The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1946, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE rm ING COMPAN Second a T Alaska HELEN TROY MON: - President DOROTHY TROY o - - ce-President ) s & . Editor and Manager ing Editor iness Manager in_Juneau a Matter SCRIPTION RAT) Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.20 per month; months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 age paid, at the followinr rates ace, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7 a favor failure or irre cond Class 50 if they will promptly notify ularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS o Press 18 exclusively entitled to the use f on o1 all news dispatches credited to it or not ot t saper and also news published e local REPRESENTATIVE dg., Eeattle, Wash NA Alaska Newspapers, 1411 JOBS FOR DISABLED VETS Bell Telephone System 1 disabled the r that nearly would appea exper uide, it veterans can be employed satisfactorily ome 32,000 employees of the Bell compani returned from the ned force. Of these about 0 were disabled in ome degree. Approximately two-thirds of these w not disabled by wounds, but by tropical diseases, heart arthritis, or similar ailment s, fully 1,000 they held before the are now re-employed 94 found to be unemployable may -later suitable jobs Fu the Bell | hired 689 disabled vets not previously e conditions 1,500 disabled in the 4 of them ner of been placed And all but of the veter have the jobs war ven some be companies have placed hermore in employed This is an ive record, testifying to the are making to fit disabled im these companies It confirms also ihe cager- to pay sincere effort back into useful work even though partly disabled, jobs for regular wages. this set m ness of veterans their own way with regular The whole problem is not of figures, however. There going be absolutely unemployable, for whose support of course the government assumes responsibility. And there are going to be some employers who simply cannot find enough jobs suitable for returning veterans. On the other hand, there numerous occu tions singularly well suited to men with some physic indicated by are to some are al handicaps. The head of a school of watchmaking in New York has reported that 1,700 jewelry stores in the United States have volunteered to hire watch- makers they bave traingd.” And he noted that man toesn't have to be an athlete to repair watches. In this and in other fields, the disabled veteran, even the handicapped case, can find useful and satisfying occupations. But the plac- ing of our disabled vetérans in such jobs may call for and for earnest cooperation many seriously considerable retraining of employers. Furthermore left to the great corporations which have well-or jzed personnel departments. Most of the places are it is not primarily a problem to be in small companies or retail shops. Tt is a problem cer ought to face. For he may be able to cpen up a useful career to some handicapped WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1946 | eteran who has given much for his country and | who deserves the chance to become once more a working. self-respetcing, tax-paying citizer | l Kathleen's \tml\m;o | (Cincinnati Enquirer) | i W 20 YEARS AGO 7% empire OCTOBER 30, 1926 J. Simpson MacKinnon was returning to Juneau from 'the south Ve know of 16,000,000—and probably more—Am- | o OCTOBER 30 o' aboard the Princess Mary. erican women who wish they were the sisters of the | o v, BrreAt= ParanE . ) Mayor of New York City. For Mayor O'Dwyer’s sister, | o Gus George e Owing to the fact the Territorial election was to be held on Novem- Kathleen, returning to her native County Mayo a few | o Anna Nielson o 'ber 2, the Parent-Teacher Association postponeq the regular meeting days back, was stopped at an Eire airport for ques-| g e A RH e gl tioning. Tn her luggag officials found : N of | PR o ol o ;‘(\;\1{')!1'1‘-::”\::;}:“‘-ii“nfl;;[:‘\:\.Lu}:dlA ‘h‘ifv"fi;f.uf"il;m' tne 3 ””“i‘h‘_‘ ;’””3”‘}?,‘(13;"110" ®| Soot in the chimney of the John Dunn residence, Fourth and Ken- | 1,054 bits of lush hose became the property of the |/ SEar il Bl AT I nedy, caught fire and the fire department was summoned as sparks shot | Government of Eire. We presume, however, that a | J Roy, Gl o high into the air. No damage was done lady who could come by 527 pairs of stockings at onef e i ey fell swoop wouldn't have much trouble digging up a4 g o! D. D. Wilder, of Anacortes, Wash., and 20 millwrights were on the few ‘more fot her own D use. Hence we deduce| & o o o , o o o @ e|Waynorth to construct a $250,000 electrical powered plant for the Juneau that she is the envy of most American gals At w2 | i MHtile Comipy’ It would be most interesting, even for a mere b TR | 5 . ale. ow how Kathlee by her stockings | :1:;1«]-( \::;»\k:;w‘x \\'mme be delivered to a merch .