The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ° MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950 A ; o 3 Daily Alaska Empire Publistied_every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY ond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska EN MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 1& SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Carson A. Lawrence, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €) B.P.0.ELKS ' Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brotliers wel- come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Becretary. -2—Clear —— L 20—Partly Cloudy | Moose Lodge Ho. 100 . -1—Partly Cloudy | 30—Clear Regular Meetings Each Friday Governor—JOHN LADELY Missing 29— Partly Cloudy || ~ Secretary— P s gzo YEARS AGO | The Empire's exchange table we see that the tailors | have decided that we men are going to go into skirts | for informal evening wear. Someone has apparently | |dreamed up a thing called a “Plaid Tux” or “host | jacket,” in red, yellow, green, blue, black and white | plaid, to be worn with a kilt and an object known as | a sporran, which as the tailors coyly explain, keeps the | kilt from waving too freely in the breeze. An informal breeze, we suppose. This would appear Weather af - Alaska Poinls 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: Anchorage from THE EMPIRE Sec Prestdent vice-President Managing Editor Business Manager MARCH 6, 1930 T R A. F s ALFRED ZENGER MARCH 6 ra Kadow Barbara Reid Dorothy Nelson Oliver ck Russell McConnell Barbara MacSpadden Martha S. Roach William Ralph Young Jr, Joe Mack Galloway Gustaf Harry Lundell e o o o ° o mmemorating their thirtieth wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Feusi of Douglas entertained a few close friends at dinner. Among present were Mr. and Mis. John Reck of Juneau. Mr. Reck had yest man at the ceremony in Juneau in 1900, and it was Mrs. Reck ad prepared the wedding breakfast. Ed Andrews, another anni- v guest, was indirectly connected with that event of 30 years before, was his sister who made the bridal gown. Another interesting | pAnnette of the celebration was the use of the same set of dishes bought | Barrow newlyweds in 1900. It was noted that, during their long use, | Bethel wo small pieces of the entire set had been broken. 1 Cordova | Dawson wrence J. Woofter, Representative in the previous Territorial Leg-;gad::g;:;: e from the Second Division and who had re-enlisted in the U. S.! Haines Corps, arrived on the Margnita from Skagway. He had been"Ha\’re -in-charge at the Lynn Canal metropolis for several months Junéau [ Jo | the beer Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per monthi six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00 By malil, postas? paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; upe month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notifs the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: to be g0od a time as any to call in the sociologists to explain what is really taking place. Of late our women folks have more | and more commonly taken to trousers, first with slacks and shorts and now with blue jeans, turned halfway up the calf, which they hopefully imagine gives them that “gamin” look. If what the Customs Tailors and Designers Association has in mind becomes a trend, our men will have to, done skirts, and complete trans vestism will be on the way to becoming an accomplish- | |land and Egypt devise methods freedom and yet as wh ver 23—Cloudy 33—Partly Cloudy -11—Snow 36—Cloudy 28—Cloudy |as 1 | tea {for i but | Business Office, S74. TED PRE! The Assoclated P entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and alsc the local news published berein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Beattle, Wash. News_Office, 602: MEMBER OF ASSOCI leeeoe®0c00000o0 [ it has been able to'| islat giving India keeping both ed fact. of Sigr Now there is really nothing more unsuitable about STATEHOOD There is an old saying, don't count your chickens before they are hatched. This is true in the present Statehood for Alaska situation. The Statehood measure passed the House by a vote of 186 to 146 which is more opposition than predicted and from a membership of 453. The bill now goes to the Senate to be referred to a committee which may act now or one year from now, as the case may be. Then if the Senate eventually does pass the state- hood bill, and there will be opposition in that upper bod)‘\or Congress, there will be necessary a constitu- tional convention to be called, action to be approved by the President, general election for two Senators and one Representative, then reported back to the President who will issue a procalamation declaring Alaska a State. It all ‘takes time, so do not begin banking on fhe | correctional institution. the kilt for the Scotsman than there is for those ballet- skirt looking things worn by Evzones in Greece for the Greeks. They look properly masculine and virile on the people to whom they belong by custom and tradi- But just think of the type of perscn over here rran. Oh, dear! tion who is going to sail for the kilt and sp Helping Hands (Cincinnati Enquirer) One reason why girls who make the first misstep continue in lives of crime or prostitution is because all too often they have no family or friends who have the slightest interest in their well-being. It doesn’t take a psychiatrist or social worker to realize that it { is very easy for a girl to ask herself, ‘What's the use?"”. if she feels there isn’t a single soul who cares a hang about what happens to her. Twenty Cincinnati women are about to launch a program which they hope will do something toward Helping this situation. Each of these women proposes to act as sponsor for a girl in a State or county They will write to the girls, send them small presents, visit them, and help them get jobs when they return to the community Inspiration for this movement comes from Mrs. argaret von Selle, a staff member of the Cincinnati ene Society, who has been acting as coun- selor for girls in these institutions for the last three s, “Too many of these girls are forgotten by their parents and the community,” Mrs. Von Selle savs outcome just yet. Y00, HOO! What do tailors think they are doing with us men, anyway? Glancing through eastern | “Too many are returned to institutions after an un- successful parole, and far too many turn to careers | of prostitution because no one helps them after they come home.” This is a very worth-while activity these 20 Cin- cinnati women are undertaking—an activity which can have nothing but beneficial results. N newspapers on The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round Continued from Page One) to use a vacuum cleaner to pick it up. ; Showtds L1 Y. fan came in to see Federal Nar cotics Chief George White and of- fered to tell the story of a large- scale narcotics ring which the Fed- eral Government had been trying to track down for months. He was willing to buy more heroin, this time using marked money and federal officers and jdictaphones planted within earshot. ’ Federal officers were elated and jmmediately communicated with California’s State Narcotics Chief, Walter Creighton who promised cooperation. But the mnext, day White's federal narcotics deputies in Los Angeles talked to Creighton and found him huffy and uncoop- erative. Mike Riordan, California Assistant Attorney ~ General in charge of law enforcement in San| Francisco, Creighton said, didn’t want to cooperate with the U. S. Government. Riordan wanted to prosecute Davidian immediately. To prosecute Davidian immed- iately, however, would have spoiled | any setup whereby he was to buy narcotics with marked #money, 50| U. S. Narcotics Chief White went to Santa Barbara to see State Nar- cotics Chief Creighton pex"sonul Creighton, he found, was n(‘rvou;‘I and tempermental. He declined to| cooperate with the federal agents | unless he got a letter (rm_n msi Chief, Riordan, in San Francisco. | White immediately phoned Rior- dan, asked for a letter agreeing to postpone Davidian’s proseciition. Davidian, it was explained, was the | key witness by which the entire narcotics gang might be caught. Significant Request i Riordan promised a letter, but| never sent it. Instead he sent a| Jetter asking for a new count against Davidian, which, signiti- | cantly would make it impossible| for him to be put on probation,| once convicted. | Riordan is the Assistant of At- | torney General Fred Howser. So also is State Narcotics Chief Walter Creighton. Neither the federal gov- ernment nor Governor Warren have any power over them. By this time, Federal Agents knew that the head of the nar- cotics ring was Joe Sica, the new Italian leader of the Los Angeles underworld and the man who has been nudging Mickey Cohen down from his gangland throne. Sica trained ia New Jersey with| the Willie Mcretti gang, whose headquarters are at Palisades, just across the Hudson River from New York. Frankie Costello is one of Moretti’s close friends and the god- father of his children. Sica has| made various trips between Los | Angeles and New York, an ob- | vious link between eastern and western mobs. Despite this background and de: pite the pleas of U. 8. Narcotics Agents, the enforcement officers of California’s Attorney General i Howser refused to cooperate in delaying prosecution of Davidian. “There was no explanation as to why the State Bureau of Nar- cotics was so anxious to sabotage he federal case,” Crime Commis- The great British Empire, in the sioner Warren Olney said in a|18th and 19th centuries, was a ublic statement. | vast but loose association of states, “The State office did everything |nations, colonies, protectorates and it could,” Olney continued, “to make | alliances, which covered the earth Davidian_unavailable to_th Federnllanfl produced trade. It was a pro- grand jury. Instead of giving the | duct of z alous enterprise, brilliant usual cooperation,” Olney continued, | civil service operations, and com- they speeded the trial. This is]petent colonization. No continent the sort of thing that makes or-lwas without some British rela- ;anized crime possible.” tionship, and the British boasted Thanks to uncooperative state|that the sun never set on their officials, therefore, Davidian went|flag and that they ruled the waves. to an early trial and pleaded| The first area within the British guilty. But Judge Warren Stockton ;sphere to break away was the Un- of Bakersfield, anxious to cooper-|ited States of America, founded on ate, postponed sentencing David-|July 4, 1776, under the leadership ian, thus giving the Federal Gov-jof a brillian group of Englishmen, ernment time to indict Sica and!headed by George ‘Washington. 14 other members of the narcotics| The loss of the “American Col- ring. onies” was a bitter blow to Brit- As they were picked up, members |ish colonialism and was not to be of the ring told U. S. Agents they|{repeated for more than a century. knew exactly who was going to be|The device to safeguard the Empire arrested. Federal Agents, incidental- | was conceived by Lord Durham, ly, had let the state agents see|who, in 1839, in relation to Can- their confidential files. It is alsojada, laid down a method for “res- THESE DAYS s BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY BRITISH COMMONWEALTH | flooding the U.S.A. But with interesting that Crime Commission- er Olney announced that a phone call was traced from Sica’s office to Robert Franklin in Fresno, one of Howser's campaign managers. No Jurisdiction” Kills Cooperation That ends chapter 1 of the story of the California mnarcotics ring. Chapter 2 began about two weeks ago when the U. S. Attorney’s of- ice in Los Angeles got a tip that eastern gangsters were being im- ported to bump off Davidian ) The FBI was notified. But David- | ian was a narcotics witness for the Treasury Department. He was not a Justice Department witness and, without consulting J. Edgar Hoov- |er, the west coast FBI took no in- terest. A few weeks before this the FBI had been asked by the U. S. Attor- ney in Los Ange: to help when another Federal witness, Ralph Al- len, was almost beaten to death in Long Beach, Calif. Allen had been a witness before a Federal grand jury against Attorney General How- ser, and shortly thereafter was pistol-whipped to within an inch of his life. z But when the FBI was asked to help protect Allen as a witness before a Federal grand jury, the FBI replied that he was a witness in an income-tax case. This was under the Treasury Department, not the Justice, so the FBI didn’t ccoperate. To tect him, Davidian was hidden in Arizona by U. S, Narcot- ics agents, but last week he re- turned to Los Angeles for arraign- ment and slipped up to his mother’ home in Fresno. There, lying on a couch with a bullet hole in his head, Davidian was found dead. Joe Sica and his 15 indicted colleagues were considered the big- gest narcotics haul in the history of the United States. This was the first time the Federal Government got real inside information regard- ing the sources of heroin now i no| alive to testify against them, the case against the Sica gang has now blown up higher than a kite; witness ponsible self-government” within a voluntary commonwealth. The Dur- ham report established the Domin- ion—an independent state within an imperial union, Dominion self-gov- ernment continues in British com- monwealth of nations and is the spine of the system. Canada, Aus- tralia, the Union of South Africa, New Zealand—these are the basic areas of Empire. The informality of method has been its Whereas, the Empire has los British strength. t Ire- the Hindustan and Pakistan tied to the Empire, as the recent Colombo | Conference has clearly proved. And | while Canada is part of the British | Empire, it is ree (or even more s0) from Brit control as the United S While the Union of South is less tied to Great Britain sentimentally or physically either Canada or Australia come into two world w and such areas as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, outside the Union but inside the Empire, zive to it a strength greater than is these days recognized. ih The are not war; yet, the the war, ho than it has steppin: e of Empire steady as before® the British came out’ of Gibraltar and! Malta, the west and eastern fortresses of the terranean, and Egypt cannot stand alone in the face of any enemy. Great Britain, by alliances and subsidies, built an enormous bas- tion in the Middle East, in the Arab States, among which Israel was situated, first by the Balfour declaration; then as a British mandated area under the League of Nations; and finally as an in- dependent state. As a matter of maintaining the stepping-stones of I\npire, this region is essential to Britain and whether its friendliness is maintain- ed by supporting the Arabs or find- ing a union of Arabs and Jews, it will be maintained. The change of Indian status is! not yet historically clear; the Brit- ish position, shifting from admin- ] istrative control to economic co- operation, may even be strengths ned. Indonesia, which while Dutch- owned was Britisn controlled, now }that it is independent cannot stand l alone. What it will do remains un- certain. Burma, Malaya and even Borneo have suffered from the conquest of | China by Soviet Russia. What hap-1 pens to Burma and Malaya depends upon what happens to French Indo- | China and Siam. If they join the| Soviet Union or are conquered by Soviet China, all of southeastern will fall. If the United States is forced to retreat from the Japan- Okinawa-Philippines line, should} Formosa fall to Soviet China, they south seas areas of the British commonwealth will be endangered. Australia and New Zealand are| even now protectable only by the| United States. | The fact remains that the British | Empire—now called the common- | wealth of nations—is not by any means dead. The system of self- government, of independence with- in a system of inter-dependence,| of recognizing separatism within | a union, loose in organization, as| sentimental as materially bene- | ficial—does work. | Actually, one would have expect- | ed that the shock of an indepen- dent India and an antagonistic government in Scuth Africa would have shattered the Empire. A It has not done so. This gives !to Great Britain an importance in | the councils of nations far beyond the economic or military strength of the British Isles—A condition related to the recent efeckion. | | | | Crossword Puzzle 3. 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Woofter had been transferred to The current Douglas City Council held its last regular monthly buhiness session, as there was to be an election on April 1. Election ils were: Judges—John McWilliams, W. J. Grant, R. McGhee, and Charles Fox and Mrs. A. R. Edwards. Preparations for the pri- election also included appointment of these officials: Precinct Judges: John McWilliams, W. J. Grant and Jake Manning; clerks: Mrs. A. R. Edwards and Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin. Precinct No. 2—Judges Robert Fraser, Fred Kronquist, Mrs. Frank Pearce; clerks: J. R. Guerin and Mrs. Robert Fraser. Mrs. Edwards was elected school tax collector. offic clerks No. 1 In Douglas, Harry Lundell was elected president of the Associated Student Body. Other officers were Bernice Edwards, Ruth Lundell, William Cashen, Orrin Edwards and Isabell Cashen. Outgoing officers with Cashen were Frank Pettygrove, Vieno Wahto, Alice Tassel and Harry Lundell (atheletic manager). Weather: High, 35; low, 31; rain. { Daily Lessons in English % L GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It was an historical event.” The use of AN here is affectation. Say, “A historical event.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Referable. Accent FIRST syllable, not the second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bounteous; EOUS. Bountiful; IFUL. SYNONYMS: Celebrated, distinguished, renowned, famous, eminent, illustrious. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: COMPLACENCY; satisfaction; contentment; serenity. *“We must not lower the level of our aim, that we may more surely enjoy the com- placency of success.”—Ruskin. — ODERN ETIQUETTE %perra ree e RN | PR Q. Is it obligatory to write letters of condolence? A. Yes; they are obligations of friendship and should not be neg- ?Aectcd. They should be brief, sincere, and sympathetic, and should not | contain affected phrasing. Q. Where should a woman, escorted by a man, sit when riding in a taxi? A. When entering the taxi, she should take the seat farthest from the curb, so that her escort is not forced to pass in front of her. Q. When a person is introduced to another person for the second time, is it necessary to recall the previous introduction? A. Tt isn’t necessary, although optional. LOOK and LEARN 1. What are the three great divisions of the U. S. Federal Gov- ernment? 2. How long does it take for food to travel from the mouth to the stomach? Under which President was Alexander Hamilton the Secretary of Treasury? 4. Which is the oldest city in Europe? ‘Which fish possesses the most bones to the cubic inch? ANSWERS: Executive, Legislative ,and Judicial. About six seconds. George Washington. Toledo, Spain, claims the distinction. The common shad by A. C. GORDON 3. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1950 The B. M. 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