The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1940, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1940. ; . Daily Alaska Empire Publl:hed eve'ry evening e.icept *‘Ifll) by the E PRINTING CO! ANY !ocnnd lrd Maln S!reets. Juneau, Mllll Viee-Prosident and Business Manager Futersd In the Post Office in Junesu as Becond Class Maber. Delivered by carrier - By mail, postace paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, §6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Bubscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify the Business Office 0f ony faflure or frregularity in the de- Gvery of their papers. Telephones: Ne - Oftice, 602; Business Office, 3T4. CIATED PRESS oly entitled to the use for republication of all n: credited in this neper and ulso the local news published Dberein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEOR'E D. CLOSE, Inc. National Newspaper Representa- | @ves, with offices in_San Francisco, Seattle, Chicagc, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American Bank Buflding. Los Angeles, Portland, JUNEAU CAN HELP Almost everyone would like to help England in/ some way to successfully withstand the German air attack, which now appears certain to last through | the winter. We are all rooting for the British. Now | we, the people of Juneau, have an opportunity to | do our bit for them. By voluntary subscription Juneauites are going to buy a trailer ambulance for a small village some- | where in England. This practical little life-saver, designed by men who have seen modern war and know what is needed to alleviate the suffering it | causes, costs only 80 pounds, or $350. | Large cities of England have been well pro- vided with motor ambulances, but a government | hard pressed on a thousand fronts to prepare for| the worst assault in history bas had of necessity to leave the smaller villages and hamlets largely un-| protected. Naturally these small towns are just as subject to attack as the great cities. In providing | a trailer ambulance for one of these villages, Juneau | will be helping in a small way to support the people of Great Britain in their struggle for freedom, a struggle which we now recognize is as much ours as theirs. The simple but extremely useful trailer ambulance will accommodate two stretcher cases, four sitting | cases and an attendant. i gob but of order. The first cost is the last. It is towed easily by any automobile. The trailer ambu- lance which Juneau buys will have “Juneau, Alaska” lettered on its side under an American flag. When the noble Finnish people were attacked by the Russians last winter, Juneau dug down into its heart and its pockets for more than a thousand dollars for a Finnish relief fund, which was trans-| mitted to Finland and helped to take care of the hungry and homeless, The need of England now tsk no less pressing. An ambulance is not a weapon. but it is just as important in a war in which women and children in their homes are targets for air raid- ers bent on destroying the morale of a nation. That morale can be strengthened indirectly and possibly wrong. {an occasional outburst of plain foolishness, 0uri armies have always had a sense of humor. There| | rible ironies of conflict they will still enjoy the camp | lehlry of Information is strangely inept when it| There is nothing on it to matter-of-fact occurence. {Trailer Ambulance Committee bears a_postscript say=- ing that since the letter was written more than 230 urgent appeals for trailer ambulances had been received by the Committee. Elsewhere in today's Empire there is a coupon explaining how donations toward the Juneau ambu- lance may be made. As a token of your sympathy, and Juneau's sympathy with the ideals for which England is struggling, send in or bring in your contribution today Was There a Man Dismayed? (New York Times) Our mimic wars in this country seem to lack| nothing except possibly an adequate supply of real guns, tanks and airplanes and of course actual blood- | shed. This week the Black Army fliers in the Og-| densburg sector dropped propaganda leaflets within |the Blue Army lines. The scenery was better on their side, they said, because it included the world- amed Ausable Chasm and other attractions; and if that wasn't enough, the Black Army was planning to cut the Blue Army's supply lines, so that the Blue troops would wake up in the morning yelling in vain for their coffee. To the credit of ‘the Blues they stood their ground despite these threats and inducements and made known their resolve tc fight on, against what- ever odds, until the umpires called the whole th\ng off. They even thought up some propaganda of | their own Some stay-at-home military critics may thlnk | that this sort of fooling is out of place even in a mimic war, for if a mimic war is worth spending| money on it is a preparation for something tragically real that may happen some day. They are dead Nothing is better for a soldier’s morale than was laughter at Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Gettys-| burg, the Argonne. Laughter reflects the confidence and vitality of a youthful race, The jokers, practical and otherwise, in our mimic| wars, will be on hand ir real war ever comes. They will fight the' more bravely, because amid the ter-| joke, the unexpurgated camp song and the little absurdities that always occur whenever healthy men are gathered together. Ministry of No Information | (Cleveland Plain Dealer) It has been remarked before that the British comes to the announcement of important war de- velopments. The new incident is of the sinking of the refugee ship somewhere near a northern British | port. The public is not told exactly where the ship was | when the torpedo hit, when the attack occurred or | the name of the vessel. This Is the Ministry's curi- | ous notion of how to announce a news event of | widespread interest. One result is that the Germans immediately | declare their innocence of the attack. It may have | been a mine, Berlin conjectures, Or the whole in- | | cident may be a fiction conceived by the British in | order to win sympathy and build up the case against j alleged German ruthlessness. | manitarian | of work. Children are to be much| { HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 24 H. L. Cochrane May D. Godfrey Joe Balduc Sr. Adrienne Glass John A. McDonald Theresa Spaulding F. D. Cameron Hazel T. Dempsey R. A. Halm WU HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” s L XET Lp WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 This is a fortunate day, for ben- efic aspects dominate it. Industry comes under as auspicious rule/ that enables cooperation between emplovers and employees. Heart and Home: There is fair promise for the interests of wom- en today, but they should concen- stars encourage unselfish devotion to family and to duty in public affairs. Persons of all ages should sacrifice personal comforts for hu- service in -many lines in need of care through coming months when new phases of vld maladies will be suffered by many. Business Affairs: Trade and com- merce will reveal good results from the foresight in governmental re- adjustments of commercial prob-| lems. Study of economic conditions will benefit large numbers of Am- ericans who realize that the period| in which great wealth may be easily gained by many Is now, passed. There is a sign read as| presaging benefits through decen- tralization of relief and other or- ganizations. Community self-reli- ance and independence will be for-| What possible purpose does the British Ministry | of Information imagine is served by such a pohcy‘ | of withholding facts? Certainly the Germans already | | ‘ knew all the facts in the case—facts which the Brit-| of the Federal government will| ish and the neutral world are denied. It is merely| that a needless curtain of mystery is hung over a | Mystery begets suspicion and a flood -of harmful rumors. It is a policy of dumbness. Somebody ought to | give the Ministry of Information some of the more important facts of life as they exist in war time. \ Residents of Berlin reportedly are very indignant | over British bombing raids. Hitler evidently neglected to explain that there might be some unpleasant mo- ments, even for the master race, in this business of taking over the world. Wallis Warfield Simpson Windsor's recipe for a shampoo is said to include two jiggers of rum and five eggs. If it ever got as high as your scalp, it should be very nourishing to_the hair. Posterity is luckier than it knows. John Barry- more’s profile is being preserved in concrete, and our descendants can look at it without having to listen to many lives saved directly by Juneau'’s gift to England. A letter to The Empm- from the American his marital dlspu!es [ summer, where the | spent his vacation. Vlashinglon Ambassador had | secure — the Nation which in the | | 1ast 40 years has honored him with Merry- Go-Round (conunued from Page One) plants. One American motor manu- facturer has been taken over by the Nazis, recently reported to Washington of- ficials that he was no longer inter- ested in trying to get the plant back. whose plant in Germany | Then he switched to the problem | of caring for the roses, grass around | the Treasury Department, also talk- | ed about his fruit farm up the Hud- | | son, then about a lot of other things. By this time, the Ambassador’s | | time had elapsed, and he had not put in a word. He departed without | even mentioning his request for | funds. Afterward, Secretary Morgenthau | | phoned the State Department, re- | | ported what had happened during It had been too heavily damaged by | the call. “Don't you think I'm a British bombs. | pretty good diplomat?” he said. However, it is important to re-| NOTE: Morgenthau already has member that Hitler's arms factories | allowed France funds to operate the not only are widely scattered embassy here plus various other of- throughout Germany, but also in | fices, but the Bank of France, now Czechoslovakia and Austria. These | cOmpletely controlled by the Naazis, areas are located from the range of | IS doing its best to lay hands upon British bombers — unless they axc‘“‘e $1,500,000,000 in gold which able to borrow some of our FlHnngm"ce has frozen in the United Fortresses. tat Boiling it down, the British prob- | ably have suffered much more than the Nazis, because British plants are | not decentralized ) continuous air VICE-PRESIDENT STAYS HOME One thing which amazed, later also because the griped Vice-President Garner’s col- raids over London leagues on Capitol Hill was his fail- interrupt factory production, If 10.