The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Tuale of a Trail of Blood I)mly Alaska Fmptro except Sunday by the ING COMPANY Cincinnati Enquirer) Some 900 school children between the ublished every event EMPIRE PR AREIEN TROE MORDEN . au, Alaska o cident | AN 13 were in classes at the Danforth Elementary DOROTHY TROY LINGO - = - Vice-President | School in Texas City, Tex., when an ammunition-laden ) WILLIAM R _CARTER - = - Ao e Edicor | ShID blew up in the harbor, setting off a terrific chain ¢ -" Business Manager | of explosions and fires elsewhere. The blast shattered Somt Oifice in Jumean as Becond Glass Matter, | the windows in every classroom; in an instant hun- SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by earrier in Junean and Douslas for &1 six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 tage paid. at the following rates $15.00: +ix months. in advance, $7.50; 0 per month; ked and the s. Blackboards toppled, plaster cr air became dense with choking dust In one room the doorknob was blown off one month, in & $1.50, " R Subscribers will ccnfer a favor if they will promptly notity | sapging wall jammed the door tightly. In another Busioess Otf.ce of a ¢ sgularity in the delivery . o % e S 5 ,room an entire wall fell. Debris blocked some of the af their papers Teleptrones' News Office. 607 Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF | stairways. ASSOCIATED PRESS The associnted Pies clusively antitied to the use for | o oo e o At Tve " " buhiiatiop. of Al ot eredited to it or mot ether- | Stories to come out of that Texas City disaster. Na- wise credited i th also the local news published | tional Parent-Teacher Magazine tclls it herein | — e There were dotted lines of blood along the floors NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alacka Newspapel and corridors to show what happened—blood which Pourth Avenue Bids., Beutile. Wash ¢ e — — dripped from the cuts and wounds of the children. The | children were marshaled perfectly fire drill lines. The trail of blood led down a stairway to where it was blocked -then described a sweeping curve and went back down the hall to the form a ladder; they climbed on it through the tran- som and then formed in their regular fire drill lines In all of the evacuation from the blasted building a single child was injured! Except for the regular, painstaking fire drills in which the teachers and children had been coached, a great many of those 900 injured and frightened chil- dren would have been trampled, suffocated and killed In other schools, under circumstances much less hor- rifying, as many as 77 children have died on a single jammed } The moral is obvious. How many schools in the country have their pupils and teachers so thoroughly not HIGH PRICE FOR GOLD? Engineering and Mining Journal deciares editorially that a higher price for gold is inevitable in due course. This should be en- couraging word for Alaskan operators who, faced with The last issue of the high operational costs, are expected to operate for a coached in fire drills that they will leave a building price set before the war. Says the Journal quickly and orderly, despite bleeding cuts and falling “Recent news from Europe indicates that at- |Walls? Not too many. All too often, fire drills are perfunctory things, a joke to the children and a mere bother to the teachers. Little or no thought is given to possible obstructions or things like jammed doors. Children are allowed time to get their wraps. Seldom does anyone think of immediate roll calls, so that in case of actual fire or building failure the absence of any child could be spotted at once It's trouble, yes, but because of just such trouble the Danforth Element School was one bright spot in Texas City’s bleak picture of tragedy tempts to forestall currency devaluation are bursting at the seams earlier than even the more orthodox economists have anticipated. Devaluation means, even- tually, a higher gold price “The news is that the French Government has announced its intention of reducing the official value of its currency in terms of dollars. The report from | Geneva is that several Western European countries are planning the same move. “The new turn of events is not because the na- tions involved want to violate covenants to maintain current stability, but because they have not found the means to discipline themselves sufficiently to main- | tain currency stability. As a result their currencies | are selling greatly under the official rates wherever 'l'elephnne I)emncr‘m\ (New York Times) Among the many “firsts” of which