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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-14
MAKES GOOD
AFTER HARD
LONG FIGHT
CoIumnist Finds Man Who
Came Up, Now Gets
$4,000 Contract
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, May IA Eight
years ago a refugee record player
at Hollywood radio stations packed
his wife and child into jalopy and
drove to Chicago to ascertain the
veracity of certain lavish promises
made him by band leader then
high in public favor.
But when this band leader saw
his ex-pal from the Coast he was
unable to recall the vistas of quick
fortunes he had painted in such
alluring detail as matter
of fact, it was even difficult for
him to recall the young man who
presented himself and said, Here
I am-when do I begin?"
The tag line to this tale comes
little further along, after / tell
you that he hung around Chicago
until his money ran out. When
this happened he sneaked down the
fire escape of his hotel in the snow,
hooked his watch for enough gas
to nudge the old jalopy to New
York, and wound up in the stored
precincts of Broadway.
One day last week this same
young man signed contract that
will pay him in excess Of $4,000
year for two one minute broad
casts a week on the Kay Kyser pro-
gram and the Hit Parade program.
This hikes the kitty considerably
but is no no wise necessary to
filling the larder, for without the
new contract our hero's income
would still total more than $780,
900 a year.
This young mans name is Mar
tin Block, impresario of the Make
Believe Ballroom on WNEW.
p S.: Don't think this revela-
ton is going to set hotel detectives
on his trail. Martin Block paid
that bill he skipped-With interest
long, long ago.
Note on Ann Sheridan: she set
the Kansas prairies on fire
Literally According to ore of
this departments correspondents at
the Cavalry Replacement Training
Center Fort Riley Miss Sheridan
spent three days there recently with
USO Camp show unit.
While there she was escorted to
the range to witness so caliber
machine gun demonstration ;.
The trainees, not used to SO much
oomph at one time, turned their
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-14
E. A. WOHLFROM HERE

E. A. Wohlfrom, U. S. Postal In
spector, returned to Juneau from
short trip to Pelican City and
Hoonah. He is staying at the Bar
anof Hotel while in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-14
sONOTONE

hearing aids for the hard of hear
ing. audiometer readings. DR. Rae
Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Bldg
Phone 636.
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NOTICE

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. showing
air route from Seattle TO Nome, on
sale at j. B. Burford a. Co. adv
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The Daily Alaska Empire mas the
largest paid circulation of any Al
aska newspaper.
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NOTICE

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. showing
air route from Seattle to Nome. on
sale at j. B. Burford 81 Co.. adv.
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LOST-Pkg. containing blue Stacks.
Return to Geo. Simpkins Bindery.

girls bicycle and l boys
bicycle, call at city Jail. B. H.
Manery, Chief of Police.
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chocolate
dres;ri
n
is
hips Veronica
adwhe
ennew match the SUIT
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FURNISHED house and furnished
apt. Inquire Snap Shoppe.
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D-ROOM nicely fur. sim. heated
apis. and houses. Windsor Apis.
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t-ROOM FURNISHED apartment;
also 5-room strictly modern I'M
furnished house. 504 5th st.
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ONE office room for rent. First
National Bank Bldg.
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COMPLETELY furnished 4 room
house, $4,000. Inquire after pm.
$50 Scatter st. Phone Red IT'S.
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VACANCY-Snow White Apart
ments, suitable for couple only.
Phone 299 or Green 355.
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VACANCY-Nugget Apis, $35.
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S-ROOM apt, oil heat, nice loca-
ton. Phone Black 400.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Our Naval Strength Growing

