The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-03
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For years now we've been pelltlOn- ing that something be done about the day that comes after New Years Eve. Civilized people shouldn't have to put up with such. Certainly civ- ilized people shouldn't put out news papers.
 But the Empire did!
 And we really planned to string along with it = just to show our gre garious tendencies, but something happened and our colymn, which had just raised it's wobbly little head the day before, stretched out flat in a comma. We haven't heard of any cancelled subscriptions because of it, but then nobody around here has said much to us since Monday.
 Yesterday was the day We wrote our colymn very carefully--telling all about the Campbell case, includ- ing a full description of the mur- derer, his whereabouts and the clubs to which he belongs, and giving all the juicy sidelights on Cupids &C., tivities throughout the last year and his plans for this.
 But Friend Elmer (Pun And this is strictly the last time we tell you. You gotta start catching on some tinteo said our deadline was stiff with rigor mortis, and as we wildly tried to catch the newsboys and have the paper redone, Circulation Zealot Zenger in the front office tackled us.
 We gave up.
 But don't say we didn't try to give you the news. It's just that every bodys always picking on us. But, down to earth in explanation again, we got this colymn in too late. Spot news had to be set.
 There's d new dewy-eyed engaged couple in town, but they don't want the subject whirlized, and since they have a paid-up subscription to this paper, there's nothing much we can do about it. But frustrate. One half of the engaged team works on Franklin street downtown and the other on Front. We do our lest. Truly Walter Winchell would sterve to death in this townl
 All over the city people are strengthening up clear-eyed and full-sized. The holiday season is over Shedding Christmas trees are going down, employees seeing 12 months between now and Christmas bonus-time are acting their natural selves, housewives are again swearing off angel hair and any more of that shiny stuff that sticks to rugs. and nobody is wishing anybody happy anything. Normalcy has set in.
 Smoke Smudge from little atoms of Democracy hitting together, or item for the Juneau Odditorium: Peter Wood, publisher of the Alaska News letter, explaining to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce CUpon cordi- ally-extended invitation) why Ju- neau is 'mossbacked and not the most logical place in Alaska for the Capitol's location'
 Even if the New Year is already walking around on chubby little legs, we'd like to retrogress to its birth day again. The biggest and one of the most-fun-ish parties of the Eve was the Gruening's gay subscription party. Each of the l07 guests, all young friends of the two Governor cites, paid a head-price for admis- sion, which covered the nights re- treatments, brand new note in Ju- neau entertaining that should grow into something with this years social whirls. Juneau has long been known for it's penchant for big par ties. Unfortunately big parties are not healthy for pocketbooks, and "You Bring the Duck" party vopue has great potentialities here. The party at the House of the Totem had a number of gay innovations, including scattering of clever pla- cards that we won't delineate in this colymn since we didn't think them up and a representation of the New l946 Year by Clark Gruening, the baby Governorette, dressed in a red ribbon stomacher and the usual abbreviated costume of the New Year.
 The rumor you heard about blood streaked $1OO bill being investigated is true. A certain gentleman in town circulated the bill more than a week and a half ago. The bill was re- ported to the Marshal recently and sent to the laboratory. Chicken blood" came back the anaylsis from the laboratory. Meanwhile, the streakee was safely away, softly chuckling to himself. He does not plan to return to Juneau.