The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published egery evenir EMPIRE PR G COMPANY Second and M Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSE - 5 g DOROTHY TROY LINGO . ELMER A. FRIEND = ALFRED ZENG L except Sundas by tne Prestdent Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered In the Post Office In Jumeau SUBSCRIPTION RAT Delivere¢ by casrier in Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month, six months, §8.00; one year, §15.00 By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six morths, in advance, $7.50; ne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify e Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivers »f “heir papers. Telephones: News Office, MEMBER OF AS 602; Bustness Office, OCIATED PRESS 374, The Associated Prss is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 surth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash, MAYBE ANOTHER ALASKA BOOST That was good in yesterday’s Empire as carried in an Associated Press dispatch from Wash- ington. The dispatch said " the emergency $154,612,470 military construction bill for Alaska and Okinawa was cleared by the House Rules Committee for House action this week. The bill would authorize the Army, the Navy and the Air Force to undertake that amount of construc- tion. The House Armed Services Committee said prompt action is needed “in view of the international situa- tion and the exigencies of national defense.” news CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT the history of the Civil ands of wives work- be named to advices For the first time in Service Retirement System, hus ing for the Federal government receive survivorship pensions, according received from Delegate E. L. Bartlett. Until the President signed a law last week making this possible, the privilege of naming marriage part- ners to receive survivorship pensions belonged ex- may to | under the, safety | immunity. s Second Class Matter. | clusively to men employed by the government. The | same bill provides that any Federal worker who re- | tires may provide a survivorship pension for wife or husband by taking a 5 per cent reduction on the | fidst $1500 of annuity and 10 per cent on any amount over that figure. | EDITOR GETS BACK AT SENATOR Very recently Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, !who claims to know all Alaska, informed a Con- gressional committee that the soil in Alaska thaws only down seven inches in summer, nothing but vegetables can be raised and 85 per cent of them is . water, that the produce cannot be transported and ! has to be consumed immediately or dehydrated. He admits there may be some paper pulp up here but says fishing has already been exploited to an unusual degree and that there is no future in minerals. He sees no opportunities for young men in Alaska, claiming the Territory has a military, mining and fishing value but that these things are being developed now to the ultimate. | Senator Thomas made a very brief trip to Alaska possibly not staying in the north only a few hours. | Well it takes an Alaska Editor to get right back at the Senator. This editor is Frank DeLoughery, of | the Seward Seaport Record, and here is what he has | to say in a recent issue of his paper: Oklahoma’s Senator Elmer Thomas' to a Senate appropriations committee this week has caused widespread comment throughout Alaska. Senator Thomas very evidently is one of those | people who believe the only way to make their own possessions look better is to run down what other statements people hav Any person who has spent as many hours in Okla- homa as Mr. Thomas did in Alaska is well qualified to take issue with his opinion. This writer spent four long and miserable months in Oklahoma, and that is the only place he’s ever stood |in ankle-deep mud and could not see forty feet be- cause of dust in his eyes, or hear the orders from the C. O. because of the howling wind. Not just a few hours of it—four months! It might be a good idea to instigate an educa- tional fund to take care of such people. Why not send him a few pounds of potatoes from Hope, Palmer, Kenai, Homer or any other agricultural sec- tion of Alaska? A few heads of lettuce and some | turnips, carrots, rutabagas, a quart or so of rasp- berries large enough so he wouldn’t recognize them for what they really are, could be pi'.chgd into the program. It could make no difference where the products come from, as long as it's Alaska. Last but not least and by all means, let's give the man a leg to stand on. Send him a few heads of cabbage. There is no doubt that he could find at least one from Oklahoma that would be of good size and a lot solider than any we can produce in Alaska. transfer to other branches. It was of Congressional the admirals, however, who pulled t Maycock, Alice file Washinfiion ADMIRAL'S DAY IN COURT | The public has largely forgotten {it, but twice the Navy has been !given complete and lengthy hear- {ings by Congress, and each time ~ iCongress ruled against the Navy. Secretary of State Henry L. Stim-|Following which the Admirals re- son on 8-inch-gun cruise And | fused to accept the Congressional there was the bitter on | decision. Stimson’s war record, on In 1946-47 Congress held protract- subrosa by the admirals. ed hearings regarding unification There was also the leak of a of the Armed Forces. The Navy secret naval document regarding was vigorously opposed. One of} dirigible bases by Adm. Joseph M. | the admirals testifying against uni- Reeves, not unlike the leak by Capt. | fication at that time was Adm. Crommelin toda And there was| Gerald F. Bogan, who, apparently the shameless in which cer- | forgetting his own testimony, wrote tain naval adv to the Coolidge |a letter, recently leaked to the Naval Conference in 1927 conspired‘ press, in which he complained that with William Baldwin Shearer,|the Navy never had a hearing lobbist for American steel manu-| However, after months of hear- facturers and shipbuilders, to de-|ings and after listening to anyone feat the policies of their command- who wanted .to testify, Congress vot- er-in-Chief, Mr. Coolidge. led for unification. In a civilian Looking back over the last three|form of government, it is the Con- decades, the Navy has battled much | gress, not the Navy, which is sup- more. vigorously against its Re- | posed to have the final word. Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) | isaved for scrap the wires on Capitol Hill to pre- vent this transfer. Not much is said about it, and the report is still secret, but real trouble with the Navy today is the Bikini bomb test. When cruisers and battleships were found to have been radioactive months after Bi- kini, and finally had to be taken out in the sea and sunk, you can understand why the Navy is get- ting out-of-date. Bikini vessels which came within range of the atomic fumes couldn’t even be iron. That’s the key to the admirals’ woes. REBEKAHS Perseverence Lodge meets Wed., Oct. 12, 8 p.m. regular business, nomination of officers and birthday observation. All members are urged to attend. 321 1t TIDE TABLE |lowest steamship fares available to publican Commanders-in-Chief than against the Democrats. This Is| partly because, under Franklin D.| Roosevelt, a former Assistant Naval | Secretary, there was almost nothing the Navy wanted that it could not get. Even regaramg uniforms, FDR bowed to the admirals. Because of the scarcity of textiles during the war, his Secretary of the Navy, the late Frank Knox, had banned a new blue-gray sunmimer uniform. Whereupon, Fleet Commander Ad- miral Ernie King walked into the “White House and reversed Knox in five minutes. One reason the admirals are so irate today, of course, is that their | inside drag with the White House | is no more. Not only was Har Truman an artillery eaptain dur ing Werld War I, but his very close | friend, Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan,| is interested in the army, not the | navy. ‘ |any other officer in an outmoded ~ Again last winter further hear- ings were held on unification, but again Congress voted against them, tightened unification. OCTOBER 12 o High tide, 4:42 a.m,, 13.1 ft. e Low tide, 10:21 am, 52 ft. e High tide, 16:13 p.m,, 154 ft. e Low tide, 23:12 pm, 14 ft. CAVALRY AND BATTLESHIPS Admirals Bogan, Radford and Denfeld now complain that morale in the Navy is low. That is true. However, during the 1946-47 hear- Jongressmen proposed that officers have the right to transfer to the Air Fol or any branch of the Army with equal pay and rank, or with even greater pay and rank—if justified. This provision was inserted because it was forseen that battleships and surface vessels, now easy targets for atomic bombs, would be put out of commission and there should be some place for naval officers to go. The situation was considered > similar to that in the Army when | : Gover v (i cavalry and horse-drawn artillery | :;,:[f_l:""'"' ¢ me outmoded. Cavalrymen and | 12, Employ betan monk article OCTOBER 12 Sun rises at 7:25 a.m. Sun sets at ...6:03 p.m. ‘'opaz_hum- mingbirds Piece ot Pitcher Copper coin Closed car THE DAILY ALASKA LMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA B s P IR s e N G - R AR T T 1] 20 YEARS AGO 7% empirE IIntemmmnul Highway Project had been introduced in Congress. e | carried an appropriation of $25,000 for expenses. OCTOBER 11 Charles W. Carter Andrew Nelson Farris Notterstad Lawrence Carlson A. F. Knight Senna Powers Andrew Sutton Alyce E. Fehn Yvonne Bost Molly and Terry McLaughlin Joanne Nowell Arnold Savela Allamae Scott Rosemary Doogan Alexander Miller . ° . . ° . . . . ° . . . . . . . . ALASKA COASTAL BRINGS IN 19, TAKES OUT 12 Carrying a total of 37 passengers yesterday, Alaska Coastal Airline: Lrought 19 into Juneau and took 12 out. Six were carried interport.