The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1949, Page 4

Daily Alaska E auwy laska 'nlu C Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Jui Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN ” DOROTHY TROY LINGO . ELMER A, FRIEND - ALFRED ZENGER - 2 Entered in the Post President Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Office in Juneau ns SUBSCRIPTION RATES :livered by carrier in Junean and Douglas f ix months, $8.00; one vear I, postage paid. at the following rates £15.00; six months, in aavance, $7.50; cond Class Matter. 1.50 per month; ine month, i Subscribers will conf the Business Office of of their papers. Telephones vor if they will promptly notify arity in the delivery ness Offlce, D PRESS News Offi 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIA tled to the usc for ed to it or not othe also the local news publishec The Associs republication of wise credited i herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash - Alaska Newspapers, 1411 IDIOTIC DARFDP VILS In Reno a 13-year-old girl must look forward to spending the rest of her life on artificial feet because | a speedboat pilot had himself a hilarious time. As Imogene Wittsche was swimming at Lake Tahoe, the pilot came roaring in close to the beach, evidently to “give the folks a thrill.” He came too close to Imogene, and as he went roaring away again, his boat ampu- tated both her feet. There'll be retribution for that driver, of course He'll face criminal charges, probably something like felonious wounding. He'll be uv against a damage suit of some proportions. But Imogene Wittsche at 13 has been crippled for life, and no court can change that fact. Perhaps, though, a law could save some future Imogene Wittsches. Surely something should be done to protect people against the harebrained who risk their own and others’ necks by idiotic stunting. Simple laws against careless driving or flying aren't enough for such as these. For their crime isn't just that they're.careless; they are, as a matter of fact, calculatingly courting danger. There should be a stiff lJaw on the book to curb all such activity— and then the book should be thrown at all offenders at every opportunity. \'VIERI( A‘\\ ABR()A[) We don't always agree with Columnist Drew Pear- son, by any means. Sometimes his reporting is not as accurate or objective as it should be, and some- times his guessing, or “predicting,” is pretty bad a competitor in The Washmglon et gn, Me"y.Go_Rom‘d [he has been sure from the s By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1) point system, wit , Development Co ! Wyo.. especially the famed Huey). with Rep. John CONGRESS. Carroll of Denver—all Democrats Chain of Events—Here are the; facts in the complicated legislative | battle which might have wrecked | many small-business men | has been Rep. Committee, For two decades or more, certain| .. oMahoney well-organized groups, such as thej cement and steel industries, sold under the basing-point system. This meant that the prices of cemeint was the same in every part of the U. S. A, A cement company in| Allentown, Pa., for instance, could | absorb the freight costs in ship- ping to New Orleans, thus selling in Louisiana for the same price it sold in Pennsylvania. Finally the Supreme Court in-) tervened, decreed the basing-point system illegal. The cement audjp . o other industries could ,not absorb | freight rates in order to Celler is also Manhattan law Celler, Quinn, All firm handles a the giant A & stores. A & P is one by the Supreme fact, A & P wa: tioned in the where it than fix a standard price in all parts of the country, the Supreme Court ruled the independent Whatever Man RESPECTED JOE O'MAHONEY, ! under | back home to legalize the basing- 0Old Champion No. former champion of little business vigorous New York Democrat, head of the potent House Judiciary which on the House side of Congress. s specifically men- Morton was shown that A & P was actually able to sell salt retail grocers could buy a chance of competing he acted strangely out of character But every onee in awhile Mr. jPéarson comes up wth an excelléfit thought. His recent suggestion, ot example, that it would be a good idea for the State Department to give every a little pamphlet the good will while traveling says this is not in the mind of the late O. Ma untimely death prevented him duties as Ambassador to England.) American tourists are unprecedented numbers this summer. The lines are booked to capacity, and so are the air lines Zurope, of course, will welcome these visitors with open arms, because they will leave millions of Ameri- dollars behind them. But America has other to uffer Europe besides its sound good will and understanding | Even before World War I Americans | always leave a good impression when they They were often pictured as arrogant showoffs who felt that lavish spending made it unnecessary for them to give any thought to being gracious, courteous or understanding. There weren’t nearly as many of these comic opera