The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1943, Page 4

—— PAGE FOUR ] Dally Alaska Emplre Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. a week. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - President | RO R. L BERNARD - - Vice-President and Business M \lmlmm keeps out of the argument. He is very busy on a plan to build circulation by using green ink. making the city wear a zoot suit and having a bingo game in the front windows three afternoons editor McWinch begins to feel a bit cramped. 11—He decides to put the paper to press earlier land print more racing news. A fourth stranger ar- y mail, postage paid, at the following rate rives, takes over McWinch's desk and issues a state- one gll:}:n’;-{n Ta\'-u;‘::cfn ;;5 99t sx mpnths, 3 EvROAN $1AN 1ment that the key to success is to make an animated livery of their papers. scores on the woman's page and give a free auto- Telebanm: Hewp Offion moble tire to all readers over 100 years of age. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | 12—An office boy enters and “Message The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for |from the boss for Mr. McWinch.” The strangers all republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other 8 it G "thie maper and aiso. the ocal ews published |snap, “There’s nobody by that name in here. e 3 55 | 13—McWinch finds the boss and asks if he re- Alasks Newsoapers, 1417 |TCmDers him. 14—The boss says the can’t recall the face. | 15—McWinch shows boss hired him to run “That was over seventy-two hours ago. hold mé to that.” 16—A fifth stranger 10 Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by earrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.50 per month. | Business Office, 374, says: name is familiar, but he to prove that the The boss says, You can't papers the paper. arrives. | 17—The boss introduces him as the new chief. |~ 18—The circulation manager rushes in to report :(-\'erylhing dropping fast. 19—An edict from somebody nobody has heard |of so far arrives, ordering the paper published in an loval shape instead of rectangular, with the society news in Arabic, and no semicolons on Saturdays. | 20—McWinch resigns. Nobody pays any attention. | 21—-Two more arrive to take charge. |The room i5 now so congested that the boss is asked to step outside and wait in a telephone booth until {things clear up 22—The boss says it is all due to lack of team- { work. strangers | A NEWSPAPER WERE RUN THE WASHINGTON WAY (Reprinted New York Sun) IF by Permission of the “ADMINISTRATOR TROUBLE” At Washington the traffic jam | Now makes your senses spin, By H. I. PHILLIPS decides to expand. It named a managing editor, D. Cheevers McWinch. | 2—The publisher, Oscar is photographed ! When all the chiefs who're going out | giving McWinch the warm hand of welcome. Meet those chiefs coming in. | 3—Mr. McWinch is given the largest private of- - fice in the building, told he will have a free hand They say that s rt men when appointed ad- and asked if he would like fresh roses on his desk | ministrators in Washington today walk into office once or twice a day backward. Just so they won't have to turn uruun(” 4—-McWinch comes to work on the second day when they are going out again. to find two strangers have moved in. He is about | s to make inquiries when a desk is moved in for third | 5—He asks if there isn't some mistake. Two of (Philadelphia Record) the strangers smile and “Don’t mind us, Mr.| From the point of view of a partisan Democrat, | McWinch; we're just here to direct things.” The | Colonel Robert R, “Bertie” McCormick, publisher of | third shows a letter naming him in complete charge.|the Chicago Tribune, is the perfect Republican can-| didate for the Presidency in 1944. We can think of no Republican who could n)al:e4 so many other Republicans vote against him. Wendell Willkie, sensing this, throws his hat in| the ring with.the flourish of Marines coming to the rescue. It was a melodramatic gesture, but hardly | necessary. The GOP may be hard up for candidates. It is 8—His attempts to clear this error not so hard up as to turn to “Bertie” McCormick, way when one of the strangers sharing his office | with his record of die-hard isolation, his attitude on puts on six cartoonists, decides' to print the classified | the war, his maniacal hatred of Roosevelt and liber- ads: in color and abruptly orders him to run down |alism, and his record of pre-war association with to Callahan’s and get him a container of mrree‘some very dubious birds with very dubious feathers.| and a pack of cigarettes. | True, “Bertie” undoubtedly would poll a few| 9—He finds circulation dropping fast and an- more votes than Hitler in a nanqn-wxde popularit; 2 contest. But scarcely enough to win the keys to the nounces a plan to get new readers by getting out a White House. better paper. Two of the three strangers ignore his | Even in a Gallup poll ‘they’d have, tq figure suggestions and declare the thing to .do fo. get' cir-|«gerties” “percentage with minus signs. culation is to repaint the building, put in a'new press Don't. worry, Wendell. The GOP may be.ides- lnd sell hot dcgs in the elevators. The third{perate, ' It's not that desperate. llaslnnml = 1--The paper new Bopps, ‘Not That Desperate al | say, | 6—McWinch tries to communicate with the lmsfi“ but finds his phone dead 7—He decides that what three more star repor'ters. He as gets a couple of photographers, a cheese sandwich on rye instead the paper needs is for them, but he janitor and one up are under e g N “s| HONORS FOR WORKMEN | ‘Lhat he is too consefvative.” | The Office of War Information The New Yorker ‘'gasped. “You|is arranging a deluxe program for| jare the only man I know who | next Labor Day, hailing the con-| GO-RWII‘ |thinks he is too conservative,” he |tribution of American warkmen in/ |said. “We in New York think his|the drive for victory. “Producing radicalism will ruin the country.” |for Attack” will be the theme ut\ “On the other hand,” smiled | the program, and it will include| Daniels, “there are about fifteen |inspirational broadcasts by Presi-| for years to Luigi Antonini, head|million of us who think he is too dent Roosevelt and other | of .[he Italian-American Labor | conservative and hope he will goirnnking war leaders. l Council. But they shook hands and\Iurther, uproot all monopoly, and| However, this isn’t the only la-| pledged to work together to take do it soon.” bor show on the OWI schedule Italy immediately out of the WAr| NOTE: The other day this ten-|this year. Another special celebra- and prevent political bickering over year old conversation was recalled |tion for Labor, to be known as Italy’s future government,asamong to Ambassador Daniels, now busy[ “On to Vietory” day also will be the French. editing his newspaper in Raleigh, | |observed within the next two| | months. (Continued trom Page One) ‘ | (N. C. “I still think,” he remarked, MOVE TOWARD DEMOCRACY |“that President Roosevelt is too| It was conceived by Major Paul| Long-sighted U. S. officials re-|conservative.” Hines, chief of the labor brahch gard this Italo-American move as —_— = A 2 one of the most broad-gauged step: taken so far toward early peace| and toward healing European [E/RIANNE D] m EB" | wounds. They recognize that we| 2 E are in a unigue position regarding Italy. With several million former Italians here, including many U.S, government leaders, this country can appeal to the people inside Italy much more effectively; also can help nurse Italy back to a democratic government without the mistakes of France. | Long under despotism, Italy's) transition from the sick-room bnrk“ to healthy democracy must be care- ful and perhaps slow. Leading Am- ericans of Italian descent can sup- ervise this transition period, form ., Fodder pit . English school 68. 6 ACHOSS . Particles . Be Interested 3 Tha herb eve Omit 0. Existed -2 . Fencing sword Knock Spoil 2. Mimie . Cylindrical Century plant Old times: oetic fiber 41. Rliious Jeattet Arabian gar- 50 Soft drink ment 62. Reformed . Star In Lyra 56, Long narrow . Dillseed {niets Cereal grass 0. Pallid . Hereditary factor Salutation New York state canal Recorded pro- ceedings East Indian welght Vein of ore [ARINIATI D (AL [T W AMME NI TIE] mggmlagualagp koM S AN e ROl (BIAIND VI [N DTS VRO RESMNEAPSDOE] Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN I 1. Grotto 2. Polnt 5. . Keeper of s, 7 8. 62 63, Sultable . Chooses 64. . And not 65. | 2 {23 Famous | Dnll‘ of the uses a trusteeship for the people b[‘ O18 tusical Taly—if the State Department) has enough vision to see the pos-| sibilities ‘ . Mineral springs . Cattle . Roman road . Government grant 9. Clerical collar 10, Habitation Summond publicly Olfactory organ East African records CONSERVATIVE FDR | Ex-secretary of the Navy Jose-| phus Daniels, one of the few men who doesn't hesitate to give bare-| knuckled advice to his one-time assistant, F. D. Roosevelt, was en-| tertaining at dinner in the Ameri- can Embassy in Mexico City sev- eral years ago. It was during Roo- sevelt’s first term when he wa passing all sorts of New Deal re-| forms, and one of Daniels' guests —~from Wall Street—launched a tirade against the President | “Do you approve of all the poli- cles which your friend Rooseveit is putting over on the country? he asked. “I do Daniels. “I am glad,” said the New Yor- ker, “that you cannot stand for this radicalism.” “What I object 20. 22. Abscond Heaveply body Chronometer g -shaped . Kragrant ojnt- mut ol the anclenty oze . Engrave with ! Public storg- ent T Blinaer. Y archaio A 0. Flower 1. Musical fnstru- ment 3 58. Peel b4 l‘.lllb'l pen name not,” replied Ambassador slder 61 snrgmuc\un! to in President tures | ordinary {plants and other THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA | HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUGUST 5 M. D. Williams | Harley H. Rutherford Judy Foss | Irwin Borgwardt Margaret Clark Mrs. John Dolginin Jack Hash Mrs. Roy Culver -+ HOROSCOPE {. “The stars incline ‘ i but do not compel” L e M | FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 xul<- with extra- | today. Under this should be a and a| to Benefic agpov\. power there patriotism that inspire configuration quickening of unity of purpose extra war effort. HEART AND HOME: Women are under the most stimulating and invigorating planetary influences This is a date for starting new work and for seeking the influence of persons in high places. Under this direction of the stars recogni- tion of service should be forth- coming. Promotions and honars are presaged for women workers in| jmany trades as well as for execu-| tives in high places. Fame is pres-| aged for officers in the armed forces and especially for nurses who again will prove their splen-‘ did ability and courage. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: toward the future in the world of business, men of limited re- sources will foresee difficulties ‘duc to Government ownership ‘ef] countless great manufacturing centers of con: | structive activity, Uncle Sam, who |has done business on the largest s ale in the history of the world |1s to prove helpful, astrologers pr dict, in postwar readjustments. His |power and experience will benefit| | persons of all classes and all voca- | tions, thé seers foretell. NATIONAL ISSUES: Care of the health will be of first 1mportunce |this month when doctors and !nurses will be employed in hospi- | tals and unable to attend to pris] vate practice. Return of wounded Looking |soldiers in great numbers is fore-| cast and it is the duty of civilians| to avoid adding to the strain on iimited supplies of physicians. Ner- | vous diseases will be prevalent, E‘h‘v\ |pecially among women, and diges- tive ailments will be numerous de-| pite the simpler menus of war-| | time. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Nazi conjectures regarding the | plans of the United Nations hav-‘O\H" ing contributed jitters to the Aaub ! powers, surprises again have proved} the splendid planning of the Allies. This month is to demonstrate how‘ !wise has been the strategy outhnuj[ at history-making conferences 1n which the Churchill-Roosevelt com-; bined leadership supported by the| technical knowledge of distinguish- ed heads of armed forces, care-| fully mapped the mfoves which now| {are defeating the Axis powers. Persons whose birthdate it is| 0P~ have the augury of a year of good| * fortune. Financial affairs should be | satisfactory. Fame will come to men in uniform. Children born on this day prab- (ably will be endowed with many talents, especially in science and the arts. They should” achieve suc- cess and what is better—happiness. (Copyright, 1943) of the Fourth Service Command at| Atlanta, Ga. and promoted by Hervey Allen, author of “Anthony Adverse.” All war plants will be asked to declare an “hour off” on “On to Victory” day, at which time special “War Merit” emblems will be awarded, Climaxing the “On to Victory” programs will be a nationwide broadcast in the evening—accord- ing to OWI plans—featuring such speakers as President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Generals Mac-, Arthur, Eisenhower and Dooliftl and Admirals King and Halsey; Joseph Stalin and General Chiatig| Kai-shek of China alsc may be in- vited to take part. All the speaj- ers will have a special message American labor. The evening broadeast will con- clude with the sounding of taps from the steps of the Nation's Cap- itol, in memory of our war dead, and an answering taps by U. 8. buglers in Europe and the Seuth Pacific. (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc.) LONDONIS HIT, BOOK STEA[IHfi, LONDON.—Dealers and the po- 20 YEARS AGO | Chichagof Island |1t was a cabin cruiser | sensitive about it and resent the questioning. from THE EMPIRE 4 ] ) ! \ \ 3 AUGUST 5, 1923 President Calvin Coolidge apparently had no present intention of calling an extra session of Congress but the impression was that a final decision had not been made. He discussed the possibility of an extra session with Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and Frank Morrison, Secretary of the Federation W. R. Rust, of Tacoma, announced that an option had been taken on the Chichagof mine near Juneau by George Jackson, former Man- ager of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, and W. A. Castleton, President of the Hirst-Chichagof Mining Company Operations were to be started by the Pinta Bay Mining Company at 1e gold mining property on Mt. Baker on the north side cf Pinta Bay on Sam Guyot, representative of Fischer Brothers, arrived here on the Queen from Ketchikan George Anderson, piano dealer, left on the to Skagway Queen on a business trip Felix Gray, U. S. Commissioner of Douglas, joined the ranks of loal boat owners through the purchase of the boat belonging to Harry Stanton 19 feet long, 5-foot beam and had a 4 h. p. Gray engine. Miss Dora L. Queen for Sitka. Irish and her little niece, Evelyn Jenkins, left on the W. R. Garster, Deputy U. S. Marshal, returned to Juneau on the steamer Queen after a short trip to the States. Miss Marian Knight was the and Sitka on the steamer Queen king round trip to Skagway Miss Etta Brown, with B. M. Behrends Bank, left on the Queen to make the round trip to Sitka High, 66; low, 60. Weather report: Daily Lessons in English . 1., corpon ) DTS USIUSSTUSI TSSO SRR S > » » S WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Mr. Brown never referred to it in his letter.” Say, “DID NOT refer to it.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Profuse. Pronounce LOOSE, not as in LOSE. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Creditor; TOR, Arbiter; TER. SYNONYMS: Overturn, overthrow, upset, invert, subvert. 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: DECRETIVE; having the force of an authoritative order; determining. “The will of God is either decretive or preceptive.’—Bates. = N the S as in MODERN ETIQUETTE * roperra LEE SUSSSSSSSS SOOI ST SHSHSS 44 Q. Is it all right for guests to stand and talk for ten or fifteen minutes after they have said “good-by”? A. No; the “good-bys” should be brief and the guests should leave immediately after they are said. Q. Is it all right to ask someone the cause of a physical de- formity? A. No; it is bad form to do so. The deformed person might be Q. Is there any excuse for a guest to leave before a luncheon is A. Only when there is some very urgent reason for doing so. mewm LOOK and LEARN ¥ ¢ corbox || . < 1. What wild animal is the only one that will use stones, sticks, or anything that is at hand, ds a weapon? 2. What State is the producer of the | berries? 3. Is it true that salt was once the monetar: 4. Why were the Egyptian pyramids erected? 5. After whom was Maryland named? ANSWERS: A monkey. Massachusetts. Yes. As tombs for the kings of Egypt 5. Hem\eua Marie, wife of Charles I. largest amount of cran- standard? large cities in Great Britain. ‘Lhr keenest cbservers can catch The losses are greater in large them at it,” one dealer said. “They shops where people can handle stroll along the shop, taking books books at will. Because of the re- out of shelves, two or three at a duction in the number of employes, time. But when they take out three it is no longer possible to supervise |books, they return only two, and the shops properly. Books are not where two have been browsed over so plentiful and are more expemwe\)ual one will be put back. The other than in pre-war days. !Ls slipped under The thieves display remarkable a newspaper or, if the person is a cunning, booksellers say. “Only woman, dropped into a handbag.” CASAILANCA SIGHTSEERS — In Casablanca, French Morocco, at the end of a convoy trip, mele U. S. Naval officers are interested listeners of a native in front of the Sultan’s a coat, hidden in| e officers, (L - r.): Lt. (jg) John Mullen, New Haven, lice are trying to end a wave of book-stealing in London and other ‘palace. 'Conn.; Ensign Wosdson Badgett, Woodstock, Va.: Lt. (ig) Bay- ' mond Davis, Marietta, Ohio, and Lt. Paul Adams of Lebanon. Fa. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 Professional DmECTORY rnmma.l Societies Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 8¢ Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer Room §—Valentine Bldg PHONE 782 ROBERT SIMPSON,Opt.D. Graduate Los Angsles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 130 FIRST AID HEADQUARTERS FOR ABUSED HAIR Parker Herbex Treatments Will Correct Hair Problems Sigrid’s Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street Near Third JAMES C. COOPER C.P.A Business Counselor COOPER BUILDING L. C. Smith and Corona TYPEWRITERS Bold and Berviced by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Batisfied Customers” DR. H. VANCE OBTEOPATH Consultation and examination free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to §; 7 to 8:00 by appointment. Gaastineau Hotel Ammex South Franklin 8t. Phone 177 “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS!” Juneau Florists Phone 311 Rice & Ahlers Co. PLUMBING HEATING Sheet Metal PHONE 34 [ JUNEAU - YOUNG | Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS "Guy Smith-Drugs” (Careful Prescriptionists) Duncan'’s Cleaning and PRESS SHOP Cleaning—Pressing—Repalring tinecu Channel MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 BECOND and FOURTR 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 2nd and 4th Wednes- days at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers welcome, N. FLOYD FAGER- SON, Exalted Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary. ; PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phome 16— e e—y "“The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacista BUTLER-MAURO DRUG €0. HARRY RACE Druggist Marlin Doubledge Razor Blades | 18 for 25¢ “The Store for Men” SARBIN’S Front St.—Triangie Bldg. You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Cowplete at THE BARARNOF COFFEE SHoP wer Lobby PHONE Heme, Red 669 | | Juneau [Melody Shop FRANCISCAN DISHES B.C.A. Victor Records BRING OLD RECORDS INSURANCE Shattuck Agency "CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Marzet 478—PHONES—371 i | High Quality Poods &t | Moderate Prices R — Paul Bloedhorn Jewelry and Curios South Franklin Street H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Mas" HOMR OF HART ECHAPPNM! & MARX CLOTHING ZoRicC SYBTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry CALL AN OWL Phoie G: Btand Opposite Colisewem Theatre Juneau Heating Service B.E. Feero 211 Second S, | | INSTALLATIONS and REPAIRS | Weating Plants, Oil Burners, | Stoves, Quiet Heat Oil Burners " Phone 787 or Green 585 1891—O0ver Half a Centfury of Banking—1943 TheB.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS