The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1945, Page 4

- ’ Daily Alaska Empire , sion. R sure that Mr. Gillette was manifesting them. It may - be that he simply has an old-fashioned and peculia |1y high regard for the status of the Federal bench— |a respect for the traditions of the legal profession i and for the sanctity of American justice which makes | him unusually exacting about appointments to our I e A R judiciary. Perhaps Mr. Gillett> reasoned that, were " |he still a Senator, he would not vote for his own PACIFIC GAINS | confirmation. His scruples and his candor afford - |ample justification for President Truman’s desire to There was a time when the Japanese Empire ex- | keep him in the public service in a position for which tended, uncontested, for 6,500 miles, east to west. | he feels he is truly fitted. Tokyo controlled the lands and waters from the | Ty R western boundary of Burma, eastward to the Marshall of 1940 PAGE FOUR they are growing scarce, as Radio Tokyo ‘on sevrrnl! occasions has admitted. The future for the enemy is dark, indeed, and it grows darker each hour. Germany was squeezed to death long after her captured buffers were ripped from her. Japan faces the same fate. Published every e ening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PLLINTING COMPANY Second snd Main Stresus ¥rveen Alaska. r not Prestdent HELEN TROY MO) | . - - Vice-President | ' | | DOROTHY TROY 1 WILLIAM R. CARTER ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED Z} Editor and Manager Managing Editor Business Manager Small Miracle Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Washington Post) Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; Page Diogenes! We have at hand in the person it e o el d | of Guy M. Gillette of Towa the very man whom the | By mall, postare pald 8t e fo I e e, $7.50; | Greek cynic philosopher, lamp in hand, sought so | assiduously and so hopelessly a couple of thousand | vears ago. Mr. Gillette has turned down a seat on the Federal bench, offered to him by President Tru- | man, for the simple, incontrovertible and altogether extraordinary reason that he thinks he is not qualified | to occupy it. Until he was defeated for reelection last year, he was a member of Congress continuously since 1932, first in the House, later in the Senate. Prior to that, he was engaged, acdording to his biography in the Congressicnal Directory, in farming, and pre- umably has not done active legal work since he served s prosecuting attorney of Cherokee County, Iowa, from 1907 to 1909. When the President, as reported, | suggested that he “brush up” on the law, Mr. Gillette lis understood to have replied that a brief brush-up would not give him the legal background and ex- perience necessary for a Federal judgeship. Diffidence and humility are not common charac- | teristics in public life. And, indeed, we are not at all One vear. in advance, §15.00, six months, in | one month. in advance, $1.50 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- lvery of their papers Telephones: News Orfice, 602; Business Office, 374. ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIV | Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, MEMBER - Alaska Newspapers, 1411 and Gilbert Islands. Over the broad sea lanes her ¥ ships carried vital raw materials from the Nether- | (New York Times) lands Indies, the Malay States and Indo-China, direct| A correspondent of this newspaper in the summer to factories of Japan. ‘ur 1940 reported German naval officers on the beach near Dunkerque. Why did they not carry out the task General MacArthur’s armies and Admiral Nimitz's | for which they had been sent there? One reason was fleets have been trimming the fate from the empire | the British fleet, which never lost its supremacy in for many months. Today the map shows but a tiny |the Channel. Another reason, soon revealed was sliver of Jap-controlled land connecting the homeland | British fighter power in the air. To the German in the north with the rich empire in the south. The High Command, probably fully informed| as teo enemy still holds the Indies, the Malay Peninsula and | Britain’s momentary weakness on land, the sight of Bther 1ands in thé sonth. But precious little good the | the British coast across the very few miles of water . point must have been resources of this great area now offer her. | lat