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PAGE FOUR ; Daily A Second BELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER D la s SUBSCRIPTIO Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Do i hs, $8.00; one year, at the foll one month, 1 Subscribers will c the Business Office of i their papers. Telephones. 6023 News Office exclusively entitled to the use for I eri s paper and also the [ NATIONAL R! Avenue Bldz. B 8 — Ala ska Empire favor If they will promptly notify | re or irregularity in the delivery Business_ Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCTATED PRESS fiction. | niver: Kitty Hawk was that interval increased some 30 an hour to some The inday by the portedly reached by the new supersonic X-1. rating the {dinner commemor Lawrence D. Bell, | which built the X- | have the knowledge to construct aircraft that will go two or three times the speed of sound. It is almost superfluous to pay additional tribute to the many men in aviation who have made possible such attainments. The much-feared sonic barrier prov- ed to be less formidable than some persons had antici- pated; but to breach it required great ingenuity on the part of designers and manufacturers as well as tes advance, $7.50; | 374, d to it or Mot other- local news published tremendous person: willing to subject These men & ska Newspapers, 1411 ry of the first f the speed % THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ ~ ~ that this possibility no longer is in the realm of week before last forty-fifth an- ht of the Wright brother: celebrated in Washington. During attained by airplanes has times, from approximately 40 miles 1200 miles an hour—the latter re- At the Wright brothers’ fight, President of the Bell Aircraft Corp. 1, asserted that plane designers now al courage on the part of the pilots themselves to supersonic strains. e pioneers of the same breed as those . who tamed the wilderness. Supersonic planes are, of course, still in the experimental stage, and it will| t deal more work both with design and | such speeds are either practicable [ require a gre with fuels before or useful for other can say today witl that hops over to London for lunch are not in thet cards. The prospect is both wondrous and frightening. | than military purposes. But no one hout fear of contradiction by fact Becomes a Racket (Cincinnati Enquirer) A London dispatch of the Associated Press says a run on the market for wigs has the Laborite Gov- | ernment worried. It seems that Britain's new free| health service entitles each bald-head man and woman | to a wig without cost. The average cost of a wig is | $40, and the applications for government-bought wigs | are running at the rate of at least 10,000 a year Thiai adds up to $4,000,000. FREE SPEECH? But that isn’t all. The free| health service program also entitled wig-wearers to | have one wig cleaned and dressed every two momhs.; The expense of this is expected to aggregate some | $400,000 a year. The shocking thing about it, from the British | Government’s point of view, is that persons who al- | ready had a wig, and were content with it, now are | insisting upon having a government wig, too, since | it's free. And those who cleaned and dressed their| own wigs also are demanding that the government | foot the bill for it now. . | There's an object lesson to this—a little study in! The next time you get all riled up in an argument over politics or anything else you may feel perfectly free to call your adversary a ‘“screwball” or a “meat- head.” You may get a poke in the nose, but at least you won't have to pay any damages in court. That's what a high court in Maryland has held, The Judge who handed down this opinion said: “There can be no denial that the word ‘screw- ball' is an epithet of disparagement. According to authorities on American slang, the word ‘screwball’ has many synonyms, such as blockhead, cabbagehead, | per = - FEBRUARY 3 Samuel G. Johnson Axel Nielson Martha Jacobs Bruce Norman J. F. Mullen William F. Bergstrand Eob Thibodeau Edith Mason i e o o v 0 - HOUSE | MEASURES s6c0cee0eces e TENTH DAY, FEB. 2 | (Measures Introduced) HJR. 2, by the Committee on Permanent Help, resolving that the sum of $14,880 be appropriated for payment of salaries and ex- penses, covering the first half of the regular session of the Legis- lature. Referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means. (Measures Passed) HP. 15 amending the law per- tsuing to admission to practice law in Alaska. Passed 24-0. H. B. 16, to correct statutory language covering computation of diem for Territorial officers and employees. Passed 22-0, 2 absent. H. B. 18, pertaining to escheated property, regulating the sale there- of; authorizing return of said prop- erty or refund of the proceeds thereof in appropriate cases. Pass- ed 23-1. dumbbell, galoot, goose, muttonhead, squarehead. The term may signify eccentric person, like crackbrain, queer duck, queer fish, nut, queer specimen, or (2) a stupid or insane person, like batty, bughouse, crazy, dippy, screwloose and softhead.” Calling a man names likes these in most coun- tries would have pretty serious consequences, but this Maryland court concludes that it's business in America. other fellow or that there is a safe when you throw this kind of language around—even in America. 3000 Miles an Hou (Washington Post) For many years the prospect of intercontinental space ships flving the Atlantic in an hour or so has been part of the fantasies of such writers as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. What seems hard to realize The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round By DREW—;EARSON Gontirued from Pag: One) of people, inspired by the French gesture of friendship, offered their (ed by the RFC regional office in | tarnoon train. belp and cooperation . . . When it looked as if the SS De Gr: bringing part of the French Grati- tude Train Committee, might be late, the Coast Guard offered to fly out to sea to bring them in early . . . PFrederick Lyford, presi- dent of Merritt, Chapman and Scott, heard about the train, ofi- ered heavy derricks to unload the cars . The Moran Tugboat Service offered tugboats for tying up the French ship Mort Blumenstock of Warner Brothers arranged for filming a special pic- ture to be shown to the French people, telling them how the Amer- ican people welcomed their gesture . New York’s Commissioner of Markets, Eugene Schultz, who last year warehoused, packed and ship- ped millions of dollars worth of Friendship Train food, tock over the job of exhibiting New York's gifts from France. American Legion “40 & 8" units offered to drive their special loco- motives from as far away as Rome, N. Y. for the Broadway parade. These are the veterans who rode in the cars marked “forty men- eight horses” that became so fa- mous in World War I . .. To wel- come the French ship, the air for- ces supplied an overhead aerial salute, even set up a special plane for aerial photographers . . . Ra- dio Diffusion Francais, the French radio network, arranged to cover every angle of the story and broad- cast it back to France . . . Finall- ly. but by no means last, were the American railroads, without which neither the Friendship Train nor the French Thank You Train could have been born. night and day, executives of twen- ty railroads mapped out the exact | route of the Merci Train through every State in the United States, generously hauling it free to as many cities as possible so that the greatest number of people could see this token of appreciation from France. IT PAYS TO HAVE BROTHER-IN-LAW For some time it has whispered around the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation that if you wanted government loans you ‘Had to employ certain “friends” or lobbyists. The RFC, of course, is paid for by all taxpayers and is supposed to operate for the benefit of them all. Furthermore, loans are sup- posed to be granted on their merit, A But, despite this legal opinion, it's a good idea to know that you are bigger than the , | warded Working | sap, saphead and (1) a peculiar or crackpot, crank, potato and queer Atlantic. all in the day’s distance between wondered whether editor. scrambled. demanding. | 1 5 , Inot through political pull or with | extra cost to the man borrowing | application with the proper offi-|communicating with the money. | However, here is the story of a | |small business firm, the Strick- {land Furniture Company |Point, N. C, when it tried to Jorrow from the RFC to complete construction of a factory. smck-; [land's loan application was approv- | | Charlotte, N. C. but when tor-‘ to Washington, nothing | | happened. So Strickland came m,‘ | Washington to push the loan| himself. ' “Regardless of waivn office we | | had appointments with,” he says| 'in a sworn affidavit, “from day | to day it became increasingly ob-? | vicus a Mr. Ernest Howard, who | | carolina, was always present and | raised the main objections.” Howard, chief of the RFC’s busi- | ness loan section, is married to| the youngest sister of Frank Han- | cock, of Oxford, N. C. Hancock, lan ex-Congressman, went to school | with Secretary oi The Army Roy- all at the University of North Carolina and was a member of the | subcommittee of Congress which | helped create the RFC. ' Finally, after get! around in Washington, Strickland was advised by North Carolina friends to retain Hancock for the | purpose of putting the loan through the RFC. At their first meeting, | says Strickland,’ Hancock called in | his brother-in-law. Within ten minutes Howard remarked to Frank Marks, vice-president of the Strickland Furniture Co.: “Don’t call me Howard. Call me Ernest.” After that, everything was palsy- walsy, and objection to the RFC loan vanished. Within three weeks a loan of $225,000 was offered by the RFC, and this was later rais- ed to $350,000. Strickland in turn paid Hancock $6,000, with addition- |al fees later. | the run- TELLTALE EViDEN | If there is any doubt about the | rt which brother-in-law Howard | played in the deal, the letters of | ex-Congressman Hancock give re- | vealing evidence. This column ob- tained photostat copies of thes‘e‘ |letterts. On Jan. 9, 1947, Hancock | | reported to Strickland on his con- |tacts with his brother-in-law in- |side the RFC. “In keeping with your sugges-| |tion,” the ex-Congressman wrote, been | I discussed with Mr. Howard the | matter of incorporating Strickland Furniture Company as soon as practicable and he agrees that it is the proper thing to do. | “I have been devoting most of my time to your program this | week, and T am hopeful that some | atisfactory decision may be forth- | |coming next week after Mr. How- ard returns to his Gesg and has op- i easy human nature—which we hove won't be lost upon. | those who are insisting that we em_ban_: upon Eiina to 1o Alaaka: Housing AUtHOr- grandiose health service program on this side e of the In olden times the world was supported by Atlas, who stood on the back of a turtle. ported by Uncle Sam, who stands on the back of t American taxpayer. Now it is sup- he “A young California lawyer has been going bare- foot for the last two years."—Press report. It is to be he's eccentric or honest. «Civilization is becoming hard-boiled,” says an The laws of supply and demand are being abused | in that those who have the supply are doing ! e‘rtsm‘":g o portunity to discuss the amended cials in the Washington office.” Again, on Dec. 15, when an in- |crease in the Strickland Loan was | of High about to come through, Hancock | reported: “I notified Ernest (Ernest How- ard) to notify you and Bob Mc- Neill that I was leaving on the af- As you can well understand I was immediately no- tified of the board’s (RFC board) action, which the Chairman told me over the telephone was not too to work out.” Then, discussing the fee he should be paid, Hancock hinted at his inside contacts as follows: “I ealize, however, that some of the best things in the way of service |we understood was from North|gy not always require the longest | time and that compensation of my kind must include other consider- ations.” Strickland says that Howard could have been under no illusions |as to the manner in which his| brother-in-law was using him; for, on one occasion, when Strickland mentioned the loan to Howard at a dinner in the Washington Hotel, Howard remarked: “What are you doing, trying to by-pass my brother-in-law?” H.B. 20, to amend the law relat- jity. Passed 24-0. | H.B. 21, amending the law relat- !ing to jury service. Passed 24-0. H.B. 23, to impose a license tax jof $500 on sailing vessels used in |the commercial fisheries of Al- aska. Passed 24-0. - | SENATE | MEASURES | | To us it looks raore as if it were becoming | | | TENTH DAY. FEB, 2 ! (Measures Introduced) Senate Substitute for H.JR. House and Senate be granted the sum of $50 to defray costs of mail- telegraphing and otherwise constituents the sum of ‘, ing, and $2,000. appropriating (Measures Passed) S.J.M. 5, urging that Alaska be lincluded in the Bureau of Re- | clamation program with participa- ’tiun under the Reclamation Fund, {and submits that such inclusion of | | Alaska would ke to the benefit of (@l concerned. Passed 16-0. | H.JM. 4, urging an agreement |with the Canadian government {for the purpose of keeping the |Haines Cutoff open the year laround. Passed 16-0. - e 0o v s | K] . I'IDE TABLE FEBRUARY 4 High tide, 5:30 am., 14.8 ft. Low tide, 11:58 a.m., 3.1 ft. High tide, 17:47 p.m., 124 ft. Low tide, 23:52 p.m., 38 ft. I { e . *= e00000s e ® e 0 s'e e~ 0 oo IVA MARIE FARMER O'NLiL Communicate with L. E. Fear, 17651 Foothill Blvd, Hayward, California. This means money for you. prossword Puzzle 29. Foray 30. Fine rain Sensational Musical composition Russian city 37, Firm 38. Spoil 39. Bounder 40. Corrosion 41. Note of the scale 42, Article 3. Bed canopy 45. Aeriform fiuld . Headdresses . Delight . Without difficulty Min ACROSS . Recoil . English capital 3. Virus Singing bird Staft Vermin- destroying animal . And: Latin . News organi- zatien: abbr. . Eons Baseball implement . Recelved . Jewish month . Recent . Segsions guished 31 33. 36. e excavations Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Pieces of wood to stop a wheel from turning 2. Kind of bira 3. Free 4. Exists 5. The present 6. Worked with the hands . One who does not profit Metalliferous rocks 9. Nothing . Accomplish Salt of Oleic acid . Cleared . Turkish com- manders 1. Small chicken . Covered with a black substance . Sour . Series of names . Metal fastener . Half quart . Gains control over . Place . Muse of astronomy . List of actors Mexican dish . Springs up . . Fastidious 1,{ from THE EMPIRE ' 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 3, 1929 Instrumental and vocal music, and “a short aesthetic dance,” were enthusiastically applauded at the musicale in the Elks' Hall, given by the Music Department of Juneau High School. Miss Dorothy Fisher and Miss Dorothy Chisholm directed instrumental and vocal numbers, re- spectively. The senior orchestra and the Little Symphony played; boys' and girls' glee clubs sang, and there was a clarinet solo by Willlam Herriman. Singing in the girls’ quarette were Dorothy Bakke, Edna Riedeau, Mazie Rogers and Xenia Kashevaroff. Boys singing in the quartette were Brian Harland, George Hall, Billy Sparks and Robert Waggoner. Dancers were Betty Barragar, Anne Elloitt, Harriet Holman and Cornelia Mohn. Scoring of the weekly shoot at the Juneau Gun Club showed Trues- dale leading, followed by Llano Morris, Radde, McNaughton, Morrison | and Rice. J. S. Jeffrey, wellknown taveling man, was registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel. (He arrived on the Alaska February 1, 1949, too.) Marie Prevost and Harrison Ford starred in “A Blonde for a Night” at the Coliseum. The first games of the three-corhered telegraphic bowling match be- tween Juneau, Ketchikan and Anchorage Legion posts were rolled in the three towns. Thibodeau of Ketchikan was high-score. Juneau Keg scored in this order: Metcalf, high, followed by Cleveland, Stewart, Lavenik and MacDonald. ¥ I ! The Gastineau Grocery advertised: “Lemon snaps are in again—three ipounds for 55 cents.” | ‘Weather: High, 21; low, 19; snow. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We had a good chance for { sucess.” Say, “Chance OF success.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Eczema. Pronounce ek-ze-ma, first E| as in MET, second E as in ME unstresed, accent FIRST syllable, not the | second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hinder (verb). Hindrance (noun). SYNONYMS: Get, procure, receive, obtain, attain, achieve, acquire, secure. 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: PROLIFIC; serving to produce or cause, especially abundantly. “He has a i prolific brain.” MODERN ETIQUETTE { Q. Should a woman rise when being introduced to a man? | A. While it isn't necessary for her to rise, it does show more sincerity and more pleasure over the introduction if she does. Also, :she should rise when being introduced to an eminent man or to an | elderly man. 1 Q. When setting the dinner table, should the prongs of the forks | point up or down? A. The forks should be placed to the left of the plate, with the prongs pointed up. by ROBERTA LEE |n wedding? ! A. There is no set fee; the bridegrocm gives according to his I means. | LOOK and LEARN 1. Which is the oldest of the sciences? 2. Approximately how many soldiers who participated in the recent i war also took part in World War I? 3. Which is the largest church body in the United States? 4, What two men, each representing a major political party of the {U. S., ran unsuccessfuly for the Presidency three times? 5. What bird is considered the greatest fighter? ANSWERS: Astronomy. About 250,000 men. The Methodist. . William Jennings Bryan and Henry Clay. 5. The hummingbird, which is so fearless that it often lights on an enemy's back to rest between bouts. by A..C. GORDON f— Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. 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OLD RECIPROCAL { TRADE LAW IS AGAIN RESTORED Committee of House Takes Favorable Action on Truman Request WASHINGTON, Feb., 3.—(®—The Democrats drove through the House Ways and Means Committee on & 17 to 8 vote today a bill restoring until June 12, 1951, the full pow-: ers of the old reciprocal trade law. | President Truman requested the | legislation, telling Congress it is needed to remove hobbles put on trade negotiations by the GOP Tar- ff Law passed in 1948. He said full operation of the} trade act would build world com- | merce and promote peace. i Two Republicans—Reps. Kean (NJ) and Holmes (Wash.)—joined 15 Democrats in. support of the Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— . Wi & WALTER R. HERMANSEN | Bert's Food Center Groocery Phones 104—17% measure. Opposing were eight Republicans. The legislation will go to the House for debate next week, with a vote expected Wednesday. It gives the President power, with- out any reference to Congress, to cut American duties up to 50 per cent below January 1, 1941 tariffs, in trade pacts with nations that agree to reduce their trade bar- riers. --—— WOULD PARTY Who took red leather wallet from Teen Age Club Sat. night, please keep money but return papers and wallet to Emire, or call Red 213, as it is of great personal value to owner only. No questions asked. 108 3t - e Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. P. M "The Réxall Store” Your Reliable Pharmaciste BUTLER-MAURQ DRUG CO. Alaska Music Sapply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward Q. How much should be given to the clergyman who officates at ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Auditor Tax Counsetex Simpson 81dg. Phone 757 Wall Paper * Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wena: FRIED CHICKEN ! salad, French Fries, Hot Biscuits and Honey, $2.50. Open all night. 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