The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1940, Page 4

Daily Alaska HELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD - - vmnum«m Publiched every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. most of the enemy planes off the coast and are shoot- ing down a satisfactory percentage of them. Their own losses are quite small. It would be perilous to reason from this small- scale war in the air and assert that German raids by many hundreds of planes would be correspondingly Empire - President and Business Manager Fnters4 in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matber. ineffective. Britain's air force is smaller than Ger- many's and the number of bases from which fighter ships can take off for defense work is very limited. It would seem therefore that Britain cannot hope to maintain quite so gratifying a record as the di- mensions of the air war incre: Yet the success British airmen have had over SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by earrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.25 per momth. By mall, postage paid. at the foll One vear, in advance, $12.00; six mon one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if the the Business Office of any livery of their papers. Telephones: News Off! BER Press s exclusively e The Associat republication of all news dispatches credi wise credited in this paper and ulso the local news published herein. fatiure or irregularity in the de- the Channel and the eastern coast lends some en- couragement to the longer prospect. It indicates that Great Britain has an extremely well-organized and well-manned aerial defense. And it indicates also| that in the air, as on land and on the water, there| the defense. lowing rates: ths, in advance, $6.00; v will promptly notify ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT or ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. " GEORGE D. CLOSE, Jves, with offices in_San Francisc Aoattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. nk Buflding. | ! ATLIN HEARD FROM | ! The editor is in receipt of a communication | from Clarence M. Sands, leading merchant of our i | very good neighbor city of Atlin, B. C., refuting mis- | statements in a recent speech by Adolf Hitler | ALASKA THE FORTRESS Mr. Sands and all Canadians may be assured we | e | don't believe :m,\\hmtz Hitler says anyway With an Alaska National Guard formed one day | 4 S s | 1 new Alaska sector of the Navy created the | There: Are \"” ‘"w‘ next, with a contract for a new naval airbase at | AR Dutch Harbor awarded before work is much more | (Cleveland Plain Dealer) than started on similar bases at Sitka and Kodiak, There are still “Allies” fighting against Hitler- with 850 Army and CCC men bein to begin work on an Air Corps field at Metlakatla, |as one solely between England and Germany is in- with wave after wave of Congressmen coming to |correct. England, as the largest remaining active inspect progress on the Army bases at Anchorage |OPponent of the Third Reich, naturally bears the and Fairbanks and to look over the sites for still | Prunt of the conflict and takes the leading place other bases, with the defense of ‘Alaska being pub- | But the war is one of all the non-Germanic peoples B8 0 i naticni) magavines, with tho Onter of the|0F, oo oontinent and thy Jree Natons of the Bt oh Commonwealth associated with England against Ger- United States Air Corps flying to Alaska to have a| .. look at work which was viewed just a few weeks| — This point is brought home by the recognition earlier by the Commander of the Fourth Army nn]xmmm-d the provisional government of Czechoslo- a “secret” bomber flight, with troops coming north |vakia by England. Headed by Eduard Benes as| regularly on Army transports and with new appro- | President and Jan Masaryk, only last week in Cl priations for Alaska defense works being authorized | 1and, as Foreign Minister, it joins the Allies along almost every day in Congress, the total national| With the I)ul]ch. the Polish and the French govern-| Stehine Dloture e e | ments in exile, | ;f”;,,‘,l, (,;,:):‘,“,l:, ;,',‘Hl,{.l:\,‘j“l:,‘ lj::f"”‘,.(”.,l\l." present Ume | "y alliance is not just a paper federation. The o e | war efforts of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and From the dim outlines of the situation emerges|yndia as well as the colonies are well known. The one important fact. The nation has awakened to the | new Czech government has had an army in the| strategic importance of Alaska, There are eager | field from the beginning of the conflict when it was| ears at last for the story which Alaskans have been|only a national committee. Its air force and many | trying to tell for years, that Delegate Dimond has|Of its troops have been evacuated from France to been reiterating in Congress session after session. Alaska was the Achilles heel It is becoming the nation's strong ress 1 et 5 AR, R0 Ll e | Gaule. It has more than a division of troops inj § : A ST the French Legion. Many French warships actively INDECISIVE AIR WAR cooperate with the British, and part of the French - |air force escaped to England when the Petain gov- Pending the expected unfolding of a vast on-|ernment surrendered. The committee is recognized | slaught, Germany is sending from twoscore up to!by London as the government of France. Free 100 or more planes against the British coast or|Frenchmen everywhere and Frenchmen under the against Channel shipping each day. While the war | dictatorial rule of Vichy at home realize that only continues at this tempo, the British are able to give an exceedingly good account of themselves There are still Allies fighting., The effective Any figures supplied from either side are subject | resistance of some of them may be small, but they to considerable error. But it is plain, nevertheless, | yepresent the people of Europe who have felt the that British Spitfires and Hurricanes are keeping|iron heel of Hitlerism and look to them for escape. washing"’n |lantic. From Capetown at the tip AI-ASKA (ANS end of Africa to Gibraltar at the Me"y_ mouth of the Mediterranean, they can control the coast of France, Go-Round (Continued from Fage One) it, because it has to be laid up in drydock. How serious have been British losses is shown by the fact that its Navy started the war with 183 de- stroyers and nc has fewer than 100. All of which indicates the rapid success of the new Nazi strat- egy of starving Britain out U. S. DESTROY This situation has tion now being gravely the State, War ments, whether would be serving its own best terests by selling 50 to 100 of its World War destroyers to Great Bri- tain. STRENGTH led to the ques- | the United The United States now has more| other two na- ssed in | and Navy Depart-| States | in-| g moved to Alaska (ism in Europe. The attempt to picture the conflict England to continue the struggle. The same is true | of the Poles. of North America Today free Frenchmen rally around the French | through this government in exile, cooperating with the other Allies, can France be freed. Belgium and Holland, and can dom- inate the North Sea and the mouth of thé Baltic In other wotds, the British Isles constitute a sort of marine Maginot Line, and U. 8. naval strategists figure that once that line is broken it will be impossible to stop an unfriendly fleet from steaming down into the waters of South America iniiag micreiig Territory’s Pack Last Year ‘Thus, it would be far easier, and IS Vallled at $36,_ cheaper, to bolster the British with 811,000 some destroyers and keep the Ger- man-Italian navies bottled up, than face them along the thousands of g st miles of unfortified South Ameri-| Four hundred fishery products and can coast line. byproducts canning establishments in the United States canned pro- ducts worth $130,423,000 in 1939, ac- cording to an announcement of the 28 PERCENT destroyers than any vies put together—a total of 238 Of these, were built during or jmmediately after the World W but have been kept in excellent con- dition. Their engines have been| packed in grease, and every two or three years half of them were placed | on sea duty, while the other halt were Jaid up. Thus they continue to be valuable fighting ships to- day. Inside the Navy Department, many of the higher-ups believe it would be wise policy for the United States to let Great Britain have 50 or 100 | of these old destroyers. They look at it not from a sentimental view- point, because the U. S. Navy, if any- thing, is anti-British. But from the hard-boiled question of Western Hemisphere defense, Navy chiefs fi- gure that our best defense is to make sure the British do not fall. U. 8. MAGINOT LINE For if you study naval strategy you will see how carefully the Bri jsh Navy has picked its bases, and| how true was that famous boast | “Britannia Rules the Waves.” What the British did, years ago, was to secure all the outlets into the At-' BRITISH WAITED {both Army and Navy strategists, is|Fish and Wildlife Service. | not dissimilar from the position of the British in regard to France.