The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1945, Page 4

AGE FOUR . . Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the v EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska, HELEN TROY MON s 3 DOROTHY TR . President ALFRED ZENGE Eotered § Second Class Matter. in the Post Office In Juneau a SUESCRIPTION RAT Delivered by earrier in Junesu and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. postage paid, at the following r $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ews Office, 602; Business Office, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press ls exclusively entitled to the use for / reput all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ite credited In this paper and also the local news published herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash ~ Alaska Newspapers, 1411 POINT SYSTEM From Camp Kanchrapara, India, we have received a letter from Pvt. Douglas M. Blanchard of Skagw. Alaska, who has been appointed spokesman for a group of Alaskan servicemen stationed in that area. Private Blanchard, and his friends, are appealing to their home folks tc see if’they can’t do something about | the discharge Here, the diserimination of against the boys from Alaska. statement “F was clected spokesman by numerous Alaskans in the China, Burma and Indian theatres. We are from the variosu towns and cities of Alaska, and our wish is to return home as soon as possible. “Our reason for writing this letter is to tell you how the point system has been unfair to us, and our requests for a change of policy haven't been effective. Our hope action.and bring about fair treatment for their boys in the services. “The President of the United States once made this approximate quotation: ‘Any man in the Armed Forces, regardless of color or creed, who served outside the limits of the continental United States shall receive extra credit” The Alaskans were given over- seas pay and were authorized to wear overseas bars for service in Alaska. But when the point system was adopted we didn't receive the overseas points to which we should be entitled. This change of policy hardly makes sense and the 50 percent loss of points lengthens our time in the Army approximately a year or morc. point system then, is his “The reason we were given was that Alaskans | were serving in their home towns. That is surd, for a very small minority of men were that fortunate. The Washmglon z Vice-President | Editor and Manager | Managing Editor | Business Manager | is that the people of Alaska will take | down the street or One day my next door neighbor, ‘1940 They now have gone more Bob McCormick, turned to me and |than 50,000 miles; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNFSDAY AUGUST 29, 1945 |I know of Alaskans wio served in the Pribilofs and were happy. if they received mail five Yimes a year. Others served in northwest Alaska and came from the Panhandle thousands of miles away. Men from the | northwest served in the southwest, and fellows from the southwest were stationed in central Alaska. Al- most all of them served in the Aleutians at some time or another. The majority never saw their homes for two years or more. These Alaskans worked side by side with the men from the States and stood the same hardships. In spite of this we apparently are ‘nnl entitled to receive the same reward. And the reward we have worked, fought and died for is to come home and begin working and planning for the future of Alaska. “Those are our reasons for writing this letter, and you, the residents of Alaska, have relatives or | friends in the service who have worked and fought |to protect your privileges. Now it is your turn to | fight for our rights and we are confident that our | people haven't forgotten us nor will you fail the | servicemen who need your help.” Wake Island (New York Times) X A phrase much used to describe the condition’of enemy troops on by-passed Pacific islands is that | they have been left to “wither on the vine” The 1974 sick and wounded (only fourteen of the latter) Japanese who were evacuated from Wake with United | states Navy permission recently gave the full con- | notation to that expression. The smell of decay from the hospital ship Takosago was so strong, ac- cording to American officers, that men on the deck lof a United States destroyer 1,000 yards downwind 1wm~ sickened by it. An American medical officer |who was among the American boarding party said Mhat at least 15 per cent of the 974 were in such a {state of malnutrition and illness that he doubted they could live more than a few days The conquest of that small coral atoll by the Japanese during the first two weeks of the war has | cost them far more than the ships and men they lost in those first attacks. Since our conquest of the Marshalls the small enemy garrison—it well may be that the 974 men evacuated were the total of sur- vivors—have been cut off from all but submarine | contact with supporting bases. Apparently the Japa- nese command could not even spare the submarines |to keep them supplied by that means. They have | been under intermittent air and sea attack since the ‘mst raid by Admiral Halsey’s carrier planes, cruisers and destroyers on February 24, 1942. Several hundred |of them, perhaps a thousand or more, may have been killed and cremated or buried. The conditions for self-sufficiency on Wake prob- ably were poorer than on many of the other by- passed islands, such as Wotje, Maleolap and Jaluit of |the Marshalls. But not a great deal worss. The| problem of retaking those islands does not seem as great as it once did, now that we know in what terrible condition was the garrison on Wake. If it is true, as appears probable, that the men on the Takosago were the last of the enemy on Wake, | then that island could be taken back at any time our forces want to send in a landing party . Wake is | not needed now. The battle has moved far to the | west. Wake no longer has either tactical or strategic | significance. It might be possible to wait until Major | Devereaux and the survivors of our original garrison | | of 400 Marines, who have been held in a Shanghai { prison camp, are freed before making the landing. That would be poetic justice, to let them “retake” | the island they defended so courageously three and a| \ half ye: AL,U across the city.[had a set purchased in May of have been re- ®® 00 000 90 00 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 1945 o o ® August 29, T. J. McCaul Edna Radonich Jack Conway Westly G. Rhodes, Jr. Glen Johnson Clarice Shumway Hazel Kelsey Mrs. T. M. Halford R. M. Jensen @ o 00 0 00 0 00 ——e L e 5 HOROSCOPE {, } “The stars incline but do not compel” — THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 Benefic ‘aspects are affected by | certain adverse currents today. The| Navy is under a most Iouundtel direction. % HEART AND HOME Girls are subject to the best plane- tary influences today and it should bring to women of all ages heart- warming experiences. It is a lucky wedding day but the ceremony| should be performed at noon or be- w fore sundown. Not an auspicious | date to think of new positions in the| business world i BUSINESS AFFAIRS | There is a sign that presages trouble between employers and em-| ployees, but the seers foretell a| prosperous Autumn. War indus- | tries will reconvert to normal work!' with fewer dislocations than hnvc been foretold. NATIONAL ISSUES Unemployment insurance will bc‘ the cause of difficulties. Many per- sons will be slow to seek work, es- pecially if change of environment is necessary. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The United Nations Charter comes under a configuration that presagesl' ultimate good. Future revisions and ! amendments are prophesied but it} is to work wonders in international accord. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year in which un-| expected rewards will be received. Children born on this day pro- bably will be bright and lovable. They | will have world opportunities in the development of their careers (Copyright, 1945) { its wealth of resources. As a people we have always been a little waste- tul, perhaps because our resources i have been so great. All through the war years, for example, we threw away the richest garbage in the world, despite food shortages. We. did, however, learn some valuable | lessons in food conservation and use. Now that there are hungry\ mouths all around the world Am- | 20 YEARS AGO s EMPI'R;&«:“' AUGUST 29, 1925 The Alaskans had received some of the newest dance music, including “Florida” and “Twilight, the Stars and You,” which they planned to usc for the first time this night, and with tourists from two steamers in port, a large crowd was expected. Chris Huber was a guest at the Alaskan Hotel, registered from Cordova. Xenia Kashevaroff celebrated her birthday with a party, with the following guests: Renee Guerin, Elsie Jensen, Margaret Metzgar, Mary Jean McNaughton, Jeanette Stewart, Ellen Mize, Mary Jeanpette Whit- tier, Mary Rokovich, Doorthy Bakke, Mary Claire Hellenthal, Mary Casey, Mary VanderLeest and Elizabeth Terhune. H. 8. Graves was an incoming passenger on the Admiral Evans. Judge W. A. Holzheimer, who had been in town on business, returned to Ketchikan on the steamer Alaska. Oscar Hart was also a passenger going to Ketchikan. The steamer Admiral Watson was in port from the Westward, with a full passenger list for the south, and no available first class passenger space alloted for local Alaska points or Seattle. Ed Coffey was an incoming passenger from the Westward. J. Hegstad returned to Juneau on the Princess Alice from the south. Surveys had been completed for two public camp grounds in the National Forest boundaries by the local U. S. Forest Service. One survey was at the old Auk Village site on Glacier Highway and the other a tract on Montana Creek. The work was done by Deputy Super- | visor Harold Smith, Lance Hendrickson and L. J. Barrett. Highest, 53; lowest, 50. Weather: L e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The facts I needed were accorded me.” Say, “Were given to me.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Camphor. Pronounce kam-fer, A as {in AM, and not kamp-fer. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Irreparable; three R's and two A's. SYNONYMS: Revelation, revealment, disclosure, exposure, uncover- ing.~ WORD STUDY: “Usega.word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: RAUCOUS; hoarse; harsh; rough. “He could hear the raucous volcc of the people.’ (Pronounce ro-kus, O as in SOFT). ! MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA LEE . ) Is it all right to drink an entire glass of soda, lemonade, or refreshment, or is better manners to leave part of it in the Q. other glass? A. One may drink all of it, but should never throw the head back in order to drain the glass. Q. Should a woman walk on a short distance or should she wait for her escort while he is paying the taxi fare? A. She should wait with her escort. Q. Is it obligatory that one enclose a note with a gift? o A. It is not necessary, but a friendly note is never out of place. TRIPLETTE & KRUSE 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. 147 @NM A210.0.F. SECOND and FOURTH Meets each Tues- Monday of each month day at 8:00 P, M. I. 0. O. F. HALL. e R Visiting Brothers Welcome E.F. cr.:m:t:ni's. Wore GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand | g iprul Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 92 or.95 | Warfields’ Drug Stoxe (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) ' NYAL Family Remedies ' HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every second and fourth Wednesday, 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLM- QUIST, Exalted Ruler; H. L. McDONALD, Secretary. FLOWERLAND + CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES Funeral Sprays and Weeaths 2nd and Frankim Phone 557 The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infaut and Children’s Wear 139 S. Franklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H.KASER | DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. t0 5 P. M. ASHENBRENNER’! NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788—306 Willonghby Ave. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES" READY-TO-WEAR ! Seward Street Near Thira —— “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St-—Triangle Bldg.’ ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. i Uraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Optialmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground "“The Rexall Store" Your Reliable Pharmaciste BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. i HARRY RACE Druggist H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Mas® HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER | & MARX CLOTHING = | | | ! CALIFORNIX Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — #7) LOOK and I.EARNA C. GORDON said, “I hate o think about the capped twice, and are still pretty High Quality Foods at end of war coming, because when it comes you and I will quit driv-| ing downtown together. Yowll have| your car, and I'll have mine and we'll only see each other occasion-j ally. That's too bad.” | Yes, that was too bad. And that! was only one of the incidents of neighborliness which we had de-| veloped as a result of the war and | which we might lose again. Alll along the streets where you and I Ansley out in Amarillo, Tex {live, there are housewives who have wrote a book, “I Like the DE,”,PS_\Iormcd little shopping clubs, who sion.”? Frankly, 1 liked his little | Dave either ridden to market in a book, because he told of the bless- | €aF oWned by one of them, or who ings that had come to him with|have all walked together to the| a reversal in his financial situa- |SNOPPINg places, doing their ship- | tion, He told of the discoveries|Ping jointly, visiting as they went that he had made as the pmmd’“k’"g' discovering something in life | of wild prosperity passed and the|that had not been there before. | long months of depression set in.|{ e He told of the farmers who had| VICTORY GARDEN BLE! G gone back to living on their farms How many women improved their | instead of living off their farms. figures as they walked to "\“‘km" He found that the quantity of And think what Victory Gardens | did for men! | money a man had was not always | | d-slick to measure his| Like Drew Pearson, I will per-| haps be away from Wangtuu) The war has done something to, When this column is printed, away | all of us. It made us appreciate °® 2 short vacation. While I am| some of the real values of - life BOn€, someone will be mowing my that many of us had lost sight of.|lawn. During the war I had to} We all complained a little about MOW my own lawn. I couldn’t find | the war, didn't we? Wg were a anyone interested in taking care| little disappointed when we found ©f MY particular little piece of| that the stocks of new cars were! PTOPerty. And a strange thing| frozen, but we discovered that the|haPpened: I found that I could| old car was a lot better and would | MOW it as well as anyone else, that | run a lot longer than we had|l could mow it quickly, and lhat\ thought. We complained about I could learn within a short umel gasoline rationing and tire ration- CXactly how each particular sec- ing, but we discovered that car|tion could be best mowed to de-| pools gave us an opportunity to|Velop the best cut of grass. And I get acquainted with our neighbors. found out also that when I mowed | %8 * it myself, T not only improved the| I improved my own diges-i Merry - Go- Round (Continued from Page One) little more in the traditional Am- erican pattern that had started this country on its way to becoming a great nation. REAL VALUES OF LIFE Do you remember back in the years of the depression that Henr !lawn, CAR-POOL tion. NEIGHBORS 1 remember my first experience | with a car pool. We had two I'll miss that now that the war; automobiles at our house; our next is over, because I'll sell myself that door neighbor had two automobiles| I'm too busy to do it when I can at his place. We were not well hire someone else for the job. I! quainted, mostly because it wasn't suppose that my wife will miss | necessary, until the war came something, too,.because she used'! along. Then my next door neighbor 'to walk to market and carry her and I and two others, who hereto- groceries back home in a basket. { fore had gone to our offices by As for myself, I shall reflect upon | separate means, found ourselves the fact that an automobile sales- | fused together into a car pool. We man