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by George Harrison, brainy Broth erhood chief, who called at the White House to present their case in the wage dispute with the carriers. Harrison assured the President that the unions stood ready to accept the award of the fact-finding board he will appoint to hear both sides.
 This means there will be no strike, for under the mandatory cooling off period of the Railway Labor Act there can be no work stoppage for 30 days before or after fact-find- ing board is named.
 Harrison told the President that railway labor had no alternative but to call strike" but felt that the President should be advised be- forehand of the Brotherhood's in tention in view of the seriousness of the times.
 "The revenues of all the big roads have shot up tremendously in the past year." Harrison declared, "yet they have refused to grant our wage increase proposals in the face of the fact that railroad workmen are get ting anywhere from 30 to 100 per cent less than the wage levels of corresponding crafts in other indus tries.'
 The President listened quietly to the bill of grievances and then asked if he could depend on railway labor to cooperate with the government to the extent of accepting the set clement terms proposed by fact finding board. He pointed out that a tieup in transportation would be a crushing blow to the anti-Axis pro- gram.
 You can depend on the railroad unions to cooperate 100 per cent with you, MT. President Harrison replied emphatically.
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She is striving to preserve liberty and de- mocracy and individual freedom and these are things for which we, too, would strive and die. The United States is struggling to pre- vent the domination of the world by dicta- tors and we, too, would strive and die against such masters
 "The United States wants to uphold the rule of right and justice in international re- lations and safeguard the independence of small nations to free them from the fear of aggression and sub jugation by militant powers, and we, too would strive and die to save our country from such threats and perils. So if the United States decides to enter this war it will be our war as much as the war of the United States and her de- cision will be our own decision. Tn such event she will find all the people of my country, to the last man, on her side fight ing under her banner and praying to AL mighty God for the victory of her arms.
 Our stake in this war is more than the continued existence of democracy and indi- vidual freedom in the world It is more than the maintenance of free economy and free commercial intercourse among nations and unregulated social life. Our stake in this war is our own future independence and the assurance that that independence will endure. We are endeavoring to the full measure of our resources to hasten the exc cution of our national defense program. The United States Government, I am happy to say, is also doing everything to strengthen the military defenses of our country
 T trust that very soon it will be possible for the Government of the united States to send Us more planes and more guns and ammuni- tion to increase our power of resistance against invasion.
 We only need more equipment and more supplies for we have abundant man power. We have strong, intelligent young men who are eager to join the ranks for our defense and for all the principles which President Roosevelt has proclaimed to the world.
 Tn conclusion, wish to assure the peo- pie of America that we are with the United States in life and in death"
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A SWELL GUY

One of the first things William H. Harrison, talking, hard-work- ing A. T. and T. Vice-President, did when he succeeded John Biggers as OPM production chief was to sum mon a group of steel makers for some blunt talk about expansion plans. One of those attending the conference was short hard-boiled Tom Girdler, anti-union boss of Re- public Steel Company.
 The meeting lasted hours and no words were minced. The steel men spoke up and so did Harrison. At times the air was blue. But when 1t was all over, Girdler walked up to Harrison, extended his hand and said,
 Bill, I want to say this. You are the incest tough "+'%&*"t and %sf'*" I have ever met
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OFFICE OF INDIAN
 AFFAIRS TEACHERS
 PASSING THROUGH

Teachers for the Office of h. dian Affairs are continuing to pass through Juneau on their way to schools in the Interior. These schools do not have definite open ing dates, depending on the diff ferent activities of the regions in which they are located for school ,eriods.
 On the Aleutian through here yesterday are MT. and Mrs. Vic- tor E. Hill and their son from Ok lahoma, going to Pinute near Holy Cross. This is their first year stn this region. Also on the AleutIan are MT. and Mrs Laverne Kopp their infant daughter formerly at
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CAPITAL CHAFF

Under Secretary of State Welles has gone off for much needed holi- day in Maine. Mrs. Welles says the holiday will last a month; Mir. Welles says two weeks. Question Which will win? Ned Laughing house and Frank Vicovari, two Am ericans wounded during the smelling of the Zamzam, were taken aboard a German warshIp for treatment. When the State Department asked for a report on the two men, the reply was that the warship was still under way, and no report was yet available. Texas's new Senator w. Lee O'Daniel is still talking by radio to the folks back home. Tn Washington, he makes each week a transcription of half-hour radio talk, orders IA records and mails them to the Texas radio stations. Departing from nautical terms, Admiral Emory s. Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission, quip- ped, Horse sense is stable thinking" Lt.-General Ben Lear, able commander of the Second Army, loses no opportunity to keep his of ficers abreast of world developments. When Richard c. Hottelet, crack foreign correspondent who was ex- pelled by the Nazis, was assigned to cover the Second Armys' man euvers, Lear invited Hottelet to give the officers a talk on European conditions
 Copyright, 1941, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
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ALLIES IN THE DANGER ZONE

Certainly because the Philippines by way of being protectorate of ours, and are not due to be granted complete independence until 1946, may have every reason to expect that our foreign policies will be the foreign policies adopted by the Ffpinos.
 And certainly without the security of pro- lection, the Philippines would be in a dangerous po- sition and probably much more of mperalistic temptation to Nippon war lords than they with Uncle Sam's arms around them.
 Nevertheless, it was gratifying last month to hear Manuel L. Quezon, the President of Philippine Commonwealth, the unity of purpose be- tween his people and the United States, in no un- certain terms
 Quezons talk made the 63rd birthday of the founding of the Philippine Commonwealth. It was delivered in Manila, addressed directly to our Vice. President Henry Wallace and the people of this country.
 After President Quezon who is respected in this country as wise elder statesman of the Fflipnos. had concluded his remarks, Vice-President Wallace replied with a speech of greeting, ending by displaying his Latin talents and murmuring peasan- tries in Spanish into microphone. Carried by short-wave radio the Quezon address was broadcast in this country and the Wallace talk heard by Fflipinos with radios.
 Quezon was nothing if not straightforward in his expression of the place where the Fpinos stand in the present world conflict Here is what he had to say
 T welcome the opportunity of few words
 to the people of the United States and to
 restate the stand of the Filipino people in
 this grave national emergency. We oy-
 atty to America and bound to her
 by bonds of everlasting gratitude.
 Should the United States enter the war,
 the Philippines would follow her and fight
 by her side, placing at her disposal all our
 man-power and material resources to help
 her in achieving victory, for the cause for
 which America would fight is
 cause
 "The United States seeks to defend the
 principles which we cherish and without which we could not live a free nation
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MLITERATE DRAFTEEs

One of the uncomfortable facts disclosed by the selective service sys- tenn is that thousands of young men in this great country of educational opportunity are unable to pass a simple test of reading and writing
 In recent two-months period, May Is to July IS, total of 9l,919 draftees were excused" on account of illiteracy. Of these, 37,2l7 were white, and 54,702 were Negro.
 The Southern States have the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-08
LOOK and LEARN e@y c. GORDON

When telling hipboad bells constitute day from midnight to midnight?
 smallest number of counties and how many? B. E1cawber always waiting for? the simplest animal? For S a marlnspike used?
 ANSWERS:
  with three something up from David Copperiieid py Charles  ameoba. 5 To separate strands of splice
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heaviest percentages of illiteracy. In Louisiana, AS per cent of the whites and 237 of the Negroes were rejected in this score. In Georgia and Florida, the percentage was only slightly less. Other States of high illiteracy are Virginia, Mississippi and North Carolina.
 Partly to offer the benefits of education, partly to increase the number of men fit for military service, WPA is setting up a project to teach reading and writing to the rejectees.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS not Where have the children to evening"" Omit TO-
 Pistacho Pronounce DIS poth Is as in ILL, A as in O second syllable
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Laboratory; not abaory
 Indifference, detachment, aloofness
 word three times and It IS yours Let us word each day Iodas word camet seren hours silent and the mind enjoys it's most perfect composlre.'-Dr T. Watts
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5.sffeN U9umAHnn 2 fl HOuuuuVuuW IN
 s1I Bombed

ROME, Sept. 8.-Waves of Brits- ish planes bombed Palmerno last night killing at least 16 civilians and injuring 25.
 The Italian High Command, says only minor property damage was done by the raiders.
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20 YEARS AGO f TIT E rnprnr E
SEPTEMBER 8, 1921

SEPTEMBER President of the Juneau Par member of the Executive Board
 Association, were President Allen Satuc was authorized appoint committee of three work details cruiser Cordeia D, explained by Trevor Davis arrived m Juneau after a a party California people Society the next day in the ParSh Hall M. Giovanetti
 Creek reported Ill uie flooding n to an the gold
 High low, AT; clear.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE 'y ROBERTA LEE

and friend who Is seated 1ew rows ahead is all right to call out to him?
 No. if YOU wish to attract the aisle and speak
 good taste to apply rouge and powder In puohc? No: attended to prlVate o When not being gusedw should the spoon be laid?
 Upon it in the bowl or fruit dish unless there is
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SATKO ARK FLOATED

The Ark of Juneau, in which the Paul Satko family of Eagle River came to Juneau several years ago, much against the wishes of the marine inspectors, is again afloat. The Satko boat foundered and sank to the bottom recently at Amlaga Landing.
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Koyukuk, who are on leave.
 Other teachers are com n through on the Mount Mckinley and the Yukon, and number of students are also travelling to schools.
 Southbound on the Columbia are MT. and Mrs. Clarence Rusch and going to the school at Diomede.
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auto, cement, leather, varnish and paper factories, as well as practically the whole of the former French dye industry. This is now incorporated in what the secret report calls the "Fernco- German Union.' All the plants are working day and night producing goods for Germany.
 This is true also of other occupied industrial centers, according to the French bank managers reports. In Nantes, the heavy-goods industries are operating at record levels
 NOTE. The secret document also confirms the reports of growing un- rest among the French populace and fury at Vichy, which is being blamed for the Nazi footing of supplies which the French themselves can't even buy with ration cards.
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NO RAIL STRIKE

The overwhelming strike vote of the railroad workers came as no sur prise to President Roosevelt.
 A week before the count was an- nounced he was tipped off about it
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SEPTEMBER 8
 Mary Tubbs
 J. B. Burford, Jr. Mrs. R. H. Williams Joseph J. Stocker Clayton Evanson Mrs. R. D. Strickland Agnes T. Sayre
 Henry T. Fuller Capt. George Baggen
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The Daily Alaska Empire aas u. largest paid circ.-.Ation Of any A sska newspaper.
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Washington Merry Go-Round

Continued rom Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-12
Brief Announcement of Tragedy Made by Stale
 Department Today SURVIVORS GIVE OUT
 STORIES TO OFFICIAL American Consul Inter- views Those Rescued by
 Brazilian Steamer

WASHINGTON, June 12.-- The State Department announced today that a preliminary report from the American Consul at Pernambuco, Brazil, stated the United States ship Robin Moor was undoubtedly sunk by German submarine in the South Atlantic on May 21, while proceed ing from New York to Capetown.
 The report added the Commander of the German submarine was fully aware the Robin Moor was an Amer ican vessel.
 sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, made the announcement of the report from the American Consul at conference with the newsmen.
 Survivors Interviewed
 The report was from Consul Wal ter Linthicum and is based on re- ports from interviews from II sur vivors who were picked up by the Brazilian steamer Osorio.
 Thirty-five persons who were aboard the Robin Moor arc still among the missing.
 Welles was grave faced as he ap- peared before the reporters and read the brief statement that the Robin Moor was undoubtedly torpedoed by Nazi U-Boat.
 Welles, after the brief statement, added that the Robin Moor's cargo contained no implements of war or other military materials inconsis- tent with the Neutrality Act.
 The general cargo, Welles said, consisted of many types of goods steel rails, women's hosiery, auto mobiles, radio parts and numerous other similar items.
 Welles said the cargo was consign- cd to Lorenco Marques, Port Eliza beth, Capetown. Port Antal, East London, and the ship was for Portu- gal and British East Africa.
 Welles refused to state what ac- tion the United States will take but said the State Department expected comprehensive report during to- day and this will receive the fullest consideration at the hands of the United States Government.
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] BRITISH NAVY SHIPS
 SENT DOWN
Gunboat Ladybird, Moni- for Terror Destroyed
 by Forces of Axis

ALEXANDRIA,, June 12.- Great Britain's famous gunboat Ladybird, 625 tons, and the monitor Terror. 5000 tons, whose l5-inch guns helped shatter Italy's shore defenses at Lio- va, have been destroyed by Stuka dive bombers, the British Navy an nounced this afternoon.
 The Terror was caught at dusk OH the Libyan coast and the Ladybird went down in Tobruk Harbor burn ing like hell' but firing against the screeching Stukas until the last dry gun slipped under the water.
 The Ladybird was famous in the part of Great Britain's Yangtze river patrol fire in December. 1887. of the Japanese shore batteries, the same day the American gunboat Pa nay was sunk in the Yangtze by Japanese airmen.
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Vilhy-Frenehmen Holding
 British Ten Miles from
 Syrian Capital City
FRENCH ULTIMATE
 STRIKES AT ENGLISH
Nazis Claim Britain Will Starve 10 Death in New
 Pamphlet Attack
(By Associated Press)

A violent battle between British tanks and French warplanes is re- ported raging on the outskirts of Damascus with Vichy- French troops still holding the Allies east of Kiss que, ten miles away.
 Dispatches from the Capital City said French air units, flown from North Africa, are effectively sup porting the defense troops. German planes are said to have aided the French in yesterdays action. but there is no indication that they are engaged in fighting today.
 RAP warplanes are reported to have attempted another attack last night on Beirut, and Axis planes today bombed Haifa and also the British Naval Base at Alexandria.
 Damascus advices said the British and their Free French Allies are at tacking strongly on all sectors but French troops have launched severe counter attacks with a spirit of full sacrifice"
 Breaking the Hull in the Western air war, German night raiders pounded the British Isles last night in the heaviest attacks in weeks, scattering thousands of propaganda leaflets on the English countryside. The printed matter declared Eng land faces starvation "this year or the beginning of the next"
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.NTI-5TRIkE LEGISLATION
 GET5 ACTION
President Given Statutory Power in Needless De-
 fense Troubles

WASHINGTON. June 12.- The Senate today voted 46 to 25 to con- demn defense industry strikes or iockouts where either disputant re- fuses to abide by the results Of mediation or arbitration.
 The Chamber approved the amendment of Senator Harry F. Byrd and the proposal of Senator Tom Connally to give the President statutory power to take over defense plants where production is tied up or threatened by strikes or lockouts. Final action on the Connally pro- posal is yet to be taken.
 In the meantime a high adminis- trat.on official said the Govern ment is ready and determined to eliminate from defense industries all persons considered guilty of promot- ing strikes for subversive instead of legitimate purposes.
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President Appoints COP. Member Supreme Court
 to Replace Hughes
ATTORNEY GENERAL
 PLACED ON TRIBUNAL
Three Appointments Make Seven Roosevelt Has
 Named 10 Body

WASHINGTON, June 12-Presi- dent Roosevelt today nominated Harlan Fiske Stone of New York, at present Associate Justice, to suc- ceed Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The place va cated by the elevation of Stone is to be filled by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, who was also nominated.
 To fill the vacancy in the Su- preme Court created by the retire ment of James Clark McReynolds on February l, the President nom- mated Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. Ten days ago Chief Justice Hughes submitted to the President a request that he be per- mitted to retire on July l.
 Previous reports were that At torney General Jackson m 1 g h t become Chief Justice were circu-
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Take An(ieni port
 Near Beirut
Half vithY Forces in At- lion Against British
 Join Free Trench

