The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1950, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Publishe | Interior Department to get Empi xcept Sunday by the G COMPANY | tevad Ao 108 | of Nevada President | tension of Vice-President Managing Editor | claim assessment work continually pressing to get control of mining are: | Senator Malone “One of these days it | come in with a bil that will do justice.” By coin- , the proposed changes now disclosed by the by al heads of every eve: EMPIRE PRI Second and Ma [ELEN TROY MONSEN - i3 JOROTHY TROY LINGO - ILMER A. FRIEND - . government moratorium on “The Interior Department is the mtered in the Post Office uneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES s for §1.50 per month; said. ; six months, in advance, $7.50 ne month, in ady were being considered regio Subscribers will confe he Business Office of & 1 their papers. Telephones: vor if they will promptly notify or irregularity in the deliv News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 that very moment. It is understood that the secret o 5 stions have been discussed within the confines of the department ever since then. “The Times properly does not disclose the iden- tity of its informant but quotes him as saying: ‘The Taylor Grazing Act is being used to tighten the grip of the Interior Department over mining aff Land set aside under the grazing act is administered under such that prospector is classified im- medfately as a trespasser. By having both adminis- azing—under the Interior De- MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ed Press is exclusively entitled to the | news dispatches credited to it or n and also the local news p M The Assoc epublication of rise credited in this paper \erein ‘ourth Avenue 5, conditions a trations—mining and g partment’s rule it is possible to use one to gain domi- nation over the other. “Last week we ran an excerpt from an article from the pen of Herbert Hoover (as did The Emprei re- cently) inewhich he lamented the tragic decline of mining in the West and the fact that the prospector and small operator had been practically driven from the field by government restrictions, regulations and taxation. We should like hear what this great mining authority would have to say about this effort to reduce that valiant vemnant of prospectors and operators still to the vanishing to Wednesday, December 6, 1950 DOOM FOR PROSPECTORS AND SMALL OPERATORS small remaining soint. “That the prospector would be doomed under the ;uggested revisions is a certainty. Combine with that hreat the effort to tighten control over 120,000,000 scres of land either under the control or subject to the control of the Taylor Grazing Act and the pros- pector is doubly doomed. “Down the drain also will go the small operator who could not meet the requirements of the new law from a financial standpoint. “The only possible explanation for such a re- vision is the insatiable lust ‘for power which char- acterizes the Interior Department in connection with every industry over which it holds any measure of Story of another attempted “throttle” by the De- partment of the Interior—this time through proposed changes of the mining laws—was told-in the Los An- geles Times of November 19. The Los Angeles Times printed a facsimile of a memorandum upon the head of which appeared the legend, “UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,” “Bureau of Land Management, Portland 18, Oregon.” There followed the word “CONFIDEN- TIAL" and the statement, “NEITHER THIS MEM- ORANDUM NOR THE INFORMATION IT CON- TAI IS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUB- LIC It was addressed to Division Chiefs and all field officers, from the Regional Administrator, and its subject was “Amendment of the Mining Laws. & Ti ka Weekly writes thus about the pro- posed mi law changes, text of which appear else- where in The Eimpire today: “A reading of the proposed amendments which followed furnished ample evidence of the Depart- | ment's desire to keep the public from knowing of its | plans to further dominate the mining industry and hamstring the prospector. “In its story exposing this departmental spiracy the Los Angeles Times said in part: ‘A pro- | I authority. «“The Los Angeles Times is to be complimented for rendering a distinct public service in unearthing and making them known to the mining “What we need today is encouragement for men willing to go into the field and prospect for vital minerals and aid, even to the point of some form of subsidy, for the small mining operators willing to undertake the initial development of prospects. In- | stead, merely to further entrench itself, the Interior con- Department would strangle both.” SCORES OF BASKETBAL | neglected. 