The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dmlv flasha Empue 0! June; Entered in the Post Office in_Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas six months, $8.00; one year, 1, postage paid. at the follo ance, $15.00; six mort a favor if they ailure or irreg: 602; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED ephones Busines: vely en NATIONAL REPR! purth Avenue Bldg.. MPANY ( mployees in any prestaent | They Vice-President aging Editor ess Manager Alaska au, Bus paign of the Wan: Second Class Matter, | cant precedent. for $1.50 per month, | owiz mm [ hs, in advance, $7.50; will_promptly motify | ularity in the delivery | ycials that has the s Office, 374. PRESS tled to the use for o it or not other- ocal news published an open night, —— | gathered at the TAflVEfi — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ' the people they wished to lead them after the October 4 elections. Those who are nominated, then file their declarations and their names are placed the ballot tem has a good deal of the old town hall spirit that is fast losing I light of streamlined government by professionals. + officially on | This sys | spirit to it | Whether the i age is hard to say. {still hold their ca for nominating office holders, although the big time EMPLOYEES AND PA All too often. in decades past, thought of themselves as having opposed to those of their employ thought of their one of rivaly if not hostility. agements have had the there are recurring signs that is gaining ground For example, the unionized empl Wanamaker department store at New And a ing an ambitious campaign, quite their own, to bring | plan to buy tising space, to use direct mail appeals and to conduct The aim of all these activities is to aug- the store new customers. They & contest. ment the trade of the store. The head of the union, AFL Retail Clerks, says the 1,900 em that they gannot prosper unless the pers. So at their own initiative and t The Washmglon Werry-Go-Round By DRE W }"FARSON‘ ntinved from P.ge D of his wife, his secretary, Miss Beth Gage, and his bosom friend, Dyke | Cullum. Furthermore, Thomas ad- | mitted in a public statement that| Cullum had handled his commodity trading for him. In addition, another of nator | Thomas' speculating friends, Ralph Moore, was indicted under the lob- bying act for trying to influence the fats and oils market by issu- ing fake government reports There is nothing illegal about a Senator speculating on the com- his ethics} | However, ¥ that a chairman | S else again. it is almost unbelievable Senator—especially the of the Senate Agriculture Commit- | tee—should yse his tige and high office to influence prices on the commodity market at the same time he is speculating. FERGUEON IS OUTBLUFFED Therefore, Senator Homer Fergu- | son of Michigan, then chairman! ©f a Senate investigating sub- commi. ttee, was authorized to probe | the ojerations of his colleague trom | Oklshoma. But Senator Thomas| did some investigating of his own— of Senator erguson which he wrote Ferguson a letter* in longhand, later published ) s column, threatening to expose . in connections between the Ferguson family and the Chrysler otor Company. Confronted with this letter, the! Senator from Michigan promptly | dropped his investigation of lh"l Senator from Oklahoma. i Eighteen months have passed, and Senator Thomas is now up to his| old tricks, Since the Democratic victory last November, he has been ! restored as chairman of the pow- erful agriculture committee. not even waiting for the election the Senator got back into the cot- ton market last September. Then, about two weeks ago, Sena- tor Thomas let loose a significant public statement. He den, surprising interest in eg publicly complained about the price of eggs, and blasted the Agricul- Following | wage-e same unsound which | Agricultu ! Do {stand eggs, i special i Corporation. Ler, But | took a sud- | RTNERS | administration is interests directly ‘l 16w ehre east a ers They have! some - ometimes man- | oo, idea. But outlook | healthier An oyees of the John York are launch- Paradox adver- i ist. part of the aployees recognize | store itself pros- heir own expense, is not much help to how to jump, but Thomas wrote a let-’ r Clinton Anderson of whom he placed in| investigation, asking | certain people as wit-! in listing them he avoided the name of en, Agriculture De- poultry chief, becaus Cullum had told him that Termohlen was not cooperative. Cullum had so heckled the poul- try division with letters, phone calls and personal t in which he cle i to represent the Senate committee that Ter- rge of the artment [ the organized workers are gmbarking on an extremely | ! umurutmg venture in codperation. | What thf§ really amounts to is a realization that share in the benefits of prosperity, inevitably share in the penalties of adver: Ketchikan has a system of nominating city cm-‘ [Tt seems that candidates for elective city offices, in ! cluding the mayor and councilmen, ucus jof the voting public. as a matter of fact, caucus has in many instances become the factory for the political machine. The usual custom in Anchorage is to begin a series armers have |Of beefing and griping almost as soon as the city i bl NAYe are fond of sitting smugly back and then snipe from e xisiion o nanaguIEs “s-me vantage point of the armchair for the rest of the actress has obtained loss of her sex appeal. new solution to the problem of old age security. The | greater the chances that death will overtake him. “I have no ambition to die rich, Neither do we. Fencing is advised for grace and poise, but that's ! the Washington School of Myoprac- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA g = business enterprise also are partners. and they ty. The cam- set a signifi- | ¢ amaker employees ma SEPTEMBER 16 Benjamin Phillips Alfred Westfall Mrs. Joe McLean Thomas L. George Dorothy Fors Lawrence Larsson Luciile Lawrence Willlam J. Eelin Wesley Miller Daniel Anderson The Caucus (Anc] lmrmzc News) solid ring of American idealism to it. are nominated a Last Friday citizens of Ketchikan nominate by acclaim, the city hall to © e o o 0 o o if they choose to run, | (CONDITIONS OF WEATHER | ALASKAPTS. empe; ground in the vstem would be feasible in Anchor- It should be. The political parties ucuses. Many States hold caucuses | Weather conditions ana a s at various Alaska |also on the Pacific Coast, at 4 am, 120th Meridian Time, released by the at Juneau, follow: seated. A public caucus would at -election safety valve for those who | Anchorage | Barrow Bethel Cordova | Dawson | Edmenton Fairbanks | Haines | Havre | Juneau Airport Annette Island Kodiak . Kotzebue ... McGrath a Congressman. His problem is not | Nome which way.—(Great Falls Tribune.) | Northw O St | Petersburg DELLA SAlSBURY JOINS s O MONTGOMERY'S SIAFF Whitehorse insurance against the She seems to have hit upon a | faster the motorist drives, the declares a novel- But we'd like to live rich. 48— R 42 Yakutat 37—Partly Della Salisburg, regxskered‘ has recently joined the John M. Mentgomery, Mrs. masseuse, aff of Dr. D.C Mrs. Salisbury ° o e o o TIDE TABLE SEPTEMBER 17 Low tide, 3:22 am., 29 ft. High tide, 10:17 am., 11.0 ft. Low tide, 3:31 p. m, 7.2 ft. High tide, 9:27 p.m, 133 ft. is a graduate of tic, and has had fifteen years of | experience in the profession. She will aid Dr. Mentgomery in his new reducing program which has just| started f and Weather Bureau 44—Partly Cloudy | 30—Snow 47—Fog 35---Clear —Cloudy | -l'.'f—Pnrlly Cloudy | 44——Cloudy‘ 45—Partly Cloudy | __7_ 51—Partly Cloudy |/ 42 —Cloudy If 53— Ram 3’1—Clear 49—Fog 44—Partly Cloudy | Cloudy 53—Rainshowers } 41—Cloudy 51—Partly Cloudy 51—Partly Cloudy | Cloudy | from THE EMPIRE l 20 YEARS A60 SEPTEMBER 16, 1929 On his arrival from Seattle, A. N. Severin, president of N. P. Severin and Company, Chicago, announced that work would start at once on the new Territorial Capital Building. It was expected that the first dirt would be turned September 18. Mrs. Stella Young, with her daughter, Miss Edith Young, and Misss L. MacLeod, arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern after a visit with relatives in Ketchikan. 1 The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Alaska Library and ® | Museum, went to Sitka for a three-week vacation from his duties at ® |the museum. . R. C. Mize, Meteorologist in charge of the Alaska District, announced that authority had been granied by the U.'S. Weather Bureau for an aircraft weather station of the second class at Ketchikan. This was lto be the first station of this class to be opened in Alaska, and others were to be opened later. John Rustgard, Attorney General of Alaska, went to Seward on {official business. Hugo Heidorn, oldtime Juneauite, took passage on the Admiral ® Rogers for Sitka, for the Pioneers’ Home. 3 A. Van Mavern, local merchandise broker, was making the Triangle l’°‘mz | Tour on the Rogers, planning to go'as far south as Wrangell. A. J. Ficken, local meat market proprietor, sailed for Sitka. Mrs. O. E. Schombel left for Seattle on the Northwestern. C. T. Gardner, local member of Sawyer, Reynolds Company, logging ! contractors, returned from the camp at Kake, where he had been for two weeks cruising timber areas for winter cutting of piling. Weather: High, 52; low, 49; rain. —w Dally Lessons in English % L. corvon WOR.DS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Be sure and take care of yourself.” Say, “Be sure TO take care of yourself.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caffeine. Pronounce kaf-e-in, A as in CALF, and THREE syllables, not kaf-een as so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Lean (thin). Lien (a legal claim). SYNONYMS: Scion, heir, offspring, descendant. 