The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1941, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empi Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY BENDER - - A R L. BERNARD Vice-President and B! Fotered In the Post Office in Juneau as s«-cona SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douslas for £1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid. at the followin ce One vear, in advance, $12.00; six months, i ance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Uvery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and slso the local news published herein ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. GEORGE D. CLOSE, Inc,, National Newspaper Representa- tives, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Beattle, Chicago, New York and Boston. SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE — PFrank J. Dunning, 1011 American Bank Building. WHAT PRICE NAVY? Inasmuch as the American public is paying for| U. S. naval vessels the public has a natural inter- est in their cost and in the factors which determine that cost. A recent study by the Navy answers many of our questions and gives some comparative data on costs of naval vessels in various periods of our national history. The subject on the whole is big and broad, covering a long period of years, large sums of money and the many details of the science of marine engineering and construction. Standards of comparison are difficult, due to, the many types of vessels involved. These include battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, aircraft | carriers, and literally dozens of types classed as auxiliary vessels—these latter particularly important in the defense problems of the Thirteenth Naval District which includes Alaska. Labor employed in ship and navy yards in 1890 was practically unorganized in trades, ratings and employment compared to what it is today. worked eight to ten hours a day six days a week for about two dollars. The Wage and Hour Law and the Walsh-Healey Act provide that on Government contracts of more than $10,000 a minimum wage of not less than 25 cents per hour shall be paid, and a maximum of not more than 44 hours a week shall be worked. Beneficial legislation has been enacted from time to time affecting Government and navy yard employees. granted. In 1916 it was increased to 30 days per annum. Fifteen days’ sick leave can now be ac- cumulated each year. The total cost of all annual holiday and sick leave for industrial navy yards amounts to an amazing figure. The working hours of navy yard employees have been reduced from 48 hours per week to 44 and now it is 40 hours with- out a corresponding reduction in earnings. This action has increased the cost of production approxi- mately 20 percent. More highly paid technical and skilled labor is emplo;=d than ever before. Material and equipment purchased for naval shipbuilding has advanced in price, So much of the material used in shipbuilding, including the steel used in construction, requires special manufacturing processes, technical skill and equipment that there is only a limited source of supply. A great deal of the special equipment and special material used is patented and this engineering and development ex- pense must be paid for in the form of royalties or| otherwise and included in the material price. In! Men | In 1901 15 days' annual leave was | sign of the huu and enrme oonstrlctim of naval vessels requires more timé and skill. Additional facilities and special machinery often have to be provided to carry on new construction methods. These conditions change with each period of con- struction. Shipbuilding organizations require devel- opment and the technical skill of trained and quali- fied personnel. There has been a gradual and sometimes .unusual { increase in the cost of naval vessels over a period of | years, The more definite fluctuation can be ex- plained by changes in design and economic conditions affecting the shipbuilding industry. For battleships the increase was gradual up to 1916. The construc- tion of the three battleships started before the World War and not completed until after the Dis- armament Treaty in 1923, over seven years, was held up and the contracts changed from a cost-plus fixed fee to a fixed price contract with many costly changes in design and equipment, which increased the cost of these vessels. There was a lapse of 15 years until the six ships of the “Alabama” class were authorized. Those ships, together with the two 45,000-ton ships to be built, are of an entirely new design. The hull and machinery will require much more special material, equipment and technical skill to build them. The machinery cost in these ships has risen from one-fifth to one-third and to nearly one-half the estimated cost of the vessels. The heavy cruisers built between 1890 and 1904 were of |an entirely different design from the ships built 20 years later after the Treaty Limiting Naval Armaments. Owing to the provisions of the treaty i these ships became part of the major fighting force of the new Navy. Some of them were contracted for when the private shipyards were out of work and needed assistance to keep their organizations and plants in business. Destroyer costs vary considerably up and down, glthough the general tendency is up- {ward. The increase in cost of destroyers built since 1930 has been principally in machinery installation. | the hull cost. Submarine costs also have increased. As the building of a naval vessel requires from two to four years, estimates and bids must provide | for possible increases in labor and material cost | before the end of the contract. In order to obtain bids and prevent unreasonable prices being asked, Ithe Navy has provided for an adjustment clause in the ccntracts to take care of any loss that might | be sustained by a contractor due to general increases {in labor and material prices, etc. This clause has saved some contractors from losses. Congress has |also endeavored to put a check on profits that might be made by the contractor and on sub-con- | tracts over ten thousand dollars in excess of ten| | percent of the contract price. When competition is |not adequate or available due to the limited sources of supply or for other reasons this act tends to in- crease prices to the Navy. The principal items of interest with reference to ‘the cost of naval vessels are as follows: The cost of | | naval vessels increase with the progress of marine | engineering and naval construction. There has been | a marked increase in the horsepower of present day | ships compared to older ships of the same tonnage. There has been an improvement in the character | |of the material used and in the construction of naval vessels. For example, the steel is of a higher | quality and requires special treatment. It is used to a greater extent in both hull and deck protection. Costs are relative only for vessels of the same de- The machinery cost has doubled and is nearly twice|? ence of intensive production for defense. The summer will be| | marked by much travel in the| 194I mmmmmnm | [1]2] 8|9 18|16 22(23) 29(30] HAPPY BIRTHDAY e e et e ® APRIL 24 Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas ; A. Bernsten Ole Scarbo . Gus Brown Beatrice Stoddard Earle Monagle Doyle Morrison George Ocjanas Esther Sorensen — | HOROSCOPE “The stars incline f but do not compel’”” || | L ————. ] FRIDAY, APRIL 25 Mrs. Benefic aspects rule strotigly to-| day. From early morning until| night the stars smile upon 'the| planet Earth, It is an auspicious| sway for starting important pro- Jects. i Heart and Home: Good 'mnews| may be expected under this' con-| figuration which stimulates hope| and encourages activity. The ‘séers| long have advised the cultivation of Spartan virtues by all members of a family and now they counsel wise administration of incomes and careful discipline in thrift. Sweep- ing readjustments in American life are prognosticated as necessary at the close of the war which may last for a long time, even though one or more of the dictators may reach the end of his life or power. Business Affairs: Small towns in all parts of 'the country will con-‘ tinue to expand under the influ- | United States. Hotels and transpo:- tation companies will profit. Great numbers of automobiles will be, bought as wise persons Tealiza(the - wisdom of preparing for the ture when trucks and tanks stead of new cars will be manu- factured. The price of gasoline may advance in the summer. National Issues: Need of expert‘ mechanics will become acute: &as| sign built during the same approximate periods. Costs warc affected in the same way that the cost of llving is affected from an economic and social point of view. Reasonable cost of naval vessels can only /be determined by a complete knowledge of cost or‘ current labor and material prices and production | methods on the detailed items making up the group costs along the technical lines of work and material. But one thing is sure. When Mr. John Public of; Alaska and the Pacific Northwest takes a look across the oceans—he decides his naval vessels are cheap at any price, Hitler has taken over Italy for its own protec- tion, and this time there- appears to be no ulterior motive. Herbert Hoover advises us to ask ourselves where ! ployees, tessity will dictate Government contracts -are. rushed, | toward fulfillment. - Centers : .for training hands and brains will; be ‘ increased, despite certain union res strictions. Girls will prove melr. ability in many trades. Labor sto-| |day is under influences encourag- ing to the signing of pacts and| agreements providing for arbitra- tion between employers and |l#m- i International Affairs: According to interpretations regarding ‘the effects of the conjunction of Sa- turn and Jupiter, the end of a| period in the world conflict should be reached before midsummer. Nec- the breaking down of the Nazi economic system. While certain influences will ‘en- | House of Representatives? from THE EMPIRE ZO'YEARS AGO APRIL 24, 1921 The first shipment of pulp from Alaska in commercial quantities was a 100-ton order to be sent south from the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company mill at Speel River on the steamer City of Seattle. With regulation railroad tickets in place of programs and all the trim- mings of a regular railroad station, the Second Ralilroad Dance of the Elks was held at the hall and acclaimed a great success by a record breaking crowd. Mrs. R. L. Bills and son, wife and son of the proprietor of the Juneau { Billiard Company, were to arrive here on the City of Seattle from their former home at Portland. Sam Morris, local manager of the National Independent Fisheries Company, who had been on a short visit to Seattle, was to return on the Northwestern. Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Knutson, who had been spending the winter at and near Seattle, were due to arrive on the City of Seattle. J. H. Cobb, Juneau attorney who had been on a business visit to Seattle, was to arrive on the City of Seattle. Heralding the opening of the work of the Alaska Road Commission on the Haines-Porcupine road up the Chilkat Valley, a crew of eight men went north on the Estebeth and were to establish camps. ‘Weather: Highest, 42; lowest, 38; cloudy. e o e S S D e . S - e - Rt Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon e e e e e e WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “Robert is contemplating on a trip to the coast.” Omit ON. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Betroth, Pronounce be-troth E as in ME, O as in LOSS, TH as in WEALTH; or, O as in NO, TH as in SMOOTH. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Tambourine; observe the OUR. SYNONYMS: Lack, deficiency, shortage, want, insufficiency. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: AUGMENT,; to make bigger. “He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors.”—Porter. B e e e MODERN ETIQUETTE * roperra r&e Q. What should one do when with a crowd, following a dance, and the others wish to stop somewhere to eat and one is not hungry? A. One can always order something very light and make an attempt at eating it, Q. TIf you should accidentally overhear a conversation between two perso compromising cne of them, should you apologize? A. Tt would be much better to say nothing, and pretend that you did not hear it. Abovi 1, do not rejeat what you heard to anyone. Q. Is there any occasion when a hostess should wear a hat in her own home, such as a formal reception? A. No. The host and those who preside at the tea table, do not wear hats. e e 5 e R LOOK and LEARNA C. GORDON D - D > D - -~ < - -~ <o) 1. How much of a strain can the tendon of Achilles in the foot resist? 2. Which ocean has the higher level, the Atlantic or the Pacific? 3. Which receives the greatest salary, a Senator or a member of the 4. 5. ‘What is the most important product of petroleum? What movie actress was once known as “America’s Sweetheart”? ANSWERS: 1. 1,000 pounds, without breaking. 2. The ocean is 1-7/10 feet higher on the Pacific Coast than on the Atlantic Coast. 3. Each receives $10,000 a year. 4. Gasoline. 5. Mary Pickford. order to meet detailed Navy specifications and to we're going. We were in hopes that he could tell |courage the discussion of peace, it| develop and produce material and equipment to con- form to theoretical ideas requires additional time Suspected that prosperity was just around the corner | conflict will extend for a long time. pleasant - surprises. and expense which must be included in the price of material. Production methods in commercial ship and navy yards have also changed. Where riveting w. in common use welding is now used. The handling and treating of material to conform to intricate de- us. If it hadn’t been for him, we never would have in 1931. It's been some time since we heard a speaker say, “Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking.” What's modest, or have the correspondence schools changed their technique? Wathinglon Merry- secret until they stock to make a | s ! | voting a dividend and keeping it Others, with no credentials, Wadsworth claims that he for- wing. are loaded up with shown only the ground floor and quick killing. the great state ballroom in the east| 'oornmitwe on welfare and recrea- is foretold that a new phase of As the World War is Plutonian the evolution ,of social, economic| and political relations along new‘ |lines will require months, or even\ as ONCe the matter, are after dinner speakers becoming less | years. Persons whose birthdate it ‘is trip last January when he got a| wire from Clarence Dykstra say-| ing, “Can you come Washington for few days.to help with new | mulated his proposals on the basis !or replies to a poll he conducted | among business men. Until revealed several months ago by The Wash- ington Merry-Go-Round, the con- Stettinius and Nelson Rockefeller,|tents of this questionnaire was a alert head of the good nexghbarlflo&ely guarded secret. One of its bureau, standing by a chart. As features was the promise that the' they waited, the former U. S. Steel name and business connections of Go-Round (Oondnued from Page Oue) At the end of the second «ay,|tion of soldiers?” NEW WEATHER MAN Alfred P. Brandt of Belllingham |'has joined the staff of the U. 8. Weauner Bureau here as Junior Ob- server. have the augury of a year of rou- tine experiences. There may he Losses will be sustained by a few men. Children born on this day prob- ably will be subject . to sudden changes of fortune, but they will have the courage and resourceful- ness that assure successful careers. 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FRANKLIN STREET ) RCA Victor Radios and RECORDS - Juneau Melody House Next to Truesdell Gun Shop Second Street Phone 65 INSURANCE | Shaflu:k——Agency a group of women who had nsked' for more attention than usual, ap- proached a White House policeman as they were going out. “Oh, just one thing more, officer,” said one.| “What place IS this?” MERRY-GO-ROUND In an article in the current Am- executive bandtered genially with his old friend, who once directed Rockefeller Center. “This chart,” said Ste(lmlufi. “shows nickel—one of your damn ‘monopolies.” “Owned by U. S. Steel,” tossed back Rockefeller with a broad grin. “Yes,” said Stettinius, “and which has offices in Rockefeller Center.” WALL STREET WAR The long threatened attack on the stock exchange and securities those responding would not be dis- erican Mercury, Major Alexander closed. builder and pilot, challenges Colo- WHITE HOUSE VISITORS | nel Lindbergh as a competent The President’s genial personal judge of British and German bodyguard, Tom Qualters, came to planes. Seversky asserts that Lind- the east entrance of the White bergh’s flight across the Atlantic House the other day and was un-|did not miraculously transform him able to get in. He couldn’t even into an “authority on military tac- get near the door, tics and strategy, the design and Springtime tourists were packed manufacture of planes, the organi- around the entrance ten deep and|zation of air power, or other mat- Qualters had to go around to an-|ters which he has since then so other entrance. freely discussed” . .. Word in Sen- The private residence of the ate circles is that before publica- laws, enacted in 1934-35 to pro- President is a public museum. tect. investors, has finally started.! Throngs crowd in by the thou-| The incident was obscured Ly|sands every day, oldsters, young-| war news, but the opening gun of | sters, sweetheafts, newlyweds—to | the Wall Street offensive was fired | see what once was known officially a few days ago by Representatives as the ‘“President’s Palace.” | Jnmm Wadsworth, able blue-stock-' The tourist figures are almost ing New Yorker, who introduced a incredible. When the President and bill to scuttle the regulatory meas- Mrs. Roosevelt hold a reception, ures. | the guests occasionally run over a One of Wadsworth’s proposals, thousand. But the sightseers num- would restore to pool operators ber as many as 16,000 a day freedom to rig markets as they did| The day after Easter, the figure in the lush Twenties. Another would was 16,134, and next day 16,452, again allow officials and directors Since the White House is open of corporations to use inside in-|only from 10 to 2, this means a formation to trade in the stocks|crowd going through at the rate of their own companies. This isone|of 4,000 an hour. Of the sightseers, of the major SEC reforms, enacted | about one-third had letters from by Congress for the express pur-|members of Congress, permmmg] pose of preventing directors from|them to see the entire first floor. ller, was in Arizona d‘ business' ture &m‘lflu. Inc) tion, Colonel Lindbergh sent a copy of his magazine article at- tacking the President’s anti-Axis policies to isolationist leaders Wheeler and Nye for their sug- gestions. . Judge Mark W. Nor- man, OPM o[ficial and law part- ner of former Attorney General Homer Cummings, never refuses to see a caller. “If a visitor has no business seeing me, I can ease him out myself,” Norman tells his sec- retary. . . . Alabama Representa- tives Joe Starnes and Sam Hobbs have ambitions to succeed Sena- tor John Bankhead, brother of the Hoehler used to work for, 'stra, in Cincinnati, and he thi “Dyke” is a good -man- to , take orders from,” so he hopped a for Washington. He intended to stay for two weeks at the most. He has been here ever since. of them. They come to town for | P. de Seversky, famous aviationja couple of days and never ‘get: away again. ing in Washington means that every mother’s son in the Army deals not in machine guns or air- planes or tanks, but in that far morale. In his desk in the Munitions Army, and he intends to prevent American soldiers from: getting into any such state of mental ill healta. Working with him are scores of others, ranging from Charles P. Taft to Robert Sherwood, and he is tackling a score of problems, ranging from soft drinks to syphil- is. and Recreation. Once a week he flies to Chicago to spend 24 hours with his “full-time job"—directing the American Public Welfare As- sociation. Then he flies back to late Speaker, who they believe does |not plan to run again next year. ARMY MORALE BUILDER Fred Hoehler (pronounce it Hay- Washington again. Home is in Cin- cinnati—or it was the last time he saw it. (Copyright, 1941, by United" m- That’s the way it is with most' | The fact that Hoehler is’ stay- will have a better life of it He! more effective implement of war—| Building he has a confidential re-! port on the morale of the French To give him his title, he is Ex-| ecutive Director of the Joint Army| and Navy Committee on Welfare Mmmdmlflmmhfltbymmm There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising ————————————————————— GMC TRUCKS Compare Them With All Others! . PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY C()NNORS MOTOR CO. PHONE 411 and Foundry Co ¢ ,hmlmmml. Army offi the light combat tanks. The First National Bank (JUNEAU —ALE