The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1941, Page 4

s o e ’*" Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY BENDER - - President R. L. BERNARD - - Vice-| Pruldrnl and Business Manager Ttered In the Post Office In Juneau m semnd Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT! delivered by carrler in Juneau and s By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One vyear, 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 notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- wery of their papers Telephones: News Offjce, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Preay fs exclusivaly 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 berein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Tric, Natlonal Newspaper Representa- Mves, with offices yn_San Francisco, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. Los Angeles, Portland, SEATTLE ATIVE — Prank J. Dunning, 1011 REPRESENT! American Bank Building. HOW WIN THE WAR? Many Americans seem to assume that the war can be ended only by the direct defeat of the Ger- man Army. This assumption, logical as it seems on the basis of the history of most other wars ever fought, is open to question in 1941. This war has revolutionized or destroyed conventional strategic concepts that had stood for generations. German air power, for example, has sharply contracted the previous advantages of British sea power. The first clear evidence of this came in the Norwegian cam- paign. We have seen it illustrated recently over the Greek islands in the Aegean; over the Mediter- ranean; in the campaign in Libya; in the Battle of the Atlantic, and in the crucial battles in the sky over Britain itself. The British have been able to defend their fleet and to score their most spectacular sea victories (as in the Battle of Cape Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck) only by their own air power. It is British air power as much as sea power that keeps Hitler from invading England today. But this revolution in warfare has its reverse potentiality—that air power can just as sharply re- duce the advantages of land power. This potentiality has been concealed so far by the fact that Germany, the nation that has land superiority, also has air superiority. Germany even owes its present land superiority, in fact, largely to its air superiority; for if the air situation had been reversed, it is hardly conceivable that France, in spite of German tanks, would have been conquered today. Let us suppose that American help could hold Britain in the war long enough for America and Britain combined to gain air superiority -over Ger- many. This achievement is not as easy as it is sometimes presented as being, but it is more than! possible. Then, though Germany might be every- where victorious on the Continent, the British could bomb industrial and military objectives in Germany and on the French coast almost at will. What would be the feeling in Germany, what would happen to the prestige of Hitler and his Nazi gang, if the “victorious” and “conquering” German Army, occu- pying a dozen lands, could not protect the Germans pre— THE DAILY ALASKA" EMPIRE at: homed “What- would ‘Germany do “with--aR-a#in; invincible but largely useless? effect on the nations conquered by Germany, or| acting as vassal “allies,” when British air superior- | ity was established? For there is a tremendous difference between the British and German psychology in this war. The British are able to take terrific punishment from the air because they know that their only alternaw tive is a barbarous and intolerable slavery. But the| German alternative to punishment from the air is merely to change leaders and to give up booty and insensate ideas of world conquest. That is why there is real hope that the present war can be won in the air. PLANES NEED PILOTS toward producing airplanes better, faster and in larger quantities than they have ever ;been produced before anywhere in the world. Planes are recog- nized as necessary to the defense of democracy. Just +as necessary are men to fly those planes. What are we doing to train pilots? The Civil Aeronautics Administration has just 'ssued a report showing that 7,399 graduates of the CAA’s civilian pilot training program have volun- teered and been accepted by the Army and Navy air services up to June 1. CAA fliers have been 0ing into active defense work at the rate of al- most 200 a week since the first of March. This is approximately the rate at which planes have been rolling off the production lines. As in the case of planes, an increase is expected soon. As a iatter of national policy, the great majority of CAA stu- dents in colleges have been discouraged from vol- unteering until they have finished their year's work at school. The current figures include only a few volunteers from this group, which will undoubtedly sontribute handsomely to the greatly increased total now that school is out for the summer. Detecting Submarines (New York