The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX WLB PANEL HERE | VOTES PAY RAIE FOR A. J. MINERS Decision N;)f Final - Rec- | ommendation Goes fo | National Board BOMBER The panel hearing the request of Mine and Mill Workers Union Local | No. 203 for a wage increase from the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, announced today through A. B. Cain, chairman, representing the public; and George Ford, re- presenting labor, that the public | and labor members recommend granting an increase of ten cents per hour. Albert White, representing industry, dissented. Both the major- ity members and the minority mem- ber have ‘submitted a recommenda- tion, which will be forwarded to the National War Labor Board for approval or rejection, and will be released for publication following announcement of their decision. In commenting on the hearing, Michael J. Haas, disputes director for the National War Labor Board, stated: “This is the first wage dis- pute in Alaska considered by the panel plan, which is a progressive method in the settlement of wage matters, and will be productive of o more harmonious relationship between employers and employees in the future.” The union had asked for an in- crease of 30 cents an hour. Com- pany officials brought out at the hearings that the mine already is operating at a loss and indicated that when operating losses equal standby costs, the mine might shut down EISENHOWER HAS CONFERENCEWITH PEITRO BADOGLIO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Oct. 2.—General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied Com- KRENZ POWER-DRIVEN ENGINEER TURRET GUNNER DESIGNATION: B-24 (Army); LENGTH: 66 feet 4 inches. WING SPAN: 110 feet. RADIO WEIGHT: 50,000 Ibs. (gross); FLIGHT OPERATOR OFFICER RANGE: over 3,000 miles. BOMB CAPACITY: 7,500 lbs. MAXIMUM SHORT HAUL CA| SERVICE CEILING: 36,000 fe CREW: 4 to 10 men. LOCKER EXTRA SEAT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU ALASKA INSIDE THE LIBERATOR; 3-IN-1 PLANE HOW THE LIBERATOR SHAPES UP HEIGHT: 18 feet with nose wheel on ground. SPEED: over 320 m.p.h. (maximum); over 200 (cruising). ARMAMENT: 8 to 14 .50 caliber machine guns. ENGINES: 4 turbo-supercharged, with 1200 hp. each. — U-BOATSIN BIG RAIDS, ATLANTIC Nine Allied Vessels Re- ported Lost in One Con- | voy-Three Warships EASTERN CANADIAN PORT,| Oct. 2—German U-boats are again | lurking along the Atlantic shipping lanes after four months absence, accounts of survivers arriving here said. The survivors stated that at least nine Allied vessels were lost out of convoys last week. Three war vessels acting as es-| corts are officially announced as; lost, one the Canadian destroyer St. Croix and the others the British corvette Polyanthus and frigate Ttchen. | Survivors reached here yesterday, TURRET PB4Y1 (Navy). GOVERNOR, DEPT. OF INTERIOR OFFICIAL FLY T0 SITKA TODAY Leaving today by plane, Gov. Ern- est Gruening and B. W. Thoron, Director of the Division of Territor- ies and Island Possessions of the Department of Interior, flew to Sitka and from there will go to Peters- burg, Wrangell and Ketchikan. Mr. Thoron is making his first trip through the Territory for the pur- pose of obtaining first hand in- formation that will be of increased interest to the department at Wash- ington in dealing with Alaskan af- fairs. He spent a month in the Interior and Westward before com- ing to Southeast Alaska. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1943 P e oy e MOLLY PITCHER TAG DAY SALE NOW ON Today the Girl Scouts are can- vassing the town and calling at private homes with Molly Pitcher Tags to stimulate the sale of War Stamps. The drive is sponsored by the Juneau and Douglas Island Woman'’s Clubs and the Women of the Moose. The War Bond booth in front of the First National Bank is in opera-+ tion where shoppers may make their purchases if they are not contacted by the Girl Scouts. USO DIRECTOR HERE FROM PRINCE RUPERT F. E. Findley, USO director from Prince Rupert, is in Juneau. He is registered at thes Baranof. Announcement {over 100 from the vessels sent down. ; 34,330 Ibs. (empty). 8 1 The survivors said possibly other | vessels were sunk in the fiercest! ‘rhn-v day period starting September of bombs over 3,000 miles. 19. | PAGITY: 10 tons ef. Mrs. Brillhart, Faflly Return Returning to Juneau after a year's absence, Mrs. John Brillhart,' accompanied by herr three children,’ jarrived this* morning from the I south. | " Most important member of the (family to be welcomed for the first| |time by his proud father was three- | {month old John, Jr. | Mrs. Brillhart and her family | WARM AIR [have been visiting with relatives at| BLOWER | Lancaster, Penn, | ‘Marth as Meet at LOADING DOOR Church Yesterday THE NEW YORK TAVERN Is now under new management and will be glad to serve all the old patrons as well as the new ones with the same efficient service and the best of Wines, Liquors and Beers, as has been its policy in the past. George Salo NEW OWNER mander-in - Chief, Mediterranean area, ‘has conferred with Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio on mili- tary cooperation. The conference ‘ took place aboard the British flag- | ship Nelson at Malta. The announcement said the fol- lowing accompanied General Eisen- hower to the conference: Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, Allied Ground Commander; Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of the Allied Naval Forces in the Mediterranean; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Mediterranean Air Commander; Harold MacMillan, British Minister in North Africa, AP Featuges T T ——__. Eleven years... A tribute TO THE FLYING PUBLIC SURPASSED NOWHERE else iri the world has been Alaska’s reception of air transport. Underwrit- ten by the patronage of Alaskan travellers and shippers, Pan American has for the past eleven Emply Fuel Drums Are Used for Many Purposes At Amchitka Army Base ; | Members of the Martha Society when converted to carrying passengers or freight. |byterian church for a dessert- lun- T 3 £t e T — | Hostesses were Mrs. D. W. Booth 56 ARRIVEHERE ' CASUALTIES | |members worked on articles for (he‘ s “ |rector, flew to Sitka today in,con- % | These Cl'l:ls section views of the Consolidated-Vultee Liberator give an inside picture of an airplane that plays a triple role against the enemy };erllm»:ei;e:g:yn;{:fe‘:‘nw;;ghLnm:: on America’s warring fronts. Top view shows it as a bomber, with the crew shown in fighting pesition. The other drawings show how it looks cheen and regular business session. and Mrs. Mayme Cassell. Following the business meet;'m.! F R o M So U 'I' H bazaar November 19. | | e | PLANE TO SITKA| 5, Hugh J. Wade, Social Security Di- ! and Robert Murphy, United States morning from the northbound Svtot ahiikion & - A b ‘; Minister in North Africa. | steamer were, from Seattle-~How- | g years pmneeredaprogresswely 1mp-mw_-d serv- “The principal topic of discussion MY LN A L CE LI ard ~ Mosher, Mary Wentworth, . . § bAats: . 9 . e ! b UBLIC DANCE TONIGHT ice linking many of the Territory’s major cities st ef- A i i was the method of making most e Myrtle Hatley, Lt. L. Friedman, The regular Saturday night pub- Those fancy signs in bright colors the Aleutian soldier sees pro- claiming, “Stop! Main Thorough- BY CPL. ALLEN MERRITT and connecting Alaska to the Pacific Northwest. (Army Correspondent) Percy Reynolds, W. F. Snyder, Mrs. Lillian Frost, Mrs. Mary Tightower, Army, Navy Submit List oi‘; fective the Italian military effort against our common enemy, Ger- lic dance will be held in the Union Hall tonight from 10 until 1 o'clock. many,” the statement said. AP WRITER HAS TOUGH WARBREAK Malaria 6& Him After AMCHITKA, Alaska—Much has been done along the Aleutian chain with Yankee resourcefulness and an lample supply of empty fuel drums. Virtually everything necessary to |life itself must be shipped to these bleak islands, and there are neces- |sarily shortages in many essential items. These prosaic steel drums are substituted for everything from culvert material to bath tubs, The Army Engineer road-builders Iwould have been in & bad way |without them. For the most part |these islands have networks of |small streams and culverts to carry |the waters of these rivulets under {roads and airplane taxiways are Three Narrow Com- bat Escapes by T e —— together with two-by-fours after GUADALCANAL, Oct. 2—Arthur their ends are sliced out. Burgess, 30, Associated Press war' ‘Thousands of dollars worth of ex- correspondent formerly of Seattle pensive culvert material has thus and Tacoma, has walked out of tWo been diverted to other construction,! gun-riddled planes and one crack-‘]nnd invaluable shipping space which up with hardly a scratch, but fell\would have been necessary for victim to the weather and malaria.'movement of this material has been Doctors ordered him out of the used for other vital supples | South Pacific area after he col-| The empty drums, cut in halves, lapsed. are in general use as bath tubs on He left Hawaii and rode in ajall the islands where construction dive-bomber damaged by Jap anti-|has not reached that stage of de- aircraft fire September 28, went out | velopment when shower houses are the same night on a Catalina patrol puilt. Many soldiers have been mission and the plane was hit by an pathing in these makeshift tubs for enemy’s destroyer's gunfire and got| months, but still an argument rages to shaking up, lost a wheel andiover the best way to cut the drums| crash landed. {in halves. Maj. Gen. Nathan Twining, of| Some cling to the “vertical or| the U. S. Air Force in the Solo-'lengthwise-cut” school of thought,| mons, commended his work. |others prefer the “horizontal or - > 4 round-tub” type. (o"D“’loN oF 'I'oM 1 The drums 3 serve many pur- | poses other than such obvious uses| GEORGE lMpRovING‘n trash cans, water heaters, fuel land water tanks for small build-| 2 <A lings and metal strips for fasten- | The condition of Tom George, well ling wooden frames together. Some known Juneau r.nerChm"" who h“"!]eeps have been winterized in this fered severe injuries {ollo;mf. a"“nanner. The metal strips fasten accident on the Douglas Highway , Thursday night, Is satisfactory, ac- | !¢ Wooden sedan body onto the cording to statements by his rela- |ENCF Y L gums are] uv;“&e to the nature of his injuries, Iluspd for anchors for small boats' it was necessary to amputate the (and all types AcI aircraft. In an Jeft leg below the knee, and he is Aleutian gale it is quite possible convalescing at St. Ann’s Hospital, | for a plane to take off without its under the care of Dr. William M. |pilot. On cold, lonely guard posts, an Whitehead and Dr. C. C. Carter. B c— empty drum becomes a stove where T. B. CONSULTAN the guard can warm his hands for GOES TO KETCHIKAN a moment. Dr. R. R. Hendrickson, Tubercu-| Those which are not put to other losis Consultant for the Territorial | uses are reshipped to the States to| Department of Health, fléew to|be refilled with fuels and oils, and \YOUTHFUL LABOR fare,” may look as though they Augustin Jiminez, Mrs. J. H. Brill- might have been manufactured for hart and three children, Mr. and New York City's police department, MER Py M Baaanort, s fi but they were made from clrum’ Orme and infant, Beverly Botak, hedds enttdiom. Wides aied far-ouls | E: nple. Doaley; Mes. Lol Al S 'and two children, H. C. Skipper, 4 Sharon Bakke, Mrs. Julia Rian, Mrs. Vera Chapple. Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Myhre, Bert Linne, Mrs. Diane L. Price, i Mrs. Margaret J. Cox, Helen C. {Holt, Betty Bernard, Mrs. Agnes L. Henretta, Mrs. Grace Rollins, Edna F. Cooper, Mrs. Fortuna Odell and Robert Mackey. From Ketchikan—Lovell Englert, Gracie Englert, Lee Annishette, — e WAYWARD WIVES, SERVICE MEN, NOT T0 BE CHECKED UP| Army Is Ofibzed fo Sug- gestions fo Investigate Faithfulness o {Mrs. C. Dygert and G. K. Davis WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The| From Petersburg—Robert Simp- Army is opposed to suggestions to son, Mr. and Mrs. William G.- Allen. check the morals of wayward wives Tt of service men before granting them SCOUT COUNCIL dependency allowances, Brig Gen. Gilbert, Administrator of Depend- ency Benefits asserted. The whole system: of payments would bog down the administrative detail if faithfulness had to be de- termined, the Army officer declared when he appeared before the House Military Committee now considering | legislation to boost dependency al- Banta, William Stafford and Lester Wiske. From Wrangell—Mrs. L. Bahovec, \ } GIRL The Girl Scout Council will meet at their regular time on Monday afternoon at two o'clock at the penthouse of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. - Norway's coastline includes 150,- 000 islands. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Banta, Susan| Mrs. J. Neilson, Mrs. Edward Casey, | WILL MEET MONDAY i Killed, Wounded, Miss- | . . | Bob Tew’s Orchestra will furnish ing and Prisoners !tne music. S G .. American railroads now have WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—The war | casualties of this nation’s armed| 500,000 fewer cars and 20,000 fewer |forces have reached approximately | locomotives than they had in 1917. 115,000 | The Navy places naval casualties at 30,162 and this figure includes 11,258 dead, 5305 wounded, 9456 missing, and 4,143 taken prisoners. {* The Army’s casualty list as an- {nounced yesterday by Secretary of |War Henry L. Stimson, is placed at |about 85000. The breakdown, not |including the casualties at the Sal- erno beachhead, which total about 13,500 killed, wounided or missing, is follows: 10,682 killed, 26,666 | wounded, 23,743 missing, and 20,- 1451 taken prisoners. The Army’s figures are from December 7, 1941, to September 15, this year. - e MRS. ORME RETURNS \ Mrs. James Orme and child ar- rived this morning on the steamer after a visit of several weeks Out- side. | | ——e—— PERCY REYNOLDS BACK Percy Reynolds, owner of Percy’s Cafe, returned this morning from a business trip of several weeks in the States. | e — — 'Y WAR BONDS lowances. B g HOARDING IS TO | BE INVESTIGATED NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Deploring what they termed “hoarding of youthful labor,” the Veterans of| Foreign Wars have demanded ex-| LADIES ipansion of all State Selective Ser-| vice personnel staffs to permit sur- veys of war plants aimed at the elimination of such “flagrant abuses.” | SRS | { GE DALE f ON INTERIOR TRIP Dr. George Dale, Associate Su- pervisor of Education for the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs, flew to Fairbanks today. He expects to be in the Interior for the next six weeks, |{DR. GEOR — e Ketchikan and is expected to befof those that remain out here, away several days. nothing is wasted. L BUY WAR BONDS FIRST of the Winter Season TONIGHT Just for Elks and Their Ladies Dancing Starts at 10 o'Clock Club Rooms Open at :30 * NIGHT FOR THE DURATION ... Meanmvhile-BUY BONDS— New Washington Hotel, Seattle | i PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS | While traveling is difficult . . . we'll be thinking of our friends in Alaska . .. Evenif we don't see them . . . .. . and back your fightingmenlike Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark who told the Nazis at Salerno: “WE ARE HERE TO STAY. NOT ONE FOOT OF GROUND WILL BE GIVEN UP!” FRANK B. McCLURE, Manager