The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1948, Page 4

i PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Em pzre Published every evening except SBunday by the IMPIRE PRINTING COMPFANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska - Vice-President Bditor and Manager ev nis,--Manehu ‘out from Washiigton can see a real hope of restortng Chiang’s position, it may be worth while for us to broaden our program of assistance. be absolutely certain before we take the plunge. It is probable that any detached examination will « " Mansging Bditor show additional aid to the present Nanking Govern- | {ment is money wasted—unless and until Chiang Kn)»j - Business Manager atered In the Post Office in Juneau as Becond Class Matter. | flhek actually reconstructs his government from the | pariiniin iy L"mmnz ree SL00 per wouthi | top down, with a ruthless determination to eliminate | six 'months, §8.00; those who have been the enemies of the Chinese people Assistance given from America without such a preliminary reorganization at Nanking is worse than nothing For it merely sends arms and equipment '-;“n oF Al!oClA‘l’lD *RESS /into China which are promptly seized by the Com- The Associnte¢ Prc.s is exclusively entitled to the 3ms tu | munists. wputlication of all news dispatches credited to it or not cther. wise credited in this paver dud also the locs! news uubn.ho-s Serein. #n month, in advance, $1.80. Subscribers will confer a favor if they wili prompily Botify | e Business Office of any failure or irregularity in tbe delivery \ « thet* papers. Televhanes: News Offiee, 603: Business Office, 374, NAT1UNAL REPRESENTA’ amurth Avenue Bldg, Beattle, WasiL TIVES — Alaska Newsupers, 1431 | Labor Responsibility (Fairbanks News-Miner) The Eastern seaboard has joined thé Pacific Coast |in a cripfling: maritime. tieup and ports from Maine to Virginia have been sealed off by the walkout of 65,000 AFL longshoremen. | The new strike has already affected the nation’s rail commerce and railroad workers are being laid | off daily because of embargoes clamped on the move- ment of freight to Atlantic ports. Trans-oceanic traf- | fic has also suffered serlous niterference. This development, coming as it does hard upon | the election, gives rise to speculation as to what treat- ment labor may expect from the new Congress. Sweeping amendment or repeal of the Taft-Hart- |ley law ranks No. 1 or No. 2 upon the agenda that | President Truman will lay before the 8lst Congress. HOUSE OF CARDS to everyone else. —_— On at least two fronts, there has been an im- iLike a snowball under way, the Chinese Com-|provement in the strike situation gince the election m\fnm movement has reached a point at which no Negotiations were resumedsin the Pacific Coast Lomgmbu military. éffort by Chiang Kal-shek’s gov- | maritime tieup and the principals report they are | ernment can stem the tide, according to Associated | | entering the “home stretch” in their efforts to reach | Preéss dispatches. a settlement. The Nationlist Government lost a quarter of a The AFL International Typograpnical Union has million of its better troops and has lost practically all | taken steps to pure itself of contempt of the Federal |courts in proceedings growing out of the long-drawn of Manchuria, and, with the momentum they have | | strike against the Chicago newspapers and a number achieved, the Communists are likely to take over a |, ,iher newspapers in several States. generous slice of North China. | In a statement recently, the ITU said its locals This does not result from any natural genius of |have been told to cease proposing contract clauses the Chinese Reds for the art of warfare. It does not | prohibited by court order. It is likely that this move come from any help they have had out of Russia, | wm open the way for terminating strikes in some | whatever that help may have been. The simple fact | | newspaper shops which began more than a year ago. | is that the Communist leaders of China have the | It is unquestionable that the election of a Demo- confidence of the mass of Chinese people, while |CFatic administration pledged to rewrite the nation’ $ labor laws was a prime factor in both these devel- | Chiang Kai-shek’s graft-ridden government does not. lUESDAY NOVFMBER 23 1948 i If &ober, czlw:mng men. sent .. .fl r _— But we ought to | NOVEMBER 23 Mrs. R. B. Martin Bill Johnson Earle Hunter IIT Karen Elnor Wahto Elizabeth Snyder Pearl Coplin Eleanor Gleason Mrs. R. M. Mallory R. F. Putnam SEED PRODUCTION PROMISED GREECE ATHENS—UP— will be spent to encourage seed | production in year. The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) started by the {for aid to Greece last winter. American experts say Greece has the climate and soil anticipated the program will re-| duce seed importations. e SOME VILLAGE CLATWORTHY, England This village ot 120 residents husnt a single telephone. If fire breaks out or a doctor is needed, a bicy- clist takes the message to a neigh- boring town. electricity, bus service and a post-| office. e oo — e o 0000 0 0 0 00 L] TIDE TABLE NOVEMBER 24 opments. Chiang is an admirable person in many ways. But 2 1t is obviously wise for labor to set its own house | his. regime is a house of cards, because he has not | jn order before turning to Congress for the relief it | been able—or else has not been willing—to clean his, claims it needs. Such strikes as the Eastern mauumn. \wnlkaut hurriedly called and put into effect, will do | ‘lmle to enhance its standing before the Congresslonalv The first instinct of Americans interested in China is to demand quick and large-scale military aid | committee charged with the responsibility for writing ‘the new labor legislation. ESE THINEE At his goyesnment. 4But }:\S(,} flc":‘.‘ |7 Labor claims a major share of the credit for thc! this direction might prove to warrant the approbrious | ey, ;oratic victory at the polls. term applied to so many other aid programs—OPpera- | 'y should be equally willing to claim a share of | tions Rathole. | the responsibility that confronts the new admin-, The American Government should not be cata- | jstration to halt work stoppages in basic American pul(ed into rcckle« action by the sudden turn of | industries. own house. off, while he sits back and writcs‘ the legislation. A skilled hunter in his leisure hours, he doesn't believe in shoot-‘ S— ing from the hip either from a| By DREW PEARSON nd| quck blind or on the floors of | RESENA Harry Truman, she starts a sit-| gongress. He is a shrewd, calcu-| (Contirued from Page Omed down strike on the paper and|iating lone-wolf * investigator, ‘who ————— won't move until I pry her loose.| ysually has his facts well organ-| Cinder is pure black—hence her|ijzed before he lets fire at Com- Actually Cinder belongs to|munism or anything else. present mem to Congress when it|/my daughter. When she was a| The pope-smoking South Dako-| reconvenes.” |small kitten my daughter took|tan is no liberal and doesn't pre- Significantly the President gave such a fancy to her that she in-|tend to be. Neither is he a die-| no hint of firing anyone from the | sisted on taking her away lo‘hard reactionary. He follows the Cabinet. He talked about his long- school and kept her there for a|GOP party line when it suits his| range program as if everyone term. purpose, has a better-than-average present would take part. Only| Later my daughter graduated to; record for supporting defense mea- | Secretary of State Marshall, then other things and has been kept|sures before the war, and was a' in Paris, did not attend. The man busy with a husband and son, so pioneer advocate of the Marshall with the least to say was Dewey’s I have inherited Cinder. Plan. friends, Secretary of Defense For-| While I realize that some people| Also, he's a hard, consclentious restal, who didn't let out a peep.' don't like cats, I would like to call | worker. The lights in his office | their attention to the fact that the|burn Jlate. |No. 1 enemy of our grain crop is| Once an isolationist, Mundt Irats. Ir the rats in our farm|toured Europe, Asia and Africa as \areas were eliminated, enough|a member of a House Foreign Af- grain could be saved to feed all|fairs Sub-Committee, came back the people who starve in China.|strong for U. S. cooperation with And in cities, the rats carry|the rest of the world. more disease and filth than most of us realize. So, even if you ! don't like cats, remember, they The Washington i Merry-6o-Round thas uncanny instinet. For when 1 heave a brickbat in the direct- lion of Bascom's boss, Jesse Jones, | Cinder purrs with pleasure. But it I want to start writing any-| thing critical about her friend programs in shape for discussion | immediately, because we've got to, name. UNION PACIFIC RUNS THE STATE DEPARTMENT Truman advisers were discussing changes in the State Department. Donald Dawson of the White House staff remarked that Averell Harri- man had been suggested as Secre- tary of State. The new Senator is 48 years old, baldish, personable, looks more like Remarked Clark Clifford: “One Union Pacific man in four years are one of man's best friends in a small-town insurance agent or a schoolteacher than a Senator. In counteracting one of man's Wworst is enough.” * | enemies. (He referred to Undersecretary of | State Bob Lovett who embarrass- | ed Truman so frequently during, the campaign. Lovett is a partner; The joint Chiefs of Staff in co- in Brown Brothers, Harriman and | operation with the British have | CANADIAN AIR 'ARSENAL | politics. | the Washington social whirl, {at home with their fact, he was hoth before entering He and Mrs. Mundt shun stay Low tide, 1:42 am, 17 ft. High tide, 8:21 a.m., 145 ft. Low tide, 14:28 p.m., 55 ft. High tide, 20:14 p.m., 138 it. e ' increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. @ e 0 0o o 0 0 o o o o ETHEREAL; i CALL FOR BIDS 1 Sealed bids will be received Exactly $850,000 Greece the coming| and Greek | Government have agreed to con- tinue the seed production program | American ‘ Mission | | Yukon on a business trip to Seattle. to produce | This should be as plain to labor as it seems to be | p;op, quality disease-free seed. It M The village also lacks | ® | once.” FRANK A. METCALF, TERR?‘? TORIAL HIGHWAY ENGINE] for the construction of approxi- | mately 750 lineal feet of roadway at Tee Harbor, Alaska. Bid forms, detailed plans an | specfications can be obtained the office of Felix J. Toner, Ro 5, Shattuck Building, Juneau, | aska. 1 A bid bond or certified check ih the amount of 5% of the bid must accompany each bid. § Bids will be received until tén (10) A.M., November 23, 1948 at the {OFFICE OF THE TERRITORIAL HIGHWAY ENGINEER, Jmeu Alaska and then be publicly openk and read. | First publication, Nov. 8, 1948. Last publication, Nov. 22, 1948. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That Thomas J. Selby, executor of the estate of John Christian Berg, deceased, has filed his final account and report of his administration of said estate, and his petition for j distribution thereof, in the United States Commissioner’s Court for Ju- neau Precinct, at Juneau, Alaska; that 10 o'clock A. M. January 11th, 1949, has been fixed as the time and said court the place for hearing same; and that all pérsons con- cerned therein are hereby notified | to appear at said time and place and file their objections, if , to said final account and petition ‘for settlement and distribution thereof. Dated: Juneau, Alaska, November IBth. 1948. THOMAS J. SELBY, pet spaniel which is named “Con- cocker | | gre 58." Executor. First publication, Nov. 9, 1948. |Last publication, Nov. 30, 1948. Co., while Ambassador Harriman!decided to make Canada the ar-| owns a large part of the Union|senal of the British Air Forces. Pacific.) Factories will be set up in Can- ada shortly to-turn out jet bomb- HE BET ON TRUMAN fers and transports plus a special | One man who didn't go wrong on|Arctic jet fighter. the election was Navy Chief Fran- American aircraft companies cisco Regacho, aide to Adm. Louis! have agreed to provide their tech- Denteld. Regacho backed up his|nical “know-how” and help super- | hunch on Truman with cash and!vise production. Britain'’s famous | won $1,500. {Jet iighters will still be made in| “I was in the Navy six years un- | England though later transferred | der the Republicans, explains| in part to Canadian factories. As! Regacho, “and I couldn’t get pro-|the first step in putting this plan | moted beyong 1st C.. But un-|into operation, Fairchild Aircraft | der the Democrats I go to br'\ull permits its noted transport, | chief. Naturally I bet on my| known as the workhorse of the airs | ; friends. Also I knew my boss, Ad- v\mn to be manufactured in Can= miral Denfeld, was for Truman."|ada under a special licensing sys- tem The U. 8. Army and Air Forces enthusiastically ‘approve of the idea for two reasons: 1. It will disperse the highly vulnerable British aire craft industry; and 2, boost pros duction of fighters and bombers in the Western Hemisphere. ACROSS lnd of nut . American animal . Bleat . Wild animal Jingling . Bone of arm Larie 'welghts Seed covering Unrefined the Palm teat . American Indian . Stroll 35, Expose to moisture . Curve DOWN Felines Spoken . Flower 't . Entirelv Intermission 36. Screened from the light PEARSO CAT ! Now that the election is over and we can worry about other things, I am reminded that a re- cent week was National Cat Week,' and that, thanks to my friend} Bascom Timmons, I was chairman! of National Cat Week Behind that shrewd political vis-} age of his, Mr. Timmons has a tender heart apd a ifondness fo cats. He promoted National Cat) Week last year, and without, con- sulting me in advance, got me ap-| pointed chairman for 1948. Perhaps I should admit, however, that it was not so much Bascom, but my cat Cinder that got me into! this. Cinder sits on my desk while T am writing a column and acts as unofficial censor. As far as I know she cannot read, but she] NEW SOLON Though the public spotlight has chiefly been