The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dail v Alaska Em};ife nday by the N it without reading it or referring to notes. Fublished every evening excent PIRE_ PRINTING CO) characteristic of the man. Without question Doc politically. Because of his popularity, fairness and honesty NY . Alaska Second and Main Streets, Ju NELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A_FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER President | Walker Vice-President Managing Editor ness Manager was Entered fn th SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Jumeau and Douglas for §1.50 per month! six months. $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mail, posiage paid. at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, ene month, In advance, $1.50. gvbscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | Whe Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery af their papers Telephones broke with the “powers that be.” $7.50; From that time on he was mar ed for “purging.” News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | o o — which he holds. ed Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | o all news dispatches credited to It or not other- | The climax was his defeat as a Senatorial candi- 1 this paper and also the local news published | date to succeed himself in the The Assoc sepublication wise credited Berein last election. like other on the chin, Although, on the surface, 0 Alaskan, Doc Walker took it any R 5 | NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | Pourth Avenue Blde.. Seattle, Wash his close a | years of faithful service was blasted by interlopers. Doc Walker had his faul But no one will deny t of life interests of the and his home town in particular. Yes, Do hall miss you! the best blic service, Territory and its people as a whole his to working for | | | we Baseball Production Line (Cincinnati Enquirer) Something a little terrifving is going on at “Vero Beach. Fla—mechanical pitching machines, pipe lines from the cutfield to return batting practice balls to home plate without wear and tear on outfielde: serial numbers for ball players and dawn to dusk with a capital R. Under the above caption, Sid D. Charles, Editor All of this is going on at the spring training of the Ketchikan News, pays a tribute to former Ter- camp of the Brooklyn Dodgers where Branch Rickey ritorial Senator Norman R. (Dcc) Walker, who passed has for the first time introduced mass production away at Ketchikan early this week. Charles knew Doc | ideas into the training of young ball players. Rickey personally. His editorial is as follows has more than 200 potential young big leaguers at his " Doc Waiker is no more. winter bageball factory (far more than any other team has ever taken to spring practice), and from news EQUIR » Thkeo, e vlnet reports of their activities they appear to be doing Divide toward the sunrise of another life. 2 everything by tape measures and mechanical gadgets. Gone in the flesh, his memory still lives | In the words bf one old-time Dodger: “Next year we're Life has a way of going on, letting the dead bury | putting in three mechanical batters. Then we'll be its past achievements, but for the present at least, | able to leave the players home.” the passing of this remarkable Alaskan leaves a void. | This may be all to the good (Rickey says it is, Our "close assoclation with his public life and|and he has been right more {imes than nof) but career for a good many years, often seeking infoma- | stories of the Dodgers’ {raining foutine sound very ot much like accounts of radar, guided missiles and other tion and drawing from his rich experience, are re- machine age activities. If Rickey is right, his ball called with pleasue, tinged doubly with sorrow over | ... ouoht to be winning most of the pennants i’ denth during the next decade because, certainly, no other In a way Doc Walker was a genius. has come close to this precision preparation. He could have gone far as a public lecturer — One time when we asked him for copy on an It isn't surprising that only a few people under- exceptionally good speech, he replied that he never {stand money. Most of them don't keep it long enough wrote out notes. His theory was that if a man lmd"lo become acquainted with it ators, please note. The Washington =" (DR, ME"Y'GQ'RN““ THE STRANGE 8IST CONGRESS —_— One of the strange reversals of By DREW PEARSON politics the efficiency of the —— MEMOIR OF DOC WALKER imentat trail across the Great team GOOGE RETURNS FROM INTERIOR TRIP get some realization of why. . Dr. James T. Geoge, medical di- House of Representatives in the 81st rector of the Alaska Native Service, ! Cs ss compared with the ineffi- | nas returned fro ma several-week cier the te trip to the Interior, which took In the 80th Congress is was just hjm as far north as Point Barrow. the opposite. Then it was the Sen- Dr. Googe stayed at Barrow for hour—and the national | '€ which Ium!_mned more smooth- | glemost a week, where he said, tb ¢ This. the Vice Presi-|y—and more liberally. Now it dent told the Cabinet, could not be , the House. k passed this year This reversal is due to two things e Bothie taois of |1 the efficient leadership of Speak- | both parties is that no tax bill er Sam Rayburn and majority lead- will be passed at this session, de- |€f John McCormack of Massachu- | spit Mr. Truman's emphatic state- [$€!lS: 2. the progressive group of} ment that he wanted taxes revised, |Y0ung Democrats selected last No-| many of them from the (Continued from Page 1) oy of minimum wages—which wants increased to i8) temperature was belew zero ail ot he time, and where the winter is raw and cold and kleak. He als) mentioned he had the opportunity to meet and talk with members of a good sized community of researcn- ers who have remained at Barrow throughout the winter, with special- ists working in various fields of Arctic investigation. The medical director spent some ime at Tanana, and also at Fal banks, where he sa attempts are being made to establish a non- profit hospital for tuberculosis cases. leaders MISSING RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT It won't be announced publicly. | but the assistant secretary of the| United Nations, Arcady Soboloft, has mysteriously faded out of the U. N. picture. Soboloff, who is assistant to Sec- retary General Trygve Lie, went back to Russia on vacation three months ago with the announced| intention of remaining only six(Meanwhile, the Senate has been | weeks, But six weeks have spread !slowed down by a group of reaction- out to double that time, and Sobo-ary Republicans teamed up with loff has not returned. : certain Democrats, who are consis- | Worried, Trygve sent him several | tently and cleverly undercutting al- | Church with the Rev. Walter Sobo- cables. No reply. Further investiga- | most every libezal plece of legisla- |leff officiating. Mrs. Mercer died tion showed that Soboloff had_care- Ition to come re Coneress |last Wednesday. fully removed his files, all his per- el Qe Pallbearers were Henry Anderson, sonal belongings, and had (lmmi all ARNOLAN EXHIBIT 1N \John Shotter, John Wise, William the money due him. . NEW YORK Kunz, Fred Morgan and Willie Last week Trygve Lie came to the Opening in New York tomorrow|peters. conclusion that his Russian assist-) UNGer the protective wing of the| Interment ant was deliberately ducking, so| O > AT 18 the first German, Cemete sent a cable notifytag Soboloff Lrad.c cxhibit since the war — that he was fired. Oty ndua 3 RUMMAGE SALE s Saksian wek the Mo, 7 Ginie :lr‘;' Museum of Science ¢ | saturday, April 9, 10 am. George mat in this country, second oniy to| " 4o Military Govern- Erofbhies [tars Bige) 10435 Rayburn and MroUormack, old| hands at the game, know (-x(\cll,!‘ what they are doing every minute | of the time. To anyone skilled in parliamentary precedure, their lead- ership is beautiful to behold. As a result they are sending legislation o the Senate, and it is bulging with bills waiting to be passed. | 1 H ERVICES HELD TODAY FOR MRS. LOTTIE MERCER Services for Mrs. Lottie Mercer were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Memorial Presbyterian was at Evergeen This straight-forward, open-handed manner was crucified ost Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | automatically he was elected whenever he sought o office, until he objected to dictatership methods and | » Every kind of political trick was used to try and N & ol discredit him. This-was spark-plugged by an opponent ‘. | who was not even elected to the responsible position ;. d ciates knew that it cut him deeply that his long He was only human. | at he gave the best years | a worthwhile message he ought to' be able to aell\'m" | | e APRIL 8§ 1. A. Aalto Kim Diane Faulkner Felix Gray Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander Louise Adams Henry Mead Ruby Waldon Geraldine Holm Don G. Morrison ° I0 ite 512 I . ° 1o 8 o0 oo ALASKA MEASURES GIVEN APPROVAL BY SUB (OMMITTEE Two bil "eececssecsevee El i i | | | onsored by Delegat Bartlett have oproved by the subcommittee territories for f. orable report to the full House Pub- lic Lands Committee. The first bill would allow fee collected from the issuance of busi- ness licenses in Alaska to beé retain- ed by the Territory. At the pres- fent time those fees are collected and placed in what is known as the Alaska Fund and covered into the Treasury of the United States. Over the past 5% years that fund, which has been of no henefit