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such as the one now being held will be convoked with the urgency that the case may require"
 This is in a sense an affirmation of common Monroe Doctrine on the part of all the American republics; but it will be to contain important If" subject interpretation by each nation, and it raises the question also whether consultative meet ing of the kind envisaged could act with the requ- site speed in emergency. Whenever conditions practically permit however, every effort should be made for consultation at each step not only because any action we may take with regard to the West Indies might be used as an by Japan for action of very different kind in the East Indies.
 From the military standpoint main strategic problem is clear: we must prevent any hostile non- American power from establishing any naval or air bases this hemisphere that could be used against In effect this means that we shall have to es- tablish such bases ourselves, and get the con- sent of other nations in this hemisphere to use their strategic arpors and harbors in case of necessity Our military problems of this nature, in connection with such points as Greenland, Newfoundland, Der muda the West Indies the Panama Canal Zone South America Hawaii and Alaska require clear thinking and prompt action.
 But though the problem of outlying air and naval bases is important what is much impor tant is strength at home, strength at the center If the status quo in Europe is overthrown it might be
  and air base at Bermuda; but it would probably not do much good to have say, few score planes at Bermuda unless we had thousand more planes ready to go to Bermuda if necessary on very short notice The same condition would apply to any outlying base.
 We cannot afford to lose sight for a moment finally, of how crucally important our stake is in the outcome of the in Europe. If the democra- cies win our problem of hemisphere defense becomes simple one If the ends in a stalemate or only partial German victory, problem is more serious If the Nazis win complete victory our problem becomes extremely grave. Even if we put aside such possibilities Berlin-Tokyo Axis, or the use against of surrendered British fleet, Hitler master of the shipbulding facilities of all Europe could heavily outbuild unless our economy were suddenly able to take entirely different orentation and in any case we should be forced to devote huge part of resources of men and materials to non-productive work. The myth that the outcome of the in Europe was mo concern of ours" has been exploded
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20 YEARS AGO f f'fm HE EMPIRE

JULY
 Army planes,
 
 American Legion, F. Mcdonnell who service admitted membe local Post. J w Ward a passenger Spokane known to be for the south onth Spokane.
 Harold Clark w. A. Clark of Juneau joined be with the boat until the fall term of school MT and Mrs G w. the steamer Jefferson for Vancouver. A. Adamson joined the force of the Alaska Road apartment at the Soby by his daughter left for Tacoma attend school the coming terH MT Barr spend the winter
 Weather Highest lowest 51; cloudy.
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DEFENDING OUR HEMISPHERE

It is obvious that Nazi victory in Europe would enormously increase Americas problem of defending itself by defending the Western Hemisphere One aspect of that problem has been brought to light in the last few months in the exposure of Fifth Column NaI activities conducted among the German resi- dents in several South American countries If there is any Naz move directed against this hemisphere most military and diplomatic observers believe that it would be directed against or several Central South American republics first of all. It is likely that the first overt would be directed against the United States itself They would doubt less be directed against of dis tant and weaker neighbors. The Nazis would per haps try to avoid any early action that would tend to unite and arouse the American republics They would seek rather to turn the least obvious screws first, and to take actions and give interpretations calculated to divide rather than unite opinion in this hemisphere. They would seek first of all, to speak to drive from Munich to Munich"
 Two chief possibilities exist regarding any initial moves that might be made, One would be to effect actual landings at weak or undefended points in South America and set up air bases that would be in position for example to launch attack against the Panama Canal. The other would be to overthrow an existing Government or Governments by Fifth Column movements and set up Governments under Nazi domination In the event of the latter possi- bty the Nazis their local puppets would be cer- tain to us if took any action of inter fering in the internal affairs of the nation con- cerned
 These possibilities indicate the nature of the diplomatic well the military problem that con- fronts It is necessary that every make should be taken with the fullest consultation and cooperation practicable with the 20 other American republics who joined with in the resolutions of Panama. These resolutions declared
 That in any geographic region of America subject to the jurisdiction of any n-Amercan state should be obliged to change it's sovereignty and there should result therefrom danger to the ity of the American continent consultative meeting
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Secret Well Kept
(NeW York TimeS)

Nomination speeches at the Republican Conven- ton will be academic subject when these lines appear in print Nevertheless for purposes of the record and the instruction of posterity it should be pointed out that the gentleman who nominated Wendell l.. Willkie violated one sacred precedent. He did not keep the delegates on tenterhooks about the identity of his At the end of the third short paragraph in a speech three newspaper columns long Congressman Halleck told the delegates that he wanted to place in nomination Wendell Lewis Willkie It seems quite appropriate that the non professional Willke campaign should have this non- professional innovation.
 The sponsors for the two other leading candi- dates stuck to the ancient procedure For something
 like half an hour apiece the excited delegates were left to wonder who could be the brilliant young foe of organized crime who was born in Owosso, who could be this solid statesman fifty years old haling from Ohio, the Mother of Presidents.
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HOROSCOPE "The stdrs incline
 but do not cOnapeP
WEDNESDAY, JULY IT

Adverse planetary aspects dom mate today. It is unfavorable for initiative along any line. Labor troubles may affect both mer- chants and manufacturers. It is an suspicious time to enjoy vaca- tions far from the center of things.
 Heart and Home: Women may be restless and discontented under this planetary government. Appre- hension regarding the future in war-torn world should be overcome, for the stars presage safety for those who dwell in the United States. This does not mean, how ever, that there will be no severe test to the American people who can not escape the effects of the World War. This is time for families to count their blessings and to give generously to funds for the air of war sufferers.
 Business Affairs: Although the stock market may be subject to wild gyrations, trade will continue to be good in the Unitad States. Crops should be abundant. Farmers
 will profit through increasing de- mands for food in wholesale quan- titles as large numbers of men must be fed in camps and on bat tleships. Synthetic foods will prove of great benefit and will be used by civilians as well as by soldiers and sailors.
 National Issues: Reduction of numerous government bureaus will
 be demanded as Federal and state | expenditures rise. Concentration
 will be required in administering public affairs of first importance.
 The national debt will increase steadily as defense becomes more and more imperative for the na- tion. Secret plans in the Orient will affect movements of the Pacific fleet. In Washington statesmen and
 diplomats will focus attention upon international developments as they | ignore campaign activities.
 International Affairs: The two conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn | this year are responsible for sin
 ister world conditions and events
 General changes greater than any recorded in modern history are talk ing place, but they are but fore- runners of a period of human pro-
 gress and development. The prob abilities seem to include 194l in the period of world conflict. Although new and hideous methods will be introduced, the war may have re- sources that make possible exten-
 sion over many months. Persons whose birthdate 1t Is have the augury of year of gain unless impetuous action interferes ,.ith progress Women should be slow in. making decisions.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be ambitious and ener- getic. They should be carefully trained and educated, for they may possess extraordinary talents.
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New Books
 Al Library

Among the new books now on the shelves at the Juneau Public Library are the following:
 Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley" Priestly, Let the People Sing" Banning, Out in Society,"" White, Wild Geese Calling"
 Elizabeth MT. Skeffington; Not tris, "I'he World Is Like That" Farnol, "The Happy Harvest" Burnet, High Siera;" Johnson, T Married Adventure" Horan Night Bell
 There are several new mystery stories also just received and ready for call.
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In captured Holland the German secret police reportedly assassinated businessman and offered his widow his remains for 1000 guilders. If the Nazis win the war, suggest that the Philadelphia murder r-profit ring be appointed commission to negotiate an international trade agreement with the Reich.
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tion urging him to organize Rally Round Roosevelt" club.
 Griffith is chairman of the Wyo- ming Republican State Central Committee
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Daily Lessons in English " " L. GORDON

WORDS MSUSED: Do not He repeated the story aann AGAIN REPEAT do again
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED frozen dessert Pronounce moo MOON
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: OR Sander ER
 SYNONYMS: Refinement, culture gentlity po1teneSs
 WORD three times and it is yours Let us word each day Todays word only beautiful which like lghtare luminous but not spark ling -Longellow.
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LOOK and LEARN %y' sy C. GORDON

is church membership in the United States? What Is "The Fourth Estate? g. is gall bladder and what is its function? What flag permitted fly above the United States flag? B. In country the greatest variety of trees?
 ANSWERS: l. In round figures 6400OO00. 9.
 It is small sac adjoining reservoir for pile. 4. church flag. United States.
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and builds respect for your business. An original print job, showing crafts manship, reflects the policy and product of your firm. Therefore, you cannot risk the possibility of wrong impress sions because of inferior printing. The factory printing-at fair price!
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WUUGkN LlluULIIL ROBERTA LEE

hostess plan some kind of activity for every minu of the entertaining house guestsP
 A. number of actlVles put not should persist that each guest though compulsory They be the form of suggestions
 girls eating Tn pubnc place at should they be seated?
 A he should opposite each other
 S a suitable tip for paging in hotel?
 A enty-five cents
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SHORT CIRCUIT

CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 16.-Jim Griffith received letter from q Philadelphia Democratic organiza-
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N. {. MAN HERE
 ON FIRST VISIT

volney Richmond Jr., young vice-President of Northern Com mercial Company, visited Juneau friends last night on his first stop-over here.
 Richmond, who every year spends most of the summer in Alaska, working the many stores of the company through the Interior. had never stopped in Juneau until yes terday when he came in on the Electra.
 He is passenger aboard the AL aska Clipper, returning to his Se- attle offices.
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Geography certainly has lot to do with view point The isolationists in Congress all hail from the territory between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountans-both pretty good natural defenses.
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HUNTING OIL

WELLIGTON, N. E.. July 16. - Seeking profitable development of oil which has been known for 70 years to exist in New Zealand. modern prospecting has been under way since 1888 at an estimated cost of $2,0OO,OOO
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
Air-Minded Men Wanted
To Become Army Pilots

'The L. S. Army has sent out a call
for 'Bird-Men.' Today we offer great
opportunities to young, air minded
Americans to become Flying Cadets,
Colonel S. G. Talbot, Adjutant Gen
eral of the Fifth Army Corps Area
at his Fort Hayes Office announced
today.
Applicants between ages of 20 and
27, with at least two years of college
education, single and able to meet
prescribed physical requirements will
be given nine months training at a
salary of SIS per month plus 81 per
day ration allowance and all clothing
quarters, medical and dental attention
free. After completing the training
course, they may be commissioned
Second Lieutenants in the Army Air
Corps Reserve and then ordered to
extend active duty for three years.
Salary of flying Second Lieutenants is
S205.50 per month with living quar-
ters or S245.50 per month without liv-
ing quarters furnished.
"All interested should visit the near
est Army recruiting station and obtain
particulars and application forms. If
a young man can qualify, we will as
sure him early consideration. Here
is long sought opportunity for air
minded men to realize their ambition" :"
Colonel Talbot said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
us. Public Housing
Projects Reach 450
Looms Approved To DefrdY
901o Of Low Rent And
Slurn Projects

Washington, D. C.-The number of
public housing projects under ap-
proved loan contracts from the United
States Housing Authority reached
$50 today when President Roosevelt
sanctioned a list of loans totaling
S42,646,00O to 20 local housing au-
thorities for slum clearance and low
rent developments.
With these Presidential approvals,
made upon recommendation of Admin
istrator Nathan Straus, USHA loan
contracts total $643,978,483 to 184
public housing agencies throughout
the country.
Earmarkings outstanding for fur
ther loans stand at $44,811, SIT, max
ing total of $6SS,790,O0O in USHA
commitments to 204 local housing au-
thorities in 35 States, the District of
Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. In
addition, the USHA has allocated
$7,225,000 to the War and Navy De-
partments to construct badly needed
homes for families of enlisted and
civilian personnel in Army and Naval
establishments in communities where
there are no local housing authori-
ties.
Approved loans to public housing
agencies to date provide for a total
of 149,941 homes in which to rehouse
families from city slums and sub
standard farmhouses, and families of
Defense workers.
The loans approved today are to de-
fray 900 of the estimated cost of IA
low-rent and slum clearance projects.
Of this number, % projects are new,
while the remaining 22 were sanction
ed in previous loan contracts which
were reapproved in consolidated form.
AS of August %, there were 251
USHA-aided projects totaling 93,433
dwellings either under construction or
completed. Tenants have moved into
SO projects in the cities Of Birming-
ham and Mobile, Alabama; San Fran
cisco, California; Bridgeport, Con-
necticut; Daytona Beach, Fort Laud-
erdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Pensa-
cola, St. Petersburg, Tampa and West
Palm Beach, Florida; Augusta, Co.
lumbus and Savannah, Georgia; Vim
cennes, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky;
Detroit, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; ;
Elizabeth, Long Branch, Newark and
North Bergen, New Jersey; Buffalo,
New York City, Syracuse, Utica and
Yonkers, New York; Charlotte, Ra-
leigh and Wilmington, North Car
olina; Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton,
Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio; Allen
town, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Charleston, South Car
olina; Chattanooga, Knoxville and
Memphis, Tennessee; Austin, Corpus
Christi and Houston, Texas, and
Charleston and Mt. Hope, West Vir-
ginia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
Strike Is Averted
At Boeing Aircraft
Arbitration Is Accepted BY
Both Management And
The Muchinists

Seattle, Wash. A strike of 1000
union mechanics at the Boeing Air
craft Co. was averted when the work
ers and management accepted arbi-
tration of their differences.
Boeing executives had forced Local
ISL, International Association of Ma
chinists (AFL), to the verge of a
strike by insisting on IL per cent
wage cut for new employees now get
ting 6212 cents an hour.
The company wanted to throw the
entire wage contract into arbitration,
including points upon which agree
ment had been reached, but the
unions contention that only matters
in dispute be arbitrated was upheld.
Union negotiators had previously
obtained agreement on scale of $1.15
an hour for premium workers, S1.05
for Glass A mechanics and IS cents
for Class B. mechanics. The issue
was the unions demand for a TO-
cent rate for Class C. helpers, as
against the prevailing 6212 cents and
the companys counter-proposal of SIS
cents.
The peace plan was overwhelmingly
approved at mass meeting. Presi-
dent Harvey w. Brown Of the Ma
chinists, also a member of the Ma
tional Defense Advisory Commission,
assured the workers that the govern
ment would support the union in it's
fight against a wage cut
After the meeting the unionists
formed a motorcade several miles
long for a parade through the busi-
ness district. Headed by Local 751's
brass band, the cars bore banners
reading: "a Living Wage Is the Best
National Defense"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
Factory Jobs and PaYrolls
Gdin In Pennsylvania

Philadelphia (ILNS).-Employment
and payrolls in Pennsylvania factories
increased about l per cent further
from June to July, according to re-
ports received by the Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia. Usually employ
ment shows no change in this period
and payrolls decline somewhat. The
number of factory wage earners is
estimated at 100000 in July, or 7 per
cent more than year ago, and week
ly wage payments in Pennsylvania fac
tories at $22,5OO,00O, or 20 per cent
more than July, 1889. These levels
are still somewhat below the peaks
reached in the closing months of last
year.
In Delaware factory employment
and payrols in the aggregate declined
nearly 2 per cent, rejecting a tempor-
ary curtailment Of activity in import
ant plants producing transportation
equipment. Gains were reported in
employment in all other lines except
lumber and chemicals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
Amend MIRA Now
A. F. L. Tells Senate
President Green Testifies on
Changes Federation
Demands

Washington, D. C.-President Will
liam Green Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor urged the Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee to amend
the National Labor Relations Act at
once
Testifying at three secret sessions
of the committee, Mr.. Green strenu-
ously objected to stalling tactics
whoch have thus far held up affrma-
tive action on this important issue.
In a careful analysis of the Smith
amendments which passed the House,
Mr.. Green gave his support to some
of these amendments and opposed
others.
| He told the committee the A. F. Of
L. endorsed the Smith bill in the
House in order to get action, with the
distinct reservation that the Fedora
ton would try to perfect this bill ir
| the Senate. Rather than have "de-
structive" amendments adopted, he
said, the A. F. of L. would resign it.
self to continue suffering from injus.
tees under the present Act and its
maladministration.
This statement was misinterpretec
by Senator Ellender of Louisiana, who
told newspapermen that Mr.. Greer
was opposed to the Smith bill and his
attitude doomed any action on amend
ments at this session. Mr.. Greer
said nothing of the kind He insisted
on immediate action by the Senate anc
explained in detail the amendments
which the A. F. of L. is determined tc
obtain. These are:
/. Creation of a new labor board OF
five members.
2. Protection of established unions
by giving the workers themselves the
right to decide by their votes the
collective bargaining unit in which
they wish to be included.
These are the two major amend
ments on the Federation's list. Others
include the free speech" amendment
and the right for employers to peti,
tion the board for an election.
The Senate Committee proposes tc
continue secret hearings for several
weeks more, Notwithstanding the fact
that it devoted months of it's time to
public hearings less than a year ago
Unless the committee acts with re-
asonable promptness to report salts
factory bill, the Federation will use
all the power at its command to ex-
pedite matters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-29
Wage Hour Office
Breaks All Records
A Totul Of 1872 New Cases
Filed During Month
Of July

Swinging into high gear, the Wage
and Hour Division in July instituted
the largest number of cases in the
courts in its history, Colonel Philip
B. Fleming, Administrator, said to-
day. At the same time, the Division
closed more cases in court than in any
other like period since the Fair Labor
Standards Act became effective on Oc-
tober "a, 1888, he declared.
A total of 1S2 new cases were filed
during the month, according To Col
onel Fleming, who pointed out that
this was a greater number of cases
than for the entire year of 1889, when
an aggregate of 146 cases were filed,
SO civil and So criminal. Of the
cases instituted in July, 173 were civil
suits and nine were criminal prosecu-
tions. This brings the cumulative to-
tai of new cases in 1910 up to August
l to 652,552 civil and 100 criminal.
Closed during July were 140 cases,
of which 1873 were civil and seven
criminal. This activity likewise ex-
ceeded the figures for the entire year
of 1889 when an aggregate of lis
cases were closed, rs civil and 43 GRIM
inal. July cases closed brought the
1910 cumulative total to August l to
557, 4S3 civil and "a criminal.
The aggregate number Of new cases
instituted since the law became eff
fective to August l is 79S, 635 civil
and 1853 criminal and the aggregate
number of cases closed in the same
time is CTS, sos civil and 1T criminal.
While the new cases instituted in
July cover wide range of industries,
the increase is in part attributable to
the concerted drive for enforcement
of the Act in the low-paid lumber
industry, which began June 10, plus
the growing number in the ranks of
the inspection forces and the cumul
ative experience of its members.
When the law became effective in
1888 there was a total of only 21
members of the inspection forces. On
December 81, 1889, the number had
been increased to more than 400, in
cluding all ranks of inspectors and
payroll examiners. This staff has been
gradually expanded as qualified per-
sonnel became available until July 81,
1910, when nearly $50 inspectors and
uayroll examiners were in the field.