The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publisiied every evening except Sunday by ihe EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Sccond and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - 4 DOROTHY TROY LINGO President Vice-President Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RAT) Delivercd by carrier in Juncau and Douxlas six_months, $9.00; one year, postare paid, at the following rates: One . in advatce, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one monih, in advance, $1.50. E ers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify ice of any failure or irregularity in the delivery | for $1.75 per month; $17.50 | B, il the B of the Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. -MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The “Ascociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it of not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published ONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapets, 1411 eattle, Wash. Tuesday, September 18, 1951 HOW ABOUT IT, MR. BARTLETT? Democr: - even some of the administration Demcor king this question. | If-the Delegate to Congress didn’t know anything about Lew Williams' removal from the office of Sec- | retargupf Alaska — why didn’t he? Wiien informed of the action by an Associated Presgifeporter (whom he assured he knew nothing abouff Williams’ dismissal), why didn't he get busy | and #ind out about it and, better yet, DO SOME- THING ABOUT IT? We aren't familiar with all the duties of the | Delegate to Congress, but it seems to us that it would not Nave been amiss for him to have called the Department of Interior requesting an explanation of | We grant that he couldn’t very well | its action suggest that the Department refrain from interfer- ence-dn Alaska politics, since that particdlar job is | an Interior appointment, usualiy with party approval, but ¥ seems to us that he should have at least expressed surprise that the party organization had not been consulted — and that he, as Delegate, had | not bsen ‘nformed. | ARter all, Willlams — the man the Department was firing — was a member of the First Division Demogatic Committee and, over the years, has scared whether reptilian or human. . administration, Bartlett is one man that the Depart- ment of the Interior or Messrs, Gruening and Truman can't fire. So we can’t excuse his inaction on that account. We may be wrong — and we sometimes are — but we think that the Delegate missed a chance to show | the people of Alaska, who vote for him, who is head | man in Territorial politics. Or maybe he really did show us. TOO MUCH ATTENTION Let's go back a week or so. Has the reader for- | gotten the dire prophecies of what the Russians would | | do to the San Francisco Conference which met to sign | the treaty negotiated with Japan? Of course, none of the predictions came about. All that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko could do was to talk and, after all, talk is not always a dangerous weapon. without any sensational event. All of which makes the various predictions look rather foolish and adds | to the suspicion that the newspaper and radio peo- ple give entirely too much attention to the Russians. NOTES AND COMMENT Talent, plus over-confidence, can ruin a life’s work. . . . . Not many people are as smart as they think they are. | . Inflation can be whipped if all of us buy only for cash. . . . . . . . Ready cash, it seems, is able to outdo magiclans in a disappearing act. . One who depends on the truth can do without an extraordinary memory. . It's high time to develop highway manners when driving an automobile. . This is the time of the year to avoid snakes, . . . . . . . . . There is so much planning for war that first| | thing we know, there will be war. . . . . Our public schools present the world’s most | prodigious project to perfect people. . . . . What would happen to a distinguished guest} who took his “key to the city” literally? . . . . Maybe some problems could be solved if we ran Europe and Europeans ran the U. S. . B . . Weather af The treaty proceedings came off on schedule, | | Prince George. | left by Alaska Coastal for Ketchi- up asot of support for Delegate Bartlett. Bartlett, we believe, could have at least fisked; the Department what was going on. ernment by intimidation has reached Alaska and many are afraid for their jobs if they | dare to speak above a whisper in criticism of thellive according to unselfish principles? Chinese Communists, even when talking peace, Although gov- | have to exhibit their nasty manners. ‘What became its peak in . . . of the young man who started to The Washingfon f Merry-Go-Round | (Continued from Page One) jured” However, these and other | facts in the long and secret record | of the Harvey Machine Co. more than justified Secretary Chapman’s hasty- stop order against one of the biggest government loans of the present era. What will amaze the taxpayers is that government investigators, who presumably can read the news- papers and knew of the proposed $46,000,000 to Harvey, did not turn over«their files to other branches of the government. It's also amaz- ing that some system hasn’t been set up inside the government where- by dilferent bureaus can compare notes-regarding prospective recip- ients of loans and war contracts. If such a system existed, here are the facts they would have found withgwt having a private newspap- ermal dig them out: SHtrange Testing-gauge In-garly 1943, M. M. Suddock, a threagegrinder operator working for tfé ‘Harvey Company which was $Hen making navy shells, re- ported- to navy inspectors that he had Bgen instructed to make an ofi-sizé testing gauge for 20 mm. shells. He consulted other thread-| grinders anc they agreed that the| size of the thread was unusual. ; In a sworn deposition to the| Navy Department, Suddock said: | “My only idea why such a gauge| should be cut is that the plant might have some oversized projec- | tiles that they wanted to slip past inspection.” Sudg@lock made this report through Ensign- V. G. Crabtree, a resident navy investigator, and on the strength of this, the navy launched | a thompugh probegboth through its own agents and Phrough FBI ag- ent K:A. Vosburgh. This disclosed a number of irregularities. Final- ly in May 1943 the records were turned over to James E. Harrington, Chief of the Justice Department’s war frauds section, with the rec- ommentflation that the Harvey Company. be prosecuted for viola- tion of the sabotage laws. | Abouf_300 pages are in govern- ment files regarding this investi- gation which cauld easily have keen turned over to the Interior, Department and the RFC. The probe centered around Her- bert Harvey, brother of Leo Har- vey, president of the firm. The navy report, signed by Ensign V. G. Crabtree and Commander J. C. Arnold, states: “He lied in every defense he put up. He was evasive, and denied any knowledge of the der” to make . off-sized testing uges. | { Finally navy inspectors showed rvey the original instructions for| he manufacture of the faulty| uge. In_the lower left-hand cor- and in Herbert Harvey's own writing was penciled the nota- | portant | changes in the text of the Japan- tion: “Make five more like one.” Confronted with this, Harvey’s memory improved somewhat. Herbert Harvey is still an im- executive in the Harvey Machine Co., and this is the out- fit to which the Defense Produc- tion Administration officially okay- ed a $46,000,000 loan on August 28. True Good Neighbor The backstage support received by the United States at San Fran- cisco was even greater than ap- peared on the surface. Not only did Guatemala, a semi-Communist country, and Argentina, a semi- Fascist country, make speeches backing the U. S., but two behind- the-scenes conversations indicated 1,000 per cent Pan American sol- darity. Just before the conference star- ted, astute Carlos Martins, longtime Brazilian ambassador and friend of the United States, came to Sec- retary Acheson privately and said: “I have instructions from my government to propose certain this | ese treaty. What do you want me to do about it?” He showed Acheson the. changes. They were chiefly matters of phraseology, which though not changing the meaning of the pact might open it up to changes from every nation present. “For God’s sake, don't propose em,” Acheson replied. “All right,” grunted Ambassador Martins who is not given to many words. Whereupon he did an unusual thing. An ambassador is supposed to carry out instructions from his government, not argue. But Mar=- tins cabled Rio De Janeiro that he did not believe it wise to introduce the changes. He pointed out that if Brazil, a longtime friend of the United States, introduced changes, the Philippines, Indonesia and Asiatic nations more directly af- fected by Japan, would attempt to revamp the treaty. So Martins told the Brazilian government that unless he heard to the contrary he would not carry out his instruc- tions. th How Many Votes Another interesting conversation took place between cautious, care- ful John Foster Dulles and Am- bassador Luis Machado of Cuba. It happended that Dulles and Machado were the only diplomats present who, as young men, both had attended the Versailles Con- ference in 1918; and Dulles started explaining the virtues of the Jap- anese peace treaty to his old friend. Using all- the eloquence of his Wall Street law career, Dulles waxed eloguent on the benefits of the treaty. But Ambassador Mach- ado interrupted. “I know all about the treaty,” he said, “but how many votes have we got?” FROM ANNETTE Lowell D. Warner of Annctte is at the Hotel Glacier Studies Fold Up for This Seasons The Juneau Icecap Research Pro- | ject folded up for the season last Saturday when a C-47 from the 10th Air Rescue Squadron from Elmen- dorf Airbase evacuated the last six men from the icefield. Jerry Hannifin of Time maga- zine, Seattle office, made the trip to the icefield Saturday and later left for Anchorage and Fairbanks where he will continue gathering in- | formation on Alaska. Maynard Miller who has been in charge of the JIRP, left last Wed- nesday for New York where he is to be married and leave for Cam- bridge University in England for a year’s study and research. The last six men brought in Sat- urday were Sgt. Adam J. Schmied- er and Pfc. William R. Webb, of Elmendorf Airbase; Fred Milan and Buck Wilson of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks; Robert Smith, New York meterologist; and Bob Sommers of Juneau. The main camp has been winteriz- ed and it is not anticipated that any winter observations will be con- ducted this winter, Milan said to- day. JIRP, under the sponsorship of the American Geographical Society and the .armed forces, has been making meterological and glacial studies on the Juneau icefield since 1948. | whose parents are former Juneau THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 September 18 ! To enroll in uoe ireshman class at Stanford University, Miss Marian | Foster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster, left on the Admiral Marvin Kristan | Rogers for Seattle Minnie Monroe e o o o o Four passéngers departed from Juneau on the motorship Pacific iwhen it left on its weekly yage to Port Alexander and way points. | They were J. B. Burford, J. B. Caro, Bert Caro and Allen Shattuck. One hundred and fifty-five persons of the city’s unemployed have been registered with the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce was informed today. The Legion discussed ways and means of taking care of the unemployed during the coming winter. H. L. Faulkner, Alaska Points Weather conditions and tempera- ures at various Alaska points also| Were appointed a Legion committee to investigate needy cases and plan on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m.| Ways to aid them. 120th Meridian Time, and released | —_— by the Weather Bureau are as| E. Gene Norman and Mrs. Margaret McDonald were married Sept. f\allok:vsr s |16 by U. S. Commissioner Charles Sey. A wedding dinner followed at S Y O = —Raln| the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Baldwin to which ¢ inti Annette Island .. 52—Partly Cloudy - y ch only s few intimate | friends were invited. Norman is a mining man from Chichagof where Barrow . 20— Bet;(;r & 45_c15(;;‘:1w the couple will make their home. Cordova ... 51—Rain Cerprraaay Dawson 45—Clovdy Earle Hunter Jr. shot and killed a large brown bear on the highway Edmonton 45—Partly Cloudy | near Auk Bay. Fairbanks . . 47—Partly Cloudy | Haines 51—Rain Havre W 44—Clear Juneau Airport . ... 52—Cloudy | Kodiak 52—Partly Cloudy | Marian Foster. Kotzebue ... 33—Partly Clouly| McGrath . 49—Cloudy | Nome . 42—Partly Cloudy [ Portland 54—Cloudy 56—Partly Cloudy | qugar, 17 pounds for $1.00; 2 No. 2% cans of tomatoes, 25 cents; 51—FO8 | yaxima potatoes, 35 pounds for $1. - 52—Cloudy . 49—Partly Cluuu;' and turpips, bunch, 10 cents;*home-grown cabbage, 7 cents per pound. 53—Rain | Departing for Seattle on the Admiral Rogers were Alice Charles, Herb Kettelsby of Wrangell registered at the Gastineau Hotel. Seattle ... Sitka . Whitehorse Yakutat Marriage Will Be Next Feature on Daigler's Program | | | Cliff Daigler, Jr., manager of the| 20th Century Theatre in Juneau, Weather: High, 58; low, 40; partly cloudy. Daily Lessons in English 3 1. corvon } B WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He seems to have no ca- pacity as a machinist.” Say, “He seems to have no ABILITY as a machinist.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: | GLAD. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Diaphragm; observe the GM. SYNONYMS: Courageous, daring, dauntless, fearless, brave, bold, . i 3 heroic, intrepid, adventurous, undaunted, valiant, venturesome. Winkle, Ketchikan logging opera-| wORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and: it is yours.” b | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's wo: Both Mr. Daigler and Miss Van| DIGNITARY: holdi 1t1 ¢ dient 7 Winkle spent years in Juneau as ) ; one holding a position o ignity, especially an ecclesi- Plaid. Pronounce plad, A as in kan today and will return at the end of the week a married man. His bride will be Miss Mary Ellen | Van Winkle, daughter of Archie Van }small children, grew up in the north- | astical dignity. “The dignitaries of the church opposed the idea.” west and attended school there. Miss | | Van Winkle is a graduate of Everett Washington, Junior College. Daigler, MODERN ETIQUETTE Roperra 1e S e o e PN residents now live in Ketchikan where the senior Cliff Daigleg is manager of W. D. Gross’ Coliséhm Theatre, attended high school in Juneau, the University of Washing- ton for four years and was in the navy three years. For the last six months, Daigler, Jr., who grew up in the exhibiting end of the movie business, has been manager of (Gross’ 20th Century Theatre. When the ccuple returns from Ketchikan their home will be in the 20th Century apartments. of her male companion? A. When practical, yes. The few definite rules about it include or chairman, and the military rule by which the senior officer walks as well as sits on his junior’s right. titled to consider the gifts and engagement ring her former fiance has given as belonging to her? A. No; good form requires that she return all these. Q. Is it proper to mail out formally engraved invitations to a christening? A. No; only the family and intimate friends are invited. I.OOK and LEARN IX{C.GORDON BCUCELSEERR L USSRl L . SESCE, How many Philippine Islands are there? How do U. S. Supreme Court Justices attain their positions? What country*leads in the production of silver? ‘What President of the U. S. immediately preceded Lincoln? How many shillings are there in a British half crown? ANSWERS: 4 About 3,000. They are appointed by the President. Mexico. James Buchanan. Two and one-half. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 30. Town in Penne HERE FOR BID OPENINGS Morrison-Knudsen men here for road bid openings by the Alaska Road Commission and Bureau of Public Roads are Bill Lofholm of Seattle and H. T. Newton and Ly- man D. Wilbur, both of Beise, Ida- ho. They are at the Baranof Ho- tel. CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids in quadruplicate will be received at the Office of the Commissioner of Education, Juneau, Alaska, until 10 o'clock a.m., Wed- nesday, October 3, 1951, and then publicly opened and read for the furnishing’ of the schoolrooms and teachers quarters with furniture and equipment for the Ninilchik Terri- torial School. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained from the Territorial Department of Educa- tion, Box 1841, Juneau, Alaska, The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. EVERETT R. ERICKSON, Commissioner of Education. First Publication: Sept. 11, 1951, Last Publication: Sept. 25, 1951, FEDERAL DEFI 1. Quick.to learn sylvania .. Ell::‘lcll moun- 1. Joint in the arm n 3. 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Reclines Be fond of Winglike Walked with tread Child’s marble Waikins stk alking sf VT Chilled past 48. Understand 51. Correlative of either pr¢ James J. Connors, Dave Housel and Territorial Senator Allen Shattuck ! Valine Council, 8 H. Vrothstad, George Peters, B. N. Parsons, Miss | California Grocery was advertising the following grocery s])‘r(mls:' ; fresh home-grown carrots, bvetsl Q. Is a woman always supposed to be seated at a table to the rlght; the seating of a guest of honor on the right of the host or hostess, Q. When a marriage engagement has been broken, isn't a girl en- | | {In Scottish Rite Temple TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1951 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month beginning at 7:30 p. m. Wm. A. Chipperficid, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. €) B.P.0.ELKS Meeting Every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. 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