The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | for adding $125,000,000 a year to the costs of privaté | automobile insurance. In St. Louis it works this way: | A standard personal liability policy costs $32 a year | when the car is driven by persors over 25. But the | rate jumps to $43 when there is coverage for a driver g ¢ & , Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRIN’ NG COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY 'TROY LINGO - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - ALFRED ZENGER - - - - President Viee-Pre-iient Managing Editor Business Manager | under 25. | The problem of youthful incompetence, or reck- lessness, at the wheel is not satisfactorily solved by Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. - s - ®oo00000000 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: this insurance differential. Ability tosturn t in- Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for §1.50 per month; > i e six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 surance company for payment of indemnities, does not By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: : g B i One vear, in advance, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50 justify needless injury or death for some innocent ane month, in advance, $1.50. person Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Lo the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery Better driving by young persons can be accom- of their papers. olis arents, s i ) Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 874, plistied’ only if Plafents, (ERGHEN, IPOICS MBI SFEURE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES! drivers themselves can be made more conscious of the The Assoclated Press Is exclusively entitied ta the use for | Problem. The insurance figures merely prove how republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | sorious the problem really is B T e ST e Toon: Tw wuniishsd | Serious the problem really 4 | berein s S R A e | NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Work of Statehood Commitiee Useless Wash. — Seattle, T AT T (Ketchikan News) ; | Let’s analyze the work of ,Gruening’s sl:\’(‘hOOd’ board. In the first meeting held in Juneau a majority of the 13 members present adopted a resolution against moving the Boeing Aircraft Factory from Seattle, in- | vited Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney to visit Alaska andl | decided some of the members might go to Washing- | | ton to appear in behalf of statehood—all at the ex- ‘xmn:(‘ of the Alaska taxpayers. The Territory appropriated $80,000 for this spec-- ialized board. This, despite the fact that in case of statehood a board will be elected to adopt a consti- tution 3 4 The board while in session in Juneau, adopted by- | Jaws to allow each member $25 per day while outside ! of Alaska on official business and $20 per day in Alaska. Presumably traveling expenses will be added. Treasurer Roden refused to “unfreeze $1500 or | more for its expenses, so the board decided to Burrowl 155000 from a Juneau bank in order to pay the way | of members to go to Washington. Weo believe the patriotic thing for the members would have been a decision to turn the $80,000 back | into the general treasury. i CHANCE FOR THE GOVERNOR Quite often, Editor Sid Charles, of the Ketchikam | News, gets off some really pertinent squibs and we print today one of his latest which is mightily direct to the point, as follows All power to Governor ening in his declara- tions in Seattle that Alaska is as important, more so, as a matter of fact, than is Europe for proper defenses However, rather than repeating what is so obvious he could do a great deal to help Alaska prepare itself by ceasing his political fight against outside interests which are and can still further aid Alaska. ‘We need population, but development of resources must come first. All this requires capital and plenty of it. Capital will not seek investment where political war is made against it. Without question the Governor has natural ability. If he would devote his energies to building up Alaska | instead of maintaining and perpetuating a political | machine, he could accomplish a great deal. bers mav be they will have a difficult time to prove that enough practical benefits have been accomplished | to earn $80,000 [ While on the subject we would like to call at- | tention to another “fifth wheel” Territorial board | fathered by Gov. Gruening. That is the fisheries | board. 3 H 1t is duplicating the duties of the Fish and Wild- ——— life Service. It is naming stream watchmen which i Y OU are deputized by the Fish and Wildlife Service, but i C?_Sl(l‘i‘ol L !the Te?ritorv. not the Federal government, it paying | their salaries. It might have been a good idea for the Territorial legislature in the first place to have given a part of the large sum appropriated for fisheries use to the Federal agency. However, in that case, of course the Governor would have been denied the! chance of taking care of some of the “faithful.” This is another board which might have helpedi out the Territorial Treasury by turning the money over to it. If some of the “fifth wheel” boards would do this there would be no need of trying to borrow money. Another board we could have spared and savet! money on is the Development Board — an absolutely useless organization! Liability insurance rates on automobiles driven by persons under 25 years of age have gone up 15 per cent in New York City. For the rest of New York State the advance is 20 per cent. Here, in cold figures, is another youthful drivers are responsible for more than their share of accidents. The New York Insurance Depart- ment approved the new rates after analyzing the records of 87,000 drivers. Only 14.4 per cent of these drivers were under 25, but they were responsible for 285 per cent of the fatal accidents. Insurance rates for young drivers were already higher in New York than for others. But the commission found they were not high enough. Thus the increase. A Chicago insurance executive said recently that the accident rate of drivers under 25 is responsible reminder that Another poor judge of distance is the person who says that ideologically he is a little left of center. The Washinglon | Frank Murphy died, McGranery office has warned the State De-| i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 12 Mrs. Henry Green e TIda Mae Jensen ° Edith Lavold ° Mrs. E. S. Ellett o Mrs. Carl Erickson ° . e ° . . Evert Marting’ 1 Daniel Pedersci \Ethel Davis 949 MARCH OF DIMES CONTRIBUTIONS SHOWN FOR U. 5. TERRITORIES With no handy title such as the | customary “March of Dimes,” the National Foundation for Infantile| Paralysis pleads for funds to fight| a formidable enemy-—poliomyelitis. | The emergency can't wait for the March of Dimes in January. It is now! | Gov. Ernest Gruening, March ot’ Dimes chairman for the Territory,| has received comparative figures showing contributions of 1949 “dimes” to fight polio, received | from the United States Territories | and Possessions. Interesting conclusions may be drawn from both gross proceeds and per capita figures, as compiled by Warren D. Coss, director of fund-| raising. Alaska is fourth in gross proceeds, | atte o ious s the mem- # b No matter how conscientious some of €m- 0t second in contributions per to open the following week. perscn, Alaska gave nearly 37 cents per capita, while Puerto Rico, | which contributed the largest total, |of Alaska Dry Ginger Ale at the George Brothers' Grocery, and offered | did it at three cents a person. | Here are the figures, the first sum being the total, the second per capita: Alaska—$25,849.39; $.3564. | Puerto Rico—$63,09291; $.0338. | Canal Zone—$31,254.57; $.6031. || Hawaii—$52,071.06; $.1230. Virgin Islan $1,881.49; $.0756. Contributions for the emergency drive which started should be mailed to POLIO, care of the Juneau Postoffice. HOSPITAL NOTES There were three admissions to St. Ann’s Hospital over the week- | end. They were Mrs. Thomas Pad- dock, Mrs. Reynolds Young and Mrs. John Satre, Jr. Eight were discharged over the weekend. They were James Drake, Mrs. Frank Behrends and baby girl, Sidney L. Voiles, Elfigo Valijos, | %3 S AU e S, — 5 | Mrs. Charles Gray and baby boy, || and Mrs. Clarence Rhode. | |great day. | Parks officiating. Thursday | — even m}?“f a SP‘-‘;‘“‘I trip ;°Jll‘e partment there are nearly 6,000' At the Government Hospital, two f White House. And now with Jus- i i {were admitted. They wi Doris | =) Russian agents in Albania disgu's 4 'y were Dorls Merr 'Go Round tice Rutledge seriously ill, Mc- iy e i) gt Ann Katzeek and Mrs. iver- st Tk French repor Ella Siver — | Granery last week denied that Gen- '3 tourls 18 - FIEnchi: TEPOb iy, By DREW PEARSON rntinved from Page 1} $100,000, from all sorts of sources.: POLICE-STATISM The White House has really been using police-state methods in con- nection with the Vaughan investi- gation. Not only do Senators have a pretty good idea that their tele- phones are being tapped, but cer- tain witnesses and investigators have been subjected to pressure. Francis Flannigan, ace investiga- tor for the Senate committee, got a threat from Trumanite Charle Clark, formerly attached to the Truman committee. Clark now draws $1,000 a month as lobbyis for Franco Spain, and is on inti- | mate terms with the White House Congressman Schafer of Michi- gan, Republican, also says he got 2 threatening phone call from th ‘White House immediately after h public statement that General Vaughan should be court-martialed Others who have tangled with Gen- eral Vaughan also have strangely backtracked, with the appearance; of having been either threatened: or politically bribed. For instance, Col. Wm. Lee, who got into a scuffle with John Mar- agon in Rome and was subsequent- ly reprimanded and demoted, at first told newsmen that the Army crackdown came as a result of the Maragon incident. Lee even put this in writing, while the officia! text of his reprimand speciically cites the Maragon incident. Despite these written statements However, Colonel Lee suddenl backtracked, said he didn't reall; think his demotion resuited fron the Maragon incident. The re- versal had all the earmarks of ¢ quick and powerful reminder tha he would be up for promotion again soon. The behavior of Judge James Mc- Granery of Philadelphia is also in- teresting. In 1946, McGranery, assistant to the Attorney General,} was sore at Truman because he wanted a circuit court judgeship and Truman would only appoint} him to the district bench. At that time McGranery told this writer, who was in his office when Gengral | Vaughan phoned, that the general| sought to intervene in the W. T Burton case in New Orleans, Bur-| ton having been indicted for brib- | ing a jury. H Today, McGranery, a U. S. Dis- trict Judze and a Catholic, (huhh-l es an ambition to fill the vacancy on the Supreme | Shortly after Catholic Justice ' eral Vaughan had ever intervened in the Burton jury-bribing case in | New Orleans | FDR ON LOYALTY When Franklin Roosevelt wa President of the United States, he wpplied to government the same strategy a military commander ap- | plies to his men in the field. If a member of his Administration be-) came a liability, made too many | enemies in Congress, Roosevelt eased him out — ewen though they | were intimate friends — just as a military commander sometimes has | to desert men in the field. { Rexford Tugwell, once summar-' ized it this way to friends when] he resigned as Undersecrtary of sgriculture: i “A general in battle can't afford | o go into the front-line trenches. He's got to stay behind at staff | readquarters. When his subordi- | nates become casualties, they either | get shipped back to hospitals or et buried. No commander can old up a war because of them. “In the battle over pure food and_“ rug advertising,” continued Tu».;-, vell with no bitterness, “I was, ‘arrying out Roosevelt's ideas. But! t was much better for me to take he rap and let him stay behind | he pelitical firing line. All the advertisers in the country, plus the newspape: are now sore at me,| ind it’s better for the chief if I now resign” | He did. i Harry Truman, however, believes in getting into the front-line trenches, regardless of political shot and shell, and taking just as much criticism as his wounded suhordi- nates. It's a fine personal qualit hut seriously impedes his polit program. And after all, Truma was elected on the basis of & program, not kecause of his :xbx':ly‘ al n to defend a bumbling major gen- eral. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES i Madame Chiang In Exile—Mad- ! une Chiang Kai-shek is still con- | ident she can raise enongh money to save China by appealing to the American people. All she has to do, she believes, is turn on charm.| Friends who have discussed plans' vith her, found the Madame living ! i.: Oriental splendor at the home| of her billionaire brother-in-law.i H. M. Kung. She seemed high-' strung, and chain-smoked as. she! talked. Almost every time she lit a cigarette, a bodyguard popped into the room to make sure she| was all right. | | Russian “Tourists”—The French| . these Russians are aclualiy suver-! Four were discharged. They were vising the storage of huge quanti-'Mrs. Cecilia Klamott and baby ties of arms that Moscow is send-|boy and Mrs. Margaret Agujr,-g= ing to Albania. Frencrn diplomats|and baby boy. | incidentally are the only Western| rns in Albania today. | | 'SCHWINN BIKES at MADSEN’S ! ' | Wins Sports Title from i o L i : THE EMPIRE o — | | 20 YEARS AGO i I o SEPTEMBER 12, 1929 Nick Bez, President of the Peril Strait Packing Company operating a plant at Todd, arrived enroute to his home in Gig Harbor, Wash.| He reporied a very successful season, his pack of 53,000 cases being considered exceptional for the so-called off-year. | The big Eighth Annual Southeast Alaska Fair was in its second It had opened with formal ceremonies, Gov. George A. The second day was Ladies’ Day, with the fair scheduled to close September 13, Children’s Day. Shoe Shine and Pressing Shop was moved from its old loca- Henn tion at Seward and Second, to the storeroom formerly occupied by ¥ { Gordon's Gift Shop on Seward Street. The vacated quarters and ad- 20 i jacent ones of the Pentecostal Mission were to be occupied by Kann's | A Variety Store. 5559 | i 55 e £z Outbound passengers on the Yukon included Robert Mize, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mize, who was on his way to Fairbanks to resume attendunce at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. Mrs. R. E. Sheldon, whose hushand operated pack trains, automobile lines and road houses in Mount McKinley National Park, was a Cordova- bound passenger on the Yukon. She was accompanied by her daughter, | Frances. A prospecting party composed of Nels and Clifford Anderson, Joe Simpson, and Jake and James Manning, all of Douglas, was making preparations for a prolonged trip up the Taku River. ' i FILLING bathing suit to perfec-| i tion, Ruth Goddard, of Beverly Hills, Cal., poses amid equipment used to win title of Outdoor Sports Queen at Coronade, com- 8 peting with several hundred L. W. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, announced the creation ! sports minded beauties in many of a school district at Port Alexander, where the one-teacher school was: pranches of sport. (International) Charles E. Naghel, director of the Federal Census in Alaska, left on a business trip-to Ketchikan and other Southeast Alaska cities. J. M. Saloum, local merchant, accompanied by his daughters, | Minnie and Eleanor, returned from a trip to Seattle. MADSEN CYCLE & ) FISHING SUPPLY ) 50 bottles of the beverage to the person guessing most accurately the !