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Tuesday, September 12, 1950
THE SILENT DOUHLE-CROSS
At this writing we have heard the stories of only
two members of the Alaska Statehood Committee on
the hiring of Randolph Feltus as a lobbyist for Alaska
statehood.
‘ Last Thursday Delegate E. L. Bartlett, ex-officic
member of the Statehood Committee, issued a state
ment .before the Committee on Interior and Insular
Affairs in Washington. !
On the same day Ketchikan newspaper publisher
William L. Baker, a member of the Statehood Com
mittee, issued a statement in the form of an editorial
in 'his paper.
The two statements are interesting. They are
also contradictory and unconvincing.
The statehood lobbyist — his full name is John
Hampton Randolph Feltus — operated his business |
under the name Randolph Feltus and Associates.
Randolph Feltus, it was alleged by Senator Schoep
pel and admitted by both Delegate Bartlett and Mr.
Baker, had been a public relations counsel for the
Soviet Republic of Poland. “Public relations counsel”
is a longer way of saying “lobbyist.”
One of the associates of Feltus was Robert Talbot
Miller, a former employee of the State Department.
On July 26, 1946, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
listed Miller as a security risk and recommended that
his services with the State Department be terminated.
Six months later he left the State Department.
Just how Randolph Feltus and Associates came
to be hired by the Statehood Committee without an
examination of their record is not clear from the state
ments we have.
* Delegtk^'^a/tVeil k&ysHliat h? asked Oeorge SUnd
borg to check on Randolph Feltus and Associates;
that Sundborg had talked to one of Feltus’ former
employers, and that Feltus had been “recommended
most highly.”
Apparently no other check was made. This is
strange. In the hiring of a Washington lobbyist it
would be no more than good business sense to learn
whether he had previously done any lobbying.
The law requires lobbyists to register and this
registration would appear to be the easiest place to
check the former connections of a lobbyist.
On October 16, 1946, Randolph Feltus registered
as a lobbyist for Soviet Poland. His salary was $3,000
a month.
This fact was a matter of record, but the record
was apparently not checked by Delegate Bartlett or
any other member of the Statehood Committee.
Anyway, Feltus was hired. It appears that he was
hired by Delegate Bartlett, although the delegate does
not say so directly. The delegate does say that the
arrangement was approved by the executive committee
of the Alaska Statehood Committee.
Mr. Baker is a member of this executive com
mittee. Mr. Baker says that he was opposed to hiring
Feltus until after he appeared before the Statehood
Committee.
Feltus made his appearance before ,the Statehood
Committee members at Washington around the end of
April. Then, Mr. Baker says, the decision was reached
to hire Feltus for a short time.
Delegate Bartlett said he was hired a month
previously, on March 25, and that his services con
tinued for four months, until July 25. His salary was
$1500 a month.
At any rate, on May 2, 1950, Feltus registered,
as required by law, as a lobbyist for the Alaska
Statehood Committee.
It is at once apparent that Feltus either did not
lobby for statehood before May 2 or he lobbied for
statehood illegally.
If he did not lobby, why was he paid for the
period between March 25 and May 2?
The financial side of Washington lobbying is some
what revealed by Delegate Bartlett's statement. Mr.
Feltus, Bartlett says, proposed a salary of $3,000 a j
month, with another $3,000 a month for “a first class
job.”
■ It would seem, then, that at $1,500 a month the
Statehood Committee bought a fourth class job of
lobbying.
The truth of this is apparently borne out by the
testimony at the hearing in Washington. As far as !
could be learned there, Feltus had not spoken about
Alaska statehood to any member of the Senate Com
mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
In other words, he had not talked to the Senators
who are presently most concerned with Alaska state
hood.
If he was not talking to Senators about statehood,
what was Feltue doing to earn his pay?
This is explained by Mr. Baker. Feltus, he says,
has analyzed the personal traits of the 96 senators.
He knew how to get next to senators, which is some
thing few Alaskans did know."
Feltus' Job, then, was not to persuade the Sen
ators that Alaska deserves statehood, or that statehood
would be beneficial to the Nation and to Alaska. No, j
his job was to “get next” to the senators through his i
knowledge of their personal traits.
Now, having hired Feltus and put him to work ;
‘getting next” to the Senators, why did the State- i
hood Committee fire him? Or did the committee fire
aim? ,
Delegate Bartlett says that Feltus’ former asso
iation with the cause of Soviet Poland came to his
attention “sometime in July.”
Mr. Baker says, “That Mr. Feltus had worked for
the republic of Poland aftar it came under Russian
influence was not known to Alaskans until (Septem
ber 6>.”
Mr. Bartlett told the hearing at Washington last
week that he did not tl^ink Feltus would press for the
67,500 a month bonus if the statehood bill now be
comes law.
“I want to state most emphatically that no one
has ever brought any proof to me that Mr. Feltus is
anything but' a good American,” Delegate Bartlett
told the Senators.
And, may we ask, what chance did interested
parties have to protest or furnish proof? Alaskans
were not informed of the connection between Feltus
and the Statehood Committee.
Both Delegate Bartlett and Mr. Baker have, it is
true, asserted that there was nothing secret about the
busihess, that the entire thing was an open book.
It was, we believe, the same type of open and
aboveboard deal as the recent Palmer airport deal.
The Palmer business was, according to Governor
Gruening, “a highly conservative and intelligent piece
of work.” But it remained for what the governor has
termed the “axis press” to reveal that “conservative
and intelligent piece of work” to the people of Alaska.
The truth of the matter is, Delegate Bartlett and
certain others of the Statehood Committee who were
directly involved in the deal with Feltus attempted to
keep the matter as quiet as possible. “I realized very
well,” Delegate Bartlett said, “that spending money
for a lobbying activity, >or calMt what you will, might
not meet with universal approbation in Alaska.”
When the delegate learned, “sometime in July,”
that Feltus might become an embarrassment to the
Statehood Committee, he dropped him like the well
known hot potato and hoped that nothing more would
be heard of it.
In attempting to sidestep the remarks of Senator
Schoeppel about the handling of Territorial funds by
the delegate, Delegate Bartlett falls into error and
attempts to involve the Territorial Board of Admin
istration in the transaction.
The Delegate quotes a telegram from Governor Gruen
ing as follows: “BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION UN
ANIMOUSLY VOTED TO RELEASE TWENTY FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS TO STATEHOOD COMMIT
TEE IN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR MONTHLY IN
STALLMENTS BEGINNING MARCH FIRST. WAR
RANT TO BE SENT YOU.”
The wire was quoted for two reasons, said Dele
gate Bartlett. “First, because it demonstrates that
it was the intent of the Board of Administration that
funds to carry on the statehood fight should be sent
directly to me,” he said.
It may have been the intent of Governor Gruen
ing that the warrant should be sent directly to Dele
gate Bartlett, as stated in his wire. An examination
of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Ad
ministration on March 3, 1950, when the statehood
funds were released, fails to reveal any such intent.
The Board of Administration, with all members
present, unanimously approved the release of the state
hood funds. Period. The minutes make no mention
of how the money was to be handed or expended. The
Board of Administration is apparently in the clear.
Who else is in the clear on the Feltus deal? We
may learn in time. And who got the double cross,
to the tune of $8,000? We suggest that it was the tax
payers of Alaska.
Hie Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Pace One)
an amphibious attack on Formosa,
but Mao has been putting them
off week after week. This was one
reason why President Truman
cracked down on MacArthur when
Iff shot off his uncleared statement
ct: Formosa.
5. Mao’s government will helo
re-equip Viet Minh forces in Indo
china for a new, all-out offensive.
Note—The above intelligence re
port is chiefly based on British in
formation. the British having much
better sources than we do in the
Orient.
Mystery Wire-Tap Witness
There is something awfully pecu
liar about the way the Justice De
partment claimed it couldn't locate
the mysterious missing witness in
the wire-tapping case, Henry
Grunewald, then suddenly produced
him in another case after the
(statute of limitations had run on
Senator Brewster's wire-tappings.
Mr. Grunewald, who worked for
Pan American World Airways at
the time of the wire-tapping, and
was intimate with chief wire-tap
per Lieut. Joe Shimon, is a well
known person about town. But for
some strange reason he evaporated
into thin air.
