The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Puhllmefl every evening except Sunday b’ the l EMPIRE PRINTING COM] Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska KELEN TROY 'MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dou six months, $8.98; one ye By mail, postage paid, sne month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irreg: of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Busine: MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED t the following r One year, in advance $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | ;nn, too, by being first across this year and breaking ; the long-forgotten women'’s record held by the lung-x forgotten Gertrude Ederle. This channel-swimming business is intensely in- " Ve .m lcrcsung — to the swimmer, his or her immediate Managing Editor | entourage, and perhaps a handful of the folks back Business Manager |\ Becond Class Matter. | world's biggest news services who was sitting on the' ‘Ln:mon desk late last summer while Shirley Mnyi | France was making her several attempts to cross, he had to sidetrack all other news until he had cleared the stories about her, on orders from New York. And she hadn’t even done it. Nor has she yet. A young lady named Florence Chadwick beat her to it. We are satisfied that swim- PANY ularity in the delivery 58 _Office, 374. PRESS 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 Berein. ming the English Channel is a prodigious feat of local news published | o\ qyrance and one that all of us would have difficulty NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Aiaska Newspapers, 1411 i Pourth Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash. v Frioay, August 25, VACATIONS We don't know who ever star taken in moderation they are a grai civilization. This is the time when the employed laf off work for two weks, or a mon government job, and still longer if and change their entire mode of living for that time.: )40 he's a weapon of war in a very real sense. Some go on trips, some stay at home and paint Some go fishing, some go on highway the house. trips, some fly to the States. Soi sleep until noon, some work harder they ever do on the job. Some leave all the needed jobs Yo be done around the home u It’s all a matter of taste and purse as to how one But it is usually all good, spends a vacation. Alaska offers a wide choice in the tion. For some, vacation is a meaningless word. This applies to those who never work unemployed and want nothing more than a job, or . who are self employed and so interested in their work or find the demands so great they feel they cannot take time off. But for the run of the mill particularly those who work in offices or other indoor places, vacation offers a brief surc of everyday existance complicated grim shadow of future events. It's a great institution provided it is not carried to excess. THE SILLY SEASON ‘hat the Dog Days are near cated by the fact that English Channel swimmers have started their annual quest to crash the head- By gosh, one of them did, lines. l;e Washingfon Merry-Go-Round {Continued from Page One) not a particularly good one. Yet the G. I’s at the front are en- titled to the best commanding gen- eral we've got. Walker’s Chief of Staff is Col. Eugene Landrum, who commanded the 90th Division when it landed in France in June, 1944, However, he made such a poor showing that he was relieved of his command within two months and shipped back to the states. Later, when most of the wartime generals were demoted one rank, Landrum was dropped two ranks, from major general to colonel. Yet he now holds the crucial post as Walker’s Chief of Staff in Korea—because, like Walker, Landrum happened te be in line for the job. in accomplishing even in a boat, yet it strikes us as one which leaves the average individual profoundly unmoved. Man Power and Land Mass (Ketchikan Chronicle) “You find waves and waves of men approaching you. You fire your machine gun and row after row goes down. But they never stop coming. You fire until the gun is hot in your hands and still that irresistible tide sweps toward you. “It is like trying to stop the ocean coming in, and after a while you feel it is hopeless to try to stop them, and you either give up or run away.