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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers. 141)
Fom i Avenue R’.d:-:.. Seattle. Wash.
Tuesday, December 5, 1950
GEORGE DIXON REF’ORTS ....
During the past week, most Alaskans have beer
watching the news for the latest developments 11
the United States Senate, currently debating the isssue
of statehood for Alaska.
Even Ala kans who are not especially interested
in ;t.,i ehood have been following the reports from the
nation's capital on the status of the proposed state
hood legislation. Barring news from Korea, new.'
from the Senate has been the biggest news in the
A.laska papers.
George pixon, eminent writer for King Features
Syndi ate and author of the famous "Washington
Sc n column, had this to say in his copyright column
app ring in last Friday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Any insurance salesman, Inrush peddler, or actoi
win has snent long hours cooling his heels in an
ant room, while bitterness mounted in his soul, would
ha a fellow-feeling these days for Gov. Ernest
Gr :. ning of Alaska.
The head man of our Northwest Territory has
spent sa much time on a hard bench outside the Sen
ate chamber that calluses are forming on his disposi
tion.
41though he holds high nubile office, Governor
Greening is being treated as if he were the collector
for a second-hand auto financing company. All he
dors is hang around waiting.
He wants to talk to the senators about statehood
for Alaska. But. from the way he is being given the :
brushoff, you might think he wanted to sell them clean
postcards.
It really is a pathetic sight. Capitol cbrridors
are bustling with activity and excitement. Couriers
are coming and going. Senators are importantly
holding corridor press conferences on almost any
other subject you could name. Everybody is conferring
with somebody. Everybody but Governor Gruening.
Everybody ignores him — with the exception of
Delegate Joseph R. Farrington of Hawaii, who is in
the same boat. If they didn’t have each other to
talk to, they'd probably forget how to talk.
It isn't so tough on Delegate Farrington because
he has a home here in Washington. He can retire to
the botom of his family at night and unbosom himself.
But Governor Gruening has no one to whom he can
unburden himself except the night doorman at the
Cosmos Club, where he is putting up.
Alaska’s chief executive flew down here last week
to be Johnny-on-the-spot for the reopening of Con
gress. High hopes for action on Alaskan statehood
beat in his heart. But when he presented himself
it the portals of the Senate, he was told to take a
seat and wait.
He waited. He waited all week. When last seen
■ie was still waiting. But like the poor book peddler
who craves only a minute of the big man's time to
ell him of the wonderful bargain going a-begging,
ie was getting no nearer to a hearing.
I didn't recognize him at first, he looked so alone
md forlorn. He's small in stature anyway, but after
ihis experience he seems to have shrunk. I was m
roduced to him at last by Sen. Warren G. Magnuosn
f Washington.
Governor Gruening gave me a wan smile. “Thanks
or speaking to me,” he said.
He declared he would continue to sit as long as
le thought there was even the slightest chance of ac
ion on statehood.
The thing that baffles Governor Gruening is why
Vlaskan statehood is being given the stand-off. Who,
le asks anyone who will listen, is against it?
"Everybody seems to be for it,” he sighs hag
ardly. “Not a sensible argument is being advanced
igainst it. Yet here I am—sitting around like a bum
u a park bench—being given the brushoff by every
body.”
Governor Gruening said he was prepared to meet
any and all arguments against statehood.
“They can't advance the argument that we don’t
nave enough population,” he said. “We have 132,COO.
That is more than most States had when they were
admitted to the Union. California, now the second
nest populous State, had 90000 when it came in.
“They can’t argue we're too isolated. I came
down from Juneau in 20>,i hours. Not so long ago
it took that long to go to Chicago.”
Each day, when X go up to the Capitol and see
Governor Gruening waiting meekly on the corridor
bench, I wonder how many governors of States would
take the brushoff he’s taking.
Can you picture Warren of California sitting there
hat in hand?
Or New York’s Dewey?
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Mfrry-Go-Round
Continued from Pape One)
krc.v that the President was in
the process of issuing a clarifying
statement—which came three hours
later.
