The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1946, Page 4

P T as Py P e PAGE FOUR a Empire by the every even PRINTING €O n Streets, Jur President " Vice President Editor ana sanager Managing Ecitor Business Manager WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A. FRIE! Post_Office in as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: weltvered by carrier ia Juneau and Douclas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15 postage paid. at the followir et nce, §15.00: six months, in #.dvance, $7.50; 50 One year, i one month a Subscribe the Business C r if they will promptly nettfy ¢ or irregularity ic the delivery “ their papers ne: e, 602 Bust Office. 374. ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF ated Pres tled to the use for ews dispatches credited to if or not other- Biper and also the local news published NATIO EPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 14°1 Fourth /s HIGHER \\ AG I. PRESSURE large creases granted tion are being despite the Slowly but surely the wage in under the sponsorship of the Admini reflected in higher costs and higher prices many forecasts that this would not happen. ‘We have already had ses in the prices of steel, meats, building materials and other goods in order to com- pensate for r wage inceases. Now the railroads have asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve a 25 per cent increase in freight rates on most This increase is designed to compensate for costs and for higher material costs m recent wage increases. incres products. the higher wage stemming in large part The railroads estimate that the latest wage increase of 16 cents per hour will add $619,000,000 to their 1946 wage bill. It was possible for the railroads to absorb these large wartime increases without any increase in freight rates because of the record volume of wartime freight traffic. Another favorable factor was the con- version of a quarter of a billion dollar loss on passznger traffic into a profit of that amount as a result of the huge wartime movement of passenger traffic. Now, [with and material costs continuing to rise while traffic has declined, the petition for an increase in freight s has been the inevitable result. i in many cases wage increases have been While has been clear without price increases, it cutset that steel and railroads were not in because of their basic im- production and distribution, pri inevitably influence costs Here we have evidence from the this category. Moreover, all those ar economy. of the concrete economic realities of wage increases in to the political wishful thinking that large reases are possible without price increases. And here is the reason for the recent attempt cn the part of the House of Representatives to clip the claws of the OPA. Tt is apparent that if the workin ma wages continue to climb, prices must also climb the old inflationary spiral. When portance in increases throughout the er in to pay the wages price control was begun there were no ceilings on wages, and when the War Labor Board, with its wage ceilings was finally given the power to freeze wages the pi » for higher prices already was at a high point. A Regular Policy? (Cincinnati Enquirer) On Easter Sunday and the day following, Rust an fighter planes twice menaced C-47 cargo planes of the U. S. Army Air Forces in crderly flight over Austria Protests based on the incidents were lodzed with Soviet authorities by Gen. Mark W. Clark, American commander in Austria, and his opposite, Marshal Ivan S. Konev, assured General Clark that “every step would be taken to prevent further attacks on U. S. planes over Austria.” Tuesday, two Soviet fighter pl: zed” Gen- eral C s personal plane, a Fly ess, while it was being flown from Vienna to Linz by Brig. Gen. Ralph A. Snavely, commander of the Air Division of American Fortes in Austria. General Clark, as it happened, was not aboard. The cable report said that the Soviet planes made several swoops at the Flying Fertress without firing their guns. In the previous incidents, the Russians ad actually fired, without effect, at the American aireraft. The Russians e notoriously “rambunctious” in their style of flying, and it is possible that the pilots of the fighters meant no particular discourtesy in flying close enough to “buzz” the larger craft. It iz ossible—but hardly probable. We know of no air e that encoul s or even permits fighter pilots to ecndanger the safety of bombers by “buzzing” them without occesion fer clese flying, and certainly this is not part of the etiquette of the sky where the planes of another nationality are concerned. It should be made clearer to the Soviet Govern- ment that the planes of the USAAF are not play- things, and if such incidents continue we wiil be forced to the conclusion that they are deliberate affronts. country’s fate— The Washingfon For the three blind mice.” than one third of the organized Me"y-fio'kound ‘Were they afraid to trust the railroad conductors. This dates President?” Whitney asked his fel- back to the da; when many | (Continued from Page One) low Trainmen in the round-robin trainmen, promoted to be conduc- letter. FDR, hov opposed. And, at & (the other ver, ers in December 1943, FDR had in the hope that some strong words to say about the ' then their numerical and financial pay hike ‘proposed by the man who condition?” was to succeed him. The letter “If Congress passes the Truman brotherhood feud; Switchmen veto it. And I shall veto any other | who have now uccepts(l arbitration, Resolution,” he decreed, “I shall | ductors, considef little bit mdu‘m t attempt by a small group to get theirs at the expense of the nation. Though the hour is getting late g “Or is it possible that they three meeting with the brotherhood lead- were playing organization politics didn't help ease the Conductors, is that out his union has 16,000 conduciors—or more tors, decided to remain with Whit- ney's Traintnen instead of joining| the Order of Railway Conductor At cne time, the Order of Rail- way organize all conductors, little headway in raiding Whitney's union and large, his conductors remained as loyal to him as Whit- | ney himself was to his idol, the epistle just a|late Franklin Roosevelt. today. e brotherhoods) they may streng- though the Con- and Firemen, This is not government,” he con- P CAPITAL CHAFF tinued; “that is government by LONE WOLF WHITNEY It was a tribute to Majority blackmail. T am shocked to come A F. Whitney, tne man who now | Whip John Sparkman when the back from the battlefront, where pefuses to arbitrate, is the son of House voted to accept the com- everyone is coing such a good job, and find talk of a railroad strike.” a preacher, pids, Towa, nurtured John L. TWO BRUIZERHOOD TO FLIP-FLOP and Chicago Today, fine himself trying to prevent a higher wage-boost than that al- ready given bitration board—s$1.28 per Central, brilliant linois most rail leaders who helped Roosevelt arbitrate, now flatly oppssed to ar- ! wolf of the brotherhoods, was born in Cedar Ra- the same first job as a news butcher on the Northwestern, Harry Truman not only graduating to brakeman on the Il- is and workers by an ar- | brotherhood leaders. FDR once sent day—but | him to Buenos Aires as a delegate he also finds himself with the two|to a pan-American conference. Whitney long has been the lone- promise authorizing $400,000,000 in subsidies for the producers of building materials. Other Admin- istration leaders were afraid of the te, but Sparkman knew many Congressmen had heard from disappointed veterans at home. So he went to work on the telephone and on the House floor—buttonhol- ing both Democrats and Republi- state which Lewis. He got his later the the considered able of ried by nearly 50 votes. (Offi- cers of the battleship Missouri put and in bitration cne Chicago meeting in 1937, J. A. up a loud howl last Navy Day Rocsevelt, faced with the strike Phillips, then head of the Rail- when New York Souvenir hunters threat, turned to his best rail- way Conductors, made serious tock many objects from the ship. worker friend at one memorable charges against him. Whitney re- “I'm go-, plied with an epithet, if [threw an ink bottle at Whitney’s rail conference, and said: ing to begin by asking you, Al you will accept me as sole arbitra- |head. tor.” ! One ‘Speaking for the Trainmen, we'll Wolf attitude, reason for especially But when they were guests of Paul Alling, Minister to Tangier, last month at his home there, Alling |had to complain to the Captain Whitney's lone- that dozens of silver and gold heir- for his locms disappeared from his home. and Phillips Order of Railway | (COPYRIGHT, BELL 5YNDICATE, INC. 1946) |strong bid to participate in manage- ductors staged a drive to| but made | that | cans. Housing