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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411
Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
Saturday, December 16, 1950
SENATOR ANDERSON DEFENDS THE
PALMER DEAL
In The Empire yesterday was published the pre
liminary report of the Senate investigation of the
“Palmer airport deal.”
Today we print Senator Anderson’s defense of the
questioned transaction.
We believe that Senator Anderson (New Mexico)
is sincere in his belief that the "Palmer deal” was
all open and above board. However, we fear he has
not been fully informed on all that went on in regard
to the Palmer airport.
In defense of the transaction and in answer to
Senator Hoey (North Carolina) Senator Anderson
said, according to the Congressional Record of Novem
ber 30:
“ . . . the question is not whether $150,000 had
been expended, but the question is whether $150,000
had been expended by the private individuals who
owned the land.
“The work of clearing the airport had been com
pleted There had been a terrific expenditure of
monty on the smaller airport. When the larger air
port was required, it would obviously have been unfair
to pay the private owners of the land for work done
by the Territory of Alaska, work subscribed to by pri
vate individuals in Alaska. All those factors went
into the matter.
"One hundred and fifty thousand dollars had been
spent. If it had not been spent, I think that would
be an interesting fact for the committee to develop. j
"However, so far as I can find out, the Senator’s
committee has made no effort to ascertain whether
$150,000 was spent, but only has tried ot determine
whether the holdings of the private owners of the land
were worth $150,000. It is admitted that they were
not.
"The only way the people of Alaska could be
taken into consideration was by means of proceeding
in the way these people did.
"I do not think the Government was defrauded
of a single dime. I think the matter was handled
in the way that has been followed over and over
again in this country in cases in which precisely the!
same recognition has been given—although not in j
exactly the same fashion—to expenditures already!
made by private individuals.
"I am quite sure that my distinguished friend,
the Senator from North Carolina, whose reputation
for fairness is so strong that I need not comment
on it, will eventually find that the facts are as I
have outlined them, namely that the expenditure was
made, that there was no question as to the total invest
ment of funds, but that the private owners of the
land, who are private citizens of Alaska, should not
have profited out of the enterprise, through the money'
they had turned into the development of a smaller
airport, which now is to be developed into a larger J
airport.”
However, Senator McClellan (Arkansas) had this
question to ask about the Palmer transaction:
"Then it appears, does it not, from the investi
gation made thus far—and I understand that these f
facts are substantially undenied by the principal par
lies involved, whom representatives of the staff of the J
Senator’s committee have questioned in person about i
these matters—that it was a scheme to actually mis
represent the facts and to defraud the Federal Gov
ernment of sufficient funds not only to pay the
Federal Government's part of construction but also of
sufficient funds to pay the Territorial government’s'
part of both the acquisition and the construction j
costs?” j
And Senator Hoey stated his belief again:
“However, when the Alaskan Territorial govern- j
ment pays $150,000 to the Palmer Airport, with the
agreement and understanding that they are going |
to refund $145,00 back to them. I do not understand j
how such a transaction could be considered as being |
open and above board.”
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page One)
cedent is dangerous. For it creates
a sjjwiar uwhich
domiinated Germany.
Musical Criticism
Most people have forgotten that,
n unless of Harry Truman’s let
tei to music-critic Paul Hume, the
ri 1m td criticize musical and dra
ma tic performances has been es
tablished by the American courts
in the case of New York Times
versus the Shubert Theatres.
It happened that the Shuberts
objected to New York Times drama
reviews, refused to give Times crit
ics the customary passes, following
which the critics purchased their
own tickets. However, these were
not honored at the entrance and
the critics were barred.
The New York Times then went
to court, and its attorney, Alfred
Cook, brother-in-law of Wash
ington Post publisher Eugene Mey
er, won the important verdict that
newspapers have the right to crit
icize and the right of access to mu
sical and dramatic productions in
order to “Criticize. No power can bar
them.
Ironically, it was Eugene Meyer’s
music critic who got the wrath of
President Truman on his head
when he exercised that right.
Interesting contrast — Wonder
what would have happened to a
Moscow newspaperman if he had
criticized the child of Russia's top
man? The rapid promotions of
Lieut. Gen. Vassili Stalm, son of
Joseph Stalin, might be compared
to the rapid musical development of
Margaret Truman in that less-spot
lighted youngsters might not have
come along so fast. Rut at least
in this country we can criticize—
even at the risk of a bloody nose
“plenty of beefsteak” and a "sup
porter.”
Voteless Hawaii
Nebraska's Senator Ken Wherry
was queried by a friend as to why
he voted against statehood foi
Hawaii.
“I’m afraid we might get some
of these New Dealers in the Sen
ate,” Wherry replied, referring tc
the fact that Hawaii, as a state
could send two Senators to Wash
ington.
"You’d get Joe Farrington as a
Senator,” Wherry was reminded
the reference being to the stanch
Republican delegate who now re
press Hawaii in Congress. “Dc
you , Joe a New Dealei i
“Hovi m'1. 1 e vote?” asked the
GOP Senate 1 der.
The friend of Hawaiian state
hood, though amazed at Wherry’s
ignorance, didn't dare tell him
that the delegate of Hawaii and ol
other territories cannot vote at
all, and that this is the main rea
son they want statehood. So he
replied: “Oh, Joe voted about the
way .you did.”
Washington Keyhole
Irony of the GOP attack on
Dean Acheson is that he had want
ed to retire around Jan. 1. Now,
in view of the bitter battle against
him, both his and the President’s
| dander is up. . .When Acheson does
get out, keep an eye on Tom Fin
letter, now Secretary for Air, as the
new Secretary of State. Finletter
did a bang-up job for the State
Department at the San Francisco
'‘conference,'Has also iVandlecf var
ious big international-economic
problems. . .Quoth Wyoming’s Sen.
Joe O'Mahoney to Herbert Bayard
I Swope when asked if he’d take
the Senate Democratic leadership:
"I don’t relish the idea of being
the majority leader of a minority
party.”. . . Attorney-General-elect
Pat Brown, only Democrat elected
in California, took time to interview
most Washington officials who deal
with his state's intricate problems—
reclamation, Tidelands Oil, high
ways, etc. Brown also conferred
with most of the California Con
gressmen.
Chinese Relax
The behavior of Chinese Com
j munist delegates at Lake Success
I is so boorish that it makes the
Russians seem friendly by compar
ison.
Occasionally, however, one of the
Chinese will relax and let his mask
down. This happened at Secretary
General Trygve Lie's private dinner
at which General Wu surprised
other guests by being quite amiable
Instead of the torrent of denun
ciation which he usually launches
against the west, Wu drank a
couple of cocktails and told some
amusing stories about his military
| career.
While it couldn’t be said that
Wu got around to any slap-you-on
the back intimacy, he let drop some
hints that the Democratic system
had some pleasing aspects. For
instance, be expressed surprise that
the United Nations had done him
the courtesy of translating his
two-hour tirade against the west
and distributing it to the press in
English. »
Perhaps if the Chinese delgates
were exposed to western hospitality
a little more—with no Russians
looking over their shoulder—re
lations might improve. But as
things now stand, the Russians tye
around almost every minute.
WOLVES OPERATING
IN JUNEAU SECTION
I _
| a pack of wolves is carrying on
their predatory operations on the
outskirts of Juneau, apparently
without too much interference, it
is reported by Jack O’Connor, Pre
sident of the Territorial Sports
men, Inc.
R. L. Park, who was cruising
timber a few minutes walk from
the Glacier Highway on Lemon
j Creek, said that he observed well
■ eaten wolf traUs. He also reported
that Russell Smith, who runs a
snack bar at Mile 7 had found
the remains of a mountain goat
which had been killed by wolves
at the end of the Lemon Creek
trail. Park found fresh wolf tracks
a mile and a half up the same j
trail.
During the first snowfall Park'
was in the Herbert River area
where he found fresh tracks of
four coyotes and three wolves.
Old trappers believe that the i
Lemon and Herbert River tracks
may be of the same pack whose
tracks were seen near the' f'ersev
, erance Mine a few weeks ago.
Office Building, !
| Apartment House i
Planned al Palmer!
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PALMER, Alaska, Dec. 16—f/PI—
This growing Matanuska Valley
town added to its backlog of 1951
projects today with the announce
ment by the Hagen Corporation of
plans for a $150,000 three-story,
modern office building.
Other building work scheduled to
get under way when weather per
mits includes a $270,000 apartment
house and an Eklutna power pro
ject sub-station.
Five families, pinched by the
housing shortage here, got relief i
last week when prefabricated houses ,
arrived from the states.
FROM PALM SPRINGS
P. S. Taras and C. M. Bullard of
Palm Springs, Calif., are registered
at the Gastineau Hotel.
FROM FISH BAY
Fred Everson of Fish Bay is at
the Baranof Hotel.
P. S. GANTY IN TOWN
P. S. Ganty of Pelcian is at the
Baranof Hotel.
December 1G
O. E. Cleveland
Dorothy Tuckett
Dorothy Cox
Donald A. Messerschmidt
Marion Bartlett
December 17
Mrs. L. J. Holmquist
V. N. Blackwell
Ed (Doc) Sweeney
A1 Forsythe
Mrs. Elmer Lachance
Charles B. White
Mrs. Genevieve Soboleff
George Schmidt
Page Wood
Mrs. Walter Stutte
Mrs. Lucille Stine
Maurice King
Mrs. George W. Johnson
AUTHENTIC NATIVE
INDIAN DANCES TO
BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Chances are likely that the Na
tive Indian dances held tonight
at 8 o clock in the High School
Gym will be the last to be seen
here. A cast of 50 has been prac
ticing for the past month. Many
are the older people who partici
pated in the big dance held at
Sitka in 1904, the Rev. Walter
Sobolcff said today. He will ani
fiounce and explain the dances
tonight.
One rawhide deerskin drum will
be used as well as vocal chants by
the performers. Jack Gamble is
coach and director. He will be as
sisted by Jimmie Fox and Alfred
Andrews of Haines. All costumes
are old and authentic.
The program will consist of three
main dances and four minor ones.
The first will be “Coming to the
Feast,” a Stick (Interior Indian;
dance. The second major perfor
mance will be a "Feasting Tsimp
:hean Dance" and the third, a
Thlinget “Spirit Dance” performed
by Sam Hopkins and Willie Peters
representing honor and goodwill
and is used by visitors at a feast
to honor the host and hostess.
The other dances (include f
“Thlinget Peace Dance” which Is.
performed after tribal wars 6r
troubles; a “Haida Love Song” dofie
by women in Chilkat blankets; a
“Thlinget Raven Dance" preserited
by Mrs. Nancy Jackson a^d Mrs,,
Alice Bell who will imitate the
raven in walking and actions; £nd
finally a “CTilidfSh's dancJ* which
is performed' in honor of the chiefs
lor whom the children were namedi.
The proceeds from the dance will
go toward paying the library plfedg^
of the Alastta Native Brotherhood.
The Juneau Rotary Club is tW
sponsor.
At the final rehearsal last night
by popular request, consent .was,
given for picture taking by any -lif
the audience following the cldsfc'
of performance providing photo
graphs will not be used commey*
cially. A‘
FINES IMPOSED FOit
VIOLATION GAME LAWS
After pleading guilty to two
counts of violation of the Alaska
Game Laws John Riggle and Ed
ward Luoto were fined $100 each on
the first count and $50 each on
the second count by Judge Gordon
Gray at a hearing in the U.S. Com
missioner’s Court yesterday after
noon. The fines were paid.
The two were charged in the first,
count with illegal trapping of mar
ten out of season and in the second
count of possession out of season of
parts of mountain goat.
VICTORY BAR REOPENING
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night at 5:00. 685-lt
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20 YEARS AGO th*e empire
:
DECEMBER 16, 1930
The installation of elevators had been completed In the Capitol
Building and E. G. Gilbert, engineer in charge of the job, left on the
(Princess Norah.
Plans were being made for the organization of a Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution in Juneau. A special meeting
■•for all those interested was to be held in the studio of Miss Caroline
Todd with Mrs. Helen Boylan as co-hostess.
To serve the pulpit instead of the stage was the destiny of the pipe
organ that had been in the Palace Theatre. The purchase of the Kim
ball organ was made by the Martha Society, an organization of women
of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church and presented to the
church.
Grouped on the wharf at Haines a few days previously, 40 school
children, lashed by a raging snow storm, gave three cheers when the
steamer Queen, which had been scheduled to return them to their homes
in Skagway, was unable to mjike the port and sailed away without
them. They had accompanied the Skagway basketball team to Haines
early in the morning before the storm broke, expecting to make the
return voyage on the Queen that evening. Instead they enjoyed an
enforced holiday from school Monday, witnessed another basketball game
and were returned to Skagway Monday evening after the weather
cleared on the U. S. Army craft Fornance . i
The Alaska Game Commission vessel Seal, Capt. J. O. Sellevold, re
turned this day from a three months’ cruise to Alaska Peninsula and
Kodiak Island points.
Two championship contests were being advertised for the Moose
Smoker to be held December 20 in the A. B. Hall. The main event
was to be between Ford Butler vs. Joe Collier scheduled for eight
rounds for the heavyweight championship of Southeast Alaska and the
semi-final was to be between Slugger Weaver and Jimmy Young for
the lightweight championship title.
Weather: High, 40; low, 38; rain.
| Daily Lessons in English \l L. Gordon I
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, ‘‘She was exceeding kind to
the man.” Say, “She was EXCEEDINGLY kind.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Acerbity (sourness of taste). Pronounce
a-sur-bi-ti, A as in ASK unstressed, U as in FUR, both I’s as in IT,
accent second syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Monsieur (singlar). Messieurs (plural).
SYNONYMS: Tautology, redundance, redundancy, verbosity, cir
cumlocution, wordiness.
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:
(DEHORTATION: the act of dissuading. “Dehortation by his friends
made him reconsider his resignation from the company.”
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] MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE !
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Q. When onei is eating meat, should only one piece be cut at a
(time?
I A. Definitely, yes. When eating cither meat or poultry, cut a small
,piece and convey it to the mouth. Never cut up the entire portion of
meat, into numerous pieces. This is considered very crude.
Q. Is it considered the duty of everyone who was invited to a wed
ding to call on the newlyweds after their return from their honeymoon?
A. Yes, making sure, of course, that they are well established in
Their new home.
Q. When a man is walking in the rain with a woman who is carry
ing an umbrella, should he offer to hold it?
, A. Yes, this would be courteous.
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LOOK and LEARN a^c. GORDON
1. What cities were the first and second capitals of the United
States?
2. How many times does the Lord’s Prayer occur in the Bible?
3. Of what two metals is bronze composed?
4. What is an isosceles triangle?
5. Which is the most popular meat in the United States?
ANSWERS:
1. New York, from 1785 to 1790, and Philadelphia, from 1790 to
1800..
2. Twice; Matthew VI and Luke XI.
3. Copper and tin.
4. A triangle, two of whose sides are equal.
5. Pork.
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Weather at
Alaska Points
Weather conditions ana temper
atures at various Alaska point.1
also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:3C
a.m., 120th Meridian Time, and
released by the Weather Bureau
re as follows:
i
Anchorage . 3—Ice Needles
Annette Island . 40—Cloudy
Barrow . 10—Partly Cloudy
Bethel . 13—Freezing Rain
Cordova ... 10—Partly Cloudy
Dawson.14—Cloudy
Edmonton . 5—Clear
Fairbanks . 27—Clear
Haines .r 27—Snow
Havre ., 28—Clear
Juneau Airport . 31—Snow
Kodiak .- 28—Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue . 11—Cloudy
McGrath . 18—Cloudy
Nome . 18—Freezing Drizzle
Northway .1. 14—Snow
Petersburg . 37—Cloudy
Portland . 43—Rain
Prince George .... 30—Partly Cloudy
Seattle . 44—Fog
Sitka . 39—Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse . H—Snow
Yakutat . 32—Snow
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% TIDE TABLE •
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• December 17 •
• Low tide 2:06 a.m., 3.4 ft. •
• High tide 8:42 a.m., 15.1 ft. •
• Low tide 3:11 p.m., 4.0 ft. •
• High tide 9:14 p.m., 12.4 ft. •
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• December 18 •
• Low tide 3:05 aim., 4.4 ft. •
• High tide 9:3S a.m., 15.2 ft. •
• Low tide 4:14 p.m., 3.2 ft. •
• High tide 10:27 p.m., 12.4 ft. •
FROM ANCHORAGE
David M. Cleveland, with the
Civil Service from Anchorage is re
gistered at the Hotel Juneau.
For that different gift—Magazine
Cradles at the Art Shop—3rd St.
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Experienced House Wiring
Electrical Marine Repair
Phone Red 290 Juneau, Alaska
V. F. W.
Taku Post No. 5559
Meeting every Thursday in
the C.I.O. Hall at 8:00 p.m.
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Office In Case Lot Grocery
Phone 7M
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Bew&rd street Near Third ^
The Charles W. Carter
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PHONE 186
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SECOND and FOURTH _
Monday of each month /yy.
In Scottish Rite Temple
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
Carson A. Lawrence, 'vv'
Worshipful Master;
JAMES W. LE1VERS, Secretary.
® B.P. 0. ELKS
Meeting every Wednesday at 8
P.M. Visiting brothers welcome
WALLIS S. GEORGE, Exalted
Ruler. W. H. BIGGS, Secretary.
Ncose Lodge No. 700
Regular Meetings Each Friday
Governor—
ARNOLD L .FRANCIS
Secretary—
WALTER R. HERMANSEN
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P. O. Box UN
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"The Rexall Store"
Tour Reliable Pharmacists
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Plano*—Musical Instraments
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Ideal Paint Store
Phone 648 Fred W. Wendt
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