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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empi Sunday by the MPANY . © Published evers evening except EMPIRE PRI Second and Main HELEN TROY MONS DOROTHY TROY LI} ELMER A. FRIEND > ZENGER President Vice-President | Managing Editor | Business Manager ALFR! Entered in the Post Office in Junean as Second s Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES “alivered by carrier in Juneau and Doulas for $1.30 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the follow One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, 1 ine month, in adva Subseribers will ¢ the Business Office of of their papers Telenhones | tes aavance, $7.50: | or 1f they will promptly notify | any failure or irregularity in the delivery | News Office, 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS an4 ted Press is excl i all news 1 this pap ¥ entitled to the usc for | d to it or not othe e local news publishec ication credited n repus wise herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash. -~ Alaska Newspapers, 1411 KEEPING THE REC OLH) STRAIGHT We read a few days ago a statement of the governor { about Territorial finances. The governor said that “The present situation is the inevitable consequence of the opposition of certain inter- ests, which for years fought every effort to establish a sound, normal tax program.” and “Now those same interests, defeated by the public will, are making their final effort to avoid this taxation and are embarrrassing the Territory and its people by litigation which postpones payment of their taxes and gives every aid and encouragement to those who wish to escape their civic duty.” The governor does not name the “interests,”” who are embarrassing the Tertitory in its collection of revenue. Therefore it might be well to examine the record. Who has instigated the litigation now pending to challenge the laws sponsored by the governor? The record shows that the suit brought to test the validity of the income tax law, was brought in Seattle, not by the Alaska Steamship Company, but against it It was brought by the Sailors’ Union of the Pa- cific to enjoin the company from collecting the with- holding tax on wages of its members. The record shows that immediately a demand was call their Northwest “front o The Washingfon Merry-Ge-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1) CAPITAL Aftermaths of Battle— Senator of Kentucky, who entirely to 7 against Barkley ish consumer will not.be able to | tration right import as much food for his money | —though Cripps wants the food to | ator O'Connor be imported from the British Do- | was brought minions and Argentina, not from | for the U. S. A Backing up three Cabinet Hoffman, the collapse of his Marshall Plan' unless the pound is devalued. In| fact, Marshall Plan Averell Harri- against is Snyder members Paul | However, and voted for tt ish so vigorously, even before Sny-|of Massachusetts der arrived, that lanky Sir Franks, the British Ambassador in| entire Washington, was rushed to London | creating by air to help take the heat off. Despite the strong differences within his own Cabinet, Truman gave Secretary Snyder a completely free hand in dealing with the fin- ancial crisis. a tie | tie. | Senator Lucas, we | with Labor, but last minute— Margaret Chase and Hendrickson . Senator CAMOUFLAGED LOBBY A bloc of private power compan- jes, carefully camouflaged under the high-soundinz name of the “North- west Development Association,” is now active in lobbying against its| own name—development in the northwest. Inside fact though he lost, cult re-election ol v feated Lucas was deliver the votes is that the Associa- tion is nothing more than a front for the private power lobby to propagandize against the Columbia Valley Authority. This would bring to Oregon, Washington and the Columbia Valley what the Tennes- see Valley Authority has brought to Tennessee, Mississippi and Ala- bama. Positive proof has now been dug up by the Senate Public Works Committee that the utility compan- ies have been pouring money into this so-called “Development Asso- ciation.” Here is the roll contributors since ton Water Company, $8,600; Pacific Power and Light Company, $5,900; Portland General Electric Company $5,500; Puget Sound Power and Light Ccmpany, $3.250 orthwest Electric Company, $2,560; Idaho| Powey Company, $1,885 M(v\l:ltmn’ States Power Company, $1,100 As samples of the hysterical pro- paganhda this money pays f here is what the Northwest Development Assogiation declared in recent press release “(The Columbia Valley Authority) will gradually create a govern- ment monopoly with broad power, which would eventually regiment the entire economy of the Pacific Northwest. The creation of this, ‘new order’ would be the beginning of the end of free government in the Pacifi¢ Northwest and the rest of the nation.” The same power companies w | opposing CVA, also opposed build- ing the Bonneville and Grand Cou- lee Pams, which provided the £ eeded to produce aluminum, ships and atomic bombs during World War IL Yet they | ment cables raging within the who shall succeed tator of Russia. group supports Georgi Malenkov, by s cently cumstances. Seadog Gets Chester Nimitz is call of major 1945: Washing- pute and wants Neither side has est move to partment that dian sun about remod Hill closed down, in the temporary | itors—or ' the temporary chi cramped that the has secretly orde | lumber to remodel | the Senate office the the a [ case AFL President the warpath Trust Fund Green is worrled employers services, by fand the halibut fishermen’s union, or Development Company. NEWS CAPSULES Albin and the down There was a lot of fuss over Sen- | of Maryland, who back the Taft-Hartley nor lived up to his advance billing the | and voted with the Administration. when the heat was off, he head of ECA, who fears| quietly switched over to Taft's side had earlier opposed. This was also 4 true of Tydings of Delaware, Frear man has been pressuring the Brit- | of Delaware (Democrats) and Lodge Oliver | One vote would have changed the, Taft-Hartley and ! Vice President Barkley to break the Three Senators, Capehs Lucas’ skillful handl- ing of the Taft-Hartley fight, even L chances . The man who really who had promised Senator Taft to Democrats, and did | Stalin’s Successor—State Depart- report Molotov, as the new strong man in Russia. Malenkov has burst in prominence cceeding Andrei Zhdanov, dead under Bored — Admiral iating the India and Pakistan dis- come to terms Nimitz has cabled he's | dling his thumbs under the hot In- Hard On Lobbyists—The ists are complaining While the Senate chamber is ther lobbyists Senator: with the inconvenience BILL GREEN Bill Green is on| about to the government’s Unemployment : This Unemployment Compensation, | reductions and credit rebates to; state | made on the then Attorney General, Mr. Rivers, to intervene on behalf of the Territory and take charge of that suit. He declined and the governor declined to intervene. The Federal Court in Seattle then issued an order which enjoins the company from paying any holding taxes on the wages of seamen, to the Territory. The Tax Commissioner demanded pavment of the tax. The court ordered the company to pay the tax. The company was then forced tc into court in Alaska and file suit to test the validity of the law to do so, not come The record shows that the company in trouble because it collected the tax and not it refused to collect. because The record also shows that the company itself, on its own behalf was in no position to contest the tax because it operates at a deficit and has no tax to pa Its quarterly statement was published in the pre juite recently and the published record shows a sub- stantial loss so far this year. Next men'’s license tax that there are two suits pending to test the validity of we come to the litigation over the fisher- Again the record of the court shows that tax The first suit was brought by Kristian Martinsen | and others against the Tax Commissioner. It involves halibut fishermen. The second suit is brought by a man named Oscar Anderson and Alaska Fishermen’s Union, which is described in the complaint as ‘a labor union chart- ered by the International Fishermen and Allied Work- of America, affiliated with the Congress of Indus- al Organizations.” This brings us to the fish trap license case. The record in this case shows it was brought by P. E. Harris and Co., he governor certain intere a corporation, among the unnamed and unspecified " he condemns. However, when the legislature passed the fish trap icense law, now challenged in the courts, it was an- jounced that the purpose of the law was to eliminate fish traps. Elimination was to be accomplished by the im- sosition of a tax so high it could not be paid. The sourt record shows that the law is opposed for that eason. It is asserted that the legislature in pass- ing a law to abolish fish traps, exceeded the limitations slaced on it by the terms of the Organic Act. We have listened to the court proceedings in that -ase, and we fail to see where Territorial revenue is involved at all. The issue seems to be whether the traps are to be operated either under the old license law or not at all Who, then are the “certain interests” holding back the collection of Territorial revenue. Is Martinsen Anderson by litigation, it The Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, Mr. Mr. and the C. I. O.? In a letter to Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, Green )ms urged a nation-wide check-up lon these state agencies to deter | mine why employers who are allow- | ed reductions for maintaining owes his elachon | 2tea6y employment are not now Barkley, Wated | giving steady employment :fl.