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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers. 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg.. Seattle, Wash.
Saturday, August 11, 1951
MORE NEA REPORTS
One of the pleasant aftermaths of the trip to
Alaska of the National Editorial Association is the
receipt in The Empire office of papers published by
the NEA visitors.
The stateside newspapers are carrying pages of
news about “'fabulous Alaska;" about the trip aboard
the Alaska Steamship Company’s Aleutian which the
travelers recommend as “a delightful cruise ship,
about Alaska's green mountains, green seas.
"Alaska in 1951,” a 12-page booklet by Lester G..
Benz, editor of the Mitchell County Press and Osage
News, Osage, la., is the method taken by Mr. Benz
to give a report of his visit to the Territory with the
NEA. The booklet is reprinted from the Editor's
Column of the Press-News.
The Archbold Buckeye, pubished by the estate
of W. O. Taylor in Archbold, Ohio, is currently run- I
ning a series of articles about "Our Last Frontier, j
Alaska" written by Orrin R. Taylor, who with Mrs. j
Taylor and two friends from Archbold, made the J
NEA trip.
Mr. Taylor is a former president of the NEA, and
his newspaper has won more national awards in
cluding two for general excellence—than any news
paper we know about.
Even without his series of articles about Alaska,
we would find his newspaper an interesting com
mentary on his state . . . and on the country. We
like Louis Bromfield’s column in the paper, “This Is
Your Country.” And we like the general excellence of
the Archbold Buckeye ... the general excellence
that won the newspaper its national awards.
And we like, too, the publicity given to the Terri
tory by all of the columns written about the NEA trip
—columns that are reaching hundreds of thousands
of readers throughout the nation .
They should send many tourists to Alaska. And
some of them may remain in the Territory.
“We Are Americans First”
(New York Hearld Tribune)
“We are Republicans,” reads the statement of
seven Republican Senators. “But we are Americans
first. It is as Americans that we express our con
cern with the growing confusion that threatens the
security and stability of our country. Democrats and
Republicans alike have contributed to that con
fusion.” These are strong words, well timed to meet
the growing uneasiness that sees the basic unity of
the country jeopardized by charges that outrun the
evidence, by investigations that falter, by an atmo
sphere of suspicion and innuendo that spreads across
an ever wider ,.iea of national life, hiding rather than
revealing the truth. . . .
Surely there is enough good sense and good faith
in the various branches of the American government
to permit a sane inquiry into the realities of Com
munist penetraton, to suspend, in the best tradition
of American justice, final judgments until the evi
dence is in, to find legal means for obtaining the
security against subversion which this critical hour
demands.
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
licial — provided he would buy
Canadian rye.
The official is Ralph Trigg, for
mer chief of the Agriculture I9e
partment’s production and mar
keting division, who was eased out
of the department this spring
largely because of the feud be
tween Brannan and his ex-boss,
Sen. Clinton Anderson of New
■Mouc&v . ut . x '<>
Trigg catne to Anderson, white
faced to tell him about the mil
lion-dollar bribe offer to get him
to change the ban on Canadian
rye and include it in the huge
shipments we are making to Eur
cpe.
Questioned by this column, Trigg
refused to reveal the name of the
man who he admitted had said
“it would be worth a million dol
lars’’ to the rye speculators if he
would change his mind about buy
ing Canadian rye.
Trigg also admitted that if he
had given the word on Canadian
rye, he probably could have col
lected the million dollars. His word
on rye purchases, he said, was fi
nal. He also said he had attended
a conference with Secretary Bran
nan at which two Senators urged
him to buy Canadian rye, and that
Brannan turned down the Sena
tors and backed him up.
Rye Ban Reversed
The shocking thing, however, is
that almost immediately after
Trigg left the Agriculture Depart
ment, his successors reversed his
position and began buying huge
quantities of Canadian rye.
This did two things.
1. It meant millions to the big
[peculators who had been buying
up Canadian rye on the gamble
that they would lobby the De
partment into changing its ban.
2. It meant discrimination
against American farmers who
grow rye.
Experts agree that there was am
ple American rye on hand to meet
European shipments. These are
made under the Marshall plan to
Germany and Austria which use
rye bread.
