The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1941, Page 4

Canadian ships on the Alaska run were withdrawh and converted into auxiliary cruisers to protect the British Empire's lifelines. All these things have hurt Alaska to a certain extent. On the other hand, the war has had a highly e beneficial effect on our Alaska economy in general Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. ¢ pay as - S UBHORIPTION BATES! |Th(- monthly payroll of the North hlf been augment. Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douklas for $1.25 per month. | €d mightily by the employment furnished thousands By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: 9 bh Aeote : One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; | Of Men on the Alaska Army and Navy bases. Im- one month, in advance, $1 | portantly, this is employment which has lasted right Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify :‘hr Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de. | through the winter, cushioning the off-season slump very of their papers. 155 o ¢ i Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, "”"“‘l of Alaska’s normal economy. Most of this —_ e | huge payroll has found its way into the cash regis- |ters of Alaska merchants, bringing a period of un- | paralleled prosperity to the North | Wartime demand has strengthened the market 1](1)‘ Alaska’s fisheries products. Canned salmon and other seafoods bringing the highest price in - - Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Mal s, Juneau, Alaskas. HELEN TROY BENDER R. L. BERNARD Prostdent Manager Vice-President and Bustness Entered in the Po 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- [ise credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. are GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc. National Newspuper Representa- Wves, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portiand, Beatile, Chicaso, New York and Boston. | SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunoin American Bank Building. years. Alaska is getting some very valuable road mile- age out of the campaign to improve the defenses of the North. Work has begun on a Palmer-Richard- son Highway road link which will cost well over a million dollars, This vital highway will mean much to Alaska in the future. ‘When we think cof all the benefits we are being handed at the present time, we should be willing to sacrifice not just a little but a great deal to the effort of our nation to win a triumph for democracy and freedom If that sacrifice entails giving up ships and fore- going business-as-usual in the North, we shall strug- gle along as best we can on as little as necessary. All ships to Alaska are loaded to the gunwales with supplies for the bases being built in the North. It would seem unlikely that Uncle Sam would be able to spare any of them for the work of shipping sup- plies to Britain. But even in Alaska we realize that the U. S.-to-England shipping lane is the most vital artery anywhere at the present time. If Alaska is called upon to make sacrifices to keep the life {blood of democracy throbbing along this artery, | Alaska will sacrifice gladly to whatever extent is ‘V required. 1011 | _ ALASKA IS WILL G TO HELP President Roosevelt's call for diversion of two million tons of U. S. merchant shipping from nor- mal trade routes to expedite defense aid to Britain has in it an ominous ring for Alaska. Any area wholly dependent on shipping, as Alaska is, would be apprehensive at hearing the President say that the pooling of America’s merchant marine to haul | Wings for the North war goods would “work certain hardships on certain | ———— | sections of the nation.” | (New York Times) Taking any ship from the Alaska run, busy as Both development of civil flying and a valuable it is at the present time, would indeed work a |SYStem of military airfields in Alaska are envisioned severe hardship on the Territory. | in new plans of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. But the President couples his warning with an| _ UDder the current program, Alaska’s airport appeal to the people of the shipping areas ffected | ‘2Cilites and radio aids to flying will be more "h"“} is an appeal to which we respond unhesitatingly.|in the public domain, will hmfi runways a mile lin: Alaska has made very little, if any, sacrifice to the| capable of accommodating the largest military air- defense effort to date. None of our young men| planes. Near Ruby a field is to be located in a| have been conseripted from their normal (wrupaLmn\! valley so wide that approaches by blind flying can | to give a year of their lives to training in the armed |be made from any direction. forces. A few have volunteered, but they are very The bush country of Northern Canada and the| few compared with those from other sections of|hinterlands of South America have demonstrated the the nation. Alaska’s great gold mining industry has| Practical value of air transport in otherwise inacces- | begun to feel the pinch of preparedness as work- ;“m;l;‘f;?mm fi‘;sg:,(fi;yu::édgzgyxfilx::ryb ear::lp:‘;tve;‘ men become more difficult to obtain and the de- covile o . S Tinev ! ot ibaayy: tinch Aty s AhaA, up < while mp‘ibaacs will provide a bulwark in the North Pacific. priorities system sends equipment into industries If people still don't belleve that the Mediter- more directly related to the national defense. | ranean is an Ttalian sea, Hitler is there to prove it. As far as shipping js concerned, we have already | seen two Coast Guard cutters, the Itasca and Sho-| shone, removed from Bering Sea patrol work to be given to the English for convoy duty. Just last week we learned that the Office of Indian Affairs motorship North Star has been sent into the At- lantic, presumably to serve our new protectorate in|increase, Greenland. With the outbreak of | P e AR S | Now that girls are taking the places of yo\mg; men behind the soda fountains, we trust no one will call this the era of the drug store cowgirl. | s feel greatly inflated by their wage We hope the national economy doesn’t get war, the larger'to feeling the same way. wafllifl |on proach of a British warship to be| Commander Thurber agreed that g | repaired in aavy yard, this type of criticism was healthy; no restriction was put on use of also that the Navy should make M ‘ : erry. | the news; merely an expressed hope public its own errors in the con-| i Go_kound | that the news be withheld until struction of destroyers. ‘Lho ship was reasonably near Am-| Nevertheless, it remains a fact — erican waters that Naval Intelligence today 1s| (Continued from Page Oue) 1 However, neither British Nnor hounding certain newspapermen in| | American ship movements are the washington chiefly for the pur- flecting on its own prestige and|real issue behind the Navy's hign-‘posp of finding out where these efficiency. | handed methods of dealing With newsmen get their stories. For instance, when the late Sec-| the press. Washington correspon-k (Copyright, 1941, by United Fea-| retary of State Frank B. Kelloog dents are giving all possible coop- ture Syndicate, Inc.) sailed for Paris to sign his famous| eration regarding ship movements Outlawry of War Pact, the Unit-| Real issue is the Navy's attempt (o ed States certainly faced no emer-| control the traditional right of | Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons gency. Yet when one of the Merry-| American newspapers to expose and Go-Rounders, accompanying Kel-| criticize inefficiency. logg on his voyage from Paris to| Ireland aboard the cruiser Raleigh,| wrote a dispatch kidding the Navy band on losing the music score of| the Irish National Anthem, the captain of the Raleigh censored the message. It reflected on the efficiency of the Navy. | | CONSCIENTIOUS PRESS | COMMANDER Recently in charge of the Navy's press relations was Commander Ray Thurber, capable, conscientious and experienced. If the Navy's A few years later, in 1932, when, Press policy were based upon Thur- except for Manchuria, the world PEI'S ideas it would be better off. enjoyed comparative peace, v.ne;B“[ loyalty to his superiors some- Navy sent a vessel to survey pos-|{imes carried the Commnder far sibilities for a submarine base in|afield—even to the point of mak-| the Aleutian Islands. The survey|iN8 such statements as: “Now we! was made secretly, on the pl.ewxl}cuuld make it tough for you if we of studying geological formations|Wanted to.” for the Coast and Geodetic Sur-| NOt long ago, the Commander| vey. When one of these writers dis-| OPJected to a story which revealed covered the real purpose of the|that Admiral Stark, Chief of Naval| mission, he was requested by the|OPerations, had balked at a State Navy to suppress the news because Department request to bring the| it would reveal a naval move to|Chiefs of Latin American navies Japan. | to this country and entertain them He complied with the rcqu(’sl."‘“ guests of the U. S. Navy in or- However, the reasons for the sur-|der to foster Hemisphere solidar vey must have been quite obvious| ity miere"—a tiger who must get in a to Japan; and shortly thereafter| General Marshall, Army Chief of|cage with John Barrymore as the the President publicly asked Con-|Staff, had entertained all the chiefs|Producer, Specification: “He must HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 2. —| Don’t look now, but I think this must be Hollywood. There’s a producer talking about buying a town for a picture called “Buy Me That Town"—if the town is right and he doesn’t have to pay more than the $40,000 Lloyd Nolan (in the cript). pays for it. . . . Claudette Colbert, preparing for a solo trip to New York, spends a month in advance telling everybody that she's going alone, that her husband is too busy to go, and it doesn’t mean a quarrel when she goes. . . . They're looking for a Bengal tiger to serve as mascot of a mythical movie company for “World Pre- | This year is one of evil portents.| | bodes ill for the nation in which 20 YEARS AGO #%". wupine MAY 2, 1921 With the receipt of news by Agent J. H. Kline of the Pacific Steam- | ship Company that the sailing date of the steamer City of Seattle had | been postponed, Alaska was feeling the first effects of the nation-wide steamship strike. Agent W. E. Nowell of the Alaska Steamship Company also received a telegram from the head office of his company at Seattle | informing him that steamers of that company would also probably be }dfllflyl’d in sailing. Major H. S. Struble, son of Mrs. Henry Roden of this city, had | rejoined the army after being in civilian life for two previous years. He MAY 2 ‘,mn, on the Estebeth for Fort William H. Seward to report for duty. Vivian Powers B. F. McDowell Mrs. E. H. Kaser Dr. E. H. Kaser August Goodman Archie McDougall Bob Rowe Einar Lavold Clyde Sparks Bill Champlin August Tollinger HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline i but do not compel” || P USRI L s SATURDAY, MAY 3 ;x Mrs. J. C. Ross, her daughter Rita, ,and Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kane, |left on the Kane, cruiser Patricia for Hoonah, where Mrs. Ross and | daughter were to visit for a time, At least one salmon cannery was to operate in this vicinity this season, according to W. O. Carlson, who stated that his father would | operate at the cannery at Auk Bay. J. F. Holder, formerly one of the officers in charge of the naval radio office in the Gastineau Hotel, left for the south on the City of Seattle accompanied by his wife and daughter. Robert W. Wiley, Rainy Hollow mine operator, left on the Estebeth for Haines, having been in Juneau for several days. Weather: Highest, 47; lowest, 40; cloudy. e - O S S O S Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbox U ————— WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Leave it lay.” Say, “Let This is a day when inspiring and stimulating planetary lnfluem:-‘| es are active. It is a date when many plans may be realized. It is it lie.” ) espeZlaI:ly promising for those who OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Potato. Pronounce both O’s as in NO, sign important legal papers of any not po-ta-tu. sort. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Surveyor; observe the UR and OR. Heart and Home: This should be SYNONYMS: Steep, abrupt, high, precipitous. a happy day for all members °f WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours’ Let us the family, Good news may be €X-| ;. o0q0 our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: Rectodly Jepal col oie sasdle flnleESTlVE, stubborn; obstinate; unmanageable. “The citizens of the from young men in W&EHE fm" country are restive under the present king.” i MODERN ETIQUETTE * roperta Lmg bring crises or decisive events to| persons of all ages. Under con-| trasts of joy and sorrow, meetings| and partings, the most should I)(-‘ made of happy periods. Today is| fortunate for home entertaining, | for seeing friends and for emuy—‘ ing a real Maytime. | Business Affairs: Production is to show speed in the great fac-| tories where war machines are in| the making. There is a sign read hi 3 as presagiig many serious acci-| A. Deference is shown to one person by giving that name first dents in industry and in transpo: with a rising inflection of the voice, and saying the second name in a tation. This month will reveal sup- lower tone. pressed excitement among civilians Q. When a man and wife are having dinner guests, and there is no who will begin to realize the pos-| servant, who should answer the door? sibilities of American peril from| A The host can do this, as the hostess has many other duties. Axis forces. Money will circulate freely and to forget the reahties‘t-——omm young and old will spend carelessly.| | |_0 0 K a n d L E A R N gy L i Tourist agencies and theaters will e - -4 e -t ) profit, 1. What name was given to the famous dungeon in India, 20 feet National Issues: Treachery of a foreign power is forecast as Amer- square, in which 146 Englishmen were confined overnight, of whom only 23 survived the ordeal? Q. When a girl, driving her own car, stops to buy gasoline, should _| the man who is with her offer to pay for it? A. Yes, he may offer, but the girl should refuse. Q. How can one show deference to a person when iftroducing her to another person of the same sex? ican exports reach strange destina- tions and pledges of European gov-| ernment representatives are broken.; Subversive influences will be strong| 2. What metallic element constitutes 40 per cent of the earth? in Washington, despite secret serv- 3. What bird’s song can be heard for more than a mile? e Yellopen: ’f)““‘;“es Wwill be nu-{ 4. What is the “Mare Nostrum”? merous, Wi eadquartefs in le- T 9 gations and consulates. After pre-| LY XV:;’V;SE::SHN plastor (50, called? mature excitement regarding es-| 5 s ek pionage there will be lack of 1. “The Black Hole of Calcutta. watchfulness at a critical time.| 2. TIron. Again spies will seek Government| 3. The nightingale. positions. 4. Mediterranean Sea. International Affairs: Final re- 5. Because it was used at one time by court ladies for making covery of France is prognosticated,| peauty patches. but - only after long tribulations.| for the girl in “Captain Caution.” She didn't get the role, or even the test. She was lucky. “Caution” was a caution—but blonde Carole went ahead to a Zanuck contract, and the seeds of revolution will ger- 2 Lol | minate slowly. Pluto in the rising| BARN DANGE | sign of France is not encouraging.| 11 be held at the Union Hall, Sat- :Eonurelchange of government )sl urday, May 3rd, sponsored by Ju- ooRgL | neau Ladies’ Auxiliary No. 34. Lillian Persons whose birthdate it 15| yogen's Orchestra will play. Admis- | HRYSSHe; siguy olia Yoo of SUC~| sion, gents $1, and students 50c. adv. cess and happiness. Surprises will o . hiug. gpod Juok. WHY SUFFER with your feet? Children born on this day prob-| | ably will be individual and uncon- ("¢ 648 Chiropodist Dr. Steves. ventional. They may hatve event-| ful lives of many changes. (Copyright, 1941) In Vichy, politics will continue to| destroy whatever power the gov- ernment of occupied France might/ attain during readjustment. The conjunction of Saturn and Mnrs‘ PIPE SMOKERS PICK CHAMPION VANCOUVER, B. C, May 2 — Keeping one-eighth of an ounce ¢f tobacco alight for an hour and 57 minutes, A. H. Freemantle of Van- couver claims th weorld’s record for sustained pipe smoking. Smoking a 15-year-old, curved stem “hod,” Freemantle outdrew 64 other entrants in a contest here. Officials of the marathon said the former record was an hour and 34 minutes. i e Kites stiil are flown by the U. S. weather bureau to find out about conditions aloft. The Daily Alaska Empire has tix largest paid circulation of any Al aska newspaper. Killed in Nazi Air Attack Smelt Jamboree. Call either Para-| mount studios or Columbia Broad- casting System i f You may look now. This IS Hollywood. Sight-and-sound: Bette Davis In! pale blue negligee and James Cag- | ney in bed for the final scene of “The Bride Came C. O. D.” both| like ham but not too much.” gress for funds to fortify not|Of Staff of Latin American armies, . merely the Aleutian Islands but @nd had flown them all over the| They use a raccoon on a leash also Guam. | United States as a goodwill ges-|t0 intrigue the bloodhounds used in In other words, the Admirals 'Ure. Admiral Stark, however, de-)the woodland chase sequence of went far beyond the President of Murred for nearly six months, de-| Man-Hunt” The first time, the the United Sta in to suppress news—and ti do. s attempting always PUPPETS OF Today Secretary Knox and Admirals pass the buck, in p to the British for their tight-fisted press policy. The British, they say, have specified that no information THE BRITISH should leak out regarding the Royal Navy's ship movements in American waters. If this is the case, then it is the first time that American Ad- mirals, traditionally jealous of their own prestige and rightfully proud of their own Navy, have ever taken orders from the British Admiralty. Furthermore, when these colum- nists inquired at the British Em-' bassy regarding the impending ap- lmenl construction?” spite State Department urging, and finally consented only to a very, limited tour of the Eastern sea-! board by the Latin American Ad-| mirals, | Disclosure of these facts in print created a furore among cer-| tain naval office who, however, | did not deny their truth. And loyal! Commander Thurber, in rebuking this column, contended that it was| unpatriotic to criticize Admiral| Stark, who held the important post of Chief of Naval Operations, “This is a time of emergency,” said Commander Thurber. “And in this time of emergen- cy,” he was asked, “would you deny the press the right to criticize the National Defense Commission for the lagging defense program? And would you stop criticism of the | hounds are excited and bark won- derfully. After that, being movie hounds, they're hep to it and eo through the motion, as blase as an aged matinee idol Kkissing another heroine. . A They make a picture called “There’s Magic in Music” and then are afraid the title plus the uapli- cation of highbrow music will keep the customers away. They call it “The Hard-Boiled Canary”--which fits exactly—but then the music- lovers squawk, and somebody thinks it doesn’t do justice to Allan Jones, who's in the cast with Susanna Fos- ter, so—they change it back, after release, to “There’s Magic in Music.” . I have a postcard (courtesy ama- teur radio W6SPB) from Bill Du- chaine, Escanaba (Mich.) Smelt Jamboree, to this effect: *“Chance howling like coyotes. This was not so simple a howl as it seemed. “You're not right on the high note,” Cagney admonished. “It's like this.” (Howl.) Bette howled. ! “More like a screech-owl,' said Tutor Cagney. “Put your heart into it. $his 3 Willlam Keighley, the ascetic- faced, joined in. “It seems to me it should be more like this . . ." “Nope,” said Cagney. “Youre a wolf, Bill. That was the mating call of the great Alaskan wolf.” | “It had overtones of coyote,” Bette conceded, “but to me it had also an authentic note of a Union Pacific freight whistle.” They howled all afternoon, assist- ed by Keighley and a pack of cough drops. Keighley hoped they would be a howling success. Give it the full throat, like ‘Nhy actors worry: _ First time I met Carole Lanuis Army for inefficiencies of canton-!for good yarn for you. Linda John- she wore a black wig as part of her ‘son elected sweetheart Escanaba'argument for a much-wanted test Lord and Lady Stamp Among those killed in the German aerial attack on Londen were:;. 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