CAIRO, June 12.-British Imper- ial Forces reached the ancient port of Sidon, 20 miles south of Beirut to- day, while Free French units fought on at the southern outskirts of Da- mascus, informed British sources said.
 Tn both sectors French opposition has been overcome, it was asserted. Military dispatches said about half the defending forces thus far en- countered have gone over to the Free French cause, but they stressed that the bulk of the vichy forces have yet to come into action.
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Three Alaska Measures
 Turned Down; Objections
 Made byTwo Departments

WASHINGTON, June 12-Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond an- nounced today that the Interior Department has rejected three bills of interest to Alaska and of which he urged passage, when legislation was introduced into the committees to which they had been referred and then sent to the departments concerned for their opinions
 The Interior Department said the bill to extend the Public Health Service benefits to fishermen would add about 10000 men to those now receiving such benefits and un- doubtedly would put heavy bur-
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den on the Public Health Service.
 Dimond said bill to prohibit the seizing of fishing gear for vio- lations of the Alaska Game laws until after the alleged violator is convicted was branded bill to de- feat the program for protection of the fisheries and this was also turned down.
 The State Department also re- jected bill providing that the pri- ority of employment in Alaska fish cries be given residents of the Ter ritory. It was said the measure would slow down the settleme Tt of the Territory,
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GHOST SHIPS BEING
 PUT IN COMMISSION;
 TICKETS ARE pI(kETED

one skeleton still in the closet.
 The original story said that the motor ship West Grama, last of that old fleet, which slid down the ways for conveys to the Allies more than 20 years ago, was being lowed from its berth in the James River, near Norfolk. Va, for re- conditioning at Mobile, Ala.
 The West Grama's log was combed for romantic items. Then Maritime discovered the steamship West Hematite was still tied up at New Orleans.
 It isn't hard to understand how the Maritime press relations di- vision almost jumped the gun. When the commission set up shop five years ago, it took over from the old shipping board ghost fleet of 196 vessels row after row of old tubs that had been gathering barnacles and rust in ports all around the country. The commission junked or chartered 83. Then. to avoid glutting the shipping market, it quit selling them and came into the present world crisis with l13.
 Tn recent months, the commits sion has been getting rid of these ghosts. It really doesn't matter much whether the West Hematite (5,621 gross tons. with speed Of 12 knots) or the West Grama is the last ghost to ride the waves again. It matters lot that all of that old World War merchant fleet which wasn't junked now is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-06-12

WASHINGTON = The War De- partment's draft industry bill got some rough handling from the President when he discussed it with his Congressional leaders last week.
 He declared that he had not seen the bill before it was introduced, that he considered some of the pro- visions unnecessarily bread He strongly advised the legislators to make certain that nothing remained in the measure that might be con- strued as permitting the seizure of property not needed for defense.
 Some sort of legislation is need ed,' he said in effect, ito enable the Government to deal with situations where defense requirements are ob- structed. But nothing so drastic as this"
 Roosevelt was particularly critical of the provision to take over prop erty permanently. He declared that a tWo-year limit was ample.
 He also told legislative leaders that his original intention had been to ask Congress to broaden the draft industry law, which applies only to plants that refuse to CO., operate with" the Government. He proposed to amend this language to read. "or fail to cooperate But the War Department took the bit in it's teeth and brought out the sweeping bill now before Congress.
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AIR RAIDS
 ARE MADE
 OVER NIGHT
Nazi Planes Swarm Over London, Other Areas
 RAF Also Strikes
tBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Nazi warplanes roared over Lon don, the Midlands and northwest England last night, the British communique said this morning and lin one district it is feared large number of casualties may have been caused"
 In London, the first night alarm since June 2 was sounded and the British Capitals guns fired until just before dawn today.
 British Air Forces attacked the Ruhr Valley industrial centers last night, striking especially at Duis- burg and Dusseldorf
 The RAF also bombed the docks of Nazi held Rotterdam and roared
 l(.nnt1a,fed in papp Siyl
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Norwegian
 kDoonled

OSLO, German-occupied Norway. June PA German military court at Bergen. has sentenced Erling Narthinson. a Norwegian. to death for attempting to sail to England. Others tried on similar charges drew long prison terms.