The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(uly 4luska Emptrc except Sunday by the i COMPANY Alaska. Second ROY MONSEN - - T - President | under a terific political strain due to the ease with | which American forces are destroying homeland cities “md factories. It is not likely that the government ‘Wn\lld subject itself to such strain unless it had no ‘nllwr course. A few more events such as the recent Y ”‘"(vU g > % Vice-President | fleet attacks; a few more unresisted raids from U. S CARTER - - - Editor and Manager | 8 A Bntenn ~ = =7 = 7 - " Managing Editor | bombers, and the little that remains of Premier ALFRED ZENGER - - - - Business Manaker |g.pi brestige will go a-glimmering. That will not the Pos SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.30 per month; | six months, §8.00; one year, $15.00 v mail. postage paid, at the following rates: advance, $15.00; six m ance, $1.50. I confer a favor if any faflure or b fice, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ated Press is excl ws dispa also the Alaska Newspapers, 1411 HOW l() N .'. Japanese Government leaders are making frantic efforts, through propaganda, to assure their peeple that all is well in the homeland; the islands are stury and strong; that American air and sea forces have been virtually unopposed only because Tokyo has secret plans which will foil any | invasion effort Perhaps there are grains of truth in the boasts. It is hardly possible to believe that the enemy military and naval organizations have been completely put out of business, although recent events would tempt such beliefs. But even the most dour Allied observers forced to the conclusion that Japanese reserves puny compared with U. S. attacking strength If Japan had defense units to spare, she most certainly would have thrown some of them against | recent fleet and air units which have come screaming | down from the skies and roaring in from the seas. Yet communiques from the battle lines tell us that almost no opposition has been encountered; that the opposition which was forthcoming was extremely weak and ineffective. It is natural to believe—and we are of that opin- ion—that the Nips are holding what remains of their are are original strength for a final showdown on the beaches | of their own lands. It is probable, too, as we have pointed out before, that their last efforts will be the most fanatical they yet have attempted and weeks pass, their pow sapped. Japan cannot defend hers might have done two months ago. seen to that. Another being as she of resistance ar 1f today reason for believing devotion to face-savin; The Washmgton Merry - Go- Round (Co'ntmued /rom Page Onej }an ‘(u practice law in The pruz nt government is cxposing, members of the into her drawing of the Fr city should take care of these| weeds along the sidewalk.” | Irving was referring to a strip of sidewalk that runs parallel to West Van Horn Road on the north side of the Truman estate, where in order to pull the weeds, he has to stand on the edge of the street. However, this was not all of Irving’s troubles. He complained that before the President arrived in Independence, Mrs. Truman had asked him to whitewash the base- | ment. But workmen, then painting on the outside of the house, warned | that he had better not do it or he| CHUR! BUCKED U force of characte; his wit, Winston ing great regret from and Navy strateg were they left military swayed by personality would get in trouble with the ters' union between Churchil, Irving, no great be-|erals and . admir: unions, waited until the told. One of the left for the day and then y Churchill's Office in Juncau as Second Class Matter. hs, in advance, $7.50; | v will promptly notify trregularity in the de- | ively entitled to the use for credited to it or not other- local news published - | the menopolistic, that defenses of | elaborate | But as days | Our air arm has that the Japs are | near the end of their string lies in their traditional | tion of labor, management and government and a shall, is making a play for new Some of them have been inveigled | hundred pound Ed Prichard, genial is thinking about Though they admired his great as Prime Minister Too many times they overruled by garding war plans. Too many times fear that Roosevelt was too much Churchill's and charm. | Some of the secret battles make the defense of the islands any easier. [ \men(‘a s White Paper (St. Louis Star-Times) War Mobilizer Vinson’s “master blue print” for American peacetime economy so basically sound that if we stagger into post-war depression it will not be because a better way was not shown us. Vinson calls fundamentally for a high production level, attained | by a series of measures designed to preserve and