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Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle. Wash.
Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Tuesday, July 24, 1951
A GOOD PRESS FOR ALASKA
Pages of reports on Alaska continue to arrive at
the Empire office from newsmen who made the Na
tional Editorial Association Alaskan cruise in early
Jane.
Bob and Dorothy Larson of Albia, Iowa, where
Bob is editor of the Albia Union-Republican, write a
descriptive series of articles about their journey to
Alaska—full of information about the Territory.
In the Sanford (N.C.) Herald, W. E. Horner says
"Green is the word for Alaska,” and tells about its
green and luxuriant stands of timber and its green
waterways. "Long known as America's last frontier of
pioneering. Alaska is now becoming America's first
frontier of play and adventure," continues Horner in
his long article, crammed with detailed information
the Territory.
The July 13th edition of the Dawson (Minn.) Sen
tinel is devoted almost entirely to Alaska. Editor
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
to be filed ninety days in advance,
the showdown for Eisenhower
would be sometime in February.
Note—it's a good bet that Ike's
friends—and he has a lot in the
Northwest—will toss his hat into
the. ring through the Oregon pri •
mary.
Dressy General
When this column told how
■.General Emil C. Kiel, commander
\{ the Air Force in the Caribbean,
had sent his plane all the way
from Ecuador to Panama to get
hfc dinner jacket for a dinner
given him by the Ecuadorian De
fense minister, the U. S. Air Force
queried Kiel, wanting to know if
the "Pearson Story" was accur
ate.
Gen. Kiel replied that he had
s^it a plane back from Ecuador to
Panama, but that he had not sent
it'to bring back his dinner jacket.
However, officials of the De
fense Department pressed him
further, finally got an admission
that though the plane had not
brought back the General's din
ner jacket, it had brought back
his “full dress uniform."
Note—both Secretary of Defense
Marshall and Secretary for Air
Finletter take a tough view of
generals who use government
planes for personal errands. The
2,000-mile trip for the dress uni-1
form cost the taxpayers about
$4,500, and Kiel will probably
lose out on his next promotion as
a result.
MacArthurReport
President Truman is pressing
Democratic Senator to write yi
report on the MacArthur investi
gation. They had planned to for
get about a report, because they
feared a majority would not agree
to blasting MacArthur. However,
the President believes chairman
Dick Russell of Georgia is honest
enough to accept the evidence,
which most observers consider to
have been clearly and overwhelm
ingly against MacArthur. He
knows that Russell’s support would
almost guarantee a majority re
port criticizing the general.
Propaganda Hurts
Reports from behind the Iron
Curtain indicate that one reason
for the seizure of AP correspond
ent William Oatis by Czechoslov
akia was that American propa
ganda through the Voice of Am
erica and Radio Free Europe is
hurting.
When the Commigs w'ant to get
something out of the U.S.A., their
crudest but most successful tech
nique is to seize an American
citizen, and hold him as a host
age until we come across with the
ransom money.
The reported ransom money in
Czechoslovakia is to curtail the
Voice of America and Radio Free
Europe, but really hurting the
Communist government. In fact,
the Voice of America has had the
Czech government in a state of
jitters.
Before foreign minister demen
tis was purged, the Voice made a
categoric prediction that he and
eight other top Czechs would be
arrested. For weeks, the Voice
pounded home this prediction,
Riving the exact names of the
prospective victims. The Czechs
listened but were skeptical.
Then suddenly dementis was
arrested. With him were arrested
four of the eight others the Voice
of America had named. All Czech
oslovakia seethed at the news. The
accuracy of the Voice of Ameri
ca was commented on everywhere,
and its listening audience has
doubled. More than ever, Czechs
are tuning in on the Voice to see
who will be purged next.
Note—Despite the State Depart
ment’s remarkable propaganda
job, the budget of the Voice of
America and other propaganda
projects has been slashed to rib
bons. Congressmen who have been
doing the slashing have been in
vited to come to the State De
partment briefing room and get
the story—much of it confiden
tial—of what the department is
doing. However, only two or three
have bothered to get acquainted
with the activities of the agency
whose work they pass upon.
Considerate Senator
Unlike most Senators, Arizona’s
meek Senator Carl Hayden avoids
publicity. That's why the papers
never heard about his quiet phone
call to Freedmen's Hospital in be
half of an elderly negro. Will
Montgomery, who had worked as
a handyman around the Senate
for 52 years. When Hayden heard
'hat the old negro had been sent
to the hospital, he personally
telephoned the doctor and instruc
ted him to give Will the best room
and best care possible—and not
to worry about the expense.
Telephone Monoply
You don’t hear much about
antitrust suits these days, but a
basic case involving the telephone
patent monoply is being pushed
by Graham Morrison, the Justice
Department’s new trust buster.
