The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1949, Page 4

Dt mva, o N - e T i) o sl b e S PAGE FOUR xcept Su ix months, $5.00; one year, ; six_mo; afer a favor if they News Office, 602; B neau, Alaska {ness_Office, fla ‘ha Emplre day by the ¥ Vice-Presiden Editor and Mannger Managing Editor Business Manuger s1. stage pafd, at the following rates e hs, in advance, $7.50 will promptly notify f ony failure or irregularity in the delivery 4. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS €d Press is exclus news dispa paper also the ely entitled to the use for not other- published | local new: Alaska Newspapers, 1411 RYAN FOR FOUR YEARS MORE s uneau, follow R TS 55 scienzes, but the future of mankind will depend on Creditable action was taken by the Territorial |the success he dchieves in catching up with the de- A"fi_’_”’flfl“ A 5“"“ oard of Education at the meeting last week in the |velopment in the physical, chemical and mnvent]nnallgz:‘w?’ B reappointment of Dr. James C. Ryan as Territorial | medical sciences, in the psychological and sociglj St B vl 4 ; | sciences | Cerdeva Missing, Clear Commissioner of Education. | 8¢ | Bion. -16—Cloudy Dr. Ryan has served for the past eight ars as Dr. Winslow urzes that efforts be made to close | At T S ot ¢ ) ey | the gap in the progress of these other sciences before | Edmonton i enow s R e el i B L ars Ot iyy js too late. For if the atomic bomb were to be | Fairbanks service on March 1. He knows the Territory thor-l,cjeased as a method of indiscriminate warfare, thcre,H'“‘“Ffl : oughly and is acquainted with all the facts in the coyld be no public health or private health. bmhdjmxc - 20—Cloudy great problem now facing Alaska on needed housing |indiscriminate use of the destructive power of the ;“h“a\; Airport lB—I;L Cloudy | for educational purposes. Alaska is growing in school ; atomic bomb in warfare would tend to destroy modern | ‘ Kfli{f}ff 2;;*;{ gizz?v hdance and already the overcrowded condition of civilization and send men back to the: ves. | Rotgenns -14-—?&‘ Cloudy Is in some sections is also deplorable. But if atomic cnergy is properly controlled and | yrocio 21—Srow ! 2van is coghizant of the conditions and is public and national consciences are built up to a|yon.e e oW | doing his st in recommendations for betterment of !”PU “(.l ,0 050 WIHT S g problems, * atomi Northway -8—Pt. Cloudy | power could become a boon of first importance to! p.tarsin the present school facilities. | civilization. | Petersburg —Missing | k) 95 ol RN v | Portland 35—Cloudy ' ¢ g S | Prince George 19—Cloudy IT CAN SNOW HERE TCO For several years our national income has been i geattle . . 35—Cloudy AR increasing. (It is estimated at $240,000,000,00 for 1948.) | Sitka —Missing Every day Associated Press dispatches bring news If this trend continues, perhaps the time will come | Whitehorse 2—Pt. Cloudy of weather conditions in the States. heavy snow storms | when we Americans will make as much money as we | Yakutat 21—Pt. Cloudy and blizzards tying up traffic, marooning travelers, | spend. | AR, autos, t s and buses, and causing suffering. | — | Juneau so far has escaped extremely bitter weath- | In spite of everything, most people have a lot of MONIE (ARlo NIGHI er but there has been plenty of snow. From Saturday Imn being peop]e NEX"’ SA'URDAY FOR Tiie Washinglon tierry-Go-Round 3y DREW PEARSON | sOomticued from Pwv oL er man Frank I1anccik, .yf O\»] ford, N brother-in- lew, Ernest passcs upon losns inside the Hancock, it | be stated, has been making a iness by handling RFC North Carolina Equally amazing is the disclo- sure that in order to get army con- it has sometimes proved 'y to pay a rcentage of tract to political go-be- in this case North Caro- In other words, the tax- payers’ money, suppesed to be used for buying army supplies and mun- itions, actually goes in part to 1 lobbyists who represent lves having pull with the Secretary of the Army and the Assistant Secreta AMAZING STORY of this amazing story be- the light of day when a suit s filed by William Phil- | brother of Mayor Earl Ph of High Point, N. C,, to col- Part gan to lips lect $36,880.20 from the Strickland Furniture Cempany as a commis- sicn on a $1,500,000 army contract by which the Strickland company made bureaus for the Army strickland, who admits owing the commission, states that