The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR 3. 7 . Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the E! 'MPIRE PRINTING COMPANY u, Al ’nature and extent of all major developiments’being | considered by the company.” Thus under government sponsorship private financial institutions are taking steps to assist industry to stage a comeback and pro- vide fuller employment. A fact that is particularly Second and Main Streets, Junea HAFLEN TROY MONSEN President T e . " ". i i iepees | HOtOWOrtly (5 thit the TURGS 10N WINEWN W ELMER A. FRIEND - - - - Managing Editor supplied by the private banking system, with ‘the e reserving rights of over-all control of — — — government Entered in the Post Office fn Juneau as Second Class Matter. ; e ent commi ssistin, CEUCRIPTION BATES! policy, and a labor-management committee assisting Delivered By earrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; the larger company. six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; sae month, in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity he Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- fivery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 3T4. Japanese Battleground (New York Times) - | Premier Koiso tells his people that Japan itself | The Amur&“fi.'uoz :iz.fifi'vtz“,‘,,{,{‘.fjsw the use for Will scon become a battleground. We are obviously | epublication of all Aews dispatches credited to it or not other- preparing that ground to make our invasion less costly wise credited in this paper dnd also the local news published ;5,4 the yictory more certain. There is nothing random [ -—— about our mounting air assault on the Japanese home | islands. ,It is like the barrage which precedes almost | NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Seattle, Wash. #eurth Avenue Blde. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1945 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1945 Cedric Davis Ruth Iffert Mary Monagle August P. Anderson Olav Lillegraven Dewey Merritt SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1945 Felix Gray I. A. Aalto - Mrs. George F. Alexander Louise Adams Henry Mead Geraldine Holm Ruby Waldon THE BRITISH WAY Many Americans are deeply concerned about the future of private enterprise in this country. They fear that the postwar years will witness a high rate of business mortality, especially among the smaller business units, unless better provision than heretofore is made for satisfying long-term and working capital requirements. Those who have been studying various plans for meeting such capital needs will be inter- ested in a recent announcement by Sir John Anderson in the House of Commons concerning plans for the creation of two British corporations for the purpose of supplying capital to tndustry in the postwar period. The larger of these projected companies would have a capital of 125 million pounds, subscribed by insurance companies, investment trust companies and the Bank of England. Sir John states that it would provide “temporary or longer period finance for the industrial businesses of the country, with a view to quick rehabilitation and development in the national interest, thereby assisting in the maintenance and increase of employment.” The capital of the smaller company would be supplied by the clearing and Scot- tish banks, with a token subscription by the Bank of England. Its aim would be to supply medium and long-term capital for small and medium-sized busi- nesses. The plan is to set up companies that will be man- agedfindependently of the banks. Moreover, the larger company is to have the assistance of a special Industry Advisory Panel, representing both management and labor. In corder that its policy “may conform to the general economic policy of the government, appropriate government departments will be kept informed of the levery great:battle. It follows a definite pattern and has a definite purpose. ; It will help us to understand what is happening |to Japan if we think of that country in terms of jour own land. Let us suppose that three-quarters of our population were concentrated on a narrow strip jof our Eastern coast cut off from the rest of the | country by stretches of ocean. That rugged and | mountainous strip would contain only about 15 per ! cent of lowland on which would stand all of our big | cities housing most of our war industry. Some industry | would have been developed in the conquered islands |and on the continent, but it would take a large part | of our Army to keep its alien and disaffected people |in subjection. Our real fighting strength would lie |in the coastal strip. | Now let us see what would have happened to us |if some enormously powerful enemy had not only |seized Bermuda and other Atlantic islands to estab- lish long-range air bases but had dispatched a vic- torious fleet to range our entire shoreline. Twenty- nine square miles of our principal cities would be burned out. New York would be rediiced by panic and fire to little more than half its normal population. The hearts of Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh would lie in ruins. Millions of homeless refugees would be wandering about. Many of our plane; factories would be wrecked, including the huge United ' Aircraft plant in Connecticut that turns out Pratt and Whitney engines. Our Navy, cut down by many defeats and hiding somewhere in Chesapeake Bay, would be crippled by swarms of carrier planes. In- vincible fleets of enemy carriers and battleships would also be sweeping through the islands of the West | Indies bombarding our bases there to cut us off from the Panama Canal Zone. We would be feverishly mobilizing everybody into a “home army” to resist invasion. Such is the dismal prospect faced by Japan. She is being softened up much more rapidly than Ger- many was. Her cities are more vulnerable, and her four largest were gutted by fire within a period of weeks. Though Japan depends on her overseas pos- sessions, she no longer has a navy capable of de- fending her empire or even of defending itself. Her homeland air force has been badly depleted, and our latest Superfortress precision raid on the Mitsubishi airplane works in Nagoya seems to have destroyed that major engine plant. In the final battle it is our hope, of course, to confine Japan's strength almost entirely to her ground forces. We cannot destroy her, |armies from the air. Whether our next landing at- tempt comes in the Ryukyus, as the Japanese are | already announcing, or whether on the soil of Japan' iitseli, we will encounter a fanatical foe prepared to fight to the death. But the more we weaken Japan now, the sooner the death of her last soldier will come. Wa;lfnnlon 7 Merry- Go-Round (Continued fr_om Page One) {rations would get K rations. with them. This As a result, front-line command- | ers complained that they couldn’t |car drove up to an apartment house istart an offensive for !supply lines would fail to keep up |Courts—not far from Dumbarton | |mm., while an outfit wanting C‘make interesting reading. 3 NIGHT-WALKER BIDDLE A young man with a radio in his a mountain of e fear their in Washington called Dumbarton situation is be- | Oaks. He parked the car, went into lieved partly responsible for Gen.|the apartment where he lived, un- | civilian preduction at home - got Bradley’s inability to launch a full- ! dressed, and went to bed. the blame, the real bottleneck was strength general not in the United States, but with taneously along the Western Front was deaf. Anyway, he left his radio| the entire distribution system in Jast fall. France. In fact, this has been the ., gomervell subject of drastic- inside investiga- ,o;cona) inspection of the situation tion by top generals in the Penta- ,,4 assigned Maj. gon Building. RED BALL HIGHWAY tion in France was under W. W. yv0 the whole |Larkin to prop up Lee and Lord.|torney General Meanwhile, the Pentagon Building States, Francis Biddle. The Attor- has been worried over rumors that 'ney General was in bed—asleep. In the last war, U. S. transporta- tne Mead Committee might check offensive simul- | Maybe he was drunk, maybe he |on—and loud. There it sat, blaring himself made a aWay into the night. j The house next to Dumbarton Gen. Thomas B.|Courts is the resjdénce of the At- of the United |But he was wakened pronto. So supply situaflon.}were the other members of his Atwrbury_. president or_ the lf'em‘SYJ' especially warehouses of supplies family. Nobody will .testify as to vania Railroad. In this war, trans- gooppiled in England for the in- |what Mr. Biddle said, but the portation and supply distribution yagion have been kept under professional Army men. Instead of recruiting .,y gig out the , which nev Some day the Mead Committee | er will be used.|chances are it was unprintable. But what he did was much more real facts as to, .e(recnve. He put on a robe over his xilroud and ‘trucking experts, the wnether the supply breakdown was |pajamas, walked out on the street, ; e:l. Pointers, Lt. Gen. J‘fh" Clll'- actually the fault of the home-front |reached into the car, and switched ord Hodges Lee and his deputy, __a¢ maintained by the War De- |off the offending radio. Brig. Gen. Royal B. Lord, took over partment last fal I. If so it will| As he crawled into bed, the At- the job. S Criticism of supply has been such | inside the Army that Gen. Marshall ordered a personal probe, and even Gen. B. B. Somervell, in command of Service of Supply, wrote a criti-| cal four-page report and sent Maj.' 1. Gen. Leroy Lutes to France to re-| port on"the situation. Lutes took| i3 with him a staff of colonels, made ACROSS Furnish with natural gifts Obliteration Muse of lyric and amatory a thorough Survey, and submitted al 14 Pc’;:cf‘r,id blistering report urging that the' 15 Artificial entire supply set-up in France be waterway revamped—inclyding those in com- :f (\;_i:‘;_d mand. 8 Endless meetings followed in me‘ }z ::;n jacket Pentagon Building at which efforts | 21 Hawser were made to patch up the mis-| - " eartetrate takes. This was at the time when | Blulical klog an Army propaganda drive talked | Tomato relish 29, And: French 30. Dull and tedious about failures on the home front and sgid that men in the. front | lines were left without supplies, | Meanwhile a representative of | Time Magazine was taken in Gen. Lee’s special airplane for a. tour of theisupply front, and later pub- lished % glowing description of the supply” job. That description, how- ever, did not correspond with the | highlyieritical report of Gen. Lutes. One-griticism was that the much- advertised “Red Ball Highway” | under Maj. Gen. Frank 8. Ross was not sufficient to carry war goods from the Channel ports to the front. Meanwhile, insufficient rail- road troops and equipment were brought to France to repair the battered French railroads SUPPLIES GET MIXED Another criticism was that supply officers had mixed up the bills of lading, so that some ships had to sit for days while a complete in- ventory of cargo was retaken. Also, supplies got so mixed that a front- line der meeding ‘105 mm, | shells would get carloads of 155 Crossword Puzzle 32 34, Mother-of- = pearl Daughter of Tantalus Land measures . Restrain by fear . Swiftness For example: abbr. Cavalry swords . Salutation . In Cornwall, a mine . Mexican Indian Edge . Particle Familiar greet- Al M D F Al R F N | S ng . 52. Symbol for Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle xenon 53. Asiatic native 58. Ahead DOWN 55. Stranger 59. M . Ten ares . Eloguent speaker . Pale Day's march Kind of biscult 6. Voracivus appetite 7. Large streams . Topaz hum- mingbird . Father . Join . Gels back 2. Kind of mineral St singi m; n ! Not straight- forward Dull schofars Venomous snakes 1« in mahogany Evergreen tree m resent month Discusses “alms Act 2. lil-tempered women Come forth Pertaining to a lobe Small Scotch coin Tableland , | their views and exceedingly indepen- ~ HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” SUNDAY, APRIL 8 Benefic aspects rule powerfully today which should be a time for thankfulness for national blessings. Good news regarding war in the Pacific is presaged. HEART AND HOME Women are under the most for-| tunate sway through this day. The| stars promise family reunions and general hospitalities. Girls may ex- pect romance and the stars favor suitors past thirty. I BUSINESS AFFAIRS Architects and builders are like- ly to profit this Spring when there will be much building as priorities are extended. Materials and labor will be costly but imperative de- mand for new homes cannot be ignored by the Government. NATIONAL ISSUES Inevitable inequalities in war ser- vice and sacrifice will arouse re- sentment in varjous parts of the country where many persons appear untouched by general restrictions and varied difficulties. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS According to astrological charts close relations between the United States and the Soviet Union will be maintained after the war when President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin will work together in world rehabilitation. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of exacting but - fortunate experiences. Demands | for money by casual acquaintances should be ignored, despite emotional response. 2 Children born on this day pro- bably will be extraordinary in mifid; and character. They will enjoy life | and win many favors. ! MONDAY, APRIL 9 Many conflicting influences. may | be felt today. Benefic aspects dom-| inate early in the morning when war, news will be assuring. Adverse, stars presage some sort of naval or mili- tary difficulty. i HEART AND HOME ‘Women are under a fortunate con- figuration, * promising promotion ur| recognition for those in business or, the professions. ; The seers Adviq'e' girls of all classess to prepare for places in commerce or industry, art or finance, as all signs indicate per- manence of place for them in the future financial scheme of things. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Continued prosperity is forecast for merchants and manufacturers. The stars seems to presage good re- sults in postwar days when plans made this Spring are put into oper- ation. NATIONAL ISSUES | Opposing ideas will be emphati- cally expressed at this time by un- conditional surrender and armistice, adequate punishment and mercy- for-criminals, union and non-union advocates. “The stars seem to give assurance that under Aquarian in- fluences justice will prevail. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS China is now under aspects that presage tremendous industrial achievements. With United Nations' | aid, factories will attain mass pro- duction for war and civilian needs. Persons whose birthdate it is Have the augury of a year of initiative that will prove fortunate. Under- standing of human nature will con- tribute to happiness and success. Children born on this day probab- ly will be highly intelligent and en- ergetic. They may be positive in dent. (Copyright, 1945) torney General of the United States was heard to say, “There ought to be a law against things like that!” P Y MINERS’ STRIKE VOTE On the day the strike vote was taken among the bituminous” coal miners, the' National Labor Rela- tions Board paid 35 & day to stu- dents* of the University of “West Virginia, both men and “coeds, $0 stand at the mouth of the mines and take the vote in the Morgan- town~area. The Government also furnished transportation. The college students worked a 12-hour day; but even so, some of them felt they were overpaid. The ballot they asked the miners to sign as they came out of the mines read: “Do you wish to permit an interruption of war production in wartime as a result of this dis- pute?” The mountaineers around Mor- gantown voted “Yes,” 8 to 1. Ac- tually, many of them didn't want to vote that way, but on the other hand didn’t want to let down their chief, John L. Lewis. ¢Copyright 1945, Bell Syndicaté Mc.) \ Py 20 Y‘E\ARS'AGO FHe EMPIRE APRIL 7, 1925 In the quietest election perhaps ever held in Juneau, due undoubtedly TRIPLETTE & BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING F It § 3 ) B i i e | § After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 to the fact that only one ticket was in the field, 260 voters of 691 regist- ered, chose J. J. Connors as Mayor, Heyder, Simpson, Wilson and Judson as Councilmen and Robertson and Winn for School Directors. SHOP PHONE 9 Silver Bow Lodge No.A2LO.0.F. @ @Muu each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. I.O.O.F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand Repeal of the Territorial primary election law was sought in a bill introduced by House Speaker Wilcox Mayor Torry was reelected at Ketchikan, W. R. Hanlon was elected at Sitka, Charles Bush at Anchorage, L. V. Ray at Seward, Ed Locken at Petersburg, George H. Barnes at Wrangell, W. J. Mulvi}_ml at Skagway. Fire gt Valdez, estimated loss $25,000, destroyed the Steam Laundry, Warfields’ Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) drug store, Montana Rooming House, garage and three small buildings in NYAL Family Remedies the rear of the Cooper Block, and also damaged the Pinzon Pool Hall. ‘ HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM Weather report: High, 37; low, 34; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % . corpon The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H.KASER | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I am anxious to see that picture.” “I am EAGER to see timat picture” is preferable. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Idealism. Pronounce i-de-al-iz'm, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Emanate; two A’s, but only one M. SYNONYMS: Wit, witticism, humor, jest, jocularity, fun, drollery, DENTIST raillery. 3 BLOMGREN BUILDING WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us Phone 56 increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: HOIDENISH; having the roughness of a rude, bold girl. “Her manners were hoidenish.” HOURS: 9§ A. M. to 5 P. M. L S ! DrAWS | MODERN ETIOUETTE “hongrra 1ue 5 m"f;;“"}m:’.,m’ e Y Office Phone 469 Q. When a woman is making a friendy afternoon call, isn't it all right for her to remain until her friend’s husband arrives home, and then stay for dinner if invited? A. Never, She should leave before time for her hostess to begin preparing dinner. Dr. John H. Geyer Q. When a girl wears a man’s fraternity pin, does it imply that she VENFIST. 4 is engaged to him? Room 9—Valentine Bldg A A. Yes. While this is not always true, the implication is there. | | PHONE 763 Q. What time is the proper one to specify on an invitation to a —— ball? A. Ten o'clock is the usual hour, though the dancing seldom begins ROBERT SIMPSON, Opi. D. before half past ten. ! @raduate Los An‘eb.’ College k 7 | ot Optometry and | by i Opthalmology | 1. Is a “hellbender” a fire and brimstone preacher of Early New England, a large aquatic salamander, or a Califodnia “forty-niner”? "The Rexall Store” 2. In what State are the Black Hills located? s g 3. What is hagiolatry? our Reliable Pharmmdiste 4. How long has Mickey Mouse been in existence? BUTLER-MAURO 5. What is the literal meaning of “adieu”? DR! co. ANSWERS: UG i 1. A large aquatic salamander. 2. South Dakota. 3. The invocation of worship of Saints, 4. The first Mickey Mouse short was completed in 1928. nAlnY nm 5. “To God”—a shortened form of “I eommand you to God.” THE FIXIT SHOP 215 SECOND STREET MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REPAIRING . Druggist “The Squibb Store™ The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Frankiin Sta. -3 GENERAL LIGHT REPAIR ' PHONE 136 Phone 567 Roy Eaton RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND T - FOR SALE WALTER ANDREWS DAVE MILNER as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA Ehune G2t EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. - Present this coupon to the box office of the - 1 CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "THE GHOST CATCHERS" Federal Tax—-11c per Person I FOR TASTY FOODS and V&l;lETY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness PHONE 14— THE ROYAL BLUE CAB (0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! 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