The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire d every evening except Sun d EMPIRE PRINTING COMPA' Main Streets, Juneau Ala: HELEN T h DOROTHY TROY Post_Office in J Entered in the SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.35 per month; ths, $9.00; one vear, S13.50 s Office of ¢ News Office, 602; Business MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED lusively er credited d also the 1 NATIONAL ADVERTISING Holliday Co Monday, December 10, s Second Class Matter REPRESENTATIVES soon forgotten L enjoyed frc a President Vice-President | clations and politic so-called “liberals”, g rates advance, $7.50 This is not mptly notify e delivery Bob has made by the | siderable p apparent 374 whe otice RESS tled to the t or not ocal news .pub! ds o | indispensable to th wis The of revealed that deleg had be o results fact his once great Pof Bartlett cast Alaska vot trip. His uns Territorial Senator {by his later railur Lew Williams. 1951 roots in the BARTLETT WIDENS PARTY RIFT | At last Tharsday's Democratic party dinner, De gate Bob Bartlett expressed confidence that the party would be victorious in the coming e dicted further victories in 1954 and future.” He went on to rap the conserv the party, remarking that for these there remained only the Republican party. | th representir lests of Erne i lections and pre- “far, far into the tory and the only Republicans. ative element in tory of opinion on matters of party policy. the first of time politicians have found, is not always the case. the did not endear himself to s when he made his 1950 campaign cees political boomerang re to go to bat Bob should ree in Alaska and elswhere Democratic stronger and of longer standing with whom Bob has chosen to ¢ like Bob and respect his ability, but the time is draw ing ncar when he will have to ¢ people of Alaska t Gruening. The Democratic party is L delegate’s serve to widen the breach tc We're sorry that Bob feels that way about mem- | bers of his own party. We're sorry that he has \u‘v o the i n this group their confidence in him despite certain of his asso- | -l blunders. has so far departed from the principles on which the! J Democratic party was founded that he, like many | wholehearted support he has| — who managed to maintain | We're sorry that Bob | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASEA = cannot tolerate sincere differences | o time that ly ) have enjoyed high office for con- that of imagining lnmwlx} e people of Alaska. This, as many last general election should have to Bob. Althodgh he was again | his majority not nearly as en in prior years—ind: ing that sularity had waned appreciably. ut was ssful attempt to defeat Jim Nolan, from Wrangelk, proved to be a — whose s not lessened | his old friend | sting w for many of us— just as stron Perha of thos Alaska ize that there who hd party as he has ¢ his lot. §: ke his choice between r the special nter- |- v 3 plit in the Terri- ed remarks can the benefit of the J ill-con: The Washington Merry-Go-Round ’ (Continued from Page One) | Welfare Conference designated an American of Yugoslav descent, John Zvetina, a Chicago attorney, to go to Yugoslavia and make a survey to see whether CARE packages were | keing distributed without prejudice | among people of all religions. His report was favorable. To understand the religious situ- ation in Yugoslavia, you have to remember that for centuries it was | occupied by Turkish conquerors, during which time some people took on the Moslem faith. But at | the time I worked in Yugoslavia right after’ World War I, Moslems, | Orthodox hnfd* Roman ' ¢ Cathotics lived together in relative harmony. While that harmony was disrupt- ed by the Hitler occupation, there | is no reason why, with the release of the Archbishop, it cannot com-; pletely return. Note—U. S. military men agree | that close cooperation between It- aly and Yugoslavia the most | important key to the defense of lhci Mediterranean. It ranks in import- | ance with the defense of west Ger- many. The release of Ar('hbisl\()p‘ Stepinac, therefore, might bring | the two countries one step nearer | better understanding and a settle- | ment of the thorny Trieste prob- lem. is INSIDE MOBILE TAX FRAUD In all the hullabalooing over who did-or did not prosecute the Ripps- Mitchell income-tax-fraud case in Mobile, Ala., ‘one important fact has been overlooked. - Real is an obscure Internal’ Revenue agent named Robert Cox, who stuck to the case through thick and thin until he got a convietion. Today, when everyone is crying “graft” at Internal Revenue agents, 1 think 4t's -heartening to know tha Cox and other T-Men on this case were sent Christmas presents and offered bribes. They rebuffed the latter, sent the former back They also kept on bird-dogging Other unsung heroes who helped collect $700,000 for Uncle Sam and put two crooks in jail, were’ An- drew Tully, former U. S. Attorney in Mobile and several Mobile citi- zens who prefer to be nameless. The full story of what happened has not been told on the witness stand of the King tax-probe com- mittee—only’ a cloudy portion of it. John Mitchell, the Justice Depart- ment lawyer (no relation to tax- evader Joe Mitchell) testified that on Dec. 14 and 21, 1949, he wrd two memos regarding ways to re- open the Ripps-Mitchell tax case However, it was more than month tefore that I learned through the fact that my wife had sent one of her prize pups to Mobile and we got to know some people there, that T-man Robert Cox was so discour- aged over the Ripps-Mitchell cas that he was about to resign. I had never heard of Ripps and Mitchell before but decided to investigate. a NO EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTE I called on Turner Smith, chief assistant to Lamar Caudle of the Justice Department’s tax division and told Him I had heard that a lot of graft was mixed up in a tax case involving two men named Ripps and Mitchell who had made several million dollars selling jew- elry to GIs at Army PX’s but didn’t pay taxes. Smith called his secretary, asked her if there was a record on a case involving Sam Ripps and Joe Mitr chell. She eame back with a card, from which Smith read a notation: ” |than he re | telephoned later, | had a conference with Caudle, Tur- | | ner Smith hero - It was evident from the way Smith read the card that he didn’t know anything about the case. But he sent for the file, then informed me that in June or July 1949, Tr sury and Justice agents conferr in Birm 1am, Ala.,, had decided there was not sufficient evidence to prosectute. The Justice Depart- ment man who participated in the Birmingham conference, incident- ally, was John Mitchell, who later— in Decem 1949—decided there were grounds for prosecution. I told Turner Smith I had heard there much more to the case ed and, after some long-distance telephoning, I sent Jack Anderson of my staff to Mo- bile and Birmingham. He came back with some amazing evidence. But before he came back, and while he w in Birmingham, WU oS (Attomep idaiyy Hilly gog per-| | turbed over Anderson’s queries and James MeInerny, now the Justice Department's arning him that looking er chief of criminal division, the Merry-Go-Round was |into the Ripps-Mitchell case. This cail took place on or about Nov. 29, 1949, well before John Mitck ecember memos that I cw means of prosecution. BCOKS DISAPPEARED Simultaneously, I phoned Lamar Caudle that I thought some new evidence had turned up in the Ripps-Mitchell case, and a few days on Dec. 5, Anderson and I| and John Mitchell. One of the things we told Caudle was the whereabouts of the Ripps- Mitchell bookkeeper, Mrs. Inez Zuck- | erman Sacher. The Ripps-Mitchell i mysteriously disappeared T-Men started working on the and this disappearance of vi- tal evidence, according to the law- yers, weakened the c: However, we suggi that Mrs. Sacher could be called as a witness to testify first hand regarding the Ripps-Mitchell books, thus making it unnecessary to pro- duce them. Caudle said this was an excellent idea, and phoned me several times during subsequent weeks to say that the case was be- ing pushed. There was no question but that Congressman Frank Boykin of Mo- Lile was pulling every wire he could to stop the case. I wrote about it at the time. But Boykin always does pull wires, and he'll keep on | pulling wires as long as he’s a Congressman another case which he tried to! stop. Sure, Let the U. . Do It All; Expense Cut of UN Opposed PARIS, 10— »—The States ha d t United ions for an immediate cut of her share of U.N. costs and ran into vehe- ment opposition from the Soviet Bloc, U.S. Delegates John M. V¢ suggested a reduction from 33.33 percent, arguing that no s country should be asked to more than one third of the for running the world organization in normal tim | 3. E. Chicherbatyouk, of the So- | viet Ukraine, attacking the U.S proposal, said the U.S. contribution | “should not be reduced but on the contrary considerably increased.” He complained that the “current trade policy of the United States and its embargo on trade between the United States, the Soviet Union and the people’s democracies” was making it very difficult for the Soviet Bloc to earn dollars. ed to Caudle Dec United | of 'five cents per tree is made, with Later I'll write about | |® Bob has made | o ittacks on his friends and it is probably not the last. | made the error so commonly | ® ot K We hope that Bob will soon drop the role of McGrath crrand-boy and again pe of real service to the Terri- | No and to his party. ‘Informaiion Given E Wealher at Alaska Points DECEMBER 10 Trevor Davis Edward A. Johnson Ed Erstad William F. Kelly H. E. Smith Gerald Magorty Leana Orterman nor Helen Hinke Weather conditions and tempera- dmonton faine: |Havre un: nett e Nortl Peters! | Portland | Prince Seattle a2 Whitehorse On Xmas Tree Cuts Inquiries about the right to cut Christmas trees from lands acces- sible to the Glacier Highway are being received by the Forest Service. Yakutat i Airport Island George tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific 120th Meridian Time, and released {by the Weather bureau are as follows: Anchorage Barrow Cordova Dawson Czoast at 4:30 am, 22—Partly Cloudy 24—Clear 39—Rain . 10—Cloudy’ 30—Partly Cloudy 10—Cloudy 36—Fog 0—Cloudy 42—Rain 46—Rain 40—Cloudy 25—Partly Cloudy . Snow . 9—Cloudy 23—Partly Cloudy 42—Rain, Fog 31—Partly Cloudy 32—Snow 38—Cloudy _partly Cloudy 38—Rain T Ranger Clyde P. Maycock, of the|a Admiralty Division therefore has issued the following informatio Trees for home use of the person cutting, or for churches or frat- neral organizations, can be cut from A National Forest land without prior approval of the Forest Officer, p: vided the trees are not cut from any point within 100 feet of the road, or from designated recreation- al ar , such as Auke Village area The purpose of this restriction is'Z 0, help, preserve the natural beauty of the Glacier Highws led cutting over a périod of years would seriously mar the appearance of the roadside. ed to make sure they are satis- fied - with a particular tree before it is cut. It is obvious that many At ODAY adminton club meets At 7:30 p.m—First aid class to be organized in room 3, high school. Public invited. At 8 p.m.—American Legion post meets in Dugout. December 11 noon—Rotary At aranof. At 7:30 p.m. At 8 club meets Doubleh: 01 T Fellows meet in IOOF Hall. at e danci 7. Uncontroll- At 8:45 p.m.—Community Night for | Teen Age club december 12 Persons cutting trees are request- At noon—Kiwanis club meets at aranof. 7:30 p.m work, 10th .—Scottish Rite degree to 13th degrees. trees could be wasted by being cut At 8 pm.—Elks Lodge. December 13 and then discarded in favor of a dedirable one found later. Christmas tree cutters should also yemember that many tracts of privately-owned land border the | highway, and that the first Nation- al Forest land to be crossed by the road is located seven Juneau. There are large portions | of the land bordering Glacier High- | | way beyond Mile 7 also privatel owned. Permission to take trees, from privately-owned areas must, of course, be obtained from the | owner. The Forest Service person- nel, will gladly give advice. on whether or not a particular lracl‘ is National Forest land. The Ad- miralty Division offices are lo- cated at the subport. Cutters planning to sell Christ- | mas frees must secure a permit from the Forest Service before' any cutting is, done and the operalhms‘ must be conducted in' accordance with the timber sale requirements of the Forest Service. A cha a minimum sale of three dollars. ,|° There are practically no areas adjacent to Juneau on National Forest land that contain suitable Christmas trees in substantial numbers. Some of the best areas of Christmas trees are on the| Mendenhall flats outside of the re- creation area. | c At meets at Bar: At 100 Chamber of Commerce nof Hotel. Juneau Singers re- school music entrance. December 14 miles from At 6:30 pm. —Scottish Rite dinner followed by regular meeting and . 