The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the UMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Al HELEN TROY MONSEN - DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND AL ZENGER President Vice-President Managing Bditor Business Manager Entered tn the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. 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Five different organizations in Juneau fine- toothed the city to find the needy and found them. The gifts were all in a manner of cheerful piving, hing for a Christmas dinner and toys for the youngsters. Even homeless men had their fill at a joyous dinner sponsored by the Salvation Army. Gen- ity marked the activities of individals and organi- safe to say there erc zat HE WAS, DEED When the Baseball Writers Association of America picked Jackie Robinson as the most valuable player in the National League in 1949 there were few to quarrel with the accolade. He obviously was that— dnd more. Jackie Robinson is a sportsman of whom any ort might be proud. Not many fans know the background of this athlete. The San Francisco Chronicle describes him as one of the most remarkable all-round athletes ever developed on the Pacific Coast. was USCLA'S fastest halfback. He was the highest- | scoring baseketball player in the Pacific Coast Con- ference. He chalked up a broad jump of 25 feet. In baseball he was outstanding. The war intervened. Robinson finished it as a Captain in the Army. Then he went into the limited sphere of organized Negro baseball. When he was given the chance to be the first of his race in the big leagues he handled that chance with a spirit and attitude that cleared a new hurdle of racial relations in America. Now there are five Negroes regularly playing in the majors. But he was a ballplayer, too. He batted .342, stole 36 bases, played second base like he had a net, and was in every one of the games the Dodgers played for the pennant. That's good, and the spirit of sportsmanship deservedly salutes the man who achieved it. Family Quarrel? (Cincinnati Enquirer) The longer a political party remains in power, the more it tends to become a machine for corraling the votes in order to perpetuate itself in office. When it has been sufficiently long in power, it loses all other aims and.ideals, and becomes a cynical group devoted to the practice of politics for the sole purpose of self-preservation. It comes to view every problem as an exercise in practical politics. These generalizations seem pertinent to the abrupt resignation of Julius A. Krug, Secretary of the Inter- jor. The youngest member of the cabinet, Mr. Krug was not a visionary by any means. But he had an intense interest in the work of his department, es- pecially in certain reclamation projects and the con- servation of fuels and other resources. His concern for policy may have led him to reach beyond the tight little discipline which Mr. Truman has established, and to carry to Congress the fight for the policies in which he believed. In the cynical lexicon of the Fair Deal, that is worse than treason. Mr. Krug evidently stood for that sort of discipline as long as we could, and then resigned without cere- mony. He is a young man and doubtless will find occasion in the future to explain just what it was in the Truman machine that made his ténure intolerable. The President is reported to have been irritated that Mr. Krug should have told the press of his resignation before telling the President. In this, we may find poetic justice. For it is only a fornight ago that Mr. Truman announced the dismissal of Adm. Louis Denfeld—before informing the Admiral. Mr. Truman has not always observed the amenities of high office, and he should not be unduly upset if his subordinates sometimes follow his own ill-man- nered example. A British newspaper again warns: “Don't twist the British lion's tail!” That's right. At least don't | twist it too hard. It might come off.—(Daily Olym- pian.) In football he | The Washingloli Merry-Go-Round |in the smell of the foreign intrusion the coffee exchange and have| refused to handle the accounts of Brazifisa traders, numbering 40 or 50 in all. However, others, including Ruffner, Burch and THESE By DKW PEARSON Company, Leon Israel and Broth- (Continued from Page One) ‘ie"s and Schwaback and Company i all of New York—haven't balked at accepting the foreign accounts. This partly explains why trading jon the cotfee exchange has doubled gince speculators started rumors about the “coffee shortage” scare- rumors that have been proved groundless. It is one reason, also,| Walter. “I just talked the Assistant Secre- Defense Department that you could k out freely about these al- leged shipments. You're at liberty to tell us all you know, to help usj A cle » this matter.” why coffee continues to sell from Groves looked like he had been!25 to 30 cents a pound more than hit with a belaying pin. tit shouid. For the more coffee fu- “The directive is no longer appli- | tures are bought in by the specu- cable?” he asked, incredulously. lators, the more they are able to “No, you can testify fully regard- | control prices. ing this case” advised Walter. Another factor in the price rise, Faced with the obligation of tes-|of course, has been hoarding by tifyi on the record regarding| jittery housewives, which has re- cold facts, the genral gave Hopkins | duced stocks in retail stores. Com- and Wallace a clean bill of health. | merce Department records show i j that 229,000,000 pounds of green coffee were roasted for sale in October and 238,000,000 pounds in November, compared with a month- ly average of 182,000,000 pounds in ;July, August and September. Most of this excess is on pantry shelf. ted one of in the was assured Winchell Gets Shaved Down at Miami the other day honeymooning Vice President Bar- ley remarked to vacationing Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle that he need- a haircut. Biffle replied that was mutual; so next day both men drep; in at the Roney-Plazai Hetel barbershop. Two chairs were occupied, but a third chair was vacant, and the Vice President of the United States ed to enthrone himself. “Ch no, you can't use that,” pro- tested ' the barber. “That chair's re ed.” ey said nothing, picked up a peper and waited until another chair was vacant, then proceeded to get his haircut. Biffle also wait- ed until the next barber was free. Meanwhile, the third chair still re- mained vacant. The man for whom it reserved did not show up. Finally Biffle remarked in an undertone to his barber: “Do you know who that is in the next chair? That's the Vice President of the United States.” the Capital News Capsules Unkossed Board—Averill Harri- man, top ECA representative in Europe, has just been offered the chairmanship of the long-unbossed National Secruity Resources Board. He declined. This board, one of the most important in Washington, has been without a director for more than a year—part of the time be- cause of the row over the appoint- ment of Truman'’s friend, ex-Gover- nor Mon Wallgren of Washington. British Labor Jittery—Ambas- sador Douglas reports from Lon- don that the defeat of the Labor governments in Australia and New Zealand has given the British Gov- ernment a bad case of the jitters. This affects their entire foreign policy and will make Britain an unpredictable ally until elections are held next spring. More Money To Britain?—Trea- sury Secretary Snyder has warned President Truman that Britain is ernation. Then suddenly the|heading for another disastrous fin- customer who outranked the Vicejancial crisis. Synder has submitted President bounced into the barber—iu secret report on Britain's out- shop. tlook, which warns that the British It was Walter Winchell pound is now selling for less than —_— two dollars on the black market Coffee Price Finagling and that a new loan of two billion Sen. Guy Gillette of Iowa, who|dollars may be necessary to keep has been doing a good job of|(the British from going under. In probing the zoom in coffee prices, | brief, devaluation urged on the is also checking on some shenani- | British by Snyder just didn't work. gens of the New York Coffee Ex-; Articifial Mica—Scientists at the change, apparently aimed at keep-}Nauunnl Bureau of Standards, ing prices pegged high. working with the Navy, have just Normally, Brazllian producers|discovered a method for producing and experters, which supply about|artificial mica—one of the most half our coffee needs, are sellers)strategic materials in the world. on the exchange. However, Gillette | The United States used 10,000 tons has information that certain Bra-)of mica last year—and all but 135 zilians also have been buying up:tons of it came from abroad. It's all the coffe¢ futures they can get{absolutely essential in the product- their hands on so they can be in a|ion of all radio and radar devices. controlling position to maintain | The Bureau of Standards has now inflated prices. jmade this important contribution to weni over and the other barber still idle, beside the There was a buzz of! Biffle’s barber Some American brokers don’t like! national defense. +-BY-- GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY HALF-CENTU YEAR—1950 In the year 190¢, Wiliiam McKin- ley was President of the United States; Victorla was in her last year as Queen of England and head cf the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. McKinley was re-elected and assasinated (1901) dore Roosevelt, the beloved Teddy, ushered in a new century and a new era. In England, Victoria died after the century turned and the Gay Edward VII took her place. Wilhelm II, the Kaiser with whom we went to war in 1917, started his long reign in 1888 and iet the Iron Chancellor Bismarck go, thus ending a period of patient construction of a new state and entering upon a period of dramatic turbulence which was ultimately to lead to two of the greatest wars in history and the rise of Russia as the second power on earth. Russia, an autocracy, was ruled by Nicholas II, who was, at that time, under the inflexible control of a relentless personality, Pobiedono- stzev, Procurator of the Holy Syn- od, whose formula, autocracy, orthodoxy, nationalisty, kept that country in darkness, intolerance and cruelty, building about it an unpierceable Iron Curtain and mak- ing those within it subject to such unbelievable hardships that revol- ution festered chronically to break out in assassination and terror. Yet, the century opened with considerable hopefulness. France was again a Republic and Napol- DAYS| ! with and Theo- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DECEMBER 27 Dorothy Stearns Roff D. Neilson Mrs. C. S. Eldridge Roberta Griffiths Jacob Ulrich Mrs. Clifford Starr Rosene Powell R. M. McLeod @eececvcccccce eonism had become an utterly hopeless cause. Italy, which had gon through the throes of dlvision} and revolution, had become a na-| tional state first under Umberto and then under Victor Emmanuel, | :sctlling down to a role of vitality |in European affairs. Franz Josef, | already referred to as “old Franz | Josef,” headed the Austro-Hungar- ian Empire, but all his troubles with Russia and the rising Ger- many meeder to be over; Vienna was the gayest spot in Europe| and in spite of the claims of Paris, produced the best food and music.