The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937. ‘?sibihlms of the route for the establishment of a com- mercial air line via the pole. Russia is making great advances in aviation. It is probable that no other country has a more effici- ent, nor as large, an air force. She has millions in population and those millions today are being dirécted toward making Russia premier i aviaton They are on the way to doing it, and their pro- gress should stir this country into action, particular! as pertaining to Alaska. this vast northland is going to be on that projected commercial air line. It already is on the projected round-the-world route of Pan-American. Which | means that Alaska, a possession of the United States. s £ | must have more adequate airfields and communica- i PO i g o i et A g O C Bl 0 T T going to keep abreast in commercial republication of all ches credited to it or not | supremacy Some progress has been and is being bl also the local news | g in that direction. A sum of $450,000 has been| - alloted in Federal funds to start such a program this summer. The Territory is doing all that it can| financially in furthering the cause. But this js only !a beginning if Alaska and the United States is going {to capitalize on further commercial business by air Alaska is no longer just a treasure house from | which great wealth is produced. It has become one |of the most strategic points in all Uncle Sam’s pos- |sessions, It is an important point in the defe i])rogrnm and it is located 'on the very lines of aerial | world commerce of the future. With that in mind, | Uncle Sam can afford to succor Alaska far beyond | that old comparison of dollars according to popula- | tson. Daily Alaska Empire Editor and Manager YOBERT W. BENDER - i except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska Entered matter. as Second Class in the Post Cifice in June SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in J and Douglas for §1 By mail, posta he following T One year, i an x months, i one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of livery of their papers Teleph News Office e paid. at ce, £12.00; any failure or irregularity in the de- 602; Business O1lice, 374 is ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER & THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION | | | Colored pavements are planned for the 1633 ,_‘\\'Ur!d's fair in San Francisco to make the men more The length and breadth of| HAPPY. BIRTHDAY The Empire extends comgratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: JUNE 10 Olgat J. Anderson Thomas W. Bennett Joseph P. Donahue G. Paul Ninhulls Eugene Chase Marion Edwards D e : ‘ DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH & By W. L. Gordon | +. Words Often Misused: write, “Hoping that I may be fa- yored with a prompt reply to' this ter.” Say, “Hoping I may re- ive a prompt reply Often Mispronounced Pronounce bas-i-net, a a as in in, and accent firs not the I Often Misspelled: Pecuniary; ary, not ery. Synonyms: Defenseles, powerless, helpless, exposed, unarmed. Word Study: e a word three ! ce Bassinet in at, i syllable, { romantic. It will take more than pavement to make | Don Juans out of some of us old stiffs. | | | e may be a note of consistency in fighting the | Despite protests that nhave been made for Years pimong bond debt bill one minute and crying about | against invasion by the Japanese of the Alaska fish- Alacka development another, but it would take Sher-| ing banks in Bristol Bay. no action has been taken ;.. golmes with a spy glass to find it | toward checking the aggressive competitor who| catches our fish, takes them to Japan for canning,| “Damned water at Point Barrow threatens homes” or cans them on floating canneries, and then ShibS o us o peadline. That, journalism aspirants, is abso- them back to the United States for sale at a lower lute accuracy in reporting. H price than our own product can be produced due to cheaper labor. | Now comes a fresh protest based on the report that there are 26 big Japanese fishing vessels operat- i A (Cincinnati Enquirer) ing just off the Alaskan shores and many smaller Europe recently has been closer to the brink of vessels. The situation has gotten beyond the popular ,,.ior war than at any moment in the last 19 years. belief that a couple of Japanese floating canneries The killing of more than a score of German sailors catch and pack a few fish in that area every season. by loyalist planes and the subsequent bombardment The one or two which used to be seen up there has of Almeria. with a similar death toll, have done two multiplied until, apparently, the Japanese are movi things. They have brought Italo-German intervention TIME FOR OFFICIAL ACTION IN BRISTOL BAY Revenge or Law? | | | l times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word Vitiate; to contaminate; spoil, cor- rupt. “Peevishness of life taints and vitiates what it cannot consume."—Johnsor. e — LOCK and LEARN By A. C. Gordon 3 + 1. How many acres are there in one square mile? 2. What book by Dickens ended the British custom of imprisonment for debt? 3. How long does it now take for the fastest trains to run from Chi- cago to New York City? 4. What does the lamb lize? o+ symbo- "|side and out. — ey | Do not 'department of the General L:md!llmlc(l States where the call of lhc:m office, accompanied by F. W. Wil-|wild will be answered by long s0-iCordova and the three will then begin their boat. an entire fishing fleet into our front door, deprivin: and have broken down the our American fishing companies and fishermen of just living. The evidence is mounting that the time is ripe in fact ove for the State Department, or some other department with proper authority, to act. If one of the greatest industries in the world is not to be badly crippled, or virtually exterminated must be taken to protect the Alaska fishing banks a -ripe. n Spain into the open nonintervention agreement of 2 The question of responsibi until it is known with certaint planes or the German battlesh without provocation. But the gravest from the C an bol rdment of was done by “neutral ol ships” neutral” ¢ cannot be answered vhether the loy: ip Deutschland acted nations. list danger arises steps sulting the London Nonintervention Commitiee. Almeria, for this without first con- | It revenge by hasty national action is to supplant inter- ; “neutral not a the war, to enforce peace, The situation is not beyond control yet. Japan is hational cooperation r an incitement to diplomatically smart, but she is not going to be the Patrol’ Wil become one to make advances when all she has to do s go P O NVE L Ger e fishing off our shores until official protest is made. Tt ... ng their naval forces in Spanish waters. Yet they is up to the United States with the support of Canada. phaye withdrawn from the Nonintervention. Commit- who slso suffers, to make the advances. Until official tee and are acting for themselves. This means that attention is paid to the Japanese they are going to their naval forces are no longer acting for an ipter- keep on harvesting the fish harvest in Bristol Bay as bational body to preserve peace in Europe, but are well as in other Alaska and Canadian waters, If no acting for purely national ends—intervention in action is taken, it might well result, as Senator Homer SPAin's civil war T, Bone of Washington state has forecast, in Japanese’ The London and .~ mained calm, but their warnhing invasion of all our Pacific Coast waters, and the cities ,1oa: that they will not tolerate fur down the Pacific Coast will be able to see floating jlities on the part of Italy or Germany. If Great foreign canneries right off their coasts. If Japan Britain cannot persuade the two Fascist powers to can do it, and get away with it, why can not other resume collaboration with the Nonintervention Com- nations take advantage of the same conditions? They miti¢e, and adhere to the rules it has laid down, the can, and it is not beyond the stretch of the imagina- Peace of Europe will hinge on avoidance of another tion to suppose that they will. Once entrenched the Incident. condition becomes hazardous. | Meantime, it is clear that the powers acted un- % g _ !wigely in intrusting neutral patrol duty to the two We hear a lot of international complications. We po it powers, which really belligerents—not can run into some international complications which'|,oitrals. If Rome and Berlin are to continue using may not wind up pleasantly unless diplomatic action their fleets for national ends and not for the work of is taken soon to protect the Alaskan fishing banks. |the Nonintervention Committee, the United States will have no honest choice but to extend its embargo on arms to Italy and Germany, as de facto belligerents. The question that must be answered soon is whether Hitler and Mussolini, in sending more warships, in-' tend to enforce the public law of Europe or to impdse sm on Spain. Governments have re- to Berlin makes it direct hos- Paris ALASKA’S COMMERCIAL VENTURE It is getting to be a small world, and right now, the Soviet government of Russia is taking steps to make it smaller. The Russians have established an|® " air base at the North Pole and now one of her able| are actually pilots is to fly over the route from Moscow to San‘m ggling hard to become free American citizens Francisco, non-stop, in an effort to prove the pos- ggain.—Detroit Free Press. - New Dalai Lama Hunt Continues in ' Lisa Typical Tibetan priest Search continues in far-off Tibet for a new Dalai lama to succeed the temporal and religious sov- ereign who died in December of 1933. Religious tradition in this country on “the roof of the world" stipulates that the spirit of the deceased ruler is transferred to some new-born infant. When this bapy child is found, he is adopted by the priests and trained for his high office. Several “candidates” have been brought forward, but the question has not as yet been settled satisfactorily 5 Does mahogany United States? grow in . the ANSWERS 640 acres “David Copperfield.” 16'2 hours. Innocence. Yes; in Southern Florida and on the Florida K MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee ' - ——h Q. When a man has a dinner en- gagement with a gitl and is late, should she wait for him, and hew long? s A. If the man is usually prompt, the girl should wait for at leasti forty-five minutes, as he may have been unavoidably detained Q. Is the art of cofrect speech and intelligent conversation neces- ry to hold an envied place in so-| ciety? | A" Yes: | Q. What does boeuf a la jardi- niere mean on the menu card? | A. Braised beef with vegetables.| e THE DATE Douglas Firemen's Annual Dance. Saturday June 12. adv. S e by Lester D. Henderson. | | “Alaska SIGRID’S BEAUTY SALON “YOUR APPEARANCE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY” Shattuck Bldg. Phone 313 —n PO When in Need of DIESEL OIL—UTAH COAL GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL US JUNEAU TRANSFER Phone 48———Night Phone 4703 ———d | L *- [ 20 Years Ago From The Empire o+ JUNE 10, 1917. Part of Major General John J. Pershing’s military staff had arriv- ed in Paris to begin organizing bases for supplies and concentra- tion. Albin Bartello, proprietor of the Bartello Hotel in Douglas, Was hav- ing it repainted and improved. in- Miss Helmi Aalto of 'Douglas had arrived in Juneau abeard the City of Seattle. ’ | Victor H. Wilhelm of the survey liamson, had left on the Alaska for | Anchorage to survey agricultural lands in the Susitna valley during|even more destructive than former-ipaing cnly for their boats and scl-| the summer. The Misses Gertrude beth Heid were to leave and Eliza-| on the steamer City of Seattle for the south the country. Care in watching diet time off from sellinz to engage in ‘fishing in prominent streams. and east enroute to Hampton, Vir- ginia, where Miss Gertrude was to| be married to Lieut. Charles S .Sug-| den, U. S. Aviation Corps. | Earle Hunter and Tay Bayers had | Horoscope “The stars incline but do not compel” | o+ FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1937. Benefic aspects dominate strong- ly today, according to astrology. It is a favorable time for commercial affairs, and quick fortunes are to be made by a few Americans. Travel now . will lure persons from every walk of life and ther automobile trailer will penetrate every corner of the land, it is fore- Homes on wheels will multi- ply and many wiil be occupied all through the year. The summer is to develop many odd customs con the roads of the in, | Jjourn in the forests. Forest fires this summer may be ly and may cause loss of life among|qem paint their houses. | campers. The seers ,warn of peril through excessive heat in certain parts of |4 to is enjoined. Farmers may discover new. plant pests. While they will receive! gocd prices for their products they ' ar: will meet with unexpected hazards. er As the summer quarter begins "{Paint Brokers Trio Coming to Alaska; FISH REACT Plan Air Trip BIBLE STORY istory of a fish and a minister. |It is, indeed, first cousin to Jo- nah’s sojourn within the justly fa- 4 - ous whale. Wllh Own PIaHEAWl“ thTh:‘:t?'fl;l Gus Ramage, pastor of il |the ristian Church here, went Also Do Flshmg {fishing at Stewart Mountain dam. After losing the first minnow bait SEATTLE, Junz 10.