used to be able to sell me a were irrevocably tied to each other. new car each year. I thought I We had to rise at the same time must have one. Surely a car that in the morning, leave at the same had gone past 15 or 20 thousand hour for work, and return home miles would no longer be reliable, together in the evening even if that entire distance had I am sure that at first been upon city pavements. But resented a little the fact that we when the war came I learned that lost our freedom of action, but we automobiles will go 50,000, or 100,- gained a great lesson in neighbor- 000 miles and still be pretty de- liness. We found out that the pendable as a means of transpor- people who lived next to us might tation. we all | service, fine ® looking tires. and still good. * * Five years of| WAR THRIFT Maybe that's typical of the les- {sons of thrift we needed to learn| during the war—Ilessons that as a I great nation we need to retain as| |the years roll along. Our children too had a few little lessons in thrift. public schools up waste paper; For example, there were great. groups of youngsters out gathering|been good food and it has been through the sorting it into bundles; carrying it on their backs to a central collecting point; and turning it in as their contribution toward winning the war. I hope they do not have a chance to: forget some of those lessons of thrift that they need to remember as long as they live, if their Iutuntsurely we can share now to help |lives are to be happy. America has been prodigal with' America land wasteful with the food suppl: erica cannot afford to be reckles: b with which she is blessed. Americagt cannot afford to forget some of the |} lessons learned during the war. * ok K How many bananas make a In what war was “Remember What is a meteor? What country was known as ANSWERS: AMERICANS CAN'T BE SELFISH We have had throughout the war | enough to eat in America. It has not always been just the particular types we would like, but it has| 2 A disintegrated comet. England. | nutritious. We have learned that| Where was the U. S. battleship Maine destroyed? half pint of banana oil? the Maine” a slogan? a “nation of shopkeepers”? In the harbor at Havana, Cuba, in 1898. None, as banana oil is not derived from bananas. In the Spanish-American war. i the foods we could get would do| the job even if they didn't include ! a lot of choice steaks. We found that they gave us the' energy to carry on the tremendous tasks of wartime. We shared our |now be available with the ending .of the-war. I do not mean that | America is not now going to have a few choice steaks and butter and favorite foods to help win the War. | cheese occasionally upon its great table. But the end of the war does not mean that we can afford now |to be selfish in a world of want. | win the peace. I do not mean that will not get additional Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Poor 4. Of the sun Pulpy fruit + Malt llquor . Anger . Stair . Gaelic sea god . Parcels of ground . Free . Alarm whistle: variant . Jewlsh month . Kind of lettuce . Hard-shelled fruit . College degree . Descent from ancestors . Make a mistake . Attendant on Cleopatra, 37. Poem 38. Turkish regiment 89, Limb 40. Put from one language into another 2. Symbol for nickel . Billiard stick 1t 44, . While . Als and unaus . Exactly suitable 51. Remain 52. Simpleton . Shelter for sheep . Finished edge . Large vellow turnips . Sphere Apart Viper . English letter . Emotionally strained Perhaps something of the spirit of Ashley’s book about the depres- |sion is still with me today as I think about the lessons of the war, and the need for America to retain some of those lessons through the generations that lie ahead of us. Perhaps the war has helped us | better to understand what William Allen White, the sage of Emporia, Kansas, told us, "that happiness is from the heart out, not from the world in.” (Copyrisht, 1 DBB by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) TIDES TOMORROW ® o August 30, 1945 o e Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 65. Firmament DOWN 1. Cisterns . East Indian weight . Spoken . Interweaves . Tending to contract . Thing: law . Merger 1:02a.m, 1.0 ft. . T:16a.m.,, 13.0 ft. 13:05p.m,, 4.1 ft. Low . . Animals with et Lt B backbones . Impresses with magnificence : Polnts . Allow eeoneccccccoe ©ec0ccccccccoe Empire Wantyads bring results! supplies of certain foods that will[ In the Commissioner’s Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Num- | ber One. Before FELIX GRAY, Commission- er and ex-officio Probate Judge, Juneau Precinct. In the Matter of the Last Will and Testament of LAWRENCE 8. KERR, Deceased. NOTICE is nereby given that the undersigned was, on the 25th day of July, issued Letters Testamentary as Executor of the Last Will and Tes- tament of Lawrence S. Kerr, de- ceased. All persons having claims against the estate of deecased are required to present the same, with proper vouchers attached, to the under- signed at Juneau, Alaska, within six months from the date of this Notice. DATED at Juneau, Alaska, this 4th day of August, 1945. J. W. LEIVERS, Executor of the Estate of Lawence S. Kerr. deceased. First publication, August 8, 1945, Last publication, August 29, 1945. SERVICE Christenson Bros. Garage 909 Twelfth St. PHONE 659 . Spanish gentleman . Regret . Pertaining to bees - English coun as a pald-up susscriber U EMPIRE is invited to be o Present this coupon to the . Abundant supply . Sign of the zodiac . 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