The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1948, Page 4

ska so fre tly Alaska Empire >| IPIRE PRINTIN COMPANY by the 1 ka any e e the fact that it t the top to political control, ernment jb is publicly managed and subject the Post Qffice Department is engaged in a busin By mail, poste; One year, in_agdvance. one month, in advance, § % | repeating their claims for bringing pulp mills to | &% t “oft repeating, they believe uninformed people h(‘llv\mg’] wuch Federal e not different in principle from the telephone Subscribers will confer a favor if they will pr the Business Office of any failure or i ularity i telegraphic companies. Therefore, it and its {ce, 602; Business Office, 374 st to the degree that it is politically ; = rolled or maniy MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A : lusively entitled to the for Unfortunately, 1 political tom to local news pul tronage s been the gress. But civil 1as ried only into the management of the department. It is to the credit of President made the first move to place the entire Posi | Department on a career basis. In contrast to he Office the | age-old custom of appointing as Postmaster General Truman thot political lieutenant of the administration, Truman elevated to the cabinet a career department—Jesse M. Donaldson, who tter carrier—when Robert E. Hannegan some months ago. And this evidently ood faith, because all during the cam- ¢ér General Donaldson studiously ab- any political activity. That was cer- tainly a striking departure from past political history when the Postmaster General was the liaisgn man | with political organizatons throughout the country and usually spent most of his time beating the bushes the top President f the s ned the po done in . n Postm e i __ | stained from ATED CLAIMS In an editorial about Alaska in the Portland Daily Journal, December 11, one reads that “For one { for party votes. thing, Governor Gruening and his supporters hope to Of course, this departure may not be permanent, get an appropriation of half a million dollars for the | although it certainly has established a braiseworthy i | edent. In any event, further improvement is 2 i agency has promoted | Préce ¥ Bl Dowloprent Boaxd, iy AEey B | desirable, and the recommendations just made by the a pulp and paper industry (the first mill is NOW beIng |\, ican Commission On Organization of the Execu- built), hes capitalized on Alaskan forests and suc-]m,o Branch—a group headed by former President cessfully fought off attempts to raise already sky-high | Herpert Hoover—are eminently sensible. The commis- freight rates to the Territory sion proposes quite an array of business reforms for Maybe we are wrong, but The Empire has been |the department and suggests that only the Post- of the opinion that B. Frank Heintzleman and me}master General be subject to Senate confirmation. Forest Service had something to do with the estab- This would tend, at one stroke, to take all of the lishment of the pulp industry in Alaska. 20,000 Postmasterships out of the field of patronage That seems to be the opinion of the people in the At least it would expose them to much less politica. ’ iy donit liability, and would reinforce the hand of the career pulp and paper business, too. But maybe they don't | y.n why neads the department. If the Postmastei- get the same publicity “handouts” from the Develop- | ships can be made nonpolitical jobs, as they should ment Board that are received by the Portland Journal. | pe, there may be no difficulty in keeping career men About the sale of timber to the Ketchikan Pulp |at the head of the department. and Paper Company, the industry’s trade magazine | PULP AND PAPER says in its September issue: “The | sale ends many years of effort by the Forest Service to sell this timber to a pulp industry . . . . Frank | Heintzleman, Alaska Regional Forester,‘ has led lhese‘“l qusttefs. where it ‘s, mist | tieeded, . OKIaDbmp's gHues, ST many. housanis ofinlles an0- A0 Democratic Congressman Peden has discovered that viewing many leaders in an effort to interest invest- | “the whole country of Alaska is being stymied by a MRS |too-strict policy on turning over land to private But then, PULP AND PAPER might be wrong, |ownership.” The gentleman from Oklahoma can say | that again, and loud enough to be distinctly heard Unless Development Board members have been in the rotundas of the Department of the Interior. Repetition May Help (Seattle Times) Understanding of Alaska’s problems is spreading too. PETERSON-WILLSTCHKO H y this piece of nfor! tic alone The Washmgicn < reah e t WEDDED IN JUNEAU n would not & ck Rus- Merry-Go-Round T i oot to] Sunday abibemedn ins (o, hoe . caused Stalin to of Rev. Will R. Booth, By DREW of QOontirued from JARSON ves ¢ e Gne of the newsmen who has c t- F ently trumpeted the id hat For- It ‘ '! 5 - lf.‘es:‘e:](;alu:““v; I jis2 A8 arm new home will be’ made. The bri p el is work by is & nurse, and Mr. Peterson is a The Army prom eral MacArthur a any objection to me Uy SERLeC T ma and englne foreman the Union Pacific Railroad at shops. ge course g Far for ret report avgilable to tf brothers (in order to furt e e '.': e i Forrestal campaign to re i & office). But although M n - at this writing, has not 5 TIDE TABLE » here are the main detai » -— . ° ° s ° e A . = = ® Low tide . 5 hands. ® High tide, . U. 8. VICE CONSUL o - . INVOLVED LOS ANGELES JAPS e e 0 0000000 0 The story is somew similar INVOLVED = e to that now being unfolded before | Rocky Mountain goats are not a New York Grand Jury and the | SOr2e’s co-conspirators weré 2 goats at all, but a type of antelope. Un-American Activities Committee )s Angeles Japanese woman nam- | They belong to the ox family. Just as the Russians planted key -d Tomo Kitabayani; a Japaness When alarmed they. travel at & men inside the U. S. Gov from the United States nam- stiff gallop but their customary ka Miyago; a German busi- ¢ and radio operator named Max Klausen; and most im tant and continued to 1941—two mor f all, Hozuni Ozaki, Jap Commun- before Pearl Harbor. st who became editor of the Tc is a casual shuffle. s0 they also began long before th war to plant key spies insid They began operating about DEEP SEA FISHERMEN'S Union mesting Tuesday eve, Déc. 21, 7:30 o'clock. Be there. \ 72 2t Nugget Shop. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1948 ] DECEMBER 21 Joe C. Johnston Herbert Mead Mrs. George Larsson Thelma Bodding Dorothy Pumphry Gladys Wallace Irma F. Jenkins H. M. Williamson Jeffrey Anderson c o o 0o 0 0 0 OF WEATHER - ALASKA PTS. 0 0c000e00s0a0 ° ) ] ‘Weather conditions ana temper- atures at various also cn the Pacific Coast at 4:30 a. m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the‘ Weather Bureau, Juneau, follow: Anchorage 16—Fog Barrow -33—Cloudy Bethel 28—Snowing Cordova -2—Clear Dawson -12—Cloudy Edmonton 4—Snowing Fairbanks -2—Snow in 18—Clear Havre 18—Pt. Cloudy Juneau Airport 28—Snow Showers Ketchikan 31—Snow Showers Kodiak 33—Cloudy Kotzebue -19—Clear McGrath 23--Snowing Nome 15—Snowing Northway -28—Pt. Cloudy Petersburg 31—Pt. Cloudy | Portland 35—Pt. Cloudy Prince George 12—Pt. Cloudy Seattle 32—Pt. Cloudy Sitka 31—Pt. Cloudy ‘Whitehorse -5—Snowing Yakuta 5—Clear CHRISTMAS MUSIC PROGRAM TONIGHT, HIGH SCHOOL GYM A program of will be presented by students of the Junior grade and high school ight at 8 o'clock in the High nasium. school band, mixed girls glee club and grade school chorus, along with several are Lo be on the evening’s Christmas Program mas—Hizh School Chrisimas Eve—Mixed Chorus, Janu McConnel, soloist. White Christmas—Mixed Chorus. In Bethlehem—Girls Glee Club, Lynn Bodding, soloist. March of Toys—High School | Band. Ave Maria—Irene McKinley, solo- ist, and Band. Musical Typist—Marimba soloists, Aann Henning, Lois Lawrence and Band. C: Schoo of the Shepherds—Grade Chorus. {cel—Grade School Chorus. Yule Log Burns—Girls Ye Faithful-Mixed Chorus. Bells of St. Mary's and The Gremlin Ball—Band. — .- USE OUR BARANOF OFFICE FOR SHIPPING CHRISTMAS PARCZLS. ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES. 21t e Special Bargains at See Two Germans were involved, two | A5ahi, and a se adviser to the Japs edu in the United States, | P1ime Minister of Japan { Ozaki had access to some of the two Americans, and one German- | British ne perman. One of me“;)ghest Japanese Government sec- R s AsTios B . who | éts, which were tra e Americans was Agnes Smedley, who ‘L“r wh K,h o ’v‘““”"“l“i to | ACROSS , 23. Weep bitterly lived twenty years in the Orient, [ Moscow via Sorge and Klausen's| gy gubly ' 30. Shake has written many books on China, |shortwave radio. | 6. Secures 31. Booty and who is listed in Who's Who| Klausen sent his messages by go- | 13. Kingly 34. Meshed fabrie ’ a 7a | iNg i t, dresse 14. Ancient school 35. Capable of as currently living in Saxam;,a' ng l:‘" in a bof‘- dr.ss:i‘.us a O oy Being molded Springs, N. Y., where she has been | {isherman, and operating his radio | ¢ gy railway: 36. Gentle strokes ateacher at Skidmore College. A |35 far as possible from shore. Al-| colloq. 38. Short for an telephone call to Saratoga brought | though the Japs intercepted the | 16 Geper el the infcrmation that she was n\,}me;sagos and tried hard to find| 18 Toward :i? I{:}mm;nd;;:ll;: longer there ‘me transmitter, they were never| - Bafrierina g0 1\'.|::3=;m strap The other American was Tycho |able to de so Nor were they ever 2. P i km’l{\l to Atecnative Lilliestrom, U. S. Vice Consul at|able to decipher the code until! 2s pronoun Instructor Harbin, Manchuria. Born in Fin- | shortly before Pearl Harbor, when, | 23, Entiy o an S oriom and, m served 21 years in ough an accident, they caught| 25 Not 48, the r service, and died in|One of the spies, Ritzu Ito, forme| g ,OSrofsssiesisl - 8- 1943. It was in his home in Har- of Los Angeles. | 27 bin that the Communist spies | talk: | After that all were caught, med., and the two top men—Sorge and | Ozahi—beheaded. Kiausen gave the assembled a powerful radio set later | smuggled into WHAT RU A LEARNED Japs the secret code used to trans- | So successful was e Russian the radio messages, whereupon | & spy ring in penetrating innermost |all the back messages were trans- | Japanese Go' ient circles, that | ‘ated some of the war lord’s most vital When General MacArthur grant- secrets were transmitted ort- | €d amnesty to Japanese political wave radio to Moscow. The spies | prisoners after V-J Day in 1945, Be learned among other things that: discovered the remnants of the 1. The Jap war lords would def- | Communist spy-ring still in prison | initely attack the United States.! ind turned them loose. From the This information went tc oscow | Japanese court records, his chiei | two months before Pearl Harbor ntelligence officer, General Charl- 1d not join an al w by, pie together this Russia Thi wa mazing story of Communist intri- learped in 1937, and caused shortly ther sign the N 2 «0f the Japanese spy Russian Hitler 1 France which in turr war agair England. Undoubted- w head Japanese labor and one of them Ritzu Ito, Communist. and 52. Stralght lines DOWN which cut 1. Foretell curves 2. Narrator . Famous B P angenst 3. Symbol for silver . Pertaining an ancient ciety Close Dark liquid And: French eter o o i e Perch Light bed . Mineral spring . Half melted snow 2. Confined 3. Pleasing aspect of nature . Locations Walks wearlly 37. High nest . Banquet \ Incline | Steering wheet . Beverage . River: Spanish . Palmetto state: abbr. Not any o szttt THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA Christmas music | There will be 161 par—J | 20 YEARS AGO R e from DECEMBER 21, 1928 down with the flu. collected a total of $1841. tary, left on the Margnita for Sitka enroute spend the holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Goddard. Mabry’s, wellknown Juneau restaurant, was offering a Christmas dinner complete with turkey, cranberry sauce, celery, sweet potatoes, vegetables, and Christmas dessert for $1.00. A report from the USCG Unalga stated that there were 424 cases of influenza in the village of Hoonah, which had a population of 450. Among the children appearing at the Lutheran Sunday School Christmas exercises were: Richard Jackson, Leonard Lowell, | Marie Sonderman, Beatrice Bothwell, Catherine Torkelson, Ruth Kunnas, { Anita Heyder, Syivia Berg, Helen Hildre, Margaret Jewell, Clara Hanson, Bernice Rommunseth, Louise Hildre, Julia Moi, Evelyn Jenkins, Ned Zenger, Thea Hanson, Ray Hagerup, Theodore Heyder, Buddy Lind- strom, Bessie Powers, Fay Jewell and Inga Lindstrom. Alaska points, ' Weather: High, 43; low, 39; rain. e v e Daily Lessons in English %% :. cozpox | {1 19 e =3 I can go.” Say, “That's AS FAR AS I can go.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Conversant. The preferred pronuncia- tion places the accent on the FIRST syllable, and not the second. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Supercilious; CIL, not SIL. f SYNONYMS: Ask, demand, claim, solicit, request, petition, beg. 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: MULTIPRESENCE; the power of being present in two or more places at once. ““The multipresence of Christ’s body.”—Hall. ' MODERN & 0 i ) e conveyance, carrying a lighted cigar in his fingers? A. A well-bred man will throw away a lighted cigar before enter- | Is it all right for a man to get into a streetcar or other public | I‘mg: for even if the cigar is not burning, it is sometimes more offensive 'than when lighted. H Q. Is there any difference in the arrangement of the table for a ift:rmal dinner and an informal one? A. Ne: only for an informal dinner the centerpiece is not so large elaborate. A bowl of fruit or flowers is all that is necessary. jor l 1 Q. How long should a business caller remain when making a busi- | ness call? ! A. Not one minute longer than the time required to state his busi- Jness and secure an answer. e e U { ——— by A. C. GORDON ! — e 100K and LEARN | { | Which is the longest river in Europe? How many bones are there in the human arm? What four members of the lily family are used for food? What is the largest inland port in the world? i What noted British writer used the pen name “Quiz”? ! ANSWERS: The Volga, 2,325 miles. ‘Thirty. Onions, garlic, shallots, and chives. Montreal, Canada. Charles Dickens. O e Plumbing - © H:afing Oil Burners lelephone 313 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop. Inc. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1948 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Tom and Gus George of the George Brothers’ Grocery firm were Twelfth Annual Red Cross Roll Call for the Juneau Chapter had Miss Dorothy Goddard, Clerk in the office of the Territorial Secre- to Goddard Sanitarium to Brice | Meilke, Corrine Duncan, May Nelson, Ruth Torkelson, Bernice Meade, ; THE EMPIRE ,’, et et For COMIroRT ano SERVICE Dewey W Get the NEW Metzdorf WASHINGTON Vice-Pres. and Habit! Managing Director ALASKA S FEEL A HOMU at Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD . HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN 1 1 1 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That’s all the | | 7 1 | | | i | ¥ | ' JOXN DOOGAN BS 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: “CROSSFIRE" 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 compli:z!:mts. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys GECRGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONF 39¢ ‘Say It With Flowers” bur ‘SAY IT WITH OURS!" Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Cese Lot Grooery PHCNE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Ugzgen, Manager Pianos—Murical Instruments end Sopplies Phone 206 Second and Seward HEINKE GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Welding, Plumbing, Ofl Burner Blacksmith Work GENERAL REPAIR, WORK “hone 204 929 W. 12th Bt HOME AND INDUSTRIAL INSULATION ROCK WOOL—ALUMINUM WEATHER STRIPPING Warde A. Johnson—Phone 344 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th B PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHY for MIXERS or SODA POP Casler's Men's Wear 7 Formerly SABIN'S NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Complete Outfitter for Men B. W. COWLING ' COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysier DeSoto—Dodge Trucks SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT ¥OR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES- ~49 Pree Delivery MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. & SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. orshipful Master; LEIVERS. Secretary, i » @ B.P.0.ELKS Meeti § KP4 Vislick Drveny b ' come. JOSEPH H, SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. B Secretary. pietia i Follow the Cabs to ROSS’ OASIS in Douglas for a Good Time Bert’s Food Cenfer Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39—539 Oeliverles—10:15 A M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M e "The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmactsts BUTLER-MAURQ DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” Where Pharmacy Is a Profession ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Auditor Tax Counselor Simpson $ldg. Phone 759 Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wena Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store { BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Reoms »t Beasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE 0 PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied 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 Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store-—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phene 38 ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Alaska Laundy DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments ——— ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788 142 Willoughby Ave ) 5