The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ANOTHER BOWL GONE ' - Daily Alaska Em pire Published every evening except Sunday by the . EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Btreets, Juneau, Alaska. Down in the States, now, in most restaurants, if a patron orders coffee the waitress brings it to him with two lumps of sugar. If a third lump is HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - Presldent|desired. you can get it with a frown. But the bowl R. L. BERNARD - ~ Vice-President and Business Nanager is gone. Entered in the Post! Otfioe in -'u;-.e-u Second Class Matte No longer can businessmen while away their b |lunch hours by stacking the neatly-wrapped sweet lumps in imposing towers. No longer can they use Rathy tn sdrance, 125 tavor it they will Sromptly sotry | the sugar blocks to illustrate the situation in the Llh\an desert Bowls are suffering in this war. One of the 3 4 t Pasa- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS |nr<l to disappear was the Rose Bowl game at Pasa The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for dena, Cal. Now it's the sugar bowl. republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news nuhlllh‘d‘ berein. ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARG THAN THAT OF ANY PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REP} American Bullding, Sei the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 374. | Adolf hasn't made any promises to the effect yet, but it looks as if the only way he would be able to keep a date in Washington would be with {the American army as an escort. According to his schedule he was due in London on August 15, 1940, land in Moscow on August 1, 1941 s Newspapers, 1011 We notice that the feeling in the nation's men's clothing industry is unanimous that the two-pants | suits must go, in order to conserve wool. It seems to us that we remember something about how two- | pants suits were adopted as an economy, the idea being that the customer wouldn’t have to throw |away the coat and vest when the pants.wore out. | Abolish the two-pants production and many will be | tossing away coats that are half worn out, Wouldn’t {that be a waste? THE PACIFIC WAR | o Round Trips (New York Times) Americans who wonder what the Navy has been submarines have been sinking has surrendered. Gen. fighting with their Douglas Mac- backs to the Singapore Arthur's forces are wall, Japanese invaders are dangerously close to|doing while enemy Java and the mainland of Australia. The war in|Ships and killing sailors off our coast: may ;akv the Pacific obviously is riding to a climax which L\‘"‘“i““‘“"“ “"3‘, ‘; ":"9"“"“ i'l‘“de’n" tawm“m 8] esman’” i S| €l he €] thimed to sujt Japan yather than the Unitéd Natidns,|SRokssmany ih Whshingtin ‘recchbly idacs # " as that “some of the recent visitors to our terri- Yes, the repulsive little yellow men who caught | torial waters will never enjoy the return portion of i their opponents off balance are doing their best "Ohhmr voyage” and that “the percentage of one-way- deal a knockout blow and they are laying theiomo prarric is increasing while that of two-way groundwork with considerable success. traffic is satisfactorily on the decline.” There were two reasons why the Japs caught| Citizens are asked not to spread rumors about the Allied nations ill prepared for war in the Pacific | submarines even if they “have seen a submarine area. England and the United States were preoccu- | captured or destroyed.” Not- many of us have had Atlantic phases of | this pleasure, but all of us will do well to respect World War II. Why weren't they as concerned as|the reticences of sailors who may have been in at they should have been with defenses in the Pacific? |the kill. Morale is the all-important element in Pirst they underestimated the little | Submarine service. Nothing hurts morale so much yellow men and their capacity for warfare, s the mysterious disappearance of submarines. Let Second, because they mistakenly assumed that the{Us cheer for the disappearances and be content to warlords Tokyo would not have the temerity to| ™" the explanation of the myste: take on foes almost certain to overcome them in the ¥ end The Japs, at the present time, pied with the European and because aggressive in Hitler’'s “Music Lovers” hive e qavn. (Philadelphia Record) tage in the Pacific. And they are pressing that( g .iineq it s difficult to say which is more advantage for all it is worth. The Nipponese Were|ganoorous Hitler's enmity or his friendship. He lucky in dealing their first blow. In the light of |pac swallowed so many friends and enemies with the Roberts' report on Pearl Harbor, the Jap attack complete impartiality. succeeded only as a result of an almost in(‘reuiblm‘ Portugal is now struggling with this problem. of oversights and derelictions of duty on the|Seems Adolf suddenly became interested in the cul- | ! interfere with array part of the United States leaders there. tural life of Portugal. When the Berlin Philhar-| If the defenses of Pearl Harbor had been on;monic Orchestra went to Lisbon. recently, to give a their tces December 7, they probably would have | concert, no less than 500 Nazi “music lovers” applied | dealt Mr. Hirohito a blow that would have ended |for permission to enter Portugal to hear the music. his invasion plans then and there. But this is spilt | After some discussion, the Portuguese Govern-* milk, now ment admitted 100 of the “music lovers,” barred the The battle from now on out is going to take | What the 100 did after they got in, no one BL 05 ihe escention of long-range bombers; | aewe, {Bup hardly Anybody believes, thiey: confilied most of the fighter planes, tanks and men that 1ol Shelr. gefludties, b0 Whe, tone. axies Most, MREly they ¥ |soon will show up as masters of another art—the Allied forces need to stop the grinny little Jap must | be moved slowly wallow across 6,000 shortest journey the same time, the Atla: Japan’s make this war di forces. But there any we must and press it in Europe. ly advantage, and the uuprepm'ednpss' of the Allied Nations has given Japan the power to|grief and danger In different times, prayer takes different It takes time for freighters to There is, to miles of ocean. That’s about the‘“rmen which w of them can make now. At maintain our activity in to the Allied |ordinarily. in any ann- forms. If there fficult and costly can be no finality real music lovers—Hitler's Funeral March. is writing the opening theme right now. It would be surprising in these days |art of the fifth column. be sure, one composition, when | ill reopen the borders of Europe to | Russia laden with if men did not pray more than is less of the formal saying of grace nese gain unless the United States and England get at meals, it does not mean that there is less giving tired and give up we are going to do Vlashlr.glon Miun'd « C«xfinned from of thanks. state Tokyo mistakes us if she thinks | that, nese. He particularly lauded their honesty, pointing out that the Chi- nese government has a splendid record of paying its debts to the 1Uniu'd States. “The Chinese are a proud people who believe in paying their debts,” Page One) Jones said. “A significant thing to Prayer is an attitude, an atmosphere, ~f mind and heart. a iwhere glamor is a handicap. Here is the roll-call on some of them: Robert E. Sherwood — Pulitzer Prize winner; author of “Idiot’s Delight,” “Abe Lincoln in Illinois”; a great writer, but a man who should sit on a mountain top, iso- lated, while he turns out master- | limited me is the fact that they have not by several high officers formerly on Chiang Kai-shek's staff. Long urged speedy and unanimous action by Congress because of the psy- chological effect it would have in the Orient. Orientals are very sensitive about the manner in which an offer of help is made, he explained. available to them in loan authori- |zations by the Export - Import | Bank.” ' GLAMOR-PUSSES Up on Capitel Hill a lot of peo-| I ple think that not even the Japa- | nese themselves could have found | aken all the credit that has been | important executive job with the ;Donovan Committee. Stephen Vincent Benet—famous | poet; and Thornton Wilder, author (of “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” |and “Our Town.” Both originally tee, but recognized that they didnt fit and got out. | were with the Donovan Commit-| pieces. Instead, he was given AN jeace matters. While the money is desperately needed, and while the Chinese are entitled to aid as our allies, the' Japs would try to impugn our mo- tives if Congress gave them the slightest opportunity. a better way to hurt war morale than by the current epidemic of | “Glamor-Pusses.” “Glamor-Pusses” is given to the squad of actors, dan- Garson Kanin—movie director for RKO who produced “The Great ,Mah_Votes” and “Tem, Dick and| the name|Harry.” Kanin was drafted, and | produced films for the signal corps, | |cers and artists who have recently ',’:fs"ev as a_ private, he had to | moved in on Washington, climaxed | Whisper instructions to the cap- HEROIC CHINESE by Mrs. Roosevelt's d‘-nclns friend, ‘uun, who then gave the orders— Stimson devoted most of his|blonde Mayris Chaney who draws | because a_private cannot give or- statement to eulogizing the Chin-|$4600 for directing child health in ders. Kafin has now been released ese army. the Office of Civilian Defense. | from the army and is with OEM Real fact is that the advent of | where he produced a_documentary ‘Ma\ ris Chaney merely touched off | | film called “Tanks” in cooperation | publicity regarding the fact that|With Orson Welles. quite a list of Glamor-Pusses have | Wnlt Dllmey—wno has just signed | been dancing their way through the|a contract with the Rockefeller | defense picture for, many months. Committee to spend half his time| | In all fairness it should be said making animated cartoons for Pan- that some of them have contribut- American propaganda. In Brazil, ed more to the war effort than|Disney was the best Good Neigh- certain bungling $1-a-year big busi- bor propagandist the United States nessmen. Even Mrs. Roosevelt's has sent. blonde dancing girl at a salary of! Melvyn Douglas—new director of $4,600 a year probably is less cost- the Arts Division of Civilian De- ly to the American taxpayer than fense, Around whose head has certain National Defense business|broken @ recent storm of abuse. advisers who opposed setting up tin | (Douglas is 8 man of courage and |smelters in the USA. and later|ideas Who ran away to enlist in | were found to have been close to|the Jast war at the age of 17.) |the British tin monopoly. Their However, he Is a star actor, not cost to the nation was priceless | an executive. Yet he is placed in months and millions of dollars in| charged of a very important of- economic dislocation. | fice. Furthermore, shortly after “No army in the history of the| world has braver or more resource- ful soldiers than the Chinese,” he said in effect. “The best proof of this is that they are continuing to fight, with unbelievable sacrifice and against almost insurmountable odds, after five years of aggression by a ruthless invader. “Cut off from communications, supplies and shipping—with no financial resources to speak -of— they have resisted the enemy with a heroism and tenacity that has wan the admiration of free peoples everywhere.” Questioned about the ability of the Chinese to hold out, Stimson insisted that, with U.S. and Brit- ish. help, they would more than hold their own against the Japs. The War Secretary also told the committee that there are many taking over that office, he is going strategically located airports in| GLAMOR ROLL-CALL back to Hollywood to spend seven China available for bombing raids| Trouble with most of the| weeks producing another pictur&' on Japan. | Glamor-Pusses is that their spec- Meanwhile who runs his office? ialty is glamor, yet they have been | given important executive Another insidé fact—believe it Jom or not—is that Melvyn Douglas has Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones also joined in acclaiming the Chi- | l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 16 Percy E. Reynolds Kenneth Junge Jesse D. Lander Mrs. Blair Stelle A. M. Merrick Mrs. A. N. McCaskill Gertrude McCann Viola Orth Carl Trautmann B e S Y HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Benefic aspects rule today. Mars reported out of order. Republicans; 20 YEARS AGO 7% mupie FEBRUARY 16, 1922 | With a sustained velocity of 41 miles an hour for five minutes, and | an extreme velocity of 56 miles an hour, all wind records of the Juneau | Weather Bureau office were broken here. both this side of the Channel and the Douglas side was considerable with several twisted from position by the gale. at the foot of Main Street collapsed during the terrific gale and the Orpheum Rooming House was twisted slightly. I braced against further damage. Numerous windows which had withstood | the Taku of the previous week were smashed and thirty telephones were Douglas reported the worst storm since the winter of 1909-10. The waterfront was swept continually by spray that froze as soon as it struck, spreading a covering of ice over boats and docks. Damage to the buildings on The Pacific Coast warehouse Both buildings were President Harding informed Congress that he believed a sales tax the only feasible method of raising funds for the soldiers’ bonus. Filings up to noon for the Territorial Legislature from Juneau were: For the Senate: Frank A. Aldrich and the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, both for the House: H. R. Shepard, Republican, and Jack Mc- is in a rule that promises extreme ponald, Democrat. activity in conflict. There is a| sign that promises wise vision for Sam FPeldon, proprietor of the Capital Coffce House, which he our naval and military leaders as well as our Commander in Chief. HE4RT AND HOME: Full com-| prehension regarding the meaning )f the World War to American wo- nen will come slowly although here will be excitement and tense | activity among those who lend aid | in practical tasks, Within a fort-| night it is probable that numbers of girls who have been trained in technical tasks will be swelling the canks of factory workers many will be ready for agricultural jobs. The stars presage a late! spring. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: je expected although national)| | he expected to locate. Dave Housel, agent, recently closed, left on the Princess Mary on his way to Victoria where The mail and passenger boat Estebeth was not to leave Juneau on the regular trip to Sitka unless the weather moderated, according to Many unusual and attractive costumes were worn at the masquerade Valentine Dance given by the members of the Mooseheart Legion at the | Moose Hall. | received the second. Miss Anita Amon was warded the prize for the best woman’s cestume and Mrs Selma Jacobsen was given second while George Jorgen- while | son was given the prize for the most original costume and Otto Wicklandm-I | The office of City Clerk was taken over by A. E. Gurr who was Minor|elected to the position by the City Council at its previous meeting to slumps in the security markets may | nepjace A. B. Cole, who had resigned. Formal transfer of the office was postponed until Mr. Cole recovered from an attack of grippe. Rambeau was appearing in “The finances will be under promising | gl :‘fl"i::;‘;'“:m‘(’l{’; Billie Burke was playing at the Coliseum %n “The Prisky Mrs, John- timism which is sus er | gy Sl R all circumstances, may be ill-ad-| F:'“( 'l“‘;‘.;’l:.ra“' Ealion, Mapoxie vised next month when certain ob- | Ortne Terer stacles to enterprise will Losses through floods are prophe- sied, The Mississippi, also Amazon and the Yangtse-Kiang, wre likely to overflow, causing great jamage. An earthquake in the West Indies is forecast NATIONAL ISSUES: Defence slans will be criticised as daily tests »f practical value are made. Em- shasic upen military direction of |all United States methods for the protection of inhabitants will be made as the possibilities of attack by enemies are discussed. Danger | in amateur methods of protecting :ities and coastlines will be appar- ent as overlapping organizatio: the highest effic ency. After weeks in which the na- tion has been at war there will be still many persons who fail to real -‘ ize the real perils that menace our vast country. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: The fact that Hitler's mllnmy leaders failed to adhere to astrolo- ' gical advice before attacking Rus- | isia is discussed with interestamong | cccultists who declare that previous | Nazi victories were due to strict guidance by the stars. It is prop- hesied that the Fuehrer will “meet many reverses with now and then| success. His death before | the end of the war has been per- | sistently prognosticated. Certain de- feat is forecast for Germany. ‘, Persons whose birthdate it is| have the augury of a year of good | fortune in which certain men will| gain fame for heroism. [ Children born on this day prob- | ably will be successful all through; their lives. Travel and change will! aid them in professional careers. (Copyright, 1942) | been promised a job as assistant to Harry Hopkins handling lend- - Great an actor as he is, it is doubtful whether Mr. Douglas knows much about the vi tal problem of shipping artillery, airplanes, shells, bombsights, and tanks to the armles of Russia, Bri- | tain and China. Merrno(r:m‘ Japanese sour pusses in the Far East won't be| affected by glamor-pusses in Wash- ington. . (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) Valentine Tea s Charming Affair Scores of Juneau women enjoyed the Valentine Tea given on Satur- day afternoon by the Senior Trin- ity Guild members at Trinity Hall on Fourth and Gold streets, The hall was gaily decorated with streamers of red hearts and the ' lace-covered tea tables were lighted with red candles, giving a festive air to the affair. _For, a number of years the Val- entine Tea given by the Guild has peen an annual function which, is greatly looked forward to as a charmihg observance of St. Valen- tine’s Day. That of ‘this year was the success it has always been. De- the | develop. | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, DOESN'T happen often.” Say, “It (singular) DON'T happen often.” CFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Duly. not as OO in TOOL. Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corbon et i i) “It don’t happen often.” “Such things (plural) Pronounce the U as in UNIT, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cedar (tree; DAR, not DER. SYNONYMS: Pride, conceit, vanity, self-esteem, self-exaltation. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: to prepare by combining ingredients; both O's as in OF, accent last syllable). | CONCOCT; (Pronounce kon-kokt, concocted a very delicious salad.” Let us to invent; make up. “She | MODERN ETIQUETTE * woprra ree Q. Is it obligatory to give tips? A. It is not obligatory, but is Q. Is “Sincerely yours” SUSRPPVSNY so customary that one cannot avoid it a correct closing for a business letter to a person with whom one is not acquainted? A. Yes. Q. What kind of a hat should a woman wear while she is traveling? A. A small, plain hat is perferable. 1. What is an acute angle? 2. Which has been determined to the worst month in the year for I nose, throat, and lung diseases? 3. Congress after his administration? 4. What is aviculture? ANSWERS: January. John Quincy Adams. Sir Walter Scott. Who was the only President of the United States to serve in Who wrote “The Lady of the Last Minstrel”? An angle containing less than ninety degrees. The rearing and care of birds. LOOK and LEARN GORDON 'AUK BAY WOMEN - WILL CULTIVATE VICTORY GARDENS Plans are now bheing made under the direction of Mrs. Ella Smith for a large group of Victory Gar- {dens to be located at Auk Bay Vil- {lage and to be cultivated by the | women there. The Forest Service now is fenc- ing the garden, which will contain enough plots for 20 families and when the work is begun next sum- mer, the Office of Indian Affairs will furnish transportation for the | women, to and from the gardens. Each family will have its own garden and will furnish the seed. The project is in line with the re- cent request of Claude Wickard, Agriculture Department secretary, who has encouraged the use of Victory Gardens as a means of in- creasing the nation's food supply. Thére are 800,000 acres of vir- gin timber in the Gila Wilderness Area in New Mexico. ' During - most of world history the cllmate /has been milder and less varied than at present. o ligious sandwiches, = cookies and KEN f S /BROI LENSES cakes were served with both tea Are promptly replaced in our own and corfvie. i ¥ shop. Dr.. Rae Lillian Carlson LOLA’S BEAUTY SHOP Will be closed until March 10, 1942. i —gdv. —————— % NOTICE A AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. Blomgren Building. ady NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION In the United States Commissioner’s Court for Precinct of Juneau, Di- vision Number One, Territory of Alaska. In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of OSCAR S. OSBORNE, Deceased., NOTICE is hereby given that Wil- lie Russel Osborne has filed in this court his ‘petition. for letters of ad- ministration upon the estate of Oscar S. Osborne, deceased, praying that said estate be administered as a large, insolvent, Indian estate con- sisting only of a gas-screw vessel and with Indian relative adminis- trator, and that the same will be heard on the 10th day of March, 1942, at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the court-room of said court at room 513, Federal Bldg., Juneau, Alaska; and all persons, in- terested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted. Assets of estate consist only of gas-screw. COLUMBIA, of- fictal number 223,320, of 7 gross tons burthen, of $1,778.95 value. Dated at Juneau, Aloska, this Sth day of February, 1942. FELIX GRAY, U.,S. Commissioner and ex- officio Probate Judge. (Probate Seal). FELIX GRAY, Publication dates: February 9 to 18 inclusive, 1942. Subscribe to the gluryl M E!nplre—-thg )wper with the larges paid circulation. Ay MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Drs. 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