The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1949, Page 4

Bl ki PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMI‘IRD-JUN‘EAU ALASKA FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1949 Ithe umous story of the pnst nflice'nr{ Jat, w.§h- | ington who called to' task the postmaster ap Dawson, | 1 ¥.'r.for not sending in his annual xrpcrts. | These startling stateside ignorance | about Alaska come to light at regular intervals even while learned Senators and Representatives are de- D(ul Alaska Em zré Pubh.lhed every evening except Sunday hy the MPIRE PRINTING COMPANY mnfl aad Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks AELEN TROY MONSEN - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - instances of Presiden: Vice-President ELMER A FRIEND - - - - Manesmg Editor 3 ALFRED ZENGER - - - - ustness Manaer | bating such highly ant measures as statehood, C | bating such highly importan 1 4 JUNE 10 % Entered in the Post Oftice in Juneau as Second Class Matter, [roads and army construction @ & SUBSCRIPTION RATES: sy ‘vesterdad ridiculous { Deiivered b carrler In Juncau and Doustas for $1.50 per menth; | 1Ne Statement given out yesterday | ; Hi “k’“’] . Thomas L. Crooks o six monthe. §8.00; one year, §15.00 on the face of operations of the two internationa a By mall. postage paid, at the following rates: ) " : ’ i i = Ada TERY S o One year, In advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | Airlines that fly to Alaska the year round . william R. Weir . sme month, in advance, $1.50. i idi » of the thousands 1 Snbseribers will confer s favor it they will promptly notity | £5 IR S owe 1y the face a3 b Eugene DR ® \he Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | Of operations of the non-scheduled and private op-|e Mrs. Leonard Williamson e ™ iy O, S Biaen G, A%, [erators who make flights every day in the year to|e Mrs. H. M. Anderson o MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS and from the States. . Virgil Matthews .| The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Northwest, as we well know here, flies to An- : F'Llfih:'-e"e\:::h o fepublication of all news dispatches credited to 1 or not other- | , # N & an Smi o Tike (zed,. .4 In this paper snd aiso the local news published horage daily in winter and summer, carrying pas e 00 00640000 00 | senges and hundreds of pounds of freight and express. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | Pan American maintains a similar schedule to Fair- Pouith Avenue Blde..' Beattle, Wash. | banks. The accident rate to Alaska is slight compared | to the heavy schedules maintained and also compared to major line accidents in the States. We do not care too much when the President comes—whether it is before August 15 or after August 15, or if at all, for that matter. But it is a reflection Nerein. as given in Associated Press dispatches and the fol- | \lowing gives the British view of one newspaper con- | tained in British Information Services, radio section, as under date of June 8: The London Times discusses the meeting of the | “As the full unity of Ger- | 1 | concerning the meeting in Paris of Foreign Ministers, | TATESIDE I(“\'OR ANCE Ignorance concening Alaska, is brought out in the following editorial in the Anchorage News, under date | Foreign Ministers and says: | of June 8, which is correct and to the issue: many is clearly unattainable yet, it is unfortunate | that the Ministers have spent so much time and energy | A little item in a press association report yester- discussing it. Their attempts so far may be compnr('d day was amusing but at the same time it must have | i SINCIC LEAVES HERE ON LONG TREK TO on our dignity to know that the nation’s capital can| On an adventure that he has | be so ignorant of its own possession and blithely broad- planned for two years, Paul ‘Sinci | cast it ‘has left here on the Yankee| | ) Bay from where he will attempt to | PARIS ME ]‘T]N x OF MH\IQTFR\ { cross the glaciers to Skagway. Be- | —v 1se of the lack of maps for the | Americans, gonernlly speaking, have their ideas flrrmnn. Sincic’s known across the glacial area. Sincic will go from Skagway on a trek westward to Klukwan, Rainy | Hollow, skirt to the north of the | Mt Elias Range and the Malaspina | Glacier to Cordova. Part section of his trail will be thmuph Yukon Territory. From Cortiova, Sincic will go vo\ been irritating to Alaskans in the face of its pathetic | With those of a man who tries to eat the nut without | will pick up more supplies and ! ignorance. first cracking the shell. The Ministers have left them- | equipment. He will head north- It concerned an invitation to President Truman |selves no room to discuss more practical proposals for [Ward then through the Alaska and to visit Alaska. The President; it seems, was pretty |linking the two halves of Germany together for cer- ‘:f';‘;':\m ,,?“"fifi;,.davfi::i'fi?g :?:;x busy, and couldn’t make it early in the summer. Later, j tain limited functions.” primitive areas enroute to Fair-: i E The paper suggests that they should -accept the | But, the dispatch added, it wouldn't be wise for |division of Germany as something which cannot at the President to come to Al:\gka after August 15 “be- |present be overcome and discuss means of reducing | cause it is not advisable to fly to Alaska after August | friction to a minimum and of leaving the two parts | within hailing distance of each other. perhaps. Either through the depths of ignorance or by resorting The office grouch just shuffled in. “In these | days,” he said, “I don’t believe anthing I hear, uml to downright lieing, the press representative at the White House caused another far-fetched mistrgith to | I 100k twice before believing anything I see.” : be publicized about Alaska. The same story that A T 1 S R T appeared in Anchorage also travelled the width and | breadth of the land on the press bureaus leased wires It is something akin to the story that the wife of a former Delegate in Congress was fond of telling. She was told by the Washington, D. C., post office | If the consumption of popcorn in movie theatres | that she could not mail Christmas packages to Alaska | continues to increase, it won't be long before the movie- “because no boats run to Alaska in the winter.” Or)goers will have to learn lip-reading. It would be funny if it weren't so far out of line. Most pecpis don’t seem to be concerned over where | the world is heading. It seems in order to assume they | just came along for the ride. ;Cle\'elz\nd. Miss., speech lepxcsemetu tive of ex-Congressman Harold Ihe was‘““fl'on | Acheson’s views or the Administra- | Mosher of Ohio, who is the lobbyist | tion's views. for the Glenn Martin Company MQHY'G"Rom‘d | Truman, still full of gratitude, 'which manufacturers Navy planes | |and recalling that the Army, Navy, but can't get much business from et al had approved the speech, re- |the Airforces . . . Utah's Governor plied that it represented Adminis-|J. Bracken Lee, checking a report tration policy. |that his ancestors came over on the A few days later, Acheson weni; Mayflower, found that his supposed ed to speak in Cleveland, that the to his chief, Secretary of State Mar- | Pilerim forebear was = Richard | folks in Mississippi had made |shall, and said in effect: “I have |Clarke—who died a bachelor . . elaborate preparation, and that this |kicked a fairly important ball up in | Secretary Acheson and Foreign was to be the biggest event in the [the air for you, but it's falling | Minister Bevin haven't been get- town’s history. | rapidly. How about catching it and li}n'zknlonf l‘“" well at L‘Fzms. B(‘t"l‘" . he said, he couldn’t go. Sen- | Scoring a touchdown?” *| thinks - Acheson 15 ‘hogging the mz.‘“,;nbo e back in the state,| This led to another conference |SPotlight. got irritated when ‘Ache- | ill, after the Senate's refusal to, With Truman, then to Secretary|SOD }‘flused to go along with seat him, and it would be political | Marshall's speech, which in the|Bevin's plan for secret diplomacy. suicide, Truman felt, if he set foot | €yes of most people was the begin- | inside the state at that time. He|ning of the Marshall Plan. Tulsequah couple Speak Vows Here By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1} had written his Mississippi friends,| After the speech, Acheson picked he said, asking if they would accept UP a suggestion by Senator Van- a Cabinet member instead, and they ' denberg that a committee of prom- replied that they were greatly in- inent ‘Americans be appointed to terested in foreign affairs and the | Push the idea. Truman didn't like only man they would take as a sub- | the suggestion, but Acheson argued stitute was, Acting Secretary of him into it. b ; @ week’s honeymoon in Juneau, are State Dean Kcm‘flon | “Here is a man who more thanj ¥ Acheson of course-promptly ac- | nYsthing else wants to get the Re- | Mr. and Mrs. William Belinski, who C e ubli Aiam | were married here last Saturday by cepted the President’s personal plea, publican nomination for President |{; s commissioner Gordon Gray. Returning to their home at Tulse- quah, B. C., this weekend after a | banks lgo to |UCC NAME CHANGE HAS NEW EMI’HASISuhe banks. Sincic expects to reach Fair- late in the fall and will probably winter there Continuing next ing, Sincic will the upper Koyukuk River area to spend a full summer in the | Endicott Mountains of the Brooks to Florida.” Range within the Arctic Circle. The ‘ this time.” I son for the trip is to get a ser- | ies of photographs that he hopes to‘ {sell and also gather material for al | series of articles or a book. Sincic said that outdoor life is| not new to him as he has spent | 12 years in the interior around Sew- | Increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: sermon. ard, Fairbank Healy. He figur worth what he will be getting out | of it. For the past year he has been getting his equipment and maps to- gether for the long trek. Included in his pack are a .22 calibre rifle, | and a 30-30 carbine by which he| will be able to get game. Basic foods are included in his 70 pound Anchorage camera land . other equipment. i Employent Securliy Commis o is the new name for the agency formerly known as the Unemploy- | ! ment Cempensation Commission. | Change of name for the. Social | Security agency was made by the past session of the Territorial Legis- iature and became etiecuve us week. Object of the name change is to| 1 emphasize the positive rather than the negative side of the commis- sion’s work, according to R. E. Shel- don, ESC director. | INSTRUCTIONS - GIRL SCO['TS' in fact told Truman he had beeng‘;:fl:‘h"ir:":‘;;‘:tS“f_‘g;-"h:’e ‘:3“’ T(“" Attending the couple at the eve- | BAGGAGE . must be left at| s . 3 s other two 2 7 R i eager to make a major speech. But. Mokl Ooickice Diswer hebes & | ning ceremony were Mr. and Mrs.| City Dock, Friday, June 10, 9 ;\.m.! he warned, it would be an explo- Snithig ahout ‘snvihing ') 0 | George Moore of Juneau. The wed- | and 7 p.m. sive one. g nything, while | 300 o followed by a dinner cele- | BUS . . . will leave front of Juneau | | Senator Taft never loses an oppor- | tunity to attack you on domestic issues and crab at you on foreign policy. Vandenberg has played the game very well on bipartisan pol- icy, and you ought to agree to his idea in order to keep him sweet.” bration at the Salmon Creek Coun- try Club. The bride is the former Miss Betty Bowress of Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Belinski, a Polaris-Taku Min- ing Co., employee, is formerly from Revelstake, B. C. | HENRY WALLACE'S MISTAKE So, having in mind Henry Wal- lace’s famous speech on Russia which was officially cleared with | the White House, but which Tru- man himself didn't read, Acheson | took great pains to have his speech | »arer\':m examined. He asked that | THUMBDE. DOWN..ON it be read by the Army-Navy, by | = HOOVER-BARUCH piik econcmic adviser Dr. Edwin Nourse, he President did agree, and a SCHWINN BIKES at MALSEN’S and by the Commerce Department, | as well as by Truman. His strategy was to have so many cabinet ex- perts read it that it would not be sent to Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg whom he sus- pected might pour on the cold wat- tbers of a committee to serve under meeting was ‘held to appoint mem- Secretary of Commerce Harriman. Vandenberg was present. Acheson said he didn’t care who was on the committee just so long as Herbert Hoover and Bernard Baruch were C 0SSWOT! Puzzle» ACROSS 31 Likely Tine 8 ompass point Destroy . Diner - not. Extended 4 b writt - Vandenberg however, looking over |Il)\ll(|e0l;l iy The persuers of the speech later held a meeting. Since there was nething in the speech about bases, the Army-Navy had no objection. Dr. Nourse suggested a few changes | of figures, which were accepted. the suggested names, said he had nothing against them, but that what the committee really needed ! was an elder statesman as chair- man who commanded the respect of the country. ! Marries 1t stones ishing appurs tenance . Make amends . Rubbing out archaie Irish expletive . Traditional High School, 10:30 a.m. Mohday, | June 13, 20 and 27. Have a light ! lunch. 214 6x i NOTICE ‘ Mr. and Mirs. George O'Brien are | agents for the Fuller Brushes in SE Alaska. Ph. Blue 127, P. O.| Box 3044. 18 3t Secretary of Commerce Harriman,| 3 . weather In- iy monkey who had been talking to Acheson | aer:ltf:lIl‘ x;“l:’:*‘;gu‘l‘gked S“‘E;‘]" oy dicators w vehicles | BOW] rivately, w i ile | M answer that: 2 ok after lical A cted privately, was enthusiastic while X i - Lh“’,‘u"" 2. Turkish title - Truman was delighted that Acheson was getting him out of his Mi: sippi speaking jam. After all this preparation, how- ever, Acheson got only two or thres paragraphs buried inside the news- papers. Few people in the USA. realized that Acheson had launched cne of the most important pohcleal since the U. N. or the Monroe Doc- | trine. The British press, however, play-! ed up the story big. And as a re- sult Scotty Reston of the New York Times called Acheson to ask| him whether this was a new Ameri- | can foreign policy | “You had better ask the Wmle‘ House,” Acheson replied | 4 PLANTED QUESTION S0, at the next White House press . conference, Reston asked a carefully | worded question as to whether the | (appointed. | jfirst Congressman to attack air- question, then went on to say that the committee’s job was not to sell | every tilling station operator on aid | to Europe, but to get the co-opera- | tion of labor and industry leaders. Therefore the committee should be composed of younger men who were f influential with labor and industry. Once their support was enlisted, Acheson argued, the filling-station | operators would fall in line. Truman immediately agreed and! Acheson’s proposed committee was | And that was pretty much how the Marshall Plan really got started. | MERRY-GO-ROUND Keeping the record siraight—the plane contracts was Clarence Brown of Ohio. ‘What the public doesn't know is that Congressman Brown! is a close friend and distant rela- WEIH JUNE 10, 1829 Mr. and Mrs. the birth of a son the daysbefore at St. Ann's Hospital. H. C. Bracken was back in Juneau after several weeks visiting friends and relatives in Washington and Oregon. Bracken was a veteran A-J employee. Sichools, Announcement was made of the marriage on June 8 of Miss Floy Rollins and Mr. George Cordez, the ceremony having been solemnized in the Douglas home of U. 8. Commissioner and Mrs. Charles Sey. The | bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Rollins of Douglas, and bride- groom, operator at the Douglas Coliseum Theatre, planned to make | their home in Juneau. Elmer E. Smith, who had been taken suddenly ill on the boat enroute to Haines, was greatly improved, according to Mrs. Smith, and able to l“TERloR AlAsKAme up and around at his ranch five miles from Haines. | planned to return there after taking cae of several business matters. Miss Ardeena Leer, for two years on the staff of the Juneau Public in Skagway with | Basin-Echo Cove Trail to Berner's |Miss Ann Keller, planning to spend the summer with her family at boarded the Northwestern after a visit Norman, Okla. trail will be un-|juneau Elks, | rangements.” | Marmion Island. of this|Antone Sandnes; Great plans were The affair was scheduled for Ships selling halibut catches here included the Addington, Capt. Capt. | and educator has served Alaska soj the Ina J, Capt. Andrew Hildre; the Fern, John Lowell, and the Hecla. the Taku River | Spickett Apartments. and HOMILY; a tedious exhortation on some moral point; s the risks will be | nounce hom-i-li, O as in ON, accent first syllable). Mrs. John B. Stapler and two children were aboard the Princess| Williams, Acting Governor of Valdez then through the Chugach | Adelaide, planning to spend the summer here with Mr. Stapler, who was | Mountains 1o AncHEEHNT AREE he‘!n charge of development work on the Tulsequah mining property in They were to have an apartment at the district. Weather: High, 52; low, 49; rain. Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “From hence we shall go | cold fur vault in Juneau. Come in Omit FROM. HENCE means “FROM this place or FROM OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Beige. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Personnel; distinguish from PERSONAL. SYNONYMS: Laughable, humorous, \;Jitty, amusing, diverting, h;ce-{ GEU‘GE Bnns. | tious, funny. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥oprrra iee Q. If after inviting guests for dinner you find that you must leave town on urgent business, what should you do? A. Telephone each guest, explain, apologize, and mention a definite pack along with his Specd Graphic i future date. photographic | ! Q. When a person staying at a hotel has a complaint to make, whom | should he see? A. The clerk at the desk; girl get his hat and coat for him. A. No; if there is no servant to do this, the girl should let him ‘wait on himself. LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ goroon 1. Which is our oldest national park? 2. What is a carboy? 3. Which is the largest city in the world whose name begins with | the letter “C"? 4. What is zoolatry? 5. What famous ancient orator overcame stuttering by speaking | with pebbles in his mouth? ANSWERS: 1. Yellowstone, which became a national park in 1872. | 2. A large globular glass bottle, which is enclosed in wickerwork | or a box, as for carrying acids. 3. Chicago. 4. Animal worship. 5. Demosthenes. F. E. McDermott were receiving congratulations on Mrs. Smith in the making for the annual picnic of the “provided that Weatherman Mize can make suitable ar- the following Sunday on Pronounce bazh, A as in BAY. Let us (Pro- he should never take the liberty of com- | ‘ olaining to any other employee. Q. When a man is calling at a girl’'s home, and is ]eavmg, should - PROCLAMATION The following proclamation ex- olains itself: | ‘WHEREAS, on July 1, Dr. charle:, E. Bunnell, who has served with sutstanding distinction as President | of the University of Alaska since it officially opened in September, 1922, as the Alaska Agricultural Col-1 lege and School of Mines, will re- | tire to become President Emeritus, | | I ind WHEREAS, Dr. Bunnell has de- voted a lifetime to the welfare of | Alaska and its people since coming o the Territory in 1902 as a teacher for the Office of Indian Affairs; as princial of the Valdez schools for four years; as a member of the | Alaska Bar; as U. S. District Judge | n the Fourth Division at Fairbanks from 1915 to 1921, and for twenty. seven years as President of the Uni versity, and WHEREAS, it was largely through | the efforts of Dr. Bunnell that the | University was started, and that | | through the years due to his un | tiring devotion to the cause of edu cation it was kept open and de- | veloped to become one of the ac- credited institutions of higher learning in the nation, and i | WHEREAS, Dr. | teacher, as a jurist, Bunnell as aj as a scholar| (aithfully and well, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Lew M.| Al- aska, mindful of Dr. Bunnell’s uni- que contribution and outstanding | service, do hereby declare July 1, 1949, as President Emeritus Day, and urge upon all Alaskans to at-| tend the ceremonies at the Univer- sity of Alaska on that date in honor of Dr. Bunnell, who has given so | ;much to the Territory. | Now is the tme to put your fur/ | coats in storage. We have the only Chas. 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