The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1945, Page 4

THL DAIL\ ALASKA LMPIRL - UNLAU ALAbl\A HAPPY BIRTHDAY || 20 YEARS AGO e Yhvies PUSISNSUSUSSUSPUUSUSUUN PRSP TR AR (38 SO . S0 JANUARY 30 [ JANUARY 30, 1925 David DeLong One dog team carrying serum to Nome had reached Ruby from |7, Susan - Jane Boggan Fairbanks. Seppala is reported to have left Nome for his part of the Silver Bow Lodge @Nm A210.0.F. Meets each Tues- M"';{ 1;‘,‘-'";[30";{"” {relay. Meanwhile, Mayor Maynard of Nome, had wired Washington the day at 8:00 P. M. I.0O. O. F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome E. M. Goddard | situation was becoming more acute. GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand : ; X Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - WILLIAM R. CARTER - ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter, SUBSCRIPTION RAT! Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dougl six months, $8.00; one vear, $15.00. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in ance, $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 failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. TUE.SDAY JANUARY 30 I945 TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 But it is a good indication that stem has not been kept up to date. | “On personal property we have the same in-j equality. For instance--we find one couple living in :\“ President | furnished apartment declare their personal property | Edl,m‘«'flfdf;&fig;“g: at $700 and with the $200 exemption, pay taxes on| Managing Editor | $500. We find another couple have a large home, Business Menager | . bletely furnished, beautiful stove, refrigerator, | radio, expensive rugs, etc., complete. They declare the | personal property at $720 and pay taxes on $520—$20 | difference between the two when there probably should | | be a difference of $1,000 The credit of the city is based upon the appraisr’(li values within the city. With a new appraisal, Juneau | will be in a much better position to issue bonds for much needed post-war projects. sal is completed and fairly so, and the Cou the tax rate in August, many persons may pay less taxes, some more. But as near as we can possibly make it, every one will be paying a just and fair amount according to what is owned. “When thg work starts we ask the support and | cooperation of everyone.” the amounts asked | our present ta MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. E. F. CLEMENTS, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. ‘for $1.50 per month; Lodema Johnson ‘ here in the interests of one of his firms R. F. Johnston Amelia Genstead - e (Pt e s J. W. Gucker had arrived | the General Cigar Company. Members of Moose Legion announced a cabaret dance for the Aux- H 0 R 0 S c 0 P E " | iliary Moose Lodge No. 700 for the next night. « . . Steamer Princess Mary arrived from Skagway, iced down as the The stars incline T ? ] ; angplank could but dO not pafer l" ;esfllt g( a gale. Ice had to be chopped before the gangplank coui be (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) pe ki NYAL Family Remedies ? Mrs. C. E. Rice left on :he Princess Mary enroute to Atlanta, HOR}‘éJé:]gEED?nNISH | | Georgia, on a visit to her mother’s home, and also visit her two sons attending school in Indiana. | Warfields' Drug Stoze MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED 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 | many of our NIGHT SCHOOL TYPING and SHORTHAND Mon.-Tues.-Wed. 7 to 9:30 P. M. Juncau City Council Chambers Miss McNair—Ph. Douglas 48 B ™ m»opon FIRS | B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting Brothers wel- come. A. B, HAYES, Exalted Ruler; H. L. McDONALD, Secy. NATIONAL R Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bl ol | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 MBI b el g This is an uncertain day in i, 5 iplanetary government. Adverse of “G. L. 2 o s VA |signs are seen for certain opera- | on war fronts | (Genesis [kt i Fire this afternoon did $2,500 damage to the Charles Miller home on Gastineau Avenue. The blaze was caused by an explosion in the kitchen z | tio { (WashiuiIeems.. | . | HEART AND HOME — Restora- | Since the publication of our editorial on this sub-jon of war veterans to normal|range. Mrs. Miller and two children were in the house at the time |ject Monday various persons, including a retired jife will be given constant atten- | put escaped safely. Firemen used two lines of hose attached to the high | general officer whose family has been connected With tion through coming months. Wo- | essure hydr: 2 the Army for seve generations and whose testimony \men will find many ways of con- B e |on the point may be taker 5 conclusive, have \mvn'“.m"“,m | setting us right as to the correct etymology of “G. L." Contact with those who Have It appears that “G. 1” does not mean, as we had |fought for our safety will bring |assumed, and as is now very widely believed even in|fyjl realization of the meaning- of the Army itself, “Government Issue,” but “Galvanized |war and will change the carefree Iron,” and was applied to only one article of standard |attitude of many hitherto thought- issue equipment. By a certain association of ideas it |less persons, the seers prediet. became a term of opprobrium among enlisted men | BUSINESS AFFAIRS—Purveyors in the old professional Arr a fighting epithet, in |of food come under a configuration | fact. Thus the general says he cannot help a feeling ' that seems to presage profit for| of shock when he hears the term used nowadays lm restaurants. Demand for home- ‘ E | polite society or sees it in print in decorous journals. | cookin vi y X K by revaluation of all real and personal property in the | He is even more shocked when he hears soldiers apply | men ughv:‘lz]xlxn>b‘vx;’::-]|~t"~|“3t‘ p,rz'\,(rm city. The cost of this service, which will start soon, |4 (o themselves or to others. He recalled a time nearly | balanced menus. s will be $11,950. 135 years ago when he sat on a military court which NATIONAL ISSUES—Buyers of | For many years now the city has been basing its ‘wa trying a soldier accused of an assault on another |war bonds who fail to héld them tax levies upon values that are far outdated and it |soldier, and the assailant’s defense was that his victim funtil maturity are using poor Jjudg- | has been some cause of wonderment that the revenues | had called him a “G. 1.” ment in financial matters, astrolo- produced from this guessing game have been what‘ ‘What seems to have happened is that in 1917 and gers warn. They will have reason thay iaba. |afterward the new soldiers absorbed some of the to regret their lack of patriotism vocabulary of the Regular Army without absorbing . The purpose of the study is to eliminate the ‘lhe connotations. Thus some of the terms underwent inequalities which now exist. It is not the purpose ja very rapid modification of meaning. In France in of the study to raise the tax rate. We have asked 1917-18 the term “G. 1.” was being used to describe Mayor Hayes for his views on the matter and we the attitude of the military police in Paris and had the believe that his discussion will be of interest to all jconnotation of “tough” or “hard boiled.” A few years It follows: later, says our informant, it had undergone a com- rard to the con- ‘])IN( semantic reversal and was being used as a term | of high approval. Thus the mid-1920’s, when the gen- eral was a patient at an Army hospital, he was aston- |ished to hear a nurse speak in terms of obvious admiration of one of the doctors as real G. 1.’ Concerning “Joe,” as a term of address or The Sewing Basket BABY HEADGQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 S. Franklin Juneau, Alaska to their welfare, Weather report: High, 5 above zero; low, 4 above zero; clear. DR. E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. FLOWERLAND CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES “For those who deserve the best” 2nd and Franklin Phone 557 Pttt et e 8 e et s et 2 Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon | o USSR 414 WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The play was mighty interesting.” Say, “The play was VERY interesting.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Sahara (Desert). Pronounce sa-ha-ra, | first and third A’s as in ASK unstressed, second A as in ARMS, accent | second syllable. . OFTEN MISSPELLED: Picnicked; obseno the K SYNONYMS: Hostility, enmity, animosity. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us jherease oyr vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: SIMILITUDE; resemblance. “Thou wind! Which are the unseen | similitude of God the Spirit, His most meet and mightiest sign."— | Bailey. REVALUATION OF | | | | JUNEAU PROPERTY At the last meeting of the City Council-that body acgepted a bid from an apparently reliable accounting firm to make an inspection which will result in a Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST . 20TH CENTURY, BUILDING Office Phone 469 ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE. Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. ") Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES" READY-TO-WEAR Near Third Dr. John H. Geyer LENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 when higher taxes are imposed to costs of war, AFFAIRS — ; meet rising INTERNATIONAL Gen. de Gaulle’s prospects are most promising in relation to the steady progress of France toward speedy recovery as a world power. Opposi- tion of Neptune to his Sun and Mercury seems to pre danger | from crafty place-seeker Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of good fortune. The stars are most prom- ising to those in the armed forces, Children born on this day prol ably will be self-willed and ambi- tious, studious and successful. Many will have interest in mysticism. (Coqyright, 1945) ‘String Champion byROBERTA LEE { MODERN ETIQUETTE “ Q. Isn't it rude for a man to take a girl to a dance and then dance with other girls for four or five consecutive dances? A. Yes, very rude. A man, when taking a girl to a dance, assumes full responsibility for her and should not dance with another girl unless he knows that his companion has a partner. Q. If the host is carving the meat at the table, should he cut enough for everybody before serving nny(mé“ i ¢ A. Yes. $ Q. What is uequ ired to make a child wnm-aimnetea’ A. Only two' things are xequlrnd,.perseveramz and patience. Seward Street residents of Juneau. “In reply to your inquiry in reg: tract for an appraisal of Juneau that the Common Council is planning: I “This has been needed for some years. A short study o1 the tax books should convince almost every- | one that this is true. It will require several months’ designation, the general said it was never Army usage work for several men and when completed will be able |during his term of active service. He though, how- to make taxes more equitable for all property owners. |ever it might afterward have come into use as a “To give you an idea of what we run into on the | natural corollary or counterpart of “Jane,” a generic tax rolls T will cite a few cases: | word for Army women. The traditional soldier's voca- “Last summer when looking for an industrial site |:}V°b c‘::'s;a%;;waz?}:" flpxl:‘fifi ;::l‘::?::la“nr:” ",;_'](‘: for a business that is much needed in Juneau we ‘L;;m:;‘mmfi harsepad ;mm‘gpm;‘fdw finally found what might be a suitable location. The | .o it had been adopted by Marxists and other owner asked $17,500 for the property. It was on the |political radicals; anyway, after 1917 it was easily and tax roll at $3,300. rapidly supplanted by “Buddy.” “Ancther man is offered and refuses $12,000 for | SRR RS S 1 ¥ his home. It is listed on the tax roll at $4,800. \ The Spanish have a train that can speed safely “The fact that the owners asked these prices does | at 80 miles an hour around curves. The motorists of not necessarily mean that the properties are worth 1Amm|c1 can bhardly wait. —— “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | prrr e LOOK and LEARNA ‘C. GORDON Unstrung by Wart , BEEOERN TY USSOSS & L TN RSB PORTLAND, Ore—For & long A 1. Are “mossbacks” draft dodgers from the Confederate Army, dollar { time Carl Schamoni, proprietor of a | bills, or a species of tortoise? | barber college has gone unchal- 2. With whose name was the slogan “Sixteen to one” associated? Evans had been a uvwap‘xpcrman war prisoners who have escaped, all ienged as a champ string saver with 3. What word does not belong in the following gfoup: swan, snow, 1d ghost writer for Jesse, and pug 13 have been recaptured. How-|his 79-pound ball wound together In f ooiton ebony; whitewash? (haE, a0, made & Mistanka) it remains an U"tommll“blfl‘me last 14 years. OVRPOIER S - 4. What wo? by Tennyson has been used to name a divorce |loan to the shaky Maryland Oas-|e "ot “ihece 12, or any one of |arck, N. D, string: siver, Sarl 5 b ; The Charles W. Carter ualty Company, Jones rewarded . | schwartz, with a 112-pound statute? 4 them, would be sufficient to ‘blow X i p g ” 3 5. Wh o Evans by making him head of that ubEi Rartaing by baldges. it this| rolled up since 1927. The perturbed at fs the motto of the State of New York? Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sta, company though he knew ubsolute-:munu_“ That is why Congress M Schamoni cannot catch up until the ANSWERS: PHONE 136 Washington Merry- Go-Round (Continued from Page Ome), ever, £ | war xs over and string becomes 1. Draft dodgers from the Confederate Army; they hid in swamps, ly nothing about insurance. b . ) g ol seriously considering a reversal of | 4 hence their name. e 3 NAER: the FBI going at effecient T 2. William Jennings Bryan’s. Ebony. 1 . keep Z $ i‘fll." Te’nn(’am-:mv had ‘(h*pnslh\(l strength, Subscribe to the Daily Alaska 3. certain assets as collateral on a Empire—the paper with the largest 4. Enoch Arden 5. “Excelsior.” of course, that was on very offi-| cial business. WALLACE 1S TEMPTED In the middle of the Senate fight over ex-Vice President’ Wallace for JUNEAU - YOUNG ! There is no substitute for newspaper advertising! Hardware Company |* PAINTS—OIL—GLASS {loan. Thereupon, Jones tooR over ‘cé‘i,);f”g’;,l::d.:fi:: ‘;3;::13 paid circulation. |these assets, despite the fact that o L R SN James Hammond of the Memphis Secretary of Commerce, Heny ¥as |Commercial Appeal made a bid| Get right for the Spring and 14 14 taken up on the mountain. meo- for them. And with the cooperation | |Summer Season. The Mineral Baths' cratic advisers told him that if he {of another Nashville bank, Jesse 'at Warm Springs Bay will put you ~ would appoint Ed PA;:Ivly T'l“aé“‘l:rlpwceedod to set his old friend |in Tip-Top Shape. Clean, l-‘mmshed of the Democratic Nationa Om= | Silliman Evans up in business as Cabi Gr i _ 5 \ a oceries, Liquors and To- mittee, ah his Federal olan Ad-|puplisher of the Nashville Ten- |pace 5 es s ALF“D 'o"“m ,To Relieve Misery § 'cns Rub on Tested as a 'paid-up subscriber to. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the ‘CAPITOL 'EHEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “RATIONING"” Federal Tax—11c per Person PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! ministrator, he would be confirmed | hessean. both as Secretary of Commerce and | That is the inside story on why | in charge of the far-flung 10an|the editorial favoring Henry Wal- % agencies. Pauley had raised large lace suddenly was yanked out of amounts of money during the Ye-|the Nashville Tennessean. cent campaign, had helped a large number of Senators get elected. His | influence in the Senate is not to} FBI BUDGET OUT be sneezed at. | Despite the fact that more than The proposition was -put up Lo!lOOO German war prisoners have Henry, and Democratic Chairman | escaped at various times in this ACROSS Bob Hannegan waited to learn the |country, and despite the recent 1. Equality outcome. lentry of two Nazi saboteurs, the | & fEidfis But Henry looked down from the |Bureau of the Budgct has just salutadion mountain and did not accept the Made a backstage demand that J. deal. He decided that if he could |Edgar Hoover’s efficient FBI cut not be confirmed on his own merits |its_appropriation by $10,000,000. he would not buy confirmation| Hoover had afrcady suggested | through Democratic e. | voluntary cuts which would save | patronage. i Actually, he is more likely to ap- |the taxpayer considerable money. | point a leading Republican busi- |But the additional slashes proposed | nessman as Federal Loan Admin- | by .the Budget Bureau would mean | istrator if he is confirmed. =(hv firing on June 30 of 400 |G-men and 200 clerks who keep | | fingerprint and crime records. | Meanwhile, there is considerable | The manner in which Jc\w Jones | evidence indicating that Hitler and | has controlled banks, railroads and | Himmler, now desperate, a in- 2gg drink oven newspapers by making loans |tensifying their efforts at sabotage | 3 . Finished edge and appointing directors in key |inside the United States. The land- | places long has been well-known !ing of the two saboteurs near Bar on Capitol Hill. ‘H(llhul Maine, is one indication. However, one glaring example nc-,An(nhc is the apprehension of O'NEILL & FENTON, Baranof, Alaska. B Sy Emyire want-ads ortng results! Crossword Puzzle Perform Obscuring Thus . Australian bird e ] JAMES C. COOPER, C.P.A BUSINESS COUNSELOR Authorized to Practice Befere the Treasury Department and - Tax Court COOPER BUILDING INSURANCE Shattuck Agency . Moslem enemy of . Heavy ham- mer i Almmbcuc Tropical bird In that place L. C. Smith and Coress 8old and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Ce. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfled Customers” Duncan’s Cleaning and PRESS SHOP PHONE 333 Scenes of 3 RS e o arkis| Nor‘ll;\grn part olution Of Yesterday's Puzzle o orth 9, r America ang 0% Ttem of prop- Greenland ¢y . #rench coin Italian poet . Peruses again . Degrees e . Grains: abbr o Printed de- DOWN Cronies & 2. Grandparental 7* Py . Commercial traveler . Expostulate” Learnin; A . Period of tims “Sary It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” , Phone 15 curred a few hours after Jesse wi ousted from his joint job as Se retary of Commerce and Feder: Loan Administrator. Down in Ten- nessee, the Nashville Tennessean appeared on the streets Sunda night with an editorial in its bull- | dog edition praising Henry Walla as Jesse Jones' successor. Then suddenly the editorial was pulled out of the paper. Later edi- tions of the Tenn n carried no praise for Henry Wallace, - Two da later, however, the Tennessean suddenly came out with | an editorial in exactly opposite vein. Bitte; it criticized President Roosevelt for losing the excellent | services of Jesse Jones and re- placing him with Henry W e What most people outside the publishing - world did not realize was that Silliman Evans, publisher of the Tenne: of that paper through Jesse Jones. i A, secured control Nazi agents in South America. These, when picked up, are shipped back to Germany on the i(jnpahulm unless the Latin-Am- |erican country is at war with iGormun;. One of the Nazi sabo- teurs who goes on trial at Gover- inor’s Island this week had been |picked up in Peru some time ago and returned to Berlin by the |State Department without even the {precaution of getting his finger iprints and photo. | On top of this, Super G-Man J, dgar Hoover was horrified last | week to find the State Department {shigping a new lot of Nazi agents picked up in Latin-America back {on the Gripsholm once again with- jout taking their fingerprints or | photos. This time, however, Hoover lordered the ship held up while he |fingerprinted and photoed every | German agent. Of the thousand or more German | . . Whirlpools Article » alking st . Spanish- American rm Medic m.Al plant . Meadows . Acidity DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED addition, the bank is 2 mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation,which ia- sures each of our depositors against loss t0 & maximum of 33,000 First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASEKA : L DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATI > ¥ — Alaska Laundry Juneau Florists Phone 311 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1945 The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS