The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1948, Page 4

tHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1948 \ IR AR N S S SR e I [ from | - - } 20 YEARS AGO THE EMPIRE | Be Wise s===- Economize ol Meats HUTCH!NGS Groceries hone ECONOMY Phones PAGE FOUR The everal not Territory of Puerto Rico the Territory of seems to enjc benefits which Alaska doe: : : Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and M: Streets, Ju Alasks HELEN TROY MONS - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM II. CARTER ELMER A. FRIEND - - ALFRED ZE! ER - enjoy Puerto Rico now has the right to elect more Federal appointees Federal income taxes collected from Puerto Ricans governor—no A R, President - " Vice-President Editor and Manager ¢ J fanacne Editer | are refunded to the territorial government | b e e And the Puerto Rican legislature seems to have | f nixe sense enough to realize that in order to secure new | . . than advantage should be offered to poten- MARCH 4, 1928 the largest crowds attended the second American Legion evious evening in the Dugout. Attendance was far greater previous mixer. Entered In the Post SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delicered by carrier in Juneau and Dourlas for S1.50 per month) six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 T+ mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance. $15.00; months, in ad ene month, in advance. $1.50. Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify \he Business Off.ce of any fallure cr irregularity in the delivery of thelr pupers alephones: News Office. 602, ol industries, some led by J. F. Morris won over Dr. Council’s team at the ub shoot by 178 to 157. Sixteen men took part in the| tial investor | Perhaps if the large paper companies were told ! jineq that pulp mills they might build in Alaska would be |y 040\ tax free for a number of years they could be en- (bu“.Ll dlllvl :;Lml‘ ‘::\ m;\“ and fight the matter of W ro. won the Popiis aborigina rights ¢ n the c I'Ls, S ing 'y g f out, i he courts, “something they | popy shal on the Island. will not undetrake at present o N , r 85 poi by four other candidates sarly Marshal Albert White. Business Office. 374, vote at Douglas for appointmecrt as He received 119 votes as ag:.insc! MEMBER Or ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘fhe Associated Press is exclusively sntitied to the use for ublication of all news dispa‘ehes credited to it or not other- appointment was Wise credited m this paper and also the local news published — — herein. NAT:USAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspupers, 1411 Bread or Whisky? Pourth Avenue Bldg., Se st anticips The Margnita brought in 32 passengers from Sitka and wayports. | (Cincinnati Enquirer) | Weather: High, 29; low, 26; cloudy. o i flé!\! LGSSOHS in EnghSh %7 L. CORDON || In the public imagination, the question at issue | between distillers and the government is whether many millions of bushels of grain are to go into making bread or into making whisky in coming months. Actually, the problem is not nearly so simple it is obvious that the distillers would be closed, all of | } transfer of millions of bushels of bread grains from ing to the making of flour for export oversc it is obvious that the ditillers would be closed, all of them, until spring or CHILD) who said HE tor SHE) WAS there.’ In fact, however, the grains used by distilleries OFT MISPRONOUNCED: Livelong and long-lived are not used, in any la ’u(»\ quantity, for bread. ‘Cm'n nounced as in IT in LIVELONG and as in ICE in LONG is used ke ;;xfml\ at »1111 fof bread, and rye sparingly OFTE ISSPELLED: Hail (frozen raindrops). Hale (healthy However, corn and rye not used for distilling might be Al o y B fad to 1iveste releasing that much other grain, in- SYNONYMS: Liber y, Benerosity, munificence, open-handedness e givini cluding - wheat, for ‘the of hungry human beings. WORD STUDY by mastering one word each day. Today's word: That sounds, at fitst blush, like a very sound argument for a protracted distilling holiday. But a our ve TARY; composed ‘of fragments; complete. “Our only very large percentage of the feed value of corn and FRAG after 'distillation. And by-product cy smentary.” | e i e =3 OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I was talking with a pa\r!_vl | vy were there.” WORDS who said th Say, “I was talking with a MAN, (WOMAN, The I is pro- | IVED. l | | i | | ENCOURAGING INDUSTRY e a word three times and it is yours.” Let us incre Dozens of large American companies are ‘reported not retained dence was Ir to bd seizing the opportuhity to move into the Terrl- tory of Puerto Rico. The people of that Territory are after ni tries in :a big way. To the industrialist they offer the privilege of running a business free from all property, excise and municipal taxes. And if the company doesp't have the necessary capital, Puerto Rico will furnigh”that a1so The Territory offers ‘a’12-year tax. holiday to 41 pw indus- types of manufacturing and mest industries new to Puerto Rico. Its development agency PRID.C builds the plants and the Development Bank advances the loans. The you take a long-term Jease on the plant and you get an option to buy. If vou buy, the rent goes toward the purchase price. In addition to the exemption from Puerto Rico taxes, industries that get 80 per cent of their grc Rican sources will be exemptl income except on their terms are eas profits from Puerto from their Federal income from sources within the United States Contrast this with the situation in Alaska. industry is needed here in the worst way. t of view of taxes there has been no encourage- taxes, the poin’ ment And what industries we now have receive nothing but eriticism from our politicians. Our Indians, by pressing aboriginal claims which test in the courts, block the g the paper pulp manu- their lawyers fear to current opportunity to br facturers to Alaska. r-h;,w‘ashinglonfi Merry-Go-Round Ry DREW PEARSON the past, up with In the ernment the stance, when $10,000,000 worth (Continued from Page One) — | offer was turned cotbmittie “ehil i{ald down -a mew Wolle RUNIA hand-picked formula, caretully sel- ceted to favor the whiskey trust. This cuts down allocations to inde- pendent companies such as Schen- ley, Publicker and United which| have never joined the whiskey club known as the Distilled Spirits In- stitute Inside reason why the publicans overruled their own com- mittee is that the whiskey trust made it plain to Senator Cooper, a Republican from normally Dem- &80 ocrggic Kentucky, that he had to Czech cabinet put - mcross their formyldkif+ he) Caechoslovakia wanted to be re-elected. Bob Taft | Marshall plan, the nate Republicaps are ' Pened, the State most anxious to ave seat for the GOP, so fially de- cided to go down the line for the whiskey trust. Incidentally, Demo- cratic leader Alben Barkley, also froni Kentucky, joined them Interesting sidelight is that Ceoper’s formula hurts 19 distill ics in his home state, while most| pp .y, 4 of the distilleries which are help- oo™ (o ed belong to the Distilled Spirits . Institute — the front for the whis- trust. Of the three big com- agent ed the sugg Senate Re- | | vakia. | ington, Clayton got and to fight back Russell Civil Aeronautic bureau and key a group of trust, two are Canadian. bor John N. TAYLOR STILL A DEMOCRAT Significantly Sen cratic party after he signed uplijly with Henry Wallace was defeated recently inside Idaho’s Democratic nusen of State Ce: Committee At a meeting in Boise, Ex-Sen.|tonstall cf Ma Charles Gcessett and former State | been Democratic Chairman Robert Coul- |y ter tried push through a Teso- soon lution rul Taylér eout ' of ;the party. After two hours of Ssam Hindman of Boise moved to adfourn without a vote Hind- man’s motion carried 33 to 19. Note—Political observers report considerable Wallace backing in! the Northwest | time industrial Those get wrangling Henry Wallace Sen campaign doors last week strategy. They made hold their CZECH SECRET DEAL Chicago in Jui When the secret documents on the Czech crisis are finally made known, it will be found that the State Department made one enor- mous effcrt to save the Czech from the Iron Curtain. The fy the party wit tempt tcok place last July and b Akkler R is the inside story Progressive When the Czech cabinet first couldn't make heard akout the Marshall Plan, | the Christening they held a S5PPPPDp ?uwxcci | the convention they sent a secret emissary to see It was also ag then Undersecretary of State Clay- |chiefs to suppor ton in Geneva and informed him even J ballot i was hopelzss. the Flcrida up as New ‘ Yet from | that Czechoslovakia wanted to line west Washington regularly gave his gov- | brush-off, Prague the United States for cash. gave wheat free. Accordingly the Czech Truman administration | gthen Benes and Masaryk with a | real gesture of friendship. Clayton said he was willing, ard | the Czech promy the Export-Import a $50,000,000 credit the ! Meanwhile, however, Moscow wielding the big pulled out of Cgoper’s Czechoslovakia had lost the will UNDER THE DOME Adams, a career place CAB Board member Harlee badly atic party in Michigan from the ground up will be launched by young penies that dominate the whiskey, ;.1 qe Assistant Secretary Gibson; of Grand Rapids, Vice-President of | Kaiser-Frazer; Wendell Lund, war- a move to banish!the War Production Board; Glen Taylor from the Demo-| Mennon Williams of the soap fam- coastal states, led by Warren Mag- | (] Washingten, 4 Morse of Oregon and Leverett Sal- of ssachusetts, who have demangding a on in the State Department will as thetr wish THIRD PARTY MEET Glen Taylor, met managers tentative national prceedure for entering the Senator Taylor uggested calling it the party. up Republican rye 1is stock feed from the idistilleries is'an importaut sup- plement to the country’s supplies of feed grains. So once more the apparent food or feed savings of a MOnERN FT'OUETTE by i holiday on whisky are deceptive. by 1 S KOBERTA LEE i To complicate matters, the distilleries are at odds | § | with the Secretary of Agriculture as to & proper policy, { and also at odds among themselves. Only two-thirds Q. When a young man takes his girl home from a date, and wishes | of the industry belongs to the Distilled Spirits Insti- |, yic her goodnight, should he ask permission? i | et e e it S tute, which is the chief spokesman for distillers gen- A, About the only thing T can suggest here is to “take a chance” Most girls dislike the “too proper” methcd of asking permission. The voung man will scon find out whether his kiss is acceptable or not years fov aging, after their manu- Q. At a church wedding, when the minister, bridegroom, and best | facture, and if production capacity for cars were far man are to enter from the rearideor, in what order should they walk? | greater than demand, the motor industry would be in a At the ¢ strains of the music, the minister enters, followed : | comparable pesition to close down for months on end jn order by the bridegrcom and his best man. | without undue sacrifice. | Q If two persons who have some interest in common are being One distiller, Seagram, has set a good example by jntroduced, should the one who is making the introduction mention | keeping its plants closed after the production holiday- this interest? | evidently awaiting announcement of the government's S e { policy. But this tells us very little about the further % " saving of grains to be expected. And even the imposi- versation e e e @ it Pt e e tion of a rigorous limit on distilling ‘operations through | January did not result in anything like the saving of BUPBUOR, erally. And in the nature of the industry, distillers can take a longish production holiday without serious loss. If Fords and Chevrolets customarily were put on | shelves one to five this will draw the two persons into immediate con- i | bread grains that the bare statistics of distillery operations might suggest to the casual onlooker. Europe's hungry folk well may look to the farms and households of America for help. But the most the | distilleries possibly can do, or be made to do, to solve | this world food problem, is hardly worth the emphasis that has been given to it, as compared with the quiet ties? | burial of consumer efforts to save food. 3. What ex-President admimistered the oath of office 4 Ny ident twehty years later? | 4. What famous poém by Lbrd Byron is incomplete? | | 5 Which extends farther south, Africa or South America? i ANSWERS About 2.2 miles anpordn: | Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio. fred, 40 ey, Tatt swore in Hoover in 1929. o fiaiten . . “Don Juan.” down cold; mean- South America. the Czechs the et et i e 1. What is the average depth of all oceans? 2. What three States lead in the number of colleges and universi- to a new said, | the Czech in-| MARCH 4 [that he can represent Alaska at the AlASKA SPORTS | famous annual meeting. | He will represent the Territorial GRoups Io BE | Sportsmen, Inc., of Juneau; An- |chorage Sportsmens’ Association; }Kewhikan Sports and Wildlife As- HEARD OUTS!DE sociation; Tanana Valley Sports- Imen, of Fairbanks; Stikine_ Sports- — | mens’ Association, of Wrangell; and Charles E. Gillham, U. S. Fish aud" the Petersburg Sportsmens’ Club. Wildlife Service biolof and pred-! ————-—— — atory game hunter, was scheduled! TWO DOGS IMPOUNDED to leave here via PAA today for St.| Two dogs were impounded by Louis where he will represent several | City Police yesterday and placed Alaska sportsmen’s groups at the|in the City Dog Pound. The dogs American Wildlife Institute Con-|will be disposed of in three days vention beginning on March 8 {unless they are claimed by their Gillham, a nationally prominent|owners. Deseriptions of the dogs sportsman, is taking a leave of : b- | are posted .on the bulletin board sence from his government work so/at the City Hall R. H. Stevens Mrs. Charles Hooker . . . that 04 . Carol Ann Olson . . . . . . str to Clayton Betty Clark Mrs. W. A. English Mrs. J. C. Kirkham Gene Roehm Mrs. C. H. Metcalfe stly proposed that Bank autho to Czechoslo- b telephoned Wash- e 0o 0 0 0000 00 loan ok'd & b > s be- the and the | When, that hap- Department knew wherever liberals” could be found, MERRY GO ROUND Next step in Army-Navy unifi- catfon will be a merger of Army- Nayy water transportation. Most peaple don’t know it but the ar- limy" dctually kept more vessels afleat than the navy—2953 This i 300 more than the navy's total fleet. On top of this, the air force cperates an additional 350 vessels . Campaign buttons reading, “Why Not Henry Kaiser?” have bégun to appear on the cam- disorgapized | pus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Herbert Hoover's home poaglen town . Senator Harry Byrd of New Zealand Virginia has consistently told in- 13, Cultivation of dividual southern Democrats that the Sh would nct run against Presi- dent Truman for the Democratic Presidential nomination | relations chief of ————————— | 20, | | “true Q stick in, caved director of the Board's economic man, will re- AUHUSS 1. Dervish's cap . Facing up- stream ob & . Genus of the olive tree . Meadow . Horseback game hetween movement to re- liberals, Hickman he Price ra variant . Piece out hols . Engiish fetter Wolfish and DOROTHY PEGUES SELLS HER INTEREST IN LOCAL BUS While Cluster of fibers 57. in wool Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 20 Senators from NESS . Leisure 6. Paim leaf . Cook slowly Prophets Pegues has disposed wlaureate | 60 in the Wayne Dorothy H ler partnership interest Miner Publishing Co., by sale to her partner, Arthur H. Tveten,| of March 1 { 7 Mrs.vPggnes angyTyeten ‘formed their . pargbrship February, 1, 1947, when purchased the local printing business from T. J. Selby. | and running mate A month’s vacation is planned with their Mis. Pegues before entering behind closed busing in Juneau. In the to map third party time, she is busy with pub- | licity for the tuberculosis mass X ray survey sponsored by the' Gastineau Channel Health Council which she is a representative the Soroptimists - : cessive ine HEATH HERE terest R . Winged . Wall paintiig Mediterranean sailing ves- 2 Related Joke: Cheering sylla- " . Small sturgeon bl . Pitcher 9. Bleetrified par- ticle . Nothing . On the highes® point . East Indian hat plant . Symbol of vies fisheries di- 70 /7 MOGULS tory Arabian king- om . Hairless . Nautical halle ing call . Tableland The turmerie Was carried . Very: musical . Bards Suitability Those who plans to convention in and reviewed the party of n various states. — only state given VIRGIL ne, on wanted to identi- Virgi! Heath, U. S. Forest Service h a name immed- sel . Literary com- Division Supervisor at Seward, ar- rived here on the Bara - Bis here on the Baranof in com- | position Wallace pany of M Heath and their two . Positive elec- and children have eived medical Fori{Acation But his mind, was put off until for the past six w s where the Public recrea- childr Ptk fics tion ground | children harm recveived medical Any plant of reed by the party attenticn. They will remain here | the iris fam- t Democratic—and for week before preceeding unl iy . Wonder and cardidates for!to Seward. fear TRY THESE DELICIOUS NALLEY PRODUCTS POTATO HAMBURGER | Lumberjack CHUTNEY CHIPS RELISH SYRUP FRENCH JUST ARRIVED 12 OZ. JARS 5 POUNDS DRESSING Nene Comparable Temptingly Long John Unmatched on the Market Delicious Tin for Salads ATSUP 26¢ Apple Buiier Bg({ng;lgEry Creamed Honey 51( 69« 1 Ib., Whitney’ 2 lbs., Smucker’s 2153 H O CARTONS QUARTS 25 BUTTERMILK--- TRULY THE KIND YOU HAVE BEEN 0 DEPOSIT SEARCHING FOR BACK AGAIN? 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