The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOLR | were armed forces of the United States ap- he D I 11 k sroximatelv 12,000,000 men-—8,000,000 in the Army and (ll Y aska E"lplre Army Air and 4000000 in the Navy and the Marine | cd every evening except Sunday by the Corps. Today there are in the Army Ground Forces | about €,0,000 men, about 300,000 in the Air Force and | EMPIRE PRINTING COMPA Juneau, ka approximately 550,000 in the Navy and the Marines, | B RO MO S - - - Vieresident |8 total of 1500000. Several hundred thousand of | WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ‘Bditor and Manager | these pe as many as half—are post-war enlist- | \A)M,:DA.‘:‘”]\‘I‘\U L e | ents has become of the 11,250,000 other | ® . - - trained and seasoned men, many of them battle-tested, | ® NOVEMBER 21 LI Ratered in the Fost Office iu_funeay ga Seeond Class Matter. | ). (ere under arms two years ago? o M. E. Monagle . Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for § per month: Latest available figures from Army, Air Force and® e Mrs. A. B. Hayes . Ly - By ‘;'r:;‘:;:;mfj""“’ o Navy scurces show approximately 2,000,000 men en- | e Ethel Naish One yea 15.00: six months, in advance, $7.50; rollad in reserve units. Of these, 1,100,000 are in the:| e Jean Hermle b S f thes will promptly motity | AmY Reserve Corps (both Ground and Air), which in | @ Rosella Purness the Business Off.ce o ire or irregularity in the delivery many localities is still largely a paper organization |e Raelle Smith e thi O e Pones. News Office. 602; Business Office, 374 without armories, camps or other training facilities.| e Jean Mcntgomery . ke i 2 The National Guard, as of September, totaled 120,000 | o M. F. Inman | BT \nuR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS men and 15944 officers. The Navy showed the best | e d to the ude for hes cred o it or not ether- | record of reserve ¢ nd also the local news published 550 515 mey The Marine Corps Reserve consisted, on | _ | Sept. 1, of only 736 officers and 6034 men. Not all ATIVES — Alaska Newspupers, M11| or'{1\cco National Guardsmen ond reservists are vet- bk ~ | erans of the The unaccuunted-for exclusively llments, with 268,045 officers and /e © © o o © dispa e s 0 o wish credited herein l*’u ce leaked the Committee find- | ings ? mlal ativee to the Dewey camp? war These 9000000 to 10000000 veterans who have |icd the Committee on its Buropea g . o i s I(oux and aided in the preparation disappeared into civilian life were possessed two yes £ i 'ago of skills in the complex science of war which z"’( he report. Dullss i & brothes had taken almost four vears of intensive training 10100 John’ wesler. Dulles, JOSSIEE atill {nto them. They are skills that/will HotibAuyme | oen sy s Jighs=aanc, (Ecvie ST | mediately lost but w deteviorate Tapialy Unlids | Joroien affairs. - iNulrisald, they are occasionally refreshed. ~All the services fiage| iae oREressmen WD WES S been making an effort to retain the active interest of | these men, to enroll x!mn in the various reserve | : P ALY 3 branches, where through occasional refreshment | TRUMAN SORE AT STEEL | course they could keep bright the hard-earned crafts | LOBBY | President Truman strongly sus- of war. But has this effort been successful? Obvi- | g {ously it has not been. There is among these veterans | Pe¢tS that the big steel wompinies \an antipathy to further service and an inertia that | may have a hand in the notorious | “gray market” where steel is now icannot be overcome without a greater effort than yet | selling for double and triple has heen made. Certainly that effort should be made. An active, alert, well-equipped, well-trained reserve | !ist. price to MATIUERgLkers. N v visited Alaska o S¢nator Butler of Nebraska, who via e of 5,000,000 or more men would be a powerful bulwark | fact, he is burned up about it. a few months ago and who has been taking & keen | o\ viona) defense, a warning to all concerned that| The President tells advisers that | interest in Alaskan affairs, may give Indian attorney g country means to protect itself and fiaremmrd'm" steel companies could stop, James Curry some trouble in the latter's plan to knock ' peace ‘gray market” cperations in a min- SENATOR BUTLER SPEAKS OUT ki In THE DAILY ALASKA EMP[RE forward, and Everett Nowell and N. Baker, o auintet . dexold Campen, Doc Hollmann, Harry Allen and Harvey Barragar were yas an arrival on the Admiral Rogers court session. Ball which was to be given on Biiect No, 1 ls Allen, S & |traditional Purple Bubbles that would be were going up and the two streets for the youngsters to slide on | designated. Gold Street and Ninth Street were the two thoroughtares | added |set aside for coasting department busy the previous day. Thomas, near the Home Grocery, fires caused slight damages. ! the second was a roof firc at the Governor’s House. - { | | | the | poee e ee oo ee e e s oo JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO % (20 YEARS AGO F7s sweins HE EMPIRE NOVEMBER 21, 1927 The initial turnout of the city basketball team, playing under the Jlors of the Juneau Fire Department, was scheduled for tonight in the B. Hall Missing from the firemen’s lineup were Norman Tracy, scrappy little stellar guards of last year's Buck Jackson &nd Ed Garnick were new men on the squad. e regulars on the team. Andrew Hemindahl, of the Trading Union Company of Petersburg, He was in Juneau to attend the for the Elks Annual Purple Bubble Thanksgiving night. As well as the | released on the dancing crowd | in readines Everything was midnight, there were to be special favors. i of the year the red lights had been | had arrived, The first coasting sncw Three fires, all occurring within a four-hour period, kept the fire | One fire gutted the home of Frank | on Willoughby Avenue. The other two | The first was in the Orpheum Rooms and | High, 31; low, 24; snow. Weather report: e e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon a proposed pulp and paper mill industry for Alaska | i A e f‘\xu\ if they really wanted to. | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “sink down.” DOWN is in the head. | Commie Tactics uM]""‘;“;‘E: :"‘"“h Oz(m :h;fl M%‘;‘ii‘ uperfluous. as SINK means to go down. | stee O] S istory S Curry, as representative legal for the gaxdn nnd\ - | pressuring Glovernmertiy algenties, | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Occult. Pronounce o-kult, O as in Tlingit Indians who elaim they own certain timber | " 'W“fhf'"’“’" P“‘(' i | including the White House, trying |OF unstressed, U as in UP, and accent first syllable. lands in Tongass National Forest has made a deal If confirmation were need of Walter Reuther's i, .vompt steel from the controls| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Necessity; one C, two S's. i with a New York corporation to sell this timber and charge that his opposition in the United Automobile | | which the President recommended SYNONYMS: Strange, singular, queer, quaint, odd, peculiar ! § g | Workers is Communist-controlled, the opposmon has | i b § 9 v G b 4 has written to pulp and paper companies known to o supplied it. A group styling itself the “Com- | | to Congress ! WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us be investigating Alaskan pulp prospects offering 10| ... s, UAW-CIO Progress and Unity” has emitted | 0111 top of hn)tmg hme prlu:e of |increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | sell them and warning them not to buy the timber s biecc eleace to which it refers as a “suggestion | 1€l Out of siht the steel bOYS | [NDETERMINATE; not scttled or fixed; indefinite. (Accent follows the | | want to be exempted from taking | 13). from the government. fror editorial”—striving to make capital of the silly i | the B es of their 144 Senator Butler, who is chairman of the powerful (gossip naively published by Drew Pearson that Sen- !:xh‘ consequences of thelx profizeer- Senate Public Lands Committee, has announced that | ator Taft wants Mr. Reuther as his 1948 running mate. 8. of me,M" Reuther found it necessary to denounce this fan- | Note—The hig steel compflnles ommittee will launch an investigation h: 1c dml Senator Butler wants to know “what tastic idea, when Mr. Pearson first broadcast it, whole dea. e e s At canard planted by his opponents. Their idea, appar- | right any group in Alaska thinks it has fo se ently—so characteristically Communist as to be a dead natural resources of any area in Alaska simply be- | giveway—was to link Mr. Reuther's name with that of cause they or their ancestors might have lived in or |the principal author of the Taft-Hartley law, which | | is, of course, widely detested by organized labor TEs s ‘worthy. ‘of note to see S Skcratary |, SANNS Sppreciate the TsiEgsRon for editcriall i of the Interior Julius A. Krug has announced that he | the press release What it suggests to us is that Mr. Reuther is up against an opposition without honor or 0 S laims. | will not support the Indians in their ridiculous c cruple or even good sense. Here is an excerpt from | have clipped bigger dividends this year than at any other time in his- | tory. s a fi PUTTING CONGREGS IN ITS PLACE A bill to overhaul the ox-cart procedure of Congressional heas ings will be introduced shortly a: | ter the opening of the regular | near the area.” s- | cer | behavior.” s | Edwards or Doctor Edwards? | i | “He was given an indeterminate sentence, depending upon good MODERN ETIQUETTE %opexna wee | H SEUSSHSTSUUTUSTIN § Q. When a woman is a doctor, should she be addressed as Mrs. “Doctor Edwards.” How soon should one return a neighbor’s call when one has re- new neighborhood? A. Q. ntly moved into a Had former Secretary Hmulffl L. Ickes still been in "““mv handout: “It is a curious fact that while loud |sion of Congress in January by, A. Within two or three weeks: if not, it is an indication that the | saddle the claims probably would have been Pro- words of protest issued from the Reuther vrovaganda |Rep. Francis Walter of Pennsyl- | friendship is not desired | cessed by the department. mills. not a single word of protest and not a single | yania, Democrat ] e e TR R Gaal s o : it IS el 5 % . Is g and-shaking consideres I3 It is quite certain that Curry will not get very disclaimer came from the GOP—party of the Tafts,| Congressman Walter, an out- Q - 2 patiaice 8 TIRkY « SIE, A - DALY far in supporting his stand, but he may be able to (lhu }:I;;x\lrz;»gtx .;lu;q Hoove and—who knows—maybe | standing authority on admjmsuay‘mu;{‘ No: this cusiom is ridiculous, and nothi ”‘; t ‘affectati i Coul_things. up Jong. sbough. 10 ldse ‘Alagki: axother IS FeUthers,/ . Mo, gne. of course, would expect a|yye Jaw and procedure, is drafti o e s T Y By e g | s s ST ver indiistry-started protest or disclaimer from the GOP, which is not in tphe legislation at the request of | | chance to get the pulp and paper Industry star !the business of protecting Mr. Reuther’s reputation i epqing newspaper editor ho are B T R S | At any rate, it looks as if Alaska has another f.om slander i b»n“ll*) £ S5 01 “]v | " Sone - - e i " 2 istur al g S ) | H sood friend in Senator Butler, and we will be anxious The Progesas &nd Tty bews of tse €10 hib oo bm‘m‘ t‘m C‘:xx r(e:xe:r:; to cm“ i | LO O K an d lEA R N i to see what his committee’s investigation reveals con- | farther below the belt. Mr. Reuther has been guilty | ;... 7 Ate0 lfim Cor mlw: xd ; A L. GORDON | H ns. €] | cerning the Timber Development Corporation of New of advocating that his union abide by the terms of mpmgclw:yqxo w"\)lrled n(‘xlwrg":h:[ N, {‘ York, the concern willing to pay the Indians $20,000,- !a congressionally enacted statute. “We can't forget, " ld { st ! . » 4 s 5 isrepute Congress is re as | 3 i Vi i i 2 00 e i has have no authority to sell, | they declaim in their press release, “that it was Reuth- I Ber oo il hhhgg"::,‘;fl: 1. What is the distinction hetween egoism and egotism? ! PRI S er who, as head of the General Motors department, | ot rcmom;l hmng-m 8 y | 2. Wh?ch are the four leading wine-producing States of the U. S.? sabotaged the Cadillac Square demonstration against| % SRR« 3 g“l ) | 3. Which is lighter, a steel ship or a wooden ship of equal dimen- | 12,000,000 Trained Men |the Taft-Hartley Act. We can't forget that it is| oy ric":}“m:;‘t}f]m"" e s | sions? | g | Reuther who stands for compliance with the n W | the W:ltel: Bill \villcgealo:‘rl'l\ :1'; 4. Of what element is “Fe” the chemical symbol? 1 (New York Times) Taft-Hartley Employers Relations Board . . . Theselph s“' of l)e;ax' = S ain {n- 5. What British ruler ordered Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded? | Tne Exccutive Dircctor of the Alr Reserve Asso- are things we can't forget. And because we can't|BReies O° RN g SO ANSWERS: ciation William C. Lewis, touched a sensitive nerve forget them, we can’t dismiss the Taft-Reuther story | 3 # e LaD wAliar < : of our national defense establishment when he called as (oo fantastic. It's all so logical.” g0 in questioning witnesses about‘ ; 1.. Egmsfn xs‘lhe excessive love and thought of self; egotism is the | the attention of the President’s Air Policy Commission Well, we hope the rank and file of the UAW can't D DEse a{“"‘S' R ac‘uce Of. leferrmg STeTE, ‘0. el o s.elf-prnise. to the sad state of the Air Force reserve program. forget that this is the kind of smear stuff the Com- |'COFYROHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. INC) | 2. California, New York, Ohio, and Michigan. i D | HAVE DESSERT AT | Martha Society Bazaar Nov. 21— | What he said of it is almost equally true of the Army |mies have been pulling on every labor leader who has | Ground reserve and, in a lesser measure, of Navy and |refused to follow their alien line. Mr. Reuther c1n\ 3. A steel ship. 4. Iron (from the Latin 5. Queen Elizabeth. “ferrum”). Marine reserves. ’th, nk his enemies for undressing themselves in public | g | When Japan surrendered, two vears ago, there |—and for proving his point about them so logically 7-10 pm. Sewing, candy, goodies,| = o - b2, e TR —-— . __ !greeting cards, fish pond, Girl i Scout booth. —ady. 738-t2 ing off that long. The first recom- |por. was puo.saed, Dewey issued a | mendation—a preliminary proposal |statement of his swn, almost identi- | 10 boost FHA's authority to guaran- |cal in many respcets with the Con- " tee loans—will even be wedged into |gressional findings. Dewey even re- | CUMING SOON the special session | commended the same adm | A SEsS . ol ninistra- | ftive setup to handie Buropean re- || 20th Century Theatre liel as proposed—twe days later— | (ke Washingion Merry-Go-Round from Page One! (Continued WAKING UP M'CARTHY written report the members have At the height of his housing in- by the Committee. ” ” i e g e Mgy e g sl hoibrggpe s bl s MUY o A the most important points. This' McCarthy was roused out of bed | 'L__._—__l columr can reveal some of its at 3 am. by an urgent telephone | i AT ¢ N o R hlights. call. | T L R TR Rl Crossword Puzzley shortage are: ‘Za,\<vrs mu/n('_v v.'uh.)ns hearing? i 1—The population jumped 13 I::r]uxdegfi:y:vo}:n:::;s“\::;P} l.“d.lg- i F?,."‘,'d:',,';;‘““j(‘,m witicn during the war, and while [ ©oo L R mI you 38. Common- the population increased, war pri- | i COUDSEY. L.Oan e ovities kept homebuilding almost at | give you the answer to the housing | 4 T { problem in a minute: Dismounted 4 standstill s oot Y right | 43. Sleigh 2—The real-estate trade is not/ " Jgrees upegsy e, ight| 43. Astern tulldmg for the vental markei— % pooun 3T Gt F 4 where the most critical need exists | 21. Monkeyltke 3l Port ot order o sl ver the au.| SOUTHWESTS FRIENDSHIF R e erage renter has more money to MOVE ard Qolisae qexres ¢pend, and is bidding for more: - Down in the Southwest two weeks With: Scotch . |ago quite a few Texans, Kansans i\"fil:fi‘é‘% & Small tower .—Construction costs are high,|and Oklahomans became indignant the wall 62. Omitted . caused by shortages of materials when they learned that the main | For fear that 6. Gastzoneg, Salution of Vestplaauiemustll 1ind lled labor. The chief bul-irou!e of the Friendship Train was White poplars DOWN 3. Occasional 4. Flow back denecks are cast-iron soil pipe |skirting them to the north of the| v Filf° foUlew j Rest part IR nais 2nd lumber main line o1 the Southern Pacific- Thoroughfares . Occurring at — | Union Pacific-North Western RR stated SOLU 110\ FOR HOUS | to Chicago. i M'?“‘"""‘ The Committee's answer will be! So, being energetic gentlemen .5e“rfa[£:m fluld legislaticn which it hopes to intro- {and wanting to participate in the Smalt g duce after Jan. 1. It will urge igesture of friendship toward the tVealr ngfl! 5 A % o S s ey - ! ! " Uncle: Scote 1—A federal 'pm,,rum or low :peou]zs of western Europe, they . Consigned to ricome groups; 2, increased auth- have now organized a special the scrap | P hea y for the Federal Housing Ad-.‘Si)uthesl Wheat Section of the 5 Fruzeploglher ministration to guarantee loans; 3,|Friendship Train to leave Wichita 7 /// plseln expansion of the Labor Depart- |tcmorrow. Moving eastward on the /// Birgelike ment’s apprenticeship training di-|Santa Fe, the Southwest Wheat| [3 A e vision; 4, curtailment of exports of Special will travel through West lumber and wire (used for nails.) Virginia on the Chesapeake and | 3 The Committee already has re- | Ohio to Washington, thence on the bridle ceived commitments from the pro-|Baltimcre and Ohio to Philadel- 38 '“"i‘!:‘;i’f'n'.’i'“"‘ cacers of cast-iron soil pipe to phia, where, on Nov. 30, it will un- shore sack up their output. Nail manu- load e RN facturers also have pledzed to in-| DEWEY SCORES SCOOP STt cremse production next year by Members of the Congressional . Do without 009,000 kegs. The Committee will Herter Committee are plenty burn- B eation request FHA to relax certain lum- ed up about the way New York's . Fastening pin ber specifications. since an ample Governor Tom Dewey scooped them B s, taeh supply of poorer-grade lumber is on on their European aid report after Riad ot Nelde I . nd he hand (the Committee had made an inten- E F:n:ml fish Though the Housing Committee sive six week’s study of conditions R ti0e has until March, 1948, to make its in Europe 1. Smallest state: renort. it has no intention of hu.‘u-; Two days before the Herter re- ok — . (JUNEAU MARINE CO. Marine MARINE WAYS and | Hardware ““Coxermoomion W Boat Sales |! Rubber Boats root west Eienin s~ Appraisals || PHONE 29 JUNEAU, ALASKA BOX 2719 Have Your Boat Steam Cleaned While on Our Ways | 1891—0ver Half a Cenlury of Banking—1947 * The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS S. L. PHELPS as a pait-up suwscriber o 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: “INVISIBLE INFORMER" FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 18 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 b, m. CHAS. B. HOLLAND, Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.P.0.ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers wel- come. VICTOR POWER, Ex- alted Ruler. W. H. 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