The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1946, Page 4

Aiaska except Sunday by the OMPANY E mpire E Mr Prestdent ' Miami must have a Vice-President | o Editor and Manager | Chiefs by an asse Managing Editor | of these U Crime Boom Washington Post) J. Edgar Hoover in his address the other day at startled even his audience of police rtion that the criminal population ed States now numbers a round six million. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE UNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1946 9 0 0 0 0 8.0 8 8 8 8 8| [orrrar e e s | - - Business Manager i,y jo 1o say, 1 out of every 22 or 23 inhabitants of | Entered in the Post Office in Junea second Class Matter. [ the country has been arrested on some criminal charge { Delivered by carrier Tr‘| I;;:|:‘::1;:L\D'}u::;'-:lor $1.50 per mnnlh;; Sin however, not every person who is arrested is e o e January 1, 1946 o e o hs, $8.00; one year, $15.00 | convicted,.and since some at least were innocent of the e . e L months, I ‘advance, $7.50; | crimes of which they are accused, it is a fairly ° Louis C. Lemieux . . 2 assumption th Mr. Hoover's figure Was some' . Lu Listen . Frevuntits Inthe deiivery | exaggerated o Katherine Stevens . Maws Offics. 005 Belinens 1650, S But, even after the necessary discount, it is beyond ® Msximiliinn Xevie ® ——— | any doubt that crime is now among the most serious ® . JSOK SYNEE =l he use for | Of our many serious national problems. Indeed, Mr. © Willlam B, Cline, Jry o ot other- | Hoover, who is seldom given to false optimism, fears © Cesar Sebenico & published | 1100 may be on the eve of another criminal era ® Mrs. Pearl Burford | ! such as characterized the 1920s. This, he said, will ® Joseph M, Sunick | certainly be the case if the organized criminals “once © William Alexander A get a start and find they can succeed.” > .J TR R B N R B N o This internal danger threatening the country has e R e A | grown mainly out the failure of AMerican CoM- e ooomcas e == emmsrw e = | munities, or, at any rate, the larger communities, to H find ways to check or prevent the increase of de- g H O P 0 [¢ r 0 P E { linquency among the young of both sexes. The young \ J Y : | delinquents of yesterday are the gangsters and racket- | (v ” . . | eers of today or tomorrow. It is this generation, says The stars incline 5 HR! Mr. Hoover, “who are now becoming postgraduates of s but do not compel” | crime and are committing the more despicable of- | A fenses.” The spirit } from the exciteme: created a most fa arrests of young gi THE NEW YEAR | Among boys under After four “New Years” when January 1 simply|100 per cent, arrest of war had begun for us, today | homicide by 48 per ar which meant another Americans everywhere start out on a new can be fully dedicated to peaceful pursuits Never-the-less 1946 will be no year of easy living The job cut out for us today is just as great as it was last year and the year before—but the work should be much more pleasant. % ks & " |21 on such charge During the last months of 1945, however, Americans | assault. Today it did not cease to fight, even though the War was OVer. |, ‘e o 1o oy o7 A civil war without bloodshed flared up between labor ! serious headaches and management—and the settling of this strife is the one big job ahead of the nation for 1946, ! criminality among The new year will bring to those laborers still{ than common. How working their first reduction in income taxes since | contribute to the year Two days later ito i Most police of 1929. Likewise, to businesses still in operation, it will | called the attention of his colleagues to the increasi: | store of weapons w of criminals. Alri of violenc: bring a reduction in corporate taxes. As soon as labor and management can get together, | the nation can start out on a job of catching up at home with all of the normal pursuits which were shunted into the background during the war, but according to all present indications, that time is still a long way off However—Happy New Year everyone! crimes cause of lax regula market operators criminals.” M, curbed or stopped, Fhe Washington‘ happening. Today, perhaps even | more, State Department personnel and foreign policy are being en- | M G R d gulfed by the Army and, to ‘a erry & 0 > Oun lesser extent, the Navy. In China, " U. S. policy has been set almost (Continued from Page Onej as much by Gen. Al Wedemeyer S g I and Adm. Dan Barbey as by the A State Department—up until the their Sania.Monica plant in Oc-| pprjya) of another military man, tober, 1939—after the European| oo warshall, who now takes war started—and when Douglwf W8S | ver as Ambassador. turning out hundreds of U ¥ military planes | In Belgium, the State Depart- ment is recommending Alan Kirk, As this column previously pointed out, this close cooperation between Douglas and the Japanese had the definite blessing of at least the U. S. Army. For V. E. Bertrandias, the Douglas vice-president who handled most of the negotiations a mediocre admiral, as Ambassador, partly because he is a friend of Dean Acheson’s sister. In Greece, Gen. Barney Giles i being considered as new