The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1949, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1949' PAGE FOUR All rain should Y4 2 == = T ® e 0 05 90 0 0 o ‘ .4 \ : ol TIDE TABLE L] SPEEDING KETCHIKAN YOUTHS LOSE LICENSES KETCHIKAN—A drive is under way by city police and territorial highway patrolmen to lessen a re- © | cent outbreak of speeding and reck- | less driving, mostly by young driv- ‘ers During the past week the li- ‘]censes of three drivers have been ® | suspended for periods ranging from 160 days f6 one year. ® 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 o t The principal offenders, police report, are youths who start a |race on north Tongass avenue to see which car can reach the NOVEMBER 3 jend of town first, and thoses‘:;k‘x}; Sun rises at . 8:16 am. /play a game of “tag” with their Sun sets at . ... 5:06 pm. e fnums—bumplng fenders while rac- e o o o ® o o eling down a street. Daily Alaska Empire ' [ = = s = Pub]hhm every evening except Sunday by the | EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY | Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - a DOROTHY TROY LINGO - . . ELMER A. FRIEND - - . ALFRED ZENGER - - x - NOVEMBER 3 High tide 0:25 am., 1438 ft. Low tide 6:17 am., 25 ft. High tide 12:31 p.m., 16.7 ft. Low tide 6:50 p.m., 06 ft. SALE ()F GOL D NOVEI\{BER 2, 1929 One of the most enjoyable affairs of the season was reported to be the Hallowe'en masquerade given by the Women of Mooseheart Legion. | Prize winners were Mrs. Gorham and Mr. Hagland, for the most appro- priate costumes; Rosena Messerschmidt and Fred Soberg, the most comical, and Mrs. Monagle, Sr., and Mrs. Archie Radelet, for the best| o sustained characters. . In final round-up of Hallowe'en actiivties, Police Chief G. A. Get-| e chell said that, with two exceptions, the pranks were wholesome and | ® there was little vandalism. He gave credit to both youngsters and . parénts. : Beginning with the primary grades, Mrs. Gillette, Red Cross nurse, i began her examination of the Douglas school children. To raise money for zfxe activity fund, Associated Students of Douglas High School planned an apron dance in the “Nat.” John Cashen was chairman, with Sammie Kronquist and Mona Carlson on the committee | In Douglas, Mrs. R. M. Davis and her son moved from the Riesser cottage on E Street to the Catholic parsonage for the winter. Miss Dorothy Fay and her brother took the house vacated by the Davises. Eddie P. Josia of Craig, who was reported lost on Hecata Island for several days, was found by A. Starklof, and both men had reached Craig, according to word received by U. S. Marshal Albert White. President Vice-President “The r PR ; b Mapixing Batter The rumor isn't true but we make no promises . Business Manager | for the future.” That, in effect, was the manner in which Under e Secretary of the Treasury E. H. Foley replied to ® Delegate Bartlett’s query conecrning the department’s © attitude on sale of gold in its natural state at prices| ® Mrs, T‘“‘;;““;"" {V‘fck above $35 an ounce . Arne ronquist . William Paul, Jr. “The rumor,” Under Secretary Foley wrote Dele- | g R gate Bartlett, “is without foundation.” Rut the of- g | ficial was quick to add that, d ¢ 7 NOVEMBER 2 Daily Alaska Empire Joe Thibodeau the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Deliveree by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 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, ir. advance, $7.50; ae month, in advance, $1.50. | Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity | ihe Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery ¥ “heir papers Telephones 3. Entered in © o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SUN RIS J. Sprague Virginia Neilson Gerald MeLaughlin Paul Land ' Delia McPherson ® 0 e o o News Office, 602; Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Prss s exclusively entitled to the use for | Department republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- . : Vise credited fn this paper and also the local news published | sale of gold in its natural state at premium prices, serein _ | should the volume of sales of such gold require our i revoking the exemption contained in Section 54.19 of | 454000 in 1942 .to $49,734,000 in the Gold Regulations. As you know, the purpose of 1947.. It .is .estimated that it will this exemption was to obviate the necessity of licens- \run $48,000,000, in 1¢49. What will ing thousands of small miners, ore buyers and small have to be added to administrative localities who huy from them costs to pay the $3,000,000,000 bonus licensing would be extremely burden- [has yet to be computed. 1 Certainly, no business could cal- |culate its costs of operation on the basis of getting them out of taxes |and then announce a surplus. This is actually dishonest bookkeeping. There are other direct payments by Congressional appropriations, ‘Whlch amounted in 1942 to $16.