The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1939, Page 4

S i Daily Alaska Empire Published every évening except Sunday br the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY WELEN TROY BENDER - - = = Preatded B. L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Bntered in the Post Office in Juneau ns Second Class Matter ———e e SUBSCEIPTION RATES, Belivered by carrler In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage pald, at the following rates Ome year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advsace, $6.00; ene month, in sdvance, §1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. es: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or ot otherwise ecredited in this paper and also the local news published beretn. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAPANTEED TO BE LARGER TaAN TMAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATTON D, G National Newspaper Representa- Los Angeles, Portland, GBORGE D. CLOVL, It Mves. with offices fn_San Franciseo Beattle, Chicugo, New York and Boston SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE- Gilbort A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Building. THINGS. ALASKA NEEDS The of aviation this week his annual need of further development Territory is emph: and old Governors the Territory Gov. John W waiting upon sized In released Troy the for the aska’s new report on the terday in Washington that Alaska's lation of in Seattle state of yes. urges instal- Today Juneau that progress is further aerial navigation Dr oath of office a aids to Ernest Gruening, headed for to take the Governor, remarks delay air in starting service r¢ ar commercial the S to on a route between Alaska and ates is costing a loss of able ¢ both ends of the line, Slownes consider mumerce institution of Seattle-Juneau air service is one of those slips 'twixt cup and lip which are hard explain. Complete performance tes over the proposed route were made by Pan Ameri- the the route the planes the lar the to planes would be bewinging winging over on regu- route on regu- and would over service last summer 1t 1o planes up to date there has not even been an announcement of the plans of the Government and company With two Governors working for the same thing, we should see results shortly ¢ wAROUBCE ¢ Fegopynengation in Goverpor, Troy's report is that full " Territorial status’ be conferred upon Alaska. This would give the people of the Territory virtual sovereignty over their own affairs, with the Federal Government' exercising more control than it does in the States. Democracy will come to Alaska some day. The Governor urges that the day be hastened. Important among Governor Troy's recommenda- tions is one that a radiotelephone network linking every hamlet in the Territory be established to make of vast Alaska a coordinated unit for attending the needs of its people. Major Edwards of the U. 8. Signal Corps is sympathetic to this aim and has urged that restrictions guarding the air channels be relaxed in order to speed institution of the service. Some headway is being made toward accomplishment of this goal. In a country Alaska there are opportunities for pre on a hundred fronts, The things Troy and Governor-to-be Gruening mended, however, are pressing needs. things, which should be placed OBEJOYFUL! came no as new, vast and undeveloped as ss beckoning which Governor have recom- They are first first Times organization Berlin dispatch to the New York “The ‘Strength Through Joy' included Russian in the list of langu ing to In six weeks, ‘Strength Through Joy' guarantees to give its clients sufficient knowledge for written or oral understanding of the language of G Now, if Russians in German—fhe wor in the original, what nasty thing were has s it is offer- workers. new ally. will turn about with of both countries can read, their Governments was it yesterday? rmany’s courses saying about each other ’ | Alaska o e e Seattle-Juneau Air Route Needed (Seattle Post-Infelligericer) year ago it was taken for that the inauguration of Juneau air service for passengers, express and was only a matter of a short time That hope was held out both by officials of Pan American Airways, who had conducted successful experimental flights with various types of equip- nent, and by Postmaster General James A. Farley. | The direct Seattle-Juneau route was preferred, both by Pacific Coast concerns having business with | Alaska and by the majority of Alaskans, as against iy competing interior route. However, while we of the Puget Sound region hive been waiting in the serene confidence that the Seattle-Juneau service would be instituted speedily, | it appears that air mail already is pouring -into | Alaska by other routes. Says the Juneau, Alaska, Empire: | “A good deal of air mail has been reaching Juneau by way of a new route in Western Canada and the Yukon Territory. Mail-leaves the United States at Great Falls, Mont., is flown to Lethbridge and northwest to Whitehorse. It is brought Lo jJuneau by PAA Electra.” | Seattle postal officials disclaim knowledge of the reported Great Falls-Lethbridge route. If it | exists