U. S. Ambassador, replacing Lincoln for sale of the DC-4 to Japan, was MacVeagh. The latter should have | promoted by the Army to be a been replaced long ago. But the| major general — despite the fact eneral proposed as his successor that Justice Department officials|Once threw the correspondent of | produced the record of his cor- the Overseas News Agency out of respondence with the Japs Palestine because he had written further- | Something displeasing to the Brit- All during this time, more, Donald Douglas enjoyed a 1Sh, and once told U. S. newsmen in Cairo that he would permit close relationship with Gen. Hap I | Arnold, chief of the Air Forces; the them to report nothing critical of| general’s son marrying the daugh- Britain and her political troubles | in the Near East. ter of Donald Douglas. e i | What the State Department! | needs, of course, is to take both NEED STRONG o o it | STATE DEPARTMENT ’])Ollllch and the military out of| & d! [d||)lnma<"3'. and appoint the very, While the Douglas-Air Forces | pest men the nation can find, re- | relationship probably was closer | gardless of political party, as ex-! than that enjoyed by other com- panies, all the U. S. companics gefense—American diplomatic mis- | selling airplanes to Japan — and gjons abroad ) there were others—did so with the ® ® % | War Department’s okay. , | ATOM SCIENTISTS | Thus, the State Department was| Modern Scientists have brought | put in the position of outlining alforth the most world-shaking in- pert envoys on our policy and then having another |yention of all time, the atom bomb. | branch of the government under- Byt sometimes, when it comes to mine it. Secretary Hull in 1638 had | jess complicated things, they are; requested all airplane Y turers not to sell planes to Japan He did this because (1) J nes were bombarding innocent civilians in China, and (2) all reports from completely at sea Some of the Federation of Atomic Scientists were gathered at their office recently to have their pictures taken by magazine photo- the Far Ezst showed that Japan grapher Ike Vern. was about to embark on a €am- | vVern remarked at the lack of paign to conauer the Pacific. |peat in «he building. “Haven't you One word from the War De- g furm; He arked: partinent to Douglas Alrcraft OF| “Yes,” said one of the scientists, other companies would have| ettt ! “put we don't know stopped them dead in their tracks. " Their main market was the Army,| A moment later the phone rang and they could not afford to of-|colombia’s brilliant Dr. Harold fend their best customer. Yet the Urey tried to answer it, but the Army not only did not say the ppone was equipped with three word, but turned around, married ' ttons. the daughter of the president of | “My God” exclaimed Atomic the firm and made the vice-presi- | gejentist Urey, “which button do dent a major general ;1 push?” g Jier: when - the Btate Dfl’"”"i “Experiment, man, experiment!’ ment was shown to be right, and|yenlied Dr. Leo Szilard the Army wrong, Hull was force (Copyright, 1945, By Bell Syndicate, Inc.) to modify his own foreign policy | - -> o at the request of the generals be- cause they had unwittingly cut DUST wl'l the greund out from under him Y “ESS All of which shows that you i need a strong, homogenous NEW LONDON, Conn Alice Department to set foreign Kripps Wiggins and Frank P. Hol- and then to force all other ji5 thought it would be nice to branches of the government t0|phave someone serve as witness to stick to it—if we are to head off|their marriage even though none another war was required by Connecticut law. So s (they settled on Dusty, their black STATE DEPARTMEN' cocker spaniel. Justice of the Peace EMBRACES GENERALS Jacob Sherb pressed one of Dusty's One trouble with the State De- paws on an ink pad and then partment in Mr. Hull's day was the marriage certificate that after charting an excellent s LU policy there was internal bickering,| The first five year ri wavering, and argument with the Soviet Union was inaug military. Today the same thing is 1 1928 tions, and the coll crime among the young | and other sexual offenses, has nearly tripled since 1939. | of the New York City police gave further plausibility Mr. Hoover's apprehensions. reccrds in American cities f 1945, he said, showed an in { over the same months of 1944 in arrests of boys under ual, domestic and economic disloca- pse of moral standards, resulting ts and anxieties of the war, have vorable climate for the growth of rls under 18, mostly for promiscuity t 18, arrests for rape have increased ! by 70 per cent, arrests for drunkenness by more than s for assault by 72 per cent, and for Mr. Hoover pointed out that rule today w hich may be cond WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2 good and adverse aspects| ve riness and depression. Think- Mingle 0 W ing may be muddled as great eVents | pemmrse e —erer e e oo s o s o s e o & e are recorded by press and radio. | HEART AND HOME | Respect for the aged may be em- isized under this sway which re- cent p . veals the value of experience 10| at Miami, Chief Inspector O'Connell o\ ;4. 1946 social and domestic plans A survey of police | the first six months of ase nearly 24 per cent »s as homicide, rape and felonious ¢ is boys between 11 and 15 and gitls | who are giving the police their most a Res on from wartime liberty and is forecast. Young folk will icen be more circumspect in behavior. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Dangers threatening private en- erprise will gradually vanish but not | intil there is nation-wide concern over regimentation. Individuality b ! RGN SO LIl S " S JANUARY 1, 1926 X The Alaska Juneau mine produced $2,183,496 during 1925, beating ol previous records and was 35.5 per cent over the previous year. Alaska's mineral yield in 1925 was $17,850,000 according to the annual Geological Survey report The Elks' Hi Jinks on New Year's Eve was reported the best ever Favor caps were given out and just before 12 o'clock a huge snowball was ed to the center of the dance floor and when opened contained smaller snowballs which were eagerly seized by the merrymakers and tossed about the ballroom. Punch was served during the entire evening. The din produced by the ncise makers was terrific and Thirty-five couples enjoyed a New Year's party given by Mr W. D. Gross at their spacious home on Seventh Street. Juneau, very decorously and properly, welcomed the New Year. The Eagles had a big party at Douglas, card playing and dancing. 'Twas a false one, A fire alarm sounded in Jun at midnight, 4-1 ;ot many of the firemen away from the Elks' Hi Jinks. Effie Fleek celebrated her eleventh birthday by giving a party at her home in Douglas, X John Walmer, Sitka business man, left on the Estebeth for home after attending to business in Juneau. Weather report: High, 35; iow, 33; rain, f Daily Lessons in English % © corpon | WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “I saw the lady waiking down the street.” Ordinarily, the word WOMAN should be used rather than LADY. “She proved herself a LADY by her refined and gentle manners.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Fineness (quality of being fine). Finesse (delicate skill). NONYMS: Financial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us and independence will continué in|increase ocur vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: ficials, apparentl; re agreed that ¢ veterans will be exceptional rather ever, the veterans may inadvertently troubles of the police. Mr. Hoov t hich might easily fall into the hands ¢t e are service pistols or souvenir t, weapons the soldiers were allowed to bring home be- fluence poverty will have no place tions.” Such weapons, he said, have a way of utimately getting into the hands of black “who resell them to hoodlums and Hoover wants this dangerous traffic j and we think he is right. and Asia i KILLED IN FALL 1 — High-ranking , officers of four Allied armies & tended funeral services today for j. Gen. Donald W. Brann, 50, San Antonio, Texas, deputy commander of U. S. forces in Austria, who was killed Saturday in a hunting accident The services were held in a small, flower-banked chapel at th headquarters of Gen. Mark W Clark, commanding general of the U. S. forces in Austria { Clark will accompany the to Castel Fiorentino, Italy, burial will be in an Americar military cemetery, near battle- fields which Brann helped to con- | quer. | Brann was killed when toppled 100 feet from a cliff while hunting in the Austrian Tyrol It - -- Iz FAULKNER BACK IN CITY ! Attorney H. L. Faulkner has F VIENNA, Jan c | re- | turned by PAA plane from the g south where he spent the Christ- cent mas holidays. |s - e - | VUKOVICHS Territorial Representative turned to their Juneau home, pas-| sengers aboard the Princess Norah. it s2ems, “many weapons used in mand the augury of much unexpec fortune in 3 graphy and moral; RETURNS |alent to American classes in ethics— Steve will be suspended until headquarters first line of | Vukovich, wife and young son, re- approves their resumption he commercial world { NATIONAL ISSUES Culture, education and economic ecurity will belong to ali citizens of he United States in the distant fu- ure, the seers foretell. Labor's de- for increase in wages is due o stars which exercise glchal in- In the Aquarian new world INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Hatred and revenge must be elim- nated in t tion of Europe Among the foes are many ldren. Even , astrolog- nnocent women and c e succor ers emphasize. P s have d geod actory em- rsons whose birthdate it ati; ployment may kte g Children born on this day may sensitive and imaginative An to talk too much should natior ed. (Copyright, 1946) 3JAPSCHOOL COURSES ARE KNOCKED OUT TOKYO, Jan. 1 — Gen. Mac- he ' Arthur today ordered the suspension of three Japanese school courses util- zed most effectively for spreading militaristic ultra-nationalism and | the confiscation of all textbooks and i teachers manuals used for them. The order, which affects all the schools in Japan, implemented re- abolition of state Shinto. It pecified that Japanese history, geo- roughly equiv- - - DRINK KING BLACK LABEL! ACROSS . Walch secret- Afternative Requires xist “atch sudden- 61. 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