Times) If Mr. Charles F. Kettering were not a trained scientist and the director of one of our great indus- trial laboratories his forecast of a new device to mas- ter the submarine might be dismissed as another, optimistic dream. His assurance that “we have been working with the Navy.for six years” indicates plain- {ly enough that he refers not to some sudden in- | spiration but to something which has been the sub- ject of systematic and earnest experimentation. The detection of submarines under water may | be considered solved reasonably well. Here the en-| gineer deals with sound. Sensitive telephones have| been used successfully on transatlantic liners to de- tect the beating of near-by propellers in a fog. The, submarine commanders know all this and shut off every sound when they are submerged. The ques- tion now is the perfection of a device to catch sub- marines on the surface at night. §ince Mr. Kettering refers to work that has been going on for six years we drift back mentally| to some experiments which were made about 1935 off Sandy Hook in detecting steamers at night with- | out the aid of searchlights. Not the slightest tech-| nical hint was given at the time as to the principle that was tested. Perhaps thermocouples were used— | devices which can measure heat at considerable dis- tances; for, if an astrophysicist can measure the temperature of Mars at a, distance of 40,000,000 miles, it - ought to be posstble to detect | the presence-of - a submarine at the surface a few miles away by the| | heat that its engines give off, either during propul- | sion or during the charging of storage batteries. Radio, too, might possibly be-used. If any piece of machinery on a submarine generates sparks (some-| thing that engineers do their best to avoid) very thort waves are sent out which can be picked up.} The faulty ignition systems of taxicabs around the | | corner play havoc enough with television sets as it| is. Whatever the means Mr. Kettering may have in mind, he could hardly be explicit at a time like i this. National Broadcasters Association. What would be the |! This nation is at present bending every effort |’ | outdoor recreations, | fulfillment of ambitious plans now | will accepted these promises and is now seeking to rgstore “peace” between the warring factions. NOTE. — It was significant that Murray conferred with Orton and | Curran in his office in the United | Mine ‘Workers building, one floor ahove the vast, ornate office of John | L. Lewis. Also significant: Lee Press- afraid of a showdown with the left|man, leftist general counsel of the Wingers and bent on appeasement. |CIO and a close Lewis lieutenant, The anti-Reds say they are de-|Participated in the talks. termined to clean house even if 1r.‘ splits the CIO wide open. The leftists, | ALLIES WILL CONTINUE fearful of being isolated, will play| There was an interesting inside every trump card to hold Murray | story behind the declaration by four- in line to protect them. This strategy | teen Allied governments in London Washinglon | Merry- fo-Round (Oondnued from Page Oue) was very apparent last week. When Murray finally blasted O. M. Orton, leftist head of the Wood- | workers Union and then condemned the outlaw plane strike at Inglewood, Calif., the antis were jubilant. But two days after the Army took over the North American plant, Murray suddenly reversed himself and sharp- ly criticized the seizure. Behind that statement was some maneuvering by Harry Bridges, left- ist Pacific Coast leader. Sensing the wave of public ire at the Kommies, Bridges cannily decided it was time for them to duck for cover. He had endorsed the strike, but hurriedly he switched and recom- mended that work be resumed. Also, | he sent word to leftist leaders of the outlaw strike of Cleveland die-cast- ers to pull in their horns—an order they obeyed promptly. BRIDGES AND CURRAN Bridges followed this up by a message to his East Coast pal, Joe Currn, head of the CIO Maritime | that they would fight Hitler to the ‘end | The idea was first conceived in ithe United States by one of the| President’s friends, who put it up to Vice President Wallace. The plan was for each of the exiled govern- ments—Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia, IHolIand Poland, Belgium, Czecho- slovakia, etc.