The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ; : 3 Daily Alaska Empire Published every evenins except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COM.’) NY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks HWELEN TROY MONSEN - - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - Editer and Manager SLMER A. FRIEND - - - - Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager | | | state, Towa | of all the pigs raised in the country—more than any three other States. Last year it produced almost one quarter of the crop. States near Washington than last year. Virginia’s soring pigs are estimated at 572,000 compared with 538,000 last year; Maryland is 198,000 | _the same as a year ago; West Virginia 182,000 com- pared with 163,000 in 1947, and Delaware 23,000 com- pared with 20,000 last year. With cattle numbers the st in eight years and sheep and lambs fewer than Bubscribers wil) confer a frvor if they will promptly notify % the Business Office of any fatlure or irregularity in the delivery in an ar since 1868, agriculture officials had hoped of their papers. a larger o Telephones: News Office, 602: Busineis Office, 374. a larger pig crop. ¥ | Americans this year will get only 143 pounds of ) R O A A oritied to the ure for | MCal Per person compared with 156 pounds a year ago, spublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not «thes- | (1 Burcau of Agriculture Economics estimates. Thi #ise credited in this r @ad also the local news pubiished Nerein. figure i ew of this last reporu D. C., have more pigs @utered In tbe Posi Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: @elivered by carrier in Juneay and Douglas for $1.5¢ per montl six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six montbs, in advance, $7.50; @ month, in ndvance. $1.50. lowe: NATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapars, 1411) ! Pourth Avenue Bldy, Seattle, "Vas . it it | | “Nature provides the gibbon, an anthropoid ape, | with a reinforced, wear-defying surface on its seat.” the sedentary worker. “An Illinois man says he wants to catch a fish |50 large that he will not be tempted to lie when telling about it.” He wants the impossible. No man could land so big a fish Baylor recently began teaching gag- | writing for radio comedians. It is hoped that before |the vear is over a new gag may be introduced over the air lanes. University e i = | | DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION | The second big event of the year, politically, is set for next Monday. It is the National Democratic | Convention in Philadelphia and during the three or | perhaps four-day meeting we will know who the'! | aid one moth to another. have eaten only two “I'm on a light diet, During the past 10 days I women'’s swim suits.” Vicitors from Sacramento standard bearers will be. | (New York Times) An Empire reader has asked how the Democrats | In these days of fast travel it is surprising to apportion their convention delegates and here is the jlearn that Virginia Warren, age 19, and Nina Warren, answer: | age 14, both of Sacramento, 1. Two delegates for each Congressional district. | New York City until recently, and that Dorothy 2. Two delegates at large for cach 3enator and qurren. 17, same address, made her first visit only a | few days ago. Where had those girls been all the time? two for each Reprsentative-at-large. 5o i e gl 3. Four additional at-large delégates from those | W€ Suppose Mr. and Mrs. Earl Warren, parents of the Sos o g 1 had been here before, but Mr. p same, same address States which went Democratic in the 1944 presidential | Sor h Ea s which e DTk 0. P Warren did ‘seem to include Mrs. Warren as well as election; . the girls when he said he had promised to show the 4. Six delegates each from Alaska, District of {yisitors around town. Being at the moment a candi- Cclumbia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico |date for public office, Mr. Warren may have been 5. Two delegates each from Islands | angling for local votes when he said this city “is and Canal Zone ir\lways a magnet for those of us who live in the Each of the above delegates has one convention'! West.” If it is such, why didnt the Warren family icome sooner? And why didn't Mr. Warren bring the boy: One can‘t help having a suspicion that when the Warrens wanted to visii a city they went to San Francisco and were entirely satisfied with it. Cali- fornians are like that, though some say they prefer Los Angeles. Governor Warren is, of course, on delicate ground. He and his family have just got to like New York ! while they are here. Politically, they can't afford not |to. But Mr. Warren (who is, incidentally, candidate | for the Vice-Presidency on the Republican ticket) wants to carry California as well as New York. When the Virgin vote. But delegates at large may be doubled, at whim | of States. If Stutes choose to double their allotment | of at-large delegates each such delegate has one-half a convention Practically all States take ad- vantage of this rule. It gives old party workers a trip and gets their name in the paper. vole. MEA1 SUPPLY TO BRE SHORTER America’s meat supply, already short, promises to be even less next winter and spring, the Depart- nave to s that though they enjoyed visiting New ment of Agriculture indicated recently. | York they wouldn't want to live here. They will have The June report of this spring’s pig crop shows to let on that if they had to settle permanently in any that there are 1,381,000 heads less than a year ago city it would be a California city. But they will have w0 the smallest since 1941. | say nice things about wew York too. Even if they The number of spring pigs, on which our pork |ride in the suhwgvs during the rush hnur.»p:\ying the supply for the winter and *hext year depends, i 3 |n°W.fare, they will have fo say/they liked 1t J per cent, or 1,381,000 head less than a year ago. | Well, every New Yorker — including, we hope, The total crop for the year, both spring and fall Democrats and followers of Henry Wallace and Nor- man Thomas — will wish the Warens a good time. pigs, is expected to .\n lht“ fmnlhst since 1940. Since Being the head of a wholesome, lovable American 1940 the Census Bureau e.at‘lmall‘.s the population has Ifamily doesn’t of itself entitle a man to public increased by almost 10 million persons. / |office, but it is good o have such families around. [he washing'on EISENHOWER'S MOTHER |not be broken, and won a war 3 When Sam Goldwyn, who plan- | sooner than anyone expected. Mem-GO'Round |ned to produce a picture on Eis- To do this—whatever his human enhower, congratulated the Gen-|weakness—required genius, fore- — eral’s aged mother on her son, she|sight and great executive ability. By DREW PEARSON promply replied . |1t required the kind of ability that “Which one?” jthe nation may need now, when (Continued from pPage One) Shaias: just as. proutl aBiall bey :dunng the next two to four years 1P TR i s S as justas pr 8 r | E g seven sons as she was of the nnc!wrC rnc‘, 9 mosc»duncul&.permd enhower is how would he act once | wp o name is a byword round the of peacetime stress and strain in in the White House—as a civilian |y 14 1n fact Ike's mother mfly\mwnl history. or as a brass hat? Ibe one. important: kes: 6o, BN ahat~ If the nation needs to draft men It is always risky_to take ®{acter. She came of & Swiss-Ger- into the army Ior_ the psyghulnglcal military man into high civilian| o0 family which fled Europe m;rrrm upon Russia, as Eisenhower office, as Eisenhower himself point-| o oo i o %o the last thing|D2s Informed Congress, then so, ed out. However, those who wateh- g "o eq N e su{x"l,o' it needs a leader ag the helm ed him closely during the *war|y.one 4 professional soldier. jiphose” pregelgtZueaperiences SRR credited Ike with leaning over g * |background will have a psychologi- Perhaps this antipathy for Wari . efrect even more important. backw: protec! an right o ckward to protect civilian rights.| g, inperited by Eisenhower, and | Nearly all the decrease was reported from one Iowa this year will produce 22 per cent | ; expected to drop below 140 pounds next ycar | But, lamentably, nature does little along this line for | California, hadn't visited | he gets home he will have to say, and his family will | | | | | | | | | | jed a . L4 JULY 10 . . Virginia Rae Adams Earl Grass . Ludwig Nelson Daniel Ross Junior Jewell Addie V. McKinnon Elroy Ninnis, Jr. Earl Cress, Jr. Mrs. James H. Knott, Jr. Donald. Rhodes Arvid Anderson JULY 11 Mrs. George A. Lingo . Olaf Swanson . Robert N. Satre . William Fromholz . Mollie Joe MacSpadden . W. O. Johnson . Lois Sturrock . Margaret Grisham . . » Mollic Marie Brown RAIL FARES 1 Mac Cashen left for Victoria on the Princess { !that old.” from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO JULY 10, 1928 A group of high school girls, called the “Spinorts” were spending the week at the Ed MacDougall cabin on the Glacier Highway. The igirls in the party were Jeanette Stewart, Alice Merritt, Dorothy Bakke, Verna Hurley, Betty Barragar, Lucille Erickson, Marie Meade, Mazie Rogers and Mary Campbell Harding. The Lions Club was to meet the next day at the Forget-Me-Not Tea Room. on the Alameda. Louise. Allen Shattuck arrived home after attending the Democratic Na- tional Convention at Houston, Texas. i Walter Gerwels, of the United States General Land Office Survey, was at the Alaskan Hotel. Weather: High, 59; low, 53; rain et e ! Daily Lessons in English % . cogpon e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I did not know he was Say, “I did not know he was SO old,” or, “so old as that.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hedonism. Pronounce he-don-iz'm, E as in HE, O as in F, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Populace (noun); the common people. Popu- TO ADVANCE WASHINGTON, July 10—(”—The eastern railroads today were grant- new increase in passenger fares averaging 17 percent. The new fares can be put into eifect by the railroads upon five‘ days' notice to the public. | b The raise was authorized by the Interstate Commerce for all of the railroads passenger business north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers and east of the Mississippi. The ICC order sustained the car- | riers’ request for an advance of!your presence at their wedding, etc.” 20 percent in basic passenger Q. When a woman is taken in to dinner by an escort, on which coach fares and 143 percent in side of him is sme seated? basic fares in sleeping and par-| A. She is seated at the table at the right of the man who takes lor cars. iher in to dinner. The increases are in addition to( the general 10 percent hike in }ms‘; senger fares granted by the com- mission throughout the country last year. | POLIO EPIDEMIC HALTS | CANADIAN SHIP'S VISIT, % | aboard the! claimed A polio epidemic HMCS Athabasca which one life and developed eight other f | cases, cancelled the ship's proposed | |arrival in Juneau for the July 4 celebration. The vessel, on her maiden voyage after her commission in Halifax,| was put under quarantine in Vic- toria upon her arrival. News of | the training ship tragedy was re- vealed here by Joan Farrell, whose father is a chief petty officer on board the iil-fated ship. - e e e 0 00000 coe o0 . . . TIDE TABLE o! . . . JULY 11 . e High tide, 4:54 am., 166 ft. ® e Low tide, 11:27 am, -15 ft. e ® High tide, 17:52 p.m,, 16.5 ft. ® . . L JULY 12 . ® Low tide, 0.00 am, 24 ft. o ® High tide, 5:52 a.m., 15.1 ft. e ® Low tide, 12:16 pm, 0.1 ft. e ® High tide, 18:42 p.m,, 16.1 ft. ® . . ©e 0 0000000 00 Empire wantads get resuits! He championed the GI—and most | of them are now strong for him, though dead against MacArthur. He gave a break to Negro troops| and a chance to the heroic Japan- that he really meant what he told | the graduating class at West Point | last year. | “War is mankina's most tragic! ® . F h-water ese-Hawailans to redeems the false and stupid folly,” he said, “to seek | T:fif‘:fi S g+ -1 ccusation of having sabotaged at|or advise its deliberate provocation| — * shape 38 Bugrave with, Pearl Harbor. is a black crime against all men.| 6. Burden . Decad Though you follow the trade of | 9. Append Money drawers Yet Eisenhower let such close | wasriop Zipss 12. Genus of the - BB S e v Joh Can | warrior you do so in the spirit of | *= "\‘m;in-a Deeds B 98 0. Jobn - "Court | waghington — not of Ghenghis | willow Abound House”) Lee get away with com- | gy, |13, Binging volde'" g5 ‘:““‘(}‘;’:‘g mandet V. ] 1 3 Ol | cie! deering a whole hotel for him-| g 5 professional soldier you! 14. Ancient . Sheep i self, plus some of the worst ex- - Hebrew Sew loosely WL of caite syst f th "|do not inherit a greater share measure Witty person ples of caste system of the war.|inan your citizen brothers of cour-| 18: Mall = © In Europe a{'l‘!‘ the war, he ar- age, endurance and fortitude.| 17. Fish eggs rested 70,000 Nazis, gave strict or- Neither does your commission con- | 13- Herole © S ool » BlA¢ 3 C 9 churc ders to let no Nazi hold any im- fer upon you distinctive right or| Fi u":‘f\l‘ffr\-:non 6l. unrmf portant job—an order flagrantly | privileges fie? inrs’ and or experience respiratory violated since by the Forrestal ca- | 1 ' | Pronoun sound L ol orre: lalA ca- | science well as the profession | Koman date 62 Drooping al. He also raised cain with his Aa Brh s Vs e Cudgel 63. kgyptian A i J .u 1 ”n 1slof arms, are bulwarks of security. | 55 1E %t ineat Satred bl .wn generals for their (reatment'And the greatest of all is the SPirit | 39. 019 musical 61. Epic poem of displaced persons. {—the will—for freedom and jus-y note #5: Typs mesaures Eisenhower’s chief trouble has tice.” | been that he has surrounded him- e | self with an iron curtain of bras ! HOWEi¢~ CHIEF hats. Once you get inside, you ACHIEVEMENT | iind a great human being, but o x Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 66, Doys 2. On the highest 67. African tree point DOWN 3. Opposing 1. Remove 4. Plece of moisture ground . 5. Part of a whip 6. Butter substitute 1. Oil of rose petals: variant 8 Halt mask cracking the curtain is sometimes| There are also those who de- 9. City in Ohio as difficult as penetrating the wall | ride Eisenhower for failure to A Hestiam of & around Russia. And this has con- | support General Patton, during hisj heroine tinued to be somewhat true even lightning advance through France.| e now that the General is at Colum- | The Patton diary is supposed to| Radiate bia. claim that if the gasoline alotted ( [ v When it came to working with to Field Marshal Montgomery and | Join the Rusians, Eisenhower got along |his slow-moving British srmy had | s as well as anybedy—perhaps better. gon to Patton, the war would | Stories : With Maishal Zhukoff, the Red have been finished four months el Army commander in Berlin, he got | earlier. | gkl_umfl ship in along so famously that Moscow That will be a point for future got suspicious and transferred the | students of military strategy to de- Marshal. Zhukoff was too much |cide. But the over-all fact is that! under the spell of Ike's charm. 'in one of the greatest campaigns | “Dealing with the Russians,” Ike in history, Eisenhower commanded | once explained, “is like dealing a miraculously smooth-running | with your wife. You can lie to|machine, operated it on schedule, | r once, or perhaps twice, but|kept a dozen or so jealous nation- eventually she catches up wuh;ahues under him reascnably happy, you. So you might as well tell broke through the famous Nazi the truth in the beginning.” | wall which Churchill claimed could | diving duck ut Df the spring 47. Reigning beauty 48. Self-evident truth California 64. Greedy 55. Minus §7. Medicinal plant 58, Tableland !t MODERN ETIQUETTE Roperra Lee Commission | doing | lous (adjective); thickly inhabited. SYNONYMS: Join, conjoin, connect, combine, unite, attach, affix, adjoin. 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: VERITY; quality of being true, or real. “The beautiful fables of the Greeks are universal veriti Emerson. by R4 Q. In whose name should the wedding invitations and announce- iments be issued, if the girl's parents are not living? A. In the name of an uncle and aunt, brother or sister, or some (close and older relative. If there is none, then simply word the invna-( | tions, “Miss Ruth Johnson and Mr. Harry Brown request the honor of Q. How does one bid good-by to a new acquaintance? A. You shake hands and say “Good-by. I am very glad to have met you.” LOOK and LEARN 20. GORDON 1. Which were the first two cities connected by a telegraph line? 2. What is the name of the instrument for measuring the rate and pressure of the wind? 3. What city’s church architecture 15 said to be the finest on Lhe' American continent? } 4. What are the names of the four Gospels? 5. Which is the “Corn State”? ANSWERS: 1. Baltimore and Washington, 2. Anemometer. 3. Montreal, Canada. ' 4. 5. 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