The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1951, Page 4

{ ] ' j pemmsspe biamed for believing it. resources and our fishing resources, which latter are near maximum development, there is not the slightest e — e ——— e pemseaorder t0 impiove Tyt T u .gest a re-reading of the statement of Allen Shattuck e FAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publ\shpd every evening except Sunday m the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska TROY MONSEN - ROTHY TROY LINGO ER A. FRIEND ““Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as szcond Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RAT] Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas (or $1.75 per month; six months, $6.00; one year, $17.50 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 failure or irregularity in the deMvery of thelr papers. Telephone: the records show that for the last 4 years we have not reached a peak of 5,000,000 cases. The peak in 1936 was about 8. million cases and with one or two exceptions since that time it has been gradually going down each year so that this resource is not likely to be able to produce more taxable wealth in the future than in the immediate past, nor to produce more under statehood than it does now. o (33 President Vice-President Managing Editor edible food fish developed “The several other varieties of | known to exist in Alaska waters lon a large commercial scale because of the adverse labor and transportation costs “Gold mining has dropped to less than half what it was in prewa Formerly it was one of our chief sources of Territorial tax revc I cannot be Business Office, 374. of OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published i sible to say how long a time will be required to recpen s | mining full scale to attain the state of production NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alnska Newspapers, 1411 2 3 o 2. This may Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. | which had been attained prior to 1942. This maj quire several years and it may never result, for it is ‘xn\poxubl« te say at the present time just what the i future of gold will be in relation to its purchasing nue is impos- re- | power.” Mr. Shattuck also objects to the claim that state- | hood will bring a larger population to Alaska. He says: | “As for statehood status increasing population, there have also been advanced spurious contentions | Permanent population increase will take place when | there is industry to support it and not until then. I am unable to visualize what we would do with 10 or 10 thousand people right now. The flow of people to the Western and Pacific Coast States has no l‘('mllon‘l in my opinion to the political status of those Btates People change residence and capital moves from place | to place for many reasons but not for the reason that a State is preferable to a Territory. The early west- | ern settlers made a dime go as far as we can go with ,a dollar.” In his statement, Mr. Shattuck has taken up other of the claims in favor of statehood now, among them, | that. without statehood, Alaska would be undefended in case of war and that people will not remain in Alaska if they are to be deprived of their rights as citizens. To this he says, and backs it with the knowl- ; edge of 52 years of living in Alaska, “I have yet to Monday, June 11, 1951 MR. SHATTUCK ON STATEHOOD While statehood advocates are continuing to de- clare that statehood will bring to Alaska additional permanent population; that our population is now greater than that of other territories at the time they became states; that we need statehood for the development of our great natural resources—we sug- | 21 3h the committee report on Alaska Statehood hearings. Though Mr. Shattuck did not fly to Washington THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO %%: sumrpirE i ind Mrs. Charles Goldstein arrived in Juneau after several San Francisco where they attended the wedding of their daugh- Marie, to Mr. John Dolinger of that city. JUNE 11, 1931 June 11 John D. Callahan Mrs. Florine Housel Audrey J. Thompson, C. W. Cady Mrs. Lois Nielsen Georgia Christopherson Gene Forsyth Mrs. Barbara Howard Pauline Paxton Thomas Wick e e o 6 0 0 o TY EVENTS | TODAY 7:00 pm. — Soft ball game at Firemen’spark between Rotarians{ and Lions. At 8 p.m, — American Legion post meets in Dugout. June 12 At noon —Rotary club, Baranef. At 12:30 pm. — Group of League of Women Voters meet in Ter- race, Baranof. At 1:30 p.m. — Group of League of Women Voters meet at AEL&P penthouse. At 6:30 p.m. tween E At 8 pm IOOF hail. At 8 p.m. — Eastern Star holds last meeting before summer vacation June 13 At noon — Kiwanis club, Barano?. At 1:30 p.m. — Garden Club dessert instailation ceremonies of Douglas Aerie 117, Fraternal Order was held with the following taking office: Auxilia; Madam Anne Gair; Madam V. P, Catherine Balog; Chaplain, Lempi Mamie Feusi; Conductress, Alice Si Inside Guard, Outside Guard, Agnes Bonner; Trustee, Gertrude Loughlin. No. 117 officers installed were: W. E. Feero, W. P.; Philip E. W. V. P.; Matt Loughlin, Chaplain; Guy Smith, Secretary; Robert reasurer; Sante Degan, Conductor; Emil Uberti, I. G.; Dan O. G.; Sam Devon, Trustee. Card playing and refreshments njoyed following installation, Secretary, DR R I I I cecesecoecco0000e yara Simpkins, daughter of Mr. an appendici and Mrs. George Simpkins, suc- s operation at St. Ann's Hospital. At e B 4 passengers disembarked here from tho Princess Loouise, Slater, veteran master of CPR vessels as skipper. Passengers Mrs. W. Abbott, Mrs. 5. Campbell, Mrs. T. Monteith, Mrs. W. T. Mrs. L. Lawrence, Mrs. M. Duchesney, . Anne Mason, Miss el, Marion Ott, Isaac Selvig, and R. Lawrence. walve A Scott, ‘|G H John McCormick had joined the staff of the American Beauty Shoy She carried a California and Washington State license and had been manager of the Holeman Department Store beauty shop at { P Calif. here. wcific Grove, — Baseball game be- 54; cloudy. and Moose, — Odd Fellows meet in Weather: High, 73; low, Daily Lessons in English %/, 1. corboN WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “In the event that they decide to go, we shall accompany them.” Say, “IF they decide to go.” e vhe to appear before the statehood committee at the time of the Senate hearings in April letter submitted to the Senate Committee on Interior | has in it more honest in the territory, more honest information about Alaska | ,.and Insular Affairs .than the testimony of any dozen of people who went to Washington by chartered airplane to play the political game of the Committee. Since Governors Gruening and Warren so recently | urged statehood for Alaska at the Univ commencement ceremonies, and used many Alaska's T of th over old vague arguments in agalr is raised. Mr. Shattuck quotes the statement of a state- hood advocate from a previous report “statehood ‘will We have the potentialities of support-| make Alaska. ing millions and not just hundreds of thousands. The Shattuck letter continues, such statements for many years. so often by people desiring to make the repes hea that the people of the justification for such statements. making the statements offer any jusf ing them. Such statements are ri realize it. I am not saying we developed resources. should not be deceived regarding t presume to speak with authority. N late settlement or produce tax revenue unless someone finds and develops them. “A word here about our majo catch of halibut off the coast of Alaska in 1949 reached the total of 22,465,000 pounds. It is believed this fishery might not be developed beyond t endangering the source of supply. The Washington ‘Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Defense and has urged a return to bottles. Note—Butler's home state of Ne-} braska has only two small brewing companies—Storz and Metz. The Nebraska Senator has been under pressure from Storz on the beer- can problem, but hasn't even heard from Metz. In spite of his emphasis ¢ on beer cans, Butler explained to this column that his fight is for tin for the entire canning industry. Gen. Collins Criticizes It may mean a shake-up in army training, but Gen. J. Lawton Col- cins, Army chief of staff, was crit- ical of U. S. Army maneuvers in West Germany last week. After watching crack army combat in mock battle near Grafenwohr, Col- lins