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'lilmmn Duke was skeptical of lasting peace. | Happily the Duke was wrong, along with all the There have been eras of hard feel- Published every ever MPIRE PRI other doubters. TROY EENDER i[ing between Canada and the United States. But > 3 Busines ©T | today, after 125 yea! any other arrangement would o n June [ Matter. | be unthinkable, Our old-time “border forts” molder - or are restored solely for historic interest. Our ¥ espective Great Lakes fleets have nothing to do out policing. Fishermen haunt the Duke's canal aeeive wd pretty girls dive into its locks. L It is good that somewhere in the world such reaties endure Behind the § 2 e SUBSCRIPTION RATES By f low o ~ be a fortunate day for informal o e i nos $8,90s (Philadelphia Record) social affairs and home weddings Subscribe gare e it Sl Most dramatic phase or tne war has been the| While practical matters will ab- Sivecs ‘of thelr_papers. Gotterdammeru the Graf Spee—beaten by three | sorb most women, there is a sign Telephones: News C 802;7Busingss Office; 374 British cruisers, chased into Montevideo Harbor, re- |encouraging to romance. Women's 77 MEMBER OF ~ | paired hastily. biown up by her own captain, upon |clubs come under a stimulating in- The As F use for orders from Hitler, with the captain's suicide as a |fluence for public service. The Red wuniioay e 6 oedr s mews | TinA1S] Cross and local charities will published All the elements of a rousing movie script were | aWaken interest. = o . ED TO BE LARGER yresent in this encounter—the mysterious disguises| Business Affairs: Chemists will TH )i NY BLICATION of the Spee, her false stacks, her use of British |gain recognition as Americans turn " GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, N NewsADSr ReDE 15, even the fact that during the battle the Brit-|away from munitions to engage sves, with ©0 San Los Angeles, F thought they were firing upon the Admiral|in constructive instead of destruc- Beattle, Chicago, New Y B hee the contrast between the gun power of the tive work. Synthetic foods V;'l“ SEATTLE REPRESENTA 1gton, 10 jcket battleship and the daring of the British with |come into popular favor. Diet will eriian Tk Sulare 5 heir smaller guns but faster cruisers; the romantic | receive attention as economy is locale, no! from the Falkland Islands—claimed | taught to families of restricted v Argentina—where Admiral Graf Maxmilian von|means. The stock market today will| nt down with his flagship in the historic|reveal odd vagaries. Speculation \an defeat 25 years ago. will be perilous. | | It was vigorous, picturesque combat in the best| National Issues: Revelations con- torybook style; emotionally satisfactory to most of | cerning employees of the Federal |the people who read about it in their newspapers.|government are forecast. Subversive I And a complete dud to the several score sailors who |influences will be traced to high- | were killed in action, their relatives and their |salaried appointees. College st |friends who saw them die. dents will furnish material for sen- | This was naval warfare according to legend,|sational announcements regarding reduced to simple terms of almost hand-to-hand |the trend of thought toward radical struggle. The South Americans crowded the resort|and communistic ideas. Propaganda ‘hes to watch, like spectators at a football game |Presented in novel forms will be 'or a boxing match. discovered in unsuspected places. - — | In :e months of war it is almost the only| International Affairs: Deaths or S , !incident of the kind. The transatlantic run of the |removals will change the personncl WINTER ALWAYS GETS THERE Eremen and the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow are of United States ambassadors serv- This Winter mostly has. e e e the only comparable events. Almost exclusive-|ing in countries now at war. Many o7 b 4 ly—and such is the nature of modern war—the ac- | shifts in high officials will be made sigh for his ut. and the old- yjon of the day is made up of dirty, unpleasant rou- | in Washington. Aggressions and fashioned man who we olen underwear tine work | persecutions inspired by dictators $ak Butfered fromthe he DR There are fortifications to be reinforced in cold ( Will arouse bitter reactions in North