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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
DEM0LAYS INITIATE
and ELECT OFFICERS

The Royal Arch Gunnison Chap
ter, Order of DeMolays, had initia-
ton and also elected officers at
the meeting held in the Scottish
Rite Temple last night.
For the first time in the history
of the Chapter, father, who was
a charter member. assisted in init
ating his son. Daniel LIVE was the
father and John D. LIVE the son
The DeMolay degree was also
conferred upon Elton E. Epgstrom
Jr., Clyde M Jensen. John E
Schmitz, Arthur o. McKinnon
Graham Rountree and John E. Day
The following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing term:
Master Councillor, Robert Croken
Senior Councillor, Donald MacKin-
non, Jr.; Junior Councillor, Carl
Weidman; Treasurer, Fred Wyller.
Installation of officers will be
held on August 25.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
ISRAEL NOW IN UNITED NATIONS

The admission of israel to membership In the
United Nations determined by the General Assembly
recently lends permanence the state and sabil-
ity to the long troubled Middle East.
Because of the requirement of a two-thirds vote
for admission of members, election is equivalent
to diplomatic recognition by the great bulk of nations
of the world because the Security Council must
recommend new members by seven affirmative votes
including the great powers, II countries have been
refused membership About half of those rejected
by means of a Soviet veto.
Israel has been fortunate since the Soviet
Union and the United States have often been in COM
petition to be of assistance to the Israelis Indeed the
prolonged controversy Palestine and Israel is one
of the few major issues before the UN which never
became an outright bone of Soviet American conten-
ton
Having voice now in the work of the UN Israeli
leaders can go ahead with their regional problems
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
GREGG LIBEL SUIT
SEEKS $4,000
OF ; vACC0 men

The already confused affairs Of
the Veterans Alaska Cooperative
Company and the Port Chilkoot Co.
have become further involved with
the filing of damage suite against
three of the World War II veterans.
Burke Edwards, Richard l.. Mer-
rick and Kenneth p Gregg, Sr.,
ask $4,000 and costs OF Carl Helm
miller, Edward S. Koenig. Jr., and
Steve Larson Homer
The plaintiffs represented by
William L. Paul, Jr., seek 100000
as compensatory damages. and $780,
eco exemplary damages, for alleged
" false and Iibelous statements.
Two Of the defendants filed dam
age suits against Gregg in recent
weeks. Koenig for sci 900 and Helm
miller, s25 COO.
The first suit in the series which
has kept some action in court al
most continuously was filed August
13, 1913, at Anchorage, and was
transferred in September to this
division.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
Tentacles Reaching Out
Seattle Times

Federal control of another industry would be on
the books if the Truman administration had its way
Secretary of Agriculture Brannans latest proposal is
legislation to provide for government control OF TIM
Der cutting Like other proposals in the direction OF
statesm it has plausible pupose hitched to it. Bran
nan saws public regulation of cutting cannot be de-
laved much longer ''if we to avoid permanent
shortage of timber"
Further extension of sound forest management
all the nations timber publicly and privately owned,
is desirable end But the notion that it cannot
accomplished by private enterprise with some aid
from the States is defeatism and a confession that
the traditional American economic system is failure.
That seems to De the philosophy in office now in
Washington d c. the ultimate motive being a total
federally controlled economy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
POST OFFICE FRowNs

