The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOU Daily Alaska Empire | Publislied every evening EMPIRE PRINTD and Main Streets, June Prestdent | Vice-President | Managing Editor | Business Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; | six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00 By mall, postace paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ope month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notifs | the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivers , of their papers Telephones News Office, 602: Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS s s exclusively entitled to the use for | ews dispatches credited to it or not other- | wise credited per and also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash. | ’ BASKEBALL FEVER HITS HERE The basketball fever which has been prevailing along Gastineau Channel for several weeks, broke out into a rash last night for fair. It was indicated when the High School Gym was packed to standing room only at the opening of the Gold Medal Tournament of Southeast Alaska spon- | sored by the Junealf Lions Club. The fans witnessed good games of casaba and it is only fair to say they played no favorites, to speak of, for no matter which five made a good play, there was applause for the brilliant floor work. The visiting players appear to be a good bunch of fellows and are welcomed by the sporting regime of | Juneau. i During yesterday afternoon, attendance was also | good when the Juneau High School Crimson Bears played championship ball to defeat the Skagway High | School Panthers to win the title for the northern end | of the First Division. The local players will now meet | the Ketchikan High School Polar Bears for the cham-! pionship of the division. Fans will get plenty of basketball this week as the schedule of the Gold Medal Tournament is play- ed off. 1 | Alaska Lumber for Alaska Projects (Ketchikan News) | Millions of board feet of lumber will be spent on | Alaska construction work in the next few years. More | than $140,000,000 of Federal money is authorized for expenditure by the Alaska Public Works Act, Wherry Act for military housing, Alaska Housing Authority i for pr | confession before conviction. | news curb was “in the nature of censorship.” | precisely | 'guod idea in sending a statement and letter to public agencles, engineers, architects and contractors which called attention to the merits of Alaska spruce :\ndK hemlock as compared with Douglas fir from the Pa- cific Northwest, and asked that local mills be given a chance to bid. Tests conducted by the government wood lab- ! oratory at Madison, Wisconsin, on the strength and shrinkage of our spruce and hemlock places them so! close to Douglas fir for most construction items that, the ditferences are immaterial F be well manufactured and Of course, they must well dried, to be satisfactory but this is equally true of Douglas fir. Our local modern mills are equipped to turn out lumber and timber that will meet the government specifications in these respects. But with- out these scientific tests we know that our local material is all right. Southeastern Alaska towns have largely been built of such local material — not only homes but docks, warehouses, canneries and shops. Much of our spruce and hemlock has also been used in other parts of Alaska. The architect for the recently completed school building in Anchorage specified its use in many places and praised it highly. Bid specifications drawn up by Federal agencies in Seattle very often specify only Douglas fir. May- be this is only thoughtlessness but the effect is that they prevent the contractor from using spruce and hemlock lumber where it could serve equally well and and in some cases better than fir. Alaska millmen ask only for a chance to compete with fir. They are not asking that the bids be con- fined to local material. The great bulk of the lumber neceds of the Ter- ritory could be supplied by mills in the coastal section and to use these local products for Alaska work is| plain common sense. If the Federal government wants to build up local industry, here is one thing i it can do without any added cost. In fact it might even produce a saving by providing more competition in the bidding. Press Freedom (Fairbanks News-Miner) The United States Supreme Court, in refusing to review a Maryland court decision outlawing Baltimor adds another support to the legal bulwark s freedom. press g Announcing the high court’s action, Justice Frank- furter explained fewer than four members considered | it desirable to review the Maryland decree as a matter | of “sound judicial discretion.” Quite simply that means the Supreme Court agreed the gag repudiation should stand. This case arose out of crime news rules, set up by the Baltimore Supreme Court bench. Among these regulations was one barring publication of a crime confession in pending cases. Several radio stations and a broadcaster were held in contempt because they broadcast news of a The Maryland Court of Appeals threw out the contempt citations, holding the That as what the rule constituted. Newspapers and radio have an obligation to report crime and criminal proceedings in the public interests. That sometimes requires acute judgment as to what is in public interests. The Baltimore court gag may have peen established with pure intent to help justice. But it constituted an abridgement of press freedom and Federal Housing Administration. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce acted on a! S | | over The W-ashinglon (Fin 500 divisions at and liberty of speech. That certainly is not in the public interests. the drop of [in the judgment of the military people, regardless of what we can ! Douglas. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO . FEBRUARY 21 L3 . Jeanette Stephenson . . T. F. Dryden ° . Jane Abbey . . Florence Brady . . Mrs, Eva Daniels . . Miles Goldsmith . . Mrs. T. J. Kessler . L Walter Averill L] e © 0o 0 0 o o o o o from - THE EMPIRE FEBRUARY 21, 1930 The Empire said, “Triple blasts from a strange-sounding whistle ap- praised the waterfront that the motorship Northland, Capt. Leonard Williams, was arriving on her maiden voyage to Alaska. She steamed majestically up the channel with all flags flying and docked at Femmer's wharf shortly after 9 a. m.” Captain Willlams was well-known in Ju- neau, having commanded the Norco which plied between Puget Sound and Alaska for a number of years. D. B. Femmer was local agent. Six of the seven visitors from Ketchikan and Petersburg, making }the trip on the maiden voyage of the Northland, were guetss of the | Cordova Chamber of Commerce and spoke briefly. The prominent business men were William Semar, L. O. Gore, G. H. Bach, F. R. Mitsch, C. M. REAl ESTATE | Carter and Frank Sheldon, all of Ketchikan, and T. S. Elsemore and DEALS MADE | daughter, Miss Marion Swenson, and Capt. Milovzorov boarded a train | Kotzebue for Seward, with Seattle as their destination. the Russians for their work in the recovery of the bodies of Col. Carl | Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, and spoke glowingly of Alaskan Pilots | Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam. He said the fliers faced an almost | Deeds filed with U. S. Commis- | sioner Gordon Gray regarding trans- | fers of property in and about Ju- neau recently are | C. E. Swanson of Petersburg. Arriving at Fairbanks from the Nanuk, Capt. Olaf Swenson, his All gave high praise to February 17—George A. Dale mgimpossible task when they landed at the Nanuk. John D. Argetsinger, Lot 6, Block| 209, Casey-Shattuck Addition. Frank | and Main St February 16—J.S.A. to Howard C.| Hayes, 55.72 acres, Mendenhall Elimination. Charles A. MacDonald, | J. A. Hall, Mernice Murphy Hal, Mernice Murphy, Gerald R.N‘ Allen. William H. Lehman to Ed- win J. Klopp, 20-acre placer claim, ! Bartlett River, Glacier Bay. February 15—Maurice J. Haas to Wayne C. Atter, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mendenhall Acre tracts. USA to} k Edwin Hildre 2.1 acres near Ducl Creek. U.S.A. to Howa Gaines, | 2.18 acres near Duck Creek. Howard | Gaines to Ha Haloff, 2.18 acres! near Duck Creek. February 14—Kenneth S. Axelson | to Arthur H. Walker, Lot 12, Block | B, Highlands. Arthur H. Walker to! Beulah Ingles, Lot 54, Block 48,1‘ February 9—Juneau Realty, Inc.,| to Jerry W. McKinley, Por. 2 acl-‘l joining Surveys USS 1451 and U.S.S. | 2106, 1% miles northwest of Juneau. | Harold E. Andersen to Amy L.| Stroebel, same property. | February 8—Jerry W. McKinley to Jerry W. McKinley, Portion USS 375 one mile northwest of Juneau.| Jerry W. McKinley to McKinley | Electric, Inc.,, same property. 1 February 7—USA. to Ross B.| Morrison, Portion USS 381 Menden- | hall Acre tracts. February 2—Albert J. Forrest to| Harold E. Andersen, portion ad-| joining USS 1451 and 2106 1% miles | northwest of Juneau. Yakutat and| Southern Railway to US.A. power | line near Yakutat. US.A. to George | Harbrader, U.S. coal land survey! No. 312, Salmon Bay, Admiralty Island. U.SA. to Valeri V. Tram-| Reconstruction of Glacier Highway from near the John B. Marshall M. Hermann to David Reischl, 6th | ranch to Mendenhall Glacier and its extension to the sand flat just | Whitehorse ibelow the glacier were to be made in 1930, announced W. L. Merritt, acting district forester. retary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde. The program had just been approved by Sec- Other projects in the $246,000 to J. A. program were for Ketchikan and Wrangell areas. A jinx rode with the J-Hi hoopsters, who lost their third sucessive championship game in Ketchikan to that team, giving Kaghi the South- E east Alaska cup. At the card party after the meeting of Women of Mooseheart Legion, prizes went to Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Berry, Jimmy Monagle and Mr. Jarman. Hostesses were Mesdames Dalton, Carter, Hammer and Gross. At the monthly social meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary, prizes for pinochle and bridge went to Mrs. Homer Nordling, R. R. Hermann, Mrs. W. C. Arnold and E. M. Polley Weather: High, 34; low, 28; cloudy B SN i Daily Lessons in English 3% 1. corpox e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I hoped to have gone.” Say, “I hoped to go.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Conversant. the second, so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Inflammato: SYNONYMS: Fearful, afraid, alarmed, frightened, timid, timorous, apprehensive. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: OBSOLETE; no longer in use. “Many of the expressions found in the works of Shakespeare are now obsolete.” Accent first syllable, not observé the two M’s. Let us B MODERN ETIQUEITE Eoperra ree g TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950 Weather at Alaska Poins Weather conditions sud 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: Anchorage 10-—Partly Cloudy Annette 36—Rain Barrow =27—Snow Bethel 3—Cloudy 35—Snow Dawson -30—Clear Bdmonton 13- Partly Cloudy Fairbanks -27—Clear Haines 27—Snow Havre 6—Cloudy Juneau 32—Snow Kodiak 33—Snow -9—Clear MeGrath -28—Clear Nome - -14—Clear Northwa -22—Partly Cloudy Petersburg 34—Snow Portland 51—Rain Prince George 25—Snow Seattle 37—Rain Sitka 36—Cloudy -1—Cloudy Yakutat 35—Snow COCKTAIL PARTIES PRECEDE SHRINE DANCE TONIGHT For Shriners and their ladies, celebration of Was' ton's Birth- day will begin this evening, and ontinue into the actual February 22 date. A number of members plan cock- tail parties, before the annual Washington’s birthday dance of the Juneau Shrine Club in the Scottish Rite Temple. The invitational party, which is formal (at least for the women) will begin at 10 o’clock. NO MEETING OF AWVS C(OOPERATIVE NURSERY Due to the Washington's Birthday holiday on Wednesday, February 22, the AWVS cooperative nursery meeting will not be held this week. Notice of the next meeting ot the group will be given at a later date. D Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 108 139 Bo. Frankiin P. O. Box 2508 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 16 SECOND and FOURTH * Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, ‘Worshipful Master; IJAMm W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €D B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W.H. BIGGS, Becretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—=JOHN LADELY Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN i ! { BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store | "The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies .Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt t | Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th 8t. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel | Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 Merry-Go-Round | sohnson Keeps Quiet e o acsermmine what we can | Bltas, 48 acre, Fritz Cove Hignvay.| Qe ; Al seiny S Ps | 3 > 3 Valeri V. Trambitas to Helen Wor- Q. Is it all right to correct a person if he mispronounces your e | Throughout the briefings, Secre- afford. But we can’t make a proper ¢ name? R KRN S SR (Continued from Page Ome) |[tary of Defense Johnson took a |evaluation if the military is going | €U SAME PrOPOTHy: A e ¢ :| Thomas Hardware ( ! back seat and let military spokes- |to tell us what we can afford.” ; 5 e oes‘ t fmy oncg, it would ?robably be better to ignore Gzoncz Bnos_ a’e o, sent to the U. S. Attorney in Rich- |men talk. At one point, however, he | Gen. Vandenberg, however, re-| Total annual meat consumption Mttt ke RENsiafe 10 the misprohuncistion, merely sy, "My Hame 16 Widest Selection of mond for prosecution, where, how- | broke in only to be slapped down mained the only definite dissenting |in the United States is put at more | SeNAR: DOt JordannECE o0 EEEL ISl U RIMCUE BEEWIHE SEEReRE PAINTS — OILS ever, it dragged. And it was not|DY Congressman Sheppard of Cal- |voice to the general note of econ- |than 20,000,000,000 pounds, or 146 ment. : LIQU('RS Builders’ and Shelf until after this column, on Oct.|ifornia. omy. per person. } Q. Is it correct to eat cake at the table with the fingers? HARDWARE 21, 1949, again reviewed the lengthy | Sheppard wanted to know how - | A Small cakes and slices of plain cake may be eaten with the FHONE 399 delay that the tax-evading road '‘eliable the information on Soviet fingers, but soft-frosted cake or French pastries require a fo: —_— i strength was, and while a civilian i P i SALEK. i i builders finally were indicted. i;~xp¢*1't it llrying i L‘xp‘l‘lm naed | Q. At what time should the ushers arrive for a church wedding? i Rseonig'g'%nsg‘nye:&g":“ AR B ‘[m, Iron Curtain is drawing tight- Oldesi Bank in Alaska | A. No later than an hour before the time appointed for the cere- Ihe Erwm reed cu. y 5 : ok sl | mony. Perhaps the gravest briefing giv- "::1.(' J(:l:l::)(;:‘ b R . ‘\ Sitie mri:.:el;: et J. n. Bllfll)l’d & co. O G Saidiona) leadiare jdtie question,, p P SSUSSUSTUSIUIISIISISI SISO en to Conpresional teuders since " et an answer|| - 1891—Over Half a Century of Banking—1950 | g “Our Doorstep Is Worn by gon bullding 1ast week. The sub- | ;ai[‘);se?l\cppard, ‘we may as well | lo OK an d |.E A RN by HA' ’dGSTOllgAGCOEAL Satisfied Customers” stance ot _theclosed-door_session "o peee - || T RE 1B ML, IB@ehrend ‘ A. C. GORDON o was that Russia must be preparing|q.q y SR [ ] ® e en s for agpgresive war. | Sm;m Senators and Congressmen 9 FORD AGENCY The briefing was given by Lt.| i X q ) | 1. How many States are named for former U. S. Presidents? TE G feared the military chiefs were try- &2 Gen. Alfred Gruenther on behalf [y ot F 0 PE T ol it their a | 2. What are neap tides? GREASES — GAS — OIL of the joint chiefs of staff to mem- hamcwivc’ renontiiinto. i ) 3. Is it true that there is in the eye a spot where one can’t see? LADIES'—MISSES’ bers of both the Senate and House £ R AEEGRE IR - J Motor C bers of both the Senate and Koust | qpproprintions. But, pernaps b Safety De')ostt 4. What is the favorite wild flower of the United States? READY-TO-WEAR uneau Moior Lo. i svioe committes, lt:x\lxi.‘::rn! ,:gl}]mz:x:;‘: s:f:“; eve, the 1 | 5. y:lel:it American humorist attained the greatest international fame Seward Street Near Thira || Foot of Main Street o o tier s oautiys 1| LUBTY ien, marie Hfls, poattve | Boxes for Rent R j . b o & iiacomsion of Sugiet| S @enther bruahed asidel {1 Washington is the only one. The Charles W. Cart ' e lestions about increased militar; | i 5 bbie armed strength, let the Congress- :ecds by warning: “Don't ;:Zkl “‘:é COMMEHCIAL SAVINGS 2. Low tides occurring in the beginning of the second and fourth e arles - Larler D) 'ni EAU DAIRIES men draw their own conclusions.|y un jiable to b: biased.” i quarters of the moon. Mori“ar ELICIOUS ICE CREAM mfi‘xz I'éififi‘;i’lfs«,ii-,,I“EHJII{’U'& Once he quipped: “As Senator | 3. Yes, there is such a spot, known as “the blind spot.”. Y N faittdy 05t e g Wherry has said, military people | ! 4. The wild rose. Pourth and Franklin Sts. . Michigan, Sikes of Florida and s ek i Canm‘m A s:;ur‘; a]l()k: uu‘t t?u‘\t would fortify the moon 5. Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. PHONE 136 Juneau Dalrles' Inc' J ey Il C 1 ossword Puzzle in building such a powerful ar- ;l‘U;yllh'm e sul))«x-“]xe«lyitlo "_Hf‘t“:; e c l - H . w Chrysler Marine Engines senal: to wage war. & Aot e are s | e gy R —— D 1|| Casler's Men's Wear Here are some of the main facts enough ahout N,,m,,:n 1}\,,“:];;._ g:_ 1 o.fifno i 30. C.:E:I g:a‘n r‘ Rflbert Simpsan Formerly SABIN'S %fizmfllirdsflol’ presented by Gen. Gruenther—facts cretary of Defense Johnson broke! 8 Ticker paper 3L Tippiug to one 0P TOMETRIST Stetson and Mallory Hats e which Moscow alréady knows since in and suggested that the chiefs| 3 Stake 33. Born . Arrow Shirts and Underwear there 15 1o particulor scoret. Sbout of staff should join Gen. Gruenther | 'F Foian® 3 B oo Eyes Examined — Glasses Expertly Fitted ‘Mlien Eimonds Shoes Chas. G. Warner Co. our armed strength. Russia, he said, |in answering some of the ques-| 13- Regretted 3 et SIMPSON BUILDING—Phone 266 for Appointments Skyway Luggage is spending 18 percent of her nat- tjons, 14 One of the Tat 85, Salutation { ional wealth on arms, which is| One by e, General Bradley race 40. n { triple what the United States is!Army Chief of staff Collins, and| 16 Symbolie - il birds JULI BOTANY ' HOME GROCERY ending. Even taking our top bud-'Chief of Naval ratione . hantd gagrative : Pie ¢ get Digive of $15,500,000P00WHISH mian’ agreed that. soomou’: Citath :: :"fk";fi;f:' s :;’ié“;"\?fl'lm Us Bnunznns i Phone 146 includes stockpiling—the United firgt, Johnson beamed like a school- *antarctio Black Solution of Yesterday's Puzxia as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA 500" States is esting y ercer nall ‘be measures ke Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 e s l;m tn«do‘ms 6 percent tcacher whose pupils are reciting| I BTaR con Bi Anclent KEyD- DOWN 3. Part of a plant EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING | American Meat — Phone 38 of her wealth in defense th orrect ANSWers, . Biblical 3 1d 1. Half: prefix 4. Barsg legally 1 7 e Eap e correct._answer 32 Biblical e alloy. 2. Baking & Valbosa Present this coupon to the box office of the CLOTHES | Russia has 40,000 tanks. This in-, Bradley reported that our occu-\ 24. Health 55. Unit of force compartment o SEEORC NUNN-BUSH SHOES H cludes the best heavy tank in the pation troops are in areas where " “tree ANN-BU soh 66 world—the Joe Stalin Mark IIL In'they are strategically useful, and | "“7 '- Lews o CAPITOL THEATRE STETSON HATS i| To Banish “Blue Monday” contrast, the U. S. Army has only acsured that we could meet any | / 4. Flowering . - uality Work Clothin; * give reed 7,000 tanks, none of them heavy by quickly concentrating our B - 10; Spikes of cereal and receive TWO TICKETS to see: Q . To gomy;';r{:"’" ’i‘RYm In air, Russia has 17,000 p 1 " . 4 rm “E““I"G sl including 300 heavy bombers of t — M. Blandings Builds Hi A B-20 type. Meanwhile Soviet fac-! Vandenberg Spills Bo:ns ¥ s Dream House Oopite Ouiiii o M Alaska La“dl'y m:sa“: L R darerhly, lo is harmony over economy Was Rt Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre 4 8 e SO0 r however, when Tmplement tion of long-range bombers AHe ’ 26. Workshops 4 ‘“ jet fights has been stepped up sked '1_‘:,‘:11'1 x;‘:de; 217, Masculine Pllfllle l YELLUW CAB co.—Phone 22 n- w- cUWL G H s GRAVES B Shallenge our Navy, the Rus- | poree's needs L © and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and COMPANY gamr sians have 280 submarines of the B L P p . oA o R e 250 sunciarine L the l u‘, o IA\P'x had mp' atomic ReCUlNe | e RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler || The Clothing Man 4 » 5 bomb, t i’ ree k t 0si- | 3 B hovever s | e :m ‘; ‘:{' 750(:']““]:2 P ;e_ for temporary WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! DeSoto—Dodge Trucks LEVPS OVERALLS Russian torpedo, piloted by an el-|plied Vandenbers cooly. “There fs LI T S | for Boys ectronic brain that seeks out its no reason to change that position ST R | own target. This ingenious torpedo | now that Russia has the bomb.” - Home of the SHAFFER'S | b, v pig - . 40, Pali mmxf}and blow up a ship eight| The talk about economy was 50 iL l’:lrgusslcn A sAmAnY “m‘ “S.K;'g“h Flowers” but . {unanimous, however, that it dis- D#trumen H 7 “S WITH OURS!” f 43. American lak P Despit all this firepower, the |turbed Senator Knowland of Cal- 4&; Sinan pitcher Thereisno substitute for Newspaper Adverhsmg! FOR BETTER MEATS backbone of Soviet military might |ifornia. Though he usually preachi gh 13—PHONES—49 Juneal.l Flotisfs is still her manpower, Gen. Gruen- |economy, he finally broke in: e Dlivery { ther stressed, Russia can muster|want to know what we should spend - | Fhene 311 T ———