The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1940, Page 4

D(ul Alaska Empire Pubmhcd every evening eicept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. WELEN TROY BENDER - President R L BERNARD - - Viee-President and Business Manager Roteres 1n the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matber. One vear. in one month, in advance, §1.25 Subscriders will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office ol amy faflure or frregularily in the de- Uvery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 374. The Assoclated Pre: republication of all news dispatcaes credited to it or not other wise credited in this neper and also the local news published berein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. “Watlonnl Newspapar Representa- Portland, | GEOR7E D. CLOSE. Tnc @ves, with offices in_San Francisco, Los Angeles, Beattle, Chicarc, New York and Boston. A little over a month ago a State-by-State survey of opinion by the Gallup poll showed Wendell Willkie favored by voters in States having a total of 284 electoral votes, while States favoring Roosevelt had | clectoral votes totaling 247. This week Dr. George Gallup announces the| results of a new poll of American public opinion. It shows striking nation-wide gains in the strength of the President. Tre new total is: Roosevelt, 453 electoral votes; Willkie, 78. | In only ten States do the voters show a prefer- ence for the Republican candidate at this stage of the campaign. These States are Maine, Massa- chusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, North | Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa.| All of the rest of the Nation—38 States—favor Roose- velt for reelection, There must be a reason for the President’s cap- turing ten States with a total of 206 electoral votes | from Mr. Willkie in a bare four weeks. The reason, we believe, is Wendell Willkie. Even the die-hard | Republicans are apologizing for what Wlllku‘ back- | ers refer to fondly as his “campaign.” { As long as Mr. Willkie continues to deliver | speeches such as that he made in Seattle the other| night, the third term is a certainty. Willkie's Seattle speech was not only poor, it was atrociously poor. Almost any campaigner for a seat in the Alaska Legislature would be expected to make a better one. For a man who hopes to be President of the Uniteds| States to talk for 45 minutes and say nothing is| quite a feat, but it is not a feat designed to carry him into the White House. Dr. Gallup remarks in a statement accompany- ing the figures of the latest poll that a four porcem' shift in the Democratic direction in the ten States still in the Willkie column would leave the Repub-‘ lican candidate with about the same number of| electoral votes as Landon received in 1936. If you remember, they had to count them under a micro- scope. Yit, are either undecided or don't care. Even if they * all went for Willkie, however, he would still be a long way short of coming abreast of the Roosevelt ide. When we mentioned straw ballot results a few months ago, some of our Republican friends had a lot to say about “trends” and how they were what really counted. It is not what the country thinks about the candidates, but what today's opinion fore- shadows for November, that is important, it was said. All right, we're willing to agree. If the trend continues—a trend which has shown President Roo-| sevelt winning 206 electoral votes in four weeks— by November the vote will be unanimous for the| Democrats. In the meantime, every Democrat is hoping Will- kie's voice holds out for the rest of his “campaign.” His speeches are driving voters lo Roosevelt by the| thousands every day. | Joint Defenses on the Pacific (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Members of the United States-Canadian joint defense board are now surveying conditions upon |the North Pacific Coast. Without undertaking to discuss the technical aspects of continental defense, with which the Army and Navy experts of the two countries are fully com- petent to deal, it may be said that a great deal re- mains fo be done to insure the safety of this region. Work is being rushed upon the Army and Navy air bases at strategic points in Alaska. But there is a wide gap between these outposts and the defenses of Puget Sound, Victoria and Vancouver. There is no connection between the United States and Alaska, except by water and by rail, and the principal air route is over the ocean. The long-delayed project of an Alaska Interna- tional Highway, important for peace, would be much more important if there should be naval war upon the Pacific. A land route east of the coastal moun- tains would assure connections with Alaska for land or air transport. At least two nations openly covet Alaska. Russia made a botch of its Alaskan exploitation and colonization and sold the Territory to the United States, more than 70 years ago. Yet Soviet news- papers have recently denounced the transaction as a fraudulent deal negotiated by the Czarist govern- ment. Japan would like to acquire the wealth of Alaska | fisheries and while withdrawing its fishing vessels from the Bristol Bay area in recent seasons has re- fused to give up any assumed ‘“rights.” The United States has no wish for war. It is certainly not warmongering to point out certain facts in the international situation, as they may affect the Pacific. These facts are: 1.