The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1941, Page 2

oS S 9 Ranking Army Officers Must Prove Their Stuff; Out Goes Dead Wood By JOHN GROVER AP Feature Service Writer HINGTON, July 11—It's like- WAS ly that officers will be the only casualties this year in the U. £ Army's new, all - war - short - of- hooting maneuver rne gnys in the ranks will do as they're told. The big brass hats who do the telling are on the spot. What's more, they know it Lt Gen Lesl J McNair, GHQ's slightly deaf chief of staff, has ordered a new kind of war game, one that puts it squarely np to ranking officers to prove they know their stuff, or else. There more than suspicion that some Army officers«—this goc for Regulars, National Guards Reserves—are ill-equipped to cc mand The ¥ maneuvers are frankl planned to weed out dead wood Old-type maneuvers were a sort of cross between a chess game and a couple of innings of make-believ They pretended scant brig 5 W whole divisions. Colored pins rep- resented this and that The forces declared Kin at night in the old maneuvers. E listed men headed for the nearest juke point; officers of both sidas gathered for friendly argument to justify sticking this pin he and that one there. It was all ve clubby. It bore about as much re-| lation to war under field condi- as a beanbag battle between od teams of the Girls' Friendly Society. Bi It wasn't the fore the people Maneuvers Army’s fault, Be- got hep to de- fense needs, the Army couldn’t zet money for equipment. Congress, playing politics, insisted on keepix small units stuck uselessly arouni at outposts of Indian war days.!| The brasgs hats couldn't bring troops together for full-scale maneuver: It's all different now. There’ to| be $24,000,000 available for these maneuvers, and Gen. MeNair's do- your-stuff rules are in for Keynote of the McNair plan is realism. There won't be any King's X stuff. W are run on a 24- hour basis, and that’s the way these maneuvers will go. If a com- mander wants to slam five divisions at the enemy flank, that means moving 75,000 actual men, not col- ored pins. Doughboys eat more than pins, too. That means the brass hats have to plan for 75,000 meals three times a day. The opposing forces will have fronts and flanks and rears to pro- tect, too—real, square miles of ground, not “Let’s pretend’ are PARDON gy KIE! <IN, CENERAL — - BUT You HoUp yAVE DI5cq2eDEC on a map. It'll be-actual warfare, as near with the single exception that sbullets will be blanks How It Works Suppose Gen. Marmaduke Puf- fer and Gen. J. S. Blank com- mand opposing forces. The games start, Old Jughead Puffer’s trans- port breaks down. His troops don't get their rations on time. His guns don’t get new supplies of ammu- nition. Tactical forces, incompetent- ly deployed, are surrounded and gobbled up by Leatherpuss Blank's martly-trained units. It won’t make any difference, General McNair hopes, that Jug- ad’s got drag back in his home te, where he got his appoint- National Guard comman- use his brother-in-law those five crucial coun- ties to the Governor last election. Jughead just hasn’'t got what it takes to command troops in force. 93 1 be a new recruit in the of retired generals when reclassification board consid- sloppy record in maneu- ment as bec delivered der rs his vers. The same thing will happen to subordinate officers. On the. bright- er side, the officers who know their| ‘bu.»mr* s will get a break. Below-standard by in peacetime. officers can get The cream of the officer corps comes to the top in war. Battle str and emergency | bring out your Napoleons and| Grants and Forrests. They may be awkward in a drawing room; they 1 have no political pull; | they may be, like Grant, the last| man youw'd pick for a soldier. Better Now Than Later { It's fatal to wait until war comes to find out. France was cut to pieces before they learned cligues and politics had riddled the officer personnel with dry rot. That's why Gen., McNair has iade the maneuvers as much like| real war as possible. The actuall deployment, provisioning and sup-| plying of war-strength troops un-| der field conditions will shew up the unfit, What's more, they'll be shown | up as incompetent before their in- competence Kkills men and loses battles. - e | DIES AT SITKA Charles Alexander, who mined. at Nome from 1889 until he entered the Pioneers’ Home a year ago, died Wednesday at the Sitka institution, | according to word received by the Governor's office from Superinten- s dent Eiler Hanson. Look Here, Folks!? OPEN ALL NIGHT Percy Has Thrown the Key Away!? It's in the Channel 1 g as human ingenuity can make 1l,|2 H I.b ' |leave for Hoonah, and a flight to . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941. U.S. Troops NavyDenies Engagements | With Germany Wheeler S?afls Query ioy See If United Stafes in | "Shooting War” | WASHINGTON, July 11.—Secre- tary of the Navy Frank Knox and Admiral Stark voiced what was termed by committeemen as “cate- gorical denials” before the Sen- al Committee of published | that the American Navy has engaged in combat with Nazi| naval units. In a closed session lasting more than three hours, Knox and Stark are reported to have denied “line by line” demands made in a resolu- tion introduced by Senator Burton K. Wheeler who winted to know! whether the Navy is engaged in a| “shooting war.” Using the new type Navy boats to ashore at Falmouth, Mass., to vract CANADIANS FAVOR DAWSON ROUTE IN - ALASKA HIGHWAY Report fo Ottawa fo Be Made Soon, Says B. (. Commissioner OTTAWA, Canada, July 11 — A study of possible routes for (lc | Alaska International Highway con- vinced Canadian commissioners | that the most suitable line to Sell, Sealtle SEATTLE, July 11—Halibuters ar- riving from the western banks to- day and seiling catches are as fol-| low: Akutan 40,000 pounds, 14% and 12% cents a pound; Superior 32,009 pounds, 14% and 12% cents. - . DR. LESLIE WHITE OF BETHEL GOING . l"To "AvAlDunor the British Columbia and Yu- kon Alaska Highway Commission, said today. I Stewart added final reports will| probably be presented to the Cai adian government in two or t} weeks with estimates based on al gravel surface road. Stewart in deciding the best route the 2 mission considered economy, feasi-| bility, construction, accessibility and efficient serving for feeder road He said the commission's duty did not include making a choice of the routes studied. The Commis- | sion’s five members reported com-| pletely on both the Prince George- the North runs from Prince George (o Dawson, Charles Stewart, chairmon Dr. Leslie White, widely known in Juneau, will be leaving his post as Physician-in-Charge of the Gov- ernment Hospital at Bethel next| week to go into active duty in the| Navy. i Dr. Fred M. Langson of the Ju-| neau Government Hospital will| leave on the steamer Alaska today| for Anchorage, from where he will fly to relieve Dr. White, SIMMONS FLIES _ | Yukon route and anothe from "'Rlp Io [oAS"Hau‘lton to Whitehorse through more difficult country where the|. . snow is heavier. & ————— - {5 WEATHER GROUNDS PAA PLANES HERE | | On a flight to Sitka this morn-| ing pilot Shell Simmons carried Thomas A. Morgan, W. G. Nix, Alice Kellog, Jack Kellog and W. Strangier to the Coast and turned with J. Jacobsen. Pilot Alex Holden made a trip to Polaris-Taku mine today with air express and returned with ne passengers, This afternoon Mr. angd Mrs. E. E. Bromley and Mrs. M, Dalton and son are scheduled to re- Due to arrive here weather per- mitfing this afternoon, a PAA| Lodestar left Seattle for Fairbanks via Juneau this morning with seven | passengers. Mrs. . Wentworth, A, C. Ovens and Mrs. L. Courtley are| beoked for Juneau and S. M. Land- | er, L. E. Dierks, W. A. Bartholo- mew and C. Moriarty are booked through to Fairbanks. Two Lodestars which returned to| Juneau from Fairbanks last night| are at tne PAA airport here this afternoon waiting for improved weather conditions before leaving| for Boeing Field in Seattle. Passengers arriving from the In- terior on the two southbound planes last night are Kenneth Nelson, Glenn McGuire and Roy Jensen, booked for Juneau, and through pas- sengers . Mrs. Frances White, Sig Wein, Thomas Paulson, Chatles Peterson and Mrs, Frances Andert son. " FROM HOOD BAY f Art Wolf of the Hood Bay Pack=~ ing Company is in Juneau from his cannery. Ketchikan is slated. PERCY REYNOLDS IS NEW FIREMAN The members of the Juneau Vol- unteer Fire Department met last night in the Club Room in the City Hall. V. W. Mulvihill, Pire Chief, presided and several routine mat- | ters were taken up. Major event of the meeting was the election of Percy Reynelds as a member of the Department. The fire. squad numbers approximately 30 members at present. NO GAME TONIGH Adding to three the number of sames postponed because of rain in the second half of the Gastin- eau Channel League schedule, an- nouncement was made today that a seven-inning fray slated between Douglas and the Elks for tonight The ancient Greeks reckoned their time from the legendary be- ginning of the Olympic games, — OPEN ALL NIGHT-Every Night! PERCY’ CAFE PHONE 94 More Miles for Y [ A XE X RJ CHARLES 6. Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boat If Yon Want MORE ROOM IN YOUR BOAT A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that Instantly Starte Assurance of Safe Trips Freedom from Fire Hazards A Broad Range of Smooth Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Cests Reduced Insurance kates Smokeless, Odorless Exhaust Full Diesel Dependability An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked our Money WARNER CO. Mrs. lemslra fo has been cancelled. Arrive on July 21 According to Department Head- Quarters, the National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra, is to arrive in Juneau July 21. It was previously reported incorrectly that her namel was Mrs. Lundstrom. Mrs. Lemstra will arrive on the North Coast, | S ! GAMES TODAY e | The following are final scores of gam played this afternoon in| the National League as received up to press time: Boston 7; Chicago 2. Cincinnati 2; Brooklyn 12. | 2 | DUFRESNE RETURNS Frank Dufresne, Executive Offi- |cer of the Alaska Game Commis- | | Clad in y gabardine uni: ‘ returned to June o observers in the home defense morning on the launch Bear from Ketchikan, this Grizzly Masjorie Jorda, Mary Ready to Aid in Defense of Phfladéiphia enrolled by American Legion Post 211 to participate in weekly training. ot Learn Technique of Invasion land from a transport, troops of the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, leap ice invasion. They brought ashore combat cars that pull small guns. Ladies of Ht_he Air A1d RAF 7 % z First Officer Patterson helps First Officer Broad into an Oxford tr plane in England as they work at their duties in the Air T Auxiliary. Both are working as ferry pilots, transporting planes wssemnbly plants to RAF fields, releasing male pilots for combat daty. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 11.—Ciosing quotation of Alask au mine tock today is 4%, American Can i %4, Anaccnda 29 Bethlehem ! | Steel” 76'%4, Commonwealth and | Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, Gen- 4 |eral Motors 39, International Har- 4 | vester Kennecott 38%, New i | York Central 12%, Northern Pacif- ic 7, United States Steel 58%, Pound $4.03%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The folowing are Dow, Jones av- erages: Industrials 127.90, rails 29.19, utilities 18.58. % PR - COMMUNICATION EDITOR, Daily Alaska Empire: Dear Sir: In your yesterday’s issue I note | letter in which my statement be- fore the Committee on Territories considering H. R. 4397 was quoted |in part. T hand you herewith the text of that statement. | Since arriving in Washington I have been requested by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to represent that body at this hearing and pre- sent argument against H. R. 4397, e Omilon Siaeo Brotective | Since that Chamber has presented San Francisco aboard the S.§. |its views in a ‘brief submitted by Lurline. Quezon is now presidents | Mr. Dimond and has not supplied me CAND IDAT E_milario C. Moncado, candidate for president of the Philippines who favors a “perpetual form of Common- seven girls line up in front of a plane, ready for duty as ]rliml and Philadelphia. They are members of a group-of 200 men and men Left to right: Blanche § ake, Shacttle and Noom) Bopsity 4 g THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU | i Forecast for Juneau and vicinfly, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 11: | Mostly cloudy with showers tonigat, rain Saturday; mnot much change in temperature, lowest tem sorature tonight about 53 degre highest Saturday 62 degrees; gent'e southeast winds. A Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy tonight with light | rain late tonight and Saturday; nst much change in temperature; moderate south to southeast windj, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alsaskst | Dixon Entrance to Cape Spehcer: Moderate southeast winds, becom- ing moderate south winds during Saturday, rain; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate southeast winds, local rain; Cape Hiri- i chinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate northeast winds, local rain: | Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate east to northeast winds, be- coming moderate south winds nea KWK Saturday, rain. | LOCAL DATA 1 Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloeity =~ Weather | 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.13 61 b6 SSE 8 Cloudy | 4:30 am. today .. 30.08 53 81 SE 12 Shower: { Noon today 30.05 52 95 SE 12 Rain | RADIO REPORTS TODAY | Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. | Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24hours Weather | Barrow ... 89 33 33 [ Fog | Fairbanks 86 51 52 01 Cloudy Nome, .. 58 49 50 0 Cloudy Dawson i 52 52 07 Rain Anchorage . 63 50 50 0 Cloudy Bethel .. 63 49 50 0 Cloudy St. Paul . 51 43 47 0 Cloudy Atka e 48 p 45 46 .06 Fog Dutch Harbor .. 57 52 52 04 Cloudy | Wosnesenski 60 49 50 0 Pt. Cldy | Cordova 54 48 49 0 Cloudy Juneau 61 53 53 a1 Showers Ketchikan 2 52 58 0 Cloudy Prince Rupert .. 67 47 49 0 Pt.Cldy Seattle 81 54 56 0 Cloudy Portland 82 51 51 0 Pt. Cldy San Francisco .. 75 52 54 0 Cloudy 1 | WEATHMER SYNOPSIS { Partly cloudy to cloudy skiesprevailed over Alaska this morn- ing, Rain had fallen during the previous 24 hours at scattered points from Southeast Alaska to Cook Inlet and over the Tanana Valley and from the upper Kuskokwim Valley to the Seward Pen- insula and over the Aleutian Islands. The greatest amount of pre- cipitation was 15 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Haines. The warmest temperatur: yesterday afternoon was 68 de- grees which was reported at Skwentna and the lowest this morn- ing was 33 degrees at Barrow. Ov>reast skies with local rain, mod- erate to low ceilings and fair to good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketehikan airway this morning. | The Friday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 2995 inches was located at 56 degrees north and 140 | degrees west with the frontal storm trough extending eastward through Southeast Alaska near Sitka and was expected to move norih- ward into the interior of Alaska during the next 24 hours. A sec- ond low center of 2958 inches was located at 52 degrees north and 165 degrees west and the frontal storm trough extended eastward | to 53 degrees north and 146 dejrees west and thence southwesf- ! ward into lower latitudes and was expected to move about 500 | miles northeastward during the nest 24 hours. A high pressure cen- ter of 30.35 inches was located at 37 degrees north and 142 degrees west and a high crest extendei northeastward to Dixon En- trance. Juneau, July 12 — Sunrise 4:0' a.m., sunset 9:57 p.m. B |with any additional nrgumencfme total taxpaying public in the |against the bill, I can only present Territory will not number more than | my personal views and those that I the population of a small town in {know are held by many Alaskans. |the States. | 8o far as the House membership | |is concerned, we are heartily in| favor of representation—acording, to population, but realize that that | | condition will be hard to determine | | because of the rapidly shifting pop-} | ulation. There is no doubt that the| {3rd Division now has a larger popu-: lation than the first and that it is| |likely to be much more so by the 'next election, yet this bill would ‘gram them less representation than| the First Division. Many of the Alaska Organiza-| | tions suporting this bill have stated |that “Rule of the majority is in keeping with the Democratic prin- ciple.” I believe a true definition |should read “Rule of the majority with due regard to the rights of the minority.” | A knowledge of conditions in Al- ska convince me that the Senate should be composed .of an equal number from each Division in order | to safeguard the rights and welfare of gach Division, As an example the First and Third