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PAGE FOUR . n . “pr(’domh:.’!lr in numbers over men, as mothers who oy Daily Alaska Empire | w s o cemany of wmrow | = Fublished every evening except Sunday by the | The present group’s two-month tour of this coun- : MPIRE PRINTING COMP. i e fhary b Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska ‘ll} is being paid for by the American Military Gov- | - . - . President | ernment and sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt | o 3 - Vice-President | 4 H - - - Editor and Manager | Memorial Fund. The visitors, all leaders in their fields Sk A FROENT -« = - Managing Editor | .. e govert ABE rent-teacher o ALFRED ZENGER o & . s Business Manager | Will observe government, civic, labor, parent-teacher ‘x. ° e and other activities here. In addition, a movement is Y ° Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Sccond Class Matter. | g |1® MARCH 7 SUBSCRIPTION RA' on foot among American women's organizations to e ® Oelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per monthi | ; iy PITR % N ® six months. $5.00; one vear. $15.00 sponsor a visit of possibly 30 German women to study {154 Jack_ 5_( hmitz, Jr. | 1, poswuge paid. at the following rates: life in the United States. |® Christine Bogue " ear, in adyance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; i Eugene Dale [} in advance, $1.50. Women of Germany are carrying greater l'n-.. Me ¥ B ¥ B it cribers will confer a favor if thes will promptly notify | Askiom, a4 rs. F. R. Van Horne b O otfice of bny failure or irregularity in the delivery | SPOnsibilities than the women of any other nation. Aj g Larty Havads . " ers. 8 £ . : bled KA ones: News Offfce, 602; Business Office, 374. | INERY ERRGRTOR: O1" sk el Were BHISE e Grace Williams . MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS so that they must function as heads of families, as | o Mrs. Fred Higgins . "The Associated Press = exclushely entitied fo the use for | WAZe earners and as community leaders. By reason of I Wwilliam Jenkins o] spublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- stic backg p & L oile . wise reqited in this paper and also the local news ‘publisheo | thelr long domestic background and thel 1ok ol e | treedom, particularly under Hitler, they have not beeni2 ¢ ® ® ® © ® ® o o o Alnoka Newspapers, 1411 | Prepared for the demands they face. The Soviet| NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Beattle, Wash, Porrth Avenue Bldg., THE MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949 Union’s answer to this has been to organize and pro- Fyaiel pagandize them Only recently did American occupation authorities a woman’s affairs department with a woman | arge. But in the cold war over the German this country’s most strategic move—one that is to bring establis in cf woman, | the Soviet Union is unlikely to duplicate JUNEAD ‘The month of T HF “THIV(‘" for February. | ¥ et | Peratures as low as Jean Cocteau, the French poet, playwright, novelist ded: remiliing and aesthete, ‘whose likeness vou may have seen float- - | ing around surrealistically on the pages of Life maga- temp normal. Only Further indication that the Forest Service's efforts g pulp mills to Alaska may still be succe evident in the story of the Board of Bmlge"a\mo‘“es- opriation of $9.000,000 for in Alask remoest amoi.yg the road ite: Forests Fe the D. C. ington, Everyone in Alaska who is interested in the de- velopment of the Territory has been watching for any sistence GERMAN VIEiTORS A s area of the pulp mill to be built according to the Associated Press dispatch from Wash- | 1 are going ahead. This seems to be it. n we thank Mr. Heintzleman for his zine last week. has isolated what he calls the “thing” in New York. The “thing,” according to him, is bore- | Snowfall dom, a terror which New Yorkers never mention, {usual for February; 23 inches Is “They drink to escape it,” he says, “they go to the ‘m.xlmlh \\‘-lnl[»; «;ux;?‘(‘-l‘lle: w:»;c [1;»1 i hev i i " corded al e A or' an he to their p: hiatrist, ll.c:\ sit in front of e Rbint Tecelved RN s would | roeds in the National | television, there is no conversation. oA e e } Well, we wouldn't know about that, inasamuch |,,iq) cnowfall for the month occ will be Foags in |88 We do not live in New Yark, Perhaps we Americans, [red on the 13th, when 24 inches umhke Europeans, have never regarded conversation (sf snow fell at the airport. A new near Ketchikan, record depth of snow was estaklished on 41 inches were reco: s a form of entertainment and therefore seek more | passive kinds of diversion. Yet we recall that Evelyn ‘Waugh. the British novelist, observed as a consvicuous American trait that we talk endlessly to another 42 per cent of the p 1 s e Al et v EEBRUARY WAS COLDEST MONTH, | rebruary was one [ influential German women here and let them freely | ¢ (na coldest on record. While | | see all of American life. | remaining well above zero in wlul | = S E the temperature averaged over | 8 degrees below normal temperature At the airport tem- rature 11 degrees colder than in 1936 was the erage temperature lower, was much heavier than Sunshine values were also high, | RECORD, 12 below w in an ave av- on the ground the 24th when rded. 1 ossible amount 88 been and | ;4 that no one listens. One isn't expected to. This, | poing received. This is 11 per cent word that might indicate that pulp [ ¢ . urce isn't conversation, either, but % form of |‘yore than normal for February. social noise-making Cemparative data for the city and uleacey The variety of entertainment provided by ourj?dirPort based on city office means | present” urban culture no lofiger vequires the indj. | 210 normals as of 1048 foflow % | ausl to rely at alr on Kis BWH ¥elodrecs. There s | o booL omperatare; B in A048; ! g o ¢ - ebhed A S | (his February, city 51; airport 41 |no time for conversation, reading or reflection. It! p.west temperature: -15 in 1917; may be that the “thing” mentioned by Cocteau has | this February, city 5; airport - | »d ove is the bringing to this country jus—this terror of being bored, this unwillingness to; Mean Maximum temper of eight German women leaders to observe how the | be alone for fear of missing something that is 4 “perfect ; Normal 34.8; this February, city German women’s influence | scream.” | 26:1: airport 246 Mean minimum temperature: | American system works. horities. The Washinglon Verry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Contirued from Page Onse) 1t of these were “education- " of munitions was a system LAmerican industry Department orders for tanks, machine guns, artillery, etc., for saticnal purposes. This gave the oriecs a chance to get their shape, with the fL]hl\U"" this experimen- scale production could in a hurry—if war broke ou Johnson put this into effect as 1938, three years before and ot a time when mo3uls were sitting in working ! with the N which small by received hat out a world steel WAR DEPARTMENT FEUD e put it into effect despite t that his chief, Secretary Woodring, was opposed to precaration and did not be- that war was imminent. been too long neglected | — ish have I\gEL‘d behind the Rus: ortance m Gei'man women, who grm(]y kick him.” | | bezzlement, and a lawyer was need- Normal 30.1; 2.6; airport 16.2. Total inches; this port 2.04. Total snowfall: i s February, ai | Greatest depth of | ground: 41 inches, Fel | | | “It’s focilsh said the to stoop to hit a man when he’s| Old Grouch, “as it's a lot easier to| Both Americans | ians in recog- | down, Febru he went to Clarksburg, W. Va., was a complete stranger, an in 19:2. | At the time of his arrival a 100:11( sheritf had been arrested for em- Maximum wind: n 1923; nph. Averag nis February, Percentage ca to act as prosecutor. Johnson took the job, fought the case up to the Supreme Court, and as a result of the publicity, ran for mayor of Clarksburg. This was just OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. of pos; iwo years after coming to live in Average 31 per cent, this February Virginia. Johnson lost the lat airport, 42 per cent, oralty race by about 50 votes, Weather conditions and temper- | e U”,, thereafter was elected to “tures at various Alaska points. K also or the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 GHRL S(oul NEwS { 116 Ieader -of the Eouse. 2. m. 120th Meridian Time, and ’ i eleased by the Weather Bureau,| Girl Scouts of Troop 5 met at The first World War came. John- the Methodist Churc Juneau. follow: to’ THdth 88 special Northway -3—Partly Cloudy representative —FDITH LAV this February precipitation: Normal 23.2 inch- city SE 50 mph | this February cloudiness: 7.2; port 6.5. [ city | Normal 5.53 | vy, city 264; | ! rport 39.6 in. snow on the bruary 1949, airport N28 sible sunshine: | h last Tuesday on was mustered ocut a captain of the 80th Infantry Division, and on Anchorage 34—Cloudy | 80d We started to work on plsgues. lthe day he retired, he had the Barrow 3—Blowing Sriow | Connile Brown received the award ¢ Inerve to write a letter to the Chicf Bethel 35—Partly Cloudy | ‘OF Selling the most Girl Scout of Staff telling hom how to reform Cordova 39—Cloudy ; Calendars, ‘We Tecelved Girl Soout e Army. Jic will now. have a Dawson 0—Oleax | Law B ERC I8, A, GIrl SEEE] ice to carry out those ideas. Edmonton .. 32—Clear | DUy is to be Useful and to Help Ml Paiitanke ... B2 Partly Clondy on::r" This means ihat sl:;e 'is | A g sady to heip anyone in trouble to | . TOO TRUSTING A mM. | the :’bc% of l;mx Sablli(\ She does j Louie Johnson is a queer mixture Havre 37—Partly Cloudy | 1of conservatism and liberalism, Juneau Airport $1—pog LS BUBEOL Ik 8o AsuniERies Since leaving the Governmont his Annette Island 37—Cloudy sk}a\a “f d\mmmur. !‘m_x?m‘ schnd‘u contacts have been chiefly with big Kodiak - 35—Partly Cloudy 'xln‘u 101 v:ihpre\'a ;m = I.f p;fi" iness. His clients have been Kctzebu2 owing Snow | DIe: e €08 -(;'d" o5 0 8 s /. Yet when Johnson went Nome s e e Ry OLD, Reporter Johnson's farsightedness, however, | 0f President Roosevelt, he sided zel‘rsburg 34—““13' Cloudy: — bled the United States to mo-|With the Indian independence Portland.. L2-0INAY | rhe mieting of GiFl Seoub EEND I industry in almost record time |MOvement and became the great Prince George 2—Clear| o€ T by ; ,.'.\v :u‘ u. J i ; WilhE o Pundit Nehru and Ma. | Beatls 44 Partly Cloudy ,l‘\,a‘ n;ohl 3 Thursday afternoon. 0 Lear the brunt of supplying |fiaiteria. coni, Sitka 35— Cloudy | Mr's. Eunice Nevins taught us a song major achieve-| Big genial, quict-spoken Johnson Whitehorse 13—Clea f?‘hu]l ,};fi\; (('“, £ cl}oose. : Ratare {works long, late hours, dashes Yekutat 29—Clear , *°% R istant Secretary of O S ¥ 1for the first requirement of the hing airplane produc—l “’“m: l‘h" (”“’Y” y on xpmhmg Fried Chicke~ and T-bone Steaks|minstrel badge. the French and British long | éngagements, and while s _$2.50. Country Club. 19 tf _JO-ANNE BLYTHE, Regorter! } Pearl Harbor, when Congress 5“:'8“]:” “:"\ War “““"(‘ Al 2ek — — ~ Wa ed to supplying plane to | *BEEC o years, flying 100,00 E. the urging and pioneerin miles to make them. Since leaving d P Ew he I:I‘u:h\v:x\' d\l early ail\he Government, he has followad Cr SWOT! uZZIe SITIA m .I g before anyone ever|2 regular routine of spending week b oéy— MiA dreamed Alaska would have to be|ends in w. Va, the ACROSS ot all A[NIT K ureing increassd elestric | “AYIY Fart of the week in Wash- 1 Smears i BAMEAE BE & = urging increased electric . Tun . Mother of E|D|D r war centers: and devel- | ngton, D. C, the middle of S Marons Peer Gynt ng clese economic and military he week in ) York. I};n:;\(l\\'mner 37. Exchanged for fes with Latin America. Probatly. Jo 7's biggest handi- Frothy st R :|:: ::, During the period he accomplish- | €8P 18 his naive trust in people— Perform of Connect] d these thir Johnson, as Assist- ometimes in people who have at 3 s b |24 s nt ¢ War, was in a cop- | double-crossed him. He is inclin- | 3. Xounk dos A ekt dadiab ATE Ea With his Secretary of |*d t0 believe that everyone is his 23 Rodents_ " Sorcery RIER sl | Woodring. The. et 'rlfndsflhu\wh a lot of them are ¥ th 42. Al comb. SN sl i ve been comic had it not | "0t 4 wall i ci . Been for possible tragic consequen-{ JOhmSON is one of the few War ' 3T HEALRY % otee e SHb fanr Shipeasys Timg ¢ Department executives who hasn’t Hindu garment invested L oROWN L b Buyerin Woodring, one of the most like-|Eeén afraid to put the brass in 41, Slomber 2 Trojan i able men who ever came out of helr places. Most civilian Secre- 18 Sandaiut e 1 to W ton, and inherit- | ‘aries of War le 50 heavily on the e all-i < of Sec-|!op brass that t constitutional of W by (m—fuponl oncept of civilian control over the eath of George Dern. Some- | /Army is voided. Johnson, however, of an isolationist, he was |Rot only knows the military esta net enthusiastic about a big nation- | ishment from A to Z, but isn't al defense program. Johnson was, | 4fraid to tell the brass where to Therefore, all Johnson's work had | 8¢t Off- to be done either on the side or . . i going over the head of his chief.!® @ © ® ¢ ® o o o o o @ | e Army officers, taking nrhun-i' . of this, played Woodring off | ® TIDE TABLE . st Johnson and vice versa, un- ‘ . —— L] it was a miracle e Army, | ® MARCH 8 . / the time of Pearl Harbor, was | yLow tide, 047 am, 65 ft. e : Ghoose as well prepared as it was | ® High tide, 6:52 am, 134 {t. e . Couples e o Low tide, 1423 pm. 28 ft. e SMALL-TOWN LAWYER i® High tide, 21:06 pm., 102 ft. ® Like a lot of things in life, Ju)m-lo ® o @ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0o Q8 Vs entry into politics was sheer —_————— L coincidence, Graduated in law from | Lauson Air-cooled Outboards, - §imple sugar the University of Virginia, he decid- | uew models at Madsen’s C. am . ;l;,(:hK -?l KE“V’I?r ] ¢4 to practice in a town in which F. Supply. 24 t. fEMorning: abbe increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. | quring trouble. | Dryden. i from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO E. C. Swanson, mild-cure salmon packer at Port Althorp, rom Seattle for the season. arrived Miss Belva Williams returned on the steamer Alaska after a short trip to the States. Gov. George A. Parks had received a telegram from B. F. Hume of Olvmpia, confirming plans for the Capital-to-Capital yacht race early June. in { Fred Henning and H. S. Graves, men’s haberdashers, returned to Juneau after a month in and near Seattle. Mrs. Henning remained o visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Giles H. Cook, in Snohomish, Wash. Harold Smith, Wellman Holbrcok and Capt. G. H Peter Forest Service, returned on the Ranger VII from a week's s homesites around Eagle River and Auk Bay. “The Trysting Place,” a one-act play put on by the faculty was en- | thusiastically received at the Douglas Parent-Teacher Association meeting. In the cast were Sam Devin, who got “rave” reviews: Jo Hursh, Alex Dunham, Lucilé Pepocn, Margaret Abrahamson, Eltcn Engstrom and K. D. Chapman. After a two-month stay in Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. Gust Wahto of | Dougles and their children, Tyra, Douglas and Gordon, returned home on | the Alaska. v ( Leonard Seppala, famous dog team racer, with Mrs. Seppala and | their daughter, Silvia, were in Juneau briefly, returning to the interior after racing his chamvion team of huskies in the Northern States. BT 2 i was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lofgron in St. Ann's He weighted six and three-quarters pounds. A son Hospital on March 6. Weather: High, 35; low, 23; snow. _—— Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox P - - WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Dinner is scheduled for six o'clock.” S s ARRANGED for six o'clocok.” . 1 OFTEN M!SP RONOUNCED; Asvirin. Pronounce last syllable, RIN, not REEN, with accent on st. syllable. 4 OFTEN MISSPELLED: Trellis; two SYNONYMS: Imaginary, illusory, fanciful, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” visionary, chimerical. | Let us Today's word: | ve courage; firmness in confronting danger or “The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience."— | FORTITUDE; pa en- ——— | MODERN ETIQUETT by ROBERTA LEE || Should one send a wedding gift to a girl, at whose home one has | Q. | been entertained on several occasions? | A. Tt is not really improper to send a wedding gift to anyone with | whom one is acquainted, but a gifi is net absclutely necessary unl | an invitation has been received. | Q. Should a knife or fork ever be placed so that it is propped! against the plate with the handle resting on the tablecloth? A. Never. The entire implement should be placed on the upper | right edge of the plate. Q. When one is wearing gloves and shakes hands with a person, | should he say, “Excuse my glove™? | A. No; this phrase has long been obsolete. LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON || U. S. House | 1. What the length of term of of Representatives? Which is the oldest English colony in America? 2. Which is the most povbular of all flowers in the U. S.2? 4. What is alliteration? 5. What sermon has been hardest to put into effect”? ANSWERS: 1. Two years. 2. Newfoundland. 3. The rose. 4. Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words, or of words near one another. 5. The Sermon on the Mount. & member of the called “the finest ever given and the Oldest Bank in Alaska . 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL 0. G JACKSGII - as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING t this coupon to the box office of the ; CAPITOL THEATRE ! and receive TWO TICKETS to see: j “SUMMMER HOLIDAY" ‘ Federal Tax—12c—Paid by.the Theatre " Phone 14—YELLOW CAB¥0"Phone 22 | and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. l WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! i ioin There is no mmneh Rewspaper agvertising | —s2.50. ' SEORGE BROS. WOMER OF MOOSE PLAN NO-HOST PARTY At their meeting last Thursda; Women of the Moose plannéed a 10-host dinner and sponsors’ par- ade in the Moose Lodge rooms for next Saturday evening, from 6 to 8 o'clock. The dinner will be open to the public, and reservations are being taken by Elizabeth Casperson at Red 160; Lyda Museth, Blue 755; May Larson, Green 354, and Virgin- ia Pugel, 362. For the next March 17, a social ter night program is planned. the committee are Clarabel Messer- schmidt, chairman; emar, Sue Kennedy, agar and Ethel Westfall. Senior Regent May Larson re- minds members to take donations or the rummage and white ele- phant sale. regular meeting, At this week’s meefing, the waw' ind means committee was in charge of entertainment and refreshments. The refreshment committee num- cers Emily Pearson, Christine Abra- ham and Olive Tonkin. RS 72 ¥ CHAPELADIES TO MEET The Chapeladies will meet at the wme of Mrs. Tony Kaiser Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock. g et Fried (‘hlcken ana T-bone Steaks ; Country Club. 19 tf First Baptist Church 4th and Franklin WELCOMES Y()U Phone Blue 2! T Osteopath PHONE BLUE 670 Widest Selection of PHONE 29¢ “Say (L With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS! Juneau Florists PAONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Ofice in Case Lot Grocery PHCNE 784 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service * FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 i ——— et STI:.VENS’ LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Wear Thira Mortuary #ourth and Franklin St PHONE 136 PBONE 216—DAYX or NIGEY tor MIXERS er BSODA POP Casler’s Men's Wear Pormerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hate Arrew Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmends Shees skvway Lugrage BOTANY l’mll % CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men . W. COWLING COMPANY Dodze— Plymoutk—Ch /sler DeBoto—Dodge Trucks SARITARY m! POR BFTTER MEATS ' 13—PHONES- -49' Pree Dalivery service chap-! [e2i Margaret Wal- | Helvi Bar- | i Dr. E. Lannon Kelly l i LIQUORS I The Charles W. Carter MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. & GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ¢) B.F.0.ELKS | Meeting ~very Wednesday at 8 P. M. visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. , —— i| Moose m Regulay Meetings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— ! WALTER R. HERMANSEN Il Bert's Food Center | Grocery Phones 104—175 Meat Phones 39—539 Deliveries—10:16 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M | i ' *“The Rexall Store” l Your Reliable Pharmaciste SUTLER-MAURQ DRUG CO. il i ; Alaska Music Sapply Artbur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Mavteal Instramente and Suopplies Phone 206 Second and Seward ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountam [ Auditor Taz Counsetes R i Simpson Bidg. Phone 757 FOR Wail Paper | Ideal Paint Shop Phore 549 Frod W. Wenar i 3 ] Juneauw’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Rote} Newly Renovated Reoms € st Reasonable Rates FHONE BINGLE 0 PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware (Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Type SOLD fl: ssnvrgil;‘)“: J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Customers™ Satisfied FOR D AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — On Junean Motor Co. Foot cf Main Street. MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES J DELICIOUS ICE CREAM habit—ask for for 1t by narse J'uneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Enginex MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Cha;. G. Wamer Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 ’ Home Liguer Store-~Tel. 899 Amertcan Meat — Phone £) e i e P it o To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more frecdom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry . ———— DR. ROBERT SIMPSON + Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 268 et Am H.S. GRAVES | * The Clothing Man LEV. 01 R