The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1944, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANUARY 14 R. M. Hefferman W. W. White Jack Groomer Clayton Crawford Margorie Loomis Della T. McCormick Legia T. Campbell R. M. Wright HOROSCOPE “The stars incline' but do not compel” FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1944 Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets. Juneau, Alaska. LELEN TROY MONSEN - - - e [ e e 'WZNOWYEARS AGO F's empire s]'].I‘EC'['(,]‘Y P - | | Fratérnal Societies st e g e ] Gastineau Channel E JANUARY 14, 1924 SR i SRt e AL I S = | 1R e Wheat grown by the farmers of the Tanana Valley and milled at | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 i Fairbanks the previous Fall was consumed entirely at Fairbanks and was SECdOND ang FOURTH not sufficlent in quantity to meet the local demand there, according to et ;:;hr’:‘::;‘l: E. C. Irons, who had charge of the milling operations. beginning at 7:30 p. m. Purchase by the City of Juneau of the Mann waterfront property from A pful VhV‘fi:j‘lS JSA n‘:gfi;fl%fi: Henry Shattuck was announced this day by Mayor I. Goldstein, formal documents for the transfer of the site were at this time being made ready for signature. The price involved was $10,000, the Mayor said. The property covered by the deed was that section of the waterfront lying between the City Dock and the Admiral Line Dock. It was at this time occupied by the upper City Float which was used by small boats making this port. Home-Front Retreat “ (Washington Post) Avoidance of a railroad strike appears to be a cer- y tainty two brotherhoods’' acceptance of the President’s offer to arbitrate the dispute. It may be taken for granted that this procedure would not - = President with Mrs. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRI N RATE! delivered by earrier and Dougla: 1.5 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the follo tes: Ope year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, §7.80; one month, in_advance. $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- itvery of thelr papers. lephones: News Office, 602: Business Office, 374. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building have proved acceptable without some assurance that the issues will be compromised. Doubtless a subterfuge is in the making. For the deplorable fact about lway wage disputes is that they have reached a stage where no settlement can be brought within the four corners of existing stabilization policy. The President was faced by the choice of making concessions or taking over the railroads. And even that choice was more apparent than real, for if the railroads had been taken over, the issue of a wage increase for their employees would have been only postponed and not solved Ind ions of a compromise were strong before the unions accepted the President’s offer to arbitrate | the disptue. Indeed, the carriers are reported to SATURDAY, JANUARY 15 have offered the operating brotherhoods a general | Mixed planetary aspects are ac- increase of 8 cents an hour at the suggestion of ihe ay; projects should be com- | President. That is twice the sum recommended by |pleted rather than begun. the emergency board which studied this dispute HEART AND HOME: Astrologers| Kge 7 x } ! twice the sum approved by Stabilization Director {vemind Americans that they are| E. Gastonguay, General Manager of tl‘u' Alaska Gastineau Mining Vinson. Settlement of the controversy on that basis |optimistic by nature and may be|Company, left on the Alaska for San Francisco where he was summoned would be an indirect violation of the Little Steel|too confident of an early peace. The |y telegraph to meet B. L. Thane, Managing Director of the company, formula. But even this generous proposal Yo breach |stars assure final victory but U“‘{ to confer regarding the proposed pulp and paper and ammunition sulphate the anti-inflation line in behalf of railway workers|portents are read as presaging ex- plant for Thane had been rejected by the brotherhoods. Having fresh |tended —conflict Surprises, how- evidence that the President would yield to avold ajever, have maiked each step After o few hours canvass the previous day in the business districts | e | F. V- Callow rreiistd strike, they presented other excessive demands which |the second World War. 2ould’ not. possibly be met without bandoning all| BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The Am.|of town, J. J. Gonnors and W. J. Reck, of the Special Council Committee, | | ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. | pretense of holding the line against inflation. {erican tendency toward waste and |announced they had securely slightly in excess of 3500 toward paving the || " Graquate Los Angeles College By these negotiations with the operating brother- | extravagance will be altered by |expenses of sending a special representative to Washington to work for of Optometry and hoods, moreover, the President virtually forced the |postwar lessons in economy. Asthe division of the Territory Opthalmology nonoperating unions to order a strike. Of the two |high wages drop there will be a de- 5 2 groups, the nonoperating unions had been the more |mand for low-priced comforts and | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | patient and reasonable. An emergency board had |luxuries. Manufacturers are plan- The Treasury Department anticipates so much | recommended an 8-cents-an-hour increase for them |ning to meet the coming pocket-| eoseosoes trouble will come with the March 15 collection of |and they gained the impression from a conference book deflation with novel gadgets/} P ; NETTONKT, Testied: Al I .I i E I' bwy L. GORDON imeome taxes that it has asked Congress for funds to | With the President that he dpproved of it. Even |fof Woe SC0. LR mg»i Da' y essons in ng IS o new . the | Phone 56 | MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein | | | ‘ Wi l LEIVERS, Secretary. ‘ i Dr. A. W. Stewart f B.P.0.ELKS | | Meets every Wednesday at 8 P.M. | 20TH CENTURY BUILDING | Visiting Brothers welcome. N. Office Phone 469 FLOYD FAGERSON, Exalted ‘Rulz-r: M. H. SIDES, Secretary. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Aveuue Bidg., Seattle, Wash, Chairman W. W. Casey, of the First Divisional Democratic Central Cemmittee, by authority given him by the committee, issued a call for a Democratic Divisional Convention to convene at Juneau, January 31 1924, for the purpose of adopting a platform Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST | Silver Bow Lodge @Nm A%1L0.0.F. Room 9—Valentine Bldg. | Meets each Tues- PHONE 762 | day at §:00 P. M. I.0. O. F. HALL Visiting Brothers Welcome | Forest D. Pennessy ... Noble Grand _—mm FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR | | Parker Herbex Treatiments Will | Correct’ Hair Problems ‘ | | Weather report :High, 39: low, 37; rain. COMPLICATIONS Sigrid’s DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH | | Jones-Stevens Shop | LADIES'—MISSES” ! READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street it . | when Judge Vinson disapproved this settlement, they se an additional 2,500-man office in New York | ¥ ; ; d et up a went to Congress to have it validated instead of [to astrology, suggestions that our| for the purpose of trying to straighten out the mess A | striking. But when the President took up the railway war generals are the best material| when the trouble begins. | crisis this week, he began on the case of the operating | for Presidential material are un- ©On March 15 the taxpayer must make out a return, | rotherhoods who had set their strike for December |Wise. It has been foretold that the the prize.” as near as we can figure out, showing actual income |30, These brotherhoods were threatening to strike | Roosevelt regime will be extended OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Foyer. received in 1943, tax liability thereon, and amount of | against the recommendations of an emergency board. [through a fourth term GW""°"4 in AH, second A as in ATE, accent last syllable. it already paid either by witholding by his employer | When they were given preference at the White House [Thdmas E. Dewey continues under | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mediocre; CRE. not CER. at the source or by the taxpayer himself, on March |in spite of these facts, the nonoperating unions were promising influences. even though SYNONYMS: Inaudible, indistinct, muffled, low. 15, June 15, September 15 or December 15 of 1943, | forced to conclude that threats pay bt i iy DY: “Use a word three times and it is yours” Let us e g 943. | The inescapable fact is that. this case has been| INTERNATIONAL AFPAIRs:| WORD STU e 3 1 ; His employer will have reported to the Treasury increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: See ol Ll 4 i L |bungled by the Government from the beginning. The elimination of education in 3 5 how much was withheld and his local collector Will | 1/ o000y of meeting the issue squarely through one |the occupied countries of Europe is| VALID: founded on truth or fact: not weak or defective; sound, good have records showing how much he, himself, paid. ¥ 5 . \aumwy with full authority to act, the Administration cne of the great casualties of the| “An answer that is open to no valid exception.”—I. Taylor The big job will be in sorting and checking the | had given the unions the run-around. One agency {World war. The seers point outI T eports that come into the Treasury Department from 'had undercut the decision of another. With that |that many of the leading scholars| all different districts, and that is the main reason record behind it, there was not much left for the jof the Continent are now, fortun- e 4 e e e et e i} ———d o e i e i o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “You had as soon have won Say, “You had as soon won the prize.” i ] N Pronounce fwa-ya, first A as . S. Franklin PHONE 177 Near Third e | ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “The Store for Men” | SABIN°S | Front St Trianale Bldg. ARRY RACE | e H. S. GRAVES Drugglst { “The Clothing Man” Marlin Doubledge Razor Blades | 18 for 25¢ | | | HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING for the request for the New York office | Administration to do but to cut through the present jately, in the United States. It is At the same time, the Treasury Department | confusion and try to start again on a sounder basis |indicated that part of our task will estimates that it will receive 50,000,000 returns come | It should certainly be evident by now that no line jbe to aid in the re-establishment of | Y by can be held against inflation if the Government itself |schools and colleges. it It :‘éa:f ]Lfig:“n‘;::"t:; ‘:’)']2“_27'323;0?&,‘?;2 :;’;ci::i does not act as a unit and if the President repeatedly | Persons whose birthdate it is have| @ When serving tea to gues n’h"," ": m: e s i - intervenes to cloud or upset the decisions of officials |the augury of a year of strange ‘able, or should it be prepared in the kitchen? bureau is not based entirely upon the complications 1, whom the stablization powers have been entrusted. events, many of them favorable. | A. If the guests are not too numerous, the tea can be made at the incident to withholding taxes at the source and!'g, we hope the President will follow up arbitration ' Changes will be fairly lucky. table, and the hostess can ask each guests’'s preference as to the strength adding a separate Victory Tax to the regular income of these disputes by adopting a more systematic ~ Children born on this day should | desired. levies. The new tax law bringing increased paper | procedure for handling adjustments of this sort as ‘bu original and independent. Many Q. What should one say when telephoning if someone has left a work all around thiys axise will have artistic talents and most| number for you to call, without leaving his name? T T 2 f St ———— |0f them should reach success. A. One may say, “This is James Smith speaking. Did any one at this Washington SR R | number telephone me?” Q. Isit correct to have addresses engraved on calling cards? M'- A. Yes, on the lower right-hand corner of the card. Go-Round ‘ | ———————— "Guy Smith-Drugs” ’ CALIFORNIA | (Careful Prescriptionists) Grocery and Meat Market NYAL Family Remedles | ‘ HORLUCK'S DANISH 11 478 — PHONES — 371 I|] migh Quality Foods at men the right way. Tolan also is an A-1 man, but he thought he got into the Navy to fight, not to seratch Congressmen’s backs. HIGH-COST ALUMINUM Of all the lobbies operating Washington, most effective those which operate from right in- This, and the name-calling of thegjge the Cabinet or the Democratic ican plants, throwing U. S. workmen out of employment, but would con- tinue operating in Canada. ‘buying aluminum. If we stopped Last week that was exactly what buying aluminum today, the unpaid happened. |balance would be $34,000,000. Four aluminum pot lines werel SO some officials suspect that in closed down in Burlington, N. J. Jesse doesnt want his books to are and Queens, N. Y. with 20 more ShOW @ loss of 34,000,000 on a deal to be closed down soon. U. S. plarm?m' which he was widely criticized. b 00K and LEARN A C. GORDON sell the government aluminum at| Meanwhile, some officials feel the| three noh-arbitrating brotherhoods, | National Committee 15 cents a pound, while we hm,,i(!)]ni!ed States might save $34,000,- | 1. What length of time is required for a baseball to reach the plate s 00 probably means just as serious a| Whe. ‘Aluninti Dotndration . of | Hee paying 21 cents for Alcoa’s in the end by (-lominumg to| after it is released from the pitcher’s hand? split among railroad labor as thu(’Amm_iw powsciogy; 4 bepoll)cnofming‘canadian aluminum from Ship- produce cheaper aluminum in this 2. Has any President of the United States been a Roman Catholic? between the A. F. L. and C. L. O. | fom i o lobby now. For several SHaw. This still continues. -°°“"“g Jopie Be e 3. What three lakes are the largest that are entirely within the SF | vears it has received kindly treat-| - Inside fact is that we are now Fel:?;ufe S ndk;atey In‘cme iunited States? HULL REMINISCES |ment from Uncle Jesse Jones. Also | overproduced on aluminum by about, bt ! g v 4 4. Where was Adolph Hitler born? Cordell Hull received an unex-|it has had its chief Washington 600,000,000 pounds per year. Ship- poou Rms "EI.D 5. In what harbor was the battleship Maine sunk? pected caller the other day, U. S.|counsel, able Oscar Ewing, sitting $haw’s shipment to the United ANSWERS: District Judge “Jefty” O'Connor of [on the Democratic National Com- States in 1944 is scheduled at just| IoD‘v ‘T (HA | ‘v gy California, former Comptroller of |mittee as vice-chairman. about this amount — 560,000,000 pfl. It is estimated at two-fifths of a second. the Cwirency and the man who! Anyway, just last week Alcoa re- bounds. Yet it is continuing—de-| pyperal services were held this No. really ploneered the Federal De-|ceived another nice favor. spite its higher price. |afternoon for Willlam E. Poole, co- . Michigan, Great Salt Lake, and Okeechobee. posit Insurance system after the big| Last summer this column exposed Officially the reason for continu-!founder of the Royal Blue .Cub 4. He was born in Austria, and became a naturalized German bank smash-up in 1932 