The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-15
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EIllOi, Dtily AldShd Ei4il-A- e'
 Juneau, Sept Is
 Dear Sir:-In reference to an ar ticie carried on the front page of your edition of Saturday, 13 Sep temeer 1947, we the undersigned wish to take exception to manner in which this article was handled.
 The article in question was on the arrest of Mrs Mary Do9gan for an altarcation with the local policewoman Isabel Hartung in a local night club over the right of her daughter. Rosemary, D, to at tend that night club. We believe tha. since Mrs. Mary Doogan is a long time resident of the Channel. peaceful and law-abiding citi- zen. that she deserves to have her story heard not onlg n sae court of law but in the local new paper which reaches a greater number Of citizens. We believe that the citizens of this community have right to know that 'Tr Can Hap pen Here" even as it has happened in other places where people get carried away with little author ity and very little common sense. The story the way it actually hap rened and it's consequences, i3 this:
 Miss Rosemary Doegan did op the night of Il September 1947 at tend party given by Mir and MS. James Richardson on the terrace of the Bubble Room and attcalsd ty the ndelsigned, which ino.uC-5 her bgoJ,ae,, aged 24, and seye.al rsp,c who have since left foe tae ssae Upon entering this ri clLb, LcwcTs~ We were in fc.-e sy tle manag.r that since Mi Doegan vas not acc0r1panie1 Ly her legal guardian that she could not stay since she was under % and that he has been given Instructions " the local law en- forcement agency that she was net to kc allowed upon ths prem ises unless accompanied by her guardian. Miss Doogan then left the Bubble Room, returned to her home. and then returned to the Bubble Room with her legal guard ian, her mother, Mrs. Mary Doc gan The policewoman then en- tered the night club and the al legged" alteTcation followed in which Mrs. Doogan questioned trc police wcman's handling Of her job. It 1t understood by the undersigned that the law is clear in that a minor cannot attend a liquor dis pensary without their legal guard ian. It is not clear though to either the undersigned or Mrs. .Dcogan that this law is enforced lat all times We know of several special privilege" cases where minors do attend liquor dlspen- sar.es in this city without ever being disturbed It is also not clear to us, all of whom are of age, why she should see fit to dis turb anyone who is a minor who is attending such an establishment with respectable people who are her friends and are known to be her mothers friends. When a re- spectable woman, mother, is placed in the local jail because an autocratic police official refuses tc listen to reason, then we believe that it is time that either the policeWoman is dismissed or VIC give the country hack to the Rus sians. Mrs. Doogan is a Gold Stal Mother of World War II with a son buried on Leyte, P. l., and we wcn6sr if that son perhaps dic die in vain; Democracy is a won 6erful thing, but 1t takes a lot more than high-flown talk tc make it work Policemen and PoliceWomen come under it too and lit starts in the smallest commun- ities. When a respectable woman is placed under arrest, placed in a cell with a drunken woman, and it