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

Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except SBunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING Becond and Main Streets, JI‘I_'I. ul.l TROY MONSEN Prestden L. BERNARD 'U.mw ‘l‘ lmu-uuu- ln th Post Office in Juneau as boond Gl- Matter. ~ SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Wl"ll}hhlmllnl‘m-mln“'--fl. By mall, postage paid, at the following One your, uunnumw.mmmmnmu»; —mu;.uumu annunm-nkumnnmm u.-‘-—otm.umnnuuumnunmu Telephones: entitled to the wlfllulunaf-nnwl dispatches credited to 1t or not other- credited in this paper and also the local news published B I P U U SO W DU ALASKA CIRCULATION ovuuurrm TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. RIS v sy infioe S Stk A L SRS «i"flQNAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 101) | ‘Bullding. Seattls, Wasb. e e ——— WHAT IT TAKES The United States Marine Corps has a distinc- tive role in the armed organization of the nation. They are sea-borne troops, ready. for any expedi- tionary assignment to take or hold a position, to stage a raid or plug a gap. not widely known before the outbreak of the cur- rent war, it has since become celebrated, at Wake and in the Solomon Islands, What has happened on Guadalcanal—the re- placement of the Marine force with Army troops— is in accord with the regular scheme of Marine op- | 'grp,unns. The Marine Corps performed brilliantly in taking and holding the island in the teeth of the most determined resistance that the Japanese could muster—with the aid at sea, of course, of the Navy and in the air of the long-range bombers of the United States Air Forces. Their mission accomplished, with the situation stabilized and the immediate Jap threat to Hender- son Field—the real prize of Guadalcanal—now large- 1y dissipated, it was part of the regular procedure for the Marines of Major General Alexander Vandegrift to be replaced by an Army force. This Army force, under the command of Major &mral Alexander Patch, already has demonstrated its mettle in the new assignment. In fact, it was the Army which recently stormed and took the last Japanese position which really menaced American control of Henderson Field, the Mount Austen Ridge. Meanwhile, over on New Guinea, another United States Army force—comprised mainly of former Na- tional ‘Guardsmen—has shown that it, too, has fight- qualities which deserve as much celebration as %&e of the Marines. The joint offensive of the American troops and their Australian allies across the Owen Stanley Mountain Range in an operation to wipe out ananese positions on the nonhwestern If their function was | !shores of New Guinea has been a spectacularly well- executed operations. No one branch of America's fighting forces holds {8 monopoly on spirit, courage, or intestinal fortitude. | They all have what it takes t I l Disguised As Big Leaves | (Portland Oregonian) A new technique for mopping up ]mm]es—mr- tcularly jungle islands—is something which Yankee ingenuity unquestionably is working on, and should be. The Japs have made it necessary. They entered the war full of determination to die for the emperor and carrying various cans of paint, designed when {applied to make the Japanese fighter indistinguish- able from the jungle landscape. They used infil- tration tactics, and when these were combined with effective camouflage, the result was decidedly sur- prising to our own traditional and sportsmanlike forces. All the way from the top of Luzon to the lower end of New Guinea, it was disconcerting to have the fanatical little enemy present himself in no other form than that of a bush or tree, or an extra big leaf. The rapidity of the Japanese ad- |vance through the southwest Pacific had its ex- { planation, in part, in this cleverness—if that is what you want to call it—with which the Japanese stra- tegists had planned for exactly that kind of warfare Now it turns out, as the Japanese drive dies |and our own counterdrive forms, that the methods which the Japanese used on the offensive are even more effective in defense. It was quite effective, |considering the element of surprise, to have trees move through the jungle. It is even more effective when these trees stand still but suddenly burst out with the most modern of fire-power. That is evi- dent in the fact that the Japanese still hold their 'posltlons on Guadalcanal and that they have been §0 successful in delaying us in the Buna area of New Guinea. At the Buna rate, it would require a couple of hundred years to work back through the southwest islands to our original position in the proper. In other words, there is a new technique involved in this island warfare which requires our utmost in- genuity if we are to offset the advantage which the jenemy has achieved through employment of the Japanese character in a convenient setting. Fatal- ism combined with the Japanese character makes reconquest of the southwest islands extremely diffi- |cult, if no new technique to take care of the situa- tion is developed. Granted that the jungles present <no particular problem if they could be advanced upon with fleets of tanks and planes, backed with adequate artillery. The fact remains that under ordinary circumstances tanks and artillery are lack- ing. Small arms, reaching their maximum in the machine gun, are the traditional weapons in the is- lands, where transport is difficult. Consequently we face the reality that in cleaning out these dense growths and undergrowths, improved methods are urgently needed. If every Japanese position is as hard to take as Buna, we will be a Iong time indeed in working up to Japan. There is, it is true, a balancing thought. If our air and naval power become overwhelming, it may be possible to ignore the “pockets of resistance,” driving on in major battles and leaving the Japs in the islands to eat their own rubber belts until they have had enough of it. But it would be decidedly useful if we should develop, in the meantime, some procedure which would make this unnecessary, It has been revealed that our technicians thought up and produced the mobile artillery, mounted on tank chassis, which was so instrumental in breaking Rom- mel’s El Alamein line. No doubt our technicians are at work on the jungle island problem, and something may come of thnt also We wculd bet onm it. GRAND I6L0O, PIONEERS, T0 PROMINE 'MRS. H.P. HANSEN, WOMAN, INTOWN Mrs. H. P, Hansen, of Ketchikan, TROLLERS HAVE MEETING HERE The United Trollers of Alaska, Juneau local affiliated with the In- | ternational Fishermen and Allied NT CLUB Philippines, or to any striking position against Japan | MEET TONIGHT Although officers have not ar- rived from the Westward, but are| dueé anytime, the Grand Igloo of | the Alaska Pioneers will convene at 8 o'clock tonight in the Odd Fel lows Hall with Past Grand Presi-| @ent Charles W. Carter officlating is in Juneau for several purposes. iShe is Legislative Chairman of | the Alaska Federation of Women's Glubs, and will consult with local women here. She is also a delegate to the Pioneers Grand Igloo from the Ketchikan Pioneers Auxiliary. She will also attend sessions of the Alaska Territorial Legislature while Workers of America, CIO, held a {meeting in the Miners’ Hall yes- terday afternoon to elect officials for the coming year and to take up. other problems | trollers. Officers elected were Ralph Mor- tensen, Secretary-Treasurer; Emil Vienola, Carl Weedman, Ed Skaret and Herbert Savikko, Executive confronting in Juneau. Mrs. Hansen is at_the opening session. All local delegates and those; who_have arrived from the south- ern end of the Division are asked | % be on hand for the opening az‘i Gastineau where eached during her stay Board. Martin Hegeburg, Secretary- Treasurer of the International Fish- ermen, presided. The next meeting will be held February 21. a guest at the she can be in the 8 o'clock INTRODUCE BILL PROVIDING FOR EQUAL RIGHTS A bill introduced in the House g‘l.urdly afternoon by Spenker\ Smes V. Davis, by request, would ! full and equal accommoda- | tiohs and privilegeg, “in places of | accommodation and ,in the | for all persons within the ”Kon of" the Territ to provide penalties for vlolsnom bill would fine violators $100, | to ;be d to the aggrieved per- | 1, and is designed to grant| 1 privileges to all persons re- -xdles of rwe, creed or color ACROSS 1. Minced dish 6. Astern 8. Fodder pit 12. Architectural Dler 13. Neck plece 14. Greedy 15. Remain 18. Blunder und IR0 | 1t is not a mluury secret, be- eause it occurred over 24 hours g0, but when the Night Editor of | the Empire was making the rounds . Sundey morning, the ther-| at the Fire Hall regis- at'1:30 o'clock aun. If | ppened to be on the M.zeeLs' time and got caught in ane, playful zephyfs’ is m1 ”mfi colder than zero. | zero mark registered the ' in Juneau in over eight it is said. i R D " BUY DEFENSE STAMPS I [S12]0] . Pastoral poems 37. Cuble meters . Hand threshing u!mnlamnnt . H(lh mullcll . Swim) 4 anst o{ the sea 3 thbel trees X Ar(lol‘ 7. Book o B|ble ). On land Fall to k«n . In’ what way . Russian city City in Iowa : Bld musioal ESE O[mim] & [I<I= [z ] ([ ojm|mie) (W= im0~ Z|() £3 LIRmE WEEERCEL QUES @ [HwimZ] 1 the i R} 1Al 1] E] I<|=[o] Im<IO] |Z]mir] Rieis HIRRIENIT] Iolutlan Of Saturday’s Punlo DOWN 3. Heavenly body 1. Fastener nt.‘r'm. 26, M:n:‘i;:.m r of prehist l‘ $ B0, 8} "h' Y . B 58, Jewish montn Palm leaf THE DAlLY ALASKA LMPIRh UNhAU ALAbKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 8 G. I. Ingman Mrs. T. E. Hall Mary Sartor John E. Turner R. F. Adams Mrs. H. F. Kepler Mrs. Hannah Ingersol Betty T. Graham e THOROSCOPE ‘The stars incline but do not compel” B Tuesday, February 9 Adverse planetary aspects are ac- tive under this configuration. The stars favor persons who have gained success more than those who are | striving. HEART AND HOME: This is not a lucky date for initiative of any sort. The signs on this date warn of frustration and disappointment.| It is a time for planning rather than | action. Women should conserve their energies. Overenthusiasm in| the performance of new tasks may cause illnesses. This month wm‘ afford for girl workers many op-| portunities to demonstrate physical fitness. Bad weather will add to health hazards at a time when every day lost in production means much to the nation. This is not a lucky! date for romance. Masculine minds| will concentrate on war activities| that prompt caution in ucqumng dependents. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Food rauon- ing will take on novel limitations av this time when meat eaters are ac-| quiring a taste for unusual diets.| Again interest will focus upon cook-| ing, as recipes for strange wma-“ tions of old-fashioned dishes be- come popular. Through necessary fasting health is to be improved in| families hitherto accustomed to ex-| travagance in daily menus. Govern- ‘ ment propaganda will contain bills |of fare instead of boosts for Admin- | istration policies. | sma INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Italy is to be spared dreaded airw ‘rnids after widespread destructlom {has been accomplished, the seers |foretell. Rome and Venice are to |survive, owing to interevention by| the Pope or to the influence of growing strength among adherents| of Free Italy movements. Mussolini, | whose death before the close of the/ war has been predicted, is to be re-| jmoved from his high place by a pop—{ ular uprising, according to a for-| eign astrologer. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of advance-| ment. The young should be espec- ially fortunate. Men should be fairly lucky. Children born on this day pro- |bably will be kindly, independent, and popular. They may be extreme- | |1y patriotic, talented and successtul. | (quyright 1943) e THREE MORE SUPPLY | SHIPS OF AXIS, ONE TANKER SENT DOWN LONDON I'bb 8 — Three more ;Axl.s supply ships and one tanker have been sunk and another supply ship was left in flames by British sulgs operating in the central Med- iterranean, the British Admiralty announces. ARMY ENGINEERS MAY BE TRAINED ATUNIV. ALASKA WASHINGTON, Feb. 83—The War Commission announces approval of | 281 non-Federal Schools and. uni- versities by the War and Navy De- partments for specialized training of meén and women needed in the armed - forces. Included in the War Department’s approval is the University of Alaska for the training of Engineers. in uniform| , TUBES GIVEN OUT, LOCAL BOARD Certificates for tires and tubes were issued to the following dur- ing first week in February by the local Rationing Board: City of Juneau (Street Dept.), 2 tirés, 2 tubes; Lewis Brown (for deferise), 1 grade I fire; Elroy ‘(for. defense), 2 grade 1T tires, 2 tunes Hildre and Son (for de- uqm 4 truck tires; Owl Cab, 1 tire; Yellow Cab, 1 tire Owing to prevailing conditions, ' Girl Scout Council meeting, scheduled for this afternoon, has beén postponed until next Monday. The meetmg will then be held in the penthouse of the Alaska Elec- tric t and Power Company lbu!l Hfl" 20 YEARS AGO F%% cumpirE FEBRUARY 8, 1923 Appointment of W. K. Keller as Superintendent of Schools of the city for the next year was announced by Dr. H. C. DeVighne, President of the local school board. Mr. Keller was expected to come to Juneau from Fairbanks where he was holding a similar position, early in the summer, stopping in Juneau before continuing South for a vacation. Resignation of Judge John R. Winn as President of the local Bar Association was made public by V. A. Paine, Secretary of the organiza- tion. Judge Winn, who had been either President or Vice-President of the association for 18 years, gave no reason for his resignation. Follow- ing the presentation of his resignation, Judge Winn left for the South on a vacation trip, planning to visit Seattle and Southern California. Jim Fozard, well known official of the Guggenheims, at Latouche, was aboard the Alameda, due in port in the afternoon. Frank Metcalf, surveyor, returned to Juneau on the Northwestern from Fairbanks. He had spent several weeks in the vicinity of the Interoir town doing survey work on mining properties. G. F. Forrest, Juneau business man, returned home from a trip to Fairbanks where in his office as District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, B. P. O. Elks, he conducted the ceremonies for the initiation of a class of 26 in the Fairbanks lodge. He had been absent for several weeks. The Cordova members of the B. P. O. Elks, affiliated with lodges at Anchorage, Juneau and in the States, gave a smoker in honor of District Deputy George F. Forrest and at the preliminary business meet- ing it was unanimously decided to apply to the Grand Exalted Ruler | for dispensation to organize a lodge in Cordova. Miss Dorothy E. Haley, of The Empire staff, was making the round trip on the Alameda to the Westward on a combined pleasure and busi- ness trip. At Cordova she planned to visit Miss Marian Summers while the steamer was in port and at Latouche was to visit with Miss Emma Perelle. Weather was fair and slightly colder. Maximum temperature was |40 and minimum was 34. Daily Lessons in English % | corpon e e et i} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “She almost fell out of the window.” Say, “She NEARLY fell out of the window.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Direction. Pronounce first I as in DID, not as in DIE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Palate (roof of he mouth). Palette (a thin board on which an artist lays his pigments).- Pallet (a small and mean bed). SYNONYMS: Acquirement, accomplishment, acquisition, attainment. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: CATACLYSM; any sudden and overwhelming upheaval. “What was their attitude towards this vaguely threatened cataclysm?” Gals- worthy. MODERN ETIQUETTE * oprrra LEE Q. When a woman is talking with a social equal, should she refer to her own husband as “Mr. Hill"? A. No. She should say “My husband” or “John.” Q. Is it necessary to answer a wedding invitation that incl'udes an invitation to the reception? A. Yes. Q. Isn't it absolute folly for a man to live far above his income in order to impress his social acquaintances? A. Yes, and in almost every such case the man will sooner or later repent of his folly. It was Addison who said, “The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath him.” LOOK and LEARN 2 I A. C. GORDON 1. What country has had for many years the highest marriage rate? 78 2. Who was Anna Hathaway? 3. What is a morganatic marriage? 4. What is the approximate weight of a dozen hen eggs in the shells? 5. Who is the only President of the Unitec States buried in Arlington National Cemetery? ANSWERS: . The United States. 2. Wife of William Shakespeare. 3. One between a man of exalted rank and a woman of lower rank, whose children do not have any claim to the father's title. 4. 1% pounds. 5. William H. Taft. 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