The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR : ; T Daily Alaska Empire Fublished every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTI COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Jundau, Alasks MELEN TROY MONSEN - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER | there are, or shoul | nel to make thres Vice-President Managing Editor | Business Manager econd Class Matter. Let's get busy Juneau as AL Eutered 10 the Post Office in ON RAT! SUBSCRIP" Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douclas for $1.30 per six monthe $8.00; one vesr, $15.00 By mail, postake paid. at the following rates: One year, in advance, §$15.00; six months, in nce, $7.50; ene month, in advance, $1.50. Snbscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify isiness Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery ir papers. | Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Several days several of the hig! his signature. Delegate E. L. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ‘epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper und also the local news published derein | 1. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alacka Newspapers, 1411 | % ourth Avenue Bldw.. Seattle, Wash. | | private sponsorshij furnish mortgage 4. Providing 5. Association to pur by property in Alg I 8 | tion in remote are: 7. Permitting HOW ABOUT BASEBALL? Here it is April 21 and generally baseball is the | big sporting topic in Juneau, teams being organized, | etc. | About the second week in May, “play ball” is| usually heard at the Firemen's Baseball Park. Of course the weather may have something to do with the baseball spirit but let's get agoing. The Firemen have the park and it will not take long to get it in shape for playing. Baseball is the big sport in Juneau during the | porta summer months far ahead of the other summer sport, | yersation on the tennis. action by the Cor peres have called | pose establisment | United States. At a recent meeting of the Juneau Volunteer Fire lmore to the point now. “The world is What! N Department, Joe Werne was named prexy and a better selection could not have been made as he is really a | rare enthusiast in the great American game. He has | logist. been a player, instigator of teen-age baseball, wooden- face promoter and full of energy, backed with good | baseball common sense. | It is understood the Juneau League will be com- |insomnia that 5,000 sheep died of exhaustion. as passed by Congress and sent to the President for !givcs further particulars and further authority as con- | tained in the measure, which follows: Allowing the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages up to $10,800 for a dwelling unit, nstead of the present $8,100 limitation; | 2. Permitting the Alaska Housing Authority to in- itiate housing construction for sale or rent where | not otherwise available; 3. Allowing the National Mortgage Association if such loans are cov- ered by FHA insurancey Authorizing the National Housing Act, thus providing the highly | essential secondary mortgage market; Providing small loans for housing rehabilita- | $15 millions to carry out the purposes of the bill. Enough Talk Already Our Senator Magnuson and a group of his com- the vanishing American merchant marine. One supposes that considerable pre- | liminary talk is necessary on an issue of this im- But there already has been much con- have got in such a fix in a mere 11 billion years? ! posed of three teams, Moose, Elks and Legion, and d be, sufficient players on the chan- e full squads with subs too. The ‘tcen agers, who made good last season, are here and Prestdent | according to reports are only awaiting the call. and start baseball tossing. ASKA HOUSING ago The Empire editorially gave hlights of the Alaska Housing Bill APRIL 21 Mrs, F. O. Eastaugh Walter F. McKinnon Mrs. Guy Russo Leonard Johnson Kenneth J. Thibodeau Jack penrod Louise Peterscn Bartlett, in his recent news release ®eesccoecevoe e e 0 0000 000 R Youthful Singers From ANS School To Ap_@ar May 6 Seventeen boys, all Alaskans, will Mortgage appear in Juneau Friday evening, }May 6, to present a really rare musical treat. Under the sponsorship of the lo- cal Lions Club, the Mt. Edgecumbe Eoys Ensemble will present a pro- | gram of sacred and secular music led by their director, Father Ossor- gin of the Sitka Russian Orthodox { church. Comments from persons who have heard the young singers perform {in Sitka, indicate that the group| is from just good, it is excel- | lent. | Their director, The Rev. Ossor- lgin, relates that the singing en- semble was started only last Oe- tober, ameng the boys who were helping him in fixing the Orthodox Chapel in the Alaska Native Ser- vice Mt. Edgecumbe school. After! working in the chapel, the boys and Father Ossorgin began prac- |nce singing. ! i " Their first appearance was be- 11 billion years old,” says a 2€0- (o0 the Mt. Edgecumbe Lions Club 0 older than that? How could it charter Night banquet, November |6, attended by several delegates from Juneau. Among the dele- | p or adequate private financing is Alaska Housing Authority to! funds; real-estate loans by the Federal the Federal National rchase any mortgage loans secured aska, if such loan is insured under as of native population; an appropriation authorization of (Seattle Times) on President Truman to talk about They pro- of “a firm maritime policy” for the subject. * Some real, constructive ngress and the President would be The other night we had such a bad spell of gates was Frank Hermann, whose enthusiasm for the young singers’ rfcrmance has sparked the move ! including provisions for a large | tederal lending drive fo get new capital at work on the expansion lul industrial capacity One | ‘UI the most important points o!i the new Murray legislation will be| authority for industry to write off all big new capital expenditures in five years or l2ss—in other wo:ds,‘ accelerated depreciation. | {he Washingfon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1) | United States to French plans for creating an anti-Communist gov-‘ Lobbyist Dinner—The foundry 1n- | ernment in Indo-China headed by.dubu'y threw a party for members | Bao Dai, the former emperor. T!IL‘ of Congress the other night and United States might even be Will-}geny out invitations mn the name ing to consider economic help 10 |qf senator Capehart of Inciana, the such a government if it kept out juke-box king. But, of the many all gommunists. invited, only a handful showed up. , Note—Another reason Why we are | o reporter telephoned the private anxious to end this revolution ”‘dmmg room, but was told curtly because we want the French to|ihey gidn't want any publicity. He bring their army back from Indo- |went up to the room anyway and China to France to guard against| ,,ieq senator Myers of Penns ;r:‘:“;‘;:‘sfia:;‘“i‘;u{_‘;’:“ }:’:‘0‘;:; Z:Z vania, Democrat; Congressman En- 200,000 troops in illdc-"‘:lzl S gel of Michigan, Republican; and ha‘.;e Bonatities Dok sitte s 1,000 Congressman Patterson of Connecti- BiRrties o woek aicis cut, Republican. Less than 20 peo- E |ple were in the room, and 15 of | these were supposed to be foundry NO PYRAMIDS FOR BRADLEY |company executives. Later Sena- Conrtrary to press reports, Gen, |lor Capehart admitted sending out Omar Bradley, Chief of Staff, has the invitations—at the request, he never been a member of a pyramid |said, of Richard Wagner of India- club. And for a very good reason_"napolis, president of the Electric | case were given to Oscar Ashby) to bring them to Juneau. | | oOther visitors to Sitka brought| {back praising accourts of the lads’| 'work, including delegates to the A.| N. B. Convention and members of Territorial Legislature. | Harold Peterson and Roy Peters, | both of Juneau, are two of seven Museum will be of special mterest:boys fIbm Bouthenst ABSEN ed to fiedd 'of theiAshby gnily. | |DAKe UD the ghoup, Ten qre Lol It is a vilin made in Nome in|!n¢ Alutians. =~ o pad 1901 by Abe Ellis from the wreck-| = ‘c‘;mr ; airfm °3bm n‘;:m Sl jigo of ths Jumbss oaly Skookum.:'m:: Ch‘uu‘ eipcneg(':e comes‘(rom: ins t and its home-made | ’ . The instrument and its home-made, .~ 40405 Church, where mu- »| scial instruments are not allowed at (alpo;known ae. (O and iHo Y i public worship and four part acap- Ashby), who came to Juneau withi| . =~ . " L his brother, Tom in 1884. ,pella singing is highly developed,ac- ” |cording to Father Ossorgin. Oscar Ashby, who died in Taco- 3 5 7 ma March 20 at the age of 86, wiu-*l:“f;;“f;‘::u:““,&zz:‘:*::‘f At ed the violin to the museum, ac-| ‘D€ y p. cording to Edward L. Keithahn,|™ o8 May 6. curator. | z The Skookum was the boat which! Tom Ashby took to Nome during the gold rush. The violin is of spruce and well: turned, considering the lack of pre-| cision tocls. The fingerboard seems ' to be of hickory. SN next weekend. OSCAR ASHBY LEAVES HOME-MADE VIOLIN T0 ALASKA MUSEUM % A new acquisition to the Alaska | > SKINNER WILL HAVE UNUSUAL ENTRY IN ARTS, (RAFT SHOW riginal, and not previously dis- played” are the requirements for lthe big Arts and Crafts Exhibit “At West Point,” says Bradley, I [ Casting Company. ! taught mathematical probabihtiesfl Congress May Grow.—Secretary And even if I'd been invited to join |of State Acheson is in for new| a pyramid club, I wouldn't have|trouble with Congress, espec done so, because the chances of a|with the Appropriations Committees pay-off are too slim.” jon the Atlantic Pact . . . The State | Department has decided not to give THE LEGION'S NO. 1 Congress too much detailed nfor- LOBBYIST | mation on Europe’s military needs Young Representative Olin Tea- |for fear of a leak to the Soviet| gue of Texas, decorated 11 Union. Despite statements to the for bravery in the last war, contrary, Acheson already has all on a fresh battle recently with the | the military information from Eu-| No. 1 American Legion lobbyist. |ropean powers, but wants a blank | Teague made the Legion's tough |check from Congress—for security and skilful John Thomas Taylor | reasons. 