The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR__ A Daily Alaska Empire | published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. EN - - - - President LINGO - = = Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager l;mvmimu the meeting which was to begin today. Atwood may succeed in establishing himself as a | repre: entative of all of Alaska, which he is not even though he puts himself up as one. We understand | that several rush wires have been dispatched by Juneau businessmen, since yesterday's story appeared challenging the contention that Alaska's best interests would be served by the route plugged by Atwood. And better late than never. DOROTHY TROY WILLIAM R. CARTER - = - ELMER A. FRIEND = &, i = ALFRED ZEN Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00. | By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month. in advance. §1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Hivery of their papers. | Telephones: News Office, 602; Bus| OPA Should Be Liquidated by Congress (The Argonaut) Although the Office of Price Administration began to reduce its staffs immediately following the Japanesc |offer to surrender, it is recognized that a picked / nucleus bas been retained. The dream of the New | Dealers to turn the United States into a Socialist | republic, managed by bureaucrats, has not yet been dissipated by cold reality. The Congress should write | the edict for the dissolution. President Truman has in preparation for Congress | seven or eight measures that are immediately urgent As soon as these are put in the hopper a bill to abolish OPA should be introduced and passed and signed. | Although Congress has previously extended the lease of life to this bureau, a deadline for its abolishment can be set, and intermediate reduction of its power to | interfere with the law of supply and demand can be commanded Some control of prices was needed during the war to prevent inflation, but the OPA group went far | beyond any necessity. It became an instrument for / wasting the time of | their best to win the war, and a trial laboratory in | the regimentation of the general population. As in ffice, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATE! 88 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- b-nese credited in this paper and also the local news published rein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blds., Seattle, Wash possibilities for racketeering were early recognized by | the financial underworld. In the Los Angeles area, | for example, the more gasoline denied to the common | and uninfluential suppliant, the more was available to Editor Bob Atwood of the Anchorage Times, now | the black market. In the San Francisco region the in Seattle in connection with the Puget Sound city’s | OPA restored to the American scene the obscene prac- efforts to make Seattle the air gateway to the Orient, ; tices of the bootlegger and high-jacker. Meat was is taking in quite a bit of territory when he contends | smuggled into the urban markets as liquor used to be that he is representing the Alaska point of view on the The American people have had more than enough " - R | of the indignities inflicted on them by the OPA. They Jrynlem. | know instinctively that the artificial control of prices It would seem to us that Atwood’s contention and the arbitrary distribution of commodities, are, to that an air route from Chicago through Canada to|use the words of the Honorable E. H. Moore in his the Orient would best benefit Alaska is one of the i address to Congress on June 6, 1943, repugnant to the most selfish viewpoints we have seen. That route, | conception of free trade and enterprise as encompassed of course, would have only one city in Alaska as a .tht‘ Cunslit}vltiml, “Both are the essence of a e | socialistic state. refueling stop—Anchorage. Atwood, as far as We | qne gperations of OPA during the war involved a know, in his contention presents only the point of view | general violation of the Bill of Rights even for war- of Anchorage. [time. There is no excuse from here on to continue making the U. S. Constitution obsolete. The nation was demoralized by the prohibition experiment fol- | lowing the First World War, and unless we want our | people to lose faith in our Constitution (which may be | the intention of the OPA brain trust), we had better On the ogher hand, it would seem to us that these ' be rid of it immediately. Congressman Moore spoke cities would derive much more benefit out of a route | truly, when he said that OPA “has become a monster which took off from Seattle and for which Seattle is | of oppression, a vehicle for crime, the instrumentality fighting. | of destruction, the breeder of greed, and the per- At one point fn his story which was printed in | Petrator of shortiges and hardships” vesterday's Empire, Atwood said that “an Oriental air | . Happly, President Truman has gained the con- S te v Hbaite eonla touch Adak o KIake BULBO P L REEIEE 08 BRSO oker DL . ‘ 2 dent by his intellectual honesty and simplicity. He other point, thus leaving all of Alaska entirely out of | tninks as an American. But, as Congressman Moore the picture.” | said: “OPA has failed under the management of un- The application filed by Pan American Alrways | American-minded men who have no confidence in the would have had either Anchorage or Fairbanks as an | principles of the Constitution or the integrity of the Alaska refueling stop as we recollect, and this has | American way of life.” been confirmed by the local PAA office | The blame for the continuation of the OPA con- We are quite sure that no Juneau representative fusion must be placed directly on Congress, indi- . 5 S | vidually and collectively. Business men who have ::;\':ut:::n;: i‘c‘::’\:::l l;:o“::‘; f:lu{::‘o],\f;‘:1m:dr:;:" been discouraged by harassment into despairing of the % | survival of the free enterprise system can serve other Alaskan citles. themselves and their country best by demanding that At any rate, Juneau businessmen have missed the | their Congressmen forthrightly proceed to destroy boat in not having a representative in Seattle to |this Frankenstein which Congress itself created KA VIEWPOINT? We are sure that the people of Ketchikan, Juneau, | Fairbanks and Nome, who would be completely out of the picture with a route from Chicago established, would not agree with Atwood i Oregon. It was from the Kuriles|—and at first_he didn't know it e aShlnglon that, the Japs launched their bal-| Price was in Rome, anxious to loons to the U. S. Northwest. In study the Roman Civil Govern- | future rocket-bomb operations, the ment, and knowing no Italian, en- | winds will be important. |listed the services of an American Now diplomats point out that|Red Cross girl who said she spoke Truman had an easier time trading | the language. She went with him with Stalin on the Far East than|to question local Italian officials. FDR at Yalta because at Potsdam| Arriving in a room of Rome’s it was obvious that we had the Municipal Building, the girl began Japs on the run. It was a question |0 quiz the clerk regarding his of Stalin getting something or |duties. Apparently her Italian left nothing before the war was over.|something to be desired. * ok ok | Smiling at the two Americans, CAPITAL CHAFF {the clerk left the room, but came Those who watched President|back and asked them to sign the | Truman operate with Stalin at|register. The girl had completed ‘Potsdam say he employed a master- | her signature when Congressman | ful technique. In the evening he|Price noticed a priest entering the |drank and sang with Stalin. They |room, smiling broadly. literally had their arms around! wWhereupon the gentleman® from | each “other. But next day qilinois got suspicious. Using sign during dipiomatic negotiations, 'janguage and a few words of Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | puppet Government in Inner Mon- golia, hitherto under China. * x % TRUMAN FRANK WITH STALIN But when President Truman got | to Potsdam he decided to change all this. He felt that these con- cessions to Russia went too far, and told Stalin so frankly. Putting all his cards on the table, the new U. S. President told the venerable Soviet chief approxi- mately this: “The Far East is our first line of defense. There lies our greatest business men who were doing! |all devices to change the habits of the people, its| and | Italian he discovered that he was ANB and ANS which usually means a marriagesix delegates from each town. HAPPY BIRTHDAY b o Edith Lavold Evert Martinson Mrs. E. S. Ellett Mrs. Carl Erickson Hans Patrick Mrs. W. W. Johnson Daniel Pederson Catherine Tompkins Elsie Martin Mrs. M. R. Wilson e e 0 0000 0 00 S THoRoscor | I} “The stars incline ! ! but do not compel” ' eV THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 ® o September 12, 1945 © & @4 ) THE EMPIRE, 20 YEARS AGO" SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 W. E. Bathe, pioneer barber of Juneau, had leased his barber shop and gone south, where he planned to meet Mrs. Bathe in Portland, attend the annual round-up at Pendleton, and go from there to Walla Walla to visit a married daughter who resided in ‘hat city. Miss Mary Bruce Cook became the bride of Mr. Edwin Sutton this night, in a wedding ceremony at the Presbyterian Church. She was attended by her cousin, Miss Lois Cook and Mr. Norman Cook, brother of the bride, was best man. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Emil Krause. Roy Thomas was an outgoing passenger to Ketchikan on the steamer Northwestern Mr. and Mrs. Willis Roff, who had been residing in Douglas, had moved to Juneau. Douglas students leaving for school on the Northwestern included Benefic aspects dominate today but certain adverse influences are| active. There i gn read as pre- saging possible disappointment re-| { garding a natonal aim. | HEART AND HOME As women gain power, they have| added responsibility regarding the| jright living of the nation, the seers Ipoint out. Lofty ideals should be| made fashionable and old formalities| in human relations should be reviv- led, they declare. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS | German industralists must be ab-| solutely defeated, according to ser- tain signs which seem to warn that| secret connections and cartel agree- ments link them with victorious peoples. NATIONAL ISSUES i Since the war has proved again that knowledge is power, the value of education will be realized as never before, it is forecast. Schools and | colleges will be crowded. Science will be studied with great interest, 50 will economics and finance. H INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | Growth of radical thinging in Eu-| ropean countries is forecast Leftist | tendencies will increase the spread of Communism. In remaking the ruined world all will demand equal | chances to enjoy the comforts an luxuries. i Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of many odd experiences. Travel will be necessary | to a large number. | Children born on this day will be| exceedingly clever, but inclined to re- sent guidance. They will crave com- fort and amusement. (Copyright, 1945) register. The priest was on hand to tie the knot the minute he had | signed. Congressman Price departed | immediatel o (Copyright, by Beil Syndicate, Inc.) - ANB CONVENTION WILL BE HELD AT ANGOON NOV. 12 The 1945 Grand Camp of the| Alaska Native Brotherhood and| Alaska Native Sisterhood will be| held at Angoon beginning at 10| o'clock on the morning of November | 12, according to circulars issued by | William L. Paul, Jr., Grand Secre-| tary. Roy Peratrovich is Presldunt:' |of the ANB and Mrs. Elizabeth Pera- | trovich is President of the ANS. Letters have been sent to Frank | Peratrovich, President of the Alaska | i Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union, and: Mrs. Ruby Peratrovich, President of | the Cannery Workers' Auxiliary, to| |sen ddelegates to the convention! {with authority to speak, vote and| hold office and engage on all matters | touching collective bargaining in the { salmon industry in Southeast Alaska. Each town is entitled to send three delegates from each of the| danger in wartime. We have recog- | [Tuman was formal, polite, | nized your first line of defense in |C0ld as steel Some military | peing asked to sign Europe. We have given you what observers set significance in the| _ BN BN 505 you want in Poland, and in make-up of the Army’s Pearl) Southern Europe. We have let you Harbor board and the fact that it| extend your line of defense up to|Criticized Chief of Staff ~Gen.| the River Elbe, Now we must ask|Marshall One member was Maj.| you to reciprocate in the Far East, | G¢n. -Russell of Macon, Ga, who| , ACROSS - Old-womanish Where we plan to arrange a peace| commanded the Thirtieth Division, | 7 Vex Potowed |made up of Georgia National 13. Defray In Dillseed which we think will be lasting.” advance Feminine name t Truman stuck to this position, Guardsmen, at Fort Jackson, 14. Very small uf Stalin saw that he meant business 1'om September, 1940, to May, 1942.| 13- ”flm'(‘;,"m Beiale absen and gracefully yielded—except on|Then Jjust as the division was| 16 Daubed . Numper one pomt. He recalled that the about to go overseas, he was re-| I BEMGSey 33 Tuke the Chinese Eastern Railroz ether | lieved. . This was in line with | mother evening meal e Eastern Railroad, together A ) e Bortn Mancbarian Rail. | the Armys.requently unfair policy |8k Hunting doss: :oi Suaiiest stata: road and the ice-free seaport of Of taking commands away from| 22. Behave . = 65. Prickiy plant > £ ¥ 3. Ci Neva 5T, Port Arthur were built by Russia ’:\;‘“f";’ Guard "fé‘“"-" ‘;‘ favor ”‘i = Pe({;rg scotch g%zmm\;'%'xvlns and owned by Russia up until 1904,| West Pointers and regulars. . . .| 76 Uncias: Beote mopRlty, s = 21. Polsonous 60. Light val Therefore, he asked that these be!Gen. Russell resented this bitterly. e g Chvalry. returned. |He had spent almost 20 years with| .. tree | £E An an shawl Truman thought this was reas- the Georgia National Guard and| 31 Gum ll'eslnl: 2 0;:;»4 onable and agreed | had a (uu. overseas xccmd_m Lhei 32 Kind of beetle 1. Blade of grass . |last war. So he protested right up| 36. White poplar 2. Rub out SECRETARY BYRNES fo Gen. Marshall himself. Marshall, | JUSTIFIES COMPROMISE | however, refused to change the| But then arose the point that order. Russell stayed home and eventually became a member of | the Pearl Harbor board where, he| helped find Marshall guilty of | neglect. . . Gen. George Grunert, | who headed the Pearl Harbor in- quiry, an A-1 officer, is another who had trouble at the top. Serving ! China should also be permitted to maintain bases at Port Arthur and Dairen. In exchange for this, Stalin asked that Russia occupy the Kurile Islands. It was at this point that admirals and generals say U. 8 Jimmy Crossword Puzzle > Z(P! o[> [>-[z>z] z| > anoagon Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzlc 3. Symbol for 5. Incarnation of cerium Vishna 4. Prosperous 6. Without organs times of sight 2. Horse's working gear . The sweelsop . 16% feet Exist B From the time that . Gaels 7. Swiss river Count oyer United States citizens 24. Iridescent 3. Issue forth Mountain ridge . South American monkey . Obstruction tn a stream . Former President's ckname Byrnes stepped in and accepted the in the Philippines under MacAr- compromise. They claim he did it thur along with Lt. Col. Dwight| without consulting them. Jimmy Eisenhower, both he and Eisen-| justified his move not only on the hower got in wrong with MacAr- | ground that Roosevelt had pre- thur and were sent home. It wasj viously promised the Kuriles to|the best break Eisenhower everi Russia, but because the Kuriles in|bad Grunert enlisted as a| U. 8. hands would set up a chain Private, never went to West Point.| of forts surrounding Siberia. He e o CUPID OVER CONGRI One Congressman bachelor travel- ! ling in Europe almost didn't come | home a bachelor. He is Representa- | tive Mel Price, former corporal in the Army and now a Democratic | Congressman from East St. Louis, I1l. He had a close call from Cupid felt it would make for healthier all-around relations with Russia if we did not give the appearance of boxing her in. U. S. military men say, however that the Kuriles are important be- cause the winds blow strongly from them toward Washington and | | | division . Unproductive . Viaduct . Rail birds . Oleoresin 6. North central heme nging syllable . Finish Conjunction Symbol for copper | never before. Martin Gallwas, Arne Vesoja and James Manning. The Admiral Watson arrived in port with freight and three days mail for Juneau. City League were not convinced the married players were better than they, so a second game between bachelors and benedicts scheduled for the following day. Andy Andrews was to pitch for the bachelors and Koski was to start for the married men. 26 passengers, 94 tons of The single men of the Weather: Highest, 66; lowest, 52; clear. s e e e e £ e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “There is a young man who is bound to succeed.” Say, “Who is DETERMINED to succeed.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hydrometer. Pronounce hi-drom-e-ter, I as in HIGH, O as in ON, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: R (actual). Reel (a dance). revolvable device). Reel (to whirh). SYNONYMS: Act, action, accomplishment, achievement, perform- ance, deed, execution, operation, transaction. 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: CACHINNATION; loud or immoderate laughter, as of a hysterical per- (Pronounce kak-i-na-shun, first A as in AT, T as in IN, second A as “Strange cachinnation from the adjoin- Reel (a son. in DAY, accent third syllable). ing room startled us.” e L G MODERN ETIQUETTE *; ROBERTA LEE 3 z Q. Ts it proper to mail the wedding announcements at the same time | as the invitations? A. No; the invitations are mailed two or three weeks in advance, | but the announcements should be mailed immediately after the wedding, Some member of the family can attend to this. Q. What would be the proper way to introduce Miss Smith to Mrs. Brown? A’ Say, “Mrs. Brown, may T present Miss Smith?” the unmarried woman to the married one. Q. How should one place the knife and fork after finishing a course at the dinner table? A. Parallel across the plate, with the handles to the right. Always present 1. What three flags are embodied in the Union Jack? 2. What State has frontage on four of the Great Lakes? 3. Was chalk ever alive? 4. On what. ticket was Theodore Roosevelt elected President? 5. What is the algebraic symbol for the square root of minus one? ANSWERS: . The English flag of St. George, the Scottish flag of St. Andrew and the Irish flag of St. Patrick. 2. Michigan—on all but Lake Ontario. 3. Yes, it is composed of shells of minute animals who lived cen- turies ago. 4. The Republican. 5. 1 Theriis no substitute for newspaper advertising! FRANCIS BEEBE o | as a paild-ap supscriver to THY 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: “DAYS OF GLORY” I ederal Tax-—11c per Person PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. | WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! REQUEST FOR BIDS Removal of Radio Transmission Tower Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Area Engineer until September 20, 1945, for dismantling the 300-foot steel radio transmission tower located behind the Signal Corps buildings on Twelfth Street within the city limits of Juneau, Alaska. Specifications call for complete dismantling of the tower and hauling to the Juneau Port storage area. Further information may be obtained from the Area Engineer, P. O. Box 1361, Juneau, Alaska. TRIPLETTE & KRUS BUILDING CONTRACTORS |’ i T Rt 11 EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS ’ 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Meets each Tues- Monday of each month . g in Scottish Rite Temple day at 8:00 P. M: I.O.O.F. HALL. beginning at 7:30 p. m Visiting Brothers Welcome E. F. CLEMENTS, Wor« GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand | gnipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretarys GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 92 or 95 _— B.P.0. ELKS. = Meets every Wednesday at 8 m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLMQUIST, Exalted Rul- er; H. L. McDONALD, Secrptary. Silver Bow Lodge| MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 @Nm A210.0.F. SECOND and FOURTH . ’ I Warfields’ Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM —_— The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Chiidren’s Wear 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska DR.E. H. KASER [ FLOWERLAND | A 7 A A D i AR 7 BI.DMG?‘-?N“BST ING CUT FLOWERS—POTTED T “DIL[' PLANTS—CORSAGES i HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. zfi:":::ll lff.':kvl‘mm‘ r‘:l:;:l hl;'l i i Dr. A. W. Stewart e Lo DD - | o B NEW AND USED | | Office Phone 460 | | Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. ' ¢ i Dr. John H. Geyer Jones-Stevens Shop VENTIST LADIES'—MISSES® Room 9—Valentine Bldg. READY-TO-WEAR ‘ PHONE 1762 Seward Street Near Third ry — —— ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. 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Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers’ Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI|* Phone 311 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1945 The B. M Be_liren’ds Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS e R T o S - Juneau Florists -