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PAGE FOUR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1945 remote three short years ago. Had either of the great Axis powers become strong enough to land forces on r e destruction which would have followed present day losses trivial moment, America’s condition had allies been successful in winning war! Can we, by any stretch of the imagination, hold as too high any price we may have [paid to prevent such a tragedy? When America studies the cost sheets, she knows |levies of war are tremendous. But when she considers | what could have been she realizes that, for all the' bloodshed and destruction, things for her might have v or ‘ Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening excent Sunday by the | our EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becon: d Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. AFLEN TR " DOROTHY TR C WILLIAM R C ELMER A FRI ALFRED our seem Prestdent for a President | d Manager ing Editor s Manager and his Japanese the Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. 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We now | possess the means to blow ourselves and perhaps the planet itself to drifting dust or make this world of | ours a paradis:. We have reached the crucial turning point in our age-old march toward civilization. Never before has there been such an urgent call to the | | spiritual force which resides in the consciousness of the | | individuals who make up mankind. That force alone | | can control the new power | It is small comfort to know that only the English- | { speaking nations possess the secret of nuclear fission. | The advance of science cannot be confined or halted. Other peoples will master and extend this knowledge.j [ Only the conseience of all mankind can regulate it for | The fighting has ended, America now can count |good or evil. Its first use has been to end the most the costs of war. We have known, of course, that they | cruel and devastating war ever inflicted on humanity. their |If in the futurz its destruction is loosed against a | helpless world by some unknown aggressor, humanity is lost | B COR13c S sacriliced 303,855 on the & The atomic bomb is mindless; it does not set | of Mars. Mare than 650,000 our troops were |jicelf off. It is inert and harmless until its mechan- wounded, but fortunately the great majority of this|ism of disintegration is released by the human will | group can be returned to useful lives. | The will to use it for conquest can now arise only in | Nearly 44,000 have been reported missing, and while |some such devil's brew of hate, revenge and lust as | the fanatic Hitler stirred up, or the insane mythology | a few of these men will come filtering from hidden | e to believe that they had i A e Ja S elieve tha prison camps and jungle fastngsses, the most of them | Which induced the Japanese to t be c ted the dead | a divine mandate to rule the world. e gl | Many such myths lie dead on the world’s battle- | Compared with those figures, our monetary losses | fields beside the soldiers they led to death. There is have not been important, although the totals spent | no super-race. There is no divide nation. There can have been gargantuous. In wartime taxes citizens of | be no successful society without tolerance. War is a this country have paid $119,300000000. Add to that |senseless horror for victor and vanquished alike. The the $208,300,000,000 of debts incurred for military pur- | Dations have united to enforce peace. But no inter- poses and the $34,000,000,000 still due on lend-lease |Pational organization is stronger than the mass of o N . aoat & individual opinion which supports it. We still have accounts. The total is something over $361,500,000,000. imuny things to learn. We must learn forbearance first of all. We must learn to distrust the arrogance of youth, the cynicism of age, the desire for power and the dogmas of ideology. We must learn Row to | be so |be really free, which we can never do until each of us laccepts his individual responsibility. The tremendous potentialities locked up in the atomic bomb will Our country has survived the rigors of war with- | sompe) us to learn fast or perish. The world’s only out feeling any of the impacts of invasion. Today that | gefense against its misuse lies in the humible and danger seems remote indeed, but it was far from |contrite heart of E where. | December, | hower. As at Pearl Harbor, War Department routine required that each commander be on his own. On Dec. 15, a new and relatively green division, the 106th, moved into the Ardennes opposite the German lines. It had arrived in France less than a month before. Never before had it been under fire. Early the next morning, Dec. 16, Hitler launched his long-planned putsch. His In- telligence must have been excellent, | CHARGES FOR VICTORY were enormous. Few of us can realize, however full extent of and normal But for all the staggering costs, Americans can consider themselves fortunate, as a nation. We limit the statement because we know that individuals who | have lost loved ones the conflict classified in cannot Rundstedt Last o - \V\UH counts of how von Rundstedt had planned and led the Ardennes at- tack. But when interviewers asked him about the Belgian Bulge, he gruffly replied: “Do not connect we with operation. That was Model.” Von Rundstedt was referring to Field Marshal Gen. Walther von Model, his colleague on the Western Front, who had been strong for Hitler's plan to catch the American | Metry - Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Forest that able in Europe. It was the airborne troop carrying history. Also it never leaked out certain U. S. Intelligence pst in lon, Leat that officers the { HOROSCOPE | ! : but do not compel” HAPPY BIRTHDAY ® o September 25, 1945 o o Clyde Gilmore Mrs. Fred Paul C. R. White J. F. Mullen Mrs. Perry E. Beebe Mrs. Edna Tucker Patricia Stanyer Mrs. Kate Jones Ernest Schiller 20 YEARS AGO ™ currne SEPTEMBER 25, 1925 A final report submitted for the Endowment Fund dance given early in the month by the American Legion showed a net profit of $77.50, which was to go to the National Endowment Fund for the care of needy widows and orphans of World War veterans. | from San'Francisco where she had been for several months. eeeccecececccsecs e ®e0cccccceccccoe ® e o 0 ¢ 00 0 0 0 o > - | The Juneau Lumber Mills closed operations for the summer. after | operating for five months, three months longer than the previous year. | Six million board feet were cut during the son, according to Manager Roy Rutherford. i e = gt o 4 “T'he stars incline Mrs. C. M. Jorgenson returned on the steamer Admiral Watson from |a trip to the Westward, when she accompanied her daughter, Tecla, to Yakutat, where she was to teach this winter. — WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | The steamer Admiral Watson was in port southbound with a capacity cargo of freight from the Westward, and 190 passengers, mostly cannery Powerful benefic aspects rule 0= oo enroute to Seattle. There were 19 passengers disembarking here, day. It is a most promising day fOr},.\\ne jocal people sailed south persons who wield authority. | 2 Heart And Home | A promising day for starting new Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roden had returned from Petersburg, where Mr. ventures and favorable for change of | Roden was called on a business matter. residence. The stars encourage an | — optimistic outlook and presage much‘ The submarine S-51, with 34 crew members imprisoned within, lay happiness in American homes. Gos- | on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after being rammed by a steamer sip should be avoided, for it is even|yo 4 from Savannah to Boston. Little hope was held for survival of She pariiow than (sl e mis} any of the imprisoned crew members. Three men had miraculously escaped configuration. I L the submarine went down Blitlilees AMfaics { before the submarine . The stock market will focus un- usual attention. Extreme fluctua- Weather: Highest, tions may be expected through the | feee——- Autumn. Revelations of waste in § 4 % by our war supplies will arouse indig-' D I L E I h 4 hation ally Lessons in English w. 1. corpoN i el According to the seers, this is a time to look forward and not back- | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He flopped over to the ward. Whatever is unpleasant should | other side.” Say, “He WENT over.” beforgotten as new careers begin OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caramel. Pronounce kar-a-mel, first after the disruptions of war. Special| o a5 in AT, second A as in ASK unstressed, E as in BELL, accent first care should be observed in regard! . i.ple to the spoken word. i International Affairs ; lowest, 33; clear. ST { National Issues OFTEN MISSPELLED: Jam (to press closeiy; aso a thick preserve). Conflicting opinions % the Jamb (an upright piece forming the side of a doorway). : treatment of the Mikado will cause| SYNONYMS: Neglect, negligence, carelessness, heedlessness, disre- serious reactions. According to the &ard, indifference. stars, the fate of the emperor will WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us be decided by his long-deluded ' increase our vocabulary by mastering cne word each day. Today’s word: people and death by suicide will end | MURAL; of or pertaining to a wall; being on, in, or against a wall. “The his reign. | mural decorations were beautiful.” Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of pleasant work and well-earned rewards. Wo- ! MODERN E”QUETTE by men will be especially lucky. | ' Children born on this day probab- | ROBERTA LEE ly will be endowed with many tal- ents. Intuition that amounts to psychlc vision may belong to many. Q. What advances sheuld the two famlies make as soon as a mar- (Copyright, 1945) riage engagement has been announced to the immediate families? - 2 A. The mother and sisters of the groom should call immediately ,on the girl and her family, express their approval, and extend a sincere - EXIENDED VISIT IS | welcome to the girl. Then, within a few days the girl and her family pu“"ED l“ SIAIES i Slmqu.i x;I:l\iJn.srlltr::I:lR:‘)rxmps be eaten when they are served whole in their BY OLDTIMERS HERE - | A. The shrimps should be separated, peeled, and conveyed to the Leaving on the steamer Princess Hogth With the fngs. Tonioh- on ary exteitied VRAT HTNY Q. TIs it necessary that one include a friendly note with a gift? States, Mrs. Alfred Lundstrom. is A. It is not required, but a note is never out of place when one enroute to Eugene, Ore., where she Wishes to include it. will be joined later by Mr. Lund-| feeees s oe—— strom, who plans to go south Fri- dug on e Brant. - wer ot /] LOOK @and LEARN 2 C. GORDON | | TRIPLETTE & KRU BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 9 \ Silver Bow Lodge ; @NmA 2,1.0.0.F. Meets each Tues- Mrs. R. C. Hurley, daughter of Mrs. Anna Webster, was returning 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 Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room 9-Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1763 ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. 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GRAVES “The Clothing Mas” HOME OF HART SCHAFPNED & MARX CLOTHING CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 37! High Quality Foods a} Moderate Prices Last year, this column's €OM- | L undstrom’s in Eugene, and go from ments on the Belgian Bulge Were|there to his old home town, Virginia, telegraphed in abbreviated form to|nzinn, There they will visit with ;% Europe and interpreted by mem- two of his brothers and one sis- bers of the 106th Division as alter, whom he has not seen for 38 in Washington warned that bulge attack was coming, nothing was done to pre Despite the opposition of regular it. These are a few of the things| Gorman Army office Hitler Congress could investigate with in the The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Army off-base. PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries | What famous Supreme Court decision held that the term “citizen” as used in the Constitution does not include negroes? guessed 2. Did any of the singers of the Constitution become United States profit to future military efficiency Here are some more. e 1 NAZI CAPTIVES TALK Congress doesn't know it, though the Army does, that captured Ger- man officers have thrown signifi cent light operation. They have testified that the bulge operation as early as No- vember (though it didn't get started until Dec. 16). It was planned by Hitler himself. German generals were taken by a circuitous route to Hitler's headquarters, then near Frankfurt, where they were searched and placed in chairs four feet apart. Remembering how one colone! brought in a bomb concealed in a brief case at the last staff meeting, Hitler took no chan His Gestapo men wanted to be able to see both sides of the chair in which each general sat; also, generals to know exactly Hitler's headquarters were where Hitler then unfolded his plan ‘The generals debated whether the were Col. German Army could squeeze enough gasoline and suppplies from other Clayton at- bulge atta operations to s tack. Most of t opposed. They was sheer suicide. But Hitler's mad fanaticism decreed t last attempt must be break the American through to Brussel It nearly succeeded UNDERSTOOD Lt. Gen. Kurt von was among those who meeting heartsick. Before beginning the offensive he went to see wife and children to tell them never expected to see them ag Later he w surprise by getting far a where he t the Brig. Gen. Anthony C to surrender. McAuliffe’s mous reply w Nuts, Manteuffel has since told U interviewers that he understood quite well what ‘“nuts (Gen, Maxwell D. Taylor, top com mander of the 10lst Airborne, was in Washington with his family has now been promoted to be of West Point.) Anocther German opposed to the Bélgian Bulge campaign was the man generally credited with master- minding it-—Ficld Marshal the bulge generals thought the were this one made line and get NAZI “NUTS” Manteuf left the ain himself Bastog message 1 M/ now and G to Hliffe mean on the Belgian bulge o war, John McCloy ] Staff, however, reminded him that didn't want the & idea urged that he send a message to|trip to Coast Guard to policy that it was not Washington’s | He there head Ardenne Kurt ing shrewdly time and place for his attack. Tragic inside fact, however, is that U. S. forces would not have been caught napping if the advice of two War Department colonels in Wash- ington had been taken; also the advice of the Assistant S ry picking reflection on their courage. No such reflection was ever intended. On} the contr: their resistance was| one of the most heroic of the; entire war. ! But what I aia report last year, | and what still is true, is that just| before the 106th Division sailed. its; |older field commanders were re- placed with younger colonels and | lieutenant colonels who had never been under fire. And while every man and officer fought valiantly | and to the last ditch against over- whelming odds, the entire 106th— | thanks to inferior Intelligence sup-} port and no time to prepare—was | virtually wiped out. | Those are WASHINGTON Gasa. NO ADVICE Mr. McCloy, looking at the map of the Western Front several days | before the Germans launched lh(’ll’z surprise attack and noting the thinly-spread American forces in the Ardennes Forest, remarked that | he thought this was taking a chance. Members of the General some of .the _ things | which should be probed in one of | the war's worst tragedies, if we are to improve military efficiency in the future. (Copyright, 1947, Gen. Eisenhower knew what he was | doing. Gen. Marshall made it a point! never to give orders or suggestions to commanders in the field; so, as| Pearl Harbor, the man on the job was left to run his show with- | out advice from Washington. The warning of ‘the two colonels, however, was much stronger. They Truman Smith and Col. Blair, who went to Gen. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) LINGOS TO ANCHORAGE Comdr. and M George A. Lingo were Alaska Airlines passen- |gers for Anchorage Monday. Mrs. Lingo has been in Juneau for the last 10 da; on business in con-| nection with the Empire PrinlingJ Bissell a week before the Company, of which she is a Vice- | k and advised him what |President. Comdr. Lingo arrived was coming. They here Wednesday after an official | headquarters | Ketchils. | Percy they feared lisenhower. on the Gen fell & Bissell, General however, | at Staff | o RUMMAGE SALE By Martha Society, Sept. 28, Basement Northern Light Presby- terian Church (10,073 & 10,077) job to instruct field commanders Col. Truman Smith is probably utstanding expert on the American Army spent several years as Attache in Berlin, he many German Army com-| personally, how " NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Commissioner’s Court for the knows b ber One. mander they [ Before FELIX GRAY, Commissioner think they operate. Just! g ex.officio Probate Judge, Ju- before however, he got in| *,eo Brecinet dutch because of his friendship for | the Mattar of the. Mabate Lindbergh, and at one tme | GEORGE RUSSELL, deceased. preme Court Justice FeliX| NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that ikfurter urged Roosevelt | the undersigned was on the 24th day him court-martialed. of September, 1945, duly appointed Bissell, head of Intelligence,| Administrator of the estate of s an air officer, who spent a large | George Russell, deceased. urt of this war in India. When| Al persons having claims against ignored the advice of the estate of deceased will present ¢ls Smith and Blair, the two|them, with proper vouchers and duly wrote a memorandum put- | verified, to the undersigned at Ju- themselves rvecord that neau, Alaska, within six (6) months was grave danger in the|from the date of this Notice. and that Gen. Eisenhower | Dated at Juneau, Alaska, should be appraised of that fact. |tember 24th, 1945. * | H. L. FAULKNER, Administrator. and how the w In of Charle: to Gen oral er on Sep- GREEN 106th DIVISION | istered. | corporation. Territory of Alaska, Division Num- | /th2 State of Norway. years. | Mr. and Mrs. Lundstrom expect to! return to Juneau about the first of the year. | NOTICE i Redempticn of Norwegian Krone Notes, Registration of Bank De- posits, Securities, etc. From September 9th, 1945, the | Norges Bank (Bank of Norwny)' 1 krone notes have ceased to be legal tender, and transfer of or payment{ with such notes is prohibited. The notes must be delivered to this Con- | sulate General before October 6th, | 1945, accompanied by a signed de- | claration stating when and in which manner the notes were acquired.| Only notes legally acquired and ex- | ported will be recognized by Norges | Bank ,and the amount will be cred- | ited to bank accounts (partially | blocked) in Norway for the owner. ! Deposits and other assets with Norwegian banks as of September 8th, 1945, must be declared for reg-' istration with the bank. Deposits in the name of banks need not be reg- All bonds, certificates and treas- | ury bills payable in Norwegian kron- er must be declared for registration | with Norwegian bank or Norwegian | authorized stockbroker firms. All| shares and other documents of title in Norwegian corporations must be declared for registration with the Norwegian nationals must register foreign securities with Registerings- direktoratet, Oslo. Bank deposits and securities liable to registration, which have not been declared for registration before No- vember 15th, 1945, are forfeited to The declaration for registration must, besides giving the full name and address of the owner, give in- | formation as to number and name | of account, specification of the se- | curities (with serial numbers) and the name of the Norwegian muni- cipality where the owner is subject to taxation. The identity of the owner must be certified by Norweg- ian consul or by a bank. Persons and corporations subject i to taxation in Norway and Norweg- ian nationals must file before No- vember 30th, 1945. information on prescribed forms concerning their assets as of September 9th, 1945 ROYAL NORWEGIAN CON- SULATE GENERAL 244 California Street However, even this written warn- was not passed on to Eisen- First publication, Sept. 25, 1945. Last publication, Oct. 16, 1945, Presidents? If a ship is rated 40,000 tons how much water does it displace? 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