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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
New National Defense Mediation Board Given
 Direct Information
TWO LARGE PLANTS ARE
 TIED-Up BY WALk0UTS
No Serious Outbreaks in Bethlehem, But 30 h.
 jured, Chicago
(By Associated Press)

The new National Defense Media ton Board, organized yesterday in Washington, today announced it has received a list of 12 threatened strikes from the Office of Produc- tion Management.
 The strikes involve 58,950 work CTS and will effect the defense pro- gram
 { The new board can act only in labor disputes, making an investiga- ton and then publish findings if necessary to settle the controversies.
 There have been no new out breaks of violence in Bethlehem, Pa, where the great Bethlehem Steel Corporations plants are tied-up, or in Chicago where the International Harvester Company's and McCor- mick Works are closed because of walkouts over both collective bar gaining disputes and wage increases. In Chicago yesterday, 30 persons were injured in riots.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26

WASHINGTON, March 26. n No matter what happens in the Bal kans, the man who will go down in history-along with Prince Paul and Franklin Roosevelt-for trying hardest to keep Yugoslavia out of Hitler's grasp, will be a genial lit tie man of peasant origin who rep resents the kingdom of the Serbs, Greats and Slovenes as Minister in Washington.
 He is Constantin Fotitch, sent in virtual exile to Washington, but from that exile, his cabled warn ings to Belgrade to keep out of the Axis and his influence with President Roosevelt proved pow erful support to the pro- British Prince Paul.
 To get the full picture of what Fotitch has done it is necessary to go back to the days when he was permanent Under Secretary of For eign Affairs for the Yugoslav Gov ernment and an important cog m the machinery of alliances built up by France to enforce the Yer sailles Treaty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
-Dimond Gives Testimony Before Committee on
 Appropriations
ALASKA SAFE AS LONG
 AS FLEET IN PACIFIC
Dire Results Predicted If Protection Not Afford
 ed 10 NorthIdnd

WASHINGTON, March 26.--Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told told the House Appropriations Sub committee today at public hear ing, that unless Alaska is adequately defended it will fall into the hands of aggressive and barbarous ene- mics. diabolically devoted to the destruction of things in the social, economic. political and religious life to which we give the highest value.
 Delegate .Dimond appeared before the subcommittee to support the construction of the Defense High way from the United States proper to Alaska through Canada.
 The Delegate did not mention Japan or Russia but said: We have seen what happened to China, Fin land and Poland"
 The Alaska Delegate said the problem of defending Alaska is a simple one as long as the United States Fleet could remain in the Pacific, but added "If our fleet should be compelled to go to the Atlantic and required to remain there, if the Panama Canal is then blocked, it is too much to hope our enemies will be so good, so kindly. not to take over Alaska.
 "In such an event, the highway between the United States and AL aska is really indispensable not only for the defense of our own country but for Canada"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26

 FundsGranfed
House Appropriations Committee Makes Report
 and Recommendations

WASHINGTON, March 26.-With emphasis on defense works. such as the Panama Canal. the House Ap- propriatons Committee today ap- proved of the $500, ,272, 900 civil func- tions War Department bill, including rivers, harbors and flood control.
 The committee recommends $52,- 100000 cash for constructural auth ority.
 Brig. Gen. Glenn Edgerton. of the Canal Government, reported third set of locks will probably be com pleted in advance of the scheduled date. June 30. l946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
Extends Blockade of Great Britain Beyond Iceland
 10 Near Greenland
WAR ZONE LIMITS
 ARE NOW ADVANCED
Coast Guard Boats Are in Hazardous Area-Ndzi
 Makes Threats
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

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 Germany has threatened to answer with deedsv any dispute of her action in extending the sea blockade of Great Britain beyond Iceland and within three miles of Greenland.
 By the declaration, Germany has thereby formally moved the war zone to the threshold of the Western Hemisphere.
 Two United states Coast Guard cutters are reported cruising Greenland waters, part of the American iceberg patrol.
 Washington authorities have repeatedly declared Greenland is covered by the Monroe Doc Urine.
 The Germans have said the sea blockade has been extended to include Iceland after reports were received that American ships are unloading there, for transshipment of war supplies from the United States to Great Britain.
 No immediate comment was forthcoming up to noon today from official circles regarding Germany's new action on the sea blockade extension.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 26.-Til leave it to the others to give you the staggering figures on Grand Coulee dam. It's the biggest thing by far ever built by man.
 What I want to tell you is the story that Rep. Knute Hill, of Prosser, Wash, told me. It is the story of the vision of three little men, and of a fourth who joined them immediately in that vision and in the great battle against ridicule, indifference, and the con- stant dinning in their ears of the phrase, Tt can't be done It can be written now, because it IS DONE. With the opening of the Grand Coulee dam, March p, their vision was a reality.
 Some day some poet may make verses about it as well known as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
.xI5p0WER5 PLAN ACTION
 IN FAR EAST
Japanese Foreign Minister in Berlin for Import-
 ant Discussions

BERLIN. March 26. Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka has arr rived here for discussions regard ing the three-power alliance
 German commentators said the discussions are designed to make the three-power pact more effec- tive instrument in organizing new order" in Europe, also in the Far East.
 The German Capital City gave rousing welcome to Matsuoka but it is acknowledged this welcome had background of jubilation over Yugoslavia's entrance into the Axis camp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
Carol Is 10
 Livein(hiIe
Government Grants Form. CT Rumdnidn King and
 Woman Right 10 Home

LISBON, March 26-The Chilean Legation officials announce that former King Carol of Rumania and his companion. Mazda Lupescu, now in Portugal, will soon sail to take up residence in Chile.
 Jose Ario, Chilean Minister to Portugal, announces his government has given permission to the pair to enter and reside in Chile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
DEFENSE WORK. EVEN KEEPING
 p0STMAN BUSY

WASHINGTON, March 26.-Mail to and from the War Department jumped by l25.25 percent between February, 1940. and February. l941. the Department announced recent ly, Last month 2,744,0l1 pieces of mail matter were handled.
 Outgoing mail totaled 987.844 pieces, and incoming l,070,l64 piec- es. Largest rate of increase was for the office of chief of ordnance whose mail jumped during the year by 35O50 percent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
PRISONERS PUSSY
 ABOUT UNIFORMS

WILSON, s. O., March 26.-Coun- ty Manager Walter H. Merce is having uniform trouble at the Will son County jail. Prisoners keep in- sisting on wearing their pretty new jail uniforms inside out so that on- lockers cannot see the words "Wil- son County jail' sewed on the back.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
MRS. SPENCER HERE

Mrs. Winston Spencer arrived on the Columbia and is visiting her mother, Mrs. William Fromholtz on Glacier Highway. Mrs. Spencer will join her husband, coming north on the Yukon, and proceed to Good news Bay with him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
No Raids by Air Reported
 During Nighl
Both Great Britain, Ger. man Fleets Lay Off on
 Aerial Thrusts
(By Associated Press)

There was another lull last night in the air warfare between Great Britain and Germany and just what the meaning is is not indi- cated.
 Neither Great Britain nor Ger many report any important blows struck across the English Channel or Strait of Dover.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
LITTLE ENTENTE

The other cogs in that machin- cry were pr. Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, the late Foreign Minister Nicolas Titulescu of Ru- mania. and for many years, Aris- tide Briand of France.
 CzechoSlovakia and Rumania, to-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
HERMLE RETURNING

John Hermle. of the Home Groc- cry. who has been south on pleasure and business. is returning to Juneau aboard the Yukon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
GRAND (0ULEE DAM E
 GREATEST THING EVER
 BUILT BY MAN I5 CLAIM

those of Robert w. Service, which start: "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up" = except that these boys" weren't whooping it up; they were just eating lunch. And it wasn't in any saloon; t was in the Ephrata Cafe, in Eph- rata, Wash. And the boys were just business men of this little town of 5i6 population.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
MEHERIN ON TRIP

J. J. Meherin left on the North Sea to call on the merchants at Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26

The marine corps now has abou. 44,OOO enlisted men and 1000 officers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
GOES TO sITKA

Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson left on the North Sea on professional visit to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26
IT STARTED IN 1918

They were William M. Billy" Clapp, lawyer; Gale Mathews, ab- stractor. and Rufus Woods, editor of the Wenatchee (Wash.) Daily World. It was the summer Of 1918 and most everybody was talking about the war and the second Bat tie of the Marne. But not these three They were mulling over the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26

tContinueo on Page Four,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-26

,IonLlnued on Page Five,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
CHURCHILL INSPIRES
HIS COUNTRYMEN

(Oroville Mercury-Register)
Give us the tools and we shall finish
the job.
When Winston Churchill speaks his
words thrill the English speaking world.
He is a master of the spoken word, and
that means great deal in this day of
Worldwide radio transmission.
The three greatest nations of the world
are led each by man capable of inspir
ing his people, but we think Churchill
is the most capable of the three. We know
how able is President Roosevelt over the
radio. If we spoke German We would
better appreciate the ability of Hitler
to inspire the German breast.
Churchill's address of Sunday, asking
only for the confidence of the American
people and their utmost in war supplies
found a ready audience in this country.
Woven into it were few diSQuietlng tips,
such as the prediction of the immediate
fall of Bulgaria and the significant as
sertion that Britain must have more ship
ping.f facilities. The fall of Bulgaria thus
was discounted and we Americans We're
calmly informed that OUR shipping ia
cilities are the ones counted on. His ar
tistry gave us the news with the mini
mum of shock.
Churchill's ability before the mike is
one of Britain's chief assets in this war
time 1t serves to keep the British NOR
ale near top efficiency and rallies the
dominions back of his inspired leader
ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
CONGRESS KEEPS CONTROL

Amendments to the British-aid bill
concurred in by both house and senate
foreign relations committees should as
sure the measure of speedy passage
through congress.
= Of particular Importance is the
amendment giving congress the right
at any time, by concurrent resolution, to
revoke the powers granted to the presi-
dent under the bill. There may be a
drive by administration leaders in the
senate to wipe out this amendment. Any
such effort should be repulsed. The
amendment is the one thing that gives
congress control over the situation in the
event the Presidents actions go con-
trary to public desire.
Important, too, is the amendment fix
ing a time limit on life of the act, and
the one proposed by Wendell L. Willkie
-althdlgh not yet written into the bill
which would limit aid to nations ac-
tually victims of aggression at the pres
ent time.
With these amendments, and others
limiting and controlling the unbounded
power the bill would have conferred, in
its original form, OH the President, it is
a measure which will meet with sweeping
public approval. The sooner it is enact
ed into law, the better the people will
like it,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
THE new FAIR BOARD
DESERVES A CHANCE

Within a few days-possibly before
this appears in print-Goveinor Culbert
l.. Olson will announce his new appoint
ments to the Imperial county fair board
Those most prominently mentioned for
the vacant positions are fully qualified
to serve; in fact, they should make emf
nently good directors.
Anyone who has read this column con-
sistently knows our disapproval of fair
board appointments that are made for
purely political reasons, or on basis of
party membership. 1t needs no repeti-
ton here.
Another fact remains, however.
We may diSapprove of the way the
appointments were made We may have
thought that the old directors who have
rem dered su h business-like service
should be allowed to continue their un
selfish work. But we have no right to
withhold one iota of cooperation from
the new members; we have no reason for
thinking that they may not be as effic-
lent as their predecessors.
The people of Imperial county who
fought to keep politics out of county
fair management must, if they are to
follow their own policies, offer every
help they can give to the new directors.
If they do not-that will be injecting
politics into the picture from another
angle.
We expect the new directors to avoid
any political consideration in the way
they conduct the county far
Expecting this, we must expect others
to avoid political considerations in their
dealings with the new board. Nobody
has the right to force politics upon the
board and then complain.
The new directors are as entitled to the
cooperation of the community as were
the old ones The fair remains a COM
munity project which must continue to
grow and prosper. Only through the
com bined efforts of everyone can it do
so. This is not a fair for Democrats; it
is not fair for Republicans. It is
fair for every person in Imperial Valley
and every person in Imperial Valley
should do what he can to make it the
biggest, most prosperous event Of its
kind in the state.
The new fair board has gigantic job
to do More power to them in the doing
of If
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
by Paul Harrison =.
HoRywoods S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

landed in Philadelphia, and I now
turn the story over to Grace
Hartman:
We were doing an adagio-but
seriously We didn't have a full
stage set Of our own and were
using some discarded flats for a
backdrop which had a few holes
but looked all right. Paul was
whirling me around his neck. He
let me go, and instead of landing
gracefully I slipped and dove
through the backdrop, clear out of
sight of the audience. They howl
ed and we practically died. AS
went On again, the manager told
me we should finish with some
thing funny, as if the accident
were intentional. We tried, and we
tried too hard, but we got by.
And that was the beginning of
cur comedy routine, although it took
lot of polishing. We underplay it
now, starting seriously and earnest-
ly, and letting it get away from
lis -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
FARM LAND VALUES
(Hanford SentineD

California farmers will be pleased to
know that the value of farm lands and
buildings in the state during the year Just
past was fourth highest in the nation,
trailing closely behind Iowa, Texas and
Illinois.
These four were the only states whose
farm values were in excess of two mil
lion dollars apiece. Kings county as an
integral part of the agricultural life of
California, undoubtedly played an i'm
portant role in this total valuation.
With its great gold industry. its avia-
ton and its film industries its tremend-
Gus shipping activity and its growing
role as vital cog in the national defense
program, California may we'll be proud
of its advance in the past decade.
The other side of the national agricul-
tural picture is not quite so optimistic
1t shows that there has been a decline of
81 per cent in the number of farms in
the country from 1880 to 1910.
However, there has been an increase of
seven per cent in total farm acreage,
meaning that the size of the average farm
is larger than it was in 1890
Total valuation of farms in 1910, in
cludlng Dotn landS ana Dulld1nSS, Is we'll
below 1880. In that year, the valuation
was almost 48 billion dollars for the 48
states, as compared with SO and half
billions in 1910.
California and Kings county farmers
can look forward, confidentially. to the
future of agriculture in the state, provid-
ing an enlightened farm policy is follow
ed by the government, and that the wars
in Europe and Asia do not disrupt the
flow of farm products to the extent that
they will disIocate domestic quotas seri-
ously.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
by Peter Edson..
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

II cooks faster than japanese rice
and goes mushy if cooked too long.
There was a family tempest III
every rice pot in Japan. If the
housewife cooked for the 1ndo-
China rice. the japanese rice was
not done. If she cooked for the
harder japanese rice, the 1ndo-
a.,iHa grains went into paste. For a
-, - were il such state
that the II }a9nt tried q mix
ture With 10 to ~ Der cent wheat,
but the people wouldn't accept it.
The result of all this has been
that the price of rice has doubled
from 1888 to 1910, the high for
last year being 43 yen per koku.
A yen is 81 cents and koku is
five and an eighth bushels, and
any slide rule should figure that
out at about 50 bushel. Chicago
wheat now being around soc, and
the Japanese Incomes being what
they are, you can figure it out
that things aren't SO good.
On top of that there is an acute
farm labor shortage in Japan,
there is a shortage of fertilizer,
and crop reports are so low that
some belief can be given the idea
that the rice farmers are simply
holding out on the government
purchasing agent. Normally, Ja-
pan produces 60 per cent OF her
rice consumption, the balance COM
ing from Chosen and TaiWan
island
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

Whatever differs frem this, to the
extent of the difference, is no de
mocracy."
There on a slide rule of complete
accuracy Lincoln left a means of
measuring the claims and counter
claims of all the men who babble
about whether this country or that.
this system or the other, is truly
democratic. One need only measure
the claims against this plain stand
ard. Perhaps in no earthly land are
men utterly free; perhaps in all
lands some men must have some
degree of mastery. But in the
extent of the difference" lies the
key.
Lincoln not only lived a life that
was of, by, and for democracy.
He left us this beautifully simple
uie-of-thumb by which we can al
ways unerringly measure by how
much we, or others, fall short of
the true democratic goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
by Willis Thornton
Lincoln, Who WAS Democracy

The little creek still winds down
the tiny valley near Hodgenville,
KY. the spring still flows on the
wooded hillside; there are even
trees standing there which people
like to believe were standing on
the morning ef Feb. H. 1909
There on that morning gaunt
Tom Lincoln wrapped bearskin
rug about his wife, Nancy Hanks,
and set off on a two-mile walk to
the nearest neighbor to tell them
that she had borne a son, and that
they had decided to call him Abra-
ham.
Be still for a moment, cannon;
let the tenSed finger relax from
the bomb release while America
turns mind and heart to her great
est son, Abraham Lincoln, whom a
world has been glad to call one of
her greatest.
There is much talk of democracy
today, and whole books are written
to define it and discuss it and be-
labor it. What is democracy, any
way?
Why, it is really very simple. 1t
Is the kind Of condition in which
Lincoln may be born and, being
born, may become what Lincoln be-
came. Lincoln not only understood
democracy, practiced democracy.
breathed democracy-he WAS de
mocraey.
And with that curious felicity
that comes SO rarely to men, he
was able also to define it in words
so simple, so direct, 50 powerful.
that they are worth all the books
lesser men have written. In a letter
to friendd one day Lincoln wrote
this:
As | would not be slave. so I
would not be a master. That ex-
presses my idea Of democracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 - Jaz
paii's new order in the Orient seems
to be boiling down to a fight for
rice. Not oil, not scrap iron. not
living rccm for its overcrowded
people-just battle for enough to
eat.
The story comes out i mt
ly unrelated official STATEN
supplemented by reports to the
o. S. Department of Commerce,
they fit together to solve a Jap
anese puzzle in manner that
would be almost too neat, II 1t
weren't for the official reports
themselves, which give the key to
the whole situation.
First, there was the announce
ment from Toxic that rice is to be
rationed to the Japanese people.
Food books are to be issued, Man
l.al laborers will get larger ra-
ton, but the bowl of rice that
everyone gets will be definitely
limited.
Then, while the Japanese were
fixing up peace between Thai
land and French Indo-China, they
also made a little deal OF their
own with Indo-China and the first
Item in that agreement provided
that Japan would have virtual
monopoly of Indo-China rice.
PEOPLE DON'T LIKE
INDO-CHINA RICE
With that trick taken, it might
appear that Japan would have no
further worry about a food supply,
but here's the kicker The Jap
anese people don't like Indo-China
rice.
There are, of course, dozens of
varieties of rice, but in general
they classify as hard grain and
soft grain variety, which they raise
themselves and Which is also raised
in Chosen (Koreal whose surplus
Is imported by Japan. Last year,
however rice crops in both Japan
and Chosen weren't so good. To
make UP the shortage, the Jap
aneSe food ministry tried to en-
fcrce a ruling that 20 per cent
1ndo-China rice should be mixed
with 80 per cent Japanese rice,
Just to give everybody enough.
But Indo- China rice is soft grain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
HIGH L. S. COSTS
Ps5Gg{E ~
CUT PRODUCTION

The world balance OF rice there
fore becomes an important eco
nomic factor in maintaining sta
hility. Nearly tWo-thirds of the
worlds population can be classified
as ice-eating, and more than half
is in the most densely populated
areas-India. Netherlands East In
dies, China, Japan, Thailand, Indo-
China, Malaga, and the myriad
islands cf the Pacific. And while
the average per capita rice con-
sumption in the United states is
about five pounds "a year, in the
Orient it runs to 300 pounds per
person per year-nearly a pound a
Gay.
Indo-C China and Thailand are the
two largest rice exporting countries.
If there is any world rice market
capital it is Saigon. Scattered
local production over vast areas
prevents there being any rice kings
or rice monopolies. -. ale
Japan, however. by her one bold
strcke in Indo-Chipa. has. come as
close to cornering the world rice
market as is possible, and if she
can further exert her influence over
rice exports of Thailand, hundreds
Of millions of people in rice import
Ing countries next year will be
wondering where they're going to
get enough to eat.
Take Netherlands East Indies.
with 65,000000 people, more dense
ly populated on some islands than
Japan, and always forced to i'm
port rice. What Japan may not be
able to win by argument in conces-
sions from the Dutch, she might
win by shutting off the rice supply
from Indo-China. It's as simple as
that.
Take our own Philippines, and
Guam and Hawaii, Virgin, Islands
and Puerto Rico, which STRANGELY
enough (don't began TO produce
enough rice for their own brown
brother populations. ..I
All Latin America consumes
quantities of rice. Brazil has step
ped up lately as a rice producer.
Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and
California are principal rice pro-
duclng states in the U. S., but
higher production costs limit their
markets.
Invaded China. which should be
suffering from rice shortage, isn't.
It's the Jap armies who need rice
most, and that explains the grab
of the Indo-Chinese rice market.