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PAGE FOUR y ; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA €. g . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946 -—_-_——_——_——_ in ot S s - e i 3 2 — — — R — it '__ DR.E. H.KASER || - Taxpayers' League,” a dubious organization, uses the D('i’ Y 41,(' ‘k(l E"l})ire popular resentment against any tax as a lure to hear '\\\\ | Iy The CharlesW. Carfer | *: DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Mortuar Y Phone 56 % Pourth and Franklin Sts. HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. PHONE 136 his praises for the certain candidates he is backing except Sunday by the l‘\ll'll(l PRI ING COMPANY in the coming election. He urges votes for his candidate for labor commissioner, Henry Benson, on the grounds ti#t Benson is pledged to repeal the “sales HELEN TRC DOROTHY T OCTOBER 4, 1926 | Eiaibn . TRl SRR tax.” Just what the commissioner of labor has to do OCTOBER 4 Vic Johnson was reported lost at Funter Bay and a searching-party i : about repealing taxes is something White hasn't| g Dorothy McLeod © | accompanied by John Harris left for there. Johnson had been hunting EYES EXAMINED i ¢ of n Juneau as Second Class explained. Spra ‘ e a a ma ame son and wandered away LENSES PRESCRIBED ) :‘ n\(lurTm.\" .:A"\ it v ¢ ) * o e i ° Robert %plagus‘ with John Fremming and a man named Hans cnrd Bevera ec ‘ in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per m We wish to point out to those who will be voting | o Jimmy Sprague ® | and perhaps lost his way DR. D. D. MARQU ARDT g 0. i »xt, Tuesday that the Territory of Alaska's present | e Mrs. L. B. Nelson | o P SR OPTOMETRIS & § _ [next. Tuesday e 3 . e LI oA ‘ el RIST Wholesale 805 10th St ! ance, $750; | Democratic administration, acting through a Demo- | e Mrs. Evan W. J. Leivers was to show moving pictures and Dalma Hanson was Fhoos 00 PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT § P cratic Legislature, has made great strides in fulfilling ! . Mrs. John W. Troy ® | to give a solo at the Parent-Teacher Association meeting | | Second and Franklin _Juneau for MIXERS i its obligation to Alaska’'s veterans. More than'a million | ® Alfred E. Jensen bl | e i i lor or SODA POP 4 : ot oftice, 374 NHiats Fin e Mok Toksied fto-veterans, | Here ate ropilap® Roberta Johnson o " ? o : Hiip i ” ‘ News Office, 602; Business Office, 37 dollars have been loane I'g E 5 Jasper Tyler o The Rev. C. E. Rice left for Skagway on the Margnita “e Emh reed cn i not just premises l's W. W. King o e - VANITY BEAUTY : & lo S. J. LaRue e! Mrs. Tom Shearer came in on the Estebeth from Chatham Office In Case Lot Grocery Bumper Crop s e e e e vesceos oo — i EHONE 301 SALON - | HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Chester Zimmerman missed the last ferry to Douglas and registered e ‘ 3 | § Waslinigton Foi) [14( the Gastineau Hotel b + world still hungry from the depletion c w‘:E { YRR i ¥ war or food crop prospects seem an answes | [ e A S e | Weather: High, 51; low, 47; rain. i Cooper Bullding ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager ¥ Phone 318 Open Evenings to prayer. Thus the Department of Agriculture’s Sep- | B tember 1 estimate of the largest wheat and corn Rl s e ‘ Jones-Sievens s‘lO]l harvests in United States history will be regarded GUSTAVUS . SSons in n iS by | l:ADlES‘ MISSES’ HCAIA};ES!:TMB% un: sally as good news. Some 1,167,319,000 bushels | D I I_ E I h | o 8 leating—Airconditioning—Boat of wheat are “practically harvested,” and the outlook | aly Le g W. L. GORDON i; READY-TO-WEAR Tanks and Stacks—Everything for a corn crop of 3,371,000,000 bushels, a substantial (SPECIAY. CORRESPONDENCE) { increase both in size and quality over previous peaks GUSTAVU Alaska, Oct. 3.—Mr. Other staple crops, too, will meet or exceed averages and Mrs. Dick Pierce returned on/| and are the fruition of near-gargantuan efforts by|Thursday from a visit to Juneau,|YoU American farmers. Only in cotton, rye and oil-produc- | combinir business and pleasure. | Sist o) | ) SRR WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Treat her the same a=| ster.” Say, “Treat her JUST AS you would your | | in SHEET METAL Ceward Street Near Third — Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave P ety e M would your s Femmer Transfer "The Rexall Store"” ing items are figures far below normal - | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Suite. Pronounce SWEET, not smT.l‘ Prompt Courteous Service All this is highly encouraging. There have been | Miss Marie Pletschmann who was! OFTEN MISSPELLED: Receive; EI. Believe; IE. BONDED WAREHOUSE Your Reliable Pharmacists vears in which such bounty spelled disaster to pro-!pere taking care of Mrs. Pete James SYNONYMS: Teach, tutor, instruct, educate, edify, enlighten. Oil-~General Hauling BUTLER-MAURO ducers; but now they are secure in the knowledge during her recent illness, left Fri- WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Phone 114 Triangle Square DRUG €O. that every bit of food grown can be used. It is'day for Juneau. reasonable to expect that additional grain now will be available as livestock feed. This may help relieve the! Mys. T. E meat famine that is developing by encouraging use | Alice Burris returned - to Commissioner of feeder lots. There is some hoe, too, that the supply [homes in Balding Park, Calif., af-|on last syllable). “The hoste: | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Tecday's word: ttschall and | Mrs. FAUX PAS (French); a false step; especially an offense against social | theijr | convention. (Pronounce fo-pa, O as in NO, A as in AH, principal accent | found it difficult to excuse such a faux | Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments HARRY RACE Druggist 5 Welding. Pl ing, Q. Is it all right for a man to get into a streetcar, or other public | ‘Blatl‘(‘:fl‘.’i:}"gw‘::k B crop in excess of 3,500,000,000 bushels as against last Douglas McKen: traffic man- conveyance, carrying a lighted cigar in his fingers? GENERAL REPAIR WORK gear's 5,300,000,000 bushels, ' Much of this, moreover,jager for jhe EAS, ey 1 Cusielg A. A well-bred man will throw away his cigar before entering a Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. is hard corn, considered superior to the soft corn which |the past week overseeing the ferry- o —————————— ) rans have now of grain may br at least some reduction in the/ter a ten day visit in Gustavus. |pas.” and Supplicr “The S -«\: eligible veterans current high domestic grain prices. | - - * e N - | o b iy Tn'iha tdes b One result of the crop report doubtless will be a| Buch Buchannan of Juneau was b 1 _Phone 206_Second and Seward | B mq“‘bm“sy“;:'. ' N blished demand for complete relaxation of all Department of in Gustavus for a day last Saturday MODERN ET I 0 U ETTE Y | R —— Profession 14 Agriculture controls on use of grain. On this a word | visiting old friends there. Ev- ROBERTA LEE HEINKE GENERAL In addition, bonuses have been paid to Veterans of caution is in order. There is some justification ery one was indeed happy to see REPAIR SHOP = who have been able to prove immediate and | for the hope that the corn crop will meet demands. Buck and say hello. RS e e e 20TH CENTURY MEAT e pressing need to the Commissioner of Veterans’ Affairs. | With last year's carryover, we shall have a total corn MARKET Juneau’s Most Popular The loans are being used by Alaskan veterans for The loar I'4 s s o establishing small businesses, buying homes and farms, and also for educational purposes. made up a large portion of last year's crop. While ing of the cannery workers from public conveyance; for even if the cigar is not burning, it is sometimes ONLY THE BEST OF MEATS 4 It seems to us that the program is proceeding | this vear’s over-all crop is the largest in history, the Todd, Excursion Inlet and Pelican, more offensive than when lighted. i “The Stote for Men" FHONE, 202 t smoothly and more successfully than its sponsors at total amount of wheat available is not. Ordinarily we for Seattle, from here Q. How should a divorced woman sign her name? | ore for Mea the last lcgislative session hoped for have a large carryover in wheat. But this year emer- e A. Supposing her name is Mrs. Harry Smith (maiden name Anne 9 c A L l l" 0 n “ I A ! We have heard very little justifiable criticism of | 8€NCY shipments of wheat abroad reduced the carry- M. McClain, f.rnm l.h(' Regional wilson), she should sign her name “Anne Wilson Smith.” AB'N S Grocery and Meat Market | 4 S lavied o se last April |OVer to only 101 million bushels. Thus the total Office in Anchorage, was here the, q. Where should the carving knife and the fork be placed on the 478 -— PHONES | the tax which was levied for this purpose la: I atnourit avellsble this’ year, Jeven iwith the | past week on business. " g | Front St.—Triangle Blda. — 371 i At that time it was agreed by all that something had | iy pe only approximately 1,269,000,000 bushel i inper table? | High Quality Foods at o B to be done for our returning veterans in the form of | stantially Lelow last year's 1,400,000,000 bushels. The| Seven planes left here in onec A. The knife should be placed at the right of ihe meat vlatter, the | 3 Moderate Prices 23 providing loans and bonuses. Some form of taxation 'same situation regarding the carryover also applies to day last week for Seattle. fork at the left. s 18y had to be lievied and we believe that the excise|the Canadian crop. - i wal"leld sD'uq S'ofe FOR vhich 1esulted is doing the job with little hard- Thus, while the picture on corn is improved, Glenn Daniels is now stationed | | (Formerly Guy L. S: Drugs | L:Tp“o):(:‘.‘x leAul]a:kz\n. g ? actually the situation on wheat is illusory. Nor can here, having taken up his duties as ‘ lO 0 K a n d L E A R N by VY y' o s Wall Paper |} X R the potential demand on our wheat resources be said radio operator, succeeding Lorraine A. C. GORDON NYAL Family Remedies | No tax is popular, but some tax was necessary if | ¢, "pe qown to anywhere near normal. The prospect Nelson who will be a “Link Train- HORLUCK’S DANISH |DE‘|_ PA'"I‘ SHop i/ such a program was to work. Because No tax 1S js that there will be need for all the wheat we can |er” in Anchorage. Miss Nelson wag! ~—~ = TR car ICE CREAM R popular, scme candidates for election have been cam- | grow for scmetime to come. Despite better crops in' here a couple of days enroute to 1. Which wingtip of an airplane carries the green light and which Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt paigning on a plank to pbolish the present tax, which | Europe, for instance, over-all production is far below | Anchorage after her holiday spent carries the red? s would be repealed automatically in several i prewar years. Britain, which had been expecting a|at her home in the States. b 2; Who succeeded U, ‘S-Grant as Preaident? | | HUTCHINGS ECONOMY - i anyhow, as soon as the fund reaches $3,250000. These :;u-%u gam Imrwsl;\l )msrhad its h;pz-s shattered by bere for a feq! 3 Does air Have weigat? | MARKET Donglas Boat SIIOP [ | Eaas " o st what form of tax |destructive rains. Near-famine conditions continue in | Henry Johnson was here for a few i + 24 - °:“‘_"df‘”1:1 ’:}z‘x:“::’ ?{:';"l(l:(,“pi:_\:m ath India and China. And although UNRRA will end hours Thursday, having flown out : :;;:v ol ?"hillepha"‘i A Cholce Meats At All Times NEW CONSTRUCTION and i FHEY Would subs officially next winter, the need for food obviously will from Juneau Y ¥ aregtianshonsss LUAE rounos Lotatsd in George Bros. Store REPAIR JOBS Albert White of Juneau has been the most per-| continue. We will be called uvon to export large quan- Lo o AREWERSE 4 PHONES 553—92—85 FREE ESTIMATE 3 sistent critic of the tax. He suggests that the money | tities of food well into 1947 and perhaps long beyond Mr. and Mrs. Fred Matson have 1. Green light ofi the right, red light on the left. el et S S Phone Douglas 192 |74 g could be taken out of the general treasury, pointing that. tetibiEd Tdme sfrom. the f,sm,,fi 2. Rutherford B. Hayes. ¥ i out that the Territory has a large cash balance. He Possibly later, when the corp crop actually mater- ground for the winter. -4 o 3. Yes. @ B P 0 ELKS e neglects to point out that.these funds are obligated, ializes and there are adequate estimates on grain R 4. Usually between ten and eleven feet. 4 o 4. U The Maskan nflld that the demands for money by all departments next Crops in the southern hemisphere, some further re- Mr. and Mrs. Pete James celebrat- 5. To present less surface resistance to wind and waves. Megts every Wednesday at 8 p. m? year will call for even more money, especially for wel- lflxf_flwn on grain controls here will be justified. But ed their fifteenth wedding anniver- o SETHL A5 _.{ | m. 'visiting brothers welcome. Newly Renovated Reems 1 : sl 3 FoEN P any act of this sort should be taken on the basis sary last Monday. E. C. REYNOLDS, Exalted i fAke, plrposes, < Welfare allotments have been out 601, o 11 assay of conditions. Our bumper crop —_— 3.’—__"—“' 3 | | Ruler. w. H. BIGGS, 'Secretary at Reasonable Rates . per cent aiready because of a shortage of funds for | ceemg as if it were a tonic provided by nature to| Leslie Parker left Thursday for SMITH HEATI“G and APPLIANCE co | : [ PHONE SINGLE O { that department soothe the wounds of war, but prudence should still |a trip to Juneau. s i MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 141 | [~ ! White, crying from the platform of the “Alaska be the watchword. . — FORMERLY SMITH OIL BURNER SERVICE SECOND and FOURTH JUNEAU : f r 2 a brief H 2 2 Monday of H The Washinalo the Price Decontrol Board. He was | now able to fly the goid_they i puase s oer Dltine made & orae 0il Burners — Plumbing — Heating _ in Sectrion maer ponth| | UPHOLSTERY CO. i e wasningion 'salidly behind Anderson in the lat-|in Spain to Argentina. The USA DAY PHONE—476 NG PHONE- BLACK 701 beginning at 7:30 p. m, i [ter’s stand against liiting the ceil- and<Britain this week lifted all con- Raiph Nelson of Ketchikan has M. L. MacSPADDEN, RE-UPHOLSTERING H Me"y-GO-ROlIIId ings, Truman said, and it would take trol over freight leaving Spain. . .'peen appointed as assistant to Mr._ | Worshiptul Master; JAMES W, NEW FURNITURE a lot to make him change his mind. \’Vhl‘lt" silver Senators advised their pierce and has already taken up| R R | LEIVERS, Secretary. X Phone 36 122 2nd St (Continued prom Page One) | Well, why don't you call a spec- silver-mining constituents to keep his work at the Field. — | |———————————————————— —— —— | ial session of Congress to deal with silver off the market, black market- Shiver Bow Lod, H the Pearl Harbor attack and Wen- the problem?” persisted Mrs. Ro- | ecrs of Mexican silver were clean-| . o1 porge skippered by Ben YELLOW CAB CO No. A 2, 1.0.0.¥,| JALASKA ELECTRONICS i dell Wiikie's brilliant defense of 'gers. “The OPA extension bill isn't ing up in the New England area Radh e Ims‘ Hhia wesk bring- Meets each Tues- Sales and Servi % 5 g \See ha. n y g ervice Hollywood working, so why not let's admit it where silver is needed for manu-'y " "."1 " of oil each day for Pn‘,NE 22 !day at 8:00 P. M, 1. O. O. F. HALL. | SO | Leader of the anti-Hollywchd and pass another law that will en- facturing. The Treasury is now in-(\ne o o " - Visiting Brothers Welcome Expert radio repair withoat delays| | ; Pk Hu. facretats olover| ibeans doing away ith rice aonc|iece itt Ailvat RS dom oy A San Mars, GINGE, Bt "uIY ot s sty oo | Wl gho oo L s s o T i G0 secretary clever means doing away w rice con- e illicit silver s and they g S mo . Bl " : ) A young man who was always on trols?? | are getting scared. Last week nneltfen‘?mgl; S“ dais thn% .IML: Service 24-HOUR SERVICE Srenti £V SN O R | rHOme " hand to help Nye in his campaign| Truman replied that he himself of them walked into the tax col-| ]Eac‘: da::c n:o(;:a‘ nf:l:u:" :r::es AR —— f to divide the American people was' didn't like the OPA bill passed by lector’s office here and handed over iy over heédil\g for the south. Thcv' B AT i Gerald (Spike) Movius. Congress, but was compelled to sign $80.000 in cash which, he said,|are really beantital in. flight. but [FE=====mte kel GYEROW Jdat Eric Johnston, presis 5 S (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICAIE. INC, 1946) |ter is near. H H ! dent of the Motion Picture Asso-| “No" he added. “I don't intend| — - : o iR =y s f : ° ciation of America, is taking Spike to call back Gongres to deal with A i | Sales and Service Movius on his good-will tour of the meat shortage—not just yet, H H 5 Europe for American movids. anyway. T don't think it would solve 8 QR@eY TR ge Qo Y mIvZAL-R (EIC/UOM i i BOR 215 EHONE 68 - thing.” UZ21€ Beom O i ForEvery | ] REFUGEES BLOCKED G s g PIUJE(R] [L i P i . P Last Christmas President Truman CAPITAL CHAFF AORORS RS LIACIE H urpose H H “ Cr' fl Adm' I 5 courageously crdered the State De-| General “Beetle” Smith, U. S.