The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1943, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Facts First Publishied every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Btreets, muu, Alasks, - President (Philadelphia Record) | Puerto Rico is one of the problems the old Con- gress left on the doorstep of the new. The old Congress allowed its hatred of the is- . “icePresfdent and Business Manager |Jand’s Governor, Rexford Guy Tugwell, o interfere Eatered In the Poltsomce Junu-n‘r'&wna Class Matter, | with solving the problem of Puerto Rico—the only UBSCRIPTION ag Dé&livered by earrier in Juneau and Douglas for L. ,. pee month, [tenuox\ under the American flag where people are By mafl, postage paid, at the following ra | starving. .nvn g::";:‘:’i ?a::.:‘:fc:;,z‘;‘ T oo 'd"n“‘ n.80; | \ The House Appropriations Committee approved Bubsoribers will confer a favor 1f they will promptly notity ‘n bill to appropriate $15,000,000 to relieve the food the Business Office of aar failure or irresulafity in he de-| ;1006 but by unanimous vote added a rider which |would prevent expenditure of a dollar so long as Uivers of their pape Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED \Gmemm Tugwell remained in office Mote sensible is the proposal by Senator The Amociated Pross 1o exclusively Satited to the use for | X lfltll‘::1:.&1‘!“::1’::‘”:::“::““:::“&:&‘;&'.fin#.m[donbelg of Michigan, to limit by‘law the term of \tho island's Governor, now indefinite, with the CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER nvowcd purpose of rémoving Tugwell. Puerto Rican THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. |leaders, however, insist that if Tugwell is dropped, ' NATIONAL RH’RBI‘N’I‘ATTV‘E Alaska Newspapers, 1011 | they will demund popular election of the next Gov- Wiiitionn BEmgy 8o | ernor—something we ‘may not wish to undertake in | the midst of war What should be done is extension of the Chavez Senate Committee investigating Puerto Rican eco- nomic conditions. It began hearings last month, but lit was given only a $5,000 appropriation. The investigation should be thorough. Either | the committee itself or its investigators should visit | Ithe island and find out whether the charges agains® | Tugwell are true—whether he is actually more in- | terested in building a “socialized state” than in keep |ing the people from starving | Let's find out why Puerto Rico has been dpmvd\ | freedom from want ‘ Van- Shadow of l)oxtruclmn —— MISERY LOVES . .. | (New York Times) | The British Information Services supply some | v [new figures on the work of the R.AF. They show Premier John Bracken of Manitoba, new leader | yhat the weight of bombs dropped on Germany and of (the Capadian Progressive Conservative Party, is|German-controlled Furope from January to March, disturbed about growing bureaucracy in the neighbor 1942, was 50 percent higher than in the same period dominion Without passing upon the validity of hi\[ol 1941. The rate of increase is accelerating. Dur- ! worry, here’s company for him in misery ling June and July, 1941, 8500 tons were dropped Before the war Canada had 75,000 Dominion |and for the same period last summer, 13,000 tons. government employees. In November there wn“.'Thv load continues to rise. In 1940 the number of |should be fortunate for the Navy| | influence. ,pmpleuue: and reformers will at- jin mental and moral strength an {will regard wartime outbreaks of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE: ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY {/{ 20 YEARS AGO 2% cuprzm FEBRUARY 3 FEBRUARY 3, 1923 Robert Oasey Advices were received on the Princess Mary that the Seattle fishing Constance Valisori vessel, Flora, was driven on a reef near Black Rock, 75 miles north of Ed J. Radde | Prince Rupert several days earlier and pounded to pieces. No loss of life Ernest A. Johnson | was Tepon | was reported. Mrs. George Wools Jeffrey Pegues | Ed Delaney Capt. John Boedecker, Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard cutter Unalga, v‘ho had been on leave for several weeks, was returning in two weeks to rejoin the ship. He was to come north on the next trip of the Princess Mary and would be accompanied by Mrs. Boedecker. Mrs. E. F. Cashel won first prize and Mrs. Carl Carlson won con- 0 solation prize at the card party given in Douglas by the members of the “The stars incline % | Rebekah Lodge as the second of a series of card parties but do not compel” | DUSSUSSSUSESR PSS S | Mrs. F. R. Sanders Tearing down of the Raats Building on Front Street, formerly occu- | pied by the Arcade Cafe, had begun and the building was to be replaced by a two-storied structure which was to house Joe’s Cafe, to be opened 1 |in March by Joe Raats. | Thursday, February 4 Benefic aspects rule today whic the aviation forces. Labor Jean Vanophem, President of the Alaska Jualin Mines Company |and under a strong .stimulmng and in charge of operations at the mine, was in Juneau on business. comes Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Sholin, of the Hogue Island fox farm, arrived I HOUSE AND HOME: Women to- | | |day should benefit from an inspir-|;;, juneau on the boat Isis and were to leave on the Northwestern for ing planetary direction which will the States. enable them to be quite lmpersoml‘ in analyzing their own problems.| vamlc delinquency will present George A. Getchell, Deputy U. S. Marshal, was returning to Juneau ‘on the Alameda. |tribute youthful lawlessless tu‘ g lack of home influences while mo- Dr. S. C. Shurick, of Wrangell, who had been in the city for several thers are engaged in war industries.|days on business, was returning aboard the Jefferson for his home. However the seers declare that by g5 the time peace is attained the ris-| J W. Kchoe, attorney, left on the Jefferson for Wrangell on a trip ing generation will prove 5“99"";-011 legal business. Rain was prevailing weather in Juneau and the perature was 38 and minimum was 37. Ximum tem- violence as temporary aberrations,| maxin partly due to the mass hypnotism of many nations in desperate con- | i 120,000, an increase of 60 percent and a current |Pombers on one target was 100 planes; in 1941, 300 average of one Federal employee to every 100 Cana- planes; in 1942, more than 1,000. The heaviest bomb dians. . i dropped in 1940 was 500 pounds: in 1941, 2,000 | i ot ; 2, mor 00 s. In the Rién hs Atariskn UBtase- prosmen Aiadan e | Poumts I~ 10M, Norg SHELB D, potde, 11 sear of the Battle of Britain, the maximum load of | had. 1,011,066 executive employees Now Wwe have o g B Mz s o R.AF. bombers was two tons; in 1941 more than | approximately 8,000,000, an -increase of roundly 200 |y tons; in 1942, more than eight tons. Taking only | percent and a current average of about one Fed- vB.msh types as contrasted with German types of | eral employee to every 44 Americans | bombers, and leaving out of account the American | More than twice the burden, about five times |Flying Fortresses and Liberators which are doing sn‘ the rate of increase ‘rme a job, the German Dornier-217 carries 6615 | pounds and the British Sterling more than 17,000 | pounds; the Heinkel III, 4,400 pounds, and the Hali- | fax, 12,000 pounds; the Junkers-88, 0 pounds, and the Lancaster, about 12,000 pounds. As a result of the increasing bombing power oil the RAF., the figures on comparative damage arc illuminating. The worst damage done in Britain by the German air force is 120 acres laid waste in Lon- | don. Against this, the RAF. has laid te thus far 600 acres in Cologne, 380 in Dusseldorf, 360 in| Karlsruhe, 300 in Lubeck, 260 in Munster, 180 in | Rostock and 135 in Mainz. At Emden an RAF raid seriously damaged 60 percent of all dock building, | and at Bremen one-fifth of the whole town was | devastated Doubtless, additional methods of attack and oc; cupation must be employed for the full reconquest of Furope; but this ground swell of bombing, which | has only begun its inexorable movement toward the flood, hardly can fail to make more swift and sure i the day of victory FREE SPEECH A New York policeman arrested a World War yeteran for sitting on a park bench and critieizing President Roosevelt and the conduct of the war to another: man n private conversation. A magistrate sentenced the offender to 30 days in the workhouse. The appeals court reversed the conviction That is good ne It proved that we still have the free speech for which, among other freedoms, we are fighting. So long as we are loyal to th: United States and do not assist her enemies, we still are privileged to express our dissatisfaction with our hired men in public office and with the way they are .carrying out our instructions to beat Hitler. We don't even have to be right. We have merely to-be honest, patriotic and orderly. Which is as it should be. %ipalo; : Round (Continued from Page One) r 3 | |l'l\d\l(1 so was surprised to find |during an absence from Washing- Iton that his Undersecretary, John | J. Dempsey, now popular Governor | National Park officials, Dempsey |of New Mexico, had reopened it.|may have figured that the church | Dempsey had told the Bishop of could not be built because of pri- Gallup, New Mexico, the Reverend | orities. For in July, 1942, he wrote | Befnard T. Espelage, that a Ca-|the Bishop that no priorities were v Itholic Church could be built at|available and the Government and might paralyze war industry in!Grand Canyon, it being understood could not help in getting them. many parts of the country. How- that a Protestant church also could * Later Dempsey resigned from the eyt that is exactly the way thlngs?be built. Interior Department, and this dis- aye now heading—unless the War| However, no Protestant church pute was reputed to be one reason Labor Board alters its formula and|wanted to build. But, Dempsey for his exit. Shortly thereafter,!| permits more than a 15 percent in-|{went ahead and, without Ickes'|Ickes wrote a letter to the bishop‘ crease. |knowledge, asked the National|that the construction of any church !? To 'head off so serious a :\mkp.‘Park Service to prepare prelimin-|cn government property was not| WEB may yield. If so, it will open | ary sketches. in line with park policy. The mat- the wage door in hundreds of| Bishop Espelage ter is now closed. { other industries. /ington to make arrangements with | - S | , and in March, 1942,/ HURLEY AND TIMOSHENKO CAPITAL CHAFF authorized Superinten-| When friends asked Brig. Gen.| U..S. Chamber of Commerce|dent Bryant of the National Park Patrick J. Hurley, just back from President Eric Johnston, will run | Service to permit construction of Russia, to explain the Marshal for the Senate in 1944 ‘on the Rp.!xhv chapel. “Tlmoahfllko's mysterious chsa\ppear-I publican ticket against Seawtor| Homer Bone, Democrat. Johnston is one of the few politically mm(.‘—l ed.men ever to sit in the crasty| throne of the U. S. Chamber 1 Robert Stripling, $4,800-a-year sec-| vetary. of the Dies Comnitice,! which under the law now doesn't exist, ‘is still trying to fasten the| “communist” label on government | workers who joined some lberal] organization in their youth Spanish pressure on Pa will cause some changes movie version of Hemingway seller: “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” ! but ‘it will probably be released to! the . American public in Apnl — despite Franco . The w.svms.! 3 gradually taking over more ol the! Navy's paper work, are buinging in’seme smart officers, amony; them Lieut Rebecca Gross, foriuz: ran- aging - editor of the Lock Pa., Bxpress and one of women managing editors country. . . . By this time, Secretary Ickes | found out that his Undersecretary | had overruled him. According me to Wash- I [ Crossword Puazzle ACROSS . Therefore . Tep cards . Bestow 2. Correlative of either . Adriatic ‘wind . Mediterranean 37, Exclamation sailing \csseli.‘, Offer to buy . Generous 0. French city . Namb 41. Public’vehicle 18. Old . Weight . Above: prefix 44, Oilstoue News orgnniza- 45, Of the .sun tion: abbr. 47, Cylindrical ‘and . Insect's esg Priyate teacher i 8 Devoured Ahead ngaged Tretand . Large volumes - 54. . Side piece of & barrel Humbles Propped Mentioned 51 = specifieally . Pleces of money . Open: court . Draft LNEE DEE [ Z) I<|= '.'JE‘!C ‘o L [PIE[EIRIN 1 IN[K] Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1. Mediterranean wind (o] ™) 1>} 2 . Beginning . In bed . Brightest star in a constel- lation . . Places rubbed out the in . Military greet- the ings r . Flower . River dam . Lowered the CHURCH IN NATIONAL PARK? bottom | will |ments will be offered. Religion also | will {luminating to thousahds, astrolog- | t0|force the winter will show Jprogress‘ of the United Nations. As jwar. i Persons whose birthdate it is have |the augury of a year of obstacles jand difficulties which can be over- | |bably will be talented: lict. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Aspects: Pluto ‘presage inflation whieh | be progressively apparent | through 1943. Although vietory for| |the United Nations is promised, setbdcks and ‘disappointments |, | rithing: " Ftis o foreten |1 would rather not go.” for the United States tremendous' OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Garish. Pronounce | power which makes it the strong- CARE, not as in AH. est of all nations with the respon-| OFTEN MISSPELLED: Impostor; observe the OR sibility of aiding all peoples who | SYNONYMS: Thin (adjective), slim, slight, slender, need help and that will mean the tenuous. mast of Europe and Asia. Our great| WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us test under the high standards set|jncpease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: for the nation will come through gpOUESTER; to set apart; put aside; separate, “I had wholly sequest- the use we make of our wealth a“d;ered my civil affairs.”—Bacon. MODERN ETIQUETTE ** roperra LEE |of Daily Lessons in English % .. corpon B e e ‘WORDS OFTEN ‘VUSUSED, Do not say, “I don't choose to go.” Say, gar-ish, A as in spare, lean, lank, {natural resources. NATIONAL ISSUES: As the un- | dertone of gravity is felt in the United States there will continue to, Ibe a constant quest for amusement | among civilians as well as men in, {the Service who are on leaves and | furloughs. Theaters will prosper. | Q. When a girl is attending church with a young man, shouldn't her New plays and novel entertain- escort furnish her contribution when the collection is taken? A. No. She should contribute her own money. Q. With whom does a person at a hotel leave word as to when he | wishes to be awakened? A. With the telephone operator or desk clerk. Q. Is it ever correct to have unlighted candles on table? A. No. LOOK and LEARN % ¢ corpon jamong Axis peoples, but the Umted‘ R T e e e ] {Mesions Cebtiiitie 0 S WRIT| 1. What ihree States deadiin the ’agalnst _I.oo early optimism. flom!verslties’ inow until 1945 sudden and amazing =~ 4 : . events are to obstruct victorious | Who was the first President to ride in an automobile? How is the Governor of Alaska appointed? What are the two capes at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay? ‘What motto first appeared on our coins in 1864? ANSWERS: Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio. William McKinley took his first automobile ride in a Stanley Steamer in 1899. 3. By the President of the United States. 4. Cape Henry and Cape Charles. 5. “In God We Tr interest many hitherto care-| less of churches. Through world chaos there is to develop spiritual| apprehension which will prove il- the dinner |ers foretell. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Rjuto, planet of destruction, even- | tually leads to regeneration and un- | {der the influence of this strange, many | mgns of national disintegration number of colleges and uni- time marches on the destiny of the greatest of all democracies will be | revealed as splendid in its power. | Foremost of all nations the people‘ 3 of the United States are to succor | 2. and rehabilitate all the victims of come. Patience is necessary. | Children born on this day pro- in artistic | vocations. They should be extreme- ly intelligent and independent. (Copyright, 1943) Eisenhower Was Also @ood in Ring ABILENE, Kas—Publisher Char- MARTHA FQOD SALE | TO BE HELD SATURDAY | | Opening at 10 a.m. Saturday, | February 6, in Piggly Wiggly's B store, women of the Martha Soci- ance from the limelight, Hurley |ety of the Northern Light Presby- dodged the question as follows: terian Church will hold a food Timoshenko i§ the George Wnsh-.!flle ley Harger of Abilene tells about ington “of Russia. Whshington re-| Continuing as long as the delici- the time that Lt. Gen. Dwight treated all'the way ‘from Boston to |ous ' home-cooked dishes hold out, |Eisenhower, U. S. commander in Yorktown; ‘He ‘1ost ‘one’ battle after |the sale is belng conducted under | NOTth Africa, came home on vaca- another, but e ‘figired that ‘as|a committee made up of Mesdames | tion to Abilene, while he was at- long as he Had his army intact, and the' vast reaches of North Am- erica to retreat into, he might lose the battles' but ‘He would win ‘the war. ; { And 'he kept on’retreating until he was ablé to ‘spring the trup on Katherine Hooker, Harvey Starling, | Fred Henning, Ray Woife and Tom; Morgan. Any member of the Society wish- ing to contribute foods to the sale who cannot take them in may arrange for transportation by call- [tending West Point. A prize fighter boasted he could “lick anyone in the state of Kansas.” Eisenhower, says Harger, heard about the boast and challenged the fellow. When the future general knocked the pro- fessional fighter out in two rounds his reputation was established in Cornwallis “at - ‘Yorktown. Timoshenko' also” followed ' th'e retreat’ smw.y—lmm Kharkov' to Rostov to Stalingrad—but kept his army intact. ‘He ‘is'a tremendous’ figure in Russia. His name is stamped on the hflrts of the peo- ple. Abilene. ing a committee mgmbgn, When the ' Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the nomin- ation of Ed Flynn as Minister to Australia began, Flynn's' chief cri- tic, Republican Senator Styles Bridges of Neéw Hampshire, started Wager ). Seed container Noted the speed of . Sandarac trees . Hebrew prophet . Short jackets Secrefary Ickes has just man-f aged to settle a delicate question | which dragged on for nearly two| years as to whether the Catholic| Church could build in a National . Domesticated Park. = i . . Starts aside The issue came up when the! , denapis church asked Ickes for pepmission et bistosk to build a chapel on the south rim . 2“’f,;"‘ volee of the Grand Canyon National '.éfi?er"gfi'-mm Park.. Ickes replied that it was '_ rult contrary to government policy to . ShakespeareAn permit ‘any one denomination to chiracter build on park land, but that some 4 Snn—cnlofi De- dey when funds were available Fapen mowh- he hoped to bulld a church in ikl wiew Grand Canyon which could be used by all denominations Ickes thought this AN AN UEEEE IR JENEN/JEEE W« AP Features . Statute . Large recep- tacle ended the to sit by 'Pennsylvania’s Sterling Statesman Benator Joe Guffey. “You can't sit here,” grunted Guffey: “This seat is reserved for another member of the committee.” Then, Joe added sarcastically: “Sit out there in front of the table with the witnesses. That's where you belong. You aré the prosecutor in this case.” (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, ; Inc.) - -~ ATTENTION SHRINERS Regular monthly meeting, Per- cy's Cafe, 6:30 p.m., Wednesday. J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. “SEE HERE ... —Corp. Marion L. Hargrove, Jr., author of the book “See Here, Private Hargrove,” gazes intp eyes of his bride-to-be, Alison B. 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