The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | | a most exacting' character. Tt has immense tasks in the Pacific. And back of all these special duties of | a ticklish postwar period, it has the permanent mis- sion of readiness for the defense of the nation, on all | the oceans Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska AELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President - The Navy has a difficult personnel problem just DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President | ¢ WILLIAM R. CARTER Saitor and ,,,,,.m} now. Following the headong demobilization at the KLMER A FRIEND - Managing Bditor | wars end, forced Ly public a eressions RED ZENGER i B B orced Ly public and Congressional opiniol . i il , the Navy recruited large numbers cf men for two-y Zntered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Cla . | enlistments. It was a goed arrangzment for the me SUBSCRIPTION RATES: and a-bad ¢ s Pont 5 ek o B 5y sares e fus 60 34 Weutk | ADO OV bad ane fop the feet. But those enlistmen running out, anc at a heavy rate each weck six months, SW00; one year, $15.00 | are T+ mail, postage paid, at the following rates: Navy needs more men, a great many more, to t of voung bluejackets now ready to resume One year. in acavance. £15.00; six months, in advance, the pl sne month, in advance. $1.50 Bubscribers wi" ccnfer a favor if they will promptly notify | their education or to enter upon civil careers. Never in our history did the Navy offer as much \be Business Office of any fallure ¢ Irregularity in the delivery the young man able to qualify. It gives him of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602, Business Office, 374, to T { valuable training in one or more trades—trades in almost all cases that entails skills of direct usefulness in civilian life. The Navy gives a younster a chance for sound physical development. It gives him a great NATiuonl REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 deal mere education than he would get in mest jobs Pourth Avenue Bldg , Seattle, Wash. he might take g The fleet today is spread over a great part of the world. That means the recruits of today are going to see a lot of the world. And that in itself is an education—the most expensive kind, if you're buying it yourself. Finally, a tour of duty with the fleet and the skills acquired in that duty aré well worth having, as a hedge against the possibility of new con- flict. Experienced men will be the men ready larger responsibilities, if unhappily the decade to come should not produce the stable peace for which we are striving. To any healthy and ambitious youngster over 17, the Navy has a lot to offer. $7.50; | MEMBER O ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively antitled to the ‘use for | republication of &1l news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published Berein Stereoscopes (New York Times) It is pleasant to read that picture slides are re- turning to favor. A generaticn ago the stereoscope was standard equipment jn the parlor. The new picture-viewing devices have been brought up to date with roll films instead of postcards, but the underlying principle is the same. The psychologists who write the present-day advertisements are on familiar ground in describing the outfits as educational, lifelike and BIG TOURIST YEAR FORECAST A survey conducted by the New York Times indi- | cates that seven-tenths of 1 per cent of the nation’s | families would prefer a trip to Alaska this year for a vacation On the basis of-a national population of 140 mil- ' lions it looks like the tourist season in Alaska this | year will be a big business | Unfortunggely, most of these travelers will get | only a fleeting glimpse of Juneau and other Alaskan | cities as they go through on a boat or by plane. The | at a very small expense.” One had an amazing array lack of tourist facilities to care for any great mlmb‘:x" of pictures fron: wiich to choose. There were the s to be an unsolved problem. sets describing American Cities, Yellowstone Park, For- Juneau is blessed with better hotel accommoda- | ©8n Cities, and Spanish War Views. There was a fivt tions than any other Alaskan towns, from which called “Foreign Picturesque Scenes. Beautifully col- . . & | ored views illustrative of the grandest scenery in pleasure seekers may take ddvantage of side trips by | Europe.” One set a lad enjoyed was the Sporting seaplane and small