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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
Tuesday, December 4, 1951
BRITISH DEVELOP SUPERIOR
ARMY RIFLE
The necessity of defense forces the art of war-1
fare to make use of the ingenuity of man to develop
weapons that will kill other human beings faster than
ever. This has been true since the bow and arrow
replaced the spear and sWord and will no doubt con
tinue to be the practice of mankind until wars are
no longer the method of settling international dis
putes
The United States and most of the-North At
lantic treaty powers rely upon the automatic Garrand
M-l which uses .30-caliber ammunition. , The British
Army has heretofore depended upon the Lee Enfield
bolt-actjpn rifle which uses slightly larger ammuni
tion but ordnance and scientific experts recently un
veiled a new .280-caliber automatic rifle before a
carefully screened audience which was almost unani
mous in praising the performance of the gun.
In a test between the three rifles, the new weapon
fired 84-rounds a minute, compared to the 43 rounds
of the Garrand and 28 for the Enfield. It pene
trated steel helmets 600 yards away and went through
46-inches of wood planking at 100 yards. In addition,
it can kill a human target at 2,000 yards.
The British development is a foot shorter than
our Gr rrand. weighs a pound less and carries 20
rounds to the Garrand's eight. Its muzzle velocity
is comparable and its recoil is less than half of the
American gun. It represents a radical departure in
design in thaf the wooden stock has ben eliminated
and the weapon is a straight line from muzzle to
butt. The trigger is in front of the magazine, making
it easier to maintain and handle.
Wliat military men are interested in is the fact
that the new-size ammunition will enable a British
division to carry 824,000 rounds more ammunition
with the same transport. As the reader is well aware,
the question of supplies, including food, ammunition,
etc., is always important in military campaigns.
That the new British weapon will be adopted as a
standard gun for the democratic nations is somewhat
doubtful.
Observers from the United States while praising
the weapon, indicate that the United States is not
apt to switch weapons at this time. Anyhow, the
matter will be studied by a group of technical ex
perts, who will submit a recommendation sometime
this winter.
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DISPERSAL OF INDUSTRY A SMART
MOVE .
President Truman has acted wisely in ordering
governmental lepartments and agencies to support i n
industrial dispersal policy worked out by the National
Security Resources Board, the Office of Defense
Mobilization Munitions Board.
The program will be bitterly fought by repre
sentatives of existing Industrial areas. They w’ill point
to the fact that Congress recently rejected an amend
ment melting the need for dispersal of industry a
yardstick in the construction of plants built or fi
nanced by the government.
The dispersal program is imperative in view of
the possibility of atomic bomb attacks. Certainly, it
would be extremely foolish for the United States to
continue to pile up its essential plants in areas where
there are already vital productive units, putting all
our production eggs in the same basket and inviting
the enemy to knock them all out at one time.
There is another side to the question which may
be overlooked by those who argue against dispersal.
Existing industrial plants in metropolitan areas are
clamoring for a system of governmental insurance
to protect them from loss in the event of an atomic
be mb attack. It is hardly possible the enemy will
waste atomic bombs on the relatively undeveloped
areas of the nation and, consequently passage of an
insurance measure will be almost exclusively for the
benefit of existing industrial areas.
In view of the fact that these industries expect
the government to indemnify them against loss, if
their plants are bombed during war, it is a smart
policy on the part of the government to disperse the
plants so that the loss will not be aggravated by an
avoidable concentration of industrial plants. If the
government is to indemnify the owners against loss,
the government should have something to say about
the location of new plants, especially those established
through governmental assistance.
The safety of the nation is another factor that
must be considered against the wishes of existing
industrial areas to increase their productive potential.
If we are to have uninterrupted production of essen
tial items during war, we must have our plants scat
tered throughout the nation so that one successful
attack will not seriously* impair our facilities. Not
only is it wise for the government, fronj tills stand- •
point, to scatter all new plants that are constructed,
but it might be adavntageous to move some of the
existing essential industries into other areas.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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sumer durables while at the same
lime meeting the needs of the De
fense Mobilization program, Fleisch
mann added.
The production crisis has been
caused by shortages and strikes at'
home, plus stepped up' military ship
ments to Europe. The unfortunate
fact is that military production is
lagging dangerously behind procure
ment schedules. For example, the
manufacture of jet planes is nine
months behind schedule. Yet the
Air Force right now has had to re
vise its earlier schedule drastically
upward because of losses over Kor
ea and improvements in Russian
planes.
Flt.schmann argued that the
manufacturers of automobiles, frig
era tors, television sets and other
consumer durables, “on the average,
have already reduced to 60 percent
of their 1950 rates of production.”
"Consumer durables cannot be
reduced more than an additional
ten percent and still produce at a
profit,” he warned mobilization of
1 trial-, at the closed-door meeting.
10 PERCENT IS NO SOLUTION
Flci chmann hinted, however, that
a 10 percent cut would not solve
the problem of material shortages.
“Further cuts in the production
of consumer durables,” he shrugged,
"will not release substantial quan
tities of controlled materials, such
as structural steel and brass mill
products.”
Fleischmann's problem is allo
cating scarce materials such as cop
per and aluminum, to meet both
civilian and military needs. He made
no bones about this being a tough
asignment for the first quarter
of 1952.
“The growing demands of the de
fense production program will prob
ably result in allocations satisfac
tory to no one,” he predicted gloom
ily
Arthur Smithies, economist for
Mobdizer Charlie Wilson, asked
whether manufacturers were hoard
ing scarce materials. Fleischmann
explained that his controls pro
gram ‘works on a production and
a plant basis,” which makes it diffit
cult to check.
Looking at the immediate future,
Fleischruann admitted that pros
pects for an ‘increase in the supply
of controlled materials are not
bright. Shortage of electrical pow
er in the northwest has curtailed
the production of aluminum. The
problem of financing additional
aluminum capacity has not yet
been solved. There appears to be no
new solution of the copper short
age.”
These are the reasons, complicated
by strikes in defense industries,
why military production is lagging.
It means President Truman must
choose between guns and egg beaters
—on the eve of a presidential elec
tion.
Note—Mobilization Boss Charlies
Wilson’s plan has been to keep
the nation's factories producing
civilian goods, and increase de
fense productioin by expanding and
building new plants. The only real
trouble has. been that this has
been too slow to keep up with the
Defense Department’s needs.
MAILBAG
j E. C., Washington, D. C.—My
brief reference to Gen MacArthur's
iailure to^peak to hospitalized vet
erans at Portland, Ore., was mild
| compared to the comments of Port
land chairman of the MacArthur
welcoming committee, a Republi
can. The Oregonian, a GOP news
paper, commented "The one speech
Gen. MacArthur was expected to
I make in Portland. . .left some 500
patients of the Veterans Hospital
1 bewildered and disappointed. Am
\ bulatory patients awaited the event
I from the doors of the big hospital.
Other patients crowded hospital
i windows expecting to hear a speech
' from the hospital's public address
i system. The hundreds of patients
i who could not see the dramatic ar
rival waited patiently with bedside
| earphones.
“The caravan a;r:,‘ea. MacArthur
j alighted, saw the cheering patients,
i some in wheel chairs, with nurse
! attendants.! He shook hands. Flash
| bulbs lighted the scene. . .photo
! graphers arranged the General, Mrs.
MacArthur, Governor Douglas Mc
Kay, Mayor Dorothy McCullough
Lee and dozens of others into pic
torial poses. . .Two generals and
two colonels who became Japan
ese prisoners on Bataan held brief
reunion with their old commander
J as shutters snapped.’’’
Then the MacArthur party retir
ed. "The big hospital buildings,”
concluded the Oregonian, "where
the patients watched behind closed
windows and the bedridden neither
saw nor heard the ’’old soldier’ or
his voice, were sil.’nt.”
Later the Portland Journal, an
anti-Truman Democratic paper,
quoted E. C. Sammons, GOP chair
man of the MacArthur welcoming
committee as having telephoned
Gen. Courtney Whitney, to deny
Whitney's assertion that MacArthur
did not know he was supposed to
address the hospitalized veterans
over the loudspeaker.
“On at least three occasions at
the hospital the General had been
advised he was expected to speak
over the loudspeaker and into the
radio microphones which had been
set up,” the Journal quoted Sam
mons as saying.
“The original idea of the General
to speak at the hospital developed
in a telephone conversation between
Sammons and Whitney,” the Jour
nal stated. "MacArthur had specifi
cally asked that the parade go ‘past
a veterans hospital if you have one’, i
“Sammons (talking to Gen. Whit
ney over the phone) said: ‘there was
not a single reason why MacArthur
should not have spoken. As one
old soldier to another, he cpuld have j
told the boys of his thanks for what
they had done’.”
Eisenhower Is
'Flattered' as
Pres. Candidate
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—■<£)—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower says he is
“flattered” to learn he is regarded
by many House members as Presi
dential timber. But, in a letter to
Rep. Cole tR-NY), he gave no indi
cation whether he will be available.
The New York Congressman re
cently took a poll of House Repub
licans which gave Senator Taft
(R-Ohio) 71 votes and Eisenhower
54 in first choices for the presiden- ,
tial nomination. He sent the re
sults to Eisenhower. m
Releasing the poll, Cole said "I ;
understand Eisenhower’s position,” j
and he added:
“His entire effort is toward the
effective organization of the North
Atlantic Treaty armies and resist
ance to further Communistic aggres
sion and I sincerely believe that he
gives little if any thought to poli
tics and the coming nomination.
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DECEMBER 1
Mrs. A. Eiler
Dorothy Marie Reck
Roy Dean Dufree
Cara Sue Reynolds
Nancy McDowell
Nella Jermain
C. B. (Bert) Holland
David McFhctres
Mrs. Emily Schmitz
Community Events
T O D A V
At G:30 p.m.—Odd Fellows dinner in
IOOF Hall followed by regular
meeting and conferring of Third
Degrees.
At 7:30 p.m.—Doubleheader bas
ketbtftl game in high school gym.
At 7:30 p.m. — Delta Chapter ot
Beta Sigma Phi meets in Gold
Room, Baranof.
At 3 p.m—American Legion Auxil
iary in Dugout.
At 8 p.m.—Territorial Sportsmen.
Inc.,' to meet in Elks Hall for
election of three board members.
At 8 p.m. — Folkateers dance in
grade school gym.
At 8:45 p.m.—Community Night for
Adults at Teen Age club with
square dancing.
December 5
At noon—Kiwanis Club meets at
Baranof.
At noon—NFFE meets at Baranof
At 1:30 p.m.—Business meeting of
JWC in AEL&P penthouse.
At 8 p.m.— Alaska Potters meet in
headquarters.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge.
At 8 p.m.—WSCS Christmas party
in Methodist church parlors.
December G
From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.—Special City
Election on bond issues.
At noon—Chamber of Commerce
meets at Baranof Hotel.
At 7:30 p.m.—Regular meeting of
City Council.
At 7:30 p.m.—Doubleheader basket
ball in high school gym.
At 7:30 p.m.—Registered nurses of
channel area meet at St. Ann’s
hospital.
December 7
At 10 a.m.—Salvation Army home,
league,bazaar at reading rooms on
Franklin.
At 8 p.m. — Regular meeting of
Shrine club.
At 8 p.m.—Ski Club meets in Bara
nof Hotel.
December 8
At 7 p.m.—Program in Salvation
Army hall on Willoughby.
At 9 p.m.-r-Pu'aU:s dance for Elk*
and ladies by Emblem Club in
Elks ballroom. , i
December 10
At noon—Lions Club meets in Bara
nof Hotel.
At noon—BPWC meets in Terrace
room at Baranof.
At 7 p.m.—Badminton club meets
in high school gym.
At 8 p.m—American Legion pest
meets in Dugout.
December 11
At noon—Rotary club meets at
Baranof.
Hrs. Cur! Shattuck
And Children Sack
From Hawaii Irip
Mrs. Curtis Shattuck and child
ren returned yesterday from a sever '
weeks' vacation in the States anc
Hawaii. Shattuck remained ove:1
a few more days in Seattle on busi
ness and will be back the end ei
the week, she said.
Mrs. Shattuck said that she hac
some difficulty getting the childrcr
into snow suits this morning aftei
they had been living in swim suit
in Hawaii.
In the Islands the Shattucks met
some former Alaskans, a numbei
who had visited the Territory anc.
several who had relatives in Alaska
They saw Mr. and Mrs. William
Stevenson who were on the Hono
lulu Chamber of Commerce tour to
Alaska last June. The Stevensons
sent their regards to their Juneatl
friends, Mrs. Shattuck said.
THESE WOMEN!
By d’Alessio
“Look, Mommy! I'm carrying Daddy piggy-back!”
j 20 YEARS AGO the empire j
DECEMBER 4, 1931
Miss Madeliene Reidi was hostess at a surprise birthday party for
Miss Mamie Feusi the previous night. Three tables of bridge were
played with first prize going to Miss Cecile Cashen and consolation to
Miss Margaret Pimperton.
Sam Baker, traveling salesman, was making a brief business visit
to Juneau, arriving on the motorship Northland from Seattle.
The Empire this day was a special 10-page issue, with the second
cctV-r devoted particularly to Christmas suggestions.
The Juneau Fire Department agreed to sponsor a local basketball
team to make a trip to participate in the Lynn Canal Tournament,
December 14, at Haines. Seven men and a coach were to make the
trip, and were to be transported on the harbort boat Fornance with
out cost.
The motorship Zapora was in port this morning from Seattle, with
considerable freight for Juneau. Seven passengers were booked for the
southbound trip, which was to be by way of the west coast of Prince ,
jf Wales Island and Chatham Strait.
Mrs. L' Kane and Miss Patricia Kane of Hoonah arrived here on
the motorship Estebeth, cn the weekly Sitka voyage.
A fund of $51 had been donated by local people and forwarded
to the Idaho State Industial School, at St. Anthony, for distribution >
among Alaska children at the school, to make their Christmas more
pleasant. ■
Weather: High, 43: low, 38: rain.
Daily Lessons in English w. l. Gordon \
WORDS OFTEN .MISUSED: Do not say, “I figure that the house
will cost twenty thousand dollars.” Say, “I ESTIMATE."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Rapacious. Pronounce ra-pa-shus,
first A as in Ask unstressed, second A as in PAY, accent second syl
lable. • '
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Altogether (adverb, meaning “entirely”); -
one word. All together (united; one); two words. <
SYNONYMS: Copy (noun), counterpart, reproduction, likeness, <
duplicate, iacsimile, replica, transcript. <
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: '
REMOTE; distant; secluded. “He found his happiness living in remote '
mountain fastnesses.”
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ETIQUETTE Roberta lee
Q. How is the announcement of an engagement given at a party?
A. The news may be told by the girl herself or her mother, as the
guests arrive and find the fiance standing beside them. Or perhaps,
if the party is a dinner, it is told by the father pf the girl, who rises
and proposes the health of his daughter and future son-in-law.
Q. What sort of a note could one write in appreciation of flowers
sent to a funeral?
A. “Thank you, Mrs. Smith, for your beautiful flowers and your
kind sympathy. I can’t tell you how much your thoughtfulness has ,
’meant to hie.” a
Q. Are the bread and butter plates placed on the luncheon table
jjsefore the guests are seated?
A. Yes.
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i LOOK and LEARN a! c. Gordon
i...
1. What European country has given Now York City its largest
immigrant group? .
2. What two Presidents of the U. S. have had the longest full
.names?
3. Which is the largest meat-producing country in the world?
4. What chess piece has the lowest rank? (
5. How many toes does a horse have?
ANSWERS:
1. Italy.
2. Rutherford Birchard Hayes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, both
with 23 letters.
3. Argentina.
4. The pawn,
5. Four; one each foot . I
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EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED
DR. D. D. MAR80ARBT
OPTOMETRIST
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Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
l. Lons narrow
Inlet
4. Cavern
8. Flowering
plant
12. High mountain
13. Malt liquors
14. Cancel
15. Leather case
for carrying
a pistol
11. Of the sun
IS. Cease
13. Cherish as
something
. sacred
21. Chart
' 23. Expiate
24. Protection
against
storms
27. City in
Belgium
80. Behold
31. Flnial of a
spiro '
32. Bird of tho
Arabian
nights
35. At home
36. Cut down
38. Related
41. Willow
44. Age
45. Danger
48. City in Iowa
51. Tennysonian
character
52. Oriental
54. Bearing
55. Small Japa
nese case
56. River: Spanish
57. Inclination
58. Stair
5'j. Witnessed
DOWN
1. College cheers
2. Small island:
variant
Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
8. Assurance of
manner
4. Feline animal
6. On the shel
tered side
4. Of the spring
7. Plural ending
8. Embellish
9. Depends
10. Tatar militia
man: variant
11. Nothing more
than
16. Thin
17. Japanese
measure ol
capacity
20. County In
Texas
22. Vigor: slang
21. German city
25. Sound of cows
26. Ocean-going
passenger
vessel
2S. Crusted dish
29. Also
33. Unrefined
metal
34. Unit of weight
37. Stiff and
clumsy
39. Fei'vent
40. Wild animal
handlers
42. Exhausted
43. Gaelic form of
John
45. Upright piece
.. forming the
side of an
opening
46. Great Lake
47. Ready: archaic
49. Silkworm
50. Crystallized
water vapor
53. Soak up
55. Exists '
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