- 069,000; rose to over a billion dol- lars for each year in 1945 and 1946, and nearly that in 1947. These di- rect payments are estimated to amount to $75,000,000 for 1949. As the Veteran's insurance trust funds are not self-supporting, but are maintained partially by Con- aressional appropriations; it*“ds: im- possible to say that premiums were overpaid. Congress appropriates to Fhat being true, Mr. - Fixit editorially in The PaV¥ l“)ml‘Jf’.nSf}lu'md_to b}llet‘erans 0; Comical, is trying to crawl out from under by stating their ‘helrs .for “disabilites. &n - T R * deaths due to extra-hazardous ser- ;‘:r:]yM:. Warne's proposed development bill and this amount is im- Mersly % ~ceel RN SR e estimate until all the ] rossible to 1 da xRN R SR A B o st per. S8 Dava dnen mafs andcBive Da||v I_essons in Enghsh ¥ L. GORDON e e formances, that Mr. Fixit will not have too much \)(mus’x.s to be paid out of the trust | P oy i ’ EH N h ective November 1, 1949 “The foregoing should | not be construed, however, as an indication that the will take no action in reference to the | Mrs o o o o o NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 wrth Avenue Bldg. Beattle, Wash ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P, M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 merchant in remote since, obviously, some to them. “However, to date the sales of gold in its natural | been reported to us, have been state, which have relatively insignificant.” The Weepoose, Capt. Carl Colleen, Forest Service boat used in pulp timber surveys since the previous spring, left for the Forest Service shipyards at Ketchikan, with Fred Herring and Frank Herrmann aboard. " Mr. Fixit Missed His Cue (Ketchikan News) Having missed his cue, Mr. Fixit is' now trying to squirm out of a tight corner with his usual alibis. Instead of the Governor telling him what to do, it seems the Governor forgot to post him on the poli- ical switch of events. Both Delegate Bartlett and the Governor suddenly turned on the Interior Department's Alaskan policies. leaving Mr. Fixit up in the air in still supporting the old pattern. Pilots Ben Eielson and Frank Dorbrandt, who took off from North Caep, Siberia, two days before and were expected to arrive at Nome the same day, had not been heard from. They were in two Alaske Airways planes with six passengers and 1,000 pounds of furs, unde: contract with the Swenson Fur Company. The same day, Alaska Airways, Inc, with home office in Wilmington, Del., filed articles of incorporation -with the Auditor, designating Carl B. (Ben) Eielson as ‘resident Alaska agent. RAIN We appreciate the rain. No matter if it is a drizzle or a downpour we find enough pleasure in it to tickle the Muse and move the pen. For there is nothing quite so capable of affecting all our senses. Think of it! We enjoy it through our sense of touch. We feel the small drizzled drops caressing ‘our faces and dropping lightly and wetly from the ends of our sleeves-onto our hands. We enjoy it through our sense of sight. We see it dimpling the water in the gutters and hitting and spreading on the clean swipe behind the wiper blades on the windshield. We see it, cloudy gray, swept toward us in a falling torrent, cleansing trees and streets and damply darkening clothing. We smell it—that clean, fresh frag upon dust, cool and sweet as melted snow Plumbing ® Heafing Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nighis-Hed 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc I i o A A gt ot o e & st 4 ‘Weather: High, 45; low, 38; rain. WORDS OFTEN MISUSED Do not say, “Numerous books were on the table.” Say, “MANY books were on the table.” NUMEROUS means a very great number, and its use in most cases is an exaggeration. ied. While the Veterans’ rouble getting back into the groove. fund surplus, that surplus exists = = The reactions were prompt. because of Special Congressional Nearly every Chamber of Commerce and oxmm- ppropriations covering the admin- sation in' Alaska voted against the Interior Depart- jsiration and some other insurance | ance of rain Pronounce ka-kus It dashes into our mouths as we stand agape at nent taking over Alaskan industries, with proposed the transformation it causes in the colors of the land- We taste it, clean and pure. We hear it, too. We lie on our beds and listen. It is whirring, dashing, scape. backs in owr drumming millions to spend as the bait. Then the Governor came out against the plan. Delegate Bartlett followed and called it “fantastic.” This lack of cooperation would seem to indicate to us that Mr. Fixit, for all of his loud and blatant expenditures. These already cost us £4,000,000,000 which is actually @ billion more than the . bonus | amounts to. In a word, simple arithmetic shows how the surplus was achiev- OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caucus (meeting). A as in ALL, U as in US, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Fusillade; one S, two L's. SYNONYMS: Indefinite, indeterminate, vague, uncertain, equivocal WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let u Today’s word Luecas Transfer and Storage | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. was accumulated because of Con- INTIMIDATE; to affect with fear; to deter, as by threats. “How guil’ gressional appropriations = which|once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades made such an accumulation pos-|the great.”—Johnson. sible. If Veterans' insurance were | operated as a business, it would | '; { actually, on the present figures, be( MOD short over a killion dollars. 'In ERN ET I 0 U E [TE ] fact, when the Veterans receive ROBERTA LEL this bonus, they will also receive — E— — — - interest on so-called overpaid prer Q. If a person to whom you have just been introduced departs witl miums and the $500,000,000, for| 5 2 4 P interest payments was appmprhlu} the statement, “I am very glad to have met you,” what, should you Congress in August, 1949. It TePIy? comes not out of over-payment of A. A sincere smile and a spoken “thank you” are all that is neces- premiums or out of trust rund.s, sary. You needn't reiterate, “I am glad to have met you, too,” as some but out of the taxpayers' pocket. . |people are prone to do. The Hoover Commission recom- | Q Are the attendants and members of a wedding party obligated mended that the insurance func- |4, ca)) on the bride and bridegroom atfer the wedding. tions of the Veterans’ Administra- | {{"A. Yes, this is an obligatory call. They should do this as soon as tion be takem from that body, be! iy 5 > placed in charge of a separate the newly—_marr!ed couple are “at home” to their friends. government corporation and bei Q. Is it correct for a man to use the double-sheet type of stationery for his personal correspondence? will be owned and operated by Clarence V. Foster on the roof and windows, singing a lullaby We have five adequate We e quite human. So we think as we lie there, “This is the The Washingfon Merry-Go-Ro_und By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) senses. voice, is becoming more o fa political liability than an ed and how it is being expended. It asset. | “The fact that the ccmminee‘T H E S E D A Y S refused to do its duty was no i el o R fault of mine. I can't dictate to 3 the Congress.” GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Truman also’ revealed that he VETERA |was considering a broad-scale plan| There is so ‘(or amortizing the mounting na-!about Veterans' insurance and the tional debt, but didn't go into de- | forthcoming windfall of $3,000,- tails, However, he promised to!|000(000 that the subject requires study. & suggestlon by Moulder some clarification as to facts. e the end was due largely to absent- that revenues from excess profit | There are about 7,000,000 fed- co eeism. such as excise and excess profits|era]l life insurance policies with a Not all the pleading, cajoling jlevies—be diverted to retiring the[total face value of $40,000,000,- and scolding of patient Senate|federal debt. 000. World War II produced about Leader Scott Lucas could muster 6,000,000 national service life insur- the votes—for the simple reason ance policies, amounting to $38,- that dozens of Senators and scores 000,000,000 face value; from World of Congressmen were out of town. War I, there are more than 500,000 Absenteeism has become worse United States government life in- I wish to thank all of my customers for their patronage and considera- tion during the past two years and assure them that their needs in Transfer, Storage, Packing and Crating, and Delivery Service will be handled courteously and effi- ciently in the future by calling 707. NCE ussion INSURA much d STRANGE RUMANIAN There is something peculiar about the way certain American diplomats and juridicial experts in recent years because of free surance policies with a face value junkets abroad on army airplanes. In the old days, Congressmen went home to mend their political fenc- ¢s. Now many travel abroad on “surveys.” Usually it’s a good idea for Coneressmen to get acquainted with conditions abroad—but notj when their votes are needed in Washington. During the closing weeks of Con- \gress for instance, the following ,Senators were “surveying” condi- tions in Europe: Survey of Housing — included Bricker of Ohio, Flanders of Ver- mont, Frear of Delaware and Sparkman of Alabama. . Survey of Europe generally—by the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee, in¢luding Chavez of New Mex- jco, McClelland of Arkansas, Rob- ertson of Virginia and Stennis of Mississippi—though Stennis is not| ‘even a member of this committee Survey of Franco ‘Spain—Under- taken by McCarran of Nevada, _chairman of the Judiciary Com- mittee,. who has nothing to do with forgein relation. Survey of military establishments —By Tydings of Maryland, even though Secretary of Defense John- son begged him to stay in Wash- ington. (Friends said he had to go because he'd promised Mrs. Tyd- ings.) 4 In addition, the following Sen- ators got tired toward the closing days of Congress, pu}m(l up and went home: Butler of Neb- raska, Reed of Kansas 'xh\o of Minnesota, Tobey of w Hamp- ver of Tennessee, Gil- Withers of Ken- ’nwh' IRKED AT LESINSKI confided " to Congresse Moulder of Missouri the shackling -education by hn Lesinski Committee. a strong champion of aid-to-education, predicted the| e—like the Senate—would have | ssed a satisfactory compromise, | Probably providing free lunches| nd health care for parochial schools, if Lesinski had not bottled | the bill up in committee | “Of course, the issue could have been easily solved along those lines, commented the President, some-| what irritably. “I did all T could. I | even had some of the rr,n.nntnm‘ members over here for a conference and strongly encouraged action to relieve the school shortage. and the| |has sent his personal have been hobnobbing with 2 Ru- manian in New York who is the registered agent of one of Stalin’s chief henchmen. The Rumanian is Dr. Vespasien Palla who arrived in the USA with his own car and chauffeur, | gives swank champagne, parties on his Long Island eéstate, and is the official representative of Premier| Anna Pauka, the lady Communist who runs Rumania for Stalin Palla is a versatile gentleman, who once represented the Fascist Antonescu government, which de- clared war on the United States, and which slaughtered 300,000 Jews sent many of their bodies to the I. G. Farben soap factories. Palla served cist Antonescu as Minis- ter to Sw erland. Now he is Min- ster without portfolio for the Communist Pauka government But the amazing thing is that despite this direct hook-up with the Russian-Rumanian Commun- ists, Palla has ready access to Am- erican legal bigwigs and some dip- lomats. On April 29, at a dinner for the American Society of In- Iternational Law, attended by De- puty Secretary of State Dean Rusk iplomats and lawyers stood up and | pplauded when Palla was intro- luced. Another amazing thing is that this mysterious gentleman is call- ed upon for advice regarding the United Nations, though Rumania is not a member of the UN. What information he sends back to Ru- mania is not known, nor would he FBI know, since he has access to the uncenscred Rumanian diplo- matic pouch: MERRY-GO-ROUND General MacArthur has informed | the State Department that the| Chinese Communists plan to set unr 1 formal government for all China | by November 15. . .Governor Dewey press chief, Jim Haggerty, to master-mind | John Foster Dulles’ re-clection to the Senate. . .Oklahoma utility in- terests are spreading rumors that beral, young Congressman Tom teed hardest workers in the Houee, seldom left his office before 9 or 10 pm. . Secretary Acheson has ordered 'his aides to begin drafting a peace treaty for Japan The British, anxious to get Gen- eral MacArthur out of Japan, ex- acted a promise from Acheson he'd have a peace treaty for Nippon | within 90 days. of the “hasn't paid attention to his| | jok.” Real fact is that Steed is one of about $2,000,000,000. These are administered as trust funds by the Veterans’ Adminis tion. However, Congress has spent since 1942, $4,000,000,000 for the Veterans' Administration insurance program. This money hasall come out of the pockets of the taxpay- er, These expenditures, appropriat- ed by Congress, come in several categories, one of which is the ac- tual cost of administering the trust funds. Orindarily, the coi= of cperating an insurance company or fund comes out of the earned income, but in the case of the Veterans' insurances, the expenses are provided by special appropria- tions. This is one statistical trick Veterans' bonus of to be paid in, time for the 1950 of administration’ rese from °$4.- by which those who supported the . made self-sustaining. This has m}( been done. ‘ This article has not been wm- ten to oppose the bonus, as that is over the dam. It has been writ-| ten to clarify the facts. Many Vet-| erans do not know that these in- surance policies cost them, in addi- | tion to the premiums they paid, a| further sum, amounting already ta: $4,000,000,000 out of taxes—which | we all, Veterans and non- veterans,, have to pay. And it is important‘i that we should know that. For what the politicians do is to ap- peal to the greed, the cupidity of | each one of us. They make use feel that we are getting something for nothing. They give us the impres- sion that thing for us. Actually, they are wreck the economy of our country. | election, got meirflgureq. ‘The ,cost By this means, they get us to con- | | tinue n\em in" office. . Declare . State posi- tively . Type of poem . English letter Ascended . By one's self . Petrified vegetation . Broader . Penitent . Field of grane ACROSS . Temporary tashions . Unit of work . Glut . Death notice . American general . Choke up 5. Demolish . Disfiguring Literary composition . Lamb's sobriqyet Signs Entirely . Unable 16 fina one's way ‘5 Lot°lt stana DOWN Crossword Puzzle Al = E s A R 3 B A o o Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle . City railways . Intermission . Pertaining to the earth . Predicaments . Title of Mohammed * . Weight . Poultry ! product . Long narrow inlet . College chedr Organ of | arments 3. Passes into solution 4. Water vapor smel . Authoritative example 5. English river Tardy Winglike . Son ‘of Jacob . Balancing part of a kite Built 5. Large flat- bottomed bhoat . Play fast and loose 41. And not . Baseball teams 45. Assistant 47. Cry of the ancient ‘ bacchanals 48. Hire 49. Eccentric ro- tating plece ' 50. Palm leaf 51. By birth 52, Wateh closely |7 they are doing some- | bribing us with our own money to | $3,000,000,000 | betray -curselves into agreeing f.o‘ A. 1t is all right, but the single sheet is considered more masculine lOOK and LEARN A C. GORDON 1. What U. S. organization uses the motto, “Certainty, Sec\l.ruy‘ Celerity”? Which fur is most difficult to imitate? 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