The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 26, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Datly Alaska Emplre Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juncau, Alasks SELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - President Vice-Presicent THURSDAY, MAY 26,'1949 e e ot s Federation of Independent Bi tion which represents the “grass roots” business, announced the results of a poll of its mem- | bership the other day, and 86 per cent favored elimina- | tion of the so-called luxury taxes on such items as women’s handbags, theatre and sport tickets, tele- inessmen, an or(lmzn- of American ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - Manezing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Busi"{fsif{‘fl 'WeT | phones and travel fares. Entered in the Post Office In Junvau Second Class Matter. A woman’s handbag is hardly a luxury (ask any MAY 26 SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Delivered b, carrier h\ Juneau and Dous! six months. $8.00; one year, $15.00 By mail, postage pald, at the fcllowing rates One year, in agvance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sme month, 1n advance, $1.60. Snbscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify ‘e Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery | cver slight. W their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS for $1.50 per month; The Associated Press 15 exclusively entitled to the use for ‘epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise _red. dorein. arisen. NATIONAL REPRESENTATT — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 %ouith Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash. ticket, { (St. woman who tries to do without one) theatre tickets hardly can be classified as luxuries in peacetime, when almost every family budget makes some allowance for entertainment or recreation; how- Canada has removed the wartime “luxury” and as a result a very incongruous situation has Travel tickets intended for use in the United "4 In this paper and also the local news published States can be purchased through a Canadian ticket agent for 15 per cent less than in the United States In the case of a round-trip transcontinental airline the tax differential amounts to $44.96. ‘We do not think that Congress intended for the wartime luxury taxes to remain as a perpetual burden ; |on goods and services which certainly are not in the | luxury class in peacetime. | | The Senator Slips Louis Star-Times) | State Senator H. R. Williams Sports and taxes. Maybelle o 6cs0cecccccee (R., Cassville), a Mary Rudolph Sylvia Drowley Jessie Helton Marian Falconer Mrs. Martha Latham Ruby. Monroe Pearson Jane Richards ® 4 0 0 0 0 0 CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKA PT§, conditions and temper- | ‘from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO MAY 26, 1929 Auditor Cash Cole left at 3 a. m. on his cruiser Jazz, to enter the Capital-to-Capital yacht race scheduled to start from Olympia, Wash., June 15. L. and A. T. Kean and J. M. Chase and son were guests aboard | the Jazz. Bob Young was cook. For the race, Cole was to be in com- mand, with Chase as engineer. Gov. George A. Parks, holding navi- gator’s papers for small vesesls, was to join them for the race. The Aleutian, flagship of the Alaska sceamshib Company, Capt. John Gus Nord, struck a rock on Amook Island, Uyak Bay, Kodiak Island, and sank within seven minutes. Manuel Dorras, a crew member, lost his life. The United States Coast and Geodatic Survey vesesl Sur- veyor Mad picked up the 135 other crew members and 15 passengers, and was bound for Seward. f Sl The Rev. David Waggoner gave the baccalaureate sermon for the | Juneau High School Class of '29 at services in the Presbyterian Church. | The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff gave the invocation and benediction. Music was by the Junior Orchestra, a mixed quartet numbering Edna Rien- deau, Billy Sparks, Muriel Jarman and Bennie Messer, with Helen Torkel- son at the piano, and the girls’ double quartet, in which singers were Edna Riendeau, Dagney Hagerup, Winnifred Carlson, Maizie Redgers, Dorothy Bakke, Muriel Jarman, Genevieve Saloum and Cecilia Yarkon. | Alice Merritt played the obligato. crusader for his kind of Americanism if ever one came | Weather st i 3 down the pike, is still at it. Last session he got|atures at various Alaska points, R.,unmng into a wolverine was only pa_rt of the e)fcitement for George | through a bill requiring the teaching of American |also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 B. Rice, trapper of varmints, on a hunting expedition—he ran into an history in all State schools, and it seemed a good idea. [a. m., 120th Meridian Time, and entire family of bears. This session he came through with a resolution urging | celeased by the Weather Bureau, TR R | State employees to use their Jefferson Day holiday in | Juneau. follow: | Lawrence Purjue, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Purjue, ‘smdymg Jefferson’s life and philosophy. Trouble is, | Anchorage . 46—Cloudy | was in St. Ann’s Hospital for treatment for a fractured skull. He had » | though, there’s a hint the Senator ought to have taken | Barrow 31—Cloudy | fallen about 100 feet from Cape Horn on the Basin Road, slipping and During the war, and for a time thereafter, there il was justification for special taxes on so-called “lux- his first bill to heart and done a bit of studying him- . Bethel 36—Rain | rolling down the rocky slope. He was seen by Alden Torgerson, 17 years e d mP.e o .th'u s which | €I Cordova 39—Partly Cloudy | 51d, who found the lad unconscious and carried him to the Alaska BT T SRR e Shes Senator Williams' resolutions urged the State em- | Dawson 43—Cloudy | yuneay mess hall. There, Frank Herrmann, steward, applied first aid. were not strictly classifigble as luxuries also were ployees to read the U. S. Constitution, which—he said | Edmonton 45—Cloudy SRTC e frankly, o desourage pubil: Yo —Jetferson helped to. write, Patiaue 5 J. D. Van Atta had an unplanned swim while fishing Peterson is Wi a ly wi avel fares, i 1088 .. 44—Partly Cloudy | Wish i Thiky was 116, fasepartiglarly “."h [are . are But Jetteran) !“5" GRpRelEd. 1) et F‘ranpe b 50!LC y,‘Creek—and reported that the swimming was even worse than the poor telephones and telegraph. These facilities already were | all during the constitutional convention, Senator Wil- | Havre - - loudy fishing, Van Atta “did an Annette Kellerman” when Gunnar Blom- jammed to capacity, and the function of the tax upon |liams. He didn’t write a line of that noble document. Juneau Alrport . 34¢—Clear | 8. & them was to make them as unpopular as possible, as A e T L L | Annette Island 45—Partly Cloudy | gren, in playful mood, decided to become drillmaster and shouted “Fall b e e . | Kodiak oo . 49—Clear | in!” Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Foushe were also in the party. well as to raise some additional revenue for wartime | It is often the case that when a person removed | Kotzebue 32-—Partly Cloudy needs. | the beam from his own eye, his vision is improvcd | McGrath . ¢ 4—Partly Cloudy | Weather: High, 52; low, 46; rain. The justification for the special taxes upon such |to the extent that he realizes he was mistaken in Nome 33—Cloudy‘ items now has disappe'xred completely. The National | believing there was a mote in his brother’s eye. | Northway ... 41—Rain | o 1 . e RGN BN S Petersburg . . 36—Clear | D 'I L H E l' h by | | Communist ~ party-liners were Portland Csi—ciear|| - U@lly LESSONS IN ENQIISN W, 1. GORDON "Ie waShInghfl thrown into complete confusion and, JUNEAU MIDSHIPMA" Prince Rupert 45—Cloudy |at one point, Ben Gold, President Seattle s 46—Fog | Me"y-Go-Rou"d lof the left-wing Fur Workers Un-!| ON SUMMER CRUISE :whiccnore 33—Partly Cloudy| WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I do not talk with him rasa ion, became so disgusted with his Yakutat ... 35—Partly Cloudy | more than I can help.” Say, “OFTENER than is necessary.” fellow leftists he went out for a By DREW PEARSON | ABOARD USS MISSOURI ! OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pious and impious. Pronounce the I in | PIOUS as in PIE. Pronounce both I's in IMPIOUS as in IT, with accent rcund of drinks. Returning, Gold (Continued from Page 1) stood up and denounced Harry 'Bridgf‘& shouting: tures. His attitude was that we| I know the party line just as | shouldn’t “burn the last bridge.” |Well as you do. Senator Thomas of Utah was| At another point Murray admin- blunt and to the point about re- | building Germany. “Is there any| feeling anywhere,” he asked, “that | we should rearm Germany as @ puifer against Russia?” Acheson assurea not, but Thomas .ept nmering this point home. | He warned that Germany, when she gets her stre: h back, might | side with Russia; that Germany has closer ties to the East than, the West; that the Germans even | started rebuilding their army and | navyacross the Russian border af-| ter World War I. Thousands of | Germans actually worked inside Russia until Hitler bit the hand | that was helping him, Thomas recalled. WATCHING GERM/ I FACTORIES ) Senator Lodge of Massachusetts argued that we should strength- en Germany’s economy Wwithout building up her warmaking capac- ity. ‘To prevent a resurrection of | German military power, he de-| manded that Acheson insist upon a close watch on German and factories. ‘The Secretary of State promised this would be dore. He added that Russia would have nothing to say about the Ruhr, since she got nothing from the Ruhr in peace- time. “What do you mean by Russia?” | Senator Thomas broke in. “If you mean the satellite states, then Rus- sia has all the interest in the world in the Ruhr.” ! Central Eurcpean countries now behind the Iron Curtain, he added, | always did a big business with the | Ruhr. forces | Achescn and Vandenberg also engaged in a brief -dispute over whether the right-of-way to Ber- lin had been definitely spelled out in the Potsdam agreement. Vander- berg argued that it hadn’t beea put in “contractual form” and urg- ed the Secretary of State to see that our right-of-way to Berlin is ncw made clear at Paris. FDR, JR., “GOING PLACES” No one fought the election of Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., harder than Vita Marcantonio, sole American| Labor representative in Congress. The bouncing, brilliant legislator from Manhattan stumped the Twentieth District, trying to defeat the namesake of the late FDR. But after it was all over and the votes showed young Roosevelt to be the overwhelming victor, Con- gressman Marcantonio met Con- gressman Chet Holifield of Califor- | the House. | nia on the floor of Quoth he: “You want to get aboard with Franklin Roosevelt. geing places.” Note:—Young Roosevelt's victory in New York will be a big psychc- | logical boost to his elder brother in California where Jimmie plans tc run for governor. He's really CIO HOUSECLEANING ! CIO President Philip Murray’s at- | tack on Communists and Fellow | i scores of Communists who were act- Tually | “How many of ycu are really l!"'Bl agents?” RFC PRUBE | will make a sweeping probe of cer- { helped the company get a big gov- { Washington official, | inspired letters and telegrams. istered the crowning blow. Wuhi an eye at the New York trial of Communist leaders wherein the! Justice Department has produced government agent: arosc and asked the Cc: tion Murray ic fac- Arkansas’ hard-working Senatcr William Fulbright, chairman of a Banking and Currency Commiitee, tain cfficials of the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation who were given plush jobs with business firms shortly after these firms got l'oans from the RFC. Fulbright is chiefly interested in John Hagerty, former head of the Boston RFC office, who g¢ot aj $30,000-a-year job with the Wal- | tham Watch Company after he ernment loan. He is also interested in Sterling Foster, former RFC who got an $18,000-a-year job under similar cir- cumstances from the Plywcod Plas: tics Corporation of Hampton, S.C. REAL ESTATE LOBBY Between 1,500 and 2,000 mem- bers of the real estate lobby have invaded Washington for the big- gest fight against the Public Hous- inb bill since the famous power- trust battle against the Holding Company Act. Heaviest pressure will be exertéd on Southern Democrats, whem the lobby has been trying to “soften | up” with full-page ads in local newspapers and a flood of lobby- | No pressure is necessary against the Republicans, whose leaders have evolved a secret strategy for killing housing. No longer will ex-Speak- er Jee Martin and Charlie Halleck of Indiana charge that public hcus- ing is “Socialistic,” but rather (hdl. it should not be passed “right now.” Economy will be the theme-song. However, about twenty progr Republicans, mindful of their pi ty platform which pledged support for the housing program, plan o denounce the leadership—if neces- sary. Note—Actually the housing pro- gram would cost less per year than the potato-subsidy program which the farm lobby is so anxious to keep. Subsidizing potatoes costs | over a million dollars a day. ® o 0000 0 o . . @ TIDE TABLE . i . MAY 27 ® High tide, 1:03 am., 169 ft. . -18 ft. . 14.7 ft. . 19:40 pm, 35 ft. . . Low tide, 7:41 a.m.,, High tide, 14:03 p.m., Low tide, Now is the time to put your rur coats in storage. We have the only cold fur vault in Juneau. Come n Travelers last week was even tougher-than appeared in the pap-q ers. It was so devastating that the 1 to our office. Chas. Goldstemn and Co. 9 u SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN’! S. David Sperling’s first cruise as a , midshipman will be made aboard the world's most historic battleship —the U.S.S. Missouri, on which the | surrender of Japan was signed. His father, Harry S. Sperling, re- ceived details of the cruise on which his son, shortly to be a third class midshipman at Annapol- is, will leave tke Naval Academy June 4 After a week at Portsmouth, Eng- land, the Missouri will go to Guan- tanamo, Cuba, for naval exercises, and is scheduled to return July 26. Midshipman Sperling will begin his six-week leave August 13. He plans e pick up the new family car at Detroit, and drive back. NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Is to be published and forms will close June 4, 1949, for space and changes. Please mail your changes to P. O. Box 2389 before closing time. 200 12t | MRS SOMMERS’ PUPILS GIVE PIANO RECTAL Mrs. Norman E. Sommers pre- sented six of her pupils in a spring piano recital Wednesday night at the Bethel Tabernacle. | The young pianists who invited | their parents and iriends to the re- cital were Francine Luyckfasseel, Patricia Collier, Loretta Hibner, Stella Baker, Sahdra DeHart and Bonnie Clark. Spring melodies, .2 piano t.nd(py Patricia, Sandra and Bonnie, wed- ding selections, hymns and a mis- | cellaneous group of selections foxm- ed the program. MINES MEN OUT Two Department of Mines experts went to Ketchikan yesterddy ,, to spend a week making examinations in that area. They are Howard Fowler, associate mining engineer, jand a new man on the staff, Daniel Jones, assayer-engineer. on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Vocation (what one does for a living). | cation (what one does as a hobby). SYNONYMS: Godly, divine, devout, pious, righteous, reverent. Avo- ‘WORD STUDY: “Use a vurd shm‘umu and it increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Todlys ‘word: DOGMA; that which is ‘held as an opiniony; & doctrine. : ¢Eeriyhigtory produced many dogmas which are observed today.” 4 MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra LEr —ee Q. Is it necessary to give a‘gm each time, if one is invited to several different wedding showers in honor of the same bride-to-be? A. Yes; this is expected. Howeevr, if one has already attended one or two showers on the same person, it is one’s privilege to decline addi- tional invitations. Q. 'When placing the silver on the table, shmld the !ork prongs point upwards or downwards? 3 3 1 A. The prongs of the forks should pomrnpward:. ‘ ¥} Q. What should one say when introducing tweo ponom in a very informal meeting? A. Tt is sufficient merely to say each mame with the proper inflec- tion: “Mrs. Allen, Miss Hudson.” —nmA—A——;YA————_—_—_—_—_—_—_— —— LOOK and LEARN % ¢ cornon 1. What percentage of the people in the U. S. are church members? 2. Is there a difference in a person's blood pressure when he is awake and when asleep? 3. What President of the U. S. was unable to read and write until his wife taught him? . 4. How many points has the compass? 5. How many stomachs has a cow? ANSWERS: . 1. A little more than 49 per cent. 2. It is 20 points higher when he is awake. 3. Andrew Johnson. ’ 4. Thirty-two. 5." Four. J. W.WALKER as a paid-up subscriver 10 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 FLAME" 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. 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