The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1943, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire Becond and Main Streets, Junesu, Alasks, CELEN TROY MONSEN - - - - - President Second Class Matter. $1.50 per month. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau SUBSCRIPTION ing Tates: One year, in advance, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; one month, in advance, §1.50. Subscribers will confer & favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers, Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ] credited in this paper and also the local news published erein. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle, Wash. THE ALASKA JUNEAU A petition is being filed with the National War Labor Board in Washington by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company of the Regional War instructs the company to grant an increase of 14 cents an hour for all labor at the mine, retroactive as or May 1, 1943 appealing a directive order | Labor Board in Seattle \'(HL‘]] end of the war will be the end of the problem. | statement, The"local War Labor Board panel, Juneauites will | remember, recommended an increase of 10 cents an hour. The Seattle board based this figure on the prevailing rates for common labor in Spokane, Wash- ington, with a differtial of 20 percent added There is every probability that if any increase is ordered by the National board, the Alaska Juneau, which has been operating at a loss for some time, will | close down ope:ations In fact, the President of the company has stated that unless a substantial increase in crew becomes available, and that is very unlikely at this time, further adverse War Labor Board decisions will force the mine to shut down. If this happens, the likelihood that the venture will begin operations soon after the war ends is not probable. Not only would the closing of the mine take from Juneau its largest industry, but during certain times of the year, when the company supplies electric power to the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, it would leave the city without adequate power. And during cetrain times of the year, when water is used by city residents from the mining company’s facilities because there is not enough otherwise for drinking and for fire fighting, the closing of the mine would alsp create 2 dangflou.s water shmlage and of Dr charge daffaires. Some by a Nazi, mails, Washinglon Merry- Meyner, time ago, a but intercepted in told of a conversation with There are many other services which the mining operation performs. All Juneauites know that il the mine had not been operating a few months ago when Gold Creek broke through its banks, if the crushed rock turned out by the mine had not been available, much damage would have resulted to property Tt understandable that the workmen of the mine should desire more money. But it is also under- standable that all workers projects other than those contributing directly effort, want, and may need, more money, Living costs have increased quite can deny that. Also, it understandable that if the Alaska Juneau is losing money, and it stands to lose much more, it would be unwise to continue to operate. No one can say how long the war will last. But Juneau today, as all States, of the higher cost higher it is hard to find any not getting enough food, a is on to the war a bit. No one is in over the United of living and person who is shelter and clothing to live very comfortable life—a million times more com- fortable for those at home than the boys on the fighting front who are deing their job for a few dollars a month, To date, we have failed to see anything which resembles “sacrifice” on the home front nothing that compares to what the fighting men are going through Several thousand miles away in the nation’s capital, soon, the National War Labor Board will decide what is going to happen to the Alaska Juneau. Perhaps it will compare the pay received here with that received by common labor’in Washington. It would be just as logical as Spokane We are not saying that the boys of the Alaska Juneau don't deserve a Certainly they do. Wages paid by war contractors—which have forced the wage-price climb i Alaska, are mainly responsibla in spite taxes, raise for inequalities But to grant an increase isn't going to solve the problem. That would not be the end of it. Only the if the higher mine wages However, if such the -nothing is closes, and are ordered is gained. And the city of Juneau will be most of all the | loser. Jap Use of Gas (Cincinnati Enquirer) ‘The American public has read and heard so much have been directed against the Chinese, shocked to note, with growing frequency, in Chinese dispatches references to use of poison gas by the Japanese, Certainly, the Japs have committed far more inhuman crimes than this and no one would | doubt for a minute that they would shrink from use | of gas if it fitted their purpose and would tend to | give them the advantage. | high command charge that the Japs had used gas 13 times in a single day Should it fit their battle plans and provide them an opportunity for victory, they could be expected to use gas against American troops. However, the Japs are likely to go slow on this because they must know that the Americans are prepared to reply in kind if this ever is attempted And they should have learned by this time that our men can adapt themselves quickly to any type warfare, even the jungle fighting at which sunpmcd to be masters. which ' he revealed the manner which his cabal kept all the 3,600 officers of the Argentine Army un der control. “We required each of- ficer the German | letter written the certainly ¢ of Japanese atrocities, most brutal of which seem to | that it is not | | One battle report the other day listed a Chinese the Japs were | in| to write out his resignation,” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - JUNEAU, ALASKA HAPPY BIRTHDAY‘ DECEMBER, 20 Mrs. R .T. Williamson Hazel Gerbels Bernice Floberg Mrs. Elmer Benedict Helen Isaak LaVerne Pademeister H. F. Campbell Sybil LeMasters R. F. Wolverton - D ad ot i HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21 | Aspects good and ill are seen in| the horoscope for today. Under uus“ sway judgment may be lax. The| wise will avoid important initiative. | HEART AND HOME: Women are under a configuration which sti-| mulates their homemaking instinct and inspires them to express their |emotions. However, it is not an auspicious date for writing love| letters or signing contracts. i BUSINESS AFFAIRS: A favor- lable rule today is read as likely to| encourage better relations between {employers and employees. There is | |1 threatening sign for strikers and {all who impede war industries. Pub- {lic protests will arouse national con- cern NATIONAL ISSUES: Demands that the Government conduct busi- ' with the strict economy that |assures success in private enter- |prises will become more insistent | {next year, it is foretold. As war | {costs mount to greater heights and |new taxes are discussed there will |be general criticism of political | |methods which encourage extrava-, | gance. | | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:| | Astrologers declare that China wm; emerge a great power. The position | lof Uranus is read as fortunate. Promise of sudden progress in the war is seen in the stars. The brave| |Chinese who hitherto lacked the | modern machinery of war ate to prove that they can perform mu-! acles when adequately armed, lthe augury of a year of unusual good fortune. Property will mcl’cus“‘ in value and incomes will expand. | Children born on this day should | be idealistic, generous and studious. | They have possibilities of extraor- | dinary success. | (Copyright, 1943.) | and Share, William Reece angd Da- vid Watson, were detained in a po- lice station from tweve to twenty- our hours, for no reason whatso- ver. Finally, they were released| after being made to sit all the time | in one chair without moving. | Sitting in a chair is the favorite| | company, i(&v:neral Pertine in which the Gen- |eral had expressed himself in per- fect agreement with certain Ger- | man plans. Godound (Continuea :rom Page One) Russian defeat had turned to vw-‘ tory at Stalingrad, and when it was : ; 5 quite obvious even to doubting Ar-| GESTAPO TACTICS gentines that the Allies would come | Toughest member of the Argen- ot vietorious. \nnc cabal is Colonel Perrone, Min- BEGRPRER A TS “w!mm of Argentine-Nazi punishmen’. rm—m;_zl‘em‘fl dssived. |An anti-Nazi merely sits in the po- Another terrorist member ol D€ lice station night and day for a| new government is Assistant Police week, waiting for the police chief,| Ch‘ief Lu_gones, who under lh\“:whu never turns up. He is not al-| | Uriburu dictatorship was nicknamed | owed to move from the chair for 6 ,"Unburus torture Lugones has| |days. Then he is released. | organized a new Gestapo which \fl\ Meanwhile, foreign utility com-| ‘pennmm the cafes that it is un-|panies have had to open their books | The revolution was ¢pgineerd !ister of Labor, who has now abol- within & few hours, with the loss of |ished labor thirty lives. The Army simply took |concentration command. The men who led the Army were, almost without excep- tion, friendly to Germany. Many them had been educated there. An|tion even greater number had been care-. fully cultivated by the Nazis. ‘And what most people don’t know in the newspapers. is that many Argentine Army Col. ficers, paid meager salaries, of- unions and established camps for political, e religious and labor prisoners. Argentine and labor leade i‘used the foreign utilities as their|Nazi regime which has gone ber- of Who continue any subrosa oppos to the government are to these camps without trial |news of their disappearance appears | Perrone once gave an inter- had'view to a Chilean safe for | Government. Pro-Nazi Argentine poiice have| Lib- | special whipping boys, and confined No his office for ten days, after which | he was ordered to stay at his home for another ten days. were lodged against him. newsman in boerrowed heavily from German friends. Some of them, though not pro-German at heart, were subject- ed to blackmail and threat of ex- posure regarding these debts unless they played the Nazi game. | _ ACROSS . S| “F | . Egible tuber PLACE OF REFUGE FOR HITLER?| 1F :f,‘;g-,l;‘;, Sk One theory which cannot be prov-| . Moving wagon ed, but which is believed by many - SASEIRPARE diplomatic observers, is that Hit- (A o ler's gang for years had worked to; i un" oq build up a place of exile for them-| [‘“md sgain selves in case of defeat. After the . Army officer fall of Stalingrad and then Tunisia, : SRINY ocsan they began to see defeat staring | them in the face. That, therefore,| was the cue to move in Argentina.| But what can be proved is that| concrete Nazi plans had been made | long ago to seize the oil fields of Patagonia; also that the crew of | the Graf Spee had special truimnx;‘ and instructions to infiltrate into| Argentina for revolutionary purposes in case of naval defeat Spearhead of pro-Nazi ludexshlp in Argentina is General Vasilio Pertine, who served as Argentine military attache in Berlin during the last war and was so pro-Ger- man that he offered his services o Germany and they were accepted. | Since then, he has been president| of two large German companies, Semma and Afa Tudor Varta. Today, under the revolutionary regime, General Pertine is Mayor | of Buenos Aires, which, because so| much of Argentina’s population is concentrated in this one city, is the | second most important post in the country. Also, you can see General Per tine's car parked outside the Ger-! man and Japanese Embassies sev- eral times a week. He is one of the close personal friends of Baron ‘Tomii, the Japanese Ambab.sadul',l salt . To a polnt . Government grants . Hold a session in ltaly . Kind of wood . Note of the scale ning to mountains . Converse . Native tin dioxide . Conjunction 47. Photographic instrument 50. Composition for one IPA“IP. pallid . Mol . Réceptacle for flour Two executives of Electric Bond| anyone to criticize the 1o Argentine inspectors, in one case| as far back as 1912. This is only a part of the new serk in the pampas, and whose gold- sent | the head of one Swiss company, m‘the U. S. Treasury is trying to per- |suade Secretary Hull to hold here. |So far, Mr. Hull has permitted six No charges}gold shipments to leave New Or- | leans. (Copyright, 1943, by United Fea- ! ture Syndicate, Inc.). | e KINY PROGRAM SCHEDULE Monday—Afternoon and Evening News Rebroadcast. 5—Musical Matinee. 4:30—Downbeat. 5:00—News Rebroadcast. | 5:15—Sports News Rebroadcast. 30—Christmas on the Moon. 5—Your Dinner Concert 6:00—Lone Ranger. . Flithy Act out of sorts Allow ’ . The Emerald DOWN Isle 1. Winglike 2. Strong wind 8. Strive to equal or excel 4. Oriental banjo- like instru- ment . Organ of flight . Come in . By Samoan sea- port . Gastropod mollusk Vessels for Golt club . Transoceanic telegraph . Foreign . Burning . Lamb's pen 0 or . Female sand- pipers Purpose 0—Easy Listening. 45—Coca Cola Show. 7:00—Bernhard Levitow Orchestra. 7:15—Standard Oil News. 7:30—Duffy’s. 8:00-—Suspense. 8:30—Great Gildersleeve. 9:00--Gay 90's Revue. 9:30—Gems in Music. 9:46—Alaska Line News. 10:00—Capitol Three, 10:15—Harry James. 10:30 - Melody Round-Up. 10:45—Spotlight Bands. 11:00—One Night Stand. 11:30--8ign Off. Tuesday—Morning and Noon 7:30—Reveille Rhythms. 8:00—News Rebroadcast. 8:16—Morning Thought. 8:30-—Gay 90's Revue. 9:00—News Rebroadcast. 9:15—G. 1. Jive, 9:30 One Night Stand. 10:00—Cub Reporters. 10:15--Harry James. 10:30—Melody Round-Up. 10:45 - Mid-Morning Matinee. 11:00—Music We Love. 11:30—Music Rebroadcast. 11:45—Between Bookend Rebroad- cast. 12:00—Sound Off. 12:15—Song Parade. 12:30—Alaska Federal News. 12:45—Personal Album. 1:00—Off air until 4:00. DECEMBER 20, 1923 Complete local returns from the Seventh Annual Roll Call of the American Red Gross, which ended a week previou showed a total of $729 from renewals and new memberships in the chapter, according to a | statement by W. S. Pullen, Chairman To start its work as a training ship for Indians in this section of Alaska, the supply ship Boxer of the Federal Bureau of Education, was to sail from Seattle within a few days, according to advices received here. Four-year-old Charles Jenne had the tip of his middle finger on his left hand nearly cut off while playing around a dresser. Several drawers fell out and caught the lad's finger cutting the bone and flesh clear through. The severed part of the finger was bandaged and it was expected to grow into place again with no harmful effects the S. and Mrs. Elmer Reed Reed was Chief Deputy U An eight-pound girl was born to Mr previous night at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mr Marshal. The Juneau High School and the Grade School were to begin the Christmas vacation December 22, returning to classes on January 2 Mrs. Grace C. Botswick, Alaska representative for the Fuller Brush arrived the previous night on the Northwestern and was visiting her daughter, Miss Lovice Bostwick Andrew Nerland, former Representative in the Territorial Legislature from the Fourth Division and Speaker of the House in 1921, visited local {friends for a few hours while the Northwestern was in port. He was enroute to Seattle to spend a few months low, 36; rain Weather report: High, 38; it e i ) Daily Lessons in English % .. corpox ) This B e s WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, is a vulgarism. Say, “Not by any means.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Dictator. with aceent on second syllable. OFTEN MISPELLED: Condescend. Observe the SC SYNONYMS: Responsible, accountable, answerable, amenable, liable 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: FRAILTY: state of being easily tempted; a moral infirmity. “May we always look upon the frailties of others with the same eyes we look upon our own.” “Not on your life.” Preferred pronunciation is o Q. What should a girl do if she is visiting friends in a strange city, and there is no one at the station to meet her? A of a policem: Q. How A. They may be separated, peeled the fingers. Q. When written? A. Within a few days after Christmas. , and conveyed to the mouth with should the “thank you” notes for Christmas gifts be Pnl.’bol( and LEARN? GORDON S e ) 1. What three States in the Union are the largest in area, named in order? 3 How many inches are there in one meter? Who was President Wilson’s first Secretary of State? When did the Boston Tea Party occur? In what country is Sonora a State? ANSWERS: Texas, California, 39.37 inches, William Jennings Bryan. December 10, 1771. Mexico. INWAR <=, AS IN PEAC and Montana. bank is pledged to conserve- tive openstion. The of deposicars’ funds primary comsideration. addition, the bank is ber of Federal Deposic ance Corporation, which sures esch of our depositors against low s ¢ mazinum of $5,008. : IN. THIS BANK ARE INSURED First National Bank | 5 i “of JUNEAU, ALASKA * « wiM il FEDERAL DEPOSIT k=SUlAHC= eQIPOlA'lOn ) C. A. 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