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PAGE FOUR Daily Alaska 7Em};ire Published every evening except Sunday by the r EMPIRE PRINTING COMPA! Secoud and Main Stress ¥res Alasks. APLEN TROY MONSEN - - - - Prestdent | DOROTHY TROY LINGO - - - Vice-President WILLIAM R. CARTER - - Ed''or and Manager ELMER A FRIEND - - - - Managing Editor Business Manager ALFRED ZENGER - - - J Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; aix months, $8.00; vear, $15.00, e paid, at the following rates: six months, i nce, $7.50; dvance, $1.50 ibscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the de- livery of their papers _Telephones: News Orfice, 603; Business Offlce, 3. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or nat other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news puhlished herein NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bide., Seattle, Wash. | lAIi(‘)R L.\\\ S For ten years American labor relations have been governed basically by the Wagner Labor Disputes Act of 1935, Under ghis law labor has been guaranteed the right to strike, employers have been prohibited from inerfering in union activities and the National Labor Relations Board has seen to enforcement. The premise of the law, stated in its opening phrases, is that béfore the act was passed there existed an inequality of bargaining power between labor and management which worked in favor of the latter. . Under the Wagner act labor has made its greatest gains. From 1934 to 1944 membership in the principal labor organizations increased from 5,550,000 to 14,- 300,000. At the end of its first full nine years the NLRB had handled 67,494 cases, supervised 19,014 elections on the question of union organization. Most of these elections—13,042—came in the last three years as the drive toward union organization was stimulated by wartime working conditions. Manage- ment protested that the law stacked the cards in favor of labor and expressed fear that with the lifting of wartime controls there would come violent industrial difficulties that would seriously disrupt reconvegsion. Congress now has before it a bill calling for a comple@ overhaul of the Wagner act. In the eyes of | labor, the new bill would mean abandoning the original | premlse'f that labor's bargaining power was unequal. | The bill was sponsored by Senators Carl A. Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico; Harold H. Burton, Re- publican of Ohio, and Joseph H. Ball, Republican, of Minnesota—the three Senators who with Lister Hill, Democsat, of Alabama formed the B2H2 combina- tion which last year took the lead in pledging the Senate.to a liberal international program. The bill's prlncip!l provisions would: (1) Bar strikes and make arbitration compulsory in disputes affecting public utilities or public services such as milk, coal or oil. (2) Make the Wagner act ban on unfair practices apply to unions as well as management. (3) Permit a “closed shop”—in which union mem- bership is a prerequisite for employment—only if 75 ' per cent of the workers were members of the union and 60 per cent of them ratified the “closed-shop” demand. | suicide, or to achieve the same effect by a banzai ! charge, rather than surrender when his position be- | several indications recently | field officer who had hidden out in the hills with his |men also took that same course. | Stent (the Marine colonel to whom the surrender was | | asking himself whether these merely are isolated cases !inspired. Enlisted Japanese soldier captives have said i that many of their fellows were inclined to surrender | the sponsors’ asnmm to “avert the senom a:.ncer of a knock-down, drag-out fight between manage- ment and labor in the immediate post-war perfod.” | Labor denounced the proposal. Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, said, “It tears the heart out of the Wagner act, the Magna Carta of Labor.,” William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, called it a “strait- jacket for labor.” Whatever such legislation might do it is apparent that we are in for a great deal of labor unrest as industry reconverts to civilian production. High over- time checks will disappear and there will be more unemployment. In the years before the war 2,000,000 unemployed for any one year was not an alarming figure. A month ago we had less than 800,000 un- employed in the United States. Japanese Surrenders (New York Times) One of the things about the Japanese soldier which the American opposing him has found most difficult to understand is his inclination to commit In this respect there have been that perhaps a change of mind is developing among the Japanese. On June 12, in Burma, the British report that an officer still well supplied with machine guns and ammunition surrendered himself and twenty-one of his men. On Luzon the Thirty-seventh Division re- | ported a prisoner bag of 609 in thirty-six hours. The ! Navy now has revealed that on Guam a Japanese| came hopeless. He is quoted as telling his detachment when they marched in to lay down their arms: “I am turning you over to Colonel made). You will be treated well. You are now pris- oners of war. It is not a disgraceful state and you are not to regard it as such.” Every officer of command in the Pacific must be of Japanese officers reneging on the “Code of the Samurai” or whether it is sympomatic of an altered thinking of many Japanese. From the early days of the first captives taken by our men it has been obvious that much of the fanatical banzai charging and mass suicides, such as on Attu, were officer- in hopeless situations but that their officers would | not let them do so. Many of the prisoners captured on Guadalcanal were from units that had been de- serted by their officers, or whose officers had died before they started for the American lines under white flags. Early captives all were surprised when they were not tortured—although all denied they ever had been told in official orders that would be their fate—but they also were unanimous in saying they could not return to Japan, that they had disgraced their fam- ilies in placing their own lives above that of duty | to the Emperor. That, however, was when all Japa- nese soldiers were convinced that Japan was going to | win. It may well be that stories of Japanese reverses have now seeped back down to officers and men alike, and they have come to doubt their country’s eventual victory. The dishonor that attached before to sur- render may have lost some of its potency. The experience of the hour truce recently on! Okinawa would seem to belie any idea that the officer | surrenders in Burma and on Guam and Luzon were | more than isolated incidents. Less than a dozen| Japanese were reported to have surrendered in re- sponse to the Okirawa offer. However, the total of 1,680 captives announced for the Okinawa campaign, even before the recent truce, is large by the standardq| of other campaigns against the Japanese. It is too early to draw conclusions from these small figures. It can be hoped they are a trend. It| would greatly simplify the campaign against thel Japanese. The experience on Guam, where the sur-| render came after the fugitive little group had an| ample opportunity to see how well Americans treated | their captives, would indicate the possibility that a redoubled campaign to get over to other Japanese this intelligence might bring large dividends. Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Ribbentrop—all spelled This program was described by Senator Ball for The Washmgton Merry - Go - Round + | “essential” | aren’t sometimes cuses for keeping padded. For, sharpl scaled down. Ther erals in the Army them lieutenant (Continued from Page One) nounced lits demobilization plan on colonels captains before the war. listed men are wondering whether and “military necessity” if the Army is cut too a large number of general| | with a small “i,” but they seem to have overlooked it. e are 1,600 gen-"wim Truman to Berlin. Hearmgw today, many of | this, Morgenthau decided it was‘ or even|time for him to move in and find And en-|out where he stood. . . . Actually, Truman wasn't ready for Morgen- thau's resignation, had wanted him to stay on till V-J Day, though he| always wanted Vinson to be his convenient ex- Army manpower . Morgenthau has just about | cpposed | loans” eventual Secretary of the Treflsury.[ May 12,it set up the 85 point re- quiremerft for discharge and also announced that a revised figure officers will be retired. This view | does not make for morale, but un- fortunately it exists among enlisted completed a sizzling book on our post-war policy toward Germany. A lot of ears will burn if he finally would be given within 45 days or by June 27. It is now July 14, and millions *of men are still waiting for that announcement Meanwhile more headaches, heartaches and resentment have; developed over discharges than al- most anything in the Army. Some of this is unavoidable. Some, on the othet hand, seems due to Army inefficiency, including the amount of discrdtion allowed individual of-| ficers ar{d units , the Air Forces set up a separate demobilization pro-| in some areas, and at Las Nev., began releasing young gram Vegas, officers by the hundreds. There was | lieuten- | such a surplus of second ants that those with only 42 points were let out. First lieutenants with! only 58 points were discharged,! and cagtains with only 70 points were pemmitted to leave the service. Meanwhile enlisted men who still need 85 points to get out are burn- ing up. Part qf the ministering the sults from the fact that e: manding officer the right to reject a man's application for dis- charge—po matter how many points ad- re- irregularity in point sy: has he has—by declari him “essen- tial.” Obviously certain key tech- nical men fall into the category and cannot be spared. Also it is much more practical to use train- ed veterans than to break in new men. However, there resentment from battl d erans with points galore, some whom féel they are kept in the service because of some gripe or prejudice on the part of command- ing officers. increasing et- of TOP MANY GENERALS An unfortunate attitude also growing ;among enlisted men that the genarals don't want the Army!| | men. decides to release it. . Pains-| | One thing which G. Is can’t un-| taking Brig. Gen. George A. Hor-| derstand is why the Army, when kan, commander at Camp Lee, Va., fighting a two-front war, was wil-\has a mania for neatness. He keeps ling to release a man over 38 if|the post spic-and-span, has been | he had a war job; whereas today, | with only a one-front war, the Army has upped the age limit to! 40. | Another thing the Army can't known to stop and pick up a cig- | arette butt. The other day, however, | about 100 men were food-poisoned at the mess. . . . Secretary of Com- merce Henry Wallace, now 56 years adequately explain is why they've|old, has just qualified for a private establiched so few Separation Cen-|pilot's license. Dissatisfied, he has | ters to handle discharges, and why|begun studying radio in order to one of them, Camp Dix, N. J, is so|qualify for a radio operator's li- | poorly run that it was recently sub- | cense—-necessary before he can fly | jected to a complete mvesugalmn'n larger plane. That is his next by the Inspector General's office. ambition . ... Correction: In pay- One group especially restless are!ing tribute to the commanding of- the limited service men—men with! ficers of the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, | physical infirmities, who were which helped rescue the wounded |drafted for non-combat service and | airplane carrier Franklin, this col- hence can never go abroad to roll|umn recently listed the Executive up discharge points. They are at| Officer of the Pittsburgh as Com- the bottom of the discharge bar-|/mander Rivers instead of Rivero. rel and probably can’t get out un-|Commander Rivero is one of the til the end of the war |few Puerto Rican naval officers in the U. S. Navy. An Annapolis graduate, he is extremely modest, retiring, and a brilliant officer. As for the Army to solve. Actually,|previously reported, he remained 37 though’ they aren’t announcing it,| ! hours on the fantail of the Pitts-| Army personnel experts are Work- yuyop “watching the towline which ing on a new system, but it's not|, . ) brought the Franklin out of 1ange likely to hatch until the end of "‘9;0[ Jap planes. summer or fall. Meanwhile the dis- RS LR Obviously, these are complex| problems and extremely difficult charge snafu continues. { U NDER THE ME Note—One thing that especially! i gripes enlisted men is that, while Release of a group of interned ¥ supposed to write to| Nazis in Cuba last month has been ssmen, the brass hats 6p up to Capitol Hill in droves and even maintain a special lobby- followed by a flood of anti-Semitic propaganda, particularly in Havana. Falangist elements in Cuba are co- ency in Congress to convince cperating. . . . Because of an old| paper. egislators of their own effi- verbal agreement that the British| —adv. ALASKA LAUNDRY, Inc. clency. were to have first call on eggs ex- e o e — ported from Argentina, the Dairy| « NOTICE! CAPITAL CHAFF land Poultry Branch of the War| Not responsible for any debts One off-the-record *factor which Focd Administration says U. S. im- brought the showdown on Morgen- porters should keep hands off Ar- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]UNEAU AI.ASKA @ o 9 o 0 0 0.0 9 0 0 * HAPPY BIRTHDAY /¢ 20 YEA . . [ JULY 147 ‘e . Jean Anderson-Kibbe . . Peggy Houk . . Fred Anderson . JULY 14, 1925 . C. R. Willard . Koski and Bernhofer were starters on the mound for the Moose and 9 b A ®| Elks. The Elks won 15 to 6. Koski was hit freely but Bernhofer worked 4 JULY 15 ® | under wraps and was never in serious trouble. New relief pitcher Hoff- ° M Lew W. Willlams @ ), 1 j0ved Koski in the fourth inning but likewise was hit. . Mds. Robert Hurley . TR e o1 ‘M Anna Winn opened a new hat shop at Sccond and,Seward. ) Harry Hendrickson L] TSR 5 . Beulah Mooney ° Ike Taylor, of the Alaska Road Commission, lefi.‘lur a reconnaissance . Rae Campbell o | of the Nazina and also Chandelar districts. . Clifford Wiley . e arrumma . Mrs. R. M. West . Nincty-one Buchanan boys were touring the city, having arrived on . Bernice Mayburn ®|the P Charlotte. e« ® @ o o o o 0 0 0 0 SUNDAY, JULY 15 not an important day in government. The stars who should gain in religious leader- p'anetary [avor the cler political as ship. HEART AND HOME Women are under a stimulating! planetary influence today which should bring them into close hars mony with all members of the fam-| ily. Evening is most promising to| girls, whose love affairs should be fortunate at this time, BUSINESS AFFAIRS Summer resorts will profit greatly | of persons will forget war restric- | tions and seek neceded recreation. Mexico will draw many tourists. ! NATIONAL ISSUES While the President of the United | States gains in popularity there are| portents of partisan criticism that | should bring ultimate helpful re- the White House at this time. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Remarkable progress is forecast for the rehabilitation of all European countries on which war has wrought | devastation. Britain and France are to lead in progress toward full re- storation of ruined homes and pub- lic buildings. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of advance-| ment toward substantial success. | Women will be luck; Children born today may becomel great in many lines of work. Souls| of extraordinary possibilities are| war. MONDAY, JULY 16 Conflicting planetary influences| are strong today. High ideals are | by desires for material gains. HEART AND HOME | This morning is promising to those who pursue practical plans|® for the welfare of the family. Dif-| ferences of opinion may be definite! in the home but the stars encourage‘ | common-sense agreements on essen- | tial matters. | BUSINESS MATTERS In banking circles “development beneficial to our commerce Portland, o Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon in coming weeks when large numbers | more heavier of the two.” not E incre RAVAGE; desolation by violence; devastation. sults. The stars seem to smile upon 1en their mark.” guest, § b 5. Over 200 passengers were aboard the Yukon which - g tons of freight for Alaska out of Seattle. I H 0 R 0 S C 0 P E Mrs. Dan Sutherland, wife of the Delegate to Cobngress, was aboagd ]4 “The stars 'lflfhne the Yukon enroute to th2 in L”(L____ii 3 : butdon()t compel Plans were laid for the annual Red Cross Roll Call with Willis 3 == | E, Nowell as Chairman of the local drive. single delegation attending the Elks The largest 1 Princess Charlotte orchestra and the local Alaskans were to give a dance for tourists in the A. B. Hall. low, 53; cloudy. Weather repert: High, 60; WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “This piece Omit MORE. OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Tiny. as in SEEN. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Acreage; SYNONYMS: Acrimony, asperity, WORD STUDY: se our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. not ACERAGE. Q. without asking permission of the hostess? A. No. If a guest is visiting you, ask permission of advance, if you care to do so. Q. Is it correct for a weman’s social card to read | Jones"? “Mrs. John William Jones.” y for one to serve vegetables A. The correct form is Q. Is it really necessa A. Yes; a.roast really requires vegetables to accompany it. said to appear as an aftermath of P = 1 L00K and LEARNY et What is an antonym? ‘What are comestibles? What are “analects”? ANSWERS: From 400 to 1,000 years. Charlie Chaplin. A word directly opposed to another in meaning. Eatables. 1 2, 3. 4. 6. Selections or fragments from a literary work. was from Juneau, according to a cablegram rececived. Pronounct the I as in TIME, bitterness, sharpness, unkindness. “Use a word three times and it is yours “Mrs. John W. L ¢ How long does it take nature to create an inch of top soil? ‘Who was the greatest comedian of silent motion pictures? also had 3,200 Convention in of steel is the " Let us Today’s word: “The ravages of time have | MODERN ETIQUETTE *ommmra Lem If one is invited to any affair, would it be all right to bring a the hostess in with a roast? and establishment of financial agree- ments helpful in international af-| fairs will be of paramount interest.; NATIONAL ISSUES | Midsummer amusement activities of civilians will be criticized by Pac- ific fighters, it is forecast, as these | are portents of misunderstanding. The seers warn that V-J Day may be Japanese have great resources. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Russia seems to be under signs that encourage distrust of other| powers. The pursuance of a pro-| gram dictating political conditions m? countries near her borders is in- |spired by aspects that accent Lhc‘ rebuilding of her basic economy ac- cording to her own independent plans. | Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of much travel in the| coming year. They will enjoy changes in environment. Children born on this day will be strongly independent and determin- | ed. Many will be talented but changeable in mood. When strictly reared they should be exceptional in | their success. (Copyright 1945) Ga., was on the spot last week when his colleagues, Malcolm Tar- ver of Dalton, Ga., and John Rank- in of Tupelo, Miss.,, tangled in a |lengthy argument. over the way Rankin had doctored the Congres- | sional Record to make Tarver’s part in a debate with Rankin look fool- |ish. Tarver made a motion to alter the Record by inserting the original | stenographic transcript of the ar-| gument between himself and Rank- in, rather than Rankin’s amended version. When the Ayes were called, | Cox sheepishly rose and started to vote for his Georgia colleague, Tar- ver. But he saw Rankin staring at him, and sat down. When the Nays were called, Cox sheepishly rose, saw Tarver looking in his direction, and sat down. . So he didn't vote at all. (Copyrisht, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) e i NOTICE!!! | Al Alaska Laundry customers are requested to please read our import- ant notice on the last page of today’s |contracted only personally. by ours, selves. thau's resignation was the report'gentine eggs. Representative that Judge Fred Vinson was going' Eugene “Goober” Cox of Camilla,” MR. & MRS. CHAS JOHNSON, far removed from V-E day, for the|- SEATTLE RUTH B. ROCK General Agent—Baranof Hotel OLYMPIC NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY BETTY McCORMICK Juneau Agent—Phone 547 JERRY GREEN “'as a paid-up subscriver to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the day at 8:00 P. M. L. O. Q. F. HALL. 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