The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1940, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. AFLEN TROY BENDER - - - - - Ppresident R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager STRATEGIC GREECE Greece, which was to have been the next way sta~ fion of the Axis powers on their march to the Near East, has proved in the first few days of the Ital- ian invasion to be a very rough detour indeed. Be- fore moving eastward the Axis intends to get all of the Balkans under its control. It cannot move for- ward without being sure of all the strategic positions in its rear. Hence the heat which is now being turned on Premier John Metaxas’ country. The Greek Army, consisting of only 120,000 men at war strength, could do very little by itself, How- ever, Greece is favored by her terrain and is putting up a better resistance than the size of her armed econd Class Matter. ntered in the Post Office in Ju ke SUBSCRIPTION RATE and Doutlas for $1.25 per month. forces would indicate. From Albania in the west the Italians are being effectively resisted through the mountain passes. Should Bulgaria, however, start action from the north with German help, Greek resistance could not long hold out. Turkey, despite the mutual stance pact of 1936, is not likely to send any large body of troops into Gre Such a step would strip her defenses in Asia Minor and lay the country open to a German 1siness Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS fhe Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use for all ne ed to it or not other- local news published ASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY QIHER PUBLICATION. National ese o, Los Angeles, ston, Newspaper Representa- Portiant, That is the support EORGE D. CLOSE, Inc Greece has one chance. which the British Navy may give. Britain has come| to the rescue of that ancient land. Its rugged coast- | line and numerous islands offer excellent defense| ! positions for a fleet. There a stand can be made against the dangerous eastward march of the Axis. Realizing the importance of the Mosul oil fields and Syria in the Allied setup it is well to keep an eye| It holds the key to the future of the Near East. 0, New ATTLE REPRESE Aueriean Bank Bull on Greece. in the | war | One of Freedom’s Roads (New York Times) Three months ago the British closed the Burma | Road, over which the Chinese had been able to bring supplies from Rangoon and the outer world.| | This was done in order to give the Japanese time | to settle the Chinese “incident” by negotiation. The| ; Japanese used the time to drop more bombs on Chin- | ese cities, bully the helpless Indo-China Government into admitting their troops to that country, and, | finally, to conclude a closer military agreement with When they pried the hatches off over a cargo Britain's enemies, Germany and Italy. So recently of salmon brought to Seatfle a few days ago, the the Burma Road was opened again and trucks moved that came up out of the hold was as free of over it. The Japanese will try to smash it from the odor as the breeze off a mountain snowfield.|air, but the Chinese believe they can keep it open| The vessel's catch was packed in ordinary ice, | for perhaps as much as 500 tons of freight a day;| put in something hitherto unheard of—antiseptic|gasoline, airplanes, ammunition, raw materials and| ice %mu(hcal supplies. 3 | Meanwhile the news of the Japanese campaign The next day it was determined that w nh(hvn('\\';m China, now well along in its fourth year, shows| germicidal ice packed around and in them, the 11-|},w limited the offensive strength of Japan really day-old catch of salmon contained only slightly|js The Chinese have just been bombarding the more than one percent of the bacteria count ! airfield, on the Yangtze River, which cer- by fish kept that length of time in ordinary ice. NOW—ANTISEPTIC ICE FOR THE FISHERMAN air fishy not hown ' Ichang tainly shows a contempt for any Japanese striking | Scientists at Seattle Pacific College announced |power in that area well below Chungking, They | that fish packed in the new ice came back from | claim to have cut the Japanese line of communica- | Cape Flattery with 686,000 bacteria per gram as|tions on the river below Hankow. Finally, the cen-| compared with 566,000,000 per gram found in fish|sored Shanghai cables reveal that there are still) packed that long in ordinary ice. bout 300,000 _Chme§e troops in the Shaungh_al-‘ The product with which the ice was Sinpreg- |- o Sao NROEHE triangle, at the very focal point Some of these| S | of the Japanese effort in China. nated, and which rendered it antiseptic, is a (‘hl(u'ml"“_(mps are said to be within two hours' drive of compound perfected by Lawrence Frandsen, chemist| ghanghai. | who has worked several years on the problem of de-| In other words, Japan hasn't been able to clear | veloping an antiseptic that would retain its germi- up the very front yard