The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1949, Page 4

! - “feidust then a sudden cloudburst PAGE FOUR sums Drlll§ Alaska E minré hed every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY | pect it to risk large In the timber industry alone we might ask why li it American capital has made pulp and timber in- cond and Main Streets, Juneau. Alaska # Mt INOY MORSEN . meau, AlSKR - cident | dustry the second largest one in Canada? With no DOROTHY TROY LINGO s A i Vice-President | petter timber and power resources than can be had FIMER A FRIEND - - = = - Managing Editor | 3 - - - - Business Manager | in Alaska? ™ * Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. Because Canada invites and gives proper pro- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i v Ametioan CRIEEIEE Deitvered by chttier O Suntan and Deusias foe SLI0 pér sionta; | JCHON 0 CHReite caplial. Amerioan capital has six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 opened up other industrial lines in Canada, by-passing ave paid. at the following rates x in advance, $7.50; | Alaska. hey will promptly notify Instead of giving capitai «. chance in Alaska, the ¢ irregularity in the dellVers | goyernment bureaus and peliticians have used it as News Office. 602: Business Office, 374. a whippin, " i v ons. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS A Whipplg: PO for their own ambiti e Even the untiring and determined efforts of B 1y entitled to the use for Frank Heintzleman to get pulp companies interested have been hamstrung time and time again by some s of these self-seeking politicians. When will Alaska really awake? When will it help put in the discard self-seekers and elect to office men really sincere in forwarding its best interests? With present examples before the voters we hope soon. redited to it or not other- Iso the local news published REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, Seattle, Wast INAL e Bldx i Giant Racket | (Washington Post) Amid all the recent to-do over pyramid clubs, too —!little attention was paid to the disclosure from Cali- BIG TALK B[ T LITTLE DOING fornia of a far more lucrative and ominous pyramid ‘Under the nondescriptive title, * Several days ago The Empire mentioned the great Progress Report of the S;{uml qume Study Comm.s‘- publcity being given to Alaskan resources, etc., that | Sion on Organized Crime, Admu‘alStand}ley andhms has been going on for years, but something is evidently | Colleag\fos bln.sted.thc lid off the giant slot machine ! eplottations would have resusted. racket in Cam.omvm and points east. R SnpReluon Like all hig-time rackets, the slot machine busi- r Si arles Vs @ | 2 . Editor Sid D. Charles of the Ketchikan News also ! ness is organized to funnel big profits into the pockets in his editorial column which takes the same slant of the gangster tycoons and big graft into the pockets follows of public officials. Its ramifications extend from coast The Bureau of Reclamation tells about Alaska’s|to coast. The California commission admits that the wonderful potential resources fn timber, coal, oil and | connection between the lower operating levels of the | racket and the top control is almost impossible to That's an old story to Alaskans trace. It says the reputed head is Frank Costello, But the timber still waves in splendid isolation |New York gang leader, former convict, and now a and dies. Under a spasm of misguided conservation j Would-be-respectable bigwig in Tammany Hall. the coal was double-locked years ago under a strict The amount of money involved in the racket is leasing law. So was the oil equglly difficult to determine. It is thought that 2 | In nearly every election ?}i‘l:mtrgmclio:::{r: aE‘:\;szr is a conservative estimate of ride into power fighting what . . nce indicates that 20 per cent of SbEreata™ (t:;; 1; t::le re(:ullar propomon_allocated to graft. In The government itself has put Alaska on “coldlpem,s tfi bse ;omgmlsrito‘ofhemgélc‘z!goglrm:ul:lic}f);;;lc?:l-s‘ storage” for long-range experimental purposes. lfrom the slot machine racket alone. Costello is also Poor old Alaska! reputed to head “The Combination,” which, with the Lots of big talk but very little doing | help of “Murder, Inc.” its disciplinary arm, is said to | The climax was reached in the last Territorial | rule the underworld activities of the entire Nation. election with the subsequent complicated and high il o taxes. Worse yet, “revenge taxes” were levied against | People can't take it with them, but a lot of one class of investors. | tightwads get a big kick out of hanging on to it while No new country can be developed under such |they're here. The Washington Merry-Go-Round power. self-seeking politicians they term “outside ttooed the windows of the Presi-|Daniel and his mother escaped from dent’s office. their war-torn country and came ‘Stick around, %0 Juneau to live with the Wicker- he told his c='} | ers If I take those kids ou. in ' shams. After a year in {the rain to be photographed, their By DREW PEARSON fathers apd mothers will be after refugee learned English, Daniel and ' years, me, e ANTI-HIGHWAY LOBRY Congress is now pruwig the fact | that the oil industry, which owes its prosperity to the gasoline burned| The Federal Counci on highways, is so shortsighted that : of Christ in America is it opposes new highw Reason: 25 national denominations «Continued from Pi 3] lve in North Hollywood. | i now during his summer vacation. to ¥emind him that he, Bradl not MacArthur, chief of staff. NAN TOBIN'S WARNING Dan Tobin, d of Teamsters Uni has dential letter all Teamsters’ made up of | 1e powerful ent a confi- lo- re boosting gasoline taxes than 28,000,000 cals, cautioning them against str The extra taxes aren't paid by —— = A and urging a conciliatory policy the oil companies, but by the mo- NOTICE TO CREDITORS toward employers. torists. Yet the industry has al-|In the United States Commission- Tobin, intimate friend of the lme‘uadx boosted “gas” prices so high President Roosevelt and a lommmelthe\ fear the public won't stand er’s (Ex-Officio Probate) Court for the Territory of Alaska, Juneau power in the A. F. of L., started|for both higher prices and higher Comumissioner's Precinct. his letter by saying that he Wa»‘““(’s In the Matter of the Estate of | So, believe it or not the oil lobby fearful of today's economic situation | and cautioned his locals against|is actually fighting against building, NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN pushing good employers for wage new roads that the undersigned was, on the increases. Take North Carolina, for exam- oo day of June, 1949, duly ap- Tobin commented at some length | ple: Gov. Kerr.Scott, a hard-hitting Rl aans inist] on the foolishness of the Ford|liberal, submitted a $200.000,00C | | po istrator of the estate strike at this time. He recognized iroad program to the voters. To fi-! that Walter Reuther, head of the| nance it, he proposed a one-cent-| United Auto Workers, was under!per-gallon increase in the state gas- compulsion from union membership, | oline tax. The oil lobby immed- | but said that Reuther would have jately and bitterly opposed, and been wiser to have ruled the situa-|appealed to city voters to block the | and that Letters Testamentary | therefor on saia quy were duly is- sued to the undersigned. said estate are hereby required to tion with an iron hand and forbid- | program. |present the same, With Droper o« o @ ® o« & o ¢ ¢ ¢ o den the strike. When the vote finally came, ul\~"°‘“h’“' and duly verified, within ' e Referring to his own union, Tobin people did vote 5-1 against new |six (6) months from the date of e TIDE TABLE was critical of the West Coast|rural roads. But the farmers|this Notice, to the undersigned in|e Teamsters' strike and also of the|amassed 225,000 votes to the urban|his office, at Room 200, Seward e JUNE 24 Teamsters' strike in New York ' voters’ 175,000. Building, Juneau, Alaska. o Low tide, 6:42 am., -09 ft City. In the latter city bakery| Meanwhile, in the rest of the na-| Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this ¢ High tide, 13:10 pm., 136 ft. drivers had struck for an unwar- | tion, highways are in worse general | day of June, 1948. e Low tide, 18:38 pm., 44 ft JOHN PENTTILA Administrator \Fxrst publication, June 16, 1949, Last publication, July 7, 1948. condition than at any time since | the depression. Yet the oil lobby continues to oppose new roads. But here are the statistics: Since ranted increase, on the assumption that people had to eat bread so| there must be bread deliveries. But with the strike many weeks old.| s ihm’:dicnps You can't make war on capitdl and ex- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1919 . JUNE 23 Mrs. George W. Sundborg Mrs. George Dudley Mrs. T. M. Hopkinson Bernice Burns * Katherine Kidd T. M. Tallman Robert Schaffer Mrs. Rose Miller Ralph Kelly e o o5 v 000 0 00 t (ONDITIONS ‘Part II of the Second | j Juneau follow: | Yakutat . 'SEATTLE AND NEW YORK 'ATTRACT JUNIOR MEMBERS ‘OF SIMPSON FAMILY | Miss Annabelle Simpson have de- school | serted San Francisco, where they in Juneau during which the young|have been living for the past two! of Churches Force Frigid at Fairbanks and Pt.| which | attle, To pay for the roads, many states|bave a total membership of more : internal medicine. OSCAR MATT KOSKI, Deceased. during the war. | of OSCAR MATT KOSKI, Deceased, cross All persons having claims against Red Cross service. f Admiral Watson to superintend the job. OF WEATHER ALASKA PTS. Weather condiuons and temper- stures at various Alask& ‘polnts. also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 a. m., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau, in Seattle, of Miss Christine King Truax to Capt. Harry Earl Fisher, | Anchorage 43—Rain Showers | Barrow 28—Cloudy Bethel 40—Cloudy Cordova 44—Rain Dawson . 44—Drizzle Edmonton 52—Partly Cloudy Fairbanks 42—Rain Haines . 49—Cloudy |y Havre .. 55—Partly Cloudy Juneau Airport 49—Rain Annette Island 51—Cloudy ‘Ilézle:llz(ue ;g“::::;; g;gzz: or coolie (Chinese laborer); one L. 1 NI AR i = ) 5 i " 5 5 ! McGrath 37—Partly Cloudy SYNONYMS: Antipathy, antagonism, aversion, dislike, distaste, re B'ownie,s liq“fil S'ore | Nome 38—Rain | Pugnance. i | Northway 46—Rain WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us: 3 , ne 139 So. Franklin Petersburg . 47—Rain, Fog | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: 'w Phone 103 Portlard . 55—Partly Cloudy DEPRECIATE; to lessen in price or estimated value. “The building P. 0. Box 2596 Whitehorse 45—Cloudy | depreciated during these years of vacancy.” | 46— Drizzle Both Dr. Robert W. 8impson and according to cheir mother, ./ his mother moved to California, and | Mrs. Robert Simpson. Dr. Simpson, who has been, a served f Danie! plans to work in Alaska | physician at the County Hospjtal, | | 8an Francisco, since'completing )fll\ ! service with the navy during fiskt ! Barrow, is starting practice in Se-| specializing in diagnosis and | He has been in| charge of the tuberculosis depurv,-} ment at) the San Francisco County Hospital. With their child, Dr. and Mrs.| Simpson arrived in Seattle last week. ! Miss Annabelle Simpson is in New York visiting Miss Elinor Stoddaryd who was in Juneau with the OPA When she lived in New York several years ago, Miss, Simpson was on the research statf of Time Magazine. She later was | overseas with the American Red e | returned from a trip to Twin Glacier Mountains, pleased with the results @ of the jaunt ' Theatre on his three years in Alaska mountain and glacier country. Moose picnic at Salmon Creek for swimming, games and dancing. The evening dance was at John Wagner’'s house. was there. by the fender of a car near Salmon Creek. Authorities at St. Ann's Hospital said that, while the cuts were severe, the boy was not thought| seven straight games won by the Douglas team. Engineers member of the Alaska Road Commission, with. headquarters and resi- | dence in Juneau. is correct, with this distinction: THREE syllable: SR S MODERN ETIQUETTE Zoserra LEE greeting one another on the street, or in other public places? Arctic, and Antarctic. Convicted Al Slayer Wins Appeal; To Get New Trial SAN FRANCISCO, June 23—(®— Leon W. Jones, convicted of mur-} dering two men with an axe at an Indian village in Alaska two years ago, has been granted a new trial. The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said the trial judge had failed to instruct me“ jury on the difference hetween| tirst and setond degree murder. “The revolting character of these ! killings does not diminish our re-! | sponsibility or care to make sure |, the accused had a fair trial,” the| Justices commented. The Federal District Court Jury at Fairbanks found Jones guilty ! of murdering Carl O. Ahnstrom | and Donald R. Harris. It recom- mended against capital punish- ment. Jones said he was too in- toxicated to know what he was doing. i Ahnstrom’s back was split open and Harris was axed in the neck at Little Gerstle river crossing. JUNE 23, 1929 i B. R. Hubbard, S. J., with his two student companions, The Rev. Hubbard planned to give three lectures at the Palace More than 500 persons—300 of them children—attended the annual The Juneau City Band Everett Judson was badly cut about the head and face when hit 0 be in danger . A. Dishaw, Juneau contractor who had been awarded the contract of the new school building at Kodiak, left on the or construction The Islanders ouiplayed the Veterans by a score of 7 to 3, making sitations to the marriage, July 2, Juneau friends had received Corps. The bridegroom-elect had been for five years a | Sealed bids will be received l:yI Mrs. Wellington, clerk of the Doug- las Island School District in Doug- ,las, Alaska on Friday at 12:30 P.M. June 24th, 1949, for furnishing and installi asphalt tile on all floors | and rubber treads on all stairways, of the Douglas Public School build- | ing in accordance with specifica- tions which may be obtained from | Leonard Johnson, Douglas, Alaska., The aforementioned Douglas| School Board reserves the right to reject any and all bidders. First publication, June 16, 1949. | Last publication, June 24, 1949. | Weather: High, 72; low, 52; clear. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Either “differ from” or “differ with” “My suit differs from yours (is unlike “I differ with you (disagree with you).” Vacuum. Pronounce vak-u-um, ours),” and, OFTEN MISFERONOUNCED: and not vak-yum. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Coolly (in a cool manner); two L’s. Cooly Widest Selection of | Q. Does it show ill-breeding to “eat and run” after having luncheon 3 | with a friend? I‘IQU”RS A. This would be permissible for a business man or woman. How- PHONE 399 ever, when luncheon is served at home, it is proper to remain for at least an hour after finishing. | Q. Is it considered good form for women to kiss and embrace when “Say It With Flowers” but “$AY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists PHONE 311 The Erwin Feed Ce. Office in Case Lot Grocery | A. No, it is not. These affectionate demonstrations should be re- or privacy. Is a hostess obligated to rise and greet each newcomer? Q. A. Yes:; a hostess who does not do so is rude and inhospitable. LOOK and ‘.EARN A C. GORDON ¢HCONE % ! HAY, GRAIN, COAL 1. What are the “Seven Seas”? and STORAGE 2. What is meant by a ‘“corduroy road”? 3 3. What South American country has the richest mineral resources? | 4. What is heliotherapy? |1 Call EXPERIENCED MEN 5. Which is the largest verse in the Bible? | Alaska JANTTORIAL Service SNEWERA | FRED FOLETTE 1. North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian. Phone 247 2. A road built of logs laid side by side across the roadway over sections of swampy ground to facilitate travel. L) 5. Bolivia. STEVENS 4. Treatment of disease by sun rays. 5 5. Esther 8:9; ninety words. \ %?ER’]?YS.;‘-)L}&SESEIS; She has‘been in advertising in the Bay City since leaving Juneau two years ago at the end of her| . o e 9 0 00 70 0000 1945, the number of automobiles on the highways has increased by ‘10,500.000. Of these, 2,500,000 are trucks. All told, 100,000,000 ton- miles were traveled in 1948—almost | double the 1y45 traffic. Yet only a paltry few million dollars have been added to the road bill. Be- cause of inflation, even this in- crease in dollars really has been a decrease in purchasing power when it came to road building Result has been wear-and-te automobiles, irritatin and an increase in What the public doesn that safety cap be built into the roads. Yet the public, while p: more for automobiles and gas consumers get along by buying| from chain stores and independent bakeries, Tobin said. Communist agitation inside la- bor unions also came in for criti- cism from the forthright Teamsters boss. He said he had received re- ports of active Communist leader- ship in one Teamsters' local—which he declined to name. An investiga- tion is being made, Tobin said, and these agitators would be fired from the union whether they signed non- Communist affidavits or not. Tobin also warned his Teamsters that one trouble in union organiza- tion was the inability and unwill- ingness of rank-and-file members to understand economic laws. He pointed out that while mem! of | has let the highways run down his union are unskilled, they re- - o s ceive annual returns higher than oo bricklayers, plasterers and sk:lled DA"IEI- VR MA“ "ow mechanics because of the fact that! the latter sufter seasonal layotfs. THOUGHTFUL PRESIDENT A group of Four-H Club youn sters waited on the White House portico to see the President while| Representatives Rcbert Secrest and Earl T. Wagner were inside present- ing him with a petition from the UCLA STUDENT, vIsITS MRS, JAMES WICKERSHAM | Visiting in Juneau first home after he young refugee durir in 1935, Dar Vroc ed from his home in Ca Ohio Congressional delegation to|ls the guest Juneau name George Rogers, an SEC at Mrs. James Wickersha ney, to the Securities and Exchange | Ruth Coffin, his cousin Commission. Daniel, now in “I'm going to be photographed |t UCLA, is majc with those young people in the rose | engineering, the profes his fate garden outside,” said Truman. er was following in Spamn “Don’t let us detain you,” Mr.| His father, Henry Vroom = President,” urged Secrest. |a brother of Mrs ang la!u-x Mr. Vrooman's death DownN z 2 Wody of & eburen e ELLIS AIR LINES Seward Street Near Third DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU T0 KETCHIKAN via Petersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 The Charles W. Carler Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetssa and Msllery Hats Arrew Bhirts and Underwear Skyway Luggage BOTANY 'lw' CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outtitter for Men A. T. 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