The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(ul . llusl. a Fmplro e nn m.n TING ¢ mw SE LIN d Douglas pa Delivered by carrier JUSTICE SPEEDS ilts have SUBSC RIP TION RATES: ASSOCIATED PRESS become in to serve tne te They did not have to drag through the months until next January | before they couic be brought to face the court and \\\ commence to serve the price extracted for their Sk estdent | Mindeeds. True, the new procedure offers little, practically ¢ for the accused who is resolved to maintain his inno- w cence. Under budget limitation of Alaskan courts, a|s . nd Class Matter. brief meeting of a petit jury in each jurisdiction only | e SEPTEMBER 26 . for $1.30 per month: 'once each year is the only opportunity afforded to;® Dale Hillerman o 0oy have his cause heard and his guilt or innocence|® Lorraine English . dvance determined by his peers. And, since trial jury|® Mrs. L. R, Baytl = ¥ . John Newmarker . 71 promptiy notity |commonly is called on the heels of the grand jury,| § Bt ooeeine £ the deliverY [there can be little gain of time for the defendant|q ennuth Ehudeail . oftice, 374 who claims his right of fair trial I Mrs, Albart B, Goste o But, though only the guilty now directly profit,|e W. M. Dorman . that is a fault of insufficient financing of our judicial | Mrs. James Ramsay o system rather than of the rules by which that system | John S. Dapcevich . serates. That is a fault that will be corrected by|® Mrs. R. L. Bernard . growing populace with needs requiring and justifying | ® 3 added expenditure to have trial juries ready to hand.|® ® ® ® ® * ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 6o Even for f if fc exacted of with th gain society only justice iis crime onths of drear ja The American it expects Yugosla |to the fanlies shot down 1 for the de; Yugc ruction up and purely factual Clayton has let it apparent Government will srms of their penalties, There and dependents of the Americs and other property. THE DAILY ALASI\A EMPIRE—— IUNEAD ALASKA R RUSS CIVILANS C(OMMIT MURDER IN AMER. ZONE BERLIN, Sept. 26.—American and Russian milit police in a joint patrol early mdu\ arrested two Russian civilian men for the mur- der of a 28-year-old German woman in her home in the Ameri- can sector of the city, the U. Provost Marshal announced. Answering alarm turned in by relative of the women, the police fault the guilty admitted esent there of the e is wheels rvl The fitted more rom speeding € the ) benefit of 1der is more nearly is no added month to ten or ail durance tacked on Reply to Tito New York Times) Government has served notice that via to pay suitable indemnification n fliers as well as compensa 1 and damage to American planes This demand is made in a claim note, and Under-Secretary of State be known that if Tito complies our be willing to consider the incident sslav guns, of an m the change 1 Court rules to permit a | 4 ., captured the Russifins in the house person charged Wi us crime volu 1 What Tito will do remains to be seen. He h:\\““ po: 0 i0a 08 “ “h » ;;::d‘i‘ & ‘:‘1‘ waive his Constitutional rights requiring indictment repeated his previous attempts to justify the attacks| oS¢ They ."l‘f s by a gre pefore a charge may be prosecuted on unarmed American planes by charging the .Anr\i"m PSR O % ! against him ericans with flying almost daily and in droves over 4 Mot ’ = 5 7 3 merica vestigators said they Especially in Alaska, where judicial facilities are | Yugoslav territory in “deliberate and brutal” violation \A:p{:”|“:vpl~”nm e e e, limited, are advantages of the new procedure inaugur- |Of Yugoslav sovereignty, supposedly, as he told the \‘;? d (r(m‘ rs who “chose to b i press, for the purpose of spying upon Yugoslav mili- | P2ed soiciers IO CTO%E G0 T ated earlier t e hittling down of the docket |11y dispositions. He specifically repudiates any r (st R s vl ; n s the tling down ¢ e 3 » — e euple . 15 Gl sponsibility for the tragic incidents which, he s: ns which has occ of pending criminal prosecutt | have been caused by his army’s effort to “guard the ! Of 14 cases bound over by magistrates within the | But the American Government clearly demon jurisdiction of the Juneau court to await grand jury |strates, after a thorough and comprehensive investig GIVEN WARN|NG action on charges of felonies, one-half already have |tion, eithor that there is something seriously wrong been disposed of—with the next meeting of a grand |With the reports of Yugoslav obser or that there ON REGISIERING jufy here still four months distant. Of the seven |is mmltlxrx' {.-wmr in the ‘w_m:m as yet umvvmflcd cases disnosed of, five were handled thorugh the new |For While Tito charges 278 unauthorized American e ope | Hlights o Yugoslavia since July 16, the records of waiver-of-indictment procedure. The two others were the American Army Air Force show that there were| 2 WA HINGTON, Sept. 2 Selec- dismissed after the defendants had admitted crimes |onyy forty-seven planes anywhere near Yugoslav ter- |Uive Service officials — reminded of lesser degree—a procedure familiar under old rules |ritory during that period; and while it is conceivable YOUNg men that they still must as well [that bad weather might have forced some of these 'egister on their 18th birthday, even In all the five cases here where indictment was planes off their course, that cannot be and though they cannot be drafted un- waived, the defendants pleaded guilty and were later |true of all of them. The rest of the planes H_they are 30 aad o that the not at first be appar- | Tito’s men, says the American note, must have been Asserting there had been “COf- gain may those defendants need sentenct ent. However, guilty, and, whether defense is to follow waiving of indictm the defendant is later to be convicted on acquittal, there can be a gain of ir wea forme; For those added days of confinement there no ‘l'"lm“\fk\‘- and he has recompense for the man later acquitted, nor were !