The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1948, Page 4

PAGEFOUR__ Daily Alaska Empire Published every evenins except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - WILLIAM R. CARTER . ELMER A, FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Bntered f the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter | SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier in Junesu and Dourlas for six months, $8.00; one year, §15. il, postage paid, at the following rates: $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; month, in advance, $1.80. \ Bubscrivers will ccnfer a fayor if they will promptly notify ‘he Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery A their papers. Telephones MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othes- wise credited in this payer #ud slso the local news published Vereis NATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, "Vasi\ $L3¢ per month) 00 we News Office, 602; Business Oftice, 3. * ALASKAN DEFENSE g newspapers of the nation, leading maga- of columns are ‘devoting much play Defense. Apparently defense of this Terri- , paramount issue of hundreds of thinkers wger ahead in the case a Third War comes. the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of follows: noted with national faction that the appropriation bill finally shaped the House of Representatives contained sub- hough far from adequate, provisions for blishments in Alaska. areness in Congress of the great Alaska is one of the most new sense of Congressional ecurity since the recent 1 writer tory who The June It latest is from is to be up in stantial vital defense est I'he military the increased i importance of signs of for national ing a 1sibility ne of the great lessons of the war itself. defended of all our start of the Pacific ka was the most poorly weak outposts at the the war broke out there were no military forces in Alaska sufficient in numbers or equipment for defense of the strategic region There no military aviation in the region worthy of mention. military weakness of Alaska was no ter was very quickly proved, when the wval and aviation forces operated at will 1e region and the Japanese land forces pied fortified two Aleutian islands without any opposition whatever. It was cnly their timely preoccupation elsewhere, erhaps only their failure to grasp the full signif e of their opportunity, that prevented the Japanese from occupying all of Alaska and thus being in a position to launch attacks by air against any was That the trifling m: Japanese througho ocel d and military objective on the whole North American main- [pave hitherto been regarded as fair game for Con- N average temperature of 68, de- land e interest and | | 1t it was a desperate situation which confronted | the American people in Alaska then, it requires very little miliary knowledge or even imagination to fore- ‘see what a similar military impotence of Alaskan defenses. would mean in a future war. All of our military authorities have repeatedly and lurgently warned that the next war at its outset will I be an air assault across the polar icecap. Gov. Ernest Gruening reduced this warning ‘plmncr terms when he reported: | “Across the Bering Sea, the Soviets have been | pushing agriculture farther and farther north . . . and 1Lhey have been integrating it with industrial and military development.” , We well remember the grim and almost fantastic fight gainst time we made to prepare our defenses in Alaska in anticipation of the Japanese invasion which fortunately never developed in full force. Do we delude ourselves that an aerial assault against us launched by Russia would leave us the same saving space of time? It is good to see Congress rousing itself to aware- | ness of this grim lesson of our recent history. The | Alaskan defense projects included in the current ap- {propriation bill are surely of the utmost necessi i By virtue of these wise provisions, essential Army | construction projects will go forward in Alaska, and | the authorized Navy public works program will include | major defense installations in the Aleutians and the lgeneral North Pacific area, and the long-needed | commercial airport at Fairbanks will be made avail- | to able. i | But no responsible and competent military, naval lor aviation authority believes that these wise things | constitute anything more than a good beginning, or that they come even close to being enough — and neither Congress nor the American people should de- lude themselv | Nothing less than an invulnerable Alaska can be | a sufficient safeguard against aerial invasion in a future and thus be our most potent instrument | | for preventing such a war. war Loyalty Affirmed i (Washington Post) 1 There is a much needed catalyst in the announce- ‘mcm. by J. Edgar Hoover that the FBI has found no |disloyal data in preliminary checks on 1955314 Fed- ;ernl employees. Investigations have disclosed question- {able information in 4137 cases, or a little