- | ure to attend the funeral of his old 000 workers respond to an air r: signal and go into dug-outs hour, id | friend Speaker Bankhead. for an| Not only did the President him- s of 10,000 ' self drop all his work to make the | funeral trip to Jasper, but Henry This is one of the biggest factors Wallace canceled three campaign hampering British airplane produc- | speaking engagements to fly from tion. | Des Moines to Alabama; and six members of the Cabinet, together with the Under Secretary of State, Shortly before Count de St. Quen- mner Welles, and Under Secre- tin retired as French Amlm:‘:nlny‘ ary of the Navy James Forrestal, to the United States, he asked for |canceled important engagments to an appointment with Secretary of |attend the last rites of the much- the Treasury Morgenthau for the |loved Speaker of the House. purpose of discussing French funds| The Vice-President, who had frozen in the United States. These | known Bankhead longer than per- were taken over by the United States | haps any of them, and who served when Germany invaded France, and | side by side with him in the House the Ambassador wanted to have |of Representatives for about a quar- some of them released in order to pay the expenses of French consuls in this country. Morgenthau knew in advance then there a los DIPLOMAT MORG! AU goat farm in Texas. NOTE: The El Paso Hearld Post, commenting ter of a century, remained on his on Garner’s absence | high position and paid him and his wife-secretary $500,000 for their services. . . . He has sulked among his goats It is not of record, how- ever, that John Garner has refused the salary to which he is entitled | but has not earned. “For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner in the ways of legislation and of governing, and today in one of the greatest crises in history, he loafs.. Texas is hum- iliated.” “AMERICA’S SWEETHEART” One incident during Wendell Will- kie's Hollywood visit was a secret be- tween 'him and Mary Pickford. “America’s Sweetheart” invited him to “Pickfair,” her vast and ornate mansion, but the GOP standard- bearer courteously but firmly de- clined. He was too smart to get mlxed up in the movie colony’s hectic social feuds. Miss Pickford is an enthus- iastic Willkie rooter. She visited him at Colorado Springs. But there are many other votes in Hollywood, and Willkie was not stepping on any toes if he could help it. Instead of following the trail of nobility to the Pickford mansion, he met the heterogenequs folks of the film industry, from stars to sweeps, in a big gathering at the Hollywood Bowl. They assembled there to hear his speech, delivered at the Coliseum, via loudspeakers, greeted them personally. NOTE: Willkie has been astute in his public contacts. In Chicago he carefully avoided the Ford plant, al- though the anti-unfon motor mag- nate had visited him at Rushville, and at Kansas City he sidestepped former Senator Jim Reed, violent anti-New Dealer and National Labor Board foe. MERRY-GO-ROUND For admission to a press confer- what the Ambassador wanted, so when he arrived, Morgenthau im- from Washington at this Congress, recently said: ence with Secretary of War Stimson, newsmen must be equippéd with ig | identification cards, colored bright red i . :™The Republican,” official and later he came to the Bowl and | tunate for many towns and 'vil- lages in widely separated states. National Issues: The muchmoryi the be- will not accord- of large replace undergo many changes at ginning of 1941, but these affect the head engineer, ing to foreign seers. Men business experience will those with political pull. ehy events will unify the nation -if“its unprejudiced loyalty to democracy. Women will preach right ideals and | will render valuable aid to prepax— edness projects. International Affairs: Mars and Neptune near the Ascendant at Paris will increase the trend to- ward rebellion against Nazi rule. All central and eastern Europe will be under subversive influences that may bring about grave problems for Hitler whose stars will begin to descend. Seismic will be felt in the Orient. Japan may suffer another serious earth- quake. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of more than average good luck. There may be a tendency toward extra- vagance in the manner of Iliv- ing. Children born on this day pob- ably will be happy in nature, éasy- going and fond of luxury, hey may be extremely talented. Music may be a principal talent. (Copyright, 1940) organ of the Young Republican Na- tional Federation, urges Willkie to name four or five Cabinet members now. and campaign not with a two- man ticket but with a six- or seven- man ticket . . . SEChairman Jerry Frank wisecracks that the November election will result in a “Landon- slide” . . . A Pacific Coast ship cap- tain, talking by radio to another captain at sea, damned the weather with an old salt’s profanity. He was censured by the Federal Communi- cations Commission for “unlawful and superfluous language” on the air. UNSCHEDULED PREVIEW Silver-tongued Josh Lee is one of the Senate’s most accomplished ora- tors, but he doesn't take his laurels for granted. Whenever the Okla- homan decides to make an import- ant speeches he always rehearses it carefully in the privacy of his office. The other day he was in the midst of one of these rehearsals when Lloyd Benefield, his secretary, burst n. “What's the matter?” inquired Lee, breaking off in the middle of a ringing declamation. “Plenty’s the matter. side the door!” Lee opened the door to find a crowd of sightseers listening in rapt attention. Grinn:ng a bit sheepish- 1y, he nodded and said “Howdy.” “Keep right on, Senator,” said one of the tourists. “You were doing | swell. We liked it a lot.” “Yes,” said another, “sounded like | a fine speech. When are you going to deliver it?” Lee made the address the mt day, but meanwhile a carpenter had Look out- trate upon feminine pursuits. The| o disturbances | — E 20'YEARS AGO o THE E SEPTEMBER 24, 1920 Lester Gore, formerly well known Juneau attorney, law partner of Grover C Winn, recently arrived at Ketchikan where he was to enter the law business. He was to be associated with A. H. Ziegler. MPiR Miss Mary Thompson and George H. Hain were married by the Rev. H. E. Greening in the parlors of the Methodist Church. Witnesses were James McGuire and Mrs. Henry Hanson. W. G. Stegman, an assayer at this time in the employ of the Alaskan Admiralty Mining Company, left for the mine at Funter Bay on the Estebeth after spending several days in Juneau. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pekovich, who had been in Juneau on business, left on the Estebeth for Funter Bay, 4is ‘a PRETS J. T Tennison, Superintendent of the Standard Packing Company cannery at Tenakee Inlet, returned to the cannery on the tender Owl after a business trip to Juneau. Election of officers was held by the Senior Class of the Juneau High School with the following results: President, James Barragar; Vice-Presi- dent, Jacob Britt, and Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne Summers. Dr. Charles D. Carter, a former Alaskan dentist, arrived on the Admiral Watson aften an absence of several years. Capt. Alex Hart, of Tenakee, was in the city on business. Weather condition: Clear. Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpon om0 D 1 D 0 - S e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Their failure to arrive placed us in a prety fix.” Say, “placed us in a PREDICAMENT." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dictionary. Pronounce dik-shun-er-i, as in BET, and principal accent on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Aerial. Observe the four vowels. SYNONYMS: Obstacle, obstruction, hindrance, barricade, stumbling block. 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: DISSOCIATE; to separate from union; disunite. “I can not dissociate the two ideas.” MODERN ETIQUETTE ®” poperra 1EE om0 e o ) Q. How should a hostess seat her guests at a luncheon? A. She may stand at the head of the table and designate their places as they appreech, Q. Whal chould a young man do at a dance when another man "o “cuts A. Relinquish his partner immediately, saying “Thank you” to her. Q. Fhouldn't a business telephone conversation be made as brief as possible? A. Yes, always. 2 o - ] K and lEARN e A C. GORDON e e e el 1. How many feet does a giant kangaroe leap when in full flight? 2. The name of what ancient character is the greatcst in epic poetry? 3. What is the abb)evlanon for Bachelor of Laws? 4. What was the color of the shirts worn by the American Infantry during the Spanish-American War? 5. What is the capital of Louisiana? ANSWERS: 10 to 12 feet. Homer. LL.B. Blue. Baton Rouge. bl ol o s 2 BANKER ONTRIAL, THELP AN | MISUSE OF FUNDS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 24. Telephone 713 or write One-time millionaire banker, Herbert Fleishacker is on trial in the Federal Court here charged with misusing funds deposited in the Anglo- California National Bank that he once headed. Fleishacker is cnarged with with- ship Company and converting it to his own uses. He claims that the money was his own, since ne drawing $55,000 from the account of the defunct Pacific Mail Steam-| The Alaska Territorial Employment Service | for this qualified worker. | TRANSITMAN - SURVEYOR — Young man, married, age 24, two years of college training. Experi- enced as levelman and transitman on survey crews. Call for ES 179. —————.——— ATTENTION, O.ES. MEMBERS Regular meeting Juneau Chapter No. 7, O.E.S,, Tuesday evening, 8 p.m. | ALASKAN | | | | owned 90 percent of the stock of|special Robert Morris Ceremony in the Pacific Mail. The bank suf-|costume. Refreshments. All members fered no loss by the -transaction. |and visitors urged to attend. Fleishacker has been bankrupt MILDRED WYLLER, since he was ousted as head of the| . Worthy Matron. Anglo-California bank several years FLORENCE OAKS, ago. adv. Acung Secretary. Farlcy Successor on Job { Left to right are Frank nailed a slab of sound-proof board- ing over his transom, Senator Scott W. Lucas of 1l Directory == Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blr agren Building PHONE 56 " OFFICES OF | OF ‘DR A.W.STEWART will be re-opened in the 20th Century Gross Bldg. OCTOBER 1ST —_— | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTOR Drugiess 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. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. — D — ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Ang .‘el Coll~ge of Optometry and Opthaimology Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground ! (The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. ‘ PHONE 136 Have Your Eyes Examined by 1 Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Blomgren Bldg.———2nd Fleer Front Street~—~———Phone 636 L — JAMES C. COOPER L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied tomers” : “"DR. H. VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to §; 7 to 8:00 by appoinment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 | Juneau Melody House Mausio and Electric Appliances Next to Truesdell Gun Shop | Second Street Phone 6 Archie B. Belis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Bookkeeping Tax Service Room 8, Valentine Building Phone 676 IT COSTS SO LITTLE TO DRESS SMARTLY AT DEVLIN'S Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 713 Valentine Building—Room 7 —_— B. P. 0. 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