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

| i | - PAGE FOUR ~ Daily Alaska Em pire PRINTING COMPANY in Streets, Juncau, Alaska LINGO - - - Vice-President Managing Bditor - Business Manager DOROTHY TROY ELMER A. FRIEND .l . - . ALFRED ZENGER - - Entered in the Post Office in Juneau s Sccond Class Matter. SUBACRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 1, postage paid, at the following rates e, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50; ce, $1.50. will confer a favor if they will promptly notify e of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | 3. Dusiniess Offics, SS < 1s exclusively entitled o the use for 1 f all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | redited in this paper and also the local news published SENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 eattle, Wash, | H()BISIF S A survey confirms the impression that America is a nation of hobt It lists 19,000,000 persons as “bona fide” hobbyists—meaning that they spend money on it and devote more than casual spare-time attention to their hobby. Stamp collecting ists. leads all hobbies. Its appeal to all age groups has kept it in first place for many |where no white man had been seen before, and never years. In second place—and this we found rather sur- | prising—was gle re-collecting. Woodworking, which was far out of running a decade ago, now has moved up to third place in national popularity. The list includes just about everything from pic- ture-taking to toothpick architecture. We don’t know how many people there in the nation who find ion in building Ferris wheels and miniatures of ‘the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks and transparent ce- | ment, but there are some. Indeed, we might all be surprised to know just how many. Hobbies—along with other relaxations such as | golf, cards and other recreations not classi le hobbies—have an increasirsgly important role in the complexion of modern civilization. Today’s jobs are ! more of a strain on the mind than ever before. And | anything which can take a fellow’s mind off his work during nonworking hours must be counted as good medicine. are Te ABROAD Conscientious in huspltals in lieu of mllnary service durnu—,' the war "l w h I Since then, other cabinet offi-| Democrat, back in his home state. e as lng on cers — though Democrats — have | It was caused by a routine check Me G R d |caught up with Hurley. For in-| which the FBI made on all dele-| "v o oun stance, the War Department sent | gates appointed by President Tru- By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page 1} !sonal physician, who, range a conierence with Sen. El- mer Thomas of Utah, the man who had been rebuffed by Jghnson re-| garding an airplane junket for hls“h“ something of a lamily deal,|county chairman and asked ques-! committee. the Interior Department or Krug | tions about Senator Thomas. And| At the off-the-record should foot the bill. | the Republican promptly spread the which followed, Early told Thomas that Johnson had not seen the letter written to him. That .L1 get and paid the was written by an underling .\nd,m the end it was that Johnsc: <cidn’t even Kncwiine rnterior about it. 1out. In Treasury i The Interior HUSH-HUSH ON AIR JUNKETS| Early quite frankly admitted that) there had been some abuse of air- addition, plane junketing by bigwigs in the! f . 4 . by government. He also reminded| g go s A o wants: LI L SRR Y :':2:;2::8:5“"‘_"‘:::1 1o, SheSuated O Lacontaz Thomas that any investigation] qpen there is Secretary of Com TIDE TABLE "4 . 1. More than 70 per cent. ®ould bring out some. equel abuse | erce Sawyer who' has a special|e o | WILMA CARLETON IS AT 2. Heat. ?fn:c:?i:fT:::fli'cqueztip}xtl:yéogf Civil Aeronautics plane assigned to| e SEPTEMBER 11 . LUCILLE'S BEAUTY SHOP 3. Canada, with an area of 3,694,863 square miles. 5 ‘him, which he uses to fly back|e High tide, 3:51 am, 151 ft. @/ Wilma Carleton arrived in Ju-| 4. Richard E. Byrd. gressmen calling for airplane rides|ponje to Cincinnati on weekends.| e Low tide, 9:52 am, 18 ft. ®lneau yesterday from Longview, 5 New Hampshire :;:’"‘"(::“ the pretext of Officlaliang secretary of the Navy Mat-|e High tide, 3:5¢ pm. 163 ft. ®|Wash., and will be on the staff at| i Therefore, proposed the Under- ;:fc“;; ;;;nzd;‘o‘r“x:ek:zds ‘]‘:lg’mfl e Low tide, 10:22 am., 06 ft. s Lucilie’s Beauty Shop. PR Secroinry (S b°;h’ SI0¢8 | ha, took a recent junket.to Hon- | o SEPTEMBER 12 . ATTENTION MASONS ouid call it quits. And in thel oy, carrying his entire famiy| e High tide, 423 am, 141 ft. o Stated Communication of Mt. Ju- | Oldest Bank in Alaska future, ha sid, DA Force would | 4jong for a ten-day outing in de-| e Low tide, 1052 am, 3.0 ft. ®|neau Lodge No. 147 Monday eve- : ‘;‘h;n”)‘]‘e “‘i’:‘fl‘:’; ?ypl‘;‘:e‘grf;i’:“‘f:;hshflul Hawail. 's High tide, 4:21 pm, 156 1t. |ning at 7:30. Labor in the E. A.| 1891 d G n '" ¥ hl 'B k- lm was for official business. ! PRIVATE USE OF THE Xpw; e, {060 pi, (LB, oA fDearee. - o —0ver hall a Lenlury ol Banking— Senator Thomas was delighted. A PRESIDENT'S PLANE SO I WP b A Nce P00 3L, I Wolslien, Boorelgpe b : A : oy ; few days before, he had called for| Another point which would have | The B M Behrends [ ] o a report on every special plane used by the White House, by the Secre- tary of Defense, and by every other j way Mr. Truman cabinet member. But now he ac-jplane to private cepted Early's compromise and call- | President has a habit of _telling AGRoss 38 L“.fi.fi::fi ed off his probe. | friends, “Oh, take my plane,” no| L Siightest . cifeaies 5 . ' Reglons 43. Persia So in the future it looks like matter where they are golpg. BEnumerate 45, Pull both the executive branch and Con- | Last year, for instance, he sent! Godlike S, -Threeciod gress can junket pretty much as|his private plane across the Atlan-| (& Along = 4 Y Lt they please. | tic with Archbishop Athenagoras Zéa..m 40 Tosen o — {to Turkey, supposedly as an act of | 15 Knoek, g0, Newly ‘married PAT HURLEY SET FAD {good will to the Greeks. But Gen- | 22 Hebrew letter o WOIORD, The man who originally started | eral Vaughan, who arranged the| 53 Hrroisemper 84 Exeimation junketing in army planes was Sec-|trip at the suggestion of his two | 6. Throw 35 ani Yetary of War Patrick J. Hurley,|cronies, John Maragon and Willlam | * F{aeiighy : Marks ot blows back in the Hoover Administration. | Helis, did not realize that Athena- | 23 Blrst - B owN i At that time it was a Democratic|goras is not particularly popular | 33. Southern L Crc}!‘ict;\;i- 4 Congress which protested. Especial-|in Greece and that the gesture did | g gosiy o 3. 1y06 Toehsure 4 ly when Hurley, flying to a meeting of Indiana editors, made an emer-} gency landing and smashed up his/Secretary of War plane, Democratic congressmen|laid down a flat howled to high heaven. They didn't | plane junketing— mind the possible loss of a Re- Shortly after plane. Since then the cest of airplane construction has so increased that the smash-up of the big transports which carry the cabinet would be {have a private pla since that ruling solete as the use nearer $1,000,000. Supreme Court of the United Since then also, Pat Hurley’s|sStates. The American taxpayer ideas of airplane junkets haven't!would be a lot better off, however, changed, and the War Department|if Secretary Department for the use of a] army pjane when he was Ambassador to China and msxsted‘ home. President | ! tributions should be put. objectors who worked on farms and ; the Interior Department a $16,000 bill for the personal trip of Secre-| I tary of the Interior Krug to Japan, | carrying Krug's father and his per- | Dr. Roy L. because of Krug's health, quently accompanies him. 1my felt that since Krug had made | Department finally scraped some money out of its bud- Department, W Secretary Snyder Coast Guard plane, a giant C-54, i with a special crew assigned merely | —_— come out if Senator Thomas had insisted on his investigation is the not benefit the U. the | private planes with special crews publican Secretary of War, but they | for cabinet bigwigs. Pattérson even did object to the loss of a $72,000 ruled that he himself was not to It's been only three short years:. in the interim, it" Johnson had stuck| still has a $30,000 bil which it's|to his original guns or if Patter- heen trying to collect from the son’s ruling was reinstated. WHISPERING CAMPAIGN ‘Without meaning to, on a private