The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1951, Page 4

rAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire od every evening except Sunday m the MPIRE PRINT) CoM| nd and Main Stree insen Alaike President Vice-President Managing Editor DOROTHY ThOY LING - ELMER A. FRIEND Entered in the Post_Office in Juneau, a UBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier S Tunean and Dourlas for $1.75 per month; six months, $9.00; one year, S17.50 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602 econd Class Matter. Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associuted 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 local news published herein. T NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, Fourth Avenue Blde.. Seattle, Wash, 1411 Prominent in the discussion at the last Chamber of Commerce meeting was the question of new small boat harbor facilities on Gastineau Channel. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce is protesting the U. S. Engineers recommendation of “Plan B” fo1 the building of a 20-acre boat harbor at Douglas, and asks instead a compromise that would provide a Douglas boat basin of smaller size than the specified 20 acres of Plan B and an enlargement of Juneau's present small boat harbor. There is no controversy between Juneau and Doug- las. However, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce letter objects to the army report, included in the Plan B setup, that a wind velocity of 44 miles an hour is the greatest encountered at the Douglas site and objects further to the assumption that the pro- posed enlargement of the Juneau boat basin would require a costly breakwater. is not a protest made for the purpose of opposing a harbor being constructed in Douglas “We definitely believe that Douglas is entitled to have a harbor, but we maintain that it should be one comparable in size to the number of boats that would have use for it, and should limited boat also be in size to that part of the area of the proposed Douglas boat | basin that is protected from the Taku wind by Juneau Isle (Mayflower Island),” says the merce letter. The letter closes with this assurance, “F already had on this matter or - your with It information discussion has been officials of the City of Dougla is reasonable to believe that a fair be wopked out between Juneau and Douglas a small harbor, fully protected from the Taku wind, should be constructed at Douglas a lar sasin adequate to accommodate the needs of Juneau hoats should be built in Juneau. We sincerely hope that you will take steps to see that this report (favor- ng Plan B) is held in abeyance until some satisfactory slan can be devised whereby the needs nunities can be satisfied.” Douglas city officials, we are told, happy to compromise over the size of the orovided for Douglas in Plan B. A 20-acre boat harbor would maintain and would be greater than their needs now -and for sometime in the future, a Dougl official told us. A boat harbor of eight or ten acres he suggested would be ample. Douglas does not want a boat harbor beyond its means to support. Facilities for fishing boats and pleasure craft Jastineau Channel are important to both communi- ies. There should be no quarrel between Douglas and compromise c: whereb and zer boat of both com- would be boat ¥ be expensive on Juneau that cannot be resolved to the satisfaction of, And we believe there is no quarrel Engineers, Juneau solution to the both towns. We hope that the Army Douglas can reach a satisfactory problem. And we are sure they will and A Refreshing Trend (Indianapolis Star) It may be branded as pure heresy FSA in Washington, but that “get off around the government relief” edict pronounced to 40,000 members of the! of the in Mormon Church in Arizona and New Mexico sort restores our faith jn human nature. Members of Latter-Day Saints Church who met at Globe, Ariz., their annual regional welfare conference had it im- pressed upon them by a representative of the Gen-| eral Welfare Committee from Salt Lake City that the Mormon Church was ready to look after its own. In fact, it was pronounced that the welfare program Chamber of Com- | to| These objections to the report might be inter- to a Douglas boat basin, but| .,y member of the church to depend on Uncle Sam. There must be consternation among the social plan- preted as objections the same letter from the Juneau Chamber of Com- | merce goes on record in m'un(ammg that the letter 'ners in Wash!ngton The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) talk ftheir language, theyll get Ps back® in line.” v W Snubbed Senator Busy Sen. Ken Wherry of Neb- raskd is complaining bitterly about the wav he has been snubbed by Gengri! MpcArthur, the man for whorh e ! ne to bat so vigor- ‘ously. What irks Ken ic that Senators Knowland of California, Bridges of New Hampshire and Taft of Ohio, a1l Republicans, are in frequent touch with MacArthur, while his pokesman, Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney telephoned questions to te it Gen. Omar Brad- Joe Collins, when they were itness stand In contr Senator Wherry was turned down when he tried to see MacArthur in New York, and has- n't yet been able to get him on the >hone. You can't blame him for just @& little out in the cold. th ot ley and Gen el feeling Lady Senator from Reno?? It is supposed to be an office secret, but the lady who runs Sen. Pat McCarran's office, attractive Eva Adams, now has ambitions to become a Senator from Nevada herself. Miss Adams has been bad- gering her boss, McCarran, to sup- port her in the 1952 election against his Nevada colleague, GOP Sen. George “Molly” Malone. Miss Adams has secretly coveted Malone’s seat for some time, and even put herself through law school at nights until, last year, she passed both the District of Columbia and Nevada bar examinations. She is the pert, competent, former Dean of Women at Nevada University, but for the past 10 years she has been McCarran's secretary. Those close to McCarran's office also say she can twist the Senator around her finger. Net result of Miss Adams’ poli- tical ambitions is that the silver- thatched Nevada Democrat is very much on the spot. For he had al- ready promised his support private- ly to Alan Bible, the ex-Attorney General, who also wants to run against Malone. If McCarran goes through with his support for Bible, it means that his senate office and the lady who runs it will be impossible to live with. Therefore, the harassed Mc- Carran is trying to placate his sec- retary by offering to make her a federal judge, even though she was admitted to the bar only a short time ago. Biggest RFC Loan The more you dig into the RFC scandal regarding the huge $87,000,- { 000 loan to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, the more you wonder why Republican Senators side-stepped a showdown at a time when they controlled Congress in 1947. Had they finished their RFC probe in- stead of mysteriously suspending it in mid-air, subsequent RFC troub- l¢és might have been avoided Cllef difference between 1947 and and the Bishops’ 1951 is that tocay White House cronies and a $9,000 mink coat are involved, while a powerfill railroad friendly to certain - senators and $87,000,000, was inyolved in 1947. At any rate, here is a new and interesting wrinkle regarding thej B. & O. case. | After RFC administrator Jesse Jones had’ put™his Ymef™inside the B. & O, one . of them, Russell Snodgrass, who became financial vice-president, . proceeded to get the McLaughlin Bankruptcy Act| revised. The RFC would not be re- paid as scheduled in 1945. There- fore, he proceeded to pull wires to secure the renewal of the McLaugh- in Act by which the railroad could go into receivership without the Jeses Jones boys giving up control. To that end, Snodgrass appeared efore the Senate Banking and Currency commitiee and urged re- nent of the McLaughlin Act. Eut the interesting thing was that Snodgrass testified as an RFC of- ficial, even though he had already accepted a lush salary oifer from the B. & O., the railroad which would profit most. Furthermore, Snodgrass did not | tell the Senate committee that he had accepted a job with the B. & O. when he testified. In brief, he used his government position to further legislation in the interest of his private employer. The McLaughlin Act was then renewed, and the B. & O, three years later, was thrown into a fic- titious bankruptcy under - circum- stances described in a previous col- umn—namely, a letter drafted by Snodgrass, later sent to him by the RFC. These are some of the facts which Senator Fulbright’s subcom- mittee on the RFC could well in- vestigate. Panning John Steelman Dr. John Steelman, back-slapping administrative assistant to Presi- dent Truman, has been pulling frantic wires on Capitol Hill to| prevent the Senate Labor commit- tee from making public a