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PAGE SIX (et VETERAN ! % \ { L WASHINGTON Judging letters coming in, a lot of veterans and their wives and families want to know where they can get a copy of the GI Bill of Rights. In Con- gressional lingo, this bill is known as the “Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944." ~ Sometime it is refer- red to as Public Law 346. It got to be law in June of 1944 Well, anyone with a spare nickel can get a copy of the GI Bill. The government maintains printing office here in Washington, and one of its main functions is the distribu- tion of governmental pamphle laws and stuff to inquiring citizens So write the Superintendent of Doc- Government Printing Office, Ask for a copy uments, Washington 25, D. C. of the “Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944” and enclo: 5 cents (stamps are OK). You should get it as fast as oevrcrowded mails will al- low. But please don't ever recommending it, bec; it makes mighty tough reading. The dope is all there, but unless you're fond of puzzles it’s hard to find. However, if you have insomnia, you can read over a couple sentences of the Bill and itll work ketter than a dozen sleeping pills. I'm warning you it's full of tections and subse tions, chapters and tit*®s and par You can’t avoid thgm, and since there’s no x youlwe got to wade through. The Veterans’ Administration has put out a fairly complete though little kncwn pamphlet called “Vet- erans’' Benefits”. This is a better bet, in a way, because it has an in- dex and it incldes rauch more than the provisions of the GI Bill. It's a 106-page job, which attempts to give all the dope about veterans' bene- fits 'way bnck pAaL the Spanish- PAN AMERICAN MAKE FLIGHTS DURING WEEKEND A Pan American World Airways’ slipper brought the following peo- ple to Juneau from Seattle on Sat- urday: Marie Lilleston, Helen Long, Norman Stines, Esther Caro, John Bishop, Feggy FElefson, Severin Ferche, Bernie Schroeder, Eunice Legan and Cecil Arnold From Fairbanks Elizabeth De- Armand, Angeline Thach, Patricia Thach and Robert Thach From Whitehorse: Thomas and Scott Riley, Qutgoing pa ngers to Seattle were: Lt. Harold Gooden, Jack Carr, Arnold Watson, Harold AKkin, Kenneth Irving, Ella Magz Irving, Mildred Schnieder, Hawley Dudley, Mary Dudley, Jon Dudley, Esther Wallace, Robert Nunner, William Garrison, Joseph Jarvis, Brown, Ella Gulick and Jane sena. To Fairbanks: Muriel Simpson To Whitehorse: Regina Garey, Mildred Cohen and George Legg. Sunday, passengers from S Seattle re fellows L Thrallkill, accuse me of Gillis Mas- James Dodson and v 1 e s e ) SAMPLER 101653 famous assortment of best-liked confections here direct from the makers --81.50 @ £7.50. BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. “The Rexall Store” § ] from | | culation GI| | should Edward 5" GUIDE By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAL B et | American war. T gues to the Civil war. This booklet costs 15 can get it by writing the ment Printing Office, “Veterans’ Administration let No. 44.” fusing—in fact it's a mess. long sentences. One I noticed, by picking up the pamphlet and thumbing through it, has eleven lines of close type—all one sentence. Another on the next page has eigh- teen lines from the first word to the period. I'm told that the thing never was drawn up for general cir- anyway, but it's available if you want to send for it. But there are many other sources of information for ex-service people who want it. The Red Cross for one. Your nearest Red Cr Chapter thing wants to help you. The Di cents. You Ask for abled American Veterans, American g Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are well organized. They have “posts” scattered locally across the land and th advise veterans. You don’t have to belong to these outfits to get infor- mation from them. And there are the Veterans' Ad- ministration regional offi locat- ed all over the country, ere you be able to get hope—plain, everyday w in—I lan- guage If you don’'t know the location of the nearest VA representative, look under “United States” in the phone book. ask at the post office, or wr the VA at Washington. It's alway: xl idea to know where the nearast VA guy is Some day you may want to see him in a hurr Of course, there’s at legst one e service man —me— who thinks the easiest way is to keep on these articles Marie Ejprton Andresen, Irer 1 Geor| Frank Falk, Vanderlip, Keith Wildes Carr, May Carr, Carl V., Angus Gair, Wesley , Lunsford Fra Harold P ttle-bound passengers Helen Martin, Tom Smyth, Frank Stone, Estelle Stone, Melvin Massena, Richard McKelvy, Marion McKelvy, Henry Scike, Dor- othy Soike, Arlys Holt, Ruth Meeks, Emil Akridge, Richard Hill, Ralph Lloyd, Albert Lanier, Willlam Wells, Irene Walker, Phillip Bertholl, John | €scort carrier, Rubye Rott-| fc Merrill, S luff and J To Ketchikan To Whitehorse: and Scotty Riley, To Fairbanks: Forrest Pitts. D NORTHLAND FROM SOUTH; TO SITKA The Northland a d in Juneau| yesterday morning from the South with the following inbound passen- rs: Lewis Anderson, Arthur Robert D. Deckert, Frank Mrs. Dan Ross, Master John Taton, Gilmartain, anley « Harry Enstrom Oscar Engelbrekt, Mrs. Oscar | Coastal Airlines from Excursion In- and Miss Marie Troch- | let Sunday and is a guest at the Engelbrekt, im, Frcm“Ketchikan: Mr. * F. Kane. From Wrangell: William McAllis- ter and O. A. Soderstrom. From Pe! burg: Carl Carlson, I. Igtanoc, Mrs. John Carter and Mas- ter John Carter, Jr. Leaving later were the following beund for Sitka: Mrs. Leslic Grove, Mrs. Elizabeth Basco, Bortha Basco and W, E. £OR. Hendrick- o ARG SERGEANHRAW[EY FROM ENGLAND ON VISIT, SISTER HERE| Mrs. Jessie McCrary, manager of the local Sear-Roebuck office, is en- joying a grand reunion with her brether, Sgt. Lonnie Frawley, day furloug. Sgt. Frawley has been with Eighth Air Force stationed in Eng- land for the past two years, and the least he can say is that he is most happy to be hcine again. >oe — Want-ads bring results! . Empire Just Received A Large Shipment of COFFEEMAKERS CORY GLASS Four, Eight and Twelve-Cup Sizes ALSO SPARE BOWLS +* Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Phone 616 and Mrs. B, who/ arrived in Juneau yesterday on a 30- | the | it goes back Govern- | Pamph- | Unfortunately it’s con- Many | just | It e eager and able to information | reading | Kenneth Moores. | escorts, I EA [ | Jean Grove,| W { | | | | i takon over THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA SWITCHBOARD TO HEADLINES - Mrs. Mattson originally took over ience up to that time had been lim- the paper for the duration, but her called into the Army two itcd to folding papers on publica- husband was killed last July in Mrs. Mattson added his job as|don (l ay, she and a girl assistant FEurope. editor and publisher of the Hold-| Marcella Zimmerman, have carried She is shown above oiling the press ingford Herald, a weekly newspaper, on all the work ever since. They (left) and opesating the village to her work village telephone |solicit advertising, collect and write switchboard, a strategic spot for 1lth!~<md np rator. 1(*\\&, set t}r and plim. the paper. gathering news. JAP FLEET 'Ju HOLDINGFORD, Minn. — When Although Fker newspaper exper- er husband, Walter R. Matt ‘JuniorAxis' H ERRIOT IS ISPOUNDED Nations Are WITNESS IN TONOTHING Designated PETAIN CASE Four Hundred Nlp Surface Senators Ask for Economic Craft, Including Baftle- | Pressure on Spain, ship, Destroyed Argentina (Continued from Page One) NGTON, July 30.-Des- e Spain and Argentina as the Axi Senators ‘Ball (R and Magnusen (D-Wash onomic pre re might restor government Says Roosevelt Offer- ed Fran(e Aid jrom Page One) (Continued cribing Junior Minn) Roosevelt material felt sure end disposal and I come when ted States Harbor,” ed it Communiques of Admiral Nimitz nd General MacArthur, the Allied cn-to-Tokyo Commanders, listed ter ships sunk, three probably sunk, and 16 damaged Saturday 3 cluded: k—two batiles thitd previously sunk at Ku cruisers, three submarines, and one subck o, Probably sunk—One cruiser, one subchaser. one returning airman call- o the ded wot the day ad Ur the war. cnfidence.” The court ar aile s voiced their views ir ram Saturday night, 211 said a six-month embargo on Argentine trade might lead to col- lapse of the Peron government. He also called for a halt to the 45,000 tons of oil he said is being shipped to Spain each month from the United States. Magnusen proposed matic tics until the rid the he that sessions M( ause the 89- was umom. thL‘ one de- ye: ! Ms from a throat TAKING WAYS A flaxen-haired boy had such a about him that i GIs couldn’t resist the ion to bounce him on their one one escort destroyer Damaged—One carrier, 12 destroyers or two submarines Other ships bombed ineluded a number of freighters freighter-transports. In addition to the shipping toll the week-end American and British planes destroyed 143 Japanese aircraft and damaged 145 Nearly 600 B-20s returned safely Sunday morning from setting fire evering diplo- two coumtrics | ments M\m y Fasci t" iewspapermen Enter : Vienna with Troops 2 o s swein ke | driver, after playing with the nine- VIENNA, July 3$.—aAn American year-old child for a while, discovered |to six cities which the Nipponese Prass convoy entered Vienna for the I 1, pencil and ch 'had been warned were marked for first time teday in the the vanguard gox Military polic destruction. Five more cities re- ¢f a U. 8. cccupation 2 of 4 boy a search of his pockets un- main on the first list. prgximately 5,000 men. | covered eight other pens, six pen- -oe The U. S. troops will participate | cils, two watches, thre> billfolds and STROM IN TOWN with Russian, British and French|a hoard of other loot lifted from the troops in the occupation of the city. ‘ unsuspecting Americans. British and French Press convoys | - o entered Vienna, from \\luch; MOLYNEAUX HERE they hitherto have been barred un-| Jack Molyneaux, of Seattle, der Russian occupation. s I’\IN\ /\'!\Hl 1 d nd and Ar Ivert S. Strom arrived via Alaska Baranof Hotel. guest at the Gastineau Hotel. JUNEAU WELDING & MACHINE SHOP Are Announcing Exclusive Dealership for GRAY MARINE ENGINES ATTENTION Now is the time fo place your engine FISHERMEN orders for the coming season. ALASKA DISTRIBUTORS Edco YELLOW Shieided Phospher Bronze Electric Welding RODS MARINE SUPPLIES GRAY MARINE ENGINES — sales and service Former French Premier| had| he; into | had no right to betray such; suffering ! were | » picked up the| North Sea Goes South The Northland Transportation, Cocmpany's North Sea returned to, meau Scuthbound from Sitka yos- at approximately | TRANSPORTATIQN € OM 14 AN | cn Purser Littlehale’s list | s follows: R. B. Wurster, Mrs. ‘R. B. Wurster, A. E. Oswald, John Nyman, C. Herendeen, Mrs. C. Her- endeen, Mrs. V. Hunkins, E. Fran- leis Hunkins, Vernon Hunkins, Mrs. J. Blackwell, T/4 Leo Aulich, T/5 Donald Croll, T/5 Thomas R. John- son, Cpl. Seymour Friedman, Pfc. Fred J. Upton, Pvt. Glen Zieger. | M Virginia Newmarger, Cather- ine O'Connor, Ted Richards, Jene Haas, R. B. Shepard, Mrs. R. B. Shepard, Marguerite Shepard, M Rhea McFarland and Mrs. Alida Matheson. Leaving at 2 p. m. were the fol- lowing, who were Seattle-bound: Wm. F. Mowre, Sgt. Phillip Lentz, M. E. Helm, Ole Moland, Sam Ja- kobeen, Knute Tviet, Mrs. Margar- et Dickey, Mrs. Jessie H. Dunphy, Paul Hart, John F. Raskop, Harold Swap, W. G. Thomas, Mrs. W. G. Thomas, Mrs. Bertha McLaughlin. Henry Meier, Mrs, Henry Meier Miss Erna Meier, Mrs. Betty John- | <on, Pennie Johnson, M. P. O'Bragdy, Matilda Johnnie, John Alden Brown, Don Bennett, Frank Raff, Mrs. Willis Svendson, Mrs. Lina Overson, Gaylord Westby, Melvin Westby, Lt. H. E. Molton and Donald ’E Powell. o Ketchikan: . R. McNutt, Joe Green C. R. Robinson, Hanna and Leona Smith. To Petersburg: Mrs. Helen Kos- ky, Mrs. H. A. Dedman, Elizabeth Ann Dedman, Mrs. L. H. Hancock, Mrs. H. Berg, Sandra Hancock, Mrs. Dorothy Johanneson and J. E. Jo-, hanneson. | To Wrangell: Mrs. C. C. Mundy. | — S —— — .- K. R. McNutt, Mrs. John Hendrickson, i Gene FERN'S PORTRAIT STUDIO A photograph captures forever the beauty of the bride on her wed- ding day. We will take all your wedding pictures. PHONE SECOND STREET B e T S Y 567 | | \Expansion of Air Transport System Is fo Be Studied WASIHNG[‘ON Julv 30.—Possi- bilities of expanding the air trans- port system of the United States to include the greatest practicable number of small cities and towns| will ba studied by a Senate inter- state Commerce subcommittee dur- ing the summer recess. | A resolution to record Congress as | favering such expansion has been! intrcducted by Senator Magnuson (D-Wash). 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