The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1941, Page 4

() hl)ail?y. Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY BENDER - - - R L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Totered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: delivered by earrier 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, fn advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- sWery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatthes credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. President Manager ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. tional Newspaper Representa- Los Angeles, Portland, GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc,, Mves, with offices in_San Francisco, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. TTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. PEACE, IT'S WONDERFUL Thirteen persons attend a Juneau “peace ra]ly"! at which the group decides to constitute itself a! chapter of the America First Committee. | Counted in the 13 were reporters assigned to| cover the meeting and having no particular inter- est in its aims, whatever they are. At this rate Alaska's men of peace are goimzl to have to hump themselves to recruit enough sup-| porters throughout the Territory to make up a pro-' posed Committee of 36 to spread the Lindbergh-| ‘Wheeler gospel. We are in favor of peace, of course, and if we| thought the local group was devoted to obtaining| and maintaining that blissful state throughout this| they reached $550,000.000 negp vy ;.th% will gx- céed three billion dollnrs??; vaide. ?’l‘lo iyeal’s ago | there were about 25,000 Glillan pilofs ih the, United] | States. Today there are 100,000. | Progress in the development of the Federal air ways system also is noteworthy. It was hastened,| | last autumn, by a supplemental appropriation of | $2,000,000 above the regular budget allotment. More than 3,000 miles of airways have been added. Many | vital elements in the long-time plan have been completed in all parts of the country. By next yea | the backbone of the Alaskan system will be com- plete, and we will have service on the important Pacific islands. | There can be no disputing the fact that avia- tion is remaking the world today. The role of the, airplane in modern war has been dramatized dur- ing the past few weeks but its influence throughout | the conflict has been decisive. The role of the air- plane was dramatized at Crete and in the Atlantic. At Crete an entirely successful invading force was borne by air across open water and landed on an island. At Crete, land-based aircraft inflicted hem’y‘ losses on too many British naval units to leave a pleasant impression. And in the Atlantic, aircraft| of several types—largely American-built—wrote the | doom of the dreadnaught Bismarck. They made it| plain that the very word “dreadnaught” now is ob- solete; for the battleship of today certainly has cause to dread one thing at least. Lockheed air- | planes spotted the Bismarck in a Norwegian lmet.‘ Catalina seaplanes shadowed her from the clouds. And when she had outrun the British ships, another Catalina found her and directed the avenging forces to her. Then British torpedo planes from the Ark Royal so disabled her that she could only wait her doom. That same week saw the President of the United States asking Congress for another three billions dol- | lars for military and naval aircraft. The development of aviation in this country has been spurred tremendously by Adolf Hitler. In the end that development may well prove his undoing.| Germany’s Oil Supply (Cincinnati Enquirer) Ever since the first weeks of the war, there has/ been talk of Germany's oil shortage. Yet there tatively that the Nazi war effort has definitely been hampered by lack of diesel fuel or aviation gasoline. Possibly some “breathing spells” in the German| troubled world, there would have been at least 14 Eti the meeting. | But the way to peace is not via the America| First Committee. “ The performance of that organization in this hour of crisis is such that a more appropriate name would be the America Next Committee. AVIATION'S EVIL BENEFACTOR Hitler has fanned up an ill wind which will do| the United States and the world no end of good in the long run, according to Brig. Gen. Donald H.! Speak- | Connolly, Administrator of Civil Aeronautics. ing last Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, the Gen- eral said: “Adolf Hitler—without intending to—has put a silver lining inside his dark cloud. He has forced recognition of the airplane and its potentialities, and to be perfectly blunt about it, his evil deeds have put aviation forward 20 or 30 years. I am sure you will not accuse me of being a Nazi for saying that. He has misused the airplane. He has taken an invention which can—and eventually will— make good neighbors of the nations of the world; and he has used it to kill and enslave his neighbors. But to cope with him, we are being forced to de- velop aviation beyond our wildest imaginings.” Two years ago, in this country, there were 50,000 workers in the aviation industry. Next year there will be at least 400,000. Two years ago this nation’s aviation products were worth $125,000,000. Last year! shortages of oil. Certainly the seizure of Rumanla§ was made necessary by the lack of domestic oil re-| sources in Germany. Yet a shortage of decisive di-| mensions has not come. | Now Dr. Robert E. Wilson, a qualified oil expert.j asserts that Germany is conducting war with a total| petroleum production, ‘including imports and syn-| thetic fuels equal to only five percent of United States production. In itself, this argues the ever- present possibility of an oil shortage in the Reich. Dr. Wilson very properly points out that there will always be a chance to end the war satisfactorily | by intensive and continuous air bombardment of! | Germany’s synthetic fuel plants and oil transport lines. The Briiish have been aware of this possi- | bility, but have hot had the abundance of bomber | craft to engage in a really massive onslaught. The Germans may take Cyprus and then move | through Syria in force against Iraq, finally taking over its rich oil fields. In the light of Dr. Wilson’s ‘stutements and figures, it' seems probable that the | German drive into the Middle East is directly relat-| ed to the problem of oil supply. Merely controlling Iraq, however, would not au- | tomatically mean abundant oil for Germany. Iraq’s | 0il would be avallable to the Reich only with com- | mand of the intervening sea. And it will be a long time, if indeed it ever happens, that the British will lose éffective command of the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. The Germans have not bothered to ask the Ital- ians to help them occupy Greece. Mussolini’s boys | never did exhibit a great deal of enthusiasm about that part of the country. and supports. such things as stresses and strains recapturing magnesium from scrap |aluminum. It boils off when the Wachingfon ; MG"" " { o-Round o (Continued from Page Ove) | red from Panama and the Regular | Army have mnot been too adept at‘ handling raw draftees. Equally important has been the | neglect of the morale or spiritual side of army life. Some camps are better than others, but in many | of them the men are given little to | do in the evenings. There is hardly | any of the music, theatrical per- formances, lectures and high-type entertainment which featured can- tonment life during the last war. DON'T UNDE] AND WAR Little effort has been made to| supply newspapers and reading ma-; terial in the camps, and the men| seem to have little idea of what is| going on in Europe. Certainly the President’s ideas on the menace of Hitlerism and the belief of the ma- Jjority in Congress that the safety of thorouglhy to the new army. | Moreover, most of the homes from | which the boys come have no clear idea D war alms or the reason im_?maker,« received a telegraphic order|from under the boys'and behind the the draft. And that probably is the root explanation for the slow hmkh‘ ing of army morale, Because of this lack of direction duty which has to be performed and | got over with as soon as possible.! They count the number of furloughs | they can have, which is three times ten days, plus week-ends, and sub. tract that from the number of day they must serve. Several of the President’s advis- | ers have been urging him to take| the lead in charting public opinion | and explaining, to men of military | age and their families, what the war is all about. PUZZLED NAVAL EXPERT Rear Admiral Ben Moreell was at the Army and Navy Club the other evening. As Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, he is an expert on Evelyn de La Tour was there, too —a lovely blonde dancer, wearing ai strapless evening gown. With a glance at the bare shoulders and the strapless gown, the Admiral said | to Miss de La Tour: “As an engineer, I would like to know how that gown is supported.” | COMIC OPERA The handling of the aluminum shortage problem has reached the comic opera stage. It's been headed that way ever since Edward R. Stettinius, attrac- tive young chief of Raw Materisls/ for Defense, solemnly proclaimed' there was no danger of a deficiency | in this vital metal—despite the warn- | ings of plane makers and experts. Setettinius doggedly stuck to his| stand until one day he suddenly |slapped aluminum on the priority |local control aimed at running the list—thereby completely reversing himself nad admitting he had been talking through his hat. | This move was followed by an- nouncements that in ortler to make the supply of the metal go as far| |as pgssible for defense purposes, its ical arena, when cornbelt Farm Bu- the United States is tied up with | US€ In consumer articles, such as re- reau leaders, led by ambitious Earl England, have not yet p«-rcnlamd»‘”3"‘“‘” ice trays, would have to;Smith of Illinois, dumped the Roose- {be curtailed. But the latest antic 1s;velt-Walluce ticket and put in some really funny. From Stettinius' office, ‘plane not to sell their scrap aluminum. Beyond that there were no imuuc-! tions. So they kept it and soon had | Harge piles of scrap aluminum clut-|“in” with the reigning administra- many recruits have been allowed |8 up their plants, taking up tion. With-many jobs and other to look upon military service as a|'.uable space. Pinally they com-|“gravy” at stake, the prospect of be- plained to Washington, wanted to| know what 1t was all about. | Explanation they received was that | the scrap was wanted for resmelting. | The plane makers couldn't be-: lieve their eyes, because the short- |age in the metal is not in ingots but | cultural Advisor and former New n sheets and forgings. So the p]nnei makers let out a loud snort, where- | upon another explanation was forth- | coming. Explanation this time was that the scrap was desired for its mag- | nesium content. T!!is time the plane makers groan- ed in despair. For although alumi- num does contain a small percentage of magnesium, apparently the Stet- tinius masterminds did not know that there is no known process for | healthy, scrap is melted. FARM BUREAU FEDERATION Moguls of the powerful Amerlcani Farm Bureau Federation are ready to say “uncle” and make peace with| the Administration. Up to a year ago the Farm Bureau was the fair-haired boy on farm policy, largely due to the suave as- tuteness of Ed O'Neal, Federation | president, -and - his personal friend- ship with Roosevelt. The organiza- tion carried a lot of weight with the President and Wallace, so that hun- dreds of its local dealers got lush federal jobs administering the vast AAA program. s But at heart most of the Federa- tion’s generalissimos never were very hot about the New Deal, and last year they began demanding greater Program themselves. And in a show- down over domination of the Fed- eral Land Banks, Wallace rapped them over the knuckles and the bat- tle was on. Soon it spilled over into the polit- heavy licks for Willkie. Willkle'’s defeat knocked the props scenes they have been getting in- creasingly jittery because they've al- ways leaned pretty hard on their ing in bad with the powers was not So, reverting te the old realistic axiom, “If you con't lick 'em, join ‘'em,” the boys have propositioned Clifford Townsend, Defense Agri- Deal Governor of Indiana, on being their peace-maker. Townsend was one of the organ- izers and first leaders of the Farm Bureau in the Midwest. Yet when he stumped that area for Roosevelt and Wallace last fall he bumped up against the bitter opposition of many of his old associates. So he has not vet decided ;whe maker. P (Capyright, l;ure ¥ by’ United Fea- icate, Inc.) HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE 9 J. J. Meherin Pauline Adamsen . E. M. Polley Gene Lundstrom F. Richardson Frank McCafferty F. D. Fitzpatrick Effie Waters HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” | | | | | TUESDAY, JUNE 10 ! This is not an important day in planetary direction. In war and! peace whatever has been set in motion will gain impetus. Labor is under mildly adverse influences which seem to indicate dissatisfac-| tion regarding women workers in defense projects. | Heart and Home: Adverse aspects| may be disturbing to women today | when they should prepare for un- expected calls upon them for pub- lic service. Minor tasks of all sorts| should be accomplished and the for girls many opposite experiences. They will enjoy much of romance while they engage in hard work for effort have been dictated by temporary or localized |the general good. This week msy‘, be a time of waiting for some- thing important to happen. The wise will be ready to respond to any call of duty or opportunity. In the great human drama of 1941 there will be a return to high thinking and simple living among JUNE 9, 1921 The Army appropriation bii! in its present form carried an appro- poriation of $450,000 for construction of military and post roads in Alaska. Unusually high water in the Chilkat Valley took out the bridge over ! the Klehini River. Mrs. Frederick Mears was elected President of the Anchorage Women's Club, Juneau Elks were making preparations for the obseravnce of Flag | Day, June 14. C. C. Jones arrived home on the Admiral Watson after a trip to the Westward on Internal Revenue Department business. "t Sy Fifty more laborers were needed at once by the Alaskan Engineer- ing Commission for pick and shovel work at Broad Pass, according to a wire received by Gov. Thomas Riggs. The Alaska Road Commission reported that gasoline from the Katalla gasoline imported from the States. Oak Olson, of the brokerage |oil fields was of better grade and was giving more satisfaction than firm of Olson and Meherin, was a passenger for Ketchikan on the Admiral Watson. Weather: High, 62; low, 48; rain. Daily Lessons in English % .. corbon e - e e e s - - 2 ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I cannot do it without you help me.” ADD, E as in HER; or, han-gar, AH; accent is on first syllable. Say, “UNLESS you help me.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hangar. Pronounce han.ger, A as in first A as in ADD, secoond A as in OFTEN MISPELLED: Calliope; observe the two L's. SYNONYMS: Ritual, precise, punctilious, studied. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours. | home calendar cleared for impor-| increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: never has been a time when it could be said authori-|tant work. The summer is to hold FURTIVE; sly; secret; stealthy. the speaker’s attention.” Let us “He made a furtive effort to attract Q. Is it permissible tion? A. No MODERN ETIQUETTE * popgrra LEE to contradict another person in conversa- If you can politely present an opposing viewpoint, it will Americans who will use their re- create further conversation; but drop the subject if you find that the sources generously for mon good. i prosperity which will benefit citi-| zens of the United States large for-| tunes will shrink and small posses-| slons will expand. Gradually there will be a trend toward equalization of wealth, The spirit of democracy which has prevailed in education will dominate more and more. El-‘ ropean and American astrologers, have " prophesied that a form .of} state socialism will emerge from post-war conditions. National Issues: Gradual har- monizing of interests will be ac- complished as employers and em- ployees unite to produce the tre- mendous machinery of defenm; The spirit of democracy is to flame| in the hearts of Americans who 'in time of emergency reach an under- standing of opposite points of view. Citizenship will inspire men and women to the right comradeship| which erases all forms of class consciousness. In the inevitable re- making of the nation betterment of conditions in a land of splendid resources will be achieved. International Affairs: Because Hitler is said to have depended! much upon astrology in making his plans for aggression, the fact that after victory his timing failed seems to prove that there were mistakes in the horoscopes cast for him by his consutants. It is true that Lon- don seers predicted that early in 1941 the Fuehrer would reach the peak of his career. According io many readers of the stars there will be a tragic close of the dic- tator’s life within two or three years. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of mixed experiences with unexpected good fortune compensating for losses cr disappointments. Children born on this day proba- bly will be industrious and ambiti- ous, impetuous and determined. They should be mentally alert, imaginative and sensitive. Writers and orators belong to this sign. (Copyright, 1941) SOAP BOX DERBY TRIAL RUNS ARE SET FOR TONIGHT ‘Weather permitting, a trial run for Sogp Box Derby cars will be held this evening at 8 o'clock on the 12th street course over which the big Rotary-Empire race is to be run on June 26. Chief of Police Dan Ralston will have the street closed off for boys with cars complete —_——— MRS. GEORGE SIMPKINS GOES SOUTH ON VISIT Mrs. George Simpkins left for the south aboard the Aleutian for a visit with her daughters ana will remain below for the summer, the com-| other person’s feclings are becoming hurt. Q. When a child has outgrown the wearing of a bib, should he be Business Affairs: In the flood of g)owed to eat with his napkin tucked under his chin? A. No, he should be taught to use a napkin.exactly as older per- sons do Q. Where, in the church, is A. In the vestibule. properly rehearsed. e e e e . -t S LOOK and LEARN the bridal. procession formed? This can be done very quickly if it has been by s A. C. GORDON 1. What is the diameter of a penny? 2. What living creatures have the greatest number of ribs? 3. What army officer was chief engineer in the construction of the Panama Canal? 4. How many squares are there on a checkboard? 5. What is the meaning of “gin,” as in cotton gin? ANSWERS: Three-fourts of an inch. Snakes. St cola =t An abbreviation for engine. George W. Goethals (1858-1928). 64 squares, 32 red and 32 black. HAWKES GOES SOUTH =+ J. C. B. Hawkes left for the south aboard the Aleutian and expects to return to Juneau within fiw weeks accompanied by Mrs. 4 and son Jack. ¢ "~ BUY DEFENSE BONDS ° Graduation Time at Annapohi Selected as the navy's “color girl” to present the colors to the win- ning company at the U. S. Naval academy graduation exercises at Annapolis, Md., Fay Ann Albrecht of Coloumus, Wis., is shown pre- senting the colors to Midshipman William E: Heroneumus of Madi- son, Wis,, commander of the company. Admiral Russell Wilson, commandant of the academy. is at right. ectory Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger D] Blr ngren* PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Gffice Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9-+Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 pm, e ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collsge of Optometry ana ‘Opthaimology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 [The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Pourth and Pranklin PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR ; Qeward Street Near Thnird JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. 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