—Dana Ful-jand waiting thirty minutes or lon- ler, George Feldman and Glenn ger for another strike, he finally Carrington ' steamer Yukon Saturday to fly from b: one end of Alaska spreading the gospel of house paint- ter, he discove are . leaving on the hooked and landed & four-pound to the other{ Wher cleaning the fish houts la- g among the natives. . |which he knew by the markings and Fuller’s trim monoplane ' will, be size, hale and flipping inside : the ken north amd reassembled at!fish. The minnow, in good health, is ow on display in a glass bowl. iy tour. | ‘Now most of the natives use| | The Epworth League w1li hold an b c We hopelimpartant business meeting to- chanze their minds,” Fuller said.|morrow, 7:30 p.m., at the Methodist The trio will concentrate on Al-|Church. All Members urged to at- ka branch dealers but will take!tend. adv. - eee— Disposal of all acur stoek in ser- - e ious outbreaks of paralysis among More than 500c,.c, young trees fowls is recommended by L. F. e being planted in Mi uri ior|Payne, poultry husbandry authority n control and reforestation. |at Kansas State College. L, arrived from their mild cure camp this month, there is a sign indiCat- dufefefefefede at Chatham Straits on the latter's Lee Ricker had leased the North-' ern Laundry from the owners to; operate it-in his own name. 1 Perseverance had won fram Ju- neau in a closely contested base- ball match, scoring a lead of 5 to 4. | Capt. Dan Pullen, Alaska'’s first West Pointer, had been notified to depart for France with his Engin- eer Corps of the U. S. Army. He was to be promoted to the rank of Major before leaving America William A. Holzheimer, deputy U. S. District Attorney of Ketchi- kan, had left for the south on the Northwestern following 2 day business visit in Juneau. U. 8. Marshal J. M. Tanner had returned on the Alaska from the South where he had been in charge of a number of prisoners and of patients for the Morningside Sani- tarium. Bishop P. T. Rowe had arrived from tue South on the Alaska and was to remain in town for several days. W. R. Mulvihill, chief train dis- patcher for, the ‘'White Passy had passed throngh Juneau on the steamer Dolphin bound for the South. ‘The Juneau ball team was to meet for practice at the diamond in Last Chance Basin. | The Trinity Episcopal Church had been officially designated by Bish- op P. T. Rowe as the Holy Trinity Cathedral, and was hereafter to be the diocese center of Alas An- nouncement had been concurrently made that the Rev. A .E. Butcher of Erie, Pa, was to come to Ju- neau to assist the Rev. Guy Christian. ! Twenty-eigni eatombed men had been brought to the level of the Speculator mine at Butte, Montana, following a fire which had already| killed 36 with 167 missing. One of the 28 rescued had died, while the others were reported to be in a! critical condition. Juneau’s temperature had ranged from 45 to 50 degrees. The day had been clear. Guy Smith DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE-~ FULLY COMPOUNDED Next Coliseum Front Street PHONE 97—Free Delivery The B. M. Ba Juneau, One-Half Mi COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and Behrends nk Alaska Do ing something that the seers declare may fill men’s minds with fear. Mars will rouse the human mind to strife. | Mussclini will provoke the Brit- ish to resentment, but if he persists in warl’ke demonstrations he wi'l ultimately be most unfortunate. As- trolo; see his lucky star descend- ing. Perscns who: have the augury of a perity and progres women should profit. Children b on this day prob- i will be ambitious and indus- trious. Subjects of this sign may seck public service. Rankin, tndate it year of pros- Both men and ex-Congress- | Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include John Constable, English landscape painter, 1776; Preble Hall, general, 1848 (Copyright, 1937) - - Alfalfa increases mitrogen content of the soil even though large quantities of hay are harvest- ed each year. LUNCH Fried Froz Legs and Other Deiicacies 257 S. Franklin | | Phone 324 | & | | | | Pay’n Takit PHONES 92 or % Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We sell for CASH Leader Dept. Store ' George Brothers P i *Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Hafrer> ' t ) - Remember!!! If your "Daily Alaska Empire” has not been delivered By 6:00 P. M. PHONE 226 A copy will be sent you IMMED- IATELY by SPECIAL CARRIER. 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