| 4 Secd soverings .. p oM EINIRT i P i allicraiers.. Iral.. partment 1o provide visas for the'Ambassador to Russia, is fed up| O Pigpen = 40. Danish fora |PIAIS TIE H JUST PHONE H 2 » = entry of more than 40,000 displaced | with Moscow, has asked to be made Tior 41 Hermits © Wi ST H i endlx and senlmel Radlos persons from Europe into the Unit-| Ambassador to France. . . President | 13 Feminine name 41 DITYEE b B T INISAV H i ed States. However, nine months Truman will ask Congress for a 15 [lurry {5 Roke i RIE/N[OJl[E 5 i 01' i i iater, the gentlemen of the State special $200,000,000 grant to aid a 16 Representa- 48 Accomb! A|R[M[S! H ] ! Department have only handed out democratic Italy after UNRRA ex-| 17. City in o ErasAl PA[R[T]Y E 039'2 Lflng, 2 sllflrl i . EXPERT REPAIRS ON ANY ] 5 4,000 visas pires January 1 .. .The Civil Aer-| yu p okiahoma condition e RRJTIR f é AND i : o | Result: President Truman, who onautics Board has refused con-' 20 Shake 65. Radium. i i ! B pen . vuman, who) onutics Teard hasealused toioon- 0 BN emanasion olNjojgHiA i —DELIVERY WILL BEGIN i RADIO EQUIPMENT . [ | has just got wind of this, may crack | sider the petition of Elliott Roose-| 33 ['sehmvmese 51. In favor of [N] P . 'W MINUTE: H 31 down e State Department and | velt's air line to reopen hearings drop B 3 i Jo s RS bl e L H 3 demand the firing of the obstruc- on feeder lines in New York and| 2* Greatest Heountry BT o Yipiardiy’s pusrie B Hlgs ; tionists New England. . . Stanley Arnold, 1. Chobped meat &8 Plying card Star In The 1. Pleco over I * HP— e —_ author of “Star Spangled Banter,” | tables 62. Coins i L il [ > i vl TRUMAN DECLINES points out that President Truman Ji §lamese cotn 63, Propel with & Fufe AT TR - i MOTOR REBUILD and MARINE SERVICE One of the savviest members of has really gone in for reversing lstand of the DOWN b Fury (T I J R d M i i i ke a:49 1 € l ur; g - x i 3 ongres dith Nourse ogers, has humsel New Secretary c - B i & L kammodon i ’ 5 Eaith Nourse Rogers, has mumselt. Kew. Secretary ot Gume ! - Anitien '+ 1 Subken fonce € Wrath PR i uneau neaay-Mmyx | Machine Work — Welding ] a reputation for usually getting merce W. Averell Harriman has ex- 7 7 Fhpe R e ¢ i ENGINE REBUILDING—HARDWARE = what she goes after. However, the g reverse initials of Henry . Heat CO]I(?I‘ ete Illc f charming and tenacious Congress- H A W.vs. W. A H ;’,::,‘,':" H 9 ® f Bie We:st ML Bfvect JHONE B¢ woman from Massachusetts batted Harriman, of course, is the exact . Dull finish [ir‘ ‘ == wEEETET: ‘i 25. Different — = S S avia) —_— 000 when she braced President reverse ‘Truman the other day about calling | than i a special session of Congress to deal with the meat shortage She also flied out in her attemp! to induce Truman to order Wallace in more ways French coln’ it ot J. S. McCLELLAN bric-a-brag aoipylent as a pard-op subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA . Promonteries: 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1946 Truman has abandoned L Siiinny Andean to el ing on AL v EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. o - ary ! rson to re- tour in behalf o emocratic 32. Preposition i i ! scind price controls on meat eressional candidates. Too many 5. Plays bols Present this coupon to the box office of the * ? i ‘The meat shortage extremely old Senate buddies whom he : R CAPITOL THEATRE 37. Symbol for iron and receive TWO TICKETS to see: B | rae crime poctor's covrace” || The B. M. Behrends critical in my state, ald Mrs. Ro- gers. “We can't even get meat for the hospitals. You've got to do something.” Truman replied cheduled to support by personal visits would be ofiended. ad Truman will confine his e campaign to two radio hat he was aware cne about October 10, the Patron sain of the situation in Massacnusews other u week before Election Day rance; ki Federat Tax—12c per Person . - Bank and elsewhere and was deeply If former icitor General . Burn ] troubled by it, but that there was| Howard McGrath little he could do if cattlemen re- Senate next fused to market their beef h Atrian 1o, PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. Oldest Bank in Alaska s elected to the month, the first law partners in many a year will be Ul and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and He added he had no intention of ting activel e iMdot o8 - AU u dist § i COMME N Upsetting the stabilizing program A e Potsonous: weed RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. 3 e o WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! leatlier TR 7 A B N O SO A N N . S . I by steps to abolish meat controls dore F. Green, both through action by And Nazis in Spain are {