for air mail, they say, they don't use it. Con- plth‘l’ul)lr Alaska-bound mail originating in Seattle, | however, is flown from Vancouver, B, C., to White- horse, at which point connections are available for Juneau and Fairbanks. And, farther east, the Fargo- | Winnipeg air service connects with trans-Canadian |lines and thence with Alaska through Whitehorse. And farther east there are still other connections. It is thus apparent that there is plenty of oppor- | tunity for passengers or mail or both to get from the United States to Alaska without passing through attle, the natural gateway. Such routes are inconvenient and numerous attach to their use. The Empire, in fact, that one air mail letter, from Olympia to required eighteen days for transmission, while a succeeding letter with three-cent postage arrived in Juneau by ship within six days, arriving l(lv)v.~l(|('l';|l)l\ in advance of the air mail letter to which it referred Because heavy | A region this attle- mail in freight will continue to be trans- ported by water, the route through Seattle will al- ways be the most convenient for general business. But if & tle is inclined to rest upon its oars, other [air routes may easily eliminate many.of the present delays and build up their services. If this result in the indefinite postponement of service, it would be highly detrimer o {the best interests of both Alaska and the Puget | Sound Clearly what is needed is prompt action on the proposed ~ Seattle-Juneau vice. Let’s find out what is delaying it! o Rush (New York Times) ’ News from Dahlonega, Ga. adds a footnote, per- haps a paragraph in the text, to the colorful history of American gold mining. It is 90 years since Sam Brannan galloped up Market Street, San Fran- cisco, waving a small buckskin bag and shouting, “Gold! Gold from the American River!” It is more than 80 years since footloose thousands, thrown out of work by the depression of 1857, heard that gold had been discovered if Colorado. The first year’s pickings were lean. Then came the rich placer finds at Jack- son's Diggings and Grego Diggings on Clear Creek. One item of interest today appears in accounts of these discoveries. This is that the first lucky miners came from the State of Georgia and included some Cherokee Indians. These had learned and practiced their trade in the neighborhood of Dahlonega. Thus history completes one of its minor cycles. The gold of Dahlonega was probably first unearthed in the late Eighteen Twenties. It precipitated the first American gold rush, which had most of the character- istics of all the later ones, including fighting, gambling, drinking and trouble with the previous inhabitants— in this case the peaceful, progressive and law-abiding Cherokees. Gold miners from Georgia went west to California, doubled back to Nevada and Colorado, went into the Black Hills, were probably to be found in the | Klondike and perhaps occasionally in the Rand in South Africa. Their spiritual if not lineal descendants are now riding planes instead of driving burros into | the mining regions of Canada. If the quartz vein reported from the Calhoun Mine, near Dahlonega, really assays $60,000 a ton, as is stated, it will make the Comstock or the Mother Lode of California look sick. Estimates of gold-bearing veins can generally stand some discounting, even before they appear in a prospectus. Gold has been profitably extracted by modern methods when the ore had a content of only three or four dollars a ton— possibly even less in some cases. There will be no rush to Dahlonega, for the gold- bearing land is already staked out. There may be a little flurry of gold-edged gold-mine stock, which the investor, one hopes, will examine with care before buy- | ing And meanwhile, against the sky, one sees again the covered wagons rolling, the patient burros bearing their burdens, Marshall, Gregory or Jackson straight- |ening up with a wild yell, and the swift tumult in iesert regions that comes when yellow grains are seen in sand or quartz. paid back to mankind what it cost—but what a pageant it has furnished! » Politics makes strange bedfellows—but stranger. s make Steel Plants Work Day and Night for War Some of the thousands of workers in a plant of the C , for one of the biggest payrolls in years. The Pittsbur more orders piling up as a result of embargo r - > - Jarnegie-1llinois Steel Company are shown lined ap rgh plants are working at togg with,mora ind repeal, permitting export of & aterigls, 1t has been doubted that gold ever | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY'..DEC. 1, 1939. he stars incline B | but do not comml | | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 Adverse aspects appear to rule to- day. Women should be cautious in whatever they undertake. There may be impulsive judgment, whichileads to seriot misunderstan and | even quarrels. Labor comesf¥igder a promising direction of the stdrs Heart and Home; This is Dot favorable day for domestic harmony Financial disagreements are ; indi- | cated. The evening is fortunage for| making new acquaintances ; the | opposite sex, but not for love affairs Good news from absent