The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1941, Page 4

e R e RS i / : x " Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. TROY BENDER - - - - - Presiden Vice-President and Business Manag ntered in the ‘Post Office iri Juneau as Second Class Matter. 8 UBSCRIPTION RATES: Jelivered by earrier in Junesu and Douglas for §1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: ance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; ce, $1.25. One year, in one month, in advan Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify he Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- very of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Alml’ud Press is exclusively entitled to the use for epublication of all news dispatthes credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published nerein ALABKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc,, National Newsoaper Representa- dves, with offices in_San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portiand, Beattle Chicago. New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, 1011 mericar Bank Bullding OUR FLEETING OPPORTUNITY Since Hitler's invasion of Russia, began, military experts the world over have gone into action to analyze what effect the opening of the new battle- front will have on ‘the”course of the war. It is the consensus that England has been presented with a magnificent opportunity to strike Germany a staggering blow while millions of Nazi troops, vast stores of mechanized equipment and thousands of planes are engaged in attacking the Red armies. The Royal Air Force has taken advantage of mission, were completed and turned over to the fleet configuration. Midsummer this year| the mobilization of the Luftwaffe along the eastern front to seize daylight control of the air over the English Channel and the northern coast of France and Belgium. For weeks English planes have been making daylight raids on the invasion coast, with far fewer losses than the Germans suffered when they attempted daylight raids over England. This means that Britain is winning the war in the air. Now, however, that the war between Germany and Russia has locked the world's two greatest armies deep in the U.S.8R: Britain is presented with the opportunity of striking at the heart of Ger- many, by a systematic campaign of bombing fac- tories, railroad yards, bridges and other military ob- Jectives in the hope of crippling German production and transportation. It may even be possible for England to launch an invasion of the “invasion coast” and again es- | tablish a foothold on the continent. Such a cam- paign is urged by the British press and by certain U. S. military men, according to a special dispatch from the authors of the Washington Merry-Go- Round, appearing in yesterday’s Empire. It should be emphasized, however, that the op- portunities thus presented are fleeting. The situa- tion will be favorable for Britain only as long as a big concentration of Nazi forces is required on the eastern front. Therefore it behooves England to act promptly. The United States also has an opportunity to help administer a crushing blow to Hitler by step- ping up the delivery of planes, tanks and other mu- nitions of war to England. Our production is in- creasing daily, but increased production will not enable England to take advantage of the break, un- less the materials are delivered to the other side of the Atlantic. We should use the full resources of our Navy to protect the ships in making the de- liveries. It is not surprising that the British government has accepted Russia as a military ally. After all, the main objective is to crush Hitler. “Any man “Tot sate Who: Hghts “égainst Nasism W aid,” said Winston Churchill. H | We should Be fools indeed if we chose this mo- ment to debate the irrelevant issue of Nazism wersus ¢+ Communism, instead or proceeding realistically to capitalize on the gigantic diversion of German strength to the East. | In our own way we are engaged in the tremen- dous task of defeating Hitler's plan for world domi- nation, The British are taking spectacular advantage of the sudden opportunity, bombing Western Ger- many and the invasion ports as they have never jbeen bombed before. Our own government should search out every possible means of striking at the Nazi power, for 'every blow struck just now will |count for twice as much. | Obviously, this is a time to hasten deliveries of bomber aircraft to Great Britain, for the value of every bomber now in service from British airdromes is immensely enhanced by the favorable strategic situation. And because Japan has been sold out an- other time by the’Axis, our position in the Far East is materially improved. This should make it pos- sible to transfer additional naval craft to the At- lantic and so give further assurance that the weapons and supplies we are sending to Britain will reach her without fail. Only the myopic and the apologists for Hitlerism, only the professional Red-baiters who put septi- mentality above realism,: will argue. that this is a time to relax our efforts. The reluctant entry of Russia into the struggle has no importance for us | save that it weakens—at least for the present — the | military power of the megalomaniacs in Berlin. Com- mon sense tells us to redouble our efforts and take full advantage of the good fortune which has drawn the striking power of Germany away from Western Europe. Another Dreadnought (Cincinnati Enquirer) The launching of the 35,000-ton battleship South Dakota indicates anew that the preparedness pro- gram as a whole is far from bogging down. At the launching the South Dakota is four months ahead of her construction schedule. Two sister ships, the | Notth Carolina and the Washington, already in com- far ahead of original schedule. It will be many months, of course, until the South Dakota is ready for sea. But some time early next year construction will be complete, and we shall have 18 ships of the line. It is characteristic of the energy with which the naval building program is being carried on that the keel of a 10,000-ton | cruiser was laid on the ways vacated by the South ! | Dakota in a matter of hours. | Merely to say that we shall have 18 battleships early next year, instead of the 15 we had when this war broke out, is to understate the increase in our | naval strength. The three new dreadnoughts, two }or which are already in service, are much better | ships than any of the older vessels. Each of them mounts nine 16-inch guns and a score of lesser guns, and carries the heaviest armor | available. According to the American naval tradi- | tion, they are not extraordinarily fast ships, being capable of something more than 28 knots. But even this, although it does not compare with the speed {of the newest British and German battleships, is a | great increase over the 23-knot average of our older ships of the line. The sinking of the Bismark, chiefly by means | of aerial torpedoes, has raised a serious question, of course, as to the wisdom of building battleships at $60,000,000 apiece. But the sinking of one ship does not automatically condemn as useless all ships of that category. In general, capital ships have stood up to the threat of air power remarkably well. They still have an extremely important function in the defense of a nation fortunate enough to be able to defend itself primarily on the open oceans. A feeling of nostalgia sweeps over us as Russia and Germany go for each other. Not since the good old prohibition days have we had a chance to enjoy a first-class gang war. As long as they have Lindbergh, Wheeler, Nye and some others on their side, the Axis powers shouldn't mind so much having their consulates closed over here. :3:hinglon | British public. | ent Boston attorney. A leading New “, % N::e“'::b;” ‘”;'““"d b'f;’":c"he England liberal, McDonough once - ck on Russia ani Ore was regional director of the WPA ey the British march into Syria. But a:d ro? mnnyd yem'sra member of N vo“n‘ i after the slowness of Wavell’s suc- the Massachusetts State Labor cess in Syria, all these factors cul- | Board. He is an old friend of Harry minated in his transfer to Ind'a. Hopkins and has a wide acquaint- There Wavell can concentrate on | gnce in labor ranks. “inued from : Page Oue | defense of the most important part ranean fleet. The losses at Crete weré. much’ worse than officially admitted,” and even in the Syrian campaign naval losses were considerable. There- fore, American naval men, fac- ing the probability of having to help the British fleet in the At- lantic, did not want the fleet further weakened. 2. The United States is more in- terested in what happens on the buldge of Africa around Dakar (opposite Brazil) than it is in the Mediterranean. To this end, both General Wavell and U. S. strategists favored the idea of withdrawing British forces from the Mediterranean entirely and | establishing a new line of defense across the very center of Africa— | from Port Sudan on the Red Sea to | Freetown, on the Atlantic Ocean. | This line of defense meant that sbout 1500 miles of the hottest desert in the world would be between the Nazis and the British lines. Over such a desert it is difficult for tanks to operate without heating up; also # is difficult for the average bomb- er to carry a load over such dis- tances. So it was expected that the Nazis would exhaust themselves in the deep, hot deserts of Africa. Part of the plan cqetemplated & highway straight across equa- torial Africa from Freetown and later from Dakar to Port Sudan. up on-the Indian border in South Russia.. Also, he will not be In the Mediterranean, for the defense of which he had no great enthusiasm. NOTE: In view of present U. S. demands for a separate air forcs, it is interesting to note that one of General