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

Daily Alaska Empire Published every excent Sunday by the EM NG COMPANY Seconc ets, Juneau, Alaska, RELEN TROY BENDER President R. L. BERNARD 5 Vice-President and Business Manager t Office ss Matter. SUBSCRIPT a and Douslas for $1.25 per month. Entered in Dellvered by carrier in June stage P es in advance, $6.00; $1.25, Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of uny failure or irrevularity in the de livery of paper nes: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use fot | i ll news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise cred 1 this puper o o the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION CE D. CLOSE, I | Newspaper Representa in_Sar Los Angeles, Portland New York REPRESENTATIVE 1t A, Wellington, 1011 | k Building CHANCE TO HELP Defense Chief William with the thought in mind of mobilizing for national defense| the Nation's entire productive capacity, is asking for | nation-wide cooperation in a comprehensive census ‘ of plant space and equipment available for pro-| duction, While Alaska has very little if anything to offer in this respect, it would be well for all of us, even| these of us so far from the center of the defense effort, to give a thought to what we can do to help. Obv the information sought is essential to i defense planning from this time forth. It is| unhappy commentary on the cumbersomeness of Nation's operations at it sets out seven full the defense program was undertaken to ertain the facts of plant space and equipment aveilable for the production of defense materials. The information to be assembled this week will provide the answer, in large part at least, to the qu of the extent to which.we may safely rely for defense production on existing capacity, and the extent to which additional capacity, particularly in bottle-neck industries, will have to be provided We hope that the results of the census will bear S. Knudsen, iously this months after out the judgment of leaders in major industrial States that e margin of capacity either is available for defense production or can be made| availahle by switching from non-essential to defense | materials, At a time when skilled labor is so im- perauvely demanded for direct defense production, | and when steps are be taken to direct essential! raw materials into defense industries, it is a matter | of the grea import that plant capacity expanded only absolutely necessary. For has been raging as to the ability of the 1 industry to meet at the same time the requirements of defense and of otk consumers as well. A finding by what purports to be a committee of experts holds that the capacity for steel production needs to be by from 8- 000,000 to 10,000,000 tons The data to be assembled this w ty in all defense industries will probably throw some be 106 where m weeks a controve stec . increased as to capaci- light on this question. In any event, it should be borne in mind that such an expansion of steel capacity would involve money expenditures of close t a billion, would greatly increase the demand for | many materials, steel among them, and aiso ior skilled workmen “desperately needed on true national defense projects.” The industrial inventory to be taken this week | H % and I want to see Washinglon 8 [ Lo Merry- | there more effectively, | try’s richest provinces would scarcely be palatable to | Moreover, | has the COUNCIL FOR AMERICA promises to be helpful not only in bringing fo light | supsiantial unused industrial capacity, but in making it agparent to hundreds and possibly thousands of plants and corporations that they have both an op- portunity and an obligation to contribute to the suc- | cess of the defense program. Wherever indus: 1 leaders have met in recent weeks the thougat has who are still proceeding | if the way been expressed that many, with business as usual, would be happy were opened to them to do their bits. Many who are patriotic, even militant, are eager o get into defense production. With many profits would gladly be subordinated to duty if advice were forthcoming as to how to proceed and with what. Local activity of this kind is a most nhopeful ign. Through such efforts to cooperate, the right psychological basis for industrigl mobilization will be | | FEBRUARY 4 created, and once we have m»a.t there need no .lnngc-r J. F. Mullen i be doubt of the nation’s ability to provide defense Semuel H. Baks i materials in great quantity. Mrs, Helen Erskine Without the desired information as to plant Mrs. H. B. Crewson and equipment, the defense organization must con- William H. Bergstrand tinue to operate in the dark and to guess, instead Bob Thibodeau of proceeding with industrial mobilization on the Bruce Norman basis of vmn]:lulu information. Martha Jacobs (hme«- Pmnh-m (New York Times) A united China, her internal factions postponing | their differences and standing together in a mighty 2ffort to drive out the Japanese invader, has achieved such marvels of resistance that reports of a breach| control, arguing that it could fight The Fourth Route Army de- manded an immediate national “convention with a view to broadening the basis of government, Under ordinary conditions both demands might have been granted. The suspicion attaching to all Communist maneuvering, both in and out of China, seems (o have been responsible for their rejection. In the present disorganized state of Chinese communications the Communists near at hand could have controlled he proposed convention and packed it to their lik- ing before the Kuomintang delegates could arrive. As to the Yangtze, a Chinese victory which wouli leave Communist forces in possession of the coun- |under Japanese the government unless it were first assured that those forces put loyalty to China ahead of adherence to Moscow. Chiang Kai-shek has no wish to ex- change Japanese domination for control of Russia a Russo-Japanese deal is still among the possibilities with which he has to reckon. Thus in the East as in the West the shadow of Stalin dims the prospects of defeating the aggressor. He-Man Alaskan Undertaking (Fairbanks News-Miner ) Ed Borders, husky young Alaskan, piunging into the trackless wilderness yesterday to negotiate the 1,200 to 1,300-mile route from Fairbanks to Hazelton on skis is away on a real he-man adventure. With only what food he can carry on his back, a light sleeping robe and a rifle, he is voluntarily facing a test that only the stout of heart would ever undertake. Knowing the game and made of the stuff which is required in every great exploit—needing physical and mental superiority, Borders challenges the natu- ral barriers of the Northland with confit.ence. News of his extraordinary undertaking has gone humming over the wires and through the air through- out America, If he succeeds—of which he and those who know him little doubt—he will have done much to demonstrate what man can accomplish when he will to do and buckles to the task, and es: pecially will he concentrate attention on the pos: bilities of development of skiing as a part of the defel and exploitation of the Northland. The eyes of the world may be said to be on young Borders. May good fortune attend him and he be privileged to exclaim at the finish “Excelsior—" that men may point with pride in days to come to the high mark set in one of the pluckiest ventures in lhv annals 01 the North. tive Carl Durham of North Carolina is one of the top golfers in Con- -~ gress. He consistently shoots in the lows 70' . Tobacco-chewing Sen- ator Bill Bulow of South Dakota, him. Where is .| those Go-Round e (Continued from Page Oune) ‘; o i == favor an aggressive policy toward Japan now. They argue that this would be the surest means not only | of helping the British, but also of polishing off an almost certain en- emy at a time when the Atlantic still is protected NOTE: Naval reports indicate ihat the Japanese are shying away from | the idea of invading the Dutch East Indies, despite Nazi urging. One | deterrent has been the strong de- | fenses of the Dutch. Another has been significant U. S. naval moves, particularly storing a large supply of torpedo tubes in Hongkong, keep- ing a large flotilla of submarines at Manila, and concentrating the fleet at Hawaii instead of California YOUNG SQUIRT | There was a lot of gay reminiscing | at the gathering of the Roosevelt | clan for the inaugural ceremonies, and one of the best stories was told by handsome Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who did his first solo campaign- ing last year and is very proud of it. During the 1936 contest, he re- leted, while accompanying his father on his Western electioneering tour, it was young Franklin's particular job to appear on back platform to greet the crowds thal assembled at small town stops late at night in the hope of seeing the President One night Franklin was routed out of bed to say a few words 10 a gath- ering of farms and ra at an isolated Montana way stop. Bundled iil his bathrobe, he was in the midst of a polite ression of regret that his father was unable (o appear when an elderly woman, ting in a horse-drawn buggy, piped up in a loud voice: “Say, who is lhal young squirt up there? I rode 38 miles to sec the President of the United Slates A new organization to be known as the Council for America will soon | be launthed to rally public senti- ment behind the President’s foreign | and defense policies. Leaders of the movement are | prominent liberals whose aim is to bring together labor, farmer, literary and similar groups into a militant organization to oppose the activities of the America First Committee and other isolationist units. The Council | for America will not be a rival of the Committee for the Defense of America by Aiding the Allies, hut | will work along similar lines through elements not reached by it. The plan is to launch the new organization publicly on Lincoln’s birthday with a national broadecast by Mayor LgGuardia in Kansas City, | or some other Midwest metropolis. Among those interested in the new movement is Mrs. Dwight Mor- row, mother-in-law of Colonel Charles Lindbergh CRACKI PEACE FRONT Meanwhile, of the strongly International League for Peace and Freedom is cracking. Miss Emily Balch, one of the re- vered founders of the organization, has tendered her resignation from the executive board because she dis- approves of the anti-British aid stand of Miss Dorothy Detzer, sec- retary of the league and one of the most effective lobbyists in Wash- ington. Miss Balch strongly favors “all-out” aid to Britain. Miss Balch is not the only league leader who is up in arms over Miss Detzer's views and her undercover brain-trusting of the Washingwon isolationists. Eastern, Southern and Far Western branches also have voiced sharp opposition, and the in- side word is that a showdown on foreign policy will soon be forced within the organization. DER THE DOME curly-haired Representa- Lanky, the isolationist front | pacifistic Women's who sports the biggest hats on Capi- tol Hill, also has the largest col- |lection of them. He has an even dozen super-size cowboy chapeaux. . . Young Representative Lyle Bor- en of Oklahoma claims the title of | “fastest reader in Congress.” He can finish an ordinary book in a couple of hours, frequently goes through three in a night. . . . Representative Jim Scrugham of Nevada has had a bird’s eye view of an earthquake in action and has the evidence to prove it. In his office hangs a picture he took in 1929, when, as a newspaper man, he flew over the Sierra Nevada mountains and snapped a quake just as it opened a huge fissure in the mountains below. . . . Tax experts rate Representative Richard M. | Duncan of Missouri the best inform- led authority on business taxes on the House Ways and Means Com- }mmee. which originates all revenue | legislation. | (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) - [HELP AN | | ALASKAN | | i | ‘Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service i for this qualified worker. LABORER—Young man, age 20, high school education. Experienced on construction work, also served apprenticeship as plasterer and ce- ment finisher. Call for ES 253. - e — CAN TLL CUT WOOD Charles A. Anderson, woodchopper who has lived in the Livengood Dis- trict since 1917, is in St. Joseph's Hospital in Fairbanks, rejoicing be- of his hands which were frozen when {he removed his gloves in 30 below | weather to fix a broken web in one of his snowshoes. cause quick treatment saved the loss| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 1941. 1941 FEBRUARY 1941 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Axel Nielson — s HOROSCOPE *“The stars incline k } father, In Juneau S. between Chiang Kai-shek’s government and two| ! but do not compel” Communist armies hitherto supporting it can only | be regarded as deplorable, if true. e +, The quarrel turns upon two Communist de- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 mands, The Eighth Route Army asked to be trans- |ferred from its present field of operations in the| Benefic aspects rule strongly to- impoverished northwestern provinces to the richer|day. After the early morning hou ‘land more populous Yangtze Valley, now largely it is well to push whatever is im- portant. Both women and men are well directed by the stars todnyi which should be marked by Bd- vancement and success. Heart and Home: Women me: under the most promising sway today which should be fortunate Weather: 20 YEARS AGO s s s s e - The pri from THE EMPIRE FPBRUARY 4, 1921 was returning on the Spokane. the first games of the Inter-City Bowling Tournament, incipal place of business was given as Seattle, P. Raymond, siting. Highest, 31; lowest, 30; snow. Attorney V. A. Paine had opcned his offices in the First National Bank Building, moving from his old location in the Valentine Block. Mrs. J. F. Holder and Miss Miriam Holder, wife and daughter of J. F. Holder of the U. S. Naval Radio force in Juneau, were coming on the Spokane and were to take up their residence here. | salem, Oregon. They were from Gus Nelson and Gus McMissal left for Tenakee to spend a vacation lat the hot springs there. Mrs. L. L. Harding, who went south to attend the wedding of her Thane defeated the Brunswick 2373 pins to 2276 and the Elks won from the Treadwell team by a total of 2432 to 2266, Articles of incorporation of the Northwestern Pulp and Paper Com- pany were filed in the office of the Territorial Secretary. were Russell H. White, James W. Ferguson and James Keifer of Seattle. with offices in Incorporators former carpenter for the Alaska Pulp and Papey Company at Speel River, was in the city visiting his family: Douglas Mead, Superintendent of Construction for the Alaska Pulp | {and Paper Company, arrived here on the Alecto, and w. | days vi spending a few Daily Lessons in Englis WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, by for both love affairs and business|gay “I was RAVENOUS,” as RAVENOUS means eager for food. interests. It is a "lucky date: for seeking positions. Girls may ex- pect the evolution of romance while | this configuration prevails. It l"l a day when charms register upon the masculine mind which is su. ceptible under this rule of ti ors today. Business Affairs: who direct investments are| subject to the best influences to- day which encourages the develop- ment of large projects. This should be a fortunate date for promoters and inventors who desire to inter- est financiers. Prosperity will loosen many purse strings this month. Mines and mining are to be of major concern in the spring and summer when there will be a general interest in de- veloping natural resources and working toward economic indepen-'| dence. | National Issues: Perils from fifth/ columr s and those who enhjoy the blessings of democracy while they nourish disloyalty will be seri- ous at this time. New methods of organizing subversive forces are proving increasingly successful. In Washington, D. C. secret agents of enemy powers will be extremely | active, despite government safe- guards. Men and women in hlghJ places will be affected by propa- ganda presented in clever disguises. A newspaper correspondent willun-| cover amazing treachery. ~ International Affairs: Many as- trologers declare that the totali- tarian leaders have reached the peak of their power. However, the| stars indicate that the climax of| the secomd World War will not| be reached before 1943. It is be- lieved by the seers that we are ul-‘ ready involved in the terrible strug-| gle which actually has, as part of the dictators’ plans, the United States as a final goal. Our thor-| ough preparedness will prevent all major ambitions of our enemies| from being realized. Persons whose birthdate it, .is have the augury of a year bl happiness and success. For .the| are indicated. Children born on this day will| be resolute in character, energeucl and successful. They will prob- ably be fond of beauty and able 10 win success in artistic pursuits. - | (Copyright, 1941) > - MEN WHO ARM AMERICA: 7 SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON Henry Lewis Stimson, at 73, is the oldest member and outstand- |ing “blueblood” of the defense “hig | four.” Has degrees from Yale and Har- vard. Served as President Taft's war secrétary 30 years ago. Also wag Governor of the Philippines and Hoover’s Secretary of State. Foresaw the Japanese invasion Ithrllb'- at Japan of China and took a diplomatic OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Satirical. | A’s as in AT unstressed, both I's as in IT, accent second syllable. Pronounce sa-ti OFTEN MISSPELLED: Haggard; two G’s and ARD. SYNONYMS: Visualize, envisage, objectify, picture mentally. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours. increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. lack of normal co-ordination of parts, especially inability to jlikely to be most determined suit-|co-ordinate voluntary muscular movements. (Accent follows the X). stars. Young men in the Navy are, ATAXIA; Capitalists and | eseemeemoemo MODERN ETIQUETTE ~kal, W L. GORDON e e “I was ravenously hungry.” both Let us Today’s word: by ROBERTA LEE o e e e e ey Q. Hew much space should be left as the left-hand margin of a letter, and how far from the top edge of the paper should the letter begin? Leave about shree-quarters of an inch margin at Q. A. coming hegin the letter about two inches from the top. What is considered the best form of ex The ring should be engraved avin with the date the bride and the bridegroom. Q. A. D e T PS—— LOOK and LEAR 1 2. By what process is an accused person surrendered to the justice | of anotl What is the difference between a lunch and juncheon? None. Lunch is the informal abbreviation of luncheon. by A C. What is a palindrome? her government? the left, and | 3 the wedding ring? nd the initials of GORDON e s ] 3. 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