Americans should be encouraged by evidence of
increasing naval strength. Our new warships are
gradually beginning to affect the strategy of the Japa
nese war and this is important. AS Raymond Capper
says, before hope to wage effective land cam
paigns we must regain superiority the seas and
possess bases vital to our supply routes.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor the
United States was building fleet much larger than
its existing units This explains why Japan could not
delay her effort. AS the ships into service they
stole march on the world.
AS of Pearl Harbor the United States had IL
batteshps carriers, 81 cruisers 178 destroyers and
III submarines We building" Is batteships IL
carriers 81 cruisers 1872 destroyers and II submarines
Other warships have been added to this program.
Losses admitted, up to May Z included only battle
ships, cruiser, 8 destroyers and 8 submarines.
The naval strength of Japan mystery. The
nine battleships of the disarmament treaty aug
mented, is believed by five others. In cruisers the
Japs ahead of us but had destroyers and
possibly submarines In carriers the Japanese stole
march the world and surprising strength in this
category has been factor in japanese successes
The steady expansion of Japanese offensives pre-
sent heavier responsibilities The Jap fleet must guard
Japan and safeguard the routes of Australia and
India, we'll protect island bases that stand
sentinels in the Pacific.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Coast Shipping Losses
May Bring Investigation
Airing of Blanket Charges May Result From
Nazi Torpedoing Of American Vessels
In C0aStWiSe Trade.
wNU ssrvics)
By BAUKHAGE
Nesos analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, l343 H Street, NV,
Washington, d. C.
"You commentators" said an
earnest young lady to me recently,
talk about sinking ships and shoot
ing down planes as if you were
talking about somebody moving in
animate chessmen on a board"
l hadn't thought of it that way.
We do. We have to. And the peo-
pie take it that way. They are
long way off from actual combat.
You just can't translate war into
personal experience-until it hits
you
That is why it has taken the re-
verberations of the Nazi tOrpedOes
that are sending down ships within
eyesight of our coast so long to
reach Washington. But they have
reached at last and there promises
to be a resOunding echo in the Mari
time commission and in the ship
yards of America.
The need for ships is the greatest
need the allied nations face today
for the boats are going down faster
than they are being built. They are
not being built as fast as they might
be. Those we have are not being
used to best advantage. Those are
the blanket charges soon to be
aired. if certain people in Washing
ton have their way.
The details of these charges may
appear before this reaches print.
The story seems to be exactly the
same story that lay behind the de-
lay in the manufacture Of tanks and
planes and guns which resulted in
overhauling Of the OPM. The
charges which were made in that
case. you will recall, were:-that In
dustry did not want to change over
from the manufacture Of civilian
goods to war products; that labor
refused to cooperate; that the gov
eminent failed to crack down on
industry and labor and, in the case
of the OPM, retained dollar-a-year
men in its service who put the bust
ness they represented ahead Of the
nations needs.
Whether or not these charges can
be made to stick and their causes
removed in the case Of the Mari
time commission and shipbuilding
management and labor remains to
be seen, but the chances are they
will.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
chicle Situation
All Gur1n1ed Up

My jaw dropped the other day
when I learned that the United
States government was carrying on
negotiations which might interfere
with the chicle importations to the
United States. My jaw dropped
and if l were in the habit of chew
ing gum, the gum might have
dropped, symbolically For what
would the millions of jaws of the
millions of American gum chewers
do if the chicle supply stopped?
They would stop, too, and so would
an industry which earned $61, 1000, 900
the year of the last census and
probably much more since.
Why should this trickle of chicle
be stopped? Well, the answer is, it
won't be stopped but it may be
ENTHUSIASTICALLY. 1t seems that
chicler0, one who makes the chicle
trickle from the tree down in Cen
trail America and Mexico, could If
he would, apply his art to the cas-
tilla tree, as well. And the castillo
tree produces very good brand of
rubber, something which we cannot
eschew, even II we cannot chew it.
Do not chuckle at my tale of
chicle. 1t is based on hard facts
which are these:
"A large group of men called
chicleros collect chicle from trees
many of which are located in the
forests of Central America and
Mexico. They are experts. The
chicle trees grow frequently near
the castillo tree. II the chicleros
were induced to do so they might
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

