The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire except Sunday by the OMPANY Main Street neau, Alaska HELEN ¢ MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R._CARTER Presient Vice-President Manager ¢ Editor - Business Manager Juneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES elivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; Wix months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 ail, postage paid, at the following rates: 4 n advance. $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50 b advance, §150 Subscrivers will confer r i theg will promptly notify the Business Of of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their pape Telephones News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- Wise credited i this paper and also the local news published hereln ) NTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ttle, Wash. NATIONAL REPR Fourth Avenue Bldg STRIKEBOUND AGAIN For the good of the public, we hope that steam- ship operators will stand pat on their refusal to sign a contract with which would absolve the union from any responsibility longshoremen including a clause in the case of further work stoppages. That is the only way in which Alaska will ever be assured of continued operation of shipping. Here is the disputed clause over which operators and longshoremen have reached a standstill in negotia- tions: “It is understood and agreed that in the event of any strike, stoppage. or interrupticn or impeding of work on the part of any employees during the life of this agreement, there shall be no liability on the part of the International Union, the Local Union, or any of their officers, agents or members.” Now, obviously, this would make the agreement no agreement at all if the union, by the insertion of the foregoing loophole, could avoid all responsibility in carrying out the contract work What the longshoremen seek to do is to skip out | from under the provision of the new Taft-Hartley Act | which makes all unions liable to employer damage | suits for violation of contract. In other words, the Jongshoremen solicit the cooperation of the steamship operators in adopting a course contrary to what will soon be Federal law. Our local longshoremen showed their usual lack of tact and cooperation yesterday when they refused to unload all of the cargo carried on the Lucidor, in spite of the fact that this ship left Seattle before the Juneau strike. The longshoremen would have gained public goodwill and helped Juneau businessmen by working into the afternoon to unload the ship. One businessman had a $14,000 stock of merchandise aboard with which he had planned to open a new enterprise in Juneau. His cargo went out again with the ship. This complete disregard of the public’s interest is the type of thing which brought about the strict provisions of the new national labor law. The Money-Lender (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia has offered some facts about the prodigious money-lending enterprises of the Federal governmont, and some suggestions con- fhe Washinglon Merry-Go-Round (Comtinued frum Page Ome! not present whe: About gressmen introd American-inspired He could almost talk the Russians request was vetoed. BEST-FRIEND BREWSTER the time the four Con- cerning them, that should give the American people better understanding of the financial affairs of their country Since 1934, says the Senator, the government of the United States has doled out in loans just slightly less than 110 billion dollars to various foreign and domestic borrowers. More than 110 agencies of the Federal govern- ment have constituted the flood-gates through which | this tremendous sum of money has poured, the 3enator further reports, Moreover, most of the money has never been paid back and much of it never will be repaid Wouldn't it be the sensible thing, suggests Senator Byrd—before lending any more money, particularly to foreign governments which have little capacity for |repayment and even less intention to repay | gress to scrutinize the entire lending set-up of the Fed- eral government? Wouldn't it indeed be a very wonderful thing, as | he urgently proposes, for Congress to conduct this {scrutiny with a view toward curtailing future loans with better regard for the depleted and dwindling resources of the United States, and toward getting something back on outstanding loans wherever pos- sible? We could very substantially reduce our burden- some public debt if we made fever loans and especially if we obtained repayment on old loans, says the | Senator. We could utilize the considerable savings thus acquired for the general costs of our own govern- ment, he says, and thus relieve the American people of a goodly portion of the excessive tax burdens they now carry to the detriment of their jobs and home and families The “hodge-podge” of Federal lending programs, !as Senator Byrd says, has made Uncle Sam the champion money-lender of all time But Uncle Sam, we should all remember, isn't really the rich and benevolent lender he pretends to be. | In his role as an international money-lender, Uncle Sam is not using his own money and actually hasn't any money of his own Uncle Sam, as a lender, is himself a bhorrower Every dollar he loans or spends is exacted from the American people as a tax against their current earnings, or borrowed against their credit and thus made a debt against their future earnings. The American government does not itself ever earn a dollar or have a dollar of its own, but is a custodian of the money of the American people jand the manner in which it discharges the duties of that custodianship determines the degree of prosperity 'and financial security which the American people | enjoy. x It would surely be a fine thing, as Senator Byrd for Con- | DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MMMWW“] b = | | AUGUST 6 Billy Jones, Jr Mrs. Henry Naifonoff Mrs. Henry Whitney Inez Campbell Fred Dickerson Mrs. F. M. Williams M. A. Martin Frances Hamilton e e e 0 0 0 00 0 00 - e, — eceecsecoocece HSH lANDI“GS | previous by the illness of her mother, was an arrival on the Alameda. Dan Twiet's halibut boat Val- jant brought in a 14,000 pound catch to the Juneau Cold Storage morning. Two trollers, Leo Wiess's Norfin and Oscar Land- strom's Finn Finn, brought in salmon catches of 700 pounds each this ly seized that plane. It happened | that the Assistant Secretary of the| Navy for Air who OK'd the seiz- ure was Artemus Gates, former di- rector of Pan American Airways, while one of the Navy's officers then in charge of trans- ocean flying was Com. C. H. Shildauer, for seven years i charge of Pan Am’s Pacific oper- ations | Pun American usually has been able to have one of its ex-officials also appointed to the Civil Aer | nautics Board, and in the early| by a score of 3 to 1. Ser ing first and second, in the sixth frame, he connected solidly with one of Kosk:'s slants for three bases. Elks one of the series and the next game of the season was scheduled for the following day. few weeks, returned on the Yukon. were excellent in Fairbanks and said that his sawmill at that place was | in | povooees e 20 YEARS AGO 7i'e emerrE PUSUUSUSUUSUUSESS PSS S s o o ] AUGUST 6, 1927 The Elks won the ball game the previous night aganist the Moose “Dutch” Bernhofer was the hitting hero. With runhers occupy- The Moose had won two games and the Mrs. W. H. Clark and her two children, Billy and Jane Clark of | san Francisco, Calif., who have been visiting here for six weeks left on | the Yukon for Beattle, where they were to meet Mrs. Clark’s mother, Mrs. J. B. Caro, and drive to San Francisco. Allen Shattuck, who was called to weeks Mrs. Ketchikan three Harold Brown,class of 27 of the Juneau High School, who had been in the employment of the company working on Wrangell Narrows, re- turned on the Alameda. Among the arrivals on the Alameda was Lee Barragar from Ket- chikan. Barragar spent some time in Juneau summer before last, when | he was employed by the Juneau Motor Company. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rutherford, who have been in Fairbanks for a Mr. Rutherford reports conditions key air runnizg full force and would continue to do so until the freeze-up. Weather report: High, 56; low, 55; partly cloudy. S e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e . i i WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not confuse EXPLICIT, meaning days Grant Mason, a former vice-|gictinctly stated, plain in language, with IMPLICIT, meaning fairly to president, was a member. ever, after Mason consistently vot- ed against Pan Am, he myster- jously failed of reappointment. The | failure was attributed to the per-| suasive Juan Trippe. | Today another Pan Am president, Clarence Young. member of the CAB. For some time vice- is a HOW- {0 understood though not expressed. {ment.” “He was EXPLICIT :n his tate- “An IMPLICIT condition of the agreement.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Adept (adjective). Accent second syl- lable. i OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hieroglyphic. SYNONYMS: Feasible, suitable, practicable, workable. 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: Pan Am has ;NCAPACITY; lack of ability. “Cunning and treachery are the off- suggests, for the American government to make an come in for vigorous criticism from spring of incapacity.”—La Rochefoucauld. accounting of its vital custodianship in the matter-of lending policy—as a preliminary, if nothing more, to determination of future policy in that matter. More for the Money Now (New York Sun) i When the first official United States postage stamp was placed on sale at the New York post office on July 1, 1847, there was apparently no great rush | the Civil Aeronautics Board, large-/ ly because of the monopoly idea which it so staunchly champions.| When Pan Am had a monopoly | in Latin America, CAB investiga- tor' Sam Gates, reporting on ai mail contracts, wrote: “The rates of compensation now | being received by Pan American Airways are excessive and neither fair nor reasonable. e s by ROBERTA LEE i ] MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. When should calls be made on the bride in her new home? A. Often the wedding znnouncement or invitation names a date are after which the bride will be at home, so do not call before that time. | Much | Otherwise it is well to wait from two to three weeks after the couple’s | ,of buyers. Today, when a new stamp is put into use, !of the operation in Latin Amerir|return home from the honeymoon. postmasters are deluged with orders from philatelists | for first-day covers. There is no record of the first | stamps having been used before the middle of the month in which they were issued. Never, during the | four years in which they were current was demand | for either the 5-cent or 10-cent denomination—the iwo originally authorized—as great as had been anticipated. A country which for nearly a century had been paying for its postage on a town-to-town basis, or at a mileage rate, apparently was not too enthusiastic about a uniform charge of 5 cents for everything up to 300 miles, with zone rates at 10 cents above that distance. One of the choicest collector’s items today is an en- | veiope bearing the eight 10-cent stamps required o carry it from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Now good used copies of these first stamps are rare enough so that they will bring from $50 to $75 for the 5-cent denomination and double that for the 10-eent. That, today, a 5-cent stamp will carry a letter by air be- | tween any two points within the United States and | its possessions, that a 10-cent stamp will take an | {airmail letter anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, | lonly proves that here is one instance where money Jgoes further than it did 100 years ago. n the free-travel Brewster, however, somehow man- 'aged to make himself an excep- tion to the rule and obtained a passes on air legislation. uced their Pan “one company” PAN &M WIRE PULLING Pan Am has always been opposed | master |seat on this powerful group which | ca is no more difficult than the! conduct of an airline operation| across the United States, yet Pan American had made a total pro-| fit of $16,000000 on an invest-| ment of only $10,000,000. 4 “To put it another way profits during this 12-year per-| iod equal to the total capital em-' ployed, plus an over-all profits of 60 percent.” This lush profit came about through the monopoly position | Pan Am then held in Latin Ameri-| ca and which it now wants re- instated. This monopoly origin- ally was granted through the in-| tervention of Walter Brown, Post-| master General under Hoover. Sec-l ond largest Pan American stock-! holder is R. K. Mellon, whose uncle was Secretary of the Treas-} In conversation, is it ever permissible for one to supply a word for Q. | another person? A. No; this is not only rude, but embarrassing. Q. What is the proper way to eat watermelon? A, With a fork. Cut off one bite at a time, and be sure to leave " Gates, the seeds on the plate. continued, “the carrier has made, pee=eees e e et s s —~—— Where is the highest suspension bridge in the world? How did the term “Mind you p's and q's” originate? How did Julius Caesar meet his death? ‘What is bagasse? What is the earliest date known in history? ANSWERS: 1. The bridge spanning the Royal Gorge Canyon, over the bed of the Arkansas River in Colorado; 1053 feet high. 2. From the early printers’ difficulty in distinguishing the two ury in the same Cabinet with Post- letters. General Brown. Another large stockholder was David K. E. Bruce, then son-in-law of Mellon, and now Assistant Secretary of | 3. By assassination, 44 B. C. 4. Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. 5. The introduction of the Egyptian calendar 4241 B. C. Commerce for Air under Averell, Harriman. Bruce is an able and fair-minded gentleman, but the |appointment. puts him in the dif- !ficult position of a Pan American Airways friend occuping one of Housecleaning—From Floor To Ceiling—Fast! This was the Elks first win in the Little World | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 VETERANE OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 6559 Meets first and third Fridays. Post Hall, Sew- ard St. Visiting Com- rades Welcome. | H. 8. GRUENING, Com- mander: F. H. FORBES, Adjutant. FUR STORAGE Cleaning—Glazing——Repairing Martin Victor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations James C. Cooper, CPA BUSINESS COUNSELOR Specializing in Corporation—Municinal and Trust Accounts The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL | and STORAGE CALIFORNIA | Grocery and Meat Market i | i | | i i i ! | | ] i { i i | 478 — PHONES — 371 | High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices » Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third { | |Alaska Music Supply ! Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Imstruments and Supplies i | | Phous 206 Second and Seward REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burne: | Blacksmith Work E GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St. | || HBEINKE GENERAL | I B | |Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH i ICE CREAM | | Hutchings Economy Market Choice Meats At All Times PHONES 553—92—95 { |The Charles W. Carter : Mortuary i Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 | Card Beverage Co. | | Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Window—Auto—Plate—GLASS IDEAL GLASS C0. 121 MAIN STREET DON ABEL PHONE 633 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 . m. CHAS. B. HOLLAND, Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary. €3 B.P.0.ELKS Meets 2nd and 4t Wednesdays at 8 pm. Visiting brothers wel- come. VICTOR POWER, Ex- alted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Sec- retary. Things for Your Office CHARLES R. GRIFFIN Co! 1005 SECOND AVE - SEATTIE 4+ Elior $323 | [Gevipleing “SMILING SERVICE” Bert's Cash Grocéry PHONE 104 or 105 l FREE DELIVERY Juneau | ""The Rexall Store” Vour Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant. Auditor Tax Counselor Simpson Bidg. Phone 757 Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Youll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF . COFFEE SHOP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Sheif HARDWARE Remington Typewrifers SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” bills, a companion bill was intro-! duced in the Senate by Brewster to competition. of Maine, Pan American’s best creed. sriend and longtime Senatorial | During the war, when American ——————— Looster. Export Lines built its first over-! When you pay 1or QUALITY why The Senator from Maine has Seas plane and got permission to’ not get the FINEST—Buy FLOR- never concealed his frank and open fly to Portugal, the Navy sudden- SHEIM SHOES at Graves. championship of Pan American. —_— That friendship is taken for grant- out of a veto. Two years before, This is its basic he had staged an all-out cam- paign to get the “one company plan OK'd by Congress, but fail- ed. Last winter, with the first Republican Congrt 16 years, determined to try the highest spots in government. (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street BARANOF ALASKA'’S FINEST HOTEL EAT IN THE “AIR-FLO" MAKE PAN AMERICAN PERSUASION Two Congressmen at this dinner were Committee Chairman Charles Wolverton of Camden, N. J. and Evan Howell of Illinois, both Re- publicans. And so profound Wwas Trippe’s impression that about one week later, both Wolverton and Howell introauced Identical bills favoring the “one company” plan for overseas airlines Simultaneously, two other mem- bers of the same committee, Hin- shaw of California, Republican, and Harris of Arkansas, Democrat, introduced similar bills. It is not known that they were at the secret Trippe dinner, but it was known that none of the four really draft- ed the bills they signed. In fact, Hinshaw freely admitted to friends that the bill was “handed” to him, and it was generally under- stood that the “hander” was Henry Friendly, attorney for Pan American Alrways. NOTE—It's significant that toth Wolverton and Howell, who at- tended the Trippe lobbying din- ner, are among those who have just asked for free air transporta- tion overseas to study the “one company” idea Last week they were turned down by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Howell, though now appointed a Court of Claims judge, still wants to “study” air- line legislation—overseas. Inci- dentally, Wolverson was so irate when the CAB refused the free junket, that he has written a strong letter to the CAB asking that it reconsider when all its members are in Washington. Jim Landis and Clarence Young, form- er vice-president of Pan American und now a CAB member, were €d around the Senate. Once Brew- ster even flew in a Pan American plane NC4000 to Raleigh, N. C, to try to persuade the late Senator Bailey, then Chairman of the Sen- ute Interstate Commerce Commit- tes, to come out for the “one com- pany” bill Bailey refused. Now spearheading the probe against Howard Hughes' airplane contracts, Brewster has been charg- ed by Hughes with promising to call off the Senate probe if Hugh- es' Trans World Airline and Pan American could get together Astute and able, Brewster is only one part of the ramified network of Pan American friends and helpful promoters. Another work- ing closely with Brewster is John Cooper, former vice-president of Pan Am, who very conveniently was appointed consultant to the Library of Congress on aviation matters and then assigned to the Senate Interstate Commerce Com- miutee as aviation adviser. It was Brewster, a powerful member the Interstate Com- merce who arranged that the Committee should have the “advice” of this former Pan American Airways vice-president. Cooper, long a close friend of Juan Trippe, received a $10,000 re- tainer from Pan Am, even while teaching Interna.ionai aviauon law at Princeton. Incidentally, the mysterious fact that Brewster is on the Interstate Commerce Committee at all, has been the subject of Senate cloak- room gossip; since Senator White, also of Maine, is Chairman of the Committee, and two Senators from the same state are not supposed to be on the same committee. of Committee, Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Mexican coln Attendant on Cleopatra Depression be- tween moun- tain peaks . Always . American caricaturlst . Mountain: comb. form . Hire . Pleasant 7. Encountered varnish Shipworm Revolve . Title of a baronet . Nights 39 Conciudes . Weaken 3. Organ of . Traditional tale Playing cards hearing Anointed Solution of DOWN 1. So. American country Yesterday’s Puzzle Type measures . Smooth Droops Dis . Kind of neck- tie . Cubic meters . Engaged in trade . Mountain nymph . Game of EEELELS I \\ LELE % ; chance . Himalayan monkshood 3 Lolm: narrow I\ el Nerve net S work Kindness Alrplane throttle . Salts of stearic actd . Princely Italian housa . Ovule Sea eagle Perched 2. Soft fabrics Clerical collars Kind of heraldic cross . Vegetable . Parrot fish Large mass of |, floating ice . Operatic solo . Render vocal music Goodby N T \ KN Lightweight! Streamlined! De luxe in every way! This new G-E “Airflo” Cleaner is the answer to all your housecleaning needs! Long extension tubes and hose reach from floor to ceiling—air purifying dust filfer— glider skids—large telescoped bag that’s easy to empty. Complete set of cleaning tools. See it today! Compare! See why this G-E *Airflo” is a value that can’t be beat! & POWER CO. Cheerful Dispensers of Dependable 24-hour Electric Service CLEANER §74.95 MODEL AVT 150 Compirts with attachments ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT BUBBLE ROOM Special Dinner 5to8P. M. $2.00 Furs! Complete Fur Service at a Very Reasonable Price CAPITOL FUR SHOP at 113 Third Street TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS GEORGE ANDERSON as a paid-up suoscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: A SCANDAL IN PARIS” Federal Tax—12c per Person PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and ““"RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks Lucille's Beauty Salon Specializing in all kinds of Permanent Waves for all Textures of Hair HAIRCUTTING Phone 492 2nd and Franklin JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware . Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American -Meat — Phone 38 ZORIC Alaska Laundy CITY DRY CLEANERS PHONE 877 “Quality Dry Cleaning” ASHENBRENNER'S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 783 142 Willoughby Ave.