The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Emptre Publishe Second and Meln Streets, Juneau, Alaska. TROY _BENDER - President | AU LVBERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager ‘Wntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. 7 SUBSCRIPTION Jelivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.85 per menth. | By mail, postage pal ¥ the folowing Tates: One year, Ia advance, $12 00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, m advance, $1.2¢ Subscribers will confer % favor 1t they will promptly notity the Business Olflu of any failure or irregularity in the do- tvery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for of all news dispatthes endlkd to it or not other- in this paper and also the local news published every evening except Sunday by the IRE PRINTIN ANY The republication wise CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO IR BE THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICA' GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc, National Newspaper Representa- uv-, Los Angeles. with offices in_San Prancisco, Portland, tle, Chicago, New York and Boston. i SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — PFrank J. Dunning, 101! American Bank Building. | WATCH FOR HORNS | | Today was the first day of hunting, still a lot of hunters resisted the temptation to shoulder their guns and declared it was probably a good day to stay at home. | The reason was pretty evident and can be read in newspaper headlines every year the day after the shooting starts. In every state of the nation and | in every territory, too, the first day of hunting usu- ; ally takes some sort of toll in injuries or deaths caused by hunting accidents. Often the hunter gets shot with his own gun, because he persists in dragging it behind him, cocked and loaded, through the brush, or climbing trees and pulling it up behind him. Some of the saddest accidents, however, are the result of the over-anxious Nimrod shooting when he sees the brush move, without taking the time to see what sort of being caused the twigs to crack. Buck fever seems to eause deer hunters to shoot too quick quite as often as it prompts them to delay shooting until the game is out of sight. Game wardens have a pretty good argument to present to the hunter who may be too hasty in pulling the trigger at the quiver of a leaf. The game laws regarding shooting of deer, it seems, prohibit the killing of any does or fawns or of any bucks, for that matter, unless they sport horns which extend at least three inches above | their skulls. Certainly, the game wardens point out, no hunter is justified in shooting at a deer without first determining that the horns are long enough to make the animal legal game, unless that hunter is openly disregarding the law. By this same line of logic, the hunter who is out to shoot only legal game, and who takes a look | at the deer’s horns before he blazes away, will cer-! tainly not be blasting into a fellow sportsman. Now Sherlock Holmes, or Ellery Queen, or Charlie Chan might find some fault with this line of reasoning, but we say let the hunters who wish to parade through the woods masqueraded as six-point bucks take care of themselves. CAN’T IMAGINE IT Old-time Alaskans yesterday got a good healthy snort out of the news that Ketchikan, the First City, the Rain Capital of Alaska, is complaining of an impending serious drouth condition unless lots of rain falls shortly. Apparently the matter is not laughable in any THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1941 source of drinking water and water for hydro: Ielectric power being uséd uip, drying up through eva poration, as the sun's rays pull into the skies. And it must be mighty disquieting to the Ket- |chikan residents not to see any dark clouds in their skies, ready to dump some of that evaporated mois- ture back down on Revillagigedo Island. Maybe this weather is being visited upon Ket- 'chikan as an object lesson—a sort of warning that the city council should pass an emergency ordinance |and appropriate money from the general fund to build a series of storage reservoirs, in which to store the precipitation of fall, winter and spring, so it will be available for use during the long, arid summers. Maybe, even, the Ketchikan city council could jargue that increased population in the First City, due to the national defense program, has used an \excess of drinking water this summer, thus bringing this serious water shortage upon the city. If the councilmen could establish this fact they might (finance their reservoirs through an allocation of |federal money, made available in the $150,000,000 Community Facilities Act. But, enough of this foolishness, We must agree that Ketchikan is really suffering from a long dry spell when only .76 of an inch of rain falls there durlng the first 18 days of August, compared to Lhe monthly average rainfall of 1157 inches, with which Ketchikan residents are used to being splashed. And after all, who are we to kid Ketchikan about damp weather. Juneau isn't exactly located in the middle of a desert itself. War at Sea (The New York Times) The heaviest shipping loss sustained by Great Britain in any single month was in March, 1941, | when 326,631 tons were sent to the bottom by Ger- man submarines, mines, surface raiders and long- range bombers. Combined British and Allied losses of merchant vessels reached a peak of 533,902 tons in June, 1940—the month of the evacuation from | Dunkerque. Somewhere between these two figures is the 459,000 tons of Axis merchantmen which Major Clement R. Attlee told the House of Commons last week had been destroyed, damaged or put out of action in July. Allowing for honest error and willful hyperbole, this is a sizable total. It reflects not only the grow- ing strength of British naval and air forces but the growing importance of sea communications to Ger- many and Italy, especially the former. Engaged in a war with Russia, Germany no longer holds un- disputed sway over the Baltic, and the problem of supplying and maintaining her army in Norway is made more difficult. In that connection it is inter- esting to note that the total amount of shipping {which Mr. Attlee said British naval and air forces | had disabled or destroyed in July, 291,000 tons were hit in the North Sea and the Atlantic, compared to 168,000 tons in the Mediterranean. * Mr. Attlee's statement comes as a reminder that in the war at sea Great Britain and her allies are not sustaining all the losses. Until the end of May it was estimated that Ttaly’s losses at sea amounted to 1,733,000 tons, while Germany had lost through scuttling, capture or sinking approximately 1,108,000 tons. In that same period Great Britain had lost 4,302,445 tons, but the British, with their dominions, had about 20,000,000 tons at the start of the war, Germany and Italy had roughly 4,000,000 and 3,000,000 tons respectively at the outset. Both sides have increased their tonnage through new building and accretions from the merchant marines of once neutral nations, but British gains of this sort have been far greater than Germany’s or Italy’s. Nevertheless, Great Britain’s plight is a real one. It takes a lot of shipping to maintain an island population of 47,000,000 people and to supply armies in Africa and Asia. Mr. Attlee did not say that his country was winning the Battle of the Atlantic. All he did say was that “we are holding our own.” That means that despite the grave losses she has suffered, enough raw materials are still coming in to feed the people of Great Britain and keep her war industries going without serious shortages of raw materials, Population of the Japanese Empire in 1940 was reported as 105,266,101, But then, the Japanese manner to the Ketchikan people, who see their are small people. the moisture up itions. The general trend, however, | 20 YEARS AGO o : THE EMPI R E AUGUST 20, 1921 . The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company’s mill was shut down for a time the day befcre pending completion of repairs on the conveyor to the waste rock dump. ¢ 3 Gov. and Mrs Scott C. Bone and their daughter Juneau the night before for a weekend-end in Sitka. Mrs. Sam Guyot left on the Spokaue for a vacation trip to Sitka. Marguerite left HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUGUST 20 o 4 Henry Harmon Eske Eskesen Bernard Aikens Mrs. Orrin Edwards Bob Keaton Ove Hansen Mrs. V. Moody -’ Mrs. T. J. McCauk™ * Henrietta Harrison - ¢ Benjamin Taylor ; ;',; HOROSCOE?‘ John Newmarker, Inspector of Boilers, arrived in Juneau from a three months’ trip to Western Alaska on the steamer Spokane. The new Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Louise was to be launch- ed the following week to take the place of the Princess Sophia. She would have accommodations for 200 passengers. High, 56; rain. e e e et - e A b - S e o Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon Weather: low, 53; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “His office is a long ways off \ from his home.” Say, “His office is a long WAY off from his home.” “« | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Projectile. Pronounce pro-jek-til, O as The ?m"\! mdm‘ i in OBEY, E as in SET, I as in IT, accent second syllable, but do not com; OFTEN MISSPELLED: Reconnaissance; observe the To8 two S's. SYNONYMS: Straigtforward, candid, WORD STUDY: se a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: INFAMY; public disgrace, dishonor, or reproach. “This is the liar's lot: he is accounted a pest and nuisance; a person marked out for infamy and three N's and guileless, ingenuous. THURSDAY, AUGVJBT;@i | Benefic aspects rule the hours | of the afternoon and evemn‘.flherc is an evil portent for * ing. ‘Women should be cautious th business ang social relations. et HEART AND HOME: Undug anxi- | ks ety and apprehension may‘ ulrect; women today. Under this rule of MODERN ETIOUETTE by the stars there may be delays and ROBERTA LEE disappointments regarding plans held of first importance to the family. All depressing or destruc- | 1. Should one leave at once when visiting a friend in a hospital tive thoughts should be sternly re-|and another visitor enters? jected. There is a good sign for A. Yes, leave at once when another visitor or the doctor enters, buying and selling. Shopping and Q. Is it necessary to notify the hotel office in advance of one’s advertising should be fortunate to-;imended departure? day, but women should pursue rou- A. Yes, and orders to the porter concerning the luggage and taxi tine matters and should take no|should be made in plenty of time to avoid confusion at the last minute. risks. Not a lucky day for ro-| Q. If one is too busy to talk over the telephone is it all right to mance. Girls should concentrate | a5k to be excused and say that you will call up later? upon practical interests. A. Yes,.or ask o) 11 agai i i BUSINESS AFFAIRS: As rac-‘ «or ask the person to call again at a specified time. torles work under pressure in cu‘._"._-——..omm overnment contracts, lO 0 K a nd LEA RN Wi oo high wages will reduce profits and B few war fortunes will be realized | by producers of ships and air-| planes. Again powder and explo- sives will prove most profitable to | the few who are experts in their | manufacture.. Chemists will con- tribute greatly to new war needs} that add to the wealth of corpora- | 4. State”? 5. What famous poet wrote a poem to a mouse? ANSWERS: 1. Who were chosen as the most valuable players in the Nanonal and | American baseball leagues for 19402 2. Which are the world’s two most impotrant economic food fish? 3. For what is the name “Ponce de Leon” famous? Which Stafes are nickhamed “Old Dominion” and “Centennial will be toward a levelling of hig | fortunes and the increase of earn- ings by workers for wages Bnd sal- 1. aries. of the Detroit Tigers. NATIONAL ISSUES: In Wash- | 2. The herring and cod. ington, D. C, dangers from the | 3. The name of the aging Spaniard, who discovered Florida while in multiplicity of cares placed Upon |search of the fountain of perpetual youth. :tat:.:men are fore:nsrt Tllness and | 4. Virginia and Colorado. eal are augure or men who necessarily overwork in a time of; i B.Aobert;l.iurns {”Es'%,‘,' supreme crisis, Astrologers empha- | size the imperative need of simpli- fying Government processes wher— ever possible and preventing over- lapping of projects concerned with defense. The President of the Unit- | ed States now should be relieved of cares that press too heavily. There is a sign warning that the SCAR (Sing Me A Love Song) PIGEON invites himself in when- ever there's music at Waldport, Ore. An open door or window constitutes Oscar’s invitation, but if one isn’t open, he beats against the panes until he is let in. He prefers the piano, Louise Hosford (pictured with Oscar) being one of his favonte performers. nervous strain may be even more severe next month. . (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Foreign astrologers have predicted that President Roosevelt would lead the Americas in victorious war, The stars appear to warn that victory Frank McCormick, of the Cincinnati Reds, an;fl Hank Greenberg, | Washingfon a Merry- Go-Round (Continued trom Page One) if shown that combined might bv the United States and Great Britain. ENTERTAINING ROYALTY Mrs. Louise Atwill, wife of the Hollywood actor, recently kidded several cabinet members by calling them on the phone in the guise of the Overseas Operator and saying that Winston Churchill wanted to speak to them “reversing the charges.” The other day Mrs. Atwill got a telephone call herself. “This is the British Embassy” sald a very British feminine voice over | the phone. “I am speaking for Lord | and Lady Halifax. They would like | to know if Mrs. Atwill would care to | give a dinner for Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. The Duke of Kent would like to attend also.” | “I'd pe delighted,” replied Mrs. Atwill, recognizing the voice. “And | tell Lord Halifax that I'll have a high-chair for the Duke of Kent.” The voice was that of Julla Chet- wynd, niece of Lord and Lady Hali- fax, who reported that the British Embassay had been convulsed over the fake Atwill calls to the Roose- velt Cabinet. Secretary Ickes had | refused to speak to “Mr. Churchill” | if the call was collect. BUBBLING BEAVERBROOK Lord- Beaverbrook began a hectic day the minute his plane landed in Washington, and one thing which kept bothering him all day long was a phone call from Ben Smith in Laredo, Texas. The indefatigable | Mr Smith kept calling from a pay station, telling British Embassy at- taches that he must talk to Beaver- brook. But they wouldn't connect -regulat.e supplies and increase ca- lap, a daschhund pup named “Frank- lin” attracted almost as much at- tention as Beaverbrook when he pos- ed for the news-reels. The pup was a gift from Lord to Lady Halifax, and got hi§ name because he came into their lives on Franklin Roose- velt’s birthday . . . Lord Beaver- brook describes himself as “the big- gest borrower on the cuff you've ever met,” and as “the medium through which you shower your benefits upon the British” . . . Captain Jimmy Roosevelt has been loaned by the Marine Corps to Colonel William Donovan, Coordinator of Military Intelligence, whose offices are in the | shadow of the White House on Penn- sylvania Avenue. STEEL SHOWDOWN The OPM and the steel industry finally have taken drastic steps to pacity, but it took all kinds of nag- | ging by the Government to get them to do it. One of the most spectacular of these nagging sessions took place in the OPM board room recently and was attended by Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel; Tom Girdler of Republic; Ernest Weir of Weirton; Irving Olds, new head of U. S. Steel, together with Ed Stettinius, the old head; Leon Henderson; Knudsen; and representatives from the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. The steel manufacturers immed- iately put the government repre- | sentatives on the defensive with the question: “Well. what do you want us to do? Cut off all steel to the consumer?” | Price Administrator Henderson re- plied that such a curtailment would be disastrous, that steel to the con- | sumer could not be cut off right |away. Other government represen- | tatives hemmed and hawed. So did the ship-builders. The meeting got nowhere. Finally Admiral Emory Land, rela- tive of ex-Colonel Lindbergh, but no believer in his views, got up. Land, him . . . Reposing in Lord Halifax's sion, is a close friend of Bethlehem's Eugene Grace. But looking at Grace and the other steel manufacturers, the Admiral gave them a dressing down he might have given to his own sailors. “I've been listening to you for two hours,” he said, “and I'm fed up with it. I don’t know what the fault is, or whose fault it is. But I do know that the shipyards are four to six weeks behind because they haven’t got steel. And also I know that if you fellows want to, you can correct that shortage. “You've been talking about ex- panding your plants. Now if you mean business, instead of talking about it—expand.” Next day the steel manufacturers announced their plans to build new factories and expand production. NOTE: Four shipyards were held up the other day because steel plate had not been received on scheduled time. Maritime commissioners pri- vately accuse the steel companies of selling steel to their old customers, the railroads, instead of to the new war-baby shipyards—which because of the lend-lease bill need it most. CHURCHILL CHAFF White House press secretary Steve Early kept it to himself, but private- ly he was sore at the bungling of Churchill-Roosevelt press relations. If they had left it to him, the result would have been different . . . Am- erican editors resented the fact that first news of the meeting broke in London. A lot of other Americans resented the idea that news about their own President had t6é come via the British censor. Roosevelt him- self, not the British, was to blame, but the British had to take it on the chin just the same . . . Another sour note was the refusal of the U. 8. Army to let U S. photographers take | pictures of Lord Beaverbrook arriv- ing at Bolling Field . ., . Chief result picion that a lot of entangling al- | were not knotted. chairman of the Maritime Commis- (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature otallbhhmympubueflu-. | liances were knotted which probably|, would be bought at a high and might be retarded by inter- nal difficulties due to the wo'r,k of fifth column agencies in the West- ern Hemisphere. United States aid to Russia is not to be accepted as a guarantee against Communistac- tivities among the American, b- lics. All the seers stress the " ace of internal enemies, espee dn the western states. Persons whose birthdate it ds! have the augury of a year of ex- ceptional ‘good *luck which how- ever, may be attended with unex- pected loss. The wise will watch the health as well as the pocket- book. ably will be talented, but they may be too independent for their own good. They should have the ele- ments of splendid success. price Children born on this day prob-| GLAMOR SWEEP Morgan Vanderbili long worn by Bi 004 premiere wadthy y yunl heir {o the :l..ngr Grown-up Gloviz. is 2 = Actor George Moutgomery, r — Drs. Kaser and Directory Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel MOUNT JUNFAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month Freeburger ::n ?cut‘ush l:.i;e sg‘e;nple eginning a . . m. ,,,E,m""'ssm" VERGNE L. HOKE, PHONE 56 Worshipful Master; JAMES W. Dr. A. W. 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