the Channel's narrowest ‘mfurinting. If the full weight of the German arms With American domination of the Philippines!could have been thrown intc Britain at that time came virtual American domination of the South 1 the immediate outcome could not have been in doubt. China Sea. This put an end to any steady flow of | So tempting was the objective that legends nrew maritime trade from the south to the Jap's home : up about it . Out of scarps of evidence gathered here and there arose finally the story that the Germans islands. Now the capture of Okinawa is complete. | story n ; Plete. | ) 24 actually attempted an invasion, that the British With the island completely ours and we have had the !had succeeded in wrecking the invasion barges with oppertunity to create new bases there, not only will flaming oil, and that thousands of burned German Japan be even more vulnerable to direct attack, but | pyodies had been washed up on the French coast. commerce through the East China Sea will be ef- Evaer officially corroborated or denied, the legend fectively plugged. i refused to die. Now we have an explanation from The narrow strip of land along the Hankow- | Geoffrey Lloyd, at present British Minister of In- Canton rail line, then, will be the only shed holding | formation, formerly Minister of Petroleum. According North Japan to the treasure-trove in the south. Even |t Mr. Lloyd, Britain did actually prepare to ring this communication lane will be under constant air'\l"'r coasts with flame 1o case; the GBS, e, b9 s |land, all the way from Cornwall to Scotland. The 8 bombers | pack ‘n?m b(,)m “’"‘? andelpsy hase.d bars, Clyip | attempt was never made. What did happen was that Army units will continue to slice it from the ground. the Germans, knowing what was in store for them, Even at best, the flow of supplies which can be made an experiment by sending'soldiers clothed in carried through the corridor is pitifuily thin. The \ asbestos suits into a sea covered with burning ofl. railroad is inadequate, and hizhways which parallel | The suits were defective and many burned bodies did it are sketchy. The situation, from a military point drift in with the French tides. of view, is impossible one. No empire, under | History does not turn on so simple a ma(tex; s attack, can be held together by so tender a thread, | A0 asbestos uniform that will not keep out fire. 5 it . L Britain was saved by valiant leadership and the un- For parctical purposes, then, the southern empire | conquerable spirit of her people. The petroleum has ceased to exist for Japan. From those lands the | gofense worked out by Mr. Lloyd, Lord Hankey and Nipponese have carried large stores of materials. But | gihers may have saved the world years of bloodshed those reserves will last only a limited time. Already!and suffering. an asked Governor Lehman how much | . | the questioning. The w ashlngionfi ‘General, youre planning to arm|farm machinery UNRRA was ship- |thousands of Chinese troops. |ping overseas. Merr _Go_Round They've been trained by German| <« don't want to mislead this y officers. Why don't we use cap-|committee,” Lehman replied. “Per- : | tured German equipment to arm|centagewise it's practically noth- (Continued from Page One) ;(hem? You must have a lot of it|ing perhaps two or three per cent| SRR —— | by now.” ' of our total production. However, secret session of the Mead Com-| “I felt the same way apout it at we asked for 171,000 tons of food mittee last week. Present were rep- | {irst, Senator,” Somervell replied.|to feed Europe’s starving people. | “But it would only ball up our|we're getting less than 80,000. Now resentatives of UNRRA, the State Department, War Department, For- eign Economic Administration, Treasury and Maritime Commis- transport and create a lot of time- wasting headaches if we tried to send all that German stuff to some people are complaining be- cause we've given them machinery to grow their own food.” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA = 1, : FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULY 6 Josephine White Joanne Ruth Cowling Clarence Gaylord Mrs. M. M. Madison Clara Williams Edna Deloe R. M. Franlin Thomas Drummond R. M. Edwards Myrtle Price e o o o 0 e e vy L HOROSCOPE { “The stars incline but do not compel” — SATURDAY, JULY 1 This is an unimportant day in planctary direction. Benefic aspects seem to predominate. HEART AND HOME As a prelude to the world-wide psychological effects of the World War, strange adjustments will take| place in the United States. There| will be new ways of thinking, broad- er outlocks on life and acceptance of many foreign customs. BUSINESS AFFAIRS | Mercantile foresight will cat dealers to be cautious in buying Fall stocks. There is a sign indicating a slight shrinkage in the voium: of | trade, for many buyers will limil expenditure. NATIONAL ISSUES | Plans for lasting peace will be of | intense interest as signs of secret subversive propaganda become ap-| parent. The stars seem to warn of | treachery in places where hidden Nazi loyalties survive. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS | The question of just punishment| of enemy leaders will arouse con-; flicting ideas. There will be a ten- dency to forget atrocities as we count mercies. The seers warn that severe | measures must be taken if civiliza- tion is to survive fifty years. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of extreme ac- tivity. Unusual opportunities are| forecast for them. Children born on this day probably will p t "ability, especially in mechanical fields of work. Suc- cessful manufacturers belong to this sign. g (Copyright 1945) | war European market, Lehman said, | but he also cautioned that Can-| adian tractors require Canadian| repairmen and that the Canadians are delighted with the chance to| i move in on our export trade. ! The Committee tried to find out just what the Government can ex- pect to get back out of the lend- Acheson, the FEA could answer. 1 Admiral Land said the Maritime Commission would lose nothing, since the U. S. kept title to all ships on lend-lease. Finally, one Senator asked if there wasn't some overall body { which knows all about American | property abroad and whether it's I surplus or not. But no one was able to answer. (Copyright, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) e | SETS LOFTY GOAL Neither { vell, nor lease we have shipped to Europe.| Clayton, Somer-| 7 S . e Mr and Mrs. J. 0 YEARS AGO ¥ Lo THE EMPIRE JULY 6, 1925 Sadlier left for the south on the Prince George. He was to attend the BPOE convention in Portland and she was to visit relatives on Spuhn Island, a tract of 175 acres going into the fox raising busines you think for.” They expected to return within a month. Lance Hendrickson, who had been visiting his mother and sister over the Fourth, left on the U. S. Forest Service boat Weepoose for Icy Strait. Edward Kelly, son of Mrs. J. Hayes, was aboard the Alaska. in port, as freight clerk. E. E Weschenfelder and A. E. Goetz jointly purchased the Dahl lease and intended making a farm, later 55, The Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Charlotte was in port on the first tourist trip of the season. Barbara Hermann arrived home aboard the Admiral Evans. ly Lessons in English % . corpon — WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “You will like it better than MET, not MEET. e | SEATTLE—Dr. J. Howard Snively, a mountain climber despite his 67 years, has clambered up 90,000 feet he has mastered 13 peaks, including 19,671-foot Mt. St. Helens. China. In the long run it will be cheaper and faster to send new| supplies from here. Besides, we'd have to retrain those Chinese who've already been taught to use| Lehman also pointed out to the Senators that UNRRA is now forced to buy considerable ma- chinery in Canada. The Dominion All got in hot water during the three-hour closed-door meeting except the Maritime Commission and UNRRA. Unpopular brass hat General Brehon Somervell, who 100,000 feet of altitude under his !boots before the summer closes. - Emplre wanv aas gec auick resulta is eager to move in on the post- our equipment, and teach them to| showed up with a small army of use German weapons.” | 60 aides, took the worst thumping- Feed] of all. | Taft then moved in on Admiral] Somervell admitted under oues- Land of the Maritime Commission, | Crossword Puzzle sioning that the Army has at least asked him how the Russians were| 50,000 surplus trucks in Europe, able to transport war materiel on| ACROSS 33. Disunite New York’s hard-working Senator American liberty ships flying the! 1L Clusterof 34 Regret = Mead then asked Governor Leh- Soviet flag without being attacked| 4. styio of poctry oo “odriver man if he had been able to pick Y Jap subs and aircraft. 