The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOLR Daily Alaska EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Main Str June DOR WILLT ELMER AL SUBSCRIPTION RATE carrier in Tu a six months, B 1. po Delivered by LR OF ASSOCIATED credit lso the pressman William Lemke of introduced a bill in Congress, H. R set aside large tracts ment areas veterans. Wk worthy attempt on the thing for the veteran, it contains the ecor m which d endang ka The adopted a resclution we Chamber of sking for defe Juneau from other parts of Alaska several strong protests have been heard The Lemke 15 a strip of Bill would open to 30 miles on each Military Highway. a strip 30 miles of the Alaska Railroad, and the soutl »s Unimak Pass. vetes west ka 1 1 square mile or more than 3 be timbe The than 7 leased to timbering claims would not but land less vears, such an individual purposes. Two a credit on the 3 tenant could be used Empire 1y failyre or irregu 602; Business Office A DANGEROUS BILL s of land in Alaska as land settle- e the part of Rep. Lemke to do some- Commerce and including Southeast The bill provides that timbver claims of not less n by veterans after 3 years of residence on the alienated or sold er claim who of yay the veteran his price for his timber and right-of- way over Any allotment of to such manufacturer would result in the “odious practice of his land land iday by the claim jumping.” Tt would destroy the orderly and s planned development of Alaska, wiping out overnight i the wc of the last 25 or 30 years on the part of - Regional r Frank Heintzleman to bring the " Busine , and paper industry to Southeast Alaska | Booond o Furthermore, passage of the bill would result in S an enormous and scandalous which would for $1.50 per month; 5.00 save the manufacturers millions and give the vetzrans Tates: e $7.50; handsome sums for less than one year's work, the Chamber resolution points out. The pulp and paper " tivgr At Ohay el Srovipdy. motisy | SNAMRES 1 1 _l ¥ der baj lazity in the delivery comvanies cculd subsidize veterans to build shacks 34 upon the mest desirable 3 square mile tracts, live there = for 6 menths and vermit the manufacturer to harvest itled to the use for the best of the timber at low stumpage rates. The ed to it or not other- £ ” N oo tows pubtiehed | Territory would get nothi the sale of the timber, as it does under pre cgulations whereby to the Territory for roads and schools, ent back to the Forest Service for roads | vithin National Forest 1 claims would also go unpratected should | the Lemke Bill become The Governor of Alaska Delegate Bartlett, both have and oppose passage of this bill, the would set Alaska back 50 years 25 perce Newspapers, 141 i1 anoth now in Washington, and been urged to appear passage of which The Two-Term Limit (New York Times Until recent years there seemed little need for a constitutional limit on the number of terms a Presi- dent of the United States might serve. From time to time the issue of a third term was raised on bet some popular leader, but tradition and the i the Founding Fathers proved t to be over- advice o strong come. Yet Franklin Roosevelt, serving as President North Dakota has | y)rough an exceptional series come | 868. whiech would ' both. His death in office, during his fourth term, left | the question of continuous succession still open. Sub- | missicn by Congress to the forty-eight States of a bill may be a constitutional amendment prohibi more than two full terms is an attempt to clos i If the States ratify the pr amendment no man could be elected to the Presidency for more than eight years. However, a Vice-President who had come into office through the death or disability of his pre- decessor might conceivably ‘serve for ten years. If the present sentiment of Congress is reflected in the State Legislatures, the tendency will be toward ratification many provisions ic development of last week eat of the bill, and But as the process may take a long as seven years * some future crisis in our internal or external affairs settiement for the | may completely reverse the trend side of the Alaska Mr. Roosevelt and the Democragic party were able to shatter the tr: dition against a third term bec most of the nation's voters could see no acceptable alternative We were in a life-and-death struggle and it might have proved highly d ous to change our Teadership. Such a change seemed at the time as highly dubious as changing Lincoln’s leadership :n the war between the States. No one but Mr. Roosevelt seemed equipped 1o carry on. R wide on each side rern half of Alaska square miles may These were potent arguments and they prevailed. They could not be invoked, however, if the proposed amendment ratified. Consequently, whoever was then serving as Chief Executive would be obliged to develop a capable successor within his own party and back him at the polls. His own power and prestige in could be occupies it for v military years of residence service If a tract of land were set aside by the Forest ne could only pass on to scmeone else as gracefully Service for a petual supply of timber to a pulp'as possible. The evils of centralization which in- or paper manufacturer, such allotment of land would evitably grow up under a one-party government would be nullified and made useless by the location of tracts | be checked. No man, whatever his motives might be of 3 square making entry for patent for the most miles by veterans within the allotted area, and there would be nothing to prev could hope to build his perscnal power to irresistable preportions. The opposing party, no longer facing an i ispensable” candidate, would have a mewhat field. Recognizing the doubts of thcse who hold ent veterans from desirable portions of the timber. The Cha er resolutic ints o N . 5 e Chamber resolution points out {ye should not tie the hands of the electorate in any that this would block the development of tmber | future crisis, we believe that the proposed amendment resources unless the pulp manufacturer was willing to | should be ratified and the sooner the better. The Washinfifon ; Merry-Go-Round (Continued prum Page Cnej of President Teddy Roos t and it should be continued, they contend- ed, for historical as well as practi- cal, economic sons “If drastic cuts are made, as now planned, the party will be weak- ened in the 17 s involved,” warned Rep. William Hill of Colorado. “Such action is certain to preduce devastating effect on the party in these areas Phillip, Stockn: coherts - insisted Republicans in “spirit well fact” and that t} were willir g0 with Republican pla nce the budget, but not at the n, Hill and their that they were as as to to expense of undermining the ec omy of reclamaticn areas ‘concmizers Taber and Joas staged a jumping-jack act during the tense meeting, popping up o heckle speakers Jones charged that the ent was T intery igat and recla tion 1:0; m ) mnea “public power and itio philosophy.” As‘a 1 was the Interior Depart- > Appropriations Com- id, which had placed and reclamation in jeo- His c mittee was dete reduce sharply Interior's public power develop- is I for ment Taber ue, a also harped on the power to related irrization and reclams ey been only one major dam k t in this on a solid self-suj financial basis,” ex- claimed the New Y “That was Boulder Dam, a Republican project The remainder of these New Deal d and hydioelectric power pro- jects all depend on Federal, tax- payer subsidies to keep them go- ing JOE MARTIN ON POWDER KEG Leaders Martin and Halleck said little during the tempestuous meet- t- ing. Both knew that were ting on a powder mig split House GOP ranks wide open and tney didn't want to apply any voeal fuses until they had a chance to talk to the revolters individually However, there was little guestion that they supported Taber .and Jones At point westerners that country, must Martin reminded all sections of the take their ightful one t.ve Pennsylvania nired him UNDER THE Senator Brewster demand an audit Roosevelt's and the State Depar ment's secret funds. He suspects that large bribes were paid out of these funds to King Ibn Saud of Arabia. . . .Republican members of the Appropriations Committee pro- pose cutting the Navy by about seven hundred million dollars. manuta any cuts in over-all Fed- nding is correct,” DOME of Maine will of President at agreed Halleck of Indiana. “No part of the country ! can escape its rightful share in the the responsibility for balancing budget.” After this Rep. Charles Robert: of North Dakota, a strong rec mation enthusiast, oiled the waters somcwhat by declaring that he others had come to the meeting a spirit of friendship and with the desire that,our problems in the Senator Langer of North Dakota west will be considered in the same. has started a probe of telephone light.” company profits- -especially West- “I don't think it is the purpose ern Electric, wholly owned by Am- of anyone here to do anything that erican Tel and Tel. And while the would jeopardize the future welfare telephone company claims it car ol the party,” he added. not afford to pay higher w Langer wants to see whether a lot of profits aren’t going to Western Electric, (COPYRIGHT, However, Gespite this conciliatory gesture, most of the westerners left the meeting determined to make a party fight of the reclamation suc—in the open, il necessary. AUTO-WORM R) A year azo the auto indu: predicting the failure of Henr Kaiser’: aring automobile venture. However, Kaiser, who has long s} cen pumping fresh blood into Am- 1947, BELL SYNDIC, tion Stupe Part of nts 9. Propel with a shoe n industry, has slowly been licking the crise And last w ; he had an amazing experience. 1 The heads of three other auto 13 Soclal affalr 0 co| —Studebaker, Nash and = document b Pardon Packard—came to Kaiser, asked 10 (10NN bOY Rt him to help in cracking some of c t their own bottlenecks the way Kai- e voch o had beaten his. So Kaiser. the man whose failure was predicted neumbers Discovered by his competitors, is now loaning some of his key men to help these You and L 5 3 ¢ ol Heads Bark competitors with their own head AR aches. boat 57. Pe | City = — S >~ APRIL 17 Mrs. Katherine G. Hooker Mrs. J. P. Monagle . . ° . ° . ° Cecelia Thibedeau . ° oserhine Campbell ° ° Ray Anderson . ° Mrs H. Shepard . . Dave Reed . ° Irene . . Rose . @ e s s . o o o R e - i 2,090 nautical miles; Francisco and 3,394 Yokahoma Honolulu is of San cast of west miles ISEMiev1 TOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received at the Clerk's office until 8:00 p.m. April 18, 1947. on the City of Ju-| neaws 1938 model Diamond T truck and will then and there be cpened and read aloud publicly at regular meeting of the Com- mon Council ¢’ the City of Juneau. Bids received after the time fixed for opening will not be considered. The City of Juncau reserves the ADV right to reject ¢ or all bids and to waive informalities C. L. POPEJOY, City Clerk. April 7 to 17, incl. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE No. 5633-A In the Distric. “ourt for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau TERRITORY OF ALASKA, Plain- tiff and Petitioner JOHN H. WALMER, as Cl erk of the Dis- trict Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number 1; All other parties in interest or persons unknown having or claiming un- surr~ndered bonds issued by the Alaska Gastineau Mining Com- pany, a corporation, prior to De- cember 24, 1924; All other parties or persons unknown having or claitning any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the money de- scribed herein, Defendants and Respondents. b Plaintiff’s st 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 Clerk of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, First Division, the sum of $9,949.83, for unknown 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, and that no persen whomsoever has | interposed a claim for any portion of said money an time since Janu- ary 31, 1939, and said First Amended Petiton and Information alleges that | [ eason of such faots amd cir- cumstances, said deposit has escheat- ed to and become the property of the Territory of Alaska, and prays for a Decree adjudging and decreeing 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 d: 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 i Dated 1947, | | HARRY E. PRATT, United States District Judge. First publication, March 27, 1947. f publication, May 7, 19 DOWN 4. Calm Course 5. Copying | On the ocean | Ecstatic utterance CAPITAL CHAFF Conscientious Veterans Admin- istrator General Bradley is worried 11, Subordinate k about, the decline residential construction. High materials costs part of a | buildin today i cate that not much more than 65 percent of the family units . Metal fa ountry eners which were started last year w be launched in 1947—and huge numbers of veterans still list hous- ing as their need Sta- tuesque Pe vania’s new GOP Senator Edward Martin identifies his press releases as follows: “From Major General Edward Martin United States Senator from Penn- sylvania The Democratic ! tional Committee tried unsuccess- fully to hire “Tip” e poli- never won @ race Fondle i tical writer of the late Philadelphia Assumed an attitude THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA | erewded fo | Daily Lessons in Englisti % 1. corpox Record, away irom his present job 12, Snatch as publicity chief for the Pennsyl- i Masculine vania Manufacturers Association 13, ']'l’lnll:c| O'Neil was walking the picket lines i Ot at in the strike against the Phila- cards | delphia Record when the conserva- Passage out 30, Compuss point PR =Sy T ORI, T A i g from 4 ‘ \ 20 YEARS AGO ' J \ THE EMPIRE E { P e APRIL 17, 1927 A light fall of on the ground, and clear, crisn w th hine made this almost the ideal Easter day. Churches were all services, and the Easter parade was a brilliant one ow ight sun: Mildred Hooker of the Juneau High Schocl won the declamatory of the Scutheast Alaska schoo! m Ketchikan, Skagway and Petersburg. Many of the fir trees which the local office of the U. S. Forest Service 1 to distribute were spoken for. The trees were two and three years the most of them Douglas fir, but a fe : Noble and Silver fir from Chi-; Larty Parks, First Mate, reported a rough trip | | | The mailboat Virginia IV, Capt. Matt Nord s, arrived chagof and wav ports. from Tenakee, the spray covering the ship and making ice in a special school bond y unanimous in favor of bonds | Juneau taxpayers were to vota and sentiment scemed pr w school building. tion ard Tcnseth of the Frye-Bruhn Co., of Seattie arrived here on caused by the resignation of Fred | Tonseth had been in Juneau about ! Rich the Admiral Evans, to fill a vacancy Schmidt at the Frye-Bruhn Market three years previously for the ccmpang Weather: Highest, 26; lowest, 17: cl - e el WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: “They use UNDERHAND methods” is preterred to “UNDERHANDED methods,” though both are correct. ! OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lyceum. Pronounce li-sc-um, I as in| LIE, E as in SEE, accent sect llable. | OFTEN ' MISSPELLED: Yacht, thcugh prenounced YOT, O as in GOT. d | SYNONYMS: Hackneyed, commonplace, banal, trite. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us| increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word EPAULET: a shoulder ornament worn cn unifor chiefly by military and naval officers. (Pronounce ep-o-let, both E's as in LET, O as in| OF unstressed, accent first syllable). i e e e e | MODERN ETIQUETTE Mopsira voe Q. What is the meaning of a “bread and butter” letter? A. The letter that a guest must wri heme from an overnizht, weekend, or s l-day visit, thanking her for | her hospitality. i Q s it all right for a widow to continue to wear her wedding ring ! after the death Gf her husband? | A. Yes, unless she remarries. She s of course, substitute her new ring i Q. When giving a dinner, should a minister be given precadence in | the seating? A. Yes; this is customary. F S | to his hostess after returning | ild then LOOK and LEARN % . qonpos | | ——1 1. Which two nations are the greatest sources of oil in the world? 2. Is there any silver in a five-cent piece? | 3. Which are the two largest State capital cities? i 4. How many acres does the average American farm contain? { 5. Which animal is claimed to be the greatest thief among ammz\ls?‘\_ ANSWERS: United Stats 1 and the Soviet Union. J 2. No; it is 75 per cent copper and 25 per cent nickel { 3. Boston, Mass., and Indianapolis, Ind. 4. 136 acres. | 5. 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HARRY BACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession Jones-Stevens Shop | LADIES'—MISSES’ “ READY-TO-WEAR | Near Third Seward Street Alaska Music Supply Arthur m. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward BOATS BUILT and REPAIRED Channel Boat Works HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner ] Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. P. O. 2133 West Juneau Across from Boat Harbor hone RED 110, after 6 P. M. Wall Paper ' Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREA Fred W. Wendt You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates Huichings Economy Marlet Choice Meats At All Times PHONES 553—92—35 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 PHONE SINGLE O VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Building Card Beverage Co. 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