The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dady Alaska Empife Published every evening except Sunday by be EMFPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Vice-President and Buain Eotered in the Post Office in June o BUBS! ION | vere the shortage may become. It is officially esti- mated by the War Production Board that it takes 118 ‘men in industry and transportation and the pro- duction of food and raw materials to equip and maintain one man in the armed forces of the United President | gtates It has been stated officially by Secretary Mansger | — | s au nd Class Matter. | or (he United States Army by next December ‘is Dplivered by carrier in Junesu and Douslas for $1.85 per menth. ' 3,600,000, 'and it is expected that this figure will be y mail, postage paid, at the following rates: |5 i s bk Oue year, in ndvance, $13.00; six months, in sdvance, 36.00; |sOMewhat higher. A conservative estimate of the one month, in advance, $1.25. L 4 Mu,m"":m Center s favor It they will promptly notigy (S1%¢ Of all branches of the armed service for next the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity fn the livery of their papers. “Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 3%4. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATRD PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for Teputlication of all news dispatches credited to it of not other- :m credited in this paper and also the local news .published erein. 5,000,000. ‘When you multiply either of these figures by the 18 men needed at home, you can see what effect it will havé on a labor supply. The total number of | laborers that may be available would probably not |reach more than 55,000,000. A conservative estimate of the number of men that may eventually be called into service might reach 8,000,000. Thus it would | take more than 100,000,000 laborers to maintain that large an army. But it is not impossible that such a Jarge armed | force could be maintained. . Qur scientists and ex- perts are working now on machines that will cut ALASKA GIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER ‘THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspavers, 101 American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. has passed For example: an eastern United States gun fac- Itory a few months ago had a machine whieh took lan hour and three-quarters to rifle the gun barrels lon each side. A new machine has been designed |and built which now is being used to do the same {job in seven and a half minutes. Until recently, the diamond dies used in industry had a hole bored through them by hand. Now it is being done by a {machine which a man can be trained to run in four |months. It used to take years of training to traip a man to do the job by hand. After the furore which “pensions for Congresss | It is probable that the 18 to 1 ratio will be cut men” caused, an economical attitude has been shown!down to 8 to 1, and in the very near future. recently by Congress on at least two occasions. | The first example lay in the reluctance of Con- | gress to vote $300,000,000 for Federal assistance to| persons deprived of work during the transition of | (Philadelphia Record) industry and business from a to a war| Senator David I, Walsh, Massachusetts Demo- footing. | crat, and Senator Hiram W. Johnson, California Re- The second instance came when the House voted | Publican, made a disgraceful exhibition of them- against a bill to authorize a Federal public v\'orks;*cm'S in the Senate recently. : program immediately following the war to "cuahlonlmp Sv::::"(r:o‘;:?m‘m demanded better protection for i H.mfl.( (,)I fh.(' ,O".(“?m of #Br écmmc‘s Senator Walsh demanded better protection for Many state Governcrs and others objected to the involvement of the Federal Government in the field | ¢, East Coast. and sald that the day might come @ | when we would have to call our Navy back to pro- of unemployment insurance, on the ground that "‘,tcct our shores. The unpleasantness of the spectacle does not lie EFFECT NOTED Danger: Men Talking peacetime was unnec; y and an unwarranted invasion of | The objection on the'latter score was|so much in two former isolationists now, yeliing for given some weight by the obvious desire of the na~! protection. tional government, last fall, to bring about a feder- | It is the danger that Senatorial pressure may alization of the state unemployment