The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1941, Page 4

VDdEl y Alaska PIRE lm\nv. M HFLEN TROY BEF R. L. BERNARD ident in the Past Office in Juneau Entered SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Dougls By mail, postage paid, at the fc One year, | 00 adva wil Office of ir paper New one mo Bubsc the Bu livery of ti Telephones Office; 602 Empire a branch of the Commerce Department. iy Burean left the Agriculture Department for tne| [N ]MONT Tt TWep Trwom] s sar | i president Commerce Department, The Lighthouse Service was| - 2 3 and Business Manaser perged with the Coast Guard i 6|7 8 9|10 s Second Class Matter. But the big change, which everyone expected o for $1.95 per month, | and Which most people in Alaska feared, was a 13(14|15|16(17 owing rates: . s | transter :r mn; Tryxrml{ls:-x-:nq 1:-:1;1 ?_grlc‘guure to ;n- 20|21(22(23|24 terier A tentative hrust in s direction was de- 'y will promptly noty | reated just before the reorganization powers were 27|28|29/30/31 anted, when the late Senator Key Pittman O e s Offt 4 others obtained an agreement from the Adminis tion that the Forest Service would not be shifted. In the message which accompanied his first re- PRESS titled to the use fo d to it or not other- | Aeronautics Authority became the Civil Aeronautics Board and turned from an independent agency into The Weather || and | 1941 .IANUARY 1941 HAPPY BIRTHDAY republic eren. local uews published | . ization plan to Congress, the President had|$ ™= temsessemsonoshomsiismmend ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER omething to say about the advisability of later, JANUARY 27 THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION transferring the Forest Service to Interior, where Anna Lee Houk GEORCE D | Newspaper Representa- | COnservation agencies were being grouped. But Mrs. Robert Stoft Sl g &“w ""w Sl Sl Portland. | yothing was said about it in a second and third Don Wilcox — recrganization plan which went through Congress M. Ernest Powers Y. g sl ey Glibert, A. Wellington, 1011 | o3¢, flying colors. Mr«;-{ E;’mlly“fi:lell e T ke S Now the President’s powers of reorganization i - | . S Jean Campbell have lapsed. The Forest 51-1'\1‘4\- cannot be trans- Eric A. Oslund ‘l(ln'll without a straight-out fight in Congress. It Joyce S. Talbeck |is unlikely that such a change will be sought in| __ EYES ON THE LEGISLATURE | [ these parlous times. Congress is too busy with the international situation, So is the President. We hope the plan to switch the Forest Sv-rvicp | has died altogether. The agency is doing very well | where it is, and Alaskans especially would have ‘qu&lms if it were to be gathered to Mr. Ickes’ bre&sl | right up against that hair shirt the Secretary sesms to wear. The Fog l)lflperflers (New York Times) Fog is «he dread of the navigator of a ship or }an airplane. Will the time ever come when he has Juneau is the focus of Territorial attention to- but to turn a handle and squirt some precipitating the Fifteenth Territorial 0 harness for a 60-day session For the first few days it will be largely a matter of getting organized ter manent officers and weeks it will be largely ed, learning what want in exchange for Alaska appropriation for the for the second month it will legislation being ground out few ys it will be madhouse, eeting hiring clerks; gentleman o Fo be he support witk bill bouncing between House and Senate :“)’n:l‘“’;:;V:‘l_’){ b ORASSLaIRtIon bel B eNROR IRt A TRoE gg(;(l. especially when there were clouds. Meteorolo- gists know that the pariicles must be hygroscopic. Tt is exciting to have a Legislature With Us|qpae js they must absorb water, Young Dr. H. G. once again. We don't envy any of Alaska's 16 Rep- goughton used solutions of sulphur chloride and resentatives and eight Senators their task for the managed to clear a lane 130 feet wide, 30 feet high next 60 day ‘hey will earn their money, and when and 1,500 feet long—a remarkable result. For him they go home they will reap mostly abuse no matter and other fog dispersers it must be said that they how earnestly they strive during their stay in are under no illusions about the magnitude of their vedo task. They know that they will be lucky if they| We wish luck to the 15th. We wish it a record, can clear a landing area large enough for an air- of productive, progressive legislation for this great |Plane g Perritory of ours which:we all love, no matte Long before the chemical and electrical methods