The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1944, Page 4

s PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMP IRE—JUNEAU, ALAS i X - 1 I<pccml act instructing that court to render judgment } lin the Pope case in conformity with directions given {1 the act. “Mr. Pope had onée beforé taken his | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | demands for extra compensation for the building of a | tunnel as part of the District of Columbia water system " & i to the Court of Claims. In part his claim was denied MR CARTER - - - Editor and e tor by the court. Congress was more lenient. It instructed Business Manager | the court to render a new judgment in accord with a carefully prescribed formula quite out of line with what the court had previcusly decided. The court refused to comply on the ground that the special act | y G Daily Alaska Empire Published every eveni xcept Sunday by the EMPIRE PR! ING O [PANY Second and Main Streets, Ju HELEN TROY MC Y Vie residant S President DECEMBER 6 i Nora B .Chase Gaylord Hansen Mrs. Gust Murmi Mrs. Dora Gregory |of Congress was unconstitutional | Fraugis - Dogien | ALFRED 7 n Juneau as Second Class Matter. PTION RATES: and Douglas for §1.50 per month; Entered in the Post Office the following rates: an ix months, in advance, $7.50; § Mrs. Jerry Lee one month, in advance, $1.50. . B In effect the Court of Claims is now chastised Feinls O'Cymmel] | Subscribers will confer @ favor if they will promptly notify h . 4 . ! S8 B | the Blusiness Office of ans fallure or i-regularity in the de-|fOr laying too much emphasis on its own dignity.| Clarice Walsh livery of their papers. Through Chief Justice Stone the Supreme Court says i | ws Office, 803; Busitiess Office, 374. }mm the special act did not set aside the JUdEMENt | e e il {of the Court of Claims and order a new trial of mo‘i H 0 R 0 S c O P E | issues previously decided. Rather, Congress created “The stars incline a new obligation of the Government to pay the peti- but do not compel” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispaiches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPE Fourth Avenue Blds tioner’s claims where no obligation existed before There is nothing in the Constitution to forbid that choice to Congress. It is at liberty to pay clmms‘s against the Government whether or not those claims | * are legally binding | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 The decision reemphasizes the broad control of| Conflicting planetary aspects | Congress over the public purse. So far as power is|control toeday which may be men-| concerned, Congress may not only pay claims denied | tally depressing in a way that em-| by the Court of Claims; it may also use the machinery Phasizes war wearines | lof that court for final determination of such claims| HEART AND HOME: The stars| |according to formulas that it lays down. The wisdom | encourage household “aotivifies 1 of following such a practice is quite another matter. [iplliey. Drepat o | : ¢ {under favorable influenc Much | Without in any way passing judgment on this par- | X 5 L & 3 foate B3 } |entertainment of strangers is fore- ticular case, we think that, as a gu.mml rule, le as distinguished foreigners will | would be more reasonably and satisfactorily settled | icit the United States. | if Congress were to follow a rigid practice of letting| BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Wise di-! judgments of the Court of Claims stand. Our National | rection of reconversion to peacetime Legislature has no time to settle hundreds of claims | pusiness is forecast. Haste in for-| against the Government fairly and equitably. It mulating post-war programs is | cannot take time to hear and evaluate all the evidence |urged by the seers, who foretell| Alaska Newspapers, POWER OVER CLAIMS The Supreme Court clarified an important point | jn such cases. Now that the question of powers has |sudden and unexpected events that by its decision in the Allen Pope case recently. With- | peen properly settled, we hope that Congress will [demand speedy action on the home out dissent it instructed the Court of Claims that it | provide a more satisfactory means of finally settling front. was mistaken in supposing that Congress was en-|claims against the Government outside of its own| NATIONAL,ISSUES: Since war croaching upon its judicial powers when it passed a palls. has proved what wonders can be o] PR " oy & R JAM L _____ |accomplished by tie coordination | {of national effort, the need for : plan of the same sort had not|Chinese