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Like a GI talking about the fanatical North Koreans. But it isn't. It's a former German officer telling an American reporter in Paris about the Russians in World War IL There's a crucial parallel, nevertheless, between the North Koreans today and the Soviet soldiers of 1941-45. In the Soviet Union, in China and the various Russian satellites, human life is cheap. In much of the Communist realm, it is also plentiful. Communism emphasizes masses of men, not indi- viduals. A man is literally the property of the state. Whether in peace or war, he's expendable. As a 1950 ted vacations, but nd development of th if they hold a they are teachers, Much is being made these days of Russia’s great superiority over the west in tanks, planes, guns and submarines. Rightly so. But even if we devise ef- fective defenses against this matertel, that will not be sufficient. How do we plan to throw back those waves upon waves of men? Korea has shown us how hard it is to check ad- vances by an army which utterly disregards its own manpower losses. We can be sure that wherever Com- munism marches, that same callous use of men as weapons will be evident. To make it worse, Russia and her Communist satellites have a defensive weapon of unparalleled value: millions of square miles of space. As it takes extraordinary means to offset the great mass of red forces, so it requires similar measures to win and control space. The western world naturally hopes n never will have to try conquering Communist manpower and space. But it is now preparing to defend itself against a Soviet Union which might want war. It's entirely fitting that we should be thinking of new and better anti-tank, anti-aircraft and anti- submarine weapons as we build ‘that defense. But shouldn’t we also be devising some highly destructive anti-human weapons? The west can’t match Communism’s numbers if a test comes. And we can’t count either on the costly atomic bomb. Its practical worth against millions of men on a battlefield is unknown. Any American and western military planning that does not take Red manpower and land area into ac- count is unreal. The enemy foot soldier is still the man to be beaten. ! that Smith had recently graduated from the Missouri University law school and had ‘“requested transfer to the judge advocate general's corps reserves where he believes he can best serve his country.” me turn lazy and at recreation than ntil vacation time. and matter of a vaca- anyway, who are wage earner, and ease from worries by the uncertain at hand is indi- with a war going into violent disagreement. With an explosive snort, Mc- Kellar accused Cannon of “making slurring references.” Then the aged } Tennessean began spouting exple- tives, which an eyewitness lafer reported “almost peeled the paint loff the walls” One of the milder terms McKellar used to describe was 5.0b. (Unabbreviated). This was too much for Cannon who announced he wouldn't take such abuse “frgm any man” and started after McKellar. Simultan- eously, the sputtering senator from J Tennessee picked up his gavel which he had been using to rap the table and tried to rap Cannon, | However, colleagues separated them before they could do any damage to each other, White House Memo Vaughan wasted no time dis- patching a White House memo to the adjutant general's office re- questing “action” on Smith's case. And action is what Smith got. His application was listed out of normal channels and given the personal attention of the brass hats. An official letter was also rushed to Fifth Army headquarters in Chi- cago for required recommendations. Dated August 17, this letter set a deadline of August 81 for the Fifth Army to reply. “In view of the White House in- terest in this case,” the Pentagon letter stated, “it is requested that Lieutenant Smith's application for transfer ., . be forwarded te this Washington Pipeline General MacArthur was consider- ing coming back to the United States just as the Korean war broke out. He was interested in Yet, according to a member of one of (he’, Back in oapan, wne G-2 section jan offer of a top job at Reming- is General MacArthur's eyes andjton Rand .. . Before the end of ears. Its job is to gather and an-|the year, President Truman plans alyze military intelligence, so vitaljto set up a special board to keep in time of war. Yet the G-2 chief,|an eye on prices and a new agency in charge of this important listen- | to take over the vital job of civilian office for review by the judge ad- vocate general.” In other words, the judge advo- led for the north at 11 p.m. There . . AUGUST 25 . . . L4 Nick Bez . . Edmond S. Westby . . S. Tanaka . . Mrs. J. P. Pasquan . . Edmond Peterson L L4 John R. Thibodeau . . Lynn Winters o e o0 06 06 0 0 0 0 00 UNGRATEFUL -PET +Five-year-old Andrew Vara- nelli is unhappy because his pet parrot, “Polly,” bit him during judging at the pet show of Chil« dren’s Aid Society, New York, cate general, himself, will decide the case—thanks to the President’s pal, Harry Vaughan. Meanwhile, the Army has no need for green- behind-the-ears lawyers, but could use some artillery officers with Smith’s training. . House Commitfee Approves Exira Funds For Alaska Milifary (AP Special Washington Service) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—(®#—The House Appropriations Committee to- day approved $170,927399 for 80 military construction projects. All were included in President Truman’s request for an extra $10,- 500,000,000 to run the Korean War and boost U. S. military defenses and fighting strength. The bill containing the construc- tion items now goes to the House. The projects and the amount ap- proved for each include: Navy—Naval communications sta- tion, and Naval operating base, Ko- diak, Alaska; consolidated commun- ication facilities, repair of water- front structures, $1,548,000. Army—Alaska—Eielson Air Force Base: Gymnasium and infirmary, etc., $978,500; Fort Telephone exchange building, etc., $16,325,000; Ladd Air Force Base: Site clearing, erosion control, etc., $2,976,200; Alaska Communications | System, etc., $9,205,940. GUEREN CHILDREN RETURN Brucella, Marcia and Guerin returned yesterday after- noon by Alaska Coastal tion with their aunt, Amy Lou Blood in Pelican. CHILCOTIN The 8. 8. Chilcotin arrived in port yesterday at 6 o'clock and sail-f IN PORT were no passengers for Juneau. Richardson: | Sherian | Airlines | after spending the summer vaca- {20 YEARS AGO T empire| R. A. Douglas, returned home after a six-week visit in the States. as far east at Minnnesota, to visit relatives. “Dick” Schmidt, chief clerk at Feusi’s Hardware Store .in He went Three young men from Atlin, B. C.—Henry, John and Edward Jack —arrived in Douglas in the 14-foot canoe, “Me-To0o,” which they had 'camcd 65 miles across country to the Nakinaw River where it joins the Taku at Inklin, then followed the river down to the Tulsequah, where they spent a few days. Many narrow escapes from ice and rapids were reported, but the young men plannedl to return to prospect. The Alameda arrived southbound, bringing the Rev. Edgar Gallant, Virginia B. Magness and H. W. Frizzell from Skagway. With 13 passengers for Juneau, the steamship Queen arrived from Seattle. Disembarking here were Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Gross, Z. Gross, Karl Theile, Mrs. Louise Johnson, A. B. Elsner, Miss Mary Reep, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Watson, Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, C. Hawthorne, Newton Corday and A. N. Housmer. Boarding the Queen for Lynn Canal ports were C. C. Warner, Harry Brown, Mary S. Brown, A. Johns and Tom Johnson for Haines; Dr. R. E. Southwell, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wild, Richard King, Gibson Young, Wiliam Nickish, Katherine Sonnevich, Edna C. Nelson, George Rafofzi and Charles L. Parker for Skagway. James Colvin of Rainy Hollow, B. C, and Robert J. Grant of Hoonah were among guests at the Alaskan Hotel. Unloading 300 tons of coal,*the freighter Lakina, Capt. Jerry Flynn, |of the Alaska Steamship Company, was in port for /12 hours, having |arrived at 5 am. After shifting to Douglas to put off 50 tons of coal, she departed south with calls scheduled at Port Arm;trong and; Port Conclusion. Weather: High, 54; low, 61; mist. { g 14 Y 1 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpow ; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: CONTINUAL implies a close. succession or recurrence, CONTINUOUS implies an uninterrupted continuity. “There was CONTINUAL rain” “The work:required CONTINUOUS labor from morning till night.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fragment. RAG, not as in RAGE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accelorator; observe the two C’s, one L. SYNONYMS: Speech, address, oration, talk, harangue. 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: CONSTANCY; firmness of mind; fidelity. “Without constantcy, there can be no real friendship.” MODERN ETIQUEITE ¥operra ree Q. Should cocktail glasses be engraved with the wife’s or husband’s initials? I've been told that all ‘drinking” glasses are supposed to belong to the man of the house. A. This is optional. It is appropriate to use the husband’s initials |on such glasses, and it is also correct to mark the glasses with the wife’s | initials — to match fHe rest of thé household glassware. Q. Should small, dry cakes, such as lady fingers or macaroons, be broken as each bite is taken? A. No. It is better to take small bites out of them. | Q. Is it correct to use “Dear Sir” and “Dear Madam” in social correspondence? A. No; these terms are used only in business correspondence. Pronounce the A as in e e e | called? 2. How does Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the U. S., compare |in height with Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world? | 3. Who was the first U. S. Presdenit to ride on « railroad train? 4. What common food on every table contains two of the deadliest | ‘What is the change of a liquid into vapor at ordinary temperature | poisons? ‘ 5. What very small animal causes milk and fruit juices to sour? ANSWERS: ‘ 1. Evaporation. 2. It is about one-half as high as Mt. Everest, which is 29,141 ft. | 3. Andrew Jacksdn, one June 6, 1833, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 4. Salt, consisting of sodium and chloride. 5. Bacteria. | DONNA FOLAND as a paid-up subscriber 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING ing post, is Maj. Gen. Charles Wil- defense loughby, a strutting heel-clicker who has been accused by subordi- nates of doctoring the intelligence | reports to please rather than in- form MacArthur. Born in Prussia, Willoughby’s real name is Von Tschepe-Wiedenbach, and his prin- cipal qualification is the fact that he served under MacArthur on Bataan. This is the estimate of fellow generals. Note—Like the Army, the Mar- ines also sent a subordinate to Korea. Instead of Maj. Gen. Graves Erskine accompanying his troops, he was given a diplomatic assignment in Latin America and| the* next in command, Brig, Gen. Edward Craig, went to Korea. The reason was that the Army divisions are commanded by brigadier gen- erals, and the Marines didn't want to embarrass the Army by sending over a major general. Explosive McKellar The full story hasn't been told how 8l-year-old Sen. Kenneth Me- Kellar of Tennessee tried 71-year-old Congressman Clarence Cannon of Missouri over the head with a gavel. It happened behind closed doors, while Senate and House conferees were trying to iron out differences fn the appropriations bill. This brought McKellar, the Senate ap- oropriations chairman, and Cannon, e House appropriations ohairman, to bop} Many top mobsters have been reporting ridiculously s RAcnoss 33. Right of a epose using grasse small incomes and lumping it all| g Eidvations of land for under such general terms as “self- land: abbr. pasturage (s] seculation” . . . Mike Reilly, FDR's[ % %ind of 35. Merchandise famous friend and bodyguard, is| 12. One opposed :g :’“’fl': fish now quietly working for the Inter-| 13 Fjoh rod 40. I adaition i é y -| 15 Golfer's 41. Liquor or‘DepaxlmenL . . . Tariff Com: 3. Uwamm cry 44 Australian missioner Edgar Brossard has been| 16. Threw off the nborIgIlngl C/ g va trac! war clu cooling his hgels two months, wait-} 14 pyot‘Scotch 46. English letters ing for President Truman to de- 19, Calyx leaf 49. Device for cide whether to reappoint him.| 20 Oraament atop tokpthar ® Brossard doesn’t always agree with % Kn;zexn dessert g; fimerlcan lake Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle e i . Aslatic " Make the President, but he has been a country preliminary 56. Type measures 2. Sufficlent: poet. capable public servant. 25. Signifying wager 57. Paradise 3. Filter 28. Off 63. Weep BOWN i Bing | ! 320 Scenes ot 4. Existed 5. Manufactured Pulling Strings combat 55. Bobbin 1. Log float € BlEos Whether you're a five per center MR vl 'nnglxng for government contracts &Fi“;ulmr tor a reserve officer trying to getp ./ F . out of a combat unit, it still pays /A 9. Stupid person i : 10. Opposite ot g: have inside track with Maj. aweather en. Harry Vaug o 11. One of an Harry Vaughan, the irrepres ancient race \sible White House military aide, 17. Wing t 19, Bristle + For example, here is how Vau- ghan is pulling strings inside the | Pentagon for Robert C. Smith of Columbia, Mo., a reserve Army | lieutenant, who wants to transfer from the field artillery to the Army’s legal section. Ordinarily Smith wouldn’t stand a ghost of a chance, because the Army isn't taking any new lawyers. However, after the Army had al- ready rejected one transfer request, ISnulh appealed to a Missouri pol- itician and crony of Vaughan's | William H. Becker. i All it took was a letter to Vau- lgh;.r. in which Becker explained | of 4 L /////%/%I .fl//// Crossword Puzzle . Pertaining to the morning . Black bird . Age Act of giving out . Roamed . Grow old Affirmative . Each day . Made of a certain wood . Be under obigation . At a distance Narrow road Old Italian family . Prohibitionists Lmnhu«lmn d Bt nronx 51. Female shcep . Tapering solids Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “CALAMITY JANE and SAM BASS" Federal Tux—1%c 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! | | | | Oldest BankinA;qsga 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1950 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent ' COMMERCIAL SAVINGS 158 | T p—— Weather al Alaska Poinis == 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: - I Anchorage 48—Cloudy Annette Island 556—Rain Barrow ... 33—Cloudy Bethel 7 Cordova Dawson Edmonton .. 50—Fog Fairbanks 6—Smoke Haines . g - 51—Rain Havre . 52—Partly Cloudy Juneau Airport 53—Rain Kodiak 50—Rain Kotzebue .. 51—Rain | McQGrath 46—Fog Nomnie 55—Cloudy Northway 46—any Cloudy Petersburg .. 56—Rain Portland . - 53- artly Cloudy Prince George ... 40—Partly Cloudy Seattle ....... . 59—Partly Cloudy Sitka .. - 59—Rain Whnehorse 47—Rain Yakutat .. 50—Rain PLAY TENNIS? Only six contestants have signed up for the Evergreen Bowl Tennis Tournament scheduled for next week, weather permitting. A wo- men's tourney is planned if suffi- cient players sign up. Those in- tgrested are asked to call Al Carl- son ‘or Dick Forrest at the Ever- green Bowl any time during the day, FROM PELICAN ‘c.' A. willams of Pelican registered at the Baranof Hotel. ® @& o o o 0 0 o 0 0 0 . LJ . TIDE TABLE ° . . . AUGUST 26 . e High tide 12:42 am,, 173 ft. e ® Low tide 7:13 am, -21 ft. e ® High tide 1:35 pm., 162 ft. e ® Low tide 7:23 pm. 18 ft. ® e o o o o o e o o V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.I1.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. Brownie's Liquor Sfore Theme 163 139 Be. Fraakiln P. O. Box 3508 P—— Widest Selection ol' LIQUORS PHONE 399 L | The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery Phone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS’® LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Pranklin Bts. PHONE 136 Casler’s Men's Wear BOTANY lmn CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing v COMPANY FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1950 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beclnnln: at 7:30 p. m. A. Lawrence, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secrciary, @ B.p. 0. ELKS Meeting every second and fourth Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting | brothers welcome. WALLIS 8 GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H, BIGGS, Secretary, { Mouse Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday | Governor— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 17 Main 8t. Phone ™™ High Quality Cabinet Werk for Home, Offior or Stere The Rexall Store” Ydur Reliable Pharmaciste BUTLER MAURO * DRUG Co, Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager «nd Supplies ~Fhone 206 .Second and Seward. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAPER Ideal Paint Store Phone 540 Pred W. Wenat Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th PHONE 216-DAY ec mfl:, for MIXERS or SODA POP et —— The Alaskan Hote] T R e PHONE SINGLE O PHONE 658 Thomas Hardware (o, PAINTS — oms Builders’ and Sheit - HARDWARE e Rem . Typewriters SOLD and lnvuxn"., J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is W Satist orn by FORD AG FOR ENCY GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Matn Street i MO g JUNEAU DAIRIE DELICIOUS ICE cmr,'su A daily habit—ask for it by mame Juneau Dalries, Inc. Chrysler Marine Engines MACHINE SHOP Marine Hardware Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom m work — TRY Alaska Lanndry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVrS OVERALLS for Boys “Say It With Flow. “SAY IT WITH O.Unl,!'sbl"" Juneau Florim