The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE -JUNEAU, ALASKA R pital investment. After careful planning the budget of $22,000, some $2,500 higher than any previous Rendezvous—was decided upon as the amount of investment needed to make the Rendezvous pay off The Rendezvous comm not be staged withou Daily Alaska Empire e realizes it is sticking wese men, including sev- zvous’, have taken the iven something for n kind, everyone will 1s will make mongy Civic Center Fund, Rendezvous’ have out its respective necks, but Aeku i 3 eral veterans of Re N RATES |tack that if people are I tes i have a good time and the R other SUBSCRIPT Junca hs, §§. "| for future operations and rv | toward which the last four {been directed. 0 the emvhasis t people of Anchor wreas, will really e The Rendezvous, as some MEMBER ‘UI ASSOCIATED PRESS on a bang-up show from surround- this ¥ d visitors e come to An- w, was originally ind to spur mid- erves the latter | chorage in recent years may not anized for the benefit of trappers ) winter business activities. It st i' urpose, but with the coming of the war years, trap- faded in importance and that phase of the Ren- i ping dezvous disappeared. However, the quaint name has been retained, and while it actually does not concern furs now, it still | serves to break the long mid-season by adding fun, i frolic and a certain amount of business to the com- munity. The Rendezvous has tremendous possibilities. can become a nationally-known carnival. At present the Rendezvous is at a point where it will go on with great strides or be plowed under, as an experi- ment that didn't work. . The Chamber of Commerce committee charged i Anoun) i Sk Dimes seeking a record! wiy jts production is working hard to see that it $52,000,000 began yesterday and will continue through }yepaing and grows with Anchorage. It will need the : i ‘,runm cooperation from the town itself. That will “M-Day"—mobilization | o tne deciding factor of future Rendezyous' aralysis. | | | MARCH OF DIMES of was declared , infantile for funds in the two-week campaign,| BRITISH CONTEMPT FOR AMERICA | Basil O'Conner, President of the National Foundation | ¢ , stressed the record total Rl e o 58 Mridksn with polio last H ning illustrates the decadence of Great The 1949 cpidemic, he said, created “a state of | Britain so much probably as the recognition of the he like of which has never existed before | Re in the entire history of this country’s fight on infantile regime in China. Without question she was bluffed into believing that Reds would allow her to retain her Hong Kong interests without fighting for them. This a on her part indicates that our long- stand American accord on foreign policy | the In Juneau the March of Dimes is sponsored by members of Taku Post 5559 Auxiliary, Veteran: Plans for the campaign here will be éxplained later and carried out, as it should be, :is io pieces. s ssfully. v accepted our loans and gifts of billions and | then turns around and slaps us in the face. With the wishy-washy Truman Admini: Iso afraid of its own shadow in standing up for America ts, it is understandable that we are held in contempt by British Laborite and Socialistic the of Foreign Wars. She BIGGEST AND BEST ation neau has its Salmon Derby and Anchorage has its Fur Rendezvous. Under the above caption, the Anchorage News |©/HCil: editorially says a peek into advance planning for the To cover up our weak and tottering forelgn policy, | 1 - Rendezvous indicates this year will see the the President now comes out and promises us the finest and most complete winter carnival in the history | T05¢ Prosperous year in our history in L 3 e to tax and spend ourselves into a false prosperity of Ar promotion budget is larger than ever before. Hal Bockoven and his committee have come up witl p e account of $22,000 for organizing and pro- meting the v phases of the huge affair. Although it is not difficult to spend and wasteful and useless spending is to be frowned upon, it nevertheless must be conceded that terprise 50 city-wide as the Fur Rendezvous can- i One indication lies in the fact that the Manager means a harder blow when the inflationary h bubble bursts. Surely we must have a few national leaders who mid-winter v.:xll try and head off a welfare state ?alterned after the plan of England, toward which the Administra- is hurrying us. chorage. outdoor money tion “Women Are Here To 3tay.”—Title of new book Undoubtedly they are—thank goodness and alas! All of which illustrates how the o ¥ . Ifzr. W&Shmglon nation-wide gambling ring oper- One gambler walked into Dunn’s)aters in a medium?sized city in t,i’ly-GO-ROI.lfld L-rrue‘ laid $35,000 on the maym'slcailtolma, ; de and announced that that was | the price he weculd pay for opening l!?l‘.l'.‘ cone hookmaking establishment. i shortly after an “open city." he became Gambiers Escape Taxes yDunn kicked him out of the office. bout the only way of catching| This type of pressure was not =~ BX s fie hig pamblers 1n the past hex|iftioult {of Festst” More diffiomt! - GEORGE I. SOMOLERK. b rough income-ts a . were the approaches from men who 1eh income-tax violation. e T !'had helped elect him. One of these " I, and the Trea-|%as Bob Franklin, now under Fed-! I telephoned to Lloyd Whittaker, eral indictment on another matter, | President of the Chamber of Com- and one of Dunn’s campaign man- Mmerce of Peekskill, New York, in- agers, Franklin had also helped | treducing myself, without too much California J modesty. I said that I wanted to 1 Capone was fin- partment in has xious the past to cooperate. San Mateo not long! - | handle the campaign of v 1 mbler ago, g melio - Georgetii, . g A 5 Stheeiing Enc as “Gombo,” was | Attorney General Fred Hoy in ; discuss with him the case of P.ful local T-men re.|that part of the state and has been | C. Morris, who has just been dis- $400 worth of hidden:cicse to Howser. missed from the job of Executive | Meanwhile Joe Cannon, sometimes | Secretary of the Chamber. form of cashier's Thi Bank of Ametica. called the Mickey Cohen of Fresno,) Mr. Whittaker replied, to Fresno's chief of:ears quite arrogantly, that “it is a the the in to my william Berket, the|Proposed that local gent. tried to fol-|Police be removed—always the first|local matted. It is closed. I have ‘e was called off |SteP when the gamblers and rack- nothing to say. R R Peekskill is a town that has been take over—and be; \ing happened when |rePlaced by a licutenant, in whose having lots of trouble since Paul noti, a slot-machine qper- |Office gambler Cannon had been ajRobeson tried to sing there and a Bia Mateo, was. caughi]frequent viditor inumber of Communists got mtp a e » fight with members of the American {eteers want to from slot-machine | A rentals, T-Men, painstakingly in- Legion. The good burghers of that t Sy St~ othave d {0 set up ajtown have been hurt by Communist tores 1t| THESE DAYS 1da that the place is anti- negro, anti-semitic, and the usual smearing that Communist and other 3 left-wingers utilize to make a smell | where they cannot prove a point.! On the ot hand, decent Ameri- . cans wonder whether the place has JANUARY 17, 1930 not become a left-wing center. Friends received announcements of the marriage of Miss Charis Paul C. Morris, concerning whom | pettit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Pettit, formerly of Juneau, to £ hmve e s "L“h"";“o"*is &/ Charles S. Stone of Vancouver, Wash, Both were University of Wash- ?;’l\ll:nu‘l "?:;mf:‘i‘l‘: ):nd e:;ctk;fjumc’:' ington students. The bride was born in Juneau, where her father was Having witnessed all the Robeson |{or some time City Clerk. odes, he wrote a magazine ar- ticle, which I have before me, that gives the entire story in detail and from it, I gained the impression | ‘;;“-:m‘\ll“ ,\\E:‘\’:;» b{‘l“;‘l"‘f’:l:l‘_‘: ':00‘;:‘:_; Leo W. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, filed on the Republican lish. At any rate, his is an eye-wu-l“‘kfl for the office he held, subject to the primary election in April. ness gecount, very detailed. | Grover C. Winn was the first to file for a legislative position; Winn I don't know what the rule is|sought election to the House of the Territorial Legislature. about exscutive secretaries writing! articles for magazines, but Morris' was ordered to withdraw the manu- ript and, in due course, accord- g is story, is sam V' ’\;&hit':lk':: ‘k'e;i ::‘ s iesli‘;m‘ After a trip outside, Mrs. E. H. Kaser was returning home aboard tion, The reason I tclephoned‘(he Admiral Rogers. Whittaker was to ask him to con-| Ao, firm or deny that or to explain it, Nate O. Hardy, warden of the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries, left on |but Mr. Whittaker would not tell the Queen for Seattle. After a few weeks there, he was to go to Bristol me anything | Bay for the fishing season. The “Peekskill Evening Star” has| ° AL P s 20 YEARS AGO from THE EMPIRE (& > Mrs. Lockie MacKinnon, who had been visiting in the States for some time, was enroute home. Attorney James Wickersham was a passenger on the Queen to attend the Ketchikan session of the District Court. | purlished all versions of the story. | A : |In Morris's statement in this news- | J. S. MacKinnon of the Alaska Laundry was returning to Juneau | paper, he said: | after spending the holidays outside. |7 I personally feel that my story | | “This Can Happen To You, which I was ordered to retrieve from a| |national publication, would have! Agter trailing 3i-14 at the half, Juneau Firemen came back strong Ex\:;ms;:? (Xyll‘x\lmll'u:: TLL Fha:lapg,isgiltflnd fought to wifhin two points of a tie with the Ketchikan Town | time by ch reports as the mm‘qln:\tet in one of the prettiest comebacks seen on the local floor in | recently turned in by the so-called | many seasons. The final score was 28-26. Juneau players were Blake, I Civil Liberties Group. | Hollmann, Osborne, Junge, Gallwas, Killewich and Mangan. Playing “Up until the time I wrote that | for Ketchikan were Murphy, F. Peterson, H. Peterson, Albrightson, [article defending Peekskiil, there| Bailey and Hall. : was no criticism of my w uring the year I have spent hex | At a social meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary, after an ow. it that Paul C.|yciness session, bridge and pinochle prizes were awarded to Mrs. crris, an eye-witness to the Robe- A. B. Clark, W. J. Bolyan, Mrs. E. L. Gruber and E. M. Polley. n riots, chose to defend the vet- erans, while the Chamber of Com-| Weather: High, 42; low, 24; dlear. merce directors felt that it would | | prrr o e rve their purposes better if lhelz Chamber maintained an aloof and H H H by e e e etion wac | Daily Lessons in English doubtedly was that as Peekskill| { W. L. GORDON and its environs attract a large!* summer colol from New Yurk,‘ z, many of whom could be left-wing- | o Dr. W. A. Borland was a passenger for Seattle on the Queen. e et e e} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: The prural of STAFF (stick or piece wood) is STAVES, with the A pronounced as in STAY. The plural ers, the I stores preferred not of STAFF (number of persons) is STAFFS. to antago: heir customers on OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Serene and serenity. Pronounce the the general assumption that the second E in SERENE as in SEE. Pronounce the second E in SERENITY omer is always right even if|,s in WREN. is a Communist. The argument against Morris is | that, as a paid employee of an or-| ganization, he 1d not speak h luster, splendor, effulgence. mind ) American citizen, which | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ¢ be right on that principle that | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: pays the piper ¢ DISSENTING; expressing disagreement. “The motion was carried with- [the tune. But that is a_very out a dissentihg voice.” gerous principle to follow OFTEN MISSPELLED: Miscellaneous; observe the SC and the LL. SYNONYMS: Radiance, radiancy, radiation brilliancy, brightness, hoeve! » { | It is none of my business whom| § ROBERTA {the Peekskill Chamber of Com-!| | merce employs as its secretary; it | b—meemrmee— —oe—ee e e | (\‘cr b:mfj.); business whsn) an| Q. Are silver crumb scrapers still in good use? “Am»:r an gets fired for speaking up | A. They are still sometimes used if the tablecloth is of plain damask, | for America. What is happening to | this country when an American is |fired by an organization of busi- nessmen because he defends Ameri- |can war veterans whom he believ- led were maligned an smeared by! | Communists and their supporters? | - In his suppressed magazine story, | Morris said: | nis tray to the table? | “ . .We do want to pass on toj A. This is optional, although usually it is not expected. | readers the painful fact that Peeks- | eeeee kill discovered ‘the hard way’ how | { LOOK and LEAR but are not practical for lace or embroidery. One may fold a napkin to the thickness of a pot-holder for this purpose. Q. Is it necessary that a bride wear a hat or veil if the wedding ceremony takes place in the church? A. Yes, either may be worn, but at the home wedding, no matter what time of day, both hat and veil may be omitted. Q. Is one expected to tip a waitress in a cafeteria who carries by A. C. GORDON e e How many sounds are there in the English language? Is the piano considered a string or percussian instrument? How long does it take the blood to circulate through the human a community con be infiltrated, ivicly sabotaged and unjustly |‘framed’ as a picture of ‘horrible, un-American hocdlumism’ to be held up to a bewildered nation :\vhile lovers of foreogn ‘art’ loudly clark their nibble tongues and wag We reproaching fingers at wus. only hope other cities will p: 7 x by our unfortunate experience. 4. Of what English king was Nell Gwynn the favorite? Peekskill and its Chamber of| 5. What is the largest sea bird? Commerce will not prevail that this ANSWERS: 2 2. 3. body? subject is beyond discussion be- 1. There are only 44. cause they do not want to quarrel 2. Percussion. with their summer trade. 3. All the blood goes in and out of the heart once every minute. 4. Charles II. MEETING TUESDAY i United Trollers of Alaska, “Let’s| The albatross. Go! Get acquainted with the con- - Jan. 17, 1950. —adv. 402-1t slush fund for the election found that! vention delegates. C.1.O. Union Hall, | Oldest Bank in Alaska ‘ aled between|Of “the right people” in 1950, the Lo HEM | 4 00,0 ome. - lfund to be collected from gamblers| & Of : ) o H /000 of income. | : ppeeea s Crossword Puzzle b 891—0 lfaC f Bank 950 ol e B T 5 pontain, and g7 ave| (| 1831—0ver Half a Century of Banking—195 tax fraud—until Washington ! P B Hi-be. wade henuglieE ACROSS 20 Stupety :Ebl P » picture. Then it was|9d lady outside Fresno who oper-! y ploggea 80. Affectedly . ated a chinchilla farm % 6. Slides Blogen ] e Y Y e l'en s (o | A neat was arranged| 11. Indigenous 32. Scanty The farflung links of the nationaljOff to the slush fund, would buy al 1. Supported by . Ba 1 i 5 5. TI ghtf ; , empire were further il-|chinchilla, then pay for its board} }7. Newsprsan- % 1 t Fresno when two Chi-? Chinchillas, of course, ! jzation: abbr. 3 i " " 18. Daddy BT & oo Wheo w0 Ol lare Ml nimats, and cen 16 it 8 R A N Safety Deposit X vere caught sticking up a SR i b2 "f'i f: :_h:.}:v?!ah. form 41, Symiol for = ¢ The Big Headed Kid ally designated tol 22 TowninOhic " sodium J B f R e arabling ks, as well as mel 23. Step of & 42 Food Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle oxes jor e”t Jldn’ i > b books of gambler Joe C: n 24. Hurried " prono ouldn't raise the bail, | € r Joe Cannon. s 3 5 v DFOUBHE. §0. More sensitive 3. East Indian ader “Mickey” Cohen. i Wher got s e sailo 1. Wandered 1. North Amer- . Mother of der “Mickey” Cohen. ;When ot suspicious, | 5, o S0 & Namna Sean ccuntry mankind wdermine good | & Dunn put his| 2§ Pull dapart matically 2. Near 5. Se{eornr‘nls. Nustrate iing up Fresno. e r illustrated by st 1’” )», 6. Smart resno Prosecutor Dunn's SSmeimin | 7. Molten rock Theusen was offered $20,000 er, also n.])m:\d that he had 8. Anger En HIBLER 1 rop the indictments. H. ,“.\.,_i to sefup a branch nar-| 9. Keyfix’ona state: AT ed the offer {o the judge. |cotics office in Fresno, directly un- pr. i he repo; ‘:1 L,.l /11(11 to the ulhl, oj| e ol s | »yvouml Looked fixedly as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASRA despite political pressure fr B E CUpixg ! . Prickly pear LU 4 enato Tenne; ock all narcotics racketeers . Footless EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING I Burr the twc were not paying off, but give . Present this coupon to the box office of the ction to their own racketeers.| ific pressure on Mayor Dund | with certain merchants that Dunn’s “closed city” hurt business. On the other Chet Carey, Secretary of tFresno’s AFL Central Labor Coun- cil, backed the mayor to the limit.} Mayor Dunn is still standing pat, though some of his political are talking about a recall; to remove him from of- ays that he may be a r in politics, but he knows the difference between clean and! dirty government i i gangsters to jail conti claimi policy Fresno’s New Mayor Last April, Fresno held an im- ant municipal election, put inl mayor bulky shot-put star Gor- o campaigned on a * platform. Dunn pro- posed to close up the gamblers andj run the houses of prostitution outcven lenemics ition fice. He newcom A straight-shooting newcomer to pelitics, Dunn meant what he saif, but apparently certain politicians who helped elect him didn’t. For pressure was started to make Fresno . Grazing field Opportunity Scarce Innuendo Buftalo Bill : CAPITOL THEATRE V. and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “THE RETURN OF OCTOBER" Federal 1uax —12c—Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone 22 aund an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH 'THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Pierce Arachnids . Makes ar- rangements . Revolve . Slender More orderl; . Pierced wit the horns . Grain to be . Luzon native . Now: Scotch One Indefinitely Myself TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1950 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14 SECOND and FOURTH . Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, Worshipful Master; FANUARY 17 Raymond Matthews e o o o o o Becretary. . ®|JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. . Eddie Olson . L] Merion Cass 3 S e % . Mrs. Ralph Randall . . Michael A. Emerson . B. P. 0. ELKS e Doris Gridley 3 Meeting every Wednesday at . Frank Pacator L 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- . Emily Brown . come. F. DEWEY BAKER, . Edith Kelly e Exalted Rules. W. H. BIGGS, . . . . e e o O — e, BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store Weatheral | Alaska Poinfs Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am, 120th Meridian Time, andj released by the Weather Bureau! at Juneau, follow: | Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Anchorage f ... =4—Clear Governor—JOHN LADELY Annette Island . ... 12—Clear Becretary— Barrow . 25—Drizzle WALTER R. HERMANSEN Bethel 25—Drizzle Cordova ... 156—Cloudy ® Dawson ... =22—Clear Edmonton T vop R ———— Fairbanks . . =15—Snow | " 4, Haines 10—Partly Cloudy | The Rexall Store Havre ... -15—Partly Cloudy Y Juneau Airport .............. -4—Clear our Reliable Pharmacists Kodiak 26—Clear | Kotzebue 26—Cloudy BU‘]}‘ER-MAURO McGrath . 2—Cloudy | UG CO. Nome 23—Cledr | Northway -15—Clear Petersburg -1—Clear | Alaska nus' pl Portland ........... Missing—Fog | 1c sup Y Prince George . ... =52—Fog | Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Seattle .. 21—Partly Cloudy, || Pianos—Musical Ynstr 4 Sitka 13—Clear | and Supplies Whitehorse . -9—Cloudy || ..Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. Yakutat 22—Cloudy BESSIE GRANT DIES | GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Siore Phone 549 Pred W. Wendt —_—— Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—-DAY or NIGHT for MIX| SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S' ERS or SODA POP __ s AR 4 The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms Brownie's Liquor Store at Reasonable Rates Phone 102 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2508 { PHONE SINGLE 0O i PHONE 5565 T R R ! GEORGE BROS. Widest Sclection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Bessie Grant, 21, of Tanana, died yesterday afternoon at the Gov- ernment Hospital. She was a tu- berculosis patient. Funeral arrangements will be made after word has been received from her family. MEETING TUESDAY United Trollers of Alaska, “Let's| Go! 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COWLING COMPANY To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more f; from work — 'l%%dom Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Pree Delivery “Say It With Flor “SAY IT WITH OORST Juneau Florisis Phone 31! G ’ 4 o\