(lminl\-i “Between 1939 and 1948 the net reduction in revenue to the Un- iine employment Trust Fund totalled $4,709.000,000," the labor leader pointed out in his letter. “This amount is equal to 82.6 per cent of all benefits paid to unemployed workers from the beginning of the program to the end of 1948, “During the year 1948 the net loss to the trust fund due to tax | reduction and rebates on employ- ers alone was $1,161,000,000. This is 46 per cent more than the total amount paid in benefits to unem- ‘| ployed workers during that year. The loss during the first six | months of 1949 brings the total to more than $5,000,000,000.” “While the American Federation of Labor does not share the pessi- mistic view held by some that the slackening of economic activity in- dicated by the current rise in the number of unemployed is neces- ily a sign of a serious depres- sion,” the Green letter adds, “we feel that it is a storm warning that should not be ignored. “Specifically it calls for an ap- praisal of the effectiveness of the various state unemployment com- pensation programs as a means of i tiding over wage earners who are involuntaril; unemployed.”' | rganization” the the Taft-Hartley Virgil Chapman the to Washington vote. O’Con- he injunction he (Republican) . . picture, thus a chance for according to | re pledgcd to vote switched at the 't of Indiana, Smith of Maine, of New Jersey ill help his diffi- in Illin- de- Byrd of Virginia of 14 southern a bitter feud | gopwiNN BIKES at MAGSENS e Politburo over with- | tound itself | which no doubt is classed by : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRF —JUNEAU, ALASKA | o JULY 14 Dr. C. C. Carter Jean Kibbe John Scott Elkins Fred Anderson Martha Osborne Mrs. Effie Covell Peggie Gary Mrs. F. T. Irvine Eleanor Taggart Mrs. T. F. Berry e0eeeccecccccace BOTANIST JOINS JIRP EXPEDITION GLACIER STUDY The story of Llamcr advance and recession of three Southeast Alas- kan glaciers may be determined this summer by investigations of [ University of Minnesota botan- | jist. | Dr. Donald B. Lawrence, profes- sor of botany, arrived here aboard | the Baranof, to join the American Geographical Society’s Juneau Ice Research Project expedition which is in the field for a full summer of glacier study. Dr. Lawrence's studies will be | concentrated on the low level mar- gins of Mendenhall, Herbert and | Eagle glaciers. Observations of | plant growth on terrain recently exposed by receding glaciers can to | a great extent tell the story of| glacial action, according to the bot- | anist. | Age of tree growth on moraines will be determined with the use of a Swedish increment bore. i “By determining the age of uecw vgmwlng on successive deposits of | { the glaciers in their recession, we| should be able to judge the rate of | withdrawal,” according to Dr. Law- | rence. He added that the type of | plant life found on the glacier | margins is also an indication of ! when the area was covered with ice. Dr. Lawrence, who spent a {vious summer’s similar work in 1941, will go to Muir Inlet | | | pre- | here | in observations of plant growth in gla- { clated areas plotted for specialized ' study in 1916. According to servations have eight to five § determine types found on terrain which has been freed of ice cover. The prmectl wes begun by Dr. William Cooper, U. of Minn. botany professor. Mrs. Lawrence, on her first trip | to Alaska, will assist her husband | in his work. For the Lawrences,| Juneau's cool 60 degree Lempera- ture is a relief after coming from 90 degree temperatures in Min- neapolis. A University of Minnesota grad- uate botany student, Richard War has also joined the JIRP expedi- tion. He will work in the high 1 level camps on Juneau “Ice Cap,” | leaving for Taku Lodge to climb i the Taku Glacier ridge to the cen- ter of the ice field Dr. Lawrence, ob- been taken e\'ery! ars since 1916 to| of new. growth | COCA COLA REPRESENTATIVE HERE ON FIRST ALASKA TRIP Paul E. Kelhofer, of Coca Cola Fountain Sales Department, is in Juneau on his way on a trip Ithrough the Territory. | | He will remain in town for about | a week, doing promotional work with soda 1ountains dealing with 1 his company’s product. | This is Mr. Kelhofer’s first tnp‘ to Alaska and he expects to cover | all the centers of population north as Nome. as | Stalin as the dic- One Politburo another who is emerging | Crossword Puzzle ACROSS L Card game 4. Salamanders 8. Italian eity 12. South Ameri- can Indian . Storekeepers . Plane handles 17. Parched with heat . Like . Mine entrance Cut Grazing ground . Bring Into line Large book . Hypothetical force . Hire . Companton 87. Wrath . Domestic animal . Detest . Spoken . Article ! Hindu garment . Marble . Rulings ! Small round mark . Ireland re- mysterious cir- fed up with med- ' to come home. made the slight- and State De- of twid- the tired te Rubber trees Bone lobby- | 2 the loudest | eling on Capitol | e won't be room | chamber for vis- Incidentally, amber will be so Capitol architect red a supply of | a larger room in building—just in | s won't put up| PROTESTS revenue losses | for | and tax is the Kkitty over payroll employment | i 49. Son of Seth 50. Before e e IBB [a[R[1[E[Sile] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle . Positive olec- tric poies . Of the morning . Type mensures 5 S‘)'nmnl for fron DOWN 1. Tuber . At home . Common- purposes False fruit of the dog rose And: French Sodium Repetitl Arched Throw quoits Floquent Ker Obllterate Feminine nome Decree of the sultan Owns 58 Donkey 101 . Negative Glacier Bay for two weeks to make | Other.” 20 YEARS AGO %% murrne JULY 14, 1929 The Moose defeated Douglas by a score of 4 to 2 in one of the pret- tiest games of the season. The victory put the Paps up to within one- half game of the Islanders for first place in the Gastineau Channel League. Pete Schmitz had the edge on Manning on the mound. Ray Southard and his wife, who had recently produced a show here for the Moose, returned from Petersburg where they had presented two home talent productions. A number of eminent churchmen were Juneau visitors. The Rt. Rev. E. J. McGolrick and the Rt. Rev. T. T. Shahan, Catholic Bishops of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Washington, D. C., respectively, were here several days, Bishop Shahan giving the sermon at the Catholic Church of the Nativity. Thev were guests of the Rev. Gabriel Menager while here { The Rt. Rev. Titus Lowe, Bishop of the Northwest District of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, addressed one of the largest congregations ever to attend church services in Juneau, at a special evening service. Dr. Walter Tarbet of San Francisco, who was accompanying Bishop Lowe, conducted a morning service in the Presbyterian Church. Harry G. Watson “broke all speed records for the 50-yard dash” when confronted with a big brown bear at his mining camp on Montana Creek. He ran for the main camp, where Tom Conrad and the artillery were. Fire from a heavy rifle stopped the bear temporarily, then he charged into a large tailing pile and rampaged into the bushes. Besides 276 round-trip tourists, the Dorothy Alexander, Capt. C. | . Graham, brought these Juneau passengers: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jensen, | Misses Rica Martini, Edna Locatelli and Irene Walker; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Crosby and Charles H. Lusk. . Ferderick A. Davidson, biologist of the scientific branch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, arrived to make studies of Southeast Alaska pink salmon fisheries. He was to be here until late fall. The trolling boat Rose Marie of Ketchikan burned to the water three miles off the south shore of Lisianski Straits. Her crew was taken off by another vessel. The Virginia IV stood by and made an effort to jsme the boat by pumping water on the fire. Weather: High, 63; low, 52 rain. —_————— Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e —————— e ————eee ettt WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I wish to be free of any obligation.” Say, “free FROM any obligation.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Congruous. Pronounce kong-groo-us, O as in ON, OO as in LOOK, accent on FIRST syllable, not the second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Blond (noun); maculine . Blonde; feminine. SYNONYMS: Rule (noun), regulation, law, precept, maxim, order. 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: INFINITY; unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity. “There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the Sir Walter Raleigh. ’—__—__———-—-— MODERN ETIQUETTE Yoperra 1EE 1 Q. When setting a dinner table, where should the water glass and the wine glass be placed? A. Place the water glass at the tap of the plate, towards the right of the knives, the wine glass to the right and beyond the water glass. Q. When a woman has been a widow for several years and is going to marry again, what color gown should she wear? A. Almost any color but white. Usually a delicate pastel shade, not tc light, is ip good taste. Q How $hould a man assist a woman in ascending a streetcar or A. By a light touch on her elbow. LOOK and LEARN %{C. GORDON What are the three primary human emotions? Whose portrait appears on the U. S. two-dollar bill? From what country do the best Panama hats come? Which one of the United States’ possessions has a name which “rich port”? Who was the pioneer American journalist? ANSWERS: Fear, anger, and love. Thomas Jefferson. Ecuador. Puerto Rico. Benjamin Franklin. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS 0. SUTTER as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASRA 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: “LINDA, BE GOOD" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and EEIBBURN YOU to yourhome with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Yom' Name May Appur! I 'ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Fairbanks School District, an independent school district corpora-’ tion, acting by and through the President and Clerk of the Board of Directors, will receive sealed bids at the office of the Superintendent of Schools, Fairbanks School Building, Fairbanks, Alaska, until 8:00 o'clock P.M,, August 15, 1949, at which time said bids will be publicly opened. Said bids are to be for the gon- struction of a new high school build- ing and civic center according to olans and specifications heretofore orepared by Manley & Mayer, Archi- tects, Anchorage, Alaska, which plans and specifications may be seen and examined in the office of the Superintendent of Schools. in the Fairbanks Public School Buildingy Fairbanks, Alaska, or copies thereof | nay be obtained from the architects apon deposit of $50.00. Prospective sidders are hereby directed to read sarefully and consider the plans and specifications and to visit the-site | >f the work so that they may thor- >ughly familiarize themselves with :he conditions, particularly the dif- sjculties, existing at the site; nol sonsideration will be given to any! slaim that a bid was made wlthout’ full comprehension of the conditions | o be encountered. The Board of | Directors of the Fairbanks School District reserves the right to reject any and all bids. DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this lth day of July, 1949. "AIRBANKS SCHOOL DISTRICT By FRANK CONWAY Slerk of the Board of Directors. First publication, July 12, 1949. Last publication, August 2, 1949. | Kansas lies In the exact geogra-i phical center of the United States SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Supermarket T R N A Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHGNE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 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 Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY 'wl CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES ST N ‘HATS Quality Work Clouung " FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT #FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES-4Y- Free Delivery’ = THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949 MOUNT JUNEAU L SECOND and FOUR' Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LE.‘KVERS Secretary. @ B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. :W. H. BIGGS, Secretarty. 4 ) BLACKWELL'S CABINET SHOP 17 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Fiome, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN R s e "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies .Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. FOR Wall Paper Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt JUNEAU’'S FINEST LIQUOR STORE BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates | i | | PHONE SINGLE O PHONE: 555 Thomas Hardware (Co. ! PAINTS — OILS | Builders’ and Shelf i HARDWARE Remington. Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a 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 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alask: Laundry - DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Glases Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LBVYS OVERALLS for Boys