The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOLU Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Juneau, Alaska Second and Main Streets, WELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO Vice-President | Managing Editor Business Manager | stamp of General Entered 1n the Post Office In Junvau as SUBSCRIPTION RA Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dou six monthe. $5.00; one yea | By mail, postage paid, at the following r | One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in & one month, In advance, $1.50. Svbscribers will confer & favor if they \he Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery W their papers. Telephones Busines: News Office, 602; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Second Class Matter. | for $1.50 per m $15.00 ce, $7.50; will promptly notify s_Office, 37T4. The Assoclated Press is exclusively enf tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- d. .4 in this paper and also the titled to the use for local news published | career. Souith Avenue Bldg. Seattle, Wash. WELCOME, VISITORS Today Juneau will welcome two and the city will as usual, extend the right hand of fellowship and greetings, One group is from the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, business men making a tour of Alaska, becom- ing personally acquainted with tho: walks of life and incidentally lear is aboard the Aleutian. The other group is thdt sponsored by the Oregon Journal, wideawake Portland daily newspaper. are several hundred in this group, in Oregon business, professional or official circles. There are historical ties between Oregon and Alaska and the visitors hope to give some recognition to them on their visit. This group is aboard t! Again, Juneau welcomes you heartily. CLAY’S SERVICE Gen. Lucius Clay, who resigned tary Governor and Commander in Germany, held the only sector of the culd war with Soviet Russia which } ever threatened at any time to turn hot. His nerves ;on top of a mere powder keg with the fuse (he Washinglon 1 Merry-Go-llo_u_nd By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1) man, Walter Norblad, spied Vaugh- an’s name. | “Wait,” he broke in. “This legis- | lation would authorize Harry| Vaughan to get the famous Argen-| tine medal, I take it.” | Lt. Col. Philip Hooper, who was | presenting the Army’s case, flushed | like a little boy caught In a naughty act. “It would,” he admitted. see the name,” Norblad direct- ed, “on page two, line 5.” “That’s correct,” agreed Colonel Hooper, counting the lines. “That,” Norblad repeated, “is the Argentine medal, I take 1t.” VINSON’S ADVICE Chairman Carl Vinson of Geor- gia suddenly took more interest in the proceedings. He could see no! rush, he said, in approving these medals. “There is a time for everything,” he philosophized. “Let us let this time go by and take up something that is more urgent.” Louisiana’s Congressman Overton Brooks, who introduced the bill for the Army, objected, since the com- mittee had already approved 37 for- eign decorations for Navy officers. “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” | cautioned Vinson. “We should hold | these up a little while and let them | rest. We don’t have to be in too big a hurry to do this. We havej other things to do.” The committee voted with Vin- son and Norblad, so General Vaughan will have to wait betore he can wear his coveted bauble. Note—It is significant that the Army sent the House Armed Ser- vices committee a detailed private list of officers, telling why each medal was awarded. In most cases, some act of heroism or patriotism was cited, but opposite Vaughan's name was written: “The Depart- ment of the Army has no informa- tion on this.” | AMB!/ ADOR DOUGLAS’ SECRET LETTER History sometimes hinges on little | the bottom of the campaign barrel. | needed help in return. There was a made of iron. Duing the, ordeal (of the' alriltt | | he never flinched, and he deserves the high praise | iwim which both President Truman and Secrétary | Acheson have referred to his salient services. Prestdent | United States may well be proud that it can produce The at this-critical moment in world history soldiers of the t Clay. Clay's organization in Germany, unlike General o , | MacArthur's in Japan, was built on civilian lines of e government. It was in this atmosphere that he thrived. o He was a soldier, —where the brains of the military academies tradi- tionally go—and he was in his element in building up and guiding an operation by example and leadership rather than by word of command. Business lost a fine | executive when General Clay chose the Army as his o | He worked so hard and long that his asso- | ciates swore he never slept. ¥et his mind never seemed o NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 tired, his decisions never disorderly. His pre | what he said and did was almost Prussian-like. but his branch was the engineer: sion in deceptiveness about ‘the cool and }glmlu-e;\cd demeanor of General Clay. Underneath [1ay a fiery temperament. It has been said that there ;'wns a fight wherever Clay happened to be, and the | bigger the stage, ! could burn up the ington whenever | passages he had a | uniform. the better. Be this as it may, he communications sytsem with Wash- he felt crossed. In these stormy habit of threatening to throw in his His tantrums produced a kind of terror in | the Capital, for none appeared to know where to turn | for a man who could come anywhere near his stature. groups of visitors se in commercial | ning more about ‘There many prominent for it had passed. he Prince George. “I believe this ernment to soak i liquidating him. his post as Mili- got him out of bed and told him that the Democrats were scraping They needed money and needed it badly. Truman had given Dougias the highest plum in the entire field of diplomacy, and now Truman Ambassador Douglas listened sleepily, replied that he had no meney to spare. Later, when he was fully awake and back in Lon- don, he thought it over again and wrote Johnson a letter. But he still had no money to spare. Truman, at that time—according to all the polls—had no more chance of winning than Norman Thomas. But Douglas didn't put it on that ground. He put it on the ground of poverty and the fact that he was serving in a non- political job—probably the first time | in history that the Ambassadorship | to London was classed as nonpoliti- cal. After Truman astounded the world by winning in November, he locked around for a new Secretary of State and, knowing nothing about the money-raising phases of the campaign, hit upon Douglas. In fact, he was about to appoint Doug- las—when suddenly Louie Johnson walked into the White House with a copy of Douglas’ letter in his pocket. B Tiuman read Douglas' plea of poverty. He knew Douglas’ family had developed some of the wealth- iest copper mines in Arizona. He knew Douglas, Ariz., was named tor his grandfather. He knew Doug-} las had been chairmman of the wealthy Mutual Life Insurance Company. He dropped the idea ot making Douglas Secretary of State. THE FATEFUL LETTER Douglas’ letter, which changed one brief chapter in history, is still one of the most secret documents in the files of the Democratic commit- tee, but its text follows: “Dear Louis: . “It was early in the moring, Par- is time, when your telephone call came through. I am afraid my talk with you did not appear to be par- ticularly intelligent, for it routed me out of a sound sleep. “I can well understand how great is your need for financial assist- ance, and I am writing to tell you quite candidly precisely what my position is. things. If it had not been for a| telephone call just a little more; than six months ago, another r | “In the first place, I am a poor man and not a wealthy man. My point by way of taxation.”—Herbert Hoover. perhaps so, any further effort on the part of the Gov- (St. Louis Globe Democrat) Considering the government’s paternal interest in the steel industry, its handling of the scrap situation has been exceedingly weird. Before Pearl Harbor, when prices were low and our need was high, we shipped scrap to Japan. recently as a year ago, when prices were stratopheric iand our need desperate, American authorities said ! there was only a negligible amount of recoverable war scrap in the Far East i ito pot and steel mills are up to their the real needs of this northern country. This group!a e Eission reports there are 5,000,000 tons of tm. | i portable scrap in the Japanese islands. Likewise there appeared to be little scrap avail- able in Europe until the United State’s acute need . Today its importation is blamed | for much of the oversupply hére. How wonderful is Federal timing! As Today, when prices have gone | knees in scrap, | S | country has reached the saturation If and the taxpayer might well result in And just to think!—We used to get a shudder out 7 of looking at a cartoon depicting the world sitting 1it. be a mistake for me to make a contribution to the National Com- mittee.” Douglas went on to say that he would give a “modest contribution” to the Democratic State Commit- tee in Arizona—which, incidentally, did not arrive until the election was over. All of which is why Lew Douglas is not in Paris today as Secretary of State of the United States. AMER. LEGION DUGOUT PAINT JOB FINISHED Inside painting of the American Legion Dugout was almost complet- ed last night by several members of Juneau Post No. 4, of the Le- gicn. One room, the kitchen, re- mains to be finished and that job will be persofially undertaken by Post Commander Chester Zeng- er according to a promise he made | last evening. | Exterior painting will be done,!| when weather permits, by the Do- Et Contracting Co., who has volun- teered services to the Legion. Only one other item of business| took place last night. #John Rokas, Juneau Cold Storage employee, ap- peared to claim $684.40 he received in the recent Legion award. He re- turned $24.40 of this to the Legion | Mess Fund in appreciation of the organization’s work. There will' not be any meeting next Moaday night because of the Memorial Day holiday. ACROSS . Food fish . Chinese shrub . One of three Of the spring Relieve entilated ereal . Recent Dressed . Coin . County in Colorado 3. Forgiving . Adult boy 48] Marble Fish eggs Beverage tudies . Female sheep . Petition DOWN . Quail . Music drama Moot Wirel, . That 21. Quantity per unit of time , .’ Youngsters 23. Headpiece . Point on the moon’s orbit . Disconcert: colloq. . Charges | Springs for the meet and then Nils Hermansson Charles Sabin Joe Abel Vic Power Mrs. Annabelle Emarson Mrs. Joseph Reidi, Jr. Madeline Sturm Emma Ness Eckley Guerin ‘Walter Barricklow ® 20 o & © ¥ & © 0 O 30IN,2000TON " ALASKA COASTAL | FLIGHTS MONDAY Yesterday's flights by Alaska Coastal carried a total of 51 pas- sengers with 30 arriving and 21 leaving. From £itka, passengers were: Mrs. Merrill, Mr. W. C. Auld, Ode- lia Light, Helen Hildre, Mrs. Ear! Bland, J. H. Sherman, W. H. Hills, Mrs. L. C. Card, Royal Peters, Mary Jane Perkins, Mae Larson, Iva Hermansen, Mrs. Bodding, Elsic Sofoulis, Ethel Milner, Maggie Harry. | From Hawk Inlet: Sam Pekovich. | From Tenakee: E. Anderson, Russell I. Johnson, Frederick R.. Harris, W. John Harris. From Wrangell: Col. O. F. Ohl- son, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ralston, | PIRE /060, MAY 24. 1929 Officers elected by the Juneau Woman's Club were Mrs. Harold Smith, President; Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Vice-President; Mrs. Dan Ross, Secretary, and Mrs. Jarman, Treasurer. Mrs. David Waggone was d a special committee on the Evergreen Bowl project. {I‘VH'E"”E‘M‘ named to hea Arne Vesoja, former Douglas boy and a graduate of Douglas High School, visited while the cannery boat on which he was worked was in port. Ane had only two quarters to complete at the University of Washington. } Carpenter Work was cahplefied, and painters were putting the finish- touches on a shop in the Charles Goldstein Building on lower Front ing Miss Marie Goldstein was Street, which was to be used %s a retail store. to be in charge for the summer. U. S. District Judge J. W. Harding and ‘Assistant U. S. Attorney George W. Folta returned from Yakutat, where tl_xey had been hunting pear for ten days. They brought back the hides of two black bear and one brownie. As had happened before when the two hunted bear to- gether, there was some uncertainty as to who killed the brown and one of the blacks, as both shot at exactly the same moment, according to the story. The other black was killed by Mr. Folta when he was alone. wThree Cheers for Douglas Ball Team” read the headline over an item telling of Manager Bonners ball players’ victory over the Moose. In honor of her mother-in-law, Mrs. P. C. Brown, who wa's visiting the family, Mrs. R. R. Brown of Douglas entertained with a luncheon. Other guests were Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas, Mrs. Alex Gair and Mrs. Thomas Hughes. ' A number of ladies had surprised Mrs. Arne Shudshift of Douglas May 22 on her birthday. Prizes went to Mrs. Shudshift, Mrs. A. R. Ed- wards, Mrs. Jack Sey. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom of Douglas entertained with a party featuring earthquake bridge—‘and various were the shocks received.” Weather: High, 53; low, 43; cloudy. J. E. Shirley. From Skagway: Ken Bowman, | Elsie Fletcher, Larry Lindstrom. From Haines: B. A. Burnett,| Agness Thlumont. H For Sitka: J. J. Ginges, J. H.| Sherman, Bud Phelps. For Hoonah: Marie Riley, Ole Requiam, Mrs. James Young, Min- | nie Fawcett. For Hood Bay: Wesley Wilson. | For Keétchikan: J. B. Reber. Le-| roy Davis,. C. E. Wyller, Harold | Foss, Hqward Fowler, Dan Jones, Delbert Haywood. | For Pelican: Clarice Holmstead. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. gorpon __________.__—_.—-—J WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He didn’t mean to do it.” Say, “He didn’t INTEND to do it.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Secretive. second syllable, not the first. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Supersede; observe the second S, and not CEDE. SYNONYMS: Pertinent, relevant, applicable, apposite, apropos. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Pronounce with accent on For Haines: Mr. Carter. For Skagway: Gertrude Jugeleit,| W. H. Kerns, Edith Fletcher. JAYCEER TO ATTEND NATL. CONVENTION, COLORADO SPRINGS A Juneau Jaycee member will be one of more than 5000 delegates| and families to attend the national | convention of the Junior Chamber | of Commerce being held at Colg- rado Springs, Colorado June 7-11.¢ Warren Houston, newly elected Junior Chamber president for the coming year, will act as official Alaskan delegate to the convention, appearing as a speaker n a Civic| Improvement forum Friday, June 10. Houston will take over the post delegated to Earl Cook, Alaska Jay- cee president, who is unable to at- tend the nation-wide convene. Houston will leave here next Wednesday to join his wife who left for the south several days ago. They plan to drive to Colorado spend a few weeks on vacation. INVITATION TO BID The Alaska Department of Health, Juneau, Alaska, announces that sealed bids will be received until 11 a.m., June 8, 1949, for furnishing complete marine insurance on the vesesl, YUKON HEALTH. Interested bidders may obtain bid forms and specifications by calling at room 203, Territorial Building, | Juneau, Alaska. ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH | First publication, May 24, 1949. Last publication, June 7, 1949. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 4. Carry % 5. Be wrong s 6. Places of action g Change cars Detest Artificial language . Free . Female deer , Scotch musie festival . Rich brown Paim lilies increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. ‘Today’s word: ANOMALY! deviation from the common rule, irregularity. “An ana?\aly in our daily living often provides diversion.” —_— MODERN ETIQUETTE % ROBERTA LEE Q. When a drink is extremely hot, and a person is in a hurry, isn’t it permissible to blow on the spoonful to cool it? A. No; this is just as improper as pouring the liquid into the saucer. All required is a little patience, and it will cool. Q. Why is it considered proper for the relatives of the bridegroom- elect to call on the newly-engaged girl promptly. Because she is not welcomed by the man’s family until they Does a hostess always shake hands with her guests? Yes, always. LOOK and LEARN %-c, GORDON Where in the United States is one able to view seven States? What are the three branches of the U. S. Government? For what purpose is a seismograph used? What is the capital city of Denmark? In what famous story does the character “D’Artagnan” appear? ANSWERS: 1. From the top of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, where one is able to see Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro- lina, Virginia, and Kentucky. 2. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial 3. To register earthquakes. 4. Copenhagen. 5. “The Three Musketeers,” by Dumas. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS HELEN L. SAALE ! A UCTHTTIE REPORTED AS OPEN’ ANCHORAGE,- May 24—(P—The Alaska Road Commission reports | that the Alaska Highway is open to traffic between the United States and Fajrbanks, but that Anchorage is f; by a bridge washaut. "rh“é ?fia&xi}'am ‘at the Chistochina River: bridge, on the Tok cutoff. ‘It cannot be repaired this weekend De- | cause ‘of flood stage. ‘A ptevious re-{| port ‘had ‘indicated traffic tq Fair- banks ‘also was cut, The commission indicated a belief | that anyane leaving Edmonton now would ' find ‘the bridge open again by the time they arrive at the Chistochina. Traffic from Anchorage can not go via Fairbanks because the Rich- ardson Highway is not yet open for the season. JUNEAU CITY BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT Director Josepn Shofner has call- ed for +a practice tonight at 8 o'clock of the Juneau City Band. The practice will be held in the Grade ‘Sehool auditoriur and is for the purpose of giving the once over to marches to be played in the Memorial Day parade to be held next Monday. The practice will be short but snappy, says Shofner. DANCING CLASSES Now enrolling, Tap, Baton, Twirl- ing, Acrobatic, Eccentric, Social Dancing, Boys' Acrobatic Group, Working Girls' Relaxation Classes. Phone Red 575. 98 20t Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “4AY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery LHONE 104 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE Call EXPERIENCED MEN Alaska JANITORIAL Service FRED FOLETTE Phone 247 STEVENS’® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Casler’s Men's Wear 5 Formerly SABIN'S Stotsen and Mallery Hate Avrow Shirts and Underwear Skyway Laggage BOTANY nmn_ STETSON HATS mmflfi%@m- @ B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP, ' ' 17 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet- Work for Home, Office or Store ' Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Govgrnor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Beri’s Food Center Deliveries—10:15 A. M. 2:156 — 4:00 P. M. ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planes—Muxdical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Becond and Seward — 4 FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Shop Phone 640 Pred W. Wenas Juneau’s Finest Liquor Store BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hetel Newly Removated Reemm st Reasenable Rates Thomas Hardware Co. e Remi SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Motor Co. Foot of Main Strees MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM 8 daily habit—ask for It by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 ‘American Meat — Phens 38 ———— e To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY as a paid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS E Present this coupon to the box office of £he CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: CORONER CREEK 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 mmflwfi-rfimmmm&,;w" L 1 | tour of duty here has required me would be in Paris today represent- |to go into my meager store of capi- ing the United States at the most|tal to a very substantial amount. 1mporwnt diplomatic (onrvrtncejr therefore do not have in m): since Potsdam. | possession the funds with which I That man is Lewis Douglas, Am-|can make the sort of a contribution bassador to Great Britain, former! which T expect you want. This is head of Mutual Life Insurance, and | the unvarnished and untainted inheritor of one of the great Ameri- | truth. Moreover, I have never made can copper fortunes. Few people any substantial contribution to the know that only a phone call pre-|party for the reasons which I have vented his becoming Secretary of |recited above. State. | “In the second place, T came to That phone call was placed hy|London, not because I wanted to Louis Johnson, then chairman of come, for the title of Ambassador, the Truman Finance Committee holds for me no allurements what- | and in desperate need of tunds.|soever—it never has. It was under- John:on, ealled Douglas early in the | stood that I would be completely moinug in Paris where he was at- | nonpolitical . . . For this reason, tending a United Nations meenng,‘even if T had the funds, it would Religlous feast day Masculine name Fencing dummy Ancient her- mits who lived on the tops of pillars . Upright . Oriental dwelling . City in Minnesota . Contend sarb o Insect . Babylonian abode of the dead . Recipient of a gift 117 s 7wl E-%/‘-. = - H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 18—PHONES-#! 1 . Particle 2. S-shaped molding Knock elf Disfigure At once %/l/l <ush wl AREEN ) W