The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1947, Page 4

PAGE FOUR l‘ E should continue to negate those pri ples. Whatever D(ul_) Alaska m}nre ie real needs 6F (PSEN BMEY oii on sl labor fo the plain fact is that the practice 1]19!_ except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Juneau, Alaska shed every e are Nor patriated Germany owing 1s nol essentially different from Hitler's, the argument that prisoners cannot be re- at faster rate because of conditions in a convincing onme. ‘The plan for European is President Vice-President Editor and Manager M G recoverv demonstrates conclusively the close inter- e relation between German economic recovery and the he Post Office in Junea welfare of the remainder of Europe. Germa Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES i T A P erman industry cannot be expected to vroduce the goods France and Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; «ix months, S8.00; one year. $15.00 Britain themselves need until its manpower is returned. v mail ge paid, at the foll 1 his book, Speakin, r ;. for; 3 , Po e e plivoryd o e g In his book, Speaking Frankly, former Secretary 00 of State Byrn attempting s tells of some of his tribulations in will promptly notify arity in the delivery ouncil of Foreign Min artv, provides that all (:enn.m December 31, 1948, prisoners shal riated by It Happened Thel e ) speed up the return of war prisoners, | : including ibashed admission by the French that A Business C fice, 374 repatri ld not be increased because of their | \SSOCIATED PRESS cwn 1 she As the matter now stands, | e e e wav xitatil areed to return all its prisoners by i 16 detober As of March 1 of this year, the French & i) beld approximately 450.000 German prisoners, includ- aska Newspapers, 1411 | ing a number captured by American forces, which at a rate of 20,000 a month 1y promoted ahead of these licut- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 7 P | DECEMBER 12. HE EMPIRE 1927 Steamer Northwestern of the Alaska Steamship Company, north- bound to Alaska ports, in command of Capt. Jock Livingston, ran ashore water which came through a hole torn in the boat. Most of the ! rushing freight was damaged as all of the lower decks were awash shortly after | the steamer went aground. | Many passengers believed that the Northwestern would be a total loss. The Northwestern had gone ashore in British Columbia waters Lhe evious January and had just finished being completely overhauled. | Alta Purpus, for the last three years in the office of the Clerk? Margaret Mercado Stella Graham R. M. Bryant Susan Miller ° . o DECEMBER 12 ® | on Cape Mudge, B. C. All passengers had been removed safely to Camp- » TR ® (L]l River, B. C. There were 112 paseengers and 75 crew members e Lorene Elizabeth Shaw @/ . .4 uhen the ship went aground during a howling blizzard. By the/ 5 \:,;1.” Aw:,ml(;m dFaul : time the boats were lowered, the sea was washing the upper decks. | & L e o |The passengers were taken to Powell River by the halibut schooner| e Harriet Meriweather . ,'Explm’er of Juneau. ; A 1 . Mildred Apland o Many cattle aboard the Northwestern, being shipped to t%w far | ° 0. G. Culberhouse . 4 ‘north were shot early in the morning as they were drowning ‘n on- | . . . . ® ol . . . . ® e o e 0 00 00 00 > pr For its part the United States has clean hands s. 4 Aside from war criminals awaiting trial, the last | sl m b ‘:‘ ;'I‘ th :Am}f 1;:0 :‘h:;;] of the U. S. District Court, was leaving Juneau on the S. S Alaska. | Jarman an Jananes 0 cla i ” T Gettiln. ang: Japanese 1ers in this country were | ,,g e e il {She was to visit in Bellingham for a short while and then leave for 1946. But while the United States has;that Army's chief interest is now ctended stay. own obligation, it cannot remain ob. | Publicity for military conscription. | Honolulu for an extended stay. \ the continuing blot on the conscience of e i % v We believe the State Department should | KILL MORE RATS—EAT 1 Unless there was an improvement in weather conditions in Lho‘ effort to hasten the return of remaining MORE MEAT fnorthern end of the First Division, it would probably be necessary to | prisonters to their homes The United States could probab- | art feeding deer, it was announced by Hugh W. Terhune of the Alaska | 400,000,000 bushels of grain by two measures alone— e nnually While no losses had been reported, the deer were be- { Game Commission sinning to show the effects of no forage. | T control of rats and eliminating BSRAE “ o ot weevil from grain bins, elevators | - (New York World) by ." g % Weather: Hizgh, 13; low, 12; clear. | When it was decided, earlv in 1948, to introduce |&Pd freight cars. o T OISR T R PRICELESS GIFTS to the United States the system of democracy pre-| FeW people realize the tremen- e < | g in certain ccuntries in Eastern Europe the | dous waste from these sources| .l L . E I- h b' | An importa rt of the Christmas season i al Government acted with speed and decision. | 3lone. Rats and other rodents, for al y essons |n ng |s. W. L. CORDON 1{! colorful Christmas Seal distributed by the Alaska It was clear that the mafority in Congress, and pos-| Instance, eat of waste around Tuberculosis Assoctation cach year at this time. The (sibly the majority among the electorate, had been JAOOI.0N0; Eusbes; ofs 82410 annual- | e - s e =3 gay little stickers are an adornment to any letter or conspiring to defeat the will of the people. Quite a ;»‘ w?r‘{;cM::;n‘I;.‘H::xr-g‘odcu:(‘:cl:? WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Had I haye known you | it ana l ok ave well worth the penny each |16 Senators and RCERRESIEE SR Sen () SRR Cfiective rat extormin. |Were going.” Omit HAVE. Say, “Had I known you were going.” \ PRGsaE O |countries during the summer and fall of 1947, and |der an_effective rat-extermin 5 MISPRONOUNCED: Gunquest, Proncurice kong-kwest, | they cost. But those pennics, in turn, buy 1»!“-:!’»%“k W believed thev had given information to pmem1 campaign, it is almost nec- FTEN i q . C! ‘ Christmas gifts there. including some public officials. There |€ssary for every farmer in a com- accent first syllable. | No monetary value can be placed on the lives|gas hardly any doubt, for instance, that crop reports | munfty to exterminate at the | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Rabbit (animali. Rabbet (a groove). | caved and health protected through the activities |had been smuggled out of the United States. The|same time. Otherwise, the rats | SYNONYMS: Ascendancy, supremacy, dominion, domination, pre- | fin i by the Christmas Seal campaigns Government felt that it had a mandate to protect the | leave cne iarm for another. |dominance, preponderance | battle against tuberculosis in Alaska must | people mselves Last year Ccngrr*\_ so drastically WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us| be a struggle against overwhelming odds mainly A men sought managed to escape. w:l 1.“20 ‘lk::d\" “f.q:‘ll‘:m%ux,eiul ”: increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | brought about bv neglect on the part of the F:dm'aI‘S"P' "l;;b;z f:xs D:a;‘an; .lvadex: ;:r\l “\(u“u& k.“mk;du- paign against | 17 b o b the setting forth of a subject under the guise of some | vel it. Alaskans, through their Territorial gov- | Northern st e ) (e 3 : ; i “ es, wh ® sen, are like so many tracks guzxnmn(‘ s 5 e canita {ONtario to C a small boat. Senator Robert| Weevils and o inse in oth@ subject ¢ Allegories, when well ch.o e 50 i y ernment, already are contributing more per capit crossed the Ohio River on the |grain bins and grain elevators des- |0f light in a discourse, that make everything about thee clear and beau- , |A. Taft of Ci ice and made h organized safety than these in the States, but the funds seem piti ; underground route to a well Mexico. Senate Majority Leader Jr. of Maine reached Canada ap- mall | The Alaska Tuberculosis Association, through the | sale of Christr Seals, puts your spare pennies to; work to fill many gaps in the Alaska program | Most of us have received seals through the mails Send in what vou can afford. Every little bit helps in Wallace H. White parently through the connivance of disloyal elements among the Maine fishermen. Those who included, however, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey | W. Martin of the House; Senator Kenneth Wherry, (Nebraska peasant organizer; Senator Styles Bridges {of New Hampshire, chairman of the Appropriations | Committee; House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, who was charged with resisting the farm collectiva- were captured some prominent figures, such as vour checks for Slave l.ahur (Washington Post United Press survey disclosing that more |tion drive in Indiana; and Chairman Carroll Reece of nths after VJ-Day 2': million prisoners |the Republican National Committee. The trials were > not been returned to their homes | conducted aleng the lines which had proved so suc- ment on It the debasement of in- |cessful in Eastern Eurove, and the accused men were is a euphemism to refer to |allowed to present any evidence they pleasad, so long ese men as prisoners of war. They are, in actual {as it did not tend to orove them innocent. Because ac slave labor force pressed into the service orioi some still lingering traces of bourgeois senti- captor countries. To show that 73 per cent of !hc-‘mem.‘msm no death sentences were inflicted. It was vears in the Alaskan mines would of the accused were well prisoners are held by the Soviet Union is only ‘U{chughl that a few ish degrees of guilt. For thess men to be sep- jserve them well, since most and brought to u’la]r('ux of New York; Speaker Joseph |this year by spraying weeds. arated arbitr from their families after the needs |along in years. Following the 1948 purge, democracy of war have ceased is something verv close to bal on the Eastern European plan prevailed throughout barism the United States; the overwhelming majority of the | A total of 1656532 German and Japanese pris- | people did not like it, but the wiser minority, backed cners reportedly still are in Russian hands. This|by a militant for power, held that it was good figure is nct especially surprising in a country that “'ur them. has made use of slave labor as an internal policy.| Put into American terms, these imaginary events ' disturbing p that France and Britain, ! are fantastic to the verge of lunacy. They will not e Geneva Convention on |happen have long been recognized, here. Still, they did happen, and are hap- vening, with changed names, in Eastern Europe. vrinciples of th of war prisone where treatm The Washingfon nto the spirit of the movement and Collins who captured ~Cherbourg of and who is now Deputy Chief of lare honored at the privilege -Go- wverting their wheat into flour. | Staff. Me"y Go Round This is too big a thing for any Publicity expert Eddy was rank- ed ahead of Lt. Gen. Lucious Clay, now commander in Germany, also manufacturer to seek publicity on and we ask you not even mention the name of the towin of ————, (Continued from Page One) 300,000,000 bushels ;:irm' _Addison. another roy which cculd be eliminated by prop- er spraying and fumigation. i -f mendous tcll, but can be partly ! l(OBERTA LEE 1| rolled. The wheat crep in DREEIoR O Gt h ! Montana was increased i | 25 percent | Q. When a girl is offered a cocktail in a crowd, but she does not | | What Congress should do immed-, nd:'m.z. what should she do? iately and at the special se mm A. Say, “No, thank you,” but graciously. It isn’t necessary to add is to pass the appropriation re- jthat she does not drink, nor should she ever accept merely to please the quested by Secretary of Agricul- | thers ture Anderson for insectcide con- . Q. Isn't the bridegrocm supposed to pay for the wedding music? { ::‘m,]é;ndbpw:-l()[;:ns:i‘:;m?n ::‘]‘g‘ A. No. This expense should be borne by the bride or her family. | p - e £ e Q. What is a FORS D'OEUVRE, and how is it prononced? w foreign relief. In fact, one A. 1t is a side dish, a relish ssential to the other. (COPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. mc) e e——— [T WAS RIGHT TOWN‘ is as in URN, accent after the DU ot e e e e s e LOQK and LEARN A G GORDON i | | | ! Proncunce hor du-vr, O as in OR, U' | | | i | | BUTIN WRONG STATE — - AL Ao 1. What season begins with the vernal equinox? R 2. Over what international boundary line is there the most travel? A:BxYQSiR%?eE y:’hf""l'of_:f hl:’{! 3. What Queen of France was beheaded during the French Revolu- | the wrong state. Hong : e Yvette Daigle, 18, of Quebec, 4. Where is the oldest university in North and South America? | Montreal, Canada, was enroute to! 5. whn.! are regarded as the greatest collection of narrative poems | join her brother, Louis Daigle, in!in English literature? | Las Vegas, Nevada. But someone ANSWERS: forget to designate which Las Veg- 1. Spring. | ;nnun her pl{mc ;‘xcketh i 2. United States-Canadian border. | The attractive French-Canadian 3. Marie Antoinette. | girl speaks only Prench. When she i 5 - | Ehcwe‘it il :nikv' SR s 4. Lima, Peru; chartered in 1551. [ k‘r'vrado i ter;nma] AL was: 5. “The Canterbury Tales,” by Chaucer. 1 ushered aboard an airliner bound | . 8 G T for Las Vegas, N. M. R e head of Lt. Gen. LeRoy Lutes,| An alert hostess discovered the | | tract. And just twelve days after where our mill is located. a8 5 i | n H - | he was discharged from the Army| “I am not a writer, Mr. Pear-| "o did such an important job of ferror and brought her fto AWM ougias 'iumnin eating Go. | ) » |cleaning up supply-transportation querque for an overnight stay. o Parker became general manager of son, and I don't know how o exX- oo o gl BU T d T of She boarded h S | Howard Aircraft press my thoughts reaive to this 1o Gen Matthew = };KT:H\'«”‘ i (;j“- Cvafi‘?tt;;np]am il 0il Burners - Appli Gasoli i Also, Maj. Kerwin Hagerty wasSPirit of Christianity atatimewhen | oo =L c ner-up o be geu\‘n}\: ® e g:-‘y, | pp ances asoline j as rur puty —_— - ' Army procurement planning and | the world seems turned “Ith‘ ef 0O | g % ¥ ) = | em Aviation Corp. of St. Paul little town of Corn, Oklahoma,| .. ot (1o war Deps { : el | kg h 4 epartment, e DAY NIGHT Pl‘ n | from Sept. 27, 1945 to March 21, shculd be told to the whele United /ot A i oo o or —~¥hone Uou as | T el e B i Sthine T GBI 16 WOl hls: Somme lr_u’ug,h of lesser rank, was sudden Try the want-ads for n»argalnfl i 2 g | he left the Army uuc became vice- | may call them Oakies. I call i in charge of production. them ‘God's ])EUP“" : president Ccl. Forres. omith of Cincinnati held 2 relatively minor job with a ARMY PROMOTIONS ACROSS Ltent again Cincinnati law 1irm before the The Army has strange and mys- 1. Pickets Anoints war. During the war, he was not tcrious s of doing things. Wit- | 6. Ribbed tabric | lasl—nvel fli" a celllllly 0' Baflking—l“" «nly the original contracting offi- ness the promotions of 100 of the! ¥ er for the Army when it signed top brass to be permanent gener- 12 1y up with the Schwitzer-Cummings als. BEN AunlEhte i * Co., cf Indianapolis, but also term- Those who studied the list care- 15 Bishop's head. 42. Buddhist inated several contracts between fully couldn't escape the impres- g ope who with- e <hat firm and the Government. sion that the selection board is o ““I:Lu‘\w This meant he had to decide how now giving @ lot of weight to| }{ fisredie Th B M B h much the Army owed the firm. parlor politics. For instance: It's Sl D e L] L) e l.en S Less than a month after his dis- becen an Army practice that no charge, Smith got a $15,000 salary cfficer shall be promoted to the & puinir Bank with Schwitzer-Cummings. permanent grade of general unless 2 Along Solutior of Yesterday's Puzzle Also Capt. G. I. Calvert was the he has seen overseas service in| I LonkeaEa on 5 Armys tepresentative with Shef- World War IL ; K R Oldest Bank in Alaska f.eld Steel of Houston, Texas. One However, high on the latest list °° ught inte a of his jobs was to check on iinal of promotions to major general 4 iventories when the Army ended was Maj. Gen. Wilton B, Persons : COMMERCIAL SAVINGS its contract to make airplane It so happened that Persons did struts. Quitting the Army, Cal- nct go abroad at all during the #i ¢ ¢ 3 Lument for vert got a nice job with the Shef- recent war. He served right here preading o N T e p Magie. v pam tield Steel Co. as metallurgical en- in the nation’s Capital, in fact o o“ gineer most of the time under the Cap- Moveasin vnnn Jo“n —_— itol Dome. CORN, OKLAHOMA Perscns’ job was to lobby with | Wit as a pait-up suvscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA This is the story of “Corn, Okla- Céngress, get Army appropriations hasy EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING homa,” a Lttle town of about 500 passed, and generally keep Con- Pres thi h : offi pecple near Route 66, a town so gress in a happy frame of mind ent;thiisTedupon ta the hox offise efighe small that no railroad runs He did an excellent job. There are only a church, four to the permanent rank of major or five buildings and a grain ele- general despite the rules against and receive TWO TICKETS to see: vator in the town,” according to a such promotions when an office L " neighbering flour miller who told has n(ln served cverseas. ‘“”1‘1 (‘|‘<l “Nnfln NEVADA smns me the story, “but the farmers of Army, lobbying. rates high e Tax. that community hauled five car- Another general on the list is eyt Feueral Tax--12¢ per Person lozds cf wheat to the grain eleva- Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, chief il ianonsie to, which is 8,000 bushels of wheat publicity expert for the War De- PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO donated by the farmers of that partment. Eddy is an able ofticer Risii) t Lttle community to the Friendship and has seen combat service, How- and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and Train “After they collected their wheat, they trucked it over to our mill and we are only too glad to enter ever, he was No. 1 on the list even ahead of several important lisutcnant generals, including the famed ccmbat officer, Lt. Gen. Joe RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! L Grown boye VETERANE OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5559 Mzets f{'rst and third l"fldl Post Hall, Sew- Visiting Com- r-dn Welcome. H. 8. GRUENING, Com- mander: J. C. BRADY, Adjutant. SIS You'll Always Get a Betler Defll in Fur Styles and Values at Martin Victor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations J—al_nes C. Cooper, CPA BUSINESS COUNSELOR Speciallzing in Corporation-—Municival and Trust Accounts The Erwin Feed Co. Office In Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE CALIFORNIA Grozery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Mnoderate Prices STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR seward Street Near Third Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianes—Mausical Instruments and Supplics Phoue 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burne Blacksmith Work GFENERAL REPAIR WORK Phene 204 929 W. 12th St. Warfield's Drug Stor (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Huichings Economy Market Choice Meats At All Times PHONES 553—92—95 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT tor MIXERS or SODA POP Window—Auto—Plate—GLASS IDEAL GLASS CO. 121 MAIN STREET DON ABEL PHONE 633 BOGGAN Flooring Contracior Laying—YFinishing Oak Floors CALL 209 Cabinet and Mill Work Open Evenings 6 to 9 H.P. MIDDLETON 336 West Third — off Wil- loughby at Ellen Grocery TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS 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 "MOUNT JU SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in beginning at 7:30 p. m, CHAS. B. ‘Worshiptul LEIVERS, Secretary. ¢) B.P.0.ELKS AU LODGE NO. 147 Scottish Rite Temple HOLLAND, Master; JAMES W Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers wel- come. VICTOR POWER, Ex- alted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Sec- retary CHARLES R. GRIFFIN Co 1005 SECOND AVE -« SEATILE 4 - Eliot 5323 .i'mhql/fixfi:fxchni'e_/;: FREE DELIVERY —— ) — “SMILINC SERVICE” Bert's Cash Grocery | PHONE 103 or 105 Juneau ""The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CoO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Auditor Tax Counselor Simpson Bldg. Phone 757 4 f { I 1 FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 ay Fred W. Wendt Complete Automotive Service MT. JUNEAU SALES & SERVICE 909—12th St. PHONE 659 Specialists in Radiator Work The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelt WARDWARE e — e ——————— Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers™ FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE GREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. Phone 146 HOME GROCERY Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Alaska Laundy CITY DRY CLEANERS PHONE 877 “Quality Dry Cleaning” . e ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE