The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950 Daily Alaska Empire Publishied every evening excepy Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - President | DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President ELMER A FRIEND - - - - Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manager Entered in 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, $15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or {rregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES: The Associated 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 local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Blde., Seattle, Wash. ALASKA STATEHOOD In a series of articles that will start in The Empire Monday, which Senate committe hearings will start Monday, passes the Senate. Few Alaskans are familiar with HR. 331. Bob DeArmond, Alaskan and student of Alaska's history, examines both the present Statehood Bill which has already passed the House of Representa- tives and is now before the United States Senate, and Delegate Bartlett’s previous enabling bill, HR. 206. Bob DeArmond will present the story of: Alaska Statehood as we will have it if HR. 331, on| articles will appear during the Senate hearings to enable Empire readers to know the bill under discus- sion, its “jokers” and limitations. While certain politician have been crying for Statehood, the kind of Statehood they will be foisting upon us, should H.R. 331 pass, has not been told the people. Mr. DeArmond, whose stories have appeared in The Empire in the past, will tell the story of ALASKA STATEHOOD. Businessman and Poet (Cincinnati Enquirer) The committee for the Bollingen Prize for Poetry award last year made a questionable award to Ezra Pound for his “Pisan Cantos” played it safer this year by honoring Wallace Stevens of Hartford, Conn. Al- though Mr. Stevens is classed as a modernist, his poetry is far less obscure than Pound’s. Avantgarde poets and critics might even regard him as somewhat conservative today, though 25 years ago he was well in the van. For Mr. Stevens, poetry is an avocation—an art which he practices in his spare time. A businessman by profession, he is a Vice President of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. He nevertheless has found an opportunity to publish five books of verse, selections from which have appeared in the leading anthologies of American poetry. As in the case of all literary awards, this one to Mr. Stevens inevitably will come in for its share of criticism, but the criticism will be free of the extra- literary implications which figured in the attacks on the Bollingen Committee for giving the prize to Ezra Pound last year. Mr. Pound has heen guilty of broad- casting Axis propaganda during the war, a fact which the public at large could not overlook. The choice of Mr. Stevens can only be considered on its merits. It would apgear to be a sound one, for he belongs in the first rank of contemporary American poets. A physicist says there is a close relationship be- tween gravity and electricity. We are duly thankful that the former doesn't operate as fast as the latter. “Rapid eating may be caused by guilt complex,” Just what Alaska can expect of Statehood under HR. 331, Mr. DeArmond will explain. says a psychologist. In the case of a small boy, it is usually caused by hunger, however. His serise of lie-;lashington Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray, a North Carolinian. But an- other North Carolian disagreed. He was Congressman Bob Dough- ton, who, as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is one of the most powerful members of Con- gress. Despite economies and med- ical preferences, Doughton wanted the hospital in his district. So it is going to be put there. Senator Murray’s Hospital—A 100- bed hospital is being built at Miles City, Mont., also far from a med- ical center, as a favor to Sen. Mames Murray*-of “Montana. *“This hospital was originally scheduled to be part of a V. A. project at Minot, North Dakota, until “doc- tor” Murray decided otherwise. It will now cost the taxpayers the huge sum of $4476,891, or more than_$44,000- pe= bed. Congressman Vinson’s Hospi(nl— The V. A. has been forced to take over and maintain another out-of- the-way hospital at Dublin, Ga., built by the Navy as a favor to Congressman Carl Vinson of Geor- gia, powerful ' chairman of the Armed Services Committee This hospital is so far from a main-line railroad that the Navy had to build a special airfield to bring in patients. Also, only 360 of its 500 beds are in use, due to lack of medical personnel. To staff the Dublin hospital, Dr. Mag- nuson finally had to order 15 doc- tors there from other V. A. hos- pitals. Whereupon eight of the 15 resigned. | as hostess for the Egyptian Embas- manded two encores, which were sy. % ,given following the closing Student Now spring has come again and Prince, overture. !anothier open-house tour But in-| There were no stars, the musi- "src:\d of protesting the insult, the)cians were all right up to merit. society ladies have invited the|Lois Lawrence played the Musical Egyptian Embassy to participate | Typist, a marimba solo, and Rob- again and are meekly sending Mrs. | erta Messerschmidt, clarinetist, had Donaldson back as hostess. the solo part of Autumn Nocturne. —_— Both acquitted themselves in pro- MERRY-GO-ROUND fessional manner WESLEY MONSENS ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SECOND SON Their second son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley C. Monsen, Friday morning at Maynard hos- Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, blonde and beauteous wife of the ex-Sec- retary of War, was almost in tears over her husband's television de- bate with Mrs. Roosevelt, during which he virtually called the form- er first lady a liar. The Hurleys had been week-end guests of Mrs. Roosevelt at Hyde Park just be- fore the television show, and Mrs. Hurley _confided to friends that Pat|pital in Seattle. spent the whole time fighting with| The néw member” of*the Monsen R A Seattle law firm |family weighed seven pounds, two which disagrees with Secretary of [ounces. His older brother, Doug: Interior Oscar Chapman’s Alasksn |las, is 19 months old. policies has had detectives shado®- | Father of the family is a Pan ing him—much to the amusement |American first officer, son of the of Mrs., Chapman . . . . One Con-|late Capt. Alf N. Monsen, one of gressman who believes in answer-|Pan American’s pioneer pilot group ing roll calls is Rep. John Whit-|in Alaska. aker, Kentucky Democrat. Con-| A telephone call to Mrs. Monsen, fined to the hospital recently, he|Step-grandmother, announced the left wori with the house door-|birth of the new member' of the keeper, “Fishbait” Miller, to notify | family. APRIL 22 Mrs. L. L. Linehan Mrs. J. C. Hayes Zelma Gross Joan Osborne Rudolph W. Maier Jon Dee Baum APRIL 23 Mrs. William Helin Lily Allen Mrs. J. H. Likins J. Steele Culbertson Wilbur Burford Win Skinner Lillie Mae Allen Fay Carothers Myrtle A. Krusey Mrs. Violet Lundell O'Neill ® 00000 c0ecsc0csc0ncce e secesccececcscnsosco e Wealher al Alaska Poinfs Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaskd points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau Anchorage % 33—Snow Annette Island . 33—Snow Barrow . -4—Partly Cloudy Bethel ... . 25—Cloudy Cordova . 25—Clear | Dawson .. 25—Partly Cloudy Edmonton . 28—Cloudy Fairbanks 28—Partly Cloudy Haines ............ 35—Partly Cloudy Havre 41—Partly Cloudy Juneau Airport 26—Clear Kodiak 34—Cloudy Kotzebue .. 24—Cloudy McGrath 22—Snow Nome 23—Snow Northway 17—Partly Cloudy Petersburg . 33—Cloudy { Portland ’ . 43—Rain Prince George . . 29—Cloudy Seattle ...... . 41—Cloudy Sitka 33—Clear ‘Whitehorse 30—Cloudy 24—Partly Cloudy l Yakutat YOUTH (GMMISSION 70 MEET IN CITY HALL The cuneau committee on the } Alaska Commission on Children and Youth, which has been sur- veying the local situation in re- gards to young people for the past three weeks, will meet in thé city council chambers Monday at 8 p.m., ltt was announced today. The committee, under direction of Dewey Baker, has studied edu- | cation, health, child labor and soc- | ial services in the area, and will make its report at the meeting. The commission was formed na- tionally by President Harry Tru- man, with each state and territory | carrying on a survey of its partic- ular local picture regarding youth | problems. him when important issues were up for balloting. Despite protests} from nurses, Whitaker took a taxi to Congress for every important; vote . . . . Cardinal Stritch, who has named the last two U. S. At- torneys in Chicago, is now propos- ACROSS b ing a third—Steve Mitchell 80 hcaeld un ol Cover 5. One of an i 6 Bitterest critic of Jim Farley Is hls' 9. Budget Bureau’s Hospital-An- other glaring case is at Augusta, Ga., where the V. A. under pressure from the Budget Bureau, is being forced to take over a ramshackle Navy hospital for neuropsychiatric patients. The main building is an old hotel, with corridors and doors too narrow for hospital use. More important, this hospital cannot be adequately staffed with doctors and technicians to handle its 1,000 beds. The V. A. wants 1 bkuild a new psychiatric hospital in Atlanta, Ga., where doctors from Emory University, a first- class medical school, would be av- ailable for residence work. Such a hospital could be built for what it will cost to maintain the Navy “snakepit” at Augusta for 10 years However, the budget bureau says no. 5 —Closed-Open Embassy— Every spring the allegedly elite | homes of Washington are put on display for the benefit of a church charity. For a modest sum, the curios public can traipse over the rugs of Mrs. Dean Acheson in Georgetown, or gaze at the bric-a- brac of Mrs. Felix Frankfurter. Some of the embassies are also open to the public, and this year some of the ladies raised their eyebrows as to whether the Egypt-| jan Embassy should be included on the list. Reason: Last year the| Egyptians barred a prominent| Washington hostess because she 4s Jewish. | Mrs. Sidney Hechinger, wife of a leading Washington lumber mer- chant, was supposed to have serv-| ed as hostess during a tour at the| Egyptian Embassy. But the Egyp-| tian Ambassador refused to let Mrs, Hechinger set her foot inside the front dootr. Mrs. Wiley Rutledge, | wife of the late Supreme Court Justice, calmed the furor; and in- | stead, Mrs. Jesse Donaldson, wife of the Postmaster General, served Arabfan_cloth anclent race old ghost writer, Eddie Roddan. 12 ‘vl!;k“:. back g; gtlnlt:; danger Roddan is the real author of .Jim'sl 4. Evil: prefix 41. Public con= best-selling book, !_zut has scarcelyl :g %‘r“:""“ PR spoken to Farley since . .. . Most dlscouluo 4. H!s;oflchlnmu important labor leader in Europe| !8 Tyopointe i i o act - 20. Employer 45. Lead profectile 48, blue-eved Duch Jacobus Oklenz ] mimsiite 47. Supplications broek, Secretary General of the animal 9. Ascend Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie International Confederation of Free| 23 r;:n"v.::’ll\'r,- prer | 62, INESERT Trade Unions. Oldenbroek was an| 25 s?lle t g:‘l ISSa meume'ao" i 30‘”" 4 w‘l‘:;.r;x ar s 27. Obliterate . Sources of % lace “I"S“"g l:‘em during ":ie “X“" “g“‘g' H fl:o':f to whom 5. Shelter : Fyegtind 5. Walk gling allied propaganda into Ger- P 6. Nourishes = 6. Visitor many. He has been in the U. S. A. money 15 57. Wise men 3. Abominable 7. Opposie ot recently and guarantees that Am- L MDCC“I"‘ erican arms for Europe will be un- 9. Entertain loaded by European unions. 10. Emptier ' 11. Vigilant 7. Piano workmen 19. One of the 1 fine arts HIGH SCHOOL BAND G 22, Literary fragments PLAYS TO CAPACITY comb. form 26. Annually 28, Make of ne effect 0 30. Vetchlike 7 plant “It was good, very good,” was ..- R i/ the unanimous expression heard / ;g .;1{1‘\&:";\11" last night by those of the near cap- Wy . Disma acity audience in the High School 29. ;{‘s;\rx"hwu‘:l’:hu m attending the Juneau High Cluu-ceu hool concert. sy “It was a different sort of pro- gram, heavier numbers than are ually played by an amateiur mu- sical organization, but they were well executed and there were pop- 45. Kind of cheese 46. Silkworm B 20 YEARS AGO 73" THE EMPIRE APRIL 22, 1930 On their way to Aarhen, Denmark, for a visit, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Christiansen and Mr. Christiansen’s uncle, Sam Christiansen, left on the Princess Louise. They were to visit in all Scandinavian countries while gone and did not expect to return until fall or the following spring. Mrs. Lillie Burford, who had been visiting with Mrs. Crowell on Inian Island, returned to Juneau on the Margnita. —_— . Representing an investment of $1,500,000, the Alaska Steamship Company’s new palatial passenger liner Aleutian was to sail from Seattle May 3, on her maiden voyage. . | Four men tied for first place in the Easter Sunday shoot of the | Juneau Gun Club. Council, Morris, Truesdale, and Yurman, with 24| birds each out of a possible 25, headed the list. Other scores were: C. Johnson, 23; McNaughton, 21; Barnes, 21; Gucker, 20; Radde, 19; J. Marshall, 18; Kirk, 14; Mrs. Wentworth, 10; Biggs, 8. 