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PAGE FOUR Daily Al aska Published every evening except PI TING COMPANY Secor HELEN TROY MC DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A. FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER - Entered in the Post Office in J: SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by car Juneau and Dous six months, $8.00 By m One year. month Subscribers the Business livery of t Teleph one favor if tk failure or 602 The Assoct Tepublication ¢ wis Business Office OCIATED PRESS lnl the wartime development of plastics, plywood, glass, | metallurgy and’ prefabrication methods. In the large |cities, with their zoning systems and building cod hapha: construction with no consideration of com munity aspirations will certainly not be tolerated o o Restrictions indicate what may be done, but they do | not indicate whether or not a revolutionary structure | will be approved, especially if it happens to come from some architect as daring as Frank Lloyd Wright. These matters are of especial importance to the prefabricators of hc s, If we are to order a home | in sections to be delivered by motor-truck, there must | be standardization of design, materials and equipment. | |But standardization and prefabrication on a large | scale are impossible unless communities are in sub- stantial agreement on what will be approved or disap- proved. Standardization in turn cramps the architect | both in his development of a style as well as in his | choice of materials P 4oty S e IS B The small-house architect was ne presented with so alluring an opportunity as that which con- fronts him now. He and the home-owner should cer- tainly be consulted before the prefabricators decide for | I« PR ) themselves what shall be placed on the market. Cost | The stars incline I naturally looms uppermost in the home-owner's mind but do not compel” | Recently Clarence W. Farrier, technical director of the | y 5 National Housing Agency, stated that more than half | the population cannot afford to buy a home that costs more than $5,000, which is below predent selling levels in mos® communities. This being so, the dream houses of expensive glass, plastics and aluminum wil | hardly become realities. Moreover, there is the matter of plumbing, electric service outlets and heaters, all | of which could probably be assembled into a central unit around which the entire structure could be de- i aign. signed, but with no scope for choice on the part of |auspicious for consultation with per- | the house-owner. |sons engaged in planning for the | . re. Perhaps the best way is future Empire Sunday by the HAPPY BIRTHDAY May 15, 1945 o e ry 1. Lucas Virginia Langseth Henry H. Larson Mrs. Mary Arnold James Sofoulis, Jr. Claire Olson Mrs. Jean Howell Mrs. Anton L. Bartness Roberta Pickering las for $1.50 per month; $7.50 ey will promptly notify irregularity in the de- 34 eeececece e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 D d to the use for it or not other- 1 news published WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 Adverse aspects dominate today, hich may bring new problems to ne United Nations. HEART AND HOME United Nation's campaign It is to let some Government | BUSINESS APFAIRS MAIL BY AIR Twenty-seven years ago today the Signal Corps States, took off from Belmont Park and from Potomac | communit Washington York with intermediate scheduled stops at Philadel- land the income of the average British home-owner T. H. Webb, who piece of mail arrived duly at Philadelphia and his load shington, arriving three hours and twenty minutes after the start from New York.. The other plane made a forced landing. Thus was the beginning of carrying mail by air in the United States and the first official airmail service. Last year, domestic airliners carried more than 400,- Park, bound respectively for phia. Lieut was relayed to W 000,000 separate pieces of mail When Lieut tion that will follow the war.” We have seen this marvel c scheduled mail flown to all of t of the world, even Alaska matter of a few carried by air Pan American Airways round trips a week for the Alaska route—two pla"p'\‘medxcnl schools have already curtailed courses and through each way dail (New York Times) When the war is over and the its normal pursuits, it will have million new dwellings. posals and plans to meet the housing need no well-defined program on which builders owners are agreed. Yet some plan is nece: Washin;ton Merry- Go-Round (Continued /YO1I-1 Page One) permitted himself to get into any- thing controversial was when he was asked about the CIO's Political Action Committee. “I believe the function of labor unions is economic, not political,” replied Green. Otherwise he dodged argumentative questions. Most interesting portion meeting came when Represent James Auchinclos New Je president of the club, complained because this colu has published several accounts of these highly secret off-the-record Republican sessions “Let me again urge upon gentlemen that the goings-on at these meetings be kept stricely off the reco: Auchincloss implored. “Let us hope that we do not again read what has happened here in Drew Pearson’s column, Ractionary Republican Howard Buffet of Nebr: was much less gentle in his warning. “Anyone who leaks about these meetings to Drew Pearson should be read out of the club,” he stormed Some Congressmen thought But- fett was about to demand that “leakers” be read out of the Re- publican Party. But before he could go further, Bill Green spoke up. “Every time I hold a secret mee ing of the AFL Executive Boar he observed, “I read about it in the paper the next day. I guess you just have to expect those things.” the tive of of AP’'S EDWARD KENNEDY The breaking of the German surrender story in advance of au- thorized release is not the first ime Associated Press Correspond- ent Edward Kennedy has been in- volved in a thing of this kind On August 21, 1942, Che Morrison, Cairo corresponde the Columbia Broadcastiy stem, cabled his New York office that Kennedy had got an uncensored account of Libyan military oper tions out of the battle area Senator Cabot Lodge of chusetts. The incident arose in connection with the fact that Senator Lodge was using his tour of the Libyan battle area as propaganda in his re-election campaign. The CBS correspondent, reporting on Lodge’s for via Massa- hen the aviation arm of the United |tures of several designs without Molating the codes of | Webb took off on May spokesman said that the occasion was the “forerunner of a network of airlines that would cover the entire world and will be a dominant factor in the reconstruc- How much closer mail by |should sign the Milmoe bill, the diploma mills that| ;... o) air has brought Alaska and Alaskans to the continental | withered and died would revive and physicians would | United States is something to wonder about. this war is over it may well be that it will be only a ars until all first class mail will be has just Housing Problems Though we have many pro- you | " | Abdel | first ~ lagency work out far more low-cost designs than we | have—designs which would be acceptable in most | |States, There should be so many that the home- | ‘h " "0 o005y owner would find among them the one that suits him, | P9 5¢ 50 0768 W Army airplanes of | pri P hould be possible to combine the fea- | FTOPETIY WUl be Although stocks will sharply fluctuate in coming weeks the im- be widespread. maintained in ower stra S 1 icated. This is not an insoluble problem. The | P AL L | British hs “gely because they must rebuild their bombed cities, [ 4% €V portent fs read ¢ presags and New for preservation of peace through international organiz: sonal or partisan per nish comfort to se foreign ties. < 9 Persons whose birthdate it is have | (ew Rotw i) |the augury of a vear of success in! At its recent session the State Legislature passed | routine ‘work. Women will seek var the Milmoe bill which would make it possible for |ied interests. | anyone who “has received the degree of Bachelor or | Doctor of Medicine from some medical school in this and who has served nine months as an lessly active. They should be prac- interne in an approved hospital, to take the State |tical in their views and positive in examination in medicine, and, if he passes, to receive | their aims | a license to practice. At one stroke thé work of the | (Copyright 1913) | late Dr. Willlam Welch, Dr. Abraham Flexner and : —_— ‘the American Medical Association is to be undone.| <. Russia. At last Molotoy | ome to pass with i ALY Hest msitcal AROIE TRV | Thanks to their efforts, our best medical schools B&YE | yoved for o vote on his motion to arried near 5,000 | is not as high as that of his American contemporary. Degrading Medical Education Bl encuis 3 ly will be bright mentally and tire- 15, 1918, a announced This is a time for determined de- | |votion to every task that affects the | the business world. Easing of man-| ve done far more in this field than we, | NETIONAUHEN S Hz ing opposition to certain provisions| Children born on this day probab-stvp( away his fortune.” | : B B e ] MAY 15, 1925 The previous night the Alaska Jumeau outhit the American Legion nine and won 9 to 4. Jackson hurled for the rock crushers. Oliver was | behind the bat. O'Nell tossed the appiz for the Legion and Thomas was catcher. Alexander, right field for the Legion, speared a hot liner and threw his man out at first. The Seniors of Juneau High School were to give their annual ball ! this night in Elks Hall, . ! George Getchell, appointed Temporary Tax Collector by Territorial Treasurer Walstein G. Smith, was already at work in the Icy Straits | district Mildred Abrahamson had been selected to teach the fifth grade. She had been teaching in North Dakota schcols. Sixty-two members of the Boy Scouts and Song Moon Girls were guests at Spickett's Palace to see “Janice Meredith.” Ice and log jams in the Stikine had prevented three steamer loads fof prospectors from reaching Telegraph Creek on the stampede to the {Cassiar. The ice broke and moved out from Nome on May 13 according to advices received by the Alaska Road Commission. Four hard rock miners left on the Estebeth for Funter Bay to be employed at the Alaska-Admiralty Mining Company property. { ; 5 Weather report: High, 59; low. ; partly cloudy. | e e e e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e et e} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I disremember,” in the sense of “I forget.” ¢ | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Adonis. Pronounce a-do-nis, A as in | ASK unstressed, O as in NO, I as in KISS, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Chaste, not CHAST. SYNONYMS: Abyss, gulf, pit, depth, void. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: IMPROVIDENT; wanting foresight; thriftless. “His improvident habits MODERN ETIQUETTE *% ROBERTA LEE Q. How is puree pronounced, and what is it? A. It is food boiled to a pu]p and rubbed through a sieve; also a soup thickened with this. Pronounce pu-ra, U as in UNITE, A as in RAY, accent last syllable Q. Would it be all right for a baby’s christening dress to be trimmed in pink or blue? A. The baby should be dressed entirely in white. Q. If it is discovered that a purchased article contains a defect, what should one do? A. Return it promptly to the person in charge of that department. e e by LOOK and LEAR A. C. GORDON country returns to to build about ten /e have d home- | in view | cabled his New The meeting opened at 11:18 a m.—18 minutes late. Secretary of State Stettinius presided. After a brief discussion of procedure, Foreign Minister Molotov arose, — asked that Kuznetsov, chairman of the All-Union Council -of Soviet | i 3'1’ade Unions, be permitted to | Crossword Puzzle | speak in behalf of the World Trade - | Union Conference i Kuznetsov then proposed on be- | half of Russia that the World i Trade Union Conference organized | !in London and on which the CIO he remote corners few equals anywhere in the world. If the Governox‘isusp"“d action until Russia. coule ider the question or dis- When | have to fight again a battle which they thought they | Sreoit i L tf‘f_} had won. v : 4 ism!mm;y quickly put the motion} The supposed justification for the Milmoe bill is | of seating Argentina to a vote. He | an undeniable shortage of physicians. But this should | won 29 to 5 14 | Dot be made an excuse for lowering standards Of | (copyright, 1915, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | medical education. Under the pressure of war our‘ = > - done away with long vacations. We ought not go| INTERPORT TRAVE[ i ¥ | beyond this and open the doors wide to the practice | | { of medicine by men who would be weeded out in 2| ON (pR SIEAM | year by any of the first-class schools. Whatever our | ERS | medical situation may be, it is not so low that we must accept an incompetent who has managed to OFF AFTER MAY 31 | obtain a degree from a second- or third-rate medical | school. Bad medicine can be wrose than no medicine [ | There is still time to scotch this menace to medical | After May 31, interport Alaska| | education. The Governor has only to veto the bill, |travel on Canadian Pacific is off and we trust that he will. after over three years. \ AT This means no passengers will be | activities, York |acter of Argentina. Then he moved |taken from Juneau ticketed to! office: that the question of inviting Ar-|Skagway, Wrangell or Ketchikan | “He (Lodge) made a Cook’s Tour \gcn(inu be postponed and no passengers will be carried of safe desert areas and then went| But Ponce Henriquez, Ecuadorean from those ports to Juneau. home. On the way home he violated Foreign Minister, jumped up and| Passengers will as usual be taken the ethics of journalists here demanded action. He said Argen-;from Juneau to Prince Rupert, Van- secretly carrying an uncensored |tina had made a great contribution | couver, Victoria and Seattle, and also account of operations written by | to inter-American unity and should | northbound from those ports to Associated Press Correspondent Ed- be rewarded. Juneau. ward Kennedy. Prime Minister Fraser of New| ncidentally, no freight from s |Zealand then spoke up and sam\saame} will be accepu’d for trans-| CRET ARGENTINE DEBATE |he had considerable doubts about‘fi;i:on Ol“ CapBdian ‘shesmers. to It is now possible to give the |bringing Argentina in. He said he | DK, | play-by-play account of what hap- |Wwas afraid Argentina’s admission | e o S pened behind the closed doors of |might prove a precedent for coun-| DON'T SUFFER with Rlieuma- | the Steering Committee at San tries like neutral Ireland, Spain and | tism, Arthritis, Eczema, Stomach Francisco when the thorny problem |Iceland. Trouble. The Mineral Baths at of Argentina’s admission to the However, Fraser was the only one | Warm Springs Bay will give you United Nations came up. to talk against Argentina besides |instant relief. Clean, furnished the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Ivan | cabins, groceries, liquors. O'Neill & Subasic, who supported Molotov.|Fenton, Baranof, Alaska. —adv. Finally, Stettinius and Nelson!s-l%-ao i Rockefeller urged Peru, Chile, | Brazil and Cuba to speak. All op- | s Empire Want-aés Trng resulis! Terrible Harvest Steeple . Drives . Confined Froth ACROSS . Cherry color . Blossom Resembling a style ot poetry 31 1. What is the difference between an immigrant and an emigrant? 2. What have the following in common: John Frazee, Horatio Greenough, and Augustus St. Gaudens? 3. What is a “quorum”? 4. What is marijuana? 5. On whom did Paris bestow the Apple of Discord for her beauty? ANSWERS: 1. An immigrant is one who comes into a country of which he is not a resident, and an emigrant is one who leaves for residense else- where. 2. All were American sculptors. 3. A fixed number of any body whose presence is necessary for the valid transaction of business. A. A powerful narcotic. 5. Aphrodite. —_—m ELSIE WERNER as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE ‘ and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "GASLIGHT" Federal Tax-~-11c per Person PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! — TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1945 TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 . Silver Bow Lodge| MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 @Nm A210.0.F. 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Near 18, Master of a is represented be permitted to be- come a member of the new United Nations organizatioy. He reminded | the delegates of the contribution organized labor had made to the defeat of Fascism, pointing out that 160 million members of the Confer- ence in 30 democratic countries had helped destroy Germany and Italy st Governments. Egyptian Foreign Minister, | | Hamid Badawi, opposed Kuznetsov. He maintained that ac- | cepting the World Trade Union Conference would open the way to | the entry of other pressure groups. Ecuador, New Zealand and Aus- !tralia all politiely opposed the Rus- sian request. Then Anthony Eden stepped up and suggested that all |resolutions be withdrawn. His mo- tion was carried. This was Russia's defeat. | R E wa. . Thoroughfare: abbr. . City in Wis- consin 51. Broad street . Puffs up Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzl¢ 56. Those related through the mother DOWN Wax ointments Opening Arrangement . Transmitters . Holi . Killing cold S5 Hate . 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