The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneati, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - R. L. BERNARD - - President Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RA’ Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dousl: By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, §1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure of irregularity in the de- tivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 3T4. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it @ not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local news published ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Aluska Newspapers, 1011 an Bullding, Se DOING A JOB Director of Juneau’s Civilian Defense Unit R. E Robertson has been doing his utmost to keep Juneau minds alert to the vital necessity of being prepared at all times for anything. He hasn’t an enviable job. The chances are, and we sincerely hope, that the real thing will never comé to Juneau—that every time the 1-2 sounds it will be only for a practice. And if Director Robertson is never forced to order the sounding of the air raid alarm, if Jap' planes never there are a good many persons Robertson in the buzz close to Juneau, who are going to place Director darned fool category for causing all of this fuss. Chances are that is what will happen. That's why Director Robertson doesn’t have an enviable job. Well, there was also probably one a time when the inhabitants of London thought that this business of forming civilian defense groups, digging trenches in the parks, was a lot of bally tommyrot. Some of them are dead now. Director Robertson to believe in being prepared for any eventuality in time of war. What he’s mainly concerned with is working out means and ways to save lives—in case. But the response has been poor among Juneauites. Many who ought to be out wearing an arm band when the 1-2 sounds are contented to sit at home with their guilty feelings while their neighbor skips his second cup of after dinner java to dash to his sta- tion. happens Many more volunteers are urgently needed. Juneau resident knows that. Something that few Juneauites know, however, is that during recent weeks alerts and complete black- outs were ordered in some localities not very fa: from Juneau—and planes took off in mucky weather at night. The real thing is close to that. It is close enough to Juneau to be prepared. Every Lou E. Holland, Corporation: “There are a lot of small firms around the coun- try which are thoroughly capable of doing many jobs that need to be done.” chairman, Smaller War Plant Vice-President and Business Manager | (ion of Jane’s Fighting Ships, s for §1.50 per month. | residents | Naval Losses | (Bremerton News-Searchlight) | It is obvious that keeping account of naval losses in the Second World War is a task exceedingly df- Ificult of performance. A foreward to the 1941 edi- just now published, | calls attention to the fact that “it is almost impos-, sible to obtain full and exact information” cohcern- craft which are believed to have been No vessel, the publishers éxplain, can be [listed as sunk uunless “the most searching investi- | gation” supports the contention that it has been | destroyed. As to the casualties of the United States, {no attempt is made to record “more details . . . than [ those which have been disclosed “officially.” Allowing, however, for these necessary handicaps, the compiler of Jane's deserves commendation for the skill with which he has brought together data imperatively needed for the current history of the maritime aspéct of the war. British ships conceded to have been lost include the Hood, 42,100 tons, blown up in action off Greenland, May 24, 1941; Prince of Wales and the Repulse, torpedoed in the [ South China Sea; December 10, 19941; the Barham, the Royal Oak, the Ark Royal, the Courageous, the Glorious and the Hermes. The battleships Arizona and Oklahoma, the latter capable of “salvage,” are the principal entries in the American roster up to April last, since that time the Lexington having been announced a sacrifice. On the Axis side of the ledger, Germany has acknowledged the destruc- | tion of the Bismarck, “torpedoed by the Dorsetshire after being reduced to a sinking condition by gun- fire by the King George V and the Rodney,” May 27, 1941. The largest vessel of the Italian navy | chronicled as “out of action” is the Conte di Cavour, 23,622 tons, “torpedoed by naval aircraft at Taranto, Novmber 11, 1940, and believed to be damaged be- yond repair.” Regarding the Japanese battleship Haruna, the editor of Jane’s says: “Destroyed by attack of United States Army aircraft northward of Luzon December 10, 1941; identification . . . does not appear to be positive, ie., she may have been the Hiei, Kongo or} Kirisima.” Smaller craft of every