The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1942, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empir Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneas, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD ! Pregident | Vice-! Pruldenl lnd Business Manager | tered in the Pnu omce in_Juneau as Second Class Matter. b e UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered hy carrier "in Juneau and Dey for $1. M ner month. By mall, postage paid, at the following ra One year, in advance. ;;500 six months, 1n ndnnu, s month, in advance, $1. On€ Siibscrivers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of thelr papers. Telephones: News omce, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated 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 LARG THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. WHY WE CAN'T HAVE THEM Just a year ago today all an American needed to bring the salesmen flocking to his doorstep was to mention that he was thinking about buying a new car. If you happened to drop a remark over the backyard fence that you were thinking about trading in the old radio, washing machine or typewriter, chances are 10 to 0 that you would have had half the salesmen in town rapping at the front door the next day. But things have changed. Perhaps it might be a little easier to understand why we can't have these things today if we knew that: There’s enough steel used in one auto to make 26 heavy machine guns. Seven auto tires use the rubber for one bomber tire. More metal, more man-hours, and more machine- hours go into one typewriter than into one Garand rifle. The cuffs from 21 men’s suits use as much wool | as one army uniform. Enough steel goes into a washing machine to mnke‘ six 3-inch shells for a 75-mm. field howitzer. | Solder and alloys in a medium tank require as| much tin as 10,000 food cans would require. As much silk goes into one parachute as goes into more than 100 pairs of silk stockings and Nylon that would make 36 pairs of stockings is needed for the shroud lines of one parachute. There is enough zinc in a three-and-a-half pound\ toy locomotive for a carburetor on a jeep; enough | copper wire, strip and brass for a half-dozen .30- caliber cartridges, and enough steel in 16 such loco- motives for a 3-inch 75-mm. howitzer shell. Shellac that woud make six phonograph records will waterproof the primer cups of 100,000 rounds of .30-caliber cartridges. The steel of 12,000 razor blades equals the steel in the tail assembly of a 2,000-pound bomb. It takes all the wool that goes into 25 average blankets to equip and clothe a soldier a year. |and difficult task to carry the war to Tokyo. lul golf clubs hand grenades. The alcohol equivalent of a pound of sugar would Igive us 47 shots at the Japs. | A fully-loaded Flying Fortress uses as much gasq- line in one hour as the average American’s auto! {uses in six months. | Turning out a ton of finished armor plate for a, would provide enough steel for 30 |tank from an electrical furnace takes as much elec- tricity as the average home uses in a year and a| quarter. These are a few of the reasons. ! Japs in Alaska (Tacoma News-Tribune) Ethnlogists tell us that many centuries ago this Pacific coast was invaded by tribes from Asia. They | probably crossed from northern.Siberia, where the |¢limate may have been much milder then, to Alaska. Perhaps, in those far off days, there was a land con- i nection which made the journey easier. At any rate, | scientists think that swarms of Asiatics came down the Pacific coast. Their racial characteristics still remain in our coastal Indian tribes and in the In- dians of Central and South America. This prehistoric invasion is now being duplicated in Alaska. Japanese troops have seized the Ameri- can islands of Attu and Kiska. Kiska has one of the biggest harbors on the Pacific. Its size is huge but its entrance is only 2 miles wide and can easily| be mined. The Japs are fortifying these islands and have moved on to occupy the island of Agattu. American! air forces have bombed the invaders and the Navy has announced that several Japanese destroyers have been sunk or damaged. But the enemy still clings to these outposts and undoubtedly is strengthening his hold day by day. Naval authorities complain that the weather around the Aleutians is so unfavorable as to hamper opera- tions. This is no news to old-timers in the Pacific Northwest who have long known the Aleutians as the home of bad weather. Fogs alternate with fierce | gales, and it is only in the brief summer that the weather is clear for any length of time. the Japanese have shown an ability to use adverse weather conditions as a cloak to their operations. In their conquest of Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and Burma, they turned this bad weath- er into an asset. , If the Japs are permitted to retain their grasp oh American soil, they will inch forward, island by! island, just as they did in the Orient. Unless Am- ericans awaken to the gravity of the situation, we may find the Aleutian chain finally in Japanese | hands. ¥ If this should occur, the enemy will then be in a postion to push an invasion of the Alaskan main- land, or, as is more likely, to use the islands to cut | off the supplies via the northern route to Russia. | Japanese submarines or sea planes, based on the Aleutians, could make the route to Siberia impos- | sible. It would also provide a base for operations against the Pacific Northwest. Japanese bombers based in Alaska could harry not only the cities of| the Northwest, but could do damage to inland points. Point by point, American and British forces have been driven from the Orient until the Japanese are now in control from Australia to the tip of the Aleu- tians and eastward to Midway. With submarines and planes based on these islands, it will be a long‘ The battles on the Russian plains are important to | the United Nations. 8o, too, are British efforts in safeguarding the Nile and the Suez Canal. But these should not blind American eyes to the fact | that American soil is now held by invaders and that this invasion is inching forward in the far north, | The war effort demands raw materials and scrap, usually wasted, is important.—Salt Lake Tribune. | Too many Americans expect other people to win ‘The amount of steel required for a complete set Japanese. Washinglon ¢ Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) hind the of JONES ON THE TELEPHONE ‘There is an unporthnt story be-| routine announcement that Warren Lee Pierson, President | the Export-Import Bank, has| the war without bothering them.—Detroit News. $10,000,000 — and put Warren 'Lee Pierson on the board. | IT&T has used the new credits artly to buy up its own bonds at low figures. Also, it has increased its working capital in the Latin- American field, where the ‘State | danger from ocean warfare. ence is well known, but also by the Sikhs and the powerful native prin- ces of India. been appointed a board member of the gigantic International Tele- phone & Telegraph Company. This is one of the rare instances when a U. S. government official has Department wants it to expand as | rapidly as possible. CHUNKY “LOBBYIST” If these groups would pull to- gether, they could upset the civil disobedience campaign, but they themselves have been torn by bloody religious riots in the past, and may fall to the same dissen-| sion again —with the Japanese him. But Pierson will standing by, waiting for the Kill. |than guard the government’s fin- The bearded Sikhs of northwest|ancial investment; he will also keep India are numerically small—only | an eye on the international opera- about 6,000.000—but physically very|tions of this giant utility—opera- powerful. They have no sympathy|ticns which vitally affect U. 8. with the Gandhi program. foreign affairs. Equally hostile to Gandhi's Hin-| Already the government had put du following are the Moslems, but|its hand into IT&T business, block- to make the triangle complete,!ing the proposed sale of the IT&T there is an age-long feud between|property in Spain for $60,000,000 the Moslems and the Sikhs. to what appeared to be a Spanish The native princes, for their part,| company. The State Department are hostile to Gandhi because he suspected that the Spanish com- has threatened to democratize their pany was merely @ front for Ger- states, and break down the protec-|man interests, and asked IT&T to tion they have enjoyed from Great|reject the offer. Britain. These fabulous and be-| IT&T President Sosthenes Behn jewelled gentry of the Kipling|agreed, then promptly turned up stories control about 40 percent of with a request for a loan. IT&T the area of India and 90,000,900 had sold its Rumanian property people. There are no less than|for $14,000,000 just before the Na- 600 such princes, and many have zis took over, large, well-trained armies of their get own, which can be counted on to It fight against Gandhi's Hindus, if | European properties because it comes to civil war. ‘operaung units were being paid in As a man of peace, Gandhi de- | blocked funds. voutly wishes to avoid any such| It was at this point that Jessc conflict, yet in peace or war, he|Jones advanced the $20,000,00 l‘re(l‘ is playmg into the hands of the'it, following an credit o been brought into the board of a private corporation. that Jesse Jones, having lent IT&T a fistful of money, put a trusted man on the board out of Spain as handsomely. earlier The significance of the move is|a to represent | do more | and had hoped to buildings listed below. A young Senate office building | employee, new on the job, pointed out a chunky, bespectacled man to Capitol policeman. “Now there's a character you,” said the youth. “A great fellow for making friends. He doesn't know me from Adam, but every time we meet on the ele- vator, he gives me a big smile and asks how things are going. I wonder what his angle is. Do you think maybe he's one of thése lobbyists?” “No,” replied the policeman dry- ly, “he’s nemesis of lobbylsts. “That’s Senator EaFollette of Wis- consin.” (Copyright, 1942, by United Fea- ture Syndicote, Inc.) ———————— CALL FOR BIDS SEALED BIDS IN TRIPLICATE | will be received in the office of the Commissioner of Educatioh, Terri- tory of Alaska, until 10 a. m., Fri- day, October 9, 1942, and will then be opened and read, for fire insur- ance on the nineteen rural school Estimated present replacement yalue totals ap- for Wwas suffering losses from all]proximately $290,000.00 