The case is to divorce Western
Electric from Bell Telephone Lab
oratories, both owned by American
Telephone and Telegraph.
Under this ownership. Bell Tel
ephone buys .virtually all its equip
ment from its affiliate Western
Electric, and if any telephone in
vention is submitted by outsiders,
the general policy is to turn it
down. This has prevented the
public from getting various new
inventions, some of them making
the cost of telephone service
cheaper.
For instance, a telephone-an
swering service has been invented
whereby when a man goes out to
lunch, the phone is answered by
a recorded voice which says:
“Mr. So-and-so is out to lunch.
I will be glad to take a message
for him." The disc then automat
ically records the message and
when Mr. So-and-so returns he
can play the record back and
listen to the messages.
However, this patent didn't or
iginate with Bell Telephone sub
sidiaries and the telephone com
pany hasn’t bought it.
The Justice Department, by di
vorcing Western Electric from
i Bell Telephone, would permit any
one to sell new' patents and equip
ment to the telephone company.
North Dakota (Jets an Ambassa
dor
North Dakota at long last is
going to get an ambassador. Not
since North Dakota was admitted
to statehood in 1889 has one of
its citizens been an ambassador in
the U. S. Diplomatic Service. How
ever, thanks to some insistent
Gimmcstad tells In detail "An Alaskan Story" and has
two editorials—"Alaska Statehood" and “Alaska Bush
Pilots."
In their stories of Alaska, these newspaper men
and women speak of the enjoyable time they spent in
Alaska and are unanimous in their description of
Alaska as a great and beautiful country.
Most of them are willing to leave the decision on
statehood lor Alaska to the Alaskans. However, we find
such arguments as these: "These folks in Alaska have
no representation in ofcr legislative halls in Washing
ton, with the exception of one Delegate who has no
vote. They are citizens of the United States, pay
taxes to our federal government just as we do, but
have no voice. In one respect we have a repetition of
something which was the direct cause of the Revo
lutionary War — taxation without representation —
and that is something which is unthinkable in the
American way of life. We back in the states have no
right to deny these Alaskans statehood, if that is
what they want and neither Congress nor anyone else
can deny them this privilege rightfully. In 1947 the
people of the Territory voted 2 to 1 for statehood
and after the start of he Korean war 81 percent voted
for statehood Who are we to question their judg
ment?”
These arguments and statements they contain
are a little mixed up, but faintly familiar. We have
heard most of them before. That vote for statehood
after the start of the Korean war is one with which
we are not familiar, however. It may be that this
was some of the propaganda to which NEA cruisers
were exposed during their trip from Juneau to An
chorage.
Politics notwithstanding, these newspapers are
giving Alaska a good and interested press. We are
glad they made the trip and hope that many of their
readers will follow the lead of the “grass roots” editors
and come to "America's first frontier of play and
adventure."
Should Have Known
Psychiatrist Carl Binger says he has found after
two years on the faculty of Vassar College that the
institution is dominated by women and so he has j
decided to resign. Vassar, whose student body is all
girls, has a woman for president and women in 139 of
its 195 faculty positions. What did Dr. Binger expect—
something run like West Point, or Georgia§Tech?
If they pay teachers according to their college
degrees, the next project will be finding an im
pressive handle for super Ph. Ds. _
! lobbying with the State Depart
ment by Senator Bill Langer, Re
publican, a Democratic adminis
tration has now appointed a
North Dakota Republican as Am
bassador to Nicaragua.
The new ambassador is Tom
Whelan of St. Thomas, N. D., a
i big grain elevator operator, po
j tato grower, and a leading Repub
lican.
One of the unique things about
his appointment is that in 19401
he ran against Senator Langer.
Despite this, Langer boosted him
lor the ambassadorial appoint
! ment.
What actually happened was
that for about 8 years Langer
has been trying to get an am
bassador appointed from North
Dakota. He began harping on this
when Harry Truman was vice
president, and has continued
since. Finally and recently, the
State Department sent word that
they would appoint an ambassa- j
dor from North Dakota if Langer1
would recommend a good man.
Langer sent them the name of
Tom Whelan, who is now being
appointed.
Luncheon to Honor
Mrs. Waller Scoll
Mrs. Walter P. Scott of Kel
logg, Idaho will be honored at a
luncheon of the Martha Society
and World Service Circle in the
Nortl <‘ /.i Light Ffejtbyterian
Church op. Thursday.
Mrs. Scott is a past president
of the Martha Society. She is
visiting her son Robert and his
wife. Hostesses at the luncheon
will be Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren,
Sr. and Mrs. Willis Booth.
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ACROSS
1. Let fall in
drops: obs.
