The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Em pire HELEN TROY BI:KDIR R. L. BERNARD Prestdent Vice-President and Business Manager nmrm Employment, servlce told the Juneau Chm- ber of Commerce that there is actually a boom. here which isn't being recognized. Well—that only souhds right, when we consider that after all, Juneau is the capitol of the Territory and whatever expansion takes place in other parts of Alaska is bound to be ¥ntered in the Post OfMice in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION By mail, postage paid, at ti One yeor, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advanos, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will eonfer a favor if they will promptly notify the Bustness. 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City tax rolls reveal that the as- sessed value of property in Juneau has increased $130,650 during the past year. It rose from $7,252,745 a year ago to $7,383,395 this year. And the. people in a city can’t be getting poorer when they can afford to buy new cars. The assessed value of automobiles in the city increased $24,100 during the past year, rising from $195,125 a year ago to $219,225 this year. That increase in automobile value came more from the purchase of new cars than from any in- crease in the number of cars in the city, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas declared, after looking over the tax rolls. Anyway, that meant a total tax valuation on the city’s books of $7,602,620, against $7,447,870 last year, or an increase in assessed values of $154,750. That also meant that the city council, acting as a tax rate fixing body, could lower the rate a half-mill, to 17% mills, compared to a levy of 18 mills a year ago. So the increase in property values was of pocketbook significance to taxpayers. But the word that the property value has climbed means more than just the fact that the city can de- riye as much revenue from assessing a 17%-mill levy “against’ property owners, ‘a5’ it could by an 18-mill levy a year ago. That assessment book testimony serves to belie & lot of idle talk often heard areund Juneau tc the effect that the capital city is not progressing. Ju- neau residents have been looking at the tremendous growth of population in defense bases and have been too prone sometimes to use these mushroom develop- ments where the army or navy has taken hold as a basis for comparison with their home town. A few weeks ago, Joe Flakne, head of the Ter- reflected in some degree here, where head offices of the government agencies, which are supervising the expansion moves, are being located. There’s nothing backward about Juneau, and no Juneau resident is, or should be, backward about recognizing this healthy civic condition No Business With Hitler (The New York Times) When a publisher advertises a book or an author hints that something he has written is very good, indeed, no one thinks it odd. When seven private citizens who don't know the author and have no connection with the publisher spend their own pri- vate money to advertise a book, people may wonder why. The book in this instance is “You Can't Do Business with Hitler,” the author, Douglas Miller, formerly American commercial attache in Berlin. The private citizens are Raymond Clapper, John Kieran, Albert D. Lasker, Mrs. Dwight L. Morrow, Carl Van Doren, Matthew Woll and Wendell L. ‘Willkie, The why of this paid public statement by seven private citizens is that Mr. Miller has condensed into some 40-odd thousand words an authoritative explanation of what nazism is, what it has done in Germany, what it is doing and plans to do in Europe, and what it cah do in this hemisphere if it is victorious elsewhere. We can’t do business with Hitler because naz- ism makes no pretense of keeping treaties; because it is so organized and its followers so trained that it cannot make and keep peace; because its racial theories require that all nations outside of Germany shall be slave nations; because it does not scruple to depopulate countries in order to control them; because if successful in Europe it will immediately inspire Nazi revolutions in Latin America to make that region hostile to us; because it will then try to isolate us, cheat us, sabotage our industries, choke our trade, and either starve us out or dictate our economic, political and social life. This country will either see that Hitler is beaten or Hitler will see that this country is enslaved or | ruined. We hope people who loathe war and cherish | national isolation will read the statement and the book. There will be plenty of war for us if we let Hitler win in Europe, and there will be precious lit- tle isolation if we have to fight him on this side of !t,he Atlantic. 1 Tale of the Greedy Fish | (The Seattle Times) There-is a moral—Aesop could turn a neat one —to the story told by a party of Tacoma women, who saw a king salmon chasing a herring with such | speed that after catching his prey, he couldn't slow | down or change his course; so landing high and dry on the beach. Though obviously unintentional, this is some- thing like self-immolation on the altar of gluttony. Where one kerring is, there are usually many. That salmon, no doubt, already had partaken voraciously. But here was a desperate little fish trying to get away; and the big fish couldn’t bear to be defied. Maybe the little fish knew what it was doing; will- ing to lose its life m luring to death an enemy of all little fish, Today’s big fish dictators will meet like fate. It has always been so in the past. Moving in fear- some haste and wreaking great harm for a while, | there is a last gulp; only one finish. Let J. Edgar Hoover write the moral—‘Crime doesn't pay.” ‘The Manhattan telephone book contains 436,000 numbers. And that, we take it, does not include any wrong numbers. Washinglon ", Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) However, Germany has a reserve | alene of 6,500 tanks. And with every battle on the Russian front showing the ever-increasing importance of the tanf, Rooseevlt has now written identical letters to Secretary of War Stimson and OPM bosses Knudsen and Hillman, demanding that tank production be rushed full speed. SRITISH NEED TANKS Lack of tanks, it has now leaked out, is why the British have not been able to land an invading force on the European continent. Also it is why the British could not continue the offensive in Libya. The companies represented by the gentlemen seated around the tahles of the Tank Committee have done an excellent job of producing tanks. They are turning them out more quickly than the Army expected. But even so, when they reach full production they will enly produce about 800 tanks a month. At this rate, which will not be reachied for another year, it will take two years to match the reserves ac- curnulated by Hitler. Therefore, the chief question fac- ing the OPM and American industry is to spread out tank production among other factories: first, by let- ting smaller firms make tank parts on sub-contract; second, by draft- ing a great many other factories now | making farm machinery, automo- biles, etc., into the tank production program. Without drastic action, and with- out curtailing the “business as usual” program in other industries, no real speed up of the tank program will be possible. GERMAN-BORN TANK EXPERT Of all the men grouped around the Tank Committee conference table, the most interesting is a slender, boyish figure of about 40| who is manager of the Pressed Steel Car Company and President of the Armored Tank Corporation. It happens that S. Bechhold was born in Germany, and fought in the German Army during the last war. Yet no one in the group now work- ing overtime to build tanks for uael against Hitler is more determined to speed production, more determ- ined that Hitler shall not win this wag,, Beachholdwas the first private manufacturer of tixpks in the United States. Prior to the dughreak of the war, American tanks Weré manu- factured only by the Government 1t- self in its arsenal at Rock Island, I Private industry, except for Bechhold, did not go in for tanks. The stoty of how the German- born Bechhold reach a position of eminence and trust, where he now sits in on the military secrets of the United State sand Great Britain, illustrates the traditional melting- pot theory of the American system. FED UP WITH MILITARISM Bechhold was sixteen when draft- ed into the German army in 1916, saw desultory service: for which he had no enthusiasm whatever, snd fike thousands of other German boys, got thoroughly fed up with the German military system. So in 1922, having saved up enough money for transatlantic passage, he came to America. Landing in New York with $40 in his pocket, he got a job wrapping packages at $14 a week. “Jobs were easy to get in those days,” Bechhold says. And studying English at night, he soon got to be a clerk in an ex- port firm at $16 a week, remained with the same company four years until he was drawing a salesmarn’s salary of $70 a week. By that time he had saved enough money to go to Europe to set up agencies for the sale of technical | equipment. This proved so success- ful that he spent part of his time in | the United States, part in Europe for the next few years. - One of the things which impressed Bechhold during his visits was the manner in which one part of Europe was arming and the other part was | blissfully somnolent. Alarmed at this, he established contacts at the State Department and over a period | of severdl years, sent in detailed reports on German rearmament. One of these reports predicted the | | Nazi Anschluss between Austria and Germany 18 months before it hap- | pened SAY CHRISTIE TANK Bechhold's visits to Germany also convinced him that Hitler was far ahead of the rest of the world in developing modern military weapons. Back in the United States, Bech- hold became interested in the fam- ous Christie tank. The U. S. War Department at that time found Christie’s tank too expensive; in fact, the only man who urged the Army to buy this fast-moving mod- ern tank was Congressman Ross THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 11, 1941, e | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | e s e e s e+ e e o AUGUST 11 Mrs. H. L. Faulkner Mrs. H. R. VanderLeest William E. Hibler Fred N. Schindler John Satre Jr. Virginia Lund Eugene McRoberts Helen Miller Edith Spaulding Stan Grummett Henry Gorham P SRRV ARS8 HOROSCOPE | “The stars incline but do not compel” —_— TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 | Conflicting planetary aspects rule | today. In the morning there is a} promising sign for publishing of| every sort, also for banks and bank- ing. Mars is in threatening sway. HEART AND HOME: Thrift, so long recommended by astrologers, will become a watchword under the‘ inspiration of the Federal Govern- ment as defense bonds are offered. The will to win will be manifested by young and old who will study how to make the most helpful sac- rifices. Warning is given, however, | against foolish restrictions in ',he‘ use of gasoline or other commodi- ties, The seers point out that even | MODERN ETIQUETTE * ropgrra vem 20'YEARS AGO I3 | THE EMPIRE AUGUST 11, 1271 The Chairman of the Committee on Territories introduced a bill in | Congress consolidating, under the Department of the Interior, all govern- [ ment functions pertaining to Alaska. 1 7 Forest fires were raging down the Klondike Valley above Dawson One fire was reported to be 15 miles wide, and intense heat was reported. R. E. Robertson and Glen Bartlett were appointed on a committee | by the Juneau Commercial Association to secure local cooperation in ‘;ublninng adequate exhibits for the International Mining Exposition in | Chicago. | . . An appreeiative audience witnessed the first performance of the Shrine Club’s comedy, “Are You a Mason,” at the Coliseum Theatre, Among those in the cast were Leroy Noland, Wilfred Leivers, Homer Nordling, Madge Case, Mrs, Leivers and Mrs. Charles Naghel. Thirty-eight lives were lost when the steamer Alaska struck a reef in a fog near Eureka, California, and went down in 20 minutes. The ship at that time was making special trips between Seattle and California ports. Weather: High, 57; low, 52; rain. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I expect you attended the party last night.” Say, “I PRESUME you attended the party last night.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Laryngitis. Pronounce lar-in-ji-tis, A as in AN, first and third I's as in*IT, second I as in LIE, accent third syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Manner (method; also behavior). estate). SYNONYMS: Moist, damp, dank, humid. 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: APPLICABLE; fit; suitable. ‘“Her remarks were not applicable to the situation.” | Manor (an in war charity begins at home and | that domestic supplies should be | kept up to the best possible smn— dards. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Graduallv the immensity of the resources of the United States will be reveale d in the magnitude of defense efforts. | Even those who have gained wealth will find reason for surprise as the varied riches of the nation ‘are| mobilized for preparedness and pro- | tection. Prosperity will continue to| add to national optimism and de- spite training for war and ‘even | participation in the world conm(n there will be general Lheerh.lpm\ and happiness. NATIONAL ISSUES: Cuordlna~ tion and cooperation of states will be accomplished rapidly so that there will be organized prepared- | ness which wastes neither time nor | money. Unity of thought and ac-| tion will become more apparent as the Spirit of '76 awakens and in- spires persons of all classes -and all political affiliations, except | those who support Communism. The fact that dangers are real will be emphasized by grave ofrvnsesi against neutrality by the Axis pow- ers who will resort to every pos-| sible method of treachery and mis- representation, as the stars seem to show. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:, Collins of Mississippi, who has been far ahead of the generals in urging mechanization. It was Ross Collins who encour- aged Bechhald to produce tanks in the United smces and who paved the way for nu "masociation with Christie. Bechhold is no technician; one of his chief contributions to tank build- ing has been important banking connections which raised the capi'.llj However, one contribution he made to tanks cannot be overemphasized. He conceived the idea of powering with airplane motors. ‘The Diesel engine or ordinary gasoline motor took so much space and was so heavy when built for sufficient power, that it bogged down the tank. So Bechhold thought of the relatively simple, but at that time revolutionary idea of using a light-weight airplane motor. Bechholds’ Armored Tank Cor- poration now has the biggest slice of British tank orders in this coun- try. The Russians also are dicker- ing with him. And today British and American experts, who once be carried by air, have now seen what happened in Crete and have even come around to Bechholds ideas on that. (Copyright, 1941, by United Peature Syndivate, Inc.) Lurich Has Only | 301 Millionaires ZURICH, Aug. 11—Biggest city in Switzerland, Zurich boasted 358 mil- lionaires last year. This year there are 301. The 58 ex-millionaires claimed the war was forcing them to live off their capital and thereby reduced their fortunes. To be called a “millionaire” in Switzerland a man needs only the equivalent of $232,300, American | value of 1,000,000 Swiss francs. ————— Woman aviators “in England are scored his theory that a tank could | Foreign ‘astrologers prophesy Lhal, the Saturn-Uranus conjunction orl May, 1942, will bring the revela- tion of the whole Axis plan to subjugate the United States. Parts| of the scheme which includes; the economic encirclement of the na- tion long have been known, hu} the extent of the ambitious ideaj will not be fully apprehended, o to the thoroughness and the secrecy that mark the Nazi system of wag- ! ing . war. Warning again . ig* ven‘ that surprise moves may cause porary reverses for the allies. i Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ex-| treme activity which brings success and happiness. Many unusual op- portunities are indicated for both men and women. Children born on this day, may be intense in nature. Great energy,! mental and physical, should enable them to reach success or even fame: solo-flying some 17 different types of aircraft, including several o the most advanced -types. - Q. To whom should invitations to a christening reception be sent? A. Only relatives and intimate friends should be invited. Q. When should the bridegroom ask his friends to act as his at- endants? A. Just as soon as the general plans for the wedding have been made. Q. What is the real meaning of a “boutonniere”? A. Webstér's definition is “a flower or bouquet worn in a button- { hole.” LOOK and lEARNA C. GORDON e e - e e s e e s What dog is born with a bobbed tail? ‘Which European country has the most lakes? What is a misogynist. What article of food is referred to as “the staff of life”? In what manner did Alexander Hamilton die? ANSWERS: The old English sheepdog. Finland. A “woman hater.” Bread. He was killed by Aaron Burr in a duel. DEFENSE Can I use Treasury's Tax Savings Notes to pay any kind of taxes? You can use them only to pay Federal income taxes (current and back personal and corporation taxes, excess-profits taxes). Are these Tax Savings Notes transferable? No. Nor can they be used as collateral. Are the Treasury’s Tax Savings Notes taxable? The income from these notes is not exempt from Federal taxation. (annol Call Doctor In Germany Unless There Is Emergency BERLIN, Aug. 11—The war hav- ‘The total number of planes in ing caused a shortage of physicians'both the U. S. Army and Navy is the German newspapers urge the said to be between 8500 and public to call doctors only m ur- 10500 gent cases. Doctors must also make their trips economically to save gasoline and not be burdened with trivialities, AT An incredible maze of tunnels has been bored into the rocky hills about Chungking, China, for JLLUSTRATED Directory Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blr ngren Bullding PHONE 56 — Dr. A. W. 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