subsidies were car-| MAY 18 John Hermle Ray G. Day Hans Floe Malcolm Faulkner Mrs. Raymond Haydon Grani Ritter Chee Hermann Guy Westfall Erwin Butts esoc000000e MAY 19 Mrs. T. J. Pyle Dale M. Roff Francis F. Davis Mary Baldwin Ann Lester E. E. Sommers ©ececooec Mrs .o e o o © o o e eee— e Sy "HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline S SUNDAY, MAY 19 HEART AND HOME Meany women in the finding their lives cluttered up with nen-essentials and boring rou- tine and they warned by the stars against self-pity, restlessness and pointless introspection. House- work is never exciting, but it can be made interesting and not too wearing BUSINESS AFFAIRS The stars warn against unve- duration of the coming period of prosperity. The wise ones will make the most of their opportunities now and in the future, but will not lose sight of the fact that the nation's purchasing power ultimately will decline. NATIONAL ISSUES Organized labor has made on2 ment and there are signs that this ambition will be pursued with great- t er diligence and determination in the immediate future. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ‘Though many critics will rise in jopposition to a U. 8. loan to France there is little likelihood that this « effort will prevent the loan' from s being made. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year in the activity that puts g t demands on their time Children born today will be clear: headed, encrgetic and tireless work-| ers when they are engaged in la- bor of their own choosing. | | | | TR ; MONDAY, MAY 20 ( | HEART AND HOME ‘ The aged are favored under this \ccnfigumnon ‘The stars are also" 'especially those who are recovering from disappointment in earlier |fairs of the heart. BUSINESS AFFAIRS | Great activity in the New York stock market throughout the Sum- mer months is indicated, bu® there will be occasional brief periods of irregular trading that will upset thé most cautious predictions. | NATIONAL ISSUES « Those counting on big crops and a great surplus of food in the Fall are warned not to discount the pos- sibility of a serious summer drought which could have its effect on every pantry in the country. i | Curtis for for her little friends Saturday, the steamer Alameda for engine in the new boat under conc=:us but do not compel” ; home gre' who you love.” E increase our vecabulary by REMOTE: distant; secluded. tain fastnesses.” strained optimism concerning the feceeeerrecorreeeeos ifriendly to young women in love,! —— SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1946 20 YEARS AGO %% susize MAY 18, 1926 s the regular trip to Skagway and points intermediate the mail and passenger boat Estebeth, Capt. Ed. Bach, left port last night. Pas- sengers included Thomas C. Daniels, C. B. Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Haines. R. Van Loon and C. F. Wyller left on the steamer Alaska for the| westward, on business connected with the Bureau of Public Roads. Imiach, of the Imlach Packing Company, was aboard the a going to his plant at Sawmill Bay. w. J. steamer Alas| Miss Virginia Langseth celebrated her third. birthday with a party | May 15 Fisheries vessel Widgeon, left on the installation cf the n this district. Earl Bright, engineer on the U. S. the States to supervis n for use i who had been practicing law here the past five left for Seward where he was to be associated with I. V. Ray, ninent attorney in that westward city. Mrs. Morton and. their two | ildren, Jack and Myrtle, were to join him later. Weather: Highest, 61; 41; cloudy. P s Daily Lessons in English 1\2;3, L. GORDON ! Harry F. Morton, lowest, e N | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not s “You will do it for those, Say, “for those WHOM you lov OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Sesame. Pronounce | as in SET, A as in ASK unstressed, E as in ME, accent first syllable. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Codicil; two C's, not SIL. | SYNONYMS: Unutterable, um]\mkable intexpressible, indescrlhable,: ses-a-me, first ineffable WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us mastering one word each day. Today’s word: “He found his happiness in remote moun- MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoprrra ek s - T e Q. When a girl has neen visiting another girl, to whom should the | bread and butter” letter be addressed? A. The letter may be addressed to her friend, but she certainly\ should include a message of sincere appreciation to the girl’s mother, who | often deserves the most credit for a pleasant visit. Q. Would it be proper for the bridegroom and best man to wear uxedo suits at an afternoon wedding? A. No. All the men should wear business suits. Q. What would be the correct hour to give a Sunday morning breakfast to a few friends? A. Any hour before noon. LOOK and LEARN 1. Is the earth nearer the sun in summer or winter? by A C. GORDON ) 2. What in law is an infant? 3. What is a brochure? 4. 'What religion was founded by a woman? 5. Which is the most famous waltz in the world? ANSWERS: 1. In winter. 2. .A person under legal age, usually 21 years. 3. A pamphlet. 4. Christian Science, founded by Mary Baker Eddy. 5. “The Blue Danube,” by Johann Strauss. Baranof Turkish Bath and Massage Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.—Open Evenings by Appointment BARANOF HOTEL—Lower Level PHONE 753 OIl. BURNERS PLUMBING HEATING Smith 0il Burner Service 214 SECOND STREET DAY PHONE 476 NIGHT CALLS—Fred C. Lorz—Blue 655 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | ‘There is nothing in the stars to support the fear of serious trouble between the United States and Rus- sia, but signs do not preclude the possibility of increasing friction he- BRONZE SHAFTING — STERN BEARINGS — PROPELLORS GRAY MARINE ENGINES SALES and SERVICE Juneau Weldmg and Machine Shop accept, Mr. President” replied troubles with the /tween the two over a period of ‘Whitney without a moment’s — 20 AR TR 3 Tt years. ‘Those who still sec2 a threat thought. 5 L[U/ME] of »rnrl kefore 1951 are wcrrnnm Other brotherhood leaders aske C d P l A|ITIO'R| needlessly. more times to consider, and a hot rosswor uzzie Persons whose birthdate this is ! NATE fight developed bet 3 T N E c a;e pmmuteld by theistmu ‘A year and Johnstcn . Revolve of interesting experiences in con- three other §; Jineral upring 42, Sober 3 z nection with a rew enterprise. Yarry Praser R Snfi-ugked :;’ 1‘)““""_ c D Ctildren born today probably will 1 sailor g ossesses A be exceptionally intelligent and early R s show a talent for art, music or liter- stubbornly resist . T E ature. i 3 52. Swing from ri ) ation plea and 3 side to side E T (Copyright, 1946 | iy, Greek letter 04, Wrath s | I’y it i 20. Poorly 6. Short skirt T | A is diametrical- . Hard wood g9, Urchin E E i ne three who re- . Foem 0. Escape b 3 I : . Sacred tmage subter A R frsid to 2 at Roosevelt's Morning: abbr. 62. Secundear;,‘. s T[ER[S] oo o wa ow feqticst—the juctors, Firemen s s ralstate. oF ‘gg;‘;r“k. = RIS 1 and Switchms have already ac- p'xl\n, * animal Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle REDDING, Calif., May 18—Forest cepted Trui arbitration offer B ey LS f@:,,fi“z'{' DOWN P | Ranger Harold Peterson reports the end the award of $128 a day has’ o erator o plonsent 1 Altempt: collod. 5. Conveyance presence of a fish in the bead-: been recommended. (They are not 'c:'u}\fr (e 6. ng’l'}%e‘ pisny 4 6. Object of |waters of the Pit River arm °‘. happy abo the amount awarded, devotion Shasta Dam “as big as a truck”— Jut believe in continuing their 516 [7 b~ and if you don’t believe ii, hell trade.) However, FDR’s old friends, 8 Number !show you the truck. S7hitney and Jc on, not even o ‘L“lw—;t:‘l‘"rd i Poterson said he uced his For- ‘agrecing to arbitr have called I Period of time st truck for a comparative mea-| 77 the strike. 2 RAIL BITTERNESS DEEPENS 19. Part of a churek . Pulled apart Fine old violin Bottoms of s lwe- 5 buulh Amerf- can river . Nautical hafl- For a long time, bad blood had existed between the Trainm Engineer brotherhoods and the other three — Ci ctors, Switch- men and Firemer It has been gomewhat like the CIO-AFL row, but the bitterness deepened after the Roosevelt arbitration dispute ‘Whitney, at the time, sent a let- ing call Ligbt brown ter to all his trainmen wnhurnw. the other brotherhcods for refusir to arbitrate—a letter which doesr . Before P fat circular Diece put him in such a good light . Grows dim . Italian river . Remain . Carry on . Polynesian day. Among other things, he made up a little poem which read: “Three blind mice—hear how they talk! chestuut . Musical Instru- ment They all refuse to arbitrate— Theyre gamkbl with thelr 8. 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