The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1946, Page 4

PAGL. FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Publis! | s from the war-swollen ranks of our seamen {and, as such, is a step in the right direetion. | One can hear thousands and thousands of | sailors—men recently disc ed—resentfully |ing why the change is being made after the war when they cannot benefit by it. The thought that they had to wear the old “monkey-suits” which are now on the way out casts a shadow over the joy of being in civvies again This is the last place to look fcr a defense of those 13 pants-buttons hororing (?) the 13 colonies, the black “sweat cloth” and a half, or even the blue and white | colors decreed by George II because they were the celors of the riding habit of the wife of his First Lord of the Admiralty. To our civilian mind, the uniform was long in need of modernization. Yet lest we be accused of being over-t y we append a paragraph from the Louisville Courier-Journal with which it scrupulously hedged its approval of the reform: We hope the 2,500 enlisted men who are trying out the new uniforms will put them to the test on shore leave. It is just possible that the boys are going to miss the old, miliar public reaction, the tim onored joke: the predilection of girls for having their pi tures taken in borrowed white sailor caps. It is possible, too, that some sailor, walking along a dark street in his new-style uniform is going to be mistaken for a mere soldier. The horror of such a contingency must be faced, men, before you make tradition walk the plank ! gestios 4 every evening except Sunday by the s EMPIRE PRI i COMPANY Becond and Mal; s, Juneau, Alaska HELEN TROY MONSEN - - DOROTHY TROY LINGO - WILLIAM R. CARTER D President | Vice-President “Editor and Manager Managing Editor __ Business Manager Delivered by carrier i Junean ana Doagias for S50 per month) six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 By mail, postage paid, at the following rates: One year. in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, $1.50. Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. Talephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374 The Associnted Press is exclucively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this papes and also the local news published here: NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska, Kewspapers, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bidg., Seattle, Wash (New York Times) The hove of most of the world must be that the will come when no natien will need an army, an |air force or a navy. The atomic bomb tests planned for the Pacific in May and July well may prove obso- lete some of the naval vessels we now possess. Progr |in development of guided but unpiloted missiles may. within the next few years, make obsolete air power as it is now conceived and applied. The day is not yet here when any of those premises can be accepted. A | more realistic appraisal of today's world would be | adoption of the well-developed plan for our post-war Navy that has been presented to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee by Secretary Forrestal and Admiral GOOD IDEA A bill introduced in Congress by Alaska Delegate Bob Bartlett would autherize the Federal government | to enter into immediate negotiations with the Indians in Alaska for surrender of whatever rights they still claim to land and water areas in Alaska not now needed by them or in their possession. The Indians’ apparent unsettled claims to vast| wjmits land and water areas in Alaska have done much to ! It is a tremendous Navy that the Secretary and upset the orderly development of the Territory and |¢ne Cnjef of Naval Operations envision, greater in to jeopardize developments already made in good faith | gurface vessels and in air strength than the combined with the approval of the Federal Government and inavies of all the other countries of the world. Its under regulations laid down by Congress. | thirty-three bases ir the Pacific and twenty in the No potential investor is going to put in a cannery, | Atlantic and Caribbean would be greater than those open a lumber or pulp mill, open a mine on land which | of any other country, if not as widespread as those of may at some future date be claimed by the Indidn Britain, and shculd enable the fleets and air forces under aboriginal rights. At the same time, any landslh“m on them to control the sea and air lanes of the = . Pacific and those of the western Atlantic against any OF WiSBCWhabA taw beon®faken from it I"dm"s;ulher country, or any foreseeable combination of wrongfully should be paid for. | countries. This is certainly the responsibility of Congress | The cost of maintaining fifty-three bases and a and the Federal government, and the matter should |fleet and air force of the size contemplated—1,079 be settled as quickly as possible if Alaska is to receive [ ships and 3,731 planes—is great. Next year it is the benefit of postwar expansion of industry from |estimated that the bill would be $5,073,000,000 and for Outside and expansion of industry already established | Succeeding years $3,500,000.000 a year. This compares in Alaska, | with an approximate cost in 1939 of $1,000,000,000. ' | But it is still far below the $30,000,000,000 a year that was the rate of expenditure at the close of the war, ‘ And if it helps to keep the peace, who will be willing to | say it is too much? As Secretary Forrestal somewhat . (St. Louis Star-Times) | tartly pointed out when the size of the contemplated Just now 2,500 enlisted men of the Navy are giving | Navy was questioned, “In the present state: of the a 30-day test to a new uniform designed to replace | world I cannot say too strongly that if this coumrv the tradjtional Buster-Brown collar and bell-bottomed | goes back to bed, we don't deserve to survive.” Tho' g =" The new cutfit, featuring conventional shirt | isn’t saber-rattling or war-mongering. It is only com and pants is the outgrowth of cumplalms and sug- mon sense. The Washington & Merry-Go-Round (Continued from Page One) Out with Bell-Bottoms, But— 'Representative Sabath to be heard as much as Mis: ippi's Repre- sentative John Rankin. Meanwhile, GOP Leader Joe Martin went over to Democrat Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and said: “Mike, the British delays. Sir Alan Brooke !resented this. ! After Ottawa, Churchill accom- panied Roosevelt back.to Washing- ton, camped in the White House and adroitly suggested to FDR that, wonder- MARCH 12 | Jeannette Parker H. L. Arnold Severin Swanson Anthony E. Karnes Beverly D. Edwards Clarence Smythe Renee Wilson Mrs. Edward Simpson Anabelle Thomas M. M. Stafford Milo Barlin e e e s 0e e 00 00 0 - - 1 evs0ceeonoccecose HOROSCOPEi { “Thesstars incline ' { but do not compel” {| | SESCSENSSTES S PO - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 HEART AND HOME 1 Many returned Servicemen and women who enter college this year will transfer to other institutions next Fall. Hasty decisions under the | pressure of tim family influence and emotional confusion will be re- sponsible. BUSINESS AFFAIRS The stars favor long-term com- mitments, but only after a thorough study of ‘all the factors involved No decision should be acted on without a review of the* known facts and careful consideration of rossible developments. NATIONAL ISSUES An event calculated to cause ex- citement and unusual activity in the stock market within a short time is foreseen. The Cotton Ex- change mal also have its red-letter day in the near future. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Alask and the Aleutians are seen today as possible points of inter- est in a public discussion of in- ternational interest. U. 8. soldiers and sailors who were stationed in the Aleutians will shudder at the sound ofethe name. Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A pt‘nm’l of interruptions in their major ac- tivities followed by greatly acceler- ated progress and surprising suc- cess in secondary fields of endeavor. Children born on this day probab- ly will ke bright students though never diligent ones. In early years they will have a variety of interests and exhibit a tendency to shift their attention often and without apparent reason; but in their ma- ture years they will be thorough, ntious and capable workers. (COPYRIGHT, 1946) GOLD CITIZENSHIP arrived in port this morning for engine % i from THE EMPIRE 20 YEARS AGO 7 MARCH 12, 1926 Mrs. H. V. Sully and little daughter Mi Alice had’ returned tc Juneau frcm a visit- in Tacoma, where Miss Henrietta Sully, another daughter, was attending high school. F. A. Metcalf, civil cngineer and surveyor, left last night on the inia IV for Chichagof on a business trip. Lieut. Norman H. Leslie, Executive Officer of the U. S. Coast Guard Unalga, was a passenger on the steamer Queen returning (o u after several weeks' leave of absence during which he visited in utter California. The Bureau of Education vessel Boxer was floated yesterday from rocks where it went aground south of Prince Rupert, last week. The Boxer was reported as undamaged, althcugh leaking slightly as it lay in Chalmers Anchorage, near where she struck the rocks. - Capt. C. Alstad, of Ketchikan, repairs. The big halibut vessel Yellowstone, The Tiouse Territories Committee voted favorably cn a joint resolu- | by Delegate Sutherland, authorizing $22,500 for construction of a government dock at Juneau, according to reports from Washington. News of a geld strike near Bluff caused many persons‘to stampede from Ncme the past week, and dog teams were in great demand, reports from that city said. Weather: Highest, 43; lowest, 35; snow. | ettt Daily Lessons in English %, 1. corpox e ) WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The arm of the coat is ) Say, “The SLEEVE of the coat.” “The boy put his ARM into the SLEEVE of the coat.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dog not as in OF. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Ante (a prefix denoting BEFORE), prefix denoting OPPOSITE, or AGAINST). SYNONYMS: Celebrated, distinguished, renowned, famous, eminent, illustrious. WORD STUDY: “Use a word threc times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: COMPLACENCY; satisfaction; contentment; serenity. “We must not lower the level of our aim, that we may more surely enjoy the complacencyj of success.”—Ruskin. MODERN ETIQUETTE Yismas 1 | Llamamin o GRiiy Q. Is it ever permissible point of the spoon? A. Never; food should always be taken frem the side of the spoon. Q. May a hostess ever invite a woman to any social function, with- | out inviting her husband? | A. Yes; an invitation to the husabnd is not obligatory. | Q. How long before the appointed date of a wedding should the invitations be mailed? A. From two to three weeks in advance. « e LOOK and LEARN & 'l C. GORDON — What are three prefixes in the English language signifying “half”? | What Spanish explorer discovered the Mississippi River in 15417 | Pronounce the O as in COST, Anti (a to take food into the mouth from tth and that China then turn it over to the United Nations as a free port for all the world to use. Chiang Kai-shek glowed with plea- sure. But Churchill glowered. “I was not made Prime Minister of England,” he said, “to liquidate the British Empire.” After that, it took all Roosevelt's persuasive charm to keep Chiang from bolting the Cairo Conference. in view of the coming second front, the Allies needed a man of General Marshall's stature as Allled com- mander. Of course, as European Com- mander, Marshall would have noth- ing further dia-Burma theater ' or any other part of the war—save Europe. At | tirst FDR consented. But when this leaked to the press, the furore was so critical that the decision was reversed. to say about the In-| next time you Democrats get into a scrap like this and it comes to a vote, we're just going to vote ‘pre- sent’ and let you Democrats fight it out yourselves.” . Atlanta’s new Congresswoman, Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin, has been assid- uously cultivated by the Georgia delegation—with long visits on the floor of the House even from the two Georgia Senators—George and | Russel. But the first chance she got | she voted against Rankin. Note—The British still keep Hongkong, and not even the Labor v Government has made any move to restore it. Churchill on India: ‘North Carolina’s Chairman Bob When William Philipps, special | Doughton of the House Ways and Ambassador to India, gave Roose- | Means Committee not only believes 1\elt an urgent warning that trouble | that people should continue paying |the wartime excess-tax rates on | was due in India unless the British | ! luxuries such as furs, but also that Churchill on®Second Front: promised dominion status immed- At Casablanca in 1943, the ques-|jately FDR finally sat down with | children should continue paying the tion of a cross-Channel invasion "”Churthnl to talk it over. | wartime tax on movie tickets. “Af- France was discussed by Roosevelt| gy the Prime Minister wanted | ter all” says Doughton, “kids don't and Churchill. The U. vS. Generffl no advice from anyone—not even have to g to the movies—they're St_.aff wanted it. The gr:txsh didn "';an ally. Pounding on the desk, he & luxury.” Finally, Churchill said that if a jgisteq that no one kngw how to | (COPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946) second front was undertaken, the|pangle India except the British. | British Army could supply only 30|-pjooq will flow,” he shouted, if| girncgenthsr;;Zr;::;‘:bl::n{;li:t:a% there is American interference. | percent of the burden. “We cannot squander of the Empire,” Churchill The man who most vigorously | opposed the Prime Minister re- garding this was Gen. Al Wedemey- er, then head of the General Staff’s | War Plans Divisicn. He maintained that a 80-70 troop ratio would mean Churchill on the Meditcrranmn:‘ At Casablanca, Churchill got a, prcmise from Roosevelt that the | Mediterranean theatre was to be| British-dominated. Churchill then | went to Turkey and made a public Asiatic nomad statement to that effect. | Drink slowly | 2 Lopsided After telegrams e seed unburnt Greek island ot so muck Great Lake Piece out ¢ rom | Bill of fare 8 that all from o Mission American personnel to other Amer- A';‘;IJI::":,‘: " that no sccond frent could be start- | ican personnel in the eastern Med- Soft drink ed for at least one year and that|iterranean had to be sent over I“.”ul&: the war would be prolonged un-| British radio channels, in British . Pay-attention:siat, eRL 6 necescarily. It would take at leastscodes and scrutinized by British peserter 60, Arabian 4 year to transport the required |officials. All American personnel Solr St - Cunyin troops across the Atlantic,|flying into Greece had to travel Constellation Nebraski ‘Wedemeyer argued, whereas theon British planes and be cleared byE }‘°l‘,‘»‘;“§.'e3ru ‘:’ne I"’:{nlher British already had a sizeable army | the British. All American lend- | Pl oo in England which could be used for ylease had to have American labels < b 5, l’..‘é‘v‘ifi:.‘.}i’r‘? a second front if they would go in | scratched off and be relabeled with | @ ratio of 50-50. | “Britain delivers.” Churehill, however, stood pat: Much of the subsequent trouble He was very irate with General in Greece, in the opinion of Roose- | Wedemeyer, however, and later sug- | velt advisers, resulted from this off- gested to FDR that Lord Louis| hand promise wrung from FDR Mountbatten needed an expert Am- | by Churchill. erican liaison officer for his cam-| Conclusion of one old Roosevelt aign in India. He especially asked‘adnsex who reminisced over Chur- that Wedemeyer be attached to | chill's speech: “Winston's offer of Mountbatten. Wedemeyer had spent | an Anglo-American alliance re- several years in Germany, knew minds me of his offer to France German tactics, did not know the to form a British alliance in 1940. MEDAL FOR HOPE. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 12—/ A gold citizenship medal will be awarded to comedian Bob Hope for his services with the Armed Forces by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a ceremony in Los Angeles on| 'March 19. National headquarters of the' VFW announced that their highest decoration will be presented to Hcpe by Commander-in-Chief Jo-| seph M. Stack of Pittsburg, Pa. Recipients of the award in the past have been Cordell Hull, form- er Secretary of State, Dr. James E. West of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, and radio entertainers Kate {Smith and Dinah Shore. | i What is the English equivalent of the American term ‘“gasoline”? What is a heliograph? Which is the most réproductive mammal? ANSWERS: Demi, hemi, semi. Fernando De Soto. Petrol. A signaling apparatus that reflects the sun's rays. EXPERT SERVICE Generators Motors === Starters FISHERMAN OVERHAUL YOUR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT NOW! We are equipped to give you reliable service at reason- able prices. 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Order of frogs and toads 29, Ingredient CAPITOL THEATRE The Second Front was started a for help. The British looked in the | year and a half later with a ratio|other directien. But in 1940 they | of 70 percent Amerjcan troops to 30 | came begging—just four years too percent British. | late. i Churchill at Ottawa: “Churchill is equally late today.| At the Ottawa Conference be-|If he really wanted an alliance with | tween Churchill and FDR, General |us, why didn't he practice it re- | Marshall clashed with Sir Alan garding Hongkong, India, the Med- | Brooke, British Chief of Staff, re- iterranean?” garding Far Eastern operations. i | Marshall demanded faster action | CAPITAL CHAFF by the British in the India-Burma Democrats were wrangling last | theater, was most impatient over,week about the right of Chicago’s 1 of varnish Vigorous Be fond ot ard preads loosely Prophet 45. Go by agaln . Discard as worthless Aspect . 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