The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1949, Page 4

PAGE ¥YOUR 41 I E !bvvrhnul of the procedures,” the Times story said. l](lll\ (15 I(l '"I)l’ e | A similar resolution had previously been passéd : BN = by Fourth Division Democrats meeting in Fairbanks. i COMPANY Juneau, Alaska Publl The Excise Taxes S HELEN TROY DOROTHY TRC ELMER A. FRIE ZED Prestdent P | (Fairbanks News-Miner) | It has become increasingly clear in recent weeks I'that any move to free the nation from the burden of Second Class Matter. ered in the Post Of SUB N RATES Delivered by ,m:i,\w:m.‘,!.fl_::'m“‘ l,‘:‘m’:"v“:::?:'l‘r sfln 50 per month; | {1 50 wartime excise taxes will not be initiated by By mail, postage p: the White House. Mr. Truman is no tax chopper. LS He clings tenaciously to every taxing device his advance they will promptly notify | administration planners have been able to provide and larity in the delivery | | wants more. \u\'\Tn} Rt’).’({.,u-‘ 6 :v‘ n"rmhl\n(lrmm 374, 2 Meanwhile, Americans are becoming less and less )F ASSOCIATED PRESS . { s ____ !willing to continue their submission to levies which Is exc cly entitled to the or ; supposedly were designed solely to raise revenue for d to it or not other- ' al news , war. The travel tax, a source of irritation to most i Alaskans, is an example. It was voted to raise money 1and to discourage travel at a time when the nation’s transportation facilities were being strained to the }limit. It s still being extracted from travelers for business and vacation trips five years after the end of + hostilities It is possible, as the 1950 elections draw near, that | Congress will not hold with Mr. Truman on this ques- J tion. The Congressmen are beginning vaguely to . worry (over the mounting costs of government as seen in the' paper published NATIONAL REPRESENTATI 1411 | ue Bldg., Seattle Alaska Newspapers, farisen to the President’s foreign arms program. | They are also fully aware of the growing ¢ . |among consumers, merchants, industry and unions tfor a slash in excise taxes. But before there can be | tax cuts fhere must be a reduction in government gy | expenditures. The warning issued yesterday by the Forest Serv-| The President has never been for cemands KEEP ALASKA GREEN jce and the plea to Keep Alaska Green are good decrease. The aversion to tax reduction has becomq ones. | an occupational disease of the White House. Admit- Up to yesterday, this section of Alaska, especially | {edly, foreign aid and military expenditures do not, Juneau, had Had twelve days of good old summer WAk budgeting easy. However, the President has Sirs j voiced little concern over the increased government ' 'cm(.\ except to inform the nation in his ecpnomic ' \report that his administration has started on a new era of deficit financing. and Last month, Mr. Trur§an suggested that the levy from nsportation of goods be repealed. This led to cigarettes, into wed demands for an end to the excise taxes. Keep Alaska | But the President was unimpressed and the next move | app to be up to Congress. There is precedent for action by the legislative branch . It was Congress that forced a lowering of .war income taxes—over the President’s veto. Now, !apparently, relief must be sought in, the same way from f'the ‘excise taxes. ¥ The woods and the grass along the highway have become dry. The Forest Service warns hikers should be especially throwing burning material, including the woods or along the highway and Green. that careful motorists to refrain hu DEMOCRATS ASK OBSERV! PARTY PROCEDURES CE OF Third Division Del Anchorage | last week passed a resolution that threatened to with- | There's always sometnhing. Now somebody com- from Democratic Territorial officials 'plains that a boost in wages would cause the several with the party before making ap- millions of unemployed to lose more money through according to a report idleness | ocrats meeting in draw support who fail to clear pointments to Alaska positions, of the meeting of the Anchorage Democratic Club in the Anchorage Tim “The resolution accused Gov. Ernest Gruening and other officers of the government of making ap- pointments in their own manner and recommend an | i Against the possibility that Russia might capture ! and use against us the arms we send to Europe, why not desigh these weapons so they will not operate when aimed in a general easterly direction? MERGER VOTING BY FISHERMEN T0 TAKE PLACE SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—(P—Results of ‘the International Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (CIO) refer- Lo | endurs on the proposed merger with fie 3 | the CIO