The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 2, 1948, Page 4

| | | i | A PAGE FOUR - ) Daily Alaska Empire Published every evenin: except Sunday by the £MPIRE PRINTING COMsANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska WELEN TROY MONSEN - - 3 % DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - . GLMER A FRIEND R e ALFRED ZENGER - - - President Vice-President anay Bntered In the Post Office in Jun SUBSCRIPTION RATE! ®elivered by earrler in Juneau and Dourlas for $1.5¢ per monihi six months, $8.00; ene year. $15.00 By mall, postage paid, et the following One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in w:e month, in advance, $1.50. Bubscribers will ccnfer a fryor if they will promptly motity ihe Busipess Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, €02; Businels Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for wpublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othe/- Wise rredited in this paver #ud also the local news puvlished beremn. NATiUNAL REPREEENTATIVES Peurth Avenue Bidy, Seattle, 'V —_— - Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ANOTHER THREAT Regardless of the outcome of the present contract negotiations, it is believed that Harry Bridges and his International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, CIO, intend to pull a “political” strike on the West Coast this year. In support of this belief is a new demand by the longshoremen which has been presented to the em- nited States government moved in ployers since the U June 15 strike by court to halt the union’s intended injunction. This new demand is th loading any ships declared Pederation of Trade Unions. group formed in Paris in 1945 This would mean that an organization, generally considered to be Communist-dominated, with head- quarters in Paris, would dictate which ships would be loaded in all West Coast ports with CIO longshoremen. It is quite probable that ships heading for Alaska with materials for the strengthening of defense bases in the Territory would be considered “unfair” by the W.P.T.U., since Communist Russia, rapidly building up a military establishment in Siberia, often has con- demned our doing likewise in Alaska The existence of Communist-dominated Jabor unions in strategic Alaska is of much concern to all. Generally speaking, the A. F. of L. has repudiated the Communists in the labor movement during the last year. It is the CIO organizations which continue to offer protection B at the union be freed from “unfair” by the World an international union WHODUNIT With unerring hindsight, our Kremlin friends have unearthed another instance in which the West has been claiming credit for a glorious Russian dis- covery. The newest find threatens to shake the very joots of western society, for it concerns none other than our own Benjamin Franklin. The Moscow trade organ Trud reports that a Russian scientist named Lomonosov discovered the electrical nature of light- ning a vear before Franklin flew his famous kite, Pre- | sumably Trud would not say so if this were not the | fact, because Trud in English means “truth.” Indeed, fhe Washinglon Merry-Go-Round ; By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) This was made quite evident with the State’s purchase of grain sur- pluses. The plan was a failure, as less than 50 percent of the fix- the platiorm. lcok-in.” peasants. and refractory gods and priests cannot easily be driven out of his mind. Because|a very tight fix. The peasant is of that, we have had many diffi- posed to be sick, Parker has beer 1 will not in- seen on the streets of Raleigh culties and trouble. dulge now in matters of religion, so the Justice but if scme day the priests rouse prosecute anyway . . . the people by ringing the church- between London and Washington | es' bells, it is certain that we shall for Britain's participation in the | are stymied. The; have to face a complete uprisal. Marshall Plan And the peasants are well armed. British accuse us of trying to regu- . 4. 15 “On account of all that, I have late the pound sterling in return jssued all necessary orders and in- for Marshall Plan aid. For two! We need time for a weeks diplomats haven't been-able Therefore, get to break the deadlock structions. complete success. to work and work hard, as there is not much time left. I wish you, comrades, much luck and full suc- cess!” % Note—It may have been Moscow, because of internal troubles the outside. in Yugoslavia, decided to Tito. Spaatz was that SPECIAL CONGRESS? i strongly urging the President call Congress back for a special threat | issue 1f renominated, the latter is)canism, with | probably what he will do. UNDER THE DOME {1 A. F. of L. President William |jobs Green was even hotter against the |chine, lRepublic:\ns in his private talk to| | President Truman than | !issued his blast letter. that the peasant is not with us. publicans,” Green | “jgnored us at Philadelphia. There | that no Democratic Vice President was nothing favorable to labor inwho became President because of We didn't have J. D. Parker, the|been ed quantity was delivered by the North Carolina wine-maker, indict- | been re-elected were Republicans.| cunning 'ed for income tax invasion, has m\-“’rruman‘s- chances to and his belief in|tered a Virginia mental u\smun(\n‘prpcodvm are poor. —some people think to get out uli SPAATZ SPEAKS that 4o the Air Force more good on Junk phe §s now preparing to speak his | mind tearlessly in a flood of maga- |zine and newspaper articles. Unhampered by military restric- Some White House advisers are tions, Spaatz will tell bluntly how: to he thinks America should meet the of another session immediately after the Dem- also warn that the United States| it seems that the mechanical and scientific aptitude of the Russians has been slighted in all the standard Recently the world has been informed that | lly the Russians who invented such devices | textbooks - = S it was as the airplane and the internal combustion r-ngine.{ and it would not be overly surprising to be told soon P that the Soviet has had the atomic bomb all the time. | ! ! fact is, of c se, that most great inventions | e . and coveries are the oduct of many minds work- e JULY 2 . ing contemporaneously in many places. The assign- | ® e L ment of credit is often arbitrary or accidental and | ® Jean Stewart . sometimes later is proved wrong. No one can say with | ® Charles Smith 4 finality who was the most instrumental in most great Ida Nordenson . researches, though sometimes efforts to steal credit Eric Walsh e or muscle into the act are pretty transparent. In Rh”.da kit v - ¢ . Phyllis Wheeler . any case, if the Rus: ant to compensate for | o Irene Graham . what is patentlv an inferiority complex by proving e R. M. Madden . that the alphabet was really the product of an early- e Stella McPherson . 2ay Communist, or that some Paleolithic Muscovite ® . discovered fire, who around to dispute them? o @ o0 0 .o 00 0 00 Chicken Every Day THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— 1 20 YEARS AGO #%c exprns 1928 Minard Mill, Superintendent of the Juneau Water JULY 2, Company, had been ill in the hospital or at heme for eight weeks, was out enjoying :mc weather, slowly regaining his lost poundage and feeling better every day inner to the visiting Physicians of Juneau were to be hosts at a d tal yacht race. doctors who were aboard yachts in the Capital to Capi Ellen Sorri joined the staft at the Florence Shop Irma Williams, who had been visiting with her sisters, Mrs. Florence iHolmquls(. Belva Williams and Mrs. Al White, left for Skagway. | The Miners and Elks were scheduled to play ball this night. Weather: High, 71; low, 69; clear. i B Daily Lessons in English ¥, L. corpon || - - The heavyweight boxing ¢ mpionship is vacant | - MEN OF ALASKA Bv his own word as he left the ring, Joe Louis | | hung up his gloves, something that few heavyweight S S To REIIRE champions have had the foresight to do. | » . Joe Louis has been a great champion. —_— He w heavyweight champion of the world for | SEATTLE, July 2. - (P— Two| 11 years and three days, longer than any of his pre- long-time employees of the Alaska | decessors, even John L. Sullivan. He defended the |Steamship Company will retire to- title 25 times. That also was a new record. | morrow, Admiral F. A. Zeusler, That many of his fights appeared to be set-ups | executive assistant to the President | was no fault of Louis. He took on any man, and of the company, announced today. some of them were not deserving of a fight with the| They are A. P. “Mac” McLean, champion personal claims adjuster, and In his early days as a title-holder there was George Matheson, carpenter fore- never any doubt about his championship caliber. As man for the company's repair di- he grew clder, he grew slower, and he grew less fond vision. I of the clock-and scale-watching life that a fit fighter | McLean went to work in the must lead. company’s freight department in: Joe Louis did not grow up in a life of ease and 1918. Ten years later, he was pro- | luxury. And after those things were in his rei h, he moted to chief clerk in the oper- found that thev did not harmonize with the means |ating department where he remain- that made them possible. For quite a few s NOW ed until he was made personal Louis has been pondering that decision he night | claims adjuster in 1940. T of the fight he made his choice He came to Seattle from Penn-| From now on.Louis, the retired heavvweight gylvania in 1903 1 champion of the world, will eat fried chicken when He will continue to make his he wants it, and go to bed when he feels like it. The home on Bainbridge Island. Mathe- grueling roadwork which he had come to hate $0 son, who learned his trade on the| much is all behind him Clyde in his native Scotland, has He will join his predecessors, some living and jived in Seattle for 46 years. | some dead . . . John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Bob He worked for the Alaska Steam- Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Gene Tun- ¢ Company when it was known ney and Jack Dempsey as the Black Ball Line. He join- Future champions will be judged 6n his Past eq the Northwest Steamship Com- performances. The arguments will change to whether pany as a carpenter foreman in the new champion could lick Louis, rather than 1907, and a year later, when the| whether Louis would have beaten Dempsey in a gy, mvrgod. with the Alaska | mythical match. g Steamship Company, he retained ! In spite of the dog davs to which the heavyweight ) position. { division slipped in the last davs of his reign, Louis ) 7 TROLLERS, was a colorful champion. . i ! s a1 i wactt e HALIBUTERS | WANTED FOR ATH RACE; | . MORE ENTRANTS NEEDED | than it was when he was champion. and | R. W. Cowling of the 4th of July| and boat race committee, said it is: hoped that registration for the| (Ketchikin News) John L. Lewis, Wm. Creen, Dan Tobin Harry Bridges are powerfu! ligures in the AFL CIO councils, but not one of them can hold their followers in line when it comes to a national election. ' €Vents will take on an increased This has been proven time and time again in both tempo today and tomorrow, and State and national elections that he is especially interested in William Green's denouncement of the Dewey having trollers and halibuters sign ticket naturally will carry some weight, but neither up for the special events. Entry he nor any other labor leader can herd the rank blanks can be obtained at either|{ and file to vote en bloc. The great body of American the Cowling Motor Co. or the city | voters in going to the polls, cast their votes as their Cleaners | conscience dictates without regard to which party or Those Wk church a candidate may belong. date are Peter Warner, Shelly Reed, | That is the American way. Jack Goetz, Dr. J. O. Rude, Bob It is the independent voters, not party men, who Cowling, Ed Krause, Donald Ad- mast often decide elections. ams, Elwin and Jack Messer, Judd e ~——————— | Whittier and Eugene Wood. A Grundy-Martor! des- Wide assortment of prizes for the races are being arranged. I There is also a possibility ori rowing races between forces from the American and Canadian ships. 0 have registered to} perately trying to block him. Now that Dewey has given Pennslivan- ia’s huge ctunk of 40,000 Federal to the Grundy-Martin ma- it will go merrily forwargd. ioean o < o Proeressive Republicanism in Penn- NOTITICE | when he ! sylvania Is out . Stan Arncld This is to announce that on and “The Re- of “Star Spangled Banter,’ Wwho after June 30, 1948, we will not be out responsible for debts of the Tur- pin Transfer or Union Transfer. Amounts due us should be sent to Post Office Box 2224, Juneau. (928 3t) FRED TURPIN. >oo—— fowl called the Yoko- than told Truman,|loves history-probing, points a|death in the White House has ever re-elected. All who have| A Japanese hama has tall coverts more 20 feet long. Crossword Puzzle break the But while sup- »< will | Department Negotiations | ACROSS 38. Counl{ in New : York state :' fv",""‘"“ 20, Kind of bird - Wandeg 0. Free card ot Young oysters admission . Individual Buckeye state 4 4 4 Minute orifice 46. Encountered Clock in the 48. Feminine name form of a 50. Conjunction 51 52. ship . Understand ith | 16 One who pays 52 Strikes | divine honors the beak | Meadow 55. Place in ; 20. 4'{\-|uu different reason Air Chief of Staff Like & T;"dfl‘ retired from the A he felt he could Kansas i ul iy S ROl Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Cotton cloth statesman Shaohiserowth DOWN 4 For the first time, 1. Large welghts crop 2. Afresh 5. Exclamation 3. Siander 6. Ventilate . Low tufted plants . Point of land Small explosion . Regions . Concise . Political hangers-on war. He will| ocratic Convention. will have two independent air| Purified wool The tell Truman that he should forces on its hands as long as " e mtL e insist on the enactment of major the Navy is given free rein in the’ : A"lte";“‘“" legislation, such as the Taft- air | cask > Unfasten ender-Wagner public housing bill, which, though blocked in Congress, was indorsed in the GOP Conven- | tion platform. man Hugh Friends tell Truman that if GOP walked into during the special session could then charge them with fail- ure to carry out platform pledgeav“pmmed by Other advisers, however, told Truman that it would be wis- their new boss. gets gressional mistakes. Since the President plans MERRY-GO-ROUND When newly elected GOP Chair- Scott the first (leaders continue to block housing the Republican National Commit- | he tee, cnly four members recognized He was really ap- Joe | have! Grundy to make sure Pennsylvania | its share of er politically not to call a special Lattle between Pennsylvania’s Gov- | _session, but to let the Republicans ernor Jim Duff and the Martin- | stew in the juice of their Con- | Grundy machine didn't just happen ! iat Philadelphia. For some time | to Duff has been trying to build up | ‘make Congress his No. 1 campaiqu‘a revitalized, pregressive Republi- | Genus of ducks Accomplished White i | \ of Philadelphia meeting of ens culine . Former fencing dummy . Custodian . Source of honey . Theme . Mistake . Pay out . Crackle # 4 slylnl device L ustened w “High Tariff" | jobs . The A et i P B, B WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Us girls are going.” Say, “WE girls are going.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gondola FIRST syllable, not the second. Pronounce with accent on OFTEN MISSPELLED: Miner (one who works in a mine). Minor (smaller; also a person under age) SYNONYMS: Yet, still, besides, further, thus far, 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: PROCLIVITY atural disposition or tendency. “The boy had a pro- clivity to steal. e e e el et | MODERN ETIQUETTE %opera res | BESSIEWIRNES. | CRUSSONMGE G Nl CL b s R Q. How should a drinking glass and a coffee cup he held? A. A drinking glass is held a little below the center between the thumb and first two fingers. The handle of the coffee cup is grasped by the thumb and first two fi rs, the third and fourth being bent toward the palm Q. Is it obligatory that a bride and bridegroom have a maid-of- honor and a best man? A. No; but the presence of two witnesses is traditional and is seldom disregarded Q. How much should one tip porters on trains? A. To sleeping car porters, it is correct to give 25 or 50 cents for a day. For a berth, a tip of 50 cents is customary. e et i who | H. SHERLOCK, Adjut- LOOK and LEARN % . cospon 1. What was the average age of the framers of the United States Canstitution? 2. Which are the two wealthiest States of the Union? 3. Of what two metals is bronze composed? 4. What is the most historic city of Canada? 5. What line follows: “Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight . Leghi ANSWERS: 1. Forty-three years. 2. New York and Pennsylvania. 3. Copper and tin. 4. Quebec. 5. “Make me a child again just for tonight!” from “Rock Me to Sleep,” by Elizabeth Akers Allen. — EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED ] DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and }ranklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS 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. 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