The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1939, Page 4

e, “ lwni - L » . 3 k E L ’osc of which was a suggestion in 1861 that all America Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY MELEN TROY BEN R. L. BERNARD - Second and the director of the enterprise. The conduct of Spaln President ess Manager and the alleged attitude of England and Russia toward tating this gigantic conflict; and agents were to be Post o pe: Second Class Matter. | .ont into Canada, Mexico and Central America to e SUBSCRIPTION RATES pos arouse a spirit of hostility to European intervention. s -"‘,, ffv"fi""fp'}’,'f',‘" a0 Doustas for 81 2 2er month. | pangers from abroad would destroy the conflict at One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, In advance. $6.00: | home and the Union would be saved. When this ill promptly notify ottty | proposal was quietly put aside by the President, and ilarity in the de- Seward perceived in Lincoln a chief executive in fact | s well as in name, he dropped into his proper place, ind as Secretary of State rendered services of inesti- mable value to the nation. At the same time that Lincoln was assassinated, Seward was attacked at his home by Lewis Powell, ers ess Office eir paper hones: New of P Business Office, Teley Office, 602 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. y i to the use for to it or mnot also the local news “TALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER \ias Payne, a fellow-conspirator of - John Wilkes THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION — | Booth, The Secretary’s son and :three others who came to his assistance were also wounded by the as- __ |sailant. Seward’s wife, an invalid, received such a shock that she died within two months, and his| only daughter, who witnessed the assault, never re- covered from the eff of the scene and died within the year. Seward gradually regained his| health and remained in the Cabinet of President, Johnson until the expiration of his term in 1869. The Alaska purchase took place two years after the | assassin’s attack. In 1872 he died at his home town, Auburn, New York. | ' Besides Alaska, Seward negotiated treaties for the purchase of the Danish West Indies, the Bay of Samana and for American control of the Ithmu. {of Panama, but none of these deals was ratified by | the Senate That the same thing could very easily have | happened to the Alaska purchase is a thought which frigtens us yet, 72 years later. SEWARD DAY Seventy-two years ago yesterday this was Rus-|did go through and Alaska will always be a monu- slan America. Sever ears ago today, on March | ment to Willilam Henry Seward. 30, 1867, at 4 oclock in the morning, through the acumen of a farsighted Secretary of State, it became Japan’s New Naval Program United States. | a part of the The name Alaska had not come into general use | (New York Times) at that time, the vast northern land being known Announcement from Tokyo that Japan intends to to Americans by a variety of outlandish names—Wal- | maintain a fleet “equal to that of the strongest naval A $ : # it power” cannot be taken too literally. The present pro- A, SR IEAn S AHNETI Zero Island, Polaria and | . eonowing as it does three previous expansion Toebergie t to be descriptive of the bleak |, ooramg (one of which is unfinished), must mean, ienry Seward had agreed place William it is true, that Japan does not wish to be too greatly to pay the Czar the magnificent sum of $7,200,000 outdistanced in the naval race which she herself did As early as 1855, during the Crimean War, the|so much to start. But this prineiple of a fleet equal to that of the strongest Power must be regarded essen- tially as a reiteration of Japan's old demand for naval parity—that demand which prefaced her abrogation of the naval treaties and which helped thereby to lead to the present unlimited construction of men-of-war all over the world. For there is good reason to believe that Japan does not wish to, and in sober fact cannot, equal the great construction program of Great Britain and the United tates—the only two naval Powers which maintain stronger than Japan's. The financial drain on J"A]Mul se etonomy, already forced to carry a regular Emperor of Rus seize Russian America the United States. a, fearing that the English would offered to sell the territory to The offer was declined. During President Buchanan’s administration negotiations for purchase were opened, but called off by Russia after an offer of $5,000,000 had been made. It was just 72 years ago last night that Seward, Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President John- son, began his big deal which was finally closed after some good tr g at 4 o'clock the following morning. » Secretary was at home that evening, in his . . i The Secretary was at home that Ve me o .