The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1948, Page 4

PAGh FOUR | temperature of the atmosphere. At sea level it is 761 Dall‘/ Al“s"(l " mplre miles an hour when the temperature is 59 degrees | Fahrenheit; between 35,000 and 40,000 feet, the alti- | Pub 1 every evening u‘rrn‘l’%:"r:l" by the tude at which the XS-1 is reported to have made it3 L T Rl | record, it is only 660 miles an hour. How much more President | than 660 miles was achieved? The answer must be Vice-President | . by th Air Force, 1 seems . “Editor and Manager | 2iven by the ir Force t seems safe to infer that | the old record of 650.6 miles, which still lies in the and which was Managing Editor “transonic region,’ was not greatly exceeded. N DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R.CARTER . e e ELMER A. FRIEND N TR - ALFRED ZENGER - - - - &n Business Manager | o oo o made by a Bell, weau ns Second Class Matter Post_Office in J red in the NATIONAL REPRESE ewspapers, 1411 | encugh within a plane to boil water. Can pilots and Iso| e '\’Hnu\vx . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU. ALASKA z TR WL S R TR e R | 20 YEARS AGO £ mwerne | e | 1928 on JANUARY 12 arriving from Skagw Mrs. the Margnita were Passengers iJames K. McAlister and three children, also Albert Adams and William NUA r 12 JANUARY 1 McFarland | ducted the Masenic ceremonies, ass with Mrs. E. . . FEMETSINNGS R IO easies for $1.50 per month: | the figure may be, the prediction of the aerodynamic | e . i six months, $8.00; one );nrl. (hoo"' z | experts seems to have been verified that after the|e N n C. Banfield . ; e Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Pigg, who had seen the Rev | one (Z uid, at the following rates: . ' tyansonic barrir is passed and the supersonic region | e Dorothy Pegues N e ikt b T W LI 40 R i one month entered travel in a properly designed aircraft is saf:| e Harold R. Brown o {Bernard J. Hubbard, S. J, in California, he expected to return to this; the Busine and serene le Mrs. Edith Boldue o |vicinity in June to resume scientific researchics and geological ex- | of their papers There are human difficulties still to be overcome | o Dick McRoberts ® |plorations. Telephones: News Office, 602, Business Office, 374. {if a speed of 1,000 miles an hour is attained. Because Virgil Anderson o s i MEMBER OF \“]mn}:n: f:llsslsw Bl S of the frl(:!mn of the air at this suversonic speed and | o Mrs. J. L. Jewett . Public installation of offic: was jointly held in Douglas the previ- | mp:n:“m’:u;:;w ’1‘{'\:‘;‘1?“&\}l;’(‘;\;;~?d’3d to it o6 Tet othesy | SDF, T8I »t-lh-cr in engines, the temperature of any|e Mrs. Lester Elkins ® | ous evening by Gastineaux Lodge No. 124, F. and A. M., and Nugget Wiee credited in this paper and also the local news published Mechanically propelled vehicle goes up as the square ! ¢ Jeannie Foster ® | chs No. 2, O. E. S. Past Worshipful Master Glen Kirkham con- | herein of the speed, so that at 1,000 miles &n hour it, is hot | ¢ Martin Kurset iR s / . sslstod By Past MaRARC.A: 3 Cralivas. . ° ®ourth Avenue Bldg., Se: | passengers stand such heat? Not for more than four- teen minutes, as recent experiments conducted with human volunteers at the University of California lmw shown. Hence the decision of the engineers, made long ago, to refrigerate cockpits and cabins, which jimplies more weight and more designing troubles. | Evidently the transonic, sonic and supersonic re {gions will not be conquered by the aerodynamic expert alone. An entirely new art of flying must be learned, ‘nn'i before it is learned the services of the research ysiologist must be -enlisted. hnuhmuul if not Darwinian, adaptation to new high- | speed, high-altitude environment. Popc VS. | <W’\&h|ng.0n Poslh The latest encyclical of Pope Pius XII, prapared |as such documents usually are, in rather stilted Ci- = | ceronian periods, is ostensibly a homily against class Printed elsewhere in today's Empire is a | hatreds and civil disorders munication {from patients of the Alaska Native Service |them, and so is of universal applicability. There seems Sanatorium at Sitka, stating that they are unable to |little doubt, however, that it was specially prompted by eat the type of food furnished them in the tuberculosis | the situation in Italy, where disorders very closely wards. referring to “over-ripe’ and “un- | @pproximating to civil war, have been raging for a i et b bl eraakn! | month. Thus when the Pope speaks of persons who ) aggravate batten on the misery of the SITKA & com- | to * reindeer m eatable It is to be admitted that $1.08 per day is not much ! proletarian ci . and hence obstruct those with which to feed one person three meals a day, but noble forces with which, with strict order, and the fare as described hardly seems appetizing <l with justice, the rebuilding of fortunes now Good nourishing food and bed rest seems to be | dispersed is attempted treatment for the cure of tuberculosis, is claimed by doctors to be of extreme leaders who have been fomenting the strikes and riots {in their effort to overturn the government of Premier the food importance. and the | It is clear enough that ne is idicating the Communist many Unless the patients are getting good food, ! then the money spent in keeping them in bed is yeiny A0:CasDerl. 1t 18 nat, e GERerilIEn PITDOsEECE these leaders wasted | to mitigate the poverty of the people, but We do not believe that the ANS employees are | rather to increase it, aggravating hatred and 1g on' a diet of reindeer meat, fish and dehydrated | interrupting the course of the works of urben surplus vegetables, but then they are in a more inde- | life. pendent position than the TB patients i In other words, the sole purpose of the Com- ¥ ¥ p As Delegate Bartlett pointed {munist is to produce : condition of chaos and com- the | plight of the Navajoes aroused national interest and Wil Snable ety 1o aSl SoNe! | plete calamity that 4 bt Hebe of Afad at lation |24 to consolidate it by terrorism. The workers who concern, yet the plight of Alaska’s native population d them in this purpose is far worse. blinded by their grievances, are really making war against the possibility of any 7 {improvement in their condition. For in the present condition of Europe, as the Pontiff observes, the whole | possibility of yecove depends upon “active concord mutual uriders 'mmnn peaceful labor.” There- out recently, \upersonlc Flight (New York Times) The speed of sound marks a threshold in aero- |fore, the Pope, alluding to the appreach of Christr k. dynamics. As it is a roached, wings no longer part |calls for prayers to “remove the torches that are the air with ease. Shock waves batter and try to twist | threateningly shaken in hatred, in seditions and wu- t.” The folly of a section of the Italian workers in permitting themselves to be used against their interest as pawns and dupes of Communist policy, is to us so and rend the plane. Stréeamlining is no help. In fact, 'mu the noses of fuselages must be as pointed as artillery shells, wings as thin and sharp as knives. A new region is opened for exploration, and in the explora- tion there is nothing for it but to risk lives at high altitudes in planes of radically new design, inasmuch as wind-tunnels are of no aid in studying shockwaves that have already killed some daring pilots. Hence the importance of an anpouncement which comes from evident.that we may be surprised that such a warning we no from such a source should be necessary. What forget is that mere logic fills no stomachs, cures despair. Nevertheless, there is evidence that despi its miseries, a considerable section of the Italian work- and against men who incite | So we have a case of ly,g of Resurrection Lutheran Church | | Mrs. Jessie Fraser acted as installing officer for the Stal .'..'l-...l. |C. say as Marshal. > At a meeting of the Women's Missionary Society of the Resurrection MOTION PICTURE Is ¢ y Harry Stonehouse Jlight FEATURE, LUTHERAN 'uierr oot '\i‘«fhfix:3:.’:L<|“i”\f1f< George P. Rabelle in apprecia- (ONGREGAHON MEH[uon of her efforts in organizing the society engineer, and Howard H. Lerch re- R. S. Donaldson, coal mining regational meet- E s O !turned to Juneau from a several days’ business trip in this vicinity aboard The will be held tomorrow, Tuesday eve |the gasboat Jazz 'ning, at 8 o'clock | Election of council members will Gov. George A. Parks, who had been absent from Alaska since about | presented held Reports for 1947 will be |the middle of November on official business, was rej orted to have reached | in mimeographed form !Seattle the previous morning enroute to Juneau. While in the States, to those attending in order to con- ithe Governor had visited with his parents in Denver he | in the church. | I l | | ] 1 | erve time for main attraction of B the evening | Jenks Williams, Juneau picneer of the vintage of 1892, returned. to The feature of the evening Will |, oo arten an absence of five years, which he had spent in Tacoma “And % l:n- Williams s the brother of David J. Williams, Collector of Internal |Revenue for Washington and Alaska during the Wilson Administration. | ind-motion picture e a dramatic story tewgrdship produced in by Cathedral Films for| i Pioneers and Auxiliary of lul()r\ No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska were to| Lutheran Church, Ac- | tors appearing in the picture are'hold installation of officers the following night, with F. Wolland and | to'be installed as presidents of the | Ralph Mor Nelscl. Leigh, Ad-!