The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1947, Page 4

PAGE F OUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA ‘dm rt the picture to a certain extent, of course, but | Dml\ Alaska rmpuv e ] el g = i = : EMPIRT rll\n\l.u-\u'\\\ Higher Postal Rates Proposed J A and Main S e (New York Sun) ! e 2 BOROTHY 3 Two conflicting schools of thought are likely to APPV fl!m M WILLIAM meet in head-on collision at the hearings later this' = % by ,‘,‘ 4 month before the Senate Committee on (1,11 Service, 9 sl & R e i when the Post Office Department's proposals to in- | J Dave Burnatt 5 UBSCRIPTION RATES cres rious postal rates will be considered. The J Lois Aubert . Detivered b "i’.\f;m“,:“:::r1:‘um‘uu}ml:\:n:;:\‘ll n\"I 50 per monthi oy (fyml U;:,‘”.“n,". 1,\,"\ : 1\}":)': 1); l::)é;,;i;:(;;g‘d .lv‘(\ 5 Mrs. Jhmeh 867 % . b ) Victor Crondahl ° | promptiy motity | plan to reduce Federal expenditures, retire part of the srdliel % ne ity in the delivery ' hupjic debt and provide some sort of tax relief. The 1 Wodlas Hhr s . ph 3 Post Office Department, without apparent prempting i esley Bonner - T from anybody in Congress, has prepared a schedule : ri‘!’Il‘ “ : e A use for of iricreased rates and fees to apply to virtu s el 7 2 e ) 'hews. pubiisied i il XN . Alexander Kiloh . o e These proposals are based upon the department’s|® Norma Dolores Cook . NATION Alaska Newspapers, 1411 g, figures bn the cost of handling varicus classes of | ® _ Lynn Bodding . : : , malil and of providing various cla ice. But ® Kennice Joanne Meier . SR this does not mean that proposals will not be ® Mrs. Bernice Johnson . sharply challenged, both on the grounds that the de- | © Mrs. G. E. Hachmeister . partment's costs are not accurate and that service to Robert I. Ditman . the public reguir tment in this instance or|® © 9/ ¢ € &8 LA SN that to do business than cost. Regardless of — = = 75 T the arguments intrcduced at the hearings, higher though Mutual is partly dominated postal rates and fees seem inevitable, thc ugh it is | py the Chicagg Tribune’s Colonel unlikely that Congress will all the steps which | McCormick, it was his network would be required to wipe ¢ tire prospective which took on Cecil Brown agd deficit which has now offered an outlet {to Bill Shirer. Though he may 'l raining Not Unpopular ! murder the news in the Tribune, Enquirer ) Col. McCormick seems to believe F of 5500 of its policy-|that all sides should be given a . the National Life Insurance Co.' chance to be heard over a radio — — - found out some intere ;s about public | network, and lets Mutual's capable =y iy opinion. In a recent voll of up on military | Chief, Ed Kobak, operate accord- FEDERAL TAXES training, it was ascertained t er cent favor | ing peacetime military training for all abls -bodied young i & ok e T e it resa Ve Deoh e :3,::\[ OIL REFINERY TO RUSSIA ax m Alask e sum of $15,- cent were of that opinion i company | R ki aro (i R 187,544 i e reas Territofial Leg- | conducted a similar surve ) x outery in Congress regarding lend- ; some difficulty in finding The growth of sentimen niversal military SULEEY R i ¢ of that amount training since the war ended m rtle a good many ! lease to Russla, and an amen venues o br ut half of that amount e g & o1 Phew- . | ment was passed stcpping all fur- people The usual assumptio: hat after a war § two years : anything military becomes unpopular. But with mil-| ther lend > shipments. At that is a situat which exists not in Alaska, Jions of men returning from active military service, | time, $25,000.000 worth of oil re- but all the es and Territories, where the there is new public support for military training in| finery equipment was about to 1 taxes extracted lea left for local peacetime. Veterans as a rule have learned the “"‘“‘.U"_‘ USA Sl R &% advantages of learning the art of war before one is Last week, however, Secretary of L Kapys plunged into it State Marshall sent” a confidential A. W. Robertson, Chairman of the Westinghouse PIMESC WO & 0 0 o two has been alcable to Undersecretary of State Electric Cc was s0 struck by the disparity of the o504 of tention in world politics. And it is being Acheson which surprised those who tax schedules that he wrote the fcllowing letter to all yeqjized more clearly that adoption of know about it. Marshall asked that members of Congress tary training would materially rengt our hand | Congress OK shipment of the $25,- Yau will be astonished, I was, that I 37 as a nation in the conduct of for policy 1000,000 oil refining equipment to s 1 Gove! ent Of the 13 per cent of policyholders opposed to Rus e ) much tax 1o, the b S universal training, in this recent poll, fully| Marshall's request is based on eral tax from paid to all other tax col half would favor a type of training given through all t through 1946—$746.717; all other taxes for ‘the same o pign schools. Thus it appears that only about | had obtained title to the oil equip- period, $20200). What is still more remarkable, this g pocent of the total are actually opposed to military | ment under earlier lend-lease and £20200 paid for all public school facilities, all police 'ruining in any form whatever. since, he contends, they already protection, tire protection, sanitary service, including These are figures worthy of more attention in!own the property, he wants them street ¢ and garbage collection. While indi- Ccngress than they seem to be getting. There is a | to have permissis to ship it ndu..ln\ figure$ vary, a similar comparison of services manifest disposition among legislators to dodge duusumc Congressme are a little cculd be shown by practically every taxpayer in the military training issue, on the theory that any program ‘nAublnu\ though inclined to thi i ehntey et + he pavs much or little to the na- |8t all would be unpopul Indeed, the tendency | that if any small concessions will R T o AR is all the other way. By slashing the budget six|make Marshalls path easier in tional gove eems to me that, unless We ', 00 T ovess is really proposing to try disarma- | Moscow, it should be granted have embar v on a policy of confiscation of o) "ho xample. On the eve of the momentous ! (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) property of the citizens in the guise of taking current scow conference, with the fate of Central Europe — income from individuals, regardless of services rendered e, we ought' to be adopting universal military | | o oo o o o in return, Federal tax: t be reduced until they are t policy, in order to strengthen the forces S 4 in line with other taxes resisting the Communist advance across Europe. In- SN e - Joubtediy has o pomt which |Stead we are watching Congress deliberately adopt a | * TiDE TABLE . ity Ry e policy of weakness by drastic cuts in the armed ‘orces.|® ® ® ® - © » v © ® o Wit g gon Bl suenibins of CongeRis2n This is not only shortsighted, in terms of national | ® ® with the services rendered for the local tax |, i 1¢ also is out of line with public opinion, if | ® APRIL 6 o Federal Government doesn't give the aver- | there is any significance whatever in the poll we have | ® High tide 2:19 am, 186 feet ® ize taxpayer very much for his money. War ex summarized ® Low tide 8:30 am., -19 feet ® s = ® High tide 14:44 pm. 174 feet ® . UNDER THE DOME Company ousted Shirer. However,|® Low tide 20:39 pm. -02 feet ® The Washington S he th R 5 The private session of Ohio Leg- working for the same Williams e APRIL 17 . Me"Y'GO'Round islators at Senator Taft's home Company, it was impossible to say @ High tide 2:48 am., 184 feet ® last week was featured by a short auything bordering on e Low tide 9:07 am., -19 feet ® (Continued frum Puage Onej and sweet speech by Senator Brick-'gpinion without having a ® High tide 15:20 p.m., 166 fcet ® ——— er stating that since he had step-'of Jawyers buzzing over the !e Low tide 21:13 pm., 08 feet ® Wi to Carl Els. Ped aside for Taft in 1940 and Taft serjpt. Even the advance . - hoff, owner of a mine at Spring- i““‘“““’l"‘“‘: ‘;;l"“'l’lfx"\ """)“ \!x‘l‘“:”‘"' tion Hlnl] FDR Mxl;:i) defeat h el et fiel 1.. to close down e e yie i Willkie in a fore S o e i T Sbus mrde: Ty o ANl Hands by rallled. toldowm i sponsor’s back SThEN A rtwua gL !\f;(?l) 9 x]ue paid out the dues of his own men Rush Ohio's favorite son toward 55 A g xglslas afternoon at Mrs. John- D O e b otherwise the White House — though some Meanwhile, the Columbia network son's home. . . with tongue-in-cheek. Someone re- has been increasingly timid about After the regular business we ioMia have en gainful employ- o0 0 hat when the smoke of freedom of the air, and in 1943 worked on our project. It was ment, ‘as a reward: for c Senate battle clears away the pub-|Parted company with one of their decided to go on a bike hike to down lic will see Taft in clearer per- Star commentators, Cecil Brown. Thane on April 12. We will leave Not far from Ce als0 00 (ootive and his Presidential, He had been telling some unpleas-|at 10 o'clock in the morning and curred the famou rin ma chances will be better. But many ant truths about the conduct of get back home sometime in the cre, where the steam shovelmen's ., . gigtinct feeling that if the the war. afternoon union first ted Sati didnt roll fast Meanwhile, the two most fearless. SALLY CROOKS, Reporter Lewis sent his faian would be quite champions of air freedom are the' - telegram describing them as ' i, 0 7 yncheath his sword and American Broadeasti Jomy When you pay tur QUALITY why ollow:nz which SRR s and Mutuel. ABC's courage is well ot get the FINEST—Buy FLOR- Lewis -men - surroul h yere’s usually a backstage brain known and long established. But|SHEIM SHOES at GRAVES. ‘*"‘J‘r";‘h ll‘i\ Marghac truster in the lives of great men FDR's early life, for instance, was a‘ded bf Louis Howe. And when jov. Charles Whitman died n York the other day most peo- ad forgotten that it was Her- Bayard Swope, then young for the New e up District 1 at 2 am. after ithal murder and the scene of the Whitman's brain the sensatio Lieut. Charles Beck the chair, but to Albany when became Governor. you look behind an Bernie Baruch 4 relations today same Herbert Whitman toward “Murder a of York World, Attorney the tam- made crime Ros visit » was er during m Merry- when tribution to was would not Whitman It atesma hi Swe police sent to ' he names g0 Elder 1d his adr will who Gove public find the started IN MOSCOW M deadly the BACKSTAGE WOpE mat the in th writing slip in a of stimes re informaily n prob- how Wil- Colum- To get am B xit from Broadcasting you have to go to the days before Hitler, shirer was CBS corresy rmany and one relped warn the regarding Nazilar Shirer did a gre American public and on the proud of him Bill has loans to raised sc ture ack when ent men ond the world at job lor for the air, and More recen not been enth over n an war ln tory 1 . a drift toward war Now, after cannot fight without aspirin long years of service, Bill is off And a plant manufacturing ba- ihe air by carriages is also a war plant many denials and counterde- quipped General Lucius Clay, Com- nials have been issued by CBS of- mander of U occupied Germany. ficials that it is difficult to kn beeause it helps the infantry whether CBS or the Williams Soap both with his umk‘ ACROSS vincapple d Dismounted Rodents Apportion Xist ymbols “xclamation Wide-moutied jar Masculine 140, 41 43. i1 46, Mot for Jhanmedan he fa that the Russians already 24 ime 85 Finished edge 85 Wrinkie 25 Greck letter 0. Hydraulie 21. Singing bird . Duteh eity 83, Indigo piant Soft drink reparation DOWN 38. Chant . Kind of rubber . mluuuvv e e 5. Asiatic native 2 > e | 78 17 @ TE] 6 cony miner 3 7 il 7. Masonic duors 7z B T V= (eever | il bt ——Aa— Vs T AR R . Tenth part R o T3 ! 3 \\.lur vapor 8 Vg |ro [ 5 Lzz 23 y| I | 128 - [%o L7300 S D 39 2 7 I { 7 7 % %T = 55 T4 T ez s . o such F'_ S . Swamp Gl. Late: comb, RS B! 0K, form (oo ! from si ) Thine 75 cfor Xflur Office SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1947 !M()l'NT‘ JUNEAU LODGE NO. 1:= SECOND and FOURTH ‘\ { OIS AR o [T R e BHI;RLES a. CmFFIN cn. Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple ) APRIL 5, 1927 t beginning at 7:30 p. m. | The snow storm which swept down upon the city the time the polls Gl 'f[”/' ‘—/,, CHAS. B. HOLLAND, | opened this merning had the effect of keeping voters away from the polls, | OErving AaSKaLXCHUSIVEY | | worshiptul Master; JAMES v th the result that at 2:30 ¢’clock only 399 voters out of 993 registered | | It's not how much you pay for LEIVERS, Secretary |1 ted | }vour fur coat. or how little—It's SR | what you get for your money Bilver Bow Lodke | Ida Reinikka, native of Finland, received her naturalization | in Vicl s, In @ e 1 the preceding day from Judge T. M. Reed of the District Court.} Marh_n VK“JVF Fll !’ _"" Meets every Tues 3 | Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Oliver of the Alaska Road Commission was to leave on ka for Seattle for a ccnference with the contractor and concerning the program of operation in dz'edglng: as to interfere as little as possible with the :ourm‘ f ajor L. E. teamer Ala; umship companies ell Narrows so 4 James C Special Fe Corporation—Municinal and Miss Rae Stevens, we: appeared in Agnes | | Trust nown Juneau young lady Th(‘cc Generations BUSINESS COU\ISI OR Aceounts day at 8:00 P. M, 1. O. O. F. HALL Visiting Br.thers Welcome J. A. SOFOULIS, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary €3 B. P. C. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 v ooper, CPA izing fr A picture at the Palace this night. Miss Stevens was in Hollywood NPSR— ‘ ::‘ (‘:‘Yls““‘éYmumerf wek“jme« when “The Awful Truth” was being made and was in one of the scenes. Th Erwi o 'REYNOLDS, Exalted . e Erwin Feed Ce, Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, § The senior class of the Juneau High School was busy with pr a- Office in Case Lot Grocery for a public dance to be given April 8, as their farewell affair PHONE 701 “SMILING SERVICE” TTAY, GRAIN. 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