1 €at his own words during his tes-| Exit From AustriaThe Western | timony in favor of the Rankin pen- | Allies will steal a march on the sion bill. | Russians by proposing the with- Taylor based his plea largely on drawal of virtually all occupation "pxgcedcnls" for pensions voted Dyirorces from Austria. British, French earlier Congresses, |and American diplomats in London “Just a minute,” broke in Teague. have agreed to suggest that their “While we're on the subject ofiu-cnpswand the Russ -be evac- precedents, let me read from the uated from Austria except for a witness’ testimony on this same|token army in Vienna. The plan question when the House Ways and | was decided upon because the Aus- Mea{w Committee was holding | trian Government convinced the hearings in 1930 on amendments to | Allies there is 1o change of a tpe veterans’ Adjusted Compensa- Communist -coup overturning the tion Act of 1924 | present pro-Western regime, '[‘heI Teague proceeded to quote a col- | plan will be made publicly to the loquy between Jack Garner of Tex- Russians as soon as the present HOSPITAL ROTES A One of the most novel articles to Admitted to St. Ann’s hospital!p. o own will be the “Alaska esterday were Johnny A. Jones, B Z » 9 | magnum,” the high-powered rifle :;"k Atluk and Mrs. Jack Cre-lg,. hunting brown bear and other 5 d in- Discharged from St. Ann’s was :::gr gane,” developRiyoy. Ah IS {ner. Mrs. James Wendt. . i i | The fiffth annual show will be .A'dn{ltted to the Government "OS‘iApnl 30 and May 1, in the EIk's pital yesterday was Orville Rude OTIH“L Articles in about 20 categor- AR ies will be exhibited. G e GIRL SCOUT DINNER SCHEDULED TONIGHT Girl Scouts of Troop 10 will en- tertain at a 6:30 o'clock dinner in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, honoring their parents. | ELKS LADIES NIGHT Saturday, April 23 is Ladies Night at the Elks Club. Dancing starts at 10 p. m. For Elks and their ladies only. 176 3t 28, Crescent= shaped Exist . Impassive . Threw lightly 36. French champugne 31. Fourth moon of Uranus . Wooden pin . Wondering fear . Among Not hard Kind of beer Flesh of calves ACROSS Article . Galutea's beluved 9. Yellow ocher . Facts Listen King of the West Saxons 3 . Not sleeping . Pine leuves . Puradise . Bodies of water . Biblical tower Toward City in Min- nesota Haul Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Feminine name Make into leather Greek letter Manufacturer . Exclamation Artillery 1. Anger Framework . Smooth . Arrow polsom Not so much Short for a man's name . Valleys Musical stud: . Heroine of “Lohengrin® . Task . Past Set free . Make reparse tion . Insects . Irritable 66. Approached 57. Likely 68. Additional Mining car . Biblic: 3., King Arthur's lance . . Mountain luke b59. as, later vice president, and Tay-|conference on an Austy lor, then as now the Legion’s legis- | ends in failure—as n’x‘\" cffi:g lative representative. Taylor ad-|shortly. . mitted at that time that the 192 e bonus bill as amended would be a | !qumaaun against future pensions SOLAR BRI"GS HRST or World War I vets, Pinned down by Gamer as o SABLE FOR SEASON whether the legislation would make | - o | future pensions unnecessary, Taylor | Bringing in the first load of replied, “No question about it. | sable fish for this season. the Solar When Teague finished reading |owned by Dan Twiet docked yes- from the record, Legion lobbyist|terday afterncon at the Cold Ster. Taylor looked like the Washington | age with 40,000 pounds l;lu‘xd)n- Mgnumernt had fallen on him. the fish was finished this Illl-‘r;'llin'g T just wanted to get that in the | There were 928 pounds of livers Lgo record for the benefit of colleagues|the load. Last year Twict mm;\ ght who have asked me about it”|in the first load of aubl; on thp commented Texas’ Teague. “It does|Valiant, totaling 20,000 pounds. not mean I'm against caring for|This year's catch was taken in thé war vets who are in need.” Cape Spencer-Cape l=‘au:\\u;uht?1 | area. | CAPITAL NEWS CAl JLES The first locad of shark livers lo-1 To Stop Deflation—A group of|taling between 2,000 and .3 000 | Western Senators headed by Jim|pounds was brought in late \es(.,er-; Murray of Montana are working | day afterncon on the Little f‘;nmn; .up & big anti-deflation program, i‘by John Winther, Sr, : [ | | . Let down Mineral spring Large streams Deputy 2. Chosen . Italian coin pon . While Hindy cymbals . Household god Ancient wine vessel . Surround ul % from THE EMPIRE APRIL 21, 1929 The seaplane Juneau, returning to Seattle, carried a 34-pound red king salmon—the first fish sent from Alaska by air. It was iced and boxed, consigned-to the San Juan Fish Company. Assisted by Mrs. E. M. Polley and Mrs. J. B. Bernhofer of the Aux- iliary, who took a fine lunch, seven Legionnaires completed the wire fence around the Dugout and laid the bed for a cement walk. Police Chief Getchell donated a truck for hauling crushed rock, for which Commander E. F. Herrmann expressed the thanks of the post. By winning the Southeast Alaska Declamation Contest for the third successive year, Juneau won the cup permanently. Bennie Messer’s winning selection, ‘The Murderer’s Confession” by Edgar Allen Poe, was adjudged to have great dramatic expression and faultless diction. Judges were D. Charles Bunnell, President of the Alaska College; Rep. C. J. Woofter of Nome and Judge Coke Hill. In Douglas, on April 20, Miss Lillian Aalto became the bride of Mr. Robert Bonner, Jr., in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Aalto. Miss Roberta Fraser was bridesmaid and Mr. Leonard Johnson was best man. Miss Winifred Carlson played the wedding music. william Haynes took over the lease of the O. K. Barber Shop in Dougles. J. B. Burford purchased the G. E. Krause home at Eleveuth and D. Streets in the Casey-Shattuck Addition. Members of the Juneau Woman’s Club were making plans for a “working bee” to clean up Evergreen Bowl. Mrs. Mary Waggoner was chairman. In 10 innings of play, the single men walked away with the first baseball game of the season by a score of 8 to 2 against “the shackled.” Weather: High, 55; low, 48; clear. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That was all the higher I could go.” Say, “That was AS HIGH as I could go.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dishabille. Pronounce dis-a-bel, I as in THIS, A as in ASK unstresed, E as in BE, accent third syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ascent (act of rising). Assent (to admit a thing as true). SYNONYMS: Diligence, industry, assiduity, application, careful, at- tention. 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: NESCIENCE; lack of knowledge; complete ignorance. (Pronounce nesh- i-ens, both E’s as in NET, accent first syllable). “God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine.”—Bishop Hall. e —— by ROBERTA LEE MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. When a husband and wife are signing a letter, or a greeting card, which name should come first? A. When Mr. and Mrs. are used together, the letter or card should be signed Mr. and Mrs. William Foster. When signing a message of greeting, Christmas card, birthday card, and the like, the wife’s name comes first, as Helen and William Foster. Q. Which is correct in an introduction, “Miss Jones, Mr. Smith” qQ “Mr. Smith, Miss Jones”? A.’ “Miss Jones, Mr. Smith.” Q. How are fresh artichokes eaten? A. With the fingers. A leaf at a time is pulled from the artichoke |until the heart is reached, and that is eaten with a fork. LOOK and LEARN IK{Q, GORDON B 1. About how many times does water increase its volume when it changes into steam? 2. Which of man's senses varies more than any other? 3. What given name was carried by more Presidents of the U. S. than any other? 4. What material ¥ the most widely used for making standard weights? Which animal weighs the most at birth, and which the least? ANSWERS: 3 About 1,700 times. The sense of taste. James (Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, and Garfield.) Brass. | ; The whale and opossum, respectively. | | Oldest Bank in Alaska | | | 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS JOE ALBAYALDE 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 TWO TICKETS to see: "THE FUGITIVE" Federal Tax —-12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments, WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! THURSDAY, APRIL 21; 1949 /i DOGGONE DOG SAYS DOG CATCHER; $2 \ LONG BEACH, Cali, April 21— It was ¢oz pound employee William Ghlbert’s last chance. Dog catcher Lisle Wright got sick and he asked Gilbert to take over. Soon, Gilbert got a report on a stray dog wandering around down- town. He bagged the dog and brought it back to the pound. The dog was Wright's. It'll cost the dog catcher the usual $2 to re- deem the pooch. DOUBLE-DECK CLIPPER Pan American World Airways’ giant new double-decker Clipper America, the largest and fastest commercial landplage in the world, began service April 15 between New York and Bermuaa, it was announc- ed today by B. F. Dunn, district traffic manager. Clipper America flights will be made twice weekly, and additional flights scneduled as more strato- cruiser-type clippers are received. Six of these giant airliners have already been delivered by Boeing Airplane Company, and fourteen more will be received by PAA dur- ing coming months. Flight time will be but two hours and fiftr minutes, and no extra fare will be charged. for Clipper America service. Rates will remain 18125 round trip plus 15 per cent federal tax. The America-class Clippers are now in operation between California and Honolulu. e Lauson 4-Uycie Alr-cooled Out- ‘oards. New mvodels. Madsan’s. 41 tf R - Dr. E. Lannon Kelly Osteopath PHONE BLUE 670 Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say 1t With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 7% HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANTTORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sta PHONE 138 Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 905 10th 8. 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