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g e g Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER - - D R. L. BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. ok SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, 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 notifr she Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- ery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ‘il news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein. President Manager KA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Represent Mves, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Prank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. STRIKEBOUND The strike situation in national defense indus- tries, despite this week’s positive Federal action in taking over the North American Aviation Corpora- tion plant, is far from being in hand. Strikers at that vital factory remain defiant. It is to be doubt- ed that production can Jbe resumed there on any- where near a normal basis, let alone on the all-out scale now demanded of our aviation industry. Fol- lowing the moving of troops into the Inglewood plant, a new rash of strikes breaks out across the face of the country. We do not accuse labor of frustrating the na- tional will in this critical time. It is not labor, but a one-tenth of one percent lunatic fringe of the labor movement, which is responsible for this crime against national preparedness. Labor will suffer, as yesterday's Washington Merry-Go- Round column pointed out. Public opinion has turned definitely against strikers—all strikers—in the present crisis. Labor’s best friends are out of patience. Progressive labor legislation has suffered a blow, at the hands of the so-called labor leaders, from which it will be many years recovering. in general| THE = e used since the beginning of the defense program. _He has a right to--his-bitter-end -isolationism and his consuming personal feud with Mr. Roosevelt, which | dictate these tactics, but if he keeps using them to subvert defense the little public regard he still com- mands will disappear entirely, and the CIO will be dealt with severely by a government which is per- mitted no alternative. In his own acid way, Mr. Lewis termed the Mediation Board a strike-breaking agency long be. fore the Board had a chance to show its mettle. He never bothered to recant, although the Board has shown a distinguished record for fair dealing with both labor and management, If the Board is compelled to get tough with| the International Woodworkers—as it ought and as| it evidently will—the public, including a great seg- ment of labor itself, will stand squarely behind Dr. Dykstra and his associates. Not Wholly in Earnest (Cincinnati Enquirer) Most Americans realize by this time that the| nation faces a situation as grave as any in our en- tire history. At least they have ar intellectual con- viction to that effect. But it is doubtful whether most citizens have exercised enough imagination to| apprehend what this means. We are all willing to pay more taxes. We have sanctioned one step after another, such as conscription, recognizing that the | dimensions of the crisis require those steps. But| we are not quite in earnest, even yet. Our choice is essentially a simple one. We can lay aside all hopes for an easy time in the months and years to come, and turn every ounce of energy into the task of keeping war away from our shores by insuring the defeat of Hitler in Europe. Or else we can give lip service to Britain’s cause, as something apart from our own, limit our effort to halfhearted economic aid, continue with the lux- ury of strikes and delays, and go on indulging in the absurdity of endless debate over whose war this is. In this latter case we invite the disaster which | has befallen so many democratic countries, whose peoples blandly assumed they weuld escape. ‘What we confront is a war which is also a revo- lution—a struggle which is going to mold the world of tomorrow—our world. The life of this world will take the form ordained by Nazism and Communism,| or else it will recover the- freedom and amplitude which democratic peoples prefer. It almost certainly is in the power of the Ameri- can people to cast the deciding vote. But that vote‘ the mind. Until we recognize how vast are the stakes, and how immense the effort demanded, we shall not be at the job in earnest. Sending Back the Gold | DAILY ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY l*.._._.—-_*‘ JUNE 11 Mrs. Florine Housel Audrey F. Thompson Mrs. Ralph B. Martin Melvin G. Brenno Arthur T. Jackson Mrs. T. F.' Riverton Mrs. Sam Sawyer R. F. Samples & HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline ! but do not compel” THURSDAY, JUNE 12 Good and evil planetary ences are discerned in the horo- |scope for today. There is a sign promising good luck for shipping, but again Labor is under adverse direction, clear thinking and general occupation regarding war prepara- tions. It is an auspicious date for beginnings, including new acquain- tances. Girls may be happy in friendships started with young men, for heads control hearts un- der this configuration. Self-reliance all ages. Management of thefam- all types of speculation. Business Affairs: Keen foresight will be recognized as most fortu- nate for the United States Govern-| ment which will safeguard many commercial interests. Farmers are (Seattle Times) | It will be forty-four years come July 17 that the At Alaska’s front door, a strike of 12,000 mem-| historic old steamship Victoria hove into Elliott Bay| experiment to profit under conditions caused by national emergency. The stars seem to presage an agricultural for the benefit' of bers of the CIO International Woodworkers of Am-|bringing the first “ton of gold” to Seattle from| refugees. Great acreages of unetl- erica continues in 52 Puget Sound lumber camps| and mills, It continues in defiance of President| Roosevelt's pleas for industrial peace and with utter disregard of reason and fairness. The National Defense Mediation Board has ap- proved the Union’s request for a wage increase, and | has recommended that the men return to work at| once pending further investigation of other de-l‘ mands. The Union not only rejects.the Board's| preliminary proposals, but apparently refuses to| submit these proposals to a vote of the member-| ship, as the Board requested. | Alaska. Since that celebrated occasion and the dazzling days of the Klondike rush, a stream of gold has the salmon fisheries, the seal islands, the forests and the fur farms; the silver, the platinum and the quicksilver mines. | Within the next fortnight, 16 vessels of three steamship companies are booked to sail northward from Seattle, bearing men and cargoes for the fish- ing banks and for the new Alaska military and naval bases. Army and Navy transports make regular jour-| tivated land will be scientifically treated and wisely managed next year, it is prognosticated. Money | poured into Seattle from the Far North, in the form now will flow freely through the | of the rich, yellow metal itself and in wealth from marts of trade. National Issues: Changes in the President’s Cabinet and in the heads of defense commissions''aré? again prophesied. Speed in accom=-! plishment will be insistently de-| manded by the people of the Unit-| ed States wherever they have en-| trusted preparedness responsibili-| Such an attitude reflects sheer stubbornness and neys thither, supply ships follow in their wake, and|ties to trained executives. Dangers unreasonableness. Board, whose Chairman, Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, has served notice that he means to carry out the Chief Executive’s insistence that no disputes be al-' lowed to hamper the defense program. ! Behind the Union’s recalcitrance the fine hand of John L. Lewis may be discerned, apparently bent on continuing the obstructionist tactics which he has stations from Sitka to distant Kodiak Island and Fairbanks. Alaska continues to give generously of her copi-| ous resources to the United States. -But now the| stream flows both ways. Uncle Sam, spending mil- | lions of dollars in his valued northernmost territory, is returning some of Alaska's tons of gold to the coasts whence they came. It invites drastic action by the Squadrons of airplanes fill the air enroute to new|from secret and treacherous meth-{ ods of injuring the nation are| prognosticated. Agents from Axis powers will harass Washingten through many organizations wide- ly scattered. There is a sign read as warning that character analysis should precede Federal ments. % International Affairs: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1941. influ- | Heart and Home: The stars favor! pre-| should be cultivated by women' of| appoint- | war with the vast, though ponder- ously moving, industrial empire of the United States. That is what is behind Hitler's demand of peace now or the threat that he will unleash everything in the Nazi arsenal, including poison gas, in an attempt to raze every ous exercise for a man 53 years old. Judge Stephenson disagreed. “I don’t think so,” he demurred. “I often play with Wallace myself.” Marshall hastily dropped the sub- ject, but the first thing he did'when he reached his office was to look up Stephenson’s age. It is 55. NINE OLD MEN Most people don’t realize that the Supreme Court fight, most vital political battle staged by the New Deal, still overshadows appointments and influences policies in Washing- ton. For in his eagerness to rebuild British city. The threat of poison gas is not taken lightly in England. The Brit- ish know Hitler has the gas. They also knew he can use it far more expeditiously against England than on the European continent. For in Yoland, Franfe, Yugosfavia and Greece, Nazi troops :dyvnnced 80 swiftly that they would have caught up with their own gas. In attack- ing England, however, the Channel would prevent the gas from sweep- ing back, and the British Isles could be subjected to a bath of poisonous vapors long before Nazi troops landed. No wonder there was no optimism in Ambassador Winant's report. So, in brief, England may be reaching the point of the French a year ago this month, when Winston Churchll very belatedly offered the people of France an equal partner- ship with Britain if they continued to fight and shared her fate. And U. S. military strategists, all too well aware of South American vulnerability to Nazi attack if the British fleet .falls, are wondering whether the United States also will | be too late. NO OLDSTERS THEY Clarence Marshall, new press di- rector of the Commerce Depart- ment, tells this one on himself. The bathroom window of his hotel apartment faces the tennis courts where Vice-President Wallace daily plays a lively early morning game. Marshall shaves and watches Wal- lace at the same time. Riding downtown with U. S. Cir- cuit Judge Harold M. Stephenson, Marshall expressed the opinion that Wallace was indulging in too strenu- the Supreme Court with men who will carry on his ideas, Roosevelt is stripping the rest of his admin- |istration of its best minds and ex- ecutives—at a time when they are sorely needed. | Latest prospective additions to the ! “Nine Old Men” can be spared least of all. Senator Byrnes of South | Carolina is Roosevelt’s most trusted |operator on Capitol Hill, while Bob |Jackson is one of the best legal minds produced by the New Deal. Already Roosevelt has sent to the |shadowy seclusion of the Supreme |bench William O. Douglas, one of | the best executives developed by his | administration; Prank Murphy, with |a wealth of executive experience as | Governor-General of the Philip- ! pines, Governor of Michigan and | Attorney General; Stanley Reed, a | great Solicitor General; and Senator Hugo Black, the best —crusader | Roosevelt had in the Senate. | Some of them, incidentatlly, are ‘gemng a little restless and wish |they were back in the thick of the emergency fighting. LORD WOOLTON’S ERROR British and American officials in ;Washington didn't like to admit it, ‘buz they were perplexed by the ap- peal of the British food minister, Lord Woolton, to Americans to re- duce their consumption of milk, cream, sugar. and canned fish and Imeat, so that needed foods could be sent to England. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard |was so puzzled he actually asked the British food mission in Wash- ington what it all meant. The Brit- ish replied that they were as amazed as he was, Fact is,. of course, thgt we,are more troubled by surpluses than shortages. The Surplus Marketing Administration has spent millions of dollars buying up dairy products, to prevent the bottom from falling out of the market. The idea of a sugar shortage is the most absurd of all. There is a sur- plus of two million tons in the West- ern Hemisphere. The economy of Cuba is strained pecause they can't find sufficient outlet for their basic crop. Apparently somebody gave Lord Woolton a bum steer. MERRY-GO-ROUND Townsend leaders have quietly changed their plans on pushing their old-age pension scheme at this Congress. Congressional leaders have warned them against offering their measure as an amendment to the new defense tax bill, so they now will try to get a committee hearing on it after the tax bill bas passed. . . . Charles R. Fisher, Iowa State Insurance Commissioner, proposes that insurance companies be requir- ed to include “war clauses” in life insurance policies. “If we are going to draft men and wealth,” Fisher declared, “I don’t see why insurance companies should be an exception.” . . . Fred F. Bays, fast-on-the-come- back Indiana Democratic State Chairman, has taken to the old Am- erican custom of pamphletteering to blast his GOP foes. Under the title “An espiode in petty politics,” he has issued a scorching pamphlet on the Republican-controlled In- diana Legislature. . . . Anti-Fascist forces are charging that Generoso Pope, big Tammany politico and publisher of an Italian-language newspaper, printed what he called the “complete text” of Roosevelt's momentous broadcast with all refer- ences to the Reich carefully deleted. Pope is under hot fire as a Musso- lini supporter. BOB DOUGHTON As any Capitol reporter will tell you, one of the toughest men in Washington to tackle for g story is 77-year-old Representative Rob- ert L. (Muley) Doughton, Chairman of the mighty Ways and Means Committee. The stalwart North Carelinian’s stock comment is “Nothing to sey, boys,” and getting him' to enlarge on this is like pulling teeth. How- ever,-oue--enterprising. xeporter -ac- Heawy losses of British fighters are pr%s- nosticated as the summer advan If this second World War proves to be ‘Armageddon all nations will iglve their blood in the frightful | conflict. Astrologers disagree re- garding interpretations of the as- pects governing the planet Earth at this time. They all declare, how- ever, that there can be no com- promise in peace settlements. This is an evolution as well as a revolu- tion for the thing called civiliza- tion. & Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of gopd fortune with distinct progress’ in business or professional - careets. { Pleasant surprises and haj friendships will assure pl it months. Children born on this day prob- ably will be clever to the point of brilliancy, lovers of poetry and the arts, and altogether fortunate. (Copyright, 1941) complished the feat by a little psychology. He showed up at Doughton’s of- fice bright and early, accompanied by a photographer. The Col i | man reluctantly posed and m:m gan to wave the visitors out of his office. ported. “We're only half through. I want to interview you.” oo “I have nothing to say,” snapped Doughton. “Besides, I'm too busy to talk to you.” “I don’t intend to ask you about (tax legislation or the confidential+ iaflalrs of your committee,” persisted the reporter. “I just want to get & feature story. One thing that has always intrigued me about you, Mr; Doughton, is your aversion to smok- | ine and drinking.” I Then. fixing Doughton with a stern look, the reorter demanded.l “Why are you so dead against to- bacco and liquor? Is it because you can't take it, or because are too damned stingy to buy a; H Doughton’s eyes bulged for a I ment and then he let out a whoq; of laughter. “Well, I'll tell you, son,” he explained, “It’s like this. I don't like tobacco and I'm not smart enough to drink and get my was done. - 3 and ask | -The “Hold on a minute,” said the re-|. 20 YEARS AGO 7% empire JUNE 12, 1921 A dispatch from Washington announced the appointment of Guy Smith as Postmaster at Douglas. The Coliseum Theatre advertised Katherine MacDonald, “the Am- erican Beauty,” in the “Beauty Market.” The Rev. Charles E. Rice, John H. Cobb and B. D. Stewart were named as Juneau delegates to the Provincial Synod of the Episcopalian | Church to be held at Salt Lake City in September. The appointments | were made by the Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, Bishop of Alaska. G. J. Dahl, who had a ranch on Spuhn Island, near the Gastineau | Channel Bar, was in town with new radishes, lettuce and rhubarb from ;lns garden. The Street Committee of the Juneau City Council met and let the contract for tearing up and hauling away of the old street planking on Franklin Street, to the transfer firm of Femmer and Ritter. “Sonny” Gray entertained fifteen young friends at the home of |his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Latimer Gray, in celebration of his fifth birthday. Guests for the occasion were Mary Casey, Jean Faulkner,! | Corrine Jenne, Christine McKanna, Charlotte Sloan, Sarah Walker, | carol Robertson, Arthur Ficken, Tommy Cole, Jinmy Cole, Bobby Hen- !mng. Duncan Robertson, Seymour Brown, David Jackson and Robert | Blomgren. | Henry Roden arrived on the Harry after a business trip to Petersburg. Weather: High, 58; low, 47; cloudy. - - i > e - - - - - i O D D S S S S | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Hardly had they gone | when the storm broke.” Say, “Hardly had they gone THAN the storm broke.” . OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Admirable. Pronounce ad-mi-ra-b’l, | both A’s as in AN, I as in IT, accent on first syllable, and not on the | second. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bus; plural, busses or buses. | SYNONYMS: Conform, adapt, adjust, accommodate. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us cannot be merely an intellectual declsum_ made with;uy finances will be more and more | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: It must be a stupendous national effort,| tne task of wives and mothers who PALLADIUM; that which offers security. made as Churchill has said of his own dedication 0| snould study economics and avoid| is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of man.” | the cause, with blood and tears, toil and sweat. “The liberty of the press | —Junius. | : QI permissible to shout comments at motorists who show a lack of consideration for others? A. No, even though they may be guilty of most stupid and dis- courteous driving. ’ Q. When the dessert is served at the table, should it be done by the host or hostess? A. The hostess usually serves the dessert, thouzh the host may do so if desired, leaving the hostess free to pour the coffee. Q. When a bride has a sister of suitable age, does she usually serve , as maid of honor? A. Yes, e e e - i e S s 08 | LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpox 1. How many times does the serial number appear on a piece of U. S. currency? ‘What Italian composed twenty-seven operas? What is a “printer’s devil”? What is “The Bay State”? What animal’s name means “river horse”? ANSWERS: Twice. 2. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). An apprentice in the printer’s trade. 4. Massachusetts. 5. Hippopotamus. o e uses” for electricity on the who owns a dairy farm near Van- farm has been exploded by the |couver, Washington. Bonneville Power Administration, | FHis story is that he not only rid his cows of dandruff with a vacuum Officlals have uncovered the 3001st | ;joq e operated by Bonneville pow- use. dandruff. tion to a profit by selling the dan- It seems that those unhappy in- |druff to a Portland, Oregon, patent dividuals in magazine ads aren’t the {Inedicine concern for use in a only ones afflicted with “scruff.”|nostrum to cure asthma and hay Cows, too, are victims, according to | fever. a member of a BPA power co-opl ‘The BPA swears their tale is true. French Opera Star Arrives Mrs. Lillian Fawcett, French opera hsiing:r r?i‘ note, .arivuA at New York T Lisben 3 s shipboard s er mn hus- g is's the, Roval Air Foraa. '{ Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon | It is ridding dairy cows of |er, but managed to turn the opera- | Director Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Gifice Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collage of Optometry and ‘Opthatmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground (S EIRRS AT SR Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Buiiding—Room 7 | [The Charles W. Carter| Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Qeward Street Near Thara — JAMES C. COOPER OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 6; 7 to 8:00 by appoinment. Gastinean Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 = Archie B. 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