The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947 20 YEARS AGO £%': Emrire ————d a constructive tax program. Now that anhother Lm’,-‘i islative Session has come and gone without the enact- | ment of such a law, the question again comes to mind, | “Who is responsible for this failure?” | Some would answer, “the fish interests.” certainly is not true for as it now stands every time | there deficiency, a new tax is slapped on the fish- | ing industry. Naturally, they would welcome a T ‘e tory-wide tax program that would lift some of thc‘ ure and burden from the saimon industry. Some would answer, “our Legislators.” Again, we feel that is not the correct answer. Four years ago, the majority of our Legislators went to Juneau real ing that a tax program must be worked out for the | Territory. Some favpred a property tax others a sales tax with probably the majority favoring the less painless but more equitable net income tax. But when the Legislators reached Juneau, they found that the Govegnor had a tax program of his own and that they must pass his program . ’ . or else. £nd if you think he didn't mean “or else,” wit- veto of the Ceonsoli 1 School District Bill ago, after it had passed by an overwhelming > Things for Your Office | I:HAIH.ES R, ERIFFIN Co. Serving Alaska [xc/:mve/y< J1t's not how mucn y ' your fur coat, or how little—It’s what you get for your money Martin Victor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations \ James . Cooper, CPA BUSINESS COUNSELOR Speclalizing in Corporation—Municinal and Trust Accounts Dml\ Alaska Empire shed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY MOUNT JUNEAU LODG SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple , beginning at 7:30 p. m. CHAS. B. HOLLAND, Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary. o S-S Silver Bow Lodge 2, LO.OF. Meets every Tues day at 8:00 P. M., I. O. O. F. HALL - Visiting Brothers Welcome J. A, SOFOULIS, Noble Grand H. V. CALLOW, Secretary € B.P.0.ELKS Meets every Wednesday at & p. m. Visiting hrothers welcome. VICTOR POWER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. | 3 That | I APRIL 16, 1927 | Miss Mildred Hooker, who won first place in the declamatory contest | Junean, was to meet the representatives of other Southeast Alaska | tonight at Petersburg. aska - President Vice President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager APRIL 16 Dorothea Forrest Joe Kendler, Jr Joseph A. McLi Nell McCloskey Stella. Wallace Myrtle Delaney Trudy Jackson Mrs. M. R. Stewart Dollie Mathews c Junean e Second Class Matter. 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Junesn and Douglas for §1.50 per month; six months, $80; ene vear, 17 00 at the following rates: six months, in sdvance, $7.50; r Themos Judson was sworn into office the preceding night, mnd was chosen Street Commissioner at a salary not to exceed $3,000 per vear, and the quasi-manager plan inaugurated. George Getchell was lected as Chief of Police succeeding James McCloskey. J. M. Davis | re-clected Wharfinger with Jack Kearney and Selim Jackson, assist- | Martin Lavenik was re-elected Chief Truck Driver of the Fire making this his eighth consecutive year in that position. 15,00 31.50. a fovor if thev will promptly notify failure or irregularity in the delivery Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Press is exclusively entitled Lo the use for disputches credited to it or not. other- paper and also the local news published sec000 6000 e s o 5 s v 0 0 0 Department, | { - SR T Owing to the inclement weather, the proposed trip of the Tcx'rilorizfll SHA]TERED NAVY OF egislature to the Taku cannery was postponed majority in both Houses, ¢ bec X Dro- A | \“‘J\J,‘ in the bill wasn't wr exactly the ¥ ‘JAPAN Now READY J. W. Gucker, representing Swift and Co., and other firms, and| Governor wanted it. Gil Rich, representative for Black Manufacturing Co., arrived in Juneau | During the last session, a net gold tax law was ]’0 BE D“]’REBU]‘ED he preceding night on the steamer Alameda from Ketchikan. | The Erwin Feed Ce. tax. k2 % e sed to replace the gross gol The new law Office in Case Lot Grocery 11 miner, Iu“vxlr'um‘.\";‘ PHONE 704 and to increase the overa % But the Governor vetoed | HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA Grocery and Mcat Market 478 — PHONES — 371 High Qualty Ioods at Moderate Prices NATIONAL - Alaska Newspapers, 141 rth Avenpe B pe was designed to help th new mining development revenue to the Territory it with a very fanecy nine-y the Legislature thought Senate to pass the Governor's Income Tax Bill was the underlying reascn for the veto, and, for the first time §n Territorial history. they overrode the veto, thereby taking care of one of the Governor's “or elses.’ Alaskans are rugged individualis iod of years have done a creditable Easter announced by all SHINGTON, 20 mon remna Special music for eau churches. Sunday services was “SMILING SER:VICE" Bert’s Cash Grocery PHONE 104 or 105 FREE DELIVERY Juneau April after 10, - V-J da Japan’s shattere for equal d war vieto States has informe and China that 23 Weather: Highest, 34; destr nd smaller ships n sound enough condition to war ! and over ; L OONCIIRISE job of running it distribution, the State De ! ritory, and they won’t be pushed around or N S they must do thus and so. And this brings us, in the | MacArthur opinion of people Who have watched the Juneau e ready for im- islative game for many to the answer of Ttey <3 . be Alaska teday hasn't an a and Wble ot at drawing Tokyo &t some fu- system 3 delivered to desi ports by Japanest crews. The other craft are bein used for the time being at variou occupation tasks Those of Japan's cruisers and other which remained seaworthy aftes their wartime pounding alread have keen scrapped or are in the prorr“ of destruction. e — New (onsirudlon Ne: N the Steamer Admiral Evans was due to arrfve at 7 o'clock with 25 mns ever - of freight and four days mail from the south. mong fou The 5 partly cloudy, Daily Lessons in English ¥ 1. corbox e R e [ = WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He contracted the h'\bxt Junes-Stevens Shop lowest, 32; yers "The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CoO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession OUR BUMPER CROP OF CRIMES old why | mediate delivery listributed by 0 be held in {ture date, and nated Pacific Federal Bureau was a record year 76 per in of the 1946 all increase. of cent increa Director J. E r Hoover sf Investigation reports that crime. ‘There was an over cent in arrests over 1945, a 254 per arrests of males, a greater increase in rural than in urban , substantial slaughter, robbery. assault and burglary, declines in arrests of women and minors 21 behaved asout one-third better than as behavior is measured cent orse than before well to take the situation advice as to better training of law enforcement juvenile delinquents and in early life.” Say, “He ACQUIRED the habit in earlv life.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Heinous. Pionounce ha-nus, A HAY, U as in US, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Peel (to free from covering) to ring loudly). SYNONYMS: Supernatural miraculous. P WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase cur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | DISCERNMENT; quickness and accuracy in discriminating. "Dlscern-{ ment is a power of the undert\‘andilm in which few excel."—Greville. ‘w | MOERN ETIQUETTE Yomers 1oe | B T SN | lot equate eq S as in LADIES'—MISSES’ | READY-TO-WEAR g Near Third ior ‘ ning has tried to dictate branch of our Territor] Administrative branch, Because Governor Grue and contrel the Legislative Government as well as the Peal (to cause ! sSeward Street man- murde! There were | Girls under in 1945, so arrests, but 40 per Mr. Hoover and give ares increases in Health and (Cincinnati | The efficiency of man power in industry is one of the most pertinent problems of the day. Thinking lalong this line almost invariably concerns itself with unionism and kindred matters. Yet the field of em- | | ployee health offers tremendous and usually ignored possibiities for improving manpower efficiency. This isn't a matter of mere conjecture. It can be| preternatural, superhuman, spiritual, i battleship: | Efficiency larger craft Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward A W% Enquir i v the war, does sound | BOATS BUILT and REPAIRED Channel Boat Works P. O. 2133 West Juneau Across from Boat Harbor seriously agents, | more attention to better | home conditions. Mr. Hoover got his figures trom reiiable sources HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP rialists who Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner and did not inflate them Yet there is no reason to fear swamped with wrongdoers. Only 218 of us does anything wreng enough to get arrested | sometimes to the arrests it More of finger-printed. police work than more crime youths in their and better —rather some of crime among As long live in expect crime attenfion to the people But we education of as our y medica land psychiatric services. impressipg upon possible cffenders not pay, even in terms of money mates the vloving propetry. ge value of at $160 aver Behind lhe Scenes that about one in credited The heavy conceéntration twenties sug- gests a hopeful line of attack on the whole problem communities we can y, by more early can reduce it su ung people, home as well as at school, by better housing, by better We might begin by crime Hoover esti- ! in crimes ine that the loot They are alarming enough are to be ! evary we (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) mean FBI does | proved by tne aciual experience of indus have adopted effective factory health programs. Just before the war reports in a survey made by the tional Association of Manufacturers showed that 44.9 per cent; cccupational diseascs by 62.8 per cent; {labor turnover by 27,3 ver cent; absenteeism by 29.7 per cent and compensaticn insurance premiums by 288 per cent. It hardly need be pointed oute that those percentages meant dollars—and many of them | —saved in manufacturing labor costs. The typical undertakings in an occupational sease prevention program include control of toxic {and irritant materials, plant housekeeping and sani- taticn programs, maintenance of locker and rest rooms and periodic checkup of illumination. Manufacturers and industrialists can obtain free advice and assistance in such work from the Division »f Indusirial { Health, according to announcement by H. Gardner | Bourne Jr., District Industrial Hygiene Engineer. A | district office has been established in Middletown serve industry in Cincinnati and Southwestern at 0 are solicited. Na-, health programs had reduced accident frequency by | Hygiene of the Ohio Department of | In Airports May Prove Big Boon HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 1. —IM—Millions of dollars may event- ua saved in airport con- struction through development of a new roller-caster landing gear \for light airplanes, Fairchild Avia- tion Company engineers said to- day. Planes equipped gear can land in winds and thus {the need for secondary or cross- wind runways on Small airports, said Charles Planck, of the Civil Aeronautics Administration which asked Fairchild to build the ap- paratus. with the new strong Cross would eliminate i Ccmpany engineers pointed to a Fairchild primary trainer, ons of Q. Please suggest a very brief note that a young coula send to her son’s fiancec when apprised of the engagement. 1 z1as given me some very happy A. “My dear Margaret: My son news. In behalf of the family .I wish to express to you come, and hope that you w love you. Very sincerely yours.” Q. Shculd one take the last piece of bread or that is offered at dinner A. Yes; there undcubtedly not have been urged to take it. is more in the kitchen 1 love us as much as we are prepared to man’s mother a hearty wel- | cake from a dish| or you would | Q. Where should one place the spoon waen he has finishad catmz a dessert that is served in a stemmed dish? A. When was the first baseball World Series played? # bt oo 1L00K and LEARN % Which President was preceded and succeeded by the same man? In how many places in the United States is paper currency made? i It should be placed on the plate beneath the dessert dish. CORDON | —— 1 Blacksmith Work Phone RED 110, after 6 P. M. GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms Hutchings Economy Market Choice Meats At All Times PHONES 553—92—35 The Charles W. Carter 1 2. Everycne in the Territory agrees that Alaska needs ' Ohio. Inquiries, Mr. B urne said, the two planes employing the new 4 The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round (Continued frum Page Onej RErUBLAI K SECH Plenty of fireworks exploded in- side the House Labor Committee before it approved the tough labor- control bill last weekend. Husky, redheaded Ray Madden of Indiana, Democrat, set off most of the fire- works with a protest against being excluded from secret meetings while Republican colleagues whipped the labor bill into shape. The Indiana Congressman charg- ed that he hadn't been shown a copy of the labor bill until “two hours” before chairman Fred Hart- ley of New Jersey called the clesed- or meeting to vote on it. Are we operating under the two- rty system or aren't we?” p loded -Madden. “This is the - in my experience that a com- ee chairman has held ineetings islation without both cides being prescnt “Hearings weeks ex- farst were comj d 1w but not until now when he wants to get a vote—h: the chairman condescended to cali in Democrats. We had no hand in writing this bill. All we knew was w2 read in the newspapers. vou expect us to vote—and telligently before we've ad chance to read the ago, a ng at Chairman Hartley, » Indiana Demccrat continued I don't know whether the chair- man deliberately wanted to fair, but I don't like these tactics. Here’s a bill that affects the lv of 30 milllon wage earners and their families, and you want us to vote on it on two hours’ noticZ. Maybe you gentlemen can vote in- telligently. T can't Hartley flushed during the ing, but made no reply GOP Representative Ralph Gwinn of New York si Madden. “The gentl an is right,” he said, “in wanting more time to study the bill.” Despite this, decided to immediately scold- Finally w the GOP push the bill majo: thro ty BRITAIN USES VETO These behind the diplomatic scenes sometimes wonder whether Moscow’s diplomats are really vi- cious or just plain stupid. Every t'me Mclotov or Gromyko opens hi: pported | mouth he puts his foot in it— as far as U. S. public opinion is concerned. Not so the British. They frequently oppose the United States —but so skillfully it gets no tention The United senmbly will soon sessicn on Palestine. people don't realize special session will cost approxi- mately a illion dolla of the UN’s meagre purse. The UN has a smaller budget than the New York City street cleaning department. Ancther point people don't realize is that Britain inserted in its UN resolution a tricky five-word clause saying that the British government “reserves the right to reject” the UN decision. In other words, the United Nationg can spend $1,000,- 000 debating Palestine, but if the final decision doesn't coincide with British wishes, the British, ik Russians, won't play ball. at- Nations General As- hold a special What most is that this BUSINESS COMES FIRST lorth Dakota’s controversial Senator Bill Langer has become one cf the Senate's most consistent fighters 1or small business and against monopoly. He also remains a vigorous isolationist who believes that aid to small business should ccme befor id to Greece and Tur- key As chairman committee cf a special judi- subcommittee stu- hten the ant» trust laws by blocking mergers through acquisition of assets, Lang- er questioned Chief Counsel Wil- liam Kelley of' the Federal Trade Commission. He asked Kelley what the FTC budget was and how many pecple the agency employs. The answers were ‘“about two l'\l‘l.ml dollars” and “about 500 peop! “Any Turks on the payroll’ 'llall(!ld Langer. 0, I dont Kelley. “Any Greeks?" “Not that I know of,” slowly “Well, Turks think so,” replied Langer persisted. said Kelley why don't you and Greeks to work for vou?” pursued Langer, tongue in check. “Maybe you could get some funds to enforce the antitrust laws then.” “We'd be satisiled with one one- hundredth of what wiil go to '] key and Greece,” assured Kelley get some DOME Solicitor General Charles Fahy will resign as solicitor of the Department of State June 1 . .Sec- retary Agriculture Clinton An- derson compares the first 100 da | of the Republican 80th Congress with the first 100 days of the New of Deal Congress L 1932. GOP lead- ers counter that it isn't the fi 100 days that count, but the last 100. . . .Governor M. E. Thompson of Georgia pulled another iast one on Herman Talmadge, also on ex- Democratic treasurer Chip Robert. Chip had maneuvered Edgar Dun- lap, one of Talmadge’s cronies, into the chairmanship of t Georgia Jefferson Day dinner, but Governor Thompson demanded that he be removed. He wa: unpopular Russian Ambassador Gromyko will be recalled to Moscow for consul- tation. .Congressional leaders are already talking about a special session of Congre: his fall to wind up what they couldn't accom- plish this spring. former As- sistant Attorney General Dan Duke, uted the Ku Klux Klan, for governor Georgia. (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) ot swivel wheels, capable of landing in cross gusts which would flip an ordinary plane on its back, The gear, they explained, per- mits the pilot to “crab” into the runway, the wheels swivel in the line of least resistanc TiDE TABLE APRIL 17 tide 5:37 am,, tide 11:41 a.m.,, tide 17:51 p.m., Low High Low v 8 ft 145 ft 12 ft, . . . . . ® ° . . . see0ceso v e o0 .« o .- CLASSES NOW ENROLLING All forms of dancing and | room for beginners. Phum R\‘d 5 SPRIN ACROSS 1. Cognizant 6. Take the evening meal 9. Imitate Ancient manuseript Daughter of Cadmus And not Wrathul 1 tower anets Be enough 22, Book “of the Bible Old musical wduct it ‘comes from the mine tollowing 29. Chinese animal Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle [ 67. Unit of work Woody plants Ocean ocial units down on e suitable opical bird Body of water Therefore Animal's coat Dinner jacket . Compunction of conscience 2. Least fresh Slave ship Day's march 1% ety Italtap iy nock -down soap frame Cry of the cat . Children's game ball- | Which are the only islands scals 1and and rear their young? ANSWERS: 1. In 1903, beyween the Pittsburgh Nationals and the Boston Ameri- wind, and when his plane hits the cans, and won by the latter 5 games to 3. 2. Benjamin Harrison, who served between the two terms of Grover | Cleveland. 3. L 5. Ct Paul and St. George, two Which was the first State to join the Union? One; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, D. C. | Delaware, which ratified the Constitution on December 7, 1787. in American waters where the fur | Pribilof Islands. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE No. 5833-A In the Districv TJourt for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau. TERRITORY OF ALASKA, Plain- tiff and Petitioner, vs. JOHN H. . WABMER, as Cl erk of the Dis- trict Court for the Territory of | Alaska, Division Number 1; AH other parties in interest or persons unknown having or claiming un- surr~ndered bonds issued by the pany, a corporation, prior to De- cember 24, 1924; All other parties | or persons unknown having or claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the money de- scribed herein, Defendants and | Respondents. Plaintiff’s First Amended Petition and Information has been filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court in the above entitled cause, setting | { forth the following facts: That there is on deposit with the i Clerk of the District Court for the holders of Alaska Gastineau Mining Company bonds, resulting from | | foreclosure proceedings and a trus- | tee transfer of funds, as more par- | ticularly described in the said First Amended Petition and Information | on file in the above entitled cause, Alaska Gastineau Mining Com-‘ | Territory of Alaska, First Division, | the sum of $9,949.83, for unknown‘ ‘ and that no petson whomsoever, has | interposed a claim for any portion | of said money at an time since Janu- | ary 31, 1939, and said First Amended | Petiton and Information alleges that | by reason of such facts and cir- | cumstances, said deposit has escheat- |ed to and become the property of the Territory of Alaska, and prays| | for a Decree adjudging and decr eeing | | such money the property of the! Territory of Alaska. NOW THEREFORE, all persons, interesed in said money on deposit | with the Clerk of the District Court | are hereby required to appear and; | show cause, if any they have, on or | before the 21st day of May, 1947, at 2| o'clock P. M. of said day, why the( title to said deposit should not vest | in the Territory of Alaska. | IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, that | this Order to Show Cause shall be | | published for six consecutive weeks, | | beginning March 27, 1947, in the | | DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, Juneau, Alaska. 9(l;)ated this 25th day of March, i1 HARRY E. PRATT, | United States District Judge. 1 | First publication, March 27, 1947, | Lmst publication, May 7, 1947. Cnly 24 percent of -the petro- | leum produced in the United| | States is used for lubricants. at Reasonable Rates Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 PHONE SINGLE O VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Building ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager Open Evenings Fhone 218 Card Beverage Co. 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