|crease of $16,401,000 or 14 per cent. | As long as Hitler was faced with a|over the previous year. Canned fish strong French army, Britain stood | products packed during the year |in no real danger. But once the|were valued at $96,459,000 and by- | Nazis broke through the Maginot |products $33,965,000. e, there was no bulwark to stop| The pack is equal to 19,428,000 | them from overrunning the rest of |standard cases. This is a seven per- Europe. cent increase over the year before. The situation has other possible| Putting up the largest share of ‘1m1 nts of similarity. When the|the pack was California, whose fish- ‘l-‘xemh were defending the M'\xumt!cnex canned products worth $45,- | Line, the British, worried over home |331,000. Alaska was second with | defense, kept most of their air-|$36811000 worth of canned fish. | planes at home. The French claim|The California pack was 35 percent |that, given more British air sup-|of the national total and the Alaska | port, they might have held out. pack is 28 percent. Some 72 per- Likewise one school of American |cent of all U. 8. fish is canned on strawu believes, as did the British, |the Pacific Coast. Salmon account that U. S. destroyers should be kept |for 43 percont of the pack by value. at home to protect the Western Hemisphere when Hitler finally | breaks through the British marine SHIP ovERDuE ‘ Maginot Line. But the majority {of higher-up strategists figure that | by that time it will be too late. BE[IEVED losl Meanwhile, however, there is no {way for the President to transfer RANGOON, Burma, | passes an act giving him that pow- | The 7.700-ton British liner Kem- er. And the isolationist clique 1nwmendme is 21 days overdue here |Congress shows no disposition to|and it must be presumed the ves- tremendous fight. And by that time | munique issued by the Govern-| Hitler may be marching up Picca-| ment dilly and preparing to turn his ac- The situation, in the opinion of This amount represents an in- ‘mfle destroyers, unless Congress Aug. 9. —| |permit that—at least until after a|sel 1s lost. This is an official com-| tive attentin to U. 8. shores, ERCSORPAL a Try a classified ad in The Empire, | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. | has been designated as FRIDAY, ' AUG. 9. 1940." from “THE EMPIRE ‘AUGUST 9, 1920 Myles F. McDonald, J. W. Guecker, Sydney S. Jacobs, local whole- sule representatives, accompanied by Mrs, Jacobs, left on the Murriette $or a business and pleasure trip to Southeast Alaska ports 1940 20 YEARS AGO ..-m-la- A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Berthold at the Dawes Hospital. A son was born at the Dawes Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Martin { HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! o o s s ) | AUGUST 9 Donald Thomas Dull who was visiting here as the guest of party was given at the Simpson Ruby Greenblatt, Robert Simpson, a For Miss Mr. and Mrs. residence. 602; Bustness Offlce, 374. is an inherent net advantage in B A B | e CIATED PRES Meanwhile British bombers have been engaged William Cashen | Miss Ethel Forbes became the bride of Mr. Louis L. Harding at a ntitled b0 he .o | in offensive operations daily for many weeks, Their George S. Baroumes | ceremony performed at the Gold Street apartment of the bride. Her claims must be somewhat discounted, for airmen Hilda Gray father, Dr. Frederick L. Forbes of Seattle, officiated at the service. tend to over-estimate the damage their bombard- Mrs. T. F. Johansen ments work., Yet it certainly is true that the British Everett T. Clark Mrs, H. S. Gfaves and children were to leave on the Northwestern — — | bomber command can reach objectives far inside Mrs. Samuel Kaufmann for & vt in thdlsouth L e .'f"’,’,;’,‘,‘;ff,‘, | Germany and bombard them with impunity. Ger-|, . PR R {many's aerial defense not only is not as good as| | Mrs. J. B. Bémnhofer was to arrive on the Princess Alice after visit- lington, 1011 | Hermann Goering boasted a year ago, but is not ing relatives i e Btates nearly as good as the English H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E Lis ke Only coming weeks will tell how adequate Brit- J. B. Moeller, operator at the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, |ain’s air defenses will be when the whole might