The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1943, Page 4

- PACRFOR Daily Alaska Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE-FRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Junesu, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN R. L. BERNARD - - ®ce-President Entered In the Post Office in Jumeau as Second Class Matter. 'SUBSCRIPTION EATES, Delivered by earrler in Junesu and Dous! By mail, postage paid. One year, in advance, $18. one month, in advance, $1.23. Bubscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify !snid about these totalitarian nations—Germany and | the Business Office of any fallure or ir Uvery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. the following rates: the House yester should be, more Emi)ire President Manager | and Business | Today lor §1.50 per month. | ‘regularity in the | “home MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES| The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitled republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or Bot other- | wise credited in this paper and also the Berein. {Prosidrm. we believe that a memorial infroduced in day by Speaker James V. Davis is, than dust in the wind. We refer |to the memorial praying for the granting of the pri- vilege to Alaskans of electing their own Governor. If the President deems this advisable for Puerto |Rico, why not for Alaska® much | United States and its Allies concerning the guaran- ‘lvc of democracy to many nations that have been aix months, in advance, $7.80; | qeprived of the is read about the policy of the democratic way of life, Much is |Ttaly—who do not believe in home rule unless the is Berchtesgaden. It's about time that Congress, the Federal gov- local news published ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER OTHER PUBLICATION. THAN THAT OF ANY NATTONAL REPRESENTATIVES Wmerican Building, Sesttle, Wash. — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 | | Japan, | being built on t press chief. ; the Nipponese, PROGRESS? Just about 30 years ago, the Fi torial Legislature, wobbling on lution asking that all ments for Alaskan posts be bol citizens. At this time we would like to gress along this line. the government of Puerto Rico by ed by the people of that Territor; And at the same time, said the President, it has | y of the United States govern- reinforce self-government of its Possessions and Territorie: The Empire has argued for years that this should ' construction, trucks were long been the poli ment to “progressively to be the policy of the Federal gove glad to see that a President has sf it took 30 years. Bo-llo.und % , (Continued from Page One) paying out about $70,000 a day to help meet the cost of moving oil t0 the east coast. This is in ad- dition to the Government's invest- flient in pipe lines. | The payment is made to meet the difference between the cost of | shipping oil by tanker and the| cost of shipping it by tank car. In short, it is a subsidy to meet the higher cost of rail transportation When the submarines drove us to overland oil shipment, officials new and unsteady legs, boldly tossed into the brand new hopper a reso- of the President’s appoint- A President of States yesterday came out to ask Congress to act as sooh as possible on legislation which would enable Japan Is Worrying among the warnings issued | It is apparent the northern territory, including the construction of |ilies will seek ways of simple living. McBride, M. B. Summers, DeVighne, B. D. Stewart, Dunn, Cheatham, the new Alcan Highway Tojo knows full well the offensive, 1as well as the defensive, |bases, seme of which are only a little more than | ',‘, the use for | ernment, the President decided to think about fully establishing the democratic way of living in the Ter- ritories and Possessions of the United States high time to clean out some of our own back closets ’ul undemocratic regulati It's (Cincinnati Engquirer) through spokesman to the Japanese people, nized the dangers of attack from the north—attacks | |routed from the United States and Canada through |yerse influences today. The navy is| | Alaska and China |for direct telephone communication between country and China; in addition new air bases are announcements by a military formally recog- Already plans are in progress he Chinese mainland; these were by the enemy military then, that American activity in are of considerable worry to sibilities of our northern 12,200 air miles from the capital city of Tokyo. 1 He can see, too, the possibility of Russian and st Alésks Forni- }inm China from 'and east. Such na fide Alaskan | | American cooperation for a new land route directly Siberia—and Alaska—to the north a land route, like proposed aerial | routes, would reduce our supply lines into China from la possible 14,000 to something under 4,000 miles Japanese military leaders do not share the skep- ‘ticism of certain of our own people who are wonder- report some pro- the United points thousands a Governor elect- of Tokyo. | 1 machinery of | rnment. We are tated it. Even if | new highway. The U. S. public has the impres- sion of modern Russians asdressed in coarse, formless clothing, but reports from the USSR today state that Red Army officers dress with such punctilio as to make Ameri- can officers look shabby by com- parison CAPITAL CHAFF General Eisenhower has sent word to Washington that there are too many news correspondents run- ning around North Africa, and he wants no more, except as replace- ments, War Department fig- ures it costs them $8,000 a reel to make pictures such as “Prelude to War,” which, being a six-reeler, cost about $54,000. . . . Budget Bu- reau has prepared a plan for con- solidating all picture - making branches of the War Department— Signal Corps, Air Corps, Special Xing how Alaska can be a base for any mz figured that the difference in co: would be about 95 cents a barrel. Services, and Strategic Services. . . Should this be added to the cubl"n\" U. S. Embassy in Soviet Rus- of the gasoline and oil, and be Sia has exhausted its stock of liguor paid by the consumer? and hesitates to ask the Soviet OPA said “no, it's a war cost and Government for a permit to im- should not be borne by eastern con- Port more. So the Embassy is re- sumers., Furthermore, it will in- duced to making cocktails out of crease the spiral of inflation. vodka, at $11 a bottle The So the Government absorbs the Senate’s 75-year-old athlete, Theo- difference. dore Green of Rhode Island, eats What actually happens is that @ buttered muffin and coffee for Jesse Jones, through his Defense breakfast, a bowl. of soup and a Supplies Corporation, pays an av- glass of milk for lunch. erage of 95 cents a barrel on all| (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- attack on The distance, these of miles away. skeptics say, is too long for efficient attacks against enemy cities from supply route to air bases within easy striking distance the air, and there is no land Tt should be remembered in this country—just as | { Nippon is remembering—that 11 short months ago | ans for bringing the wilderness gap between Daw- | |son Creek, British Columbia, and Fairbanks, Alaska, | still were undecided; Yhat seven short months after | moving along 1,600 miles of When he figures how close to his own mainland | another 2,000 miles, westward from Fairbanks, would | And by reason of these remarks made by the put American Army forces, the Jap plucks his chin HUBBARD TAKES CRACK AT STALIN, CHICAGO ADDRESS Glacier Priest Says Kam- chatka Treaty Will Clarify Relations CHICAGO, March 11. — Stalin’s friendship for the United States will be tested within the next 30 days when the Kamchatka fishing treaty between Russia and Japan must be decided, is the opinion ex- pressed by the Rev. Bernard R Hubbard in an address before the Geographic Society in Chicago last night. He asserted that although the treaty expires each year on De- cember 31, “they haggle over it until March, then early in April it is usually signed. The Japs here- tofore needed the ten million dol- lars in fish they get off the Kam- chatka Peninsula but this while they have all the food they reed in conquered territories, they can use the weather stations Kamchatka to watch over the oil shipped from the Gulf area ture Syndicate, Inc. to the east coast. And since the aally movement by tank car is tbout 750,000 barrels, the bill runs up to well over $70,000 a day. NOTE—Advocates of the Florida | Canal point to the fact that if it had been completed when be- ' Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Perfect golf Exclamation 40 41 43 Chinese city a febrew prophet 45, [=1<lo] EIPIES) lOIN] gun in the early New Deal days, | 1% Babyionfan settlement olP] 5 eity 41 Scenes of action B it would now be possible to Ship | 3 iy i Kansas {5 Baclymation 20 all the oil we need by cheap and ' 14 Contend with 50 Short jacket JAIR| . 3 successfully 52, Brazilian parrot safe inland waterwa 15. Lacking bright- 33. The wilkfish lLIE] —_— il neéss a 55 Mnh:{;mnodzn oYy A " tammere: noble: variant RUBSIAN SOCIALISM WANES i Slender & 57. Halt 3 ? ¢ . t . Town in Call- 60, Stains or The Russians are doing more ?,mmia deniles ID| than feversing the direction of | 2} o BN o ARIRRITVG UMz | 22. Negative G4. Pleces out Naz izl military movement. They are 21 Asstublake of .£5 Not there cortht | eattle 66 English lett : aI;q_ reversing certain important . ARLIDIG g r.p:: ish letter Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle Political and social directions. | ifiks of plows 68, Grafted: i , | 30 Act heraldry 3. Inclined to 7. Made_lace Americans in Russia now report | 3 69. Sea eagle meditation 8. Golf hole made tlig " reappearance of shoulder in- | Rale be DOWN 4. Pran::\nlll in one it 3 3 . Wicke 5. Greel tter 9. Greater amount xx}:ia in‘ the officers of the Red' 38. Singing syl- 1. Tablets 6. Half melted 109Music drama Affhy—for the first time since the | lable 2. Indigo plant snow 11. Type of auto- Ik days of the Revolution. | - TS 17 .".’\'f';”' I those days, officers who sup- W VA 'n 1. Fistatiom JBhe 3 A V/A musical k porled the Bolshevik movement 7 into another toré the epaulets from their uni- /% 2 Bamher lorms as a mark of democracy. | Those who failed to do so were regarded as eneniies of the Revo- | lution, and in some extreme cases, mobs attacked them, drove nails through the epaulets into their shoulders. There is also a change in of- ficia] awards or decorations, indi- cating that Bolshevik seorn for heroes of the past is vanishing. Three of the most coveted decora- tions of the Soviet Union today are the award of “Nevskl” who was a 13th Century Prince, and the awards of “Suvorov’ and “Kutu- zov,” who were CZzarist generals at the time of Napoleon Also the BSt. Georges Cross, which would have been torn from the breast of the wearer a few years ago, has made its reappear- ance at official functions. A U I 27 pé VAR W HIIIEIII Englishmen favoring the tribe Pose for a portrait Lmperious v Radium emana- tion Genus of the aple tree Hire Above Reverse %na ot & hammer head Employ Understand this| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA 20 YEARS AGO T sueire MARCH 11, 1923 Members of the High School “J” Club gave an entertaining yodvil at the Coliseum Theatre the preceding night which won hearty applause | from the large audience . Among those who took. part in the well-timed HAPPY BIRTHDAY | MARCH 11 | Hazel Petrich Charles Switzer | st ]Ft MiSsre: program were Mary Louise Cook, Annabel Simpson, Janet Borges, Grace [ Hugh & S | Naghel, Elizabeth Pullen, Gladys Naghel, Edith Heller, Frances Robinson, Mrs. R. B aB)u”“ | Agnes Brieland, Leonard Holmquist, Maxine Darby, Renee Guerin, Phillip Bertholl Jacob Britt, James Barragar, Harry Ellingen, William Biggs and John Mrs. Suzanna Silverman | Halm. e | | Mrs. A. G. Shoup and her two children, Billy and Rosana, were | passengers on the Jefferson for Juneau, having spent several weeks Imsitmg in the States. U. S. Attorney Shoup, whom they had accompanied | South, was stopping off in Ketchikan. | { HOROSCOPE gy he stars "wl”"w The Moose Lodge planned to entertain the Juneau public on March i but do not cmpel" 16 with a concert, basket social and dance at Moose Hall. The affair i rereeeeees | WAS tO be given as a benefit for a member of the lodge who had been ill for a long time. Committee members in charge were W. Maynard, Chairman, and Henry Roden. They were to be assisted by the Women of Mooseheart Legion. | | Friday, March 12 Benefic aspects contend with ad- Gov. and Mrs. Scott C. Bone had held a brilliant reception in honor of the legislators and their wivec, for the public of Juneau on March 9 ing signs. at the Governor's House. In the receiving line with the Governor and | HEART AND HOME: After a, Mrs. Bone were the members of the legislature and their wives. Following | Winter of varied discomforts owing ! the reception there was dancing until midnight to music furnished by the |to fuel shortages and limited trans- stringed orchestra from the Coast Guard cutter Unalga. Those presidirg |portation facilities, ,American fam- i the dining room were Mesdames Smith, Rustgard, Theile, Boedeker, |under favorable direction of the stars, but aviators have threaten- Smaller houses will be in demand p. and many customs will be aban- doned. Men will turn to walking and bicycling for exercise formerly v, Paine, Henderson, E. P. Walker, and J. P. Walker. Serving were L. L. Harding, assisted by the Misses Helen Smith, Madge Case, Alice Case, Eva Tripp, Irene Nelson, Legia Kashevaroff, Dorothy God- sought in golfing, because many dard and Dorothy Haley. Young ladies presiding at the punch bowl |country clubs are closed. House- Were Misses Miriam McBride, Rachel Fisher, Virginia Shattuck, Frances lwork will engage women who pre- Harland, Mildred Hooker and Elizabeth Pullep . viously have enjoyed the service of Weather was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 41 and a mini- well-trained cooks. In necessary readjustments, the seers foretell| \num of 33. benefits which will be appreciated later. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Projects begun early in the year or given impetus in recent weeks may re- quire major revisions before the end of 1943. Events affecting trade and commerce will move so rapidly } Daily Lessons in English %‘;’ L. GORDON e e} WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I expect you had a good that many surprises are forecast. time.” Say, “I PRESUME (or SUPPOSE) you had a good time.” In Washington secret plans will! OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Euphonic. Pronouuce u-fon-ik, U as be studied for the benefit of banks in UNITE, O as in ON, I as in IT, accent second syllable. and bankers, The Secretary of the OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ordeal; EAL. Genteel; EEL. Treasury will issue severe wgrnings v SYNONYMS: Limp, limber, flexible, flaccid, flimsy, flabby, soft, regarding necessary provision for dn B expanding war expenditures, rooping = if WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Isn't it discourteous for a man to cut in at a dance, and not the man who relinquishes his partner? Yes; he should aways say “Thank you.” How should a hot meat and gravy sandwich be eaten? With the knife and pork. Isn’t there an old proverb that compares a gossip to a frog? Yes. “Gossips and frogs drink and talk.” 1. What famous English dramatist was buried in a standing position in Westminster Abbey? 2. Which is greater, the height of the highest mountain in the world or the lowest depth of the ocean? POPOPX NATIONAL ISSUES: The birth of a new civilization, a “timebind- ncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: ing” process, will be foreseen un- PRODGICAL: given to extravagance; asteful. “Good harvests make men der the auspices of Saturn, [m-‘modigal. bad ones provident.”—Proverb. planet that symbolizes orgar | [society and established government. o The power of the inner life is to by be manifested more and more. Since MODERN ETIOUETTE last Spring whatever has develup««” ROBERTA LEE |has been tested under the oppo-|)________ sition of Mars to Saturn and Uran- us, an influence which takes much Q. away while it adds new dimensions | thank {to human apprehension and starts| | sweeping changes Fray INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: | Astrologers who have studied Gen- | aral Douglas MacArthur’s chart | | find aspects that presage great suc- | |césses in the Pacific. The most im- | ’porlam direction now in operation {in his horoscope, the progression ior Mars to the conjunction of the‘ |Moon, presages splendid results| |due to keen perception, daring re- | | sourcefullness and splendid courage, |physical and intellectual. Blows | {that will prove decisive will be' ad- |ministered to the enemy. A Sum- mer of extreme activity should be| year | on| followed by important victories in| September, but the end of this cam- |paign may be delayed until 1944. Persons whose birthdate it is| have the augury of a year of vary-| ing fortunes. Health should be safe- | |guarded. Benefits through the Gov- | ernment are forecast. Children born on this day prob- | ably will be avid for knowledge and {likely to overwork. They may be| | highly nervous and should be wise- ly guided. | (Copyright, 1943) | ] Aleutians. If Stalin signs that| treaty, it is a sure sign he wants |a strong Japan and a weak United States and China in the Pacific.” Praising Admiral William H. Standley’s statement that the Rus- sian people are not completely in-l {formed regarding American lend- |lease aid, the Rev. Hubbard de- |clared “now while our manpower js fmobihzed. our production at its |peak, it is the time to clarify our |relations with Russia and find out definitely whether Stalin is a {friend or foe” He asserted that Stalin _could save “thousands of brave lives by giving us safer bases in Siberia. If Stalin insists on a second front, he can open one in Siberia.” TALKS TAXE the much-discussed | &0 ;lox plan is Beardsley Rumi (above), N. Y. business man.r S — Backing pay-as-you- 3. What large United States city stands on the site of what was | formerly Fort Duquesne? 4. Approximately how many pieces of wood are required in the making of a violin? 5. Who was the inventor of the rocking chair? ANSWERS: i 1. Ben Jonson. 2. The depth of the ocean, by about 5,000 feet. 3. Pittsburgh, Pa. 4. Approximately 70 pieces. 5. Benjamin Franklin. GUN Cl.AiSS FOR CHINESE IN INDIA / A, R = CHINESE TROOPS IN INDIA to aid the Allied Nations against the Japs are quickly learning how to operate U. S. guns. Col. R. M. Sandusky (left foreground) and Lieut. William E. Schmertz (instructor), U. S. Army, look on with Gen. Lee, of Chinese General Headquarters, as Gen. Lo sights an American made 60-mm. mortar. (International) WTHURSDAY, MARCH 11, l943 DIRECTORY MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple F reebllrgcl' beginning at 7:30 p. m. DENTISTS JOHN J. FARGHER, Blomgren Building Phone 58 | | 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, Sec- retary. Professional Societies ol Fraternal Gastinequ Chann, Drs. Kaser and Dr. J°,!'.‘,‘,,I,{;, Geyer PIGGLY WIGGLY Room 9—Valentine Bidg PHONE 762 For BETTER Groceries ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. 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