The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1944, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Dazly Alaska Em pire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks. CELEN TROY MONSEN - - - = -« on in this campai President | Office or Alaska F We can more Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. : ‘SUBSCRIPTION EBATE: we will have real Jelivered by earrier tn Junean and Dourlas for $1.50 per month. i By malil, postage Da! t the lollo'lnl Tates: One year, In advance, $15. six months, in advance, $7.80; one month, In vance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a or if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- lvery cf their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. In this era o aireraft reality of today wi MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ington by William Aircraft Establish NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | ¢ oive their Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash., an hour in still eight engines, fift; of 3,450 miles. combat airplanes, by Ralph Damon general manager, | the contrary, he h: formance as a mal | Looking ahead 0\"ER THE TOP see, by the end o Alaska has gone over the top in the Fourth War rsupeuhalged flying wings, rocket-propelled and trav- Loan—the first Territory or State to achieve its quota, | eling possibly faster than sound. He believes, too, that | and the buyers of this area are on the way toward | commercial transport planes will cruise at better than 400 miles an hour and that high-altitude craft will reaching their quota twice. | exceed modern The few million dollars worth of bonds purchased | cjyilian airplane, by resdents of Alaska is small indeed compared with | popular a national quota of $1# billlion, but never-the-less, it | copters, shows that Alaskans have been much guicker to |two, to respond to the country's call for funds, to do their | POrts, part, than the rest of the country. ing railways, p offer the open to e from any bank, from the Capitol Theatre, the Post Forecast for the Air Age the prediction annual Wright Brothers Lecture delivered at Wash- the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences were urged attention to the problems which will soon arise from or 400 miles an hour. that a scale model has been built and flown of an eight-engined airliner designed by F. G. Miles which will have a cruising speed of better fhan 400 miles In the light of developments such as this, and of | our own extremely ciety of Automotive Engineers has special significance. Mr. Damon, who was drafted from American Airlines, to which he has now returned as vice president and at Republic Aviation, was hatched, is no dreamer of nebulous dreams. | to calculate the future on the basis of the past is to as today" fixed-wing types or even a mixture of the | and there are still a good many persons in this area who have not bought their extra $100 bond. There will be no regular booth sales from now gn, but it is very easy to buy bonds ‘ederal Savings and Loan Association. than double our quota here. Then cause for celebration. (New York Times) f almost incredible development of of yesterday becomes the ith astonishingly frequency. In the Scott Farren, director of the Royal ment at Farnborough, members of dinary cruising speeds of more than Now comes word from England air and carry, on the power of y passengers and crew for a range high-performance developments in the forecast of the air age of 1953 in the current Journal of the So- in order to get production. rolling | where the Thunderbolt fighter On as behind him a long record of per- nufacturer and operator of aircraft ten years, Mr. Damon contends that f the decade which we now enter, ursuit planes in speed. For the which he thinks will be quite as | s motor boats, he considers heli- | most promising possibilities. Air- | very nation's planes, can become Damon THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY. FEBRUARY 8 John E. Turner Mary Sartor Jack Greves Harry Worobec James Patterson Ralph Nichols Mrs. J. C. Patterson Helen F. Steinhardt A. F. Jensen ——— HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Benefic and adverse aspects bal- ance in the horoscope for today. Under this configuration the mind should be alert. HEART AND HOME: Women: are under favorable planetary influ- cnees fortunate for domestic ties Today is lucky for love affairs. Emotions are easily | stirred under Lhe prevailing contig- uration. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Jobs for returning servicemen should be list- ed and classified without delay The stars indicate that work is the best panacea for ills and handicaps caused by war service. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Compensa- | tion for disrupted careers will con- tinue to be widely discussed. Little will be accomplished until late in the spring but the public mind ¢ awake to its great responsibilitie: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Astrologers emphasize that Ger- many must be defeated without de- |lay. She comes under more stimu- | industrial centers, with air transportation supplement |ln!ins planetary influences later in highways and waterways. weddings and | It ! The Empire. 20 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 8, 1924 Attorney General John Rustgard this day reaffirmed his stand on from THE EMPIRE ithe time for filing of candidates for public and party offices, that was, that the former period ended on the first Tuesday and the latter on the ast Tuesday. in this month, in a statement given a representative of This position had been questioned by a number of local attorneys who had been of the opinion that all filings should have been made by the first. Some 50 odd alarms were answered during the previous year by the Juneau Fire Department, according to data in the office of City Clerk and it was estimated that the department in that period saved property valued at least $100,000 from destruction by fire. A rock, weighing perhaps nearly one ton, came down the mountain side, bounced across the Perseverance road into the five-room one-story cottage near Seventh and Harris and went through two rooms and nearly out the front door, demolishing everything in the way. The house was occupied by W. Holmes of the A. J. mine with Lum See as housekeeper. Staff Captain W. J. Carruthers, who was Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army work in Alaska, arrived on the Alameda and was spending a few days in Juneau. Barbara Winn celebrated her eighth birthday by entertaining a score of little friends at the home of her parents on East Street. A delightful time was had by the youngsters in games and refreshments. L. M. Carrigan, salesman for Armour and Company, the steamer Curacao from a business trip to towns in the of the division. returned on southern end Weather report: High, 32; low, 31; snow. Daily Lessons in English % . corbox i ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “What kind of a picture is it?” Omit A Say, “What kind of picture is it?” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Grocery. Pronounce gro-ser-i, syllables, and not gros-ri. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Harelip; HARE, not HAIR. SYNONYMS: Extinction, extermination, extirpation, three eradication, TUESDAY. FEBRUARYB 1944 D e e Professional “( DIRECTORY :.uew,, Drs. Kaser and Freeburger DENTISTS Blomgren Building Phone 56 | Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 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 | DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Gastineau Hotel Annex S. Franklin PHONE 177 | Gastineau Channel asdeded MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. WALLIS S. GEORGE, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. B.P.0.ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P.M. Visiting Brothers welcome. N. | FLOYD FAGERSON, Exalted | Ruler; M. H. SIDES, Secretary.“' — ? Silver Bow Lodge No.A 2,1.0.0.F ‘Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. I O. O. F. HALL Visiting Brothers Welcome Forest D. Fennessy ... Noble Grand H. V. Callow ... ....Secretary r——rfi-—vr—-—-——-—-—- 'ASHENBRENNER'S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. jones-S!ev_ens Shop | | LADIES’—MISSES’ ; READY-TO-WEAR | | Seward Street Near Third 'lhe year and unless Hitler loses |power before May lst he will cause leven greater deslrucnon than he- annihilation. Alaskans have ample reason to be proud—but that regards politics as the only barrier to dewlupmen( WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us is no reason for believing the Fourth War Loan Drive | within the decade, of true global air transportation. is over. Washington Merry- « Go-Round . (Continuea niom Page One) month. When Thomas heard about this, he hit the ceiling. Acton re- signed. More friction came when Moffett discovered a sub-committee scout- ing around Washington, visiting minor officials of the Foreign Econ- | omic Administration. Moffett asked them why they didn't go to the top would never have takeh place if| FEA—to Leo Crowley. They re-| the United States had a better plied that they didn't want to talki Ambassador on the scene. to Crowley because this would tip | “According to Torro, the U. S. him off to the plans of private in- | Embassy in La Paz has a number dustry. So Moffett himself went to of wide-awake officers, but they see Crowley, laid the committee's have been prevented by Ambassador |plans on the table, and came to a| Pierre Boal from making the nec- friendly agreement. essary contacts to keep well inform- Meanwhile, Thomas complained ed. And Boal himself is so punctil-| (st Moffett “thinks emotionally,” | ious and protocol-minded that he ;,,q go Jimmy finally resigned. can't stoop far enough to get his| Ropert F. Loree, vice president ot | ear to the ground Guaranty Trust Company, was ap- | Boal has now been recalled ! pointed in his place, and .is now| what appears to be a slap at the | consulting with Treasury officials | new Bolivian government. Actually | apout the restoration of private U : the recall is a slap at Boal him-|g pusiness in Europe. Executive | self. director of the organization is Ed- | ward L. Behr, Jr., son-in-law of Eugene Thomas. | BIG BUSINESS EYES EUROPE Here is the inside story of how big business is watching the ad- vance of the Allied armies in order to restore foreign investments and industrial operations assoon as pos- sible. | Thus far, progress has been rather disappointing. However, the National Foreign Trade Council, in New York, set up a committee to pave the way for the return of General Motors, Standard Oil and kindred companies to Europe. They ,realized that their first job was to get a free hand from fhe U. S. Government, and if possible,| place themselves just one step be- Ld| hind AMG (Allied Military Govern- o | ment) in liberated areas. Then { BUY WAR BONDS i they could jump right in to re- ————— habilitate factories and re-establish banking connections in the Old World. Several months ago, Eugene Thomas, head of the Foreign Trade| Council, and former vice president, - REOMY .0 a0 R of U. S. Steel, picked oil man Jim-| name P iy humorist ing, to head the committee formed | . Approach | Wand ington, and learn the plans of the Torero much mittee consisted of about twenty . Turas to-the every American company with in-| What? tizards. One member of the organization summarized its aims in these words: “We feel we should be allowed to help write the peace treaties in the | interests of U. S. industry.” | (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc) D e o o o o o WEATHER REPORT (U. S. Burean) Temp. Monday, Feb. 7 Maximum 39; Minimum 30 16 precipitation e o o o . * o o o Crossword Puzzle ACROSS and . Cron, weak 34. Small Beheld 45. Fodder pit i. Burst forth 49. Prima donnas 52, clors 54. Roman emperor . Bill European plover Poker stake | 8 Apparel my Moffett, friend of the President! 3 Ahierican 3 Brensnn § . 8 - “Total failure and former head of Federal Hous-| . Cantle ! 00 for this purpose. Thomas felt that MERESF 10 Moffett could open doors in Wash-| getlier i Therefors State Department and Forelgn {aoving too Economic Administration. The com- Bout | 23 Buys buck men who represented practically | et ‘[k‘L ac plant | 28 Toper 2 in Moro severs vestments abroad | T FRICTION DEVELOPS But it wasn’t long before Thomas and Moffett tangled. As chairman, | Moffett thought he was running; the committee. But one day taking| lunch with a committee member, Moffett was shown a confidential/ memo, nicely prepared with a blue i binding. | “What's this?” he asked. | He was told it was a memoran- dum which the committee had| agreed upon. “But I have never seen this, and I have never been consulted. Am! I the chairman of this commmee‘ or not?” i Whereupon Moffett offered his resignation i The breach was healed for the! time being, and meanwhile, Moffett hired Howard Acton, former public relations director for the Home Loan Bank Administration, to do| publicity for . the Foreign Trade Committee at a salary of $1,000 a &F Featvies It continues nxm on lhrough Febluary 15 From such a source, it is a stimulating predlcnon |versely any of the above described | NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR l PATENT Serial No. 010358 cal In the United States Land Office | for the Juneau Land District at\ Anchorage, Alaska. IN THE MATTER OF THE AP-| PLICATION of CHARLES ED-| WIN McCORMICK, a citizen of‘ the United States, to purchase | Public Lands under the Act of May | 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | that Charles Edwin McCormick has | filed Application, Serial No. 010358, | in the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, for patent to land hereinafter described under the provisions of the Act of Congress of | May 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809) for hnd\ more particularly described as fol- lows: Tract “K", Mile 7 Group of Homesites, Glacier Highway, U. S. Survey 2475, containing 4.44 acres; said tract being located at approximately 58° 21" 35” North Latitude and 134° 33 West | Longitude, and being the same | land eliminated from the Ton- | gass National Forest as Tract “K”, Mile 7 Group of Homesites, Glacier Highway, under Execu- | tive Order dated August 8, 1940. | Any and all persons claiming ad- land should file their adverse claims | with the Register of the Uniled} | States Land Office at -Anchorage, Alaska within the period of pub- | ! lication or thirty (30) days there- after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes. Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, this | 5lh day of November, 1943. FLORENCE L. KOLB, Register. First publication: Dec. 28, 1943. Last publication: Feb. 29, 1944. | | W@ x[5[~>[%] FE_WIEE N [/~ T C| ] Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1. Steps 2. Worship Prolongs . Imitate 5. Rendaua tat ot swi . szr:n:m Mountain ridges Precious stone . Funeral oration | fore. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of prosperity. Happiness and ted. Children born on this day will probably have fortunate careers. | Personal popularity will be a factor in their progress | MUGLAS NEWS MRS. FRANK PETTYGROVE AND SON RETURN HOME Mrs. Frank Pettygrove and young | situated near Juneau, Alaska, and |son returned yesterday from a sev- eral weeks' vacation visit with her parents in Ketchikan, Alaska. D. L. W. CLUB TOMORROW The Douglas Island Women’s Club | is scheduled to meet tomorrow eve- ning, Wednesday, at the home of Mrs. Mike Pusich. The meeting, which will begin at 8 o'clock sharp, is announced as a business meeting | of special importance and all mem- | bers are urged to be present. TAXI SERVICE AT DOUGLAS A new taxi service has been or- ganized in Douglas under the man- agement of Richard “Dick” Parsons. The new company is registered as | the Douglas Cab Company, stationed in the former Warner Grocery Store on the corner of Second and D streets. Having recently acquired another car, the management offers a 24-hour service. r S E e c % St EASTERN STAR. NOTICE day, February 8 at 8 pm. ALICE BROWN, Secretary. - - eee KINY PROGRAM SCHEDULE Wednesday 12:00-Song , Parade. 12:15—Treasury Salute. 12:30—Bert's-Alagka Federal News. 12:45—Musical Bon Bons. 1:00—Spotlight Bands. 1:15—Melody Roundup. 1:30—This. Woman's World. 1:45—Personal Album. 2:00-News Rebroadcast. 2:15—Great “Music. 2:30—California, Melodies. 2:45—California Melodies. 3:00—G. 1. Journal. 3:15—G. I. Journal. 3:30—Treasury Star Parade. 3:45—Marching Along. 4:00—News Rebroadcast. 4:15—-Band Wagon. 4:30—Program Resume. adv. Biblical king . Gypsy 6. Devoted ad- herent . Artificial language . Possess . Fusible opaque . Petty malice . Private teacher Staft Bare Aftirmative Saly . Siamese colns . Removed ua- wanted plants Grape pres serve . Impelled . Scene of actlon . Put bottoms on shoes . Cook slowly EBleat Purpos, Scoteh river 4:45—Vesper Service. 5:00—Rebroadcast News. §:15—Sound Off. 5:30—Nelson Eddy. 5:45—Your Dinner Concert. 6:00—Waltz Time. 6:15—Waltz Time. 6:30—Treasury Song for Today. 6:35- -Easy Listening. 6:45—Coca Cola Show. 7:00—B. Levitow Orchestra. 7:15—Standard Oil News. 7:30—Brice .and Morgan. 7:45- Brice and Morgan. 8:00—Your Radio Theatre, 8:15—Your Radio Theatre. 8:30—Your Radio Theatre. 8:45—Your Radio Theatre. 9:00—Kate Smith. 9:15—Kate Smith. 9:30—Gems in Music. 9:45—Alaska Line News. 0:00--Sign Off. success are indi-| Regular business meeting Tues- || increase qur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word : INDUCE; to lead on; to influence. “The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool."—La Bruyere. § MODERN ETIQUETTE ® ;opmrra ek Q. If a girl who is going to dance does not know whether to wear | an evening dress or not, what should she wear? A. The best plan would be for her to ask her escort if the dance is formal. Q. Does it show good taste to have very ornate flower vases? A. No, it is better to have flower vases that are simple in outline and are in harmony with the color scheme of the surroundings. Q. What are some of the more common foods that are eaten with the fingers? A. Celery, rolls. '.OOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON e e et e et e e e i i 1. What organization had its origin in the South during the recon- struction days after the Civil War? 2. What is meant by a post facto law? 3. Why was rosewood given that name? 4. In the Yukon Territory, what town is the seat of territorial gov- ernment? 5. What is the favorite wild flower in the United States? ANSWERS: Ku Klux Klan. A law made to punish acts committed before its passage. Because some of the varieties have a rose scent. Dawson. The wild rose. W. B. 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