The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1941, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 31,'1941. 1961 MARCH _tom| sun Tmon T ue T wep [mwum | s T sar | W 1 4|8|6 8 11|12|13|14(15 18(19/20|21/22 24285|26|27|28(29| {cept for”two sick spells which kept him from the office. Mr. Truitt has served through five regular and one special session of the Legislature. He has |served under three Governors, George Parks, John Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the 1 treets, J , Alaska. | HELEN 'rngg: asngn-l;;nmn ORI President Troy and Ernesf Gruening. R L B!ENARD" B v i el “‘“‘"{1 He is stepping out of office on his own accord, Entered in the Post 8{2&‘..’."..{.‘;?,“‘,‘.‘,“ Secord Class Matter. not having stood for reelection last year. He plans S| 3 Delivered by carrler in Juneau and Dourlas for $1.25 per month. (0 80 Outside for a rest of several months and then B! y mail, postage pi at the following rate: will return to spend the rest of his life in Alaska. from 20 YEARS AGO 7% empirE e e ey APRIL 1, 1921 A Charles Goldstein left on the Princess Mary for a business trip to New York City. = - Vice-President and Business B. P. O. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 Drs. Kaser and One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; -— ! P. AL Visiting b h, in advi , $1.25. | Mr. Truitt takes with him the thanks of the 8 . M. Visiting brothers O B wecribers will confer @ favor if they will promptly notify people of Alaska for a good job well done. He has Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Conrad were passengers south on the Princess Freehurger welcome. H. E. SIM- the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- | g Mary enroute to Minneapolis. o o Avery of thelr_i;:ners.om okt axichad G, |been a faithful public servant, universally respected | gueseamoem m’rxg’m (ONS, Exalted Ruler; emaia ok st e — — |for his honesty and energy in the conduct of his J. G. Morrison, proprietor of a hotel at Haines, arrived in Juneau ;‘l;eonN!‘{l’:m N ean MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS high office. We wish him well and we wish him HAPPY B k3 ’ 3 s d P i lusivel; titled to the for & th f h i visit. repubtication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other: many more years of usefulness as a citizen of Alaska. il ok ol S e . MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 wise credited in this paper and also the local news publishe A ————————————— ———— R A ¢ i — * Second and fourth herein. ¢ I | The 5,000-ton coast passenger liner Governor of the Admiral Line Monday of each month ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTRED TO BE LARGER Under the Conqueror’s Heel MASHE {was rammed and sunk by the steam freighter West Hartiand off Point| | Dr. A. W. Stewart /in Scottish Rite Temple s v op_f&,jmu“non' et | Mrs. Ike P. Taylor Willard at the entrance of Puget Sound. The Governor’s boilers exploded beginning at 7:30 p. m. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- (Cincinnati Enquirer) a few minutes after the freighter tore a great hole in her side. Out of DENTIST VERGNE L. HOKE, tives, with offices in_San ncisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. VOTE! For 364 days in the year, the citizen can about City government but cuss and discuss his City Little officials. Tomorrow is the 365th day, when he can do something which will direct the course that City government will take for the next year. Tomorrow, election day, is the citizen’s opportunity and duty to make himself felt in municipal affairs. This year three complete tickets are in the field. They have made themselves heard. Every resident of Juneau with the interest of the City at heart has had an opportunity to make himself informed on the issues and to make up his mind on the can- didates. Now it remains for the citizen to do his con- structive bit for good City government. He will do it at the polls tomorrow. ‘The polls will be open from 9 in the morning| until 7 at night. Pay them a visit. Vote! FAITHFUL SERVANT After 25 years in the practice of law in the Ter- ritory of Alaska and eight years of service as Attor- ney General, James S. Truitt leaves his office today to take a well-earned rest. Tomorrow the position will be taken over by Henry Roden, who was elected Attorney General last September. When he first came to Alaska a quarter of a century ago, Mr. Truitt found a Territory differing greatly from fhe Alaska of today. For the transfor- mation which has taken place, he is in large meas- ure responsible, along with the men who have lived and labored in the Territory in these budy years. Mr. Truitt entered upon public life in the North in 1918 ‘when he was appointed Assistant U. 8. At- torney for the Third Djvision, a position which he held four years before returning to private practice, which included service as a Referee in Bankruptcy. During the World War, he served as United States representative on ‘the Board of Exemption, as Appeal Agent. The people of Alaska elected James Truitt Attor- ney General in 1932 and reelected him in 1936. He has served in that office for eight years and one month, the fiscal year haying been changed during his incumbency. During that time he has seen the work of the office of Attorney General triple. During the time he has taken not one day of vacation, ex- j The fact that a German military eourt in The | Hague has “found it necessary” to sehtence 18 Dutch citizens to death in one mass esplonage-sabotage trial indicates how strenuously the people of this one country are writhing under the conqueror’s yoke. | The full extent to which citizens of the Nether- lands have gone in expressing their sentiments toward the force which leaped upon them in the night, blasted their cities, and deprived the nation of its independence, can only be guessed at. But from what scraps of news the German censors have per- mitted to leak out, the lot of the conqueror has not been altogether pleasant. The most vigorous measures and the most stren- uous efforts to discredit Queen Wilhelmina and her family have not dimmed Dutch regard for the House of Orange. Denied means of showing their senti- ments in other ways, some Dutch citizens have gone to lengths which would be ridiculous were they not tinged with such pathos. One report even tells of pedestrians who, under the eyes of the Germans, obey only the amber—or orange—light of a traffic signal and uncover when they do so. Despite rigorously enforced curfew laws in Hol- land, German soldiers find it unsafe to walk alone at night—or even in pairs. The number who have suffered “accidents,” or have been found drowned in the canals, have been considerable. Such tactics alone, of course, will not defeat Ger- Imany. But they are a part and a symptom of the tremendous unrest under Germany rule. The will to be free of the 100,000,000 people now living under German domination is a powerful force, Some day, given the opportunity, it will rend the shackles of | Hitlerism as if they were putty, Incident at Valona (New York Times) Last Sunday an Italian communique announced that British torpedo-carrying planes had sunk the hospital ship Po, in Valona harbor, about midnight on the night of March 14-15. There is, in fact, such “a ship as the Po. She is registered in Trieste, has |2 7,280 net tonndge and was built in 1911. Rome stated that she was fully lighted and identified, and that one of the nurses on board, Countess Edda Ciano, Mussolini’'s daughter, narrowly escaped with | her life. | The British communiques do not reveal an at- tack by torpedo planes on Valona harbor. They do tell of attacks on the Valona airdrome by R.AF. {planes on the night of March 12-13 and again on the 15th. But the Italian communique of March 14 | states that 13 British torpedo-launching planes at- | tacked harbor shipping at Valona, with the result !that “only one steamer was damaged.” | These details are set forth not because they are conclusive either way, but because they offer an interesting subject for speculation. No combatant has anything to gain by sinking a hospital ship, a fact which, on the record, the British have been sensible enough as well as humane enough to recog- nize, The Nazi and Fascist record as to attacks on civilians and on the wounded is not so clean. Per- haps this is because their air forces contain a higher percentage of disintegrated personalities, out to kill anything that breathes. We have even had reports of Nazi aviators machine-gunning' British cows. One may further consider that a freighter was admittedly damaged in Valona harbor, that neither the Fascist nor the Nazi code forbids lying in the common cause, and that Italian morale certainly needs bucking up. So one remains skeptical until further proof comes. Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Oontinued from Page (Juei mained under Turkish rule for five centuries. It was not until the Balkan wars | against Turkey in 1912 that the Greeks finally won Salonika for their own again. ALLIED BASE IN 1918 When one of the Merry-Go- Rounders lived in Salonika, at the close of the last war, it was one of the most glamorous cities of the Near East and still the pawn of foreign armies. A quarter of a million French, - British, Italian, Russian and Serbian troops had been landed at its dusty quays and carried up the jerky, wheezing Greek railways to the Monastir and Stru- mica fronts. Millions of dollars worth of mili- tary supplies lay strewn about her harbor. Extending ten miles west- ward lay the great British ammuni- tion dumps—artillery, field kitchens, hospital units, oil tanks, surplus lo- comotives; wagon wheels, stacks and stacks of wagon wheels, acres of wagon wheels; miles of railroad cars, acres of motor lorries; tractors, piles of sheet iron; mounds of earth with warning signs: “Dynamite”—all the supplies, the debris, the necessary waste of a modern army. And now those same supplies are being dumped in Salonika again to feed another army making a stand against the same Germans and Bul- gars in Macedonia. 1f was the Salonika campaign in September of 1918 which finally won the last war. But it took the Allies three years of fighting to realize that Salonika could be the Key to victory. ! The Salonika front was establish- ed after tise Serbian retreat in 1915. It was established and then left to itself and to the palitical maneuver- ing of General Sarrail, who could get along neither with the British, the Italians nor the Serbs. So for nearly three years Salonika waited, waited dnd prospered. Greek merchants waxed fat and rolled in drachmas. Girls from Port Said, Constantinople, Naples, even Paris and London poured into the city. The French officers’ mess imported | ~ | potted palms, bamboo furniture, and Cochin-China mess boys — creating an Oriental oasis in Greece. The moon over the Aegean was very bright, semi-tropic breeze was very soft, and the fighting was well up in the hills of Serbia. So for two |years the Salonika front marked time, while the farmers of Mace- donia sneaked out on both sides of the lines to plant their tobacco and their poppies and reap their opium. CENTRAL POWERS’ WEAKEST LINK At last, in the summer of 1918, the Allies woke up to the fact that the weakest link in the defenses of the Central Powers was through Ser- bia against Bulgaria and Austria, via the Salonika front. And the Serbs, finally unleashed against the enemy and once more on the hills of their homeland, charged with such speed through Macedonia that they lived on the bread-wagons of the Austrians. French, British gand Ttalians were left behind; only the Scottish Women's Hospitals could keep up with the Serbs. A few days later Bulgaria, then Austria sued for a separate peace. The war was virtually over. Today there is no doubt on either side regarding the importance of Salonika. Hitler knows that from it he can dispatch scores of pocket submarines to wreak havoc on Brit- ish ships in the Mediterranean, plus scores of bombing planes to blast Suez, Crete, and Cairo. And the British know that if they lose this key port to the eastern Mediterranean, their battle to pre- serve the life-line of the Empire is practically lost. So Salonika, dusty, lustful, sprawl- ing key to victory in the last war, may bring victory or defeat early in this war. LUMBER PRICES M. L. Fleishel, head of the Na- [ tional Lumbermen's Association, has only himself to blame for that scorching blast which Defense Com- missioner Leon Henderson gave the lumber industry on price-kiting. Fleishel asked for it and the scrappy | New Dealer dished it out. Henderson, who had been raising the roof behind the scenes about soaring lumber prices, had no in- tention of attending the meeting of the Lumber and Timber Products Defense Committee, convened in Washington by Fleishel to consider the matter. But when Fleishel, the morning of the meeting, asked Hen- derson to give a little talk, he agreed. 2 It was Henderson’s understanding that the affair would be a private one for an informal exchange of views. Therefore, he did not pre- pare a speech and dropped in that afternoon—to find Fleishel waiting with a written address and a battery of newsmen on hand to report it. Quickly sizing up the situation, Henderson, who likes nothing better than a scrap over -price-boosting, decided to do some talking himself which would be real news. Leon got particularly sore after Fleishel read his speech, which consisted of arguments against complaints that Henderson had not yet made. After this Henderson waded into Fleishel and the assembled lumber barons with both barrels. Fleishel 8ot publicity.all right, but not the kind he had expected. The stories that went over the wires were about Henderson’s sizzling denunciation of lumber prices and not Fleishel’s de- fense of them. Later, describing the incident to‘ assistants, Henderson said, “He pull- ed a gun on me. I had to defend myself.” NOTE: Overworked and frazzled by a year of day and night labor as Defense price chief, Henderson, on doctor’s orders, has gone off on a short rest. To ensure a complete cut-off from his work, no one but his wife knows where. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate; Inc.) 5 "’) ATRMATY; ' ENV! , sho air route from Sef to Nome, sale at J. B, Burford & Co. adv. Mrs. G. E. Cleveland Sally Shafer Francis A. Riendeau Mrs. T. R. Howell Effie D. Stanford Everett P. Clarkson H. P. Thompson i HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” -————— ‘TUESDAY, APRIL 1 i Benefic aspects rule strongly to-, day. From early morning until mid- | night stimulating planetary influ-| ences are active. It is primarily a day for achievement in any con- structive work. Heart, and Home: After the noon | hour women are under the best pos- sible guidance of the stars. It is a date for work and romance, for successful effort in any vocation and quick recognition of ability. As spring comes there will be readjust- ments in many households. Men of the family may be in government service, while the women extend their interests to.public enterprises. Self-denial now will be preached| by women of foresight. Business Affairs: Development of| cooperation between employers and employees will be evident as strikes create resentment against labor or- ganizations. Government interfer- ence in the line of stringent law- making will be advocated by short- sighted persons, but the stars pres- age growth of understanding v.mongi\ patriotic industrialists and workers. Expansion of great factories will make possible miracles in the way i | i | a crew of 124 and 172 passengers, 17 were believed missing. A Fordson tractor, one of the first to be used in this vicinity, was added to the equipment of the Parker farm at Strawberry Point. Steamship Explorer, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, arrived from Seattle and was at the Pacific Coast Steamship Company wharf. The Explorer was to engage in wire drag work in Southeast Alaska. Nine hundred and twenty persons registered for the city election up to this time. This was 32 more than the previous year. Mrs. W. J. Manahan was to return here on the City of Seattle after visiting relatives in the States for several weeks. Weather: Highest, 37; lowest, 36; rain. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon ‘WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He walked over the bridge.” Say, “He walked ACROSS the bridge.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dachshund. Pronounce daks-hoont, A as in ARM, OO as ih FOOT, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Manageable; observe the E following the G. SYNONYMS. Gathering, concourse, assemblage, body, group, circle, party, set. 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: MIGRATION; act or instance of moving from one country or place to another. “The coming of winter is marked by the migraton of certain birds to the south.” 7 e e - - - D ! MODERN ETIQUETTE ® poperra LR Q. When a bride is to be married in a traveling suit, what should the bridegroom wear? A business suit. of production for defense. National Issues: Party lines will be overstepped in the att.ammemi of national unity for defense, and| honors will be bestowed upon lead-| ers of varied views and affiliations. Executive ability will be valued above other qualifications for con-| spicuous appointive offices. - Lead-| ership of a high order will be reé- ognized, as American businessmen prove the value of their talents and experience. There is a sign presag- ing the illness or disability of a| man in high position. Statesmen| should safeguard their health. | International Affairs: Apprehen-| sion regarding the effect of spring-| time upon the military plans of | Hitler will increase, as contradic- tor reports are broadcast. K The massing of such armies as have been never mobilized previously will mark this month. The governing lunation, “the New Moon of the/ year,” is seen as not helpful to| Britain, especially as the place of;: the last conjunction of Saturn and! Mars rising at London is of evil portent. Air conflict, intensified to a terrible pitch, is prognosticated. Persons whose birthdate it 48 i have the augury of a year of g fortune. Financial gain and do= mestic happiness are indicated. * Children born on this day prob- ably will be kindly and affection- ate, sincere and worthy of the suc- cess forecast for them. (Copyright, 1941) T0 BE GIVEN YUGOSLAVIA Final Note Narning Miy Be Issued Soon After- Midnight Tonight (Continued from Page One) Reich cannot longer stand having its prestige endangered.” Streaming from Kingdom German and Italian nationals are reported streaming out of Yugo- | slavia in an excited exodus, jam- ming automobiles, trains and river boats. The sidewalk in front of the Ger- |man Legation in Belgrade is piled high with packing cases bearing the name of the Nazi Minister, Viktor von Heeren. The Nazi Minister is leaving for Berlin during this nfter- noon or early this evening, accord- ing to the secretary of the German Legation. CALIFORNIA | What is the best way for a man to ask a girl for a dance? “May I have the next dance?” May one use a lead pencil for writing a social or business letter? Not unless one is ill and writing the letter in bed. e et . e e lLO-OK and LEARN ¥ & corpox ot ot et s e it that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the thirty-second President of the U. S., although only thirty men have preceded him? 2. Why is bluing used to whiten clothes? What are the names of the time belts in the United States? Whose was “the face that launched a thousand ships”? Which extends farther south, Missouri or Virginia? ANSWERS: 1. Grover Cleveland is classed as the 22nd and 24th President be- cause his two terms were not consecutive. 2. The yellowish hint in white clothes. is corrected, because blue and yellow when mixed produce white. 3. Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. 4. Helen of Troy. 5. Missouri. S S 3. 4. 5. | 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Worshipful Master; JAMES W. | LEIVERS, Secretary. Gffice Phone 460 T — —_— | T s Styles | | Dr. Judson Whittier T‘moa?i:;:' ’ es% Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5. 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4, Triangle Bldg. Jafgmend Juneau’s Own Store R———————————— ""The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO Dr. John H. Geyer Room 8—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: § am. to 6 pm. _ ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D, | DRUG CO. | Graduate Los Angeles Coll~ge of Optometry and 3 % = | S— Post Office Substation atem Fivind, Eenea Godud NOW LOCATED AT D ——} HARRY RACE | DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 “The Stere for Mam” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. | The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin Sts. You'll Find Food Finer and PHONE 136 Service More Complete at THE BARANOF | Jones-Stevens Shop COFFEE SHOP LADIES'—MISSES® T | comard Bt Near Tama FINE | t————————|| PAUL BLOEDHORN JAMESCE’ EOOPER | s FRANKLIN staERT | [Eemm—— =] BOWLING L. C. Smith and Corona - | TYPEWRITERS | Sold and Serviced by | J. B. Burford & Co. " atiston Busomers " ———————————*|| Brunswick Bowling Alleys DR. H. VANCE ‘ muhmAn:.mmm i RCA Vicior Radios free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; | and RECORDS 7 to 8:00 by appoinment, Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Gastinean Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 - Second Street Phone 65 e e I _ BUY PROTECTION Window Cleaning . PHONE 485 : GMC TRUCKS Compare Them With All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CoO. PHONE 411 Archie B. Betis | PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audlts Taxes | Systems Bookkeeping Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 L o — SURPLUS—$125.000 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASEA