The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Sccond and Main Streets, Junea HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - ARCHIE F. CAMPBELL - e President ce-President Managing Editor tfice in Juneau as Second Class Matter RIPTION RAT! Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Doulas for $1.75 per month; six months, $9.00; 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. Subscribers will confer a favor !f they the Business Office of any faflure or irregu of their papers. Telephanes: News Office, 602 Entered in the Pos 1 promptly motify ty in the delivery Business Office, 374 s d to the use for MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE: The Associated Press is exclusively enti republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other-. ws published wise credited in this paper and also the local n herein REPRESENTATI Seatt NATIONAL Fourth Avenue Bldg., Thursday, August 23, 1951 SEATTLE—ALASKA’S WHIPPING BOY At least the Seattle Chamber of Commerce recognizes the continued quarrel propaganized be- tween Alaska and Seattle for what it is. That is made clear in a recent radio broadcast from Seattle by Thomas J. Pelly, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. “Alaska” was the subject of his address and be- cause of its interest, the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce is distributing copies of it to its members. Only its 10-page length is the Empire’s reason for not publishing the address in full Mr. Pelly discusses trade with Alaska. then says, “The subject of trade with Alaska brings up the uation present political s must recognize and meet.” And, from here on we quote at lenzth from Mr Pelly’s address: “And before pursuing what I referred to as the political situation, I should explain, that our Chamber policy is to avoid if possible taking sides in con-| troversial Alaska questions. By this I don’t mean we necessarily want to ‘duck’ issues, but rather we take the position that Alaskans themselves are the ones to resolve their own disagreements. A good example of this is the much-debatel question of Statehood. N "Asvyou know, Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska has strongly advocated Statehood for Alaska and he bas won a good many ardent supporters for this program. On the other hand.’many Alaskans, particularly business men, are violently opposed to statdhood now on the basis that thdicost of a'State Government would increase taxes and thereby retard development. They think statehood is premature and it is better to let the Federal Government rarry the cost of development during their pioneer heriod Here obviously, is a subject Seattle Chamber mem- bers visiting Alaska treat with discretion. “Privately some may harbor, and even express. their opinions, but officially we are discreetly silent. In a way Statehood seems quite impractical when one realizes there are more residents in Kitsap County Innd the North Olympic Peninsula than in Alaska, and yet, at the same time, Alaskans cannot fail to resent not being represented in Congress except by a dele- gate without a vote “Realistically, however, it that partisan politics and personal political ambitions, in addition to economics are considerations mixed with should be understood and motivating the pros and cons of Alaska State- hood. 3 nnd non-partisan ton- has avoided s such, being strictly our Chamber, as I said before, although we have long taken the position s of Alaska should have full oppor- suggest and recommend their choice of the Territory. in all frankness, I present Governor that | political this issue, that the resider r for “And comment on the attitude of the 1it relates to Seattle. I think y it is nothing new for political leadership to divert the attention of people from their difficulties and prob- lems by placing the ‘whip- ping boy. Since dawn of customary for rulers the on innocent parties, hoping thus pitiate the majority of citizens the Jews. Wall Strect has been the of political haranguing in our own country. As far a Alaska is rned, Governor Gruening and other have been using Seattle. Both openly and by infer- ence, our business firms have been accused of having a stranglehold on the economy of Alaska. Our hotels higher rates to Alaskans, our We stand accused of pre- in ih now, am compelled to as u will recognize called a it blame on what is has been the history ills of to appease Hitler did this with favorite target the to lay people and pro- con charge merchants higher prices. venting wholesale outlets from being established the Territory itself that we could control business. Our steamship line has beel as a monopoly, and so forth. “Recently task force of Services Committee visited A charges. Their report to Congres: cusations against Seattle were allegation investigation of them had been made, but the effect was damaging. The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce wrote the Chairman of the mittee, Senpator Hunt, <upporun" Smulv and are said to 50 denounced the Senate Armed a and echoed thes admitted the a ac- and no even so deleted ln Sr‘nut'x) H\nn s .uknn“hdg:mcm he said the source of material contained in the report was confidential But if it did not come from the Governor, it is almost word for word what he has been saying “The point I am making, however, is tha paign to give Seattle a blackeye is bein waged.” tion Mr. Pelly describes and the Empire believes his conclusions to be sound. We have previously called attention to the in- clusion in the Task Report of anti-trust ck against Seattle firms. Why they were dragged into this report is not difficult to guess. That Alaskans have friends in Seattle in spite of the years of run-around Seattle has been given by certain people in goverr t in Ala T he due to the fact that there are old friendshiy long- standing between ‘Alaskans and Seattle, friendships strong enough to withstand the misleading pr opaganda | against the Puget Sound port. That Seattle has been the “whipping boy” present Alaska administration there can be no doubt. enate of made to withdraw the spite campaign against Seattle if the Seattle Chamber of Commerce would endorse statehood for the Territory. But because considers statehood our own business, it has attempted to take no sides in this controversial matter. And so the administration’s propaganda machine has continued to spread prejudice and ill will against Seattle. 1b-Com- I asking ¢ a cam- | Whiteh We in Alaska have been familiar with the situa- ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE AUGUST 23 James W. McNaughton N. J. Bavard Clifton F. Brown Timothy Hillerman Mrs. B. R. Glass Thomas E. Hall Mrs. Tom Dyer Mrs. Joe Mathison Glenn A. Edwards e o o o o 0 0 Weather at Alaska Points Weather conditions and tempera- tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as follows: Anchorage Annette Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre Juneau Kodiak Kotzebue McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland Prince George Seattle 51—Cloudy Sitka 55—Cloudy S 47—Cloudy 4—Rain |@eeeeescsccsces I 54—Partly Cloudy Island 54—Partly Cloudy 42—Fog 43—Partly Cloudy 49—Rain 50—Rain 45—Partly Cloudy 49—Cloudy 54—Cloudy 61—Cloudy 51—Rain | 53—Clear | Missing 45—Cloudy 42—Cloudy 53—Cloudy 50—Cloudy | Partly Cloufly 33—Clear Airport 52 Yakutat Bofileneck Buster | Insfalled fo Speed ' Defense Production | of the; We have been told that at one time an offer was; ] tWe Seattle Chamber of Commerce 3TON, Aug. ization - chief Charles E. Wil son today installed a n bottle- I neck buster Clay P. Bc(ll’or(lw to eed lagging output of tanks, ijet engines and nearly 100 other military items. ; Bedford, executive vice presi- ) {dent of Kaiser-Fraser Corp., was| sworn in by Wilson as chairman fof the production executive com-| | mittee of the defense production administration and deputy chief | 23 — B - who has been Wilson's said the committee plans la weapon-by-weapon approach to| {the production problem, but emt | phasized the rearmament progress generally is good i — The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) field made a spectacle in the al German voice: steady bags as they darkness. silent laus of the flowing hydrogen, and the slipped neon the next day. The winds weren't quite right the day following, however, and he got 12 hours sleep though last night. When I arrived at the bor- der at 2 m. they were at it again, continuing until 6 a.m. they fascinating, eerie night—the gutter- s, the swish-swish nching of the big off into the also were too late to join the main truck convoy which had left Mu- nich at noon so Tyler was com- missioned to remain behind to see the most important part pf our operation got to the border on time. 1 am writing ' you because I know He'hasn't fulfilled his prom- ise to write you every day but I think, when you . read this, you'll undestand why. b The winds of freedom, incident- ally, shift back. and forth along the border and neither he nor 1 knew exactly where to join the| other trucks. But he had instruc- tions to meet a lookout in front of the post office in Weiden, a-. little town 10 miles from the bor- der. The lookout directed us 10 miles in another direction, where we sighted our convoy and where your son finally delivered the 2,- 000,000 messages to the Czech people on time. The trucks were parked on a narrow road on the Bavarian hill- side almost on a straight line to- ward Pilsen and Prague, the two largest citigs of Czechoslovakia. Arranging a convoy is a com- plicated operation, somewhat like loading a circus train and it re- minded me of my old tent-wreck- ing days. Electric generators are at one end of the convoy, though far enough away so that no sparks can reach the hydrogen tanks used to fill the balloons, these are filled inside the truck and launched from its rear end. Next come four side-gate trucks for rubbér balloons. The latter are so big they can't be filled in- side the trucks, so the hydrogen tanks are laid sideways with a!of war. balloon- ) balloon deal, coming at this part- to the on the hose extending launching- tables the road’ Tyler aperaled the valve on the hydrogen. tank, supervising a crew of three Germans. The balloon is inflatéd with hydrogen until it touches two inverted table legs gbout feur feet apart. When it reaches this diameter, it is tied at the boftom and sent on its way across the Iron Curtain. I auto- graphed one of these balloons for Gottwald .and Stalin. The long line of trucks along side a Bavarian wheat side of | have to fight. The boys were getting off their missives to Prague pretty regu- larly — about 1,300, all told—when it started to drizzle. We kept go- ing for a while, since rain doesn’t impede the balloons. They rise above the clouds in no time, but it does get the men wet. So, at 2 am. we finally laid off; every- one pretty well soaked. I sat in the car for a while, waiting for the rain to stop but when it didn't I used the excuse that T had to get to the cable of- fice, and at 3 am. headed back for Munich. I'm getting old, I guess, and can't take it. l Before I left, however, I went| down the line of murky trucks,| trying to find your son. I Iumll)" located him sitting inside a truck,. listening to German veterans and ex-prisoners swapping war exper- iences with American G. I. stud- ents men who had once been fighting each other but who now worked together launching friemd- ship messages to another people whom they hoped they wouldn't incidentally, supposed to be the military master race, seem to me completely pacifist German youngsters are just as un- enthusiastic about raising an ar- my as your son and other Ameri- can youngsters ' are about the draft. Sometimes I think it’s chiefly the old dodoes who are complacent about the prospect of war. However, I'm convinced that Moscow wants to wait a consid- erable time before it plunges the world into war. Its satellite peo- ples are too restless and would turn against the Kremlin in case That's why I think this Germans, jcular time, may help. It's only a drop in the bucket, of cuurae‘l and lots of people will pooh-pooh it but you have to make a start some way or other in attempts at penetrating the Iron Curtain, we've taken the first step. Anyway, I drove back to Mun-| ich at 3 a.um., leaving your son up| on the border. They resumed launching the balloons at 4 a.m. and continued until 6 but he didn't get back to Munich with the trucks until noon, making a 50 stubble- j 28-hour day—from 8 am. till 12] b planned to lay over until noon, let the men sleep on the roadside, and then unloose another barrage which would hit Prague about 4 pam., just as the people were start- ing home from work. Well, that's why your son hasn't written and why I am trying to report for him. I am very lonesome and anxious to get home. It's rained a lot here and I hope you've had some of it at home. When I left the pastures were just about burned up. Sce you soon. Drew lTI{.\\‘l‘JLERS HERE AFTER | TRIP TO BALL'S RANCH Travelers in Juneau after sight- seeing are Mrs. Catherine Rochlitzer, jdean of women at Gonzaga Uni“ ‘\u ity, Spokane; her aunt, Mrs, i(”" am J. Graham, Bloomfield | Hills, Mich., and Emily Ellinger, | law librarian at Gonzaga. This is Mrs. Rochlitzer’s second | trip to Juneau. In 1944 she and | husband, the late Dr. J. W. Roch- | litzer, spent sometime in the Ju-| I neau area and Sitka with former Alaskan John Vanderbilt. Mrs. Graham is returning by Pan American Tuesday Mrs. Rochlitzer and Miss Elli will {ly to Sitka and to Ketchikan | at the end of the week. i The travelers drove - to Pm:v'\ Rupert and will pick up theircar| | there and return southby steamer soutn and ’!)uun(l for Douglas. from THE 20 YEARS AGO AUGUST 23, 1931 Dr. G in Juneau on the Princess Louise. Many friends wert ve them the welcome sign and extend congratulat AT month ago in Bellingham, Wash., woneymooning in Vancouver, B. C. age a Miss Sue White is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. M hort time prior to going to Kake where she will Miss White will teach in the Indian Affairs school 1ext term. Mrs. John Mills and son John of Douglas, who have been visiting n Ketchikan and Vancouver for the past month, arri Princess Louise. In honor of . their Mrs. Mae Godkin entertained with a farewell surp home of Mrs. Goss last evening. High honors went to Miss Cashen and consolation to Miss Ruth Lundell. | Many attractive gifts were presented to Miss Cashen. C. H. Bowman and Mrs. Bowman is to be superintendent Douglas the coming year. has been teaching in the Government school i been tran. A son was born August 22 to Mr. EMPIRE /[ L. Barton and bride, the former Flora Sharick, arrived home | the newlyweds have been sister. Miss Isabel Cashen. who is leaving Seattle where she will enter business college, Mrs. Bowman are aboard the steamer Queen He is from Petersburg. e at the wharf to| ions. Since their 1. Sharples, for a spend the winter. there during the ived home on the | | today Esther Goss and rise party at the Three tables of bridge were enjoyed. | of public schools Mrs. Bowman, n Petersburg, has sferred to the Government school in Juneau. and Mrs. Jack Conway in Skagway, iccording to word received here by Miss Agnes Manning, Mrs. Conway'’s | aunt. , The baby has been named Charles Quinlan, mothe the latter for Mr. the first for his | late father, Charles A. McGrath, pioneer Sitka merchant and Conway’s mother whose maiden name was Quinlan. | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1951 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each mionth in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. Wm. A. Chipperfitld, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. € B.P.0.ELKS Meeting Second and Fourth Wed- nesdays at 8 P.M. Visiting broth- ers welcome. LE ROY WEST, Exaxited Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— LOREN CARD Secretary— WALTER R. HFRMANSEN J. A. Durgin Company, Ine. Accounting Auditing Tax Wi Room 3, Valentine Bulldl.n' JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 644 Telephone 919 ® 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o V.F. W. Taku Post No. 5559 Meeting every Thursday in the C.LO. Hall at 8:00 p.m. NASH SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS 909 12th Phone Green 279 —_— ,_____ Karl Theile, secretary of Alaska, returned to Juneau this mummg Bmwme S llqlw[ S'OI’e on the steamer Queen. We; : High, 62; , 50; showers. Daily Lessons in English % .. ) L WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It is th book that I ever read. " Say, “that I HAVE ever read.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Livelo: Pronounce as in LIFE. OFTEN SYNONYMS: WORD STUDY | in our vocabula: 'INCAPACITATE; to deprive of capacity ure (a motion). , correct, accurate, u a word three times and it g one word each da ; disable, by master ‘lllcnpfl(‘li.llt(] him.” j MODERN ETIQUETTE %5s Q. What toast may the father of a bride-elect pr ing her engagement at a dinner party? A. she has decided to add permanently to cur family, Ja Q. Is it proper for a woman to rise when another i room? A. It is a nice thing to do when the woman leav: but it is not necessary otherwis Q. A. Yes, this is quite all right, if the aunt prefers 31 LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpox 1, semi-annually or compounded annually? 2. What English king signed the Magna Charta? 3. 4. 5. Which word does not belong in the following cabbage, onions, beets, potatoes? ANSWERS: Semi-annually. King John, in 1215, Niagara River. “Samson and Delilah.” Cabbage, as it grows above ground, and the others grow under the ground. Jester (one who jokes).| disqualify. “I propose to drink to the health of Mary and the young man! Is it proper for a child to address a young aunt as “Helen,” |stead of “Aunt Helen"? ‘Which increases faster, money invested at interest compounded In what river are the famous Whirlpool Rapids? ‘What grand opera is truly Biblical in its theme? 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