The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1945, Page 4

FPAGE FOUR after C!‘;rls(lllaa: “(’"I\l TR e g S Ty 85 7 e {food parcels from the Red Cross arrived containing HAPPY B'RTHDAY | plum pudding, turkey, etc. Don't believe I ever appre- s} | ciated much as this.. . . ” We have drive coming up soon. FEBRUARY 13 » Drake Iversen Dflll) 41(15’“1 Emplre camp, written three day evening excent PRINTING C anything as {another Red Cross — The Nurse Draft n the Post Offl SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Junean and Douglas for $1.50 per month;: six months, $8.00; vear, §$15.00. age paid, at the f ce, $15.00; six mo $1.50. bers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify s Office of sny failure or irregularity {n the de- Entered (Washington Star) draft and convalescent of our who want compulsion | 1t is something de- the war and by the volunt methods ingly set forth recently before Llu" Gen. Nor- | Housman for the| Fletcher armed forces is not | Mrs. R. R. Emmons M. F. Pittman Lou Meyers - | | The proposal to nurses to care owing rates: | wounded hs, in advance, $7.50; wdvocated by people compulsion’s sake. the hard facts of of Bustness Office, 3T4. s: News Offiee, 602 e ws Office, B iin o ‘HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” y recruitment - alf MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | news dispatche to it or not other- this paper and also the local news published convine Affairs Committee \ General of th situation urge t ‘ 1o world are reaching new peaks | § mounting I“U’: . .| WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 in | by Maj. Army 't is the fact that Hou |man T casualties are ithout any corrs According to General Kirk, whose | Navy, the corps showed a en April and December of i of 190,000 in the number \l patients—or one for every 95 men During the same period, howev jurses were graduated in this country, which | oo he sentimental the 2,000 seem very small indeed and |girlc and many will which testifies eloguently to the ineffectiveness of vol- |y ly those Who untary recruitmen money. Economic In the first half of last ye casualties were being brought hnnw for hospitalization g iat the rate of 8500 a month, but now the rate is between 30,000 and 32,000, and there simply are nottion of enough nurses in service to cope with the situation. for wholesale and retail merchants. | { Overseas, the safe minimum of one to every 12 beds | Dealers in household nece: sities | app: mmn being maintained, but in “the zone of |will enjoy enlarged patronage as ol | | | our sponding increase Adverse tod: but ouraged se for es HEART AND women wiil be tible to romance. aspects are lov need not be dis- ther 15 of prom- abt Corps. do not cove suitors. HOME — u()n(‘l\ exceedingly Elderly widows of only 2,000 ue¢ against a jul of Army needin 000 fiew hospi as n' prob- profitable trade is forecast| ACTION IN THE PACIFIC s, first effects will ) civilian production on in the When seen in reconversic but victory in Europe which means largely in This countr furnishings wear out NATIONAL ISSU in the arts will be n-ncuur- not be the homs (h! the interior’ minimum of one to 15 has become little more |than a paper ideal, the present actual figure being {one to Auybody who knows anything at all about aged in coming months when es- uropean theatre | hospitals and hospital routiie does not need to be told cape from realities will ‘be mo,m ¢ that this is a shocking statistic whese sole meaning needed than in the past. The the- i 1 is a e nurse is being grossly overloaded and that atres and orchestras as well as t0 pitch in with the men already there against the [* LT AR AR e v ehostirios 16 dairater | picHires idand sset] tussireill [HEins daps., The shortesb Touts lies throvigh, the Unitedy are receiving deplorably inadequate balm to countless rwar-worn men States and short leaves probably will be given. gounds they have suffered and women. ¥ How any ¥hought of a slackening of the war effort | g4y their countr INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — given while the war still goes on in the If this situation is to be corrected—and it must South America will generally ad- {be—the Army, wholly apart from the " will have here to good neighbor policies, ex- to expand its Nursing Corps at the earliest possible cept for Argentina which comes moment from the present total of 42,000 to 60,000 under threatening aspects. Oppo- Some have suggested that the additional 18,00 can sition to these in power promises | be had through a stepped-up drive for volunteers and improvement in conditions but seri- | ires short of a draft. But General ous difficulties will preface ulti-| ull backing of President Roosevelt mate advancement. on this issue and whose opinion is shared by all Persons whose birthdate it is| others who know the problem at first hand, flatly have the augury of a year of good declares that voluntary recruitment will not bring in fortune but there must be constant | the number that is now so urgently needed watchfulness to avoid losses ul‘ It is no reflection on the patriotism of American |Many sorts. it is simply to say that the vol-| CI Idren born on this day prob- lintary echanism is no more adequate to meet the ably will be'hard to understand | present nursing problem than it was to meet the and difficult to guide. Many of | problem of huilding uo our armed forces. Within a these Aquarians will be’-fond of | year's time our Army, cas y patients have increased intrigue even when it is harmless., 70 per cent, and it is 1ceivable that (Copyright' 1945) gerated squeamishn compulsion i - i allowed to deprive th care but are not now getti for a draft seems defi front in an increased activity —Public in- war in the Pacific, which is as it should be terest The, latest word from Washington is that prac- tically all able m of operations will be sent almost directly to the Pacific | 1 released from the her charges, to all ‘of them, care, a DOOT rew could be Pacific is something we Yet a few months ago plans 1o reconvert plants for the productons of such * tial” items as ¢ It only stands to reason that sooner in the Pacific if the are directed towards that end the fewer men will die from the latest Big Three conference that the jig is up with Germany. But end of the European war should come be any pause for celebration. A serious war continues in the Pacific end is not in sight. The reconquest of the has begun, but the fighting there, will be And it's still a long never been able being 1ave to made see were essen- i lectric irons, etc will end efforts Pacific the nation’ war through other mea: tire i) Kirk, who has the ‘The sooner the war end: Reports flatly the that state even if no reason for women to say this; today would and the Philippines tougher as the to Tokyo days g0 on way any exag- should be| ™ they need |fornians is the total cost to them. nur: Although production costs —are higher at Fontana, freight charges | from there to Los Angeles and| who, | Sant Francisco are only about Sl.lo} loan | per ton, compared with $17.25 from | | Pittsburgh, $15.65 from Gary, $14.45 | from Birmingham and $12 from . interests | Geneva. Result, is, according to| Congressman Sheppard, that the to it down | 5 1 e st of a ton of Fontana steel at any sands of Londoners dur- e two we: lants. He re-:¢® many thousands of Londone: e G I Angeles is . $16.93, mpared ing this rextremely cold winter./calls the months of battling with| -0 4 A & "nl: . simply isn't enough housing, |eastern steel moguls then running;%ith over $31 from Gary and Pitts- (K& “Briledgo "Air Con-/even' with the additional shelter old OPM steel division and ls);zr%le] 152095‘;fm'3mmm dnd ference in order to avoid a dead- provided by the U. S. Army |who were horrified at the thought ¥ r}fim e.ne\:,a —— 1 with the United States. But lof competition in the West. Finally, : h\‘“ ’;C‘“Nu est ;’;hbm us- | he refused, and the conference | |because Kaiser rebelled at the short "P‘;‘ml‘i “;‘ Iu}? “l‘l’u klt“ ll)re- ended in partial deadlock steel supply for his shipbuilding Yo \\l\:‘)’c‘v"\l~(~;f“ lg]lf i’L!L-I' %1; Later, things drifted from bad |operations on the West Coast, OPM | ¢ HEE FOPSE P o m’[) et of to wm.«\- as far as British policy steel moguls had to give in and - ™ © se e ¥ 4 2 {tana plant is creating such a stir. . 1 v authorize materials for the Fon- A . n * Greece and Italy was atdn ol tana plant Actually, Henry Kaiser has no cerned. So that just before his in- ana plant. strong desire to be a steel man, auguration, the President became been but he is willing to hold on to this eager and re to leave immedi- to assure the West ately for the Three Conference at prices comparable in order to solve these probl | inc about men of the The time letter received in Juneau this week from ! of ‘war German prison Kaiser, an prisoner Henry J obtained a for the plant. Owner is however, from RF! What Sheppara is that the big eastern st determined they helieved. But {rocket bombs are not- so easily controlled, with the result that their damage is fairly well spread throughout the city. The subways are still “home to |working man, Washington Merry- Go-Round (Coni(nued from Page One) airaid of is he sions at VICE-PRESIDENT'S AIDE | Hard-working Harry Truman has worked out a new wrinkle for vice- He now 2 military Harry H. Vaughn of Missouri This is memory of the first time in the| capital observers that the vice-president has had a full- fledged commissioned officer as- signed to him as military aide Other members of the Cabinet, with onithe exception of the Secretary of 20, War and the Secretary of the Navy, are not entitled to any gold braid, inaugurated. They replied that they jand no recent vice-president pre- could 1ot possibly get the Proper ceding Truman has ever had ar traveling facilities ready by that hats around him. Henr time, so in the end, the President even objected to . sécret departed a little later | service men accompanying thim i arcund the country. TEXAS HUMOR | The last time a military aide Archibald McNeill, retired Con-|waited upon a civilian member of necticut p was telling the the Cabinet was during the Hoover Mead Committee how his partners Administration when in a corporation which was set up State Stimson brought back to deal in surplus war materials Eugene er from the had formed a new nization | i him serve as which excluded McNe the State Department “A new deal ! This caused a considerable furor Senator Tom ‘h on Capitol Hill, where Democrat champion of then in control of the House of Jones, i- Representatives, inserteds a special c provision in the War Appropria- bill cutting off Reguier since, steel men have about the high production plant in order costs of steel at the Kaiser plantCoast of steel and claiming it operation. Actuall, although ore is only 60 miles:from the plant, the per ton preduction cost at the,hauling. i Kaiser mill is about the highest of | What Congressman Sheppard any steel center—$15.83 per ton|wants to know is where U. S. Steel | pared with $1140 at Birming-|gets the mnerve to' write defense | ., Alabama; $15.56 at Gary, In-|plant corporations that' it is xeadw $14.21 at Pittsburgh, Penn- to purchase a steel mill which does | ia; and only $10.76 at Ge-|not even belong to the government, , Utah (Copyright, 1945, by The But the important thing to Cali- Iicll Symlxmte Inc.) Ever talking the which does not have the huge |freight costs for! trans-continental they I January he tary leaders that Saturday afternoo st an hour or two after ass al home Incore Devoured Night before ACROSS Idle talk ed th Ameri- Conna fellow fired by Texan Jes recently the Pre “That's right,” McNeill agreed “A new deal, and it let me “Well,” said Connally, with a grin| Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at the audience, “that’s not the a member of Con stror first time the New Deal has let supported the amend and it people |took a special appeal by Senate tions out salary ther Upper wartial vibration ess, Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN . Deep chasm . Winglike . Benedictions . Harden . Stop . Unit of work . Accomplishes . Discounts . At the summit . Skating arena . Tops 6. Strong wind Be ou Metal | } S tim- American . East 12y, however doubtful oo dndian the Democr 1 rai . Young salmon iged to Vic ; HARD Americ grumbl BRITISH hou WINTER eholder ) whether aide Col. Vaug Field Note captain of to active duty Pearl Harbor War Department with the Trumar where he winters of and one of ages nearly ands buzz-bor and an . Inferior race . horses . Pathof a heavenly body . Capital of Idaho . On the shel« tered side of WESTERN discerned | sus- | as school- | . American Army battle ]rnv "will be ignoreq by young and | BUSINESS AFFAIRS—Prolonga- | is an uneconomic to those paid by the industrial East,| — THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1945 | S e e e e e r e ree 20 YEARS AGO %'z EmpirE FEBRUARY 13, 1925 B. F. Heintzleman, H. L. Redlingshafer, Wellman Holbrook and J. P. Williams left on the Alameda for Ketchikan to attend a meeting of i foresters. { ke S | Oscar Hart, traveling man, who had been in Juneau several days call- | ing on the trade, left for Ketchikan. Rsprew).]hti\c Rt;ben E. Sheldon and family had arrived at Seward | on their way to Juneau. Deer, huning for food, had invaded Petersburg. | W. C. Wright, of the Wright Shoppe, left on a business trip to ’Sl‘n((l(' low, 19; clear. Weather report: High, 21; [ Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. cornox | e e e ettt ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, of oranges.” Say, “They bought two DOZEN.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Valet. Pronounce val-et, “They bought two dozens A as in AT, marry this| g o5 in EGG, accent first syllable. have | g OFTEN MISSPELLED: Mayonnaise; two N's and one S. SYNONYMS: Prevent, preclude, avert. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase oursvocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: OBTRUDE; to thrust out; eject. “Those talk the most who observe the least, and obtrude their remar upon everything, who have seen into nothing.”—Colton. MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. Must every first call b2 returned by a woman whe has recently moved into a new neighborhood, whether she lik2s some particular person or not? A. Yes; all first ecalls should be returned within two weeks. Of course it is not necessary to form a friendship that seems undesirable. Q. What are a few of the more common dishes that one should eat by ROBERTA LEE | with a spoon? A. Soup, soft-boiled eggs, grape[ruxt: soft desserts, custards, pud- dings, all fruits served with cream. Q. What would be 2 minimum length of time for a guest to remain at a large reception? A. For at least a half hour LOOK and LEAR A C. GORDON S 1. Ts a jingo a Mexican peasant, cne who favors an aggressive foreign policy, or the trade name of a baby's rattle? 2. Who was the mother of Abraham Lincoln, buried? 3. What language was spoken in ancient Rome? 4. What is a kilogram? 5. What is the meaning of the word “Bolshevism”? ANSWERS: One who favors an aggressive foreign policy. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, buried at Gentryville, Indiana. Latin. 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