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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1941. Daily Alaska Empire | Published every evening except Sunday by the IRE PRINTING COMPANY President Vice-President and Business Manager AELEN ER R. L BERNARD - - Shonth th ad - $1.25. one mon il n:ibunbe" will confer a favor if they will promptly nomv :he Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- wery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Mmuuflfluflm&llmhfi.l.hl cepul unno all news dispatthes credited to it or mot other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published nereln. ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED ER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER pmucrnk:m GEORGE CLOSE, Inc., National Newspaper Representa- Mves, Wwith omm T2 an Prancisco, Los Aaeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New Yerk and Boston. SEATTLE nmunvnml — Prank J. Dunning, 1011 Hlding. No. A PRIVATE REPORTS Congressmen got a first-hand account of Alaska recently from a California boy who is soldiering as a draftee, with his company’s headquarters located at Fort Richardson. The boy is Jack Downey, first class private of the Twenty-ninth Engineers. Recently, returning from a fleld trip in the Cook Inlet district, Private Downey wrote a long letter to his father in Sacra- mento. The letter was in turn forwarded to Senator Downey, of California. A few days after receiving the letter, Senator Downey introduced a bill calling for an additional Ray of $30 per month for selectees, National Guards- men and National Reserves, drafted into service and retained for over a year. The added $30 a month, according to the bill, would be paid the men after. they have been discharged from the service, would be paid for each month over a year they serve and would be paid in monthly installments. In introducing the nill, Senator Downey read Private Downey’s letter to the Senate as “a fascinat- ing description of what our young boys are doing up in Alaska.” Senators found the letter “fascinating” indeed. Several .thousand words in length, it is probably one of the most complete reports on work of an army engineers’ crew in Alaska which has reached the National Capital. There is room here for only a few excerpts. Private Downey started his letter by outlining to his “Dad” just what sort of work he has been en- gaged in: i sent The “I guess I'd better start in by telling some- thing of the work we're doing and how we operate, so you'll have an idea of what takes us to the remote spots we reach and what we do there. I'm on the triangulation party of nine men. Our job is simply to turn angles between various points * * * * The distance of a single shot ranges from 15 to 30 miles, s0-you can see the territory we cover and the amount of country we have an opportunity to see.” colo; Then he went into a long description of the tides in the Cook Inlet country. He told of how thé boat taking the engineers from Fort Richardson to their field stations had run aground on a sand bar and almost “flopped over.” The wildlife interested him, too, as related: “It didn't take us long to discover that all the bear stories about this country weren't Just tall tales. For the very next morning we made the mistake of starting out without our guns. We had expected to stick near the but for by a different FBI Downey’s gang was on the Beluga River. there that he ran afoul of Alaska's Public Enemy Alaska, outlining their adventures about the game bags brought back to camp after 2,000,000 many Germans have been lost. there won't be any Germans left. Leopold as they did a year ago. everything, it seems, but his conscience. munique you happen to be reading. beach and thought we'd have no need for guns there but we had our minds changed and from then on we carried them wherever we went. We got up on a bluff and a little ways into the timber for ‘a little while that day. It wasn't long before we realized a bear was stalking us. “We never did see it but the way it tram- pled down the brush it sounded as close as 20 or 25 feet through the thick underbrush at times, Of course, we weren’t afraid, but after seeing pictures of some that have been killed here and hearing about the one that batted a man's head 40 feet from his body I think our feet could have moved pretty fast if they’d had to. Though we have run across a good deal of bear and moose since then we have never been quite so close since then nor felt as uncomfortable.” One of the base camps occupled by Private It was 1: “It was at our Beluga camp that we got our first real initiation to that Alaskan form of torture and the biggest worry and pet grieve of every man in the company—the mosquitoes. At first you laugh at them and listen without believing to the weird stories the old-timers tell about them. Then you try nets and Sta-way and smoke and a dozen other professed remedies. “But finally in the middle of some night youwll find yourself jumping out of your bunk, swinging wildly at all parts of your body, running in crazy circles, and yelling at the top of your lungs—then you're initiated. “The nets never work at night, no matter how many thicknesses you use. And the Sta-way just makes them stick to you when they light. We thought the head nets would be O. K. till they got so thick on the nets we actually couldn’t see through them. I only hope Hitler takes a try at Alaska—we'll match a mosquito blizkrieg against any he can produce.” Jack’s crew later was camped in a swamp, where | they found the air surprisingly free of mosquitoes. It was wading through this swamp daily on the way | ous for the head of the family. to their tower building work that the boys learned about another branch of wildlife in the Territory: “And here’s a story that may sound a lit- tle tall, but, as I've said, everything’s differ- ent in Alaska. In a country chuck full of moose and bear, you'll laugh when I say we found ourselves attacked by sea gulls. And, believe it or not, they got vicious. Our route to work was through their nesting grounds. It would sound a little awkward to explain to a game warden that we shot sea gulls in self-defense, so we saved our ammunition and batted them wown with clubs. I think that was more effective, anyway, but they still gave us some pretty jittery moments. It seems like everything in this darned country figures it's got to be vicious.” Besides serving as an interesting report for Senators, the letter may point out to Alaskans that they stand to receive a lot more than just defense bases, protection in case of war and army pay war- rants spent with Alaskan merchants, from the move- ment of troops into the territory. Letters from the boys, telling of the wonders of and bragging ting or fishing expeditions are probably being every week to friends and parents in the states. boys in khaki may prove to be the best publicity crew the Territory could employ. From Lynxville, Wis, comes the story of 100 hens transformed from cannibal chickens to normal fowl by making them wear spectacles, with rose- red glasses. The Germans report that Russian losses total men, while the Russians say half that If this keeps up, The Nazis don’t think so much of Belgium’s King He surrendered The Germans say they've broken the Stalin Line, not that line that Stalin has been handing out 50 long. It's “yes” or “no,” depending on whose com- agent. 'rhe'(mm the Attorney General him- Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued trom Page One) sples, suspected but not yet in the net, would have fled the country. 8o Hoover said nothing and waited. Also he had the Queen Mary carefully guarded. She sailed un- damaged. It was more than a year ago, also, that Hoover learned that @& Nazi agent inside the Sperry gy- roscope plant was trying to lay hands on the blueprints of the se- cret U. S. bomb-sight. In fact, four prints were almost within his reach when the FBI found out about it. For more than a year, since then those plans have been kept tanta- lzingly just out of reach while Hoover waited for more spies to walk into his net. FBI EFFICIENCY All this time Congressman Dies was issuing . blasts about spiles, though arresting none of them.and a lot of people were asking: “Why doesn’t Hoover do something?” Fin- ally, Hoover was ready; and just two weeks ago the biggest spy ring in American history was rounded up in New York. The machinery by which these spies were arrested and confessions secured from many of them is the best illustration of the quiet ef- ficiency of the FBI. It all happened on a Sunday. The arrests were made simultaneously in about 20 different parts of New York and rooms were so separated that no prisoner knew that his colleagues were in the adjoining rooms and might be spilling the goods on him. Cross-examination continued quietly all afternoon, interrupted by time-out for a sandwich; a cup of coffee or a smoke (FBI men have instructions to kill their prisoners with kindness). In the end, the evidence placed before the prison- ers was so overwhelming that many of the key arrests decided to plead guilty. J. Edgar Hoover has been in charge of the Federal Bureau 5f Investigation for about 20 years, It was Harlan F. Stone, now Chief Justice, then Attorney General un- der Coolidge, who put him in charge. Prior to that Hoover had been merely a hard-working clerk who burned the midnight oil study- ing law and worked his way up to chief assistant inside the FBI. Hoover’s predecessor was the famous William J. Burns, who un- der President Harding had made a shambles of the FBI. Politicians and ex-convicts of the Gaston B. Means type were hired as investiga- tors. And if a Senator did not want a certain matter investigated, it was dropped. Hoover saw, from watching Burns, that there could be no poli- tics inside the FBI. He has been rigid on that point ever since. He is a glad-hander, and will talk the arm off a congressman, but a lot of kind words is all the congress- man gets. Hoover will drop no in- vestigation because of political pres- the vicinity. Each suspect was brought to a different room at FBI headquarters and was interrogated sure. Nor will he investigate acon- gressman, Senator or newspaper- man unless he has written orders self. It was the sorry example of William J. Burns under Harding that made Hoover resolve that every one of his agents must be a college graduate, That rule is followed even today, when the FBI has expanded ten times its step back in the Cool- idge days. A college degree, some- times even 'a law? degree, is just as essential to an FBI job as West Point and Annapolis are to com- missions in the Army and Navy. UP FROM PLAIN BEGINNINGS Despite the atmosphere of guns and gangsters surrounding the FBI, there is nothing very sensational about either Hoover’s past or his present. He came from very plain surroundings, and up until a few years ago still lived with his mother in the none too fashionable Wash- ington house in which he was born. His family has been a family of government workers, and his brother was Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the commerce de- partment. No family influence or political pull pushed Hoover ahead in life, and probably his success stems chiefly from ceaseless, unremitting work plus personal integrity, plus a scrupulous care not to infringe upon the civil liberties. The CIO has been suspicious of Hoover and sometimes accused him of planting labor spies. Unques- tionably if there are saboteurs in- side national defense factories, Hoover will have men planted to find them out. .But the real fact is, though the CIO may not appre- ciate it, that Hoover is one of the 1941 AUGUSI S0 TN | 10 | wep | em ] o ar | - 1|2 7|8|9 11 14|15(16 18 212223 29|30 HAPPY BIRTHDAY e e e AUGUST 6 T. P. Christie Mrs. Frank Logan Mrs. Henry Kleister Arthur W. Nelson Mrs. Harry Naifonoff Mrs. Berta Vaughn Mary Ellen Speanburg F. T. Hopkinson Mrs. Thomas Mallory T Uy HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” [ SRR RE S AR Y. A5 X THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 i Since each day in which war de- stroys life and property is of tre-| mendous significance the stars are| read with a sense of uncertainty. What never has been will be, it seems, Today an adverse sign| | threatens men in authority whether in Government or in.armed forces. HEART AND HOME: This should |be a fortunate date for beginning important work. It promises much] for executive tasks and is auspici- | While public affairs may be under threatening and perplexing influ- ences, whatever concerns the home should be harmonious and happy. Contrast between the peace of the will be felt under this configura- | tion. Drama is indicated for the| sons and sacrifice for the dnugh—‘ ters of the family. NATIONAL ISSUES: Coordina-| tion and apportionment' of defense | work will cause overwork on the part of officials entrusted with key | duties in Washington. Illness and! even the closing of important careers have been prognosticated.| Hearty commendation instead of | ignorant criticism should be ac-| corded men and women''who carry | heavy burdens of responsibility.| Two changes in the President's| Cabinet have been forecast for an| early date. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Berlin chart is of evil omen| for Germany where' Nazi leaders| will be unfortunate. Astrologers be- | tification of the Juneau cemetery. Elks’ picnic planned for the next day at Auk Bay. John Reck had charge of the eats. Spokane on a business trip to the south. on Sunday because the manager and all the help were going to the Elks’ picnic. certs at the Coliseum Theatre, announced Manager W. D. Gross. in his ability.” Say, “I have IMPLICIT confidence in his ability.” first O as in ON, second O as in NO, accent on second syllable. | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: PREDOMINANT; prevailing. inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit.”—Hume. a different color than the letter paper? which they are used. to keep that person waiting until you come to the telephone? household and the conflict of war ‘perwns e e s e e i e - i b - e half-crazed from reading romances of chivalry. 20 YEARS A:GO %"'E VEMPIR'E AUGUST 6, 1921 The Juneau City Council passed an ordinance providing for the beau- Cash Cale took Frank Metcalf’s place on the committee for the big A. VanMavern, traveling man in Alaska, was a passenger on the The Palace Theatre announced that there would be no matinee Woofter's Orchestra was again engaged for the Sunday night eon- Daily Lessons in English % L. Gorpon 0 - - 0 - S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I have every confidence Dr. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Comptroller. Pronounce kon-trol-er, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Encumbrance; no E after the B. SYNONYMS: Plentiful, abundant, copious, expberant. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us “Almost everyone has a predominant MODERN ETIQUETTE ® goprrra LeE Q. In social correspondence, it is all right to use envelopes that are A. No; envelopes must exactly match and fit the letter paper with Q. If you have a secretary or maid call a person, is it permissible A. No; while this may be saving your time it is wasting the other Q. Pledse suggest some refreshments to serve at a garden party. A. Dainty sandwiches, salads, cakes, candy, beverages or tea. LOOK and LEARN ?;1{ C. GORDON b s T s T T e e PHONE 136 1. Which is known as the ‘most complete single food”? - 2. What is the famous “chance” which Steve Brodie took? 3. What element is necessary for a fire to burn? l 4. Which two States have the most radio stations? JGS'S'Wm 5. From what fictional character is the word “Quixotic” derived? LADIES'—MISSES’ ANSWERS: READY-TO-WEAR 1. Milk, "'ll'd Near Thira 2. Jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge on July 23, 13896, 1 3. Oxygen. 4. California and New York. L —" 5. Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes’ “Don Quixote,” who became lieve that Hitler, who moves ac-| |cording to the direction of the intoxication, where reckless or | Russian steamer was blown up in stars, realizes that he has reached |drunken driving is involved, are | the Black Sea. the zenith of his power which will|[nOW admitted by courts in 30/ e e — decline until he comes to an in- | states. | Old-time market hunters used glorious end. It has beén prophe- — .- }“scaw" guns that could kill as sied, but not by his personal seers, Mines laid in the First World | many as 50 to 100 waterfowl with that he would die before the new year. This interpretation of his|~ horoscope is not unanimous and he may last another year or two. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of good fortune, but for some there may be disappointment in large ambi- tions. Travel and military service for men are foretold. Children born on this day will be energetic and courageous. Out- standing success is presaged for these boys and girls under strong Sun influences. (Copyright, 1941) Methodist Pastor - And Wife Fefed at WSCS Reception! Many members of the Methodist congregation and friends of the church attended the reception given last night for the Rev. and Mrs. W, H. Mathews. The affair was given by the Women’s Society for Chris- tian Services in the social rooms of the Methodist Church from 8 to 10 o’'clock. Mrs. J. E. Boyle and Mrs. Clark Brown poured when refreshments' were served, and a short impromptu musical program was given. Mrs. Ronald Lister and Mary Jukish played a piano duet, and also sang a duet. Mr. Lister gave a reading. During the evening both the Rev. and Mrs. Mathews spoke to the guests. ‘The new pastor and his wife ar- rived in Juneau last Sunday after attending the Methodist-Conference in Seward. e — BUY DEFENSE BONDS No suspect gets his- reputation ruined by having his pame splash- ed in the headlines unless Hoover definitely has the goods on him. ‘There are no raids op the private files of political organizations such as staged by the Dies ‘Committee. Hoover is tough, but he respects the rules of the game—especially the fundamental mon which this nation was f¢ Labor, indeed the.whole nation in times like these, is lucky to have him on the job.’ most circumspect protectors of civil liberties in the country. ture Syndicate, Inc.) ° War constituted a menace to ship-“one shot. (Copyright, 1941, by “United F'en-lA' The resuit.s of scientific tests for ping as recently as 1929 when a ] Immnumsz. Director Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blr agren Building PHONE 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Gffice Phone 469 ‘Weather: High, 63; low, 58; cloudy. "chuopracl c 1 O - - e - - 0 04 Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. Dr. John H. Geyer . DENTIST Room 8—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm, ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles Collage of Optometry ana Opthaimology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground B ——— Helene W. Albrecht PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 778 Valentine Building—Room 7 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Franklin Sta. JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corens TYPEWRITERS BSold and Serviced by - J. B. Burford & Co. Doorstep Is Worz by Batistied Customers” | DR H. VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 6; 0 l"'ouylppommt. Phone 1T7 Archie B. Betis FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE SIGRID’S PHONE 318 USED See Us Today for Models Many Kinds and Types to Choose From! COIWORS MOTOR Cl). il Professional fntemnl Socicties Gastineau Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 17 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. Juneau’s Own Store "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Post Office Substation NOW LOCATED AT | HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” “The Stere for Men” SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. | You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF | COFFEE SHOP FINE G Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET * S S b e | RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street i H i Phone 65. INSURAN CE Shattuck A Agency e —— 1 CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 , : High Quality Foods at ¥ | Moderate Prices ! sr WHITE, roser TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bros. Garage || 909 WEST 12TH STREET _ | ST AR AT “HORLUCK’S DANISH” | Ice Cream Flayors | Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple; Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove Lemon Custard, Black cherr"yi Caramel Pecan, Black Walni Raspberry Ripple, New ¥« Rock Road, Chocolate, smwberfl and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG NOTICE ATRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome,.on sale at J. B Burford & Co. adv. STEP to Health with Beuter Feet. Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. sm; CARS PHONE 411 b | commissioner » comes an answer to that g " CAPITAL—$50,000 tion: wh: blad 21 the deicnse program. o, The barrel 1s at Tulsa's city hall SURPLUS—$150,000 Rifle barrels are made of the same Clyde King (right), Chamber DEFENSE ey Rl What is the Treasury Department’s new Tax Savings Plan? It is a plan which started the first of August to help the taxpayer set aside money during the year in which earned to pay income- tax bills due the next year. How does the plan operate? By the taxpayer purchasing the special notes offered:by the Treasury ~Department to be used in payment of Pederal income taxes, s of steel, explain Smith and COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASKA

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