The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1950, Page 4

"7\ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE<JUNEA SATURDAY, APRIL 29, s T Daily Alaska Empire @ublished every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - ALFRED ZENGER - = = = President | Vice-President Managing Editor 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 malil, postage paid, at the following rates: year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; h. in advance, $1.50. ribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- redited n this paper and mlso the local news published repu wise ONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 venue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. OUR COLLEGE CRISIS Through the years, private colleges and universities | have had increasing difficulties in financing their But that temporary source of additional reve- And in any case, the typical col- them. nue is tapering off. | lege spends more to educate each student than the student contributes. In most cases, students’ fees cover less than 70 per cent of the cost of their education. That is the basic reason why so many colleges and universities are turning hopefully to their alumni for help in raising funds. They have done so in the past. But now the problem is far more acute and the appeal is being made in stronger terms. There is another possible alternative—Federal aid. But it is not a desirable altérnative. For inevitably it raises the specter of political control over our pri- vate universities. And that is a serious danger. State and municipal utdiversities usually managed to escape undue political influence. But one reason they have done so is because there are private universities, en- tirely free from public aid, which set a sound example of rigid independence from political authority. Gangster Law (Cincinnati Enquirer) The gangland-type slaying of two Kansas City Democratic bosses has a strong flavor reminiscent of a chapter of American history we had hoped we were done with forever. Whether or not the affair has national political connotations (and it is bound to have some) it re- flects a degree of depravity in urban political affairs harking back to the days when many of the larger cities of the nation were ruled not by elected officials but by gangstere who appointed themselves and held the law at bay with graft. Kansas City has had so many unsolved murders in recent years that it has become a national joke, operations. they feel they must do. An estimated 20 per cent of them are now incurring deficits in order to do the educational job ‘Worse, most of them have }albeit a grim one. This hardly speaks well for the | efficiency of the old Pendergast political overlord- | ship which spawned Harry S. Truman as a natiopal concluded that rising costs cannot be met by increases in tuition. For in most cases, tuition rates are as high as it is safe or practical to set them. For several years after the war a bumper crop ol‘ GI students proved helpful. They were a stimulating | influence educationally, and full tuition was paid for | political figure. Possibly the well-executed murders had nothing whatever to do with politics or the abuse of political processes. But where gangsterism establishes itself as the law—and the only effective law—it indicates that there is something rotten much closer to home than Denmark. The Viashinglon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) GOP liberal movement. A bit hesitantly, Davenport ex- plained the liberal policy state- m he had drafted. The sus- picion of New Jersey's Senator Smith, the ex-Princeton professor, was immediately aroused. “I want to know whether there's enything to the report that this is to be an anti-Taft meeting,” he demanded, “If it's going to be erti-Taft, I want to withdraw. I haven't made up my mind, but I may be for Taft. “We can't build up the party” said Smith solemnly, “by under- mining the party leaders.” Harold Stassen Listens In the discussion that followed, smmmemsiin nesotais | Senator -Ed Thye com- plained that the Republicans en’t paying enough attention to farm vote, while Saltonstall was “concerned” about factionalism inside the Republican party and agreed with Smith that “we should be working for unity, not division.” New York’s Senator Irving Ives started to leave, but was stopped before he could get out the door. Asked for his comments, he replied bluntly that he liked Davenport's rolicy statement but that it “must be put into action.” “That means it must be put into action at the polls,” he explained. Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse protested that he didn’t have much to say because it “might be inter- preted as a funeral sermon, and I ¢idn't come to bury the GOP.” However, he agreed with Ives that a liberal policy statement would be “meaningless unless it is rclated to a candidate for office.” We must support those who sup- rort it and oppose those who op- W rose it,” he declared.” P ly the most cautious guest was Presidential aspirant Harold Stassen who insisted he only “came to lis He admitted, however, t such ‘“discussions” of GOP policy were helpful and should be conducted throughout the country. Fe also made an appeal for re- uiting more young people into Republican party. A few other guests also made cautious remarks, then rather nerv- ousl the meeting adjourned. It appeared that most of Mrs. Bacon’s GOP guests were a little timid about Teddy Roosevelt Progress- ivism, Capital News Capsules annan Headache—Secretary of ture Brannan hasn’t heard of his famous St. Paul eech. The general accounting of- fice is now investigating the agri- culture department for paying 5,000 county committeemen to listen to| The committeemen were paid | expenses to St. Paul, plus| el dollars per diem in order| to drum up an audience for their| boss. Unfortunately for Brannan, the investigators found that radio station WCCO in Minneapolis made a wire recording of the speech—| and every word of it was political. | Influence Behind Budenz—One almost unnoticed key to Louis Bu- | denz' comparatively recent accusa- tions against Lattimore may be the’ article by Father James F. Kear- pey in the Knights of Columbus | magazine. Both to the FBI and at his nate committee appear- ance, Budenz emphasized that this article was “proof” of Lattimore’s Communist affiliation. Actually, the article gave no proof, only| said: “There are those, though, vho belive that no Americans de- more credit for the Sino- ve American disaster than Owen Lat- | timore and a small group of his followers.” In talking to the FBI Budenz emphasized this article re- peatedly, as if it had carried great influence with him. Are Colleges Smuggling?—Dozens of surplus warplanes, sold for a song to U. S. colleges, have been disappearing from the campuses and showing up in South America. Altogether, more than 1,000 mili- tary planes were sold to schools at prices ranging from $100 to $200. The contracts stipulated that these planes should not be flown, must be used for educational purposes only and could not be resold except as scrap. A few exceptions were made with the permission of the War Assets Administration. How- ever, dozens of planes have mys- teriously disappeared and have been smuggled to Latin America. Sen. Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, snorted like a Texas long- horn when he heard President Truman had made peace with GOP Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, Off-the-record, Con- nally called the President’s action a “blunder” and an “affront.” . . . “Cotton Elmer” Thomas, the spec- ulating Senatoy, is now sending out a weekly farm letter to attract farm votes. The catch is, it's be-| ing ghost written by a Senate agri- culture committee clerk—Rollis Nel- son—whose salary is paid by .the taxpayers . . . West Virginia is anxious to name a certain high-up official govern- ing the nation's capital whom he thinks is in league with the under- world . Senator McCarran's new immigration bill is full of cam- ouflaged clauses aimed at undoing the displaced persons bill Chiang Kai-Shek is chartering a special airplane next Monday to fly American newsmen to Formosa. | A1l expenses are paid by the Na- tionalists, who consider it a good investment in publicity. The idea was cooked up by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame H. H. Kung, real powers behind the throne, and among the wealthiest people re- siding in the U. S. A. . . . Two Franco agents are trying to swing a loan of between $700,000 and $1,000,000 from the Export-Import Bank to build a nitrogen plant in Spain. They claim the nitrogen is !to be used for fertilizer, though nitrogen can also be used in ex- { plosives. 16 ARRIVE HERE FROM ANCHORAGE BY PAC. NORTHERN Sixteen passengers were flown| into Juneau yesterday via P. N. A. from Anchorage; five flew from Anchorage to Cordova and two were flown from Yakutat to Ju-| neau. They were: Anchorage to Juneau: Lt. A G.| Marcum, Mr, and Mrs. E. L. Hunt- er, Dorothy E. Root, Elizabeth Riley, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Latimer, A. R. Munger, J. F. Mullen, Ed Locken, Louise Robinson, Ernestine Zoll- man, Don R. Smith, T. F. Farag- her, Harry Smith. Juneau passen- gers from Yakutat were Maybelle Benson and Geraldine Benson. On the return trip to the West- ward five were taken to Anchor- age and seven from Juneau w‘ Cordova. To Anchorage: Felix Aubucheon, S. R. PFitzzhugh, Dorothy Riddle, Rev. R. W. Halvorsen, Rev. Ulivil- den. Juneau to Cordova: Darrell Behmeyer, Paul W. Wolfgang, James Lamhan, J. G. Miller, D. S. Talfound, D. W. Herr, Betty . Senator Neely uf! ! {MRS. MURPHY TELLS E The Juneau Soroptimist Club. | sponsors of Brownie troop No. 3 ihad as its guest speaker Friday, Mrs. Scott L. Murphy, local Gir: | Scout commissioner and regional committee woman for Southeast Alaska. ‘The Soroptimist club as a part ot lits youth program has adopted & Brownie troop which it will sponsor through the grades and high school. ‘The girls at the present time are second graders. Thordis Larson is leader assisted by Misses June Elli- son, Olive Moutell and Virginia Mc- Lean, Mrs. Kenneth Goodson and Mrs. Sidney Lundwell. Troop com- | mittee members are Mesdames Rob= ert Thorne, Edna Heaton Lomen and Carolyn Turner. Mrs. Murphy explained that Brownies include second, third and i fourth grade girls. The fourth graders will fly up into Girl Scout- ing at the spring court of awards. 1 When the girls enter high schoo! they then become senior scouts. Mrs. Murphy, who has been work- ing with the regional oftice at Seatlte in preparing herself as a volunteer trainer, recently spent a weekend at Skagway holding meet- lings and working with individuals with the purpose of organizing twc or three lone troops in that com- munity. Weather did not permit the | scheduled meeting, however, at Haines. Troops have been organized at Wrangell; organization of a trooj is underway at Petersburg, and it is hoped that several other troops car be organized in the fall in other .| communities. The Soroptimist meeting con- cluded with announcements by Alice Thorne, President. of a meet- ing of both the new and old boards at the home of Edna Lomen at the Assembly Apartments at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3. FROM BETHEL Louise Robinson is staying at the Baranof, registered from Bethel, Alaska. APRIL 29 Chester Zenger Mrs. Charles G. Burdick Mrs. Robert Gordon Anna Ericksen Mrs. Marian Davis George F. Martin Westley Monsen APRIL 30 W. S. Pullen George A. Lingo Arthur M. Uggen Billy Allen Johnny Jenson Elsie Mitchell Jessie A. Leask Margaret Bliss Mrs. Bruce Stringer Anna Ebona Suzanne Mullen David Gross Mrs. Nabel James Wilma Hoyez Michael Alan Leighton ® ee 00 c0cs0c000 0000 s 0000000 R N R R N COMMUNITY EVENTS TODATY At 1:30 pm.—Juneau Singers re- hearsal at 20th Century Theatre. From 2 to 5 p.m.—Methodist Wo- men's May Day Tea. At 7 pm—Beta Sigma Phi annual Founders Day banquet. Odd Fel- lows Hall. At 7:30 pm.—FYO Party, Parish Hall. At 8:30 p.m. — Souruocey Square Dance Club in Grade School gym. At 7:30 p.m.—Skating in A.B. Hall. May 1 At noon—Lions Club, Baranof. . At 7:15 p.m.—Soprano, Tenor sec- tions, Juneau Singers rehearsal, Methodist church. At 8 p.m.—Juneau Singers rehear- sal, Methodist church. At 8 pm.—American Legion, Dug- out. May 2 At noon—Rotary Club, Baranof. At 8 p.m.—American Legion Auxili- ary in Dugout. At 8 pm.—Mary’s Circle in N. L. P. church, At 8:30 p.m.—Final rehearsal Ju- neau Singers, Methodist church. At 8:30 pm.—Community Center night for adults, at Teen Age Club with square dancing. May 3 At 7:30 pm.—Ladies Night at Ju- neau Rifle and Pistol Club, A.B. Hall. At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge. P “May 4 t noon—Chamber of Commerce, Baranof. At 7:30 p.m.—Juneau Rifle and Pis- tol Club, A.B. Hall. At 8 pm—Variety Show by Ro- tarians at 20th Century Theatre. May 5 At 3:30 pm.-—Junior CDA game party, Parish Hall. May 6 From 3 to 5 p.m.—Tea and Fashion Show by Home Demonstration in Elks Hall. HOSPITAL NOTES Albert Taylor, Mrs. William Man- they, and Charles McCormick were admitted to St. Ann’s hospital yes- terday, Mrs. A. K. Neeley, Edward Johnson and Mrs, Edde Belarde and her infant daughter were dismissed. Wassilie Kalmakoff of Junean was admitted to the Government hospital yesterday. FROM FAIRBANKS Three guests at the Baranof are registered from Fairbanks. They are Miss Helen T. Butcher, H. N. Ross, of the Alaska Housing Author- ity, and Bud Siltenveich. ACROSS 31. Colors L Buckets 34. Dwells 6. Aslatic tea 36. Large knife 9. Baseball 37. Palm fruits implement 39! Steep 12. Herpn . Secure 13. Base 42, Anccil‘eynl Greek 14. Before Light boat 16, Tedious Exclamation 17. Metal Feeling 18. Nonmetrical indignant language displeasure 19, America 50. Feminine Indian name 20. Cover 51. Poem 2. Short for & 62 Web-footed girl's name bird 24, Shore 53 25. Acidity b4. Marry 21, Firm 65. Expres: 29. Signity contempt Crossword Puzzlk‘f AININ M AIX] |&{P1 E|P|O[S RIE/MA AT P ATIE EV|I PlA[C|T E VT]EIN] T|A[R[O EWEIR Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle L (.:hl?rocl‘:v':ll(!n' & A §opoxed 6. Agitates i 6. Small room 1. Residence Wonder and fear 9. Revealing Sign of the zodlac Article of bellef Plunged tnto water Musical . Solid water Gifts Domestio animal . Garments Ancient Jewish ascetlo . Palm lilies . Late: comb. form Complete collection Banks. Obliterated . Exclude Singly Implement for lifting £rilan schoot ngl scl 6. Tier Enem; 48 Utilize 19. Gaelic sea god from THE EMPIRE lzo YEARS AGO APRIL 29, 1930 Several hundred Juneau residents and visitors stood silent in a heavy downpour of rain while the cornerstone of Juneau’s new Federal and Territorial Building was laid at the corner of Fourth and Seward streets. Gov. George A. Parks delivered the address. New portable X-ray and ultra violet ray machines were added to the equipment of St. Ann's Hospital by courtesy of L. H. Metzgar, 1t was announced by Sister Mary Ludovic, Superior of the institution. Bishop P. T .Rowe passed through Juneau on the Yukon on his way to the Interior where he was to ordain several men into the ministry. J. C. McBride, U. S. Collector of Customs for Alaska and Mrs. Mc- Bride returned on the Yukon after several months outside where they visited eastern and southern States. The Jeanne, new river boat of the United Transportation Co., was duée to leave on her first trip up the Taku, skippered by Capt. Bill Strong. » Newly elected officers of the Moose Lodge were installed as follows" Dictator, Tom Shearer; Vice-Dictator, G. E. Almquist; Prelate, C. A. Remynse; Sergeant-at-Arms, J. Manthey; Inner Guard, A. Songurd; Outer Guard, A. Hile; Trustee, Grant Baldwin. Past Dictator Walter Hellan acted as installing officer. Leo W. Osterman, recently appointed Deputy Collector of Customs, arrived here and was sworn in to his new duties. He was to leave for Taku In'et where he would be stationed. The Alaska, Capt. C. V. Westerlund, left for the south after taking aboard 85 boxes of fresh halibt. Among her passengers to Seattle were: Mrs. Margaret Walmsley, Albert White, Mrs. Albert White, Mrs. R. H. Williams, J. H. Newman, W. J, Pigg and Henry Pigg, for Seattle. For Ketchikan: Lance Hendrickson, and for Wrangell: W. D. Gross and John Newmarker. ‘Weather: High, 44; low, 39; showers. P e Daily Lessons in English % 1. ¢orpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “A déad silence followed his remark.” Say, “COMPLETE silence.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pathos. Pronounce as though spelled pay-thoss. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Insight (understanding). Incite (to stir up). SYNONYMS: Story, account, narration, narrative, tale, anecdote. ‘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: RANCOR; deep-seated hate. “We could not understand the man’s rancor over the speech.” MODERN ETIQUETTE Xoperra LEE Q. When making an introduction and one has forgotten the name of one of the persons, should he pause and let that person supply his name? A. No; ask him his name and then make the introduction. Q. Is it permissible to supply a word for a person who is talking, if he seems to be at a loss for the proper word? A. Only if he asks for it. Otherwise, it would be extremely ill- mannered to do so. Q. Is there any occasion when a woman may wear a hat with full evening dress? A. No. 1. How does a kilometer compare with a mile? 2. What is the feminine form for the title “Maharaja”? 3. To what sport does the expression “tally-ho” apply? ‘What one word means a kind of heavy shoe and also means a strong accent or dialect? 5. Who was the composer of the celebrated “William Tell Overture”? ANSWERS: 1. It is approximately % of a mile. 2. Marharani. 3. Fox hunting. 4. Brogue. 5. Rossini. Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit . Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS C. D. JERMAIN as a paid-up subscriver 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: "SONG OF INDIA” Federal Tax—12c 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! Weather al Alaska Poins ‘Weather conditions 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 are as follows: Anchorage .......... 33—Partly Cloudy | flown from Juneau-to-Seattle. o Island - 41—Rain| geqitie to Juneat: Willie Abbott, B::l‘;:" E < 9—8NOW | Geooe Baker, Lee Branden, Darrell 1 e 30—8NOW| Bopumer Oval Bast, Larry Carlson, Cordova - 86—Rain and Snow | p ;" peior Ken Foresman, Al- b e 41-OIOUAY | bert Gelert, Daniel Hal, . C. Lie- LIt o 26—Clear | poie g A, Littlefield, Elizabeth Mc- Fairbanks -~ 80—Partly Cloudy | Gape wallace Moore, Everett Now- g:;’;? ‘,fz&“_s“n‘:”: ell, Tim Paul, Earl Province, Doro- Fifonrt. N il thy Riddle, Betty Riley, George : A1 | schreck, Mrs. David “Tanner, James (- ropprd 16—Sn0W | rpeimer, M. E. Whité, Mrs. White, McGrath . 26—Cloudy | 5o 1 wélfgini o i i Nome ... . 9—Clear 1", ette to Juneau: Ray Halvor- Northway 20—Cloudy | 5o, “p “Ulivildren, Petersburg . B T ey e © L e A e ey - 36—Clear | win, Miss M. M .M Mikkelborg, Miss s i J. McNiece, Miss L. Hartnett, Miss eattle - 3—Partly Cloudy |\ A0l Sitka ... ; 38—Cloudy ! Whitehorse 36—snow | Fairbanks to Junegy: Jack Moly- Yakutat 35—Rain ' 1aux, Daisy Keene, Helen Butcher, TORNADOES TAKE DEATH TOLL OF 11 N 13001, YESTERDAY'S PAN AMERICAN TRIPS In yesterday’s flight from Seattlé, Pan American brought 25 passen- gers from the Queen City, picked up two at Annette.and brought five from Whitehorse to Juneau and flew nine from Fairbanks to Juneau. ©On the southbound flight, 13 werz Alice Connelly, tine Sorrill. | Mrs. Jean Hubbard, A. F. Ghiglione, Agnes Breen, H. N. Ross. Going from Juneau to Seatle on the southbound flight, were: H. J. Jenner, G. W. Robinson, R. Sturgeon, J. Loftus, V. Clark, J. ! Crornetko, F. Quinn, E. Cooper, T. McManus, A. Brown, F. Stecko, H. (By the sssocrave® wress) Tornadoes killed eleven persons in four widely separated communi- ties in Oklahoma and West Texas yesterday anc last night. ‘The threat of more deadly black funnels hung in leaden skies over both states tuday. Cherry, F. Rail. OIL MEN HERT Union Oil Company representa- tives who are in town and registered at the Baranof are T. P. Hansen, Holdenville, in East Central Okla-! of Ketchikan; A. D, Glass, Seattle; homa, was worst hit, with five dead.|and J. F. Williams of Seattle. - HILDRE SAND & GRAVEL Formerly R. J. Sommers Construction Co. Lemon Creek Plant Washed Lemon Creek Aggregate and Sand Plaster and Moriar Sand WE DELIVER EXCAVATION OF ALL KINDS Juneau Office Phone 129; Residence Phone Blue 540 P. 0. Box 2837 Plumbing © Heafing Oil Burners - Telephone-319 . Nighis-Hed730-- . Harri Machine Shop, Inc. Knotty White Pine Boat Cedar Edgegrain Red Cedar Shingles Also Lumber of all species ONLY ONE QUALITY - THE BES’I' Write Vancouver Lumber Co. (1931) Limited Vancouver, British Columbia .. ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES offers its own First Mortgage Bonds bearing interest at 514 % per annum which are secured by a first mortgage to B. M. Behrends Bank, mortgaging property whieh includes land, buildings and aircraft. They are in dénomina tions of $1,000.00 and mature in various years. The 39 bonds being offered are the remaining portion of ar issue of $288,000.00 which have been held ih reserve to finance a new ticket office and waiting room to be constructed this Spring. In Juneau for information, telephone 706. In other localities for general information, contact your Alaska Coastal Airlines Agent. Requests for specific in- formation and written inquiries should be directed to Alaska Coastal Airlines,.Box 2808, Juneau, Alaska ¥ i No underwriting discounts or commissions will be paid and the per unit amount of expenses incurred and to be incurred in cons nection with the distribution of these securities is estimated t be 10c per bond or a total of $3.90. ¥ - BECAUSE THESE SECURITIES ARE BELIEVED TO BE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN /| REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION; BUT SUCH EXEMPTION, IF AVAILABLE, DOES NOT INDICATE THAT THE SECURITIES HAVE BEEN EITHER APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE GOMMIS- SION OR THAT THE COMMISSION HAS DERED THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE STATEMENTS IN THIS COMMUNICATION. i i