boat to both salt water and fresh | yiews on hunting, fishing and campir Father was water fishing. There are also two resorts at Tee | proud of the Wonders of Amefica or Uncle Sam's Harbor where the salmon fisherman may rent small ’ Success that showed progress in transportation, archi- boats for salmon fishing. Numerous mountain trails | tecture, mines, factories and inventions are easily accessible for the hiker and photographer. Of course, there were other sets, usually kept in But tourist facilities capable of handling all of | the back rocm of the firehouse or village harness shop. those indicating a desire to vacation in Alaska are | They were dreadfully daring expositions of Art. The g 2 . BT .| fact that movie audiences wouldn't blink an eye at lacking, and until such facilities are available we fail . = y | them today did not mean they were not popular then to take advantage of the opportunities offered in the | Pather liked the comic sets under such titles: as: One PouNist Hnausty. Stick of Gum for Two, Babies in Our Bock, What Is Home Without a Mother-in-Law? The Beautiful | Lover, Silas Trying to Use the Telephone, and Little Boats Should Keep Close to Shore. There is hope if (Cincinnati Enquirer) | the stereoscopes return. We trust the modern makers While the pundits of military and political strategy | will be perspicacious. There was comfert in the line argue about the future role of ships and xh)p-based‘ in the catalogue: “Every one of our present list has aireraft in future war, the Navy has a job to do been taken from actual models who have studied the a job it has done extremely well and is still dumg‘ humorous pose artisticallv and with a full appreciation well. It has responsibilities in the Mediterranean of | of the comic side of life.” entertaining The mail order catalogue of long ago said, “With the large assortment of views which we list, there is an endless amount of entertainment to be obtained of tourists continue Fill the Fleet! The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round : By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) on the father of the American Navy—John Paul Jones. Elliott Roosevelt has discovered this un- finished manuscript on John Paul Jones and is editing it for pub- lication. The Army and Navy next year will ask Congress for about four billion dollars to develop jet- propelled planes Henry Grady of San Francisco will be the new U. S. Ambassador to China The Jewish War Veterans of Amer-| ica have decided to m {oree | Friendship Trains to Cyprus and | We lost that iight, but we're not going to lose this one. Blood will run before we will give in! “The Southern States will never under any circumstances accept a dollar of Federal money, if we { have to let niggers into our higher | institutions,” continued Hendricks. —!“We intend to maintain segrega- support given such friends as Ed|UYon in the South!” 1 Pauley and Brig. Gen. Wallace He appealed to the Republicans Grabam when they, were under fire |0 help ‘the Southern bloc vote | down Keefe's amendement, remind- ing them that Florida once voted for speculating. | However, the party moguls have .. perpert Hoover Palestine. voted for Hoover be- b = premised eacl. other privately (hnl‘ “Florida i cause Al Smith was a Catholic,” truth—namely they will be hard-boiled and tell Hie - Preaitbny e 4 AREE snapped Keefe. “That’s just an- that the chance of victory With o.. example of intolerance.” him at the head of the ticket is il X nil ‘If they Go s, then finding & THE SECRET ROLLCALL cgndidate to take Truman's place Hendricks was followed by will not be Chief Justice | George Andrews of Alabama, Albert Pred Vinson of Kentucky would be Gore of Tennessee, Jamie Whitten ageeptable to the South, but would'of Mississippi, John Kerr of . net arouse too much enthusiasm'North Carolina, George Mahon of ifl the North. Supreme Court Jus- Texas and Albert Thomas of e tige William O. Douglas is a great! Tgxas, who pled that the South be o o o @ MARCH 12 . . . TIDE TABLE . ° . e High tide, 2:55 am., ol e Low tide, 9:02 am., e High tide, 15:04 pm., . e e Low tide, 21:13 pm., 0. .. . for! THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1948 = = wilg, 20 YEARS AGO "f'= EmPIRE et e s MARCH 11, 1928 L. M. Carrigan and B. F. Felch, brokars, left for Sitka on the Admiral Meets first and third Fridays. Post Hall, Sew~ ard St. Visiting Com- rades Welcome. H. 8. GRUENING, Com- mander: WILLIAM 1 SHERLOCK, Adjutant, APPY MARCH 11 ST o el Hazel Petrich Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Faulkner returned from the south on the Admiral Phillip Bertholl Hughie Doogan { Mrs. R. H. Burns i Diana Hunsaker Marlie Visaya Daisy Mullen R. F. Meyers Lillian M. Phillips gers. You'll Always Get a Better Deal | in Fur Styles and Values at Martin Viclor Furs, Inc. Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations H. C. Murphy, Ph.D. Physical Therapy—ail types STEAM BATHS Phone Blue 650 Rogers Charles Goldstein was to make the triangle trip on the Admiral Rogers and was to continue south to Seattle. A dispatch to The Empire from San Francisco said the Alaska o ! Juneau Gold Mining Company was contemplating purchase of local 000 c000s00ee | Fire, at night, destroyed the two-story Will Clayson building at { Skagway and only by combined efforts of firemen and citizens wer 4 PUPE L 1 cther buildings saved as flying embers were carried for blocks by the | & SEASON'S DEMAND Weather: High, 29; low, 28; cloudy. | |~ B | ASTORIA, Ore, March | Dai!y Lessons in Eng"sh ?‘y L. GORDON Cclumbia River fishermen today | asked five conts more a pound for| 1 than paid last year. Jolumbia River Fishermen's ion asked packers for|say that.” pound for salmon | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Clairvoyance. the coming spring sea- | first A as in CARE, OI as in TOIL, second A unstressed, accent second | April 30 to August 1. |gyllable. | asked 26': cents a! oprEN MISSPELLED: Authoritative; not authoritive. period August 1-10! gyNONYMS: Habitation, dwelling, abode, residence, domicile, ad- which is §'s cents more -than. last 5 Rkl | dress, Todging, headquarters. and 25 from August | " | WORD STUDY: “Use a werd three times and it is yours. 10 to the end oi ihe season on | " ’ = increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | { AtGd also a 5% o b , SES’ el o cent I NJECTURE; a surmise; a guess. “It is merely a matter of con- | LADIES'—MISSES READY-TO-WEAR crease ! ' Near Third 10th and E | e e o 0 0 o 0 o o o ol power plants’ ,l —T.lTe_Erwin Feed Co. Oftfice in Case Lot Grocery PIIONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STGRAGE CALIFORNIA Grozery and Meat Market ¢78 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices PSR o S i = | | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “John had no business to | Say, “John had no RIGHT (or REASON) to say that.” 1 | Protective Pronounce klar-voi-ans, 28 cents caught in son from They pcund for the also Let us| Other requests 8 cents a poum]‘Jcc!urr." for bluebacks, cents over the! e= 1947 price; 18'; cents for head, 3'2 cents over last yearft:\:: by | | MODERN ETIOUETTF nsurs 1o | At i S P | Seward Street 9 cents for shad, a 2-cent increase. Observers s2id the requests rep- resent only a 2 to 3 cent increase, since most packers paid a bonus of 2 to 3 cents a pound last year. D e Arttur M. Uggen, Manager Pianes—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phour 206 Second and Seward Q. Is it correct to send wedding invitations to relatives and inti- | <ate friends who live in a distant city? | A. Yes; invitatfons should be sent, even if one knows that these | people cannot attend the ceremony. t | Q. Should the host sharpen his carving knife at the table, whcni HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPATR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th St | fowl or meat is served at dinner? { A. No; this should be done before the meal is served. The carving "m_c Author of 'Rainiree County' Takes Lif oun y axes iiie | should be done as quietly and easily as possible. | i Q. Which would be correct: “Paul’s letter was dated FROM Chi- | BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Mar. 11.| —(P—Funeral services will be held cago,” or, “dated AT Chicago”? { this afterncon for Ross Lockridge, | A. The correct form is: “Paul’s letter was dated AT Chicago.” Jr., 33, author of the prize-win- ' - ning novel “Raintree Country,” who died Saturday night of carbon mcnexide poisoning in the garage at his home here. Dr. Robert E. Lyons, Jr., Monroe county coroner, reported in his 1. Whom does a misogynist dislike? finding that Lockridge committed 2. What white man was carried through Africa for ten months suicide. that he might be buried in England? The young author left no ex- 3. What city is located at the tip of Cape Cod? planation of his action, which 4. What is the distincticn between sewaze and sewerage? came as he was.on. the criE Of 5. What author created the character, “Dr. Fu Manehu"? success “Raintree Country,” his | ANSWERS | first novel, was a : | Book-of-the- 1 month Club selection. 3 ~ ———— —— LOOK and LEARN Z‘,b_ GORDON Warfield's Drug Store i l (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) |‘ NYAL Family Remedies | HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Huichings Economy Market Choice Meais At All Times PHONES 553—92—95 T'he Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts PHONE 136 It has been Yonen, high on best-seller lists since pub- | The explorer, David Livingstone. lication. It won Metro-Goldwyn- . Provincetown. | Mayer's $125,000 novel award and | 4, Sewage is the matter carried in sewers, and cewerage is a system | is to be made into motion picture.| of sewers. Lockridge's father, Ross Lock-{ 5. Sax Rohmer. ridge, Sr., said his son’s seven | years work on the novel had result- | ed in a ‘“complete breakdown.” B {t Happens in Best of Families’ PORTLAND, Me., Mar. 11— —Philip Reuben, vice president of | the Maine Association of Master Plumbers, was 45 minutes late to-| day for the organization’s 55th an- | nual convention. The reason: A leaking pipe in his home. It happens in the best of families, said Reuben. e REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING OF JUNEAU YACHT CLUB E HARBOR CAFE | 8:00 P. | NORTHLAND SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway and Sitka) S. S. ALASKA-—THURSDAYS, MARCH 25 and APRIL 8 M. S. SQUARE SINNET—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 and 31 - AGENT Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th St PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or 8ODA POP HENRY GREEN Window—Auto—Plate—GLASS IDEAL GLASS CO. 121 MAIN STREET DON ABEL PHONE 633 ——— sEmyIN ‘atas NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION ¢ THURSDAY, M. administrator and wouid have the given time to work out its tough advantage oi probably persuading negro problem. Henry Wallace to withdraw. Henry| “We could get along with the Kaiser would be popular in the!megroes all right if the North- West, with labor and with small!erners would leave us alone,’ business men charged Andrews of Alabama. However, it takes time to build up acked against the wall, Keefe . Pagtly open any candidate. And while it's not:got little help from his Republi- Fine openwork toa late, the sooner the Democrats can colleagues “::":'r'” get busy, the better their chances.| “There is no discrimination by |'Iv|\H\-l'\n= q That's the problem facing Demo- |the tax collector,” he argued. “He knife Hargiac cratic moguls as they walk into the ' collects taxes from whites and ne- bk White House today. groes alike. Yet negroes can't be JaseyEton admitted to universities and hos- pitals which they help pay for. Disease knows no racial bar- I riers,” Keefe continued “With sworn to secrecy when the House ;::“‘;ml:f"wl‘:‘l"':u""’lcy bt Appropriaticns Committe voted pn | rious” proble \., reson : the dynamite-laden subject of barr- | 128 PO ing Federal money to universities -:: d(‘f u-dh b f'f'; [ty and hospitals which refuse to ad-| " bl AT Al I8 BPRiDHS i ey can colleagues except three: Gor- P d don Canfield of New Jersey, Ralph Secret, also, was the word pa 5= | Church of Illir 1 Karl A: éd down by Republican leaders|gooro" O IO A e against this anti-Jim Crow amend- oo o0 BOSGH 2 LD, BRUFRDS S ern Democrats, Thomas O'Brien of ment. However, C\)l)gl(sb"lfll!‘““n {2 anid John Fogariy: of (hod Frank Keefe of Wisconsin, ub- oo oup SR & 9 - nsin, Repub-|ang also voted with him, lican, was adamant that his party The 25 Co n e tly g0 on record one way or the other b nETeAsuEn \Rho, sRCTCLL voted against the amendment were ACROSS 1 'oet Telegraph Recline . Large boat Morsel uline name Pivee put SECRET JIM CROW VOTE The voting ordered | burned and ev; Congressman was record was Automobile adjunct Coat of cer- Distant in animals ¥ A contests vote, Keefe i dl ddaR ad 3 % BOGGAN Flocring Coniractor Laying—VFimshing Oak Floors CALL 209 rim@ 3 * The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Casler's Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Gkyway Luggage — . | TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Mer 5170:u e A > oo |Z [olmln/>/mofill< x/0/c/4|z/m x| 5 Solution ot Yesterday's Puzzie On the ocean Color 60. 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