What happened was that last fall
post office inspectors reported that
this post office in a Maryland cow
pasture should be closed.
The Lilypons post offices serves
no patrons except the Three
Springs Fisheries and the Thomas
Supply Company" states the official
report. Mail is not received for
any other firm or persons. The
employees of the companies num-
Der only ten. and the employees do
not live at Lilypons.
AT this season of the year, in
coming mail to the firms at Lily
pons is small in amount, sometimes
only five pieces are received. Dur
ing the peak season about 100 pieces
of mail are received daily Mail
dispatched varies according to the
season of the year and the amount
of advertising done. hut will average
about rs pieces.
Discrimination of the post off
ice at Lilypons will not work any
hardship on the Three Springs
Fisheries or the Thomas Supply
Company 1t will, of course, bt
necessary for them to receive anc
dispatch mails at Adamstown, g..
miles away, or through the Adam
town rural carrier, IL miles away
and the company will be reprived Of
rent and the mail messenger allow.
ance; the former amounts $500 {
year and the latter to $3.50 a year
contract for which is held b.
Thomas Fisheries, Inc 1t is neces
.sary, however for the Thre,
Springs Fisheries to dispatch
truck or other vehicle to Adams
town every day for the purpose o
shipping their fish by express.
The department is of the opin
ion that the Lilypons post offic
should be discontinued, conclude
the report, 'inasmuch as it woul
not work a hardship on the tw
companies and it would save tn
department money"
In other words, the Goldfis
company not only got the benef
of a private post office, but wa
paid $500 year rent by Uncle SAL
and $500 year for truck hire, 0
top of which George Liecestt
Thomas, Jr.. one of the owners {
the firm. served for time as posi-
master.
At first the Maryland Senator
made no objection to closing tn
post office in a COW pasture. The
suddenly the Thomases, owners {
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
SOCIOLOGICAL MAPPING
OF MT. Mckinley PARK
STARTING NEXT MONTH

Arriving in Juneau on the Aleu-
ian enroute to Mount Mckinley
National Park to start the ground
word for the geological mapping
If the park area is Roaert E. Fell
cws.
Working out the Mckinley Park
Station, Fellows said that the first
7ear's work will gather informa-
ion on rock types, routes of &C
;ess to them, and terrain types in
order to plan effectively the work
or the succeeding years. 1t will
axe 10 years to complete the map
ping of the park. The only map in
existence of the park area is re-
;onnaissance map made several
ears ago by the Geological Survey.
With his one assistant, data will
be gathered on the above items and
in the winter months the labora-
tory work and assembling of the
iata will be done The job will be
IN operation the year around.
The geological mapping is of in
crest to the park service and the
Alaska Railroad as well as the Geo.
.ogical Survey The park service
needs the geological information.
Since the railroad travels along the
eastern boundary of the park, in
formation as to the location OF
roadbed material for repair work
is necessary.
With DR.. Fellows are his vile
md child They will be visiting with
The B. D. Stewart family until they
leave about June /. Mrs. Fellows
/, daughter of the Stewards.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
ALASKA VS.. HAWAII

A hot backstage row over state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii has
the House Rules Committee in a
tizzy.
Republican members led by Ohio's
Clarence Brown, have served no.
tice on Chairman Adolph SABBATH
of Illinois. Democrat. that they will
block statehood for Alaska, which
normally votes Democratic. unless
SABBATH also agrees to act on state
hood for Hawaii, which is controlled
by the COP.
Republicans contend that if AL
aska is to have two Democratic
Senators, then Hawaii is entitled to
two Republican Senators.
Statehood for both territories was
promised in the Democratic plat
form, but SABBATH evinces little in
terest in Hawaii In this he is pri-
vately supported by Speaker Sam
Rayburn. For the two Democratic
leaders haven't forgotten how the
Republicans rammed Hawaiian
statehood bill through the House in
the Both Congress with no thought
of Alaska. Later the bill died in
the Senate
ocrats
Meantime, Rules Committee Dix
iecrats, led by Georgia's Gene Cox
are opposed to Hawaii supposedly
because of Communist influence IL
! the Islands. Ironically, the Com
munists' chief propaganda weapon
is the refusal of Congress to gran
promised statehood And the rea
reason for Dixiecrat opposition il
the fear that Hawaii would SEM
Japanese-Americans to Congress.
Meanwhile, Joseph Harrington
Hawaii's COP delegate to Congress
. points out that statehood woul,
be vote of confidence causin
many workers in the Islands to re
nounce leftist leaders.
Note-Inside betting is that state
hood bills for both Alaska an
Hawaii will die in the Rules Com
mittee unless they are forced OF
by discharge petition. Even som
; of the strongest, liberal champion
/ of the Truman platform are no.
= saying that Alaska is too small" I
f have two Senator's.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
Daily Lessons in English " %. l. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MIsUsED plural
otherwise the PAIRS Two
of Many PAIRS of stockings"
OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED Pronounce in All,
second syllable
MISSPEILED Although and word All right;
duplicate replica reproduction counterpart
Todays word:
accent second
abe think easily captulate to badges
names. large societies nstuions-Emerson
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
JUNEAU SITE 10 GO
ON OCTOBER BALLOT

At this weeks meeting of the
Territorial Board of Administration,
the group authorized the subcom-
mittee handling investigation eon-
corning site for the proposed new
Territorial building to recommend
that the City Council put the ques-
ton to the voters at the October 4
municipal election
The Territorial Board has re-
cuested the site of the A. B. Hall.
According to Lew NJ Williams,
Acting Governor, no action could
possibly be taken before that time,
anyway, as no, funds would be
available.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
MODERN ETIQUETTE By $oRrRrA rrr

Is good the of the
coffee?
Yes this is far better than burning the mouth perhaps put
ering the should left
the and the coffee slipped from the
all right bride married of
her bridesmaids?
A. Yes; this is quite often done.
writing application position should
written by typed?
typewriter letter for this preferred Some bust
applicants
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
COMMITTEE FOR
JULY 4TH D0INCS
Meets next week

Mayor Waino Hendrickson will
call a general meeting for COM
mittee work ON Juneau's Fourth
of July doings early next week and
the hall will be started rolling for
the big event
In the meantime, Mayor Hen
erickson asks that all organizations
select some member to be at the
committee meeting as representa-
tive, also organizations planning a
queen for the big contest likewise
get busy and lineup candidates.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
The Washington
kerrY-6o-Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
Continued from Page l.

two men who own the eoldflsn
company hired two attorneys close
to Senators Tydings and OConor
Prior to that. the two Senators
seemed quite willing to close the
post office. But after their bosom
friends were retained, suddenly they
didn't though Senator O'Conor
says he merely attended a meeting
in Tydings' office and is not par
ticularly interested.
The story sounds fantastic put
illustrates certain points set forth
BY the Hoover Commission recently
regarding post office waste and
subsidies. The Lilypons post office
appears to be such subsidy to
the Three Springs Fisheries Com
pany.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

the goldfish company, retained
Francis Petrott, close friend OF
Senator O'Conor, and William
Storm, close friend of Senator Tyd-
ings. This was approximately nine
months ago.
Since then the official recomman-
dations of the Post Office Depart
ment, PLUS the protests OF many
taxpayers in the vicinity, have been
i ignored.
Lilypons, Md. still remains oper
sometimes receiving only five
I pieces of mail q day.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
DISPLAY BEING PREPARED
FOR CHICAGO RR. FAIR

At the request of officials, the
Alaska Development Board is pre-
pairing a comprehensive display tea-
turing business and industrial op-
portunities in Alaska, for exhibit at
the Chicago Railroad Fair.
This annual show opens June IS
and will continue for 100 days Last
years fair drew an attendance oil
2ia millions visitors.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
LOOK and LEARN s%y G. GORDON

What the difference weight between
a cubic
What VcePesidents the Presidents?
How barrels a hogshead?
S.. What the only body perspire?
ANSWERS:
pounds
weighs 572
g..
Fillmore.
Arthur, Coolidge
5.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

WITH new advantages and With greater sconfidence.
And because its population is drawn from so many
parts of the world Israel already has the breadth
of interests which makes for useful participation IN
the general election activities of the UN
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
GOVERNOR TO RETURN
HERE LATE NEXT MONTH

Gov Ernest Gruening, who has
made an extended stay in Washing
ton. D. c., is expected to return
here late in June, according to WORD
received by Acting Governor Lew M
williams. The Governor will at
tend the three-day Governors Con-
ference at Colorado Springs, Colo.
before starting back.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

the regher Dupere dairy her place
sunny Place Highway specializing
in unseparaed milk
Helen the Moose baseball dance
which attended by about 500 persons
important of the Alaska Road
left Seward and six
sections of the Mckinley Park Steese and
highways. Aft
Edith Sheelor in the
the States
The annual money
Auxiliary Wear
Poppy The poppy through Day
McKanna receiving congratulations the
birth of at home
called extiguih flames baz
afire from backre the
reported by the Phil Joliet
Scouts the Scout
virtually for the
mer encampment the party
Ambrose Hie Erickson,
Tom Dull Melke, Douglas L. Redingshafer, B.
birth a daughter AIMS
mother and child we'll
Weather: High 3d. low, 46; partly cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
WILLIAM BOOTH RETURNS

The William Booth, Salvation
Army missionary boat, arrived back
in the small boat harbor yesterday
afternoon with Major and Mrs.
Eric Newbould, Mrs Capt. johann
sen, and Capt Henry Lorenzen on
board. The boat left last Saturday.
Meetings were held and official
business transacted in Hoonah, Sit
ka and Tenakee. The next trip
for the William Booth will be June
"a.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
T I d E T A b = E
MAY %

Now is the Time to put your fur
coats in storage. We have the only
cold fur vault in Juneau. Come III
to our office. Chas. .Goldstein
and Co. 81 If
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

Now is the time to put your fur
coats in storage. We have the only
cold fur vault in Juneau. Come n
TO our office. Chas. Goldstein
and Co 81 II
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. ~
SECOND and FOURTH
Monday of each month *
in Scottish Rite Temple ~
beginning at 7:30 p. m. .Ey ~
GLENN o. ABRAHAM, W.
Worshipful Master; "
JAMES w. LEVERS. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27
20 YEARS AGO {F yfT EMPIRE
MAY 81, 1929

four and Ford truck on
ehter dairy her place
the Highway specializing
in whole unseparated milk
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

Helen the at the Moose baseball dance
n the Fair Building attended
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

Hemle taking the place of Mrs Edith Sheeor in the
r. Robertson during Sheelors absence
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-05-27

To important the Alaska Road
left Seward and six
sections of the Mckinley Park Steese and
Evening star., 1949-03-16
Second Spring

Not one had ever heard the like before,
Let alone find it at his oUn front door,
Lilacs budding and blooming all over again,
And pear and apple. The sight Of them
filled hard men
With soft and speechless tDonder. They
rubbed their chtns.
1t pas the time of year to be filling bins,
Not starting with blossoms. But maybe
they had right
To finish of ,oith one more futtering sight
Before the freeze. 1t had taken the hardest
hail
In county history, tattening IKE tail,
TO make it so-skinning, as toould lash,
Leaues at their tul, slash upon knotted
slash.
Not one ,Diu euer forget ho,o the sun rose
That summer daUn on death bleaker than
When trees as stark as plucked to,ols lined
the street.;
Nor the repetition of glory. Out OF defeat,
Fresh from lingering haze, Darmly
compelling,
Came sight of ,,ep buds on the branches
swelling
Till morning in mid-Septenber dretn
breath Uith May.
our o,Dn came short. We balanced dream
bouquet,
Lopelier for the light OF the soon lost,
Tenderly on a sill OF remembered frost.
ISABELLE BRYANs LONGFElLOW.
Evening star., 1949-03-16
New York's Wiretoppino Furor

If the persons involved in the wire
tapping plot in New York City were
motivated by desire to promote good
government, they could not have chosen
a more absurd way Of going about their
task. Good government is not promoted
by breaking the law-and that is Just
what the New York wiretappers were
doing when they undertook to listen in
on City Hall and other official telephone
lines without court authority.
The full story of the sensational case
remains to be revealed. Charges and
countercharges, many of them political
in nature, have been flying 50 thick
and fast that 1t is difficult to keep
track of the ramifications. The known
fact Is that former city detective
has been indicted for allegedly violating
New York's strict antiwiretapping law,
which prohibits interception OF telephone
or telegraph messages except by law
enforcement officers armed with court
orders applying to particular cases. The
grand jury questioned Clendenin Ryan,
Fusion opponent Of the city admin
Evening star., 1949-03-16
What Is Secret About 1t?

The Interior Departments deals with
the s. G. Leoff1er Company for operation
of the public golf courses ought to be
investigated by Congress. Representative
Rivers of South Carolina has introduced
a resolution proposing such an investiga-
ton and also has bill to prohibit further
leases until the matter has been gone into.
An investigation would clarity what at
present appears to be curious situation.
One of its angles is a report now In the
hands of the Recreation Board which
purports to be thorough analysis OF the
Leoffier contract and how it has worked
out over the past four years. The Recrea-
ton Board had long argument yesterday
over whether to make it public, with the
Interior Department representative argu-
ing against making it public, at least until
he had opportunity to analyze the analysis.
OF course it should be made public. But the
report ought to be examined by COM
nittee in Congress that can decide some
of the controversial elements involved.
The Star never has believed that the
public, which owns the golf courses, Is
getting what it should have for its money
out of the present arrangement. The
creation Of the Recreation Board, charged
with development of all types of recrea-
ton in Washington, brought into being
the logical agency to take over the courses
and plow back all profits into their i'm
provement But the Interior Department
has not co-operated with the Recreation
Board and continues to make its own deals
with the Leofller Company, which has
found in the operation of the public
courses an enterprise profitable enough
to keep it interested.
If the best way to run and develop
these courses in the public interest is to
continue to turn them over to q private
operator, we'll and good. But the public
ought to be shown that this is the case
beyond any reasonable doubt. And Mr..
Rivers might take the mysteriously secret
report of the Recreation Board as
starter and 90 on from there.
Evening star., 1949-03-16
Something Big

For more than q week now the outside
world has been puzzling over the mean
ing Of the shake-up in the Soviet high
command. Despite almost boundless spec
ulation, however, the mystification still
remains. All we can be sure Of is that
the Foreign Ministry has passed from the
hands of Molotov to the hands Of Vish-
insky, that once-favored comrade named
Voznesensky has been relieved Of his
duties as head Of the Stain FiveYear
Plan, and that number of lesser lights
have been removed from posts of varying
importance.
Beyond that, nobody on this side of
the Iron Curtain can be sure of anything
when 1t comes to trying to figure out
exactly what the changes portend. Guesses
can be made. 1t Is not unreasonable, for
example, to say that Voznesenskys de-
parture may indicate that Russia has
been doing poorly with its economic pro-
gram. Nor Is it unreasonable to say that
Molotov has given way to Vishinsky for
either or both of two causes: Cd To
prepare himself for possible succession to
the position held by the aging Stain, and
90 to leave the Foreign Ministry because
he is identified with one kind Of policy
at moment when another impends.
These and number of similar explana-
tions can all be advanced with plausbility,
but no one of them, really, is authoritative
enough to be taken at face value. The
Soviet Union-riddle, mystery and enigma
wrapped up inside each other-moves in
devious ways. When it does not clarity
its actions it seldom does-the out
side onlooker can do no more than
speculate over variety of uncertainties.
But If the Soviet shake-up thus is
battling there can be little doubt about
1t in this sense: That in the past all
such changes have preceded significant
revisions in either domestic or foreign
policy and that it therefore seems reason
able to assume now that something big"
as one speculator has put it's in the
wind. Just what that thing is, however,
whether good or bad, is the question
which no Westerner appears capable of
answering with certainty at this time.
Lacking an explanation from the Kremlin
ITSELF it is a thing likely to be clarified
only by the unfolding of events them
selves. The real answer probably will
have to be found there.
Evening star., 1949-03-16

istration and organizer of Clean
Government Committee" Mr.. Ryan told
reporters he had no knowledge of the
wiretapping.
Whether the abortive tapping scheme
was inspired by politics or something
more sinister, 1t was a lawless act which
deserves the fullest exposure and which
calls for stern punishment of those guilty.
This sort of eavesdropping is justified only
as an aid to law enforcement-and then
only when surrounded by adequate re-
straints against indiscriminate use There
is no place in good government for any
other employment Of the technique.
Evening star., 1949-03-16
Will Everett

The friends of William Wade Everett
always have thought of his gentleness as
being a characteristic trait. He justified
the poet Chaucer'S definition of gentle
man" as: "He is gentle that doth gentle
deeds" Hundreds of people will remember
the third president of Woodward g.
Lothrop for his kindliness. But behind
that obvious quality there was habit of
mind and heart which was much more
than an accommodation, a mere polite
ness.
Mr. Everett was an outstanding example
of what results in terms of constructive
personality when practical Christian ideal
ism and the honorable pursuit of business
or trade are brought together. He was
q devoted churchman and q teacher Of