The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1945, Page 4

PAGE F OUR Publ COMP. Second HELEN TROY MONS! DOROTHY TROY LINGO WILLIAM R. CARTER - - ELMER A. scept Sundey bY the D(ul AlashuEmplrv Juneay, ik more is available to 6] power and likewise j especis 1ly low income groups to increase purchasing increase production of goods. In other taxes a to bring more taxes into the tr | for good words, seing reduced in order - President asury Vice-President | “Editor and Manager | Managing Editor | Business Manager | Veteran Benefits 10N RATE! Delivered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.50 per month; six months, $8.00; one year, §15.00 | the following rates: By mail, postage paid. s One year, in advance, $15.00; one month, i nee, $1.50 Subscriber of their papers Teiephones: News Office, 602; Business AL REPR! X Seattle, Wash. reau_as Second Class confer a favor if they will promptly notity | the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery OCIATED PRE: cclusively enti Matter. | It is good to Baruch has e oW T e, $7.50; | TePOrted to Senator Edwin C that “in the | | main the pro 15 enacted by Congress for American 1 comparable programs in > United more liberal ths countries.” ey ought to be, | veterans | the othe OIilos, Si% 5, | States is the wealthiest of the nations considered in | the Baruch survey and hes probably sufferc Lonudled o the ute for | economically, from participation in the war. Mr the ocal news published | Baruch's report, another in the series of useful studies Sy __|he has made respecting veterans' problems in the Alaska Newspapers, 1411 | reconversion period, compares the benefits accorded | veterans under n major programs in Allied — | countries—Austr Cans New Zealand, Afri nited States. American benefits are the Union of South The by no means the most | liberal in all categori In respect to mustering-out payments, for example, we stand at the bottom of the ist We give discharged servicemen who have had i more than six months’ service a flat sum of $300 if as been spent overseas, $200 All the other | portion of their time | if they served only in his country countries studied by Mr. Baruch maintain a graduated scale discharge payments based upon length of | service and to some extent upon dependency. In [C‘nmdu and New Zealand, these payments average { more than double the sums granted over here It does not seem to us, that the com- parative smallness of our mustering-ot pay necessarily of howevor, The first reduction in Federal income taxes since 1929 is going to hit next Tuesday and no one seems the least bit excited. Yes sir—Secretary of the Treas Vinson was the first in his position to propose and get | the mo Andrew Mellon ears ago. hard thing to accomplish a tax reduction since Congress with such a plan 16 Reducing taxes is a vel It is easy to. point out that low tax rate: bringing about the great amount of industrial activity to put American business back groove. on a sound basis cease to borrow money, activity solvent, and what it collects. would at first seem the best However, by repealing the excess profits tax onf corporations, which were enacted as a nece time measure, and reducing corporation taxe: tions are given a greater incentive which will result in a larger volume of business and more taxes in the | And this is one objective of the plan. On the other hand, in order to sustain industrial | the government must be | cease to increase the | national debt, reduce the spread between what it spends | jijysory advantage of And for this purpose higher taxes ‘rn]vrnwnh any niggardli s or even any iciency in | our veterans' program. As Mr. Baruch warns, none of | the facets of the program can be appraised independ- ; each merges into the others. We do rather er than our allies when it comes to unemployment benefits and to educational allowances. And we provide generous arrangements for hospitalization and went pensioning of disabled vete But to most servicemen, no doubt benefit desired is fair economic opportu instatement laws of other countries, observes, “seem more explicit than our: assure the veteran the same rights that been his had he stayed on the job and not | the service.” It seems to us, as we ha ccasions, that this is all that can reasonably and justly be assured to servicemen. And the attempt of our own, Se lective Service director to give them the “superseniority” can lead only to before thl— princi are fine for | countries would have into the normal who stayed at home. The test of all these guarantees to veterans lies, of ary war- ' course, in their application. They must be implemented corpora- | by vigorous administration, by a real will to give them practical effect. The key to such administration, as Mr. Baruch himself pointed out long ago, must be the single, unforgetful mind” under which he envisaged for corporations, | ! frustration and to needless friction with fellow worker: i jof envy i entered | > noted on other | | scope for 1946 w |advantages to the nation e o December 20, 1945 e o o Elmer J. Jacobsen W. L. Grisham Charlotte DeLaney Claude Mun: George E. Sheeper December 30, 1945 F. Mo; Alvera Roberf lla Bates et Fowler Cummins Da Kenneth Kearney Helen F Fogarty ° . ° ° ° ° . . ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° . . . D "HOROS COPE ‘The stars inc but do not compel” il “MBER DEC 30 SUNDAY ts dominate today. favorable to should bene- 1y of an event= Benefic aspe ne morning hours are ospection. Chu fit on this last Sun ful year. HEART AND HOME Older members of the family are under the best planetary influences. Aquarian influences which mark the close of older careers will favor those near the end of their journey. BUSINESS AFFAIRS Great promise is seen in the horo- iich will bring amaz- opportunities and There is gn, however, which warns and jealousy among form- leading maritime powers. ing commercial an evil s er NATIONAL ISSUES In the struggle for adequate pay. persons who laber with their hands and brains will fail to estimate the cost of technical training and pro- S 1) bevause of Miofe lhoome the coordination of all effects to integrate veterans |occional education. Lack of under- larger payrolls and larger gross business for the|intg the social and economic life of the country. We |gianging will create conflict between country have had no such mind at work. It remains the!poun classes of earners Also, by reducing taxes on individual taxpayers, | veterans' greatest need. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS on fire by invading Poland and|tain two (2) to four (4) Hamilton | Failure of Japanese and chjn;:u;x rhe waShlngton ofter Hull nhad appealed against|standard ‘Hydromatic' (full-feath- [to acknowledge their defeat will b the sale of even “airplane ma- | ering) propellers, which would also | MOr and more evident, 'LL. seers terials” or “technical information” | necessitate an export permit, for predict. This means it will take al Mel'l'y- GO 'Round to the Japs: delivery approximately 120 days |least fifty years to er e, thelr “lt 15 possible that we may be|iTom recelpt of order. We (]unu1‘”2::’:(‘7:5“:\“;““\‘(‘: e O el (Continued from. 'Pagé ‘One) " |able to obtain, the release of the | $HIT cach Ipcluding 5 per centl, © urv of a year of hard work | complete radio installation from | disconnt for you- |with good rewards. Women will be to feel the lash of public opinion.|the allines and the Western| *“We also have available in stock fortunate in home matters. had Electric Company. This radio in-|for immediate shipment with air-| Children born on this day prob- He knew that Cordell Hull just appealed to all patriotic U. S. plane manufacturers not to sell planes to Japan and if there was to be any public: presumably he wanted it to come later. But what Douglas did not rea- lize was the possibility that his company’s letters to the Japs later | hood of $13,500 or would be seized by the U. S.| Government I have now read and photostated much of that correspondence. It | old it shows that Douglas not only the DC-4, but the DC-3, and shows that Douglas was Japs, cooperation. eager beaver as far were concerned. For instance, Douglas was just here is a letter anxious | gines, to do all sorts of favors for |he\mrplanc. that can be purchased despite Hull's appeal for no|for an price on these two (2) engines will as the Japs| be $16,200 each. from Douglas Vice-President V. E.' Bertrandias, dated May just as the Japs were shocking the civilized world by unmercifully bombing defenseless Chinese cities. The letter shows that the Douglas firm was even giving the Japs “confidential” information which would permit the manufacture of U. S. planes in Japanese plants. The letter, addressed to Chief Engineer Nakagawa of Showa An craft, who had just been insy ing the Douglas piant, said “During your visit to the factor; you inquired as to the shop mar hours necessary to build a DC- We pl to transmit, here- with list of the DC-3 and of form 62-12, giving the actual hours for the construc- tion of 25 DC-3's. We believe you will find thi te interest. Our y request t you consider this informa- tion confidential as we are not in the habit of supplying such data to anyone. The only reason that an exception was made in your particular case is that we feit it would be of definite assist- ance to you in setting up your production program.” The author of the President Bertrandias, made a major general by the U. S. Air Forces, always intimate with Douglas. As Bertrandias makes only, too clear, this “confi- dential” information was to en- able the Japs to “set up their own production program.” Again on Aug. 21, 1939, Douglas firm wrote Mitsui, which was acting for the Jap Government in the purchase of the DC-4, giving helpful hir other supplies they 12, 1sed ion are is ti letter, was later the s or could and should buy, especially two Pratt-Whitney engines. Pratt- Whitney engines considered the ultimate in ai ft engines and could be used for either com- mercial or military planes ’ Here are the helpf suggestions which Douglas made to Mitsui in late August 1939, just as Hitler was getting ready to set the world 1938, information of very'! Vice- | stallation has been built especially | for the DC-4, and considerable ex- perimental money has been spent gear wheel at $499.99 and nu»(‘ wheel at $483 (less tires and tubs in its development. It proved very| Also two (2) brake drums at $: successful during its test flights|each. These prices include 5 per and has many new features. The | cent discount for you. development cost was approXi-| .pf tne questions of propellers, mately $25,000 and I am of the cpgines and opinion that we could obtain this {, your clients, please advi P radio installation in the neighbor-|g,on as possible. We also $14,000. T can- not confirm this price to you at the moment. “We also have available two new Pratt and Whitney 2180 en- same as installed in the engines be handled direct between ()| with United in order to avoid complication regarding the possi- bility of obtaining export permits. immediate delivery. The net|asch case appragches the delicate question of export permits, the im- plication being that it can handle this delicate matter.) Unfortunately, Douglas was not the only U. S. company which magde money at the expense of the nation’s security. Other revelations regarding these pre-Pearl Harbor sales will follow in later. (Copyright, 1945, It would necess tate our obtaining an export permit for these engines, which we would apply for if same could be done for shipment with the airplane. “The prices quoted above on radio installation and engines are without dliscount for you.. “The same question arises with mgard to pmp(llms We can ob- By Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ACROSS 35, Fleur-de-lis Equality 37. Spoll Placed cargo g5 Brownle aboard Fuh ohE 29. Deed 2. Seaweed 40. Dethrone 3. Nimble 43, Exist Unclose: Lift poetic Kind of dog . Extend over . So. American 6. Small house bird Entanglo 50. Offer to pay Public speak- 51 Allowance for er changes 20. Tractable . Broadest 22 Masculine tle of Mo name hammed 23. English school §7. Sofa 36 Allows” 59, Philippins . The plc! mountain S ¥ i Enithe oy olution Of Yesterday's Puzzle . Ancient Scan- GL. . A dinavian 62 Stripling s ?i‘:_’l:‘k 3 deng . Bo erse Small barrel . Wise men [ . Edible seaweed Pool: Scoteh Omit in pros nouncing Signifies Supreme au- tharity Jewel Nerve network Head coverings Depression be- tween moun- tain peaks Arctic Heather Not exclting Open-handed vlows 5 sroup Roture stand c peopie City in Okla- homa Hang down ndards of fection Feminine name Covering for the face Medicinal plant valk in water . Uit caviry in'an ore de- posit radio are of interest on the planet Earth which has sur- uggest | world history. that the question of propellers and | your firln and Douglas and not ¢ | (Note the adriot way Douglas in | this column be ;um augury of a most year planes, one (1) each main L\m]u\x,-hmlv will be brilliant and affection- nd high inclined to selfishness self-distrust They will win place by sistence. > but As the y: |vived the most terrible period in HEART AND HOME 'amilies which celebrate the arriv- of 1946 come under a fortunate sway if they realize the sacred meanings indicated by the stars and conform to the spiritual influences, BUSINESS AFFAIRS The coming week will be a time for conferences and preparations for great business progr . and read- Jjustments. Early frustrations or de- lays arg forecast, resulting from slow procedures in Washington. | NATIONAL ISSUES | Whether to accept opportunities for careers in Europe or Asia will of paramount concern to our most brilliant men and women. The ers prophesy early returns are probably for those who go abroad. FOREIGN AFFAIRS Rivalries of ambitious Army per- sonnel may serious in their cen- |sequences, astrologers warn, since ‘lhcy may cause misunderstandings |in the United Nations. Persons whose birthdate it is have important in their achievements. Suc- cess and happiness are foreca Children born on this day may be talented but more anxious to make a good impression than to werk hard. Personal appearance means too much to many Capicorn adoles- cents. 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Smith was returning to Ju after a trip south y a visit with his daughter, Mrs. J. T. in Los Angeles, Mr. and Mr m Guyot left for Seattle on the Alaska Juneau Filipinos we tc observe Rizal Day with an appropriate program in the A. B. Hall Masons were making plans for a reception on New Year's Day. Presbyterians were making plans to erect a new building after their church had been virtually destroyed by fire “laus the previous night ¢ children were visited by held in the Moose Hall MGaos Douglas Eagles were to give a New Year’s Eve Party. Weather report: High, 36 ot A e e e e et t Dally Lessons in Eng!'(h W. L. GORDON WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do collgge next year in spite of everything.” to college next year.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Cuneiform (the shape of ancient Pronounce ku-ne-i-form, U as in CUBE, E as in KNE! as in IT, O as in OR, acéent on second syllable. 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