The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1942, Page 4

.——_.———— i b bl et i — PAGE FOUR 7 Daily Alaska Empire beforg he let it go for America. | easy. ‘ That was a real sacrifice. That was something that you have beén thinking about doing for a long| time and haven't dohe it yet! Don't kid yourself { You haven't started to sacriffce anything yet. You been holding back, kidding youtself into believing that we'll win the war without it. It probably wasn't Published every evening except Sinday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, ‘Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Entered in the Post O President Vice-President and Business Manager ice in Juneau as Second Class Matter. e| SUBSCRIPTION RATES: b :h Delivered ..',:n. fer m.x.:m nd g:-“ 'r;'l:-::.' onth. | you could learn ‘things about being an American One vear, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.25. Bubscribers will confer & favor if they Will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- livers of their papers, Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS from Booshu. He's got the right idea. Hold of' & minute. Yoy, say you'ré an American? It says so on your birth certificate, you say Well, maybe you qualify legally. The courts might | aceept that. You look like one, but you're a funny | The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | oy | republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- | © wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | Your pals and brothers are out wading around in\ beren. blood in“all parts of “the world today, doing their| ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER damndest ‘to help you hold on to some thifigs that come with that birth certificate. And yet you'rr-} THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | probably ‘one of those “Americans” who couldn’t even} lget up the ambition to go to the polls and vote on; election day." Remember? That's one of the priv-| ileges that your pals and brothers are dying for | today | 1 Sure, you know all that. But you still didn't vote {and you probably haven't bought any honds lately, | | either. ' You're a funny guy—and a lucky one. We hope your luck holds out. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 \merican Building, Seattle, Wash. Yet Another Front? (Cincinnati Enquirer) At no previous time have the relations of Japan | and the Soviet Union been so strained as now. Un- | confirmed reports tell of new Japanese “demands” on Moscow, possibly entailing the cession to Japan of certain strategic areas in Eastern Siberia. The | Russians could hardly meet such demands and re- St. Lawrence Is- main in a strong defensive position. They would is estimated at 325, have to risk hostilities on their eastern frontiers Gambell is an iso- |rather than make an Oriental “Munich agreement.” lated community—there's quite a bit of water be-| The outbreak of war in the maritime provinces of Weeh ‘She TMlEhA’ 661 anything else | Siberia would be' of ‘the utmost importance for the | You'd think that if you ever wanted to get aw: 1‘)’\?:_”;’[‘1_“}5‘:“:5-;']13‘03:3::1;313;11?'01:‘;1‘\ Sés:teigroi:ts;wt:; from things—wanted to run off somewhere and for- 7 = # biiid 2 immediate interest also, we would have to find the get the and everything else—Gambell would be | oo = 0 striking st Japan offensively and'in great a good place strength. . st A Jap attack on the Soviet Union would force the the Russians to wage two-front war and would gradu- ally strengthen the hand of General von BocK's we the other day that armies at the Volga. The only adequate counter- T us believe that the people who live on St.'mové would be an American onslaught against the Lawrence Island are darn good Americans, the kind Japanese at some vital point, to keep the Jap in- who are going to see that we wi this war so they volved in a twe-front war of his own. can keep on being Amer Bevause‘nyey Tike it American offensives like the Solomon Islands <You'd think that up on St. Lawrence Tsland the OPeration would hardly serve, for such attacks dn natives don’t have to worry much about rationing the periphery of Japan's vast holdinzs do not really and gasoline shortages and manpower and inflation | “caken the Japanese force available in the north.| From Alaskan bases, however, the American Navy | and Army Air Corps might be able to unleash sting- That is one reason why we believe that the clerk ;:;\.:(;litvk;u(;r ::;1 d’:::le;ed'z:};i‘: ik iéu:ir“:ogff of the War Savings Staff of the United States Treas- |ritory, our help to the Soviet Union in'the East ury is going to sit up and take a little notice when | would count decisively. From bases in China, our he receives Booshu’s order for a $25 war savings air force might make effective raids also. bond which Booshu has sent in along with his $18.75 In any event, it can be taken for granted that a | to buy it Japanese attack in Siberia would drastically change We don't know whether Booshu is his last name our own military problem, obliging us to transfer or first name because it seems that Booshu is an mMore and more strength to the Pacific area and to Eskimo and that's the only name he has. But we're | trim down the contingents bound for Europe. sure of one thing. Booshu is the kind of American | we all should be, | We think the clerk who sends Booshu's bond is | geath in the U. 8. A. each year that this cause ranks going to think a little about that, too. He probably | sixth among all causes of fatal injury. So says. the | woi't realize that $18.75 in cash represents probably | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Since the | a small fortune to an Eskimo living on St. Lawrence | Armistice of 1918—the total of accidental shootings | Island. When Booshu sent in his $18.75, that was & has been 70,000 . . . of which hunting is responsible | real sacrifice. He must have thought quite a bit for more than a third. Washinglon Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page One) | | | 1 | S BOOSHU BUY The population of Gambell on land in the Bering Sea including women and children about a war Lawrence Island of United States—the and Gambell are a part map says. The persons liv- ing‘on the island are Americans—the almanac says. Bat learned something cans and buying bonds and all of those things that we're supposed to be concerned with. They probably don't. ! Home front casualties? Well, so many people are accidentally shot to [raise them. It requires 27 months|they be considered inefficient in| and a lot of hay before a heifer is| preventing sabotage. | ready for breeding.” } “You forgot to add on the period of gestation, Sam,” someone ob-| served. “Maybe we ought to ask| the President to do something about this. He could issue an executive order, shortening the length of time required to bring baby cattle into the world.” A PRESIDENT WILSON STORY Cabinet members who turned out | for Eddie Dowling’s new show in | Washington — and most of them | Were there — recalled another in-! Stancé when Dowling opened al represented. But it gol no action, from the WPB. Instead, another branch of WPB, acting quite inde-I jand fortitude will be revealeq | Axis arms. |strength with which to win THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 1! { ; | 20 YEARS AGO /7% puprne ) SEPTEMBER 29, 1922 With over 900 in attendanide and a, colorful atmosphere the first HAPPY BIRTHDAY | Winifred Carter James Morrison Judge William' A. Holzheimer | J. V> Hickey ‘southeast Alaska Fair opened at A.B. Hall the previous evening Wwith a | James Ramsay, Jr. dazzlinig display of fireworks. Everyone was pleased with the results of | Mary Harris the fair, especially the farmers who had turned in more agricultural and \ Louise Skinner }Qfld!‘n products than could be displayed in the limited space. Following | Mrs. Carl Carlson Frank Dunn Mrs. L. D. Stafford | Irene L. Stowell | Ruth Blake | I~hs fireworks an excellent program of entertainment was presented. Judges for the farm products department of the fair were W. B. Stout, of Haines;E. M. Polley, of Sitka and H. B. LeFevre, Jurieau. Judge T. M. Reed of the United States District Court, left on the gas- | g o boat Murre for Sitka to hold a special naturalization session, He was |accompanied by A. E. Maltby, Assistant United States Attorney and Wal- ter B. King, Deputy Olerk of Court. They expectedl to return within a “The stars incline | 99 but do not Compel Judge W. B. Stout of Haines arrived on the Fornance to attend the oo rrreeeeeed | SOutheast Alaska Fair, for which he was one of the judges for the agri- » cultural produets. He was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boynton. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 3 Adverse planetary aspe#s rule to- day which may ‘bring lasor troubles. | Disquieting news regardinz a cer- tain war front is indicated. HEART " AND HOME: Women Lockie MacKinnon, proprietor of the Hotel Zynda, left on the Princess Alice for Prince Rupert on his way to fyder ¢n business in connection iwlth mining interests, { e should pursue routine tasks today. Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Lucas, who were motoring north from Oregon, ex- It should be a fortunsis date Jfor|pected to be in Seattle in time to take the Admiral Watson, leaving Oc- making changes in places of resi- |tober 4. dence and tomorrow shonld be a| lucky moving day. The stars prom- ise success for héme owners but landlords will be unfortunate in certain cities drained of residents J. H. Cann, president of the El Nido Gold Mining Company, arrived in Juneau.on the Apex No. 1 and was to return to the mine the following {day with a load of machinery. because of war exigéncics. Aged AT T persons should be cared for with Mrs. H. W. Warwick, wife of one of the officers of the U. S. Coast and special attention for many Wil | Geodetic' Survey ship Explorer, entertained with a bridge tea the previous reach the close of life. Men and day at the home of Mrs. G. Clay Jones. women long prominent in public kit affairs will end their carecrs. The| Roy 1. jones, Ketchikan aviator, who had been due in Juneau the stars presage many new leaders. | eyioys gay to give exhibition flights during the fair, was held at Cape This may mean numerois retire- ¥ KR er 4he" fall elections Fanshaw by cloudy and foggy weather, it was indicated by information m:‘(;s;;mess AFI:‘AI‘K‘S‘ Uncer- | Prought into town by Deputy U. S. Marshal George J. Getchell who had tainty regarding world affairs as|Seen Jones in Cape Fanshaw. well as an access of natriotism will —— greatly inerease the sal” of govern-| Weather was unsettled with a maximum temperature of 48 and a ment bonds. Many opporfunities: to | minimum 45. invest in new ventures of much promise will open to capimlflts.lf’*""’w"' Prosperity will dontinue 'to add . . . b profits to merchants and manu- D lyl ns in Eng |Sh ‘g facturers. Purveyors of food will al ’ esso S . L. GORDON benefit through novel methods fli i a reservatiorn. £ ;'(:lx:"::'s::;:u]d ‘l?: ml']t)unaem dw~: i WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “They had reached the final pite lack of help in times of emer- {end of their journey.” Omit final. gency. ! OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dishevel. Pronounce di-shev-el, i as in NATIONAL ISSUES: Heroic |it, both e's as in set (second e unstressed), accent second syllable; and not deeds on foreign battle fronts will |dis-hevel. arouse supreme patriotic enthus- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Bankruptcy. Observe the tec. iasm as the achievemehts of young SYNONYMS: ~Perplexity, bewilderment, amazement, astonishment, Americans are reported. Coulage | embarrassment, confusion, distraction. by WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- parents and relatives of the many| ... our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: men sacrificed in the war. HeA“V|peqryiaprp: worthy of esteem; deserving regard. “If men wish to be losses are forecast as intensive con- 4 £ . i y v SH stimable.”— nitiated by United Nations held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are esi La Bruyere. MODERN ETIQUETTE * poperra Les as well as men will be victims of The will to win will‘now | rise to heights that hasten vittory. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Before the first winter month’ the effect of the United States wan ef-| e ol ol Q. What should the bridegroom and the best man do with their gloves while the ceremony is taking place? A. The bridegroom removes his right glove and holds it in his left hand. The best man does not remove his gloves. Q. How should the places be set for a luncheon party? A. They are set just as for dinner, with place plates, two knives, three forks, and a small spoon. Our strategy in holding back onr | offensive forces until assured of Q. Is it necessary for a hostess to have her week-end guest met at the station? be “v%flch A. Yes, it is absolutely necessary. understood by the nation, will manifest increasing - zeal in whatever pertains to our part in the war. Although astrologers warn | that' optimism may be premature, the stars indicate the trend toward | victory. o Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of bene- fits that assure progress. Ln‘rary folk should be careful in market- ing theéir wares. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 DIRECTOR? Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineaqu Channel rs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS D Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 460 Dr. John H..Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bidg PHONE 1762 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 Frankiin Sts. PHONE 136 | i FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Halr Problems Sigrid’s 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- Blomgren Bullding = Phone 56 | | shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers wei- come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- alted Ruler, M, H. SIDES, Sec- retary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 13—24 “The Rexall Slore"A Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO | TIDE CALENDARS FREE Harry Race, Druggist “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.‘-TrianéIe Bldg. 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 Batisfied Customers” ‘DR. H. VANCE " OSTEOPATH Consultation and ‘eéxdmination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7t0 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Frarkiin St. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP e | FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Vicior Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Phone 65 Seward Street INSURANCE | Shamm—gency [CALIFORNIA | Grocery ‘and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at pently, drew up a program calling for production of farm machinery up to 27 per cent of the 1940 levels. This was the WPB's Civilian Sup-| plies Branch, and its program in; turn was rejected by the Food Re-| quirements Committee. To make matters still more con- fused, the War Department at this point entered the picture. It de- manded that no critical materials be used for agricultural machinery during the next quarter. This would completely cripple the Wickard pro- gram, since the machinery to be used by the farmers next spring must be produced in the next three| “Well, the President is a farmer himself and ought to know about; such things,” grinnned Majority Leader Alben Barkley. ‘“However, I doubt that this would come within the scope of his powers as Com- mander-in-Chief.” MYSTERIES OF (‘E’NSORSHIP One inexplicable thing about the otherwise effective Censorship Code is that it bars publication ofany suspicion that sabotage was com- mitted aboard a ship or in a fac- tory, also that it bans mention ' of diplomatic relaiions. months — in other weords, in the next quarter. i So while farmers face a shortage of labor, machinery, fertilizer and insecticides, action in Washington is delayed by conflict and duplica-| tion among bureaucracies. For instance, it is not permitted to say that Hitler uses a certain French area as a radio link :to South America because the State Department forgot to include radio in its diplomatic agreement regard- ;ing that area and may have to re- BIRTH AND PRICE CONTROL | Congressional leaders showed the| open diplomatic negotiations re- garding that radio station. Also, it is not permitted to say President a rough draft of the new that sabotage was supected aboard 1 wage-price control bill before the a certain luxury liner which burn- i legislation was introduced, and he ed at sea, even though very few heartily approved it. However, the|luxury liners burned at sea in leaders didn't tell the President| peacetimes, and certainly many about one proposal, relative to price more precautions are taken to pre- control, which was discussed while vent fire on vitally important ships the bill was being written in Speak-|in wartime. er Sam Rayburn’s office. This censorship is not the fault At this meeting Rayburn remark- of Byron Price’s efficient bureau, ed that the problems of cattlemen but of the government departments should be kept in mind in fixing which wrote the code. meat prices. The censorship bureau merely “I have some cattle myself on enforces the code. So it looks as what I like to call my ranch in!if the real purpose of hiding these Texas,” Rayburn said, “and I know things from the American public from experience what it costs to|was fear by the armed forces that ~ E.E. HILL as a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE i invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the-— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “The Chocolate Soldier” show in wartime Washington. That was in the last World War, and | Woodrow Wilson, & great theatre- | Boer, was there. { Wilson came behind scenes to| congratulate Eddie and noticed lys |ing dead-to-the-world on the floor |in the dressing-room a private in uniform. i “Let him sleep,” suggested Wil- son. “I'll give him an extension of |leave so he won't have to get back until .tomorrow.” So he scribbled on the back of the theatre program: “Private Henry Dowling is extend- ed until 12 noon. (Signed) ‘Wood- row Wilson.” But when Private Dowling reported for duty he was called upon to explain why he was ‘AWOL. "“I had an extension of leave” he said. “From whom?” “From the Commander-in-Chief,” and he showed the theatre pro- gram. Whereupon incredulous of- ficers locked up Henry on the charge of mental derangement and it required Admiral Cary Grayson, aide to the President, to get him out. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Ine:)« —————— NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That on September 15, 1942 in the Commissioner’s Court for - Junesu/ Precinet, at Juneau, Alaska, Leona Talmage, of Juneau, Alaska, was appointed executrix- of -the - estate of Kenyon Cleveland Talmage, de- ceased. All persons having claims against said estate are reguired to present them, with verified votich- €rs as reguired by law, to ‘said J|executix at the office of her “at- | |torney Howard D. Stabler, Shat- tuck Building, Juneau, Alaska, with- In six months from the ‘date of the first publication of this notice. LEONA TALMAGE, Sept. 15-22 - 29; Oct. 6. NOTICE Bills now owing the Tony Simin Children born on this day prob- ably will be highly intelligent, log- ical and well-balanced. They should be kindly and*affectionate, popular and ‘fortunate. «(Copyright, 1942) URCH MISSION e SOCIETY MEETING Memorial Presbyterian Church Mission Society will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. at the.church manse. The host- esses will be Mrs. Clara Barlow and Mrs. Genevieve Soboleff. i An amateur cameraman pass -ly)ramafic, Yet Tragic Story Behind These P,hqtos; LOOK and LEARN 2 ¢. corpon 1. What city in the United States has the narrowest streets? 2. Which way does Lincoln face on the penny which bears his likeness® * Moderate Prices Juneau Florisis » " "Phone 311 H. S. GRAVES 3. Which state produces the most maple syrup? “The Clothing Man” 4. What is toxicology? AFFNER 5. Who wrote “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? HOMR o,; Rmx[; MSCH ANSWERS & B 1. St. Augustine, Florida. 2. To the right. —_ 3. Vermont, 'z 0 R ' C 4. The science that treats of poisons. SYSTEM CLEANING 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). TONEAU-YOONG |||, Phane 15 3 R LU ska Laundry Hardware Company Shelf and Heavy Harliwiire | There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! GET AND ‘SA FOR WAR BONDS AND STAMPS I i L Guy Smith-Drugs (Careful Prescriptionists) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM [ | R Century of Banking—1941 “ne mn - 1891—Halia TheB.M.Behrends Bank Qldest Bank ip Alaska by snapped these dramatic pictures of Pilot J. B. Purnell, who bailed 4 Estate are now payable to L. 'W. Kilburn, Administrator.” ~ - — BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Federal Tax—bc per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! out of his flaming test plane; which then crashed through the roof of a building at the Gurtiss-Wright Alrcraft company plant at Buffalo, N. Y., killing 13 persons. ‘At the left, Purnell has just hit the ground. Right, injured, he is helped by rescuers. Purnell landed two miles away from the Curtiss plant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, probing the cr-;h found “no evidence of sabotage.” il it PR T U COMMERCIAL [ e S e SAVINGS AL R R