5. It is: contr.
8. Short for a
baby
carriage
12. Daughter of
Eurytus
33. Insect
14. Biblical word
15. Go to pieces
suddenly
17. The dill
IS. Musical
studies
19. Whole
21. Spoil
£2. City in
pennsyl
vania
23. Neat
25. Defamations
29. Harmless
tumor
30. Eulogy
31. American
general
32. Reverse a
previous
decision
34. Toward the
sheltered
side
35. Rim
36. Prevent
37. Hag for rags
40. .Scent
41. Australian
bird: var.
42. Entice
46. Military
weapon
47. Perceive
4S. Ceases to live
49. Existence
50. Chicken
July 21 o
Walter H. Robinson *
Robert Simpson, Jr. °
B. II. Manerv •
Marie Williams •
Mrs. M. Mablon 8
Dan Ralston
Yvonne Guy °
Jerry Moore •
Community Events
Today
At 6:30 p.m. — Baseball gamr be
tween Coast Guard and Elks. Fire
men’s Park.
At 8 p.m. — Odd Fellows meet in
I. O. O. F. Hall.
Newspaper Editor
Wants Tass Head
Investigated
HAMILTON, N. Y„ July 24 —i.-Pi—
Alexander F. Jones, president of
the American Society of Newspap
er Editors, today demanded a gov
ernment investigation of the head
of the Tass News Agency in Wash
ington.
Jones, in a talk prepared for the
third annual foreign policy confer
ence at Colgate University, charged
that the Soviet government had
assigned Mikhail Fedorov to Wash
ington because of his Politburo
training, rather than his journalist- j
ic skill.
“Fedorov is not a newspaperman
at all,” Jones said, yet “he is listed
as a member of the Congressional
Press corps and is entitled to walk
into the White House.”
In Washington Fedorov described
Jones’ statement as a "crazy idea”
and “most irresponsible.” Fedorov
said Jones “has no foundation for
saying I had no training. I work- j
ed in the Moscow office of Tass.” j
U.S.-lranian
Oil Talks
Hit Snag
Tehran. Iran, July 24 —'4?— Ne
gotiations between President Tru- j
man’s special envoy W. Avercll!
Harriman and Iranian officials
were reported to have hit a snag'
today over details for ending the
Eritish-Iranian feud over natural- (
ization cf oil.
The snag was not described as a !
deadlock. Both Harriman and mem
bers of the Iranian government’s
oil nationalization board still ex
pressed “satisfaction" with progress
made in the talks so far.
But after 10 hours of discussion
yesterday in the bedroom of ailing
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, the
Iranian cabinet still had not reach
ed agreement on the basis for re
suming formal negotiations with
Britain.
Both Harriman and the Iranians
were understood to have submitted
proposals “along the same general
lines,” according to a source close
to the negotiations.
ATTENTION TOI RISTS
For a n intimate acquaintance
with S. E. Alaska with the mailboat
Yakobi for a 600 mile 4 day scenic
voyage. Sailings once a week. De
parts Wednesday am. 8i6-tf
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Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle
51. Command to
a cat
DOWN
1. Cut into small
cubes
2. Underground
part of a
plant
2. Light up
4. Grandmother
5. Raps
ti. T a occupy
Ii.-r a public
ollice
7. Guidance
8. Chattered
Ho 'lu i incess
10. Genus of
maples
H. O of a pair
1C An i>n •. form
Bus- l ull team
^ i ' 1: French
-3. First even
number
21. E 7; of the
i'ii abbr.
2". Slothful
2C St.v . ptible
57. £!, i '.<•> pear can
28. P! to sit
17:'. t h goddess
•13. Reprove
154. Eludes
150. American
humorist
27. Ph xus
Wine vessels
20. Clan
i1 li- ating cham
ber
43. Birth
4 4. Meadow
ending
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20 YEARS AGO the empire
Jl’LY 24, 1931
The Alaska-Washington Airways, during the fiscal year ending
June 30, carried a total of 4,922 passengers in the Territory, covering
161.141 statute and 547,638 passenger miles, according to a report made
n> Territorial Highway Engineer by A. B. Hayes, Alaska Manager.
Miss Barbara Winn, who has been visiting for several weeks with
friends in Sitka, returned on the Admiral Rogers to her home in Juneau.
With a fair cargo and 142 passengers out of Seattle the steamer
Alaska docked in Juneau at 6 o'clock last evening. Passengers disem
barking here from Seattle were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ellis and Violet
Johnson. Prom Southeastern Alaska ports: Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Olson.
Mi s A. Taylor, Dr. R. I. Hall, A. Wile, J. McCabe, S. C. Lynch, B.
Dominick, E. Anderson. .
New officers elected last night for the Douglas Chamber of Com
merce were: President, A. E. Goetz; Vice-President, A. Shudshift; Sec
retary. W. E. Feero: Treasurer, Tom Cashen, Jr.
Charles Goldstein, local well known merchant, left on the Princess
Louise for Seattle.
