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

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, - President Vice-President and Business Manager Entered 1n the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per b By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.5. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office n! any failure or irregularity in the de- Uvery of their papel Telephones: News Otfice, 602; Bustness Ottice, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for cepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- Mves, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — American Bank Building. rank J. Dunniog, 1011 CRETE LOST In itself, the island of Crete is not large or im- portant. It has no resources of any military impor- | tance. But its location, commanding all the ap-; i forces on the island, !advantage—and perhaps the most important one— |sus, from bases in the Italian Dodecanese near by vasion of Crete may, in one sense, have even greats er significance, | land; Crete, like England, lies close to the mainland | of Europe (60 miles from the nearest point in the‘ Greek Peloponnesus); Crete, like England, was de- | fended by determined men. Since the invasion of | | crete succeeded the threat of invasion hangs even | more heavily than in the past above England. | But, unlike England, Crete was defended by only a very small part of Great Britain’s military strength. The number of men under Major Gen. Bernard C. Freyberg, New Zealander who commanded the Allied | is not known. But they could‘ not be large. General Freyberg may have had a partly reorganized New Zealand brigade (evacuated from Greece), British coast and field artillerymen,’ anti-aircraft gunners and supporting troops, several squadrons of the Royal Ailr Force and an unknown number of Greek and Yugoslav troops—still prob- ably in the process of reorganization and re-equip- ment—who were evacuated from Greece. In'addi- tion, some of the island's population of 350,000 could be armed to form home guards against just such! attacks. The chief British difficulty in the defense of Crete was unquestionably the problem of finding sub_ ficlent troops to guard all of the island’s serrated terrain against the “vertical envelopment,” or attack| from the skies. Furthermore, the defenders were probably handicapped by the speed of the German attack; it has been only a month since the evacua- tion of Greece, and it is doubtful whether the re- organization and re-equipment of all the troops de- fending Crete had been completed, or whether casu- alties had been fully replaced. Still another dis- was British inferiority in the air. The British could be attacked from numerous bases in the Peloponne- and, perhaps, from some in the Cyclades, recently seized by the Germans. The German disadvantages, on the other hand, were considerable. The British had naval superior- proaches -to the Aegean, makes it an extraordinarily important prize in the Nazi campaign for control of | the Near East. | The first news of descent from the air of 1,500 German soldiers disguised as New Zealanders seemed | almost as mythical as legends of the minotaurs that | haunt the mountains of the island. Like the flight| of Rudolf Hess into England, this bold aerial excur-| sion into enemy-held territory emphasized again the| oddly mythological character with which modern weapons invest the ancient art of war, Gliders, troop-carrying transports and finally ships came to broaden and strengthen the hold which parachutists first seized. The British found it impossible to keep their navy in Cretan waters under the bombs of German planes. Today Berlin claims, and London admits, that Crete has been taken over 100 percent by the Nazis. The island joins Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Libya, Yugoslavia and Greece on the list of lost causes of the present war. Now that they have Crete the Germans have a strong base for air attacks on the Suez Canal and also a bridge from Greece to Syria. The next pier of this bridge is the island of Cyprus, and an at- tack there may be expected at any moment. The defenders of Crete found themselves unable to deal with each contingent of Nazi troops as it ardivéd. . The Nazis obtained footholds nt numerous places on the island and proved their ability to send additional thousands of air troops each day. That this was exacting a strenuous effort from Germany was proved by the fact that aerial operations against | the British Isles and military operations in Libya and Egypt were completély suspended during the at- tack on Crete. ' Crete was not only of strategical importance in the Mediterranean scheme as an outflung British bastion that, like Cyprus and Malta, permitted of- fensive action against the flanks of the Axis supply and communication lines; it was also a symbol—a symbol of British strength. Since it has been re- duced, the British defeat will' have repercussions in the Arab world; an Axis-held Crete will provide an- other stepping-stone for the Germans in their “Drang nach Osten,” and the 160-mile-long island will be another springboard for, Axis attempts to control the !with the foe no matter what problems the attack Eastern Mediterranean. Moreover, this air-borne in- ity that the Germans overcame by air power. Air | fields and most of the best seaplane harbors were | heavily guarded. And the rugged, mountainous ter- rain of Crete, with peaks rising to 8,100 feet and valleys seamed by many rivers, made quick concen- | tration of forces landed from the air difficult, and defense relatively easy. But Crete is lost. The conquest of Greece is now complete. Most important of all, the Germans have demonstrated again that they can deal decisively presents. The Germans lost heavily in their attack upon Crete, But the English lost vastly more. There is very little satisfaction for the democratic world in reviewing the Cretan campaign. American Wings (New York Times) Pan American Airways announces that it has in prospect a ten-hour daily service from New York to Lisbon, and daily services between San Francisco and Honolulu, Seattle and Alaska, and on all its| lines throughout Latin America. The foreign service of this systém has been extended to 72,645 miles of routes, by far the most extensive international air service in the world. Indeed, under the American flag are airways three times the extent of those gained by any of our leading competitors—British Overseas Airways, Air France or the Deutsche Luft- hansa—before the war broke out. In Latin America Pan American’s routes total 40,578 miles and on the South American continent itself some 30,000 miles. This is about 8,000 miles more than the total of the Axis Powers combined.| Those Powers have actually extended their Pan-| American’ operations by nearly 3,000 miles since the war began. But this effort is meeting increasing difficuities with the growth of unity in outlook among our neighbors to the south; witness, for ex- ample, the expropriation by Bolivia of the German airline, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano. Our own ‘international airline maintains naviga- tional training schools for Army and Navy fliers at Miami and a school for mechanics at San Francisco. It is proving of direct aid to hemisphere defense through the use of its airports in Latih America and Alaska by our own services and by air fleets of the Latin-American republics. In event of an emergency these lacnmes would be of major value. W¥achinglon Memy- Go-Round (Goadnued from Page (roed sum only $400,000,000 actually nas | Pursement, been expended. But overshadowing ‘all else, grave deficiencies stand out: PaiRs Happeps. facilities; remnants of the | problem of centralized, dynamic fi:‘:‘auoml Defense Commission, control of the defense machinery. | which for months has held up hun- | Zreds of millions of dollars worth of | dent’s hands. He can't keep them new plants in a hair gle over the amortization provi of last year's defense. tax act. To date only thirteen ‘out of 480 | pending “certificates of non-i -reim- to start new plants, have been approved. Unless the Pres- ident himself pushes the button,(ful times. Physically and mentally All the balls are still in the Presi- -splitting wmn.‘nu juggling at the same time. No isions | one man could. Wilson tried it, but | had to make Bernard Baruch his de- fense czar. It takes a super-man just to di- |réct the diplomatic and military strategy of the nation in such fate- it is impossible for one man to cope For Crete, like England, is an is- | [P BRTHDRS 1. The lack of a dynamic boss of the whole defense program, to keep all its component parts forging ahead in unison at high speed. 2. The lack of a carefully formu- lated new program to meet the ti- tanic Nazi war resources, which to- day outstrips ours, vast though they seem, by at least two to one. . MISSING MR. BIG “ As one high military expert just back from Europe expressed it: “Our rate of production is oo slow and our program too small” But if the | defense program were under the di- | rection of a single competent head, ‘he would know what is needed and | would act to get it. Plenty of expert information is avaijlable. Several detailed programs have been prepared, But all these data get nowhere because there is no centralized authority to do some- thing about it. OPM chiefs Knudsen, Hillman, Biggers, Nelson, Batt are abundant- ly aware that the defense program is sorely inadequate to meet the menace of Nazi might. But, over- burdened with their immediate job of mobilizing the colossal war in- custries machine, they have neither the time NOR THE RESPONSIBIL- ITY to formulate new programs. This power is dispersed among a number of overlapping and conflict- ing authorities — Army and Navy brass hats, jealous of their preroga- tives and resentful of outside prod- ding; dollar-a-year generalissimos, like Samuel R. Fuller, chief of raw materials, who is so industry-mind- ed that he is blocking expansion of power, steel, copper.- and other L,\-l DELAYED BOMBERS For six months, military authori- ties have known that the chief U. S. and British air need was long range heavy bombers to strike at the | vitals of the Axis. But nothing was done—until several weeks ago, when Roosevelt finally got around to or- dering action. | ‘There are other examples of this | kind, equally grave. One is the fail- iure to require sub-contracting of Army and Navy orders on a suffi- ciently large scale really to acceler- ate the productive tempo. There are thousands of plants all over the country, tooled and staff-| ed, eager for defense sub-contracts | (orders to supply parts to major \contmcwrs) Experts estimate that | & | by this means of distribution defmse output could be tripled and quld- rupled. But big contractors, sup- | ported by industry-minded brass | hats and certain $1 men, have per- | sistently opposed sub-contracting. For months the issue has been argued in inner circles, and only now steps are being taken to do some- thing drastic, OVERWORKED JUGGLER The President’s method of trying | to solve this administrative chaos is to pile new agencies and assistants on top of the old, without removing the debris . Recently, in an apparent effort to keep himself better informed re- @arding the brain-whirling defense € dded to his personal staff ! Lubin, deputy to Sidney Hill- pdilliant: analyst, Lubin ns and outs of the de- vill be invaluable. But this not splve the fundamental does jwith these mighty foreign problems while at the same time trying to run a gigantic industrial program. The ‘economic, social, labor and financial | questions are too. complex. ‘There are outstanding, patriotic and devoted chiefs in the OPM. Given a production job, there is no yman in the U. S. better capable of executing it successfully and speed- ily than Knudsen, The same goes for Hillman, Biggers, Nelson, Stet- tinius, Batt, others in their fields. But there has got to be somebody to tie them all together to give the | whole -a steady, smashing, direct | drive, day in and day out. There isn't now and there won't | be until Franklyn Roosevelt relin- quishes some of the balls he has been | trying to‘juggle. ROCKEFELLER'S COFFEE MAN ' You buy 50 or 100 pounds of cof- iee a year, but Berent Friele buys 200 million pounds. Rather, he did until last January, when Nelson Rockefeller borrowed him from the | Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea com- | pany and put him into a little office |in the Department of Commerce. | Today he is a member of that select company known briefly as the “Rockefeller Office,” which is try- ing _to improve relations with Latin America. Just as the Chase National | Bank lent Joseph Rovensky to Uncle Sam for a dollar a year, so the A and P lent Berent Friele. Friele is an American citizen to- day, but he Norwegian born. Bver singe 1 : of Bergen, Amq broug] lv&dthmfl.'fee. Berent . HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE 2 Curtis G. Shattuck Carl Stallard : Mrs. F. C. Talmadge Mrs. Katherine Hempstead T. S. Olver 1 Mrs. F. M. Graves Henry H. Hargreaves ' Ted D. Leonard Christie Molver | SNSRI S Y'Y | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline . | but do not compel”. ‘ | TUESDAY, JUNE 3 a2 | Labor comes under a promising aspect today. Neptune is in threat- ening sway which bodes ill. for ships at sea. There is a sign read| as. indicating poor judgment and an inclination to criticise. Heart and Home: Women are under a sinister sign while this configuration prevails. It is a day when they may be easily deceived or may be determined to do what is deemed unwise by the members of their families. It is a time to prepare for a summer of wise ser- vice for the nation. College girls should concentrate on studies and should forget “dates” which may be disappointing. The stars seem to indicate much happiness and cor- responding anxieties for women of all ages through the next few months. Business Affairs: Advertising and propaganda are to become more and more forceful in the summer months. Newspapers and magazines should realize unusual profits. Peace| organizations will suffer through| sinister implications. Fund-raising| efforts will arouse suspicion as bo« gus philanthropies flourish. ' For-| tune-telling devices “and . persons| who prophesy will gather lafge amounts of money while prosperity | spreads. v National Issues: Jealousies and| rivalries among draftees will begin to' show themselves as certain:ifw- vored young men obtain ocommMils- sions and promotions. Political in- fluence will be invoked, but Wash-| ington will be determined to"pre~ vent - special privileges for 'iyoung men of any class. Democracy' is/to rule in the gigantic ‘defense’ move- ment which is to prove world-wide in its effects. Brilliant results:are to be obtained in all branches «@f| the service. jae International Affairs: In the house of administration in'Presi- dent Roosevelt’s horoscope there is a planet which presages wise ‘use of the great powers bestowed supon the Chief Executive. Despite" strikes industry is to produce an amazing amount of war machines and-miu- nitions. Mars is in a place in m\ horoscope which promises rapidity in the expansion of the great muh- ufacturing plants. Europe is "to' be astonished at the accomplishments | of a peace-loving nation m iits preparations for war. |39 Persons whose birthdate w‘ls have the augury of a year of df- tense activity. Gain in professiofial | or business returns is prognostiéa-| Children born on this day préb-: ably will be skillful in desigiifig and in technical attainment.' They will be generally fortunate throtgh life. fiw | (Copyright, 1941) trained in the coffee trade, and W he made his first trip to Braz qs a young man, he was entranced wmfl the country and with a certain young Brazilian lady, and he remained to live there and to marry. He saw great possibilities for Bra- zil in the development of the coffee market in the United States. He could smell a good market as he| could smell a good grade of bean,: and the A and P spotted him as'the right man to select and buy théir coffee in Brazil. This connection brought him to New York, You can't touch.the Rockefeller | office at any point without having an expert pop out at you. Rockefeller has experts in everything from mov- les to manganese, and when he was looking for a coffee expert,! James Forrestal said: man for you,” and he produced Berent Friele. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Former Alaskan Is Given Damages, Road (onslrudnn WASHINGTON, June 2 . The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill to appropriate $2,500 for Mrs. Paul Liebau Anderson, of ,| Little River, Cal, for dginages re- sunng from . construction of a mnd the Alaska Highway s misgien across 'her land at Wi e R b her husband until he returned to Juneau. Mr. Craig was relieving Agent | dance? | and electricity? “I have- the |- JUNE 2, 1921 Miss Edna R. Voss, Superintendent of Schools for the Woman's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, returned from a visit of inspection of the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka. Prof. H. A. McKean, Superintendent of the latter institution, together with Dr. and Mrs. Condit, accompanied her. Mrs. Robert Craig was in Skagway where she was to remain with E. J. Shaw of the Alaska Steamship Company, who was ill. H. Ahrenstdet, who had been on a business trip to his mining prop- erty at Sum Dum, arrived in Juneau Henry Roden, accompanled by the crew of two men who brought the former’s boat, Jugoslav to this port, left for Petersburg on the Harry Grover C. Winn left on the Harry for Wrangell on legal business. W. L. Bruce, a well known employee of the Perseverance Mine, was to be a passenger for the south on the Princess Mary. Bishop J. R. Crimont was to be a passenger on the Northwestern for Ketchikan where he was to have a confirmation class. Capt. C. S. Ward, Disbursing Officer of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, accompanied by Ike Taylor, was to leave on the Alameda for Western Alaska. Weather: Highest, 55; lowest, 44; clear.. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He would not hear to our leaving so soon.” Say, “He would not CONSENT to our leaving so soon.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Comparable. accent on first syllable and not on the second. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Extent (size; length). ence). SYNONYMS: Accomplish, manage, conduct, direct. 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: INCREDULITY; unbelief; skepticism. “Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational.”—Buckminster. MODERN ETIQUETTE ** qoprrra rEE Q. Isn't a person justified in resenting censure, when he knows he has done something for which he deserves praise? A. La Rochefoucauld says, “Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.” Q. If you are playing tennis and a point is doubtful, should you suggest that it be played over? A. The good sportsman will call the point in his opponent's favor. Q. What reply should a girl make when a man thanks her for a Pronounce kom-pa-ra-b’l, Extant (in exist- A. She may reply, “You're very welcome.” LOOK:- and LEARNA ¢. GORDON 1. Whose kite-flying experiment established the identity of ]ighlnlnglé “I enjoy it too,” or 2. How many earthquakes occur on the earth every year? 3.. What animal, even if blindfolded and dropped from any position, will always land on its feet? 4. What is a quorum? 5. What is the only crime that is defined in the United States Constitution? ANSWERS: 1. Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). 2. About 9,000. 3. The cat. 4. Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is, | when duly assembled, legally competent to transact business. 5. Treason. 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