The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1950, Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1950 SHOWPLALE or Here it j§s? . The JOYOUS successor to LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S “LITTLE WOMEN" A Song-Filled Cheer-Filled Romance! She had that “certain something” nice girls were not supposed to have! AND — Stars Swing With A ZING IN THE ACTION MUSICAL THAT'S GOT EVERYTHING! IDAHO at 7:05—9:40 GIRL at 8:20—10:55 CONTINUOUS from 2:00 on SATURDAY . « TONIGHT and SATURDAY - ‘with Bloria JEAN - Jimmy LYDON John HUBBARD Frances RAFFERTY and introducing SAUNDRA BERKOVA A taoUION REtASE EMBLEM CLUB T0 HOLD LUNCHEOR, INSTALLATION Juneau Emblem Club will hold instailation of officers at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 25 at Eiks Hall. All Elks and their ladies are in- vited to attend. All in-coming and out-going officers are requested to be on hand an hour early, at 7:00 pam. On the same day, Saturday, at noon a no-host luncheon will be held at the Baranof Hotel in honor of District Deputy Jackie Budd, of Dis~ trict No. 2, and her assistants. Members are urged to be present. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S GIRL SCOUT NEWS Girl Scout Troop No. 11 met ‘Thursday, February 23, in the Re- surrection Lutheran church parlors. ‘The meeting was called to order by the President and the secretary called the roll and read the minutes of the previous meeting. Under new business we practiced our Girl Scout laws to be given at the Juliette Low tea. Mrs. Berggren told us of some of the things she has planned for us for the next few months. Then Mrs. McDowell talked to us on Girl Scout cookie sale. The girls have started taking orders. The meeting then adjourned at 4 | pm. Mary Grisham, Acting Reporter famous ¢ anly Miss Arden, authol NGE SKIN CREAM rity on complexion -care, ) could create this rich, vitalizing formula. . . per- 'focv for dry skins... for thin faces...for helping to keep contours smooth and firm while reducing. Spicy-fragrant ... beautiful to use—and like all Miss Arden’s famous preparations—so little does so much. Try it. 1.00 to 8.00 A 3 P lus toxes / Harry Race, Druggist { Girls and the Starlighters. | GENEVIEVE MAYBERRY DOUBLE FEATURE FOR WEEKEND AT CAPITOL THEATRE A two feature bill is at the Capi- tol Theatre this weekend starting tonight. “Old Fashioned Girl” is one of the features. It is a picture version of the famous novel, “Little Women,” a homey story with appropriate music inserted. Qloria Jean is the young singing teacher. She has the voice, youth and acting talent necessary to por- tray the voice instructor who wins fame and romance in staid Boston society. Her renditions of Franz Schubert's “Where?” and two other numbers entitled “The Travel Song” and “Kitchen Serenade” are uni- formly delightful.. Her acting is ideal for the p: Creditable cast selection has also endowed “An Old-Fashioned Girl” with Jimmy “Henry Aldrich” Lydon and handsome John Hubbard as Miss Jean's two suitors. Saundra Berkova, a young violin virtuoso, gives an appealing rendition of Men- delssohn’s Violin Concerto. “Song of Idaho” is the other fea- ture and heading the cast of radio and rodeo favorites are the Hoosier Hot Shots (Hezzie, Ken, Gil and Gabe). AJso in key spots are Kirby Grant, June Vincent, Tommy Ivo, | Dorothy Vaughn, Emory Parnell, the Sunshine Boys, the Sunshine WINS RECIPE (ONTEST | WITH ""MORE"* RECIPE| Genevieve Mayberry’s well-bal- | anced menu and recipe for a maca- ‘\ronl dish named “More” took top honors in this week’s Menu and Re- | cipe Contest. | The other two winners, Mrs. C. G. | Shattuck and Mrs. Otto Anderson, show their culinary skill with a pair of recipes featuring macaroni and | noodle dishes. Honorable mention goes this week |to Mrs. D. E. Hoel for her Kidney | Bean and Macaroni Casserole. | Next week's selection, a dinner| { menu with a recipe for the dessert, | should bring forth a large number of delicious original creations. Send |in your favorite dessert recipe be- fore noon Tuesday so others may enjoy it too. The directions appear with this week’s winning menus and recipes published in today's issue of The Empire. THESE DAYS 2 BY-- GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE War is still our most serious busi- ness. War costs us more than 70 percent of our budget. War deter- mines both our domestic and for- eign policies. i In the conduct of foreign policy, our administration has improvised with juvenile optimism, losing ev- ery battle to the superior skill of our enemy. Yet, we cannot afford to imperil our physical defenses. We cannot risk being conquered. Naturaly, when a situation is so critical, differences of opinion de- velop as to the best way to handle the situation. Thus, the Navy andY Air Force differed, and that led to wild public recriminations. The iproblem centers on two factors: 1. How much can this country afford to spend year after year on the national defense without wrecking the national economy; 2. After the maximum permis- | sable amount is settled upon, how is the money to be allocated? The responsibility for the con- duct of the national defense rests upon Louis Johnson, Sercetary of Defense; the responsibility for de- termining the amount to be spent | upon the President and the Con- gress. ‘The amount that can be spent on THE DAILY ALASKA EMPTRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA the national defense is limitless; the amount that will be spent is limited by the judgement of the President and the Congress as to how much the nationgl economy will permit. For the present budget, the amount is $13,000000000. | Secretary Johnson has emphasiz- ed economy and has won the dis- like of the following elements in our population: contractors who live by enormous expenditures; those of- ficers of the various services who prefer high expenditures without | increased effectiveness; the pro-| Russian crowd who want so much spent that it will crack our na- tional economy; the pro-British crowd who want us to maintain as much of the British Empire as is left. These groups take pot-shots at Secretary Johnson. Their latest falsehood, however, sounds true be- cause of the previous quarrel be- tween the Navy and the Air Force. They try to give the impression that a violent quarrel has develop- ed between Secretary of Defense Johnson and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington. The ob-, ject of the story is to imply thal: Johnson can get along with no one. I have thoroughly investigated | this story and have confirmed that it is a lie. The Alsop Brothers, who rather fancy themselves great experts, have been calling Secrétary of De- fense Johnson a liar and have ac- cused him of fooling the American people. The gist of their complaint is that while he is practiciing ec- onomy, he is impairing the effici- ency of the defense forces. Empha- sis is placed upon the appearance | of discrepancy in public statements made by Louis Johnson and Stuart Symington, I have eramined the public state- ments of both these officials and there are no actual discrepancies. The gist of the thinking of both is identical: Johnson says: 3 .Our establishment of de- fense must be so strong—in the conception of the President and myself and the joint chiefs of staff it must be so strong that it will de- ter anyone who wants to start trouble in this world; and secondly, it must be so strong that if some- body does start trouble, there is no question about America being the victor in the final outcome of that discussion.” Symington says: “America is reconciled to thej necessity for a peacetime defense | program greater than ever required | in the past. We must remain stead- fast and alert until that day—God hasten it—when we can tave com- plete assurance that any power, or combination of powers, which threaten peace will abandon their aggressive schemes and participate effectively in the community of na- tions to advance," and not destroy, civilization.” But there is more than that. The President Johnson, Symington and every other official associated with | the national defense now have the problem of turning fat into muscle, of using economy to produce ef- ficiency, of ending the cost of, Mexican and civil wars installations so that the needs of 1950 can be met without wrecking our national economy. In a word, money must be saved. i fo be used to the best advantage. This is what the Departmernt of Defense is trying to do. It is a dit- ficult task under any circumstanc- es; it particularly hard when every plan to accomlish both econ- omy and efficiency encounters un- fair opposition, CHAIR FROM NORGE COMES T0 MUSEUM AS FLIGHT MEMENTO A narrow high-backed chair, made of rattan and steel, arrived at the Territorial Museum this morning, to take its place among memen- toes of the famous flight of the Italian dirigible Norge over the North Pole 24 years ago. The chair has been in possession is of northern traders, in Seattle, and he recently announced to Museum Director Edward Keithahn that he would donate it to the Territory. The souvenir takes its place with a door, an aluminum gasoline tank, parts of the 348-foot ship's gas bag, and other fittings already in the museum. Keithahn will place it in the Wickersham Room, a library at one end of the museum, with a chair from the ill-fated Islander which sunk in 1901 and a chair made by a Russian priest in Alaska around mid-19th century. The chair was the only piece of furniture remaining when the craft came down at Teller after its 8,000~ mile venture over the top of the jworld. Crew members had thrown everything else overboard to lighten the big ship. The flight was led by Gen. Um- berto Nobile of the Italian Air Force, Ronald Amundsen of Nor- way and Lincoln Ellsworth of the United States. A handwritten copy of the navigation account of the voyage, written by Nobile, is at the | museum here. Nobile designed the craft and first flew her in 1924 Her specifications today sound puny, although in her day she was a mighty ship. She had three 250- horsepower engines, and flew at 50 miles an hour—and could be pushed to 70 if the occasion arose! She was headed for Nome after her takeoff from Spitzbergen but a large number of Eskimos were spot- ted at Teller, and because a large crowd was needed to get her to the ground, she was landed there, and broken up on May 13, 1926. Her engines and a few fixtures were sent back to Italy, the remaining parts of her scattering from Nome to Seattle. Portions of her “en- velope”—or gas bag—were around the Seward Peninsula for years, and used to write upon by the na- tives. The chair was meant to be bolted to the deck, and is somewhat precarious to sit in now because it might easily go over backward with- out being anchored. It has new up- holstery, the old material having been burned somehow after the ship landed. The chair was brought north gratis by the Alaska Steamship Company. Regular dancing clhsses, morning CIO Hall. Dorothy Stearns Roff.—adv. Juneau Post No. 4 of the American Legion cordially invites every man in Juneau toa - Jiggs Dinner 6:30 P. M. Feb. 27 ODD FELLOWS HALL ADMISSION: $1.50 Obtain tickets from Legion Members One hour entertainment after dinner JUNEAU LODGE NO. 420 B. P. 0. ELKS LADIES’ NIGHT Saturday-Feb. 25th Dancing Starts at 10 o'Clock Enierfainment and Feed For Elks, Their Ladies andr Out of Town Guests ’ Visiting Elks Invited Carl Lomen of the family of | sat. | 35-2t | PAGE THREB NEW JUNEAU CITIZEN WELCOMED WITH PARTY — “Just Billy and me, and Michael makes three,” is the latest happy slogan of Mrs. Willlam Biggs. Mr. and Mrs, Biggs are well known resi dents of Juneau but 8-year-old | Michael, recent arrival from Cali- | | troduced as a new and permanent member of the Biggs family. { Michael arrived in Juneau the fore part of February and after a week or so of getting acquainted ! with his new surronndings was given | a gala party by Mrs. Biggs on Wash- 3 ington’s Birthday to meet his neigh- | | borhood playmates. | Table decorations honored the 1(‘nnnt.ry‘s first president with a “cherry tree” centerpiece and hat- chets stuck in marshmallows spell- ing “Washington.” Games were played. Joe Harmon and Michael Ihle won prizes for good behavior and cookie hatchets were awarded winners at Bingo Young guests invited were Jim |and Joe Harmon, Joie Thibodeau, | Michael Sweeney, Michael Ihle, and | | Ronnie Rusher. | Young Michael Biggs is attending | | St. Ann’s parochial school and this | week is joining the Cub Scouts. fornia, is being announced and m-‘ 19 DEPART VIA PAA; DELAYED FLIGHT IN o0 CENTORY LAST TIMES TONIGHT Don Smith and Leo Morse went to Ketchikan yesterday by Pan Ameri- can World Airws the flight tak-| ing the 17 other passengers to attle. These Jerry Mrs. were Milton J. Furness, Oparicho, Willilam Liddle, Joseph Shofner, Jessie Jones, Stan Leathwood, E. J. Montsion, F. A. Mason, E. Leon, Louise Mar- shal, Gus Skinner, Martin Ander- son, Mrs. Jerry McKinley and Mr.{ and Mrs. Fred Hoffower and their children, Sandra and Barbara. Among passengers arriving yester- day from Seattle were travelers on the Wednesday flight which had ar- rived over the Juneau airport, but could not get in. They overnighted at Annette Island and joined the Thursday flight. These passengers were Claudia Brown, J. C. Cunningham, David Davis, Ruth McElroy, Helen Ruth- erford, Charles Wells, Mrs. W. F. Wolf, with Robert and Marilyn; Bob Hanson, Don McMorran, Will- ard Marsh and J. E. Goodwin. Bm + NAN LESLIE JETTY LAWFORD - ANDREW TOMBES * Produced by WERMAN SCHLOM + Dirscted by FELIX FEIST Serven Py by FELI FST Kid's Sleds at Madsen’s. 432-tf | { GENERAL MOTORS DROPS $10-$40 OFF | AL CARS, TRUCKS DETROIT, Feb. 24—(®—Price cuts’ ranging from $10 to $40 on the pric- es of all its cars and trucks were {announced today by General Mo- itors Corp. The reductions are ef- | fective immediately and come with announcements of downward ad- justment in the cost of living al- lowance to be paid GM employees. | An adjustment of the cost of ‘llvlng allowance given GM employ- ees is part of the contract between GM and its hourly and salaried | workers. It is revised according [to the cost of living index of the Bureau of Labor statistics. { Under the terms of the adjust- | 'ment formuls, there will be a two| cents an hour reduction in the cost- | of-living allowance for 290,000 hour- ly rated employees and a $10 quart- erly reduction in cost of living bon- uses paid approximately 72,000 sal- aried workers. This revision will be effective March 1. i | | | | | | In 1900, the United States had only 8,000 automobiles. 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