The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1942, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING OOMPANY Second and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Eutered tn the Post Offios in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION u Delivered by earrier in Juneau a s for §1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, the " followine rates: One year, in advance. $12.00; six montbs, in sdvance, $6.00; | one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly nol‘l:h subject for to Nazi However, ¥ e vm-rrenaom and !u:huu Nanager équipped that the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 3T4. | oo g vy | jective nally, early might; MEMBER OF Al!mm The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ::n credited in this paper and also the locsl news published rein. Then, CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATTONAL REPRESFNTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Buflding, Seattle, Wash. |of apparently Clearly, ened by {suspicion in the fact trouble in Germany the reports to leak out in this manner. it should be immaterial to the United | President | gtates whether this is the case or not. do not need to stop now to decide. |program has beén designed with the aim of taking no chances with Axis strength, but of creating an! air force, a navy, and an army so great and welli they can overwhelm anything the | Axis nations conceivably could muster. Our war program must proceed toward that ob- if Germany we shall have made certain her reasonably collapse in the face of our growing armed if Germany is not yet weak internally, we !shall have taken no chances. To our sorrow, we already have underestimated | one foe—the Japanese. | was capabie of, even after we supposed<in the face good evidence—that she was partly “exhaustéd” by her war with China. Germany has been and is being weak- the war | Colonel Knox points out, the Nazis still possess the “greatest military machine in the world.” |not assume that it will crumble of its own accord. |We must plan to overwhelm it. {our margin of strength, thé 'more economical of lives E‘and money will be our vietory. WOMEN IN WAR DUTY that have influence—even most of the reports of come from news sources| if it were logical Happily, we Our whole war is indeed weak inter- We have seen what Japan on the Eastern Front. But, as| We can- The more decisive In the present war, women may play a 1arger. part than in any previous conflict in history—in | BOY SCOUT ANNIVERSARY |civilian defense, in Red Cross and other relief work | splendid physical development | in maintaining local morale and directing commun- For ten million men and boys in America this ity effort and possibly even in active war duty. week, February 6 to 12, Thirty- | two years ago the Boy founded is an anniversary. Scouts of America was small bemg touched by the Scout Oath and Law The first year a scattered few Scouts, 61495 all had the advantages of Scouting. But by 1915‘ in told, almost a half million boys had enjoyed the great| is superior to the one it is about\to meet, the not too distant future,” fleet, before it goes into battle, must be certain it;faith and loyalty, American fa | In a message delivered recently by Lieut. Comdr. |will be natural apprehension re-, Was | Thomas J. Keane, of the Navy Office of Public Re- garding possible war casualties. As- The groups of 12- to 15-years-olds who|jations, to the Women's Patriotic Conference on |trology rallied to the Scout banner during that first year | National Defense, he made a plea to the women to age which never borrows tro But each year saw more and more boys do their part; asked them to show patience in look- | Minds should retain a positive a‘- {ing for major fleet victories. “We will have victory ne said, “but our| must | game of Scouting, 262,043 were active and a slightly jmove in areas where we have air superiority, flnd) smaller group had ‘“graduated,” as it were. been steady ever since. Each year more boys came | within influence of Scouting. Naturally many boys Joined the ever increasing number cf young men who had been Scouts. And because they had been Ecouts they were better citizens. This number con- ' tinues to grow until today ten million men and boys | represent the circle of direct influence of Scouting. Thus it is that not only are the million and a “for half active Boy Scouts and Scouters celebrating the thirty-second birthday of Scouting, but the eight and one-half million alumni of Scouting also have a claim in the birthday festivities. Most former Scouts still hold with the Scout Oath and Law ,may fix. Before of a trial. say: “On my honor I will do my best— To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law. To help other people at all To keep myself physically strong, awake and morally straight.” TAKE NO CHANCES Whatever may be the true sit or on the Russian battlefields,, that the Nazi military juggernaut Commenting on the suggestion of the Navy Sec- the Cincinnati Enquirer retary and his utterances, has the following to sa Colonel Knox says he personally stories of internal unrest in Ger and have been circulated by the Nazis themselves “to take the fine edge off the sense of urgency and immediacy and singleness of purpose with which the pnm-a States is pushing its wa Knox may be right. Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) treasurer of the UMW as well ds vice-president of the CIO; and Van Bittner, district president of the UMW and acting head of the Steel Workers Organizing Commit- tee. strong-arm tactics were attempted he was ready to go over Lewis’ head and take the fight directly | to the UMW rank-and-file. “Mr. President,” Murray sala earnestly, “I ardently favor peac: between the CIO and the AFL. Also, sension between myself and any man in the labor movement. But we are a democratic people and we insist on solving our problems in an orderly and democratic man- ner. No man is big enough to tell the American worker what he| should do and how it.” Roosevelt assured Murray he was behind him “to the hilt.” “You 4are in the right, Phil,” he said, “and you can't lose because labor won't let you down-: in this kind of a fight” PIPE DOWN Rear Admiral Emory S. (Jerrv) Land, peppery chief of the U. S Maritime Commission, has adopted 2 unique scheme to prevent leaks ¢f military information in his agency. Land sent a memorandum to his staff as follows: “Confucius’ mother said to Con- fucius— “Confucius, you talk t00 —— —— much! and hope their own sons also will| Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox recently followed a wise course in sug- gesting that the United States be skeptical of all reports that the Third Reich is about to collapse or the last thing I want is dis- | he should do| any times. mentally | itself. first tire thief uation in Germany to the danger. has been “routed.” believes the et many are spurious reffort.” i i v | must wait for a time when the United States cm[earner'( will continue to spend their The growth of the Boy Scouts of America has|Pick the place for the battle.” | (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) | How much is an automobile tire worth? Far more than any price that wartime authority To the man who must make his present set last the duration” their value is inestimable. “the law” theft of a horse was a capital caught were promptly strung up, without formality And there was much ethical justification | for this éxtra-legal procedure. moest important possession. representation meant not only a means of livelihood, but the cnly‘ means by which a man might reach food and water and preserve his life. We still have thieves in 1942 and tires from an unguarded automobile represent rich booty Obviously the public must take steps to protect | If you have a car, protect it. Whether you are an owner or not, but passing by, note a car being jacked up as it stands by the curb, pay a little attention. job, an owner fixing a flat, or a tire thief getting a If you are in doubt, it might be a good idea | to get a policeman to investigate. Above all, if you are a motorist, den't buy a tire from a man who represents himself as a bootlegger. He is probably a thief. Coloneél | aecessory to his crime, you are listing yourself, in Certainly there is ground for his mind, as an easy mark and a prospecnve vlatim Watch Those Tires came to the Old West the| offense. Thieves | A horse was a man's Its value was beyond | tribute e et e e e ) FEBRUARY 6, 1922 R. J. Surratt, movie picture man from Wrangell, was aboard the | Victorla for the Westward. He was taking with him his machine, 3,500 feet of film and expected to get shots for the various news reel weeklies he represented in Alaska. FEBRUARY 6 Gov. Ernest Gruening Mrs. Hollis Triplette - Millie Miller T. F. Stanford C. F. Middleton Mrs. Howard J. Milliken Sophia Christenson Evérett’ Larson’ . Fitch | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” | Mis. Sol Silverman, wife of a prominent mining man to the Westward, was on the Victoria going to Seward. | Cardinal Achille Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, was elected Pope. Card- inal Ratti took the name of Pope Piux XI. Thousands were waiting in front of St. Peters Cathedral and gave a mighty cheer wjen at 1:33 | o'clock a thin wisp of smoke appeared from a chimney of Sistine Chapel indicating the election of a Pope. A report made up from advices rceived from 35 States indicated that there was little danger of a recurrence of an epidemic of influenza. | For the purpose of raising fox a group of Ketchikan men had incor- TURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | AfiAudverseA:spect affecting labor |porated with a capital stock issue of $30,000. Incorporators weré R. L. Vi Ay dé: o is discerned in the horoscope for |Petty, H. F. Elliott, J. C. Shawyer, who with H. L Feddeérson and A. today. Viclence may develop in 4 H. Ziegler were the directors. desperaté contest with employers. | HEART AND HOME: Under !hisl Delegate to Congress Dan A. Sutherland had declared his candidacy configuration the mind should be | for reelection in the Republican primaries. The declaration was received keen and alert to passing events. | py mail by Karl Theile, Secretary of the Territory. This is a date when news of su preme interest is foreécast. Events| miye people, George Oswell, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Mamie Cook, of world concern will follow one o g Ooghe and Ed Sutton had a narrow escape from being caught in anothier so rapidly as o be eon-|y "oy slide which came from the top of the largest and center crevice |fusing. In many households there , = yp juneau the previoiis evening. The party was réturning to town Wil Be Nippiiitss bvAsE o n‘P‘(mm the Ebnér Mine when it occurréd. The slide was the largest in | several years and covered about 400 feet at the base. | which has resulted from the train- 'ing for national service while there | | successfully underwent an operation at Providence Hospital, according to t, S. J. The operation had our- |a telegram received by Bishop J. R. Crimon Sl s cublr“ | been delayed until the Rev. Rocatti recovered from an attack of influenza. titude and hard work should pre- John F. Malony, former Juneau man and son of Judge Malony, prom- vent needless worry. Armored in ment here in early days, passed through Juneau on his way to Cordova. mi- | He had mining claims in the vicinity of McCarthy and was going in to look lies will contribute much to in- over the property. evitable victory for the Allies. i BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Wage- On the program of the Parent-Teachers Association meeting to be | held in the high sehool auditorium were to be community singing, led by money freely and the sense Of njss Connie Martin; selections by the high school orchestra under the prosperity even in time of war Willgirection of Mrs. Klondy Woofter; pianoisolo by Miss Lovice Bostwick; ‘buoy the people who must acCePl|,uqreqs “Social and Economic Responsibility of the Commumity to the e taxes. Sclentists will con- Public School,” by Mayor R. E. Robertson, and a men's trio made up of marvelous new synthetic|, g gapang, Homer G. Nordling and Fred Lynch. materials and there will be in- creased demand for trained men . 4 3% t temperature to be experiénced in Juneau for the last and women. Chemists come under a The lowes P pe ; 3 gl ... |two years was looked for the following day. Meteorologist Summers presages dis- X ;gc;g:mtfi; ‘g::lchc;fl;;eg certain | predicted the mercury would drop to about 5 degrees and advised people phases of American life. There will | to 100k to their plumbing. be also amazing new implements cf war which hasten the fulfill- Chechakos had full benefit of initiation into the famous Taku wind ment of defense plans. ! through the previous afternoon and all day. fAll small boats were re- NATIONAL ISSUES: New lead- ' maining in port and were to wait until the Taku had calmed. While no The Rev. A. J. Roccati, who had been ill in the south for some time, | - ers in civic life will gain support. | serious damage was done, fences were blown down and hats went sailing in dollars. The horse often | Is the man doing the And besides becoming an | time Commission. “When discussing for salty language, ers had no trouble figuring what the double blank in memo stood for, ARMY FATHEADEDNESS ‘of grounds for gripes. Take case of Sergeant Clark Cook of | Camp Langdon, New Hampshire. A six-footer, weighing pounds, pired to be an officer. He applied for admission to an officers’ train- ing camp and his commander ap- | proved it. But at the Corps Area 175 “At times like these the rore-\hut there was one | going philosophy should be applied | hearty pat on the back. This was | by each individual in in the Mari- | the | the Commission | doing a | business, please keep it in mind.” | shipyard facilities. Said the com-| NOTE: Knowing their boss' flair mittee’s report, Maritime work- | indeed, out | mission’s shipbuilding prografn was the | well advanced prior to the begin- |ning of the defense program.” .. . The question of Army morale has | |are demanding their $10,000 con- [vanished like last summer’s roses. BTessional pay, Texas' young Rep- Murray indicated that if suchiyet many soldiers still have plenty | resentative Lyndon Johnson had the | Clark, a crack soldier, as-! | headquarters in Boston, Cook was| | rejected. The stated reason was “obesity.” | Cook thought he knew what obe- sity meant but he also knew there !wasn't a pound of excess flesh on | him. So | tions In the end he discovered that a clerk in the post hospital, where Cook took his physical examination, had entered his height as 60 inch- es instead of 72 inches. This made him five feet tall, weighing 175 pounds—too fat to be an officer. The application was returned to Boston for correction, but the Corps Area headquarters said it was against regulations to change the record. So Cook is still a sergeant, wait- ing for another chance to apply for officer’s training he started asking ques- MERRY-GO-ROUND The Truman committee’s scath- ing report hlasted OPM and the ‘ulhl‘(‘ war agencies unsparingly, that got a Maritime Commission, which committee commended for “good job” in expanding “It is fortunate, that the Maritime Com- In contrast to other congressmen who joined theé armed services and|’ himself taken off the congressional payroll the day he went on aétive duty—three days after Pearl Hai- bor. An officer in the Naval Re- serve, Johnson asked for active duty on December 8 and on De- cember 10 donned.the uniform. He is living on his Navy pay. When the full sfory is told of the orgamization of the crack Am- erican Volunteer Group of wflers, who have been shooting Jap planes out of the air in China, one man who will be given a lot of credit is Lauchlin Currie, little-known White House secretary. Currie was thé personal emissary that Roose- velt seht to Generalissinio Chiang Kai-Shek early last year. Sihce then he has been direcfing U. 8. aid to Chima: . . : As Alien Prop- erty Custodian, able Leo Crow will have charge of betweén seven and eight billion dollars worth of foreign assets. The only injunction thé President gave Crowley when | appointing’ him was, “I put you xlhe people of the United States. | astrologers Wealthy men will turn attention to the mobilization of opinions and |the furtherance of harmony among i public print and over the radio' |liberal sentiments will be promul- gated. Those who foresee inevuab'e‘ |social and economi¢ changes will We are not suggesting a lynching bee for the| . A movement to make tire thefts a federal offense, and set the Federal Bureau of ln-: vestigation on the trail of the thieves, indicates what | may be expected. | Even more effective, in our opinion, will be a) general awakening of the public, motorists especially, | be severely criticized, but what ap- pears radical now is to become everyday fact of the future. The wise will prepare for cheerful ad-, justments in postwar times. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: According to aspects of Uranus foretell many world| events, in the course of which there will be bitter struggles for materi- als, naval bases and increased vol- umes of manufactured war ma- chines. The Saturn-Uranus con-| ‘junction of May 3 may mark an historic event following the Mars-| Uranus conjunction of March 1, from which date military, naval| and ‘air movements will be de-| cisive. This is a period of supreme potentialities in the world conflict in which Japan will be goaded re-! ' {lentléssly by the Axis. Persons whose birthdate it 1s! have the augury of a year of fair success, but there must be watch- fulness to prevent fraud or decep tioh due to money greed. Children born on this day prob- ably will be highly intelligent, but, they may have many vicissnudes through eventful lives. (Copyright, 1942) With bayonets fixed, soldiers march in the muddy grass around War and Navy Buildings. Business men on errands in wm- ington’ must allow ten percent' more 'time merely to gain admis- sion o buildings. Argentine Minister Garcia Arias stands ia line fo be admitted to the Muni- tions Building. . . . A newspaper man, leaving Munitions Building, is stopped by a guard, who con- fiscates the newspaper under his arm, lest it conceal smuggled documents. (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) e o L RS INVITATION FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be recetved 4t the City Clerk’s Office, Juneau, Al- aska, until 12:00 o'clock noon, Feb- ruary 14, 1942, for driving a tun+ nel approximately 430 feet long be- tween the 'retaining wall af thé northwest corner of the Juhédu Public Grade School and a point in the southerly part of the Ever- green Bowl. This tunnel shall be driven at- cnrding to the plans and specifica- through the air. A i e it . Daily Lessons in English % .. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The balance of the men will be there.” Say, “The REST of the men.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gelatinous. Pronounce je-lat-i-nus, E |as in ME unstressed, A as in AT, I as in IT, U as in US, and accent | second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Night (time from sunset to sunrise). (a military attendant). SYNONYMS: Mastery, dominion, command, supremacy, superiority. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | inerease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: INDUE to put on, as clothes; draw oh. “The baron had indued a pair o( Jjack boots.”—8ir W. Scott. MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. Does good form demand that an announcement of an engagement be made promptly? A. Yes. This may be done by sending a notice to the newspaper, or by issuing engraved announcéments to friends and relatives, or by means of an anhouncement patrty for-the close friends and relatives. Q. How should one eat cheeses? A. Soft cheese should be spread on a crackér with a knife. Hard cheeses such as American, may be eaten either with the fork-or the | fingers. Q. Is it a hostess’ duty to see that conversation doesn’t lag? A. Yes, it is her duty to ditect the conversation. There must be no perceptible silences that make the g iests (cel as though théir hostess were tired and wlsu they.would ;o Knight ™ ROBERTA LEE 3k % What is the difference in meanlng between interstate and intra- 1. state? 2. What price did Sfl‘ldlflma réceive !or his violins while he was living? 3. Are morée people near“sighted or far-sighted? 4. What bird did Benjamin Franklin advocate as our nltlom,l em- blem, instead: of the éagle? 5. Which meat is most eaten by the people of the United States? ANSWERS: 1. Interstate meéans between different States. within one State. 2. From $50 to $75. 3. According to statistics, about 60 are far-sighted to every 48 who are near-sighted. 4. The turkey gobbler. 5. Pork, followed closely by beef. ALASKA COAL MINES 60 THROUGH 1940’ WITHOUT FATALITIES Alaska is the only coal pront- ing territory or state in which no Intrastate means handa tools or taling coal. The latter is caused by faulty timbering, which is another ffm of carelessness, Mr. Stewart said. highest in average days of em- ploymént per man of #ny coal pro- ducing state or terrifory, with an | Alaska also had, in that year, toe in charge of this job, Leb, becaus: | tions furnished by the City En- I knew you would see to it that there will be no scandals. Wedon't 1t a repetition of the sordid| story of the Harding regime.” More and more, ‘the ' Capital re-| sembles an armed camp: A com-| pany of soldiers has been put in the basement of the Treasury De- partment by Henry Morgenthau gineer, and shall supervision. be under his The City of Juneau reserves the | right to reject any or ail bids and to waive any informalities, (Signed) R. G. RICE, City Cler Publication datés, Feb. 4-5-6, 1942, adv, fatalities in the industry occarrcd during the calehdar year 1940, dc- jcording to & booklet on ' the' in- dustry published by the ‘Depart- ment of the Interior and. reécently received by B., D. Stewart, Terri- torial Commissioner of Mines. Out of 3¢ non-fatal accidents occurring in Alaska coal mines during that year 17 were caused by average of 322 days per man. Next to Alaska, the states with the high- est average days of émployment per man are West Virginia and Ala- bama with 215 days per man each. This would indicate that coal min- | ing in Alaska, while not as ex-| ténsivé as it is in other parts of the country, is & less seasonal oc- cupation, Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel Directory Second and fourt Monday of each montl in Scottish Rite Temp! 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