The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1944, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire P Ikt et ot |7 Second and Main Streets, Junesu, Alaska. LELEN TROY MONSEN President Entered in the Post Office in Juneau Bs Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RA! Dou, $1.56 per month. the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.80; Yelivered by carrier in Jumean . By mail, postage paid, One year, in advance, $18.i one month, in advance. $1.50. Subscribers will confer the Business Office of any Uvery of thelr papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSGCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for eepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local mews published Berein. favor if they will promptly notify tlure or irregularity in the de- NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Blde., Seattle, Wash. PICTORIAL WAR REPORT The War Department is a 45-minute motion picture summary preparing of the military situation foilowing generally the pattern used in recent con- ferences with newspaper editors, industrial executives and labor and Fort Knox, Kentucky This is a very excellent idea, and it is to be hoped that the widest possible distribution can be arranged for the film At Washington, and later in the fall at Fort Knox, the War Department assembled staff of military officers and others competent to report in detail on the world-wide war situation and the part that the United States is playing in it. They gave such a report, comprehensively and frankly, to the several hundred men invited to attend each confer- ence, along with practical demonstrations of new Army training, equipment and technique Every man of industry, labor and the press who attended these conferences went home with a much better grasp of our war position than it would have been possible to attain otherwise. Naturally, only the War Department can present the entire picture in proper correlation. Yet in the entire exposition there was not a great amount of material which could not be disclosed publicly; its value chiefly lay in its function of fitting together the mosaic of facts about American war strategy and operations. leaders at Washington a twice the annual ! just before the war. ARMY FIRES General Clay wi | his testimony. He Rockwell's Timken Company made | them any other way. Many of those who attended the War Depart- ment conferences suggested later to Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson that some arrangement be made for presenting the report to the public generally, and motion picture is the outgrowth of such sug- gestions. It should be very useful in presenting to the war workers of the nation—and to all who have a part in the war effort, which includes virtually every- ohe—a clear, accurate and comprehensive conception »{ what we face and what we are accomplishing in World War II the The Strange Case of Mr. X (Fairmont, Minnesota, Sentinel) Mr. X, a former resident of this county and a man of excellent character, intelligence, and abil is employed now in another county by a railroad com: pany. He has been so employed for the last 11 vears. He is, of course, compelled to hold membership in a labor union Mr. X has a wife and a son of school age. He’is paid $106 a month, and not allowed to put in any overtime. If he works in an emergency on Monday and puts in 3 hours overtime, he is required to work only 5 hours on Saturday. The 3 hours he is idle on Saturday offsets the extra time he put in on Monday and he gets no overtime pay. M. X is igned to work in a small town. He has been procuring a hovel in which to live for $15 a month. His earnings do not permit him to pay more. Now, even this shelter is no longer available. He must move. There is absolutely no other available place in the village. Mr. X, being obsessed with the old-fashioned notion that a man’s first obligations are to his family, must seck a humble roof-tree for them in the larger city far distant. This necessitates change of employment. Mr. X finds that there is available to him in the larger community not only living space but employ- ment in another essential industry at a wage sub- stantially 40 percent greater than his present pittance. Mr. X cannot avail himself of the opportunity. Who sa The Government of the free country to which he has always given his undivided loyalty. Mr. X finds that if he quits his present job to accept one that is adequate, even though in another essential industry, he is fined $212. That is, he must s s0? lay idle for 60 days before he is allowed to take an- other job. It's even sillier than a fine. No one, no public treasury, gets that $212 fine. Worse than that. Dur- |ing this payless period Mr. X and his family must }'0'1"“"“‘ rather subsist on public charity — either that or decently starve to death. There is little or nothing Mr. X can do about it except continue in his present underpaid job, let his ihouseless family shift as best®they may. Oh, he | might get out his copy of the Declaration and the | Constitution and strike out such passages as these: | “All men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. “Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” “The blessings of liberty “The right of the people to be secure.” “Involuntar, tude shall not ex The present crisis restrains further comment, but the case of Mr. X and others similarly affected shoulc command the earnest attention of those who now |stand charged with so administering public affairs | that free America and free Americans may continue to exist. erage px‘th\!lmands.‘ General Clay continued. “We may in the end be compelled BACK | to sign this contract with ‘Timken as devastating in|sSimply because we must have the pointed out that 800ds and cannot be sure of getting This will be axles for heavy-duty trucks vital to|done only as a last resort.” (Continuea 1om Page One) the Army, and that there were not General Clay also brought out many companies which could man- | that Rockwell, a reserve lieutenant require him to scale his profits ufacture them. down to a reasonable amount. Under this system, some compan- jes, such as Aleoa and Sperry Gyro- scope, have voluntarily returned to the U. S. Treasury around $100- 000,000. Senator George, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said nothing at the time of the above statement, but later he came out in! a speech before the elaborate an- | Senators, “that Ti nu@l dinner of the U S. Chamber | fee for itself of $ of Commerce, for which Alvord|Viding supervision consin Axle other ment.) The plan to take the Army Timken Jobbies so efficiently, and proposed the axles by a subcontractor. same time the subcontractor | the (Rockwell’s Stand: receive a fee of $ alone, “I regret to say been able to get repeal of rerigotiation. Meanwhile, Alvord had been' hammering home the same idea Finally, when the tax bill came be- fore Senator George's committee, he was the first to work hard to| abolish the Army-Navy power to renegotiate war contracts, a power which the House of Representatives already had retained in the tax bill. The debate in the Senate Finance Committee has been spectacular, though unpublicized. Bulky Ten-| nessee mountaineer Senator Ken- neth McKellar, crusader for no profits in war, has plumped him-| self down in a chair right under Senator George’s nose. McKeller! is not a member of George's com- mittee, so he cannot sit on the ele- vated dais. He sits below, square- ly in front of witnesses, where he can cross-examine them on war profits. ACROSS 1. Chance 4 Speak im- perfectly £, Mining car 12. Old musical note . Persian poet . Genus of the frog . Roman house- hold god . Grotte . Chills . Portended . Means of transmit- ting force Strong wind ens. Scotch cake a “ROBBED BY ARMY" One of the strongest witnesses for ending renegotiation was one of tax lobbyist Alvord’s associates in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,! Willard F. Rockwell, Chairman of the Board of the Timken-Detroit Axle Company. He painted a pa- thetic picture to the Committee.| The War Department, he claimed,| had bulldozed him, tried to punish| his company. “Colonel = Rockwell remarked Benator Clark of Missouri after- ward, “wept &ll over the place and! beat his breast, claiming he was| robbed.” | On most Senators he made a profound impression — until they heard the other side of the story.| The other side was glven by Under ry of War Patterson ‘and General Lucius Clay, Army Di- rector of Mateérial. Patterson told the committee that the Timken Company had averaged annual profits of $2,116,000 during the three years before the war. But in 1942, profits jumped to nearly $40,000,000 Therefore, the War Department scaled them down to $4,972,000, which even then amounted to . Bruised by beating (Rockwell is also Chairman of the Board of the Wis- Company, Steel Spring Company, and several firms making similar equip- let it to Standard Steel. demanded profit that the Army balked. “We find,” General Clay vold the Crossword Puzzle | colonel, was sor¢ because the Army had renegotiated downward his | high profits of 1942. Presumably. |that was why hé appeared before |the S¢nate Committee to support tax lobbyist Alvord’s “courageous offensive” against renegotiation. Senator George has now helped insert in the new tax bill a pro- | vision generally regarded as emas- culating renegotiation. It provides Standard was for Timken contract and sub- However, such a high imken proposes a 4,368,000 for pro- and direction of At cial commodities shall not be re- negotiated. Since axles are stand- ard commercial commodities, Rock- well should be happy. Since a great preponderance of what the Army land Navy buy, from tooth brushes |to shoes and blankets, also are standard commercial products, tax lobbyist Alvord - also should be ard Spring) will 6,336,000 on axles that T have not Timken to agree to any modification of its de-, happy. L (Mio]—I"]> . Propleat bird . Mediter- ranean sailing ves- sel . Night before ar event ok vack English river Planet Mixed rain ano 00w Refrain from enjoying Chief actor . Smooth ICI>XI=1Z]> >0 vl DX x| 0lwl> IO T/0|] [O[fo[==1 1| EISND otick Solution Of Saturday’s Puzzle Body of a ship s Born 5 7 Diminutive ending . Preliminary 4. 8. 014 times: poetic DOWN Aid Winglise 4. Camphorated tineture of Has the ability Bamboolike grass Not 0 much 56. oplum . Place . Exact likeness xeept oretold Praire . Blagk snake Anofgt Supp%vu for . Grit v . Obrerve care- fully . Mark of a wound Walking stick Gluts 5 CEomacne . Steps for crossing fences Ih:nl b? ml:’ g5 -shape Fl‘lm‘h annuity Saliors . Early alpha- betle charae- ter . Actual . Transmit that contracts on standard commer- | THE DAILY _ALAsfoMPJRf; JUNEAU, ALASKA...... ) JANUARY 3 Lance E. Hendrickson Walborg Lindegard Yoland Uberti Mrs. Sarah Clauson Mrs. Kenny Kennard Mrs. Aimee Held R. J. Sorenson Walter Watterman Mrs. R. J. Sweet HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” Threatening aspects active today may bring new diplomatic problems to Washington. Public health will require special attention. , HEART AND HOME: Parents of | young draftees may feel much an-| Xiety because of the frustration ,of| college plans. But the seers predict | that the majority of young folk in service are to benefit greatly fromj its discipline. The stars encourage |optimism for Americans. | BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The need for reconversion of certain war in- dustries to civilian needs will reveal | American cleverness and ingenuity. | The stars presage postwar demands for world supplies of furniture and | nouseliold gadgets: they will be ex- |ported in immense quantities. i NATIONAL ISSUES: Young folk {will be increasingly impatient at |any limiting of their wartime free- dom. The planetary influences to {which juvenile deffiquency is at- | tributed will apparently affect boys |and girls even beyond thelr teens. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: iIn‘a recent chart set up for Sweden, ;she is seen in a strategic and dip- than belligerent, | | role. Persons whose birthdate it is have| the augury of a year of fairly good | 'luck. Hasty decisions should be} | avoided. | Childrenn born today should be keen in mind and strong in body. Sudden changes in their careers, though frequent, may be fortunate. (Copyright, 1944) - PATRIOTIC BUSINESS MEN DIFFER | However, many other business rmen are not happy. Many of them believe sincerely that business must not come out of this war with the label “profiteer” pinned on it. One of these is leading Detroit banker Joseph Dodge, a director of Pack- ,ard Motors and the Federal Reserve| {Bank, and a staunch believer in the | profit system. Dodge, however, be- |lieves that, in order to protect that | system, profits must be reasonable, and he has patriotically given his time to head the War Department's Price Adjustment Board, which re- negotiates contracts. | Dodge is a Republican, just as most executives of the War Depart- {ment are Republicans. He has appointed many Republicans and jleading business men to heip him ‘renegenaze contracts, including James MclIntosh, formerly with | Baldwin Locomotive, Philip D. Ar- |mour of the meat-packing firm, {who certainly believes in the profit | motive, John Francis, Cleveland in- dustralist, and John Becker, Cin-| cinnati telephone executive. Thus, business men whose profits are scaled down, have them scaled |by their own kind—not by New | Dealers. Both sides speak the same language. A profit of ten to eleven !per cent is always allowed. Nevertheless, Senator George has now led the way in emasculating the renegotiation safeguard against ;makmg unfair profits out of war. | (Copyright, 1944, by United PFeature Syndicate, Inc.) 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Jive. - 9:30--Ong Night Stand. lo:g—cu R'espo'turs. 10:30—Melody " Re -Up. 10:45--Mid-Morning Matinee. 1 12:00—Sound bl g mpfi:\ News. 12:45—Personal Album. from |20 YEARS AGO #% snerne P S A JANUARY 3, 1924 A heavy gale sweeping the Gulf of Alaska was holding the steamer | Admiral Watson in shelter and hampering the steamer Victoria, making the titme of arrival of both vessels in port uncertain. Harry Kavanaugh, Special Police Officer, formerly connected with the Territorial Prohibition Department, was shot in the back at Anchorage the previous day and seriously wounded by Knik Nikoli. Nikoli, who was recovering from a continued debauch, was instantly killed by Charles Watson, Assistant Chief of Police. With all of its members present or represented by proxy, the Board of Directors of the Southeast Alaska Fox Farmers' Association, elected H. S. Graves, local merchant and interested in the Sukol and Conclusion islands fox farms, President, according to an announcement made this day. Mr. Graves had been a board member since the organization was formed and one of the most active members of the association. Installation of officers was held by the American Legion Auxiliary with Mrs. E. M. Polley being inducted into the office of President; Mrs. George D. Beaumont, Vice-President; Miss Marion G. Ducey as Secretary, and Mrs. J. W. Kehoe, Treasurer. The children of the Sitka schools were in very good health and were | | much interested in the health work being done, according to Miss M. E. Faldine, Public Health Nurse, who just returned from Sitka from a several weeks' visit there inspecting and lecturing to the pupils and parents. A. M. Clare, well known local resident and former Street Commis- sioner, left for Seattle enroute to Portland on a business trip. He expected to return late in the Spring. low, 21; cloudy. 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No; if you need an ash tray ask for one. It is poor manners to use a vase or plate, or anything else as an ash tray. Q. If a girl is introducing the man she is to marry, should she call him her fiance? A. Yes. ot o e e e et PRSI s e 1. Is it lawful to use a postcard for threatening suits for past due accounts? 2. What language is spoken by the people of Brazil? 3. In what form is the largest amount of tobacco used? 4. What people were the first to settle in Delaware? 5. What is the word used to express the internal cubic capacity of a ship? ANSWERS: No. Portuguese. In cigarettes. . The Swedes. 5. Tonnage. THI: management of this bank is pledged te consecve- tive oparstion. 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