The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1941, Page 4

are also not unmindful of the fact that there are many others who feel that our funds should be de- voted to other purposes more directly connected with | our own preparations for home defenses; but the committee is persuaded that the overwhelming ma- Jjority of the people of our country are convinced that the first line of defense for us, aside from all humanitarian considerations, is still across the At- lantic, and that a supreme effort should be made to keep it there. The President of the United States gave expression to this conviction in a speech last Saturday night when he said: “The American people recognize the extreme seriousness of the situation and that is why they demanded and got the policy, unqualified, for an immediate all-out aid for Great Britain, Greece and China. From now on that aid will be increased, and ‘3'91 again increased, until total victory is won.” ‘ ; Daily Alaska Empire | Published every evening except Sunday by the PIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD Entered - - =ty i President Vice-President and Business oL S Manager in the Post Office in June cond Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION : Delivered by carrier in Juneau for $1.25 per month. By mail. postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance. $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers 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 PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein (A CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Repressnta- tives, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, | Seattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. | The Gal Is Jealous of Us S = SEATTLE REPRE 'TATIVE Frank J. Dunning, mu‘ American Bank Build (Portland Oregonian) Colonel C. B. Blethen of the Seattle Times sat down to write a page 1 editorial the other day and did write it, while he was so hot under the collar that he sizzled. He was emitting sparks like an emery wheel tackling a rat-tail file. The Oregonian is glad, indeed, that he didn't cool off before he began cuffing his typewriter, and it feels sure that in saying this it voices the reaction of every north- western reader who saw the Times editorial about Los Angeles and the weather. Said Colonel Blethen in very minor part, as he launched into his grievance and ours: ‘““Way back in my boyhood days, I remember an eighth-grade bully, who was caught by a member of the high school football squad in the act of in- flicting some minor torture upon another youngster. The bully ran bawling home and then proceeded to kick his younger brothers all over the lot. Onc is compelled to judge a city by its newspapers. Today ;l.os Angeles—as represented by its newspapers—is behaving exactly like the bully mentioned. Beaten, A month ago the Juneau Rotary Club was con- | battered, soaked—but above all angry and humiliat- stituted a branch of the great national organization ed—by an extraordinary series of storms, Los An- “Bundles for Britain” with headquarters in New geles vents southern California’s fury and resent- York. The work of this organization has been de- ment on poor Washington and Oregon —little scribed in the press and in a letter which the local brothers of the Pacific Coast.” committee sent to more than 400 residents of Juneau,! BY this the colonel mean that, far from taking Douglas and the vicinity. the weather God )}as sorted out for them, and being “Bundles for Britain” has adopted 20 bomb-torn Philosophic about it, the Los Angeles papers seriously London hospitals. These hospitals have all suffered are arguing thal the reglonal storms which brought flood conditions were in point of fact strays from direct hits by bombs. All are non-governmental and o, part of the coast whish is represented ays being rely entirely on private donations to carry on their 4 r (in a chronic condition of melancholy dampness. To work. |account for their own visitation of providence they The Juneau Rotary Club has adopted one hos- deem it good strategy, if downright dishonest, to| pital known as the Memorial Hospital, Shooter’s slander our northwestern climate, And as a matter| Hill, Woolwich. It is a small hospital with 100 beds, of fact their newspapers, quite as Colonel Blethen but it is one of the most vulnerable as it is on Charges, have been doing it for years. To prove the River Thames by the Arsenal on the Old Dover NOW comparatively fortunate they are, when their Road. ;bnsements are full of water and there is a skiff In the first month of the Juneau Rotary Club ‘cthered to the back steps, they represent that such branch the committee has collected $606 in cash and aALh}::sd:'n;?;:];(v) ];]ed;!l(;h amn»\m(‘mg to $112.50 a month, southern California, as it just about did this time, : Ao as been transmitted to headquarters their newspapers would keep right on vowing tha: in New York, and it is hoped that another remit- such precipitation would be no more than a mild tance can be made within the next week, shower in Oregon and Washington. What are we The urgent need that inspired the “adoption” of going to do about this variety of misrepresentation? these 20 hospitals by “Bundles for Britain” is made Well, Colonel Blethen swears that if they don’t stop painfully clear from day to day and week to week it the Seattle Times will follow the example set by as we receive the press reports of bombings and the Los Angeles Times and on occasion print some- fires, of death and destruction, of the number of UMing of this sort: wounded and maimed. But it is still hard to pene- "Last night Seattle experienced one of the worst trate the veil of cold print, to comprehend the full storms in years. It was a typical southern Cali- i fornia storm, and, as a matter of fact, the storm extent of human suffering which the bombing and f 3 should h s B o HoeAii: aldts. shou ave reached the coast in the vicinity of Los A hospital is not only angeles, P 3 W @ shelter for the il and the Injured; ot only » diverted to the north. However ths. sesident” ot meeting place for doctors and nurses. It is also a nature gave the residents of this district an oppor- plant filled with precise machinery, with comforts tunity to see what Los Angeles has to put up with for the wounded, with delecate instruments for the Wwinter after winter.” alleviation of pain and the mending of broken Except for the place names, Colonel BUNDLES FOR BRITAI RESPONDS JUNEAU And if it were to rain 40 days and 40 nights. on Blethen bodies. Each hospital, each ward, each bit of equip- testifies, this rather shocking example of spite- and | ment destroyed by a bomb adds infinitely to the ! Will is copied almost word for word from cdi- sum of suffering which the people of Britain are torlal comment In the Los Angeles Times on the bearing so stoically, delays the care of those Who recent southern California storms. And if still those need care, and increases the burden of those institu- bac nelghbom ate looking for: trouble, swobe), the tionis, which $%s ehIl sble th Picton colonel, whose dander increased to incandescence as 15 Rankh firat’ ald to Ahas e vd i he warmed to the theme, our northwestern news- ; maged hospitals, t0 papers can give them now and then a few digs see that they have the medical supplies, the surgical about earthquakes that will make them squirm like instruments and whatever they need in their work the veritable worms the colonel believes them to be. of healing and mending, must make an instant appeal They have asked us, through a big civic organiza- to any American who has known the terror of sud- tion of Los Angeles, to soft-pedal their earthquakes, den illness or injury, and who can imagine how that because such publicity is bad for L. A. and would terror would be increased should the ready comfort °Onceivably hurt the rest of the coast. But why which hospital services afford be unattainable, Sh0uld We? The question is pertinently put, as is “Bundles for Britain” is undertaking to furnish such 2150 Colonel Blethen's suggestion that the publishers first aid to these 20 “adopted” hospitals, all of which :;,dw ashington and Oregon meditate on what he has have suffered from aerial attack and ari E i of assistance, Most of them are in t:exw::rnv;li‘c 12;18 Oisaonian: agroes -£lfo it o i fwhen; tricts of the city where the need is greatest. n‘::-: edo:ecaslqn Prpene dorl, TNk Mhemn min; e alfieladind bt e an am work by perhaps the only means of quarters has written us that the converting them. We of the northwest, in our deal- Juneau Rotary Club has the record among all ings with this- capricious southern sister of ours, branches for fund raising in so short a time. We this Iowan-mestizo, this gentle hellcat who wums‘ hope_ the record can be continued. Our adoptedeverything her ‘own way always, have been doing to hospital at Shooter's Hill, Woolwich, is in a district |Others as we would be done by long enough. It is that has been horribly bombed in an attempt to'time we began the punitive collection of a few get at the Arsenal, and it is doing a superb job;WUthem California eyes and incisors, and an occa- among air raid victims, sional molar, to make us feel better. You are dead The committee is aware of the fact that there‘ngm' colonel—_let's 1nake her payundle are many persons in Juneau who are contributing il meanur_ne Jeb<s rememl?er this and emem: through other channels, particularly women, who are:bel;j it well, for it is the explanation of the capricious purchasing material, knitting, sewing and worktng‘g;1 “scattylsoult.he:}x: O tiorin Bay(he gal D Jdeliis many hours every week for the same cause. Sexkiant B o Aots, of e, Chlaies oi il s 4 We just can't s!,and the competition. Wathingfon Merry- Go-Round (Oontinued from Page Oune) fegy cilities, Here good fortune seemed —was short-lived. When it came to | to smile. TVA still had its World installin | 4 the machinery, War nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals,' $ i t)?::’or;: demanded a guarantee was eager to use it for defense pro-| v, ol P would be used only to produce ex- ¢ plosive nitrate and never fertilizer, But during long Senate debates| in which duPont is heavily inter- |In the Coolidge and Hoover ad- ested. | ministrations, which opposed gov-| This wa | ernment production of nitrates, the ot B e = E | which pointed i Ar.my il P! ¥V Cer-| needed modernization. Still that a restriction under the law. Fur- Today, one yea‘r‘ later, the Lan-: :’0:2:".21]{:"'1.9& "(;me shan erecting| thermore, it didu't b hsd w" gle is not wholly resolved. The un- | taseind there were 8150\ nupon; remaimed adamant, red " | the advantages of str: 3 told story of the stalling of this| tion plus excellent pu}e?zfi irans. | 115¢d to lend its machinery ‘with- vital defense program is one of the| portation