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irth Avenue Bldg,. 8eattle, Wash.
Tuesday, September 19, 1950
THE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Juneau members of the International Association
of Sidewalk Superintendents have had a busy week
supervising the preliminary excavation for the new
Memorial Library.
Since Miss Ann Coleman, long time Juneau li
brarian, turned the first earth, the big power shovel
and bulldozer have kept the dirt moving apace.
While the commencement of construction is heart
ening to the many who have worked and subscribed
for the project since 194C, there is still much to be
accomplished before the Memorial Library is open for
business.
Some $20,000.00 pledged remains to be paid. Al
though library pledges are not due until 1951, Chair
man B. Frank Heintzleman of the Library Board has
requested that these pledges be met early as is pos
sible in order to have money available for matching
Federal Public Works funds. The response to date has
been gratifying.
Beginning with Carpenters Local 2247, pledges
have been met daily and the committee has been as
sured of further early fulfillments.
Juneau’s Memorial Library represents more than
a repository for boots—more than a mere municipal
building. It will stand as a monument to Juneau's
war dead and as a constant tribute to the spirit of
the community whose effort made it possible.
We're proud that we live in Juneau.
WHAT OTHERS THINK
Of course we are all pleased at the new landings
in Korea and -atee -disoum Gen. Marshall as the new
Secretary of Defense. But it is interesting to find out
what others think about both moves.
The new landings in Korea are discussed by Brit
ish newspapers.
The London Times concentrates on the new land
ings and says it speaks of these attacks as "heralding
a new and brighter phase in the Korean war,” and
says that there is more imagination and enterprise
than orthodoxy in the latest news of General Mac
Arthur's activities. The Times goes on:
"The tremendous factor of sea power, until now
supplying the defense, is turning to the offensive. The
Americans may have grounds for believing that the
North Koreans are ripe for the plucking. There are
large difficulties still to overcome, and there may be
large dangers ahead. The reactions of those who
prompted and provisioned this wanton aggression, as
they see their plans undone and driven astray, cannot
yet be reckoned.”
The Daily Telegraph says:
"The initiative in planning and execution seems
now to have shifted definitely to our side.”
The paper thinks that this may well prove de
cisive.
The News Chronicle declares:
“The news of the landings is a tonic for the whole
free world, and if they can be consolidated success
fully, the whole shape of the campaign will be altered.
"For the first time the United Nations hold the
initiative in the main strategy of the war.”
Regarding the new Secretary of Defense all papers
which comment on it, welcome the appointment of
General Marshall to succeed Mr. Louis Johnson as
United States Secretary of Defense. The Times says:
"President Truman has replaced a source of poli
tical weakness with the power of non-partisan strength
and has created fresh confidence at home and abroad
in the stability of American foreign policy.
"When it was imperative to bring the military
and foreign policies together, Mr. Johnson opposed
Mr. Acheson’s statesmanlike approach to Formosa and
Japan, and stalemate and uncertainty were the con
sequences.”
The Times thinks Mr. Johnson's chief fault was
obeying, too zestfully the instructions to keep down
the defense budget and he failed to warn the Presi
dent of the risks that were being run.
Like the Times, other papers think Mr. Johnson
failed to work with Mr. Acheson, and the Manchester
Guardian has no doubt that General Marshall will
repair this omission. It says:
"Not only is General Marshall's name the symbol
of one of the finest acts of American policy, but he
has the statesmanlike temper towards China that is
much needed just now."
There are several similar tributes to General
Marshall, and the Daily Graphic says:
“He has the constant confidence of all the free
nations and his appointment is a guarantee that the
needs and difficulties of the Atlantic Powers, besides
the United States’, will be understood and met as far
as possible.”
The News Chronicle offers similar praise, while'
the Daily Express says:
"General Marshall’s appointment is the best news
yet from the Korean war.”
“The Senate Crime Investigating Committee re
ports that organized crime exercises a corrupting in
fluence on public officials in many places.”—News
Item. This surprises us about as much as if the com
mittee had reported that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
To print new paper money which is wearing out,
l1- millions is being appropriated by the government.
The bills are thinner, 41 per cent of the value having
been sandpapered off— (Lynden Tribune).
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
mass-produced earlier.
Bazookas in Nick of Time
“It was fortunate that we per-.
fected them as soon as we did," j
replied Collins, who commanded i
the capture of Cherbourg in the'
Normandy invasion and has had
plenty of bazooka experience. He
went on to explain the' difficulty
in developing the delicate, pre
cision shells for these new super
bazookas, which finally stopped the
Soviet 60-ton tanks. The shells |
release a concentrated ray of heat j
that can bore through 14 inches j
of armor—a project that took con- |
siderable perfecting by Army Ord- !
nance. After the handmade models 1
were completed, Collins added, it
was a problem to convert to mass'
production and the Army was1
lucky in having them finished just1
as the Korean war broke.
Collins briefed the Senators from
a war map, which caused him to!
remark that the Army has dev- j
eloped a new plas'ics process for ,
building relief maps, reducing the
cost ot relief maps from $35 to 60
cents per square root.
This caused Kentucky's Senator i
Virgil Chapman to look round the j
room, and noting that economy-,
minded Senator Byrd of Virginia;
was not present, he observed:: “Be I
sure to tell Senator Byrd about I
that."
General Collins also talked about!
the 38th parallel, along which his;
son served as an Army officer |
before the invasion.
“The 38th parallel is nothing j
but an imaginary line. It doesn’t |
follow any river, mountain range j
or natural barrier,” he explained.!
Somtimes it cuts right through;
the middle of a rice paddy, hence!
the people living along the 38th!
parallel “pay no attention to it." j
However, Gen. Collins didn't say j
whether the Allied Armis would!
pay any attention to it. The de- '
Clsion, he indicated, would be left'
up to the United Nations.
Axman Tauriello
Dapper Congressman iony Taur- !
lello, the Italian-American from
Buffalb, is new greeted in the j
Congressional cloakrooms as “Bad i
News Tony.”
This is because Secretary of De- !
fense Louey Johnson resigned justj
a few days after Tauriello’s scathing
letter demanding that he quit.
The morning Johnson's ouster was
announced, Tauriello received a f
flock of congratulations, plus an |
inference from Wisconsin's Andy j1
Biemiller that Tauriello was an ’
axman for the White House.
“Who is next on your list?”!
Biemiller asked.
The Buffalo Democrat and first- ,1
termer protested to no avail that|
he had no inside from the Presi
dent. To which Rep. John Mc
Cormack of Massachusetts, the Ma
jority Leader, said: “You knew
about Johnson going before I did,
Tony.”
Rep. Stephen Young, Ohio, pulled
Tauriello into a corner and told
him Johnson’s resignation would
so bolster Democrat chances in
Ohio that Senator Robert Taft j
would probably be defeated.
Figety Accuser
A chubby little man with a limp !
Hitler moustache fidgeted before
the Senate Interior Committee. He i
was Frank T. Bow, and he had
ghost-written the speech in which .
Senator Andrew Schoeppel of Kan- f
sas tried to pin the Red label on '
Secretary of the Interior Oscar
unapman.
After a full day if inquiry, puz- j
zled Chairman Joe O’Mahoney of j
Wyoming asked: "Do you end now!
with tlje statement that you make
no charge of personal disloyalty
against Secretary Chapman?”
“Yes, Sir,” Bow replied meekly.
Earlier in the hearings. Bow had
said that he dug his criticism
of Chapman out of the files of
the House Committee on un-Ameri
can Activities.
"Has the House committee ever '
brought charges against Secretary j
Chapman??” shot back O'Mahoney, j
“Not to my knowledge.” Bow ad
mitted.
He also testified that he re- 1
ceived his anti-Chapman informa
tion two years ago when he was
counsel for the old Harness Com- ;
mittee in the 80th Congress.
"You want use to infer,” asked j
the exasperated O'Mahoney, "that
when you were counsel for the j
Harness Committee, you did not1
regard this evidence as of sufficient
moment to justify you to ask the I
Attorney General for investigation.