actually it is owed not to Bill Phillips but to his brother Earl, the mayor of High Point, and to ex-Congress- man Frank Hancock who helped get the Army contract. Congressman Hancoeck, whes' queried by telephone, admitted that he had called on Secretary of the Army Royall in Washington to discuss the furniture contraet awarded th rickland Furniture developed that he 1t had left Strickland sitting in Roy- Company. all's outer ofiice and gone in to talk to the Secretary of the Army ; alene. | Later Hancock wrote the draft of | a proposed letter which was to pe sent to Secretary for Air Stuert Symington in order to get other Army business. The first paragraph of-the letter read: | “pgreeable with the suggestion mede to me and Mr. Frank Han- cock, our attorney, during our brief | conference in your office as a re- sult of 2 tment made by Gen. Royall, we are writing, etc., ete.” | Later, however, Strickland, the furniture manufacturer, broke with Hancock the ex-Congressman ficm North Carolna. And after that he got no more Army business. He was Jow bidded on an order for Army foot lockers just recently. | But the Army sejected his bid and | tinued fees to Hancock that he asked for new bids—after publiciz ing to other bidders what Strick-|frcm the Army land’s low bid was. i LAXNEES IN ARMY There is no evidence that Royall or Gray profited frem the trans- action but it does appear that either they, or tiiose ciose to them ;n) played favorites lenie | in permitting un i fees to be paid fith governmen [ th e , and a matter of public 'd, that both Hancock Final scores of other games in|the Juneau Ski Club play host to :nd William Phillips had a stand- the Pac Northwest over the the peopls of Gastineau Channel, by Syhereby the RFC weekengd are as follows: |with a gala evening of fum and reccan se two debts. | Washington State 50; Oregon-48.|[rolic. 2 That up enoiher impor- | hington 64; Idaho 47. , Funds derived from Lne Monte tant and ory chaper in the Whitman 74; Linfield 42 (NW Carlo night will be used to send stery—the story of the run-around Conf.). qu’\htrd competitive enmes to Al-| given Small Business when it secks ~ Eastern Oregon 71; Oregon Coll.|aska’s ski meets, Ski Club President government help th no of Ed 63. | Neil Taylor announces. friends or Kenneth Stricl a streamlined new furniture piant at High Pcint most modern in 1946 he tried repeatedly to obtain President —!in deaths in catastrophes vith pclitical cronies. lobbyist 1;.(101’11(;01\ until Sunday forenoon, an estimated oncj foot and one-half of snow fell on tob of the previous | | six and one-half feet. To the householder who want- | ed to keep his stairs and paths open, it was just one | shoveful after another and to the Juneau Street De- partment it was just one continual plowing of the main street sections to keep them open for traffic. nt | \l)l)ll\ : TO THE POPULATION Pictures of 1948's population growth are becoming available. With a near record of births and the lowest death rate in history plus a considerable immigration, | the increase in the nation’s population was close to | 2,500,000. Births totaled more than 3,650,000, second only to the record year of 1947. The excess of births | over deaths was approximately 2,200,000 | Other vital statistics compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company show that accidental deaths | declined slightly in 1948. There was a sharp drop Home and motor vehicle | accidents showed little improvement, if any. But in| the case of the latter, there was a ray of hopegmw relation to mileage, the motor vehicle mortality prob- | ably was the lowest ever experienced. U(».c lhe Gap ncmmmum Enquirer) feed of humanity today is | The most imperative the speeding up of the research and diffusion of | knowledge among the fields of mental hygiene and that deal with the relations of man in d Dr. Charles Emory Winslow, pro- of public health at Yale University, in an ad- dress at the Cooper Union Forum in New York City. No one wants to check the growth of the physical | A and were much too Also they were lax e 1y lobbying out in connectior t contracts. 'BASKEBAL! [ | | i | | ificially registered day night and won 64 to 47. Pacific U. 56; Multnomah College 59; s at court. kland was building Pacific Oregon Tech. 44.