The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire great benefit, pa |cerns. The hast | also would assist hed evers lay by the PIRE ¥ &I Publ Second and Ma HELEN TROY MONSEN - Presdent High taxes hi DOROTHY TROY LINCGO - ice-President WILLIAM R. CARTFE - - - ELMER A. FRIENI ALFRED Entered i version and for siness Manager Second Class Matter. Otfice in Juneau ns large and small, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sot stagdl Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months. $8.00; one vear, S15.00. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates 5.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; the Post ge It is to be hoped to some extent tk | tainly early elimir advance. One vear, i avor if they will promptly notify any faflure or irregularity in the de- ice, 602: Business Office, 374 The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ted in this paper and also the local news published Fire: NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Seattle, Wash Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | which most ships munition is a col | against all types | The so-called [the war | long before Pearl ;ix\g flame with q | uses not quantity ’ mendous pressure = i ! breaking the wat TAX REDUCTION PLAN o the heavy demands of | flammatory bombs | conflagrations instantaneously. then, that fire-fighting apparatus be highly efficient {by military needs. | valuable pieces of equipment aboard any ship. | Ordinary fire- ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-JUNEAU, ALASKA ™ rticularly to smaller business con- ening of various types of refunds in stabilizing industrial activities. ave sapped too much of industrial reserves which should have been set aside for recon- reequipping plants run down with rtime. Many concerns, both seen their equipment eaten have ! away, while they have been unable to set aside proper amounts for retooling due to heavy tax demands. that the House plan will alleviate, ris source of industrial worry. Cer- 1ation of the depressing tax load will bring new prosperity to the nation. s on Fighting Ships (Cincinnati Enquirer) Fire is one of the great wartime dangers aboard sels of the fleet. Quantities of oil and gasoline carry is highly inflammable. Am- stant hazard. Suicide planes, in- and shells can start tremendous It is highly important, of blaze fog nc s, . is not a development of alone, for experiments had been carried on Harbor. But it has been developed Today it is one of the most fighting methods call for extinguish- uantities of water. The fog nozzle but, in a way, quality. Under tre- each nozzle sends out a fine spray, er into infinitesimal drops. When flame a heavy steam is instantly formed. The steam cuts off oxygen; smothers even the most stubborn oil blaze. The proposed tax-revision measure recently ap- proved by the House Ways and Means Committee will come as a boon to business if the Congress sees fit t6 make it into law. Its passage at this time is particularly important, since it will make available billions of dollars for postwar reconversion and in- dustrial operation. purposes. makes it possible | heart of the fire. | raging infernos. | gloves, but their | slowly into the fir The fine mist thrown by the nozzles has other It protects fire-fighters from heat and for them to walk, literally, into the We recently saw a unit of sailors, | in training, move into small, cement rooms which were The boys wore heavy clothing and faces were expo: They walked re, safe and secure behind the water American business has been carrying a back- . i N e R i Sl . 'barrier thrown by the new nozles. When they reaking tax load during recent years. For the MOSt {oame out again their faces were not even smoke part there has been no serious drive to alter the | marked. increasing tax structure, for business has realized | that the war is a staggering financial burden, and |water is importan that it can be financed only through taxes. But the | fighting a large time is arriving when the economy of the nation |of a ship, causing demands that business have available for reinvest- d ment a larger proportion of its earnings. If this ‘Siwnrkmg on her not done, then unemployment is a certainty and our | whole national effort will bog down. Victory will be | delayed, and postwar recovery will be pushed far into | an uncertain future One section of the bill calls for an increase in|U. S. Navy. It i the specific exemption on excess profits taxes from |winning the war in the Pacific. 