The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR g : Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by tne [PIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENG: India suffered many wrongs under British rule. y are suffering much under their own rule. But they don’t want outside advice, so far as politics are | concerned. But they have rich trading goods to offer, and the man who buys from them is naturally going to be pretty well thought of. One thing leads to another. | | The; President Vice-President Managing Bditor Business Manager | Entered i the Post Office In Juneau as Second Cl SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Deliveree by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.50 per month, six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ear, in advance, $15.00; six morths, ir advance, $7.50; dvance, $1.50 1 confer a favor if théy will promptly notify re or irregularity in the delivery ass Matter. | ? | A dispatch tells of a 735-pound marlin hooked and | landed in the Gulf of California. Shucks, that® nothing—we can catch a bigger perch on any Alaska postcard, on sale in any drugstore. | Subscrib Women are constantly reminding those who wear pants that they can do anything man can do. — « Wonder if one could get an “A" like the student who 1 ively_entitled to the use for S A aints. zav alk v sa g i etk o - doffed his ]1..\)115 and gave a talk on how to save paper and also the local news published | money by doing your own ironing? ihe Business Office of any fa heir papers. Teiephones o News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS a - Alaska Newspapers, 1411 The Hatch Act (Ketchikan News) The Hatch Act is a forgotten factor with the Fair Dealers, especially the Gruening machine men in Alaska. This act’ prohibits government officials or employees from participating in politics. Active elec- tioneering has been carried on in Alaska by certain officials while traveling about on “official business” at the expense of the taxpayers. Driving Hazards | e b i geared to keep his ego well with-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA - —— | | 20 YEARS AGO 3 | £ THE EMPIRE | ) A ! J A a NOVEMBER 1, 1929 The City Council voted that the City of Juneau would finance its . NOVEMBER 1 ® | share of the cost of construteing a float for small boats in the vicniity . Earle L. Hunter ® |of the Alaska Juneau rock dump. The project was sponsored by the . J. Bert Caro ® | Gity, various government bureaus and the Alaska Road Commission. - C. J. Balley ® | An estimate of the approximate cost was received from the War De- : Jonn’xlx“ZG:fllsslfgland : partment. The cost estimate of constructing three floats and a road- % Mis, C.‘F. wyller o | WAy, as well as making the fill, was $13800. This was to be divided as . Mrs. T. F. F}ye o | follows: $7,500 to be paid by the City; $4,000, by the bureaus and $2,300 . Elizabeth Griffin o |by the ARC. . Frank A. Pepin o While the weather in October was unusually warm, extremely cloudy o ® @ o o ® o o o o o and wet, it wasn’t superlatively so, and no records were established, _|according to the report issued by R. C. Mize, Meteorologist in charge of " the Juneau station. Mrs. Harold Campen, who had been acting as substitute teacher in Kodiak and was relieved by Miss Harriet Sey, arrived on the steamer Admiral Evans after “a decidedly rough crossing” but a most enjoyable trip. “Juneau’s own store”—Halvorsen's—formally opened its doors in a most successful ' debut, the many customers and other visitors con- gratulating Miss Halvorsen on the attractively decorated quarters in the Trangle Building. | Wwilliam Boyd, with Alan Hale and Robert Armstrong as his buddies in the U. S. Marines, starred in “The Leatherneck” at the Coliseum, while Charlie Murray starred in “The Head Man,” with Loretta Young and Larry Kent at the Palace. Work on the Zeppelin landing field at Fairbanks was in its last stages, the Alaska Road Commission reported. in the confines of much lower collections. It hardly pays a man to show off and few can afford the luxury. John ‘T. Flynn, who is an auth- ority on human stupidity. and has written a beilliant bock, “The Road Ahead,” to prove how s fully the British and others hasc been in sccializing themselves un- til they are spiritually as well as financially impoverished, recently told me that he was lecturing some | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949. ® & 0 0 0 v v 50 0 0o . . JUNT JUNEA 'md.. . | $ (RIDETABLR ':n%ommr:vam gl . yheas: G : . s i 4 i e Low' tide 5:42 am. 25ft. ® ::PI irning & 7:30 i 'm. ® High tide 12:02 pm,, 160 ft. o Gmn% ABRAHAM, ¢ Low tide 6:17 pm, 18 ft. @l o pinrul Master; b 5 B P O R e W4 g i i e & ® o 0 o o o o - *: @ B.P.0.ELKS . . SUN RISES - SETS ®| Meeting ' every Wednesday at H . e/ 8P M. Visl rothers wel- . NOVEMBER 1 come. F. nu::v::v BAx:dk. e Sun rises at .. k L4 Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, ® Sun sets at ... 5:08 R Becretary. ; o e O & 0 o o o o e o —_— K POVREID NS BE PN Lot T S5 (ONDITIONS | Zessrss ! CABINET s.H,‘pr“ 117 Main 8t. ~ . Phone OF WEATHER ALASKAPTS. Weather conditions and temper- wtures at various Alaska points, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 im., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau High Quality Cabifies for Home, Office or Moose I.odg_e-ll m (Cincinnati Enquirer) Sty h flscidly accepted | 8 '3 brihg dddl _| teachers who flaccidly 3 at Juneau, follow: INDIA WANTS US THERE i s “-’Tcr,:l‘}’;“[b‘.“:; “fi?.‘,‘;gg“;,"‘f‘;e el s the equivalent of| Fred Kronquist and Walter Savikko of Douglas, for whose safety A‘ Jhl" u, Bk e ¥ R SIChTor the YO e o SR Progress. So he posed a question: |some apprehension had been felt, arrived from their hunting trip. They | Anchorage 31—Snow number of cars on the road, usually increase during Barrow 21—Snow 3 4 o ;i | Why. has the United States, over |giq failure to secure game until the last few days out had delayed their " o Gireat disp¥ay Had boen' minds My “WaNititon of. Higee manths, SITERSSESNII CADEERS B8 ‘!’fg"_““‘,“g;ns history, spent more money on | oo o gem:el ''''' 25;:;‘_:_‘;‘;‘?" The Rexall Store jts efforts in getting India’s prime minister to line up "o 2PPear: If yowve done much driving recently YOU'Ve | o4 cation than any other countty? | o oo conus had celebrated Hallowe'en quietly, there being ordova n e with the western world against the I ‘ noted the large number of wet leaves Which have car-| "y o1 not be that our culture s 5 PR L il 24—Cloudy | Your Reliable Pharmacists i St S b P R Deted parts of the highway. . They're ekiday, thosels. " reat. After all, even at besty|!ittle eyldence other tnan scaped windows to mark the passing of thel pamonton T | ndia has been—to put it mildly—nuts to trade .. ec s at. e + | dat Fairbanks 17—Partly Cloud:; BUTLER-M ¥ leaves! 's is only a notable branch of date. y Cloudy -MAURO and wark with B ORI B O ea p9ss Birice the B ours is only a A ; 1 | and work with the United States ever since the BIitish " oy jnqucements to skidding will appear as|the western European cuture. ¥et,| Weather: High, 47; low, 41; rain. Haines 43—Rain DRUG CO. ¥ began to move out more than a year ago when India 5 % o svar o Havre A <. 44—Clear autumn moves toward winter. There'll be mornings|no country in Europe ever spen. = e = — —— was given dominion status. when patches of ice will cover sections: of the roads. |as much on education as the Unit- "i Juneau Airport ... 46—Rain showers i 2 ! 