report on the railroad strike criticizing him, Steelman has been pleading and cajoling that the report be rewrit- ten or suppressed. Chairman of the Senate Labor committee, Jim Murray of Mon- tana, is a great friend of the White House, and ordinarily “would not level criticism at one of Truman's aides. In this case, however, Steel- man is charged with being respon- sible for the off-again, on-again White’ House policy which confused the nation last year and helped precipitate the railroad strike. This column has obtained a copy of the Senate report which Dr. Steelman wants suppressed, and it’s easy to see why he doesn’t like it. Here are some purple passage: “Dr. Steelman allowed himself to | become involved in the dispute in | a manner which compromised his effectiveness and which threatens to embarrass the White House. It is an unwritten rule in the profes- sion that mediators will not. . . be- come arbitrators in the same dis- | pute. In the opinion of the Senate committee, he (Steelman) made himself a vulnerable target.” v storehouses made it unnecessary for The above referred to the fact that Steelman, wrote himself into the railroad agreement as arbiter in case of future misunderstandings between the railroads and the bro- therhoods. The Senators also panned Steel- man for having “grossly distorted and misrepresented” the railway unions. The Senate Committee also sug- gests that Steelman was untruth- ful when he advised the President that the brotherhoods had promised not to strike. “The committee finds,” says the report, “that no such promise had been given.” All in all, for a man who likes to get- along with folks, as_big John does, the report puts him in rather a bad light with a large segment of society BAKD MEMBERS ON HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY Because of the short notice given and also previous engagements only 14 members of the school and Juneau City bands reported yester- day morning and the engagement to participate in the Memorial Day parade was necessarily cancelled. Majorette Joyce Hope was ready to lead the band if sufficient numbers had turned out. Russell Clark, of the City band represented his or- ganization and beat the drum for the marchers. FROM WASHINGTON Richard G. Ray of the United States Geological Survey from Washington, D. C. is registered at the Baranof Hotel. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ™™ Henry S. Sully Oscar Clauson Joanne Blythe Paula Freimuth Edwin J. Kirchoffer Mrs. Thomas Aiken Gladys Dennison ie Raynor ° e o o o COMMUNITY EVENTS TODAY 6:30 pm. — Juneau Rifle and Pistol club shooting on Menden- At *| hall range. | At 7:30 pm. — Fourth of July com= mmo\_ meets in lobby, Baranof. June 1 At 10 am. — Trinity Guild rummage | sale in Undereroft of church. \t noon — Soroptimist club week- ly meeting and luncheon in Gold room, Baranof, ‘.n 8 p.m. — Regular meeting Juneau ! Shrine club. At 8:30 pm. — First series of sum- mer square dances given in parish hall. 2 June At 2 p.m. — Style review by sewing | workshan members in grade school | auditorium. Public welcomed. Junc 4 At noon — Lions club, Baranof. At noon — BPW noon luncheon meeting, Baranof. i At 8 p.m. — American Legion post meets in Dugout. | June 5 | At noon — Rotary club, Baranof. June 6 At 8 pm. Elks lodge ‘Seven Americans, Parachute Dropped in Korea, Caplured MOSCOW, May 31 —L ‘The Sov- iet press reported today that seven Americans dropped by parachute be- hind the North Korean lines have ‘been captured. (The account indicated such para- troopers were being killed). A dispateh from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang said the Kor- eans are showing “great vigilance” in nabbing such paratroopers. “The local population,” said the dispatch, “catches them quickly and destroys them. During recent da thanks to the vigilance of peasant seven American diversionist-para- chutists have been caught in vari- ous regions of Northern Korea. They ‘l\'!d been dropped from planes.” ANTI-COMMUNIST PARTIES WIN IN TTALY'S ELECTIO ROME, Mz Final re- turns today gave Premier Alcide Gasperi’s church-supported Chris- tian Democrats and other Communist parties a sweeping vic- tory over Italy’s Reds in provincial council - elections ,\n one-third of Italy this week. The Communists and Allied Soc- ialists polled 85.3 per cent of the +'8,500,000 votes cast. | De Gasperi reported to President | Luigi Einaudi last night that “Atlantic Pact” Coalition’s cs dates had won control of 21 of the 27 North Italy provincial councils for which elections were held. FROM SEATTLE E. S. Marvich of Seattle is reg- { isered at the Baranof Hotel Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Swine 4. Couch 9. Chart 12. Hnom ln a ha 13. PUPel vefl 14. Past 88. Doom 15. Old card game 39. Withered 17. Raised 41. Go away 19. Handle secretly 21. Construct 43. Locations 22, Potter's glaze 47. Army officers 24 Perlodq of ten 0. New star 27, Taucll lh:hlly 2. 30. Existence: Bi. 84. Galley having two banks of oars 35. Devil 36. Hasten 37. Condensed ‘moisture 55. Female sand« piper 66. Shel 67. Land measure philo. i Le!son taught by a fable 32. Mission A L Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1. Army 2. Smell . Strong wind 4. Perform . Anger . Man servants Keenly portance an of years d v m ¢ Abyssinian cereal Operatic solo 20, Sham §fil (0. Fubhub r,,,,m» | Indian welght s g . \H vr\ repletion 7. Jewish vwm:h te . Before Seftle downe ward Camnass nolng REL 18 3 @0eccoeesere 1 from 0 YEARS AGO 8 the The Capt day Like to L E tion w. He i Mrs. opening dren E Hospi! T ‘comprising j persor of otk \ Knigh Violet lick, ~— noun S Ni Fern, Memorial Day, W another take.” OFTEN OFTEN MISSPELLED: Musical (rhythmic). cital). MAY 31, 1931 ne last 24 hours. Capt James auction. 5 erve perform in the continued ‘life and welfare of the Republic,” of the U. S. Army told his audience at Memorial Day Aikens. THE EMPIRE set aside to pay homage to the nation’s dead, to remind Americans, one and all, that they have a duty Major thousand pounds of fish were brought in to the cold storage Of the total, 4,000 were halibut and 5,000 salmon John Lowell brought in the halibut and the T-3765, Young, the salmon. They were brought in too late for the “should « A parade by the American Legion and other civic organiza- one of the highlights of the day. D. Gros the owner of the Coliseum Theatre in that city. Rigney, for haircutting, trims, marcelling and finger waving. G tal. he ,764 males and 23,514 females. 1s; 29, ier races. he Norco arrived in Juneau, 1t with the following passengers: Bovd, Dot Llewellen, S. P. Whiteley. Capt W. T. Mahoney, R. C. Wakelin. reather: High, 48; low, 41; fair. Daily Lessons in English %% 1. corboN ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Please try and avoid such “Please try TO avoid ANOTHER SUCH mis- mistake.” Say, MISPRONOUNCED: Rebound. and verb is on second syllable. 'YNONYMS: Squeamish, fastidious, overnice, scrupulous. experienced beauty operator from Seattle, uty shop at 174 Front Street, catering to ladies and chil- ss was a passenger for Petersburg on the Admiral Rogers. was Norland of this city underwent a major operation at St. Ann’s u of Census announced a population of 59,278 for Alaska Of these 28,640 were white Indians, 218 Japanese, 164 Filipinos, 136 negroes and 77 A. Ekholm, and Purser H. From Seattle—Mrs. J. M. Cramer, From Petersburg—M. McKol- Preferred accent for both Musicale (concert, re- Let us anti-4 WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: OBSESSION; persistent and unescapable preoccupation with an idea or emotion. “His theory of perpetual motion became an obsession.” MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoprrra ree Q. Which is the correct form of introduction, “Mrs. White, this is my husband,” or, “Mrs. White, this is Mr. Roberts"? A. The correct form is, “Mrs. White, this is my husband.” Q.. Where do the bridesmaids meet before the wedding? A. They always meet at the home of the bride, where they receive i their bouquets. Q. Should a college girl {Shirley Hall? A. She should call herself Shirley Hall. : LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpox introduce herself as Miss Hall or as 1. What city of the world opened the first underground railway for passengers? 2. A lieutenant normally has charge of what unit in the American {Army? 3. What is a filicide? 4. How is bayou pronounced? 5. In what poem is the famous line, “What is so rare as a day u; June”? ANSWERS: London. A platoon. One who klils his child. A “by-00." 1 2 8. 4 5. “Vision of Sir Launfal,” by James Russell Lowell. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising!|. po— MRS. HAZEL HOLMES as a paid-ap subscryer 1o THE VAILY 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: “DESERT HAWK" TFederal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phene 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 Bank in Alaska | 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1951 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | | & \Weather at Alaska Pomls‘ Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacifie Coast, at 4:30 am., 120‘h Meridian Time, and ) released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: Anchorage Annette Island Barrow Bethel . Cordova Dawson Edmontop . Pairbanks ;.. . Haines Havre Juneau Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath (L. i Nome 44—-Rain | Northway N - 48—Cloudy | Petersburg wr. 35—Clear | Portland 48—Cloudy » Prince George ... 30—Clear Seattle . 45—Cloudy | Sitka < 39—Partly Cloudy Whitehorse . . 43—Rain Yakutat 45-Cloudy ALASKA COASTAL | ANNOUNCES NEW SUMMER SCHEDULE On June 1, tomorrow, Alaska Coastal Airlines is returning to the summer schedule on flights to Icy Straits and Chatham Straits points. Two flights daily, one in the morn- | ing leaving Juneau at 9:30 and one in the afternoon leaving Juneau at 3:25 will serve this area. Scheduled airmail service author- izes stops of at least three times| per week at these points. Since planes will be operating on routes ! in this area both morning and af- ternoon, stops will be made at any, point on a request basis. With this new schedule in effect, Alaska Coastal Airlines offers twice daily service—passenger and air express to all points on its routes in Southeast Alaska. The points effected by the new sched- ule include Hawk Inlet, Chatham, Todd, Superior, Tenakee, Pelican, Hoonah, Funter, Excursion Inlet, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Port Althorp, Baranof, Barge, Hood Bay, Angoon, Cokol, Chichagof and Kimshan. The date of Sitka to Ketchikan operation will also be changed o June 1 from Monday to Tuesday. Flights will leave Sitka at 9 am. stopping at Petersburg and Wrang- ell as traffic requires and arrive Ketchikan at 12:30. Departure from Ketchikan is at 1:30 p.m. stopping at Wrangell . and™ Petersburg de-! pending on traffic and arriving Sit- | ka at 3 p.m. 1 GEOLOGIST MOVED HERE FROM PALMER } Clark McHuron, project geo]ogisv,[ { with the Bureau of Reclamation on {the Ekluina hydroelectric power | project near Palmer, has been trans- ferred to Juneau. He will replace A. E. Jaskar, district geologist here, whio has resigned. As soon as he can find accommo- dations for his family, McHuron ex- pects to move them here from Pal- | mer. The family consists of Gregory, | 9; David, 8; Eric, 5, and Bnrbara,’ six months. 44—Partly Cloudy 45—Fog 23—Cloudy | 47—Cloudy . 45—Fog 3 45—~Cloudy 34—Partly Cloudy 41—Partly Cloudy 43—Partly Cloudy siteiie 38-—Drigzle .. 35—Clear 42--Rain and Fog 44—Cloudy 42—Cloudy | The climate in the “central ba-! sins” of kcuador is springlike me year around. STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Caslers Men's Wear _ MoGregor Sportswear Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY llmll % CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Complete Outfitter for Men SHAFFER’S SANITARY MEAT - FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery THURSDAY. MAY 31, 1951 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 142 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Wm. A. Chipperfield, ‘Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €D B.P.0.ELKS Meeting every Wednesday at 8 PM. Visiting brothers welcome, LE RO¥Y WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secret.ary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— + LOREN CARD | Secretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.1.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. Brownie's Liquor Store Phene 103 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2508 et ro PSS VSGLs — | - J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. Accounting Auditing Tax Work . Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 642 Telephone 919 e i i ® —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO *DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNITURE CO. PHONE 555 " PAINTS —— OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD and SERVICED by J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneaun Motor Co. Foot of Main Street JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 American Meat — Phone 38 To Banish “Blue Monday” To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone T12 High Quality Cabinet Werk for Home, Office or Stere