The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1942, Page 4

PACLFOQR : Daily Alaska Empire ed every evening cxcept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Maln Str Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - President R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business Manager 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. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One yegr, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, In advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Mvery of their papers. ' News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news$published | herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. Alaska Newspapers, 1011 WE SHOULDN'T MINIMIZE > with the opinions the Aleutian | We find it impossible to of certain observers who tenc the of 10 minimize the occu- pation by Japanese cveral of Islands. Naval officials than occasion that in the years during which Japan was preparing for the war on the United States the Japs scouted the Aleutian area from top to bottom and | have a fairly of what value the islands have from a military standpoint. Undoubtedly the who visited the is- have stated on more one good ide Jap fishermen and naval officers the last five fossils lands ir ar ten s were not interested in the | Tt stand to reason that the Japs warring nation, would waste efforts in occupying barren islands which | to the Jap scheme of conquest. Ally for us to| to develop strong naval and refore, it does not who are just as smart 2s an are not important We that it i hold on to the Aleutiax to prevent believe vit important air bases there, and the Japanese from | nes: gainin fonthold on them These islands are of utmost importance defens ly since if the island suitable chain, the would be make further attacks and to cut communications It hold these better to cooprats any semi-permanent enemy does sucreed in securing any field in the Aleutian strong position Alaska shipping to Russia for a landirg enemy n a to to prey on in Union air remain Soviet we can islands, we position with the with a better chance to attack Japan from the should Russia and Janan begin to fight We know by annomcement to date that the en- | has taken Attu and Kiska, and is setting up a base at Kiska. Whether of the “populated areas announcements, is later emy this base is near any in previous official has not been an- described something that nounced. If the Japs have made any additional gains in the Aleutians, bad weather has kept the news from our War Department. And this possibility probable The Aleutians, approximateiv 150 of them, stretch out for about 1,200 miles. Fogs are almost constant and communications in such a remote area are not is not too im- the best. ‘us their base for Alaska onrrations. This much is | indicated in a recent report from Nome which said that our scouting planes had sighted the Jap fleet steaming from Kiska and that an attack on Nome could be expected. The attack, evidently, failed [to materialize. But such a possibility should prove that the Jap occupation of Kiska Harbor, an excel- lent harbor, is by no means unimportant. To minimize the importance of the Jap footholds in the Aleutians is only to ¢ncourage an atmosphere of laxity in other fields where the Nipponese may try to exert their freedom of the seize. north From A Canadian Newspaper Alaska newspaper publishers have good grounds criticism when they charge that stories, played and featured in the press ¢f the United States, barred from the papers of Alaska Territory, by y are feeling curious and just a shade Why should these same stories, printed in tates, be prohibited in the north? The same ling is not entirely unknown in Canada. Can’t We Run The U. § Harry Bridges? Without (Philadelphia Record) If all the Communists in the United States were | herded into a concentration camp tomorrow, or de- | ing the Western Hemisphere, curselves included. | General Biddle has served that singleness of purpose | with far-seeing wisdom and great courage. * |'turbed | Seattle has ordered 75 tenants out and will close the | | worry. ported, it would ot make one jota of difference in winning the war It would not cause a ripplc in our relationship | with Soviet Russia—except it might bring a smile to| the age of Stalin. about Attorney Gen- eral Biddle's decision that Hary Bridges is an alien Communist and therefore must be deported? saturnine v HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE 24 Johi: Runquist Douaglas Parker Lester Linehan Lloyd C. Knutson Mrs. R. F. Thompson Estella Castleton Z.gurd Larsen Helon T. Byerson Alicc T. Marshall frrrrrrrrrr e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” e s THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Until late today mildly adverse planetary influences dominate. There is a benefic aspect for naval maneuvers | HEART AND HOME: Venus is in forbidding aspect late today and | there appears to be little encourage- | ment to romance. As a wedding date it is not tortunate since small deceits may interfere with l\appi-i ness. Those who become partners | in marriage under this configur- secrecy and misrepresentation. The: According to some commentators, including Sam Grafton, in the Philadelphia Record, the Attorney | General has been guilty of something akin to sub-; versive activity, has cooled the ardor of Russia to win | the war, has jeopardized the growing friendship be- tween the Soviet and the United States. What sentimental twaddle! Grafton and his fellow sentimentalists have been steeped too long in the peacetime palsy-walsy atmos- phere engendered by Chambers of Commerce and such Their slogan is: cratch my back and I'llj cratch yours.” That isn’t the world today, Brother Grafton. Rus- sa is in this war to keep the Nazis out of Russia. We are in this war to keep the Axis from conquer- After we haye destroyed Hitler and Hirohito we may have time for fine phrases and polite izvstu!-es. At the moment, we have grim business ahead. We can hope to win only if we concentrate with single- | of purpose on that winning By ordering the deportatior. of Bridges Attorney It may have seemed exvedient to rule that Bridges is not a Communist in the face of overwhelm- ing evidence that he is—or to have rendered no de- cision at all, which would have left Bridges undis- for the time being. For Bridges has been performing a very useful service Since Russia turned anti-Axis he has been expediting loading of ships on the Pacific just as he was delaying loading when | Russia was on the other side. But such expediency would be most short-sighted and dangerous to the unity which is this nation’s greatest strength. It would be a confession that we could not count on the loyalty of iabor without the help of a foreign-born Communist. We see where an apartment house landlord in place bhecause of the government order freezing rents. Well, that's one way of getting even, but it reminds | reliability. Old-fashioned will be much needed in| solute virtues | coming months BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Many - time business kinks will be ironed out and a sense of national pow- er and prosperity will continue Mercury is in an aspect read as ting continued good fortune among the workers of the United States. The ctars presage further measures to cnlist every qualified man and woman in highly techni- cal tasks. It is foretold that Go ernment policies will become se' X in production are| Labor will per- | re as perils of la fully recognized. form wonders toils to support the fighters. Sons! of union officials are to win fame for their heroism. NATIONAL ISSUES: In communities small minorities that | |do not feel the real impact of the | war wifl exist pleasure as usual through the Sum- | mer but they are not to coniinue! their carefrec existence if the stars are rightly read Government regu- | lations that seek to equalize as far | ability to escape from assuming a | fair share of civilian burdens. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| As this month makes history in ng-’ gressive tactics of the United Na- | tions more made directlv and indirectly. There | is in an aspect that should give | the emperor plenty of reasons to| If H:tler reads his personal horoscope thi fields. Mr. and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA e 20 YEARS AGO B. D. Stewart, Territorial Mine Inspect several weeks visiting Washington, D. C., Pitisburgh and olher cities, was to return on the next trip of the Alameda. While he was south he also made a study of coal mining conditions in .Western Washington Mrs. Juneau on the Spokane after spending some time in San Francisco. from THE EMPIRE JUNE 24, 1922 To attend the annual convention of the National Education Asso- ciation at Boston, July 2 to 7, inclusive, Commissioner of Education L. D. Henderson was to leave the following day on the Princess Alice. When he returned to the West Coast he was to perfect arrangements for the Alaska Teachers' Institute to be held in Ketchikan late in August. A tentative program of events between the crews of the Unalga and the Explorer was drawn up by Lieut. J. 8. Klinger, Athletic Officer on the Unalga and Tom McDonald, Chairman of the Sports Committee. The program was being forwarded to the Explorer for apgroval. According to an announcement Elks Hall had been secured by the | Coliseum Theatre orchestra and a jitney dance would be given each Saturday night, giving Juneau two jitney dances on Saturday, the other being at the A. B. Hall. Deputy Clerk of the Court Lafe Spray left for Sitka on the Spokane on official business in connection with naturalizaticn hearings. accompanied by Mrs. Spray. He was who had been away for Ray Stevens and their daughter, Rae, arrived in Al Forsyth, Mendenhall rancher came to town exhibiting a fawn, ation should be on guard against three or four Admiralty Island, with apparently, should cultivate frankness and ab- |by W. A. Sparks and was tame weeks old that had been found the week before on no mother. It had been taken home a kitten, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Harding left on the gashoat Dupoco for duPont where they were to be the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Abbott for several days. Major General Charles G. Morton, Commanding General of the Ninth Corps Area, Juneau about July C. Bone He was with headquarters at San Francisco, was to visit 5 or 6, according to advices received by Gov. Scott to travel to Fort Seward by transport and stop at Juneau on the way north Miss Helmi Aalto was to leave on the Spokane for Seattle on her summer. 'way to Bellingham to attend the Bellingham Normal School during the Fred Henning, representative for Robert Scott, was to leave on the in the army that |Spokane on a business trip to Ketchikan. Mrs. M. Conway, wife of the Postmaster at Skagway and her two Mrs. Alice. P. H. Ganty, They will pursue | ang her son, Prosper, were homeward hound passengers on the Princess | children, Elizabeth and John, were passengers on the Princess Alice on many | their way home. wife of the well known Skagway merchant, Weather was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 62 and a mini- mum of 55. as possible the sacrifices entailed | meeee—— {by war will climinate the slackers’! Daily Lessons in English %. 1. corpox WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “We shall be happy to peace moves will bo“accept your invitation.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Respite. {are evil portenis for Japan. Venus | LESS, I as in PIT, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Lean (thin). Say, “We ARE happy.” Pronounce res-pit, E as in Lien (a legal claim). SYNONYMS: Error, mistake, blunder, fault, oversight. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” month he will see|increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Let us us of the fellow who found out he had a tape worm. that his stovs presage defeat, the | CAPRICE; a sudden, unreasonable change of mood or opinion; a whim. | unrest that becomes revolutionary (Pronounce ka-pres, A as in ASK, E as in ME, accent last syllable). It made him so mad at it he wouldn't eat anything | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 DIRECTORY 1 Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS , Blomgren Building Phone 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. 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 First Aid Headquarters for Abused Hair Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Hair Problems Sigrid’s Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third [_—| 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 1942 Frofessional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel -3 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 Wi LEIV- ERS, Secretary. & B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every 2nd and 4th Wednes- days at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. el PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. TIDE CALENDARS FREE i Harry Race, Druggist 4 “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. . You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFEFE SHOP e R Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Viclor Radios and RECORDS Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 INSURANCE | Shanu:figency i ¥ among subjugated nations, and dan- | «f you live according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.” jger to his own life. His assassin-|_geneca. MODERN ETIQUETTE *¥ 5 but ancient eggs from then on. It would be possible for the Japs to occupy more of these islands, particularly the ones lacking wireless stations and uninhabited, without our forces know- heme at last, we reckon the war can start in earnest ing anything about it. | —and we can start using our best hotels for other The Japanese apparently are using Kiska Harbor purpose: iashin’gh Merry- Go-Reund 4 (Condinued from Page Omne) South Franklin St. Phone 177 _—nmm CALIFORNIA | Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Pricesy TRUCKS and BUSSES NASH CARS Christensen Bros. Garage 909 WEST 12TH STREET Well. now that all sides have their diplomats at may succumbh from the effects of | long mental snd physical strain. | Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of changes {that include tea travel for many.| | Secret messages will be entrusted | to certain Caucer natives, Children Lorn on this day will Ibe endowed with mental keenness and resourccfulness. Skill in what- ever vocation is followed will assure great success. (Copy.ight, 1942) Archie B. Betis PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Taxes Systems Bookkeeping Rm. 9, Triangle Bldg. Phone 676 _—— ROBERTA LEE R et to be until the Allies can establish a second front in Norway. FRANCE GOES ANTI-NAZI It can be no secret to the Nazis that scores of Frenchmen are sneak- ing out of France to England by small boat or even airplane. Some eventually have found their way to the United States. The story they fell is one of the! most encouraging of the war pic-{time in Senator Truman's office re- tures, but it shows our State Depart-|cently trying to dissuade him from ment to be lagging months behind issuing the Senate report critical| in its policy toward France. of doliar-a-year men. . . . Congress- The people of France, say these|man Clyde Elis of Arkansas is {losses on the route to Russia. It is | also why the United States has not | Been able to deliver “all the supplies | | promised Russia — though It has | tried desperately and the Russians | liave tremendously appreciated the | effort. To prey Q. When leaving a stranger to whom one has just been introduced, is it all right to say, “Good-bye, Mr. Brown; I am very glad to have met you”"? A. Yes, this is all right. Or, “Gooy-bye, Mr. Brown; I hope I shall | pe———————ey see you again sometime.” o ith F1 o Q. How long after the wedding ceremony should the reception 5;;;‘ l?l'l““l/‘lm O:;:‘Bl;‘,‘“ ! be held? Juneau Florists A. The wedding reception is held immediately following the cere- Phone 311 on this shipping, the | Nazis hav developed one of their the weather nre working against the | Strongest bases at Trondheim, Nor- | There they have not only United States and Russia. Fay. 3 1 ¥ that the .., submarines, but land-based air- (,,,: fi,,:(‘i'r:,]\ m‘;‘ ‘,O::le Tarther | Planes. They also have the advan- 3 e = 2 tage during the summer Eatiul south than at any other time in 8 Sl of nearly 100 years. This has pushed the 24 hours of daylight. This handi- : pome. . 4 o s arines, o air- | heroes of midnight channel-cross- |f; i s f 3 e shipnitig lanes By which U. B. oofi-! ok fipmarines, ut Tiglps afr 8 nnel-cross-| financing his campaign for the anes ings, are so far ah 3 i 9 k % voys carry supplies to Murmansk, | Thneh | ogs, are so far ghead of the U. 8 iSenpte B & upique pianner. Loug l 0 OK a nd lEA R N % J A. €. GORDON Therefore, convoys skirting the|State Department that it would he|an enemy of the power trust, he is the last Democratic President before Franklin D. mony? Q. Should one use very small envelopes in social correspondence? A. No. Not only are these in poor taste, but they are apt to go astray in' the mails. “HORLUCK’S DANISH” _ Ice Cream Flavors Peppemigt Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Caramel Pecan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawber- ry and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG —_— PO Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Oil Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal "Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Prescriptionists) : = - — NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S D. ICE CRSAW JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL - GLASS Shelf and Icavy liardware Guns and Ammunition c]oafrrmild c}a\ex to Nor “‘f’\ and the |, o tip of Norway have to fight | humorous if it were not pathetic. getting contributions from farmers powerful Nazi es there. |2 yunning battle for three days be-|U: S- food shipments to Frenchiand small electricity users who Result is that only 200 miles of 'fore they can reach Murmansk. It NOrth Africa, they say, won't help|suffer from high local rates. . . After sea separate the polar ice packs|is continuous day and night fight- win over the French people; if{more than a year, Congress finally and the coast of N“"“.“y a very ing, with scarcely a wink of sleep anything, will retard the independ- |has vindicated David Lasser, one narrow g_«unllvl for ships to run | for the crews. Merchant vessels |ence movement there. time head of the Workers Alliance. facing simultaneous attack from | prisile with mament. Guncrews | The French have been won over‘Althou"gli a militant foe of Com- Nazi submarines, airplanes and have been giving a magnificent ac-|PY Much greater issues than food,|munism Lasser was barred from dRSroiei count of themselves. but the odds|30d are insulted at the State De- |government employment by a cabal| This is beenare tremendous—and will continue | PAItment’s idea that they would!of anti - labor congressmen who| sell their souls for a mess of pottage. | wrote proyisions in the 1941 WPA‘ Here are the major developments | budget. This unfaix ban has been, 1. Who was Roosevelt? 2. What State is indented by Puget Sound? 3. What Englishman is said to have held first rank among the chemists? 4. What is the form of a trapezoid? 5. The fur of what animal is called “lapin”? ANSWERS: ‘Woodrow Wilson. Washington. Sir Humphry Davy. A plane figure with four sides, two sides paralle} to each other. Rabbit. H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING ZORIC | SYSTEM CLEANING 4 Phone 15 Alaska Laundry adl st why there have 1891—Hal! 2 Ceatury of Banking—1941 TheB. M Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | which have recently influenced!eliminated in the 1942 budget. . . .| France: |First to give to the Navy Relief {. 1, The behavior of the Germans|Fund was Walter Winchell, who, in France. |forked over 5,000, bucks. . . . Friends 2. The fact that Britain was not|of Juan Trippe, czar of Pan Amer- only able to prevent Nazi invasion,|ican Airways, have been sending z 3 but now _is 50 effectively bombing {out feelers about having him made Yy the Continent. {assistant secretary of the Navy. No, a seed oueen “e . 3. The resistence of the Russians. great enthusiasm so far. . ¥ - ‘ g rm:linf:ilseen:;{e ln:o t:qhe war.| (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea-| —— . e Y DEFENSE BONDS 5 of the 5 e /v effective incidents was the Brxixz‘:}t;mre Syngicate, 1pc) st 4 - “”fi W . “I | |bombing of the Renault motor! 2 / ; 8 | plant (Frenchmen had been tipped!w ks 33(! toI lenv? in advance), and the | Ny ' = i N | dropping of the French flag along| 1 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT :7 b [ihe hamps Eysce by o Briton| iy 12 BOURBON W HISKEY | tighter plane last week. | i J| | So when the Big Push does come,| The District Assembly of Retary |it will find an enthusiastic French |International wil be held in_ Bell- | people anxious to cooperate. ingham, Washington, on July 12, ‘ NOTE:—The French fleet, thcsells and 14, Rod Darnell, President | Frenchmen say, now will not pe|©f the Juneau Rotary Club, an- | turned over to Hitler—not because | 2ounced today. i |of food shipments, but because the| e jFrgnf: r:nflors won't permit it, REBEKAHS ATTENTION B | and the Nazis havep't got the 35, Last meelirg until Sept., Wednes- Nationa) Distillers Prod Corp , N Y« 93 Proof | naval personnel uguilfib]e to u‘xo;'):::d“% -’Im-lj“.*fl p.m. sl‘:w:lv*m' % them. orfal Ceremonles. Attendance re-| J08¥ Catiovi, the talentsd Wilbilly star, i Quested. p Hoses In this scéfie from Eepublic’s new hit fili, CAPILAL (‘IIAFE‘ —EGith Tucker, Secty!] at the CapitolL Donald Nelson has spent Some