The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR -_Duil y Aitzska Empire s except Sunday by the Published HELEN TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER o g oM SLMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER - FEan & Juneau, Alasks |the American Legion has made public some striking facts about this country's inadequate merchant marine. On December 7, 1941, the United States was down to 113 ships in active passenger service; their capacity was 38,000 passengers. After the Pearl Harbor attack, initial troop movements were seriously hampered by the lack of troop carriers. If that situation was critical, compare it with today’s. Now only 48 passenger ships fly the American President - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager fntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: @elivered by carrler in Junean and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, By mail w-e month, in advance, $1.50 Auberribers will cenfer a favor if they Ihe Business Office of any fallure cr irregularity in the delivery « ebeir papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. postage pald, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, £15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; flag; their capacity is 17,000 passengers. No passenger vessels are being built in American shipyards, al-} $15.00 though other nations have 173 such vessels under | construction. | Pointine out that in an emergency passenger- will promptly notlfy g e ing ships are a No. 1 requirement, the Legion backs the shipbuilding program recommended by the President’s advisory committee, which proposes that MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Mepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or Dot othes- wise credited in this paser #od also the local news published berein. the nation build 46 passenger ve: s in the next six WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1948 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA —~ © JUNE 23 Mrs. George Dudley Patsy Raymond Mrs. M. F. Kelly James Wadell Steve Parkinson Mrs. William Batson Clarice Martin years, The cost of the program would be 300 million | dollars, some 50 million dollars a year. | “The government supports the entire cost of the| NATiunAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 141} fPourth Avenue Bldy., Seattle, 'Vasi. CONGRESS GOOD TO ALASKA Congress of the Alaska. Over The certainly proved in ¢ were covered recent good to The Army and Ni various sums of money to be spent in the Northland. the was given tuberculosis Over $4,000,000 Service 400-bed four TB control centers. for a The Alaska Game Commission also received $225,- C00. bt on hould To get a good ir for the Northland, contents of the Associated P Empire. It is mighty good reading GOP PLANK ON STATEHOOD The Republican policy shapers refused to go all out for Territorial Statehood and the plank in the plat- “eventual” statehood complete form favors Hawaii but a Puerto Rico.” . The platform does, however ‘more self \.cl('])mn‘l‘xl of land communications and natural | iinchion ‘6t OTA shoiild ihe fo Sabttas a1} skotvooas it | s ey this open information are covered by one or other of | TR R - 5 the intelligence agencies. In this respect its job | HURRAH FOR WASHINGTON should be to encourage rather than to grab intelligence | jstasts 3 | operations. To be sure, the Central Intelligence The University of Washington crews swept the | Agency has an important function in directing and Pougl e races yesterday, winning the varsity, | carrying on secret intelligence operations, but it has| hman even The and from Seattle to face several good contending crews jayvee good UWs respective but the three made lengths in teir ington races, Fewer U. S. Flags on the Seas than in Days of "41 (Seattle Times) In support of a national shipbuilding program,!gence is its first line of defense. lhe Vfishinglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON = | 1 (Continued trom Page One) ‘ U. S. Supreme Court which a few days ago finally ruled that the Federal Government owned full rights to the land, located in | only | the Elk Basin oil fields, near Teu- | pot Dome. | Barrett promptly mtroduced a| bill overruling the Supreme Court | decision and granting the tract to] Wyoming Cc ss was rush-/ ing to wind up its work, he ask-| ed the hard-pressed House fo unanimous approval of his bill. | Suspicious, Ohio’s Democratic Congressman Walter Huber threat- ened to object to the bill unless he be given time to examine it.! He requested Bamett to hold up the bill for one hour. Marcanton-| io, who also had protested, hurried out to do some research. Meanwhile, Barrett buttonholed Huber and urged him to withdraw his objection. The Wyoming Con- gressman pleaded that the state needed the land to collect taxes for schools. Not suspecting that the property was rich in oM, Huber replied that he only wanted to 7 1e land did not include any Federal ks. Barrett gave his word the were no parks in| the 80 acres, so Huber agreed to withdraw his objection before the lotted hour. Hurriedly Barrett brought ap the bill E: ot the House's unanimous ¢« just as Mar nio returtied to the floor — “HEIGHT OF JACKASS Debating on the Senate cently, Colorado’s brusque Eugene M 1 described Morse sna was proud of m charac- teristics.’ Millikin had wanted to over a tract of Governiu to Johnsen City, Tenn., fo ing a fairground, but M op- posed it because Congress had not yet established a uniform for disposing federal property “The Senator’s insistence upon a uniform policy for disposal of federal property is the height of Jackassery,” growled Millikin, policy United States $200,000,000 was ap-~ appropriation and many essential projects just what Congress did read and remember the ss dispatch in yesterday's call for further de- winning by Hurrah for Wash- | | acteristics to prevent 1 ed by Army, Navy and Air Force” the Legion contends., “These are necessary security costs. The merchnut’ marine is equally important to our national security. | and most of the cost is borne by the shipping industry.” The Legion's support of this program should be: influential. The President’s advisory committee which proposed it includes four outstanding industrialists and i a retired vice-admiral of the Navy. In our own ship-| building area, we appreciate fully another finding of | this impressive committee: “Shipbuilding skills arc essential assets and must be preserved.” Secret Intelligence (Washington Post) The Brown Subcommittee of the House Executive | Expenditures Committee exhibited good sense in | postponing its probe into the operations of American ' intelligence preceding the Bogota revolt. If the in- vestigation is to proceed at all; it ought to be shorn of all publicity and go on in camera. The really| critical phase of intelligence is evaluation—which is to make a sort of editorial out of scattered reports. In retrospect, it would seem, there was plenty of in- formation available, even in press dispatches, to cause genuine concern over the situation in Bogota. Plain- | ly, someone whose job it was to evaluate such informa- tion did not appreciate its significance. The best | information in the world is, of course, valueless unless | it is presented in the proper context to the persons who need it | Another lesson from Bogota is that the Central! Intelligence Agency ought to be divorced completely from the State Department except for interchange of information. We doubt the advisability of op- | eratives going into a country in the guise of repre- sentatives of the Stae Department. By the same token Ambassadors ought not to be in the intelligence chain. | While they ought to be kept informed of intelligence reports ‘sent back to Washington, they should not be in a position to prevent transmission of such reports. And of course the Central Intelligence Agency should | not be forced to use State Department codes. Finally, there ought to be even more recognition given the truism that the great part of intelligence is not secret. It is, rather the open information that | a host of agents, attaches and the like relay, and one was so came in for Native and Alaska sanatorium and for for Alaska government crews went East |an even more important function in correlating and | ! disseminating intelligence from other governmental | | agencies. As the Central Intelligence Agency is about to | receive, through the Saltonstall bill, the perquisites | !its status demands, it ouglit to be more than ever on @ |its guard cgainst becoming the victim of its own E;zlz\monzr-d cloak-and-dagger inclinations. The Na- Ition has a deep interest in knowing that the intelli- |gence function is being fulfilled adequately rather than in how it is fulfilled, for in a cold war intelli- good center groups—Socialists, Commun- friend from Colorado,” shot back ists, Trotskyites, anarchists and Morse, “that I am very proud that liberals of diverse shades—have I am one whose blood lines have stuck together under its banner. sufficient mulish char- But soon after moderate, devout | the passage Manuel Avila Camacio was elect-| bill of this nature until I ed President in 1940, the militant | investigate it further.” radicals in this motley coalition! the flare-up, Milli- started fretting over the PRI's al-| remarks struck leged “drift to the right.” Whati this meant, in practice, was that| 'the chief executive no longer con-| sulted labor boss Lombardo Tole- “I should like to say to my good { given me of a can Note—After kin ordered his irom the record. ARGENTINA BACKSTOPS SPAIN dano on ali matters of national Behind ‘the sfacads or the lush ROLICY 88 hif ggspeceasor, Lasaro mutual admiration soclety set up Cardenss, hadidope, | When tough-minaed lawyer Mig- uel Aleman took over from Avila Camacho, two years ago, the split in the official ranks began to wid- en. Aleman encouraged it, even getting the powerful Mexican by Francisco Franco and Juan D. Peron, the Argentine Government is rapidly taking over complete control of Spain’s sagging econ- omy Desperately in need of financial ical | tion {13 Acres Clearing; Hazel MacGowan e e o 0 0 v o0 0 0 Workers' Confederation to repudiate Lombardo Toledano, its founder, and break all ties with his Commi- line CTAL (Latin American Work- ers’ Confederation). What Lombardo Toledano’s new party signifies, first of all, is that he himself will be a candidate for President in 1952. Also, it means