The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1948, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Federal Payroll at Record High; Still Going Up Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINCING COMrANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks WELEN TROY MONSEN - VOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER &LMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER (Seattle Times) Senator Harry F. Byrd has issued more figures on Uncle Sam’s over-crowded civilian payrolls. He says the total number of employees on the Federal rolls in May was 2,066,283, The number is more than twice ‘the World War I peak. It is more than three and a L TR Second Class Matter. | half times the level at the end of the last Republican " ) administration. Exclusive of the military establish- ! ment, the number is more than 80,000 greater than it was at the World War II peak. Bubscribers will ccnfer 8 fevor if they wil promptly potify | Senator Byrd says the Federal agencles had funds e Businese Office of any failure oF irregularity in the delivery | {07 tfotal aver o their papers. in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That 1948 aver- Telephones: News Otfics, 603; Business Offios, 3% | age will be exceeded by at least 100,000 in fiscal 1949. Payroll expenditurés will pass seven billion dollars in an increase of more than five billicn President Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Bditor Business Manager er $1.50 per month; 15.00 stage Daid, at the followins rates nce, $15.00; six months, 11 adval : nce, $7.60; wse month, in advance, $1.80. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ure for the coming year, woublication of all news dispafches credited to it or not uther- : e Wise credited in this paver #nd also the local news pubiiehed = dollars over pre The Virginia Senator insists that the number of serein. NATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES - Alaska Mewspapers, 1411 civilian employvees of the government could be reduced irment of essential functions. Spurth Avenue Bldy , Seattle, "Vasi\ 30 per cent without impa | Even then, the total would still be half a million | greater than it was the year before the war emer- |gency; he belicves that increase should be sufficient | | to meet the new postwar requirements. ! Such a 30 per cent reduction Senator Byrd says would save more than two million dollars. Be it understood by all that these are Senator Byrd's figures, not ours. We didn't make them up. They've been | published in the Congressional Record where anybody can read them. If it is true that two billion dollars could be saved thus—without impairing essential functions—that program should be one of the first |tasks of whatever new administration takes office in Washington, D. C,, next January. Better Diets (Washington Post) | World food prosvects in 1948 appear to be definitely The second Salmon Derby in Juneau will be pulled | jmproved. It is necessary, however, to qualify this off next Saturday and Sunday and indications are that | assertion by adding that there is a long way to go. hundreds into the fish In this connection the prediction that European grain crops will be up 25 per cent over last year at first Already there are registrations for the event from glance may be misleading, for European crops last ! fishermen from the outside due to the excellent pub- year were the worst in a century. Even with this | much-needed gain and with continuation of large - American grain exports at the scheduled rate of 479 and house- million bushels this year, the ver capita amount of ilable to Europeans will be only 89 per cent two-day closed period during which supplies may not {)r: gg;x&?xO;fl.k‘;fg‘:::: (‘(‘:_c‘:":::‘r bfi:‘efi?v.‘:;;“w’x:i:i:fi U purchased I ties are even smaller. Thus while the outlook is more | For participation in the Salmon Derby, any per- | encouraging than heretofore, there is no reason to | son of 10 years or over is eligible. Every boat must be conclude that the emergency is over. The restoration | occupied by at least two persons and each boat must of an ample diet in Europe and other devastated areas | register, be examined and approved by the judges of will require stringent controls for some time to come. the port of entry. | Nor is there reason to become alarmed over the i s prospect that the American wheat crop will be the Eligible fish must be king or cohoe salmon second largest in history. This represents, to be sure PR a remarkable, improvement, over what seemed possible | after last fall's drought. But a great deal hinges on | this year's crop, about which little is known save that last year's floods have been replaced by dry spells | Without any political viewpoint, either Demo- iy certain areas. The present meat shortage can be | cratic or Republican, the fair minded person must traced in considerable degree to the small amount | admit that President Truman’s message, delivered in of feed corn available last year because of the poor t session of Congress, was a crop. The situation would have been even worse had | be solved. not some wheat been available as a substitute. The To the falr minded, the message was effective and same factors will govern during this year. There is no possibility of a world wheat surplus. If in the future | 80 Souraseolih, it becomes desirable to reduce dorhestic wheat acreage, Even Wall Street and the business community iy first reduction” ought to be made in the marginal approved meny of the objcctives although not agree- jands, the cultivation of which means the constant | ing to the means of those objectives. threat of a new dust bowl. (he WasEhingIonfi Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Pags Ome) THE SALMON DERBY will enter catching event. | licity given. stores are closing Saturday Juneau ! check over their want lists for the | 8rain aval wives are warned to THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE person yesterday at a join good presentation of the problems that must publican—"Subsidies are just OPA’s|inflated living costs, as evidenced | | black-market way of concealing the | by the fact that American consum- fact the cost of living is going uplers are paying $37,000,000,000 more | !and up and your money is buying |for what they buy this year than less and less and less.” in 1946. Rep. William Lemke, North Da- R kota Republican—“Today the ques- tion is should the OPA be liquidat- ed—abolished? My answer is that it should never have been created. It is an un-American, illegitimate child. It is of foreign parentage.” Rep. Carl T. Curtis, Nebraska Republican—"(OPA) is a sham and a fraud. It is one of the prime causes of inflation.” Rep. Edward O. McCowen, Ohio UNDER THE DOME P Most people remember criticism, don't remember justification. When | Congressman Chet Holafield had the courage to stick up for Dr. Edward Condon of the Bureau of | Standards, he received a barrage of brickbats. Now Condon has been completely exonerated by the jdent that, while Congress had “passed farm price supports, it was only the bgginning of a long-range farm program. The farmers need- ed other measures, such as soil conservation, rural electricity, aid to rural schools, ete. “Well, I'll certainly keep plug- ing a “poor security risk.” the | Jarring note at the Pershing funer- us make | North 34" Atomic Energy Commission of be- | ging for you,” Truman promised. WHY THE HOUSEWIFE WORRIES It has now been exactly two! years since the Congress of the| United States, after hot and hec- tic debates in the month of July, 1946, voted to sabotage price con- trols. | Here are the official figures| showing the difference between| controlled prices and uncontrolled prices since the end of OPA: ! Price of meat—Upped 91 percent| since May 15, 1946. \ Rents—Which sremain under con- | trols, increased only 7.6 percent.! Gas and Eiectricity— Regulated | by state end municipal commis-| sions, have increased only 2 per- cent. General foed prices—Have gone! up 2141 percent over the 1935-39 average. Words certain statesmen would like to forget (made during the OPA debates two years ago): Sen. Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska Republican—"“Taft! Taft! Every- body's talking about what Taft! has done to OPA. I'm the fellow that knocked ocut meat control, and I've done more to kill that bill than anybody else.” Rep. John Taber, New York Re- publican—“OPA is at the present time the chief promoter of infla-¥ tion.” Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio Repub- lican—*“Prices somewhat higher than normal tend to increase pro- duction. We certainly should not force such a reduction In prices as to interfere with more produc- tion.” Rep. Reid F. Murray, Wiscousin Republican—"I co not care to vote for any more money for the OPA and thus increase the dangers of starvation . . . Chester Bowles and the other agencies are there to keep businessmen from making profit.” Rep. Henry D. Larcade, Louisiana Democrat—" OPA) was run in a highhanded, dictatorial and discriminating manner, treat- ing not only the members of Con- gress but the people of the coun- try as a whole with distain, dis- respect and discourtesy.” Rep Jessie Sumner, Illinois Re- | Republican—"Let ! break now, and then let the price- | control act die its natural death. | There will be confusion for a few al: one pallbearer was Gen. George Van Horn Mosley, who came to light during the Dies hearing as Jr, | months . . . Then confusion will end, prices will be stabilized and production will be normal and sufficient.” being the idol of . the fascists Knights of the White Camelia. A recent booklet circulated in Wash- ington is captioned: “Army general exposes Jews—General George Van | Horn Mosley, one of three top gen- erals in the first World War and friends: *“The Republican plntlurmfclose adviser to General Pershing, locks in two directions.” . . . Mrs.'lifts the lid on Jewish conspiracy Huey P. Long, wife of the late | and the Communist plot.” MERRY-GO-ROUND Remarked General Eisenhower to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA - . |o | I le | JULY 28 Helen Webster Harold McKinley Peter Gruening Renee Gray Mrs. Thomas Frye Helen Kerrigan Bessle Shinn |e . . ) e o o o > Former Cle Elum Mayfi Ends Life ELLENSBURG, Wash, July 28. —(P->After firing two shots whick missed his head, Arnold J. Schele, 74, former Cle Elum mayor, com- mitted suicide by putting a re- volver bullet into his temple at his home in Cle Elum Monday eve- ning, Coroner Henry Wager said. Wager said Schele, a long-time Cle Elum groceryman, had been in {ill health for some time. B e THE MONTEREY AVAILABLE For Salmon Derby Days. If in- terested as a fisherman or specta- tor, contact Alaska Travel Bureau, Phone 646. 949 2t NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE United States of America, Territory of Alaska, First Judicial A Divi- sion, SS. A Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a Writ of Execution, dated July 12th, 1948, issued out of the District Court of the United States, for the First Judicial Divi- sion of the Territory of Alaska, on and in pursuance to that certain Judgment rendered in said Court, on the 28th day of May, 1948, in favor of Carl F. Hagerup, as plain- tiff, and against Prank W. Harfis, Leota Puzey and Jack Westfall, as defendants, I have, on this 13th day of July, 1948, levied upon the following describél real estate, sit- uated in the City of Juneau and Territory of Alaska, to-wit: That certain tract of tide lands situated in Juneau, Alaska, and de- scribed as beginning at the South- east corner of Lot on Line 1-2, Casey-Shattuck Addition to the City of Juneau, Alaska, whence Corner No. 1 of said survey bears South 30° 28’ West, 105 feet distant; thence South 55° 29° West a ditsance of approximately 1153 fdt, thence 10° West a distance of approximately 35 feet to a point on the Southerly side of West Eleventh Street; thence North 55° 29’ along the Southerly side of West Eleventh Street for a distance of approxi- mately 115.3 feet to a point where !the Southerly side line of West Eleventh Street intersects Line 1-2, Casey-Shattuck Addition to the City of Juneau, Alaska; thence along Line 1-2, Casey-Shattuck Addition South 30° 16’ East to the place of beginning, together with the build- ings and improvements situated thereon; land that I will, accqrdingly, offer said real estate for sale, at public - | vendue, to the highest and best bid- der, for cash, on the 27th day of August, 1948, at 10:00 o'clock A M., at the front door of the Federal- Territorial Building, in Juneau, Al- aska, Dated at Juneau, Alaska, the 13th day of July, 1948. WILLIAM T. MAHONEY, United States Marshal. Territory of Alaska, First Judicial Division. By SIDNEY J. THOMPSON, Deputy. First publication, July 14, 1948. ] ’ Last publication, Aug. 4, 1948. Louisiana Kingfish, mag be lhe:— first woman in America to be the| wife of a Senator, a Senator her-| self, and the mother of a Senator. | She succeeded her husband, and now her son, Russell, is running. Keep an eye on dynamic young Lyle B. Martin of Olathe, Kansus, now challenging diehard Congress- man Errett Scrivner in the Kansas| Republican primaries . . . Friends| of Justice Bill Douglas are suggest- ing that he run for the Senate ! from Oregon in order to prepare for the Presidential race in 1952. Pronoun Aflirmative Look steadily 34. Bovine animal 35. Myaelf 36. DI mple ment Walking stick elf . Bishop Chinese pagoda 40. Irrigate 16. Automaton . Infrequent . King Arthur's 42. Rescue lance 43. Former public . Omission of & conveyance vowel from the middle of a word Exact likeness 49. 22. Musical sound travel . Crackle . Biblical king . Region Seaweed . Saltcellars Drone alt Kree Marry ACROSS 1. School of whales 4. Confuse Hang down . Female sheep, . Suppress in pronouncing gz 3. 32 33. Young hare Belonging to him | | 4. i 48 CORPORATION GRAVY While the cost of food to the housewife has zoomed, here is what’s happened to the dividends of big corporations The figures were presented re- | cently by plain-talking Democratic Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyo- ming, as compiled from the Federal | Reserve Board and various banking reports, as follows: Profits of 100 corporations after | taxes: ! 1940—8§1,875,000,000. 1945—8$1,943,000,000 | 1947—83,730,000,000. O'Mahcney also cited a Federal | Reserve Board report, stating that | business profits this year will ex- ceed the dizzy high of 1947. Point- | ing to individual corporations which ! have shared in this bonanza, he reported that General Electric Co. is now making profits in excess of | 20 percent of net worth, General" Motors 19.9 percent, U.S. Steel, 10| percent The 1947 profits of General Elec- tric, before taxes were paid, were five times greater than its 1939 profits, O'Mahoney charged. Meanwhile, he declared, wage in- | creases have been obliterated by Course of Gray rock | Crossword Puzzle L1 il [z]>[wli[- 0] [rm [mlZ[> 2 |0/z]>-] [m[w|m|w) [AlC[EQN|O[R]S] (RIE[ops|wE[E]T] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . Obtains L Off . Interim . Get away . Abseond . Abrading tool . Poem . Double . Mexican shawl . Bxcited . Departed Approach Construct P . Large compressed bundles . Furtive a_plow River in France drain . Assert . Cut of pork . Purveyors of food 6. Dross of & metal . Natural hole in the earth . Obliterated . Falters 12, Mediterranean sailing vessel 43. Exhibition 44, Weary 43, Soothe 46, Wicked 47, Neat 50. Room In barem 7. | is the truth.” Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpon e e ettt e G D WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I promise you that this Say, “I ASSURE you.” * OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Detonate. in DEBT, O as in OBEY, A as in ATE, accent first yllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Misstatement; two S's. SYNONYMS: Guiltless, blameless, faultless, innocent. 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: PEREMPTORY; taking away a right of action, debate, etc.; conclusive. “The officer's peremptory command was obeyed.” 20 YEARS' AGO TH'c empirE JULY 28, 1928 R. F. Lewis. President of the Juneau Water Company, was north- Pronounce det-o-nat, E as{bound on the Yukon for Juneau. 1 { §I Major Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska R&ad Commission, returned to Juneau after an inspection trip in Sitka. 3 | : e Bt The Moose Lodge was lining up a smoker for Labor Day and .foe Collier and Bob Eldred had beén tentatively matched for the main i event. ;i 1. America? 2. ANSWERS: South America. CM. Matthew. Corsica. Washington Irving. s ettt e et e . e LOOK and LEARN '2(, GORDON e ettt Which continent is wider at its widest point, North or South What is the Roman numeral for 900? In what Book of the Bible i3 the Lord’s Prayer found? On what island was Napoleon Bonaparte born? Who wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"? Simon Hellenthal, delegate to’ the Houston Democratic National Convention, was aboard the Princess Louise homebound. He was the only passenger for Juneau, the others being round trippers. ' i Arriving on the Queen from the Triangle Route were Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Green, Dorothy Bakke, Connie Zuboff, Mrs. Muriel Lanz, Mrs. T. Kettleson, Betty Gould and Mr. and Mrs. John Rustgard. Addie McKinnon was a northbound passenger on the Yukon after a trip to the States. Brooklyn, N. Y., a seafoods con- cern, which named its resident | agent Charles Cloudy, of Ketchikan. Cordova Labor Hall Association, Inc, of Cordova, a non-profit group formed by the Cordova Fish- Meeting Wednesday, July 28, ermans Union. 1948, at 8 o'clock. Smiley's Pool . O'Niell, J. M. McDevitt and Earl J. Chartier. It will issue 250,000 shares of stock having no par value. —————— FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER USRS MODERN ETIQUET Q. My son and daughter-in-law llvg with us, and she has shown no desire to help with the housework. ill feeling? A. You might talk with your son and let the suggestion of helping | come from him. Q. If a bride-to-be is invited to a wedding present, what she she do? A.» Accept the invitation as graciously as possible, then be modest! and reluctant in making the selection. Q. Is it ever permissible to use a piece of bread or a finger to pushi some morsel of food onto the work? A. No; for everyday propriety. this indicates ill-breeding, Alaska Board of Trade, Inc., of | Room. Everyone requested to at- Anchorage, to engage in the gen-itend. 949 2t eral brokerage and financial busi- ness. It was formed by Harry I. — Empire wantaas get resumts! T E ?{yOBERTA LEE il How can I tell her without causing Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 . "The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit go shopping with a friend, to select | | , ignorance, or a total disregard NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE United States of America, Territory of Alaska, First Judicial Divi- sion, SS. Public notice 1s hereby given, that by virtue of a Writ of Execution, dated July 8th, 1948, issued out of the District Court of the United States, for the First Judicial Divi- sion of the Territory of Alaska, on and in pursuance to that certain Judgment rendered in said Court, on the 9th day of July, 1948, in favor of JOHN RECK, Trustee, as plaintiff, and against FRANK W. HARIS, as defendant, I have on this 13th day of July, 1948, levied | lupon the following described real lestate, situated in the City of Ju-| neau and Territory of Alaska, to-, wit: . All of Lot 1, in Block 233, of the Casey-Shattuck Addition to the City | of Juneau, Alaska, according to the official plat thereof; and that I will, accordingly, offer said real estate for sale, at public vendue, to the highest and best bid- der, for cash, on the 2Tth day of | August, 1948, at 10:00 o'clock AM,, | at the front door of the Federal-! Territorial Building, in Juneau, Al- aska. | Dated at Juneau, Alaska, the 13th | day of July, 1948. WILLIAM T. MAHONEY, United States Marshal. Territory of Alaska, First Judicial Division. By SIDNEY J. THOMPSON, Deputy. First publication, July 14, 1948. Last publication, Aug. 4, 1948. FOUR FROM RICHLAND Four visitors from _Richland, Wash., E. Elaine Coffey, Eleanor E. Anderson, Helen Erickson and! Betty Corey, are staying at the' Baranof Hotel | AN . W. H. Baum, Registrar for La-| Balle Extension University is at! the Baranof Hotel. 949 2t T | b Don’t Forget BEFORE you renew the fire insurance policy on the furnishings in your. home, remember to increase the amount to cover all those things you have bought since the old policy was written. | filed their Articles - INCORPORATIONS The following organizations have of Incorpora- tion with Territorial Auditor Frank A. 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