The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER - - - President R LUBERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class untm SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rat 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 faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated 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. " ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- tives, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — FPrank J. Dunning, American Bank Building. 1011 neutrality. Ankara still has many strings in hands. Through spokesmen and the controlled press, however, Turkey gives the impression that she will act in accord with Britain at the moment she con- siders most advantageous for her defense. This may not help Greece in uime. Turkey, too, may be anxi- ous about the stand of Yugoslavia. Turkish in- decision may be only allowing Hitler to pick the time of attack. If Greece is able to maintain her heroic deter- mination to fight, if Turkey resolutely supports her, if Yugoslavia is not cowed by Nazi threats, if Rus- sia supplies the material aid which it would be logi- cal for her to supply, if France resists all dishonor- able demands, if Spain and Portugal remain true neutrals, and if we do not stint the aid the embattled opponents of Hitlerism have a right to expect from us, the whole castle of German conquest may well crumble into dust. These are many “ifs.” It may be illogical to expect them all to come true. Cer- tainly it would be contrary to the history of the last two years. But now the Nazi octopus is unmasked. No na- ticn now can have ground for hope that if it sacri- fices its neighbor it may be spared, for it is-to be scen that the conqueror’s appetite grows with each feeding. No nation has a right to hope for the iutuie of its honor, its independence, or even its existence except as that hope relies upon a deter- | mination not to compromise with the aggressor. Since the beginning of Adolf Hitler's career of conquest there has not yet been a time when the unconquered nations, acting resolutely in concert, could not have called a halt to his program. But, so far, most of them have succumbed, vic- tims of their failure to act in time to save their own interests. Holland, Belgium, and Norway are paying a terrible price for their attempts to remain neutral. France fell and England is in mortal dan- ger because they waited so long, standing idly by while Germany remilitarized the Rhine, seized Aus- tria and swallowed Czechoslovakia. Rumania sur- rendered rather than fight—and now she may have to fight at the command of the power which has stripped her of her wealth and independence. Another crisis in the Nazi career of conquest is at hand, and again it is a time when the uncon- quered nations—though fewer in number now—still have it within their power to stop Hitlerism short of mastery of all the Eastern Hemisphere. “Our army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace, as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight.” This is the answer of the Greeks to Nazi prom- ises that if Athens will come to terms with Rome the German Army will not attack towar< Salonika. The phraseology is that of George Vlahc he na- tion’s most influential editorial writer, in Kathimer- ini (the Athens Daily). But his words are echoed officially by a foreign office spokesman who points out that “any proposal for an armistice in the war with Italy would find Greece disdainfully hostile.” These are not idle boasts. They are not the expressions of overconfidence. Greece knows her limitations. Vlahos, in the editorial quoted above, said that without British help Greece could not have hoped to make the resistance she has. Now, with the Italians still at bay in Albania and the Nazis ready at any moment to attack across the Bulgarian frontier, Greece needs support and needs it desperately. Athens, has, therefore asked Turkey to answer bluntly whether she will live up to the pact of 1933 whereby both nations pledged themselves to defend the Thracian frontier by force of arms and to the Balkan Entente treaty of 1934. Turkey has not replied. Neither has she an- swered the overture made by Hmer for Turkish Seeking Assurances? (Cincinnati Enquirer) It is altogether probable that the visit of Japa- nese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka to Berlin (and perhaps Rome, to keep up appearances) is in- tended more to find out what the Axis has to offer Japan than to report what Japan has to offer the Axis. As far as observers can see, all that Germany and Italy have had to offer Japan, up to now, is the diversion of England’s strength and America’s interest while the Land of the Rising Sun steals the worthwhile things of the far Pacific. This, however, is merely the incidental effect of the Axis war against the democracies. Neither Germany nor Italy has, as far as known, given Japan any absolute as- surance either of protection or support should she enter the war. With the stiffening of America’s attitude toward Japan, it has become increasingly apparent that what Berlin’s promises amount to, in the final analysis, is that Japan can have what she wants— merely by fighting the United States and the spare strength of The Netherlands and the British Com- monwealth of Nations. Nor has the substantial reinforcement of Singapore with men, planes, and materials made the German “offer” to Japan any more generous. It may be that out of Matsuoka's visit to Berlin may grow some concrete reassurances, providing for Japanese action in the Pacific to coincide with the German “all-out” offensive. But the very fact that he is going suggests that no such arrangements now exist. Offhand, there appear only two major things that Berlin might do to make Japan's advertised role in the Axis strategy more appetizing to Tokyo. might promise a sizable part of the luftwaffe, to provide Japan with the greater air strength she would need in attacking Britain and the United States. Or she might secure for Japan a non- aggression pact from Russia, assuring that Moscow is sufficiently susceptible to German pressure. If Matsuoka is smart—and there is no reason to assume otherwise—he will demand both, and then some. “Coolness Develops in U. S.-Soviet Talks,” says a headline. That is one unspringlike weather report we can read with a great deal of fortitude. President Roosevelt says we should win the war first and talk peace afterward. That way the win- ner gets to do most of the talking. Mussolini punches before the bell rang. They are the most! unsportsmanlike nation Il Duce ever stabbed in the back. outer office. Finally the Wathinglon Merry- Go-Round (Opntinued from Page Oue) look at Welles, their elation. politicos got. to coincide' “Good morning,” favorable also was calculated with the spring and weather. So U. S. observers now figure PLANTS two emerged. They were beaming about kie, which has been a ghost clts{l the President’s promise to have since the big tin mill shut down.' the farm relief cut restored. One Badly needing a new industry, and however, And one look was about all the Snapping them into the President’s study. FOR DEFENSE She | says the English started mmwmgj its 1941 MARCH [SON Twon T vor [ wio [ e [ o | L 48 1112 18(19 34l28/26 ; HAPPY BIRTHDAY s e e ) MARCH 19 Chester K. Tripp !/ Dorothy White Joe Bavanda Cecil Thompson B. F. Manchester Mrs. Lee Riley Mrs. Harriet Rogers HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” | L ———E—— THURSDAY, MARCH ' 20 Until late today adverse plane-] tary aspects dominate. There is a portent causing apprehension to bankers and heads of big business. The stars encourage the signing, of contracts. | Heart and Home: Women should | pursue routine matters. Optimism should be cultivated, especially by| those whose sons and other male| relatives are preparing for service| in the Army and Navy. Air force pilots are to prove their extra- ordinary ability in feats of hero- ism and resourcefulness. In addi- tion, they will be very successful in love affairs. This is a promis- ing day for letters. Good news will come to many girls. Business Affairs: Mobilization orl the natural resources of the Unit- ed States will contribute to the prosperous outlook of business through the year. Manufacturing will develop through the introduc- tion of novel inventions. Refugees who are trained scientists will prove exceedingly helpful in defense pro- grams. Exports will increase next| month. In Washington, leading en-| gineers and noted chemists will| gain fame through their valuable work. Nnuonal ‘Issues: Certain Bape\:ts of the stars encourage criticism of | persons in authority. This will be| evident in Congress and among| those who nourish personal ambi- tions. Because Americans are easily hypnotized by independent ideas, there may be insidious e{{ect’ ven among the ‘men who have drafted. Fifth columnists will take‘ advantage of . whatever disturbs faith in American leadership. The seers warn that unity is impera- tive, if the United States is to demonstrate the power of democra- cy. e International Affairs: Evil offens for Britain are discerned in cer- tain aspects which presage terrible tests to the heroic nation next | month. Nazi attacks by sea and air are to be intensified. ;With Mars rising in Capricorn a martial spirit will pervade India. There s a sign which seems to promisd gpec- | tacular or unexpected aid from the United States, through some:inew T 8 14(15 21[22 28[29 | | | attitude was the case of Elwood, Congressmen ' Ind, home town of Wendell Will- chilled | strategically located, the city did its part toward securing an ord- nance factory by getting a low price for the vacant mill. So the Navy located its new ordnance plant in Indianapolis, where it promptly ran into the irate opposition of the citizenry. a curt he brushed by invention or the amazing e: lit- ing of airplane production. Seéeret forces are+believed to be working ov the final triumph of right, but victory will be bought at a terrible cost. Persons whose birthdate it. 1s have the augury of a year of fair success in business. Money should ' be plentiful. There will be a temp- tation to indulge in sennmont.al‘ friendships. Children born on this day prob- | that Hitler will pick a period in March when he is fairly sure to have one week of good weather, plus favorable tides in the English Channel. Most favorable weather for bomb- | So far it doesn’t look as if the strategic plan to scatter defense industries throughout the American | West, where they would be Iless vulnerable to attack, is on its way to being carried out. ing England is one of fairly low clouds, so that Nazi bombers can fly above them, then dive suddenly below the clouds where they can| see their target, and release their bombs. Real fact is that the Royal Air Force licked Hitler’s Luftwaffe last; On the contrary, Army and Navy brass hats, thumbing their noses at the Defense Commission, have bunched the new factories into a few crowded and vulnerable indus- | trial areas. Even protests by Roo- sevelt have been ignored. The military argument is that The Army, on its part, submit- 8bly will be intense in nature and ted nine sites to the Defense Com- brilliant in mentality. They, fmay mission, six of them in crowded, be easily " deceived, because i‘&a exposed Eastern centers. When Will' belleve what is best of Davis and his group protested, the One. Army replied that contracts al-! ready were drawn and it would take weeks to change them. In| favorable to the Florida other words, the Commission had would vote against it if it no choice except to approve whnt‘swnllowmc the St. Lawrence" pr the brass hats had decided on. |ject too. These include Senators| The bulk .of Army and Navy Connally and Sheppard of 'mnsl contracts has gone to five areas—|Overton and Ellender of Louisiana, | & | (Copyright, 1941) . - &% summer and licked it badly. So|to scatter the new plants away from | Hitler is almost certain to move|established production centers would carefully this time, picking the lypeislow up the whole program. But it} of cloudy weather most likely to|is significant that the most ada- help him. Furthermore, U. S. air|mant resistance to locating defense experts who have been studying the plants in the “hinterland” comes British preparations are convinced| from the giant firms that have that Hitler will have to send across | been getting the cream of defense the Eastern seaboard, Ohio Valley, southern California, Birmingham, Alabama, and Kansas City. Big- gest lump during the first months of rearmament went to New Jersey, with Massachusetts second and Virginia third. Three Western states, Idaho, six! contracts. Montana and North Dakota, didn’t| George and Russell of Georgin, ‘and Radcliffe of Maryland. NOTE — $5925,000 already has been spent on preliminary work on the Florida Canal, and Senator Sheppard of Texas has introduced |a new bill to authorize its comple- tion, (Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- the Channel almost everything he's| got. TENANT FARMERS The President is not losing sight of domestic problems in the welter of foreign affairs — and recently kept his very precise Under Secre- tary of State, Sumner Welles, wait- ing an hour while he threshed out a farm relief problem. Representatives John Tolan of California and John Sparkman of Alabama had called to protest against a $25,000,000 cut in farm| rehabilitation loans, a cut made by the Budget Bureau in the Agri-| culture Department appropriation. ‘The conference was supposed to last 15 minutes, but Roosevelt for- got all about the time, became com- | pletely engrossed in the “economic shogk” to be felt by tenant farm- ers and migrants after defense spending has tapered off. Mean- while Welles cooled his heels in an | They want the new plants locat- ed near theirs, so that when the national emergency is over the | companies can absorb the plants | easily and cheaply. | This issue has caused sharp | clashes behind the closed doors of the Defense Commission. Chester Davis, agriculture coordinator, backed by Leon Henderson, price control, Sidney Hillman, labor, and Miss Harriet Elliott, consumers, have repeatedly stormed against | Army and Navy plant awards—but | the brass hats listen politely and then do as they please. Usually siding with them have been William Knudsen and Edward| R. Stettinius, the big-industry| members of the Commission, Knud- sen sometimes concedes the logic' of Davis' arguments, but shrinks from overruling the military. get a dime’s worth. Nebraska, hard | ture Syndicate, Inc.) hit by drought and crop failure,, got $5,000. Other distressed areas have likewise been ignored. FLORIDA SHIP CANAL o DS N Wodneeday, March, The Florida ship canal is in the| bt news again, and its backers declare adv. they have 52 votes, or more than| enough to pass it. But they are worried over a legislative move toi combine this project with the St. Lawrence waterway—with the pro- bable result that both would be sunk together. Roosevelt has told them he fa- vors a bill to authorize construc- tion of the canal, provided no ap- propriation is asked for. He wants no more drains on the Treasury at the present time. This gives Floridians a toe-hold, ANNUAL ELECTION M. H. SIDES, Secretary. e . Subscribe for The Empire. CENTRAL FIRE INSURANCE ‘COMPANY Baltimore, Md. MARCH 19, 1921 Important developments were due in a few days regarding the cold :smrsge plant planned by Eastern capitalists for Juneau, according to | word received here. An excursion to Speel River, complimentary to members of the Legislature, was a feature planned by Glen C. Bartlett, Manager of the Gastineau Hotel, to give the lawmakers a chance to see Alaska's first pulp mill. John E. Coffey, recently resigned Assistant United States Attorney, | was to arrive on the Admiral Watson from Ketchikan. | 1 A Tom Cole, brother of Representative Cash Cole, who had been visit- ing here for two weeks, was to return to his home on the Princess Mary. E. L. Durrell, repair man for Burroughs Adding Machine Company, who had been employed by E. S. Hewitt of this city, was to leave on the Princess Mary. Miss Marie Brennan, operator for the Juneau-Douglas Telephone Company, was to leave on the Princess Mary for a vacation trip to Seattle. George Williams of Thane, arrived on the Princess Mary, accompanied by his young son who had been south. Sam Guyot, Juneau broker, who had been on a business trip to Southeast Alaska, returned on the Admiral Watson. Weather: Highest, 16; lowest, 12; clear. Daily Lessons in English %. 1. coroon e 0 DD D D S IS B SRS WORDS OTTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He arrived home at about ten o’clock.” Say, “He arrived AT HOME ABOUT ten o'clock.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Contiguous. Pronounce kon-tig-u-us, 1G as in BIG, first U as in UNITE, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Armistice; CE, not SE. SYNONYMS: Insinute, intimate, hint, suggest, imply. 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: LITERALLY;, according to the letter or exact words. “So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. »—Dryden. MODERN ETIQUETTE ® poserra LEE Q. If you are in a crowd, and your companion is talking in such a loud voice that it is attracting attention, what should you do? A. Lower your own voice perceptibly. If this is mot . effective, say “Let’s step aside where people cannot hear us.” Q. Is it all right to call an office employee by her first name when speaking of her to the employer? A. No. Say “Miss Brown,” not “Alice.” Q. When calling on a friend and she is not at home, is it all right to leave a message? A. Yes. “Sorry to miss you” may be written on one’s card. .......__...___——-.—-.—-—-—-——-—-—-'.‘- LOOK and LEARN ?;y C. GORDON - < 4 D O D O D O SO S S S ol 1. When is the Harvest Moon? 2. What general name is applied to animals that chew the cud and have more than one stomach? 3. Whose likeness appears on the revenue stamp on a package of cigarettes? 4. What does tensile strength mean? 5. What American city is noted for its many Japanese cherry trees. ANSWERS: 1. 'The full moon occurring nearest the date of the autumnal equinox, September 22. 2. Ruminants. 3. DeWitt Clinton. 4. Resistance to stretching. Washington, D C. C. C. MEETS TOMORROW Sponsors and candidates of the re- cent Chamber of Commerce contest ROM "IS'ORI( ("Y to choose Miss Juneau will be the| Mr. and Mrs. Oscar’ Tilson flew guests of the Chamber at theu"m yesterday from Sitka for a regular weekly noon luncheon to-\stay in the Capital City. Mr. Til- morrow in the Gold Room of the|son is owner of a large liquor store! Baranof Hotel. in the Historic City. Among other guests to attend the luncheon will be W. L. Read, new manager for radio station KINY, and Donald MacDonald of the International Highway Com- mission, S A OSCAR TILSONS HERE - Dardanelles Is Boftleneck For Europe’s War Traffic UL BEE L Profeseie D Pratornal IreCioly iemea B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 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. Drs. 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Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worr Satistied Customers” > DR. H. VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 6; 17 to 8:00 by appoinment. South Franklin St. Phone 177 1 Junean Melody House I Mausic and Electric Appliances 1 Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 ~— for Your Valuables | Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 | ~'BUY_PROTECTION . _ Office—New York Life Window Cleaning PHONE 485 GMC TRUCKS Compare Them With All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY and they are not asking any more. But they don’t want the luuq tangled up with the St. Lawrence HAROLD H. BATES NOT FOR ELWOOD A typical example of the Navy'sl AGENT—Phone 321 waterway fight. Room 1—Valentine Bldg, A number of Senators, otherwise ’-areanummlm\ * 40 miles long. It divides mmmmmm DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CoO. PRONE 411 First National Bank . JUNEAU—ALASEKA