opening the way to more politi- competition in Mexico. This is the first time since the revolu- that a bona fide opposition party has set up in business on a permanent basis; government politicos always blocked such a step. Now, other groups—notably a rightist, Catholic-backed organiza- tion—will scon follow the popular party's lead. The PRI itself will remain as a middle-of-the-road group, but probably cannot replace the strength it has lost on the far left. The next Presidential election, therefore, should be a wide-open, hotly contested race, with a candidate for every taste. s0eceescscccee et e it 20 YEARS AGO 7% empire JUNE 23, 1928 Milton Lagergren, graduate of Juneau High School, had been award- led a Colorado School of Mines scholarship. h The B. M. Behrends Bank building, St. Ann’'s Hospital, Bergmann Hotel and numerous residences were being painted. Mrs. Wilbur Burford was hostess at a bridge party in honor of Mrs. Gertrude Naylor and Miss Irene Nelson. The Women of Moosehesrt Legion enjoyed a picnic at Thane. Twelve yachts were already entered in the Capital-to-Capital race to start during the coming week from Olympia for Juneau. Mrs. Karl Theile left for Wrangell on the Admiral Rogers. Agnes ‘Museth left for Seattle aboard the Dorothy Alexander. Weather: High, 63; low, 59; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % 1. cozpon e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Either INSANITARY or UNSANITARY However, INSANITARY is perhaps more frequently used. Pronounce the U as in MULE, is correct. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Duty. not as in RULE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Transfer; FER. Transferred and transfer- ring; FERR. SYNONYMS: Add, increase, enlarge, amplify, augment, annex, ex- tend. 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: CRITERION; a rule or test by which anything is tried in forming a correct judgment respecting it. (Pronounce first syllable CRY, E as /1 ME, accent second syllable). “The criterion of true beauty is, that L2t e s Chief source of hemp for thel United States has changed from the Philippines to Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras. ! FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY.I PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRA- TION, JUNE 22, 1948. SEALED | BIDS will be received at the offlcei | of C. F. Wyller, Highway Engineer, Public Roads Administration, 419 Federal and Territorial Building, Juneau, Alaska, until 9:00 AM., July 13, 1948 for furnishing the material and performing the work for con- | structing Alaska Forest Highway Project 1-D6, E4, Grading and Sur- facing, Tongass Highway, Tongass National Forest, First Judicial Divi- sion, Territory of Alaska, involving 7 Acres Grub- bing; 67,500 Cu.Yds. Unclassifiec Excavation; 1300 Cu.Yds. Unclassi- fied Excavation for Structures; 4,900 Cu.Yds. Unclassified Excavation for | Borrow, Case 2; 201,000 Sta. Yds, Overhaul (1,000 freehaul); 10,700 Cu.Yds. Crushed Gravel or Crushed Stone Surface Course, Class 2, Grad- ing B; 60 Cu.Yds. Concrete Class A; 1,744 Lin.Ft. Culvert Pipe, and other small items of work. Plans and Specifications may be examined by prospective bidders at Public Roads Admmistration, 419 Federal and Territorial Building, Juneau, Alas- ka; Public Roads Administration, 208 Broadway-Oak Building, Port- land, Oregon; Associated General Contractors of America, Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Seattle, Washing- ton; and the U. S. Forest Service, Ketchikan, Alaska. Where Plans and Specifications are requested a deposit of $10.00 will be required to insure their return within 15 days after opening of bids. Checks should be made payable to the Treasurer of the United States. Plans, speci- fications, and proposals may be ob- tained at the office of Public Roads Administration, 208 Broadway-Oak Building, Portland, Oregon, and Public Roads Administration, 419 Federal and Territorial Building, Juneau, Alaska. W. H. Lynch, Di- vision Engineer. First publication, June 22, 1948. Last publication, June 24, 1948. aid, Franco last year granted Peron a ll)ngill.st ‘T‘ commercial conces w&‘;fl-' Fr‘ ClE sions. including a_free port for | Crosswor: Puzzle BOG a/o/rMlPlAlc entry of Argentine goods at Cadiz, M in return for a 100.0110,0(]0—])&.5\1: ACROSS 38. Small fish credit (worth about $24,000000 | 4 goft drink 39. Number then, but off 20 percent at cur-| ¢ Bia i findact o rent exchange rates). |9 Male sheep 44 Aromatic seed The glib gaucho of the River|- 12. Arabian cloth 40 jlade possible Plate pressed his advantage in sub-, 13- Talk ldiy 50. Channel from sequent dickerings and now has 70! 14 Jefors H Ahoge percent of Spain's olive-oil Produc-| 1o peutnen Estimation Bale of indigo tion, 56 percent of her wines, 43 Rubber tree percent of oranges, etc., etc., tied High reg: up tightly. In other words, these Py Sl products can henceforth be sold . Pltcl 0. Title of u 7 3 . Lionlike baronet only to or through Argentina. 28, Artless 61. Accustom: 81. Electrifie¢ variant accepted the deals will-; vinced that Peron and his Franco cor Bugle call regime’s export-import monopoly s '\‘\4)::;":33 P e TR were showing symbols of a mnew-' 36 Call forth humorist world su Lately, the! little Spanish Generalissimo has been taken aback by revelations of | Argentina’s precarious economic situation; but it is too late to do| much about it When Peron goes to Spain next October for the ceremonies opening the Cadiz facilities to Argentine shipping, he will practically be g a triumphal entry into his European dependency. mak MEXICAN POLITICS BOIL Formal establishment in Mexico of the new popular party,.head- leftist labor leader Vincente Lombardo Toledano, marks the be- ginning of a new-era in that coun- try’s politics. 1917, seven years' bloody civil strife, following the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz, ended with the drafting of a new constitution and formation of the official PRI (Party of the Institutional Revo- lution). Since then, all left-of- Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 3. Type of perfection Directly across Battle ' . Exhaust . Public store- house DOWN 1. Breathe rapldly 2. Woodwind instrument mees | Seed covering . Short note Open vessel Average 24, Woody 7 A verennlal //// . Rose-red dye Z] 2. Part ot u g church Aficrsong Utterance Finished . Outer coverfn Stands for ¥ bric-a-brae Pliers . Brother of Jacob . Cily In Penne sylvania . One or the other Obstruet . Alpine moune tal Great_hurry Lamb's pen name . . Varlety . Toward the | * mouth . Back of the neck . Father of Joshua it increases on examination; of false, that it lessens.”—Greville, MODERN ETIQUETTE Xoserra ree | L . Q. If in a restaurant with guests, how can the host who thinks he has been considerably overcharged on the bill presented adjust the matter without embarrassment to his guests or to himself? A. He can quietly excuse himself and consult the headwaiter. Q. When a young man escorts a woman home, should he ask for her key and unlock the door, or should she do this after he has left? . A. It is courteous for the man to unlock the door and to see that the woman is safely inside the house before he departs. Q. Would it be appropriate to have a buffet luncheon following an afternoon wedding? A. Yes, allowing the guests to serve themselves. e e e et e s 1. What is the most common of all solid minerals? 2. What is the largest river in New England? I 3. What is an equilateral triangle? 4, What three parts of speech may-an adverb modify? 5. What city of the United States is known as the “City of Churches?” ANSWERS: 1. Quartz. 2. Connecticut River, 5 3. A triangle, all of the sides of which are equal. 4. A verb, an adjective, or another adverb. 5. Brooklyn. e ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg. Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 _—mm MOTORSHIP YAKOBI Operating to Petersburg, Port Alexander and way points. LEAVING JUNEAU EVERY TUESDAY MORNING MAIL, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE Freight accepted at Northland Dock until Noon Monday One of the most scenic routes in Southeastern Alaska. For reserva- tions contact Captain on boat at Boat Harbor or leave message at Harbor Market, Phone No. 352 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS —_——— LYLE KELSEY ; as a palt-up savscrfer w THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the " CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "NEW ORLEANS” PFegeral Tu. ~-12¢ per Person PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! " MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. WILLIS R. BOOTH, N Worshipful Master; JAMES W. [ der; ; ' H‘.’:'Za'?&'hz%cxnfl’,’.‘.fl LEIVERS, Secretary. ant, — —— 1) BP.0.ELKS. GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No. 5559 Meets first and third Thursdays. Post Hall, Seward Street. Visiting Comrades Welcome. VERN METCALFE, Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdays 13 at 8 p.m. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, # Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, { Secretary. PHONE 399 “Say 1t With Flowers” but =R A “ » 1| | CH i "SAY IT WITH oURs~ ' | EHARLES R, GRIFFN Col Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Bert’s Food Center PHONE 704 Grocery Phones 104—105 HAY, GRAIN, COAL Meat Phones 39—539 and STORAGE Deltveries—10:15 A. M. NP 2:15 — 4:00 P. M. Call EXPERIENCED MEN . — Alaska JANITORIAL Service CONKLE and FOLLETTE Phone Red 559 STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Fharmacists BUTLER-MAURC DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store™ Where Pharmacy Is a Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Audiior Tax Counseror Simpson Bldg. Phone 757 | Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianes—Musxical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Blacksmith - Work GENERAL REPAIR WORE Phone 204 929 W. 12th Bt FOR Wall Paper Tdeal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE 0 Huichings Economy Market Choice Meats At All Times PHONES 553—92—95 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franslin Sts. PHONE 136 A PHONE 555 m eBeverg%gemlzna-l Thomas Hardware Co. Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE i S e S e s bbbt ] PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP \ Remi'ngton Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. 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