The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRI G CO! Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, ident | Vice-President and Business Manager Tntered 1n the Post Office In Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: delivered By carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. y mail, postage paid, at the followl; One yeu in advance, $12.00; six months, in one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will eonfer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faffure or irregularity in the de- \very 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 all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published beretn ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- Mves, with offices in_San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beatfle, Chicago, New York and Bosto SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Frank J. Dunning, american Bank Building. ON ALASKA’S HIGHWAYS We are happy to note that the Territorial Board | of Road Commissioners, in issuing regulations “under sis on general good sense and courtesy in driving instead of on the technical restrictions which in many States have taken the joy out of motoring. Alaska has a wonderful opportunity to work it-| In the States, high- into effect in great self into a good traffic code. way regulations were rushed alarm after the automobile had proved itself a deadly and maiming weapon. In Alaska, where con- gestion is as yet so slight, we have the opportunity to regulate traffic before it becomes a great prob- lem. To this end, the new regulations have been made reasonable and sensible. No careful driver with a decent respect for the rights of others -need fear the new Alaska highway patrolmen. EQUIPMENT AND MORALE Thus far the Soviet Union is meeting the “Nazi challenge better than did Poland or France. This is explained in large part by the fact that Russia has more and better armored brigades than the earlier victims of the Reich. But it also results| from a more stubborn determination to resist. Ger- man communiques are now emphasizing the “fierce resistance” of the Soviet troops. If this same morale shows in the Russian civil- fan population Herr Hitler will have his work cut out for him in Russia, even though his panzer di- visions do succeed in destroying the Red army. In every conquest up to now a German military vic- tory has meant the end of all resistance—excepting scattered acts of sabotage. Russia is unbelievably vast and populous. If its people are bent on limitless resistance, as are the Chinese, the Reichswehr will never finish the conquest of the Soviet Union, will never be able to pull most of its divisions out for use against the British Isles. What we do not know, of course, is whether the Russian people have the qualities of patriotism and morale to seize upon and carry through a strategy of scorched earth and tireless guerrilla fighting. SOME LESSON A prominent Italian newspaper, in an aside to ‘ that, Englnnd and the United States, declares that the | ger in an imaginative mind and start a physicist on | miles up. Radio waves are reflected back and forth the new Alaska highway act, has placed the empha- | e bl i it | termine by the echoes how high each reflecting layer | “radiolocator”—the guess is printable because the | for it. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1941 surrender of the Greek armies is a lesson to “na- tions regarding Italy as a country of easy victories.” It is indeed a lesson—but not of the kind that 1l Giornale D'Italia has in mind. Tt is a lesson that tiny nations attacked by the invincible forces of Fmrism had better whip Italy inside of six months— | or Adolf Hitler will get them. It is a lesson that Fascist Italy is as tough as , | the Nazi war machine can make it when it arrives | on the scene. It is a lesson that no matter how far Jnl‘ how fast Benito Mussolini's six or eight million | bayonets run from the Spaniards or the British or the Greeks, they will have the Germans show their foes that they can’t get away with it forever. Perhaps it is unkind to snatch from the hungry | pride of Fascist Italy the crumbs of comfort to be found in the surrender of tke Greek army of the northwest, but it is obviously the intent of Nazi Ger- many that Italy shall have no pride left, or she would have acted in time to permit Italians to say that they could have whipped Greece by themselves. And what has Italy paid for this humiliating vic- tory by her Axis “partner?” Oh, nothing much— just a few things like her own liberty. The “Radiolocator” (New York Times) There is good reason for Lord Beaverbrook to appeal for American technical assistance to improve and maintain the “radiolocators” of which he spoke in his radio address—if they are what we think they may be. Assuming that the kind of radio aircraft location to which he refers is that which had been disclosed in the American, British and German patent and technical literature, we have a romantic exam- | ple of the way in which an accident can pull a trig- an unforeseen path of experimentation. We begin with the ionosphere—a multilayered series of electrical mirrors in the sky from 60 to 150 between the layers and the earth and thus echo a telephone conversation or a telegraphic message across the ocean. Exactly how high are the mirrors? The communication companies must know. For years their engineers have been directing short, in- tense radio impulses at the sky. Since the velocity of the waves is known, it becomes possible to de- must be. In this country the Bell Telephone Labora- tories, the Bureau -of Standards, the General Elec- tric Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have led in such investigations. Along comes Professor E. V. Appleton, leading XBrinsh authority on the ionosphere, and makes | measurements of his own. He notices that under some conditions the echoes arrive from the wrong direction and at the wrong time, and does some sci- entific detective work. The commercial planes over Croydon prove to be the cause. They are excellent radio reflectors, by day, by night or in a fog. Such |a discovery is bound to be developed either by the | commercial companies, as the assignments of patents indicate, or by the Government. Millions of pounds ‘vsould be required to establish and elaborate radio- | locating network and a plotting system to follow an | invisible bombing squadron, and it is of millions of | pounds that Lord Beaverbrook speaks. Assuming that this is indeed the secret of the Germans have also been experimenting in the field opened by Professor Appleton—it is easy to under- stand a call for American technical aid. We have gone farther than any other country in plumbing the ionosphere. We have both the engineers and the maintenance men needed to make the utmost use of a reflecting “radiolocator.” Possibly the British tapped our technical knowledge soon after the evacu- ation of Dunkerque. But they need hundreds of skilled maintenance men to keep a vast system of | radiolocation in perfect condition if they are to spread what Lord Beaverbrook poetically calls "thei covering wings of science over the multitudes who | inhabit vast citie: | ‘We hope that the isolationists who keep assur- ing us that Hitler has no designs upon the Western Hemisphere have something stronger than his word Mussolini has declared war upon Russin But we imagine, is somewhere near the least of Russias worries. Washingfon Merry- ‘oppoamon to his vigorous miht,ary,Hans Kundt, who was paid the mun- | foreign policy advisers, the Presl- ificent salary‘of $10,000 a month,| ‘dem hates and dreads the idea of the largest salary received by any this nation going into war. military man’ anywhere. (General| Go-Round ! (Continued from Page One) OK. Important decisions regarding OPM and aid to Britain confronts him daily. So the President sees far less of the men who helped to build up the New Deal, far more of Army-Navy pfficials, One Dollar Men and dip- lomats. Much of this is unavoidable, | though part of it could be eliminat- | ed by more diversification of con-| trol. However, this change in the Pre-| sident's mode of operation is not as important as the change which gradually has crept over his gener- | al outlook. On the surface, and in press conference, he is the same old wise-cracking, fun-loving Roose- | velt. But underneath and in pri-| vate he is not. No longer does he have the same | zest for what he is doing. In the‘ old days when he was building PWA bridges and WPA schoolhouses, writing labor laws, crusading for social security, fighting the big ut- ilities, he loved every minute of it.| He was building up, crusading Ior‘ human needs and human rights. And his enthusiasm was bound- less. NO WAR ENTHUSIASM } Now, however, he knows that every step he takes in foreign pol- icy, every dollar he spends for the Navy, every man he inducts into the Army, may be a step toward tearing down rather than building up. He believes the steps he is tak- irig are absolutely necessary. But he has no enthusiasm for them. In other words, he has no enthusiasm for war. Most of the men around Roosevelt believe that war is inevitable, and it may be that he does. too—though he has not admitted that publicly.| But judging by his hanging back mi | that he was right.” He hates the reactions and after- maths of war, and he hates the idea of having history record him as a War President. At the same time he believes that this country will Have to move fast, and if it does not move now it may be too late, For the best de- finition of an isolationist, Roosevelt firmly believes, is one who by pro- crastination wants to see his wo- men and children in the thick of the fighting here at home. Probably the best expression of Roosevelt's dread reluctance toward the idea of war was a conversation he had with the Guatemalan Min- ister after the fireside chat of May | 27. Minister Recinos had known| Roosevelt as the young Assistant | Secretary of the Navy, and when he recalled those days, he got a signi- | ficant observation from the Presi- dent. In those days Roosevelt used to |be impatient with Woodrow Wil- son because he did not bring the fleet into the Atlantic in order to |be prepared for eventualities with Germany. Wilson oposed this be- cause ,it might lead to war, and young Roosevelt felt very strongly that Wilson was wrong. “But now that I am in his posi- tion,” Roosevelt said, “I can see U. 8. ARM YIN BOLIVIA A significant move in Hemisphere defense is about to be made in Bol- ivia. This government will announce an agreement with the Bolivian Government for sending an Ameri- can air mission to train the Bol- ivian air force. Importance of this move is that it | means a shift from German mili- | tary influence to U. S. influence. For twenty years, from 1910 until| the outbreak of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Bolivian Army had been trained Douglas MacArthur, head of thej Philippine Army, is now the highest paid, getting a reputed $25,000 an- nually.) The American officers in Bolivia | will receive their present pay, plus a slight increase to