of) | «ppe gtarg incline power plant at Annex Creek on Taku Inlet, was in the city for a few | Hitler's air squadrons is thrown against the British % ) ays. | coast. But the record up to now is highly encourag- b”t (I(' )I(]t (mnpnl deya (AN L I | ing, recreating the prospect that Britain may stand | g————— % | Miss Lulu Koski was leaving on the Northwestern for a visit in off attacks for some months, Doing this, the British SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 | Seattle. {will find a great many new factors commencing luj Good and bad plane aspects B s jwork to their advantage | are discerned for today. The morn- WEATHER: Highest 54, lowest 48, cloudy. ing is adverse to business and the | o-.mm-m_»-m-_..—...__-_ wise will seek outdoor recreation. | The later hours are promising 1(! those who must plan for impor-| D IyL E gl h g afigee i - aily Lessons in English . 1. corpon Heart and HOME: WOMCN WHO | &y e o s s e s s s e e s oy plan for the coming autumn will The house: WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “After she had sat (or benefit by economizing hold budget should be carefully|set) her guests.” Say, “After she had seated her guests.” reduced, for there must be cauti-| OFTE MISPRONOUNCED: Integral. Pronounce in-te-gral, e as ous management of money In a|in me unstressed, as as in at unstressed, accent first syllable. wotld. of ccobomic - chace. ok Often ML\.\pl'l]Fd. Reconnoiter; one ¢, two n’s. tiokial instibublorls will Tiod 16 e Synonyms: Basic, basal, fundamental, essential, founded on. e "”::“"l ol 1']';]‘;‘;: ©%| . Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- o Mgty i .m.u s = | crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word colleges and universities. This is Mg ; 7 B s a time when every mature mem-| ILLICIT; not permitted; improper; unlawful eir it love was ber of the family should assume a frowned upon by society part of the financial burdens. oAt Ll B s o e Business Affairs: Activity will be ,‘f“"“‘”‘ £zl U e S S [ great in all the cities of the United | § MO by States which is to continue to DE prosper. Taxes will be burdensome { ROBERTA LEE |and laws goyerning trade will be e ) 1 < ] 0 ) ) -0 - - ) - " 1 - - stringent, Lusuries will be enjhyed @ Shouldn't the woman always precede the man when walking out while they are possessed, but they s will not be purchased so freely as| Of the lobby of a theatre, or other public building? lin the past. The cost of clothing A. Yes, unless the crowd is very dense. Then it is often better for will rise. Tremendous drains on the | the man to precede, to make a path for his companion. financial resources of the nation Q. How should a husband refer to his wife when speaking to a will be necessa as relief needs' servant, “my wife,” “Clara,” or “Mrs. Lee"? of war victims in Europe and Asia A. “Mrs. Lee.” are recognized. Q. Are wedding pictures taken before the wedding or after the National Issues: Unselfish devo-| .. o =, tion to the nation is imperative < g as the innocent in Europe suffer A. Either time is all right, whichever is more convenient | for the crimes of the guilty who = have destroyed life and property. haye the augury of a year of good this period of transition the Unitea Romances will be fortunate. X = States will prove itself a nation| Children born on this day pr e S S o e o | BY Prinfing Craftsmen | tent. Intellectually well endowed. (Copyright, 1940) R past. they should be International Affairs: This month most im- portant for Italy, because a crisis o in which the king and Mussolini PIED PIPER TO BLAME are involved will be reached. Some| GOSS, Mo—There’s not a child change in the ideology of the na-|of school age residing in Goss. The tion is indicated. The stars pres-|town has a population of 30 persons, age sudden shifts in sentiment re-|exactly half of whom are more than garding Hitler and Stalin as am- 65 years of age. bitions centering in the Mediter-| -—————— ranean cause army movements and| Subscribe to The Dally Alaska| Subscribe to The Daily Alaska cryptic diplomacy. ‘Emmre—the paper with the largest | Empire—the paper with the largest Persons whose birthdate it isi{paid circulation, 'pald circulation, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 9.— The Injernptional Association of Printing House Craftsmen has elect- ed Frank McCafferty of Seattle as President, at the conclusion of its annual convention. 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