The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 26, 1945, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU,, ALASKA TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1945 was a mistake, and one of his captors shot and wounded him. PAGEFOLR i Daily Alaska Empire Subliskd Svieh svitig axcapt Meniey by vk The British need no advice on what to do with EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY | Lord Haw Haw. In pure dramatic terms, however, a O LRI Suwts, Susat T solemn trial and execution would seem out of key with HELEN TRO' President DOROTHY Tl Vice-Prosident [ 1o g o5 s life. WILLIAM R. C. Editor and Manaser | the ineffectual foolishness of his li ELMER A. FRIEN Managing Editor ALFRED ZENGE Business Manager Entered in the Post Office in Junean as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for $1.50 per month; ; » six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. Our friends and allies, the Russians, seem to have il. postage paid, at the following rates: ... |made very little progress in their effort to adjust one Sne dear, in advance, €15.00, six months, in advance, $7.50; | ¢ o ealyes to the methods, manners and values of the Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptiy notify | press under democracy as it is conceived and as it the Business Office o any fallure or irregularity in the de- | noyay)s in western Europe and the United States. As Telephones: News Otfice, 74. if there were not enough trouble over the Polish ques- T T i O o | tion, the Soviet Foreign Office has chosen to raise a The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | diplomatic incident over an article appearing in a herein | that an entire edition of the magazine, containing an | article they considered scandalous, be confiscated and destroyed. The Swedish government, of course, re- | fused, but expressed polite regret that the article had given offense and said that this was not at all the intention. The article was called Steel Man, which, of course, is a straight translation of the name Stalin, but is lalso the designation of a celebrated Swedish comic strip character. The author appears to have under- taken to explain, in a rather gay and amusing vein | the place occupied by the great Russian leader in the | minds and hearts of the Russian masses. It ascribed | his power and influence over them to the proverbial | Russian hagiclatry, asserting that Stalin has some- | thing like the status of a saint and that the Russians }nlwnys like a certain robustiousness in their saints Thus, said Obs, it never injures Stalin in the eyes of | his people when they hear rumors of the Marshal's gargantuan feats at table or at the bowl; or how “after a night of heavy feasting and drinking he drove back to the Kremlin happily shooting off his revolver,’ William Joyce—Lord Haw Haw—pleads his in- | ©F how “he hopped up on a table and danced among | the glasses,” or how “he let his happy feeling be in- icrcascd by cne or another girl.” | Two questions immediately suggest themselves Herr Goebbels' most famous mouthpiece is yelling | concerning the uproar in Moscow over this article. now for the protection of Uncle Sam. |One is why the Russians did not realize that their We think, however, that few Americans will wel- | Protest would promptly cause excerpts from the article come his effort at repatriation—if it may be called |to be cabled to the United States and various other such? The American sense of humor is sometimes | countries. The other guestion is why the Russians S 3 | have never seen the wisdom of allowing correspondents not as tole n‘m\ as that charn_cm istic in its oft-reviled l'at Moscow: fo send ‘but atticla L6 the very same vein British manifestation. Don't they realize that such stories, whether truth or On close examination though, the New York- |fable, are worth millions and millions of rubles in born Irishman is hard to picture as guilty of high | export good will? The American conception of Marshal treason to the British Empire. As a traitor, he was a | Stalin, which prevailed until very recently, based The Human Touch (Washington Post) One ¥ Alaska Newspapers, 1411 ANOTHER “VOICE” CRIES “UNCLE”! nocence of treason to Great Britain, bas his defense on American birth, says a news dispateh. sad failure. He did his best, to be sure, as a broad- | ]argely on what we saw in the movies or read in | ithough there may be a few set- was of an impassive, inscrutable,lbacks and | the aster over the radio stations controlled by the late bt i:;& “ ((\I b ; D T J v ascetic personality, who spends all his waking hours at o ¢ his desk directing the course of an amazingly compli- The h German manner was not for him. He | thought he knew how to discourage the British. The | foreign policy and by way of relaxation or recreation thing to do was to make fun of them. Sarcasm was ' writes erudite but heavy polemics on abstruse points his weapon, a thick Oxford accent his vocal instru- | of Marxist theology. As he is thus conceived, Amer- ment. Herr Goebbels seems to have been as pleased | icans respect and admire