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

PAGE FOUR D(uly Alaska Emptrp Published & evening except Sunday by the EMPIRK PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alasks. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - =« = rrumem Dellvered by earrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month. | By mail. postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in_advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.80; 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- Uvery of their papeis Telephones: News Qtfice, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- e, credited In this paper and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. . NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alasks Newspapers, 1011 American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. | FURTHER WASTE One of the unfortunate things about ! is that even with a war up at an enormous rate, our pres- going on, with ent government with expenses piling the American people gloomily awaiting a New Year | that will call for a thorough scraping of their purse to pay the biggest income tax history We still have time to play Have time to create duplicating agencies, duplicating officials, spend unnecessary money | The American people are told that they must economize, get along with what they have. While | at the same the Federal government is build- | ing up a topheavy stack of agencies, more th: one of which thrown effort into traffic snarl Up here in Alaska we by and watch while the pile up The latest example was appointment of Michael J. Haas, retiring of Labor as Territorial representative of the Wage, Hour and Public Contracts Division of the U. S. Department of Labor. The appointment was announced in Washington by the War Labor Board. There has been much criticism about pointment, some of it brought about by that whiie Had term as Commissioner does expire until the end of this month, he has been spending the last part of his term in the nations capital, far divorced from his duties Terri tory as an elected official While Haas may have Washington instead of attending the Territory, we are not prepared possibility at this time We do know, however, that on January 1, Alaska will have a new Commissioner of Labor—Walter Sharpe—who defeated Haas in the election last fall Why the War Labor Board did not simply ask Sharpe to be their agent in the Territory is some- thing that is hard to see. This certainly would have seemed the cheaper ay, and the wisest, because the War Labor Board would then have had direct connections with Territorial Department of Labor Instead. Washmmol Mery- Go-Round <Connnued from Page One) s in We still appoint of politics. sums time, wat has the war can't duplication be expected to si and expenses | the Commissioner this the ap- fact not to the been job-seeking i to his duties for to discuss that the the Board chose to appoint as its agent | Rumanian troops even so, she cannot the trains across t and other House dignitaries as his guests. Introducing Martin after eon, Maverick declared: “T hope the distinguished Republi- can leader won't rib it in on us lunch- tary of the Navy day, accusing him | the {children from Wrangell, or NOTE: Sweden still permits Ger- man troops through her from Norway to Germany on leave, and back again, and even provides some of the car ferries which move | Texas at the time. DIES VS. The Dies Committee was about to | unloose a hot blast against Secre- | munists as radio operators on war- the new Commissioner was turned down voters and laborers of Territory. The W Labor Board further, delegate to H: authority to rule on all wage adju Alaska, a man who was opposed by of Labor and one who by the the in attempting to and salary ment cases in is paving the tirst-class battle knowledge, the very unwholesome not conducive to the war way for With Board |and one certainly War - Labor condition effort without created or has a [in Haas formerly acted Labor’s special agent in the without pay Labor as the U. S. Deps of Wage-Hour Division, serving These for could just extra duties well Commission of Federal inherited by his successor. But, instead, H: Federal |m\rn}| government as have been back to Al voters can't win has come aska on the The Debunking the Piffle (Wrangell Sentinel) The prize package of unadulterated which is being passed around in connection with the war effort in Alaska comes this week from the columns of the Hillshoro, Ore., Argus. Under the heading “Mrs. Davis Wrangell, Als the Argus carries this information Mrs. E. been at arrived her daughter, in Portland visiting Hillsboro friends Wednesday rot Returns From bit of bogus Hillsboro, who number of of for a J. Davis, formerly Wrangell, Alaska, Tuesday and will spend the winter Mrs. Prancis Rowell Jr., and Mrs. Davis and her son Harold Harold has years with family | were from Idaho and will the last of for Mexico. Davis, who Wrangell hospital for the past two patients out with her, be brought with other patients to the Army"hospital at Vancouver. She says that women ‘and children are being evacuated from Wrangell because of the shortage of food Eggs are 75 cents per dozen, and rationed at that. Coffee and sugar are the only articles of food not being rationed, she said.” Mrs. Davis has been the cook at the Bishop Rowe Hospital here for the last couple of years and recently went south. At least that much of the report is correct. But we don't believe we'll be re- vealing any military information to assert definitely that there has been no evacuation of women and civilians from any other place in Alaska with the exception of moving the Aleuts from the Pribilofs to Southeast Alaska. They rave not been evacuated for any cause, and parti- cularly not because of food shortage. As a matter of record, Wrangell and most of the towns in Alaska are now supplied with vast quantities of emergency rations in addition to the large stocks ‘which are always carried by Alaska merchants . If there is anyone hungry in Alaska it is because he is out in the woods with a broken leg and hasn't got a gun Eggs are not 5 cents a dozen and to date in this war have not reached anything like it, and if any| of them are being rationed, the local Rationing Board never heard anything of it, and have no in-| structions to that effect. It is plblished fact, however, and the editor it if he keeps up with the common news of the day, that general rationing is not effective in Alaska Not only are coffee and sugar not rationed but ieither are other food commodities. | Wednesday leave week “Mrs employed two years, has been at a Will Americans accept paper The answer soon will be found in Boise, Idaho its Merchants Bureau, with Federal consent, is issu- ing cardboard pennies as one way to meet the coppei shortage. At the same time, the Federal Government dis- closed it will mint one-cent pieces from steel coated with zine. But both are vital metals. So once more, if the Idaho experiment is a suc- cess, it is bound to make the Government consider whether the same idea shouldn't be put to use nationally pennies? time ships. But nothing happened, and some people are wondering why. Behind this mystery is an inter esting insight on how the Dies Com- | mittee operates. Martin Dies, as possible, but hold out forever. territory | | | | chairman,. was in | How much he knew of the proposed blast against Secretary Knox is problematical. No | other member of the Dies Commit- tee was in Washington except Jerry | Voorhis of California and he knew he Baltic. KNOX Knox, the other ¢ of keeping com- | Robert Striping, secretary of the committee, was going to blast the Democrats during the next session.” “Let mé assure the chairman” Martin as he got to his feet, “that we will accord Democrats the same kind of treatment they have shown us in the last 10 years.” HITLER'S MANPOWER PROBLEMS Latest figures received at the War Department raise the important question of how long Germany can maintain the immense numbers of soldiers in occupied countries and fight a. war on two fronts at the same time. There is pretty general knowledge of the numbers of Axis troops on the fighting fronts, but it is not realized how many other soldiers are immobilized by trying to sit on the lid in the conquered countries including Fniland and Ttaly. The figures are given in terms of divisions of 15,000 men each. The largest number are assigned to hold France down--34 divisions or 510,000 men. This in itself is quite an army ‘The other figures are: | Poland 15 divisions, Czechoslovakia 13, Norway 8, (though Norwegian | sources estimate 13 or 14), Finland 8, Italy and Sicily 7, the Balkans 7, the Lowlands (Belgium and Hol-{ land) 6, Denmark 1, and Crete 1. Thig totals 100 divisions, or 1,500, 000 men. And it does not include 40 divisions on the Northern Rus- sian front, whose reserves, in addi- tion to holding the line there, serve | as an army of occupation in the | Baltic countries. With manpower getting short in the U. S. A, military experts here | are looking forward to the ume:’ when olr increased military pressure | t Germany combined with the | Nazi burden of suppressing Europe will prove top heavy. Germany is using as many Hungarian,Italian and Crosswo ACROSS Pouch . At a distance . Place of con- trasting color . Palm leaf Entice ian fairy Declares . Bruise by a blow . Dry Wish One having first-hand information Help Symbol for neon l rd Puzzle In the direce tion of Mother Headplece Indicator . 38 39, 4l «"I\e back b ot 7. Distribute Age Occupy the whole of To a position on outfit Rack for hang- ing clothes Accustomed Affirmative Solution Of Saturday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Rail birds 2. Living Photographic. instruments Alack . Sport 5. Aslatie ol Phrase differ- [ 6. ently - Txe ts aliclousl Flaw Y Metalliterous rocks . Note the dura- tion of Iguited agaln orn . Men who handle a train Fuss Hoartfrost Biblical tower Peruvian chieftaln Close Debased Irish coin . Heavy cord 6. Sma)l cube Kind of drum . Hanging Delicate orna- ment Irritate 5. Gone by 6. French dramatist 59. Youthful - years Femininie name Obstructions 3. Took away: archale Arablan chieftaln Walk wearily . Devoured AP Fostores a region so vitally important to war as Alaska is. tment | because he was the Territorial | the | of the Argus should know | - seases which will be unusually pre- | nothing about the matter. However, | IHL DAILY ALAbI\A l:MPth— f-»JUNhAU ALAbKA HAPPY BlRTHDAY DECEMBER 28 JRSER.4 | Madge Hildinger j Bill Rudolph | John H. (Bud) Dimond Mrs. C. F. Vassar Jenpie Johnson Harvey Wildenradt | Stella Samuelson | Mrs. Miss Joy Decker 1 Kenny Hilton ? | S| | - THOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20 | —— | Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day. It is an auspicious date for | starting any important project und; most favorable to women. HEART AND HOME: This is an | auspicious day fof all social gather- | ings and especially fortunate for| weddings. Marriages at the end of |who has been with the merchant marines, arrived | this historic year-should be lasting | gifts to all the children present and harmonious but eventful times | are prognosticated. Far journeys are | the ! indicated . This is a lucky day for|arrived in Juneau from Chichagof og the mine tender Ambassador brought | entertaining men in uniform. In the | was to Jeave within a few days for one to Camp Lewis to|household preparation of food is|4g90 foot drainage tunnel at the Jualin mine under the best possible direction of | the stars. Girls who are connected | ‘\nth canteen service may expect; {new friendships that are lasting. | | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Merchan-g | dising and journalism are fortunate | \todfly which seems to presage un usual demands from the public.| Shopping is under a sway nmkmu; for wise buying. Jewelers should | profit. Bankers who look at the | figures representing our national ex- | penditures for war will foretell in- . crease in 1943 which will make the ( heavy taxes merely small partial payments on the greatest debt in our history. However the general feeling of prosperity will continue for a number of months. NATIONAL ISSUES: Housing will cause many novel problems through | the winter even though temporary \ {quarters for war workers have been | provided on a big scale. Mansions | in New York and other cities will | be taken over and many snaugn‘ {remodelings of public buildings will | be necessary in the Spring. Sani- tation will continue to be ihadequate in many overcrowded centers of indust; Children must be care- fully protected from contagious di- | valent, the seers declare. ° | | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: The | United States Navy, now strongly | augmented, will prove splendidly | efficient in the Pacific and the A[“ lantic but the submarine menace will e still existent. France comes | under strong aspects stimulating to patriotism which turns to revolution | and defies death. Desperate condi- tions will produce even more de-‘ |termined defiance than existed | | under Laval at his worst. Improved prospects for the betrayed people | are forecast. ‘ Persons whose birthdate it is hme thc augury of vear of prosperity ! for many conviviality is mdncatcd It is well to avoid causing annoy- ance to friends or associates. Children born on this day prob- ‘ably will be remarkably clever but | | little interested in financial security. | They are likely to be artistic and unwisely generous. (Copyright, 1942) | Secretary of the Navy anyway. Here is the inside story of what | happened. Sometime ago, the Radio | | Officers Union, an AFL organiza- tion, submitted evidence to the Navy {and the Dies Committee that mem- bers of a rival CIO union were com- | munists, but were employed as radio operators on merchant ships used {by the Navy. | "As a result, seven of these CIO (radio operators were discharged, {and about 13 others blacklisted. Later the matter came to the per-| !sonal attention of Secretary Knox, {and he, anxious to be fair, asked |that Wayne Morse, former Dean of the University of Oregon Law School land now a member of the War Labor Board, review the case. Morse found that charges against the radio operators were groundless, that their worst offense was mem- bership in groups labeled “radical” by the Dies Committee, such as the {defunct League for Peace and De- mocracy. He even found that some of the blacklisted operators had made outstanding contributions to the war. For instance, Wayne Pa- schal of New York, a member of the | CIO American Communications As- sociation, had worked out a fool- proof recording device, now used on | merchant ships, to prevent espion- age by radio men. Yet he and the others had been branded by the Dies Committee. On receiving Morse's recommenda- | tions, Knox reinstated the discharg- ed operators. However, the Dies Committee’s secretary, Bob Strip- ling, learned of the reinstatements through Fred M. Howe, head of the | AFL union, and the fur has been | flying ever since. “ Knox, anxious to avoid a publi¢ brawl with Dies, had his aides | contact Jerry Voorhis, another mem- ber of the committee, who has | promised to keep Stripling under control. However, Voorhis has made {ng promises regarding Dies himself when he returns to Washington. (Copyright, 1942, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) | stedt. | children. | a month’s stay in Ketchikan |and gaity prevailing. 