The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX GEORGE BROTHERS PHONE—WRITE OR WIRE YOUR ORDERS 2 FREE DELIVERIES DAILY! The Best Cash Grocery inJuneau NUCOA-Pound 1t Pays to Deal With George Brothers! SUGAR- 3 @-pound bag We Reserve Right to Limit Quantities! Spedial 25¢ Spedal 7 1¢ SOYABEANTOAST-package - Special 29 Gecrge Brothers Save You Money! CANDY BARS 36 Varieties. Special, carlon Q8¢ TOILET SOAP-WhiteKing- 5 bars 2 5¢ Phone—Write—Wire George Brothers! CHEESE-Kraff's 2 pound brick-Special 8 9c Pay Cash and Save—Phone 92-95 FLOUR-Hardwheat, 49 Ib.bag Special 2.69 Special Cash Price—Phone 92-95 Mission Orange Juice-Spedial gallon $3.45 Makes 5 gallons of juice. FRESH VEGETABLES—Lettuce, Celery, Parsley, Tomatoes, Avocado BEER es, Squash, Carrols ———BEER OLYPMIA - - (ase$4.15 EASTERN - - (ase$B.75 CHAMPAGNES — Domestic and Imported from $2.95 1o $12.50 Bottle 2 FREE DELIVERIES DAILY! PHONE—WRITE OR WIRE YOUR ORDERS GEORGE BROTHERS LARGE GAINS IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS NOTED Payment of more than $155, 000 000 in monthly benefits and large gains | in the social security protection ac- quired by the nation’s workers mark- | ed the 1943 developments of the Federal old-age and survivors insur- | anpce program, established under the Social Security Act. It was the sev- enth year of the program’s opera- tion, and the fourth year since monthly benefits became payable. “Although it is still in its infanc; the Federal old-age and survivors insurance system is already one of the vita! forces bolstering the wel- | fare of American families and the economic life of the nation,” said Hugh J. Wade, Director of the local Social Security office in Alaska, in a year-end roundup of activities. The number of people old-age and survivors insurance monthly payments in the nation increased from 587,000 at the begin- ning of 1943 to 750,000 at the end of the year. The $155,000,000 paid to these individuals was $33,000,000 more than was paid during the pre- ceding year. The estimated total payments to retired workers in 1943 were $83,000,000; to wives of retired workers, $13,000,000; to children, $32,- 000,000; to widows with young chil- dren, $17,000,000; to widows and older, $10,000000; to aged parents about $600,000, receiving | | In addition to the $155,000,000 in ’mm'lhl) benefits, about $18,000, 000 1\ as paid in lump-sum payments 165,000 persons, including Ndows under 65 without young children, | widowers, children over age 18, or |parents of the deceased worker., Lump sums are payable only in | | cases where an insured worker is| not survived by a relative who can qualify for immediate monthly bene- | | fits. | In the Alaska office, as in the other 434 offices of the old-age and | survivors insurance system, the year 1943 was marked by unusually num- erous requests for social security cards from boys and girls, women, older workers, and others not ordi- narily employed. | Most pronounced trend of the year reflected by this program was youth's “pitching in” to help with wartime work. During the first six months of 1943, for example the number of young applicants—those under 18— increased 46 percent for the nation |as a whole compared with the same period a year earlier. The number |of women applicants increased 48 percent over, the same period; ap- plicants past age 60 increased 58 percent. A total of 3076 social secur- ity cards were issued during the year by the field office. ‘The Social Security Board recom- mended in its annual report to Con- gress in 1943 that military service, as well as farm and household work, self-employment, jobs in government organizations, and in educational, religious and other non-profit in- | | stitutions be covered under this in- surance system. Spokesmen for civic | organizations and organized labor ll\"u also urged Congress to extend | this protection to the 15 or 20 mil- lion now excluded. “We are looking ahead to a busy 1944,” said Mr. Wade. “With Am- erica’s industrial army now at near | 1 ak, the number of applicants for !social security cards probably will deuease Should there be a decisive | !