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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-26
HOROSCOPE "The stdrs incline
 but do not compel"
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27

This is an unimportant day in planetary direction. The morning hours are favorable for average ac- tivities. It is wise to follow routine work. Deception and even treachery may be encouraged under this con- figuration.
 Heart and Home: Women will benefit today if they concentrate upon tasks for which they are eS- pecially fitted. Campaign activities should be successful if limited to social contacts. There is a good sign for romance. Girls may expect suc- cessful elimination of summer flir- tations. Engaged couples, however, will find that, owing to national events, separations will be frequent and marriage dates postponed.
 Business Affairs: While the stars do not encourage investment in new enterprises, except those that are government sponsored, prosperity will be marked Summer travellers are well directed and transportation companies will profit. Aviation will continue under the most stimulating planetary influences. An accident or disaster is foreseen for a United States warship.
 National Issues. Drafting Of money as well as man power for na tional service will become a major issue with strong bearing on the presidential campaign. Some sort of contention regarding the relative value of airplanes and Warships will be influenced by an event which proves unfavorable to the Navy Acl tual entrance into the world war is to be decided by events not votes.
 International Affairs: Survival of the democratic form of government is to be jeopardized by secret means as autumn begins. Hidden agencies, long, foretold by astrology as being most treacherous will continue to affect trade and commerce. Certain persons of royal blood will become puppets in the game of postwar reconstruction next year, it is prog- nosticated. The stars encourage sus- picion among dictators who will break pacts with one another in the future. The war will not be drawn out through long period, 1t is fore- cast, although it is to undergo many phases.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of advance ment. It is well to use all energies in securing competence.
 Children born on this day will be vigorous, dynamic and independent. They will be gifted and may be in- clined to have critical point of view as they mature.
 Copyright, 1940)
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looked: Major Paul McGahan is an earnest and devoted American Legionaire.
 Some years ago he donated to the District of Columbia Legion beautiful cup c"Why, it cost me 80 bucks" he says, "and that was Wholesale) to be given each year to the post gaining the most members. s
 This year the cup was won by the Police post and Major McGahan was asked to present it.
 After properly lauding the post for its fine work, McGahan merely handed the Police post commander a sheet of paper and concluded:
 T can't tell you how happy I am that you have won this honor, but if you want the cup you'll have to go out and find it. It was stolen last night"
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LOOK and LEARN 4Syy c. GORDON

  9 What of S element? Iaed of France? U. S. port is foreign  ANSWERS: religious educational Hermitage Hydrogen
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State Department reprimand He is now running for the Senate.

State Department reprimand. He is now running for the Senate.
 Same recipe apparently may be followed by John Cudahy, Ambas- sador to Belgium, who rode III high spirits through his White House reprimand the other day, and is being urged to run for Gov ernor of Wisconsin.
 In fact, the President himself, before the spanking was over, urged Cudahy to run.
 Cudahy went to the White House feeling he had been wronged by the State Departments reprimand following his press interview in London. On the way. he said to friend, I've got to hurry. I'm going on the carpet at two' Then he added, But I'm not going to be made goat of, can tell you"
 When he walked into the Presi- dents office, the President opened with: John, let's forget all about this business, shall we?" But Cu- dahy rejected the pipe of peace. "Oh mo-" he said, I've been done a wrong here, and I want to set the record straight"
 Then the President made the point that Cudahy was not recalled. but merely brought home for con- like Tony Riddle or Bill Bullitt.
 Still Cudahy was not satisfied. No" he insisted. I'm under a cloud and I've got to be vindicated"
 After the two men talked for an hour and half Cudahy came aut authorized to say that he had 1ot been reprimanded and that no 'eprimand was intended. This much ne announced to the press, but what he did not disclose was that he President had urged him to run Or Governor of Wisconsin.
 NOTE-State Department offici- als, usually critical of political" Ambassadors, pay tribute to Cuda- nys ability, and would like to keep aim in the service. However, thanks .o Hitler. there is a surfeit of enl- bassyless Ambassadors at present.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

OFTEN MISUSED: Do say We not going place today" Say, Ire going ANYWHERE today"
 NdISPRONOUNCED Parliament. Pronounce iment as a par-li-a-ment
 Caffeine also caffein.
 globuar
 a times and yours" Let TodayS delicate skill afce statagem Pronounce fines as in masterpiece of diplomatic fnesse"
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for four years, has been hammer ing home at the State Department the idea that Bolivia has sopne- thing which the United States needs vitally.
 But it by no means solves the tin problem for the United States, for Bolivia's production meets only about one-half of this country's s normal requirements.
 To tide over the present tin cri- sis, the National Defense Commis- sion contracted to buy 75,000 tons of refined tin from the Dutch and British East Indies. This is enough for one year, but the question is, will it ever be delivered?
 The answer is doubtful Only 12,- coo tons can arrived by January l, and even this may be held Up by German defeat of England or 6 Japanese blitzkrieg on the Dutch East Indies.
 Most amazing feature of the deal is that the National Defense Com mission is not attempting to buy new tin ore from the Far East, but only the refined, metallic tin In other words. the tin is to be re- fined in the Far East, then shipped here Reason for this is: CD be- cause the British put a 50 percent tax on the export of crude ore to keep us from setting up tin smelt- ng business of our own; and @ because the State Department still s following policy of dealing sently with British interests.
 In other words. while we will set ID a system Of temporarily smeIt- ng Bolivian tin in the United States, the British still will attempt o hang on to their monopoly by 'melting as much as possible them elves and up to point high U. s.
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FlOULKN LIlUULllL ROBERTA LEE

O. Should a important the caller executive, s hostess. Is s a the table when eating public place?
 A is better hold the in her
 usually host and hostess who bratng a wedding anniversary?
 A. this customary
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HENDRI(k50N5 BACK; TRIP TO
 ENTRANCE ISLE

MT. and Mrs. Arnot Hendrickson and family, and Mrs. Jim Orme, re- turned last night from several days vacationing at Hobart Bay.
 The party spent most of the time visiting with Mir and Mrs Otto Wilde at their Entrance Island fox farm.
 The trip was made aboard I. Goldstein's boat Bobby c.
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FOR CARRYING SUBS

Add to the war inventions now pouring forth upon the Army and Navy from the fertile brains of inventors: A submarine carrier!
 As I get it, the mother boat would have lot of tunnels running through her hull at waterline.
 In these. tiny submarines would be berthed while the big ship secured the seas
 When the enemy was sighted, the little submarines would run out and descend on the enemy like a school of death-dealing guppies E. get the job done and come home to rest in the hull of the mother ship.
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Sisters Are Returning
 From Summer School

Sister Mary Bertildo and Sister Mary Florence are returning on the steamer Denali after attending sum- mer school at the Seattle College.
 Sister Bertildo is the seventh and eighth grade instructor at the Par ochial School here and Sister Flor lence teaches the fifth and sixth grades.
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see a parallel here he doesn't want to see it and doesn't want to be convinced
 The Territorial liquor monopoly system is bad it's implications he and the people he has talked with think it is good If you wouldn't want Terri torial monopoly to close up your business whatever it is, don't vote to have Territorial monopoly take over your neighbors business.
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AMBASSADOR CUDAHY

New recipe for political success: get a diplomatic post. speak out of turn, take a spanking for it. then announce for political office.
 The recipe was set by James H. R. Cromwell. whose remarks as Minister to Canada brought him a
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Now that the country is to lose Jack Garner it has right to expect his state to make good the de- ficencY
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

AUGUST 26
 Esther Lavold Mary Jean Sofoulis L. L. Meadows Catherine Hill Orrin H. Kimball James J. Hill Anna D. Seayers Mrs. E. E. Stenders
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New Way of Doing
 Things Has Now Hif
 U. }. Govt. Bureaus

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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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Empire Classifieds Pay!
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Police Boys Club Workers
Seek $4,000 TO Fill Quota

The Police Boys Club campaign
ended officially yesterday with $50, 600
OF the $4,000 quota obtained.
Though the campaign is officially
closed, campaign workers will con-
tinue to solicit in an effort to
make up the quota, officials in the
drive announced at yesterdays final
luncheon at the Cosmos Club.
Leading vice chairman in the
drive was Thomas N. Beavers with
99.5 per cent of his $1,000 filled
E. G. Bliss group reported "a per
cent.
Msgr. Laurence J. Shehan, director
OF the Catholic Charities of WASH
1ngton, was an honor guest and
praised the campaign workers.
Baskets of flowers were presented
to Mack L. Langford, general chair
man in the drive, and Albert K.
Brown, administrative assistant to
the director of the club.
Others on the program included
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, founder of
the club; L. Gordon Leech, secre-
tary; Charles A. Robinson, director,
and Morris Cafritz, president.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Bandit Refuses to Rob
PrivuteIy-Owned Station

BY the Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, April 10
Arthur w. West told police a man
walked into his service station,
showed him a revolver and asked if
the station was privately owned or
a unit of chain system.
II own the station" West said.
II need the money bad, but I
wouldn't rob private owner" re-
piled the bandit and walked out.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Polish Units to Meet

The Social Committee of the Pol
ish Club of Washington and Group
848 of the Polish National Alliance
will meet tonight at the home of
M. Chmielewski. 407 Rock Creek
Church road NV, to complete plans
for observing the creation of Polish
constitution on May 3, 179l. The
club and group will hold a dance at
Stansbury Auditorium. 1892 Georgia
avenue NV, at 9 pm. Saturday.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Harvard Professor to Speok

