The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1941, Page 4

THE DAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE; TH‘URSDAY JULY 24 I94I Daily Alaska Emplre hlblllhld every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main SLMI. .Yunnu. M‘.‘ ELEN TROY BENDER - R. L. BERNARD Vice-President and Business Manager Satered in the Post omu in_Juneau aad Second Class Matter. Cll?l'lo RAT! delivared by earrier D Jamas D-uln tor 138 ver month. | By mail, postage paid, at the following re One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in dvancs, $6.00; one month, 1o advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will eonfer & favor if they will promptly not! he Business Office of any faflure of irregularity in the do- very of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS mmmhmuuuunvfimw to the use for republication of all news dispatBhes credited to it or not other- wise credit jted in this paper and also the local news published berein. | ‘CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Representa. Mves, with offices in San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Portiand, | Bestfle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — Prenk J. Dunning, American Bank Buflding. 1m i HELP FOR ALASKA Defense has had a tremendous influence on Al- aska, more than anything that's happened since the gold rush. The effects of the many millions of dollars worth of projects now under construction in the Territory are for the moment largely beneficial. Our workers have money in their pockets; stores and service enterprises enjoy a welcome prosperity; faster steamer and plane service has resulted from the defense activity. But the boom has had other effects not so happy. Several of our Alaska cities have found themselves unable to cope with some of the problems brought about by the phenomenal growth of the past year. Utilities, schools, highways, health facili- ties are taxed to the limit and beyond the limit. Alaska communities adjacent to the new Army and Navy bases are crying for help. Help of just the kind most sorely needed appears to have arrived In the form of a $150,000,000 appro- priation under the Community Facilities act. This legislation, signed by the President and all ready to be put to work, will provide defense-congested com- munities with the means to alleviate some of their more pressing problems. Cities in defense areas will be granted funds to provide adequate water, sewer, power, health, school and transportation facilities to meet needs aggravated by rocketing population gains. Alaska communities which urgently need help of this kind in varying degree include Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, Ketchikan and Falrbanks. Even Juneau might very properly ask for assistance to keep the Glacier Highway in usable condition during the period it will be receiving a heavy pounding from equipment used in constructing the new airfield. The Territory’s claims on the Community Facili- ties fund are many, legitimate and pressing. No- where else, we are sure, has national defense caused so many dislocations among people so little able to take care of them with their own resources. Alaska communities should lose no time in making known their requirements under the new act. And—as is ever the case—a reasonable offer to meet the Government half way by helping ourselves, will bring us the greatest aid. 1942 MODEL More interest than usual attaches to the forth- coming new automobile models due August 1 but| unlikely to make their debut before August 15 and some of them later than that date. The likelihood that further reductions in production may be im- posed by Washington has increased eagerness to see President l | what the motor moguls will bnng forth this year. This is of course a natural manifestation of hu- ‘mnn nature, Motor makers expect little sales resis- | tance next year, because even an intimation that there may be a .scarcity of new cars is bound to in- créase demand. That which is hard to get becomes the more desirable. Actually there will be no scar- city of automobiles. With 30,000,000 automobiles reglslered in the United States and more than 5,000,000 produced in the current model year, there would be no actual shortage of automobiles if none | were manufactured for 12 months. | Application of priorities to many materials used | in automobiles—aluminum and chromium are two— resulting in virtual monopolization of them far de- fense, has led to much speculation as'to construction of the new models. Will other material replace aluminum for pistons? Will chomium be eliminated? The motor makers have disclosed nothing of their | plans. One thing is certain. 'The ingenuity that has placed the automobile industry in the fore- front of American production and has produced mechanical improvements that are amazing '~ and apparently endless, will again be apparent in the 1942 cars. Even if the industry is deprived temporarily of a few materials, others—and no doubt just as good— will be found to substitute for them. It would take more than a war to stall the progress of American automotive genius. Healthy and Good Looking (Cleveland Plain Dealer) We who are privileged in this time of national emergency to remain on our regular jobs have no right nor inclination to underestimate the sacrifice being made by the young men who are giving up at least a year of their normal pursuits to serve in their country’s armed forces. The life they are now leading is not a soft one, and for most of them the time away from home amounts to a financial loss. But it should mot be assumed that these boys are getting nothing in return for their sacrifice. Many a man would give a fortune for a good, strong physique; and yet the appearance of the young soldiers who return on their furloughs indicates that this is just what Uncle Sam is giving practically every one of his selecteés and enlisted men. Although the going may be tough now, it is not unlikely that those who have been called tem- porarily to the colors will look back on this period of outdoor life and training as a healthy experience they would not trade for anything. It probably is the making of many of them, And if it is any immediate consolation to the boys, let us homebodies confess that it is with more than a touch of envy that we notice how handsome every one of them appears getting off the train and walking the streets in his uniform that makes him look like at least a colonel. Darned if we aren't almost tempted to get the wife and kids to let us take our old stooped shoulders off to camp. The Lesson of Quantity (Cincinnati Enquirer) The myth of Nazi invincibility is based on many things, including the unquestioned genius of the Teu- ton for military organization. But the most impor- tant factor in Germany's success thus .far.is very | simple. It is sheer mass. Germany has more trained | men with good equipment, more airplanes, more tanks than any opponent—or combination of oppon- ents at ¢ given moment. ! Plane for plane, even the French were better | than “the Germans; but they were outnumbered seven to one in the air. The British planes and pilots are immensely superior, but Germany has had numbers on her side, until recent weeks. Germany'’s biggest setback, apart from the un- successful attempt to invade the British Isles last summer, has come in Russia. The explanation lies in the simple fact that the Soviet Union had great numbers of tanks, the most important weapon of land warfare today, and the courage to use those tanks in masses. This indicates the nature of the problem Britain and America face. They must accumulate decisive superiority in the air, and also in the mechanized weapons of ground warfare, and then use those weap- | ons with prodigal determination when the moment comes. Because the equipment made in Britain and the United States is better, their advantage will be even more telling when it is based on superior num- bers. | NAZI LOWDOWN ON U. 8. | of being motivated by the high, Washington i Meny- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Nazi-supervised arming of French Dakar, Liberia is coming to have great importance. It 1is located south of Dakar in an area friendly to Great Britain and the United States and which could be used to protect the coast of South Amer- ica. For some time military strate- gists have driven home to lhe! White House and State Depart- ment - the very great importance of West Africa in preserving the Monroe Doctrine. For if a hostile army gains control of West Afri- ca, the hop across the south Atlan- tic to Brazil and Uruguay is rela- tively easy for modern bombing planes. The Vichy government has now openly admitted the arming of Da- kar against the United States, and Free Frenchmen escaping from North Africa have reported that about 3,500 Nazi technicians were busy in Dakar and other parts of French Northwest Africa installing coast artillery and building :ur' bases. However, south of Dakar and| Here is some interesting light on the current splurge of reports that Hitler will stage a new “peace offer” offensive, At a recent dinner party in Ha- vana, the German Charge d'Af- faires, Herr Tauchnitz, was asked by a Cuban how long he thought the war would last. This was the Nazi's reply: “About six months—by which time both the Pope and the Presi- dent of the United States will have made an intervention for peace and the action of the President will be very important.” “But do you really think,” the Cuban asked in surprise, “that the President will act im this manner? He has not talked that way.” “If you will recall,” - replied the German charge, “that I said the President of the United States. I did not mention any name, either that of Roosevelt or Colonel Lind- bergh.” NOTE—Last spring Lindbergh in several speeches made mysterious references to a “new leadership” in the U. 8. AFL RUCKUS Hot inside warfare is raging in the AFL over President Bill Green's appointment of that seven-man committee to study defense labor | conditions and “promote union co- | operation™ with the government. It was hushed up. but at a cau- near Liberia, de Gaulle Frenchmen | o jact week the powerful build- are in control. Thus this part of|y,. yrage unions, representing the equatorial Africa is being 5‘“d‘ed|btggea voting bloc in the- AFL, carefully as a ‘base from .which |nauy repudiated the “cooperation” | U. 8. forces might operate to block | committee, then followed this up Nazl operations against the Wesi-|py pbunuy telling Green that the ern * Hemisphere. committee didn't exist as far as NOTE—Since the fall of Ethiopia,{the bullding trade unions were Liberia is the only free country on . concerned. the entire continent of Africa, and. The caucus was called by Harry it has remained so only because Bates, potent chief of the brick- of the United States. | the committee actually was set up for the secret purpose of sniping at President Roosevelt and OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman. Others also charged that the real instigators of the committee were Matthew Woll, AFL Vice President, and Robert Watt, AFL international representative, chair- man and executive secretary of the committee. Ambitious and eager to be in the limelight, both Woll and Watt have been miffed at not land- ing top defense jobs. After listening to the fiery blast of Bricklayer Bates, the caucus de- cided unanimously (1) that Hill- man and his labor advisory com- mittee were doing an efficient job; (2) that no good purpose could be served by the committee, and (3) that building tradesmen represen- tation in the defense setup: (out- side that in Hillman's organization) should come from their own de- partment in the AFL, headed by John Coyne, Following -the caucus, a delega- tion led by Bates called on Green personally and notified him of their decision. “We want it clearly understood, Bill,” Bates declared frankly, “that your committee is not to represent the building trades in any man- ner, shape or form, or interfere with the representation we now have in the OPM and other agen- cles. Also, we want it clearly under- stood that your committee will keep out of the building trades field in making any studies it may undertake. We've come here to get such assurances from you.” Since the building trade unions are autonomous, Green had no al- | ternative but to agree. NOTE—Big mystery to insiders is |3 what Coyne is doing on the com- llnyen. who charged .that msmdlmlme since his associates we patriotic aims proclaimed by Green,l "HAPPY BIRTHDAY | e e oo e sy JULY 24 Dan Ralston Jane English Mrs. M. Mahlon Marie Williams William Mahoney Mrs. B. Carmichael B. H. Manery * Robert Simpson Jr. Walter H. Robinson John W. Jones HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” —_— s FRIDAY, JULY 25 Benefic aspects rule powerfully| today. Even though the midsummer day may be uncomfortably warm, the stars encourage initiative and | dynamic effort.. It is a fortunate, sway for building and not too early to prepare for autumn. Heart and Home: Women. are subject to the most stimulating and inspiring planetary influences while this configudation ~prevails, The stars seem to presage great. en- thusiasm for public service and it is predicted that thousands ef -vol- unteers will be difficult to place to the best advantage in war work. This is an auspicious date’ for sign- ing contracts, but there may be errors of judgment in assigning tasks. The women'’s contribution to| defense is to be greater than' ever | envisaged, it is prophesied. Business Affairs: Merchnndlslno is well directed today. Some com- mercial setback may be expected. | This seems to be an omen''of' ‘loss | of a ship. This is an ausplclo\n‘ time for reorganization and reori- entation of certain industries. It is lucky for construction work’'Hnd, should accelerate the building airplanes and mercantile ' vessels. | ‘Women now will prove their avil- | ity to assume big burdens in''the business world. As scientists 'hnd executives they will be in demidtld. | Women physicians may have'''to make united effort for recognition in defense mobilization, but they will accomplish much when in Army hospital service. National Issues: Flaws in ‘derhyc—‘ racy as it operates will be reveated | in Washington and in cefiters where troops are mobilized.” Ravce | prejudices will be apparent as the training of soldiers, marines and aviators proceeds. Astrologers em- phasize the importance of living up to the loftiest American ideals. The Constitution should be care- fully studied and its meaning faith- fully applied in major and minor matters. In this world test of na- tional standards there should be no dodging of issues, the seers,de- clare. 4 International Affairs: As this month advances much of conjec- ture attends European conditions. Mars is in a place presaging aes-_ perate acts of sabotage and incen- diarism as Hitler's problems in- crease. Danger from acts of deliber- ate hostility within the United States will increase as secret or- ganizations work with persistency and originality. Unusual methods of undermining patriotism will be employed for the stars indicate more of the surprises long fore- told as outstanding features of | this desperate world war. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of out- standing significance in their careers. Domestic upheavals may be productive of happy readjust- ments. Children born on this day prob- ably will have lives that are for-| tunate. They may have large am- bitions, many of which will be realized. (Copyright, 1941) their hands of it. It is thought that Green may be endeavoring to keep him on the committee to avoid disharmony talk that would be sure to arise if he resigned. MERRY-GO-ROUND Thé »War Department has#i i pointed ‘a special * four-man . i to study a revolutionary for the manufacture of powder. Known as the Ball Powder Process, it was developed Fred Olsen, technical director of YWest- ern’ Cartridge Company and has been used with, great sucCess by the British in night air tighfipe, because of the non-flash quality of the powder . . , The day Se tor Bob Taft made his isolation- ist speech railing against thewo tective occupation of Horace P: M his uncle, i tbnirma; of i 20 YEARS AGO 7i: empire o > e o JULY 24, 1921 B. D. Stewart, Territorial Inspector of Mines, left on the Alameda for Seward on business for the Territory. Bishop J. R. Crimont left for Seward on the steamer Alameda. was to tour Southwestern Alaska cities. He Several Douglas women were to leave for Nevada Creek for a few weeks camping. The party included Mesdames E. Loomis, J. R. Langseth and’'W. E. Cahill. ‘ i | | | f | | Mrs. Anna Webster had as house guests Mr. and Mrs. Elmo R. Baker, | Mrs. Baker was the former Miss Grace Webster. | LA | James and Eugene McCloskey left on the Alameda for a trip to | Anchorage. Weather: High, 54; low, 52; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon ~ WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Robert is a splendid driver.” | Say, “Robert is a SKILLFUL driver.” * OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED; Indisputable. Pronounce in-dis-pu-ta- | b, both I's as in IN, U as in UNITE, A as in ASK unstressed, preferred accent on second syllable, not the third. 1 OFTEN MISSPELLED: All right (two words), and NOT alright. SYNONYMS: Ramble, rove, roam, range, prowl. | 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: MICROCOSM; a little world. “Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.'—| | Foote. MODERN ETIQUETTE * roprrra LEE ‘1 Q. When a man and a woman are riding on a street-car which one should make the inquiries about their destination? A. The man should make all signals to a conductor and inquiries about destination and routes. | Q. When food is served at dinner | does not like it? A. Yes; refusing any dish is not flattering to your hostess’ choice of food. Q. If necessary for any reason to resign from a club how should | one tender the resignation? A. Write a letter to the secretary, give the reason for resigning, and | ask that the resignation be presented to the board. D e LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON || € e e e e e < e 0 0 ) should it be taken even if one | . What does the prefix “pseudo” mean? ‘What color is a roan horse? What four great rivers are there in Africa? What is the purpose of each of the three pedals on a piano? 5. Which two signers of our Constitution became Presidents of the United States? ANSWERS: 1. False; pretended. 2. He has a mottled coat; bay, chestnut, red, or brown, with gray or white thickly interspersed. 3. The Nile, 4,000 miles; Zambezi, 1,600 miles. . 4. To sustain the notes; | velume. 5. George washington and James Madison. Congo, 2,900 miles; Niger, 2,900 miles; and to increase the volume; and to reduce the have laid down a new press dic-| A manganese ore congentration tum, They refuse to give any in-|plant located in Oriente province, formation to “hostile” n>1:b<1rters.|0ubxl producing 360 tons of 50 even if it is only the first names 3 and titles of CIO officials. (Copy- | Percent manganese daily, is believ- ed the largest enterprise of 1ts right, 1941, by United Feature Syn- dicate, Inc.) kind in the world. ! Her Soldier Came Home Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Bl ngren SuMIn( PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. 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Phone 676 FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE SIGRID’S PHONE 318 USED [ Corporal Eugene; McGuinness gets an enthusiastic welcome from the . missus as he and three thousand other New Yorkers from Camp nnan, Anmston, Ala., return home on leave. The men were givem ten-dav furloughs. DEFENSE LEENSE 0N Q. Can civic, /fraternal, social and other organizations place funds from their t)-easuries into Defense Savings Bonds? A. Yes; such organizations may invest their money in either the Series F or Series G Bonds. 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. PO ST, Juneau’s Own Store “The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Post Office Sabstation NOW LOCATED AT HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska™ “The Stere for Men” SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. 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