The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Daily A laska Empire d evers evening except Sunday by the EMPIEE PRINTING COMPANY Bocond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. @RLEN TROY MONSEN - - - President DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER Editor and Manager ELMER "RIEN] Managing Editor ALFRED ZENG s Manager Publish Delivered by earrier in 4 and Doaglns for $1.50 per month; six months. $8.00: one vear, $15.00. ge paid. at the following §15.00; six months, in advance, $7.60; r & favor if they will promprlv notify any faflure or irregularity in the de- eir papers. s: News Office, 602; Business Office, 3i4. MEMBZR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA that the disease has raced unchecked until there are now almost 4,000 cases among these alone. In fact the recent report of the House Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations Congress states that there are “more than 4,000 cases of T. B. among the natives of Alaska.” . This same report states: “The Alaska is lacking pitifully in rendering appropriate service to natives over which it has jurisdiction.” people, for Indian Service in ® e November 8, 1915 o This is probably an understatement of fact The incidence of tuberculosis among the of Alaska is 10 times as great as among the Indians | in the States, proof that the Department of the Interior’s Office of Indian Affairs has greatly neglected its duty to the natives of Alaska natives John Livie Mrs. Leona McKinnon Ella Waddell Mrs. Addie Maynard © ® 0 0 0 00 0 0 00 8 0 rerereTers | 2 } S HE EMPIRE et} 20 YEARS AGO / NOVEMBER 8, 1925 reatment of led 10ng the principal of Congres john Thom ttee of the fore libers disa veterans and enactment of a sal dre ion wer aft 1 recommendations the it Washingtc 1] Legislat to memb ncement made in by man of the Nation: ‘ommi Legion | wayports on the mail and R. Wakelin and Henry arriving from Sitka Carrigar enger Estebeth were L. M Am- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1945 WINDOW PO PLATE GLASS IDEAL GLASS Co. GLASS WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS DON ABEL 121 MAIN STREET PHONE 633 DR.E. H.KASER ||| The CharlesW. Carfer i Mortuary BLOMGREN BUILDING Fourth and Franklin Sts, Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. PHONE 136 Dr. A. W. Stewart FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost Friendliness iding Guest Andrews. ociated Press is exciusively entitled to fhe use for of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ited in this paper and also the local news published Ira Blomquist Mabel Tompkins H. T. Spencer There is no reason why the T. B. germ should thrive better in the Alaskan climate than in th States. The fact that the incidence of T. B. among | whites in Alaska corresponds so closely to the national average should tend to bear this contention out It should be noted that any funds used to provide | for the treatment of T. B. cases will be wasted if | nothing continues to be done about the rivpim'nble't H 0 R 0 S r 0 P E L sanitary and health conditions existing not only in 4 g ‘The stars incline the homes of the native peoples of Alaska but in |} some of the Indian Office institutions. The recently E but do not compel” ) ARk abandoned Eklutna native boarding house, which we NOVEMBER T DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 nd Ed RESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Seattle, Wash. e e c e 0 000 0 0 > - R e Bk, ) put on one time, the the City members of Douglas ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology me Three, VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Bu‘flding ELSIE HILDRETH, Manager Open Evenings Phone 318 Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST Room 9—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRE MACHINE SHOP Plumbing — Heating — 0il Burners HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES PHONE 319 night i their fa preceding Dad. present to enjoy and dar Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground Alaska Music Supply visited this year, was a disgrace to the United States Arthur M. U M: rthur M. Uggen, Manager Who knows how many cases of T. B. were spread there? FRIDAY, This is an unimportant day in| | planetary gov rnment. The wise will avoid love affairs. HEART AND HOME | Pianos—Musical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward Real poverty, and almost the only poverty found in Alaska exists among the natives for which the | Federal government assumed responsibility as far back | as the Treaty of Cession. One survey—the only one| Accent on sex will be removed as we know of—found that in one native village with |Aquarian influences prevail. Men 79 houses and a total of 514 individuals, income,|and women will establish intellect- including relief, totaled for one year $66,415 or $840 |ual standards for both social and per house and $129 per person jk’""""\“' 1 ’\O(h]l“,(m,:;t”? rn‘:ll "‘.i_ It is not possible in Alaska, where living costs are | r‘r‘;fic"":‘,:: ;:' ,f,f,‘on‘:‘.éttu e at- high to maintain health and decency on such an fairs of the past, the seers fore-|increase ou income. G tell. | SUPERCT This is a responsibility that has been shirked by | BUSINESS AFFAIRS |ias the Federal government long enough. Mining on a scientific basis will g Now, due to the insistent efforts made by Dr.|be the main interest next spring in | MODERN WORDS OFTEN MI I feel well today OFTEN MISPRONOU in TOOL, U METCALFE SHEET METAL Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks—Everything NCED Pronounce joo-gu TUBERCULOSIS T, SSPELLED: Notice e ideal Let us The people of Alaska—ruled by ernment which gives them no national represer but collects taxes—whanged at by junketing Congre men as being too ignorant to govern themselves—are soon to be called on to tackle a problem which has long been the responsibility of the Federal government but which the national government has failed miserably to even dent a national gov- tation, WORD & IL DY Phone 711 vocabt 90 Willoughby Ave. ETIQUETTE }’?JROBFH'I‘A LEE ettt et i} Albrecht and others recognizing the serious threat, |the United States, it is forecast. Min- crals of newly discovered value and something may be done importance will be sought, especially It has been suggested that the people of Alaska (e B A5 BTG ol tartling cough up $250,000 to be matched by $250,000 appro- | discoveries are prognosticated. priated by the Federal government. In other words, | NATIONAL iSSUES we are asked to do what the Federal government In the United States the quest for hasn’t done and should have done. This is what is alth will be pursued as never pre- A own as “passing the buck.” | viously. While hundreds of wound- | usher Dr. Albrecht recently pointed out that the death |4 “‘_r"‘“““"l‘n "::l‘“l("“(’j‘(i:“;x"‘x‘:if “:¥‘i Q rate from T. B. for natives was 346 per 100,000 popu- | GOVernment hospials, ans Wil against a = crowd sanitoriums. p lation compared with 55 per 100,000 for whites, alone. A A : INTERN. AFFAIRS Amtiads s radAnioTd 0 1 Punishment of war criminals will In other wors if the Federal government would | focus world attention and will cause match the Territory’s $250,000 at the same ratio the | many clashes of opinion in the Federal government’s matching funds should total | United States where feeling will $1,750,000. continue strong, despite government If the people of Alaska take this “deal” at a ““"":“‘“ assure justice and proper i s risle axt vear ¢ | EEnalties. special session of the Legislature next year the ne ‘(: Persons whose birthdate it i step will probably be another buck passing move of |}, vo the augury of a year of change the problem of educating Alaska’s natives, another|gnq travel. place where the Federal government has failed and Children born on this day may be another, and perhaps the main reason for the pitiful | extremely bright and strong willed Hall economic plight of the Alaskan native They should be early disciplined if a Iy - = selfishness is to be curbed | wCumr ght, 1945) The people of Alaska are soon to be asked to spend $50,000 for a special session of the Territorial Legislature to appropriate another quarter million dollars for the purpose of hospitalizing tuberculosis cases of which there are more in Alaska for its popu- lation than any other spot on the North American continent. It is estimated by the Territory’s able Commis- sioner of Health, Dr. Albrecht, that Alaska's small population has some 4,000 active cases of tuberculosis The death rate bas been set at 13 times that of the national average. It is a serious problem and one | which must be met as soon as possible, because it will become larger each year The Territory could well keep the tuberculosis problem among the white population under control— | and has done so. The ‘incidence of the dread disease among the white population of Alaska is estimated at present as only slightly higher than the national average, and in some years it has been lower than the | national average. It is among the Eskimos Vhen a man is taking rl to the theatre, should he or the girl “The Store for Men" SABIN’S > Bldg. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” follow directly behind the usher? Th the m e girl should go first if following an usher. When there is no 1 should it 8 . he accid brushes public conv ce? 1 Q. Wh: the person w 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET Juneau’s Most Popular “Meating” Place Warfield's Drug Store 1 ill-breeding. (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies EADN by HORLUCK’S DANISH LEy A. C. GORDON {| ICE CREAM ONLY THE BEST OF MEATS PHONE 202 CARO TRANSFER HAULING and CRATING DIESEL, STOVE, CRUDE OIL Phone 344 Phone 344 HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET Choice Meats At All Times Located in George Bros. Store PHONES 553—92—95 S respon for New symphony did Beethoven me of Great Ameri y abdicated in 1814? Antilles"? Indians, and Aleuts Pear]l of the War Plans Division to. have Merry - Go- Roun Harbor of the recent messages m(h Continued from Page One) It direct the appropriate | : | come at Pearl Harbor. And when{ Edwin T.| Franklin Roosevelt, who had taken Kimmel on Dec, Such pride in building up the Navy, airplane carriers | received the crushing news the from the rest of | Afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 7, he and | Put his hands to his head and said: d|“My God, My God, How could it have happened?” (Copyright, 1945, By Bell Synd - possibly Borneo.” Admiral * defense deploy However, when Layton informed 2 that four Jap had broken away the fleet, were unlocatable, might even be rounding Diamon Head of Pearl Harbor, Kimmel took | no steps to scout for them or to be on tHe ‘dlert. These were the ¢ar-! o ¢ ¢ o o o v 0 © ® o o riers from which, five days later,| o were launched the planes that sank | o ¥ : ’ the backbone of the U. S. Fleet at| o TIJES TOMORROW Pearl Harbor (® © © November 9, 1945 © o An impartial reading of the facts, o gijon 4:27a.m., 139 ft. both those still secret and those| g 10w hitherto published, shows conclu-| g High sively that Kimmel and Short re-|q 1,y celved ample warning — even as| g early as Oct. 16—that Japan might | ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ©¢ ¢ © ©¢ ¢ o attack the United States. U. Si £ PR RED TAPE IN WASHINGTON policy was that “it was desirable e o e R On Dec. 6, one day before Pearl for Japan to commit the first overt e Harbor, came the final chapter in act, in case hostilities could not be| e V RISES — SETS 1945 o o nowhere. Gen, S i B the fantastic drama. Late that avoided.” Finally, it is clear that|e 8:31 a. m. 4:52 p. m. a chart of the region. . G CALL FOR Femmer's Transfer Wall Paper i14 IDEAL PAINT SHOP — HAULING Phone 549 Fred W. Wendt INSURANCE Shattuck Agency th who made In his ; 8 Capt. At N New Yo the idea that the Navy in turn . v\,ould inform Gen. Short. However, | this round-the-bush scheme never | went through. Reason behind the involved plan, presumably, was the fact that Ad- miral Kimmel, not Gen: Short, was responsible for the main defense of Pearl Harbor. Under Army-Navy rules, Army planes were not per- mitted to fly out over the water from Pearl Harbor more than 100 miles and it was up to the Navy |to do long-range scouting for the enemy. Admiral Kimmell, despite the war warning given him on Nov. 28, was not sending out scout- ing planes. | RN haparte. OIL — of the “Winds” message. However, Noyes refused to talk to him. The admiral explained that he was in conference and “too busy,” but would attend to the matter later. “That may be Sadtler frantically Gen. Miles. Miles promptly , Inc.) Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Near Third Col. to TRANSPORTATION C 'O "'M P A NY L : The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates PHONE SINGLE O too late,” reported Seward Street contacted Gen. Lecnard Gerow, Chief of the War Plans Division, suggesting that Army leaders in Hawaii be ad- vised at once of the Jap war mes- sages. Col. Sadtler also talked to Gen. ' Gerow, stating: “War is coming and coming quickly | However, he got Gerow took the position that mili- tary chiefs at Hawaii already had “plenty of information.” R, PEARL HARBOR WARNED In this connection it should be noted that on Nov. 27, one week before, Admiral Husband Kimmel in Pearl Harbor had received a message reading: “This dispatch is to be consicered war warnin Nezotiatic a ceased 4 Japan is exn few d- warn .4 beor Sk rt by War n r w had b~ r it ov. 22 and 38". This was v the Roberts re- port pinned Lae blame on Short and m ! A o B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p, m. Visiting brothers welcome. L, J. HOLMQUIST, Exalted Ruler. H. L. McDONALD, Secretary. S Bl I R S ST JUNEAU UPHOLSTERY CO. RE-UPHOLSTERING NEW FURNITURE DRAPERIES Phone 36 122 2nd St. R T e N RSN IR S ST ALASKA ELECTRONICS Sales and Service Expert radio repair without delays P. O. Box 2165 217 Seward, PHONE 62 eseo0scocece night, Tokyo sent another coded everyone, both in Washington and|e e e November 9, message to the Japanese ambassa- Hawaii, expected Japan to attack e Sun Rises dor in Washington giving Tokyo's the Philippines or the Dutch East| e Sun Sets reply to Hull's peace proposal of Indies. Id Nov. 28. No one expected the attack to' ® ¢ ©« ¢ e @ @ 6 @ © © © © The lengthy message was in 14 parts and flatly rejected Hull's terms. The fourteenth part was recevied by Ambassador Nomura just after midnight and informed | . him that another important mes- | sage would be forthcoming in a few hours. ! Meanwhile, our own code experts | were at work on the message and decoded it almost as fast as it was received by the Jap Embassy. And, according to the Army “Top Secret” report, when they got to N tih the fourteenth part of the message, 1‘0;1\;‘;1‘? by ington, the the tone was considered so hostile Pronoun reveals that and unequivocal as to be a virtual Solicltude Lo wore; ik R Open vessel e © er cmiious Jap war message dec’aration of war. Early in the morning of Dec. 7, Stringed in- A strument was intercepted. This was a note i from Tokyo to its Berlin embassy Ambassador Nomura received his| final message. It was an instruction 27. Defame for transmission to Hitler. Sent on 3 H Nov. 30, the message assured Hitler | (0 Present the long 1i-point reply of continued cooperation and char-| to Secretary Hull “NM PM. acterized as “insulting” Secretary| This was the hour of the Hull's final peace proposal of Nov. Harbor attack. o 28 requiring the Japs to bre ¥ . L v ¢ with the Axis and remove their WASHINGTON DELAYS troops from China. The message to At about 8:30 Sunday morning, | Hitler further stated that the COl. Bratton tried to reach Gen United States considered Japan Marshall. The Chief of Statf was, “along with Germany and Italy, as| Out horseback riding. He did not' an enemy.” | return until 11:25. So, at about | Col. Sadtler next appealed to | Boon, Marshall finally sent a mes- Ol Bodell Guith, now a Li’ Gep. 3882 to Gen. Short whioh/went by ! on Gen. Eisenhower's staff in RCA and did not reach Pearl Harbor until 22 minutes before the Germany, but then secretary to the general staff and right-hand JaPS struck. It was not decoded man to Chief of Staff Marshall and handed to Short until the da fighting was over Tip-off to the mistake made by | Gen. Marshall and others was that he phoned Gen. MacArthur in Manila, whereas he sent the mes- sage to Gen. Short by slow cable. This was the mistake also made by the Navy and by Admiral Kim- THE BARANOF ALASKA’S FINEST HOTEL EAT-IN THE BUBBLE ROOM Special Dinner 5to 8 P. M. [ $1.65 | N Silver Bow Lodge @No. A2,10.0.F. Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. 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