The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1942, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING OOMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Eotered in the | Po:l Otfice in Juneau as Second Cllll lllhr UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by earrier in Juneat and Douias for SL25 por month. | By mafl, postage paid, at the following rates: | One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 603; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for reputlication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- | wise credited in this paper and also the local news published berein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. — Al President Vice-President and Business Manager NATIONAL REPRRSFNTATTVES Newspapers, 1011 American Buflding, Seattls, Wash, taxes |put away our jealousies, ) ! resistance. AXIS GRINDING of the been From the looks of some propaganda which throwing our w; in they have as liitle re- Ameticans, nations have looks as it of people months, ,it the intelligence the of the for as some censors have for and officials of tavian nations One the Nazi to America this of mouthpieces is an the name of in one brc to save announcer “Joe roadcasts under | ior £aid Joe deast endeavor boys You elections from tae Govern- asain i us in our Luttiefields The will have O tatorship being it 1 our can compel to- act are comuig last ‘oppo ity to as free Americans to fight the up in Washington. The only | within the ranks of cur Gov- | and people a assert | nize t enemie: ght today hus, another Nazi propaganda weapon is noted politics with the hope | enough to believe deasters and clean household in Washing- u; of participating in our Americans would foolish feul mouthings of Nazi bro well-kept be eady fairly too. been broadcasting what it calls | program and this Jap announcer | America First” Japan would be a charming partner to any na- | tion which would understand Japan’s ideals correct- | with the United States the Americans would share rubber Roosevelt ly. Japan its newly-won and tin if would only get rid of of the headquarters at the declared course, same time Jap Imperial an announcement to Jap be the “Ultimate de- United States.” in youth that Japan’s goal must truction of Britain and the | ways in which the for the “charming evidently, of the preparing which they This is, one Japs themselves propose. are partnership We think that most Americans possess intelligence to be able to put these twos and find the answer. enough and twos together At the rate things are maybe you'll have to have perspire. going, by a priority summer time | before you can Washlrglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Psn ‘Berlm | the opening of va | can chemical and | Dye | plies—General | purged of its Farbenindustrie German-American monopoly but he also|also opened great smashed the foundation of that markets in these monopoly—an international cartel, | firms which, with a few exceptions, meant | Synthetic German alliance, secretly used | cf vital the Nazis to further their plans | 'TNT—Standard Oil world conquest ompelled to sever cartel-busting | I. G. Farbenindust: some 2,000 patents stuffs and pk Ar One) a domestic rubber by for This 1s Arnold’s record to date: Military Optical goods— erican Bausch & TLomb Company compelied to sever its tie-up with the German Zeiss corporation. Magnesium—The Aluminum Cor- poration of America and Dow Chemical Company forced to break ties with 1. G. Farbenindustrie. Beryllium—Beryllium Corporation of America ‘which voluntarily asked the war period. There is more business-freeing Arnold’s sleeve. “kicked upstairs” undercover | lives and }let us, if we will, il]mrn will never be enough of those to interfere with {must do. | couldn’t be done. |all-time high |the American plants together |like these are the Aryan ]X\ng\ld”?x : 2 { These disassociations meant st | markets to American business men. tie- and chemicals, The Am-|U. S. company royalty free during cartel-busting Administration knifing, | he plans other exposes and prose- |cutions as sensational as those has already chalked up. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ase of Lew Ayres (New York Times) If all Americans believed, as Lew Ayres does, lh(' creed of non-resistance whatever they wished in this country. If all hu-| manity believed the same creed there would be Nazis and no war. A minute handful of Americans | |do believe this creed. We have no reason to hope, | from what we know of the human mind and human | emotions, that the whole world will accept it in any | time we can foresee. But let us not on that account held back an honest tribute to a man who gives ”')1 rich career and faces public ridicule and contempt | cause he will not hide the faith that is in him. | Those who are tempted to throw stones at Lew | Ayres would do better to ask .themselves what their | own faith with how much forgetfulness of self they are living up to it. The avowed faith of | the vast majority people in this country is that| crifice is too great if it will help beat down the | We think that the men whose | deaths have testified most eloquently to are the ones who would come closest to| understanding Lew Ayres, though disagreeing with | him to the last syllable. When those of us who aren't even eligible for the armed services have paid every cent of our Federal| cheerfully, have accepted all the little war | deprivations, not only in the letter but in spirit, have | our private ambitions and our intolerances, have made in our own lives a shin- | ing example of what resistance to evil can be, then | pass a moral condemnation on non- | And then, perhaps, we won't wish to. Tt | is a doctrine for the other-worldly and for saints, Bnd{ to evil,” the Nazis could do| no | is, and of 1 abomination this faith | | | our war efforts Coming E | (Bremerton News “We have been asked for do it, as usual.” That's what said to the about, the archlight) the impossible. Let us | the president of one big company | employees; that’s what he told them | enormous war production job that his firm He's right about it, teco. Like thousands of other companies, this one has done the impossible in peace- time. That's been the history of American industry doing things that couldn’t be done. Radios, planes, movies—every one of the modern inventions | that we accept so casually now “impossible” at one time. Yet we Ame ans did them And now* in wartime we're still doing things that We've got long way to go, it's true, but we're off to a flying start. Since Pearl Harbor airplane production has gone up more than 50 percent, and that's only the beginning. One plant reports that it is now building huge bombers on the same kind of moving assembly line that made it pos- air- was | sible for our automobile companies to turn out mmJ Jions of cars a year. Steel production has reached an | Daily production of crude oil is about 20 percent over what it was a year ago. One com- pany is making more cartridges in one year than all did in the World War Another is already doing everything Donald Nelson asked for recently—and more—in its war production program | In the grim news that fills our papers today facts important. They're straws in the wind | ~the production wind that’s growing into a hurri- | cane that will smash the Axis. There's a lot of possible” work that we must do before that happens. | No matter. We're used to “impossible” work. When we Americans make up our minds, pitch in and work | together, nothing in the world can stop us “im- | | Dispatch from Berlin: Newest Hitler order places gypsies and all persons of gypsy blood under the same | restrictions applying to Jew Omitted from dispatch: The language of th| gypsies has been traced back to Sanskrit, oldest of | “You got too many | Senator Tom Conally of Texas. “Down in my State, we used to| twist a mule’s nose or build a fire| under him when he got balky. “I tried to build a fire under up with I. G.|him,” replied Guthrie. a number of| “Your fire went out,” officials. This| nally. South American | lines to U. S. interposed | South Ameri- pharmaceutical Lotographic sup- | niline Company | | said Con- “Is it your idea that dollar-| ear men are overpaid?” “In some cases.” “They're not overpaid by companies that are now paying their salaries,” broke in Senator Truman, “It’s the government that is overpaying them.” the | and a number used to make of New Jersey its tie-up with rie and to make available to any 1 MERRY-GO-ROUND John Wiley, ex-minister to th Baltic states, tells friends that if the French fleet does go over tof Hitler it will wait until it goes into battle, then turn its guns on the Nazis. Diplomatic worry is vice| versa. Wendell Willkie re- fers to congressional isolationists as he | “wobblers,” a paraphrase of ‘“wob- | blies,” the term once applied to of this kind of up is by Unless he or blocked | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | morning hours being promising for { portant in the lives of women now | | will appear trivial. mer | fertunes while they become a def- | Among jof the | of | success APRIL 22 C. H. Metcalfe Zelma Gross John Halm Mrs. Frank Olson Edward David Dull O. E. Olson Carl Lundstrom Mrs. J. C. Hayes Mrs. L. L. Linehan Olaf Winthers e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” Pommrett s et i b ” THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Benefic aspec rule today, the industr especially shipbuilding. Adverse planetary influences ar active in the afternoon. HEART AND HOME: This is a| day in which foresight should be| keen and planning practical. Wom- en should benefit under the con-| figuration which imparts courage | with vision concerning future needs. | Constructive thinking is stimulated | today which should,inspire decisions of moment for all members of the family. Many things formerly im-| Girls will gain courage ‘o accept changes in their mode of living with cheerful phil- osophy; and the wise will seek em- | ployment BUSI S AFFAIRS: Taxes will take a heavy toll through the sur and will greatly reduce la | l fnn the Admiral Watson on his annual trip through the Territory. | the evening on the Princess Mary. | screen in 20 YEARS AGO 7% empine APRIL 22, 1922 The coal miners would declare the wide-spread strike off, pending negotiations of a new agreement, if Congress would pass a joint resolu- | tion or bill applying the bituminous coal commission’s award of 1920 to all soft coal operations, it was stated by Phil Murray, Vice-President of the United Mine Workers. Soviet Russia was ready to waive numerous technicalities and make it easy for representatives of big American firms to reach Moscow if they had serious intentions and actual financial backing but was more or less “fed up” with promoters, George Chicherin, Commissar for Foreign stated. “Prompt economic reconstruction of Russia and the world is not possible without American participation. For example there are greal concessions awaiting capital in Siberia, with coal, iron ore, timber and farming lands Only American capital could or would under- take such a magnificent task as the development of this country,” said. he A. H. McDonald had sold his drug store in Scward to Elwyn Swet- mann and associates and was to devote his entire time to his Anchumge store and his duties as General Agent for the Alaska Steamship Com- pany. Earle Hunter, Territorial Tax Collector, left the previous evening He was to return in October. B. F.'Heintzleman and M. L. Merritt, Forest Service officials, who had been in the south on business for the department, were to return in Work of the actors who put on the Senior class play, “Mrs. Bump- stead Leigh” were given high commendation for the excellence of their interpretations. The house was filled to capacity and music from Drake’s orchestra had added to the “big town" atmosphere. William De Mille’s “Midsummer Madness” Coliseum Theatre with Lois Wilson, Nagle in the leading roles. “Fighting Cressy.” was to be presented at the Lila Lee, Jack Holt and Conrad At the Palace, Blanche Sweet was on the Extensive preparations yere being made by the Women's Auxiliary of Alford John Bradford Post, No. 4, American Legion, for the dance to inite burden to wage earners. When they are recognized as lifesave for the nation whose units con- tribute the millions needed for vic- tory in the world war they will be accepted more and more cheer- fully. Although the scale of living in the United States wiil fall moere than ten percent by midsummer the consciousness of our prosperity will prevent fault-finding. NATIONAL ISSUES: Partisan politics will gain attention from this date but the seers warn that criticism of Government affairs will zive comfort to the Axis. Mistakes i will be made nd there will be se for widespread anxiety in an | unfortunate incident which may cause the resignation of a promin- ent official in Washington. The will to win now should join men and women of every point of view | in united effort that is blind fo human weaknesses among national leaders. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRES: the indications of victo: s I seen by astrologers in their readings stars Jupiter is the one-year cycle through Cancer which lends great aid to the western| hemisphere. In the year fgllow- ing June 10 Jupiter transits foi planets in the United States chart, all of them most promising. Over- extension in our war efforts this month is indicated and should be avoided. The stars seem to presage through concentration of | forces and gigantic assaults on th’ foe. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of many benefits. Inheritances will come fo| many through the deaths of agca; relatives. Children born on this day prob- ] ably will be industrious, persistent| . and idealistic. They should be, highly gifted and ambitious. Suc-| (cessful lives are foreseen. (Copyright, 1942) e HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Waino Williamson was ad- mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yester- day and at 11:15 o'clock last night/ became the mother of a daughter| weighing 8 pounds. Mrs. Selma Myrella was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical| treatment yesterday. | | Ove Martin Krey, who has been a medical patient in St. Ann's Hos- be given May 1. A May Day dance had not been given in Juneau for ;some years and it was planned to make the dance a herald to summer. Committees were: Executive—Mrs. L. O. Gore, Mrs. J. Kehoe, Mrs. O. Schombel, Miss Minnie Goldstein and Mrs. H. R. Shepard; Decorations— Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Kehoe, assisted by auxiliary members; Refreshments— Miss Goldstein; Music and Entertainment—Mrs. Gore; Publicity—Mrs Shepard and Mrs. Schombel. To celebrate the birthday of her little daughter, Carol, tobertson entertained twelve little guests the previous day. Mrs. R. E Weather winds for the Juneau area was rain with moderate Maximum temperature was 38 and minimum 36. southeast et e e i e Daily Lessons in English % . corpon e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We shall go tonight.” Say, “We shall go SOMEWHERE tonight.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Neutral. Pronounce in FEW, and not NOO. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Vacuum; observe the two U,s. SYNONYMS: Ascertain, find, determine, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: TOLERABLE; capable of being borne or endured. “Patience makes that more tolerable which it is impossible to prevent or remove.’— some- place first syllable as discover, Let us | Horace. MODERN ETIQUETTE * goprrra LER Q. Is it necessary to write a note of thanks when one receives a gift by mail? A. Certainly; it is just presented the gift personally. Q. How should one eat from a spoon? A. The food should always be taken from the side of the spoon, and never from the point. Q. Is it customary to introduce a young man formally to society? A. No, excepting a dinner given in henor m celebrate his twenty- first birthda; as important to do so as if the donor LOOK and LEARN ¥ o comoon What is “Hobson’s choice”? What is deer meat called? Where is the location of the muscle known as the biceps? In what river was Jesus baptized? With what subject does the science of meteorology deal? ANSWERS: A choice whic has no alternative. Venison. In the upper arm. The River Jordan. The weather. work out problems in First Aid mier the meeting last night in the ab- |contest form. ‘sence of Holgar Larsen, Pirst Aid Arnold knows just what he wants ) tercede) unshackled il to intercede) unshackled |y Go and how to do it and unless members of the T. W. W. Representative Karl Mundt, North! | | | Two problems were presented to ‘| pital, was discharged yesterday. the groups, with six taking one Chairman, said the meeting on the whole was not very satisfactory, {from Nazi connections. | Tunzsten-carbide—Vital in the| manufacture of machine tools. Gen- val Electric and Krupp hook-up broken. The day General Electric was indicted on monopoly charges this case the price of tungsten carbide plummeted from $205 a pound to $50 a pound. During all time General Electric was charging from $205 to $453 a pound this crucial product, it was selling for $50 pound in Ger- many Electric compelled E. G in Holland. Electric light ing Glass Company ties with Phillips Potash and Nitr — Allied Chemical Compan) DuPont compelled to end monopolistic con- trols in the for a lamps—General to sever Germany Electric tie-ups with A and Phillips in bulbs—Corn- forced to break glas ogen and Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals— Sterling Chemical Company to sever its tie-up with 1. G. Faro- cnindustrie; Schering Chemical Corporation forced to do the same with the Schering of forced Corporation Dakota isolationist, is no New Deal- | |e r but he is publicly boasting that | 11\9 is a strong supporter of the | National Youth Administration, one ! 'of the President’s pet agencies. In an advertisement announcing his| candidacy for re-election, Mundt listed himself as a “member of the NYA bloc in Congress”. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) > ACCOUNTANTS AND STENOGRAPHERS he is stopped you'll be reading| headlines about more of his coups at frequent intervals. Note: Ace Arnold aide in this history-making anti-monopoly cru- sade Joe Borkin, a young, two- fisted redhead who is probably the greatest cartel authority in the world. OVERPAID the charges Robert R. Guthrie, former chief of the WPB's | textile division, made against his| Positions open for one Junior erstwhile dollar-a-year associates | Accountant and two Clerk-Sten-| when testifying before the Trumanlugrapners subject to the Alaska| Committee was that the WPB'|Merit System requirements and| failure to speed up conversion qualifications. Phone 695, or call| the cotton industry to war pro-|at Room 201, Territorial Building, duction was due chiefly to dawd- | Juneau, Alaska. ling ———————e He declared that Frank L. Wal- EYES EXAMINED ton, a dollar-a-year subordinate in and BROKEN LENSES replaced in| charge of cotton for the textiles our own shop. Dr. Rae Lillian | division, had not been diligent in | Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. | One of of jernment Hospital yesterday for Mabel Jackson of Petersburg came by boat to enter the Govern- ment Hospital yesterday for medl- cal treatment. Frank James of Douglas entered | the Government Hospital yesterday for medical treatment. Jerry Hall of Hoonah arrived in Juneau by boat to enter the Gov- medical treatment yesterday. William Osborne of Hoonah was | admitted to the Government Hospi- tal yesterday for medical care. FIRST AIDERS HAVE PROBLEM (ONTESTS, MEETING TUESDA Only 12 stations of the more‘ planning for cotton war needs e “I tried to speed him up,” said NOTICi: Guthrie. “In fact, I got eight or AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, m“ui ten men to help him, but it didn't | air route from Seattle to Nome, or seem to do any good” sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. ‘ Elks’ Hall. than 20 in the city were represent- jed last night at a mass meeting of First Aid workers held in the Purpose of the meeting - was - 10 and six the other and the prob- |but that future ones will be worked lems were worked out satisfactorily.|out if First Aid workers will co- W. C. Kennell, who presided ow‘operate THE BEFR THAT MADJ FAMOUS Oy 1942, Jor. $ek01z Bres WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942 I e S DIRECTORY Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel i P U —_— Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS PHONE 56 " 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. [ B. P. 0. ELKS Meects every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. e PIGGLY WIGELY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—3% e — } Dr. A. W. Stewart "“The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. 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