Did you personally examine Oscar ■
Chapman? ”
“No, Sir,” replied Bow, “I did
not. . .before this committee I am
making no charges."
Disgusted, Senator Jim Murray
of Montana commented, ”we should
be ashamed of ourselves listening I
to this kind of stuff when our !
country is threatened with dangers !
in the world.”
Bow spoke up, "I do not doubt the
loyalty of Mr. Chapman.”
L. A. Mayor Suspects Scandal
Forthright Mayor Fletcher Bow
on of Los Angeles has asked Hous
ng officials to request a Federal
rrand jury to investigate his own
;ity council.
At a private breakfast with a
op Housing official, Bowron blunt
September 1!)
A. B. Phillips
Mrs. R. Carrigan
William Franks
Wendell Schneider
Mrs. R. L. Davlin
Mrs. George Moore
George Moore. Jr.
C. W. Stevenson
Owen Hales
Beatrice Murphy
Tom Paddock
MINFIELD RESERVOIR
FUND TAG DAY TO BE
HELD THIS WEEKEND
The Business and Professional
Women’s Club will sell tags Fri
day and Saturday to raise funds for
the construction of a new concrete
reservoir at the Minfield Home,
Miss Olive Montel. tag-day chair
man announced today.
Member of the Teen-age Club will
sell the tags. Contribu'ions can al
so be made by mail to the Miiifield
Reservoir Fund, post office box
49. Juneau, she stated.
£ Territorial Department of
Health sanitary engineer has for
some time urged that a concrete
reservoir be built at the home,
BPW spokesmen said. The present
water supply tank constructed 10
years ago by the Forest Service,
has become inadequate, they said.
The Minfield Home is 17 miles
from Juneau on Auk Bay.
Ell SHAFFER TO COLLEGE
Ed Shaffer Jr., son of Mi’, and
Mrs. Ed Shaffer, owners of the
Sanitary Meat Market, left Sunday
by Pan American clipper for Se
attle to enroll in his junior year at
Seattle University. He is majoring
in accounting.
ly charged that he suspected some
of his city council had received
a bribe in connection with decon
trolling rents and urged his guest
to ask Attorney General McGrath
to order a Federal grand jury in
vestigation.
"In all my 20 years in public
life, I have never seen a city coun
cil like this one,” observed Mayor
Bowron. "When I first came in
as mayor, I had a bad city coun
cil, but I would trade this one for
my first council any time.”
Note—Meanwhile, the Housing
expeditor's office has sent an inves
tigator to Los Angeles to find out
why the rent ceiling was lifted at
a time when the war boom is
i bringing more people into the city.
| The investigator sent back to
Washington an unconfirmed report
that a city council member had
received a Cadillac as a pay-off,
but the investigator also reported
candidly that the rent office had
done a poor job of administering
rent controls in I,os Angeles, and
had been particularly unfair to
the small apartment owners.
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j 20 YEARS AGO th*e empire j
SEPTEMBER 19, 1930
Wild geese briefly threatened an invasion in a southbound flock
of honkers estimated to number from 200 to 300, flying quite low.' Fresh
snow on Mount Juneau was another portent of an early winter. The
mercury had dropped to 37 two nights before, but climbed back quickly.
Carl Erickson had refused to fool around with a cold . He went to
St. Ann's Hospital to cure it, and was out in three days. Chapman Nel
son of Funter Bay, who hurt his back in a fall, was a new patient.
Mrs. Frank Suffecool was called here from Skagway to be with her
husband after he suffered a hear attack following dental treatment.
Mr. Suffecool was greatly improved and the couple planned to return
on the next trip of the Queen. They were at the Gastineau Hotel.
Deputy U. S. Marshal W. E. Feero of Douglas left on the Admiral
Rogers for an official trip to Seattle and Portland.
James Hawthorne had taken over the dance school in the A. B.
Hall for both private and class instruction in ballroom dancing.
"Fine day for ducks,” commented Bert Hansen, manager of the
Juneau Ice Cream Parlors, who bagged ten of them at daylight, in
blustering wind and rain.
Due to inclement weather, the Methodist Church Epworth League
picnic was called off, according to Iona Messer, vice-president.
Standard Oil Company had greatly improved its facilities on the
Thane road, adding a new wharf, warehouse, shed and additional tanks]
and equipment. "Our wharf is one of the best in Alaska,” boasted Martin
S. Jorgensen, Juneau agent.
Stormy weather at Sitka held the Pioneer Airways seaplane Sea
Pigeon there overnight. Sitka-bound, Pilot Jerry Smith had had as j
passengers Charles Raatakainen, fisherman, and a Juneau visitor, Miss ]
Nancy Burke.
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Willis T. Batcheller, Seattle engineer and son of W. H. Batcheller
of the Northern Sales Agency here, was to head a $3,000,000 hydro
electric development project in the Portland Canal district near Hyder.
The report appeared in the Wenatchee (Wash.) World near where
Batcheller was in charge of engineering on a Chelan project and for the
Quincy Irrigation District.
Weather: High, 50; low, 44; rain.
j Daily Lessons in English l. Gordon i
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not confuse ERUPTION fact of
breaking out or bursting forth) with IRRUPTION (a bursting in).
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Glower. Pronounce glou-er, OU as
in OUR. and not as O in GLOW.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Necessarily: one C. two S's.
r SYNONYMS: Protection, preservation, safety, security, custody, de- j
tense.
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: j
DISCREETLY; cautiously; prudently. “She quickly and discreetly closed j
the door.”
r ETIQUETTE
i_
Q. When a house guest wishes to give
should he present it?
A. He may bring it along" and present it soon after his arrival, or
he may Fend it to her soon afer his departure.
Q. Is it obligatory that a girl secretary send her employer a wed
ding present?
A. Only if she has received an invitation to the wedding and re
ception.
Q. Is it necessary for a girl to thank a man who has brought her
home from a party?
A. No, this is not necessary.
LOOK and LEARN i! a GORDON |
1. What country has long been called "the playground of the
world”?
2. What king was killed while mountain climbing in 1934?
3. Which anniversary is the wooden one?
4. What famous dramatist was married to Anne Hathaway?
5. What is “transposition” in music?
ANSWERS:
1. Switzerland.
2. Albert I, of Belgium.
3. The fifth.
4. William Shakespeare.
5. The changing of music from one key to another.
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Weather at
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Barrow
Bethel .
Cordova .
Dawson .
Edmonton .
Fairbanks .
Haines .
Havre .
Juneau .
Kcdirk .
Kotzebue .
McCii'ath .
Nome .
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Petersburg .
Portland
Prince George
Seattle .
Sitka .
Whitehorse
Yakutat
Weather conditions and temper
attyes at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Blureau
are as follows:
Anchorage 43—Partly Cloudy
Annette Island . 54—Rain
32—Snow Showers
46—Partly Cloudy
..!.... 50—Rain
38—Partly Cloudy
42—Partly Cloudy
. 46—Cloudy
.... 52—Rain
42— Partly Cloudy
51—Rain S’howers
.. 47—Rain
. 38—Clear
. 44—Cloudy
43— Partly Cloud;,
36—Partly Cloudy
. 52—Rain
. 57—Cloudy
42—Partly Cloud)
. 51—Cloudy
. 59—Rain
. 50—Cloudy
. 53—Rain
mm SINGERS TO
MEET THURSDAY NIGHT
The first fall meeting of the Ju
neau Singers will be held Thursday
at 8:45 p.m., in the Methodist
church Rt Fourth and Seward
Streets, Dick Freer, president of
the choral group, announced today.
Under the leadership of last sea
sons’ director, Jane McMullen,
plans are being made to present
fhe Christmas portion ot Handel's
Messiah again. New music has been
ordered for a secular concert some
time after the first of the year, I
Freer declared.
He said all members of last sea- i
son’s group will be welcomed back j
and new members of the commun- i
ity interested in choral singing are j
invited to attend the meeting.
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leginning at 7:30 p. m.
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