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

PAGE FOUR aaasrETn. ke . 4 Daily Alaska Empire Pablished every evenins except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - VOROTHY TROY LINGO - WILLIAM R. CARTER . ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER girls; this may be a Leap Year bargain. : “Do vou suffer from illusiops?” asks a psychologist. | No, indeed. We enjoy them. Success and Failure tes: ix mopths, n sdvance, $7,80; | e e SRR AT RS e L % Bntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter A SUBSCRIPTION RATES Selivered by carrler in Juneau and Dousias for SL5¢ per month; e m:l‘: :::::::, ulr (Washington Post) o ‘,’.?‘:.,{i‘i;.".h‘.‘:;;‘.‘.’".‘x.'n‘-" One Vwcck last autumn an article appeared in one Bubscribers will confer a favor if they wiu prompily motity ; Of the big slick-paper magazines under the signature 2. ‘:‘T:::' O..Xfl.n of any failure gr irregulerity in the delivery | of Mr. Leo Durocher, then under sentence of banish- Televhones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 ment from organized baseball. It was a spirited de- —_— | fense of Mr. Durocher’s ethics on the playing field and e Assoct N Ok A A T antitied to the une for |in the clubhouse, and its gefieral tenor was pretty well sepublication of &ll news dispatches credited ta it or not «thes- 'indicated in the title Nice‘Guys Finish Last. In other g et 11 this pader #nd also the local news published | ;.45 being a ger:flemnn doesn’t -get you anything except an opportunity to show off as a graceful loser, .ough'l:xzfii-;gflgmfl;‘;‘g — Alaska Newspavers, M1l |45 that only briefly, because the people whose dol- e — e | lars support our great character-building game of base- |ball have probably no patience with ‘losers, graceful | or awkward. And when the turnstiles at the ball park | cease to rotate with their wanted velocity your contract | will ‘be taken up. & I Mr. Durocher’s thesis appears to have been beau- |tifully vindicated in the case of Mr. Melvin Ott, a | member of the New York Giants for 22 years and | manager of the club for the last half dozen of them. |Now Mr. Ott has the reputation inside and outside the baseball world of a very nice guy indeed, civil to umpires, chivalrous to opponents, sympathetic to his colleagues, and apparently ¢onscious of the duty of | setting a good example to the young Americans who |bought the breakfast foods, fielders’ mitts, chewing | gum, razor blades or what not sold with' his endorse- | ment. It is doubtful, of course, that Mr Ott will ever PRECEDENT IS SET \be asked to indorse anything again, except the salary S .. | checks still due under his contract, which will not A precedent, certainly rare, was set last Saturday | expire until two years hence. For Mr. Ott has been in New York City when President Truman and Gov. | dismissed as -manager of the Giants and his place Thomas E. Dewey met on the same platform and made ,‘gwen, appropriately enough, to Mr. Durocher. short talks. It was the first time in modern American | The transfer from Brooklyn to Manhattan is, of history, according to reliable records, that Opposing |course, highly advantageous to Mr. Durocher, and presidential candidates of the two major political |PrOYes again that opportunities come to the man who parties appeared together at a public function and | able to make them. The Giants are said to have s s | quite as much money as the Dodgers, which Mr. Duro- spoke from the’ same platform. |cher may be able to persuade them to spend for a President Truman and Gov. Dewey appeared at|,py got of ballplayers. Moreover, Harlem is consider- the dedication of New York's new International Air- !nbly closer to Broadway by either taxicab or subway port. They united in calling the gigantic airport a than Flatbush. In his new surroundings, Mr. Durocher symbol of America’s faith in lasting- peace. The air- 1wfll presumably be free of the unnatural and indeed port itself is a 5,000-acre landing field. | intolerable ‘restraints placed upon him by the narrow Asserting the airport is “both the symbol of our [nnd provincial prejuices which unhappily still pre- faith that we shall have peace and a contribution |Vail on ;Lhi iart!\tt_’rvbankfohfd th:) l:::i;‘ Thei xe):iuje; aenrd " S pace.” resi even spiteful criticism o! T. er volc cer- toward lasting peace,” the President called the display Itain circles there had nothing to do with the business of military planes “convincing evidence of our de- of winning pennants. They were wholly concerned termination to remain strong in the cause of peace."f'“h his extra-professional life in Hollywood, Nevada, The Republican presidential nominee described |Mexico and elsewhere, in which one would think Mr. the airport as a symbol of peace and “a powerful imple- | Durocher was entitled to as much privacy as the rest ment for peace.” |of us. During the dedication scores of military planes | It seems to us that the triumph of Mr. Duorcher soared over the airport, many making landings. |over his eritics illustrates anew the truth that bas- {ball is the great, wonderful game it is, and such a wholesome influence on our youth, because it so ac- | curately epitomizes the spirit that has made this coun- | try strong and great. In baseball as in politics and (business and life* generally the thing is to win, and the hell with how you do it. In philosophy this spirit People complain when it rains, and they complain is called pragmatism and in biology natural selection, when it doesn’t rain., Why can’t they make up their put. just plain Americanism is a good enough word |for us. A few men are intuitive, too. The other day a Massachusetts man fainted while applying for a mar- riage license. minds? already had strong support from Bill Knowland of California | the GOP leadership. then proposed passing a rule *Malone had nothing tosay about | against filibusters at once; but Taft a post-election session, but he-beg- | pointed out that such a motion, it- !ged to go home now. Once an self, would be filibustered. | amateur pugilist; he gave the Sen-| “When 20 determined men decide ators the benefit of his experience to filibuster,” he declared, “you in the ring. |can’t break it in less than five or “Truman is in the position now |six weeks.” tail” he told Of a fighter who is knocked flat, Note: A cheerful note was intro- is doesn't have|On his back in the tenth round,"!duced by Iowa’s Bourke Hicken- | Warned the Nevadan. “He has got!looper, who told of the break in s nothing to lose if he comes up | the. oats market. One reason prices | swinging wildly. But it is & mis-, were falling, he claimed, was Iowa’s take for us to stick our chin out.” | pounteous oats crop. | “Are they tame oats?” piped up Crump’s machine in a three-corn- “DON'T MAKE US | someone in the rear. RUBBER STAMPS” ! B i ered showdown fight over Tom Stewart's Senate seat. | Massachusettss Henry Cabot'e ¢ ¢ 0 o » © © 3 & ® Both Crump and Stewart, ”h']Lodge criticized Taft’s Policy Com- ' o viously worried, have gone to the mittee for releasing a statement extreme length of trying to tu-miq_o the press befere consulting with racial prejudice against Ke(auvel" the resti of the Senators. Firecrack-| o by calling him a foreigner. Crump er-tongued Charles Tobey of New | o has been buying full-page news- Hampshire agreed. He said it|, paper ads, smearing Kefauver as made the caucus look like a rubber | o a foreigner and therefore un-Amer- | stamp. e ican. | Usually brusque Gene Millikin of | g o o e o0 00 0 ¢C At the same time J. J. Walker| Colorado tried to smooth over the| i S ORI of McMinnville, Tenn. prominent' discord, suggested that the re-| lumberman, has been acting as Jease was :Even as the view of| EmP'fe wantads get results! % o The Washingloni : Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) rings around its Tennesseans, “but a ring through its nose.” Kefauver, who looks and act: like Cordell Hull in his younger days, is staking his forthright rec- ord in Congress against Bussi TIDE TABLE AUGUST 3 Low tide, 6:37 am. -18 ft. High tide, 13:05 p.m., 14.5 ft. Low tide, 18:40 p.m., 3.6 ft. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, lffls “I 'will marry any girl who will give me $500," | announces an Idaho young man. Better investigate, AUGUST 2 o) o Mrs. J. A. Thibodeau . Robert Feero . * Virginia Bardi c] Mrs. Henry H. Larsen -l Kristine Gullufsen Mrs. Sam Paul, Sr, . Sammy Wagner ol Karen Leslie Roberts L¥| Robert Turner o H. B. Crewson L3 . |y o060 6 0soeoeoeo ool | i SIXTV-FIVE ARRIVE] |SEVENTY-NINE LEAVE IBY ALASKA COASTAL! Sixty-five persons arrived and 79 left with Alaska Coastal flights over | the weekend as follows: From Elfin Cove: James Gleaton. | From Haines: John Hanley, H. S.| Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Lubke, Bud Townsend, J. B. Abbott, A. Wollcott | and N. Wollcott. ( From Skagway: Mrs. Eva Hamil- ton, Tom Dyer and Mrs. A Hall. | From Tulsequah: F. Ridden, E. Williams, J. Dustem, J. Wilson, J.| |Murray, A. Campbell, R. Craig andi | Miss M. Williams. A \ From Sitka: Mrs, J. Conway, Jack | Conway, Minnis and M. Ellingen,' Mrs. A. Glenn, June Kinsbury, Pete ! | Barril, Max Lockman and Glen' Daniels. From Tenakee: A. Kiefer. ' From Hoonah: Mrs. J. Welsh, Roy , IBean and Nancy Jackson. From Ketchikan: H. Hungford. | From Petersburg: D. McKinnon. From Pelican: Wayne McGee, R.! C. Bagley and Mabel Cropley. l} To Sitka: Alfred Perkins, E. Au- |gustine and J. Garcia, T. Smith. } To Taku Lodge: Royal O'Reilly,! {Udell Hawk and Mr. and Mrs. N. | Ault. |, To Haines: J. E. Smith, Marion {Thorngpn, William Darlin, Mr. Ell- iinger, J. E. Smith, R. Laurin and; | Mrs. R. Johnson. To Pelican: Mrs. Leskie, {Rodriquez and Dave Milnes. | To Tulsequah: J. Stinson, E. N. Mathewson, R. W. Vincent, A, E.f Vincent, A. McLeod and H. Smith.: To Wrangell: W. D. Compton, | Lowery Broad and John Ferguson. | To Ketchikan: Ed Peak. | To Hoonah: R. W. Craig. | To Gustavus: Ann White. To Petersburg: Eva Hamilton, V. Blankenship and William Howell. To Tenakee: A. R. Hiliary. & To Excursion Inlet: Mr. and Mrs. Peggy ? HOSPITAL NOTES i Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical treatment over .the { wéekend» were Mrs. Karl Karlson, | Mrs. Oscar Mangsol, Berton Davis, Mrs. Axel Nelson, and William Dick, a baby. Leaving the hospital were Mrs.; |Ray Peratrovich, Carol Jean Mac- Donald, James Nielson, Mrs. Altert Tickell and haby boy, Mrs. Verne Metcalfe and baby boy, and Mrs,i Edward Springer and baby girl. 1 A son was born to Mrs, Eizatbeth Howard in the Government Hospit- al early yesterday morning. The baby weighed séven pounds ‘four ounces at birth. e WRITER HERE Louie Jacobin, publisher . of. “Guide To Alaska,” is registered at the Baranof Hotel. He is from ILos Angeles. Stewart’s mouthpiece in spreading the Committee—not of the full | the same charge. | caucus. Acting majority leader Ken | Not: Actually, was) Wherry chimed in with the ex-| born in Monroe Tenn.,! planation that several newsmen | near Madisonville. had been on their necks and it was impossible to dodge them. Lodge came back with the sug- Gauging their own lond-winded- | gestion that the special session ness, Republicans Senators schedul- | be restricted to action in infla- ed the Senate to start an hour late | tion, housing, civil rights, the in-| the other day. They wanted to decide | ternational wheat agreement and | what they should do about Harry|the UN loan. Taft reminded him | Truman's challenge of a ithat it was up to the committees special‘ b sessicn. _ They were right in their|to decide what Congress should | prefix , | Metal-bearing estimate—their verbal free-for-all|consider. | lasted all morning. | New York's Irving Ives urged| i3 Only the sound of muffled voices | that all the President’s recommen- 3 filrllu" "ve"i""‘ leaked through the ponderous! dations be processed through the! . Abstaing m doors, but here is a p]‘y-by-pluy‘yfimm“tm before the Republicans Bm"%‘} gy account of what haffbened inside|made a decision on what should be | 7, th_h‘s the GOP meeting. done. Judicious Forrest Donnel | fl gj"w“gfi'“ Speaking for the high command,;of Missouri agreed that in view of | 32 Destination Senator Bob Taft made it clear |the President's Constitutional pow-| 35. Scoteh river that the decision to "keep Con-ers, the only “fair and- Constitu- gress in special session Jong | tional” thing to do was to turn enough to pass on “emergency mea- | his recommendations over to the! pures” had been dictated by their committees. | new Republican leader, Tom Dewey.| President of the Senate Arthur| Taft said he had been In constant| Vandenberg limited his say to a touch with Dewey, both by tele- | couple minutes, but stressed the phone and through his Washington- | importance of going through the | based campaign manager, Herb committee procedure. : Brownell. | Taft quoted Dewey as saying it} would be a “grave mistake” to; AND RULE adjourn immediately. Then Taft| Belligerent Harry Cain of Wash- added his own opinion that Con- | ington State urged bringing up the gress should remain in session sales-tax bill for ‘Washington, D. about two more weeks. | C., predicting 4t would start Sena- | This brought sharp disagreement tor Olin Johnston of South Caro- from Wyoming's Bd Robertson, | lina on another filibuster. Indiana’s Bill Jenner and Ne-| Both Taft and Wherry opposed vada’s George Malone. Robertson'this. But Taft was anxious to called for immediate ndjournmen'.,'bring up the anti-poll tax bill, suggested they reconvene after in order to start a filibuster and November. (He faces the fight of 'expose the division inside the his life irom Wyoming's Governor Democratc Party. Taft also sug- Hunt.) Taft replied that the idea'gested this would demonstrate the of a special Republican session of \need for a rule to break filibust- Coneress, called by the Republicans, ' ors Kefauver County, * ACROSS . Symbol for . 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WARS Taku Post No. 5339, Meets first and third Thursdays. Post Seward Street. Visit! Comrades Welcome. R AUGUST 2, 1928 : | Gonmeter) Elliott Fremming was driving a new 1929 Essey, six-cylinder coupe, l.. purchased through the Tom McCaul Agency. » NE'39¢ Mrs. H. M. Krogh and daughter Clara arrived home after a visit south. R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water Co., from Piedmont, Calif., Miss Rae Stevens entertained with two tables of bridge at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stevens, in the MacKinnon Apart- ments. “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 31 Walter M. Maeser and family came in from their fox farm at Teb- enkof Bay. Mrs. A. Shudshift and children left for a camping trip on the Men- denhall road. i Secretary of Agriculture Jardine was making an Alaska trip. w.lllmm Frank arrived on the Admiral Watson from the westward. i Dr. D. M. Damourette was at the Zynda from Seattle. 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