facilities “"| out the guarantee. So TVA had to ¢ 80 into the market, order new ma- most extraordinary in the entire defense picture, chinery for the Government—thus ‘ delaying completion of the plant by many weeks. ol SCOND NITRATE HITCH FIRST NITRATE HITCH | When the Defense Commission First hitch was objection to the moved to use this government- Government’s plan of importing owned plant, it again ran into pow- Chilean nitrate, thus permitting| erful opposition from big business, Allied Chemical's Hopewell plant|particularly from the duPonts, to stop making fertilizer and de-|tacitly encouraged by the Army. vote its entire capacity to explosive | However, weeks later, the Defense| nitrates, if necessary. Commission finally had its way| The chemical industry fell on this|and the plan was approved. Defeat- plan like a ton of brick. Backed by certain Army officials, it hotly denied that the nation faced a| nitrate shortage. Hopewell's full fa-| - cilities, it was argued, would not be needed for powder purposes. The Defense Commission then turned to developing new plant fa- THIRD NITRATE HITCH ! By this time even the industry and the Army conceded the danger of a nitrate shortage; so it was agreed that more ammonia plants would be necessary, ammonia being the primary source ‘of synthetic nitrates. Thus contracts were awarded to ed, the duPonts did the rspc:;rung1 thing and offered to sell TVA lat-| est types of oxidiers, thus cxpedlt-} nl:g {enovauon of the Muscle Shoals| duPont for a government-built am- plant. monia plant to be operated at Mor- TVA and Defense Commission|gantown, W. Va.; plus. s heads were delighted, But their| Plant by Allied Chemical. pleasure —and duPont’s willingness| the latter, a third tim: g conditions are commonplace to “rain-swept Oregon.” | | THE DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1941: 1941 MARCH 1wa [ 50N [ o T Toe | wip [ Twun | 7 T sar | 1 8 15 22 23 29 418 1112 1819 25|26 ey i ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY | e e o o o e e e ameas | MARCH 18 Mrs. N. Lester Troasty | Albert Shaw =« '™ | Ryder Converse | : Mrs, Eni Allen Patricia Cross Bert Bertholt Chester Shanks Alice H. Murray, T. F. Hopkinson HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline | but do not compel” || Bl o) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 - Adverse planetary aspects’, am- inate today. There may be discour-| aging reports regarding . thej#iro-| gress of the defense program, but setbacks will be brief, if the stars| are rightly read. There is a sign| promising to constructive projects of all sorts. | Heart and Home: Women are| today. They should avoid en! in- ing fears or apprehensions. It is a day for activity of body and mind.| Unselfish service should absorb the attention of girls. The course of| | under this configuration. Deceit and disillusionment are indicated for romantic young persons. The stars encourage study and careful train-| ing for practical tasks. 0 Business Affairs: Government contracts will be pushed success- fully. Mars exercises a strong in- fluences in Washington from, which will pour streams of money| to all parts of the country. Home- building be widespread. With' the advance of spring the trend h‘aml cities to small centers of popula-| tion will be definite. Small shops will flourish, Farmers will begin, the planting of crops on a Jlarger scale than formerly. q National Issues: Opposition the Administration will cause lim-; ited embarrassment to the Presi- dent, and to those who support him! in his desire to speed the utmost to| 20 YEARS AGO Robert Shonwald, proprietor of House, purchased a Ford automobile. Dr. W. E. Mulholland left on the Ambassador for Chichagof where he was to be engaged in the practice of dentistry. E. Murray left on the Ambassador for Chichagof where he was to be employed by the mining company. W. P. Lass, of the Alflsks Pulp on the Anita Phillips;on a shore business trip. Jack Overland was a. passenger on the Estebeth for Gypsum, where he was to be employed by the Pacific J. J. Egan, United States Marsl place on the Estebeth, having been Barbara Harrison, who had been months, returned here and had enrol! D. M. Williams, engineer in charge of the prospecting work at the Hirst-Chichagor Mine, was to leave on the Princess for a business trip to Seattle. Weather: Highest, 17; lowest, 16; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do go.” Say, “He SAID that he would g | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Nazimova. suliject to. - Imikvorebios ot | both A’s as in ASK, E as in ME, O as in OBEY, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Barbecue. SYNONYMS: Temporal, temporary, transitory, transient, ephemeral, short-lived. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” true love will not run smoothly, increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: REVERIE; deep musing; daydream. hood days.” | MODERN ETIQUETTE * noperra ren ] < D D D - D S * Q. When a woman is indebted tained her, all of them? help to Britain. The stars presage; a realization of our national peril, for there will be reverses suffered by the British, Isolationists will realize the possible bad results of retarding plans for immediate and continued aid. | International Affairs: According to portents that are ex threatening to the United States as the spring advances, the war will be more and more despgrate through this year. The star§ ap- pear to forecast our inevitabl§ part| in the conflict, although our men| will be used principally «n de-| fense, There is a sign presaging| activity of our Navy in the Pacific.| Japan will be dominated by the grandiose plan to rule all the peo- ple and resources of Greater i including the Philippines, prognosticated. \ Persons whose birthdate #‘ is have the augury of a year of real-| ized ambitions and happy domes-; tic environment. Losses may be sustained, but they will .not: be| serious. " Children born on this day prob- ably will be talented and success-| ful. They may have ups and downs in romance, but their lives should| be crowned with success. (Copyright, 1941) a, | is suming hitch developed. Allied Chemical insisted that the plant be located at South Point, Ohio, where it has large coke-oven facilities. Probable purpose of this was the future possibility that Al- lied Chemical, after the emergen- cy, would be able to take over the/ ammonia plant for its own busi- ness. But the Defense Commission unanimously turned down South Point, Ohio, because it was too far from the new powder plants and too close to other strategic plants. However, Allied Chemical, after several months of controversy, was able to confront. the Commission with an Army declaration favor- ing the South Point site. . At this point the Commission was licked—but for a lucky break. Sen- ator Alben Barkley, Democratic floor leader, suddenly got wind of what was going on and put imhis oar, The Senator went direct to the White House, complained that his home state was not getting its share of defense projects, demanded that the nitrate plant be located in Kentucky. And Barkley, seeking local pap, was able to do what Knudsen, Stet- tintus and the other five Defense commissioners could not accomplish | in months of effort. His view pre- vailed over that of Allied Chemi-| cal and the Army officers. Roose- |from the South, A. L. Vaughn, re- e - e - - S MARCH 18, 1921 Mendenhall Glacier, about 18 miles from Juneau, was the subject for | over one-third of a page scene cut appearing in the New York Herald. Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corbon |! D D D O O S s S o) wouldn’t it be all right to give one large party, and invite It would be better perhaps, if a large number of people, to give from THE EMPIRE the American Bakery and Coffee and Paper Company, arrived here Coast Gypsum Company. hal at Tenakee, returned to that here on Government business. living in the States for several led as a junior in the high school. clear, not say, “He stated that he would 0. Pronounce na-ze-mo-va, Observe the ECUE. Let us “T lost myself in a reverie of boy- to several people who have enter- | Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blengren Building PHONE 56 [ I S RN Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Gifice Phone 469 | Dr. Judson Whittier CTOR CHIROPRA( 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 762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. r—— ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Colloge of Optometry and Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground S — Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter aid-Britain program, Allied Chem-| ical may yet be forced to shift its | Hopewell plant to production of explosive nitrates. Because of the delay in, new plant construction, Defense experts foresee possibility of a serious nitrate shortage by next winter. (Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) e HERE FROM SOUTH Arriving on the steamer Alaska presentative of the Libby-McNeill & Libby Company, is in Juneau to- day for a short business trip and is staying at the Gastineau Hotel. — Try a classified ad in The Empire velt ordered the Allied Chemical plant placed in Kentucky. But this came only months’ frittering away of Charles Francis (left) and Francis Charles (right), the Heil twins of Newburgh, N. Y., are shown with their brother, Wilbur Heil, whom' T xn bringing into the U. S. Navy with them. When Wilbur com- R. L, he will join his brothers at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. ey pcies 1 {raining at Newport, Four Fly Three Heils for the Navy To Sitka Four passengers left Juneau for Sitka this morning with pilot Alec Holden in the Bellanca. They were A. Gilkisen, Jack Boyle, Joseph| Tierney and A. Duncan. Holden re-' i turned with Dan Moller, Gordon McDonald, Hans Berg and R. J. Sommers from Sitka and Garas Allen from Tenakee. Tony Schwamm is scheduled to! arrive in Juneau from Petersburg this afternoon. s PHONE 136 several smaller affairs, inviting just those to each whom she thinks would be congenial. ' Q. Which is usually less expensive, a table d’hote or a la carte = Jones-Stevens Shop | A. The table d’hote meal is usually cheaper. ; TES'—) SEs’ Q. When a professional entertainer attends some social function, LAD '_mm's is it all right to ask him to perform? + Qeward Street N ; A. Not unless it has been previously arranged. Otherwise, it is very | , ear Third 'presumptuous to ask him. S PR T 7 S 4 A LOOK and LEARN Y JAMES C. COOPER A. C. GORDON Yy | 1. What six states were carved out of the Northwest Territory? COOPER BUILDING 2. Who is the best-loved Scottish poet? 3. How far does the earth travel around the sun in its orbit? 4. What is the difference between a rebellion and a revolution? L C S Pt 5. 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