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PAGE FOUR Daily Alaskq Empire in the Post Office in au_ as SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dougla six months, $9.00; one yea B ephones: News Office, 602 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED Associated Press is exclusively e o ation of all news dispatches cre wise credited in this paper and also the TIV NATIONAL REPRESENT s tle, Wash Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Se ted have been appointed by Governor John Davis Lodge, who accepted the recommendations of local Republi- can leaders. This is the background of the squabble. The legal issue involves a constitutional amendment which | stipulated that the legislature should set the limit Second Class Matter, | Of tenure for judges. This has not been dine and the :" 5 Bei saseith Republicans assert that a two-year limit in an old s1 constitutional amendment still holds good. The Demo- |crats deny this and claim that th judges are en- tled to hold court until the legislature sets a specific tuation is a reversal of what occurred two judges eme were incumbent The S go, when Repubics sought to oust them. PRESS e ed to the use for | he Democrat loca 1|Court, at that time, ruled that the Democrats were i the legal judges and the Republicans stepped down. apers present clash will have to be decided by the s and legal experts of both parties are studying substantiate their | books to find pre: tc contentions. Goofy ldea (Cincinnati Enquirer ) At least one of the inanities of the defe mobilization program now has been corrected. New ::‘n- now are being sold n with the customary |spare tire. t spring it occurred to someone in the Na- Production Authority that a 20 per cent Thursday, August 16, 1951 ying” of rubber could be achicved if car manu- facturers were ordered to deliver new automobiles MEN AT WORK | with only four tires. As we pointed out at the time, the saving was purely illusory. Few, if any, car pur- We've been asked to speak a word for the men|chasers were W to a vehicle with four new cmployed on the Glacier highway construction. tires out on the road, kr that they would have Too many motorists, they say, have been speed- |no means of changing a tire—and might have to x ing through the work areas, despite numercus warn-|a new one—in the event of a puncture or blowout. ing signs and the presence of men at work in the Hence, at best, the ban on re tires ned roadway into a racket. In cases where new cars already had While there have been no injures to date, such |been equipped with spare tires, the dealers wert carelessness may well beget them. One engineer re- forbidden to make delivery of the fifth tire and ports that a car sped past him with only inches to |usually credited the purchaser for the tire at the spare, nearly ve transit i“!m!. ale rate. Naturally, though, when the new car | owner proceeded to buy a spare at an individual to the pavement. Insurance companes say that most accidents are preventable. We're sure that there the highway job if all drivers will the signs and give the workmen a JUDGES FIGHT JUDGES IN CONNECTICUT An interesting legal battle is State of Connecticut, in that state. The judges of thes courts were by Governor Chester Bowles, who accepted the recom- mendation of Democratic local leaders. involving 67 of the minor courts | SRR <, | Due care is a legal phrase but the lack of it| transaction—either at the dealer’s or at a tire store— won't be any on | he paid the full list price | 'The edict didn't make sense from the start—and pay attention to | break. | we compliment Federal authorities for having trial. realized it after only five months’ the Free enterprise, a gr ; stifled by combinations in restraint of trade just as effectively as by the adoption of some ism. underway in the | appointed in 1949 . ans every vear. causes the death of many Amers Business is alway New judges | for advertisers. The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) of literature across into Czechoslo- | lion pieces the Iron Curtain vakia that Andrews collected J\hl‘])"h. Czech descent, that he is at-|of Mr. and Mrs. John Bramer of about every tank in West Germ-|tending this launching. | Denver, Colo., and Mr. Howard any. Nobody should get the idea that | weed, of Mrs. Pauline John- You can imagine the y|this iriendship balloon barrage ©|son of Juneau, will be married of the local tank distributors won- | the people of Czechoslovakia is g0- [ Aug. 18 at 8 p.n. in the Catholic dering why one man was ing to free that countr OVET | Church of the Fd aroupd picking up this c night. It isn't, though it is espe- | number of hydrogen containers.