The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily EMPIRE PRINTING COM: Second and Main Streets, June HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO Entered In the Post Office in Juneau SCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Dou six months, $9.00; one yeai y mail, postage paid, at the foll in advance, $15.00; six mon! n advance, $1.50 5 will confer a favor if the: of any failure or irregularity in the delivery News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED ted Press is exclusively e tion of all news disp: iited in this paper and aley the attle, Wash, Alaska Empire ches credited to it or not other- Alaska Newspapers, 1411 S What military men are intere the fact that the new- ammunition will enable a British division to carry 824,000 rounds more ammunition with the same transport. As the r well aware, the question of supplies, including food, ammunition, etc, is always important in military That the new British weapon will be @ standard gun for the democratic nations i doubtful Observers from the United States while praising the weapon, indicate that the United States apt to switch weapons at this time. Anyhow, the matter will be studied by a group of technical ex pérts, who will suomit a recommendation this winter. ted 4in is unday by the PANY au Alaska ader i President President ampaigr d somewhat Vice- rdop as a Second Class Matter. for $1.35 per month; §17.50 owing rates: ths, in advance, $7.50; y will promptly notify soIm PRESS ntitled to the use for local news published L OF INDUSTRY A SMART MOVE DISPERS/ acted wisely in ordering nd agencies to support vn ked out by the National Office of Deéfense President Truman has governmental lepartments industrial dispersal polic; Security Resources Board, Mobilization Munitions Board. the The program will be bitterly fought by repre- sentattves of existing industrial arc They will point to the fact that Congress recently rejected an‘amend- ment iucking the need for dispersal of industry a yardstick in the construction of plants built or nanced by the government Tuesday, December 4, 1951 The dispersal program is imperagive in view of the possibility of atomic bomb attacks. Certainly, it would be extremely foolish for the United States to BRITISH DEVELOP SUPERIOR ARMY RIFLE The necessity of defense forces the art of war- fare to make use of the ingenuity that will kill other human This ever the practice of manki longer the method of settling putes The United no States and most lantic treaty powers rely upon the automatic Garrand ses .30-caliber ammunition. , The British M-1 which Army has heretofore depended upol bolt-actipn rifle which uses slightl: has been true since the replaced the spear and sword and will no doubt con- continue to pile up its es al plants in areas where there are already vital productive units, putting all our production eggs in the same basket and inviting the enemy to knock them all out at one time. en There is another side to the question which may be overlooked by those who argue against dispersal. Existing industrial plants in metropolitan areas e clamoring for a system of governmental insurance to protect them from loss in the event of an atomic bemb attack. It is hardly possible the enemy will waste atomic bombs on the relatively undeveloped areas of the nation and, consequently passage of an | insurance measure will be almost exclusively for the benefit of existing industrial areas. In view of the fact that these industries expect the government to indemnify them against loss, if their plants are bombed during war, it is a smart of man to develop beings faster than bow and arrow nd until wars are international dis- of the. North At- n the Lee Enfield y larger ammuni- tion but ordnance and scientific experts recently un- veiled a new .280-caliber automatic rifle before a carefully screened audience which was almost unani- mous in praising the performance of the gun. In a test between the three rifles, the new weapon fired 84-rounds a minute, compared to the 43 rounds of the rand and 28 for the Enfield. It pene- trated steel helmets 600 yards away and went through 46-inches of wood planking at 100 yards. In addition, it can kill a human target at 2,000 yards, The British development is a foot shorter than nd. weighs a pound less and carries 20 o0 the Garrand’s eight. Its muzzle velocity s comparable and its recoil is less than half of the American gun. It represents a radical departure in policy on the part of the government to disperse the plants so that the loss will not be aggravated by an avoidable concentration of industrial plants. If the | government is to indemnify the owners against loss, | the government should have something to say about/ the location of new plants, especially those established through governmental assistance. The safety of the nation is another factor tha” must be considered against the wishes of existing industrial areas to increase their productive potential.| If we are to have unimterrupted production of essen- | tial items during war, we must have our plants scat- tered throughout the nation so that one successful attack will not seriously® impair our facilities. Not design in thaf the wooden stock has ben eliminated and the weapon is a straight line from muzzle to butt. The trigger is in front of the magazine, making it easier to maintain and handle. The Washingfon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) by strikes in defense industries, why military production is lagging. | It means President Truman must choose between guns and egg beaters —on the eve of a presidential elec- tion. Note—Mobilization Boss Charlies Wilson’s plan has been to keep the nation’s factories producing civilian goods, and increase de- fense productioin by expanding and building new plants. The only real trouble has been that this has been too slow to keep up with the Defense Dgparlmem's needs. sumer durables while at the same time meeting the needs of the De- fense Mobilization program, Fleisch- mann added. The production crisis has been | caused by shortages and strikes at | home, plus stepped up military ship- | ments to Europe. The unfortunate fact is that military production is lagging dangerously behind procure- ment schedules. For example, the: manufacture of jet planes is nine months behind schedule. Yet the Air Force right now has had to re- vise its earlier schedule drastically upward because of losses over Kor- ea and improvements in Russian planes. MAILBAG E. C, Washington, D. C.—My brief reference to Gen MacArthur's failure to speak to hospitalized vet- (erans at Portland, Ore, was mild |compared to the comments of Port- land chairman of the MacArthur welcoming committee, a Republi- can. The Oregonian, a GOP news- Fle.schmann argued that the|paper commented “The one speech manufacturers of automobiles, frig- | Gen. MacArthur was expected to erators, television sets and other |maie in Portland. . left soma 500 consumer durables, “on the average, patients ‘of the Veterans Hospital have already reduced to 60 percent'y.usidered and disappointed. Am- of their 1950 rates of production.”|pyjatory patients awaited the event “Consumer durables cannot be!f.om the doors of the big hospital. reduced more than an additional other patients crowded hospital ten percent and still produce at & | windows expecting to hear a speech px'(‘)lil," he warned mobilization of-' ¢ m the hospital’s public address ficials at the closed-door mu:ling}wsmm The hundreds of patients ¥ < " _|who could not see the dramatic ar- 10 PERCENT 1S NO SOLUTION | 5 waited patiently with bedside only is it wise for the government, from this point, to scatter all new plants that are constructed, | but it might be adavntageous to move some of the existing essential industries into other areas. - | ney over the phone) sai stand: Bammons and Whitney,” the Jour- nal stated. “MacArthur had specifi- cally asked that the parade go ‘past | a veterans hospital if you have one’. | “Sammons (talking to Gen. wlnl-“ : ‘there was not a single reason why MacArthur should not have spoken. As one| old soldier to another, he could hnvel told the boys of his thanks for what they had done'.” Esenhowernls "Fiaffered’ as Pres. Candidale WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—{#—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower says he is “flattered” to learn he is regarded | by many House members as Presi- dential timber. But, in a letter to Rep. Cole (R-NY), he gave no indi- cation whether he will be available. The New York Congressman re- cently took a poll of House Repub- licans which gave Senator Taft (R-Ohio) 71 votes and Eisenhower 54 in first choices for the presiden- tial nomination. He sent the re- sults to Eisenhower. | Releasing the poll, Cole said “I understand Eisenhower’s position,” and he added: “His entire effort is toward the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ity DECEMBER 1 Mrs. A. Eiler Dorothy Marie Reck Roy Dean Dufree Cara Sue Reynolds Nancy McDowell Nella Jermain C. B. (Bert) Holland David McPhetres Mrs. Emily Schmitz e e 0o o o o | Community Evenfs TODAY At 6:30 pm.—Odd Fellows dinner in TOOF Hall followed by regular niecting and conferring of Third Degrees. At 7:30 p.m—Doubleheader bas- ketbfll game in high school gym At 7:230 p.m. — Delta Chapter ot Beta Sigma Phi meets in Gold Room, Baranof. At 8 p.m.—American Legion Auxil- iary in Dugout. 8 p.m.—Territorial Sportsmen Inc.,” to meet in Elks Hall for election of three board members. At 8 pm. — Folkateers dance in grade school gym. At 8:45 p.m.—Community Night for Adults at Teen Age club with square dancing. December 5 At noon—Kiwanis Club meets Baranof. At noon—! meets at Baranof At 1:30 p.m.- usiness meeting of JWC in AEL&P penthouse. At 8 p.m.— Alaska Potters meet in headquarters. At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge. At 8 pm.—WSCS Christmas party in Methodist church parlors. December 6 From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.—Special City Election on bond issues. At noon—Chamber of Commerce meets at Baranof Hotel. At 7:30 p.m—Regular meeting of City Council. ec 00000000000 fesvooceceescese At at ball in high school gym. At 7:30 p.m.—Registered nurses of channel area meet at St. Ann’s hospital. December 7 Salvation Army hom ar at reading rooms ony At 10 am. league, baza Franklin. At 8 p.m. — Regular meeting ‘of Shrine cluk h At 8 pax nof Hotel. December 8 At 7 pm.—Program in Salvation Army hall on Willoughby. Club meets in Bara- and ladies by Elks ballroom. December 10 At noon—Lions Club meets in Bara- nof Hotel. At noon—BPWC meets in Terrace room at Baranof. At 7 p.n—Badminton club meets in high school gym. At 8 pm.-—American Legion pest meets in Dugout. 2 December 11 A At noon—Rotary club meets &t Baranof. g Mis. (MQM And Children Back From Hawaii Trip Mrs, Curti: | ren returned yc | weeks' vacatio Hawa Shatt a few more days ness and will be back the the week, che said. said that she hac getting the childrer into' snow this morning aftes they had been living in swim suit: Emblem Club in Shattuck and child- terday from a sever’ in the States ancy ck rem over in Seattle on busi- end of | in Hawail. In the Islands the Shattucks met | some former Alaskans, a numbe: who had visited the Territory anc several who had relatives in Alaskad At 7:30 p.m.—Doubleheader basket- | At 9 p.m.Pirates dance.for m%cn]\t 16 e’ from THE EMPIRE YEARS AGO DECEMBER 4, 1931 Miss Madeliene Reidi was hostess at a surprise birthday party for }Miss Mamie Feusi the previous night. Three tables of bridge were ! played with first prize going to Miss Cecile Cashen and consolation to Miss Margaret Pimperton. 20 ‘ m Baker, traveling salesman, was making a brief business visit u. arriving on the motorship Northland from Seattle. S to Ju The Empire this day was a special 16-page i;suc, with the second cctiess devoted particularly to Christmas suggestions. The Juneau Fire Department agreed to sponsor a local basketball team to make a trip to participate in the Lynn Canal Tournament, December 14, at Haines. Seven men and a coach were to make the rip, and were to be transported on the harbort boat Fornance with- motorship Zapora was in port this morning from Seattle, with lerable freight for Juneau. Seven passengers were booked for the s bound trip, which was to be by way of the west coast of Prince |of Wales Island and Chatham Strait. Mrs. L. Kane and Miss Patricia Kane of Hoonah arrived here on motorship Estebeth, on the weekly Sitka voyage. th A fund of $51 had been donated By local people and forwarded who State Industial School, at St. Anthony, for distribution Alaska children at the school, to make their Christmas more ant. GORDON g WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I figure that the house will cost twenty thousand dollars.” Say, “I ESTIMATE.” OFTENi MISPRONOUNCED: Rapacious. Pronounce ra-pa-shus, k unstressed, second A as in PAY, accent second syl- plea N Weather: High, 43; low, 38; rain. e e e e e e e e e Daily Lessons in English % 1. lable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Altogether (adverb, meaning ‘“entirely!); jone wor All together (united; one); two words. SYNONYMS: Copy (noun), counterpart, reproduction, | duplicate, tacsimile, replica, transeript. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ‘incrrasc 0 ocabulary by mastering ene word ‘each day. Today's word: yREMOTE; dislant; secluded. “He found his happiness living in remote {mountain fastne MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥operra 158 l-q. likeness, 8 Hev is the announcement of an engagement given at a party? The news may be told by the girl herself or her mother, as the fguests arrive and find the fiance standing beside’ them. Or; perbaps, (if the party is a dinner, it is told by the father of the girl, who rises and proposes the health of his daughter and future son-in-law. Q. What sort of a note could one write in appreciation of flowers }wnt to a funeral? 2 ! . “Thank you, Mrs. Smith, for your beautiful flowers and your kind sympathy. I can't tell you how much your thoughtfulness has ) Q. Are the pread and butter plates placed on the luncheon table efore the guests are seated? Yes. 1 A. L00K and LEARN IZC,GORDON o t 3 A 1. What European country has given New York City its largest immigrant group? : 2. What two Presidents of the U. S. have had the longest full names? 3. Which is the largest meat-producing country in the world? ‘What chess piece has the lowest rank? How many toes does a horse have? ANSWERS: Italy. . Rutherford Bis: 23 letters. Argentina, iard Hayes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, both 5 with ; one each foot . EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. 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HELLAN f ) effective organization of the North | They saw Mr. and Mrs. William Fleischmann hinted, however, that a 10 percent cut would not solve the problem of material shortages. “Further cuts in the production oi consumer durables,” he shrugged, “wiil not rclease substantial quan- tities of controlled materials, such| structural steel and brass mill as products,’ Fleischmann’s problem is allo- cating scarce materials such as cop- per and aluminum, to meet both civilian and military needs. He made no hones about this being a tough asignment for the first quarter of 1952. “The growing demands of the de- fense production program will prob- akly result in allocations satisfac- tory to no one,” he predicted gloom- ily. Arthur Smithies, economist for zdobilizer Charlie Wilson, asked whether manufacturers were hoard- ing scarce materials. Fleischmann explained that his controls pro- gram ‘works on a production and | a plant basis,” which makes it dif cult to check. Looking at the immediate future, | Fleischmann admitted that pros- pects for an ‘increase in the supply of controlled materials are not bright. Shortage of electrical pow- er in the northwest has curtailed the production of aluminum. The problem of financing additional aluminum capacity has not yet keen solved. There appears to be no new solution of the copper short- age.” These are the reasons, complicated | earphones. “The caravan a:iived. macArthur alighted, saw the cheering patients, |some in wheel chairs, with nurse attendants.! He shook hands. Flash {bulbs lighted the scene. . .photo- graphers arranged the General, Mrs. | MacArthur, Governor Douglas Mc- Kay, Mayor Dorothy McCullough | Lee and dozens of others into pic- torial pos .Two generals and | two colonels who became Japan- ese prisoners on Bataan held brief | reunion with their old commander jas shutters snapped.” Then the MacArthur party retir- ed. “The big hospital buildings,” concluded the Oregonian, “where | the patients watched behind closed | windows and the bedridden neither saw nor heard the “old soldier’ or | his voice, were silont.” Later the Portland Journal, an| anti-Truman Democratic paper, quoted E. C. Sammons, GOP chair- man of the MacArthur welcoming committee as having telephoned Gen. Courtney Whitney, to deny} Whitney's assertion that MacArthur 1 did not know he was supposed to veterans Atlantic Treaty armies and resist- | ance to further Communistic aggres- sion and I sincerely believe that he gives little if any thought to poli- tics and the coming nomination. | address the hospitalized over the loudspeaker. “On at least three occasions at | the hospital the General had been | | advised he was expected to speak | over the loudspeaker and into the | radio microphones which had been | set 'up,” the Journal quoted Sami- | mons as saying. | “The original idea of the General |to speak at the hospital developed 'in a telephone conversation between T, — Stevenson who were on the Hono- lulu Chamber of Commerce tour to Alaska last June. The Stevensons sent their regards to their Juneau riends, Mrs. Shattuck said. RVRESTHRS ACROSS Long narrow inlet . Finial of & spire ! . Bird of the Arablan nights 35. At home 36. Cut down 38, Related 4. Willow 44, Age 5. 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