The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1940, Page 4

4 THE DAILY Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the Thus Mr. Churchill's great speech began to be broad- | cast at 9 pam. It wasn't released to.the press uniil |9:50. Thus even the most lmpnrmfltslews thay be | denied to a large part of a‘newspaper’s constituen Yet how can the war be successfully prosecuted with- out the fullest distribution through the press of news . | and of opinion? | The English are asking; and so are we EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER - Presi R. L. BERNARD - - Business Mans Vice-President a Enters4 In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class AIR RECORD | The Air Transport Association of America reports | that June broke all previous records for passenger flying on the domestic lines of the United States. B R Ll Lo wing Thtes: at month the revenue passenger-miles flown One year, In advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, s6.0p; | 1 thal s g one month, in advance, $1.25. | amounted to 101,172,222. This was about 12 percent Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | _ Ao 4 ottoh i . the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de. | above the figure for May, which itself had set a new livery “’l“‘“" e e tibe, 603 mark. As compared with June of last year, the in- 1 s: News Office, 602; ebars 535k crease was nearly 60 percent. Such figures for a young industry are impressive enough in themselves. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoctatod Press is exclusively entitled to the use for But when one remembers that the immense and grow- | ing amount of flying has been done for a period of republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published nearly 16 months without fatality among passengers or crew, the 'accomplishment of air transport as- herein. | sumes its true proportions. The safety record in scheduled flying has now (received a further deserved accolade with the an- | nouncement by the Equitable Life Assurance Society that it will waive all limitations of amount and extra | premiums because of an applicant’s “past or con- :u'mplm,nd flying as a fare-paying passenger on | scheduled planes operated by commercial airlines | within the United States.” Insurance experts no }lwng(-r consider such flying as an extra hazard, Delivered by carrler in Juneau and Dousias for §1.25 pes ness Office, 374, ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARG) THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER FUBLICATION. "GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Representa- Jves, with offfees In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Aeattle, Chicaxo, New York and Boston. !.A"E‘; it;il;‘éi:lfl”jflvn Gllbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Buflding. | The Liquor Referendum (Alaska Weekly) Either the liquor business is, like the grocery or the clothing business, a legal business, or it is not. | Those engaged in it are subjected to certain restric- | tions and limitations provided by law which, if obeyed, place them in an entirely legitimate line of endeavor |in the business life of the community. It is just as definite a step toward the communistic political creed to put a large number of liquor dealers out of busi- ness and their employees out of jobs as it would ments he made the Belgium is| be to put an equal number of grocers and their em- easily believed. Newspapers along with the| ployees out of a means of llvenhm_vd due to Terri- | torial monopoly of the grocery business. SRR BC Gy i, | In exchange for the business of the present li- ENGLISH PRESS TROUBLES United States Ambassador John Cudahy’s charge yesterday that newspapers distorted state- London about situation to wa Cudahy, Ambassador to Belgium, says he Was|ienge holders and the jobs they create in the various “violently shoc 1" to read how the London papers| pranches of the liquor business, Territorial monopoly handled his interview For making a statement at| would provide political berths for a comparatively all he is o way home to Washington to be repri- | few of the boys entitled to have their feet in the manded by Seeretary Hull in person trough. The wartime press of a belligerent nation leaves Instead of several store premises in each town much to be desired. This was as true in the Umlrdh’““‘g occupied by these same present license holders, States in the last war as it is in England today. {lhc Territory would rent one store space in each town which rules its newspa The other day the ques- M;),.“, Wl 0k, e ¥ tion was asked in the House of Commons: Why did| The present half-million-dollar tax revenue which the censor prevent foreign correspondents from cab-|involves practically no collection cost might be re- ling the official announcement by the Colonial Office! piaced by Territorial profits on liquor sold or might of the appointment of the Duke of Windsor as Gov- | be dissipated by politicians. ernor of the Bahamas until after the British Broad-‘ T casting Corporation had announced it? This wm1 owing to a misunderstanding by the censorship, said Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister of Information. Did the Minister know, asked another heckler, that on the| Both the Netherlands and France have islands day the Arandora Star was sunk a full account of |\ the West Indies. Should they fall into the hands | of Hitler, it would not be long before we would find the event was in the newspaper offices at 1 p.m., but| they were potential bases for an attack on the the censor boggled so long before deciding that the|pgnaiyo” Ganal. That we could not permit. The story might be published that the first the "“huc‘desmuy of the two Americas is at stake. The Pan- heard of the matter was through the BB.C. at 9 p.|ama Canal is a vital ocean highway in the Western If Mr. Cooper knew. he wouldn't admit it; he|Hemisphere, would “look into that particular case.” He confessed In South America some Nazi sympathizers are that the BB.C. got its news at the last moment and | talking of the necessity of “internationalizing” the about 10 percent of it was uncensored. The House|canal. By that they mean it should pass from the cheered when a member asked: “Is not the press|control of the United States into the control of Hit- more efficient than the B.B.C.2” Mr. Cooper thought, | €7 OF his agents. lwe k}a;/e “dm“l‘:‘s"fi'ed b'ehe oRhal fon, that no advantage was given to the broadcasters.|we byil it and although it stands as & monument On another day Mr. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, w;‘s‘m the genius of American engineers, we have not the target of the questions. Why was not the King’s|given ourselves special privileges. Birthday Honors List, mainly military, published in Japan, Great Britain, Germany, and all the other full in the newspapers of July 11? Many soldiers, nations have used it exactly as we have used it—an sailors and airmen didn't yet know that their names | €xpeditious short-cut between the Atlantic and Pa- Mr. Attlee replied that the list was|Cific, which has made unnecessary the long and S The restrictions dangerous voyage around stormy Cape Horn. | Our record with the Panama Canal has been one The Panama Canal (Cincinnati Enquirer) were in the list published in The London Gazette on the supply of paper prevented publication in the | i ial d t Th i press; nor had the press made application for licenses|°f impartial and generous fairness. BEe.. 18.. 10 to increase the number of pages allowed it | easouiocssipne- woptemplain. Gt stone s a5 N g no reason to replace there the officials of the United The press replied with a certain note of asperity| giates with the officials of the German Army and that the list, which would have filled four newspaper| Navy. The Stars and Stripes wave with the best of pages, was thrown into the newspaper offices at 7|good reasons over the canal, and there they must pm. It was impossible to apply for more paper, nor continue to wave. was it possible to print and correct the list in time | for the early editions Believe It or Not—Dictator Mussolini's newspaper Some Ministers make it a rule to give the news| denounces President Roosevelt—for trying to set him- to the B.B. C. and to withhold it from the newspapers. self up as a dictator. Washingfon : Merry- Go-Round (Continued from rage One) denied knowing anything about the contents of the trunk, He asserted at Lindbergh's| merly attached to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Redvers Opie, Second Secretary; former Don of Economics at Mag- dalene College Oxford, and lecturer | came so incensed | views that he turned off the radio |and snapped, “That's outrageous. ! 'm saying nothing about that young man in my talk tonight, but I shall make it my business to doat Harvard; his American wife is =0 on another occasion.” daughter of Harvard’s economist NOTE—Pershing has made only| Frank W. Taussig. la few broadcasts, and when Miss| Richard F. Heathcoat Amory, Ann Gillis, chic Columbia Broad-| Third Secretary, successful young casting press director, who spends most of — | today which is especially forturate| that if the money, jewels and docu- that the signal to begin speaking was a finger pointed at him, laughingly inquired: “What's signal to stop? That may be nec- ments were taken, it was without his knowledge and approval. He placed the blame on the two sec-| he| the | explained | stockbroker, retaries & - i ¢ 5 NOTE—The Petaln government,| %Y. 88 I may start reading my = speech all over again. acting under Nazi orders, has not T revealed the fact that Berlin has| g ke billed the French for a large sum, _ BRITISH EMBASSY to cover the cost of the German Not for a generation has there occupation. This will glve Berlin Peen such a lively and effective| the basis for a clan on French|StAff at the British Embassy in| gold and doliar in (he 1, Washinglon. Things have changed 8. which the Treasuty took under|{ro1 the days of Sir Ronald Lind- control immediately after the| Y. When cverything bad to be ropah.” French surrender. | : | Lord Lothian started the change, GENERAL PERSHING | but it has been broadened by the General Pershing’s solemn warn-| recent arrival of a corps of forth- ing that unless aid is given the!right young Britishers who are not British fleet to resist Hitler, the career diplomats but recruits for United States faces certain attack, war work. Today the Embassy has was not a reply to the appeasement|no time for the cookie-pushers, broadcast of Colonel Lindbergh,! Here are some of the men who When the AEF. commander de-| have brought new blood to the cided, after a study of confidential| Georgian mansion on Massachusetts military reports, to come out ofl Avenue: retirement and speak to the nation,| John G. Foster, First Secretary; he did not know that the flyer 8lso| successful young barrister who left| !a highly lucrative practice in Lon-| planned to talk. Also, Pershing wrote his speech don to serve in Washington. without any knowledge of what| Michael H. Huxley, First Secre- Lindbergh would say. HL?