Divisions depend almost en- tirely on the fishing industry, whereas the Second and Fourth depend on mining. Now if we lacked a balancing authority such as equal representation in the Senate, it would be possible and even probable that the fishing interests enjoy- ing the majority could vote up the taxes on the mining divisips fail to grant them their due share of appropriaticns for roads, landing \fields, etc. to the end that they would suffer such a disadvantage that they would be deprived of their natural growth and prosperity and would always remain a - minority. Mr. Dimond has used Territorial Hcuse Resolution No. 1 as an argu- ment in favor of his bill. T wish to call attention that the people of the Territory through their House of Representatives have petitioned for cne additicnal Senator from each Division, providing equal represen- tation in the upper house. I believe that before any change is made in thée organic act as pro- vided in H. R. 4397, the proposition should be submitted to the people of the Territory or at least to the Territorial Legislature. Many of the communications read cy Mr. Dimond are misleading in that they give the impression of stating the cpinion of many people, where in fact they are simply the often dictated opinion of a bare majority of a few that are present at a meeting called for the purpose of aiding the-passage of this bill As an example: The statement 5f the Women Voters Organization read by Mr. Dimond is the result of a neeting held in Juneau, < attended by, ¢ight women, four of wlhom favored the bill, three op- scced and oné did not vote. Regarding the amendmients fav- ~red by the Director of the Budget. The lands of Alaska are 98 percent plus owned by the Federal Govern- ment and fisheries, fur and (may I correct, Forestry is in the Dept. of Agriculture), coal and oil lands are regulated by the Department of the Intg¢rior on a basis that is sel- dem ducive to development, cither to the advantage of the citi- zens or the Territorial Treasury. Under our limited tax source it becomes more and more difficult to raise the ever increasing revenue needed to carry on our institutions. If the cost or part of the cost of the Legislature is to be borne by Al- aska, then we must keep that body to a minimum number consistent with fair representation. Further comments were offered by me in answer to questions asked by Committee Mentbers and will no doubt appear in the Congressional Record. 9 In answering questions asked re- garding the failure of our recent income Tax Bill, the figures I quot- ed were for the biennium and I so stated, not annual as shown in Mr. Dimond’s report; I also pointed out that we raised License taxes to provide more reventie than was lost with the Income Tax Bill. In Mr. Dimond’s estimate of costs to the Territory in event of H. R. 1397 becoming law, he fails to take into account the increased cost of printing and supplies incident to an expanded legislature and cer- tainly he does not include the cost of new quarters necessary for that body. With the total cost of all special sessions to be born by the Terri- tory, and s:ich sessions to be subject ‘o call by the Government exclus- ivly, it is evident that the neople cf the Territory will have little con- irol of their legislative costs. In answering questions by Com- mittee members Mr. Dimond stated that he could think of no reason why the Territory should not bear the entire cost of their Legislature. My statement was that since the wmederal Government holds 98 per sent of the lands of the Territory nd regulates it's resources, our tax -elling is limited and greater self jovernment means more Territorial sontrol rather than a larger Lez- islature and a different way to -elect it. I repeat that I do believe in the yrinciple of representation accord- ng to population for the Housc ;ut that does not necessarily re- iuire greatly increased numbers. I mow of no State Legislature that 1as forty members per seventy two housand population. If the last Legislature was as bad is often represented, can it be im- roved by having twice as much of it? In the list of those supporting the ill H. R. 4397 Mr. Dimond forgot 5> mention the blessing given by wo representatives from the Inter- 4 VIS ; ¥ i i | | | J e S Al