The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1948, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT PLANS FOR AIRPORT AaPTED > AB Hall will cial meeting to be held We v night, by the various clubs and orga: Those who will ke pres committee hearing are Crafts, Coast Guar: Town Hall Recreation Ce Rifle Club. Any other clubs o ganizations wishing to have t the hall are asked to be prese at that time. The time of the mee ing will be announced at a later d There will also be an informal meet- ing Monday night of the entire Council Plans for use of be discussed a Other business al the meeung a report from the Department m regard to tu- Lerculosis case: s area, reported at the mee was de he past month, The Capitol City Trailways Bus Co., made a request for extension on their franchise rights which w: referred to the Police Committee. The application for liquor license submitted by Harold Bates was dis- approved by the Council. The resignation of City Patrol- man Forrest W. Bates was read and accepted. Bates' resignation will take effect on February 15 and at that time he will leave for Skagway where ° he will be connected with the U Customs Office in that area. T.e ap- ! was ap- plication for the vacancy proved and accepted at last nigh mitted his report as follows: Police Januar hiclz wt cealed w tering, 2; weapon, 1 Eentence 6, recovered ar €d. $651; persons turned over to the Federals 3. e, — TO DEMO CONVENTION i Juneauites leaving on the Aleut- | ian for Ketchikan to attend thej Democratic Territorial Convention | there starting Thursday included| Curtis Shattuck, William R. Carter, | Ralph Rivers, Harry DeLand, Joe Green and Frank Metcalf, | ANCHORAGE VISITORS T. Constant and R. Stevens of | are staying at IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl|IIIlIIlIIllIIllIIillIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIiI-IiIIII-I.IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIlIHIIIIIIlHl|IIiIIIIII “CONAN®’ Rir Cooled, Electric Generating Plants 600 watt 500 watt volt a. c¢. 1,000 watt REMOTE CONTROL 12 volt d. ¢ 32 volt d. c. 115 P Power 10 h. p. equipped with AUTHORIZED ffi! s O I JUNEAU Qi E,mleu has taken a Garfield while her radio the Civil 2 cylinder, Bennett reduction and reverse ON YOUR HORIZ"N A figurehcad worthy of a bow Ja goes sailing be- tween scenes fer a new film in which she is with Franchot Tone. - is Carter appearing - RECENT VISITORS, DELEGATE'S OFFICE Mr. and Mrs Rmph E. Ander- on of Gustavus called on Delegate recently Mrs. 1derson nursing position Hospital in Wask husband is under study while on leav Aeronautics Admini; C. Bettinger, Mayor of Ko- Norman, Kodiak are in Wash.ngton with Navy Depar mer of 1 on ofi with th ion of Petersbu of Board, was a ingten visitor from San Fr where he now resides. S AT IN SOUTH Mrs. Etta Bringd Bank staff, is south- bound passenger on the Aleutian fcr a vacation trip to California. | She will be gone about one month. . SEATTLE \lblTORS Nav.onal C. R. Jones and J. P. Wolf of | the Seattle are registered at the Bar- | + rotel e, of the First ¢ BULL Q;"- The United £ will meet cide what to do about to permit the U nmission to enter | - Vice-Admiral assumed command tes Mediterranean monies aboard 1gship, the cruiser Ports- mouth. | WASHINGTON — Lee Pressman 1as resigned the job of CIO chief Counsel, which he held for 12 rs. He wants to be free to help Henry Wallace run for Presi-| nt LONDON - Britain and Trans- Jordan have agreed tentatively ona y of mutual aid setting 8 int defense bcard, diplo- natic sources said today. | TR | ATTLI - ' Shipments last from the Seattle port of ation included 17 shiploads ur and wheat, 20,739 tons of rock phosphate fertilizer and 12,- 362 tons of peas and seeds for Japan, Korea and Okinawa. PARIS — General Charles de Gaulle’s 18-year-old daughter Anne, died during the night. The nature 1 not disclosed. Colombew-Les-Deux- France. her illness was died at Eglises, wm Could Oul-bid tl\w auction of un- cles grew silent. v minutes later, eight- vens walked cle on which bidder. SITKA ! Sitka is stay- ranof Hotel IN FROM An Expensive Cut IP‘ FIREMEN have to fight their way through ze in your home, ng of their axes will mean a hole in your pocketbook . . . unless you have adequate insurance. Der’t wait for that blow to fall! Get your Fire Insurance today from Shattuck. SHATTUCK AGENCY INSURANCE - BONDS Juncau. Alaska Air Cooled Inboard HMarine 4 cycle, AGE} SRR T T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. ETIN S'(hurch Goes ~ Undergroun: TALLAHASSE orgregation of the Methodist t a complete house of worship. t it has laid a good foundation church had 64 ho managed to wney to begin construction. How- er, funds Le basement had been completed. » the church-goers simply roof- basement. and now rvices in it while working tow- rds finishing their church. o B ) ghts The 1 the IN FROM PELICAN Hermie Johnson of Pelican is ezistered at the Gastineau Hotel. 3 3 '} - JUNEAU, ALASKA 16 STREET MA MES b £ W AVON 53 nes i et o Fla 48 The t after | driver. chang-| Truckman nnenallee, the avenue of | med on lliance platz, com- Anglo-P al- | ed Napoleon, has been Franz Nehring platz,| The 1 hor of vi 1 of Fa m. only f red and fifty of 2,000 s in Berlin scheduled for iange have been renamed so far i to the print both the 1d and the new name in order tc void confusion. ———— IN FROM ANGOON { Fred Hucker of Angoon is stay- | at the Gastineau Hotel named Tallahassec church ha rlace, has been n't | mightily organizers | raise enough | l wged to ran out when gasoline hold hackberry ‘BERl'N DENAZIFIES Dynamile Mixed wnh Gasoline . Mont f—‘-\?‘ ing from the rear of a R. Stalle speeding to O W. Pollard jam- his brakes, ing bedding from the vehicle, sigh- 1 d thanked r because — urant on the site, i included several I love t " he and with particular truckload cases of dynamite - Famlly Tree Grows oo o0 e R!gh' "“ouqh Reog The "f;zm-ll city of Philadelphia Ky —P—A tree growing BARDWELL, SATURDAY, rl:BRUARY7 1948 the floor and o Bardwell rest a landmark. Cu the roof of has become teld this _story by 74 nels W. Turk, restauranteur- tree fancier. vast Some years ago while driving through the ccuntry, Twk saw a pling washed out by rains and destined to die, He took the sap- WAy ling home and set it out in the corner of his front yard. It flour- 1 into a sizeable tree by the Turk decided to build a res- Smoke pour- truck sent warn its Giant western yanked burn- Stalle . “You're a liar,” said i a barrel of o1 tor bowed to Turk’s nation, “Now, Mr. NEW YORK Giant players durmg the reign of the late John McGraw tourists are were in constant awe of the great ear-old manager. One of the most awesome characteristics of McGraw was his store of trivial facts. Once Virgil Barnes sneaked out for an evening of revelry during a swing. Making his back to the hotel, Barnes fell over a fence and sprained his ankle, “How?" asked McGraw. Answered Barnes, the soap in the shower.” shouted McGraw. Barnes repiied with proper indig- “I slipped on McGraw, you d buflt around the tree.|can’'t call me names like that.” trunk now is 12 inches| “You're a lar,” Patrens hang their hackberry tree’s any €s. | dollars.” in diameter. repeated McGraw, “You're in room 247 and there isn't shower in that room. Fifty S A e e what is now Trans-Jawdon was huge r d for its conqueror, Ptolemy hus through Is Prohibition Coming' Back? FTER the first World War, Prohibition was slipped over on the people of the United States by propaganda, started during the war, that it was necessary as a war emergency. The fighting in World War IT has been over for more than two years. Now many thoughtful '-cn)\lu are wond er- ing if we are threatened with Prohibition again. the dry anda mill is working ove ¥ isn’t quite ir whether the 1948 “party line” is that Prohibition is necessary because the t war is not over, or becaus iere is a third World W t around the asked to extend days’ grain supply ¢p toward bringing back Pro- er purpose. It cannot be to save grain. for distilling dees not deprive America single slice of bread. The pse of cor or the world of a As for wheat, the distilling industry uses less than one theusandth of one per cent of the total supply. So the purpose must be Prohibition. Even a school boy economist knows you do not save any grain when you restrict only one ifdustry that uses about 19 of the total. This is true because restricting one industry’s 1 per cent sounds a warning to the users of the other 99 per cent of the possibility of allocation in their industries and actually encourages them—in the absence of any restriction —to process or pile up as much grain as they can. Just tell anybody that something is going to be scarce, and he will buy more than he normally uses. The fact that grain could be distilled anywhere in the whole wide world including countries which import our American grain—while American distilleries were shut down —proves that ours was the only country that fell for such economic nonsense. No cther country is destroying a source of govermental revenue big enough to pay half the cost of the Marshall plan. No other country is destroying an industry employing, directly and indirectly, more than two million of its citizens. The