The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1951, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire | Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN DOROTHY TROY LINGO President | President Vice- Entered in the Post Office nea Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by earrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.75 per month; six months, $9.00; one vear, $13.50 By ‘mail. postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602: Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is ex: republication of all news disp wise credited in this paper herein NATIONAL ADVERTISING Holliday Co., Inc REPRESENTATIVES — West- Thursday, December 20, 1951 THE PASSING OF THE PENNY | POSTCARD Comes New Ye: morn, the postcard will be a thing of the past. will be the new two-center recently authorized by Congress. This is the latest development in Fair Deal log- familiar penny | Replacing it | | becoming a collector’s item. | politicians. these mailings .one of two things would be sure to happen. Either the increased revenue would put the postoffice department on a paying basis, or the indi- vidal agencies would be forced to curtail their mail- ings, thus reducing the volume of mail handled at the taxpayers’ expense. Either would be beneficial to the people — and would lend eredence to the loud and empty promises of government economy we have so long been hearing from the Washington tax- goblsers. Most vicious aspect of the postcard rate hike is the ten per cent extra charge on quantity purchases. This serves oniy to penalize the small busines: who uses direct mailing pieces in an effort to stimu- late his trade., And here, again, the little fellow | is caught in the bight of the line. The increased rate eliminates the value of the postal card as a| low cost business getter and the small merchant is deprived of this means of helping (o neet increasing tax bill. ‘We seriously doubt that this outrageous increasc —100% to 110%—will reflect itself in improved postal service or in pay for low-salaried postal employees. And we wonder what would happen if the small businessman attempted to increase his prices by 100% to meet advanced operating expenses? One—way‘ OPS regulations would surely bring him up short. H At any rate, the two-center is with us to stay. And the old penny postcard is on its way toward It shouldn’t be too many years before penny postcards are as scarce as honest ! ! nan s nver- increases Beware of the person who smiles all the time. | | A little dirt isn’t as bad as some people make out. The person who talks all thé time has nothing | to say. | S The best way to a person’s heart is through your islation aimed at the poor, downtrodden businessman. | Not only is the postage rate doubled for this class cf | mailing, but Fair Dealers are determined that the | commercial use of government postcards shall become heart. 1 Does anyone really want to return to the ‘“good |old days”? ) i | unprofitable. For this is the extra joker: an additionzl | . L \‘ | Edmonton ! Juneau Airport THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA December 20 Helen Isaak Donald Tyer David Ramsay, Jr. e o 0o 6 0 0 0 eceseonroe vWethAeAr' ;I‘ Alaska Points Weather conditions and tempera- tures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m,, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau are as foilows: Bethel Cordova Dawson v 31—Snow . 25—Snow -16—Cloudy . =19—Clear 11—Snow 12—Cloudy -18—Snow o.r 23—SnOW .. 28—Snow 39—Partly Cloudy 22—Snow . 31—Snow 29—Cloudy -8—Snow 26—Cloudy 3—€loudy -10—Snow 28—Snow -4—Sow 33—Snow Cominunity Evenls Fairbanks . Haines Havre .. Annette Island Kodiak . Kotz McGrath Nome Northway Petersburg Portland Prince George ... Eeattle Whitehorse Yakutat 20 YEARS AGO B e e e e Comapny, paign irig innounced recently. Sam Pekovich, president of the Alaska Admiralty Gold Mining arrived this week from Funter Bay on company business. He planned to return early the next week to the property. Among the many Juneau business houses that were appropriately decorated for Christmas was the California Grocery on Front Street. A cheerful Yuletide atmosphere sranches and festoonery. “If T am elected Delegate from Alaska I shall inaugurate a cam- to end bureaucratic government gsby, whose Juneau’s Community Christmas tree was lighted at 4 o'clock this fternoon, and a throng of men, women, boys and girls gathered to sing Christmas carols, led by Mrs: W. C. Ellis. the