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

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Entered in the Post Office in Jubeau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau Douglas for $1.50 By mall, postage paid, at the following ri 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 or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. President Vice-President and Business Manager r month. Press is exclusively entitied 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 Lerein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. N:\VI'I\)A\ L American Bull THE NAZIS totalitarian ate needs a the Jew. There blame on the Jew. Every scapegoat leader of a Adolf Hitler were few things that he couldn't There Je has little hope that even if he succeeded in conquer- ing all of Europe and subjugating all of the Ger- would be able to picked out were m in Germany and Hitler mans to his rule, he never cile the Jews, Consequently, he Three Jewish grave diggers from Chelmo in Poland tell a horrible story determination the extermination recon- them escaped of Hit- of has set about to destroy who *recently ler’s for their race Early thousands Chelmo. The; children in They were received in a large, well-heated barn this year—about Janus 15, to be exact of from Lodz were brought were of both sexes and all ages, from rms to the very old. Jews to reported horri- and the fying turned on from ‘The grave-digge: noises within—screams of terror frantic beating on the walls of the van The gas was left on for 15 minutes was turned off and the doors opened. After five minutes, to allow the gas to clear Then it waiting another the Nazis ordered the grave-diggers to get to work dragged the bodies out, and the Germans tore rings and wrenched out gold teeth before the grave- diggers were allowed to place the bodies in the grave. | There they were wedged together tightly, the bodi of children being used to fill any gaps. Each layer of some 200 bodies was covered with sand before the ‘They off layer was started. Six to nine next double van-loads were buried each chloride of lime being poured into each day's it was covered over. This process was after day. day grave before repeated day Oust "Em All (The Daily Olympian) Department has reported that Japa- apparently have withdrawn from Attu two of the Aleutian Islands, and that fliers are continuing to blast away at Kiska, third of the three islands originally occupied by the enemy last June. Raids on Kiska, it was said, are being conducted almost daily by pilots based on the Andreanof group of the Aleutians. During recent flights over Kiska, American planes encoun- tered only light anti-aircraft opposition Nearly every one of the American islands in the North Pacific is of strategic importance. Many ex- perts agree that the side capable of holding Alaska will be victorious in this war. The Alaska route is the shortest between this continent and Tokyo, the ultimate goal of American But routes can be used 'in two directions. Consequently Japan’s military would become a grave threat to the United States if it should gain of the Alaska peninsula. Japan’s strength in The Navy nese forces and Agattu, American forces. control the North Pacific is much less than in the south. Determined efforts to dis- lodge the Japs from Alaska must be continued until every one of the yellow-bellies is ousted from the vitally important archipelago A Great Highway (Cincinnati Enquirer) In building the highway to Alaska the Army is about to complete a monumental job in an amazing- ly short time. So very soon we shall have a back door open to Alaska. And we are pushing the Pan-| American Highway to Panama These roads promise to be of immense utility. Think what they will be when peace returns. An auto can travel on one continuous and unbroken the: ed at THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCTOBER 28 Mrs. Herbert Knudsen Mrs. M. E. Tippetts Eddie Nelson Beverly Junge Maurice Walworth Burford R. Glass Albert F. Garn William Fullerton Helena M. Poole Roland C. Ingram A. H. Hendrickson John W. Paul e o S H { HOROSCOPE “The stars incline . but do not compel” ? THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 Benefic aspects dominate today. However the stars may bring much bitter comment to candidates for public office. Neptune is in an as- pect that stimulates competition and encourages misjudgment. HEART AND HOME: Women are most fortunate under this con- figuration which makes them loyal supporters ef persons or movements that promise much for human welfare. It is an auspicious date for their clubs and other or- ganizations. Those who seek aldl or advice from men of influence may expect cordial cooperation. Gir come under a sway that oromises happiness through mar- riage or betrothal. It is a lucky wedding day. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Foresha- dowing of many changes in com- mercial methods after the war will be plain in the coming win- ter when bankers and financiers agree on unusual programs which are essehtial to the prosecution of the world conflict. Seven years ago, when Uranus entered the money sign Taurus, it was predicted that | | | | |20 YEARS AGO #%% supins || DIRECTORY OCTOBER 28, 1922 In observance of Navy Day, October 27, all radio and radio compass stations in the district were open to visitors. All citizens were invited to visit them and guides were furnished to accompany parties and explain operations. A baby girl was born the morning of October 26 to Mr. and Mrs. G, H. Skinner at St. Ann's Hospital, Skinner family. She was the second daughter in the Residents of Gypsum had been enjoying radio concerts broadcvast from Pacific Coast cities for several months past, according to A."G. Mosier, superintendent of the Gypsum Mine radio set he had installed at the mine and reception was far better than that in any of the larger towns of Alaska, he said. Martin George, 0f .the U. S. Surveyor General's office, and Mrs George, returned to Juneau on the Northwestern after a pleasure trip in the south. On their way north they visited in Wrangell with their daughter, Mrs. C. Bjorge. H. G. Steel, editor and publisher of the Cordova Times, was a passenger on the Northwestern for Mrs. Steel and had been in the States for several months. The seaplane Northbird, Roy I. Jones, pilot, flew over Gastineau He had been here for several weeks working on repairs to the seaplane after it was damaged on its way to Juneau from Petersburg. Jones expected to be in Juneau several more days and was to make exhibition flights and take up passengers. Channel the previous afternoon City Marshal Grundler, of Douglas, was walking with a cane as the result of having his foot run over by a truck. Mrs. W. B. Kirk and Mrs. W. H. Dickenson entertained with six tables of bridge the previous day at the residence of Mrs. Kirk. Mrs. L. P. Dawes took the prize awarded for high score. Tecla Jorgensen was elected President of the High School Glee Club at the last meeting of the organization. ster, Vice-President: Lillian Perelle, Secretary-Treasurer; Eva Tripp, Tecla Jorgensen, Kathleen Tolch, Pianists; Weather was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 42 and a min- imum of 37. i it Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon e e i . WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He always favors his right They were received on'a Cordova. He was accompanied by Other officers were Carol Web- Miss Katherine Cannell, Advisor. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TE CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bidg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | The Charles W. Carter l Mortuary Fourth and Frankiin 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 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1942 Professional Fraernal Societies Gastineau Channel —eosed MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. 2 R. W. COWLING, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. 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. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. | TIDE CALENDARS FREE | Harry Race, Druggist Bl St vt il “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP where being treated. They were returned to Lodz find work were surpris courteously told that they were going to be under a new regime, which would the highway from the Panama Canal to the Far North There will be nothing else like it in the world. Yet the Army is not thinking of what will hap- pen after the war. It is concerned solely with im- before May 15, 1942, violent uD-|yes iy walking” Say, “He always SPARES his right lég.” heavals in customary financial pro- | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Diagnose. Pronounce di-ag-nos, I as in il - L L | DIE, A as in AT unstressed, O as in NO, S as in SO, accent last syllable. 18se plinjis UG 3 S PN | OFTEN MISSPELLED: Physique. Observe the vowels. Pronounce Seward Street Near Third ) FINE for the men, establish women in mediate households, the they were told that they were ordered to personal papers behind to pr They were herded down a stair presumably to the baths, and then their disillusionment began. At the bottom was a loading platform, and from it S8 men drove the naked Jews with the butts of their muskets and their truncheons into large gray motor Two of them were filled at a time, Jjammed as full as possible, and then the rear doors were closed These vans were of very special construction. The doors were airtight Under the floors were the gauze-covered open ends of several tubes leading to gas cylinders fixed outside the van. These portable lethal chambers the woods, seven miles, to a had been dug. It soldiers—SS men and Jewish grave-diggers and give children schooling. Then all to bathe, and were their clothing and all their being spoiled undress, leaving vans, were driven in where a tremendous grave surrounded by armed Nazi Gestapo officers—and the The vans were stopped, and some point was SOUTHPAW == | season was | And the highest another | for southpaw sluggers. Seven of the top the majors were left hand hitters. necessities. In case Japanese submarines make Alaska waters dangerous we have a safe route for men and supplies. The same thing appliesto the Canal. Incidentally, of course, this highway will open up great regions of virgin territory, forests in Canada and fine agricultural land in Central Amer- Tt is costing a great deal of money, yet in the | end it will prove to be a good investment. Thousands of young men eager to join the Army Navy have been rejected because of physical de- fects. These troubles, often a touch of asthma or hay fever, are not serious. They leave no visible mark and the young man is able to go about his work as usual. But to many people, not knowing the circumstances, he appears as a slacker, This is humiliating. The young man’s pride and selfrespect are hurt. He finds it impossible to explain why he Is not in uniform with his fellows. Now surely he should be given some distinguishing insignia to show his willingness. Or better still, places should be found in the armed forces where trifling physical disabilities will not be a bar to service. or banner year | pion St. Louis Cardinals, Pistol Pete Reiser of the Dodgers and Johnny Mize of the New York Giants. Southpaws 10 batters in have an edge among the batting champions for the average of the . SLUGGERS GET TOPS Seven of Ten Leading Bat-| ]bum']) ~.356—was pounded out by a leftie, lank Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, American League stick champion. Ernie Lombardi, who won the | National League crown; Joe Gor- don of the Yankees and George Case of the Senators were the only right hand hitters among the big past decade. Twelve of the 20 batting champions of both leagues in this period have been lefties. The American League crown has been won five times by right hand- ers and five by lefties but in the senior circuit the southpaws have won seven of ten. Lombardi, who won this year and in 1938, and Joe fers of Past Season, |i¥ Left Handed Hitters | By DILLO GRAHA!VI Wide World Sports Editor The others, all Williams, _Johnny Boston Red Sox, the Senators, Enos Slaughter and NEW YORK—The past baseball Stan Musial of the World Cham- Medwick, 1937 victor, were the only right handers to finish on top. During that period the highest average also was turned in by a lefty. That was last year when Wil- liams hit .406. southpaws, were Pesky of the Stan Spence of While authorities throughout the midwest intensifi peradoes who shot their way out of the Stateville p the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas M. Conroy, a Catholic a death threat from the gangsters, and John (Jake Touhky and his gang members were sentenced to p: A Jor the conviction of the gang in the Factor abduction. of the Touhy gang's escapades, are shown above, Guard Prie“st, Kidnap' Vlct;m, Fearm;or Touh y Gang 3 L) ed their hunt for Roger Touhy and six other des- rison at Joliet, 111, police guards were placed about priest of Fort Wayne, Ind,, who reported receiving the Barber) Factor, for whose adbuction in 1933 rison, Touhy, it was said, blames Msgr. Conroy The priest and Factor, reading an account of what is taking place and cur- rent spending of billions borrowed from the people proves the new | order of business i NATIONAL ISSUES: All who foresee a world democracy, even | in the stars. Astrologers forecas amazing readjustments that will | eliminate forever old patterns of diplomacy in which concealment | and misrepresentation, treachery | and indirection prevailed. Japanese betrayal of the nation to whlch! their people owe present day de- | velopment wrote “finis” lished customs. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Guerrilla warfare will spread in Europe at this time, the. see ) cast. Hitler is responsible for gro -‘ ing desperation among subjugated nations as each week adds to the | |Nazis who have discarded all the | provisions of a civilized code in | |their treatment of i prisoners as well as dwellers in territory taken by stealth or by | force. There is a sign read as 1n-| citing revolutionary impulses. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ad- vancement in which war serviee will be especially fortunate. Love will come to many young folk. Children born on this day prob- | ably will be talented, generous, in- dividual and ambitious, ‘They may be so successful as to be much en- vied. unfortunate ' (Copyright, 1942) The St. Louis Cardinals are not noted for the generous salaries paid their players, particularly the younger performers. And the re- port is that when George (Whitey) Kurowski hit that ninth .inning home run to clinch the World Series and enable the Cards to take the larger share of the series dough he earned himself almost double the money he had made all season. That decisive hit was worth more than $6,000. The anti-aircraft replacement training center at Fort Eustis, Va., could put a big-name baseball club on the field and then have some of history’s most famous names on the sidelines as rooters, Corporal Jim Kluttz, checking a list of trainees, found these men, but not the ones who made th names famous: Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Joe Gordon, Billy Herman, Joe Cronin, Johnny Allen, Johnny Murphy, Ted Lyons, Ed Smith, Tommy Bridges, Bill Lee, Johnny Peacock, Frank McCormick, ‘Bill Tabor, Joe Moore and Johnny Rizzo. Other trainees with celebrated names included: George Washing- ton, Abraham Lincoln, John @. Adams, Jefferson Davis, Andréw Jackson; John Brown, James Mon- roe, Woodrow Wilson, John Tyler, Robert E. Lee, John Paul Jones, Andrew Johnson, Charles Hughes, Al Smith, James Farley, Booker T, Washington, Douglas Corrigan, Benjamin Franklin, Grover Cleve- land, Benjamin Harrison, Christo- bher Columbus and Julius Cassafs e fi-zeek, I as in IT, accent last syllable. SYNONYMS: Clean, cleanse, rinse, purify, scour, scrub, wash, dis- infect. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours” believed that isolation was possible |increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word : for the United States now must | TENTATIVE; of the nature of an experiment. “A tentative corréspondence would begin, though they do not read the future |leading slowly up to a fresh invitation.”—H. G. Wells. MODERN ETIQUETTE * gosrrra LEE TEN, acent first syllable). Q. Shouldn’t one be very careful what he writes in a letter? A. Yes; hé should be very careful. One should not write anything to estab- | (hat the reciplent can resent, or that would cause him embarrassment | if the lettey were shown to someone else. Remember that a letter is often the basis for a Iaw suit. Q. « Are place cards used at a banquet? A. ' Place cards are used onlyat the speaker’s table. Q. Should a wife receive her husband’s guests at a stag dinner? A. No. Instead of impressing her husband’s guests, this will more | persecution and tyranny by the ; likely make them thing what a hen-pecked man her husband must be. LOOK and LEARN Y .. GORDON What is the highest temperature to which water can be heated? 2. Who said, “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 1. a thousand bayonets”? 3. Who was the heaviest President of the United States? 4. Why is a drink to one’s health called “a toast”? Let us (Pronounce first syllable e 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 Satisfied Customers” 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 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 5. What is the weight of a baby elephant at birth? ANSWERS: 1 sure. Napoleon. ‘William H. Taft. The bofling point, which depends upon the surrounding air pres- At sea level the boiling point is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. At one time, pieces of toast were floated on top of a glass of From 150 to 175 pounds. SON OF FAMOUS GENERAL PASSES "ON EAST COAS Kin of Gen. Billy Mitchel Dies from Rare Blood Disease PINE CAMP, New York, Oct. 28. —Lieut. John Lendrum Mitchell, 23, son of the late Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell, prophet of modern aerial warfare, died last night after a three weeks’ iliness of a rare blood disesse. The mother and two sis- ters survive. ————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS WELL BABY CLINKC LSET FORTOMORROW The regular well-baby hursing conference is scheduled for to- morrow afternoon ‘ beginning at 1:30° o'clock in the Juneau Public Health Center. All mothers of well infants are eligible to attend the conference, and may come into the Health Center between the hours of 1:30 to 4 o'clock for conferences with the public health nurse, Miss!| Stephenie Bogdon. —————p RETURNS FROM TENAKEE Home again ‘aftetr his summey occupation with Salt Sea Fish- eries Company at Tenakee Springs, John G, Johnson was an' arrival here yesterday to.spend the winter as usuai e e JOHN COMER as 8 paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the«—— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "KATHLEEN" Federal Tax—5c per Person WATCH TH CE—Your Ni Appear Rice & Ahlers Co. 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