of her Chinese war. Her cidal qualities under freezing i|\+nolmnon is deep but narrow. The pressure she | The product, in powdered form, is mixed with|has been able to exert has probably created a China the water that is to be frozen into ice for preserving | stronger (if supplies can get in from the outside world) than the China of four years ago. Those who the fish catch. Not only does it kill the bacteria | go. | in the caught fish—bacteria that ordinarily would|still Wish to appease Japan by ”O““r‘_“:‘g o K_’:" He' Girried- into-the ‘carcass when it was opened for|vide her with the sinews of qWar.ipighl..coneiger these facts. And they might consider the nature of cleaning—but it kills also the bacteria in the water| from which the ice was formed. These would survive freezing and to contaminate the fish as the ice melted, were it not for its germicidal properties. Sponsors of the product predicted that 500,000 tons of the germicidal ice will be used in the industry on Puget Sound alone next year and that a sizable plant will have to be built to replace the small lab-| dictatorship in general. A few sprawling victories, a willingness to shed the blood of the innocent and helple do not constitute a “new order.” Day by day the dictatorships raise up more new enemies than® those they Kkill or defeat. They cannot close all roads to freedom. The Burma Road is not the only one that mocks their insolence. mere revive The Vichy government has banned football. ratory in which t¥ roduct was created x 3 Sy b vhion i D L (“M[“. : Henceforth it will do all the kicking around in I said the cost of the antiseptic ice will be France, about 30 percent more than ordinary ice, but that it will save over two million pounds of fish annually | in the halibut industry alone. The new product is one which may have a pro- found effect in the future upon Alaska's most im- portant industry. Washinglon We must be getting old. We can remember when the nation didn't have anything to worry about except whether the fad of tree-sitting meant that the younger generation was reverting to the monkeys. complaints against the lax enforce-;mclude: General Counsel George ment of the wage-hour act and McNulty, Chief Economist Carroll failure to deny defense contracts Daugherty, Assistant General Coun- advance across the Black Sea or through Bulgaria. | 4 Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) cussed by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Soviet Ambas- gador Cumansky, who gave positive assurances that the cotton was strictly for Russian use. DRAFT EVADERS The Army is depending upon a novel type of enforcement agency to catch the draft dodgers. Most members of this unofficial agency are women. Instead of sending sleuths around town to root out young men who have evaded registration, the Army is counting on the mothers of con- scripts to see that other mothers’ sons do their patriotic duty. If any man of conscript age has failed to register, the Department expects his neighbors to tell the lccal draft board. Mrs. Jones may be proud that her son is serving the country, but she is going make sure that Mrs dces the same. Actually, rether than less, registration than expected. The crop of registrants exceeded expectations by at least 250,000. One reason, officials believe, -is that many men below 21 or above 35 registered, falsifying their ages they wanted to serve the country, or they wanted a job. Other reason is that the registra- tion caught from five to seven mil- lion migrants not covered by the census. <Every known hobo jungle in the country had been circularized in advance, and all the transients ‘turned out to sign up with Uncle .why John L. Lewis out for Willkie are his o Smith’s son | there has been gnore, | to companies violating the National | Labor Relations Act. | A lot of CIO chieftains who lean more to the right than Lewis, do not agree with their bushy-browed boss about Roosevelt. But they are discouraged at what they con- tend to be a complete breakdown | of the wage-hour act in many in- dustries, plus the Defense Com- mission’s trampling upon the Na- tional Labor Relations Act. Real fact is that charming Col- | cnel Philip B. Fleming has not even taken the trouble to hire the | inspectors voted him by Congress, | and turged back to the Treasury last year $200,000 of unexpended funds which were to have been used to enforce the wage-hour laws. Today. Fleming’s labor critics charge that in order to cover up failure to enforce the act, he is try- ing to make a paper showing of ef- ficiency b, ordering each inspector to close three cases a day if he wants to keep his job. No inspector | can work that fast and do anything | | more than perfunctory white-wash- |ing, labor leaders assert. | They also charge that the be- | nign Colonel Fleming has exempted | tens of thousands of employees in genuine wholesale establishments | (on the ground that they were re- | tailers), and has deprived vast num- bers of agricultural processir,: work- | ers, such as canners and fruit pack- ers, of wage-hour benefits. | MANY RESIGNATIONS | In one case, they assert, a former | strike-breaker, Walter LeMat, was hired by Fleming and given a job of devising procedures to investi- | gate complaints. This caused Wil- lian A. F. Stephenson, Executive | Assistant to the Administrator, to resign in protest. With him have gone a long list of axacutives whe, either disgusted with the laxity of enforcement or genu- {inely" interested in building wage- | come of the 1936 election he would | have been way off base. Privately | hour standards, have resigned. They sel Joseph Rauh, Assistant to the Executive M. C. Redman, and Da- vid Cobb, in charge of the apparel | wage section. | Last week, Colonel Fleming, chaf-| ing at the steady rain of wage-hour criticisms which finally has found its way to Congress, sent word to CIO leaders that he would like to| sit down some evening and talk with them. NOTE—Meanwhile it is reported that Deputy Administrator Baird Snyder, a former building contract- or, under heavy fire from labor ranks will resign. MERRY-GO-ROUND There is no truth to the rumor that Secretary of War Stimson plans to resign after election. Mr. Stimson regards the arming of this country the crowning work of his long career as a public servant and hé intends to stick to the job . . . If Jim Farley had followed Emil Hurja's figures regarding the out- Hurja expected Roosevelt to get no more than 360 electoral votes. He got 523, Farley made his own es- timates as a result of phone calls to each state leader. He and Hurja cooled toward each other shortly| after the 1936 campaign and Hurja has been for Garner, now Willkie. (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) — el ALL SAINTS DAY | 10 BE OBSERVED AT HOLY TRINITY All Saints Day will be observed in| Holy Trinity Cathedral tomorrow | by a celebration of the Holy Com-| munion at 10 o'clock a. m. e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, OCT. 31, V | 27]28[29[3031] | o | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | OCTOBER 31 John W, Troy J. A. Krugness B. D. Stewart Willis W. Roff | Malcolm Morrison [ Evelyn Hendrickson Mrs, Douglas A. Mead Alica MacSpadden Mrs. Robert Wolney Althea Rands Ruth Talmaga Bob Laney HOROSCOPE “The stars incline | but do not compel” | | 24 FRIDAY, NOVEMEER 1 After the early morning hours| benefic aspects rule strongly to- day. The rule of the stars is pro-| pitious for naval movements, es-| pecially those that have high pur-| pose in the way of rescue or re- lief, Heart and Home: Women are under the best planetary influences today. It is fortunate for letters| or contracts, for the signing of legal papers of any sort. The heart | will be subject to apprehensions, but there will be much romance for the young as well as happiness for older persons. In the family, sen- arations and changes will cause mothers to borrow trouble. This is a promising date for progress in school or college, although stu- dent bodies will shrink in num-| bers. Business Affairs: Newspaper and| magazine publishers will profit as business in the United States con- tinues to prosper. Great increase in trade is forecast for dealers in leather and woolen goods. Machin- ery and tools assume increflsinsz; importance. Factories will continue to run at top speed. Employment will extend to many well-trained men and women who had retired from work. Women should seek high technical efficiency. National Issues: Food distribu- tion to starving persons will' con- tinue to be one of the most dis- cussed problems in this country, but the stars presage success in aiding victims of the Eurppean war. An experienced statesman will prove his wise leadership, This is| a configuration under whi¢h to develop plans for the future, which bodes ill for a nation unprepared in modern modes of conflict. The stars presage a long period of Army, Navy and Aviation service under the Stars and Stripes. International Affairs: Intensifi- cation of fifth column activities is foretold as agents engaged in South America exercise undercover influence among voters. As closer relations between this country and Great Britain prove helpful, the stars are read as indicating mar- velous powers of recovery for the Empire which is to be immensely changed in its rebuilding. Warn- ing is given that subversive inter- ests will sow discord and suspicion. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of pros- perity with aid from family and friends in ambitious aims. A ten- dency toward extravagance should be checked. Children born on this day will be clever and intuitive, but they may be inclined to take life hap- pily without feeling the need of hard .work. (Copyright, 1940) DOUGILAS NEWS . MOTHERS ATTENDING KINDERGARTEN PARTY All the mothers but one of the sixteen children in the kindérgar- ten of Douglas public school were on hand this morning for the little {tots’ Hallowe'en party. Recitations land songs made up a program of entertainment and refreshments were served. Work completed to date in the department was taken home by the youngsters at the close of the period, - RUDY IN CHARGE While his father is recuperating from an operation at St. Ann's Hospital, Rudy Pusich is temporar- ily manager of Mike's Place. e SCHOOL HOLIDAYS The following holidays to oceur during the remainder of the 1940- 41 term have been announced as follows: Monday, November 11—Ar-| | mistice Day; February 21—for Lin- | 5 DOUGLAS (OLISEUM | Thursday—Friday. - DOUBLE BILL 4 | “ROLL WAGONS ROL! Subscribe for The Emplre. |- "CHASING DANGER" 1940. 20 YEARS AGO s IR ; THE EMPIRE OCTOBER 31, 1920 Although there had been very little excitement in the campaign, the election this year, according to managers of both political parties, was expected to draw at least a normal vote in the national campaign. Only Territorial and Divisional officers were to be voted upon in Alaska, Mrs. John T. Spickett, who had been visiting in the south for several weeks, had booked passage to leave Vancouver for Juneau on the Prin- cess Mary. Miss Ada White and John Malcolm Sharples were quietly married at the Methodist Episcopal Church by the Rev. H. E. Greening. The bride was a native of South Carolina. Since coming here she had been en- gaged in clerical and newspaper work. Mr. Sharples was a salesman at the N. G. Nelson shoe store. The young couple took an apartment in the Nelson Apartments for the winter. ' R. G. Ferry, a mining man of Haines, was at the Alaskan Hotel. & Mrs. J. Hill, of Petersburg, who had been in the city for a few days on business, left for her home on the City of Seattle. Frank Flemming, who had been doing development work on claims he owned at Berners Bay, was in the city. He was staying at the Circle |City Hotel. L. L. Wardell, accompanied by his wife and two children, was to arrive on the Spokane. Mr. Wardell, who held the temporary rank of Captain guring the war, was to be connected with the Signal Corps. Weather: Highest, 46; lowest, 44; rain. ® - . D D - S O Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon - - < < -0 - 2l O S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The property has depre- ciated in value” (often heard). IN VALUE is tautological, as DEPRE- CIATE means to lessen in price or estimated value. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Bona fide. Pronounce bo-na fi-de, O as in NO, A as in ASK unstressed, I as in FILE, E as in ME unstressed, accent first and third syllables. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Accede; EDE. Exceed; EED. SYNONYMS: Wealth, riches, opulence, affluence, fortune. 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: IMMUTABLE; unchangeable. “God’s laws are immutable.” e e MODERN ETIQUETTE ** ropgrra LEE o o] Q. Can a friendly letter be too long? A. That all depends upon the contents of the letter. Between inti- mate friends, a long, ncwsy, interesting letter is always welcome. A letter relating troubles, aches, ills, and accidents is ALWAYS too long, whether three pages or ten. Q. What is the proper thing to say when entering a strange office, and you wish to see Mr. Carter, an executive? A. “I should like to see Mr. Carter. I am Mr. Marshall, of the Walker Manufacturing Company, Chicago.” Q. When giving an informal dinner, how should the invitations be issued? A. One may write brief notes, or extend the invitations by phone. e <t e B o S e ] 1. How does the area of Germany compare with that of Texas? 2. What is the derivation of the word “tobacco”? 3. Who is generally regarded as the arch-traitor of American his- tory? 4. What is the color of a quarantine flag? 5. On what day of November are all national elections held? ANSWERS: 1. Germany (prior to present war), 180,936 square miles; Texas, 262,~ 398 square miles. Drs. 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Benedict Arnold. 4. Yellow. 5. First Tuesday after the first Monday. South Franklin St. Phone 177 coln’s and Washington’s Birthdays; December 24 to January 2—Christ- mas and New Year's starting with regular parties on December 24. B SEWING CLUB MEETS HELP AN ALASKAN Mrs. Tom Cashen was hostess to the Sewing Club of which she is a member, for the bi-monthly meet- ing which was held at her home last night. The membership roster was again made complete by vot- ing in Mrs. Milton Valeson as the twelfth member. Miss Elizabeth Fraser won the prize for a contest. Mrs. L. A, Johnson will entertain the club for their next session. ——————— Empire Classifieds Pay! | Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial I - Employment Service | for this qualified worker. PASTRY COOK—Woman, single, age 45, high school education. Many years experience in cooking in ho- e — tels and restaurants, specialized in’ pastroy cooking. 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