| Although the Balkans were troublie- {some and the empire had grown smaller, it was, for the moment, {at peace. The first big chock of the cer- tury was the Russo-Japanese war, | followed by the Russian Revolution | jof 1905. The war, inevitable after | the European Powers had tricked China into giving Russia railroad rights in Manchuria by the Li- Lobanoff Treaty which the Ger-| mans and the French favored and | for which they organized a support- ing bank. | Japan had rapialy emerged to a: world power during the reign of | | the Emperor Meiji and was intent upon keeping Russia out of Man- churia which the Czar hoped to annex, if not by war, then by pene- tration. Japan’s policy was support- | ed by the United States and Great Britain who relied upon the “Open Door Policy” of John Hay, the| Anglo-American policy during the Boxer Rebellion (1901) and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902). ni was the Alliance which elevated Japan to a first-rate power andI led to the Russo-Japanese War | which was terminated by the Treaty of Portsmouth (New Hamp- shire) through the intervention of Theodore Roosevelt, | Japan’s rise lowered the prestige of China which had been suffering a series of rebellions, beginning the Taipings who laid the country low and culminating in the anti-foreign Boxers. The Europeans hoped to divide up the country, set-) ting up spheres of influence, con- | cessions and 'settlements and vir- tually taking control of areas of government. After the Russo-Jap- anese War, Japan joined the Eu- ropeans in their effort to reduce China to colonialism. The United States, however, stayed out of thut‘ game. i Great Britain’s principal worry at the turn of the century was Russia, which aspired to power over Afghanistan in order to come closer to India, and over Persia, in order to move down toward the| Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea—gateways to In- dia. The Khyber Pass defended India in one area; Persia was weak | enough to ke partitioned between Great Britain and Russia, the form- er establishing a sphere of in- fluence in the South, the latter in the North (1907). The Persians, frightened by the| British and the Russians, had en- gaged French and Swedish advisers iand an American, W. Morgin Shuster, to help reorganize the government. Shuster defied the British and the Russians and was | kicked out of Persia by them. And | the United States let it go at that. (To be continued). Get Your PRESTONE at Mad- sen’s.—adv. 80-tf | Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Prophet 6. Planet 9. Works out 26. Insects 26. Chinese herb . Hait . Sloping letter . Low gaiter Feminine name . Baffled . Hebrew letter Peaceful . Aljows . Dry soll DOWN Flew high metal 19. Existed 21, Shelter 22, English com- poser 23. Become less light 1L i | ] | Solution of Saturday's Puzzle in New 3. Preceding night ork state 4. Hire Muddy . Southern con- stellation . Sharp answer . Disdains . Killed . Purloined Amount of medicine Large plant . Thoughtul Disease of rye Corner Way of mount- ing_the hori- zontal bar Collection of acts Public store= houses Helical . Mexican dish | . Turkish decrees | " Having rhyth- ‘mical fal . Sideslip . Engrave with acl . Ore deposit . Occuples & 3. Cit; | Daily Lessons in English $ v. corvon " LS| WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I shall follow after you.” APTER is redundant, as FOLLOW means “to go or come after..” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Laconic. Pronounce la-kon-ik, A as in ASK unstressed, O as in ON, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Coyote, though pronounced ki-ot, I as in KITE, O as in NOTE. SYNONYMS: Thankful, grateful, apreciative. 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: VERVE; brilliance of imagination. “His writings had a certain verve that appealed to the readers.” | MODERN ETIQU EITE .%yOBERTA LEE | E Q. What should a person do when with others<and they are dis- cussing a subject about which you know nothing? A. Listen attentively. One may also ask an occasional question to show interest. Do not try to convince the others that you are well informed, nor try to change the subject. 3 Q. After a young man has taken a girl out for an evening of enter- tainment, would it be all right for her to ask him to call on her some- time? A. Yes. This is her privilege, and probably the best way is to ask him to dinner at her home. Q. Should a girl take hold of a man’s arm when walking across the dance floor? A. No; only during a grand march or when going in to supper. LOOK and LE What is the difference between ARN Zy C. GORDON introspection and retrospec- L | | { 1. tion? 2. What large city’s downtown section is popularly known as “The Loop™? 3. Which is considered to be James A. M. Whistler’s most famous painting? 4, What is the term for one whose name appears in the firm name of a business, but who takes no active part? What is meant by “playing possum”? ANSWERS: 1. Introspection is the inspecting .of one’s own thoughts. Retro- spection is a review of past events. 2. Chicago. 3. “Portrait of My Mother.” 4. Silent partner. 5. To play as though dead or asleep. BOWL GAMES ALl OVER THE PLACE IN 5. uled for Jan. 1. The Ice Bowl game is played to prove it can be done and to provide holiday entertainment in frigid Fairbanks. The Ladd Air Base Flyers and the University of Alaska || Fairbanks . PACIFIC NORTHWEST (By the Associated Press) Nearly immune for all these Lappy years, the Pacific Northwest suddenly has busted out with an eleven shivered to a scoreless tie last year and will meet again— probably in suk-zero weather—both anxious to mark up the first touch- down ever scored inside the Arctic Circle. Joe Kaulukukui, termed <ne of A!ut this way, although one is quite the greatest backs in Hawaiian his- tory, heads a contingent of 22 players hopping the Pacific for the Seattle game, AELOT B S T cpidemic of football bowls. 3 Three of the things are scheduled a ways out. It's the Second Annual fce Bowl fracas in Fairbanks, RAlaska. It figures in the picture because all the news of its out- come must be funnelled to the world through Seattle. The other two? They're the Stone Bowl game in the Washington State prison at Walla Walla and the Queen City bowl doings in Seattle. The latter pits a local amateur club, mostly former University of Washington players, against an All-Star outfit from Hawaii. The Stone Bowl clash, featuring two prison teams, is one of the few in the United States sched- TIDE TABLGT DECEMBER 28 Low tide 1:57 am. 4.4 ft. High tide 8:32 a.m,, 14.2 ft. Low tide 3:12 pm., 43 ft. High tide 9:13 p.m,, 114 ft. e00 0000 e Sececcocnas e o o The first major league baseball gume to be televised was Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati August 26, 1939. R AR AR ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 1:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 — | Oldest Bank in Alaska’ 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS C.E. HALL p subscriber to THE DAILY RA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS E%%?WSING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THE KISSING BANDIT" Federal Tax—12¢—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 aud an insured cab WILL CALL FOR Y RETURN YOU to your home with our wg;{i;ln;u WATCH 'THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1849 Weather at Alaska Points Weather conditions and i{emper- atures at various Alaska polnts, also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau at Juneau, follow: Anchorage Barrow .. Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton 4—Snow 8—Clear 14—Pasly Cloudy T—Clear . 40—Fog 19—Cloudy 30—Snow Haines ... 5—Clear Havre yicaadonauius ... 1—Snow Juneau Airport ... ... T—Clear Annette Island ... 16—Partly, Cloudy Kodiak . . 20—Partly Cloudy Kotzebue penras bseiarioms - BB TNOW McGrath .. . 36—Partly Cloudy Nome ... e 9—SNOW Northway 33—Cloudy Petersburg 2—Clear Portland 46—Rain Prince George 10—Snow Seattle ... 42—Rain Whitehorse 29—Snow Yakutat . 8—Clear |22.50UTH ON DENAL; EIGHT FROM WEST Eight passengers arrived from the westward aboard the Denali, with 22 boarding her to go south. The freighter Coastal Monarch ar- rived with four aboard from Pet- ersburg. Passengers were: From Seward: Willlam Peterson, Mrs. Alice Reay. From Sitka: Ray Downing, Mat- thew Garcia, Henry L. Olsen, Jack Pickford, R. L. Shackelford, T. C. Whiteside. From Petersburg: Catalino Bar- rel, S. N. Johnson, Daniel Livie, H G. Nordling. To Seattle: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Wadgalis, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Willlams, Miss Ruth Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Duncan, Mrs. Grace Wickersham. To Petersburg: Andrew Johnson, Mrs. Daisy Myrick, Christian My- rick, Natalie Austin, Mrs. Amy Skeek, Mrs. Tom Thompson, James Taylor, Neal MacDonald. To Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs. Del Olson, Marilyn Olsen, Thomas Ol- sen, John T. Melton, Sgt. Carl E. Floodquist. Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 139 Bo. Franklin P. O. Box 2506 ) [rammt e e ) GEORGE BROS. Widest Sclection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 .The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth,and Pranklin Sts. PHONE 136 Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly BABIN'S BOTANY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Complete Outfitter for Men B. W. COWLING COMPANY Dodgo—Plymouth—Chrysler DeSoto—Dodge Trucks MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 140 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. e e @ B.7.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday &t 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- . BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 713 High Quality Cabinet Werk for Home, Office or Store Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Pianos—Mausical and Supplies .Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O PHONE 555 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 Junean Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. Chrysler Marine En’h- MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co HOME GROCERY. Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. American Meat — Phose To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Thone 311