‘;.n DEIE(IING { Weather report: High, 48; low, 43; rain. hom, she believed, had an import license. But it | e e - ceems strange that the Mayor’s sister would be acting as a transportation agent for dry goods. CHEATERS | Could be, of course, that her official (*nm:“(‘lm:\t with the New York City administration had something ! LSk e to do with it. Could be that some hosiery manu- | “WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, facturer had something he wanted—or didn't want—| the biALe Honedl . & done. That seems a low and ugly thought for us m: b i'"’""'” ThiAGR TAKE PTAGH by arfangemen e been done have, but we understand such things I in politics in New York and elsewhere. | Anyhow, if Mayor O'Dwyer and Sister Kathleen | had wanted us to keep quiet they should have told us. v CLARK BEACH WASHINGTON — Anybody ze! ney fre the government ! S D i They should have told us lots of things. Among ihem “)::“‘T!‘\""' ‘1:11(“:::"10(; (;"" has to| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Column; UMN. Volume; UME. 55 sotitoh of the \ SYNONYMS: Quiet (adjective), restful, peaceable, tranquil, undis- the solizpeof s TYIOTR buck the General Accounting Of- = S d I g — - Tice @Ay, [ turbed. When America Saved Siberia | " Its the biggest accounting outfit WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us| — lon earth. It has thousands of ways increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Tod word: (New York Tin It is sometimes possible to have ympathy for the ment funds, whether through fraud ny or adopts a false surname prisoners who had broken away in the turmoil of the| 5% Fevdliibion, Semanov; with headquarters sW ORI, easy o c is"Lksly, lorrstan ettt E, of Lake Baikal, was one of two Atamans who were | hame. If in the “Mar nominally supporting the | endorsements of two checks look Kolchak counter-revolution. | Z0 OHE D S The other was a man named Kalmikov. In his “Am-| &1 ‘}‘“‘-'*'f il Hf‘f] —some:- erica’s Siberian Adventure” | times with surprising results. General Graves said that [ fIme . & 1 Kalmikov was “the worst scoundrel I ever saw orl Every voucher paid by a disburs- heard of" and later added, There was only one worse | i officer of the government is re- criminal than Semenov, and that was Kalmikov. ‘“’\'-""d by GAO’s Audit Division. Semenov was not as bad Kalmikov it was not for| In the I"'*"“l year which ended this lack of trying. The followers of both of these men, to| July, 39,000,000 vouchers = were quote General Graves again, ‘were roaming the coun- | Checked GAO filed o exceptions to 417,000 iry like wild animals, killing and robbing the people.” | When the counter-revolution failed Semenov fleq,|Of the vouchers—resulting in the having the effontery even to pay visit to this|80overnmen receiving refunds of country. Later he sought Japanes rotection and | $43,400,000. The discrepancies arc there was no need to doubt him when he said in |usually the result of error and not Moscow recently that he had plotted with them for | {raud, says E. W. Bell, chiet of the twenty-five years against the Soviet Government | division. But there is one point about Semenov's history | 5,000 Busy Checking Bell has 5,000 bookkeeping sleuths | not be clearly brought out in the Moscow ! in his division, some of them at his |} 1918 to 1920 the Japanese were trying that may trial. Fre to take over Eastern Siberia. They were frustrated | headquarte in Washington and | by the presence of General Graves' troops, for Gen-|some at field stations. i eral Graves, at some personal and professional risk to | gest field offices are in Cleve- himself, stood firm against this aggression. In con- where 500 accountants and deming Semenov, as we do, too, the Russians might ers check on payments made consistently acknowledge this one debt of gratitude Navy contracts; and in St. , where 600 more keep tab on | transactions. of the work of Bell's di- is simply checking vouch- see whether they comply to the United States and to the memory of General Graves, who died in 1940. With King Simeon IT counted out just after King George I1 has been counted in, royalty seems to be batting .500. | ers to | with the law and with the con- tvacts involved. The division may M ;.u nes the pictures of people—just | any people—and put them up nn GOOD (AI(H | ten or in the case of cust-plus-l — (hlldre“ o' {their dressers, sometimes in front of | | fixed-fee contracts \their rocks, so they would be more B G er Scope like those who had photographs of TWIN FALLS, Idaho—Dob RO-| y¢ 4150 can make an audit of pmp]e they knew “The children t !about America inces will that the care has engendered is Europe Just Heart Hungry ! make a complete audit, however, [ when directed by Congress, as it of- | bertson hunted pheasants for two talk ' days without any luck. | “termination settlements"—the con- tracts which the government ter- Yesterday he went to his field to' minated at the end of the war be- gather corn stalks to decorate the fore performance had been com- I American Legion hall. A pheasant bleted. and loved. hink and ssantly. The good of these children tremendous. nounce the O as in NO) dential electior f Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox chance or accident. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Discharge A. Yes ¢, “The wedding TOOK PLACE at o, ——— | “The wedding occurred at the bride's they OCCUR usually by Accent both noun and verb Wwho o SECOND syllable, not the first as sc often heard. of nosing cut leakages of govern- COGENT; appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing. (Pro- “He presented cogent reasons for pursuing this wretched men who appear before Soviet courts on| .= Ehatioaiatiebiiise treason charges—they are usually so pitifully eager to| " pucioor women for instance, have | confess their misdeeds and one cannot help wondering | . oo™ (0" A catches up on PR what kind of third degree it is that accounts for m-im”” 1. ‘Wwrong-doers. ' Kach ‘\was MODERN E'”OUET'I'E erness. The case of Gen. Gregori Semenov (the| . . e ;- oone 15 also spelled Semyonoy and Semeonov), ane | MEFTIEd, oOr Salf she WAs o TR ROBERTA LEE of the defendants in the current Moscow trial, is dif- !d““ A 1ullmml:x:ls trom both | ST : - s - i) ferent. We already knew that he was a terrorist, me.\ pay . i Q. If a man lifts his hat when meeting a woman acgquaintance on |butcher and a Japanese agent, which are among the | Trapped by First Names the street and stops to chat for a minute, is it necessary for him to lift charges on which he is now being tried. | But then didnt know that GAO his hat again when he leaves Her? . American sf‘]du‘ under the u,m:mnd of Maj. ‘\ has a file of paid allotment checks A. Yes: it is the courteous thing to do. Gen. William S. Graves encountered Semenov When | opoeq by first names. GAO fi-| Q. When there is to be a large church wedding, is it well to enclose 2:;:,::“}{\:,3}[0.::; T,l:;lI‘:Kll",,1,91(81“'.0(\I::‘J,ll(:",m‘;} T(l:‘;::‘ Lur(-s that when a woman commits engraved cards of admission with the invitations? Q. When you visit friends who are staying in a hotel, should you A. Yes, always. 1. Approximately how many from the Dead Sea contain? times was William Jennings Bryan defeated in Presi- 2. How manjy pounds of file the call their rooms from the lobby before going up? LOOK and ‘.EARN A C. GORDON 1}/ — salt does one ton of water 3. How many acres are there in a square mile? 4. ANSWERS: 1. About 187 pounds. 2. Three times. 3. 640 acres. 4. South America. 5 ELLIS AIR DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock, Hydaburg ana steamers for Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Seattle FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 Which is wider at its widest part, North or South America? Whose signature has been forged more than any other in history? That of Antonius Stradivarius, the maker of the famous violins. LINES } HOTDR REBUILD and MABINE SERVICE Machine Work — Welding ENGINE REBUILDING—HARDWARE 1012 West 10th Street PHONE 863 overheard one Foster Plan boy—an jumped from under his feet right| Another GAO unit, the Corpnra—‘: English lad of 14—say, ‘All I do iS into his hands. tion Audit Division, headed by T. | A ihear talk about Americans. How, ———o—— ‘Lolem.‘n Andrews, makes commer- BY ADELAIDE KERR {they put over this and that and the| pjgitalis, the dried leaf of the cial audits of all wholly-owned | (AP Newsfeatures Writer) other thing. Airways and things purple foxglove, is a cardiac stim- government corporations, now num- | NEW YORK “The thing that'like that. Tl never fall for it. No-! yjant | bering about 95. impressed me most about the body can tell me Americans are not| children I saw in » was their honest and generous. Because I — = | terrible heart hu — their need can prove they are [o] | for love,” said Edna Blue, who had| The Foster Parents’ Plan was s just returned from a two months founded during the Spanish Civil L trip to Europe war to care for Spanish children ACROSS 35, Peer Gynt's [ Mrs. Blue is executive chairman Whom the war rendered homeless. 1. Pouch mother of the Foster Parents’ Plan for In 1937 Mrs. Blue helped found the & Scpndinavian g smaller in c War Children, Inc, which has car- American Committee, which in- 9 Limb L 'L:‘i"","l; R] ed for 40,000 European youngsters cludes among its sponsors Mrs.