—Hitler is not the only aggressor on the world scene. Japan's conquests in East Asia and Stalin's grabs in Poland, Finland and Rumania have been closely tied with the Hitler-Mussolini offensives. 2—Russia has specialized in Arctic explorations and transpolar aerial operations and recently, with | | the cooperation of German technicians, has devel- oped new submarine and air bases in close proximity to United States territory in Alaska. 3.—Japan is likewise strengthening its naval forces and fortifications and any action taken in con- nection with the disposal of French and Dutch colo- | nial possessions in the South Pacific might make | the entire Pacific a theater of war. | Whether jealousy between Russia and Japan‘ would keep the two Asiatic rivals busy with each| other, or whether one or the other might take ad- | vantage of the opportunity to do some free grabbing at the expense of a weak third party can only be guessed. For the United States and for Canada the path | of safety lies in strong defenses, planned jointly and coordinated in action if the need arises. There are grounds for the growing suspicion that the pecple who are running this war are now pretty much up in the air. In the United States are Most of them have no Most are located in Thought for the week: 6,000,000 rural mail boxes. locks, and many have no doors. | relatively lonely spots. Only ten of the 6,000,000 were robbed last year. A fellow on our street said he heard a man say Conducted on a somewhat different basis, the latest Fortune poll shows 53.2 percent of the people of the United States favoring Roosevelt and 35.6 rawnm, Willkie. The other 11.2 percent, we take he'd just as soon live under Hitler as under Roosevelt, and it made him wonder what would happen to a | man in Germany who said he'd just as soon live under Roosevelt as under Hitler. Washmglon e"" jlo the new U. S. Go-Round (Continued from Page One) NAVAL are they needed | also are cheapest consetruct, There was only one thing wrong.| ties, As newsmen were about to burst from the room with the Hull state- ment, they were cautioned to use| it only for “background.” This| meant no guotes and no attribu-| tion, But the press corps will long remember the spectacle of the white-haired gentle old man deep-| extent. The U. S ties for the Significant was th | of the over-age sold to England with cables to | netic mines even | was published by At first the chief 1mprovemenc1 Naval mean oil tanks and repair take time to build and ma never be constructed to any great| inside the press over him. There- advantage of British naval facili-| given time being. 'seabonrd by air instead of by sea. [you can’t compel my spirit to sub- mit.” Later, the German commander bases on British| called at the Mayor’s office and NOTES islands will be airports, Not only! apologized. immediately, but | and quickest to| NEWSPAPER WAR bases, which| President Roosevelt has had a facili-| lot of rows with the press, but | there have not been many rows will take few things recently have him such a kick as the| .| cut-throat, two-fisted, knock-down-| e fact that many| and gouge-their-eyes out war be- destroyers being| tween The St. Louis Star-Times,| were fitted out‘and The St. Louis Post-Dispaten| neutralize mag-|over the exchange of island bases| before the deal| for 50 over-age destroyers. the President. xni There is no doubt, of course, as Navy fore, [ SO Thion T 7o [Web [raa ] i [ sk =fl!¢]!][-ifi 7 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 25 Mrs. C. R. White Patricia Jean Stanyer Mrs. J. F. Mullen Timothy Flannigan Israel Cohn Mrs. S. T. Newell e — + HOROSCOPE “The stars incline | but do not compel” - s e - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | Benefic aspects rule today which is auspicious for business. Whilv‘ it is not lucky for signing con-| tracts it is favorable for pushing whatever is well started. Engin- eers, contractors and manufactur-| ers are under fortunate planetary influences, Heart and Home: Mental pro-| cesses should be keen under this sway. It is a good date for making| important decisions, especially where domestic interests are in- volved. The household should be well ordered and the family bud- get carefully watched. Home seek- ing in small communities is rec- ommended. Many perils will multi- ply in cities, especially those on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. Business - Affairs: Tendency to hoard money may be evident through the next few weeks, but the wise will buy whatever _l§ nec- essary while merchants offer large| stocks containing many importa- y .4i‘ from: L 20" YEARS AGO 7% inprre: SEPTEMBER 25, 1920 huntinz party, composed of Frederick R. Coudert, F. and B. T. Coudert, were passengers on the steamer The party vxsi(r'.-d in Juneau on the northbound Thomas Riggs. Charles H. Flory, Supervisor of the Alaska Forests, Forestry Service Department, in an interview stated that he desired seaplanes for forestry work and that an effort was to be made to obtain them for survey work. } The Coudert H. Coudert, Jr., Alaska enroute south. trek with Mr. Coudert’s sister, Mr: T. G. McDonald and George Swanson left on the Admiral Watson for Kodiak to examine some silver properties in the vicinity of Cold Bay for the Treadwell company. Dudley G. Allen, Juneau broker, left on the Admiral Watson for Seward. He was to visit most of the cities of Western Alaska before retur to Juneau. O. Fosmo, of Auk Bay Zynda Hotel M. and Mrs, were in Juneau for a few days and were at th Gus Gelles, a commercial traveler, whose home was in Juneau, left for Seward on the Alameda. wife of the foreman of the Gypsum mine, ar- They were to visit Mrs. M. S. Hudson, rived on the Estebeth accompanied by her little son. friends here. Weather condition: Clear. < - - T ) D~ ) 727 o - Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbox s - s - ) -0 1 7 2~ ) 2t ) 0 2 ) 0 e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say. ch of the men have their own car.” Say, “Each (singular subject) of the men HAS HIS own car OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cleops Pronounce kle-o-pa-tra 1 in ME, first A as in PAY, principal accent on third syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Beneficial; NE, not NI. SYNONYMS: Redundancy, tautology, verbosity, verbiage, pleonasm circumlocution. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” TLet us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: LITHOLOGY; the study of rocks. (Pronounce li-thol-o-ji, both I's as in IT, first O as in DOLL, accent second syllable) by ROBERTA LEE ! tions difficult to obtain in the fu- ture. Purchases of jewels will be/ | more general than usual, due tof the anxiety to put wealth in an| easily. portable form. National Issues: Subversive fluences will seek to cause preju- dices against certain foreigners and increased class consciousne: The American habit of hasty speech should be curbed. Silence| will be golden in many instances. Spies will appear in guises seldom recognized, Employers should! - be| watchful as the number, of em-| ployees inereases. ~ While' caution should be exercised the habit of suspicion should be avoided International Affairs: Euroncnn! events will be fortunate in their| effect upon all the Americas where | there will be better understanding| and loyal cooperation. Internaliun- rest in certain South American countries will manifest in sporadic outbreaks, but there will be' re- sentful recognition of the economic effects of the Nazi rule wherever Hitler gains power. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of steady advancement, Women will enjoy various congenial activities. Children born on this day prob- ably will be impressionable and intuitive. They may be courageous in holding to their opinions, but able to win popularity and suc- cess. (Copyright, 1940) tel. Occupant of that suite was none other than General Rafael| Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. The Marshal wanted the Gen- i MODERN ETIQUETTE 1 in- that is preceded by luncheon or ;iving a theatre party dd the hoct arrange transportation to the theatre for his it is his duty, Id cut flowers be nsed as decc when giving a musicale? Af d ferns may is furnich the flov the maid of honor, at a wedding A. The bride’s father. o e e . . e Dt 5 o LOOK and LEARN % ¢. conooy | 1. How many sguare feet are there in one acre? 2. Which is more widely spoken, French or Spanish? 3. What was the most important addition to the territory of the original Thirteen States? 4. What is an animal that has no backbone called? 5. In what state is the greatest part of Yellowstone National Park? ANSWERS: 1. 43,560 square feet. 2. Spanish. 3. The Louisiana Purchase. 4. An “invertebrate.” 5. Wyoming. TOUGH TIME 50 most merchants and professional men set up their own. One hotel went on daylight time, but its bar remained on standard time to get T an ra_hour before closing. ‘The City Engineer carries two watches—one (daylight) for sched- ules of WPA employees, the other (standard) for city street workers all very confusing. KANKAKEE, Il., Sept. 25. el You've got to carry a coupie watches to keep in time in Kankakee. The CTity Council voted down an ordinance legalizing daylight time,| It President Signs Draft Bill eral for certain bills that remained unpaid in New York, totaling $4.- 212, But the Marshal failed to get his man. The General claimed dl:)- lomatic immunity from the laws of the United States. Four New York firms got, tired of waiting for the Dominican to settle his account. One firm was Louis Sherry, restaurateur, who set the table with food and drink for the Dominican reception at the rofessional lrlterml Societies Gastineau Channel Directory * B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at, 8 Drs. Kaser and P. M. Visiting brothers Freeburger welcome. H. E. SIM- g, DENTISTS MONS, Exalted Ruler; I agren Building M. H. SIDES, Se: s PHONE 56 st MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Secona and fourth Mondcay of each month in Scottish Rite Tempie beginning at 7:30 pun RALPH B. MARTIN, ‘Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ——— ' OFFICES OF DR. A. W. STEWART I will be re-opened in the 20th Century Gross Bldg. OCTOBER 1ST [ S ] Dr. Judson Whittier GUY SMITH | CHIROPRACTOR e, ||| DRUGS Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS- CARE- s +#ULLY COMPOUNDED | Front Btrcet® Next Coltseum Dr. John H. Geyer PHONE #1—Free Delivery | l DENTIST ! Room 9—Valentine Bldg. | PHONE 62 — Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 pm, "Tomorrow’s Styles Today"” Halx Juneau’s Own Store it e ! ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angges Coll~ge of Optometry and ©Opthainology Giasses Fitted Lenses Ground i i e P e 8 The Charles W. 