The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1949, Page 4

PASY FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIBE—JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 D(uly Alaska Em ire Fublished evers evening except Sunday by th- EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juncau, Alasks TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER - - - - - - President Vice-President Managing Business Ma Entered m the Post Office in Junoau as Second Class Mal UBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered b carrier n Junean and Douslas for $1.50 per menthi six monthe. $8.00; one vesr, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sme month, In advance, $1.50. Bvbscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Whe Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivers o their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusiely entitled to the use for epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise redited in this paper and also the local news published | Asrein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | Yourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash. | Yet there is abundant evidence that a start on a | 1ogic. | ance.” SALE OF GOLD Free sale of gold is again before Congress. Dele- | gate E. L. Bartlett recently appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee in support of leg- islation to permit the sale of gold on the open market within the’ United States, including Alaska. This legislation, intrcduced by Senator McCarran | of Nevada, was endorsed by the 1949 Territorial Leg- islature as a boost to Alaska gold miners. It would also allow gold to be exported without the imposition | of duties, excise taxes, the requirement of licenses, permits or any restrictions whatsoever. And while discussing gold it might be mentioned that claim holders in Alaska are fortunate as regards | assessment work. | Congress apparently is not willing to extend to holders of mining claims in the United States the same benefits allowed. to claimants ip Alaska in con- | nection with performance of assessment work. This was evident when the House recently passed a bill suspending assessment work in the United States until the period between July 1 and Octobet 1, 1949. Through Delegate Bartlett's bill passed last year, hold- lers of mining claims in the Territory do not ,have to perform assessment work until the period between July 1 of this year and July 1, 1950, a period of grace nine months longer than in the States. | Temporary deferment of annual assessment work in the United States in certain unavoidable cases was allowed by the House in passing another measure on | the general subject of asssessment work. The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to defer | temporarily the requirement for annual assessment work in certain cases, but satisfactory evidence must | be submitted to warrant such temporary relief. | BEFORE HEALTH INGURA‘\'(,L President Truman persists in making compulsory insurance the first point in his national health pro- | gram. And it is for this very reason that administra- | tion leaders on Capitol Hill received his special me:fl"e | recently with misgivings. The emphasis on compulsion all but dooms health legislation of any kind in» this session of Congress. | national health program should be made at once. | The President is guilty of bad politics and bad One can go along with him when he says: | “We need more widespread use of the modern method | of paying for medical care through prepaid insur- to the extent the President’s program envisions. : Thomas Parran, former Surgeon General, esti-| mates that the country eneds 30,000 more physician if ¢ a comprehensive health program is to be practical.- To train that many doctors there must be more medical schools and room for more students in the schools | now available. Even if 30,000 additional students could be taken into medical schools next fall, it would take’ at least six years of study and internship to prepare | them for licensing. For those wishing to qualify for’ specialized practice it would take additional years. Besides physicians, the nation needs hospitals. The Brookings Institution estimates that there is a | shortage of more than 500,000 hospital beds. The President recognizes these needs, but he sub- ordinates them to his demand for health insurance., He wants to put the cart before the horse. He asks | for a system of prepaid medical care when the kind | | of care he promises simply is not available. If Congress will put first things first, it can make a start on a sound health program in this session.} More doctors, hospitals, disease-prevention campaigns and the like are needed now. They are prerequisites of any nation-wide insurance plan. The latter can} safely wait—at least until the benefits it would pro- ! | vide are generally available. No matter how sorry a man may be, a hound dog will take up with him, and some widow will marry him. [he Washingfon W Merry-Go-Round | statue “‘That’s a stat By DREW PEARSON Ranger. 163 outlaws, all ar (Continued from Page 1) “The Bostonian minute. ever dent Alben Barkley came to his rescue. The Vice President’s running-fire comment on the President’s presents resembled the patter of a magician | pulling rabbits out of a hat. “These won't do you much good,” | said the Vice President, holding up | a pair of swimming trunks for all| to see. “The cameras can't get anywhere near you, Mr. President.” but finally replies ! the man who sen The President’s three candles. ished, the ladies Truman dragged had ilown especi; wood, courtesy of Mayer, and Barns had come from courtesy of Maxi the piano. And minutes, Mr. and Mr. Iturbi, IS MARGARET HOPE- CHESTING? Attorney General Tom Clark, who is annual host to the Presi- dent on his birthday, proposed the chief toast of the evening in a speech that was not as good as one of his Supreme Court arguments. Mr. H. T, replying, accepted a set of after-dinner coffeet. cups from the Cabinet. “I'm going to take these home and give them to a blue-eyed blonde who was sick and had to stay at home tonight,” said the President in reply. “That is, with your permission. “What do we care who he gives 'em to,” said Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder in a side| remark to Undersecretary of no-gmfi,h;"dm;‘d o fonee. Steve Harly. round the };lalm Other guests, however, started a|opouman himself pleasant buzz of speculation as to | o i whether Margaret was filling her | . erewski's he went into a m which Tturbi said Waterloo.” exclaimed | TIturbi played “‘And what's that?’ Single-handed he Kkilled Then he asked: hear of Paul Revere?’ | “The Texan scratched his head, THE PRESIDENT PERFORMS was in blue and gold and had only‘ After he had blown them out and the dessert was fin-| Truman, pianist, took turns at their favorite melodies. The President played first—Pad- | “Minuet In G.” ed by anyone—“Battle “I'm just nuts about Chopin,” the President. | over, at the request of Mr. But those | JOYCE RIVERS WINS | PRIZE, POETRY ENTRY, IN NATIONAL CONTEST Joyce Rivers, eighth grade stu-/ dent at Juneau Elementary Public School, won a third prize for her Poetry entry in Scholastic Maga- zines' 1949 Scholastic Writing Awards. She competed with stu- dents from 47 states, Alaska, | Hawail, Canada and the Virgi cake‘ISh‘"ds for cash and merchandise; | prizes and scholarships. } Student manuscripts were enter-) ed in 19 different classifications in the senior division and four in the junior division. Students submit- ted short stories, essays, poetry, re- Metro-Goldwyn- | Views, autobiographical sketches, ey Breeskin, who | historial articles, radio scripts, ex- the Shoreham,|amples of journalistic writing, etc. m Lowe, over to|Altogether more than 100,000 stu- for the next 45|dents participated. i President, Tl g T asked the ton, pointing to ue of the Texas 'med with guns.’ was silent for a| ‘Did you | d: ‘Oh, y t for help. birthday retired and Mr, Josz Iturbi, who ally from Holly- | o 00 0 v oz 09 00 TIDE TABLE Then umber by Chopin, was seldom play- Of The| MAY 13 High tide, 1:51 am, 198 ft. « Low tide, 8:26 a.m., -44 ft. High tide, 14:48 pm, 16.7 ft. Low tide, 20:30 p.m. 15 ft. ¢ e 0o e s 00 0 00 the same pieces Tru- somewhat more gathered agreed that Mr. was no slcuch ofi NOTICE City Drivers licenses for the two year period June 1, 1949 to June 1, 1951, are now available at the City Clerk’s office and must be se- 191 6t 'GREAT DEFENSE OF - CONTINENT FOUND, Unfortunately, the medical care is not available | _ | Arctic. i } whipped shores of Hudson Bay— { uranium, la trial-and-error basis brand new | e|ke Hidden Inlet, |Waterfsll, Craig, “hope chest.” It was the Vice President who paid Margaret the most fulsome| tribute. “One of the loveliest members of the Truman family has not been | toasted tonight,” he began, and continued with flowers and South- ern chivalry, in one of those tri-| butes which no one arounl the Capital except Barkley can give. During the dinner, Frankie Gov-| an went from table to table play- ing the accordion. For the Vice- President he played “Wagon Wheels” while Barkley sang. For the Chief Justice he played My‘ Old Kentucky Home,” and at the| request of Secretary of the Navy| Sullivan, he played “When' Irish | Eyes Are Smiling.” Sullivan, May- | or William O'Dwyer of New York and Steve Early supplied an uncer- tain vocal accompaniment. SAM RAYBURN ON TEXAS The speech of the evening came from Speaker Rayburn. “Of course, us Texans,” said Sam, “never talk much about ourselves. But there was a Bostonian who came down to San Antonio and saw an old building near the cen- ter of town. “‘What's that?’ he “‘That’s the Alamo.’ “‘What happend there?’ “‘Didn’t you ever hear what bappened there? That's where about thirty-odd Texas held off 10,000 Mexicans, and before they were finished they had run out of ! ammunition and had to hold off 55.000 Mexicans with the butts of their guns.’ asked This concert for gentlemen only took so long that Bob Merrill of the Metropolitan Opera—the only | man present dressed in white tie |and tails—got started lage. And Jessica Dragonette, who did | not eat because she expected to sing right after dinner, didn't get started until midnight. She sang several opera selections — on an empty stomach—concluding with “Some Enchanted Evening” from “South Pacific” by request. As the | arty broke up a couple of hours | later, Mrs. O. Max Gardner, widow of the late Ambassador to Great Britain, finally took Miss Dragon- ette over to the Mayflower to try to scare up a sandwich. Iturbi wound up _the evening b_vl playing another hour, and looked | a little worn out before it was over. However, “a request from | the President is a command,” he commented as Truman shot various | | requests at him. | By this time the white orchids sent to Mrs. Tom Clark by the White House were quite droopy, though pretty Mrs. Clark bore up bravely. Qver at one side of the| room, Judge Bennett Clark of Mis- souri and Sam Rayburn were wise ! enough to sit at a little table| where no ome could see if their | heads nodded. | Lanson champagne, 1942, was| served during the dinner, and the highballs—perhaps by design—did net come round until just before the party broke up at 2 a. m.| Everyone went home cold sober— { which was definitely not the case, at the President's birthday party |last year. MAY 12 Raymond G. Beach Mrs. Jack Westfall Mrs. Kenneth Lowe Jerry Wade Christine Kennedy Arthur T. Reynolds Mrs. Elinor Thomas R. M. Evans e e 00 000 v 000 | NORTH WASTELAND CHURCHILL, Mamtoba, May 12. _p—In this winter wasteland, U.| S. and Canadian soldiers have | learned secrets which could help | pwtem America from any possible | invasion through the Canadian | It is here—on the bleak, wind- that a strategy is being prepared to any invasion forces which might gain a foothold on the far North-| land would be wiped out. Any sort of combat woula pre- sent problems here where the tem- perature dives down to 70 below zero. It is a land of of muskeg | quagmires, of desolate barrens, of mighty lakes and rivers—and of | Most of what the hard-working American and Canadian soldiers | have found ous is shrouded * in| military secrecy. But it is known that the jmnt} | defense has drawn on the Arctic| lore of Eskimos and Indians. It has tapped the knowledge of fur| | traders, trappers and Royal Mount- ed Police. | For the rest, it worked out on methods of keeping men in such physical condition they can do battle under the cruel grip of Are-| tic gales. | In the field of transport, the| army men are known to have| i used successfully new adaptions of i motorized sleds. Caterpillar treads | enable them to push forward over | the wind-packed drifts and quak- | ing muskeg. : | The Canadian Army, for its part, also is preparing northern civill | to guard such vital defense points as the Alaska Highway if need be. Hunters, trappers, lumbermen and others are' being organized in co- operation” with the Mounted Police and Hudson’s Bay Company. But in the event of attack; the burden of defense would fall on rezular military U ..is. SQUARE SINNET TO SAIL FROM SEATTLE | FOR ALASKA MAY 25 The. Square Sinnet, Alaska Steamship Co. freighter, sails from Seattle May 25. Ports of call will| George Inlet, Klawock, Noyes Island, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Hoonah, Icy Straits Can- nery, Valdez, Seward and Whittier. Now is the time to put your fur coats in storage. We have the only cold fur vault in Juneau. Come m to our office. Chas. Goldstein and Co. 91 tt| W F GOODIE - SALE Sat., May 14, 11 am., United Food | Store. 94 2t PIONEERS’ PINOCHLE PARTY 75¢. cured by June first. C. L Popejoy, City Clerk May 13, Odd Fellow Hall Community Plano Fund. 93 3t Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Explosive devices . Front . Excited . Qdd: Scotch . Old musical note . Presented Gael God of love 35. Ventilate Edge of & roof 8. Greek writer of fables 40. Vigor: slang Turt Cover 45. Exclamation . Babylonian deity . Give . Culmination . Fish sauce . Oily substance Fish 58, Father . Before 60. Continent 61. Mountain in Oregon Color Those people 6. Knock . Short news- paper story . Part of speech . Compoun ethers . Turkish name . Pronoun 25. Oces 4 Distress signal . Terminate . Feminine name 63. [S[o[PIAIVE[S] fl [PlAR[A RIO] [Z[o]-[4|0]-]o[m] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzls DOWN 3. Conditional 1. Varlety stipulations 20 YEARS AGO o BELLRL, MAY 12, 1929 Elks and Douglas teams scored the first wins of the season at opening day of the Channel League baseball season. In the double- header event, the Elks won 7 to 3 from the American Legion, while the Douglas players barely won by 2 to 1 in their 10-inning contest. Roy Thomas was umpire-in-chief. . LRt An operetta, “The Royal Playmate,” featured the closing Sunday musicale in the public school spring series. Participating in the pro- gram were both Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs, and both high and grade school orchestras, as well as the Little Symphony Orchestra, the boys’ quartet and the girls’ trio. ¢ % L. Kean, for more than f{wo years manager of the Juneau Frye- Bruhin market, resigned to take a position outside. He was to accompany Cash Cole south on the yacht Jazz, then reenter the employ of the firm elsewhere. Albert T. Koski was to take charge of the market. Official sanction of the American Power Boat Association was re- ceived by the Juneau Yacht Club for the forthcoming attempt by R. L. Haines to set an outboard marathon record between Juneau and Seattle. L. D. Hammock gave the Mother’s Day address at a special ceremony in Douglas sponsored by the Douglas Aerie 117, Fraternal Order of Eagles | and the Auxiliary. A 20-year jewel was presented to Mrs. Gertrude Jewell, and 10-year emblems were given Mrs. J. R. Langseth, Mrs. Jack Livie and Mrs. T .B. Judson, at ceremonies in Douglas of the Northern Light Chapter of Re- bekah Lodge. Weather: High, 51; low, 37; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We have a celebrity in our midst tonight.” It is much better to say, “We have a celebrity AMONG US tonight.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caviar. Pronounce kav-i-ar, first A as in AN (not as in AH), second A as in AH, principal accent on last syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Valid; one L. Pallid; two L's. SYNONYMS: Neat, clean, cleanly, tidy, spotless, immaculate. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s werd: | REFUTATION; act of disproving; proof of flasehood or error. “Some of the blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation.”— Macaulay. MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoerra LeE Q. Is it proper for a man to take a girl's arm when in public? A. Only when assisting her into an automobile, street car, or other public conveyance; also when crossing a street, or passing through a jostling crowd of people. Q. When filling the water glasses at the dinner table, how much S | water should be poured into each glass? A. The glass should be two-thirds full, never more. Q. When one has recently been introduced to a person, and is leaving, it is proper to say, “I am glad to haye met you”? A. No; this phrase is obsolete. “Good-bye” is really all that is necessary. LOOK and LEARN % 1. What is the estimated temperature of the earth’s surface? 2. Which President of the U. S. issued the first Mother’s Day proclamation? 3. What is the standard length of a cigarette? 4. Which is the largest outlying possession of the United States? 5. What is the approximate percentage of the world’s crops that is devoured by insects? ANSWERS: About 6,000 degrees Centigrade. ‘Woodrow Wilson. % inches. Alaska, with an area of 586,400 square miles. About ten per cent. A. C. GORDON PUBLIC RELATIONS and ADVERTISING Bob Druxman Telephone 891 123 Front Street Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS of lettuce 4, Glut o Flower Wing Backs of necks . Stir up . Portal Across Jewels 19, Alcoholic liquor 21. Understand 23. Completel ‘muddle 3. Learning 28, Immerse 30, Sprouts of Indian hemp 5 BdLLhand!Lm . Genu! of bivalve mollusks . Comforted Told . Fruit stone . Moccasin 4. Postpone . Run quickly Part of a as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING - Present this coupon’té the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "RIFF-RAFF” Federal Tax —12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO—Phone 22 minstrel show Romau emperor éE Recnnu Utter and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to. home with our compliments. Your Name May Appear! HOT MEASURE 1 NOW.UP BEFORE BRIT. PARLIAMENT LONDON, May 12—®— A hotly disputed bill to nationalize most of Britain’s iron and seel indus- try went to the House of Lords today. It is expected generally the upper chamber will riddle it with amendments and return it to Commons which then will re- store it virtually to present form, to become law. Socialists call the bill an “attack on the heart of capitalism” cantrol of fron .and ‘steel means control essentially of British man- ufacturing, fromr bicycles to battle- || ships. The bill, proposed by the Labor Government, went to the House of Lords after a Conservative motion in Commons to reject it was de- feated 330-203. It authorizes the government to buy the stock of 107 companies, but actual direction of thé companies would stay in the hands of the men who run them now as private enterprises. The companies would work un- der a government holding corpor- ation, retaining their present firm names. 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COWLING COMPANY Deidge—Plymouth—Cha sules * DeSete—Dedge Trucks SANITARY MEAT 13—PHONES—-49 Pree Delivery because | | MOCUNT JUNEAU LODGE malfl SECOND and FOURTH f 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 Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. 1 BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 17 Main St. Phone 72 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN ——eee e Beri’s Food Center Grocery Phones 104—105 Meat Phones 33539 Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:15 — 4:00 P. M. ""The Rexall Store” . Your Reliable- Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Asthur M. Uggen, Manager Planes—Mudeal Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 549 PFred W. Wenat Juneau’s Finest . Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689. The Alaskan Hetel Newly Renevated Reoms a$ Reasenable Rates PHONE SINGLE 0 PHONE 555 o Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE, Remington SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customery” FORD AGENCY (Authorised Dealers) JUNE DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. e e ———— To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY —— , ———— H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS . for Bm