| set0006080cs0esse e FEBRUARY 14, Mrs. Olaf Bodding Mrs. Edward Bach Gary Aalto Bach John A. Larson Austin Brown Axel Nielsen Mrs. Chris Jorgensen Patrick Allen Emerson Bertha Beebe Mildred Bryson EONDIHONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper- Iso on the Pacific Coast, It may not be the Monie Cario jon the Azure Coast in Monaco, bul. Washington turned on the steam|it will e Monte Carlo night at the in the game with Idaho last Satur- country club, Saturday, February 19} -\h“n the local “snow bunnies” from | The ciub is grateful for the gener- “sevsceossscscsene Henderson “Alaska,” | Government.” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949 20 YEARS AGO TH's mmpirE . FEBRUARY 14, 1930 The Virginia IV was again in commission after being laid up two weeks for an overhaul of her main power plant. Skippered by Capt. Matt Nordness, the Virginia IV resumed her schedule to Chichagof and y ports. In Douglas, the Rebekah card party was a great success, and Miss Dorothy Crim entertained her third and fourth grade students at a costume Valentine Day party, in her home. | had their dress rehearsal for the junior play, “Terrible Jane.” Anchorage had her only win over Juneau in the fourth match o the triangle telegraphic bowling series with those cities and Ketchikan The revised and enlarged second edition of Lester D. Henderson’ was offered for sale by The Empire Printing Company His was subtitled, “Its Scentic Features, Geography, History and | Alaska,” was Territorial Cemmissioner of Education. ' Crews were rescued from two freighters helpless in Aleut.an water: | —the Alloway and the Meiyo Maru. Men from both ships were taken tc Dutch Harbor. H. L. Faulkner, new President of the Chamber of Commerce, outlined 2 comprehensive program for that group, for 1929. atures’ at various Alaska points, | at 4:30§ i i E. F. Hermann was unanimously elected Commander of Alford John -26—Pt. Cloudy | pradford Post, American Legion. Jack Koby, explosives worker Mis. M. Bernhoier m., 120th Meridian Time, and | visit with her son, John, and his family. J. B. Bernhofer was employed leased by the Weather RHIPI\IMAQ the Harri Machine Shop. came from Skagway on the Margnit. lm_]uxed while at work in the lower levels. Mrs. Dallas Weyand and baby boy, 7—Snow | leave St. Ann’s Hospital. low, 37; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English - % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Inside of an hour we : Young Douglas Thespians in the Alaska Juneau Mine, born February 5, were able to | Admitted to the hospital were John O’Connor 18—Pt. Cloudy | Robert Thompson, Igwold Peterson and Earl Lundy. | Weather: High, 40; “CALLED BACK | 10 SERVIC E Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. {GLENN O. ABRAHAM, lWonhipIul Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ¢> B.F.0.ELKS Meeung every Wednesday at WASHINGTON, Feb. M.—lfl— The United States called ‘Gen. gogembo‘g;‘;‘;g;mg;;’l‘mys!' Dwight D. Eisenhower back into| pyoired Ruler. W. H. BIGGS. service today to help answer some Secretary. o ps » ;rave questions of future military oliey. The Wartime Supreme Allledl Semmander was named by the, Nhite House Friday to serve as| hairman of the Joint .Chiefs of ¢ staff—a group which includes the op military men of the Army, Javy and Alr Ferce, as well as he chief of staff to the Presidenl., Eisenhower is on leave from h' cb as president of Columbia Uni-! In his new post, officials aid, he undoubtedly will be called (I Bert's Food Center I | n to act’ as peacemaker between he Air Force and Navy, which Grecery Phones 104—115 .ave frequently clashed over the ole each,would play in aerial varfare. ‘ Me’umhlle, as prinicipal military | isor of President Truman and jecretary of Defense Forrestal, he jill have an important part in de- iding such vital deiense questions Moose Lodge No. 700 | | Regular Meetings Each Friday Y Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE | Secretary— ' WALTER R. HERMANSEN book | 4 a for a “The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmaciste s there: BUTLER-MAURO 1. Should the United States: 1 oncentrate its defense planning DRUG CO. was | n the Atlantic-European area, eaving Pacific defence in a sec- . 1 gl <o /| Alaska Music Supply How much of its arms can his country spare to bulwark its) 1llies in Western Europe and else where. Arthur M. Uggen, Manager « Planos—Muxical . Instruments i and Supplies E Phone 206 Becond and Seward ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant - o MASONIU NOTICE Regular meetinz Mcnday evening 7:30. Work in M. M. Degree. 