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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
CAPITAL CHAFF

Mrs. Roosevelt has tripled her
radio audience in a wears time.
Last year her Hooper rating" was
3, now it is 90 Z. Her sponsors,
the Pan American Coffee Bureau,
are doing a high-class willing
job in the United States, not merely
a commercial job for coffee. /.
Secretary of War Stimson opened
the year by calling press confer
ence on New Years day at 1920
a. m. Though the Japanese
Embassy staff has been moved out
of Washington, the FBI still main
tairis 24-hour watch at the rear
grounds of the Embassy. Ger
tain top-flight Washington Hotels
have boosted their bar charge to
90 cents drink, :. The British
Embassy and all its annexes, burn
ing lights late these winter after
Moons, look like a factory working
the night Shift. (. Brightest lights
are outside, shining on the walls. to
disclose providers. British news
men are envious of the break u. S.
ne wsm e n have had with the
Churchill visit. In London they
are not even permitted a press
conference with cabinet member
to say nothing of the Prime Min
lister.
Copyright, 1912, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, Tnc.)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

Records dug out of the files in the Territorial
Department of Education this week showed an
amazing amount of money which raised by saw
ings of Alaska school children during the first
World War.
The figures interesting because of their
bearing on the current sale of Defense Bonds.
There was no offer of a prize for the Alaska
school student who managed to save the most from
his weekly allowance or the money he earned after
school and on Saturdays for the purchase of the
1918 savings stamps. The appeal made to
the pupils merely on the basis of patriotism and the
need of their pennies in the battle to make the
world safe for Democracy"
The savings program was contest only in that
amounts saved by pupils in each school were pub
lished The honor of having his school in top place
in the Territory from the standpoint of stamp
savings had to suffice incentive for the stu
dent to save his shekes
Yet in the period between February and May
15 these loyal Alaska youngsters bought saw
ing securities to total value of ssi,733;34 The
average attendance of these schools 1857, max
ing a per capita investment of S1621.
Most thrifty students during that were
apparently in Seward, where during the three and
half months of the contest period pupils contribut
ed an average of s3o78 each to the savings
stamps Close on their heels were the Tanana stu
dents who saved average of $3042 each. Here
in Juneau, the students averaged $1787 each dur
ing the period
Not all the schools in the Territory kept records
the total savings of their pupils for the entire
school year but in some schools where such records
kept the amount of money put into the war
effort by those young economists remarkable.
In Fairbanks for instance students averaged
s6O.84 during the year which was put into the war
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

year after Roosevelt asked the De-
Tense Commission to do something
about rubber, Mr. Jones announced
loan to four rubber companies
to manufacture pilot plants. The
loan was not $180,000o00 as re-
quested by the Defense Commission,
but a meager $l,250000 to each
company. Jesse was being a good
banker to the end. Today, however,
his nickname in Washington is not
Banker" Jones, but "Bottleneck"
Jesse Jones.
1 NOTE:-During the months of
argument over whether to build or
not to build synthetic rubber plants,
half dozen chiefs of the OPM
rubber section have resigned in
disgust, after demanding drastic
action in view of the situation in
the Pacific g
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

Edward Stettinius, who had been
woefully wrong on aluminium and
didn't want to be wrong again, an
nounced that before the end of
July, 1T is expected a plan for
synthetic rubber production will
have been worked out which in the
future will eliminate our depend
ence upon imports"
In the same month, Emil Schram
of the RFC, lived up to Stettinius
announcement by working out a
plan with Goodrich and Phillips
plant capable of producing 100000
tons yearly, which at that time
Petroleum to finance a rubber
was about one-siXth of our con-
sumption However, Jesse Jones
who as Federal Loan Administra-
tor, outranked RFC Chief Schram
stopped the deal.
The plan fell through, and
Schram, disguised with interference
and procrastination, later resigned
Six months passed. And Stettin-
ius' prediction that we would work
out plans to become independent
of the Dutch East Indies remained
only in the paper stage.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Daily Lessons in English ~ y L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MSUSED write Enclosed herewith S
check for five dollars" HEREWITH superfuous.
OFTEN MSPRONOUNCED: Demonacal Pronounce de- nj
kali in ME NO. ICE first ACK unstressed
second as in AT principal accent third syllable.
OFTEN MISSPEILED: Pseudonym, pronounced sl-do nim
SYNONYMS Unntenonal mthinkng involuntary
accidental.
WORD STUDY: three times yours"
habuay
principal sylable).
He habue of the pool room" b4. ~ s.a,.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
HOROSCOPE
"The stars incline
bit do not compel"

Benefic aspects contend with adj
verse planetary influences today
There is much good promise minel-
ed with evil portents
HEART AND HOME: Again the
stars, presage good luck in informal
entertaining. Dancing parties are
under good signs. 1t is q favorable
day for love affairs. Hasty mar
riages will be numerous but many
will be unsuccessful Older women
will engage in many pha@es of pub
lie work and many will enter in
dustry.
BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Through
the month trade and commerce will
be stimulated by insistent demands
for American manufactured goods.
But many obstacles will be encount-
cred in the line of distribution.
Labor troubles apparently will dim
irish. Lack of raw materials will be
felt more pressingly by small in
dustries.
NATIONAL ISSUES: Alarm over
the progress of war will cause anx-
iety and resentment among the
people who feel that they are i'm
periled by recent obstruction in de-
Tense work.
The fact that the nation as a
whole has not fully awakened to
full responsibility in contributing
money and work to the general de-
Tense movement will be stressed
by statesmen and public leaders.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Foreign seers declare that demo-
cracies have failed to develop power
in action. They say that for fifty
years our statesmen have weakened
themselves and the people whom
they represent by talking. Legis-
lative bodies have become centers
of speech-making that has caused
a weakening of government power.
Because of war emergencies the
United States must follow the
pattern which assures quick action
and sudden changes in govern
ment policies.
Persons whose birthday it is have
the augury of success in love and
business. They should maintain
constant optimism.
Children born on this day may
have supreme talents. .Geniuses are
foretold for this period.
Copyright, 1942.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
sTETTINIUs TEARS HAIR

Vii DSSSAAibOi y, 4OIO, tilLo
reported: "A fundamental differ
ence exists between the Defense
Commission and Jesse Jones. The
Commission believes that produc-
ton of synthetic rubber should be-
gin Immediately, and wants sub
sidy of $l8o,ooO,OoO 20 American
rubber companies.
However Jesse Jones doesn't be-
lieve synthetic rubber needs to be
produced on large scale The
Defense Commission counters with
a forecast of what might happen
should all our rubber re cut off
from the Dutch East indies. 1t
emphasizes that machinery cannot
be set up overnight. Stettinius is
really aroused, may appeal to the
White House if he doesn't soon
move Jesse"
Again on Feb. IL, 1941, the
MERRY : GO ROUND reported
''Stettiflius is almost tearing his
hair over the ponderous patience of
Jesse Jones. In October, Jesse
said that the RFC might construct
a government synthetic rub b I
plant, but in January he said he
had shifted back to the idea OF
lending money to private comp
anies. But still later in the same
month, he announced that synthetic
rubber is in, the status quo"
There the situation rests-wait-
ing for Jesse Jones to do something
Meanwhile, the chance of Japanese
taking the Dutch East indies be-
comes greater"
Finally, on May l6, l94l, Just one
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA r.rr

q Is it proper to look at telling
several people? 1870
A. No Take in with of the people
possible while telling the to them
the time
If tips given apartment-house employees
should be
The service apartment
of a hotel. es 4t
O. What "comports"?
A. COMFORTS usually feet which to hold
candies or nuts and placed either side of centerpece
opposite ends of the table.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
"BOTTLENECK" JESSE

Complacent, genial Jesse Jones,
whose job it was to lend the money
for these synthetic rubber factories,
was questioned recently as to why
he had not been more far-sighted.
His reply was "Hindsight is always
better than foresight
However, since we have many
other lessons to learn in this war,
and since the first President of the
United States advised his country
men to look back for the purpose
of profiting by Dear Bought Exper-
ience," it is worth looking at the
record on rubber.
The record, as written in the
WASHINGTON ERRY- 60
ROUND, shows that as early as
July ID, 1910, eighteen months age,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
20 YEARS AGO {Tfr EMPIRE
JANUARY Is, 1922

guest, Frederick
Chairman the would
pleased his
would "at home" the
B. travelling Ketchikan the
Victoria
Among Rugg,
travelling
joined Liberty
night show.
Richard Wakelin Purdue travelling
hitting
the A.
the Victoria for the Westward Huy Wrange
from Kechikan Juneau the next steamer
Mrs William Franks had operation
getting nicely
N few
Engineering Society banquet
Hotel a. Secretary
while the board chosen made up of L. Mear T. Trpp
F. H Lenoir and r. j. Sommers.
Col President
appointed representative Alaska
departmental Commission according Geographic advice
received
the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Keep Your Sense of HumOr
Seattle Times)

War again reverses the usual order of things
in Seattle We are besought to the telephone
less often Now we are asked by the Second Inter
ceptor Command to less gas
Thus the old admonition, Cook with gas" is
changed to cook with as little gas as possible
Gas is needed for the defense industries; curtail-
ment may be even greater if blackouts should be-
frequent.
Seattle folk must accept these restrictions cheer
fully Others may be imposed time passes
In these instances, the old American sense of
humor will come in handy Though that genial
quality cannot provide heat, it help to over
look the lack of it occasion.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

They're all down stamping around
at the white mems 1--WE joints in
Pccatello and other nearby towns.
And can they shake it? The pale
face jitterbugs say they can.
But on Friday night, the young
Shoshone Bannocks gather with
their elders in the reservations
buffalo lodge to move through the
traditional dances of their fore
fathers. Occasionally they slip into
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
LOOK and LEARN 6 GORDON

L. what are the five Great Lake their size?
How miles does the lifetime?
g. Which has the greatest lifting power?
What generals United States?
How old is for good
furniture?
ANSWERS:
Lake Superior ontario
Approximately miles. ----F
Hydrogen
Washington, Henry harrison Taylor, Grant
Garfield. ~
100 years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
l ! INDIANS
step RIGHT OFF
OF RESERVATION

FORT HALL, Idaho, Jan IS
Beat that tom-ton, swing it, chief,
while we cut an Indian rug.
Yes, sir, it's Saturday night on
the Fort Hall Reservation and not
a young Indian is in his tee-pee.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

by the Government. But with
the entire nation in race
to get defense materials, these
plants will take another year to
get into production-even if then.
Thus, unless we are able to send
tremendous labor battalionS to the
jungles of the Amazon-and here
the scarcity of shipping is import
anti will be seen that the United
States has in effect suffered an
economic Pearl Harbor And like
Pearl Harbor the rubber defeat
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

a fox trot or waltz when the beat
of the tom-tom hits jitterbug
tempo.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
BROKEN LENSES

Are promptly replaced in our own
shop DR.. Rae Lillian Carlson,
Blomgren Building. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

came largely because we were
caught mapping.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15
Washington
Merry
Go-Round

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slightly
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

Among the arrivals thc Victoria from Kechkan was
travelling
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

Glenn Cakes, Of Treadwel had joined the Liberty Theatre
with which organization he played drums traps TIT
night show.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-01-15

Mrs. William Franks, who had undergone minor ope
days earlier getting along nicely and expected to
in few days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21

Commands, under such air support as has
never been provided in any action since the
war started, assumes the proportions of ma
jor achievement 1t means that second front
can be opened. 1t also means that the United
Nations can do what Hitler dared not try even
at his moment of triumph in France
Other assaults of the Dieppe sort are fore.
cast. Where and when they will be made is as
deep secret as was this. But the strong
probability is that wherever the blows are
struck they will be even more powerful than
that of Wednesday.
We are right in assuming that the Com
mandos were not only feeling out the enemy S
strength but their own as well, and testing
their readiness to grapple in earnest with the
foe on the greater plane.
The runner always sprints few yards be-
fore race. This, we think, was the Commando
equivalent of the runners preliminary sprint
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
EDITORIAL

half gallon day. Would the thousand gallon.
thus conserved be helpful? And would the rest
given tires tend to prolong their usefulness?It
is reasonable to believe that each would have
its separate beneficial effect.
And suppose the movement spread through
out the entire area subjected to gasoline ra.
tioning. Would the tens of thousands of gallons
thus saved do any good? and would the time
out for tires be worth while? It is not to be
doubted.
In addition to saving gasoline and prolong-
ing the life of tires, voluntary carless days
would also have health value. Walking to
and from work even one day a week would
be beneficial, particularly to office workers
who do not as rule get enough exercise.
OF course this benefit would be lost if the
carless ones rode buses instead The fact is
that the conservation aspect of giving private
cars a rest would be lost if this were done, for
bus operators would have to increase their
gasoline consumption tremendously to accom-
modate the additional passengers, provided
they could get the buses, and the extra load
would work havoc on their tires.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
PAPERS. APPRECIATED

To the Editor:
The members of the Ladies Rest
Room and Merchants Exhibit COM
mlttee wish to thank you for your
interest and cooperation in h e
work they are doing, by supplying
the rooms with the Wilmington
Morning Star and The Wilmington
News.
These papers are very much en-
joyed by the thousands and more,
who use the rest room each
month. The advertisements of the
merchants, who help maintain the
places, are clipped and placed on
the butteline board as an assistance
to shoppers.
The Rest Room is a wonderful
help to local women and children.
especially the business women who
rest at the lunch hour. The many
new ladies in the city, who visit the
rooms, are loud in praise of the
comforts they find, and the daily
papers are part of tbs enjoyment
for which the committee thanks
you.
Margaret M. Price, Secy.
Aug. 20, 1912. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
More To Come

London says the Commando raid at Dieppe
accomplished all it was sent to do. The Ger
mans say it was complete failure, and, in
one foolish broadcast, claimed the entire at
tackng force was killed or captured
The purely statistical side of the venture is
still unrevealed, and may never be told in
London. Certainly the Germans will not learn
from Allied sources the damage to Allied ships
or equipment
But without statistics, the raid made one
thing very clear, to the comfort of the United
Nations and CONSERVATION of the enemy. 1t
proved that an invasion of European shores is
possible.
This fact had been so stoutly denied by the
Nazis, who have boasted their defenses are
impregnable, that the successful landing OF the
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
Star-NewsP Program

To aid in every way the prosecution OF
the war to complete victory.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsville
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension Of City Limits.
35.foot Cape Fear River channel.
wider Turning Basin, with ship lanes
into Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp v ID Production
through sustained-yield methods through
out Southeastern North Carolina
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo
@ond Agency, supported by one county.
wide tax.
Shipyards and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina. developed around the
Community Hospital
Adequate hospital facilities for white.
Junior High School
Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buy.
ers.
Development OF native grape growing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
Washington Daybook
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-He's the Army S
only no-dollar-a-year-man.
If you went back through Army annals to
the days when men fought for glory or Con-
victions and not for booty or pay, you might
find his equal. But if you searched the annals
of the U. S. supreme court, you would never
find justice who took a vacation to join
the armed forces as he did.
I'm talking about bushy-browed, 52-year-old
Frank Murphy, the bachelor associate justice
who is on active duty lieutenant colonel
in the tank corps on southern maneuvers, fol
lowing weeks of training at Fort Benning, Ga
Lieut.-Col. Murphys case is unique for a
number Of reasons. When he stepped down
from the supreme court bench for the summer
adjournment, he announced that he would re.
turn to the Army Che a captain in the
85th division in World War I.) He said he had
wanted to get back into uniform ever since
December 7. He said he hoped to continue in
the armed forces 'for the Duration
This Immediately raised a question: Would
he resign from the court? No. He would just
take leave. Whether he could was a legal ques-
tion which Justice Murphy must have recog-
nized Immediately for he let it be known soon
after that he might only stay with the Army
until the court meets again in the fall
The Department of Justice (n which Murphy
was once Attorney GeneraD has issued mem
orandum defining the Justices poslnon-prob-
ably the only time that the department was
ever called upon to determine the status of
member of the supreme court.
The decision (Sec 62, Title s. Federal Sta
tutes) was easy The justice could stay with
the Army or stay with the court He couldn't
do both. The memorandum hasn't been made
public. 1t probably won't. There's really no
need. In Army circles, it is foregone conclu-
sion that come October, when the supreme
court reconvenes, Lieut.. Col Frank Murphy
Qike members Of Congress in the armed forces
who were ordered back to legislative duties by.
President RoosevelD will be placed on the
Army's inactive list.
However, if the justice quite the Army to-
morrow, he would already have written chap
ter in Supreme Court history When the court
was called in extra-curricular session to hear
the habeas corpus pleas of seven of the eight
Nazi saboteurs recently convicted, Associate
Justice Murphy was the only member who had
to absent himsef-the decision too much in.
volved the Army.
When the Department of Justice wrote its
memorandum in Justice Murphy's case it was
only necessary to rehash one it had written a
few weeks before in the case of Third u
Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Williams Clark,
OF Princeton, NJ j., who actually stepped down
from his lifetime judgeship to enter the Army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
Quotations

I've been training soldiers for Is vears ~,
have thorough knowledge of what +he,s anu
do. This parade is way and beyond whsf va. sai
one could anticipate-Col. Don c. Faith. aftsr r4sr
reviewing WAACS. 'i'' "Atel
I believe present wage controls have hoon
much more than most people
pos'-'ena'of en.iss 6rown, Michigan.
I'm not Communist, but once vo,vo soo.
those Russian men and women laborina seer e'sa
dying for their country you've GOT - dl!, anu
they're showing sometime Seaman l1,' John
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-08-21
Draft Redistribution

The decision to call up for military service
men with minor physical defects makes good
sense. In the ragged army that followed Wash
ington through seven cruel years of war prob
ably was many a man with flat feet Jackson
had cripples behind his baled cotton defenses
at New Orleans. We'd be willing to wager that
Lee and Grant had soldiers with crooked arms
Yet they all won notable victories.
We cannot see how mans fighting ability
is reduced for example by the fact that his
upper teeth do not strike all his lowers square,
ly on the top or because he may be astigmatic
or color blind or even because one shoulder
happens to be trifle higher than the other
VI course Hat feet are handicap and it is
always an advantage to recognize colors for
what they are, but are men thus afflicted un.
able to take their places in the armed ranks
and give good account of themselves in the
fighting?
General Joe Wheeler led a charge in tho
'pahlsh-American war when he was SO sick
with tropical fever that he had to use an
ambulance
"nat Will count most when the final score
Oh thls war is cast up is the spirit of the
1orces-the spirit of old Joe Wheeler. who had
10 lead his men when he couldn't sit horse;
1he spirit OF the boys at Bataan and Correct.
oor; the spirit that carried Macarthur through
'he nell OF the Philippines to take command in
Australia.
AND we feel sure that among the men on
oeIerred Classification who are tn he ca11ed &c
result OF the reshuffling in the draft set-ur
are thousands who will welcome the opportun
lty to take their places in the ranks.