The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empm’ Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN - President R. L. BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Mahager Entered in the Post Office in_Juneau as Second Class Matter. | UBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douclas for §1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid. at the following rates One year, in advance, $12.00; si% 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. ‘Telephories: News Office, 602; Business Otfice, 3. 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NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Building, Seatile, Wash, HOME FRONT What may prove to be a needed shot in the arm | for the nation’s civillan defense organization is the | offer of the American Legion to enroll the member- ship of the Legion in making the nation’s civilian defense organization more effective It is announced that the Office of Civilian De- fense has called upon the Legion to conduct schools to train 1 ‘To head the na- tion-wide U 5 air raid wardens training program, Commander Lynn Stambaugh has appointed Ray Murphy, past national | commander, as director Said Murphy While the call may never come we would deserve everything we got if when it came we were not prepared to cope with whatever the enemy might throw at us. The Legion’s part in training air raid wardens is anoth tep in making it the most powerful volunteer | organization in the country engaged in a campaign to make the victory come sooner, and with the small- est expenditure cf men and dollars REVERSING THE GAME The war of nerves, it is interesting to note, now is being turned upon its original exponents with no little success. This potent weapon of total war has exclusively by the Nazis up to the The United Nations have ex- large capacity because they been employed present time. hibited any partly partly because never for never have understood it, and up until recently, they have not pos- sessed the potential striking power necessary to scare this type of warfare, | | s to strengthen their defenses in | Norway and on the Channel ccast. The people of | the occupied countries have been warned against | alding any invaders. Reprisals against sabotage and !.\1()'»\‘(10“!1\ have been stepped up. | THe mere possibility of an invasion is fraying | Hitler's nerves. It is being talked up to fray them as much as possible. We must realize that this is primarily part of our own war of nerves, and must guard against being an oblique casualty of one of our owh weapons. | compelled the Na Blindfold The Subs (Philadelphia Record) Drastic action by lighting, which unwittingly has helped set U-boat | traps for American vessels, comes none too soon. Voluntary dim-outs, particularly along the Jersey seashore, have been a failure. With all its curtailed illumination, the hazy reflection over Atlantic City still has been visible for 20 miles at sea—forming a background on which silhouetted ships become perfect targets for torpedoes. Similar dangers have been sufficiently widespread ! to cause the Army to order a permanent dim-out for 15 miles inland along the: shorelines of New York, New Jersey and Delaware. - Under the Army order, inconveniences are to be expectéd—on land. Hotel and office buildings must be dimmed out up to the 15th floor, blacked out | above that | from the s Likewise trains and automobiles. But whatever hardships these regulations bring are nothing to the loss of lives they | vital war | signed to reduce | We hope the Army's plan works. But if it | docsn’t, even more drastic measures will be justified. It is encouraging that military authority has tak- {en charge of this phase of defense previously left to | State and local officials The Record long ago urged military supervision | over ALL civilian defense. We hope the dim-out on | the coast is only the first step in that dircetion People Find Out (New York Times) | The question of information being withheld from | the American people or manipulated for purposes of morale is not unimportant. But after all, it is well | to remember that with more than forty million news | papers sold every day snd supplemented by weekly | publications of very large circulation Ihu American | people are not likely to remain in the about bad allow exazgerated good news too readily. The notion that the common man’s mind is a tabula rasa for any official person to write on is a | survival of the once enormously popular but not pre ty well bankrupted propaganda philosophies. common man, Homo Newspaperiensis, can put two land two together. He can put together his own | newspaper with his neighbor’s newspaper, even if he |has to read it over his neighber’s shoulder in the | subway. He can put together today's newspaper with | yesterday’s newspaper, which he is apt to remember much better than some people give him credit for. i Winston Churchiil may elect to tell his people all the bad news as soon as it comes in, and our own news or to s best intentions in the world annot be kept very long from a nation which con- il Mrs. Raymond Haydon the Army to reduce seacoast | No street or house lights must be visible | .| may be unpleasantly affected under and ships and | materials which these regulations are de- | The | government may choose to soften bad news, with the | In either case the news | THE DAILY ALASKA LMPth—— UNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY { John Hermle Ray G. Day Harold T. Jacobsen Joseph Riedi Hans Floe Mrs. E. E. Somers | Malcolm Faulkner Grant Ritter Chee Hermann Guy Westall Erwin Butts Mrs. L. C. Gaddie - | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” | TUESDAY, MAY 19 Adverse planetary influences are | strong in the horescope for today. | Labor and industry are under evil portents which appear grave crises. HEART AND HOME: to presage | [ ‘Women this configuration which seems to ! warn them of severe tests of cour- | age. There is an ill omen which is | read as an indication of depressing | war news. While the sway con- | tinues there should be stern self- | discipline that rebukes worry and | lanxiety. The stars promise victory !for the United Nations and inspire | iall persons who are loyal to democ- to incr e their bond pur- and their work for deliver- | | ance from Axis aggression. ; | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: It has| been long foretold that in this month and next a great change, be- lgun in April, would be evident in world conditions. This means thal in the financial world there will be | grave care: also encouragement. | | This year is dominated by the con- | junction of Saturn and Uranus, both making a trine to Neptune | There will be miracles in factory | ‘modurtmu and activity in many 'lines of trade all through 1942. NATIONAL ISSUES: With com- | school. " Portland. !work on the Auk Bay-Tee Harbor 20 YEARS AGO ¥ empire MAY 18, 1922 Assistant Secretary of Commerce C. H. Huston and seven or eight other officials from Washington were to reach Juneau on June 22 on a tour that was to cover a large part received by Col. James G. Stegse. of the Territory, according to word In the party were to be officials of the Treasury, Navy and State departments. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Forrest a business trip to the Westward and President Charles E. Bunnell, and School of Mines, spoke to the returned on the Northwestern from Interior to Fairbanks. of the Alaska Agricultural College Juneau Commercial Association out- lining the organization of the college and the work to be undertaken by it chikan and Juneau. About $50 was realized by the He said he was pleased to find it so highly thought of in Ket- tag sale conducted the previous day by the Douglas Island Woman's Club for the benefit of the Douglas Prizes given for the three h by Lawrence Carlson, Florence Swa With the motto of the class, large letters of purple surmountin {Church the previous evening. The and Gov. Scott C. Bone delivered a splendid address. Others taking part in the program were Arthur Nelsen, Gallwas, who delivered the salutator gave the valedictory. Mr. and Mrs. Horace O. Adams | “Not Evening, ighest number of tags sold were won son and Elizabeth Sey. But Dawn,” mude into g a platform decorated with class | colors and evergreens and cut flowers, the Senior Class of the Douglas | High School was graduated before a crowd at the Congregational Rev. C. E. Rice gave the invocation who gave welcoming speech, Harold 'y oration and Miss Una Crowe, who eft the previous evening on the Spo- kane to make the round trip to Sitka. Passengers arriving on the mailboat Estebeth from Skagway were H. F. Presten, R. Wakelin, R. R. Young and Ella Gilsinger. Lieut. F. A. Hewes, naval radio on the Northwestern on his way to Albert Wile, commercial traveler, kane for Sitka operator, left the previous evening his headquarters in Bremerton. p,xswd through Juneau on the Spo- 5 Otteson, stockholder and ing Company, rived previous business trip o Seattle at Funter, the G. A. Carlson, of the firms of Spokane, left on the Northwestern He was making the trip | mencement days not far off educa- | | tors will be concerned regarding the future of the great army of grad- uates who go forth into a greatly troubled world. The stars seem | to indicate that fame will come to 'an unusual number of young men |and women for they will be prom- {inent in postwar reconstruction after they have aided in victorious ' | conflict. The seers prophesy that a great leader will emerge from a 1942 class, | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: ‘\ Astrologers read in the horoscope been recommended to the War ! Roads. Weather was fair with moderate perature Department 1 manager of the Alaska Dano Min- afternoon on the Spokane from a He expected Lo leave in a few days for the mine Siems and Carlsoh, contractors of for a business trip to Spokane and in the interest of the construction road for which work his firm had by the Butreau of Public variable winds. The maxinum tem- was 57 and minimum was 47. Daily Lessons in English % . corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do there.” ~Say, “My sons-in-law (or OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Lullaby. not say, “My son-in-laws were daughters-in-law) were there.” sPronounce lul-a-bi, U as b Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Ly Chiropractic” Physio Electro Theropeutics DIETETICS—REDUCING Soap Lake Mineral and Steam Baths Dr. Doelker, D. C., Bernard Bldg. DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and ©Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. | PHONE 136 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ | READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS DIRECT(’RY Fraternal Societies ,“__| Dr. John H. Geyer ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. The Charles W. Carter F—_—"—_| JAMES C. COOPER MONDAY, MAY 18, 1942 e e, Professional Gastineau Channel ——d 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. FrRe | B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 Y ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO | DRUG CO. I fRR Fat Bani bo | TIDE CALENDARS FREE Harry Race, Druggist “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFEFE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable ratles Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET and RECORDS Juneau Melody House ' RCA Victor Radios the Nazis | sumes more than forty million newspapers a day. for Japan the omen of complete ! in UP, A as in ASK unstressed, T as in BITE (not as BIT), accent first | Now the tables are being turned. Continuous S ghssier Ledons e hd) O SOBIVERT bR BIb! £aig sut Beryind by | Ne iR e e, | f s AN 5 e S o o 5 The evil portents extend over a| e 5 J B B ' d&c Second Street Phone 65 devastating raids by the Royal Air Force upon Ger- A health officer says there has been a sharp | ,erjog of several years after which | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Silhouette; observe the OUETTE. J. B. DUrior 0. many and Nazi-dominated Western Europe have|drop in the number of blood donors, and he thinks | there will be revival under the di- ' SYNONYMS: Folly, foolishness, fatuousness, fatuity, ineptitude, in- “Our Dl;m.swp Is Worn by shown the Nazis that Britain has organized an air[it is a result of spring housecleaning. Yes, but |rection of the United States which | fatuation. Satisfied Customers” T ATeITD A MO | force capable of a heavy, sustained offensive. More- |what's that got to do with the husbands? !is soon to repay the enemy for the, ~ WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us INSURANCE over, hard-hitting Commando raids by the British Ry R | Pearl Harbor incident. Before Japan | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: have demonstrated both a readiness and an ability to| It scems to us that Brazil has a kick coming, |15 defeated there is a sign that)pURPORT; meaning. “The next command was of more serious pur- strike at German defenses in the west. Britain has | She grows two-thirds of the world's coffee, and yet |0 ‘?r:;"‘fti‘:’“”f‘ i "l':l':‘;;; et DR. H. VANCE stepped up production and trained more and more | when anybody wants a cup they call it Java. }z;fi?“ct into whichpb:iz:g.i)c meth- FEPSELR s OSTEOPATH Shafllle AQGHCY men. And the number of trained men and offensive | —_— == — | ods are introduced by the Japanese. | Consultation and examination weapons is being increased by fresh arrivals from | More than 600000 Red Cross First Ald textbooks | Persons whose birthdate it is have MODERN ETIOUE"E bfl free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; the United States | are being printed per week. If anybody in the coun- | the augury of a year of preoccupa- | ROBERTA LEE 7 to 8:00 by appointment. ) In short, Britain daily is becoming more formid- | try escapes being bandaged for practice, he'll have | tion with romance which may in-|) Gastineau Hotel Annex c A L lr o n “ l A | able as a base for offensive operi Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) hoth Moody and Allred al s has been a st rooter, will continue to be.) Gen. Stanley Embick of the Joint Army-Navy Board has been (Roosevelt ong Allred a good enough sport to admit to Alaskan officials: “I was against the Alaskan highway last October but I admit T was wrong.’ WAR PRODUCTION bf The over-all picture on the war production front continues to be cheering Industry and labor are doing a preat job. In April, the output of war supplics hit a level which, if maintained the rest of | the year, will reath the stupendous | volume, in terms of money, of | $40,000,000,000. This 15 very good news, indeed.| It marks a tremendous change|T from OPM days only a few months back. Yet, privately, WPB insiders are shouting no hurrahs ‘They feel strongly that production should Also, that It would be except for one factor: Don- failure to houseclean certain key dollar-a- the rate of be much greéater. greater ald Nelson’s his staff of year assistants who are still think- | ing in terms of business interests first. These men are charged with sole responsibility for a number of ser-| jous bottlenecks—including lags in| the flow of raw materials, scrap collection, plant conversion, and the integration of thousands of little plants, with vast producing poten- tinlities, into the war program Note:— WPB chiefs long under fire on these grounds are Philip Reed, head of the Bureau of In- dustries Branches, W. H. Harrison, director of the Production Division; Lessing Rosenwald, in charge of sorap collections; and C. H. Mat-| thieson, Priorities chief OLD STORY These vital weaknesses in the production program are nothing _mew. They were at the bottom o1 the ations. This has| to be pretty agile, tragic fa:lure of OPM. What is new is that after five menths of war and heavy U. S. losses, these failings have not been remedied and the men largely ve- sponsible for them remain in con- trol. For example: After the explosive resignation from WPB of Robert Guthrie, Kentucky business man, because of the “business as usual” attitude of high WPB officials, an order was belatedly issued to halt racdis production on April 3. That was three wecks ago, but radio sets are still being turned out in la numbers, After the stop order was with a fanfare of publicity der was quietly modified without publicity. to permit the pro-, duction of an additonal 400,000 ra- dio sets., Similarly, the typewriter industry, which could be converted in a fe weeks 10 producing large quanti- ties of desperately needed airplane | parts, is still permitted to roll along in high gear making lvpcwrit,ers.‘ There are many other cases of big resources in machines, materials labor going to w in issued , the or- any and ste No are Hundreds of typewriters | idle in government of-| ‘hnn plenty of them right in WPB. ILSON'S WEAK Nelson’s failre to plug up soft spots in his staff is due to his own major weakness—his reluc- {tance to fire people, a trait shares with the President. Nelson is a man of great tal- ents He has exceptional execu- tive ability, thinks fast and clearly, and knows his job tHoroughly. He is broad-gauged, has liberal views |on social and economic problems, land has the capacity to win hold the loyalty of those him But, like the President, Nelson can’t be ruthless when it comes to getting rid of inadequate ants. | The President’s staff, cabinet and | Administration are cluttered up with proven incompetents and mis- | fits, but he keeps them on and | Nelson is guilty of the same soft- | lying SPOT 1§ the | he and around assist- this | [ manner. IR heartedness. Nelson might well follow the ex- ample of Price Admihistrator Leon Henderson and Lt. Gen. Brehon Scmervell, chief of the Army’s Ser- vice of Supply. If an assistant doesn’t measure up, they fire him regardless of personal relations or feelings.. That's why they have the ablest staffs in the war organi- zation and the reputation for al- ways delivering the goods. Note:— The five best executives Nelson are William Batt, director of the Materials Division; * Douglas C. MacKeachie, Purchas- ing chiet; Robert Nathan, head of the Planning Division; Frank Fol- som and A. J. Browning, under Army and Navy. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) P Cebu Heroine Rita Palmer Nurse Rita Palmer, 24, of Hamp- ton, N, H., may have been under fire and injured on the lsland of Cebu i the Philippines, according to cables received by her mother. Shé was one of the nurses who carried out their | duties amid the horror of the delib- | erate bombing of a Manila hospital by the Japs. She joined the Army | in 1941, deputy | purchasing directors assigned (o the| in the service will have narrow es- | capes. | Children born on this day prob- | ‘ ably will have extraordinary talents and strong characte: Théy may i win the sort of success that arouses |envy. i (Copyright, 1942) PR gy 'SENIOR CLASS BACCALAUREATE HELD SUNDAY {Final School Days Under, Way for High School Class of 1942 of Juneau last night Graduating Seniors |High School gathered lin their \ercises of their class, signifying the |beginning of the end for them of | their High School careers. Follow- jmg this service, they look forward only to Commencemeni, on Wed- nesday evening, before they set {forth in the world free from the apron strings of school. Opening the cereétmenies last {night was the processional “Land |of Hope and Glory,” by Elgar, iplayed by the Band. The Rév. W. | H. Matthews gave the invocation |and ne High School Mixed Chorus sang “As Torrents in Summer,” |also by Elgar. 3 | Pastor Ralph E. Baker gave the !scripture lesson from the words of St. Paul and the congregation sang Ilhe hymn, “America the Beautiful.” | Gives Address | In his Bacealaureate address, the !Rev. C. E. Rice stressed the words| lof @t. Paul as given in the seriptiire ‘les.sun “When I became a mh T 'put away childish things® | pointed out that the Christian ré- |ligion is a man’s relicion, ‘not & child’s. | He brought out the point that|n; |the Christian religion in the days 'of the young Christ, was a y« {man's movement. He warned |graduates against taking their re |liglon as so many people take it, ia reminiscence of chilihood, tell* hng them rather to plant their feet | terfere with business progress. Men | gray caps and gowns to| | take part in the Baccalaureate €x-| ‘and | Q. What should be the keynote ol a weddmg ceremnny that is bemg performed soon after a death in the family of one of the principals? A. Simplicity; and only a few near relatives and intimate friends | should attend. There should be nothing elabotate in the flowers, decora- tions, or the procession, Q. May one ever leave the spoon standing in the coffee cup? | A. No; the spoon should be placed in the saucer. Q. How should the visiting card of a doctor and his wife read? A. Dr.and Mrs. Stanley R. Young. { ek | |.00K and I.EARN . C. GORDON : 7 2. What retail activity leads in in it? 3. i 4. What is a kleptomaniac? 6. How much air is breathed by ANSWERS: 1. Michigan. 2. Grocety business, i 3. George Eliot. 4. A person who has an insane p | 5. Almost 400 cubic feet. firmly on the grounds of a new and {wider religion of manhood. He quoted to them the words from the prayer of the Pioneers, “Grant that our lives may corres- | ipong to our highest conception of Qod,” saying that they must have a religion competent to guide them through life. Foundations True | Speaking of the doubts which might assail them as they go to| colleges and delve into science which seem to point out fallacies and childish things in the storfes of the Christian religion, hé said that ‘One doesn’t have to belleve in| the childish things in religion, but should recognize the truths behihd the 'storles. He pointed out that the Christ- ian ‘religion is not an unchanging | thing, but should progress, “al- though the foundation on which it rests will' remain’ true.” Ending the program was another by the Mixed Chorus, “THe t will Never Stay,” by McCay. Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman gave benediction and the Band played as a recessional “Elves| Dance” by Tschalkowski.gy ————————— smplm qhql(m Pay! | What State of the Union is made up of two peninsulas? the number of individuals engaged What was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, English novelist? the average person a day? )ropcnslty to steal. MORE CHANGES IN SCHOOL FACULTY Supt. A. B. Phillips, of the Juneau Public Schools, announced today that one of the tedchers recently elected by the School Board includes Carman Yates. Supt. Phillips also arnounced that Dorothea Meyer has handed in her resignation effective at the close of the present school term. South Franklin St. }’hone 1717 Audits Systems Taxes Bookkeeping “SAY IT WITH OURS!" Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. I’lumblng—()fl Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal “’Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Prescriptionists) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S DANIS] B}‘CECBBAM " Archie B. Betis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Rm. 8, Valentine Bldg. Phone 676 _— “Say It With Flowers” but Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Pricey TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bros. Garage 909 WEST 12TH STREET “HORLUCK’S DANISH” Ice Cream Klavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Cdaramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawber- ry and Vanilla— soee WHITE roer i e e H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER at the GUY SMITH DRUG | e e et & MARX CLOTHING FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR PARKER HERBEX CORRECT HAIR PROBLEMS TREATMENTS WILL Sigrid’s ——— Mrs. C. G. Burdick Leaves for South Mrs. Charles G. Burdick left this afternoon for the south to spend the next few months visiting friends and i'elatlvea ‘on the Pacific Coast and in Montana. She will joih Mr. Burdick, Assist- | ant Regional Forester for the U. 8. rest Service, who is south on of- clal business. 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