The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alllkl HELEN TROY BENDER - President R. L. BERNARD - - VICF Pre«ldent nnd Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas 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 faflure or irregularity in the de- Uvery 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 CmC'ULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN F ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. al Newspaper Representa- GEORGE Los Angeles, Portland, Mves, with offices in_San Prancisco, Beatfle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Prank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Buildi AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION There is good ground for encouragement in the recent report of Col. John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, on behalf of the aircraft industry. This report shows, first, the extraordinary present expansion of the industry based upon orders placed in the late summer and fall of 1940. It shows, next, that quality has not been sacrificed in speeding up production. flnally, it holds an optimistic outlook for the immediate and | long-range future. Here the predictlon s made that 18,000 planes under present programs will be turned out this year and 30,000 in 1942. There is, however, every likeli- hood that present programs will be increased. Colo- nel Jouett urges, in this case, that every source of subcontracting be utilized before undertaking any further time-consuming program of plant expansion. A recent survey has shown that 28,000 factories in this country are now without any war orders. Some of these certainly should be put to work fabricating parts which the aircraft industry itself can use in building planes. As to quality, the report reveals that American planes on every one of the war fronts are giving satisfaction, but that new models have not been neg- lected in the rush of orders. At least 16, details of | which are military secrets, have been developed. They include promising interceptors to combat night bombing. Colonel Jouett makes this heartening statement: “America, within a short time, will see American war craft rolling through factory doors and swarming through, the skies in astonishing num- bers. On behalf of the aircraft industry I guarantee it.” INDIA—WAR FACTOR India has almost limitless man power, much of it splendid fighting material. In the last war she put 1,500,000 men in the field, and the present In- dian army has already passed half a million. But the fact that the colonial authorities were able to outfit and equip the strong British force just landed in Iraq without help from the mother country re- veals how far India has developed as an industrial factor in the war. We think of India as a land of peasants scarcely touched by industrialism. Yet India today is pro- ducing 90 percent of all war supplies necessary to her drmiies ‘arid ‘Wil soon ‘be self-sufficiént. ~Her 600 states have 'the potential resotirces to- out-produce Japan. Already her ordnance factories are pouring out all the rifles, machine guns and artillery required by existing troop formations, with exports to spare for Australia. Her shipyards are launching torpedo boats as well as armed sloops. Even tanks are roll-| ing off the assembly lines, though engines must still be supplied from England and the United States. American machine tools are expected to remedy this, deficiency. The annual output of mechanically pro. pelled vehicles has soared to 32,000 and is expected to double. A plane factory in Southern India will come | into production next year. The base of all this ac- | tivity is the Indian steel industry, with huge ore re- I sources and one plant alone that ranks among the | | world's. first 16. | Even the political situation seems better. Volun- | teering has increased beyond the capacity to absorb it. 'Nazi victories in Europe have not broken the | Indian home front, but instead have served as a co- As India’s industrial power develops | hesive force. fbhe will prove a pillar of strength to Britain. The Pattern of Victory (New York Times) A group of 17 Americans of varied experience, including four high-ranking Admirals recently on the active list, has performed a timely service by challenging the defeatism now being spread by the { faint-hearted, the cynics and the doubtful friends of Britain. These Americans point out some of the tremendous forces at work on Britain's side: sea- power, which has never yet lost a struggle of world- wide proportions; industrial production, at which no other nation in the world can remotely match the full-fledged effort of the United States; geography, which will permit American production to function { uninterruptedly, safe from any air attack, so long as Britain stands as the first-line of our defense; raw materials, available in inexhaustible quantity to the British and ourselves, whereas Germany still lacks sufficient supplies of many vital materials despite her conquest of the Continent. Concerning the immense importance of this final item we have the added testimony of another expert: it was Hitler himself who told the Reichstag only two years ago | that Germany must have overseas sources and mar- kets in order to survive; “expor!, or die,” he put it bluntly. There comes a point m every war when defeat- ism thrives willingly on bad news. In the present case two factors create the illusion of German invin- cibility, but only for those who lack perspective. The first is the superiority of Hitler's mechanized war machine; the second, the extent of his victories. But; as this committee of Americans reminds us, the| superiority of Hitler's mechanized weapons is ex-| clusively the result of the head-start he had whue other nations were indifferent—a “temporary and | (leeting” advantage which can be offset by our own superior capacity for production. As for the area over which the swastika now flies: it was polnted‘ out on this page a few days ago that fully three-| quarters of all the land that Hitler rules today lxy\ inside the Germany military lines in 1918, and still .his. did not spell a victory for German arms. The pattern of victory is a combination of mili- tary competence, industrial genius and moral stay-| ing-power. We belive that Britain is at least the equal of Germany in the first; that Britain and the in the second, and that experience will show that| United States are incomparably superior to Germany discipline taught at the end of a whip is no substi- tute for the loyalty and patriotism of a free people. Britain can win this war, and Britain will win this| war, if we turn loose the full power of our war in- dustries and take whatever action may be needed to bring our productive equipment into contact with | the battle-lines. Earl Browder, who often has tried to talk him- self into Federal position, will now find that the| i pen is mightier than the word. | ‘We are great relieved by Russia’s announcement that she is still mad at the United States. For a while we were shuddering at the thought that the Reds might come out from under our bed and climb in with us. The birthday photographs of Hitler and his staff show them from various angles, but none of the pictures shows them in Great Britain, Wathinglon {be in the thick of the war with | fighting on Irish soil. neutrality, with no help from Brit- ain until t.he bombs actually begin |tary government | become a major problem in {laxation in the furious onslaughts Merry- Go-Round ' (Condnued from Page Ous any Irish cow pasture at a rate of | about 20 miles an hour and are not | easy targets. At present the Nazis are perfecting big gliders holding 12 men each, which can be towed by a mother plane over an invaded coun- try, then cut loose. ALOOF STATE DEPARTMENT } ‘Worry over Ireland is so acute in ‘Washington that several steps have been taken to try to win the Eire government over to the British side in advance of a Nazi invasion. Con- sideration was given some time ago to sending Joseph P. Kennedy, or some other outstanding Irish-Am- erican, to Dublin as an extraordinary ambassador. So far, howevre, noth- ing has come of this. More important has been a silent, but nevertheless definite State De- partment boycott of Irish demands for war materials. When Irish Min- ister Brennan called upon Under Secretary Welles recently to ask for anti-aircraft guns, trench mortars, | anti-tank guns, he was met with| stony silence. On March 20, Minister Brennan had submitted a list of arms Eire wanted for its army. not say so, but it was obvious that no such equipment will go to Eire until she cooperates with Britain. BRITISH WANT THREE BASES ‘What England wants, specifically, is three bases, one in the north, two in the south. But according to State | Department soundings, the Irish are irrevocably opposed to granting this, for four reasons: 1. If the English ever get a foot- hold in Erie again, the Irish claim, they would never withdraw. The old Welles did | 3. Britain does not need the bas- es, since she already has a base in Northern Ireland just 20 miles from one of the bases she now desires. 4. England is not sufficiently prepared to defend Eire, and would merely let the country in for a repe- tition of the debacle in Greece. Mixed up in this reasoning is a lot of Gaelic gall still bitter after 700 years of Irish-English conflict. It is so bitter that the Irish have told U. S. officials quite frankly that if Britain forces her aid upon them they will fight Britain just as they would fight Germany. BRITISH “SQUEEZE PLAY” In fact, Irish feeling toward Eng- land has grown worse in recent months rather than improved ever to the point where the Irish suspect the British of trying.to get them attacked by Germany so as to arouse Irish-American sympathy, thus get the United States into the war. The Irish also feel that they are being squeezed by the British ir various ‘ wartime economic moves For instance, the Irish at the start of the war wanted to buy ships for their own use, but desisted on the British promise that they would be allotted cargo space in British ves- sels. Now, the Irish say, liftle or nc cargo space is forthcoming. At the outbreak of the war, also. the Irish had 300,000,000 pounds in British banks and proposed to con- vert it into dollars. But they left the money in London on the British promise that they would get all the foreign exchange needed. Now, the Irish say, they get not a penny. The Irish also proposed at the be- ginning of the war to transport their own oil, but Britain interposed that she needed the tankers and would earry oil for Ireland. But today the Irish say they have so little oil that doctors can't run their automobiles. NO PRO-GERMANS fight “which we thought was ended when after 700 years we threw them out” would be renewed again. ‘2 ‘To give Britain bases would draw. .immediate and devastating There is not more than one per cent actual pro-German sentiment |in Ireland and the few outright Ger- man sympathizers are in jail. "Byt there is 100 per cent sentiment fap fire from Ge_rmany. and Eire would J complete independence and completg lq to fall. The Roosevelt Administration, while sympathetic with Irish inde- pendence, is more concerned with the all-importarit problem of keep- ing supplies moving to England. And what worries' U. S. War and Navy officials is the fact that you cannot keep out in 'invdder without very careful advance preparations. For example, one reason the Yugo- slavs caved in so quickly was because there was no advance consultation petween the 'British and Yugoslav General Staffs. This. war has shown that it is impossible to build up defenses over- aght, and if the Irish accept Brit- sh help in digging their bomb shel- ters only after bombs begin to fall, then the Emerald Isle right now can be given up as lost. MERRY-GO-ROUND If the Senate approves the budget increase voted him by the House, Assistant Attorney General Thur- man Arnold plans to set up a section ‘n his Anti-Trust Division devoted entirely to aiding small business men. . . . In his Congressional Di- rectory biographical sketch, rookie Representative Cecil W. Bishop of (llinois gave his nickname “Runt” and also mentions the fact that he ‘learned the tailoring trade” while attending high school. Bishop is still oracticing the trade as a sideline, solicits business from colleagues for 1 tailoring firm he represented be- fore coming to Washington. . . . An ull-time U.'S. record in private flying was chalked up in 1940. Pilots of 16,500 private planes flew 22,000,000 miles during the year. . . . Youngest U. S. Brigadier General is Lewis Hershey, 47, who has this temporary rank with the Selective Service Ad- ministratiaon. Brigadier General Jacob L. Devers, 53, now has the Chief of Field Artillery. KEEPER OF THE SCHEDULE “My company factures ;fs 3] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; WEDNESD/\Y ] MAY 14, 1941 1941 MAY 1941 (50N [ woN | TuE | weo [ Tk | s | B 1/2]3 8|9]10 13 18{16(17 zz 23|24 5(31 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | A7 MAY 14 & ' Lee Lucds &( D. L. MacKinnon Gus Oslund > Patsy Flegk .. Frank Henderson | A. M, Pontius_# Clarice Ad 3 Isabel Stanchiield Orrin T. Bywi ¥ HOROSCWE THURSDAY, MAY'15 Benefic aspects rule powerfully | the Elks’ Hall and was reported a succes: 20 YEARS AGO FH% EMPIRE MAY 14, 1921 A total of $625000 for the construction of a Capitol Building in Juneau was to be available if a bill introduced by Scnator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, would become a law, according to advices received here. Positive declaration that steamer service between Puget Sound and Alaskan ports was to be resumed within a few days was made by Governor Riggs. The price of gasoline dropped two cents a gallon according to the Standard Oil Company officials of Juneau. The last social event of the school year, the Senior Ball, was given at Oscar Hart, representing Neustater Ketchikan on the gasboat Harry. Bros, was an arrival from L. S. Robe, engineer in charge of the work of the Admiralty Alaska Mining Company at Funter Bay, arrived in Juneau on the Estebeth for ‘several days on business. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hopson, of Gypsum, arrived in Juneau on the Estebeth. Thomas E. Hall opened a candy and ice cream parlor at the corner of Franklin and Third Streets. Home-made candy wag on sale and although the shop had just opened, it was doing a good business. Weather: Highest, 55; lowest, 44; rain. O . e e - O 04 today. In the morning hours the| stars smile upon labor which will| cooperate with manufacturers with | splendid results. Army, Navy and aviation are under the best po<- sible direction while this configu-| ration prevails. | Heart and Home: Women should be fortunate today in love as well| as in business or professional in- terests. The' evening is mogt prom- ising to all in the artisnc profes- sions, especially to actreskes and singers. Under this rule initiative should be successful. It is a lucky day for girls to seek positions. Col- ‘ lege students should benefit. It is| an auspicious date for making new" | friends of opposite sex and lovel |affairs should flourish. | Business Affairs: Exports will occupy attention under this plane- which promises great expansion under the Stars| and Stripes. Confidence and opti-| | mism generally should prevail as| coast to coast commercial expan-| | sion continues. Merchants come| | under a most stimulating influence! which presages a summer df ex- | traordinary activity. Money ¢ now should be plentiful and spmdm" generous. | National Issues: Samtauqq will owd- ed seaboard cities where zsease prevention is to occupy Scigntific attention through the summer Pub- lic health should be safeguarded! with extraordinary care. Removal! of children and old persons to mountains or beaches will be rec- ommended, but the seers declare that the Pacific Coast may not be an ideal place for safe havens. International Affairs: Forecasis for the latter pdrt of this month do not give assurance of any re- of war. Results of conflicts this month will include reports that are not encouraging to democracy. Criticism of certain parts of the| British campaign will be reflected in the United States where enemies of the nation will foment trouble.! Changes in the President’s cabinet are prognosticated before the end| of the summer. Labor is to make a historic decision as a result of| an untoward incident. There will be a special reason for speeding Cefense tasks. Persons whose birthdate ‘it i3 have the augury of a year of new experiences and rapid advancement. There will be fortunate changes. Children born on this dayiprob- ably will be amazingly lucky, for they will invite success qrough their unusual talents and Tsis- tent industry. Self will andquick temper should be early curbed. | (Copyright, 1941) '# But airplane motors ake the It's watch-making i other. fussiest of all. on a grand scale. “Take this sheet. It's a stady of Bosch’s ability to produce magnetos. Theres’ no point in our telling tt- Whitney to produce ‘X’ number of planes next year unless they're going to get the magnetos. | “And Bosch has got to know if | they're going to get the ball bg¢arings for the production of the magnetos, and the man who makes the ball bearings has got to know if he's going to get the machine tools to make the bearing races of the forg- ings.” He could go further if you warited him to. Harold Boyer is chief of | the manufacturing unit of the air- craft section of the Office of Pro- duction Management. In a single phrase, he has to “see to it that'the | schedule balances out.” He learned his trade by worflnz 10 years with General Motors after | schooling at M. I. T. And before that, he went to little Wittenberg College in Ohio, where he has his roots. Boyer is 42, has nice blue eyes, and lives alone at the Shoreham. Whenever he can, he flies back to temporary rank of Major General as |end with Mrs. Boyer and the four t manu- | the way he did. "What they mean Grosse Pointe, Detroit, for a week- little Boyers. His colleagues in OPM say they wish they could speed up production Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon e e e k- o) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Where have the family moved to?” Say, “Where HAS the family moved?” Omit TO. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Mongrel. Pronounce mung-grel, U as in UP, E unstressed, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Hypnotize; ZE. Hypnotism; SM SYNONYMS: Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is your: Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: PROPENSITY; a natural inclination or bent. *“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches.”—Hume. .i MODERN ETIQUETTE * poperra rEE Q. Should children be Ldnght to rise when an older person enters a room? A. Yes seated * and they should remain standing until the older person is Q. Would it be all right for a girl employed in an office to invite the woman who is at the head of her department, for lunch? A. It is better not, as this usually has the appearance of courting favors. Q. What is the proper way (o carry an umbrella? A. Carry it carefully by the handle, so that its point will not accidentally injure someone. Mmm I.OOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON o e - - - 0 0 0 e s o) What is the birthstone for May? What is the primary source of noise in an airplane? Which is the swiftest @f all the important rivers of the world? What is the more common name for a “cicada”? For whom was the fatted calf killed in one of Jesus’ parables? ANSWERS: Emerald. - The propeller; the secondary source is the engine. The Rhone, whose current ranges from six to forty miles an hour. Locust. The prodigal son. b Ml o B 0 B e Russel, Rose and Palmer Long (L to'r.) children of the late Senator Huey Inng of Louisiana, unveil a statue to their father in statuary hall, Washington, D. C. Rose is now Mrs. McFarland. A large gather- ing of Congressmen were on hand to see the unveiling of the statue to ~ the Louisiana firebrand. - “ou Eut dormwn{y at the Un{- P doaches of trains 75, versity p‘ Nortlt Carolina, * “i ago werg little larger than erecud 1794. t-rlm cllooues of today. Professional o Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel ctors Direc Drs. Kaser and MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 % Second and fourth F h Monday of each month s in Scottish Rite Temple e u!ger beginning at 7:30 p. m. L. VERGNE L. HOKE, Worshipful Master; JAMBS W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Juneauw’s Own Store —_— Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST i 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Gfice Phone 469 e ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO | Dr. Judson Whittier Drugless Physician Office hours: 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4 'rn.ngu Bldg. INE 667 Post Office Substation = D : NOW LOCATED AT ! v John H. Geyer ||| HARRY RACE s v e ||, onvcor | Hours: 8 am. to 6 pm, B s T - ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. 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