The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR - Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except y by the EMPIRE PRINTING mfl“ - President Vice-President Managing Bditor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivere by carrier in Juneau and Douclas for $1.50,per month, six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mall, postage paid, at the following rat One year, in advance, $15.00; six Months, i advance, $7.80, o2 month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor it they will promptly netify e Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivers f “heir papers. 3 Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office? 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Pruss is exclusively entitled to the use for vepublication of all news dispatches credited to it of not other- ¥ise credited in this paper and also the local news published serein. -~ NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Service and the Savings Bonds Division of the Treas- ury are among the familiar departments of Treasury serviee. About Admiral O'Neill we learn from a recent announcement that he will become Commandant of the Coast Guard with the rank of Vice Admiral on January 1 and that his experience has included Bering Sea cruises and other Alaska service. So, as head of the Coast Guard, Alaska will not be a strange far- away place for him, but a place of familiar land and familiar seas. And that famillarity with Alaska will give Juneau- ites a sense of security as it regards the Coast Guard District Headquarters as its special defense project. Let the rest of the Territory have its air bases, its naval bases. The Coast Guard, through its antecedent, the revenue cutter service, is one of the oldest organiza- tions under the Federal Government. After the Revo- lutionary War, the continental ‘Navy was disbanded and the revenue cutter service, established in 1790 was the only armed force afloat until the navy was or- ganized a few years later. It has had a proud record and not a little of that record has had to do with_ its Alaskan service. Aware of Alaska’s strategic position in case of war, we can be glad that the Coast Guard is handy with a District Headquarters here. While we are welcoming Secretary Snyder and Admiral O'Neill and their party we want to welcome again the Coast Guard personnel regularly scatlox\ed here, Capt. Haugen and Cmndr. Morrison and their THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA NOVEMBER 14 . H. L. Faulkner . Julia Lee Walther L4 LaVerne Guerin John Swink Mrs. Stanley D. Paris Mrs, Frank Henderson Herbert Cressman Mina Kelsey Julia Ness Stephen Ross e YEARS AGO 7%e empirE 720 | NOVEMBER 14, 1929 o The Parent-Teacher Association held a rummage sale in the ANB ® Hall. In charge of the sale were Mrs. Phil Harriman, Mrs. Harold ¢ |smith, Mrs. H. L. Redlingshafer and Mrs. Roy Rutherford. Al | " New lows were set for the year in another day of heavy selling on » | the New York Stock Exchange. Annual sales had reached the billion o | mark for the first time in history. Al TR " | Leonhard Seppala famous dog racer, Was in Junmeau with ten o | Siberian huskies, enroute to Poland Springs, Me, to start training for . ;the New England Dog Derby in February. He renewed acquaintance o | here with Elmer Reed of the Bureau of Census, who had lived in Nome |for 25 years. J. C. Readman of the Bureau of Public Roads returned from a three- " | COMMUNI EvEnlsiweek trip on which he saw a number of former Juneauites. November City Band practice. November 14—Juneau B and 14, 7:30 p m.—Juneau [ L Alaska Juneau showed a total recovery of gold and silver in October |of $337,000 compared to $310,500 in September, according to Secretary P|J. W. Crosby. Net profit was $132000 against $118,000 the previous club dinner at 6:30 p.m. in Episco- | month. pal church parlors. November 14, 8 o‘clock—Amencan! | Legion meeting, Dugout. November 14, 7 o'clock—Commun- Baranof ity Hotel. A fine baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gucker | November 13. A southeast gale that reached 50 miles an hour for short periods breaking several small vessels loose from their | |Weather at —| Alaska Points staff; Cmndr. Kurcheski of the Storis and his officers and crew. November 15, 7 p.m.—Reserve Of- jswept the channel, ficers, S.A. reading room. | moorings and “tossing other small craft about considerably.” Novemker 15, 8 o'clock—American | JUNEAU WELCOMES SECRETARY OF TREASURY; PRESENTS CG BUILDING TO OFFICIALS Few occasions in the life of Juneau have been more important than its welcome today to Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder and Rear Admiral Merlin O'Neill, Assistant Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. It is not just that they are important people and we are proud to be their hosts. We are proud that the occasion of their visit to Juneau is the official opening of the 17th Coast Guard District Headquarters here. And we are pleased that the Community Building that Juneau built for the Coast Guard has been so well received by Capt. N. S. Haugen, head of the 17th Through the years, Coast Guard personnel has \lways been welcome in Alaska. We are glad that more Coast Guardsmen will be here from now on. The Purge Isn’t American (Cincinnati Enquirer) In the swift years since World War II the United States has picked up a number of the characteristics of a military dictatorship. It has used an abnormal number of military men in high civilian posts. It has enforced a rather rigid gag rule in the armed forces. It has allowed one individual, the Secretary of De- fense, to overthrow the considered policy of Congress and knock out appropriations voted by majority rule in that body. Now there are rumors, as yet unconfirmed, that George Brothers advertised sweet potatoes at three pounds for 25 cents: beets, four bunches for 25 cents; large cocoanuts at 25 cents; | cranberries, two pounds for 55 cents, and sweet, juicy oranges, 25 cents dance. Building banquet, Legion Auxiliary social meeting, | |a dozen. 19 — Emblem Club November 19—Shelby Nichols in initiation. November 16—Elks Turkey Shoot. November 18—All School play. November 18 — Martha Society Bazaar. November Weather: High, 46; low, 40; rain. | L. GORDON [{ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He is one of those men » Say, “He is one of those men who ARE always polite.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Respite. Pronounce res-pit, E as in District, and his persennel. Juneau proved that the 17th Coast Guard District Headquarters were wanted here by digging deep into pockets and bank accounts to subscribe to the stocks and bonds necesssary to finance the building needed for CG offices. Today as we say “Welcome, Mr. Secretary” we can add, “Here is your building, Admiral O'Neill, we hope you like it.” And by this time we are sure that both the Secre- tary and Admiral O'Neill know that to be theit host. The Coast Guard, however, is not the only interest of the Secretary of the Treasury with which he is concerned in Juneau. The Customs Service, ladies Bazaar at Chapel-by-the- | the Bureau of Internal Revenue—with which we are all acquainted—the Fiscal President Truman and Secretary Johnson are pre- paring to conduct a purge of high-ranking naval officers—to punish them for daring to speak their minds before a committee of Congress. This may not be the fact. We hope it is ‘not. But if it is, and if the President allows his Defense Secretary to purge the high command of the Navy in reprisal, he will be making one of the great mis- takes of his career. For such action would be serving notice on Congress that it cannot call in American citizens who wear a uniform, to get their advice, with- out subjecting them to punishment for the ideas they express. That is a dangerous precedent to set in a democ- racy. It will not be overlooked and it will not be forgotten. It will go down in the records as another ominous step toward the very sort of absolutism that we have fought two long wars to stamp out. Juneau is happy The Washi;qlon . Merry-Go-Round = o | By DREW PEARSON | (Continued from Page One) i | already rolling up a hig popular following, no Republican would have | a chance in next fall's gubernat-| orial race except Earl Warren. | As further result of last week's eastern defeats, GOP leaders are | wondering more and more whether | they won't have to pick either | General Eisenhower or Governor | Warren if they want to win the White House in 1952. They know| they cculdn’t control Warren once | he got in the White House. But they also know that he has con- sistently won huge blocks of Dem-l ocratic and labor votes, and they are beginning to realize that per-) haps that is the only way they‘ can ever get the Grand Old Party( back in the saddle. i Note—New Jersey's Governor Al- fred Driscoll, one of the few Re- publicans re-elected last week, Is a hard-working progressive fre- quently at odds with reactionary leaders of his party. Note 2—General Eisenhower, still | a great and glamorous figure, may be politically tarnished by 1952. By that time, with more tax money paid out fo rarmament, a lot of people may be taking seriously Ike's advice that no military ‘'man should run for President. Junketing Congressman Back in 1945 genial Congressma: Victor Wickersham, Oklahoma De-l mocrat, swore never to take another j airplane junket—after Speaker Ray- burn asked him to pay out of his pocket for an unauthorized trip to Moscow. In the end, the taxpayers paid the bill—just as they will also pay the! bill for another wacation-by-air for the same Congressman !his' year. For, despite Wickersham’s ve- | hement vow not take another freel air ride, he has just returned from an air junket to Alaska. What's more, his name has been submitted for another free air trip to South America, This year Wickersham is trav- eling under auspices of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, which has little official interest in Alaska and even less; in South America Under new regulations, Congress must certify that a trip is in the interest of national defense before a Congressman can obtain a free Air Force plane. Nevertheless Vir- ginia’s Schuyler Bland, Chairman of the Marine and Fisheries Com- mittee, has stated in a formal let- ter that it is necessary to national ling over the location of two sta- | His junket will require a special married Mrs, John Todd; Millard plane just to chauffeur Wickersham | Fillmore married Mrs. Ezekiel Mc- from country to country. Only one |Intosh; Benjamin Harrison mar- other passenger is listed for me;rled Mrs, Walter Dimmick; Wood- row Wilson married Mrs. Norman trip—Cngressman Tom Fugate of Virginia. | Galt; and Warren Harding married Note—Apparently Wickersham has | Mrs. Henry De Wolfe. . . .Effeci- now forgotten how he nearly had cient Peyton Ford, Assistant to the to pay the bill for the military |Attorney General, is making a sur- plape that flew him to Moscow |vey of the Immigration Service in 1945. When he returned, he gave | With a view to some cobweb-sweep- Congress a lengthy report and|ing. He does not plan to abolish Speaker Sam Rayburn a wrmime Board of Immigration Appeals watch, This didn’t appease Sam, . . . Kalser's Fontana Steel plant however. He said the trip wasn't |operated over 100 percent of cap- authorized and that Wickersham |acity all during the steel strike, would have to pay his own fare, [even blew in a brand new blast though after a personal call by furnace in the middle of the strike. Wickersham to President Truman |Kaiser accepted the President’s in Potsdam and a rumpus on the fact-finding board’s recommenda- floor of the House, the taxpayers|tions without quibbling. finally paid the bill. | i DTS S B O Henry Wallace vs. Brigham Young:sr"(A MAN FINED FOR A backstage . controversy is rag- SHOOTING DEER TOO LATE tues that must be mounted in the| Clarence W. Haddon of Sitka was capitol . building—Brigham Young|fined $150 and given a 30-day sus- and ;-Ienry Wallace. pended jail sentence for shooting Brigham Young, the famed Mor-|a deer after the close of the sea- mon pioneer, is Utah's candidate for |son. the Hall of Fame. In Salt Lake| He was sentenced in the U. S. City, he stands—cast in bronze—|Commissioner's Court in Sitka, ac- in the middle of Main Street. Some | cording to Fish and Wildlife Ser- of his disciples believe he should|yice agents here. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hysteria; HYS. Historian; HIS. SYNONYMS: Well-bred, well-born, refined, courteous, cultivated. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us chcert at Memorial Presbyterian ;I D -I L . E I. h by . Il Daily Lessons In Engiisn w. November 22—Juneau City Band\,‘ e - E : November 26—Douglas Firemen's| is always polite. December 2—Lutheran Ladies an- Wha S e December 2, 7:30 p.m.—Chapel-| : A - | LESS, I as in PIT, accent first syllable. Lake. | iincrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: miserly. ;’PENURIOUS; excessively sparing in the use of money; stingy; in PEA unstressed U as in CUBE, accent second (Pronounce the E as syllable). “They were accused of being penurious, when they were only COAST GUARD ASSISTS SWAMPED FISHING BOAT The Coast Guard Cutter 52013, based at Petersburg, went to the the fishing vessel swamped on the Creek yes- economical.” | | MODERN ETIQUEITE %meres L assistance of Kiseno which northeast side of Jap terday. The cutter pumped the vessel dry and refloated it at high tide yes- terday. Master of the Kiseno is Jim Oh- mer. There were two crew men aboard. l I | Church. in concert. L= Dance, Douglas Eagles’ Hall. | nual bazaar. December 3—Dance by Eastern‘v Star, Scottish Rite Temple. | Q. Is it permisible to examine the various dishes on a cafeteria counter before selecting a certain one? A. Yes, if it can be done at a glance; but one should not finger the dishes, or be conspicuous in selecting one that seems to contain the largest portion. Q. When having “Dutch treat” luncheon with some friends, what is the best way to pay the bill? A. Probably have one person pay the entire bill, then each friend contribute his share.. checks. Q. What do you consider the most important factor of the correct 'TWO SEAMEN ARE | GALE-HIT VESSEL = oo oo 1. What two cities were from ancient times famous for the quality of their steel weapons? Or better still, ask the waiter for separate Flamboyant decorations are ( SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—(®—A Brook- lyn ship captain told today how gale-whipped winds brought death to two men on the freighter Cal- Imar. 1 ‘The badly listing vessel, sklpperedl :y Capt. Richard B. Hughes of 2. By what unit is the speed of ships measured? rooklyn, arrived here yesterday 3. What ancient people were noted for their stoicism and endur- after limping for more than 24 ance? 4. What was Mark Twain’s real name? 5. What is another noted portrait of an artist's mother, besides hours since a heavy deckload. of lumber shifted in stormy seas off | the Columbia River mouth. | One of the two victims, first|that of Whistler? jmate Clarence Hutton, 50, Valley ANSWERS: Stream, N. Y., died shortly be- 1. Damascus, in Syria, and Toledo, in Spain. fore the 3586-ton freighter dock- 2. By knots. 8 -ed,flwalter E. Roberts, 23, of Som- | 3. The Spartans. erville, Mass., washed overboard by | Lang] the mountainous wave which crushy-' e ?nmuel 'horne Cle.,mm‘ M BB Bt veen a whealhouse 5. “Rembrandt’s Mother,” by Rembrandt. and a lifeboat the two men were | o = st trying to secure. e < occupy just as prominent a spot in | A the Nation’s capitol, though one or} two people in Washington point out that he will be the only hero in the Hall of Fame who reputedly had ! e 21 wives. ACROSS §2. Poem As for Henry Wallace, many think | ¢ @illjard stick 32 Metaliiferous he shouldn't be mounted in the| ¢ Printed : l{“”“' sla) 4. erprets capitol at all, but in the Krem-l . Craip N ale lin. However, the law -demands 12. Limb 35, Great fears that the-busts of all ex-Vice Pre-| 13 Notendomed 47 \merica sidents must be exhibited in the Lonssd SONERED: Capitel building, so the anti-Wal- 18 v,,:’ze,.m F1% Englllhdm . Prongun cathes laceites are hunting for the most | 3o Bf”o"‘ Bisde city obsecure spot. 2. Mixi &b #9. Sea Both cases are expected to be| yg mingiacia , b Progtolbel settled, when Congress convenes,| 27 Emrtoor A 4. ""’g"u, by Sen. Theodore Green of Rhode E.:L.'b‘ufly"' 15, whie botties Island, who is chairman of the! . Oldmusical {8 Gouvle committee in charge of such mat- ! 29. Offer to pay 50. Web-footed ters. He's a kindly gentleman who 30, Rectangpiar | o Conuplate col- won't want to slight either Brig-| 31. Kind of pigeon lection ham Young or Henry Wallace, ! S | Merry-Go-Round | Luxembourg, diplomatic home of the famous Mrs. Mesta, is now be- ing called “Perle Harbor.". A Ace Congressman Mike Monroney has been touring Oklahoma to sur- vey the prospects of running against speculating Senator Elmer Thomas. Elmer has built up a strong polit- ical machine, but the grass-roots are for Mike. . .According to Stan- ley Arnold, diligent Cleveland re- searcher, Alben Barkley will in- crease his chances of becoming | President after he marries. Seven American President, says Arnold, married widows—most of them| wealthy. George Washington mar- ' ried Mrs. Daniel Parke Custis; | Thomas Jefferson married Mrs.; defense for Wickershm to fly around South America. g Bathurst Skelton; James Madison Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent " SAVINGS Solution of Saturday's Puzzle 1 Boeuga‘:‘ru . Kind of thread 2 English river 5 AfFicas arrow 3. Ornament, e wi needle- ‘Type measure Bk Not figurative . Face value of stock . Devoured . Went first Variable star n_“The Start officer esidences Head of an abbey Newly married W Parts of the skeleton Cheap apart- ‘ment bouses Baffle Large dogs ear . Putting Intoa COMMERCIAL V. D. MOODY 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: “ARE YOU WITH IT?" Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB €0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our e}mplix‘n!:ent& WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May A Feminine name Rub out ! Makes a mistake Town in Ohlo Side of a triangle Congealed water Scotch river Female sheep r! SR HE— A MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1949 1 Classes now enrolling. Tap, Ba- ton Twirling, Ballet, Eccentric and Acrobatic, Boys acrobatic chass. 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