The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1942, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Published every evening except B EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Als HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Vice-President Entered in the Post Ofice Jn_Junesu as SUBSCRIPTION RATE Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas fo the following Empire e junday blg The Banks of President and Business Manager Second Class Matter. serve is the in the history that matter, it 50 per month. | rediscount which has just been established by the Federal Re- lowest charge for advances to member of our Federal Reserve | rate in the history of central banking ting the Bank Rate (Néw' York Times) rate of one-half of one percent Atlanta bank: System. For discount Chicago, Philadelphia anhd lowest It is expect- is undoubtedly the tos One vear, in advance. $15.00; six months, 10 advance, $7.60; | ed that the other nine regional Reserve Banks will one month, in advance, $1.25. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- Uvery of their pamers, soon follow suit, be assured at MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the Leremn. against their very rate. local news published The Hove s very heavy PRESS easy ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. which may, Budget Bureau, NATIONAL REPRES \imerican Bullding, Seattle, Wash, IVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 rates the Reserv meet bank reserves. | about $2,700,000,000 of excess reserves which ca mercial banks which are members of the any holdings of Government borrowing program of ace sources in this fiscal 50 that throughout the country com- | system can able to securities time of being at a of course the Government to recent estimates of the to' $60.000,000,000 from all In lowering its rediscount apparently seeking tc ording amount ar. e System is the problemn of unequal distribution of excess The member banks as a whole have form | the basis of greatly expanded loans to the Govern | ment is no immediate ser distributed. With total excess reserves at e requirements. Relatively the banks in the big money this figure there need for a blanket reduction of re- But these reserves are not evenly nters of New 'York and Chicago have been low in | reserves | Reserve S; by three requirements districts, em of | This latest move will be more selective that individual banks which are short of reserves | have the assurance that the discount window of the WATCH THE JAP! | As we move deeper and absorbing business of war, we are deeper The Board of Governors successive recent the Federal has moved to relieve this situation reductions in the reserve banks in these twc of the member It means an | Reserve Banks is wide open and that in case of a temporary into the all- | gradually realiz- rate. pinch they | their large holdings of “Governments This should help to counteract any tendency on the part of such banks to feel that they miust borrow against at a favorable can always ing that the Far Eastern theater of operations with [hola back in subscribing to new issues for fear of Japan as the enemy is of tremendous importance. Even at first, Alaskans knew this, but there were | timely, for member banks are now beginning to make | | drawing down their reserves too much The move is some in the Eastern United States and in the Mid- |some use of the discount privilege for the first time dle West who % months” attitude. adopted an t'll-be-over-in-six- | in many years ! ber bank discounts secured by In the latest reporting week mem- Government obliga- But we know and all Americans cannot help |tions rose $1,900,000 and are now up more than but realize that the Jap is a danger pled foe The Jap is the one who has monkey wrenches into our and entirely to Japan Our sourges of tin, chromium metals have been cut in half by t The lands and most of the men which we have | y or Italy, but to lost have been lost not to German: Japan ‘The danger of invasion Axis partners. Japan’s warfare is geared to i 1 fea, one.of them over'water. Py Her peop +military strategy ahd technique to land operations. MHer navy is comparatively small Jand-lubbers. @ Fdcorded to this date. #' Our country has been quick { portance of victory in Europe. "It must also be quick to realiz ~great (Continued from Page One) ] chief menace to the Waestern| Hemisphere. 1 However, it was also known that | Dakar was the most formidable fortréss the French had in Africa. It had resisted the British fleet when they attempted to take it in 1940. It had also received the bene- fit of Nazi specialists in increasing its strength. Particularly it had mounted six- teen-inch guns on railway cars for use along the African coast. A six- teen-inch gun is heavier and will shoot farther than the fourteen- inch guns on many U. S. battle- ships, and is the equal of the six- teen-inch guns on our other battle- ships. Therefore, it was significant that while Vichy reported U. 8. troops landing at Safi, north of Dakar, no troops were landed in its immedi- ate vicinity. Also, it had been an- nounted some time before by the British that American troops were in Liberia, south of Dakar. Thus