The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every even EMPIRE PRI HELEN TROY DOROTHY TROY £ WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - ALFRED Z Entered Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Dougla six months, $8.00; one year, By mail, postage paid. One year, in ady ene month. in advance. Subseribers will co Wwe Business Office of any f W their papers. Telephones ; Busine CIATED Nes MEM Press is exclu: ispatches r and alsc The Assoc republication of wise credited herein credit the Office in_Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES at the following rates — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 he Bill was an plenty of crossing Following an originally bought wi E done pe reported as coming A MANDATE OF THE There has been a lot of talk d of the Legislature about “the mandate of the peop! In 1946, by referendum, an overwhelming vote of incident. the people asked for a blanket primary bill ~|much of the lead PEOPLE sent States. uring this sess governments will, it For, as t ( administration measure. | bill should be promoted by an administration that did in the selection of its own there for processing en Although this official absotution wu: over “mandate of the people.” ECA Retraction (Washington Post) intensive six-weeks’ the ECA has formally cleared Great Britain, Belgium and Holland of charges of profiteering from resales to American companies of lead and aluminum scrap | th ECA dollars. Deputy Administrator Bruce, who was re»" | sponsible for broadcasting these unjust charges, has ance for his indiscretion by admitting that a more complete study of facts and figures shows that a substantial part of the imports of the two metals from Great Britain and Holland | were in-transit shipments originating elsewhere, while shipped from Belgium had been to the the accused is to be hoped, heal the wounds caused by Mr. Bruce's attack, it does not close the he report points out, there are a good many questions connected with these metal ship- The House has decided that when the referendum ments that require clarification. was voted upon, the people didn’t really mean what they said. to party. privilege of asking for a ballot at a without declaring a party. The only I.hing‘ they aske primary election 10 Europe, thereby plies of scarce metals? Where, for example, did the scrap metal pur- No. They still wanted to vote according chased in Switzerland by British agents for shipment d for was the to this country originate? And would it not be possible make fuller use of available scrap reducing the drain on American sup- in western The experts whom the That was the interpretation of the House on the poa pang to send to Europe to study such problems may find answers to such questions that will save Yesterday 16 members of the House interpreted American taxpayers a good deal of money and at the the blanket primary bill, “a mandate of the people” same time further ECA efforts to make western Europe less dependent. blanket primary referendum vote. to suit their own ends. By declaring that the present bill killed the two party system they knocked out the privilege allowed under the present over from one party to another in primary voting. The voting in the House yesterday indicated that The Washinfilon Merry-Go-R_@d By DREW PEARSON Sontinued trom Page One) | thatched, T4-year-old Crosser, who gets about in a wheel chair, must shuttle up and down between the committee room and his old office on the first floor. Crosser, however, has done little shuttling or legislating. Whiie his temper has been mounting against Wolverton and against Speaker Sam Rayburn for refusing to oust Wolverton—important bills on na- tional health insurance, freight rates, and other matters also are piling up in the committee. No hearings have been held (at this writing) on any of this legisla- tion, though Congress has been in session almost eight weeks. Wol- vertcn, who moved in when he be- came chairman two years ago, in- sists he has priority under a 1918 resolution giving House members the right to remain in an office they occupied during the previous session. Meanwhile, the Committee’s legis- lative slag-pile gets higher and higher while the two prima donnas fight it out. SNOWS CAUSE BEE LOSSES All sorts of stcries have been written about the tragic cattle and sheep losses of the West, but not a word about the plight of bees. However, thi ss has been just as heavy. Though btees hibernate through the winter, they must leave their hive every six weeks or so for a breath of fresh air. Western snow- drifts have made this impossible, and, as a result, beekeepers in the snowbound states lost 50 per cent of their bees. Note:—Bees have dusing lately, and the honey in- dustry has appealed to Secretary of Agriculture Brannan to take some of the surplus off its hands. The western loss, therefore, will not af- fect the supply of