Grunewald has a $75,000 home at
Valharbour, Miami Beach; a $85,000
home at Spring Lake, N.J., and
owms considerable property in the
District of Columbia, including a
five-acre tract in the fashionable
suburbs. He owns three automobiles,
including a limousine, which is
frequently seen parked outside the
Senate. Inside, he is chiefly in the
offices of Senators Brewster of
Maine and Bridges of New Hamp
shire.
He also has an apartment at the
swank Westchester; has maintained
an office in the Munsey building
I and a suite in the Washington hotel
which he shares with the former
Secretary of War and ex-Governor
of Kansas Harry Woodring. Lieut.
Shimon, the wire-tapping cop, also
; occupied this suite as a guest of
Woodring's and Grunewald's; and
’.he other night when a Senate in
vestigator called, who should poke
his bald head out of the suite but
William Power Maloney, close
friend of Senator Brewster’s and
attorney for Lieut. Shimon.
Grunewald has also been fre
quently seen in the company of
War Assets Administrator Jesse
Larson, and is so often in Sena
tor Brewster’s office that he is
treated as if he were a member of
the office force.
Senator Bridges also seems solic
itous about Grunewald. When a
representative of this column called
at Grunewald's Munsey building
office, its occupants professed com
plete amazement that Grunewald
had ever been in the office. Yet, in
the next room, someone hastily and
surreptitiously phoned Senator
Bridges to warn: "They’re trying to
find Henry.’’
How Grunewald, an immigrant
from Europe, made all his money,
remains a mystery. But he is re
ported to be one of the most highly
paid undercover lobbyists in Wash
ington.
Sewing machines fo* rent at the
White Sewing Machine Center.
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September 12
Mrs. Henry Green
Ida May Jensen
Edith Lavold
Mrs. E. E. Ellett
Mrs. Carl Erickson
Evert Martinson
Amy Phelps
Mrs. T. M. Kelly
Ralph Nichols
Kate Sewell
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7:30 p.m—Dorcas Society meets
at home of Mrs. John Griffin.
At 7:30 p.m.—Chapeladies will hold
first fall meeting at home of Mrs.
E. R. Reddekopp.
At 8:30 p.m.—Community Center]
night for adults at Teen Age
Club.
At 6:30 p.m.—Homecoming dinner
for Eastern Star, Scottish Rite
Temple.
At 8 p.m.—Republican rally at 20th
Century Theatre.
September 13
At noon—Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
At 1:30 p.m.—Afternoon Circle of
WSCS at home of Mrs. A. J. Alter.
At 1:30 p.m.—Juneau Garden Club
meets at home of Mrs. E. E. Eng
strom.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge meets.
At 8 p.m.—P.-T.A. reception honor
ing Juneau teachers, High School
Gymnasium.
At 8 p.m.—Wrestling match be
tween Clara Mortensen and ^jndy
Lawrence at 20th Century Thea
tre, sponsored by Juneau Volun
teer Fire Department.
At 8 p.m.—First fall meeting of
Trinity Women’s Guild.
At 8 p.m.—VFW Auxiliary business
meeting at home of Mrs. James
Brunette, 229 North Franklin.
September 14
At noon—Chamber of Commerce,
Baranof.
At 8 p.m.—Lutheran Ladies Aid
meets in church parlors.
At 8 pin—First meeting of Juneau
Ski Club in a AB Hall Club rooms.
At 8 p.m.—Civil Air Patrol and Cadet
Corps meeting, N.G. Armory at
Subport.
At 8 p.m.—Emblem Club meets, Elks
Hall.
September 15
At 1:30 p.m.—Martha Society meets
in Northern Light Presbyterian
church parlors.
At 7:30 p.m.—Northern Light Pres
byterian church session in manse;
At 8 pm—14th Degree conferred in
full form at Scottish Rite Temple.
September 16
From 2:00 to 5:30 p.m.—Golden
Jubilee Silver Tea celebrating 50th
anniversary of Martha Society in
NLPC parlors.
September 18
At noon—Lions Club, Baranof.
At 8 p.m.—American Legion, Dugout.
At 8 p.m.—Regular monthly meeting
P.-T.A. in High School study hall.
September 19
At noon—Rotary Club, Baranof.
At 8 p.m.—American Legion Auxil
iary meets in Dugout. Election of
officers.
EMBLEM CLUB WILL
HAVE RUMMAGE SALE
ATDUGOUTSATURDAY
A special meeting of the officers
of Juneau Emblem Club No. 90 was
held this summer and plans for the
coming rummage sale were advanced
and the date for this sale was set
for Saturday, September 16 to be
held in the American Legion Dug
out on Second Street, starting at
ten o’clock in the morning and
continuing until everything is dis
posed of.
The first meeting of the fall and
winter season of the Emblem Club
will be held in the Elks Hall at 8
! p.m. Thursday, September 14 when
final plans for the rummage sale
will be completed. Also additional
discussion will be had at this meet
ing for the coming annual Fall event
held each year by the Club. A large
turnout is expected at this first
meeting to begin an active year for
the Club after the summer vaca
tion period. The Drill Team is ex
pected to resume practice and other
activties will be brought forth for
consideration for the coming year.
Six More Navy Ships
To Be Commissioned
(By Associated Press)
Six ships from the Navy’s Pacific
Reserve Fleet, including four des
troyers and a hospital ship, will be
recommissioned for active duty Fri
day.
The destroyers—the Blue, Evans,
I Sproston and Walker—and a landing
ship dock will be put back into duty
; in ceremonies at San Diego.
The hospital ship is the USS Ha
; ven and is scheduled to be recom
missioned at San Pedro. The Haven
replaces the USS Benevolence, which
sank in a collision off the Golden
Gate August 25.
SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S
2*0 YEARS AGO the empire J
• SEPTEMBER 12, 1930
Back from a trip to the Interior, Highway Engineer R. J. Sommers
reported that few persons in Fairbanks had escaped without some dam
age from the recent flood. Sommers, who was in Fairbanks during
the high water period, said total damage would amount to at least
$50,000, although no single individual had suffered exorbitant loss. Most
of the town had 18 or more inches of water over it, all basements were
filled and roads had as much as three or four feet. The water was the
highest ever known in the history of the camp, including high water
during spring breakups.
Tire first telephone conversations from Alaska to outside commercial
lines had taken place from Ketchikan, using a portable experimental
station of the British Columbia Telephone Company. One talk was to
Montreal, another to Vancouver, B. C. From aboard the yacht Belmont*
in the harbor at Ketchikan, Edtor-Publisher Morrissey of the Ketchikan
Chronicle, talked to an Associated Press official in New York City, the
first call from Alaska to the east coast. Several circuits were needed,
including both radio telephone and land lines.
Gov. George A. Parks announced that, through cooperation of muni
cipal authorities and the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, four
bronze ornamental street lamps would be installed in front of the capitol
building on Fourth Street.
Staff members for the Gastineau Breeze were named by Alma Sav
ikko, editor, and Mrs. Engstrom, advisor. They were: Wiliam Cashen,
associate editor: Enne Kronquist, Elsa Lundell, Stephanie Africh, Mar
garet Pearce, Orrin Edwards, Vieno Wahto, Isabelle Cashen, Hilja Rein
ikka, Marie Fox, Ruth Lundell and Effie Fleek. Bernice Edwards was to
report senior class activities.
Weather: High, 66; low, 48; rain.
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Daily Lessons in English $. l. cordon j
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: DESSERT (accented on last syllable)
is a dinner course. DESERT (accented on last syllable) is that which is
deserved. Ddsert ;(accent on first syllable) is a barren tract.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Antarctic. Pronounce ant-ark-tlk, not
ant-ar-tik.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Invisible; thre I’s, not ABLE.
SYNONYMS: Ornate, ornamented, adorned, decorated, beautified,
resplendent.
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:
FRAILTY; state of being easily tempted; a moral infirmity. “Human
frailty has been the cause of many wars.”
MODERN ETI QUEUE ROBERTA lee
Q. When one is invited to a large golden, wedding anniversary re
ception, to be held in a private hotel room, should a gift of some kind be
taken to the reception?
A. It is best to send the gift ahead of time to the home of the
honored couple.
Q. Is it all right to ask a person to return books he has borrowed?
A. Certainly. If a reasonable length of time has elapsed, one need
t hesitate to do so.