focused on new Dem- ocratic Senators, the Republicans | also elected a new solon from [South Dakota. He is Rep. Karl . Mundt who, because he doesn't go in for salary kickbacks or demagoguery, has been one of the Imost effective members of the [House Un-American Activities Com- mittee. Unlike his Mississippi colleague, ‘Silent John” Rankin, Mundt us- ually lets others do the popping| o] T dul of BN 2 IHHI%IWI/ Iflfl' dEER’ / ! BN d NiUSEE RN id i B flllléflll%fl.Efi« 7. Ruler 8. Summit 9. Above | 10 City in California 11. ‘Lacking speed 16, Symbol of bondage apparel 22, Gompound ether Eminent Distant 6. Polynesian yam Divisions 29, Old form of 27 three 30. Olden times u Toper 35. Stationary mechanica Dart Forerunner ¢ the piano 17 Listen 40. Low quarter of city 41 Short for a metric measure ot istanc 3. Reap AL Fisherman's hope 5. Presently 16, Ol Edive Teunis stroke NOVEMBER 23, 1928 Under a change in Army orders, Lieut. John R. Noyes, of the en. gineering staff of the Alaska Road Commission, had been assigned ® |to duty with the First Engineers stationed at Fort Dupont, Delaware, ® | instead of being transfered to Camp Lewis. Lieut. and Mrs. Noyes were | to leave about December 4 for the East via the Panama Canal. | The new Scottish Rite Temple was to be formally opened December 8 and the public was to be invited to attend. Joe Thibodeau, of the staff of St. Ann’s Hospital, accompanied a | patient south’on the ¥ukon who was to receive special treatment in | Seattle. | | | | | An inter-city bowling tournament between Juneau and Anchorage |Elks was bowled and the Anchorage women defeated the Juneau {w , 2312 to 2171 and the Juneau men lost to Anchorage by 2582 to I2508 Juneau women were White, Manning, McLean, Olson and Faulkner ]nnd the Juneau men’s team was composed of Radce, Lavenik, Hendrick- son, Bavard and Barragar. Henry Messerschmidt left on the Yukon for Seattle on a business |and pleasure trip. Sam Guyot, local broker, left to call on the trade at Wrangell. Wallis George, Manager of the Juneau Cold Storage, left on the Pear] Peterson was a passenger for the south on the Yukon. The Loyal Order of Moose and the Women of Mooseheart Legion decided to hold the annual Christmas doings on December 27. * At the annual election of the American Legion Post, Fred Habernicht was elected Post Commander; L. Kean, First Vice-Commander;. Robert Coughlin, Second Vice-Commander; A. B. Clark, Chaplain; H. J. Thomp- |'son, Post Historian, and William Neiderhauser Sergeant-at-Arms. clear. Weather: High, 39; low, 35; { Daily Lessons in English % W. L GORDON - WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I have not seen him but Omit NOT. NOT and BUT form a double negative. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hovel. Pronounce the O as in ON, not as in OVEN. OFTEN.MISSPELLED: Expedite; ITE. Proselyte; YTE. SYNONYMS: Distraction, disorder, confusion, perplexity. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Today's word: pertaining to the upper regions; celestial; spiritlike. “The spacious firmament on high, with all the blue ethereal sky.”—Addison. e MODERN ETIQUETTE #agmna cow | Q. When entering a theatre or some such place, should a man re- move his top coat before he starts down the aisle, or wait until he reaches his seat? y A. It would be preferable to remove it before going down the aisle. Or, if there-is no time for this, wait until the row of sets is reached. Do not go down the aisle disrobing. Q. be invited to stay at the home of the bride’s parents? A. This would be a very courteous thing to do. Q. Should one lower his head to the spoon when partaking of soup? A. No; bend the whole body slightly foward, but do not drop the %) | head. yoo—mm ' LOOK and LEARN ¥ 1. What is the area of the earth's surface? 2. Which seven Provinces of Canada border on the United States? 3. What former Vice-President of the U. S. attempted to set up 'an empire in the Middle West with himself as its first' emperor? 4. How many times does the average human heart beat in a day? 5. What living creatures have the greatest number of ribs? ANSWERS: 1. 196,940,400 square miles. 2. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. 3. Aaron Burr. 4. 72 times a minutes, or 104,000 times a day. 5. Snakes. . C. GORDON Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 The B. 1. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS MRS. FRANK W Sm as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our.guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “RELENTLESS" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre 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! 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