honey nationally. ALARM-ING COINCIDENCE A grating ‘noise, as if a cricket were loose in the room, interrupted a group of Senators and Congress- | men during a committze meeting the other evening Embarrassed, Congressman Wright Patman of Te as grabbed his wrist watch. The mysterious sound ceased. “That alarm is just enough to wake me up in the morning with- out wakening my wife,” apologized the Texas Congressman. “But the darn thing goes ofi every twelve hours.” Senator Lyndon Johnscn, also of Texas, kidded the Congressman about his watch with the Dick Tracy trimmings. Then the group went back to work. Five minutes later, the same cricket noise chirped out again. This time, Senator Johuson grabbed his watch. Then it developed that Senator Johnson had been the first to ac- | quire a cricket-chirping watch, and Congressman Patman was so in- trigued with it that he hunted up a been overpro- | blanket primary A geologist say: bill of crossing United States a billion years from now. excellent solution to of execution. like it from Switzerland. i - w SOUTHE! ARNING ON | CIVIL RIGHTS A broad hint that Southern Sen- ators will not help repeal the Taft- Hartley Act if civil rights are jam- med down their throats has been given by Georgia’s Senator Dick Russell. Since Russell represents the South on the Democratic poi- icy committee, his warning is im- portant A good many Southern Senators voted for the Taft-Hartley Act in the first place, Russell has quiet- ly reminded his cclleagues. But they might now be willing to sup- "iegislation, s glaciers will cover the entire That’s an our many problems, but too slow | ‘Jewrler who could order one just |burden on farmers who employ {them for a few days if these people ere brought under the program.” Representatives Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and Herman Eberharter of Pennsylvania supported Rayburn. John Dingell of Michikan, an ori- ginal sponsor of social security id the same difficul- ty would apply to enrolling casual domestic servants. “By all means the program should cover permanent worl s on big corporate farms, as well as butlers, maids and other servants who work steadily for one employ- er,” said Dingell. “But casual do- mestics who work a few days here and ‘here would be difficult to en- port Truman regarding the T: roll unless we resorted to the Hartley Act if he in turn compro: ‘stamp’ plan used by the British.” ed for a softer stand on civil TR e o e e v we 6o Administration leaders say e . Truman is not likely to compromise. e {'IDE TABLE . Civil rights was one of the most o YA . important planks in his electicn o FEBRUARY 25 . platform, e High tide, 1:06 am, 142 ft. ® AR ® Low tide, 6:42 am, 40 ft. -® HELP NEEDY, TRUMAN SAYS e High tide, 12:43 pm,, 159 ft. o President Truman had a signif e Low tide, 19:13 pm. -09 ft. ® cant private session with Speaker o ° Sam Rayburn and members of the o o @ 8 @ o © @« « o o @ House Ways and Means Committee the other day, af which he again urged changes in the social security program, especially help for the aged and the blind. If individual states can't provide adequate assistance to their aged, blind, and dependent children, Tru- g man urged, then the Federal gov- ernment must increase grants to the states. Help should go to all the needy, the President added, not merely to those over 65 “The program now in effect isn't nearly meeting the relief needs of the nation,” Truman asserted. “We have got to broaden the base of public assistance so that all desti- tute people are eligible for bene- fits. In addition, we must increase | individual benefits to correspond to higher living costs.” | At the same time, he added, relief | recipients should be permitted to supplement their meagre benefits by part-time employment—when akle to work, without getting involv- ed in red-tape restrictions by the states. ON CASUAL, | SEASONAL WORKERS i | } HITCH Representative Aime Forand of Rhode Island reported that most of the Truman proposals were embod- ied in a biil he had introduced t day before. Speaker Rayburn also endorsed increased Federal grants \for general relief p He warned, however, that Truman'’s re- | quest for broadening the social se- curity old age pension program to cover casual employees and season- | al farm workers would have tough | sailing in Congress. “I'm a farmer myself, and I know | something about the administrative | difficulties you would encounter if | casual farmhands were enrolled un- der the program,” declared the Speaker. “A farmer goes into town and brings back some hands to help him with his harvest. When these | workers are through on one farm, they move to another. | “Maybe all the work they get is | three or four weeks in the spring | and again in the fall. It wouldl jimpcse tco great a bookkeeping ¢ es. last and Mrs. Hospital. the Colonial Wekb’s only child. —$2.50. storage batteries at Madsen’s. 22 tf FOR WEBBS A T-pound baby boy was born night at 10 o'clock to Mr. Jack Webb at St. Ann's Grandparent of the new Mrs. John Rogoski of Hotel. This is the rrival is Fried Chicken ana I-bone Steaks Country Club. 19 tf - > - - CASH for scrap lead and old Why this investigation, United Ay THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 7%: EmpirE ( ok A |candidates in the last election, we don't know. The | fie -‘fl‘ar:“:::: crossing over was done in the general election. That Editor and Manuger may be the difference. I FEBRUARY 24, 1929 . 7 nY::?:“nf&‘::fih The good or bad of crossing the party line depends | o Y by log, the Boy Scouts’ Eagle River cabin was being built—on upon the gain to be derived therefrom. But it looks | e FEBRUARY 24 o [paper—as the “buy-a-log” drive began rolling. The total was up ot 36 e For SL0 ber MSRIRY to us as if the House was being pretty free with a|e . ® {]ozs and a concrete chimney. . $15.00 |“mandate of the people.” . Laurel C. McKechnie . ARSI ) 00: six months, in advance, $750; | One Democrat, James Nolan, joined six Republi- | 2 Mx:’“‘ér-"DsTl’fgllé?gm : | At their Grand Igloo in Cordova, Pioneers of Alaska elected Paul favor if they will promptly notity | CANs, Doris Barnes, Andrew Hope, Percy Ipalook, Frank | o 'St.ina' Hope o |Rickert of Fairbanks, President; Dr. W. H. Chase, Cordova, and Herman or irregularity in the delivers | G, Johnson. Frank L. Johnson and George Miscovich | o Martin Herbert o | Gentsch, Anchorage, Vice-Presidents; George Love, Valdez, Secretary, ss_Office, 374 in voting against the measure. e Jerry Wallace o |and Carl Brosius, Seward, Treasurer. eyt b AN As long as politics are as we understand them to @ Ida May Jones .| § ; ] T ¥ ”fl'-li'ud“‘Dm‘hx;‘mu:'mff;{ be in Alaska, the present primary bill seems a pretty ® Bertha Cruthers . i The Aleutian, which sailed from Seattle the day before, ran aground local news published good measure. And a certain respect is still due a e ® {on Maud Island, Seymour Narrow, came off and started back south. ¢ e e v oo &880 0, g o bad list near Bellingham, she cast her anchors and | 5 {awaited aid. Her 188 passengers were transferred to the Alameda, and | returned to Seattle. i Juneau passengers were H. L. Redlingshafer, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. |, 1. Stevens, M. J. O'Connor, J. Jidas, George W. Potevin, Mrs. . | wells, Mrs. M. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lee, Mrs. A. F. Knight, AL SKA p "Amm'mn, Mrs. E. F. Cashill, Mrs. C. K. Cunning and one steerage. i PRI AL Y A IS' President Coolidge signed the Vestal bill under which the Hatch- atures at various Alaska points, |College and School of Mines to share in their appropriations. Such also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 |extension made the Alaska College a real land grant college, according to released by the Weather Bureau Juneau, follow: ) | Gardner Wallis George, Mildred Anderson, A. N. Nylen, J. H. Anderson, | |w. J. Miller, Mrs. J. B. Bernhofer, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cunning, U. Weather conditions and temper- Lever Acts were extended to Alaska, enabling the Alaska Agricultural £. m., 120th Meridian Time, and {Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President. ce 11—Cloudy -17—Clear ; Prizes for ocstumes went to Mrs. Tom Shearer, in Oriental garb; Fred Bar | Morgan, as a Western trail scout; Howard Brown, “West Pointer”; Miss Bethel -2—Clear | Cordova 37-=Cloudy | Dorothy Chisholm Spanish senorita; Sam Daniels. as hula hula girl, Dawson -39—Clear ‘ and Mrs. C. Huber as Topsy. Special mention went to Miss Hazel Boyce, Edmonton 13—Cloudy | Mrs. M. Mullen, Marvin Chase and Fred Nelson. Fairoanks -16—Clear | yyeather: High, 39; low, 34; rain. Haines 20—Snow | Havre 25—Clear | b Juneau Airport 25—Snow % 4 ) Ketchikan 3 37—Rain | Dally I_eSSO"S n Engl h W/ L. GORDON Kodiak 33—Rain and Snow | Kotzebue -7—Partly Cloudy ! MoGrath -20—Partly Cloudy WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That is all the farther I :‘;”1‘5“} Ly Clear| got.” Say. “That is AS FAR AS I got.” Petersburg . 36—Rain OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Justifiable. Principal accent is on Bortiand 39 partly Cloudy |FIRST syllable, not the third. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Abridgment, and not ABRIDGEMENT. Prince George 18—Cloudy *Seattle . 46701em'| SYNONYMS: Mind, soul, spirit, thought, intellect, intelligence, con- Sitka 41—Cloudy | sciousness, brain, understanding. Whitehorse - 6—Snow WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us kb ‘.(!L—Pm'lly Cloudy | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: :force of Spring on man."—Thomson. MODERN ETIQUETTE %nerra LeE SENATE MEASURES ,INFUSIVE; having the power of instilling, or inspiring. “The infusive LABOR BETRAYED B TAFT-HARTLEY ACT, SAYS ORE. SENATOR WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—P— " THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1949 MOUNT. JUNEAU LODGE NO: 141 SECOND and FOUKRTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Senator Morse (R-Ore.) has ac- cused the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce of ‘selfishly” seeking to ‘‘hold labor down” through “restrictive” legisla- Jon such as the Taft-Hartley Act. He said that amounts to “a judas betrayal of the capitalistic system” ecause only through “fair” legis- ation can the capitalisti~ svstem! ‘move forward.” { Morse lashed out at the two susi- nessmen’s organizations in a state- ment issued during the Senate La- bor Committee’s hearings on the question of new lator legislation.} @ B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 | Regular Meetings Each Friday . Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN He is a member of the committee. ! Morse opposed several features of ! the Taft-Hartley law when it was | 2nacted by the Republican-controll- | =d 80th Congress. He also has crlt-[ | icizeq some parts of the Truman { administration’s labor program. Shortly before Morse got out his statement, the Senate committee had heard the National Grange| argue that those who claim the No-!| { The big masquerade ball in the Moose Hall was highly succesful,lvember election was a mandate for outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley law are in “error.” i i e i OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 244—(M—| The Senate passed Governor Lang- lie's income tax bill 24 to 21. There was very little debate when the measure came up for third reading and final action by the Senate. 2 All Demccrats voted against it. They were joined by three Republi- 'can Senators. The bill now goes to the Demo- cratic-dominated House. It provides for a two per cent levy on incomes, with a $1,000 ex- ‘ emption each for husband and wife. It would expire in two years. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 31ST DAY, FEB. 23 (Measures Intreduced) S.J.M. 17, by Senator MacKenzie, request for general exemption from the restrictive provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 as amended, the Congress immediately enact legislation which has been iniroduced by Delegate Bartlett to permit transportation of passengers and merchandise in Canadian ves- i { | “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 Is there any difference between a wedding invitation and a wedding announcement? A. Yes, there is quite a difference. invitation, it means that the bride and bridegroom will be pleased to have memorializing the President and {you attend, and this requires a gift of some kind. Should you receive others, praying that, without Pre- |an announcement, it means that for some reason you have not been judice to Alaska’s long-standing |inyited to attend, and naturally a gift is not chligatory. Q. Should you receive a wedding Q. Where should the date be written on a social letter or note? | “e Emn rggd c._ A. The date should be written at the left of the signature, on the last Office In Case Lot Grocery sels between Hyder and points in Centinental United States. To Transportation Committee. S.J.M. 18, by Scnator MacKenzie, | page of the letter or note. PHCNE 704 Q. Is breakfast bacon correctly eaten with the fingers? HAY, GRAIN, COAL A. No; with the fork. and STORAGE b LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpox || can EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE memorializing Congress and others, 1. In what year did the United States issue its first postage stamp? { Phone 247 ying that prompt and necessaryé 2. How does a kilometer compare with a mile? be taken to bring about con- l 3. How many men signed the Declaration of Independence? i i struction of harbor facilities at vi i i " 4. Who was the heaviest President of the United States? 9 Haires, Alaska. To Transportation. ! 5. What bird lives the longest? STEVENS S.B. 30, by Senator Barr, relat- 5 ANSWERS: ing to aeronautics; providing for 4 LADIES’—MISSES’ the development and regulation 1 In 18”'11 R e 5 READY-TO-WEAR thereof; creating a Department of 2. It is a little less than % of a mile. seward Street Third Aviation; expanding the powers and 3. Fifty-six. Near duties of the Alaska Aeronautics 4. Wwilliam Howard Taft. and Communications Commission; 5. The parrot, some of which have been known to live 100 years. establishing the Alaska Aeronautics . _ e Revolving Fund and modifying the The Charles w’ carle’ Motor Fuel Tax Act. To Transpor- EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED taticn, then to Taxation. (Measures Passed) S.B. 25, requiring that teachers who are not going to be retained in a school system be given notice to that effect by March 15; en- abling School Boards to contract |with school superintendents for terms up to three years. Passed DR. D. D. 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