The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1941, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA’EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUG. 30, 1941. et b MR i e i WmmIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIlIIIIII|IIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImlIlmmmllflllmIIlIllllIIIIIllllllIIIIIIllIIIIIII|l|lIIIllll|IllIIIIIIIllllllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIINI!IJIIIHHIIIIIIIII 1ng Sxdept Bus ynrfly asEInTE WeY, Wromam{m our: whip- ¥ PRI 60 m::’?; i ménts of fend- x ol al to Brifain ‘ahd Rus- T President | sia are an insurance of a sort that we will always Vice-Prestdent and Business Manasef | o gpe 1o observe Labor Day. Let us hope, too, ALASKAN | N h N HOTEL INN | N N Meet Your | that they may be a means of returning to those workmen in Europe the right to observe Labor Days and - N LIQUOR Friends There ! ] T Dai rnumua Seoind R. L. BERNARD - - besdhmdhreiap it S Bl wassanide v v+ st v o Watered in the Post Offics in Junesu a3 Becond Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivired 7 carrier in Tusatn eud Donsias for $1.85 por month. By mail, ge paid, at the following rates: One year, in u&vanive, $12.00; six montha. 1h advanos, $0.00; one month, in advante, $1.25 Bubscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly motify the Busitiess Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- avery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 802; Business Office, 374. OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associgted Press is extlusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatthes nnd.lud to it or mot other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published CASE LOTF: Grocery ® 00 in their own countries in the years to come, and the right to fearlessly express their opinions and peacefully obtain better living conditions for them- selves and their families. ‘When the struggle is over, when the emergency | is past, when the war has been won by the forces of democracy and freedom, as it most certainly will be won, credit for the victory can not be lald at the feet of the OPM, the Army, the Navy or the Roosevelt administration. ‘While the great national effort required to do the job must be accomplished through the coopera- tion of all these agencies and many mote, the grass- DE V LIN'S Ladies’ Shoes Apparel G.E. ALMQUIST Tailoring, Pressing, Hats Cleapd and Blodked | Suits Made 1o |lflflfl||i|flIllilflll“llIIII||IIIII||IlIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||II ALASEA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY ormm lUIucA'rxbll GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc., l'llionl.l Newspaper Representa- Mves, with offices in_San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New Yeork and Boston. g ATIVE SEATTLE REPRESENT) = American Bank Bullding. roots of success in the project will be found in the (= ¢ S&¥F 1} _ol‘ er N TR, o IR men who wield the hammers and saws, tend _Lhe]n Lflwe“ v A I ° STORE blast furnaces in steel plants, load the: ships, catch | PHONE 576 “Say It With BAILEY S the fish to feed the army and do the million and one tasks that must be done. | And so, we celebrate another Labor Day—and a mighty important Labor Day. And in observing the day we fervently thank God we are free citi- zens of a land where the working man is an indi- vidual with personal rights, not a tool to help ac- complish the ambitions of a power-drunk’ madman. Prices 336 Snow White Building T Metsane® 7 0w Far? But “Say It | 20TH CENTURY '. ARCTIC WihOuws” | GROCERY bl GOCRTAIL | gt Pheone. BAR I 704 —— FLORISTS COCKTAIL BAR Compliments of Joe and Chris NO PAPER MONDAY and MEAT MARKET Piggly | | | | { Following the usual custom of The Daily Alaska Empire, there will be no paper Monday and among the laborers who will cease their toil will be the! 'members of the Empire staff. Important news events will, however, be bulletined. MAY FHERE ALWAYS BE A LABOR DAY H.S. GRAVES Exclusive Dealer in HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING The first Labor Day was celebrated in this country 57 years ago, and before that laboring groups in Europe held parades and talked of labor problems every year on the first ‘day of May. (The Philadelphia Record) But it's doubtful if ever before in the history Our Latin-American neighbors have been taking | of this country, or the world either, any Labor Day Pokes at Axis propagandists and swatting incipient held as deep a significance as does the one we will AXis putsches. observe next Monday. | Mexico bluntly rejected as - Mike Kossoff Good Neighbor Harvest PAUL BON u _-(‘\\ T THE STAR “imperious and un- | Not that any history making action on the part a;'cepv.able" a German demand that Mexico protest | = R and ¥ . the United States blacklist of Axis firms. Mexico E R Y 1) s sl to take pl: | (l);a.:n;e:lca :sln:’:rt:f! r:::: l:'s;:lexdbeoafld:yp;c;:flr_] has also ordered Federal troop commanders to ha]t{ M A RCHB B A K DL g d by semi-military - GIFTS THAT LAST SHOES ades, speeches and picnics all over the land. ‘:lrlou:authorized L As in the past, too, it will be a day when Colombia, in the backyard of the Panama Canal, America pays respects to the men who make the promptly and vigorously blocked a Nazi plot against wheels of industry turn. But never in the past has the army; it locked up a score of potential “fifth | it been so vitally necessary to the nation, and the columnists” and seized quantities of propaganda. world, that American industrial wheels be kept turn- Argentina has made so many arrests in Nazi ing and be madé to turn even faster. | propaganda headquarters in the Entre Rios province In most of continental Europe this year, there that the police stations can't hold them. is no Labor Day, a fact that adds dramatic signifi- | Uruguay is investigating the income of a pro- cance to our ‘own observation of the day dedicated |Nazl newspaper. to the working man. Now Chile arrests six prominent leaders of “pro- No, in Hitler's Europe there is no Labor totalitarian activity” and seizes a cache of arms in J. A. SOFOULIS Proprietor Phone 546 ROYAL BLUE Wiggly TRIANGLE COCKTAIL BAR Greetings to { Juneau's Jewelry and Curio Shop Nugget Jewelry and Carved Ivory a Specialty ENGSTROM BROTHERS Juneau Alaska Day, | 4 | Puerto Montt. but every day is a “laboring day” for thousands of | Nl i b weska” tiits FISH BUYEBS M 0 B R L s All l e 2l women “":' ;h”"";" T":"e bp:::"’ d“;e It is, of course, possible that some South Ameri- WRANGELL U CAB CO- O L s K Labor' not-voice any requesf employers for betler Work={.,,, jeaders are’ using the pretext of suppression of R 0 Y A L ing conditions, for shorter hours, for wage increases, | 5 ic activity to dispose of embarrassing opponents. and . W. K. BURFORD or. for vacations. There would be little satisfaction But it is even more likely that any dissident h C 0 w L I N G Proprietor in"it if they did protest their fate, for their em-|elements in South American countries would look JUNEAU Phone C A F ployers themselves dare not express any opinion re- garding the work being done in the plants they opepate. Employees and employers are brought to- gether, not over a friendly conference table, but in a common fear of secret police and in the knowledge of- imprisonment in; concentrgtion camp or death béfore a firing squad . which] awaits anyone who dares protest against the dictates of the Nazi inner circle. In the freedom of the America in which we live, we can justly be proud in these days when dictator- ship crushes so much of the world. And that pride is no better expressed, at any time, than in our observation of Labpr Day this year, when so many to Berlin for help—as was the case in Bolivia in July. The prompt action of our neighbors to the south shows that the Germans aren’t proceedjng withtheir usual diplomatic finesse in dealing with Latin- American countries. Possibly they are over-anxious to create a diversion to distract our interest from the Battle of the Atlantic. More, it shows that the Good Neighbor policy, with all its faults, is working—that Latin Americans are anxious to please this country, that”they are ne longer so anxious to avoid giving offense to the Axis. We have a long way to go before we'convince all Latin-American countries that the Good Neighbor HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET DAVLIN CO. PLYMOUTH—DODGE DESOTO—CHRYSLER Automobhiles CHRYSLER MARINE PERCY'S CATE Greetings to Lahor! Finest Foods 24-HOUR SERVICE JOHN R. JOHNSON and VIC SCHUPP Proprietors of ‘our workmen are engaged at jobs in manufac- |has completely replaced the “Yanqui imperialist.” turing plants turning out defense products and But it's reassuring to know that we are on the Butler-Mauro COMPLIMENTS WHOLESALE and products to help whip those forces across the seas way. Washington T Merny- , Go-Round (Continued from Page One) the the much stronger backing than Townsend measure in both Senate and House. CIVIL DEFENSE TROUBLES Real reason for that mysterious visit to the White House of Dean James Landis, of Harvard Law School and former chairman of the That is, this Board, consisting of Vice President Wallace, Secretar- ies Stimson, Knox and Morgenthau, OPM Chiefs Knudsen and Hillman, and OPACS Director Henderson, will be a sort of general staff of defense production. ‘The board will fix policies on all HARRY. LEVINE THE YOUNG MEN'S RETAIL For Finest Fresh and Smoked Meats GRIZZLY COCKTAIL BAR A Square Deal Drug Co. "The Rexall Store” the BARANOF Securities and Exchange Commis-|Production issues and OPM } PHONE 553 the Roads Committee. Ordinarily |sion, was to try to persuade -him|OPACS, the Army, Navy and var- SHOP 150 South Franklin H 0 T ETL the Oklahoman is genial and tol- [to become second man to Mayor |lous other agencies connected with 2 42 LR Street Io A“I o erant, but he worked long and hard to put over the measure and the rebuff stung him to the quick. So he sent a letter to his fellow Congressmen’, telling them caustic- ally what he’ thought of them. “It was an ‘interesting tussle”, he LaGuardia as Civil Defense Ad- ministrator. With LaGuardia at his Washing-| ton desk only one or two days a week, civil defense preparations have been progressing at & limping pace. This has caused considerable the defense program will put them into effect in their particular fields. Also, to further integrate OPM and OPACS in order to obtain smoother cooperative functioning between them, ‘the icivilian ‘supply part of OPACS will be made an OPM division. Henderson will con- CITY FLOAT e NEW IDEAL SHOP BERT'S CASH | PARSONS sald, among other jibes. “‘It" W8S undercover grumbling and in an m hekd e LIG. W"'NG funny to watch Congressmen change |effort to meet the criticism, La-|Unue to head as he does now a 1 IMPORTING R E R Y ELEC'I'RI . back ond forth before the vote Was Guardia conceived the idea of mak- zr:noz’l?;“gi'c‘g‘l“u;‘: W“Klndg 50 " announced. Being a Congressman is'jng Landis his right-hand lieuten- ler udsen an ; R hainebitlact Rogte hhyalsa, and Hiliman. STORE Horipuoah Strictly a CONTRACTOR-DEALER fo take a referendum every day to Landis fs already regional di-| ThiS Will give him a dual role. Westinghouse find their convictions. rector of civil defense in New Eng-|OP one hand he will be head of an Products D ' N G independen. agency controlling “P. 8. There are three things land. But bhe declined subbing for = |IIIIlll]IWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlIlIIllllIIHIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIlI|IIlIIIIIllIIIMIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflIIII Illllllllllllli hard to predict—what a mule Will|[aGuardia in Washington. Landis Prices. and on the other an OPM =2 Whlskey do, who a woman will marry, and |excuse was that he couldn't leave|divisional chief in charge of civil- = . : how a Congressman will vote” |special work he is doing. ian supply. In both capacities he =2 » Geor ge Bl’ Oihel's Cartwright's aggrieved blast drew |~ ajling to persuade Landis him- | Wil have a volce in all priority, =2 and Wme CALIFORNIA one the following kidding reply from| California’s witty John F. Tolan: “Dear Wilburn: I would suggest that in order to find out how a| Congressman is going to vote, you| first take his age and his Con- gressional district, subtract | number of people in his district, | and then throw the .whole thing in the waste basket. With all good wishes . v MERRY-GO-ROUND o Edwin L. Groome, Washington radio commentator, has a novel plan to encourage the development | 4 | morale campaign. | self, LaGuardia hustled him over to the White House in the hope that Roosevelt would have better luck. But Landis refused to be moved. The same day, also undisclosed, there was another eruption in La- meyGuardlaa headquarters’ staff. Rus- sell Davenport, Willkie braintruster last year’s campaign, threw up :l‘b sponge and walked out. He is the fourth LaGuardia assistant to de; g;venport was brought to Wash- | iigton to work on plans for a After several weeks doing nothing, during which of new arms and combat methods|time LaGuardia was in town twice, by members of the Army, Navy Bfld‘Davenport told him he saw no Marine Corps. He purposes that the government establish an annual award, similar to the Pulitzer Prize, to be given to the officer or en-| listed man making the best con- reason for staying any longer and left MOXE DEFENSE CHANGES tribution te military science . . . . The plan formulated by White seven-man policy board. In turn, its | priority decisions will be enforced by the prioritiés division of OPM. (Copyright, 1941, by: United Pea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) [HELP AN | ‘Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker, STUDENT—Girl, age 16, gram- mar school education. From out of town, needs board and room with private family in Juneau in exchange for cooking and house- ALASKAN | R Qquestions as a member of the= J. G. OBERG Shoe Hospital I. GOLDSTEIN GROCERY Meats ‘.‘md Pufe !‘oods Slore oL w2 IMPERIAL BILLIARDS GROCERY and Steve Stanworth { LIQUOR STORE - Company PHONES i 92 and 95 " FRED BRUNSWICK CAFE HENNING Complate Oufits Workingmen JUNEAU DRUG co. R. R. Hermann Manager Compliments of Townsendites are making a big ado‘H(u.se advisers to solve the long |keeping in order to enter local - . s over the fact that they have 148|dispute between OPM and OPACS | high school. Experienced in house- FlShlng' CGomplimanis of Tim l Ea‘ n G ASTINE AU signatures on a house petition for [Over priorities control by setting |keeping and family cooking. Would e Y er e & hearing on their bill. But they |[UP & new seven-man Board has|consider position only with family J' Jt S'uker say nothing about the fact that the [been enlarged. of good character and good moral = 50 cl !h SPECIALTY: B b Sh rival general welfare old-age pen-| In ifs™latest form the proposal wrroundhxgs Call ‘for ES 359, llpp “ Proprietor o es Chop Suey, Etc. ar er op sion bill has 168 signatures on a gives this Board general policy mak- S A e P WnMiWiMmm-‘