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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-09
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TdJeS, ldlSS, IidStiNSo Oi oSAfiICo are concerned. Specific complaints from shippers and receivers of freight are few"
 In consequence the Commission did not feel justified to inquire into the reasonableness of individual rates on traffic transported and determined to consider only basic issues involved, that is the req sonableness of the entire rate struc- ture, unfair practices engaged in by the carriers, discrimination shown by them as between shippers and preferences extended to some, and also to determine the fair value of the property owned and used by the steamship companies in their Alaska business for the purpose of ascertaining fair return thereon, by way of profits.
 The proposed increased rates were intended to apply to southeastern and southwestern Alaska, including Kodiak, but were not to. apply to ports in other sections of the ter ritory The average increase amounted to 50 cents per ton; on some commodities there were no increases, on others higher increases and still others took reductions Where increases exceeded 50 cents per ton, the carriers claimed that they applied on commodities of comparatively higher value and risk of transportation such as clothing notions, furniture and dry goods and that rising labor costs, higher insurance rates, increased taxes and greater costs of materials and sup- plies made the demanded increase necessary.
 Not Unreasonable
 The Maritime Commission came to the conclusion that the reason ableness of the demanded freight increases could only be determined by ascertaining whether or not the companies were earning a reason- able return upon the value of their property devoted to their Alaska service and proceeded to determine such value. . It found this to be $6,500 ,0O0, including therein, $l,250,- 900 working capital, in the case of the Alaska Steamship Company, and declaring this to be the fair value of the company's property used by it in its Alaska service pro- ceeded to determine what would be fair return upon that invest ment.
 The Commission then proceeded to examine into the history of the Alaska Steamship Company and found that on January 1. 1908, capi- tai stock of $3,000,000 par value was issued in acquisition of property having reputed cash value equal to that amount. Up to December 3l, 1889, net profits from all sources had aggregated $16,589,550, of which $9.547,88 represented net income from common carrier operations in Alaska. A stock dividend of $1,500,- GOO, and cash dividends amounting to $13,690, 900 had been declared up to December 31, 1899. Ever since the company commenced opera tion in Alaska, it has shown an annual profit except for the years 1892, 1883 and 1884, during these three years it sustained loss of $212,193. It has made similar prof its during the years 1940 and l941 as is indicated by the. following comparative table:
 Alaska Steam Comparison of Revenues, Expenses g ~ fN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-09
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 102.09; rails, 26.52; utilities, 12.43
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-09
REGISTER NOW

Regardless of previous registra- ton, all Juneau residents wishing to vote in the April 2 election must register at the City Hall before noon, April 4. The office will be open during the noon hour each day.
 ROBERT G. RICE. adv. City Clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-03-09
BROKEN LENSES

Are promptly replaced in our owil shop. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson Blomgren Building. adv
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

Now that we have entered the war
every individual may as we'll become
resigned to the fact that he is going
to be called upon to carry it to a
successful conclusion. This will mean
more work and harder work. It will
mean doing without good many
things that many of us have come to
regard as necessities. It will mean
cheerful, and willing, and complete
compliance to the rulings of those
in authority. Some of the orders
are going to seem drastic and harsh,
but it is a drastic and harsh situa-
ton that we are facing, and victory
is going to be worth any inconven-
fence and any sacrifice on the part
of those permitted to remain at
home in sheltered security.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
WE NEED THEM

Should commerce be shut off with
the islands let us consider what
would he the economic Importance
of loss of trade with the Philippines.
The first three imports of import
ance to the United States are sugar,
manila hemp and cocoanut products.
The Importance of the cocoanut oil
is great enough that shutting it off
would cause despair in the soap bus
mess since they depend upon this
oil to make the lather AS a start
er you might consider the amount of
coconut that comes in butter SubSti-
tutes, CONNECTIONS and explosives. AL
most all of the coconut oil used here
comes from the Philippines. Take
the case of manila hemp. Since this
makes the strongest rope and since
rope is used in all the important
industries, we would miss the loss of
90 percent of the manila rope COM
ing from the Philippines. We might
not be inflicted with such hard
ship if we lost the Is percent of SUI
gar importation which was the
amount used by the United States
from the islands.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
PET PEEVES

In Alabama in 1889 a group of
young men who formed the towns
Junior Chamber of Commerce, de-
cided to name January as their Pet
Peeve or GRIPPE month. At the first
glance this may not seem as valuable
as if you think the proposition over
carefully. Each of us in Kennewick
has a pet peeve and usually find
time to bring it up sometime during
each day. We work on it, hash it
over by annoying friends, relatives
and strangers until the pet peeve be-
comes our personal trade mark.
Perhaps we might use the idea OF
observing January as official grippe
month, dwelling earnestly for 81
days on pet peeves in order to rid
OUR systems of them for the other
eleven months. If we could get
along with each other for this
month";, as far as bodily injury to
each other is concerned, what a
treat for the rest of the calendar
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
Mrs. C.. iii. Meyer Visits
Daughter i'm Seattle

HIGHLANDS-M c. H Meyer
returned home last Friday after
making a trip to the coast with her
son-in-law. Harry Higley. While
there, she visited at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. Jewel Slaybaugh
and family in Seattle.
Howard withers left Saturday for
Tacoma to enter the N. P. hospital
for treatment.
Mrs. Minnie King, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. w. L. For
aker and family, left Monday for
Council.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Nelson are
the parents Of an 8 ga pound son,
born Friday night at the L. Minton
home in Kennewick. The young lad
has been named Thomas Campbell
Mrs. Nelson's mother, Mrs. F. c.
Poore. is staying at the Nelson home
during her absence.
Mrs. Torrance Taylor, accompan-
led by Mrs. Clark Taylor, motored to
Hermiston last Thursday.
Jack Ross is reported quite i'll at
his home on the South Highlands
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Lee were
Sunday dinner guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Campbell
in Kennewick.
Billy Green accompanied the 9th
grade basketball team to SunnySide
Tuesday, where they played a win
ming game, score being % to IL.
Mrs. r. w. Woods and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Morgan attended the
Joint Installation Services Of the
Rebekahs and Odd Fellows in Ken
newick Monday night.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
CHINA LOOKS AHEAD

Time was when the Chinese SOL
der was despised by his neighbor
because to the peace-loving Chinese
soldering was not an honorable sort
of business. The war lords couldn't
get many volunteers to fight in bat
tie and consequently hired the SOL
diers as purely business PROPOSE
tion. All of this has changed in to-
days China where upon the Shout
ders of her soldiers China is making
plans to place the heavy burden of
reconstruction after this war.
Chinese soldiers plant small vege-
table gardens often quite close to
their army camp with often each
army unit keeping two pigs and
sometimes a goat to vary the food
supply. When they are transferred,
they pass their goods on to the
neighbors. Each officer and man in
the Chinese army spends at least
two hours week in what they term
labor service" which is helping
build roads, dig wells, make parks
and Fairgrounds, build houses,
dredge rivers and work in the fields
They can also learn a trade while
being in the army and under the
guidance of experienced workers.
China has difficulty in caring for
her wounded soldiers In the Chinese
Red Gross there are only 481 doc
tors to care for four million men.
But they are busily establishing
training schools where in three
months men can obtain basic medi-
cal knowledge to treat ommon all
ments. These schools are helping
solve a real problem.
For a long number of years China
has been struggling to gain foot
hold in bringing a backward nation
into new being, building new China
and with this training offered the
soldiers today, having them meet
the people in friendly and coopera-
tive basis for work and training,
China is heading for RECONSTRUCT
tion that will surely repay her for
her great patience, courage and per-
severance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
RESTRICTED NEWS

It was to be expected that there
would be a soft pedal put on the
publishing of news, that it would
not remain unhampered and uncen-
sored by the government during time
OF active warfare. This doesn't
make a newspaperman happy, but
he realizes the necessity for rea-
sonable amount of government re-
straint. The public says give us the
news full and free-the enemy learns
what is going on and why 'fthe easy
way" If we will but regard CEN
sorship in wartime as a means OF
protecting the lives of our men and
the safety of our military equip
ment through the pages of the press
is actually criminal. This field, that
of printing the news, is not without
its unwise and careless editors, and
to trust them as a whole, with the
issuing Of news at their own dis
erection and using their own judy
ment as their yardstick might per-
init the safety of our nation and its
people to be gravely endangered.
AS a subscribed mentions, we
hope that the censorship will work
with the same satisfaction here as
it has in Great Britain. We wish to
give the people the necessary news
but not conflict with their liberties
for after all, that is one Of the rea-
sons for which we fight!
Censorship must not stop con.
structive criticism of the govern
ment, the issuing of social, political
economic and diplomatic services
To keep a restraining had but no
place a blot on the power in ths
Americas freedom of his press.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
Home Circle Meeting
Postponed til Later

LOCUST GROvE-Locust D.,
Home Circle viii not meat N "
month as was previously nlooI
due to the cold and uncerta,r ~
Their. Next months meeting nlo., wa
not yet been announced. WatcS !. y
paper for further instructions y
Mrs. Henry Smith is enter,ro :.
PaSco hospital today for a ~
operation. We wish her a Snesar y
covery. "
Miss Marion Kohler Of Pasco .
Lester Liebel were visitors ~ -
Henry Smith home
r. K. Stafford is on the sick 4.
this week.
Gilbert Edwards has been w,s
ing at Pratt's garage this week
Ora Mae Lyons was a sur,.
visitor at the A. A. Edwards hon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Smith :.
staying at the Henry Smith bo-
during their absence, due to the nj
ness Of Mrs. Henry Smith.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
Father Spends Winter
Here With Two Sons

BENTON CTTY-Martin Hanson
of Underwood N. D. came Sunday tC
spend the remainder of the winter
with his sons, Fred and Oscar Han
son.
Announcements were received Sat
urday by Benton City friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Montgomery of Nord-
land of the birth Of a daughter
Judith Rose on December "a.
The local grange will be guests OF
the Finley grange, January Is.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

II WISH" local business man re-
marked yesterday, that when I at
tended high school I had taken
typewriting instead of Latin. I have
not had any use for Latin since I
got into business, but every day I
could use some typewriter training.
am a two finger writer. both envy
and marvel at the high school stu
dent of today who can make type
writer talk. If I was going to give
any advice to high school students it
would be to learn to run a type
writer. You can't tell how much you
will use that knowledge after you
leave school,"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

Mussolini is to be the first of the
aggressors who is going to he called
upon to pay the price of his associa-
ton with the outlaw, Hitler. He has
been stripped of his stolen African
Empire and has dragged an indus
trious people into fruitless and un-
provoked war. He is going to he
stripped of his country and his blat-
ant pompousness humbled before the
world and his people. He deserves it
all. His fate is going to be a lesson
to Japan and an example to the
world of what happens in a civilized
world. to the accomplices of the out
law Hitler.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

A scarcity of newsprint is being
predicted for the reason that many
mills now making newsprint are be-
ing turned over to the manufacture
of cardboard for shell cases and
liners. Some papers will be reduced
in size and subscription and adver-
Using rates will have to be increased
to meet the added cost.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
Now that war has come and thu

Now that war has come and the
priorities demand that materials
shall all go to defense and the larg-
er centers and that the sale of many
items shall be restricted it becomes
increasingly important and increas-
ingly necessary that the small towns
hold all of the business that of right
belongs to them. It is going to be
difficult enough the coming year,
and the next, and the next, to keep
up the standard of living and life in
the small town, even though it re-
ceives all the business of its trade
area. This fact should cause every
man and woman to stop and think
before he sends a dollar out of the
community to purchase things that
might be secured in the local COM
munity from local merchants. The
town is going to need all the re-
sources it can muster if it's way of
life is going to maintain. In more
prosperous times this drain was not
noticed as it will be the next two or
three years. Men and women are
beng called upon in large numbers
to defend the nation and are re-
spending CALAMITY, and generously
and periodically. The small towns
are also calling in perhaps not SO
direct and articulate a maner, but
never the less calling for the men
and women of the community tc
stand by them and help them ride
through the storm that has broken
upon us, by keeping the lifeblood Of
the community-its money at home
It is the best home defense to which
we, of the home town, can rally.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

The Japs revealed further their
true character when they bombed
the open and unfortified city of Ma
Mia. This was done after Japan
had been informed that every means
of defense had been removed from
Manila. These things should be re-
membered when the ultimate day OF
victory comes. The terms of peace
should be such as are justly deserv-
ed by such principle and treachery
and complete lack of honor. They
should not be dealt with in that day
as men, but as the treacherous Sink
ing creatures of infamy that they
are.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

To meet defense needs the collec-
ton Of scrap iron, rags, bones and
even household greases is to be in
stituted throughout the country
Years ago every community had a
dealer in this type of material and in
some sections itinerant buyers
Travelled through the country buying
scrap and junk. 1t is predicted that
this business will be revived.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15
R. G. Home Nursing CIas
Organized on Highlands

HIGHLANDS-A group Of AIM,
40 Highland Ladies met Tuesday !.
the Highland club house TO orrar
ize classes for Red Cross Home Mn
ing. under the leadership Of Nm
Harrison Of PaSco. The group M
divided into two classes, which vi
meet again next Tuesday, the I'm
class from ! to 3, the second fru,
3 to S O'Clock.
Mrs. Frank Peter is reported a
the sick list this week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

It Is rumored that a federal sales
tax law may be enacted. Nothing
definite has been done to date about
it, but it can be safely assumed that
it is going to require a vast sum OF
money to prosecute this war to a
successful conclusion and the gov
eminent is going to use whatever
means becomes necessary to raise
the needed money.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

To make room for war agencies
in Washington, D. c., a number of
governmental agencies have been
moved out of the city. Others may
follow later. The moves if they prove
practicable will be made permanent
With these offices, in the neighbour
hood of 10000 federal employees will
be moved out of Washington.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

Winston Churchill truly charac-
terized Mussolini in his address be-
fore the Senate and the House OF
Representatives in Washington
when he said: "He is now but q
lacky and a serf, the merest utensi
of his masters will"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

With the coming of rationing Of
automobile tires a lot of people in
this country are going to discover
what a really healthful and enjoy
able exercise walking is. 1t will be
slower, but it will have it's compen-
SationS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

1t is limited that compulsory buy
ing of war bonds may come in 1912.
This will depend, of course, upon the
degree to which war bonds are pur-
chased by the public on its own vo-
lition.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-15

Lake Quinault on the Olympic
Peninsula is owned by the Indians.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-04
Daughter of Ann Arbor
People WEEDS in California

Ann Arbor, Mich, May Am
nouncement is being made of the
marriage of Bertha NJ. Reiff, Los
Angeles, Calf, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur c. Reif. Mulholland
Ave, and Milton Stotz. Inglewood,
Calf, son Of Mr.. and Mrs William
Stotz, Monroe.
The ceremony took place Friday
night in Grace Lutheran Church,
Los Angeles. the Rev e. r. Wis.
mar reading the service The cou-
pies only attendants were Mr. and
Mrs. r. d. Schrenk. Los Angeles.
The bride designed her wedding
costume. an ice blue crepe dress
and matching hat. She wore
corsage Of white orchids with her
wedding dress and travelling cos
tune. red suit with brown acces-
SORES.
They will make their home at
942 w. 53rd St, Los Angeles. on
their return from a trip through
Southern California and Mexico.
The bride is a graduate OF Ann
Arbor High School and attended
Detroit Business Institute. Mr..
Stotz is graduate OF the Uni
versity.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-04

Ann Arbor, Mich. May i-The
outstanding event OF Music Week
in Michigan will be the Ann Arbor
May Festival, OF six concerts, May
6. L s, 9. This will be the forty
ninth annual consecutive event Of
its kind. Because OF the war, spe-
cial attention has been devoted to
the building Of suitable musical
programs. ana the engagement Of
outstanding performers.
Marian Anderson, recognized as
the worlds outstanding colored con-
tralto, will participate in the first
concert. under the baton Of Eugene
Ormandy. who will also lead his
Philadelphia Orchestra In mum
erous important orchestral selec-
tons.
Emmanuel Feuermann, violin
cellist. will play Dvorak's Second
Concerto Thursday evening; and
Judith Hellwig, Czechoslcvakian so
prano, Enid Szantho, British-Hun-
garian contralto and Felix knight,
American tenor with Rabbi Ber-
nard Brickner as narrator, will Join
the Choral Union and the Philadel'
phis Orchestra under the baton Of
Thor Johnson in a presentation Of
Honegger's biblical work entitled
king David.
Friday afternoon a particularly
interesting program will be given
under the batons OF Saul CASTOR
and Juva Higbee. Carroll Glenn,
the sensational American violinist,
will make her Ann Arbor debut.
Miss Glenn, a descendant OF the
famous John Carroll OF Carrollton,
q signer OF the Declaration OF In
dependence. was the recipient Of
the highest honor awarded by the
National Federation OF Music Clubs.
She had previously won the Naum-
berg and the Schubert awards. Her
concert appearances and engage
ments with leading orchestras. such
as the New York Philharmonic. the
Chicago and Minneapolis and 9TH
ers. has stamped her among the
great virtuosi OF the day
In addition TO the appearance of
Carroll Glenn, in the same program
the Festival Youth Chorus will sing
Fletcher's THE Walrus and the
Carpenter. interpreted with suit
able orchestral selections
Helen Trsubel will BE- heard in
an all-Wagner program Friday
night under the baton OF Eugene
Ormandy. Miss Traubel has won
wide recognition. The fact that
she is an American and American
trained, has only emphasized her
profound Wagnerian interpreta-
tions.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the distin-
guished Russian pianist immortal
ized as conductor and composer as
well, will be heard for the first time
in Ann Arbor with orchestra. in an
all-Rachmaninoff program Saturday
afternoon. playing his Second Con.
oerto; preceding which Mr.. Or
mandy will lead the Orchestra in
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-04

Ann Arbor, Mich, May Cor
espondence with prisoners OF war
in Japan and interned civilians is
now possible through the Interna-
tional Red Cross Committee in Ge-
neva, according TO local Red Cross
authorities and Norman H. Davis,
national chairman OF the commit
tee. The Japanese government has
agreed to abide by the rules of the
Geneva and Cairo conventions con-
corning treatment of prisoners of
war and postal regulations.
Addressing of such mail will first
entail an affirmation by the Pro-
vost Marshal General that such per-
sons believed to be prisoners are
actually in the hands of the Japa.
nese. No postage will be required
on the letters which should be ad-
dressed, with the name of the pri-
soner, military title and branch of
the service, formerly OF Wake,
Guam etc, American Prisoner in
/ Japan in care of the International
/ Red Cross Committee.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Day, stu
dent at the University, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Lennon have received
word through the American Red
Cross that members of their family
are reported well in Manila. Miss
Day. whose parents lived in Manila
and were interned by the Japanese,
learned that they are staying in
the buildings OF the University OF
Santo Tomas and that they are not
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-04
More Than Thirty Men
Qualify For Air Force

Ann Arbor. Mich, May Army
air force officials who have been
here for three days seeking recruits,
report that 80 TO 35 young men
from Ann Arbor have qualified for
enlistment. The response TO the
appeal for military pilots has been
greater during this visit OF the
board than at any other time, they
stated.
The board is to remain In Ann
Arbor today and Tuesday and will
return May ~, 10, and Il.
Among the latest to qualify are
Lewis Kalb. %, 1902 Prescott St,
and William E. Chickering, Jr., 49,.
a University junior. Mr.. CHECKER
ing was born in Germany where his
father was with the American army
OF occupation. His home is in
Washington. Mr.. Chickering. Sr..
is now on duty somewhere in Afri-
ca.