The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FO : Daily Alaska Empire Publisifed every evening except Sunday by the ING COMPANY 5. Juneau, Alaska !he hasn’t had a job since his discharge from the Army !last December, so every week a check for $20 from |Uncle Sam arrives at his 10-room home on exclusive Bucks Lane, where he lives with his wife and four children When interviewed about the anomalous situation of a multimillionaire’s son receiving a dole of $20 a Secol HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO - WILLIAM R. CARTER - rasident - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-— JUNEAU, ALASKA : e 20 YEARS AGO from THE EMPIRE S e ) AUGUST 15, 1926 R A EnGEN. -~ - = . Business Manager |Week, young Biddle said indignantly, “As a veteran|q AUGUST 15 . Mo Horace O. Adams and two children, little Louise and Hora —— oo Giree atver. | Who has no job, T am entitled to veterans' unemploy- | Peter Warner @ Jr, were to leave cn the steamer Alameda for the south where they Entered In the Post Oflice IoTION RATES - C®® MAUer Iment compensation under the G. I Bill ‘of Rights.”|e May Jernberg . visit for several weeks with relatives and friends. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘ ) g would Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per monthi | There isn't g doubt that he is within his rights under | o Al J. Holmquist ! SREIE six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 . T y Pro T ot | By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: the Bill of Rights to take his money from the United| o w. E. Wall . Mre. Charles Hawkesworth left on the Prince George for the south One year. in adva :nsou, six months, in advance, $7.50; | States T sury every week until he has reached his| o Mrs. Hugh B. Antrim ® | havine 1eceived word her mother was seriously ill one s il eanfer a favor if they will promptly notity | limit of 52 weeks or until he gets a job. The incident | o Betty Howell " e the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | calls attention, not so much to what the Biddle family | o Bavline. Clarmenth . % e leahones: News Otfice, 602; Business Office, 374, gets from the Treasury, as to the utter abandon with | ¢ Mrs. M. M. Madison e Minnie Field left on the,Alameda for the south. i e i —— —————— | which Congress likes to throw around the people's|q Ruth Thompson o T The AssoctmE R O A lasively entitied to the use for |Money without any safeguards, even to keep from|, e| U S Marshal Albert White and wife Margaret, were passengers south tion of all 'handing a pittance to the son of a multimillionaire.| g ¢ ¢ @ ¢ » s« ¢« © ® ® ® ®|on the Alameda The dislocations of the war are terrible, there i g PP R i i Nevrmeriap | U0 gainsasing it, but Uncle Sam looks after his own | A daughter, weighing 6% pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul v S, e's not going to le > Biddles s or e car | 3 5 5 ‘i“‘)d he's not, goir let the Biddles suffer if he can BETROTHAI_ OF | Hudon at St. Ann's Hospital o — {help it | | The 79th Congress (Cincinnati Enquirer) The 79th Congress, now wending its way into his- tory, has been a national Legislature of many con- tradictions. It acted with singular unanimity on war- | Congress—the 79th Congress was a political hybrid In both House and Senate the nominal majority was a unit in political designation only; a conglomeration of ultra - conservative 8, The result was Weather report: High, 69; low, 63; cloudy e etk e A A A e, DOUGLAS MISS 1S ANNOUNCED PO Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Goetz time undertakings and quarreled violently on dome of Douglss have anmoumsed e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It was clever of him to affairs, engagement Of their daughter,|agsist us,’ in the sense of good-natured, good-hearted, obliging. Us Nominally Democratic in political complexion - |y *Fucille, to Mr. William Rob- | G1EVER to express adroitness, “He is a clever workms continuing a record tenure for one-party control of | o woeir ‘ OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Valet. Proncunce val-et, A as in AT Miss Goetz is a May, 1946 gradu-|p . ate of Douglas High School and| recently returned from Fairbark: where she has been employed for in LET, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bicycle; CY 'NONYMS: Delicious, deligniful Icicle; CT delectable, dainty, palatable, | moderate Democrats and New Dealers, e last two months | luscious. REPORT ON ALA that a considerable element of the party delegation| ¥ p. 010" giconarged from the| ~ WORD STUDY: “Usc a word three times and it is yours Let us 3 | in both houses acted as a balince of power, and sw Marines, Mr. Weir resided in Ne-|increase oug vocabuiary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: We have just finished reading an interesting little | Congressional decisions on both side of the political | 40 ™ hoore entering the armed|HIATUS; a gap or opening; interruption. (Pronounce hi-a-tus, I as in item from the Tama News-Herald of Tama, Towa, an |fence forces. He enlisted in 1941 and|HIGH, A as in DAY, accent second syllable), “There came a hiatus in s A variety of terms might be used to describe the ] . 1945 interview with one Charles Balloun who is identified : was discharged in November 1945 gheir talk."—H. G. Wells . : rimental farming | CUtEINE Congress, and in the coming election of the| “88 € 8IEEAC U GRS TR BB as a former superintendent of experimental fa B | goth Congress we undoubtedly will hear them all, in- l-‘r“ rl}”"_‘ 4 -';»nom-m-b;‘ G — s at College, Alaska. Mr. Balloun apparently spent one cluding the least complimentary. Perhaps the most l“‘ dala _L L vma L bJ year in Alaska. Among his observations were the fol- 'yotable thing about the 79th Co Hiay, Ueen: JhaditOUHeE 00 FS: 1) 5 & MODERN ET'OU ETT gr Jowing determination to “muddle through” in its own manner 3 f » in general the people of Alaska are well |on controversial issues. Harry Truman inherited the| A November .““f””‘l‘“', “,']’I]‘”"fcf: e Wt o S 3 By IR T A SR, educated. They can read and write and do their | Presidency fully expecting a full measure of coopera- :‘;“»I,v':::.mim.l:.knfi?%gwn‘;xfii g @ - AWonld 1k e dT-HEGR: Lot exdRinRe . & WelBAg Mrssant whé ona trading much the same as the merchants of the !ion on his legislative program. He had been a member et e ‘ Q vmu n. e ill-bred ,“_', (:\“)m. a wedding presen United States. . of the Senate himself not many months before, and his [ has received four or five dupicates? ositet 1 ¢ " ., | championship of higher pay for members of Congtess | ou"’E A (A(HE i A. No; it would be a very sensitive person who would resent it. How- Since Alaska Js rieh In natural resources, MONeY land a line of succession to the Presidency running |ever, it would be preferable to consult any member of the bride’s or| is extremely plentiful in that country. “All prices paid for items are triple of those asked in the United States. | through Congress instead of down through the cabinet | doubtless were actions calculated to endear him to the | men on Capitol Hill “It is not felt, however, that the country As it turned out, of course, few new Presidents the midst of inflation as everyone has easy access to (have exerted less control over their legislative co- money in Alaska and therefore think it natural that |ordinate than did Mr. Truman. Complaint and threat prices should rise with the supply of money in |alike only made matters worse. The legislative recep- » tion of the Truman “must program” was marked gusiation many a disappointment, although in retrospect it can | This is the Tama newspaper quoting Balloun. It |, "o 10" congress did act, in some fashion, on is another bad example of what Alaska does not want |, of the more pressing legislative chores in the way of publicity. We are quite certain that the next few months will bring hordes of Iowa farmers to | the 79th Congress obviously was his effort to walk in | the Territory, each one believing he can pick up |the legislative shoes vacated by Franklin D. Roosevelt money from the streets paved with gold, ie.: “money [ In recent years there had been a steady increase in is extremely plentiful in that country . . . everyone | Congressional resistance to the Roosevelt program, | has easy access to money in Alaska . . and, as anyone who had bothered to glance at the | What we can't understand is why Balloun left this paradise he describes. is in undertakings And Mr. especially the left-of-center proposals. | _— Rocsevelt's successor did not inherit his Poor Little Rich Guy bis: “in line” with his wishes. The 79th Congress did some constructive things. And in some cases where it refused to act the net| result was constructive—or at least not destructive. It served during a particularly trying time, beset by | economic and social riptides, and subjected to a great | many pressures from all directions. 1 (St. Louis Star-Times) When considering the myriads of hardships pro- duced by World War II, don't overlook the case of 'Alexander Biddle, Jr. The Biddle name to Philadel- phia is like the Vanderbilt name to New York. Multi- millionaire Biddle, Sr., is Vice-President of the Phila- delphia Stock Exchange, but his son, alas, is without | before headlines knew, it had been increasingly difficult for | entire country, outside the Russian | Mr. Roosevelt to bend Congress to his will in domestic | 200, Was knack of wielding public pressure to bring Congress|Come through with 18,000 tons of The public will judge its record at the polls |n;lPu\.s in that part of Europe where Fred Weir of Douglas. 0 ROBERTA LEE | groom’s families before exchanging one of their gifts. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 15—Work-| Q. When setting the table, should the prongs of men tearing up a sidewalk Were ynwards or downwards? mildly surprised at what they found| = s pe prongs of the forks should point upwards. o o C rete. ! 2 HHeEr e caerey Q. Should one use a postal card to write anything of a private or It was six bottles »nal nature? brandy ¥ A. Never. It shows very poor the forks point of imported | | per | § - A it i judgment to do so. Phonograph records. Home Beau tiful | e et i e . - b Where Mr. Truman erred in his management of | e : I-O OK d nd l' [A RN A:‘{ C. GORDON UNRRA'’s unique distribution pol- icy but theg sent tons of food back | &- to Russia. The result was that,! June 1, UNRRA found its| food supplies siphoned off and the — What is the world average rainfall per second? Who was the first famous newspaper columnist in America? 3. How much does a cubic foot of gold weigh? AnCthe. Veres O it 4. How many black keys are there in an octave on a piano? Ho ' 5. What is the outstanding peculiarity of Manx cats? General Clark finally had to| ANSWERS: 1. About 16 million tons per second American food to save Austria 2. Benjamin Franklin. frrom chaos. He is now demand- | 3. 1205 pounds. ing that UNRRA straighten out 4. Five. its distribution and penalize the 5. They are tailless Russians for shipping food out of Austria | These are some -of the prob- * HOSPITAL HOTES | Insect Pests a job. But does he starve? No, the G. I Bill of November, because all of the House and a third of the |demccracy meets the frontier of . Goveniaent Hospisal adnift- Rights provides a $20-a-week payment for unemploy- Senate is subject to election. We have, however, had | Balkan dictatorships and wherel, "5 bl Girl Lee from Douglas | ment, and young Biddle has no employment. In fact, | worse Congresses. {the most important test of Soviet yesterda\" | Ants, roaches, bed bugs or mos- le: i ei. sta S~ . > i h h e—fleas on A — |expansion 15 being staged. ~Aus- "o erg ¢ st Ann's ‘Hospital | SRioes stauna the ouRe ants and me wawin 'on "back. exercise his veto for 31 days, the burden. _Also, the British,|tria, prior to seizure by Hitler, for medical care yesterday were P.| poultry—BUHACH will help you q and the 3ussxans are out o_l luck. | though having considerable food had developed a pretty good Par-‘h. Collins, Myron Patterson and ‘;..;‘i&"&i’ix'('&fi'&'n R e M 'GO'RO nd | The Austrian edict nationalizing in-|on hand proposed selling it to|liamentary system and the Aus-|,/, “royicier Gaylord Westby was | Tepels theso pests—so protect your e"' u {dustry then becomes iaw and the UNRRA and letting UNRRA dis-|trians know how to govern them- oo .oro ™0 "0 5 0 chectomy. home plants 880 pets. Wis eany e g |Reds can't seize it. tribute it in the British zone. This selves. They did not jump from g ™40 Lo g 3 1 « | Im Handy Sifter 25c up at Drug, 3 | . Ann’s discharged Mrs. Alex 8 (Continued from Page One) | {meant, of course, that Uncle Sam|Czars to Soviets — both dictator- | yon S0 S8 EELC Grocery, Seed Stores and Pet Shops, | AR S R {weuld pay 70 per cent of the cost|ships—as did the Russians, and i A e HA H Hitler seized Jewish property that AT since 70 per cent of UNRRA's cost| today there is no country in| Electric irons while they last. property officially became Ger- is borne by the United States. |Europe where the Russians are' PRONOUNCED BU'HACK With the Soviet drive on to man and now, under Pauley’s slip-|{ shod agreement, the Russians are | take over Austrian industry, Clark carting off Jewish property, claim- | Phoned Secretary of State Byrnes ing it is German. Apparently they|and got his O. K. on a plan to re- All of this played right into the Russian hands, as Austria’s richest farm lands are in their zone. The think the Jews didn't suffer :::;" A‘[zel_?c‘fi"‘:an‘e"“ ;_";]‘l“”(;gzh‘!“ other areas. Instead, they were enough. = i A ,. | using it : ation of Moscow specifies that slag. 1k do. teed HaphRed Army Austria was dragged into the war| @20 When UNRRA took over all feed HOW CLARK FOILED RUS : i ing, the Russia simply had a Another thing Pauley forgot by Hitler and is to be bullt Up| fielq gy This was duck soup for that in 1938 when Hitler took over after the war. So Bymes agreed| ypo, “mhey not ouly pulled a Austria, he nationalized all Aus-|that the factories should be re-| o tsiy amount of food away from trian industry. It therefore be-|turned to Austria. Amid paeans of came officially German and under | Praise from the Vienna press, there- a % : ; 3 5 ST obls 1 Craig Tokeen Shakan Pauley’s reparation rules it can be | fore, and with thousands of people || Rose Inlet : seized by the Russians who are|Watching, Clark held an impressive £} || view Cove = Klawock Edna Bay Point Baker wasting no time in seizing it ceremony at the Hermann Goering A 5| || Hetta Inlet Steamboat Bay Cape Pole Kivcaln. Rock despite the fact that, actually, it|Works and handed it back to Au B g| ||Hyaebure Juneau Logging Co. Cape Decision Wearfell : . Aty : tria. Naturally this raised U. ornla f is 100 per. cent Austrian. A)} this | . e e ’ 5[, ; ,Caxl‘llc“;.y\_u X N \ Returning by Way of : has contributed to the head-on Prestige sky-high and made the! ol s tiony | 5 = Crai AT clash between Russian and Ameri- | Russians and their seizure polcy | 39, Annoy W1 S| | Point Baker Kiawotk BB Srane can forces in Austria — a clash|100k very sick indeed. | [als] £ ! Deadline on Freight at 4:00 o'Clock Each Tuesday Afterroon which is the most significant in| Meanwhile, the Russians have R|E R| | Europe and which may set a pat-|been frantically trying to promote | ER ‘:’ | K“c“lKAN TRA“SPOBTATI““ co. tern for future U. S.-Russian pol-| Communism in their zone — the [S[E s KETCHIKAN, ALASKA sy, wealthiest and largest of all Allied | ERNES A, |occupied areas. The only real, sheltered MIA all General Clark, who did his best | progress they have made is through | o . side EIL = g to cooperate with Moscow at first,| the policy of hiring Austrian work- Gaie, T RIE s has now aboutfaced his original ers in Russian-managed factories Thus A = After you, Alphonse” attitude and!at a much higher wage level than | S 3lMe i M0 0BSHIP ESTEBE H 21. Hypocritical is opposing every unauthorized oriis paid in other Allied areas. In LRk Reds should have sent food intoj5 per cent of the vote. the other occupied zones through|(COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) | less popular. In last winter's Aus- trian elections the red-faced So-| viets found themselves polling just| The situ- ation since then hasn't changed. In other words, a country which had some experience in pre-war democracy and which is given half, a chance to support itself isn't’ going to rush enthusiastically into’ the arms of Soviet Russia. ! KETCHIKAN TRANSPORTATION CO. OPERATING MOTORSHIP ¢ ART” g CARRIES FREIGHT and PASSENGERS Weekly Service from Ketchikan to: Bader Logging Co. Port Alexander Connii g Inlet Waterfall Daily Lessons in English . 1. corbo g Solution o. Yesterday's Puzzle unfair move the Russians make., addition and in a country which it HAI“ES anl SKAGWAY da L MoNDAY e Y i DOWN an god £ When the Red Army started tolis starving, this is all-important— . Airmodn 1. Tond phHista - 4. Bimglakt ox 10 P.M. take over Austrian industry Gen- Russian employees get 000 food €2, Inquire 2. n seaside 6. Kind of starch eral Clark tacitly encouraged the|calories per day as against 1,300 63. Cabbage sa resort [ Leaves for Austrian government to pass a law for workers in the rest of Austria L4 : 3 iy ENE hationalizing all that nation's in-| Naturally, therefore, Austrian work- | % & @ 8 s SITKA and Wayporls every wednes‘laysp'u' dustry under the Austrian govern- men flock to Russian factories' [7Z 73 10 IERS ment ltself. This really put the whenever they can 4 11 Datcplien, BASENGERS, FREIGHEand Ml Russians on the spot for, accord- ~What the Austrian workers don't! [/8 R " purpose — e s e e, ing to the tenets of Communism, know is that their extra wages industry should be nationalized. come out of the Austrian treasury MATT HALM T Divided Thus, while trying to spread Com- mupism in Austria the Russians and that their food comes, in part, from the United States. What hap- Norse gods Mother-of-pearl as a paid-up subscriber 1o 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: money American were in the position of going direct- | pens is that the Russians collect ly counter to Communism extra occupation costs from the By wanting Austrian industry Austrian government and use the for themselves, the Russians even money to pay off their factory had the gall to demand that the workers. Also, the Russians gei Austrian Parliament be overruled an extra food ration from Ameri- by the Allied Armies of Occupa- can sources thanks to the stupid- tion It was at this point that ity of UNRRA and our French and Clark made as neat a use of the famous veto as Comrade Molotov— if anything, neater. British allies. PLAYED INTO REDS' HANI “SWINGIN' ON A RAINBOW" Federal Tax—12¢ per Persous Indian The American commander had persuaded the Allied Council to Here is the inside story of how this happens Last winter, Gen- PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. adopt a rule that any act of the Austrian Parliament shall become law if, after 31 days, the Allied Council does not overrule it. There- fore, all Clark has to do is sit eral Clark had been feeding the Austrians in the American zone their full calory ration but the French were falling behind und| [/ 2 wanted UNRRA to relieve them of e Toaturne and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Marshy place 56, Dowry = THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946 'DR.E.H.KASER || DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL The Charles W. Carfer Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. 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FULL LINE OF DERMETIC CREAMS - DOUGLAS BOAT SHOP New Consiruction and Repairs Jobs Free Estimate Phone Douglas 192 S 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1946 * The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERICAL SAVINGS -4 A