The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 30, 1942, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Pubmnm every evehing except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - President R. L. BERNARD - - - Vice-President and Business Manager Entered in the PM, Office In_Juneau as second “Class Matter. UBSCRIPTION RATE: Delivered by carrier k| Juneau and Dmllh! ‘for $1.25 per month. | By mall, 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 faflure or irregularity in the dl!- livery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 603; 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 "TALASKA CIRCULATI NTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Building, Seattle, Wash, OPPORTUNISTS While the attention of most citizens is concen- trated upon the business of war, certain zealots are exploiting this preoccupation by maneuvering for the reinstatement of prohibition. A favorite point of attack by some of these cru- saders is the defeat at Pearl Harbor, tribute, openly or by insinuation, to drunkenness among the personnel of the armed forces. That the report of the President’s investigating board under Mr. Justice Roberts unequivocally declared that such was not the case has nof squelched this slander. The vatiants of this slander are many. Propon- ents of prohibition consistently have suggested that excessive drinking by soldiers and sailors is hamper- ing the efficiency of our arms, despite the complete lack of evidence to support either part of the charge. The same allegations are being made with respect to | war workers and other groups, with as little justifi- cation. Like all other fanatics, tion deal only in extremes, see only extremes, and whieh they a(-’ the sponsors of prohibi- | More Than Uniforms | (Cineinnati Enquirer) ! So much has been said and wtitten of the trim uniforms and clever insignia cf the Women's Auxil- |iary Army Corps that most citizens probably have | overlooked the serious usefriinlss of the new organi- .mnon The War Department has just one problem— | to win this war. It is not interested in cracking the soclety pages, mor is it interested in providing an ouflet for the energes of some young ladies seeking | colorful adventure. Bn: it does have work for wom- | en to do. <k A modern army is a gigantic and complex enter- prise, with a great deal of work comparable to office | work in commercial life. It also has specialized tasks ness, but not for sheer physical strength or endur- |ance. In other words, :t has & diversily of tasks that | women can do at least as well as men and in many cases distinctly better. } They are serious jobs, and some will perhaps be hazardous. They are jobs at typewriters and range- finders, at telephones and interceptor command plot= ting maps, and in many other capacities, They are vital in the waging of successful war. Inevitably, there will be a surplus of popular interest in the cut | of the WAAC uniform, and there is no harm in this. But no one should harbor the notion that the WAAC is a flippant extravagance and therefore an impedi- ment to the war effort. As a matter of fact, one might fairly raise the question whether the meémbers of the WAAC are be- ing treated justly, for come of them will be taking risks and yet they will not have the status of sol- j diers. They are not now eliginle for war risk insur- ance as soldiers are. They sre not fully a part of the army. If none of the WAAC is to serve overseas and none is to take the risks of service in combat areas, this may not matter. But if the contrary is true, the law as it row slands is discriminatory against women volunteers, | Rails Favored | (Prince George Citizen) In another week—upon his return from Ottawa— Premier John Hart may make a statement to an anxious British Columbia on the report that the sale |of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway to American | interests is imminent. One pioneer of Prince George has summed up the | feeling here with the remark, “Well, I guess we can wait a little longer; we've waited a good many years now for the PGE to come here.” The people of this country are patient and the | phrase, “they’re going to push the PGE through to | Prince,” no longer causes wild excitement here. However, they are agreed that the completion of {the PGE from Vancouver to Prince George and the which call for manual dexterily, patience, and alert-| & HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE 30 Mary Jean McNaughton George Smith Patricia Brewer Marvin C. Rhodes Gertrude Cunningham Mrs. F. D. Dempster Mrs. Caroline Ferris Claude Thomson —————— HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 Good news may be expected to- day. . It is a date most fortunate for letters, contracts and agree- ments of every sort but not aus- picious for beginnings. HEART AND HOME: Routine work will be best for women of all ages today. It is a time when all the household arts should be practieed and it is promising for the conservation of food. Girls in greater numbers will be employed in factories concerned in canning and drying fruits and vegetables. Those who become farmerettes will meet with success although there are limitations to their strength. The use of agricultual machiney will! enable women to demonstrate ex-| pertness in harvesting tasks. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: This will! be a slow day in retail trade al- though general business will con-| tinue to be prosperous. Many for-| mer heads of small concerns will| profit as employes as the United States mobilizes the talent and ex-| perience of all men and women be- | longing to the nation. Full under- standing of the meaning of the| conflict in its potentialities for the| western hemisphere will greatly stimulate effort to contribute 'oi production in all lines of manufac-| ture. Speed will be more and more necessary each day in all that per- tains to war needs. The influence of Uranus in Gemini will be strong- the © power to ent State north. Fisheries patrolling the Alaska coast in search of fish pirates, also fo fly for the Forest Service, cruising timber and locating lakes for Fourth of July celebration. the day as well as baseball and other field sports. JUNE 30, 1922 nalga, a smoker, dances and the usual parade. 20 YEARS AGO fi}"E EUPIRE At a mmeeting of the Fourth of July Committee reports indicated that more features were to be given than for several years and the celebration would extend over three days. an exhibition airplane flight, six baseball games, track and field events, both juhior and senior; special marine events between the Explorer and Included on the program Wwas Roy F. Jones, Ketchikan aviator, had started his flight to Ketchi- Yan from Seattle, stopping at Bellingham and Swanson's Bay on the way After July 15, Jones was to enter the service of the Bureau of sites. er her first year at the University of California. of Washington at Seattle. 200; Miss Honorah Kelly, 181, and Miss 117. He was George A. Parks was to be Marshal of the Day at the Fairbanks A parade was to be one cf the features of Miss Nadja Kashevaroff was to leave the following night on the Queen for Seattle from where she was to go to San Francisco. She was Dr. S. Hall Young, head of Presbyterian Missions in Alaska, left Juneau to attend the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church of the Indications were that Miss Goldie Halm had the vote for Goddess of Liberty on the Fourth of July. At 3 o'¢lock in the aftéernoon Miss Halm had 313 votes. Voters had until 6 o’'clock tHe following évening to get their votes in. Standing of candidates was Miss Halm, 313; Miss Leona Graber, Olson , Dorothy A dispatch from Tokyo stated that the naval department of Japanh had notified the Master of Sempill and other British aviators, in Japan to instruct Japanese officers and men the art of flying, that their services would fnot bé réquired after the end of the year. navy department stated it was of the opinion that the Jap navy had | sufficient men to carry on the aviation branch of the service without the aid of foreign instructors. The Japanese Nome had a great demonstration when Capt. Amundsen’s ship Maud, escorted by the cutter Bear, sailed from the roadstead on the first lap of the trip across the North Pole. during the morning and Mayor Maynard proclaimed a half holiday. Mushers from the interior arrived Weather remained cloudy with a maximum temperature of 53 and a minimum of 50. “Is won't The Against planting about half a million aeres. Shierover. asked. this, Sherover now supporting him; there any one of you who admit we can get rubber?” answer was No. urged Bureau of Econonmiic Warfare are and: -belleve that a large scale éxperiment in this new rubber weed must be un- dertaken—even if it s costly. .m-._, ])mECT()RY Pmmd Soclcfios Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 5§ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9-—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of éach month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. R. W. COWLING, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secrefary. Ao i 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. PIGELY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16— Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. & The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 _—— First Aid Headquarters for Abused Hair Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Halr Problems Sigrid’s Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street ""The Rexall Store” Your Relisblé Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. TIDE CALENDARS PREE | 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 Near Third 8o, quick-growing cryptostegia may yet help to fill the rubber vacuum otherwise bound to. occur between the exhaustion of our present re- serves and the time when Jesse preach extremes, arrogating to themselves the right | i oaq's extension to Alaska is a feasible and highly to impose their own extremist conceptions upon ”"”dcshahlo scheme. And that is not a selfish view.| majority who, fortunately, live by the sensible mean | They do not take this stand because Prince George i : \wmld be the most important interior point on the The history of prohibition should have convineed, | ly evident. NATIONAL ISSUES: Government efforts to equalize the sacrifices im-| perative in supporting the struggle | will be inadequate to produce, re- FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor . “Then;” persisted Shetover, “It's chiefly a matter of price—whether we pay fifty cents a pound or. one dollar; < But I don’t see that price and did convince, most reasonable persons that such | legislation was an appalling piece of stupid extrem- ism whose than the evils which it attempted, in vain, to correct. The consumption of alcoholic beverages, like ev- ery other human activity, is subject to abuses and excesses. Most of these can be controlled by wise regulation. They cannot be controlled by fanatieal | laws. The record is clear for those who wish to make the comparison, By the end of the year, it is estimated that 90 percent of the nation's distilleries will have been con- verted to the production of industrial alcohol, but ! there is enough drinking liquor on hand for at least | four years, and if the war lasts any longer than that we reckon people will start making home brew in their blackout rooms. Even Harold L. Ickes has gotten tangled up in the alphabetical designations of the New Deal, but not even his severest critic can blame him much for that Washingfon Merry- Go-Round (Continued Irom Page One) Department expér not on their toes stegia. For as lat published a very port on its possibi RED TAPE The maft who leaves Jesse Jones' Rubber Reserve, the outfit which was so short- Sighted last year, virtually with| final control. | RUSSIAN RUBBER Meanwhile, it has been revealed that experts of the Agriculture De- | partment had been sitting on two| 1 Kina of fish kinds of natural rubber which can 5. Festival be grown in the southern United| 9. Harden States and Mexico. Filed away| Jo yiese"t i among the learned tomes of the. i S‘l’fi;:gzfl w Department’s scientists are reports f on kok-sagyz and cryptostegia, both | -quick-growing rubber plants. But| sOrrow the Department of Agriculture sci-| 1§ Syhong entists had been doing very little| 2L inclos, Boe about them. 28. Oriental com- In contrast, the Russians in 1041| p, g Rander planted the amazing total of 5,000,~ elliptical 000 acres of kok-sagyz, which grows in temperate climat Being more far-sighted than Jesse Jones, they foresaw the possibility of war with Japan and loss of rubber sources. After Pearl Harbor the United States gathered up all the kok- sagyz seed it could get from Russia and flew it here by plane, and ‘t is now planted. But the amount of seed we could get was limited. Meanwhile, a botanist in Browns- ville, Tex., named Peter Heinz was bombarding Jesses Jones, various rubber experts and almost every member of Congress Wwith letters pointing to a rubber weed called cryptostegia, which grows in Mex- ico, Haiti, southern California and Plorida. The letters which Heinz sent to Washington constitutes a file more than a foot high. But nobody would listen to him It should be said for the Agri- culture Department that ever since 1922 its experts have been asking Congress for money to experiment with natural rubber-yielding plants, But Congress appropriated only in- finitesimal amounts, ACROSS to banish pafn and 27. Pertaining to the ocean pernicious effeets were infinitely \mrw} On the other hand, *Agriculture | one month after Pearl Harbor, Drug supposed rincipal lines 26, Golf instructor : Masculine name by it Blfiea: country HEn/ viddRR7/ RN W ‘-’ullfl/ ot 7 Wi ///Wflfi Ilfi% 9/-.// ,,,fl=lflmflll |railway. No! It is because they know that the logical route for a railway or motor vehicle road is Route ‘B the Rocky Mountain Trench route. | Because of the lack of gasoline and tires, the im- | portance of a road decreases alongside that of a rail- | road. The railroad is the big need at the moment | for it does not require rubber tires. It does not re- | quire gasoline. And it does carry bigger loads than trucks, and the line would run through a country known to contain large deposits of coal and ore. One argument against railroad building is the | problem of getting steel. However, Canadian and | American authorities have large caches of steel rails ’<poned in many Zcpots all over this continent. Steel {is not a problem, The Rocky Mountain Trench is level, has a gravel rtoundanon has no insurmountable grades, and can be jeasily cleared of light trees. Should the sale turn out to be true it will be up | to the leading organizations of this eity to make it | known to authorities and all concerned that we are }eawr to forward this all-important project. . No ef- | fort can be spared. Miles Sherover, assistant rubber chief of the Bureau of Economic Warfare, who had previously or- ganized rubber factories in Chile and Venezuela. He pointed out that despite the billion dollars being spent by Jesse Jones on synthetic rubber, ‘and despite all wa could scrape together in the Amazon, the nation would ts certainly were regarding crypto- e as Jan. 5, 1942, they discouraging re- ilities. UNWINDER finally blasted | cnpuxgeg,a out into the open “as\he at least half a million tons short . Hypothetical force . Give another title to . Ralsed dough . Broad street: abbr, Variable star in Cetus Cominits de- predations 45. Corded cloth 47. Permisston 49. Kind of moss 2;. ;rvvhet . . Pouch [ §5. Bing ‘(% 67. Disgulse . 59. Leave 8. Trouble maker Close Edible seed 65. Square root of 81 [AlV]1 IN/ERMSEINIA] BEBEH BUIUB Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle 66. Any plant of 69, Bronzes in the the iris sun family . 67. Tree H 68. Legal con- veyance DOWN ‘. Seat Soteh cherntst . Scotch chey Greek lalta 6. City In New Fhfioptne hDD Cutting wit Sclence of the natural races of men Pen“uud in GhHort sleep” 0. Cont:ovulm N ‘W/, Khna ot che N N Jm ay . God of love Meshed fabs ries Windflower Soclal outeast Burned Secured Another ti] Measures ‘wood Flr‘u Cuban ] 11 ] flll//illl//ll.ll sults and there may be dissatis- faction among persons who have contributed most in service. In- justices are unavoidable, the seers| declare, and they urge each man and woman to give all possible, without regard for mevmhlg if- ferences or seeming nrlvnlexeo. vy and jealousy have no pl the highest standard of pamousm INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: It has been prognosticated from the beginning of the Second World War | that many reverses and. defeats must be suffered by the democracies before the tide toward victory could be definitely discerned. Astrologess| have forecast, as the price for final| triumph over the Axis, the great- est expenditure of manpower, long, suspense and terrible property loss-| es in cities and on the high seas. Warning is given that optimism | following summer successes, large of small, should inspire dogged per- sistence and continued offensives/ until the Axis is completely over- come. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of fair prosperity. . It is good for changes; and expansions. Children born on . this day should have avid minds that eas- ily absorb knowledgeé. . They prob- ably will excel in public work. Suc- cess is indicated for both boys and girls, (Copyright, 1942) in 1943. He also argiéd that even if cryptostegia cost a dollar & pound to grow, it would be cheap at,thej price if our wheels of transporta- tion could be kept turning. Finally, . Sherover argued thal cryptostegia was the fastest. grow= ing of all rubber plants, maturing in -about six months, therefore was. admit Mure is important when the economic life of the nation is at stake. I we can’t afford not to take.” Discussions are continuing. parently Sherover has made a dent. the market in 1944. iv's a gamble, but a gamble Ap- far-sighted executives of the|long at birth. Jones synthetic rubber will be on (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndiedate, Inc.) — e — A blue whale is about 22 feet the only possible means of filling in the year and a half before Jesse Jones' synthetic factories could: get into large scale production. However, Sherover got ‘nowhere] proposed resigning from the gov- ernment and offered to raise’a mil«] lion dollars from priviate business hundred thousand acres of crypto- stegia. In the middle of these behinds the-scenes. debates, the -New Yofl Daily News sent a reporter to Mex- ico to investigate the plant and hel brought back a glowing. account of its possibilities. This electrified ;the hithierte sleepy rubber. experts, atnid oft the same day the story. was pubs ilished they: cdlled a@ meeting reconsider' their .previous lack of en- thusiast for eryptostegia. VROES A 00 i | UNGES, BOLD POLICY / At this meeting the experts largé- ly reversed their negative report of last January. But even so, they still wanted to do what Jesse Joneés at first did’ with synthetic rubber. piants: to test out:the producty wanted to plant enly ter or fifteen Just as hé contracted for “pilot| with the lessér bureaucrats, finally|{ to finance the growing of several] ) R _ of Women’s White Dress Shoe $1.95 $2.50 pair Former value fo $6.85 We have size 6%2, 7, 7%, 8%; 2AY | CLOSE our Mostly high heels, broken stock but almost every size from 4% 10 9. Former values 1o $8.00. Men’s White i)xfo rds Family Shoe Store at's Beauty Shop Per , Finger Wavés, m%flicuris, Ec. Be smart and trim for your Civilian Defense work in Pat’s Airline Bob! 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