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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Secon HELEN TROY M DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER B R ELMER A, FRI ALFRED 2 and M EN D e W il ER . . A - q - Managing Editor B adjourns is another strong indication of the willing- ness of all factions to labor for the nation's welfare at this time | an election year is too obvious to bear detailing. President However, many Congressmen who may be jittery “Edttor ac hiesident | over enactment of a new peacetime draft can take comfort from the fact that the 1940 bill, which came Business Manager | , ¢y 1ope tottered before the Nazi war machine, was Butered in the Post Office in Junesu us SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Second Class Matter, | Sponsored by Republicans. And the GOP made im- portant gains in the House and Senate in that year's Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douslas for $1.3¢ per month; ¢ six months, $5.00) ene year, By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: in advance. $15.00; six mont ce, §1.80. ccnter a favor if they One year #re month, in ad Subscrivers will ‘be Business M their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business ttice of any fatlure or irregularity in the $15.00 national elections. It is perhaps unfortunate that the President ut- tered his first demands for increased defense forces on St. Patrick’s Day without warning to his military hs, in advance, $7.50; will promptly notify MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for chieftains. Consequently no program was ready and Office, 374. confusion was bound to result. ense heads vied lir v E a a PRESS Defense heads vied for headlines with sensational disclosures regarding Russian submarine activity, plane epublication of all news dispatches credited to 3t or mot othes= | strength and numbers of men presumed to be in the #ise credited in this paper #nd also the berein local news publl Bed Atniy Newspapers and radio broadcasters fell for this NATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Beattle, Wash. Prurth Avenue WELCOME TO NAVY The Navy has arrived and welcomes the officers and men of t ship hours and become further acquainted with one City of Alaska as the residents are ple visit. ——— e — taken over. type of material when they might better have used the time and space to explain the defense plans and the manner in which the program is designed to protect the United States. Congress contributed its bit to the general uproar by assailing the heads of the military branches for failure to cooperate on one hand, and then using the | testimony of one leader to offset the word of another. ample of this unhappy procedure. » It is to the credit of all concerned that concrete developments are now coming through the early dis- | order. The question heard most frequently these days is, ‘“How ‘far will the defense program go—how trong must the United States be?” On this, the New York Times as an excellent The United States,” said, the Times recently, “must be strong enough to make war unprofitable for Juneau | anyone else.” he cruiser Astoria | o 14 i | “Policing the World ased with their i (Cincinnati Enquirer) Although the phrase is ot heard so often now- " e '8 ' the ser, vis! v e | - During the stay of the cruiser, visitors will be|,q50c the stock argument of isolationists was that we welcomed aboard and the o'clock iIn the afternoon. Bo news item in today's Empire many as possible visit the Astoria nd it and trust they will be as well pleased with the Capital overseas. of the Nation’s defenders. Rearmament tFairbanks .News-Min Out of the sound and fury of debate which has |that doctrine, Mr. Truman added that the United | cents an hour. swept up and down Permsyl Alaska seems destined to shar hours are from 1 to 4 ghouldn't try to “police the world.” service is given in a In that form, it was an unassailable argument. We should not try to is hoped that as | do what we could not possibly do. In the changed during the open !conditions of today, we have great numbers of troops They literally are policing parts of the world, | in pursuance of agreements among the Allied Powers. ! Clarifying the nation’s policy on this matter | somewhat, President Truman declared recently that American troops would not be sent abroad to keep the | peace in Palestine or anywhere else, except as part er) of a United Nations police force. As a corollary of Avenue from the | States is ready to supply its share of armed forces hite House to Capitol Hill in recent weeks, the new | for any peace-keeping force the UN may establish. armament program is begifning to take shape. This is sound policy. It insures against our being e in the defense | drawn into quixotic attempts to manage a troubled The danger of such legislation bogging down in | answer. | MAY 12 Mrs. Kenneth Lowe Mrs. Jack Westfall Jerry Wade Raymond G. Beach Cora McKelsey Bertha Ford Estella Graves Roberta McGee B. F. Osbourne e o @0 0 0 .