sort—cruisers, de- stroyers, submarines, sloops, minesweepers, monitors, gunbos corvettes, armed yacht, trawlers, whalers, drifters, fleet tugs, miscellaneous auxiliaries—are re- ported with such data in each instance as may be available. The narrative is grim reading. For those who might be discouraged by it, Jane's editor says: “A great many changes will be observed in the United States Navy, which is undergoing an'l unprecedented degree of expansion Never before has such a quantity of capital ship tonnage been under, construction at the same time for any coun- | try.” ing enemy eliminated. the Wave Gruver, pleasant and efficient operator at the Fee Beauty Parlor, is i Wichita attending d 30-day school prior to aceepting a position in one )f the defense industries—Phillipsburg (Mo.) Review. 1\ vorld that cannot be serviced by air.” nanding Air Transport Command: “We are going to have no forces anywhére in the| . vorld that cannot be serviced by a The so-called humorless Russians show that they | 1ave a grim sense of that halpful trait in handling of | var communiques. The ironically witty Ambassador | Litvinov never fails to call the attention of Wash- ngton correspondents to such episodes as the follow- ng: Rumanian headquarters recently announced that + Major Marcu Bonkes, commander of the First Bat- | alion, 85th Infantry Regiment, had “died the death f a hero during a Russian attack on the village »f 'K’ in the Ukraine. Major Bonkes was wounded‘ mnd then finished off by the enemy.” That night| he Moscow radio served notice that the gallant Rumanian officer had surrendered without resistance wnd without receiving a scratch, and apparently glad | © become a captive. “In case the Rumanian gov- rnment wishes to confer a medal on the major,” | he wireless concluded, “he may be reached in care of the Soviet war prisoners’ camp, where he spends ais days playing checkers.” | war dangers arouse the nation. Ac- | -imcna«c of Nazis and Japanese will be |required concessions. The death of |Gandhi before the end of Lhe war HAPPY BIRTHDAY | SEPTEMBE 10 Mrs. Thomas L. George Mrs. W. R. Spain ‘Thais Bayers Lillian Dale Bernard O. Havdahl Crystal Eversole H. F. Hutchinson Albert T. Bailey Tillie ‘Halverson — e HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” 3 D e Post, American resigned. Street. Thomas E. Eva Tripp south, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Adverse aspects are strong to- day. Until late this afternoon war news may be unsatisfactory. There is a good sign for aviators. HEART AND HOME: Women to- in the States. planetary influences. The pursuits and hospitality is well dl~' rected. The trend for girls should be toward preparation for voca- tions. From now on it will be as| discreditable for a woman to be without a profession or a wage earning occupation' as it has been for Ameérican men. In the new so- | cial order the rebuilding of a world déstroyed by war will require the| energies of all able-bodied persons.| BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Gradually | the talents of successful heads of | big business will be utilized by the | Government to the fullest extent. Politicians - will be eliminated as Mrs. Gabe F. 0. Burck had stocked Sed! |'cording’ to' the reading of the slgds‘ in the nation's horoscope, leading men commandeered from trade and | commerce must be free to choose | | their own assistants and must not | be hampered by dictation from | long-time public officials. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Between the East and West difference of opin- ion regarding the comparative e o once.” b1, syllable. M’s. emphasized by an event of grave meaning to the United States which will feel synchronized at-| tacks from both the Atlantic and | the Pacific. Support for China will | prove as important as assistance for Russia. At last unity of pur- pose will be attained by the citizens | of the United States. read as encouraging to the mms of India where the demand Im‘ {independence must be met in a way | satisfactory to the various peoples A. Never. indicate that British diplomats | Q. When a realize how important it is to make A. Yes, but is foretold. Q. When a Persons whose birthdate it s h#ve the augury of a year of vur- ied fortunes. They will be luoky after hazardous experienies. De- | A Mrs. William Geddes was planning to le: Weather: 52, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Symmetrical. SYNONYMS: Diversion, entertainment, creation, sport, pastime, pleasure. WORD STUDY: |inérease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: |EXECRABLE; detestable. execrable if bad, which compose the vast population. | contains a very delicate perfume. There is a sign which seems 'to i) invarfably be considered effeminate. (Continued from Page One) ing days are over. When Senator | Vandenberg accosts me with blood in his eye about some crack I have taken at him, I am no longer able to reply: “Why, Senator, I'm awfully sorry but Bob Allen wrote that part of the column.” I hope that everything is going OK with you in the Third Army, and that you make Lt. Col. Frank Murphy do a little work once in a while. I suspect that things are getting along better down there than they are up here. To tell you the truth things aren't going here as well as they might, and T get awfully tired of being a constant nagger and goader of government officials, even thought it does seem to have a beneficial effect on them. New York Pill The other day, however, I think the Administration got the most salutary lesson it has had in a long time—Roosevelt's defeat in the New York Democratic Convention. That was a tough pill for him to take, but I think it will do him and the country an awful lot of good in the long run. Sometimes it takes a politieal sock-in-the-jaw like that to wake up the Whtie House, and for some time the White House has certainly | needed waking up. | But' to me, much more significant | was the primary race in South Caro- | lina where Senator Burnet Maybank, a- close friend of the Presidents,| {in the Senate, just barely squeaked through. South Carolina has been a strong pro-war State. And one thing that hurt Maybank in that election was the fact that he was a close friend of Roosevelt’s. In other words, the New York convention, plus South Carolina, plus O'Daniel’s victory in Texas all go to show that the magic name of Roosevelt can't offset the rising tide of resentment in the country over the inefficiencies of Washington land worry over the war, As you know, the President under- stands these political rebuffs, and that's why I think they are the best thing that could happen to him. Be- cause he’s a' great guy when he doesn’t have his head in the sand; s0 now he may wake up in time to clean house. “Four Old Men” You remember back in' February when we wrote that series of col- umns on the “Four Old*Men’ which got the President so sore? . Well, in my opinion that's still the basic trouble with the war right now. The President has a terribly weak Cab- inet. And because he has a weak Cabinet, he tries to do everything himself. * Just take a look at the men around Roosevelt and you can see why we aren't getting along better —genial, ambling Jesse Jones who has caused as great a defeat econ- omically as Pearl Harbor but who is still rewarded by a position of trust in the Cabinet; charming, fuss-bud- | get Miss Perkins, who has had most of her powers stripped from her; frustrated Frank Knox, a good news- paperman who knows as much about the Navy as the Navy does about setting type; busybody Justice Felix | Frankfurter who ought to stick to his job on the Supreme Court; Cor- with the advantage of already being | dell Hull, a fine old gentleman whose JOHN GUERREO as a phid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ig'invited to present this coupoti this evening at the box office of the- — CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO “INTERNATIONAL LADY” Federal Tax—5¢ per Person TICKETS to see: WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Apmrl » Liasditbotiamia Al health keeps him away from the State Department six months .f the | year — and you can't run foreign policy on a part-time basis. We could bungle along in ordinary peace times with this kind of a Cabinet. But imagine trying to run a war with a conglomeration like this during the most tragic and fearful days in our history. And yet the President is surprised at the growing lack of national con- | fidence in his Administration! King of Bunglers To me the king-pin of all the bunglers, and the tip-off to Roose- velt’s inexcusably benign attitude ‘toward inefficiency is the man clos- est to him every day—Marvin Me¢- iIntyre. You and I knew Marvin years ago when he was a hnnd-uuz‘ fifty bucks a week, who failed at! almost everything he ever tackled | and he never tackled anything im- portant. Yet through the accident of hav- ing covered the Navy Department tary -of the Navy, he is now the closest man to the President—at a time when the nation’s life is at | stake. Of course, wheri some of Roose- velt's closest frierids complain‘ aboat Mac, he always waves them’ aside with the remark that he personally keeps an eye on things and Mac isn’t important. But unfortunately the President doesn't have time to | keep an eye on everything. He has enough to do running the war. So as you can see, things haven't changed much since you left. If anything they have gotten worse. To me, it isn't only winning: the war which is at stake; there’s also the danger that me may lose our democracy. For you can't afford to let people get too sore and too disillusioned. Roosevelt has always sensed this in the past. 'He has always kept his finger on the pulse—which i§ one of the very things necessary to be- been a great President. Basically I . | still think the way we used to about |, | him, and T feel that the slap in the |, face he got from Jim Farley in New | York and O'Danel in Texas may be' | just the sting he needs to snap out || of it, houseclean, his Cabinet ahd ;|get some real men in to help win the war. For FDR is too great a' gutters of history by the well-mean- ing bunglers around him, and de- 4 'man who couldn’t make more than | ' $ when Roosevelt was Assistant Secre- || ing President, and Roosevelt' has | man'to be | | | |crucified and pulled down inte the ‘ception and misunderstandings may complicate business relations, Children born on this day prnb ably will be successful in one*'of the artistic professions. With Mer- cury as their ruling planet they may be sensitive amd tempera- mental. ' (Copyright, 1942) 2 mocracy is too precious to be left in their fumbling hands. Yours to Set the Rising Sun, DREW. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ”Wt Gl’l‘l: — Evelyn Barton, New' York office workek, holds armload of typéwritér rib- bon spools collected in drive, CECIL B. DeMILLE'S GREATEST SPITYACLE | LOOK How did 3. 5. oldest Européan Corn. AAcRoss k eoumm of & ‘Phree-band arm t lo? sxamplet abbr, High- priest's ‘ment Feminine nickname Large hall Stitch Those who for service ////// /// | { ANSWERS: | Seed conmner 20. Land measure Make a mistake engage others 58. ol ol M/ JAMM// & AARER HNE MI "fllfl!ll//flfl VARER)«dl SEPTEMBER 10, 1922 Homer Nordling was elected Commander of Alford John Bradford Legion, to fill out the unexpired term of A. C. Fisher, The emergency hospital at Treadwell Had been nibved to the home of George Getchell where Mrs. Getchell was to be nurse. William Miller was to open a barber shop in Douglas, his location to be part of the building known as Sante Degan’s Pool Room on Front Hall had leased the premises formerly occupied by S. Wallstedt on Front Street, Juneau, and was to open the “Palace of Sweets,” serving jce cream and soft drinks and also light lunches. was returning north to Junaeu after visiting in the Mrs. Allen’ Shattuek, son Curtis and daughter Virginia, were aboard the steamer Admiral Watson leaving' Seattle¢ for Juneau. . ve on the Alameda to visit day are subject to mildly helpful} Mrs. J. W. Leivers, who had been visiting in the States was return- stars | ing north on the Admiral Watson (encourage the distinctly domestic | Four days mail was aboard the steamer Queen due from the south |during the pight. Paul ghd infant daughter returned to their home in Douglas from St. Anr's Hospital in Juneau. Mrs. E. H. Kaser and two daughters arrived on the Estebeth from Sitka, where they had been visiting hardt carried an advertisement in THe Empire that he uction and Chilkat islands with foxes and no trespassing would be permitted. high; 51, low; rain. ' Daily Lessons in English %. ;.. corpon SO WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I have got to see you at Say, “I MUST see you at onge.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Demonstrable. Pronounce de-mon-stra- E as in ME, O as in ON, A as in ASK unstressed, accent second Observe the SY and the two amusement, enjoyment, re- “Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us “Criticism is like champaigne, nothing more nothing more excellent if good.”—Colton. o cumnin e gevs s | MODERN ETIQUETTE * gopmrra ree | S e ] Q. Should a person use highly-perfurhed’ stationery? A woman can keep Her stationery in a drawer that A man who uses perfumed stationery cereal is-in biscuit' form, is it all right for one to break it before pouring cream over it? it is hardly necessary, as it will soon soften. man offers his seat in a streetcar or bus to a woman, should he lift his hat? Yes; it is the polite thing to do. and [EARN £ the expression “O. K.” originate? . €. GORDON What per cent of American men are bald at the age of forty? How long, in normal times, does it take to build a battleship? 4. Of which farm’crop is hominy a product? What city ranks second to' St. Augustine, Fla., in being the settlement in North' America? 1. The generally accepted version is that it came from the Choctaw Indian word “okey,” meaning “it is s0.” Forty-two per cent. Four years. Annapolis Royal,-Noyai Scotia; founded in 1605. nmwu.u Course of travel' ; 36. D‘;fi‘frlm- 1. Terminated ihdu'ausen 3; Pwlhpl osl= g e Bn abbr. 42 Greek letter 45. Vigor . Strikes’ violently . A tribe’of Is- cifael: variant Gkiahoma Dallied . Note of the scale 4. Narrator Reht again Agricultural machines J![Efl IWIELD] :J“un-i Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle . Think BOWN 60. Bitter vetch 1 Military ’ 8] 61. Paer Gynu 2 Portin an % nrbll farthest oo WaaER ,:.uu dEEEEL plement. .62, Hnrn IIIH%E | ] | V& B Dot igaten - 21. American and ve . 2] 1 1] 31 Ex ll. IS. nncomoun driver W 36. 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