The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 14, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empir - ~‘,<11k stockings jor rour ayiators with parachutes. We encouldntodo bothli... Nelson was asked, isn't America a Thnd But, Mr ko 1 14 '“’;’:;;;""":):",‘:;{; s with materials galore? s,m:d"::::,:,: Eikots, i, Aiaba That's true,” he replied. “We have always had | HELEN TROY' MONSEN - - President | plenty for our peacetime needs, and in. some ma- R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager | ¢orials enough to supply our armed forces, too. But Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Clasc Matter. remember, a great many of our most essential raw SUBSCRIPTION RA' Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. materials that we took so much for granted in the good old carefree days—things like cork, rubber, tin, silk, to mention only a few that everyone knows about—those came to us from overseas in ships. |Many of those ships are now being used for war — purposes, and many of them are now at the bottom of the sea. “But that is' not the whole story. We Americans 'have beeén“careless and wasteful of the things we had. We_dug into our piles of raw materials with #0 thought. 6f the future—no idea that an emer- Alaskd Newspapers, 1011 j.gency »yh]lgh}t J‘arise that would tax every available K tresom%b ‘We hdd. That emergency i here mow and {'we mustistop wasting. We must .conserve’ what re- “have, éls @' good example of what we are up Beetsin this choice between what we'd like to have and what we must have. Just the hull of a The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it.or not other- | wise credited in this paper atid also the local mews published herein. " ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NTATIVES le. ATIONAL REPR American Building, S t'sour | steel as 24,000 automobiles. -That means that, if ‘we are to have that battleship, we can't use that {metal for those 24,000 pleasure cars. The battleship |comes first. We can't have our cake and eat it | too.” { Just what does the Supply Priorities and Allo-f | cations Board do about all this? Well, here's Nel- | |son's answer to that gquestion: | | “Were the traffic cop {n this emergency. Not (always a pleasant job, but vitally necessary if traf- |fic is to be kept from getting snarled and bottle- necked at the crossing. As national traffic cop, we must give“the go-ahead signal to the ambulance that is answering the emergency call and the stop| boat during the | gena) (6 pleasure cars that are just out for the summer became much more personally concerned |ride. In other words, we are giving the ambulance with this “priorities business” last week, when iti—and by that I mean all the essentlal materials for was announced that building materials for private |defense, the prior right-of-way. We're doing that homes and a lot of other non-industrial supplirs‘by controlling raw materials—allowing to defense will be vitally affected by defense priorities. industries what they need.and westricting those ma- Maybe the best man to explain just what this |terials to industries Jless essential to defense.” priorities set-up will mean to us is the priorities But Mr. Nelson, just how do you propose to af- chief himself, Donald M. Nelson, big boss in a mail fect the general public, the comsuiner of goods who order company, before he was called to serve his(is Dot in the manufacturing business, with your country as executive director of the Supply Priori- | priorities? ties and Allocations Board | . “The answer to that question” replies Chief Recently, Nelson was interviewed on a nation- uNx:\ISZIr;ngL:n]:fi:svil:‘m: ;:;:alr:ly?a::de;zf&‘::iy B;:mt!a wide radio hook-up concerning the priorities system, attomobile driver is not golfig® 5 get-that r‘)ew 7 “Theres nothing very dark or mysterious about ; i $ < it,” he declared. “Naturally, there are a good many :’:f 223 :::] :::m;ludlg o’;' ‘I;lislwl'fie ul gc;(t:lghtn eeni jssues involved. It touches practically every phase Priorities are going t:etn:t‘a :wu.my ns‘i‘l’;‘ ho:;:erem;;‘::" of our national economy. But the underlying idefl.‘his daughiter and the e Hiss 10 enr-o}l,d is as simple as abc. It is just seeing that first‘ge'_s wou't have any ShingSeRec tl‘h{)mlm{s ;:X: things come first, That means that those things priority system is going %3 Sl teito mlllio;ls o this country needs for its defense—materials for | ’ v homes and take the thi try planes and tanks and guns and ships—get a prlor\dc!m‘s‘”., 15y Sty ool oty ton rating; the right-of-way over things that this coulz| ™"rw iy o 10t, MEANESE NG WarDING: 1e: | try can safely do without % | AN ELEMENTARY LESSON IN PRIORITIES The fellow who works ht the mine and his pal who fishes on shares on a seine “I'll try to put it simply in this way: Our | : ; : ; ; CONGRESSIONAL HUMOR peacetime economy was geared for peacetime needs —so many tons of steel for bridges, so many tons On long winter nights, when the Northern of rubber for automobile tires, tennis balls, rubber | Lights play across the si of ‘Mount Juneau, you boots; so many bales of sijk fer women’s smt;kings.w;]] hardly dig qut old o o! the Congressional and men’s neckties; so many tons of aluminum iaf |Récdra for light, 'reading. » 5 kitchen pots and pans. Only a very small amount| Byt gven in fhe learned words of Senators and of those peacetime materials went for military neeéds. Representatives, ‘¥ou often run across a laugh-line. Then suddenly we are confronted with an emergency Take, for instance, the remarks of Rep. William that calls for an immediate expansion of our mili- | p Lambertson, of K;uu;s recently, reporting on tary and naval equipment | cloakroom gossip around Ahe capital. ., Referring to the Dutchess of Windsor, he told the House of Representatives: “Wally is OK, but between the two jQIl{‘EH Elizabeth.” . | On another topic, Rep. Lambertson remarked: “A part of the billion to feed Britain is ear- marked for garden seed—and lo for.over 13 years I | have been unable to get any for my undernourished constituents.” “That emergency changed that whole peaceful picture practically overnight. Steel was needed for ships, rubber for army trucks, silk for parachutes, aluminum to build planes. We had our choice— either to continue manufacturing millions of rubber boots and tennis balls or devote that rubber to .army truc either to cut down the number of aluminum percolators in our kitchens or cut down the number of planes we needed; either to supply our wives with 11 ,‘ak.e below the record 1940 crop of 70,- !shlp compdnies, United Fruit, Grace 000,000. That is not so bad, except | Lines and Moore-McCormack, be- that these figures, plus others now |hind the scenes also are opposing in the hands of authorities on Ger- | this move. They are passing around man potato consumption reveals a |the word that they are against situation not disclosed in cable dis- | arming their vessels except in the patches, event of war. The companies claim For example: The effectiveness of mounting guns on their ships will the British blockade in shutting off | be bad for their profitable tourist ities contend that the'Nazis should food imports to Germany has forced | business ., . . Flash! “Doc” Town- be dealt with squarely‘as buccaneers. the population to depend more and | send, mogul of the old-age pension A highly significant feature of | MOre on potatoes. So much so that_, moyement, has revealed his $200 a these undercover deliberations is POato consumption has risen 75 per’ menth scheme. In the “Townsend that the Justice and War Depart- cent in the past year. ‘Weéekly” he announced that under ments wede directed 6 make’ their . Further, the consump?.ion increase the “sgientifically-balanced’ Town- legal studies quickly. has taken place in cities dfstdnt send plan “the pension would begin NOTE: Last week an important i*Om potato-growing areas.. 'That at around $50 a month and increase WashingAIon' : Menry- Go-Round ‘Continued from Page One) THE DAILY ALASKA' EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA''| 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS I 35,000-ton battleship alone takes as much iron and j | will | vided. Girls |even more remarkable in ifs { mand. Curtailment in the TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1941 HE EMPIRE S OCTOBER 14, 1921 . A football game between the Juneau High School and the -Douglas Firemen was arranged for the following week. The' Firemen won the game the year before. \ | | James Barragar, Jr., Marguerite Bone, Jacob Britt and Lillian Perelle | were among the guests at a dinner party given by Miss Teckla [\ Jorgensen. i 1 \ o 4 P. B. Allen of Haines brought in 10¢"sacks of potatoes from |and quickly sold them in Juneau. 3 g ¥ ‘l)}g mnch i ¥ i 3 o eri ey Mr. and Mrs. A. G.+Mosier:lsft, on'th, Estefiqfi fol home in OCTOBER 14 | Gypsum after being in Juneau}br several-days o&lbuslness. J. A. Kendler : - ey § e Mrs. H. V. Colburn A total enrollment 'of 394 was listed in the Juneau Public’ScHools Olive Feldon to date, 311 in the grade school and 83 in the high sehool. =ry + 8 Mrs, Harry I. Lucas « ST . b A Weather: High, 51; low, 44; rain. Leonard A. Johnson 3y } Clarence Foster Harold Pederson Louis J. OSSN SURSEL S SSESIUSULE S SRR PR SRS LBSS S Z Daily Lessons in English %3 L. GORDON Israelson Hans Arp Harold Swansen i | Mrs, Hans Berg [ t [ | { | | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Anne will be back home | next Friday:” “Say, “will RETURN home.” | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Visualize, Pronounce vizh (not vish)- | u-al-iz, first I as in IT, U as in USE, second I as in RISE, accent first | syliable. ‘ b OFTEN MISSPELLED: Adage; AGE, not IGE nor EGE. - SYNONYMS: Reveal, discover, disclose, divulge. R WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER is { WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us This is not an important day in !increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: planetary government. Adverse as- DIFFIDENT; wanting confidence in one’s self; timid; modest. *“The pects rule the morning hours BUt: servant opened the door with diffident cowrtesy.” ' " after noontime benefic infh l are active. HEART AND HOME: Undej rule of the stars there may the family a seénse of restles§' dis- D e { MODERN ETIQUETTE ® ropprra LEE it e, s S e ) content. Sensitive young persons e es - reflect world unhnpplness.| Q. If a son has the same name as his father and the “junior” is Work for everyone should be pro-| g jtten gut on his calling card should the “j” be capitalized? will find vmploymenti A. No; “junior” is always spelled with a small “j” and a comma in °12::s zdt;:cz?:;nfl hould be inserted between it and the family name. shipyards. 7 this B L . Is it necessary that a woman remove her gloves when shakin dress will show changes due h:mz?s" it 18 i . ¥ e and many uniforms will be A‘ No by women, Cosmetics will used than formerly and ai modes and manners will carded. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Invé will contribute to new manul ing enterprises. While new ds Q. When removing bread from its plate, should one spear it with a fork? A. No; remove it from its plate with your fingers, e e s S LOOK and LEARN Zy C. GORDON D e e e e vide profit. The radio will b 1. What is the unit of weight used in weighing precious stones? 2. Who discovered the X-ray? What is a way train? What is “The Golden Gate"? 5. Who wrote “The Bluebird”? mission of sound than it has Novel instruments will be in | gasoline will make cheap little ANSWERS: popular, 1. The carat. NATIONAL ISSUES: Lengijy : 2. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923) in 1895. service no*longer will be consid “ 3. A local. d G 8 a debatable subject where 4. Entrance to the harbor at San Francisco. ” called to national defense afe cerned, for circumstances will pro how necessary is manpower in country lying between two ocea This month has been designated a time when events wou . even the least patriotic K to volunteer for defense. Revela~ tions regarding the Hitler progrank will be followed by grave 'proofs of Nazi hostility. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Turkey has a strong map for .th Maurice Maeterlinck. "ot her boy friend who said he had | been held up in a Salina bus sta- | tion and robbed of money and a {watch, The chief had to report | there had been no robbery of that AND GIRL FIGHT |32 STARTED QUICK """~ | | TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN | We will not.be responsible for any | debts contracted for by anyone but SALINA, Kas., Oct. 14.—Police end of the year. An earthquake or other upheaval of nature is| foretold. Ultimate benefits through the Allies are prognosticated. The pendulum of fate will swing back | and forth for the people who have | enlarging ideas of liberty. . Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ac- tivity. Both men and women should push all important interests. It i% well to be on guard against losses.| Children born on this day will be vigorous, intelligent and indus-" trious. Quickwitted and self-reliant, | they will make the most of thel year in which neutrality should“pe Chief D. K. Fitch received.a 1et-5ourse,,,es_ maintained longer: even thah ‘fg: ter from a St. Louls young woman| MR. and MRS. AL WEATHERS. war conditions seemed to indicate./Who asked him to verify the story' —adv. Dangers that are numerous’' A & % complex will culminate before tie th V Another U-Boat Victim bt 8 T Pretmagely g Dr. A. W. Stewart . DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING "Chiropractic” Physio Electro tics Theropeu DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake' Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, .D. C., Bernard Bldg. Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST of Optometry and Opthaimology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground Helene W. Albrech? PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Phone 773 Valentine Building—Room 7 (The Charles W. Carter| . Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ | JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING 1" DR. H. VANCE | OSTROPATH Consultation’and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7t0'8,90 by appoinment. rectory, Gastimse: Clmaual 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, LRIVERS, Secretary. "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Post Office Substation NOW LOCATED AT HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Bquibb Stores of Alaska™ “The Stere for Men"™ SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. THE BARANOF | COFFEE SHOP at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET — 2 — RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 "INSURANCE | Shattuck Agency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—3T71 Moderate Prices I High Quality Foods at suer WHITE, power TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS 909 WEST 12TH STREET “HORLUCK’S DANISH” Ice Cream Flavors . Peppermint Candy, Pudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Oaramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, Rock Road, Ghocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG New York, | War Department official suggested T€Ans they have to be'hauléd from to a Navy official that the Navy OVE' German railroads and truck- give the Army advance notice of 11eS already heavily burdened with any captives that might have to be Y0P and munitions ‘traffic. Intel- taken over. The instant reply was, ligence experts therefore anticipate “Hell, we already have some.” But hat the Nazis soon may be faced when pressed for ‘details, the Navy with the question of whether to haul man shut up. By potatoes to the cities or munitions Fs s to the Eastern front. DUCAL CCC VISIT FRANKED STONE On his return trip to. Washington Many a dull speech the Duke of ‘Windsor plans to visit'‘heavy yt,ome havfi)een s:::i o'l’x‘tn?r};u: a nearby OCC-camp with ‘theidea’ Washington, postage free, under the of establishing‘a similar one in the, Congressional frank. But the all- Bahamas. The camp selected for his time retord for weight was broken visit will probably be one of the by isolationist Senator Gerald W. megro units, as the Bahamas popula- ‘Nye when, under his congtessional tion is largely negro. frank, he matled a stone. J. J. McEntee, CCC Director, was The present Mrs. Nye come¥ from much impressed with the Duke’s Iowa Falls, Iowa, and a zealous lady ®olish up his Spanish . keen interest when they discussed of a Methodist Church there has the CCQin Weshington last month. been put in charge of making a col- The Duke aid he regarded the CCC lection of sténes — one from each as an ideal means of accomplishing state and colonial possession of the two saeial purposes—to get public United States — for the construction work done and to give employment of a fireplace in the church. to boys. 3 So she wrote to Senator Nye and One thing Windsor was particular- .asked if he would contribute a stone ly interested in was the ‘origin ‘of from his state of North Dakota. In the CCC and he asked who origin- due time it came—a nice big bould- ated it. The answer was, Franklin ‘er, postage free, under Nye's sena- D. Roosevelt, torial frank. NAZI SPUDS i MERRY-GO-ROUND Although Intelligence experts have . In a direct membership election, stopped making» guesses on when the American Newpaper Guild has Germany would run .short of raw overwhelming defeated the leftist materials they have just pieced to- clique which for several years has gether some illuminating informa- controlled the national offices of tion concerning ‘the German’‘potdto ‘#he union. The entire group was supply. - ‘cléaned out and a militant anti-Red Several weeks ‘ayo“Betlin’ cables’slate elected . . .| The ‘solatiohists reported an' unofficial fast cn aren’t thé only ones fighting the this year's crop at 65,000,000 mstrig lifiing of the ban on arming U. s, tons. This, is: about . 5,000,000, tens .merchant ships: . Three big-steanr- + .radio or heater. ‘Henry Wallace still attends the as national recovery was brought about” . . . Thumbnail description of Wisconsin's ex-Governor Phil La- Follette, by an old political asso- ciate: “Like the cute little drum majorette of our high school band, Phil doesn’t give a damn where the procession leads, just so he is lead- ing it.” Cordell Hull has a new car, a lon sleek limousine, but without either 2 Quoted at $2,615 for the retail trade, the car cost the Government only $1,800. Also gas costs only 8 cents a gallon . . , talents which may be varied. (Copyright, 1941) MISSIONARIES OF MORMONS T0. - LEAVE JUNEAD Local Branch of Church, )fi Continue, However,” | Under Presidency : The two Mormon missionaries stationed in Juneau will shortly leave for the south to resume thed work in the northwestern states. T'he missionaries, Elders Alton W. “uffaker and Francis G. Tate will leave on the Aleutian the latter part of the week. After spending several months in Juneau botn missionaries have felt reluctant at having been transferred, but have expressed the desire to return in the spring. = The branch of the church will be placed under the direction off’ 1 governing body of men and wil continue to hold services eae! Sunday evening in the Odd Fel= lows Hall. The branch presidency will be reorganized Wednesday- = ‘|'évening: with the following men | Subscribe to the Daily Alaska|filling the positions: Samuel Kunz. Empire—the paper with the largest| Burton Ludwig, and Andrew w. pait -circulation. ... " | Baker of Portland, Ore. Spanish luncheon club he started at the Department of Agriculture. Ev- ery PFriday he sits down with his old' colléagues to break bread and L . . In con- structing the mammoth new War side of the Potomae, builders are driving so many piles — 42,000 in Department building on the Virginia clusters jof seven — that engineers fear “bolling” of the land. The piles dislocate so much earth that it's likely to erupt in other spots and disturb the construction. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) e PIONEERS OF ALASKA present “The East Side Kids” in “Boys of the ' City” at the 20th Century Theatre, Saturday, October 18. Two shows, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Admis- slon 50 cents. Loges 65 cents. Save this "date. adv, — . Tflccemn c&mf«l “A stea b; W A,..::";u e juts oul ,‘b’, —rreemn - - yegsel sinks tothe: foundered but FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE See Us Today for Models CAPITAL—$50,000 . SURPLUS—$150,000 1 Ed COMMERCIAL AND . SAVINGS ACCOUNTS L ] ' SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES caption avith it shows ¢ ¢ this ph a i JUNEAU 2 ALASKA H. S. GRAVES SIGRID’S || - cosse o PHONE 318 = ke G USED CARS o Many Kinds and Types fo Choqse From! e