The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR baily Alaska Em pire Published every evening except S EMPIRE PRINTING COM Second and Main Streets, Junecau, Alaska EELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R, CARTER ELMER A FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered In the Post Oelivered by carrier in Juneau it By ma: e paid, a One year, In & cribers will confer @ favor if they will promptly notify | susimess Office of any failure or frrew heir papers ephones. News Office, 602 Busine: \ely entitled to the use for credits A Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. ance, £15.00; six months. in ad Alaska Newspapers, 1411 portant virtues, and public debt the greatest of | | dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, | | we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. | | We must make our choice between economy and lib- VicsErehdent | erty, or profusion and servitude. Editor and Manager | “If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in 5 oy jour meat drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the | 1abors of the people under the pretense of caring for o sk | them, they will be happy . | “The same prudence which in private life would | forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, | forbids it in the disposition of public funds. We are | endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy, to avoid burdening the people and arming the Magistrate with patronage of money | which might be to the principles of our Government.” unday by the PANY and z $1,50 per monthi 00 t the following rat ularity in the delivery ss_Office, 374 S ed to 1t or not other- i used corrupt Turning Like Worms (Cincinnati Enquirer) | After some instruction, or plain experience, the average motorist learns to drive a car reasonably well 1leng a straight line. But it is remarkable how many never seem to learn how to execute a turn properly. | Traffic engineers will tell you that “turning movements” are the great delayers of traffic, That is | why the “no turn” sign appears at many intersections where brisk traffic is necessary, and why multi- lane thoroughfares usually have elaborately marked lanes ;v left turns, right turns and straight-through traffic It would simplify things greatly if the average motorist would learn now to make a turn properly. The average motorist doesn’t do too good a job of ALASKA TRANSPORTATION PROBLEN Good news for Juneau and Al {hat is being made by Gov. Grueni Steamship Company to prepare transportation to present to the Ma and the Department of the Interior If, with the arrival later in the urning to the right and a worse job of turning to the left. A great many, in fact, are dangerous drivers when executing these maneuvers. | It seems almost needless to say that rignd turns| aska is the effort | <hould be executed only from the right lane of traffic | nd the Alaska | ond left turns from the lefi lane. Yet how many | n for Alaska | drivers do you see who habitually swing to the righv.: Commission | 7S the first movement of a left turn, or swing to the | {1eft when about to turn right? Altogether too many! | i !Thern is no excuse for this practice in the city whi o month of Gilbert |, ne are not made at great speed. If a driver is | 1S MAY BE SOLVED ritime THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Alex Demos Margaret Lindsay Mrs. H. M. McClellan ° Sam Sheary R. M. Evans Kate Spaulding Mrs. F. T. Davidson M. M. Madison . ° . . . ° ° ° ° ° . . . e e 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 OREGON STATE DEFEATS UCLA 10 WIN TITLE CORVALLIS, Ore., March 15.—# —Oregon State College won it third Pacific Coast Conference Bas- ke 1l championship last night ty defeating U. C. L. A, 41 to 35. ‘The Beavers won the game in the first half when substitute cente Alex Petersen fired ‘three of four goals that pushed OSC in front 21 to 10. The Bruins never caught up. Oregon State also captured a berth in the N. C. A. A. western regiona! playoff and will leave tomorrow for Kansas City. The West Coast title win was the inner, President of the Alaska Steamship Cumpan_v,‘,.“hm too fast to make a turn from the proper l“""‘%‘cund i thse yiaes’ foc. @os the company and Mr. Gruening can satisfactors the joint presentation to Washington, great headway | ould be made toward settling problems of Alasks ansportation. The gooperation of these execu be de: refi. That Admiral Zeusler meetir isfactory THOMAS JEFFERSON SPEAKING The words of Thomas Jefferson? come back teday with full importar words, true today as yesterday: “I place economy among the fi to the Territory and to the company for fo be safe last week with Gov. Gruening as “most sat- * portends success in their mutual plans. wide beforehand, he is going too fast | maneuver confuses traffic behind, record books are full of instances | where cncoming cars pulled alongside (on the blind |side) just in time to be struck by the unpredictable prepare proposals, ‘wnho\n swing |and the ac | driver. tives is greatly to| 1t tumg seem to frighten many drivers. They should term his | wij] stop and wait, holding up traffic behind, if there is an oncoming car anywhere in sight. In crowded |traffic, if the first car in line for a left turn will pull into the wmiddle of the intersection (not blocking oncoming traffic but in readiness to turn quickly) it will free the traffic behind. These are little points, but they are important to taffic time and safety. spoken years ago, Here are his rs are on sale again. No s to just what kind of S It is reported that 5e cig | information can be obtained rst and most im- | sweepings they're made of —(Lynden Tribune), h e Washingfon rry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Mg Lo | Con d from Pege Ongl i :o'h of them prisvi: sentences. May wes convicted of embezzlement and | 2 to sarve a term behind bars. urley served iive months of | prison sentence for mail fravd, fore it was commuted by Presi ent Truman. Now Mayor of Bos- | ton, he is drawing retirement pay' alonz with his mayor's salary—al- though he barely qualified for a pension with only six years of con-, cssicnal service. ! wait er JTSON GOES INTO REVERSE ; inother who no sconer got voted | it of Congress than he signed up retizement pay is Minnesota's sressman Harold Knutson. A in the 80th Congress, he oucht brusquely against social enetits for others, and helped bar wbout 700,000 traveling Salesmen from Social Security. This is also true of Colorado" Robert Rockwell and Michigan's irtel Jonkman—both nickel-nur: ; veterans of the 80th Conzress. ell was the darling of the : Jobby, and Jonkman squeezed he could get out of the govern- ment after the election by fly to South America as a lame-du congressman—at the taxpayers' ex- pense. They are now drawing pen- sions. Also cn the retirement list are iformer Senators Joe Pennsylvania, Burton Wheeler ontana, James Tunnell of Dela- re, Jim Mead of New George Radcliffe of Maryland, Peter Gewy of Rhode Island, a million- aire, Henrik Shipstead of Minne- and Raymond Willis of In- ana. The first five voted for inconsistent today. Some of the ex-congressmen, who 1 receve monthly checks from the government, are: Willlam Pit- tenger of Minnesota, Clarence Lea | of | of California, Dan McGehee pi, J. Roland Kinzer of ania, Butler Hare of South Carolina, James Wolfenden of Pennsylvania, Fritz Lanham, Tex- as, Hatton Sumners of Texas, Her- man Koppleman of Connecticut, Malcolm Tarver of Georgia, William Thom ot Ohio, John Folger of North Carolina and Edward Mc- Cowen of Ohio Also there are former Congress- men Leéuls Ludlow of Indiana, Gecrge Gillie of Indiana, and C. Jasper Bell of Missouri FARM TELEPHON While America shooting through the air in jet planes and sitting on a nest of atomic bombs, ;.m‘d: up his ( neighboers. {farmers couldn’t pay their bil! Guffey of | of | York, | al security for others so are not m to appeal for re phones for tne farms in his State of the Union Message—that is, until some of the boys in the hite House >d him out of it. White Housz, a few senators and | L consressnien are trying to work out | D pill to increase telephone ser- to farme e blunt (ruth is that those in most urgent need of phones can’t et them. Most farmers still have o hitch up a horse or wheel out the truck to get a message to their In case of illness or disaster, they are cut off withou any rapid means of communication Back in 1920, 38.7 per cent of American farms were linked with telephones. Then the depression hit, . and, by 1940, the percentage of rural telephones dronped to 25 per cent. This started »icking up during the war until i. reached 31.8 per cent n 1945, ‘e last official count Telephone companies now boas that a record 45 per cemnt ol Ameri- can farms have telephone service. This does not agree with the Agri- culture Department’s estimate, which is 42.2 per cent for 1945, or ust a shade over what it was 30 ears ago. In actual numbers, the griculture Department estimates i there are still less phones on farms than in 1920, The Department ex- pccts 2,473,000 farms will have tele- | Sitka shones this year—25493 less than | Whitehorse in 1920. The reason for the dif- | Yakutat srence in percentage is that Amer- - | has fewer farms now than 30| CASH for scrap iead and old | | storage batteries at Madsen’s. 22 tf a Weather conditions and temper- tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 |2, m,, 120th Meridian Time, and cleased by the Weather Bureau, | | Juneau. follow: ! IQ—CIEEI'I -6—Fog ! 9—Clear | 17—Clear | -5—Clear | 5—Partly Cloudy | 3 3—Clear 32—Partly Cloudy 2-—Cloudy Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmenton | Fairbanks | Hzines | Havre | Juneau Airport | Ketchikan | Kodiak | Kotzebue | McGrath | Nome | Northway ... | Petersburg | Portland Prince George . | Seattle 34—Partly Cloudy 32—Partly Cloudy| 7—Partly Cloudy | 2—Clear | 18—Partly Cloudy -15—Clear 24—Cloudy 43—Fog 19—Cloudy 43—Rain Showers 32—Clear 2—Partly Cloudy | 16—Partly Cloudy > > | ears ago. i ) 41—Partly Cloudy b Slats Gill's teams. The Bea won in 1947 from UCLA and in 1933 from California. They have topnec the Nerthern Division ¢ s end ied once, losing in di playofi last year to Washingto Last night, after splitting the two arlier games, the Rivals were tied up three times before the Beaver: went in front 13-10. Then, as Petr sen came in the game, they jump: o an 11-point edge. > o> (. 6. TO HOLD EXAMS FOR MERCHANT MARINE OFFICERS APRIL 4, 5, 6 The U. S. Coast Guard said today there are only threz weeks left be- fore the next examination of m chant marine officers for comm sions in the Coast Guard. Examin ions will be held Ar 4, 5,5end €, in 15 cities on the East, West anc Gulf Coasts” in the midweet, and n Alaska, Hawali, and Puerto Rico Coast Guard entrance require- ments are in the Federal Register of November 30, 1948. Cities where the examinations will be held are Boston, N-w York, Balti- more, Norfolk, Miami, New Orleans. St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Long Beach, Calif.; San Francisco, Se- attle, Honolulu, Ketchikan, Alaska; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. After the examinations in April, the next examinations of merchant marine officers applying for com- missions in the Coast Guard will be September 12, 13, and 14, 1949. R GOV. FERRY ON TRIP The Gov. Elisha P. Ferry, Geo-| logical Survey boat, is going on a| run to Petersburg and return, vis- | iting 14 water gauging stations on the trip. Miner repeir work on the water gauges and picking up of dis- chrarge records of the gauges com- | o2 the Ferry skipper, two-week will be Edward and R. prise the work for trip. Aboard the Smoke Thomas, Brun: Mayo, Air-cooled Out- . Madsen’s. 41 tf Lauson 4-TCycle Bcards. New mode! 1 At best, rural telephone lines do fouble duty as fence wire, Fer the | most part, rural areas are served | »y hundreds of small, poorly staff- ed, independent companies and co- operatives Note—State by state, the percen- age of farms having telephone ser- Recorded pro- vice ranges from 3.7 per cent in| “‘::;‘;':" Mississippi to 793 per cent in Towsa. | seaport Town In Penne ACROSS Fodder pit Distant 34. To 35. Resumed 37. Masculine name 38. Arid 39, Poem 40. Malt liquor 42, Run away secretly 45, Indian mul- perry 48. Spanis! measure of i WHAT KEwr. 3 PRICES UP The Justice tment is inves- igating a price-fixing alt Lake City involving 1e Uptown Appliance and Radio Company. Briant Badger, President et the firm, has fied a $500,200 lawsuit, charging that he was forc- ¢d out of bus refusing to | take part in an illegal price-tmin | heme. Badger claims that Leland B.| Flint of the Flint Distributing | Company threatened to cut off :~up-" plies to his unless B ! subscribed to pric ng igreed to hold back the sale of j eertain articles—in order to give the illusion of scarcity. When Bad- er refused, all national-brana ra- dio and electric appliances were | cut off and those he had on display 1 were actually taken back | Because certain newspapers shut their eyes to the story, even after Badger filed suit, he dramatized | edepread | 17. Auto necessity . Crafty . Place of worship ., Pronoun . Climbing vine . Air: comb. form . French river . Made vacant 32. So be it Insect t Black liquid 54. Operatic solo . Cultured woman Early English moncy Legend store r and many farmers o few miles off t peaten track can’t get so much as a poose-necked country telephone. The amazing fact is that, by the Jast count, the U. 8. A. had fewer rurzl phones in 1945 than in 1920. To remedy this, President Truman hig plight, by placing a coffin in | nis show window and playing a | | funeral dirge over a loud speaker. | Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating | Badger's charges for a report to the Anti-Trust Division of the Jus- tice Department, Crossword Puzzle Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN . American Indians Pagan god . Impose by authority . Two halves 5. Foolishness 6. Dill . List East Indian trec . Singing . Civil wrong Beards of Musical study Deface Ancient ham- mering form . Mother o Fortugal 45. Light 48 Entrance 3 ife of Jace 4. Somo’' 4P 51, Cap |a dinner in a hotel or restaurant, what is the best way for her to p:\y‘ r———— ——— 20 YEARS AGO F%'& emrpire MARCH 15, 1929 W. D. Gross of the Coliseum Theatre left for Seattle, planning a week in Ketchikan enroute. METHODIST "'(LASS GROUPS DESIGNATE 5 WED. MEETING Members and friends of the Meth- odist Church are meeting in six groups or “classes” Wednesday night, after the manner of early Metho- dists, as a part of the observance of the week of Dedication observed by Methodists everywhere. The six homes, along with the leaders for each proup dre: Les week earlier with A. DeRoux for his camp near Bear Creek, had to |leader; for Gold Belt, th Ave- cetudn. Both pilot house and mast were carried away in a severe storm, [7u¢: and Basin Road; (2) Ronald | Lister, also leader, 5th and 6th Street, Starr Hill; (3) Anna Houg- endoblers, Triangle Apartments, {Miss Edith Moore, leader, central part of town; (4) Clifford Robards, Frshee Apts., Henry Leege, leader: Ccmmodore H. C. DeVighne of the Juneau Yacht Club received word Channel and Fosbee Apartments, that yachts would leave Olympia, Wash., June 15 on the capital-to-capital ang vicinity; (5) Floyd Phelps, A. J. race. Alter, leader, new part of town area and (6) Bill Matheny, also leader Glacier Highway. e Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lottsfeldt, who were married March 13 in Juneau, left aboard the Yukon for Seward, to go thence to Tokotna where the bridegroom was Kuskokwim district superintendent for the Alaska Road Commission, Seven Senate bills enacted by the 1927 Legislature, but which had reached the Governor and been signed after adjournment sine die, were unanimously passed in the Senate. The cannery tender Excursion, Capt. Tom Danielson, arrived from Taku Harbor. ARCHITECTS ASKED 1C SUSMIT SPECIFICATIONS Invitations have been extended to three stateside architects and to one Juneau firm to present qualifi- cations for warding the commission te design proposed new school units for Juneau, Superintendent Weather: High, 42; low, 37; mist. _—mmm—e——- -, Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That is the same picture as T saw yesterday.” Say, “THAT I saw yesterday.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Mustache. Accent SECOND syllable, not the FIRST. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Coincide; CIDE, not SIDE. SYNONYMS: Trite, hackneyed, stale, sterotyped, banal, common- place. 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: PRESUMPTUOUS; overconfidence or venturesome; taking liberties um- duly. “His conduct was presumptuous.” MODERN ETIQUETT Q. How should a girl treat a young man who has failed to keep an appoitment? i i F A. She should not be too impulsive until she knows the reason. GEURGE BROS. If an exceptionally good reason is not forthcoming, she should let the Widest Selection of voung man know that he will never be given another opportunity. v 3 LIQUORS Q. When a woman is entertaining both men and women cy giving PHUNE 399 “Say 1t With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists FHONE 311 The Erwin Feed C Office in Case Lot Grocery PHCNE 784 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TQ-WEAR Seward Street Near Third neunced. First Baptist Church 4th and Franklin WELCOMES YOU Phone Blue 239 Dr. E. Lannon Kelly Osteopath PHONE BLUE 670 by ROBERTA LEE the bill? A. The very best way is to order the dinner and puay for it in | advance. Q. What is the best way to acknowledge the announcement of a| birth? A. By a warm, sincere ncte baby. r———————————————————————————————. — and sometimes a litlle gift for the 1. Is a proscrastinator (a) a baby carriage, (b) one whose motto is “manana”, (c) a person with a large famil, 2. What department of the Army supplies weapons and munitions? 3. Who was the most famous ancient Greek orator? | 4. Which State is bounded by the most other States, and which | State by the fewest? 5. What is a pseudonym? ANSWERS: One whose motto is “manana” (tomorrow) Ordnance Department. Demosthenes. 4. Missouri and Tennessee each are bounded by cight other States, | while Maine is bounded by only one. 5, A fictitious name; a pen name. EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APFOINTMENTS 1 2. 3. The Charles W, Carter Mortuary Pourth and Frankiin Bis PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th Sk PHONE 216—DAY o NIGHT for MIXERS er BODA POP Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Casler’s Men's Wear Stetsen and Mallory Hate 4+Tew Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Bbede Skyway Laggage BOTANY "m’ CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality -Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men EDWIN SUTTON as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWQ.TICKETS to see: “IF YOU KNEW SUSIE” Federal Tax—12c —Paid by the Theatre. Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 and an insured eab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN Y0U to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! B e WS T\ S—— | B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dedge— Plymouth—Chi salex SANITARY MEAT POR BETTER MEATS y—m ES- 49 " Pree Delivery " ThereIsNo Substitutefor _ Newspaper Advertising! a | Sturms, with Charles Popejoy, | of |1 Schools Edwin C. Clark has an-| TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1949 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE Nt 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.P.0.ELKS Meéeting ~very Wednesday at 8 P. M. visiting brothers wel- come., JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. % | Meose Lodge No. 700 ] Regular Meetings Each Friday l Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE } | Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN a | ! | Bert's Food Conter ¥ ) Grocery Phones 104175 | Meat Phones 329539 Dellverfes—10:15 ‘A M. 2:15 — 400 P. M. s — "The Rexall Stora” Yeur Relisble Pharmactste BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply i Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Binnes —Miasical instraments and Sopplies i ; Public Acecountant Auditor Tax Coucscrer Simpson 8idg. i Phone 757 FOR Wall Paper | Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 Fred- W. Wenat Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S, ——— 3 The llaskfi Role,' Newly Renovated Raope | &t Eeasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE PHONE 3535 Thomas Hardware o, PAINTS —-= OILS Builders’ and Shelt HARDWARE (578 3 X Rentington Typewr SOLD and sn’celegl:?pks? J. B. Burford & Co. . *Our_Doerstep Is Worn by # Satisfied Customers” . ! FORD AGENCY || (Authorized Dealera) GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Motor Co. Foot of Main Strees JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOU! ey S ke Juneau Dai;iex, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE S8HOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME. GROCER Phone 146 Heme Liquor Btore—Tei. ‘ American Meat — Phone 3 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry - o S Bl DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST ' Eyes Examined—Glasses SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments — . —————— The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys s — l »