The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1945, Page 4

3 a ; W | capacity nlthoum; rawrx( any persons in Alaska know|e e e e e o o o o @ D(llly /11“8’5(1 Emplre {that such an office exists in Alaska, and indeed, there(® HAPPY BIRTHDAY o except 8 HELEN TROY MONSEN p DOROTHY TROY LINGO . WILLIAM R. CARTER - - ELMER A. FRIEN ALFRED ZENG! Entered in the Post Office tn Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATE stx months, $8.00: one vear By mail, postage p One year. in advance. § one month, in ad $1 Subscribers w the Business Offi Nvery of their papers 00 50 fer a favor if they will promptly notify credited to 1t or not other- Telephones: News Orfice, 602; Business Office, 374. | Governor over his booklet | ) e | BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | + — f i H 0 R 0 S r 0 P E ‘ & 1y entitled to the wse for And Now An Alaska Authority | v ‘ unday by the NG COMPANY | t the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.50; ny failure or frregularity in the de- ~THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945 This is in Fairbanks news- | seems to be little excuse for its existence. JUNE 8 Edna Polley Dr. Howe Vance Hazel Parsons Mrs. Paul Howland Merle Sherrill Mrs. Harold Rogers Andrew Rossberg Ann Madsen Mrs. Clifford Hall e o 0 0 0 o o — e e e s 4 g addition to his*full-time job with the President | Paper. These For | these reasons we are forced to discount opinions ex- pressed by these two writers since they are the opinions | not of the free press, but the subsidized press. | It is significant that these two writers of the many in Alaska are the only two which are wholeheartedly behind the present Governor and the ideas expressed [ As a matter of fact, taken issue with ihe are facts which anyone can check Second Class Matter. S: Delivered by carrier in Juncau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; S0eece0ccccccoce Iin his recent political booklet. Alaska newspapers have | five I8 “The stars incline but do not compel” —~— (Seattle Times) Plans for creation of a Federa! “authority” to ta charge of things in Alaska are announced by Repre sentative De L: of Seattle, at home for a brief visit Mr. De Lacy he and Senator Warren Magnuson |are co-operating closely with Delegate Bartlett of | Aluska to effect the new sdt-up. | So far as revealed, the Alaska authority would b empowered to do many things—make loans to en- courage ming and small business; make a new cata- |logue of territorial resources and provide means of development. The surface of the picture shows nothing | o ik particularly - detrimental to Alaska. It would seem |Mmany hurts this Summer, when es- | that the planners of the authority mean to be helpful, [cape from the routine of city life} | o the question of whether the authority would |S essential. ~‘Time to think must bej| | be independent of or subservient to the Department of | taken from the usual activities, inass [the Interior, Mr. De Lacy smilingly withholds reply,|much as the stars presage the im- [Tt is a question, we believe, the people of Alaska will | Portance of spiritual refreshment. | _ |regard as of prime importance. If independent, it BUSINESS AFFAIRS ! SATURDAY, JUNE 9 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day which should bring good news| from many pa of the world. | HEART AND HOME This is an auspicious date for out- | door recreation. Nature will heal NO OTHER CHOICE The , thou publishéd by Governor Ernest Gruening after the last Territorial Legislature continue to crop session of the up in almost every issue of two Ala n’s Weekly of Fairbanks, Jess Sentinel. Both of these newspapers during the past year times raised their s in condemnation of The Empire, which has chosen to question many of the ideas of government ed by the present Governor of Alg have more than a few voi as expre: his aides. It has not been the policy of this newspaper to waste space in the defense of its policies when these are under attack by rival newspaper: this is a matter for our readers to d If our readers have all of the able to distinguish between right and wrong. we feel that the s, hence today’s wasted space. instance, however of the fac Sparkplug behind the editorial ‘The Empire in Jessen's Weekly is John Pegues. is on the Federal payroll to Pegu a year. Similarly, Lew Willlams who writes the Periscope | column in the Wrangell Sentinel also is singing for his supper since he receives $7,500 a year as Secretary of Alaska Both of these writers secured iheir Federal jobs through the support of Governor other course can they follow but that of xupp(n\mg" the Governor right or wrong? They have no other choice. Pegues is employed by the Transportation® and receives $75 The Wasih;glon Merry - Go- Round| (Continued from Page One) dent Roosevelt I immediately | went to the State Department and in a few weeks was ready to sail. I was informed that the British | Government did not want the Am-/ erican Commissioner to get to Eng- land until the commission was ready to meet. I discovered after-| wards that no such suggestion had ever been sent through the Ameri-| can Embassy in London. “I tried to get an stant, Pro- fessor Sheldon Glueck of Harvard, who was willing to come, and a friend of mine, Paul Lienau. The Department sent neither of these gentlemen but pref rence Preuss. After a time in London I discovered that a part of Mr. Preuss’s duties was to write private letters, mostly abusive to me, to Mr. Sandifer of the State Department, who in turn gave them to Mr. Hackworth, the legal adviser, whose division had charge of war crimes in the De- partment. When 1 discovered this I told Mr. Preuss that he should file his private letters of this char- acter with the Commission's docu- ments. He did file some of them but not all. “In February, r. Law- 1944, 1 moved, in a Committee of the War Crimes Commission, that crimes against whomsoever committed for reasons of race, religion, or political opin- jon should be treated as war crimes. Mr. Preéuss, h officially sub- ordinate to me, rose in committec and opposed this suggestion “A few weeks later a British gen- eral sent me by cial messenger a document marked secret, for whjch I bhad to sign. Mr. Preuss asked to- have some copies made of it. I refused to allow this but told him that he could see the original. Shortly thereafter he was discovered dictating a copy of this document. I confiscated the copies, the stenographer's nol and the carbons and immediately eported to Ambassador Winant, represent- ing the President, that J could not accept the responsibility of secret documents if anyone in my office could arrogate to themselves the privilege of making copies. “Mr. Preuss was immediately re- turned to the United States but to instead of be re- my surprise proved for making private copies of military secret documents he was placed in honor in the State Department and has been main- tained’and is now in a responsible position_in San Francisco. These its in a political propaganda booklet and “Office {might be amendable to well-informed regional influ-| There is a good sign for mining.| lence. Otherwise, it would be no more than an expan- | According to the stars there will be | sion of the vast powers so arbitfarily exercised by |eXtensive prospecting by sclentific| Honest Harold Ickes for more than 12 years methods and important discoveries Apart from that, the question that will pop first |0f minerals Is indicated. Arizona, |into the mind of every Alaskan and of every good |and Montana should profif. [friend of Alaska is this—Why shouldn’t any and all new powers needed for the actual benefit of Alaska | be vested in the offices of the Territorial Government, | rather than in some freshly-invented agency of Federal bureaucracy? Expansion of Pacific Coast| business interests and great in-| crease in population will accent cer- | tain problems this Summer. Race| issues will assume unusual features| but will be wisely met. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ! The Japanese will turn their eyes' toward the west coast of South America. War refugees will be aid-| ed by former residents of Califor-; nia who are still loyal to their na-| tive land. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of tests that| aska newspapers the Wrangell | editorial b L , Invasion of Borneo | a and | (Washington Post) | At first glance the present Allied invasion of north Borneo gives the appearance of being a throw- back to a stage of the Pacific war that presumably | had come to an end long ago. At Okinawa our forces are 1500 miles nearer to Japan than is the northern- | most point on the Island of Borneo. The Japanese ; they will be |garrison on Borneo, like so many other Japanese|may retard progress, but they will| In this |8Aar s in the south and southwest Pacific, had |pe " overcome despite disorganizing| a1l | been by-passed by Admiral Nimitz and General Mac- | ;ranus influences. i | Arthur and left to die on the vine. + [ Children born on'this date may be explosions against | 4 F}”' ‘.“:U L et ]?0_3’""""{3 ?“”“:0 l.““f a speelal|contrary and difficult to direct. portance. In the first p]‘}(‘l, the Japanese gar- mpege subjects of The Twins will John | risons and airfields on that island are too close for|pave conflicting talents the tune of $3,900 | comfort to the southern Philippines, where the last |y wisely developed. 