'Mrs. Wellman Holbrook sailed south on the Princess Norah for Seattle. She had been called to Pipestone, Minn. Apparently blinded by the sun’s rays, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Nelson was shaken up and slightly bruised when she ran into a truck. Dr. Council was summoned and determined she was suffering only minor bruises and shock. Miss Marie Warloe, of Draneman, Norway, arrived in Juneau on the Alameda to visit her brother-in-law and his family, the N. G. Nelsons. Before leaving Norway she was forced to post a 2,000 crown bond to the | immigration bureau that she would réturn within six months. The halibut schooner Omaney was wrecked off Sitka Island and the cutter Haida had gone to her aid. None of the crew was lost or injured, | according to advices received here. ' 1 Dean Chanles E. Rice of Trinity Cathedral was on his way to Seward | on the Alaska. Weather: High, 45; low, 38; showers. | e Daily Lessons in English 2 1. cornoxn e e e e et e e e et} ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He is an authority about the English language.” Say, “He is an authority ON the English lan- guage.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gill (a measure); pronounce as JILL. Gill (respiratory organ of a fish); pronounce as spelled. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Barbarous; BAR. twice. SYNONYMS: Harass, annoy, worry, molest, torment, plague, tan- talize. 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: RECTITUDE; uprightness in principles and conduct. “Never again did he stray from the path of rectitude.” MODERN ETIQUETTE serra can Q. When having dinner and spending the evening in a friend’s home, is it enough to thank your hostess when leaving? A. Tt would show more appreciation of her kindness, and more sincerity on your part, if you would telephone her later and thank her again. Q. Is it permissible for the maid-of-honor to wear a gown of un- relieved white at the wedding? A. Never; only the bride should wear white. Q. Are engraved invitations necessary for the christening of a baby? , A. No; these invitations are extended by telephone or an informal note. R e e e LOOK and LEARN 2 A. C. GORDON 1. Where is the lowest point in the UWited States? 2. What is the name of the situation in golf when an opponent’s ball lies directly in between your ball and the cup? 3. Which of Christ’s Disciples were brothers? 4. What is the largest family of plants? 5. “Which one of the wives of King Henry VIII was the mother of Queen Elizabeth of England? ANSWERS: Death Valley, California; about 280 feet below sea level. Stymie. Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew were brothers; and James and John were brothers. 4. The thistle family. 5. Anne Boleyn. ‘FIREWORKS Wholesale West coast lowest prices, highest grade merchandise. F. O. B. Seattle. One half freight allowed on orders placed before May 5th. Special arrangements for established jobbers. Over one quarter million pounds of commercial fire- works for resale and aerial displays. Western States Fireworks Company Box 152 Toppenish, Washington Cable Address: Westfirco ular and lighter selections making a delightful concert,” said a well known teacher of music. “We worked hard but we had lots of fun,” said one of the bandsmen. “The audience was most apprec-! iative and generous in applause which certainly paid us for the hard work we have been doing in past weeks,” said one of the popular girls of the band. And there you are and Joseph M. Shofner, Director, certainly de- | serves all credit for the program and the general execution of his young musicians, several of whom will graduate in May and be mlu-t ing from next year's High School Band. It would be hard to select any of the nine numbers on the pro- gram and say it was the best, for the audience gave most spontan- cous applause to all, in fact de- The B. M. 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