The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publhwd every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, SELEN TROY MONSEN - JOROTHY TROY LINGO - - ND June; l oped aréas of the world, from our standpoint. | be our settled policy to channel more American capital to these countries. In the next few years we are going to be very hard pressed to maintain the volume of 3 Vice ;::::::m our export trade. Certainly, when the Marshall Plan Managing Editor | come to an end the problem will be acute. It is good Business Manager | copnce to turn Latin America, without waiting au, Alaska to Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as qocnna Class Matter. | for a slump in our exports, and work out the means SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; | of exchanging private six months, $8.00; one vear, By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six montl one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, MEMBER OF A: 602: SOCIATED Business Office, American investment funds 1f<u- a steadily larger market to the south. hs, in advance, $7.50; | | $15.00 will promptly notify 4. (Jessen’s Weekly) PRESS Since that which atfects Seattle also affects The Assoclated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the Izrcln Alaska, the Territory may well be concerned over the Russian invasion of the crab ind with crab meat from the former Japanese crab waters in the North local news published NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 21 Yourth Ave Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Pacific that were turned over to Russia in post war | agreement: Alaska’s own crab industry is still in the infancy stage but when Soviet Russia starts competing with American packers on their own ground, unloading a half million dollar shipment in Seattle with 92 tins to the case as compared with 46 in the standard American packed case, and at the same time unloading 500,000 shipment in Boston, it cannot but have an se effect upon the Alaska as well as Washington | coast crab industry. The Japanees used to send fom 445,000 to 500,000 cases a year to U. S. markets. With their exports halted, American enterprise invested millions of dollars in boats, equipment and canneries. Now the Russians SH L('\TO’\lh It comes natural to think of E of - greatest importance to us, economics. But, in reality, Latin Ar our best cash customer. examine our foreign policy with Jack Corbett, Hispanic countries, points out som facts. Last year, for example, our exp erica came to $2,700,000,000, virtual cash. By contrast, larger. only $1,200,000,000. an economist long we have given or lent Europe about In that period our comparable aid has come to only $381,000,000. There were good reasons, political and strategic, | for our enormous aid program in Europe. no equally good reasons for such assistance to Latin | remains that, was ended and we didn't need Latin-American co- America. But the fact operation so urgently, we began ag entire area. Actually, the Latin-American constitute the most important of all the underdevel- lhe Washmqlon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) budget, persis from Michigan. “If we knew it was going to be peaceful, we certainly wouldn’t re- quest this amount of money,” Brad- ley admitted. “In other words this war budget,” suggesteq ed the Senator is a cold- Ferguson. both We might this basic mind. Writing in the current issue of The Reporter, our total exports to Europe were But our cash exports to Europe amounted to | Since the war, Mr. Corbett notes, | are taking over where the Japs left off and threaten to put American crab meat producers out of busi- ness. Representative Mack of Washington State has protested in Congress against allowing this threat of merica ha ruin to an American industry by Russia that will soon do well to re-| be getting $20 million or more a year from sales in fact in|the United States unless the State Department acts. Other economic clouds over the Pacific Northwest » affects Alaska are the threatened removal RS urope as the area in politics and become familiar with the|that a e rather startling! from Seattle of the Boeing airplane plant, the Fort Lawton army post and Port of Embarkation, and various transportation tendencies by both air and sea. “It will not injure a person’s health to smoke 10 ordinary cigarettes a day,” asserts a physician. Yes, cording to the advertisements, there are no ordi- orts to Latin Am- ly all paid for in but a nary cigarettes. $18,000,000,000. | { An old-timer says there isn't nearly weather now as there was when he was a boy. —a ey No one can accuse the government of putting all eggs in one basket. In fact, it is even finding it ard to get enough warehouses to store them all.— (Everett Herald.) - to Latin America so much There were once the war ain to ignore the The toy-makers can't win. Just as they get their “super atomic” toys on the market, along comes the hydrogen bomb.—(San Diego Jnunml ) republics together Dlvoue Statemeni Is Made in |the RFC by selling it “black-top”| from the Kerr-Mc Company. Futhermore, Senator Kerr has| placed his brother, Aubrey Kerr, in | Gee a key spot as Oklahoma Counsel to ( - |RFC matters affecting the State| (By Associated Press) of Oklal ) The o&%'%mflm FoadTeWHIFH | | Senator Kerr’s company hopes to| isell an asphalt mix called “bla top” would run from Oklaboma City to Tulsa. Application has been made to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a $35,500,000 loan, Aot grid Bergman's lawyer has received a list of conditions under which Dr. Peter Lindstrom will agree to a quiet divorce. The doctor's attorney said the terms include insistence that the Lindstrom's daughter, Pia, have no contact with Roberto Rossellini. Again Bradley assented. : : which would be the full cost of Other terms are that Lindstrom Then Ferguson, measuring his| the road. But the RFC has count-| o " oq0 or the girl and that words carefully, inquired: “You|ered with the proposal- that local| b, Bergman will have visiting will probably want to answer this{road authority put up five or six question off the record. In your opinion, what is the likelihood of the ideological clash between Com- munism and capitalism coming tc a show of arms?” Off The Record “Yes, 1 agree that this question should be answered off the record, and I will be glad to give you my opinion,” offered Bradley. ‘The official reporter was ordered to stop taking notes—even though the meeting was already closed and the press had oeen cluded. With this double guarantee of secrecy. Bradley went on to explain that he was not speaking for the joint chiefs of staff but only giving his personal views. He suggested first, that the “Rus- sians would likely want to increase their industrial potential and im- prove their industrial situation,” and second, “they would certainly want to have a stotkpile of atomic bombs” before precipitating a war. This “ought to give us about two years before there is any threat,” Bradley predicted. “However,” he warned “You know the Russians hometown kullies, and there is ways the ever-present possibility that they will push somebody off the sidewalk once too often, or they will push two or three off the sides walk, and there will be a war that solemnly, are like al- even they didn't count on start- ing. “Beyond the next two or three years,” General Bradley added, “I don't think there is anyone who can forecast accurately what the Russians intend to do.” In view of Senator Thomas distorted version of Bradley's view the public is entitled to have the whole story Bible-Quoiing Bob The more you see of likeable, Bible-quoting Bob Kerr, the more | wou realize he is no novice from the bush leagues of Oklahoma. but one of the smartest tors ever to come from that state, He is particularly smart at looking out for Bob Kerr. Not only has smiling Bob kept the Senate in a turmoil over his Kerr bill, expected to increase the cost of natural gas to northern cities and increase his own gas profits Not only is he appointing a big oil company attorney, W. R. Wall- ace of Magnolia-Socony-Vacuum to the federal court. But in addition Kerr may profit from an Okla- | homa highway to be financed by millions. rights—but alone. ' 1t should | THE DATLY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 7%'s EmpIrE MARCH 24 . . . Elaine Arnold . e Charles Whitney Aubert Jr. e . Susan A. Snipes . e Ennis and Thomas White e . Buddy Mogseth o . Minnie Goldstein . Mrs. Howard Day . ° Moris Tonszaard L {6 6 o a a 0o 0 0 0 0 o Movie Ouars Awarded Now Associated Press) ars have been awarded. the little statuettes sig-| nifying top position during the year for acting and other phases of :he motion picture industry. The awards for 1949 were made in Hollywood last night. Attractive Olivia DeHavilland and Broderick Crawford, won the Acad- amy Awards as the outstanding act- (By The O: They're ress and actor of the year—she for | her role in “The Heiress,” and Crawford for his acting in “All the King’s Men.” And that picture—“All the ng“»i Men” was named the best picture in 1949. Radio actress Mercedes McCam- bridge was selected the best sup-| porting actress for her work in “All the King's Men,” her first movie. Hoosier Dean Jagger, who lucked. away his toupee to play a "re-| treaded” Army officer in “Twelve O'Clock High,” snagged an Oscar as the best supporting actor. | Hollywood’s biggest publicity scum; offered few surprises, except one | of the biggest traffic jams in Holly- | wood Boulevard history. Without exception, the awards went accord- ing to predictions. | Crawford, who was once con- signed to the oblivion of B pictures, leaped from his seat when he heard Jane Wyman read his name as the | winner. He could say little more | than: “Thank God.” Miss DeHavilland was calmer. She | accepted the award from James Stewart with dignity becoming the fifth star in motion picture academy y to win the grand prize twice. double winners are Bette Spencer Tracy, Frederic Other Davis, March and Luise Rainer. Other major aw direction— Joseph L. Mankiewicz for “A Letter, to Three Wives”; screenplay—Man- | kiewicz for the same film; story and | screenplay—Robert Pirosh for “Bat- tleground”; best motion picture story—Douglas Morrow for “The Stratton Story”; original song Frank Loesser for “Baby, It's Cold Outside.” Sewing machines for rent at The White Sewing Machine Center. 52-t | ¥ If the road is built of concrete it would last longer but be more -xpensive. If built of Senator Kerr’s black-top” it would be cheaper but get torn up much quicker. L. G. May of the Kerr-McGee Company, when queried by phone company was bidding on the road company was bidding on the road but didn’'t have the contract yet. “We don't know whether we are going to have all of it, or half of it or just what,” he d. Incidentally, Senator Kerr is a| fast worker. He got his brother | appointed counsel for the RFC in Oklahoma one month after he en- tered the U. S. Senate. Note—Senator Kerr's oil and gas holdings are valued at around $100,- | 000,000. In view of this, Senators are wondering whether Kerr will vote on his natural gas bil. Ac- COMMERCIAL Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—O0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 | The B. M. Behrends | Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent | [ | SAVINGS cording to rule 12 of the Senate, a Senator who has a direct, pecun- jary interest in a bill should, by precendent, disbar himself from voting. In the House of Represen- tatives, a Congressman is definitely prohibited from voting if he has| ACROSS = 2. Bidsurs sucel pC ar pres . In wha f uch a pecuniary interest, but in| ¢ gooes on 29. Courses of the upper chamber, a Senator is playing 31 merely put on his honor. Kerr has L e whistles ' ., Part of a 34. Despoti lobbied his head off. It will now| * Pohuten “offcial be interesting to see whether he| 12. Member of a 33 Kind of resin ! Philippine 36 Indefinite vob tribe a7, yAmount & 7. Vapor 13. Conception 38, Small rugs N . Kind of spice Alaskan Statehood & Sorough T The Alaska sourdoughs can thank Ll a onetime gold prospector and news- 46. Former rulers an fc PR s ? i’ 18. Crowd 47. Amphibian man for the passage of their state-| 3% Srowd, A hood bill in the House. He is “Bob” multiplica- 49. Burn i ol o . i tion 51 Orienta Bartlett, the two-fisted Delegate 2. Rail bird commander from Alaska who has many friends 23. California 52. Part played ston G 1 v rockfish 53. Spanish jar i HL apitol Hill 24. Edible seed 54. United For five years, the voteless Bart- ett has been patiently and diplo- matically | people, pleading the ¢ of his meanwhile fighting the [ big fishing interests which want to keep Alaska under their thumb. At present the Alaska statehGod bill is mired down by indifference and prejudice in the Senate. Wyom- ing’s Joe O'Mahoney, the con- scientious chairman of the Senate Interior Committee, is so busy with other bills he has not pushed Al- 'askan statehood. Meanwhile GOP Senators are cool, especially Hugh | Butler of Nebraska. | TONIGHTS THE NIGHT | Dcors open at 7:30, music at 7:45.| Mikes vs. Columbia Lumber at 8.| Tragedy then begins with Rotar-| ians vs. Lions. You cannot afford| to miss this event of the" year nt the Juneau High Gym. ossword Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle | 56. lmnrened DOWN with great. . Fasteners | ness . County in | §6. Lowest of the Colorado | high tides . Beverage | 7. Masculine . Crusted dishes . Mountain in knamo e Minor ss slgnal ish author Incendiarism nionk . Propel a smal boat South»n state: sl | cortege. | master mechanic for the Juneau plant. ’ MARCH 24, 1930 Mrs. Ted Doogan and new-born son, Hugh Joseph, went to the family home in Douglas from St. Ann's Hospital In Seatle, a great throng had met the steamer Alaska which bore the bodies of Col. Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, killed when their airplane crashed near North Cape, Siberia, November 9. Impressive homage had been paid the pioneer fliers at memorial services there, repeating the events in every Alaskan city touched by the funeral In Juneau, Gov. George A. Parks had given a tribute to the | fliers’ service to Alaska and aviation, and American Legion members had | marched to the wharf, where “taps” was sounded as the steamer sailed southward Judge James Wickersham had addressed a large meeting in the City Hall, sponsored by the Juneau Women's Club, discussing needed legislation. After an absence of three months spent chiefly visiting her son and daughters, Mrs. A. P. Kashevaroff returned on the Admiral Watson. She had been accompanied south by her youngest daughter, Xenia, who tayed to make her home with her sister, Mary (Mrs. Calvin) at Carmel- by-the-Sea. One month had been spent in San Francisco visiting Cyril and Natalia Kashevaroff. Coming here from Seattle, she was accom- panied by Peter Warner, who was to stay with the Kashevaroffs until the arrival of his parents. @ A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, district deputy grand exalted ruler of the Elks, arrived from Skagway on the Alameda to pay his first official visit to the Juneau Lodge. Bert Caro, representative of 4. B. Caro and Company, returned from Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg on the Alameda. Robert Brown entered the services of the Juneau Lumber Mills as Brown, whose home was in Douglas, had been machinist at the Alaska Juneau for two years. One person less tnan 400, out of Juneau’s estimated 1,250 electors, had registered for the municipal election April 1. Books were to be open until March 29. Weather: High, 32; low, 23; clear. Daily Lessons in English ¥ 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Do you kpnow whom I thought it was?” Say, “Do you know WHO I thought it was?” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Scenario. Pronounce se-na-ri-o, E as in SEE unstressed, A as in AH, I as in IT, O as in NO, accent second | g syllable. OFTEN MISPELLED: Peer Pier (a supporting pillar). SYNONYMS: Dilemma, difficulty, predicament, perplexity. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” (a nobleman; also, to look intently). Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: MULTIPLICITY; the condition of being manifold or various; hence, a darge number. Bishop Wilson. “Avoid as much as possible multiplicity of business.”— MODERN ETIQUETTE oprrra rEE Q. Just what are the duties of a godparent? A. The duties are not many. He promises to befriend the child always and advise it at any time he is called upon. At the christening he gives the baby a gift, usually a silver mug, a knife, fork and spoon, some suitable piece of jewelry, or some money to start a bank account. Q. If a man has “junior” after his name, should his wife use the same form in her correspondence and other dealings? A. Yes; his wife uses the form “Mrs. James Wilson, Jr.” Q. Isn't it preferable to state the reason for declining an invitation, when the reason is a good one? A. Yes. It is preferable, although not obligatory. LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ compox 1. Which nation first used the tank in warfare? 2. Which one of Hitler's generals was nicknamed “The Desert Fox” for his operations in North Africa? 3. Who defeated the late Alfred E. Smith when he ran for President of the U. 8.? 4. In what American city is the famous Nob Hil? . 5. What is the instrument, used by a surveyor, which looks like a v.elescope? ANSWERS: 1. Great Britain. 2. General Erwin Rommel. Herbert Hoover. San Francisco. A transit. Plumbing ® Heating Oil Burners Telephone-319 Nighis-Hed 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. AL E. WILLARD as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR" Federal Tax—12¢ Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—Phone 22 and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 16 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month wea'her a' in Scottish Rite Temple Alaska Poinls ==, Weather conditions and temper- | JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau @ B.P.0.ELKS Anchorage . 28—Clear| Meeting every Wednesday at Annette 38—Partly Cloudy| 8 P. M. Visiting brothers wel- Barrow -8—Snow! come. F. DEWEY BAKER, Bethel 11—Clear| Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Cordova 32—Drizzte| Becretary. Dawson 24—Cloudy Edmonton . 26—Clear H Fairbanks - 19—Snow Haines 35—Partly Cloudy oose Lodge Ho' 7“ { Havre 24—Clear Regular Meetings Each Friday Juneau 26—Clear{| Governor—JOHN LADELY Kodiak 28—Clear || Secretary— Kotzebue -2—Snow WALTER R. HERMANSEN McGrath B—Partly Cloudy Nome -3—Partly Cloudy Northway 13—Cloudy | Petersburg 30—Clear » Portland 42—Partly Cloudy gkfi%%’élb% Prince George 34—Cloudy Seattle 3 v 41—Rain 117 Main St. Phone 13 Sitka . 34—Pa.rtl Cloud; Whitanorss - 5= pably Cloudy|| Mish Quality Cabinet Work Yakutat 28—Cloudy for Home, Office or Store N. BEZ TAKES ONE MORE STEP INP. E. HARRIS PURCHASE ! SEATTLE, March 24—(P—A legal step toward acquisition of the P. E. Harris and Co. salmon canning interests by Nick Bez and others was reported today from Olympia. Articles of incorporation were fil- ed for P. E. Harris Co., Inc., Fish Brokers. Capitalization was listed at $150,000. Others listed with Bez, the well) known west coast fishing industry | figure, were Thomas M. Green Jr., Seattle Attorney, and G. Hamilton Beasley of Los Angeles, Vice Presi- dent of William R. Staats Co. an investment banking firm. P. E. Harris and Co. has large Alaska packing properties. Beasley said the formation of the new cor- poration is one of the necessary teps in the negotiations that still are under way. He said there will be an announcement by April 1 if negotiations are concluded favor- ably. "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies .Phone 206 _Second and Seward.. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt Card Beverage Co. Wholesale 805 10th St. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP PALMA COMPOUND IS BETTER —_— st i Brownie's Liquor Liquor Store ll The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Roems at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O PHONE 555 Phone 103 139 Bo. Franklia P. O. Box 2508 ) Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS — OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocety Remington Tyuwrlten SOLD and SERVICED J. B. Burford & Co. Phone 704 o ur Doorstep Is W HAY, GRAIN, COAL i St and STORAGE FORD AGENCY STEVENS? (ERchiniing’ Denjety) GREASES — GAS — OIL LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Juneau Motor Co. Beward Street Foot of Main Street Near Third | MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM & dally habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP M Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel 00 American Meat — Phene 38 Casler’s Men's Wear Formerly SABIN'S Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY "50“" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Cemplete Outfitter for Men R. W. COWLING COMPANY To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVIS OVERALLS for Boys SHAFFER'S smnlv MEAT “Say It With Flowers” but FOR BETTER MEATS “s‘;y ! WI;I; OURS!” 13—PHONES—49 uneau Flori Prce Delivery ottt s lel. D e .y #