1 embers of Japanese resistance are being stamped out. (Copyright 1945) i Secondly. the oil fields of Tarakan and those farther | __ | south at Balikpapen could be very useful to our fleet | | when operations against Japan or the China coast We cide. feel that fac y do not have that must| ST business to keep me informed and | get under way. Oil for our forces waging war in the :‘_‘“ d'" BNy oeay. Ol BrY the | Pacific must now be traniported mgny thousands of | EYesident’s — appointee and ”0"; miles. A source of oil closer to the scene of opera- | MDe: | “Since then four months have; What | tions would greatly simplify General MacArthur's and Admiral Nimi logistic problem. A {foothold on Borneo will also have the incidental value of securing | R0 courts have been set up and no | a base from which the ultimate reconquest of the by- | System of law has been accepted | passed islands can be carried out. The presence in | f0r the trial of war criminals. of Defense |the invasion force of Australian and Netherlands| “The effect of this course by the| ek in this| troops gives point to that possibility. United States is manifestly harm- - - —{ful to our prestige in Europe.| There are more than a hundred | S ha 5 million people in Europe who for gt Gl o m“;)l:hg?ltr,f::lz:::_ ?gl):ggn‘;,"::;:{ four years have been living in ter-: RIMES i A har feles _|ror, kept alive mainly by the hope| WAR . CRIMES |House where I discussed the mat- of uitimate justive. Most of these | “During the summer of 1944 !v'l’l'.v«.'llh) m“l President., = The la'sc people would pefer the leadership was chairman of a committee of |WOrds that he said to me were,i ' "\ riteq States but if they! T S |‘Go back to London as quickly as| . ; * the Commission. This committee UIDEP a) 1 ey W 2 : i iake self . |can get nothing from us they will| recommended that crimes cum_m_i\-‘?]';’l‘i‘n":;’ tik!: Cl(::m;s{z::se Chair=| {im to the leadership of some mitted because of race or religion| wph 2 O other country. The importance of should be treated as war crimes| hat afternoon I went to the| ;" piect from an international and a letter to that effect was sent|Secretary of State expecting Simp-| ." ¢ view can hardly be over- to the British Foreign Office on 1y to shake him by the hand, say| o eqn the 20th of May and immediately|800d-bye, and return on the next (Copyright, 1945, by The Bell Gruening. gone by and nothing has been done, a wi facts are known personally to the!but said nothing about the failure RELIGIOU {hereafter to the State Depart-|boat. In the Secretary's office I| ; ment {found Mr. Hackworth and was in-| Syndicate, Inc.) ! “The British Foreign Office d‘d‘f,(fim“d that I could not return at | not answer this letter and event-," LEGAL NOTICE | “When I asked Mr. Hackworth, i ually Sir Cecil Hurst, Chairman of| the Commission, resigned because | in the presence of the Secretary i of the refusal of the British Gov- | ©f State, why he'd allowed me to|neau’s vacant lot at the corner of ernment to answer. In spite of 80 over to the White House and|Eleventh and Harbor Way must be| vigorous letters requesting adequate | discuss this matter with the Presi- | removed immediately. The erecuon} instructions on this subject I re-|dent in ignorance of the fact that|of a warehouse Wwill begin here | coived none from the State De.|I could not return, thus making a|Monday morning, June 11, 1945. | partment. | fool of the President and me, he| C. L. POPEJOY, | Cars parked on the City of Ju- bout the close of the summer answered that it was none of hisI City Clerk. we recommended the setting up of |~ mixed military courts and the| 1= preparation of an organization | Crossword Puzzle E| along the lines of the FBI to ap-| R W | prehend war criminals as soon as ACROSS 36. By | any part of Germany was occupied.| 1. Entirely §. Anclent Roman officia The last of these recommendations| 4 : 39. Limb. were sent in October, 1944. 1.9 40. Bgg-shaped “w | 12 42, Genus of the T returned to the United States| 13 pickerel | i ol or, a at | 43. Shelter in December, 1944, and found that| ,, 41, Glossy fabrics nothing had been done about any| 15 46, esticated of them. In my opinion, had these| g e vl recommendations been acted on| guage 49. Mother there would today have been ade-| 1T Peed il tor quate machinery for the immediate | Devours _gold Hrinl At war orbminsly | While Bird of prey 2l of war criminals. | Hypothetical Bar of cast “My protest in December resulted alore P in the failure of Congress to ap-| 35 Lover of Devil Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle propriate $30,000 for the Commis- | Galate T Y DOWN 4, Endure sion and I was told not to return {{ub out 1. Mission in 5. Masculine . Ha rRtdle b ilize g name 'l"ult S‘JQ‘l )Dep.uumm., however, | ,, Before e 2. 6. Badgerlike did find adequate money to main- Color ;m:uny 3 animal tain an office in London with an S 7. Lamb's pen name 8. Of the teeth 9. Palm leaf 10. Ten steres 11. Small round marks 19. Spike of corn 21, Mark of a wound 25. Dwelling - places Breath> In . Wax ointment . Game other- wise known jal adequate staff of stenographers; in| fact, everything that was needed | except the salary if the Commis- sioner, amounting with allowances to about $6,000. I offered to serve free but this offer was refused. | ROOSEVELT GAVE O.K. 1 “This failure to appropriate | money which prevented my return | took place during the close of the last . Congress, which adjourned | December 19, 1944. The State De other valua- partment was given notice of thisi tion of g bt . Brownie fact but I did not hear of it until | i fu the 9th of January. On that day | carefully in w8 | ] il ol 1 lmq an appointment with the 45. Sounds late President Roosevelt and hav- AL 47, Human race ing been in the United States for %‘-. 4. Fusible opaaue more than a month I went to the 715 g0 eRaeh State Department and asked Mr. .% bty 17 Vo Hackworth if anything new had A o4, sh come up so I could be accurately informed when discussing the sub- ject with the President. Mr. Hack- worth told me the literal truth| which had come in_from L.mndun‘l ne animal 60. Biblical king = NATIONAL ISSUES i THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO JUNE 8, 1925 The Elks' baseball team were scheduled to meet the Moose this night to break the jinx hanging cver them. The game was a playoff for one protested. Bob Coughlin was expected to be behind the plate in his first game of the season and other parts of the Elks’' team were strengh- ened. Keaton was expected to be on the mound for the Bills who were in the cellar in the official standings. A farewell reception was to be held this night in the Elks’ Hall f:)r Gov. Scott C. Bone and Mrs. Bone. ‘Among the specials being advertised by the Home Grocery was a 25-pound sack of Fisher’s flour for $1.45. Douglas citizens were to hold a mass meeting to make plans for the Fourth July celebration. of Seventy tourists were aboard the Admiral Rogers making the South~ east Alaska tour Clara Krogh left on the Rogers for Skagway. Steamer Alameda was in port making the triangle trip. Weather report: High, 59; low, 44; clear. Daily Lessons in English 3. 1. corpon | e Y WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “That is funny” to express STRANGE, QUEER, UNUSUAL. FUNNY means laughable, huomorous. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Municipal. Pronouncg mu-nis-i-pal, | U as in UNIT, both I's as in IT, A unstressed, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSFELLED: Tlliterate; two L's. SYNONYMS: Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish, achieve, attain. 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: ATROCIOUS; wicked in the highest degree; outrageous. ‘They were guilty of atrocious deeds.” v s e | MODERN ETIQUETTE 4 l ROBERTA LEE | Q. Is it proper for a hostess to rise when a guest is leaving, as well as arriving? A. Yes, always, and whether the guest is a man or a woman. exceedingly discourteous if she does not. Q. Isn't it proper to date a social letter merely with the figures, such as 6-19-45? A. No. The dates should be written, June 19, 1945. Q. What are the foremost indications of a fine character? A. Kindness, gentleness, sincerity, humility, and a desire to serve others. 10 3 1t is A ST S R S B 1. In the United States, which State capital lies farthest North? 2. What is the meaning of the medical word prognosis? 3. How many days are there in a leap year? 4. Who was the great composer who could not work simple multiplica- | tion problems? Which is correct, “parcel post” or parcels post”? ANSWERS: 1. Olympia, Wash. 2. Forecast of the course and termination of a disease. , 13, 366 days. 4. Beethoven. 5. . The Post Office Department uses the term “parcel post.” oo we do a little better grade of PAINTING and PAPERING Many people have asked if we did Residence i work and I wish to say we do and are taking care of these jobs as fast as we can possibly get to them. JAMES S. McCLELLAN Phone Douglas 374 P. 0. Box 1216 ALBERT FLEEK as a paid-up subscriner 1o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “EVER SINCE VENUS” 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! ;?fiw@ DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA First " TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 9% After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge @Nm A2,1L0.0.F. Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M I. O. O. F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand 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, Wore shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. ST R P O Warfields' Drug Stoze | | 7 prnner nRAC e T ey || GEORGE BROS. 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GRAVES HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 37) High Quality Foods a¢ Moderate Prices HARRY BACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Grocerles Phone 16—24 WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND JUNEAU - YOUNG FOR SALE DAVE MILNER Hardware Company Phone 247 PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Bhelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY ' Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness You'll Find Food Finer and INSURANCE Shattuck Agency Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. Phone 311 1891—0ver Half a Century of Banking—1945 The B. M. Behrends Bamnk Oldest Bank in Alaska e R AT