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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — None of the
major officials and few of the
■clerks and stenos in government
defense agencies these days are
getting the come-to-work signal
without an all-clear from the
FBI.
Biggest material contribution
made to China, so far, is said to
be what American highway and
traffic technicians have accom
plished in keeping trucks mov
ing on the Burma Road.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
says the overall cost of living in
Washington is up 3.4 percent in
the last three months and 7 per
cent over a year ago. The Bureau
points out, however, that is still
more than 12 percent under the
World War high and 35 percent
below the all-time top in 1920.
The 1929 cost of living in Wash
ington was about the same as at
the end of the World War period.
One of the growing govern
ment headaches is trying to keep
down STATE taxes on national
defense industries.
Most thankless job in Washing
ton today: that of Secretary of
ti Treasury Morgenihau. He not
ony has to go out and beat the
brush for defense dollar-raising
plans but he has to collect them.
The irony of it is that Mr. Mor
genthau used to be considered a
conservative when it came to
high taxes.
Being as full as it is of folks
who are just stopping over for a
year or so, Washington frequent
ly is dishwater-weak in civiv en
Notice of Rendering First and
Final Report of Administrator
and Petition for Final Order of
Distribution
No. 636
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct.
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
BLAKE BARLOW WALES. De
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
B. B. Mozee, Administrator of
the estate of Biake Barlow Wales,
deceased, has rendered for final
a 'tlement, and filed in the above
Court his first and final report of
administrator and petition for
final order of distribution, and
that Wednesday, the 4th day of
February, 1942, at 10 o’clock a.
m., at the office and courtroom of
the Court in Nome, Alaska, has
been set as the time and place
for the settlement of the account
and report and for hearing ob
jections thereto if any there be,
and for a hearing on the petition,
and all persons interested in the
estate are hereby notified then
and there to appear and show
cause, if any they have, why the
account and report should not be
settled and allowed and why dis
tribution of the estate should not
thereupon be immediately made
to the persons entitled thereto
without further notice or pro
ceedings. At such hearing the
Court will adjudicate and decree
who are the heirs and distribut
ees of the deceased. Reference is
hereby made to the account, re
port and petition for further par
ficulars.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
3rd day of December, 1941.
B. B. Mozee Administrator
Publish Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24, 1941
terprise, but the capital heart
really swelled the other night in
a farewell for the ex-superintend
ent of police, Major Ernest W.
Brown. The Major had been in
the police department for 45
years —had been superintendent
longer than any one else— but
when his retirement date came
up, the police department was
under the kind of fire that would
make the ordinary reform cam
paign in a voting metropolis look
like a lightning bug at high
noon. One of the District con
gressional committees had the
to be on mostly was Major
Brown’s neck. So the major’s re
tirement. scheduled a long time
ago by Civil Service, had all the
earmarks of a retreat. Maybe
that’s just what made several
hundred Washingtonians turn
out to prove it wasn’t and give
the major one of the warmest
farewell shindigs that have been
seen around here in years.
Among other things, it was re
called that Major Brown was the
father, grand-daddy and big bro
them of the Police Boy’s c!ub idea
which some welfare workers say
has done more to cut down juve
nile delinquency than anything
the welfare-conscious 20th cen
tury has produced.
The latest torpedo fired in the
economy drive that has been
growing sirjee congressmen came
bnck from their “vacations”
(which means seeing the voters)
is that a group of congressional
and departmental leaders will
shoot at a two-billion-dollar slash
in non-defense spending.
The real reason that the post
office has short-cut its original
p ans for mail delivery to army
camps is that so many boxes
from home contained perishables
cats, something had to be done to
beat the boys and their parents
to the squawk.
Observers here are saying that
there hav been more deaths in
Congress since this world crisis
began to come to a head a
couple of years ago than in any
similar period in history,. The
Capitol physician is checking for
us.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that J.
S. Winder has been appointed by'
the Probate Court for the Koyuk
Precinct, Second Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, Administrator of
the Estate of Sam B. Smith, de
ceased and all persons having
claims against the said estate are
required to present them with
proper vouchers within six
months from the date of this No
tice to the undersigned Adminis
trator at Haycock, Territory of
Alaska.
Dated at Haycock, Alaska, this
21st day of October, 1941.
J. S. Winder,
Administrator of the Es
tate of Sam B. Smith, de
ceased.
Publish Nov. 26. Dec. 3, 10, 17.
LITVINOV BOUNCES FROM
STALIN’S DOG-HOUSE TO
WASHINGTON EMBASSY
WASHINGTON — Russian pol
itics is as turbulent as a water
spout and no better proof of it
is to be found than how Maxim
Litvinov, sucked down into ob
scurity two years ago, now has
been hoisted again to the saddle
and handed that all-important
portfolio. Ambassador to the
United States.
The life of this round, jovial
bolshevik, for many years de
scribed as the only great diplo
mat that the Soviet has produced
has moved in strangely overlap
ping circles.
His revolutionary activity start
ed in 1898, when he was 22 years
old and he never deviated from
that line. A year later, h was
sentenced to five years in Siberia
but escaped after 18 months, and
from then on spent more time,
out of Russia than in it. When
the present Soviet state emerged
in 1918, he was an exile in Eng
land, bringing the wrath of that
nation down on his head by
speeches advocating peace.
When Bruce Lockhart, the Brit
ish diplomat in Moscow, was ar
rested and charged with being
an agent provocateur, it was Lit-!
vinoff who was seized in England
as a hostage and the exchange of
those two “prisoners” brought
Litvinov home and started him
on a 20-year career that was un
interrupted by the drastic up
Heav 1 -■ and purges that so of
ten changed the Soviet political
scene.
Almost single-handed, Litvin
ov' was responsible for the re
cognition of the USSR, culmin
ating for him in what was a great
personal victory when, after 15
yeads of fighting for it. he ob
tained the recognition of the
United States n 1933. Had the U.
S. recogniz'd the Soviet in 1919,
Litvinov would have been its
first Ambassador to the United
States, for he had that commis
sion in h.'s pocket and was on his
way to Washington when State
D partment representatives in;
Stockho m turned him back by
refusing to give him an Ameri-j
can visa.
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Never until 1939 was Litvonov
out of favor with the heads of
his party. The ordinarily cold,
aloof Lenin seemed to have a
warm affection for him. referred
to him often as “Papasha” (Dear
Father), and Siaiin had contin-,
ued that affection until he and
his acc diplomat parted ways ov
er Sta in's relationship with Hit
ler.
A life-ion advocate of peace
and total disarmament by all na
tions, I itvinov apparently could
n’t stomach giving the nod to
Nazi aggression. He “resigned”
from office and had almost dis
appeared from the public scene
when he was recalled to take;
over the Washington post and:
presumably try to rehabilitate
the USSR's diplomatic standing
with the United States and the
world.
By one of those quirks of in-1
ternational romance, the new
hostess of the Russian embassy
here will be an English lady,
for while in exile in England;
Litvinov married Ivy Low. dau
ghter of Sir Sydney Low. a
famous barrister; and niece of
Sir Maurice Low, a prominent
journaist. Mme. Litvinov is her
self a skilled musician and well
known author of fiction.
As host and hostess of the big
Soviet embassy on Sixteenth St.
the Litvinovs will have no
trouble with their hosting. Time
was and not so many months ago
when a Soviet society function
had about the same, attendance!
and atmosphere as a county
crepehangers’ convention, but
that’s all changed. When Mme.!
Constantine A. Oumansky, wife
of the former Ambassador, with
other embassy officia’s, tossed
their little farewell party the
other day on the event of the
24;h anniversary of the Russian
revoution, no less than 3,000
guests appeared, jamming tra
flc for blocks along Sixteenth
Street; making a shambles of
the spacious cloakrooms; strip-'
ping to the bone those great por
tion of strugeon and e'earing the
plates of caviar before the party'
was two-thirds over.
Mme. Oumansky turned off a
masterpiece of understatment.
when she called it “the biggest
re "option we ever had." It was
the biggest and most glittering
reception Washington has had
since the present Wor’d War was
burn.
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