| They were: 0 LUlseydau: WODEIT Kobson, N. Murray. To Lituya Bay: iansen, Jr. To Sitka: Gerald Christ- Kenneth Lauritzen, Birdie McNeil, W. R. Nichols, Bud | Eider, of the U. S. Bureau of Fisher] trips beteween Nome and the Pribilofs. Whiteside. To Angoon: Mr. and Mrs. Joe| Akagi, Rosita James. | | NS a¥ the Governor's Mansion. erable damage to the machine. OCTOBER 11, 1929 A bill authorizing creation of a special commission to study the It Carl J. Lomen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lomen | Reindeer Corporation, with offices in Nome, Seattle and New York, ar- rived on the Alaska, and was the houseguest of Gov. George A. Parks Lomen, who had been to, Nome, planned a few days in Juneau before returning to his home in New York. A truck of the Glacier Dairy, driven by Frank Meier, had gone off the causeway at Thane, slightly injuring the driver and doing consid- Several hundred empty milk bottles were smashed to bits. The steering gear had become entangled in broken telephone wire. p Women of Mooseheart Legion entertained at a card party, with | bridge prizes going to Mrs. Jesse Harmon, Walt Halm, Mrs. Bodding, Oscar Harri, Miss Jones and Mr. Kirk. Prizes in whist were won by Mrs. Torvinen, Grant Baldwin, Mrs. Berry, Oscar Harri, Mrs. Cashel and Mr. Rodenberg. At a meeting of the Douglas Island Woman's Club in the home of Rose Davis. Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas, a musical program was given by Miss Katherine Shier, Mrs. Glen Kirkham and Miss Dorothy Fay. The next meeting was to be in the home of Mrs. Miss Laina Aalto of Douglas, recently selected as a public health The steamer Princess Louise, Capt. T. Cliffe, arrived with these Weather: High, 52; low, 49; light rain. passengers for Juneau: Hanna Katainen_, Sister Mary Specken, Sister Mary La Bossiera, and William and Edward Gibbon. To Tenakee: Jerry Beason. ‘To Haines: Leona Moon. " From Haines: James E. Russell | Mrs. William Engel and son. “ From Hood Bay: Wendell Schroe- der. | From Sitka: David Austin, Jim, WORDS OFTEN Daily Lessons in English . 1. corvon ]. gosl MISUSED: Do not say, Rinehart, Charles Johnstone, C‘Ydelmust work their own problems.” Say, “Every (or EACH) student must Junecty, Shapiro, Bob Armstrong | From Tenakee: Jerry Beason. From Icy Sra Jeannie Welsh. | From Hoonah: James Paddock, George Abbott, Joseph Adrian. ], From Mud Bay: Mike Fenster,| Bud Brown. | From Tulsequa’ | RATES LOWERED | FOR WINTER BY | ALASKA §. §. €0., Matt Stimas. | increase our vocabulary by mastering on { AMITY; mutual good will; friendship. Maxim | work HIS own problems.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Finesse. |FIN, E as in NEST, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Supersede; SEDE, not CEED. SYNONYMS: Revive, restore, refresh, renew, tate. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us e word each day. Today’s word: “The amity that Wisdom knits reanimate, Pronounce fi-nes, I as in resusci- ' MODERN hot, Folly may easily untie.”—Shakespeare. a bride's parents for her | ) Q. What are some of the expenses of 3 ;weddmg? New low winter round-trip fares| A. The invitations, the bride's trousseau, decorations for the church on vessels of the Alaska S“’“m"'f_“p‘;and house, soloists and organists at church, transportation for the C(?n1pnxlyl 1;(“ “0“_\’_ “l‘ gm‘sc"at;lee bridal party from house to church and back, the wedding reception, tween Alaska ports and Seattle.| ;o0 or preakfast, the bride’s presents to her bridesmaids, and a wedding according to announcement receiv- ed from H. N. Peterson, General| Traffic Manager. The new passenger rates, which went into effect yesterday, offer the | Alaskans since 1941, The saving is approximately 20 percent. New winter rates allow 120 days after the southbound sailing be- fore boarding a ship in Seattle for | the return (providing the north- || bound embarkation is not later|| than May 15, 1950). \ Another low winter rate is of [i special advantage to passengers taking their cars for a stateside vacation. Automobiles now may be checked as baggage, at new flat rates—an innovation in Alaska pas- | senger travel, which offers a con- siderable saving compared to the charges on a weight basis. Fall and winter sailings of the Baranof and Denali now are avafl-‘ able at the Alaska Steamship Com- pany Office. RUMMAGE SALE By Martha Society, Northern Light Presbyterian Church Parlor. | present to the couple. Q. Should the used silver be gathered up before removing the used plates from the dinner table? A. No; the silver should be left on the plates, and all removed from the table together. Q. Does a man who is traveling alone prefix “Mr.” when registering at a hotel? A. No; he merely registers as John B. Green, Chicago, Il 1. How many different surnames are there in the U. S. 2. How many times his own weight in food does the average moderately active man consume in a year? 3. Who was the first President to ride to his inauguration in an automobile? 4. What are the most popular card games in the U. 8.? 5. Which animal weighs the most and which the least at birth? ANSWERS: Approximately 125,000. About ten times his own weight. Warren G. Harding. Bridge, pinochle, poker, and rummy. ‘Whale and opossum. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank : s TR | nurse under direction of the Bureau of Education, left on the Margnita ) whitehorse for Hoonah, where she was to be for the winter. It was announced that the USCG cutter Northland, Comdr. Edward | prancis were admitted to St. Ann's Darlington Jones, would take the place of the disabled patrol boat { Hospital yesterday. ies, for November, to make several [ “Each and every student ;for business. i Il TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1949 CONDITIONS OF WEATHER ALASKAPTS. Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau | at Juneau, follow: Anchorage . Barrow Bethel Cordova ... Dawson .. Edmonton Fairbanks Haines . Havre . Juneau Airport Annette Island .. Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath . Nome . Northway Petersburg Prince George . Seattle 0 ceeenn 22—Clear 1—Ground Fog ! 36—Rain | 28—Clear | 27—Cloudy 28—Partly Cloudy 22—Cloudy 44—Cloudy ... 40—Partly Cloudy - 39—Cloudy 49—Rain 42—Clear | 30—Snow | 24—Cloudy| 39-—Cloudy 2ot . 21—Snow . 42—Rain Showers . 43—Cloudy 54—Partly Cloudy Yakutat HOSPITAL NOTES Frank Clayton, Mary Chapman. Mrs. John Curtis and Ernest G. 32—Clear | Charlie Jim, Mrs. John Ryan and Indal Bertinussen were discharged from St. Ann’s. Rosita James of Angoon and Nick Avakumoff of Steward were discharged from the Government Hospital yesterday. NOTICE Elsie’s Beauty Shop is now open 229 North Franklin Ph. Red 509. Elsie Brunnett. 21 5t WEST JUNEAU RESIDENTS Meeting 8 p. m. Wednesday, Bill Hixson's basement, to discuss a new water and sewer system. 320 3t GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 * The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE "'/ SHOP AT BERT’S FOOD CENTER Alaska’s Finest Supermarket STEVENS’ LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, 14 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. i, €D B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. BLACKWELL'S CARINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or- Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY "The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments 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 565 - Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 | branch of the service were permit- { |ted to transfer to the expanding Reading a book written 17 years| Air Forces, sometimes with a pro-: i ve THE ADMIRALS STILL LEAK Safety Deposit intensifying ago, I came across this paragraph: | “Leaks are mong the admira most effective means of propagan-| dizing. When a White House de- cision has gone against them, when the State Department is carrying on a negotiation which the -ad- mirals oppose, when they fail to get their full appropriation, then| the safest and best strategy is to leak. “They do this to the press or to a discreet member of Congress. Both channels are effective. A furore is stirred up. The President or the State Department is pic- tured as stripping the country of its defense and baring its bosom to the enemy — and after all the furore has subsided, the admirals usually find themselves on top.” That statement, written by this columnist in 1932 in the book “More Merry-Go-Round,” is egual- ly true today. It is true regarding the Captain Crommelin leaks; and | it is true regarding the leaks to| motion. ol But when Congress proposed that navalofficers be allowed to transfer to the Army or Air Force, the ad- mirals opposed. At their behest | this provision was taken out of the unification bill. That is the real reason why mor- ale is low in the Navy. The in-| escapable fact is that the battle- ship is woefully cut of date, and the Navy would even like to lay up the Missouri—if President Truman would consent. Thus naval officers have no other branch of the service to which they can transfer. No wonder they are discouraged. destiny 20. Bird's home ’ ath 21. Polynesian 51. Seed covering 55. Promises Unity trong wind . American university Dangd and measure le call 32 Silkworm | BIKINI BOMB TEST 1S KEY l Again, early this year, when* the! new unification bill was under con- | sideration, it was proposed that the | naval officers have the right /to transfer to the Force or the Army; but again tN\ naval lobby opposed. | So naval officers find themselves Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 59. Cluster of wool fibers DOWN . Wristband 2. Continent 6. Word of aflirmation . Uncovered . Dull finish . American Indian . June oug . Type squares names city in lowa . Fuel . Exist Fairy Top cards _ Biblical reglon Soap plant Concise Shade of blue Portico 7. Bird of prey . Profound | Shred . Age 1. 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