The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1943, Page 4

Published every evening except 8 EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, June: HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD Vice-President Daily Alaska Em pire younger women, for life has been most interrupted. | of maintaining our birth rate near | will fall upon the women of 30 or more; words, an increase in average size of existing fami- lies would be required unday by the au, Alasks. President and Business Manager Entered In the Post Office {n Juneau as S| UBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier in Junean and Dousias By ‘mall, One yea: vance, $15. sne month, in advance, $1.35. Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly nomy | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED The Assoclated Pi Dostage paid. at the following rates: ; six months, in sdvance, $7.60; | fOr the most part, Second Class Matter. Actually, most married women of ::Irmdv have children, so that their husbands are, still out of the classes called for | military Service. In addition, many thousands of these families are now in a better economic posi- |tion than eéver to rear more children These facts |may help to moderate the unfavorable effect of the $1.50 per month. PREES clusively entitled to the use for war upon the birth date of the immediate future revublication of all news dispatches credited to It or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the berein. local news published | The War Powers Bill ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. (New York Times) — | NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 American Bullding, Seattle, Wash. Among the measures which died when the | Seventy-seventh Congress adjourned was the Third |War Powers Bill. Its adoption had been urged by |the Administration primarily in order to give the kxou\mmom authority to suspend tariff laws and regululmm which now handicap the war effort. A !good case was made for the enactment of some such |legislation. Mr. Patterson of the War Department, ‘Mr. Forrestal of the Navy, Admiral Land of the | Maritime Commission and other officials cited spe- |cific instances in which existing tariff laws have either delayed or made much more difficult the 'px'ocurement of essential materials from foreign countries and the shipment of supplies to the battle- Ifronts. As one example: on the basis of Mr. For- |restal’s testimony, the flow of airplane parts between the United States and Canada has been impeded. But | despite much ecvidence of this kind the Ways and AMERICAN BIRTH American women 01 30 and over babies if the present high birth rate is to be mair- |15 @ healthy swing of sentiment in Congress against | ‘Um in l]hf ;m;f"("“v“ m‘;"em}"‘“ tained, since the withdrawal of large ntimbers of |th€ granting of unlimited discretionary powers to the | 9f the. Unite ations. Surprises| 4 3 3 | 3 e I will be many as retirning soldiers men for military service will result in a decrease m!ExmumL BUY s one reads, the testimony, glven and asllora i limited: Humhers ens births among younger women, according to|Deiore fhe Ways and Means Committee it is readily Saliors In Bl Siattod s B % {apparent that another important influence here was [J0Y leaves and firloughs. W°‘_1‘l‘“{ i | old-fashioned American "pl‘obectiomsm." still going [ Will prove efficient in hospitais} The statisticians point out that in the case of where they will demonsi.ate abil- women of ages 30 and over two decades than at the beginnin contribution was 35 percent of The births to the part of the cance. Tt earlier days, provided the large country. But it is mainly these the last two decades, been restricting their ducing the average size of At the same time that this place, the proportion of older wom: population has increased and tha women has decreased during the from 1920 to 1940 The in the proportion higher ages is merely a reflection our population, decrease relative by won is in the annual total reproductive the period is women of even L of b A and number the increase Also, the spurt in the birth rate w years is directly attributable, in a substantial increase in birth: recently married, However, the immediate future is not so clear. aging of the population may be expected to continue. On the other hand, it is ven birth rate will soon drop from its tively high level as the large numbers of men for military !'Iishinglon m-uni (Continued from Page One) irg for monthly payments. ECONOMY Wholesale slashes will be voted in the budgets of all gevernment departments except | War, Navy, State and, possibly, the Treasury. INVESTIGATIONS mittees on Execiftive Expenditures in both Houses, which have been inactive for several years, will come to life with a bang. One agency whose spending activities will re- ceive a thorough going-over is the Feders! Works Agency. For tne first time, Representa- tive Martin Dies wil run into seri- Ous gpposition over the continuance | of his un-Americanism investigat- | ing committee. The Com- 6 - | CAPITAL CHAFF | 250 to 300 Marines before a recent Division left for the ‘furning up at camp Abou AWOI, Corps mon just after it was too late to sail, there to lock up in the briz and a lot slept outside under N, were (00 muny goerd So far the penalty for ion has not been heavy until third offease. . Representa- tice VWalburn Cartwright of Okla- homu grabbed off the honors when ratirlng House members weré being | toasted on the day Congress ad- Journed . No less than 17 col- Teagues, including five Republicans, delivered speeches paying tribute to fhe popular Oklahoman Asked for comment on threats by isolationist Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana and Representative Clare Hoffman of Michigan to “in- vestigate” him, Willlam Maloney, the Justice Department’s ace sleuth of subversive activities, replied: I have no fears so long as the huu-’ ings are.open to the public’ END OF THE Army Ordnance e foresee the time when the which made France fall, will outmoded and discarded as a use- ful weapon. In fact, they say the tank will be discarded for large- scale combat before this war is over. Death of the tank is the anti- tank gun. If you can mount a large enough gun—and give it suf- ficient mobility—you can blow up | NK perts now tank, | be the contribution to totai the against 29 percent of the total babies born in 1940, these women who, change has taken a phenomenon commonly recognized among young mothers result of the | {the enemy’s tanks and cripple msl |stepped up the calibre. They have | has | ices | Means Committee decided to delay action on the Ad- | ministration’s bill i One reason for the standable and, up to a point RATE R/ failure of the bill is under- praiseworthy. There must have more (strong, even in the midst of a jour existence as a nation. crisis that threatens g. In 1920, their total births, creasingly acute; as | to protest against the adoption of any legislation that would admit another ounce of beef from Ar- gentina. We lack strategic war materials of many kinds; they will apparently come into the country lonly over the fierce opposition of high-tariff groups. | | This is short-sightedness at its glaring worst contribution of men of the latter of great signifi- ages who, in families of the | during that, have | thereby re- family. It is highly desirable to define as sharply as possible |any grant of discretionary power made by Congress. lBul it is at least equally desirable to fight a war of | this magnitude without tying one hand behind our The Administration's bill de- hearing when before irths, back with tariff tape scrves another meets. merican the new Congress en in the general t of the younger 20 period A flashlight for fishermen has just been patent- Its advantage, the New York Times reports, is it can be held in the mouth, freeing both for baiting a hook Illness and accidents cost 400,000,000 working days a year in this country. The germs are work- ing for Germany, in other words. A writer ltlls of a man who had the same um- | brella for 18 years. Isn't it about time he’s returning it? years ed. that of women at the | hands of the aging of last two to ithin the large measure, the the outlook for True enough, v likely that the 2 present compara- withdrawal of The de- Hitler says all of Germany backs up its fighting men. Theyre doing a pretty good job of backing up, themselves. service. Procurement officials finally hanized forces completely. |agreed to turn over the “Tommie” This is just what happened to|gun if they had a letter from Dono- Rommel in his recent African dc-}\m\ authorizing the transfer. The bacle. He had previously enjoyed | OSS representative departed with superiority in anti-tank weapons.|a grunt, but returned the next While the British were still using |morning, bearing a letter from a 75 mm. gun, Rommel (the desert | Donovan, and received the weapon. fox) brought into action an SH‘ However, the Procurement Di- mm. gun, and to conceal it from|vision still would like to know| the British until they were on top wWhat Col. “Wild Bill” Donovan, of it, buried the guns in the sand.|famous for his military exploits in This was what caused the rout!the last war, wants with a sub- of the British forces last June. {machine gun in his capacity as But now the British have boss of the government’s busiest, and most secretive, war intelligence gun, | unit. an American-made 105 mm mounted on a tank chassis, and (Copyright, 1943, hy United Fea- it was this weapon, known as ‘.vlme byndlcabm IM‘ tank destroyer, which outshot the' § German 8§'s and crippled the Ger-| man tanks in the most recent| battle of Egypt. | Thus the tank has met its Ne-| S(‘R(E REPOR' Imesis in the form of a tank de-| stroyer. The only defense HL:.(]“,\(‘ |the "destroyer is to load on more| Oysters, like the buffalo, are| [aimor—but the more the armor,|‘anishing, at least for the dura- the less mobility. Ition, is the conclusion reached in Ordnance expers see the next|the December issue of the Pacific ep as a step into the sky. In Fisherman, which stated that cold, [other words, the next tank will be |stormy weather made them imme- an airplane. It will be a heavily diately searce for the Christmas armored plane, protected by fight-|holidays, and low price ceilings er escort, and moving at low alti- have made,canning an unattractive tudes to do from the air the x|m"‘“d less profitable venture for op- sort of destruction which the tank |erators. been able to do from the| With fresh oyster markets hold- ground |ing up surprisingly and no ceil- Meanwhile, the tank is still op- (INg on the outlet, it is anticipated erating in Russia. But experts here |that few will be canned in 1943. are awaiting the time when the| A sharp increase in the reduc- tank destroyer (105 mm. gun) ap-|Uon Of cut-out weight in canning pears on the Russian side, to blasy| OYSeTS 18 a recent ruling of the German tanks out of action. It is| WPB, 18 also having its effect, and merely a matter of shipping |the seven-state request for reduc- |tion would leave a No. 1 can of % {712 ounces of net weight of drained DONOVAN'S MACHINE GUN |meat, instead of the normal 5 There was a buzz of excitement!ounces. So far Oregon and Wash- when a man who said he repre-|ington have been excluded from sented Col. William Donovan, «hlel\me gencml WPB ome. of the Office of Strategic Serv showed up at the Trea \uyl Department’s Procurement Divis- | Aw“ (MSIM lu ion, demanding a machine gun. The Procurement Division has & FLIGHT TO INLEF \bristing armory of revolvers, sawed-off shotguns and other| Flying with Alaskfl Coastal Air- weapons which have been confis-|lines yesterday afternoon, Shell cated under the “illegal possession” | Simmons made a trip to Excursion clause of the National Firearms!Tnlet with five passengers and re- Act. As it happened, there was one turned with two. Thompson submachine gun in the Por Excursion Inlet p.meng’ers collection. {were G. R. Issak, William J. Priest- ‘That will do,” said the man. ‘l) Claude Burt, Harvey Groka, and However, he stubbornly refused to|V. V. Smith reveal what the gun was to be| Simmons was ‘accompanied 6n used for, on the ground that this|the return trip by R. R. Newell and was military information. “Col.|F. Yanson Donovan needs it right away,” he! kept insisting > e BUY DEFENSE STAMPS lerease in births will be principally among the it is among them that family Evidently the burden its present level in other these ages We are just beginning to | annual births was smaller at the end of the last| experience a meat shortage, which will become in- |90 home fronts there will be m but farm bloc Congressinen arose | HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANUARY 8 Donald W. Skuse Fred Barragar Chester Johnson Roy H. Osborne Albert Uberti Lazette Shearer Richard McCormick Hazel Sparling Mrs. T. F. Evanson | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” e SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 This is an unimportant date in planetary direction, but it may stand out in history for heroic i~eds. The stars encourage com- pletion of tasks well started. HEART AND HOME: Good news for many families is presaged by | the stars. Women will gain in courage as they think of husbands d sons engaged in war service, t they will have severe tes in the next few weeks. The stars }romise a steadily ¢2ining momen THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO ¥ murire ; B e S SUSUSSUSSeI JANUARY 8, 1923 As a grand finale to the week’s athletic carnival, the bowling teams of the Juneau Fire Department and Chilkoot Barracks played a three- game match. The soldiers never had a chance and the total scores were 2,364 to 1,975 in favor of the local bowlers. The firemen were Lavenik, Fry, Metcalf, Cleveland and Beaudin. Heavy rains had flooded the Green, White and Duwamish rivers and cut off traffic by land between Seattle and Tacoma. ,Flood conditions in Oregon had brought to a standstill through traffic to California. Water was from one to three feet deep in the town of Kent. J. G. Brady, U. S. Forester at Anchorage, was returning home after having spewt the Christmas holidays here and in Sitka. The Douglas High School five snowed Chilkoot Barracks under in a walkaway basketball game, scoring 30 to 13. F. H. Knickerbocker, General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Com- western. He was accompanied by John H. Bunch, Traffic Manager. The building at 99 Front Street had been purchased by Miss Mary Young from E. Scataglini and was to be remodeled into a first class cafe. Miss Young, proprietor of the Arcade Cafe, said her new restaurant which would retain the name of her present establishment would be one of the finest in Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. John Davis and children of Juneau were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Getchell at their home in Treadwell. Weather: Maximum, 31; minimum, 28; snow. Daily Lessons in English %+ corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not st Say, “This statement was PROVED."” “This statement was prov- en.” i as nur: ity as physicians as w |demand for medicine in coming weeks. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Lack ‘m«- usual staffs of employees |banks and of trade {cause the expert simplication | many cemmercial methoas of bro |cedure. Men and women sum-| moned from well-earned 1etirement will find happiness in the dis- | covery that their experience is valuable and that their powers are | not seriously impaired. By co bining well-tried routines itk | modern ideas many advantagesav: modern ideas many advantages are for there are aspects stimulating to cooperation and readjustments. | NATIONAL ISSUES: While the| nation works to facilitate the war | progress of the United Nations, there will be the most intense in- crest in preparedness for peace. | Astrologers predict that, as each | victory is won, the movement to| assure wise and just terms as al foundation for the new order, will | gain greatly. Allies will unite for! peace as loyally as they have unit- ed for war. The mistakes that fol- {lowed the First World War will| ot be repeated, if the stars are wisely interpreted. INTERNATIONAL AF!’A!RS Two years ago foreign seers read in the skies forecasts of unusual| nterest regarding Turkey, which they declared might act as af “bridge” helpful to the cause of | right. There is now a sign that | seems to presage an amazing role Kmr peace which will be played by | Turkey. Her progressed sun incon- Jjunction with Jupiter has given as- ard surg of in 4l of { tified with the victors. transit over her to assure a period. Persons whose birthdate it is| have the augury of a year of aid |and sympathetic understanding in {important crises due to the war. Coming months should be iairlyi (fortunate. Children born on this day prob- ably will be fairly lucky although they may experience vagaries of fortune. They should be highly talented, independent and indus- trious. ascendant seems new and prosperous 7 NEWS NEW RESIDENTS Mrs. Chester Barnesson and son Louis have moved into the Eng- strom Apartments on St. Ann’s Avenue for their residence in Doug- las and later they expect to be joined by Mr. Barnesson who is at present employed with a logging outfit operating near Ketchikan. 3 - LACEY GOES TO INLET Wade Lacey expects to get away today for Excursion Inlet where employment is awaiting him. He has been working with the U. S. Army Engineers in Juneau for the past several months. - MRS. FLEEK RECQVERING Mrs. Dale Fleek is now reported much ' improved following her re- cent illness at St. Ann’s Hospital 1943) 3 ieecsbhoeveooos L] WEATHER REPORT L] L) (U.' 8. Bureau) . & Temp. Thursday, Jan. 7 o @ Maximum 47, minimum 38 & Rain—1.26"inth e " 0000006000000 . - The value of munitions made in Canada last year was greater than that of the total produced during the last war, ,increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day surance that Turkey will be iden- | Jupiter’s | \fellows in trolling for squids, OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Grimace (a distortion of the counten- ance). Pronounce gri-mas, I as in IT, A as in ACE, and accent LAST syllable, not the first. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ammeter; two M's. Amethyst; SYNONYMS: Caution, cautiousness, prudence, discretion, care, vigilance, watchfulness WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times aid it is yours.” Let us Today's word : “A vulgar man is captious and jeal- one M. wariness, CAPTIOUS: apt to catch at faults. us."—Chesterfield. ‘MODERN ETIQUETTE ** goerra LEE et} 73 Q. What kind of gloves should a man wear with formal evening clothes? A. White kid gloves. Q. What should you do when the hostess, without realizing it, seats you next to a person whom you very much dislike? A. Control your dislike, betraying no ill feeling to your hostess, to the other guests, and to yourself. Q. Is it all right to write invitations to tea on one's visiting cards? A. Yes This is your duty F S e I.OOK and I.EARNZ' C. GORDON 1. What is the Roman numeral for 900? 2. What is dendrology? 3. Are the deaths of Adam and Eve recorded in the Bible? ‘What is the estimated number of matches struck eevry minute in the Umted States? 5. Who was Vice-President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson? ANSWERS: 1. CM. 2. The study of trees. 3. The death of Adam is recorded in Genesis 5:5, but the death of | Eve is not. | 4 500000 . 5. Aaron Burr, E"“S“D FIS“ERMA“ company with cigarettes for PLIES HIS VOCATION “=c ® o™, SILENCER ON SIRENS “Once a fisherman always a fisherman” may be rightly said of a son of P. E. McCaffrey, who, be- .1 romember fore he entered the .Navy. was A% an air raid it won't hear expert tunaman, fishing out of San | ;tj; the war ends. and pounds of "slnped"—sellilg foriwarning devices. Cubas Ch;ef Visits E. D. R. Cuba’s president, Fulgencio Batista, center, makes another .visit to the Upited States as a guest of the government. . Batista, shown w.lkjng through a guard of honor following arrival at Miami, Fla., will be a guest of President Roosevelt and also will tour war punu. At the left is Aurelio Concheso, Cuban ambassador to the U. S.,’'and rlgh! Dr. Jose A. Martinez, Cuban minister of state, pany, was making the roundtrip to the Westward aboard the North- enough to supply the whole ship’s some HANNIBAL, Mo—Unless Hanni- Mark Twain—has a siren Diego, Calif. The city council has passed a law On a warship “somewhere in the that no siren shall sound except in Pacific,” he enlisted the aid of his case of an air raid. Emergency police and fire ve- reached port with several hundred hicles must depend upon bells as/ FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943 DIRECTORY ;- eau Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month Drs. Kaser and in Scottish Rite Templ Freeburger Jyinning st 7:80.p. . DENTISTS R. W. COWLING, Wor- Blomzreu Ph !hlnhl.l Master; JAMES W. LEIV- Bullding one 56 ERS, 57,0 BKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST P. M. Visiting Brothers wel- TH CENTURY BUILDING | [ {come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- Office Phor alted Ruler, M. H. SIDES, Sec- - retary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 18—M Dr. John H. Geyer Room 8—Valentine Bidg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College | “The Rexall Store” | of Optometry and Your Reliable Pharmacists Opthalmology BUTLER-MAURO Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground DRUG CO. | —_—mnmnmm— HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” I The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Frankiin Sts. PHONE 136 FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Trestments Will “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. Correct Halr Problems Sigrid’s You'll Find Fond Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third FINE Watch and Jewelry Repalring at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A, COOPER BUILDING RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Seward Street Phone 6 INSURANCE | Shattuck Agency 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 examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin St. Phone 177 — 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 “Say It With Flowers" but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing—O0il Burners Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Bhelf and Heavy Hardware Guns snd Ammunition E.E.STENDER For Expert Radio Service TELEPHONE BLUE 429 or call at 117 3rd St., Upstairs 15 Years’ Experience "Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Mpm) n SEATTLE NYAL ® Perfect comfort ICE CREAM ® Centrally located ® Splendid food and F. 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