These are the things you hear;
More bananas were shipped to the
United States in the first three
months after Pearl HarbOr than
there were last year before Pearl
Harbor). Couldn't those boats have
been put to better use? y
Why wasn't the pipeline. suggest
ed year ago. built so that necessary
oil could be sent through it instead
of aboard tankers that are being
sunk at the rate of three a day?
Couldn't the railroads have been
forced to cut down on their passen-
ger traffic earlier to haul some Of
that oil?
What was done about the men
''loafing in the shipyards" after Ad-
miral Land, head of the Maritime
commission. made the public
charge?
Ditto concerning foremen who
were said to have been instructed
to tell the men to slow down?
But nothing will be done until the
smoke of those burning ships gets
into the public's eyes. It has al
ready gotten into some eyes and
am passing along that personal
story exactly as it was told to me.
Here it is in the workers exact
words except for deletions which are
a military necessity:
Eyewitness Story
81 have just been watering my
garden in the cool of the evening
and, looking up from the petunias
and carnations l was able to see the
thick, greasy smoke billOwing up
from . ship that was torpedoed q
few hours ago. A good many men
were killed on this particular ship.
The rest were brought into the coast
guard station; some Of them sent to
the hotel and the rest to the local
hospital, whose ward is again filed
with shipwrecked survivors.
II have a special interest in that
ship because watched her
lying off shore all through the moon
light night. She was three miles off
shore and she got under way just at
sunup steaming south in the pre-.
sumed safety Of daylight. We
quit watching her at a. m. and
half an hour later. off the she
was blown up.
1T has been a comparatively
quiet "a hours in this vicinity only
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

two ships being torpedoed within
sight of shore. The other one went
down at midnight and there were
so many flares from lifeboats that it
looked like Greek fire on the Fourth
of July. Small boats brought
them ashore
THE survivors of this ship IAN
other one which was sunk in the
same vicinity said that the safest
run in the world today is between
New York and Liverpool. The worst
stretch is. "a portion of the Atlantic
COAST. This particular ship passed
nine wrecks between and
"a stretch of some $50 miles, The
coast guard is doing wonderful job
around here but why the (the
rest deleted. for other than military
reasons)."
That is the picture which is star
ing in Washington's face today.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Transport Problems And Invasion

Every move on the board is conditioned by trans
port problems, declared Major Clement Attlee, Domn-
ion Secretary to the House of Commons about the pos
sibilty of opening Western front against Germany.
"The matter of sea transport is constant anx-
iety, continued the Major, who added with the best
will in the world cannot always get the forces
want to the place we desire at the time we WISH"
The statement may be intended to temper criticism
of the British Government for not invading Western
Europe or it may be designed, in part to msead the
Germans into not expecting such an invasion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
WAR CONTRACTS

Some progress is being made in
the distribution of war contracts
although seventy-six per cent. of
all war supplies contracts of
$4,000 or more are held by 100
corporations. On December Both,
1941, the same companies held
eighty-two per cent. of the con-
tracts. Four companies now hold
twenty-one per cent. of the con-
tracts, and twenty-eight hold more
than half.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Route to Happiness

The truest and happiest of earthly
lives. proven over and over again by
hard actual experience, is that life
which accepts and observes most
nearly st. Paul's great postulate.
Here have we no continuing city,
but we seek one to come" Right
fully pursued, it in no way inter-
feres with the intensest enjoyment
of our time here on earth. We have
but to see that we do Gods win in
everything.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

The newest army jeep is an am
phibian model and takes to sea like
a duck to millpond.
why are the Filipino people fight
ing with such vigor? can give
you the reason for this The people
of the Philippines have something to
fight for" -Commissioner Elizalde
of the Philippine Commonwealth
SIR Stafford Cripps. please noteD
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
BRI IFS by Baukhage

Fort Benning, Ga. has the only
parson paratrooper in the army He
is Chaplain Raymond S. Hall.
The U. S. Office of Education has
published a new chart, Job Train
ing for Victory" an index to pro-
grams offered by federal agencies
to train men and women for work
in war industries. governmental
agencies. and the armed services.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
The French Will Lose Again

There seems to be nice squeeze play going on in
Europe, with Italy demanding French territory and
Germany itching to acquire the French fleet.
Laval the pro-Hitlerite, plays for time according
to reports but we suspect that he wants time to per-
suade the French people that yielding is inevitable and
necessary.
In the long rum if the Axis WINS France will lose
her fleet, territory and honor How different it would
have been if the French government had possessed
intelligence and courage when the army collapsed; the
power of France would be in North Africa resisting
the enemies of France with the respect of the world
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

Eight huge battleships are under
construction and more are contem-
plated. To finance these modern
goliaths of the sea it is necessary
for every American everywhere to
buy more and more War Bonds. We
can do it if everybody does his
snare invest at least ten percent
of your income every pay day to
r.H. YOUR county 60 over its Bond
ir,assry Department
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Rubber Classifcations

There are three classlncations of
rubber. all of which although allied
in their uses are different
They are crude rubber, reclaimed
rubber and synthetic rubber.
Crude rubber comes from our fast
diminishing stocks on hand, from
the trickle that may come from the
castillo, from the wild rubber and
other similar trees Of South Amer
! lea and from general paintings of
trees and shrubs in the Western
hemisphere. The most important
source in this third classification is
the guayule plantations which will
be coming into yield in a year with
more in succeeding years. The
department of agriculture is super
vising and helping with this produc-
ton.
OF reclaimed rubber the sources
are the scrap piles. There is a GER
tain amount already collected. This
is already in the hands of reclaimers
and declarers.
The third classification Of rubber
is synthetic rubber. The manufac-
ture of synthetic rubber is the quick
est potential source of supply. Its
manufacture Is In the period Of de-.
velopment. There are various
methods of obtaining it and recently
Secretary Of Agriculture Wickard
urged a program for the making of
synthetic rubber from alcohol made
from corn and wheat.
We have plenty of corn and wheat
and number of distilling plants.
If these are supplemented with 9TH
ers and we can start soon, the
chicle supply may not be endan-
gered at all.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Lessen for JUNE z

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts seq
lected and copyri yhted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
perm Ssion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

tap castillo ell as the
chicle and thus Obtain for America
some of the raw material needed to
make raw rubber.
This might cut down the chicle
supply. Nevertheless negotiations
are about to be concluded to this
end.
II they are successful it will be
another achievement of the Board of
Economic Warfare with the aid of
the state department.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
FRIDAY: TIE DAY OF
SUFFERING Ln

LESSON TExT-Luke 23:3S-46: Mark
1898 a.
GOLDEN TEXT-But he was wounded
for our transgrcssions. he was bruised
for our iniquities: the chastisement Of
our peace was upon him: and with his
stripes we are led.-Isaiah 53:5-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
4
WA6tHo~g11NM
WAR BINDS

The power OF the greatest Navy in
the world. our own tws-ocean feet.
rests in large measure on it's back
bone the Battleships of the Line.
They displace approximately $4,000
tons and cost up to $40. 1000, 900. We
have something like score Of these
huge ships in the Atlantic and Pa
cific.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04

Commencement oratory is about to advise the grad
yates how to live like the speakers haven't.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-06-04
Improved A SUNDAY
Uniform $500 q y
= LESSON y

BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. %. \
Of The Moody Bible Institute OF Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.l
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

tidos para hallar el departamen
to tan deseado.
FL jueves por la noche accom-
PIANO a Jorge a la sala Beaumar
chais. Los introdujeron en- un sa
loncito donde Sc hallaban reuni-
das unas treinta personals, todas
las cuales, sin exception, pare
clan profesarle una admiration
sin limites a Su marido. Y, por
vez primera en- su vida, Sc sintio
orgullosa. Era la mujer de un
gran hombre!
ESa genie con quienes ella ha
blaba eran los que conStituian
Ia flor y nata de la S. U. F. u.
en- embri6n. Pertenecian a dis
tintas nacionalidades; sus res
pectivas posiciones socia.es reco
rrian toda Ia escala. del prole-
tario al aristocrata. Habia hon.
breS y mujeres, j6venes y viejos
Individuos flematicos. de adema
mes pausados, Sc eodeaban con
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

otros de aSpecto aScetico, visio-
mario. Pero, a peSar de su hete-
roge1neidad todos, sin excep-
ci6n, Sc proponian un fin unico
y exclusive: ell triunfo de los
ideales de Garlez.
Jacqueline no pudo reprimir
su profunda emoei6n cuando pa
saron a la gran plataforma, don
de Sc encontraba Ia tribuna de
los oradoreS. En- csc instante su
po 10 que es Ell miedo del artis-
ia, que sale por vez primera So
bre la eScena.
La enorme sala eStaba abarro
tada de pGblico. Centenares de
personas esperaban para DIR a
Garez. Ella oy6 los aplausos
que saludaron su entrada. Ell
resto fue como un sueho. Los
oradores Sc sucedian en- la tri-
buna, y lie lego 81 turno a Jorge.
Su VOC tonante hacia vibrar la
saa Beaumarchais mientras 81
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

ra la vista, develandole III mum
do nuevo, desconocido. BESIDE ese
momento, las palabras: trabajo,
dinero, pobreza, miSeria, deja-
ban de ser sonidoS deSproviStos
&c sentido; eomprendia TODD el
valor que habia que darles. Y de
repente, los ideales que Garlez
.perseguia, que ella habia admi.
RADIO como una musica misterio-
Sa, plena de ammonia, tomaban
lorna en- su mente, c0nvirtien-
dose en- algo concrete. real, pal
palble. La vida no era 10 que ella
habia creido hasta entonee. AhO
ra tuvo Ia sensation de Yer e.
sol, apartando las nubes que 10
obScurecian, Y moStrandoSe en-
TODD su eSplendor.
\, en- 10 successive, sin decirle
palabra a Garlez. ella renunci6
a los taxis y solo viaj6 en- 6mni-
bus o en- 81 metro, eScudrinan-
Go Ia gran capital ell todos SEN
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

microfono recogia sus palabras,
transmitiendolas a traves del
eeter, a fin de que en- remotas
reglones pudieran OR sus teo-
rlaS de reformas mundiales ne
cesarias al advenimiento de Ia
nueva era.
TAI era la emOci6n de Jacuue
line' que solo percibia jirones de
t~rases. Ri derecho de los pue-
oloS''.; garantia eficaz.. la lu-
oha pacitica para obtener el po-
DER; organization de socieda-
Ges regionales; ell EStado HON.
bre de las Cavernas debe cede1e
81 paso al Estado Hombre Social
oarreras aduaneras libertad de
transito; justicia International.
Quiso recobrar su serenidad.
vclver en- ST, para escuchar 81
sentido de las palabras que bro
taoan de los labios de Garlez
cual tumultuosa cascade:
Nuestro planeta Sc Ia T.
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

una alumna en- la eScuela, ha-
ciendo eSfuerzo por comprender
Pero como era sagaz, e inteligen
te, 81 bien en- un principle sufri6
una deception al yer Sus anheloS
del Undo departamento desvane
cerse en- hume, pronto Sc amino
y, llena de entusiasmo, prometi6
que en- 10 adelante no gastaria
nj IN centimo sin pensarlo bien,
IS que lograria encontrar el alo-
jamiento que necesitaban.
Como iba a ser divertido lu-
char por la vida No permitirse
todos los caprichoS; penssr dos
yeceS anteS de comprar algo que
De agradaria. La novedad del sis
tema la encantaba, pues, decia
ella, asi apreciaria mucho mas
TODD 10 que adquiriese. Ahora
ella veia Ia vida desde un puntc
&c vista desconocido hasta en-.
tonceS. Era como 81 Sc hubieSe
arrancado un veto que lie nubla-
La gaceta., 1942-12-07

segura que te gustara. Manana,
temprano, iremos juntos a YER
10.
Garlez, algo deSconfiado de
tamaha ganga, pregunto lac6ni-
camente:
7lCuanto?
IFS regalado! Solamente Sc
Senta mil al aho - replied ella
con vivacidad.
-Pero. ique ocurrencia, JAG
queline! - Sc eXclam6, DIVERT.
dode Su ingenuidad.
lie coSt6 bastante trabajo ha.
cerle comprender que los me,
dos de que disponian no les pei
mitirian pagan un alquiler tar
elevado. Ella Sc asemejaba a u.
una ninita que juega a la duehs
de casa. No tenia la menor ides
del valor del dinero. Garlez Il
eXplic6. con profusi6n de deta.
lies, cual era su situaci6n pecu-
maria, y ella escuchaba, como