The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska Published every evening except Sunday by the E! PRINTING COMPANY fain Streets, Juneau, Alaska, MPIB Second and HELEN TROY MONSE DOROTHY TROY LINGO - s WILLIAM R. 'CARTER =~ = - ELMER A. FRIEND - - S & ALFRED ZENGER Sh R - < Bntered in the Post Office in_Juneau ns Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by earrier in Juncau and Dousls alx months, $8.00; one vear, §15.00. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One vear, in advancey $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; ane month. fn advance; $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- | livery of their papers Telephonés: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for pepublication of all news dispatches credi: wise credited in this paper and wlso. the local news published herein NATIONAL REPF Pourth Avenue Bldg Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | lication speaks for Ketchikan, also has gone on record as opposing the Eastern route from Chicago which Atwood advocates. This newspaper also favors the route from Seattle. probable aiso that Nome would favor Empire It s Seattle Faced with these opinions from communities other than Anchorage, it is surprising to us that the Alaska | Development Board should place itself in a position of favoring the Eastern route and that Atwood should ontinue to shout “Alaska spurned” if three out of President very - Vice-President Business Manager for $1.50 per month of the Seattle Chamber. Atwood also continues to impress upon his readers |that if such an air route was to take off from " | seattle, Alaska would be skipped entirely because ihe only stop would be in the Aleutian Islands Pan American Airways, one of the applicants for the Seattle jumping-off route, has stated that Anchorage | would be the Alaska stop. ted to it or not other- Peacetime Menace ’ i (Washington Post) | It is deeply ironical that, as human slaughter on the battlefield ceases, a sharp rise in slaughter | of a different kind is contemplated in many American | communities. Gasoline rationing and the tire shortage | which necessitated slower speeds greatly reduced the | deadliness of the motor car. Now those restraining tors are disappearing at a time when millions of | cars are aged and in poor repair and highways are showing the effects of long neglect. Unless great care is exercised the death toll from motor accidents e | is almost certain to mount skyward. ROUTE TO ORIEN | " Retention of the 35-mile speed limit is doubtless Ve S impracticable as a peacetime restraint. On modern Anchorage Editor Bob Atwood, who has surpris- | highways most can be driven faster than that ingly been delegated by the Alaska Development [ without serious danger if they are carefully operated. Board to represent Alaska’s official voice at the |But the lifting of this wartime restriction certainly Seattle meetings concerned with a fight to retain irimnuml.~ that other safety precautions be accentuated Seattle as the air gateway to the Orient, continues to assail the Seattle Chamber of Commerce for “spurning Alaska” in that body's stand. But we believe that this stand being representative of Alaska. to see why where the air route to the Orlent it be from Chicago or Seattle have Anchorage as an Alaska stop. Jessen’s Weekly, if that publication speaks for Fairbanks, has gone on record with ber as opposing the route from Ch: advocates. Similarly, the Ketchikan Chronicle, The Washingion Merry - Go- Round (Continued from Page One) and farther from town was selected | & as an alternative. But for nearly a year Connally has refused to agrec to let hisj son’s land be pwchased, that it would appear that he had used his political position to turn| a profitable, real estate deal for, the famhily. AS a resilt the rumor| sprang up that Connally was hold- ing up the hospital until the Navy assured him it would take his son’s| land. | Investigation convinces this| columnist that the opposite is. the case. Only recently, after repeated pleading from Representative Poage | of Marlin, Connally grudgingly has’ consented to let the town condemn the Ben Connally property, and| then let the Navy take its choice of the two sites. * * | SERVICE NOTES ! Attention Surgen General Nor- man Kirk, U. 8. Army! Why is it} at Billings General Hospital you have doctors with over 140 points, | 37 months overseas combat service sitting idle for three months de- | broadcast without benefit of cen- spite the shortage of civilian doc tors? . . . Also, why is it neces- sary to compel Army surgeons to spend six days learning the nomen- clature of the MI rifle, a machine gun, a carbine, and the working mechanism of a hand grenade now that the war is over? Why is it necessary to compel 120 surgeon: after a tour of 21 months overseas, to appear on a rifle range and practice slow and rapid firing, while other surgeons are forced to sit in the target pits, sing and lowering the targets? At- tention Col. Othel Deering, Buck- | ingham Army Air Field, Fort Myers, Fla.. Many men in youd Myers, Fla.: Many men in your 150, complain that they are kept polishing airplanes and picking up cigarette butts, when all are en- titled to discharge. They point to the order of Maj. Gen. S. G. Henry, Assistant Chief of Staff, that “ef- fective immediately all enlisted men with a point score of 85 and over will be sent to separation centers for immediate separation Attention Col. John R.Kane, Gowan Field, Boise, Idaho: Is it necessary to continue flight training of men some of them entitled to discharge, in such a way that 18 men were killed in a crash after V-J Day? i VETERANS’' GRIPES Politicians consider the service- men's overwhelming vote for Roose- velt one of the most important factors in defeating Dewey. But today the Truman Administration seems to be losing ground daily with war veterans. Here are some of the complaints servicemen are registering are more than mere gripes. They are things the men feel deeply 1—Servicemen must be convir of the Army’s need for keeping 2- 000,000 men and the Navy 500,000 men, despite the atomic bomb, when our peace-time forces were only 120,000 and 60,000 respectively 2—They must be convinced that the Army and Navy are earnestly trying to speed up the exit of those who have earned discharge. 3—They still have to be sold on We are also at a loss Anchorage should be concerned with since both routes would {and loans supposed to be available | case insisting | Posed to have in the purchase of | necessities seems to be more rigid Hard use {One of the first |inspection of automobiles, including tires. of old cars with few repairs during wartime has un- ;do\fl)findl_\' left us with millions of unsafe vehicles on is questionable as |the highways. Under the restrictions of wartime |driving the menace from these machines was not great, but the present outlook is radically altered. No amount of new restrictions, however, will take the place of a sane attitude on the part of the driving | public. New drivers will have to be taught the | dapgers of speeding over poor roads with weakened [ tires. Experienced drivers will have to control their | mania for speed and more speed if a horrible toll of unnecessary slaughter is to be avoided. Everyone will have to remember that the penalties for abandon- ment of common sense are severe even in peacetime. takes off--whether the Seattle Cham- icago with Atwood if that pub- the idea of a peace-time draft when |Kiyose urged that punishment of they thought they were fighting a |war criminals include those using war to end military systems. the atomic bomb. According to a 4—They must find that there are Jap broadcast of Kiyose's ‘speech: jobs for them when they return|“Those who used the atomic bomb home, and that the various benefits [are the war criminals. Such a great of the violation of interna- actually to be had without|tional law and the disregarding of soing through months of govern-ithe law of humanity was never ment red tape. | seen before.” . . . “The Allies will 5—They must be shown that the |never institute a military adminis- so-called preference they are sup-|tration in Japan.” (This promise, ording to an uncensored Domei are surplus material from the Army news broadcast, was made by Gen and the Navy actually works. Thus | MacArthur to Foreign Minister | far it hasn't. Shigemitsu.) For instance, thousands of veter- $ %R ans are now trying to purchase | MERKRY-GO-RO jeeps, trucks and other surplus| Congresswoman Margaret Chase items. But they find their appli-|smith of Maine has added her cations frequently so delayed that|yoice to Senator Langer’s to get a eventually they go out and buy change in the Navy enlisted men's from dealers at higher prices. | uniform—and with some su Servicemen are puzzled about| Apparently, Forrestall is interested. President Truman, because they Tip-off on British Labor's thought that as a result of his ex- | foreign policy: Signs increase that perience in the last war and his|it will be just as chairmanship of the Truman Com- | Churchill's. For instance, Prime mittee, he would be able to stand | Minister Attlee first offered the up against Army-Navy brass hats.| washington Ambassadorship to Sir But they are getting disillusioned. | john Anderson, former Lord Presi- Simultaneously, Republicans are|dent of the Council and one of licking their chops with joy. |the worst appeasers in Britain. It RaEh was Sir John who, shortly before JAPANESE CHAFF | the war, opposed constructing air Here is some of the propaganda |raid shelters for civilians. When which Gen. MacArthur let the Japs | Anderson declined the Ambassador- ship, Halifax was reappointed. jen. Dan Sulton is back from China to promote a big credit for the Chinese Government. It will reactionary as rship while U. S. newsmen were | nsored: “A total of 4,097 Japa- inese schools were destroyed or | damaged by air raids, including 20 | run into real money—if the Tru- universities and 80 colleges.” .|man Administration goes for the | “America is the leader of the tem- |idea of Making China virtually an perance movement, having carried | American colony. . . . It was hush- it on for more than a cvnuu'y.!hush during the war, but can now Temperance has been especially ad- | be revealed that several U. S. Navy I four cities heard from take the same stand as that | . HAPPY BIRTHDAY e o Scptember 14, 1945 o ® Donald Scott Floyd Fagerson Sylvia Davis Gil Rich Albert Brown R. F. McDevi‘t Theoda Kann E. Loomis Ellen Shaffer Emma Nielson Willlam J. Helin, Jr. e e 00 000 0 00 e THOROSCOPE | | | ! “The stars incline | i but do not compel”. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Adverse aspects rule today when there may be much wrong thinking | and ill-advised activity. | HEART AND HOME Intuition rather than logic will ilead women today and they should be cautious in speech and letter- writing, Under this sway views on personal matters may be distorted. Girls may be too sensitive regarding the opinions of their fiances. The wise will pass the hours in work. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS ] Aspects of Saturn and Neptune warn that economy must now be the national watchword. The cost’ of transporting armies and navies across the world will be felt. Unem- ' ployment will increase because many war industries restrict outputs or end operations. { NATIONAL ISSUES | As the world watches, this nation now must prove the superiority of the democratic form of government. The seers emphasize the need of ac- | cepting as a national responsibility | this chance to exemplify our ideas! of liberty and justice. Inspiring | works must be provided for press| and radio. i | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Russia continues under the most | planetary influences. | The Soviet government wil! in time | adopt many democratic methods| beneficial to the great nation | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of slow pro-| gress toward high goals. Changes ' which ultimately will be fortunate, may retard advancement. Children born on this day probah- ly will be most attractive in per-| sonality. These Virgo folk have brilliant talents and may win suc- cess in musi interpreters or com-! | posers. | | | (Copyright, 1945) | and Coast Guard ships were turned over to Russia at Cold Bay, Alaska. | One secret reason for the row | between ex-Attorney General Biddle | |and ex- ant Attorney General | Norman Littell was the purchase, of land for atomic bomb pr()ducli(m‘ near Pasco, Wash. The Army's manner of taking over the land was; not according to the rules, and Littell objected. Biddle, because of atomic bomb secrecy, sided with the Army. . . . Judge Sam Rosenman is scheduled to be Truman's No. 1 adviser on all foreign relief plus all loans and credit to foreign gov- | ernments. . . . The feud between Naval Reserve and the Annapolis men is now hotter than ever. If iyou count up the number of An- napolis men decorated as com- pared -with Reserves, the discrimi- | nation against the latter is all too | { obvious. (Copyright. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | In 1923, there were 23,653 vet-| erans with tuberculosis admiurd1 for treatment in veterans’ hospitals | or other federal agencies. vocated among the housewives of —— America. The mothers, wives and sweethearts at home would be happy to know that their loved ones in a foreign country are pro- | tected against the evils of drink- ” . ACROSS . Velvetlike ing.” (Excerpt from letter by the| 1. mast Indlan fabric National Temperance League of | cedar R hed Japan to MacArthur, urging that| 7 Setoutons - Used a lever American troops not drink in | 13 Bear - Sthreads: Tokyo.) Jap Diet Member| 14. Revenue mg'%l::‘ém - 15. Like 10 Transgression [ 7| 18 Stop wp Son of Judah 17. Regret . Light brown \ | 18, Bone . Tops | 19. Symbol for . Pronoun J lutecium Negative ! 20. R prefix | 22 . Confidences | | Draft animal 23. Golf peg 52. Toward | 25. The pineapple . Wing | 26. Evergreen tree . Fish eggs 27, Place of the . Mother I seal: abbr. . Football team 2). 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Myselt THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945 20 YEARS AGO 1”7 cupine SEPTEMBER 14, 1925 nd Gordon Gray of Douglas, returned from Chichagof where to attend high Dougl they had worked during the summer months, and were school for their fourth and last year. Southeast Alaska Fair was to open within two days, and preparations were in full swing to make it a real success. Many exhibits were coming in from Sitka and other nearby communities, and Manager George Getchell was urging local gardeners to bring or sehd in exhibits from their gardens. Mrs. C. J. Skuse, in charge of the The big four-day { Woman's “Auxiliary, stated that her department expected the Jargest ® | exhibition of its history. W. K. Keller, Superintendent of Schools, announced this day the proposed opening of night school classes in shorthand and typewriting, for both beginners and advanced students. A fee of $15 was to be charged to cover operating expenses'of the 12 weeks' course. B. F. Heintzleman, Assistant District Forester, returning from a three weeks’ visit to logging camps in the southern end of the First Division reported the cut of timber from Tongass National Forest this season would be the largest in the history of the Territory. Mill improvements made by the Ketchikan and Wrangell mills aided materially in increasing the cut, and more men were employed than ever before. Weather: Highes, 51; lowest, 49; clear. ANCHORAGE — FAIRBANKS Bus Leaves VALDEZ 9 A. M. Monday — Wednesday — Friday Valdez to Anchorage, one way, $19.45 Valdez to Fairbanks, one way, $21.15 TAX INCLUDED BHOP PHONE 96 TRIPLETTE & K BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 @Nm A2,L0.0.F. Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. I.O.O.F. HALL, Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand Warfields’ Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H.KASER | DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 | O’Harra Bus Lines | Good beer gsmi YQSJ‘:‘“\ ‘With a good book, your fdvorite radio program, - or just relaxing, a glass of light OLYMPIA adds to your comfort. | MBS.E. STENDER as a pald-up supscriver To THY DAILY ALASKA 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: “SAN FERNANDO VALLEY" Federal Tax-—11c¢ per Person PHONE 14— THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. _ WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! _ { Public Accountani-Stenographic-Tax Returns MURPHY and MURPHY ROOM 3—First National Bank Building PHONE 676 . o) - Famous Osco Marine Motor Now Available in all sizes—study and compact, ALSO OSCO HERCULES DIESEL as small as 25 horsepower. HARBOR MAHINE SHOP 1% %W ¢™ WELDING West Eleventh and F. Streets Phone 876 REQUEST FOR BIDS Removal of Radio Transmission Tower Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Area Engineer until September 20, 1945, for dismantling the 300-foot steel radio transmission tower located behind the Signal Corps buildings on Twelfth Street within the city limits of Juneau, Alaska. Specifications call for complete dismantling of the tower and hauling tq the Juneau Port storage area. Further information may be obtained from the Area Engineer, P. O. Box 1361, Juneau, Alaska. Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Opts Glasses Pitted Lenses Ground _—_— “The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE' Druggist | “The Squibh Siore” The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sta. PHONE 136 WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANING SWEEPING COMPOUND FOR SALE DAVE MILNER Phone 247 (e FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m E. F. CLEMENTS, Wor- shipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV: ERS, Secretary. ¢ o b e GEORGE BROS. Widest -Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 92 or 95 % s B. P, 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLMQUIST, Exalted Rul- er; H. L. MCDONALD, Secretary. FLOWERLAND CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES Funeral Sprays and Wreaths |2nd and Franklin Phone 587 ASHENBRENNER’S ' NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788--3068 Willoughby Ave. | S A Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES* READY-TO-WEAR Beward Street + Near Third e, “The Store for Men” SABIN°S Front St—Triangle Bidg H. S. GRAVES | “The Clothing Man" | HOME OF HART SCHAFPNER & MARX CLOTHING ¢ CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods a¢ Moderate Prices PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phone 16—24 JUNEAU - YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition You'll Find Food Finer and Service More Complete at THE BARANOF COFFEE SHOP INSURANCE Shattuck Agency Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave, ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 Alaska Laundry JAMES C. COOPER, C.P.A, BUSINESS COUNSELOR Authorized to Practico Befere Remington Typewriters Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers’ “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURS|" .Juneau Florists Phone 311 > . 1891—Over Half a Cenfury of Banking—1945 The B. M. Behrends Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS | & T Zlfw\ B G TN T - E o TR - Q » DN e SR SRS AN 4 G ST ST > < 5o S PR