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

Daily Alaska Published every evening except Sunday by the Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Msin M Jlnl.l Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN - R. L. BERNARD - - many peacetime . President | Entered in the Poll'Ofllu in Juneau as UBSCRIPTION Delivered by carrier.in Junesu and One year, in advance, one month, in advance, ll BSubscribers will confer a the Business Offlu of any Uvery of their pa Teiephones: News Office, 802; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | frepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot ethet- ' wise credited in this paper and also the berein. or if they will promptly notity | lure or irregulsrity im the de- Imade dust free Seoond Class Matter. |, efficient wit Rightly and | destruction. But | W local news published | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. THAN THAT NA' Americad Building, Seattle, Wash. NAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1011 | In through the Engl BR LARGER All only after their sary diplomatic lin which made fore the last war a property applied to natior of 1919 for Air LOOKING FORW Out of the war laboratories are coming many developments that will lead to better living in a peacetime world. Vistas of some of the paths which these developments will take were Science Talent Institute in Washin L. Dryden, nautical Sciences, and Dr. Westinghouse laboratories. that advances in metallurgy and el ing have played a vital part in ail contributed to the enormous increase in the applica- airline may be; or business and income must be tion and reliability of flight. With schedules more shared with some incompetently managed local | | airline. frequent than those hich used to link New York with ‘Washington, giant airplanes now day and night. attempted to span this stormiest eleven had reached their destination, some haven of safety and 39 were lost at sea. . Slepian predicted that present problems of | Dr. the aviation industry will find sol tions in electronics, which will provide devices to | control not only flight but take-offs and landings. Already the close cooperation of the electrical indus- try ith that of aircraft has provided such wonders a tiny device used in as the “gunfire interrupter,” the turrets of Martin Marauder a president of the Institute of the Aero- Joseph Dr. Dryden pointed out rights. ic trespassing, ARD opened before the gton by Dr. Hugh Slepian of the | lectrical engineer- | rplane design and cross the Atlantic It is possible of oceans; while 28 found | °ut of sight, can me of their solu- nd other bombers lown way. tion to those which relate to aeronautics. "u-PrellMl lnfl Bustness Manager jan paints a picture of post-war homes and Incu;rle.-, peacetime or the coastal waters of any nation. the airplane enjoyed what international lawyers call “the right of free passage” the men who flew around the world obtained the right to traverse the countries on their courses stranded on a foreign shore in time of peace, attempt would be made to impound her officers or unravel the secrets of her internal economy. this is what happened to a German military Zeppe- Before the airplane came, was of no great moment. holder the earth and to the sky above was first formally THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— 'to prevent automatically damage to the plane’s own tail surfaces while the gunner follows with a stream of lead the maneuvers of an enemy. There will be uses for electronic science, in addi- Dr. Slep- by the precipitron, made cheerful h fluerescent lighting and equipped Dopglas tor cuo per month. ‘mm television as a commonplace. By mall, postese puid. ut thie following ra §00; six monti. 1h advance, $1.80; properly, today, the interest of our scientists and research workers is in instruments of the day will come when much ‘of ‘ their present work will help to make a brighter and more comfortable world. ho Owns the Air? (New York Times) any vessel may steam freely ish Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar But never has through the atmosphere. governments had begun the neces- negotiations, If a warship were no Yet a distress landing at Luneville be- sovereignty of the air The familiar doctrine that owns his land to the center of ns by the International Convention Navigation. Since then there has fbeen a growing insistence on atmospheric sovereign Because of Turkey's objections to atmospher- the Dutch and French planes had to | fly to the east along the Persian coast and the Brit- | |ish along the Arabian. Operating air rights in Euro- | ipean countries are obtainable only when reciprocal rights are granted. But, since reciprocal rights mean nothing to a small, gain is usually driven. Istops must be made for no commercial reason; or |unnece!~sary nationals of the country where the stops are made must be employed; or permission to land is granted only if the national interest is furthered, however important the international function of the | backward country, a hard bar- In the Near and Middle East that the stratosphere plane of the | Before 1939 only 78 airplanes had |near future will reduce these restrictions to absurdity. only |A vehicle that can climb to 45,000 feet, where it is | laugh at owners of the atmosphege. | 1f forced landings should be punished by fines, public opinion throughout the world would express itself. | There is even the possibility that a country which is [in high places, the intelligentsia of | ignored by some international stratospheric nh‘ltne.’me United States, will become vo- | with some economic loss to itself, will actually offer | jcal and prophetic in coming assem- ' landing rights and make other concessions. advance of technology made it necessary to modify | the conception of contraband. it will dispose of atmospheric sovereign rights in its The It is probable that Nashington | 6o-Round (Continued trom Page One) the islands, raising the British flag, | affixing markers, and leaving small | groups.of men to clinch their claim | on Canton, Phoenix, Hull and Sid- lville had some {almost all applications, One of its recent rejections was| ja project. for constructing a hos- ‘pnal in Jacksonville, Onslow Coun- ty, Notth Carolina. But Jackson- | friends.. at' court, and the project refused to stay dead Sidney Weinberg, special aide to Donald Nelson, picked up a !uridu in its record of turning down ‘ vin McIntyre, the Jacksonville hos- | pital will be built. Meantime, most projects, lacking highly placed pleaders, fall by the | wayside. NAVY RECOGNIZES FOOT- DOCTORS The Army is supposed to. be. the | outfit which walks; the Navy sails. | But strangely enough the Army re- Iphone and called a WPB: office | fuses to recognize chiropodists while ]whe:e he thought the project might ; the Navy gives them special recog- ney islands. have been snagged. “What's hap- | nition. At this point, forthright Secre- | ?;r,‘f," h:) n‘:::: Qs il h“pi'l Convinced that their ministra- tary Ickes, in charge of insular ".lt:s ben rul;»d St o e e tions to the feet are something sol- affairs, sent a group of Amexicum.‘ g ¥ 4 | diers need, the chiropodists have | to Canton Island. So for several; months the British lived on one! §ille of the island, the Americans | gn the other, both claiming it. Finally the State Department put “But we can't do that,” expost.u- lated Weinberg. “Marvin McIntyre ‘becn plugging for establishment of a chiropodists corps in the Army. 1 Meanwhile the Navy's® Surgeon HAPPY BIRTHDAY APRIL 1 Dr. L. P. Dawes George Martin Mrs, Selma Peterson Don Hungerford Mrs. R. C. Hurley Mrs. W. A, Blanck Mrs. W. L. Lovell Charles Rudy John H. Peteérson - - T HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” FRIDAY, APRIL 2 Benefic aspects rule today which should be fortunate for banke merchants and manufacturers. La- bor comes under a threatening sign. | HEART AND HOME: Women are under favorable direction. This should be a fortundte date for all who seek positions of responsibil- ity. Tt promises promotions in pub- e service and for love affairs. Many weddings in 'Lhnn themselves and thus gain dis- | tinguished social positions are prog nosticated. Men and women in| |uniform will be extremely suscep- tible through coming months when \real drama will mingle with ro- ! mance. BUSINESS = AFFAIRS: Retail merchants may expect much buy- ing. The spring trade will be unu- sually extensive, despile Govern- |ment warnings. The cost of living will rise steadily as inflation slow- |ly gains, but the general prospert | ity will present resentment or per- | is most. fortunate | which girls marry men much older | 20 YEARS AGO e m_fipxgnfi APRIL 1, 1023 Active work was to be started immediately on the Whistler Basin | Mine, five miles from Windham Bay, back ih the hills, according to a | statement made by Frank Cook, chief owner of the property. Preliminary | work was to be done by Dr. A. R. Stott, of Seattle, and also interested in ‘iv.he property. An ordihance was to be passed permltflng the payment of municipal itaxes in two installments, if the Citizens Ticket was elected at the approaching election, according to a declaration made by I. Goldstein, candidate on that ticket for Mayor. He also declared that the suit to compel the electric lighting company to accept the rates provided in | the city ordinance was to be pressed to the end, The suit to compel the electric lighting company to accept the rates fixed by the City Council for lighting, heating and power had been tried and a decision was 1expected at an early date. Postponement of the second annual Southeast Alaska Inter-School Meet to the week of April 23 to 28 was announced by Superintendent ‘Juhn E. Lanz, Chairman of the Board of Control. George A. Mann, Department Adjutant and Finance Officer of the merlcan Legion, was to leave Juneau in the evening on the North- rn for Anchorage to attend the convention of the American Legion of Alflska He was to be joined at Cordova by A. C. Fisher, Department ‘Commnnder Mrs. C. J. Skuse had been named delegafs from the | Auxiliary to the convention at Anchorage in place of Mrs. Belle Simpson, |elected as delegate. Mys. Simpson, Mrs. Anna Day and Miss Lois | Nordling, clected altenate delegates, were all unable to attend. Mrs. Skuse was leaving on the Northwestern. Dr. Robert. Simpson stated that the new home of the Nugget Shop, to be in the Leader Store Building on Lower Franklin, was to be the | most attractive jewelry store in Alaska. The shop was to move from its fhome in the Seward Building on Franklin and Front Streets to the new ;loc"mon in about a month. H. J. Emard, former electrician at the Perseverance Mine, from 1913 ‘kw 1915, had been visiting in Juneau for several days on his way to his Shome in the Cook Inlet district, wher he owned and operated a cannery | | at Moose Point. | | Weather was fair with a maximum temperature of 45 and a mini- mum of 43. ruled it out?” (MacIntyre, secretary Intire, has commissioner a number is interested in that project. Who|General, Rear Admiral Ross T.Mc- | |sistent protest from the general | ‘pubnc. In Washington the colossal| cost of war will spur the Govem-g ment toward extreme measures for {raising more billions. Congress will | {be the scene of spirited discussions regarding the nation’s finances. NATIONAL ISSUES: Radicals York tomorrow.” | angry. {blies of educators and thinkers, Pre-| ~ WORD STUDY: “Use a word t {dictions of a third world war will jbe made by critics of United Na- |tions war policies. Men and wo- jmen who believe themselves to be good citizens unwittingly will pro- ivide material and aid for - fifth | columnists. American _intellectuals \will furnish cause for national an- xiéty by well-meaning efforts to |prove their superiority in viewing |war and peace issues. Sinister signs |warn of revival also of isolation- lisb theories. | HALCYON (adjective); calm; A as in AT, I as in IT, accent first De Quincey. |. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| A No. | Jupiter this nmionth appears to in- Q. How should |dicate improved conditions for In-|party be sent? idia. Syria and Iraq are under| A. By telephone or by writing threatening sway. Russia is warned | lof difficulties which may bring labout misunderstandings among the JAlllea Second only to the United {States as a postwar world power, ‘mhe Soviet government will aroude ‘anxieties and even suspicion among smaller nations. The stars warn of | political: ambitions that presage | |grave situations in countries that 1. lare released from Hitler's tyranny. : ance or regret? A. No. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, Say, “I THINK TI'll go to New York tomororw.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Claphoard. The preferred pronuncia- tion is clap-bord, rather than klab‘erd. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Chute (an inclined plane); not SHOOT. SYNONYMS: Wrathful, furious, raging, resentful, MODERN ETIQUETTE ® gosgrra vue Q. Daqes a good conversationalist use such phrases as ,“Well of all | things,” “What do you think of that,” LOOK and LEARNZ “T guess I'll go to New indignant, very hree times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: peaceful; happy. (Pronounce hal-si-un, syllable). “Deep, halcyon repose.’— “You don’t mean it,” etc.? invitations for a week-end party or any house THURSDAY. APRIL 1. 1943 DIRECTORY -2t MOUNT JUNEAIJ LODGE NO. 147 | SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month Profenional Fraternal Socmhu Gastineau Channel Drs. Kaser and in Scottish Rite Temple F Ieeburgel' beginning at 7:30 p. m. DENTISTS JOHN J. FARGHER, Worshipful Master; LEIVERS, Secretary. [ B.P.0.ELKS _ [ Meets every Wednesday at 8 M&Ifldfin‘ Phone 56 JAMES Ww. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST {P. M. Visiting Brothers wel- 2TH CENTURY BUILDING come. ARTHUR ADAMS, Ex- Office Phone 468 rumm.u,n.smls,sn- retary. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room $—Valentine Bidg PHONE 763 ' ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. "“The Rezxall Store” Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Your Reliable Pharmacists SRBUS e BUTLER-MAURO Giasses Pitted Lenses Ground DRUG CO. . The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 138 HARRY RACE Druggist Marlin Doubledge Razor Blades 18 for 25¢ 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. l You'll Find Food Finer and | Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP FINE Watch and Jewelry Repalring at very reasonable rates Paul Bloedhorn 8. FRANKLIN STREET ! | e —— RCA Vicior Radios and RECORDS JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE | Next to Juneau Drug Co. Beward Street Phone 6 INSURANCE Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third ! JAMES C. COOPER Bold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satistied Customers” informal notes. Q. When invited to a tea, is it necessary to send either an accept- C GORDON Why is thirteen called a “baker’s dozen"? {he screws on. It flatly refused the |t© the President, has lived and of chiropodists, while the Army's 2. Which are the four leading wine-producing States of the United British landing privileges on Ha- waii, the most vital link between Australia and Canada, unless we got landing rights in the South Pacific, Necessity for this type of tough diplomacy makes a lot of people listen to Clare Luce's plea that we nail down future air routes while the nailing is good. But wiseheads among them think these bases should be like a union railroad ter- minal, Nations. NOTE: Mrs. Luce’s counterpart in England is W. L. Runciman, of British Overseas Airways, who is always warning that “the Ameri- cans are going to over-run the whole of Europe.” His father is the with rights to all United |worked. in various parts of North | | Carolina). | Weinberg was told that the Fa- cility Review Committee had ve- toed it. “We'll! have to have a re- | hearing,” dem‘eefi Weinberg, | Result was that a re-hearing was ,staged local officials were brought to Washington' from North Carolina {at considerable . expense, and the Committee grudgingly yielded to ipressure. Thanks to ammble Mar- | Surgeon General, Major General |James C. Magee,- will have no foot doctors wearing -shoulder in his Army. Actually, as. non-commissioner of- | ficers there are about 400 chiropo- dists in the Medical Corps, doing the same foot work as if they were recognized with commissions. But | they get no Army recognition. (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- | ture Syndicate, Inc.) # Cros mbn_ who looked the other way while the Nazis prepared to take tHie %udeteniland. .. - WAR CHAFE Suppues of radio quartz crystals trom Brazil are inadequate to meet txémgndops war demands, and the | scratching for | Signal .Corps is ..u-m in Pennsylvania, North Carp- linh, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ar- | Kufisas. . . . Signal Corps officers | have found that police car radios | are not sturdy enough for use in| tanks. Colonel R. V. D. Corput sent a pair of General Electric officials | for a tank ride, with & police radio, and after a mile of open road, the radio was shaken to pieces. Lift rafts are now being equipped with radio sending sets, so ship-| wire-laying, to establish’ communi- | cations in the field. FRIENI AT COURT If you have the right kind of friends in Washington, you can | overrile even the high-handed | Pacility Review Committee of the War Production Board. This Committee sits on a pile of applications for civilian construc- tion of all sorts—hospitals, roads, Houging, airports, etc.—and lake‘;‘ is now | . ACROSS' 41 Sabienin L Book of mapa et St ot @ Compnnuv. 5 @ ‘l‘h iy ' T - iy of }: sma blant u 16 Symbol fof neon {8, & Efunae . 25 Ap"pal fon ot 53 | ofmer 58, Pr‘ fdenit 60, R 30. Sldeiong. glance 1. | 35 Poray- o Al "awhl th | 36, Tdenticar; . varjant o wreck survivors can broadcast an | B5OS. U. 8. Army equipped with plows. They are | towed behind a truck for use in| ARRE) 4 JdERER// AP fnmn word Puzzle /) l L Ifl////fllllfll n/ H I ama WA nla%fllilflwa / an / CumENy 2 ] ill JOSEEN /auER N T'Gv%"‘b ;:-"m" musieal in- strument 9. Kiud of minera) 10. Agricultural machine xt ton fabrie ll ughly ellip- ” dcd 4 II 7, g‘a of ab: W/ crlcln “b y olmwln 35 Cog.n;vn infor- 81 Eloquerice 38. Nerve network a Constituent l‘nhuc nou- insignia | Persohs whose birthdate it is i States? ihave the augury of a year of re- : “ % lsponsiBilities that bring gopd 3. What is the meaning of “Auld Lang Syne”? 4. What are the three primary colors? luck. Increase in the family cireles of young married folk is foretold. 5. Children born on this day prob- ANSWERS: {ably will be fortunate in possessing 1. At onestime, when heavy fines were imposed for short weight, keen brains and strong characters. | bakers are supposed to have added an extra unit to a dozen to be on the 'Userul lives are prognosticated. safe side. ; (Copynght 1943) 2. California, New York, Ohio, and Michigan. Ap "le £ B g i low Down: Irslfida By .ionu ,smeu To whom did the speaking ass in the Bible give his advice? Day. was widely celebrated for cen-|that in similar cases the WLB in- turies throughout Europe. In tends tq apply the 10-cent formu- France, the oaf who was sent w la to all private operations in Al- the' bookstore for the “History of |aska. Eve's Grandmother,” was called a'| Neblett emphasized that new. “Polsson: d’avril” or April Fish— cases will go to the Regional WLB :‘wksecro u:onga: ":p:m fls3 p;:r;l:s newly created in Seattle, of which ing_the gowk—or cuckoo—and the | onaireen B Dermard Noble s s - fopls of the moment were conse- i The spruce log. prog rates of AP’ Fehtures Writer I‘odaxts April Fool’s Day and, as ngptly gowks or, if you prefer, cuckoo. Fools in England were sent on| evérybody. kniaws By . 'mow, . there’s|;; | pay are much higher than the 10- icent formula put into effect for the private logging industry, Neb- o’ fool’s,day " 1ike’ an old" fool’s” ddy. And - ‘Fool's ‘Day 'is old—80 oltl, in fdet, that histopians are fln- able 6 tellt when' it/ ’ rshy ity is deflved feast, lnm the Hindus, 31, when gullible’ membes Of " the “tribe were sent on foolish erands. Others trace it to the an- cient Romans, who are reputed to! have spent the day in pursuit of Sabine women. When later Aprils rolled around, and while their boy friends were off at war, Roman ladies sat under; the myrtle-tree, bathing, crowning|s themselves, with its leaves, and of- fering tribute to Venus—all hecause once, when Venus was drying her hair when taking a dip, a satyr peeked from behind the bushés. Bashfully, say the poets, ‘“with myrtles she her beauties veiled, from whence this custom was en- tailed.” Plainly, this did not hap+ pen on a Satyr-day. In pre-Renaissance timeés there were annual April feasts of fools, Clowns and jesters. But naturg students_blame that spring feeling, for old,tlme celebrations of the vernal equinox ended Apil 1. Whatever its origins, April Fool’s ‘sleéveéless errands’ —maybe be- | lett said. ¢ause they had fo make the vest of an awkwurd slt”;lltlon | The WLB jurisdiction rates were |set in' August and September, 1042, | bility of raising the private logging w A SE' represenutlon by the Army and | would be inflationary. w spruce lumberjacks At ‘Dcpmrnem. of Agriculture to bring' will be the pay for the Ketchikan |Seattle pay, Neblett said. Army needs. A ’ \hy the Department of Agriculture lum fl |ana is now considering the possi- \ K *rom to the Government program A |scale. The WLB received strong Navy and War Manpower Commis- |sion who protested to do so as it | The WLB has alread; SEATTLE. April 1 — The War|wasnington WLB to ieqa::::‘ s Labor Board has set wages for Al- mu rates down to the private log- gents above the Seatile pay. m“m&nz scale of 10 cents above the area loggers producing rare Al-| askan spruce for the United Sv.a!—es‘ X i b ek Nk _The Regional War Labor Board | m“ Imm in San Francisco has made the| decision in two cases, one involving High tide—0:11 a.m., 163 feet. {the Ketchikan Spruce Milis which Low tide—6:09 am., 1.0 feet. was handed down on March 4, High tide—12:17 p.m. 17.1 feet. and the other affecting the Mac- Low tide—6:32 p.m. -1.3 feet. ‘Donlld Logging Company handed e |down on March 16. | Your BEROKEN unsls Chairman Thomas Fair Neblet.t | Replaced: in. our own shop. Eyes {bead of the San Francisco Region- | Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian Carison. al War Labor Board, announces Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv. | DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 13; 1 to 6; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. ! 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