The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(uly Alaska Empire - except Sunday by the - Fublished every evening PIRE PRINTING COM! streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MO! DOROTHY TROY WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered in the Post SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; | six months, $8.00; one yei , postage paid, at the foll ivance. $15.00 ofie month, i advance, 11.80 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | We Business Office of sny failure or irregularity in the delivery f their papers. Telephones. 602; OCIATED News Office, MEMBER OF A! The Assoclated Press is republication of six months, in advance, $7.50; Business Office, exclusively entitled to the use for N news dispatches credited to it or not other- m obtain free national publicity for a cause or al m,mmunit)u and petitioned Congress for a commem- | orative stamp. | The average Congressman found it an easy and‘ AR Lo pleasant way to oblige. Soon stamps began appear- | Editor and Manager | iNg in all colors and sizes. When you went to the B}]",;:g“{hf“:";g; post office for a sunply of three-cent stamps they | might be green or blue, and an inch high and three | inches long (We exaggerate slightly for emphasis). | The engravings on them ranged fromn people, scenes, machinery and flying machines to hens. Yes, hen: The poultry industry sponsored a commemorative stamp, too. But this may be only the beginning of the deluge. The Wall Street Journal reports that | the commemorative stamps currently being proposed in Congresy include th 300th anniversary of An- in Congress include the 300th annives PANY President $15.00 owing rates: 3. PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FEBRUARY 19 gust Aalto Jacqueline Schmitz Mrs. Edward L. Keithahn Mrs. Sam Niemi FEBRUARY 20 K. G. Wildes Edith Moore = CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska poirts, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 m, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau, funeau, follow: Anchorage ... -16—Partly Cloudy . Missing—Partly Cloudy from - THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 19, 1929 George Flynn, veteran oil man of some 40 years expenence, pre- dicted that Alaska would become one of the big ofl-producing countries of the world. His company had extensive investments in'the Katalla field near Cordova, where Flnn staked oil claims February 25, 1929, the day the Federal oil and gas leasing law went into effect. The Redwing was added to the Pacific Coast service of the Coast Guard, for use in patrolling the shores against liquor smuggling. Frank S. Wilson returned from Ketchikan and Craig, where he had 3arrow SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1949 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO..lfl SEOON’D ln\‘l FOURTH by e el s begmm; at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Wm-shiptul Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ¢) B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. wise credited this paper and also the local news published jbeen on duty with the U. S. Marshal’s office. nerein Don Parson { oklp Macgmnon { Jack Gilbert, wellknown Alaska cannery executive, was appointed fomz(‘:.;}:{ld:\;):'dr;’:;n {Vice-President and General Manager of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Mrs. Carl We! Martha Newboul§ { Gompany, the Skinner and Eddy consolidation of plants in Southeast Marian Jackson and Central Alaska. the 100th anniversary of the introduction in America 10—] of Angora goats. Partly Cloudy ! - —missing || Moase Lodge No. 700 i -48—Fog " 30_Foy || Regular Meetings Each Friday -36—Clear || GOVernor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— .. —Missing -8—Snow WALTER R. HERMANSEN -7—Clear 17—Clear t 21—Rnln Showers -8—Clear ! -36—Partly Cloudy 7—Partly Cloudy A . -49—Fog -2—Clear 3—Rain -43—Fog 34—Cloudy | 10—Clear | -22—Clear -16—Clear ‘ordova !dmonton .. airbanks {aines . Civilian Rule Jethel Dawson ...... [ | (Washington Post) A lot of murmuring may be heard from time to | (time against military occupation of jobs which are not | ‘normally considered within the scope of military re- | sponsibility in a democracy. The fact is that the Department of the Army wants to get rid of many of these extra-military tasks, such as, for instance, the governance of the occupied countries. Srcre("r\ Royall has now recommended transfer of control in | Germany, but the President at his press coniercncc, said he had no intention of so doing. It is highly unfortunate that the State D(‘pan-( ment is still unable to assume this duty in Germany. | The explanation is that it has neither the personnel | nor the other facilities to administer the American zone in Germany. There is something in it, but .he; alternative is anachronistic. In one capacity in Ger- | many, the Army is part of the government; in another, | l p Dawes it is the Army of Occupation. It is compelled, in other words, to act as a government in passing | upon appropriations: which it will use as an army. | The Alaska Taxpayer has taken This is a ridiculous situation, and should have been | ia turn for the worse. Your vote corrected a long time ago. We need ail the gem“s‘ngainst the property tax did not of our Army to be concentrated on the problems of | | quite revive him. occupation. For our troops, either as constabulary | Bt d 4 or soldiers, either inside Germany or on the borders, | But espite the discouraging out- are bound to be in Gemany for some years to come. look he will LIVE, but not without Commission will have something | gratitude to you BOTH. He will be | f:s:;;lyox:h!eh:{ f::je;u 2 ol on his FEET in 1950, and active. No | mandate was given by the voters of i _ ! Alaska nor Union Laber of Alaska, In the good and old days many families lived 'y cinessmen of Alaska, wage earn- were of a specific size—indeed, they were so standard several weeks at a time without buying a supply of ers of Alaska, Native people of Al- in size that envelopes would have a neat little box groceries; now if the homemaker didn't stop for groc- 'aska, fishermen of Alaska, tenants just the size of a stamp saying “Place stamp here.” eries at least four times a week, the family would :\ng mx;\dlcrds o{ Alaska. : : B ve. r by property owners in any o ;x:]:-m were(lnrgcr u‘rl lm:lgrer" sctan:fi:. :«,;Teoiuf‘ci‘vl.; starv R e Sl e .p e i i home owners for this unjust tax delivery or something like that. bill which could be avoided by cut- Then, like the first trickle through a dike, we ting down Territorial expenses, all | began to have special commemorative stamp issues. of which will be explained thor-l More and more began to realize this was a nice way | oughly. ! g B0 You both can feel proud that | ‘»fllma remains despite the PATIENT'S general | ehle.” physical condition HE WILL GET lhe Washmg!o : d | Most important single hurmful WELL, and Abe on hand w give you ! Melfl-GO-ROlll‘l | 1esult of the Bikini blasts was not | ¢ both a rousing welcome if you ever % Havre s The motorship Margnita, Capt. Larry Parks, returned from the Nidey Ah‘port Sitka route, having been delayed several hours by a ‘snowstorm. Ten- annette Island akee passengers were C. Henignes, George Chivich, Lou Reed, Dell{ ¢odiak ]Mumc william Kilby, C. W. Cargin, E. Anderson and M. Paddock. | Kotzebue Others were E. M. Jones and John Maronivich, Chichagof; Mr. and | McGrath Mrs. Tarte, Baranof, and Mrs. A. F. Parker, Hoonah. Jome Northway etersburg *ortland Prince Gecrge Seattle Sitka X ‘Whitehorse Yakutat THREE JUNEAUITES ARE PICTURED IN SAL. ARMY PAPER Given prominent display in a late 1ssue of the Salvation Army house lorgan, The War Cry, is a picture ; f Juneau's Army workers and ai I i [ of jay advisor. H Principals at Juneau’s Home ‘League sale are shown Mrs. Eric 1Ncwmuld Divisional Home League secretary; Mrs. Joseph Rude, wife of 'Dr. Rude, advisory board mem- |Ler and Mrs. Sexton Johanson, wife of commanding officer of Juneau. - e, To Senalor Anifa Garnick | And Senator se0ccec0ccLcoe0scea® l Bert's Food Center Grocery Phones 104—175 Meat Phones 395539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P W "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmscista SUTLER-MAURC DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Msnager Planos—Muxical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant Awditor Tax Counsetor Simpson sldg. Phone 757 FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred W Weuna Juneau had had a snowfall of three inches, as did Point Barrow; Nome had 20 inches, and Fort Yukon, 30 The steamer Admiral Rogers, Capt. E. Thompson, arrived from the westward. Passengers for Juneau included E. M. Axelson, Mrs. Frank Foster, Betty and Marian Foster, O. K. McManus, George H. Miller, A. W. Murray, H. Safevich and Frederick and Ernest Swanson. \ PATS SELF If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. With the patience so suzgested, the administration after five unsuccessful attempts now has everything it has wanted with the passage yesterday of the General Property Tax, and the previous passage of the Terri- torial Income Tax. This was bragged in the gallery yesterday. ADMINISTRATIO i i i | i ‘ 1 { i | A The Westminster Society of the Presbyterian Church held an im- portant meeting in the home of Mrs. John Osborn. Mrs. Josephine Mathews was President; Mrs. H. H. Post, Treasurer, and Mrs. Marie Oswald, Secretary. | | Mickey Goldstein, fur buyer, and Pilot Russell Merrill had an event- ful flight to the Bethel district—a jaunt tha ‘was made in four and tone-half days by airplane instead of the 30 days normally used. Ninety miles down the Bering coast, Indian boys who had never seen an ’ah plane ran from their village crying “big eagle.” GOAT STAMPS NEXT It seems that we dimly can remember a time when a United States postage stamp was of a regular i size stamps B e T i v = slait Malcolm Morrison, one of the cable operators connected with the Juneau office, went to Chilkoot Barracks to relieve the operator there, who was serjously ill. Alaska Senators James Anderson of Nome and Will A. Steel, Juneau, were honor guests of the Washington State Senate, occupying seats next | to Lieut. Gov. Gellatley. They were there to see the new $7,000,000 State House and get ideas for the new capitol building ‘at Juneau. k Weather: High, 35; low, 34; rain. [ The conscience doesn't play exactly fair. It warns a person in the weakest of whispers, but if he ignores the warning and gets caught, it almost deafens him shuutmg. “I told you so!” GECRGE BROS. Widest Selection of LEQUORS PHONE 19¢ insoly - . ¢ c {IDE TABLE FEBRUARY 20 Daily Lessons in English Y L. GORDON practically . i o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The house was nice, only | “Say 1t With Flowers” but again enter the political arena. By DREW PEARSON oL Gontirued from Pag. er up mistakes they have made in | failing to redesign or abolish war- | ships. One interesting fact now in the hands of the Senate Committee is part of the inside story of Bikini. It shows that of the 73 ships in- volved in the Bikini tests, more than 61 were sunk or destroyed This is an enormous loss from only two bombs. Yet it was never released in understandable form to the American public. On the con- trary, news releases were carefully spread out over a period of time so that the man in the street never really knew what happen- ed. WHAT BOMBS DID The real fact, however, is that two bombs at Bikini sank the battleship Arkansas, the carrier Saratoga, the Japanese hames‘fl.) Nagato, two cruisers, terl destroy- ers, three submarines, 12 trans- perts and numerous other vessels. The aircraft carrier Independence, which was subjected to intense blasts from both Bikini bomb: uow anchored off San Francisco, parmanently destroyed—usable only es a testing ground to determine the possibility of removing radio- activity. This is still dangerous two years after the ship was at- tacked. Members of the Senate Atomic Fnergy Committee point out that the loss of so many ships from one bomb would be considersd a major naval disaster at any time, yet, because the putlic is not aware of the potency of the bomb, our *bathtub” admirals are busily pour- ing another $14,000,000 down the drain on a 56,000-ton supercarrier which could be put out of action permanently if a bomb were drop- red within half a mile of it. DECONTAMINATION PROBLEM “INSOLVABLE” Information brought to the Sen- ate Committee’s attention by Dr. David Bradley, a scientist who was an cfficial observer at Bikini, re. veals that, after the tests, the Nav {ried ‘rantically to remove radio- sctivity from damaged ships but without success. Brad report- cd that “salt water, lye, foamite, soap, all spread with liberal amounts of gob profanity, had no avail in removing the radioactivity.” Sandblasting was partly effective but you can’t sandblast & wh ship under battle conditions. Nor ¢an you sandblast Pearl Harbor or the Bremerton Shipyards or Chicago. Possibly, with great quan- tities of strong acid, you might be wble to remove enough paint to clear the decks of fission products. | But short of that, the coat of radioactivity administered by the A- bomb is on to stay. Bradley concluded that, “the problem of decontaminating the total service of a battleship or the brick: and cement of a future Hiro- the explosions themselves—though they did more damage than any bomb in history—~-but the fact that | cver the ileet. atomic element of all. It lodges in the bones, destroys the blood- producing marrow and may kill either by wrecking white blood cells of the victim or it may kill the victim many years | iater through the formation of bone tumors. Plutonium cannot be re- moved by any known process. None of this information is sec- ret. All of it is known to many <f the doctors of all nations. Yet Secretary Forrestal, who this year i5 building more than $400,000,000 | hasn't paid | worth of new ships, niuch attention to the problem. This is the inside reason why the Atom- ic Energy Committee is now ser- inusly planning a full-dress inves- tigation of Bikini and its sults. Most important document the scientists are urging the Atomic Energy Committee to break loose is thie nonsecret sections of the re- port of the Evaluation Board of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Bikini tests which Defense Secre- iary Forrestal has bottled up. The 1eport concludes with the signifi- cant statement that “future employing atomic bombs may well aestroy nations and change pres- ent standards of civilization.” Brass-hat lobbyists on Capitol Hill have been dragging a red herr- ing across the trail of the proposed investigation by saying that those in favor of more public knowledse about the atcmic bomb actually want to give secrets to Ru Nothing could be further fre: truth. JUNIOR KiNGFISH YIELDS Louisiana’s young Senator Russell | ting to preserve Long, who is the filibuster, ha filibuster agai his wife. The 30-year: Senator from Louisiana has inherited all the gift ovi gab from his father, the late Huey Long, who probably will go down in history as the most fam- ous filibusterer who ever kept the Senate awake all night. But the junior kingfish could not filibuster 1s way out of attending a recep- tion for President Truman. His wife wanted to go but he didn't. When Mrs. Long called him on the phone, the young Senator en- geged in a long string of argu- ments as to why he should not be ent. He hemmed and hawed, sed all sorts of excuses. He n't read the cooking recipes to wife as his late father had cone to the Senate but he did al- nost everything else. found he can’t Finally, the kingfish jr. made the | cne mistake no filibusterer can @ Jr rd to make on the Senate floor. paused. At this point, Mrs. Long got in her word. “All right, honey,” sighed the tor from Louisiana, in reply. “What time are we supposed to be there?” riutonium was spread far and wide Plutonium is the most dangerous the red and ' re- | Low tide, 0:47 a.m., 43 fet. High tide, 7:03 am, 152 ft. Low , 14:02, pm. 16 ft. High tide, 2:33 pm,, 11.3 ft. FEBRUARY 21 Low tide, 1:57 am., 59 ft. High tide, 8:15 am, 142 ft. Low tide, 1528 p.m, 18 ft. High tide, 22:17 p.m,, 113 ft. e o s o s e v o0 e EASTERN STAR Friendship Night Tuesds ary 22, 8 o'clock. All v bers on Channel invited. Bring es- corts for Washington Birthday par- ty following meeting. ALICE BROWN Sec'y. , Febru- 24 2t! | You BOTH HAVE JUDGED THE TEMPER OF OUR PEOPLE WELL AND PROPERLY BY CASTING ! YOUR VOTE AGAINST THE Gm_fl- i ERAL PROPERTY BILL. ' ALASKA TAXPAYERS' ! (Pa)d adv.) LEAGUE. BABY GIRL BORN A baby girl was born at 5:30 this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Von- | da at St. Ann’s Hospital. ’rhe| new arrival weighed 6 pound, 9 ounces. The parents have three other children, all boys. - 3 CASH for scrap lead and old storage batteries at Madsen's. 22 tf' ACROSS 1. Cooking utensil Flap . Kind ot meat 2. Devoured . Exist . Positive electrode . Dairy animal 6. Lived in | Other . Edges of u roof . Temporary escape . Heroic Melody Purpose Card gamq lterate . Sick . Liquor And not . Dress up Twist out of shape Works over 6. Get up Let it stana . Involve . Masculine name . Weeds . Side of u triangle . Nothing Wading oird . Unit of work . Turn to the right Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Bank Safety Boxes jor Rent : COMMERCIAL N Fried Chicken and T-bone Steaks | —$2.50. Country Club. 19 tr i o clo < m x[=[u[>[= m{Z|o|x|n 2l m o x -im|v’ Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Horse with a swinging . Mexican dish - Publication . Siamese nutive . Wild buffalo of India . Light bed nickname Genus of | the oat ity in Penne sylvania . Persia Pledging Electrified particle . Tooth Asiatic tree . Uncooked . Guido's high- est note . Type of lens . Deprivation Subsequent selling . More pallid . Pronoun . Small rug . Golf instruce tor: collog. Urge Behrends Peposit SAVINGS it was small.” Say, “EXCEPT it was small.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Government. syllable ERN, not guv-er-ment. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Fineness (the quality of being fine). (artifice). ’ SYNONYMS: Announce, proclaim, declare, notify, report, communicate. ! WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let usi increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: EMANATE; to issue forth from a source. “Fragrance emanates from the | | flowers.” | MODERN ETIQUETTE Hopemea ree | Q. When a person does not believe in tipping, is it proper for him m ignore it? A. It is preferable “when in Rome to do as the Romans do.” It !would be far better for him who does not believe in the custom to ‘ patronize only the places where tipping is eliminated or not expected. , Q. When there are several women guests in a room, and one of them leaves the room, is it necessary for another woman to rise, justl as a man does? A. No, unless the woman leaving is elderly; then it is courteous tar' the younger women to rise. I Q. Should a bridegroom give a wedding gift to his bride? A. Yes, this is customary. And she also gives one to him. LOOK and LEAR o 1. Which sport attracts the greatest number of spectators during a season? ¢ 2. What famous Confederate general was accidentally killed by his own men? 3. What is a trapezoid? 4. What famous ship was sunk on her maiden voyage from England to America? 5. Which musical instruments tone most nearly resembles the human voice? ANSWERS: Basketball. General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson. 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