The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publisiied every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY ain Streets, Juneau Alaska DOROTHY TROY President Vice-President Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier r $1.75 per month; $17.50 paid, at the following rates: $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; e, $1.50 ers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Office of any faflure or irregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS presé 1s exclusively entitled te the use for news dispatches credited to it or not other- d n this paper and also the local news published RISV ONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash Saturday, September 15, 1951 A SOUND VETO the United States recently which had The vetoed President of Congressionally-approved bill, ) do with veterans disabled a result of s ice but concerned itself iely with pen: paid to disabled veterans, whose disabilities have no connection with military service” While the bill, in its first year of operation, would cost only $16,700,000, a projection of the cost, be of other experience in pension legisla- “indicates that toward the end of this century would approach $400,000,000 a year,” or nothini on the tion, the cost . more. The point for the people of this country to note, in connection with the legislation being discussed, is that it has no reference to injuries received by those who fight for this country. It refers exclusively to what may happen to a veteran after his military | chazka got more of the same from Secretary Ache- He takes the sound position that other needs of veterans, not arising from military service, should be met on the same basis for veterans and non- veterans alike. The New Diplomacy ——— (Cincinnati Enquirer) Time was when diplomacy was gracioys art. Even the most irreconcilable of enemies observed the niceties of diplomatic etiquette. Ambassadors and heads of states, if unable to pretend Yo real cordiality, at least engaged in the exchange of pleasing platitudes and glittering generalities. Even the generals of opposing armies, meeting under a flag of truce on the battlefield, were icily correct, in compliance with long-established custom. All this has gone by the board. Freed of the inhibitions of religion and tradition, and committed to a program of world revolution, the Russiafis use their embassies as centers of espionage and pro- paganda. They mistreat the emissaries of other na- tions. They claim diplomatic immunity for their representatives, but keep our diplomats virtual pris- oners in the Moscow area. Diplomacy. under those conditions cannot remain as it was. And Tuesday Mr. Truman made it plain that he has noted the transition. His reception of Vladimir Prochazka, new Czechoslovakia Ambassador, is vivid proof. Instead of the customary gracious platitudes, the President delivered such a dressing down as few diplomats anywhere have had to suffer. If you want friendly relations with America, he said in substance, release William N. Oatis and send him home. Until then, don't expect either friendship or cooperation from the United States—or even the economic advantages thus far extended. Mr. Pro- SEPTEMBER 15 Eric Henri Gabriel Gudmund Jensen Wallis George A. Van Mavern Leon Constantine Kenneth Waterhouse Glenn H. Neitzert Edward Bowden Anard Linquist Charlene MacSpadden Mrs. Trevor M. Davis Colleen Magorty Mada Margaret Angell Paula Jean Graybill Marilyn Crooks Mrs. Edward J. Giovanetti | SEPTEMBER 16 Benjamin Phillips { Alfred Westfall Linda Furness Mrs. Joe McLean Thomas L. George Lawrence Larson Bill Wilder Lucille Lawrence William J. Helin Wesley Miller Daniel Anderson o @ o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o | son, spelled out in greater detail. All of which marks a deterioration in the punc- tilio of traditional dipolmatic intercourse. But if the Russians and their satellites don't like the new candor of diplomacy at Washington, they have only to scan their own record to find out why the welcome mat is missing from America’s front door. R Taxation with representation is pretty bad, too— we mean the kind of taxation and the kind of rep- resentation we have these days. We're trying to confirm a rumor that there's a fashionable new diet that actually tastes like food. service. The President’s position is that the pensions of the nation should meet only the “special and unique needs which arise directly from military service.” A The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) stopped—the of gasolir by at attempted purchase gallons of aviation for the Chinese air force American company which didn't exist, and which an first HW&: WA orcanicell by parti®®fBradstreet report on United Petro- already in bankruptcy. *Fantastic Story Here are the chonological events this important case On May 2, 1950, the Hau Tai ‘Trading Co., Taipeh, China, bid on supplying the Chinese air force with 5,300,000 gallons of gas, “pro- duct of the United Petroleum Company, Los Angeles,” for $1,637,- 700. The bid was sent to the Chi- nese in Washington and was fol- lowed by a definite order from the Chinese Chief of Staff, Gen. C. J. Chou, who instructed the Chinese Air Force procurement office in Washington to ge ahead with jthe deal. However, Col. W. H. Hsiang in Washington got suspicious. Hsiang is the same colonel who later got kicked/ out, following his eiforts to clean up Chinese graft. Colonel Hsiang knew, as reported in this column on August 16, that his chief of staff in Formosa, General Chou, had been in on a deal which siphoned $444,706 of the American taxpayers’ money into a myster- ious account under the name of “Lee Company” in the Na- tional City Bank. So Colonel Hsi- ang sent an investigator, Maj. L. S. Wen, to Los Angeles, to look into the United Petroleum Co. Major Wen found that the Uni- ted Petroleum Co. did not exist. Colonel Hsiang also cabled the Chief of Staff, General Chou, that| the company did not exist, then| repeatef the cable. He got no an- swer. = The answer finaHy walked in the door of Colonel Hsiang's office| in Washington on June 5, 1950, in the person oi Edward A. Martin, who claimed to represent the Uni-| ted Petroleum Co. Martin happens to be on friendly terms with a Senator who has done great fa- vors for the China lobby. in Quickie Company " It later developed that the Chi- nese Chief cof Staff in Formosa had ordered $1,637,700 worth of gasoline from a company which at that time did not exist, and which obviously was formed mere- ly to handle this special transac- tion. The gasoline could have been| purchased from any number off well-known and established com-| panies, or it could have been pur- chased through the friendly help of the U. S. government. But it was not. * Suspicious, Colonel Hsiang asked Martin ‘a series of quesions and had him sign the answers. Among other things, Martin sta- ted that the United Petroleum Co. had an office at 420 Madison Ave., New York, not in Los Angeles, as previously stated; that its presi- dent was Lyon McCandless (also a friend of a pro-Chiang Senator); and that its representative in Chi-! na was H. E. Renfro, Peninsula “Hotel, Hong Kong. Still suspicous, the Chinese pro- United Petroleum, and found it was a partnership between Lyon McCandless and his wife, together with E. P. McQueen. - Also, the partnership had been formed only jon June l—almost one month af- jter the gasoline had been bid on land ordered from Formosa. 3 iAm':rican lawyers for a report on No Bank Account JFurthermore, the Dunn and leum stated: “We have not been able up to this time to locate any bank account in the name of the company.” Further investigation showed that the same partnership had al- so organized five other companies which were either in bankruptcy or inactive. One of them was the Amer-Ind, Inc., organized for trade with In- dia, which, on Dec. 5, 1947, peti- tioned for receivership under chap- ter XI of the amended bankrupt-j cy act, and now operates as a debtor. The same partnership also op- erated Amer-Ind France, Inc, a firm supposed to do business with France, but now inactive. It also ' organized Amer-Ind International, | likewise now inactive; and Amer- Ind, Inc, of Delaware, for Latin- [American Trade, also inactive. Dunn and Bradstreet reported back to the Chinese procurement office that when they interviewed Lyon McCandles on June 8, short- ly after the huge aviation gasoline order had been placed with this seven-day-old firmhe stated that “the firm was formed for the spe- cific purpose of acting as agents in the sale of petroleum products to the Far East. The income will be derived from commissions.” Kenneth N. Parkinson, attorney for the Chinese procurement of- fice, also interviewed attorney Mar- tin and reported that “the price which he quotes per gallon F.A.S. port of shipment,”is approximate- ly 1% cents higher per gallon than the price obtained from Richfield 0il Company under your recent contract.” » | In view of all these factors, Col- onel Hsiang took the matter upl with Senatér Knowland and the deal fell through. As a reward for making this and other investiga- tions, Colonel Hsiang and his su- perior in New York, Gen. P. b Mow, have now been fired. The Diplomatic Pouch Argentine dictator Juan Peron's electioneering campaign against the United States sounds straight from Moscew. Peron is shouting that the major opposition party, the radicals, is financed by “Yan- kee Imerialism” and that the “good neighbor policy” is in real- ity “a cloak for political assassin- ations and revolutions.” . . . Mass arrests in Japan, Java and Sum- atra broke well-organized Commu- nist schemes for revolution. In Japan, an underground ‘“action unit” of 25000 Communists was started six months ago with Jap- anese and Korean single young men. Cardinal Mindszenty, a captive in Hungary, |is critically ill and has been moved from his prison cell in Budapest to the Tatra mountains, where he is be- ing treated by two Soviet doctors. Russia does not want the Cardinal to die, considers him valuable as an ace in the hole for trading curement office then asked its purposes. Going to religious services is fine but living a \ife that expresses religious conviction is better. I'tary of Alaska, Communicafion Daily Alaska Empire, Sept. 14— Dear Sir: I have been reading various stories in your paper relative to certain public officials and their acts which have reached into Con- gress and I must say the workings of this Territorial government leaves much to be desired. Where there is smoke there is fire and the acts of Mr. J. Gerald Williams, our attorney general, Mr. Neil Moore, our auditor and Mr. Lew Williams our deposed secre- have shown that we, the outsiders, are at the mer- cy of subtle conniving of those of- ficials who absolutely refuse to do do what is right if their own’ in- terests are at stake. It is unfortunate for the people, and expensive, too, that selfish in- terests come first in the minds of our public officials. For instance, the cost of a social program, of a road, of a health program, is sec- ondary so long as the “ignorant masses” know who the authors of this or that pregram are. This Weather at | Alaska Poinfs Weather conditions and tempera- tures at various Alaska points also | on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 pm., | 120th Meridian Time, and released | by the Weather Bureau are as} follows: i Anchorage i 39—Cloudy | ! Annette Island . 52—Clear | Barrow . Missing ! Bethel 43—Cloudy Cordova 50—Rain Dawson . 53—Rain Edmonton . 36—Clear | Fairbanks 34—Partly Cloudy Haines 48—Cloudy Havre 36—Clear: Juneau Airport 39—Fog Kodiak 42—Cloudy Kotzebue 41—Cloudy McGrath . 36—Cloudy Nome 43—Cloudy Northway 40—Cloudy Petersburg 44—Clear ; Portland 54—Clear Prince George 33—Fog Seattle 51—Clear Sitka 3 49—Clear | Whitehorse ... 56—Cloudy | | Yakutat . 50—Rain | Community Eveqls TODAY From 8 tonight to midnight—Cath- olic ‘Bazaar in Parish Hall. September 17 : ! At noon—Lions Club meets Baranof Hotel. & At 7 p.m.—National Guard drill at Sub Port. At 8 p.m.—Ticket sellers of Juneau- Douglas Concert Association meet in Elks Hall. At 8 p.m—American Legion post meets in Dugout. At 8 p.m.—Board of directors of Alaska Division American Can- money spent is used to buy votes. I Know! Because I was told if T would vote in such a manner I could get some of the money. Not very much, but some. I do not know Mr. J. Gerald Williams, Mr. Neil Moore or Mr. Lew Williams, but the people cf the Territory are to be congratu- lated on having three ambitious, courageous, honest officials who prokably are not satisfied - with conditions and salaries they are working under but are not letting thesc facts cloud their thinking and actions in carrying out the duties imposed on them. /It is unfortunate that the Pres- ident of the United States was prevailed upon to “fire” Mr. Lew Wwilliams for “incompetency.” That, to my way of thinking, was an asinine remark. It smacks of in- competency of someone else but not Lew Williams. It appears that this act was used to gain fayors from those who have, power and money to dictate. to the President of the . United States. From the stories coming out of ‘Washington, it looks as if the White House and the Interior Department could do with more competent individuals. Mr. Moore is to be congratulated on the stand he has taken in re- gards to the spending of our money. The latest in the number of exceptions is that of the salary of the Manager of the Develop- ment Board, I personally think he is right. I have yet to see any good rom this office in So far as come from you and I and the rest of the citizens of the Territory are con- cerned. They claim the results of the pulp industry—this program and that program. But if I am asked, my money is for the man that actually accomplished these things, and it isn't Mr. Sundborg or the Governor or other Territor- ial officials. I think it is Mr. Frank Heintzleman, the man you spoke of editorially not long ago. This letter is the result of rec- ognizing grievous faults perpetra- ted against the people of the Ter- ritory. That is, expensive, ill-man- aged programs so as to create jobs, buy votes, gain in power and money of certain office holders. The pro- grams on paper sound fine and it cer Society meets in Gold Room, Baranof Hotel. September 18 From 8 am. to T p.m.—Special eity election. Polls in Alaska Electric| Light and Power Co., store. i At noon—Rotary Club meets, Bara- nof Hotel. September 19 At noon—Kiwanis Club meets, Bara- nof Hotel. At 8 pm.—Elks Lodge. September 20 At noon—Chamber of meets, Baranof Hotel. At 8 p.m.—City Council meets in chambers at City Dock. Governor and Wife Leave for Conference In Tennessee Governor and Mrs. Ernest Gruen= ing left Friday for the States on the Princess Louise. Shipping their car, they will dis- embark at Vancouver, B.C., and drive to Washington, D.C. From there they will go to Gatlinburg, Tenn., where Gruening will attend a conference of governors of states and territories. They will return to Washington for a time and then drive westward enroute to Juneau. Commerce may be that they would work pro- viding your carpet-baggers could be prevented from interfering with those elected and appointed to car- ry out those functions. And as I stated previously, T think it is unfortunate Mr. Lew Williams was relieved. It certainly is an insult to all the people to have a Governor, a President and others in power to have such a lack of common sense and sagacify that it takes seven years to deter- mine that an appointee is incom- petent. Sincerely, (Name Withheld) P. S. Since I am neither in bus- iness or running for office publi- city for me is a waste. Therefore, it would be appreciated if you print this letter to not use my name. I would also appreciate re-|' turn of the letter for my own use after you are mro\'lzh with it. 20 YEARS AGO 7% EMPIRE B o SEPTEMBER 14, 1931 Mrs. Lee Pratt and son Robert, arrived hére Monday from Cordova on the steamer Alaska to make Juneau their future home’ Mr. Pratt has | been assigned to the regional office of the U. S. Forest Service. They will live in the Spickett Apartments. The government’s annual auction of seal skins from the " Pribilot | herd, brought $282,642 today. years total $6,049,5624. Receipts frim Auctions over the past 20 B. M. Behrends returned to Juneau after three weeks in the south. He reported business conditions in the cities on the west coast good. He accompanied his grandson, Ben Mullen, to 8an Jose where Mullen entered school. Charles D. Springer, deputy marshal at-Tenakee, is:in Juneau on official business. t Mrs. Harry Olds and daughter ‘Shirley arrived on the’Yukon after | a visit with relatives in Seattle. Jack Frost last night paid his first visit to Juneau and its environs, according to Weather Man R. C. Mize. The lowest tempearture recorded Mrs. A. E. Goetz and infant son returned to her home in Douglasi| | was 39 degrees above zero. from St. Ann’s Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gentry arrived on the Northland from Seattle and will make their home in Douglas. Mrs. Gentry is the forfner Miss Weather: High, 61; low, 39; fair. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon | Mary Africh, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Anton Africh of Dougias. They 'have taken one of the Olson cottages. | S ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Say, “He PLEADED guilty,” not “He PLED guilty.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Egress. second E as in DRESS, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Descendant Jective). (noun). Pronounce first E as in ME, Descendent (ad- ‘ in Scottish Rite Temple SYUONYMS: Bind, tie, fasten, fetter, secure, shackle, restrain, re- strict. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: EPITOMIZE; to abridge; summarize. (Accent follows the T). “These things have been epitomized into a formula for our convenience.” | MODERN ETIQUETTE i Q. If there is no host in the house at the time, and a hostess is seeing a couple off, should she help both of them with their coats, or just the woman’s? A. She doesn’t assist, either of them. The man first helps the woman with her coat, and then puts on his own. Q. If a man is telephoning another on business, doés he . says, “This is Mr. Johnson of Smith & Sons”? A. Tt would be betetr if he omitted the “Mr.” He can say, “This is Johnson of Smith & Sons,” or, “This is George Johnson.” Q. Should a girl of eighteen rise when being introduced to a man of sixty? A. Yes, it is the proper thing to do — also, to & woman of sixty. e e~~~ | LOOK and LEARN ¥ c convon 1. What is triangulation? 2. From what Shakespearean play comes .the following line: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”? 3. What was Eleanot Roosevelt’s family name before her marriage? 4. What is napery? 5. Which ranks higher in British peerage, an earl or a duke? ANSWERS: | 1. A method of surveying large areas. If one side and two angleg of a triangle are known, the other two sidés can be computed. 2. “Julius Caesar.” 3. Roosevelt. 4. Household linen. 5. Duke. There is no subsitute for - Newspaper Advertising! 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