¢,8 0.6 8.9 || SIS !othcr factors involving added earn- | ings—as the only things to be dis- ! cussed. | GOVERNMEN - ©~OULD ! DELAY BOOST | “If we fail, there's only one ans- The Forrestal-Symington controversy was a prime ex- | wer—government seizure,” Steelman i warned. Then looking squarely at | Alvanley Johnston, a principal in {the 1046 strike, when the roads | were seized, he added: { “You've been through this before |and none of you has anything to gain by that step.” One disadvantage to striking un- ions would be the holdup of the ‘n'troacth*r pay increase of 15% | cents an hour, that the other ! brotherhcods which accepted the ! increase have been receiving since { last November 1 5 | “The government will operate on | existing pay scales if the roads lare seized” said Steelman, “just las it did during the seizure in late 1943. We can't do otherwise. | Therefore, your members would | have to wait until the roads are turned baek to private carriers | for back pay—and no one can tell | how long that would be.” | However, David Robertson, of the | Firemen and Enginemen, and his | colleagues evidenced no desire to | talk about “working rules.”” They | wanted an increase above the 15% This, they said, | was warranted by higher living | costs. | When Steelman | W. T. Faricy, President first talked to of the preparations to the extent of more than 54 million | world. It insures against our rushing into adventures | accociation of American Railroads dollars. This figure does not include an estimate of | which would invite criticism abroad on the ground the added expenditures which will be necessary in the | that we were committing aggression. Territory to help carry out the Air Force expansion |the way open to give full support to the UN, if any) program. That Congress is beginning to for the strengthening of the nation’s military estab- | Yet it leaves | when it undertakes to use armed force to keep the act on requests | peace. Clearly Mr. Truman's dictum does not mean we {and chief spokesman for the car- i riers, Faricy explained: “We have tried | even though we didn’t like the pay |increase of 15% cents. But we Iwon't go any higher. We can't af- lishments, deemed necessary to support United States | shall never send troops abroad for any purpose what- | ford to upset the settlement on foreign policy, is encouraging Assurances by leaders of both universal military training legislatio A ! orado, and other Republicans. The Washingfon | However, nere is the pay-oft. Merry-Go-Round | By I)REW"EARSUN (Continued ' from Pagc One) points of the agreement were: | The invasicn army to be: known as the "Arab League Army of Liberation.” It will com-! prise the Arab Legion, .suppleuxenl-& ed by contingents from the regular | forces of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Le-' banon, and Saudi Arabia. The contingent from each country will number between 2,000 and 3,500 men. In addition, Egypt and Iraqg! agreed to supply air force units. Abdullah was appointed supreme commander, with a general from each Arab state and two Palestine Arab commanders under him. Gen- eral Ismail Safurt, British-trained commander-in-chief of the volun- teer “Liberation Army,” and Fawzi Al Kawkji, present field com- mander of Arab forces are to ‘be absorbed in the new headquarters at Jericho. Abdullah and the Mufti have already moved to Jericho. ‘The Mufti's assignment is to watch | ever, save in a UN police force. We already have political parties | many units overseas, on occupation duty. n before Congress | be necessary for our own national security. | | Finally, Forand painted a home- | Af- | made sign which he flashes l!veryl bill, | time Gearhart exceeds 15 minutes. | the same Senators decided on an-| The sign reads: “Remember your| other Congressional Jjunket to agreement!” Hawaii—the 14th in the last five | | years—this time to investigate al-| BACKSTAGE WITH THE ! leged Communism in the islands,‘ RAILROAD STRIKE i Butler and GOP colleagues ap-} when Presidential Assisstant | parently were more interested in|john Steelman first sat down wnhl getting a vacation on the sands|yailroad brotherhood chiefs, hel ter voting down the statehood