more than {two tenths of 1 per cent of the total number of per- sons checked. Full-scale investigations are being con- |ducted in these 4137 cases, and 1391 have been com- | pleted. Some 231 employees resigned during the course |of the probes and in 13 other cases the workers are !no longer with the Government. The remaining 1147 completed investigations have been turned over to the Civil Service Commission for evaluation, and it is a |reasonable assumption that by no means all these | persons will be denied Federal employment. : | These figures from the agency charged with | ! probing the innermost reaches of lovalty make all the | current shouting about the Reds in our departments |sound a little empty. Mr. Hoover's report, we think, lis a pretty effective answer to the zealots in Congress and elsewhere who see a subversive under every bed |and view every non-conformist thought as Coom- munist-inspired. Mr. Hoover’s disclosure does not |mean that some sort of check is not necessary for | sensitive positions in the Government, for it is possible | that some of the persons whose loyalty has been ques- {tioned are actually dangerous from the standpoint of security. But the FBI announcement does place the lovalty problem in its proper perspective, and we hope |its effects will not be lost on Capitol Hill. Perhaps its greatest service is to reaffirm the patriotism of the overwhelming mass of Government workers who | Igressional slander. | SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948, | - ZWIWURMLS || 20 YEARS AGO T EMPIRE JUNE 26, 1928 Mrs. Charles W. Carter, who had been attending the Rebekah Grand Lodge meeting in Walla Walla, Wash., returned to Juneau on the Alaska. :S)\e was presented with the Decoration of Chivalry for many years of Hank Green meritorious work in the lodge. Henry Harmon Mrs. Leroy Clements Hildur Skeie Tinette: Moder Harry I. Lucas returned to Juneau on the Alaska after making a business trip to Seattle. JUNE 27 R. J. Sommers Jack Dalton Mike Pusich James Paddock Legia K. Olson Richard Genthner Janice Colleen Miller Jacqualine C. Lokke Jack Chris Lokke The British cruiser Durban arrived in port and visiting hours were te be from 2 to 5 p. m. during her four-day stay. Mrs The Moose defeated the Miners 7-3 in a baseball game. The Canadian Pacific Railroad steamship Princess Kathleen, taking |the place of the Princess Louise, arrived in port, 48 hours from Van- couver. . e PRI . 3 : 4 Simpson MacKinnon visited the Durban for the second time, the first time having been four years previous while he was aboard the! |Huron and the two vessels were in China waters. e o0 0 o ¢ e o 0 INDICTMENTS ARE DROPPED AGAINST PETERSBURG BOY Two Grand Jury indictmenif: against George Freel, 19, of Peters- | burg, were dismissed in U. 8. Dis-| . Weather: High, 61; low, 59; cloudy. ‘! Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She was very disturbed by the noise.” Say, “She was very MUCH disturbed.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Alienate. Pronounce al-yen-at, both trict Court here sterday by Fed- A’s as in ATE, E as in MEN, accent first syllable. eral Judge George W. Folta, upon| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Modest (unpretentious). motion of U. S. District Attorney |maker). Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr. Freel w indicted in January for larce in a boat, burglary in a dwel 1d larceny in a house but the ictments were not pressed in order that he could enlist in the U. S. Army. | Gilmore said that he moved! that the indictments be dismiss-| ¢d because Freel would be discharg- | ed from the Army otherwise. He! said that the youth’s conduct had Modiste (a dress- open-handed. 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: INORDINATE; immoderate; excessive. “The passions and desires . . . ing by ROBERTA LEE LOOK and LEAR! - e - 1. How many humean hairs, placed side by side, would it take to cover the distance of one inch? 2. What is the oldest known alcoholic drink? 3. What seven Presidents of the United States had last names end- ing in the syllable “son”? 4. What are the six New England States? 5. How many legs has the common housefly? ANSWERS: About 333. by A v GORDON M :;t.‘d‘ fi‘;:x'“i:]lx “l‘fc h\;tn:?(;mrfiuf:“::; i fllfi.qnz\;:zn wedding gifts are displayed, should the cards of the donors excellent citizen if given the op-| e ol portunity. | A. No. The bride-elect or some member of her family should make cciite Tlied 5 la list of the gifts with the names of the persons sending them before ‘removing the cards. This is to enable the bride to acknowledge them. MONEY Blll FOR | Of course, the best procedure for the bride to follow is to write her note # of thanks as each gift is received. AlASKA AlRpoRTS ! Q. Which is the more formal closing to a letter, “Yours very truly” or “Yours very sincerely”? SIGNED BY IRUM N‘ A. “Yours very truly.” A ; Q. Is it improper to eat the lettuce upon which a salad is served? WASHINGTON, June 26—(®—Ap- | A. Inclination may guide a person in this. He may or may not propriations of $549,774,876 to meet!eat his lettuce, as he wishes. clean-up expenses of various gov-| = ernment offices before the end of the current fiscal year, July 1, were signed today by President Truman. The bill also carries $25,000000 to! get the revived Selective Selvlce} System into operation and $2,000,000 | for the Displaced Persons Commis- sion, Other items include $3,500,000 for construction of airports in Alaska. PR e Guatemala, a tropical country, has | grees. SYNONYMS: Liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent, magnanimous, | ipreduce certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate.”—Burton. | VETERANS OF FOKEIGN WARS Tiku Post No. 5559 Meets first and third Thursdays. Post . Hall, Seward Street. Visiting Comrades Welcome. VERN METC; Commander: WILLIAM H.‘SHI'RLOCK. Adfut- ant. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Casg Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN, Alaska JANITORIAL Service CONKLE and FOLLETTE Phone Red 559 | STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street ~ Near Third |l Alaska Music Supply, Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phosie 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Oil Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WOREK Phone 204 929 W. 12th Rt i Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedics HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM Hutchings Economy Market Choice Meals At All Times PHONES 553—92—85 E‘he Charles W. Carter| Mortuary MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 | SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each ménth in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p.,m. WILLIS R. BOOTH, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. 7/ LEIVERS, Secretary. €) B.P.0ELKS Meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdays I3 at 8 p.m. Visiting brothers wel- { come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Things for Your Office CHARLES R. GRIFFIN Co 1005" SECOND AVE + SEATIIE 4 - ElLiov 5323 {erw’nql/ar&a&z/u:/w/y( Bert's Food Center Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39—539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M. D — ""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 Counsetor Simpson Bldg. Phone 757 FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S | Phone 689 The Alaskan Rotel Newly Renovated Rooms st Reasonable Rates FHONE BINGLE O " |NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL| ACCOUNT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Beer. PFourth and Franklin Sts. Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Johnson, Benjamin PHONE 136 the right-wingers finaily agreed to|y ting card than a NEW qya¢ peter F. Gilmore, admipistra- | Harrison, and Wilson. ‘ he right-wingers agre | Year's gree rd. 5 4. Mai N o p t f the estate of MARY SHARP, aine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, ‘n‘dcral support for housing—with| In the end, the Republicans went d‘;‘;e‘;sed PReoten Kb fi6a1 Faatk | And, Conbetiut, i card Beverage Cn. |5 2le it SHeent ey i<t P B “’])‘J“a&:‘““;‘? of the administration of the estate,| 5. Six. Wholesale 805 10th St. the ates s e . ations’ £ or e ar N i g 3 d petition for distribution, and o % lother words, the Federal Govern-|Palestine. fi1015 S U harimg will b6 held on th - PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT ment supplies ‘the (holping money CYRENER e final report and petition before the MOTORSHIP YAKOBI for MIXERS or SODA POP and the States spend it. ! JACK TAR REPAIRED undersigned at Juneau, Alaska on Operating to Petersburg, Port Alexander and way points. LEAVING JUNEAU EVERY TUESDAY MORNING That seemed to make all the Re- AT JUNEAU MARINE Aygust 6th, 1948 at two o'clock p.m. MAIL, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE publicans happy. ! !at which time and place all persons Freight accepted at Northland Dock until Noon Monday | The Jack Tar was taken on the interested in the final report and He was opposed by Senator Don- | BACKSTAGE MOVE {ways early yesterday morning for petition may appear and file and One of the most scenic routes in Southeastern Alaska. For reserva- tions contact Captain on boat at Boat Harbor or leave message at nell of Missouri, who threatened to! MacArthur’s Beom—One of the minor repairs and copper painting make objections thereto. Harbor Market, Phone No. 352 ?m help the congested eastern{pmnouncement. | | States pay for housing. | “This resolution you've got hPl‘e."I This argument struck home, and ! he said, “says le: rwhei\iflashiAnglon . Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON PHONE 565 Thomas Hardware Co. 4 PAINTS — OILS e Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE (Continued from Page One) form Committee, caught the insert and scratched it out. Later in the full committee meeting, Delegate Richmond tried to reinsert it. Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Qur Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” Window—Auto—Plate—GLASS IDEAL GLASS (0. 538 Willoughby Avenue Opp. Standard Oil Co. DON ABEL PHONE 633 all night rather than see most fantastic backstage moves at|{at the Juneau Marine Co. She Given under my hand and the oil go back to the|Philadelphia came when Generallis expected back in the water to- seal of the probate court at Juneau, argument got bitter. | MacArthur requested Senator Van-|morrow or Monday. * | Alaska this 4th day of June, 1948. That's the New Deal theory of denberg to deliver the nominating| Present barge work by the| FELIX GRAY, government,” shouted Richmond. | speech—for MacArthur. | Junehu Marine at the subport is Commissioner and Ex-Officio Pro- “What the hell are you trying to, Believe it or not but the request|expected complete today. |bate Juneau, Juneau Precinct. do—favor Truman over Congress?”|was delivered to Vandenberg by an| ————— | First publication, June 5, 1948.. Chairman Lodge supported Don- |office girl'from MacArthur's head- | Empire wantads get results! Last publication, June 26, 1948. nell, argued that federal control|quargers. i of the coastline was vital to na-! It looks as i tional defe But Senator Bald- been taken in by his supporter’s P win of Connecticut and Governor | propaganda. They circulated au: C stord uzz]e Herbert of Ohio, plus the Texas|outdated article, printed February| » delegate jumped in on the side ofilz. 1944, by Vandenberg, telling ACROSS California. The final vote favor-why he was for MacArthur. But a Chance ed State control of tidelands oil. |lot of people can change their -,‘;‘e':: :"m:‘;;:;r minds between 1944 and 1948. . Title of SR Mohainmed | . One of GOP ON PALESTINE Muses 3. , inserted a plank fav-| Tt didn’t leak out, but the big-' i& Sustralian Bird & el quors oring public power in the first|gest backstage jockeying over prin-| 16. Synthetio : Dressed un draft the GOP. platform, but|ciples, not politicians, at Philadel-' 17. Edge ° “Ship: Scoteh somebody leaked this draft to the phia was regarding Palestine. 'n“,I . Parts of a . Southern . ; h constellation press, and the power lobby got|debate arose over the original . Representative bus That aiternoon, when the!plank in the GOP platform which 50 Q‘_nfii(em galley Platform Committee met in secret merely greeted the new state of i Ll session, reference to public| Israel with nothing said about Spacine B chusen emolay power was thrown out. Palestinian borders of United Na- . French author suffix However, Utah Delegate Vernon tions' support. | 82 Heavenly body 60. Aflirmative Romney of Salt Lake City moved This was a hig comedown from to put it back. Hg warned that a the GOP platform of 1944 which lot of questions would be asked, es- put the Republicans vigorously on lly in the West, if the Re-|record for an independent Pales- licans backtracked. tine, naturally when Zionist lead- 0 a compromise, it was re- ers heard of this, they hit the ceil- rted, with two traditional words, ' ing. which tended to cut the ground| Senator Lodge, they found, had out from under public power. They | drafted the compromise Palestine were “incidental thereto,” pertain- |resolution after conferring with to navigation and flood con-|Senator Vandenberg, who, they be- In other words, the Repub-|lieved, had been in touch with licans went on record that water pro-Arabs in the State Department. power could not be developed for, Immediately Zionists appealed to waterpower alone, but only in con-|Governor Dewey and Senator Taft. pection with navigation and ilood;smh were sympathetic, Dewey call- control, led in his chief foreign adviser, {John Foster Dulles, while Taft ask- PUBLIC HOUSING led Senators Millikin of Colorado, Another tough battle was waged Donnell of Missouri and Brooks of over public housing. At first the Illinois, all members of the Plat- right-wingers wanted to omit it al-, form Committee, to write a strong- together. But Senator Ives of New |er resolution. York aregued that the big eastern| When the full Resolutions Com- States had helped the western:mittee finally met, Senator Ives of States pay for reclamation, now|New York led the move to rewrite jt was up to the western States'the Lodge-Vandenberg Palestine | up FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street Oldest Bank in Alaska . 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS BOGGAN Flooring Contractor Laying—Finishing Oak Floors CALL 209 "Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S if MacArthur has ! MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE A daly hable S ok by s Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines ' MACHINE SHOP i i | . Anclent fine for homicide Article . Extra pay- ¥ ments . Serve the purpose Descendan PUBLIC POWER Liberal Republicans rowing over housing a ; Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. 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