o ditferas to, thcilental of dispersing fog were suggesteG experiments were made in England which showed that valley fogs Alaska is watching you, Legislators, and wishing P ! cannot survive a wind of only thirteen miles an you well hour. But the expense of generating even this gentle| breeze on a large scale is so huge that no one has| SAFE—FOR THE PRESENT bothered to blow fog away by fans even from an area only a quarter of a mile square. Whether 310 inn ¥ chemicals, glectrified sprays of water, heat, or fans| A date which is of some little importance t0'are used, the cost of the energy expending is dis- Alaskans passed quietly a week ago. It was January couraging. Some calculations made by Sir Napier 20, the day on which the President’s powers under Shaw show that to evaporate fog in only one cub the government reorganization bill expired. |meter of air demands the expenditure of five horse Given a year's authority to reorganize deral power-hours. As the scale of dispersion increases bureaus, with a two-thirds vote in both houses being the amounts of energy involved soon pass beyond| required to reject any specific plan, the President|the limits of control. To disperse fog over so vast made a number of changes which had a big effect |27 rea as the harbor of New York Is at present : hopeless, on Alaska. The Bureau of Fisher A the Commerce Department, the mission from the Agriculture Def twe reappeared the PFish anc in Mr. Icke: I Washingfon Merry- Go-Round \Continued from Page One) would have to be jacked up and production restricted, but demurred at appropriating more funds for parity loans. He argued that the vast defense expenditures would boost crop prices automatically. But this line of reasoning did not per- suade O'Neal. “Mr. President,” he said with a grin, “I'm telling you now that we're going to demand full parity from this Congress. Our convention in Baltimore approved the plan I have ! outlined to you and we won't rest intil we get it | UNITED ON BRITAIN | The tension subsided when the | President and O'Neal got to discu ing aid to Britain, The farm leader proudly related how the Farm Bu- veau convention had endorsed the of “all-out” aid (o the hilt st & peep of Opposi- tion,” O'Neal said. “I thought some might develop from delegates repre- senting parts of the country reputed to be isolationist, but it didn't.” Warmly thanking O'Nezl for his efforts in putting the resclution over, Roosevelt remarked that no one section of the country could be considered isolationist, since ch was dependent on the others in pre- serving national security. slowly, Legislature gets chemical solution into the air or turn loose and elec- tric charge and thus clear the way a few hundred vards ahead? Dr. Sverre Petterssen, meteorologist | of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds mpora: and per- 4 bt v out some hope, L0k, Lhb TSe 20w Visions of airports that will stand out in a A matter of getting acquaint-' . iqt Jike oases in a murky desert, of lanes cleared of | from the Third f University of urth, and so on; hard work, with and for the last 1 an appropriation and all the fog to make the passage of the Grand Banks safer than it is now, must yield to the cold facts. Long ago the English physicist Aitken showed that a drop of moisture—and fog is composed of droplets— can form aqnly around a particle of some kind. No particles, no clouds; and no clouds, no rain. Hence the efforts to make rain by scattering sand—generally electrified—from airplanes. The proceeding did no a peared from laska Game Com- : SRR ST it It's not a bad idea having our defense program PATLAT | o the run 1 former Dane and a former Lithuanian, 1 Wildlife Service They may compete to see who we can prepare against and nterior. The Civil the fastest, Hitler or Stalin, “Well, let's put it another way.|taking the United States Maritime Are you a Fifth Columnist?” Commissionership offered him while Boss, “What maen?” “That means,” was the grinning reply, “the fella that's the last to be called, that’s me.” I certainly am. does * Fifth Yes, suh.” Columnist’ he secretly tried to grab off the job of Interior Under Secretary Alvin J. Wirtz, two-fisted Texas New Deal- er, he got nowhere because wmz is so highly regarded by the Presi- dent that he is being considered for the chairmanship of the SEC when | that becomes vacant. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) DOUGLAS NEWS JOHN McWILLIAMS HAS ATTACK OF ILLNESS BRITISH BOTTLENECK The London announcement that Neville Butler, baldish counselor of the British Embassy, had been pro- moted to the rank of Minister, brought an unwonted gush of en- thusiasm from Washington officials. But it wasn't what it appeared to be. What was being hailed was not Butler’s advancement but the hope that it would mean his early de- parture to other fields. Like his namesake, the late Neville Cham- berlain, Butler does not sit well with Washington authorities A mincing career diplomat, he is as cold and stiff as ice and so epped in protocol that it takes him a ten-acre lot to turn around. Pri- vately, he is known as “Bottleneck,” and officials gnash their teeth when they have to do business with him. Butler’s dilly-dallying is blamed for blocking important negotiations; fone a plan under which Britain would have contracted for a five- year supply of United States fruits and canned goods in exchange for strategic raw materials such as rub- ber and tin, John McWilliams, 89-year-old pio- neer of Douglas who suffered a heart attack last Friday, is reported | slowly recovering at his home on Front Street. With ruggedness of the hills and valleys which he has s still years behind in aging that his year would seem to indicate. .- MISS LUNDELL RETURNS Miss Elsa Lundell was a passenger for her home here on the Mt. Mc- Kinley which arrived at an early hour this morning, concluding a va- cation and round trip from Fair- MERRY-GO-ROUND 4 There are insiders’ who will tell you privately that one reason for explored and prospected in for so many years, this venerable pioneer ' banks which took her as far south e e | HOROSCOPE' “The stars incline but do not compel” -—_— 3 TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 | Good and evil portents are dis- cerned in the hohoscope for today. The morning is favorable to buy- ing and selling, also to whatever is constructive or progressive. Heart and Home: Women are under mildly fortunate direction of the stars today. They may have, difficulties in securing household | service, for workers are under ad-| | verse sway, It is wise to push what- ever has connection with con- | tracts, advertising and writings of | all sorts. Girls should pursue their | studies and forget about romance.| Young men may woo under this configuration, but love is :-vau-‘ escent today. Business Affaiys: Adtivity in |many lines of manufacturing will be under unusual speed rules. The demand for trained mechanics will {be great. Women will prepare for new ventures as factory employees, also in certain technical profes- sions. Exports of shoes and cloth- ing will be needed sorely as war's destruction affects the brave | Britons. Canada will receive much |needed merchandise, although Do-! minion products are greatly in- | creased. { | National Issues: Discussion of the differency between liberal and ! radical views will be precipitated by | a college professor whose teachings| arouse protest. Danger of propa | ganda agents in many guises may cause unjust suspicion and unwise judgment. Women who disseminate Nazi ideas will gain influence in |clubs and even in churches. Youth |mg.muauuns will be employed in | the undermining of democracy International Affairs :Darkest hours are forecast for this time in Europe when there will be al- ternating hopes and fears in Eng-“ land. There will be urgent need for intensive efforts to aid their| brave people. Disruptive influences| ameng Nazis and Fascists will be ifortunate for the British Empire.| There is a sign of a decisive move | on the part of the United States which in the spring is to prove| the full value of friendship for the/ great nation. Peace gestures are forecast, but the war may be drawn {out for many months. | Persons whose birthdate it is| Ihave the augury of nerve strain and perplexities. They should curb‘ |impulse and avoid changes. Children born on this day prob-| ably will be impressionable and| imaginative. They may be easily in- fluenced and as they have great talents they should be carefully reared. i | (Copyright, 1941) by Mrs. Woods and they will then i travel south to spend mgst of ‘a six weeks' vacation at Presno, Cal. i - ———-— - 1 | THREE JUNEAU CAGE TEAMS WILL PLAY HERE TONIGHT | DeMolays versus the Eagles and Juneau Firemen vs. hte National Guardsmen is the line-up’ of a .doubleheader of basketball games scheduled to play in the Douglas High School gym this evening. The first game is to start at 7:30 as previously announced. Potential Labor Shorfage Acufe (Continued from wzge One) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1941, |operator and has not been ques- In Many Fields ;peed 1imit—55 m:ies an hour. Con-| 20 YEARS AGO 7% narrne e 3 JASUARY 27, 1921 | The sum of $159 was raised the previous night at the benefit show given at the Palace Theatre for the Eourpean Relief Council Fund for Starving Children, i R. W. J. Reed, Deputy Collector of Customs, in charge at Nome, who | had been stationed at the Juneau headquarters for two months, left on the | Princess Mary for California on a vacation. ! Thomas G. Baker arrived on the Princess Mary, visited in Juneau ‘with his sister, Mrs. Guy McNaughton, and left for the south on the | return trip of the steamer. Mrs, Minnie Haslam left on the Princess Mary for a vacation trip |to the south. | H. K. Carlisle, Special Agent, Field Service of the General Land Office, was to arrive in Juneau on the steamer City of Seattle after | spending several weeks in Pacific Coast cities on his first vacation in ceveral years. H. L. Faulkner, attorney of Juneau who went south several weeks previous on legal business, was to return home on the Admiral Watson. Mrs. H. W. Case and three children were to return to their home here after spending several months in Seattle. Weather: Highest, 29; lowest, 19; clear. L e e e T Daily Lessons in English %/ 1. corpon B e 3 ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He hollered for help.” Say, “He SHOUTED, CALLED, SCREAMED, YELLED.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Necessarily. Pronounce nes-e-ser-i-li, lall E's as in BET, both I's as in IT, and principal acent on FIRST syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Farther (more distant). Further in addi- [ tion). SYNONYMS: Belligerent, bellicose, quarrelsome, contentious, pugnac- ious 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: CHINOOK; a warm, moist, southwest wind of the coastal regions of Oregon and Washington. (Pronounce chi-nook, I as in IT, OO as in LOOK, accent last syllable.) i MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE Q. When a man and a woman enter church, which should precede? | A. If there is an usher, the woman should go first. If there is no usher, the man should precede and find the seats. Q. Is it preper to use “Hastily yours” or “Yours in haste” as the closing of a letter? A. No; this is extremely bad form. cluding a social note is “Sincerely yours,” or Q. When a friend calls on a convalescent, the package be opened at once? A. Yes. It would be ungracious opened. LOOK and LEAR The popular form for con- “Very sincerely yours.” and takes a gift, should to lay the package aside un- by A C. GORDON . - S 0 - sy 1. What is a collector of postage stamps called? 2. What was the title of the present King of England before he took the throne? 3. How old was Jesus when he began to teach? 4. What acid is found in lemons? 5. What country was the first to recognize the United States as an | independent republic? ANSWERS: A philatelist. Duke of York. According to St. Luke, about thirty years of age. Citric acid. France. BRSO Directory Drs. Kaser and_4 Freeburger DENTISTS Blr ngren Building PHONE 56 DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 ‘ Dr. A. W. Stewart +. | Dr. Judson Whittier ‘ CHIROPRACTUR Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5. 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 || Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 8 am. to 6 pm. [ S S — l ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collge of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground (The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sts. -—_ s JAMES C. COOPER Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Qeward Street Near Thira Q o T COOPER BUILDING —————— L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doors Is Worr s:u.txfledwcp\uwmm" L4 B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at § P. M. Visiting brothers welcome. H. E. SIM- MONS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. : VERGNE L. HOKE, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. GUY SMITH DRUGS PHONE 97—Free Delivery HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliseum "T<morrow’s Styles Today” Juneau’s Own Store —— "The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Post Office Substation NOW LOCATED AT | HARRY RACE | DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” “The Stere for Men™ SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. You'Tl Find Food Finer and 8ervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to0 8:00 by appoinment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Pranklin St. .Phone 177 there is any truth in the capital {rumor that James A. Farley is going to run for Governor of New York? M. J., Pittsburgh, Pa.— You do have to prove citizenship to ob- tain a radio operators license. There are about 100,000 operators in the country, including commercial and amateur operators, and the Fed- eral Communications Commission now is in the process of getting citizenship proof from them. If you know of an alien who is now an Card Party After - 0. E. S. Meeting A crad party for Eastern Star { members and their escorts will fol- low tomorrow night's business ses- sion at the Scottish Rite Temple. Starting at 8 o'clock, a special affiliation ceremony will be exem- plified in the Jodge room during the regular meeting. Mrs. Edward Sutton heads the card party committeee, with Mrs. N. Lester Troast in charge of re- freshments. tioned, it probably is only because they have not gotten around to him yet. t I PHONE 3774 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS S e - D s McNAMARA & WILDES Registered CIVIL ENGINEERS Designs, Surveys, Investigations VALENTINE BLDG. Room 3 Phone 672 —_— Archie B. Belis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Bookkeeping Tax Service i| Room 8, Valentine Butlding ! Phone 676 || Helene W. Albrech! PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 Juneau Melody House Music and Electric Appliances Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 FINE Watch and Jewelry Repatring at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET . H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING —_— % When fn Need of DIESEL OIL—STOVE OIL YOUR COAL CHOICE GENERAL HAULING STORAGE and CRATING CALL UB | Junean Transfer | Phone 48—Night Phome 481 BUY PROTECTION for Your Valuables SEE THE SHATTUCK AGENCY Office—New York Life _ 7 The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- aska newspaper. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising as Los Angeles. She expects to leave “We're getting lett of support | Harry necticut, Minnesota and Nebraska | COAL——WO00D Hopkins® “look-see” trip to S Wi Sl ety i eek by pl : . i fi:‘?;‘n all over the country.” he said. | London was to arm the Administra- | her position in F’;ifban?nisw lesume‘h“"“‘ Right Jimits 10 m.p.br, lower “They're coming in at the rate of | tion with a first-hand observer who han the day limits Gkt i 2 first-ha s Miss Phyllis Lundell, who accom- than the day ¢ more than 1,000 a day | could counter “negotiated peace” ar- panied E]Z;, south from here, re- A [ L“MBER T Gnocmms e guments since uncorked by e mained in Seattle for comlnu’ance} K. T. B, Rechester, N. Y.—The, SURPLUS—S$125.000 L/ CALL bassador Kennedy of her visit there talk that Postmaster General * Not all the tales around Defense | Attorney General Norman Littell i S Frank Walker would resign about headquarters are about bottlenecks | dynamic head of the lands division WOODS 2 the first of the year has com- : S ENROUTE SOUTH e firs 3 i COMMERCIAL AND and other brain-wracking problems. | has so streamlined his agency that W. H. Woods left for the south on | Pletely died down. Intimat now Cl A different one going the rounds is | it is handling the huge volume of | the Alaska. He expects to go first Say that Mr. Walker's original aver- SAVINGS ACCOUNTS about a job-hunter on a defense con- | deeds growing out of the defense > sion to Washington and the na- to Montana where he will be joined . struetion project and an application | program without a hitch, form he was required to fill out | Littell Before reorganized the division, it tional political scene has changed — ! considerably. There is an old say-| T e “”’ “:,;‘if:' o Cam: | documenis: now by sre et || DOUGLAS COLISEUM | |1m, 5t Sicen 1’ Washimsion: soun "SHORTY" he promptly answered, | through in less ti five days. s | " 3 [EE e i e Salurday—Sunday R . e WHITFIELD: First National Bank “Are you sure you know what that [ of the best in the New Deal " W did. ‘haps you up 'h 3 v means?” said the interv The | Although John Dempsey, lame-duck “ll “m‘fi‘l ‘York can recipro J U N E A U A s KA applicant insisted he did. New Mexico Congressman, delayed ..‘ mue ‘report by telling me u 1 IIIIIIIIIlIllllIIIIHIlIIIMIII|IIIIIIIIIIIImlllllllllIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII -