The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Published every evening except Surfday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY arians, Latest Second and Main Str u, Alaska, that HELEN TROY MONSEN - - R. L. BERNARD - - Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Juneau and Dougla at the foll six mont Delivered by carrier i By mail, postage paid One year, in advance, $12.00 one month. in nee, §1.25. Subscribers will confer a the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity livery of their Telephones papers. News Office. 602; Business OCIATED MEMBER OF AS The republicatio wise credited in this paper and also the herein ALASKA CIRCULATION THAN THAT OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Ala Building, Seattle, Wash Ame Daily Alaska Empire Vice-President and Business Manager vor if they will promptly notify | ed Press is exclusively entjtied to the use for s dispatches credited to it or not other- JARANTEED TO BE LARGER OTHER PUBLICATION. = = President | yoars within today years ago Second Class Matter. s for $1.25 per month. owing rates: hs, in advance, $6.00: in the de- | of mortality Office, 374, poptent factor, PRESS local news published | edity WE LIVE LO. the past life is reaching even longer proportions. 20 percent more oldsters than there were ten The reason is advanced medical research, betterment of environment, better balanced diet and progressive methcds of child care. the theory of longevity receives a setback in the study statisticians. but dividual chances of attaining a ripe old age are now | far more dependent on environment than on her- The study discloses circumstances which ‘now If this keeps up, we will become a race of centen- health and mortality statistics show civilized human life has been lengthened five and this increase of There are decade, True, it remains as a it is passing as a theory. In- | govern age, and old age no longer relies on longevity of ska Newspapers, 1011 | foct ed other entirely vanced age take generations, eneration HOLES IN OUR CEILI Although in the main very sour proposals for combating inflation full effectiveness needed in these conspicuous example is his vague pr can and should be kept at existing of living is stabilized. He plainly w specific legislation cn this subject In contrast the Canadan wartir provides clearly wages. Increase of wages is permitt if the cost of living rises, and then in the same proportion, applied to ti ¢ the N a ceiling on | & for the imposition of a ceiling jections in Tennessee because of illiterac comparable [south central section alone the number of such men | the head of big corporations will| not accepted for army service probably numbers well | present the most confident reliance d, the President's fall short of the times. The most oposal that wages levels if the cost ants to avoid any | | ‘fl('_\,‘. I, says that make “the best me control system ed in Canada only is permitted only i first $25 a week haps a preceding generations of parentage. Orphanhood is found to have a detrimental ef- upon the health and mortality of the young.| Children of broken families are often more poorly' housed, have less care and lack the solicitude accord- children. unrelated to hereditary factors, enjoyed by {children in families where the parent survives to ad- Aside from the financial and social aid {to offspring, there are the mental and spiritual ef- fects of family solidarity, all of which have an in-|and manufacturers. The Navy is un- direct influence on health and longevity. But it would | der promising planetary influences. There are definite advantages, aver the statisticians, to achieve | through selective action of heredity what has already | been accomplished in a relatively short time by the | fluences under this configuration| is likely to be achieved by these methods on the next | Which inclines them to make ser- improvement of environmental conditions, and what Fine Material (Cincinnati Enquirer) Picturesque, if not practical, is the offer of Ser- geant Alvin C. York to command a battalion of men rejected under the selective serv The fifty-four-year-old Tennessee mountaineer, who was his state’s outstanding hero in World War many been rejected for illiteracy soldiers in the There have been some 5000 selective service re- mountaineers who have are crack shots and would world.” of the and per- In the figure from Kentucky But heredity as | rules for illiter-!| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAY 14 Lee Lucas Patsy Fleek Gus Oslund Frank Henderson D. L. MacKinnon | Mrs. Delia Travis Mrs. Helen Thayer Agnes DoSoto - HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” FRIDAY, MAY 15 Aspects good and evil appear in [lhe horoscope for today. It is a for- |tunate configuration for merchants HEART AND HOME: Women are subject to adverse planetary in- ious mistakes in judgment. They <hould be wary of new suitors and | jeven of men associates in war work. | 1 20 YEARS AGO. ] MAY 14, Manager W. D. Gross, of the Colis Jefferson for Seattle and ather cities i new features for the theatre. An unusually large crowd had atten had also done well at their candy sale Liberty Theatre. cruising in that district The worst snow slide ever seen in This is a threatening rule of the! stars for love affaws. Men may | be fickle and girls Ito progress and promotion. | | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Mainten-| lance of office buildings may pre: ent costly problems as the war| proceeds, but the stars appear to | presage ability to maintun long | | established standards <f comfort | |and convenience. In the cities the| areat department stores will con-| (tinue to offer the most attracti ‘ l’cnvircnm. nts for shoppers. Men at | upon coming victory by accepting| of course, much to be said in behalf of |less profits philosophically. |the army regulation requiring some degree of literacy | NATIONAL ISSUES: Transpor-| of wages. This gives the appropriate administrative|ahove a division. agency in Ottawa a definite directive, a policy to| There i apply. The President would rely on the War Board to keep wage rates stable, Bi have no law to which it ca in making rulings Board will have power to give bir the event of stubborn controversies over es. way is left open to endless controversy and to weak- ness if that develops in the War Labor Board It would greatly strengthen the Labor Board if Congress included ir program a definite provision for t and salaries in relation to All this is a new minor the lower ceilings on farm products. relation to the inflation threat are a factor in the spiral of inflation, and a stronger | that effect weapon to check unjustified wage increases would add | present hour of need America avail herself of those keen eyes and stout hearts much to the effectiven The Tower of Babel, once located at the Chaldean Ur in Lower Mesopotamia, has completely With radio broadcasting City of disappeared hardly miss it. fi&sininqlon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) reaching out for more and more power, helped precipitate war in Europe. So they have determined that now is the time to head off the growth of U. S. monopolies after the w Finally they fear that the once liberal New Dgal, now throwing more and more war orders to big business in an effort to beat Hitler, runs the grave risk of concentrating economic power in the hands of a few. That's why they are setting up the legislative framework of econ- omic reform now, before the wa is over. NOTE: — Wyoming's Joe O'Ma- honey for years has been crusading against monopoly, and the Monop- oly committee which he headed paved the way for much of Thur- man Arncld’s trust-busting. FEMALE FELIX FRANKFURTER The morning after it was revealed | that a House committee had ques- tioned Mrs. Anna Rosenb: White House adviser, about re ing $22.- 000 from private interests while on the government payroll for $7.500 she telephoned a high Administra- tion official in great agitation ““This is terrible,” she exclaimed “I feel like I am going to have a nervous breakdown. I may have to £0 to a hospital.” “hy not get a room next to Sidi Hillman,” said the Ad - | come inside Demos claim that Ew! setiling in .Junenl! and in 1922 be-| e e i 118 | came associated with Andrew Bernt- Hillman is recovering | COmmittee chiefly a MeNutt ve- | %D in the firm known as Woodman 'to Juneau from a short trip to Sit- and Berntsen Boatbuilders, contin- uing in the partnership until his|the Baranof Hotel while in the istrationite coldly. NOTE from severe eihaustion brought on by his long and strenuous work as former war labor chief. While flat on his back in a hospital, Hillman's | elimination from this post was rec- | ommended by a group of inner circlers including Mrs. Rosenberg, known as the “Female Felix Frank. | furter,” because she is always ad- vising people what to do. Unlike Mrs. Rosenberg, Hillman never took a cent of pay from the government during two years of service. H COUGHLI PROSECUTION? Backstage, considerable pre is being brought on the Justice De- partment to drop its grand jury in- vestigation of Father Coughlin There is no question buf that Catholic leaders were strongly be- | Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 0636 1 Nor is it clear that the War Labor | there These have a closer | ng s of the program as a whole. ut that board will | fusion nding decisions in | | men are literate hand of the War 1 its anti-inflation he stabilizaton ot |arate detachment dards, living costs But rising wage: of course, we| hind the Justice and Post Office Departments in suppressing Social Justice. But apparently some of them believe that the Government should draw the line against moving in on the priest himself. This has created considerable de- bate inside the Justice Department Scme officials favor going ahead Some want to pull punches However, the main Justice De- partment opinion seems to be that the grand jury should thoroughly probe some of the quotes in Social Justice which were apparently iden- tical with the Goebbels propaganda; and that it ascertain whether there was any link with German agents PRESIDENTIAL RACE ALREADY It seems like a long time to the next presidential elections, but al- ready some quiet skirmishing is going on behind the scenes. One of the skirmishers is Oscar Ewing, attorney for the Aluminum Corpor- ation and vice-chairman of the Democratic Ngtional Committee. Some time ago, Ewing dropped in to see Vice President Wallace to tell him how he had parted com- pany from the Paul McNutt forces in Indiana when that machine hesi- .tated about dropping overboard bulky hoss Frank McHale. Laber {on the part of selectees. It disorganization, n turn, no clear-cut guide |if. sprinkled throughout the reg were men who could not | whose grasp of events and commands was therefore “The | Sharply circumscribed. organization demands a presumption that gll of its into account in their orders and missions. matter in comparison With | pessee hero knows whereof he speaks when he s tax program and the proposal to impose|ihat illiterate mountaineers of Kentucky and Ten- ee are potentially the best soldiers in the world. ! | The nation’s military history is eloquent evidence to Indeed, it seems a shame that in h«‘l" would make for con- some degree of danger r army services, read or write, and and The full efficiency of army Sergeant York's suggestion tends to stand upon |its own feet, however, because it contemplates a sep- illiterate by army stan- and their handicap could therefore be taken| for men The Ten- cannot in some way The fragrance of coffee flowers may compete with | resourcef the aroma of the coffee percolator, as chemists re- | port that essential oil from the coffee flower may be Jextracted for perfumes C.E. WOODMAN, BOAT BUILDER, PASSES HERE Came fo Iemry in 1898 as Prospector-De- signed Ships tation will become of more concern |as the summer weeks progress and Americans start their usual vaca-| of 50 feet. Weather was clearing with a maximum minimum of 48. B. F. Heintzleman, District Logging Forests, returned to Juneau on the Jefferson from Ketchikan. been in the First City since May 3 to inaugurate the season's timber from . THE EMPIRE et | , 1922 Jack Henson arrived in Douglas early in the morning on the Jef- ferson from Port Angeles to attend to the administration of the Varitello estate and expected to remain for some time Hans Floe. Superintendent of the P. E Ha cannery at Hawk Inlet, was in Juneau on a business trip. { Packing Company eum Theatre, was to leave on the n the Northwest. During his trip he was to secure an orchestra for the theatre, close up another year’s contract for the exclusive showing of Paramount productions and secure H. Simonds, Alaska Superintendent of the Pacific American Fish- eries, had arrived here on the Princess Mary and left on the tender Concord for the Hoonah Packing Company cannery at Hoonah. ,accompamod by F. H. Bailey, superintendent of the canicry. He was iGed the Liberiy Club dance on the previous Saturday night in the Liberty Hall and the Girl Scouts, who served cake and coffee, had an excellent patronage The Girl Scouts during the cvening show at the Engineer for the Alaska National He had Snowslide Gulch in Last Chance ton trusting.! Basin cccurred at 9 o'clock in the morning. The snow came down from Women who are doing men’s work | the mountain top and filled Gold Creek to within 150 feet of the Alaska |in the industries may meet obstacles | juneau bunkhouse, piling up behind the old Ebner mine dam to a depth temperature of 50 and a e e e e i 5. Daily Lessons in Engli WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do n¢ cffect.” Say, “TO that effect.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Toward. by sh . 