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

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published eversy evening except Su EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets. Junea HELEN TROY MONE DOROTHY TROY LINGO - . Office SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier 1 ix m Er in the Post confer a favor if they ssiness Office of any failure o pers nes News Office, 602; Business YR IR Tuesday, December in_Juneau as S ularity in 18, 1951 (pnn_\' voice in political job appointments and in-| sisting that such appointments be made only with the approval of the party organization - inning with the precinct committees. Disregard of this pro- cedure has occasioned bitter criticism of the a ministration the past While the conservative element of the party be pleased with the convention's be nday by the u Alaska President - Vice-President in will outcome, 1 the opposition had the votes! Class Matter not moral is plain: thTORl AL SOLIL 0QUY Trity"in the delivery The editor of The Daily Alaska Empire is an ordi- | vy man, whose business requires him to keep up with in Juneau and the world at la ystem by which any edito; phecy and whatever opinions office na what is Th acquires the happenir e is no secret ift of pr voiced upon this page represent the considered on individual who has time to take the many sources of information that ire available in this era of the printed word. It is not always possible for any editor and his eaders to agree exactly upon matters discussed. Sensible readers should not expect to agree with the reflection of any one person. Those who are more nterested in their own mistakes than they are in the truth, are the only people to d e a discussion which does not coincide with their own impressions. | This article is not written because anybody has ex| disagreemen with our editorial poinions. | expressed disagreement with our editorial opinions. pressions from readers, who are nice enough to say | they enjoy our editorials and agree with them. The point we are making, and it fits these people, as \ul] ssed THEY HAD THE VOTES real unity The last hopes for Alaska’s Democrats went a-glimmer the First Division democratic convention way at Sitka, The meet was opened by an excellent speech recounting the of the party — nationally and in Ala that efforts be made to restore harm ranks, but to little avail It was apparent from the outset ing wing of the party had practica convention and intended to exercise A hanti picked chairman and soli mittees paved the way for the steamroller action that followed. Some concassions were made to Democrats, innumerable recesse: Only lifes wing group was the fact that they votes to hold the line on issues requ majority. 5 Most important of these was in the matter of tation of Petersburg, Wran Fovernor but only after prolonged discussion and \s others, is that the day might come when will not agree with what we e but, on that d we will be doing just what we are doing now, writing | as intelligently and as hon s possible. H among Southeast ing last week as got under Civil rights were ne the right to force himself Gruening i accomplishment He urgec a better friend t eep in touch w If you know a human who i we would suggest you ony to the party your dog, him. B S AR < to be thinking up is just around that the Gruen- al control of the it to the utmost ked com- time of the ye The y This is the some good resolutions. the corner. dly pa There are some operators i in the principle that they should ne 20 unused. who belimt ir credit | the conservative er for the zht e did have enough iring a two-thirds with certain | It is a great temptation to agrec people rather than engage in a hopeless di and waste one’s time. gell and some of The whiz who is always on the verge of making repre : ene the smaller outlying precincts. Interesting was the | 1 million dol never realizes he has to make 2 fact that the delegate to whom Petersburg proxies | thousand ¢ had been entrusted saw fit to vote them against Petersburg representation. We wo all a is Also of interest was a resolution, adopted re- | ommodities about which we cannot say: luctantly by the platform comniittee, reaffirming that goes a lonz way."” 3 The Washinglon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) of the Bronx put across Truman for Vice President, even going to the extent of deceitfully changing FDR's letter regarding Truman and William O. Douglas in order to do so. Root No. 3—Got growing in May of 1945 when President Truman, then in office one month, kicked out Francis Biddle, the Attorney Gen- eral, who insisted on rewarding the U. S. Attorney in Kansas City who had convicted Boss Pendergast The full inside story of how Tru- man fired Biddle, a strait-laced U. S. Circuit Judge from Philadel- phia, has never been told. It goes to the bottom of the little-realiz- ed.fact that today the Justice and the Treasury Departments have be- come the great patronage plums of the party in power. There was a time when the Post Office Department supplied the pat- ronage to the party. But today, with postmasters largely under, Civil Uervice, the party bosses look to the Treasury, which controls taxes, and the Justice Department, which has the power to prosecute. For the power to tax and the power to put people in jail or save them means far more to the city bosses than any other single thing in Washing- ton. BIG BOSSES STEP IN One month after Truman took office, therefore, Bob Hannegan and the city bosses who finessed him into the White House decided they wanted a Justice Department which would do their bidding. Few people knew it, but the new President was under great obliga- tion to Francis Biddle. He had handed Senator Truman much of the inside research on the Nazi cartel's links with Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Aluminum Cor- poration, Bausch and Lomb, plus other amazing revelations which put the Truman committee in the headlines and started the known Senator from Missouri on his way to the White House. On the other hand, Biddle had flatly refuskd to appoint Truman's old army geant, Fred Canfil, as U. S. Marshal in Kansas City He also blocked the appointment of Truman's pal, ex-Congressman Dick Duncan of St. Louis, to be a federal judge in Missouri, refused to par- cle Tom Pendergast and in on reappointing as U .S. Atto Maurice Milligan, the man whc sent Pendergast to jail. Perhaps this was why the new President was ashamed to fire Bid- dle and asked his secretary, the late Steve Early, to do it instead Biddle, however, not appreciating thig second-hand method of doing business, demanded and got to see the President Personally. “I quite understand that a new Harry | little- + | President wants his own friends in ‘his cabinet,” Biddle told Truman. E But it seems to me you should tell | Communication > me S0 yours Mr. President, not|Editor Daily Alaska Empire, detail it cretary.” Dear Sir: Embarr: , Truman agreed | Last week an Empire article “May I continued Biddle, | reporting the Chamber m'. Com- “who my succ is going to be?” | merce meeting on Thursday in- “Tom Clark,” replied Truman. | dicated I had predicted in a talk the Chamber. early pa statehood Rill before of the Alas CLARK, THE POLITICIAN : I thought I had said or at least Biddle couldn't conceal his am-|what I had intended to say was azement. A few days before he had | that I cared to make no predic- decided to fire Clark as chief of the | tion as to the fate of the state- criminal division because of his| hood bill in the Congressional ses- easygoing attitude toward criminal|gjon starting January 8 next but i that state-| elayed. | that I was convin hood cannot long Sincerely prosecution. Remonstrating with Trum described Clark as a “fixer him not to take his word reg g (Signed) Clark’s lack of qualifications, but | . Paleaite to consult Jim McGranery, then No. - 2 man in the Justice Department.|started then and there. | McGrenery went to see Truman,| One of Hanneg: reatest faults | but is reported to have pulled his|Was in the men h ked for the | key jobs of Internal Revenue col- he an, urged E. L. Bartlett, punches on Clark. Shortly there- ¥ after McGranery became a federal lectors—the Finn and the De-; judge in Philadelphia. | laney’ Most of em were thej Thus Tom Clark became Attorney | Choice of the big-city bosses, and General. He turned out not to be|as such naturally were beholden a “fixer"—as a matter of fact he,t0_the men ppointed them. | d Mr. Mor- uman, bowed | brought more antitrust cases than| S0 When the cagle- Biddle—but he was easygoing, pol- | Benthau rowed out of the Treasury, and later was itically minded, and cooperated with | (replaced by complacent, sleepy John the party bosses. | In ‘many respects his record was SPYIer the tax cvaders really be- in. One by one, forthright men de- parted. There was nothing dishonest | ahout the Justice Department. It merely inaugurated an era of friend- ship. The watchword of the m);”” ot was: “take care of your friends) |47 1D The amiable Justice Department | under Clark, however, was almost | a crusading beacon compared with | | the Treasury, the agency which col- | flects the taxes. It must be remem- | ¢! | | | nera was take it easy | f your friends. her Pearson col- | ent wave of corrup- | nt will follow soon). | bered that only a small fraction of !tax cases come to the Justice De- partment for criminal or civil ac- tion, the great majority being hand- led by the Treasury. So it became No. 1 wire-pulling | party bosses " | | | target for th UNPOPULAR MORGENTHAU Under unpopu , honest Henry Morgenthau, the Internal Revenue Bureau had been one of the most | forthright agencies of government. | Its commissioner was an old-fash- | loned ‘gentleman from Kansas, Guy | [ Helvering, who would no more have f tax case than he w ald | jumped into the Missouri| ed a if x a ca FDR cal Treasury n tax colle , “Henry the Morgu d his Secretary of the | such an eagle eye that it would have | | | H(-!