The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 9, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING OOMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD - Entered g President Vice-President and Business Manager in the Post Office in Juneau ag Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douglas for §1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6. one month, in dvance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity the Buginess Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers, Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated P is exclusively entitled to the use for reputlication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER NATIONAL REPRESFNTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers | rican Bullding, Seattle, Wash, Am took a to do it, but the Government is war beginning to clamp down on some of the adgets that Ameri have been spending rd-earned ni s on for no good reason ¢ War Production Board has ordered that pinball be manufactured after | it and other no | more machines ma 1, and on the same date settled the doom of *juke boxe and weighing amusement ma- the War of Production Board this industry long for 15 that some hay starving nickel and stainless steel tamped out justries been t of copper, aluminum 1 in producing machines to part the foolish nickel juke De- | do have have figures telling how many be manufactured since some figures allowed to But here are we of the larger automatic phonographs ains enough bros » 750 cartridge casgs! The 1a Th pounds aluminum in 125 of the larger “juke boxes" plane! these W make one fighter steel in cne of machines totals 130 enough to make five light machine guns! nickel just clutcher go 42 pounds of 42 pounds of other Into one such could as well be control panels and plar acces- navy s! aking into account the vast amount ;0es into manipulating the controls of An attempting o steer the ‘ edged pinball machine expert can out- himmy Gilda Gray while he right pocket the was converted be al ball into the | been estimated that if entire amuse- ment machine industry to war pr would be approximately And it would | amount in nickels | ucticn annual output h of mean that such its $150,000,000 war materials ilso probably an will be saved by the American public to help pay its inec tax next year me A GREAT UNION | The far-reaching Kai-shek's recent visit | to dawn. The leader of nu- | superior but mechanically inferior to Japan, lia several weeks ago during which | held conferences with Pandit Jawanarial Nehru, of the All-India Congress Party. He also! with Mahatma Mohandas K. Ghandi, for years a leader of a vast majority of Indians. had leaders if two countries significance of to India Generalissimo | is just country, Chiang be- | ginnin, one took a trip to he a leader talked many Probably at no time Washinglon the could have a lot o paign.” |the-war, they balance of this year I fancy I Communist. the and talked of imperialiste union in face of invasion from an represented such a number Between the two countries, 800,000,000 souls—one third of the the world China, nation of the earth’s humans India and China population The warlord of were represented. long has been plagued by the The other the enemy at its and asks the question ‘Is there any differ- ence between British and Japanese Imperialism?” India has long worn the yoke fashioned by an- | other nation. But now, in the face of a great war which India can role, freedom is offered one ap sees in play a major Generalissimo Kai-shek could tell the Indians much, A veteran of the Japanese method of “civil- a backward” the Chinese leader prob- | told Nehru and Ghandi enough to make them realize was no choice, 1zing great ably that there If wars could be won with manpower these days, China and India could take care of the Racific ation with little difficulty. Even the intlicated | these two great Asiatic nations is some- st an ominous shadow over the Japanese 50, welding of thing to c aspirations If things go well as a result of this meeting and | the British-Indian negotiations now in progress— Japan f only the mighty forces from lheJ Western Hemisphere, but the forces of most of the people of Asia. Hirohito should have something here to keep him awake nights should this happen. ces not WE'RE SPENDING | In the three months after Pearl Harbor, the| United States made available for the war effort more money than in the entire 18 preceding months From June, 1940, until the Japanese attack, total voted by Congress for the war effort and for spending by the RFC came From December 7 through March 5 available—a total of $136,- funds made available to $64,329,000,000 $72,603,000,000 was made 932,000,000 The largest share of the total, $32,517,000,000, or 24 percent, went for tanks, guns and ammunition The amount, $26,804,000,000, 20 percent was for airplanes next largest Uncle Sam Gets Tough (Philadelphia Record) An Argentine mission sent to the to purchase weapons for that country is leaving empty-handed Members of the mission say they were told this country had nc arms to spare, We a arming ou selves and arms to other countrie: fighting the Axis. But we are not reducing the amount of weapons flowing to the combatants by giving arms to nations that stand aloof. Argentina has a right to follow the isolationism of its Acting President Castillo. And we have a right to refuse to sell arms to Argentina until that coun-| fry becomes a combatant. . ‘The United States is not dragooning any of the Latin-American countries into this war. Most of them feel as we do about it | On the other hand, Uncle Sam would be the p sucker of all time if he gave arms to a nation | which won't even break off relations with the Axis and which permits its territory to be used as a base for espionage operations in this hemisphere. Castillo’s mission will tell him that he can’t eat his rearmament cake and hang on to his isolationist | penny | United States rearmament we are sending If there’s any truth in that report that truant officers wen't be able to get automobile tires, you ! kids had better enjoy yourselves while you can. After | may equip the truant officers with | discarded army jeeps. Hitler has given up depending on his “intuition” and has called back his Generals, Adolf used to follow astrology, but the Russians have been making him see so many stars he couldn’t tell which were the real ones. Maybe the nation’s pastors ought to organize themselves a union, and get double time for Sunday work. The only drawback is that hell still operates on a seven-day week. But it's just a question of | time until John L. Lewis will change that. As a result he was f fun in a cam- | fired from a government job. Several Appropriation leaders | rect | ilians Merry- Go-Round And on flaming battlefields all| Want to dig into these charges, and over the world, men are fighting | Dies may have the interesting ex- APRIL 9 Mrs. C. L. Popejoy George Whyte Mrs. W. H Norton Mrs. Gust Wahto Joe Burlovich Allen Anthony Engstrom Arthur Bringdale Mrs. John Hartley F. D. McFadden Harold Young Mrs. Dora Tennison Ambrose Whittaker Doris Wheeler | | “The stars incline but do not compel” | { FRIDAY, APRIL 10 | Benefic aspects rule today. Tt is| a date of promise to men who di- important projects, Adver: | influences may affect Army Navy, retarding plans and structing movements, HEART AND HOME: Wome¢ should pursue routine tasks tod avoiding the temptation to indulge in entertaining or money-spend-| ing pastimes. Speech should be| guarded since espionage is to as-! sume new forms. Resort to many! slever devices that are traps for| he unsuspecting will be effective in | -astern cities where medistes and | hairdr will aid the enemics. | Happy-go-lucky American ways now must be abandoned, from the high- est officials to the humblest civ-| s the full meaning of war finally apprehended by citizen f the United States. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: ing losses of shipping through the pear] Harbor treachery of the Jap- | nese will hamper certain exporters 1s merohant ships are converted to :aval needs. Air transportation or's is | #ill save many from starvation and will supply medicines to victims ¢ the war as Red Cross aid is ma | Jossible in desperate circumstances Concentrated foods will be in great | lemand and again science will suc- eed in extending the scope of its service to humanity. The fishi indust will undergo bene! hanges, NATIONAL ISSUES: Correlation f the Army, Navy and Air forces| will prove of assistance to the President. Mistakes in judgment’ vill cause officers of high rank to| se criticized The bad start of the United States in its part in the World War will spur the nation to super-achievements, The man in the street should think twice be- | fore he presumes to point out er- rors in strategy or unseen oppor-| tunities in our plans for a campaign in which democracy is in peril. This year is to be a time for making a start in national defense and in actual fighting. While the turn toward victory will be attained in 1942, eighteen months of hardest fighting is forecast. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: 1 Canada is subject to planetary in- fluences in which there will be‘ imparted extreme caution in war :fforts. This caution may work hardships for the neighbor of the! Dominion. Canada has been called | the bridge joining the two great English-speaking nations, Britain ind the United States. The full| Moon of the year brings Jupitex“ ind Mars rising in good aspects | to the luminaries, a benefic con- figuration betokening added pres- tige and a great part in the com- | April issue of Review of Reviews by Gov. Scott C. Bone, | taken the management of the Busch Hotel, 621 Jackson Street, Seattle, *|arrived on the steamer | commission, left on the Alameda for Cordova. | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. e 1 20 YEARS AGO APRIL 9, 1922 “The Land That Uncle Sam Bought and Then Forgot.,” was the title of an article on Alaska, well illustrated, which appeared in the from THE EMPIRE Glenn Bartlett, formerly manager of the‘ Gastineau had Hotel, according to word received in town from Mrs. Bartlett. It was under- tood that Bartlett had taken over the management for a time to see if it could be brought into front ranks of the Queen City hotels. Dr. L. O. Sloane, who had left Juneau several weeks previously for Los Angeles with his family, had just completed his work in the New York Post Graduate Hospital. s. C. H. Flory was rapidly regaining illness and was able to receive visitors her health after a long James I. Galen, Republican candids to leave Ketchikan on the following day catch the Jefferson for Wrangell. Mr. Ga! a public meeting in Juneau. e for Delegate to Congress, was for Hyder and expected to not intending to hold n wa P. W. Mead Colburn, private stenographer to Gov. Scott C. Bone Alameda from Washington, D. C., and was to take over his duties immediately. He had prevously been with the United States Shipping Board in Washington. Frank McCafferty, in charge of equipment the Alaska Road Commission work in the Valdez distriet, and W. E. Miller, driver for the for C. W. Hawkesworth, Superintendent of Government Schools, returned on the Estebeth from trip of inspection of native schools in this vicinity. a Mrs. E. Biggs, mother of Minard Mill, who had been visiting with her son for several days, left on the Alameda for her home in Valdez. J. L. Loussac, druggist of Anchorage, and formerly of Juneau, passed through Juneau on' the Alameda after a trip to New York City. with mod- minimum Weather erate fair and in variable the vicinity of Juneau was generally winds. Maximum temperature was 44 was 38 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon SIS SSTSSISSUSPSSSUIEPS U TS ST ST WORDS OFTEN MISUSED “Ten per cent WAS the profit.” ployed.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Rabies (canine madness). Pronounce ra-bi-ez, A as in RAY, I as in IT, E as in EASE, accent first syllable OFTEN MISSPELLED: Peaceable; CEA, not PEACABLE. SYNONYMS: Guess (verb), suspect, surm. conjecture, divine. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Today’s word that on all things lays | CENT is both singular and plural “Ten per cent of the men ARE em- LENIENT; his lenient hand.” not severe; mild; merciful. “Time, Pope. MODERN ETIQUETTE * poprrra ek B e S S e Q. Is it ever proper for a man to criticize his wife's bridge playing in the presence of guests? A. Never. It is not only ill-bred, but poor sportsmanship as well He should remember that bridge is, after all, only a game and it embarrassing for the guests to be compelled to listen to his bickering. Q. Should a high school girl rise when being introduced to a young married woman, who is about thirty years of age? A Yes, Q. When accepting an invitation to any affair, where the hour has | been specified, is it necessary to repeat in the acceptance the exact date and hour? A. Tt is preferable to do so, to avoid any misunderstanding as to the exact time. is | How long have airplanes been flown? Which is the largest city on the Mississippi River? What are the best years of a man’s life for competitive sports? What is the average rate of growth of the fingernails? What is the distinction between the words “healthy” and hennh-‘ 1 ANSWERS: THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942 e et e e et et | l DIRECT‘)RY Fraternal Societies ) ) ) ) ) ) ) N N ) ) 3 3 ) 3 N ) ) i ¥ N ) ) § ) ) \ \ : ; \ ) Professional Gastineau Channel | ooy | Drs. Kaserand | Freeburger DENTISTS Blrmgren Building PHO] Dr.A. W. Stewm— DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 408 "Chiropractic Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room $—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to § pm, ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sta. PHONE 13 LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Jones-Stevens Shop i JAMES C.COOPER C.P.A. ‘OOOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corons TYPEWRITERS Bold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Wore by Satisiied DR.H. VANCE | OSTROPATH Consultation and examination “Say It With Flowers” but 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. LEIV« ERS, Secretary. *. NE 60 —— PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 "“The Rexall Store” | Your Rellable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO, = " TIDE CALENDARS FREE Harry Race, Druggist | “The Stere lor Men™ SARIN'S Front St—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Fime: and Bervice More Compicte at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates H PAUL BLOEDHORN | 8. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop || Secona street Phone 65 — | INSURANCE Shattuck Agency - CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Msriced 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods st Moderate Prices TP RSO B, ) - mers” a8 10to12; 1 to 8; TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bros. Garage 909 WEST 12TH STREET “HORLUCK’S DANISH” | Ice Cream Flavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove. and dying to save democracy angl|berience of being subjected to an freedom for mankind. investigation himself. . st ¢ B chi g Caramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG ' H. S. GRAVES HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX OLOTHING . December 17, 1941, marked the thirty-eight anniversary of the | flight by the Wright Brothers. St. Louis. Between 25 and 30. . 1/32 of an inch a week. A minor domestic disappointment 5. Healthy means a condition of health, while healthful means pro- i is indicated. ) moting health. | Children born on this day prob- | jably will be fortunate in their in-| tellectual heritages and their life spportunities. Great talents and kindly natures are presaged. (Copyright, 1942) LABOR CHIEFS IN GET TOGETHER AT BIG VICTORY RALLY PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 9 — CIO President Phillip Murray and American Federation of Labor Pres- ident William Green, rivals i peacetime but united in war, sym- bolized labor’s unity last night by pledging organized millions “to (stand together” and help win the ;war. Exhorting the labor critics to L “join labor and not stab us in the CON RO 0D SALE | back,” the labor leaders met on YMMERCIAL AND By the Junior Guild, Trinity Ca-|the speaker’s platform, for the first I ? 9 o DR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS thedral at Garnick’s Grocery, Sew-|time since the ranks of labor weve | f “(‘ { S i R ° b Ll 1/ ard St., Saturday, April 11. split in 1936, and before a cheer- ->-ee fm: audience of more than 4.900 SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES |workers at a joint AFL-c10 “Unite | | RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS ON HIGHWAY MOTOR POST OFFICES WEAR SAFETY BELTS LIKE THOSE USED IN AIR PLANES/ PRAWH BY Jothen “SAY IT WITH OURS!” | Juneau Florists ! Phone 311 i ing victory of the United Natioms. Persons whose birthdate it | have the augury of a year of good fortune. Both men and women will engage in important war ta.sks.; (Continued fromn Page One) | first A COMMUNIST FRONT | ‘WHITE HOUSE GUARDS Last month the House voted ov-| The tragic Kkilling of an FBI y is that he will walk erwhelmingly to continue the Dies| a8ent by two Army deserters in out. Tt eady are significant|committee for another year. But|Virginia recently had an important signs that he is secretly I)]unm”g‘ll)(' Texan still has to run the l'}‘pe_l'cussmu which has not been ad- this, He hasn't paid the UAW's gauntlet of the Appropriations mm"i vertised. per capita tax for three months, | mMittee before he gets any moncy| The m‘c?dem caused a shake,xp and there have been a number of |10 continue his hotly controversial in the military guard of the White attempted raids CIO uu- House. P ion Dies is no hero to leaders of this| Vhat only a few insiders know Note potent committee. Further his 'SV“:;:‘_me}ZWO des.erte{s h“fd 59_1”"\‘-5: UAW Communism-nudism blast, without | 25 ite House uentries 0 came the knowedge or authorization ol‘“me‘ At. lhm. e Do oftiy other members of his committee, M2d€ to investigate the background | at officials of Vice President Wal- }zmd character of soldiers detailed Those assigned by | | for this duty. |the unit were accepred without| Either Lewis will quit the C1O expelled from it tle or be The bet % Rice & Ahlers Co. || Plumbing—Qil Burners Heating on other operations ) Phone 34 Sheet Metal i Iy GaraPoOGAS [IsLANDS, NATIVES PLACE A BRICK OVER THE LETTER ON THEIR HEADS TOHOLD IT IN PLACE UNTIL DELIVERED/ At a private meeting of several weeks ago, pr nt R. J. Thomas d that Lewis was secretly porting restrictive labor bills in | | lace’'s Economic Warfare Board, has | not made these committee leader LRt | feel any kindlier toward Dies, | duestion. A WOULD-BE STATESMAN | However, since the Kkilling of the e o | But the thing that has really got| gy man and the startling discov- v cloction kampaigh MO-|ypemy up in arms is a charge that | g Gkt e i St g a crop of “novel” office seek- | piog committee is heing secretly d‘\l 1: [m b“"d horm;x y;m:‘ ers and this year Montana has the | yeeq by communists to wreak ven- ‘: :u)cl' ‘nbegut’xr LB reslx en”'_ rsord ot el the” st (50 L o s who hve i e e S up one of this i > Redi gula s He e DeForest, e Bad now makes a minute investigation is Byron It is charged that o ies’ Falls credit exchange official, who|chief in igator § “l‘fo 6 l)f“l\‘ Qfi-averi-Salien N0 - pafrols . fop | 1 tormer fel-| grpite House grounds. tossed his hat into the ring|low trave still has close ties (Copyright, 1942, by United as a Republican congressional as- | with his one-time Kommy pals and | Pedtins. Sndiodté; Tho) In a long statement, inter- | that they supply him with lists of | {4 3 with frequent capitalizing, | alleged Communists, who are ac- 7 gives sons for | tually bitter foes, in order to smear | to go to Cong: | them as Reds. “To start This is an old Kommy stratagem set Th used it to get revenge on David Lasser, head of the Work- ers Alliance. Lasser fought the Kommies within the organization |tooth and naii and finally, when he couldn’t drive them out, re- | signed and started a new outfit that COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY OF ALASKA Lumber and Building Malerials PHONES 587 or 747—JUNEAU SECURT. YOUR LOAN THROUGH US To Improve and Modorni: Your Home Under Title L F. H. A, Congress. E duces AIR PLANE STOPS 7% CAPI'TAL—556,000 SURPLUS—$150,000 Great | ha pirant spersed DeForest wantin 1 really their 2 horse wife moon Yitnd these which will take something h people agog and minds off the war.” 0 run as the New Deal, and buggy candidate. My and I took our first honey- with a horse and bugg the horse and buggy slogan To say and demonstrate that the New Deal has just about wiped | out every semblance of democracy we have in this nation.” 4. “As I'll not have much work anti- First National Bank JUNEAU—ALASKA NOTICE b AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing '°F Victory” rally alr route from Seattle to Nome, 07 1 Green in thunderous overtones sale at J. B. Burford & Co. &d: 1:\n]rll 1Mm-m\:lm .s?lt spoken tones, el called upon their followers to “pro- h"l:dsh(.’d the Alliance | duce, produce, produce” for vjc::)ry The Reds have never forgiven him EYES EXAMINE | Green referred to Murray as “my | for this and I:vxst year they secretly and BROKEN LENSES re d in{dear friend” and later as “my accused him in certain influential lour own shop. Dr. Rae Lillian|friend, my collaborator and fellow congressional quarters of being a Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636, I‘Anmrimn » Perhaps, after the duration of the war, mail service between towns | t on fast mail lines will be speeded up through the use of Highway | 2'(:)st Offices. The safety belts as shown above prevent the mail clérks S . { There is no substitufe for newspaper advertising from being thrown to the floor when the bus stops suddenly.