The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR l)ml Alaslm Empire ept Sunday by the COMPANY Juneau, Al evening e PRINTIN ka President X - Vice-President - Managing Editor Business Manager the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES livered by carrier in Juneau and Dopglas for $1.50 per month: six months, §5.00; one vear, S15.00 n postage paid, @ owing rates: 5.00 in advance, omptly notity e delivery pr is exclusively entitled to the use for atches credited to it or not other- { also the local news published Newspapers, 1411 G. 0. P. PLATFORM The Fairbanks News-Miner, in a recent editorial discussing the G. O. P. platform said: Alaska Republicans have adopted their 1950 plat- | from on which the GOP candidates will go before the | voters in the primary this month and again in the election next October. Set forth in detail, are the | party's aims and promises for the future aunnanu-nnm\g of Territorial affairs, both as to the executive and the | legislative branches of the government. Because of the hope that the platform holds forth for a return to decent government in the Territory and what it has to say about conditions as they have | d in the past, the document is of transcendent | ance to Alaska voters and merits their closest inst the background of the current cam- exis impo! study paign. The several planks which it includes will be dis- | ag party taken its stand to correct the abuses practiced by the Gruening administration for the past decade. A good start has been made for the 1950 campaign. The rest is now up to the candidates who must carry the battle in the ensing months — and to the voters, with whom rests the final choice as to the kind of government Alaska shall have in the future. BETTER CENSUS METHODS According to letters received by The Empire there | | is some criticiSm regarding giving out certain informa- tion. Apparently the Cincinnati Enquirer has also been the recipient of objections as it says the Census Bureau seems to have evolved an “out” for citizens who object to being questioned about their family income as a phase of the regular decennial census. to census questions without undue difficulty, but the decision to ask about family income in every fifth household cbviously did entail the possibility of reper- cussions. However, under the instructions now agreed upon for the enumerators, persons will not be required to answer income questions in person. Those who object to such questioning (and we rather imagine they would be in the great majority) will be handed blank forms to fill out and mail to the Census Bureau.; These forms will not require signatures and there will be no means of special identification for them. Hence those householders who wish to cooperate with the government in obtaining the wanted economic data | can rest assured that they're not telling their per- sonal business to some “outsider” with any risk that it will be divulged. The data is wanted for a general economic study of the nation—to provide a cross-section sample of family earning power. The fact that the income ques- | tion is being asked in every fifth household tends to emphasize that only a cross-section finding is desired, rather than specific data about certain individuals. Be that as it may, the Census Bureau is more likely to obtain cooperation (and correct data) through the use of the anonymous mailed blanks than when the enumerator (who may or may not be a neighbor) leans against the front door and asks just how much is the family income. In the anti-racketeéring uproar now under way, | it is the plan of the investigating committee to prove that evil is the rot of all money.—(Concrete Herald.) Heretofore, the | bureau has had pretty good luck in obtaining answers | cussed campaign progresses. required to meet, before they can be erly ddministration. v editorial ended with: Thus has the newly unified Alaska Republican rom time to time in “these columns as the | These issues are the ones which candidates of both parties must meet, and, should be | qualified to hold office in the next Territorial yus planks of the platform were given and the | regarded as prop- flicted,” with people. | “One-tenth of the population s a Yale professor. the campus too closely; he should get out and mix tions. They say you can buy purer booze in New York | than ever before. The water shortage makes it difficult to cut the liquor.—(Friday Harbor Journal.) is mentally at He's hanging arouni The Washington Merry-Go-Round ‘ (Continued from Page One) the the en-, at- no- the rHion¥ HavEVEometo light in second most populous state in Union, California, where law fcreement is in the hands of torney General Fred Howser, terious for his friendship with gamblers. It has now been revealed by the California Crime Commission that one of Howser's ex-aides, George Pochester, received around $400 f:om the Al Capone of California, Jech a, at the very time Dragna’ ing News Service was under attack. Rochester, friend and former aide of Attorney General Howser, was in charge of a committee investi- goting loan companies which whitewashed the Guaranty Finance |® Company. Despite this, it was later indicted by a Los Angeles Jounty Grand Jury, independent of as being a collection ney for gamblers. According to Warren Olney, of the California Crime on, Howser's office ex- xplicable intervention” on kehalf of Corporation at the very same time George Rochester, Howser's ex- aide, was receiving payments from California gambling czar Jack Dr Tk are some of the amazing velopments which not only be scrutinized but might in- Federal legislation—if Sen- Kefauver’s kicked-around res- ever passes. the Senate. NATURAL AS IN SENATE During the debate over the s Bill, the Senate press| ived a telephone a A d cuce ator clutior £?” requested the voice. rked” Press Attendant “I know,” what bill are agreed the voice, “but they taking up?” GUARDING U.S. SECRETS Biggest news out of the Hague eting of the North Atlantic Pact w that British War Minister John Strachey might not be trusted with top military secrets. This may have been news to! Europ but not to the American | public, thanks to exclusive disclos- i ures. in the Washington Merry-Go-' Round on March 11, when Drew | Pearson tcld how U. S. Ambas- sador 1 s Douglas discussed wi%h Secretary of Defense Johnson the wisdom of giving Strachey tup[ secret information. m N.AM. LETTER-WRITING The National Association of Manufacturers is resorting to an old and hackneyed lobbying device to take issue with this column. Last month, this column told | how the N.AM. staged a meeting | in New York at which Lemuel | Boulware, Vice-President of Gen- eral Eleciric, outlined plans to win labor votes in the next election the Guaranty Finance " iby the Justice Department. in- |* through slips in pay envelopes and other employee promotion. Now the NAM. has several hundred letters, editors, blasting this Though the letters are sent column. identical, | | I have culled your record and | find nothing in it that would ever| prepared have led me to believe that you to would permit yourself to be used, for any reason whatsoever, to pro- tect a gang of mugwumps Wio they are signed by different names have brought our beloved country in each city, thus giving them the appearance of a spontaneous letter- writing campaign. In Los Angeles, for instance, the | D. by letter was signed by Lane Webber, in Reno, Nevada Joseph A. Moore; in Tol ), by J. J. Bieber; in Newark, N. J, by M. B. Doyle; and in Beaver Falls, Pa., by L. W. Ingram. Yet all the letters were exactly the same. Only factual error the letters could find in the column was that the N.A.M.s campaign was not “quiet,” but public. Nct€ ~ to N.AM. officials—next time send me the letter direct. I'll be gl:d to make the correction and save you the trouble of drum- ming up local signatures. MERRY-GO-ROUND CIO leaders have been telling Walter Reuther that his tactics of cracking down on all the auto companies will soon leave the U.S.A. with only one big company —General Motors. Ford, Chrysler and the smaller companies can’t stand the continued round of union demands, and if they should close, the union would be out of luck.. smart GOP Sen. Hugh Butler of -+ | Davies, Liberal, the ostentatious yacht, the | repulsive Reds | close to disaster. Some say that you are, law, “Mission To Moscow” Joe Davies, I do not believe it. The psuedo-intellectualism of Joe the playing at being a entertainment of and Pinks, and much else| that we need not discuss here, must be offensive to you as a man of good taste. The fact is, however, that the committee which you head and which bears your name is not do- ing its work in accordance with the resolution of the Senate or even in accordance with propriety. | You are not getting down to bed rock. What your committee seem: Ito be attempting to prove is that Senator Joe McCarthy is a crazy bum. Pou were not, in the first place, appointed to do that. appointed to investigate the infil- tration of Communists in the Statc Department. Secondly, even if you succeeded in ridiculing Senato: McCarthy, it would not change the | situation. Dr. William A. Wirt, back in Nebraska is working with Alaskan |1934, was made to appear ridicul- business interests to delay hearings|ous, but its files and indices arc on Alaskan statehood. he can outmaneuver easygoing, gracious Chairman Joe O’Mahoney of Wyoming. Senator Kerr's pro- posed new Judge for Oklahoma, Bob Wallace, is being re-examined Offi- cials seemed surprised that Wallace was 65 years old and served 25 years as a Socony-Vacuum attorney Kerr not only wants the Kerr Bill on the law books, but also wants his hand-picked judge to administer the law....Ed Rivers, son of Georgia’s Pro-Klan ex- governor, is now operating a pro- negro radio station in Decatur, Ga. Young Rivers has had such re- sponse to having negroes give their own programs that he has started a similar station in Savannah— despite local radio opposition........ Utah’s Sen. Elbert Thomas, world scholar and former missionary, | suggests a simple antidote for the harassing troubles of the Atomic Age—Faith in God. Thomas has written a new book, “This Natfon Under God,” showing how relig- jous faith has guided the destiny of this nation and kept it on a sound basis, THESE DAYS --BY-- GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY LETTERS TO THE GREAT II My Dear Senator Tydings: I recall that when Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to purge you, you stood up and fought and licked him. That was a grand fight and you showed yourself to be an in- dependent man. He thinks | today the country has in a tough period. rossword Puzzl | the most valuable record in a | manner, protecting your father-in- You were | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA April 10 Mrs. Dolly Stewart Anita McNeil Ruth Posey Don Foster Jr. Mrs. Donald O'Leary Esther Galloway Roy Baker Mrs. Clarence Kaye o o o 0o 0 0 o ecocevecew | | Representative George A. Don- dero was made to look ridiculous |when he fought to keep the “Amerasia” case alive. But we now know, five years later, that {he was right. Senator Bridges was attacked for his criticisms of the State Depart- ment China policy, but what he said has been proved by the course of events. | Representative Nixon was called a headline hunter, but he did pro- jduce the pumpkin which sent |Alger Hiss to his destiny. | I tell you that what Senator McCarthy is shouting about has substance. You might silence Mc- Carthy, but you cannot destroy the substance of his argument Why should you, of all people, |even try to do such a thing? | May I make a suggestion to you? { 1. All this trouble starts with the organization of the Harold Ware Communist Cell in Washing- {ton in 1934. I have written much lon it, but I have not scratched !the surface. If you really want to |know what has happened in the | State: Department, go about it sys- !tematically. Start with the Harold | Ware Communist Cell. {..2. Then go to the “Amerasia” |Case. Call General William Don- iovan. Archbold van Beuren, Frank B. Bielaski, J. Edgar Hoover, |Myron Guernea, Frederick Lyon, |Robert M. Hitchcock, Donald And- erson, and Philip J. Jaffe, Kate Mitchell, John 8. Service, Em- manual S. Larsen, Andrew Roth |and Mark Gayn. | You cannot convict those guilty of espionage because of double jeopardy and the statute of limita- |an honest job, perjury and contempt, I know much about the case, |but I assure you that what I |know is a pittance compared to what you will discover by a proper and systematic investigation. May I suggest to you that you can have the assistance of the /0SS and FBI men, who are out- raged that their difficult and risky ! work, in major espionage case, has |gone by the board. 3. Make a thorough investigation of our China policy, noting the change of personnel from experts to amateurs in the State Department, Also move into the | Treasury to discover how we | wrecked China’s economy before we ditched the Nationalists politi- cally. Investigate the work of Charles Kramer and Harold Glas- iser and see where you arrive. This is a major operation that I am suggesting and one that will |serve America. It will also serve you, for Americans will then know |you for what you are—an Ameri- |can first of all. i Respectfully yours, 1 George E. Sokolsky to this day. ASKS DIVORCE AFTER 23 YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE Charging incompatability, Mrs, Susie Magorty filed a divorce com- plaint against her husband, Harold W. Magorty of Juneau, with the clerk of the district court. The couple were married here in 1927, and have several children, all of whom have reached their ma- Jority except Colleen, 14, and Lary, 11, now living with their mother. ACROSS Fall short Electrical unit: collog. 8. Demons 12 English_river 13. Hindu title 14 Kind of balsam 15. Roman emperor 16. Guiding star 18. Musical com- 20. 32, 34. Public speaker Eleven: comb. form Sheet of glass Bay on the ew Guinea gSoast 1 5. 36. 37, 38 : Fortaining to the slaying of a god . Bleat . Compass point | Silk fabric . Encircle Speed contest Temporary poser Contented sound 21. Optical organ 22. Producing oil 25. Bulgarian coin " Huge mythi- cal bird . On the high= est point olive tree . Singing bird /4‘. i 7/ duld HHI/”III dENANE / | Hd JEE A [ lfl . Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle 3. Kind of leather . Mound . Siamese coins . Cozy home DOWN . Country . State . Italian city onoun 7 % Ameriean wood sortel A Qm'\ll cushion ity Asiatic country . Brother of | Writing fluld . Existence But if your committee does | they will fall by | beginning about 1937 and running | 20 YEARS AGO APRIL 10, 1930 ©On Palm Sunday afternoon members of the Junior Choir of Holy Trinity Cathedral sang the supporting choruses in the recital of Stain- Choir was composed of Jean Amy Lou Guerin, Shirley Dalton, Kathleen Carlson, Corinne Jenne, Lenore Anderson, Emily Dalton, Bernice Reidel, Margaret Rob- inson, Jean Anderson, Phyllis Jenne and Miriam Lea. ar's Meditation on “The Crucifixion.” Carlson, Two new 1930 Fords arrived in Juneau for the Juneau Motor Com- | Barrow One of them was sold to Leo Jewett of the Bureau of Public | Bethel pany. Roads. The Princess Norah was due in port with the following passengers | for Juneau: Mrs. R. Brotherton, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cahill, Miss D. Cahill, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Davis, F. G. Andres, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.|Havre Habernal, S. Hellenthal, Mrs. D. Kaufman, Miss L. Kaufman, Mr. and | Juneau . Knight, Mrs. M. Lange and child, Mr. and | Kodiak Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, Mrs. Mrs. A. E. Malacky, Mrs. E. M. Smith, J. Creagh, A. Olson, J. Rice and R. Rice. Jack Burford took delivery of a new 1930 Essex coach. Mrs. Joe Kendler was leaving for a trip to Weinheim, Germany, accompanied by her daughter, Mildred. Joe Simpson returned to town after spending three weeks up the, Taku prospecting and staking claims. Astrid Loken was chosen valedictorian and Elsa Lundell salutatorian of the eighth grade graduating class of Douglas school. el Lt | { Six Douglas students won a place on the special honor roll which ! They were, Elizabeth Sey, Isabel Casheni Aili Niemi, Hilja Reinikka, Stephanie Africh and Enna Kronquist. requires all straight A's. ‘Women of the Mooseheart Legion had a good crowd at their card party. Ladies’ first and second prizes went to Mrs. Neilson and Mrs. | Berry, respectively, while Tom Dull and Bill Rechin were awarded men’s prizes. Weather: High, 39; low, 32; fair. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I cannot agree with such Say, “I cannot agree TO such a plan.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Autumnal. as in ON, U as in RUM, accent second syllable, not the first. a plan.” from THE EMPIRE | PSS Pronounce o-tum-nal, O * | Haines Weather ai Alaska Points == ‘Weather mdmons and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau Anchorage 28—Partly Cloudy Annette Island v 19—Partly Cloudy 27—Cloudy 20—Clear e 13—Clear 21—Partly Cloudy 14—Clear 26—Partly Cloudy | cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks 33—Cloudy 3¢4—Snow : 11—Cloudy 29 Partly Cloudy 15—Clear 2—Clear 35—Snow 41—ClouBy .. 20—Clear 36—Cloudy 39—Cloudy e T—ClEAY 29—Cloudy Airport Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petershurg Portland Prince George . Seattle Sitka Whitehorse Yakutat RUSS DRILL CHINESE REDS TO INVADE ISLE (By the Associated Press) Chinese Nationalists forecast to- day that military experts from Rus- sia will set the stage for the next Communist attempt to invade Hainan Island. Dispatches from Hainan said Soviet advisors had arrived on Lui- island, and are drilling a small in- vasion force. Reports from inside Red China |said the Communists have ordered one of their top Generals, Lin Piao, to conquer Hainan. The reports said | Gen. Chu Teh, Communist Com- mander-in-Chief, gave Lin eight armies to conquer the island. In the past two weeks the Na- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Confident (full of assuranse); observe the | tionalists have smashed three Chi= ENT. Confidant (one to whom secrets are confided); observe the ANT. | hese Communists attempts to in- SYNONYMS: Obedient, obeying, WORD STUDY: DILATION; an enlarging in size. heart that the real character of men is discerne MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra ree Q. Will you please enumerate the expenses of the bridegroom at a wedding? A. Wedding present for his bride, seated? A. Yes; olives, radishes, salted nuts, or similar relishes may be placed on the table before the guests take their seats. Q. Is it the woman’s place to tell the headwaiter where she would like to sit when having dinner with a man in a hotel? No; leave it to the man to tell the waiter. LOOK and LEARN 3 bid C. GORDON A. submissive, dutiful, yielding. “Use a word three times and it'is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: “It is in the hour of dilation of the marriage license, a personal gift to the best man and each of his ushers, the bride’s bouquet, the wedding ring, clergyman’s fee, and the wcddif]g trip. Q. Are olives placed on the dinner table before the guests are| Let us ."—Burke. - { vade Hainan, They claim to have | killed 11,000 Reds, captured at least 2,000 and seized considerable arms and supplies. FROM FAIRBANKS T. S. Batchelder is staying at the Baranof, reglstered from Fau-banm | ——— || Brownie’s Liquor Slore Widest Selection of LIQUORS FHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. e e e i) 1. What is the area of the earth’s surface? 2. How many national holidays are there in the U. S,? 8. Who was the first American President to wear a beard? 4. “Star Spangled Banner”? During what war did Francis Scott Key write the verses of the 5. What is the only bird that can fly backward as well as forward? ANSWERS: 1. 196,940,400 square miles. 2. There are none; each State has jurisdiction over the holidays to be observed. 3. Abraham Lincoln. 4. War of 1812. 5. The hummingbird. Oldest Bank in Alaska _ 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. 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