The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1944, Page 4

LA Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks. CELEN TROY MONSEN - Pre Sntered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RA' Yelivered by earrler in Junesn and Douclas for §1.50 per month. By mail, postage pa! the following rates: One year, In advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the a--. ivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Busipess Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published Berein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash. greater when new offensives begin, taking as they must their tolls of materiel as well as of lives. Many factors have contributed to the almost un- believable American naval and military accomplish- ments of the last two years. The tremendous produc- tion of ships has been one: the defeat of the German submarine campaign has been another. But greater than either of these—although included in both—has been the production record of civilian United States With all the strikes, with all the bickering and con- fusion, our mills and factories, our mines and rail- roads have turned into a tremendously efficient war- time machine. Democratic processes in two short vears have been able to so far excel the records of the dictatorships that victory probably will come much sooner than we even dared hope a few months ago. Somervell and Canol (Cincinnati Enquirer) From reports which are available, it would appear that the Canol project in the Northwestern Territories and the Yukon, in Canada, is a complete and dismal failure. We know that it has been tremendously expensive; that the Army has employed thousands of men, quantities of material and months of time. The possible returns seem small; the probable ones even smaller. There is a greater clamor from the publie, from government heads and from investigating agencies that the work cease. Strange enough, the work seems to be continuing in spite of all this opposition. The Army man who is bearing the brunt of the United States Army's chief of supply. There is little MILLIONS ABROAD Byt the end of 1944 two-thirds of America's Army will be serving in foreign ports. That was the an- nouncement made public recently by Secretary of War Stimson. The statement reflects, in an amazing fash- ion, the present ability of the Allies to move troops swiftly. It also indicates the extent to which prepara- tions have, been made to receive those troops Only a few months ago there were observers in Washington who insisted that it would be impossible for the United States to move 3,000,000 troops to foreign posi- tions over a period of years. Secretary Stimson says we'll move more than 3,000,000 men abroad in the next 12 months! At the end of 1943 our foreign units comprised sommething less than 3,000,000 soldiers. The majority of them had been carried abroad during that year, for at the end of 1942 our expeditionary forces still were pitifully small. By the end of 1944, with an Army which will number in the neighborhood of 10,000,000, we will have more than 6,000,000 uniformed men at their battle stations. That tremendous operation in that short a time will be possible only because our facilities for transport have been doubled and re- doubled in the months since Pearl Harbor ‘The transfer of men is not the only task. All their equipment, their supplies and their ammunition must also be shipped. During the last year or more the Allies have been building tremendous depots of ma- terials in thousands of far-off places. But while those reserves can meet immediate needs, they must be re- plenished constantly. And that task will be even Nashinglon candidate doesn't the source of his amount spent. need to speak here of General Somervell’s over-all war record. His job has been one of the toughest assignments ever given to any man. It was par- ticularly so early in the conflict, when ships were vital. Few will deny that the supply chief did an few and far between and needs were tremendous and excellent job with the tools a ble; that he is con- tinuing to do a good, job. He which the nation is relying for one of the most | important of its military operations. Among those operations is the Canol undertaking. | That he considers it worth the time and effort his men are devoting to it seems obvious. Otherwise it is hardly possible he would be continuing it. officers are like the rest of us; they do not look for | extra tasks, particularly when those tasks are so | unpopular that they raise great storms of public | protsst In all the maze of “information” which has been | printed and broadeast on the Canol oil program we | have found no explanation from the man who knows most about it. Is General Somervell's reticence a necessary part of military secrecy? Or does he realize | that he has blundered and hestitate to say so? If the latter is the case, General Somervell | would be wise to admit the mistake'and take the consequences. A nation which has trusted him to spend hundreds of billions will hardly expect him to complete the task without an error—even if that error runs into millions. | That's one possibility. The other is that there are certain phases of the Canol project which cannot | be made public: that General Somervell must sit tight and take the criticism, confident that when the whole truth can be told his judgments will be justtified. In either case it appears that the nation should wait before going all-out for General Somervell’s scalp. as certain individuals seem inclined to do. His general record has been a good one. Tt still takes more than one swallow to make a summer. have to reveal ous mission, every man at the post income or the|jesponded. Reath was better than | dread monotony. criticism is Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell, | , in short, a man on | ment. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 14 Lloyd Winter v Mrs. Olaf Bodding Mrs. Edward Bach Nathyla MacDonald Mildred Bryson Gary Aalto Bach John A. Larson Austin Brown Axel Nielson HOROSCOPE “The stars incline j { but do not com; { i TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Delays and frustrations may mark the morning hours but later in the day benefic aspects rule. HEART AND HOME: National iliqum' problems will ‘be discussed at home as well as hotels and res- taurants. Old-fashioned ways are to return when women are able to discard uniforms and again enjoy home tasks. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: This |should be a fairly active day for trade and commerce. The stars in- dicate that some friendly power will attempt a diplomatic coup. | NATIONAL ISSUES: Appease- ment of conciliatory measures preached by well-meaning persons will arouse more and more resent- The stars have again been read as presaging another Japan- abomination. legitimate result of our part in the |World War. A portent warns of Army | diplomatic efforts to prevent our es- tablishment of democratic ideals in reconstructed Europe. Persons whose birthdate it is should avoid sudden changes. Af- fections may be unstable in the coming year. Financial gains are foretold. Children born on this day will probably have artistic ambitions jalong the lines of music or writing. Hasty tempers may develop early. (Copyright, 1944) NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION |In the United States Commission- er's Court for Precinct of Juneau, Division Number One, Territory of Alaska. IN PROBATE. In the Matter of the Estate ot ! BRAWN BENSON also known as BROWN BENSON, Deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN B. BENSON has filed in this | court his petition for letters of ad- | ministration upon the ‘estate of | BRAWN BENSON, deceased, pray- ing that said estate be administered as a large, solvent, and that the INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| If we accept General Somervell in that light we iWUrld leadership for the United | ‘must wonder how he appraises the Canol project. | States has been predicted as the Memy- Go-Round (Continuea 1rom Page Ome) Whoever it was, Louisiana has decided that it will stick to the well worn and only partially banished |ramnants of Huey Longism instead of trying a new and untried po- |litical soothsayer. Almost anything | can happen in Louisiana politics, dumped into radio hook-ups, road- put apparently the miracle of “Min- side billboards and parish-workers now” Morrison becoming Kingfish throughout the state. It is com- jsn't in the cards yet. monly reported that he spent $200,- 000, which is nothing to sneeze at,! even in Louisiana How Jimmy raised $200,000 even half of that in view of the fact that he had trouble even in paying his own hotel bill in W:nh-‘ ington, and the fact that Standard ALEUTIAN EXITLES or! Merchant seamen who have |touched at the Aleutian Tslands bring back grim storfes about the |morale of U. S. soldiers. Some have been the men on 0i] is suing him for non-payment|Aleutians since 1941, with no idea | of $3,000 worth of gasoline from a When they might get home—if ever. previous campdign, has everybody | ‘When a Washington 'official said in the state guessing (the war might last for several years, One answer to the mystery is re- 1lopes in the dismal darkness of the Poker is the favorite pastime. Sme will be heard on the 22nd day The men have plenty of money be- Of February, 1944, at 10:00 o'clock cause there is no way to spend xt‘f"‘ the forencon of said day, at the but even the money is depressing COUTt-room -of said court at Room because it is tattered and torn from | 913, Federal Building, Juneau, Alas- changing hands'in so many poker X8 and all persons interested in games. Hardly a bill in the Aleu- S3id estate are notified then and tians does not depend on scotch there to appear and show cause, if tape, for there are stories of fab- AhY they have, why the prayer of ulous winnings. One story tells of | Sald petitioner should not be grant- a man who won $45,000 but this is e, A . denied by one of his buddies who Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 10th 6 “ _ !day of February, 1944 says, “I know, because I lived in y 43 = the same tent with him. He won (Prohate sc"l.' FELIX GRAY, only $25,000.” ,U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio Prob: 3 One card shark is reported w:’l‘err{‘t';‘y 'L‘;d‘:as:;n““ Fracingt | have paid another soldier ten dol- | |lars an hour to substitute for mm‘ffit ::::,‘::&fi?‘ :::' ;11 s :3:: on duty, while he was having a| 5 iy 4 | lucky streak, and to have paid an- TR other $50 an evening to watch ‘the Isold for fabulous sums. 20 YEARS AGO £%'c emeire FEBRUARY 14, 1924 George Wheeler Hinman, Hearst expert visiting the Pacific Coast. jsaid in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that more trade could be created {with Alaska than with Europe. Alaska was fast becomning the treasure ::hc.x( for both Washington and Oregon, especially for Washington and nost especially for Seattle. [ Southeast Alaska's gain in 1923 over 1922 in exports amounted. to slightly less than 40 per cent, according to figures in the annual report of the Collector of Customs. The actual gains were imports, $4,255919: ixports, excluding gold and silver, $13,872,511, the respective totals being 313,671,489 and $20,656,674. John Lauric and wife were passengers on the Alaska coming on a visit to their daughter Helen Laurie. Roy Rutherford, of the Juneau Sawmill, was returning on the steamer Alaska. Dr. H. C. DeVighne, Territorial Commissioner of Health, left on the Admiral Watson for Seward, enroute to Anchorage on a brief business |trip. He was expected to be away about twn weeks. | George C. Burford, for many years proprietor of Burford’s Corner, {who had disposed of that business the previous fall and had been visiting in California, returned here. He brought with him a new Chevrolet sedan, the first of its kind to be seen in Juneau. Earle E. Blossom, well known in Juneau, was at this time installed in the office of the Pacific American Fisheries Company at Bellingham land was to g6 to the company’s large King Cove Alaska Peninsula can- nery in the spring. High, 17: low, 17; clear. | Weather report Daily Lessons in English % .. corpox S e e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He is a better player than you think for.” Omit FOR. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Intricacy. Pronounce in-tri-ka-si, all I's as in IT, A unstressed, accent fir: lable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Crisis (singular). Crises (plural). SYNONYMS: Collegiate, academic, scholarly, scholastic, pedantic. - WORD STUDY: “Use a Word three times and it is your: Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: jHOLOCAUST; a complete destruction, especially by fire. (Pronounce | hol-o=kost, first O as in OF, second O as in NO, third O as in OR, accent first syllable). “The holocaust claimed hundreds of lives.” | MODERN ETIQUETTE * popprra wee | Q. Should a formal invitation be addressed to both husband and wife, even if the hostess is not acquainted with one of them? A. Yes; neither the husband nor the wife should be omitted. Q. Would it be better to have a small wedding take place in the bride's home instead of in church? A. This is ‘entirely a matter of the bride’s and bridegroom's wishes. Either way is correct. Q. Is it proper for a man to take his partner’s arm when they walk across the dance floor? A. Not unless the girl has suddenly become ill, or for some reason requires assistance. e e e e e LOOK and LEARN ¥ . cornon R e e e et ] 1. How many cities have been the capitals of the United States? 2. What is a troglodyte? 3. In what part of the human body is the pineal gland? 4. By what name are the prongs of an anchor known? 5. What country was the first to recognize Soviet Russia? ANSWERS: 1. Three; New York, Philadelphia and Washington. 2. A cave-dweller. 3. At the base of the skull cavity. 4. Flukes. 5. Great Britain. MARGARET CASE lights so they wouldn't be turned ported to be a certain gentleman | Aleutians sank lower and lower. Hardest to bear is the lack of ac- who sits in the lobby of the Heidel- | berg Hotel in Baton Rouge and who was one of Morrison's mysterious tion. In one case, called for volunteers for a dange off ‘during the game. One enterprising group of soldiers turned to distilling liquor from dried apricots and sugar. Their product when an officer {service two years will be welcomed [nawhere more joyfully than in the | Aleutian Islands. (Copyrigit, 1944, by United outside backers. He is William = SRR T 4 ¥k | Baldwin Shearer, self-styled “Big ! o = Bondibmb, nc) Bass Drum” because of his ten-| [O]L] T R dency -toward self advertisement.| Crossword Puzz]e (GIE i He is the man who was paid by the Im) big steel companies to break up the ACROSS 39. Flowering 4 Geneva Naval Conference in 1027. | 1 Excited o 8000, 0 i3 Shearer is one of Washington's: 5. x?uun- seaweed 43 Male deer Ik 2 Tuesday most mysterious lobbyists. During| 3 Stedl | o {s“‘:{;j’r’,s tkn Isla | |12100-Song Parade. the more peaceful days when Fine openwork 47. Filled pastry [E] 12:15—Treasury 'Salute. Presidents Coolidge and Hoover Dodiiide itk . Wossr® ] 12:30-—Bert’-Alaska Federal News. were trying to stabilize the navies! 15, Winglike 5. Musical 12:45—Musical Bon Boris. of the world, he received large Gheaice R ament Il | 1:00—Spotlight Bands. amounts of money from Bethlehem, , Au, utilate Part of a flower a] 1:15—Melody Roundup. Newport News Shipbuilding Com-| 3i (hagres, B i o 1:30—Show Time. pany, Brown-Boveri and others to s l;ideml 60. So. A_x‘no::‘can EJBES Qm 1:45—Personal ‘Album. stir up trouble between the United| 34 quaity ¥ Brcourase - $ 2:00—News Rebroadcast. States and England and sabotage 27. One who pre- 64, gim n'mn\al Solution Of Saturday’s Puzzie | 2:16—Hymns from Home. armament agreements. S o N AR 8. Roman date 2. Pertatning to | 2:30—Front Line Theatre. At one time Shearer felt that the| 66. Nothing more gy Caresces the throat 2:45—One Night Stand. big shipbuilding companies had not | 6. Peor Gynts DOWN 3. Early English | 3:00—Kay Kyser, lived up to their lobbying agreement | mother 1. Poplar b A e 3:15—Kay Kyser. and sued them for $200,000 for back pay due him for breaking up the Geneva Conference. Later this suit became the sth Jject of a Senate investigation in| 1829 and there was inserted into! the record a Scotland Yard repori on Shearer which had considerable to say about his detective story past,| describing him as a ‘“notorious as-| sociate of international crooks and' swell ‘mobsmen.” | The contents of the Scotland Yard réport were vigorously denied | by Shearer on the witness stand. After bobbing up from time to| time in Washington, he appeared | in ‘Louisiana as the friend, adviser, and some people believe, the fi- nancial go-between for certain mon- jed interests in the North willing| to gamble on setting up a new and budding young dictator in Louis- | _iana. Who it is that is willing to risk' a sizeable fortune on backing Mor- rison to be Kingfish is anybody's guess, and under Louisiana law the 5. Great Britaln . Article of . Warm again d oo hly . ‘Source ot 3:30—Are You a Genius? 3:45—Marching Along. apparel 4:00—Néws Rebroadcast. . Playing ca a4 | 4:15Gospel Rebroudeast. 4:30—Program Resume. 4:46—Vesper Service. 5:00—News Rebroaticast. 5:16—Sound Off. phosphorua 5:30—Afternoon Musicale. ¥ % ;g!lll)g::l‘:ldl 5:45—Behind the Headlines. & Alistndons 6:00—Music froin ‘America. . ‘Failure to kéep Copy of matter aiready . Prevaricator . Masculine nanie . Coarse hominy 1. Free Insect AP Fectures 6:15—Music from America. '6:30—Treasury Song for Today. pubiished 6:35—Basy Listening. Newstecss 6:45—Coca Cola Show. : Doe 7:00—Talking Drums. hyaeinths 1:15—Standard Ofl News. 7:30--Bob Hope. %1:45—-Bob 'Hope. 8:00—Yarns for Yanks. 8:15—Fred Waring Orchestra. 8: Program, USO. : 8:45—Quiz Program, USO. - 9:00-Village Store. 9:15—Villuge Store. 9:45—Alaska Line News. 10:00—Sign Off. News of ‘the mew Army system |{ lof rotating men who have been in || as-a paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to present this coupon this evening 1 at the box office of the—— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "WHITE SAVAGE" Federal Tax—6¢ per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—-Your Name May Appear! INWAR <=, AS IN PEAC THE atiagement of the bank @ YEPOSITS | IR THIS BANK ARE INSURED National Bank S TUNEAU; ALRSER ©'i-% 1§ L] SIT_IN ct C ORATIO sures esch &f ‘eur deposicon againse ‘low ‘% ‘s ‘siaximem of 35,008 i % = MBER FEDERA | There is no subsfitute for néflpifir advertising! 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