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PACLE FOUR " Daily Alaska Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING OOMPANY Second and Matn Streets, Junenu; ‘Alaska." - HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Vice-President ® failed to garner Empire . can_and Filipino Aguinaldo’s politi “Pré, and Business Manager Bhitered in the e .}'{’.‘%‘..‘.'-d.‘;:“ n;::: I&dfll the I.ll%' #ix months, in Rdvancs, $4.00; Delivered :r earrier in Joneau an ly mail, bostake pal ©One yéar, in advance, $13. ohe month, in advance, $1.25, Subscribers will confer & favor if tl Whé Business Office of An¥y failure or livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 802 ; Business Office, 374, (A vor ‘nAL | théy are resolved | this is 11l promptly notity | lerity in the de- |living. beréin. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is ‘exclusively entitled to reputlfcation of all news dispatches credited to it or mot othidre wise credited in this paper and also the local news published the use for According to ALABEA CTRCULATION OUA THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER TO BR PUBLICATION. LARGER automobiles NATIONAL REPRESFNTATIVES — Alacks Newsoapers, 1011 Amertcan Bullding, Seattle, Wash. occurred ih 1041 mobile accidents | During the last | evidently a carn The explanat recklessness and | and [ 1941's bad showir | since many of o already Have made their choice in this to continue to enough votes to rattle the ballot 1t would be a great disservice to both the Ameri- people_ to put too much stress on cal somersault. He, like other pro- Nt | Japanese Filipinos, is in the minority. | The Filipinos as a whole are resolved to do one Olass MatWr. | thing: In the words of Commissioner J. M. Elizalde, | “tq prefer death to slavery.” They ruggle, and live the Ameri way of WORSE THAN W-AR the 1942 yearbook of the Travelers Insurance Company, 40,000 Americans were Killed, almost 1,500,000 were ihjured ahd more than 1,000,000 were damaged in road accidents that Despite the warnings that have been sounded in the press, last year's record of auto- and fatalities was the worst ever. World War about 50,000 Americans | were killed in pattle and died of wounds. There is age of peace ds well as of war. ion of these appalling statistics is inexperience, Drivers between 18 24 yedars of age were partly responsible for ng. The conclusion is obvious that ur young men will be drafted into thr Army 1942 ought to be less sanguinary. The ra- tioning of tires ! effect. | sliver, yet | seen ways. MORE THAN HA The recent stress laid on the development of the Boy Scout program in Juneau and munities hints that this organization will come in|BSpring. Nine agencies will spend the money. NDY other Alaska com-|duct a $7,000,000 and sparé parts will also have its The clouds of war may not be lined with they shed a very faint glow in unfore- GIFT FOR CHINA United Chind Relief annoutices that it will con-| tional fund-raising campaign this Much more than handy, if and when Alaska feels the im-iof it avill go for medical supplies, of which there have "nl‘vcr been enough in China—.ever enotigh for prop- pact of enemy bombs Even in far-away Hawaii the Scouts proved |er care of the sick and wounded, never enotgh anti- | A their worth after the Japs' knife-in-the-back attack |Septics to save lives or anesthetics to relieve agony. oh Pearl Hatbor. Details of Scout. servict e in the ' Some will go for clvilian rehabilitation, which is not Hawaiian theatre of war are not available because @ small task in a land where refugees are counted of military censorship, but enough is ktiown of tHeir Py the tens of millions. The whole is a pittance for work to give a general picture, Here are a few of the services performed rrnm] December 7 to December 17 by Sc a country of nea outs of Hawaii: rly 450,000,000 people. This gift is for purposes quite distinct from the Luovcrnmenlak loan of $500,000,000 which the United First Aid station at Scout Headquarters manned States is making to the Chinese National Govern- by Boy Scouts; 40 Scouts and leaders were rushed to | ment. With $300,000000 from Britain the total of the scene of bombardment at Lunalilo School and|thls loaned money is still small change for the kihd the business section of McCully and King Streets to|Of War China is carrying on. Even so it cannot be Sabotage are forechst. rescue, fight fires, do guard duty; 14 Sea Scouts|used directly for military and civilian relief. A Bift, served with police during the bombing and gunning €ven a relatively small one, will mean much to the of the Kaneohe area; Honolulu police turned over Scouts; messengers for various official agencies; 58 air raid sirens to Boy many served as, Pear] City Spect and Honor Scouts helped evacuation by carrying people to the hills to escape bombing. These aré just a few of the duties which the| Scouts performed. All of which there can't be too much stress laid of developing the activities of America in the Territory, OLD MAN A well-written dispatch from the Office of the Philippine sioner in Washington, D. C., Americans have laid too much lowing. Aguinaldo, you will remembet, Quisling and “sold out” his political following to the | His political following, it is pointed out, con- sists of not more than 5 per cent of the entire Japs. Philippine population Aguinaldo is an old man whose only claim to fame is that he hates everything American, and that | the Boy Bceouts received here recently indicates that some stress on the im- portance of General Emilio Aguinalde’s political fol- suffering Chinese people. else can, that we are their friends and that we re- them for what they have done. | Women at Work should prove that | on the impottance ' of tears of compassi Resident Commis- using her. shops. turned Philippine (Bremertoh-News Séarchlight) | In days dgone the pldér generation shed €OpIous | gye foretold, however, for the moth- ion fot the poor “woiking goil”, be- loved of melodrama. Bit no more. This is a new-\'nghung for freedom, Demand for | er day and national defense has created a wmnr{eq“,, rights as citizens will be tard- scope for her erergies. She need not yearn for do- |j)y heeded by Congress which will | mestic service, If she has no yen for the career of!,.émm'e present handicaps and en-[ a stenographer, she has other openings for the ap- plication of her nimble fingers. in the ranks of skilled labor and the Navy Yard is|the period of conflict billiant ser- | She is a competitor There are now many feminine mechanical help- ers and trainees amiotig the artisans at work In the| [NTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: & Score of 23 to32. Thé girls receive good pay and they relish g the work as a novelty. making godd afd, lke her sisters in the British | presage’ titatite confhiet for the . munition plants, Bremertoh and other girls over splendid fighters who will cominuc‘ America aré fiow on the mechanieal payrolis. are rated by the civil service und labor Board and’| Bhop bosses say they are They the educatiorial tést is not ekactirig, like that of 6f: fice work Adaptabllity, an aptitude and a 1KING | gelf as meh i udifotm are to be for the work, with good health, is about all that It will say, as nothing| | is needed. 'Hence the new girl trainee jobs in the he once led a revolt against Spain. Navy Yard' are winning high f n favor., As a politician, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs. R M, Burns A. L. Dahl Charles . Switzer D. F. Millard Hazel Petrich Phillip Bertholl Hughie Doogan B. F. Hempelfnann S eee HOROSCOPE “The stars inclive but do mot compel” Py | 20 YEARS AGO I curire MARCH 11, 1922 Gov. Scott C. Bone accepted an invitation to be the guest of honor |at a banquet to be held by the Alaska Soéiety of Portland in that city. Gov. Bone planried to visit Portland on his return trip from Washington some time after March 20. | NP A ) | Dr, 8. Hall Young, Superinténdent of Presbyterian. Missions in ’Alnskn, was to start a summer of travel by leaving on Monday for Haines. He was to Visit also at the Presbytery at Metlakatla and from there go to the Westward ahd Interior. The Needlécraft Shop was being renovateéd and was to be opened for business soon, after having been purchased by Mrs. Ardell Cleveland. {The shop had béen closed since the death of its former owner, Miss C. E. Walgreen. Miss Dorothy Chaffee, violinist, was expected to arrive in Juneau l'on the Princess Mary to become leader of Ed Drake’s Orchestra now furn- ishing ddance mtisic for many occasions. Benefic. aspects dominate today e i which is promising to men in au-!{ B. F. Heintzleman, District Logging Engincer, U. S. Forest Service, | thority. Statesmen and war lead- |yas to leave On the Princess Maty fof 4 six weeks' business trip to the ers should benefit. Employers are|giqtss, While south, Mr Heintzleman was to mect with the logging under a configuration fortunate for |angineers of the Portland district and also with the Forest Service relations with labor. | ctficials. HEART AND HOME: Letters | bearing good news may be numer- THURSDAY, MARCH' 12 T\ . $ i ti hick L. J. Wilhelm, commander of the local radio station, had beeh ous under this comtigurasion WA |transferred to radio duty with the Pacific Fleet. Mr. Wilhelm, who Akinylageh - GHCENE | with his wife and two children had resided in Juneau for the past year g ise. Women will be - l?j:,;:::;m‘:n cfistincuy pramcal!"”