The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1942, Page 4

WEDNESDAY AUGUST |9 PAGE FOBEA ; L Puaily Alaska Empire | Published every evening except Sunday by the | EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY | 1942 DIRECTORY MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH eeb I Seotian Rite Tomplo in Scof e Fr urger beginning at 7:30 p. m. DENTISTS R. W. COWLING, Wor- Blomgren Building Phone 56 | |shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. R s s B. P. 0. ELKS B.erarlous Alaska 'Kndlak Bear). An editorial in Harper's magazine in 1867 had this Second ahd Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. | to say of the proposed purchase of Alaska from the HELEN TROY MONSEN 4 President | Russian government: B Vice-President and Business “““"‘ “A more inopportune moment than this for terri- Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as !Dcond Class Matter, | torial expansion of the United States could not have SUBSERIPT! I'been found; and it would hardly have been suggested | except by an administration conscious that it has | forfeited the approval of the country and casting |about to devise some appeal to the vugar sense of national honor which mistakes size for splendor. The sale of Russian America to the United States for seven million dollars would be undoubtedly a !good thing for Russia; but that it would be equally desirable for us is not evident. - Wmmw HAPPYBIRTHDAY 20 YEARS AGO ¥ sueie AUGUST 19, 1922 The trail to the summit of Mt. Roberts was to be fuuy completed in two or three days, it was reported at Forest Service headquarters. All work had been finished above the timber line and the trail staked to Gastineau Peak. Many local people and tourists had already taken advantage of the trail to take hikes up the mountain. qumcl Socktlu Gastineau Channel Warren Geddes Florence Rutherford M. Agatha Graves Audrey Dudueff * Carl Weidman Josephine Soule Margorie Ann Thompson Gilbert. Moi Paul Jehnson Virgil O. Mount Mrs. C. W. Wright Drs. Kaser and Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas “for $1.80 per month, By matl, postage paid, at the following ratés: One year, in advace, $15.00; six months, i advance, $7.50; | one month. in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or ifregularity in the de- Iivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, After several days, during which local markets had been com- pletely without vegetables and fruit, the supply was replenished by the arrival of the steamer Spokane. For several days preceding her arrival, every store in Juneau had been sold ouk of potatoes and most fruits and 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 Dr. A. W. Stewart herein. | “It is a territory containing some 400,000 square Vel ednes- B gty oo I F getables. .{ Meets every 2nd and 4th Wi ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | miles, and is inhabited by 60,006 to 100,000 people, i o W sk St DENTIST diye an's 3. M- \aiting Brotiers THANTRAR O Ay T over half of whom are Esquimaux. The advantage George McClelland Reynolds, President of the Continental and || 20TH CENTURY BUILDING welcome. ARTHUR ADAMS, m":':xo:&““!’?’;‘%mc"?“?a — AR g gr. 03:::;?“;15 flcelfi;gxglse:";o:ye; ‘:}t‘n:inp:p:\’r:gm:v(:’t: i Commercial National Bank, of Chicago, and Mrs. Reynolds, arrived in Office Phone 469 mm Ruler, M. H. SIUES, ”':Eu,“med (‘z;x\trnl of ‘me fishing and rur' tradeé. H o R 0 S c 0 P E Juneau on the Spokane and joined the Doheny yacht party as guests - s e d 3 - . - i % aboard the Casiana. “Under the auspices of Mr. Seward, the United States is about to enter upon a colonial system. At | “The stars incline Dr John H. Geyer Miss Jessie Mock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mock, was to o time when we are heavily loaded with debt and but do not compel” ! m |we are to pay more than seven million dollars in pe leave Juneau on the Spokane for Seattle where she was to spend the DENTIST LY WIGGL' gold for a remote and barbarious region, which, under winter studying pipe organ and piano. Room 9—Valentine Bldg For BETTER Groceries ordinary human conditions, will never be largely PHONE 762 Phone 1534 peopled except by savages, and for the annual gov- THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 1 The U. S. radio supply ship Swallow, Capt. Pcttrell, arrived in port Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. (ernment of which ‘the expenses will be enormous. | The advantages are either a huge job or it is a poli- | tical deviee* . “In the presem situation of this country, with an | unbroken line upon both oceans and across the con- | tinent, territorial expansion is wholly undesirable. | It is a source of weakness and not of strength;, and ]whoever advocates it must show the advantage with SEC! It is anybody’s guess whether ‘D FRONT a second fron [irrt‘sb‘tible force. There may be immense advantages |in the acquisition of this Russian desert; but they | are not suspected by the country, and they are thus t on |far carefully concealed by the government.” land will be opened in Europe this year. And it probably is anybody’s guess as to whether a second | front is a sound enterprise. The general attitude is very plain, second land front against Germany, but most per-| sons believe the decision should be made by military | Alaskans became hardened to the old qustion, “Are|pe ‘nymerous, .Today 'is lucky for|meat, Sitka, floral decorations, leaders on purely military considerations, Yet as one reviews the record of previous wars, and of the first two years of this war, he cannot | come up with the hard and fast conclusion that military men are always right and the populations always wrong. There have been times when the judgment of the comman man was better than that | of the brass hats. The German high command in 1915 and 1916 pur- sued a policy of ruthless submarine warfare. had calculated the probabilities, concluded that the damage done to Allied and American shipping would bring a German victory before America could make her weight felt in the war. The German brass hats were wrong. They miscalculated American resent- ment and American speed in getting help to the Allies. In the present dilemma British and American mili- | tary men apparently are reluctant to risk disaster by landings in Europe this year. ain and America doubtless would vote to invade Eur- | ope. The Generals are far better informed as to| the hazards, the obstacles. The people, however, may better sense the reaction of the German population and the German Army. And they may better appre- ciate the extent to which Russia’s continued effort hinges on a second front. It will be one of the great, history-making decisions of the war, this decision as to a land front in West- ern Europe. Whether in the final reckoning the circumstances require audacity or caution, only to- morrow’s historians will know. One thing seems apparent, however. Only a sec- ond front of propaganda has been estahlished so far. ’l‘he value of this front of words may be argued. If a second front was to be established it would have seemed much more sensible to go ahead and estab- lish it without tipping the whole Axis world to the knpwledge that such a move was contemplated. Certainly if our forces were to decide on sending an invasion force to Europe, it wouldn't be helpful to announce the fact that our men were on the WAy, Most persons believe there should be a | They | If it were put to a | vote—as of course it will not be—the peoples of Bm-' | . War Americanizes Alaskans (Petersburg Press) In other years when tourists travelled this way \Amm ican stamps good here?"” we could essay a feeble |smile when shipments were delayed “until your ice- !locked harbors open in the spring;” we could even write a restrained letter of explanation when some | | manufacturer wrote us that he regretted being un- able to fill our order because “we do not ship our | order outside the United States.” Defense projects, and Alaska’s place in the war | zone have helped to make residents in every section | |of the United States cognizant, that Alaska is a part of the United States, inhabited all the year round by people just like the residents of DeKalb, Illi- nois, Schenectady, New York, or Seattle. Law makers seem to be slow to catch on, however, and one of the jobs which keeps our Delegate Di- | mond busy and one at which he is never napping, is to see that Alaska citizens are not dis-| criminated against by thoughtless or ignorant rep- ‘wsemstives of the forty-eight states. His most re- | cent effort in our behalf is in the case of a hill | before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor which aims lo “provide benefits for the injury, dis- ability, death or enemy detention of civilians, and for the prevention and relief of civilian distress aris- ing out of the present war.’ As originally drafted the bill applied only to resi- dents of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia. Delegate Dimond, in collaboration with his. colleagues, Commissioner from Puerto Rico, appeared before the committee to protest this discrimination. They pointed out that living conditions in Alaska and Hawaiians are affected by internal revenue laws beund by, the same federal taxes as the citizen in Oregon, or Tennessee. In other words we are Ameri- that includes. Eunice Fuller Barnard, the writer, has deduced that, although women own three-fourths of the big estates of the country and recei§ nearly all the life insurance, they rarely give money for schools, col- leges, and to promote reforms, but donate mostly to hospitals and churches. We can’t think up much of a moral, unless it's that women think we'd better be good than smart. caught | the Delegate from Hawaii and the! of the land and by all custom laws; that we are| can citizens, with all the obligations and privileges | Washinglon Nerry- 60-Round (Continued from Page One) cargo planes, took two letters to] William Batt, head of WPB’s Mat- erials Division. One letter showed bhow he planned to get chrome. ‘The other letter pointed out that if Germany could scrape along on 13,000 tons of nickel a year, the United States should be able to find enough nickel out of 165,000 tons to make cargo planes. TRANSPORTATION IS ALL-IMPORTANT “It's a question of putting first things first,” Kaiser told Batt and WPB officials. “I figure that when we're fighting 8,000 miles away, the very first thing we need is communications, in other words radio, to give orders to our troops. And the second thing we need, 1 figure, is to get supplies to them. Getting the supplies there is more impertant than anything except communications, first because they can't fight without supplies, sec- ond because there is no use mak- ing tanks and machine guns and then letting them rust in the Unit- ed States for lack of transportation. “8o if you want to get the stuff over to the fighting front, you ought to be able to spare a little nickel for me to make engines for cargo planes.” Mr. - Batt studied the agréed that some means ought to be found to get materials for cargo planes. However, WPB officials still were reluctant to move, still seemed to think that Kaiser, though a good shipbuilder, never could build planes in the time he promised. Finally, as they continued to stall, Kaiser sent Batt a telegram saying that he was paying experts letters, (| $1,000 a day out of his own pocket to study materials and other tech- nical problems and he wanted an answer. Note: Though a lot of details will have to be ironed out, it seems certain’ that Kaiser will set a rec- ord building cargo planes. CAPITAL CHAFF Revealing fact regarding the re- nomination of Représentative Ham Fish, F. D. R’s bitter foreign af- fairs critic, was that only 25,000 persons voted out of 140,000 — in other words, chiefly the Ham Fish machine Rabbi, Stephen S, Wise has been conferring privately with Russian Ambassador Litvin- off regarding the question of a Jewish army to bolster the Allies in the Near East . . . Brazilians are disappointed over Admiral King's decision not to send Admiral A. T. Beauregard back to Brazil as U. S. Naval Attache. Beaure- gard had been there for years, helped to train most of the ad- mirals in the. Brazilian navy . . . Waldo Frank, the newsman beaten up by Argentine fascists, also had bad luck in Harlan County, Ken- tucky, somg years ago when he was badly beaten up. WATCH FOR NAZI DRIVES It escaped public notice, but the Navy has officially requested a New York court to impose a sentence of 20 years, the maximum, upon Gustav Beekman, keeper of ' a house of degradation in connection with which a certain U. S. Sena- tor was mentioned. Sepate Majority Leader Barkley jstated on the Senate floor that his colleague was not present at the house, and this issue was not involved in the Navy’s request for the maximum sentence. The real reason, as explained by a naval officer before the court, was much more significant. The house of degradation had been used for the purpose of ob- taining important information from American sailors frequenting the place. It is also known that immorality of this type has been prevalent among the Nazis and was the cause of one Hitler purge. Three Nazi agents were picked up at the | Brooklyn home, two of them found to be former German officers. Some American sailors frequented the place, and this may have been one source of the amazing ship- ping information which the Nazis have been getting in this country. cooperation of local communities in spotting and cleaning up dives of this type, most of which are clev- lerly camouflaged. MERRY-GO-ROUND While in Washington, former | Vice President Jack Garner was noted for his thrifty habits and! ‘ment. In anticipation of increased bill, Garner has laid in a $1,600 stock of liquor. Capital cronies| still fondly remember his famous invitation to a drink—“Let's strike a blow for liberty!” . . . Two of the crack young officers on the staff of Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, iable CO of the high-spirited 3rd Army, are Capt. William Thomason and Lieut. Ben Deckert, son and | 'son-in-law of Representative Ew- ing' Thomason, militant Texas New Dealer . . . Senator W. Lee O'Dan- iel, unpopular with the Texas dele- gation in Congress, has refused to join the Texas luncheon club . . 'FDR’s private secretary Grace Tully avoids parties in the eve-| ning, stays at home playing gin rrummy . . . A Poughkeepsie, N. Y, ‘merchant donated to the scrap rubber campaign 1600 pounds of shopworn boots and rubbers, some marked “Made in Japan” The merchant safd he wanted to “send the rubber back to the Japs in a form they can feel.” (Copyright, 1942, by Unitea Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) Authorities are now asking the| 'he was continuing them in retire- | excise taxes under the new wur-tax‘ " | write letters home. { Adverse planetary aspects domin- /ate today. Under this configura- tion discouraging war news may | people may be unduly affected. Ln- {bor is under adverse sway. HEART AND HOME: Women are well directed under this configura- |tion which gives them courage to meet sorrow and ability to serve unselfishly. Aged persons should |conserve® their strength today. lack of balance in walking and' {many falls are probable. Perils in| the home as well as in the war are foreseen. Vagaries of Wefi'.h(!lr may affect energy. Weddings will romance. ! BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Vacation | |spending will continue to be gen- lerous as the feeling of general i prosperity - persists. Trade and commerce will develop surprising | features that are fortunate for the| | United States. Old-time trades and ,mdustries will be revived. Again | the village blacksmith will be need- ed as the horse becomes each week ‘moxe popular in solving transpor- | tation problems. Carriage builders |and harness makers will establish | new industries. NATIONAL ISSUES: Equality of | opportunity for the Negro through jwartime needs will be successfully \qdmcnbed In the Army and the, Navy, also in the air forces and' big industries discrimination due to race will be eliminated. The ipeople who form one-tenth of the | |popu!auon will benefit greatly ' as | democratic principles are practiced. | | Fame for heroes among the col-| |ored soldiers and sailors is prog- | nosticated. They will in recogni- | tion in many foreign lands as well as at home. b1 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:' Astrologers who foretold the Second‘ World War have warned that vic- | itory for the United Nations would Ibe attained only by supreme effort to which civilians of every class contribute. They repeat that thbre will be long conflict in which the United States must bear the heav- | iest responsibilities, In other words, defeat of the Axis will depend greatly upon this nation which |must suffer ‘and sacrifice to save, |the democratic form of government, | Persons whose birthdate it is| ,have the augury of a year of good {luck in business and romance but there may 'be sudden changes. Quarrels should be carefully avoid- |ed. | Children born on this date should | be good-natured. and philosophical, ! | witty and keen, but inclined to ne! Iquick-tempered and independent. | ' alches Membiers Who smm flml,[m (cununued irom iage One) have adjourned if they had, But 1ow we are piling into the “air raid shelter”—a basement hallway of the Senate Office' Building. The | air conditioning has been ‘shut off and already the packed- hallway: i§ warming uncomfortably. The last of the stragglers move into the shelter land the doors are closed. It has taken 14 minutés for the Senate side of the Capitol to get to thelr shelter—enough time for bombers {from beyond Baltimore to reach here. drop their eggs and scoot tflr 5 “home.” The Senators seem unruffled. Sen. | Elmer Thomas moves about, immae- ]ulate as ever, dnd apparently as | cool. Senators Vandenberg and Dan- aher stand chatting in a doorway.|. with Minority Leader McNary. Even |in an air raid, the Republicans stick together. Senators 'run and are wandering restlessly through the |- | crowd. The visitors caught in this Capl ,,flmw, love it. It's as close as a | of them have ever been to a s«nlwr | Some stand and gape and, thrill, | Then the “all clear” sounds, {Senators go to their -offices. ‘vny | clerks and the newsmen go back to| work. The sightseers rush off to e, ———— NOTICE To whom it may concern: I will{ not be responsible for any debis|’ contracted by anyone but myself. | George Lane. BUY DEFENSE STAMPS be published and the minds of the | | There is a sign read as causing elevenlh annual journalism week at the University of Washington. | CYNICAL; disbelieving in the sincerity of human motives. |one take a cynical view of life?” the preceding afternoon from the Bremerton Navy Yard The ship had supplies for radio stations along the coast and left port in the morning | for Soapstone Point. Mr. and Mrs Frank Stephens, of Nampa, Idaho, who had been visit- ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and ing in Juneau, left on the Spokane to make the round trip to Sitka and i were to continue south on the steamer. Laszlo Schwartz, violinist-composer, left Juneau the previous night |on the Spokane for Skagway on a tour through the Interior and West- ward districts. He was to go down the Yukon to Dawson, Fairbanks and Nenana. the closing event of the All foods on the menu were to be sent from Alaska with each community sending its most representative product. Nome was to send reindeer and St. Michael, fresh wild cran- An All-Alaska dinner was planned for berries. Weather was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 58 and a minimum of 52. Daily Lessons in English ¥ 1. GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He gave the money to you and 1.” Say, “to you and ME.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:; Endive. or as in LIVE, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Avoirdupois; six vowels, OI twice. SYNONYMS: Wisdom, knowledge, learning, erudition, scholarship. WORD STUDY: increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Pronounce the I as in DIVE perception, “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Today’s word: “Why should e e ) Q. Is it absolutely required that a person give the reason for de- . clining an invitaticn? A. It is not obligatory that one do so, but unless it is a very inti- mate reason, one should explain why, and with regret. Otherwise, the ! hostess might resent a curt “Sorry, I cannof accept.” Q. Is it proper for a man to smoke a pipe at a formal affair? A. This is sometimes done, but it cannot be called good form. Q. What is the meaning of “elite,” and how is it pronounced? A. “Elite” is a noun, meaning the choice or select part; especially a group or body considered or treated as socially superior. Pronounce ia-let, A a sin ATE, E as in ME, accent first syllable. S i 1, What country ranks first in beauty, grandeur, and variety of scenery? 2. Why is a ten-cent coin called a “dime”? 3. Who was the first United States President to receive the increase in salary from $50,000 to $75,000? 4. What is the musical term for the plucking of the strings of a | violin with the finger, instead of using the bow? 5. What is the weight of a cubic foot of water? ANSWERS: 1. The United States. 2. It is derived from the Latin DECEM, meaning ten, or DECIMUS, meaning one-tenth. 3. William H. Taft. 4. Pizzicato. Pronounce pit-se-ka-to, I as in IT, E as in ME un- stressed, A as in AH, O as in NO, principal accent on third syllable. 5. 62% pounds. T i Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | The Charles W. Carter l | TIDE CALENDARS "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. | Phone 34 JUNEAU - YOUNG " "Guy Smith-Dru -2 (CarYnml pmcnpuontsg)s BUDGET AND J NYAL Family Remedies |SAVE FOR Wi HORLUCK'S DANISH BDNDS AND STAMPS . ICE CREAM —————— Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 FREE Harry Race, Druggist FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Hair Problems “The. Store for Men” SABRIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. Sigrid’s You'll Find Food Finer 1 Jones-Stevens Shop G AT S = ' —] SES’ BEADY.TO.WEAR THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP Seward Street Near Third FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing JAMES C. COOPER Bw:-_‘éotu . st e eatiariably ‘vatia QORERR HUTLIIN Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” RCA Vicior Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Seward Street « Phone 65 INSURANCE Shattuck Agency 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 St. Phone 177 e e CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 473—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices “Say It With Flowers” but. * “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER K & MARX CLOTHING Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—OQil Burners Heating Sheet Metal ZORIC S¥YSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry Hardware Company PAMS—OIL—QLA” Bhelf and lnvy Hardware SRR G A Guns and Ammunition CAREFUL COOKING WILL FLOAT A BATTLESKIP MAKE EVERY PAY DAY CALL AN OWL Phone 62 Stand: Opposi ite Coliseum 4 Theatre d 1891—Hall a Century of Banking—1941 The BR.M.Rehrend Rank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS