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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers. 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle. Wash.
Wednesday, October 31, 1951
DISSATISFIED DEMOCRAT
Mr. Michael O’Cord, of Lomita, California, is
more than somewhat perturbed over the present
unhealthy state of the Democratic party. As a life
long Democrat, he resents the moral decay visited
upon his party by its corrupt new leadership and
minces no words in his letter to the editors of the
Los Angeles Times.
Inasmuch as Mr. O’Cord's observations reflec
accurately the feelings of many Democrats in Alaska
and elsewhere, wc reprint his letter herewith:
A DEMOCRAT READY TO CHANGE CAMPS
More and more frequently someone asks what I
think about some bit of the unsavory scandals that
come gushing out of Washington almost every day,
then when I have told him blurts out something like
this: "Youre just a - Republican!” or "You
couldn't be a Democrat!"
Now, as a lifelong Democrat, I resent such pro
nouncements. The fact that morally and ethically
I earnestly hope that I have nothing in common with
such men as Boyle, Finnegan, Truman, Tydings, Ache
son, Maragon or Young has nothing to do with it
If there is a Democrat in that bunch, then you migh
accuse me of having been in the wrong party all my
voting life.
Do you mean to tell me that, in order to be a
Democrat, I must demand a dunderhead Chief Execu
tive who will steer things to the advantage of some
minority group, some minority race, some particular
locality and to the detriment of everybody else?
As a Democrat am I supposed to applaud the
sowing of hatred and bitterness, the setting of class
against class and group against group, the tolera
tion and approval of Communism here at home while
our sons are being shot to pieces in foreign lands?
Must I yell for bigger and bigger deficits, more
and more bums finding one excuse or another to sit
down on the taxpayer's neck and the continued so
cialization of America In order that I may be thought
of as a Democrat?
I resent the implication that if I believe in
truthfulness, honesty, decency, honor, principle and
loyalty to the country, then I just couldn't be a
Democrat.
I resent it not only because I am a Democrat
but because in the jnidst of all the swarm of thieves,
liars, traitors, gangsters and perverts that inhabit
the national scene there still are such splendid
patriots as McCarran, Malone, Byrd and George.
Pititfully few in comparison, I admit, but nonetheless
fine and praiseworthy.
And then someone always asks, “And as a Demo
crat will you vote for Truman?” And I can't keep
from replying, “Not unless his opponent is Gromyko!"
In truth, if I never have an opportunity to vote
for another honorable Democrat, then I will never
vote the ticket again but that will not change the
fact that I am, and expect to remain, a Democrat.
And when my party has been rescued from the
thugs and the wastrels I shall be so happy to feel at
home again. Until then, Republicans, make room fo:
a Democrat.
MICHAEL O'CORD, Lomita.
NATIONAL CAT WEEK
The national habit of proclaiming various week
to be celebrated includes Cat Week which occur:;
this year between November 4 and 10, according to
the American Feline Society.
It should be understood, cf course, that the week
is for the purpose of directing attention to four
footed cats, with especial emphasis upon the short
haired American type, “frequently but erroneously
referred to as ‘the alley cat.' ”
The nation possesses a cat population of about
21,000,000, according to the society, which points out
that fifty per cent of the felines arc cared for by
individual owners or "hold down jobs" in stores, fac
tories, etc., as mousers.
The society is concerned about the other half cf
the cat family, the unemployed cats. It suggests that
people follow the slogan of the week and “adopt a
cat.”
The cat, no doubt, performs a useful function
in the elimination of mice and rats. It would be
well for the nation, again with no doubt, if there
were less mice and rats. Consequently, the more cats
the less rats and the less loss to the public through
the depredations of the mice and rats.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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long when your name came up. And
the President remarked: ‘you know,
in all my public life, I have never
met a man more capable than Jim
Byrnes',”
‘‘Will you say that again?” asked
Governor Byrnes, half-joking, half
pretending not to hear.
Baruch repeated the President's
complimentary remark.
“I haven’t been reading the pap
ers carefully,” replied the Gover
nor of South Carolina, “but it
seems to me that I’ve heard some
where that there was going to be
a Presidential election next year.”
Note—Complimentary remarks or
uncomplimentary remarks, Jimmie
Byrnes will not be for Truman. He’s
for Eisenhower—on either the Re
publican or Democratic ticket.
DEMOCRATIC PIPELINE
Ousted as baseball commisisoner,
unhappy "Happy” Chandler has
been making the rounds of his
Democratic friends seeking the new
Job of Democratic National Chair
man. . .Senator Kerr of Oklahoma
is lining up the powerful oil and gas
interests behind ex-Gov. Roy Turn
er of Oklahoma to be National i
Chairman. . .Ed Flynn, Democratic
boss of the Bronx, slipped his can
didate, Paul Fitzpatrick, in the
White House side door for a secret
talk with the President about be
coming Democratic Chairman. How- j
ever, insiders say the President pri
vately favors Robert Butler, the St. |
Paul shipbuilder. . .Outgoing Demo- .
cratic Chairman Bill Boyle is tak-1
ing no chances on having the Demo
cratic National Committee electing I
a dark horse to succeed him. He has
sent out invitations to all National
Committeemen to attend the elec
tion meeting or send their proxies
on October 31. At the bottom of the
invitations, however, Boyle has typ
ed the following postscript: “Un
less you wish to make the proxy
out to any particular person, it
would simplify our handling of the
meeting if you omit any name and
permit me to fill it in.'
TENNESSEE FEUDIST
The incident was hushed up, but
shortly before Congress adjourned,
82-year-old Senator McKellar of
Tennessee added round six to his
record as the Senate’s most belli
cose member.
In past encounters. McKellar has
tried to bean one victim with a
gavel, boot another in the pants,
flail another with a roll of news
papers—and once he landed a sur
prise left hook.
This time, however, McKellar at
tacked with his walking stick. The
incident took 'place behind closed
doors of the Senate Appropriations
Committee. The victim was displaced
persons Commissioner Harry Rosen
field, who made the mistake of in
terrupting a McKellar harangue.
The old man had been hounding i
displaced persons chairman John
Gibson, who had difficulty under
standing, “i Deg your paraon, ou r
He kept repeating.
Finally, McKellar snapped: ‘‘Isn't
] there anyone around here who un
derstands anything about this?”
Rosenfield jumped up to his col
j league's defense.
"If the chairman of the Displaced
; Persons Commission doesn’t know
anything about displaced per^pips.
, Rosenfield began.
But McKellar cut him off.
"You can't talk to me like that!”
he shrieked. “You sit down! I don't
want to hear another word from
you at this meeting!”
Shaking with anger and shouting
incoherently, McKellar picked up
his cane and lunged at Rosenfield.
The commissioner ducked and the
blow narrowly missed his head.
This was round six for McKellar,
whose other publicly disclosed brawls
include:
Round 1—McKellar started to
pull a clasp-knife from his pocket
and advanced toward the late Sen
ator Copeland of New York on the
Senate floor. Colleagues restrained
him.
Round 2—McKellar took offense
at United Press reporter Dayton
Moore's questioning, whopped him
over the head with a roll of news
papers.
Round 3—Nashville publisher Sil
liman Evans greeted McKellar
courteously in a Washington hotel,
but the old man landed a poke that
caught Evans off balance.
Round 4—A representative of this
column asked McKellar his age.
The aged Tennessean replied by
raining blows on the reporter’s head.
Round 5—McKellar got into an
appropriations argument with Con
gressman Cannon of Missouri, tried
to settle it crowning Cannon with
a gavel.
It's getting so that both Congress
men and newsmen find it safer to
steer clear of the Senator from Ten
nessee.
WASHINGTON PIPELINE
Tp‘ freshman Congressmen’s din
ner for Senator Taft was switched
the last minute from the Congres
sional Hotel to the Hotel 2400—be
cause Murray Olf, the Washing
ton lobbyist for racketeer Frankie
Costello, lives at the Congressional
. . .Congres6ionial investigators,
checking on scandals inside the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, are using
assumed names. They think they are
being watched by Treasury agents
. . .Senator Taft's forces have lost
one of the key backstage GOP ad
visers, John G. Bennett of Roch
ester. Bennett is now working full
time for Eisenhower. Though un
known to voters, he knows the in
side of the Republican Party bet
ter than anyone in Washington. . .
Russia isn't waiting for the United
Nations to decide who owns the
Kurile Islands extending out in
:he Pacific between Japan and Al
aska. Large groups of immigrants
have already been sent to the Kur
les to colonize them. . .The army
las picked up information that, in
lublic, Russia has been calling for
a Korean truce while privately urg
ng the Chinese to continue the war.
Phe Russians argued that the Kor
ean war was splitting the American
aeople. (Maybe they're right.)
New, liny rwj Planes
To Help Slop Hauls
From Small Lakes
A few “sportsmen” who have been
flying into small lakes which are
almost inaccessible by air to the
men of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice and doing illegal hunting and
! fishing are going to find it a little
j tougher in the future, according to
| Urban C. Nelson, of wildlife re
search.
Nelson said that delivery is ex
! pected of two new small planes and
J said that these planes would land
in as small an area as any private
planes now in the Territory. He
said that some knov/n violators oi
the fish and game laws have been
jumping in and out of small lakt^
where planes of the Service could
not land.
One of the planes, both of which
are Pacers built by Piper, is being
delivered by John Bail, veteran
pilot of the refuge branch from
Washington, D. C. Ball is also air
craft supervisor of the Fish and
Wildlife Service.
The two new planes are being
ferried from Washington, where
radio and other equipment was in
stalled. One will be qsed for wild
life research and investigation; the
other for law enforcement work in
the Anchorage area. They are four
place plane patterened after the
Super Cub, but have a much higher
cruising speed.
FROM ST. LOUIS
Gray Miller of the Vickers Elec
tric Division at St. Louis, Mo., ar
rived here yesterday from Seattle
on PAA. He is stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
Weather at
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
fo.'lows:
Anchorage . 29—Snow
Barrow . 21—Clear
Bethel.40—Rain
Cordova . 47—Cloudy
Dawson . -7—Clear
Edmonton . 12—Cloudy
Fairbanks . 8—Clear
Haines .. 24—Clear
Havre . 20—Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 21—Clear
Annette Island . 40—Cloudy
Kodiak ... . 44—Drizzle
Kotzebue . 26—Snow
McGrath . 32—Snow
Nome . 34—Snow
Northway . 0—Clear
Petersburg . 26—Clear
Portland . 41—Cloudy
Prince George. 5—Clear
Seattle . 36—Clear
Whitehorse .. 12—Clear
Yakutat . 29—Cloudy
Community Events
TODAY
At 7 p.m.—Hallowe’en Party spon
sored by LOOM for all Moose
children at Moose Lodge.
At 3 p.m.—Alaska Potters meet in
headquarters.
I At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge.
November 1
! At. noon—Chamber of Comrr.rrc.3
meets at Baranof Hotel.
At C p.m.—Taku Toastmasters meet
at Baranof Hotel.
At 7:30 p.m.—City Council meets.
At 8 p.m.—VFW post meets in Jeep
Club.
At 8 p.m.—Women of Moose meet.
At 9 p.m. — Juneau Singers re
hearsal at Methodist church.
November 2
At 8 .p.m. — Juneau Shrine ^Jub
meets at home of John Maurstad.
A; 8 p.in.—Square dance for 7th,
8th and 9th grades in Parish Hall.
At 9 p.m.—Refreshments and en
tertainment for Shrine Club ac
home of Earl Cleveland.
November 3
At 11:30 a.m.—Rebekah Bazaar In
IOOF Hall with smorgaasbord at
6:30 p.m.
At 8:30 p.m.—Circle Eighters square
dance club meets at Parish Hall.
November 5
At noon—Lions Club meets at Bara
nof Hotel.
At noon—BPWC meets at Baranof
Hotel.
At 7 p.m.—Headquarters and Head
quarters Service Co. weekly drill
in Armory.
At 7 p.m.—Juneau Badminton club
will play in high school gym.
At 8 p.m.—American Legion post
meets in Dugout.
November 6
At noon—Rotary club meets Bara
nof hotel.
At 8:30 p.m.—Community Cento:
Night for Adults at Teen Age
Club with square dancing.
November 7
At noon—Kiwanis Club meets, Bara
nof.
RETURNS FROM INTERIOR
B. F. Dunn, local traffic manager
for Pan American Airways returned
this week from a short trip to An
chorage and Fairbanks where he
contacted travel bureaus and air
line offices.
STRICTLY BUSINESS t,mcf..h„I
SUPER-EPIC
MOTION PICTURE
STUDIOS
“He said a naughty word — ‘television J’ ”
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• B. D. Stewart •
• Evelyn Hendrickson •
• Mrs. Douglas A. Mead •
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• Malin Babcock •
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OCTOBER 31, 1931
H. L. Faulkner, prominent local attorney, returned from a business
trip to Petersburg.
N. L. Troast, Thomas Allen, and Glen Carrington were among the
passengers arriving aboard the steamer Alaska, which was in port
from the south. This was to be the last trip of the season for the
Alaska, the Northwestern being scheduled for the winter trips.
Frank Metcalf had at last made the grade on the Elks bowling
alleys—the GOO column. At the previous night’s session between the
Athletics and the Cubs, Metcalf had a score of 601. Close runners-up
were M. Bavard and Barragar.
The last of a series of five card parties was to be held this night
at the Moose Hall. Grand prizes were to be awarded and lunch served.
Twenty-two thousand pounds of salmon and halibut besides 232
barrels of herring for bait were received this morning in Juneau. The
salmon and herring were purchaserd by Juneau Cold Storage Company,
while the halibut had not yet been sold.
Weather: High, 46; low, 41; rain.
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| Daily Lessons in English L. cordon !
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "What did you do that
for?” Say, "WHY did you do that?”
OFTENi MISPRONOUNCED: Nausea. Pronounce no-shc-a, O as ir.
ON> accent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Lieu (place; stead); pronounce LU, U as
in USE.
SYNONYMS: Usual, general, customary, ordinary, normal, regular,
prevailing, prevalent.
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:
CREDULITY; belief, or readiness of belief, especially on slight evi
dence. (Pronounce the U as in CUBE). "Credulity often subjects one
to impositions."
j ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
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Q. How many courses docs the modern dinner consist of?
A. No matter how formal, no modern dinner consists of more than
(1) Soup or oysters or melon; (2) Fish or Entree; j3) Roast; (4) Salad;
! (5) Dessert. And after-dinner coffee.
Q. What would be an appropriate note of condolence to write to a
i bereaved relative or close friend?
A. “Dear*Ruth: Words are so empty! If only-1 knew how to tel)
! them with love and send them to you. All my thoughts. Anne.”
Q. Is it necessary that the husband of the matron of honor at a
wedding be asked to serve as an usher?
A. No; this is not at all necessary.
i LOOK and LEARN A. C. GORDON
I. Who discovered the Philippines?
2. What is the simplest form of animal life?
3. Which is the most heavily populated state of the U. S.?
4. What is a leguminous plant?
5. How many square feet are there in an acre?
ANSWERS:
1. Magellan (1480-1521).
2. The amoeba.
3. Ni?w York, with 14,743,210 residents.
4. Any plant of the bean family.
5. 43.560 square feet.
4-H CLUB ACHIEVEMENT
DAY SET FOR SATURDAY
The 4-H Club Achievement Day
program will be held in the CIO
hall on Saturday evening, November
3, at 8 o'clock.
A short program will be follow
ed by an evening of square danc
ing. This program closes the year's
work, and 4-H club members will
receive their pins to show that they
have completed their work. Some
special awards will be announced
for project winners in garden, home
furnishing, clothing, girl’s record, I
dairy, meat animal and electricity.
Parents are invited to participate
in the evening of fun. Club mem
bers are asked to bring a square
dance partner. Refreshments will
be served. I
WRANGELL SAWMILL
MANAGER IN JUNEAU
Thomas T. Ogawa, new general
manager of the Wrangell sawmill, is
in Juneau today to talk about the
coming operations of his plant with
Frank Heintzleman, regional for
ester.
Ogawa is busy supervising the re
building of the old sawmill, putting
it in condition for operations which
are expected to begin in about two
months. According to Heintzleman,
the mill will produce about 50,000
feet of lumber a day.
The Wrangell mill was purchased
by the C. T. Takahashi company,
of Seattle, an exporting firm.
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L European
language
1. Fine fahrlo
13. Tropical
rodent
14. Citrus fruit
15. Behold
16. Side
18. Aloft
19. Italian coins
21. Jewel
22. French winter
resort
23. Utility
24. Indigo plant
25. Small
depression
2G. Heap
2S. Family of New
World
monkeys
30. Protit
32. Grit
33. More severe
36. Fresh supply
39. Melody
Duruensome
duty
42. Before
43. Astern
44. Pertaining to
the ear
45. God of love
4G. On condition
that
47. Columns
49. Old musical
note
50. Having the
apex
rounded
62. Covered with
clay
54. Rocks
65. Farther below
the surface
DOWN
1. Genus of
pheasants
2. Self-centered
person
3. Artificial
language
4. Kind of slipper
ii
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
5. Philippine
native
S. Colorless gas
resembling
argon
T. Character in
Bizet's
"Carmen”
5. Spoken
9. Masculine
nickname
10. Article
11. Large tropical
American
lizard
12. Character
attributed
to a person
17. Long narrative {
poem '
20. Substance used •
in detecting
other
substance* / j
22. Itinerant
merchant I
24. Related I
25. Take the chief f
meal
2/. Be concerned
29. Cry of a dog
31. Stinging weeds
33. Steps
34. Miss Muffet'e
seat
35. Bar of wood f
or metal
37. Excite to j
action
38. Pertaining to !
i the day last !
5 past
4' Burn with
\ steam
♦4. French river
45. Ancestral l
house of the '
ruling
British
j dynasty
47. Play on words
48. Regret
51. Toward:
abbr.
5&: Musical work: i
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@ B.P.O.ELKS
Meeting Every Wednesday at 8
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome.
LeROY WEST, Exalted Ruler.
W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
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Moose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
LOREN CARD '
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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Takn Post No. 5559
V. F. W.
Meeting every Thursday in
the Jeep Club at 8:00 p.m.
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CHRISTENSEN BROS.
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P. O. Box 2590
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Phone 208 Second and Seward
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PHONE Z18—DAY or NIGHT
for MIXERS or SOpA POP
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Phones 146 and 342
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