9 P 0 as o - 5 & 3 f o N Baaen i {h A ] i 2 ¥ Businessmen of Calcutta, Madras, and other major And, with additional rains, therell be mud patches, ¢d States. The European countries || D -l I. . E l- Sh by ok fenn b Alaska Music supply Bay of Bengal ports did everything they could to in- ‘particularly in areas where trucks are moving dirt. simply could not afford to slice) al y essons ln ng I W. L. GORDON Kotzebue 24— Partly Cloudy ! fluence American shipping comvanies to sail in and These must be watched carefully if yau're to avoid their tax dollars that way, b\!Lil McGrath § lg’_mo:dy Arthur M. Uggen, Manager trade. Because of its dead-end character, the Bay accidents. They're slick as glass! the United States ‘could afford tdIL.— — Nome 16—-cleaz Pilanos—Mausical ‘\nstruments & hasn't gotten this trade, with a few exceptions—sev- All three of these hazards are complicated by the 0 it. In fact, in our r"“}"’:‘;“»"t_“‘ | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He walks just like his|yop oo S s and Supplies & eral companies are routing ships in on more or less fact that they are not uniform. They crop out un- juged v{"i" l‘""‘;‘ or education | g, y0r v Say, “He walks just AS his father does.” Beteribiire 54 Cloudy | | ~PhoDe 206 . Second and Sewara. a tramp basis expectedly—often when you're breezing along over a “";’({:“l‘]:::fn’u e, 021 through| OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Valiant. Pronounce val-yant, both A’s | portiand ... . 31—Fog The major -ports—Bombay and surrounding terri- Safe, smooth thoroughfare at a good rate of speed. | oo this country spent $3 570,000, - |as in AT, second A unstressed. Prince George ... 28—Partly Cloudy tory—are a gold mine for Americans, now that the W}‘eg 5!““" or 5“;“; is ffll%‘lng- a “";Wd watches his oo B ication construction, av-| ~ OFTEN MISSPELLED: Wherewithal; only one L. Seattle 43—Clear GENERAL PAINTS British are gone, Indians theve wanbyus in—they 5D during eyery drivingmile. Bub Lhe flangers men- oryoimg $357,000,000 a year, Then| SYNONYMS: Reasonable, fair, just, equitable. Whitehorse 37—Snow | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us|Yakutat 44—Rain and WALLPAPER want American products, American knowledge, Ameri- tioned here can't met in an instant. be seen too far ahead—they must be it dropped to $123,000,000 in 1932{ and reached a low tigure of $41-|j ncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. ‘Today's word: can capital ¢ It behooves us, then, to exercise extreme care dur- 000,000 in 1944 | APOLOGUE; a fable or moral tale. (Pronounce ap-o-log, A as in AT, The art of making openings in Ideal Paint Store the skull—trepanning—was known This desire to trade with us does not mean they to the ancients. wish to side with us politically. But trade begets friendship ,and friendship begets sympathies. For too many years only one ship line flew the American flag between Singapore and the Red Sea, where the rich dominion lies. That one company still is the only one subsidized to go in, but athers o because of cargoes. Of course in a way it's “dollar diplomacy,” “He always managed to Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt L’siflk,_:mp:w:'fi,,xezl:'mgew?;D:::,-;;:Zs("',rn:iv”::’;z‘N )]T;‘:' "‘l‘i‘“ ":::( ”‘(‘mi"""’n r:“f“‘z:flfirst O as in OBEY, accent first syllable). ahead should be studied carefully—and the mu(urist‘tm‘q-(» was or there was not money »mtroduce a few interesting apologues into his lectures. | should be ready at all times to cope with situations!for this purpose in the tax dollar. | which can’t be seen until they're upon him—or, better,| What can be shown for building | | until he’s upon them! Such a program not only Will | construction is true of every phas insure our own saefty, but the safety of others on the | of governmental activity, Federal, nation's highways. It is one sure way to help reduce | State and Municipal. Once when SCHWINN BICYCLES at Madsen’s. e e e ) Widest Sclection of | MODERN ETIQUETTE JUNEAU’'S FINEST LIQUOR STORE T by ‘ ROBERTA LEE | | '} our alarmingly hi LOOPHOLE Congressman Walter Lynch of New York bluntly informed the big life insurance companies at a closed-door session of a Ways and Means subcommittee last week that the gravy train they have been rid- | ing for the last three years had — {reached the end of the line. A |loophole in the tax laws. enabline BIG TAX but more subsidies should be granted. “4e Washinglon ‘arry-6o-Round 3y DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) | unit, Westinghouse Electric s Corporation was ordered to shell |the companies to. escape billion out an additicnal $18 for equip- {of dollars of income taxes, is going to be closed. Furthermore, Lynch warned the executives that they ment that it had bought from the Navy for 2 percent of the original cost. The Navy unit also cracked | insurance down on the company owned by |might as well quit protesting about Perle Mesta, U. S. Minister to Lux- | Paying up retroactive taxes. “These obligations due the gov- emborg and famed dinner hostess to President Truman. The Mesta |€rnment are going to be collected Machine Company had tried to|one way or another—and I mean ed notice “The retroactively,” Lyrich s at a closed-door meeting honeymoon is over.” He offered the insurance tycoons either of two alternatives: charge the Navy $36,000 for main- taining a Navy plant, but the watchdog unit took exception to a few items, including 100 percent for overhead, and cut the bill down gh accident rate. ed from 92 to 95 percent income. Lynch re- jected this, however, and gave the insurance executives until today (Nov. 1) to make up their minds on his two-way proposal THESE DAYS B - = GEORGE E. KOLSKY THE TAX DOLLAR No matter how it is sliced, all the government has to work with is the tax dollar. If it collects $44,000,000,000 from the American people, or any other amount, that is all that it has to spend. If it spends more than that, it has to borrow the money or increase the |taxes of the current taxpayers When it borrows, it increases the taxes of present and future tax- payers. The constitution forbids confis- | was rai of investment i |T was sitting next to the late Fio- How should an engraved invitation to a home wedding be rello La Guardia, he was as ners Q. vous and ble as a wet hen.|worded? I'Ana his police aide was back and| A. It may read thusly: “Mr. and Mrs, John Howard request the forth with messages. Finally, being a reporter on the alert for a story, | |1 could not restrain my curiosity and I asked him what was troub= [ling him. “Snow,” he said. “Just {snow!” He ruined took meney then snow | his budget: from explained how ary calculations, things he felt were more important, more per- | manently valuable. He explained how one blizzard might wreck his | plans. T never thought of that, but ‘ob\'iously in a city of the size and complexity of New York, the snow has to be removed, and quickly, | or the loss might be even heavier. | So the problem is what to do| | about the tax dollar, spend billions |apart? on past and prospective wars, on | pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter, Margaret | Amy, to Mr. Frederick Sprague on Tuesday afternoon, the | of October at four o'clock, twenty-two West End Avenue.” twenty-fourth Q. When accompanying two women along a street, where should the man place himself? A. He should not sandwich himself between them, but take the | outside of the walk, the same as with one woman. Q.. Should the knife be used to put the butter on a baked potato? A. No; it is better to use the fork. 100K and LEARN L, by A. C. GORDON What are the two points in the United States that are farthest 1 2. From what value to what value was the British pound reduced veterans, on farm subsidies, on|yecently? education? Soon some items become fixed, like the $5,000,000,000 a ,\'em) we give to Europe. That has be-| 3. Which has the greater influence upon the tide, the sun or the moon? 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 —_—— BAVARD'S Phone 689 ; The Alaskan Hotel | Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O PHONE 555, e —————— A 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” 4. How many kinds of bees are there in every hive? On what part of a man’s face do the most hairs gx‘ow? a habit. Farm subsidies, Beward Street Near Third cation of privately-owned proporlyiccme to $22,400. 1. A “stopgap” bill, pending re- | When the Bur:"uu of Yards and |yision of the tax laws, requiring| Withouk just compensation, but | which came with bad times, have| 5. Docks tried to give away a-Navy |the companies to pay taxes on all|that is no assurance any longer, become a fixation for all times, | ANSWERS: FORD AGENCY building erected on the property of jabove 92 percent of their income for the Constitution also permits good as well as bad. | 1. Cape Flattery, Washington, and a point on the Florida coast (Authorized Dealers) the National Tube Company, the from Investmenis for the years |the government to collect an in-| Each item takes its cut from south of Miami; 2,835 miles The Charles W. Carter GREASES — GAS — OIL v.;lmhdlu(;; l\;‘xmbs\‘(]'();pml in an fin- 1948 and 1949. Under a tax law |Come tax. One provision cancels | the tax dollar and those which be~‘ 2. From $4.03 to $2.80. . 5 ally sol e building for formula written in 1942, ta out the other. For instance, the come permanent take a share away | & In another instance, Navy emptions on investment in present income tax law permits|from older pieces of the tax pie. i Z::e:‘mnlker d Mofluary J“"“ “olor co‘ electric furnaces /and industrial |have amounted to 100 percent in |the government to collect an in-| It would be gloriously easy for | i TR RO, Fourth and Franklin Sts. Foot of Maln Street equipment were lying idle. So the |the last three years.) come tax as high as 82 percent. If |the bureaucrat if he could tax vn %; . Cenfer-orihe chin. PHONE 136 \A'ulchdog_ unit got busy and leased| 2. If the companies don’t want |that is not confiscation, nothing | the basis of what he could spend this equipment to the Allegheny|to make retroactive payments for |is. Yet, it is altogether legal. He could then lay out all his plans 3 & MAER Ludlum Steel Corporation for $709,- { two years under this bill—already| When a man collects $1,000,000 {and confiscate all the money in g ——— p JUNEAU DAIRIES 00‘;' : AL introduced by Ways and Means |A5 Salary or even $500,000 he is just |sight. However, in our country as Cal'll Beverage Co. DELICIOUS ICE CREAM other company, he iott | Chairman Bob Doughton of North|a show-off. His actual earnings are |in Merrie England, when it no a daily t—ask name Company, tried to buy a Navy|Carolina—Lynch proposed that|What is left after the Federal ani |longer payes to work, we should | Oldesi Bank in Alaska Wholesale 805 10th St. Sy - | | PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT State taxes are paid and that is)soon enough just sit on our hands. | i Juneau Dalries, Inc. office building for $38,100. Just A% |they pay up for all three years the contract was about to be sign-| (1947 P 9 ider g [ (1947, 1948 and 1949) under a so- for MIXERS or SODA POP 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 ed, the watchdog un(x;t dl:mled infcalled “average valuation” formula. " with its inspectors and adding ma- v A o d P it s nspeciors and oG | i would amount to an aross: | Crosswor uzzle . Chrysler Marine Engines | fulful ’ pan | uful appraisal, EWott Gompany | fPeid, YRR OF tax dedie - e . enrenas Casler’s Men's Wear MACHINE SHOP , had to pay $60,725. 0 ; ACROSS 32. Note of the Marine Hardw: Note—The man in charge of the | 2% “,w”: o Surilysos. 0 R TSR 33 T(:)“l:xete | 'ml'flrmerly bt " i 4 N R '“| serve funds. 6. Spanish cloaks 33- | and Mallory Hats Navy unit which is doing such a ~ . 37. Brother of | Bank Navy unlt e Bl sucn o ("ol nmrance exso, Jad {11 Corv s By Arvow Shirt na Underwear ||| Chas. G. Warner Co. hought | money is Capt. M. C. Barrett, His|? A. J. McCandless of Lincoln |11 Beginning 18, 8o, AmericAn Alen Edmonds Shols chief assistants are Comdrs. Pp,|Natio Fort Wayne, Ind, vig- Ravhel 40. Measures safety DCPOSit o v i ge and J. K. Kenncdy. orously objected to both proposals. ! 17. Cooks 41. Kipling kyway Luggage HOME They were in no position to make | 1% Anclent Greek o gharacter Boxes Rent GROCERY ¢ I retractive payments of any kind,|20. Male deer 4% Harden | f‘”’ e'. TRUMAN'S “;A TLINE they insisted. sinoa thie money that) T2y ok One 1 | B o T A u Y Phone 146 Though the President jokes about | normally would go toward the tax 23. Dispatched 46 Musio -dramas i p his expanding waistline, actually |payup already had been distributed | 2 ©lbeg o 15 Einaricat Saiition o yesteiang R COMMERCIAL SA NGS "sno" Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 he watches his diet carefuly. Theq dividends. 217. Fold of cloth Ornaments DOWN . Kind of dog American Meat — Fhene 33 o 3 29 More dis- 2. Condition 1. Flat cap Goddess of 2 cther ‘day a: ;L.‘ ch uman ate ‘Well, make up your minds," courteous Give 2. Copy " discord c L 0 T n E s two pieces of homec-cured country|replied Lynch. “You may as well | . Pertaining to ! Missouri ham-—an unusually large | realize that you can't ride frec ! Ffi i Fhastesih = i NUNN-BUSH SHOES To Banish “euo.d.’" ! “of meat for The des- |8 7 . Thread spun STE' ‘Bl portion ‘of meat for him. The des- [any longer. | by a spider TSON HATS To gi" freedom i sert was icc cream and chocolate| When McCandless protested that - Monkeys Quality Work Clothing R 215 Ja% mone | ?;;r"e- Looking at the cake wistfully, |the life insurance firms were n | Aromatic seed B. E. FEERO rom work — TRY i e ned (ljilil)?i:n to “fix"l{,e pfc]ixlue:ri for such a sudden blow | Foel::l x;m(;:r as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA r G s Spniie. . their reserve funds, and that Heall ab EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Complete Outfitter for Men Alaska Llll‘f’ nd asked: retroactive payments would en- | selt Present this coupon to the box office of the I have a piece of that|danger the stability of a number of { e K gt ate cake?' companies, Lynch shot back: - O tton replied Dr. Graham! “Why, you've been put on nuli(‘t‘t . BlaES. news- CAPITOL Tmm l w COWI.IIG 4 ed | baper story . o We ster ou can't, Mr. President.”|as long as two ago, when | . Metric lana 3 e Sl T \whniet' fo Leartiivou it cicoumsed yonet essmt] 3 and receive TWO TICKETS to see: COMPANY Clothing Man ed the President as he bold-|tions with the Treasury Depart- 28, Delaware " . 7] “Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler The ly reached for & big piece of cake.|ment. Youve known all along that 20, A.é,'.‘&'éifif MADAME BIIVAIY é DeSoto—Dodge Trucks LEVIS OVERALLS “I'll see you at 5 o'clock you would have to make good cn - BMnxof for Bo; ed the White House physician, re- | these unpaid taxes some day. So 34, Holder of & Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre g (g ferring to the President's ex you can’'t accuse the Congr of nelfsx’x?m SHAFFER'S period dealing with you arbitrarily. 6. Group of four o il Mt i, 1 | b R e il || Phone 4—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone22 ||| SANITARY MEAT || ‘S5 Wik ooner" guest, Senator McFarland, ate a ally suggested that 1947 and 1948 ) Meu?;re ot i and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and SOk bRttt e ‘SAY IT WITH OURS!” few crumbs of the delicious cake. taxes be written off with the 1949 | fla anin RETURN Y/ our i 3—] S—4 . 45. Wild_animat oU to home wit! . Despite his braggadocio, he took and 1950 taxes paid—if the tax- 17 Slamese coln v h our compliments. 1 :E%E 9 Juneau Florists Graham'’s warning seriously. able floor in the Doughton bill| e 49. Bustle WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name ijA 1 ivery Phone 311 ) i