memigers of the family is probable. ’ | Business Affairs: Good luckf trav- els with American {reigh(grsv‘tud:n Holiday trade will be especfally prof- litable for jewelers. Danger of too | great expansion in anticipation of a war boom is forecast. Wise mer- Jants will conserve their capital. | {Banks will transact their business |with caution, but large loans are i prognosticated. Industry will re- {employ great numbers of trained hands, National Issues: Bitter conflict| will mark political organizations. | President Roosevelt will gain popu- | lar approval for his foreign policy { Disclosure of subversive activities in the United States will create a sen-| sation. The ties between the Unit States and Canada will be strength ened. The sudden death of a bellig- | erent statesman is foretold. Women are to obtain employment in impor- tant positions, and many will receivc | high salaries in the coming year, |military training removes young men from the field of business | International Affairs: Secret| forces will continue to operate in the European war, Unfavorable weather will bring suffering and illness to the soldiers. United States will be the target of hostile effort toward involvement in what may de- velop into a world conflict. Suspicion that censorship i5 cloaking the fact concerning international affairs will widespread newspaper com a ause ment Persons whose birthday it is have the augury of a year of progress, but for many the returns may appear inadequate for work done. Children born on this day may be emotional and erratic. Both boys and girls may be inclined toward sentimental affairs. Magnetism and the ability to make friends are out- standing traits. (Copyright, 1939) -~ DIPLOMATS IN - " RUSSIA GIVEN NO LIBERTIES (Continuea rrum rage One) ized Russia’s relations with foreign governments. KEEPS INFORMATION TO HERSELF To begin with, Russia has adépt- ed a policy of letting outside govérn- ments know just as little as possible of what is going on in the 'huge expanse of territory with its 160,- 1000,000 or more people. She has mini- | mized the importance of foreign |missions in Moscow, hamstfiing their activities and kept themias de- pendent as she could upon the So- viet’s own pipe lines of infermation. | This government has been no worse treated than any other, perhaps a shade better than some. The U. S. emba other foreign {limited as to the space it mmy oc- |cupy in Moscow. It can't “shop |around” for additional or different |quarters. It takes what the govern- |ment allows. In Washington an embassy can rent or buy what-and | where it please: | LIMITED LIVING QUARTERS The U. S. embassy is quartered in a fairly good seven-story building where all but one or two of the 31 employees of the embassy not only work, but live. The building is only two rooms deep, front to back, and contains 81 rooms. Four upper flpors are living quarters. Three Jower floors are offices. The Ambassador has a residence elsewhere in the city. Tt is considered the best of any Ambassador in Moscow. S0 crowded are living quarters for the staff that few but bachelors are assigned to the U. S. embassy. Married couples are transferred if babies come. Permission must be obtained for long distance telephone 5. Dip- lomats - get permission readily ex- cept in such instances as the Flint, where delays seemed endless. Stein- \hardt finally got calls through to Murmansk but could not taik o the | Flint’s captain. Sometimes a call from Moscow to Paris can be put through in 20 minutes. Secretary Hull once said | it might take most of a day to get {through to Mostow from Wash- ington. Non-official callc must tell the subject of calls before they {are put through, Soviet police lsten |in on such a large percentage of | telephone calls that nobody” with good sense transmits other than| | routine messages that way Lack of facilities is considered to be at least half to blame |lays. Red tage in han explains myth W’i!s CONSULATES CLOSED | only a few months ago, foreign From THE EMPIRE ‘ 20 YEARS' AGO DECEMBER 1, 1919 The ice on tineau Channel was perhaps the thickest for many years. It was not slush but solid sheets and was thick enough to bear up the weight of sea gulls who were walk- | ing upon it. 3 | i Sumner S. Smith was a nnsflpnger‘ on the Northwestern for the States to purchase coal washing machin- ery for the Eska mine of which he was engineer in charge for the gov- ernment. George Getchell, Juneau's dele- gate to the Minneapolis meeting of the American Legion, who returned on the City of Seattle, was to de- liver his report of the great first convention of the patriotic order a meeting of the Alford John Bradford Post in the auditorium of the Juneau High School. Postmaster Z. M. Bradford wore |a happy look this day because of the arrival of an 8% pound baby boy, born at the Bradford home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Titus left on the Estebeth for Jualin. Mr. Titus was superintendent of the mine and he and Mrs, Titus had been visiting in Juneau. Miss Flora Bohm, daughter of | Charles Bohm, keeper of the Senti- nel Island light, left for her home on the Estebeth after visiting in Juneau for several days. Andrew Shestead left on the. City of Seattle to spend the holidays in the States. Weather: Highest Cloudy 29: ; Lowest, 16 governments were ordered to close consular posts in all Russian cities except Moscow. Russia continues to operate hers in the U. S. and in other countries, but wants no leaks of information out of her own in-| terior cities. Japan, China and Tur- | v alone were allowed to keep cer-| 1 consular posts ! Diplomats here say that few So-| viet officials will give out informa- tion. One diplomat observed that it| was “cruel” to consult those who! would talk, for if their statements | differed with officially given | out, they would face frightful pun- ishment | It tries the soul of foreign serv-| ice employees to work under such onditions, but it is the Russian | way. i Thankfiivifig Is Observed in Many_“SIales; CHICAGO, Ill, Dec half of the United States prepared turkey dinners Thursday for the Thanksgiving feast. The site of the! first Thanksgiving, Plymouth, Mass., | vave special emphasis to thel ervance because half of the na- tion had observed the holiday a week earlier, in accordance with | President Roosevelt’s proclamation. The President proclaimed the earl- ier date in order to widen the spread between turkey day and the Christ- mas holidays. Many States followed the example of Plymouth and refused to change the holiday date. At least three States decided to observe both the holidays. Many individuals in all States made the Thanksgiving dis- pute an occasion for holding two celebrations. those i | | | 1.—Abous} D ANNUAL BAZAAR AND TEA By Susannah Sewing Circle Methodist Church Parlors, Satur- day,. Dec. 2, from 1 to 5 pm. at | 1'be Empice extends congratula- tions and best wishes 1~day, *heit bicshday anpiverss> . to the ros- lowing: DECEMBER 1 Dorothy Wilms Katherine E. Shaw Einar L. Olsen C. Y. Piddock Clyde Phillips Evelyn Johansen 'LOOK and LEARN * By A. C. Gordon 1. What is the origin of the name “Pennsylvania”? 2. What is the popular name for sodium chloride? 3. Who wrote, “Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been”? 4. By what name did American patriots call- those Americans who opposed independenc? h i the mothhhhhhhhhhhvns ‘5. Which is the most sparsely populated state in the Union? ANSWERS From Williamm Penn and “syl- meaning woods; “Penn’s John Greenleaf Whittier. Tories, Nevada; 90,000 (U. S. estimate MODERNM ETIQUETTE Banb:rtaL« Q. When a person with whom one is talking mispronounces a word, is it all right to use the same word a minute later and pronounce it correctly? A. No. Unless the person is very stupid it is obvious to him tnat ycg are making a correction. It is much better to avoid using that particu- lar word. Q. When the secretary of a busi- ness man asks a caller to please state his business with her employer, should the caller comply? A. Yes, because the secretary has no doubt been instructed to ask this question. When refused, the majority of employers, if busy, will ignore the caller Q. What does it indicate.-when a man, leaving the dinner table, leaves his napkin in his chair? A. Tt would seem to indicate that this man is from the timber lands. — e DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH * ‘l By W. L. Gorden Words Often Misused: Do not say, “It is a nice day,” “It was a nice cake,” “He is a nice companion,” “He bas a nice manner.” Instead of these eolloquial expressions, say, “a beau- tiful day, delicious cake, congenial companion, pleasing manner.” Often Mispronounced: Idea. Pro- nounce i-de-a, e as in me, a as in ask unstressed, and accent second syllable. Often Misspelled: Cast (to throw). Caste (class of society). Synonyms: Reward (noun), re- compense, remuneration, compensa- tior, indemnity, bonus, prize, pay. Word Study: “Use a word threo times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Commendation; favorable opinion; approval; praise. “The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the nicest commendation that can be Everybody welcome. LEBNIESE T The Boox ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged. Now On' Sale; $1. Yo NEWS 1.0. By The AP Feature Service 1. What does President Roosevelt plan to do with sailors forced out of jobs by the neutrality act? 2. Who is the Queen, right, who joined a king in appealing for peace? 3. Several high Nazi officials were killed in a Munich bomb- ing plot on Hitler. True or false? 4. ldentify: Comintern, Kremlin, Pravda. 5. What was the fate of pen- sion plans voted on in Ohio and California? s given us St. Evremond, - Try The’» Empire classifieds for ) g 6. Why was the breaking of a Berlin shop window consid- ered news? 7. The U. S. freighter City of Flint was escorted to Ger- many by a Nazi crew. True or false? 8. How did British actor Les- lie Howard get a jaw and three front teeth broken? 9. Which twé European na- tions are withdrawing their troops from what country? Who is the man, left, and why is his {ob especially iia- t pow? 80 goo. (Continued “on Directory Glasses Fitted Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am to 6 pm. 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