claim that the restriction of American distillers has any humanitarian or economic basis is dry propaganda— and nothing else! It might be hard to persuade the American workers who are out of work in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, to agree that the shipment of our grain for distilling in Canada or any other country by foreign workmen could serve any humani- tarian, economic or social purpose. America has sixty Lawrenceburgs! American Distillers were shut down in 25 states. Canadian distillers ran at capacity. British distillers ran at capacity. _ Distillers behind the Iron Curtain were reported running with American grain. The very countries that are asking America for food are asking for mere American grain for distilling and brewing than the whole American distilling industry has ever used in any year. When the American distillers were shut down in Novem- ber and December, Canada doubled its imports of American corn. (anada is not a starving country In the last four months u1 ]'h., which included the American shutdown per "‘!Iunt!"i almost one and a half million bushels of In the same periad the year before they prmw{ nc mv If the American distilling industry were unrestricted it would use at the most as we have said, less than 1 per cent of the grain. The Secretary of Agriculture has issued an order, now in effect, cutting this down to 14 of 1 per cent. This 14 of 1 pér cent is supposed to save the world, vet the Secretary of Agriculture tells a committee of the Senate that we will have plenty of grain. But our processing of even this small amount of grain would not remove it from the food economy. Only the foreign governments seem to appreciate the fact that dis- tilling not only keeps men and women employed, and adds to government revenue, but also vesults in by-product feed supplements which are returned to the food economy in the form of more meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry and pork. Some say that at least 45 per cent of the grain we use is thus returned to the food economy in the form of animal feeds. And some say more than 100 per cent is returned in the feeding value of the vitamin-rich high-protein residue. As we said in the beginning—the restriction of American distiliers can have no other purpose than prohibition! The dry propagandist will try to tell you that there is an enorm- ous gallonage of whiskey in this country. Actually, all dur- ing the war, this industry converted all its facilities to mak- ing alcohol for ammunition and synthetic rubber. After the war it was closed down month after month on account of European needs for grain. The truth is that there is today in the United States just about one year’s supply of whiskey four years old, or older. The rest is green whiskey, not yet matured and ready for market. The distilling business needs no defense by us. The people and the Congress of the United States decided through the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution that it is a legal business and a recognized part of our economy. More than a hundred thousand American citizens invested their savings in this industry on this assurance. Don’t let anyone tell you that the distillers are against aid to Europe. Last year, this was the only industry that made a sepa- rate and voluntary contribution for the feeding of hungry people in other lands. The Distillers bought and paid for 20 million pounds of grain for.Europe. From October 25th to December 25th, we shut down voluntarily in answer to the plea that it would encourage others to make sacrifices. Schenley paid full wages—over a million dollars—to its employees who were thrown out of work. We believe that hungry people everywhere should be fed. It is the American tradition to give of our resources to succor the needy and the unfortunate wherever they may be. We are ready and willing to contribute on the same basis as every other American industry to the cost of pro- viding relief to the pesple of Europe. But we do not agree that this can best be done by a partial or complete return to Prohibition. We do not believe it can be done by destroy- ing or restricting an industry which the American people expressly voted into existence. We do not believe it can be done by weakening our home ecconomy through the loss of billions of dollars of revenue for National, State, and Local governments; or by throwing hundreds of thousands of American workers out of their jobs. Schenley Distillers Corporation More than 300,000,000 pounds of fish and shellfish are landed an- nually at East Coast ports from Rhode Island to Virginia.