The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR TITO LOOKS WESTWARD in special There appears Associated Press dis- patches and by just how Tito is showing self reliance in his country. Mo bresiant | Recently, the Washington Post, iness Manager | discussed the situation as follows: Marshal Tito seems determined to prove that his r without the slightest print, writers except Su ING COMPANY , Juneau, Alaska President in an editorial, the Post Office.in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES { country can live and tha Teat, dependence on its former Communist allies. The i signing of a [ive-year trade ag ement with Britain tis impressive evidence of the switch in the Yugoslav economy. The Soviet-dominated cuntries, under Cominform orders, thought they could crack a whip jover Tito by virtually cutting off trade relations with thim. His response has been to substitute trade rela- tions with the West. The trade agreement with Britain ers an estimated 616 millions dollars’ worth of iwo- ay trade over five years; it means that Yugoslavia I can sell timber, metal and food products in exchange | for British manufactures. But the British have driven pr Oelivercd by earrier in Juneau ; six months, $8.0 By mall, postas 2 paid ar, in_advance, §15.00 in advs $1.50. scribers will confer a fi the Business Office of any I of their papers, Telephones rates low six months, in advance, $7.50; r if they will promptly notify sor irregularity in the delivery ness_Office, ATED PRESS News Office, 374, MEMBER OF ed Press is exc all news dispatc this paper and a y entitled to the use for credited to it or not other- o the local news published ATIV Alaska Newspapers, 1411 . Wash NATIONAL REPRE: rth Avenue Bld agreement. They have allowed Tito a banking credit of only eight million pounds, which is far less than eh» wanted or needed. The United States can hardly make a comparable trade agreement, since Yugoslavia can sell little to ! ius except strategic materials. But the United States can do a great deal more than heretofore to insure Yugoslavia’s economic survival. We should use our fundoubted power in Western Germany to enlarge the wholly inadequate trade agreement between Yugoslavia and the West German republic: for Ger- many used to be one of Yugoslavia's greatest markets and sources of supply, and can be again. We should L Thn T kalina ide. bullding - Deet of. 1000/ stib-| S0 SYSEYDING HERRERENI IR W persuide the Wekl: % ! Bank to grant the Yugoslav loan which a bank mis- { sion has recommended. If the World Bank hesitates | much longer, the Yugoslavs might well make another application to the Export-Import Bank which is an that the outstanding element of American superiority | *5¢7Y of the United States Government and an arm & of American policy. SOVIET { UBMARINES ! The new issue of Jane's “Fighting Ships” asserts marines and that they hope to have 750 in se) by the end of 1951. They also supposedly are build- ing three Admiral Sherman is more conservative in his figures, but he emphasizes new battleships is carrier a GLAMOUR IN ECLIP Statistics, of course, give index of though it is well known that the Russ advantage of German technical advice. Leaving aside the battleships, which may have limited use because of their vulnerability, the pros- Russian underseas fleet is formidable threat. This is true because many of the methods by which Nazi U-boats were overcome have been rendered obsolete by the schnorkel submarine and the long-range torpedo. As Dr. Vannevar Bush observes in his new book, | Modern Arms and Free Men. “If we entered a war | 5007 a technically and industrially strong enemy, and if that enemy could effectively apply | modern devices at sea, we should have the whole job of overcoming the submarine to do over again | no There goes another illusion. Michel Thomas, a leader of the French maquis, who was associated with our Counter Intelligence Corps during the war, told the press the other day that the Mata Hari type of | woman spy—the femme fatale—is out and has been some time, We suspect that the glamorous woman secret | agent was largely the creation of espionage fiction writers like E. Phillips Oppenheim. His lady spies could usually be found while stalking their prey, on! the terrace of the Casino at Monte Carlo sipping their favorite cocktails and extracting rose-tipped | cigarettes from thin platinum cases. pective a for against | and without a firm personality. No! a hard bargain, knowing how badly Tito needed the | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 7H's emprrE JANUARY 13, 1930 Mrs. Donald Haley, of the nursing staff of St. Ann’s was being treated for a severe attack of influenza. DAUGHTER FOR BOTELHOS Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Botelho of Tee Harbor became the parents of a baby daughter early this xno!'n-l ing at St. Ann’s Hospital. The child, | porn at 5:45 am. weighed six| pounds six ounces at birth. The new daughter is the Botel- ho's second child. The father is/ a lieutenant in the Alaska nghway‘ Patrol Miss Catherine McLaughlin, secretary to Karl Thiele, Secretary of e | Alaska, was scheduled to leave on the Princess Norah enroute to Seattle. BIKES AT MADSEN’S | SCHWINN —_— Charles Goldstein, well known pusiness man of Juneau returned on China the Queen after an absence of more than three months in which he But Chiang kai-Shek held power ' toured the eastern states with Mrs. Goldstein and their daughter, Marie. from 1927 to 1949 and is still right-; In Denver the Goldsteins called on Mr. and Mrs. James Parks, ing. No man could succeed in such; > o Al a situation without great gires| Parents of Gov- George A. Parks, of Alaska. other leader developed in National- ' Deputy Collector F. E. Vandewall of the U. S. Customs at Skagway, ist China who could be substituted | returned to his station on the Princess Norah after a month’s visit for Chiang. Many tried for power;|in ihe states They failed (NN T Chiun_g is ox(mordmnri_ly stub- L. H. Metzgar, superintendent of the Alaska Juneau mine, who had born. Ningpo people are like that, been south for some time on business and pleasure, returned home to but Chiang more so than anyone | & =% I have ever met. Almost fau“sn_‘_!unmu on the Princess Norah. cally, he faces death all the time. | TR I recall an incident years ago when The trolling boat Snipe, property of I. Goldstein and Chris Molver, cne of his bodyguards was brib- | was destroyed by fire near Sisters Island in Icy Straits the previous ed to assassinate him in bed. Chiang ' saturday, according to word received by the Customs House. awoke during the night; he layi unI‘l\ f"\“fi -‘W“]“u il“ :hekug““d:: F. G. Betts cadastral engineer of the U. S. Public Survey, returned s i v s e lpa;",e,:po Juneau on the gasboat Dorothea after an absence of three months The guard superstitiously trembled | in which he was engaged in surveying the townsite of Klawak on the and collapsed, more at Chiang’s | west coast of Prince of Wales Island. The following members of Bett's calmness than cut of fear. | survey party returned with him: L. A. Dauphiny, Leonard Berlin, H. B. The marriage between Chiang|Sarber and M. A. Sarber kai-Shek and Meiling Soong has' been prattled about by many who | could not know the facts. I knew them intimately while even the courtship ret. Meiling was ¥ A% p then, as she is now, beautiful, vi- | Weather: generally fair; maximum, 29; minimum, 25. vacious, fascinating. Chiang was| peeerorsrrrrorrorrmseoos st e v MODERN ETIQUETTE HOBERTA LEE months; but even in power, his was, PP AR at the time, a dubious career in| Q. When a girl is offered a cocktail in a crowd, but she does not Klawak had a population of about 500, principally Indians, and everything was on a modern scale. Frank Peratrovich was mayor. a se an uncertain government. Also| Chiang was quite poor and always, has been. Others associated with| him may have become rich through | drink, what should she do? his rise to power, but not Chiang| A. Say “No, thank you,” but graciously. It isn't necessary to add cn his wife. Her mother was in|that she does not drink, nor should she ever accept merely to please Japan during the courtship, the others. was her brother T. V. Soong, dur-| = o ¢ i proper for a man to go out for a smoke between acts in ing the crucial days of it. i T il thiat onae dus st | a theater, leaving the woman in ner seat? A Tur! a 2 i g . i period, when Chiang, Melling and | A. This is the helgl?t o‘f ruficmss, unless '.h:re are otheArs in ¢£1e I were dininz with the Kungs, 1|Party to entertain her. Even in this case, it is not the most courteous act. i Q. Should one write letters or notes to announce the birth of a baby? asked Meiling why she wanted !o‘ marry this man, who seemed, to| A. This is vsually done by means of cards. me, at any rate, not her kind. She | peeeeerorrrrrorereorerea—e - The women whom M. Thomas describes as the These facts argue not for a bigger Navy but for | most successful secret agents are normal and in- ) a hig degree of selectivity in emphasis. Most | conspicuous, with no trace of the romantic about } assuredly the Navy's primary mission is to protect | their appearance, and who have other things to do new and unattractive basis. the sea lanes. This does not mean that the Navy must be restricted to submarine hunter-killer groups; for it must be prepared to dispose of surface vessels and | glamorous lady spy, if she ever existed at all outside to bomb the pens at which enemy submarines are of fiction, than it would be to mourn the passing of But it does illustrate where scientific e((ort’ the buffalo. Besides, they do say that Mata Hari | was as ugly as sin and not at all like Garbo. THESE DAYS s nBiwi GEORGE SOKOLSKY quisitely formed fingers. based ought to be concentrated. Having inherited the Annenberg kookie wire, Regan suddenly found himself with a new partner. The Jake Guzik syndicate of Chicago,| i inheritors of the old Capone gang,| “had moved in. Not only did Regan | I T | find himself with a partner, but| CHIANG'S PERSONAL LIFE chortly thereafter he found that| Dean Acheson and others take he wasn't even a partner himself,| the position that Chiang kai-Shek The syndicate had taken over. |has no ability. Let's look at the This was the story which Reganjecord. < unfolded to this writer in great de-, The Chinese revolution ended tail in a Chicago hotel in the[With the establishment of the Re- spring of 1946. He told how Pete|Public on October 10, 191L. Locivella was gambling dictator in; Sun yat-Sen was president for a | Detroit, how Dan Corotello of theflittle more than a month. Sicilian Society dominated Chi-j Yuan shih-Kai tcok over and was cago, how territory was divided | president and dictator for four between gangsters, how it was im-|vears from 1912 to 1916, although that Democrats on Sen- | Possible for a night club or m\'eml“e had an awkward revolution in < committee backed away | to cperate without kuying ice cubes, 1915, and had it not been for | towels and beer, renting slot ma- Li yuan-Hung followed Yuan for the persistence of GOP Sen. Karl chines and hiring bartenders| 2 short time to be succeeded by Mundt of South Dakota, the linksjthrough the old Capone syndicate. Feng kuo-Chang. i between Costello, Helis and Mara- In August, 1918, Hsu shih-Chang n might never have been exposed. Cr:mbling Monopolies was chosen president. ublican Senators also developed| The gangsters not only had gone Then came constant Zificant acknowledgment | in for gambling, but they had set from 1918 onward with 1l Vaughan that Helis|up an empire controlling every ac- who served for months and feudal hed contributed money to Demo- [tivity connected with the night lozds “who( st themsclves up as cratic political campaigns. club, tavern or beer hall business,[mighty powers, and with an inter- Ne government is not supposed It was a monopoly more tightly run mittent Agmermnvm_ at Canton. even the remoiest links|than anything ever conceived by Once during _thrs period there were mbling. But when a gamb- big business. seven separate governments in linz syndicate contributes $20,000 to| Returning to Washington, I plac- i’fie Washinglon Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON (Continued from Page One) at the White House, that Maragon vas linked to Frankie Costello. It also suspected that Maragon might have been the funnel by which Costello poured campaign contributicns into Maj. Gen. Harry Veughan. Republicans Persist it was not unnatural, 1 thi revolution than twirl lonz-stemmed cocktail glasses in their ex- jwrong reason for marrying a man. presidents | replied that T did not understand.1 i £, : Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpox Chiang; that he was the hope of | the country. She felt that her ad- | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They were in a hurry to open up the package.” UP is redundant, and should be omitted. vantages would be of service ‘o i him and to China. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Valuable. Pronounce val-u-a-b’l, with | To an American, this may be a | Yet, there in China in those da,.;.t‘ It is no more use deploring the eclipse of the |the reply scemed altogether reason- | pouR syllables, and no val-u-b’l. akle to me. The Chinese are like that. Chiang was chviously deeply | in love with Meiling, It must be remembered that, in those revolu-| tionary days, it was something a feather in Chiang’s cap to be able to marry into such a family, so0 closely associated with Dr. Sun yat-Sen. Chiang had not yet ‘es- tablished himself as the great fig- ure. Although I had much to do with making the arrangements for the wedding, I was not present. I was in the hospital having my appe {dix out—and it annoyed me no end to miss the festivities. My wite, was, of course, present. i Meiling Soong’s mother was a |cnristian lady, closely associated with church work. Her father had actually returned to China frem Ithe United States to teach English and the Bible and had set up a printing plant to publish Bibles. Madame Soong objected to Chiang because he was not a Christian. Much that is not true has been said of Chiang’s cenversion. All he had agreed to do was to read the Bible. So deeply impressed was he with' the New Testament that he joined the Methodist Church and developed a philosophy of his own, “The New Life Movement,” of al- most Cromwellian disciplines. This might have done much for Chinaj | —but, as always, China's hopes (were shattered by war. This time by Japan’s war on China in 1931 ; I Oldest Bank in Alaska OFTEN MISSPELLED: Foliage; observe the IA, and pronounce in THREE syllables. SYNONYMS: Adversity, misfortune, hardship, disaster, ill luck. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | RETROSPECT (noun): a review of the past. “He turned his pen to a retrospect of the colon:ai period.” PO 00K and LEARN What U.S. vessel was destroyed in the harbor of Havana in 1898? What is the origin of the expression, “Doubting Thomas?” ‘What is the collective noun used to refer to employees on a ship? What two kinds of bankruptcy are there? Which English king knighted a cut of beet? ANSWERS 1. The U. S. S: Maine. 2. From the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe with the others that Christ had risen, until he touced His wounds 3. Crew. 4. Voluntary and involuntary. 5. Charles II; sirloin. i by A. C. GORDON - EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT ' OPTOMETRIST Secend and Franklin i Juneau PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1950 JANUARY 13 Helen Jane Adams Harry Stonehouse Sheila Berry Lou Hudson Mary Campbell Ben Taylor Mrs, William Biggs Mary Kathleen Werner Mrs. G. G. Brown Larry Carroll e o 2 5 v © e®00ecccccee Weather at Alaska Points Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am. 120th - Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau | at Juneau, follow: G—Cloudy 7—Clear 0—Blowing Snow 32—Cloudy 12—Partly Cloudy | .. =-41—Fo3; . -29—TIce Crystal) -2—Snow 8—Clear -18—Snow ... =8—Clear 36—Cloudy 11—Cloudy | i 8—Snow . 17—Partly Cloud\’i -40—Clear | -6—Clear | 33—Snow | -29—Clear 18—Snow 12—Clear | -40—Clear -6—Partly Cloudy Anchorage Annette Island Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre Juneau Airport Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland Prince George Seattle Sitka Whitehorse Yakutat ... HOSPITAL NOTES Donald E. 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Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satistied Customers” ol FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. e“ Foot of Main Street - MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM 8 dally habit—ask for it by name Juneau Daries, Inc. SRLTR Jouies, lng. the campaign of a Florida sheriff [ed the facts before Attorney Gen- eral Tom Clark and J. Edgar Hoov- er. Jack Regan, I told them, knew where all the bodies were buried in Chicage gangsterdom for years back, and he had promised to co- operate. And he did. The Justice Depart- ment assigned 12 FBI men to act on the tips Regan gave them, and for a time it looked as if Chi- cago gangland was in for a clean- up. But suddenly, Regan was shot. He had told me that probably would be shot, and had hired a bodyguard to ke with him night and day. But driving home one afternoon, his ar stopped for a red light. Beside i him, he waited, pulled up a truck, and from under blazed a volley of gun- fire. Regan crumpled in his seat. Regan, however, did not die. to the hospital he fought for his life. A month dragged by and Regan seemed out of the woeds. Then suddenly he was dead. A tube of mercury was found in his intestines. How it got there nobody knew. But the gangsters of Chicago are powerful. Not only have they ways of get-! ting inside hospitals, but they hav9| ways of reaching inside the Federal | Government, as we shall show in| future columns of th series. gets a salary of only $7,500, or Big Bill Lias, the Wheeling track operator, —contributes an earlier campaign of spillers, now U. S. Attorney, to be prosecuting attorney, it stands to reason that the gambling syn- dicates can exert powerful influ- ence with our city governments. when race s said by csome that the Fun-l dergast machine and big-city pol- have now moved into the te House. While this columnist not ether agree with this —for reasons to be shown later— yet it is true that, when Frankie Costello con $2,000,000,000 gamkbling business, an afford to spend a fortune electing men whom he can influence Murder In Chicago And though Costello now claims to be a man of peace, other gang- sters, reaching for the golden pro- fits of the slot machine and the | race . have not hesitated to' steal, kidnap, hijack and murder. | This was how the murder took place in Chicago for which I may have been partly responsible. | The man murdered was Jack Regan, forme associate of the| late Moe Annenb who took over Annenberg’s racing wire when Moe was sent to the Lewisburg | (Pa) rpenitentiary for income-tax evasion by Frank Murphy. This 1s| the telegraph wire which carrie the race track results to all boc makers, and without it no boc can successfully operate, | Taken as able tes RUMMAGE SALE VF.W. Auxiliary Sat. Jan. 14, 10 a.m. Methodist Cuurch basement. 97-4t ACROSS . Points . 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