Furthermore, the purchase of
Canadian rye was really a means
of undermining the U. S. price
support system for the benefit of
the big speculators. What they
did was buy Canadian rye—which
has no price support, bring it into
the United States, then sell it in
a country which has price sup
ports. Thus by buying low in Can
ada and selling high here, they
made a killing.
Figures on government rye pur
chases since Secretary Brannan
reversed Trigg’s ban on Canadian
rye show why it was worth a mil
lion dollars to get this reversal.
For rye purchases suddenly shot
• up. During the 12 months ending
June 30, the Agriculture Depart
ment purchased about 3.700,000
bushels of rye for EC A. But over
one-third of this was purchased
in April, ?VIay, and Juije— after
the ban on Canadian rye was lif
ted.
Simultaneously, imports from
Canada also shot up. Of 4,000,000
bushels imported from Canada
during the 12-month period end
ing June 30, approximately 1,000,
0C0 bushels came in during June.
Obviously, this bears out Trigg’s
fear that, once the Canadian ban
was lifted, rye would start pour
ing into the United States.
The excuse given by the big rye
dealers in lobbying with the Ag
riculture Department was that
they had bought Canadian rye
and got it mixed up with Ameri
can rye. Therefore they couldri’t
tell which was which and wanted
the department to buy both Can
adian and American, rye from
them.
Gus Geissler, who succeeded
Trigg in charge of production and
marketing, claimed to know no
thing about this sudden reversal.
He % said he didn't know whether
the* Agriculture Department was
| buying Canadian rye or not.
"Aren’t you the one who makes
(the decision whether to buy Can
jadian rye?” he was asked.
"Yes," was the reply, “but the
authority is delegated.”
Meanwhile the mystery grows
as to who made the decision for
which a million-dollar bribe was
offered and which cleaned up
many millions for speculators.
Note—Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan has been in Europe.
Senator Wiley’s French
The eight Senators who traveled
with genial Alexander Wiley thru
Europe recently are still telling
tty;ir colleagues about Wiley’s use
of French.
The Wisconsin Senator could
say "parlez vous” and “merci,”
but he couldn’t seem to work his
I wwds into the right places. Being
from Wisconsin, naturally he knew
the French word for butter —
"beurre.”
But ordering oreakiast at uie
Hotel Bristol in Paris, Wiley
boomed out in English, "Boy! boy!”
and started giving his order to
the scurrying French waiter.
"Your room numbaire, s’il vous
plaint,”, the waiter kept repeating.
“I don't want any butter,” pro
tested Wiley, apparently confus
ing “baire" with "beurre.”
Senator Gillette finally broke in
and explained, “he wants to know
your room number.”
“Well, why didn’t he say so?”
thundered Wiley. "Doesn’t any
body speak United States around
here?”
From Army Files
The Army administrative cen
ter in St. Louis, which processes
family allowances, has collected
some prize letters from G. I. de
pendents. The Colonel in charge
admits he’s been collecting them
for several years, but anyway here
are some excerpts.
"Please send by elopment,” wrote
one G.I. wife, "as I have a 4
months old baby and he is my sole
support and I need all I can get
every day to buy food and keep
him in close."
Another scolded: “I have al
ready wrote the President, and if
I don't hear from you, I will write
to Uncle Sam about you both.”
"You have changed by little boy
to a girl, does this make any dif
erence?" inquired an anxious
mother.
Here are some excerpts from the
Army's St. Louis files:
“This is my eighth child, what
are you going to do about it?”
“Sir, I am forwarding my mar
riage certificate and my to child
ren. One is a mistake as you can
see.”
“Please send me a letter and
tell me if my husband made appli
cation for a wife and baby.”
“I am writing you to tell you
that my baby was born two years
ago and is to years old. When dc
I get relief?"
“X gave borth to a boy weighing
10 pounds. I hope this is satisfac
tory.”
“I can’t get my pay. I got six
children, can you tell me why this
Is?”
Marine ’Monster'
Story Debunked
I By Biologist
How does a whale loose its head?
A headless marine “monster”
found on a beach at Shuyak Is
land near Cook Inlet three weeks
ago has been identified by Victor
B. Scheffer, Fish and Wildlife
Service research biologist at Se
attle, as a large baleen whale.
Speculation has it that the
whale may have lost its head in
a mine, ship’s propeller or an
other whale may have decapitated
him with one big bite.