organ accompaniment. o[ the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, who also furr the current for illumination. After .spending a 30-day vacation visiting in the Pacific Northwest, Miss Belva Williams, clerk in the Department of Educntmfi. returned on the Princess Norah. She was accompanied north by Miss Jessie BlaKe, of Seaside, Oregon. Miss Blake, a sister of E. J. Blake, planned from THE —————— DECEMBER 20, 1931 EMPIRE I SR was given with well-arranged tree in Alaska,” declared George candidacy for the Democratic nomination had been Mrs. G. E. Krause played Wiring of the tree was done by emp to make her home here for the present. Weather: High, 36; low, 30; partly cloudy. - ‘ . . . Daily Lessons in English % 1. corvox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They would not have seen i him had they have gone.” gone.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Finesse. Omit the second HAVE. Say, “had they Pronounce fi-nes, I as in FIN, E as in LESS, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Granddaughter; observe the two D's. SYNONWYMS: Servicedble, helpfui, useful, beneficial, advantageous, [ MEMORIALS | R T BRI , Moose Lodge No. 700 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1951 P rrrrrrr e e s - v FIELD PROPANE GAS 1 AND APPLIANCE CO. "Gas Has Got It” Walter D. Field — Phone 581 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. Visiting brothers welcome. LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary. ® EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY o ® & 2 00 000 0 000 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Regular Meetings Every Friday Governor— LOREN CARD Sesretary— WALTER R. HERMANSEN Alaska Music Supply Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplies Phone 208 Second and Seward Taku Post No. 5559 V.F. W. Meeting e\’el‘yl Thursday in the Jeep Club at 8:00 p.m. Card Beverage Co. lesale 805 10th Be. PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT for MIXERS or SODA POP e The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE BINGLE O NASH SALES and SERVICE CHRISTENSEN BROS. 909 12th Phone Green 279 THOMAS HARDWARE and FURNIT/JRE CO. PHONE 555 PAINTS ons Builders’ and Shelf HARDWARE Brownie's Liquor Sfore Phone 103 139 So. Franklin P. O. Box 2596 practical. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Toda word: And then there was the young couple who could | . ten per cent will be charged on all purchases of 505‘ live on love. or more postcards. Whether this is an earnest effort to put Pnst; 1 i TODAY i | | At 6 p.m.—Taku Toastmastors memI Remington Typewriters Cifice operations in the black is deb: of the bill say it is, although nothing has been ¢ about curtailing the abuses of the government agencies themselves. postal rates could even be reduced a devise some means of limiting the pr of the bureaus. For instance, our daily mail runs about thirty to ferty per cent publicity handout: government agencies who use the mails to attempt justification ¢f their tax-consuming Sponsors | Never offer & id | ciated, unheeded, postal system b.\'i atable. Seems to us that little if we could | ropaganda output, to know that. | s from as many Were | | programs. : Two and two still make four, in spite of of progress in other fields. The editor realizes that dvice; unsolicited, it goes unappre- | | years you often think these the postoffice department able to collect postage on |words are trite, and he agrees. fhe—viashinglon Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | Bank. A total of $6,387,137 was also dollected from Benedum Trees, .the Pittsburgh oil millionaire, and pub- lic attention was called to the legal tax-dodging schemes of James For- restal and various J. P. Morgan partners. Today, Washington has the famed Mellon art gallery because the former secretary of the tre: ury reglized he would have to win public support with a magnificent gesture if he were to escape cr\m-l inal prosecution for tax evasion. MORGENTHAU'S TAX SYSTEM Following this ax ciean-up, the Roosevelt administration settled down to a long period of reason- ably honest tax-collecting. There were some tax cases fixed in Roose- velt's day—to be discussed in a la-. ter column.” But eager-beaver Hen- ry Morgenthau made such a squawk about them that even FDR was reluctant to arouse Henry's ire. Furthermore, Morgenthau built up the most efiicient t.ax-collectingi system this country had ever seen. | His counsel’ of Internal Revenue | was Robert Jackson, who did such | an outstanding job that he was:’ later ‘elevated to the Supreme| Court; while the chief of his in- telligence unit was an incorrupt- jble old tyrant named Elmer Irey. In Jackson's old place, Truman appointed weak-sister Charles Oli- phant, recently a pathetic witness before the King Committee; and in Irey's place he appointed W. H. ‘Woolf, honest but not vigilant. As Commissioner of Internal | Revenue, Truman appointed a me- | diocrity named A George Schoene- man, who previously had been mixed up in a matter which could not bear the light of day; while as deputy commissioner he appoin- ted Dan Bolich, who when he took the oath of office, received so many flowers that the swearing- in ceremony looked like a gang- ster’s funeral. Obviously a lot of | people were overjoyed that Bolich should be collecting taxes, and | some of them later turned out to be gangsters. All these appointments were | made after Bob Hannegan, friend | of the big-city bosses, took over ! the Democratic National Commit- | tee and the political fgrtunes, of | Harry Truman. Sacrosant * Frankie Costello When Hannegan was promoted | from commissioner of Internal| Revenue tb national chairman, he appointed as his successor Joseph Nunan, who had been collector in New York. Nunan, in turn, retired Hugh McQuillen, forthright chief of the New York intelligence unit, | replacing him with Dan Bolich. In his key spot Bolich had the power | of tax life or death over big-shot gamblers, big business, or anyone else in New York. | ihis friend Dan !'ment | through the practice law, who be- came deputy commissioner in Washington—the No. 2 spot for collecting the taxes of the entire nation. Among Nunan’s clients, incident- ally, were the night-club owners of New York, which includes the king of the gamblers, Frankie Cos- tello. At about this time, also, Harry Anslinger, narcotics commissioner, was watching Costello for possible connection with the dope rackets, kut, because of his limited staff, he had the help of 12 Internal Revenue agents. This was a natur- al cooperation, since both narcotics and revenue are under the treas- ury. But suddenly Bolich demanded that the 12 Revenue men be taken ofi the Costello assignment. An- slinger protested, but it did no good. I had been following Costello for some time, and. reported Bolich’s lack of interest in Costello to Tom Clark, then Attorney General, who promised to see that the agents were kept on Costello. However, the Justice Department has not even moved to deport Cos- tello for perjury in connection with his naturalization; meanwhile, Bo- lich played a part in delaying prosecution of one of the biggest gambling cases—the Guaranty Fi- nance Company of California. SHOT MORALE Bolich, nation’s taxes. Backbone of the tax organization is the intelligence unit, made up of some of the high- cst type men in Internal Revenue. It is their job to detect fraud. These men are trained in the rules of evidence and know their busin- ess. When they have finished an in- vestigation, and when their rec- ommendation for prosecution has Leen ok'd by the senior special ag- lent and the special agent in charge of a division, it is almost inconceiv- able that they have recommended prosecution of an innocent men. Yet during {he Truman adminis- tration about 60 per cent of the tax-fraud cases later have been quashed in one of three places: 1. The chief counsel's office un- der Charles Oliphant, now resigned. 2. The Justice Department’s tax division, under Lamar Caudle, also resigned. 3. U. S. Attorney's offices in dif- ferent parts of the U. 8. A. The details of how this has been column. But meanwhile discourage- and frustration ranks of honest tax collectors agents as never before. the many lect about $80 for spent on his sal; one of the biggest untapped sour- ces of revenue in the nation. Yet, every dollar {thanks to politics and corruption Later, Nunan stepped out to at the top, we have started on the leaving behind him | Naturally, all this makes for dis-| couragement among the many tax agents whose job it is to collect the | and expenses— | ‘Broadway Given Real Eyeful Of Celebrites NEW YORK, Dec. 20— ®—Broad- to make even the most blase New goings on. It all happened at the glitter- ing opening of George Bernard | Shaw's ‘Caesar and Cleopatra,” star- ring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Showman Billy Rose and blonde Joyce Mathews—the other woman— were there, making their first pub- lic appearance together. Rose's wife, former swim star El- eanor Holm, is suing the Broadwa producer for separation on the bas of his friendship with Miss Mathews, former wife ¢I comedian Milton Berle. Seated in the same row with Rose and Miss Mathews was Margareb | Truman, glamorous in a white er- mine cape and a powder blue off-the shoulder even! sown. Margaret's escort was French movie star Jean Pierre Aumont. ! Aumont was the husband of act- ress Maria Montez, who died last Sept. of a heart attack while taking bath in their Paris apartment. And Berle was in the audience, j too, with a girl named Ruth Cos- grove, who was not further identi- fied. {a path of the tax-evading naticns of | Burope where failure to collect taxes is the first step toward in- { equality and eventually Commun- ism. 11,/ AN 7 a done will be‘told in a subsequent | has sprcnd; and special | One agent in the field can col- | way got an eyeful last night, enough | STRICTLY BUSINESS in Baranof Gold Room. | STERTOROUS At 7:30 p.m~—City Council meets. | (Accent first At 8 pm.-- k in Jeep Club. | Money isn't everything but it's nice to have enough | At 8 pm.—Women of Moos3 meet. December 21 At 1:00 p.m.—Christmas tray favor committee of Garden Club meets at home of Mrs, James Herdlick. December 22 At 1:30 pm.—Elks annual Chri mas party for children at C: theatre with Santa appearing Elks Lodge immediately after the show. At 4 pm.—Public Christmes “Sing” at tree at Seward and Front. at Odd Fellows Hall. December 23 | At 11 am~—Christmas program at| Chapel-by-the-Lake. i At 8 p.m.—Methodist church choh‘i musical program. December 26 | Baranof Hotel. | At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge. December 27 | At noon—Chamber of Commerce | meets at Baranof Hotel. | { J.C.D.A. HOLDS INITIATION The Junior Catholic Daughters of rica held its formal initiation sday evening .at the Parish Initiated at the meeting were Andrea and Christine Hudert, So- iphie Isturas, Jean and Shirley Vavalis, Rose Marie Charles, Rose Marie Mills, Stephanie Gueanson, |Josephine Bierly, Mercedes Quin- {to, Roxana Holaka and Janie Hol- | lenba {bers into the meeting, Rev. Whelan lasked them questions and then gave la short talk. Ann Furness closed the meeting. Guests at the meeting were Bish- {op Dermott O'Flanagan, Rev. Whe- |1an, Rev. Gallant, Rev. McElmeel, | er M: Marcellus, Sister Mary Pernard, Sister Mary Rose and Sis- ter Mary Ethel. Beverley Poole, reporter. MILK NOTICE | | No milk delivery on December 25. Wm. Flint—Juneau Dairy Products. i 995-3t A MR. POTTLEBY D Nt Do/ Moo i /e owe his secretary a vote of thanks — in typing his speech she left i out six pages!” 3 Q. A. “Dear Will you please suggest a good “thank you” letter for a bride " 'to send in appreciation of a wedding gift? Mr tifully in our livir |you more than I can tell you. characterized by a deep snoring; hoarsely breathing. able). ‘He was awakened by certain stertorous sounds u Post, VFW meets emanating from the adjoining room.” Smith: The prints you sent us will go just beau- It was derfully sweet of you and I thank Hoping that you are surely coming to room. the wedding, Very sincerely yours, Mary Jones.” Q. When a man is dining with a girl in a restaurant and another Yorkers crane their necks to see the | At noon—Kiwanis club meets at] .. ‘i L0OK and LEARN ¥ o coroo i In which state is the most westerly point and in which the mosl] Q. A. 1. At 8 pm.—Sons of Norway meet in 'man stops at the table to chat for a minute, what should the girl's | escort do? A. He should rise and remain standing until the other man leaves Is it proper to give money to a friend as a Christmas present, when one knows that the friend needs it? It would be better not to give money. I resented and causes hurt feelings. | | | | z Often such a gift is saswrly point of the U. S.? 2. What, in banking is collateral? 3. What is the difference between astronomy and astrology? eat; 4, ing? 5. Wkav ‘half”? In what months are three are oysters reputed to be at their best for H prefixes in the English language denoting ! e ANSWERS: 1 tedne: 3. 4 Washington and Maine. 2. Pledges of stocks, notes or chattels a of in 5 gecurity for the payment trenomy is the science of the stars and planetary bodies. After the page brought the mem- J sstrology is a system of telling the future from the stars. In the months whose names contain the letter “R.” 5. 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