The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1944, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - -7 Pprésident DOROTHY TROY_ LINGO - = = VicePresident Editor and Manacer Managing Editor Business WILLIAM R. CARTER - - - ELMER A. FRIEND - - ALFRED ZENGER TR Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. UBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneay and Dopglas for $1.50. per month, By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ene month. in advance, §1 50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the ‘Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. Entered in the Post S| MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It of. not other- vt credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES - a Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. Ala AIRCRAFT The last two years of war have seen some sharp changes in points of view relative to air power and its effects on—and in—total war. But nowhere have these changes been more marked than in the Pacific aréa. At the time of Pearl Harbor aircraft carriers generally were conceded a necessary implement for vietory.. Shortly thereafter, due to Allied losses no doubt, there was widespread opinion that the carrier already had become obsolete. Today in the Pacific theatre the aircraft caryier is proving its full effective- ness in both naval and land operations. When the Japanese began their island empire expansion years ago they probably foresaw to a. limited | extent the possibilities of aircraft as battle weapons. Even.then the idea of “unsinkable carriers” may have been in the minds of their leaders. A few months ofter the war began Nipponese commanders boasted that their island bases were impregnable against any air attack which might come from the sea, since these islands could not be bombed to the bottom of the ocean, while the ships that brought the attacking planes were themselves vulnerable to island-based fliers. ¢ How far they were wrong in that theory they are now learning. They have discovered in several recent battles that it matters not a whit whether the carriers that bring the planes can or cannot be sunk, providing there are enough carriers to bring enough planes to overwhelm the opposition. We are winning the war of the atolls because, while the enemy island bases cannot be sunk, they still can be so badly crippled that they offer futile opposition. ‘The Japanese are learning, too, that supply ship- ping, vital to the maintenance of any maritime em- pire, can be bombed just as effectively from carriers as it can from land bases. And while the island “car- rie: can't be sent,to Davey Jones's locker, the garrisons which man them can be starved into sub- mission by the cutting of their communications. Today the aircraft carrier is among America’s most powerful weapons. Instead of reducing produc- tion on these great ships, we have increased it to a point where the United States now commands more vessels of this class than most of the other nations of the earth combined. Judicial Inflation (Washington Post) M. Justice Jackson, speaking at Philadelphia be- fore the American Law Institute, announced his dis- covery that the principle of Gresham’s Law applies quite as much to jurisprudence as to currency or to literaturc. He said that the value of judicial opinions appears to be in inverse ratio to the rate of produc- tion; or, to use the justice’s own words, “when so many issues of opinioh compete for acceptance, they invariably suffer a discount.” Thus the very mul- tiplication of precedents tends to diminish the force of precedent as a judicial precedent for “in this great mass of opinions by men of different temperaments and qualifications and view points, writing at different [ times and under varying local influences, some printed | judicial word may be found to support any plausible | opinion.” Justice Jackson confessed that he did not | have time to read, “much less to digest,” the plethora | of “current decisions of importance.” In other words, a kind of legal chaos seems to be following the social and ethical chaos of the times.! Doubtless in the past the force of- precedent has | | derived from an apparently instinctive human tend- ency to consider custom and law closely related and | in many cases identical. No doubt there was a time when judges; in rendering a decision, could feel them- | selves governed by something like a categorical im- perative. It is doubtful that this can be so in a time when all soclety is in a state of flux, and when neither ! | norms of thought mor norms of custom can be said to exist. Nothing, it seems to us, could more clearly il- | lustrate the intensely revolutionary character of our | times than Justice Vackson’s complaint. None of us, ‘perhnps, is quite sure of the nature or the ultimate direction of this revolution, but we do know that in almost all of its aspects it evinces that shift from the ‘quallv,auve to a purely quantitative that Mr. Jackson | | has lamented. Thus the curious hypertrophy of Inw‘] and of judicial decisions and opinions is merely one | | aspect of a well-nigh universal phenomenon. Nothing \l else is more evident today than what the acute| | Spaniard, Don Jose Ortega y Gasset has called “the | fact of agglomeration or ‘plenitude.’ Towns are full | of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guestst trains full of travelers, cafes full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting rooms of famous doc- | tors full of patients, theatres full of spectators . . .| | can any fact be simpler, more patent, more constant | in actual 1Me?” Washinglon : Merry- Go-Round (Continued trom rage One) house since the Cromwell. ed ! ~ California to Chicago say, may be in a different cate- telephone exclusively, Fe's superintendent of telegraph T. It was a solid train- | manufacturer as P. Brewster. ARMY PROMOTIONS The genéral whose name Was suddenly withdrawn by the White iana’ Islands was MERRY-GO-ROUND The Santa Fe official, who pilot- the first freight train from \load of patatoes * * *- One reason for the U. S. attack on’the Mar- painted over a rare old tapeltry{would make him a mere figure- wallpaper which had been in the head. He resigned. angle of the cos- |metics business” sald OPA's | Martha Wood recently, “has oc- casioned a good deal of amusement |to the dignitaries of the OPA. It has been a little startling to law- using a radio Yers and economists to be asked Wwas Santa |to approve dn order pricing a new | perfume which is described ‘by the days of Ollver‘; “The glamor distilled by .cabalistic ‘ incantations at the quarter of the. moon when to' dare the Jap i {for the establishment of maximum tless favorable than ‘Savage . Love—| |the sap is running full, as a case! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ann Richards Lester.Linehan John Runguist Lloyd Knutson Mrs C. M. Fuller Clarice T. Sanders Emma Campbell R. M .Sawyer Daisie Reynolds - e ;HOROSCQRE { “The stars tncline but do not compel” SATURDAY, JUNE 24 Adverse planetary aspects dom- inate today. The late hours are the morning Accidents, especially drownings may be numerous. HEART AND HOME: Infor- mal hospitalities should be extend-| ed at_this time when human con- tacts are soothing and reassuring to those who bear burdens of sor- row. Itqis an unfavorable time for the aged, especially for those who have maintained usual activities Rest out of doors is recommended under this configuration. BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Chaotic planetary influences will affect in- dustry and, workers of many classes. Prosperous days will continue for millions of workers, NATIONAL ISSUES: Moderation will be preached by thinkers as too much or too little war, information passes the censors. There is an aspect that warns of the danger of the spoken word. Discussion. of war conditions should, be avoided whenever possible, those who read the stars insist. 5 3 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: There will be a gradual recognition of the far vision of certain states- men as various knotty questions in foreign’ relations are wisely an- swered. An omen is seen of ter- rible conflict in which United Na- tions may make slow but sure pro- gress. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of extraor- dinary experiences. Minor annoy- |ances lead to pleasant solutions of jodd_troubles, i Children born on this day may |at. maturity be too fond of display jand admiration. They will be tal- iented and highspirited. | (Copyright, 1944) | 'SMALL DRAFT BOARD List 18 The following is’the new list ‘of reclassifications released today by | the, local Draft Board: A—John A, Niemi and Benjamin 2-A—Willlam E. Odell, 2-A(F) Gildo A, Batiello, 2-B—David Mahlum. House for promotion cracked up on the beach in France. His name had been sent to the Senate for promotion to major general and was about to be approved by the Senate Military Affairs Commit- tee. But General Marshall hap- pened to see him completely gone| to pieces on the beach, and sent| a quick radio message to the White House to withdraw his name from | the promotion list. These things happen in wartime, but Somfe Senators are now ques- tioning the wisdom of quick pro- motions for generals during war- time. Senators Hill, Kilgore, Wall- gren, Thomas of Utah and Johnson of Colorado favar more promotions for the boys ranging from corporal to major, less for the generals— until after the war. Arthur Bunker of Lehman Broth- ers and the War Production Board is lobbying with Senators for the promotion of Colonel E. F. Jeffe, former Vice President of Consoli- dated Edison, to be a brigadier general. Charley Wilson, former head of*General Electric, wants him promoted. One boy who deserves promotion, wherever he is, is young Lieut. Ted| Binder, who went down over Berlin last week while bellwethering a squadron of 60 Flying Fortresses. If he made a mistake in direction, | then the 60 planes with him did too. But he didnt. It was his 26th mission over Europe. Last winter, a newspaper cor- respgndent asked Lieut, Binder how he liked London. “I don’t. know,” he said. “This is the first time I've been in London. But I've seen Berlin three times.” Like anany other fathers of heroes, ; Chicago Daily News foreign editor Carroll Binder, father of the boy, got the bad news of the last Berlin raid on Fathers’ Day. AMERICANS PAINT LONDON Gen. - Eisenhower’s London . head- quarters recently had to be moved to an ancient English residence in a very fa: able district. Like; many houses whose owners trace their lineage back a thousand years, it was dark and, to the American military eye, almost seedy. So Eisenhower's boys decided to cheer it up, lavishly applied white paint, made it fresh and sprightly, were proud of their ‘work. But when the owner came back, he nearly dropped dead. They had fleet to come out.and fight, ‘They didn't accept. Perhaps they knew | the terrific force that was awaiting them * * * Real reason why Jim Farley resigned from the New York ‘State Democratic Committee when | he did was the impending selection | lof a New York campaign manager. | When Jim was re-elected State | !Chairman, it was with the under- | standing that he would permit the | selection of a campaign. manager |acceptable to the White House. | |Bob Hannegan, who made the ar-| rangement, said thére was no per-| centage in having Jim pick a New |York manager who might go in |the opposite direction from Roose- | ivelt * ** So when the time came manager to be selected, (for a N. Y. )€ that the appointment Jim realized prices under Sec. 6, Paragraph (B) TF, Maximum Price Regulation 393" (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) High tide— 3:46 a. m,, 162 feet. Low tide —10:22 a. m,, -1.0 feet. High tide— 4:47 p. m,, 14.7 feet. Low tide—10:33 p. m,, 40 feet. ———— NOTICE Due to inability to secure exper- ienced help in the dry cleaning de- partment, the Alaska Laundry, Inc. is forced to discontinue, dry-clean- ing until further. notice. 'ACROSS 1. Shake Part of an amphi- theater Steal . Rice paste Scent of cooking Silkworm . Wire mensure: ment . Music drama 7. Favorite Widen 43, Boy 33. Gathered together Devoured 35, While 36. Containers for bee ees Genus ot e maple tres . RevOles at iards o Ml 24 Anclent race 2. indian splrit 9. The birds 30. Fast 31 Ourselves . Government levy 2. Entlrely Absolute 54 Yale 55. Color Solution Of Yesterd: . Ovules . Posed o “Biblical gard And ot s Spider Rumor . Seaweeds . Motsel T Strict Salts of acetic . Pr q 5.»11&’1@. Eiyely . Hard ‘questions . Summoned ‘nv icly : Sombatently . Companion 1 . Femdle saint: abbr, 2-B(F)—Grant Ritter. 4-F—Walter A. Jackson. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That John Maurstad and his wife 1‘Rgth Hatch Maurstad, of Juneau, Alaska, have filed their joint peti- tion in the Commissioner’s Court for Juneau Precinct, First Division, Ters rifory of Alaska, at Juneau, for adoption of Harriett Ann Caudill, born October 6, 1930 at Fleming, Kentucky, and James Elmer Caudill, born May 3, 1982 at Jenkins, Ken- tucky, and for change of their names to Harriett Ann Maurstad and James Elmer Maurstad; that hear- ing gn said petition has been set for 10 A, M,, August 14, 1944 in said Commissioner’s Court; and that William. Caudill, the non-consenting father of said children, and all other, persons concerned, are hereby cited to be and appear in said .Court, at the time .and place aforesaid, a show cause, if any they have, why the adoption and change of names should not be granted. Dated: Juneau, Alaska, June 15, 1944. FELIX GRAY, || in the 5. 20 YEARS AGO F¥% eurire JUNE 23, 1924 Mrs. Cora R. Franz, Most Worthy Grand Matron of the General | Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, the highest officer of the organiza- tion, was to arrive the next day at noon on a visit to orders in Douglas and Juneau. Crews of two Eagle boats were to be entertained this night at a dance given by Gov. Scott C. Bone and Mrs. Bone at the mansion. Ford Butler, who was to meet Freddy Cullen in a Fourth of July smoker, was scheduled to begin training in Juneau. Gov. Scott C. Bone was announced as the Fourth of July speaker it the doings in Douglas. The Misses Elva Kirkham and Selma Aalto returned home to Douglas iiter attending college outside. E. E. Weschenfelder, proprietor of the Douglas Market, returned home after attending the grand session of the Masonic Lodge in Bel- lingham, Wash., as a delegate. Koski and O'Neill were scheduled to do the hurling for the City baseball tedm in a game this night against a picked nine from two Eagle boats in the harbor. Manager Woodard had the following to pick as other members of the city team: Kearney, Henning, Henry, Hanna, Hagen, Brown, Nelson. The previous day, the Elks held the annual picnic at Marmion Island with several hundred attending, trips being made on the Alma and other pleasure craft. Eats and sports were enjoyed. Among the little girls winning races were Gene VanderLeest, Dorothy Olson, and Mable Powers. Weather report: high, 68; low, 58. [ —— Daily lesscns in English % .. corpon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I shall be glad to accept of your hospitality.” Omit OF. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Chimerical. Pronounce ki-mer-i-kal, both F's as in IT, B as in MET, A unstressed, accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Correspondent (two R’s); one with whom intercourse is carried .on by letters. Corespondent (one R); 'a joint respondent, as in a divorce suit. SYNONYMS: Justice, justness, fairness, equality, legality. 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: PLATONIC; purely spiritual; having no passion; said of love. “Their friendship was truly platonic in nature.” ] MODERN ETIQUETTE ™ eosrra vee N e Q. When acknowledging an introduction and one wishes to avoid the formal “How do you do?”, wouldn't it be all right to say, “I am so glad to meet you"? A. Yes; this expression is proper if it can be said sincerely. Q. Which edge of the knife should point towards the plate when placing the silver on the table? v A. The cutting edge of the knife. Q. What would be good manners in proper business telephoning? A. Briefness and courtesy. | rorrrrrr e e I.OOK and LEARN f{ C. GORDON B e e e ] 1. What difference is there between the freezing points of the Fahrenheit and the Centigrade thermometers? . What living organism has the strongest sense of sniell? How many. cubic feet are there in a cord of wood? In round figures, what was the total cost of the nations involved World War I? What is reclaimed from scrap tinfoil? ANSWERS: p: 1. Fahrenheit, freezing 32 degrees, boiling 212; Centigrade, freezing 0, boiling 100. 2. Fish. 128 cubic feet. $400,000,000,000. Tin. 4. 5. “B.D.STEWART as 4 paid-up subcriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to pr t this.coupon this evening at the box office of the——— CAPITOL THEATRE and rec.eive TWQ TICKETS to see: "THE GREAT IMPERSONATOR" Federal Tax—11¢ per Person - - WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! United States Commissioner. HOWARD D. STABLER, Petitioners’ Attorney, Last publication, June 30, 1944, 12:00 P.M.—Song Parade. 12:25 PM.-—"I‘l;ea.pur_v Song for To- day. 12:30 P.M.—Bert’s - Alaska Federal | :45 P.M.—] cal Bon Bons. 1:00 P.M.—Off air until 3;55 P.M. 00 P.M.—Rebroadcast News. 4:15 P.M.—Rev. 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