American strategy probably will be to isolate this all-impor- tant French base and capture eas ier_and more immediate bases first. Th' other words, with Algiers and Tunis in Allied hands, the United Btates first could get at Rommel’s rear, then could tackle Dakar when psfchological factors had time to sink in. | The roads to Dakar from either | Libya or the north are not the easiest in the world, but they are} passable for mechanized troops, and the pick of U. S urmurcdl forces are in West Africa ALLIED INGENUITY American-British ingenuity has caused extra-spefial worry to Axis| troops fleeing from Egypt. Ordi-: narily bomber planes cannot waste ammunition on small combat units, must fly to main objectives, drop| théir expensive bomb loads and re- turn. Scattered enemy tanks or trucks in the desert are not consid-| ered important enough game. Because of this, American and British flyers used fighter planes for bombing operations. To do this rous and unprinci- which in the Aleutians also is from Japan amiliar with prpblems of sea-| Her experience and record ,‘:'”:9” beeii onel of jland attack and supply. i A\mrpe-r‘mle invasion of America by Germany would require revolutionary changes in Nazi warfare importance of the little yellow men of the | | 37-millimeter 1-$4,000,000 from a tossed all of \hr-;y i economic machinery We face a rubber shortage today, due absolutely and other vital he Japs. | So il | whenever it It's easy to is an actuality | Liberty Bell. nvasion from the le are island peo- | timent. borne tratfic. Her people are | in this | Stipplated that The Q. realize the im- | (Philadelphia We Americans are a pretty sentimental lot. no wonder there is considerable discussion { is proposed to melt down for scrap an article of sentimental value {of Councilman P. McCorny, of Podunk not the 0““"‘:[[}(). to dismiss a The President has made one such decision. rmany, on ‘the other hand has geared 1‘”‘1!&: agreed to the scrapping of the old battleship Oregon, which made the famous race around Capt Horn to reach the battle of Santiago. yeéar ago. They still total, however, w‘l' s than $6,000,000, a negligible amount which testi- fies to the continuéd ease and abundance of credit Scrapping Sentiment Record) favor a baroque statue It’s easy up the serapping silly proposals to melt But there are plenty of in-between cases, where She has perfeeted supply lines, almost ‘every fwe have to weigh a shortage of scrap against sen- He But he has the old cruiser Olympia, Dewey | flggship at Manila Bay, now moored at the Phila- delphia Navy Yard, be spared. i President | keep the Olympia, unless her metal is needed in the | future to. bring ‘us-another victory at Manili’ Bay. |chanics and other efficient work- !'waiting, while he procures the tickets? We' believe, too, that we can win the war with- is probably right ‘We should | out ‘melting up the 225 tons of bronze in the Statue e the.danger, the | of Liberty. But maybe we'll find the Mail Bag full of let- ters saying we are just being sentimental. Irnemav.ion bombs of only 25 to 50 pounds each. And since the Ital- jans and Germans did not have strong anti-aircraft, fighter planes swooped low in the desert, drop- ping bombs on fleeing Axis units, | causing tremendous confusion. Another disconcerting activity was | that of U. S. armored scout cars, usually manned by the British. Equipped with machine guns and guns, they skirted the fringes of the enemy, firing al- most at will. If they encountered tanks, the scout cars were so fast they could scatter and run, But they met little opposition and caused great confusion, EFFECTS OF CAMPAIGN It is almost impossible to over- emphasize the importance of the North African campaign if Romme! is driven completely out of the Mediterranean. First, it will mean a long line of air bases bordering the coast of North Africa from Cairo to Casa- blanca, from which Allied planes can bomb Italian, Greek and éven Austrian objectives. Second, the old supply route to India, through the Mediterranean |” and Suez, can be reopened. Or, if submarines should be too difficult, supplies could be unloaded at Casa- blanca on the Atlantic coast, re- loaded on the French railroad that skirts the North African coast, and shipped 1,200 miles to French Tunis. This would save a haul ithrough the most difficult narrows of the Mediterranean. Third, Russia could even be sup- plied by shipping through the Mediterranean to Beirut, Syria, and then inland, instead of the seven or eight weeks' voyage around the tip end of Africa. Fourth, a lot of the British fleet, now convoying supplies around the tip end of Africa, could be released and used to tighten the blockade around Germany. Fifth, the Jtalian fleet would be rendered impotent, and there are some observers who think the Ital- fan fleet might even come over to the Allied side GENERAL GIRAUD Here is the story behind Gen. Henri Honore Giraud's early morn- ing radio broadcast on a recent Sunday, urging Frenchmen not to resist American troops. General Giraud, the only man to escape from German prison camps in both world wars, is a close friend of théy rigged up four or five frag- ex-Premier Herriot, perpétual may- | or of Lyons and a great champion of democracy. American friends visited General Giraud some time ago and urged him to leave France and join the Fighting French forces of Genéral De Gaulle. Giraud, however, re- fused. He said that he was opposed to the spilling of more French blood, and that when the proper time came he would say this. S0 when American troops finally landed in North Africa, General Giraud carried out his promise and urged his countrymen not to resist. CAPITAL CHAFF Some of the cabinet who don't favor Thurman Arnold’s trust- busting activities are pulling wires to get him out of the Justice De- partrent and onto the U. S. Court of Appeals for thé District of Co- lumbia. Thurman, however, is not likely to budge. RAILROAD MEN ON LEAVE HELP ON ALCAN ROAD Colonel and Major Have Roles in Northwest Service Command WHITEHORSE, Y. T, Nov. 18— TWo men on Jeave of absente frof posts with the Burlington. Railroad’ Lines are filling vital x§§ 0, th§ «éperauon of the Northwe grvl‘ce ‘ommand, whil . estab-, lished by the magpexm ta |supervise and maintdin supply routes to the strategic Alaskan aten. Col. John W. Wheeler; on leave as executive assistant to the president of the Burlington Railway, is the engineer officer in charge of the famous Alcan International High- way, recently completed over 1,630 jmiles of wildérness from Dawson | Creek, British Columbla, to Fair- banks, Alaska. Major John E. Ausldnd, also on leave from thé Burlington Lines, is in charge of the Army operation of the White Pass and Yukon Rail- road, the three-foot narrow-gauge route which links the Alcan High- way with the Inside Passage at Skagway. This railroad, recently (ledsed by the A for the dura- tion of the war, is the only link between the highway and salt water navigation. : J Both Colonel Wheeler and Major borrow | | intended to facilitate the { THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR ( HAPPY BIRTHDAY | el NOVEMBER 18 Suzy Winn Margaret Abrahamson Peggy Cochrane Mrs. G. A. Fleek Adrian V. Roff Ralph A. Reischl Jack McGinnis Evelyn DeSoto Mrs. R. T. Hartman - e { HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” { E { 3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Adverse planetary aspects rule today. There may be an attitude of criticism on the part of the public who will misapprehend certain na- tional war policies. HEART AND HOME: Women are under a rule of the stars that is depressing and discouraging. Im- patience over minor matters may contrast with fortitude in major tests of courage. Application to war work is recommended by the seers who warn against the fem- inine habit of scattering energies and overdoing. Girls should concen trate upon preparation for life vo tations. Technical training should be sought by those well adapted to it. Postwar conditions will re- quire the utmost effort to main- tain the American standards of | living. Marriage will not end wage earning among women but will be to a certain extent a business part- nership. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Promise bof great quantities of synthetic | rubber will relieve anxieties among | Americans whose economie progress | depends upon the use of automo- | biles. New manufacturing centers for novel products of many sorts | {will be established. The Govern- | ment will continue to (\ncoumge. projects that will develop into big | business because they contribute to the general welfare. Feood prices will soar through the next fort- night. ! NATIONAL ISSUES: Draft poli- | cies will be widely discussed as lack | of men in industry becomes nrore { apparent each month; The value | of trained minds and skillful hands | in production centers will be bal- | ancéd by need of fighters at the ! battle fronts. Since in this machine | age there must be a_score of me- | 19 { ! | | | ers behind each soldier and sailor | the background of millions in uni- | form means an industrial army that will be difficult to procure. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:! | the Philippines heroic | patiots will continug to harass thé invad- | ers. The stars are read as promis- | ing early restoration of the islands to the people who had earned in- | dependence. There is a sign read | |as presaging for the United Na-! | tions an overwhelming victory over | the Japanese but it will be like a | steadily rising tide of power that | ebbs here and there before reach- | ing final flood heights. i | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ad- | vancement. For many there should | be success that is'lasting, Children born on this day prob- ably will have splendid capabilities | with power to win aid to success whenever help is needed. i (Copyright, 1942) | | Ausland are under the command o Brigadier General James A. O'Con- nor, commanding - general of the| Northwest Service Command. * Col. | | Wheeler supervised the final work on the Alcan Highway just prior to its dedication Novembér 20 on' the heights of Soldiers’ Summit over- looking Kiluane Lake in the Yukon | wilderness. Technical supervision of the White Pass and Yukon is under Brigadier General Carl R. Gray, Jr., 6 mander of the Military Railway Service with headquarters at St. Paul. Gen. O'Connor’s headquarters