“Sea monsters” have been re
ported all over the world. This is
one time that belief in such a
i "thing” has been blown to the
four corners of the compass. Faul
I ty vision, no specimen,, and a lack
j of reliable witnesses have been
I offered in the past as reasons for
i no credence in unknown animals.
Industrial Board
Upheld by Circuit
Court in Injury Case
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11,—■<*>
—The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled
today that the Alaska Industi ial
Board may make award to workers
for both temporary and permanent
disabilities resulting from the same
accident.
The power of the board to do
so was challenged by Libby, Mc
Neill and Libby, a corporation, in
fighting payments of damages to
two Seattle fishermen injured while
in the company’s employ in 1948.
The fishermen were John Landro,
48, who suffered back injuries in
two falls, and Peter Lathourakis, 62,
who received head and chest in
juries in a collision between a com
pany fishing boat and fishing barge.
Hospital Notes
Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital
Friday were Mrs. John Jutsum,
Wendell Stafford, Shonasuke Ten
aka, Mrs. H. W. Landis, Mrs. Vir
ginia Nelson, Mrs. Andrew Ander
son; dismissed were Mrs. M. Diaz,
Mrs. John Adams, Mrs. S. Hop
kins, A. Echaves, Mrs. Elizabeth
Robinson, Roy Martin, Crosby Er
vin, Mrs. James Austin.
Twins were born to Mrs. May
nard Peterson at St. Ann's Hos
pital Friday. The first of the pair,
a boy, was born at 10:40 p.m. and
weighed 4 pounds 6 ounces. The
girl was born at 10:47 p.m. and
weighed 4 pounds 2 ounces.
There were two other births at
the hospital Friday. Born to Mrs.
Robert Stutte at 8:11 p.m., a girl,
weighing 6 pounds 5 ounces; to
Mrs. Raymond Walpole at 4:45
p.m. a boy weighing 4 pounds 2
ounces.
Dismissed from the Government
Hospital Friday were Mike Shep
pard, Andrew Honea and Maxine
Fred.
Born at the Government Hos
pital Friday to Mrs. Winnie Lee
at 2:05 p.m., a boy weighing 8
pounds 11 ounces.
There is no authentic record of
the origin of the office of Poet
Laureate of England. It is assum
ed that Geoffrey Caucer (1328
1400) was one of the first to bear
the title.
AUGUST 11
David Argetsinger
William E. Hibler
Fred N. Schindler
Henry Gorham
John Satre, Jr.
Mrs. H. R. VanderLeest
Virginia Angell
Stan Grummett
Eugene McRoberts
Helen Miller
John Holmquist
> Dudley Smithberg
Elaine Molvar
Dora Eldamas
AUGUST 12
Pearl Peterson
Harry D. Lauder
Ed Garnick
Ray Abrahmsen
Pearl Landers
Emily Ryder
Kenneth Hildreth
Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions- and temper
atures at various Alaska point!
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
are as follows:
Anchorage . 55—Cloudy
Annette Island . 54—Fog
Barrow . 45—Cloudy
Bethel . 50—Rain
Cordova . 50—Drizzle
Dawson . 50—Smoke
Edmonton . 45—Clear
Fairbanks . 44—Cloudy
Haines .. . 56—Clear
Havre .. 49—Clear
Juneau Airport . 48—Clear
Kodiak .... 52—Fog
Kotzebue . 51—Rain
McGrath .. 53—Rain
Nome . 45—Cloudy
Northway . 47—Cloudy
Petersburg . 52—Clear
Portland . 59 -Cloudy
Prince George 54—Cloudy
Seattle . 55—Partly Cloudy
Sitka . 54—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 49—Clear
Yakutat . 50—Fog
Christian Peace
Basis Is Topic
For Lecturer
A Christian basis for world
peace and brotherhood will be the
subject of a public lecture by Ar
thur C. Whitney of Chicago, an
nounced for Sunday evening by
the First Church of Christ, Scien
tist.
Formerly an Army chaplain and
now a member of the Christian
Science board o f lectureship,
Whitney is on an extended lecture
tour. He will speak in the church
edifice, Fifth and Main Sts. at
8:30 p.m. tomorrow. His subject
will be “Christian Science: A
Foundation for World Brother
hood and Peace.”
Whitney served as chaplain with
a front-line outfit during the 1918
Allied offensive in Belgium. He
had been educated for machine
designing, but nearly lost his
sight, and then said he was “en
tirely healed” by Christian Science
treatment. This led him to study
the subject more deeply, and sub
sequently he entered the practice
of Christie Science healing, in
which he has engaged since.
He has lectured throughout the
United States, Canada, Great
Britain, and also in Europe since
his appointment to the Christian
Science Board of Lecturship in
1944.
The lecture will be broadcast.
SOROPTIMISTS TO SPONSOR
HEALTH CENTER SHOWER
ON AUGUST TWENTIETH
Soroptimists contribution to the
Juneau Health Center will be a
silver shower at the Health Cen
ter August 20 at 7:30 p.m. Appoin
ted by president Gertrude Wetzel
to be in charge of the shower Is
Mrs. Carol Beery Davis.
The soroptimist meeting in the
Baranof Gold Room Friday was
a birthday party for members with
birthdays in April, May, June,
July and August. Honored were
Dr. Grace Field, Dora Sweeney,
Olive Trower. Edna Lomen, Carlie
Turner, Aline Warner, Martha
Newbould, Jessie Stevens, Laura
MacMillan and Dr. Dorothy Nov
atney.
Dr. Field was appointed to rep
resent Soroptimists on the Board
of the Teen Age Club.
Program chairman Ann DeLong
announced a musical program by
Carol Beery Davis, Phyllis Lang
don and Shirley Davis on Aug
ust 24.
Guest at the meeting Friday was
Miss Elsie May Smith of the Fair
banks Soroptimist Club. I*r‘
The principal areas of red soils
are in Africa. South America,
southeastern Asia, the Pacific Is
lands, and southeastern North Am
erica.
20 YEARS AGO the empire
AUGUST 11, 1931
Sixteen persons disembarked from the steamer Queen when it arrived
in Juneau from the south last evening. They were: Mrs. R. D. Baker,
Elizabeth Terhune, Irene Ranstead, Edith F. Wallock, Mrs. C. W. Rol
land, William Britt, Victor Kasan, George Baum. A. W. Coules, I.
Jackman, C. P. Kirkland, R. H. Stock, C. R. Wright, G. F. Freeburger,
C. K. Hogan and William Fraser.
Elmer A. Friend, telegraph editor of The Empire, left today on
the steamer Princess Charlotte for a two weeks’ visit in Seattle. He will
return about the last week in August.
H. W. Terhune, executive officer of the Alaska Game Commission,
returned yesterday by plane from Sitka. He had accompanied a group
of Senators and Congressmen on a trip to the Westward and Interior.
Miss Lenore White, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. ,E. J.
White, for several weeks, left for Seattle Monday on the steamer Yukon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Kelsey, son-in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
t. sowerby, and their infant son arrived in Juneau last evening on the
Princess Louise and will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sowerby. They have
completed a 12,000-mile trip from Belgian Congo, Africa, where Kelsey
ras been superintendent of a large mine for the last several years.
To spend some time visiting relatives, Mrs. Mary Vogl and her
daughter, Erna, of New York City, arrived here yesterday on the Prin
cess Louise. Mrs. Vogl is a sister oi Henry Meier, owner of the Peerless
Bakery.
Ruth McGhee and her sister Juanita, left on the Yukon Monday |
evening for Seattle, Wash. They intend to stay for an indefinite time, j
Weather: High, 59; low, 53; fair.
Daily Lessons in English w. l. Gordon \
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not write, “The above statement.”
Instead, write, "The FOREGOING statement,” or, “The PRECEDING
remark.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Inquiry. Preierred pronunciation is
with accent on second syllable, and the second I as in FIRE.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Freeze (to congeal); frieze (a kind of archi
tecture!.
SYNONYMS: Admire, approve, esteem, extol, respect, revere, honor,
venerate.
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:
LEVITY; trifling gaiety. (Pronounce the E as in LEVEL!. “We were
unfavorably impressed by the levity of the man.”
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE
q. When two daughters in a family are to be married in a double
ceremony, how are invitatons to this wedding worded?
A. “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughters, Marian Helen to Mr. Robert Jones,
and Margaret Ann to Mr. William Johnson Saturday, the sixth of
October at four o'clock — Trinity Church."
Q. Is it proper to tip the stewardess on an airplane who has rendered
you some very special services?
A. Never. In fact, tipping is strictly forbidden by airline regula
tions. >
Q. Is a woman ever supposed to take off her gloves to shake
hands?
A. No; nor does she ever ask that her glove be excused.
I LOOK and LEARN a!c.Gordon !
1. How many degrees do the interior angles of an equilateral tri
angle contain?
2. What was the first European country to found a colonial empire
in the Far East?
3. If polygamy means pluarality of wives, what is the term meaning
plurality of husbands?
4. To what country would you go to see the Matterhorn?
5. What causes the holes in Swiss cheese?
ANSWERS:
1. Sixty degrees each.
2. Portugal. *
3. Polyandry.
4. It’s a mountain peak in the Alps.
5. The gases that result from the chemical action of fermentation.
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Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
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7. Insect
13. Poverty
14. Corns
15. Access
16. Yeast
17. Fathers
16. Parcel of
ground
19. Conjunction
20. Spread loosely
21. Eats
23. Legume
24. Incision
25. Tree gum
29. Whole
31. Vandal of the
sea
82. Fashion
83. Cooking vessel
34. Golf mound
85. Crippled
37. Animal's coat
38. Knock
41. Small bird
42. Jewel weight
44. Planet
46. Salt of boric
acid
47. Wish
48. Make speeches
43. Church
festival
60. Strangest
DOWN
1. Roman god
dess of hops
Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle
Z. Repentant
3. Plea
4. Made well
5. Angers
t. Organ of
vision
7. Drawing room
8. Bygone
9. Man’s name
10. Prlma donna
11. Smooth
12. Tear
18. Ignited
21. Payable
22. East Indian
weight
25. Footlike part
24. Living being
26. Soak
27. Repeats
28. By birth
80. Ailing
31. Seed covering
33. Caress
36. Money hoarder
37. Unit of elec
tricity
88. Impolite
30. Region.
40. Footway
42. String
43. Trial
45. Insect’s egg
46. Word to
frighten
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 145
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Wm. A. Chlpperfli'ld,
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary.
© B.P.O.ELKS
Meeting Second and Fourth Wed
nesdays at 8 P.M. Visiting broth
ers welcome.
LE ROY WEST, Exaxlted Ruler.
W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
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Noose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Every Friday
Governor—
LOREN CARD
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
V. F. W.
Takn Pos! No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
NASH
SALES and SERVICE
CHRISTENSEN BROS.
909 12th Phone Green 279
Brownie's Liquor Store
Phone 103 139 So. Franklin
F. O. Box 2308
CAIN ADI AIN
EKOLITE
DEPTH SOUNDERS
MADSEN
Cycle & Fishing Supply
STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward Street Near Third
The Charles W. Carler
Mortuary
Fourth and Franklin Sts.
PHONE 136
Caslers Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
6tetson and Mallory Hats
Arrow Shirts and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
Skyway Luggage
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete Outfitter for Men
SHAFFER’S
SANITARY MEAT
FOR BETTER MEATS
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Free Delivery
J. A. Durgin Company, Inc.
Accounting Auditing
Room 3. Valer.tlr JO I f
JUNEAU, ALASKA
P. O. Box 643 Telephone 918
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Your Reliable Pharmacists
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
Alaska Mnsic Supply,
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager 3
Pianos—Musical Instruments |
and Supplies I
Phone 206 Second and Seward 1
Card Beverage Co.
Wholesale B05 10th St.
PHONE 216—DAY or NIGHT
tor MIXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated Rooms
at Reasonable Rates
PHONE SINGLE O
THOMAS HARDWARE
and FURNITURE CO.
PHONE 555
PAINTS -OILS
Builders’ and Shelf
HARDWARE
Remington Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J. B. Burford Co.
"Onr Doorstep Is Worn by
Satisfied Customers”
FORD AGENCY
(Authorized Dealers)
GREASES — GAS — OIL
Juneau Motor Co.
Foot of Main Street
MAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a daily habit—ask for It by name
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL 89*
American Meat — Phone M
To Banish “Blue Monday”
To 'give you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Laundry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing Man
LEVI’S OVERALLS
for Boys
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St. Phone 773
High Quality Cabinet Work
(or Home, Office or Store
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