The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1940, Page 4

SR ot takeoff, a dozen pleasure boats leave narrow wakes and the rock barge from the mine turns over prettily in white foam when it has been towed into just the right position, In other words, it the most enjoyable way imaginable to spend a day. There is so much to see that we're going back at the first opportunity. ¢ Why don't you have a look for yourself? Published every evening except Sunday by tbe EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, HFELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD President is Vice-President and Business Manager Entered tn the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. i The Fateful Hour (New York Times) The first feeling of the people of this heartsick country must be sheer inability to believe that the| thing long feared has actually happened, even though the evidence is spread before our eyes. Hitler has unleashed his total war. He has struck on the main front He has staked everything on a gigantic gamble which, if he wins, will mean the end of free- TON RATES. Doukias for §1.2 e following ra months, in advance, $6.00; Delivered by carrler in By mail, postase One yesr, in advance §1 one month, in advance. $1 Bubscribers will confer & favo the Bustness Office of any fallure livery of their papers if they w promptly notify or irre t ty in the de- Telephone:: News Office, 602; Businesy Office, 374 S - dom and democracy and culture throughout all Eu- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS E The Associated Pre en i to the use for YOpee in our time. republication of Il news dipatchies credlied to it or not If ever a war was made deliberately and bru- :L’l,',.r,',,'; e o oad al mews | ally, without cause and without justification, it is e g this war which Germany has made on Belgium and ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTIED 7O BE LARGER | pe Netherlands. The claim of the Reich Govern- TEAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ment that these small nations had failed to observe 1 Newspaper Represe O e . Ly Napeion, “portiand, | & strict neutrality is'belied by the facts in the record le, Chicago, New York and Boston It is not for that redson that bombs are falling now SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE Gllbert A Wellimeton. 1011 |on @ gentle countryside, and spreading death and destruction through cities as fair as any in all Eu- rope. It is because Hitler chose to strike where he | thought the Western Front was weakest; because, in his mad desire to get his hands on the throats of France and Britain, he had not the slightest scruple about violating the pledges he had given to the Low- land countries; because these countries in themselvcs are integral parts of the western world—our world, the democratic world, the world in which men live under systems of government deriving their just powers from the consént of the governed—and be- cause Hitler means to destroy that world if he can do it The American people will know how to evaluate the broken German promises, the brazen disregard of treaty obligations, the obscene falsity of Nazi self- justification, the ruthlessness of Nazi war. They will find in the experience of Belgium and the Nether- lands a moral for ourselves: a moral to put our house in order, to strengthen our defenses, to pre- Next time you forget you're living right in the | pare ourselves against the consequences of German success which might spread war across the Atlantic American Bank Bullding AT JUNEAU'S BACK DOOR middle of one of the enic areas in the world take a lunch and ¢ Mount Roberts trail. or Pacific to our own hemisphere. Many Juneauites have done so and such advice to This is the fateful hour. We in America who But by |live behind the defenses of the Western European .| nations which are the outposts of our own kind of civilization must watch with deep anxiety to see whether the line will hold. Hitler told his armies ) that this is victory or death for Germany. It is also They Were | yictory or death for decent standards of international women and children as well as men, for the way is conduct and the democratic way of life not hard. The well located trail leaves Juneau at — the Sixth Hill pushes gently up timber switchback. A quarter of a town _you in a silent (Cleveland Plain Dealer) wilderness. All that remains of Juneau is an occa- More than half a century ago a brilllant young sional tree-fringed vista of streets and wharves far|prench engineer was assigned to direct the construc- below. The is enchanted with the pungent|tion of the Panama Canal. He was Philippe Bunau- odor of ever At just the right intervals there | varilla, technical aid to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the are benches for the weary. Take a deep drink at|man who had won fame and fortune by the digging the first stream, for there is no more water below |of the Suez Canal through the sands of the African the snowfield trickles An hour's walk brings |desert. Bunau-Varilla was then only 26. you to timberline, panorama of | Last week when he died in Paris, his name was Gaspipeau, Chapnel sprgtches out below Underfoot | 81most unknown to the vast majority of Americans the }:Xngx‘e‘d&hemlwr K & dosen varleties of wild-|Who todsy areigling fittenfoh fo Paganig agithe flowers take your eyes from the scenery. Ptarmigan fvital link tn the defense plans-lorWhis Hoiaptie. ndda ” S X NS o 4 The French effort to build the Panama Canal still wearing snow white winter dress, whir away|wac a disaster. But the failure was more of a fin- them is superfluous and comes very late. far the greater part of the population here has never | This is a pity, with got its feet off the City stree to see so near at hand s0 much Yesterday there were 25 on the trail Street Star and the from end of on Panama Pioneer through by mile are a forest eens. on top where the whole THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY MAY 31, 1940. HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not ¢ mpel” - SATURDAY, JUNE 1 cept in the early morning hours benefic aspects dominate to- day. The stars encourage travel and the vacation idea will be strong in many minds. Women aré under adverse planetary influences which encourage restlessness, Heart and Home: Under this sway the feminine mind may be attunded to inharmony. Girls may their sensitive natures the female be difficult to manage. Because ol of the species may reflect world discontent and apprehension. The stars frown upon romance. This is a day for completing tasks and putting one's house in order. Business Affairs: Continued stim- ulation of many American indus- tries is prognosticated. Manufactur- ers will profit greatly, but they may expect unlooked for troubles Hotels and transportation compan- ies of every sort will enjoy a pros-| perous season. Travel will be en- couraged by the many temptations for sightseeing. Fairs and exposi- tions should succeed National Issues: In this month of national political conventions there is a sign of widespread dis- satisfaction. Surprising develop- ments in both political parties are indicated. The stars appear to smile upon men of experience in states- manship, but young leaders will gain support. Growth of the : United States in world power will be rec- ognized as a factor in choosing can- didates. International Affairs: . Notwith- standing prediction of a period of terror in the European war, the month as it progresses should bring better conditions for the Allies. Again the stars presage much that is discouraging for Great Britain The Empire will be disturbed by uprisings in widely separated do- minions or colonies. Closer relations with Canada are forecast for the United States. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ad- vancement, Promotion for em- ployed men and women is likely. Weddings attended by much social interest are to be numerous for from the trail. A marmot whistles from the rocks|ancial than an engineering one. Paris bankers and the shadow of a silent soaring eagl®slides across | thought it was another Suez. They could not visual- the hillside lize the enormous obstacles involved in cutting On top there is snow, deep and soft on a sunny | through a mountain range in the midst of one of afternoon. Now there is breath-taking scenery in | the world's wickedest tropical jungles. They scoffed w | when Bunau-Varilla warned them of the engineering the north, Granite and Silverbo o difficulties and told them their cost estimates were hole of Perseverance and the | to the east, the high| every direction: on Basins, with the glory old mine buildings far Ul etk X e el "‘ 2 » Bobile Riteen Moisthin | Bunau-Varilla was right. But his advice was not white shoulder of the Mount Roberts-Sheep Mountair |nceded in time to prevent catastrophe. His W ridge; southeast, Stephens Passage, Point Arden ““d‘began in 1883, when it was planned to build a sea- the entrance of Taku Inlet; far to the south, the jevel route, rather than the lock type canal finally thousand inlets and islands of Seymour Canal; on:conslrucbed. The French backers of the canal went and west, the rugged snowy mountains |into bankruptcy. There was a graft scandal in the | tretching above Douglas Island; north- | Paris courts. Channel bar, Auk Bay, But when the United States took over in 1902 Shelter Island and Canal, the peaks of the | and finally built the canal after conquering the mos- Chilkat range. And ght below | quito, it was found that most of Bunau-Varilla's en- lying so close | *’ to the mountain that it would seem possible to dmp\'g’men"g WER IR o a rock on it, Juneau and the fingers of the rock It is reported that the German public is very dump. The square of the new small boat harbor is|pjtter against England. The British might have fig- the one pattern of geometry sketched on the wild | yred on that reaction when they persisted in litter- Jandscape. On the channel an airplane taxis to a'ing up yards with propaganda leaflets. below; the southwe: of Admiralt) west, over the Gastineau Lynn str EMPIRE PHONE: 374 REASONS WHY The Daily Alaska EMPIRE WILL AID YOU TO Produce Effective . . Profitable and atirac- tive advertisements . . Art Work For ® Advertisements Attention Compelling LAYOUTS Essential, Effective e i, 5 GOOD hard-hitting reasons! True this month—next month— and every month for advertisers in the Daily Alaska Empire! An “exclusive” for advertisers who want to bring back their adver- tising dollars in the recogniz- able form of increased sales! e b e eeereeee) the young. & Children yborn on this day prob- ably will be quick-witted, stidious and affectionate. Although fond of luxury, they may be capable of self-denial. (Copyright, 1940) e, — HAPPY BIRTHDAY s s e e 0 ) MAY 31 Henry S. Sully Edwin J. Kirchoffer | Oscar Clauson Henrietta Stafford Patsy Shaffer R. N. Culver T. F. Wilhelms Joanne Blythe > MINERS DROP 70 FEET DOWN SHAFT GRASS VALLEY, Cal, May 31.— Five miners of the Golden Center mine are expected to recover from ‘njuries suffered in a seventy foot fall down a shaft. The men dropped ‘o the bottom of the shaft when the cable of the lift on which they were riding suddenly gave way. Two of the miners, Frank Thomas and Elmer Troan, suffered broken “acks, but physicians said they orobably will recover. B S Amnesty by royal decree freed 9,754 convicts from Italian prisons on the birth of a daughter to Crown Prince Umberto. - ‘Today's news today in The Empire. Federal Works Agency, Public Buildings Administration, Office of the Supervising Engineer, Washing- ton, D. C., May 21, 1940. Sealed bids, in triplicate, will be received at this office until 10 a.m., standard time, June 19, 1940, and then publicly op- ened, for furnishing the materials, and performing the work of, gltera- tions. screen line charzes letr.. at the U. S. Federal and Territorial Building, Juneau, Alaska, in strict accordance with the specifications dated SE-R, April 25, 1940, and drawings (if any) mentioned there- in; and the general conditions dated April 1, 1940. Specifications and other data may be had at office of the custodian of the bal or Public Buildings Administration, © Folders ® Letterheads, etc. We can design ANY KIND of advertise- . meni or Arfistic Layout you order! Federal Works Agency, W 3 D. C. Néal A. Melick, s% Engineer, Publication dates: 3 times, May 29 and 31. ~oa v 0 ] 20 YEAPS AGO e THE EMPIRE Chief Office Deputy in the office of United States W. W. Casey, Jr. Marshal J. M. Tanner, left on the City of Seattle. MAY 31, 1920 L * Juneau observed Memurml.Day as scores gath'm"ed t.it the Elks Hall DIS. Kaset and for a program under the direction of the Juneau Woman’s Club. Follow- ing the services at the hall the procession proceeded down Franklin Street Freebul’ger o the Admiral Line Dock, then to the People’s ‘Wharf, from where the DE STS parade returned by way of Franklin Street as far as Seward, up Seward Blomgren Building o Third Street, then to the cemetery by way of Calhoun Avenue. PHONE 56 Hatchery Superintendent A. J. Sprague left for the Westward on he Northwestern in company with Commissioner A. J. Adams, of the r“u Fish Commission, where he was to spend some time aiding in the sum- ner's work in Bristol Bay and other sections. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILNDING Office Phone 469 Mrs. Edith Sheelor was to leave on the Alameda for a month’s visit in Oregon. Mrs. W. E. Worth sailed for her home in Petersburg on the City of Seattle Mineral and Land Surveyor, was C. S. Hubbell, United States Depu n the city after surveying in the vicinity of Auk Bay. The survey boat Explorer, accompanied by two tenders, was in port from the vicinity of Gambier Bay after drag survey work there. Wwilliam Lundquist and family weré going south on the Princess. Weather: Highest, 55; lowest, 40; clear. U ———— S e B | Daily Lessons in English %. 1. cornon e - 40— " —— - o0 - | P WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I can not hardly see how it is done.” Omit NOT. Say, “I can hardly see how.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Research. Preferred pronunciation is | with accent on last syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Niche (a recess); not NITCH. SYNONYMS: Scarcity, dearth, paucity, deficiency, insufficiency. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us inerease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: ARDUOUS; difficult; laborious. “It is an arduous task.” i T_--'-"----‘-‘“'-‘"-“"w MODERN ETIQUETTE *” popgrra rEe | Q. When a friend is graduating from high school or college, and you cannot afford to send a gift, what should you do? A. Write a nice, sincere note of congratulation. Q. Should dessert soons be placed on the table with the other silver, when setting the table? A. No; these spoons should be brought with the dessert. Q. Is a “dinner coat” the same as a “tuxedo”? A. Yes: though “dinner coat” is the preferred term. LOOK and LEARN % Y A. C. GORDON | e e 1. What limit of indebtedness does our present law allow the Gov- | ernment of the U. S.? 2. What religious leacer said, “The world is my parish”? | 3. What is the unit of weight for precious stones? 4. How many days are there in a leap year? 5. Which is the only state in the Union that has the legal right to divide itself into a number of states? ANSWERS: Forty-five billion dollars. John Wesley " The carat. 366 days. Texas. B CHILDREN T0 tion plans as soon as possible. He said it might be necessary to begin | the evacuation of the threatened areas next week. The Health Min- ister called upon parents to recog- nize the necessity for the evacua- tion as it will not only safeguard the children, but will simplify the BE EVACUATED, COAST POINTS anfor [ask‘of providing safety for the Parents in English Towns|™"The Miniser of Transportaion, Informed of Neces: | nignwes signpests are being remor- sity for Move | PHONE 1762 Hours: 8 a.m, to 6 pm, — ed wherever it is believed they will aid in guiding an invading force. PRI e LONDON, May 31—Minister of Health Malcolm MacDonald has warned the people of London and Southeastern England that it will be necessary to put new plans for the evacuation of children into im- mediate effect. MacDonald said that the Govern- ment feels that the danger of early bombing are so real that it must | complete new evacuation plans as soon as possible. He said it might be necessary to begin the evacua- Empmre classifieds bring results. In high altitudes snow frequently turns red and gives off an odor similar to ripe watermelon when crushed underfoot. This is due to a growth of vegetable life, algae spirella, on snow at altitudes of 12,- 00 feet or more. - e Newfoundand is Britain’s old- est colony. AR g g Senator Named to Bench T T e T | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 | Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9-—Valentine Bldg. —_—mm—-— ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. | Graduate Los Angeles Collge | of Optometry sna Opthalmology i | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Fourth and Pranklin Sts. | PHONE 136 R — Have Your Eyes Examined by Dr. Rae L. 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