tourists between the two world wars (although there were enough), and the Army Navy did a pretty good job Jf teaching millionls of servicemen how to conduct themselves in foreign countries. As Mr. Pearson suggests, it would be a zood idea for the State Department to begin thinking of 1 similar education program for civilian travelers. of the good. spreading (Mr. Pear- on importance all tc idea, but Gardner before assuming his son ly his his from Europe steamship journeying in can hings money riendship, did not traveled, The I'uhlic Payroll (New Y(llk Times) The steady rise in governmental employment on all levels and the attendant effect on taxes drawn from the public’s pocketbook can only be viewed with concern. Senator Byrd of Virginia, | nation in‘ormed on the federal figures, has just re- ported that the number of civilian employees of the | United States Government rose again in April, reach- {ing a total of 2,122,710 in the executive branch. This was an increase of 11,453 in one month. In November, 11947, we had managed to get this number down to 1,999,853, the first time it had been under 2,000,000 since 1941 federal payroll. The Census Burcau reports thai federal, state ana local governments employed 6,083,000 persons as of January, 1949. This means that about one person in ten of the working force was on a governmental pay- roll, and that $1,340,400,000 in taxes were required to meet their pay checks for one month. A year earlier the number had been 5,842,000, while in January, 1942, there were only 4,947,000. “In my attempts for many years to Tind out any such thing as solid matter, I have been butting my head against a stone wall,” says a physicist. The fel- low is hard to convince. * advice that has there are worry “don’t wol the years, never In spite of all the | been strewed around through | still only two classes of people Dead ones and dontgivadam ones. who 23-year-old daughter of Mexico's President Miguel Aleman, arrived | in Prague the otheg day on a tour of Europe, the Communists fell all over each other trying to take charge of her—but without success Mexican Rec .eaders had sent word to their Czechoslovak com- rades that it would be a fine thing for all concerned if the Czech Communists would lavishly enter- .tain Senorita Beatriz during her one-day stopover in Prague. But the young lady's father learned of this scheme and sent a cable to Orlando Mendez, Mexican Consul-General in the Czech capi- tal. So the diplomat, instead of meeting the President’s daughter at the railroad station, drove 30 miles down the line, boarded the train, and briefed her on what to expect When they pulled into Prague, therefore, and found a 40-woman committee of “feminine action” members ready to pounce on her, Beatriz was able to inform them wjth sweet composure that she was very sorry, but all her time was al- ready hl](d She will also t Budapest, Bel- grade and Bucharest on the pres- ent tour; but the comrades in those Red strongholds will have an equal- ly hard time trying to make some- good faith.” nate colleagues say terrific pres- ugar-beet interests h the Wyco Trona of Green River, on his neck. 'S LAW FIRM 2—-Another Celler, now “Manny” the bill processed basing-point a member of the firm of Weisman, an and Spett. This ccident cas for P chain grocery of the chains hit Court decision. In salt case, the neighborhood it wholesale. Thus grocer didn't have ny Celler's motives, person who gets a passport | had been | and | who keeps the! In 1939 only 920,000 civilians were on the | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA 8 3 ; AUEMLE ! 20 YEARS AGO %% sue E EMP | [} P {4 IRE 4 JULY 15, 1929 ,f What was said to be one of the biggest mining deals in recent e i years was consummated when the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company 0\;,(»(1\|1r0d a large interest in the Big Bull group of claims owned by I. l.(mld~(mn and associates. The amount was not disclosed, but it was ] known that two offers of $1,000,000 had been turned down. JULY 15 Mrs. Lew M. Williams Sam Paul, Sr . Maudie Graham Patricia Ellen Roberts Alvin Weathers, Jr, Samuel G. Stevens Harry Hendrickson Mrs. Robert Hurley %, i Bids for construction of the capitol building were opened in Wash- | ington, D. C. Low bid was by N. P. Severin of Chicage for an estimated | $712,000 plus $25,000 if Alaska marble was used. o Entertaining at a dinner in honor of their thirty-second wedding e o o amnm\exnry Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cashen of Douglas announced the ‘cng(\uemem of their daughter, Mae, to Mr. Miles Godkin. DAWNREDWOOD IS BACK, NORTH[AND After The “first night” production of “Baby Stealers” was a most successful one, and the performance was to be repeated. Starred in leading roles! were Mr. and Mrs. C. J. McNaughton, Mrs. Winn Goddard, Muriel Jar- | man, Victoria Spaulding, Marvin Sides, George Rice and Jim McCloskey. an flhggnc(; of some thirty | Dozens of other Juneauites made up singing and dancing choruses. forty million