The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1945, Page 4

PAGEFOUR ‘ Daily Alaska Empire Sunday by the MPANY excursion and sent Hitler himself scurrying {o the basement of his Chancellory. Our enemies learn slowly that we mean busines: Unquestionably the Japanese believed, if they con- quered enough of East Asia in a short time and then made us pay a prohibitive price for what we sought to regain from them, we would give up the war in the | Pacific as a bad job. People who understand the | Japanese psychology say that is why Japan believes R e e . she can.wln a long war from us; she thinks after so By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: long a time we will become weary of the fight. There R ST ¥ by P iy months, in advance, $7.50; { js no other plausible reason why the Japs would Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notity | continue so unequal a struggle, especially now that B e B Pl Bt irregularity In the de- | oyr gir power can reach their homeland with such Telephones: News Orfice, 602; Business Office, 374. | devastating results. F BER OF ASSO: | The moral is plain. ' The Japs will recognize they wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | States—with emphasis on Alaska, the nearest part to E'_"",‘, - X | Japan—gives them 1o reason to think we are becoming Fmv“","’:"‘p’;‘“’& si’;“?:fi?fl""'\"‘n‘x — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | war weary. The quickest way to end the war is to — — - fight it in such a way the Nips will realize it is a pleasure for us to leave nothing undone that will help make mincemeat of them. Published every evening except EMPIRE PRINTING CO! Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MONSEN - - - i DOROTHY TROY LINGO % WILLIAM R. CARTER - - ELMER A. FRIEND - o Lw & ALFRED ZENGER - - - . Prestdent - Vice-President Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Juneau ns Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.50 per month; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS For History j (Washington Post) | One of the most intelligent comments we have yet |seen on the subject of justice for war criminals is ;',hfll of Mr. Hans Olav, counselor of the Norwegian Embassy and one of the delegates to the San Fran- | cisco Conference. Mr. Olav was asked what his coun- | trymen intended to do with Major Vidkun Quisling. ‘Now this Major Quisling is in some ways a more | notorious war criminal than Hitler himself; he belongs | already to a curious historical company including Dr. |Pandarus of Troy, Mme. Jezebel of Tyre, Captain Burke of Edinburgh, Justice Lynch of Virginia and Captain Boycott of Ireland, whose real or supposed With all apologies to the mighty State of Texas, |sins have so impressed themselves on popular imagina- that refrain rings true when applied to the “Mighty tion that their very names have passed into the Seventh” War Loan. | language as verbs or common nouns. Yet it appears b el R e Sty 2 the Norwegians are in no great haste to condemn The Japs are watching ., . and there might well |, 4 excute Quisling, and have no intention of be a hopeful gleam in the slant-eyes turned upon 2 trying him by summary process. Alaska; at least that is indicated by the most recent | This is not, of course, because they have forgiven reports of progress of the War Bond drive received his treachery and tyranny, but because they recognize here from all quarters of the Territory. | that Quisling is a witness as well as a criminal. In the True, more than half of the overall quota has been | interest of history as well as justice he must be given reached—but the campaign s far more than: half | {ull opportunity to have his say. “We want," sgid Mr. Alao; Al's $he salBiat, cBP, Flomds-. the; peoplsig | s 0, kriow jahort Qulsling's deghoes, ie3 Clns bonds—that tell the truest story of our support of our | TROT RCIORS Norway Fetotpo Al e h‘-s telen, . i x so that we will have a complete record for history.” armed forces. Just two of Alaska's smaller com- | Mr. Olav went on to point out that the haste of munities have crossed their “E” goals—Juneau is less | the Italian partisans to put an end to Mussolini had than half way to its. | forever silenced the most valuable witness of all. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U. S. | “Mussolini,” he observed, “was worth more to the| Marine Corps, recently advanced one of the best|Italians and to the Allies alive than dead. We might reasons yet heard why the people of the United | have learned much that would have benefited us in Btates should not velax thiels efforts toward completing | e, Postwar -world. - And we would have heen able the war against Japan. Japanese war leaders, m]:istl;lrly m the gaps that are going to be missing in asserted, are watching closely for any portent that; A concern for the integrity of history and for the the American people are tiring of the war and are|jessons of history is one of the marks of a civilized reverting to a peacetime consciousness. | people. For, as Mr. Churchill observed the other There is every reason to believe there is this day, “it is only from reading the story of the past that watch across the Pacific. Had the warlords of Nippon | one can judge the future.” There is still much that suspected the American people would react as they | is dark and mysterious about the inner political history did after Pearl Harbor, and would buckle down and | of the months immedffltely preceding Se_ptember. 1939, put forth the war (‘f[()l‘l that has been made the last | sod mucl} more that is dark and mysteno\_xs abaut the three and one-half years, they undoubtedly would have i Wh.‘Ch folliwed. (Que descandiuis AN ja Lipioh. o - oo v | ability will know much less about it than we know, thought better before launching that sneak attack.| fq. example, of the inner history of the French Revo- The same, we suspect, goes for the erstwhile warlords | jution or even of the Russian Revolution of 1917. of Berlin, | The two men who could have cleared up much of Until near the end, Hitler underrated the spirit | the mystery perished before their testimony could and stamina of the people of the United States. He | be taken. It becomes important that the remaining thought''we 'lacked the 'vigor and heart of a true| witnesses he heard. .Their testimony may cause great nation, and he—according to the testimony of his| emberikeuient In Ne. quarters, but we must 2ot | consider that if.it will help us to understand the former Sw“ogm?he‘_sun sneered at the prowess of | ¢ i eq of statesmanship which had to be paid for U. s. oaps until they crashed through his vaunted | j, ypspeakable horrors and tens of millions of human West Wall! surged into his “national redoubt” in|jjves, Let us not then be too precipitate about ven- Southern Germany as if they were on a pleasure | geance. Dead men, as the adage gaes, tell no tales. THE EYES OF NIPPON ARE UPON YOU! over. lally, he did not err when it came |the outskirts of the city. The w a sh i n g 10n i ;(‘)ncax;]rl)::g“out party pledges. He| 'The American Commander is now Merry - Go-Round igmmxse he made during the cam- | built by the notorious Vidkun Quis- paign, while Republican Congress- | ling fo~ his own occupancy. sional leaders, having made a sim-| Not only did the hundreds of (Continued from Page One) ilar pledge, welched. | thousands of Nazis surrender to a ~——————————— | Final impression you get of Tru- | qozen Americans and a somewhat man during this trial heat is that |larger British military mission, but he has been working under tre- 5 group of six American sailors mendous pressure, is tired and|and their officers took over ten needs the rest he will now enjoy|surrendering submarines in the har- with his old friend, Governor Mon | hor near Oslo. Wallgren, in Washington State.| The two senators saw Nazis with All of which makes it even more|gide-arms all about them during miraculous that Franklin Roosevelt | thejr stay in Oslo, but weren't wor- held out physically as long and as|yjed. They wore their arms as a well as he did. | matter of pride because no one | tried to stop them. Most of the ter years, when he was devoting all his time to the war. One of Truman's frequent replies! to callers when they urge action on some idea is: 1 “I realize that. But it takes time| to do all these things, and seldom have so many important things confronted us all at one time. Il get around to that just as soon as squarely behind a | installed in the fabulous mansion | ® o o 0 00 o 0 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNE 20 Dr. W. P. Blanton Harvey L. Hawkins Emma Umerti Wilcoxin Fannie Foley Mrs. Ben Foote Irene Logan E. B. Stearns Sigma Nelson Anna Wescott @ o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }os ! | prr et et o b B 1 { HOROSCGPE E “The stars incline but do not compel” — THURSDAY, JUNE 21 Adverse planetary influences are active today. There may be obstacles and delays that precede supreme achievements. HEART AND HOME The evening ‘should be most for- tunate for women. Romance blos- soms under this configuration. This s a happy wedding day, although there is a portent of clashing wills. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Closer ccoperation between heads of ' big business executives is prognosticated. Trade| and commerce will be greatly stimu- | lated through the Summer by world | events, but serious shipping diffi-| culties may develop. { NATIONAL ISSUES Astrologers have stressed the ele-| ment of surprise in current events| affecting the United States and| world developments. There is a sign | read as presaging unexpected hap- | penings that are most fortunate. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS An evil*portent seems to warn that | South America will ~meet unusual, difficulties, affecting world relations. ! Argentina continues under sinister sway which endangers Chile, Peru and Mexico. Underground foraes | will extend in Latin America, it} is forecast. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of important decisions upon which future welfare | depends. The outlook is good for | women. Children born on this day probably will be clever but extremely sensitive and easily discouraged in pursuingi their highest ambitions. (Copyrisht 1945 DUTCH VILLAGERS | AIDED ESCAPEES | NEW YORK — The eight hundred iresidents of Mechelen, the Nether- lands, during the last two years of | German occupation rescued and shelted 1,700 escaped prisoners of war and slave laborers, says the | Netherlands Information bureau. { Organized groups of Mechelen boys and girls periodically slipped facross the Dutch border to help {their countrymen escape from labor | 'camp& and also helped escaped | French and Russian prisoners of { war. | | Every cellar and haystack in and (near the village at some time pro-| vided a “home” for escapees, many of whom were wounded or ill and had to be nursed for months be-| fore they could continue their flight jtoward Britain. | One young village girl ran an im—! jprovised hospital located in a vil-! !lage house. mans’ entering the place the vil-| (antine” sign on the door. — | SALT LAKE CITY—George White {went to a fortune tellet’s booth at| a suburban carnival. After he left,| ihe told police, what little fortune | missing. I can.” | | 3 o g One thing that worries him most, ENATORS RULED NORWAY ig“‘:l;s ovaelffm‘_‘fl’q:fl“;:;&’":;mpsvmm is our foreign affais. The 1ew| Less than three weeks ago, YOUNE | = copyrign, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) President frankly realizes it is his Senator Hugh Mitchell of Washing- | - S % main weakness. He does not have'ton had the unique distinction of | Roosevelt’s intcrnational back- peing the highest civil authority in ground, therefore has to rely almost wholly on his diplomats. Norway. “Opposition leader” of ! Norway was Michigan's Repubhcani Crossword Puzzle Truman’s methods of running the Senator Homer Ferguson. i sfi:?hngf:uu 35 A fl?jih‘" Government is that of picking good| The two Senators, arriving in| ° “state 36. Palm lly men and giving them free rein.|Norway to investigate surplus prop-| ,3- Satlate o 37, Terrify This is & good system, and we could erty for the Mead Committee, drove cleul{ 38, Dry have had more of it in the past.|from their dock to Oslo’s famed| 4 Acknowledze 23 BEAR teoara- But it breaks dow: when the Presi-| Hotel Bristol. All along the way 15 Exist 2 oon o dent is not sure he can rely on|they were astonished to see fully| 16 Ong of the - 23 BORCTGS, the men picked to perform the most important job we now face—build- ing up the peace after the war. Truman told Stettinius, for in- stance, that he was to be his own boss at San Francisco. But he found that Stettinius called him on the phone once or twice a day to get his approval of almost every decision. FIRES HIS FRIENDS Unlike Roosevelt, Truman does not hesitate to fire a man who doesn’t produce. He let Leonard Reinsch go back to his radio job in Atlanta the day after he hand-| Jed himself badly in a press con- ference. He transfered Edward D. MecKim, his Adminisirative. Assist- ant, after it became known that the genial and likeable McKim seemed too engrossed to Mrs. “Hope Dia- mond” McLean’s dinner parties and the social whirl of Washington Politicos on Capitol Hill credit Truman with one political error so far—his letter to the House Rules Committee asking it to vote out bitterly opposed. by Southern legis- lators. Writing a letter of this kind to a Congressional committee went further than most Roosevelt at- tempts ;to influence Congress, and members of the Rules Committee zesente§ it. . However, if Truman erred politic- !armed Nazi soldiers strolling about | IT. | armed Nazis, they discovered, were | | ficial there. ' replied the embarrassed hotel man- | the Fair Employment Practices Bill,' of lawyers 44. Vessels for heating liquids’ 46. Number 47. Old times: poetic 50. Weaving ma- Unaspirated . Health resort . Anger 21. Covers with Several hundred lhousand} freely. mu . Garden flower Pedal digits . Popular still in Norway with no one to ac-‘ cept their surrender. The Norwegian Government was, %neleg‘lnt = m;:h_l[na' due to return shortly, and until! ,; gathers oo D r‘;},‘bn! their arrival, Senator Mitchell—as | Lde in ambush 53. Conjunction : | Palm off 54, French author a Democratic Senator of a Govern- | Fxclamation 55, Old Dominion il state ment to which Germany had sur- rendered—was the highest civil of- Since Norwegian party lines are not yet fully redrawn, Ferguson, a Republican, was entit- led to be called the “opposition leader.” The proprietor of the hotel told the Senators that the entire hotel had been occupied by Nazi officers until two days earlier. On May 28, an American Colonel Wilson had arrived with 12 officers—the first American staff men to reach Nor- | way | “We want living space and office rooms,” Colonel Wilson told the proprietor. “But the hotel is fully oc(‘upied,"! 7. Fish sauce . New England « 53 Going in state ager. Later he casually mentioned that the occupants were Nazi of- ficers. ! At Wilson’s suggestion, the Nazi commandant was called in and ask- | ed to leave. Two hours later every | Nazi had packed up, walked| through the lobby with full equip- ment, and marched to a camp oui |on) FARE [H[w/=[xm/0|»|0[>] [>m| ™ - -] |0/ > <Jllx/m/—|2T o] Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1. Spheres 2. Retain 3. Note of the scale . Beverage . Engaging for service . Mountains in 1 Across . Measure . Fuss . Prominent . Reluctant . Color quality Female sheep . Separate . Inventor of the telegrapt . Writing fluid . Corrupt Gray rock . Sensatlonal . In operation 8. Soldering flux . Partial dark- ness . Woodland deities . Female ser- vants . Ascended . Forceful . Devoured Signify . Inflict’ retrl- butle EEoRESexn o e . Chief Norse 48. 49, 51 62, [ Cut of meat Haul First woman Term of address Symbol for nickel @ E and Government | | incres { jrreproachable morals.” |lage doctor had tacked a “Quar-| he had with him—in his wallet—was | JUNE 20, 1925 Although it rained the previous night, local baseball players and Naval Reservists in the city played a gan in the drizzlé, Oneel pitching, and the locals winning 17 to 1. No box score was kept, couldn’t keep the book dry. The Song Moon Camp Fire Girls were having a good time at Auk Village notwithstanding the disagreeable weather. The free dance given the previous night by she band on one of the Eagle boats in port drew a packed A. B. Hall. This night, two other dances | were to be given, one in the A. B. Hall and the other in Parish Hall, M. S. Whittier was returning on the Princess Louise due this night. The City Council set a 19-mill tax levy at a regular meeting. Weather report: High, 62; low, 49; drizzles. B e s i 2 e oo :! Dally Lessons in EflgllSh % L. GORDON ; e et e e i) WORDS OFTEN MISUSE] Do not write, “We are handing you a { complete catalogue.” | logue.” Write, “We are ENCLOSING a complete cata- OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Malpractice. AT, and accent second syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Criticize; ZE preferred. Criticism; SM. SYNONYMS: Feeling, sensibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us se our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: “He was a man of Pronounce both A’s as in IRREPROACHABLE; above censure; blameless. ——— P i MODERN ETIQUETTE *; ROBERTA LEE Q. Would it be rude for a bride to exchange a wedding gift, if she received three or four duplicates, for something she really needs? A. No; it would really indicate good sense. But it would be better to consult a.member of her or her husband’s families before doing so. Q. " Why is it necessary for one to repeat a person's name when being intyoduced? 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