The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR g 2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA : g FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946 e L e s i e meat dealers, who re» Daily Alaska Empire period but which still are held lack of shipping north. With ng the un Sea 20 YEARS AGO 2% gwmerre ning except prices now bac NTING COMPANY ceili n effect in Al that meat 3 se ects, Juneau, Alaska s ST e w8 1o 1otatl 8 T ‘Strects, Juneau, Alaska o Ihought at high cost would bring only losses to local | . MHSER 8 DOROT Vice-Pr dealers were they to have it shipped north once| RO hMirEs v 1o it s and i ‘ 4 ELMER A ) 5 vessels again—so it will be resold n | A hurricane had swept Florida. Private advices received here stated % vt i Seattle an “eat something else IS SEPTEMBER 27 ! that Ray G. Day and William Fry, former Juneau residents, were safe SMABT COTTON ; 5 S < Fost Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter AU best, it will take some time to replenish the|® Ray B. McLaughlin | : ! g SUBSCRIPTION RATES . i 0 o ey Ayiils v ) Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; present nationwide short supply of meat. And there : Y\P‘ulfh ‘;“I\::l( « William Ott, Manager of the Liberty Theatre at Douglas, was re- " 3 Disteee peid, at the follow is very real danger that the longer the scarcity con Olte Jobhnstl turning from Seattle on the Northwestern an r will be the ¢ nce, £15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50: | tinues the grea % ° ement of blac s;‘ . £1.50. Mrs. Gerald McLaughlin ¥ market operations—a development which would tend | o Don ayes | Allen Shattuck returned to Juneau after a campaign trip to Skagway, | to prolong the meat famine, as far as the average|o s Joh Pivatoes cad Sitkd i News Office. 602; Business Office, 374 butcher shop customer is concerned. Spokesmen for| ¢ 3 : H 0 U S E MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS the meat industry say hope a more nearly adequate | | J. F. Chamberlain and his bride were visiting here while he was Theati Pren e te 1t or ot egner. | SUPDly. of imeat Wil ¢ possibly six weeks—that's | L cailiiee o0 Shie kosa Ay it baper and also the local mews publi the best anyone can hope, ar is also hoped, in|—~ | | D R E S S E S herein Alaska, that there will be no shipping strike to bar|nation is going to hell in a hand-| eather report: High, 47; low, 43; cloudy FRESKITTATLIR) gt S1an JEwanacK: 11 meat deliveries then basket.” VO I O O T i R A S G TR R ST while seasick enroute to Bermuda, | e { vaughn replied: “Fine! Wha! H . H b The Break in Stocks Wtz“c;m:,‘:s;j Daily Lessons in English W 1. corpon i jup as it did going down.” SO CHEERFUL, SO COLORFUL AND SO (New Y N re Allen, on the Other hand, | o= eeeeee oo sttt rr et e el On a recent Tuesday the stock market, after afgpocig)izes in rollicking, parlor hu- WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: An IMPOSTER is one who imposes upon | EASY TO LAUNDER sharp sinking spell the week before, suffered the wo: \ day in fifteen years. The drop brought ] ! self. One of them is avout his & 5 2 back to the lowest point since August, 1945 o S duct of an IMPOSTER = colle: days as a footballer when his team was trailing by a lopsided | score and cne of his teammates OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Blase (sated with pleasure). Pronounce | bla-za, first A as in AH, second A as in ATE, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Chauffeur. Observe the two F's and the| The violence of the drop seems to have left Wall Street bewildered. Tt came at a moment when no single piece of news seemed sufficient to account for it MANY STYLES fumbled the ball. H.r-fvn.dmu:fl:' inflationary situation has not chang- | “pop yp the ball and run with | EUR and ed. The amount of money and bank credit in exist- | ;i » coneone velled at Allen SYNONYMS: Harmony, conformity, unity, agreement, accordance. | 3 ence is still more than three times the amount before | COLORS 1f," Allen yelled WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us/ Toda; r stand still, “Peik it up your back. “Your're closer to it.” increase our vocabular; Note—These around the White DEVIATE; to turn Bob Hanne- > to Truman as he the war. Production, employment and national in- come are at record peacetime levels. While the labor = = situation has not been good, there is no immediate SCARCE! crisis that scems as great as did several of those in recent months g the stoc rket remain- cent months during which the stock market remain- | oo 5N E T o oo ser- The immediate impact of the restoration of OPA jed mlln\m_ : lh"lml'}’:t‘l“;':‘l ”-*‘H‘"“xl‘l‘“ 1*1 without ““;“"‘ jous. He's always talking to the % E E'I'I E T by i o ., | serious, but it 1ooks e surface less serious th RS0 b ¥ price ceilings on meat has been very forceful—and very 180 | procident about ways and meang.of 3_ I\m ’“ RN ' ” I I ROBERTA LEE ! s word: astering one word each d m a course; wander by side fr House say cne I an isn't as clo nor go back, nor deviate.”—Augustine. et s et i | | | | | 725 ST SRS Women's Apoaner it seemed a few weeks ago. e e noticeable, Housewives who now visit meat counters The prediction by an irresponsible radio commen- | PPrOvIng the administration s day more like Old Mother Hubbard's |tator that “war with Russia” might come this ye: | seems to have touched off a great deal of illiterate | selling. The violence of the drop itself* had the explanation for the instant dearth of supply |psychological effect of convincing many traders in is rather e. During the interim period when no Wall Street that “the market must knc thing, lings applied to meat sales, either wholesale or retail, | which caused their own selling in turn vated supply of livestock engulfed the market. | the decline. This was especially the effect on those who had delayed shipments, hoping for a | “chart followers” who believe that stock market = - e e e SEARS ROEBUCK INVADES Q. ‘When ‘givisg LATIN AMERICA The advent of certain U. S. in- terests on the retail business scene 1 America may bring about ) i ntile revolution in those Q. What sized bill does the ten per cent tipping rule apply to, when | staying at an expensive hotel? A find them each an informal dinner in a home where there is no butler, who should greet the guests at the door? A. The host should open the door, assist the women guests with | wraps, and show the men where to place their hats. “It's the Nicest Store In Town"® Baranof Hotel Building cupbo: their som a per Produce To a bill that is $3 or more. When the bill is less than $3, a More than ' ago, Sears Roe- movements predict not only the future of business but and Company made plans for | tip may be more than the customary ten per cent if one desires. \ \ \ N N \ I § i ' | 3 \ \ { ] \ \ \ mor, usually telling jokes on him-| ihers for the purposes of deception. An IMPOSTURE is the act or con- | | ! { { \ N \ \ \ E N \ ! { { ' { | § \ § § { \ )\ § ¢ reak in the price, sent all of their animals to market : eas 0 e 3 <t really profit.. | heir own future, and who intensify every turn as a| . B dor 3 | , i1 | .0 many instances it represented the first really profit- TaGilt. otithis Baliaf moving into the Mexican retail Q. Is it proper for women to kiss each other when meeting or parte | & § : lispose e a long i el F ed scale care: g in [ s § able opportunity to dispose of livestock in a long time. | " one factor undoubtedly played a role of major |Li€ld on @ limited 1'““ - :nm-n ing in public places? B aeaaereeet I © . result, of course, was a market full of meat— |importance. This is the Federal Government regula- | SLudy Of consumer demand and pur- A. No; this is overdone and is now considered a mark of ill-breeding § bt | t regula- ') o cing power, however, led com- ing 3 o 1 «t higher prices. Presumably, had the price of meat [tion, put into effect at the beginning of the year. SPasinS Bower, ROWCVEL S CTTT) oe — remained uncontrolled the abundance of supply would |making it illegal to buy securities on margin. This e ")»(i ‘““ ‘\”"“:.( :d: s Im‘rkm b ; et \fter a while__after the first big “wave” | discrimination against one particular form of prop- ) i gt 0 s y { & S el Rl i " | the full line of Sears merchandise A. C. GORDON ! k rty was ostensibly made as part of “the drive aga jinflation.” Its result, combined with other restriction would have k against short selling, and against trading by profes- belief that even if the cost of feed climbed, the market | sionals and insiders, has been to produce a thin market, | Percent mark-up over Sears' retail price for their animals would climb proportionately |A' comparatively small volume of selling can bring Prices in the United Stat e market luhnut a comparatively great break. People who wish TS figure contrasts sharply with What is the great vein of the neck called? : What has happened is, when the Decontrol Board |to buy cannot get the resources to do so or cannot get | (N _100-300 percent mark LA . What is the nalne of the wicker basket carried by fishermen? EplSCOpal | the; ) ; . S. retail prices now ch & them without a delay Under such ndition he U. S. retail pric ecide store meat ceilings but not feed and grain ay conditions the 4 e Ll e BT o 1ehe mentoe e Inormal checks to decline do not exist American goods in Mexico City’s Which is the shortest of Shakespeare’s plays? in Mexico. More important, these 3 gocds are to be sold at a flat 20 & of cattle 1eceipts had been dissipated—but producer on feeding livestock, secure in the Wiket ercin baoslocy o bine Flakh I The Church of the Holy Triniry Which exte: farther south, Virginia or Missouri? (ORI S o en mo Wm“.%. m'\mmi.“{ X;:;l,rk,‘: ,“:l,((l:.(‘”:::" The stock market, in short, is made much “bump- | Principal department stores, most AN§W£RS: g : A stock in order to dispose of their holdings befo 1o by Crovernment Intervention then It was befors| CF them French-owned 1. One-eighth to one-teath, the rest being below the surface presenis wholesale ceiling, and later the retail ceiling, took i, ‘6o pocie economic situation which the market| Sears has purchased the building 2. Missouri. 1 effect reflects is also made much bumpier by excessive Goy- | And property occupied for almost 3. Juglar vein . Much of this unusually heavy vomume of Tecelpis, | ernment intervention. On the one hand are the 'Nirty years by the American school 4. Creel | M U S I C V E S P E R S 3 it is feared, “went underground.” Persons in pnmmn’u.fmmu:m forces let loose by governmental fiscal ' Mexico City. Although the Je-f . 5 Macbeth. | | t as they could afford, | and interst rate policies. On the other hand are the NOvation and enlargement now be- N Dl - hA ) R e < - ) A0 to do so bought up as much me oA Gt i e TSR or could store. It is an open secret that the cold storage |hourly threats hanging over the market in the for lof price controls, strike encouragements, wage “poli- | vidually-owned deep freeze units of the e g v A SRy an. | Will follow. R I i A plants and individually-owned deep freeze s of (e | e and the like, which seem to put every crucial | PAY ! already pouring vast quan- Wil follow. = Ta [ a Festiting ¢ nation are pretty well filled to capacity with me decision in the unpredictable hands of some Govel tities of merchandise into the coun- s signify e beginning And little, if any, of this volume of meat will reach the | 1o+ oreicial and to make it impossible for business to | (Y and storing it in rented ware- fff_,”}" vrfd for the time-honored Nearl 2 Mi“ion : : open market. It was, of course, bought at prices higher | know what is going to happen to it from day to day. houses. Items range irom the sim- ~Tepresentation” system of selling Ernest Ehler, Tenor than the present ceilings; therefor it will be used only | With these two sets of forces working against each Plest farm tool to parlor furniture :‘d';":}‘]::l‘w’]’m“d‘;l‘dise lhrougl; lo- s slve: ther 5 it i i . e {8 r coats. one xico's Cé s, and a consequent up- , swners, who were able to protect themselves | other, the inevitable result must be more violent:and fur coats. As one of Mexico's 2 g A ol X ’b) lh.e Ul‘:m.\. .,.“,[.(: I,,,(,‘.\ ,,“,,,),,(, and the black oscillations in the business cutlock than might other. | leading customs brokers remarkeg: (rend in the Latin American stand-| POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Sept. Against the . anjcipe ab 18 v ‘1 Bl ongits “Where other stores bring in a ard of living 27.—The late President Franklin D. market. This, incidentally, raises the question of the S e couple of carloads of U. S. goods' Note — Franklin Roosevelt once Roosevelt left a net estate before fairness of meat price control to the average house- ipped a remarked to Morris Ernst: “There | taxes of $1,085,485, according to a 4:30 O'Clock pleted for another year, the com-Jject is successful, other U. S. firms Margucrite Shaw, Organist Dorianne Barnes, Accompanist reak does not necessarily fore- g t any change for the worse in the business situation. | €Very month, Sears has s gt 5 § 5 holder—not the fairness of the principle, but the fair- | gp 40" should serve as a warning to Government | dozen trainloads in the past ninety 18 just one book which will convert | tax appraisal -field here today with ness of its practical application regulators against continuing to treat like an interest- | 4ays.” Russia from Communism to Cap- Dutchess County Surrogate Freder- Sunday Afternoon, September 29, 1946 Another facet of the problem was shown Alaskans | jng toy the economic system upon which the welfara| The whole deal, including the itnhsrfi_mp Sears Roebuck cata— ick Qtumtcrm by HeHnry Hackett, by the published reports last Saturday from Juneau of all of us depends confidence shown by Sears’ experts logue. an attorney and an executor of the publis Is Cordi: i in their calculations, has given (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) estate. Ehe TabllE Ooptaty ol on I w h- ' tory, the State Department’s pro-!man’s presence, it's like a minstrel| long-established French dry goods S i s The appraisal indicated Roose- 4 he as mg on gram to sell the Russian people on show. Friends even accuse them of | firms a fine case of jitters. They ® ® ® = ® o o o e o) Vel's gross estate was $1,821,887, G R d American friendship has hit anoth-|subscribing to joke libraries. Though | have controlled the market for ® e and was subject to deductions of ? Me"Y' 0-Roun er snag. This time it is the Army.|Allen has gained the reputation as| more than half a century, but do ® TIDE TABLE o | $736,400 for funeral expenses, debts, , sy It took most of last spring and the chief White House jester, ,not have the merchandising power o SEPTEMBER 28 o 2Dd othef costs. (Continuea =om Page One) summer for the State Department Vaughn tells a pretty mean joke to compete eifectively with the o High tide 3:38 am. 164 ft. e G 5330 T 0 sd‘l Cum,‘lt‘svs on the impo: ”c hlm\(‘l{ In fact his humor is biting | Se : ux;.‘nual on. { e Low tide 9:3¢ am. 15ft. e LISTEN 7 pm. KINY—Sept. 30, the fact that Con- ©f using propaganda to penetrate and satirical, frequently on the Ra-| Moreover, the big mail-order afd o High tide 15:38 p.m., 17.6 ft. e Octoher 5 and T—Hot—Alaska Tax 5 Lialy L of ‘OPA should the “iron curtain.” Finally, however, belaisian side | chain-store outfit does not intend e Low tide 22.04 pm., -03 15, ‘® Payers Lea; ue‘ Program Speaker $ Eiia. gant. the soaring. but © m,r«.m?m realized that 1]1]( Ru Exkf‘:vnph of Vaughn's ?‘” astic | Fu Im}{l its foreign invasion toMex- o o © © « © o © o o e Albert White. adv. l N G 0 P A R T Y didn’t sian people were being fed a bar- wit: “The cockroaches in Gallinger|ico. The next move will be into & : 3. Later rce Depart- Fage of anti-American poison and hospital should have service stripes,| Brazil. Potentially, this means that === 3 g s 19 . that something should be done to because they have been there since! Sears may soon be a dominant fac- $ ment issue that 18 bil- 3 s @ ) 1 8 ant fac i i Hone ir piled up counteract it. So funds were voted the Civil War.” . Apropos of ef-|tor in the retail field throughout i THE SONS OF NORWAY Wlll Hold Theu’ Ry it to send U. S. radio propaganda ' forts to settle recent strikes: “The! Latin America. And, if their pro- i on factory shel nd that inven- { | Bt E . And, if their pro H tories were incr the rate abroad i il REGULAR MEETING SATURDAY NIGHT SRE s e Shortly after this, the French, H s g Ui s blton jper OO JOBSE e pressure irom Communists T J H H than goods are being consumed s . v g8 T N f s ¢ the inside their government, ordered the | g d P i For Ever i o - his was a storm warning that the ¥ £ H s R S Ll Crossword Puzzle NA s gy . . i g st casting from its powerful Algiers H “rpose : H 0 ! 