
Pu trih Avenue Bldg . Seattle. Wash.
Saturday, August 5, 1950
TO THE LAST KOREAN!
Scores of newspapers throughout the nation ar<
editorially discussing Russia's move in embittering tin
world in general, day after day, year after year ir
dealing out Soviet propaganda hammering at thi
doubting people of Europe, trying to sell the idea tha
America with its dollars and A-bombs is ready to figh
Ru. mii, to the last Frenchman, the last Hollander, tin
last Italian. Moscow has sought to plant the idea ir
the minds of Western Euorpeans that while America
will pay the bills and reap the benefits, the European:
will do the dying.
Taking the subject up, the Cincinnati Enquirer
says it is an utterly dishonest argument—as disproved
by the record of American participation in World War
II, and also by the American commitment to go to
war with its own forces in defense of various aims. But
such propaganda line makes some converts.
It might be wise if we were to give the other
side of the picture, which we can do without depart
ing from facts. North Koreans are fighting and dying
today, not to preserve their freedom or their home
land, but to extend the limits of Soviet power. They
are puppets of the Politburo, waging an aggressive war
planned in Moscow.
Bulgarian and Romanian troops are moving about
along the Yugoslav frontier. It is possible they too,
will get their marching orders from Moscow. Chinese
Communists, if they are so foolish as to attack For
mosa, will be acting in accordance with a Kremlin
blueprint.
Indeed, it looks as though the Soviet Government
may plan a whole series of limited wars, each fought
by satellite troops, with equipment supplied from
Russia. In short, Russia is willing to fight to the
last Chinese and the last North Korean, keeping its
own Red Army for the greater showdown which might
come.
This is a story the Voice of America might tell
with complete truth, in all the countries of Europe
and Asia—if that voice were louder and more pene
trating. That is one example of what could be done
and should be done in a world-wide American truth
campaign.
FOR THE RECORD
Henry Wallace says, "I hold no brief for the
past actions of either the U. S. or Russia, but when
my country is at war, and the United Nations sanc
tions that war, I am on the side of my country and
the U. N.” Be it noted that Henry waited until the
Korean war was several weeks old.
This remark will do more good for Henry Wallace
1 than either the U. S. or the U. N. The Commies and
I fellow-travelers of the Progressive party will not be
persuaded. The non-Commies who supported Wallace
for President in 1948 have probably arrived at a
position similar to Wallace’s independent of him. And
the rest of us simply note, with mild interest, that
I Wallace is not doing further harm to the once im
f pressive place he seemed to have made for himself in
American history.
‘•Now is the time for all good men to come to the
aid of the party.” Especially those on the payroll.—
(Ellensburg Record).
[he Washington .
Merry-Go-Round
Continued from Page One)
success” I don't know. But I do
know that we’re all in the thing
now, and it’s important for as all
to stick together. It’s also im
portant for us to understand more
about the difficult question of how
wars start. And if Harry doesn’t
have the same radio techniques as
FDR in selling ideas to the Ameri
can people, then perhaps some of
the rest of us can help him.
" lto\r**DicbnWt Build
A any rate I recall most vividly
a previous important chapter in
our long efforts to prevent war
when the late President Roosevelt
did his best to nip war in the bud
but failed. It illustrates how dic
tator' carefully build up their
strength against the democracies
before the peace-loving people of
the latter countries know' what they
arc in for.
In the late summer of 1937. it was
obvious to President Roosevelt,
Adm. William Leahy, and many
othi r observers—including this col
umnist. who repeatedly warned of
it—that a w'orld war was inevitable
—if the dictators continued their
march of unchecked aggression.
Japan was rapidly swallowing
China. Mussolini had gulped down
Ethiopia and was licking his chops
for more. Hitler had annexed
Austria, bitten off the Ruhr, and
was growling at Czechoslovakia.
Therefore, Admiral Leahy, Un
dersecretary of State Sumner Welles
and FDR devised the strategy of
putting the weakest dictator in his
place in order to make an example
to the others.
To this end they picked Japan,
partly because we had firm treaty
obligations—which Japan had
signed—guaranteeing the sovereign
ty cf China. Other European na
tion- Britain, Fiance, Belgium, the
Netherlands and Italy—had signed
this nine-power treaty which the
Jap war lords had torn to shreds
by invading China.
Therefore, a carefully planned
strategy was evolved to stop war
before it got started.
FDR’s Quarantine Speech
The til st step was Roosevelt's
famous Chicago speech in the fall
oi 1937 proposing a 'quarantine"
against aggressor nations. Simul
taneously, Admiral Leahy worked
out a long-range naval blockade of
Japan, under which, merely by sta
tioning American ships at Panama
and cur west coast, with British
ships at Singapore, we could cut off
all Japanese oil, cotton, copper,
scrap iron without firing a shot.
Japan being an island country,
wholly dependent on basic imports,
such a blockade was fairly easy.
Finally, in order to mobilize world
public opinion and peaec machinery
again: t the Japanese war lords,
Roosevelt called the Brussels con
ference of nine-powc-r treaty na
tions which had guaranteed the
sovereignty of China and asked
them '.o carry out their pledge.
Who Killed Peace?
I have ^lever been able to find
cut exactly what killed this laud
able and highly important attempt
to prevent the world war that most
people knew was coming. The late
Norman Davis, chief American del
egate to the Brussels conference,
told mo that his attempts to take
a firm stand against Japanese ag
gression were constantly sabotaged
in the State Department. His
speeches and statements, when
cabled back to Washington from
Brussels tor advance approval, were
rewritten and drastically toned
down by the late Hugh Wilson, who
had the ear of Cordell Hull.
In addition, Jim Farley was re
ported concerned about midwest
political reaction to Roosevelt’s bold j
“Quarantine" speech. But I think
the basic trouble was that FDR
himself either neglected the all
important step he had taken, or
else didn’t have the courage to
lace the risk of possible war.
At the time the Brussels confer
ence reached a crisis, he was off
the California coast, fishing.
_ I
CSS Panay Sunk
Two months later, when the Jap |
war lords deliberately and brazenly j
tested out American courage by
sinking the gunboat USS Panay on
the Yangtze River. Admiral Leahy
once again urged that his blockade
machinery be put into effect. But
once again Hugh Wilson urged
; caution. In the end, both Hull
and Roosevelt shunned the risk of
a showdown.
At that time—December 1937—
| the dictators were far from ready
, for a war. They lacked the raw
j materials, the arms, even the man
| power. They were biting off chunks
of the world, piecemeal, in order to
build up their strength.
But despite this, the United
States side-stepped. Roosevelt,
strong as he was politically, wise
: as he was on foreign policy, shrank
. from that tough, difficult decision
of a long-range naval blockade,
which, though the chances of suc
cess were excellent, nevertheless did
carry the risk of war.
President Truman, faced with
somewhat the same problem in
Korea, did not flinch. He knew
what the risks were. But he also
knew that a stand against con
tinued Russian aggression had to be
taken some time.
Those are some of the background
facts we need to remember and
which Should help bring more na
tional unity in the difficult crisis
we face today.
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• TIDE TABLE •
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• AUGUST G •
• Low tide 1:41 a.m., 3.5 ft. •
• High tide 7:46 a.m., 10.5 ft. •
• Low tide 13:21 p.m., 5.9 ft. •
• High tide 19:40 p.m., 13.2 ft. •
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• AUGUST 7 •
• Low tide 2:53 a.m., 3.6 ft. •
• High tide 9:24 a.m., 10.1 ft. •
• Low' tide 14:33 p.m., 6.8 ft. •
• High tide 20:51 p.m., 12.8 ft. •
BBSTARS
Stars of big league games yester
day were as follows:
Batting—Granville Hamner, Phil
lies-tripled with two on to score
lie-breaking runs of Phils’ 4-2 edge
over St. Louis.
Pitching — Vic Raschi, Yankees—
shut out Cleveland with three
singles, 1-0.
SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
am., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
47—Cloudy
52—Drizzle
41—Rain
50— Cloudy
41—Partly Cloudy
47— Partly Cloudy
51—Clear
48— Partly Cloudy
48— Rain
. 60—Cloudy
43—Cloudy
54—Partly Cloudy
. 50—Rain
55—Cloudy
46—Rain
48—Partly Cloudy
49— Rain
48—Partly Cloudy
49—Rain
. 51—Cloudy
51— Cloudy
47—Partly Cloudy
46—Partly Cloudy
Anchorage
Annette Island
Barrow .
Bethel .
Cordova .
Dawson
Edmonton
Fairbanks .
Haines .
Havre .
Juneau Airport
Kodiak .
Kotzebue
McGrath
Nome
Northway .
Petersburg
Portland
Prince George
Seattle .
Sitka .
Whitehorse
Yakutat .
U. S. Fighter Plane
Explodes in Air
DEAL, England, Aug. 5—tfl—An
American Thunderjet fighter pla'ne
blew up today over the English
Channel while thousands of holiday
makers watched.
U. S. Third Air Division head
quarters said the pilot was killed.
“There was a colossal roar af'ier
the plane caught fire at about l.Ofcfl
feet," witnesses said. "Pieces of
the plane scattered over the sky
like bits of paper.”
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• AUGUST 5 ♦
• •
• Judy Foss •
• Margaret Clark •
• W. T. Douglas •
• Irwin Borgwardt •
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• AUGUST 6 •
• •
• Carol Lynn Davlin •
• Arthur B. Nelson •
• Gladys Jones •
• Mrs. Emily Higan •
• Mrs. R. M. Preston •
• Steve Emmons •
• Gertrude Rathbun •
ONE IS DEAD,
SIX INJURED
IN CHARIVARI
SEATTLE, Aug. 5—IA’1—A chari
vari after a wedding party led to
a collision late last night in W’hich
a 20-year-old boy was killed iIYid
six other persons were Injured.
Owen Preston Petit, an Olympii
Hotel employe, died in the crash of
his car with a station wagon. The
accident occurred at a north Seattle
intersection as Petit and several
other young people pursued the
automobile in which the bridfe and
bridegroom were driving away.
None of the injured was in ser
ious condition.
POPE IS AGAINST
STATE CONTROL ON
WORLD HUMANITY
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug.
5—i.JP)—Pope Pius XII spoke out to
day against excesses of state con
trol, declaring "neither the individ
ual nor the family should be ab
sorbed by the state.”
He addressed 200 visitors.
The Pontiff said there were cer
' tain rights of individuals and fam
ilies the state must always protect
and cannot "violate or sacrifice to
a pretended common good.”
He described these as "the right
to honor and a good reputation,
| the right and the freedom to ven
erate the true God, the original
tight of parents over their children
and their education.”
The pope made clear he was criti
cising the excesses of state control.
CANADIAN SHIPS
FORM ESCORT FOR
U. S. TROOPSHIPS
TOKYO, Aug. 5- -UP)—Three Can
adian destroyers operating in Kor
ean waters have been assigned to
duty escorting American troopships
to a south Korean port.
The Canadian destroyers have
; net struck yet against the North
! Korean Communists.
Russ Create Medal
For Border Guards
MOSCOW, Aug. 5—iai—The Soviet
Union announced today the creation
of a new medal to be awarded for
i bravery in guarding the frontiers
of the nation.
Eligible for the medal are per
sonnel of the border armies, the
Ministry of State Security and civil
ians.
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Food fish
6. White
vestment
I. Discharged
a debt
12. Small opening
13. Deface
14. Feminine name
15. The poplar
17. Provision
basket
19. Forgives
21. Kind of plum
22. Coral island
24. Nocturnal
animal
25. Ancient Greek
city
27. Brother of
Moses
29. Parent
31. Resinous
substance
32. Rub hard
33. Prohibit
34. Chopping tool
35. Carden tools
36. Conservative
37. Grown boy
38. Calyx leaf
40. Rises to the
feet
43. Medieval fabrle
40. Takes into
custody
48. Lucky number
40. Not any
50. Rowing
Implement
52. Sodium
chloride
53. Organs of sight
54. River in
England
55. Larue plant
30
T!ElP;g|
Solution of yesterday’s Puzzle
DOWN
1. Box
2. Cavity
3 Semitic
language
4. Resigns
6. Exist
6. Lick up
7. Small naU
8. Writer
9. Tipping to
one side
10. Ileum: comb.
form
11. Mend
16. American
Indian
18. Rich man
20. Negligent
23. Roman house
hold gods
25. Guido's highest
not*
26. Loose
28. Tricks
29. Equality
30. Some
32. Beaches
33. South
American
liberator
35. Hindu queens
36. Least mid
37. River In
France
39. Dance step
40. Rational
41. City In New
York state
42. Pack
44. Far: prefix
45. Grafted:
heraldry
47. Utter
51. Note of the
scale
20 YEARS AGO empire
AUGUST 5, 1930
Gen. William R. Mitchell, U. S. Army, retired—stormy petrel of the
Army Air Service—was a Juneau visitor, with Mrs. Mitchell and their
daughter, and Mrs. Mitchell's father. The party was to sail southbound
on the Yukon.
Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Kuhn visited old friends in Douglas while the
Northwestern was in port. Oldtime residents of Treadwell, where Dr
Kuhn had been company physician, the Kuhns were living in Port Town
send. Wash. They were making the round trip.
Gunnar Blomgren, proprietor of the Sanitary Grocery, left to attend
the Merchants’ Convention in Seattle, expecting to be gone about three
weeks. The family, in the States for the summer, was to return with
him.
Enroute to Seattle and California, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Faulkner had
left with their children, Jean and Malcolm, expecting to be away a
month. They shipped their car, and planned to drive to San Franciscc
and Los Angeles.
Announcements were received of the birth of a daughter July 1£
to Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Clark of Charleston, W. Va. Mr. Clark, a
former Governor of Alaska, was a newspaper publisher in the Wesl
Virginia city.
Weather: High, G3; low, 52; cloudy.
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Daily Lessons in English L. cordon
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "Did you take in Niagars
Falls on your vacation?” It is better to say, “Did you VISIT Niagara
Falls?”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Chafe (to warm) and chaff (to make
fun of). Pronounce the A in CHAFE as in SAFE. Pronounce the A ir
CHAFF as in AT.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Plagiarism; GIAR, not GAR.
SYNONYMS: Kindred, kinship, relationship, affinity.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let u:
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word
SCRUTINY; close examination. “His scrutiny of the house revealec
some flaws in construction."
MODERN ETIQUEUE ROBERTA LEE j
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Q. What are the bridegrooms expenses for a wedding?
A. Engagement and wedding rings, clergyman's fee ($10 minimum)
marriage license, bachelor dinner expenses, bride's bouquet, bouton
nieres for his atetndants, wedding trip, wedding gift for the bride (any
thing except clothing), and gifts for his attendants.
Q. Is it proper for a woman to rise to accept an introduction tc
another woman?
A. Not if the woman is of the same age or younger. But if she seem;
much older, then the younger woman should rise.
Q. When writing to the head of a college, should this academic
degrees be designated on the envelope?
A. It is not usual nor necessary to affix them to his name on ar
envelope?
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LOOK and LEARN a. a GORDON
I-—-—
1. What age persons lead all other age groups in crimes committee
in the U. S.?
2. What is bilge water?
3. In which State is (a) Great Dismal Swamp; (b) Painted Desert;
(ci Mount Whitney?
4. What is the Roman numeral for 900?
5. What is the medical term for lockjaw?
ANSWERS:
1. Nineteen years.
2. Foul water that collects in the hull bottom of a ship.
3. (a) Virginia, «b) Arizona, <ci California.
4. CM.
5. Tetanus.
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BOB HOPE ENTERS
GOLF TOURNAMENT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 — OB — If
Crosby can do it, so can Hope.
Just ask him.
Bing Crosby entered the British
amateur golf tournament two
months ago, set Irish hearts a
fluttering, and promptly lost in
the first round.
So now comedian Bob Hope
wants to enter the U. S. amateur
starting Aug. 21 at Minneapolis.
But whereas Crosby didn't have to
qualify, Hope wilj have to. Next
•Tuesday he'll enter the 36-hole
qualifying round at the Bel Air
Country Club here.
Nine qualifiers will be chosen
from here.
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Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS S.
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