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NATIONAL^EPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle. Wash.
Saturday, September 15, 1951
A SOUND VETO
The President of the United States recently
vetoed a Congressionally-approved bill, which had
nothing to do with veterans disabled as a result of
military service but concerned itself “solely with
pensions paid to disabled veterans, whose disabilities
have no connection with military service”
While the bill, in its first year of operation,
would cost only $16,700,000, a projection of the cost,
on the basis of other experience in pension legisla
tion, “indicates that toward the end of this century
the cost . . . would approach $400,000,000 a year," or
more.
The point for the people of this country to note,
in connection with the legislation being discussed,
is that it has no reference to injuries received by
those who fight for this country. It refers exclusively
to what may happen to a veteran after his military
service.
The President’s position is that the pensions of
the nation should meet only the “special and unique
needs which arise directly from military service.”
He takes the sound position that other needs of
veterans, not arising from military service, should
be’ met on the same basis for veterans and non
veterans alike.
—
The New Diplomacy
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Time was when diplomacy was a gracious art.
Even the most irreconcilable of enemies observed the
niceties of diplomatic etiquette. Ambassadors and
heads of states, if unable to pretend to real cordiality,
at least engaged in the exchange of pleasing platitudes
and glittering generalities. Even the generals of
opposing armies, meeting under a flag of truce on
the battlefield, were icily correct, in compliance with
long-established custom.
All this has gone by the board. Freed of the
inhibitions of religion and tradition, and committed
to a program of world revolution, the Russians use
their embassies as centers of espionage and pro
paganda. They mistreat the emissaries of other na
tions. They claim diplomatic immunity for their
representatives, but keep our diplomats virtual pris
oners in the Moscow area.
Diplomacy, under those conditions cannot remain
as it was. And Tuesday Mr. Truman made it plain
that he has noted the transition. His reception of
Vladimir Prochazka, new Czechoslovakia Ambassador,
is vivid proof. Instead of the customary gracious
platitudes, the President delivered such a dressing
down as few diplomats anywhere have had to
suffer.
If you want friendly relations with America, he
said in substance, release William N. Oatis and send
him home. Until then, don’t expect either friendship
or cooperation from the United States or even the
economic advantages thus far extended. Mr. Pro
chazka got more of the same from Secretary Ache
son, spelled out in greater detail.
All of which marks a deterioration in the punc
tilio of traditional dipolmatic intercourse. But if the
Russians and their satellites don’t like the new candor
of diplomacy at Washington, they have only to scan
their own record to find out why the welcome mat
is missing from America’s front door.
Taxation with representation is pretty bad, too
we mean the kind of taxation and the kind of rep
resentation we have these days. |j
We’re trying to confirm a rumor that there s a I
fashionable new diet that actually tastes like food.
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Going to religious services is fine but living a
life that expresses religious conviction is better.
[he Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
stopped—the attempted purchase
of 5,300,000 gallons of aviation
gasoline for the Chinese air force
by an American company which
at first didn’t exist, and which
MWi- w JS'*1'01 gitniaeA by partners
already in bankruptcy.
•Fantastic Story
Here are the chonological events
in this important case:
On May 2, 1950, the Hau Tai
Trading Co., Taipeh, China, bid on
supplying the Chinese air force
with 5,300,000 gallons of gas, “pro
duct of the United Petroleum
Company, Los Angeles," for $1,637,
700. The bid was sent to the Chi
nese in Washington and was fol
lowed by a definite order from the
Chinese Chief of Staff, Gen. C. J.
Chou, who instructed the Chinese
Air Force procurement office in
Washington to go ahead with .the
deal.
However, Col. W. H. Hsiang in
Washington got suspicious. Hsiang
is the same colonel who later got
kicked; out, following his eiforts to
clean tip Chinese graft. Colonel
Hsiang knew, as reported in this
column on August 16, that his
chief of staff in Formosa, General
Chou, had been in on a deal which
siphoned $444,706 of the American
taxpayers’ money into a myster
ious account under the name of
“Lee Sun Company” in the Na
tional City Bank. So Colonel Hsi
ang sent an investigator, Maj. L.
S. Wen, to Los Angeles, to look
into the United Petroleum Co.
Major Wen found that the Uni
ted Petroleum Co. did not exist.
Colonel Hsiang also cabled the
Chief of Staff, General Chou, that
the company did not exist, then
repeated the cable. He got no an
swer. —
The answer finally walked in
the door of Colonel Hsiang's office
in Washington on June 5, 1950, in
the person of Edward A. Martin,
who claimed to represent the Uni
ted Petroleum Co. Martin happens
to be on friendly terms with a
Senator who has done great fa
vors for the China lobby.
Quickie Company
It later developed that the Chi
nese Chief of Staff in Formosa
had ordered $1,637,700 worth of
gaoline from a company which
at that time did not exist, and
whxh obviously was formed mere
ly to handle this special transac
tion.
* The gasoline could have been
purchased from any number of
well-known and established com
panics, or it could have been pur
chased through the friendly help
of the U. S. government. But it
was not.
Suspicious, Colonel Hsiang asked
Martin a series of quesions and
had him sign the answers.
Among other things, Martin sta
ted that the United Petroleum Co.
had an office at 420 Madison Ave.,
New York, not in Los Angeles, as
previously stated; that its presi
dent was Lyon McCandless (also
a friend of a pro-Chiang Senator);
and that its representative in Chi
na was H. E. Kenfro, Peninsula
Hotel, Hong Kong.
Still sii'pirou", the Chinese pro
curement office then asked its
American lawyers for a report on
United Petroleum, and found it
was a partnership between Lyon
McCandless and his wife, together
with E. P. McQueen. Also, the
partnership had been formed only
on June 1—almost one month af
ter the gasoline had been bid on
and ordered from Formosa.
No Bank Account
Furthermore, the Dunn and
Bradstreet report on United Petro
leum stated: "We have not been
able up to this time to locate any
tank account in the name of the
company."
Further investigation showed
that the same partnership had al
so organized five other companies
which were either in bankruptcy or
inactive.
One of them was the Amer-Ind,
Inc., organized for trade with In
dia, which, on Dec. 5, 1947, peti
tioned for receivership under chap
ter XI of the amended bankrupt
cy act, and now operates as a
debtor.
The same partnership also op
erated Amer-Ind France, Inc., a
firm supposed to do business with
i France, but now inactive. It also
| organized Amer-Ind International,
I likewise now inactive; and Amer
jlnd, Inc., of Delaware, for Latin
; American Trade, also inactive.
Dunn and Bradstreet reported
back to the Chinese procurement
office that when they interviewed
Lyon McCandles on June 8, short
ly after the huge aviation gasoline
order had been placed with this
seven-day-old firm,he stated that
“the firm was formed for the spe
cific purpose of acting as agents
in the sale of petroleum products
to the Far East. The income will
be derived from commissions.”
Kenneth N. Parkinson, attorney
for the Chinese procurement of
fice, also interviewed attorney Mar
tin and reported that “the price
which he quotes per gallon F.A.S,
port of shipment,'is approximate
ly l'i cents higher per gallon than
the price obtained from Richfield
Oil Company under your recent
contract." '
In view of all these factors, Col
onel Hsiang took the matter up
with Senator Knowland and the
deal fell through. As a reward for
making this and other investiga
tions, Colonel Hsiang and his su
perior in New York, Gen. P. T
Mow, have now been fired.
The Diplomatic Pouch
Argentine dictatpr Juan Peron’s
electioneering campaign against
the United States sounds straight
from Moscow. Peron is shouting
that the major opposition party,
the radicals, is financed by “Yan
kee Imerialism” and that the
“good neighbor policy" is in real
ity “a cloak for political assassin
ations and revolutions." . . • Mass
arrests in Japan, Java and Sum
atra broke well-organized Commu
nist schemes for revolution. In
Japan, an underground "action
unit” of 25,000 Communists was
started six months ago with Jap
anese and Korean single young
men. . . Cardinal Mindszenty, a
captive in Hungary, is critically
ill and has been moved from his
prison cell in Budapest to the
Tatra mountains, where he is be
ing treated by two Soviet doctors.
Russia does not want the Cardinal
to die, considers him valuable as
an ace in the hole for trading
purposes.
Communication
Daily Alaska Empire, Sept. 14
Dear Sir:
I have been reading various
stories in your paper relative to
certain public officials and their
acts which have reached into Con
gress and I must say the workings
of this Territorial government
leaves much to be desired.
Where there is smoke there is
fire and the acts of Mr. J. Gerald
Williams, our attorney general, Mr.
Neil Moore, our auditor and Mr.
Lew Williams our deposed secre
tary of Alaska, have shown that
we, the outsiders, are at the mer
cy of subtle conniving of those of
ficials who absolutely refuse to do
do what is right if their own in
terests are at stake.
It is unfortunate for the people,
and expensive, too, that selfish in
i terests come first in the minds of
our public officials. For instance,
the cost of a social program, of a
road, of a health program, is sec
ondary so long as the "ignorant
masses” know who the authors of
' this or that program are. This
money spent is used to buy votes.
I know! Because I was told if I
would vote in such a manner I
could get some of the money. Not
very much, but some.
I do not know Mr. J. Gerald
Williams, Mr. Neil Moore or Mr.
Lew Williams, but the people cf
the Territory are to be congratu
lated on having three ambitious,
courageous, honest officials who
probably are not satisfied with
conditions and salaries they are
Working under but are not letting
these facts cloud their thinking
and actions in carrying out the
duties imposed on them.
It is unfortunate that the Pres
ident of the United States was
prevailed upon to “fire” Mr. Lew
Williams for “incompetency.” That,
to my way of thinking, was an
asinine remark. It smacks of in
competency of someone else but
not Lew Williams. It appears that
this act was used to gain favors
from those who have. power and
money to dictate to the President
of the United States. From the
stories coming out of Washington,
it looks as if the White House and
the Interior Department could do
with more competent individuals.
Mr. Moore is to be congratulated
on the stand he has taken in re
gards to the spending of our
money. The latest in the number
of exceptions is that of the salary
of the Manager of the Develop
ment Board. I personally think he
is rigl>t. I have yet to see any good
come from this office in so far as
you and I and the rest of the
citizens of the Territory are con
cerned. They claim the results of
the pulp industry—this program
and that program. But if I am
asked, my money is for the man
that actually accomplished these
things, and it isn’t Mr. Sundborg
or the Governor or other Territor
ial officials. I think it is Mr. Frank
Heintzleman, the man you spoke
of editorially not long ago.
This letter is the result of rec
ognizing grievous faults perpetra
ted against the people of the Ter
ritory. That is, expensive, ill-man
aged programs so as to create Jobs,,
buy votes, gain in power and money
of certain office holders. The pro
grams on paper sound fine and it
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions and tempera
tures at various Alaska [>oints also
on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 p.m.,
120th Meridian Time, and released
by the Weather Bureau are as,
follows: |
Anchorage . 39—Cloudy
Annette Island . 52—Clear
Barrow . Missing
Bethel . 43—Cloudy
Cordova . 50—Rain
Dawson . 53—Rain
Edmonton ... 36—Clear
Fairbanks . 34—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 48—Cloudy
Havre . 36—Clear
Juneau Airport . 39—Fog
Kodiak . 42—Cloudy
Kotzebue . 41—Cloudy
McGrath . 36—Cloudy
Nome . 43—Cloudy
Northway . 40—Cloudy j
Petersburg . 44—Clear
Portland . 54—Clear i
Prince George . 33—Fog j
Seattle . 51—Clear
Sitka . 49—Clear I
Whitehorse . 56—Cloudy j
Yakutat . 50—Rain j
Community Events j
TODAY
From 8 tonight to midnight—Cath
olic Bazaar in Parish Hall.
September 17
At noon—Lions Club meets Baranof
Hotel.
At 7 p.m.—National Guard drill at
Sub Port.
At 8 p.m.—Ticket sellers ot Juneau
Douglas Concert Association meet
in Elks Hall.
At 8 p.m.—American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
At 8 p.m.—Board of directors of
Alaska Division American Can
cer Society meets in Gold Room,
Baranof Hotel.
September 18
From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.—Special city
election. Polls in Alaska Electric
Light and Power Co., store.
At noon—Rotary Club meets, Bara
nof Hotel.
September 19
At noon—Kiwanis Club meets, Bara
nof Hotel.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge.
September 20
At noon—Chamber of Commerce
meets, Baranof Hotel.
At 8 p.m.—City Council meets in
chambers at City Dock.
Governor and Wife
Leave for Conference
In Tennessee
Governor and Mrs. Ernest Gruen
ing left Friday for the States on the
Princess Louise.
Shipping their car, they will dis
embark at Vancouver, B.C., and
drive to Washington, DC. From
there they will go to Gatlinburg,
Tenn., where Gruening will attend
a conference of governors of states
and territories.
They will return to Washington
for a time and then drive westward
enroute to Juneau.
may be that they would work pro
viding your carpet-baggers could
be prevented from interfering with
those elected and appointed to car
ry out those functions.
And as I stated previously, I
think it is unfortunate Mr. Lew
Williams was relieved. It certainly
is an insult to all the people to
have a Governor, a President and
others in power to have such a
lack of common sense and sagacify
that it takes seven years to deter
mine that an appointee Is incom
petent.
Sincerely,
(Name Withheld)
P. S. Since I am neither in bus
iness or running for office publi
city for me is a waste. Therefore,
it would be appreciated if you
print this letter to not use my
name. I would also appreciate re
turn of the letter for my own use
after you are through with it.
20 YEARS AGO the empire j
SEPTEMBER 14, 1931
Mrs. Lee Pratt and son Robert, arrived here Monday from Cordova
on the steamer Alaska to make Juneau their future home.' Mr. Pratt has
been assigned to the regional office of the U. S. Forest Service. They
will live in the Spickett Apartments.
The government's annual auction of seal skins from the Pribilof
herd, brought $282,642 today. Receipts frim auctions over the past 20
years total $6,049,524.
B. M. Behrends returned to Juneau after three weeks in the south.
He reported business conditions in the cities on the west coast good.
He accompanied his grandson, Ben Mullen, to San Jose where Mullen
entered school.
Charles D. Springer, deputy marshal at Tenakee, is • in Juneau
on official business.
Mrs. Harry Olds and daughter Shirley arrived on the Yukon after
a visit with relatives in Seattle.
Jack Frost last night paid his first visit to Juneau and its environs,
according to Weather Man R. C. Mize. The lowest tempearture recorded
was 39 degrees above zero.
Mrs. A. E. Goetz and infant son returned to her home in Douglas,
from St. Ann’s Hospital. ■
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gentry arrived on the Northland from Seattle
and will make their home in Douglas. Mrs. Gentry is the foAier Miss
Mary Africh, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Anton Africh of Douglas. They
have taken one of the Olson cottages.
Weather: High, 61; low, 39; fair.
Daily Lessons in English cordon j
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSEll: Say, "He PLEADED guilty,” not “He
PLED guilty.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Egress. Pronounce first E as in ME,
second E as in DRESS, accent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Descendant (noun). Descendent (ad
jective) .
QYUONYMS: Bind, tie, fasten, fetter, secure, shackle, restrain, re
strict.
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:
EPITOMIZE; to abridge; summarize. (Accent follows the T). "These
things have been epitomized into a formula for our convenience.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE robertaleeJ
Q. If there is no host in the house at the time, and a hostess is
seeing a couple off, should she help both of them with their coats, or
just the woman’s?
A. She doesn’t assist either of them. The man first helps the
woman with her coat, and then puts on his own.
Q. If a man is telephoning another on business, does he says,
“This is Mr. Johnson of Smith & Sons”?
A. It would be betetr if he omitted the “Mr.” He can say, "This
is Johnson of Smith & Sons,” or, “This is George Johnson.”
Q. Should a girl of eighteen rise when being introduced to a man,
of sixty?
A. Yes, it is the proper thing to do — also, to a woman of sixty.
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1. What is triangulation?
2. Prom what Shakespearean play comes the following line:
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?
3. What was Eleanor Roosevelt’s family name before her marriage?
4. What is napery?
Which ranks higher in British peerage, an earl or a duke?
ANSWERS:
1. a method of surveying large areas. If one side and two angles
of a triangle are known,, the other two sides can be computed.
2. "Julius Caesar.”
3. Roosevelt.
4. Household linen.
5. Duke.
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