Palestine | 0f Walkiki at the expense of taX- | gyspected they had played their|e payers than in granting Hawail's | cards so as to get White House!e rightful claim to statehood. | intervention, hoping President Tru-; Note—One unfortunate aftermath | man would wangle further wage| of the Senate action is that |concessions. Hawail's flbl_e delegate to Congress,| He warned, therefore, that Tru- Joseph Farrington, who was chief-| man was getting “fed up” with| ! | ly responsible for piloting the | unions and bmployers running to| statehood measure through the| the White House to settle disputes. House, faces defeat in the next., «rThe President is as anxious as clection because his own pomical‘t am to protect the interests of party knifed the bill in the Sen-|the railroad employees, but we ate. Farrington is a Republican.|can't go beyond the Leiserson fact- finding report,” Steelman said. He added that he would not at- Washington's Teal-estate spokes- | (MPt to negotiate for a pay in- REAL ESTATE FRIEND | “If that means a | that basis with 90 percent of rail- | And we |road employees who want to con-; that there will be action on some form of draft and | always have the right to dispose our forces as may | tinue working, for the sake of 10! percent who want to strike. strike and government seizure—well, it won't be our fault.” NEW ACS MAN HERE Orin B. Reynolds of Plainsville, Indiana, recently arrived in Ju- neay, being stationed with the ACS here, is registered at the Hotel Ju- neau. TIDE TABLE 3 . MAY 13 3 High tide, 4:10 a.m., 168 ft. ® Low tide, 11:06 am, -11 ft. ® . . . . High tide, 17:34 am,, 153 ft. Low tide, 23.12 p.m, 52 ft. e o 0 00 v 00 00 - DAY NURSERY CLO:! FRIDAY, MAY 14 Nursery at Governor's Mansion mer and re-open in the fall. Day man, Sen. Harry O Who trieq | Créase above the 15% cents an | Nursery is run by co-operative to scuttle public housing in the | OUr approved by the Lieserson|mothers, each mother giving a Senate the other day, blew up a Y€POFt and accepted by 90 percent|day. They send their children |of organized railroad employees.|free at any time. If interested, verbal hailstorm on the | floor. In the thick of it were two fel- | low Republicans, Charles Tobey of | Senate | This left working rules—pay com- putation, operating methods, and|June call Rosalie McGinty, Black 875, or Hanford, 292. 84 3t to cooperate, | will, close May 14th for the sum-!| Abdullah : ket AR . New Hampshire and Ralph Flan- Arab states agreed at the secret’ ge W mecting to finance the on ders of Vermont. | Cross Ord Puzzle eung nax © operation | «past Friday,” thundered Tobey,| in proporticn to their national re- |.pe (Cai S hd The c & ')u‘rnf e, B nu: he (Cain) stated that if we adopt- | ACAOSS 4. Annoy PRGOS, proportion 1o their'led nis amendment, it would lessen | & Part of an ear 35 Glant centingents. Egypt is to bear the'ine chances of the House adopting | of corn 36. Number lagest share: Irag, which gels ine General Housing bill which the | 3 |oreral S [ st ol it ey 11 ‘ng 3 8. Lateral caleium fl‘h)"\' : its money from Ln“l«nd.!bmmu, ;)g.seed unanimously.” | .12 Pniphine 38 k ‘{l‘:,. side of 5 ! Then, lifting his eyes to the raft- | mountaln 55 RN (e D-Day was sct for May 16, on|ets, Tobey afpeaied: “Are we| 3 Winglike expeciment which day a Palestine Arab pro-' going to commit hara-kiri? T ask| '“ s":,‘:,‘;‘fi?“ baiat vision government is to be pro- you, sir!” |15 uemuring 4 & claimed and recognized Dby the “Is it hara-Kiri” cut in Flanders,| 15 Cencis jt‘”\b'{m':c"'u Arab governments. dryly, “or Harry Cain?” 18 R ! ) { mperia One significant statement at the | Note— Republican leaders in staindurd 1z was made by the Grand Washington state say that Cain| who interpreted the State has already committed political | Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle < Tnited Ne 4 biapiae 88 Type meusures , Depau.-m«m, and United Nations' | hara-kiri. 59. Becomes 61, Luglisn DOWN failure to becume alarmed at pre- —_— | 60. Box letter 1. Public vicus Arab ageression os a guar- PICKETING A CONGRESSMAN SHLeIRNCRs antee they would not become ex-.! Congressman Aime Forand, al . Wg;‘::‘el«lfvn-n gted over the invasion Rhode Island Democrat, has fin-| 8. Singing Mn; It l.lu‘ United States j;r the Uni- ally taken the wind out of the| 4 Strong winds ted Nations stiffened its attitude, | ever-flowing speeches of amiable' 5. Careening however, it was agreed that Arab | Congressman Bud Gearhart, Cali- R e strategy n have o be changed. | fornia Republican. | £ Deciden Note—Since then, Arab leaders | Gearhart has been assailing his | e I'J‘h‘;'!'in.(‘! are teported worried over the | colleagues with tirades against the 10. Accomplished Jews' ability to defend themselves. | reciprocal trade treaties, 5o every e, This may affect their ardor for | time Gearhart preaches for more| (v STOUIA STRIY invasion. than 15 minutes, Forand pickets!| Elonce of —_— him I les at : NO 49TH STATE Gearhart is chairman of the| 24 ana agalr The Hawailan statehood bill,| House Way and Means subcom-| PR o0 Tves which passed the House by a | mittee which s considering whether | big majority, was secret c e s re | Sk ot iR e l\.J continue Cordell. Hull's recipro- | architecture 1 0 by the Senate i cal trade agreements, and he 9. Concerning and Insular Affair Commit Re- contends that the reason for secret g" S‘f.iflixv"fa‘fv" publican Sen. Guy Gordon of Ore- hearings is to discourage grand-| 36. Worked gen and Democratic Sen. Joseph | stand speeches. Yet he has been | i"‘ f-\‘f':rcu‘;g;u““e" O'Mahoney of Wyoming led the the worst offender. pi i fight for making Hawail the 49th| Last week he agreed to cut out i piecior state, but were’ overridden behind | all speeches and limit the discus- i} losed door y 48. Century plant [o oors by Senators Hugh sion to questions and answers. 49. Bugle call Butler of Nebraska, the committee Still his lengthy dissertations con- | R M cheirman, Eugene MAMon of Col- ! tinued. ! 35, Oneniop { WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1948 20 YEARS AGO ' EMPIRE MAY 12, 1928 The new court of the Junéau Tennis Club was under construction and it was hoped to be ready for the club by the following week. Repairs were underway on the planking at the lower end of Main Street and it was announced that the entire corner at Willoughby was to be repiled. B. F. Heintzleman was ill with a bad cold and threatened pneumonia. Foreman C. E. Sweeney of Company 1 of the Juneau Fire Depart- ment escorted his men through the Juneau Lumber Mill and Eonnors Motor Co. to familiarize them with the loca!nies. The steamer Admiral Rogers arrived southbound from the triangle route with several passengers for Juneau from the westward. The Admiral Evans was due in port from the south with 75 tons of freight and one day's mail for Juneau. | Capt. H. J. Brooks, Licuts. F. A. Metcalf and M. H. Sides of this | city discussed at a board meeting the possibilities of forming an Alaska Reserve Army Unit. Wellman Holbrook, Robert Simpson, H. L. Redlingshafer and C. D. Ferguson visited the Eagle River bar to study necessary repairs on the Boy Scout Camp in that area. The. old Sandstrom shoe shop near the City Dock was opened for| business by Michael Vagge. { J. G. Morrison, who was in Sitka for several days imspecting his property, returned this day to Juneau aboard the Admiral Rogers. Weather: High, 57; low, 52; cloudy. et Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. Gogkpon ——————— ettt ] WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: “Do not write, “I have your favor of April 25" “I have your LETTER" is much better. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Rheumatism. as ROO in ROOST, not RUM. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Jardiniere; observe the five vowels. SYNONYMS: Tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dry, dull, boring, uninter- esting. ! WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | iAVERSION; a state of mind in which attention to an object is coupled‘ with dislike of it and desire of turning from it. “Mankind has a great aversion to intellectual labor."—Johnson. MODERN ETIQUETTE Yoperra vee | e e | Q. Is it proper to mail the wedding announcements at the same ‘time as the invitations? A. No; the invitations are mailed two or three weeks in advance, but the announcements should be mailed immediately after the ceremony, | never before. Scme member of the family can attend to this. Q. In what manner should a formal introduction be phrased? A. There are several forms, but “Mrs. Smith, may I present Mr Allen” is always correct. Q. Is it all right to cut four or five pieces of meat on one's plate |at a time? ! A. No; only one mouthful should be cut at a time. LOOK and LEARN 1. What is the U. S. Continental Divide? 2. What is the average weight of a dozen eggs? 3. Which President of the U. S. made the shortest inaugural ad- - by A. C. GORDON ¢ 4. What animal is known as the lumberman, engineer, and builder animal kingdom? Where is the most southerly part of Canada? ANSWERS: 1. The Rocky Mountains. 2. About 1'% pounds. George Washington’s second inaugural address contained but 134 4. 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