The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1940, Page 4

4 Daily Alaska Empire - 2ublished every evening ecept Sunday by the EMPIRE. PRINTING COMPANY ‘m(‘r!‘:\sn during the month of June amounted to 18 percent, Most of the increase in traffic fatalities can be explained by greater travel this year than last. But Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. the y aHly b 5 WELEN TROT BENDER ¥ enu: AlaSKR. o esident | the war unquestionably has played a part also. R 1. BERNARD - - Vice-President and Dusiness Mana®er | Through its records, the National Safety Council is Entered in \ble to trace a deadly parallel. The traffic toll has been on the upgrade since the outbreak of the war, and pecked in June, the month when the continental war reached its climax in the surrender of France The Safety Council believes that the nation traffic habits reflect an attitude of recklessness, pre- occupation and confusion of values growing out ol‘ And few psychologists will dispute the con- | the Post Office in Juneau os Gecond Class Matéer. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: the war fer in T.ncau and Douglas for 325 per momth 1, postae paid. At the following rates: . in advance, $6.00; | clusion, § To the degree that a driver is brooding over the the world, or eeething inwardly with war-| he 1s & dangerous driver. This is| because he is preoccupied and likely | MEMBEE OF ASSOCTATED PRESS | to be inattentive, but also because his emotions m: The Associated Press is exclusiviiy entitled to the use for | yterfere with his reflexes. The driver who is medi- republication of all news dispatces credited to it or not other- wise credited in thif naper anc slso the locul news published | tating upon the successes of the Nazis—perhaps he ; listening to the war news broadcast on his car herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAPANTEED TO BE LARGER adio—is more than likely to be short-tempered. Deep in hatred of Hitler, his anger may seek an imme- THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. outlet when another driver passes, or doesn't This may Delivered by © BY One vear, in advance, $12.00; six mou one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor i they will promptly notifs the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office | state of aused emotion rue not only 602; Business Office, 37 Representa- | Portland, | © pull over far enough to permit passing GEORCE D. CLOSE, Inc, Watienti » Ppves, with offices in 8an Prarcisco. Lo: Beattle, Chicago, New York and Roston. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. 27, 1940. w0 AUGUST ] SON [ MONT T0E | WED [THUR] PRI [ SaT | PPN from 20 YEARS AGO THE EMPIRE USSP S SRS S ———— AUGUST 27, 1920 The country between Haines and the Rainy Hollow district along the Chilkat and Kluane rivers was the paradise of Alaska, according to Col J. C. Gotwals, Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, who had re- turned from a trip into that country. Funter Bay for the Alaska Admiralty Gold Mining Company, had been appointed United States Mineral Surveyor, according to an announcement |made from the office of Surveyor General R. J. Sommers. B HAPPY BIRTHDAY { ommeen® | prank W. Walter, deep sea diver who located the purser’s safe of the AUGUST 27 | Princess Sophia, left on the Princess Alice for the south. Dora M. Poole A Heather Hollman W. L. Newell, engineer who had designed the holsting apparatus for Mrs. J. A. Sofoulis [the raising of the wreck of the Princess Sophia, left for his head- “"‘Gl';’;’lz (v';‘li"’[‘:"” quarters at Seattle on the Princess Alice. Verna Mae Gruber Zalmain Gross Ole Westby Mrs. Cliff Berg Announcement was made that winter development at the Willlam | Henry Bay Mine was soon to be started. | Miriam McBride, who had been spending the summer in San Fran- | Accidents in the rural sections have predominat- | H O R 0 S c 0 P E Weather: Highest, 61; lowest, 48; rain ed in the increase of fatalities, But perhaps the answer to this is in the fact that wartime jitters| ol o . o | resulting in accidents aren't as likely to have fatal| | “The stars incline K] g . < 1 by | consequences in the relatvely slow moving city traf- but do not c()mp‘z[” | Dally I_essons In Engllsh w L. GORDON fic, as in the case of high speed travel on the open | | & - * — TR SR S T S USSR R road | The moral is: Try to keep your mind on this| side of the Atlantic while you're driving | | | 1 Boys in Blitzkrieg (New York Times) Boys must be the devil now in rural England. No doubt they run all over, investigating everything, ' RESOURCE [taxing pasents' patience at keeping track of them. | They have to be shooed from forbidden places. There Salmon canning began on Prince William Sound |are guns in the hedgerows and tanks in the heather; in 1889, It has continued as a year in, year out in- | Planes swoop down to pry metal fingers into thatched ALASK A’S GREATE day. The morning should bring| YO! | good news regarding some trade meaning to convey. [ | other legal service demands the work of many a vanishing period in WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- sion” WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “No admi; unless 1 mean no one is admitted. Say, “No admission charge” if that is the development. It is a favorable date OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Foyer. The French pronunciation is for signing contracts, deeds and fwa-ya, first A as in AH, second A as in DAY, accent last syllable papers. | OPTEN MISSPELLED: Salary; ARY. Celery; ERY. and Home: While public SYNONYMS: Composure, calmness, serenity, placidity, repose. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us women, home should be made even |, ... our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: more attractive than usual. In It} yoyoNyM; a word having the same pronunciation as another, but should be centered widely con- A verging interests, for me,,,jl.ies of | differing in meaning. ~(Pronounce first O as in ON). FAIR and FARE; social and| BEAR and BARE; SO, SOW, and SEW. Heart Lucien S. Robe, well known Alaska mining engineer, working at| T A ST S R & S . ruer: ¢ : ] dustry at Cordova until the present day, Eclipsed for many years by a copper boom and a railroad boom, Cordova's fisheries industry has kept growing. | It had its ups and downs, it never had a boom, but| it has outlived the enterprises which seemed so ex- citing and important for a time, but which are now | gone This year Prince William Sound canned 588465 cases of salmon. Except for 1936, this is the biggest pack of the decade. It is more than three times as Jarge as last year's pack | Cordovans had good reascn this year to celebrate their annual Sea Food Festival, a community jam-| boree which, although only two years old, ranks with the Fairbanks Ice Carnival, the Anchorage Fur Ren- dezvous and the Wrangell Potlatch as a distinctive Alaskan celebration, One man who rode into Prince William Sound on the steam auxiliary schocner Jennie- with ma- terials for the first salmon cannery still lives at Cordova. He is Gust Wilson, who at 85 re-| tains vivid recollections of those early days. { “Thirgs were a lot different tie Gust recalls in thinking back half a century and more. “About | the only thing that's the samc is the fish—they're| still red salmon, an’ kings, an’ silvers an’ humps. It | seemed like there was more of them then, but then maybe that's just ‘cause there weren't so many fisher- men and there was no set fishing season an’ we could fish whenever the most fish were here; mavhe that made it look like more.” ! Times change but the fish do not. Cordovas has | the best wishes of Juneau and the rest of Alaska| in her festival dedicated to the Golden North's great- est resource, not goid, but fish district’s THE WAR AND ACCIDENTS Not without some psychological justification, the National Safety Council attributes a sharp increase | in the nation's traffic deaths partly to “wartime jit- | ters” During the first haif of this year there was | an eight percent increase in the number of persons | killed in traffic accidents in comparison with the | first six months of 1939, or 1,040 morc victims, Thel Washin&on Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) lem of conseripting | For behind the euvering over the | bill is: number of they are even more positive in their |jtively what private conversations . . . U. S. air | that it observers in London report that no|enacted into law. matter how gallantly British pursuit planes oppose the Germans, and |of certain even though they always down 10 to 15 per cent of the at- tacking Nazis, about 90 per cent of the Nazi bombers alw break | shadow. also their lives) . the flat refusal of a y defense manufactur- ers to move a finger on govern- indicated this view to Congress, but|ment contracts until they know pos- the tax bill will be; until it has been actually cottages and scratch the gardens where boys played their games. With the telltale drone of a raiding squadron, mothers go half-sick with fright as to their whereabouts. Like as not they have mounted a broomstick through the cellar window and “bagged™ six enemy planes with one shot. A picture in The Times recently showed one young “veteran” who is a hero among his playmates. Proudly he displayed a bomb fragment that fell in his garden. Eagerly his comrades finger it. Eyes glisten. How does it feel to be under fire? Was it a dive bomber? Did he get away? Let's get him next time, Righto. And the swaggerer is elected on the| spot and by acclamation the leader of volunteer anti-| aircraft battery No. 9. For many a boy the English countryside now simmers in that romantic haze that smolders of chivalry, of individual combat. High on a hilltop a| youngster dreams of signal fires and towers and re- laying the alarm as of old. History quivers in the leaves and flows in the rivers. It is a thread all of a piece. Guided by it, a boy is a knight, a “tommy,” a hero, all in an hour, A Handicap Becomes an Asset (Philadelphia Record) Color blindness, for years, has been a surefire cause for rejection of applicants in the Army’s Air Training Corps. No use for such men But now—well, army officials have discovered, by accident, that color-blind men can see through| amouflage much better than men with normal vision. Cumouflage, naturally, is designed to deceive the normal eye. In tests at Fort Sil}, Okla. they found it didn’'t fooi the color blind. An air observer, with normal eyesight, was sent | aloft to see how many artillery guns, heavily camou- flaged, could be spotted from the air. He could pick |out only 10 of the 40 guns. But a color-blind ob- server from the field artillery—who confessed his failing only after he had landed—picked out all 40 of the camouflaged guns. So, officials now are combing their lists for rejected color-blind men. They don't know yet just how they'll use them most effectively, but that they can use them is obvious. All of which just goes to show that all of us—live and learn. y While Congress is debating the prob- jeral counsel of the Congressional the youth (per- | Committee. of the na-| Harrison assured Roosevelt that it would produce the same amount backstage man-|as the Treasury proposals but by new war profits |soft-pedalling on certain controver- sial items would be easler to en- act. Anxious for fast action, Roose- velt told Senator Harrison to go ahead. But when committee members be- gan probing the Stam-Harrison bill they discovered that far from pro- 2nd, the undercover MAaneuvers|gucing $400,000,000 it would tap arm- business interests, some bring | of tWem armament producers, to whittle the bill down to a mere ament profits only for around $190,- 000,000—less than half the Treasury figure. But even this, apparently, did not Unequivocal assurances were gw'=snnsty certain business elements. e, through . . The U. 8. lesson to| be drawn from this applies to the Panama Canal. Despite the large air force guarding the Canal, mili- | tary authorities admit that it v.'nul«|§ be impossible for them to prevent an enemy air armada from gefting over the locks One well-placed bomb can put the locks out of com-| missiont for about three montlg| . . . One factor in favor of the British is that when their pilots have to bail out they come down on British soil, can fight again next day. out, are captured . . . Despite the herculean efforts of the British, U. 8. observers doubt that they can| hold out against the overwhelming, odds against them. SIT-DOWN STRIKE A sit-down strike far worse than anything pulled by the CIO in the automobile plants of Michigan is now being staged by some American industrial leaders. It is a sit-down strike against the production of war and navy orders until industry sees what kind of a tax bill will be writ- ten by Coneress. 1t is the old, old struggle of prof- its versus public interest. it is being staged en the obdurate business men that certain amortization concessions they demanded would be written into the tax measure. It was even proposed to include a provision in the bill for adjustment of differ- enaecs that might arise later. But despite these guhrantees certain defense manufacturers pave balked at getting busy on emergency arm- ament orders. 4 They are conducting a “sit down” against national defense until the concessions they want actually are But Nazl pilots bailing|in black and white on the statute books. This already has cost weeks of delay in the placing of major or- ders and the end is nowhere in sight. B4TTERED TAX BILL Behind-thepscenes the debates over taxation has been hot and turbulent. After Roosevelt urged immediate enactment of an excess profits bill, the Treasury submitted proposals to the Joint Congressional Com- mittee on Internal Revenue Taxa- tion to raise around $400,000,000 in additional revenue. Several later, Senator Pat Harrison, co- Chairman of the committee, laid Only this time p. of the nation is before the President a substitute bill concocted by Harold Stam, gen- daysport. What For the National Defense Commis- sion named an advisory committee of $1-a-year men to study the prob- lem. This group has now urged re- |visions in the Stam-Harrison bill aiming to whittle it down even be- low $190,000,000. But when the committee tried to get the Commission to approve its report, fireworks broke loose. Bristling with anger, Labor Com- missioner Sidney Hillman declared that he would not be party to any attempt to “use the country's need for defense to make profits for a few individuals.” He denounced the report in scathing terms and de- manded its rejection. To his support came Donald Nel- son, former executive of Sears, Roe- buck, now U. S. Procurement Di- | rector; also Chester Davis, Federal | Reserve Board member and agri- | economic conditions will be preci- e < D T B ous to Americans as well as lo! LD AT 2 Europeans. The principles of dr--{‘ ]‘TE I;y mocracy should be impressed upon | MODERN ETIOUE ROBERTA LEE even the youngest members of the| 3 ' family. This nation is to be the| - s s exemplar of liberty and progress. | Business Affairs: Great activity | in many lines of trade and manu- facturing is prognosticated. Food and clothing for the Americas will| sits in the back with the other guest or guests. be wisely distributed as provision| Q. When your hostess places you next to a person at the dinner is made also for war victims. Chem- | table, with whom you have recently quarreled, it is necessary to talk to ists, inventors, engineers and build- | this person? ers will be in extraordinary demand. A. Yes: it would be rude and unfair to your hostess if you did not. Waumiing s glyen Hany inhor: Gaione Q. What kind of, person would make derogatory remarks about a must undergo changes in leader- 9 asree? | religion, with which he or she does not agree? ship. Obstruction policies will cause | 4 N an licident of serlous potentialities.| - A- Such'a persan is very ill-bred, tactlcss, and rude. NAtional ISSUES: THe LNE DEUWECT | e e o oammcramss e s o e o 2 005 self-preservation and brotherly duty | l LO 0 K d L E A R Z)I/ ‘ an A. C. GORDON | will be discussed with erhphasis as| ) ) - Q. When a husband and wife have invited guests for a motor drive, should the wife sit in front with her husband? A. The wife should ask one of the guests to sit in front. while she political viewpoints obscure the real| responsibility of a democracy. Iso-, | 1ation, which now will become | dersommoems mere catchword since it stands for| ; what state of the Union has only three counties? the impossible for the United 2. What are the first and last Books of the Bible? States, is to be the epitaph of am-| bitlous statesmen. | International Affairs: Miraclesin 3. How many years has it been since England was invaded by an enemy? preparednss accomplishment by 4. Who said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes”? the United States again will prove | 5. What is the average span of life of a house fly? the nation’s ability in industrial | ANSWERS: performance. The power of this de- Delaware. mocracy will be recognized by Eu- Genesis and Revelations. ropean dictators as aviation, mili- 874 y tary and naval resources increase. As grave emergencies develop the people will prove their patriotism, despite partisan prejudices. Persons whose birthdate it i have the augury of a year of per- plexities. Sudden changes in busi- ness and domestic conditions are indicated, Children born on this day will Benjamin Franklin. 10 to 15 days. 'WOMEN FOR COPS | LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—A hun- l | EEESE 3 THELP AN | ALASKAN | | | | dred women here believe they can | cope with the crime problem. That | Telephene 713 or write probably be gifted and industri-| pumber filed applications for jobs as | . ous, Many may have a scientific| policewomen e hey The Alaska Territorial trend of mind. Success awaits them.| department. Permissible ages are mployment Service (Copyright, 1940) 21 to 28. for this qualified worker. . STENOGRAPHER-BOOKKEEPER | —Young woman, married age 2. NOTICE | High school and two years of uni- AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing | versity. Two years' experience in air route from Seattle to Nome, un | practical office work, bookkeeping sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. ROTARY CLUB INFAIRBANKS Steps for the organization of a Rotary club in Fairbanks were taken recently by 22 business and professional men. Provisional organization was ef- fected with Dr. Noble Dick as Presi- dent; W. B. Burton, Vice-President; Herb D. Kirby, Secretary, and Curtis Adams, Treasurer. These four with three whom they will choose will constitute the directors. Those present at the meeting or signing up for charter membership included Dr. Noble Dick, William B. Burton, Herb D. Kirby, Curtis Adams, Roy W. Ferguson, Lorin T. Oldroyd, Leslie Nerland, Harry O, Arend, Don Adler, Dr. H. S. Hall, C. R. Settlemier, Dr. Rex F. Schwartz, Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Dr. Paul B. Haggland, David E. Anderson, Brice Howard, A. H. Nordale, Elliott C. Hodge, Kenneth F. Grimes, George Preston, Jack Winston and Arthur 8. Brown. Joe Martin Is on Coast PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27.—Joe Martin, National Republican Com- mittee Chairman, arrived here yes-| terday and conferred with state leaders regarding the campaign. He left last night for Salem to take part in the notification ceremonies today at the State Fair grounds to Senator Charles L. McNary. After the ceremony, Martin goes to Seattle and later in the week M 3 Generations, 6 Twins ! o i cultural spokesman on the Defense | Commission. Both declared that if the man-power of the nation was to be conscripted, capital, too, had to make sacrifices. When the shooting was over the Defense Commission unanimously ditched the $l-a-year men) re- the next move of the tax snarpshooters will be| remains to be seen. 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