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3 - that plane manufacturers dellvervd 972 completed units during February to the Army, Navy, Great Britain, other Governments and commercial airlines. This compares with a figure of 1,036 planes put out for January and 799 planes for December. But how is the public to interpret these figures or to make comparisons? How many of the planes delivered in February were for commercial airlines? Should not this figure be stated separately from that of military planes? 1If the figures given out | for January and December also included commercial transport deliveries, the fact was not previously made clear. We have been told that 60 percent of the December and January figures represented train- ing and the rest combat planes. Apparently this ratio still obtains, but it has not been made clear whether it does or not. It might be revealing too much information to the Germans to break down the monthly airplane production figures into the exact number of medium and heavy bombers, fighters, and so on. But at least the production of training and combat planes could be presented as separate figures. When five |or six training planes can be built for the cost of | one pursuit plane, and 20 for the cost of one heavy bomber, it is close to meaningless to lump all these itypes in the same total. - - Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening EMPIRE PRINTING Second and Main S(rtfu Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY BENDER - - President R. L. BERNARD - ‘.C(‘ P"‘\‘d?l’\l and Business Manager e tn Juneau as Second Class Matter. Entered in the Post Of 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, tn advance, $1.25. 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Dunnins, American Bank Building. 1011 Thorn in a Flank 1 | ] (Cincinnati Enquirer) The Axis attack upon the Italian-built fortress of Tobruk, now manned by British forces, is an ad- mission that this threat to the flank of the German- | Italian spearhead aimed at the Suez Canal must be | dealt with before it would be wise for the Axis | forces to proceed into Egypt. i In the British counteroffensive of last winter ‘Tobruk was one of several Italian strongholds which | the empire forces by-passed in their pursuit of the main Italian forces. General Wavell followed Ger- man tactics in this regard. After having chased the main Italian forges far back beyond the coastal | strongholds, the British were able to mop them up | with relative ease. The Itallan garrisons were with- > v , lout prospect of reinforcement by land, and hence The Merry-Go-Round says our State Depart-| wo.o'yot difficult to capture when squeezed in be- ment will “shortly negotiate with Canada" for con-|iween the British Mediterranean fleet and empire struction of the Alaska International Highway. If|jand forces. so—and this column has a batting average of prac-| However, the British retreat was more strategi- tically 100 percent—the role of the Territory in re-|cally executed when the combined German-Italian lation to the nation soon may undergo a great|drive across Libya materialized this spring. The change. A highway would demonstrate to the peop]e‘(‘mmre forces undertook to fight only a delaying of the United States, as nothing else would, mac‘flcflon No considerable body of troops or equipment Alaska is an integral part of the nation and not a| Were left to be trapped in the Central Libyan, coastal remote “possession.” When any motorist in the|8re3, as at Benghazl. Only a well-fortified Tobruk, United States can load up his family automobile and‘cnmfurtably clqse 10 t_he Britlsh Egyptian outposgs ST o = was a substantial holding force left. But this obvi- drive it into Fairbanks in the coux.\pv of a few d“y‘q“ously was done intentionally. then Alaska will be a certain candidate for st&l!‘-} hood. Our long insularity—one not of geography butof the Axis drive, although it would be unwise to ALASKA—PART OF THE NATION Besides bringing us some enlightenment on the motives behind the flight of Rudolf Hess, today's| Washington Merry-Go-Round column in the Em- pire carries a modest little item which is of supreme interest to Alaskans. The retention of Tobruk by the British undoubt-iMBn itista {edly has had much to do with the apparent stalling| o'y Products, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY MAY I9 1941. | from’ THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO - MAY 19, 1921 Charles Goldstein and family were occupying their new home at West Eighth Street and Calhoun Avenue. The house was purchased from Henry Shattuck and was considered to be one of the most attractive residences in Juneau. The first patent issued for any homestead in Eagle River Valley was | received by Henry C. Alexander. All the residents of the valley joined in a celebration of the event. | HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAY 19 Mrs. T. J. Pyle Dale M. Roff Mary Ellen Spain Francis F. Davis F. D. Gwin Harold Gronley J. F. Jackson Mrs. Helen Janos Mrs. Mary Mulholland [ E——————ee HOROSCOPE “The stars incline | but do not compel” | | ekl Miss Emily Borgen, stenographer at the Legislature, sailed for Seattle {on the Northwestern. | F. W. Densler, accompanied by Mrs, Densler, arrived in the city on | the Estebeth from Haines where he had been on business connected with If,he Associated Pharmacists for which he was Alaska representative. Charles Otteson left for Funter Bay on the Earl M. to look after his lmlnlng properties there. Miss Agnes Hill was to leave for Seward on the steamer North- western. Oscar R. Hart, commercial traveler, was to leave on the Northwestern for Anchorage. A native with a little black bear club on the end of a chain caused a lot of excitement among the children and some grownups. The little bear, which seemed to be only a few months old, was frightened by the strangers. TUESDAY, MAY 20 | —-_— After the early morning ~hours Weather: Highest, 47; lowest, 43; rain, benefic aspects rule today. Neptune is in threatening place, but: mp\.-.—_-m-—__m stars seem to smile upon those under the sway of Uranus. D Iy'_ E gI h Heart and Hyome This is a for- al essons In n Is W. L. GORDON tungte date for beginning BOY NEW] Koo s ememseim st aemsm s Sl s msiniond task. It is lucky for those who seek | ’ employment in vocations which| WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I can't say as I care to usually are followed by men, Girls|go.’ Say, “that I care to go.’ who adopt the handicrafts for- OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Compilation. Pronounce the first I as merly belonging to old-fashioned| in IT unstressed, not as in PILE, accent after the A. women should find this a profit- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cannon (a large gun). Canon (a law). able date. The use of the hands is| SYNONYMS: Tire, fatigure, exhaust, jade, fag. strongly advised by the seers . Who| woRD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us foretell that in post-war condifions|y increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: gisitous liviog, willicbe SUaSeeed) 1PRECEPT any commandment, instruction, or order intended as a rule Women trained in household work | 15 will be fortunate in making ‘_hc“,‘ of conduct or action. “My precept to all who build is, that the owner homes comfortable. should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.”— Business Affairs: Manufacture of| Cicero. perfumes and cosmetics will prove MODERN ETIQUETTE > ROBERTA LEE profitable, despite war condmom.l the manufacture of which has been transferred from Paris and London. will be! Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Clfice Phone 469 MOUNT . JUNEAU LODGE NO. ll'l Worshipful Master; LEIVERS, Secretary. O T T IR O R § Juneau’s Own Store Second and fourth Monday of each month ~ in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. VERGNE L. HOKE, JAMES W. — | Dr. Judson Whittier CHIROPRACTUR Drugless Physician Ofneel;ourl 10-12; 1-5, 7-9 Rooms 2-3-4. Triangle Bldg. PHONE 667 D — S — | Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours; am. to 6 pm. ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Colloge of Optometry and ology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground D — | Helene W. Albrech! PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter ""The Rexall Store” Post Office Substation “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. Watch and Jewelry Repairing Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. NOW LOCATED AT | HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Stere for Men" You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN of neglect—appears about to become a thing of Lhc(predlct that German sirategy may not eventuate in past. |a movement from southern oases.dodging the men-| | ace on the flank at Tobruk. But Tobruk, which can }be supplied ana provisioned by sea and, therefore, |is capable of holding out almost indefinitely, pro- | vides the British with an excellent base for forays To be successful, the defense effort must enlist|against Axis supply lines—particularly since desert the enthusiastic cooperation of the whole country.| fighting is so largely a matter of forays anyhow. It cannot do this if the public is kept too much in! And Tobruk could prove to be a real point of dis- the dark to know how the program is progressing.| aster if Axis reverses should compel a retreat frqm It must know in a broad way what has been done, | the Egypuan invasion as before. The activity what remains to be done, in what directions we are 2round Tobruk indicates that the strategists of both ahead of schedule, in what directions we are serious<[smes By min ly lagging. The public should know everything about‘[ the defense program, in short, that is not properly If the America First Committee plans to present |a series of “educational exhibits,” we might suggest a military secret. s Adintteation It 4l to foll " that the next one after the coffins should be some e Admnimation has sill o foUOW & POUCY| wrecked buildings, a cluster of mangled bodies, and of adequate publicity, or even a consistent policy. a scene from a concentration camp to show what Take once more, as an example, the production of has happened in other countries which thought airplanes, in which there is more popular interest they could get along with Hitler by not offending FACTS ABOUT PLA |popular. It is foretold that fash-| ion experts from Paris will help to, develop New York and Hollywood modes. Prosperity in the United States will assure widespread trade |in what have become non-essentials, abroad, it is forecast. The stars’ m-‘ dicate that 1941 will be a year of | magnificent expenditures by Am-| ericans. ‘ National Issues: Agitation to:re-| strict the sale of alcoholic beverag-| es slowly. will extend throughshe summer. Again. prohibition willbe discussed and temperance work among young women will be a first step toward forming public opin- ion. Tre cocktail party as a debu- tante social gesture will gradualiy become unpopular and the presence Q. When a man is making a business call, isn't it all right for him to place his hat and brief case on the desk of the man with whom he is talking? A. No. He should keep them in his lap. Q. What is one of the most difficult things to teach a child? A. That he must not interrupt a conversation. The child who per- sists in breaking into conversation is a nuisance. Q. Is it customary for a woman to shake hands when she is being introduced to another woman? A. This is optional, but show no hesitation in taking her hand if she offers it. LLOOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON 1. What was the “Olive Branch Petition"? Mortuary Fourth and Franklin PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR 4eward Street Near Tnmd * JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING RCA Victor Radios Second Street — % INSURANCE Shattu;k_zgency 8. FRANKLIN STREET —_—a and RECORDS Juneau Melody Heuse Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Phone 65 CALIFORNIA of women at bars maintained:in than in any other item. The OPM now announces him. Wa:hmglon (Condnued from Page Oue. neatly into the shifted picture. But | Rudolf Hess did not. He and some of the other political leaders did not envisage a war to conquer the world, but only dom- ination of the continent and semi- partnership with England regard- ing other parts of the globe. They have had doubts about internal pol- itical sentiment if the German peo- ple were pushed too far. Germany has undergone enough hardships since 1914, they argued ,and there is no need to conquer the world. NO MILITARY SECRETS How deep this rift extends is not known, but diplomatc dispatches in- dicate it has been deepening and that Hess, under suspicion in recent | months, has not been in the con- fidence of the Nazi high command. | Hence he may not be of much mili- | tary use to the British, A super-sensitive person, Hess fre- quently had shown signs of worry ' about the fate of Germany and the | Nazi party. Last fall diplomatic dis- | patches reported that he was con- | fined to his home because he kept giving Hitler pessimistic warnings of what was in store for Germany For a time members of the diplo- matic corps in Berlin did not know what had become of the No. 3 Nazi, | thought he had either been purged or killed at the front. Later he re- turned to official life and appeared close to Hitler until recently, when the Balkan-Near Eastern campaign was launched. CAPITAL CHAFF Tom Corcoran, the ex-brain trust- er who became a parent, jokingly refers to his three-month-old daughter as “Sour Puss.’ New est name for trust-busting Thurman Arnold, coined by Lionel Atwill, is: “The D’'Artagnan of the New Deal.” Kindly Senator Capper, Republican of Kansas, will address the meeting of Boy Scout directors in tribute to his late Democratic colleague, Will- iam Gibbs McAdoo, for many years honorary VicePresideni of the Boy Scouts. . . . Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts every year contributes part of his salary to sending a group of Pennsylvania Boy Scous to camp. the late Republican President, has become Vice-Chairman of the “Fight | for Freedom Committee,” a militant organization advocating U. S. entry into the war. -Mrs. Coolidge also organized a branch in her home town. BURR UNDER F. D. R. Their GOP colleagues didn’t know | but several Republican | about it, Senators gathered with Democrats the other day to devise plans to make Roosevelt come out for con- | voys to Great Britain. The Republicans included Sen- ator Bridges of New Hampshire, Chan Gurney of South Dakota, and Ball of Minnesota. They met with Vice-President Wallace, Democratic | Leader Barkley, Josh Lee of Okla- homa, Pepper of Florida, Truman of Missouri Murray of Montana (who | vigorously disagrees with his isola- |tionist Montana colleague Burt | Wheeler), and several other Demo- crats. Ex-Senator Ernest Gibson of Ver- mont, now head of the Commm.eef for Defending America by Aiding [the Allies, was also present. Several Senators, including the Re- | publicans, felt that Roosevelt was | failing to bring the seriousness of | the international picture to the | country, was letting public opinion self. They decided to get word tc the White House to exert more lead- ership. ANTI-WILLKIE CAMPAIGN General Robert Wood, head of Sears, Roebuck and Chairman of the America First Committee, is train- ing his personal guns on Wendell Willkie, apparently infuriated by the increasing militancy of Willkie's ad- vocacy of all-out aid to Britain. Wood is telling isolationist inti- | |mates that it is all-important to concentrate their fire on the 1940 | GOP standard bearer. Among those he conferred with on this “Get Will- kie” drive was a leading New York publisher. Other America First leaders make no secret of their feeling that Will- kie is their most potent platform [foe and of their desire to silence him. They say that Willkie com- pletely negates the effect of Colonel Charles Lindbergh, whom the Am- erica Firstites believed would sweep the country. MERRY-GO-ROUND Representative Warren G. nuson, of Washington, one of the ! ablest young members in Congress, « » - Mrs, Calvin Coolidge, widow cf is a pioneer advocate of that U. S.- l Empire Classifieds Payl’ = lead him rather than leading it him- | Alaska highway that the State De- partment will shortly negotiate with | Canada. Magnuson was Chairman of the U. S. Commission that re- cently met a similar Canadian body to work out technical details of the vital defense road. ~ POKER FACE Douglas C. MacKeachie used to play poker for the A. and P. Stores, but now he plays poker for Uncle Sam. When he directed purchases for A. and P’s New England division, | the stakes were 250 million dollars | a year, and he played his cards close |to his chest. Donald Nelson liked | his game, and brought him to the OPM. MacKeachie is Deputy Di- rector of the Purchases Division. The Coast Guard is in the market for wool. The Navy is in the market for wool. The Army is in the mar- | ket for wool. MacKeachie steps in. |“Hold on, here, one at a time; if | you fellows bid against each other, | the price of wool will get out of sight.” That’s typical of the job he does, | from an office in the Social Security [ Building in the shadow of the Capi- |tol. At first he handled only “sub- sistence” items (food), but now his range has broadened. He handles ievery'.hlng — shoes, sheets, shirts, sugar, coffee, caffein, castor oil. . |But not airplanes or tanks; that's | a production problem. His voice is very quiet over the [telephone. “Cover that in writing,” !'he says to somebody. Then, “These items are scarce, and taking mw consideration the British needs . Then again, “That price !ncreue in | sugar is due to water freight rates ‘ He is at this all day, from 8:30 | to 6, or later. He has a farm home |in Medfield, Mass., but he hasn't been there since the first of Janu- ary. He has trouble enough getting | as far away as Georgetown. He and Mrs. MacKeachié have quarters there, but the real ties are in Med- fleld in an old farmhouse built in 652. | ACcpyrigm. 1941, by United Feature | Syndicate, Inc.) i P ot e Rl | | W. P. MILLS ARRIVES | W. P. Mills, prominent Sitka bugi- | ness man, arrived from Seattle on a | northbound Lodestar yesterday and |is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel ‘bcrore returning to the Coast town. Mag- | He has been south onabullness Mrs. John White, R. L. tnp ———————— restaurants will be criticized. : Slow | progress in the movement to com-! pel temperance or total abstinence is presaged by the stars. i International Affairs: Peace ne-| gotiations will be announced in| propaganda sent out by Axis pow-’ ers, but while there will be aspects affecting London that seem to| presage some sort of enemy armls-f tice proposal next month, there is a configuration which forbids ay sort of peace, except one ‘that is It 2. Whose picture has appeared on more postage stamps than any other person who ever lived? 3. What is the name of the great river of Alaska? 4. How many furlongs are there in a mile? 5. Where is the largest library in the world? ANSWERS: 1." An ultimatum offered England in 1775 by the American colonists. was rejected. 2. Queen Victoria. 3. The Yukon. 4. Eight. 5. The Congressional Library, in Washington, D. C. the result of victory for Great Britain. The presence of Mars, Britain's ruling planet, in Ariesiiis read as most promising. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of suc- cess attended by beneficial changés. Disagreement with a partner “or business associate may prove (ol- El M A, for Fairbanks on the northbound; FLIES WITH SCHWAMM ectra were Martin Pinska, Walter | ikkola, Dorothy Stone and Dr.| S.. Walkowski. e —————— Bubscrioe to the Dalny Lester Elkins, Petersburg pharma- cist, arrived in Juneau today with pilot Tony Schwamm. Elkins, in Empire—the paper with the larges |Juneau for a short business visit, paid circulation. is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. tunate. Children born on this day probn bly will be popular, generous . and talented. They may become gifted musicians or writers. Love affairs may be disappointing. ° i e ¢ PAN AIR BUSY OVER SUNDAY Plane Mov;EnIs Carry Passengers to and from Inferior and Seattle Pan American Airways had six plane movements yesterday as two Lodestars arrived from Seattle with six passengers for Juneau and im- mediately left for Fairbanks. Ope|. Electra left for the Interior and the Douglas roared out of Juneau for Seattle. Passengers arriving in Juneau on| the Lodestar were Gov. Ernest Gruening, Jack Claum, Harriet| Shannahan, Dr. W. Charteris, L. H.| Thompson and W. P. Mills. Through passengers to the Interior on the two ships were Vernon Lontz, Mrs. | Christine Lontz, W. Deady, Frank! Panchot, L. B. DeLong, Felix Schii- cheiseg, Major L. C. Hallenquist, Mrs. E. L. 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