The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1941, Page 4

extend its authori Daily Alaska [Empire | Published e EMP| ttainable only by Second and Ma AELEN TROY BENDER R L BERNARD - - President dent and Business Manager There which now is a faces Entered 1n the Post Office in Juneau as Becond Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PAT) Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, |5 Utmost for Western Hemisphere defense and aid By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: to Britain One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, §1.25 B AR Y A Bubscribars will confer a favor if they will promptly notify 5 g < the Business Office of &ny failure or irregularity in the de- HI-YO GILBER livery of their papers Sl ik Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. g d Sbdantn — We know a horse that can get a job in Holly- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATE X i 5 The A(sou.:'v.ec Press is exc \I:E"e’n;?)::sw the use for | W00d when the war is over. His name is ()flbmtw HAPPY B'RTHDAY cepublication of sll news dispatches credited to it or not other- | und he lives in Coventry, eporte o Ne: wise credited In this paper and also the local news published | i e HOT S Y NeY herein. ! York Herald Tribune in a copyrighted dispatch. ..._.............-..—.—..‘ ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED T BE LARGER | Wien an incendiary bomb fell into his stall, setting THAN THAT OF ANY OTMHER PUBLICATION. }m to the straw, | the open door and National Newspaper Representa- . Los Angeles, Portland, |1t against the wall SRATTIF REPRFSENTATIVE—Gilbert A. Wellington, 1011 American B Ad1in | “protective custod, meeting of the Na | One by one the | This time it's we. | ways falls without REMOVE | ticians DEFENSE BARRIERS President Roosevelt Suspension by of the eight- . f [ Does that mean sobriety cau. four-fifths? | bour law for laborers and mechanics employed by —~ * the Government in constructing Army and Navy| i3 E | SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 bases on the Atlantic is a move which should be ex- P v 0gS J i tended into the realm of all defense construction (L “_eikm'\" This is not an important day in and industr | planetary direction. It is a propi- " (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tious time for seeking the solace The Washington dispatch telling of the executive | A fuller explanation of the Italian disaster in|of religion and the churches should order suspending the regulation mentions the “extra- Albania is contained in economic reports from the|penefit. Bad news regarding a ordinary emergency” which kes it necessary. Our|peninsula that in the communiques from the front|leader in national affairs is fore- entire defense effort confronts an extraordinary or the resignations of high Fascist leaders, When| cast. emergency today the home front is shaky there is not much incentive| Heart and Home: Under this The purpose of the eight-hour day and 40-hour to go out and slaughter a people who have done you| configuration there may be unrest| week is to extend employment to the millions our N0 harm. That is the psychology which pervades|and depression which affect al industrial plant not heen able to take care of the Fascist Iorc(fl‘s‘ but back of it are 18 years of | members of the family. Fears of in recent years. T is an admirable purpose, but governmental mismanagement which has brought|every sort .-,houm‘ be combated and it is one which we may very well have to abandon | t41Y little more than a superabundance of wars good cheer cultivated. “The best 3 the 16 S0 the e oF: e CRIAARAIRAR Italy has decreed drnsuc»pumshmem for all| time is now” has been recommend- “'7 farmers who do not turn their crops over to the|ed as a good sentence to keep in emergency of defending America and democracy government, Tt has cracked down on mine owners| mind. Neither the past nor the fu- American labor lead who do not want t0 whose output falls below expectations. Such action|ture should fix attention, for 1941 sacri any of their its and privileges to speed js necessary only because economic conditions have | js to bring plenty of work and un- up the rearmament program would do well to con- been growing increasingly stringent. though! a statement of the attitude of In addition to being a military ally, Italy was| Business Affairs: Building will be British labor toward the war, as expressed by Harold expected to supply Germany with large quantmes! widespread in the States where op- J. Laski, professor of political science at the London |Of foodstuffs. It has faflen down on this assignment. | erations are not hampered by ses cheol of who for years has been an in- Italy has therefore accepted German help in the|vere winter weather. Heads of] fluential spokesman of the British Labor party form of experts and officials. These people have|families will secure homes, even at Though British labor distruste Chamberlain already overrun Italy since the Axis was formed andjadvanced costs, if they are fag~ e To. anter) tha - Clismberiotn caRiaBE. 6] oL of them are likely to antagonize the ILahan.sl,poinq, Construction of factories and TG R Ry * i even more. Already they have tightened their rations | extensive plants will stimulate orted ‘the war, Prof. Laski because 1t rec-1y, cupply an unloved ally. There is a severe shortage | growth in interior citics. Training % ‘d in Hitler the worst enemy the working class| or cereals, coffee, sugar and olive oil. “m_ highly technical trades will be has known in modern times Whatever is done in squeezing foodstuffs out of | imperative and will be introduced Not cooperating as a full partner in the Churchill| 1taly will have little effect on Italian industry Whlch‘lin many schools and colleges. government, and recognizng that the successful out- |is feeling the pinch in raw materlals because of the| National Issues; While national come of the war depends upon production, which in |British blockade. Diplomatic reports to United Slale.si defense cause: concentration of turn depends on the trade unions, the British Labor | Department of Agriculture disclose that there is|many activities in Washington, party has agreed to everything that will intensify almost a total depletion of cotton, that rubber is|D. C, there will be efforts in vari- production All re ations hich hinder productive | @lmost exhausted and jute and wool supplies soon | ous states to assure individual effort and even the right to strike have been sus-|Will be prosperity through the development pended for the duration of the war Without these essentials no nation can long con- | of special resources and industries In temporarily relinquishing some of its rights duct a large-scale military operation. Switching {\grlculturc will engage attention Sed orivil Jirothe ko Al i e g B | generals and admirals will not bring improvement. |in places where it has been nege IR NS St SALS ) & SORDIDL. TeaNt, | It does, however, help to divert attention for a time |lected and in the West splendid ish labor has not lost sight of its ultimate 0bjectives| gom the regime's shortcomings, But the Italian |success will be gained in the cultis which, as stated by Prof. Laski, are a new social people have had this experience before. After each |vation of long-neglected lands. order in Britain 1o replace a system based on an | war conditions in Italy get worse. Il Duce may now | International Affairs: The eon- unequal and privileged society, and a new interna- | he crying “Wolf” for the last time, Jjunction of Jupiter and Saturn next s 3 e e e e e o e month is read as presaging the Wi hifl 'on Federal Security Administrator citizen for the first time in more | Sudden ending of war and should ashing McNutt, recently made defense than 30 years. The Japanese- | herald the advent of peace by 1943 ‘4 " health coordinator, did a little snip- American Review, leading Japanese | Since the planet Pluto has power l1e Y' ing at McReynolds by calling the propoganda organ, strongly endorses|in the second World War, world GO'Round | 2iesident’s attention to the fact that | Mrs. Lindbergh's latest book as a|Progress is stimulated. As the great | the Defense Commission does not | penetrating exposition of the “forc- | democracies are determined that |have a chairman to preside at its|es of the future’. .. Every time Sol- | the changed order shall not be ac- Continued from Page Oue) | meetings, McReynolds has served as | icitor General Francis Biddle walks | cording to the plan of Hitler, b 5 = —— | presiding cfficer—a fact well known up the corridor on the fifth floor o: | there will be intense conflict with meon and Knox and their assis-|t® Rocsavelt. the Justice Department to confer| the aim of a permanent peace. Five “ son and Forrestal, | But he gave no indication of this | with Attorney General Jackson, he | years of struggle before camplet.e‘ d this formula. They when he replied smilingly to Me- passes the picture of a famous an- | overcoming of evil forces has been a supreme council of Stim- Nutt: “That’s simple, Paul. At your cestor. Biddle is a direct descen-|forecast, but many astrologers do cn, Knox and Knudsen to run the next meeting, why don't you elect a dant of Edmund Randolph, first|not agree with this. : chairman? That will solve the prob- Attorney General of the United|{ Persons whose birthdate it "is lem.” States. have the augury of a year of ups \iso bapk_(; this military scheme and | McReynolds, sitting next to Mec- (Copyright, 1940, by United Fea- and downs with good fortune pre- Rocsevelt agreed to it th one ad- | <utt, said nothing | ture Syndicate, Inc. dominating. Letters should be writ- diticn. He added Labor in the per- - P ten cautiously. sen of Defense Commissioner Sidney ROOSEVELT CALLERS of sight on the President's k is a row of buttons. One lights signal in the outer office | h means, “Don’t disturb. I'm w0t finished with this caller.” An- lights a little red light that Rush, get rid of this one.” | v, when all of the defense ; assembled with him last week, Rocsevelt talked for an hour ex- plaining the new set-up. He stressed two points: one, that labor is insep- arable from management as a key factor in the defense program. Two, neans, This signal system was being ex- British labor r co that England can crush the Nazi menace, lesson ‘Then he put out the fire in his tail by rubbing R . BEHIND HITLER'S LINES ! Antan ¥ Ko | a7 [ Paul K. Lucas Associated Press dispatches from Basel, Switzer-| T 5 |land, report that three Alsatians were taken into JANVARY | |taken into “acute custody” (apparently - tougher) Ada M. Anderson for posting public buildings with anti-German Carl W. Vogt placards, John Homme § FATAL SOBRIETY - The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statis- soy this is all wrong, that intoxication causes | one-fifth of all the WORK CUT OUT major problems which are likely to be considered by the new Con- ty by aggression, ecognizes that these objectives are devoting every effort to production | this for American its ability in a test of labor, | to contribute JANUARY ¢ Jane Alexander Nellie Miller Guy F. Scott Howard Beazley Louis Kann Gilbert kicked the bomb through stamped out the burning straw. rbar " for trying to break up a publi Batnarq LA zi party and that two others wer Mona Everetts Eleanor Gruber Diana Ayres R HOROSCOPF “The stars incline but do not compel” e old legends are torpedoed. the cne that a drunken man ul-‘ hurting himself | fatal falls in the United States. Children born on this day prob- ably will be original in ideas, bril-| | liant in mind and strong in char- acter. They may be restless and difficult to direct, but deserve the wbeqt possible care and education. Th"\ MONDAY, JANUARY 6 This is a day dominated by benef- FOR CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 4 tional order that will end the power of any state to thet even if he had wanted to, he| uopeq 'ty an old friend of Roose- | 8Tess at the present session are as|\C 8spects and most fortunate for could not ur he Constitution | © 7 g women. Theaters, concerts and S ; velts, who was waiting to see him, | follows: | ¥ axbasnrs ¢l vest control of the defe machin-| oo the red light bezan to flick-| 1.—Upward revision of tax laws other forms of entertainmen “Y‘F:“xu single ;n;h';x)(lu.nl\‘ ek | er" frantically. with another increase in 1ndivldu_xl"f‘:’°‘::‘m profit under this configura- g B R e o “All right, hurry on in,” the friend income taxes probable. it ’ . s i e A {old. ~The President has a bore 2—Further ald to Great Britain,| Heart and i up te Hyde Park “Jl- FQULE i 4 a4l Jobory pranbles .in idelempe. in for 'ounf) and old. Romance should law dosen't allow the| As the friend opened the inner | dustries. ‘flruiish éIL s by weddlnAg e appointment of an assistant presi- door he saw standing before the 4.—Further appropriations for de- rJomisn; harmony and congenlul: dent President's desk Adolf Berle, dimin- | fense. fi m gm AR T gt The defense chiefs listened silent- | UiV _Assistant Secrelary of State,| S5—Efforts to reduce relief expen-; ¥ ration of food should engage ly to the explanation. When he fin- sipiing: Mphseldent if Lol 10 view 0 ‘heavy Dgtonse p::{mu?) for nutrition as well as S Sonsivatt’ b to Ruids 1 will only give me my head I can | costs. i "-w‘;] STt Dok fratn sen and Well; BiI, what do| Y2 Hhe cARIAISES Syslent R NS R P A e g o you think of it ‘h(‘)“lu IBT::: l:;'::":‘h;;z‘“g:fill,‘: }‘h;::]"l HL?e wutv.ghcd, because intes- 1t e e ety eI U e o e vort| CAMOUTIAgGR Used; i innuenia ey v prevatent | ply. the boss and Whatever| o, “put his chances of doing st 2 T | Business Affairs: Continued pros- you say with me. You mame| = % S 0 e mooh (" S“ d perity is indicated as government db’and T'll try my best (o do it : g | 'lens en(e contracts increase the volume Of MERRY-GO-ROUND | money in circulation. Ine; e of DULALR-A-YEAR MEN Remarked brilian young Ed Pri- | PALM SPRINGS, Calif.. Jan. 4— wages for trained mechanics is Roosevell put the same question | chard, Justice Department attorney | It is a big, utilitarian gas tank that forecast. Building matl will he to the otk present and received |and former secretary of Justice|a company erected to serve this more costly, but that fact should simils ances. Then, as the Frankfurter, of a certain well- [swanky resort, but the people didn’t not discourage home oviuership. meeting bro up, remarked, with known official, “He has the Midas |like its looks. Protest went on for Pleas for aid will spur Americans unmistakable intent, that in the fu- | touch E,u ything he touches turns | three years. to increase their generous coniri- ture all dollar-a-year-mgn appoint- | to bra Long absent Vice| Now, under the direction of Frank butions to war victims of all na- ments were 1o be submitted to him President Jack Garner made his last ‘Mn{lw', who learned his art during tions, Novel experiments in eco- for advance approval cfici return to Washington nx:Hhr World War, the “big pill" has nomics will' awaken interest, also Several comij hav ome to J I the day before the new been painted in mottled browns, criticism. the White House certain | Congre<s convened. Garner will pre- tans and purples to blend with the| National Issues: Criticism of na- business men whom MeReynolds ha de over the session until 12 o'clock | desert landscape. mmul policies will arouse anxiety permitted to be put in key positions | heon, January 20, when Vice Presi- | —_—————————— among thinking citizens. Subtle as on the Defense Cemmission staff, | ~elect Wallace will succeed him | The Dally Alaska Empire las the well as outspoken objection to cluse Rocsevelt appears determined fo ! Al farewells, Gammer will retwrn|largest paid. circulation of any Al- relations with the British stop home un Uvalde, a privatc Jz.uk:l newspaper, Empire ‘wnll spread as secret enemies ln- 1941. 20 YEARS AGO 7% empire JANUARY 4, 1921 The sixth, seventh and eighth grades of all schools in Alaska outside of incorporated towns. were to receive a supply of hooks on “rubber, [ The books were issued by the United States Rubber Company and were securcd free by L. D. Henderson, Territorial Commissioner of Education, The shrimp cannery project at Wrangell was to be a reality, accord- ing to a cablegram received by Mayor Grant of Wrangell from Tom Heckman T. M. Hunt, Special Agent of the United States Land Office, was to leave on the Estebeth on an official visit to Sitka. He was then to go to Wrangell and Petersburg. The Juneau Commercial Association Club was to meet at the Alaska Grill with W. George Johnson presiding in the absence of President Allen Shattuck. Dr. L. P. Dawes returned from a professional business trip to Wran- gell and Petersburg on the Princ: The Juneau mosquito fleet, tied up at the city float, presented the appearance of being frozen in for the winter. The cold weather and the absence of wind caused quite a crust of ice to form near the shore of the Channel and the small boats were in the thick of it. Theo Brakke was a passenger for Tenakee for a vacation at the | springs there. clear. Weather: Highest, 14; lowest, 13 1 . e e e e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon ot gt WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He was very mad about the loss of the papers.” “He was very ANGRY.” MAD means insane. SPRONOUNCED: Espionage (practice of spying). Pronounce CFTEN MIS es-pi-o-nije, E as in LESS, both I's as in IT, O as in OBEY, accent R Sa, | first syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Radiance; ANCE. Audience; ENCE. SYNONYMS: Charitable, liberal; generous, unselfish, altruistic. 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: INTIMIDATE; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats “Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave degrades the great.”—Johnson. )....‘..._._ s 2 - ) S . 49 ! MODERN E“OUETTE i ROBERTA LEE | salary is on asks you how old you are, or what your '_D?Khser and Freeburger DENTISTS Ble wren Building | PHONE 56 ! rus | | Sl W Dr. A. W. 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Not unless the dog was also invited. e e et S S o8 lLOOK and lEARNA C. GORDON 1. What is the most valuable form of carkon? 2. What two signers of the Declaration of Independence became Presidents of the United States? 3. What young animal's father is called a bull, and he a pup? 4. What is a jinrickisha? 5. How much of the earth’s surface does the Atlantic Ocean cover? ANSWERS: later his mother a cow, 1. The diamond. 2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 4. Seal. 4. A small two-wheeled hooded Oriental vehicle drawn by a man or men. 5 More than one-fifth. o G e e - 2 e Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING r Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” " DR H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination | free. Yours 10 t0 12; 1 to §; 7 w 8:00 by appoinment. } Gastinean Hotel Anrex ! South Pranklin St. .Phone 177 | b S * ampE e e S e | McNAMARA & WILDES T Registered Cluence our so-called intelligentsia. forms. The winter in Europe will i are read as presaging take on added horrors, as disease clvll‘ ENGINBBRS | ive need of fullest sup- SPreads among helpless war victims. Designs, Surveys, Investigations Persons whose birthdate port to the sorely besieged Eng H,h‘ it s capital and other parts of the Em-|have the augury of a year of im- VALENTINE BLDG. pire. proved prospects and general ad- 13 Room 3 Phone 672 y | s —_——— International Affairs: Changes l‘)‘:{’)‘fif’fl:fi:‘ Property will prove in the Soviet Government are fore- p £ f i 45 & Children born on this day may l f,f;;cfl’;f ;i:;i: Ei_’;mbfh(‘““xg‘_’i:[be exceedingly intellectual. Phil- Archie B. Beits Ruessing about his ultimate pla ‘s;fg{‘e":n‘;"dwr'j::f‘“;:;o:j i PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT The stars warn that the Russian jo ®) a i 5 Rookkeeping Tax Service dictator is to be more feared in "6 o0 { Room 8, Valentine Buflding the future than Hitler. 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