> his formal apolc 1 7 when sentencs wae | the 1ives lof those ey taken 4 their way Lome, b imposed upon the guilty The five who waived indictment ¥ then pleaded guilty, were soon sente admission of guilt or determined waiting for a grand jury to me v necessarily endured by the prisoner charged. | Pability of his forces by prohibiting a repetition of not have pleaded P {elaborate on that | thousands of Ame ent, and whether i or is to go free wvaluable days of and deliberate | surviving the war In any case consumption, he w b the dead, to uphol and to discourage graver consequenc here this summer, nced and started | other than America European countries under Lend-Lease, siderable “misunderstanding in scme localities” because Congress eX- empted 18-year-olds from training and service, national headquagters emphasized that no change was made in the requirement for regis- tration of 18-year-olds. Failure to do so may result imprisonment. an planes., While the note does not point, it will be remembered that ican planes have been supplied to and that those never been returned. hatever Tito may say for domestic has already acknowledged the cul- have in fine or acknowledged his ponsibility Reparations will not bring back | whose sorry remains are now o ut they are still essential to absolve d the dignity of the United States, future incidents that might have s, gy want to join the troops, Eisenhowsr was informed. On Okinawa, for in- stance, surplus Army stoves and plumbing supplies—badly needed in Quonset huts where Army families The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Continuea Page One) ~om Claude off its agenis Senator Pepper’s vigorous attack on Presi- dent Truman as having flouted Roosevelt ideals was mild compared to what Truman said privately about Pepper. His remarks, largely unprintable, reached Peppers ears and probably helped sour him on the White House The Presi- dent doesn't seem to realize that he can't sound off against Senators one day and then get their coopera- tion the next The Civil Service Commission launched a secret probe as to why West Point-Anna- polis applicants higher marks when they take examinations in Washington. The Commission is al so anxious find out why h 2 high proportion of the lucky ap- ts who take their exams in Nation's Capital sons of high avy officers has get to are ANTI-LYNCHHING COMMISSION the Federal hampered by Government still state legal barriers is Truman himsef proposed the idea of a Presidential “emergency” com- mission, similar to the Roberts Pearl Harbor Board, to investigate lynchings review “shortcomings” with authority and as- in the saults, law and make recommen- for legislation to better civil liberties. He said that he would be glad to ini uch legislation. FROM Tk DIPLOMATIC POUCH There’s been some eyebrow lift- ing in the State Department over the way U. S. Ambassador George Messersmith has been hobnobbing with the Fascist Peron Govern- ment. Messersmith has even made several talks to Peron's followers to the effect that Argentina will be considered a worthy ally when the probable war, betwe United States and Russia” breaks out Assistant Secretary of State Spru- le Braden not only raises his eye- rows but is sore. Messersmith’s transfer may be demanded when Byrnes returns irom Paris President Truman is consider General Eisenhower has been asked the appointment of a new V to send specially trained military ouse ccmmission to m police to Manila to break up thiev- plete review of S ery in Army and civilian post of- discussed at a recent conierence be- | fices. Fifteen percent of all pack- tween the President, Walter While ages and even letters to GI's in of the National Association for the Manila are opened and looted. From Advancement Colored People, five to seven million dollars’ worth | and James B. Carey of the CIO|/of Army equipment is stolen in United Electrical Worker the Philippines each month—with The two men told Truman about about ten jeeps disappearing every several atrocities against Negroes, day Members of the House one of them the case of Isaac Military Affairs Committee, just Woodward of New York City, a returned from U. S. Pacific bases, young war veteran whose eyes were g military equipment going to gouged out by a policeman near'pot, the most modern equip- Aiken, S. C ment is not being stalled, t Weodward was t o o morale among the men is low police after ar ith & plame themselves much the bus_ driver, who upbr him for Army spending too much ir bus SRS depot washroom. The who serv- ATOMIC LILIENTHAL ed three years in the Army, includ-| David Lilienthal is No. 1 choice to ing 15 months in the South Pacific ad the powerful Atomic Energy had bkeen discharged in mmittee. Able lame-duck Bob Ga., three hours before the La Follette of Wisconsin will also and was on his way me appointed to the Atomic Com- York. C or replace Lilienthal as Carey and White reps head of TVA Henry Morgen- Woodward has been held in thau was all set to take over all of Carolina veterans’' hospital Henry Wallace's cancelled foreign since the incident and no one ha: licy speaking engagements when been allowed to talk llace was muzzled but had not “I am familiar these | yet resigned. Morgenthau and Wal- cases,” Truman obser’ t didn’t lace see eye-to-eye on foreign pol realize this brutality was so wide- also on Jimmy Byrnes Ay spread. I am shocked and horrified jtes are worried over intimations by your report that Wallace will reveal certain He adedd that he realized the highly secret things that transpired lynching problem had not been inside the Cabinet regarding for- “adequately dealt with by the Fed- eign policy President Truman eral Government,” largely because has abandoned his search for a will be housed—have been sold-{o the Chinese. 3. Another demoralizing factor is the shortage of cigarettes and frégh fruit and vegetables. Eisenhower promis these facts immediately. (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) - — FOLLOW THAT MAN government post for his old friend, Senator Wheeler of Montana. Wheeler will practice law in Mon- and Washington, doesn't want a government job. Several railroads are eager to hire their one-time severest critic. tana FAR =ASTERN REPURT lere’'s what inemovers of the DECATUR, Ill—A woman tele- House Affairs Committee phoned police and reported a “sus- reported to General Eisenhower,! picious looking character” was fol- iollowing their return from an in-‘\lowing the postman. Officers in a spection of our military bases in| squad car picked up the trail—and the Far East: ascertained their quarry was the 1. Morale of our Far East occu-|supervisor of mail carriers. pational trcops is being endangered | - by the Army's delay in sending MARTHA SOCIETY wives and families to officers and| Food Sale—Fri. Sept. 27, 11 am. enlisted men. at Piggly Wiggly. ady. 2. The Army is doing little to set - - Lo up facilities for ¢he proper hous- Bert's Gr ry will pay 2 cents ing of Army wives and children who' for egg cartons in good shape. adv. e brossword Puzzle ACROSS Light up Click beetle Hebrew letter [ Story 8 fore 12 Held a sesslon 13. Acknowledge Exc ation . 14 Wild buffalo ’ of India 15. Kind of b 16" Proximity 13. He 19 21 22 24 Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 5. Chara Days of Pompeli” Pinched and yulled h drapery Metalliferous Follow Italian poet Hire King of Troy Fashionable Most orderly Minimum aratus for Conjunctivn Annoy 1 evices Genus of the olive tree Place for storing hay . Silkworm | | s . d to look m!o \ SMITH HEATING and APPLIANCE CO. om THE 20 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 26, from Seattle after EMPIRE 1926 a business trip south J. Meherin arrived m B | | Steamer Admiral Evans was making the first trip on the Southeast | Alaska route. James Weeks was here from Craig and stopping at the Zynda. Harry Stonehouse returned on the Margnita, | Mr. and Mrs | made the round trip to Sitka on their honeymcon ! Weather: High, 52; low, 49; cloudy (OSSPSR s © & 2 © © 2o ! Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon { e et it nrtis. | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Use CHILDLIKE in good sense, cmu)-} ISH in a derogatory se “Children are CHILDLIKE, but men should | never be CHILDISH 1 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Debacle. ME unstressed, A as in AH, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mauve; pronounced MOV, O as in NO. SYNONYMS: Ostensible, professed, pretended, apparent, avowed WORD STUDY 2 word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabul Today's word: | 1se. Pronounce de-ba-k'l, E as ary by mastering one word each day C URE (verb): to find fault with or condemn as wrong. “Shallow wits censure everything that is beyond their depths.”—Proverb { | MODERN ETIQUETTE %hpenrs ce | e e e e Pt ettt e} « Q nomize, is it necessary | | | When one is traveling and is forced to give the by circumstances to Pro- ame sized tips that one sees the other passengers giving? A. No, it is not necessary one’s means. Only s than his purse allows. One should give tips only according to timid person feels obligated to be more generous Q. Is it all xight to say, “I am delighted to meet you,” when being | introduced to some one? | A. Not unless you are reasonably sure that the other person is also delighed to meet you Q. When serving at the dinner table, should one serve all the| women first, then the men? | A. No; this was formerly the custom, but not now. 1 LOOK and [EARN A C. GORDON et e e ) | 1. What is the proof of pure grain alcohol? | 2. What is a2 How do: at differ frem a negative? What is phy? What is the princ ANSWERS One hundred and ninety proof. The distance light tra trillion miles. 3 A photostat is a pc A list of books Rice. al food of one-t d-of the world? that roximately ve. { relainig to a given subjec t or author JUNEAU BOAT SHoOP BUILDERS of BOATS and REPAIRING See Qur Line of SMALL BOATS Ready for Your Inspection 127 SO. 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