Longshoremen’'s Union are - R expected the first week in October. new act. Albany is the f small town to get such a development. And right up front to get his pic- | ture and name in the paper: wa. Cox—who had so violently mugl(‘ v DREW PEARSON the lerislation ‘ NOTE—Since the enactment of"' the measure, PHA has been flood- | ed with applications for housing prejects, ‘many of them from the home towns of Congress- - men and Senators who tried to The Washington Verry-Go-Round ¢ ntinved from Page 1} government 18 spending large sums, It has just completed a $500,000 engineering survey for Iran STRAINED RELATIONS Behind-the-scenes, diplematic re- “FIVE-PERCENTERS” Joseph F. Jurich, president of lations between the U. S. and Iranj Commerce Secretary Charles:the Fishermen’s union, said all are at the lowest ebb since the '20’s,{Sawyer’s announcement that hisireturns are due to be in Seattle when the State Department deport- field offices will provide business-| October 1. He said the executive ed a member of the Iranian lega- [ men with information of govern-|board will meet the following week tion for smuggling opium. | ment tontracts free of charge is|to canvass them. Curious aspect of the current|causing no concern to “5-percent-| An estimated 25,000 to 26,000 fish- | strained relations is that'Shah Mo-: ers.” Reason is, the intricacies of | erman from Nome, Aalska, to hammed Riza Pahlevi is making a government procurement are 0 Southern California are covered by state visit to Washington this fall. | complex that only an insider can|the reierendum. The proposal to His mother and several other mem- | make any headway against them.|merger with the Harry Bridges-led bers of his family already are in)All big corporations have their own the U. S. Authorities are at loss as | business representatives in Wash- to the reason for Iranian gruffness.|ington and hundreds of other con- Iran put on a huff last month at | cerns employ part-time agents. the turndown of an opium scheme.; Most of them are legitimate con- International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union was ap- proved by the Fishermen's conven- tion last January in Bellingham. | economy drive in the Senate and opposition which has | a major tax THE DAILY ALASKA 'EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ° . . . ) o . Vera Gilligan o . Art Hedman . ° Raymond Hegstad . ‘e Eileen MacSpadden . W. E. Feero . . Douglas Wahto . . Joe Petrie . . Beén A. Bellamy . ° Louise’ Ellen Folette . . 2 . e o 0 ¢ o ¢ 0 a0 0y TRUCK VANS HAUL CARGO VIA HAINES HIGHWAY; INTERIOR - By noon today, 14 20-ton big bruiser semi-trailers were headed up the Haines Highway with full loads, bound for the Interior with food to feed Uncle Sam's Alaskan based G. L's. Trucks kicked up the dust on the Highway as they high-balled it out of Haines on their weekly run from Alaska’s only highway outlet from | the Inside Passage to the Interior. Drivers who have been running the freight up the Highway since June for Alaska Freight Lines, Inc., pioneers of the route, figured they'd be at their destinations within 19 1 to 25 hours, “depending on weath- er and road conditions.” | The big refrigerated vans, plyled by 400-horsepower tractors, carried frozen and perishahle food prodyicts bound for Armed Forces mess halls, las well as a good tonnage of gen- leral cargo. | from the West Coast to Prince Ru- pert and thence by barge to Haines | | —first operation of its kind Iur‘ Alaska. | Eleven refrigerated v-as, dupii cates of those pulled by tractors| over the Highway, are lashed | Mendenhall and Taku glaciers and Hasselborg Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had just returned from a visit to their traps and fishing lmeruu’ SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN'S and were at the Gastineau Hotel. I Miss Violet Terrell, former proprietor of the Terrell Beauty Parlor, Follow the Cabs to was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, established in a similar busineu. acocrd- ing to word received by Juneau friends. vOyin.g .oss’ Msls ] : in'Douglas ' Weaéne mgh u Tow, 45; cle‘r i for a Good Time iive?” (Say, “WHERE do, they live?” i Cargo had made the trek by Tail |jn'BAY, second A as in AT unstressed, accent first syllable. increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: PANACEA; a remedy for all diseases; a cure-all. (Pronounce pan-a- to | se-a, an Ocean Tow barge for the water | in God was a panacea for all hls ills.” N B o “I'EJECTION DEVICE 20 YEARS AGO %% marize || JuRLS JET PILOT Everything was set for the opening of schools September 3. At th Parochial School, Sister Mary Stella was to teach high school studies, MARC! 