The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1942, Page 4

et PAGE FOUR Dail& Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sundsy by the even offering bonuses for more infants, but they are) slowing down, too, to I1 Duce's despair Belgian babies also are slacking THE DAILY ALASKA EMP up, while the SMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY wrench birth rate decrease alarms noi only Vichy, Second and Msin Streets, Juneau, Alaska. out the German High Command ! HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - President Japanese tots are dying like flies and the birth | MARCH™3 * T Sy e e ' rute 1 lessening also. | Alice Sey s N"lg#lm i J(“)’l‘l“l“A;u‘:'wM S, M- | China, however, reveals an increased birth rate.| E. E. Johnson Delivered 3y eartier in Tumsae ulmi’lblfi:'h‘;.l:-.’:“l_' ‘. One reason for last year's bumper diaper crop Arthur B. Judson six monthy, in sd¥ahcs, & one month, o advance, Bubscribers will confer the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- |yjed and produced children ery of their papers. ¥ Télephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 374. 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED FRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | reputlication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- berein. tion's population ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION, NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alatka Newspapers, 1011 Amerjean Butlding, Seattle, Wash, One country | country is Itdly. than a German reached a point and the country whit NO “WAR BREAD” flour producers the American housewife will have| How Italy is many problems in feeding her family during this | giners qemand war period, but.she won't have to use “war bread.” According to the Wheat Flour Institute, there is an| ample supply of wheat in storage to cover domestic needs. And since these products will be available in | quantity, they will continue to be among the mo.st:‘ economical to use, During the last World War, Alaskans were little bothered with the problems ate their “black | pas peen set in bread” with patriotic relisn. During this war, it is/ court Judge Roy is more than we and vin the United States was the fact that a large num- | fayor 1t they will promptly notity | DET Of the 1921 record babies themselves were mar- | | which boosted marriages to a record of 1,565,000, also | may have had something to do with it. ‘The baby crop was wise credited in this paper and also the local news publithed ceeded deaths by 1,080,000, thus increasing the na- to the population of the State of Oregon. {troops to help launch a spring offensive in Russia, | What, No Biscui (Cincinnati Enquirer) |ternaticnal standard. The stock | A precedent of perhaps far-reaching importance | market continues under ill. omens Dora Michello A. B. Stephenson | Everett Lowell | Mrs. D. T: Stoddard Mrs. T. F. Trenholm e last year. The draft, e — HOROSCOPE “The stars incline | but do not compel” by an amount equal approximately st | ITALY FLOPS ! has certainly lost the war That | Today she amounts to little more province. The Italian people have of hardly caring any more. Their Good and evil planetary aspects ‘are active while today's configur- |raticns are slim—Italians are permitted only three dtion prevails. The morning is for- one-half ounces of meat a week; one-fifth of a pint of milk is another restriction, as also is two 'and one-half ounces of butter a month, and even oil, basis of Italian cooking, is'limited to half a pint per person monthly | Mussolini’s German friends are literally bleeding tunate for women, HEART AND HOME: This should | be a lucky day for girls who seek | the best positions, professional or | commercial. Early applications should be successful. Secretaries | should be in wide demand at this| jtime. There is a promising sign e of foodstuffs and other supplies. Italy has no more luxuries left. Jewelry has beenifor women in public service. Va-| | thrown into the national treasury and wine, which is |cancies due to mobilization of Unit- |a staple of Italy, with her water shortage, is cut to|ed’ States war forces will be num- her home in Douglas half quantities and otherwise weakened because Italy’s kerous. Women young and middle- |and Mrs. Garn. grapes are put to other purposes, According to information supplied by A"“'”"“"'urabbed by Germany. much of which is‘inged will demonstrate their ability | |in, business and the professions as | going to be able to comply with|Well as in shops and factories. | of furnishing him with a million| BUSINESS AFFAIRS: While the | planet Uranus was in = transit