204th Field Artillery Battalion, | The w a sh i n g 10n 3 where we had the most insulting| | talk delivered to us that we ever| Merry_Go_Roundihad to endure. Gen. Slack called | us a bunch of dirty two or three times. He told the; (Continued from Page One) 1 - | would personally see that they, were hanged and underground! within 30 days. He also said that Lis Judge Advocate had never lost a case and would not lose this| cne.” { ENGLAND'S EX-KING There were half a dozen empty chairs last week as Hugh Fulmn.i former counsel for the Truman; Committee, hosted a luncheon in| Bt el Weshington's swank Hotel Statler|,, o M6 o™ or Rnode Island| for the Duke of Windsor. Fulton, | whose New York law firm re},re-ih‘"“rd about this, he asked Under sents the Duke's interests in this}s""“’“”»" of War Patterson for an country, had invited a small group| 1’;‘;““5‘,‘;“’,"& Ge;"XlE:‘“‘;’l;"f“l;“"‘"‘1"‘ of high Washington officials and\]mp'ecmrflge:em‘; 0;‘ :he Yba i‘; | the entire membership of the Mead Committee ‘mnp“m_ly the of which Eisenhower reported that Truman Committee) at the Duke's| ¢ Was reprimanding Gen. Slack,| special request. | though he added the General “has| ¥ a long record of arduous and effi- Half a dozen busy Senators found | cient gbal.[le service.” | time to rush to the Statler for the| e enlisted men accused in the| luncheon, which they described as|case were court-martialed, and all| a pleasant affair with no particular’ gy wno were present at the scene| political significance. were acquitted. * NEW SOVIET AMBASSADOR | High spot of the luncheon was| % j furnishel by Wyoming’s Senator | Joe O'Mahoney, who produced a | letter from an Episcopalian min-|hind it, but Joe Stalin and V. jster in his state. The letter re- Molotov have decided to transfer lated the plight of an Englishman |sphinx-like, youthful Ambassador who had married an American Andrei Gromyko out of the pala- woman and settled in Wyoming.'tial Soviet Embassy in Washing- | The Englishman now wants to be ton right after the Potsdam Cun-" naturalized, the minister wrote, ference. { but is running into difficulty be<3 Gromyko was Number Two man | to cause his wife is determined of the Embassy under Maxim Lit- press charges of assault against vinov, and succeeded to Lit: nov's | him. job after the one-time Russian| If he didn't beat his wife, he Foreign Minister and champion of | should have, the minister wrote collective security was ordered back} O'Mahoney. |to Russia two years ago. The letter was shown to the| Since then, cold, unsmiling Duke, who remarked: | Gromyko has not got on too well “I can testify that the Church of England is peculiar about do- | in the capital. But he is well liked | in Russia, where he is considered | | | mestic lile. Here is a minister of one of the Soviet’s up-and-coming the Church in apparent uppm\'al‘dlplumulx, and he may become of domestic disharmony. Yet when Assistant Commissar for Foreign 1 decided to marry, the Church of | Affairs. | Gromyko’s successor hasn't beeu‘ chosen yet, but may be another! | equally unknown Russian diplomat, | Alexander N. Kapustin, now Coun- England insisted that I step down as King because my wife-to-be had been divorced. “The amusing thing to me,” con- | tinued the former King of Eng- selor of the Soviet Embassy in | land, “is that the Church of Eng- Washington. | land »was originally founded by I | Henry VIII in order to provide CAPITOL CHAFF | clerical sanction for his several Senator Kenneth Wherry of Ne-' divorces, braska, who has been loud in his NOTE—King Henry VIII had six denunciation of the misuse of air wiv priorities and excessive travel by Senate Committee Investigators, called the Army last week for a SOLDIER SLAP-DOWN? Another Patton soldier slap-down | priority for Katherine Guyon of on a lesser scale has just been the Small Business Committee to gettled by Gen. Eisenhower, re- go to Grand Island, Neb. Wherry sulting in a reprimand for Brig. wanted her to look into the com- Gen. Julius Slack plaint of Grand Island restaurant Gen. Slack artillery com- owners against OPA. Wherry him- mander in Patton’s Third Army, self talked the Army into giving was reprimanded for “intemperate' Miss Guyon a priority. A and reprehensible actions and new post office in Memphis, Tenn., | language” toward 22 enlisted men has been named the McKellar| in an alleged rape case. Branch Office. Senator Joe | Slack had accused three enlisted Ball of Minnesota, where the | men of taking two German wo! 1, | Parmer-Laborites are still influ- s, upstairs at the point of their gur ential, is getting more and more | in a German house, where other in dutch with them. They are| men watched the rape. furious over the sad-faced Sen- But according to Pvt. Walter M. ator’s blocking of Miss Viena John- Coulter of Providence, R. I, Gen. son, who had been nominated by Slack acted “on the word of two President Truman to be Internal German women who are without Revenue Collector in Minnesota. | doubt as fanatical as the German Army that we have given the best years of our lives to defeat. “We were taken to Headquarters, In a letter secretly sent the Senate Finance Committee, Ball accused Miss Johnson—a political enemy— The fact that this of being a Fellow-Traveler. She. invention requires so little it, too.. There always is danger in fire, of overflooding the top decks her to capsize. That, it is said, was what happened to the Normandy while firemen were huge decks in New York harbor. After fires are put out with the new method, very little water remains. Steam, rather than the water | itself, does the work. This comparatively simple development has saved | thousands of men and hundreds of ships to the s one of the many reasons we are supporter of Benson | was a leading Farmer - Laborite Elmer against Ball for the Senate in| 1942, Representatives Ned | Healy of Los Angeles and Hugh| Delacy of Seattle canceled trips| | three men accused of rape that he!to the Scuth Pacific in order to| stay in Washington and vote for the FEPC. . Warner Brothers has appointed Ted Tod as “story scout” for Washington. His job will be to pick up possible movie material from the more than a fairminded Senator | thousand newspaper -and magazine | writers and columnists in the! capital. (Copyright, 1913, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) - > Miss Evelyn Ohlson, Mr. Lioyd Neyhart Are Wed in Kansas Friends of Miss Evelyn Ohlson, who for the past several years has been Commercial teacher in the ; | Juneau High School, will be interest-fndded that the vacancies are being| Nobody quite knows what is be- it'd in the announcement of her mar- | filled as fast as they occur. riage to Mr. Lloyd G. Neyhart. The news of her marriage came to Supt. and Mrs. Neyhart are now residing in Marysville, Kansas. e In the 16th century, superstitious persons believed comets to be her- alds of evil, portending flood, fam- ine, earthquake, war or pestilence. A. B. Phillips, and said Mr.| ’510,000‘ the present figure, to $25,000. This willbeof(e ® & © o & o o o o o HAPPY BIRTHDAY July 27, 1945 oee Guy Gaudett Mrs. Ray Stevens John Clausen Patricia Connor Mrs. C. M. Ardell Aimije Lancaster F. T. Foster Helen V. Carlton Estelle Graybill e o o o o EPRTEN TR POPEEBBETR RBpases ST B0 | HOROSCOPE ! “The stars incline but do not compel” — SATURDAY, JULY 28 Promising and threate o plane~ tary aspects are seen for teday. There is a good sign for business| contracts. | HEART AND HOME A lucky day for news and for let- ter writing, except for love missives The sway is not inspiring for wo- men, who should not undertake any exacting tasks, domestic or profes-| sional. A date for planning, not for action. s BUSINESS AFFAIRS Expansion of the oil industry on a large scale will be of paramount in- terest. The outlook for United| States production is most promis-| ing. New wells will be opened in little exploited regions. NATIONAL ISSUES Improvements in relations between employers and employees is forecast. Union labor will encourage full co- operation with industralists as con-; version from war to peacetime acs tivities is hastened. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Division of responsibilities in Ger- many will require extraordinary wis- dom and diplomacy, the seers fore- tell. They counsel patient under-| standing of the nature and, charac- | ter of persons of different blood and traditions. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of opportun- ities for extraordinary service, when well -trained men and women will be needed in Furope. Children born on this day will be}| talented and extremely ambitious. | They will have courage that assures success. (Copyright 1945) ANOTHER TEACHER | HAS RESIGNED, BUT VACANCIES FILLING| A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of Schools, has announced the resigna- ition of one more member of the| ;tenching staff of the Juneau Public| Schools, bringing the number of: | resignations this year to a total of | l14, | | Mrs. Mary Stewart, who taught' | the First Grade last year, and was to have the Second Grade for the coming school term, has made known {her decision to live in Sitka, where | [her husband is with the Coast| Guard. ! However, to allay any fears the | youngsters may have regarding any | shortage of teachers, Mr. Phillips ! {100 20 YEARS AGO 7% emrpirE B e | JULY 27, 1925 ; 1n a game the previous afternoon, the Alaska Juneau defeated the Moose 11 to 6. In the seventh frame, the Miners sent five runs across the plate and added another counter in the ninth inning. Koski and MacSpadden composed the Moose battery and with Wagner behind the plate, the Miners' pitchers were Jackson and DeWade. In the second game of a doubleheader, the Juneau Fire Department cleaned up on a nine from the Unalga by a score of 14 to 1. The Elks and Vets were to meet for the last time of the present season on the evening of this datg, weather permitting. 5 Princess Charlotte was due southbound the next day and steamers Alaska and Jefferson were due from the south the next day. The Alma took 30 excursionists to Taku Harbor the previous day and all were shown through the cannery by Capt. C. E. Ahues. and Masons of Douglas enjoyed a picnic at the old jous day. Boating, swimming and sports were enjoyed. Eastern St Auk Village the pre Twin Glacier Camp on Taku » Bess O'Neill, Ann Coleman, R. Hurley and Doug Austin. wo parties enjoyed the weekend at Among those making the trip wer thy Haley, Mrs. J. W. Leivers, Mre Miss Rica Martini, who had been visiting with Miss Etta Brown, left for her home in Seattle on the Yukon. Rive Dor¢ of the Methodist Church were to picnic The Sunday School pupils at Salmon Creek the next day. Weather report: High, 74; low, 68; cloudy. ot et et et £ e ! Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I was tickled to death to see him.” Sa, “I was greatly pleased to see him." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Effusive. Pronounce the S as in 8O, not the Z. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Gallery; two L's, and ERY. SYNONYMS: Physical, bodily, corporal, material, tangibl WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours. increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's EXTORTION; act of wresting by force, or any undue or illegal power or ingenuity. “He was arrested on a charge of extortion.” { MODERN ETIQUETTE 'ROBERTA LEE 3 Q. Is it possible to determine whether a woman is well-bred by observing her when shopping in a department store? A. Yes, and it is cne of the best ways to judge a woman’s manners. Anyone who makes a sales perosn shows dozens of articles for inspec- tion, or insists that the store deliver a very small article that could easily be carried, shows ill-breeding. Q. Are the words to be used in acknowledging an invitation of great importance? A. The words should be chosen carefully, but cordiality are of more importance than the words. Q. Where should the hostess meet her guests when giving a luncheon in her home? A. The guests should be ushered into the livingroom where hostess meets them. the sincerity and the K and LEARN ? C. GORDON 1. In what year did the Salvation Army hold its first meetings in the United States? 2. Does amorphous mean sleepy, transparent, or formless? 3. What countries are governed by negroes? 4. What is the official language of Mexico, and the language taught in schools? 5. What is the Matterhorn and where is it? ANSWERS: 1. In 1880. 2. Formless.| 3. Haiti and Liberia. 4. Spanish. 5. It is a high mountain in the Swiss Alps. LEGG ARRIVES G. H. Legg has arrived in Ju- ineau from Whitehorse, via Pan American, and is a guest at th Baranof Hotel. 3 v - — WOOD IN JUNEAU Harry L. Wood, of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ACROSS 37. Wheel track 1. Dense mist 38, Third power 4. Insects’ feelers 39, Denoting the 9. Provide central weapons part 12, American 40. Steadfast author 42. By 13. Wing-shaped 43, Brazilian 14. Scoteh river macaw 15. Disorder 44. Knock 17. Ancient wine 45, Ending of the vessel tense . Three-part 45. o composition 49, ad to dr. : Killer whale 51 S Indian Wrath 52 : 23. Took the eve- bi. ning meal 57. Metal 25. Indian mul- 58, Vehement berry enmity Chart 60. Bushy clump Rodent 61. Hollow out Exists 62. Pedal digit . Having two 63, Town in Penn- sides sylvania Make lace 64. Feather Skip 65. Mournful ,/// lnd ] EEEEEE Crossword Puzzle GINACIE[SIIR] EEE O Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 7. Anct 1 Actunity S cent 3. Nature spiritg & Tosethe 4 neh city pEs 5. Too 9. Proverb 6. Dens 10. Capable of being core rected 11. Fermented drink 16. Make-up of a book . Quick to learn . Alcoholie liquor . Clumsy boat . Pl ~d buds berries . Masculine ame Large tub p card . Musical com- position . Tth-century Greek poet . Small Dutch coins . Masculine me . Eevptian deity 55, Portico . Watchea & narrowly Viper American government agenc abbr, HAROLD BROWN as a pald-up subscriver ¢ 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: "SONG OF NEVADA" Federal Tax-—11c¢ per Person PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YQU to your home with our compliments. 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