The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily y Alaska E "mpire Fublished evers evening except Sundey by the MPIRE PRINTING COMPANY seenm and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska NELEN TROY MONSEN - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - Vice-President ELMER A FRIEND 0 i - = Jnnasig Editor ALFRED ZENGER i e - - ss Manager Entered o the Post Office (n Juncau se Sccond Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Delivered b, carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.50 per month! six months $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mail age paid. at the following rates: One year. In sdvance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sne month, in advance, $1.50 gnbscrivers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify \he Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivers | A their papers. Telephones: 3. News Office, 602; Bustness Office, EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 exclusively entitled to the use for dispatches credited to It or not other- Aorein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash. ANOTHER MILITARY MAN The appointment of Vice Adm. Alan G. Kirk as Ambassador to the Soviet Union maintains a well- established policy of sending military men to Moscow for what must be considered one of our two or three most important diplomatic He follows Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and Adm. Willilam H. Standley in the Moscow post. assignments. 3 | As a rule of thumb, it is not wise to draw heavily | on military men for high diplomatic posts. But like any rule, that one should not be followed so slavishly | as to deprive the ocuntry of the services of able mm when they are needed. And Moscow is one capital | where it is especially desirable to have a man of military experience The Russians draw extensi for high governmetal office. ely on military men Their relations with he is today,” declares an anthropologist. relations, unfortunately, rather than eco- 'Icms of Russian-American tend to be strategic in character, nomic or purely political. Admiral Kirk is in no way new to dipiomacy. He served as Naval Attache at London for an extended period. He has been Ambassador to Belgium since 1946. And his services as Director of Naval Intelli- {ence represents valuable experience for dmlomary. . ° | especially for an assignment which is in great part | ® MAY 14 . one of gathering information where information is|® T ° hard to get. K D. L. MacKinnon . |o Lee Lucas . Frank Henderson . i FINE APPOINTMENTS le Patsy Fleek . 7 ‘o Bonnie Leslie MacLean . President Truman would never be bothered by e Maren Bartness . criticism of his appointments if all of them were as e . good as the choice of David Bruce to be Ambassador | e MAY 15 . to France. Few Americans have ever shown a deeper Harry I. Lucas . understanding of the French than Mr. Bruce in his ® Claire Olson > one year as chief of the ECA mission in Paris. He!® Henfy H:)Larson 4 won the liking gnd the trust of labor leaders and |® Virsniy e ent ) shapkeepers aswwell as politicians. He was an evangelist, | ® i SD‘S“I}‘;' s . in his quiet and persuasive way, for the Mnshall‘\: w;‘:j“‘::];u‘l]‘ K.Pu;l::::ss : Plan and for the foreign policy that now links the | o Marie Nielsen . United States more closely than ever to France nndf. Haldis Bartness . | the rest of western Europe. When he becomes Ambas- | ¢ ) | sador, the job and the man will be ideally matched.;e ¢ o @ ¢ ¢ 0 & ¢ @ o o ' President Truman said wistfully the other that it was hard to find day | qualified men for important | Government posts. Yet good men can be found if fitness is the only guide. The President proved it a | i second time by nominating Barry Bingham of Louis. ville to succeed Mr. Bruce as head of the ECA mis- sion in France. Mr. Bingham's ability and public spirit have been tested in other Government posts as | well as on his great newspaper, the Courier-Journal. | that reflect credit on + administration. the President and on his The Communists in America certainly prize their' freedom of cpeech—that's probably why they prefer ! ‘lo stay in America.—(Edmonds Tribune-Review). “A person who sleeps in a tree is violating no| law,” rules a Judge. Maybe not, but he’s playing rather loose with the law of gravity. “Man was just as intelligent 10,000 years ago as Surely our prehistoric ancestors weren't that dumb! the West have been carried on in great part by mili- | way the military departments throw money around, in The chief prob- tary men, in Berlin and elsewhere. {he Washmglon Metry-Go-Round R 'An.mvw | other da About M n, Truman By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1) | | even,” Avenue, crowded around his sound | the truck and kept him answering ques- | U. S. Senate. A tions for an hour. | would choose A weunded sailor who served nu!( the same destroyer with young lica Roosevelt, called from a crowd: -‘Iimll and Kem, want to see my old ‘Exec’ elected! A Puerte Rican woman, as a; meeting broke up, cried: “I pray nc‘fu*! with me.” gets elected; he’s our hero!” | AVC chairman lator the | man baffles me.” Truman a TSt pe or Missour At the end of a day of this sort |asked the President whether ml"mk of campaigning, Franklin implored would “go back Liberal Party worker Mrs. Benjam- Congress ditched in Pollack, his law partner's wife, |lative program, “Listen, you got to do something | vell, to protect me from the women!” ‘,‘Lr man TRUMAN FORCED CLAY | replied. RETIREMENT | Inside fact about Gen. Luciusi 5 Clay's retirement as U. S. Mii _‘mance is whether tary Governor of Germany was lha' 1 Washington he didn’t want to be retired at this time at all. Truman forced his| hand. | Clay had been sending messag he unusual step to Chief of Staff Omar Bradley,| press conference complaining that he was tired and | announce that all ill and wanted to come home. But It has all Capit: expected Bradley stay on. He wanted to see the new German republic finally set up. So Clay get the shock of his lite when alighting from a train in Germa press conference, on May 3, he was informed that | Louise Hall, who his retirement had been officially | the GOP's Senat announced by the White House. |Lioeffler. What actually happened was this. President Truman just happens to have been on of the Senate cru- saders against cartels and monopol- are going around |ing his six-hour Washington’s Wallgren, Mrs. | derstand him personally, but as a| unfortunate gentle- | | | Indiana and Missouri were “abnu»’ Indiana’s art and Jenner, also Republicans, the | dinner in " President retorted cheerily: “Oh, my u\\n state always comes coming I hope I won't have to,”/ | SENATORIAL HEART-THROBS ‘Washington’s most State | or honeymooning his wife, Marjorie. The gravel-voicea Republican took him and Mrs. Cain. close friends say the General hamd.\oxcfl papers are supposed to be to urge him m‘ ro.ng through the courts, the Cains The other woman in the triangle, theugh not announced at Meanwhile, Mrs. |a heroic battle for her ex-Governor Cain was a faithful compuison a drunken sailor virtuzfly is a miser. Veterans Committee the FR A N ( ES p‘ul IS sippi’s turbulent John BPW REPRESENTATIVE AT MKINLEY MEE rances Paul will represent the the Buamefls said: “I can un- verred, in having Jun"au chapter of representation in the and Professional Women's Club at he an All-Alaskan convention next Senators | Week at Mt. McKinley Park. both Repub-| She plans to leave for Anchorage i's Senators Don- | next Wednesday to attend a formal honor of naticnal BPW | President Dr. Frances Scott who is from the States to be at ‘ll‘e convention. BPWs will convene at McKinleyi Saturday and Sunday. 1, Upon conclusion of the conven- |tien Mrs. Paul will spend several in Anchorage conferring with nch associations of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association and will return the middle of the following week. sked whether Gilbert Harrison | to the people” most of his legis- “That’'s up to GIRL SCOUT NEWS A short meeting was held Wed- nesday afternocn at the Presbyter- ian Church parlors by Scout Troop 10, which was presided over by the esident, Pat Goforth. We decided that we are going on last summer to|?3 bike ride instead of a hay ride. was over between | We are to meet at Mrs. Hagerup's But while the | house at 1 o'clock Sunday, for the bike ride. One week from this coming Mon- day, we are going to meet at Mrs. Hagerup's house for a meeting, time 7:30 p. m. is attractive Mary | The day after schcol closes, May used to work for | 23, We e Secret Carl| Mrs. Hagerup's cabin. Busines through, meeting adjourned. Gladys Uggen, Reporter. baffling ro- Sen. Harry Cain is divorcing ol Hill talking. of summcning a town—together. Cain’s Y, Cain has started man. Dur- filibuster against Mon SCHWINN 51CZ SEN’S. The Bruce and Bingham appointments are of the sort | According to what Herbert Hoover says about the | are going on a picnic at| ‘FIVE DAY HEALTH MEETING BEGINS | MONDAY MORNING First sessions of a five-day Pub- ilic Health meetinz will get under |way here at 9 o'clock Monday ‘morning at the Scottish Rite Tem- ! ple. This will be the first of two simi- Ilar meetings, the second scheduled (to be held next week at Anchorage Acting Governor Lew Williams ywill open the annual meeting with |a welcoming address. First speaker jon the program will be Commis- | sioner of Health Dr. C. Earl Al- brecht who will review “Progress of | iPubllC Health in Alaska.” + Health leaders will join in and listen to a series of panel dis- cussion and sectional meeting Mon- |day and Friday. Dr. Lee Powers, executive officer, of Public Health and ;Prc\'?ntlve Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washing- ton, is expected to ke here for the | nd will speak to the| sday morning. al event of the meet will be | i | Department | DOMINANT; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 120/ YEARS AGO f"im EMPIRE MAY 14, 1929 Theatre fans were thrilled at the first showing in Juneau of Vita- phone and Movietone features in the Coliseum Theatre. The first all- talkie here was “The Terror,” starring May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda and Edward Everett Horton, Vitaphone acts featured Eddie Peabody, Van and Schench and Will Hays. Halibut sold at 11.75 and 8 cents. Elmer E. Smith of Douglas had returned from a flight to Skagway in the plane Juneau and was enthusiastic about air travel. 0. H. Bliss of Douglas was to try his hand at trolling, going out with B. C. Vestal on Vestal's boat. High, 64; low, 43; cloudy. Weather: Daily Lessons in English %%, +. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I intended to have gone last week.” Say, “I intended TO GO last week.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Column. Pronounce kol-um, and not kol-yum as so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Postpone; observe the T. SYNONYMS: Licentious, lascivious, dissolute, sensual, carnal, im- moral, unchaste. 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: ruling; prevailing. “The dominant point in his address was prosperity.” * MODERN ETIQUETTE Zoperra LEE —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Q. When giving a gift of silverware to a bride, should the initials of the bride’s maiden name or those of her husband’s name be engaved upon it? A. The initials should be those of the bride’s maiden name. Q. Is it proper for a girl to use her small mirror, and apply lip- stick and rouge in public? A. Whether it is proper or not, it is being done; but this does not include the use of a comb or a nail file. Q. When leaving, is it better for a dinner guest to thank his hostess for having him to dinner or tell her how much he enjoyed the evening? A. Tell her how much he enjoyed the evening. A ————————————————————————————————————————— — LOOK and lEARN %{c_ GORDON ;A banquet Tuesday evening for all | participants and guests in the Gold | !Room of the Baranof ,Hotel at 7 j o'clock. H ¢ | HiGH SCHOOL BAND GIVES FINE CONCERT Juneau's High School Band gave the last concert of the present sea- son to a capacity audience last, night in the High School Gymnas- 'ium and each selection of the nine |numhc;'ed program was enthusiasti- | cally applauded. Pt S st $10 M RN SRR S S Sl S - VA L R ) 1. What are the four largest islands in the world? 2. How many octaves has a standard piano? 3. Which three words in the English language are identified by the fact that the letter “s’ is pronounced “sh”? 4. What Canadian province possesses the largest area of accessible and merchantable timber? 5. What is the predominant color in the wcrld" ANSWERS: 1. If Australia is counted as a continent, they are Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, and Madagascar. 2. Seven. 3. Sugar, sure and sumac. 4. Quebec. 5. The blue of the sky. The appreciation was so pronoun- ced that when the program was| concluded, the audience insisted on more and was obliged. v The last number cn the program, the march, “Old Comrades,” was| dedicated to Superintendent Edwin | C. Clark, who' has resigned, and iMat Moore, former member of the | band. | The 39 members of the band, in uniforms, presented a gay appear- ance and responded admirably to the baton of Juneau' band-master, Joseph M. Shoiner, Director. 3-6 FIRE CALL A 3-8 fire call to Fifth and Gold was a false alarm at 9 o'clock this morning. 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- cured by June first. 191 6t C. L. Popejoy, Cl(y CIerk ies. In fi it was his expose oi Germany's I. G. Farben and its | Sbectator in the Senate gallery. To conspiracy to control rubber and | °ther Senators’ wives, she exclaim- synthetic gasoline with Standari|€d: ‘Isn't he great! That's my Oil of New Jersey which first shot | man! y ::“f l?l“m"“l ‘l"h‘“ A 1‘;‘1‘-")‘5“‘“‘% A friendly phutographer even took ACROSS 32, Quotidian mmibied into the headiines | her picture leaving the Senate gal-| L Quantity of 34 Fish eggs On April 29, therefore, the Pres- ” 4 matter 35. Conserve ry, and the picture was printed ident ‘read the report of Federal| [ from coast tg coast. 5. Cudgel 37. City in India Trade Commissioner Garland Fer- | 8. Roman 38. Cleansing Mrs. Cain also has taken a great senator's after guson on the U. 8. Army’s fallure| inierest in the Senate wives' auxil- are iy under Clay to disband I G. Far-|i,;v whose meetings sk ¢ . Simounied 4ty Bl ng ben and other Nazi cartels. Call- |jonds, ar bt B 4 Baprchar 2 A ‘w(nds. and has begged the Senator | 14. English 48, Arahlan ng in an aide, Truman said: !to take her ‘to official receptions Tiesor pauaiom . l:-.:\ is the l;.ln‘c l((_i, get rid ot | Byt Mrs. Cain’s two aces in the 51, l’l'|\14> where hat top sergeant in Germany.” 1 2 Augustus Tm-e«')u \f’mu iyl Y 4o |Pattle to win back her husbend Title Caesar died ¢ ys later, and much to the | are __ 1)_year-old “Raisin’” Cain | I8 H(uul prnlel:lor t dismay of the General himseli, the | ang 5-year-old Marlyce “Candy”| 33, peathe r(ll‘”‘; :f““‘:};:‘:;“";”‘i:‘d that Clay|cain, Mrs. Cain often pleads with Brophet s the Senator that the children w Total friends and 10:60 Arang . Dispatched started some ba to keep the Gene off in office, up his mi s made up. a few days prior to dson Bronson of the decartelization branch, severely crit- icized in the Ferguson report, was telling friends not to worry about the Ferguson repo) friend, former Undersec Army William Draper, but This brought him dren turned, he moved or marry obably had put the “Iix” in at Washington. Apparent MAepaon s . Biattorm ly Mr. Draper, of the Fo by | : Miadlams 3 i erious about gla- i nan Wall Street banking firm, did Sonin the r!:exL 4 7. Rel ntatives have the fix fixed securely. i o t; flfl g ’,",.",.,';’,',‘;;m i = EPP S TRUMAN'S PRIVATE VIEW .Makex less OF CONGRESS Real fact was that Senator Byrd of Virginia wasn’'t the only solon blasted by President Truman when he visited with officials of the Trollers Madsen's today for ycur supplnes' duced prices, to see him, and once shrewdly took for New York for leaving Cain at home as baby-sitter. thcugh when All of which leaves the question | of whether Cain will go back to his Miss the Senator 1 himself cannot answer. | Attention! Spoons, plugs, sinkers, etc., sIX weeks, | closer to his chil- ! Mrs. Cain re- back to his hotel. | Hall as one from Stop st/ at re- 7“. -;fll Ol Bek Ia[»/x/0] [>l4]c]a] [N €] vl 0 OHBD 0 EREE) [c]4]>x[=]>] PIe] [vle] [E] @] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 4. Prints 1. Reduce to m 5. African native pulp 2. Medicinat plang 6 Er3 3. Foundation 7. One of the timber salls of & boat One behind another . Toward. the mouth . Plucky . Word of affirmatior . Dutch meter . Unsightly Woman servants . Cheering syllable Babylonian C Iomiant . Unit of work . And not Am]er‘fcan lake 5. Daughter of \ Demeter Dash N Plumbing © H-afing Oil Burners elephone-319 Nights-Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. 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. Bebrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS E. A. VOGEL as a pald-up subscriver to 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: "BLONDIE’S ANNIVERSARY" Federal Tax —12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO0—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. . Engrossed Rumanian coln WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1949 CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS.| ‘Weather conditions and temper#| atures at various Alaska polnts, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH 4 Monday of each month . ., in Scottish Rite Temple begining at 7:30 p. m. \ GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. @BPOELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- a. m., 120th Meridian Time, and g’:;d :fiximm released by the Weather Bureau, Secretary. o . Juneau. follow: Anchorage 36—Partly Cloudy Barrow 19—Fo3 | - == e 32—8now| | BLACKWELL’S Cordova 37—Rain || il - 36—Ran || CABINET SHOP Edmonton 38—Clear i 17 Main St. Phone 772 Fairbanks . 39—Cloudy | High Quality Cabinet Work Haines . 43—Cloudy ‘ for Home, Office or Store Havre . 4 . 53—Clear Juneau Airport ... 39—Cloudy T Annette Island . 43—Clear Kodiak ... 37—Drizzle Kotzebue . g 32—Cloudy McGrath .. 36—Partly Cloudy Neme ... ...30—Snow Northway . 36—Drizzle Petersburg ... 40—Fog Portland 54—Pax tly Cloudy Prince George . 33—Clear Seattle ... & Gl—Part,ly Cloudy Whitehorse ...... 36-—Partly Cloudy Yakutat . 37—Rain SCHWINN BICYCLES a{ MAD- SEN'S, 46 tff Dr. E. Lannon Kelly QOsteopath PHONE BLUE 670 _ FISHING SUPPLY Full line of Halibut and Trolling } Gear — Many items now at new | LOW PRICES ' Open 9 to 9 Opp Ball Park ‘ MADSEN CYCLE & cons - | Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “4AY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Ca. 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