ik mud and concrete, motors to fix, food to prepare, |America. Canada will suffer from ter—witness the last o vays has @ SWr- younded to care for. There are ships to halt and |the fact that the dominion is at prise up her sleeve. And no questiol it January endless cargoes to search, ceaseless dragging of sea- | war while its neighbors are at peace and February will have a Ta Ihey never Ways for mines, supplies to load. An anxious con-| FPersons whose birthdate it ishave " 1 t i f frence is held on where to allocate the limited sup- | ‘he augury of a y of dominat- ey have Totiel Wiget it e Tew ugly lick plies of bacon. Long hours in a factory, tending a ‘Ng romance. Prosperity is indi- Winters, if we can believ ndfathers, getail of some machine, turning out shells, shoes, | -ated. are not as they use , be, but they al- bandages. People are sick and nervous, everyone| Children born on this day prob- s 1o something. to justis There has too much to do and not enough of what he (ably will be artistic in talents and ~ needs. able to make much of unusual Wil be several occasions gwhen the old- e That is what the is like. To most of the|gifts. These natives of Capricorn with the old-fashioned he L have people who are fighting, which includes all the|are often extremely resourceful as the laugh on the rest of u people of seven nations, the story of the sea fight | well as industrious, off the coast of Uruguay is as remote, in terms of | iCowright 1940) \I\l\ ULTR \ SAFE daily lives, as it is to us, at peace, in the Umted‘, e : tates, i MILDRED MAYNARD It is putting it mildly tc 1at i i s a dangerous sport, as the Ameri Red Cro: ~ Secretary Edison IS HONOlUlU BOUND clares,-after-a nation-wide survey, Skiing, from th figures quoted, must be v 1 1€ t occu- (New York Times) Mildred Maynard, daughter of pation or exercise one car The Red C President Roosevelt waited a long time to name|(he late George Maynard, former survey sets out with an e nate of 2,000,000 ski a Secretary of the Navy to succeed the late Claude!pyblisher of the Nome Nugget, is practitioners last Winter and finds only 700 acci- Swanson. His final choice of Assistant Secretary |, passenger southbound on the Yu- dents. Not a single fatal case or one threatening Charles Edison to fill the post shows that it wasikon enroute to Honolulu for a permanent disal is well spent. The nation will agree that the appoint- | yisjt Qe apolder tob 000 people on skis ment of the great inventor’s son l_o guide our Navy| Miss Maynard, who is secretary R R HIl tioes reni 16°18 the abise through the present crisis and build it up to meet |t Federal Judge J. H. S. Morison i s e lnm. ney ranks with Mr Roosevelt's best. |57 the Second Division, at Nome, e S 5 : i iven the President’s critics admit that he under-|.ame out by PAA plane from her if we remember that n { them probably donned gtands the Navy Department thoroughly. If among|jome town. “While ‘on -the" Chifh: their skis only once wice in the course of a his many talents he has a specialty, it is ships and | ne|, waiting for the Yukon, she Winter. Two million bathers in bathtubs, or two fighting fleets. Through both Administrations his|yas the house guest of Mr' and million chess players, would show in the course of handling of naval affairs has evoked only praise, | yrrs Calvin Pool, former Nomeites, a year a considerable number of accidents cause it was so obviously and singly directed toward | in pouglas. O - - developing a more powerful sea defense. Neverthe-| nfiss Maynard expects to return A PEACE THAT WEARS WELL less, when Secretary Swanson died, there must have|.orth again in March. e ey been considerable pressure to name some one of O+ AV GRS e o R holidays, StYong political affiliations in‘llis place. If so, the Anchomge Ala<ka, one highly important anniversary escaped much at- Prfl"lf“.m BB Etouly TeEatd 1t . { Novemiiee. 17, 1998 Sention This was the 195t birthdsy on Decdibid Secretary Edison is no politician. His interests| Notice is hereby given that Ma- ) 4 SRy w4 Aoy y do not lie that way. When he was offered the; hias Halm has made application 24 of the signing of the Trealy of Ghent which pemocratic nomination for Senator from New Jersey | ‘or a homesite under the act of defined the boundaries betwe ia and the he merely grinned and stuck to his job. It was a|May 26, 1934, for a tract of land United States after the War of 1812 big job, Mr. Swanson was ill for a long time and |embraced in U. S. Survey No. 2377, | At the time it was a rather unpopular document. the burden of running the department fell wholly | Anchorage serial 08807, containing It ended a war wk little glory to the on the shoulders of the Acting Secretary. No one|2.18 acres and situated within the, Americans. It was d to ma Canadians would know better than Mr. Roosevelt, who in his | Mendenhall Elimination from Ton- | who had hoped that northern Maine would become time filled the same job, how well “young” Edison | ass National Forest, in latitude their spoils in a conflict in which they had done measured up. 38° 23' 10" N. longltude 134° 34 very well in most of the land operations. | He is still young. His interest in the navy began | W. and it is now in the files of the But the doubters of a century and a quarter ago whel} at eight he adopted Dewey, victor at _Manlla, J. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Al- did not ed to worry. Thi s proved one of the as !us particular hero. His prepal_ulnry training was | iska. ! Thoek snducaid GRS ) i) of. tresties~ Drokatis military; later his father sent him to the Massa- Any and all persons claiming ad- s 2 3 e A chusetts Institute of Technology hoping he would | versely any of the above men- most Americans and Canadians have wearied ab pecome a scientist. But it was his father’s business [ ioned land should file their ad-| hearing platitudinous sta ien pay tribute to the capacity rather than his inventive gvmus which the | serse claims in the district land “unarmed 3,000-mile fronti But in these days son inherited. At 33 he >ffice within the period of publica- of Maginot Lines and West Walls it has a com- of thirty-three of the Edison corporations and the| jon or thirty days thereafter, or forting sound controlling head of the far-flung Edison industrial| hey will be barred by the pro- It was the angreement of 1817, together with the empire. When Mr. Roosevelt called him to the|sisions of the Statutes. | Treaty of Ghent, which is responsible for this peace- Navy Department it was regarded as a wise choice GEORGE A. LINGO, ful partition between two friendly peoples, This which the years have fully confirmed. Mr. Edison Register. pact restricted the Great Lakes flest of each nation has drive and great administrative ability combined | Date first publication, Dec. 6, 1939. AR T i SRR AR with tact undv a gift for human relations. These|Date last publication, Jan. 31, 1940. 18-pounders. are precisely the qualities required to ca: through adv. Like s Chmit: Teeais i the naval expansion which the Administration has — e aty & WaS hlanned. NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING ON also regarded with suspicion in the Kawatha regzion where seek bass and muskies were fense line desiz zed lakes — en yearly | art of an internal de- the Duke of Wel- Having led his nation v celler Hitler Langsdorff's rtually to suicide, Chan- might well be pondering Captain Hans fate. PLEDGE MEMBER_with Orchestra Leader Andre Kostelanetz organization, Camp Fire Girls mus$ now practice up on their scales. ork: Marguerite St. John of Fort Lee, N. J.; Miss Edith Kempthorne, Girls’ secretary; Kostelanetz; Dorothy Bucher, Bronx, N. Y. W NG 27 DRI K R M Like some other zrcat soldlers the lron’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRL WLDNESDAY AN IO 1940. %roscope “The stars incline but do =ot compel” THURSDAY, JANUARY 11 Benefic planetary influences are active under this configuration which encourages mental and phys- ical activity. The stars warn that peril lies in emotional reactions to international events. Poise and balance should be cultivated. Heart and Home: This should FINAL ACCOUNT A hearing will be held at ten Yclock a.m. on March 15th, 1940, n the United States Commission- ar's (Ex-Officio) Probate Court. for the Juneau, Alaska, Commission- a’s Precinct, upon the Final Ae- sount of MARY V. McNAUGHTON 1s the executrix of the estate of Guy McNaughton, deceased, and all persons are required to file on o before said hearing, their ob- ections, if any, to said Final Ac- count or to any particular item ‘hereof, specifying the particulars >f such, objections; and, at said aearing, said Court will adjudicate wnd determine who are the heirs wnd distributees of said decedent, and all persons are required to how cause why said estate should 10t be distributed to Mary V. Me- Naughten, Mary Jean N rugh- on and James W. McNaughion in iccordance with said decedent’s ast will and testament dated July 2, 1920. Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Janu- Ty 9th, 1940. W FELIX GRAY, United States Commission=- er and Ex-Officio Probate Judge. ublication dates: January 10-17- *(in compliment to the nurses of ik At Jfippy ' wthday The Empire extends conwnlull- JANUARY 10, 1920 ‘ The trouble at the Annex Creek transmission line was repaired and the Thane mill resumed operations. Power wires had been broken by\g“:’;d‘"g b"fu"-'_‘f!’" :"‘fl'!’l" ""'_f the slide. The Salmon Creek numeJ ,ou')‘n‘v mmoete—.. 10 Tos had been repaired and the power ng: tion there had started again. JANUARY 10 The grand benefit at the Palace Theatre for victims of the slide) brought $520.56. George D. Benson R. H. Beistline Daniel M. Douglas Gertrude V. Thompson Joseph Scott Mae Kilroy Louis Paul * Buddie Brown Mrs. J. C. Lund | | e DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH L4 By W. L. Gordon i C. W. West, who was a patient at the Dawes Hospital, was host at a dinner at the Gastineau Cafe th hospital and other friends. | E. A. Flohr, formerly a Kansas) i farmer, was busy ploughing five acres of land for crops on his place !in the Sheep Creek road near the | Union Oil tanks. | Several halibut boats of the local fleet left within the past few days | “Words Misused: Recover lfor the halibut banks. They were| Words Often WIuEl CCON }U xo:u:[n :,ge,l:on SR e Juclig or health. Re-cover (hyphenated) et 3 | means to cover again, as, “I re- g | covered the mattress.” | Mrs. George Oswell, wife of the| “op ) “ypicpronounced: Lenient | superintendent of the Ebner Min- ing Company, was to leave for the south on the Northwestern for Portland, Ore. | and leniency; pronounce the le as in leave. Lenity; pronounce the e as in lend. Often Misspelled: Cellar (a room underground); ¢ and ar. Seller (one who sells); s and er. Synonyms: General, prevalent, universal. Word Study: “Use a word three | “Jerry,” the dog owned by R. times and it is yours.” Let us in- McBrian, distinguished herself by crease our vocabulary by mastering her sensational trip to Vancouver One word each day. Today's word: with the crew of the Princess Mary. Placid; undisturbed; peaceful; Weather: highest 34, lowest 32, quiet. (Pronounce the a as in at). [“The mind that is cheerful in its Snow slides early in the week had blockaded the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad between miles 13 and 15. common iy e ! present state . will meet the | bitter occurrences of life with a | | placid smile."—Horace. LOOK and LEARN || = . DA i T | By A. C. Gordon . MODERN did Christ invectives? “soiree”? 3. What notorious buccancer be- ;1. Against what sin hurl his strongest 2. What is a ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee —————e came lieutenant governor of a British colony? | Q. What is an hors d'oeuvre, and 4. What makes a dog smell how is it pronounced? “doggy”'? | A. It is a relish or appetizer, 5. On which state do four of served usually at the beginning of the Great Lakes touch? |a meal, and used chiefly in the { ANSWERS | plural, hors d'oeuvres. Pronounce or-duvr o as in or, u as in urn, . (Pronounce secondary accent on first syllable, 1. Hypocrisy. An evening paj swa-ray, fist a as ah, accent principal accent on second syllable. last syllable) | Q. What is the birth stone for 3. Sir Henry John Morgan, jn January, and its meaning? 1674 | A. Garnet, which stands for 4. Eating too much meat. constancy, power, and fidelity. Q. How far in advance should invitations to a ball be mailed? A. At least two weeks in ad- [HELP AN |+ | ALASKAN | 5 ‘mchxgan eee NOTICE Ladies of the Methodist Choir Rummage Sale, Thurs., Jan. 1, in Telephone 713 or write Church Social Parlors. —adv. The Alaska Territorial Emr e Employment Service AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION Commencing Friday, January 12, all motor vehicles appearing on COOK-CHAMBERMAID—Single, (age 40. 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