|cially timely coming as it does| The Rev. Father Robert J. Wha- They popped the question to An-l\\hcn the Czechs have imprisoned |len, S. J., will perform the cere- drews every time he brought in|American newsman William Oatis . mon a new load, and he deserves a dip- [on trumped up charges. It also| Attendants will be Mrs. John Joma in career diplomacy for ex-|comes at a time when unrest in|Heueisen, sister of the bride, and pertly ducking these questions. Czechoslovakia has reached great- | Bob Pasquan, who Wil be best S otick i Aronies Crriofily er intensity than ever before. |man. % However, this balloon barrage iS| There will be a recevtion follow. It was a little harder for him|merely a test—a test of what in-|in. the ceremony, between 9 to duck the questions from the|dividual Americans worl ‘(‘P‘v 11 pm. at the home of Mr. and forty men recruited to fill thelarately from their government cannc Heueisen in the McKinley balloons. [do to promote people-to-Deople | pariments, to which friends are | They were to be taken near the |friendship and to make the Iron}nyiteq Czech border every night, a five- (Curtain a lace curtain. Miss Bramer has been in Juneau hour drive from Munich, begin{ pon.cinga Stimulates Doubt |Since early summer, visiting her launching balloons at about mid- sister. night, finish work at four am, then get home at nine. Naturally they wanted to know where they| were-going and what they were going to do, However, after getting them a nice new bus in which to ride to the Czech border every day, they finally signed up for this myster-| jous assignment. Another problem nvolved in| sending balloons into CzechosluAl vakia is that it is such a narrow {why [ down to earth and bounces alor the ground in an eerie fashio: Bramer-Weed bound to excite curiosity. Acro: its side, in I red letters is M S i written “Svoboda,” which means, a”!afle e lOI' freedom. Incidentally, svoboda is| grandfather and it s especially | appropriate, as an America n of | Miss Janniene Bramer, daughter It's aim also is to raise doubts | in satellite minds as to the why of the Iron Curtain. Why does their government refuse them con- tact with the free peoples of the West? What has Stalin got to fe: from contact between them and the free peoples of the world? What is he ashamed of? In brief, the Iron Curtain? MRS. POTTER TO VISIT %FRIE,\I)S IN CALIFORNIA Mrs on the to visit California Robert Potter and son left Princess Louise Tuesday friends and relatives in Accompanying her was Miss Roberta Walker, who | been a st of the Potters for | the past two weeks. Moscow, of course, will prob- ably scream that this is a viola- tion of international law or that Shower — for Stlver country you can easily overshoot the mark. In other words, if the balloons drift too far, they land | in Poland where Poles can't xmd: | the Czech leaflets. Therefore it| has been necessary to balance a| payload of pamphlets against the | to get tl‘(} right dis- | necessar site every the winds.| wind currents in order balloons to travel the tance. It has also been to shift the launching night, depending on For this reason, we never know | until our meteorologist gives the word around noon each day which way to head our truck caravan.| The caravan totals nine truck: two of them twenty-toners ca ing hydrogen cylinders, balloons, two million leaflets, and one mo- | tor generator which lights up the! countryside sufficiently to ouse | every farmer in the neighborhood | but not sufficiently to Li\(’ much light as needed for the icate operation of tying the | zles of two thousand balloons am}J doing it in record time. | The reason for night launc ings is that the balloons are sched uled for arrival elght am., just as the Cze going to work. Two typ | ol | 0z at o h people are f ba oons are being used. One r rubber balloon, manufactured by Dewey and Almy, carry a load| J of about three and a half pounds, | or 2,200 leaflets ! i Use Special Balloons complaint states this sum | The other is pillow-type balloon |is asked as payment for furnish- made by General Mills, which ‘ taxi dispatching service to the so contributed generously of it for 12 days, at $7.00 per experts and time to help this op- | day nning May 22, 1950, | eration. The pillow balloon, uu;,-i e e | carrying a lighter load, come | — EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY — : s s we are cropping poisonous candy | Soroptimist to the children of Czechoslovakia | IMProvements at the Health Cen- or disseminating antrax, “nmu;{*; 122 Second St. Monday, Aug. rust, potato bugs or other germs|Z20th, 7:30 to 10 p.m. in bacteriological warfare. How- |0 attel 888-4t at gift to mankind, can be | had | ¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EVPIRE-—-JUNEATU, ALASKA AUGUST 16 Howard Mills Mary Ann Beall W. J. Manthey Cris Lokke Mrs. Dan Mahoney Robert Murphy e o ¢ e o o Wealher af . . . . . . . . . . | | | Alaska Poinfs - ! Weather conditions and temper | tures at various Alaska points {on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p e 120th Meridian Time, and releas | by the Weather Bureau ar | follows: Anchorage 47—Partly Clou Annette Island 54—Clou Barrow 42—Clouc Bethel 8—Partly Cloudy Cordova 47—Rain Shower Dawson 46—Clear and Smok Edmonton 50—Cloud rbank: 53—Cloudy Haines 51—Rain Havr 52—Paytly, Cl Juneau Airport 53—Rain Kodiak 52—Driz-lc Kotzebue 48—Cloudy | McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland 55—Clear Prince George.. 47—Partly Cloudy Seattle 55—Cloudy Sitka 53—Clou Whitehorse 41—Cloudy | Whitehorse “s1"Partly Cloudy | Yakutat 53—Rain Canadian Officials 10f Winter Boals “A 1aerchant who stocked with articles that customers didn’t buy, would sons were traveling by air his company couldn't meet ! competition with ted. The two men are mak of the Yukon Territory return to Vancouver dire ot stopover in Juneau. H. C. James, general pa of the company couve is expected to vi eau about Sept. 11, William lane, passenger local SPECIAL BROADCAS The Aurora Trio pres light Trail. KINY = tonight Education, which is al and compulso begins at the age ¢ sia [Explain Suspension his his be foolish,” Alderson said. He poin- ted out that more and more per- and tae lower fares. A bright note in the situation at this year is the best tour- | eason we have ever had. The | are completely booked thru 14" he spid. | ireighters a mor will | te to Skagway, Du sta- | ever, there's no international law | forbidding one country to launch balloons in another country. If the winds carry them into certain other countries, thats a law of | nature—not international law.And | the more Moscow and Czech ra-| ve alibis to their people the more it is evident that th > | of friendship balloons is them where it hurl . . . AUGUST 17 . . High tide 1:34 am., 191 ft. o ® Low tide 8:02 am., . e High tide 2:23 pm., . Low tide 8:16 L | o o 0 0 .| BRINGS § FOR | TAXI SERVICE | John Maurstad was p iff in| it filed this morning in Dist- | irt against Tommy George unt is for $84 plus court | 1 oft to right, there’s liverwurst, bologna, ham, frankfurters and Mrs. Glopp, who can’t make up her mind!” trip | from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO AUGUST 16, 1931 7 Miss Margaret Kiloh, an employee of the Alaska Game Commission, red the hospital at 1 o'clock this afternoon to receive medical treat- nent. ' James Wheeler, prop"ietor of the Wheeler Drug and Jewelry Com- any of Petersburg, is making a round trip to Juneau on the Northland. ! Mrs. Winnifred Griffith entered the hospital yesterday for medical (ttention, Mrs. Anne Webster, proprietress of the Juneau and Douglas Tele- phone Company, returned to Juneau on the motorship Northland this iung after & brief visit to California in company wtih her daughter, . F. Jorgensen. Mrs. Jorgensen remained in San Francisco to it her sister. G. W. Nostrand, chief clerk in the office of the Territorial Auditor, a passenger for Juneau on the steamer Yukon which left Seattle yes- Word was received here of the marriage of Miss Virginia Howard md Mr. H. Kingsbury Jr., of Haines on August 12. The ceremony k place at the home of Stephen Sheldon. Je Leadbetter attended the couple, and the Rev. E. E. Bromley { the Haines Presbyterian Church pronounced the vows. The young couple wili make their home in Haines. Mrs. Edith Sheelor returned to Juneau on the steamer Northwestern after making the triangle tour. Mr. and Mrs. O.. M. Olson are returning tomorrow from Seattle after a vacatiop in the States. Weather: High, 56; low, 53; showers. e e R Daily Lessons in English % . cornon ree—d WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, at once.” Say, “We MUST see you.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Demonstrable. | ME unstressed, with accent on second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Symmetrical; observe the SY, and the two M’s. SYNONMYS: Diversion, entertainment, amusement, enjoyment, re- creation. sport, pastime, pleasure. “We have got to see you Pronounce first E as in Ts it all right for a dinner guest in one’s home to help his hostess all his used Q. stacking dis| | A. This should never be rIone Always leave the.dishes as they are. ; Q. Is it ever proper to sign a social letter “Hastily yours”? 1 A. Never. This simply implies that you are trying to dispose ot a bothersome task as quickly as pdssible. LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpon | I What is the oldest city or the South American continent? ‘What commonest use of arsenate of lead? 3. What man ran for President of the U. S. three times, and was | elected twice? 