8th 14th degree. and 9th grades at Parish Hall De At 3:30 pm rehearsal atre at ember 15 au Oth gers drest Century The. December 16 2:30 p.m.—Christmas cau Singer De | At noon—Lior anof Hotel 8pm: — concert by th Century 17 Ciub meets in Bar Rebekah Past Noble Christmas party at home Fred Schindler. December 19 Christmas op 1epherd’s ed yout FROM AD Gerald Olsor contracto: retta “The Christmas” by com- h choirs at Methodist HORAGE of Lytle and Green from Anchorage is a ! the Baranof Hotel. THESE WOME N! By d'Alessio I £ at basket- | 20 YEARS AGO e DECEMBER Mrs Ann’s Hospital. George Shaw was recuperating from THE EMPIRE oo it 10, 1931 nicely after turgery at St. The mid-week dance at the Moose Hall, with Harry Brandt's orchestra furnishing the music, H. Thibodeau and S. Miss Margaret Pimperton, Fox, consolation prize for the least. well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. . Tranuff were awarded the door prizes. Lee Thoma and o] hostesses at an informal taffy pull the previous night. @ e o o © o o o o elhunt Madeliene Reidi received first prize for the most, and Margery - Edla Holbrook was the winner of Mrs. Lucile Pepoon were In a peanut a modelling contest, and Mae Fraser and Mona Carlson were winners in a “stunt” contest. Charles Miller, purser of the steamer Admiral Evans, was taken seriously ill with acute appendicitis when the steamer was four hours | Capt. Charles Graham turned the steamer about and out of Ketchikan. took Miller back to Ketchikan, where he-successfully underwent an emergency operation. Garnick’s G (enough for four pies), for 50 cents. rocery was featuring a gallon can of wild huckleberries E. M. Goddard had been designated by Ralph Reeser, Department Commander of the American Legion, to act as transportation officer {for Southeast Alaska, to arrange special rates for delegates to the De- partment’s 1932 convention to be held Weather: High, 36; low, 27; clear. l Daily Lessons in English WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: an ungrammatical affectation. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: |first A as in AH unstressed, I as in OFTEN SYNONYMS: | <TORD sTUDY j increase our vocabulary by masteri: |MAXIM; a general truth; e “His words have become a maxim. rout. scream, call, g O Community Evenls | { MODERN ETIQUETTE b e o Q. %apkin? A. Certainly not! Thi d usually in doubtful” of silver. is an ble. a d have | Q piece it replaced. thand should a man use to take A. His left hand, |if ‘the woman should offer her hand Q. Dc Vhichever way he prefers. i | L 1. bet to distinguish over the telephone? 2. How is the area of any circle 3. (b) Oak Ridge, What How many a ANSWERS The letters “F” and “S.” ¢) Soe Canal, (d) Avoid the use of “Aren’t I1.” Instead, say “Am I not.” Maniacal. NIGH, MISSPELLED: Rabbit (animal). se a word three times and it is yours.” In which U. S. state is cach of the following: Grand Canyon? pe of beer is symbolized by a goat? es are there in a square mile? in Fairbanks. by W. L. GORDON | e mnnd This is Pronounce ma-ni-a-kal, accent second syllable. Rabbet (a groove). clamor, exclaim, yell. Let us ne word each day. Today's word y a saying ol a proverbial nature by KOBERTA LEE Is it proper to wipe off the tableware in a restaurant with the act insulting to any reputable If you do happen to get hold quietly call the waiter's attention to it When stopping to speak to a woman of his acquaintance, what off his hat? which leaves his right hand free to shake hands s the host who is doing the carving at the dinner table? with [ perform this task while seated or standing? LOCK and LEARN % ¢ corpon B e What are considered the two most difficult letters of the alpha- computed? (a) Coulee Dam By multiplying the sguare of its radius by 3.1416 (pi). (a) " Wash! Bock beer. 40. [ TMBARRASSING MOMENTS _“My Most Embarrassing Moment” urned out to be t that for a wmber of Lions who had forgetten on, (b) Tennessee, (c) Michigan, (d) Arizona. ~ COMPTON-HOUSLEY CEREMONY Mary Lucille Compton, of Reno, Nev., and Glen K. Housley, of Val- he program assignment this noon |d€z, were married by U. S. Com- it a regular Lions Club meeting at | missioner Gordon Gray in his of- be Baranof Hotel sas in charge of Les Awrit. “Webb Trimble, John Gibbs and Jlarence Foster were initiated by Nes Overby assisted by Milt Fur- 1ess and Al Ransome. The program | fices today. BOB HELGESON HOME Robert Helgeson, son of Mrs. Gertrude Boggan who is studying Daryl Roberts of the Bureau of |medicine at Stanford University, is Reclamation was a guest. home for the holidays. . Held a session Accomplish arrier in a st ACROSS 1. Strike noisily 5. Genus of magles 9. Budahist pillar 12, Toward the 3 sheltered side 13. New star egro of the Niger delta 5. Tardy 6. Pertaining to the first man . Siamese coins . Masculine nickname Ascent 21. Russian wagon . Flushed with success . American humorist tion at law inous en= be sur- iding the n 1 plant rican Indians . Mark aimed . Hebrew meas- ure ibstance at in curling 53. 54, 65 =Pk iz Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle . Neck covering 56. Antlered animal . As Chaucer spelled learn DOWN 1. Tree which yields chicle Winged . Irritated - Web-footed Egyptian sun disk Fivers in wool birds . The pineapple . System of signals . Escapes by subterfuge . Male sheep 9. Lawful . Humbled City tn Ohlo ngry- 22. Street urchin 24, Burdened . Kind of s One of an order of mamm: Keenness intellect Revolve 36. Cutting wit 7. Hanger-on Equalizer for & vehicle s of MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1951 MEMORIALS MARBLE and GRANITE Monuments and Markers JUNEAU MARBLE WORKS Phone 426—302 Franklin St. © B.P.0.ELKS Meeting Every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Vistling brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler, W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. Moose Lodge No. 700 Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— LOREN CARD Becretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Taku Post No. 5559 V.F. W. Meeting every Thursday in the Jeep Club at 8:00 p.m. NASHM SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. 909 12th Phone Green 279 Brownie's Liquor Sfore Phone 103 139 So. Franklip P. 0. Box 2596 | . . . ® EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY . . . | STEVENS® I LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR l Seward Strees Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 S ] Caslers Men's Wear McGregor Sportswear Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage BOTANY 500" CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS Quulity Work Clothing FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Men | l SHAFFER'S SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery e oo e, ] FIELD PROPANE GAS AND APPLIANCE CO. ”, Gas Has Got It” Walter D. Field — Phone 581 ® ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ® EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY e ® ® 0 0 0 0 000 0 R o i | ‘ "“The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists * BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Pianos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies Phone 206 Second and Seward Card Beverage Co. ‘Wholesale 805 10th BS. ' PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renmovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNITYJRE CO. PHONE 556 PAINTS —— OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD aad SERVICED by J. B. Burford Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREABES — GAS -- OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Btreet MAKE ! JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM » dafly habit—ask for it by name \ Juneau Dairies, Inc. ! HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liquor Store—Tel. 699 Amcrican Meat — Phone 38 i To Banish “Blue Monday” | To give you more freedom | from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVIS OVERALLS for Boys BLACKWELL'S CABINET SHOP 117 Main 8t. Phone 113 High Quality Cabipet Work for Home, Office or Btere G E. ALMQUIST as a paid-.up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "FRENCHIE" Federal Tax—12c Paid by the Theatre Phone 14—YELLOW CAB C0.—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! 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