are at Whitehorse, northern term- minal of the narrow-gauge railroad | and main supply base along the Alcan Highway. Col. Wheeler is also stationed at Whitehorse, while Major AuslaAd’s base is Skagway. ——t— Do laGLé“ D.H.S. SECONDS ; LOSE TO STAR HILL Coach Rustad’s second string bas- keteers fell before the frisky bunch from Star Hill in Juneau last night in the first game between the two teams this season in the Douglas gym. Final score was 16 to 10. Lineup and scoring for. the match was as follows: | Star Hill F—Dapcevich, 2 F—Kearney, 2 C—QGrege, 2 Pusich, 6 G—Thib'odenu, nnett, 4 G—Mead, 81 . l?vda’hl, 0 - The ukulele is of Portuguese ori- gin, developed and popularized by the Hawailan, i e b il DH.S. Seconds D. McCormick, 0 Krsul, 0 2 L. UNEAU, ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO 52% urina | | Rebthacindtay 7 - W1 NOVEMBER. 18, 1922 Four lights to mark the course across Mendenhall Bar had been installed and three were burning. The chimney for the fourth was broken during installation but was expected to be burning shortly, R. G. Keeney, in charge of the work, said. The fuel container provides oil for the lights to burn eight days without being replenished. Because receipts for the company were said to be below operating costs, the 3:10 and 4:40 ferry trips in the afternoon were to be discontinued it was announced by W. S. Pullen, manager of the Juneau-Dotglas Ferry and Nayigation Company. In the place of the two discontinued trips to Douglas, Treadwell and Thane, there was to be a trip leaving Juneau at 4:10 pm, Mothers of students of the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of the public school weré planning a party for the children on November 25 moved into apartments Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, of Douglas over the post office. Bound for the Alaska Peninsula, the little steamer Starr was in Juneau the previous evening. The vessel, which had been to Saeattle for repairs, was loaded with Christmas supplies for the isolated families in the Far North. Carol Webster was elected President of the Seward Society of the Juneau High School for the coming year; Wayne Summers, Vice-Presi- dent, and Albert White, Secretary-Treasurer. George Whyte, Melville Leake, Harry Ellingen and Eugene Kirk were four new mmebers recently initiated into the “J” Club of the high school. H. M. Sabin returned to Juneau after spending the summer months in the Interior, The U. S. Government Survey party, headed by E. D. Calvin, Cadastral Engineer, returned to Juneau from Petérsburg, where the party had been making surveys for homesteads. Others in the party were Joe Sadlier and Wiliam Anderson. » Weather was rainy with a maximum temperature of 31 and a mini- mum of 28. e it i e e Daily Lessons in English % . corbon S e ] WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not “I have heard that it is a sickly climate.” Say, “an UNHEATHFUL climate.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Swathe, (to envelope). A as in SWAY, TH as a in SMOOTH, OFTEN MISSPELLED: Lewd; EW. Feud; EU. SYNONYMS: Vigilant, watchful, awake, wakeful, wide-awake, wary alert, cautious. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each da 's word FALSIFICATION; the act or process of representing falsely. (Pronounce first syllable FALL; principal accent follows second A). “The falsification | of his books was discovered.” 1 Pronounce the Let us e MODERN ETIQUETTE ™ roprrra rEE | e e e e S e e ] Q. Should a host at a theatre party keep his guests standing aside, A. No; he should purchase the tickets in advance. Q. What does A LA mean? A. This is French and means “according to.” A LA MODE means according to the fashion. A LA HOLLYWOOD means according to Hollywood. Q.. What gifts are suitable for the thirtieth wedding unni\'ers:\ry?’ A. Gifts of pearl. f R S ettt ] What American plant consumes flies? Is aluminum an alloy or a basic metal? What famous American statesman was the “Great Pacificator”? What is the Hippocratic aoth? Where was Abraham Lincoln at the time of his assassination? ANSWERS: Venus's flytrap, which traps the insect within its finged leaves. A basic metal. Henry Clay. The oath administered to those entering the practice of medicine. In Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. C. EVELYN GRAHAM | HUNTING PARTY IS LEAVES DPW HERE| STORM BOUND, TAKY Evelyn Graham, Child Welfare; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carl and Service Worker in Juneau for the Marshal Erwin and his young Départment of Public Welfare, has | brother-in-law have been weather- submitted her resignation to Rus- |bound for the past several days sell Maynard, Territorial Director | Somewhere on the Taku, where of Public Welfare, it is announced | they went on a hunting trip No- today. vember 13 on Mr. Erwin’s boat. Miss Graham, who has many it friends in Juneau and is active in club work here, “has not yet an- nounced her plans for the future. A <o U ® ® 00 00 0 v v o o . WEATHER REPORT . (U. S. Bureau) |' Temp. Tuesday, Nov. 17 The process of rope making was| e Maximum 27, minimum 21 known to nearly all primitive pen-'o ® 00 000000 00 ° . . . . 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