the fact that Jesse Jones had given ing Shipshaw aluminum is that the Company with his brother Edward.! Citizen in Bavaria. factory uses electricity, while east-iThe rites were conducted at the 5. In Havana Harbor. ern U. S. aluminum plants burh|chapel of the Charles W. Carter| Hull had known Jefty when Jen_vfn secret contract to Alcoa to build coal. However, there may be a much |Mortuary with the Rev. W. H I L. SORENSON e ICE CREAM Moderate Prices (Continuea 1:rom Page One) The Chiarles W. Carter |- Mortuary [ Fourth and Franklin Sts. | PHONE 136 | e e | PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 b ] WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND FOR SALE DAVE MILNER Phone 510 JUNEAU - YOUNG i | | Hardware Company \’ PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition was one of the few Democrats in|an aluminum plant at Shipshaw, more. polent, reason. | Matthews, Jr., delivering the eulogy. North Dakota. They had foughtiCanada, which would not cost Al- many progressive battles together— coa a cent, but would be paid for Jesse Jones loaned Canadian Al-|Interment followed in E ver coa $68,000000 and signed on nn‘chem.y b 15 | 2 usually on the losing side. Recall-|out of aluminum purchases by the ing them, the Secretary of State U. S. Government. You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at mused: “Some day when the war is over and I can retire from all this, you and I must sit down together and look back over the mistakes we have made and the things we could have done better.” | This column predicted that after (building this giant plant in Can- jada, Alcoa would close down Amer- unusual contract whereby Alcoa was | Mr. Poole is survived by his wife, not obligated to pay the balance Mys. Dora Poole; a son, Richard in when the United States stopped|the United States Army: a daugh- = ~ |ter, Virginia Lee Poole; his mother, Mrs. C. R. Willard, at Clinton, | | Washington; a hrother, Edward L. as i paid-up subseriber {0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the—— CAPITOL THEATRE Juneau Melody Shop FRANCISCAN DISHES R.C.A. Victor Records BRING OLD RECORDS THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP Crossword Puzzle Poole, of Juneau; a sister, Mrs. G. and receive TWO TICKETS to see: a Judge O'Connor flew back to Los [S] Angeles thinking that after faith, hope and charity, humility comes next. |D. Irwin of Vancouver, Washing- ton; and a granddaughter, Shearon Arlene Poole, residing at Entiat, Washington. All business at the Royal Blue Cab Company was suspended this afternoon during the funeral ser- vices. in respect to the memory of its founder. “RHYTHM OF THE ISLANDS” Federal Tax—6c per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! . Autumotive fuel: collog. 35. Goddess of the harvest xists . Nigh JAMES C. COOPER C.P. A Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING INSURANCE Shattuck Agency NON-FIGHTING Frank Knox, Secretary of Navy, is a great talker about ef-| ficient use of manpower. But it| looks as if he was an even greater believer in avoiding public ecritic- | sm. ! For months now he has stationed one of the Navy's astute officers with nothing to do except keep an | eye on the highly critical Truman Committee. The officer is Captain Jobhn Kennedy, former ace Wash- ington newsman, and owner of a chain of radio stations | Kennedy was once a star Wash- | ington operator for Hearst, won the, Puglsey award for top Capitol| news-sleuthing, now owns two! broadcasting chains in Ohio and| West Virginia. However, the Navy ketps him oc- cupied playing golf with Senator Ferguson of Michigan, a member of | the Truman Comumittee; flying to! Alaska with Senators Truman and! Kilgore; and running back and forth between the Navy and the Senate trying to paint a favorable ! side to Truman Committee ques- tions. ! Kennedy, an able man, does an A-1 job. But most people seem to think that Navy manpower was re- cruited to fight, rather than to cushion criticism. | Knox, however, is an expert at, criticism-cushioning. He also keeps the son of Congressman John Tolan of California busy doing odd jobs on Capitol Hill, and advising the Navy about how to rub Conxreu—i b SAILOR High mountaln t before an Lawful the 4 Meadow Habitation English ietter New Zeuland hedge lLuurel Shooljng etar Onlooker Measures of Burn the [R] & R A ———— Hjduignt [1]E] 3 B I KINY PROGRAM Rubber ] SCHEDULE l\\';(i?;:n::‘r'\fit Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle Saturday Ims 55. Early English 9. Rocky pi 12:00—Sound Off, ] . ‘ 5 5. Complet 13:16—fong Parade. ‘Our Doorstep Is Worn'By . Complete P . Interpret e Pl & ., Daughter R e i plata 12:30—Bert's-Alaska Federal News, et i S B MEAs Ruibude. o 6. Gone by 12:45—Musical ‘Bon Bons. Hol \ dress () T i n ana | 1:00—Spotlight Bands. —— " snow | 1:15—Melody Roundup. z 0 R . C = 9. Automobile 1:30—All Time Hit Parade. “Say It With Flowers” but SYSTEM CLEANING “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Phone 15 2:00 -News Rebroadcast. 2:16—Harry James. g % Juneau Florists Alaska Laundry Bhone 311 L. C. 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