1f that is allowed to oc- cur, then Cominform armies may overrun Europe. . .Senator “Long |,Tum" Connal oxas let his cigar go out Wiley chewed his nervously without lighting it. | ffie Washingfon Merry-Go-Round | ‘Continued from Page One) of Kansas City, Douglas Fairbanks' pjgpts hurn late in the Pentagon of Hollywood; Alaskan Delegate tnese days, Lights also burn in the Bartlett, not of Kansas City; the|giate pepartment. Also in the Savings and Loan Association of | oppaccies Clerks and steno- | Kansas City; his friend, Perle Mes- | ypaphers forget to begin powdering High School 38, Columbians 40. ta of Oklahoma and LuxembOUrE; iheir noses at 4:25 every afternoon Nite Owls 53, Arctics 43. John Bierwirth, who distills Old in the Army and Navy Depart-| Grandad, Old Taylor, Mt. Vernon, yens” up on Capitol Hill, Repub- | Washington State 65, Whitman 35. Old Overholt and other noted Jioa; Senators Wherry and McCar- |New York U 75, Oregon State 65. whiskies; Dr. F. W. Olson of Kan- |y cnow their teeth in the direc- |Portland 68, Oregon 67. sas City, Mrs. India Edwards of yion o the White House, growl Seattle U. 70, Pacific Lutheran 59. the Democratic National Committee |4} ot General MacArthur is not to |St. Martin’s 49, Lewis & Clark 38. . . .General Bradley and the Joint'p. ¢6q Maybe this is an at- | Pacific U. 62, Oregon College 46. Chiefs of Staff also call, but not oy to prepare for defense. May- | Eastern Washington 57, Gonzaga 43 as frequently as the folks from "'y Senators have heard tie |Eastern Ore. 73, NW Nazarene 71 Kansas City. . .The President is & 0.1 facts regarding MacArthur’s |Idaho State 62, Col. of Idaho 54. worried man, but outwardly he does ,oiite jgnoring of Washington in- |CCNY 71, Brigham Young 69. not show it. . .He gives the impres- uotions to keep away from the' Georgetown 92, Geneva 61. sion of a man who waits for prob- "chinece gams on the Yalu, to Siena 56, Texas A&M 42. Scores at lact night’s basketball games were as follows: | phetic warning of the attempt being made by the control of mining in the | West was sounded in June 1949, by Senator Malone | He was talking at the time about the ex- mining will | Chapman’s Bureau of Land Management at | 4 : DECEMBER 6, 1930 December 6 |® e Featheretons the Northiand in port, for Shipment to Seattle. Mrs. Walton Shoote Roberta Winebrenner Gaylord Hansen Lora G Stella Gavin Jean McNerna e e 0 0 o Joan the fur farmers of the Mendenhall Valley. (OMPLETE CHORUS e TOMORROW EVENING/‘* » = ™" sectional rehearsals of the au Commur Chorus were held this week for basses and tenors and tomorrow night the complete chorus will rehearse at the usual time, 8:45, at the Methodist church, At last week’s rehearsal President tichard Freer appointed the follow- ing committees to handle the details of The Messiah which is to be pre- sented December 17 at the Twen- |Juneau would respond again as liberally as it had in the past. tieth Century Theatre: Larry | R B Parker, Production Chairman; Har- old Salisbury and M Katherine Alexander, Publicity; M Harriet: Penwell, Programs; and Miss Mild- red Harshburger, robes. agreement was to be carried out without delay. 3 Miss Marjorie Iverson was elected | * baneigs Treasurer to fill the unexpired term ‘Weather: High, 50; low, 48; cloudy. of Miss Virginia MacLean, who is leaving Juneau this weekend. TOURIST TRADE (AN BE BIG BUSINESS IN AlASKA: SUNDBORG to work for us.” “A survey shows that 64,000 tour- ¢ i, USE, accent first syllable ists in Alaska left approximately | & S gt 4 $9,000,000 in the Territory dm‘ingl OFTEN MISSPELLED: Smolder, preferred to SMOULDER. 1949, George Sundborg, SYNONYMS: Keepsake, memento. souvenir, token. told Ki- lians at a regular luncheon | WORD STUD meeting at the Baranof Hotel this noon, districting of fur areas program while in annual session in Juneau. | was oil furnace The offer of R E. Burns, local boat owner, to e | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon | | UNANIMOUS; being of one mind; sharing the same views; as, Sundborg outlined twhat other {ynanimous opinion.” “A unanimous vote.” reas had done to develop the tour- | ist industry and how it had come | to be an important income source. | He stressed that Alaska had much| to offer visitors and stated that{ properly promoted, the tourist busl-t N ness could become the leading in-} dustry here. | Q. Some of the problems to be met, | has just arrived, and other guests are present? he said, were need of accommoda- | A. Yes, always. A hostess more transportation, rusti | s, and to develop activities to the tourist season longer. org reviewed the studies | e by the Development Board and the sful res used by the H Bureau which promoted the tourist business | there into a $50,000,000 a year in- |eating? dustry. fes ‘The /Alaska Visitors Asmcmhon‘me knife or fork. has been organized and the coming’! b LOOK and LEARN 2 C. GORDON MODERN ETIOUFITE Xoperra LEE it I I her as belonging to her? A. No; she should return all these. Territorial legislature will be asked | to provide a modest sum, which | will be matched by the businessmen | § of the Territory, to launch a pro- | motion campaign to bring more | tourist dollars here,” he said. | Larry Parker provided a tape re- | ; 98 cording of the 375th North Pole Hquids? mission of the 375th Weat.her'i 2. Squadron from Eielson Airbase. ;iLs limits? CLUB TO PUT ON SNOWSHOES | time? lems to come to him, not one Who yatain a 40-mile neutrality zone Baylor 52, Corpus Christi 33. reaches out to solve questions be- ';)ong the Manchurian border. . .!Sam Houston 57, Rice 52. fore they become problems. | Whispers about MacArthur are rife, N. Tex. State 44, Okla. City 40. ‘among the diplomats. because the Pepperdine 62, Pomona 40. ° diplomats know how London, Paris; Stanford 59, San Jose State 49. and other UN allies urged a neutral | Western Kentucky 93, Georgetown zone along the Yalu. They also! Ky) 44. know that the State Department!North Car. State 87, Davidson 53. feared exactly what has now lmp-!U\lk(‘ 72, McCrary 60. pened—répeatedly ~warned Mac- | Alabama 63, Miss.-Southern 57. Arthur of danger from China, . .jTennessee 74, Sewanee 51. “But how can you fire a prominent { Bradley 79, Wayne 50. general in wartime?” asks one dip- | St. Louis 71, Houston 44. lomat. “We fired Marshal Joffre|Michigan State 45, Detroit 31. Along Sleepy F Street—Not far from the White House, police ban- ished cars and pedestrians. The President was dining out—at the swank 1925 F Street Club. . .Joke- ster George Allen was there, also “Call Me Madam"” Perle Mesta; Segator Tydings, not glum over his defeat in Maryland; millionaire teetotaler Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, whose natural-gas bill Truman ) {4, What U.S. State’s name comes from the Indian, meaning “dark The first snowshoe hike of the|and bloody ground,” because of the number of Indian battles fought | season will leave the Hillcrest Ap- |within it? artments at § Saturday morn- | {5ig, Members who are interested it [ :r:;;é;;he ojdest collorle g making the hike should call 874 > immediately. A limited number of | 1~ The hydometer. snowshoes are available to mem- | 2. bers who do not as yet own a pair, | gheny. This hike is to be a tune-up trip| = 3. and will be fairly short and easy, 4, returning to town by about 3 p.m. Petty larceny. Kentucky. Rowing. Eighty-five thousand pounds of frozen halibut were put aboard Nine thousand pounds of flounders were brought in from Petersburg on the ship. The flound- ers were to be frozen and kept for mink food, finding markets among Eight districts instead of three in which the Territory was then divided were being set up by the Alaska Game Commission in its re- and Mrs. Grant Logan. Mr. Logan | Tom Thumb golf course in | ? Harold Brown, 2l-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, infully burned about the face while working in front of the“VIchm : at the Standard Oil Company’'s plant south of the city. | Nome | He was at home and was assured no scars would result from the burns Plans were being made for the drive to secure the annual Christ- | Portland mas fund for the Pioneers in the Sitka Home by W. D. Gross. Ketchi- gell had gone over the top in subscriptions according to | Mr. Gross who had just returned from those cities, and it was expected Whitehorse H install a water fpipelinc to supply small boats at the Lower City Float #f the city | would furnish the equipment was a ted by the City Council and the | ¢ withou 4 \GOES T0 ANCHORAGE ON ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She is one of the girls who‘w |is going to work for us.” Say, “She is one of the girls who ARE going | wgife Inc., at Anchorage Pronounce su-tur, both U’s at Anchorage is another 200,000 “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us} increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's wcurd:i "Ai American Legion Dugout at 3:45 Is it necesspry for a hostess to rise when greeting a. guest who is very discourteous who does not rise| b fo' greet every guest, and also when taking leave of each departing/ ¢ ©¢ o o e ¢ o o o o Q. When a marriage engagement has been broken, is the girl en- titled to consider the gifts and engagement ring the man has given| Q. Is it permissible to pick up a chop bone with the fingers, when A. No. One should sacrifice any meat that cannot be cut off with | What instrument is used o determine the specific gravity of ‘What prominent American city has three navigable rivers within SHIP SHANK AND SHUTTER | 3. For what offense are most criminals sent to prison for the first Pittsburgh, Pa. — The Ohio, The Monongahela, and the Alle- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950 Weather at Alaska Poinis | Weather conaltions ana temper- | atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 jam., 120th Meridian Time, and | released by the Weather Bureau| |are as follows: | | Anchorage 1—Partly Cloudy: Annette Island . ... 44—Cloudy | Barrow -16—Clear | Bethel -10—Clear | Cordova 24—Snow | | Dawson 3 -6—Cloudy | Edmonton . 13—Partly Cloudy | | Fairbanks ~11—Snow | Haines 24—Snow | | Havre -14—Partly Cloudy :Junmm Airport . . +28—Snow | Kodiak ... 20—Partly Cloudy | Kotzebue ... -18—Clear g .. -23—Clear | -10—Partly Cloudy -10—Snow 39—Rain | 39—Rain | . Missing . 45—Cloudy . 23—Rain ~b—Snow Sa—RflinI | Northway 1 Petersburg ... | Prince George | Seattle . | Sitka 1 Yakutat 50,000 BD. FEET LUMBER, BARANOF YESTERDAY| | While operations have been sus- pended at the Juneau Lumber Co. !Inc., here for the winter, ship- iments of lumber are going out from |time to tume, Yesterday 50,000 | board feet were loaded on the Baranof for .shipment to Henry Awaiting shipment to the Army | board feet. | Twelve men are currently em-; { ployed now at the mill, BROWNIES MEET i Brownie Troop No. 4 met in the) | pm. Tuesday and held an election | of officers. Coralie Sheldon is our 7 inew president; Karen Werner, Se- |cretary and Mary Ann Terencio is | Treasurer. This week we make | table decorations to be used at one jof the hospitals during the Christ- | mas holidays. Patricia Ihle, | Reporters. ! Ch otte Thorpe, i TIDE TABLE December 7 ¥ Low tide 5:37 am. 31 ft. High tide 11:48 a.m,, 19.0 ft. Low tide 6:28 p.m., -2.2 ft. . WALT HATLIN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR | Experienced House Wiring ! Electrical Marine Repair Phone Red 250 Juneau, Alaska ° - . . ° i V.F.W Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.IO. Hall at 8:00 p.m. The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grooery FPhone 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE STEVENS®. vetoed; glamorous Madame C Col. Bob Guggenheim; I Leslie Biffle. .Songbird Courtwright sang for the Pres despite the fact that her was belatedly barred by the S Service and sent back to New Yor (His wife once wrote for the Dai Worker.) Eddie MacIityre, for NBC, had to pinch hit at last minute, but the President hel ed out by playing the piano too. Folks lined F Street when the Pr sident went home at 11 pm. Du ing the long years of the Roosevelt Administration the President didn’t go out to dinuer, so they were curious. . .Newsmen, also curious, also waited. One asked the Pres dent: “What do you think of t Korean Situatior “I don't think, he snapped, and entered his car Flash bulbs clutter the carpets of the State Department. Klieg lights, newsreel cameras are focused on & ¢ n front of son’s of is mal S ahe Se ay of & e tired, discouragcc, his voice beaten. The pep is gone. He the lines, but there is no oomph behind the words. . .Before making the speech he has to ge a dress rehearsal for the new , for the stills, then for the radio. . Prev- jously Acheson appeared privately before Senate solons—like a profe sor before a blackboard. Meticu- lous, patient, almost too precise, he ex) : “There is a good deal of evidence that the main target of Soviet domination is still Europe. The intention may be to so divert and weaken the UN forces in Korea that the strengthening of the Atlantic Pact nations may be a speech looks reads in the first war,” replied a French- man, “and the British fired Lord Ohio U. 57, Marietta 45. | WANT ADS BKING RESULTS Kitchener.”, “And Abe Lincoln red a whole row of generals,” sug- ed an American, “He fired Gen. McClelland twice. He fired Gener- al Joe Hooker after the defeat at Chancellorsville, Burnside after the defeat at Fredericksburg, and Pope fter the second battle of Bull Run, Finally, he fired Mead when e failed to pursue Lee after Get- tysburg.” “But,” admitted the American, “when a general has ! built up such a powerful block of Senate votes, he can probably thumb his nose at Washington in- | definitely.” ACROSS High mountain 36. Belong to t 38. 5. Compete with . Contestant Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 3. Momentary halt 4. Turkish title of 7. St respect ¥ 5. Comrade Another elderly General, George Marshall, talked in serious tones before the Women's Press Club. He| Py also looked tired, seemed discour-| 3% Aroma 2ged. . .At the age of 70 you can't {blame him. . .In guarded words— because one general doesn't criticize another—he gave a hint of what| {he thought of MacArthur’s intel-| ligen “This great aggressor ac-| tion,” he said referring to Chinese | s, “because of the preparation ! | that would have to be gone through |to get such a force and deploy it | —makes it evident that it has been {long prepared and long intended.” |. . .But General Marshall, old as he is, tired as he must be, had some words of encouragement. He paid ltribute to the American people, their cour their understanding, their abi to work together. “When the Nazis were at our door,” he said, “the situation was saved by one thing—the reaction of the American people 6. Things to be 5 of il of the a ik e i 9. I tac 1 AP Newsfeatures \ J. J. 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