The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1940, Page 4

| | | i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1940 Daily Alaska ever Published evers eets, Jun Second and Ma AELEN TROY BENDER - A L"BERNARD - - Vice-Pgesident Post_Office in Junes Entered in th SUBSCRIPTION RA Delivered by earrier in Juncau and Dougls By mal 3 o One year s o one month, in ad Bubscribers will conf! the Business Office of or 1 livery of their papers. Tele News Office, 602 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEE THAN THAT OF ¢ except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second Class Matter TF if they will promptly notify Business Office, 374 except six States including more T final decision to Go-Round columr | ahead of the Gal On October that Hiram dorse Willkie shortly.” | important Johnson made | on August 31 *| Gifford Pinchot, t Empire | cau, Alaska. President and Business Manager an, ber 6, the Gallup poll showed Roosevelt carry! Subsequent developments, however, | Gallup polls abd Roosevelt's | Johnson ing all recent campaign actively, put the Merry- 1 in the category of being two weeks lup poll and the news 9 the Merry-Go-Round predicted privately decided to make a public declaration “has d will This was the first news of one of the most speeches of the campaign, on October which Senator 18 Pearson and Allen announced that wice Republican Governor of Penn- “‘ tor ‘: r per month. | svlyania, would take a walk on Willkie in favor of owing rate o ths, in advance, $6.00; | Roosevelt, This story was derided by some corres- pondents because Pinchot later paid a call upon rregularity in the de- | Willkie. for Roosevelt but on October 9 Pinchot declared publicly S Newspapers throughout the United States on s 15 exclusively entitled to the use for | September 10 featured as page one news the fact o T e Thonl s oubtioees | that Maine had scored a clean sweep for the Republi- can Party But as early as F('l)l!ld!\ 16 Pearson and D TO BE LARGER Allen predicted: “It is now six months before the R Maine election, but even this far in advance it can Maine will go overwhelmingly Re- Pearson and Allen predicted that GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc. National Newspaper Representa- | he predicted that Uves, with offices In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portiand, g Seattle. Chicago. New York and Boston. publican in September SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE--Gllbert A. Wellington, 1011 September 10 American Bank Build Fiorello LaGuardi ship of a commit Roosevelt himself on September 24 paign for Guardia On Senator dicting August McNary that he day, in important part to order to offset Willkie's public utilities actions. delivering a “soon will assume the chairman- tee of leading progressives to cam- This was announced by 12 the Merry-Go-Round cceptance speech in detail, pre- would emphasize public power in Next McNary devoted an “Power—a National forecast the speech, the subject of Heritage.” On September 22, the Merry-Go-Round’ issued for immediate release a story that the two LaFollette brothers were considering a public declaration for Roosevelt. On September 30, Senator LaFollette an- —-- nounced his support of the President IT LOOKS AS IF— The Empire has been proud of the campaign coverage of the Washington Merry-Go-Round, We Four years ago the Washington Merry-Go-Round |11ope our readers have liked it too. 1In the days of comparative political peace to follow, we hope you column drew ire and derision when it predicted| i enjoy following the Merry-Go-Round. To before the presidential election that President Roose-|know what is going to happen next, read this fine velt would carry 45 tes. This was ridiculous; no|column daily. candidate had ever come so close to making ‘a clean | L, . sweep. The Merry-Go-Round authors were either ‘Alaskan Development partisan or foolish, They were committing journal- L istic suicide with so preposterous a prediction. Be- | (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) sides, didn't the Literary Digest straw poll show that | Proposals for large scale colonization projects what's-his-name Landon had the election safely in| Alaska, especially those based upon wholesale trans- the bag? On election day Roosevelt swept 46 States.|fers of refugee populations, have evoked vigorous In their column in The Empire today, authors|opposition in the Territc Drew Pearson and Robert Allen make no such pesi- At the same time it is evident that Alas will | tive assertion as they did in 1936. They say “it|miss much of the permanent growth which should looks as if Roosevelt will be elected for a third |Pe expected to flow from the current defense pro- ki Then they tally up the electoral votes to|S'8M unless the Territory achieves a well rounded Neh1” why ¥ ‘ development in which agriculture plays a part " Vilhjalmur Stefansson knows his north, And The Merry-Go-Round record throughout the 1940| his proposal, to the Alaska Committee of the Seattle campaign has been an admirable one. Scoop fol- [Chamber of Commerce, for a highly selective coloni- lowed scoop, so that readers of the column have re- Zation program. certainly merits serious study. It mained from a few days to a few months ahead of [i5 Mr. Stefansson's belief that the selection should | ERE Ao ah il inien be made among Americans, in the higher rather i |than in the lower economic levels. Obviously, some| As far away as Alaska, readers were able the . G S AT 5 Ll o ftain John L Lewis made his|ocduaintance with climatic conditions similar to| [iosting ‘arier OI0 Dhieligin John -eWis made S| ose prevailing in the Territory and comparative | surprise endorsement of Willkie to Go-Round, written in Washingto fore, The Republicans. mised Lewis he Pearson and could name the the terms of the deal Willkie made with Lewis. | Allen said, read in the Merry- n several days be- youth are is moderately try his luck in a ment overlooks t! had pro- vy of Labor Secreta also desirable It will be argued that an American farmer well who be tempted to *Such an argu- still burns off would hardly strange territors he fact that ambition in the Willkie cabinet and promised that they would |brightly in youth—and that the Mid-West can no enforce Nationa plants more stringently Board orders in orders. On October 6 “secret” polls taken in certain Sta holding better than his own,” advisers were urgng him pedestal and do some column subjected Democratic edits an was to Washingfon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Par,v One) Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin—total 11 States with 69 electoral votes. Doubtful, leaning toward Willkie —Ilinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minne- sota, Ohio—total five States with 99 electoral votes On the basis of this State forecast Roosevelt would need only a com- bination of New York's 47 votes plus Connecticut’s eight and Wyoming’: three. Or with Pennsylvania’s plus New Jersey's 16 and Washing ton’s eight the President would have enough to put him across, or it would be enough for h rry the two big Staes of k and Penn- sylvania, or New York and Massa- chusetts Willkie he other nd, would have to c all ¢ s doubtfuls plus 98 of the electoral votes listed as leaning toward Rosevelt. This is very possible if the large blocs of undecided voters tain closely-divided his banner. If in these States the bal of power of voters swings 1o Willkie he ach of the cer- es flock to ance will make election history, but he has got to get most of them to turn the trick PROFESSOR MOLEY'S HAM ‘When Raymond Moley, rrstwhile New Dealer, appeared for Willkie Richmond, Va., the crowning toucl of the meeting was a ham act To indicate that the farmers were turning from Roosevelt, managers of the meeting arranged to have a Virginia farmer step up to the plat- form and present Moley with a token of rural regard. But there was a titter in the crowd when the token proved to be a ham. Moley looked a little sheepish when he took the Virginia ham into bis arms. The farmer had described it as “the emblem of our party.” The titter was even stronger how- | to | cratic Digest”: at-'the United States of Ameflca want \ ever, handling Pearson and Allen “to climb off his no-politics | vigorous