The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1941, Page 5

Donald Nelson, Uncle Sam's Buyer, Is a $1-a-Year Mail Order Man and Don't Forgel (Continued from me Ono) He was $l-a-yearing around here in the old NRA days and created enough of an impression to be called back for a siege in admin- istration of the wage-hour act. When the government a few years ago decided to revamp its whole purchasing program by conceniratéd buying through the Treasury Procurement Division, Nelson, Executive Vice President sars, Roebuck and Companjy sked to supervise the job. ear, the then 52-year-old, %7,04‘. -a-ycar man was asked once more to come to Washington, this time to supervise purchases for naticnal defense, When he left Chicago, of Le gone a couple of months. Th”‘lhc cattlemen that made it possible | a year ago and his| | for the United States to buy quan- | | tities of Argentine canned corned | was nearly Liggest job is just beginning. A BARGAIN HU \TER Either from deeds or words, it is dilficult to draw any pattern for Nelson’s success as one of the biggest buyers. Some per- him canny—perhaps be- nation’s sons call cause it is a word usually associat-! ed with his Scotch ancestry. But it is more than that. It is an ap- plication of amazingly simple com- mon sense. He probably is not the criginator but he certainly is on2 FLY Fly for Pleasure Hunt or fish, near and far, in your own plane or in one which you have rented. Learn the Modern Sport! Aviation is not expensive. There's more pleasure per dollar in flying. Start Preparing for Your Private l',u.ense It's Easy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 .Phonz Black 769 JUNEAU he told friends he ,would | ot the chief advocates of “buying in slack times.” He taught the Army and the Navy, for example, how to stagger their orders for woolen blankets—placing them times when the mills were entering | slack production periods and were willing to make price concessions. He also has led the battle tobreak up big orders and give the 5m’au operators a chance. And he has surrounded himsell with a host of sharp ers who know their markets and are not afraid to bargain. Many of them are practically unknown in the big business world. ABOUT ARGENTINE BEEF Nelson personally effected n compremise between the Army and | beef. This deadlock had gone on for years. Nelson looked over ground, found that the U. S. didn{ and couldn’t pack enough corned beef to supply the orders. He also found that the Army's strict and sometimes antedated specifications were depriving the cattlemen of a market for some perfectly beef. In a single session, Nelson put an end to this double-barreled misunderstanding. It perhaps typical that the only thing he forgot was to notify the politi cians and when the necessary re- ,vision in the law (preventing |importation of Argentine canned beef) came up in Congress, 1% {came so close to defeat that the | Senate had to do a flip-flop and “recon.\ider the once-beaten bill be- ‘Iorc it passed. | (Tomorrow—Nelson, the Man.) ?Gabtielson Goes To Pefersburg and Wrangell Meefings | | | Dr. Ira Gabrielson, director of (the Fish and Wildlife Service, left hme late yesterday afternoon on| "the Brant for a shott trip to| Wrangell and Petersburg, where he will meet with groups of sportsmen' and discuss pqssible dhanges in ! game regulations. At Petersburg, Dr. Gabrielson will! inspect work being done at the ex- perimental fur farm maintained | there by the Fish and Wildlife Ser- | vice. Wednesday or Thursday. —— e BUY DEFENSE BONDS at| young buy- | good | is | He is expected to return here‘ 1 | | if you haven't, for that kind of a flavor and tang all.its own. dirt some way, don't you? STUNTER " RESCUED }Para(hutistfit;ught Down from Top of Spire-Was $50 Bet Venture | SUN DANCE, Wyoming, Oct. 7.— | Mountain climbers have rescued ,para(hutht George Hopkins from {the top of the 1200-foot volcanic | spire called Devil's: Tower, after he | had been marooned there since last | Wednesday morning when he landed safely on the flat top to win a $50 bet. The wearied parachatist was low- ered for the last few hundred feet in a rope sling because he was un- |able to climb down as the moun- | | taineers did. The spire is almost perpendicular in places. | Hopkins made a safe landing by parachute when he was dropped THE DAILY 'ALASKA EMPIR *AMERICANA* By RAY PEACOCK the | AP Feature Service Writer | 0O many cooks may spoil the broth, but Ttoo many cooks can't spoil the apple butter Because every oné'is liable to add a pinch of cinnamon just for luck, and you can't be stingy with the cinnamon and have good apple butter Ever taste apple butter made out of doors, in a big iron kettle of the Mayflower era? Life has cheated you out of one of its good things | If there's a little wood ash in it, so much the better. Good oak and apple ashes never hurt | any food, and you have to eat your peck of You have to have a big veal roast or it just L<nl any goud Apple butter is the same way winter. ceremony, with apple butter has 'Local Couple Wed - ByCommissioner Ross Peterson, local fisherman, |and Anna Faye Weber, Juneau girl, | were married yesterday evening in the office of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. Witnesses to the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Corbett Shipp. Mrs. Peterson is emplcyed as a waitress. The lrm])ll‘ wlll reside in Jur were ea. WORLD SERVICE CIRCLE TO MEET, Members of the World Service Circle are planning a meeting next Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Church: Mrs. Claude Hirst, | dent, will preside. | On the pregram for the afternoon TUESDAY, OCT. 7, here| 1941, Apple Butter It should be made by the gallon and not by the pint. For one thing, the menfolks are liable to stop by for a sample when it's in the making, and you need something left to put up for the And the cooking of it ought to be a family Ma bossing her grown up daughters and a daughter-in-law or two. Best spot for the job is right out in the apple or- chard, especially if it's next to the wood lot. Not all of us, of course, have got an apple orchard or a wood lot or even a Mayflower ket- tle. And some of us have to get our apple but- ter over the counter, Maybe they still put it up in crocks, but I haven't seen any for a long time. Even then, it tastes pretty good. If it doesn't | —well. you always can add cinnamon! in tin cans or glass jars. Jenkins Is ~Ouiclassed . By Cochrane NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—~In a lop- sided non-title fight, welterweight | champion Red Cochrane outclassed | lighiweight. Lew Jenkins last night inja 10-round bout to a decision. | Jvnkln\ bicycled throughout ' the hout while the crowd yel l\"d and | b ed, ‘ochrane entered the ring weigh- ing 141% pounds and Jenkins tipped | | the scales at 135 pounds. gathering to be held in the parlors | | from a plane, right on top of the of the Northern Light Presbyterian | qpire, P‘N'rm .come down but could not make He made several attempts Food had been dropped to him m a plane’s pilot who swooped close | is & book review by Mrs. H. L. Faulk- | 15'(jie top of the spire. ner on “Keys of the Kingdom.” De- | votionals will be led by Mrs. Rav» mond Wolfe. R BUY DEFENSE STAMPS | FOR CAMPAIGN i | | LONDON SAYS WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING 1SOVIET NAVY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY iEnghsh Reports Deny In- | vaders’ Conquest ; North of Azov L ONNNURY Trom” Fave Ones Cn the northern front, the Red army - announced Leningrad’s - de- | fense guns have smashed 19 German garth and ‘timber forts at the | preaches td Leningrad and silen | two artillery batteries. Other Nazl seige weapons were reported put out of action and masses of German | troops were said to have been dis- | persed, | A bulletin from Hitler's field head- quarters indicated that the battle north of the Sea of Azov was part of the “gigantic new development’ | which the Fuehrer himself declared began last Wednesday The communique said “German soldleys, shoulder to shoulder with troops of an allied country, are pur- | | suing’ defeated enemy motorized | | tank units and have thrust deep !into the enemy’s retreating col- | | umns.” | The Russians, acknowledging that | the Germans have “wedged out lines | in an unspecified sector on the | | Moscow front.” reported Soviet | tanks and bombers destroyed 34 | Nazi tanks in fierce counter-blows. SEEKS SCENES PHOTOGRAPHER | Mendenhall to Be Pidured | in'Know Your West' | 1 Publicity Juneau’s - famed Mendenhall Gla-| chr-r .may appear in full color photo- !graphs this wirter in. the nation- | | wide ' “Know Your West"” puhlltuv\ |campaign sponsored by a San Fran- | ciseo Jithographing company, Bur- Hm\ +Fo Grinnell; Seattle photog- ! rapher, said toddy. Grinhell, who took [mr(uxc: of Alaska on a trip last| year, returned -to-Juneau- this week | froin’ M e unt+ McKinley' National vP"rk where - he took other color| | hots for the eampaizn. | | Taking advantage of tcday's blue| |skics and’ bright-sunshine, Grinnell drove to the glacier. The campaign Isponsors are particularly anxious to| include ‘Mendenhall in the series, | | with several other Glacier pictures| lalsc to be considered, he said. | He is a guest at the Gastlm:au" Hotel. | | | numerous | | | _ BRINGING UP FATHER WHY-SURE — YOI SHOULD BE BOSS IN YOUR OWN HOME - YOU ARE THE The week of October 1-8 was selected by American publishers to commemerate the free spirit that has characterized the Amer- ican press since 1690. Look at the pictures closely — they give yeu some idea of the contrast between American and foreign news- papers today. | NEW YORK: Newspapers arethe out-ofstowner's tlosest tic with home. - These soldiers are looking for their home town paper at a -stand on Timés Square. Mbest foreign’ papers are smaller than American ones. YOU'RE RIGHT- THEY SHOULD TAKE ORDERS FROM ME_ AN/ CATER TO ME EVERY WISH- LONDON: News venders arenit s};out their wares, instead di h&ch scream wuaer ‘than Amerlcan head- lines, DINTY -YOU'VE MADE_ A CHANGED MAN OF ME ~FROM NOW ON.| AM GOIN'TO BE A JULILS CAESAI? IN MY HOUSE? BCOW: papers, He buy - HEY- DINTY~YER WIFE JUST CALLED UP AND SAID TO COME HOME RIGHT AWAY/ Russis. has, plenty of news- re penniless Russians gather to read the paper they haven't the money to By GEORGE McMANUS | TOMMM S Geamn of Tobnlicky 86 PROOF. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORP., NEW YORK CITY 39 Die in Cairo Bombing First Axis air raid of the war on Cnlro. capital of Egypt, resulted in 39 killed'and 93 wounded. This is an dir view of the central section of the city, showing the Abdine Palace in center,: British Prime.Minister Winston Churchill warned last April that if Cairo is raided, Rome will be bombed. British-Red Allies in Iran —1. 1. N. Radiophoto From Moscow comes this radiophoto showing a Red army soldier, left, chatting with two British officers somewhere in Iran after their respective forces had made contact. hnckground. PICTURES SHOW DIFFERENCES BEIWEEN AMERI(AN AND FOREIGN PRESS A British flag is flying in BERLIN: Pspers in most parts of Europe can, say only what the government thinks they should. This Berlin newsboy. is uni- formed. TOKYO: 4 vinging cowbells, This Japanese girl sells news- papexs on a Tokyo corner. Extras are sold by boys who dash through the streets