The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Jun.lll, Alll!l HELEN TROY BENDER - - President R L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager Sntered 1n the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following ri One vear. in advance, $12. ix months, in advance, $6.00; ¢ne month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify Jie Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in tbe de- Wery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Pr ely entitled to the use for epublication of all ne credited to it or not other- wise credited in this the local news published hereln ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOBE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- iives with offices in_San Prancisco, Los Angeles. Portland, Beattle, Chicago. New York and Bostor ATIVE — Prank J, Dunning, SEATTLE 10m American Bank Building. OUR NAVY AND JAPAN’S Our ambitious friends the Japanese, if they; happen to have an 'extra merchant ship lying idle| anywhere, might dispatch it to the nearest Ameri-| can port at the first opportunity to pick up a siz- able consignment of copies of a new book by Capt} W. D. Puleston, U.S\N, The title of the book is 'The‘ Armed Forces of the Pacific: a Comparison of the| Military and Naval Power of the United States and Japan.” The details involved may not come as much of a shock to the staff of the Foreign Office in Tokyo, or to the staffs of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Marine, but they ought to arouse an almost morbid interest among Japanese in general. | Captain Puleston, as a number of Japanese al-| ready know, was one of our liaison officers with the Imperial Navy in 1917, and more recently, before his retirement, held the post of Director of our Naval Intelligence Service. He has long been interested in Japan, in other words, and not merely in the scenic beauties of the country or its charming customs and quaint traditions, either. Here he raises the issue of how long it will Lake‘ the United States to smash Japan after war in the Pacific finally begins. That is a fairly blunt way| of describing his book, but that is about what it comes to. Under normal circumstances a discussion of this kind would hardly serve to improve relations| between Washington and Tokyo. If enough Japanese| were to read Captain Puleston, there might be signs of change overnight, and in the end considerable impmvement He argues that Japan would necessarily be de- feated in the end. The relative strengths of the| Japanese and American fleets he puts at 7 to 10, and the effect of the present building programs will only increase the disparity. There is no way of knowmgi exactly, he admits, how many new ships Japan 1s| planning to lay down or has already laid down, but on March 1, 1941, an Odfficial estimate in Washington put the figure at 38, as compared to 367 for the United States. Captain Puleston insists that Japan, in terms of her verified capacity to build and her indicated po- | his forecasts and draws his inferences accordingly. ing its opponent in a ratio of 10 fo 7 are actually, at the beginning of an engagement, 100 to 49, and increase with each salvo, as-the stronger fleet in- | flicts increasing damage on the weaker. The great threat to the American fleet, he goes on, has already been averted: could have been caught unawares, as the Russian fleet was caught in 1904 at Port Arthur. The bulk of our Navy is now practically on a war footing, at one of the strongest bases in the world, Pearl Harbor. Were open hostilities to begin, nothing| would suit its commandets more than an all-out| fight at the earliest possible moment. Should Japan decide not to risk an all-out fight at first and to limit herself to hit-and-run engage- ments, that strategy could be worked against her as well as by her, and meanwhile the body of the Amer- fcan fleet would have crossed the Pacific toward harbors in Guam and the Philippines. If Guam and | the Philippines had already been taken, there wouldi still be friendly bases in the Netherlands East Indies and at Singapore, and a long-range blockade of the empire could be slowly tightened. The important point, Captain Puleston concludes, is that Japan could not blockade the United States even had our Navy suffered a series of reverses, while one positive victory over the Japanese Navy would be decisive. He doesn't deny Japan's power or the courage of the Japanese personnel, or over- look the possibility of our having commitments at the same time elsewhere, or, for that matter, regard the war itself as altogether inevitable. But he sees how the wind is blowing in the Pacific and shapes Troops by Glider (New York Times) A long way from Crete, and as early as 1935, four Franklin gliders, each carrying a passenger, were successfully strung together and towed into the air at the annual meet of the Soaring Society in up- State New York. The airplane used for motive power was a comparatively small Waco single-engined craft of the private airplane type. At the same meet a four-place glider was launched and flown, although the airfield atop Harris Hill was limited in area and without paved runways.® Presumably a multi- engined bomber would have little difficulty in tow- ing aloft from a large and suitable airport a con- siderable train of gliders. Even a fairly heavily load- ed glider would present comparatively little rolling resistance on suitable terrain for the take-off. Types recently developed in Germany and elsewhere would | shed their wheels when once in the air and depend on a central skid for landing, a method entirely| practicable with an aircraft having the high lift, slow landing and flat gliding characteristic of the well-designed motorless types: Obviously, either gliders must remain in tow of the powered craft until comparatively close to their objective or, if they are to be cut loose at any con- siderable distance, a very exact and skillful use of, thermals and air currents must be presupposed. In either case, and once again, whatever the outcome in Crete, the Luftwaffe has shown willingness and| startling ability to make use of a new weapon. Both | the British and ourselves must be prepared to match, | and to outmatch, their daring and ingenuity. Salaam to Science (Philadelphia Record) Very often we get impatient with science. It hasn't found a way to curethe common cold or eradicate tent caterpillars. But now we hail a really important forward step —the potential eradication of the pest who leans on his automobile horn to summon his girl friend from her home. We are referring to patent No. 2,240,595 just granted in Washington. It's a device that will permit operation of the horn only when the car is in motion. ‘We call on Congress, the Legislature, City Coun- cil and' the League of Nations to make installation of this device mandatory. tential, can neyer begin to catch up. He points out, Let’s show we are master of the machine age. tion Board conference at which the [ she named a three-man committee mioreoveér, that the odds in favor of a~fleet outramk«+, HAPPY BIRTHDAY R e e e JUNE 10, 1921 A white glacier bear, rarely seen in Southeast Alaska, was killed by John Rudolph, Juneau native, at Taku Glacier and was brought to | Juneau togethen with the effects of Rudolph who was drowned shortly after he killed the bear when he attempted to swim to his boat. The freighter Amur, of the Union Steamship Line, was in port dis- charging a cargo of 450 tons of British Columbia coal for the Pacific Coast Coal Company. Winners of all previous prize waltz contests were invited to waltz JUNE 10 " |tor & grand prize the following evening at the A. B. Hall, Ada May Burns Sharon Hagerty Mrs. V. F. Williams Cora T. McPherson Eugene Chase Joseph P. Donahue Olgat J. Anderson Mrs. L. J. Williamson, Mrs. Timothy Flannigan David Hollingsworth 0—*_@ HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel”™ || — sy WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 | Adverse aspects rule through the' morning hours when there may re disturbing news that causes differ- ences in interpretation. Labor comes under benefic planetary in-| fluences in the afternoon and eve-| ning. Heart and Home: Constructive and progressive tasks will flourish today when women of all ages will | be interested in public matters. So- cial affairs are under favorable sway. Girls’ friendships with young men in uniform will be fortunate, because the pageantry and hysteria of war will be absent. Many ro- mances will develop rapidly, but they will be sane and will bring together congenial personalities. This month is to be memorable | for college folk who begin careers| of unusual drama and heroic pos-| sibilities. 1 Business Affairs: Mining will en- gage attention of persons interest-' ed in procuring rare minerals in| demand by makers of munitions. Oil probably will be discovered in new regions and again shale il emit valuable content. Methods#cf' economizing in the use of gasoline| will be discovered and synthetic| fuel will be produced. The natural| resources of the United States will| prove to be even more amazing than generally recognized. wonalos National Issues: There will besa refugee problem as thousands ef| war victims are received in the’ United States where selfish persons accept them as unwelcome guests. The stars presage splendid contri- butions in science, the arts and‘ handicrafts from those who haye: fled from their native lands. Grest benefits as well as increased res| sponsibilities are forecast for thla country which is to become the| most powerful and most prosperous on the globe. P International Affairs: Japan Js| to confront increasing internal dif- ficulties while continuing to nurse grandiose ideas of dominating Asja. Wathinglon Merry- Go-Round (Condnued from Page Ous) had a secret talk with Lewis before throwing his brickbat. But Murray’s friends stirred him to action. They pointed out that this was the showdown, that if Murray backed down he was through for good, that it would do irreparable damage to the CIO. Under this strong urging Murray struck back, denouncing Or- ton’s statement as a “lying, repre- hensible defamation” of the Media- tion Board with its two CIO mem- bers—Murray and Tom Kennedy of the United Mine Workers. However, Orton’s defiance already is playing hob with organized labor as a whole on Capitol Hill. It has clinched the early enactment of leg- islation that will curb the right of labor to strike in defense industries. Even if he wanted to, Roosevelt now couldn’t stop it. The bill would be passed overwhelmingly over his veto Coming on top of the breach of contract by the AFL and ClO machinists in San Francisco, tying up $500,000,000 worth of desperately needed shipping, and the outbreak of exorbitant pay shakedown strikes on defense projects by AFL building trade unions, the Orton incident was the last straw. Senato. Ceorge Norris, lifelong champion of labor, succinctly sum- med up the situation with these words: “If organized labor has de- liberately set out to cut its own throat, the job could not have been done more effectively than these so- called labor leaders have done it.” Some members of the Mediation Board are convinced that there is a central directing force behind the outbreak of defiant leftist-led strikes in key defense industries on the Pacific Coast. Exactly who is doing this secret master-minding they don’t Know, but they believe that the situation is part of a deliberate policy aimed at sabotaging the dafense’program. These dre bome of thé inside Taets on which Qe}‘ base uau M ¢ e RS TR, At the close’ logging strike settlement was form- { ulated, Orton walked up to Chair- {man Clarence Dykstra, warmly | shook his hand, and said, “I'm very | | grateful to you for your klnd efforts, Im leaving for home right away 'and will present your terms to our members. I'm sure everything is going to be all right.” Several hours later Dykstra almost fell out of his chair when an aide showed him a newspaper statement from Orton hotly blasting the peace proposal and denouncing the board as a “labor buster.” L. C. Michener, left-wing Pacific Coast director of the CIO Auto Workers, told newsmen in Wash- ington that the walkout at the North American Aviation Co., at Inglewood, Calif., was not the result of any action by the union’s nego- tiators in Washington. Yet the Med- iation Board has evidence that a | message was sent from ‘Washington | urging a strike, despite an agree- ment by the union not to shut down the plant while negotiations were in progress. Several hours after this message reached Inglewood, the Board says, Wyndham Mortimer, left-wing or- ganizer of the Auto Workers, sud- denly arrived there and went into & secret conference with the. local union leaders. Next morning the plant, piled high with U. S. and British plane orders, was struck, NOTE: Scene in front of a fash- jonable downtown " Washington hotel: A long, gleaming, ‘Jimousine, with a liveried chauffeur in the front seat and Miss Kathryn Lewis; daughter and secretary-of John L. Lewis, in an eevning gown seated all alone in the rear. Miss Lewis is | a member of the Executive Board of | | the America First Committee. MAYBE, AT LAST For years New Dealers and anti- New Dealers have been clamoring for the ouster of well-meaning but bumbling Secretary of Labor Fran- ces Perkins. Their wish may shortly come true—thanks to her attempt to harpoon the potent labor division 1of the OPM. Miss Perkins has long been jealous ‘of this ageney which, in-effect, has {supplanted herdepartment in major labor mutters. Recently, as a result 1ot the widespread outcry against her Tailuré to turn cruclal defense {strikes ‘dver to the Mediation Board, to handle certifications. The OMP has now discovered that two members of this committee, who are close to Miss Perkins, have drawn up a memerandum recom- mending that the labor division be abolished. The OPM crowd is up in arms and swearing vengeance. As they swing a lot of weight at the White House, they may succeed in finally persuading Roosevelt to get rid'of her.. His loyalty to old friends is the only reason she continues in office. NOTE: Genial, able ex-Governor Clifford Townsend of Indiana, with a farmer background and excellent labor record, now is being strongly urged to replace Miss Perkins. MERRY-GO-ROUND Suppotring the plan of Chief of | Staff Marshall to lower the age of | Army commanders, War Department officials quote the late Justice Oliver ‘Wendell Holmes, who fought in the Civil War. To Lady Pollock, during the Spanish-American War, he wrote: “A general of 45 and a private of 30 are old men.” . . . The Com- merce Department has set up a sep- arate British Empire Unit, headed |by W. Walton Butterworth, former State Department official in Lon- don. His job is to establish closer commercial ties with Britisi dom- inions and colonies. . . . When a visitor asked boyish-looking Repre-, sentative Victor Wickersham of Ok- ‘lahoma, rookie successor to the late {Sam Massingale, if he was “old {enough to be-in Congress,” Wick- ersham, 35, replied with a grin, “I'm old enough to be elected President. However, I'm not running this year.” . Twenty-six yeasr ago Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt toted a friend’s baby son around the old Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Savings Bank, much to the amuse- ment of Judge John E. Mack, who later nominated FDR for President. The other day, on the anniversary of the incident, the baby—Charles Durant Maines of Flint, Mich.—was inducted into the Army. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. M. JONEAU | § Douglas were mfls on Prineess Charlotte ,togay, ‘returiing fo- Ju- neau after' & vblt to.the Shws Astrologers have foretold that con- nection with the Axis would be un- fortunate and that conflict with Russia would be inevitable wi three or four years. There fs ‘s sign read as presaging an atf.empc' to surprise island possessions in"the Pacific. Naval activities in.whien the United States is involved are prophesied, . but they may be of little importance. Persons whose birthdate it is! have the augury of a year of angie- ties due to disrupting influel i but help ‘from friends will success and good fortune. Children born ‘on this day pi ably will be shrewd, clever and am- bitious. They may be decidedly in- dependent and contradictory in character, but fortunate careersare indicated. (Copytight, 1941) Louis Olsen, who has been § ceiving medical treatment at Ann’s for an infected elbow, was missed from the hospital today. Ray Jacobson was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday afternoon to receive treatment for a crushed finger, i A baby boy weighing six pounds and 12 ounces was born at 6 o'clock last- evening at St. Ann’s Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. A. Boyer of Peters- burg. Mrs. Edna Atkens was admitted to St. Ann’s this forenoon for surgicnl treatment. Jerry Cropley, George Darril, Evangeline Larsen and Shirley El- stead were dismissed from the Gov- ernment Hospital today after re- cuperating from tonsil operations yesterday. Florence Marks was discharged from the Government Hospital to- day after receiving medical treat- ment. ‘ —eveo—— MISS GOLDSTEIN 'RETURNS ~Miss*Minnie Juneat today en, e Princess Char- }¢ l’lo(m after befilg in'the states for two months on a vuuucg‘mn itk 34 S -~ - lunxemrnedw Tex Zimmerman was elected Chairman and Otto Wideman, Secre- gt,ary of a Douglas committee to arrange for a Fourth of July celebration. B. L. Thane, Managing Director of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, was scheduled to leave San Frarcisco 6n this day for a visit to the mine here. After being closed for several weeks, the Basih Road was opened to traffic, After a meeting of the American Legion the previous evening it was {announced that the members would enjoy a holiday from meetings for the remainder of the summer. Dick Schmidt, of the Feusi Hardware Store in Douglas, left for a visit of several weeks at Tenakee, ‘Weather: High, 58; low, 47; rain. O e e 0 - e S G SR S S ily L in English 3 : Daily Lessons in English . 1. orpon 2 e e S e O S S S S S S s WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “My wife thinks like I Say, “My wife thinks AS I do.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pedagogy. Preferred prounciation is ped-a-go-ji, E as in SET, A as in ASK unstressed, O as in NO, I as in ILL, principal accent on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ewe (a female sheep. Yew (a tree). (personal pronoun). SYNONYMS: Passionless, unfeeling, unimpassioned, indifferent. 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: SPONTANEOUS; proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition. “Spontaneously to God should turn the soul.”—Hood. do.” You o e - - - - - MODERN ETIQUETTE * poperra LEE e ——— Q. If a woman is standing directly in a man’s way, must he tip his hat when he asks her permission to pass? A. Yes e steps aside he should thank her and tip his hat. Q. What me meaningless expressions of speech that should be avoided? A. Such are s expressions as “Don’'t you know,” “just wonderful,” and “if you know what I mean” will detract generally from anyone's speech. Q. Is it all right to ask for quotations as to the price of rooms when making hotel reservations? A. Yes, and upon receiving them make your choice known. Hotels, as a rule, are prompt to acknowledge applications. e 0 - - LOOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON e o - D S S S v e ) 1. How many years are usually considered a generation? 2. Who was the only President to go to Europe during his term of office? 3. What is the highest mountain range in the world? 4. In what sports are the following terms used: (a) foot-fault; squeeze play; (¢) puck; (d) huddle; (e) stymie? 5. How many keys are there on the standard typewriter keyboard? (b) ANSWERS: 33 years. ‘Woodrow Wilson, in 1918. The Himalayas. (a) Tennis; (b), baseball; (c) hockey; (d) football; (e) golf. 42, not including the backspacer, shifts, and margin releases. Draftees ‘Mother EV1ctecI Mrs. Margne? evicted; inset, she weeps ‘Widowed mother of an army draftee for 'whom she refused to claim exemption, Mrs. Louise Margner, 53, of Pittsburgh, has been evicted from her flat in the government-owned Bedford Dwellings in Pitts- burgh for non-payment of rent. Mrs. Margner, who refused last- nflm of help and several jobs, said that “I did not come here flul.' here knot a é..,,.:fi"g.w Sappy. Kok e, Py Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Directory MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. VERGNE L. HOKE, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger Blr ugren, PHONE 56 Juneau’s Own Store~ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Oftice Phone 489 "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Post Office Substation NOW LOCATED AT HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” Dr. John H. Geyer Hours: 8 am. to 6 pm, Graduate Los Annh'a Oom..' of Optometry and ‘Opthaimology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground R i a0 Helene W. Albrech! PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Bullding—Room 7 “The Stere for Men" SABIN’S Front St-—Triangle Bldg. 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