Riilish Labor Rebels
I' accident, it happened that the
Truman A-bomb statement hit the
House of Commons during a major
foi ,;;n policy debate, with 63 la
bor members led by Tom Driberg
and Ian Mikardo, of Labor’s Na
tional Executive body, proposing
hi •) level conferences between the
cast and west before taking any
further decisions on Korea.
Simultaneously came a speech by
Anthony Eden demanding conl'er
eni s between London and Wash
in.: in, plus a London Daily Mail
editorial goading Attlee with the
taunt that Churchill would have
be: n half-way across the Atlantic
were he Prime Minister.
It was this atmosphere of ex
treme criticism from both Conser
vators and Labor that Prime Min
ister Attlee was shown the first
Truman statement indicating that
the dropping of the A-bomb was
up to MacArthur. At this, about 100
Conservative members of Parlia
ment left the chamber and signed
a petition to Churchill stating that
ii the United States dropped the
bomb Britain should pull out of
Korea.
These are some of the factors
behind Attlee’s trip which he want
ed to put before Truman.
Note—Three hours after the first
Truman statement on the A-bomb,
came a clarifying White House
statement that under the law only
th President can authorize use
of the atomic bomb and that no
such authorization had been given
to MacArthur.
t'oifcc and Defense
It may seem a long way be
tween a c offee investigation staged
by a Senator from Iowa and this
country's preparedness for war;
yet there's a connnection just the
same.
The Senate investigation, staged
by silver-crested, likeable Guy Gill
ette of Iowa, delved into increased
coffee prices and speculation. Inso
far as it dealt with coffee manip
ulation by the t ; chain grocery
stores and the New York commod
market, the piobe was justilied.
However, when it blamed Latin
American coffee growers for price
increases, it was like blaming Iowa
corn f armers for the increased price
oi corn.
Thus the injustice of Gillette's
piobe, which made headlines in
i.aun America, was the biggest
I: -k the Communists ever had
.so. i cf the Rio Grande. It also
tui1 millions of hitherto friendly
Latinos very sour indeed. Because
Latin American coffee growers, like
the farmer of Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska, had suffered extremely
lean years prior to the war. And
the chief reason for increased cof
fee prices was identical with the
reason for the increased price of
American meat, corn, wheat and
cotton—namely, that the world is
consuming more.
Anyway, the State Department,
aghast at the harm done our good
neighbor policy by the Gillette
coffee probe, placed all the facts
before the Senate committee. Forth
right Assist. Secretary Ed. Miller
warned that Gillette was playing
into Communist hands, while lar
sighted Senator Clinton Anderson
of New Mexico did his best to put
the quietus on his colleague from
Iowa.
We Need Latin America
Eut Gillette was stuoborn. He
had the support of “Cotton Elmer”
Thomas of Oklahoma, chairman of
the Senate Agriculture Committee
and he stood pat. What Gillette
didn’t figure on, however, was that
Washington Merry-Go-Round ex
posures of Thomas’s speculation in
cotton, lard and eggs would defeat
him at the polls.
Now that Thomas has' been de
feated, Senator Gillette is without
a friendly committee chairman, and
new chairman Ellender of Louisiana
plans to abolish the coflee-probe
committee.
However, here is the unpleasant
payoff. The effect of the furore
Gillette stirred up in Latin Am
erica is now coming back to slap
us in the face, following the bad
news from Korea and Indo-China.
Desperately short of manganese,
we have turned to Brazil, which
has the biggest manganese de
posits in the the Americas. But
Brazil also happens to be the big
gest coffee grower and is still
smarting from the unfair accusa
tions of the Gillette committee.
Though she is now helping us out
on manganese, it is not with the
same enthusiasm as in the last
war.
Meanwhile, manganese is getting
so short that refrigerators, auto
mobiles, other civilian products ai'e
almost certain to be curtailed be
cause of dwindling steel.
Other strategic materials are also
involved—materials which Latin
America has and which we are go
ing to need vitally in case of all
out war. All of which is why the
American peiple—instead of throw
ing brickbats, as did Senator Gill
ette—need to get back to working
at the good neighbor policy.
Truman's Defeated Friend
President Truman did some blunt
talking to Congressional leaders
about "unfinished business" when
the special session opened, but he
waxed a little sentimental about
the election defeat of his Senate
leader Scott Lucas of Illinois.
"I'm terribly sorry, Scott," said
Truman. “What are you planning
to do?”
“I don't know yet," replied Lucas.
“I intend to take a rest after the
special session, but have no plans
beyond that.”
"Well, before you do anything, be
sure to talk to me. I have some
thing in mind for you.”
Note—The President didn’t speci
fy what jobs he was considering
for Lucas. However, Lucas, together
with Myers of Pennsylvania and
Tydings of Maryland, have all indi
cated they will not take govern
ment jobs—though this is a time
when experienced men in govern
ment are desperately needed.
RUBY RAISES $66.39
FOR CANCER SOCIETY
The citizens of Ruby, a small
village on the Yukon River, sent in
a contribution of $66.39 to Mrs.
Mildred Hermann, Alaska Division
al Commander of the American
Cancer Society. She received it to
day and said that no special solic
itation had been made but that it
was appreciated.
Mrs. Hermann said that the con
tribution was four times the na
tional per capita average and had
; been raised largely through a
"white elephant” sale.
SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S
• »
• December 5 •
4 |
• Archie Betts •
• Norma Fournie •
• Art Mantyla •
• Jimmie Harmon •
• Barbara Smith •
• Mrs. William Rodenberg •
• Selma Maki •
• Bill Goodman •
• Keith Petrich •
• Sigrid E. Rineberg •
| • Yvonne Lester •
• •••••••••«
FWS CALLING ALL
GOAT CATCHERS
Here’s something for rugged, un
employed outdoorsmen!
The Fish and Wildlife Service
will open bids on December 26 for
the capture of live.wild, mountain
goats, for delivery by May 1. Catch
ing these agile animals alive is not
exactly an activity for a cookie
pusher.
The minimum ' that will be ac
cepted is one female and the maxi
mum, 14 females and six males.
They are to be transplanted on
Chichagof and Kodiak Islands. De
livery can be made at FOB Anchor
age, Seward, Skagway, Haines, Ju
neau, Petersburg or Ketchikan,
FWS' officials said. It is hoped
that eventually 200 of the animals
can be transplanted. Bid forms
can be obtained at any FWS office.
DEMONSTRATION ON
YULE DECORATIONS
SCHEDULED FRIDAY
Miss Hallene Price, District Home
Demonstration agent, wilt, give
a demonstration showing some
ideas for Christmas gilts and
Christmas decorations, Friday, Dec
ember 8 at the City Hall, begin
ning at 1:30 p.m. Miss Price sug
gests that you bring a pencil and
paper, cutting scissors in case you
wish to cut some patterns. She also
would like you to take any patterns
or Christmas suggestions that you
would like to share with your
neighbors.
A few of the specific things in
cluded in Miss Price’s demonstra
tion are tree decorations made with
paper and paste, the making of
frosted candles, a few stuffed toys,
end a game board. Everyone is wel
come and invited to attend.
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DON’T EXPECT THE MOON...
Don’t get over-enthusiastic
when making out your Christ
mas "hint” list. Remember
that Santa is only hubby.
ACROSS
1. Afocc^sln
4. Competent
8. Post
12. Self
13. Scottish
highlander
14. Altar end of
a church
15. Pertaining to
the present
17. Whirl
18. Cooking
vessels
19. Poorest
20. Foolishness
22. Coat with lead
and tin
24. Defensive
armor
25. Chastized
28. Portion of a
curve
2D. Custom
30. Australian bird
31. Thought out
33. Draw together
34. Masonic
doorkeeper
3">. Rash
30. Dim
38. Western
Indian
39. Excited
40. Airtight
chamber
44. The moon
45. Serpents
40. Born
47. Not so much
4*. Remainder
49. Number of
things
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Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
DOWN
1. Tame animal
2. Era
3. Entanglements
4. Anguish
5. Prohibits
6. Meadow
7. Addition to a
building
8. Brick-layers
9. Fears
10. Egyptian
goddess
11. Granted for
temporary
• use
K. Comrades
19. Court order
20. Dread
21. Mythical
monster
22. Thick portion
of an
underground
stem
23. Tennysonian
character
25. Sheet of glass
20. Give forth
27. Obligation
29. Grasp
32. Burns on the
edges
33. German
meta
physician
25. Lift up
3<). Drop
Malarial fever
3S. Demons
40. Distant
41. Employ
42. Female ruff
43. Besides
20 YEARS AGO th*e empire
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DECEMBER 5, 1930
Under the terms of a deal being consumated, Ketchikan interests
were combining with Juneau capital and entering the local hardware
ai:d furniture field it was revealed by Glenn Carrington, representing
the Ketchikan interests. Carrington, his long-time business associates
John W. Jones, J. B. Warrack and J. R. Heckman were acquiring a
| large interest in the Juneau-Young Hardware Company. They held
! a similar interest in the furniture department of the Heckman store
in Ketchikan. Oliver M. Olson, who took over the C. W. Young Hard
ware Company and the Juneau Hardware Company, consoldating them,
1 five years before, was to retain his connection with the firm but was
retiring from active business because of poor health and planned to live
in the south. Jones was to manage the store.
—
Officers elected for the year at the regular meeting of the Women
of the Moose were: Senior Rgent, Mrs. Starr: Junior Regent, Mrs.
Bender; Chaplain, Mrs. Anna Rodenberg; Recorder, Mrs. Gertie Olsen;
Treasurer, Mrs. O. Harri. The Christmas Committee was as follows:
j Mesdames Bedding, Jarman, Radelet and Osborne.
Fresh killed chickens, shipped from the States, were offered in
! Juneau stores at 30 cents per pound and sugar was selling at 75 cents j
j for a three-pound jar.
—
Shipments of gold from Alaska to the States in November aggre
gated $1,380,631, the biggest November movement of the yellow metal
| since the boom days of the Territory it was revealed in the monthly
j statement issued by J. C. McBrid.e Collector of Customs.
The High School Girls’ basketball team defeated the Alumni by
a score of 24-12 and the High School boys’ team was defeated by the
men’s Alumni by a sore of 41-13 in a doubleheader played in the
school gym.
Weather: High, 45; low, 43; raifi.
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j Daily Lessons in English tv. l. oordon i
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WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, ’’I look badly today.” If
you really look badly, you had better have your eyes fitted with cor
rective lenses. Instead, say, "I look BAD today.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Environment. Pronounce en-vi-run
: ment, I as in VICE, four syllables and accent the second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Appellation; two P's and two L’s.
SYNONYMS: Licentious, lascivious, lewd, disolute, profligate.
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:
CHAOTIC; completely confused; disordered. (Pronounce ka-ot-ik, A
as in CAKE, O as in NOT, accent second syllable). “He brought the
city out of its chaotic condition.”
j MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j|
Q. How many wedding invitations should be sent to a family where
theer are several grown sons and daughters?
A. Send one invitation addressed to the father and mother, and
a separate one to each of the sons and daughters.
Q. How should a maid hold a dish as she presents it to the guests
at a dinner table?
A. The dish should be held flat cn the palm of her left hand, and
presented at the left of the guest. If the dish is hot, a napkin can
be used as a pad underneath,
Q. When a woman extends her bare hand to a man, should he re
move his glove before taking her hand?
A. Yes; but this is not necessary if her hand is gloved, too.
LOOK and LEARN i! c. Gordon
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1. How many nerves does the human body contain?
2. Which is the brightest plaqet?
3. What is the popular drug used for enlarging the pupil of the
eye?
4. Which is the largest Canadian province?
5. What composer is responsible for the music of “Show Boat”?
ANSWERS:
1. More than 10 million.
2. Venus.
3. Belladonna.
4. Quebec.
5. Jerome Kern.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions ana 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 . 15—Snow
Annette Island . 9—Rain
Barrow . -2—Snow
Bethel .. -4—Cloudy
Cordova . 33—Cloudy
Dawson . 1—Snow
Edmonton . -11—Clear
Fairbanks . .1—Snow
Haines . 17—Cloudy
Havre . -19—Clear
Juneau Airport . 18—Snow
Kodiak . 27—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue . -11—Cloudy
McGrath . -26—Clear
ome 1—Partly Cloudy
Northway . -3—Cloudy
Petersburg . 33—Rain,
Portland . 43—Cloudy
Prince George . -19—Clear
Seattle . 42—Cloudy
Sitka . 38—Rain
Whitehorse . 2—Cloudy
Yakutat . 31—Cloudy
RECLAMATION BUREAU
CONSIDERING ASKING
FOR DOROTHY PROJECT
“The Bureau of Reclamation is
considering the advisability of seek
ing authorization the $16,000,000
Lake Dorothy power project," Jo
seph Morgan, chief fof the Investi
gations Division, Bureau of Re
clamation said today.*
A preliminary report has already
been made and can be brought up
to date with a little additional
work, he said. “Although author
ization could be granted by the
Congress it is likely that construc
tion w*juld be held until such time
as there was jvidence of a market j
for the power. Present plans cafi
for 30,000 kw with two submarine
cables across Taku Inlet each to
carry 69,000 volts. Prom Point Bish
op to a substation near Juneau,
the power lines would be on trans
mission towers.
Authorization will be sought from
the new Congress for the construc
tion of the Swan Lake project nedY
Ketchikan, Morgan revealed. This
will be a ten million dollar project
with 13,500 kw capacity, he said.
FROM BETHEL
Misses Patricia Wilde and Joyce
Slocim, Alaska Native Service nurs
es from Bethel were in Juneau to
day enroute to Mt. Edgecumbe.
They arrived here yesterday from
Fairbanks via PAA.
WALT HATLIN
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
Experienced House Wiring
Electrical Marine Repair
Phone Red 290 Juneau, Alaska
V. F. W
Taka Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
The Erwin Feed Go.
Office in Case Lot Grocery
Phone 7M
HAY, GRAIN, COAL
and STORAGE
STEVENS’ [
LADIES’—MISSES’
READY-TO-WEAR
- Be ward Street New Third
The Charles W. Carter
Mortuary
Fourth end Franklin Ms.
PHONE 1M
Caller's Men's Wear
McGregor 8p«rWweer
Met—a and Mallory Hate
amar SMrta and Underwear
Alloa Edmond* Shoe*
Skyway Laggag*
BOTANY
"500"
CLOTHES
NUNN-BUSH SHOES
STETSON HATS
Quality Work Ctothin*
FIED HENNING
CMiptol* Oatflttcr for Mem
•umrt
SANITABY NEAT
n» nstb man
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODUE NO.
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
in Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m. V
Carson A. Lawrenoe,
worsmpruj Master;
JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary*
B. P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every Wednesday at
P.M. Visiting brokers welcom
WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalte
Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretar.
Moose Lodge No. 70(v
Regular Meetings Each FfeMaj
Governor—
ARNOLD L .FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMAN8EN
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BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
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Arthur M. Uggen, Muuyir
nuM-Nulo] iMtrONBtl
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Phone ZM ..Second and Bewan 1
GENERAL PAINTS
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Pain! Siora
Phone its Pred w. Wood
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Card Beverage Ce.
Wholesale 80S 10th St.
! PHONE JIB—DAT or NIOH1
j for MIXERS or SODA POP
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Newly Renovated Room
at Eroonnohlo Raton
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PHONE BBS J
Thomas Hardware Ca
nUNTB - OILS
BaSMerm' an4 ghdf
hardware
Remington Typewriterr,
BOLD U4 SERVICED bj ’
J. B. Buford Co. j
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FORD agency
(Authorised Demina)
GREASES — GAS — OIL
Juneau Motor Co.
Foot of Main Straw J
MAKS . J
JUNEAU DAIRIES
_ DELICIOUS ICE CREAK
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Juneau Dairies, Inc,
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