insurance sys- force our Army and Navy to weaken their offensive tems (and the sizable reserve funds which have ag-| PQWer by, supplying the demapd for protection. cried in Obio and many other states.) © | . The classic example of this occurred during the However, the moment, it was even more tojSPanish-American War. Because of public hysteria, the point when the states protested that they md\capital ships were stationed off the East Ccast to not need Federal aid. This may not prove to be BuArd against fear of a Spanish (vesipg. L Her But if it is clearly demonstrated that the tid- | a1l were replaced by fast, Ught scouting craft | that were badly needed by our Navy engaged in state rights true mv’ over of workers between peace and war jobs smashing the Spanish fleet in Cuba. is beyond the abilities of the states, a plan of Fed- | We can't win this war hy staying*on the defen- eral aid can be arrived at later. Certainly it fs bet- | sjve. We can't take the offensive if we yield to ter this way than to assume Federal aid is needed,| clamor by Congressmen or the public in general for and vote it, when such is not the case, 1uiumcessmgv protection at home. The proposed post-war public works program is! Our Army and Navy must be free to use their another. undertaking that can well wait for actual| utmost strength in striking at the enemy wherever demonstration of need. If events prove its neces-{he is. We don't want a futile Maginot Line along sity, it can be approved later. But the war will cost|OQur coasts. encugh anvhow, without voting expenditures which might beccme mere excess baggage. All the English-language dailles in the country ’lqst year numbered a couple dozen short of an even | Lwo thousand, according to the new edition of the Ayer Directory. Their average daily circulation, as | stated above, was about 42,500,000. The afternoon Recently, the Office of Production Management | Papers are four times as numerous as the morning Associate Director General Sidney Hillman declared , Papers and have three-fifths the circulation.. that America’s present force of war workers must be This is the American people’s information agency doubled or trebled to fulfill the new production pro-|OF Office or adminjstration to keep in mind when gram for victory. What he predicted was the big-| Ve ¢ iholiged Lo become .lao ¥pNSpPY Yer the way gest labor shortage the United States has ever had.| TMOYmation is being handled by Washipgton infor- That a shortage is looming for the immed.l&felmfluon ageqcles .or . olfiege o AgmpptTAYoNs - oF future is plain. By late summer or fall, it will begin | to be felt. Six montns later than that, the un- | avoidable movement of men and women from their normal pursuits to direct war activity is plainly in sight. It takes only simple arithmetic to see how se- fiashénglon : Merry- Go-Round L (Continued 1rom Page One) - ANOTHER PROBLEM bureaus, | A Missoyri farm boy drove a hundred miles rath- | er than write a letter to the Civil Aviation Authority |in Kansas City. Many a professional writer sitting j down in the morning to the daily grind would have chosen - the 100-mile ride too. £ | there is grave doubt regarding the doctors and all this medicine,” said accuracy of Jesse Jones' estimates his friend. “You know that the | on synthetic rubber. Real fact is more doctors you have the more | that Jesse has given three differ- this whole thing gets on your ent sets of figures. At first he nerves. Now there’s only one doc- grandiloguently announced he would tor who really knew what ailed have 400,000 tons of rubber “pro- You, and that’s Andy Rivers out at duction” by June 1943. Then ap-|{Maye’s in Rochester. Why don't pearing privately before the Tru-}yflu have Dr. Rivers come east iu;d per gent more rubber last year, the | man Committee, he was much more | 8et you fixed up?” Bjg Four also got 90,000 tons of modest and merely promised 400,000 Harry Hopkins acted on his old rubber out of the 145900 tons im- tong by December, 1043—six months | {riend’s advice, sent for Dr. Rivers, ported since Pearl Harbor. The gt Then, a few. days afferward, |2nd now is out of the hospital, Truman Committee wants to 45+ he reduced h.iS estimate once again,| He says he has [n{gou,exi about certaln whother' this went' strictly | tellins the Hoyse Appropriations |medicive and doctors, and feels fer war orders Committee he would have 500,000 |beiter than he has in months. Fur- tons of “productive’ capaéity” by |thermare, Dr. Rivers has told him ,Jan. 1, 1944. 8 . | that without any_ guestion he can | . “Productive capacity” is a lot dif- FéCOVer entirely. When Leon Henderson and Bill|ferent from “production”. E‘?oduc-i’ (Copyright, 1942, by United Batt of the War Production Boayd |tive capacity, merely means that Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ———— came before the Truman Comunit-|the machines are ready to start NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN: THE TAKE Lee recently they gave estimates of |operating., Thus we face a gap dur- all the rubber they expected to|ing the year 1943 with virtually no|That Ella Bock Johns dminis- scrape together from different parts | rubber added to the stockpile ex-|tratrix of the estate ofm:m:on Pet- of the world until such time as|cept what we. can get from the | erson, deceased, has filed her final Jesse Jones' slow-moying synthetic | Wild rubber forests of Brazil. This |account and report of her adminis- rubber program could swing into May be all right for the clvilian | tration of said estate, and her pe- action | population which already is form-|tion for distribution (I:I the residue Included in these estimates were|ing “Jesse Jones Walking Clubs”, | thereof, in the United States Com-. 100,000 tons of rubber from Cey-|but for the war machine'st i ad-| missioner's Court for Juneau Pre. Jon. | other story. | i g % | |cinct, at Juneau, Alaska; that 10 ‘What!” exclaimed Senator Brew- | |c'clock am. on May 15, 1942, has ster of Maine who has been the|wyay TyE DOCTOR ORDERED | Deen fixed as the time and ffi:;m_ a:)))m;:l f;_:fa\sf: Mf:‘; cx?:‘-’]; The other day Harry Hopkins had iComfnlssloner’s Court the place for 1y that on your bool;.s7 I—mven't"i ARGH 1. ik poion . Aubre”h“m ;A bt AL 0E you read the‘ morning )‘)apflrs?" { Yalilismg, @end 9‘ the Nauonal}s‘ms intezested mflm & hereby T s e o s NG Youth Administration, who has been | Potified to appear at said time and fus 4 |one of his closest friends for many |Place and file their objectiops, if mony, the Truman Committee |y |any, to said final account and pe- found that if the Japanese take|™ - tition for ~settlement and _distri- Ceylon, as they are expected to do,| HATY" :oom mlull:";;{w;?:;flb"mn thorect ! the U.8.A. will be 500,000 tons of |© | . rubber short in 1043 for military PIAL “hOW many bottles of medi-| WA Juncau, Ajaska, March 10, cine have you got there?” | 1983 purposes. And this does not allow a single ton of rubber for civilian use. It does not even allow rub- ber for the tires of defense work- ers, some of whom will be living in new defense housing projects built ten miles from factories “be- —ELLA BOCK JOHNSON, “About eignteen,” replied Administrateix lend-lease administrator “About eighteen too many,” com- | hat! mented the National Youth Ad-:fu:e::fk MB;L':‘"S' ministrator. “And how many doc- | # ' " : iy | Attorney. for: Administratrix. fors have you:gett March 10, 17, 24, 31 cause the air is better.” Hopkins told him. | il s PN JESSE JONES’ SYNTHETIC “Well, Harry, what's the use of Also the Truman Committec finds vour fooling around with all these BUY DEFENSE STAMPS I i the | |Howard D. Stabler, of War Henry Stimson that the goal for the strength! year would be more than 4000000 and perhaps! |the 18 to 1 ratio considerably before much more time | 881 {casunity districts are THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs. C. J. Bergstrom Victor Rue Maydelle George Lucy H. Sinclair Beatrice Geurin Doris Balog Mrs. Robert F. Smith * R. F. Adamson Y | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but da not compel” WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 Adverse planetary aspects are ac- | tive today but the malefic influ- |ences are not intense. Disappoint- ing news is indicated. It is not a date favorable for either land or air forces. HEART AND HOME: Marriages will continue to be more numgr- ous than jn pre-war years and ap unprecedented birth rate is prog- nosticated. Thus will be provided ia generation which must meet tre- | mendous social proklems and heavy |pational depts. Astrologers Wwho have predicted much illness for this springtime again urge young women to prepave for service as nurses. Nursing homes for convalescent will be needed for both soldiers and civ- lilians. New lines of public ser- vice will develop each week ‘or American housewives, BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Reports of great profits and commissions realized by the big manufacturing concerns will stir resentment among | taxpayers and contimue to inspire among workers a desire to share proportionately in the millions spent by the Federal Government. Lab- lor difficulties will smoulder 4n many | h)laccs and in a few centers will| icause strikes of short duration, or threats of strikes which will not i { | |take place. Trade will continc | | good. i | NATIONAL ISSUES: Differing| {points of view regarding the war status of aliens or receptly natur- {alized citizens will be widely dis- |cussed. In Washington liberal 1trends will afford opportunities for | the employment of persons whose loyalty may be gquestionable. Ac- cording to the stars espionage will {reach a new height of efficiency.| {Treachery in the most unexpected | places is forecast. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR Peace overtures from Japan may be_expected by the end of the Sum- | {mer when the power of the United | States has begun to bring devastat- | ing defeats and widespread destruc- | ition, These will gain some sym- pathy among Amercans who have | suffered severely because of the, |war, but there wil be no general] |SupPOFt of any premature cessa- !tion of bhostilities. !Through pre- war appeasement pojicies of Uncle | m the hetrayal of our nation | |was pgssible and complete victory | !must be_attained, astrologers de- | | clare. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of extraor- |dinary gooed luck. Changes are in- |dicated and pew associations will | {8 Ao tunage. Children born on this day may be temperamental and difficult o} direct but they have the possibili- ties of great success. Varied tal-| ents helopg in these Pisces natives. (Copyright, 1942) e (ITY CASUALTY CHIEFS MEET 10 PERFECT GROUPS 'Air Raid Wardens Will Be | Asked fo Do First Aid Assistance Also Chiefs of the casualty divisions of the clg:‘;pl Jung _:": C‘“fl“‘ln De- fense ‘Board met last night i, Ciby. Hall with Holger Larsen ‘prec'.lé i Reports .were given by each e on the progress of his group and a list of the air raid wardens-in_the city was given to members so that before the next meeting, casualty ‘héads may meet with the air raid wardens to fuse the two o tions into a cooperative setup. It was agreed that air raid war- dens may do first aid work in co-| n?eratlnn with the casualty stations in thelr zones and chiefs of the asked to..dls- 8:1 } | sent the first aid group on the Giv- ilian Defense Board. [During the evening, discussign and practice of casualty work was, |carried on. . A motion was made to assist resi- dents outside the Juneau area who wish to organize thejr own groups and acquire Red Cross materials.. Before the next meeting of the casualty chiefs, £o. be held on Mopn- Fmpire Classifieds Pay! "“ 3 EAL, ALAGA 20 YEARS AGO%"}?E EMPIRE MARCH 10, 1922 Secretary of State Charles E. ‘Hughes refused 'to comment on a Paris dispatch that the United States demanded a portion of the German reparations payment for occupation of the Rhineland. THe dispatch from Paris had stated the U. S. demanded $241,000,000 for its expenses and to be paid any other reparations'were settied. d Dirsctory MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. R. W COWLING, Wor~ shiptl Master; JAMES W. LEIV- Drs. Kaser and - Freeburger Blrmgren PHONE 60 E. A Rasmuson, President of the Bank of 'Alaska, mt Skagway, had left the previous night on the gasbpalt Sitka for the 'Lynn Canal port. He had been to the Westward on business for a/month. 9 PIGGLY WIGGLY H. L. Faulkner, Juneau attorney, :addr'e,sspd the Juneau Commercjal Association at its weekly meeting and gave a brief review of his recent Dr. A. W. Stewart trip to the Eastern States. Others who spoke briefly at the meeting DENTIST For BETTER Groceries were William E. Britt, Allen Shattuck and M. S. Whittier. It was reported 20TH F that W. S. Pullen, of the Advertising Committee, was drawing up a y OENTURY BUILDING Phone 16—24 pamphlet to promote" local tourist trade and many 'communications Office Phone 409 — were read. “The Roxall Store” John Dodson, rancher at Eagle River, had purchased material for a building from John Reck and ‘took the first load on the Sunta Rita, Capt. Billy Dickinson. One more trip was to be nccessary before the transportation was completed. Mrs. Charles H. Flory, who had'been suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia, was entirely out of danger and her health 'splendidly improving. - TIDE CALENDARS FREE l!_m—‘ Race, Druggist | “The Wearin’ of the Green” was to be jazzed to the heart of every Irishman and lys friend at the annual St. Patrick’s Day dance to bg given by the Elks’ Club March 17. Ed Drake's orchestra was to furnish the music. Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST oo e ey e Hours: 9 'am. t08 pm, Five men who left Juneau to work at the Gypsum Mining Company at Gypsum were Roy McDonald, F. S. Laughiin, (E. Oksanes, Herman Geil and Gilbert Voss. Bl o \ Boys of the Juneau High School basketball lnm:\ left the harbor the previous evenihg on the gasboat Judge to begin b tour of Southeast Alaska. They were to play Wrangell, Ketchikan ang Metlakatla. Coach Hughes, James McNayghton, President of the Asw:i::l‘l Students of the High School, and H. Sperling, as Juneau’s referee, a ? panied the team. SABIN°S Front St—Triangle Bldg. 3 s Youll Food THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP — RN i Mrs. George L. Johnson, of Douglas, was having her household goods packed, preparatory to leaving on the Alameda for (Anchorage where she was to join her husband, who had opened a' photograph shop there. | The double bungalow apartments on the Basiq Road, known as the DeVighne Apartments, were totally destroyed by fire early in the morn- ihg. The cause of the fire was the explosion of a|gasoline torch in the hands of A. M. Claire, contractor, caused by the prpaking of a small pipe connecting the can with the flame of the torch. 'Quick action by the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department was successful | in saving adjoining buildings. FINE Watoch and Jeweiry Repairing st very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN | 8. FRANKLIN STREET | RCA Vicior Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Btreet Phone 65 Weather was cloudy with probably rain or snow. Maximum tem- perature was 85 and minimum 29. Daily Lessons in English % L. coron H. W. L. ALBRECHT Physical Therapeutics Heat and Light Treatments Massage and Corrective Exerclses WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The growth of the city has been phenomenal” Say, “has been EXTRAORDINARY (or RE- MARKABLE.” PHENOMENAL, in its strict sense, is a philosophical | L2RoRe 773 Valoutine BUg || — 9 g : : INSURANCE OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Forecaster. Accent second syllable, not ¢ the first. n HE 2P S OFTEN MISSPELLED: Omelet; two E’s, not OMLET: J A s c- COOPER SYNONYMS: Defeat (verb), subdue, conquer, vanquish, overcome. C.P.A | Shaflllck Ageflcy 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: MOIETY; one of two equal parts; a half. ((Pronounve moi-e-ti, OI as in TOIL, E as in END, final I gs in IT, accent first syllable.) “There was a molety’ of clever sarcasm in his speech.” MODERN ETIQUETTE ™ romerra wee Q. Should the tissue paper that is placed on engraved invitations be removed before sending them? A. Yes, unless the ink smudges. Q. When two men and two women are together, what is the order'in which they should enter a restaurant? A. The women hoth enter first, and are followed by the men, and in this order they follow the head waiter to their table. The women also precede when departing from the restaurant. Q. 1Is it all right for a spectator at some sports event to chew gum? A. Yes, but this should be-done in‘an inconspicuous manner. L0OK 'a,fldA l-.‘EA_.RVN'.K“f C. GORDON What is the other name for the Northern Lights? What does the word “episcopal” mean? ™ What was the most famous book gn fishing ever written? By what are the bones of the pody connected? From what country did the Upited States buy the territory includ- he Louisiana Purchase? i bovanhd CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 | i " High Quality Foods at I Moderate Prices 14 s WHITE eor NASH CARS I ‘ { t) 1zagk Walton's “Fhe Compleat Angler,” published in 1653. France. * O 00i 00, ATTENTION EASTERN STAR N ' AND RAINBOW GIRLS AIRMAILL E [ Juneau Chapter No. 7 meets aff’ route trom . ¥ Tuesday, March 10, at 8 pxa.|%8l6 8¢ J7B. Burford & Co. sharp. Initiatory work exempli- B s T fied by Rainbow Girls. Refresh- ments. and M(idem;;e Y%mp Bfinflfl.fl —ALICE BROWN, Secty. e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS- CAPITAL—-$50,000 SURPLUS—$150,000 ! COMMERCIAL AND