18 2t G. O. ABRAHAM, W. M. | |found that the situation was very unique.” Say, “WITHIN an hour Letndt @ e outboards.; Counsetcr f ' ENS A ‘wc found that the situation was unique (omit VERY).” Pt mod.el_! St MADOENR. #108 "; .-l:’ g a OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Microscopic. Pronounce mi-kro-skop-ik, A e P ‘first I as in LIKE, first O as in OBEY, second O as in ON (not as in NO), accent third syllable. GE“ P o | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Fricassee; observe the two S's and the ; BGE Bnas' Wall Pa er ‘two s, Widest Selection of | 4 SYNONYMS: Extrinsic, external, extraneous, unessential, | foreign. ! WORD STUDY: sincrease our vecabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: SKl (I_UB BENEH]‘ CHAOTIC; without order; confused. “His affairs were in a chaotic “Use a word three times and it is yours.” state.” i jment MODERN ETIQUETT Q. When a person is being introduced to another, is a courteous } acknowledgment necessary, even if the introductoon is for any reason not agreeable? I A Yes; ROBERTA L under any circumstances. Q. Should a man always lift his hat when speaking to a man who is accompanying a woman? i A. Yes, always. ! Q. What is the correct distance from the dinner table that a sity of Tom George, proprietor ot !person’s waist should be, not to be too far or too close? the v | ie Salmon Creek Country Club fori A Apout eight inches is a good distance. llowing the use of the club for this College 43. {th N. C.—one of the Vanport College 60; Seattle Pa-|al the state. And in cific 44. Puget Sound 52; Western Wash- | € | promotion of the King Winter sport, kiing, according ¢o Ralph Randall, LOOK and I.EARN 2 ¢ GORDON the well-bred person will extend a courteous acknowledg- { outward, LIQUORS PHONE 299 “Say It With flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists | 1 PHONE 311 1l The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery i PHCNE 764 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANITORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE { i Phone 247 ! Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W. Wenai " Let us Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hote] | Newly Renovated Reoms st Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O EE PHONE 556 Thomas Hardware Co. | PAINTS —- OILS an RFC loan. His lean was recom- ington 48 (Evergreen Conf.). crairman of the event. STEVEN 9 mended for approval by the cistrict Eritish Columbia 47; St. Martin's| Letters are going out to the mri-, S Bullders’ and Sheit i RFC representative, John Camp- 49 (Evergreen). Hus ski clubs in the Territory and | 4 HARDWARE bell, at Charlotte Pacific Lutheran 57; Whitworth|to Whitehorse, ¥. T. with appli-{ = 1. Are the Hawallan Islands nearer to Japan or the United States? LADIES’'—MISSES’ Furthermore, Strickland had al- 55 (Evergreen). |cations enclosed for verification of| 2 What is the name of the young of each of the following: (a) READY-TO-WEAR Remington Typewriters ways reps id previous RFC loans Willamette 49; College of Idaho | the number of entries that they are (deer, (b) frog, (c) bear? Seward Street Near Third SOLD and BERVICED by i ahéad of schedule, as admitted by 46. sendinz to Juneau for the club's 3. Which State of the Union produces the most flower seeds? J B B'.fl RFC 5 director Harvey Gunderson' Gonzaga 57; Portland U. 32. |meet to be held on Douglas Island, 4. What is the significance of the custom of throwing rice upon > ¥R "d & cfl. e nf“’i‘ffi"' hor Wast i o i T M O RSN LA B The Charles W. Cart ettt Halbideic L spite s, wever, Washing- ach year the club has a bigge! |ten turned him down. o e e nomow e - 8@ g refter meet through better| ‘5 “i:‘:t bbb kmw;; ATe“C“" author was famous for his short e Lharles W. er Finally, Strickland was told that = ® s : ¢ [support locally and more keen in- storles with surprise endings? Mortu he should see ex-Congressman | IIDE TABLE ferndi@Rosm. by. the' competing iakle ANSWERS: ary FORD AGE 1 y peting Frank Hancock of Oxford, N. C, ® ® lers. 1. The United States. Pourth and Franklin Sta. (Authorized Dealers) a member of the subcommittee: ® FEBRUARY 15 . E ————— 2. (a) Fawn, (b) tadpole, ‘¢) cub. PHONE 138 GREASES — GaS — OIL hich te th RFC A j® jgh tide, 3:21 a.m, 185 ft. ® i & which wrote the ct and 8. 0 A . 3. California. i B ether-intaw, Ernest How '@ Lbw tide, 9:23 am. -08 it. ®| Safety experts say rubbish, waste| 4 pice s an ancient symbol of fertility Juneau Motor Co ard, also from Oxford, N. C. was ® High tide, 15:25 pm,, 18.7 ft. ® |paper, and other combustible mat- S b Card Beverage Co s of Main Staale 2 the key man inside the RFC re- © Low tide, 21:45 pm., -3.0 ft. e |erials should be burned in open 5 Y ! L enrding the ‘approval df " loans,|® 7@ e saie e fs e’ e | mstal coutak e on bare ground at |/ iy TR Wholesale 805 10th St Fie Stiickland did so. ——————— a safe distance (50 feet if possible) PR ¥ 3 e . The United States leads the|from buildings and combustible Oldest Bank in Alaska : :mm! .:) NIGHT JUNEAU DAIRIES In a sworn affidavit, Strickland | world in the mining cf iron ore. materials. er SODA POF DEL[CIOUS ICE g | state: “On approximately Jan. 5, —— i il | habit—ask for H by name 1947, with check No. 3817 in the . { 4y ' emcint of 81600, we met 30r an- [Ny d Puizle 1891—O0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1949 ||| Caslers Men's Wear Jlmeau Dairies, Inc. | ° cock at his offi Upon receiving rOosswor uzzie. Former] B o , 1y SABIN'S the check, Mr. Hancock informed | 5 Chrysler Marine Engines us there was another $1,000 due ACROSS = 21. Sigrity ; “e B M Be‘hrends i Btetson and Mallery Hats MACHINE SH “ immediately and we offered to L Outbuilding 30. Poems » L4 - . { Arrew Shirts and Underwear | oP i Vi thi o . i Y ;f:i‘::h“ v‘:"lmX:d the n \\1“ two ddfl);‘ & z}‘:‘f',’,“"‘,“‘""” :: ?‘L’r?:cl{,y;,' B mn I‘ l Allen Edmends Shoer Marine Hardware e as evidence y | (2. Surface a . Vai a Skyway Lugraze R 2 A 34. Epoch . ' f® chack Nc. 3286 for another $1,000. o geit"*®t TR TR | chas. G. Wmel' Co “Hancock indicated he had pre- 14 Always scarf s } « f 5 v oo e a1 S g R afety Deposit I BOTANY | s found that his brother-in-law, ' 16 So 0 ‘ HOME GROCERY ¥ Ernest Howard, was not sold on | k%‘.‘,‘o,‘,’:? T e Boxes for Rent ’ 500" 4 our situaticn, but that Mr. Howard | ack . 42. African L | e ) Ph o ‘:as in_ (;c\:vn at (I::*lmomsm and| 2 “",‘,’.5,,{:,? “ :.E,:“v‘:m Solution of Saturday's Puzzle COMMERCIAI S AVINGS i CLOTHES 'hone 146 " e WO ry to t him over im- colloq. v Y 4 4 mediately for a conference, A few, & Alfonen 41 Dectare SR b | NUNN-BUSH SHOES ‘_,h:’" Store—Tel. 99 { minutes later this was accomplish- | 2. lé;x'brégnl:l;. 3 !Srfi{(‘:c';‘:m o e 8 Ehasosi ' STETSON'HATS . w_‘_ ed, and thirty minutes later we oo Co® 3. Verdant the g B - i Quality Work Clothing T ——— were on our way back to High . olng ______‘ s To Banish “Blue Monday” Potat s articulars v ~ =, JOHN WINTHER, SR. !ll FRED HENNING | To give you more freedom three weeks later, Strickland’s 3 ic\‘i‘(sps as a paid-up subscriber o THE DAILY ALASKA i Complete Outiitterifer Yan from work — TRY loan for $325,000 cam: through. Misses Hancock collected an additional gmndeu EMPIRE d lnvited i bt‘::hgnl;-;t THIS EVENING AlaSka Lmd" s, fee of $4,000 after the loan was . King of the Present this coupon e box office of the W ; : \ granted, making & total of West. Suons COWLING i folkcwing thia, accorcing s v CAPITOL THEATRE DR. ROBERT SIMPSON land, he kept demanding additional B H wm omm @ faes, m;fl] a total of $12,086.04 6. Kain nghity and reqdve TWO TICKETS to see: ; Dedgo—Plymonth—Chrysie rea & was pai Bepresentatiy *DeSete—Dodge xamined—Glasses Fitted It was after Strickland discon- SERE mcom g el SIMPSON BUILDING / I E L SRR orn Phone 206 for Appointments i o — failed to get his second contract n.- .//fl. .glern&llf. Federal Tn_]’z@__P.m by the Theatre : o A————— f¥on tholioh (ha . Recreation SHAFFER'S # i rr ground was low bidder. 7l ) & Ervies PMONE 4_m “Ym.m ! H. S. GRAVE » This is cnly part of the fantas- -/ /// // : Bibtieal king 1 cu co ! mu' mr 'fl‘l i s |t story of how a lite busine el B 00 and an insured cab WILL CAL'}; FOR YOH and | gl coscuidie | coas e Clothing Man ] man gets the royal run-around 3 name RETUR to your; ule wi allr compliments. 'VPS O in Washington's wonderland—un- fl--. . Transgression N YOU to your| : 13—PHONES- 49 LE ; GSIV’OERALLS A less he has powerful political lob- fl.. : Grandchiia: WATCH THIS SPACE—-&Y‘!II NIIIO May Appear! i Pree Delivery ys byists behind him. Scotch »