compensate them for living abroad. BIG HOUSING PACT It’s being kept under cover, pend- ing approval by the President, but a master labor agreement, design- ed to speed up construction of vital defense housing, has been reached between AFL leaders and govern- ment housing heads. Affecting con- struction workers all over the count- ry, the agreement contains three major clauses: (1) Uniform time-and-a-half pay for all ‘building trades workmen employed on army cantonments and defense housing projects; (2) a ban on jurisdictional strikes; (3) payment of prevailing wage scales. ‘The pact was worked out at a series of conferences between John Coyne, able chief of the AFL build- ing trades department, which re- presents virtually all organized building workers in the country; Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer; private contrac- tors; and War and Navy officials. Next to the ban on jurisdictional strikes, the most significant feature is the time-and-a-half overtime e ettt JULY 19, 1921 Gov. Scott C. Bone gave highest praise to R. J. Sommers’ ability as lan official in a statement issued relative to the latter’s resignation as | ex-officio Secretary of Alaska. FAPPY BIRTHDAY | __-...—-.—-—-——-.~ JULY 19 Albert Wile 3 Lars Haugse | Howard Thompson Joanne Jorgenson Albert Tomlinson | JULY 20 June Anderson Verne Dick Nina Baroumes Ethel Nonnemacher | Frank M. Dick | Robert Light Henry F. Thompson Vera Willetts PR HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline ‘ | | bui do not compel” —_———t SUNDAY, JULY 20 Benefic stars rule today, although | adverse influences are active. The1 aspects favor religion and seem v.o‘ presage extraordinary work by the | clergy and the churches. HEART AND HOME: This is n.n‘ auspicious date for good resolutions, a time to face the future courage- ously. The counsel of family heads should be accepted with a serious- R ness which inspires radical purpos-| es in social and financial readjust-| ments. In a mad world it is inevit- able that this nation must mfior‘ and it is imperative to change cer- tain social and financial programs in this most fortunate of countries. Money problems will affect persons of all degrees of success and. it is now necessary to think last of one’s private hopes and ambitions while serving as of first importance the needs of the nation. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The ma- chinery of American trade and com- merce will operate profitably al- though it must be altered repeated- | ly to conform to war condmons‘ Surprises will continue the progress of the widel con- flict. What has been will Be, but with strange variations in the pat- terns of war. Colossal expenses are to be added to the mountains.ofide- fense costs. Financiers are to meet gigantic problems that must be solved eventually by the people. NATIONAL ISSUES: Difficulties in the co-ordination of the vast, branches of defense work cause | severe criticism of the Government. | There is another omen of Ila troubles for this week and the stars seem to prognosticate alternate truces and strikes htat may bring about unwise legislation. As lives are added to the price of American| war preparedness, there will be great concern regarding the state of the nation. Tragedy will put im- print upon this peace-loving peo- ple. Sudden events of great sizmfl» canse are foretold for the next month, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: n: the conjunction of Jupiter and Sa- | turn last February astrologers dis- cerned peace signs, but also orfiefis| of a period of intense stress; Cofi-! centrated conflicts will involve - tant armies as well as those engag- ed in naval struggles. Since this is a Plutonian war, which is believed to mean ultimate world revolution, each new terror must be mef with unflinching and even desperate courage. Changes in the form of the Soviet Government are phophesied and Russla is to gain new powef, after Stalin ceases to be dictator. Persons whose birthdate it is have augury of a year of advance- ment and financial gain. Those who are in the Army or Navy will galn honors. Children born on this day prob- ably will be kindly and strusting as well as intelligent. They must be taught to protect their own best interests. MONDAY, JULY 21 Benefic aspecs dominate today which should be fortunate for em- ployers and employes. There is an evil portent for naval movements, tween contractors and union spok- esmen. Coyne finally accepted the pay ceiling when the contractors assert- ed that the double overtime de- manded by the union would put them out of business. The rush pressure on defense projects neces- sitates so0 much overtime, they con- tended, that construction costs would bé prohibitive. provision. This was agreed upon only after some sharp clashes be- (Copyright, 1941, by United Fea~ ture Syndicate, Inc.) BOND denomination, may I obtain and leave part invested? A. Yes. | by a German military mission. Head of the mission was General A. Q. DEFENSE If T have several Defense Savings Bonds, or one Bond of large For example, a Series E Bond may be redeemed on demand at any time after 60 days from date of issue, payable at its cash redemption value. Upon payment in part, the remainder will be reissued and will be of the date of the original Bond. Can I get my Defense Stamps money back, if T suddenly need :#? Yes. Owner may redeem Stamps at any time. QuIz . pa_rt of my money should I need it, jevident as the wives and mothers Dave Housel returned to Juneau on the Princess Alice from a trip to Seattle. Mrs. Livingstone Wernecke and her daughter Claire left on the Jvrrerson enroute to Dawson, where Mr. Wernecke was examining prop- ert_\ for the Alaska Treadwell Mining Company. Karl Theile was nominated by President Harding for Surveyor Gen- eral of Alaska. A banquet given by the Juneau Commercial Association in the Elks Hall for Gov. Bone was attended by 125 members of the group and out- jof—town guests. | | Work on the new float being built north of the Rock Dump was well started, and a number of piles were in place. Weather: High, 66; low, 59; rain. ’-_m.‘—_.m Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corpon e - D S 44 S s ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They are excessively ! happy.” Say, “They are EXCEEDINGLY happy.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Viscount, Pronounce vi-kount, T as in | ICE, accent on first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Pain (an ache). Pane (a piece, section or side of something). SYNONYMS: Startle, perplex, bewilder, confound. 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: BANAL; commonplace; trite. “The hostess did not permit the conversa- g MODERN ETIQUETTE ® poerra LEE Q. If a man and a woman are dining together in a restaurant' and the tea is served in pot, who pours it? A. If the waiter does not pour for them, then the woman should attend to this duty. Q. What are some of the most important duties of a hostess? A. She must always greet her guests, introduce those who are not acquainted with each other, and see that they are comfortable and en- joying themselves. Q. When may a man wear a business suit? A. The business suit is worn not only at business, but also for traveling and on all day or evening occasions when the affair does not call for formal dress. O—Wi LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corpon | e e S e e ) e e e ) 1. When one is ordered to appear at a certain place on a certain day as a witness, what does he receive? ‘What month was named after a great Roman general and states- man? 3. States 4. 5. # How many pounds of milk does the average cow in the United yield in a year? What did Edgar Allan Poe’s “Raven” say? What is a lorgnette? ANSWERS: A subpoena. July, after Julius Caesar. 4,000 pounds. “Nevermore.” An eye-glass, or eye-glasses, 1 2. 3. 4. 5. with a long handle. Kills Child, Self but aviation is well directed. HEART AND HOME: Wothen are subject to stimulating and inspir- ing influences while this config- uration prevails. The stars fore- east for the great increase in public responsibilities and heroic |aid in war work. Self-sacrifice now will be practiced by leaders in clubs and social life. Increase of reliance on spiritual support will be of the nation give their best efforts toward cooperation in aiding the cause of the democracies. There are omens of severe tests to courage and faith as the summer advances. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: American efficiency in maintaining trade and commerce under terrible obstacles will be demonstrated wonderfully at | this time when perils multiply for ithe Western Hemisphere. Amazing financial strength will develop in the promotion of defense programs. Desperate economic conditions in Eurcpe will cause the most ‘terrific Axis onslaughts and the most wide- spread and wily treachery. There are signs seen as ill omens for Bri- taid and this country will reflect temporary difficulties or reverses. | Songstress Tamara Charle, 27, New NATIONAL ISSUES: Strange| York night club entertainer, and mental vagaries will affect many| her 4-year-old daughter, Dorothy, persons in the United States. Clev-| were found shot to death in an er subversive propaganda will ap-| Alblny.N Y., hotel. Police say the peal to peace-lovers while old loy-\ singer killed her daughter, then alties will undermine American | herself. Her estranged husband patriotism. Faultfinding concern-| told authorities that she attempted ing war plans and war preparations icide once bef may be widespread. Many acts of sabotage are forecast. On the Paci- fic Coast incidents of grave poten- tialities will cause. alarm. The seers| Children born on this day prob- warn that newspapers and the radio ably will pe stable 1n character and .ml\;ztmcur:na;lnwa‘l; Hewa ‘E:CW Te- | endowed with splendid mentality. ferest gls . njginedems of broad in-|rmey should enjoy fortunate lives. X ( it, 1941). IRYERNATIONAL AFPFAIRS:| 0 - 40 Waste of life and property in Europe . will now reach such great propor-| Subscribe 0 the Dany Alasxa tions that the complete ruin of key | Empire—the paper with the largesi cities Is indicated. Island objectives | Pald circulation. will increase in importance in the Nazi campaign plans. Many feints will be made to mislead British forces and treachery of many sorts including disguises of enemy troops will cause special perils for demo- cratic powers. Until mid-August Tamara Charle ies. Through dishonesty of associates there may be losses of valuables. * FOR RENT Juneau Liquor - | pected events that bring perplexit- the eastern Mediterranean will center violent contests. Great loss of life is prognosticated. There will be also epidemics of disease which add to the horrors of war. have the augury of a: year of unex- Store Space Will Remodel to Suit, Tenant. See Percy’s Cafe: i Directory Professibnal Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blrngren Building PHONE 56 *-°— Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Oftice Phone 469 e 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. 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