\'CVL‘I‘.i tary; in charge of press relations; Pershing did tune in on the latter's| cousin of famed scientist Julian broadcast. But it was only for a Huxley and famed novelist Aldous “‘ef the ‘Armies. be- A. D. Maris, First Secretary; for- | his time with Americans in Wash- ington, He represents the Ministry of Economic Warfare. P. C. Hill, Third Secretary, who married a Miss Borden of Chicago, and also represents the Ministry of Economic Warfare. » William Gray Elmslie, Attache; longtime resident of Colorado, whose late wife was a Pulitzer, ALIEN EMPLOYEES Chief job of the Census Bureau is to tabulate the population of the United States. But in these days of national defense, it is also act- ing as a clearing house regarding aliens, citizenship and other kin- dred questions. Since the enactment of the vari- ous alien registration and anti-fifth column laws, Census officials have been receiving on an average of 6,000 inquiries a week from indi- viduals seeking to establish their American citizenship, and from em- ployers anxious to find out if they have any undesirable aliens on their rolls. Some concerns have sent their entire payrolls to the Bureau for checking. Most of the birth and citizenship queries are coming from airplane ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1940. oot i from : e PP ——. 3 AUGUST 14, 1920 In the opinion of officials and workmen, the wreck of the Princess Sophia would be raised within a week from the bottom of Lynn Canal. Tne organization of a new company for the purpose of drillng for oil was revealed with the filing of application for a permit to lease a claim located in the Kenai oil field. The membership of the Seward organization was composed mostly of prominent business men, including e e ) James Morley, Street Commissioner of Juneau, was superintending AUGUST 14 |a crew of men who were doing repair work on the sidewalks on Lower ¥ | Front Street. Joe R. Werner i Shirley Erwin | . Announcement was made that W. A. Clark had disposed of his interest Vernon Swap Mrs. M. H. Sides in the Juneau Hardware Company to W. W. Casey, W. G. Johnson and Roy Smith Oliver M. Olson. Mrs. Howard Stabler S el Jackie Michaels Mrs. C. R. Bell, of Tee Harbor, arrived here and was to spend several o i 4 |days visiting friends ‘ | Two islands on Icy Straits, Inian and Lemesurier, had been taken H 0 R 0 S C 0 P E up by fox farmers. “The stars incline R. J. Sommers, Surveyor-General and Acting Governor of the Terri- bul d() not (fompel" tory, was to return on the Alaska from an extended trip through the Interior o _ SRR S 2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 | 3. P. Anderson, Consulting Engineer for the U. S. Smelting and | Refining Company, arrived here in the interests of the Ebner mine. Benefic aspects rule positively oy e Weather: Highest, 51; lowest, 49; rain. for those who use their brain: in directing the destines Of OUNCT | guemommommomms o oo o o o o o - oo - persons, In the morning, judgment 5 & % Daily Lessons in English V. 1. corpox should be keen and decisions, there- e~y o fore, reliable Heart and Home: Women will contribute greatly to national wel- fare through the use of their spec- WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She was exceeding kind ial talents and training. In all lines| ¢ pi » gay “She was EXCEEDINGLY kind to him.” of philanthropic work they will per- | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lariat. Pronounce la at, both A's form tasks of supreme urgency.| £ SN s Nurses will offer service that rep- |as in AT (second A unstressed), I as in IT, accent first syllable. resents thorough training. Prepara- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Disappearance; one S, two P's. tion of food and prescribing of SYNONYMS: Tautology, redundance, redundancy, verbosity, cir- diet in city slums will contribute|cumlocution, wordiness WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: IMPROVIDENT; lacking foresight or thrift; prodigal; wasteful. “He | was an improvident son of an indulgent father.” to the public health, Extreme heat| will cause much illness among chil- dren. Business Affairs: Manufacturers of shoes will speed production. Mer- chants will find that trade is good in a month usually dull. Govern- ment money will speed up business| in all parts of the country, for in- land cities are to prosper thmuuhi new industries. Late inventions ol extraordinary significance will es-| tablish centers of production. Per-| 410 served at the table? sons D? all ages will find work A. Cher: very small plums he mouth b e atatlon. | whole, and the pits and stones carried from the lips o the plate between onstrate that civilization is in a| the thumb and first finger. state of upheaval, old ideas will be| @ Should a person say discarded and new aims adopted| an elevator operator? wherever it is necessary to~con- A. Yes. “Please” and “thank you form to changes, but democracy is| Q. Whom should a hostess ask to “fill in to gain power as reliance is placed A. A close, intimate friend. upon foundation principles. A re- ligion that has developed ChIough | 5o oo oo oo em: o o e oo b - e T | MODERN ETIQUETTE " yoperra von | e . 1 ) ) ) 2 ) 7 > s o Q. What is the correct way to eat cherries and plums when they and grapes are taken into ‘please” when giving a floor number to are never out of place. at a dinner? recognition of spiritual forces is| by to exercise a great influence 'over I_O OK d I_ E A R the people an A. C. GORDON | International AffairS: AMAZING | § e o omomms o o o oo o o o o o oo oo o m wom o methods will be uncovered in the| : investigation of many groups dis-| 1. What is the name of the mode of treating diseases by copious loyal to the United States. Treach- |use of water, internally and externally? ery in high places is proplwsiedl 2. What was the first battle of the Civil War? Warning is given that serious perils 3. Who was Copernicus? are hidden in those diplomatic pro- 4. What is the meaning of the Spanish name “Santa Fe'? posals which promise successful co-| 5 which was the first state to approve and sanction the Consti- operation with governments , that tution? long have been hostile in their attitudes toward the United tSates. Persons whose birthdate it is L have the augury of a year of ex-| 2 treme test. It is wise to make mo| 3. 4. 5. ANSWERS: Hydropathy (accent second syllable). Bull Run. Polish founder of modern astronomy (1473-1543). “Holy Faith.” Delaware. changes, even though sudden hap- penings seem to encourage new en- vironment. . Children born on this day prob- ably will be dignified and reserved. These subjects of Leo are usually patient, persevering and able to use talents of unusual type in a way to assure success and hpppi- ness. death of Fred Fernelius, The two policemen, August Pierce and Glenn Hancock, were charged with fatally beating Fernelius when he was ar- rested on a charge of drunk- eness. Policemen Found Guilty of Beating Prisoner fo Death !Subscripe to The Dauy aiaska Em- | pire — the paper with the largest guaranteed circulation. — e, (Copyright, 1940) - e where aliens are now forbidden em- ployment. Census officials estimate that there are several million personsin the country whose birth have never been filed with local authorities. To establish the citi- zenship of individuals of this group the Bureau uses old census reports obtained from parents. MERRY-GO-ROUND Handsome John Hamilton no longer is GOP National Chairman, but on the Committee’s new letter- heads his name appears as prom- inently as his successor, Representa- tive Joe Martin. Hamilton'’s new title is Executive Director . . . Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull was so touched by the bi-partisan welcome of members of Congress upon his return to Washington from the Ha- vana Conference that tears streamed down his cheeks . . . Representative Charles Halleck, original Willkie booster and his nominator at the Philadelphia convention, is very much thumbs-down with Townsen- dites. Halleck was elected to the House in 1938 with Townsend back- ing, but later opposed the old-age pension scheme. In retaliation Townsendites tried to lick him' for renomination this spring, but with- out success William Knudsen, genial, soft-speaking National De- fense Conimissioner, works In shirt-sleeves and keeps his desk cleared of papers. (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) e MRS. CAMERON RETURNS Mrs. F. F. Cameron returned on the Aleutian after visiting with her mother in Centralia, Wash., for the past several weeks. 3 o i f New York Artist J. J. Miller welcomes three of the eight children of OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 14 Superior Court jury has found two Oakland policemen guilty of man- slaughter and assault in the jail records| Empire Classifieds Pay! - Empress Zita’s Children Here factories and other plants directly connected with defense production | The Daily Alaska Empire guafan- |- ‘w Empress Zita of Austria as they arrive via Clipper plane in tees the largest aaily circulation of l New York as war refugees from Europe. Left to right are Arch- any Alaska newspaper. R, " tigke sgq_lph and Archduchesses Adelside and Charlotte, 4 i :_| Profegaional ' | 1 r e C Or Fraternal Societies ' Gastineau Channel | D K d B. P. 0. ELKS meet every second and fourth rs'- ‘aser an Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers wel- | Freeburger come. H. E. SIMMONS, f DENTISTS Exalted Ruler; M. H, : Blr agren Building SIDES, Secretary. | PHONE 56 ke races: MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 | Secona and fourth ‘ Monday of each month L w G in Scottisb Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p.an Dr' A N_'flérlewm RALPH B. MARTIN = ’;"?‘m e Worshipful Master; JAMES W lours . 3 3 SEWARD BUTLDING LEIVERS, BSecretary. Office Phone 469 =z iy ™ ‘ GUY SMITH | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Devgem Fhcian DRUGS 3“‘” hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 ooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 661 PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- »ULLY COMPOUNDED Front Btreet Next Coliscum | Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9--Valentine Bldg. | PHONE 762 ! Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m, [ S———— — ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. 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