this country can boast is the fact that we lead the world in the free markets for their currencles exist. Devaluation number of telephones in use. Last year our people under these éireumstances is simply .an acknowledg- |C8iTied on forty-two conversations vver that instru- ent of fact. But, when devaluation starts, sooner ment. This statistic, which has been supplied by the B ; i BLaro.m American Telephone and Telegraph Company in a or later other countries will follow in order to protect their export trade. Eventualy this will call for formal acknowledgment of another fact the freemarket price of gold. “To state the whole problem another way, na- tions never pay as they go for wars. Invariably they Jean on credit to help carry the financial burden and | their extravagance is usually more than can be met by normal repayment of debt. Taxpayers will assume only a certain load and to overburden them resuits in disrupting a nation’s economy by depriving people of incentives to produce. Thus a financially overextended government can only dump the remain- ing bill in the laps of its creditors, who consist of those who hold its bonds and currency. However, the sufferers are not only these individuals. Every bond- holder, savings bank depositor and insurance policy holder takes the rap in the same degree. Thus, governments which have spent beyond their have little choice, and their line” agreements is meaningle: phones throughout the world, without a doubt estab- lishes us as the “talkingest” nation in the world. And | that characteristic, perhaps as much as any single factor, outstanding democracy. Even if we did not have anything else to about than our telephones, have would lead to a good many conversations. At the beginning of the vear, for instance, 611,000 telephones in the United States and that w: !67.9 per cent of all there were in the world. lone phone for every four persons, | world average of one for every forty-three. has one for every five persons. Canada one for every six and the Soviet Union cne for every 140, adequate ider these statistics. our technical could might well consi itainly, that besides | forensic abilities that rnatite | D this Signature f . hing w All talents means really “hold the to and the wholp world would probably benefit. in due course. lus talk, m w h ence?” he gave newsmen an off-the-rec- e as Ington General Marsha:l io0ked away. J»xd fill-in on what had happened. Mef "GO'Round Foreign Minister Bidault sat, arms | This is an old trick—one that the ry +folded, staring straight ahead 'Rus;lnm learned from Jimmie ! Molotov pretended not to hear, Byrnes when he was Secretary of ages of six dreds of children were cut and gashed with the flying and the What happened then is one of the most amazing in their accustomed | alternative cclumnist exit. The leader of the line, when he encountred the chbstruction, had rafsed both hands above his head ! in a standard signal. To every child that meant, “Turn back and go to the secondary exit.” | The teacher in the room where the door was blocked had the children stack up their chairs to | at | diplomacy will have to be smarter pamphlet it issued recently giving facts about tele- other explains why this country is the world's talk the huge number that we there were 31,- We had compared with a Sweden Which leads us to the thought that our Congress They show, cer- we have be put to valuable use ¢ of international propaganda. Instead of as Congress in a sense did when it cut |down on the amount of mcrey we could spend to tell of which means that a higher price of gold is inevitable | Ithe rest of the world about ourselves, it should let THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA DECEMBER 27, 1927 | Wililam Geddes, who had been in the hospital for medical B d ent for the last several days, was improving rapidly, according to | b DECEMBER 2 : hospital attendants today o DA ey e | Miss Alberta Gallwas who, due to iliness, was forced to leave the| ° Lucille Nichols o | University of Washington and return home shortly after she Smfwdi . Gus Erickson o |her first year's work this fall, left on the Alameda Christmas Eve to ° Mrs. T. N. Stapleton . gain take up her college work. | . Irene McIntosh . I | L K. T. Kellogg . Miss Mamie Reck was an outbound passenger on the Alameda. She| ® ® |was on her way for a visit in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma | . DECEMBER 28 . i ‘, o 4 Edward Naghel who had been attending the Alaska Agricultural Co o Mrs. C. F. Vassar ® Jege for the last year, came to Juneau on the Alameda for a two weeks' | o Harvey Wikdenradt . ° Jennie Johnson § | VIAIV WIRECHE DRI e John H. (Bud) Dimond . Clarence Lands . Mrs. Skookum Jim, reputed to be 115 years of age, passed awa L2 Effie Thoreman ® today in the Indian Village here. Funeral arrangements were under | ) Bernice Kelly ® 'the direction of the Juneau Young Funeral Parlors, but no time had been S 88 8 8 8 09 ® %A% 8 inamed for the Tuneral as yet % | {of which makes life tough for & y @ Morris won the meerschaum pipe presented by M. H Tx-uos:lcu: held yesterday at the Juneau Gun Club. Guy - pipe that was given as the booby prize. Secretary of State Marshall held | the 50-round even McNaughton won the b only two press conference during i the entire London conference and 3 3 "i then only for background (Charles Hendrickson was higher bowler in the Elks tournament, rolling 242 Evans Hughes used to hold two in one game. press conferences per day) Marshall wasn't really sore at Weather: High, 20; low, 10; clear i his alleged adviser, John FOSter mowmoeoe. w-~_~-mm_~.w1; Dulles, when the*latter went to | paris to see General De Gualle D I L E l ! Felwis Borelen Miniier. BiASI: ally Lessons in ng |S.. \\ L. CORDON || who was sore and for obvious rea- 1€\ -3 -the conference between Dull- sor es and De Gualle meant that the WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Because of the tram American delegation didn't trust peing derailed, his arrival was delayed.’ Say, “Because of the train's Bidault, but went over his head peing derailed.” to get the views of the man they figured would be the next Premier of France. It w like going over Truman's head to ask Senator Taft about future American policy I I's as in IT, A as in ATE, principal accent on second syllable, second- accent on fourth syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Religious; ELI. Sacrilegious; ILE When Marshall and Dulles re- SYNONYMS: Affectation, emulation, mannerism. alized how clumsy this was, they WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us| carefully leaked a story that Mar- increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word:; shall hadn’t known Duiles was go- APPREHEND; to become aware of, or perceive. “He that can apprehend | ing to see De Gualle and was sore yice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain . him for so doing. Nobody Wwas the true Christian."—Milton. fooled by this StOTY, NOWEVEr. ONE | o nn o o s s o @ o e s Frenchman obse i that American ar | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Initiative. Pronounce in-ish-i-a-tiv, | | | | than that One thing Dulles asked De Gualle was whether the French Army would resist in case the Rus- tried to cross France e | Q. What should a person do when with others and they are dwi | et cussing a subject about which you know nothing? ““dl take channel ports. De (’”.“‘!‘ A. Listen attentively. One may also ask an occasional question to| replied that they would resist it ' o5 oot Do not try to convince the others that you are well| the US.A. helped arm and ejuip forty divisions informed, nor try to change the subject. ; (Copyright, 1947, by The Bell Q . Is it proper to introduce a Protestant minister as “Mister”? | Syndicate, Inc.) A.' Yes, unless he holds the title of Doctor or Dean. Then one - D - should call him “Doctor Brown” or “Dean Brown.” i | Q. What kind of entertainment usually follows a dinner? i A. Music, dancing, and bridge are the most popular forms of entel -i i | I LEGION WILL HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY MONDAY EVENING A joint Christmas party of the 1. Who was the Connecticut schoolmaster who was captured and American Legion Post 4 and its hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War? Auxiliary will be held Monday eve- 2. Which State has the largest percentage of alien population? tainment. } MODERN FTIOUETTE Yisgna uss i | 2 e e e ] ning, December 29, at 8 o'clock 3. Where is the tibia bone in man located? { in the Dugcut. All members and 4. Who was the “Serpent of the Nile"? 1 friends are invited to attend the 5. What song made John Howard Payne famous? | festivities. ANWSERS: | There will be plenty of fun, gifts| | Nathan Hale. | will be exchanged and rv[rosh-i 2. New: Sark | ments will be served LR < | iy 2t | 3. In the lower leg betwten knee and ankle. ! PETE SEMARAVICH DIES 4 Cleopees. ! Word has been received here by 5. “Home, Sweet Home. i U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney | — that Peter Semaravich, a former resident of Juneau, recently died in San Francisco. Semaravich was an Your Deposits ‘ | (Oontinued from Puge O and thus ended the long-awaited, State and decided that the best : i 2 e — | muchvadvertised: conference of Fom | wiki#d, hendlet the ‘pross was to Oldtimer: wRe/ By, hare fglout. gl ! done a better job politically in' €1gn Ministers to arrange a peace : give the newspaper the truth about VeI BEY. LS ! their zone than we have in ours, treaty lor Germany and Austria. what happened in a secret confer- The blast furnace was invented This doesn’t mean that the Ger-! NOW we wonder what will hap-| .., i e, 180 et BU mans love them but it does mean Den when the Russians get wise S Y and HOLD UNITED STATES that the Russians have carefully hd Quit talking about reparations.| Since then it's been a question . L. Tl T o e SAVING BONDS built up a German army, trained Their demand for reparations gave g 1o which Foreign Minister can Beautiful 755 tf to take orders from Moscow. Also, the American delegates the excuse g Al pROETS ) 0RO ) 8 4 leak the nost and the quickest. All - - — they have . indoctrinated some they wanted for deadlocking the e e thousand able German leaders conference. | rm managemen 48 ki with encuzh Communist allegiance Sy 1 % o + B W THE 3 | uank 18 pieaged to conserva- to gradually take over the other BACKSTAGE WITH THE C d P Zle ] - ” ! ration. sones of Germany once Germany ' DIPLOMATS rOSSWor uz | ;"d!“'::lwn. m::: l'.";z % unifisa \:{c@fh:-):ud French Foreign NORBEE R TR R T seaton. Th D posl'rs 2. We know from experience that e ““d‘“”: ‘SR“"“’l off the, |y ghumiip “,:’:‘_“" it addition, the bank is a mem- tuthless in opposing the USA. (e TG BoTiD S8 D, e Musieal direc- Wonderland |} surance Corporation. which cnce Germany is unified. In other !0 it was Bidault who was always tion for s polinitor |§ (nsures each of our deposit~ ords. " thearebioally)! . American | {Ying to concllhme between Russia |, siignce g8 Popular sargon L it as 164 i ARE vewspapers would then circulate)and the United States fuce of cloth 0. Article | ¥ mum of $5,000. o3 - ~, C| . Vise o 7 in the rest of Germany, but they| Fearful of the French Commun- '* ATGE0 it Chinese pagods ! wouldn't they would disappear |ists, Bidault played a straddling 1 Seen grastion fn, BECUENQrIA of + in sewers | game—tried to please both the 1y Rxists e Theoretically, also, American U.SSR. and the USA Now fix“f."ff’"r:ufffl 47 1}::;:5;“:';1\" businessmen could do business in| With the French Communists on " While | the Russian zone but they couldn't the downgrade, Bidault is frank- Bormit o | 2000 pounds ilor Protection Division of a would be | ly and openly in, on the other more cautious. A year ago Bevin was bald and pro-American. Bev- hand. has become —obstacle after obstacle placed in their wa ‘Theoretically, also. Americans could travel all cver a unified Germany. Actually they would be arrested or kicked clunt about his anti-Sovietism but off trains on phony pretexts he has suddenly become cautious, i " belie Russian backs should be scratched somewhat. This is part- AS IN 1945 Iy because Bevin doesn't particu- So, despite weeks of London de- | iarly like Americans, partly be- liberations the United States, Ger-|cause Russia has just made tre- many and Russia are right back| mendous strides in winning over where they started Potsdam in| British public opinion by trading the summer of 1945. All the talk|500000 bushels of wheat to the at London, all the hours used up|Briush for British machinery in interpreting speeches, all lhf‘ This deal is peanuts compared money spent on cablegrams 10| with the U. S. loan to Britain, but Washington giving minute details|it came at a crucial time and has of the conference, all the hotel bills | made a dent on British public rolled up by delegates—all went| pinicn, icr nothing. In fact, the Ameri-| can delegation knew it would be| for nothing even befcre the con- ierence started. They just didn't want to be in the position of sdmitting it publicly at TOUGH ON COLUMNISTS The Russians are gradually wak- ng up to the fmportance of bet- er press relations. At London So as the last day of the con-|they held a brieiing for the press ference arrived the British Forei rn; avery day. This meant that, after Minister remarked: “Is there :u.)-l he Foreign Ministers finished talk- cne who would care to suggest a|ing, Russian interpreter Polakoff date for reconvening this (’unhp}hl‘ld a press conference at which Solutio of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN | [ FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASKA ‘ MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION sh te 1. 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