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

A Daily Alaska Empire | ®ublished every evening except Sunday by the IMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks Good Job Done (Anchorage News) The lowest loss by forest fire ever reported for the Alaska public domain was recorded officially by . President | (he Alaska Fire Control for the season just past. by *| It was a splendid record for the hard working and alw; money-short Fire Control system of Alaska. usiness Manager |\, iestly enough, the Fire Control attributes a good Sawered In the Post Office In Juneau Second Class Mstter | deal of the fire scarcity in the 1948 season to an un- SUBSCRI B | Gsual wet season in western Alaska where the huge wettvered and Douslas for SL5¢ onth; | UsU g s s 7 e e, ene renr: sis0e T "l spruce forests are pretty well dried out by August. o pald, at tne followins rates The Fire Control is not being fair to itself when your, 3 i SIX MO " 08, $7.80; Lt satdnen KO N D |it lays all the credit to Mother Nature. Many years of One e month, in advance, #1.80. Subscribers wil) confer a favor if they wili promphly BOMIY | 1ganization and hard work since the Fire Control | was established under the late W. J. McDonald in 1940 be Business Office 0f ARy faflure or irregularity in the delivery ‘no doubt have much to do with’the receding fire i m News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. o losses in Alaska. The training of crews, excellent or- ganization within means available to answer fire calls and, most important of all, educating the public in using care in the woods have all added to an over all decline in forest fires in the public domain. As matter of comparison the Fire Control has MEMBEP OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asscctated Prcss is exclusively entitled to the une for wpubtication of all news dispatches credived to it or not ether- | wise credited in tals paper fud also the local news publiszed ‘eretn. — — e WATiUNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspupers. M1) | urth Avenue Blds, Besttle, VasiL released the following figures since 1940: I 1940 4,500,000 acres burned 1941 3,654,744 acres burned 1942 452,510 acres burned 1943 666,773 acres burned i 1944 110,000 acres burned 1945 117,000 acres burned | 1946 1,438,963 acres burned 1947 1,143,665 acres burned The fire control points to the exceedingly low fire loss in the years from 1942 to 1944 as reflecting ithe greatly curtailed civilian activities in Alaska due ! declared a Theatre of Operations. In 1946 and 1947 with full return to civilian Istatus, fire losses went up but by no means did they RUSSI/ | Control. This agency, now under the direction of Roger We had not noted anything peculiar about the who served with the Fire Control since its i Robinson, new yellow postage stamp issued in commemomucn\mwmmn of the Gold Star Mothers, except the difficulty °“)>reclous little to do it with. discovering which side of the thing was the top, until|" That this is an understatement, may readily be one of our correspondents sent us a copy of Linn's|seen in comparing the Fire Control's appropriation of Weekly Stamp News. There we were disconcerted to|$138,000 for last year with the 225,000,000 burnable read that the star on the stamp is not one of the | acres in the public domain it is chatged with patroling. ! pointed or spangled kind favored in our own American | heraldry, but rather one of the pot-bellied sort with | stunted angles used in the insignia of the Red army | and in Russian decoration generally. Indeed, it seems | (Seattle Times) | It is beginning to dawn on the United States he Russians issued a stamp of | * thes nol' ver'};f]o:ghngo Y isely the same kind of ,:tnr | Maritime Commission that Pacific Coast shipyards are i SR e b 2 !of some importance in the national security picture. B : 3 1t is reported the commission is about to studv a pro- Thus the suspicion that leaps immediately to mind posal that government ship repair and shipbuilding js that some more strange hanky-panky has been |pe allocated on a regional basis, so that West Coast going on in the Government service that Mr. ‘Thomas 'yards will not remain idle. and his colleagues had better look into. But on care- Because of the differential in the cost of steel ful second thought we are inclined to dismiss the|when it is shipped west, Atlantic shipyards have been i i 2 virtual monopoly in government ship con- whole thing as another of those interesting but ir- enjoying a vir 10poly ; relévaht colnéidences; | Tt the Russians, generally |Struction. But there is no economy in that in the speaking, prefer their stars a little fatter than we do | '°"8 I § 2 s The more farsighted policy would be to maintain A e becau.se' B s e e !a vigorous ship-building industry on both coasts. But over there and because, in spite of all the five-year farsightedness is something we Americans sometimes plans, their system of artificial illumination are not find it difficult to attain until it is thrust upon us as good as ours, and also, perhaps, because Comrade |y circumstances, rudely. Stalin, who sets the stvle in all these matters, has —— been putting on a good deal of weight recently. The Another reason why you should worry less about queer thing, come to think of it, is that the Russians | the future because there probably is increasingly less should still be satisfied with a single star. You'd sup- of it to worry about: A new source of uranium has pose they would want the whole heavens. They’ll Learn—Perhaps ] |been found in the Belgian Congo. [ the probe of Democratic Kilgore's'most of the crop loans, the gov- election up in the air for two full ernment takes all the risk be- years. |cause the loans are insured 100 If ex-Governor Kerr has spent per cent by the taxpayers. Second, a lot of money in Oklahoma, it the CCC has some convincing fig- should be investigated—but by an ures showing - that bank-service impartial committee, not one whose costs are more than offset by the record and whose backstage wire increased volume of crop loans; pullers cannot stand the clear light also, that the increased size ltl)( G 3 2 - of day. |individual loans has substantially l};:l;l::u\;‘o &0:‘2@ nfi;‘:fi‘:‘{:ll\;‘;,sf‘ ‘redvuced the over-all service costs. ington lobblist, and ex-Secretary | Third, says the CCC, the middle of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan. But of the 1948 crop loaning season * Ihe Washinglo'n' : Merry-Go-Round By DREfiJABSON «Contirued from Page One) BARKLONIAN HUMOR B "y Barkley isn’t elect- is no time to reshuffle interest rhaps, when you examine thel FBven if Alben t ?:cts ,;ax'efun\' )the quirk isn't so|ed Vice President, he still will rates. So it looks as ¥ the bank- strange anerfluu, For Lyons is|have a lot of pleasant memcries of ers would lose out, at least until | this campaign. |next January. really the man who put William | p X | Talking long-distance from Hunt- | 8. Jenner in the Senate. And Der- Ao | = ington, West Virginia, to Les Bif-' anian is now Lyons' man~F‘r£day; s inside Jenner's committee. ! fle, director of the Senate Demo- | {cratic Poli Committee, Barkley ! reported : ve been doing a lot lof flying—and is my face red!” WHY REAL ESTATE BOYS BACK FLETCHER One of the most significant elec- POLTICAL AMBITIONS tions in the entire nation is tak- THWARTED “What from—the wind?" inquired ing place in San Diego, Calif, Lyons has always nursed P(’“",Blbbla where the real estate lobby is tical ambitions in Indiana, but| “No, from being kissed by all throwing in wads of money and all West the support it can muster to re- elect Congressman Charles Fletch- ‘ler, Republican, one of its chief | stooges inside the banking and |currency committee. Fletcher came to Congress with the support of the real estate always has been thwarted. In 1944 those pretty in he was actually elected chairman vyirginia.” of the Indiana Republican State! Committee, but the news of his election caused so many people to hold their noses about Lyons is ed. What makes Indiana voters girls here 1RONG NAME FOR GOOD FRIEND | Republican Congressman John McDowell of Pennsylvania is one |to war when most of Alaska and the Aleutians were | i |approach the pre-1940 losses when there was no fire | ing lobby. | i | But in San Diego, Fletcher has! has indeed done a remarkable job with'| jer’s father sold a tract of land to | pouring money into San Diego to TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA I from It 20 YEARS AGO T empirE ‘ et e i b ! | g S NOVEMBER 2, 1928 The Juneau Cold Storage Company had retired $5,000 in its bonds * & ® ifollowing the first year of operation. President of the company was :' NOVEMBER 2 ® | wellis George. ° : F;:‘Ll:;h AAESK.?,“%:;Z:‘: .l Homer G. Nordling Jr., four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. . Mrs Thvbrlun- Mack o | Nordling, underwent an Dp(-l'atlon.l’or appendicitis in St. Ann’s Hospital. leo J. R. Hachmeister o | His condition was reported as satisfactory. | o william Paul, Jr. .' T ‘e Ar 'T. Sprague . The annual roll call of the local Elks Lodge was held the previous e Virginia Neilsen ® |evening. Exalted Ruler Henry Messerschmidt presided. One hundred i Arne Kronquist ® land fifty members reported present at the calling of the roll. The mem- bers were entertained by a vaudeville musical sketch presented by Earle Hunter Jr. and Bill Vale. To end the evening a buffet luncheon was his father, which may lose a lot {served. of other people’s money. i g i Here are the facts in the case:i agide from the usual soaping and candling of windows and other |Fletcher founded the Federal Bav- ..o pranks that are always played by the youngsters on Hallowe'en 1ings and Loan Assoclation of San|( . % 11 ed thyt rial [Diego and fs still its {night, Chief of Police George Getchell reported thgt no material damage president. { i {Furthermore he draws a salary or[wns done the previous night. ! 1$10,000, even while he is supposed | ;lo be devoting his full time to: A card party was given in the Paiish Hall the previous evening with Congress. ~ As a Congressman, 56 people in attendance. Mrs. Claude Harris and Mrs. Dull won the | Fletcher introduced the bill o jses for the ladies and Jerry Cashen and Grant Baldwin for the men.| |abolish rent control, voted con- | sistently against housing reforms,l and is a member of the joint | committee on housing which sa- Taft-Ellender-Wagner | So, all in all, he! ididn't do so badly by the hous-: Weather: High, 48; low, 37; partly cloudy. e e i e e et ! Daily Lessons in English % 1. cozrpon | botaged the | housing bill. -~ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Just listen at the rain.” |say, “listen TO the rain.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: ‘Hearth. in ARM, not HERTH. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Alumnus singular. Alumni, alumnae; plural. SYNONYMS: Exuberance, exuberancy, plenty, abundance, copious- ness, profusion, excess, overflow. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: not done so well by the people who invested in his Federal Savings and Loan Association. First, Fletch- Pronounce harth, the A as a San Diego real estate operator named Larry H. Imig for around $30,000. Then young Fletcher turn- ed around and loaned Imig the money which he, Imig, paid Fletch- | er's father for the land. Following | 1 (masculine), alumna (feminine); Let us this, Imig erected a housing de- velopment which he named : OBTRUSIVE; disposed to thrust impertinently upon another. “A really “Fletcher Park” in honor of the |educated and cultured person is all the less obtrusive for his knowledge.” two gentlemen who sold him the | land and loaned him other peo- | ple’s money to pay for it. Then Imig built another development which he named for himself “Imig: Park,” plus a swank hotel with! swimming pool and night club,| which he named “Imig Park Man- or.” { Meanwhile, Imig kept borrowing money from Fletcher's Federal Savings and Loan Association, un- til his debt now runs to around | $1,250,000—or about one-half the | total assets of the A&socmtiuxg It this were letcher's moneys it would be one thing, but what wor- ried the Home Loan Bank , in Washington is that the U. S. Gov-, ernment has insured the San Diego | Federal Saving and Loan Associa- tion and Uncle Sam may have to bail Fletcher out. Congressman Fletcher started: the | | | | | | by } | MODERN ETIQUETTE Mmerra vee | e e e ettt ettt i | 1 Q. If a letter is being written to a friend, or to a social acqunmt-l ance, should the prefix Mr., Mrs, or Miss be used in the signature? A. No. Sign it “John Smith” or “Mary Allen.” Only in business | letters written by women is the title “Miss” or “Mrs.” used, and this should be enclosed in parentheses. Q. Is it proper to fold the napkin when one has finished eating? A. No; leave the napkin lying loosely beside the plate. Q. Is it obligatory to invite the clergyman to attend the reception after the wedding? A. Tt is not obligatory, but it is the courteous thing to do, especially if he is a friend of the family. LOOK and LEARN % A. C. GORDON {| —— em——— S SEATTLE ®or COMFORT wnd BERVICE } Dewey W. Get the NEW Metzdort WASHINGTON Vice-Pres. and Habit! Managing Director ALASKRANS FEEL AT HOMI at Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— ( WAL1ER R. HERMANSEN H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys_ GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS HONE 299 “Say It With ¥lowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Qrocery PHCNE 4 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANITORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone Red 559 STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street ~ Near Third Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Musieal Instruments savings and loan business back in 1. What is the oldest railroad in the United States? 1934 on only $9,500. He hit it just 2. What famous English navigator discovered the Hawaiian Islands? at the right time, shortly before the 3. What is the most valuable farm product? i war boom. By the peak of the 4. How many furlongs are there in a mile? i koom, his association’s total cap- 5. What State’s inhabitants are known as “Tarheels"? H ital was swollen to nearly $3,000,-{ ANSWERS: : odo—of Fhigh abaut half is tied up§ ; me Baltimore and Ohio, chartered in 1827. | with one real estate speculator* 1l 2. Captain Ji c y | You can understand, therefore, o aRn, Jaes Oock LIBEITR). why Congressman Fletcher blithely 3. Mk ! voted against public housing. Ob- 4. Eight. i viously, when he could lend money 5. North Carolina. | to private speculators with a gov- T R A e ~ — { ernment guarantee to bail him out " » - & I he wasn't terribly interested in the| " here i no substitute for newsoaper advertising' | low-cost public housing provided for in the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill. Also, you can easily under-l stand why the real estate boys are} re-elect their key friend inside the Banking and Currency Committee. e — CAROL ANN COUNCIL IS ! * PARTY HOSTESS HALLOWEE: Eight friends celebrated Hal- lowe'en as the guests of Carol Ann Council at the home of her mother, Mrs. Wallis George, at the Baranof Saturday. Dinner, games, fortune-telling, masks and festive Hallowe'en decorations afforded Plumbing © Heating Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nighis-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. 1 | | | | hold thei rnoses about Lyons is lobby's master wire-puller, Morton the youngsters a very gay time be- first, his connection with e Tou member of the Un-American Ac- po o “yhnoce orgnnl:za(ion is now fore they started tricks-and-treat- Klux Klan at a time when the tivities Committee who does not .. " jictment. Recently, Con- Ing through the hotel apartments. Klan was in its goriest heyday, believe in “kickbacks” However, Gl OE PO o B under Mrs. Ceell Casler assisted Mrs. and when Kleagle Stevenson was Bl b‘; )mlery ::m;L hl‘:d"“a" t“}l; FBI investigation because of a Gecrge with Carol Ann's party Oldest Bank in A]a k convicted of murder; second, Lyons' | €lection chances, he had & WK reu) egrate deal pulled by him and plans. sKa $300,000 lobbying fees for the chain|¥ith James B. Carey, Secretary- CA i 3 2 ¢ | Treasurer of the CIO and right stores. | n f o bower to CIO boss Phil Murray. e Tecor ot chaln atore The record of Lyons' chain-store | “You know,” said cDowell, cperations is all a matter of offi-| . " L Kcatils to v : cial Congressional record for any| .M really not hostlle to your of- s i ACROSS 31. Make newspaperman to dig out, and it |£anization. And I want you to be (4" yway Titiaka s N |sure and tell your President, Mr. 6. Parts with 82. Son of a kin makes highly interesting read!ng.[Pmm A\tpRy - Shat.T sdid He's for money 5. holugrunhlc‘ The iolks back in Indiana are rea-| " E! (‘"p ¥, thatil said so. FITE. {5 Sphilty for coples sonably familiar with it, so much 20 o4 ‘;'_‘“M"‘_ i Be Bure )y AlRInK D 25 Lons sticks that Lyons can never get anywhere And 8ive Mr. Murphy by regards. 1% SReEnite T e with his political ambitions. 1 TR | aw Me!rlc,‘llnzd 5 Al_,lut:}'g in Brazfl However, that hasnt prevented| BANKERS INCREASE RATES | ' measure 43 Explate ¢ 2 S g % 8. Woolly surface 45. Ripple against Lyons from putting his own man; The bankers have decided not to = of cloth 6. Ourselves in the Senate, namely, William wait for the Republicans to move 3y G curlously 47. Sluggishly E. Jenner, elected in 1946 with into the Treasury Department to oy . Puzzle worker the backstage backing of Lyons hike the interest rate on crop - Dégatenfor B3 Glick beetls and the big Indiana beer inter- loans. Already the American 25 Stalk 55. Matrons ests. In fact, some interesting Bankers Association is engaged in Withdraw DOWN reports were published back in a significant tussle with the Com- . By way of 1. Overstrain Indiana bout Jenner's own cam- Credit Crossword Puzzle M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS The B. [EIN[SIIN[E]w] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle g LA 7] 2. Palm lily 5. 3. Bullfinch 4. Harvest Ancient Jewah ascetic modity Corporation over V7R o 5 7 paign contributions a the time of raising interest rates. % .u"% .Cul\lxsnL alka- his election. But, when the Repub- At present the interest on cot- / 8 s, Ohiro Clution licans took over control of the ton, wheat and corn loans is 3 per . %n ...fl i A' “" EIDE Senate in 1946, no investigation cent, which is split between the .u. .%. j1./¥0ca) compee as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA was ever made of Jenner's cam- CCC and private banks, each getting 4 sitions d . D our gues palgn funds |13 per cent. However, the ABA., %fl (‘-«I'rl; term EMPIRE is illl:_“.edtobet thgugst Tg!s EVENING On the contrary, Jenner was has demanded that the bmkb; " Furnish Present this coupon to the box office of the placed on a committee to investi- share be raised to 2 per cent, on 4 MR T s gate other people’s elections, and the ground that the present re- | PRMORE - CAPITnL THEATRE is now chairman of its chief sub- turn isn't enough to pay service | The Caucasian i cemmittee. As such, the gentle- costs of the loans. Also, the bank- | i S and receive TWO TICKETS to see: man from Indiana conducted one ers' group contends that the new | Bows of boate of the unfairest probes in recent Federal Reserve restrictions on ) flound-upe "cnss Tmnnl.n“z" Senate history—that regarding the bank reserves have decreased the ethers 1946 election of West Virginia’s amount of money available' for | Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Democrat Harley Kilgore. The chiei graft unearthed in West Virginia was upon the part of the brother of the Republican National Com-| lending, so it's unfair, therefore, to | expect banks to continue crop loans | on such a small margin of return. | These weighty arguments, how- mitteeman, Walter S. Hallanan, ever, so far have produced only who was indicted for stealing stifled yawns at the CCC. The votes. Despite graft on the part agency has politely reminded the of the Republicans. Jenner kept ABA. that. while banks make | PHONE 14—THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! . And not . The herb ailf 4. Feminine name . The Vellow bugle Sweet potato French article 53. Symbol for tellurium and Svpplies Phone 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP GENERAL REPAIR WORK Phone 204 929 W. 12th 8¢ Huichings Ecnomy Market MEATS—GROCERIES FREE DELIVERY PHONES 553—92—95 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sta. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. B Wholesale 805 10th PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 ||| Casler’s Mea's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetsen and Mallery Hate Arrew Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmends Shees Skyway Luggage —— — c—— TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Cemplete Outfitter for Men B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymanth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER ME\TS 13—PHONES- 49 Pree Delivery ]uoum JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 R, . WILLIS R. BOOTH, | Worshipful Master; ; JAMES W lmxvm. Secretary, €) B.P.0.ELKS Meetin, 8.1 Visiting rothems we come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER Exalted Ruler. W. : s . H. BIGGS, VETERANS Q. FOREIGN WARS Taku Post No, Meets first and B:::ru Thursdays. Post Hall, Seward Street. Visiting Comrades Weicome. VERN METCALFE, Commander; WILLIAM B SHERLOCK, Adjut- Beri's Food Center Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M. ""The Rexall Store” * Your Rellable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURQ DRUG co. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is s Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Aunditor Tax Counseser Simpson dldg. Phone 67 — Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Pred W. Wenor Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Reems ot Reasenable Rates PHONE BINGLE 0 PHONE 556 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS \Builders’ and Sheif HARDWARE Remin, Type SOLD finsnnc'lgu: J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers™ FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Strees MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Junea Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Heme Liquor Store—Tel. 600 American Meat — Phene ¥ ZORIC , SYSTEM CLEANING Alaska Laundz DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788 143 Willoughby Ave i