The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1940, Page 2

Home-Made ""Ark of Juneau” Reaches Alaska Y P e it was welcomed by a ¢rowd in Ketchikan, Alaska, 3 i Sat 1€ Ark” is shown (left) : . § | Faroma, Waeh. L took Satke 56 days to make the trip from Tacoma to Ketchikan in ur 1o ark, pewered with a 19%6 automobile engine. Satko is headed for Cook Inlet to find a ¥ . wife and seven children, who are accompanying him 5 UNDERSEA FICHTER _Headed up the Thames River towsrd : ‘e base is the Tambor, newest addition to the U. S. Navy's fleet of she was put into service as congress deliberated and ons {o increase naval strength by 11 per cent. zis Bombed Y Conn a. orkshire | Pauline Pefrich Has pagescee Parly This Evening In celebration of her fourteenth After N = e B 2 birthday, Miss Pauline Petrich, g & | daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J, T. « Petrich, will be hostess with a party this evening at the family Lo O home on Main Street. Asked for the occasion are Misses Betty Mill, Pat Radalet, Tina Lepe- | tich, Betty Nelson, Pat Berg, Suzy Winn, Betty Rice, Charliene Ar- ! nold, Violet Paul, Helen Miller, Dorothy Wilms, Joan Hudon and Jane Lnglish, - Lawyer's Advice Free This Time HOLLIS, Okla., June 25.—Attorney 2ees Cox tells this one on himself. ‘My husband is writing checks on my account,” a woman told Cox. “What can I do about it?” “You might get rid of your hus- band,” Cox joked. “Why, that’s a good idea,” the woman exclaimed. “I'm going right out and get a lawyer and get a | divorce.” >ee ATTENTION REBEKAHS A regular meeting is scheduled ‘rur Wednesday, June 26 at 8 p.m. Initiation with a social to follow. KATHERINE HALM, ‘adv. Secretary. Net Across Harbor An air raid warden and a covey of laborers clean up debris in the yard of one of the ho ruck by Nazi bombs during a raid on the Yorkshire coast. The name of the town was withheld by the British censor. ins P2 Italy Throws Submar marine boew ard net his been strung acress Baly has taken all precautions in the European warbor at Genoa, rms A America’s big preparedness “bottle sibly“thrée-fourths of the plants which produce wart 'me essentials widely distributed area and main By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON. — All you hear about the rearmament program is J"boulenecks." What are they and ;why are they so important? The four great bottlenecks are: (1) machine tools, (2) skilled la- (3) transportation, and (4) raw materials. Of all these, machine tools is the | fipst—and worst. Without machine tools you can't | Planes, guns, tanks, pontoons (the new aluminum kind), trucks, am- munition, even the buttons on uni- forms, and the uniforms themselves absolutely require machine tools But the machine tool industry is punch drunk. Few dies, jigs, and tools were needed in the depres- sion. Plants closed. Workers were dismisséd. Furthermore, all the armament programs, from planes to micro- scopes, need the same machine tools. One of these is the automatic scfew machine, a sort of lathe to turn, shape and scrape metal. An- other is the deep drawing press, an | elephant of a gadget that stamps out and shapes metal into sheets and tubes and squares, and what not. Everything needed in a re- armament drive runs into one or the other or both of these precious gadgets somewhere along the line THE LABOR PROBLEM Skilled labor is the Number 2 Bottleneck. There's not enough of it, and the depression scattered it | away from the centers of the ma- chine tool industry, back to rural areas. Much of this can't be sal- vaged now. Many wartime skills do not even exist in peace time. ‘Phe only answer to the skilled labor bottleneck at the moment is more voeational schools, more push- button machines for semi-skilled workers. But there’s that machine tool battleneck again! Push-button ma- chines can't be made without ma- chine tools. THE RAILROAD PROBLEM The Number 3 Bottleneck is transportation —a not so serious item as yet. But it's there just the same, and youwll be hearing more about it. It isn’t that the railroads haven't got the facilities to move a war program load, but that this load must move through narrow | bottlenecks—principally the Chicago | yards. n ‘Take airplanes and transporta tion. Seventy percent of the in- dustry is on the West Coast. All the big engine plants are in the heart of the great American industrial bottle, with the neck lying on Chicago, and the bottom roughly bounded by Boston ‘and Baltimore. Engines have to be made by the engine plants in the bottle, and shipped to the far west for mounting. | So far, so good. But at the same time ‘this is going on, the| uniform makers are drawing their | wool thiough the Chicago bottle- neck, too. Packers have to get | meat for the workers drawn into the bottle, The ammunition makers aré trying to get their cotton through to the eastern arsenals.: Steel must shuttle back and forth| within the bottle, even move up' from Birmingham. And that brings up the No. 4 Bottleneck: Raw ma- terials. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE Ammunition making is the per- fect example of the business that! runs smack dab into bottlenecks! the day Congress votes the money | for it. Take a 75 mm. shell for! light-field guns. } The parts of that shell are made | 4l over the map. The Government ordinarily makes the cases in the only plant of its Kind in the coun-, try. | Now contracts have to be farmed | can make them in a pinch—if they can tool up. So contracts are let. Steel companies get contracts for | the . Spark plug makers even make a good bean shooter. tlenecks, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 194 Program Pinches Industry Four Ways; What It Mea__ns, This Boffleneck 1 the “bottled up” ou necks” lie mostly il routes. get the primer job, and a plant that makes the bushings to keep your auto whe from shimmying turns out the S, Smokeless powder is required. The only such plant in the United States could supply only 10 percent of the needs of an army of a million men, More plants are necess: Nearly every step requires more machine tools from an industry that's working night and day now The raw materials for the job have to be pulled through the bot- too. Cotton from down south, either and alcohol from the midwest, nitric and sulfuric acid from all over the map. But you still haven't any nition! All of this stuff has to be as- sembled, and the only assembling or loading plant in this country is a comparatively dinky affair op- erated by the Government. More of these are in the blueprint stage. But it'll take a year and a half, on the most coi itive estimates, to get any preparedness program through the bottlenecks! > ammu- T —— | was dis- 1 care at St. Ann's Hospital. Mrs. J. C. Patterson and her baby son were dismissed from St. Ann's today and are at their home. Five-year-old Richard Daniel was admitted to St. Ann’s last night and is reeciving care for a leg fracture. After receiving medical care, J. Rockhill, a member of the CCC, was dismissed today from St. Ann’s Hospital. J. Nichols was taken to St. Ann's last night and is receiving medical attention. Z. A. Duke was taken to St. Ann’s last night suffering from electric burns. After receiving surgical care, J. Pendergrass was dismissed today from St. Ann's Hospital. Mrs. C. L. Wingerson was a sur- gical dismissal from St. Ann’s today. Roy Antiogquia was dismissed to- day from medical care at the Gov- ernment Hospital. After receiving medical attention, Eva Bell was dismissed from the 0. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:39 p.m., June 25: Mostly cloudy with showers tonight and Wednesday; minimum tem- perature tonight about 47 degrees; gentle variable winds. E . Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mestly eloudy with light showers X tonight and Wednesday; not much change ,in temperature; . moderate variable winds, except southerly over sounds and straits and Lynn Canal ‘ Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: | Moderate south and southwesterly winds from Dixon Entrance to | Cape Spencer; and moderate soutieasterly winds from Cape Spen- “ cer to Kodiak LOCAL DATA Time Barometer lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather 4:30 pam. yest'y .. 30.06 53 82 s 6 Cloudy [ 4:30 am. today 30.03 48 94 N Cloudy Noon today 30.06 55 82 SE 8 RainShowers | RADIO REPORTS | TODAY 3 Max. tempt. | Lewest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:20a.m. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp, 24 hours Weather Dawson 67 48 49 03 Cloudy Juneau 51 | 48 [] Cloudy Sitka 59 | 47 32 Cloudy Prince Rupert 63 417 20 Cloudy \ Prince George . 72 50 a0 Cloudy \ Seattle 85 55 0 Clear Portland 95 | 59 0 Clear San Francisco . 61 | 52 0 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS as relatively low over the Gulf and over the Interior morning, while a ridge of high pressure extended from Southeast Alasl southward to an area of high pressure off the Pacific Coast. The weather was mostly cloudy over all of Alaska during the last 24 hours with light rain in the Alaskan Peninsula and along the coast of the Gulf. Showery weather persisted over most sections of Southeast Alaska, while partly cloudy weather con- tinued over the southern half of the Juneau Seattle Airways. Juneau, June 26— Sunrise 3:55 a.m., sunset 10:10 p.m. Orchids Arrive Pressure w of Alaska this a above, where are Ipcated pos- tside the bottle are shown the other ACTIVITIES AT EAGLE RIVER O - visitors at the Goyernor's House, ! sent by Charles E. Sullivan, * DAILY. SCHEDULE 7 On the last flight, orchids ar- On: Clipper for (1 Mrs. Gruening rived from Rosaia Brothers, florist in Seattle, and roses from Tommy Luke, prominent Portland florist A PRAYERFUL FROSPECT ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Dekalb Coun- new oil test has been started According to girls at the nip River Scout® camp, the firsh woel of activities was a full and onjny—“ able calendar of events. | Taken to camp, Monday, June 17,{ by D. B. Femmer and Ralph Reischl, | | Orchids fov' the First Lady of | the Territory, Mrs. Ernest Gruening, the girls first enjoyed a warm| . i (e 4 ST ' had been prepared|2rTived today by PAA Clipper from | gith o prayer. A group of people lunchecn which had be prep | Seattle, together with red roses . | for their arrival by Mys. Martha | e otior. . Chtes | Of Greek extraction, financially in- from Oregon's Governor, Charles | terested in it, brought a minister O'Malley. Undet the direction of Miss Mar- | A Sprague. |from Kansas City to anoint the garet Johnson, the regular daily pro-| ‘The exquisité orchid corsage worn | well with holy water and pray gram started to taxe shape. Swim- by the charming hostess this af-|Then they sprinkled flowers on ming, hiking and other outdoor ac- | ternoon as she greeted guests .mdibhe ground. tivities ‘are being offered as weil as handeraft projects, ineludnig mat and basket making and crayon tap- Cleared t"ér Meditérraneéh Actio 1a] estries. Clay work is also being; taught. i3 i | For the benefit of visitors, the 4, i individual tents have been named to aid in finding the various mem- | | bers of the camp. The names and tent mates include “Lost Cabin,” Winona Monroe and Courtyn Smith; “Dipsy Doodles,” Helen Anderson | and Constance Davis; “Whispering | Pine,” Patsy Davis and Doris Jean | Norman; “Lone Rangers,” Ellen Weston and Jean Butt. “Sunny- sl Florence Hawkesworth and | Marie Jean Glasse; “Lone Star,”| Jeyce Smith and Maxine Mulvihill; “Haunted House,” Pat Shaffer and Lois Allen; “Hide-Away Hollow,” | Lois Standefer and Betty Lou Har-| ed; “Squirrel House,” Erna Meier | and Margaret Femmer; “Mosquito Roost,” Pauline Hudon and Irene Williams. Miss Margaret Johnson, leader, resides in the “Chief’s Te- pee.” ‘The program for visitors day was well received Ly the many parsnts and friends who journeyed to Eagle River for the “open house.” | The guests were greeted by the | sclection “The More We Get To-| gether.” The Girl Scout Pledge was given and this was followed by ac- tion songs. Several poems were read | and a short play was offered. Mu- | sical selections and dances by indi- vidual members concluded the pro- gram, Assisted by the camp director and couneillors, the girls are spending | most of their camp period working | for badges and higher ratings, which | will be awarded at the close of per- |iod. Faded Old Pape ~ | Four of the big guns to be ready to take on all comers in two of the capital ships sent to the Mediterra A .- of the 31,000-ton British battleship Warapite seem fireotiml. The Warspite is one ean to augment the Allied navai Government Hospital today. | Ma' be D"plka'e L | TTHE BRICE 8 NOTEVERYXTHING'' i ooy om e oo Of Grami'’s Terms | pmonz e RO 2 o e oree o e 5 THIRIFT CO-OP s | | A long unopened book in Ed Rog- |ers’ collection revealed what may {be a carbon copy of General U, S. Grant’s terms of surrender to Gen- 4 FARGHERS oot na Italian rumblings of war burst into a roar. RETAILERS OF FAMOUS SHURFINE and TASTEWELL PRODUCTS 3——FREE DELIVERIES——3 out. Efectrical equipment makers, § Our Store Is as Close as'Your Phone—SHOP EARLY "'THE PRICE 18 NOT EVERYTHING"'' SO 2 eral Robert E. Lee at Appomatox X | courthouse, April 9, 1865. The paper, apparently marked by | | duplicatijng material, was faded ! land torn, hidden away for years| |in a second hand store book. Library references say that Gen-| 'eral Horace Porter, Grant's aide-| ters of Vancouver, B. C. de-camp, penned a description of | Fargher is a brother of J. J.|the surrender. Grant complied by Fargher, “Jack the Tailor,” and| using a manifold order book. The the family will visit here for a Wwording of .the paper found by, couple of weeks, going south on|Rogers checked with Porter's ver- Aboard 'the Princess Louise due this evening from the south, are G. S. Fargher, wife and two daugh- Oldest Bank in Alaska the next trip of the Louise. sion. | — e o — Eagtamame. o o 0 o e ol | 3 - - Subscribe to The Daily Alaska| The ancient Greeks believed ConlmerClal Savlngs Empire—the paper with the largest| the earth to ke the center of the paid circulation, universe. Safe Deposit ITS TIME TO CHANGE YOUR HEAVIER 'LUBRICANTS! PO Banking by Mail Department The B. M. Behrends Bank Tuneau, Alaska = 3 i g bty