| Dillion-dollar budget during the 1839-40 fiscal year and residence in the national capital, historlans tell US|, evtraordinary Chinese war budget of $1.350,000.000 playing a game of whist. The deal for Russian Ameri- | 516 is too severe to support a program really com- The Russian Min- ward r some time was announced at the Se! 1t ca had been pendin ister, Baron de Stoeck! home with an importa “I have a dispatch from my government by cable.” he said. “The Emperor gives his consent to the ces- sion of Russian Amer! Tomorrow I will come to | parable quantitatively with the programs started here and in Europe. Moreover, there is considerable doubt at Japanese shipbuilding firms and her heavy indus- can handle a program of the magnitude required to give Japan parity in fact rather than in theory. Certainly, if we were to limit. our exports to her of machine tools and of scrap steel she would be hard put message. a the State Department and we will enter upon a treaty to finish her present program, much less to initiate the Seward revealed his qualities as a great trader projected one. “Why W he asked,'“Let us begin with ‘the} But, although the Tokyo announcement may be treaty right now.” | taken merely as a restatement of a theoretical position, it unfortunately tends to intensify the naval race already joined in qualitative, if not so much in quan- titative, detail. It is now generally believed in Wash- ington and London that Japan is constructing from two to four 40,000 to 46,000 ton capital ships armed with 16-inch guns, ; Through the hours of the night they dickered, the Yankee trader and the Russian seller. The Russian’s price was ten million and Seward countered with an offer of five million. The in-between offers and counter proposals probably never will be known but here were two good traders on a “deal” so they were| for the Lion and the Temeraire, 40,000-ton vessels, and probably many and varied. Finally a seven million | we have projected two $100,000,000 monsters of 45,000 dollar figure was reached, with a reservation. Theltom Accordingly, if the new Japanese program fol- Russian Fur Company held some franchises and priv- | lows the pattern of the past, it may well influence us fleges that would have to be bought off. Seward of- | to design faster and stronger (and perhaps larger, fered $200,000 more for clear title; and the Alaska me}hobwm‘. with b conssoppniginereass in. Gogt pag purchase was made. With approaching dawn of Sat- | ;X:r“l:'?'l:vr than is Japan; urday, March 30, 1867, the treaty signed and Secretary Seward had bought something What a time he had convincing the United States Benate, which had to ratify the treaty, that it w: something worth the “An inhospitable, and God-forsaken re-| glon,” the opposition called the vast country Seward had bought. Less than two cents an acre was the| g price but Senators argued it was too much. Confir-|Pay increases, thanks to the benevolent action of 11 Duce. To a casual observer this might seem to indi- mation was secured largely as the result of a musterly“:me that Pascism is most generous to its’ working address by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, | ..o anq that Iialy is making substantial economic | Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-lprogl“\ under the benign guidance of the former tions, who summarized all that was then known re-|Socialist newspaperman who now governs in Rome. garding the territory. The treaty was ratified May A slightly less casual observer, however, will note but it is a discouraging was | process which adds to the already great burden of | weary taxation bearing which the world's taxpayers dll‘ a; price. tched innati Enquirer) The 7,000,000 industrial workers of Italy are to get 26. Articles were exchanged and the treaty pro-)that the generosity of the Pascist regime is rather claimed by President Johnson June 20. . sharply circumscribed. Pay increases will range from Considerable difficulty was experienced in obtain- 5 to 10 percent. This does not even begin to make up ing the necessary appropriation to consummate the | (O the reductions in o a drastic deflatig rogram. pul (h.c e . The apy x(|)n\l‘nn bill, however, was passed K more observant person will note also that on July 14. A controversy over which country was 0| the averaze hourly wage of industrial workers in Italy meot the cable expenses incident to the purchase then | has been 211 lire. On a wage of 11 cents an hour the arose. Russia refused to pay her share and the bill| was finally settled by the United States after the cable company had reduced the amount. The formal transfer of Alaska to the United States took place at Sitka, historic Capital of Russian 1 ; _ America; on Ottober 18" 1857 THe Ameican “fiag to the absolute centralization of economic power under | Fascism, to the shockingly low standard of living of which was run up after the Russian banner came| he Italian masses, and to the arbitrariness with which down now reposes in the Alaska Historical Mu\oum‘;_onom ¢ changes are made. Americans may well here, « notice such news dispatches as these. This is Seward’s Day. Let's have a closer look at ‘The individual man has sunk to a low level when e man than most of us have ever taken befdre. he becomes one of 7,000,000 who must look up to a A New Yorker, he studled law but soon drifted dietater and say “thanks, boss"—in gratitude for a into politics. From the State Senate, to which he|¥28%inctease from 11 to 12 cents a day. was elected when only 29, he went on to become Gov- erncr of New York. In that office he favored a con- tinuance of works of internal improvement at public ¥ expense, although bitterly criticized because the State g into debt as a result of the policy. He at-| tional attention for his liberal and humane | governmental actions. One of the earliest political cpponents of slavery, he went on to the United States Senate to fight it. The famous statement that there “an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States b A LS e must and will, sooner or later, become either vnnre]\i Shaive's Bephtor White intraMubs® & fesoiohie a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labour na-| -ajling for investigation of the Federal Communica- tion” was his and created a great stir | dons Commission and its control over radio. Perhaps Seward , might have been President. As x'v('og-! he committee can do semething about crooners, static nized leader of the new party, his nomination by the| nd lcquacious announcers, Republicans in 1856 and in 1860 was regarded as cer- | 2 5 e ek tain; but in each instance he was put aside for an-| cther. The heterogeneous elements of the new party pation in the world War will not be completed be- e 1845. By that time it ma, e necessary ste could not be made to unite on its No. 1 man, and he| S Y ime it may be necessary to start ; .| cempiling anot military chronicle. was considered less ilable” than Fremont in 1856 | B Yo and Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln’s Secretary typical Italian workman must admit there was plenty of room for improvement. Living is not cheap in Iialy, and feeding a family on 80 cents a day is some- thing less than luxu The decree ord T Department of Genealogy (Philadelphia Record) Associated Press dispatch from Los Angele “Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt announced the birth it Geod Samaritan Hospital today of a daughter, Wendie. Mrs. Vanderbilt is the former Molly Hudson, niece of Charles 8. Howard, who is the owner of Sea- niscuit.” ’ And Seabiscuit is the son of Hard Tack, who was a brother of War Admiral and a son of Man of War. was Arniy officers say the official history of our par- He of State and won his firmest place in history as a member of the Civil War Cabinet Seward was a man full of grand schemes, grand- became “Papa” Dionne's reluctance about taking the quin- tupets to see the King and Queen must be due to a feeling that five of a kind top a king and queen, even away from the poker table. go to war against most of Europe, with himself as toward Santa Donringo, of France toward Mexico the seceded states were to be the grounds for precipi- | This is a process which we are able to bear | ing pay increases calls attention | %roscope , “The stars incline FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939 tion, benefic aspects seem to dom- ly fortunate time for women. ness, It is lucky for actresses I both stage and screen. News that promises benefits for women is prognosticated. This may take the form of concessions in in- ‘d\Mnet not previously hospitable to | the employment of ‘girls. | This is believed to be a lucky day ‘ror writing love letters. Suitors may | expect the right answers ito their protesttations of devotion. As the month ends the stars seem 'to smile upon workers and there i | a prophecy of victory in labor con- tes Widespread employment is forecast. | Mars Is in mreatenlng aspect ! presaging the spread of Wwar fears and the thwarting of peace efforts. of , Women are believed to-have a limit- | ed power in preventing the United | con- | States from entering foreign | flicts. According to the portents for the remainder of the spring, women's | protests will Be insistent »: Organizations will gain in exccuuve |ability and general influence. | Persons whose birthdate it is have 1lhz- augury of a year. of prosperily Property holdings should be prof table, but care in selecting agents should be exercised. Children born on this day prob- ly will be strong in physique and| determined in character. Many of these Aries subjects succced leaders in politics, Oratory is cne of their talents. (Copyright, 1939) - ee— NINE TAKE RIDE ON GOAT AT 420 LODGE MEHING Nine Juneau men sprouted antlers and rode the goat last night as the Elks Lodge, No. 420, held initiation| ceremonies. Those new arrivals in local Elks ranks were J. A. Williams, Robert M. Stoft, C. L “Jack” Popejoy, Max Balich, Frank M. Lane, Theodore Adams, C. H. Metcalfe. Raymond C Hayden and William Lindley. After the goat had been locked up, refreshments were served. | Next week the officers-for the coming year will be installed, the affair being in charge of L. W. Tur- off, past Exalted Ruler. AR i A What Is Your As a consequence Britain'has asked | ' News I Q By The AP Feature Service | Each question counts 20; each part of a two-part question, 10. A score of 60 is fair, 80, good. 1. Who is this American dancer? What ruler admired her? 2. Who are the “dear John” and “dear Bill” in almost dupli- catoe letters recently made pub- lic? 3. What attempted coup led to the death of Gen. Antonio Rodriguez? 4. The House of Representa- tives &pmved a proposal to fortify Guam, near Japan. True or false? 5. How did the names of | George V and Bismarck col | into the ne's under similar cir- | cumstances? ) } Answers on Page Six but do not compel” [ | inate. The morning is an exceeding- | Under this direction of the stars | girls should seek contracts in busi- | as| MARCH 30, 1919 Regarding the coal and dock situ- ation, over which there had been onsiderable controversy, and which had figured in the city election, J. Although nstrologers read this as|H. Montgomery, committeeman of a doubtful day in planetary direc- |the Street and Wharf committee, ing: | said that Mayor Valentine was given entire carte blanche to order coal for the city of Juneau. Roy Rutherford, | sawmill man, had purchased the in- | terest of the Worthen estate and | Charles D. Black in the Juneau saw- | mill, and was to hereafter manage he concern. 1 George Madden, superintendent »f the George M. Esterly Company, | which was operating on Dan Creek in the Nizina country, was a pas- enger on the Alaska. He was goinc north to prepare for the season’s work. A. A. Shonbeck, leading merchant »f Anchorage, passed through Ju- neau on the Alaska on his way to | his home after making a buying trip to San Francisco. H. L. Morris returned to Juneau | on the City of Seattle after making 1 business trip through the south- ern end of the Division E. J. White, Director of Publicity. But that great deal | termined as war scares gre frequent. | ,ccived a wire from V. I Hahn, of ‘Skagway who requested that three good carpenters be sent from here m assist in the erecting of a new \ bridge. | John M. Emil, head of the Val- dez Packing Company, which oper- ‘m\d a salmon cannery at Valdez, passed through Juneau with a crew | of cannery workers for the coming season, ‘ Miss E. Clementine Wahigren left | for Seattle on the Princess Mary. Highest 50; MI‘XEM}]“ et gay, accent second syllable. | PSRN Y Often Misspelled: Equilibrium; | three i's. i Synonyms: Frictior, attrition,| CHURCH HOlDS ANNUAL MEETING LAST EVENING With the devotional led by the Rev. John A. Glasse, the annual congregational meeting of the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church was | opened last evening at 7:30 o'clock. | Chairman for the evening was the | Rev. Glasse, with M. S. Whittier acting as clerk. Minutes of last year’s mécting were read, after which twenty reports on different activ- ities of the church were made, all showing good growth and excellent financial standings. R. E. Robertson was re-elected as treasurer for the church, and Claude Hirst and George Schmitz were chosen as auditors. Dr. J. F. Worley, J. W. Lievers and George Schmitz were elected as trus- tees, and following the regular meet- | ing, Dr. Worley and J. W. Lieve! Following the s on, refresh- the Fairbanks THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY MARCH 30, I939 PBirthday The Emptre er*ends congratula- tions and best wishes today, heir nirthday annivc sary .o i“e follow- MARCH 30 . | Mrs. Richard McDonald Arthur A. Griffiths George Lavall Ervin Hagerup Helen Pauline Edwards Katherine Torkelsen I MODERN Director ‘ E retary, Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 ~— Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 a.”. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 ETIQUETTE ByRob:r!nLo‘ Q. Is it all right to give a reason for not accepting a formal invita- tion? A. Yes, if one wishes to do so, though it is not obligatory. Q. Should one use a fork place butter on a piece of bread or| biscuit? A. No; the knife should be used. Q. Isn't it improper to send en- graved announcements of an en-| gagement? | | | | to] A. Yes, this is not done. [DAILY LESSONS | IN ENGLISH | - * 1 By W. L. Cordrn | “It, was the happiest family I ever| saw.” Say, “It was the happiest| family I have ever seen.” Often Mispronounced: Sagacious. Pronounce sa-ga-shus, first a as in! ask unstressed, second syllable as abrasion, rubbing, massage. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vacabulary by mastering | one word each day. Today’s word: | Hypogeous; growing or ripening un- | derground, as the peanut. " (Pro- || Dr. John H. Geyer Words Often Misused: Do not say, | LI . L B EREY Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 L DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 p.m. H DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examinaton free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 9:30 by appointment, Gastineau Hotel Annex | Bouth Franklin St. Phone 177 | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D.I Graduate Los Angeles College » of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 nounce hi-po-je-us, i as in high, o able). LOOK and LEARN By A. (; Gordon as in no, e as in me, accent third syll- ' | | | | | 1. Why is a bus boy so-called? | 2. Who was King of .Great Brit- |ain at the time of the American | Revolution? | 3. Which is the shortest of the Gospels? | { 4. On which knee does the staiue | “The Thinker” have which elbow? | 5. Which is the most thickly for-| ested country in the world? ANSWERS | | were elected as preseident and sec-| 1. BUS is an abbreviation of the | retary, respectively. Latin “omnibus,_‘ meaning all; the | The trustees this year are again |PUS boy does miscellaneous jobs. | to campaign for the congregation’s 2. George IIL | pledge to support the church and 3. St Mgrk. 4 | will further endeavor to raise the! 4 His right elbow 'on his left| budget for the year, which will be |knee. } | used for repairs as well as the us-| O Finland. | | ual necessities of the church during WISy P e 0% vear NOTICE | \ | ments were served in the Parlors of the church by members of Martha Society. B SR Louisiana’s $6,000,000 a year fur business is larger than that of Can- ada and Alaska combined. The an- nual toll in animals is estimated at 3,000,000 muskrats, 200,000 opossums, 100,000 raccoons, 100,000 mink and | 40,000 skunks, the e Compounds and vegetable cooking | | fats averaged three-tenths of a cent | {a pound lower than refined lard at Chicago during 1937, but they | were a cent a pound higher on the iaverag:: in 1938. Irene Stewart's LENDING LIBRARY BARANOF BASEMENT LOBBY New Books to Sell and Rent ] g Juneau, & The B M. Behremls Bank Alaska COMMERCIAL © and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars Social meeting of Juneau Wom an’s Club, March 31, 7:45 p.m. at| | the home of Mrs. Ray G. Day. | MRS. C. C. RULAFORD, Secretary. — .- The Rev. J. W. E. Airey, chap-, lain of the National Frontiersmen’s | Association, has a necklace made of human finger bones from the col- | lection of Major Gordon W. Lillie, | famed as Pawnee Bill. ady. [ Have Your Eyes Examined by . Dr Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Office X*audwig Nelson's Jewelry Store Phone Green 331 FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN S. FRANKLIN STREET [ OFF THE LOWER LOBBY BARANOF BEAUTY SALON LYLAH WILSON Frederics—X-ER-VAC CALL 642 TRIPLEX ‘Odorless’ DRY CLEANERS Pickup Delivery—‘Sam the Tailor’ Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel B. P. O. p. m. Visiting prothers welcome. DR. A, STEWART, Exalted Rul+ er; M. H. SIDES, Sec- MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. Second and four A\’ 'beginning at 7:30 p. m. WORTH, Worshipful ELKS meet ! Monday of each month In Scottish Rite Tem.pll “HAS., W. HAWKES- Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. every Wednesday at 8 W. U] 3 A th DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street PHONE 97—Free Delivery —— |GuySmith Next Coliseum "Tomorrow's Styles i Today” Your Reliable Pharmacists Drug Co. H. 5. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” . HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER B & MARX CLOTHING Gastineau Motor Service PHONE 727 Gas—Oil—Storage Alaska” “The Store for Men" SABIN’S 1 AN L A g e OFFICIAL MAPS OF JUNEAU—25¢ J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” l Juneau Melody House Music and Electric Appliances (Next Irving’s Market) ALASKA FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. Accounts Insured Up to $5,000 P.O. Box 2718—Phone 3—Office 11y Seward St., Juneau, Alaska Krafft’s Mnfg, & Building Co., Ine. (CABINET WORK—GLASS PHONE 62 TELEPH ONE—5I1 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$100,000 29, PAID ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU— ALASKA “The Rexall Stcre” Butler-Mauro . GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of LUNCHEON SPECIALTIES I 3 t - v Front St—Triangle Bldg.,