campaigning.” considerable because on the Labor Relations | longer take care national defense {agriculture. Adm the best type of [but it should not nl reported that tes showed “Willkie nd that Roosevelt's | The Fuehrer This | criticism same day, Octo-|to Siig Sing. tempted to say that a great force | was sweeping out of the West to rid | Washington of its New Deal crack- pots. “A great wind,” he said, “has come out of the West.” LABOR PEACE Defense Commissioner Sidney Hill- man soon will announce two sur- prise appointments to his labor ad- visory board They will be John P. Frey, head of the AFL metal trades depart- ment, and John Green, President of the CIO's shipbuilding workers un- ion. The two will be Hillman's spec- ial assistants in the shipbuilding field To many people these appoint- ments may seem a routine matter But to labor circles they are an- other coup of Hillman's in bringing warring AFL and CIO leaders to- gether Frey and Green have long been on opposite sides of the fence. Frey long has been one of the most die- hard opponents of the CIO in upper | AFL ranks, having helped bounce Hillman and John L. Lewis from the | AFL. Only a month ago he vigor- | ously assailed Hillman at a private ‘m»m-m, of the AFL executive coun- leil NOT | To ('n(o Hillman and his labor advisory board have settled | peaceably 157 threatened strikes, work stoppages and lockouts affect- ing 675000 workers. An average of | 7.000 letters a week are received | from rank-and-file union members | commending these activities. SIDELIGHTS | Some GOP leaedss in Cali- fornia may be soft-pedaling on Her- | CAMPAIGN REPS: bert Hoover, but not National Chair- | man Joe Martin. Says he in “The | Republican,” lively GOP monthly: | Mr. Willkie has the pledge of the | | enthusiastic backing and aid of | Herbert Hoover, last Republican and | only living former President of the | | United States . . . Here, assuredly, | I:« cause for confidence in the out- come of the November election, but | there are other and equally potent | straws in the wind.” ; DEMS: Mrs, Roosevelt's opinion |of what is the chief issue of the campaign, written for ‘rhe Demo- “Do the We see, by the New Y by | Woo Woo, alias Woo Ping, | a partne |is comparatively of all the families nittedly the project farm population will be impossible. brought up to of recruiting be difficult, own proud version of the French [clmplukn may be Veni, Vidi, Vichy er, that Wing Ping, alias alias Ping Pong, has gone hip in which the govern- ment exerts an influence as strong as either that of capital or labor, or do they want a government which weak and over which other interests dominate? This . . . is probably fundamentally the most important question before us today.” (Copyright, 1940, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) H. Gordon Selfridge, American: -born founder of the huge London devlrt- ment store bearing his name, is shown viéwing the damage done te Qxford Street establishment by Nazi air bombs. Business was reunbd immediately after raid, despite shattered windows and piles of d.l'fi'h. Tlmxe is no substitute ior Newspaper Adverlx;mn | en- La- ! e o i g 1940 NOVEMBER 1940 E\?wm{rflm I | |H | HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOVEMBER 5 Ruth Geyer Mrs. A. E. Karnes Thomas W. Larsen | Katherine Mogseth | Gladys Delaney ce Christian DeSoto L HOROSCOPE | Sk “The stars incline but do not compel” a0 T oy WEDNEbDAY NOVEMBER 6 | Adverse planetary aspects domin- cess and happiness. Caution ir s regard to legal papers is enjoined. Children born on this day prob-‘m superintendent, were to arrive on the Alaska to join Mr. The Empire staff. ac trip to the States pioneer miner | 000 sufferers. this year, November from 20 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 5, 1920 ten men for s Alaska Endicott Mining Company the mine. Provisions for enry Bay for the when he left for by Mrs. Elmer A. Friend and her two Harold E. Dawes, of the law firm of Roden and Daw Graften Colman, of this city 1d was at the Gastineau Hotel Tom Knudson, City Councilman of Juneau, w Mary for Seattle on a business trip. Cashier of the First National Post, was to leave Post Mrs, Harold H. companied by Mrs. Ethel Higgins left for Sitka where she was to make her home. ps office in Juneau. 