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PAGE FOUR present form, the pact is not a political structure but la defensive measure. It provides to the whole tier of | | smaller Western countries a real assurance of joint | defensive action— something which Russian possession of the veto is carefully calculated to deny them under the United Nations. \ e N Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the FEMPIRF PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juncau Alaska AELEN TROY MONSEN - DOROTHY TROY LINGO Prestdent | Vice-President | Managing Editor | Business Manager Entered tn the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. UNFILLED— SUBSCRIPTION RATE 3 Delivered by carsier in Juneau and Douslas for S1.50 per monthi T stx months: $8.00; she year, $i0.00 Until now we have seen no figures on the number By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: ‘ 7 One year, in advance, §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | of special days and weeks observed in this country ame month, in advance, $180. | they will promptly motity | bUt some appeared the other day. It seems that ihere ne Business Office of any failure o irregularity in the delivery | aye only 270 of them—a disappointingly low number, " eleonones: if you ask us. Certainly our reputation as an efficient nation is slipping if we cannot fill in the remaining 95 days. Things have indeed come to a pretty pass when the people of this great nation are deprived of nearly 100 opportunities of observing something. These in- | termittent periods when there is no National Peanut Week, no National Ale Week or no National Tie | Week represent great voids in the lives of all of us. We staunchly believe that if each day of the week be set aside for the observance of some object full of homely virtues like the peanut, the ale or the tie, the weeks will take care of themselves and that good- | n and mercy will follow but never completely over- take the publicity men whose slick minds conceive these palpable and boring hoaxes. News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASS “The Associated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for . evablication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | Jlse -redited in this paper and also the local news published xerein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash. | A Resignation Accepted (New York Times) Gen. Walter Bedell Smith has succcrdedi B Lieut. |at last in persuading the President to accept his | resignation as Ambassador to Soviet Ru The | resignation was based on General Smith’s desire to It took very few years to dim the dream that a return to the United States, and to active duty with the Army, after seven years abroad on various assign- ments, of which three were spent on this difficult job in Moscow. USES OF ECURITY PACT new panacea for peace was discovered at San Fran- cisco with the creation of the United Natioms. Some | of the most fervent optimists, however, look askan J # 4% th& Aew Allantio Becurity Pack on the grounds that | . IHSspsctroimstances, we Shink, warrant e Presly dent’s reluctant acceptance of the resignation. But e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA APRIL 12 John Reck Mrs. P. M. Schnieder Thomas Osborne Ruth Richardson Alice Jean Davis Fay Edwards Gerry Lancaster Mrs. R. M. Guers v eeesceccescee e e e 0 060 0 0 FORMER SHOW M HOW MANAGER IS HERE FROM ORIENT E. B. Clayton, a former man- ager of the 20th Century Theatre, is stopping in Juneau for a few days enroute from the Orient to the States. Clayton, here to enter the service in 1943, has traveled extensively in the Orient since the end of the war as a civilian tield engineer for the Motion Pic- ture Division of the Far East Com- who left mand. His job consists of servicing mo- tion picture equipment wherever army camps are set up. He spent many monts in Korea, Japan and on Okinawa, and is now servicing squipment on his way back to the states, with St. Louis, Mo., as ul- imate destination. Clayton left Tokyo just a weck from the day he arrived here. :imflvfif&f‘i';;fi:fii by undermining the authority of | General smith will not easily be replaced. He proved i | to be a forthright, energetic and capable Ambassador As a matter of fact, the Atlantic Pact does not | to Russia, and there is good reason to believe that hej ations | Succeeded in winning the Tespect of the Russian Gov- | ernment, even though—for reasons beyond his control, | and beyond that of our own Government—no improve- ; 4 % § i : ment took place during his years in Moscow in rela- | it provides in addition, something the United Nations | & 3 " E . tions between Rus and the Western democracies. as now constituted does/nat, po! —a collective safe- | For representing his country’s point of view clearly guard against unbridled aggression by the major POWer | ang foreibly, in this most difficult of all diplomatic which is most likely to disturb the peace of the West- | posts, General Smith deserves the country’s thanks. | ern world. The veto power which the USSR exacted | The service to which he now returns will be able to | as a condition of membership in the United Nations | put his great abilities to good use. yobs the UN of any real competence or mobility in | 2 I dealing with a war threat involving Russia or any ol’i It's easy for any wife to have a truthful husband. | her puppets. And it is precisely into this present | All she need do is to refrain from asking him em- no-man’s land that the Atlantic Pact fits. In its | undermine but rather supplements the United N: in a very important particular. It leaves undisturbed the machinery and processes of the United Nations. But | barrassing questions. sevelt, Cabinet into his car as ed to cover up the failure, but the | |the funeral train steamed toward public as always found out in the Poughkeepsie. One by one, he end . Joe Stalin has deserved | implcred them to stay on . . . Also |plenty of bawlings out since then | slipping into the presidential car|but diplomats have wondered | |went an ex-bootlegger from Ka ‘\wl\(lhfl'. if Truman hadn't bawled ly |him out at the very start, he'd have | F the Washinélon ] .errv-Go-Rolljld v DREW PEARSON |sas City, John Maragon. Cocl (Continued from Page 1) | he whispered to Col. Hafry Vaugh- been more cooperative. Maybe not Rt Tt L lan, the new President’s new mili- Maybe if Truman hadn’t tary aide . . . The world did not|bawled out Foreign Minister Mo~ had never met him, many had | A . rever seen him, but he bflm\,’,.,m‘.hcu know that these two were to lotov the minute after he arrived to them . . . So the dead warric {appoint judges, demote generals, in- ' lor the U. N. conference, we'd also possed down Constitution Avenue, ) fluence affairs in Greece. The have got along better with the Rus- which when he came into of world did not know that even on|sians at San Francisco. Maybe 12 years hefore had been lined with |that funeral train a new era was 1ot . Maybe if Roosevelt had, vacant lots and ramshackled rem-|being usbered in. |lived we wouldn't have been in nants of the bonus army . . . He| The Roosevelt Cabinet members | the mess we are with the Russians. d passed down that avenue on a |Are gone now. Not one who tray- Maybe not. eled on that train remains . . .| Anyway is seems a long, long March day 12 years before—when |Jimmy Byrnes, the Secretary of | time since that quiet day in April ual flying time was only 20 hours from Japan. He will leave Wed- nesday by PAA for Seattle. ——,——— FISHING BOAT NEWS The IXL, owned by Jake Henning and the Clara K. owned by Henry Behnke, ‘leave -to at high ‘tide for Elfin Cove by way of Auk Bay. When the weather breaks, the two king salmon. Irvin Cole has the motor of his the Joann at Jacobs and y Machine Shep for overhaul- boat, ing e at the Salmon Creek 167 5t FROG LEG Country Club, $3.00. MMONS FOR PUBLICATION No. 6047 § In the District Court for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Division Number One. At Juneau. AUDREY JEAN McDONALD, Plaintiff, vs. CLIFFORD GER- ALD McDONALD, Defendant. The President of the United States of America. To the above named defendant, GREETING: You ‘are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the Territory. of | Alaska, First Division, at Juneau, Alaska, within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this sum- mons, in case this summons is pub- lished, or within forty (40) days boats will leave to troll for early |l a 20 YEARS AGO 7% murixs | - OF WEATHER ALASKA DTS, Weatker conditions and teaper- APRIL 12, 1929 A record crowd had taxed the capacity of the American Legion Dugout for the meeting of the Alford John Bradford Post to hear two quest speakers, Judge Justin W. Harding, and Rep. A. H. Ziegler of Ket- M. D. Williams, President of the. Juneau Garden Club, also itifying the Dugout grounds chikan. talked briefly, giving suggestions for be: & : : e i atures . at various 'Alaska points, The Princess Alice arrived on her first trip of the season, with 8,165 on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 uil load of passengers. a. m., 120th Meridian Time, and —ierbro. i released by the Weather Bureau, In Douglas, the Douglas Island Woman's Club had elected t Juneau. fol 3 officers: Mrs. Rose M. Davis, Mrs. Fleek, Mrs. Glen Kirkham, Mrs. |Anchorage Cloud Charles Sey, Mrs. J. O. Kirkham and Mrs. L. D. Hammock. Barrow Clear s A Bethel —Cloudy Mr. and Mrs. William L. Coates returned from Outside aboard | o OVt bt {the Alice, having spent part of their time visiting with friends and |panonton 32— Pattly - Cloudy relatives in British Columbia. Cloudy — 37—Cloudy Nick Bez, Superitftendent of the Peril Straits Packing Company at Havre 35 *E“"“‘Y - R arey % Juneau 37-—Clou Todd, was in Juneau for sev days. Ketehi 40 Ruth ‘Showers R K Kediak 38—Cloudy ! John T. Spickett signed a five-year lease for the Palace Theatre |wotzobue 5 Caar Alice. McGrath 9-—Cloudy before leaving for the Outside on the Princes - me 16—Partly Cloudy Weather: High, 49; low, 47; partly cloudy. Nerthw ~ Missing Petersburg 35—Fog (rm———————— e Portland 46—Cloudy aily Lessons I EnGHSN - w. .. gorpoON | & %o—cloudy { Whitehorse 30—Cloudy e TR % L | Taxutat 32—Cloudy WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Do you object to me going TS with you?” Say, “Do you object to My going with you?” MARY PENEDA DIES OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hiatus, Pronounce hi-a-tus, I as in Pene at the G HIGH, A as in ATE, accent second syllabl rnment hospital shortly after m OFTEN MISSPELLED: Symbcl; one M. Symmetry; two M's lght last night. s SYNONYMS: Foolish, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, senseless. e osisa Ao Wb WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ]1:‘::;(: By 8 Bl s increase our vocabulary by mast one word each day. Today's word: £ e i INSIPIDITY; quality of being tninteresting, dull, lifeless. s LN R scmetimes attaches to fair beautie Boards. New models, Madsen's, 41 £ i by . E. Lannon Kelly | MODERN ETIQUETTE Hompmra pom || 2% 1o = Osteopath — e Q. When spaghetti is served Italian style, how should it be eaten? A. It is much’better to break it with the side of the fork, rather than to attempt to copy the Italians’ skillful manner of eating it. This may save both embarrassment and laundry. | Q. When there is but one girl attendant at a home wedding, | called “the maid of honor™? A. Yes. Q. On which side of the host does his partner sit at dinner? A. On his right. —_—————— "lowers” bat i, LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpox || S71™ PHONE BLUE 670 T PHONE 39¢ TERER & JNYEEND Lol th 5 “SAY IT WITH OURS Juneau Florisis APHONT. 311 S50 1. What authors of fairy tales do you usually associate with the | following countries: (a) Denmark, (b) Germany, (c) France? Of what country are the Maoris the native inhabitants? Who was the “Serpent of the Nile”? The Erwin Feed Co. 4. What are said to be the “three essentials of man"? 5. What is meant by “timber line"? Office In Case Lot Grocery ANSWERS: PHCNE 184 1. (a) Hans Christian Andersen, (b) the brothers Grimm, (¢) Charles | HAY, GRAIN, COAL Perrault. and STORAGE 2. New Zealand. S 3. Cleopatra. CONDITIONS | e | TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1949 o o Ao 'MOL’NT 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 Magter; |JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. @) B.P.0.ELKS Meeting »very Wednesday at 8 P. M. visiting brothers wel- come. JOSEPH H. SADLIER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Iy Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Mectings Each Friday Governor—ARNOLD HILDRE { Secretary— 9 | WALTER R. HERMANSEN ¢ | Bert's Food Conter l Grocery Phones 104—1r'5 Meat Phones 39--539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M./ e "“The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmactsts HUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Snppl: Asthur M. Uggen, Manager | Manon-hasieal Instroments and Sepplies Phoue 208 Second and Sewarc ARCHIE B. BETTS Public Accountant o | Anditor * Tax Counseior 8impson sldg. Phols 757 FOR Wall Paper Ideal P Phene 548 aint Shop Fred W. Wenat Juneaw’s Finest BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Retel = Newly Renovsted ilooms st Reasonable Kate EHONE BINGLE 0 the world seemed falling apart. A ata: e T . i when the body of a great warrior |after the date of its service upon | ragged homeless ar of - 30,000 | State, ;wha juaveled Dok aoRW. o | X o 3 ing, a r EX ENC ; T e 1o cotn stormed the |the train but to Potsdam to decide | vas borne down Constitution | you, in case this summons is served | & i;od'hg"::mg' n‘“d \‘h(f“,m;b,_ A el Call EXPERIENCED MEN Capitol and the three drawbridges the peace of the world, has ;‘]SO‘AV(’HUG, past the new bu_ilding he | upon vou persmml‘ly‘ and answer the | 5. e height on mountains above which trees do not grow. Alaska JANTTORIAL Service —_— across the. Potomac for the first|departed. He saw the new Presi- nad built, past the Washington he [Piaintiff’s complaint on file in the s AR 15 o e e SRS AN FRED FOLETTE PHONE 555 3 S % % i s /n with | ! o v - | said court in the above entitled ac- | 5 , t in history were raised to|dent firsthand he sat down with |loved, past the people who watch- | sal Pl ot the world's greatest leaders at the|cd and wept and prayed. tion. Fi Phone 247 mcmai Hal’dware (o. conference which was to map out | e TR R 0 5T The plaintiff in said action de-| r [ T R PAL ¥ Now it was April, 12 years later.[the peace of the world . . ..® ® ® ® & o ¢ < & & ¢ o mands the following relief: divorce | ADVERTISINLI and PUBLIu RELATIONS ray ® B;n:::. sid ;TIH'.S’ The world was on the verge of end- | Churchill, Truman, Stalin—the Big, ® ® |on the grounds of incompatibility of | B b D EVENS HARDWARE ing the greatest wdr in history. ' Three Transportation was| TIDE TABLE o | temperament, care and custody of | oL Mruxman Fdnd; America had weathered the storms, |diificult, many important diplomats| e G o {the parties’ minor child, and any | : LADIRS' —MISSES’ { but the captain of the ship would |were left behind. Not so Harry|e APRIL 13 o | further relief merited. L Telephone 891 123 Front Street READY-TO-WEAR Remington Typewriters Dot see his vessel dock . . . He had |Vaughan and his ex-bootlegger |® High tide, 1:39 a.m., 199 ft. e And in event you fail so to appear — | i & 3 SOLD and SERVICED by made mistakes, plenty of them. He |friend, John Maragon. They were|® Low tide, 8:00 am., -37 ft. e|and answer, the plaintiff will take i e Soward Seest. . Neer T I B B d & Co. had his faults—all great men do.|also present at that historic meet- | ® High tide, 14:13 pm, 182 it. e |judgment against you for want | e | - 8. BULIOr c‘- He was untrue to his friends— |ing of the world’s most powerful|® Low tide, 20:10 pan, -13 ft, e |thereof, and will apply to the court | TCRQ | | *Qur Doorstep Is Worn by wheh his friends became labiiflies{leaders-and ‘boasted of sellingle s » @ o esase e & o e|fo tHetelier demandsd in £aid coms) EYES 3EAMINED SN SRS ERRSORIGED | The Charles W. Cart Bafisfied Customers” to the public trust . But the |black-market wrist watches. | R L plaint, and as herein stated. 3¢ nn. D, D. MAR““AKBT | @ Lnaries . Lar:er people overlooked his faults be- —_— REBEKAHS TO MEET Witness the Honorable court and; 1E i | Fo cause they knew he was working STALIN GETS SCOLDED ! The Rebekahs of Perseverance |tie seal of said court hereunto af-| 4 Fr nxuOPTOB ‘TRIST | Morlual'y PJI) AGENCY for them and they knew it| That meeting was important not |Lodge, will hold the regular semi- | fixed at Juneau, Alaska, February 8, | Second ael TaRne 0 Aunewn Fourth snd Franklin Sts ARG b would be hard for them to get|only for what the public knew,|monthly business meeting Wednes- |1949. 3 ‘ R 00 POR SRR TMENTE i PHONE 188 ARSI O another such friend. but for what the public didn't know |42y night at 8 oclock in the J. W. LEIVERS, | - - = i Junezn MO‘DI c0 |. The humble little President | Qdd Fellows Hall, according to an- Clerk of the above entitled court. | Poo* of Main Stress 2 of r By: LOIS P. ESTEPP, | (Seal of court) Deputy Clerk. | Pirst publication, April 5, 1949. | | Last publication, April 26, 1949. | Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th S8, Oldest Bank in Alaska | | PHONE 216—DAY or NIGET tor MIXERS er SODA POP 1t | nouncement made today. iy N BICYCLES at MAD- 46 tt i now was humble no more . . . was his first meeting with Stalin, with whom he hoped to write a| SCHWID lasting peace, and with whom at| SEN'S. that time the USA. enjoyed rea-| Ay HENRY WALLACE'S CALM So the caisson passed, the peo- ple watched and wept and pray- ed . .. and the Cabinet wept . . . Henry L. Stimson, nes eighty, MAERE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE » daily habit—ask for Eryw a member of two Republican Cabi- |sonably happy relations. No im-| | A n {7 nets, a candidate for goverzor of |portant differences had then de- | } lsgl—mfl i" a cen!ury 0' Bal’lkmg—l“s JuneauD o In New York when FDR was a,gjoung |veloped . . . But the once-humble . | | [ U airies, and carefree senator in Albany, | President proceeded to give Sl;\lmi 31, inza | casler S uell S wea' | —-—-—-—_’__c_- wept . . . Stimson, who had oppos- |a tongue-lashing Address a| :» ing, ) i “ B Nl B h d Pemnarly SARTR Chrysler ed Roosevelt, but who loved Roose- |man he had never met and from| & Pt oy e L < enren S 1 l,:A Cfln;gflne Engines velt and served in his Cabinet, wept { whese army he wanted help in' 3. Hall A { | Stetson and Mallory Hat ¢ E SHOP and was unashamed . . . Ickes' face |defeating the Japanese, the new 30, Alr:omb. | a || Arrew Ehirts and Underwear Marine Hardware was worn and drawn Only |President talked like a Dutch' 14. Voleani Allen Edmonds Sbees Ch Henry Wallace, then Secretary of uncle about the schedule he ex-| ;5 joalter - Skyway L g y ¢ ] i ; | y Luggage Commerce, was calm. Watching /pected to be followed at Pots s lmxlnlu':xr:ll)_&:' °’Lufl|~'£n§l3‘ safety Dep”slt as. G' Wame’ co' Harry Truman take the oath of [dam . . . Churchill raised his eye-| o Dgietmines, o yfffihonity . office as President of the United |brows, looked at Jimmy B: Al 4. Vice B f | | States—Harry Truman, the man |Neither could interr or reprove | s . i oxes 0" Re”‘ ‘ n o"T A"" Y HOME GROCEHY who defeated him at Chicago and |the President the United States | aily food 51 Solutio 3 | in whose shoes he otherwise might |. Stalin deserved many poRGlstnk A8 counke " ERCIAI A 500 Phune 146 ny all hehind % ; : | have been, Wallace quietly obsery-|another bawling out on other mat- | Guided archale seDOWN 4. Surzeon's i cLoTHES e ed: “Roosevelt was a great man.|ters since, but not during the firs Suil of a 1. Support for Seent =y G | | lome Liguor Btore—Tel 893 B e o ontiee o ““indmin &nupper 3. Divides tnto & Twilled e || NUNN-BUSH SHOES American Meat — Phone 33 s pernap i 0" (onlutry |1CW f a conference at| 30. Commotion millstone branches 6. Smallest needs now is a man of the people. which he had not even had time S AL i — STETSON HATS : :‘r:n foan—and e nadded at Tr ‘WAdriii:grtt: i PR slicmp | e T ~—— == | Quality Work Clothing To Banish “Blue Monday” n—“that man may have the| r the first day's session, the 9. i Bk ¥ i Lincolnesque greatness the country |ittle President drove off W”hi 10. 1 GEoRGE MOBRE FEED HENmNG To fg“e Fou ';mre frecdom needs.” . . . There was not bitter- | aim in the limousine were Jimmy | 3 | id- abseriver 10 THE N rom work — TRY ness. With the switch of a few|Byrnes and Harry Vaughan. “fn.‘.j‘ GEERAID post % a gaid \l?_s. 04 DAH:Y AVARKA i Complete Outfister for Men O~ Wil nid bave | “That wht suest, chicst” exploded - Bwedish coln EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING | | Alaska Laundry stood in the place where Harry|the Military Aide. “You certainly! = T eommander Present this coupon to the box office of the ; | | Truman stood. But he was not bit- [did pour it on him! It was great! . Female sheep 2 > T ter. Do it againt” . . . The new Presic| Ylore than it CAPITOL THEATRE | B.W.COWLING DR. ROBERT SIMPSON CPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted - BIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments COMPANY ' Ouige—~Plymouth—Chs saler DeSote—Dodge Trucks e {dent beamed. His new Secretary | NEW; ERA OF THE lof State had planned to issue a| COMMON MAN [note of caution about antagonizing | So after 12 long years the cham- jthe chief of a country before nego- pion of the common man went totiations even started. Now it was his final resting place and his suc- ! cbvious that the new President| and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "EASTER PARADE" Federal Tax —-12c-~Paid by the Theatre of Covered with black liquid H. S. GRAVES SHAFFER'S ; e e me == 4 | cessor, the common man, buarded!mw pleased with his performance, | . . ‘: the funeral train . . . He was hum- | Adulation, not criticisms, was the 4—! EI. I ; ble and the world applauded, si-|cue for the day—and for many | pressure Phfinel Low CAB co Phone 22 l SANITAIY MEAT Th i Man s lently cheering, "fervunly hoping [other days during the four years| o | . and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and | ! 9 Sigthings that Henry Wallace was right— | thereafter ! - FISOh tha v i . i i ¥OR BETTER MEATS | , that a new Lincoln had come to| The Potsdam Confere .,,,h,g‘ » :’,:’:“.‘;’l'd RETURN YOU to your home R oo ‘ 3._PHON.ES- -49 ! Lva? OXGERALLS America . . . One by one, the new |pretty much in failure. -4 . . WATCH THIS SPACE: Your Name May Appear! ’ g e President called the members of the | sounding announcements were xvxu-1 e l e :