The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1943, Page 4

PAGIEPPUR R Daily Alaska Em Jire Published every eveniug except Sunday by lho EMPIRE FRINTING COMPANY Second and Main atrmu. Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - = = President R. L. BERNARD -~ 'lm—l’rmielt and Business Manager Butered In the Pon Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by e rrllfhllllllll .D.Iflllfl!ll“m.‘l‘ By mail, pald, One vear, in sdvance, $15.00; it months, 1n uau ce, $7. ‘one month, in advance, $1.38. Bubscribers will confer a favor If they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the de- Uvery of their papers. Teleohones: News Office, 802; Bustness Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use hl Pepublication of afl news dispatches credited to it or mot othes .!‘"I credited 1u this paper and also the local news Duhlllhfil rein. ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THROUGH THlu LOOKING GLASS The management of Juneau's radio station went on the air for 10 minutes or so last Saturday eve- ning to give the Daily Alaska Empire and another matter some very helpful publicity But just as Alice found when she stepped through the looking glass into a world of make believe, everything went backwards Referring to a story which The Empire carried on its front page last Friday, the management of the radio station made a venomous attack upon the Empire, accusing us of editorializing in the story. Those of our readers who wish to refer to the story in question will find that The Empire made no assertions in this story, expressed took no stand. All of the opinions or facts contained in the article were attributed to Rod Darnell. The story was not an editorial. As for the headline. It said what the story said. The limitations of a headline should be taken into consideration by our critic who professes such an ex- cellent knowledge of journalism. We were attacked because we have from to time become critical of governmental agencies. That is a right guaranteed to newspapers in the constitution. The radio used the same right when it blew off steam Saturday night. ‘The more of this the better. As Woodrow Wilson said in 1917: “We do not need less criticism in time of w: but more. It is hoped that criticism will be construc- tive, but better unfair attack than autocratic re- prgssion. Honesty and competence require no shield of secrecy.” It was deplorable that Mr, Darnell had to bridge the gap between dry cleaning and turkeys to expose an example of an underhanded practice. Ordinar mfmm Jpart of the sww would have been carried year have been no opinions, | time | -— separate story. But it so happened that the 1business man involved was so fearful of the power which the OPA holds over him that he did not want to be named as the sourve. Mr. Darnell fearlessly assumes what wrath the article may have provoked. We state editorially here and now that we con- demn this practice of deliberately attempting to lead merchants into violating regulations. This is a| {practice that will do much toward counteracting | { good which the OPA may accomplish here or |anywhere else. | | We believe that most persons who heard the ! | Saturday night air raid on The Empire have drawn the same conclusions to it that we have. For that | reason we could well have been indifferent and | !skipped the whole thing. Our' human side won the | | battle, however. As George Bernard Shaw once said “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity.” las Works Both Ways (Philadelphia Record) Every American knows one answer to the current ishortages: Lend-Lease. | We are sending our Allies rapidly increasing |quantities of munitions and other supplies, as re- |vealed by Lend-Lease Administrator Stettinius' re- port to Congress. His figures show: Nearly four billion dollars’ worth of munitions now have been sent abroad under Lend-Lease. One tank in.every three and one combat plane in every three built in the United States last year went to our Allies. Of such supplies, Britain is being sent 30 percent; Russia, 25 percent, and China, only 3 per- cent. Some complain we're much. To the contrary, too much. One big fact often overlooked is that Lend-Lease is no one-way street. Our own domestic shortages, though acute, would be much worse but for huge stocks of war goods with which our Allies are supply- |ing us. Who's been feeding American troops in the United Kingdom? Stettinus shows that between last May and November, “reciprocal aid” which Britain furnished those forces would have required more than 1,200,000 ship tons if shipped from here. And that doesn’t include construction materials. | Australia and New Zealand have supplied our troops with more than 100,000,000 pounds of beef, veal, pork, lamb and other foods—and are doing such a good job, Stettinius reveals; that we are shipping almost no food there and are able to utilize nearly all shipping space for tanks and guns. | Also on the “two-way street” we find that in our North African campaign, Great Britain provided two-thirds of the warships and transports—provided our air force with 160 Spitfires, 100 miles of portable airfield runways, 500,000 anti-tank mines and gren- | ades, 130 reconnaissance boats and medical supplies for 100,000 men. One division of Americans was | completely equipped with British 25-pounder guns. All those are supplies which otherwise would | have had to come from this country. Yes, Lend-Lease works both ways, even on our own shores. We are defending our East Coast with anti-aircraft guns from Britain. Barrage balloons on the Pacific Coast were supplied by our Allies. So were some of our guns at the Panama Canal. And in New Zealand, milk has been suspended for | school children—to supply the Americans. Whiie we're still sending more than we receive and sending it to armies that are fighting larger | enemy armies than our own boys confront—let it be remembered that every enemy soldier our Allies kill is another soldier who'll never kill one of ou sending our Allies too we can't possibly send them heavier than in| SHATTERING U.S. PRESTIGE |ative. {tory to be achieved by the United THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA " HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCH 1 20 YEARS AGO 7#% ewmerre 1 MARCH 1, 1923 | W. M. Eddy, for twenty-seven years a resident of the North and later for many years prominem: ai Nome, was a Juneau visitor and a | candidate for the Secretaryship of the Territorial Senate. He had been Secretary of the Senate during the 1917 session. Joseph L. George Allan Carlson Marko Dapcevich R. F. Dickson Jane Williams Mrs. R. F. Harrison Clifford Arnold - | i To celebrate her birthday, friends of Mrs. Lockie MacKinnon sur- iprised her with a y on the previous evening at the Hotel Zynda. | Completely surprised, M MacKinnon found herself the honor guest of a crowd of merry friends. The evening was spent in playing cards and later, supper arranged by the friends, was served in the MacKinnon HOROSCOPE ||~ = o s Eldon E. Daly, Manager of the Ketchikan Power Company, arrived “The stars incline on the Jefferson from Ketchikan. He was in town to confer with J but do not compel” e officials of the Forest Service in the matter of purchasing timber to supply his mill during the coming season. He expected to cut 10,000,000 feet of lumber. Tuesd: —_— Mrs. George Beaumont left Juneau on the Spokane for Seattle on Good and evil aspects appear t0|per way to her family home in Lima, Ohio, in answer to word that her conflict under this connguranpn.!momm. was seriously ill. There is a sign read as encouraging | extravagance or at least indulgence | of the impulse to buy what is not| absolutely necessary. HEART AND HOME: As it cur- tailment of luxuries extends. life in| the United States will become dif-| ferent but Yankee ingenuity will| Division, and her two children, continue to make adjustments that!the Jefferson from the States. are conducive to comfort and plcr-'flowl_ sure. Women who study spring)| fashions will learn much about the beauty of simplicity, line and color | being of foremost importance. War| casualties will sadden many (amll-‘ ies, for the stars presage a great) Mrs. price for victory as it is stubbcrnly|daughter, won by the Allies. | way home NATIONAL ISSUES: Food short- S ages will assume odd phases as| Andrew Merickle, oldtimer, was killed by a flood of water which Government efforts to distribute iy slush and rock came down Falls Creek and carried him 500 feet meats and vegetables prove moOre qqu, the mountainside where his slicker was caught by a snag and or less @hietive, IVigtory “‘“‘“““nc)d him in the bed of the creek, where the body was found, according now should fix the attention of eV-{, " s\ oment made by J. W. Adkins, watchman at the Treadwell ditch re foot t‘l};urzgmg‘);mw:z}clradd:gfirg that in|on Douglas Island. Merickle and he had been employed in the work of the vast sceme of things Americans|caring for the ditch since the previous November. are being taught lessons in economy | that will prove valuable in posl,war’ Mrs. Dorothy Bt buyer for Behrends Store, returned to Juneau on the Princess Mary from the States. She had been absent for several weeks on a buying trip. Dimond, wife of Senator-elect Dimond from the Third John and Marie, arrived in Juneau on They were staying at the Gastineau Mrs. A. J W. B. Kirk, of the Butler-Mauro Drug Company, returned to Juneau jon the Jefferson from a trip to the States. M. Conway, wife of the postmaster at Skagway, were northbound passengers on the Princess Mary on their from the States. and her Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 35 and a mini- {days when revaluation of our many mum of 31. most fortunate | be impex'- advantages as the nation in the world will e e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Economlcs will be studied by businessmen as well as by experts in view of peace| developments next. year when pre paration to prevent financial dif R - WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not “I have two other | beside this one.” Say, “BESIDES” (in addition to) this one.” ficulties will be of paramount im- A e 2 s 3 B portance. Lessons learned from the OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Melodrama. Pronounce mek-o-dra-ma, effects of World War I will be wise-| first A a sin AH, second A as in ASK unstressed, principal accent on ly applied, astrologers predict, but|first syllable they warn that wage-earners wllli OFTEN MISSPELLED: Reimburse: REIM. be affected by the happy-go-lucky SYNONYMS: Severance, separation, spirit which discourages scientific' gociation, disjunction. direction of their investments or WORD STUDY the wise use of superfluous dbo)l':ir’ increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word not applied on Government bonds.|pyppmanATION; libel; slander. “Silence never shows itself to so great INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: B ¥ 3 : 4 it Because each Sun cycle between | an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. | —Addison. MODERN ETIQUETTE ** gopgrra LEE say, suits Reembark; REEM. disconnection, disunion, dis- Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Nations will not end the real strug- | gle, which is a contest between con- 1943 DIRECTORY r.,.’.';‘ZI'éZ‘.;.".'u.. tinequ Channel MONDAY, MARCH 1, MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. JOHN J. FARGHER, Worshipful Master; JAMES w, LEIVERS, Secretary. 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. Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Bullding Phone 56 Dr. A. W. Stewart PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phene 1034 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground e —— ""The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary PFourth and Pranklin Sts, PHONE 136 HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Halr Problems Sigrid’s “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repalring at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn 8. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Next to Juneau Drug Co. Seward Street Phone 6 INSURANCE Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A. Business Counselor’ COOPER BUILDING L. C. Bmith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Bold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batistled Customers” |many i | Airports seized from the Nazis | became swamps. Gen. Jimmy Doo- |little, landing on one airport in a |bomber, took twenty minutes off {for lunch and when he came back to hi: .plane it was bogged down m» the fuselage. It took three trac- troops ashore, and luck was with tors and a crew of men digging him. The day he landed turned out |ditches to pull it out. to be one of the calmest in 60! Meanwhile the Germans could years. Next day when he sent some operate their planes from concrete remaining troops ashore, the seas | runways just twenty minutes across were high again, some boats cap-|the narrow neck of the Mediter- sized and men were drowned. |ranean in Sicily. Luck continued with us in North| Then occurred one other tactor Africa. One stroke of luck was Ad- |which no one bargained on. Hitler miral Darlan. We had counted on began pouring men into Tunisia. Gen. Giraud, but he was not able Why he did it was a mystery. No to stop French resistence at first, one expected him to hold Tunisia. and Admiral Darlan’s intervention | The men he was sending in seemed saved days of fighting certain to be on a suicide mission— Another fortunate break was the |in fact still seem so. swift advance of the British Eighth Go-Round (Continued from Page One) But now his strategy is more ap- |trasting ideologies, will be prolonged parent. Undoubtedly it is to lower |until the Sun is no longer in oppo- American prestige, shatter the rep- |sition to the powerful planet. utation established by U. S. troops| Persons whose birthdate it is have in the last war when they crashed |the augury of a year of average through the Argonne and Chateau- |Success. Caution in business asso- Thierry to win the war. Shattering | ¢iations is counseled. this prestige, Hitler figures, will Children born on this day pro-| have its effect upon Spain, upon the people of France, Belgium, Hol- land where the United States may invade next summ.s’ But, even more important, Hif ler's strategy in Tunisia is to block an Allied invasion of the Balkans. For months the Germans have been busy fortifying the coast of France, until now the Dieppe raid shows it to be a most difficult fort- ress. Hitler has also fortified the coast of Southern France, Italy, the islands of the Mediterranean. But, he has not fortified the Balkans— {in will gaining their ambitions which include travel and adventure. (Copyright, 1943) - - 'Sons of Norway Card Party Was Great Success With the Odd Fellows Hall well !filled with tables of both pinochle | and bridge players, the card party Army’ in Egypt, pushing Rommel! across Libya I USRI SRR Crossword Puzzle That all of these lucky breaks | should happen at once was more than U. S. strategists had coumcdl AcRoss his { 1. Traditional tale 37. on. Result was that we landed| o o5 warnn as. largely with a defensive army, not . Southern con- 39, prepared to take an immediate of- e e fensive against German troops in | measure Tunisia. B~ Having found himself in this | cow fortunate position, Gen. Eisenhower 6. 2:?.;‘5‘5" s ity did his best to take advantage of | 1T Groove the lucky breaks. His troops ad- . Came together _ vanced along the French-Algerian, 31 DUty ‘ railyoad and the coastal highway as fast as possible. However, the rail- | road is a limping line of commu- nication. No coal was available, so grass and straw were burned in the locomotives. The highway is good as far as the border of Tunisia, after which for strategic reasons it was never hard-surfaced, and it becomes a morass of mud | Despite these handicaps, the U. ! S. Army advanced to within Light molsture Hard Drink slowly Article Paid out Variety of cab- bage Edible seed Apparition 45. Removes dirt . Eccentric rotat- ing piece . Trouble . God of the un- derworld Italian city orite . Gulding line . Animal en- closure First woman . Bacchanalian cry . The birds . Evening meal . Capital of Venezuela . Light bed | 31. Persian poet . Tremble . Consequently 10! miles of Bizerte—much to the sur- prise of everyone in Washington American parachupe troops, drop- ping on German airfields well in- ] llflfl amEma ;%%%?lfl @ % side Nazi lines, were able to hold | i them, though surrounded by the | enemy. For a time it looked as if | we would take Bizerte by Thank: giving. U. 5. LUCK TURNS However, just as luck was with us at the start, so luck turned egainst us later. Everyone knew | that the North African rains were due at about this time, and the fact that the expedition was three weeks late in starting brought the Tunisian battle fight into the rainy season. Furthermore, the rains this AP Features 63. Color (1% Allowedr' the given on Saturday night by the Sons of Norway, was an outstand- ing success. Prizes at pinochle were won by the following: ladies’ high, Mrs George Osborne; low, Mrs. John Lowell; men’s high, W. Robinson; low, Frank Olsen. Bridge winners were, high, W. Field and low, Mrs. E. Astone. An attractive door prize was given to Eipar Larsen. Following the card games delici- ous refreshments were served by the competent committee in charge. Another card party will be given by the Sons of Norway on March 13, it was announced today. Pin- ochle will be played and, if there Solution Of Saturday’s Puzzle DOWN Grit Medicinal plant Microbe will also be: played during the eve- -sh Ring-shaped ning, 1 3. 4 5. Sack 6. Kingdom In b 1. THE JUNEAU ‘.VOMAN'S CLUB 8. will hold a business meeting Tues- 9. day at 2 pm. in the Light Com- pany's Penthouse. ELLA SMITH, Secretary. Indo-China . Small_boils . Blue G state Sudden ir up Flower Mythical bira . American adv. “author . Closing musieal measures i8o may it be Jncooked . Gleamed . Caper Fodder pit Begin weakest. point in his armor. That -is "the reason for Rommel's stubborn resistence. For as long as he holds -the peninsula of Tunisia, jutting -out into the mid-Mediter-/ ranean; no BritishAmerican can convoy supplies past it for an Allied invasion of the Balkans. ‘Thus Hitler's present strategy. in the of & Design corner postage stamp . Sun . Ocean . Funny Struck with. small missiles . Hold back Prank Gladly Strainer City in Switzer- plans for winning -the war this year. But American troops in North Africa are well ahead of the game and unless the State Department’s friend Franco attacks us in the rear, we are in no real danger. (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) an, . Molten rock 54. Fons . Fit one inside another Meshed fabrie | bably will be moderately fortunate | position to the Sun, certain astrol- ogers warn that the military vic- | Q. Which wedding anniversary calls for gifts of crystal? | A. The fifteenth anniver: i ! Q. Should one ever express anger in a letter? | A. Never. A person should develop enough self-control to suppress | anger even verbally, but in a letter it stands as a permanent record, land usually the person who writes such a letter regrets it many, many times. | Q. Would it be bad taste for a man to wear a tuxedo or dinner Hz\cket to a formal dinner? | A. Yes. Unless he has formal evening dress he should not attend. | ¥ S LOOK and LEARN f{' C. GORDON 1. Who administers the oath of office to the President of the United States? 2. What is the appoximate weight of the average incendiary bomb? 3. At what speed is an automobile engine performing with the utmost efficiency? Y 4. What is the approximate distance from New York City to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal? 5. Who was author of the phrase, “All men are created equal”? ANSWERS: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Two pounds. At 20 miles an hour. 5,289 miles. Thomas Jefferson. — WAACS AND WAVES HEADS MEET is sufficient interest in bridge, it |! navy may be a dangerous upset to -our b Head of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Col. Oveta Culp Hobby (left) and Lieut. Comm. Mildred McAfee, director of the Navy's WAVES, are shown looking at some notes on their discussion of “Women in the War,” during a Town Hall broadcast in New York City. DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Anmex South Pranklin St. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. 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