20 YEARS AGO . DECEMBER 28, 1922 Santa Claus visited the” Moose Lodge and families of members the previous evening at Moose Hall where a beautiful tree, with gifts for all of the children contributed to a gala party. An entertainng program was given that had been prepared under the direction of Mrs. Sigard Wall- Christmas songs, recitations and dances were given by the Moose from THE EMPIRE Dr. W. W' Council passed lhmn;,h Juneau on the Alameda on his way from Cordova to the States for a short vacation Assistant District Forester and head of Forest Managemvm in Alaska, returned to his headquarters on the Victoria after an extended absence in the States. He had attended a timber sales conference in Arizona and visited the Washington and Portland, Oregon, Forest Service offices during his absence. While he was away he also visited relatives in Pennsylvania for 30 days. B. F. Heintzleman, Judge T. M. Reed, of the U. S. District Court, and other members of the court party returned to Juneau on the Victoria after more than Returning were Mrs. Venetia Pugh, Walter B. King, George W. Folta, Court Reporter, Deputy U. S. Marshal N. O, Hardy. at the Elks’ Hall' for the children of 26 was a tremendous success with fun On the program appeared Billy Johnson, Otto Wwilde, George Whyte, Fred Harris, Harry Larson, Duncan Robertson Alvin Behr, Wayne Olsen, Seymour Brown, Edward Sparks, Mary Casey nd Bobby Henning. Following the program Santa Claus distributed Lodge members assisted The Christmas party given Gastineau Channel on December Arthur Riendeau, accompanied by Mrs. Riendeau and their children, He Jualin where he was to drive the He had the contract for driving the tunnel in 1914, when the property was closed on account i of the war. Weather was with maximum temperature of 29 and a minimum of 25. Snowy a e S e — Daily Lessons in English % GORDON PGS | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say her sister.” Say, “has FEWER friends.” OPTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Ve tile. Pronounce vur-sa-til in FUR, A as in ASK unstressed, I as in ILL, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cater-cornéred; not CATTA, nor CATTY SYNONYMS: Companion, colleague, confederate, accom- plice, ally, partner. WORD STUDY: “Use Anne has less friends than U as associate, a word three times and it is yours.” Let us| increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: | IMPUNITY; exemption from punishment, harm or loss. “A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach of good morals than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.” MQDERN ETIQUETTE * roprrra LEE (SR SIS B S UL SR Q. go with him? A. Yes; and he may give her the privilege of selecting the ring Q. At a holiday dinner, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas or Year's, where the service might be called semi-formal, is it all right to ox[e\ the guests a second helping of turkey? A. Yes, by all means do so. Q. What i1s the first requirement for woman? A. Neatness. the first requisite. LOOK and LEARN % When a man goes to buy a wedding ring for his bride, may she | New the clothes of a business Regardless of the quality of the clothes, neatness is . C. GORDON 1. Which of the United States extends farthest west? 2. Who was the first to use mercury as an expanding medium in thermometers? 3. How many square feet of skin are there on the average adult body? 4. What percentage of homes in the United States are equipped with telephones? 5. What republic was founded in 1847 as a home for freed slaves? ANSWERS: Washington. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736). From 14 to 18 square feet. ‘Thi ix per cent. Liberia, on the west coast of Africa. fiBack from Benghazi Flight Whfle on a bnmbinr Mp ovfl Benghazi, Libya, this Amnan. B-24 bomber et a terrific amount of anti-aircraft fire, The shells nearly re away the left aileron, seyered two control cables, and punctured plane with two hundred holes. Capt. Harold W. Edmonds, the pilot, points to some of the holes after the ship arrived at her base, almost a thousand miles from Benghazi. -« MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. DIRECTORY :-looi.. | Drs Kaser and ‘ Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 [ Dr.A.W.Stewart | DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 468 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 '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 Seward Street Near Third \ JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corons TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers” DR. H. VANCE OSTEOFATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin 8t. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Jupeau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—Oil Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Gans and Ammunition ”Guy Smnh—Drugs’ CALL AN OWL Phone 63 ok The B 1942 Professional Gastineau Channel i D MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month @m Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30.p. m. R. W. COWLING, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. i i i B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers wel- come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- alted Ruler, M. H. SIDES, Seo-‘ retary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 1334 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacista BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” “The Store for Men” SABIN°S Front St.—Triangle Bldg, You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Seward Street Phone 68 INSURANCE Shattuck Agency e e fe T CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTRING —— ZORIC BYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry E.E. STENDEL | For Expert Radio Service TELEPHONE BLUE 479 or call at 117 3rd St., Upstairs 15 Years’ Experience < SEATTLE: @ Perfect comfort & Centrally located 3 e Splendid food and F. B. service McClue, Mgr. ALASEANS LIKE THE ® Large Rooms— all with Bath M Behrends