to the Terri- tory, has totaled $974,632. Judges and clerk of general elec- tions in Alaska would be compen- sated for services at a rate to be fixed by the Governor of Alaska under the terms of the second ap- proved measure. Since 1906 these cofficials, under the present existin Federal statute, have been paid $5.00 ifor all service pertormed as com- pared with a compensation of $15.00 a day paid judges and clerk: Inrmmr elections through territor- !ial law and appropriation. The bill would thus enable an increased rate to be fixed not only ifor the compensation of judges and }Cl(lkb on the general elections but jalso other compensation in wm\ec»l Ition with the election, such as feesy to newspapers for publishing notices of election, fees for posting elec- | tion notices and charges for ren-| {tal of proper polling places. | COMMUNICATION To the Editor, Alaska Daily Emn-! |pire: In your April 6th issue an rticle entitled “Metcalf Denies Statements Set Out In Reports’ needs clarification as I did not | write the article nor was given the| !0ppm'tum|y to correct its ambigous statements | I certainly stand behind my re-| lease to the press that Governor| Gruening was not in the Territory ! and knew nothing about the Eagle River Spur Road in question until | inner it was practically completed. | | This office is always réady to look linto the necessity ‘of access roads to serve any group of people irre-. ! spective of their political affilia- itions. This has been my basic policy which I will continue to fol- | low as far as my limited funds and the autherity vested in me will', permit. I have always been in favor of constructive criticism, but insinu- !ating and biased criticism, hdving no better foundation than political |innuendoes will remain ignored. Very truly yours, FRANK A. METCALF Territorial Highway Engineer. ————————— BROWNIE TROOP 8 MEETS i | | (signed) | | TR I { Brownies of Trocp 8 met yester- day in the Moose Hall. We work- |ed on pot holders. We sang “Happy ! | Birthday” to Peggy Lirdegard. Malin Babcock kas given a Brownie ring for the best-behaved Brownie during March. Dolores | Addleman served cookles. Marjorie Brillhart, Reporter. Gromyko. It’s believed he will now 7ES ment for Germany has promoted ccupy a 'S ("m)]“‘"-m”: :;‘;mz“’:l‘ 15 Mosoows! o exhibit with the idea of getting Rt o German industry back on its feet ACRO. THE As one officer explained it, “We've got to take the financial load off U. S. taxpayers.” | U. S. Army officers claim lhe\'i are trying to do a conscientious housing bill last year to see “City|Jjob of eliminating Nazi exhibitors | Acrcss The River” when it opens;and by the time exhibit opens | in Washington. It would change a|this may have been accomplished., lot of votes . .. It isn't a housing ! However, at t writing it looks ) picture, but about juvenie gang)as if some former Nazis had sllppod" warfare, which wouldn't flourish it into the picturc | it wasn't for slum housing For some strange son the Ar-| The scene is set in Brooklyn—not|my has consister refused to cnly set, but actually shot there.|Publish the names of Germans who | Maxwell Shane, who produced the|are coming to New York to repre- | film, set up a microphone with a sent the exhibi vet forty of recorder in the markets, pooi-;these German representatives arriv- | rooms and d halls of Brooklynied last week, among them FPrau| to get an accurate record of Brook- | Peter Pixis. Frau husband | lyn dialects and conversations lwas Hitler's favorit hitect for | Then he interviewed 228 boys and!Nazi propaganda f and thel from them picked three to couple were spec setting ! the lead roles in the movie up Nazi exhibitions al ¢ hadn't much acting experience, but |tries overrun by th they did a t fic job. When Pixis’ record The movie features real shots of | the attention of G Brooklyn tenements on South|was barred, though Third Street, crowded blocks on!still in the USA in ful Havemeyer Street, the Marine Park- |layouts and display way Bridge, Prospect Park, etc Another exhibitor Play is based on Irving Shulman’s|red as a resuit of I well-knewp story of juvenile ge was Dr. Herbe sterdom, “The Ambody Dukes | operations in this cou Tragic fact is that the story is posed by a Congres too near the truth. As happens in|tee before Pear] Harbo the picture, a New York school-! After the New York o % teacher was actually killed by his planned to ser‘ the Ge students some time ago. And when to Milwaukee, Chica you see the crowded living quarters and Buffalo—if there is in "“City Across The River” you'of howl frem the Ameri CITY RIVER o 30. 82, 34. 35. Sufficient: poetic Sunken fence Begins to grow light Pay court to Contents of an atlas . Companies of players Symbol for neon More pleasant ACROSS . Moo . Checkered fabric Musings of columnist—Have been thinking of inviting all the Congressmen who voted against the sfish Turkish come wder tape on Crossword Puzzle tal S| (€] [R] g Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle £5. Deverage DOWN &6, Burdened | MODERN ETIQUETTE b1, \Vnh‘:'h from Low chirping sound et . Indigestion Malke spruce Dry Long cut m nggestions Yield to pressure Stake Before Ofter to pay Tear . Crafty . Note of the scale FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949 =4 from THE EMPIRE N 20 YEARS AGO APRIL 8, 1929 Glen E. Edgerton, former Alaska Road Commission Chief assigned to duty at the U. S. Military Academy. T, ngineer, W Charles Wakefield Cadman, famed pianist and composer, appeared concert with Mrs. Adam (Florence) ralto, as assisting artist. Their appearance in the Palace Theatre was sponsored by the Business and Professional Women’s Club. With a second oncert already scheduled, it was announced after the program that a request concert would be given. Their performance was hailed he greatest musical treat to come to Juneau for years and perhaps ince its beginning.” Fet The first 1929 output of the Juneau Lumber Mill went out on the Admiral Evans—a shipment of 33,000 box shooks for the Fidalgo Island Packing Company. For the fourth time in two years, the Juneau Fire Department was ummoned to put out a roof fire at the John Lowell residence on Twelfth Street. During the illness of John H. Newman, District Court Reporter, | place was taken by Assistant U. S. Attorney George W. Folta, former Court Reporter. | An anlysis showed that, if all special and expected appropriations | were passed, along with budget estimates, the Legislature would reach the sky-high mark of appropriations—$2,789,837, an estimated $725,770 | in excess of estimated revenue. | | i Weather: High, 40; low, 38; clear. Daily L in English 3 ally Lessons In ENGIISN w. .. GorDON ——————— o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “This is plenty good enough.” Omit PLENTY. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Eclipse. Accent is on SECOND syl- | lable, not the first as is often heard. | { OFTEN MISSPELLED: Eligible; IBLE, not ABLE. SYNONYMS: Doubtful, dubious, indefinite, uncertain, questionable, equivocal. | 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 : INEXPEDIENT; not pacticable, or advisable. “Such action is inexpedient at this time.” by ROBERTA LEE Q. Is it correct for a woman in mourning to use black-edged letter paper and envelopes? A. Yes, if she wishes, but it is not at all hecessary. A woman in mourning is not required to advertise it any more than a divorced woman would think it necessary to place upon her stationery some symbol of her separation. Q. When a woman is wearing gloves, should she apologize for not removing the right glove when she shakes hands? A. No, nor should she make any attempt to remove the glove. Q. Should a person ever place his napkin on the table while the meal is in progress? | A. No; not until leaving the table. 1. Which is greater, the height of the highest mountain in the | world or the lowest depth of the ocean? 2. Whose portrait is on the U. S. $5,000 bill? 3. What is a sabbatical year? 4. In which State is the most westerly port of the United States? 5. What animal is generally conceded to be the most useful to man of all domesticated animals? ANSWERS: 1. The depth of the ocean, by about 5000 feet. 2. President James Madison. 3. A missionary’s furlough, or a year of vacation from a profession, particularly teaching. 4. Washington. 5. The cow. EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. 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BIGGS, | Secretary. | . 2i—Partly Cloudy | . 33—Partly Cloudy | 0—Cloudy P . 20—Snow | 21—Partly Cloudy 42—Cloudy revneneenns. 8—Cl€RI | . 34—Partly Cloudy | ... 53—Rain 33—Cloudy | . 35—Clear | 30-—Clear | | 12—Snow 16—Clear | | 19—Snow | T—Cloudy 34—Cloudy ! 48—Cloudy | 31—Clear | ... 46—Cloudy | . 33—Cloudy | 18—Clear 32—Snow ! BOREY SLEr LT I NOTICE CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather conditions and temper: atures at various Alaska points, | also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 |a. m,, 120th Meridian Time, and | released by the Weather Bureau, | Juneau. follow: Anchorage Barrow | Bethel Cordova Dawson ... | Edmonton Fairbanks ... Haines Havre Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday. Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Bert's Food Center | Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 39539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 215 — 4:00 P. M. ———————— ————— "The Rexall Store"” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. 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