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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Poirth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
Thursday, August 24, 1950
SENATOR BUTLER ON SPEAKER
McCUTCHEON
The Palmer airport deal has aroused the curiosity
of a great many people, among them Senator Hugh
Butler of Nebraska.
Senator Butler has gone to some trouble to satisfy
his curiosity and his findings have prompted him to
call for a Senate investigation into this amazing
project.
In the course of his inquiries, the gentleman from
Nebraska noted that one name recurred with sur
prising frequency — and that was the name of
Stanley McCutcheon.
Without further comment, we present Mr. Butler’s
remarks as they appear in the Congressional Record
for August 16.
“. . . I have made it my business to inquire into
the identity of Mr. McCutcheon in an effort to de
termine just where he fits into this most amazing
land deal designed to yield a vastly increased and
totally disproportionate sum of money from the Fed
eral Treasury to offset moneys spent by the Territory
of Alaska before the Territory became eligible to re
ceive this money under the Federal Airport Aid Act.
I have learned that Mr. McCutcheon is a member of
the Territorial Legislature. He was Speaker of the
House in the last regular session. As such, he voted
for and helped create the Aeronautical Agency of the
Territory through which this land transaction was
consummated between the government of Alaska and
the Palmer Airport Association. He voted for the
appropriation for the agency which gave it substance
and started it in public business.
“Tjpen, if you please, Mr. President, the same
Mr. McCutcheon was hired by the agency as its at
torney. On April 19, last, he received a fee for his
J services amounting to $5,628 paid out of public money,
j a part of which will be borne by the Federal Govern
j ment through its matching fund contributions to the
J Territory to help pay for the airport program. These
‘ facts are attested to in the official records of the
j Territory in the auditor’s office in Juneau. Thus, Mr.
I President, we have here a member of the legislature
who *ls profiting as the results of legislative acts of
the legislature in which he served. This is a cir
cumstance which many members of the Senate will,
quickly and with reason, assert is not the usual
course of events at all. Nevertheless it is the fact
of the case covered by photostatic documents which
I have in my possession.
“Mr. President, I inquired further into Mr. Me-i
Cutcheon's background and I find, strangely, that he
is also, among other things, a practicing attorney
who certainly knows the law, and is also the presi
dent of the Alaska Airlines. It seems indeed strange
to me that Mr. McCutcheon, who served in a legislature
which created a government agency and voted its
appropriation, should have permitted himself to be
hired by the same agency. But, further, it seems most
unusual that an airlines president vitally interested in
flying as a private enterprise, should have been hired
to act, of all things, as legal adviser to a public
agency which is charged with supervising aviation
in the Territory in the public's interest. Nor, Mr.
i President, is that all that I have discovered in my
inquiries about Mr. McCutcheon, a high-ranking Ter
ritory official who has profited from his legislative
[endeavors. I observed at the outset of my remarks
! that the town of Palmer is located quite near the city
of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, where the Gov
ernment has built two of the largest airports in the
Territory, one military and one civilion. It has also
been noted that there already was an airport at
Palmer, withal a smaller one than the new one being
built at the present time with the help of Federal
funds. Meanwhile, other towns, Mr. President, are
and have been in much greater need of flying facilities
of the type which the Federal Aid Act seeks to pro
vide. I cite as examples the towns of Kotzebue and
Fort Yukon, high up in the Arctic, for which air trans
portation is virtually the only means of communication
with the Territorial population centers and the out
j side world. Yet the records show, that the Palmer
airport was one of the first on the list under the
program and that this construction is much further
advanced than any of the other airports. One ex
planation for this which has been brought to my
attention is that the same Mr. McCutcheon who is
the legal adviser to the aeronautical agency, notwith
standing the fact that he served in the legislature
I which created the agency, was one of the founders
and is presently a stockholder in the Union Bank of
Anchorage. This bank, I have learned, financed
the construction of the Matanuska Valley Hotel in
Palmer. Thus, Mr. President, Mr. McCutcheon and
his bank would derive private profits from the devel
opment, at public expense, of increased air facilities
at Palmer. I find these facts disturbing, and I am
further disturbed to learn that the Governor of
Alaska, at an open forum in Palmer on July 14, placed
his personal stamp of approval upon this most unique
method of valuing land for the purposes of estab
| lishing a claim for increased matching funds from
; the Federal Treasury. I am told that the Governor
1 described the transaction as a highly conservative
and intelligent piece of work and that he termed it
! completely correct and honorable.”
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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undoubtedly be recalled to Moscow
and the inside betting is that 'he
won’t return.
Washington Pipeline
It costs the taxpayers about $75.
000 a day to keep Congress in bus
iness . . . Despite all you read
about Communist spying in the
United States, inside fact is that
our intelligence on Russia far sur
passes what they know about us.
The Pentagon, for instance, knows
the exact location of every war
plant—even the small ones—behind
the iron curtain. We even know
the number of freight cars Russia
has on hand and under construc
tion ... A little-known govern
ment official, Nat Keith, director
of the government’s slum-clearance
program, is doing an A-l job clean
ing out big city tenement areas—
the most vulnerable death traps in
a bomb attack . . . Rep. Manny
Celler’s monopoly committee will
begin probing patent conspiracies
by certain big war contractors. . .
Capitol reporters have decided that
the term ‘pork barrel" doesn’t do
justice to the big, one-package ap
propriation of $27,000,000,000 for
domestic spending. Reporters call
it the ■•‘silo’’ bill . . . Waiters in
the House restaurant—where Con
gressmen eat—still are paid the
pitiful wage of $27 a week. Also,
though most of these faithful em
ployees of Congress have families,
they are not covered by social
security. What’s more, they are
not entitled to sick leave like other
government employees.
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Plain President
When Rep. Clement Zablocki of
Wisconsin introduced a colleague,
former Federal Judge McMahon of
Wauwatosa, to President Truman
the other day, McMahon reported
that he had now shaken hands
with every U. S. Chief Executive
since McKinley.
‘‘I should be used to it,” he ad
ded, “but I’m always awed on oc
casions like this.”
“Well, now you are convinced
that I am just like any other ordi
nary man," grinned Truman. “A
President has no right to think
himself better than the millions of
people who elect him—any one of
whom might be in his place.”
Annexing Poland
‘Three Polish diplomats who re
cently quit the Polish Embassy In
Washington and begged asylum in
the United States have warned the
State Department that Russia plans
to annex Poland formally within
a year. This will be done, the
Poles revealed, by staging mass
demonstrations and holding a
mock plebiscite . . . Pentagon gen
erals believe the mass B-29 raid
on North Korean troops was a
tactical blunder. The raid stunned
the North Koreans, but the Amer
icans failed to follow up with a
swift infantry attack . . . The Com
munist Daily Worker has ordered
its reporters to “race angle" all their
stories on the Korean war. How
ever, the negro magazine, “Ebony,"
will declare in a forthcoming issue:
"Today’s conflict is no more a 'war
of color’ than was the last one
when the Communists fought with
us, not against us. It is a battle
between two political concepts in
which color is not involved." . . .
The Communists beat the propa
ganda drums about segregation, but
live under a rigid caste system
themselves. Inside the Soviet-con
trolled embassies in Washington,
non-Communists aren’t allowed to
eat at the same table with Com
munists. In fact, Russian entpldy
ees aren't even permitted to speak
to satellite employees, except for a
few trusted diplomats on the top
level . . . Ever since the Russian
school teacher, Oksana Kasenkma,
leaped to freedom from the Soviet
consulate in New York, all Russian
children over 10 years old have
I been shipped back to Russia for
schooling. '
Live Congressman
Story behind House wnip Percy
Priest's blast at Secretaries Dean
Acheson and Louis Johnson—which
drew a hot counterblast from the
President—is that Priest was under
terrific pressure from veterans’
groups to tee off on the cabinet
members.
On his return to Washington, fol
lowing renomination in the Tenn
essee primary, colleagues asked the
former Nashville Tennesseean re
porter why he had stuck his neck
out for a White House rebuke.
“It's very simple," grinned Priest.
“I’d just rather be a live Congress
man than a dead whip."
Note—Speaker Sam Rayburn and
House majority leader John Mc
Cormack have assured Priest that
he will continue to be a "live*’
whip, No. 3 job in House Demo
cratic ranks.
.Small-Business Runaround
While the Defense Department is
paying lip service to small business,
little companies still get the run
arotyid when contracts are ladled
out.
For example, here is what hap
pened to one little outfit, J. 71.
Phipps Lumber Co. of Fayetteville,
Ark., which wanted to make truck
bow's for the Army:
Phipps tried to submit a bid
through the Detroit arsenal, but
couldn’t even get the specifications
needed for estimating the cost. The
Detroit arsenal explained that
Chrysler Corporation had all the
blueprints containing the specifi
cations. When Phipps asked to see
them, Chrysler Corporation refused.
In other words, though the Army
theoretically invited competitive
bids, it was impossible for any
company to bid on the truck bows
except by grace of the Chrysler
Corporation.
How to Win Moscow
It is heartening to know that in
these topsy-turvy times there are
men in Congress who believe we
can still make peace with the
common people of Russia and her
satelites by bombarding them with
what General Ike Eisenhower calls
the greatest weapon in the world—
the truth.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At 7:30 p.m.—Board of Equaliza
tion, Juneau Independent School
District, office of the Superinten
dent of Schools.
At 7 p.m.—Meeting of team capts.
Thurs. Night Bowling League and
at 8 p.m. practice bowling for
teams. Tentative teams on Elks
bowling bulletin board.
At 7:30 p.m.—CYO Meets, Parish
Hall.
At 7:30 p.m.—Board of Equaliza
tion, Juneau Independent School
District, office of the Superinten
dent of Schools,
At 8 p.m.—Special Meeting of 40 et
8, Legion Dugout.
I August 23
A 6 p.m.—Pioneers of Alaska, din
ner at IOOF Hall.
At 7:45 p.m., Catholic parish ladies*
sewing meeting, Parish Hall.
August 28
At noon—Juneau Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Club, Baranof
Hotel.
At noon—Juneau Lions Club, Bar
anof Hotel.
At 8 p.m.,—Juneau Post No. 4, The
American Legion, Legion Dugout.
LEADERS IN B. B.
(By Associated Press)
AMERICAN LEAGUE—Batting:
Goodman, Boston, .361; Kell, De
troit, .349. Runs batted in: Stephens,
Boston, 120; Dropo, Boston, 116.
Home runs: Rosen, Cleveland, 33;
Dropo, Boston, 28. Pitching: Trout,
Detroit, 11-2, .846.
NATIONAL LEAGUE — Batting:
Musial, St. Louis, .355: Hopp, Pitts
burgh, .344. Rui^ batted in: Bpnis
Philadelphia, 104; s'iKfnerf Pitts
burgh. 97. Home runs: Kiner, Pitts
burgh, 38; Pafko, Chicago, 30. Pit
ching: Hiller, Chicago, 9-2, .818.
Sewing machines for rent at the
White Sewing Machine Center.
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ACROSS
1. Partial view
7. Measures of
paper
13. Vent
14. Unfurl
15. Every day
16. Ceremony
17. Note of the
scale
18. They: French
19. Outdoor game
20. Vigor: slang
| 21. Liquor
22. Postal service
23. Angry
24. You and I
25. Loose earth
26. Philippine
mountain
27. Literary
supervisor
29. Steep
declivities
22. Parcel of
ground
23. Allows
24. Egyptian deity
25. Cook slowly
27. Male
descendants
28. Cry of the cat
20. Government
levy
40. Go ashore
41. Wire measure
ment
42. Aternatlve
43. Matron
44. Masculine
name
40. Edible tuber
48. The love
apple
40. Shops
20. Brings Into a
row
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Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle
DOWN
1. Turf
2. Lost heart
3. Useful
4. Misfortunes
5. French
marshal
6. Size of shot
7. Feather
8. To
9. Wrath
10. Artificial
language
11. Churcn
official
12. Incline
16. Vex
19. Couple
20. Needy
21. Religious fear
22. Debatable
23. Watering .
places
25. Pack
26. Behaves
28. The holly
29. Dispatch
30. Church
dignitary
31. Beheld
33. Solitary
35. Halts
36. 14th century
playing card
37. Island west of
Asia Minor
38. Italian city
40. Tardy
41. Heroine of
"La Boheme”
43. Oriental
dwelling
44. Sun
45. Distress signal
47. As far as
43. Symbol for
tantalum
• AUGUST 24 •
• *
• Daniel J. Kelley •
• Dr. Taylor J. Pyle •
• Gerald Bodding •
• Mrs. Walter Cummings •
• Mrs. Joseph Wehren •
• Jeanne Butts •
• Aline Maloney •
• Ann Ghiglione •
• Dolores Lohr •
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Other advocates of this are Sen.
William Benton of Connecticut, the
former State Department official,
and his counterpart in the House
of Representatives — intelligent
young Congressman Foster Furcolo
of Massachusetts.
Furcolo's own idea is what he
calls a "truth through youth” plan
—sending a delegation of our young
people on a good-will tour of Com
munist-dominated countries and in
viting similar groups from iron
curtain countries to tour the Uni*ed
States.
"But I am for anything that will
help spread truth and understat
ing behind the iron curtain,
whether it be propaganda balloons
or dropping soap, razor blades and
other American products, with ‘peo
ple-to-people’ friendship messages
attached to them,” says Furcolo.
“Who can say such ideas won’t
work until We try them? The cost
is infinitesimal to what another
major war would cost in blood and
dollars. And the best way to pre
vent war, while there’s still time,
is to get busy and start fighting
lies with truth.”
20 YEARS AGO the empire j
AUGUST 24, 1930
In Douglas, Miss Alberta Gallwas had accepted a teaching position
at Chichagof. She had taught at Gustavus the previous year. . . .
Aaron E. Johnson returned after a 10-day absence. . . . William Ott, local
theatre manager, was reported progressing slowly in recovery from the
burns received 10 days earlier.
Miss Edla Holbrook, a niece of Mrs. Felix Gray, was enroute here
j,o teach in Douglas.
Jeannette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Stewart, won highest
honors at a big summer camp for girls, taking the highest award at
Camp Willapa, on Willapa Harbor, Wash., where she spent six weeks.
W. C. MacMayburn of Shelter Island toas visiting in Juneau, staying
at the Alaskan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Johnstone, of Sentinel Island,
where Mr. Johnstone was lighthouse keeper, were at the Zynda.
Curtis Gardner of the firm of Johnson and Gardner, boarded the
Dorothy Alexander southbound, after inspetcing road work near here for
which his company had the contract.
Alden Smith of Port Alexander was a patient in St. Ann’s Hospital.
Mrs W. F. Anderson and her new baby were able to leave the hospital.
Miss Caroline Tpdd, instructor of music and dramatic expression,
had moved to the apartments over the U. S. Cable-Office and established
a permanent studio. She formerly was in the Channel Apartments.
Bound for Seward, the steamship Alaska, Capt. C. V. Westerlund,
called here, bringing these Juneau passengers: Mrs. H. Berggren, Miss
C. Sieke, Miss Louise Painter, B. M. French and H. M. Shern. Boarding
for the westward were John Paublica, Sarri Johnkonich and Britain
Fabis for Cordova; M. Lubach, William Frreer, Elno Myttli and J. John
son for Seward. < - . ,
Weather: High, 61; low, 49; cloudy. •
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j Daily Lessons in English l. Gordon j
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, "I have keen it othertimes.”
The word OTHERTIMES is not recognized. Say, "I have seen it AT
OTHER times.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cupola. Pronounce ku-po-la, U as in
CUTE, O as in NO unstressed, and accent first syllable, not the
second.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hammock; OCK. Havoc; no K.
SYNONYMS: Ascribe, assign, attribute, impute.
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:
SCRUPULOUSLY; conscientiously; carefully; precisely. (Pronounce sec
ond U as in USE, accent first syllable). “He kept himself scrupulously
clean.” i*' .
| MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE j
Q. Is it good form to dip a small piece of bread into the gravy that
is left on one's plate?
I'i A. This is all right if the piece of bread is put down in the gravy
arid then eaten with a fork. It is bad manners, however, to “wipe up"
the gravy with a piece of bread held in the fingers.
Q. Is a man ever privileged to remain seated while being intro
duced?
A. No; he should always rise, regardless of whether the other
person is a man or a woman, old or young.
Q. If candles are not to be lighted, is it all right to have them
on the table?
A. Yes; candles are considered an ornamental part of the dinner
or supper table setting.
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LOOK and LEARN a. a Gordon j
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1. What is charcoal?
2. What liquid measure is 800 per cent of a pint?
3. Who was the only U. S. President to live to be 90 years of age?
4. What value is given to the Roman numerals V, L, C, and M?
5. What is the largest and what is the smallest mammal?
5? li* Wood heated te a hi<jh temperature in an airtight chamber.
2. A gallon.
3. John Adams.
4. Five, fifty, one hundred, and one thousand.
5. The whale, from 100 to 150 feet in length; and the Etruscan
shrew, lYz inches and smaller ia length.
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Weather at
AlaskaPoints
Weather conditions and temper
atures at various Alaska points
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30
i.m.. 120th Meridian Time, and
eleased by the Weather Bureau
ire as follows:
Anchorage . 52—Rain
Annette Island . 57—Rain
Barrow . 37—Partly Cloudy
Bethel .. 48—Fog
Cordova . . 52—Ram
Dawson . t.55—Cloudy
Edmonton .i. 48—Cloudy
Fairbanks .^.. 58—Fog
Haines .,:...». 56—Cloudy
Havre ..... 59—Cloudy
Juneau Airport . 56—Rain
Kodikk —.-. 52—Rain
Kotzebue . :.... 56—Smoke
McGrath ......'. 47—Partly Cloudy
Nome ..51—Partly Cloudy
Northway . 54—Rain Showers
Petersburg . 56—Drizzle
Portland. 58—Partly Cloudy
Prince George . 56—Rain
Seattle . 58—Partly Clouty
Sitka . 55—Cloudy
Whitehorse . 54—Partly Cloudy
Yakutat . 54—Rain
YAKIMA WINS REGIONAL
LEGION BASEBALL TITLE
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 24 — UP) —
Undefeated in league and tourna
ment play, Yakima squeezed out a
tight 2-1 victory over Lewiston,
Idaho, last night to capture the
11th Regional American Legion Ju
nior Baseball Tournament title.
The verdict put Yakima in the
sectional competition opening Sun
day in Hasting. Neb.
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• AUGUST 25 •
• Low tide 6:28 a.m. -1.3 ft. •
• High tide 12:57 p.m. 15.0 ft. •
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month
in Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Lawrence,
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LEI VERS, Secretary.
© B.P.O. ELKS
Meeting every second and fourth
Wednesday at 8 PJ1. Visiting
brothers welcome. WALLIS S.
GEORGE, Exalted Ruler. W. H.
BIGGS, Secretary.
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Moose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L FRANCIS
Secretary— .'x
WALTER R. HER MAN SEN
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BLACKWELL’S
CABINET SHOP
117 Main St, phone 771
Hlrh Quality Cabinet Wark
f*r Home, Office or Star*
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"The Rexall Store"
Tour Sellable Pharmacist*
BUTLER-MAURO
drug CO.
Alaska Music Supply
Arthur M. Uggen, Manager
Plnnoa—Musical Instruments
And Supplies
..Phone ZB6 ..Second and SewaidL !
general paints
and WALLPAPER
Ideal Paini Store
Phone S49 Pred W. Wendt
Card Beverage Co.
806 10t“ «•
PHONE *16—DAT or NIGHT
for MIXERS or SODA POP
The Alaskan Holel
Newly Renovated *Ttnrm
*1 Reasonable Bates
, . r ? . r cr , ■ , i v
phone single o
PHONE BBS
Thomas Hardware Co.
PAINTS —— OILS
Banders’ and «t»Hf
HARDWARE
Bonington Typewriters
SOLD and SERVICED by
J- B. Bnrford Co.
“Onr Doorstep Is Worn by
Sailed Customers”
ford agency
(Authorized Dealers)
GREASES — GAS — OIL
Juneau Motor Co.
Poot of Main Street
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JUNEAU DAIRIES
DELICIOUS ICE CREAM
a dally habit—a* for It by ——
Juneau Dairies, Inc.
Chrysler Marine Engines
MACHINE SHOP
Marine Hardware
Chas. G. Warner Co.
HOME GROCERY
Phones 146 and 342
Home Liquor Store—TeL BM
American Meat — Phono M
To Banish "Bine Monday” <
To give you more freedom
from work — TRY
Alaska Lanndry
H. S. GRAVES
Hit Clothing Man
LEVrs OVERALLS
for Boys
With Flowers” but
“SAY IT WITH OURS!”
Juneau Florist*
PhonoW