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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-05-08
SUMMARY

SUMMARY
Base on balls: Manning /, Rus
tad l, Stewart /, Niemi l, Ellingburg
l; two-base hits: Odell /, Erskine
/, Addleman /, Waldron 2, Havlic
/; struck out Erskine l. Rustad /,
Jensen l, Roller l., Taguchi l, Mac
Spadden 2, Wiley l, wilkins 4; left
on bases: Erskine 2, Stewart 2,
Harrington /, Jensen /, Niemi /,
MacSpadden /, Addleman 2, Wal
dron 2, Havlic 2, Ellingburg l, Viii
ley /; errors made: MacSpaddei
3, Wiley 2, Waldron /, Ellingburg
l, Addleman l, wilkins 4, Roller :,
Rustad /, Manning l, Odell /;
wild pitches: Wilkins 2, Jensen 2;
earned runs: Elks 6, Douglas 3;
winning pitcher: Jensen, in 6
pitcher, wilkins; time of game
l hour and SIS minutes; scorer Evan
Hill; umpires: Red" Shaw and
Harv Iffert.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-05-08

weather against the Finns-and
darn near lost the war.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-05-08

Substituted for MacSpadden when
Gaffert was taken out and Mac
Spadden put in his pace. Fifth
inning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-05-08
Fogs Play Great
Part in War; Nazis
Taking Advantage

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
Federation BEGINS APPRAISAL
OF GROUP HEALTH PLANS

| ST. OVERWHELMINGLY for
measuring the performance of group
health plans will be put in motion Oct
IS and 10 when directors of the Group
Health Federation of America meet
here
From the viewpoint of labor union
lists and other subscribers to medical
prepayment plans. an important
aspect of the federation's work will
be safeguards for the subscribers dol
lar
Ten standards established by the
federation provide, among other
things, that accredited plans must
have fully qualified physicians, nurses
and specialists; adequate equipment;
rates that are neither excessive nor
inadequate; and system for telling
subscribers exactly what they get for
their money.
To determine whether the 10 plans
now affiliated with the federation
meet all of the standards, elaborate
22-page questionnaires have been dis
tributed. Answers to these question
naires will be considered by the board.
Arrangements for personal inspec-
ton of the health plans will also be
made, said DR.. Kingsley Roberts, med
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
S260,0o0 PAID 6,46s
RAILROAD WORKERS

Atlantic Coast line railroad pay
masters began 5,000-mile trek
through six states October Fl to dis
tribute checks totaling $260,O0O max
ing up the federal minimum wage to
G. 469 of the railroads maintenance-of-
way employees.
1t is expected that most OF the EN-
ployees will have received their
checks by October "a, when the third
year of the wage-hour law begins,
and the maximum workweek without
overtime is reduced from AZ to 40
hours.
The payments are the result of an
inspection by the wage-hour division,
which revealed that the railroad was
showing payment of the minimum
wage on its books by charging en-
ployees rent for box cars and other
housing whether they occupied them
or not, and with deductions for other
goods and services deemed improper
by the division. The inspection re-
vealed that many of the houses car
ried on the books did not exist.
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minutes later a waitress whispered in
his ear. Both Atkinsons left.
Five minutes later the waitress
came back She tapped Hall on the
shoulder Someone wants to see you
outside" she told him.
Outside, in his spick and span uni
form, stood Corp. Edw. ]. Crew of
the Maryland state police.
We've been hearing about your
pro-German sympathies" Crew said.
where do you get with that kind of
stuff l know who you are, Capt
Won Bitten. You're under arrest"
Hall laughed, produced his check
from the Treasury, his drivers license
and other Identification. But Corp.
Crew of the Maryland state police
wasn't going to let any German cap
tain fool him with any stuff like that
and he dragged Hall off to the police
station.
For two hours Hall explained to an
other corporal. He hadn't studied
German in school. He had no Ger
man relatives. His parents didn't
come from Germany His grandpar-
ents didn't come from Germany, even
his wife wasn't German.
He was fingerprinted photographed
and tossed back into a cell. He was
MT permitted to call his wife or any
body else.
The next morning, after yelling for
two hours, he was allowed to make a
telephone call His wife came and
after pleading an hour they were
taken before a justice of the peace
Justice Edwin Halsup heard Corp.
Crews story. Hall pleaded mot
guilty" to a charge of disturbing the
peace. Halsup fined him SIS and
s1.45 costs.
Asked about the affair later Crew
said, HE was sympathizing with the
Germans. Then he told me he was
winking all the time at another boy
| didn't talk to. But that's bad stuff,
saying the Germans'd take Britain in
a week and stuff like that"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
FREE ENTERPRISE MEANS FREEDOM
OF THE RICH TO GET RICHER

from 1920 to 1880 the number Of
farmers declined by 10000.
Meanwhile, with the disappearance
of free land, the best farms were
gobbled up by the rich. The corn
lands Of Iowa and the wheat farms
Of Kansas and Nebraska were farmed
more and more by tenants In 1885,
2,865,000 farms were tenant-operated.
From 1920 to 1888 one farm in every
four was sold for debt and taxes. In
surance companies and banks took
over the land A recent report to the
Temporary Natl Economic Commit
tee shows that the 26 largest insur-
to the value of sS1,S07, 900 in 1929.
BY 1898 the. figure stood at s529,392,-
OO0-a $500 increase.
In the most valuable farm areas
such as the Imperial Valley in Cali
fornia, a class of landless, homeless
farm labor drifts from crop to crop.
Land ownership is concentrated in the
hands of rich few. The many are
wretched poems, thankful for enough
food to avert starvation.
When public utility officials like
Wendell Willkie talk about free enter
prise they are thinking of the freedom
of rich men to get richer Wealth
has already reached
stage in the U. S. at which free enter
prise merely means the freedom of
big business to exploit the masses
of the people.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
Census Hands Up
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/
been greatest during the past decade /?
In the District of Columbia, where
there is neither industry, farming,
mining nor commerce, but only the
apparatus of governmental bureau
crazy with its beneficiaries and para
sites, the increase was 3696.
Among the states, Florida, winter
sporting place for the idle and home
for the well-to-do aged, tops the list
with ESQ
New Mexico, famed for it's dude
ranchers, is a close second with $50.
California, with its rose bowls and
orange blossoms for the rich and its
Hoovervilles for the migrant workers
who harvest its crops, is third with
21@6. Only one other state, the Ne
vada divorce emporium, reports more
than a 20% increase.
The picture is a sinister one The
country's principal centers of industry
and agriculture have a population that
is either stationery or actually declin-
ing Only the centers of bureaucracy,
the vacation Ravens and the homes
for the aged show substantial in
creases.
There could be no more telling
proof of the failure of social system
than the population reports of the
1910 census.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30

ical director of the Bureau Of Coop,
erative Medicine and chairman of the
federation's accrediting committee.
From a wide variety of beginnings
and later development" Roberts ex-
planned, group health has advanced
now to the point where we must eval-
uate our work to see whether it is
wholly adequate from the standpoint
of physicians and patients.
Hence the Group Health Fedora
ton of America has adopted 10 funda-
mental standards to measure the per-
Torrance of individual plans The
federation will accredit only those
plans which careful study proves have
fully complied with the standards"
The QUESTIONABLE calls for data on
the training and work of each doctor
in order to show whether the phys
ician is qualified to do the work to
which he is assigned. The questions
bear on the doctors undergraduate
studies, =. interneship, postgraduate
work. private practice, specialized
work membership in professional So
cieties, authorship of papers in pro-
fessional journals, and even attend
ance at meetings of professional
bodies
Another important set of questions
concerns the organization of the
health plans staff and the system of
keeping records. The federation is
asking, for example, how physicians
and heads of departments are Sc
lected; what kind of conferences and
are held; whether the
original diagnosis of each case is
checked against the discharge record
to determine whether the original di-
agnosis was correct.
Other questions deal with the types
Of services rendered and the rates
charged, number of dependents COW
cred by the regular prepayment fee
Or by extra fees, and the kinds of
services provided for supplementary
ices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
FORD SIXTH LARGEST
ADVERTISER

Henry Ford was the sixth largest
newspaper advertiser in 1889, it was
revealed here by trade paper.
The disclosure was contained in an
announcement that Ford was ditching
N. w. Aver & Son, the advertising
agency which had handled the Ford
account since 1927.
| Handling Ford's advertising now
will be the McCann-Erickson Co. and
Maxon, Inc. Maxon will handle the
Lincoln Zephyr and Mercury accounts
while McCann-Erickson will handle
Ford and public relations" for the
| three divisions.
In 1899, it was stated, Ford spent
3,O0S,072 for newspaper advertising.
Total advertising expenditures
amounted to about $6,000,000.
No reason was given by Ford or NJ
W. Aver & Son for the shift, it was
stated.
The United Auto Workers (CIO) is
conducting a 100000 campaign to or
ganize the Ford Motor Co.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
|OKIES TELL
or MIGRATION
TO COAST

/ SAN Observation-Disclosures;
up it's hearings in the Grapes-of-Wratl
state, the house committee investigat
ing the situation of migratory wesker.
heard witnesses give testimony which
recalled the descriptions in Stein
becks book A final day of hearings
took place in Los Angeles.
at was get out or starve," said T. l.
Derryberry, who had nine years OF
poor crops in Oklahoma 81 started out
with SAB and reached California with
49,"
Albert ]. Woods, who is Ga years old
and still picking cotton in the San
Joaquin valley. told how he moved to
California after being "blowed and
dried out" of his Texas farm.
my family of five make s25 a
month picking cotton and we get 500
a month from the state relief" Woods
said.
One million Derryberrys and Woods
es were similarly driven from the dust
bowl, reports to the committee
showed. A large number of them have
come to California.
Carey McWilliams, state immigra-
ton and housing commissioner, ac-
claimed the improved housing for mi
gratory workers by the FSA but
warned: "This is decent housing for
only a small percentage of the mi
grants" He said the majority of Cali
fornia Okies are still living in miser-
able shacks with no sanitary facilities
at all
Denunciation of the FSA came from
President John S. Watson of the AS
sociated Farmers of California, who
criticized its bureaucratic methods of
administration. The AT. and the big
fruit packers have consistently fought
attempts of the FSA to improve hous-
ing for the migrants.
The right of the migratory workers
20 organize was upheld in testimony
BY William S. Hopkins, associate pro-
lessor of economics at Stanford uni
1ersity.
Agricultural labor is labor as much
Is industrial labor is labor" he said.
Tt should have the right to organize
Included in seven recommendations |
or remedying the situation of the |
)kies. as advanced by Governor Cul- |
,ert L. Olson at the hearings, was in
fusion of agricultural labor under
PROPER legislation through the wages
md hours, social security and the ma
ional labor relations acts"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
Robbery To-
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running any risk of loss.
1.-THE government is now engaged
in a program of military and naval
armament comparable to or greater
than that undertaken in 1917 and
1915" Biddle's petition stated. ut is
therefore of immediate national con-
Germ that there should be an auth
oritative determination Of the extent
to which the country's need should
place it at the mercy of its contrac-
tors.
"In times of national emergency"
the petition said, "the men charged
with preparing the nations defenses
have no time for haggling with con-
tractor who refuses to perform his
indispensable functions unless he be
assured an exorbitant profit.
"The government cannot agree that
the law sanctions, as obtained in good
conscience, profits amounting to more
than 279S of the cost of constructing
vessels under the contracts when
those profits were secured without
the slightest risk of loss and were
coerced by the threat of Withholding
an essential service from the govern
ment in war time"
In the current arms program the
Bethlehem Steel Co. has received con-
tracts valued at nearly one-sixth Of
all the contracts thus far granted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
Bv SCOTT NEARING

A great deal is being said thes
DAYS about freedom OF opportunlt,
and enterprise in the U. S. A. In on
sense, enterprise never has been Ire'
in America From the earliest colon
ial days there were few settlers IKE
William Penn and Lord Baltimor'
who came with money and grants O
land and a great number of pennies
migrants, indentured servants an6
slaves who came with next to nothing
When the constitution was adopted
there were a few rich men in the col
onies and large number of poor ones
George Washington was one of the
richest Americans. Thomas Jeffer
son was another.
But in another sense North America
was a land of opportunity because,
despite the few rich Washingtons,
Hamiltons and Jeffersons, there were
a great many farmers, artisans and
tradesmen who were comfortably
fixed
Land was free The number of
farms was rapidly growing. The con-
tinent was transformed from stone
age economy to trade economy. New
industries sprang up, and there was
rapid movement from the ranks OF
farmers and workers, into the ranks
of businessmen, bankers and profess
SIGNALS.
The U. S. of Franklin Delano Roose-
welt is very different place from
that of Washington and Jefferson.
Take farming as an example.
In the early days of it's nation
hood, the U. S. was a nation of farm
ers, with a thin sprinkling of manu-
featuring, mining, trade and banking.
The farms were largely self-sufficient,
and the village artisans provided prac-
tically everything that could not be
supplied on the farm.
Today farming occupies only fifth
of the American workers, and the
great bulk of farmers produce COM
modities for markets and seek through
the sale of their product to get enough
money to supply their city-multiplied
needs.
Until few years ago, the number
of farms in the U. S. increased rapid
ly. 1t was four times greater in 1900 |
than it was in 1850. But the increase |
from 1900 to 1910 was small; from |
1910 to 1920 it was microscopic, and |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
Aircraft Manufact rs
Had 34% Return

An average rate of return of 34.4%
on invested capital was enjoyed by
nine of the most important aircraft
manufacturers in 1889, before the de-
Tense program got under way, the Fed
eral Trade Commission here reported.
The rate of return in 1888 was 24.2@o.
Cash dividends of $11,361,17S were
paid during 1888 and $20,194,8O4 was
paid out in dividends in 1889, repre-
senting return of 1920 and 1870
to the stockholders.
Foreign business accounted for most
of the sales, in 1889, it was shown.
For seven corporations, foreign bust
ness accounted for 63.15%o of sales and
domestic business accounted for
$685. of sales.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-30
EMPLOYEES OF
TIRE COMPANY
COLLECT PAY

| Restitution totaling $2,978.00 has
been made to 70 employees of the
S. & M. Tire and Auto Supply Co.
1915 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Mimi, representing the difference be-
tween wages and overtime pay re-
ceived and what they were entitled
to since October "a, 1888 under the
nounced today by L. A. Hill, acting
regional director of the Wage and
Hour division, U. S. department of
labor at the Minneapolis office of the
division in Room 406 Pence building,
730 Hennepin avenue.
In announcing the payment, Mr.
Hill pointed out that the company
made restitution without the necessity
Of court action. This policy has been
approved by the administrator of the
Wage and Hour division, in cases
where investigation discloses that
employers did not Intentionally or will
fully violate the law and where no
aggravated circumstances of any kind
are present.
While the amount paid in restitu-
ton averaged $42.54 per employee,
the amounts paid ranged from S1.07
to $181.56.
Complaints of underpayments, as
well as other violations of the Wage
Hour law, may be filed in person, or
in writing, or by telephoning the local
office of the Wage and Hour Division,
Mr.. Hill said. The telephone num-
bers of the local office are Bridge
port 6813 and 6814.
Evening star., 1940-07-13
Visual Military Education

It is difficult to understand why
there should have been such a furor
over the private showing at the
Capitol of a German news reel
showing the stark horrors of mod
ern warfare as the NaziS wage it..
Representative Ross A. Collins, as
chairman of the Military Appropria-
tions Subcommittee of the House,
had a natural interest in seeing how
powerfully armed, adequately
trained war machine works. The
film in question may have been the
product of Nazi propaganda
agency, but there is little doubt that
the action it showed was very real
and very thought-provoking. 1t was
because of the realism of the scenes
that Mr.. Collins thought the f1lm
would prove informative to members
of Congress engaged in the task of
revising Americas defense program
to conform to new war techniques.
The suggestion voiced in some
quarters at the Capitol-prior to
Mr.. Collins explanation of his spon-
sorship of the news reel showing
that the whole affair had been
Evening star., 1940-07-13

As passed by the House and
Senate, the Hatch Act now leaves it
up to the Civil Service Commission
to determine when, in Special and
unusual circumstances" in towns in
the immediate vicinity of Washing
ton, 1t is advisable to promulgate
rules permitting Government en-
ployes to take part in local town
elections. While legislation of that
sort is definite improvement over
the original statute, there has been
criticism of the permissive provision
on the ground that it would make
Government agency the supervisor
of municipal elections.
1t is to be presumed, however,
that the Civil Service Commission
will be reasonable in determining
what towns lie "in the immediate
vicinity OF Washington" what con-
stitutes special and unusual circum-
stances" and what rules are neces-
sary to permit Federal workers to
participate in town politics. It is
obvious that the commission Is
placed in a position where it's acts
may bring sharp criticism. A few
municipal campaigns may produce
demand for further revision of the
Hatch Act as it applies to nearby
towns.
Evening star., 1940-07-13
Hatch Act Effect

With enactment of the Hatch
clean-politics bill, residents of the
Washington area will watch with
keen interest the effect of a section
of the bill which aims to restore to
Government employees residing In
nearby Maryland and Virginia the
right to hold municipal Office.
One of the unfortunate effects of
the original Hatch Act was to cancel
that privilege, which long had been
enjoyed by Government workers.
Sponsors Of the act had no such
intention, but the law was interpret
ed to mean that the nearby towns
were affected. Inasmuch as Federal
employees composed large percent
age of the towns populations, and
in many cases held important local
posts, the municipal setup in the
Metropolitan Area was threatened
with dislocation.
The House rejected an amendment
to the pending bill by Representative
Sasscer, Democrat, of Maryland,
which specifically would have per-
mitted Government workers in towns
within fifty miles of Washington to
campaign for and hold offices paying
less than six hundred dollars year.
Evening star., 1940-07-13
Deplores Scarcity Of Seats
At Water Gate.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
NO one can deny that the concerts at
the Water Gate by the National SYM
phony Orchestra are a worthwhile and
inspiring project. In fact, with proper
publicity, they would be much more pop
ular and widely appreciated.
I attended the concert when Jessica
Dragonnette was guest artist, but, like
many thousands of others, could not find
seat and was obliged to remain outside
the wall to mill around with the thou
sands on the sidewalks on hot July
night-could neither see nor hear the
concert. Yet there was plenty of avail
able space between the bridges where
additional chairs or benches could have
been placed, or in the absence of seats,
the public might have been permitted to
stand and at least to get a glimpse Of
the orchestral ark. With so many thou
sands of dollars contributed by music
loving Washingtonians to support these
concerts, I am sure each donor would
Evening star., 1940-07-13

engineered by Germap propagandists
as plot to "intimidate" members of
Congress was patiently absurd. A
film showing war at its worst pro-
vides an object lesson for legislators
pondering authorizations and appro-
priations for expansion of the Army
and the Navy. A wise German prop
agandist would know that the exhi-
bition of such picture to members of
Congress would tend to stimulate
their interest in greater defenses
and there is good reason to believe
that Herr Hitler and his advisers
would prefer to have the United
States adhere to a laissez faire atti-
tude in such matters. Mr.. Collins
rendered his colleagues in Congress
genuine service when he gave them
graphic, though terrible, Photographic
evidence Of what happens to peoples
not properly prepared to meet the
challenge of ruthless mechanical
warfare of totalitarian pattern.