“' one half, was to reside in Long Beach, California. ;fi:fi:m‘xlud:;:,pp:;‘o:ee;?;fim m;o\ Mrs. P. L. Coleman and Mrs. G. E Cleveland had been hostesses at fairly succéssful and fashion showq!b“dgfi parties at home during the weeg. poplilar. Gay Sprihg costufnes will) — : be in demand as pléasatit cun-l The Alaska Steamship Company vessel Jefferson was to be back in trasts to the ' unifortis Worn by |the service to Boutheast Alaska ports the latter part of the month. The many womeh. The feminine nutefi.!elfersah had béen laid up sitce last September. The Alamedd, which will be emphdsizéd in homé decor- |had also beeh wndergoing repairs, was to be back on the Southeast and ations as well as in clothing. Col- |Southwestern route. or will have a special significahee. | o BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Finan-| The juheal Commercial Associgtion, at the request of the North- iciers who watch the necessary |western Chambeér of Commerce of Nome, Had taken up the movemetit | changes in monetary systems Will |ty decrense telegraphic rates for commercial organizdtions in the Ter- | be interested in post-war ECONOM-|,jtory This would mean that night lettér rates would not exceed the |ics and important conferences Will|eyiciin, pyess rates over the Giovernment cables and telegraph lines for disclose ramifications of the Ni-,op0i0) huginess of the business men's organizations in the Territory. tional debt which will ihspire futile | st . et i M S i g andl A reception was to be held at the Governor's Mansion for Mrs. Lot w'lllnbea:ctll\:;s:ll :::‘,Z::: |Cornelia Templeton Hatcher, President of the Woman's Christiap Tem- ot Mg ‘A Serions ipe-rnnce Union in Alaska. Mrs. Hatcher was to address the group on the, calamity affecting key industrial Isubject “From Willow Creek to Washington.” plants is prognosticated for a date | F ! | hot far distant—probably in May. | H. L. Faulkner was the proud possessor of a brand new American | NATIONAL ISSUES: 1in con- | League baseball, autographed by the Homé Run King, Babe Ruth. The iy_ms[ to World Wiar I when many | latter presented the ball to Mr. Faulknér while the attorney was visiting | women were prominent in news-|m Washfugton, D. C. | paper accounts of war work, little | mention of distinguished women will be made this first year of | World War II. Great achievements | | the month, In the final playoff at the Blks Club, Lavenik and Cleveland took i top honors in the two-man elimination tournametit. They avereged 319 jplns each game. Runners-up with a final score of 953 as against the wihners' 1009, were Mill and Bavard. ers, wives and sisters of the men s { The decisive game in the basketball champlonship ‘betWeen the Juneau | and Douglas High School girls' tear was to be played. The lineup follows: | Juneau—Lundstrom, Kcskey, Slade, Krugness, Oja, and Messerschmidt; Douglas—Aalto, McCormick, Williams, Garn, Niemala, and Wiitanen. The Juneau High School basketball team lost their game the previous (night to a hard fighting Wrangell team. The game was fast and after | tying the score in the thiddle of the final period, Juneau finally lost by in the Through | able splendid achievement rebuilding of civilization. vice will be retidered by well-or- ghrized groups. Australia will be much' in the head- | 11ines if coming weeks. The stars ‘Weather forecast for‘ Juneau and vieinity: Snow or rain followed by ! clearing. Maximum temperature, 38, minimum 30. |to play a.prominent pdart in the terrible war. The stars show that| the severest ‘tests for clvilians as | Daily Lessons in English %: 1. gorpo & photograph of EStDNER s al expected, but the Allies will accord | WORDS OFTEN. MISUSED: Do, not say, ‘Hefe is Ito them high praise fot their part he's “flop”, according to most Filipinos, During the last political campaign, the “old man from Kawit” gathered his rustie frame together nndi seventh birthday ran for president Washinglon Menry- Go-Round (Confinued from Page One; STl g W ¥ lente of one, New Deal Senator James E. Murray of Montana, who called at the White House to dis- cuss a proposed expansion of public power facilities and the establish- ment of aviation training schools in his State. “What did you think of the broad- cast, Jim?" the President asked. “It was the most effective speech you have ever made, in my opin- jon,” answered Murray. “What you said cleared up a lot of phoney rumors.” “It’s a seriouis problem,” admitted the President. “We've got to nail every whisper that poisons or be- fuddles the public mind about the war—and nail it hard. But we can't lick this problem unless every man, | woman and child in America does against Manuel L. Quezon. He shortage is acute.” | War Production Board offibidls | replied that the shortage was very serious. A few hours ldter Benhator Clyde ;Hrrrmg of lowa phohed to Fraser M. Moffat, Jt., Chief of the Alcohols Unit of the War Production Board, and asked him why, with an acute shortage of aléohol, he, Mofiat, had | vetoed a government loan to the Gulf Distilling Company of New Or- lean, which was ready to improve its plant and turn eut 190 proof alcohol. “We don’t need the aleohol,”! wis 5Mofrnt's amaging reply, “Purther- more, you wouldn't want us to use government funds to establish com- petitors for existing facilities?” CORN BELT VS. BIG BUSINESS As a resuly of this and several other similar conversations, midwest | senators are now accusing Moffat | of being. more interested in “not | establishing competitors for existing. facilities” than he is' in relieving | the serious war shortage of alcohol. Senators Herring and Gillette of Towa and George Norris of Nebraska | Marshal Timoshenko has just celébrated his forty- . The many happy returns began | three months ago in front of Moscow and Rostov. . tion to its stirplus corn prob- lem. This latter possibility is why corn belt sénators are espetially inter- ested. - For years the hig alcohol companies have imported molasses and cane sugar detivities for their alcohol. Coth never hds béen' able to get a permanent peacetime foot- hold. -Even today, with whiskey distiilers gradually becoming idle in the mid- dle west, Moffat was very cold to the idea of using them to relieve the aleohol shortage. The battle is still raging, with midwest senators getting madder evéry day. NOTE: Reason why the eéntire na- | tion is being ratioried on stigar is partly because sugar cane must go for wartime alcohol instead of sugar. (Copyright, 1942, by United Reature Syndicate; Inc.) SHRINE CLUB FORMAL | DANCE SET SATURDAY A formal dance, last in a series of in the fihal victory. Neptuhé’s po- sition in the second house indicates | financial difficulties. | | Persons whose birthdate 1t 1s have | the augury of a year of substan- tial progress in manéy plans as’ well as in public service. Soldiers, | saflors and nirfnen should be for- tunate. | Children born on this day prob- ably wifl be sticcessful ih life. ‘They should havé maghetism which as- | stires friendly help in professional or business ambitions. (Copyright, 1942) [E D. ¥/D. MEETING 4 PR R . The regular monthly meeting of the Douglas Volunteer Fire Depatt- | mént will be held this evening at | the customary hout for the usual business and ‘'social activity. ——————— NOW AT SITKA Latest departure from Douglas 10r work at Sitka was that of L. A. { increasé our vocabulary by masterln,‘g one word each day. Today's word: my residence.” Say, “of my HOME “(or, HOUSE) " 'R right, but tote pretertious. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Incénse. Accent the nouh (a pre- furhe) on first syllable, the verb (to madden) off 1ast syllable, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Peel (to strip 6ff the skin). Peai (to sound tofth). SYNONYMS: Filial, dutitul, sonlike, daughterly. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us REPARTEE; a smart, ready, and witty reply. (Pronoutice rep-er-te, fihal £ as in TEA. principal acent on last syllible). “Cupid was as bad as he; Hear the youngster's reparteé.”—Prior, MODERN ETIQUETTE B sapmiA Lix Q- Would it be all right to i forthal pat| 18 kind duting Lent? T O DGRy ind liing | Directory === Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS PHONE 68 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Oftfice Phone 460 "Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Boap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. O., Bernard Bldg. Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room B ONE 03, Bours: $ am. % ¢ pa. Graduate Los Angeles College _|. of Optometry and Giasses Pitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter Mortuary and Pranklin PHONE 1% H. W. L. ALBRECHT Physical Therapeutics Heat and Light Treatments Massage and Corrective Exercises Phorne 713 Valentine Bldg. — JAMES C. COOPE C.P. A i } OOOPER BUILDING L. €. Bmith and Cevrens TYPEWRITERS Bold and Serviced by 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~ shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVe ERS, Secretary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO " TIDE CALENDARS FREE Harry Race, Druggist * ~¥ “The Stere for Men®” SABIN’S Front ‘St.<Triatiglé Ridg. 23 Finer and Complete a$ T THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP C——————— FINE i Ty PAUL BLOEDHORN ‘ B. FRANKLIN STREET 5 £ B | RCA Vicior Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody H Next to Truesdell Gun Second Street Phone 6 I INSURANCE | Shattuck Agency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Marked 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices “Our d A. Whlle this is sometimés dohe, it 1s:mere cohsiierate not.- to, 0 50. Q. should salted nuts be placed on the luritheon table, or passed atound? p A. They should be pldéed on the table. , Q. What is the proper way to eéxtend sympathy to relatives of the decedsed? A. Either by a petSonal cqll or by note. frrtr oo, LOOK and lEARN 20. GORDON his part.” {all are raging over this situation | The President added that he was | and Noiris has written a vehement convincéd that the general public |Protest direct to Donald Nelson. was waking up to the dangers m"sennlor Norris pofrited out that mcrale and unity inherent in false | Moffat is Vice-President of U. 8. rumors and defeatist whispers. | Industrial Alcohol, one of the big- “Yes,” said Senator Murray, “the | 65t alcohol companies in the U. people are going to begin turning on | S. A. Therefore, Norrls claims, Mof- | Bfatr, which will | Winter parties given by the SHrine | Club for members and inVited | guests, will be held this Saturday | evetiing in the Scottish Rite Temple. | The five-piece orchestra of Lillian { Uggen will furnish music for: the find ‘@ahcing fat has a “direct interest” in alcohol ' UNUErway at 10 o'elock and con- Johnson, who left last Saturday night to join those who preceded him from hy —————————— LEAVES FOR SEATTLE After several weeks' visit with ‘His" brother, L. A. Johiison, Alfred Johih- son left here yésterday to return to Which-ds the Iargest 16land af fhe West indjes? . What are the ndineés of the folir Gospels? What fainbus wotnah i history was called “The Maid of Orleans”? HoW mariy vatieties of flies are there? ANSWERS: When is a pérson's blood-pressure higher, when ' awake or | whisperers who are retarding the | | competition and “should not be al- war effort and interfering with na- | ¥ e tional unity. They are going tn{lv‘::;i?mue’ p‘]’:;&" ':k;f:hbu"d“x:ix up of begin telling the rumor-mongers to | JEEEE Pl i . - would cam- coaperate with you, the Command- | Pete With U. 8. Industrial Alcohol . . == Tas ‘ i | after the war. ;‘:;:;:h‘:“;fi‘m ,Or . else keep thelr| Tae l fasiie in-one of the mant!iine 3 | portant before the country, for two easons: | One of the greatest factors in | bogging down national defense has been the way big com- | panies placed men inside the | Governtent to keep an’ eye | ALCOHOL SHORTAGE Sears Roebuck officials telephoned the War Production Board last week | to ask how serious the alcohol shortage was ahd whether it was | tinuing untfl 1 am. Refreshments will be:served @ut- ing intermission. Lanhce Hendrick- son, President of Shritie Club, is the datice chiairman for the season. R Municipal employees of + Bacras mento, Cal, havé ‘beeén classitied for civilian defemse on the Belief that they would be more valuable for emergency service than pris vately employed voluntebrs, oo b o on competition after the war. Some of these men have been so busy worrying about their | business after the war that | we are not winning the war. | The midwest, if it gets in on | the production of alcohol now, may have a permanent solu- O. K. for them to take 150,000 gal- lons previously ordered for anti-| freeze. | “Since Donald Nelson was once with Sears Roebuck,” they explain- | ed, “we have tolean over backwards | about these things. And we don't want to take the alcohol if the FRANCES HANSEN formerly of the Baranof Beauty ‘Salon’ now at your servicé at /' SIGRID'S his home ih Séattle. Cuba. .[body welcome, ——— l Empire Classifieds Pay) E. CLUB GIRLS TO ENJOY ACTIVITY ‘When awake. Matthéw, Mark, Luke, and John. Joan of Arc. More than 30,000. |P. A treat s in Store for the girls of the Phrlfllal Education Club to- night in the form ‘of a supper with their advisof, Miss Eleanor War+ ren”in Her apartment, to be fol- lowed by a_hike fo Junedu ahd & show at orié of the theatfes for the ! clithax. : . H GOING TQ ANCHORAGE The Daily Alaska Fmpire has the beén at the Baranof Hetel for the |aska newspaper. past two months is planning to leave soon to establish 'her Hotne in_Afiehorage. Mr. Westovet, whb 1s"affiliated with ‘the CAA, has been récently transferred to ‘that city ahd feft Juneau two weeks ago. —————— ST. PATRICK'S DAY TEA ' Auspices Junior Guild, Holy Trin- ity Cathedral, March 14. Every- *Méggeltan - discovered ‘the' Phillps]’ ping islands in 1521. Hé also dis- covered Guam. ** Autler-Mauro Drug Co, ' In Oouglas by Guy’s Drug Store i Mrs, Ralph Westover who has | ldrgest paid circulation of any Al-l Oohsultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to §; 1t by appoinment. B. Belis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Taxes Bookkeeping SIGRID’S (e WHITE oo ] TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY PHONES 587 or 747—JUNEAU SECURE Y¢UR LOAN THROUGH US To W atid Moiernbe Your Home U?:du Title L F. CAPITAT—550,000 " ' = SURPLUS—$150,000 o o 1 COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ‘ACCOUNTS ® SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES - s First National Bank . JUNEAU=—ALASEKA’ ; iTherp isno suhamfié vfor n