4. The high employment rate H i b o e, partly Station. Of necessity, the State De- ACROSS 45 Coremonles gg i i in Odd Fellows’ Hall il g 7 S artment has now turned to Ger-| ¢ Bo% o H s ' i the fact OV « Muslcal archIbisho H g :U ‘(h 2 ‘L == many o gSoumposition of Canters _ i J“ T P“o“E i BLIC l“vlTEn AT 9 30 s still sp 4 et = “hum ury 3 S We have ample radio facilities 2 First woman 38 Spread to dry ER H f P" | M e in Germany apd expect to retain H l[}lulcn’:‘fl\u 39. Cut lengthwise & 0 i y o them for a long time. But believe| 15 Formal 40 poger R H H ror Bl“so and nEFRESHHE“Ts hand, the U, it OF mot the U. S. Army objects. discusslon 42" Pertaining to ES| | 039.2 Lon z shor[ i and, the U Chiet s 4 11. Prosper NOYA Hentla A H ' H A R ief objector is conscientious 19 Seed covering B H 5, i i plus the Te ;1 ieut. Lucius Clay, top administra-| 2 i T IR e R Do | AND \ H Sl power still in the " 0 Ty 0 ary ernme! A 46. Hypocritical [0 (™ —DELIVERY WILL BEGIN H % At v of the military government in| 23' Commanders H AL hands of the public, plus the ¢ the U. S o. General Clay, who| 20- Uninteresting talk N[E| |y WITHIN A FEW MINUTES tinued scarcity of many consumers B, Eone, General CIa¥y, WNO| is5" mitte ot 49. More willingly =1 i s o8 : . has his problems, points out that Mohammed 5l. Gatherer of GlA} |t H goods, should offset some ol thest LS kR (7. 28 Outlet certain fruits H H downward factors. The country, ac- Prepaganda broadcasts from the U.; 2o Rainy 63. Male child Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle |} i ; i Comicte 5. Zone would be contrary to the 30 Epistles 54 all wagons i l= cording to Washington economists, o' ° . 2. Genus of the 6. Feminine name DOWN 2. Declare it f l is basically sound Potsdam Agreement unless the Rus- dog 57. Conjunction L Mother of 3. Weakenea i - H .o gl 'sians are given the privilege of 84 Profits 58. Humble Castor and 4. Frequently H J R d M H Al 5. Muscular 59. Utt S0l 5 Co H R NAPOLEON JOHN L. LEWIS | censoring American radio programs.| b - e R & Eye:: s i “nea“ ea y- .x i s. d“l Tll]le Tahle sels John L. Lewis, the most powerful ~ The State Depar counters I Soare answes gy H lx all Ille- 2 1 . temnants o 1|8 man in the American Federation of With the reminder that the Rus- ombustion 2eai C ete l H Labor, is now comparing himself to'sians have violated all sorts of % [ oner 9 ne. i SHORT and LONG WAVE Napoleon agreements in their zone and there c S H . Lunching with a friend who com- is no reason why we should con- plimented him on his tremendous tinue to let Stalin get away with labor victories, Lewis swelled with the claim, now taught by Moscow pride as the friend recalled how to the Russians and their satellite| John L. had bludgeoned more out Pecples, that the Red army alor of the White House for his miners defeated Japan. than any other labor leader, had Note—The State Department is helped 1 ter-mind the AFL se w trying to overrule Clay, may men’s strike and had even been| win out in the end praised by Robert U. Wason, Presi- R D dent of the National Association of WHITE HOUSE HUMOR Manuiacturers. | The public has heard a lot about “Don't you feel elated over all|feuds in the Truman Admini these victories?” asked the frier tion, but one it hasn't heard abouu “No, not particularly replied | is the [irst-class battle raging be- Lewis. “I guess Napoleon didn't feel tween Gen. Harry Vaughn, Tru- particularly elated when he won a man's military aide, and George | campaign he had planned for| Allen, RFC director. While it's a months friendly feud, these two characters . | leng have been trying to outdo each RUSSIA’S IRON CURTAIN | giher cracking jokes for the bene- At a time when US-USSR rela-!fit of their chief. tions are the most delicate in his- When they are together in Txu-‘, ALASKA ELECTRONICS PHONE 62 SEE “GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS” Capitol Theatre—September 25 and 26 Juneau Volunteer Fire Department Benefit Show for Memorial Library Fund PHYLLIS GRANT a patd-ap subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA ds of grain EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. it ike Pregent this eoupon to the box office of the . CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "“GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST" Feaeral Tax—12¢ per Persou s co . 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