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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— | proof that France is taking an active part in the con- struction of a new Europe.” Belgium supplied the Nazis with 200,000 workers in January, and this was increased by 50,000 ‘in Feb- ruary, Berlin Holland has supplied 200,000 workers for Germany, the Axis radio reports. Berlin has mentioned Lithuanians and Esthonians working in Germany, but has not given the figures. German citizens enjoy freedom in their employ+ ment—if they don't mind going without food. The | | Berlin radio said that Germans would be told where | to work and that the penalty for refusal was with- drawal of food rations, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1942 20 YEARS AGO !rrfl"'E EMPIRE E IRECT‘)BY Fratormed Socieios E Gastinequ Channel b, Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONS! R. L BERNARD ) \ says. ) — 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 Meet$ every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. B 3 President Vice-President and Business Manager MAY 15, 1922 | R. E. Robertson, local attorney, was to leave on a trip to Wrangell on | business. He expected to be away for several days. | LG | Harry 1. Lucas Ensign James W. Paine Mrs. Mary Arnold James Soufoulis, Jr. Virginia Langseth . Henry H. Larson Clifford Shearer Clairella Hansina Qlson Lohn Lowell John M. Saloum - HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.25 per month. s By mail, postage paid. at the following rates: One year. in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, §1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, Drs. Kaser and 'Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 ———_ Dr. A. W. Stewart ' DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Mrs. Winifred Jones, proprietor of the Fashion, arrived on the steamer Admiral Watson and expected to be in Juneau for a short time {on business. She was staying at the Gastineau Hotel. i AATRIEL ST Otis Ross, civil engineer, left Juneau on the Admiral Watson for the | Cold Bay oil fields and was to spend the summer surveying oil claims in which he was interested. He was accompanied by W. R. Garster and Steve Vukovich who were to assist lim in his work. FURTHER PROOF MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published f“’"‘”' Additional proof of the Jap treachery involved | in the December 7 attack on Pear]l Harbor while Jap envoys were smiling in Washington comes from a Jap | recorded recently by the Federal Communi- | cations System. It is a lesSon in secrecy. In this broadcast, an official one, Japan admitted that she had been secretly preparing for the attack on Pearl Harbor as much as a year in advance. | Praising the members of a suicide squad who lost | their lives in the attack, the Tokyo commentator de- | | clared | “When 1 heard of the special unit that took part | |in the demolition of Pearl Harbor, my head bowed | unconsciously. They were the youths of Japan, at the height of blooming manhood. They had volun- tarily trained and studied secretly for a long yea | during which time no one was ever aware of their ALASKA CTRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION Holders of his motion picture contract refused to let Wallace Reid, moving picture hero, race the automobile he had entered in the 500- mile international sweepstakes race to be run at Indianapolis on May 30. NATIONAL REPI 1011 American Buildin Alaska Newspapers. RESENTATIVES g E le, Wash broadcas 3 Mrs. Henry Roden, wife of the local attorney, returned the previous | evening on the Admiral Watson from a vicit of several weeks in the South. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 "Chiropractic” Physio Electro. Theropeutics DIETETICS_—IIIDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. L — L —— —_—_————- - Dr. John H. Geyer i DENTIST Room 9--Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm, SATURDAY, MAY 16 Benefic aspects rule today which | sheuld be fortunate. Women should be especially lucky under this con- | ’ & figuration. | M. L. Merritt, Assistant District Forester, was to leave in the HEART AND HOME: This iS |gafternoon on the Jefferson for Ketchikan and from there was to go to date for pushing all business that!ipe west Coast of Prince of Wales Island. He was to be accompaniel pertains to the welfare of the fam- |\, getchikan by C. T. Gardner, Forest Supervisor. The trip was being S 108 p}]:‘mt‘r:\ry i ] S“"“"\lum(]u for the purpose of examining certain trade and manufacturing late ambition and encourage CON-| " wipin (he Tongass National Forest prior to recommending their structive efforts of all sor Giris will find that o flourishes, | limination. He was to return in about two weeks. under this sway. It is a date most promising for new acquaimanros‘ and is read as a happy wedding | day. The s promise good for-| tune for actresses and musicians|the baschall team who will contribute much to a war-| anxious public i BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Emmett Connors was to léave for Kelchikan on iLe Jefferson "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO l DRUG CO. TIDE CALENDARS FREE Harry Race, Druggist | | | plans.” ! A good old fashioned hard times ball was soon to be one of the social events on Douglas Island, according to arrangements made by the Doug- las Fire Department. The affair was to be given to raise money to equip UNDER THE YOKE S e R ke (Cincinnati Enquirer) Hitler seems to be moving with “blitz” speed m{ The plebiscite in Canada shows an n\"orwho]ming extending his system of slave labor throughout sub- |Maiority in the Dominlon as a whole in favor of and | €onsc ription for overseas service. But it also shuw.si 0 ¥ an unrelenting hostility to conscription in French women are being forced to work for the Reich. This oo g0 o hostility measured by a three-to-one vote and women in the Allied countries [, o.ing the proposal to release the Ottawa Govern- | are going to have (o work all the harder and faster. | o trom its pledges. The net result is to focus Whether or Hitler's new employment "]““""‘ml\t'nlmu more than ever on the profound cleavage are true we have no way of knowing. But here they petween French and British Canada are If Prime Minister Mackenzie King wan! ahead with general conscription for overs located strategically throughout all of oc- | the vote gives him a fair mandate, use Canadians In Poland, alone are 22 Nazi| y two (o one (o give him a free \ehies and 500 sub-branches, | hand in the issue. But if the government is chiefly concerned for Canada’s unity, the plebiscite result is to be construed as a warning. Quebcc is completely | unreconciled, in spite of the events since Decpmber | |7, which prove that this is North Ame SHan Jour |as much as Great Britain's Mussolini is said to be sending manpower as well | We have our minorities and factions in the Unit- | as food to Germany. Ttaly is reported to have sub-{ ., giates. But fortunately there is no considerable plied 300,000 workers to Germany 4 Another 4req which is sharply different in race, language, re- 100,000 are supposed to have entered the Reich *““'"\ngmn. and culture from the remainder of the coun- then. ftry. That is Canada’s persistent problem, and the The German-controlled Polish radio reports that | unfailing headache of successive Canadian Gov- the number of Poles now working for the Reich |ernments. | just attitude toward natives of SYNONYMS: Genius, bent, propensity, creative power, master mind. number 1,110,000, all in Germany. Two hundred and | Military conscription happens to have become the | countries at war with the United WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us fifty thousand of them are women. There no doubt most flagrant example of that cleavage in the Do- gtates and their descendants born!increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: are some Poles under the yoke, according to a re-|minicn. Technically, the plebiscite result paves the upger the Stars and Stripes Will FINITE; having a limit. “Man’s finite mind cannot understand these cent report from Berlin which told of how Stefan |Way for conscription, because it proves that most|jeaq to possible betrayals of faith. Wilodara, & Polish civilian laborer, had been executed. | Canadians want it. But the vote can just as well ne seers forecast an incident of | His crime was that he “showed a rebellious attitude, | ¢ Used to demonstrate the inadvisability of con- | fa;_reaching possibilities and prob- Hirialanda ‘his German employer and attacked him | SCription now |able loss of “‘(‘;- S Eoan MODERN E'"OUETTE by INTERNATIONAL A : i ROBERTA LEE several times.” Mercury on the cusp of the sixth g Tl rendite | ed shortly after World War I, took 79 hours to cross | house in good Mlm,[p toeVenus antl workers are in Germany. “Four special trains Iv:\vm”w continent and the planes flew only in daylight. pears to indicate economic belu&r-‘f France weekly with French volunteers to Germany,”| iment in Britain. Mars Fising in the Q. When attending a dinner, would a guest be rude if she switched "Smr}(- the beginning of Mfll"“h~‘ One airline company carried 1,000,000 passengers |new Mcon map for Bucharest pre- the_ place cards so that she would be seated next to the person she a weekly average of 30 trains, with about 1,000 work-lin the decade from 1927 to 1937; it carried the same |sages jmportant diplomatic moves desired? ers each have been leaving for the Reich. This is number in the first 10 months of 1941. |in Rumania. Nazi Germany comes A. Yes. She would be very rude to do such a thing, and the hostess IS« a8 s — - - iunder adverse sway which seems would be justified in never extending another invitation to her, w h' ' to foreshadow some sort of nego-| Q. Isn’tsit improper to send engraved announcements of an engage- as Ing on tiations with Russia. Hitler's horo- ment?" iscope warns of the gradual decline| A. Yes; this is not customary. of the Fuehrer’s power. Internal| Q. Is it proper to introduce one’s self, if one has not met the first troubles as well as Axis reverses member of a receiving line? are forecast. A. Yes; if this should happen, one should say, “I am Mrs. Smith.” Persons whose birthdate it have the augury of a year of suc-| cesses attended by surprises and un-" I_ 0 0 K a n d l E A R N by usual incidents. | Children born on this day pmb-: A" C' GORDON jably will be sensitive, talented nnd! - tambitious. Many of these Taurus —m ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted gate surope as millions of once-free men ; Jugated Europe as F. D. Quigley, Publicity Manager for the Totem Tours, who had been Economic | in Juneau several days on business, was to leave on the Jefferson for problems will become less harassing | Wrangell and from there he was to go directly to Seattle to make final as the summer progresses for trade | arrangements for the first of the Totem Tours which would leave Seattle will be healthily active despite many | July 30 Lo make the trip over the Richardson Highway to Fairbanks and Government decrees that limit mer-{ requrn to the coast via the Government Raflroad. | chandising and manufacturing. American resourcefulness will sub-| stitute novel ways of making mon- ey to replace what has been elimin- ated. Small business will be pro-| ceeeeeeoror e eeo tected in unexpected ways Dx]:,-j e s & by tillers and distributors of alcoholic| D 'y l E gl h e e o ac. { UAIY LESSONS IN ENGNISN w. 1., GorDON a’s war just| mands from individuals as well as ____ ___ Governmental representatives. H NATIONAL TISSUES: State and| means that men Lenses Ground not “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Blda. to go service The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 Branches of the German Employment Office are Weather for the Juneau area was c¢learing with a maximum tempera- sald to be b $ and a minimin of 46 | ture of 5 as whole voted ne cupied Europe there with 70 1 In occupied Russia, 140 labor offices have been set up. A recent German claimed that the number of foreign workers in the Reich soon will be million labor offices You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at || THE BARANOF COFEFE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET broadcast increased to more e e T USSUSSUSIN WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Anne plays bridge pretly federal Government policies in deal- | 800d.” Say, “Anne plays bridge FAIRLY WELL." ing with aliens will be tstrongly OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lorgnette. Pronounce lor-nyet, O as in criticized because many loopholes, OR, E as in YET, accent last syllable, for subversive activities are visioned.| ~ OFTEN MISSPELLED: Gray is preferred to GREY, although both The difficulty of maintaining a spellings are correct. Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING things.” ~ e s T ] N . | RCA Victor Radios | and RECORDS | Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 - INSUBANCE Shattuck Agency L. C. Smith and Corona TYI’E_VVI!ITERS Sold and Seryiced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our D;:orsup Is.Worn by Satisfied Customers” | The first transcontinental air service, inaugurat- that 150,000 French 8 g said the announcer. lar, the priests and teachers, who ington hotel. They conversed and call themselves the spiritual lead- again Tinkham showed no sign of "ers of the nation, oppose in over- recognizing Maloney. whelming majority the rebirth of . “I'll bet you $100 you don’t know the nation. Without any justifi- who I am,” Maloney challenged cation they proclaim themsely “Yes, I do,” said Tinkham. “You representatives of Christendom and can't fool me this time. You are they say they are fighting for the |that damned Veteran’s case that benefit of the people.” has been giving me so much| Another Hilversum broadcast bit- trouble.” { terly denounced the Dutch for not | (Copyright, 1942, by United volunteering to fight on the Rus- | Feature Syndicate, Inc.) [ 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 FranklinSt. Phone 177 —_— CALIFORNIA | { Grocery and Meal Market | 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices | S (Continued from Page Omne) for a few minutes, finally declared, “I am not at liberty to disclose their names.” ,———.'—-—| e Che. Thl st , Archie B. Betis “Why mnot?” ber demanded. “It might embarr: lette replied It unquestionably would have em- barrassed them because the Navy air officers present promptly and bluntly refuted the attacks on the blimp.. They asserted that con- trary to being ineffective, the blimp was the “natural enemy” of the submarine and has been highly suc- cessful in eliminating the sub dan- ger wherever used. Finally, after a heated argument, the committee took a vote on the brasshat amendment. The resuli was a 3 to 3 tie, which under the rules defeated the scheme and saved the bill from mutilation. The three voting for the bras hats were Gillette, Peter Gerry, Rhode Island socialite, and Hiram Johnson, California’s petulant iso- lationist. The antis were Senat Ralph Brewster of Maine, Charles Andrews of Florida, and David I Walsh of Massachusefts Note: During the a Navy officer brought the committee when, in reply 2 question as to when the Navy had decided blimps were effective against submarines, he said blithe- 1y, “When enemy submarinés came to our shores.” ass them,” Gil- ument one gasps from HEROIC DUTCH The heroic Dutch are fighting | back grimly at Hitler in Holland. An underground movement strik- ing at occupation forces and Dutch Nazis has been so effective that the Germans, in a desperate ef- fort wo retaliate, arrested 79 Dutch- to| | Holden sian front and for “ridiculing and | maliciously teasing” boys and girls| who join the Nazi youth societies. Note:— The broadcast indicated that the executed patriots had been furnishing information to the Brit- ish to guide them on their air raids. HE PROBABLY DID Most unusual witness at the hear- ings of the House Banking Com- mittee on the Murray small business bill was veteran Representative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. “I don’t know very much about this bill,” began Sumners, “but I'm for it.” With this frank start, Sumners then explained that he didn’t want | vice officials today issued a fire| (to be questioned about the “econ-danger warning to residents of this| ’nmic aspects” of the legislation. “We have a lot of high-salaried economists in the government who can tell you all about that,” he re- marked helpfully. Then, concluding, the Texan floored his listeners with this one: “I hope I haven't left the com- mittee any more confused than I found it.” CASE are told about lion-hunting George Tinkham, veteran Massa- chusetts Republican Representative who is retiring this year, than al- most any other member of Con- gress. Here is the latest. Tinkham was lolling in the Park- er House in Boston when Senator Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut came up and began chatting with him. Tinkham was voluble and More anecdotes bewhiskered, men, many of them former army officers. Of this group 72 were| shot and the other seven impris-| oned for life. 1 Evidence that the underground] ‘movement is widespread and that the Nazis and Dutch traitors are afraid of it was publicly revealed | jn a Hilversum broadcast "It said: “There are still many people who oppose the new times and who underestimate the strength fittbe young nations. In particu-!loney met in the lobby of & Wash-| Hampshire in Ohio, they conversed for some time, but Maloney saw that Tinkham obvious- ly did not recognize him. “Mr. Tinkham,” said Maloney, I'll bet you $25 you don't know who T am.” “Oh, yes I do,” Tinkham pro- tested, “you are that Veteran's case my office wrote me about.” Maloney identified himself and they laughed about it. A month later Tinkham and Ma- | FIRE DANGER ~ WARNINGS ARE ISSUED HERE ‘Moforists Are Asked fo Be Careful with Cigar- ettes on Road | Because of the hazardous m;,, ditions brought about in this area by recent dry weather, Forest Ser- | area. Two fires have occurred with- in the last 36 hours. The wamn- ling reads as follow. “Smokers are requested to ex- tinguish their cigarets and matches | before throwing them away while drjving along the highway. The 50 acre fire occurring along the Nug- get Creek Road yesterday was be- lieved caused by a discarded cigar- et thrown from a car. “Residents along Glacier High way are especially warned about . hot burning grass and hrush dur- | ing the period of dry weather. N» | burning will be permitted on Forest | Areas under permit as homesites, | summer residences and other occu- | pancy. One of the greatest daa- gers because of the dry grass at | this time of the year is fire spread-l ;lng to buildings. Permits for burn- !ing will be issued by the Forest Service if burning is' necessary.” ! ——P——— { i i DIVORCES ASKED i Two divorce actions were filed | teday in JU. 8. District Court. Keith Rushton asks a divorce from Ethyle | | Rushton on the ground of incom- patability. Clifford Anderson asks legal separation from Virginia An- derson on the same grounds. | ———— Which is farther north, Seattle, Wash., or Quehec, Canada? natives are mystics with a great! “The White Plague” imleresl in occult investigations. | (Copyright, 1942) PATGILMORE, JR. | TRANSFERRED TO | JUNEAU OFFICE Robert Jernberg. Appoint- ed as Assistant Dis- frict Attorney ?PD}::':I |~msn been received ft?vj ; . RECEIVED Moéf ¢ the transfer May 16 of U. S. As—l T/‘/AN/0,000/I’OLL\SOF Isistant District Attorney Pat Gil-| { FILM WHICH BORE NO RETURN ADDRESS / What is known as What is a carnivorous animal? Who preceded David as King of Israel? How does “volcano” get its name? ANSWERS: Seattle. Tuberculosis. One who eats meat. Saul. From the ancient Roman god of fire, Vulcan. | | | | | | | 3 : | ’ | | @a‘t(r | {more, Jr, from Ketchikan to Ju-| ;nmu, U. 8. District Attorney Wil- {liam A. Holzheimer announced to-| day. | Gilmore will be replaced in Ket- |chikan by Robert Jernberg, Sitka |attorney, former well known Ju-| jno:\u man, who has been approved (as Assistan District Attorney. Jern- berg will go to his dew post as soon as he can arrange his affairs at Sitka, Bonnie Maclean’s Birthday Feted Celebrating the second birthday of Bonnie MacLean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon MacLean, a group of youngsters yesterday af-| ternoon attended a party held | the MacLean home. | Among those who enjoyed the big birthday cake and other party fix- ings are Susan Blanton, Gnewpen Forsman, Mary Ellen Keaton, Char- lene Gross, Becky Sharpe, Klfi_fl Delebecque, Joe Abel, Kenny Mer- ritt, John Holmquist, Jake Ramsey AN ORI0 COMPA MAILS 250,000 L EES EACH YEAR. 3508 BEES FoR PaUND) UNDREDS OF LETTERS, ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE, ARE ADDRESSED YEARLY TO SHERLOCK HOLMES, 221-B BAKER .STREET, LONDON-— DESPITE THE FACT THAT HOLMES IS A CHARACTER OF FIcTioN. It is rather hard to believe haw little some of us care for precious heotographs which took so much of our time and money to make. any of them treasures and ‘not replaceable yet m hundreds of thousands of mailers forget to place thei; réturn address ‘on' parcels sent to photo developers. On all kinds'of mail—place your return addressiand name. 2 There is a town named Nn*wl and Alan Gould. ———— BUY DEFENSE STAMP IThere is nq substitute ;!or newspaper advertising! # - o 3 = - i PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Taxes Systems Bookkeeping Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 { IRl oot oo St — “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Phone 311 —_—m Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—O0il Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal W LSBTV LG AL "'Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful. Prescriptionists) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM L JGEGRRAM U= | sore WHITE, rever | TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bros. 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