Q. Is a dinner coat (tuxedo) considered full dress?
A. No.
LOOK and LEARN a! c. GORDON
1. What is the largest city on the Seine River?
2. On which street of Washington is the White House?
3. What, in the human body, is the more common name for the
‘clavicle”?
4. What world-famous author, creator of “Captain Blood,” died
earlier this year?
5. In what country is “effendi” used as a title of respect?
ANSWERS:
1. Paris, France.
2. Pennsylvania Avenue.
3. The collar bone.
4. Rafael Sabatini.
5. Turkey.
Drj Ted Oberman
Optometriit
Eyes Examined Telephone 266
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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 . 45—Rain
Annette .55—Clear
Barrow . 34—Cloudy
Bethel . 40—Partly Cloudy
Cordova . 49—Rain
Dawson . 41—Clear
Edmonton . 34—Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks ..,. 46—Rain
Haines .—. 46—Partly Cloudy
Havre . 46—Rain
Juneau Airport . 38—Cloudy
Kodiak . 37—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue . 41—Cloudy
McGrath . 59—Cloudy
Nome . 28—Cloudy
Northway . 39—Cloudj
Prince George . 35—Clear
Petersburg . 42—Clear
Portland .-. 54—Clear
Seattle . 47—CleAr
Sitka . 52—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 49—Partly Cloudy
' Yakutat . 49—Rain
PROGRESS BEING MADE
BUILDING MATERIALS
IN ALASKA, REPORTED
Concrete progress is going forward
in the building materials industry
in the Alaska railbelt, Kenneth Ka
dow, chairman of the Alaska Field
Committee reported today upon his
return from a business trip to Anch
orage.
The Bureau of Mines has located
satisfactory deposits of clay and
shale in the railbelt area for supply
ing a haydite plant, he said.
Manufacturers of concrete .pro
ducts are working together, he re
ported, and the Northewest Insula
l tion Co., of Spokane, Wash., is al
ready making installations in a
building in Anchorage to manufac
ture insulating products. A plant is
expected to be built next spring. It
is also expected that a brick opera
tion will develop shortly.
V. F. W.
Taku Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Brownie's Liquor Store
riMM IN IS* S*. rtukUa
r. a box tm
GEORGE BROS.
Widest Selection of
LIQUORS
PHONE 399
The Erwin Feed Co.
Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 7M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
STEVENS’
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
Seward Street Near Third
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Fourth and Franklin Bta.
PHONE 138
Casler's Men's Wear
McGregor Sportswear
Stetson and Mallory Hate
Arrow Shirt# and Underwear
Allen Edmonds Shoes
Skyway Luggage
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Clothing
FRED HENNING
Complete Outfitter for Men
1. W. COWLING
COMPANY
Dsdge—Plyniswtb—Chrysler
DoSoto—Dodge Tracks
SHAFFER’S
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MOUNT JUNEAU LOUUE NO. 141
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.1
Carson A. Lawrence,
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary.
B. P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS a
GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H.
BIGGS, Secretary.
Moose Lodge JVo. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L .FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMAN8EN
BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main st. Pbona 77s
Hl*h Quality Cabinet Wart
far Heme. Office or Sian
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"The Rexall Store"
Tour Sellable PhamwUta
BUTLEH-MADRO
• DRUG CO.
Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggeq, Manager
Instruments
..Phone Z0«
general paints
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Pain! Store
Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt
Card Beverage Ce.
Wholesale 80S 10th St.
PHONE *18—DAT «, NIGHT
for MESSRS or SODS POP
The Alaskan Hotel
Newly Renovated "titim
at Reasonable Rates.'
PHONE SINGER O
PHONE SOS
Thomas Hardware Co.
PAINTS -- OILS
Bandera' and Shelf
HARDWARE
Remlnarton Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J. B. Bnrford Co.
“Oar Dooratep Is Wen fey
Satisfied Cnstomen”
ford agency
(Authorised Dealers)
GREASES — OAS _OIL
Jnnean Motor Co.
Foot of Main street
MAKE
JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a dally habit—ask for It fey asm.
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
Chrysler Marine Engines
machine shop
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL 899
American Meat — Phone 18
To Banish “Bine Monday”
To give you more freedom
from work — THY
Alaska Landry
H. S. GRAVES
The Clothing
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