1e had been associated with the U. S: Signal Col the first time in more than twenty years. was to make a trip to the For Weather: Highest, 40: lowest, 38; rain. George Dull, south on the Princess Mary. THE EMPIRE menths was to be taken to William A. F. Richards, children, Phyllis and Billie, Friend, who was a member of s, who had been on a visit to the states, was returning north on the Alameda. returned from a vacation in the south to leave on the Prin- | Bank of Juneau, on the Spokane on a vacation Juneau Dir ofessional Futcnul Societies Qastineau Channel ectory Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Ble ngren Building PHONE 56 B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers welcome. H. E. SIM- MONS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGF NO m Second and fourth || Dr. Judson Whittier €. =4 i Monday of each month Dr. A. W. Stewart Ty s e beginning at 7:30 pm DENTIST RALPH B. MARTIN Worshipful Master; JAMES i i w 0TH CENTURY BUILDING LEIVERS, Secretary. Office Phone 469 - g T3t T GUY SMITH CRIROPRACTUR ; Drugless Physician DRU | Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 i Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. | PHONE 667 PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- | rULLY COMPOUNDED | Dr. John H. Geyer Front Street Next Coliseum PHONE %7—Free Delivery more than 100 Join during Roll Call 11 through 30, nd keep your Red Cross ready for g assistance to dents. Roll care for motorists injured in acci-|d——— Join your local chapter a: Call time—November 11-30. ably will be determined and ad-; \ i 5 TOO LATE 1O "CLASSIFY venturous, They are potentially the coming year. | able to attain success, even though! i P 3-ROOM apt., no childrcn. 437 they may be inclined to take big| Empire Classmeas Payt | Park and 5th Sts. ‘ (Copyright, 1940) | 3 Hampered h] dense smoke, New York firemen assist a woman down a ladder to'safety from the roof of a burning four-story apartment. A dozen tenants were rescued. No one was seriously injured. Firemen Save Trapped Woman! = " «"i‘ q | | i | | —_————— { McNAMARA & WILDES ' Registered CIVIL ENGINEERS Designs, Surveys, Investigations VALENTINE BLDG. Room 3 Archie Bookkeeping Room 8, Valentine Building Phone 676 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT | Helcne W. Albrecht | — | PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone Valentine Building—Room 7 ate today. The morning hours A : v\.....,._..... e e should be helpful to women, but' s DENTIST there will be a tendency toward essons ln n |S Room 9—Valentine Bldg. weariness and lack of initiative. Da]ly I_ g ‘ PHONE 762 Men will find this a fine date for W L. GORDON i Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 pm. y 2 ( el making plans and 200t IESONILIONS. | g wuamsem e e o e o e o SEIU— T—morrow s Sivle‘ | [“f{"'i:r"l*:"“(l )}l“’i::""f"":h‘; :11;:]1‘1 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He came home minus his Today" » i begin what is important for the money.” Say, “He came home WITHOUT his money 3 ROBERT STMPSON. OPT. D. i future. It is an auspicious day for OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Remediable. Pronounce re-me-di-a-b’l, Graduate Lis Angales Collnge . l taking care of whatever has been both E's as in ME, I as in IT, A unstressed, accent second syllable. priphs il g i neglected and good for informal OFTEN MISSPELLED: Vain (useless). Vein (channel) | Opthaimology ” i social affail For girls there is SYNONYMS: Pessimism, depression, despondency, despair, morbidity. al Pitted Le o - 2 promise of romance. Hasty love af- WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times, and it is yours." Let us ey mses Ground | fairs are indicated, but they should ;. .ease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | { be avoided. Again the lure of & r1n1OMATIC; pertaining to an idiom, or language peculiar to a people. —eeeee 3 ! uniform will be = felt. especially| .y speech was distinctly idiomatic.” e o ) e Juneau sOwn Slore : among college girls. There is H Th Ch rl w c n ! happy sign for weddings. It is ,......A-‘._\-..‘..v-‘_-m..‘,.....,_._......-.._...- e vharles W. Larier LA date presaging real partnership — Business Affairs: Continued ‘\r- MODERN ETIOUETTE by Mortuary tivity in business is prognosticated. | ROBERTA LEE ‘ I 2 Many enterprises will be greatly F"“"u‘p'!;'gN’E"“;’;‘s"" Sts, The Bexall Slore stimulated, American inventors and | %" B | Your Reliuble Pharmacists chemists will contribute much to Q. Will a well-bred person toss a cigarette butt out of a window? { 14 B tional defense. Manufacturers of A No. It is not only inconsiderate of others, but dangerous. It may | = | ufler—Maur( \“""\ '_'“fl woolen goods will profit.lyjopt on o person’s head, an awning, an automobile top, or rubbish pile. Hsve Your Eyes Examined by | | Dru co Yise s RETROHE. WL DAL B D Q. What would be the correct hour to give a Sunday morning break- | Dr.R L C ) | g Lo. ! for winter attire as early as pos-|_ | sible, for prices wil soar. 1t is safe| % 10 r. Zlae L. Larison Y PRESCRIPTIONS to count upon a brisk Christmas 2 i OPTOMETRIST 0 trade in ich the usual spending Q. Sh n remove her wraps when in a theatre? Blommn Bldg. 2nd Floer may be ted A. This is entirely optional Front Street—————Phone 63¢ Nat Issues: Food problems o MO AT R R R IR R SN S e+ 1 ub H will multiply as reports of need in - > Post thce S station Europe become more tragic. From I.O 0 K | NOW LOCATED AT abundance the United States will| an L\ C. GORDON ! At oo ot oo o o j|| JAMESC.COOPER || HARRY RACE siatohng. it 4s 16 110, SEETS | 1 o s e o e e s C.P.A. DRUGGIST [ stress the importance of overcom-| Business Counselor | Tess - Lae dmporiance - 1. Who was Nancy Hanks? “The Squibb Stores of Alaska® ing all prejudices in the realization COOPER BUILDIN : & it e n“‘ ‘“‘1 2. Which is the largest of ‘the deer family? G ! B O e foper 8| 3. How many coffee beans are there in one pound? 18 o orecas at agents W ent| e < fir ine gun? race and class consciousness. will| 4 What is the rate of fire of a Browning machine gun? | “The Stere for Men" Saih.Tn A 5. What is the capital of New Mexico? L. C. Smith and Corona International Affairs: Govern- ANSWERS: TYPEWRITERS SAB'N’S ment control of wealth will be en= 1. Mother of Lincoln (1783-1818). Sold and Serviced by forced in France and other coun- 2. The moose. Front St.—Triangle Bldg. tries under the Nazi 3. One authority says between 3800 and 3900. J. B. Burford & Co. most wealth has been conf 4. About 1100 rounds a minute. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by there will be slow a 5. Santa Fe Satisfied -Customers” ture fortunes. Danger to the Unit | L ed States is prophesied, because oOf|—— AR T e AR 3 + — the nation’s ]nuhux and pro 1)cntv‘ Because of greauy increased re-; Since 1935, the American Red| DR H VANCE A plot is prognosticated to under-|sponsibilities at home and abroad. g;)lg: 1ha; Oblflb;“hed l;“"flt :Fafl » 11, AR A : 23 U] % 1 5, highway first aid ~stations OSTEOFATH mine again our whole financialand | erica g ross s ye: : g ; ign ‘x the American Red Cross this year and mobile units throughout the| Consultation piielp 0wt N cconomic system. A period of in-|appeals for greater membershib.! United States, Expansion of this| 9 3 tense caution is counseled by as-| . . 2 Lnsts s 6 | free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 8; trologers. | Last year the Red Cross emblem program, through the support of| 7 to 8:00 by appoinment. have the augury of a year of su .o £i. i Y Re i e Bency| = &South Franklin St. Phone 177 i LUNCHEON SPECIALTIES When in Need of DIESEL OIL—STOVE OIL YOUR COAL CBOICE GENERAL HAULING BTORAGE and CRATING CALL US Juneau Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 Phone 672 B. Belis — Tax Servioe T FAMILY | SHOE STORE “Juneau’s Oldest Exclus- sive Shoe Store” Juneau Melody Holse: PPty e A Music and Electrio Appliances I, 'Btreet Manager Next to Truesdell Gun Shop | | Second Street Phone 65 r:u?hm,mm_- TELEPHONE—51 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS * CAPITAL—$50.000 SURPLUS—$125,000 * 2% PAID ON SAVINGS * - SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASKA