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PACE FOUR . ) . not a prisoner, should b Daily Alaska Empire &0 ik S o e oo 1941 DECEMBER 1941 . e b e popular hostelry here Published every evening except Sunday by t . i ENPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Guatamala, it seems, does not feed offenders Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. who land in the jug. Banfield told of seeing lines Y MONSEN - . President | of persons standing outside the jails of the little - ARD & °isVicebamiantsnd Bumiie mever ool and n he inquired he was told they tered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. wore ends or relatives of the prisoners, bringir SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 per month. (hem food | one o5 mail, postage By s, e What happens if the prisoner has no friends to| one mc nce, $1.85 feed him?" Banfield wanted to know. | | confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- | In that event. the prisoners are taken out to T elonhoteks News Office, 602; Buiinass Office, 374, wvork on roads and earn their meals, he was told - ———— 'If a prisoner misbehaves when he comes to the MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS & The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for gvicket through which food is pushed by his friends, republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | ..~ . A R S LTS il . o T uited n this paper and also the local mews published the food is immediately taken away by the guard — herels and given to some other prisoner with no friend to DECEMBER 5 ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER supply victual F. T. Lindenmeyer 3 THANSEEST"RE-ANY OfUEY PVOLIoA TION. There's never much trouble with discipline Barbara Smith NAL REF TIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 'around Guatamalan jails, Banfield declares. Jimmy Harmon < £ L R A R Claude M. Hirst NO USE FOR BLADES Mrs. William Rodenberg Mo g Selma Maki The OPM can find no use for old razor blades Bl CopRha members of the Chamber of Commerce were told Keith Petrich el Selma Dishaw gy Herman Beukers Fired by the ides saving metal for defense . 4 g o S ; sigrid E. Rineberg purpeses, the C. of C. trustees recently wrote the Sotiusgrotagt oo defense office in Washington regarding the worthi- ness of a drive for the used shaving steel. But a i letter received this week indicated that the blades | H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E | wre not wanted ‘ We're not surprised. We've never been able to The stars incline devise @ use for the old razor blades, in fact most m ; * but do not compel” | of the time we're baffled about a place to put them | e ) where we're sure no innocent persons will be acci- e \ ENG dentally sliced TS A CHALLENG el SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 ) e had hoped the OPM might solve our “4/m. Adverse planets experiences A h of the ip at Fort Richardson seem 'blade problems, but apparently the used beard | .o today. Labor problems may ) € mn houlder pads under dir | scrapers are as useless to the defense chiefs as) goyme new phases destructive or 1 how any 11 or more Juneau men |they are to we ordinary mortal | thwarting to constructive enter- e game hould be played | —_— — - rises. It is a time to plan and ¢ ich the intimation in an open Thwarting the Moth | o take account of the exact situa- I he Anchorage army men, received o . | -ion, social and economic. eck Juneau Chamber of Commerce (New York Times) HEART AND HOME: In the The I ine bobswait to. oome heve wntl The scientists in the National Bureau of Stan-|ramily, the weekend recreation ¥rakol Lot b ety v in 1942, |dards have turned their attention to wool. Warm!.pould be inexpensive. Whatever and serviceable s, it has its drawbacks. The BBntes t are X Hawily' in BHs sfootballi bisiness, the Chatnbbr of | 2% serviceable as ifgs, dt ligs. 1, drawhac ontributes to the welfare of th : : y ) 1t 1arvae of moths devour it. Molds grow on it. Bac- in uniform should be giver g : : 7y i £ Tunenst priop | (6718 play havoe with it. Strong soaps cor ode il etously. The number and ost b 5o i ot Y Sunlight ages it. Taken all in all, it presents as| . Christmas gifts may be affected ol, and the organization of a ieam to trim the jmany problems as an automobile or an airplane. At],y the mental attitude, but the n dumped completely in his 1ap now. | the Bureau of Standards all these seem to have been ! tarc seem (o encourage generous There was a gogd reason for passing the buck, solved at one fell swoop by the simple expedient of | pending t year, in which the ¢ ba to Coach Lindenmeyer. Earlier this|studying the structure of wool and then treating it|.,jiqay season will become a happy all, when the teachers of Juneau schools were guests |so that the larvae of moths turn sick if they nibble [ emory long after present pros- )t a Chamber of Commerce lun the subject of |at it, bacteria die if they try to get a foothold in it.| sarity has been curtailed football games a army te: was first t,,.,u,,,m.l;m .»wl,.] some soaps turn from it in a kind of | "ol e Apparps: Satumn p. I ndicated at that time that the C. of C. che “'““] ‘“;“" am ¢ leoules. Bena |7ules the farmer who will hav efuse all game offers because of the lack of ¢ "\,] “"“,m‘ “\""vh.“ fmm;_)”l e ‘.(‘”H,, 1:: reason to profit, although there are : m to represent the Capital City on the gridiron. | the chains and they remain bent, which explains| o /5o "o i diiie may be more 3 § creasing. If the creases disappear when a suit is g ch Lindenmeyer protested the refusal of | r less hampered by Governmeni hung up, it is because the molecules are coiled so s N ge irection. Perpl ties are foreca that they eventually spring back when bent orj Ft e TSl et coached football and T love the game.” he |twisted. There are also short cross-chains. If a| °F ‘)“"‘f : . i 3 e vaisers should be fortunate, for ¢ members. “If there are enough |moth’s larvae or some chemicals eat these, & piece| o e oA 1 1l P 3 here a sign read indicating men in the city who would like to turn out and get | of wool cloth simply falls to pieces. So the problem emara v ATARNE m ther, T'd like to coach them and we'll |reduced itself 'to treating the cr chains el g v « warlike t soldiers really are.” the cross-chains were broken down with G 3 33 ju warlike these soldiers really are r s l el g W he coach now has his chance t they were in just as sad a condi- | "W e et S gridders, - We. Roge e Wil tion as ad been attacked by a moths| 0% AT Eldders. - We. hope e Wil -be : \orses and mules. Portents of sud- Y Vil ttle l2rvae. But when the broken ends were reunited L players and a real battle 2 . ien exigencies which have not % 1 g h the aid of other chemicals they were in better 5 1 ives Football isn't exactly a ¥ B, g 5 3 seen foreseen promise high price: &y haliobh: Sone - brAinod condition than ever. Wool's fibers are largely pro- : i a e N 0 Jatey | l€in and therefore the chemical equivalent of beef- NATIONAL ISSUES: As the old ‘_‘ o ; ully “here later| ..x But the protein in the cross-chains is indi- | 7ear ends there will be an awaks e gestible after it has been thus doubly treated, with|ng to the peril of our American ST R § the result that it becomes so much poison to the|habit of hoping for the best and v ; oMU E ' 7e I rave: sly hungry larve 3 Vi 5 o | doing nothing until circumstances CHOW IN THE CLINK most L\\‘()m\x.l) hungry ld?\a And so with strong et torrifio Gt G Py SRR soaps. They have no liking for this transformed | Jresent terrific pr . A sin—refuse v vill become a past issue as dan- Banfield, Juneaw’s globe-trotting attor- | Protein—refuse to combine with it. i linivs AR 1 hecomes Diain he made his recent trip to Guatamala Such feats would have been impossible 50 or | 3€rs mulliply and 1t be s plai i Ths Bucks B W W Cottnstl “l ‘”‘1 more years ago. The structure of organic molecules | ‘hat the United States must ac- N the CKS I Y misses N el p T res] sibi Nl had to be studied as if they were houses, and ways | ept the heaviest responsibilit Fereenaa iy < had to be found of changing that structure, So it|n rescuing democracy from the reports seeing lots of ducks in the | pappens that we have plastics, synthetic vitamins, | ‘uin that Hitler plans for it. While rican country, but in that dictator na- | yormones, rubbers. And now a successful frustration | he stars presage the ultimate 1e saw a lot of other things equally interesting. of the moth. Away with camphor, mothballs and | lownfall of the Fuehrer it will be innovations in Guatamalan jails, tar-paper bags. The wool of tomorrow will be a 1ccomplished at great cost 1 maintains he observed as a tourist, ' Desert of Sahara to anything that tries to live on it. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: = = = - 7 ~——————— | Aggressive policies” will be accen-| w h' l | Headwaters Farm specializes in The mnext number, 24, refers to aftuated by Congress and there will as mg on | extra large, strictly fresh, New page of the book, and the next e last desperate attempts at Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) is brother, John L. ion workers have other unions and have nest of in- CIO. Also, into field: hornet’s hin the stirred up a dignation w this union has barged only otely related to construc tion. It granted a charter to a Communist - controlled teamsters local in Minneapolis and is or- \izing service employees in New York Ci apartments and Yale College. Actually the union has only construction locals Murray has done nothing about this, but in his blistering speech he rved notice that he was going 10. Labor unions are never built by the use of thuggery and brass knuckles” he said grimly. “And oresi of this organization I ne end to alow jurisdiction- al I shall not stand for any back: ineuvering.” NOTE: Inside word is that Jones, an ex to eye with Lewis on isolation, will be one of the first to leave the CIO staff EATIN' EGGS s00d tip from Secretary Ickes to farmers who sell Sell them as eatin’ and not look- in' eggs I fa at Olney, Md., does a uizeable egg business in Wash- inglon and recer complained some customers the brown color out THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA number refers to a line. The first letter in the line is the letter re- quired. By the next number com- bination he gets another letter and ' gradually makes up the words of the secret message. This code defied counter-espion- age until G-men caught one of !the agents and broke him down. He confessed that the book he was carrying, “All This and Heaven Too,” was his code book, and he to obtain entertainment for the explained the entire system to onvention, Their first choice Was! Hoover’'s men. the Quiz Kids; second choice, lhc‘ This was the key which led to Duke and Duchess of Windsor . . .'the FBI's dramatic spy seizure, in When Joe Ball was a Minnesota| which 33 Nazi agents were caught newsman, he used to wash the din- jn a single trap. ner dishes. Now that Joe Ball is! a Senator, filling the unexpired| rterm of the late Lundeen—he still washes the dinner dishes . . . Sena- tor Leader Barkley, who was bern on a farm in Graves County, Ken- Hampshire Red eggs. Expert breed- ing and scientific feeding produce a urdy brown shell, highly pro- tective of the precious egg-fluid within YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY CAPITAL CHAFF A civic organization, about to tage its annual convention, wired Senator Tom Connally asking him MERRY-GO-ROUND Army officers bound for China get their final orders not from war or state departments, but from a | " i d | quiet little ex-professor of eco- tucky, sadly re Ql"h”[o dressing I |, mics, Lauchlin Currie, secretary evening clothes as “putting on.my |, (e president . , . When Japa- heavy harness” . . . Most men Whu,ncse Envoy Saburo Kurusu ar- have four bathrooms in their hous- rived at the Washington airport, es rate as aristocrats, but Rear|(nrec Oriental newsmen were on Admiral Ben Morrell, chief Oljp,n4 o meet him—Japanese cor- Navy’s bureau of yards and docks-ir('spnndenls Masuo Kato and Clarke displays his dirty hands o Provegawakami; he’s no aristocrat. o and Chinese corres- He got Mis|,ondent, Joe Chiang. When the two miner official who sees eye hands dirty building the four new| jipanese saw the Chinese, they 3 1 bathrooms into his house. | proceeded to frisk his pockets, g looking for arms. Actually, it was SECRET NAZI CODE !u Jjoke—the three Oriental news- J. Edgar Hoover has uncovered mecn remain friends. a new type of secret code used by | the Germans in communicating | e with agents in this country. It P 'y G f o vne e amoricon vt | | OFEY NG 107 selling novels | i T P'I 1 Each agent is assigned a num- vls“lng |0 ber and also a novel or non-fiction | book. One man may have number| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burdick 88, and the novel, “Gone With the were hosts yesterday afternoon at Wind.” Another may have party honoring Jack “The |a cocktail of interest to Marshal Bll]l ‘frustration or limitation” by those opposed to our foreign aid. The death of a leader among isolation- sts is foretold. Difficulties affect- ing transatlantic transportation again are prognosticated. It will be necessary to aid Russia to the ex- tent of our resources in the zero hour of Nazi aggre: | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ad- vancement. The young will make orogress in studies which represent the culture of a in history. Children born on this day prob- ably will be impulsive and high- tempered, but exceedingly intelli- zent. Many will gain success in unforeseen ways. (Copyright, 1941) k. - - WILL BE OPEN | SATURDAYP. M, Last Oppormny to Get Parcels Info Mails for Eastern Parts To insure a merry Christmas to friends or relatives in the eastern states, the local post office will remain open tomorrow afternoon until 5:30 o'clock. That is, the par- cel post and stamp windows will be open only, the other windows clos= ing as usual on Saturday at 12:30 o’clock. The steamers scheduled to sail south late tomorrow and Sunday of the eggs. Farmer Ickes met the Nine Old Men.” Instead of carry- Jefford. About 50 guests were pres-|will afford the last opportunity to criticism head-on. In each package ing a ‘code book around with him, ent in the Burdick home on Fifth send Christmas packages |u‘ the he insepted the fo ing neatly which would be incriminating if|Street for the occasion east, certain of delivery before the print piece of advice discovered, he carries the innocent! Jefford, who is in Juneau for|big holiday and it is for this rea- BGGS FOR TASTE hook. several days, was pilot for the Bur- son that Postmaster Albert Wite NOT FOR LOOKS Then he gets a wireless message dicks when they took their trip|announces that the public will be Important to you is how your eggs reading something like this: 88-24-“1!“'0.1:'!1 the North. He plans to accommodated at the parcel post TASTE, not how they LOOK be- 6, 78-9, 204-3, etc. The first num- return to Anchorage as soon as and stamp windows tomorrow af- fore they are cooked. T is why ber is his designation as :gp,m' 88. | weather permits. ‘ Lernoon unul\.’; 30 o’'clock ) vanishing period | \ 0 YEARS AGO !rflfimp: EMPIRE § DECEMBER 5, 1921 In the Elks Bowling Tournament the City team composed of Cole, Bavard and Nolan narrowly beat the House Committee of VanderLeest, Dott and Metealf. A marriage license was issued by U. S. Commissioner H. B.'LeFevre |! to John Pastl and Mrs. Marie Kilowasser, and the wedding took place in the evening. Mrs. W. E. Bathe and her two daughters were to leave on the Spokane for Oregon to visit relatives until Spring. A Junior Christian Endeavor was organized in Douglas, and Mamie Feusi was elected president of the group. | Deputy Collector of Customs J. J. Hillard who was in Fairbanks on a fur case, was to leave for Juneau the next week Weather: High, 36; low, 30; cloudy. F S R s ; Daily Lessons in English % .. corpon e e e b WORDS OPTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He didn't go to work as he was sick.” Say, “He didn’t go to work BECAUSE he was sick.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Geyser. Pronounce gi-zer, or gi-ser, I as in LIE OFTEN MISSPELLED: Stiletto; Dbserve the one L and the double T. SYNONYMS: Pulverize, powder, grind, granulate, crumble | 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 TURBULENT; disturbed; agitated; routed to violent commotion. “Calm | region once, and full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.”—Milton, | | MODERN ETIQUETTE ® popprra Lis i — Q. How should s tomers? espeople in department stores address their cus- A. Customers should be addressed by name when it is known; 2 adam” and ir Saleswomen should never address | women customers as “dearie” or “honey;” this is exceedingly crude. Nor is it good form to refer to a woman accompanying a man as “The wife” or “The missus.” Q. What is the regulation size for wedding invitations. imilar affairs? dances and A. The regulation size is five and a half by seven and three-eighth | inches. Q. What is the proper way to remove some foreign substance that one has taken into the mouth while at the table? A. Remove it with the fingers behind the napkin attracting attention and try to do it without § L DK and LEARN ¥ & compon g e L e | 1. In what famous opera does the “Barcarolle” occur? 2. What country has a greater variety of plants than any other in the world? 3. What famous Confederate general was accidentally killed by his own men? 4. What name is applied to animals that have backbones? 5. In what year did the first baseball World Series take place? ANSWERS: 1. “Tales of Hoffman,” by Offenbach. | 2. Mexico. | | 3. General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson { 4. - Vertebrates, | 5. In 1903, between the Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Nationals; | won by Boston. NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing | wucm air route from Seattle to Nome, on ‘salc at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. NEWS 5 | BUY DEFENSE i Sold and Serviced by | J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worr: by Satistied Customer: Professional Gastincou Cheamel | 1rectory Drs. Kaser and Freeburger MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. g, DENTISTS VERGNE L. HOKE, i e Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LETVERS, Secretary. o e i A £ Juneau’s Own Store lalyens Dr. A. W. Siewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 489 —_— % "The Rexall Store"” Your Reliable Pharmacists "Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING | BUTLER-MAURO Soap Lake Mineral and Steam = DRUG CO. Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. by e HARRY RACE Dr. John H. Geyer DRUGGIST DENTIST “The Squibb Stores of Room 9—Valentine Bldg. Alaska” PHONE 1762 - M Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm., “The Stere for Men" SABIN°S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP (The Charles W. Carer| Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 | * - i FINE Watch and Jeweiry Repairing at very reasonable rates Jones-Stevens Shop e PAUL BLOEDHORN | Seward Street Near Thira 8. FRANKLIN STREET | | [ BCA Victor Radios | and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 | | INSURANCE Shanufigency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Markes 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices TRUCKS and BUSSES H. W. L. ALBRECHT Physical Therapeutics Heat and Light Treatments Massage and Corrective Exercises Phone 773 Valentine Bldg. 1 { JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corons — ]‘SL‘IIOOL TERM NOW i ONE THIRD OVER | Six weeks' examinations were given this week in Douglas public | schools and report cards were dis-f | tributed yesterday, winding up one- | {third of the entire year's work. | This week actually marked the be- ginning of the fourth six weeks’ period f { Honor roll for the six weeks'| !period contains the following ramer: | SAVE Primary grade—Johnny Jensen, | with Insured Safety 2 As, 4 B's; Eleanor Havdahl, 1| {A, 16 B's; Elton Engstrom, Jr. 1 |A, 5 B's, 1 C; Aleta Warner, 1 A, 7 B's; Marilyn Isaaks, 1 A, 6 B’s, 1 C; Mary Cuthbert, 1 A, 6 B’s, 1 C. Third grade—Catherine Valeson | |and Pauline Bonner. } Fourth grade—Jimmy Sey; fiftn |grade — Genine Greiner; sixth {grade — Donald Bonner; seventh grade—Noreen Andrews and Peggy | Cochrane. ! R NURSING CLASS TONIGHT Regular meeting of the Home Nursing class in Douglas for this|| {week will be held tonight at the usual hour, 7:30 o'clock in the { City Hall 3 0 | | | e | NEW STUDENT : The Harju family is again es- | tablished in their home on the | Douglas road, having returned early this week from Aberdeen, Wash., |where they have been visiting. Yesterday Leonard, only son of| the Harjus, re-entered the seventh | grade in Douglas school. - > GIANTS GOING TO ' LOSEBABE YOUNG NEW YORK, Dec. 5—~The New| York Giants disclosed ‘that First | Baseman ‘Babe Young will he sub- |ject to army duty after January | 1., Young's appeal to be deferred| from military duty was re)ecmd‘ lby a selective service appeal boaxd.‘ Young had claimed his father wasl idcpandent upon him for support. I EARNINGS On Savings Accounis ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any - time. ! ® Start an account with $1 or_more. Current 4% Rale Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Juneay EF TR Pymes. Lied * DR. H. VANCE NASH CARS OSTFOPATH Christensen Bros. Garage Consultation and examination 909 WEST 12TH STREET free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 6; 7 108,20 by appotnment. T 2 neau Hotel Annex Bouth Franklin St. Phone 177 “HORLUCK’S DANISH” = Ice Cream Flavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove,’ Lemon Oustard, Black Cherry, Caramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, | Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawherry and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING | Archie B. Betis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT FOR BEAUTY'S SAKE SIGRID’S PHONE 318 —_—mm-—-e——— COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY OF ALASKA Lumber and Building Materials PHONES 587 or 747—JUNEAU SECURE YOUT. LOAN THROUGH US To Improve and Moderuize Your Home Under Title L F. H. A. CAPITAL—$5¢ SURPLUS—$1350,000 ; ° COMMERCIAL ‘AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS . 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