\umm, point in the war in favor ‘of the Allies, probably many older \workers will retire, either because ;they wish to or are no longer able |to work, and then they will claim their old-age benefits. Roughly 600,- 000 persons now 65 or older are eligible to claim retirement benefits as soon as they stop work. An addi- tional 60,000 workers who had prev- iously retired and claimed their ! benefits are now at work again and have had their benefits suspended. One of the big jobs of the system now is to keep the social security accounts of all workers up to date and accurate so that benefits can be paid promptly when claims are filed either by workers themselves or by the families of workers who die.” REVEREND MATTHEWS ON ALASKA MERIT COUNCIL Secretary of Alaska K. L .Bartlett today anounced the appointment of the Rev. W. H. Matthews, Jr, as a member of the Alaska Merit Council. The Rev. Matthews replaces Cur- tis Shattuck, who has resigned. ———————— GUEST AT BARANOF Here from Ketchikan, May JAllen is a guest at the Baranof, b THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA NEW ANGLE IN SELLING 'Brooks Hanford Swings New Scheme and Reg- isters with $1,000 There’s always another angle. ‘! i { That’s something for the numer- ous Gastineau Channel Fourth War |Loan Drive salesmen to keep in mind. | This week one of these salesmen | illugtrated that individual initiative and enterprise as practised under| American Democracy can be used to sell bonds—and, of course, the| bonds sold will help guarantee the| continuation of that initiative and| enterprise. WARBONDS "‘Heuvenly Body‘,’ Here’s the stor in ‘Juneau a few days ago, our| salesman collared a number of men working on the ship and sold them | Series E bonds. All he used was an {idea of his own and a little per-| | suasion, | ] By his efforts the Juneau Rotary | Club got off to a good start in its {campaign to outsell every other |organization in Juneau, for the | salesman was Brooks Hanford, Ro- y's bond drive chairman, whose, resulted in sales of approxi-| | mately $1, ooo | ADM. HALSEY IS HERE FOR CONFERENCES Predicts There'll Be Litile Celebration Where Tokyo “Was” LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7. — When | | American troops get to where | Tokyo now stands, there’ll be “a| |little celebration where Tokyo was,” ];nys Admiral William F. Halsey, | Commander of the Allied forces n the South Pacific. The comment prefaced Halsey's appearance at the Army and Navy | war conference which begins today | with discussions by General Henry | H. Arnold and other military offi-| |clals and West Coast civic and busi- | ness leaders. The sessions conclude tomorrow. Holding his first press conference since his secret roi n to the main- | |land on New Year’s Eve, Halsey re- fused to predict when the Tokyo celebration will take place, declar- \.ng he had done so once on New .me s Day, 1943 when he said the Japs would be defeated in 1943, but | speaking cf his operational areas hr' added: “We have the finest representa- tives of American manhood ever tassembled. They're fighting as one team.” { Halsey told reporters he w:shedi he were an orator to do justice to the Marines and Seabees. The Na- tional Broadcasting Company an- nounced the Admiral will speak over| its network at 6 p.m. PWT tonight from Hollywuod ALASKA COASTAL TRIPS ARE MADE | ' TO SITKA, INLET An Alaska Coastal Airlines plane made a trip to Sitka today with| J. Anderson, V. M. Meacham| and John Cushing. Passengers on a trip to Gustavus were A. W. McLain, C. A. Mickle, and Earl J. Flakne. On another flight the plane took Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Harold Taylor and S. S. Ju- liessen. One person, G. R. Isaak made the trip to Excursion Inlet. Nati Forces May Withdraw, Russian Front STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7.—Dispatch- es from Berlin received by the newspaper Svenska Morgonbladet quoted the German military spokes- man as saying there is a possibility of the German Army forces being withdrawn entirely from Russia mn face of what he declared appeared to be a giant Soviet offensive along the whole front leading from Lenin- grad to the Black Sea. T i IMPORTANT NOTICE !!! The Alaska Laundry office and plant will remain closed for re- mainder of this week to finish work now in plant. No personal laundry or dry cleaning will be called for or ACCEPTED IN THE PLANT dur- ing this period. adv, When a certain steamer docked‘ Z |to organize in revolution. MAYBE IT'S COINCIDENCE, but Film Star Hedy Lamarr posed for “leg art” for the first time in her Hollywood career while she was working on a new picture, “The Heavenly Body,” at M-G-M. The legs in no way mar Hedy's glam- or, either. (International) Death to All Germans Who Tryto RevoII‘ STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7.—Signs of flagging morale in Germany brought a wave of death sentences making it impossible for any group Christer Jaederlund, Berlin correspondent of the Tidningen said in a dispatch. “The collapse on the home front| could be precipitated by a doubt as to whether to go on fighting but the doubters will be punished by death,” he wrate and told of numerous ex- ecutions in recent months. Jaederlund said that frightened | Germans were quieted and defeat- st talk made people suspicious of one another to overthrow the Nazis. He added that “a real revolution must be organized but the German | people are stripped of ail possibili- ties of organizing a revolution and one leading Nazi -who is close to| Hitler told men that only the Hi!-l ler regime has a possibility of or-! ganizing a revolution.” FRIDAY JANUARY 7, 1944 Open Letter On more than one occasion recently, one of our com- pefifors has referred o some Juneau grocery merchant as "Imitators” and as dispensers of ““cheap” foods. We realize most level headed persons know that such ‘statements are only the squawks of a disgruntled competitor whose prices on identical articles advertised have been cut. We don't know whether our store is the one referred to; nev- ertheless, we have underpriced identical aticles sold by our squawking competitor, and we believe such may be the canse of the complaint. But, as Al Smith used fo say, ““Let’s look at the record.” We buy the very best foods obtainable, We add a fair profit o everything sold. WE have complied with OPA rules and regulations. Never, o our knowledge, have we quoted a price in excess of OPA ceiling prices; and we have never had a complaint from the OPA or a consumer of an excessive price being charged. Bur motto during 25 years of food refailing has been, First: Fine clean foods; Second, Reasonable prices that are fair to the consumer and o the merchant; and Third, Good, clean courteous service. Perhaps we should ignore the petiy events leading up fo this message; but we feel that the public of Juneau, and paricularly our customers, are enfitled to know the facts. Our husiness has grown and prospered; and satisfied custom- ers have made both possible. Thank you. BERT McDOWELL among draft eligibles concerning | pre-induction examinations at least whether they are physically accept- | 9) days before induction date, and AbIb fyri servics, And. Hil I bro- doing away with all post induction vide a minimum of thre weeks’ no- % | tice before induction, has been an- | furloughs, now three weeks for the army and one week for the navy. nounced by Selective Service Head-% 21.DAY NOIICE ‘ The new system does not apply quatiers o 4 to registrants ordered to report for This was done by abolishing Lhe‘ induction berore February 1. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—A p]an’mesem system of “screening” exam- e for eilminating the uncertainties inations by local boards and gwm;; BUY WAR BONDS Have a Coca-Cola=Wacko, Digg wee0r how to make a bhit in Australia When friendliness takes over, you find the spirit of cooperation, of “Let’s work together for the common good”. That's the way it works between Australians and Americans. Have “Coke”, says the Yank, and the Aussie knows he has a comrade. From Adelaide to Altoona Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes,—has become the gesture of the friendly. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY- OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY JUNEAU COLD STORAGE CO. er! (OKAY, CHUM) It’s natural for popular names to acquire friendly abbreviations. That's why you hear Coca-Cola called “Coke”. high-sign ' © 1943 The €€ Co,