4. What country was once known as Cathay? | 5. What American game is the same as the British game of draughts? ]‘ ANSWERS: r | 1. Lima, Peru. | | 2. Insect spraying. i 3. Grover Cleveland. ¢ i I v ! s 4. China. faap g ¥ 5. Checkers.* el % Crossword Puzzle | ACROSS 30. Is able 1. Aeriform fluld 81 Exists | 4 Silk and rayon 32 Private | fabric ‘teacher | 9 Wire measa ;34 Lad urement T g5, Small round 12. Skill mark - 13. Marfne animal 36. Alack | 15 Plaid cloth 37, Utter 17, Twisted: 3 ‘Stfi‘{;',‘."' | together . ! Wav em| 20, neszfo'y] 5, paame B EEH Elv utter] e 22 1 eol? op < 4% Beliigerent 's Puzz i 48, Steadying Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle = Tope 2 feaseagle | 45 combass polnt © - DOWN 5 gnter' 3. Secd coating 50 City In Ohio © 1. Passage from & Plane | 6 & mis- shore inlan P 3 Fiem Bl M ake 2. Constellation 6 Shiest state: 29, Flery abbr, 1. Place of wor= ship £, Mourntul cry 9. Coal diggers 10. Repetition 11. Guided 14. Seized with the teeth 16. Metal . Wild animal Lasso ‘/}///7/#-%/4 = | | V| a5 . i/ 4l % | 75 | 7 fll//= VW B 7 | | 7l ] 1 2---éll////,flll///////// 7| | | | e -/" .- . Equa.l' ® comb. 85. H 37, Li:ht repast 38, Small taste 40, l‘mb'l pen 41 So mny it be I 45. Norse war god 47, Canjunction ‘.. 44, Worthlas. dog A Miss Harriett Sheldon and' THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 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. Chipperficld, | ‘Worshipful Master; | JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secreur,. € 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 i the C.1O. Hall at 8:00 p.m. NASH {| SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. {1909 12th Phone Green 279 g — QUL ) Brownie's Liquor Store | /)| Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2508 EKOL:TE DEPTH SOUNDERS MADSEN Cycle & Fishing Supply STEVENS® WORD STUDY: “Use a W ree times a s yours.” | : e a word three times and it is yours.” Let us LADIES'—MISSES’ | Two officials of the Canadian increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: READY. Fibores [ _|Pacific Railroad met here with EXECRABLE; detestable. (Accent first syllable). “Critism. when acti- -TO-WEAR i { Ralph Browne, assistant manager | EXECRABLE; detestable. (Accent first syllable). “Criticism, when acti- Seward Street Near Third || |of the Alaska Development Board, i l land B. Frank Heintzleman of jthe l Forest Service here, to' explain P i oo e e MODERN ETIQUETTE %oprra pg | whe Charles W. Carter adian Pacific passenger boat scr-‘ g ;_ e e ] erson, district =passen- ! [ ger t, and W. P. Duggan, ?{:_ Q- Do you think it proper for one to sit with one's feet twisted o e o trict freight . agent, . both .fzgm 2round the rungs of the chair? BHONE 196 | Vancouver, B. C. said that -fhe A. ‘This might be all right if one found oneself seated in a chalir ion of the Alaska passe: utside during a sudden windstorm a hed to anchor himself. Other- 2 service between Nov. 10 and wise. the only 'proper position for eet when one is ed is in caflers Men S wear \ ch 10, was strictly a matter ;. n¢ of him. McGregor Sportswear BStetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear ‘ Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY 1150011 ‘CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men " | l | | | ! SHAFFER’S || SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. Accounting Auditing Tax Work Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 642 ‘Telephone 919 ® EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o ® o 0o 0 0 0 o | ! "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CoO. Phno-—Mulul Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale B05 10th Bt. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE 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 Batisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Junean Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a dally habit—ask for It by name Juneau Dairies, Inc. HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 Amerfcan 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 772 High Quality Cabinet Work for Home, Office or Store EMPIRE NELS LEA as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "GUN CRAZY" Federal Tax—12c¢ Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB CO.—Phone 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! COMMERCIAL Oldest Bank in Alaska 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1951 The B. M. Behrends Bank Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent SAVINGS e e 7 |