| '* MOUMBIRL L 5e sinpol for Al who have suffered as a result of Harry Truman and Mrs. Eleanor 13 Excuse 5 Lloxtion B 2. _ Ce 4. Biiliard stick 39 Lhummd the war e visited 56 projects Roosevelt. When World War II 10, Pe which the plan operates to care for broke out the plan extended its 41 d “mouthea 3 children of all nationalities in Scope to other countries. | 43, Those owing H England, Holland, France, Belgium,| Originally the children were 45, Binnthos at [ and Malta irounded up and housed in empty ning S 1y of the youngsters, espe- country castles. Today every effort 9 T cially are fectionate throw onto your those who have high-strung and extremely af- home or care for Mrs. Blue said. “They Every case their arms around you, hang authorities before hands and cover it with kisse They go on and on and scribe $15 a can't seem to stop. Their behavior one year isn't normal, of course, but it schools, universiti ws how great their heart hunger other groups is. They are generous and thought-|Each foster ful toward one another, too. (dividual or One evening in one hostel we special child and gave them a little candy I tory and picture can see them yet, each holding his give is piece, looking around to see if medical care the others had some before he took child needs. a bite! They are more than our children Another thing which ed me was the evidence I the human need for poss all hear people say, ‘I do: be tied down by possessions evidently we have to have In the institutions where we for some of the homeless, each child has his own little dresser. necktie. Some of the girls had picked up which said, a rock from the road, washed it to live for and set it on the dresser. That was whether I do or their possession—theirs alone. “Again and again I noticed how the children who have been left alone in the world cut out of mag mo! or child impress- presents and at saw of month ions. We | The letter t want to | quirements But day when a rome. slovakian boy, was 15. At his g 1 Malaria known is no family, it made to place a child in a foster is investigated by Those who support the plan sub- They as well as individuals “pare group) spent for In addition the foster unselfish parent is expected to see that the gets birthday immediately whose care always remembered his birthday and Christmas was found hanging by have any letters . -ee one diseases of S . stop momen- tarily Number Greek letter Long n: Iy under ope Weight 63. Ocean Nostrils Finien DOWN sh Insect 1. Planted him in his own. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle local it is undertaken plemests icial terway Corrode peed contests Negative Op ie solo ake violently ht helmet Beverage 61 nth for at least include many es, sororities and nt” (whether in- is assigned a receives his his- The money they food, clothing, whatever the Ona of the Muses European blackbird Cut with a toothed tool Close: poetic Tempe else and Christmas least one letter a into the re- Hraned after the year-old Czecho- foster m()(lwl" put ' Genus dr thik Virginia willow Bew his | feet lay a note haven't anything| nobody cares | not I no\‘m-‘ hody Indian water vessél’ Present] [ an cmperop ational leelandic tate Receive of the oldest mankind — Juneau and environs. Number Pick-Ups ART LITTLEFIELD as a pmd -up subscriber to TiiE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. 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REYNOLDS, Exalted c A L IF o n N l A Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary i Grocery and Meat Market M ETCALFE SHEET METAL 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Fcods at Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Moderate Prices Tanks and Stacks—Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. & Jones-Stevens Shop 1 LADIES'—MISSES’ ”The Rexall Stol’e” 9 READY-TO-WEAR N Your Reliable Pharmacists - Seward Street Near Third i BUTLER-MAURO 3 . DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianes—Musical Instruments HAnnY nAcE and Supplier ° - Phone 206 Second and Seward D ruggist - “The Squibb Store” HEINKE GENERAL Wiere Shuzunoy de a H REPAIR SHOP Pia{emisn ————— jWelding, Plumbing, Oil Burner Blacksmith Work 20TH CfiNA'll"URY MEAT GENERAL REPAIR WORK : KET Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. Juioatehe Kot Fornian “Meating” Place ONLY THE BEST OF MEATS “The Store for Men"” SABINS ~Triangle Bldg PHONE 202 Wall Paper {| Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Front' St. Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. 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