plane '-0 carry him!touched off a whispering campaign against Sen. Elbert Thomas, Utah were not allowed to receive for their own use the | wages which they earned. Instead, these wages were paid to Selective Service and kept in the Treasury They aggregated, in round fig- ures, about 1% milion dollars—a .tidy contribution on the part of the COs. There was a kind of un- official understanding between Selective Service and the COs that at the end of hostilities the latter would be allowed to designate the use to which this con- | An informal poll was taken in 1945 among the men whose earnings created the special Treasury deposit. The consensus was that it should be devoted to relief purposes, and this year the | National Service Board for Religious Objectors re- | quested that the money be used through the CARE, Whok program for the benefit of the war-destroyed libraries of Europe. It seems a singularly apt designa- tion in keeping with the principles to which the COs adhered. Senator Sparkman in the Senate and Represen- tative Judd in the House have introduced bills to bring this wish of the COs to realization. Their bills; would simply authorize a contribution to CARE of an amount equal to the moneys received by the Selective Service System for work performed by the COs. The | authorization is, in a sense, an obligation of the United States and deserves Congressional assent now | despite the pressure of more weighty and urgent measures. {in a special deposit. Ending Tribal Hdppiness (Nome Nugget) We are always intrigued by explorers—they always come home with stories of discoveries, adding a bit to! noticed a sign of anger—only laughter and general hap- piness! 1 | | | { woman’s work is never done.—(Beremerton Sun.) : Strange how easily a bore can drill a hole in any- Ibcd\ s pauencc —(Dxuly Olympian.) g B s 2 - man to represent the United States at an international conference at Geneva, Switzerland. As head of, the delegation, Thomas was inves-} Sexum,‘ugatvd along with all the otherj fre- | delegates. The Ar-| But for some reason, an FBI agent called -upon a Republican| word that Thomas was under in-| vestigation by the FBI, the impli-| cation beinz that this was some- | thing sinister. Actually, it was no- thing but a routine check. Many loyal citizens are checked by the FBI every day as a routine precau- ticn before they are hired by the| government. Air Force, though the taxpayer, not 0 lost the | own o1 has his rigs 1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 10 Mrs. W. R. Lillian Dale Geor Walter Heisel, Jr. Bernard O. Havdahl SEPTEMBER 11 Huntington Gruening Leo M. Jones, Jr. Mrs. Eva Darnell S Mrs. (CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKAPTS. at Juneau, Anchorage Barrow ALASKA POTIERS 10 MEET MONDAY NIGHT The meetings ccmplete course for the coming year. Persons any of its phases are asked to at-| tend this meeting so that courses| of study niay be planned at this time. are tentative plans in progress for| a course in China painting to be cenducted by Jan Harmon. Many will remember her work shown in| 1. the Potter’s exhibit at the Arts and Crafts Show last spring. “ After the meeting has been closed it is hoped that Catherine Hagmyer can be persuaded to give an outline | of the course of study she received’ At fir: Alaska Potters will be held at the club reoms Monday, September 12 at 8 pam. | ‘There will be a general business meeting at which time new com-| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949 jrom THE E MPIRE | \ b Spain Thais Bayers K. H. Jensen Palace, tephen G .Noble previous Gene Smith LA ! Mrs. months. emper Weather condiiions ana the sum total of the world's knowledge. atures at various Alaska points, One explorer, not too long ago, announced his dis- | 3150 on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 Juneau. covery of a primitive village, in Africa “where perfect | o m 120th Meridian Time, and happiness exists, He remained a week in the village | released by the Weather Bureau Weailias! follow: 45—Cloudy 40—Partly Cloudy That famous mystery, o |Of the school and the hospital. o Colombe, General Counsellor of the Sisters of St. Ann. Minard Mill and two children, sailed on the Louise for Seattle. to be the guests of Mrs. Mill's sister, Mrs. ngh 64 SEPTEMBER 10, 1929 Miss Florence Peterson arrived on the Margnita with exhibits from her mother’s store at Sitka (featuring an unusual collection of Indian ® |art) for the Eighth Annual Southeast Alaska Fair scheduled to open ® |two days later | Peterson was considering the possibility of remaining, and attending the Douglas High School. The guest of her aunt, Mrs. Charle: R. E. Robertson, local attorney, left om the Princess Louise on a three-week business trip to Seattle. The Superior General of the Sisters of St. Ann, who arrived the week from the westward, was making an annual inspection She was accompanied Betty Jane They were to go to R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water System, and a visitor mI pA('Fl( “oRIHER“ Juneau for two weeks, sailed on the Louise. wife in Vancouver, B. C. | return together to their home in Piedmont, Calif. Mrs. Charles Tuckett, whose husband was-manager of the Coliseum Theatre, went outside for a month low, 45; clear. “The Cat and the Canary,” opened at the with Laura LaPlante heading an all-star cast. A. A. Matthews, He planned to meet his{ on her return from Europe, the couple to in Seattle before returning to HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 10. (# Audie Murphy, World War II's most deco-| rated G.I, and his actress bride, Wanda Hendrix, both blame Holly- wood for their domestic troubles, | But the film capital has been doing its best to keep their hearts beating as one. The past week they orking together on a film “Sierra,” doing nothing but | love scenes. They will appear as man and wife on the screen. 1 Following reports that the be- ribboned veteran and his Gride of eight months might separate, Audie, 25, and Wanda, 20, clinched | yesterday and made it known that | a bust. s Schramm, Miss have been by Mother Mary their marriage is not | ! and Minard, Jr. Alhambra, Calif., for two FARES REDUCED BY Up to a 31 per cent reduction in fares from <Juneau to other Al-j nskan cities served by Pacific Nor- | thern Airlines has been announced by A. G. Woodley, President o(l I PNA. The new fares were filed August | 25, with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Anchorage, by Harold A.| e - Dallv Lessons in Enghsh WL GORDON (15, 0 2 B e Olsen, PNA General Traffic Man- ager. Effective date of the new | Think of what the visit of this explorer will mean | Bethel . 50—Rain to the happy life of these native people. As news of | Cordova 39—Fog their “happiness” gets around among civilized people, | Dawson 33—Clear —— —- - — i |first time Alaskan travelers are more and more white men will visit-them and, gradu- | Edmonton By | . WORCH R Gl UaHED: | ALLUSTON s an duNikon: Aeterance: koot & cuiitorp B pE e ally, the blessings of civilization will demoralize the | Fairbanks 37—Partly Cloudy |y nint. TLLUSION is a deceptive appearance. . :’r*;‘_i“m"s"l’(l: d:’r ;"/‘;‘h "’M l(’)‘rzmg‘tit:;:! happy tribe. The aborigines may learn of white men's Haines 48——?19;1:- '‘OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Maritime. Pronounce mar-i-tim, A | Alaska t’mffié béyund the major miracles, of thelr troubles and, even, of thelr mor-\Havre ... . o HssINE s n AT, first T as in IT unstressed, second I as in TIME, accent first I tratfic points such as Juneau, An- aliges! : T S S Ghear | syllable. | chorage and Kodiak to Kenai, Cor- Tiseems o pltgdar s tiibe fo deyelop s happiness ko - pilt 40 Ruin_ Showets| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Acquit; one T. Acquittal and acquitting; |dova, Homer, Yakutat and other, and then have an inguisitive stranger, representing a ; G o » iless populated areas is expected. | foreign breed, intrude upon them and, perhaps, intro- | Kotzebue ... 46—Clear | two T's ] 0k ve duation B vates dlasey foIs) duce some of the “vices” of educated and civilized i McGrath 38—Partly Cloudy SYNONYMS: Pernicious, baneful, baleful, noxious, noisome. {lows PNA's announcement of in- eD. | Nome 50—Partly Cloudy| ~ WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us { oo B0 che "ona sorvices to By Northway 40—Partly Cloudy | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | covera] Alaska cities. Effective A teacher of English says that “Hell, no!” isn't | ¢ ‘_";‘"”"“ *. 39—Clear pRISTINE; belonging to the earliest time; primitive; uncorrupted. (Pro- | geptember 1, 1949, Kodiak will re- good English. Maybe not, but in ever so many cflspsxgr:xt“ncnuc e 9;2(?;1‘;5‘ nounce second syllable TEEN).. “The foliage had a dustless pristine ! ceive daily service, while mamm,l it's a good answer. Seattle 60—Cloudy freshness.” I:md cit‘ics in the Kena)_ Peninsula ! Whitehorse 38—Clear T SIS A s = iand Bristol Bay areas will be serv- With so many labor-saving devices to keep going, | Yakutat 39—Clear “ed by increased schedules. MODERN ET|0UETTE Woasisia 1oe !{i i 1 A comparison of the new fares; from Juneau to other cities is as Q In a business office, is it necessary for a man to rise when a woman enters on business? AL st fall meeting of the should rise.. Q. of the AB. Hall on ize decided and of stady outlined will interested in pottery or | If she is an employee of the same firm, it However, if she is from another firm calling on a business matter, he Is it all right to have letter paper and envelopes of different color and thicknesses? A. The envelope may be of slightly thicker paper than the letter mittees will be appointed, time of | | paper, but the colors should be the same. Q. Does one use his napkin to remove a meat bone or fish bone from the mouth? A. No; use the thumb and forefinger, and place the bone on the | edge of the plnte follows: Old New | o | Juneau-Yakutat $44.00 3000 | Juneau-Homer . ..94.00 87.00 | Juneau-Kodiak 118.00 105.00 Juneau-Naknek . 120.00 111.50 The Juneau-Gustavus fare and the Gustavus-Anchorage fare will remain unchanged. Serving Alaska for over 18 years, Pacific Northern Airlines pioneer- ed the intreduction of modern air- line service and operation. Start- ed in 1932 by A. G. Woodley, PNA equipment and schedules has kept pace with the expanding nzeeds of the Alaska traveler. Featuring mul- is not necessary. ti-engine equipment on all routes, the present time there| I.OOK and l.EARN X . GORDON | PNA speed and reliability are an Alaskan by-word. Alaska’s principle population cen- Il{ters of Juneau, Cordova, Anchor- ment plan? What percentage of automobiles are purchased on the install- 2. Of what is the calorie a unit of measurement? 3. Which is' the largest nation in the Western Hemisphere? © 4. Who is the only explorer to have flown over both the North and South Poles? 5. What U. S. State was at one time known as the Province of s age, Kodiak, and Homer are served from Seattle by PNA and connect- ing carrier. An application for di- rect service from Seattle is pres- ently before the Civil Aeronautics Board. The new pattern of low fares is another important contribution to the development of Alaska trade and commerce. SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN’! Follow the Cabs to has loaned his individuals. The S. A. war, forthright Beb Patterson rule against air- especially against ne.« was made. But s become as Ob-} of wigs by thei the FBI Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Arablan 5. Walk garment 6. Paid publlo notice ALYy 7. Maturing 9. Uniform 9. Melody rpshooter Norwegian Poem of lamentat! @ . Stair Crony Ancient Irish anommunv a- 5 aneueu : Thick pleced Coupled To & h'lzner 39, Southern constellatioh 40. Laundry machine 41, Take oath 44. Clamor 47. Arablan seaport 48. Inert gas of the air 51. Wrath 53. Token ot assen 56. Plural ending 6. Negative COMMERCIAL Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent SAVINGS RO L Good Time sronjs RETURNS WESTWARD TRIP Back from a supply run to Ko- diak, Cape Hinchintrook, Cape St. Elias and Cape Spencer, the CGC !'Storis tied up at the Engineer Dock | Jate Thursday afternoon. Lt. Arthur 1. Roberts was transferred to the Coast Guard air facility at Kodiak for assignment to duty aboard the CGC Bittersweet. Personnel reporting aboard the Storis for duty from the Coast Guard Base in Seattle are Lewis W. Bowers (ENC), Ralph D. Jones (EN3), and Richard W. Hollard (DC3). Reporting back from five day leaves are Dan M. Taylor (SN), and James R. Carregal (BM3). Back from 30 day leaves are Marvin L. 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