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Belis | PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Bookk Tax Serviee eeping Room 8, Valentine Bullding SATE U Phone 67t { Juneau Transfer | Phone 48—Night Phone 481 IT CON SO LITTLE' TO DRESS SMARTLY AT T FAMILY A deal ;:mltw‘nmpouu most | ly stirred by a sense of the tran-| tpo " ordc” there had been mo|to which paper the President ’ scendental character se stir- / i P ETealoeny. Al 3 : ring times. ot B e Al real doubt for a week or so before‘ plauded—The St. Louis Star- vvz,o;ldim_:::uol:ifi yi’:.: g:::;g: n n v " l “ s ] force and fluency that made the| UN€ announcement that the deal Times, which sold the Dominicans an: old SHOE STOBE by e would be closed. . . . Negotiations| The first word he got of this|pyst of Columbus, who landed 'in “Juneau’s Oldest Excl for naval bases by no means are|good old-fashioned newspaperrow|the Dominican Republic in 1492. sive ) AIR BASES terminated. What the Navy wants!was when he picked up The New|Two other creditors are Cartier. Helene W. Albrecht Bhos Biare Cabled reaction from Tokyo in-|more than anything else is a good' York Times to see that The St.|New York jewelers, and the An i St Lon: Bistpen dicated that the Japanese were|base in Brazilian waters, and if Louis Post-Dispatch had spent|nin Flag Company, which prepared PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Street Manager suspicious that something more | possible one in Uruguay. Informal $1,500 for a full page ad in which| Dominican flags. | Phone 7% e R i G B TR, ! Valentine Building—Room 7 condvarsations rqzard{ng a Bra- than appeared on the surface was behind Cordell Hull's warning ! zilian base have been going on for against the invasion of French some time, Indo-China AT In this, they were right. There! NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR was. | Henri Haye, newly appointed Nobody in the Navy Department French Ambassador to the United is shouting it from the housetops,| States, long has served as the but the U. S. fleet—or at least Mayor of Versailles and therefore most of it—will now remain in the| was in the thick of the German Pacific. occupation of France. Previously it was considered nec- One story which American diplo- essary to bring the fleet from Ha-| mats tell about him is that when waii and California in order 1o/ regiment after regiment marched station most of it around Panama | through Versailles, the Commander and the Caribbean. This would of each sent for the Mayor with bhave made it impossible to keep instructions to come to heaquarters a watchful eye on Japenese opera-| and pay his respects. Each time, tions in the direction of the Ma-| however, Ambassador Haye refused, Jays and the Dutch East Indies— said that he was the Mayor and all-important sources of American| that the visiting German could " tin and rubber. come to see him. it will still be necessary| Finally, one irate German com- few ships to the Atlantic| mander arrested him and brought But the Lshmd} him to headquarters, where he de- t Britain has manded an explanation. “You can arrest me bodily,” re- M‘vfid the Mayor of Versailles, “but | to proclaim “DICTATOR ROOSE- VELT COMMITS AN ACT OF WAR,” and to call his destroyer trade “the .worst sucker real es tate deal in history.” The Post- When Trujillo came to New York last week, the creditors thougnt they had their man. But he moved on to Wasrington. They hired a lawyer, and he sent the U. S. Dispatch also bought a full page|narshal to the Shoreham. 1 ad in the Washington Star. The hitch came over the fact Next day The St. Louis Sm-;mn the dictator is now an Times came back with two full| passador.” He came to this omm--1 page ads in the same papers which | try partly for medical treatment, made the Post-Dispatch’s name-|and financial agreement between calling look like a spelling-bee. |U 5. and the Dominican Republie, Calling the Post-Dispatch “dis-| partly to sign a new commercial tempered, rash and hasty” the and he is cloaked with the tem- Star-Times said that it had set a&|porary title of Ambassadc “record of ignominy which should| Thus the creditors are frustrat-' last for a hundred years.” led. The: { | ed. y can't even touch the President Roosevelt read the General's yacht “Ramii docke: editorial and grinned. |at the Washington Navy Yard. 1 NOTE—Trujillo’sreputation in this NOT-S0-GOOD NEIGHBOR |country has risen recently because What was probably the most of his statesmanlike act of welcom- awkward situation in American| ing European refugees to the Dom-= g:p]om:uc Lr:sm‘;yi ;drotu t other| inican Republic, but in~ spite of y when the Uni Mar- | statesmanship, the credlm wgn shal, with service papers in. his|thejr ,yp_ s ¥ hand, knocked on the door of & (Cop t, 1 - certain suite of the Shoreham Ho-| tyre “m?fl).hxl)mmm lnmhlstorlnniheflncinmcnlmmnnlhe ‘White House, President Roosevelt signed into law the nation’s first peace time draft bill and issued a proclamation requiring the registration October 16 of lentlmxuhhdcwunhmbfll. | 16,500,000 men from 21 to 35 years of age. lntllsplflurethel’ufl- Try The Empire classifieds fa results, TELEPHONE—S5I - COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS * CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$125,000 * 2% PAID ON SAVINGS * SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASKA