The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1949, Page 4

PAGE FOUR G . . Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COD NY Second and Main Streets, Ju AELEN TROY MONSEN - - - New Year. President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - . . Vice-Pres'dent ! ELMER A. FRIEND - ! . Managing Bditor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager | Entered (o the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | Delivere¢ by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per monthi | six months, $5.00; one year, $15.00 i By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: 1 One year, in_advance, $15.00; six mopths, in advance, $7.50; ; e month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will ccafer a favor if they will promptly notify be Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery ¥ ‘heir papers. Telepliones: check. News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Pross is exclusively entitled t¢ the use for cptblication of all news disvatches credited to it or no other- vise credited in this paper and also the local news published terein taxpayer’s pocket. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 urth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash. bounds. Add the two enterprise. For instance, In other words, ! program is set up the income from NO ISSUE ON MONDAY The Deily Alaska Empire, observing the day after New Year, January 2, which is a holiday will not be published but any important events will be bulletined. MORE THAN A DAY The New Year, “reviving old desires,” and some- 1t is well and thing the poet never mentioned — old resolutions, is | being trumpeted in. {1t is accorded this fanfare because it is more; than a day in “this petty pace™ and continuity of life. It is a brief halt and a starting over. It is the aband- onment of despair and the donning of hope. It is a social time. We of this newspaper join all of you in the celebration. We want to attend the( wake for 1949 and the birth of 1950 with all the blare of horns and laughter. | FINAL COST {may achieve its goal of peace in 1950 and that our | Scommum’xy see fulfilled all its plans for betterment. \ Strictly on our own, we wish for you a Happy ! OUR LIBERTY The most staggering aspect of the welfare state philosophy which is overwhelming our Federal Gov-! ernment is that it heads inexorably in the direction | of outright confiscation of the bulk of everyone's pay We have grown accustomed—almost—to all man- ner of “deductions” for Federal income taxes. social security and so forth. The insidious thing about this scheme of relativ courages a greater and ever greater “take” from the | ely painless taxation is that it en- The appetite of the “welfare state” knows no| factors together, and they spell tre- ! mendous menace for the whole scheme of individual | the present trend of talk is toward $100 a month pensions for everybody 65 or over. This | | would cost, by 1960, $17,600,000,000, or about as much: as individuals now pay in total Federal income taxes. | the cost to the average individual would be about $7 a week. The present social security with some eye to actuarial realitie: Perhaps Congress could liberalize it somewhat, even though the money paid out under it already outruns old-age pension taxes. But $100 a month for everyone at 65 would have little relation to a real insurance program. dole, and an even greater imposition upon the earn- ings of those who work for a living. (A $100 a month annuity would cost the average individual far less under a standard insurance policy than would his share under a government-administered old-age dole of the same amount.) good for government — government at some level, whether it be Federal, state or local———! {to attend to certain basic social responsibilities. But} when the intent ranges beyond that, when it becomes ta colossal all-things-to-all-men feed trough, we must not forget that the cost of maintaining the trough can be so great as to cost us liberty itself. R It would be a fantastic It is lamentable, though, ‘Also in your fellowship, we pray that the wor]ditioml output. Ee Washingfon Merry-Go-Round By DRE\—N— ;FARSON «Continued from Page One) of joint| will be | nation’s | 000,000 and $10,000,000,000 Federal and State funds needed to safeguard the drinking water. Officers’ Clubs In Liquor Busines: ] The House Armed Services Com- mittee is considering a probe of Army-Navy Officer Clubs which| have been selling whisky against| the law. 4 Under an act of Congress (1901) still in effect, the sale or purchase of intoxicants on a military estab- lishment is strictly forbidden. In October, 1947, General Eisenhower, then Chief of Staff, issued an or- to ‘prevent an overproduction of coal.” Sam Caddy, Lewis’s representa- tive, said in substance, according to ‘the affidavit, “that we would be able to operate five days a week and get our own price for the coal, as the other mines would not pro- duce sufficient coal to meet the demand.” der clarifying this law and ruling The most amazing part of the|that the sale of package liquor negotiations, however, was that!was taboo in Officers’ clubs as the mine operators were not shown well as in Army PX's. a Ctopy of the proposed contract] Desplte this restriction, however, but: were expected to go to Wash- | Army officers at Fort Benning, Ga., ingbon and sign any contract pre- not only have been selling whisky | sented to them there. land other intoxicants by the bot- “We were not to have a copy‘llc. but have actually been adver- (of the contract) and were to agree . tising such sales in case and half- to the terms presented to us with- fcase lots. out’ changes,” the affidavit states. Furthermore, Fort Benning of- “However, it was held out to usificers and their civilian {riends can that we would be granted the|get the liquor much cheaper than privilege of a 5-day operation andlthe regular retail prices charged speeial concessions in the opera-loutslde the post, because it is tion of our mines if we signed a|bought directly from distillers to blapk check contract.” escape a $15-per-case state and Two small operators refused tolwzxrehou.\c tax. be bulldozed and, as a result, their mines were closed down complet- ely’ They were not even permitted to .work a 3-day week as were other coal mines throughout the country. Congressmen have received com- plaints that one officer at Ben- ning received a shipment of 164 fcases of wines and liquors last iJuly, which he later sold to of- { ficer friends. Another officer pub- lished a circular announcing the sale of 19 different brands of ‘ iwkisky, gin and brandy and quot- New York's water shortage may|in cut-rate prices by the case be @ blessing in disguise by foeus-1,,4 half. o, ing! attention on a long-standing| ne House Armed Services Com- menace to the drinking Water Offnjiiee also has received complaints other parts of the ration. that package liquor is being sold et 3 N | incirectly to civilians at the Naval ;ed’ of millions of “pork bar l Gun Factory in Washington, An- “rads for flood control and IiVer-| qiews Pield In near-by Maryland, and-harbor development, but h“SISlewnrt Field (near West Point), The Nation's Polluted Water Ewery year Congress votes hund- been extremely tight-fisted in Pro-| port Hamilton (New York), West- ¥iding money to . purlly.the water Field (Massachusetts) - and | that goes into our homes from installations. | thege same rivers. The problem is not so great in the. Great Lakes area, where the lake water requires relatively lit- tle ' treatment for contamination. However, most of the U.SA. de- pends upon river water for drink-! ing, and there is a glaring lack of 'adequate facilities for cleans- - ing! it of human r-wage and in- Prxlum will need a $2,000,000,000 dustrial waste loan from the US.A. if she is to ' keep her economy above water. 1}1: is true not only of such big der, who originally sold the citips as Cincinnati and Philadel- { British on devaluation, had in phia, which are constantly grap-|mind that the cheaper pound would pling with water pollution, but of jgive them a chance to invade the smaller cities downstream from the { American market. But it has not factories and sewers of big indus-jworked out that way. trial centers. One difficulty is that British There are approximately 150,000,- | businessmen have found the Am- 000" people in the United States.|erican market too tough, too com- Yet the pollution of cur waterways) petitive, and too costly. As a re-| is équivalent to the sewage of 200,- {sult, they are concentrating their over ther British Deva’u~tion Fiops Secretary of the Treasury Synder has sent the White House a re- port on British devaluation which paints anything but a rosy picture for the future. It indicates that 000,000 people—because half the jexport efforts in the sterling area pollution is caused by industrial]—the British dominions, the Middle wasdfé. This has doubled in post-| East and Africa—where they are ‘war years. already established. However, this “prevent a repetition of thefgives them no new dollars, and Ney York water cri in other|the source of dollars—which the pams of the country, Con and | British had so desperately hoped thé State legislature = going, for from devaluation—is rapidly to she required to face the water-)drying up. paguuon problem. instead of duck-! The British Government is work- ing it. This means that 10,500 new!ing hard on the problem of crack- waperworks plants may be nee 'l(llmg the American market but Brit- to | chemically treat river wat ish businessmen are not. for sewage and industrial waste e e rding to the U, S. Public Health | Get Your PRESTONE at Mad- a Ser'ice. A tota! of between $7,000,- | sen’s.—ady. 80-tf MIDNIGHT MASS TONIGHT AT CATHOLIC CHURCH Midnight Mass will be celebrat- ed in the Church of the Nativity tonight, New Year'’s eve. In a re- cent announcement, Pope Pius XII granted special permission for mid- night Mass to be celebrated in churches throughout the world for opening of 1850, The Mass in Juneau will be a solemn Pontifical Mass with the Most Rev. Francis D. Gleeson, S.J.,' 2s celebrant. Assistant priest will be the Rev. James Conwell, 8. J., the deacon will be the Rev. Robert L. Whelan, S. J., sub-deacon will be the Rev. Lawrence A. Nevue, S. J. Sermon will ke preached by Bishop Gleeson. The ceremonies will be opened with the singing of the Te Deum, traditional Catholic hymn of thanksgiving for the blessings of the past year. All species of pumpkin and squash | originated in the Western Hemi- | sphere. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASEA ~ from | " " 120 YEARS AGO Fie maupize | | — bty | DECEMBER 31, 1929 ! Search was intensified, by air and dog team, for Col. Ben Eielson and L4 . bd DECEMBER 31 ® | his mechanician, Earl » Mrs. Rod Darnell o | down somwhere on the Siberian coast. Eiclson had flown from Nome for 2 il @ ihe trading schooner Nanuk, which was icebound With a valuable cargo . Lowell Wood | . Mary Alice Noble .{or furs and passengers. : Mr:eel\fi:‘e‘lm‘sj}:fltz : Theodore Heyder,” wellknown business man and popular purser of L4 George T. Dudley e the Margnita, was to sail on the Princess Norah, starting a trip to |® Albert L. Fisk o | Germany to visit relatives and friends near his old home in the Hartz |® Cary L. Tubbs ® | Mountains. It had been 22 years since he had visited the scenes of \: MATEaL G :‘his childhood. He planned to return to Juneau May 1, 1930. : wfi‘]‘;?nu:i:m,lder ¢ :! Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Williams of Skagway retpyrned to their home At Louis C. Lemieux o |on the Quien after spending the holidays in Juneau. . William B. Cline , Jr. o e - Joseph Akagi . H. G. Watson, former Secretary to Gov. George A. Parks and who 4 Baniy ARyl ® had retired from that position to enter the contracting field, was elected Jack Pasquan Mrs. Pearl Burford . Maximillian Younger . Katherine Stevens e Manuel Diaz . JANUARY 2 Dorothy Manthey O. F. Benecke Beverly Jane Hall G. R. Isaak Arthur Burke Elma Olson Hattie Stanton Helen Hansen William Koshak Myna Lynn Butler 0 e e 0 e o o 3% o WATCH NIGHT SERVICE AT MEMORIAL CHURCH AT 11 O’CLOCK TONIGHT Tonight at 11 o'clock a Watch Night service will be held at the; Memorial Church according to an-| nouncement by the Rev. Walter A.|" Soboleff. The public is invited to A college professor says the average man can tell | share in this service. all he knows in two hours. that the a. m. puts no such limitation on his conversa- SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That Dorothy L. Gray, administra- | Dated: Juneau, Alaska, Dec-iab- 9th, 1949. DOROTHY L. GRA Administra. First publication, Dec. 10, 1949 Last publication Dec. 31, 1949. PUBLIC NOTICE i In the District Court for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau. | In the Matter of the Regular Janu- ary, 1950 Term of the District Court, at Juneau. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That pursuant to an Order of the| Court dated November 9th, 1949, a Regular January, 1950 Term of the District Court for the First Division, of the Territory of Alaska, will be held in the courtroom of the Fed- eral Building at Juneau, Alaska, be- | ginning at the hour of 10 o'clock | in the forenoon of Tuesday, Janu- ary 8rd, 1950. In witness whereef I have here-| unto set my hand and caused the| seal of the above entitled court to be affixed at Juneau, this 28th day of November, 1949. (SEAL) J. W. LEIVERS, Clerk of the District Court. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 37. Put down 1. Plug 39. Fixed look 8. Purple seaweed 40. Go b, 13. Halry ot o | 14. Nimble 45. Amoni 15° Ahead | 46. Brazilian 16. Cleopatra’s macaw mal 41. Lukewarm 17 Tapestn 49 Open vessel 18. Droll fellow g, Martinique 20 Age volcano 22 Holland 2. Excited commune 64 Down!: prefix 23. Rudiate 55. Oak fruit 25" Period b6, Keeps 26. Pulled §% Diminished "‘ L‘inrln!»layld §9. Hair 20 Shoe form a1 Mor 0OWN 33 Americancoin L Short rainfalls o ollE W Z:1 1| X | President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce by the directors of that lorganization. Others named were E. M. Goddard, Assistant Executive :On‘icer of the Alaska Game Commission, Vice-President, and H. G. Walmsley, local manager of the Pacific Coal Company, Secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Prosper H. Ganty boarded the Queen for the trip to their home, Skagway. Mr. Ganty had been a juror at the recent court term. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom of Douglas arrived on the Queen after a week’s visit to Mr. Engstrom’s former home at Wrangell. Word was received in Douglas of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lottsfeldt, December 13 in Seattle. The mother was the former Sophia Anderson. GORDON | | Q!‘l Daily Lessons in English §¥. 1. WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I am mighty glad to see » 1t is much better to say, “I am VERY glad to see you.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Peculiar. Pronounce pe-kul-yer, not j pe-kul-i-er. \ OFTEN MISSPELLED: Solder; the L is silent in the pronunciation. SYNONYMS: Outlast, outwear, outlive, survive. { 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: COMPREHENSION; the mental grasping of ideas, facts, etc. “It re- Iy e e e oiw o 9 e ® e sfEualL _ « | trix with the will annnexed of the quires comprehension to understand these things.” TIDE TABLGTY - ‘esta(e of Minnie Ross Holman, de- = s = . ¥, o | ceased, has filed her final account ' by JANUARY 1 e |and report of her administration of WODERN ET I 0 U E "TE v High tide 0:23 am, 129 ft. e said estate, and her petition for dis- || l ROBERTA LEE ! Low tide 5:42 am, 55 ft. e|tribution thereof, in the .Uniied| - — High tide 11:46 am,, 158 ft. e}States Commissioner’s Court for Ju- | G e =5 ; o Low tide 6:32 pm, 03 ft. o ! neau Precinct, at Juneau, Alasxa;‘w Q. When dancing, is it necessary that the man should make “small . e | that 10 o'clock A. M., February 13th, talk”? |e JANUARY 2 © | 1950, has been fixed as the time nd A. Conversation during a dance is entirely a matter of choice and e High tide 1:03 am, 13.1 ft. elIsaid court the place for he ag i mnot one of etiquette. Some men can let their dancing speak for itself, e Low tide 6:28 am, 54&ft. ®[same; and that all persons n-|whil» others need to talk in order to cover up the defects of their e High tide 12:28 p.m, 16.4 ft. ¢ |cerned therein are hereby notiiied ! n ng. * Low te 7:13 pm, 08 ft. ¢ :f;da?il;eazh;‘; e ‘?;"’ Placel " Q. snoud ane ever présent, one's mother to another person? e objections, any, to - AP to one’s mother, re- . JANUARY 3 °lsaid final account and petition for A. No: one should always present everyone ol e High tide 1:41 am, 143 ft. ©}settlement and distribution therec:; €Priless of age, rank, or sex. . e Low tide 7:10 am, 5.0 ft.; ® [and that the court at such hesrivzf Q- I¢ it all right for a girl to give her fiance an engagement © High tide 1:07 pm, 17.1 ft. ®|wi adjudicate and decree whin the ‘present?\i" b - e Low tide 7:52 pm, -14 ft. ®lpeirs and distributees of the de- A ¥es; this is quite often done, although not absolutely necessary. - ® | ceased persons are. e == — o | s o 06 0 ¢ 0 0 0 0 0 ¢ LUBK. -and LEARN % o conpon i. What“is an Enoch Arden law? By what name is the Paris subway called? 3. Who was the composer of “The Flight of the Bumble Bee”? 4. What is the equivalent in U. S. money of the 30 pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed Jesus? 5. Which animal is acknowledged as the cleanest? ANSWERS: 1. One providing that a wife may remarry without divorce after the husband has been absent for a specified number of years. 2. Metro. 3. Rimsky-Korsakov. 4. About $20. 5. The raccoon. —— e BN Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1949 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Solufion of Yesterday's Puzzie 2. So. Americam 3. Either parttidge 4. Greek letter 6. Unadulterated 6. Day's march 1. Freauented spo 8. Slat 9. Turkish come mander 0 Snake L Omit in pro- nouncing 2. Restitch 13" Quartet pint . Piece of paste- board Relates Large river mouth Ocean Goddess of dawn . Baseball team Lighting device . Mythological Greek prin- . Leave . Tropical fruft 41 Asiatic palm 2 Drawing room Wild animal Look after Love to excess 51 Before . Expansive substance 57, Exists JOE HUGHES as a paid-up subscriber 10 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: MARVIN RIPKE Federal Tax—12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH 'THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! ==y e ) T ) = 40 - BELOW. CLUB IS FORMED BY SCOUTS, FAIRBANKS AREA Borland, missing since November 11 and believed | gy pprra Alaska, Dec. 31— —Ten Boy Scouts and their leader formed a 40-below club Tuesday night. . They slept out with the tempera- ture 44 degrees below zero in the Army’s Arctic Training Center here. They used newly developed Army equipment including footgear, sleep- ing bags and heated tents. After a good night's sleep, they cooked creakfast before skiing back to the main camp to join 25 other Scouts and four leaders, who were to camp out last night. The younger Scouts, aged 11 through 13, camp close to the main camp. The Explorer Scouts, 14 through 16, will ski eight miles and set up camp. The lads are learning to map their route and survey the area for edible roots, bark and berries which could sustain them in case of emergency. They also are learn- ing to build emergency shelters from snow and niewte materials. Radio communication from the tra’ning center keeps in touch with the Scout parties. SHARP EVE KEPT ON RUSS VESSELS IN U. 5. WATERS PANAMA, Panama, Dec. 31—(P— The Panama Canal Zone was host today to one Russian “mystery” ship and two more were expected momentarily. The Soviet vessel Trepang ar- rived at Christobal last night. The Peramutr is due today and the Chiaka also is on the way. All are due to pass through the Panama Canal, enroute from .the Baltic to Vladivostok. In Washington the vessels were described as fishing ships, but they were reported there to be without fishing gear and to have extrem- ely powerful radios. U. S. civil and military officials were reported in Washington to be keeping a close watch on the progress of the ships though waters where large U. S. Army-Navy-Air Force exercises will be held from January to mid-March. L Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 msc.hlnkllll P. O. Box 2508 ] . A GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection 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 geward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear 4. Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY 500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH_SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men e ————————— B. W. COWLING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1949 MOUNT JUNFAU 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 i bl @ 3.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Becretary. BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 72 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store ———eee ) Moose Lodge No. 700 _Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN R R R s e ] "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO - DRUG CO. Alaska Masic Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical \nstruments 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 i at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 1 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Wil SOLD ‘Sod SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY ' (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneaa Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Daries, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP: Marine Hardware - Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVIPS OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists