The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1945, Page 4

PACE FOUR Daily Alaska Empire Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. HELEN TROY MONSEN - - President DOROTHY TROY L - - Vice-President WILLIAM R Editor and Manager ELMER A Managing ALFRED ZENGER - - Business Manager in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RAT Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Dourl six months, $8.00; onc vear, $15.00. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: six months, in advance, $7.50; tered for $1.50 per month; dvance, $15.00; dvance, $1.50 will confer a favor if they will promptly notity aflure or irregularity in the de- One month. one in Subscribers the Business Office of @ livery of their papers Telephones: News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. “MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ed in this paper and also the local news published | NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 Pourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle. Wash WHAT ABOUT ALASKA? A recent bill passed by the 79th Congress provides for further development in cooperative agricultural extension work by making Federal appropriations to aid the various states and the Territory of Hawail. ' There is no mention of Alaska in the measure which is now law. An additional anpropriatios of $4,.00,000 is made available for the fis¢. | year ending next June 30 and for each subsequent fiscal year with an additional $4,000,000 added for the year ending June 30, 1947, and another $4,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1948. Wage ll‘l('l’EflNe\ (New York Times) Sidney Hillman has called for a 20 per cent in- crease in wages and for a continuation of price control. This wage increase decline in weekly earnings of labor resulting from the reduction of overtime and the gradual elimination would be designed to offset the Ithe record wartime volume of production and the |decline in selling costs. As wartime volume is cur- tailed, overhead costs per unit, and selling costs, will once more rise. A further increase in basic wage rates |of the magnitude suggested by Mr. Hillman, when combined with these other increa in costs, will inevitably necessitate a sharp increase in prices. Attention usually is directed to wartime savings before taxes, to prove that industry has the ability | to raise wages without the need for a price increase Record output rather than higher profit margins has been the main factor contributing to the high level of wartime earnings. The point overlooked, however. is that the factors making for a decline in wage incomes will also operate to reduce corporate in- comes. The most important of these factors will be | the reduction in volume as war contracts are cut back. | If too high a price 1s set on a product it tends to be priced out of the market and demand is sub- stantially curtailed. Because of the emphasis given to the purchasing-power aspect of wage incomes, the fact that labor, too, can price itself out of its market is not as widely recognized. But there is ample evi- dence that this is the case. Wage adjustments whick are not related to increases in labor productivity | must result in increase in costs sooner or later. Therc |15 already grave danger that we will go into the post- ywar period with cost-price relationships that are un- balanced. Further wage increases at this time can only help to aggravate this situation, Aid to Recnnversmn (Washington Post) The eleventh-hour passage of a bill to speed up !tax refunds and credits is designed to improve the " |cash position of businesses confronted by reconversior. | financing. By raising excess-profits tax exemptions from $10,000 to $25,000 it also offers a special incentive to small businesses to enter peacetime production. Senator George estimates that the net loss to ! the Treasury from this lowered exemption will amount . to 160 million dollars—the only “actual out-of-Treas- ury cost not now provided by law that the bill will entail.” Under the bill corporations may take the 10 per cent excess-profits tax credit currently instead of providing for refunds. As a result, the cash position of business will be improved by the noncollection of about 1% billion dollars in taxes in 1945 and 1946 that ‘»\ould not have been returned under the old law for | several years after the war. Moreover, corporations holding postwar refund bonds issued for 1942 and 1943 may cash them after the first of next January instead of waiting several years. Altogether, the speed-up of refunds and credits will add approximately 5% billion :dol]ax's to corporate cash balances during the next two years. As Senator George notes, the only change in ulti- mate tax liability grows out of the increase in specific exemptions from excess profits taxes. The measure is not, therefore, a tax-reduction program but a pro- of other wartime factors contributing In the various demands for overlooked that such (a) the purchasing power of workers is increased (provided employment | precedented figure of 45'% and (b) the cost of production is | less, some industries Although the emphasis is usually given |less well endowed with funds than others. it is clear that the rise in c would attend a large increase in basic wage rates is envelope rates the fact is frequently increases have a twofold effect: is not discouraged), increased. to the former, equally important During the war period the inc unit costs has been obscured and fully reflected in prices because it part by the The Washmgion Merry - Go- Round By DFF‘W PFARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active| service with the Ariy.) WASHINGTON Inside fact that Stalin agreed as far back the Teheran Conference to come into the war against Japan. That was the price he agreed to pay in return for the Second Front in Normandy Churchill was op- posed to the Second Front through' France, but Stalin insisted on it, and FDR threw his weight with Stalin in return for the pledge Japan More recently at Pots- dam, Truman took the whole matter up again with Stalin Chief thing the Russians been worrying on to prepare the Jap war is re-laying the Siberian Railway. A total of miles of track h: one of the biggest, quickest building jobs in history. In return for Russian entry into the Jap war, it was agreed thgt Russia would get Allied military secrets The atomic bomb at that time was only an idea, and no one knew whether or not it would material- ize. As far as can be ascertained, it was not disclosed with the Rus- sians have for ANS- 000 rail- Apparently, the Russians were thinking about an atomic weapon for a long time. Twenty years ago, Louis Lehman, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, went to Utah to invest in uranium mines. He had been tipped oif by his brother, a physicist in r- many, who foresaw * possibilities of pitchuicnde and in- formed his brother ia this country that experiments made it advisable to purchase c¢jions on uranium deposits. The options are be- lieved to have lapsed For some unexplained reason staff of publicity men from Ivy Lee’s public relations office has been quartered at the highly secret Oak Ridge, Tenn, site of the atomic bomb plant for several months . Ivy Lee is the man who largely reversed American antipathy the elder John D. Rockefeller. What he was doing for the Army remains to be There is something awfully funny about the sudden retractior Harold Jacobson's for 10 years human survive in an area atomic bomb, and that rai in that area will poison : ing areas when carried streams. . . . The army's deny the story, coupled w army statement that Dr. Jacobson was bound to secrecy under the Espionage Act made a lot of people examine the facts twice. a for life ruck ot by an The arm, rtdu(unn in u\(xlu».\d is | as | to| .| Had s now been laid, tremenuous gram for facilitating reconversion. The volume of working capital belonging to corporations is now at record high levels. For all corporations, the SEC estimates that working capital amounts to the un- billion dollars. Neverthe- and some individual concerns are And all of them will be much better able to plan for the future if they know that they can count upon getting pos- ‘sesxxon promptly of the cash refunds due them from the Government. By making the cash available when has not had to be | it is needed, instead of some years after the war is has been offset in | over, the shift to peacetime operations will be costs attending | nulmml at very lmlo cost to the (:uvcn\mmt to the pay higher wage s which rease in labor and was obviously reaction worried about pul)hc phone of U. S. District Judge John ‘(,askl(' Collet. Although nothing can be done | BIG GAMBLE PAYS about the air-cooling, a telephone Though a lot of people deserve|h0s now been installed in the urdn for developing the new, Kansas City office of the President | atomic bomb, one man stood above ©f the United States. (them all as the greatest single| it s | factor in its development—Franklin | ARMY HOARDS GI's | D. Roosevelt. | Some of the reasons behind the Only a few people knew the de- War , Department insistence on tails of how Roosevelt approached keeping a tremendous two-front this greatest and most fantastic Army to fight a one-front war, weapon of international warfare.|also behind the sudden scramble | However, when he finally decided for conscription, have become to pour $2,000,000,000 of the na- clearer since Potsdam. | tion’s resources into hundreds uf‘ Brass-hat insistence on keeping miles of government-owned Lu-\mflam busy picking up cigarette tories certain to consume the en-|butts when they have ample points |ergies of half a million critically! to obtain discharge, has been needed workers at the peak of the'puzzling members of congress. Also j war, he was gambling, not only the|it's not generally realized that the nation’s resources, but his own|Army and Navy together plan to name in histor reduce their size by only 10 per the project failed, Roose-|cent during the coming year, de- velt would have been the goat. The spite the new atomic bomb, de- vast plants in Tennessee and|spite Germany’s collapse, and de- Washington state would ve been'spite the fact that it is a physical offed at as “Roosevelt's greatest|impossibility to transport such a white elephant.” Political oppon- |large army to the Pacific. ents could have used it to keep, The June strength of the Army, the Democratic Party out of power| ————— % * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945 e ® o0 0.0 00 0 0 AVUHIAI AddVH 1945 o o ® August 13, L. J. Jewett Rudolph Tencich Mrs. Newton Young Mary Schnamen Samuel Fein Mrs. M. J. Whittier Daniel Morris Margaret Maland Dorothy Lewis Connie MacLean | ® e 00 0.0 00 0 0 D e Do e 5 Sl o HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” ——— Tuesday, August 14 Uncertain planetary conditions affect the earth today. Good news will dominate all minor interests. Heart And Home After the domestic uncertainties due to war many families wiil have difficulty in settling into routine tasks. Summer weather will affect nerves to an unusual degree. For many reasons women of all ages must now exert the utmost self- control. Business Affairs | Despite government vigilance, black markets will flourish. ’I’he} autumn food situation will be even| less satisfactory than it has been, but common decency should preventy illicit buying. i National Issues | Increase in crime will be marked in coming weeks when the de- structive psychological forces of war will show their effects on| civilians devoid of moral fibre. Jails will be overcrowded and ef- | forts to segregate juvenile offend- ers should be unremitting. International Affairs Japanese propaganda must completely eliminated from the news services of the world into which it percolates from the global network of its great em of mis- information, the seers emphasize., Secret channels of information will continue to exist long after United Nations’ victory is won. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of many pleasures. They should avoid reck- less spending. Children born on this day prob- ably will have noteworthy car(-ers.t be Extraordlinary brains and clever- ness in the use of unusual intelli- gence promise great success. (Copyright, 1945) immediately after V-E Day, 8,300,000 men. Between June and June 1946, the Army brass hats plan to discharge approximately | 1,300,000 men. But, meanwhile, Gen. Hershey has announced that the Army plans to continue drafting; men at the raté of 100,000 per month, which, in 12 months, means an additional 1,200,000 men. This is something the Army has not explained. For, unless this policy is changed, the army by next June will be about the same size it is today. | All this is why Senators and Congressmen have been blowing off steam in recent weeks. Even staunch Democrats are beginning to admit privately that perhaps Governor Dewey's campaign was 1945 charges about keeping men in the . Army after the war were right. D The U. S. Coast wuard was founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton to combat smuggling. The Coast Guard has saved more than 200,000 persons from death at sea. for a decade. { ched Nor is the " man hardest project it generally known that who prodded Roosevelt | ACROSS to undertake the atomic| 1. Study ect - was _another “star-gazing s Een official, former Vi President score Henry Wallace. Wallace was the| 2 Wing i y i 3. Aftersong missionary for the project, one of| the few key men in government| who understood the theory of ‘the | atom and who, as a friend of | the world’s greatest scientists | spurred Gen. Marshall and war agency heads into speedier action. Note—Incidentally, it was Wal- s dreamy-eyed experimentation Ww.lth a new type of corn that will give the world 400,000,000 more bushels of corn to feed the hungry this year. So perhaps the pot professors” and the * eyed dreamers” Roosevelt brought to Washington were worth while after all . Makes uni- form . Faint . At home . Put forth . One of an anclent race . West Indlan address t . Danger . Kind of lettuce . Asiatic peninsula 20. Coarse 2. Dry . English school 5. Lampoons Attack . Entreaty . Susplcious: slang Behold Staft ree . Legislative bodies . Metal . Californfa rockfish . Snapshooters Apart Manner . Masonie door- keeper Cover . Artifictal lan- guage . Call forth . Preceding night KC OFFICE Truman’s friends in Kansas City are hoping that he gets all his work in good shape before he comes out to Missouri again; because if he tries to work his Kansas City office, it will TRUMA? President M Crossword Puzzle b2 [m( <[P} [w[m/w o] | |0/ m] 4[] —[ Al | m|miea] B> 0| ORL DEERE GLEE Solution Of Saturday’s Puzzle . Masculine nickname . Restrain . Snug room DOWN Barrel . Medley . Told . Mend . Imitate . Rowan tree Ancient Roma'tf official . Common informers . Nuts . Biblical Judge . Main point : Silkworm . Masculine nickname . Seek laborl- ously small twig Singly Prophets be hot Truman's two-room suite on the sixth floor of the Federal Building in Kansas City happens to be one of two offices which can't be alr-conditioned. The building’s air- ditioning system can't be hooked up to these two offices However, one other tachment hitherto now been remedied a telephone oughout all his career as a Senator, frugal Harry Truman never had a telephone in his office in the Federal Building. Instead, | he stepped next door and used the office at- lacking, has Slur over Large volumes . Come In . Shinped out of the country . Parflr‘ularlzed and come plete 9, Treland . Furnishes a crew for . Flunter . Closer . Artless . Brother of Abel . Assistant . Long narrow opening . Plunge inte | Whittier and their daughter and son, 20 YEARS AGO %7 eupine e e e e ittt AUGUST 13, 1925 Juneau visitors included two Congressmen and the U. S. Com- missioner of Fisheries, making up a Fisheries Investigating Committee. The Coast Guard Cutter Bear, which had run aground in the Arctic, was reported to have reached sheltered anchorage at Capt Prince of Wales, only slightly damaged. The Juneau Fire Department was host to ball players, Territorial, civic and league officials, at the second annual Baseball Banquet, held rear of the Reliable Transfer building. Julius Jensen, former Douglas merchant and pioneer resident of the Island, returned on the steamer Northwestern after several months absence, mostly spent in California. in the ' Glen Kirkham and J. M. Cramer left Douglas aboard the latter's boat Perseverence for a day’s fishing at Turner Lake. A St George M. Simpkins announced removal of his Alaska Bindery plant to a new location in the Studebaker Building, next to the First National Bank building on Front Street. Some 200 Elks and their ladies attended the monthly social given the previous evening by the local lodge, following the regular weckly meeting. the season in Lynn Canal. M. S. Whittier, Deputy Collecior of Customs, accompanied by Mrs. Mary Jeannette and Judson, re- turned to Juneau on the Queen after making the round trip to Skag- { way and Sitka. P Daily Lessons in English % 1. corpon P R e e e e e ] WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “He hollered for help.” Say “He shouted, called, screamed, yelled.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Culinary. Pronounce ku-li-na-ri, u as in CUTE, both i's as in IT, a as in MAY, accent first syllable. f OFTEN MISSPELLED: Government. Observe the N, not GOV- ERMENT. SYNONYMS: Companionship, friendship, fellowship, association, in- timacy. WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: ANIMADVERSION; remarks by way of criticism and usually of cen- sure. “He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp ani- madversions,”—Clarendon. T~ et i = MODERN ETIQUETTE *koprrra LER ettt ittt e e e Q. Is it a cause for annoyance pronunciation of one’s name? A. Yes, it is, but a well-bred person will not show the annoyance. If possible, one can tactfully correct the person if the error is repeated. Q,’ When a girl is giving a party, and one of the guests brings 2 box of candy, should the candy be passed around? A. Yes, it is the only generous thing to do. Q. Is the formal or the informal type of entertainment the greater pl ent to the guest? " The informal entertainment. lOOK and LEARNA C. GORDON . ‘Whatv proportion of the world’s improved highways are in the nited States? What are the five human senses? ‘Where are the Thousand Islands? What Indian chief was the father of Pocahontas? Are people ever killed by hailstones? ANSWERS One-third. Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. In the St. Lawrence River. Chief Powahattan. Yes. Let us to have someone give a wrong JOHN OLSON as a pald-up susseriver to THY DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE is invited to be our guest THIS EVENING. Present this coupon to the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: "MRS. PARKINGTON" Federal Tax-~—11c per Person TRIPLETTE & KRUSE BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING SHOP PHONE 9% After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge @Nm A210.0.F. Meets each Tues- day at 8:00 P. M. I.0O. O. F. HALL. Visiting Brothers Welcome GEORGE CLARK, Noble Grand Wartfields’ Drug Store (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM The Sewing Basket BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska DR.E. H. KASER DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A.M.to 5 P. M. Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TE CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 460 Dr. John H. Geyer VENTIST Room $—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 762 ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Optiialmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground "“The Rexall Store"” Your Reliable Pharmaciste BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. HARRY RACE Druggist “The Squibb Store” The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Pourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 WINDOW WASHING RUG CLEANIN SWEEPING COMPOUND FOR SALE DAVE MILNER Phone 247 FOR TASTY FOODS and VARIETY TRY Gastineau Cafe Foremost in Friendliness PHONE 14 — THE ROYAL BLUE CAB C0. and an insured cab WILL CALL FOR YOU and RETURN YOU to your home with our compliments. WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! IN WAR S IN PEAC pa— DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED v First National Bank of JUNEAU, ALASKA water Paradice . Plece out MEMOER FEOERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION INSURANCE Shattuck Agency Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. ZORIC SYSTEM CLEANING Phone 15 . Alaska Laundry MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 SECOND and FOURTH Monday of each month in Scottish Rite Temple beginning at 7:30 p. m. E. F. CLEMENTS, Wor« shipful M JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secre! e GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 920r 95 B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every second and fourth Wednesday, 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLM- QUIST, Exalted Ruler; H. L. McDONALD, Secretary. | FLOWERLAND | CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES Funeral §, ind Wi 2nd and Fra P"HV' % "-'I'Mh ASHENBRENNER'’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES’—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Third ——— “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNN» & MARX CLOTHING CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478 — PHONES — 371 High Quality Foods a¢ Moderate Prices PIGGLY WIGGLY For BETTER Groceries Phene 16—34 JUNEAU - YOUNG | Hardware Company JAMES C. COOPER, C.P.A BUSINESS COUNSELOR Remington Typewriters Sold and Serviced by J. B. Burford & Co. “Our Doorstep Is Worn by Satisfied Customers’ “Say It With Flowers” but “SAY IT WITH OURSI” Juneau Florists Phone 311 1891—0ver Half a Cenfury of Banking—1945 The B. M. Behrends Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS