The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1946, Page 4

PAGE FOUR A Daily Alaska Empire Publisiied every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - President | DOROTHY TROY LINGO - Vice-President | WILLIAM R. CARTER d M | ELMER A. FRIEND ALFRED ZENGER Entered in the Post Office in Jun: s i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | Delivered by carrfer In Juneau and Douglas for S1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance. $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. . H Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any fallare or irregularity i the delivery | of their papers. ! Telephones 2; Business Office, 374. News Office, SOCIATED PRESS ss is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blde., Seattle, Wash. AIR ROUTE TO ASIA Delay in granting certificates to airlines who wnntl to fly the Great Circle route through Alaska to the Far East is bringing forth critieism in New York. ‘The New York Journal American has this to say: It's time commercial airlines began flying the Alaska Great Circle Route to the Far East. i This air route was a main supply line to the Aleu- | lin the postwar period greater share. i petition. | mind, who really knows what rats do to the Americ of Alaska. Disregarding its position as the shortest route to the Far East, it would still be worthwhile were it only to serve Alaska. We have pilots and craft to fly the route. Beacons line its path. There is a continuous flow of weather information ¢ Giant airport ar located on key They can accommodate the largest built. They are equipped with the largest radar aids to guide planes to them Runways range up to 10,000 feet longest at LaGuardia Field is 6,000 feet Opening the Great Circle trade route would not hazard military security. The North Pacific road to vietory is no longer on the secret list . Competition for Far Eastern trade will be intense Every nation will be after a virtually unused since V-J Day, slands and the Alaskan mainland. land planes yet -adio and in length; the Prompt opening of the Great Circle Route will help put U. 8. industry a jump ahead of the com- Be Kind, But Careful (Cincinnati &nquirer) | There was a time when one could feed the birds | without following any rules. One felt sorry for the | winged creatures when snow and ice cut them off from | their usual sources of supply. A generation ago this | was a simple problem, calling for no discussion and no technique. But today we have a rat menace. We are to feed the birds, to be sure, but without feeding the | rats, which do so many million dollars’ worth of damm:e‘l a year that their depredations would seem to cancel out most of the benefits achieved by the steam engine and electricity combined. This is no trifling problem. Should the innocent, old-fashioned householder venture to toss a few crumbs | and a handful of cracked corn onto a well-swept space | of his back porch, he might be cited for deliberate augmentation of the roden menace. And, at the very | least, some well-informed neighbor with a statistical | | an Thursday, Jan. 10, 1946 ® | Mrs. J. C. Lund Gretchen Ann Adams Bud Brown Severin Swanson Louis Paul Daniel M. Douglas Joseph Scott Ralph H. Beistline Mae Kilroy e s e e s e w000 - - | S 1 | | ! ' HOROSCOPE i “The stars incline {l \ but do not compel” | FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 ‘l Benefic aspects rule today when| the afternoon hours are more prom- | ising. Inclement weather is indicat- ed for many parts of the country. HEART AND HOME zeturn to normal living will be slowly accomplished. When routines are again established it will be re- alized that old things have passed away forever. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS | Banks and bankers will show great interest in community affairs. At- tracting attention to home decora- tion by exhibits they will establish closer relations with people, benefit- | of influenza i the Trinity Cathedral Choir of Juneau under the leadership of Mrs. 20 YEARS AGO M carins o JANUARY 10, 1926 Robert Simpson sailed on the steamer Admiral Watson for Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pekovich arrived on the Estebeth from Funter Bay on a business trip to Juneau. They were guests at the Gastineau Hotel. 4 Mayor J. O. Kirkham of Douglas was recovering from a severe attack .A. M. Harris and W. M. Cooley were among passengers arriving from the Westward on the steamer Admiral Watson. Prof. Adolph Hansen conducted his farewell concert number at the Coliseum Theatre, completing an 18-month engagement as violinist and leader of the theatre orchestra. He was to leave soon for California. Gust Niemi and F. Wiley arrived from Tenakee on the Estebeth and were registered at the Alaskan Hotel. A special service was held in the Episcopal Church in Douglas with Crystal Snow Jenne giving a program of Christmas music, which was greatly enjoyed Weather: Highest, 49; lowest, 39; cloudy. et e st oo~ Daily Lessons in English % © corbox i WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Orange juice is healthy.” Say HEALTHFUL or WHOLESOME. Use HEALTHY only when referring to a person. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Gondolier. Pronounce gon-do-ler, first 0 as in ON, second O as in NO, E as in ME, principal accent on last | syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Monopoly; three O's. 1 WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us | THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946 SPECIALIZING IN PERMANENT WAVING HAIR CUTTING AND GENERAL BEAUTY CULTURE + A FULL LINE IN DERMETICS CREAMS LUCILLE’S BEAUTY SALON PHONE 492 DR.E. H.KASER | DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 [ | | ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Le: . Alaska Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Pianos—Mausical Instruments and Supplier Phone 206 Second and Seward METCALFE SHEET METAL Heating—Aitconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks—Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. The Charles W. Carfer Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness VANITY BEAUTY SALON Cooper Building 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. HARRI MACHINE SHOP tian front. In peacetime, development of the route ) would be an enormous task. Under wartime conditions the line was pioneered almost overnight. It ranks among the finest in the world. TODAY IT IS IDLE. Commercial air lines which flew military supplies | under contracts with the Army and Navy withdrew soon after the Japs were driven from Attu and Kiska. increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: IMRGATERIAL; of no substantial consequence; unimportant. “It is im- | material to-me whether he goes or remains here.” . by ROBERTA LEE people every year, will look down his nose at the ing business and spreading - new, ignorant bird-lover, and very possibly stop speaking for ideas, astrologers declare. | a few months. s ! NATIONAL ISSUES { Obviously, the only safe course is to provide bird | =~ Astrologeys warn returning Ser-| food in a scientific spirit—on a protected platform, not | vicemen and women against import- too close to a barn or shed (rats), and some feet above ing prejudices or gripes from over- the ground (rats and squirrels). With these and some |seas. Also against criticizing home other precautions, one may indulge one’s humanitarian | happenings. This is a time to start Plumbing — Heating — 0il Burners HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES K. F. MacLEOD—Owner, Manager PHONE 319 HARRY RACE | MODERN ETIQUETTE “The Store for Men" i ! instincts with a fair degree of safety Postwar demobilization has reduced sharply Army and Navy operations. The Great Circle Route is the LINE TO ASIA—shorter by hundreds of miles than | any existing route. The Far East is markets for American goods. Asiatic countries want to do business with us. huge productive capacity will need j to keep it at a high level production. There is another reason favoring ing of the route our last frontier. The Great Circle Route passes t fi;a Wasiiigfi 10;11 Merry - Go- Round (Continued from Page One) | 15 blindly letting the brass hats run things when he attended a | Saturday night party thrown by Gen. Hap Arnold at the Bolling Field Officers’ Club. Officers who had planned dates several days in | advance arrived with girl friends only to find the club barred. With- out advance notice, Gen. Arneld | had taken over both floors andy every room—allegedly as security to protect the life of the President. | Those who know Harry Truman's habit of mingling with folks say that he never would have con-| sented to having the entire club | taken over on his account if he| had known about it, and that the brass hats must have put one over on him. J (Note—Army’s claim that its fast! discharge of men makes for in-) efficiency doesn’t bear close scru- tiny—as, for instance, the Brooke Hospital Center at San Antonio. It handled 10,000 patients at its peak, but now is down to less than | 2,5500; yet its staff continues at 75 per cent of the peak period. There | are scores of similar cases. CHURCHILL’S SON-IN-LAW Best story on the distl; British ,visiter now arriving USA concerns Churchill’s in-law, Vic Oliver, the stage comedian. | Oliver is mnow divorced from Churchill's daughter, but shortly before the divorce he called at No. 10 Downing Street to see if heI could help patch up his matri-’ monial affaiis. At dinner with his father-in-law and various other| notables, Oliver popped a question calculated, he thought, to warm the soul of the then British Prime| Minister. { “Sir,” he said, leaning across the | table and looking sweetly at his| father-in-law, “who, in your_ opin- | ion, will emerge as the gfeatest leader of this war?” | But before anyone at the table| could come back with the expected answer that Winston Churchill himself was the greatest ' war| leader, his glowering father-in-law shot back: “Mussolini “Mussolini?” countered the puzzled Mr. Oliver “Why do you say Mussolini?” “Because,” replied Churchill at least had the good sense shoot his son-in-law.” * % % ' CAPITAL CHAFF The S. S. Amasa Delano, naied for one of Roosevelt’s grandfathers has been lying in Delaware Bay for exactly one month, loaded with live ammunition. About 10 other ships are also in Delaware Bay, loaded with unused bombs. The Army ex famous “he to one of the greatest potential it will speed development of Alaska, | ‘There also is the problem of equity among the little feathered rascals themselves. Alas, there are gluttons | | in the bird kingdom. To deal with this menace, W]\lch‘ | is not nearly so serious as the ral menace, however, it | is suggested that the bird refectory be placed just| outside a living-room window. Then, when a great | bully of a blue jay shows signs of turning economic | royalist, you can open the window and .beat him over | the head with a wooden mallet, which should be kept conveniently at hand. | By following these directions, which represent a 5 | great deal of inquiry, cogitation and experience, the immediate open- | orqinary householder, sometimes known as the for- gotten man, can feed the birds with reasonable safety [to himself. And if rats still come around—well, you hrough the heart | have the mallet. s SHORTEST AIR Our ust such markets ( doesn't know what to do with the |turned down the job of heading a cargoes. Reaction of G.I’s is if the | new mission to negotiate with the same ships had been loaded with |Swiss and other neutrals for the veterans they would have unloaded | recapture of hidden German assets. themselves in one hour. . . . Wash- | The job is now being offered to ington observers found three things | either Federal Judge Jerome Frank wrong with Truman’s radio appeal | or Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia. to the mnation: The politicians|. . . Lives of G.L's being returned didn’t like it; many labor leaders!from Europe by air are endangered didn't like it; and big business|Lecause of French and British didn’t like it. But the great ma-|failure to agree to adequate airline Jjority of the people did like it. . . .| precautions. Every day 10 American Privately, Republican leaders admit | planes have to fly across a route that the radio speech probably in- [crossed by 300 British and French creased Truman’s popularity. planes at the same altitude. Two * % ¥ hospital planes returning wounded HIGHER CLOTHING PRICES | veterans to the USA barely missed OPA officials are sitting down |&2erial crack-ups last week when this week with representatives of |!heir paths were crossed suddenly the textile industry — especially by other planes. American pilots worsteds and woolens—to try to|&r¢ TOW refusing to fly the Paris- spur production 'of men’s clothing. Brest run except in daylight and Nubbin of the problem is increased | clear weather. prices, which the textile people de- (Copyright, mand in order to spur production. 1946, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) However, they are not likely to} e — get it. Inside fact is that profits of the woolen and worsted indus- try are now 12 times what they were during pre-war years. Fur- thermore, a sample of civilian sales shows profits from the civilian trade are twice as high as military profits — due to Army-Navy rene- gotiations. i Despite these lush profits, woolen In England the harnessing of dogs to vehicles is forbidden, but in Bel- gium it i5 common practice to harn- ess one or more to small milk carts. - - BERT CARO’S SKI SHOP Run by Dean Williams. Open | afternoon and evenings. All Types (162-t6) ‘and luxu 'PHYSICULTUR lanew in an Aquarian world of many possibilities. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS { Lack of understanding among the members of United Nations accounts for many frustrations, -the seers point out. While differences in speech are bars to full friendships, customs and environment add diffi- culties which must be recognized. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of strenuous work which should be profitable. Ro- mance may be a bit “dangerous. Children born on this day will be bright and gifted, aspiring and in- dustrious. They will crave comfort (Copyright, 1946) § MFADDEN WINS DIVORCE FIGHT MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 10.—After a, three-year court fight, 77-year-old Bernarr MacFadden has been grant- ed a final divorce decree. The | award was made by Circuit Judge Paul Barns. The physical culturist had accused his wife of humilating him by losing her trim figure dur-| ing their 33 years of married life. | Mrs. MacFadden is a former Brit- ish beauty contest winner. Her claim was that most of the domestic difficulties revolved around their seven children. Sensational charges by both sides were written into the court records. e BACK FROM WARS Comdr. Ed Richey, USCG, who was formerly stationed in Juneau aboard the Coast Guard Cutter | Tallapoosa as a lieutenant, has jllsti been returned to duty in the states trom the Burma-India war theatre, it has been learned here. Mrs. Richey is the former Miriam Foster of Juneau. | mills want more “adjustments” be- fore making more fabrics for re- turned veterans; also despite the fact that reduced taxes now promise an even better profit. 1 (Note—Friends of Gen. Patton, whose family owns one of the| largest woolen mills, say he would never have favored high profits at the expense of clothes for returned veterans, were he alive.) * * MERRY-GO-ROUND Quipped Maury Maverick, follow= ing his return from Tokyo: “The] reason Emperor Hirohito came out! and said he wasn't God was be- cause he found that MacArthur was. Maybe it wasn't sig- nificant, but it seemed reminiscent | of another era to have Senator Vandenberg, the ' ex - isolationist, John Foster Dulles and Senator | #.CROSS Edible tuber . Segment of a vertebrate animal Prayer: archale . Genus of the candytuft Solicitude . Indefatigable . American Indian Trees Symbol for selenium Negalive 4 . Feminine name 45 . Sweet biscuit 40, S . Conjunction - 48. Highway + . Foot coverings 4. Related through Endure: Scotch the mother . Small hand 0. Everlasting: pump poetic 29 30. Peruses Whiripool 31. Repose 32 Strongboxes 34. Go to see agaln 37, Individuals 38, Instrument for affixing date: 30. Paim lily 10 Gaelic sea god 41 Writ summon- ing & jury Comparative ending Exist Pillage 4 ettler 1 Singing syllable 52. 53. Stations DOWN | . Mountains tn Pennsylvania [ . Eloguence i . Novice: variant Tom Connally, now in London to forge a democratic peace, go im- mediately to Cliveden to spend Gmmmmn JuAmEN . Ibsen character Toward . Science of being or reality their first week-end. Mrs. Roose- velt didn't go. Cliveden, home of Lady Astor, was where the no- torious Cliveden Set hatched their, appeasement plots before the war.| . Progressive GOP Congressman Charlie LaFollette of Indiana, the| man who talks more like Wil Rogers than any congresSman in a dog’s age, has announced for the Senate. LaFollette is not playing it safe. He will give up his seat in the House to battle it out with the party’s reactionaries in the Republican primary. Two- fisted Mayor Hubert Humphreys of Minneapolis, who recently ran ahead of Governor Ed Thye in a| statewide political popularity poll,! will be Democratic candidate for governor in 1946. Randolph | Paul, the ex-Treasury counsel, has! %E Sigisamc 7N /. cirrrrEEr 7 £ Alarm whistles Palm leaves Contemptuous name for children Wish 28, Allude Venerate Recolored Comforted Windflower . Hindu queens 5. Repetitious 6. Long abusive speeches . Delineate . Early Norse Trunkfish Cireuit 48. Corded fabrig 1. Symbol for tellurium ST | Q. Is it a cause for embarrassment when some person's name has escaped ons ior a moment? A. No; everyone has experienced this. emphasize one's forgetfulness. | Q. Should the fingers or the fork be used to convey olives and | radishes to the mouth? A. The fingers should be used. Q. What does AU FAIT mean, and how is it pronounced? | A. It means expert, skillful, well instructed. Pronounce O-FE, Q as in NO, E as in BET, principal accent on last syllable. A profuse apology would only LOOK and LEARNb! C. GORDON ¥ } ) 1. Are “widows’ weeds"” (a) (¢) a spear-like garden plant? 2. What cereal is eaten more than any other? 3. What is the distinction between “beside” and “besides”? | 4. How many more books has the Old Testament than the New | Testament? | 5. What is a sabot? ANSWERS: dandelion greens, (b) a mourning garb, | . “Beside” means by the side of, and “besides” means in addition to. . Twelve more. 5. A wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in various European& countries. The Erwin Feed Co. Office in Case Lot Grocery PHONE 704 HAY, GRAIN, COAL and STORAGE L. E. EVAN as a paid-up subscriber to THE 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: "MR. 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