years, the Dawn| Redwood has returned fo Alaska| Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Weathers were receiving congratulations on the via China. Sixty seedlings were re- | birth of a nine-pound son at St. Ann’s Hospital that morning. (cently received by the Alaska For- ' 2 mer v st Research Center of the U. S. Mrs. R. Abrahamson, Davidson Frederick and L. H. Place disem- Forest Service and these have been | payked at Juneau from the steamer Alameda, Capt. C. V. Westerlund, but planted in Juneau, at Ketchikan,| o) (ourists continued on their round trip, sailing for Seattle via Sitka. Petersburg, Sitka, Craig, Cmdo\a. | Anchorage and = In jprehistoric the Dawn Redwocd, together with birch beeches, oaks and chestnuts, grew in temperate forests in Alaska, Greeenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, | northern Siberia and the Arctic islands nort! of North America. As| the earih’s climate changed, the| Dawn Redwood migrated south and ventually disappeared. It was found in fossils, but was thought! to be an ancestor to the Coast Red- | wood now growing in California. Recently few trees, identical in iall respects to the fossils, were du. covered growing in an isolated pal!\ of China. They were found to he| somewhat different than the Coast Redwood in that the Dawn Red- woods cast their leaves in winter. This explained why it had been| growing with deciduous trees such to L. W. Breuer, new Commissioner of Education, left on the Admiral | Watson for his official tour of the Territory. ! St 4ol To investigate conditions generally in re8pect to law enforcement in this division, U. S. Marshal Albert White left on a cruise of South- east Alaska waters. His trip was in response to instructions fl'oml Attorney General Willlam D. Mitchell. Mrs. White accompanied the’ marshal on the Helmer, the boat operated by his office Weather: High, 61; low, 53; rain. — Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “No one was there but he and 1.” Say, “but HIM and ME,” BUT being a preposition in this case. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Savor. Pronounce the A as in SAVE, not as in HAVE. { OFTEN MISSPELLED: Connoisseur; two O's, two N's, and two S's. as oak and birch in a climate not SYNONYMS: Pale (adjective), palid, ashen, wan, colorless, cadaver- suited to the Coast Redwood. T{OUS. has been named Metasequoia Glyp-| WORD STUDY: tostro-oides. Here was “use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: INCENSE (verb); to inflame with anger. “The people are incensed against him.” ,______—_______.——— MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥oserra LEE A e e MO B S S R U e S fornia, and a few sent to various| Q. What does “eclair” mean, and how is it pronounced? "‘;‘]“"1 “h‘;‘; ‘(r;: "U‘i I’)““":‘ ‘;“;’;'w A. An eclair is a small, oblong cake filled with flavored cream and ;’ou‘d e Mot i Alaskn | €lazed or often frosted. Pronounce a-klar, first A as in DAY, second A remains to be seen. as in CARE, principal accent on second syllable. | Q. If a reception includes a guest of honor, | mentioned in the invitations? H ! A. Yes, it is preferable to do so. HlSS‘(hambers (ase | Q. What breach earf etiquoett: hastens more divorces than any other? | | A. One authority states that rudeness of a husband or a wife toward Nof fo Be Reopened | | "For Present Time. | the other’s friends is the leading cause. —_— i WASHINGTON, July 15 —P— ; The House Un-American Activities b LOOK and LEARN % ¢ comoox { Committee has decided against re- | What province of Canada is called Canada’s eastern gateway? |Opemn€ the Hiss-Chambers case “at Whom did Queen Elizabeth succeed to the throne of England? this time.” ] Which is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world? But it left the way open for dig- Of what famous novel is D'Artagnan the hero? Eing ‘mlo. itinee. mors. atler Alg» | A ring stamped 18K contains how much gold? Hiss is tried again in court on per- jury charges. | AUBWERAN: The Committee also said that it | Nova Scotia. definitely will make no investigation | Her sister, Mary. of the way Federal Judge Samuel | Buenos Aires. H. Kaufman handled the om,m.fl “The Three Musketeers,” by Dumas. Hiss trial in New York Eighteen twenty-fourths, or 75 per cent. a fossil come to life; a tree that grew millions of years before man appeared on earth.! Professor Ralph W. Chaney, Pale | botanist of the University of Cali- {fornia, collected seed from ! found in China. Seedlings were ger-! minated at the University of Cali-! should that fact be | EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS TIDE TABLE JULY 16 High tide, 5:25 a.m, Low tide, 11:46 am., High tide, 18:12 p.m,, 132 ft. 19 ft 142 ft Juneau | i FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 The state mme of Arizona comes | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 worgds! Hari» mi An- “zonac’ me; Indiah ing I, and spring. ADVERT 15k T FOR BIDS OND and FOURTH onday of each month |in Scottish Rite Temple — | beginning at 7:30 p. m. | GLENN O. ABRAHAM, The Fairbanks School District, an | Worshipful Master; 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 | School, Fairbanks School Build- | ng, Fairbanks, Alaska, until 8:00 Yelock P. M., July 21, 1949, at | which time said bids will be pub- | licly opened. | Said bids are to be for the construction of a new high school building and civic center ac- sording to plans and specmcatxons‘ aeretofore prepared, which plans‘ ind specifications may be seen and | >xamined in the office of the Super- | ntendent of Schools in the Fair- | sanks Public. School Building, Fair- oanks, Alaska. Prospective bidders ' are hereby directed to read carefully | and consider the plans and specifi- | :ations and to visit the site of the | work so that they may thoroughly amiliarize themselves with the con- | ditions, particularly the difficulties, ! 2xisting at the site; no considera- ! tion will be given to any claim that | a bid was made without full com- orehension of the conditions to be encountered. The Board of Directors of the Fairbanks School Dlstnctt reserves the right to reject any nnd; all bids. DATED at Fairbanks, Alaska, this | 122nd day of June, 1949. | FAIRBANKS SCHOOL DISTRICT | By Frank Conway Clerk of the Board of Directors. | First publication, June 24, 1949. Last publication, July 15, 1949. SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Supermarket Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 The Erwin Feed Co. 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Wendt JUNEAU'S FINEST LIQUOR STORE BAVARD'S Phone 689 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by 'J. B. Burlord & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Moior Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES At this point, two former cham- pions of little business appeared to | reverse themselves, Champion No. 1—-One of the most respected members of the U. S. | Senate is sandy-haired, blue-eyed | Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming Be- ginning as Secretary to the late Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, Joe got to know government backward | and forward, usually tights for the little fellow—except when it comes to wool. And on wool Joe does an A:l job for the big sheepmen of his state. Back in the New Deal days, O'Mahoney was the trust-busting chairman of the temporary Na- ticnal Economic Committee which had this te say: “Extensive hearings on basing- point systems showed that they are used in many industries as an effective device for eliminating price competition We therefore recommend that the Congress en- act legislation declaring such price systems to be illegal This was in 1941 later the U. S. Su caught up with Joe and followed his advice. upon, in 1949, Joe turned around and introduced a bill which part- ly nullified the Supreme Court Seven me Court in regard to the basing-point bill. thing of it years | O'Mahoney | Where- | New Champions of Little Bus ncgs—Realizing what the O'Ma- honey basing-point bill meant to little business, Kefauver in the Senate and Carroll in the House tacked on amendments aimed to prevent turther price-fixing. But this got no support from Rep. Celler. To the New York } Journal of Commerce he warned that he hoped to change the word- | ing of the Carroll amendment when i the bill came before him in judi- | | ciary conference ! Later, Manny denied this state- ment; also got his dander up when i this columnist challenged his posi- tion. “Never have I been opposed to the Carroll and Kefauver amend- | ments,” he fumed ‘I have for them.” i Later, the Congressional Record was read to the Congressman over i the telephone to remind him of what he had said to his colleagues in the House of Representatives “The Congressional Record quotes you as saying: ‘I am not in sym- pathy with the Kefauver | amendmen,’ " Celler was reminded “Again, you stated: ‘It (the Carroll {‘amendment) is exactly the wording of the Kefauver amendment. That | and the Kefauver amendment are word | from the ancient which meant “the “climate.” The ACROSS Disfigure xclamation 8 eek letter . Be under ob- ligation Exist Devastation . Chance 6. Obese and measures 26, Rodent 5 21. Pertinent . Bristle . Hawalian wreath Pigpen elp 31 City in Missouri 7. been Senator O'Mahoney explained that his bill was only clarifying the | law. Admittedly clarifying For, Supreme Court ruling, a company in Birmingham Ala could not absorb freight rates to ccmpete in such a near-by mar- ket as New Orleans. But tucked away in O'Mahoney’s bill were these little noticed, but thighly significant words: That should be legal “to absorb fre to mect the equally low price law needed the new the under ght of i cement | exactly the same.’ [ | “These are statements you made | | during debate, Congressman,” Mr. | Celler was asked. “Do you still say | you were for the Carroll amend- ment?’ The prez2ptibly ment to make cooled com- Congressman’s anger He had no MEXIC. Ahvl:liilisll)l‘.\"l"s ! 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