called for more stress on fire- power, less on manpower. The units had been practicing frontal attacks and bayonet -char- ~'ges, which run up the casualty list ‘as the Chinese have learned in Ko- rea. Instead, Collins recommended that the troops deploy to high ground and concentrgte on fire- power He ])Um\t'd out that America fire, uggested that closer with ground Lrooj ctical air sup- Maryland Conviction It was no accident that Jon Jon- kel, the Chicago Tribune friend- . £ampaign-i er for GOP Sen. Segjohn Butler in Maryland, pleaded S uilty to violating the corrupt prac- tices act and paid his $5,000 fine within about 10 minutes. The guilty | .plea and the money to pay the fine ~had all been arranged in advance. here are several paragraphs from Mr. Shattuck’s letter to the Senate which, we believe, are z-"-zp( interest whenever the question of statehood now Yet, except for our timber stification for mak- idiculous and any- “one making them should, on a moment's reflection, I am only saying that if we do have them, they have not been discovered and people H ———_—_———— e ———————— but not ! sctual training in | luncheon at home of Mrs. Vernon Har At 8 pm. l | find anyone who has heard of anyone being un-l | willing to remain in Alaska because he could not vote for Congresmsen, or anyone refusing to come to] of 1950, his long — Elks lodge. interest | June 14 Alaska for the same reason.” | Mr. Shattuck quotes Mr. Sundborg, “I feel that we could as a State without impairing business ac- | tivity or growth, raise three or four times as much as we are raising in the Territory, or 30 or 40 million dollns for the biennium.” ersity of | “Forty million dollars,” Mr. Shattuck says, {be around $200 annual per capita tax for Stme“ e gt services alone and would cause an exodus from Alaska | d instead of a rush to it, and would,cause the elimina-| Loo LT I nanae : then talk about an office romance. |} This statement, which is longer than we have indi- { When the rumors got back to cated here, was presented by Mr. Shattuck to the; {nim, Vinson exploded. He sald ‘he statehood committee on his “own responsibility with- | {hadn’t made a fool of himself yet out suggestion or pressure from the so-called inter- mnd doesn’t intend to start doing so ests or anyone else.” A:XIU‘V One thing no person can challenge: Mr. Shattuck | knows whereof he speaks. He has lived in Alaska 53 years, he has served in six sessions of the legislature. | s a business man-and his interest is in the Terri- | | | Ur meets at Baranof. At 6:30 pm. — Juneau Rifle and Pistol club shooting on Menden- hall range. At 8 p.m. — Regular meeting of city council. the pro-statehood Alaska Statehood “would June 18 Lions club, Baranof. avor of statehood from his Congressional colleagues, Washington Pipeline Gordon Gray, former secretaxy of e Army, rsity of worth Carolina, is;be- “We have been It has been States can hardly His statement should refute the contention of statehood advocates that the only arguments against statehood now are those “of the vested interests.” In the hearings, one who knows Al A Alaskans can check the names, one after lof those who made the joy ride to Washington with | = the Alaska Statehood committee, and list the honors the statehood proponents have received from Alaska’s pro-statehood executive. At least 20 of those who appeared before the Senate Committee in favor of statehood or who pre- sented letters in favor of statehood were then or are now members of territorial boards or are holding jobs or receiving political favors through the terri- torial government. Maybe, in spite of political debts, these witnesses were sincere proponents of statehood for Alaska. But of Mr. Shattuck’s sincerity there can be no doubt. ;munL . . . So also is Barry Bing-| {ham, publisher of the Louisville and j Courier Journal, who helped huild | the Marshall plan in Europe . The Justice Department can’t ma kc up its mind whether to crack down on Joe Rosenbaum, who fig- ured in the RFC scandals. Rosgh- baum denied stating that he had RFC directors Dunham and Willegt | “in his pocket,” but the Justice Department has come up with con- flicting evidence. . . . reason why the French government will' send a representative to the reunion of the 94th division at Chicago next week is because that division ‘or- ganized free French and Commun- ist French troops in the battle of Brittany and starved out the Ger- man-held ports of Brest and St. Nazaire. « American scientists | have now perfected a small, pock- l et-size radio set, which can be dropped behind the Iron Curtain. It can be manufactured for only Nor does anyone another, | P do not have un- hem by those who or will they stimu- The r industries. his point without Regarding salmon, Actually, Jonkel was no more geville, Go. The rumors have been guilty than various others who par- taken so seriously that Vinson's of- ticipated in the hot campaign fice was queried by the AP. as to against Sen. Millard Tydings. How- \v\hellm he eloped. ever, he was picked as the scape- 2 v . tiaml goat, Vinson, now a widower, probably | @bout $5 ang il '“I" ol : e oalize | listening to the voice of America What the boys who engineered | :‘::;‘;:lf “\‘]‘]Ilm V]‘thtb,"f biasied ‘:e . The first negro in history has the Maryland campaign against | At y sprucing B e ted for rad around the office and going on u!bw" acceple E aduate Tydings were afraid of was what| a t the Naval A —Ma-' Sonkel wirld itay ob croskiexame]diet of \black coffee in.dHs mom-lstu y a L T Y ce at noon and a light | jor Clarence Davenport of Detgoit. | ing, fruit ination. Would he perjure himself? : Or. wonld Be tell !h‘:_ t“xuth” In the | €Vening meal. This led to sly winks | | He will study l'\dluaLll\o defense; latter case, some others might have | %3 B been in the soup too. The whole problem was dmuwud‘ at the GOP Senate campaign com- | mittee some time ago, at which cagey Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine | former committee chairman, gave this general advice. “Our first duty is to protect our! Senator, and make sure John But- ler keeps his seat. It's unfortunate someone has to be the goat in this| thing, but Jonkel is a professional | (public relations) man, and there- | fore this is all part of the business to him.” Some other Republicans, however, are not happy over this strategy.| Remarked one GOP Senator: “Tru- man always backs his men—even| when they're wrong. We've got to do the same thing if we want to| encourage loyalty in the part: Note—Maryland's new GOP Gov- | ernor, Theodore Roosevelt McKel-| din, and his state leaders are not| | unhappy over Jonkel's conviction. | | WK lcn ~|=|0 = =r >z => A»mHZm | ACROSS 1. Raise 6. Condiment 3 . High mountaln Substitute for butter in al cover of the head . Billow Joyous T 1 the trol_over a7. vehicle on wheels 38, Article 3y, Cover 40. Identlcal Z|>|<Em| DM > mo[> g > v>ERc ™ [ [mMEA <o v) . Be victorfous Solution of Saturday's Puzzle 45. Attentively occupied DOWN 1. Tennis shot . Poorly . Pretends . Carried: collog . Pronoun . Dutch geographer Kk letter conveyance By Termination of feminine n yne-bearing tree | They have long resented the inter- ference of the Chicago Tribune in Maryland politics, and the repeated assertions that Bazy Miller, niece of Colonel McCormick, and Senator McCarthy really defeated Tydings. Jonkel was brought to Maryland irom Chicago by this group. nuity manded tide to ra indarles lurge tches of or more Congressional Widower Georgia’s forthright “Uncle Carl” Vinson, 67-year-old boss of the House Armed Services Committee, is furious over whispers that he is about to marry his office secretary, | attractive Charlotte Conn of Milled- | J lors opposed a peint de h of the o OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Diminution. Pronounce dim-i-nu- shun, first U as in USE, and not dim-i-nish-un. exposed in At noon — Chamber of Commerce |A’s: WORD STUDY: “Use iner AMATORY; OFTEN MISSPELLED: Macadam; macadamize; observe the three SYNONYMS: Sample, example, specimen, instance, illustration. a word three times and it is yours.” Let us mastering one word each day. Today's word: expressive of love. “Her amat'}ry letters were e our vocabulary by relating to or court.” wmm- § MODERN ETIQUETTE Hoperra LEE of engraved invitations. Q. My wedding is to be very small and doesn't warrant the mailing How should I word the short notes of invitation to those friends I would like to attend? A. They may be worded exactly as the engraved invitations are. Is it permissible to pick up a chop bone with the fingers, when Q. | eating at the table? A. Never. Q. When a man is walking in the rain with a woman- who is ny urged to come back to govern- | carrying an umbrella, should he offer to hold it? A. Yes. LOOK and LEARN I;\y.C.GORDON What is the largest bay on the Atlantic coast of the U. S.? ‘Which is hotter, white heat or red heat? ‘What celestial body is nearest the earth? For what is timothy principally used? Who wrote the music for “Porgy and Bess"? ANSWERS: Chesapeake Bay. ‘White heat. The moon. As hay, usually for horses. George Gershwin. If one is not able to extract all the meat with the knife now president of! the and fork, then it should be sacrificed. Weather af ‘| AlaskaPoints Weather conditions and temper- atures at various Alaska poln(s also on the Pacific 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 Edmonton Fairbanks . Haines ... Havre Juneau Kodiak Kotzebue . McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland Prince George Seattle Sitka Whitehorse . Yakutat 46—Cloudy | 50—Rain 28—Cloudy L2 45—Rain | 45—Rain Showers | 52—Cloudy | 48— Partly Cloudy . 47—Cloudy | ... 49—Rain | . 50— F‘lnl) Clnudv\ . 50—Rain| 49—c10udy1 44—Partly Cloudy 4 .. 45—Rain .. 42—Partly Cloudy o 46—Rain 51 Rain and Fog 54—Cloudy ... 85—Rain . 53—Cloudy | 45—Fog and Drizze | . 44—Partly CB®udy | 45—Rain OVER 100 FLY PAA OVER WEEKEND: One hundred one travelers flew with Pan American Airways over the weekend with 35 arriving here | and 66 departing. From Seattle: E. E. Lenke, Char- les Linehan, Richard Wingerson, G. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 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, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, secreury € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting Second and Fourth Wed- nesdays at 8 P.M. Visiting broth- | ers welcome. LE ROY WEST, Exaxlted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. 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.LO. Hall at 8:00 pm. Brownie's Liquor Sfore Phcne 103 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2508 ———————————————————— e J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. Accounting Auditing Tax Work Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 642 Telephone 919 e S Oclartvy, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Neil- son, James Neilson, Margaret and Joann Neilsen, Bob Chamberlin, D. Donaldson, George Erickson, Charles | Graham, Carol Green, Mrs. W. H. Hamilton, Ben Hanson, R. Lyle,| Dick McCollum. | Carol MacDonald, Shirley Moe, J. | Parker, John Pasco, P. Pederson, | F. Philbrook, Art Quick, Lyle Riley, | Bob Walker, Mrs. C. H. Schwind, Keith Weiss, J. Whitehall, Esther Williamson, Ann Whealdon, Charles Saunders, William Keep, H. Clark. From Annette: Henry Littlefield. ! To Seattie: R. Simonson, W. K.| Beane, A. P. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith, Mrs. Salspay and two children, Mrs. Art McKinnon, H. Lawton, = Thomas Tellefer, R. B. | McMullen, J. S. Remis, Ray San- |ucm Arthur Stmestar, C. Everson, Mrs. L. Utness, Mrs. Willlam Dur- ham. Ken Kadow, A. Karjala, Alvin Cooksoft, Minnie Shod, J. Maynard, A. Takahasi, Mrs. Burns, Cliff Bon, N. Knutson, George Parks, Mr. and A. Saunders, Irv Curtis, ie and Joe Swanson, Harold E.; Keney, Glenn Watson, Tom Main, Allen Marcum. i Robert Scott, C. Casperson, G. Peterson, William Brady, D. Cotton, G. Guiterrez, Conrad Barnes, Jack Ballinger, Thomas Cameron, Robert { Eide. Ernest Suti, M. Freidlander, Mr. | dnd Mrs. James Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. B. Bullick, Wayne Berthool, Tom Morgan, Mabel Downer, E. G.| Easterly, M. Porter, H. E. Hodges, Kathy and Maggie Dixon, A. G. Kyllinmaker, Robert Dugan, Ever- ett Nowell, H. Morris, Robert James W. M. Wyrus. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! DR. TED OBERMAN OPTOMETRIST PHONE: OFFICE 61 JUNEAU, ALASKA 20TH CENTURY THEATRE BLDG 2ND FLOOR P o e S ————————————— K. G. 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