Marshal Stalin, but they as Punch with him, for he kept his job through every | don’t exactly warm to him. But this playful Stalin, up and down until it was shot from under him. AndWho is jusi a big grown-up boy like the rest of us, His | Who has hilarious moments in which he dances on a table between vodka glasses or exuberantly shcots up the town like a cowboy in the films, is something we |can understand and enjoy as much as the Russians Neither he nor his German masters ever under- | can, though we may wonder if such strenuous pleas- stood that it was laughter directed at them, and that | yres are really quite good for him at his age. a few minutes with Lord Haw Haw left everyone the | Any Hollywood press agent or any professional more determined to rid the world of a system that ! American shirt stuffer could explain these things to reposterous as it was wicked. He might |the Russian Foreign Office, if given half a chance. have been paid by one of the Allied govern- | We are glad to hear that lend-lease to Russia is not ments, he did the Allied cause so much good. %0he‘closed "Olt, atier all, Ser ¥ shipiged or 8o ot The circumstances of his capture were as:absurd JirSt-rate American publicity specialists would, at this ;s e 5 : _point, be worth more to the Kremlin than a whole as the rest of his career. He was trying to escape into Denmark, which is certainly no place for a convoy of jeeps, tanks and planes. fugitive traitor. He betrayed himself by speaking his 2 native tongue, with his familiar radio accent, to two British officers. Then he made a gesture which any reader of Western thrillers would have told him he did achieve his purpose of creating laughter. vcice was eagerly heard in Britain and, when weather‘ conditions permitted, in the United States. | We don’t know whether or not the saying is true that the average person can't stand prosperity. But we'd like very much to have the opportunity of trying to stand it. | mp Early in the war,'us anything we asked for at that The Washington s semue som 't e Merry - Go-Round Hump to Chiang Kai-Shek. Some , . Ap~ o E in April brass hats threw up their hands,| g e D SRITNO DAL (Continued from Page One) said this was impossible . . . ATC, This peak load has now uropped however, met the schedule; today|off due to troop transfers out of |15 flying 50,000 tons per month over, Furope, but the ATC has been the { cated domestic policy and an even more complicated | nen:tally bright and physically en-/ Fifty million letters were flown | I © 0 0 0.0 8 6 0 8 8 8 P et e i L . 4 HAPPY BIRTHDAY b 20 Y E A RS A G 0 from . JUNE 26 . THE EMPIRE . Henry Harmon . . Hildur Skeie . . Henry Meier . JUNE 26, 1925 . Mrs. Leroy Clements . The American Legion, the previous night, turned back the Moose . Tinnette Moder ® |38 to 6. Halm, who started for the losers, was ineffective and was taken e B. L. Holbrook ® | out in the fourth inning after found for seven hits and five runs. Koski . Eunice LaChance went in to finish the game. Oneel pitched for the Vets and struck out . Ina D. Lane ® | seven. L4 Adolph Brandon . e T.hon:“. o o| Murdock, “The White Mahatma,” heavily blindfolded, drove a Jewett ! car, furnished by Harry Lucas of the Juneau Motors, from in front of the ~ .---...m,iCOUScum Theatre, through the crowded streets, and return. Chief of Police McCloskey sat in the rear seat of the auto. fHOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” —— I Sy | A small roof fire at the City Cafe was quickly extinguished by the '| Pire Department. With practically all passenger accommodations taken by tourists, the Prince Rupsrt arrived in port from yancouver. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 The annual picnic by the congregation of Holy Trinity Cathedral Until evening adverse planetary| was to be held at the Elks' picnic grounds on Marmion Island. aspects dominate today. Aviators should be especially careful. HEART AND HOME | Misunderstandings may be numer-| ous under this sway which distorts| judgment, especially where loved| et ones are concerned. Inability to ob-| Weather report: High, 75; low, 69; partly cloudy. tain domestic service may be thwart- | peee—e. ing to those who plan hospitalities. - b t) ! Daily Lessons in English . 1. corbon | Lillian Kromquist left Douglas for Gambier Bay to spend the summer. L. M. Carrigan left for Tenakee on the Estebeth. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Government policies will be favor-! able to American ’enterprise. The | President and Congress will cooper- | ite closely in postwar provisions for | ‘he general good. | NATIONAL ISSUES The President of the United States vill manifest courage and initiative hat stimulate the nation to utmost | »ffort toward assuring the greatest | z00d for the greatest number. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Astrologers forecast relaxation of | WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us nstalment credit controls. The | jncrease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: iod results of international con-| \GGREGATE (moun); a mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars. “A simp';zii;n&‘xgrffi;“gs ;:f:::‘z’: 1 nation is but an aggregate of individuals.” Summer advances. Persons whose birthdate it is have | the augury of a year of good fortune, | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I hate to see you go.” Say, “I DISLIKE to see you go.” HATE means extreme aversion, especially with enmity or malice. | OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cowardice. in KISS (not as in ICE), accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Formidable; ~BLE, not IBLE. SYNONYMS: Difficulty, hindrance, encumbrance, impediment, ob- stacle, obstruction. Pronounce kou-er-dis, I as MODERN ETIOUETT by[{()BERTA LEE § 3 L temporary disappoint- ments. Children born on this day will be Q. When answering a wedding invitation what form should one use? A. The same form should be used as when replying to any formal srgetic but they will réquire unre-| invitation, and should be written on the first page of good, white note nitting discipline in overcoming | paper, seltish inalinshlons: | Q Should the bread and butter plates remain on the table through- (Copyright 1915) | out the entire meal? ' | A. No; they should remain until the desert is served. ATC has the job of flying these; Q. Is it permissible to terminate a conversation that has grown too olanes back to the USA, then on| togiouc to the Pacific. Most people don't 3 f i1 s i , rnaline - i S it e &l A. Yes; quiet dignity and tact will succeed invariably. planes out of Europe unless dam- | B mb i itoox and LEARN ¥ ¢ coxpox | aged . . . Damaged planes are dis-! mantled and their spare parts used | fo repair others slightly damaged | ATC also operates the world’s | sreatest weather bureau. @othing| 1. How does the area of Brazil compare to that of the United States? iike it was ever dreamed of ‘before therwar. Air patrols are kept Bon-| 2. W:\ich President of the United States was known as the “Martyr stantly flying over Greenland and{ President”? < the Himalayas to report on ad-! 3. Do fish sleep during the day or at nizhtg 4. As seen from the Southern Hemisphere, what is the best known vancing storms . .. Some day the% story will also be told of Army-| constellation in the heavens? Navy jealousy over the ATC and| 5. What European river flows through three national capitals? how some admirals didn’t like Navy ANSWERS: I o e ol Nawyl 1. Braall, 3275528 square miles; United States, 3,026,189 square miles. planes instead. 2. Garfield. . (Copyright, 1915, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 3. According to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries fish never sleep. I 5 4. 'The Southern Cross. BILLY McCANN TO FIGHT 5. The Danube; through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade. OLYMPIC NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Billy McCann, well known South- east Alaska fighter, is being lined' up at Ketchikan for a July 4 fight with Jimmy Gordon, one-time ln-i diana Golden Gloves champion. ' |largest mail carrier in history . . . jhe Reopavivania BR hetm’cl‘f New“ s o |Also it runs the world’s largest! The fight will be a 6-rounder, main SEATTLE end Philadelphia, busiest rail| Before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt o e, oo = po0 050 Dianared tevent an &' boxlbg il 4 RUTH B. ROCK | . BETTY McCORMITK line in the world The ATC}ordered special fighter planes "”h'}to handle '1 600 e o BldE et £ 2 General Agent—Baranof Hotel Juneau Agent—Phone 547 is now flying returning troops ed to the British in Egypt where i h | Natal, Brazil, g across the Atlantic at a rate of 50,- | Romiel had General Montgomery's | p oy B;‘:“sc:figrige";f‘ezer“x 000 per month . For years, ATC back to the wall... However,| : pilots have been briefed on how fighter planes couldn’t make the1:::k;x;stshand]eJ:;g?nfh:':je:&?;; to land on the difficult airports of 'long trek across Africa without re- pegs A% il . O J, A 3 is bad, hotel facilities overflow . . Greenland, Iceland or China. Now fueling and there was no airport, 5 2 i g ATC flew about half the combat the ATC has the tr ndous thrill in the heart of the continent . .. lanes across the Atlantic, thi t of briefing pilots on arriving at One day an American engineer was P 0y e, B ¥ { g being flown by combat pilots. They home ports—Boston, Portland, Long | dropped off a plane almost in Lhe’made the hop in big batch: 50 Island . .. Pilots say that no center of Africa, in French terri-| 00" ¢ aptime Bty Tofiio th bricfing was cver more welcome. |tory not far from the Sudan. He| eyl y* o . Potentate 29 JOIN SHRINERS Twenty-nine new members Join-, -_— s ow m e More than 220,000 weunded men | had his pockets stuffed with money, | have been carried in ATC planes and his head stuffed with ideas.| away from the battle front. Dur-|That was about all. He also had| ing the carly stages of Okinawa | instructions to build an airport . . . fighting, planes swooped down on|SiX Weeks later the ATC came back | ACROSS 31 Poem ceshift runways, taxied up to!and he had a 4,500-foot sodded run-| 1. Harmful 32. Light-colored 3 e s 3 Jiweis mild cigar es, took off right under|Way in fairly good shape. He had| g 0 33. Accomplish of Jap guns. Stretchers|drafted most of the camels and| 13 qurkish name 3¢ B5'VeS ded aboard while the Most of the natives in that part of | 1z, Sound in 37, Assumed name Washington 39. Epac 4 state . City In Hol- immed- | 14. Topaz hum- lnd O ming bird 41 Optical glass planes refueled . . . One big ATC Africa and paid them plenty to doi job has been getting crashed fliers|the job. Fighter planes Crossword Puzzle d the Shri t t - | moniat in Ketehikan. mperia MRS. DAVE WILLARD e ey as a ypaid-up subscriver 1o THE DAILY ALASKA y Bigivd Present this coupon to the box office of the ‘da:jeg:;uer zx;'x.eetmg 8 p.m. Wednes- cAmuL THEA“E "STEP LIVELY" Federal Tax-~11¢ per Person and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. Alfred G. Arvold of EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. | ATTENTION ELKS AT, : 2 and receive TWO TICKETS to see: {| PHONE 14— THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! cut of the Himalayas. Amazing lately began crossing to the Egyp- | : 2 — fact is that 75 per cent are saved|Uan front and the British Army| 18 Absesnd'". 45 Lartake = 3 z Lieut. Gen. Harold George,|Staged its come-back ... Today| - Dalry matd: 46 Eoiie tuber bess of the ATC, realized in ad-|the French are making diplomatic| 18. Cover with 49. Conclllatory [E|R[O]S vance that crashes would be heavy | iDquiries as to this airport, appar-| s altafes 5 BpRae [EIP[ERIC[B[E[S DA over the Hump, so men were given ently with a view to taking it over.| 22 Tosvn in 48 53. Egg-shaped & g special (raining on how to live in| Another great engineering feat! 23 Dress the 55, Mharhne Salution .0t Yesterday's Pugzh . the jungles. They were even taken|was at Ascension, the island rock | ,, Mé::,‘;:‘;":m" 86. Gain the vic- 60. Force air DOWN 3 to jungle outposts to get familiar in the middle of the South Atlantic | 27 Wit of **"* 1. %ex}s\érel Ticough the S RUAED vl with the jungle before they hopped|. .. The ATC needed Ascension etalo . Weight nose - Qo the ahel¢ Every plane flying the Hump|to make the hop from Brazil to o e e e i g 3 AD(::;(: e has a small tin chest (with its own| Africa. Only trouble was that As- V/ " 8 178 70 4. Telephone pa wute) containing medicine,’ cension is solid rock with a peaké .H“%-H. .%'. &irls snake-bite antidote, water purifier,|in the center and no room for a| n..%“. .77/“ B W hine ey concentrated food, signal flares,| runway. However, one ATC en-| % 3~ Gons by mirrors, mosquito nets, etc. This| gineer took a look at it, told Gen- E H 8. 8::;;@';;’,»; chest is kept near the plane’s door.|eral George: “If you give me 90 9. Religious If the crew has to jump, the chest days and plenty of steam shovels 10. Agfii’,‘““‘ is kicked out before the last man|and dynamite, Il build an air 11. Inlets of the 4 leaves the plane . .. In the jungle,jbhse" ... George gave him the 19. s.,;fiTi fish D mslrs crews are taught to stay where equipment, and 90 days later, the| 41 Botbins : they are until sighted by rescue|ATC had a base ... Ascension is| planes which signal instructions as|British-owned and is one island| to where they can be picked up|regarding which the USA has no| Natives are usually friendly|rights after the war. Another is! and the chances of getting rescued}Newfoundland ... When we from the jungle are far better than |traded 50 over-age destroyers for if a flier drops over the desert orhsland bases, the State Department in the sea. forgot to include Newfoundland. The Japs shot down many ATC|This is the most important base| planes early in the war by painting}of all when it comes to flying the their DC-4's with U.S. insignia . . .| Atlantic. The USA has built one Flying up close, the Japs waited|of the world’s finest airports on until they had perfect targets, then| Newfoundland but we will have no fired . .. U.S. planes had to beright to use it after the war ... repainted . . . Now, however, LhelVVhy the State Department left Japs have been pushed back a|Newfoundland out remains a mys- | considerable distance from thejtery. The British would have given l 23. Make read; 24, Intricate 25. ®oap plant Fus: . Fuss 28. Turkish decres 29. Loved to cxcess 32. Most skilltul 34. Turkish title Self 38, Moment 40. Kind of mineral 42, Tested 48. General Elsenhower 43. Pasticles . Chess plece 48, Buckeye state 49, Roman road 50. Press 51. Metal con- tainers 54. Division of & Philipp'ne towa ¢ IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED ] TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS o EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 96 After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge| MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE No. 1 @Nw A2,L0.0.F. SECOND and FOUR’ Meets each Tues- Monday of each mony day at 8:00 P. M. I O. O. F. HALL. in Scottish Rite Temp| Visiting Brothers Welcome téeg;‘nrggmg nmz 7"1‘8;30 9“70 GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand | gnineil Master; JAMES W. LEIV ERS, Secretary. S GEORGE BROS. 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