ex- pand consumer purchasing power. Inherent in his program is the idea of full employment. There are many who fear full employment will not work. There no way of knowing that it will | work until it is tried, but those who fear to make the |attempt would in effect condemn this country to a | Progre ve decline in its present war inflated income to a level that would fail to produce prosperity and which might bring about a return to depression levels. | We are now at a boom prosperity level of $200,000,000,000. Economists generally have set an | income of about $150,000,000,000 if we are to have the economic activity necessary to cope with our war | indebtedness and to disarm social and economic dis- | contents. | Vinson is out in support of $150,000,000,000. The | greatest blow ever struck free enterprise was struck by scarcity economy that burgeoned in !the 20's in the absence of adequate protection for consumer purchasing power. Vinson therefore proposes to provide his pro- tection through advances in social security, safeguards | for the wage level, vigilance against monopolies, ex- panding foreign trade ‘and the use of government- | financed public works to supplement private invest- ment. | In essence, this simply means that the government takes some responsibility for keeping the economy ! going. | Unfortunately there is a tinge of the political in one of Vinson's recommendations. His proposal that the Little Steel formula should be breached in some |instances to compensate for the elimination of over- | time is open to grave objections on economic grounds. ! Overtime pay is no less inflationary in essence than is any other kind of pay. |as it might have been, however, so long as it was | | money expended to compensate for longer hours of | work. That means that there was a production offset ‘m cushion the impact of increased searning power. | With the elimination of that extra volume of produc- | tion, however, this ingrease of consumer income added to the more than $200,000,000,000 of stored up pur- | chasing power, could be disastrously inflationary. The first act of the government should not be to bolster an inflated wage scale but to attack the problem from | y increasing production, encouraging | the price angle { competition and shoring up wage minimums. In the main, however, standable apprehension about unions and government stricture, prospers during high-level production The Vinson plan is substantially that backed by the British Tories. It is that of an economy of plenty instead of scarcity, with the government fulfilling the role of a flywheel to keep the innumerable wheels of private enterprise going. It offers a better bet for the future than the economy of the past. It could be made to work and 1 to give all of us a stake in preserving our way of life. But it would require the intelligent co-opera- I non-, pohucal spirit in its administration. plans. Another vigorous discussion over war plans took place at Quebec in the summer of 1943, at which| time Gen. Marshall stood up be- fore. the General Staffs of both nations and vigorously rebuked Field Marshal Sir Allen Brooke, British Chief of Staff, for per- mitting publication of the appoint- ment of Lord Louis Mountbatten to command the Burma campaign After the Quebec Churchill came to Washington, spent several days at the White House and asked that Gen. Wede- me; be appointed U. S. aid and advisor to Lord . Mountbatten. Churchill emphasized that he wanted the best young general in the American Army to help Mount- batten in the Burma campaign. He did not emphasize the fact that, Wedemeyer has also been the chief opponent to British war plans and | Truman Cabinet. room . Three ed Vinson brain returning Kem.u:k) CHILL S. MILITARY r and revelled in| Conference, Churchill's pass- brought no top U. S. Army ists. they ! re- felt Churchill meetings with the dominating waged | I and U. S. gen-| als can now be| Washington. i > most important 'edemeyer was a specialist on adroit move toi” It was not as dangcrous‘ business, for all its under- | they would like to get him out of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ->oo (o s s+ i !HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” e L e WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 Adverse planetary aspects are ac- tive today but there is a promising sign for labor and industry. HEART AND HOME sical forces under this configuration. Complaints should be sternly re- pressed. The family meals may be| restricted but to eat. "BUSINESS AFFAIRS Transition from war to civil ac- tivities will engage chief attention in Autumn planning. Despite ex-| treme care to prevent un“mployment many idle men and women will en-| joy Summer leisure. Inclination to/ reject work will be strong among war-weary Service folk NATIONAL ISSUES Increased crime will be widely de- plored in the next few weeks and communities will fail to realize that they have not cleaned up under- world centers or evils that lead to lawbreaking. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Frictions among districts in Ger- many will multiply, according to the |seers. The_five great powers will |bave many perplexing problems |dangerous to lasting peace. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year that is for- | tunate for domestic ties and bank | | accounts. | Children born on this day probab- ly will be active and ambitious but | | | ents for their support. (Copyright 1945) - He | Germany. had lived in Ger- many, knew many top-ranking Nazi | their | familiar with Roosevelt bowed went | generals, was strategy. However, to Churchill and Wedemeyer to India. However, Roosevelt did not bow | to Churchill when the Prime Min- | ister adroitly suggested that Mar- the man who wanted the cross-channel invasion, be placed in command of that invasion. | Other U. S. military men immedi: ‘ately advised Roosevelt that this. would take Marshall away from ‘the over-all command of the U. S. Army, so he would have nothing to say the Italian theatre, | theatre, etc. They urged that this {was only a Churchillian move to| clip the wings of the man who, with Wedemeyer, chiefly talked | back to Churchill in war strategy * | meetings. So the Marshall transfer, though | it leaked to the press, was never | made. u. believe ~ that | S. war chiefs Labor Prime Minister Clement Att-| lee, though a major in the last war, will military expert, as Churchill did, and will be much more cooperative than his stormy, delightful, domi- neering predecessor. (Copyright, 1945, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) or intensity of the current. ‘Women should conserve their phy-| there will be plenty ! concentrated on' inclined to rely too long upon par-‘ about supplies and troops to' the Pacific| not consider himself a| - | An amphere is a unit of electric | current, and measures the strength TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945 e e 00000000 00 5 . . f PY + HAPPY BIRTHDAY o[} 7() YEARS AGO T%': empirE e o o July3, 195 e e & 4 . . ° George H. Peterson . JULY 31, 1925 . Pearl Dowd 3 Frank A. Boyle joined the ranks of auto owners, a new Dodge . Mrs. Horace Blood ® | having arrived through the T. J. McCaul agency and turned over to him. 19 Bessie Kress L] — 1 Mrs. David McNamee ” Miss Leila Ptack was in from Coghlan Island for a short visit. . R. H. Haydon . AR o 2 e ‘.!amrs Myers* e Four melody men were entertaining between features at the Coli- : Ml:hl;fiM;::fmy : seum, Cash Cole, H. M. Frawley, Jack Fargher and Max Pitschmann. : b : R. J. Davis, owner of a seaplane in port, and R. H. Merrill, on a tour ® e 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . of Alaska, expected to hop off during the afternoon, weather permitting; | for Seward enroute to Nushagak Bay. Three days mail was cxpected from the south on the Admiral Evans this night. duc Weather report: High, 61; low, 57; cloudy. Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon ———— | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not write, “Your favor has been received.” Write “Your LETTER (or ORDER) has been received.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Mechanist. Pronounce mek-a-nist, as in MET, A unstressed, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Isthmus. Observe the TH, {nounced is-mus. SYNONYMS: Picture, print, painting, drawing copy, lineation, representation, sketch. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ‘hnxm:e our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: TE] RV[AGANT boisterous; quarrelsome; scolding. “She was a termagant vife E though pro- likeness, de- MODERN ETIQUETTE ° ROBERTA LEE Q. Will you please give a list of what part of the wedding expenses groom should pay? A. The groom must pay for his bride’s wedding ring, the marriage license, transportation for his family and his attendants, gloves, ties, fee, and the honey- '1 the ‘lan(l boutonnieres for his attendants, the minister’s moon trip. Q. When a business letter is being written by an unmarried woman, } should she use the prefix “Miss”? A. Yes. She should write Miss in parentheses before her signature. Q. What is the minimum tip that one should give for having one’s | | wraps checked? | | A. Ten cents is sufficient when one is alone. PO ) 1. Before the war how many autcmobiles were scrapped annually? 2. In what year did Woodrow Wilson become President? | 3. What is the circumference of the earth at the equator? 4. How many lenses has the human eye | 5. What bird is said to be able to' fly 150 miles an hour? ANSWERS: | 1. Between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000. 2. 1913, [ ‘ | 3 24902 miles. | 4. One. 5. The falcon. o0 0 0060 00 00 0 0 FAMILYFIGHT . ‘: TIDES TOMORROW ¢/ . . [® © August I, 1345 ¢ ¢ ©| MOUNT VERNON, IlL—When Sue ‘Ann Egbert, 17, the first Mount Ver- Low . :26a.m, 181t ‘ non girl to win a pilot’s license, pre- High - 7:3la.m., 13.01t. 1pared to make her first passenger |® Low 13:30p.m., 29ft. lihght her 80-year old grandmother, j® High .19:5¢p.m., 15.6 It. ® | Mrs. Mary Gregory, was at the air- | & ® | port. o e 0000 0000 0 o ‘ Mrs. Gregory, expressing confi- § £ Ty {dence in her granddaughter’s ability, The discovery of the electricidocided she would take her first |current was made by an Italian | plane ride, and became Miss Egbert’s physicist, Alessandro Volta. | first plane passenger. o S B R T T T02 | GEORGE A. FLEEK { as a pald-up subscriver 16 THE DAILY ALASKA i|. 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: '“'30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO" 1 Federal Tax-—11c per Person PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB CO. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! ne basement transfer Gen. George Marshall out | 0 ME [GlA[S] he does not intend of the job of Chief of Staff. An-| Crosswo Puzzle ME[R/EMMAID BIE| Truman in the lurch. other was to transfer Gen. Al NI CIO] il olr M'M .z\li“\unwbnq,\' _A‘l: Wedemeyer out of Washington. The ACROSS . Pronoun %ZEE [R] B Urn ' atter succeeded; the first failed. 1. Fuss 45. Worthless dog [ER[O[T[1]C] U/SE| First military clash with Chur-| 4. Forward 36 Indlan fetish [SINEE] [R] 0 glamor for chill took place at Casablanca in| 9. Greek letter 37. Number @0 BM |A[C[H] the wages that| January, 1943, Churchill wanted to| 12 Biohator 35 Carmer's native o] [L]o[o] |strike from North Africa against Pagliacel” tongue W] [RIE] the soft underbelly of the AXis—| ji. Mowerain b 3 s 15 information [vi] E[R] CAPITAL CHAFF through the Balkans. The U. S.| 4 hente, D] IT|E[D] ecently od | General Staff wanted to invade on| 17, Peverage phenomeny [E] [c]o] with Cordell | the shortest road to Berlin—across| 13. Train making 45. Frozen [o[T]s] to see him.|the English Channel to Normandy i sHonal [R|AJNE[P|E[E] regarding | It was not a question of invading Efce[E[RINR[EDS] was Rm m eller | at once, but of beginning prepara- Tairicate terday’s Puzzle he way for Ar-|tions at once for invasion, since it RO b iy . A The takes months to prepare for a Poem 60, Draw game 62. American putting all sorts major invasion ii-gorth A1 S pEOR il it he w Justice; The argument lasted for hour . Wil Depa the anti-trust, Churchill stood out for the Bal !ndulc:;wrl‘mnt case against it. I I say kans. He was almost unmovable ,1-;;(5\:1’ l‘nlrd they have a clear-c inst | Finally he played his trump card Prophetic the Digest ing contracts|He announced that Britain could oo with magazines whereby they can't supply only 30 per cent of the \ S Damatinson 1€ 1e except the troops against 70 per cent U. 8 n Reader’s The Digest t100ps in any cross-channel inva- . Debit has powe t court; once|sion. Britain, he said, was not - e ot even got th to st g to lose “the seed” of her 7. e Aoatls the case be 1hood H ! with the Since it would have been too long . another torney Gener to transport enougt lerican Agntaner likely to con (oo NJI"\ u,{lyxl \;'M.’: . _Qr the voice Civil Aeronautics Boar i|for an early cross-channel invasion that Philadelphia a compromise invasion of Italy was .& Atlantic air terminus, a agreed. We already had the troop = Baltimore was not. How Bal- in North Africa to handle Italy -‘ timoreans visiting the Ph and so did the British ; n- port learned that a cc i ; { ‘ . Food fish been decomposing beside one of the ARGUMENT AT QUEBEC & o runways for two week The men who stood up to C “m:"‘n % port was so little used that no one chill strongest during that Cz ‘ MAEHen bid had discovered it Mr Hope blanca discussion were Ger Back Dijamond” McLean, mother-in-law all and Wedemeyer .. of sSenator Bob Reynolds whom the €r a member of vm' .- Scripps Howard papers have been| General Staff in charge of DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED ‘First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA ER FEOERAL nCE €O Ation .# TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS mxn‘t CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 9% After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge| MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO, 147 @m AZ210.0.F. SECOND and FOURTH Meets each Tue: Monday of each month day at 8:00 P. M. L O. O. F. 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