010 Wt Al rrahaliitien up any of these trucks for relief “Senator” replied Land, “Tll be 12, pinnished * - vessels “Do , want any of these Japs find out the inside story on| 14 Wavy: manship B e et s, that one.” L 18, Content o i et une SOLOE “Do we want them?” replied Several Senators then asked why | :g. Sff":f",.lg;:, Seed covering Lehman. “The trouble is we can't Our G. I Joes were taking such a| ™ petals: 42. Greek letter get them. We can't seem to get beating in France because of the aiiene 80 Roman road them released. I've got a telegram unfavorable exchange rate. Hoarfrost Short jacket from Yugoslavia here telling that “Since “;llwh :095 the er L 1:%“?‘ :i\}{“‘(fiié‘, 34 OfF Bhes: one hungry Yugoslav city, Sara- 0 carry he urden o inflation '‘akes on cargo poetic jevo, hasgdnl_\ three trucks to feed in France?” asked Michigan's| e:;?:";‘uf sheep 5 AL thousands of people. Why, some Shrewd Republican Senator Fergu- .h{:fir-ch“d -‘g;‘ figgg_’g:: towns are starving, while theyre SOR burning the food just a few miles “They don't have to spend their away in the same country because Money in France, you know," re-| they can't move. A year from Plied one of Somervell's aides.| now the Army will be begging us ~They can ship it home.” to take trucks. Then we won't This burned the Senators up. need them. We want them now Obe demanded why the men who BBen (hiey can save lives fought in Europe shouldn't have a chance to spend their money and Several Senators quizzed Somer- enjoy life now that the shooting vell as to why UNRRA hadn't re- had stopped. Ferguson asked what ceived the trucks yet £ the the Army was doing to improve General could reply “the War the situation § Department’s working on it Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall re- After more discussic Lehm plied that the Army was expand- whose anger was Iis ) p ing the post exchanges in France from the back of the m, looked so that men could buy everything,! straight at Somervell ic including gifts, at reasonable prices. “There’s all that surplus Army Several Senators quizzed Dean stuff, especially in Italy Acheson and Will Clayotn of the can't we get it?” te Department as to who had Somervell hesitated fixed the unfavorable rate of ex- to cooperate,” he said, lamns change with the French. Both re- we're going to.” plied they didn't know. Actually, g President Roosevelt had done it GERMAN EQUIPMENT FOR personally during the Casablanca ‘ CHINES terence. _Ohio’s Bob Taft then took over) tor Tunnell of Delaware then | Ser [Pla[CISTHIAIM[SINCIO[B)] [AlG|oEMIAIN 1 /AR AIV] AL [S] BEE [R1]M) [H] Solution Of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 1. Russian river 2. Norse viking 3. 4. 5. Going before Musical studies Writing material . Press Holder Group of four . Unfasten . Second U. & President . Flat cap . Patron saint of lawyers . Former emperor Fail to keep English river Wanders . Growing darker . Appoints . Impolite . Bar of a knock-down soap frame . Tight-fitting 36. Island in the north Atlantie . Unconcealed . American Episcopal bishop . Feminine name Mountain idge .. Radium i emanation . Bpike of flowers . American Indian of mountain so far this season. With| his two sons, Bob and Howard, Jr.,| He wants, said Dr. Snively, to getr OFTEN MISSPELLED: Main (chief). SYNONYMS: I | embroil WORD STUDY { MODERN Q. Does it sho A. No, and a Q. At a church and close friends? A. Yes; the fro Q. Should crea: A. No. TEOK a 2 | States? 3. 4. 5. What is the ANSWERS: 1. More than 3 Chesapeake Three; Wasl Omit FOR. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Metropolitan. Pronounce first syllable Mane (hair). nvolve, implicate, complicate, entangle, embarrass, : “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ¢ | inerease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | SIGNIFICANCE; meaning or import. | significance.” “His words bore a peculiar ETIQUETTE *4 ROBERTA LEE 3 w good manners for a child to laugh at another’s mistake in the classroom? well-trained child will never do so, nor laugh at another's mistake in any other place. wedding, should certain seats be resérved for relatives nt seats are always reserved. m be poured in the after-dinner coffee? nd LEARN f,’\’f C. GORDON ey 1. How many languages, including dialects, are there in the world? 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