\trm, had wanted | | kept tion: Guy to become a Helvering, however, judge. And returned to Kansas in Bob Hanne 1, Penderga | collector of Internal Revenue for| eastern Missouri, took his place. The | | downgrade regarding tax u:lkLme] wanted when 1943, he | | a jud; judge, they | o brilliant compared with the drift 830 having a field day. and decay which has followed Most of the time John Snyder| However, there is no question but | 235 1ad no more idea of what went that, under Clark, Justice Depart- [0 iR his Treasury Department|Juneau; ment disintegration gradually sey | than Ho ira Ju ice Dey nt. In both places, | Wunak, ‘Tlley use rather drastic measures to get customers in their b-ruln basement!” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DECEMEER 18 William H. Niederhauser Mrs. M. J. Lynch Geargene Nancy Moore Mrs. Elsie Credo M. O. Johnson e o 0 o o ° ° . M o o o ceeoosc00e ‘Weather at Alaska Poinis ‘Weather conditions and tempera- tures at v 15 Alaska points also Yakhuu Commumiy Evenls TODAY At 6:30 p.m. per Club meets { in NLP. church pa At 7:30 2 mem- bership (hrmn as party at home of Mrs. John Hagmeir . At 8 pm—Odd Fellows meet in IOOF Hall. atec de school gym At 8 pm.—CDA in Paris p.m.—Co at Tee square dancing. December 19 noon—Kiwanis CluL meets at! Ch mas Night for Club with At Baranof. At 8 pm.—FElks Lodge At 8 pm Shepher bined y: church. cietta “The by -Christm December 20 noon—Chamber of Commerce ets at B of Hoiel. . VFEW meet< in Jeep Club. At 8 pm.—Women of Moose meet. December 21 At 1:00 p.m.—Christmas traw favor committ at home of Mrs. James Herdlick. December 22 fm, 4 p.m.—Public Christmas *Sing’ at tree at Seward and Front. December 23 At 11 am.—Christmas program at Chapel-by-the-Lake, At 8 p.m.—Methodist church cheii musical pmgmm Hospital Nofes St. Admitted to Ann’s Hospital | Monday were Rick Lindholm, Ralph | Littlefield; dismissed Bowling. Warren Schomikel, Eebree, John Dick. Admitted to the Government Hos- pital- Monqay were Mary Jackson, Percy Hunter, Juneau; Margaret Prince, Kwiguk; Ambrose Chaneniak; Annie Kelly, Pilot Station; dismissed were Gladys Sakaegok, Point Barrew; Wassilie Cwen, Akiak. were Ray Earl . laMPlRE WANT ADS PAY | i : on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m., 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as { follows: Anchorage 5—Snow Barrow -9—Clear Bethel 33—Snow 6—Cloudy -45—Clear -16—Snow | j Fairbanks -27—Cloudy Haines . 6—Clear -4—Snow port 8—Clear Island 22—Clear 37—Snow Kotzebue ... 9—Snow McGrath -8—Cloudy 17—Snow -50—Clear 16—Clear 5 44—Rain Prince George 2—Snow | Seattle 41—Rain Whitehorse .. -38—Snow | IO—CIear | quieted. | inerease our vocak | MALAPROPOS; malapropos.” s will dance in jevent, k i { com-! ith choirs at Methodist| while there is food in the mouth? | | | from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO PERSDE AR Aot DECEMBER 18, 1931 S. Fisheries Warden N. O. Hardy and Mrs. Hardy, arrived on the motc shm Northland after spending several weeks in Seattle, where he attended a conference on regulations for 1932. Hardy was to remain here until Asst. Agent M. J. O'Connor returned from his vacation, after which the Hardys would return to their home in Cordova. George Parks conferred with Ernest Walker Sawyer, Assistant etary of Interior, in Seattle régarding efforts being made to estab- a chem 1 industy in Alaska. Mf. Sawyer said the extensive quan- s of coal and limestone in the Matanuska Valley region where there r available, were the basic materials for producing Secr plenty of was caleium carbide. business manager for the Alaska Guides Association, er with movie officials with the idea wild life. ’ Gus Gelles, oute to Hollywood to cor of taking sound pictures of Alaskan Juncau and Douglas High Schools divided honors in the basketball tournament in Haines, in last night's games. The Juneau girls won from the Douglas gicls, 14 to 11, and the Douglas boys defeated the Crimson Bears, 23 to 20. The White Pass five of Skagway defeated the Fort Chilkoot team 20 to 17. In tonight's game, Douglas High School and the White Pass club were to play for the tournament championship. Mrs. John H. Dunn, wife of the Clerk of the United States District Court here, was a patient at St. Ann’s Hospital, for medical care. er Weather: High, 35; low, 29; cloudy. . { Daily Lessons in English % 1. corvon i WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We have been doing that right along.” “We have been doing that REGULARLY (or PER- SISTENTLY) OFTEN: MISPRONOUNCED: Emigyo. Pronounce em-bri-o, in MEN, I as in IT, O as in NO, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Dilemma; observe the two M’s. SYNONYMS: Uneasy, uncomiortable, worried, disturbed, dis- Say, E as WORD STUDY: ul “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us by mastering one werd each day. Today's word: sonable; inopportune. (Pronounce mal-ap-ro-po, th O's as in NO, principal accent on last syllable. of audience, the speaker’s word were bth A’s as in AT, & Judging by the reaction of the MODERN ETIQUETTE ¥prrra 168 Q. from cr A. A bright smile and a cordial “How do you do,” is usually suffi- cient. But one may add, “I enjoyed your sermon very much.” In any be brief, as there are people behind you who are waiting to speak to the minister. hurch service and is shaking hands with the minister at the door? | What is the proper thing for one to say when one is depar\mgl Q. I have heard that it is *he duty of everyone who was invited §to a weddinz to call on the bride after she returns fram her honey- moon. Is this correct? I A. Yes. Q. Is it proper to partake of w:\tcr tea or coffee at the table A. No; the food should be allowed before taking any liquid. l 100K and LEARN % ¢ corpon ) 1. Is dynamite detonated by ignition or percussion? 2. Who is the only prize fighter ever to hold three world cham- T r—— ee of Garden Club meets pionships at the same time? 3. What states of the U. S. have four-letter names? 2. Who was the “Beloved Disciple”? LY 5. What is a “cominon carrier”? by ANSWERS: . 1 1. Percussion. 2. Henry Armstrong. 3. Towa, Ohio and Utah. 4. John. 5. A railroad, steamship or other company which carries or trans- Jorcs passengers or goods for hire. There is no subsitute for Newspaper Advertising! | TUESDAY, DEE}EMBER 18, 1951 MEMORIALS ] MARBLE and GRANITE Monuments and Markers JUNEAU MARBLE WORKS Phone 426—302 Franklin St. © B.P.0.ELKS s FIELD PROPANE GAS AND APPLIANCE CO. "Gas Has Got It" Walter D. Field — Phone 581 EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Meeting Every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Vistiing brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. PRSI X0 R Moose Lodge No. 700 | Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— LOREN CARD Sesretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Taku Post No. 5559 VFEW Meeting every Thursday in the Jeep Club at 8:00 p.m. NASH SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. 909 12th Phone Green 279 Brownie's Liquor Store Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. 0. Box 2596 DON ABEL Millwork-Glass-Building Supplies Schorn Paint PHONE 633—Juneau, Alaska STEVENS® LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. { PHONE 136 i I Caslers Men's Wear MeGregor Sportswear Stetson and Mallory Hats Arrow Shirts and Underwear Allen Edmonds Shoes Skyway Luggage | BOTANY ! usuon l CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SIIOES 3TETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing Complete Outtitter for Men SANITARY MEAT FOR BETTER MEATS 13—PHONES—49 Free Delivery "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Alaska Music Supply Planos—Mausical Instruments and Supplies Phoune 2068 Second and Beward Card Beverage Co. Wholesale / 805 10th Bt. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP e The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms st Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNITV/RE CO. PHONE 555 PAINTS —— OIL8 Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Remington Typewriters SOLD aad SERVICED by J. B. Burford Co. “Car Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” e g o————— . St e ottt e FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES — GAS — OIL Juneau Motor Co. Foot of Main Street MAKE JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask lor 16 h Juneau Dames, HOME GROCERY Phones 146 and 342 Home Liguor Store—Tel. 699 Amcrican Meat — Phone 38 1 « To Banish “Blue Monday” | To give you more freedom from work — TRY Alaska Laundry H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man LEVI'S OVERALLS for Boys BLACKWELL’S CABINET SHOP 117 Main St. Phone 772 High Quality Cabinet Werk for Home, Office or Stere F. JACOBS as a paid-up subscriber to EMPIRE is invited to be ou THE DAILY ALASKA r guest THIS EVENING Present this coupon to the box office of the . 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