Wavell’s rows with London was over the fact that the British army, navy and air force all were under different commands, each commander doing what he thought best. Wavell could not command the naval or air force to correlate their efforts with his. They co- operated with him, but if there was disagreement, they, not he, made the final choice. “MR. SMITH LEAVES WASHINGTON” Edwin L. Smith, left-wing member of the National Labor Relations Board, will not be reappointed when his term expires next month. Long under fire from the AFL and at loggers head with the other* two members of the board, Smith is def- initely slated for replacement. The White House tried to ease him out last year when the NLRB underwent a housecleaning, but Smith refused | to quit. ‘He insisted on filling out | his term, and since it would have taken a fight to remove him, the matter was dropped. | But now that his term is finished, | Smith knows he is on the way out. At an NLRB staff meeting last week 2e remarked that it was probably the last time he would address them. CIO insiders predict that he will get a job on the staff of John CHURCHILL SAYS NO However, Churchill was flatly op- posed. So were many other British leaders. They felt that the shock of withdrawal from the Mediterranean, traditional sphere 6f British influ- ence; and from'Suez which had been | close termis. identified with the British Empire | Topping the list of likely succes- for years, would be‘too much for the sors is John J. McDonough, promin- of the Empire—if the Nazis creep| As many as ten men stand or sit behind the President at his press conferences these days Bodyguard Tom Qualters and a brace of Secret Service men stand directly behind him, flanked by the military aide, naval aide, and Presidential Secre- taries Steve Early, William Hassett, Lauchlin Currie, Lowell Mellett, Jim Rowe, and Gene Casey. . . . The Army's new heavy tank is equipped not only with machine guns and a 75-mm. gun, but also with a nice shiny horn to keep soldiers them- selves from getting in the way. . . . Curly - haired Senator Berkeley Bunker of Nevada, who succeeded to the seat of the late Key Pittman, | never misses a Senate session and is | assiduously studying parliamentary ! procedure. Vice-President Wallace | has called him to preside during his absence more than any other Sen- ator. . . . Hard-working William Mc- Reynolds, one of the six “anony- mous” White House secretaries, is a chain smoker like his close friend Harry Hopkins, -A career man, Mc- Reynolds is credited with knowing more about the intricacies of gov- | CLOSE-2 WAYS Do e e e e HAPPY BIRTHDA JULY 8 Micky Pusich C. F. MoNutt Mrs. Ethan Nelson Robert B. Dailey . Mrs, T. F. Stillmani ) Hazel Van Asselt 3 Mrs. T. F. Osbourne” * F. T. Dickson ™~ —-— “The stars incline " ‘|| but do not compel’’... WEDNESDAY, JULY § Benefic aspects rule today, after | the morning hours. Labor treybies retarding early work may be settled | later. The stars encourage diplo-| matic conferences. ® a Heart and Home: This is “an auspicious date for making impor- tant plans and reaching decisions of future significance. It is Tucky| for girls who meet new acqualii-| tances among young men in train® | ing camps. While the stars do ‘not stimulate romance .they seem ’:o} promise [riendships. Women in' in- dustry should benefit under this is to be memorable for home-mak- ers who extend informal hospitali- ties. The wise will make the most of present blessings that center in the American home. I THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941, HOROSCOPE | -4 D - D - D - D 0D S - -0 - 5 zovEARSAgo‘mngMPIRE JULY 8, 1921 A North Dakota law made it illegal for a man to smoke in a cafe {or dining room in which women were present. Both the proprietor and the smoker were liable. | Possibilities of a government operated shipping line connecting Port- |1and and San Francisco to Alaska points were being investigated by an |agent of the U. 8. Shipping Board. Jacob Britt went to work for Superintendent Hans Floe at the P. G. Illmris cannery at Hawk Inlet. In the absence of Chairman George A. Parks of the Alaska Inter- ldepartmental Board, A. E. Sherman was Acting Chairman. Gov. Scott C. Bone, in an address in Tacoma, declared that adver- tising of Alaska’s fine climate and agricultural possibilities would be the economic and industrial salvation of the Territory. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Paul and children arrived on the steamer Spokane from Seattle. Weather: High, 58; low, 52; misty. i iy s T DS 0L SR Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corbon ’.WM WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not %ay, “Frank is reconciled with his lot.” Say, “Frank is reconciled TO his lot.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Philanthropic. Pronounce fil-an-throp- ik, both I's as in IT, A as in AT unstressed, O as in ON, accent on third syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Caffeine, or caffein; observe the EL SYNONYMS: Saturate, soak, drench, steep. 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: ERUDITE; learned; scholarly. (Pronounce er-oo-dit, E as in SAT, OO as in FOOT; I as in ICE, accent on first syllable). “Erudite people are not always interesting.” I MODERN ETIQUETTE * roprrra LEE ! Q. At what hour should a musicale be held? A. If the musicale is to be held in the morning, eleven is the cus- Business Affairs: Astrologers read in the stars portents of dras- tic changes in the money systems of the world. In the United States| banking will become of foremost importance in its leadership, as 'in-| ternational financial matters are| gradually untangled at the close! of the world war which may cnn-: tinue until 1943 or later. The threat of national socialism or sometm;\g! like it in European countries will not affect this country, although reforms in Government methods and usages are foretold. ) National Issues: Demands «for| economy in government will 1:mm=.1 effort to reduce pensions and other| allowances for human welfare. There is a sign presaging opposi« tion to philanthropic policies, but\ the waste and overlapping of 'Féd- eral, state and county agencies Will| be strongly criticized and sweeping reductions of public expenditittes| for civic agencies will be persisterit- ly advocated. i International Affairs: Crises in the world conflict will follow one another in the next few weeks with contradictory press reports,, alter- nately cheering and discouraging to the democracies. The Panama Canal as well as the Suez: Canal will cause intense concentration for protection against enemy assaults. The President of the United States is still subject to aspects productive of changes and inclining ''toward radical measures. The autumn’ will come with the most difficult of problems with a most menacing| configuration for next November. Persons Wwhose birthdate it fs have the augury of a year of suc- cess and happiness. Unexpected profits from long-time investments are indicated for many. i Children born on this d’:} Eny be profoundly intellectual. a - ceedingly charming. They will be lovers of all that is beautiful (Copyright, 1941) ernment than anyone in thmn ton. 4 (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc) 18 BIRMINGHAM, July 8—Johnny Cummings Jr. former proressloha; lbaseball player with Memphis' of | the Southern Association and now |a top-flight golfer, almost didn’t enter the recent Southern Amateur }Golf Championship. P | He had just changed jobs and figured his new boss wouldn't dike for him to run off immediately to play. But the boss said, sure, go tomary hour; if the afternoon, four o'clock; if in the evening, it may begin at eighty-thirty, unless it follows a formal dinner and then it begins at ten o'clock. Q. What is the proper way to eat watermelon? A. With a fork. Cut off one bite at a time, and be sure to leave the seeds on the plate. Q. On which side of the bridegroom should the bride stand during the wedding ceremony? A. She should stand at the left of the bridegroom, facing the minister. e e by A. C. GORDON i LOOK and LEAR 1. What famous European ruler sold the United States enough land !‘or a bargain price to form seventeen new States? 2. What ten words comprise twenty-five per cent of our ordinary speech? 3. What large country’s inhabitants consume an average of eighty- two pounds.of fish per person annually? 4. Of what American tree is there no record of any ever having died of old age? 5. What great poet took seventeen years to write one of his most famous poems? ANSWERS: Napoleon, who sold us the Louisiana Territory in 1803. The, of, any, to, a, in, that, it, is, and I. Japan, The giant sequoia. . Alfred Lard Tennyson (1809-92) writing “In Memoriam.” IUMBI.I“G AFTER pounds, came tumbling after. Brooks, prostrate on the ground BUTTE, Mont., July 8—Climbing| floor, covered his head with his - s Sl o T Both the rancher and the hay went through the floor and 74 ad- ditional bales, weighing 7,500 to the top of a pile of hay, Dan arm for protection and took every- Brooks, rancher, started to pull down a bale. It , struck him and he and the bale dropped 40 feet to the floor of the hay mow. thing that came his way. Ranch hands pulled the pile of hay away—a 20-minute job— and found Dan smiling and only slightly hurt. A Rarity in the Efluine World ahead. o8 - Johnny. was remmer-up in 4 24 ter. DEFENSE | BOND Q. Can I buy Defense Bonds by mail? A. Yes, by writing to the Treasurer of the United States, Washington, D. C,, for a descriptive circular and order form. Is there any price advantage in buying Defense Bonds and Stamps | | by mail? There is not. The post offices and banks which issue Defense Bonds and Stamps do so without being paid any profit for their services. 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