The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneuu Alas| RELEN TROY BENDEI R. L. BERNARD -~ - President Vice-Prestd m nnd Business Manager Jtered in the Post Office in Juneau as Seccnd Class Matter. g SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier s Jnncat and Douglas for 125 per month. By mafl, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $0.00% in advance, §1.25. bt bes i1l confer a favor if they will promptly not:%y the “h\tu( '] of any fallure or Uregularity & Jae de livery of thelr papecs Telephones: News Utfics, 603, Bastaess Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASS(CIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use foi republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other« wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. “"TALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. 3 _GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Represent tives, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, BQM(IL‘ Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE—Gflbert A, Wellington, 1011 American Bank Building. NEXT, THE BALKANS Greece will not become a second Norway nor will Salonika be another Dunkerque if British diplo- macy and fighting power can prevent it. A dupli- cation of those disasters in southeastern Europe, while it would not lose the war, would be a terrible handicap to ultimate Allied victory. In the battle for control of the Balkans, the. Near East, northern Africa and the eastern Mediter~ ranean diplomacy plays quite as important a part as ry strategy. In fact the Nazis have made more congquests through the conference room than by the shifting of troops. B : | To counter these moves and to bolster Britain’s|of getting down an expeditionary force, at shorv.\buL - ‘THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, several v.eek.s ago, the Yux._,oslav Army is not pleased with the arrangement. A British suggestion of co- operation to oppose the invaders would find power- ful support in that country. If diplomacy is successful in bringing about some measure of 1lth-hour unity in the Balkans there still remains fhe necessity of backing it with guns and men. The chief question is equipment. The Balkans have the men—and good fighting men they are. Britain can get the equipment to them if the United States ships it to England. Here is where the delays encountered in Congress may have a direct result on the outcome of this important struggle in the eastern Mediterranean, Remembering that the® Nazis fear the creation of a second front in Europe above every other pos- le war development, the British are striving des- perately to maintain it now that it has been opened by the Greeks, To lose it would mean to write off the Greek campaign and the victories in Africa as vain. It might even endanger. Britain’s whole posi- tion in the Mediterranean and open up great re- sources to Hitler in the Near East. The urgent nec- essity of America’s war effort will be greatly mini- mized, the danger to herself will be lessened if Britain can hold that front. Is Our Army Modern? (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Daily we hear the tread of marching men. by day the lines grow longer. On thé skill and valor of our soldiers rests the nation's safety. It is, therefore, the solemn duty of our government to train and equip our boys in the arts of modern blitzkrieg so they shall never perish in the helpless confusion that doomed the French Army, which was a great army in an outworn style: It is suicide to prepare again to fight the Civil War. Likewise, the trench warfare of 1917 is obso- lete. ong lines of men do not make an army any more. ‘With even our children watching the events of Europe through the camera’s eye it seems ridiculous to mention such obvious matters, yet Maj. Malcolm ‘Wheeler-Nicholson in the current Harper’s strongly Day while tanks speed by. One delay after another has beset the building |of camps for housing drafted recruits. “Can our army, which has not in 20 years de- ‘xised workable blueprints for the comparatively simple peacetime construction of barracks, be trusted in wartime to plan the infinitely more difficult task | accuses’ the general staff of tinkering with ox carts|’ military positions, Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, | | notice, at a distant point, completely armed, equipped and Gen. Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial Gen-‘and supplied not only against the vagaries of weather eral Staff, have gone to Egypt. They have \'Bibed‘and the difficulties of terrain, but against the resis- Ankara, Athens and Belgrade in an effort to swingtance of the human enemy as well?” asks Wheeler-| Turkey back into line after her apparent defection | Nicholson. through the non-aggression treaty with Bulgaria, | strengthen Greece and to forge some sort of a Bal-|@nd training. Concerning leadership, Wheeler-| kan alliance. | Nicholson says our system of promotion brings in- From the soldier’s point of view, Gen. Dill is !capable men to the top and submerges some of the principally concerned with the transfer of a large be“‘;:le;; not know how to build an army, nor can part of Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's victorious | we pass judg;nem on the major's charges' We do! Imperial Army of the Nile from north Africa to|know, however, that the nation is entitled to a vigor- Salonika. Its chief task will be to establish a front|ous and thorough investigation with corrections| in the north on the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders | where needed, so every citizen can be assured beyond to meet any threat from the Germans. ml] doubt that our boys will have every chance of That threat may_ not_be long, in coming. He also finds serious fault with army discipline .’ Nazis are reportéd to Have labed the lower Danube| with pontoon bridges and already. to have crossed\ into Bulgaria in large numbers. A race is on be-| tween the two armies to see who will gain the initia- | tive and hold it. Germany has been trying .un- successfully for some days to induce Greece to come | to terms with the Italians. Now she is prepared to enforce that suggestion. Britain is trying to pre- | vent her from doing so. German diplomacy, probably with Russian help, scored a victory in Turkey's conclusion of a non-| aggression pact with Bulgaria. Eden appears to| have been successful in undoing this, Evidently he has promised the Turks sufficient help, in material| particularly, to make a stand against the Nazis more | The | Success when called on to defend our shores, Reports from Paris say that the Germans have| ordered the city deprived of potatoes for 40 days {in punishment for disorders in the central market | sections. Evidently the Nazis intend that if the Parxsians go around after this with chips on their shoulders, at least they won't be potato chips. A census of the Indians of Brazil has just been completed after much difficulty in persuading the tribes to cooperate. an ideal constituency for Senator Tobey. Italy’s example may now cast some doubt upon | the claims that dictatorships are stronger than de-| It sounds like they would make | than a desperate gesture. The British seem confident that, with the pros- Turkish support, they’can swing Belgrade While Yugoslavia’s Premier and Foreign Minister seem to have agreed in their conference with Hitler pect of into the conflict on their side. to Nazi demands mocracies, | seven or eight miles above the earth’s surface. if you can't afford a trip to Florida, maybe all you‘ need is a balloon. If we are to decide on the basis of the Fascist war record, we must conclude only that they are more fleet of foot. So, Wathington Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page Oue) that the parents of drafted boys have confidence in their moral as well as physical well-being {decrepit Bureau of THE TAFT BROTHERS William Howard Taft's boys Bob and Charley, are at odds again, Charley having been in Washington more than a week in his new job be- fore he got together with Bob. Reason is the job Charley has taken from the hands of Roosevelt. It sounds harmless enough—*"Assis- tant Co-Ordinator of Recreational Activities for Defense"—but it's a sufficient tie-up with the Adminis- tration foreign policy to leave anti- interventionist Bob a bit chilly. What hurt more, perhaps, was that Charley, who has long quarreled with his brother over domestic pol- icies, accepted the job just the week before the historic lease-lend de- bate opened in the Senate. Bob knew where hrother Charley stood long before, namely with the Com- mittee of Defend America by Aiding the Allies.: But this brought the split into public gaze. “You don’t havé to agree with your brother all ‘the time, do you?” is Bob's shrugging comment TURKS vs BULGARS Inside reason why the Turks sign- The British say this interpreta- ion is all wet. Tip-off to the situation is that the British have been rushing reinforce- nents to Salonika to backstop both the Greeks and the Turks if they co- operate. And cooperation in the B&lka.ns usually goes to the strongest side, HOOVER'S PET Believe it or not, BUREAU but the long Foreign and | Domestic Commerce, once the pet of Herbert Hoover, is being over- hauled and if all goes well may al-| most justify the appropriations it | draws down from Congress. Incidgntally, it is being reorgan- ized along the same lines as the German Ministry of Economics. The rise and fall of the Bureau goes back to Coolidge bull market days when Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, when foreign exports were booming, and when every in- vestment turned to gold. At that MERRY-GO-ROUND You can reach hard-working John R. Steelman, head of the U. 8. Con- ciliation Service, practically any midnight in his office working on some labor dispute, but not betweenl 7 and 7:15 p.m. He always takes| this time out to listen to a favorite daily radio program . .. Out-of-state Republicans sent a total of $47,390 into Indiana last year to help carry it for Wendell Willkie. Unofficial GOP explanation is that the money was used to pay bills left over from the Elwood notification .ceremonies . . .The budget is full of unique little items, such as $6,000 for a fence on the Texas-Mexican border, $76,- 000 for personal funds for inmates of federal narcotic institutions, $10,- 000 for sea food inspection. . . .The 15,400,000 books in the Library of Congress, largest collection in the world, take up more than 175 miles of shelves. Oldest printed volume in the Library is the Gutenberg Bible (1454), the first book printed with time, the Bureau was the pet of }"?"“’e type. business and was hailed as Hoover's ‘g‘reatut achievement | Even while he was in the White | House, however, the Bureau began to decline. It did not get the full attention which he once gave it, and he even permitted some of its com- mercial attaches in foreign count- ries to be taken under the State) iDeprmmen'.s ponderous wing. In Dan Roper's era as Secretary| of Commerce, the Bureau sagged | even more. It continued stagnant |under il Mr. Hopkins: Meanwhile, | every new government agency set up | lits own group of economists and ¢Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- t,ure Syndicate, Inc.) KIR RAID ON MALTA CAIRO, March 7.—A mass raid by more than 100 German planes has been made on Great Britain's | Mediterranean fortress at Malta and 16 bombers and fighters of the at- ed a non-aggression pact with the trade experts instead of getting in- Bulgars has been given U. S. diplo- ‘rormauon from the Bureau of For-, mats by the British Foreign Office. €¢ign and Domestic Commerce, as It is this: |originally intended. “Some months ago the British| That was about all they could do.| themselves suggested that the Turks For when the Defense Commission and Bulgars sign a treaty of friend-'needed up-to-date studies of certain ship and non-aggression. But nego- WArtime situations it found the Bur- | trader of Eagle died there recent- tiations Then suddenly, just | €a ong with thersame, )y-.He had lived at Eagle since 1903 at the wrong mofsent from a psycho=| Fout studis. it had [80d operated the Eaxle 'nuih: logical point of view, the pact was done for a de | POBt. R | tacking force were downed according to an official British communique tonight. e — TRADER IS DEAD Clyde Thompson, pioneer and completed. Its announcement to the| Secretary Jesse Jonea has now} e world was construed as .[peaning 'Ofdered a- complete reorganization,| The Daily Alaska Empire Turkey would not penetrate Bulgar- And it looks as’if the old jinx will be | largest patd eh'ulhuon o! ian soil to oppose Germany. . ifted. l-skn newspaper, ; e et - i Ahe ‘fone “of -the most impressive of 1941 MARCH 50N T won | Tue | wio | ] [ HAPPY BIRTHDAY |/ i MARCH 17 Merle Schroeder Theodore Hodwalker Nina E. Wyckoff Jean Simpkins Jack Schmitz Jr, Joe Hill Lloyd Hildinger Joe Marshall Theodore Malsome STy | HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” — SATURDAY, MARCH 8 | Benefic aspects dominate today. Under this planetary direction la-| | bor will closely cooperate with man- | ufacturers. It is a lucky date for| launching new enterprises and for| taking chances in novel projects. Heart and Home: Women are| subject to the most fortunate in-| fluences. They will be stimulated to extraordinary activities, but they should be cautious regarding the organizations in which they work for national defense. There may he mistakes in judgment, and preju- dices may be awakened by sub-| versive agencies. Girls may expect| romance of the most insistent tyne‘; {under this direction of the star they are warned that suitors in uniform may be called into ac- tual conflict. Business Affairs: Under pressure {the marvelous ability of American businessmen may be demonstrated as they concentrate upon the pro- | duction of countless war imple~ | ments. Factory outputs are to break| all records by midsummer, it s indicated. Executive ability at its | highest achievement will acconi- |plish marvels. Prosperity will be general for ‘many months, but the ‘ccst of living will inevitably rise:| Taxes will be burdensome, although they will be only mildly suggestive! of what the future will bring | National Issues: Unity of ! pur-| pose on the part’ of the Fedem'fj government, capital and labor Wwilk {be a prime factor in accomplish-] !ment during the rush to prepare’ for war. Danger of disagreement regarding certain policies of pro-} cedure is forecast. The production | board was appointed under ‘a promising rule of the stars and ft! is to accomplish wonders, if thel signs are wisely read. { International Affairs: Although there are portents of a long world| war, the element of surprise and| sudden crisis may be expected. | Revolut.ionary influences will be active in countries that have been| absorbed by the Nazi dictator. Ex-| traordinary events may be expect- ed to influence the final results of the world conflict. Well-laid| plans of diplomats and generals will prove boomerangs as dicta- tors become enemies of each other. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of many ‘pleasures. Financial gains will con- !tribute to new experiences, includy ing travel, Children born on this day prob- (ably will be lucky all through life. Happy marriage as well as success in a chosen career may be ex- pected. (Copyright, 1941) Problems Discussed At Improvement Club Held Auk Bay Sedion The Auk Bay Improvement Club held its regular meeting this week at the PAA Reception Hall. A large - attendance was present. and new meinbers were added. Many projects were discussed dur- ing the evening, among them the disposal of garbage in the vicinity of Auk Bay. E. O. Davis spoke om this subject and all interested in the plan of garbage disposal are requested to leave their names with John Wagner at Auk Bay. A committee was selected for| the purpose of investigating the possibility of incorporating into a school district. Those on the.cam» mittee include Mrs. L. R. Lister, Ernest Stender Mason. Plans were also discussed con- cerning recreation plans for. the junior members of the vicinity. A community sing is announced: for the near future, to be given by the junior members, in charge of Mrs. H. Natterstad. b Due to the resignation of Erpestf Stender, J. Walker was appointed to replace him on the Ways and Means Committee, i ———————— The . Cordillera ‘Real of Bolivia, m ranges, averages § 4|8 | 1112 18(19 Yl25/26 2o “na E 1941. MARCH 1, 1921 | convened at noon this day in the Garside Building and within one hour and thirty minutes a permanent organization had been affected in both Houses. John Sundback was elected President of the Senate, with | Judge T. M. Reed of Nome, Secretary. The House elected Andrew Ner- land Speaker, nn(.i James Daly Clerk. Col. James G. Steese, President of the Alaska Road Commission, had arrived at Seattle from the East and was to sail north to Juneau lon the Northwestern. H That considerable work on the improvement of the Juneau Lum!)er | Mills was to be started soon and that the plant was to be in operation | by May 1, was the news learned here. Dr. C. C. Georgeson and wife, who were to arrive on the steamer | City of Seattle, were to leave for théir home at Sitka on the Ranger | V that was in port under the command of Forest Ranger J, H. Peterson of Sitka. i | A by 4 | W. P. Lass, after spending the day here on business, returned to Spm-] River on the Anita Phillips to resume his duties with the Alaska |'Puly and Paper Company. ‘ i |+ Mr. and Mrs. L. Wernecke, and family, were on the Princess Mary | from Beattle. | Miles Godkin of Marshall and Newman, who had been vacationing in the States, returned on the Princess Mary. WEATHER—Highest 34, lowest 34, partly cloudy. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpon - - - P D - 0 o WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He hasn't worked any this week. Say, “He hasn't worked at all this week.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Chicago. Pronounce shi-ko-go, i in it, first o as in or, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Architect; no k in the spelling. SYNONYMS: Ease, comfort, conteritment, enjoyment, repose. 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: PALLIATE, to cover with excuses, “They never hide or palliate as Q. \Vl‘mt refreshments should be served at a reception that follows | the christening of a child? usual one for an afternoon informal tea with style, services of the porter the buffet obtain the refreshimer Q. How should one ing on A. in when travel- a sleeping By pressing the bell button. Should a letter of condolence Yes. be brief? A. LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON - - D D D P DD s ) “The Charge s . 2 e S S How many men rode into the Valley of Death in Light Brigade”? Who was the original “Waltz King"? What bird’s love call is a booming, drumming sound? What vessel grounded on Mount Ararat? In Wall Street parlance, what are “hears”? ANSWERS Six hundred. Johann Strauss. The grouse., Noah's Ark. Speculators who are trying to drive the market prices down. Auk Bay Ladies to Give Silver Tea The ladies of the Auk Bay Im- provement Club have planned a silver tea for Friday evening March 14, beginning at 7:30 o’- clock at the Auk Bay home of Mrs. R.. B. Forrest. All ladies of the club are fof U 11 (1825-1899), vited and each member is request- ed to take a non-member if pos- sible. AR P R WENDLINGS BUY HOME The Earl Wendlings have pur- chased the John Hogins home on Fritz Cove and will move soon. e ——————— Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the larges paid circulation. Prcadent at Church Meetmg /‘,>, in- ¥ President Roosevelt departs from St. James * As senior warden of the St. James Eplneopn.l church iu his hom Beginning a 60-day session, the Fifth Biennial Territorial Legislature [ T Dre Kaser ol Freeburger DENTISTS Bl ngren Building PHONE 66 S Y S R Dr. A. W. 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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. “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'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Wateh andJewtlry Repalring at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET BOWLING Juneau Melody House Music and Electric Appliances Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Phone 68 SHATTUCK AGENCY Qffice—New York Life Window Cleaning PHONE 485 GMC TRUCKS Compare Them With All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR Co. PHONE 411 First Natlml B s