The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Yied evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juncau, Alasks HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - TILMER A. FRIEND - - - - Publ President Vice-President Managing Editor Sntered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: K nd I)nuxlns or S1.75 el nth: | i one year, $13.50, paid. st the following rates: r e, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.60; | advance, $1.50 will confer favor if they will promptly notify ce of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery M. Beiivered by carrier News Office, 602; Business Office, OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ess is exclusively entitled to the use for n of all B dispatches credited to it or not other- in this paper and also the local news published ENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 attle, Wash, Monday, March 19, 1951 STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA IS NOT QUESTION OF DEFENSE s an editorial appearing in a recent nd is just what The Empire has been | 1onths and months: It has long been the contention of The Times that whatever arguments may be advanced for grant- statehood to Alaska, the Territory's need for ade- defenses is not one of them. The Bremerton ntly has reached the same conclusion. a Senate committee | ing quate Sun evidi The Sun notes a report of which asserts that the big defense needs of Alaska are additional facilities for personnel, housing for de- pendents, roads, heating plants, storage facilities and | the like. The committee, The Sun observes, was not quoted “as saying that anything hinged on whether the Territory becomes a state, despite what some of | ‘\uln(\mble to the Soviets as a Territory as it would | because his competitors do, or because it seems | tested and its value proven in modern business. With- |suming public. itself solely around the question of whether that vast and underpopulated area is ready for the grave re- sponsibilities—financial and otherwise—which go with statehood. Frankly, we doubt whether Stalin would inquire about statehood for Alaska before sending his bombers that way.” The doubts of The Sun on that point are fully shared by The Times. Alaska would be equally as be as a state. TOMORROW’S ADVERTISER advertise the thing” to do. He will advertise becs it will be impossible to keep his capital busy without advertising, says Journal of Commerce. This being true, he will advertise on a scale com- mensurate with the importance of the job to be done. He will recognize that whispers are waste of breath. He will not think in terms of space umits or time | units, but in terms of assured attention—and he will provide a stake large enough to definitely obtain attention. Tomorrow's advertising will be done on a scale; never before thought of, and why should it not be, when business is already done on a scale straining Tomorrow's advertiser will not merely our imagination? Tomorrow's advertising will not be a thing apart, that a business can use or not use, as it wishes. | It either will use advertising and will have to, in | proportion to its needs for public attention, or else it will not use advertising because it is a type of business which has no vital need of public attention, v because the men who direct its affairs have not |the courage to sit in a game where doubling and | redoubling are the order of the day. | Tomorrow’s advertising will be placed in the cate-; s of sales staffs by firms offering their wares and es for sale to the public. Advertising has been! g0l out it, the output and sales of many great firms would gradually dwindle to the vanishing point and their names, known throughout the land today, would even- tually become vague and meaningless to the con- The heads of great corporations and the most succcesful men in business entertain no doubts whatever as to the necessity for advertising. It is no longer guesswork with them and there is on all sides that the majority of smaller firms move ahead in proportion to the amount of advertising they use providing their advertising pro- | evidence (At 8 p.m. cur colleagues have been insisting. The matter of statehood, we The Washington Werry-Go-Round i <cl>nnnued from Page One) in the wake of Noel Field mself, who disappeared slovakia May 10, 1949, Herman vanished Aug- year while trav- ane between War- | A few days later| 1. digappeared while her husband in ame one year later, Er- a friend of the i vent into the Russian zone of Berlin in search of them and back. All these disap- | nces occured during about| ume period of three mysterious never came aths in the Hiss case. They were: Death No. 1 — Harry Dexter V/hite, former assistant secretary of the treasury who reportedly 16, 1948, cied of heart failure Aug. f testifying before the Congres- sional Committee at beth Bentley had charged White with being a member of the Elite Communist group inside the govern- ment. White's death was not an- nounced until one day afterward and he was buried hastily. Later it was reported the real cause of his death was an overdose of digi- talis, not heart failure. Death No. 2 — Walter Marvin Justice Department attor- ney found at the base of the Jus- tel partment where en or jumped Oct. 20, ortly after the house un- an activities committee had questioned him on his notorization cf the transfer of title of a Ford cutomobile from Hiss to William en, described in the Congres- testimony as a Communist anizer. Hiss, according to Whit- taker Chamber, insisted on turning ver his car to the Communist or- iizer. Smith was the only actual v to the transfer. Death No. 3 and the most mys- terious of all was that of Laur- ence Duggan, the former State De- partment official who, “While put- ing on his overshoes to go home” through a New York skyscraper dow. Duggan had been ques- ned a few days earlier regard- staircase ness f Communist spies in the State p ance investiga- tors be! d it w y that a man would commit suicide while put- ting on his overshoes and paid his widow nonsuicide death bene- fits. Duggan-Field Link Clue to Mystery It now develops there was a per- conal link between Duggan and Field which may supply one small clue to this in tional mystery Duggan and Fiel t only served in the State Dc me time but nent the od, at ¥ y shared ne house to- gether off Square in ‘Washington. D an informed his superiers during the war that he had once attended Communist meetings in Alexandria, Va., during his early days in the State Depart- ment but he had never joined the party and became unsympathetic take it, still resolves ,gram» are coupl | ters and childrens’ i thus become well acquainted with | | these two countries and, after the which Eliza-|in the fall of 1950, six East Ger- with their ideas. | Pield, meanwhile, had left the State Department in 1936 and joined | the League of Nations Secretariat.| During the war he served as Euru.i n director of the Unitarian| rvice Committee which took him Poland and Czechoslovakia, established medical cen- homes. He had | to where he war, remained abroad to write a book on Poland and Czechoslovakia. Disappearance Unplanned On May 5, 1949, Field went from Switzerland to Prague and on May 12 he failed to keep an afternoon appointment. . He has not been heard of since. Apparently he did| not plan to disappear because his 1room showed no signs of departure. He did not notify the friend with whom he had the appointment nor his wife, Herta, who planned to join him in a few weeks. Five months later, however, when the Communists tried Hungarian foreign miniser Laszlo Rajk, the Hungarian press reported that Rajk testified that Field had per- suaded him to become “A servant of American Imperialism.” Later, man Communists were charged with dealing with “The American spy, Noel Field.” More recently Czech refugees have reported that Field would testify in the trial of Czech foreign minister Vladimir Clementis, though there has been nothing to substantiate this. Meanwhile, Field’s brother Her- man, in August, 1949, decided to go to Prague to find his missing rother. He boarded a plane in Warsaw on August 22. Friends ac- companied him to the. af¥port and the American Embass checking the plane’s manifest later, found his name was on it. However, when the plane arrived at Prague Her-| man Field was not on it. He has| never been heard of since, either, except in one respect. On Feb. 25, 1950, Vilem Novy; editor of the Czech Communist newspaper, Rude Pravo, was de- nounced by a member of the cen- tral Communist committee for hav- ing betrayed state secrets to a western espionage agent when Novy was a refugee in Krakow in 1939. Herman Field, who was then doing refugee work among Czech refugees in Krakow, knew Novy and was apparently that alleged agent. ! Theories on Unsolved Mystery Meanwhile, Mrs. Noel Field left Switzerland on August 3 to seek her husband in Prague but she, too, disappeared from sight on August 17. A year later, with the Fields' whereabouts still unsolved, their friend, Erica Wallachs, wife | of a Washington attorney, persua- | ded her husband to let her go to Switzerland to locate them. Mrs, Wallachs went to Berlin alone, re- portedly was met by Leo Bauer, editor of the Soviet-controlled Ber- lin radio whom she knew. She has never been heard of since. Several theories are given for these disappearances. One is that Field had been working with the Communists and, when the Con- gressional investigations got too hot, he wanted to be taken into protective Communist custody. An- other theory is that the Fields had worked with the Communists in their early days, knew their vital secrets, and became too dangerous | for them to have on the loose. An- | other is that they wanted Noel| led with sound business Judgmen( |an eifort to unseat Hitler’'s puppet Field as a witness against key fig- ures, such as Hungarian foreign minister Rajk. Field not only/ | worked with refugees during 'mdr after the war but also with the Oéfi\ in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in governments. Meanwhile, until Field and his family are heard from direct, his whereabouts remains the No. 1 un- solved mystery of Europe TACOMA CONTRACTORS INTERESTED IN ALASKA OFFICE BUILDING WORK Fred Urban of Urban Plumbing and Heating Co., Tacoma, and Philip Grayson of Central Supply Co. Plumbing and Heating, left Juneau for Seattle on PAA Sunday after conferring with contractors and architects in the Territory on sub- contracts on construction jobs. Urban has the subcontract on the plumbing and heating in the Men- denhall Apartments here and has handled numerous other jobs in Alaska. He is interested in the sub- contract on the new Alaska office building. FROM SEATTLE John W. Rowe of Seattle is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel, PEEREG L O T Y H e e o 0o 0 0o o o o TIDE TABLE March 20 | 12:23 am. 141 ff, 6:07 am. 38 ft. 12:07 p.m. 154 ft. 6:29 pm. 00 ft. e o Low tide High tide Low tide e o 0 00 0 o . . ° . . . ° . . . ® High tide . . . ° . . . . . ! At 1 pm. — Easter Egg hunt for TODAY At 6:30 — 32nd anniversary American Legion. Potluck dinn with Auxiliary, March 20 | At roon — Rotary Club, Baranof. | At 6:30 pm. — Couple Club dinner in Social Room, N.L.P. church. | t 7:30 p.m. — Delta Chapter, Beta | Sigma Phi meets in Gold Room Baranof. At 8 pm. —Folkateers will meet at| Grade School gym. 1 At 8:45 pm. — Community Center | Night for adults at Teen-Age Club | with square dancing. March 21 At noon — Kiwanis Club, Baranof At 8 p.m. — Public pinochle party | at Moose Club. | At 8 p.m. — Elks Lodge. At 8 pm. — Teamsters’ AFL hall. of | meeting, March 22 At noon — Chamber of Commerce meets, Baranof hotel. At 6:30 pm. — Maundy Thursday supper and ceremony of extin- guishing lights. For 18th degree Scottish Rite Masorns. — Coast Guard Wives meet in City hall chambers. H March 23 . | At 11 am. — Rebekah Drill team food and apron sale at Sears. From noon to 3 pm. — Good Fri- day Union services at Northern Light Presbyterian church. March 24 children of Rebekah members in 0dd Fellows hall. March 25 At 2 pm. — Easter Day ceremony of Re-lighting the Lights. Scot- tish Rite Temple. Public invited to attend. March 26 At noon — Lions Club, Baranof. At noon — BPWC meets in Te Room, Baranof. fl‘g (4 home, if it all right for her to accept? ,'. FER“EY “ERE 0 ;;?er Only if she receives an express invitation from 10 Hlfl?gl::lwlgitl):%mfls e A genioomy e ek ki ol e A. Yes. Julius Ferney, well-known former Alaska newspaptrman, arrived in Juneau yesterday via Pan Ameri- {can plane from Seattle where he and his family have been living since last September. Ferney will be head of public re- lations for the Office of Price Stab- ilization in Alaska which in charge of F. G. Hanford as regional di- rector. For two years Ferney was con- nected with the Sitka Sentinel ; which he edited and published un- der lease from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Veatch. In September, 1949, he mov- @ " . March 19 4 . . Lois Lawrence . . Andrew Hermle . Sharon Darlene Steele ol . Aurora Lefebvre L] John Cass . Dorothy White L3 . Bob McManus i B Kaye Lester . . Mrs. Ann Rebould . . Mrs. Chester Fuller . . 1 Reorgnnization of the Territorial School System, including creation o of a new Board of Education With broad powers of administration, was w..me, conditions and temper= | === | proposed in'a measure introduced in the Senate by Allen Shattut¥. The o | proposed bodrd would adopt policies for the Department of Education nd appoint the Commissionér of Education. e |plan recommended by former Commissioner L. W.*Breuer, in his final e report to the Legislature then in session. Plans had been formulated for the remaking of “The Cheechawkers,” all-sound production with an improved story and a cast of prominent “The Cheechawkers,” depicting the Days of '08, would be made Iby the Alaska-Yukon Pictures Corporation, having offices at Ketchikan. COMMUNITY EVENTS players. Ketchikan and Sitka, none. !4ay and a gale struck New York and the New England States. ious 0 YEARS AGO £y MARCH 19, 1951 | the silent picture which was filmed in Alaska some years before, into an The following amounts of snow were reported on the ground at 8; Cordova, | Eagle, 23; Fairbanks, 9; Fort Yukon, 24; Nome, 13; Tanana, 12;'Juneau. b s Belated snow hit the Eastern States this 1s Alaska weather stations: Barrow, 7; Bethel, dephia had five inches of snow. Leo Osterman of the U. S. Customs offices was a patient in St. Ann’s | Hospital suffering from a severe cold. An intensive search was underway by interior pilots for Pilot Fred Moller, missing since he left Fairbanks for Eagle, Fort Yukon and Circle on March 9. A nine-member girls’ band, the “Hollywood Los Senoritas,” arrived { here and were appearing at the Coliseum Theatre with a band, dancing and singing program and would play for a dance sponsored by the | Junea Thick snow falling on Lynn Canal impaired visibility for navi- gation and forced the motorship Estebeth to travel under a slow bell enroul Weather: High, 36; P o Daily Lessons in English %%, . corpon | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I meant to have seen you while there.” Say, “I meant to see you,” or, “I intended to see you.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lethargic. u Elks in the Elks Hall. te to Juneau from Haines and Skagway. low, 27; cloudy. in LEE unstressed, A as in AH, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Breach (an opening). |a firearm). SYNONYMS: Appropriate, adapted, becoming, proper, suitable. “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: DEFECTION; failure in duty; blacksliding. { hs superiors when his defection was discovered.” WMW Q. When a girl has been visited frequently for almost a year by & WORD STUDY': HE EMPIRE It followed closely the Phila- S e Pronoune le-thar-jik, E as Breech (rear part of Let us “He was reprimanded by —— ' Weather at ] Alaska Points o atured at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 alm., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows Anchorage ....... . 31—Cloudy Annette Island 41—Rain & Drizzle Barrow -9—Drifting Snow Bethel . . 6—Snow Cordova .. 39—Rain Dawson 18—Cloudy Edmonton . % .. 15—~Snow Fairbanks .. 12—Partly Cloudy Haines .. . 39—Rain 14; | Havre 7—Cloudy Juneau 37—Rain Kodiak . 30—Snow Kotzebue 15—Cloudy McGrath .. .. 15—Cloudy Nome ... 0—Partly Cloudy Northway .. 13—Cloudy Petersburg .. 41—Drizzie Portland .. 39—Partly Cloudy Beattle Ll it asae 37—Clear Prince George ... 28—Partly Cloudy sitka ... .. 40—Cloudy ‘Whitehorse 36—Partly Clondy Yakutat .. DOUGLAS NEWS LORAIN, WILCOX, RETURN S. H. Lorain, Regional Director ( of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and j Lawrenee Wilcox, office manager of the Mines Office, returned yester- day via PAA from a week’s business trip in Washington, D. C. FIRST AID FIREMEN Douglas Volunteer Firemén are reminded of first aid classes to be held this evening in the Gov- ernment School, at 8 o'clock. SHUMAN HOME Richard Shuman, Fish and Wild- life official, arrived home yesterday from a week’s confirence of meet- ings with the industry and other iisheries representatives in Seattle. NUGGET CHAPTER MEETS Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of | Eastern Star, will hold theh‘ monthly meeting Tuesday, March 20, in Masonic Hall. This is a regu- lar meeting with refreshments and instruction. CONVENTIONERS RETURN young man from out of town and he invitas her to spend a weekend in his| Mr. and Mrs. Val Poor returned Q. Should one place the serving silver on a dish of food when asked A. ol ol ot 8 o to pass it at the table? Yes, always. What eight States does Tennessee touch? For what is “I.Q.” the abbreviation? How many signs of the Zodiac are there? What is filet mignon? ‘What very famous poem by Lord Byron is incomplete? ANSWERS: Kentucky, Virginia, North Camuna, Georgia, Alabama, Missis- ed to Wrangell, leasing The Wran- |sipi, Arkansas, and Missouri. gell Sentinel, which he published until September, 1950, when, be- cause of illness of Mrs. Ferney, the family moved to Seattle. Mrs. Ferney and their two chil- dren will join Ferney in Juneau at the end of the school year. —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— Crossword Puzzle ACROSS ;9“ Bev:l‘n'n tool . Decision of & higpo0 L PoEiaVe " 82 Bekeptin body 84. !anz down. 4. Lick up with the tongue 35, Anno 7. Fright ". Nourl’;hed 11. Court 12. Make a mistake 13. Go in 15. Type measure 41. Novel 16. Reduced in ll. Large wagon ran Female horse 18. Parent: collog. « Over and in 19. Top contact with 21. Suitable 45. Revolved 22. Large 47. Egyptian 23. Destroy sun god 24. Famous opera 49. Undernel!h house: abbr. 51. fl(e 25. 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W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! RAY H. STEVENS s u paid-ap subscriver 10 THE VAILY ALASEA EMPIRE i.s invited to be our guest THIS EVB&ING Present this coupon to the box office of CAPITOL THEATRE and recetve TWO TICKETS to see: “SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON" Federal Tai—12c Pald by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phene 22 and an insured eab WILL C. FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home :ilt‘};‘ our complitaents. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Nauie May Appéar! Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1851 The B. M. Behrends Safety Peposit Boxes for lteut COMMERCIAL .ul‘ The cimluw Carter mmmhmu PHONE 198 Mu’s Men's Wear .... ey Hate l mmuuflt— Allen Edmonds Shess : Skyway Lagpage MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Wm. A. Chipperfield, Worshiptul Master; JAMRS W §EIVERS, Secretary. i — | — ) — @ 1.v 0 ELKs Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome WALLIS 8. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIOQS, Becretary. e e, Mocose Lodge No. 700 Governor— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary: WALTER R. BERMANSEN AR | e — "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmwatsts BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Hancs. ikeal T and Supplies Phone 206 _Second and Seward. GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAFER Ideal Paint Stere Puone 610 Fred W. Wenét Card BeverageCe. | ° Whelesate 805 10th 8. PHONE 216—-DAY er NIGHT tor MIXERS or nom‘»m The Alaskan wa e oy v PHOME SINGLE O PHONR 688 Thomas Hardware Co. PAINTS —- OILS Builders’ and Sbelt HARDWARE Remington Trpewriter J. B. Burford Ce. “Our Dotrstep Is Wers by Batisfled Customers™ FORD AGENCY (Authoriséd Dealers) GREASES — GAS — O Junean Moler Co. | Poot of Main Btreed < — JUNEAU DAIRIE; Al S DELICIOUS ICE €EREAM s datly lor it by Same Junean Dairies, Inc. .Chmln Marine Enginer Chas. G. Warner Co. HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 42 | | Home Liquor Stere—Tel 600 i American Meat — Phone 38 1 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give . fron’::l’:w: '?'l’?w H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVPS OVERALLS for Boys