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: o | TURBULENT; being in violent agitation or commotion. “Gambling o (houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions con- o tend.” —memerman ] | | i I | MODERN ETIOUETTE ! ROBERTA LEE Q. What are the princlpal duties of the best man at a wedding? A. He looks after the bridegroom, generally driving him to the |church. He takes care of the ring, giving it to the bridegroom at the { fl Seeevoee challenged him bluntly asked whether he was paid by the Senate committee Ym one of those who don't gel * Cullum retorted yeu work for committee?” represent Senator Thomas per- scnally,” Cullum declared. Cullum also wrote, both under his own name that of Senator Thomas, askir about and criticiz- ing the program. He did not at any time reveal, of course, that e had purchased ten carloads of mohlen finally | the Agricul- .egg futures THREATENS JOB Finally Ralph Trigg, agriculture production and marketing chief, wrote back opposing Cullum'’s ideas. He then received an insulting letter suggesting that Trizg didn't under- and that perhaps a assistant secretary sho | be appointed to relieve Trigg of his responsibilities. Again Cullum did not rcveal that having purchased ten carloads ezgs, he was a highly interested party. The ten carloads of purchased in Chicago under the name of the Natlonal Commodity Cullum and his brok- Ralph Root, appeared on the floor of the exchange and made the purchase pfersonally. Chicago brokers, when interviewed by this column, stated that Cullum was { quite free in using Senator Thom- | as’ name in connection with the| deal, ; The National Commodity Corpor- jation is the name used by Cul- lum in the past to handle various speculations. Its other offi his son, Dyke Cullum, Jr, ! and his daughter, Kiki CuI-i lum, treasurer. of a eges were ture Department’s egg-price-sup-| port program every time the Senate Agriculture committee met TEN CARLOADS OF EGGS Now every housewie to see the rice of eggs come down But what évery housewife does not have is ten railroad carloads of eggs. . And what very few people in the United & knew wa that Thomas' intimate friend Cullum, had ju rchased ten freight carloads futures Therefore, he was vitally interest- ed in the future price And Dyke Cullum who, Thomas admits a trading account would like ates ha for handled him, THOMAS SWINGS WEIGHT ‘The Senator from Oklaho been quite brazen in name to Cullum's attempt fluence the egg market was one letter written to the a culture department with Thon name sizned to it regarding the department's egg-price-support pro- gram, but Thomas ted an offi- «lal investigaticn of Dyke - an 'Double Celebration At Dinner Party by - Mr. and Mrs. Fleek ' Honoring Mr. and Mrs. Gus | B: n on their third wedding anni- vers , Mr. and Mrs. George Fleek entertained last evening with informal dinner in their apartment | the LO.OF. Building | The party was in tion of Mr. Fleek's birthday will be to w. were the and daughter, id Varriss, an in , | celebra- which al also 0 Fleeks' Mr. and and Mr. zarboard | eing replaced on the! after a minor accident owned by Ed Krause | | ] ACROSS L Impressed by magnificence East Indian weight Dotated iachhower's 3 nickname . Title of Athena 3 [E[L/U/DIER| ‘proper moment. He gives the clergyman his fee, and takes care of any ‘Mps incidental to the going away, being of course veimbursed by the | bridegroom at a convenient time. | Q. Is it correct for a.woman who is traveling alone to use the prefix “Miss” or “Mrs.” when registering at a hotel? A. Yes; it is necessary to do so in order that the hotel employees may know how to address her. Q. Who has the privilege to give the signal for leaving the luncheon table? A. The hostess rises first. 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The reception following the mar- riage will be held in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel from 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock. Friends of the pop- | ular young couple are invited to the wedding and reception. Miss Bertholl is on the staff of the Behrend's Bank while Mr. Pet- ! zoldt is employed at the Punzyl Bakery. President Plans Taking Vacafion I (By Associated Press) President Truman is getting ready to leave Washington, but only for| a quick vacation back home. He |wu1 fly to Kansas City on Septem- | ber 29 for a four-day stay there and in his home town of Inde- { pendence. While there he will attend a dinner for William Boyle, Jr., the Kansas City man who is the newf Chairman of the Democratic Na-| tional Committee. The President will fly back to| lWashmgton on Octoter 2. | | SHRINE MEETING Friday evening, 8 o'clock, in the| Dugout. 99 2t| i Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 i ' ‘ “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311 The Erwin Feed Co,. 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