The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1940, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. s o e President -~ Vice-President and Business Manager HELEN TROY BENDER - R. L. BERNARD - The Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matger. o SUBSCRIPTION RATES: earrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. fail, postage paid. at the following rates: nce, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; Delivered by By One year, in ad one month, in advance, $1.25 gubscribers will confer a favor if th 11 promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers ‘Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. e MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively ent to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. “TALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. Newspaper Representa- Los Angeles, Portland, GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National tives. with offices in_San Francisco, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE—Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 EAGLES ALASKA There are stirrings in the Alaska public con- science indicating there will be another attempt be- fore the 1941 Territorial Legislature to do away with the $1 bounty on eagles and to bring Alaska into line with the 48 States in protecting the national bird. Such an endeavor during the 1939 session created quite a stir but met with no success, When the eagle bounty was first enacted in| Alaska the birds were an actual menace. They did marked damage to the stock on island fox farms, carrying off and killing many a valuable fox pup. Today there isn't a fox farmer in the business who knows the business and who lets his animals run at Jarge on an island. Pen raising has been demon- strated to be vastly superior, The island fox farm- ing method which gave rise to the war on eagles| has been discredited and has all but disappeared. But bounty hunters are still killing eagles. They are not having time as they did a few vears back because the eagle population has been thinned down effectively—too effectively—by the bounty system as easy a Since June 6 of this r, for the first time since it was chosen as a national symbol by the Contin- ental Congress in 1782, the bald eagle has been re- ceiving in the States the protection sought for it by those who believe it to be threatened with extinction. It is now protected by Congressional act which spe- cifically exempts Alaska. Substantially the act for- bids the killing or taking of birds or eggs, or the purchase or selling or possession of birds or eges. Whether Alaska should go so far as to prohibit the killing of eagles is debatable. But question in the minds of those who have studied the eagle population and seen it disappearing gradu- ally in Alaska from year to year that the bounty which makes the killing of eagles profitable com- mercially should be removed. For one thing, the Territory is paying good money for something which is of no value to the people of the Territory at this date. For another, the eagle a picturesque and symbolic bird, is gradually disappearing. We do not mean to say that there is any great danger of imme- diate extinction of the bald eagle or that these birds do not still exist in considerable numbers in Alaska. Indeed, an eagle may be glimpsed occasionally. within there is no | a few miles of Juneau. he was a few years ago. And that is whether long or short—to extinction, The 1941 Legislature might well study she eagle problem carefully. wilderness anyway. We should not kill off the few which remain near our cities. Alaska without the graceful the rusty cry of the eagle overhead from time to time. NORTH OF GLENDALE A new “Alaskan” motion picture, made in Holly- wood with confetti snow and Chinese Eskimos, is now showing. Entitled “Girl from God's Country,” it proves to be a tale of the Alaskan wilds, with Chester Morris as the young doctor faithfully serving the natives and with Jane Wyatt portraying the nurse from a Seattle hospital. { The big climactic pietorial feature of “Girl from | God's Country” is the snow avalanche which roars down the mountain side, obliterating everything in its path and engulfing men and dogs on the trail below. There is other excltement: zard, a pursuit with dog teams racing through the| But all Alaskan outdoorsmen will testify that the eagle is a much rarer bird than the road— With the gradual eneroachment| of civilization, the eagle is flying deeper into the| Alaska would not be| black silhouette and| an Arctic bliz- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1940. 1940 OCTOBER | SuN 'woN [ uE | WED [ THUR] FaI [ SAT || | [ | (1]2[3[4] 16]7[8]9[10[11] ostaas0ass 20[21[22[23[24[25 2829 i ] [ 7APPY BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 16 Judge J. 8. Truitt Dave Housel Mrs. Walter P. Scott | Rose Cohen John Winther Jr. Hiram Langdon F. T. Oliver H. A. Rawlinson Mrs. P, B. Haggland i drifts and the hero jumping from a cliff into a river full of cakes of ice. It seems the young doctor| came north to escape a murder charge in the States. Pursuing him is Charles Bickford, the federal officer. | Comes the dawn of love in the girl's heart and she| | does a lot toward saving her hero and helping him| | 0R El S mil salv s make restitution 'mid ice and snow and an epidemic. Pardpn us, this is where we came in. . Another Egyptian Expedition (New York Times) ! It is being said that perhaps the invasion of| England is a feint and Hitler will suddenly hit hard | somewhere else, like the Mediterranean. For that| matter, the Italian drive against Egypt may be thcj real Axis objective while the British Government is tied down to thé defense of the island home If so, it will not be the first time the thing has happened. Approximately one hundred and forty years ago Napoleon Bonaparte spent three weeks in- | specting the Channel coast with a view to the long- planned invasion of the British Isles. For a while| he was Commander in Chief of the Army of England,' Then he dropped the title and the plan and before| many months he was in Egypt with an army of| 40,000 men, This was in 1798, The great Nelson tried to intercept the French fleet but missed it in the dark. Later he caught it at Aboukir and destroyed it, cutting off Bonaparte from his home base. This did not feaze the Man of Destiny, who managed to keep going for neallyi a year and a half in the Near East. When he got tired he left his army in somebody else’s charge and fleet. Today it is supposed that the British fleel.‘ will try to cut Marshal Graziani's communication | with his Italian homeland. | Bonaparte told his soldies when they were! fighting the Eattle of the Pyramids, that 40 centuries were looking down on them. Mussolini will be in a| position to do better if it comes to fighting on the| |banks of the Nile, Almost 41% centuries would be| Jooking down on Il Duce, by Napoleon's reckoning But as a matter of fact the Little Corporal under-| estimated the throng of shadowy centuries in the land of the Pyramids. Today we can speak with (air accuracy of at least 50 centuries of Egyptian| history. Incidentally, our deeper knowledge of history on the Nile is due in large measure to Bonaparte's ex-| | pedition of 1798. He brought with him not only| | soldiers and administrators but scholars. The invad-| ing Egyptologists found the Rosetta Stone, which became the key, some time later, that unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphs . Opening sentence in an article by Alfred M. Lan- don in the October 8 issue of “Wendell Willkie stands today where I stood in 1936." And on November' 5? Scientists have begun to point out that it is| incorrect to speak of summer beginning on June 21 and winter setting in on December 21. After recent experience that is no news, Most people are now aware that it is winter which begins on June 21 and summer which makes its appearance around | December 21. ator Bone holding down his Sen- “Look” magazine: | | H | They presented her to American Washinglon listeners o testiy to the ruthiess- Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) policies involving foreign affairs. However, while on intimate terms with the White House, Knudsen has had some brushes elsewhere. He and Treasury officials crossed swords over certain phases of the new excess profits tax bill. Also the protracted Ceongressional delay over plant amortization, while no fault of Roosevelt's, irked Knudsen con-| siderably, since it threw a monkey wrench into production schedules | on which he had worked hard and of which he was very proud. Aware of this private irritation, certain of Knudsen's former busi- ness pals have been quietly need- ling him to bolt the Defense Com- mission with a ringing demand for | the election of Willkie. This political pressure has not been entirely from the outside. Some heavy licks have been put in by certain dollar-a-year business ty- coons inside the Defense Commis sion, several of them on Knudsen’s own staff. With the tax bill and last ap- propriation measures finally cleared by Congress, Knudsen is immersed in getting his production schedules into high gear and has given no indication of being influenced by politics. But the GOPers are put- ting on the heat from every di- rection and as hard as they can. NAZI PROPAGANDA Information throwing light on Germany’s falsification of radio re- ports has been received by the State Department from Colonel E. J. Rags- dale, of Philadelphia, who declares that his daughter was falsely im- personated in a Berlin broadcast. The Nazis pretended to have the young - woman, ‘Miss dale, their Rags- | Judge. Natalia s ‘broadcasting a',udla.l ness of British bombing. She spoke, | describing the bombing of a hos- | pital in Berlin. Then the German speakér, | said, “American listeners must now | | believe, from the lips of an Amer-| the British are committing.” | | The only trouble was that the | | Germans were too clever. Instead of 1 inventing a name, they had actually | picked a known American woman | and pretended that she was speaking at the microphone. The broadcast was heard by an associate of Colonel Ragsdale in| | Philadelphia, who phoned him and asked, “Is your daughter in Ber- | lin?” Of course not,” replied Rags- | | dale, “she is right here in the room | | with me.” | | SENATORIAL FEUD The United States Senate, some- | times called a gentlemen’s club, | actually is rife with personal feuds —and usually between Senators from the same state. For instance, Senator Bilbo of Mississippi is no friend of Pat Harrison from the! same state; Senator McCarran of | Nevada has done his best to under- |cut statesmanlike Senator ‘Key | Pittman, also from Nevada: while | Rush Holt of West Virginia sabot- |ages Senator Neely, the man who helped him get elected. | But perhaps the bitterest feud | has been between the two Senators from Washington — Bone anc | Schwellenbach. Both Democrats. | both New Dealers, they have fought each other tooth and nail. Federal appointments have even been held up because of their inability to agree on an appointec. 1 The rivalry became so bitter that | Senator Bone's political machine, | headed by Saul Haas, threatened to |oppose Schwellenbach’s re-election. And in the face of this opposition, Schwellenbach is stepping out of the Senate to become a Federal “Lord Haw Haw,/|i ‘This was expected to leave Sen- ate seat in solitary splendor. How- ever, it now seems certain that Bone also will leave the Senate. He has been ill, is fed up with leg- slative affairs, and expects to re- sign around January 1. His close political friend and supporter, Col- lican young woman, what atrocities |lector of . Customs Haas, has just| arrived from Seattle to persuade him to change his mind. But he is not having much luck. It looks as if Bone would follow Schwellen- bach back to Washington. NOTE—If Bone returns to the practice of law, he may some day have to appear before his old rival, Judge Schwellenbach. WILLKIE AND LABOR From the start of his campaign in the Chicago stockyards, Wen- dell Willkie has plugged tenaciously away at wooing labor. It has been a hard, uphill fight. ¥ But the gritty GOP standard bear- |er has stuck doggedly to it and has gone out of his way everywhere to sell himself to the working man. Just how tough a proposition this is, is illustrated by the following incidents: 1. In Lansing, Mich, the Olds- mobile auto maragement asked the shop committee if it would be all right to close down for an hour, so that Willkie could visit the plant and talk to the workers. The an- swer of the shop committee was that the union had no objection— provided the company paid the men for the time they listened to the candidate. The company reiused, and the proposed meeting was canceled. 2. Husky, white-haired Charles MacGowan, vice president of the AFL Boilermakers and Shipbuilders| tary to Senator Radcliffe of Mary- Union, is a lifelong Republican and personal friend of Willkie's, Several years ago, at a conference With MacGowan in the New York offices of the Commonwealth and Southern Corp., Willkie ln.stnlct? an assist- i : T want you to see to 1t that nere- . HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 This is not an important day in| planetary direction. There may be| an inclination to look upon the dark side of life which at this| time ill appear to overcast all that is bright. Faith and confi-| dence should be cultivated. Heart and Home: Public service may interfere with many domestic| plans in coming months. Women should be wise in their adjust-| ments to meet changes in family| needs. Home should be made a place of peace at a time when war menaces civilization. Warning is given that evil portents are dis-| cerned for the future. Girls should be trained for practical tasks and should be qualified for economic| 1940 [ 20 YEXRS W60 e cxrink OCTOBER 16, 16™ J. H. Cann and Elmer W. Smith, as the result of several weeks spent prospecting in the vicinity of Lisianski Inlet and Stag Bay, staked groups of claims for themselves and associates in that region which have shown very satisfactory surface conditions. Alaska's first golf course was laid out by the Federal prisoners on | the island of Unalaska, one of the Aleutian group, under the direction | of Paul Buckley, Deputy United States- Marshal at Unalaska. Street Commissioner A. E. Morley left on the gasboat Yorkey for a hunting trip on Admiralty Island. Harry Fisher, Sim Frieman and Ray Stevens left on the gasboat Dauntless for a two weeks' hunting trip. Diana from a twelve-day hunting trip and brought back bags of various kinds of game. B. F. Heintzleman, one of the field force of the Forestry Service, was in the city stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. Datson arrived from Chichagof on the Chichagoff Mr. Datson was accountant for the Chi- Mr. and Mrs. R. G for a short stay in Juneau chagof Mining Company. H. R. Shepard returned on the Alameda from Seattle where he had been visiting for several weeks. Weather: Highest, 44.1; lowest, 34; partly cloudy. e e - i | Daily Lessons in English % 1. Gorpon - s - - - - 0 2 - 2t 2 S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That is an actual fact.” Omit ACTUAL. FACT means “the quality of being actual.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Summoned. Pronounced as spelled, sum-und, not sum-unzd, often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Layer (one thickness). SYNONYN Inadvertence, carelessless, thoughtlessness, ness. 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: LACONISM; vigorous, brief expression; terse style. (Pronounce lak-o- nizh, A as in LACK, accent first syllable). “His speech was praised for its laconism.” Lair (a bed). heedless- independence. Business Affairs: Dealers in shoes and in leather goods of every: sort| will find extraordinary demnnd.x; upon their stocks. Rise in prices| is prognosticated. A severe winter| is foretold and the need of w;mn! sailed for home, and once more eluded the British| iothing will be greater than usual.| very dicagreeable, or someone has made a tactles Furs will attain great value angd those who possess them will be for- tunate. Novel methods of aiding European war victims will be pro-| moted by American business in a| big way. National Issues: As the end of! the national political campaign| nears the intensity of the compe-<! tition will cause serious personal! | differences among leading men and women. An incident of sensational s character will cause a political scandal. The stars appear to pres- age the awakening of party loyal- ties wherever they have been af+ fected. Victory to the candidate| who knows the job that is sought is ‘foretold by foreign astrologers. International Affairs: Sabotage is to cause a disaster to a great artery of commerce in the United States. Danger for channels con- necting friendly nations is fore- cast. The St. Lawrence River is to be in the headlines because of subversive plots that cause loss of | life, The Mexican border is to| furnish an example of fifth column | activities. Persons whose birthdate it have the augury of a year of ad-| | MODERN ETIQUETTE " posrrra rEE _ 2t ) - e < ) - s s ) Q A. Ordinarily one should not do so, unle: “hould one abruptly change a topic of conversatian the topic is something remark. Q. Isn't it out of place to have guests announced at.an informal dinner? A. Yes; this is done only at the formal dinner, Q. Should a girl ever give a young man an expensive gift, when she can afford it? A. No. e g A A i - e s ) 1. What is a stevedore? 2. How many times does the word “God™ appear in the Bible? 3. Who was the opponent of Ben Hur in his famous chariot race? 4. What was the Spanish Armada? 5. Which U. S. city is known as the “City of Monuments”? ANSWERS: 1. A man employed to load and unload ships. 2. According to one authority, 4,371 times. 3. Messala. 4. A fleet of war vessels sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 against England. 5. Baltimore, Md. BILL TREIBEL TAKES OVER MIDGET LUNCH Treibel said he would feature home cooking and good service, and would endeavor to live up to the reputation established by Mrs, May. | vancement. Employees will be for-| W. R. (Bill) Treibel, who was a His wife will assist him in the tunate, Friends may cause losses|mine worker and B.P.R. employec enterprise. of property. when he lived in Juneau seven Since leaving Juneau in 1933, Children born on this day prob-|years ago, has returned to take Treibel has been at Nome, An- ably will be kindly, clever and am- bitious. They should be easy to| guide toward high attainments. (Copyright, 1940) after no supplies are bought from any concern that doesn’t play ball with the boilermakers’ union. These !buys are our friends.” . | MacGowan relates thsi incident proudly. But when the GOP Na-| tional Committee asked MacGowm- an for an endorsement of Willkie, MacGowan replied with a polite but firm “no!” “I'm sorry to have to do this,” he explained, “for I have a deep affection for Wendell Willkie. He’s! one of the grandest guys I know and our relations on labor matters always have been good. But I've got to think about my own people first. “I guess I would have been in there pitching for Willkie if he; had showed labor he had more to offer than the New Deal. He hasn't done that. He has made a lot of | promises about putting people back | would do it. Promises aren’t enough. {So I'm casting my lot with Roose- velt.” MERRY-GO-ROUND After watching a Senate session from the galleries, Dr. Anthony Sindoni, head of Philadelphia Gen-| eral Hospital, said. “Most of them seem to be suffering from meta-| bolistic disturbances.” Secre-‘ tary Hull was asked a question| about Thailand. When he answér- ed, the word Thailand n his throat, and he said, get over calling it Siam." {friend asked Bertha Joseph, secre= |land, if she was going to go on being a secretary all her life. Her reply was, “I guess s0, and when to work, but he hasn't told how he| }: over the Midget Lunch. He has leased the eating place from Mrs.' Blanche May and will open it to- morrow under his management. chorage and in California. He said he became “tired of nothing but sunshine without any rain” and so returned north. PLANT HIT BY BLAST 1 die, I'll be secretary to Saint Peter, and I won't like it, because I know any of his constituents.” (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea-% . ture Syndicate, Inc.) s 2 x Two buildings at the Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Corporation’s Clairtown, Pa., plant were shattered by a terrific explosion of resin * and oils that rocked the entire community. Half a dozen employees were slighily burned. . 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