zone ended and the Rus-| : e i as mg on sweeping reforms in eity govern- | been beaten at the polls in Oregon sian began ments is likely to be widely reco ents is 4 e Wi recog last month. Blushing, Angell admit- There, border police informed us | o E y o ) : Inized, astrologers predict. Wide- ted it had, but said it was different |we would require a special visa to ” = . |spread economies are recommended in scme respects from the Town-|go further. As the only male in i | {to assure generous spending for| send plan. {the party, I went up to see thej | lcivic betterment. John Vorys of Ohio then faceti- ‘Ccmmlssm' of Police. He proved I.ol INTERNATIONAL AF‘FAIRS.;' Merry- Go-Round W (Continued from Page Ome) ST i N ously offered “?. get more signa p( a crotchety Mongol squa “""Ueru.salem @nd the Haly hahd wil . . tures for Home! It was quite ob- |inside a felt yurt. He told me in| " "o G | subject and that the ruling from draw extraordinary attention dur- 4 ' 'vious, however, that there was no|broken Russian that he would have ey the Attorney General that PAC 4 by ling ' the Christmas season. Unrest . 4 |burning enthusiasm for the Town- to telegraph Moscow before we | e | vas legal had helped to steer them end Mari . htiAdig e Bepublifdans. |could. advance farther {among the Aral will threaten fu-| y from the subject i % B AR L s e ol # ture uprisings and forces will But we are planning to uw:m-! AT “How long would that take?” Ilcompel changes in the pattern of | mend several changes in the Cor-| CORRECTIONS sked. British diplomacy which favor | | y 1 rupt Practices Act,’ Brown con-| Last week, this. column stated | “Maybe three dars, maybe three|them | tinued. “And T intend to see to it that Major Melvin Douglas, movie- | weeks. Persons whose birthdate it is| that there is an amendment to actor husband of New Congres: T9haa yisians ot bitr icamibing - 1n have the augury of a year of good | prevent the sort of activity by labor | Woman Helen Gahagan Douglas of |\ " o0 o i" el Goore But thefortune and great happiness.| unions that PAC engaged in.” ‘Cflll'm'l:‘l‘uv was with the U. 8. Army |- = ould not ,Wepi the saq|Changes should be made mm; w ate rong |in “Indiana.” This was a typo- | 7 o i 07 Be sure you make it strong P |news. They insisted on seeing the caution. ould have read ? : Svan ‘ney |graphical error. It Shildre: . i g enough so that even the Attorney |EYar Oohmissar of Bolite theikRelves | Children born on this day prob-| orral can't wi a i | “India.” Last week also, it | 3 v oy E 8 sort o y < T . selai Zetic. C 5 ey | S rl;xnmm):»\ advised. {Te-Chen, Secretary General of the|® =ik handkerchief, chocolate, S especially careful when | : s s . heneeal agreement | Koumintang Party of China, was ORRY, ((GERGERES Re teend. b working with machinery. | here was general ag arty , was 3 Y s c s | ameng the GOP Congressmen that living in Japanese-occupied Shang- :IZ::(:] 'Qimlfymfi‘x‘.”’n'filgl 103;3 (Copyright, 1944) : } lot of political capital could be hai. It was not made clear, how- | g ¥ | ——— | a madé of the current Administration ever, that Wu has several w General and that the statement did not in jout” his paint brush and painted lin HOME OWNERS SERVICE MEN, BUSINESS MEN‘: Chinese characters a passport, row between ~Attorney which later worked wonders Il‘ Biddle and his ousted assistant, 3Ny way refer to the first Madame ‘v,mi»: ik ;trai it Sarotioh *to U i \ If you need someuing you can't { Norfian Littell {Wu, now and for some time past(‘’P% 1S STEEN M miport trame|buy in Juneay, write us. Lily G.| Only gripe about Gov. Dewey|a resident of New York. Jatod Tt read: “Good for one pas. | LeWis Shopping Service, 9014 6th came from ultra-reactionary Harold | s A o Pas- | Ave., Seattle 4, Wash. { a— TVE Isage to Urga for Pearson and three | | Knutson of Minnesota, who com- CHINESE WIV S . e } ained oS geles| Speaking of wives, it is a dis- G s | JMM E S, plained about the Los Angeles Pt g Tiy: Ohilng. . et i Ewo wived RU AGE SALE } = vhic vey - {tinction in China to have more|, ; speech in which Dewey pledged all- | ®lis ‘'very rich. A man with three is : v » soecial [than one wife, as this writer found | The Sisterhocd of the Russian out social security and other soeial { both rich and powerful. Orthodox Church, Fifth Street, legislation. iwhen traveling across the Gobi o 1t ? 3 5 ; “He was out-New-Dealing the(Desert with three ladies in a) (oPYUENL }9:?- £ Dot | UL £ Taibag Pl D New Deal,” fumed Knutson. His manner which they never permitted e B, icate, ‘Inc.) jday, Dec. 9, 10 a. m. —Adv. gripe, however, was mnot well re- /him to forget. The three ladies <o ceived. In fact, most of his mates Were: Mrs. George Langhorne of are a bit fed up with the stiff- Manila, Miss Helen Van Sant of necked Knutson. |Chicago and my own honest-to- TRIPLETTE & KRUS ’ BUILDING CONTRACTORS | Homer Angell of Oregon com- goodness wife. 4 EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS plained Lecause the Democrats| We traveled in a car hired from 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING have been keeping the Townsend the Soviet Government, which op- SHOP PHONE 96 ‘After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 i Plan from ccming to a vote this erated the only motor line between session. A petition to bring the Urga, the capital of Mongolia, and| plan to the floor requires 218 sig-|Kalgan near the edge of Northeast natureés, and the Townsend group China. There are mo roads acrcs has had over 200 for months, with the Gobi and it is rough, tough Democrats removing their names | traveling. On about the second day, when - it looked as if the required jwe got to the border between Inner ) number would be met. and Outer Mongolia—a little col- August Andresen of Minnesota lection of mud huts and felt yurts:; then pointedly asked Angell if ajunder the broiling sun—where the DECORATING J should not be confused with the ordinary run of painting. It is not only our business to suggest proper eolor harmony but to see that the decorative scheme is properly balanced:' LET J. S. MceCLELLAN SOLVE YOUR DECORATIVE PIIOBLEMS AR N S, CALL, DOUGLAS 374 / SYSTEMS - NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY Public Accounlanm,—fludigo\xg—s'l'm: Counselors 208 Franklin Streef — Telephone 757 Falirbanks Office: 201-2 Lavery Building KINLOCH N. NEILL JOHN W. 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The Firemen were to play the High School and the Collegians were to meet the Alumni in basketball games this night in A. B. Hall. Gov. Scott C. Bone, in his annual report, urged that the $150,000 Secretary M. S. Whittier, of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, issued a report showing just what the organization had done during the previous year. Vera Wyss, violinist, was the new orchestra leader at Spickett's Palace. Agnes Ayres was featured in the movie bill at the Coliseum Theatre in “A Daughter of Luxury.” Weather report: High temp: ature, 37; low, 32; clear. et et e 1 et Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The game was lost, due to his misplay.” Say, “OWING to (or, BECAUSE OF) his misplay.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Area. Pronounce a-re-a, first A as in MAY, E as in ME unstressed, last A as in ASK unstressed. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Buccaneer; two C’s and two E's. SYNONYMS: Cause (noun), reason, motive. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Tod word MARITAL; pertaining to marriage. “She and her husband were engulfed in marital difficulties.” { MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE - Q. What does it indicate when a man is either rubbing his hands together, shuffling his feet, or rearranging his tie or coat? A. This is self-consciouness, and to overcome it one must forget one's self absolutely, centering his interest entirely upon the other persons present. Q. For how long a time should a guest remain after a meal? A, He should remain for at least a half hour unless something very urgent will not permit. Q. Is it cbligatory that a bride pay for the bridesmaids’ costumes? A, No; the bride pays only for the bouquets her bridesmaids carry. ettt I.OOK and LEARN 5’3 C. GORDON 1.In round figures, what is the greatest width of the Atlantic Ocean? 2. What two nicknames were given to Abraham Lincoln? 3. What is the highest denomination ‘of banknote issued by the Federal Reserve? 4. What is the appoximate population of the United States to the square mile? 5. In Wall Street, what is meant by a “lame duck”? L ANSWERS: 1. 5,000 miles. 2. Honest Abe and Father Abraham. 3. $10,000. 4. 5. Forty-one. A person unable to fulfill his contracts. WINDOW AUTO PLATE GLASS IDEAL GLASS CO. Glass Work of All Descriptions 121 MAIN STREET — e A. M. GEYER as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the—— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “HIS GIRL FRIDAY" Federal Tax —1Xxc per Ferson WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! r—— F. W. WENDT DON ABLE PHONES 633—549 THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. 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