} pull line of Halibut and Trolling ' numbe of caps in the display. ¢ || Gear — Many items now at new | Fred Sorri, owner of the Irros Company, had a full window display :‘ | LOW PRICES *,. Weather: High, 55; low, 53; cloudy. H Open 9 to Opp. Ball Park e L A | Lessons Widest Selection of LIGUORS PHONE 399 ' Daily o = in English % INENGUSN w. . GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Every one of them know it is true.” Say, “Every one of them KNOWS it is true.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Laryngitis. Pronounce lar-in-ji-tis, A as in AT, first and third I's as in IT, second I as in LIE, principal accent on third syllable. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Welfare; one L. Well-being; two L's and | hyphenated. 3 SYNONYMS: Racial, lineal, ancestral. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each dav. Today's word: RECONCILE; to cause to be friendly again. “He was reconciled to his } brother.” “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 MODERN ETIQUETTE %operra LEE The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 ! HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE | | | |4 Q. Should a guest speak to the hostess before leaving a reception? A. The guest should express appreciation of the pleasure of attend- ing, unless the reception is very large and the hostess is otherwise engagea. Q. Is it all right to use a piece of bread to wipe up gravy or jelly from the plate? A. Never; nor should one hold a piece of bread with the fork and SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest — | slide it around, even if he is very dexterous. Supermarket - ' Q. In what manner should friends be invited to a christening? i A.. By telephone or informal note. B ‘!l[ —-= = = | STEVENS® A sty 510 LOOK and LEARN % |l LADIES—MIsSES 5 . Gown | B Sunken fence 3 G0l natructor 5l ;1 A. C..GORDON | READY-TO-WEAR . Withere 2 = | 12, Mo ten rock: £ E I‘L =i | Seward Street Near Third 13. Metal fastener 33° T | 14 Wl ent e T | 1. How much of the earth does the sun shine upon at one time? 15. u:;mr:(i‘nv:; into g: [3 3 2. What common kitchen commodity do sodium and chloride com- T e | bined form? , The Charles W. Carter 19, Nbts ot ibe 41 Streddle N| o] | 3. Where is said to be the world’s highest highway? o cfi‘}flg 46 l’ur‘p;;-‘l"wr:‘l G2 N| D] 4. Who remarked, “We must hang together or assuredly we shall Morlual’y 21 Female sheep 41 Roum In u b .xl | all hang separately”? custody 48, Blecirified tlenint: autehdaya Ay 5. What is a bagasse? Fourth and Franklin Sts. 2 Musical souna - particies DowN Abidisne | ANSWERS: PHONE 136 HE A TR e R 1 Winglike Flowed 1. Onehal. colloa, 51 Insect 2. Valley East Indtan i ? money 2. Salt. . 2mbrace i Acquires oy labor Metal workers Before . Africun bow- string hemp . Preserves in brine Erench senport You and | P Mohammedan noble Loty nartow wpening Strikes lightly Lastern Operatic solos Blunts Payment after retirement . Flve-masted sehooners | Exist Produce Very wurm Glactul ridges Feminine name . Position at bridge Ocean Bustle Squipment . About 3 4 5 6. i By | 8. Divided | 9 | 0 1 [ 7 ROGIRGET Oldest Bank in Alaska 1831—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1349 The B. M. Behrends Bank . Safety Deposit ‘ Boxes for Rent . COMMERCIAL SAVINGS i | Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP 8. The Carretera Central, which crosses the Andes Mountains at a height of 16,127 feet. 4. Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. 5. Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. U otrmnel U\ rmcs st i ttcalf e areeif v of] Plumbing ® Heafing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nights-Hed 730 Harri Ma‘cMne Shop, Inc. Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY "500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men e P A s A B R H. WALDEMER as a paid-_up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA 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: "THE UNAFRAID" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre " Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 . s, and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks SHAFFER’S SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! P e MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1949 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. GLENN O. ABRAHAM, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.p.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Becretary. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 17 Main St. Phone 773 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical nstruments and Supplies -~Phone 206 .Second and Seward.. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER 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 PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Thomas Hardware (o. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and ssgefcm by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by 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 Dalries, 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 Alaska Laundry DR. ROBERT SIMPSON OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined—Glases Fitted SIMPSON BUILDING Phone 266 for Appointments H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys N o