'H AIR BASE, Calif, A Sister Mary Ethelbert was in charge of intermediate grades, and Sister {37 __» aAp Air Force pilot w“:s Mary Lucinda, of kindergarten and primary grades. Mrs. J. B. Bern- |thrown clear of his spinning jet hofer was to return as principal and teacher of higher grades at the flgm,er and parachuted to safety Government Indian School here. Mrs. Tom Allen was to teach inter- | in what is believed the first combat- mediate grades and Mrs, Harold Smith, primary. condition use of an F-86; jet plane oA automatic. ejection device. : Second Lt. Roveit E. Farley, 25, Charles W.. Busse, who had Uefn tfié Hh_ml of |of Selah, Wash., ,told officers at Business Administration at, ' the udvembw ?t} , came’ north/|this base that his plane developed on the, steamer Queen, with jthe Revi Edgar fi&* and i ‘ta go b7 mble yesterday in a vertical the seaplane Ketchikan to Skagway, WHére\Budsgi'was to be in. theHiv "The cockpit’ ejection mecha- | | auditing depfirtment of i the. White Bass tna Ymn Railway. He' wa$l thurled him' free of the ship. to ‘make his home with the Rev. cpnau.,vn-m in, Juneau, me gm prrvin l;:; mrgem;:c ;?g L m visited the Rev. 'Gabriel Menager. | atley stranded on top of a The Gross Apartments on Lower From Street, on whlch wm" 3,200 ih ' the San Bernardino had started in March, ‘was completd and ready for occupancy. THe |mountains, 21" miles east; of Palm modern eight-apartment building wds the latest thing in the wny of | Springs. He made a tent of the up-to-date apartment comfort, finishing, convenience and ' furnishing. parachute to protect him from zhe’ 115 degree desert heat and was later rescued by an Air Force helicopter. His plane, which he was flying on Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davis, Mrs. Marguerite Marks and H. C. Mc-{ .., msptn ment training mglft, xdis— Dermott took an hour’s trip in the seaplane Ketchikan, going OVer |integrated in the air. Mr. and Mrs. W. Eid left to make their home in the States. ! l Da:ly Lessons in Enghsh L. GORDON DN e s | i FISHING SUPPLY “Wheteabouts do mey i b »:'u:l:lh! -.::' 1;':'::: ! LOW.PRICES to 9 Opp. Ball Park WORDS OFTEN WSUSED Do not say, Pronounce ba-nal, flrct A as y OFTEN ' MISPRONOUNCED: Banal. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Preventive; never PREVENTATIVE. SYNONYMS: Known, understood, recognized, familiar. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Widest Selection of LIQUORS Let us first A as in PAN, E as in SEE, accent third syllable). “His faith transport leg of the cargo haul“ Running-gear was taken off the! I at Haines this Jun(-,;, ans permanently installed on | the barge at the Port Chllkuflt ' Terminal Co. wharf. The barge, with the tug b()al |,Shinn supplying the power, nosed} into Portage Cove at Haines on nsl | weekly run at 5:45 yesterday morn- | ing. Port Chilkoot Terminal Co. stevedores were on the spot to tie| \vher up and whip into action dis- charging the more than 250 tons 'of cargo aboard. K | Two electrically operaced con-' | veyer belts—first to be operated on | an Alaska dock—were lowered into | the cpen doors of two vans on the | barge. Two trucks backed up "°| ithe dock end of The switch was turned on and car-: | go began rolling out of barge vans into land vans before the sun had Icleared the peak$-flanking Lynn Canal. When cargo from two vans was transferred, the barge moved down two notches and two more semi-trailers backed into position for loading, Conveyor belts were installed at the Port Chilkoot whart specifiz| cally for the barge-trailer opera- tion, but are available for all side port loading vessels, according te Famine conditions exist in Azer-|tact men who know their wa; E. @ © ¢ o o o o e ¢ o |E C. Koenig, Jr, president-mana- baijan, northwest Iranian province.|around and make no claims to in-|e ® [ger of the terminal company. Despite large ocil royalties, Iran ask- | side influence. e TIDE TABLE e | Skipper of the fug mt Shinng) ed the U. S. for 200,000 tons of| All the publicity given “5-per-e g of6to H. Barkhousen, | estimated, free grain. When that was refused, | centers” has bocmed their b siness | o SEPTEMBER 1 | running *time from’ Prp\c& Runer§ Iran proposed to swap opium for|greatly in recent weeks. 1® Low tide 2:50 am. 18 ft. e m Haines at about 40° Hours. Tugs the wheat | — | ® High tide, 9:34 am,, 113 ft. O;and buge are under time charter U. S. Narcotics Commissioner SHORTS e Low tide, 2:51 pam, 64 ft. ® to the Alaska Freight Lines Xromv Harry Anslinger vehemently ob-| Members of Congress who wnm.' e High tide, 9:03 p.m, 139 ft. ® Ocean Tow, Inec. jected to hit the lecture trail can now do|e ® . The trucking company fifst put He cited the fact that Iran is{so through a new spea s’ buread|e o 2'® o o ® o @ e @ its semi-trailers on the :‘I’lame }h( most flagrant exporter of il-]organized in Washington to han- i | y back in mtgmber 194/ legal opium in the world, and hasdle exclusively Congressional clients Roses ‘were among the first of m M lncrvlnsea persistently defied United Nations . Sen. Edward L. Leahy, D., R.|all fragrant flowers to be used wmw ever m with' peak haulf attempts to curb this vicious traf- I, appointed to fill the scat form-!|perfume. " this season. Y sl fic. Alto, that due to these notor-| erly held by Attorney General |— i £ -3 ious violations, the U. S. ceased{Howard McGrath, is rated one of buying medicinal opium from’ the ablest tax experts in the coun- [<][o] Iran. Anslinger’s forthright pro-|try .. . Capital politicos are read- | Cross Puzzle [LIA] tests blocked the swap scheme. |ing with relish advance copies of | M el Joseph L. Dinneen’s hilarious “The | ACROSS 36. Hawallan food 8] Purple Shamrock,” a plain-talking| & PRI 1 ) (L d Rep. Arthur Klein, D, N. Y,|biography of Boston's colorful May- | $. Indigo plant features [E]S] telephoned the District of Colum-jor James Curley. The book goes| 12 Hoihng ot - b Gofdess of the [Rio] | bia Corporation Counsel for infor-]on sale St']l(embvr 7 15, Bichd e 1o v L mation about local picketing laws. S AR, g A S iy E Chis is the first time in nu i poks indtetines years we have had a query about RAINBOW GIRLS T0 [ Sl . o that,” was the answer ’Y!n 5 of John, plant | time a member of Gongr { . ELECT ON SATIRDAY |3 foiliimiee % Gitadhy siplvilACE's], ed us on this subject va The regular business meeting of S il jans 5 5 late Senator Bilbo the Order of Rainbow for Girls e+ ke Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle | What did he want know?” | will be held on Saturday afternoon | sz One who M. s 2. Jowisn month 8. Terminate ked Klein at 2 oclock at the Scottish Rite : M bR g SRR 3 Bira of Sirain He called eayly one morning|Temple. Eleetfon of otfibers will| 25 P ataract & iicadland naae % a d ‘There's & bunch of pick-|be held and all members. are urg- 0. Not busy ! ets outside my apartment. Is 1t le-|ed to attend ‘thi§ important meet- - HNperous ook '8 gal for me to.shoot them We | ing 9. Reglon ot i explained that in Washington pick-| The meeting will be preceded by | e ets could not be molested as long |an installation practice 8641 o'clock, | b. ¢ 8 kept: moy 1 did not) Newly elected and appoimted offi- | F t traccic. Bilbo replied cers will be installed Saturday eve- § ) wse, T guess I can't ning in the ) Rite Temgle en hun beginning - - A dance AL refr PUBLIC HOUSING PAL | follow installat During the bitter Hc battle | OES Mason: N e President’s low-cost public | pledges and invited | I 1g bill, one of the most acrid|bow are cordially vited to at ¥ngtittgaw foes was Rep. Gene Cox, D., Ga. At | tend S arie: eoilog, one point, hi per flared | Eonraa fern to where he hi NOTICE T tuditor ot But Cox s 1 the | debts contracted b yone othe fos of the other day at the Public Housing|than my Annie C. Keep. 86 cry :"-’Nw;efi\l'a Administration. rain Officials of Albany, Ga. his home Crude ol is carried to refineries A’:'l town, appeared at PHA 1o sign up ! ome 390,000 miles of steel ¥ for a housing project under the conveyors. I L i . Q. Is it correct to write a note wishing a girl happiness after re- | ceiving an announcement of her engagement? A. Yes; the note may be brief, but should be sincere. Q. Is it good manners to use the handkerchief while eating at the table? A. Try not to use it if it can possibly be avoided. Q. Which is correct to use, “Mrs. John Joseph Brown,” or, J. J. Brown” for a visiting card or invitation? A. The full name is Lhe correct form. 2 I.OOK and LEARN A C. GORDON 1. Of, what nationality are most of the people of Brazil? 2. In what two States are the easternmost and westernmost points of the U. 8.? 3. What are the names of the three pedals on a piano? 4. What is a neophyte? 5. What is the last word in this proverb: “Eternal vigilance is the PHONE 399 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 “Mrs. The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Supermarket 5 price of ! ..."? o vz STEVENS 1. Portuguese. i i 2. Maine and Washington. LADIES 'FOMISSEISt 3. Damper pedal, sustaining pedal ,and soft pedal. READY-TO-WE. 4. A novice or beginner. n Seward Street Near Third 5. “Liberty.” l The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED ! DR. D. D. 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