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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Pnhu:hea every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska EELEN TROY MONSEN - - - . DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - SLMER A. FRIEND - = - ALFRED ZENGER - - - Prestdent ¢ Vice-President | Managing Ed Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATI rier in Juneau and Dourlas for $1.50 per month; e year, $15.00 By mail, postage pald, at the following rates: One year, in advance $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sne month, in advance, $1.50. Bubscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Pepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local news published | berein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Aiaske Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Thursday, August 24, 1950 SENATOR BUTLER ON SPEAKER McCUTCHEON The Palmer airport deal has aroused the curiosity of a.great many people, among them Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska. Senator Butler has gone to some trouble to satisfy his curiosity and his findings have prompted him to call for a Senate investigation into this amazing project In the course of his inquiries, the gentleman from Nebraska noted that one name recurred with sur- prising . frequency and that was the name of Stanley McCutcheon. Without further comment, we present Mr. Butler's remarks as they appear in the Congressional Record €or August 16. . T have made it my business to inquire into the identity of Mr. McCutcheon in an effort to de- termine just where he fits into this most amazing land deal designed to yield a vastly increased and totally disproportionate sum of money from the Fed- eral Treasury to offset moneys spent by the Territory of Alaska before the Territory became eligible to re- celve this money under the Federal Airport Aid Act. I have learned that Mr. McCutcheon is a member of the Territorial Legislature. He was Speaker of the House in the last regular session. As such, he voted |at Palmer. for and helped create the Aeronautical Agency of the | Territory through which this land transaction was| ism'vlcos amounting to $5,628 paid out of public money, a part of which will be borne by the Federal Govern- ’m(-nt through its matching fund contributions to the j Territory to help pay for the airport program: These facts are attested to in the official records of the | Territory in the auditor’s office in Juneau. Thus, Mr. | President, we have here a member of the legislature who %is profiting as the results of legislative acts of the legislature in. which he served. This is a cir- cumstance which many members of the Senate will, quickly and with assert is not the usual course of events at all. Nevertheless it is the fact of the case covered by photostatic documents which |T have in my possession. “Mr. President, I inquired further into Mr. Mc~ Cutcheon’s background and I find, strangely, that he is also, among other things, a practicing attorney who certainly knows the law, and is also the presi- dent of the Alaska Airlines. It seems indeed strange to me that Mr. McCutcheon, who served in a legislature which creatéd a government agency and voted ifs appropriation, should have permitted himself to be hired by the same agency. But, further; it seems most unusual that an airlines president vitally interested in flying as a private enterprise, should have been hired to act, of all things, as legal adviser to a public agency which is charged with supervising aviation in the Territory in the public's interest. Nor, Mr. President. is that all that I have discovered in my inquiries about Mr. McCutcheon, a high-ranking Ter- ritory official who has profited from his legislative endeavors. I observed at the outset of my remarks that the town of Palmer is located quite near the city of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, where the Gov- crnment has built two of the largest airports in the Territory, one military and one civilion. It has also been noted that there already was an airport at Palmer, withal a smaller one than the new one being built at the present time with the help of Federal funds. Meanwhile, other towns, Mr. President, are and have been in much greater need of flying facilities of the type which the Federal Aid Act seeks to pro- vide. T cite as examples the towns of Kotzebue and Fort Yukon, high up in the Arctic, for which air trans- portation is virtually the only means of communication with the Territorial population centers and the out- side world. Yet the records show, that the Palmer airport was one of the first on the list under the program and that this construction is much further advanced than any of the other airports. One ex- planation for this which has been brought to my attention is that the same Mr. McCutcheon who is the legal adviser to the aeronautical agency, notwith- standing the fact that he served in the legislature wiich created the agency, was one of the founders and is presently a stockholder in the Union Bank of Anchorage. This bank, I have learned, financed the construction of the Matanuska Valley Hotel in Palmer. Thus, Mr. President, Mr. McCutcheon and his bank would derive private profits from the devel- opment, at public expense, of increased air facilities I find these facts disturbing, and I am further disturbed to learn that the Governor of { Alaska, at an open forum in Palmer on July 14, placed reason, consummated between the government of Alaska nnd his personal stamp of approval upon this most unique the Palmer Airport Association. appropriation for the agency which gave it substance and started it in public business. “Then, if you please, Mr. President, the same Mr. McCutcheon was hired by the agency as its at- torney. On Apru 19, last, he received a fee for his The Wasllinglon Merry-Go-Round iContinued from Page Ome) a year. This | Poles revealed, demonstrations ‘mock plebiscite . undoubtedly be recalled to Moscow | and the inside betting is thal 3 won’t return, | tactical blunder. Washington Pipeline It costs the taxpayers about $75,- 000 a day to keep Congress in bus- iness Despite all you read about Communist spying in the | munist Daily ‘the Federal Treasury. the United States have warned the State Department that Russia plans | to annex Poland formally will be done, erals believe the mass B-29 raid t ne |Oon North Korean troops was a the North Koreans, but the Amer- | icans failed to follow up with a | swift infantry attack . .. Worker has ordered its reporters to “race angls stories on the Korean war. ever, the negro magazine, He voted for lhe‘mé‘ hod of valuing land for the purposes of estab- | lishing a claim for increased matching funds from I am told that the Governor | described the (nnsacnon as a highly conservative and intelligent piece of work and that he termled it | completely correct and honorable.” pened to one little outfit, J. Phipps Lumber Co. of Fayetteville, Ark., which wanted to make truck bows for the Army: Phipps tried to submit a bid through the Detroit arsenal, but couldn't even get the specifications needed for estimating the cost. The Detroit arsenal explained that Chrysler Corporation had all the blueprints containing the specifi- cations. When Phipps asked tQ see them, Chrysler Corporation refuséd. In other words, though the Army theoretically invited competitive bids, it was impossible for any company to bid on the truck bows Y within the by staging mass and holding a . Pentagon gen- The raid stunned The Com- all their How- “Ebony,” United States, inside fact is that our intelligence on Russia far sur- passes what they know about us.| The Pentagon, for instance, knows will declare in a forthcoming issu “Today’s conflict is no more a ‘war of color’ than was the last one when the Communists fought with except by grace of the Chrysler Corporation, How to Win Moscow the exact location of every war plant—even the small ones—behind the iron curtain. We even know the number of freight cars Russia has on hand and under construc- tion . A little-known govern- ment official, Nat Keith, director of the government’s slum-clearance program, is doing an A-1 job clean- ing out big city tenement areas— the most vulnerable death traps in 2 bamb attack Rep. Manny Celler's monopoly committee will begin probing patent CONSPIFACIES | oy trysted diplomats on the top by certain Dbig war contracors level ., . . Ever since the Russian| Copital teporters Bave ‘,d““de"““““ school teacher, Oksana Kasenkina,| the term <pork barrel’ dofSt 40| e 1o reedom. trom the Sovit| R on M i e ey ulate in New York, all Russian g;‘;‘l’;z‘c‘“':pefiémf"“gi';;g‘x]_:gg ("’1‘1 children over 10 years old have {1 that atloiNGIL 5 Wattery. in| C0. SHIPDECDRERIE (rlssia for the House restaurant—where Con- e gressmen eat—still are pald the pitiful wage of $27 a week. Also, though most of these faithful em- ployees of Congress have families, they are not covered by soclal security. What's more, they are not entitled to sick leave like other government employees, us, not against us. It is a battle Letween two political concepts in which color is not involved.’ The Communists beat the m\)pa- ganda drums about segregation, but live under a rigid caste system themselves. Inside the Soviet-con- It is heartening to know that in thesé topsy-turvy times there are men in Congress who believe we can still make peace with the common people of Russia and her satelites by bombarding them with trolled embassies in Washington,| What General Ike Eisenhower calls non-Communists aren’t allowed to the greatest weapon in the world— at at the same table with Com-|the truth. ists. In fact, Russian empldy- ees aren't even permitted to speak | to satellite employees, except for a ACROSS Partial view Measures of paper P 5. Cook slowly . Male descend: . Cry of the cat . Government levy Live Congressman X . Go ashore . Vigor: . Liguor 2. Postal service . Angry You and [ 00se edrth hilippine mountain . Literary supervisor 9. Steep declivities ment . Aternative . Matron . Masculine name . Edible tuber . The love apple . Shops. . Erings into a d House wnlp Per at Secretaries Dean d Louis Jobnson—which counterblast from the that Priest was under sure from veterans' off on the cabinet Ache drew Presider | terrific 2 ] | groups to Plain President members . Wire measure- AUGUST 24 Daniel J. Kelley Dr. Taylor J. Pyle Gerald Bodding Mrs. Walter Cummings Mrs. Joseph Wehren Jeanne Butts Allne Maloney Ann Ghiglione Dolores Lohr e o 0 o o Other advocates of this are Sen. William Benton of Connecticut, the former State Department official, and his counterpart in the House of Representatives intelligerd, young Congressman Foster Furcolo of Massachusetts. Furcolo’s own idea is what he calls a “truth through youth” plan —sending a delegation of our young people on a good-will tour of Com- munist-dominated countries and in- viting similar groups from iron curtain countries to tour the Uni®d States. “But I am for anything that will help spread truth and understand- ing behind the iron curta, whether it be propaganda balloons or dropping soap, razor blades and other American products, with ‘peo- ple-to-people’ friendship messages attached to them,” says Furcolo. “Who can say such ideas won't work until we try them? The cost is infinitesimal to what another major war would cost in blood and dollars. And the best way to pre- vent war, while there's still time, is to get busy and start fighting lies with truth.” COMMUNITY EVENTS TODAY At 7:30 p.m.—Board of Equaliza- tion, Juneau Independent School District, office of the Superinten- dent of Schools. At 7 p.m.—Meeting of team capts. Thurs, Night Bowling League and at 8 p.m. practice bowling for teams, Tentative teams on Elks bowling bulletin board. At 7:30 pm.—CYO Meets, Hall. At 7:30" p.m.—Board . 'of 'Equaliza- tion, Juneau Independent School District, office of the Superinten- dent :of Schools At 8 p.m.—Special Meeting of 40 et 8, Legion Dugout. ' August 25 6 p.m.—Pioneers of Alaska, din- ner at IOOF Hall. At 7:45 p.m., Catholic” parish ladies sewing meeting, Parish Hall. August 28 At noon—Juneau Business and Pro- fessional Women’s Club, Baranof Hotel. At noon—Juneau Lions Club, Bar- anof Hotel. At 8 p.m.,—Juneau Post No. 4, The American Legion, Legion Dugout. LEADERS IN B. B. (By Associated Press) AMERICAN LEAGUE—Batting: Goodman, Boston, .361; Kell, De- troit, .349. Runs batted in: Stephens, Boston, 120; Dropo, Boston, 116. Home runs: Rosen, Cleveland, 33; Dropo, Boston, 28. Pitching: Trout, Detroit, 11-2, .846. NATIONAL LEAGUE — Batting: Musial, St. Louis, .355; Hopp, Pm.s- burgh, 344. nunp “bat Philadelphia, ‘}me#‘ m- burgh, 97. Home runs: Kiner, Pitts- burgh, 38; Pafko, Chicago, 30. Pit- ching: Hiller, Chicago, 9-2, .818. _ Parish A Sewing machines for rent at the White Sewing' Machine Center. SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . Turt . Lost heart . Useful Misfortunes 6. French marshal 6. Size of shot Feather To . Wrath 10. Argificlal When Rep. Clement Zablocki Ui‘ 1 hi: Wisconsin introduced a colleague, | lowing former Federal Judge McMahon of | essee prima colleagues asked the Wauwatosa, to President Truman former Nashville Tennesseean re- the other day, McMahon reported | porter why he had stuck his neck that he had now shaken hands|out for a White House rebuke. with every U. S. Chief Executive “It's very simple,” grinned Priest. turn to Washington, fol- omination in the Tenn- /o i7" 72 language hurcn “7 4 . Needy Religious fear . Debatable Watering » since McKinley. “I'd just rather be a live Congress- “T should be used to it,” he ad-|man than a dead whip.” ded, “but I'm always awed on oc-| Note—Speaker Sam Rayburn and The holly Dispatch casions like: this.” Housg majority leader John Mc-| “Well, now you are convinced|Cormack have assured Priest that that I am just like any other ordi-|pe will continue to be a “live” nary man,” grinned Truman. “Alwhip, No. 3 job in House Demo- President has no right to think|cratic ranks a] 14th century playing card Island west of Asia Minor himself bettér than the millions of people who elect him- Small-Business Runaround Italian city . Tardy Heroine of whom might be in his plac While the Defense Department is paying lip service to small business, “La Boheme” Oriental Annexing Poland ‘Three Polish diplomats who re- cently quit the Polish Embassy In Washington and begged asylum in little companies still get the run- aroynd when contracts are ladled | out For example, here is what hap-| AP N-mruwm dwelling . Sun Dmren Slgnal As fi 3. S)mhol Ior tantalum v DAILY, ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ° 20 YEARS AGO 737 e HE EMPIRE AUGUST 24, 1930 In Douglas, Miss Alberta Gallwas had accepted a teaching position at Chichagof. She had taught at Gustavus the previous year. ... Aaron E. Johnson returned after a 10-day absence. . . . William Ott, local theatre manager, was reported progressing slowly in recovery from the burns received 10 days earlier. Miss Edla Holbrook, a niece of Mrs. Felix Gray, was enroute here to teach in Douglas. Jeannette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D, Stewaft/ won highest honors at a big summer camp for girls, taking the highest award at Camp Willapa, on Willapa Harbor, Wash,, whére she spent six'weeks. psssatbulicnd I g W. C. MacMayburn of Shelter Island was visiting in Juneap, staying at the Alaskan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. A, E. Johnstone, ‘of Sentinel Island, where Mr. Johnstone was lighthouse keeper, were at the Zynda, Curtis Gardner of the firm of Johnson and Gardner, boarded :the Dorothy Alexander southbound, after inspetcing road work near here for which his company had the contract. Alden Smith of Port Alexander was a patient in St. Ann’s Hospital. Mrs. W. F. Anderson and her new baby were able to leave the hospital. Miss Caroline Tpdd, instructor of music and dramatic expression, had moved to the apartments over the U. S. Cable*Office and established a permanent studio. She formerly was in the Channel Apartments. Bound for Seward, the steamship Alaska, Capt. C. V. Westerlund, called here, bringing these Juneau passengers: Mrs. H. Berggren, Miss C. Sieke, Miss Louise Painter, B. M. French and H. M. Shern. Boarding for the westward were John Paublica, Sam Johnkonich and Britain| Fabis for Cordova; M. Lubach, William Frreer, zim {Myttli and J. John- son for Seward. Weather: High, 61; low, 49; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English 3 r. corpon | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “T have: mn !t obhutlmes ¥4 The word OTHERTIMES is not recognized. Say, “I have seen it AT OTHER times.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cupola. Pronounce ku-po-la, U as in CUTE, O as in NO unstressed, and accent first syllable, not the second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hammock; OCK. Havoe; no K. SYNONYMS: Ascribe, assign, attribute, impute. 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: SCRUPULOUSLY; conscientiously; carefully; precisely. (Pronounce sec- ovn'd U as in USE, accent first syllable). “He kept himself scrupulously clean.” o MODERN ETIQUETTE % perra 1em B PRy Q. Is it good form to dip a small piece of bread into the gravy that ls left on one’s plate? A. This is all right if the piece of bread is put down in the gravy and then eaten with a fork. It is bad manners, however, to “wipe up” the gravy with a piece of bread held in the fingers. ' Q Is a man ever privileged to remain seated while being intro- duced? A. No; he should always rise, regardless of whether the other person is a man or a woman, old or young. Q. If candles are not to be lighted, is it all right to have them on the table? A. Yes; candles are considered an ornamental part of the dinner or supper table setting. et e e e e~ e e et 1. What is charcoal? 2. What liquid measure is 800 per cent of a pint? 3. Who was the only U. S. President to live to be 90 years of age? 4. What value is given to the Roman numerals V, L, C, and M? 5. What is the largest and what is the smallest mammal? é t‘z \gbod h'fifid {an hi‘i tempernture in an airtight chamber. ‘2. A gallon. 3. John Adams. 3 . 4, Five, fifty, one hundred, and one thousand. 5. The whale, from 100 to 150 feet in length; and the Etruscan ghrew; 1} inches and smaller in length. ‘JAMES DRAKE as a paid-up subscriber 10 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: "CALAMITY JANE and SAM BASS" Federal Tux—1Zc 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 eomxflin.l:ntl- WATCH THIS SPACE--Your Name May Appear! Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL .- SAVINGS =¥ THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1950 Weather af Alaska Poinis Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points| also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 tm., 120th Meridian Time, snd ‘eleased Ly the Weather Bureau| we as follows: Anchorage ... Annette Island . Barrow Bethel . Cordova . Dawson . monton irbanks |. Haines Havre ... Juneau Airport Kodiak .. Kotiebue McGrath Nome .. Northway -.. 52—Rnin‘) 57—Rain 37—Panly Cloudy : 48—Fog ... 52—Ral 55—Cloudy |7—Partly Cloudy 51—Partly Cloudy . 54—Rain Showers Petersburg . 56—Drizzle Portland . 58—Partly Cloudy |, day in Hasting, Neb. Prince George . .. 56—Rain Seattle 58—Partly Clouwty Sitka ...... 55—Cloudy Whitehorse . 54—Partly Cloudy Yakutat . 54—Rain YAKIMA WINS REGIONAL LEGION BASEBALL TITLE | 'YAKIMA, Wash,, Aug. 24 — (B — ‘Undefeated in léague and tourna- ment play, Yakima squeezed out a| tight 2-I ‘victory - over Lewiston, fdaho, last ‘night to capture the 11th Regional Américan Legion Ju- _nior Baseball ‘Tournament title. .The verdict put Yakima in the sectional competition opening Sun- SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S ® & ® o o o 0 0o 0 0 & TIDE TABLE AUGUST 25 Low tide 6:28 am. -1.3 ft. High tide 12:57 p.m. 15.0 ft. Low tide 6:38 p.m. 3.1 ft. V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. v —_— || Brownie's Liquor Store Fhems 183 139 Be. Framkila P. O. Box 308 Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 399 The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. 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Wholesale {obb 200l {PHONE 216—DAY or mn:r for MIXERS er 50DA POP e d RS The Alaskan Hotel Thomas Hardware (o, PAINTS — ons Bullders’ and Sheit HARDWARE e i & Remington SOLD and lnmxnunr J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is Ween by e — FOR (AD AGENCY GREASES — GAS — om, Junean Motor Ce. Foot of Main Strees [ Pl R R JUNEA AU D. DELICIOUS lCElgll:lisA. daily habit—ask for 1t by mama w Chrysler Marine Engines Chas. G. Warner Co, e, HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 - Home Liquor Store—Tel. 59 Amumu.n Phone 33 To Banish “Blue Monday”. « To give ou fromy more freedom work — TRY “Say It With Flo “SAY IT WITH ODRa Juneau Florim *—\