through the sign Taurus gold mm: silver in large quantities came to |the United States. The American dollar has become the strongest money in the world today—an in- can understand. s? Tallahassee, Florida, by Supreme|ihat presage fluctuations due to the ! Chapman, In granting a divoree | effects of the greatest of all con- | indicated, we will be encouraged to use bread mort“jwullm\ in the case of a Central Georgia farmer |flicts. The year 1942 will be dom- than ever. | IRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA o | MARCH 13, 1922 Seventeen cases in the U. S. District Court were set for trial by |Judge T. M. Reed at a session in the morning. The first case was set | for March 16 when the spring term was to begin, Guy and Mrs. Smith, of Douglas, who had been ill with severe cases |of grippe, were recuperating and out of danger, | i Douglas girls were rejoicing over their basketball game with the girls 50 big last year that it ex- |of Juneau High School when the final score was 13-3 in their favor. | i The senior class of the Douglas High School was busy nights rehears- ing for their play, “What Happened to Jones.” The Juneau High School basketball team trimmed Ketchikan in a fast game to the tune of 24 to 15. White, Juneau’s guard, held his lopponent to a single field goal in the final period. Barragar, Britt and Janiksela each scored four goals from the floor. President Charles E. Bunnell, of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, left Washington, D. C., on March 1, to return to his headquarters in Fairbanks. A general investigation of conditions prevailing in Alaska in which the Department of Commerce was interested was to be undertaken during the summer according to the Associated Press. Headed by Assistant Sec< retary Huston. a party of department officials were to make a trip to the Territory for this purpose. Mrs. Andrew Kiloh entertainéd a number of ladies at whist at Prize winners were Mrs. Charles Sey, Mrs. A. Gais The Juneau Cold Storage Company took 2,000 pounds of halibut from the boat Fane and 1,000 pounds frém the Wilson the previous day. The fish was to he shipped south on the Princess Mary. Leopold Simmons, Collector of Customs at Carcross, Y. T., accom- panied, by Mys: Simmons, and their daughter Gladys, passed through Juneau on the Princess Mary on their way home from the States. Registration for the city election closed at the end of the first two weeks with 167. registered. Three weeks: remained before registrations would close. » Thomas McMullen, the “sourest of sourdoughs,” was visiting relatives {and his Minnesota-born wife, Judge Chapman took |inated by a cycle due to the con- in Port Angeles and Sequim following a tour of the Southwestern Thrifty housewives will find new ways to make | judicial cognizance of the difference between North-!junction of Uranus . and Saturn | States, accompanied by Mrs. McMullen; according ‘to a reprint from bread and bread foods a more important part of their | ern and Southern cooking X ' “Hyman (the husband) was raised on corn bread|month a change in world affairs is | proprietor of the Merchant’s Cafe in Jungau. | In so doing, they will reduce the consumption ; % of other food products greatly needed in the war-torn 2nd hot biscuits, diets, nations of our allies. Millers bakers cooperating with tritionists and governmental authorities in detelop- ing enriched flour and enriched white bread which | and are nu- {and incompatible for carry a greater amount of essential vitamins and minerals. These products will be available in all parts of the nation | marries a cold light WE'RE “CHOSEN” husband has an If, as Mr. Hirohito and Adolf Hitler would lead | crackers are to be had at any corner grocery—but not hot biscuits and corn bread us to believe, their races are the “chosen” races of the, world, a peek into the world's maternity ward would indicate just the opposite The birth rate in the United States now is break- | all records since 1921, The Census Bureau sets| last year's birth record as more than 2.500,000, com- pared with 2,600,000 in 1921, And the rate shows | an even larger increase as the year merges into | spring. In Germany, Chivalrous as sequently ing the Teutonic mothers have bern"‘o be cajoled and even threatened to get more b they are slowing down. The last decrease of 20 per 1,000 population. Mussolini has been holding mass marriages and taken report showed a| as follows: that sparks are sometimes visible when two persons shake hands. The | phenomenon fascinated the British Prime Minister, | “I've never seen anything like ill‘ before,” he told a naval aide. “We don’t have such phenomena in Lon- | don.” While the officer was explaining that the human sparks were partly due to Canada’s cold, dry climate, | the attractive young wife of a goy- ernment official trotted up and in- ing Dr. John R. Steelman, head troduced herself. As they shook of the U. S. Labor Conciliation SE""hands, the Prime Minister felt a vice, to replace Miss Perkins as|gharp shock. Wheeling, he asked | Secretary of Labor. Steelman is @ |the officer: good friend of John L. Lewis, who @lasllinglon . Merry- 6o-Round (Continued from Page One) Perkins’ genius for bungling. But privately they differ widely on who is to be the ultimate boss. Certain CIOers are quietly push- | not his accustomed menu. | been married, as they were ill-suited, inadjustable,'(jon for post-war conditions will at Santa Barbara and were to remain theye until the first of May, accord- Admitting that there have been other grounds! g o incompatibility other than would is severely handicapped when a hot biscuits man (rihutes of humanity. worse than when a cold light bread man marries continue to increase there will be 1a hot biscuits woman, because in the latter case thei, general trend toward spirifual as- ern men who have taken Northern wives have sub-|ins merely the leveling of certain taken lessons from the cookbook making of biscuits and. corn bread, and thus cater (pa poor and the to their own tastes without resorting to either a | cudgel er the divorce court. | AND cook hot biscuits and. corn bread?” imaking a trine to Neptune. Next and light bread and crackers were | roracast, They should never have| NATIONAL ISSUES: Prepara- for marriage.” So spoke the court.'pe recognized as imporfant. Edu- and leaders of thought will | ! foresee the birth of a new civiliza- appear on jmenu, it still must be recognized that domestic bliss'tjon and will stress the higher at- ; As dangers bread woman. This i even ang the sacrifices that they entail | easy remedy. Light bread and piration and intellectual _develop- ment. There are signs read as in- dicating growth of socialism, but they are, doubtless many South- he seers interpret them as presag- in the that divide the rich and elimination Oi; | poverty and injustice. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR barriers The Florida court decision suggests that a legal 1, tne United States great perils way out may have been established. However, it \in \yk within the nation. would seem much better for appropria® precautions |tars warn of wholesale sabotage | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: v beforehand. abies, but | gouthern man marries & Northern woman; he might tengion of subversive influence is as of a situation or a mystery. (Pronounced da-noo-man, first A as in suggest that the preacher put the question to her|jngicated. A secret army of ene- | DAY, OO as in TOOL, second A as in AH, accent second syliable). “I “Do you promise to love, honor, obey. mies will be widely scattered with |was surprised at the unexpected denouement.” The For instance, when altnay winl constitute a disaster. EX- | 'its largest divisions assigned to the Atlantic and Pacific seaports. In' in the Blum Cabinet, is living in'factories and in Government offices exile in Washington. If he re- employes who enjoy the confidence: turned to France, he would be of associates will betray the nation, | killed. . Of the Rion: trial of hislit is prophesied. Neptune in the| colleagues, Cot says; ) |twelfth ‘at ‘Washington is believed | “The trial is a mockery. These to be most unfavorable. 4 men have already been condemned Persons whose birthdate it is, have | to life imprisonment. Petain con-'me augury of a year of unexpectedi demned them last November. Their and surprising experiences. Dan- only hope is the liberation of|ger of losses through deception of France, The trial was designed to trusted agents is indicated. place responsibility for defeat on' Children born on - this day prob- | the Popular Front. Instead, it J5 ably will be exceedingly keen and, talented. They may be too trust-| ing in their choice of associates. (Copyright, 1942) being, transformed into an accusa- tion of Petain himself, “Throughout the changing gov-| ernments of France, Petain is. the| 0| “I say, doesn’t this sort of thing | only man who has remained, in| In| making courting rather difficult in|constant authority in recent years. Canada?” | He made no protest against policies o | of the Popular Front. In fact, he| CAPITAL CHAFF | once actually vetoed a proposal Iar! Dan Tracy, former head of the! Keep an eyé on Ruth Bryan|increased. defense. | AFL electrical workers. | Owen Rhode, daughter of William| “In December, 1936, I presented | The inner Administration word is | Jennings Bryan, for the director-|a plan for an enlarged air - force, | that while Roosevelt finally has de- | ship of the proposed Women's Aux- | but the Permanent Committee for | cided to accept Miss Perkins'“long | jliary Corps. - Ruth, who was once | National Defense, of which Petain overdue resignation, he insists that | Roosevelt's Minister to Denmark, was the head, rejected the proposal.” some other good-paying job be!spent several years as a nurse in (Copyright, 1942, by United { found fer the lady }Egym during the last war, later Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 8o the directorship of the Inter- | was secretary of the American - national Labor Office has been sug- | Women’s War- Relief Fund. 4 gested for Miss Perkins. It pays| Mrs. Warren Lee Pierson, wife of $18,000 a year; $3,000 more than her | the Export-Import Bank director, present salary. But when foreign!has written a new mystery novel members of the Labor office were owes his closed-shop victory the captive mines to Steelman. AFL men, on the other hand, are backing Assistant Labor Secretary | CLNIC SCHEDULED | MONDAY FORNATIVE | on Washington, “The Defense ! queried, here was the reply of one: | Rests”. Thanks to lower (H".DREH or jum“' “I don't see why an organization |rates and careful efficiency, the H PRILE | ol 43 NEW ¥ORK, March 13-—The oft repeated boast that he is Premier Mussolini's friend, has resulted in the seizure of Ezio Pihza, 50, Met- ropolitan Opera basso for the last 15 years and his detention as an enemy alien., The Italian born singer was, tak- en from the home of his American wife yesterday and now awn".s' hearing before a local Alien Board. e e dedicated to the mission of pro- moting international labor coopera- tion, should become the dumping ground of an unwanted American political appointee—and a not very competent one at that.™ Note: Undercover hand that put | tanker sinkings. . railroads have been doing a bang, up job of rushing fuel oil and gasor line to the East Coast. since the . . Biggest waste in Washington is the propaganda service, more of paper Duteh | garrulous in deluging newsmen with over the appointment of L. Met-| expensively printed handouts than calfe Walling, young Rhode Island | any other publicity shop, . . . . Evs socialite, as Wage-Hour Admlnlsweryone is 100 percent behind the trator, was Lee Pressman, leftwing|Dutch, regardless of the handouts. ceneral counsel of the CIO and|. .. Harold Tittmann, U. S. diplo- close intimate of John L. Lewis.|mat attached to the Vatican, is al- | Walling was Miss Perkins’ choice}mosl a prisoner. His relations with but she was unable to get anywhere | the Vatican are excellent, but since, | until Pressman prevailed on CIO|the Vatican is entirely surrounded president Phil Murray to endorse| by Italy, with which we are at Walling | war, he cannot get out. . .. Rar- est autographed modern book is a | CHURCHILL ON “COURTING” Icopy of “Into Battle” by Winston‘ Officials of the British Supply|Churchill, which bears the auto- | Council are still chuckling over an |graphs of both Churchill and Roose- unrecorded incident of Winston|yelt. Walter Winchell is auction- | Churchill's visit to Canada. ing it off for the benefit of Navy There is a deep plush rug in the | relief, Government House at Ottawa, fa- Ir'yzxmummuons for whooping cough, diphtheria and smallpox will ernment Hospital ‘under 'the ‘ays< pices of the Public Health Service to all and, Douglas, i The first clinic of this series for| native children was held last Mon-| day_in the. Government Hospital,| when more, than 100 children took diphtheria immunizations. TQu. Maurice Corthell will give the! tests and shots next Monday and permissions must be granted by the children’s parents, with Dr, Luella| King making arrangements. Any parents of presehool children whoi( desire to have their infants take advantage of tne program are asked | to see Dr. King before Monday. The clinic will open at 9 aclock:wny back to Anchorage, 5 that morning, — » The Dally Alaska Empire nas the be given Monday morning in Goy-|Will be held in their new quarters native children of Junenu; MOOSE MEET TONIGHT ‘The regular meeting of the Moose in the Seward Building at 8 o’clogk tonight.# It is anhounced that the ‘Women of the Moose will take oc- cupancy of the club rooms next week, ———.———— CHARLES_ WAYNOR BACK a FROM._ INTERIOR TRIP Charles Waynor, Alaska Credit Bureau head, returned to Juneau] by plane this week from a short business trip to Fairbanks. ——— e ANCHOAGE. MERCHANT i RETURNS. BY PLANE the Port Angeles Ne He was called the Old Timers' friend.and was Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cobb and thejr son, Lang, had taken a cottage ing to word received by friends. Mrs. Cobb had been in delicate health during the winter. Weather was fair and colder with brisk winds. Maximum temperature was 38 and minimum, 32. \ e Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corpon e i i} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The children divided the candy among one another.” Say, “among themselves." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Impetus. Pronounce im-pe-tus, I as in IT, E as in ME unstressed, U as in US, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Loath (adjective. Loathe (verb). SYNONYMS: Transcribe, copy, reproduce, decode, decipher. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.,” Let us DENOUEMENT; the unraveling or solving of a plot; outcome or solution, Q. Is it necessary for a newcomer to a neighborhood to return a II.by 01ig. of her new neighhors? A." Most eertainly. To neglect to return a first call is both rude and unkind, as it indicates clearly that one does not wish to keep up an acquaintance. Anyone who has been courtedus and kind enotgh fo call upon you first deserves the eourtesy of a return call. Q. When entering a dining ¢ar on the train should one find a seat for himself, or wait:to be shown a seat? A. Stand at the entrance until the steward approaches and conducts you to a seat. 2 Q. What should a woman wear to a daytime affair when she has been asked to spéak to an audience? A She should wearstreet elothes and a hat. LOOK and LEARN ¥ 1. What is the average length of a cigarétte thrown away by smokers? | (12 | 2. What is the origin of the word “Jimminy” in the expression “By Jimminy"? 3. How many gallons are there in one barrel? 4. Which is the oldest. cultivated fiber plafit? 5. How much greater is the mass of ‘the sun than that of the earth? ¢ firs| C. GORDON ANSWERS: 1. 1% inches. v 2. It refers to the Heavenly Twins of the Zodiac, the Gemini, patrons of ancient Romans. ? o 3. 31% gallons, 4. Hemp, which was grown in China as early as 2800 B. C. 5. 332,000 times greater. (M, WEIGHTMAN HAS | =0 S 7 BEEN RECALLED. 10 DUTY, COAST GUARD, Roger C. Weightman, formerly. in | command of the U. S. Coast Guard | cutter Unalga when it was based | at Juneau, and since retired, was| recalled to active duty in the Coast | Guard . and is stationed at Port | Téwnsend, Washington, according to word, received here by Mrs, H.| I. Lucas, % : | |age, was a through passenger from | Seattle by plang this week oh his Leonard Hapkins, proprietor of a | men’s furnishing store in Anchor- Both Commander and Mys. Weightmgn lived in Juneau for, several years and haye many friends 1m the- city..© Since his retirement a few years ago, they have made | their home in Oakland, California, where they purehased a home. ' ——————— FLOWERS , — FLOWERS Fresh roses, violets, gardenias, mous for generating static electricity in the human body, so much so WHO DEFEATED FRANCE? | largest paid circulation of any Al- Pierre Cot, former Air Minister aska newspaper. . chids at the Forget-me-not Flower Shop. Phone: 557, Empire ‘Classifieds Pay! “ BB . { (S Directory Professional Gestineasn Chasmol — * Drs, Kaser and " Freeburger DENTISTS Bu-ngren Buling Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 408 “Chiropractic” ' Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Stesm Baths | Dr, Doelker, D. ., Bernard Bldg. ‘Dr. John H. Geyer L DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. Hours: 9 am, to 6 pm. JAMES C. COOPER CP.A 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. LEIVs ERS, Secretary. N 751 7 || PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 * ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO, TIDE CALENDARS FREE | | Harry Race, Druggist e “The Stere for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. Watoh and Jewsiry Repatrt At very reasonsble’ 5 PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKELIN STREET —_— s RCA Vicior Radios | and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun S8hop Second Street Phone 65 INSURANCE Shaliu;f:—Agency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 [ i o sur WHITE, romee TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bres. Garage 909 WEST 12TH STREET “HORLUCK’S DANISH” Ice “Say It With Flowers" but “SAY IT WITH.OURS!"” Juneau Florists. Phone 311 ‘- PRONESS87 or Th1—SUNEAU SECURE Y(1/R LOAN THROUGH US To Improve and Moderiuze Your Home Under Title L F. He A. CAPITAT—$50,000 SURPLUS—$150,000 L] o COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS i o SAFE DEPOSIT, BOXES JUNEAU—ALASKA |