The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 30, 1940, Page 4

& £ { 2 overnight, but we should, at the very least, keep all Dally Alas’ta Emplre of otlr facilitics working overnight'sb it it hational] Publithed every evening except Sunday by the defense industries should be operating on a war- EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY time basis, and now. | mm(sx\"“ggfl%nunm e »M"k-‘ Presjdent We hope Mr. Roosevelt shocked some of his e Vice-Prestdent and Business MABARSE | }1cqrers into a realization of the critical situation Entered 1o the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matger. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid. at the following rates: One year, 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 of any fallure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE! The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for cepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein planes, because abroad as our lives vers into a sense of war S AMSKA CIRCUMT!ON GUARANTEED TO B! LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. " GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Representa- | uves, with offices in_San Prancitco, Los Augeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. | defense about it in Africa and Greek success in Abania. seem to realize the fortunes of war can change like 1 zigezag bolt of program peacetime, commercial operation, We are complacent when we should be/ confronting America, ! Because America is at peace, because there are no shambles in our great cities left by bombing| our children are safe from falling| walls in collapsing school buildings, we look upon the a distant spectre unlikely to affect oon, if at all. We are being lulled| security by recent British victonem We don't We are going about our were an ordinary | We are not excited lightning. as though it ~ e | demanding action SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE—Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 | american Bank Building | But seme of our | leaders need the | tered in a hun moment of their | labor and indus! tinue to lag. We Hmtmn does not {E UP AMERICA | | union members are honest, motive isn't profit or high wages. a job because somebody must do it—now. | Until that spirit permeates the fields of business, are confident that President Roosevelt will move swiftly to see that| The vast majority of American businessmen and | patriotic, decent citizens. industrialists and some of our union spirit of the boys in uniform, scat-|_ dred camps, who are giving every; lives to preparing for defense. Their They are doing try, our defense program will con-‘ after last night's assurances| | the greatest plant capacity ever developed in any| fail in the most important job it/ | has ever undertaken. is real t of our democracy. | Here is the test of y. | nessmen w in the President’s fireside | erhaps, its tone, All of lhei 0,000 who heard him know now that| cosevelt's firm statement of personal A Until the fu plications of the President is certain that much be made by this country ed outcome. eater efforts in order to Philippe Petain a to be waking k of becoming the arsenai of democracy. e President said last night, it will never be If we have dawdled ~way pre weeks and months, let’s not dawdle away any more. American industry and labor and the great mass I u ation in this country have been living 1n a fool's paradise since the first gun was fired in the present war. A monthly output of 1,000 planes was tx]hded by this time. Last month the actual number E! of planes sent by the United States to Britain was 177. Canada got another 102. Every sign is that even this dribble of planes is considerably more than half the nation’s output., The President has had to exceed his own rule-of-thumb of every other plane for England. Otherwise England wouldn't be getting enough to notice. And, meanwhile, we may be quite sure that the Nazi overlords of the combined industrial production of the Continent of Europe, from Czechoslovakia and Poland on the east to France on the west, are not indulging their plants and workers to long weekend holids This fact may be read into the recent| speech of Adolf Hitler, in which he said that as be- tween German work and United States gold he, with German work, could defeat any power on earth. em cious ment a sinister resistance, t plain by his head of an Axis not a tendency of France, for outscet, that the Marshal Petain actual controller at no point has posed by Laval, regime. Are we, as they say, kidding ourselves? We have P been blandly assuming that the industrial might of TUSC lles, conceivably, een bls assuming tha e industrial might with Laval - Xk the United States is incomparable. This is true, insofar as the fashioning of peaceful equipment and implements is concerned | been immeasural The American automotive|(ynes. Vichy si industry turns out 25,000 automobiles a day. are, Mr. Knudsen says, turning out only four light war. tanks a day, and are not yet in production on me-| And, had it dium tanks | powers would ¥ So far as arms production is concerned, it is, French colonies. Germany which is the induslrial giant, the United States which is the pygmy | We shall be criminally even our liberty. careless armament program under way Foreign Minister of the French state of Marshal pportunity to plunge France into the war against| y England as a means of establishing himself as the| o believe that he was more in sympathy with the| Axis powers than with the French republic. Consequently it was assumed, at least at the Events. seemingly have disproved this assumption, for ness to go to the lengths of Axis cooperation pro-| Laval—it may be taken for granted—has done his utmost to supplant Petain, and this most prob-| ably accounts for his expulsion from the Petain| But there is still another explanation for| Petain’s ability to expel him from the government. fact that the position of the Vichy Government has But we|and they now may command the decision of the 3 Good news for Churchill: of our security,|narino (32 square miles) in northern Italy is not if we permit any unnecessary delay and has not been at war with Great Britain, it was in the inevitably slow process of getting a huge rc-‘ announced in New York last week by Consul Gen- It cannot be done' eral Ercole H. Locatelli. Rascal Turned Out (Cincinnati Enquirer) 11l story can be gleaned from the! ts the Axis will not win the war, censored chaff, the world can only guess at the im-| reported ousting of Pierre Laval as However, to the democracies, it can hardly be other than good news. One of the most unprincipled rascals of a French deservedly notorious for its unprin- Laval has given the Vichy Govern- aspect from the time of its forma- ticn in the trying hours after the collapse of French He has been, quite unashamedly, the tool of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and has made, actions that he would welcome an s satelite state. However, this was | noteworthy only after the collapse Laval previously had given reason Vichy Government consisted only or; as the “front,” and Laval as the of state, according to Axis bidding. Marshal Petain displayed a willing- in some displeasure of Berlin much more likely, it lies in the bly strengthened by Italy’s misfor- till commands the French colonies been left to Pierre Laval, the Axis 10t have wanted in vain for the The Republic of San Washinnlon ruined - Me"y In Albania, every man’s home is Go_aound his castle. Around the house is a stone wall with gun slits at the en- |trance and usually a barbed wire Continued from Page Oue) ‘ entanglement. The house is of stone, SR and the first floor has no windows. ing a living from the wildest moun- | Gunshot might be poured through tains of Europe, has lived more by |them too easily. The second floor has his rifle than his plow, and in an- ig\m-slns for windows, and only on cient times comprised the backbone |the third floor are the windows at | of the Sultan’s janissaries. all adequate. However, modern warfare, the ma- |ily shuttered. chine gun and the airplane have Travel through Albania may be kept the Albanian strictly to his Adangerous unless you first call upon mountains. In the reshuffling of the chieftain of the region through boundaries which followed the last war, the aggressive young govern- ment of Yugoslavia, a favorite of ‘Woodrow Wilson, was able to carve out a sizeable chunk of Albania for itself. It was in this borderland area of Serbian-Albania that one of the Merry-Go-Rounders first learned to respect the Albanian fighting prow- ess. The Yugoslav Government had ver this region in name, but actually had no more control over it than Japan has over inland China. Serbian officials living in these bor- “er fowns sat at night’ with their shades down, fearing Albanian at- tack. on the top of our truck in a pouring rain for three days and was almost guarantee of safety. If you are a friend of Albania this is willingly he chief .wears to give up his own ife if yours is taken. This pledge means much more “han mere lip-service, and is accom- nanied by drawing blood in the wrist of each, and swearing “blood “esa." Then presents are exchanged Once the writer got a beautiful rurkish ring in exchange for a pair »f American made corduroy trousers. TRIBAL WARFARE When Albanians are not faced by a common enemy—the Italians or Yugoslavs—they are not averse to zeeping in military trim by fighting imong themselves. Once the writer ricked up a young Albanian along he roadside, shot in three places. t our American hospital he had 7 have his leg amputated, but re- ised to take ether, and did not mnake a sound during the opera- ion. . Even the Albanian costume is de- femed for fighting. It is pure white ro0l, with black stripes along the *ollar, sleeve and trouser leg, a cam- uflage which fits perfectly into the now and underbrush of the Alban- an mountains. ALBANIAN BORDER RAIDS Once a month it became the prob- lem of the Yugoslav Government to pay its officials along the border, end once a month also it was the delight of the Albanians to lie in wait for the horse-drawn kola which carried the cash. And once when Serbian employees remained unpaid for weeks, the government finally appealed to us of the Quaker Relief mission to carry nine million paper diars from the railhead to.the Al- unhn mountains—a trip which in | case was entirely uneventful that the box of dinars lay pe historians go as far as to claim there is & language similarity . that although the Albanians hate ‘he TItalians, no great love is lost either. Their present alliance is one of convenience, and what every Al- banian must fear is the probability Even these are heav- | which you are traveling and get a | iven, and once given it means that | Irony of the present situation is ' hetween the Greeks and Albanians ! that Greece, if finally victorious, | | will carve out a slice of Albania for herself. Sentiment between the Greeks and | Albanians is similar to that between | the Albanians and Serbs. When the | writer finally took his departure from this part of the world, a fare- well dinner was given by the Serbian army commander and the Albanian | mayor, at which tribute was paid to the efforts of the Americans to bring peace and friendship to these rival | people. Toward the end of the eve- ' ning the Serbian commander and Nedjib Beg, the Albanian mayor, |had their arms about each other’s | necks in tribute to their undying | friendship. | Next morning, as our party mount- | ed its horses for the five-day ride | across the mountains to the Adri- | atic, word came that someone had shot Nedjib Beg. MERRY-GO-ROUND When arrangements were being nade for the Lothian funeral serv- ices, the entire diplomatic corps was invited. Only at the last minute did nyone remember that Germany and Ttaly were at war with England, at ~vhich point Dr. Hans Thomsen and Prince Colonna, the two Axis diplo- mats, were stricken from the list. « « . For its ultra-modern Army, the Quartermaster Corps actually is buy- | ing tomahawks. This is the proper catalogue term for a certain type of hatchet used in the Army. . . . Like carrying coals to Newcastle, the Army is sending refrigerators to Al- | aska. New Army quarters there will be equipped with electric refrigerat- ors, not to mention ice tongs. But the ice tongs are tiny—four inches | long—and made of nickel, obviously for highball cubes. . . Great Brit- ain, facing a shortage of milk, is buying condensed and . powdered milk in tremendous quantities from | ihe United States.” In the first ten months this year, we exported to Britain 71,000,000 pounds compared with only 274,000 pounds last year. (Copyright, 1840, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ———————— T * A shark caught off Florida in 1912 weighed 26,594 pounds. | ing, |is to cause a test of good neigh- 1940 DECEMBER 1940 | snn [ mox THUR| PRI [ SAT i | 1/2 9 [ 2526|27]28 _ P HAPPY BIRTHDAY - e s et o DECEMBER 30 Stella Bates F. D. Harrison Tom Fukuyama Margaret Fowler | F. T. Thompson L. J. Morris Katherine Delnney HOROSCOPE “The stars incline A but do not compel’ ' — TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31 Benefic aspects rule on this last |day of the year. It is a fortunate date for capitalists and for busi- between whom there is in the| a sign of clese cooperation new year. Heart and Home: Women are! ubject to good planetary influ- ences hem kindly tributes from friends,' nd pleasant social contacts. It is sn auspicious date for entertain- but the new year will not good fortune if welcomed crssive drinking of toasts and | night club celebrations.’ ign for the making of lutions which seems (5 ovromise that many reforms will be lasting. Business Affairs: Men of large ffairs are subject to the most ‘cmising direction of the stars. While labor is under adverse as- | pects which indicate strikes, there is a sign that old disputes will be atisfactorily settled in the new year. Theaters and other places of/ amusement will profit as crowds seek surcease from war fears in recreation. This day iis read promising for employees who seek promotion or added remuneration. National Issues: Solidarity of alms will distinguish the people| of the United States in the coming| year. The need of careful spend-| ing of billions will be constamly[ voiced by statesmen. Taxes and thr-’ cost of living will rise through the| winter and economies will be wise| for persons of all incomes, Mexico ring borly relations, but the Americans will continue to maintain unity nt, defense plans. International Affairs: Astrolo- gers are predicting an entires change in the government of Ger- many. The Nazis are to gain know- ledge regarding their actual condi-| tion as it becomes more and more| one of enslavement. Secret methods of transmitting facts will arouse public resentment and encourage | revolutionary uprisings which will cause much loss of life. Unrest and hunger will accent general discon- tent. In Hitler's horoscope Mars in conjunction with Uranus is an evil portent which may foreshadow the loss of his life. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of steady | | progress with unexpected bene- fits. Extreme care in correspondence | is advised. | Chuaren born on this day prob- ably will be artistic, Tasbidlous.‘ thoughtful and talented. Many| writers and musicians belong to this sign. (Copyright, 1940) §. Birch Dies On Sabbath | NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Stephen Birch, 68, Chairman of the Board of the Kennecott Copper Corpora- tion and Barden Copper Company, also President of the Alaska Steam- ship Company and Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, died Sunday. Birch was also a member of the Board of the Alaska Development and Mineral Company, a Diréctor of numerous railroads and the Utah Copper Company. Birch-was a native of New Yor.( City and resided at Mahwah, New | Jersey. —————- ' CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere appreciation to all our neighbors and friends for their kindness apd sympathy shown us in the loss of our dear husband, brother aud| son, | JOHN B. BERNHOFER Especially do we wish to thank/ the American Legion, Elks Lodge| and the Sisters of St. Ann’s Hos-| ful floral offerings. today which should bring: | LOOK and LEARN Y . cornox | pital; also all donors of the beauti- 20 YEARS AGO s emepire DECEMBER 30, 192) Professional Fraternal Socleties Pastineau Chanmel Directory Commissioner Newark L. Burton was to make a complete transfer of his office to the incoming United States Commissioner, H. B. LeFevre. After a trip to the States accompanied by Mrs. Burton, he was to return to Juneau to resume the practice of law. Livingstone Wernecke, engineer in charge of development work being done at Nizson's Fork in the Kuskokwim by the Alaska Treadwell Min- ing Company, was to leave on the Princess Mary. David Evans, of the Juneau Hardware Company, was to leave on the Princess Mary for a vacation trip to Vancouver and Victoria. s o | Miss Klcnda Olds, for two and a half years assistant in the office of U. S. Commissioner N. L. Burton, was to leave for Seattle on the Princess Mary where she was to spend several weeks visiting with rela- tives. After her trip south she was to return here to resume her duties | _ B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting brothers Drs. Kaser and F I‘eeburger welcome. H. E. SIM- DENTISTS MONS, Exalted Ruler; Blr agren Building M. H. SIDES, Secretary. PHONE 56 e MOUNT JUNKAU LODGE NO. 147 Sevond and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 pam RALPH B. MARTIN Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 in the office under Judge H. B. T. Fevre Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clark were to be southbound passengers on the| | o || R. F. Richardson, agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company ] in Alaska, was to leave on the Princess Mary to attend a convention of general agents at Quebec G. G. Bruce were to arrive on the Princess after The Rev. Bruce was pastor of the Northern The Rev. and Mrs. a vacation in the south. Light Presbyterian Church Weather: Highest, 33; lowest, 32; et v T e | e e 4 1! | Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon || e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It makes no difference to me nohow.” Say, “It makes no difference to me AT ALL (or IN THE | LEAST).” H OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fugitive. Pronounce fu-ji-tiv, U as in CUBE, hboth I's as in IT (first I unstressed), OFTEN MISSPELLED: Occur; cne R. OCccurred, occurring; two R's. | _ SYNONYMS: Banter (noun), badinage, raillery, ridicule. 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: EXTIRPATE; to pluck up by the stem or root. “It required considerable time to extirpate the weeds.” accent first syllable. g ' b i PHONE 136 | | ETTE ™ | [ eSS S { Q. Should a girl working in an office give or send her employer | | Jones's,evens Sho an inexpensive Christmas gift? LADIES'—MISSES’ TR o A. No. She should wish him a Merry Christmas as he or she is | READY-TO-WEAR . o leaving ihe office on Christmas Eve. In some cases, a Christmas greet--| + “eward Street Near Thim Post Office Substation ing card addressed to him and his wife is all right. 4 NOW LOCATED AT Q. Should a young man rise whe: girl, if another man stops at his table A. It isn’t necessary unless the other man is much older. Q. Is it all right for a guest to open conversation with another guest when there has been ‘no formal introduction? A. Yes, this is perfectly all right. eating in a public place with a; R I R S e 1. How much water does the body of the average man 1wengh111g| 150 pounds) contain? 2. Who wrote the song “Over There"? 3. What is the meaning of the Jewish term “Kosher”? 4. Which weighs the more, a one-cent coin or a humming bird"? 5. Of what is “Mauna Loe"” the name? ANSWERS: 1. About ten gallons. 2. George M. Cohan. 3. Clean, usually referring to food. 4. 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