1. corpoON 3 ol say, “T heard something of that Pronounce to-erd, O as in NO, accent first syllable, or tord, one syllable; but net to-ward OFTEN MISSPELLED: Deceive; EI. SYNONYMS: Amour, liaison, love affair, intrigue WORD" STUDY a word thre Relieve; 1E. e times and it is yours.” Let us 1 tion trips. Again the bicycle will | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word | prove popular. Motorcycles also will | ARTIFICE; workmanship; a skillfully contrived work. “The material | be used to a limited degree. Familie: | will travel in farm wagons drawn by plow horses. The need of recreation will be keenly felt in this countr; and the healing effects of nature will be sought by youne and old INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: | The output of American bombers! will be greatly increased by mid- | ummer when there are aspects read as pwesgging splendid victos ies in the Qrient. Superiority of our | planes and our pilots will be dem-| onstrated on various fronts. Danger | {of sabotage will be greater than it ' has been for desperate men will Ibe employed to wreck our \‘plcmlid; |airships in ways both daring and | ul. Seience will contribute ito fiendish tasks. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of success in secret commissions, unusual lines ! jof effort and in perilous ventures. | Children born on this day may | ibe amazingly original and inde- | {pendent, hard to control and ex- | ceptionally gifted. Science will chim | (many of these Taurus natives. | (Copyright, 1942) | ——————— HOSPITAL NOTES i Twin boys were born this morn- |ing to Mrs. Sophie Kitchetoo in St. {Ann’s Hospital, one at 5:09 a. m. |and the otit™ at 5:11 o'clock. The | Charles Edward (Sandy) Wood-|babies weighed 7 pounds and 7 man, 71, died yesterday afternoon/pounds 5': ounces. in St. Ann's Hos] ness of about a week. Mr. Woodman, ital after an ill-| .| Mrs. Ray Watson and her infani' Juneau boat builder, first came to daughter, Judith Rae, have left St. the Territory in 1898 and was one Ann’s Hespital to go home. of the early prospectors in Alaska Born in Lynn, Mass. on July 1 .| Ervin Hill, who has besn a sur- 1870, he was by trade a ship and|gical patient in St. Ann’s Hospital, boat builder. As a young man he came west| and for a number of years mined s claim which he owned on \h’,‘lmnt in St. Ann’s Hospital. ! | “Mother Lode” in California. came to Alaska in '98 and packed his outfit across the Dyea Trail. In Early Days At Lake Bennett he built a boat But despite that declaration, Ew-|in which he went down the river ing has busybodies inside down with Miss Mae Oliver, asist-‘ ant treasurer of the Committee, or| been one of the active | 0 Dawson. There he prospected and the Democratic Mined until 1900 when he went to ional Committee to organize for Nome, From there he moved to Val- McNull in 1944, Whenever he sits| dez Wwhere he was engaged contractor and builder. In 1915, Mr. Woodman returned with anyone else from Indiana, al- |to the States and during the first most the first words are: “What World War 'he was employed as a can we do about McNutt for Pres-|foreman in a shipyard on Puget ident ?” McNutt, himself, probably is too busy to know much about this, but | 1= trying to make hicle. MERRY-GO-ROUND Representative Wesley Disney of Oklahoma has been a stiunch champion of the President’s for- cign policies, but that isn't keep- ing him from insisting that non- war expenditures must e cut to the bone. . . . Brig. Gen. Brehion Somer- vell, Chief of Services of Supply, voids the phrase “mechanized war- fare,” and says, “This is a war of cadgets.” ture Syndicate, Inc.) ->>s EYES EXAMINED and BROKEN LENSES replaced In our own shop, Dr. Rae Lillian the National | Sound constructing wooden ships for the Government. He returned to Alaska in 1920, | death. | Funeral ' Set | Mr. Woodman had a wide exper-|IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR lence and was especially celebrated| THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA for his ability not only as a uilder, | but as a designer of ships and| boats. Funeral 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Chapel of the Charles W .Carter with BP.OE. the Elks Cemetery in Juneau. He service will be held at, Mortuary, ! 1 Lodge No. 420, of | | which he was a member, conducting | (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- | 'he service. Interment will be in| | went home yesterday. i a medicdl pa- | Tom Thompson Col. Arthur Rogers has been a |medical patient in St. Ann's- Hos- | !pital this week | Herbert Whitfield has been under| medical care in St. Ann's Hospital this week. Fannie Pratt of Hoonah has en- tered the Government Hospital for medical care. Hazel Hansen of Yakutat entered the Government Hospital yesterday | for medical care. —————— CHARLES T. BYRAM | RETURNS FROM SITKA Charles T. Byram, representative |of Schwabacher Frey Co., returned |ka on business. He is staying at city. . DIVISION NUMBER ONE | AT JUNEAU |IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLI- | for change of name. NOTICE NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN: | Roff are keeping their fingers cros- CATION OF NORMAN ASHLEY, | uni se is the artifice of God, Cudworth. the @ artifice of the best Mechanic.”— ot Pt i s e i MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. stops at his table? A. Il is not necessary when there the man who stops is elderly, it is cour Q. Is it considered proper to begi self? A. It is much better to begin the your friend instead of yourself. by ROBERTA LEE Is it necessary for a man to rise when dining, and another man is no great difference in age. rteous for a young man (o rise. n a letter by writing about one’s If letter by writing something about Q. To whom should a bride show preference, if any, in choosing her maid of honor? A. The bride’s sister should have the preference. If she has no sister, she usually chooses her most intimate friend. D e ) 1. What creatures have the keenest eyesight? 2. Are any two things exactly alik 3. What are “frozen assets”? e? 4. Who is author of “'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”? 5. What is the Spanish-American in the sun? ANSWERS: 1. Birds. 2. According to science, no two possibly be alike. term for an unburnt brick dried things, natural or artificial, can 3. Property or investments that eannot be turned quickly into cash. 4. Tennyson, in “In Memoriam.” 5. Adobe. Dance Recifal | Waits Costumes| Dance pupils of Dorothy Stearns er) sed these days, hoping their cos- i tume material will arrive from Chicago, New York and Los An- geles in time for their annual show, which is planned for the latter part of this month. Many months or preparation and much time and planning precede the annual programs and as soon as the costume material arrives, a few more weeks or ieverich activity will find the dancers ready. members are urged to attend. SR Rabbit skins are used more ex- tensively by the, fur trade than A RN \\\\\V&\\\\\i |;| " (that on April 22, 1942, in the above |entitled court and cause the name No immediate relatives are known °f Norman Ashley was chafged to to survive Mr. Woodman. Pallbearers will he Warren Wil- socn, Dr. Johnston and Minard Mill, {Lester Louis Linehan; and the legal Iname of said applicant is now Robert Simpson, W. P,/ Lester Louis Linehan. Johnson, John K. Marshall, J. C.| Robert E. Coughlin, Glerk May 14, 1942 National Distillers Products Corpsy afternoofi at soeial meeting and a dessert lunch- eon. n buying bourbon ask: fi OLD SUNNY BROOK § Martha Society Meets Tomorrow The Martha Society of the North- n Light Presbyterian Church will eet in the church parlors Friday 1:30 o'clock for a Hostesses will be Mrs. Willis R. Booth and Mayme L. Cassell. Ail any other kind of fur. SO Vi Celeb‘ratl with | | [ Drs. Kaser and Freehurger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 I ” - - Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. | L U S | T R R R T — Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 “Hours: 9 am. to 6 p.m. — ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter| | Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. | PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third | —_—nm—m JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by | J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” [ DR H VANCE | OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment, Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin S8t. Phone 177 | Archie B. Belis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Taxes Systems Bookkeeping Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 ) “Say It With Flowers” but “BAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing=—0il Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal "Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Preseriptionists) DIRECTORY oo, COFEFE SHOP RCA Victor Radios i Professional 2 Gastineau Channel ] S e CUTSSUSR | | 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. PSSR ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. . N | PIGGLY WIGGLY | For BETTER Groceries || Phone 16—24 | "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. TIDE CALENDARS FREE |Harry Race, Druggist| D T —" “The Store for Men" SABIN°S Triemale Bldg. | Front St You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 INSURANCE Shattu;figency f | CALIFORNIA | Grocery and Meat Market | 478—PHONES—371 | High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices s WHITE rover 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, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Caramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawber- ty and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR PARKER HERBEX TREATMENTS WILL CORRECT HAIR PROBLEMS Sigrid’s mx-;u,au a Cenlury of Banking-~1941 TheB.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska SAVINGS