Bound on a fishing trip near Wrangell, R. L. Bernard, John V.
Rittenhouse and C O. Sabin left on the Dorothy Alexander yesterday
afternoon.
A real up-to-date minstrel show will be staged by the Junea,u
Elks in October, it was announced last night. A live-wire committee
has been appointed for the event. It consists of M. H. Sides, chairman:
R. B. Martin, G. P. Freeburger, J. T. Petrich, J. P. Spickett, J. L. Gray
and Harry Sperling. .
Weather: High 55; Low 50; Showers.
Daily Lessons in English w. l. Gordon \
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: In good usage, “each other” applies to
two only: “one another” applies to more than two. “The twins resemble
each ( her." “The students competed with one another.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Beneficent. Pronounce be-nef-i-sent,
first e as in be unstressed, second e as in set, accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Gentile: ile. Genteel; eel. Gentle; tie.
SYNONYMS: Ally, adherent, backer, supporter, follower, disciple,
partisan.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word:
REGENERATE (verbi; to produce anew; to give new life, strength, or
vigor to. “One new idea may regenerate a man.”
MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j
Q. What do you think about women going hatless?
A. Despite the continued practice of younger women to go hatless
on all occasions, best taste still requires that in town a hat be worn
with street clothes in the dayime — especially in church. With an
evening dress, a hat is incorrect.
Q. How far in advance of the wedding may gifts be sent to the
bride?
A. Usually ten day or two weeks before the day of the wedding.
This will give the bride ample time to acknowledge them.
Q. Is it permissible to use both the knife and fork when eating fish?
A. Usually the fork is the only implement necessary.
| LOOK and LEARN bA. c. GORDON j
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1. what is the oldest branch of the U.S. armed service?
2. What point on the earth’s surface has neither longitude, latitude
nor altitude?
3. Which is the heavier, platinum or lead?
4. Is Africa more largely north or south of the equator?
5. What is the distaff side of a family?
ANSWERS:
1. The Marine Corps.
2. The Gulf of Guinea, where the prime meridian cross the equator
at sea level.
3. Platinum.
4. North.
5. The female side or branch. *
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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 follows:
Anchorage . 53—Partly Cloudy
Annette Island 54—Partly Cloudy
Barrow . 49—Fog
Bethel . 50—Cloudy
Cordova . 48—Cloudy
Dawson . 42—Partly Cloudy
Edmonton . 53—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks . 47—Partly Cloudy
Haines . 52—Cloudy
Havre . 56—Partly Cloudy
Juneau . 56—Partly Cloudy
Kodiak . 50—Drizzle
Kotzebue . 50—Cloudy
McGrath . 56—Partly Cloudy
Nome . 44—Drizzle
Northway . 47—Partly Cloudy
Petersburg . 49—Fog
Portland . 56—Partly Cloudy
Prince George 40—Partly Cloudv
Seattle . 54—Cloudy
Sitka . 53—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 50—Rain Showers
Yakutat . 52—Partly Cloudy
Las! Miiuife Jam
Ezpeded on
Derby Tickets
Ticket sales for the Golden
North Salmon Derby have been
going slowly, a check of the four
places selling them showed today.
Less than 100 have been sold by
Thomas Hardware, Juneau-Young
Hardware, Percy’s and Madsen
Fishing Supply.
"This means there will be a
last minute rush,” Derby officials
said today. They urged those
planning to fish to get tickets
this week.
Most of the main places ol bus
iness have indicated that they
will be closed cn Saturday but
lew are shutting their doors Fri
day.
The Rebekah Lodge will have a
snack shop at Tec Harbor, Derby
chairmen announced. It will be
j open early and late Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday to serve hot
food and sandwiches.
Women Enjoy
Round irip on
Mail Boat Yakobi
Visits to Taku Inlet, Petersburg,
Kake and other west coast towns,
on a round trip voyage of the
jmailboat Yakobi was a pleasant
j vacation enjoyed by Wilma Li
'gon and her house guest Cather
ine Knox, of Washington, D. C.
I Miss Ligon is secretary to Leon
ard Evans, Alaska representative
for the U. S. Department of La
bor.
Miss Knox, a native of Edin
burgh, Scotland, is a dental hy
gienist and arrived in Juneau a
short time ago. From here she
plans to go to Anchorage and see
as much of that part of Alaska
as is possible before returning to
Washington at the end of her
month's vacation.
Geo. W. Wigg, Sr.
Piano Tuning
and Repairing
40 Years Experience
Gastineau Hotel — Phone 10
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Fourth and Franklin Sts.
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Stetson and Mallory Hats
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
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BUTLER.MAURO
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Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Pianos—Musical Instrument*
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Phone 206 Second and Seward
Card Beverage Co.
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805 10th Bt.
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