The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publish m every evening except Sunday by the EMPIR NTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska RELEN TROY. MC 5 , JORUTHY TROY 0 - ELMLR A FRIEND ALFRLD ZENGER President Vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager Entered 1n 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 year, S15.0 By mall, postecs paid, at the following rates: One year, in & ; six months, in advance, $7.50; upe month, in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will pro the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in of their papers. % Telephones: News Office, MEMBER OF The Associated Press issexclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein mptly notify delivery 602 Business Office, 3. S — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash. “Labor, Ybut for any good to come of this precariously renewed lease, seek agreement straightaway upon the next indis- pensable steps in public finance, defense and foreign relations. it “When these steps have been taken, then the wise course would be to hold another election.” The Conservative Daily Telegraph heads its com- ment: “Majority But No Mandate.” It says: “Victory, if that is the name for it, has gone to i the Socialists, but they can have little cause to re- joice, for it gives them no moral duthority to do more than carry on as caretakers. secured a mandate to execute any of their major proj- ects including notably the nationalization of half a dozen more industries. A majority, reduced from 180 to the neighborhood of 18, is tantamount to a vote of censure which they cannot ignore as the largest party, may stay in office, should be the first purpose of the parties to They have not' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA L Mildred Hermann Virgil Klinkhammer Jo McIntyre D: 1 Mahium J Martin beth Windsor M. T. Stedman Clarence Wheeler e o o o o o n | | Phi | R C. C. Saunders. esceo00ce oo Mr Mrs . J power in No opposition party ! complete 32 full years has ever been tolerated. Even with- in the Communist Party, no oppo- |, sition is tolerated by those in con- | Mrs in California. Lzo YEARS AGO 7 from THE EMPIRE FEBRUARY 28, 1930 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1950 i\ Weather af Mrs. James Chase and Mrs. C. C. Personeus were hostesses at t,he’ meeting of the Presbyterian Church Woman’s Missionary Society. Mrs. lip Herriman lead the devotions. On the program were Mrs. H. L. ;shafer, Tom Redlingshafer, who sang; Mrs. C. Morgan and Mrs. A. Ramsey, chief of the Field Division, General Land Office, larrived from his Anchorage headquarters to make an investigation in Soviet Russia i Southeast Alaska. H. C. DeVighne and daughter Dana returned home after visit- | Alaska Points ‘Weather conditions snd temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am. 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau it Juneau, follow: 12—Partly Cloudy! 41—Cloudy . =21—Snow 15—Cloudy & Missing Dawson = »Zl—clear[ | Bdmonton 5—Partly Cloudy ; | Fairbanks . -10—Clear | | Anchorage Annette Barrow Bethel | Cordova MOUNT JUNFAU LODGE NO. 18 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, ‘Worghipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- come, F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday trol. Those who differ die. No| Governor—JOHN LADELY Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Like the Telegraph, the right-wing Daily Mail g k | After spending the early winter in Seattle, Mrs. Albert Brown had | Haines 24—Clear | § 5 i N § greater crime exists than to be a 4 = ¥ R and the Daily Graphic think that only the interven- | jo i vionict, by which is meant Teturned to Juneau. Havre 24—Cloudy tion of the Liberal Party, in many more contests than | ;hvone who differs in any res- | »Iune_au 26—010qu in 1945, prevented the Conservatives from defeating | pect. | Mrs T. H. Dugan of Douglas entered St. Ann's Hospital for medlcal'igtd;;l:ue s Labor and even obtaining a substantial majority. The The British election is very dif- |trcmmnl J. G. Zimmerman of Douglas, who had been outside for. . 3— McGrath . -23—Clear Daily Mail says: ferent from ours. British nol'uc“limcd'ul treatment, again was taken to the hospital here. I | Nome e 17—Cloudy 3 R parties are membership organiza- 3 pe w All Libérals must now look to the future and tions. That is not true in this coun- Northway -24—Partly Cloudy determine on which side of the fence their real in- try. No one is a member of the In Douglas, Alice Tassel, Elizabeth Sey and Stephanie Africh were Petersburg . 38—Cloudy We do not doubt what the answer of most Republma.x P or the Demacrat~ |Damed on the “A” honor roll for the first six weeks of the second | Portland 29—Clear ic Party. As a matter of fact, those ‘scn.n r. On the “B” honor roll were: Seniors—Mae Fraser, Urho Kron- | frince George . 0—Fog who associate themselves with thesejqux ; Tassell, Aili Niemi and Margery Fox; Juniors—Ruth Lun- | | Seattle 31— Pnrl]y Cloudy The Daily Graphic says: i a parties have little voice in their!del, Effie Fleek, Isabel Cashen and Vieno Wahto; Sophomores—wmmmy""‘“ 40 PRy (OIuay “The folly of the Liberal Party B Whitehorse . .. b—Partly Cloud; ey Liberal Party : management. The party in power is | gashen, Hilja Reinikka, Orrin Edwards, Tauno Niemi and Georgel i Y Cl dy government without authority and made necessary a|nationally controlled by the Presi Yakutat 30—Cloudy Guerin; Freshmen—Nina Baroumes, Helen Baroumes, Enne Kronqulst. second election in a year when all the nation’s ener- | dent-in-office; the party-out- d Marie Fox. i gies should be devoted to the task of economic recov- | power has a diversity of control, by | Mary Hurlbut, 13-year-old granddaugmer of Mr., and Mrs. Richard | D"UGLAS But the contemptuous rejection of this muchithe Chairman of its national co mittee, by the leaders in the Scuuter and House, and by prospective can- {McCormick of Douglas, had lead her class in scholarship, at school in didates for the Presidency. \Pa( fic Grove, Calif., where she resided with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. NEWS The party-in-power always ha<‘Ed Hurlbut. CHILD HEALTH CONFERENCE Douglas Child Health Confer- many advantages, particularly the | i | ence will be held tomorrow, Wed- BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 773 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store terests lie. of them wiil be.” has given us a THE BRITISH ELECTION Associated Press dispatches to The Empire bring the story of the British elections. Here are editorial ey comments by-British newspapers, as reported 0 The | 0464 array of a Liberal candidates should insure Empire, transcribed from the BBC short wave broad- cast by the BIS listening post, with a short introduc- tion: All the papers discuss the results of the Ihm'h The Liberal News Chornicle, qn the other General Election and most of them take the line that ¥ the Labor Party’s narrow majority is too small for the “The close results of the election satisfactory carrying out of the ordinary business of Perative that the three parties should get government and that another election is likely before and agree on what common action is neces the end of the year. nation’s interests.” The Labor Daily Herald notes that both the Con- servative and Labor aggregate votes showed big in- | creases compared with the 1945 election, and says: “Labor, therefore, has gained ground in the coun- try, despite all the difficulties of the time and the | efforts of its opponents to make capital from those difficulties. “The task of informing public opinion about our policies must be pressed forward with the utmost vigor so that when the next test comes we can gain a substantial majority.” The Times thinks that an early election seems "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. that next time there will be a straight fight and a deur-cul verdict.” hand, make it im- together advantage of patronage and tax- Billy Franks and Harry Sperling, wellknown referees, were to be the ry in the sday March 1 in the Douglas i vity, The British have no 2 . Biputtictty z isquare circle officials for the four fights billed on the American Legion | Community Methodist Church. patropage system and it would be E regarded as a major scandal ulsmm\(’l in the A. B. Hall March 1. Dave Housel and Jack Wilson werel The Public Health nurse will be in charge between the hours of | the party-in-power employed gov-:w be timekeepers. ernment publicity facilities to the! disadvantage of the opposition.: 2 to 4 o'clock p.m. W.S. TO MEET | They still good manners in that count In fact, the British system is! elich that his Majesty’s oyl SH It was announced this mommg" that the Women’s Society of | Christian Service will meet tomor-| w evening, Wednesday, March 1| position remains in office even af- ter defeat. For instance, during the Community Methodist "hutch Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.. Weather: High, 33; low, 27; partly cloudy. Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpox ve It Won’t Be Long (Prince Rupert News) It won't be long now! Zero has returned to where is belongs. Snow is gradually and decently disap- pearing. The air has more of a familiar softness, and the murmur of occasional rain, seems akin to the | voice of a friend you've missed for a while. Yes, it won't be so very long now. This wallow- ing through slush, this estimating the width of the deep looking pool, this being splashed by a swift; inevitable so that' the parties can “seek again the moving car, this slipping, sliding and stamping, this support of a majority for the frank policies for re- | disappearance of a loose rubber—all the little an- covery and peace which they failed to produce in the | noyances that tire and sour—will fade away as days vecent bid for favor.” The Times goes on to say that | lengthen and the business of retioning is promptly mneantime a budget must be produced. | relegated to permfinent exile. ] THESE DAYS (}IuOR(;Iu L. S()I\OLSI\Y | i i [ GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt P WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “This is all the farther I can go.” Say, “This is AS FAR AS I can go.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Foregoing. Accent SECOND syllable, | not the first. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Achievement; observe the IEVE. In the United States, o.m;,‘mm"l SYNONYMS: Foolhardy, reckless, venturesome, daredevil. is regarded as offensive and pers WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” sonal. President Truman, for in- | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: stance, in his second term, not|MODULATE; to vary in tone, inflection, pitch, or other quality of sound. only resents opposition but even|“Many speakers do not know how to modulate their voices.” \lternative proposals. In the Brit- | |ish system, the assumption is that | truth will come out of dif nce of opinion and debate. They assume | that the country’s safety cannot the entire period that Mr. Attlee| has served as Prime Minister, Win- ston Churchill has sat in Parllfl- | ment and is a {onw in the affairs| of the country. It expected of | him. His opposition is mnmtuuonal MRS. HELMES LEAVING Mrs. Margaret Helmes will leave Let us|today or tomorrow depending on !the PAA flight, enroute to Seattle and San Francisco where she will {visit friends before returning to her home in Milwaukee, Wis. She 1as been visiting for several months with her daughter and family Mr. and Mrs. Milford MarshalL Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP 1l MODERN ETIQUEITE Rprrrs 1EE f be entrusted to cne man or one SRS St s et e e S Rt ] | party, no matter how infallible Eht‘, Q. Is it all right to remove the inside of a baked potato with a |1eader may regard himself. Truman | kfiife? '?:;r';m;:m(k::A\tfll:fijl?:e ‘:";‘:} dme"; A. No; break the potato into halves with the fingers, season, and; 2 < N3 remove the inside with a fork, never with a knife. The skin is placed | The Washington Merry-Go-Round LN L e L (Continued from Page One) no reaction, but when he plawd‘ his right hand under the machine the radioactivity counter skyrock eted. Secruity officials, immediat- | ely=fearful, weresready to rush the| . Congressman to the hospital for, blood plasma—the only treatment; The most remarkable fact about known for radiation poisoning. But, the recent British election is that|" vou may recall that “before the | when he stripped to the waist, they | it took place at all. The right of | putich canvass commenced, the |2t OB€ side of the plate. | heaved a sigh of relief. What had '3 people to select and change their 1](.\dcx g | Q. What would be a good excuse when sending regrets to an invi- | S t radioactivi X ot went to a common service | set the radioactivity counter off|government is at the heart of the|of praver and they sat together | tation one does not care to accept? so violently only the radium|concept of representative govern- : ? wvmhoul regard to party. They are A. Probably the safest excuse would be an earlier engagement for: dial on Jackson’s watch. |ment. That right has violently been | prifichers first, partisans incident- | | thatevening gag is ari throughout the world. 4 oo bl g Ul £y L Q. What does the bride do with her flowers while the wedding ring| It could disappear everywhe The British system carnot be ut- ‘is Befi placed on Her ilger? therefore it is important that el-|jj0q here for many obvious rea- ? {ections should be taken serious A. Her maid of honor should hold the flowers during this time. ons, but the British attitude could | Apparently, the British people too | influence us. Its maturity is re- iE e bt theirs seriously. { i | | In the Soviel countries, elections i S e g lo 0 K a nd lE A RN Xy C. GORDON gone through a three weeks’ cam- do take place. But the people have 1. How many sounds are there in the English language? paign without one word of person- no choice. One list of names is pre- | al offense and recrimination. And | sented to them and they are re- 2. What is the oldest republic in the world that began with a President as its chief executive? the personal and political relations quired to vote on that or be imper- 3. What is known as the “most complete single food”? between Clement Attlee and Win- illed as enemies of the state. ston Churchill are such as to make | And that could mean death. 4. What cities are each represented by two major league baseball teams? possible cooperation. Theirs is not a free election. The comeback of Winston Chur- The right of a people to choose |chill is not surprising. Socialism | their own government is unusual|is an offensive system to a free in history. Most governments have 5. What single musical instrument can be made to sound like a whole orchestra? ANSWERS: Forty-four. people. Socialism is nct merely a been established by force, by sel- matter of social services to the jzure, by the establish The United States. Milk. ent of a |people nor even of the nationaliza- self-perpetuating ruling | groulp, | tion of production and distribu- | New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis. The pipe organ. / Brownie's Liquor Slole Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P O.Bnlu.l The Alaskan Hotel I Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates ' PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 555 THE RIGHT TO SELECT Sen. Riil Langer and the non-part- isan league, are preparing to leave the Republican Party in favor of the Brannan Plan. A major farm autherity in the Dakotas, Editor William Ronald of Mitchell, 8. D., has been frantically urging the GOP leadership to write a new farm policy. Sign No. 3—A grass-roots farm- ers’ meeting in Crawford Count Wis,, recently turned into a de bate on the Brannan Plan. Before the debate, 75 were for the Plan, |peing too namby-pamby with the 45 against, and 92 didn’t know. Af- [Germans, insisted that he made a ter the debate, 103 voted pro, 45)public statement saying the Unit- against, and 47 still undecided. d States was aware of the threat Sign 4—Democratic women at|of revived Nazism. McCloy wasn’t the Jefferson-Jackson dinner re-|enthusiastic but consented to have ported that the question they most|the State Department write hisj wanted data on was the Brannan|;peech, which incidentally is con- Plan. Its author, Secretary of Ag-jsidered the best thing the United riculture Charley Brannan, got|States has done in Germany since more applause than anyone at the|ihe war ended: $100-a-plate dinner except Tru-y Ajr competition—Two small, un- % g 3 scheduled air’ have offered to Sign . No. 5—Chairman Harold |y the mails for one dollar a year Cooley of the ‘House Agriculture{ i, prove that government subsid- Committee, noticeably unenthusi-|jes gren't necessary. Golden North astic about the Brannan Plan Airways and Air VTransporL Asso- last year, recently told the Farm) i ieq claim they can fly the Al- Bureau of North' Carolina, his home | \cean yun for the Post Office and state: “Either come up with some-| ) make enough money from com- thing better than the Brannan| ... freight to give the gov- Plan, or stop standipg in the way.” | ., s E rnment free service. This would The Communist Party has been in | accept socialism for long. Gov. Kerr Scoft of N. C., a former| e tpe taxpayers more than $7,- State Commissioner of Agriculture,| ;50050 a year. i d r the Plan. = § OEeaiC oE e P Tighter draw curtain— Another | Crossword PuZZI 1olow to good will between east and| ACROSS west; The Czechoslovak government | Young dog nas issued an edict requiring any-; 4. Let down me writing to a person abroad to . So. American take the letter personally to the g sare) Post Office along with his iden- EMh:my"x il ification card. The letter cannot . Uneven ve mailed unless the sender reveals| 14. Indian post his identity. 5. Obligatory . Female shcep Communists to I tghiar iof an Embassy in Cadmus hat. the releasing Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS —— OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 Capital News Capsules Getting tough with Nazis—Inside ory of American High Commis- sioner McCloy’'s tough - talking speech to the Germans is that Se- cretary Acheson chided him tor The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford & Co. “Qur Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. either in the form of an hereditary | tion; it is not only a welfare state treet fmonarchy or a dictatorship by an|it is an assumption of the super- it oligarchy, as in the case of the|jority or an elite group over the Soviet States. One-party dictator- | people® it involves bureaucratic ship, leading to the deification of |controls of the peop.e. It becomes | an overpowering ruthless man, &.La-va burden and a trial. The British lin. ihave known freedom too long to MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Datries, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 600 American Meat — Phone 38 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS o>in CIE | o) z|Z|- m|—r =l -z- Nervous twitching . The end . Unit of wire measurement Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Maliory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY "500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY Fear Income Drop Back of the farm revolt is an estimated drop of five to six billion dollars in farm income, the fear that farmers' income will drop fur- ther under the sliding-scale formu- la backed by the Farm Bureau. and mounting criticism of piled- up surpluses while food prices re- main high in the grocery stores. Here are some comparisons in surplus food costs: In a Washing- ton suburb one school is using free surplus butter to cook with, while the price in the groce is 77 cents a pound. Surplus po- tatoes are being sold by the gov- ernment at 1 cent per 100 |iu\m(~‘ while selling at retail 10 peunds for 445 cents. Surplus dried eggs are Sian “given away to any credited \\nn:m.‘“ 3 " agency which will haul them @ " in 150-pound barrels or the equi- i walent of 450 dozens. Eggs are sell- |, ing in Washington stores at 8 b cents a dozen. r>» <|m| . Renews . Reputed dis- coverer , of North America -The Ameri- Moscow reports government is 00 Italian war pri- in spectacular move to the strength of the Com- munist Party in Italy. All of them wave been carefully indoctrinated in Communist schools in Russia ¢ fanatics. Ten thousand of jthem have been trained in the Rus- demolition and street-fight- school in Kiev. C strategy—Secret intel- nce reports reveal that Chiang hek is deliberately using Am erican bombs and airplanes to des: |troy American property in Com- | munist-held China. In addition, | Chi hopes that by using Am- erican planes to kill Chinese civ- 1 he will incite the Chinese the Americans and thus . Not hard . Purifies . Details : Passage out . Like a grown by Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle OWN 1. Hawalian food vase 8 Largest ocean Nothing Approaches 54. Malayan coln . Philippine mountain 56. wam Concealed . Citrus fruit . Sphers . Sorrow . Anglo-Saxon slave . Sells to the consumer . Kind of daisy . Note of the crow 1. Took food . Single thing n soners bolster a To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry 43 A. L. 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First indication As he left the project, Jackson | that Chiang’s tactics are working placed in front of a machine came when the Chinese Communists h‘ a routine examination to de- | retaliated against the 34 American termine whether he had picked up|men, women and children who have _ any radiation poisoning during his|been stranded in Shanghai for the wisit. Jackson's left hand showed | past eight months, W fllfll ] 11| e | P | V7 ] SHAFFER'S “Say It With Flowers” but SANITARY MEAT ||| “SXv'rr WiTH OURS ™ FOR BETTER MEATS . 13—PHONES—49 Pree Delivery Indian . Collection of facts . Edge | Knock Seaweed . Swiss canton Mourntul o