—to join in sending a |letter to President Roosevelt setting | forth their determination to continue fighting for freedom and indepen- | dence in Europe. Vice President Wallace thought the | \plan was excellent and took it to |the President, who then sent it to .the Secretary of State. | After that nothing happened. Fin- |ally, the Vice President called upon the President to see what had be- | come of the idea. He found that Cor- dell Hull had sent Roosevelt a memo disapproving it. Mr. Hull’s chief ob- | jection, in effect, was this: “It would bring discord among our people.” After that the idea was put up to the British .Churchill snapped it up immediately, altering it to have the Workers, to arrange a get-to-gether |declaration jointly made in London between Orton and Murray. Only a|Instead of addressed to Roosevel. few insiders know that it was Bridg- | ] es, working through Curran, v.hnv HARD TO REMEMBER arranged this peace meeting. Orton! A “mental Wizard” at the first gave the impression that he was anniversary dinner of the Washing- making the trip from Seattle to ton Radio Correspondents Associa- Washington at the request of Mur-|tion went among the guasu and ask- ray. But Curran sat in on their meet- |ed them to name “something hard to ing. remember” for him to identify. One Bridges knows that the leftists, ‘or those he asked was New Jersey's while in control of key places in a massive GOP Senator W. Warren number of CIO unions, numeru:ally Barbour. 1 are weak and would be easy to ousz' “Republican,” Barbour shot back.I in a determined fight. He seeks to| NOTE.— A perambulating accor- forestall such a purge by playing on | cionist, stopping by Larry Fly, chair- Murray’s fears of a split of the CIO.|man of the Federal Communications 80 the leftists are plying him with | Commission, brought down the house assurances that henceforth they willjby playing “St. Louis Blues.” It was e “good boys” ‘and lay off the|at the St. Louls convention dast There was a minor revolt in the office of Senator Jimmy Byrnes the day he was appointed to the Su- preme Court. And in the showdown —he lost. i Roosevelt had told the popular South * Carolinian one day before that his nomination would be sent to the Senate.’But Byrnes said ab- solutely nothing about it to his of- fice staff. It was his intention to go to the Senate with as little commo- ion as possible. However, no sooner had he left his private office when! he ran smack into his entire staff. “Wh-where are yeu going?" gasped Byrnes. “The office is closed,” firmly de- clared his secretary, Cassie Connor. “We're all going over to hear your nomination for the Supreme Court announced in the Senate. “Please don't do that,” pleaded Byrnes. “It will look funny if my en- tire office force is perched in the gallery. People will think we’re show- ing off.” “Sorry, Mr. Justice, but you're overruled,” decla pretty Miss Con- nor with a defiant tilt of her chin. “This is an opportunity that comes once in a lifetime and we don't aim to miss it. The office, I repeat, is closed.” And she trooped off, with the rest of the staff behind her. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) No Mr. Orange, No Mr. Yellow, Indigo GALLATIN, Mo., June 20. — Mrs, Arthur Stephen’s hobby is collecting names, from newspaper stories that you don’t hear every day. On her list are Hogg, Pigg, Deer, Cat, Duck and Wol. She is tryin for a complete color scheme that will include, Blue, Redd, White, etc. But she can’t find a Mr. Orange, Yellow or Indigo. - N Road brigades of the Bolivian army will construct and maintain national roads in that country due FRIDAY,- JUNE 20, 1941 JUNE 20 Dr. W. P. Blanton Emma U. Wilcoxin Frances Sherman 1 F. M. Shields Elroy Turnham A. R. Mack Mrs. James E. Wayne,, HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline - || but do not compel” SATURDAY, JUNE 21 Good and adverse planetary in-| fluences contend today which will be more fortunate for recrenuon than for business. The late hours are more proniising than the mbrn-i ing. | Heart and Home: Foresight 15| encouraged under this configura-| tion which should teach wuaom\ in preparing for future changecu conditions in all parts of the world. | There may be an inclination to shut one's eyes to the inevitable | overturning of long-established s0-| cial customs and financial tradl-’ tions, but to those who face the facts first will come the right re- adjustments. As the Sun enters| Cancer today for the summer qunr- ter there are certain signs that nr» cheering. This is a happy day roxi although ex-| treme heat may be expected in| | various parts of the country.There |is promise of pleasant employment |for many women. Business Affairs: The elevated position of the benefics is belieyed to presage extraordinary prosperny for the Middle West. In all parts‘ of the United States prosg y will prevail as political and fi cial leaders direct tremendpua qx- panslon of manufacturing. Under‘ this planetary government there should be a united effort, toward| defense which assures prgct!;;nll achievement. Whatever retards, the { be eliminated as despeate needs generally. are understoods;; National Issues: Since this is a { democracy there will be a, dmr-’ mined opposition to Go‘lflnment; |secrecy regarding any program that concerns war. Labor will dempn- strate what cooperation means when full partnership in the gde~ fense program is - general and each | step toward possible conflict is un- derstood to be unavoidabls riis ing again is given that cril of men and women who' hold* lar but honest views shuuld be avoided. . International Affairs: gw under a direction of the stafs foreshadows serious trouble: home as well as abroad. The tary party will clash with “sgcial- istic or communistic elements. There is a sign read as presaging a vio- lent storm or a battle in the, At-| lantic ' somewhere in the vhkiuy] of 30 degrees west longitude. In| the Philippines there will; be al demonstration that will enlist the| aid of the United States Navy. Persons whose birthdate it Is have the augury of a year eventful and active. The young will marry and their parents will prosper. | Children: born on this day should have forceful characters and good intellects. They should be resource- ful and even inventive, (Copyright, 1941) Flight to Yesferday, Back Again FAIRBANKS, Alaska—Army Air Corpsmen, engaged in experimental flying at Ladd Field near here, have flown from today into yesterday and returned unscathed. Major Dale V. Gaffney, experi- at ili- * lduring a flight to Point Barrow, on mental station commander, and a ber crew “past-tensed” them- selves, then cojugated themselves and the plane back into the present, the Arctic rim. The huge craft took off from Ladd Field during one of the shortest days of the year, flying north and away from the just-rising sun. But it soon left the rays of the themselves flying through the Arc- tic night. At Barrow, the plane beran its was treated to the phenomenon of the rising sun again—the same gun- rise they had left behind a few previously. v o3 N The four-engined bomber gof ) to a current labor shortage, the Commerce Depottment upom ¢ reugh stuff, Murray apparently hulmonm that Fly tangled with the|¢ rbanks as the last rays o! -sun were sending shafts o ing of northwestern nd sunset thg {had given new heart and hope to the Democratic Party. sun behind and the men found[" ° return flight, and presently the crew | I!,‘,. E EMPIRE 'AGO JUNE 20, 1921 An Associated Press dispatch stated that the Navy Department was studying means of getting rid cf now useless wareraft and it was thought that a bargain sale to dispose of war vessels would be held. Chairman George White of the Democratic Committee charged the | Repubican administration failed to keep its election promises and thus L. S. Robe, engineer in charge of the mine work of the Alaska Ad- miralty Gold Mining Compauv at Funter Bay, arrived in Juneau for a | business visit. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger E. H. Kaser, one of the owners of the Kaser-Davis Transporta- |tion chflpnny‘ arrived from Sitka on the Estebeth. He was accompanied by his brother, L. H. Kaser. W. F. Barney, representative of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, arrived in town from Sitka where he consulted with the owners of the | sitka Sun on the purchase of a linotype. Tony Pusich was amsarrival from Sitka on the Estebeth. E. M. Ball, Assistant Agent at large for Alaska for the Bureau of Fisheries, was expected to arrive on the Princess Alice, due in Juneau the | following day. Weather: High, 77; low, 52; cloudy. .-—-W Daily Lessons in Engllsh W. L. GORDON e i e b eaag st b b ame el WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Whereabouts does she live?"y Say, “WHERE does she live?” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Museum. Accent is on second syllable, and not the first as so often heard. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Calvary (the place where Christ was cruci- fied). Cavalry (horsemen). SYNONYMS: Thoughtful, contemplative, pensive. 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: ARBITRARY; depending on will or discretion. “He was asked to explain his arbitrary ruling.” ..-mm e D D - s e ] Q. When a man and a girl go to church together, should they walk | down the aisle side by side? A. Yes; this is all right. Q. What is the usual age at which a debutante is given a coming-out party? A. Eighteen Q. Isn't a pretty, attractive girl entitled to special attention when accepting a position in an office? A. No. She should expect and be given the same treatment as the other employees receive, I.OOK and LEARNA C. GORDON 1. W‘hat bird was bmusht from England to the United States to fight the canker worm pest, which was destroying our fruit trees and shade trees? 2. What is known as “The Great White Plague”? 3. Who was the renowned orator at the dedication’of the Bunker Hill Monument? 4. What is the capital of Utah? 5. Who wrote “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”? ANSWERS: English sparrow. ‘Tuberculosis. Daniel Webster. Salt Lake City. P00 o TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Thomas Moore (1779-1852). SKY SPY A VACANCY AT THE HILL- CREST: COMPLETELY FUR- IMPERIAL, Calif., June 20.—Three! NISHED — THE LATEST IN men netting fish in the ionely Salton! APARTMENT APPOINTMENTS. sea believed themselves safe from| PHONE 439 OR RED 235 OR observation. But they soon were be- CALL AT PREMISES fore a court and being fined $500/ —————————— apiece, proving the efficiency of the FURNISHED ghouse, 4 rooms, bath new aerial patrol service operated cheap for quick sale. 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