|mrs. Katherine Hooker, respectively dison Richards and Frank Reicher, |two organizations. Insts officers were Frank A. Aldrich and Mrs, | together with a cast of fifty play-|ann, webster i e Dr. nklin Clark Fry is pre- | | | H«ll\'\‘ the United ented in the picture and The St. g & o Jp Olaf College Choir sings the Hylfitis| 4. Weatnet? High, 41; low, 39; rain which include “Beautiful Savior.”| """ R S e Member especially, and also Dail essons in n is b' | friends of the church are cordially y l_ E gl h i { invited and strongly urged to at- , W. L. CORDON X tend the meeting B SR L o 4 I ). AR Refreshm s will be served Ly { WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I've got to write some letr | | | theiLadies 8 B {ters.” Say, “I have to (or MUST) write some letters | | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gneiss (a kind of rock). Pronounce <F i las though spelled NICE MOOSE INITIATE "!“E: [ N MTSEBEETED, Difkhong? desys the BATH i NEW QUARTERS TO BE } SYNONYMS: Quncken, hurry hasten, expedite accelerate [ | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours” Let us| | READY FEBRUARY 1| increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word | PRECARIOUS; uncertain; not firmly established. “I do not envy these a xw;uLu meeting of the {men their precarious fortunes | Order of MOOSe 18St: FIie | w5 oo e i oyt day night, nine candidates were | 'j; initiated. During the past several | MOnERN FT‘O U E'I"I'E months the membership of the| R ()BLHTA LEE y lodge has been increasing and also | { : attendance at the lodge has bvvn‘ DS e it e 0 ARSI Ao i I o\ ST g e on the increase at each meet-| @ Should,one change his fork over to the right hand after cutting | ing |off a portion of meat with knifc and fork? i The new Moose Home is nearing| 5 This is known as zig-zag” eating, and is now frowned upon by completion and it is planned €01, sooiety. Tt is much better to be able to use either hand interchange- cecupy the quarters about Feb. 1.| The main lodge room will be gom- | 3PI¥ While eating Isn't it the duty of the hostess to keep ll|) conversation at the leted far enough to allow 'the| @ Women of the Moose to hold their | dinner table? Aviation Week that a Bell XS-1 achieved the un- s perceives the issue clearly enough. Last week two | precedented speed of over 660 miles an hour more parties of the Left, the Republicans and the Socialist | mecting in it on Jany 13, | A Wnile she of course has a duty in this regard, everyone at the| than a month ago at Muroc, California, where the 'group, headed by Signor Saragat, which have hitherto | At the meeting Friday night, |table is responsible for seeing that conversation does not lag Air Force maintains a flight-test center. refused all collaboration with Premier de Gasperi, Governor G. E. Almquist apologiz- | Q@ When a man and a weman enter church, which should precede? ! __The speed of sound varies with altitude and the [agreed to join his government (ed for Bob Sith, who had Peen A. If there is an usher, the woman should go first. If there 1s no | i & - et e —-——— | practicing for a long time on &| . . 4ho oy should precede down the aisle and find the seat: under o Russian are not only smail in number but|song he was to give. Smith was 1 6 p JEE 2 A e TR ! Ihe washmg'on [ Of course, what the Russians did a long, long way irom home. In|forced to leave the meeting by Sl RO e L s g el S ? jnot say was that if they got a other words, Russia is now en-|jumping tooth-ache, but will smg‘ b‘ Mefry-eo-nound base in Palestine, they would no j the advantage of playing;at some future meeting | lO 0 K a nd I_EA R N A G CORDON longer need the long-sought Dar- the game right on her own home| Refreshments were served after 2 2 denelles. For, from Palestine, they grcunds. Furthermore, having lostilh: business s By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page Cue) TRAS | skirmishes some France and Italy desperately needs some compensat- ing victories. viet important could control all the Eastern Medi- !lez‘ranean‘ including Turkey. the Red Sea and Arabian oil, and would be within two hours of the new British military base in Cen- recently, world chew each other up, none of policy is that, Moscow | in |- | { And traditional So-|4 The American Legion, Depart- | when thrown | men! of Alaska, at its regular meet- | What is the sum of the When is the most rapid period of growth in Which is the oldest of the American milita degrees in all the angles of a triangle? | uman being? bands? 4. What animal is considered the most useful to man of all domesti- NOTIUR l I | cated animals? } | | i The members of Juncau Post No, 5. What is a halyard? ANSWERS: 180 degrees, During the first year of life. The U. 8. Marine Band, The cow. A rope for hoisting or lowering sails, organized in 1798 flags, ete. | them relish the idea of having tral Airica—Kenya. | a loss in one part of the Eu-|ing on January 26, 1048, will vote| Europe become the battlefield U. S. officials listenea politely obean field, the Politboro boys|on a proposal to authorize the Le- | If I know the United States.|and said nothing. In fact, theyll come back strong in amother part.|zion Building Association to grant | on the other hand, there isn't any | probably even deny such a con-/ This is only a small segment|an easement over a portion of Lot k good American—except an infin- yercation ever took place. But it Of the story. What some of uuxl . 3 in Block No. 4, approximately | g itely small minority—who Wwants giq take place and it is indicative POYS in Washington think about it '.hree feet by one hundred feet in 3, war with Russia. There are, hoW- of the ever-increasing jockeying 8nd What we can or should do dimension. i 3 ever, a great many peéople Who o, military position in and around Abeut it will be diagnosed short-| First publication, Dec. 12, 1947, | 5 fear that trouble will break out gurope ly. {Last publication, Jan. 16, 1948. * : in Europe which will end In & Jugt a few howrs flying time ————-%= et major conflagation between the U. joithwest, in Greece, a far more SA. and the USSR | dangerous battle for position is Looking over Lurope and the ad- | taking place. There Russia recently jacent Near East there are three|sent 40 of her latest type Storm- 25 3 f ACROSS 35. Player of a potential powder kegs where this ovik fighter planes to Albanian | guex certain ine could happen: (1) Northern Italy air bases, carefully prepared six 4. Chide 5 e and Trieste, (2) Greece, and (3) to seven months previously. In u Palestine, along with Turkey and | this area slo, Rusisa is concentrat- | H the Near East. Of course, Eu- ing an increasingly large contin- 1 41. Convey bevond ropeans argue that the United|gent ot her international brigade, |i. fieom. in a cieges States has stuck its nose out a long ' composed chiefly of former Ger- | harem way from home into these three!man prisoners and trained under trouble spot. And a lot of them Stalingrad’s famous—though de- argue that if anyone is looking feated—attacker, Field Marshal Afrigan iy for war, we are. But ducking that von Paulus o argument for the moment, let's. Von Paulus is now reported to Advocate just see how troublesome these be in Belgrade organizing two new overlsy trouble spots are, taking them up German units, the Liebknecht and in reverse order. | Karl Marx Divisions. All in all Most people were delighted when | about 80,000 German prisoners are 1891—O0ver Half a Century of Banking—1947 * . The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alasks Solution of Saturday's Puzzie -l DOWN COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | 2. Wild ¢ ffalo of India 3. Weil-bred 4. Climbed | they noted Russia, for once, lined ' reported concentrated at Vojvod- up on the side of the United States ina, headquarters of the Third Yu- recent at the United Nations meet- | goslav Army, where they are be- ings at Lake Success and voted ing offered tempting living condi- for the partition of Palestine. They tions if they .will serve under the heaved sighs of relief and pointed | Y slav flag. Meanwhile, Lieut 7 8. the two thing they out that at countries had long last found one Gen. Bozidar Maslarich, intelligence chief of Tito's general staff and DAVID DREIBELBUS as a pait-up suvscriver 10 PHE DAILY ALASKA S president of the Pan-Slav Con- gress, is in actual command of Moscow’s Greek manuevers The English translation of Bo- could agree on However, what most people did not know was that shortly there- aiter Russia very sweetly suggested EMPIRE is invited to be our guest TRIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the I zidar is “Christmas gi{t,” but Bo- zidar Maslarich’s tactics won't be any Christmas gift to the United to the United States that, since| we had Congressional and domes- tic difficulties over sending U. S. CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: States if the Balkan countries of- ficially recognize General Markos’ puppet Greek government and then troops out of the US.A., the Red Army would be glad to send four divisions to police Palestine for "SONG Or SCHEHERAZADE" preceed to supply it with arms. 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