The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1948, Page 4

Dculy Alaska Empire Published every evening except SBunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main St.r.ltl. J‘ll.lll. M Vice:! Bntered in the Post Office in Juness SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Welivered by carrier in Juness and Dousiss 1o¢ SL50 por mentd six months, §8.00; ene year, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following retes: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, jn unus $1.00 w» month, in advance, $1.50. Jubscribers will confer B Office of any failure ar irregularity in the deliver o their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 3% MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for woublication of all news dispstches credited to 1t o not uther- wise credited in this paper #nd also the local news published weretn. NATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspupers, 141) rourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, WasiL ECONOMIC ODDITY President Truman hopes to pick up a great many votes in the coming election by pointing to present high prices for which he blames the Republicans in Congress. But at the same time the Truman administration continues to interfere with any adjustment of food prices downward—an adjustment that would come naturally if the economic law of supply and demand were allowed to operate without interference. Even the huge shipments of food abroad under the European Recovery Program hasn't wiped out re- cent gains in food production. Down in the Pacific Northwest a bumper crop of potatoes would have resulted in a decrease in the price of this major food item. But in order to prevent such a happpening, the Truman adminstration’s Production Marketing Administration is bying up the surplus spuds at $2.60 a hundred pounds and selling them back to the farmers for 30 cents for livestock feed, throwing in with each hundred pounds sold back a sack worth 25 cents. Each sack is stamped “not for human consumption.” Meanwhile, housewives in the Pacific Northwest must pay $5 per hundred pounds for the same spuds. 1n the State of Washington, alone, the govern- ment has thrown more than $2,000,000 into the hole in the program to keep prices high. This all comes out of the taxpayer's threadbare | pocket. & Some of the current women's swim suits have very closely approached the irreducible minimum. A report comes to hand of a girl who outgrew her swim suit by gaining four ounces. “Boys can’t keep their minds on any college sub- ject when scantily dressed girls are present.” asserts a coliege professor. True, no doubt, with the exceptioh, of course, of anatomy. Dockside Caesar (Fairbanks News-Miner) | the lleup will last from four to six months. | tion would be offensive to Soviét Russia, then at war crl[)plln.g maritime strike with ‘attendant economic| a8 .paralysls for Alaskan commerce. y Bridges, CIO longshore chief, has predictéd The dig- play of arrrogant disregard for the nation's welfare Prestdent | inherent in this calm prediction will surprise no one Prastd p 12 familiar with Bridges’' record. It was obvious from the outset that the CIO leader was determined to force a strike. Only the intervention of the Federal courts and the granting of an injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act prevented the walkout from occurring 80 days ago. That the strike has been allowed to occur at all | serves again to emphasize the compelling need for new egislation to prevent work stoppages in industries that are essential in the life of the nation. The hiring hall and wages were trotted out by the union leaders as their excuses for the latest controversy with ship operators. The operators offered concessions and raises. They were willing to base the final decision on the hiring hall issue on the ruling which will eventually be made by the United States Supreme Court. In all cases the unions found the offers un- satisfactory. A study of the record of past maritime disputes reveals few occasions when Bridges and his longshoremen have been satisfied over anything pro- posed to avoid paralyzing maritime strikes. The CIO leader remains in a position thus to tamper with the economic security and well-being of Americans because the New Deal administration lack- ed the character to deport him. The first deportation warrant lodged against him was squashed by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. Bills for that specific purpose then were introduced in Congress. They passed the House by overwhelming majorities but were allowed to dée in the Democratic- controlled Senate. Federal Judge Charles B. Sears, sitting as a special ! trial examiner, found in 1941 that Bridges unques- tionably was a Communist and should be deported. Much of the evidence introduced at the hearing was compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In his decision, Judge Sears asserted that the testimony had shown that the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union, headed by Bridges, believed in, advised, advocated, and taught the overthrow of the govern- ment of the United States by force and violence. The same facts, Judge Sears continued, were shown to be true of the Communist Party, This finding left the deportation order iip to Attorney General F‘raxms Biddle. The order was never issued. Instead, Bridges was allowed to remain in this {country through a series of technical rulings,k which did not pretend to exvlere his Red connections nor the basic philosophies to which he had been found to subscribe. The New Dealers insisted that his deporta- with Hitler Germany. Then as now, there was no thought in high places | as to what offense might be given the American people by Bridges' continued presence on these shores. H Too Much Power Given Boards There has been too much of a tendency of gov- erning boards to exercise increasing powers over private business. For instance, the Civil Aeronautics Board has life and death power over airlines. Naturally the board should see that any airliner or company for hauling passengers and freight should fulfill proper safety devices. But, although it seems to have, it should not have the right to deny any plane or company the right to engage in business otherwise. We are referring to decisions: about so- | called non-scheduled companies operating from . the States to Alaska. It is to our way of thinking that any man after complying with the safety law should have the right to engage in any business endeavor. To decide who shall and who shall not do so is a check on the free | enterprise system. Free competition in any line is the best stabilizer, making for the best public service. A monopoly in any The West Coast ha: been plunged into another Hne too often becomes careless of public rights. lhe Washmglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | bcing in uniform,” they naturally jured out how he’s going after the \cuuldnt say anything. But now returned home, are saying a lot—and it's doing | the Ndvy no good. PENOLOG4ST - GOP on the tax issue. He will charge that the Repub- lican inccme tax reduction was part of a secret scheme to foist a sales tax on the country. This will be his line of argument: they WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1948 L4 L L] SEPTEMBER 8 . '] . . Joseph J. Stocker . L] Mrs. R. H. Williams [ . J. B. Burford, Jr. L] Capt. George Baggen . Elsie Stewart Vivian Gillespie Marian Campbell Winona Springer R. M..Wright With enthusiastic Federal Power Commission support, New York and Ontario worked out an agreement on the construction of a power dam at International Rapids. This has long been a major stumbling block. The accord was sent to the State Department for what was assumed would be routine trans- mittal to the International Joint At the meeting of the Women of Mooseheart Legion, special events were planned for the fall season, including a card party and a Hallowe'en Dance. At the meeting Mrs. Olaf Bodding won the kiddie kar race, de- feating all comers and near-goers. Miss Natalia Kashevaroff, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs, A. P, Kashevaroff of Juneau, left on the steamer Queen for Seattle, where she was to, attend the Cornish School to.study commercial art and SEPTEMBER 8, 1928 Jack Conway, son of Martin Conway, Postmaster at Skagway, ar- rived on the steamer Queen {rom Sitka where he had been visiting the McGrath family. He was to leave on the Northwestern for Skagway. George and Don Skuse returned to Juneau from a trip of nearly two weeks in the Taku River country. They went as far as the Canadian boundary line and brought back a big moose with them. interior decorating. \ A dance was held in the A. N. B. Hall with Lindseth’s Orchestra playing Scandinavian-American music. William Neiderhauser joined the staff of Connors Motor Co. He had Widest Selection of UORS ONE 399 “s-y It Witk Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Ce. HAY, GRAJN | mittee as treasurer in an effort (Ketchikan News) kg { uated along the Fritz Cove Highway, recently returned from a year in the States. ' Commission, which has the last word. Instead, State has pigeon- holed the agreement. Irate proponents of the project are charging that secrét coal and railroad pressure is behind = the State Department’s mysterious ob- durance. 4 Weather: High, 51; low, 48; cloudy. i Dally Lessons mEnghSh '{{4 L. GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, | herself.” Say, “She had only enough for herself,” or, for herself only.” » OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Xylophone. Pronounce zi-lo-fon, I as in SIGH, both O's as in NO, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Architecture; - “She only had enough for , “She had enough ¥ FLASHES A Congressional committee is quietly scrutinizinz the mammoth- sized historical division of the Army. Heavily loaded with high- paid “historians,” the agency is|zpg. 4 p : grinding out more books about SYNONYMS: Doubtful, dublous, uncertain, undetermined, question- | reach-echelon operations than | able, ambjuous. :‘h.ouéogmohx:: :;ootp:é ;fi:mgunzh WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us gave a talk before Detroit Reserve |increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | EVOLUTION; a development, especially as leading up to a deflnlte end | ARCH, though pronounced i officers, vigorously criticizing the late great General Patton .lor result. “The evolution of the flower from the bud.” George Kilion, head of the Govern- | ment-owned American President ! Steamship Line, may be recalled! by the Democratic National Com- MODERN ETIQUETTE Zbserra ree | Q. Will you please name some of the luck pieces that can be baked | into the bride's wedding cake? 1 A. A tiny ring for the first to be married, a thimble for the old; maid, a d‘ime for riches, a button for the old bachelor, a small wishbone for the luckiest girl, and miniature dice for the lucky man. 7 i Q. Is it correct to address a widow as Mrs. Mary Jones, or as Mrs. i to unearth some desperately needed campaign funds . . . Rep. George Bender, R, Ohio, is investigating charges of neglect of Negro patients at the Tuskegee (Alabama) Vet- terans Administration Hospital. BBt oy 2 i TIDE TABLE A. Only one hand should be used. SEPTEMBER 9 High tide, 6:06 a.m., 13.4 ft. Low tide, 11:57 a.m. 4.0 ft. High tide, 18:02 p.m., 15.5 ft. s e LOOK and LEARN ¢ & ¢. GORDON A. “Mrs. Henry Jones” is the correct form. Q. Is it correct to use both hands when eating corn on the cob? j 1. What is the lverue number of times a sleeper changes his 'posmon during an eight- hgnt sleep? e 000000000 i e Empire wantads get results! “9s o0 000000 —+ | 2. Which is the smallest of the major planets? UNITED STATES 3. What Presider r . DEPARTMENT OF THE mm‘o’ s at Presi ?t of the U. S. was sworn into office by his Iatha‘? Bureau of Land t | 4. By what are the bones of the body connected? DISTRICT LAND OFFICE * 5. What is the largest sea bird? Anchorage, Alaska o ANSWERS: o L J;lly 19{]3194; 1. About 35 times. restoRceBawse;sy x:a‘:enat l!teat;,t: 2. Mercury, with a diameter of about 3,000 miles. ! for a homesite under the Act of May | 3 Calvin Coolidge, upon the death of Warren Harding. 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809), Anchorage| % Lisaments. 5. The albatross. Serial 012344, for a tract of land described as Lot B, Tract A, of the . Fritz Cove Gorup of Homesites, site —— C.J mmfil C.P.A BUSINESS COUNSELLOR Plat of U. S. Surevy No. 2390, con= taining 3.23 acres, and it is now in STORA Call EXPERIENCED MEN | Alsska JANTTORIAL Service CONKLE and FOLLETTE Phoue Red 559 Seward Street Near Thira Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Museal and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Ofl Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone M 929 W. 12th St —— Warfield's Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Hulchings Ecnomy Market - MEA'IS—GROCERIES DELIVERY monzs 553—92—95 |{ The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Frankiin Sta. PHONE 138 Card Beyengo Co PHONE 216—DAY er NIGHT !fl' MIXERS or SODA POP (Contirued from Page One! | considerable secrecy, it ean be au- . thoritatively reported that three | chief items are under discussion: | 1. A visit by Chiang to Tokyo for a personal parley with Mac- Arthur. 2. The creation of an ani- Cemmunist front in the East. 3. Reopening of Chinese-Japa- | nese trade. Prespects of Chiang going (o‘ Japan are uncertain. His home | situation is very precarious. Chi-' nese economy is in a desperate| plight, and the Nationalists’ mili- tary position is little better. Due! to Nationalist incompetence, re- actionism, graft and treachery, Communist strength and armed in-: reads are greater than ever before. ‘With Chiang now far from a pop- ular hero, he may find it difficult to return if he should leave China. BRUSH-OFF Navy chiefs would be well ad- vised to scrutinize the conduct toward Reservists of certain regu- lar officers of the Thirteenth Dis- | trict on the West Coast. It smells| to high heaven, While the Nayy Command in Washington is doing a lot of huff- ing and puffing about its love for Re: these West Coast “hot shots™ are treating Reservists like | unwanted stepchildren. A certain Captain, a Commander and a Sec- ond Class hospital corpsman are particularly offensive. This is the cort of thing they are doing: A group of college educators, holding hard-earned Reserve com- missions, reported for a two-week tour of duty. All were making a personal * sacrifice to do this. The| Commander in charge of Reser- vists Training repaid them for their patriotism by loudly and pettishly informing them that the| Navy “already had too damn many professors.” The corpsman, while gjving the ! Reservists a physical chegk, wa| even more disparaging. And the Captain of the ship to which r.hey, were assigned acted as if they | were plague-bearing pest.s Al- { invitation to address the penolog- | i The defendant would get soaked {asked me if {ed the graduating class when he (eetts Institute of Technology.” | health for several years. thcugh some of them earn several times his pay in their profession, Boston’s irrepressible Mayor Jim | Curley is turning his recent prison experience to @& novel purpose. He is lecturing penologists on how Jjails should be run. Curley served time in. a Fed- eral penitentiary on a war-time mail-fraud conviction. When the American Prison Association met in Boston, he readily accepted an ists. “I had the good fortune to be a guest of the Government ior some | months without having to pay,” Curley told them. “I learned many things. 1 learned, for example,; that if a Judge had a good break- fast and was on good terms with his wife when he came into court, a defendant usually got a light sentence. But if the Judge did not enjoy his breakfast and came into court ill-tempered, it was 'too bad. hard. “Another thing I learned was that practically every collgce in the country, including #arvard, Yale, Princeton ‘and Columbia, was represented in my jail. They even had one man from West Poifit and another from Annapolis. One day I went into the prison library and saw a kindly old man who 1 didn't remember him. It turned out I had address- got his degree at the Massachu- BIG QUESTION The mysterious sudden death of Col. Gen. Andrel Zhdanov has giv- en new impetus to a long-held big question in foreign chanceller- ies—what will happen in Russia when Joseph Stalin dies? Now 68, he has been in poor Zhdanov was reported to have been one of three potential successors to Stalin. Now that Zhdanov is out of the ! way, pan-faced For;ian Minister | Molotov lcoms higher than ever as the most likely choice. However, nothi is certain of what will happen in the inner recesses ofl As a result of the GOP bill, there !is a-strong possibility of a Federal ‘deficit next year. To balance the i budget, the Republicans, accord- ing to the President, are planning to jam through a “soak-the-poor” sales tax. MONKEY WRENCH Behind-the-scenes, the State De- partment has just tossed a rip- i ping monkey wrench into one of the President’s }nvome projects— the St. Lawrence waterway. the files of the U. S Land Office, ! Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all persons claiming ad- ' versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse clalm in the district land office within{ the perfod of publication or, thirty days thereafter, or they will he barred by the provisions of the statutes. | GEORGE. A. LINGO, Acting Manager. First publieation, Aug. 25, 1048. 'Lasc publication, Oct. 20, 1p48. ACROSS Autg rue: ked e colloq. b Dmoed DOE 53, Piece of turni- 3 Ancient wine vessel 34, Pronoun Sogerexe. 2. Bone N mfi&"" 36, Garments . Short for @ 31. Crackle mt ‘n name 38. Like a nephew it Precious stone Vex slightly acter . Domestia tow! 63. Private lr:wu sheep Solution of Yesterda oowN 88, Insect 56. Derlods of UmMe | Fagtener 51. Furtive 2. Winglike 3, Recollections 4. Survivor 5. Go up 6. Horseback ockey 1. Mountain 1n ¥ Cri 8. Grow smuller 9. Broad street 10. Nothing more than 11. Hewing tools 19. Enormous 21, Wavy: heraldry 23. Repasts 24, Wheeled vehicle 5. Humble 6. Resist authority 7. Bast Indian tree S, Stumbered the Kremlin. Molotov, too, may | pine away! | SALES TAX President Truman has it all fig- | W w 2 -z/ g intrigue 33. Entirety 34, Old-time candle acces sories awser Secure Powerfut ¥ e 42. Small engine 48. Sunken fence 44. Begin . Facts Russian river Sticky Aceounting Systems Taxes Phone 851 Room 3—Shattuck Bldg. Windew—Auto—Plate—GLASS S : ——— || IDEAL GLASS CO. The Sweetest Spot in Town ||| 5% oy s DON ABEL PHONE 633 CHANNEL EM;M!&iUM Cundiés — Ice Cream — Soft Drinks — Tabaccos 330 South Franklin 8t. J. A. SOFOULIS, Proprietor BOGGAN Oldest Bank in Alaska e, nm—fimmhcmmmmm-m R Quali ‘:iy/ Wpfk Clothing a8 & paiG-ap sui i nurntnhwuhmmcmnnme Pr&ehtthueoupontoméhoxoflmo!m M'lu..-l PRORE | FRE BOYAL BLUE A 66 memmcmmflmflm mdbymumewfi:'fionreomm WATCH mfl’AW—Y" Nl-O h ml omuummom M'r“‘cm" MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14} SECOND and FOURTH in Scottish Rite Temple . beginning at 7:30 p. m. WILLIS R, BOOTH, Worshipful Master; , LEIVERS, gecretary, > W € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- ;ome JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Xalted Ruler. W, Beetoey, H. BIGGS, 2:15 — 4:00 P, M R ""The Rexall Store” Your Relisble Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURC DRUG CO. Public Accountant Avditor Tax Counsetor Simpson B1dg. Phone 757 Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Pred W. Wenat Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Reoms dl-l-l& Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 556 Thomas Hardware Co. FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — gn, Junean Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE nni‘}é%s 1CE CRE CE Clwfl Junean Dn:nes, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 148 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 3 DR. ROBERT SlMPSOfi PTOMETRIST Eyes kn-hd-m--. m-n SIMPSON BUILDING: Phone 266 for Mmm S ——————— ASHENBRENNER'S FURRITURE Phiade 86 mmq.