Insurance to the | cover from November 1, 1842, for a three-year period: Aleknagik, Bethel, Crooked Creek, Fortuna Ledge, Haycock, Homer, Hoonah, Hope, Kenai, McGrath, Moose Pass, Ruby, Snag Point, South Naknek, Talkeetna, Tee Harbor, @l Unga, Wacker, ahd Wasiila. BOB KEENEY a8 » paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI} is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the« — CAPITOL THEATRE | and receive TWO TICKETS to see: ‘ "HONOLULY LU"~"SCARFACE LADY" Federal Tax—5c per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! Detailed information as to loca- tion, size and type of building, ex- RE posures, protection, etc., for each building can be obtained at the of- fice of the _Commissloner of Educa- tion at Juneau. Give premium rate on each build- ing for the three-year period. State names of fire insurance companies who will carry insurance, The right is reserved to reject ary or all bids. (Signed) JAMES C. RYAN, Commissioner of Education. first publication, Aug. 28, 1942, Last publication, Sept. 11, mz | |our own shop. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUGUST 28 wilfred J. Leivers Everett E. Smith Glenn E. Allen John C. Martinsen Edward L. Poole George Phillips Thomas Burns Mrs. T. F. Simonsen Gladys T. Silvers Mrs. H. F. Hopkinson | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” B SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 Benefic aspects rule in the early hours today but later adverse influ- ences are strong. Labor is well- directed and will add to its fame in production for the war HEART AND HOME: This should ve a fortunate day for women and especially for the grandmothers. It is a time to stress all the dainty and artistic details that make homes charming. The young may expect romance. While youths will be earnest wooers, older men will seek wives. It is a lucky date for recreations of many sorts. Resort hotels should profit as the season closes., BUSINESS AFFAIRS: American optimism will be demonstrated in the marts of trade next month This is a date for wise planning, but delay in making definite de- cisions will be profitable. Science | is to make progress along lines that will prove novel channels of business. Chemists as well as elec- trical engineers will make great contributions to human welfare. Capitalists with foresight will have opportunities to build up novel lines of business. NATIONAL ISSUES: One of the few benefits of the Second World War is due to national surveys which brought out astonishing facts regarding the health and literacy of young men. Physicians and edu- cators thus have been spurred to repair defects and to prevent repe-, tition of unfavorable conditions. As | the time is near for reopening the public schools the democracy which provides free instruction children of all citizens will demand that greater care of youth, the greatest of the nation’s assets, shall | be improved and extended. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: South America continues under as- | | pects which assure the fullest co- operation with the United Nations. |Argenuna and Chile will both plfive, strong Allies before the end of the Second World War, it is forecast. Venezuela, Bolivia, the Axis or subjected to extreme The west coast of Mexico should be weil guarded. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of un- usual experiences in which there may be delays and disappointments, but benefits will overbalance any‘ ill luck. Children born on this day prob- ably will have active minds and keen intellects. They will be intui- tive, independent and able to make a success of life. (Copyright, 1942) — NOTICE NO'I'ICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN that a hearing will be held before the undersigned probate Judge on| August 31, 1942, at 10:00 o'clock A. M., in the office of the United' States Commissioner and Ex-Of- ficio Probate Court for the Juneau, Alaska, Commissioner’s Precinct, up~ on the petition of L. W. KILBURN for his appointmént as adminis-| trator of the estate of ANTUN SI- MIN, deceased, and for the issu- ance of Letters of Administration to him. All persons in interest are hereby required at said time and plnce to nppenr or show cause, if any. they have, why said petition ?hould not be granted as prayed or. Witness my hand and Official Seal at Juneau, Alaska, this 20th day of August, 1942. FELIX GRAY, United States Commissioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge for Juneau, Alaska, Commissioner’s Precinct. Aug. 20 to 29 incusive. EYES EXAMINED and BROKEN LENSES replaced in Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. COMING SOON 20" CENTURY to the | Paraguay flud1 British Guiana may be attacked by THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 20 YEARS AGO 7¥% smrpire AUGUST 28, 1922 Heralding the first breath of winter, snow was reported to be falling at Eagle at 8 o'clock in the morning. Mrs, M. S. Whittier and her two children, Judson and Jeannette, were to arrive in Juneau on the Princess Louise. They had spent the summer visiting relatives in Port Townsend. After completing a trip of inspection of Army posts and Signal Corps stations up the Yukon River, to Skagway, Haines and Fort William H. Seward, Col. E. L. Phillips, Inspector General Department, Ninth Corps Area, Presidio, California, arrived in Juneau on the harbor boat Fornance. He was to leave the next week for the Westward. A card party was given in the evening by Mrs. Lee DeMytt at her home, in honor of Mrs. Ella Christman, who was leaving for her home in Seattle after a three weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gustay |Grundler. About 20 women enjoyed the evening during which cards were played. . 2 Miss Celia McLaughlin, of the office of the was returning to Juneau on the steamship Spokane |last month visiting with relatives in Seattle. Secretary of Alaska, after spending the G. W. Folta, Court Reporter, was returning to Juneau on the | Spokane after spending some time visiting in the States. J. H. Cobb and Emery Valentine were the principal speakers of | the evening at the mass meeting held under the auspices of the “Sanity |League of America.” During the evening a resolution was adopted for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Vol- lst.end Act and the Alaska Bone Dry Law and “for the appointment of suitable committees in the legislative districts to support honest leg- islators and banish time servers and faithless representation from office. Mr. Cobb declared Prohibition one of the three greatest evils of the | 20th Century. Occasional light rains marked the weather of Juneau with a maximum | temperature of 66 and a minimum of 55. e - | ! 't Daily Lessons in English %, ;. corpon et e e e e e ettt} | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, | three weeks.” Omit ANY. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Adonis. Pronounce a-do-nis, A as in iASK unstressed, O as in NO, T as in THIS, accent second syllable. | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Committee; two M's, two T’s, two E’s. ! SYNONYMS: Airy, ethereal, fairylike, frolicsome, lively, sprightly. | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: IMPLICATE; to bring into connection with; to involve. “The evidence |implicates many in this conspiracy.” MODERN ETIQUETTE ** roprrra LEE Q. When a woman is playing golf with a man, should she drive first, whether the honor is his or hers? A. No. The woman should insist on the man driving first if it is ‘hxs honor. } Q. Is it good taste for a woman employee in an office to wear eye |shadow or mascara? ‘ A. No. She should reserve them fo her social engagements. | Q. Should a guest say good-by to her hostess when leaving a tea? A. Yes, unless her hostess is actively engaged in conversation with "other guests, LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ cornon What is the origin of the term, “grass widow”? What is a herbivorous animal? How many inches a year does the average person’s hair grow? What is the color of sapphire? What was Mark Twain’s real name? ANSWERS: 1. This expression was originally “grace widow,” meaning a widow by grace, or courtesy. 2. One that eats only vegetation, and no meat. 3. From 5 to 8 inches. 4. Blue. 5. Samuel Langhorne Clemens. “He hasn’t worked any for | | | | i ! ~There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising Cressword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Behaye . American Indian 2. Weary One lndelnltol’ 34. Use a lever Set 35. Public an- nouncement . Phoebe bird lorse ard with s Bling the asin f r )G £ [WESEY gatherer 12, Seat in church 13. Ocean-going Dassenger * Sll‘ml’on Demise SESE TESe FiESE] one ves, onry 43. European river Unfolded srnduany . Slumberi; 49. Arranged rays 52. Old card nmt 63. Pertainin one's bl flh relative: 16. 17, Proul ol heln' elsewhere Knack 18 Chaperon 20. Fruits of the - ik Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 22. Tn:'a no notice DOWN 1. Footless animal 2 ppine siand 3. Sing or whistle 4. Prearranges dptails Roman house- old go Killer whale: vlrhnl 61, Old Hmes: poetic 2. Lame 26. Artifictal lan- n d.‘nu.'nr the 30, Befors Al . P 3 p"h"vf..}uku bird T, mirth 6. Tropical bird 7. Lake in Matoe s 10. Acquire {;’ u labor S 46, Blnnched fiix#“" e o ek o 8 I The Charles W. Carter | DIRECTORY it 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- Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS msm B.P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers wel- come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- alted Ruler, M. H. SIDES, Sec- retary. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 13— Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bidg PHONE 763 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. ROBERT SIMPSON,0pt.D. 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Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 Shattuck Agency CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI}” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Oil Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company "Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Prescriptionists) ounet Sy ICE CREAM CALL AY OWL Phone 63 Stand Opposite Coliseum 128 H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING ZORIC BSYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 £T AND '8UD, | FOR S EVERY PAY DAY % BOND DAY —Hall a Century of Banking—1941 TheB. M.B‘g!h'rends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS