The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1951, Page 4

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951 70 YEARS AGO £ eae MARCH 30, AGE FOUR In one part of the article he “I firmly be- lieve that if the Reds were strong enough in, the air| to attack Anchorage or Fairbanks, or the distant Juneau Panhandle region, they would be strong enough to by-pass Alaska altogether and land on the coast »f British Columbia or State of Washington.” NOT VINDIC ATFD B[ T FREE SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. ‘Wm. A. Chipperfield, Worshipful Mister; JAMES W §&TVERS, Secrotary. —————— Daily Alaska Empire Publi every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks, HELEN TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO ZLMER A. FRIEND - President Vice-President Managing Editor | : Alaska Points } 1931 u-Seattle airplane service would be started this week to con- throughout the ring, summer and fall, according to J. B. Bur- ticket agent for the Alaska-Washington Airways. The sea- aku, Pilot Robert Ellis, was scheduled to arrive in Juneau from the following day. The Taku was one of the planes based in | the previous summer and Pilot Ellis operated aircraft from he greater part of that season. ol | Eatered n the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Doulas $0.00; cne year, § six months, $ | | By mail, postage paid, at the eliowine & | Doctor Gordon Seagrave is free. Several weeks §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; | oo avs s S 1.80. |ago a press picture showed him about to step through toe month, in adva & e i " e Subscribers will er & favor ey will promptly motify | nerture o $or to serve g S0cEibers will confer s favar it the vl BrOmOLY Moary |@ small aperture in a huge studded door to serve six . | years in prison at forced labor for conviction by a : have of their papers ko oviinrd Burmese court of treason. This picture must caused deep pain to thousands who have reason to be personally grateful to the “Burma Surgeon” and to| millions of others who know his story, says the St Louis Star-Times. Dr. Seagrave has devoted his entire adult life service in Burma. During the war he was with Gen- ral Stillwell in and out of China. During 24- |hour period he treated 150 battle casualties B other doctor to help him. For two weeks he worked {alone except for his Burmese nurses in the Tour- goo front. He has been decorated by both the British |and the American govenments. The charges of treason were based on his be- havior in the northern Burmese town of Namkham when rebellious tribesmen occupied it. The Burmese government said he helped them. Seagrave admitted this but argued that had he not done so his hospital | would have been destroyed and his nurses killed. In view of his record Seagrave’s actions seem those of a to avoid being mixed up in March 30 Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alacka points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am. 120°h Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: Anchorage i Annette ‘Island Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton . Fairbanks .. Heaines Havre Juneau Airport Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath Nome ! Northway Petersburg M B.F.0. ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. 5178 per manth: | rine Alexander Jim Wilber David Orrin Edwards, Jr. Mrs. Earl G. Miller Janice Katherine Hillerman Margaret McCluggage Mrs. Cecil Swagerty Mrs. Richard McDonald Ervin Hagerup Acten Edwards Glenn A. Hofsinger ge Lavall e o o °o o o COMMUNITY EVENTS | TODAY i y, Igloo No. Alaska regular mec e. 602; Business Office, News Office, 14—Clear 34—Partly Cloudy 25—Clear 8—Cloudy 30—Snow 14—Partly Cloudy 31—Partly Cloudy e T=—Clear : 34—Cloudy 29—Partly Cloudy + 35—~Rain 33—8now 21—Clear .. 4—Clear . 10—Clear 10—Clear 33—Cloudy 41—Rain 33—Rain . 39—Rain 35—Rain 9—Clear 31—Rain and Drizzle| ( MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " The Assoclated Press fs 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 local news published herein. word had been received here that Mrs. Oliver Anderson, wife of Douglas had been painfully though not seriously fire which had destroyed the Northern Commercial Com- at McGrath. Anderson was store- of the Alaska Road Commission a former Douglas resident was Anderson. Mrs. Lottsfeldt was a Mocose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Each Friday Governer— ARNOLD L FRANCIS Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN T resident, in a NATIONAL REPR! SENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 fourth Avenue Bldg.. | Seattle, Wash. cabi. and adjoini; Mrs. Carl Lottsfeldt, ntendent at Tgkotna to McGrath to care for nurse. t0 tore g wife and S0 one Aals Mrs. cecvUe08000000 e ° with | \laska Juneau mine stock continued to jump &nd reached 14 today 1 11 At 8 pm. Pioneers of i IOOF hall At 8 pm. — Legion of the Moc initiation and lunch At 3 p.m. — Spring concert by Doug- las Public € At 9:30 p.m. school ¢ Industrial School for Natives at Shoe- was progressing satisfactorily according to Portland Troast, architect and member of the Sheldon Jackson School Prince George t Sitka. Bids for constructing five buildings on the site were|geqetje % called about May 15 Sitka ..o Whitelorse hree-fourths from the Alaska herds of the | Yakutat .. uction at the Fouke Fur Company in ty thousand pelts were sold at the morn- (oMMuNl(AIlON out for rehearsal of the recently organ- Brownie's Liquor Sfore Pheme 193 139 Be. Frunkiim ?. U. Box 238 the site for the Bay, near Wi gell, C ring of st I I IS "The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmaciste BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. March 30, 1951 AKE ALASKA ay, T e Frida, Prom in Hi doctor who was trying | politics. 1 The ge ment of Burma did not seem sure above head appears on a long article in | its grounds. First it reduced the charges in mid-trial. March 31 issue, now on the Juneau news-| Now, an appeals court, while confirming the ccnvic- is. The article was written by none other lhr\n tion and the sentence, has redmced it so that the wellknown the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J.|doctor is free. Bill Davidson, and is well illustrated Dr. Seagrave doesn't seem to care about the odium The Alaskan wilderness is so wild, so impene-{of conviction. He said simply, “This is wonderful. able, so deadly, that any military force would be)Now I want nothing more than a chance to continue ngulfed and destroyed in it without our having to my work. I want to get back to the people I have fire @ says the famed Glacier Priest. worked for.” a good one, if we do say it, and| The sick and suffering won't éare about the ques- by all. There are many,substantial | tionable conviction either,. They will be ministerd d why Russia would have & hard | unto. And Dr. Seagrave’s millions of admirers all fet forces made a strike on Alaska. |over the world won't The “Burma Surgeon” agree with everything the Glacier | has returned to his patients. good reading. About 25,000 seal skins March 21 sid ‘at . tHe W\ , were he previous day. Twe ht $4. At 8 pm sponsored Folk Dance Jambor o by Polkateers, pari Collier’s, sion and broug sta Thirty-five vocalists turr Juneau Choral Society. EDITOR DAILY ALASEKA EM- PIRE [+ "As I am & newcomer to Alaska, will you please inform mc as to{the why for “Seward Day,” which the 'Territory observes? (Signed) Mrs. Raymond Whittaker Alaska Music Sapply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Planss—Musical (nstruments and SBupplies .Phone 266 .Second and Seward o At 10 pm, — Dancing starts BPOE Ladles Night in Elks ball- room, 36; Weather: High, 44; P it 0 S i Pt e e Bt Gt . [‘a:i Lessons i WORDS OFTEN MISUS] “It cost comsiderable.” Say, cost was consider we had expected OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Beneficent. Pronounce be-nef-i-sent, s in BE, second E as in BET, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Debutante (feminine). Debutant low cloudy. 7'\ tnalis h I} i Aprii 1 Joing m&"-hntinh W and Auxiliary B hot,” ] *ticle A i i ( i I ' pm. - of cfficers VFV CIO hall. . L. GORTON S ) Seward Day is in honor of Wil- llam H. ward, Secretary of State, whose efforts: resulted in the pur-| chase of Al from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre). The | treaty was signed on March 30, 1867, land the act took place October 18, 1867, at Sitka. 4 a Do not say, “He is worth considerable,” He is worth considerable money,” and, a4 April 2 care. a Lions Club, . Baranof. C meets in Terrace on S 35 YRS. AGO TODAY FIRST STATEHOOD BIL! INTRODUCED | It was 85 years ago today that the first statéhcod bill for Alaska was introduced it Congress by Judze James Wickersham, This was on the 40th anniversary of the purs chase of Alaska. Wickersham's bill was patterned -after the enabling act for ‘the creation of the State of Oklahoma, which he ccnsidered good. Priest says but it is Baranof. At 8 pm meets GENERAL PAINTS and WALLPAFER Ideal Paint Store Phone 649 Fred W. Wendy er £ as - American Legion pos has demoted its crack Capitol Hill m Digott: reporter, Bert Wissman—for good reporting. Wissman was assigned to cover the Senate investigation of the smear mpaign against ex- senator Tydings of Maryland and the fake picture which the Times- Herald printed of Tydings and Communist Earl Browder together. Wissman reported the hearings objectively, telling both sides of the story. But this wasn’t what the Times-Herald wanted. So Wissman was given a cub. reporter's rewrite job in the city room. Two substi- tutes were assigned ‘to, the; Tydings® hearings who would write the news the Way the Times-Herald wanted vl iR (mascu- Fhe Washmqlon “Aerry-Go-Round ctinued from Page One) SERGT. BILL FRIEND, IN KOREA, WANTS MAP TONGASS NAT. FOREST, Sgt. William (Bill) W. Friead,| Card Beverage € Juneau young man, and son of El- 5 ‘ ‘Wholesale 805 10th BS. \mer A, Friend, writing to Secretary || PHONE 216—~DAY er NIGHT William Biggs of the Juneau BPOE { 3 y Club, Bar The Rev. I tvans, Moderator of Ger mbly sg in Nortk Presbyterian church, At 8:30 'Dm. — Oemmunity, Génter night for gdults at Teen-Age club with square daneing, April 4., At.-noon — Kiwanis Club: \t 8 pm. — Elks lod, April 5 At noon —= Chamber of Cpmmeni meets af. Brrandbf Hpteld | ] At 8:15 pm. — Penwomen to meet at Dora "Vecneys lmgm, ; u‘l Apr noon — Rota cool, collected, nonchalant, self-pos- 8 p.m. SNONYMS: Calm, imperturbabl WORD STUDY | increase our vocabulary b | IMPREGNABLE; able i impregnable.” { MODERM E71 Q. When aguest isleaving his hotel for an hour or two, considered all right for him to take his room key with him? A. It ¥s much better for him to leave the key at the main desk, then | |ask for'it when he returns. This is the only method by which the clerk’ composed, 1! sessed al As- 1 Light | ord three times and it is yours” Let us . e tering one word each day. Today’s word: iringCompany) made the t attack assault. “The fortress was ing comments: | Congressmen—This but with | members v follo “Contacting ought to be continued, caution, In other words, of the House subcommitiee ought to be approached, but only if the confact made with the Congressman is extremely reliable. Cpngressman worth of ‘Texas ' (Demodrat) and Congressian’ Ellsworth of Ore- 205 AReimibticsn Lyl be handled or - U E ' TE thF‘(TA LEE and enclosing $15 for one y E ‘or MIXERS er SODA FOP e 1 dues, says he would like to have a' map of the Tongass National For- est wrapped up and sent to him. Sgt. Friend's s dated Yoju, ! Korea, His Army is G-2| The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Reoms at Reasonzble Rates is it By | | letter 1 aqdress APO by Jones. The other industry com- mittee members ought to contact the House Interstate Commerce Committeemen - assigned to them. Also, each industry member should speak to the Congressman of the district in which his piace of bus-| iness is located “The Senator Kefauver Investiga- | in- that tion and Public Relations—The dustry can't take the attitude it is opposed to the Kefauver vestigation. To do it up with the hoodlums. However, some of the attacks to which the| industry is presently being subje ted could be prevented . with the use of an intelligent public-relations program. . . . Members of the in- dustry have consistently lied by maintaining to the public that the industry does not manufacture gambling equipment. This, of course is mot true. There ought to be an honest admission of the fact that the ' industry does manufacture gambling equipment.” The representative of the Bell o-matic Corporation, Vince Shay, suggesed that the industry “ought]| not to rest on its oars but ought to conceive a plan of operation. The committee ought to consider the possibility of employing a profes- sional representative in Washing- ton, D. C., who would the activities of the entire ttry in doing whatever had to be done to defeat the passage of the (slot-machine control) bill.” Slot-Machine Strategy In summary, the secret minutes report: “After discussion, it was finally determined that the course of action to be taken by the in- dustry committee is as follows: “1, Industry committee members should see Congressmen on the House Transportation subcommit- tee, ding their contacts with thes. i€ beyonc conta district located. “32. They guments against the Preston Bill and similar legislation in writing ‘3. Committee members should send letters to club customers, ask- ing for information on the amount of slot-machine funds to charities and charitable enter- prises. The information guined from ictters which the clubs turn will be used in statistics for the Congress.” Note—Though a slot-machine control bill Congress anyhow, its enforcern is still held up by the justice partment. .on. They should also congressmen of the which their plants are the re- de- Slanted News The Washington Times-Herald in- | so would line | coordinate | indus- | are reliable and | should submit their ar-| distributed | preparing | committees in| watered-down | passed | NEY HONORED GUEST AT PARTY ON THURSDAY S O SWE California Crime Error Looking over the back Merry-go-~ round columns on the Kefauver| probe, I ran across an error and also an indication of how difficult it was to pass the Kefauver reso- | lution in the first place. On April 8, 1950, this column re- ported: “There’'s more than meets the eye behind the mysterious maneuvering to block the Kefauver | resolution for an investigation of organized crime in the U. S. A. It {is now April. The Kefauver invest- | igation was first proposed in Jan-| ue It hasn't yet passed the| Senate. . . . Friends ang associates of Edwaré Sweeney in the U. S. Forest Serv- ice were hests at a party given | his honor Thursday night at Mike’s Place in Douglas. Sweeney leaves the Forest Service at the end of this week to join the Office of Price Stabilization as procurement officer. He has been property and supply clerk in the Forest Service Juneau regional of- fice the past several years. TRAP MEN ARE HERE FOR CONFERENCE FISH and tors AU Gunderson, Don Davis | vance Sutter, fish trap oper: from Seattle, were in Jun yesterday for conferences with gional Director Clarence Rhode, the U. S, Fish ‘and WWildlife Sérvic “Powerful forces are at work| Fred which don’t want any investigation at all. Senator Kefauver has had all sorts of personal pressure brought by friends he never dream- ed were close to the gamblers ask- ing him to side-track his probe. . .” [ and other officials on fish and trap The April 8 column, while per-|T¢gulations for the coming haps helping to spur passage of the crime probe, erred in further com-| mept regarding one phase of the California crime situation, when 1| | reported that George Rochester of {Los Angeles had “whitewashed” the aranty Finance Company,| later found to be a front for gam- | blers. This reference to Mr. Roch- Re- f F season, cf Mike Moore, representative Morris P. Kirk and Son, Inc, Portland, an alloy and metals com- pany, is registered at the UAJ.H)\J{‘ Hotel. [ | \ll’lRl: WANT ADS PAY— r {IViL DEF, LEADERS | T0 ANCHORAGE FOR EXERCISE "FIRESTEP' Tom Dyer, civil defense for. Juneau, and D. Alexander, territorial dire of civil defense, leave Friday af noon for Anchorage to attend rritory-wide maneuvers invol nd the civi! cefense organizati The exercise designated tep” will test ground ang air fenses in the Alaskan theaier, major activity centered in Kodiak, Anchorage and Fairb: areas The civil defense representat from Nome, Fairbanks, and Jureau will be briefed meeting Saturday morning on t ir the part that the territo civil defense will have in procedures, bomb disposal, first and fire control. John McMees attend the meeting from No Bob Hoopes from Fairbanks, | Bob Sharp from Anchorage. Dyer is expected to return Sunday Monday. assistant, director ving military of the three armed | forces, troops from outside Ala with Anchorage at alert "knn\\'s whether or not he is in his room, should there be any calls for the' guest at the desk. Q. Tf a girl who'is going to be married does not have'a father cr a brother to give her away, whom can she choose to perform this rite? A, Tf she has no other close male relatives, then she may choose a lose male friend of the family. Q. When serving a buffet supper, napkins be placed? A.. It/ is more convenient to place them where, they: are to.be picked p last. * 4 lOOK afld lEARN A C. GQRDON 1. Of what States are the following cities the capitals: (a) Santa de-\Fe, (b) Carson City, (c) Pierre, (d) Columbia, (¢) Olympia, (f) Topeka? 2. What governmental department of the U. S. controls Indian affairs? How many separate bones are there in the human skull? By whom was “The Laughing Cavalier” pumt(‘d’) What, is the antonym of “zenith”? a ANSWERS: est- 1. (a) New Mexico, (b) Nevada, rial [lina, (&) Washington, (f) Kansas. 2. Department of the Interior. 3. Twenty-eight. 4, Frans Hals 1581-1666). 5. Nadir. e where should, the silver and Col CtoRy ter= the | ska, ons. | & the ax ives (c) South Dakota, (d) South Caro- aid will hme, and i or HAROLD BROWN ester I now find to have been an jerror and I want to take this op- porunity to rectify any injustice that may have been done Mr. Rochester. Crossword Puzze ! 32 Gasps for breath English letter 5. Has recourse to ACROSS . Freeze . Stinging insect !4 . Dilatory . Sallor Operatle solo . Middle-Amer!. can linguistie Merry-go-round Thosé famous 800 letters now on President Truman’s desk, which Congressmen wrote to the RFC asking for loans, are only a small drop in the bucket. The Presmem, has been informed that Sen: | and Representatives have v\mwu‘ more than 6,000 appeals to the RFC on behalf of their friends. . . A reactionary radio commentator | has sent one of his assistants to Bill Boyle’s home town in Mis- souri to see if he ean dig up any | dirt on the Democratic National chairman. Plug for the air | force—the House armed services | committee inspected Chanute Field, I, last week looking for abuses. Hearings were even held behind closed doors, so witnesses wouldn't | be afraid to talk. However, the committee didn't uncover a single, compla. the contrary, it took | down several pages of favorable | testimo | 37, 29. i 41. y hammer h of animals used | | animals Glossy paints I 2l | | ] . Exist on FROM KE A. L. Florence of Ketchikan opping at the Baranof Hotel | H S Ream, RS auditor | |for the Alaska Steamship Co., u‘ { stopping at the Baranof Hotel. He | wlans to leave Sunday for Seattle. % | AP Newsfealure: <[3z/m 3] DOWN 1. Pronoun 2. Feline solitaries . Caution . Constellation ecribed by a eonic section . Rigid 26, Small shoot . Complete collections . 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