The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1943, Page 4

s r [ — I ——— A L e Lt J R S S Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Junesu, Alaska. EELEN TROY MONSEN . - R. L. BERNARD - - Vice-President Presiden Business Manager Butered in the Post Office in Junesu as Second Class Matter. _BATES: u.nv-un-m-h smean and for 6150 por menth. onnu hmnmfi uth, 1n advancs. e *°° Jub mlhm” notify the Business omu of ans failure or lrnluhfln the de- Uvery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. OF ASSOCIATED PRESS » The Assoctated Press is exclustvely sutitied to the use for republication of all news o it or credited In this paper news wise Gerein. ALASEA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE numrormormmm#- _NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alasks Newspapers, 1011 American ‘uflflfll‘ Beattls, Waan. ENCOURAGING The Senate Committee Investigating the War Program—a group known as the Truman Commit- tee and headed by Senator Harry S, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA (Cincinnati Enquirer) With great satisfaction, 'undex the heel of Adolf Hitler and Nazis. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, dren.” tatives, goes on to assert that manity and honorable conduct in war this inexcusable slaughter (of more guilty, directly and indirectly, shall be the offenses.” We Should Try To Stop It we note that the Allied |governments are beginning to recognize and consider the almos} indescribable plight of the Jews of Europe The United States Senate has adopted unani- mously a resolution presented by its majority leader, ‘®ondemning as un- worthy of any nation or any regime which pretends to be civilized” the “brutal and indefensible outrages |against millions of helpless men, e The ' resolution, which is expected to meet with prompt concurrence in the House of Represen- “the dictates of hu- women, Jews in Europe) and mistreatment shall cease and that it is the sense of this Congress able and punished in a manner commensurate with MARCH his heartless Mrs. William and chil- Hazel demand that than 2,000,000 that those held account- HAPPY BIRTHDAY | | Belinda Clark Janice Likins Stanley Hill Thea Hansen W. John Harris Mrs. Tom Akerblom Livermore Mrs. A. H. Richardson George McMicken N W M. L. Merritt, Assistant District Forester for Alaska, and M. B. Sum- mers, Meteorologist for Alaska, filed as candidates for the School Board, |at the City Clerk's 6ffice. The former nlg:d for the three-year terni and Alice Speidell ——————— HOROSCOPE 29 MARCH 29, 1923 Franks ' { Mr. Sommers was to leave for Nome early in the summer. Excursion on his first trip to Juneau of the season. the latter for the one-year term. 20 YEARS AGO %% surins R. J. Sommers was to superintend the work of the Alaska Road Commission and the Board of Rivers g{xd Harbors Engineers on Seward Peninsula during the coming season, according to Col. John C. Gotwals, A heavy run in this district during the salmon season in 1923 was anticipated by.Capt. C. E. Ahues, Superintendent of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor He had arrived here on the tender Gov. Scott C. Bone sent to the Territorial Senate the nomination of MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1943 DIRECTORY FrtoacSacaton leau Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple Fr eeburger beginning at 7:30 p. m, DENTISTS JOHN J. FARGHER, Blomgren Buflding Phone 56 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. Drs. Kaser and Dr. A. W. Stewart We can only guess how effective such a denun- | ciation and threat of punishment will be in deterring | the Nazis from their wanton slaughter and persecu- |tion of ‘the European Jews. |come even if only as one phase of Allied attention to It follows similar resolutions by | American-Canadian | conference in Ottawa to consider the subject. A more direct relief move would be pxeferable, if The Nazis might be | ‘wllling to yield at least some of their Jewish cap- Itives to an Allied mercy mission working through | such nonbelligerent nations as Turkey, Spain, This is perhaps a more feasible plan than fnny attempt to frighten the Nazis into stopping their Missouri—has just issued a most enlightening and | encouraging report. Senator Truman and his in- vestigators have won for themselves an enviable po- ! | | the tragic problem. Parliament, and precedes an lone is possible or practicable. Sweden. ghastly pogrom. But the action is wel- and There is no doubt whatever as to the authenticity |of wholesale murder of Jews by the Germans. |have been’ starved, shot, gassed, killed by planned | They disease, and tortured to death with hideous cruelty. The” figure of 2,000,000 Jewish men, women, S. Truman of |children already dead at the hands of the Huns is and probably conservative, and in his most recent proc- Jamation Hitler has asserted that he will |the Jewish problem” throughout Europe. Perhaps there is nothing that the ci “liquidate lized world sition in Washington through fearless and intelli- |can do to stop Hitler and his Huns from completing gent inquiry into wertime needs and shortages The report spares no government agency; NO | ought to be found trying. clvilian group. Where deficiencies in operating me- | thods "are found the committee has brought them to light without favor. Where the investigators found | laudatory effort they ladled out praise in the samew manner. 1t is evident that the members were work- | ing not to whitewash or to smear honestly to discover hitches in operations and suggest means for correcting those Three primary weaknesses have down the efficiency of America’s wa port declared. These were found t popular; inadequate over-all plannin, gavernment agencies and delay in d operating policies. ' ", The report takes into considerati a' certain* amount of confusion was any group, but’ to faults. combined to cut r effort, the re- 0 be conflicting | authority over and responsibility for various phases of ‘the war effort; hesitancy of the government to enforce necessary policies if such policies were not g within various letermining basic on the fact that inevitable as a tesult of the dislocation of our national economy re- Sulting . from war. No particular group could be blamed for the weaknesses, the committee conclud- ed, stating that great strides had been made in re- cent months toward their correction. Labor and industry were both chided and patted on the back for the parts they have played. ‘When tiie committeemen said that “war material is rolling | offi #he ‘production lines ‘at rates which the ‘enemy | not equal,” it paid a compliment tive, §pirit with which both capital and ldboy,! broad to. the coopera ly spesklng. are pursuing the war program. ¢ Labor has accomplished but little in its effort to | stop absenteeism, the Senate investigators said. On | the other hand certain war contractors were blamed | | this ghastly undertaking. (Philadelphia Record) A Soldier Son’s Reply But in God's name we American fighting men are going through hell in North Africa, in the South Seas, on other fronts. Among them are four sons of the President. Let's not think of them right now as Roosevelts. Let’s think of them as any sons, out there doing their bit, and learning that they are being smeared | in a political effort to attack their father The reaction of Elliott Roosevelt is the reaction of any normal son to such snide skullduggery as that of Representative Lambertson and others. Mrs. Roosevelt said Elliott shouldn’t have bothered But what a letter it is: write a letter. to “I happen to know that James has insisted on carrying on, on active duty, even though he is not physically up to the strain of combat. He could easily sit back and not be exposed to actual combat, because if he were anybody else’s son he would be (in defense work. The Red' Cross exempted from such duty.” Had James “sat back,” of course, sons would have called him a shirker. they fight, damned if they don't on; to his own Congressman: the Lambert- Damned if But Elliott wrote g Sunh criticism aimed at men fighting for their country strikes me as sort of unfair. They .can't In- the forces answer back. We are not.in poum:s fhere is a unity American freedom and American ideals.’ ‘Pleasé explain this fact-to your Goll¢ague, and | of purpose—the continuation . of fry to explain to him that we, as soldiers, ‘don’t -care | whethér or how much he disagrees with the .Presi- 1dr, hoarding labor and failing to distribute sub- Geni but for God's sake, 16t us’ fight Wikbout belng wmracf.s among smaller organizations. | There was a note of optimism report. mendous task set for her Benators agreed. | (éontmued trom Page One) e e this coming yeor," throughout the Total lisions, be done is for the government to| The railroads are spending agood! | mainténance of way. | $tabbed in the back for the sake of politics.” Representative Hugh Scott says it i§ now time | colleagues. will agree | hundred million V yers." (Copyright, step /In and stop the widespread selling of dairy cows and other| stock and farm equipment by far- mers who are unable to continue in business at present farm price ' Jevels,” Nelson continued. | The Cooperative official com,end- ed that farms had lost two-thh‘ds of their manpower to war indus-| tries because of low farm wages. | | + CAPITAL CHAFF | After Mrs. Henry Wallace failed ! to find a collapsible bag for the| vloe President’s air tfip to South | America, two Army officers ap-| pélnd in his office—Maj. J. Mar-| de - Murphy and Col. George F. ScHigen—and. presented him with | the- vty thing she had been look- | ing for . . . Wallace will have to| get ‘along on four hours 'sleep a‘ night during this trip. After late 1ormdl “diririers he will be turned olit of ‘bed ot 4 a.m. for early plane departures. 5 BAILROAD RECORDS Intefstate Commerce Commission isfi't” advertising them, -but it has ,sensational figures about in- créased traffic on the railroads — apd ficreased accidents. Tfle traffic of 1942, both freight and passenger, broke all records. )ldlnber of ton miles of freight | nnnqd in 1941 was 475 billion. A | Yecord, but in 1942, it boomed | § o830 billion, an The- increase %in passenger miles | was even sharper—{rom twenty- nine billion in 1941 to an estimated | fifty-three billion in 1942, or an in- | créase of 83 percept. | . _Meaptime, accidents have moum- increase of 33 -ossword ACRCUSS 1. Small stream 5. Molten rock 9. Stee; 13, Vrean-water 13. Indigo plant “u|ffl ield 15. Membership mllv. o - o B ull Zem JEE JENE Puzz 1%, Husslan smte 1ope i Norunrn duck 3 Old ronoun : . Older people A Moulllc oy Indla n mul- Kind ol cheese Slu b . Cusp or sta- u'omry point /AR d ol AR P e e .alll/.ll“g AP Featvres 1943) “America can and will accomplish the tre- 1o quit criticizing the President’s family. 'After read- the | ing Elliott’s letter, we have a feellng that all of his jed at an alarming rate, indicating | chunk of their wartime profits for |the raflroads’ inability to keep | advertising and public - relatiors. abreast in repair of equipment and | Representative Francis D, Culkin | of New York stated on the floor of train accidents increased | the House that the railroads spent from 9,401 in 1941 to 13,369 in 1942, | thirty-one million dollars last year !By far the greater part of these|[0r advertising, |accidents were derailments and col- “and probably one dollars. for law- o % Contena it | TUESDAY, MARCH 30 i This is an unimportant day in | planetary direction. Both the Navy and Air Forces should be fortunate under this rule of the stars, There lis an ill omen for labor organiza- tions. HEART AND HOME: Predicted changes in postwar days include such sweeping improvements in the |home that the wise now should watch science ‘and invention at| work before buying what belongs;‘ to the past. Labor-saving devices more wonderful than any previous- | ly introduced will solve the servant| problem in households where per-| fect sanitation and absolute clean- liness will prevail. This spring's| war needs will encourage the elim- ination of everything useless or| superfluous, thus preparing for the marvelous new age. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: AS ' pros-| perity continues there will be ra- dical changes in the methods of | business. Government ~regulations | tions and provide for equitable sys-| tems of trade and commerce, The | new order will be slow in its de- velopment hut will have aspira-| tions that eventually will put into| practice the highest ideals of hu- man brotherhood. This year. is to jbring many paradoxes among Am- erican citizens. Wages of workers| will soar while men who belong to! the old regime are hard pressed | for current expenses, the seexsfore- cast. [ NATIONAL ISSUES: Stars read | as presaging unifying influences will affect Americans this year asnever | before, it is predicted. Dwellers in cities will come to know‘their neighbors who participate with them {will bring together women of all| classes and all interests. Thus the | women of the nation and the ci-| vilians of their fanmiilies will dupli- | cate the good féllowship that ex- | ists"among our men in untfofn. INTER:NAT]ONAL AFFAIRS: Foreign astrologers foretell for Norway promiising . influences| | through ‘the coming summer. When | Jupiter passes Over .King Haakon's | Sun and Jupiter in Auglist there the brave nation. logk is far from cheerful. Next | September the Duce comes under | aspects that betoken terrible oppo- sition from the people who from now on will be swayed by unrest and discontent. Persons whose birthdate -it" is have the augury of unexpected happiness to which romance con- tributes much while financial se- curity is achieved. Children born on this day prob- | ably will be devoted to books, am- bitious, artistic and energetic. Suc- cess and good fortune are indicat- ed for them. (Copyright, 1943) JAMF.SA. FARRELL, NOIED EXPERT ON INDUSTRY, IS DEAD Man Who Wnrked Himself ; [wire lndultry seafarer t the »cll‘lpgfm:’h?p ennqd, trade. g B should be cause for high hopes for | Mussolini’s. out- | “The stars incline Leopold David, of Anchorage, to be a member of the Board of Regents ‘but do not compel” of the Agricuitural College and School of Mines, at Fairbanks, suc- g ceeding A. J. Nordale, resigned. Leopold David had been United States his appointment was seniér member of the law firm of David and Ray. 1and Mamie Feusi; | former General Hospital building. will alter long established tradi- |} 1 - |ployment in his native ¢ity so that PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phene 18—34 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg PHONE 762 Commissioner at Anchorage and Mayor of that city and at the time of In the afternoon at 3 o'clock the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, Territorial Legislature, was to have a meeting at which all women inteersted in the compulsory jury duty measure were requested to be present. ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground 'y ' The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Houst Joint Memorial No. 11, introduced by Representative Frank H. Foster, of Cordova, asked that the Organic Act be amended so as to empower the Alaska Legislature to make and administer the game laws for the Territory. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary JFourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 HARRY RACE Druggist Marlin Singledge Razor Blades 18 for 25¢ Included on the program to be presented in Douglas in the evening, when Delegate Dan Sutherland and other officials were to be heard, were the following numbers: piano duet, Misses Mamie and Elizabeth Feusi; vocal solo, Mrs. Glenn Kirkham; instrumental duet, Misses Rica Niemi |] vocal solo, Mrs. William Jarman. The reception was to begin at 8 o'clock and was open to the public. FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Hair Problems Sigrid’s “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. Herman Niemela and daughter, Nelma, of Douglas, had moved to Juneau and taken apartments at the Haglund boarding house in the Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 43 and a mini- mum of 36. I You'll Find Food Finer and Bervice More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR ily Lessons in E"flnSh @ L G(SRDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Can I see you for a few Seward Street Near Third jminutes.” Say, “MAY I see you,” to indicate permission. CAN always | —,—, refers to some form of possibility. “CAN 1 drive that far before dark?” l FINE OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Neuritis. Pronounce nu-ri-tis, U as in UNIT, first I as in RIGHT, accent second syliable. JAMES C_ COOPER Watch and Jewclry Repalring at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn S. FRANKLIN STREET RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED: Icicle; CICLE. Bicycle; CYCLE. SYNONYMS: Procrastination, postponement, delay, dilatoriness, de- ferment. 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: EFFICACIOUS; capable of producing a desired effect. (Pronounce first Iasin IT). “Itis an efficacious law.” MODERN ETIQUETTE * goprrra rER Q. Should the phrase “Have the honor to announce” be used when ehoosing the form for a wedding announcement? A. 'Yes: ' Another correct phrase is: “Have the honor of an- nouncing”’. Q. What is aspic, in cookery? A. A savory meat jelly, used to garnish meat or fish, or to make a mold of meat, flsh etc. Q. Is a girl more attractive if she develops a slouchy carriage? A. 'Never; just to the contrary. Nor is a slouchy carriage health- ul. LOOK and LEARNZ 1. Could the population of the entire world be accommodated in the State of Texas? 2, Which is the lighter wood, balsa or cork? 3. For what are United States submarines named? 4. Which of man'’s senses varies more than any other? 5. Was the Mississippi River named for the States, or the State for the triver? ANSWERS: Yes, and give each person about 3,700 square feet. Ba'sa, which weighs half as much as cork. Various fish. The sense of taste. The State was named for the river. C.P.A. Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE Bold and Serviced by Next to Junea® Drug Co. J. 8. 'mord & c°° Seward Street ;u:ono « “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batistied Customers” INSURANCE DR. H. VANCE Shattuck Agency OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 5; 7'to 8:00 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Anmex South Pranklin 8t. Phone 177 — CALIFORNIA l Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices 3 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 . GORDON T LTy H.S. GRAVES || “The Clothing Man" HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry Rice & Ahlers Co. Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metal JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company o R to the steel business. Less than 16|a salesman with the entire United years old when his father was lost, | States as his territory. In three ATNTS—OIL—GLASS he had to find a job to help sup-|years he was advaticed to the posi- ':“ -l‘IIN port the family. He had been at-|ton of sales manager, with head- AsS Haury 'Pllfllle 63 tending the public schools of New |quarters in New York, of the im- . Gung l‘m Haven, Conn., where he was born|portant Pittsburgh ‘Wire Company.| 'Ihuh * February 15, 1863. |At 30 he wn‘.é‘u;e‘mr_il manager of T Takes Man's Work | the organization. ' Naturally, he sought his first em- | When John W. Gates and others formed ‘The American Steel and Wire Company in 1899, Mr. Farrell’s company was included in the or- ganization and he was made for- he could remain-at home. Having made up his'mind to undertake a man’s work rather than’a boy’s job, he entered the mill of the New SEATTLE. ‘® Perfect comfort MVunklemhwvow Later he efgn siles agent of the consolidated T on. Ability Shows Again ® Centrally located e Splendid food and Haven Wite Company as a laborer | “05 2 week. Young as he wn.s.‘ twelve ‘hours of manual toil| Two yeéars latér when the United| i mry day did: not datmpen his ardor | Steel - commfi was tormed, the| | - Jluncan’s Cleaning McClure, © Large Rooms— for study. He not" only read to|wire company became one of its “ _ond PRESS SHOP Mgr. ) ‘with Bath improve his general knowledge ,but prlncxpgl n\bsldhrles Again Far- s 2 3 ALASEANS LIKE THE Cleaning—Pressing—Repairing PHONE 333 “Neatness Is An Asset” {drew maps from memoty, inserting | rel - | the principal cities, rivers and sea- ports. Applying himself = diligently to de work in hand as a laborer, Mr. Trell - constantly. kept his.eye on the job just ahead. He improved [Ms seant opportunities -as mill la- bgrer'to such'a_degree that in four- teen months he- won " his first pro- | uqldn 0 that of a mechanic. ‘Working in that capacity until he the science of drawing then sought a larger field | hmmd to the Pittsburgh dis- | center of the steel and | 's ability’ as a salesman and his of the foreign field yere ‘and he was assigned t foreign ‘énd of *the bu- r ¢reation. 2104 kji" NEW WASHINGTON counted among the big men of thel| first billion dollar corporation and was Selected as its president in 1911 in succession to Willlam' E. Corey. In 1880, Mr. Fairell married Catherine 'McDermott of Brookiyn. They had five childre; ————————— BERGMANN DINING ROOM Now_open urder new management: board $12:50 weekly, starting March |29; office workers’ hot lunch 65 cents at 12 noon sharp. adv. ———————— 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1943 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska 'COMMERCIAL SAVINGS Grldnally Works Up .Going with the Pittsburgh Wire | ompany, he becameé foreman of 800" 1men 'in tHE mill before he | va The growth of potatoes hasbeen became Superintendent of the Oli-|stimulated by the use of ethylene ver Steel ‘Wire Company and then' and .propylene gases.