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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers. 1411 |
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Tuesday, September 5, 1950
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ALASKA DEFENSE—TRUMAN
In Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round
for release yesterday, Labor Day, there are several
paragraphs relative to Alaska that we are printing
today as The Empire did not publish on the holiday.
The paragraphs are as follows:
Harry Truman's experience of going broke as a
haberdasher and paying off his debts for 20 years now
influences his decisions as President of the United
States. This was revealed at a White House confer
ence called to discuss the defense of Alaska—the place
which any Russian invasion might hit first.
Military advisers were trying to get the President!
to O. K. a plan for public housing and utilities in
Alaska to be paid for over a 35-year period. Housing
for troops in the bitter cold winters happens to be
what Alaska needs most.
Mr. Truman listened carefully and then said: “No,
I’m not going to approve that. I spent 20 years of my
life with a heavy debt hanging over my head, and
I’m not going to burden the people of Alaska with
that kind of worry. Every year I paid $1,000 on the
debt when my clothing store went under. It wasn’t
all paid until the year I was nominated for Vice
President.”
Philosophically, Mr. Truman continued: “I don’t
want my children or children’s children paying off
the debts for mistakes I cohid make in the White
House. That's why I don't want to commit our
armed forces or resources to any such long-range
plans as the Russians seem up to.”
HOME FOR PIONEER WOMEN
At last Alaska is to have a home for the pioneer
women, to which they may retire for their declining
years after their service in and to the Territory.
We speak of the pioneer men who aided in build
ing the Territory but the women have also done their
part.
The announcement of the home for the pioneer
women has been made by Henry Roden one of the
members of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home Board of Trus
tees. The home will be in the Tower Apartments
purchased by the Territory a year ago. They have
been repaired and improved and can accommodate
20 to 25 women. The women will take their meals
at the Pioneers’ Home for the present but in their
home they will have the privacy of their own rooms
and sitting room.
The board plans to recommend to the 1951 Leg
islature that the present Tower building, frame con
struction, be torn down and replaced by a concrete
structure.
Women applicants must be at least 65 years of
age, have been residents of the Territory five of the
past nine years, and be worthy.
Applications may be made to the Board of Trus
tees, Henry Roden, Charles W. Carter, both of Juneau,
or J. H. Gilpatrick, of Sitka. It is expected the home
will be ready for occupancy October 1.
Inconsistent Ernest
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Tire Indianapolis Star certainly poses a shrewd
question to Socialist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
of England when it asks why he, when he needed an
operation, went to a private clinic and picked his
own surgeon instead of using the British socialized
medical service!
We can only guess what Mr. Bevin’s answer will
be, but we rather doubt that -it will be as straight
forward as the fabled evangelist who, caught in a
very uprighteous predicament, exclaimed: ‘Don’t do
■ as I do—do as I SAY do.”
Knowing how dear the socialistic precepts are to
members of the Labor party, however, we are quite
sure that Secretary Bevin chose to go to a private
clinic and surgeon in order to keep the socialized
medicine hospitals from being overcrowded and per
haps deprive someone else of the pleasure of being
operated on by one of his government's socialized
medicine men.
“An engineer predicts the widespread use of rub
ber pavements in the near future.” The motorist will
be considered unsportsmanlike who hits a pedestrian
on the bounce.
Old-timers remember when money was so valuable
that the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. frequently made
I the headlines by giving away a few dimes.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
> Continued \from Page OneXi
Walter George of Georgia. Harry
Byrd of Virginia, Ed Johnson of
Colorado and Robert Kerr of Okla
homa ; plus Republicans Eugene
Millikin of Colorado, Robert Taft
of Ohio, Hugh Butler of Nebraska,
Owen Brewster of Maine and Ed
Martin of Pennsylvania.