The Riccobono Seminar of Ro-
man Law will hear a paper pre-
pared by Prof. James Bradley
Thayer, S. j. D., of Harvard Uni
versity, on "Custodia in Roman
Law" at a meeting at the Cosmos
Club at 8 o'clock tonight. DR..
Reginald Parker of the Library of
Congress will read the paper.
Evening star., 1940-04-16
Social Hygiene Speaker

DR.. Hugh H. Young of Johns Hop
kins University will deliver the San
ders memorial address at the 22d
annual dinner meeting of the So
cial Hygiene Society of the District
OF Columbia Friday, May 3, at the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV.
Evening star., 1940-04-16

FUNDS FOR POLICE CLUBCash and checks nart ~
the s6Oooo obtained in the Police Boys campaign are in
these large envelopes. R. D. Gibbs captain in Thomas
beavers leading solicitation helps fill held by Miss
Lee Nash secretary at campaign headquarters Charles
Ducan ST. OF the Special Gifts Committee on the right
Star Staff Photo.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
. CHALLENGE

Last week a real liberal a competent and
ageous analyst summariy dismissed from position he
had held for short time the personnel division of the Ma
tiona Youth Administration His dismissal reported to
the rte red LABEL pinned him by witch
protagonst of the philosophy of Main Street, that must
blind ourselves to the actual conditions with which
minds thought of remedial change and
gory with words conditions of American life though
millions fellow citizens in that must not
admit shortcomings and certainly not discuss of the
results of blindly following our traditional course
Harry Norton constituted that he could
with his conscience all times all conditions
and because of that fact he tted to hold position in
political agency He eated when he received the
pontment the NYA envsoned future which he could
he could be of concrete assistance to and
at the time explain to them the for the
dions which they find themselves that they might
ntegent contribute their efforts to the common purpose OF
making country the best place in the world in which to live
That is the essence of his personal ambition
that Norton discharged perhaps of
Importance 1t perhaps, be regarded good for
tune thereby the attention of the great of liberal
people in Montana becomes directed this potentially
great and constructive the National Youth Admins
tration.
but it's personnel still be found and of
cery and with social understandings of
age principle but realistically of the mta
lions imposed their activities by the political structure of
which the NYA is part.
The important responsibility that all share all
broaden the all
the agencies improvement
the number of people who the immediate victims
of existing social and economic order To devote time
thought and effort to that is only being ntegenty
selfish Under existing conditions who of US can look into
the future with any degree of feeling of security?
Do not think of the NYA other governmental
of its character something that mythical they have
established. Let remember that 1--WE the government
that perhaps actuality,
case is OUR fault something for which they" only
partially to be blamed
accept share of the responsibility and if we
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
BALKS AT DEFENSE
JOB UNLESS LABOR
CASE is POSTPONED

PHILADELPHIA The Sun
Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. has fatty
refused to cooperate (at good prof
it, in the national defense program
unless hearings on an NLRB case
are postponed.
This was revealed in petition by
the company asking the board to de-
la yhearings at least until June.
The firm, headed by John G. Pew,
a power in republican politics, is a
profitable subsidiary of the Sun Oil
Co. The parent company and the
shipbuilding firm together hold $780,
715,000 worth of defense contracts,
ranking 22nd in list of the 200 cor
porations with the largest awards.
Both Sun Oil and Sun Shipbuilding
have a long record of union-fighting.
Tacitly admitting that it would be a
hard job for the company to defend
itself against the labor board charges,
the company petition lamented:
at is impossible to (a) exonerate
itself from the charges of the board
in its capacity of prosecutor and OBJ
perform the tremendous task of in
creasing plant facilities. personnel,
and purchases of supplies and equip
ment Ito fill the heavy orders) at
one and the same time.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

New York-The American Fedora
ton of Labor and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, meeting con-
currently in New Orleans and Atlantic
City recently, renewed their endorse
ment of the consumer cooperative
movement and urged members of or
ganized labor as consumers, to take
an active part in co-operatives.
The American Federation of Labor,
which has passed many resolutions
endorsing the consumers cooperative
movements since it's first endorse
ment in 1917, voted to approve a
step directed toward further action.
During the closing hours of its con-
vention, it approved the action of the
resolutions committee which reported:
"Our committee recommends that
the subject of consumer co-operatives
be referred to the executive council
with the request that the executive
council have study made which will
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18

cover the entire field of consumer
co-operatives in the United States, and
that it take such action as the study
justifies."
The Congress of Industrial Organi-
cations adopted unanimously a resolu-
ton pointing to tn eneed for increased
purchasing power as an essential to
consistent prosperity and urged the
organization of an adequate system
of consumer co-operatives as a means
of controlling prices. The resolution
as adopted is as follows:
1. Increased purchasing 2ower in
the hands of the great masses of the
workers of the country is essential to
2. If wage increases obtained by
union action are to result in perma-
nent expansion of consuming power,
methods must be developed to prevent
rising prices from absorbing the gains
which are made;
g. The development of an adequate
system of consumer co-operatives may
be an effective weapon directly avail
able to wage earners to control the
prices of the things they buy;
4. The last congress of the Co
operative League of the U. S. A., by
resolution affirmed it's belief in and
commended to all of its affiliates the
advantages of union organization of
its employees and of collective bar
gaining with them; now, therefore, be
it resolved:
L. That the c. l. o. recognize the
necessity for developing strong con-
sumner agencies that may serve to
the activities of organized
labor in defending consumer inter
ests in our national economy;
g. That the G.. l. O. commend to
its affiliates full cooperation in the
development of co-operatives for the
distribution of goods and services re
quired by their members and the ex-
ecutive officers are hereby directed
to take all necessary action to fur
Their this development"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

It it wasn't for leaving the editor
in hole, I'd quite my job right now
Here | wrote couple of good stories
eds Note: That's what you say and
neither one of them got into the paper
the last two weeks. My public is 60
ing to jump on the editor pretty soon
if he don't give me break. And if
to prowl around and get the kind of
news | dig up. All the other news
paper guys that belong to the Anal
gamated Association of Bar Flies have
got good jobs, so he couldn't get any
of them. And a guy has to be mem
Der of the AABF to get the dope that
get to write about.
A jasper told me today that some
Of the new governors friends are 60
ing to demand recount of the votes,
because there's about two hundred
thousand that have written to him
swearing they worked their heads off
for him in the campaign and voted as
early and often for him as they could
and all of them were willing to sacri-
flee still more for him by working
at some state job under him. Well, II
all these gimmicks voted for him then
there was sure something haywire in
counting the votes, because he didn't
get that many. Among the fellows
that wrote to the new boss, there were
quite a few of the CATERS who want
to buy new set of spurs to keep
their feet from slipping off the desks
they been doing in front of for lot
of years l guess they're afraid they'll
have a tough time getting another
desk to rest on. Well, you can't
blame them too much. It's been pref
ty soft for them.
Altogether it's been a tough year
for these jaspers. First as soon as
the campaign got started, the governor
made them get out to tell the folks
about this budget balancing trick of
his, so the folks would leave him on
the Job. And l hear that he was
pretty tough about it too. They had
to produce and they found lot of
people who didn't believe what they
told. But they had to keep plugging
and all summer long they had to mix
up with all kinds of unwashed farmers
and laborers instead of going fishing
Qr, going to parties to help dispose of
sample blue ruin. 1t was tough on
their constitutions.
And now the governor didn't make
the grade and cold winter right on
top of them. If | was in their place,
I'd probably write a letter to Ford too
and tell him | thought he could swing
that budget balancing trick better, and
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-18
Dust Bowl
Migrants Seek
Permanent Homes

Inadequate housing for agricultural
workers has long been a crucial issue
behind much of the strife in Califor.
MAS fields, according to Carey Nc.
Williams, chief of the California State
Division of immigration, in a report
prepared for the LaFollette Civil Lib
critics committee.
Most of the labor disturbances in
1913 through 1920 were occasioned by
bad housing and sanitation" the re-
port states After 1929 and especially
after 1888 wage rates and union recog-
milton took the leading role, but hous-
ing conditions have continued to be a
major source of dissatisfaction.
In 1899 there were some 5,437
agricultural labor camps in Califor-
MIA and some 10 FSA camps in which
145,000 men, women and children
lived most or all of the year. Labor
camps are less and less occupied on
merely a seasonal basis Especially
in the cotton area many workers
remain on in the camps after the con-
clusion of contemplating in default of
any other place to live.
McWilliams. describing the labor
camps, says, What housing is pro-
vided can only be called shelter and
consists in the main in one-room
frame cabins or tents, with or without
frame floors or walls"
Especially since 1929 auto camps
and trailer camps have been catering
to migrant agricultural workers. Those
which rent space on a regular monthly
basis are not subject to regulation by
the State. More and more agricul-
tural workers have been making them
permanent homes, particularly in the
Imperial Valley.
"Dust-Bowr" migrants are becom-
ing the major source of agricultural
labor in California. These people,
family groups, are settling
more and more in squatter camps and
"shack towns" on the outskirts of
cities AS result, rural slums are
growing rapidly throughout the major
agricultural areas of California.
The "Dust Bowl" families are try
ing to acquire fixed homes, preferably
their own, even where economic condi-
lions are such that they could not
secure adequate food and clothing, let
alone materials to construct suitable
homes"
Yet permanent homes are necessary
to these families il their children are
to get schooling and if they are to
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