Freshman Study
•
However, two upstart freshmen,
Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois
and Hubert Humphrey of Minne
sota, decided to make a thorough
study of taxes on their own. They
called in the best tax experts in
Washington, both from the Treas
ury Department and private prac
. tice. Together, they went over the
Senate's tax bill with a fine-tooth
comb, and exposed 12 glaring loop
holes. Here they are:
1. Dividend Withholding — Each
year stockholders fail to report in
their incdme tax returns one bil
lion dollars in dividends. This
represents a loss to Uncle Sam of
160 to 170 million tax dollars. Wage
earners have their taxes withheld
from their salaries, yet the taxes
on dividends are not withheld.
2. Family Partnerships — The
Senate bill allows businessmen to
make fictitious “partners” of their
wives, children and other relatives
in order to evade taxes. This prac
tice was stopped by the Supreme
Court after babies were listed as
full-fledged "business partners.”
However, the present Ornate bill
now reverses the Supreme Court
decisions retroactively • to 1938.
3. Lite insurance Companies—At
a time when everyone else was
overburdened with taxes, life in
surance companies actually didn t
pay a penny income tax for 1947,
1948, and 1949—all as a result of
a technical error in the Revenue
Act. The House adopted a provision
to collect 50 million dollars of these
back taxes, but believe it or not
the friends of big business on the
Senate Finance Committee have
now struck out this provision.
4. Percentage Depletion — The
Senate bill does nothing to limit
the excesive depletion allowances
for oil, gas and other minerals
which President Truman has de
scribed as the worst loophole in
our tax laws. This windfall costs
the government 400 million1 dollars
a year.
5. Oil Royalties—Oil royalties are
subject to regular income tax rates.
However, the Senate bill has a
special loophole to let oilmen out
of paying income taxes in full All
they need to do is “sell ’ their right
to oil royalties, then the same in
come is subject to the lower capital
gains rates.
6. Stock Options—Under the Sen
ate hill, corporate executives could
draw part of their salary in stock
options, which would be taxed a'
the capital gains rate. In other
words, a $30,000-a-year man would
have to pay $12,000 in taxes on a
$20,000 cash bonus, but only $5,000
| in taxes if his bonus were paid In
options. ft t
7. Corporate Spin-Offs — This
provision would exempt new stocks
j from taxation. Thus a corporation
; could pay off its stockholders by
| setting up a separate firm and dis
I tributing the stock. Then the new
I firm could be dissolved and the
stock sold. In this way the profits
I would be taxed at the capital gains
rate instead of the higher rate on
dividends.
8. Amortization — Though the
Finance Committee rejected a tax
on excess war profits the committee
1 allowed special tax benefits on war
plants and war equipment. Instead
of the usual 15 to 40 year deprecia- I
tion for tax purposes, corporations
can now write off the entire cost
in five years. This accelerated de
preciation was probably the great
est source of excessive profits dur
ing World War II, yet the Finance
Committee voted not to recover
these excess proiits.
9. Property Sales—Another tax
loophole, which costs the govern
ment about 70 million dollars a
year, is a special provision favor
ing the taxpayer who sells business,
property. If the sale results in a'
profit, it is taxed as a capital gain.
If it results in a loss, it is allowed
a full deduction.
10. Foreign Subsidiaries — Tire
Senate bill allows domestic corpor
at ons to liquidate subsidiaries over
seas (such as oil companies), and
bring back tax-free profits that
have never passed through the
Federal income tax stream.
11. Holding Period—Under exist
ing law, a capital gain is taxable
at a maximum 25 per cent rate
if the asset is held over six months.
However, the Senate has reduced
this to a scant three months in
order to benefit Wall Street spec
ulators. They will now be able to
convert speculating profits into cap
ital gains in only ninety days, de
spite the fact that few people con
sider a ninety-day investment to
be anything but pure speculation.
12. Tax Free Redemption — The
Senate bill also contains an ex
tremely generos provision whereby
j corporation owners could draw
down accumulated earnings and
profits free of income tax to the
extent used to pay estate and in
heritance taxes.
Note—It is significant that two
(of the senators who fought hard
est for these loopholes were mil
lionaires Bob Kerr of Oklahoma
and Eugene Millikm of Colorado.
EMERGENCY FLIGHT
Mrs. Louis Jones, 62, of Kaasan
was flown by Coast Guard plane to
I Ketchikan fzr emergency medical
| treatment today
STANDARD OIL MAN HERE
P. J. Holm. Standard Oil man
from Seattle is in Juneau. He is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
i
THREE JUNEAU BOYS
I VE TOMORROW FOR
OUTSIDE TO SCHOOL
Jr i v-1 , .,
Leaving tomorrow for Haines to
pick up their car for the trip down
the Alaska Highway to school are
Doug Haen, Bill Logan and Bob
Gibbs. The trip will take the three
fellows about two weeks to reacn
Spokane, Washington with stops at
Edmonton, Banff and Lake Louise.
Haen and Logan will attend the
Western Washington State Teach
ers College in Ellensburg, and Gibbs
drives on to the University of Utah,
Salt Lake City.
TO UNIV. OF OREGON
William (Bill) Sperling, son of
the late Harry Sperling, left on the
steamship Aleutian for Seattle en
route to Eugene, Oregon, where he
will enter his freshman year at the
University of Oregon. He plans a
course of study in architecture.
Bill is a graduate of the Juneau
High School class of ’50. He was
an outstanding student in high
school and was captain of the
famed Crimson Bear basketball
team of the 49-50 season. He was
also a member of the Juneau City
Band.
James McConnell of Haines is
stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
September 5
Mrs. Vance Blackwell
Evelyn Kelly
Frank Cashen
Page M. Whitehead
Lisle (Shorty) Hebert, Jr.
Mrs. Oscar Lundstrom
Jean Metcalfe
William R. Hughes
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7:00 p.m.—Entertainment pro
gram American Legion Conven
tion Delegates.
At 8 p.m. tonight, the Territorial
Sportsmen, Inc., meet in the City
Council rooms.
At 7:00 p.m.—Beta Sigma Phi meets
j in Little Chapel. Methodist church.
September 6
.At noon—Joint session Lions and
Kiwanis in Terrace room, Baranof.
At 1:30 p.m.—JWC meets in pent
house of Alaska Electric Light and
Power Co.
At 8 p.m.—WSCS of Methodist
church meets in Little Chapel.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge meets.
September 7
At 9 a.m.—American Legion Con
vention, Elks Hall.
At noon—Chamber of Commerce.
Barapof.
At 8 pan—Women of Moose holds
regular meeting. •. ,
September 8
At 8 p.m.—Wrestling match be
tween Clkra Mortensen arid Lindy
Lawrence at 20th Century Thea
tre, sponsored by Juneau Volun
teer Fire Department.
LT. GEN. KEPNER '
MAKES HIS FIRST
VISIT TO JUNEAU
Lt. Gen. William E. Kepner, Com
mander-in-Chief of Alaskan forces
made his first trip to Juneau to
speak at the Alaska American Leg
ion convention here. He had expect
ed to come here to participate in
the Golden North Salmon Derby
last July but events at that time
did not permit. He hopes to make
it next year, he said.
Gen. Kepner regards his Alaska
assignment as a “fortunate one,"
likes the country and the people
alihough he is fully aware of its
importance. Alaska was not new
to him when he assumed command
last July. For two years previously
he had made frequent trips to Al
aska in connection with the Cold
Weather Testing Station at Fair
banks.
He is an outdoorsman and hopes
to get in some hunting this fall.
“Of course, he said with a twinkle
in his eye, “I’ll be glad to pay my
non-resident license fee. I’Ve flown
over the mountain sheep country
and it looks like rugged hunting but
I may be able to go moose hunt
ing.”
Mrs. Kepner will join his in Oct
ober.
The General was accompanied by
Maj. J. K. Bryan (Texas), public
information officer; Pilot Steven
Donegan (Colo.); Co-pilot Tom
Auberry (Fla.); Staff Sgt. Charles
E. Drew and Tech Sgt. George
H. Rountree (NC),
FLAMINGO OVERDUE
The Flamingo, a 50-foot seiner
owned by Dan Wright of juneau' Was
reported overdue from a fishing
trip today, according to informa
tion received at the U. S. Coast
Guard headquarters.
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ACROSS
I. Monkey
4. Mother-of
pearl
9. Enemy
12. Malayan ape
:3. Approximately
14. American
author
5. Inclined
.7. Widespread
i9: Ibsen
character
10. Symbol for
tellurium
11. Luzon native
12. Employ
13. Hop stem
Puts with
18. Symbol for
nickel
19. Fight
r/ . .. -
31. Hold a session
32. Pronoun
33. Measure of
length
34. The herb eve
36. Artificial
language
37. Number
39. Scored at
canasta
41. Type measure
42. Biblical well
44. Witnessed
45. Playing card
46. Money given
for service
48. Like
49. Heated
50. Long low seats
53. Danger
55. Epoch
56. Asiatic palm
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Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle
53. Tedal diffit
59. Massachusetts
cape
60. Fortification
61. Conjunction
DOWN
1. High mountain
2. Sycophants
3. Uneven
4. No: Scotch
5. Jewish month
6. Convincing
T. Regret
8. Volcano
9, Electrical
units
10. Room in a
harem
11. Long fish
16. Compass point
18. Greek letter
20. Names
22 Connect
23. Soothing
ointment
24. Omits in pro
nouncing
26. Wav
27. Rock
29. Exist
30. Smooth
35. Public notice
38. Cleared
10. Rented
13. Outfit
15. I^irge artery
17. Fruit
19. Pronoun
>0. Pouch
>1. Self
j2. Before
>3. Kitchen
utensil
r>4. Guided
i7. Symbol for
120 YEARS AGO tiTe empire
SEPTEMBER 5, 1930
The big Southeastern Alaska Pair was a terrific success. First,
there was a opening day Septemzer 3; then Douglas Day—September 5
was Bay Day. Highlight to date was the Indian tribal dance festival.
Colorful and varied entertainment programs were featured, as well as
elaborate amateur displays of agriculture, sewing, cooking, canning,
flowers, photography, education and curios, also striking commercial
exhibits. School was dismissed at noon in Douglas, so that youngsters
could attend Lhe fair.
Sale of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on Third Street near Main,
to John E. Green, proprietor of the Bergmann Hotel, was announced
by John Reck, President of the First National Bank, which owned the
property.
After a three-week business trip to Southern California, Joseph L.
George of George Brothers, returned home accompanied by Arthur
Judson, member of the George Brothers Grocery staff.
Dr. Robert Simpson and William Demany returned in their open
boat from a hunting trip near the boundary line up the Taku River,
where they had bagged a bull moose weighing 800 pounds.
Arriving from Skagway, the steamship Dorothy Alexander of the
Admiral Line remained until noon, then left for Seattle. Among pas- j
sengers boarding here was Miss Aleece Graves for Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Manderson and two children moved from their
home on the Glacier Highway to Douglas, where they had taken one of
the Kilburn houses.
Weather: High, 61; low, 51; cloudy.
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J Daily Lessons in English L. cordon
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not confuse the adjective confident
(full of assurance) with the noun CONFIDANT (oine to whom secrets
are confided). 1 • -
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Theatre. Accent FIRST syllable, and
not the second as so often heard.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Annual; AN. Biennial, triennial and per
ennial; EN.
SYNONYMS: Decision, determination, resolution.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us
increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word:
AVOCATION; a casual or subordinate occupation. “During the evenings
she types manuscriptions for an avocation.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j j
Q. Is it obligatory for a godparent to give a gift to the baby?
.( A. Yes, this is customary. The gift may be sent upon receipt of the
invitation to act as godparent, or it may be given in person on the day
of the christening.
Q. If in a hotel and one wishes to phone for breakfast to be served
in one’s room, foV whom should one ask?
. A. “Room service, please.”
, Q. Is it proper to display checks with the other wedding gifts?
A. NO.
LOOK and LEARN a! C. GORDON j
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1. On shipboard, what terms describe (a) the front, (b) the rear,
(c) the kitchen, (d) walls?
2. Who first bore the title, “Empress of India”?
3. What is a compound fracture?
4. In what opera is the “Anvil Chorus"?
5. What is the ’bannner” or “streamer" of a newspaper?
ANSWERS:
1. fa) Bow, (b) stern, (c) galley, (d) bulkheads.
2. Queen Victoria, of England.
3. The breaking of a bone in such a way as to produce an open
wound, through which the bohe protrudes.
4. “II Trovatore.”
5. A headline which runs all the way across a paper.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as foilows:
Anchorage . 47—Rain
Annette Island . 55—Rain
Barrow . 30 - Snow
Bethel . 45—Cloudy
Cordova ... 45—Cloudy
Dawson . 46—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 41—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 38—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 45—Rain
Havre ... 58—Cloudy
Juneau ... 48—Rain Showers
Kodiak .. 48—Cloudy
Kotzebue . 44—Cloudy
McGrath .. 43—Partly Cloudy
Nome . 40—Cloudy
Northway . 44—Rain
Petersburg . 48—Cloudy
Portland . 52—Partly Cloudy
Prince George . 34—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 45—Clear
Sitka .49—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 42—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat . 46—Rain Showers
MEETING OF WSCS
SET FOR TOMORROW
The monthly business meeting of
the Womans Society of Christian
service will be held Wednesday eve
ning at 8 o’clock. The worship ser
vice will be in the little chapel of
the Methodist Church. The business
meeting and social which follow’s
will be in the parsonage. Hostess for
the evening will be Mrs. Ivey De
land.
• TIDE TABLE
•
• September 6
• Low tide 3:21 a.m., 3.8 ft.
• High tide 10:25 a.m., 10.5 ft.
• Low tide 3:26 p.m., 7.7 ft.
• High tide 9:27 p.m., 12.4 ft.
V. F. W.
Taka Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
t-1
Brownie's Liquor Store
Pirate IN IS* Bo. Franklin
P. O. Bex UN
GEOBGE BROS.
Widest Selection of
LIQUORS
PHONE 399
The Erwin Feed Co.
Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 7M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward Street Near Third
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Fourth and Franklin Bta.
PHONE 1S8
Casler's Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson, and Mallory Bata
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
Skyway Lsgm*
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete Outfitter for Men
R. W. COWLING
COMPANY
Dodge—Plymouth—Chrysler
Bogota Dodge Tracks
SBAFFER’B
SANITARY NEAT
FOB BETTER MEATS
IS—PHONES—49
Free Dsttvary
MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
j beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Lawrence,
i Worshipful Master;
I JAMES w. LEIVERS, Secretary.
: @ B. P. 0. ELKS
I Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS S
1 GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H.
BIGGS, Secretary.
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Moose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
I Governor—
ARNOLD L FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phona 77a
High Quality Cabinet Work
for Home, Office or Store
S
I -
i "The Rexall Store"
T°ur Sellable Pharm&oizt#
BUTLER-MAURO
drug CO.
Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Plano.—Mnsical InstrunieDts
*nd Supplies
-Phone 206 ..Second and Seward.
I ' --
general paints
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Paini Store
Phone 549 Fred w Wendt
Card Beverage Ce.
JESS- 805 10tb at.
'HONE 116—DAT or NIGHT
for BOXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hoiel
Newly Renovated o—,
*t Reasonable Rates
phone single o
PHONE 600
ftomai Hardware Co.
PAINTS - OILS
Builders' and Shelf
HARDWARE
I j
I Ite?t8rt®n Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J* B. Burford Co.
“0nr Doorstep Is Worn kv
Satisfied Customers"
P 0®g AGENCY
(Authorized Dealers)
GREASES - GAS—oil
Jiuean Motor Co.
Root of Main Street
MAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
. DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
* *aUy habit- ssfc for it by Mae
Juneau Dairies. Inc.
Chrysler Marine Engines
MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL'>99
American Meat — Phone U
To Banish “Blue Monday”
To give you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Lanndry
H. s. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVI’S OVERALLS
for Boys
With Flowers” but
“SAY IT WITH OURS*”
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