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Evening star., 1942-10-04

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sofa 50 per cent In II industrial states the
average increased 13 per cent. This means
that before 1912 has passed - unless there
is an effective oountaattack - 10000 Ameri-
can factory workers viii have died at their
posts, $4,000 will be permanently disabled.
and 600 laid up fm varying lengths Of
time.
This safety business, you can readily see,
Is not mere welfare work. It is matter OF
cold -h1ooded bookkeeping. The War Depart
ment knows that the production rate Of
vitally- needed munitions is seriously affected
by the accident rate It Is also matter of
money, both the workers and the nations.
What causes this frishtful casualty
kst1 Unguarded gears, belts and pulleys,
dangerous arrangement of machines,
greasy Aoors, failure to provide fro pro-
lection or other safety devices, lack of
safety education and practice.
Can the slaughter be prevented? Well. not
many months ago heavy-machinay fac
tory in Massachusetts operated 100000
man hours with no accidents; steel company
at Cleveland ran up record Of 5,325OOO
mimy-free man hours. A large machinery
firm hit a high mark of 11,114.OOO man
hours free of accident, then chemical firm
topped it with IL 1861 600 hours.
The War Department has long been active
in the field of safety engineering. which Is as
exact a science as sanitary or electrical or
chemical engineering. This activity has great
~ increased since cur entry INTO the war.
The Corps Of Engineers, which. among other
far-Amx duties, Is IN charge of all Amy con-
struction, reduced the accident rate AZ per
cent under the figures shown by private CON
structim during the first six months of 1912.
The Engineers compute that IN year their
safety efforts have saved 2O6 lives and
enough man hours to build housing facilities
for eight army divisions, q 10000 soldiers.
Safety Is paramount factor m the armed
services themselves no less than IN the sup
ply savioes- Our parachute troops are. be
iieve, the only ones m the world who carry
two clmtes. Certainly ours is the only amy
with SIX doctors for every thousand men
A sick soldier Is usc3eB soldier until he
gets wen. but an injured factory worker may
be worse than use3ee if the act which causes
his injury results IN damage to equipment.
Tint, again, il cold h1ooded WY Of looking
at things. hut this 1 4 oo1d haooded van.
A pipe6ttu mst1llmg water line over
moving engine skinned his hmckles and
dropped wrench into the machinery. wreck
ing the engine A partial plant shutdown
resulted. Lu0, So 400.
A girl operating press equipped with
sweep guMd bent the sweep to st1aigifen
a piece md her thumb w1 taken of at the
first JOINT. She ram screaming down the main
aisae. 50 dishactmg crane operator that
be tipped over large pea. Damage. $3.50.
Ow Weapsa: Cantisa
6Ecns1LY IN shipyard an insecure scaffold
was thrown together huriedly. 1t would have
taken only five more minutes to secure the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
5000 Midshipmen Find War
Sets Sitter Pace at Annapolis

students abreast of current war de-
velopments, the Navy frequently
sends its top fighting men direct
from battle theaters to report chang
ing tactical trends to the future
admirals."
Molding military character is one
of the Naval Academy's foremost
aims. Academy officials assert that
in those two words is all that diff
ferentiates the course here from
the course at any of Americas lead
ing engineering schools.
They describe military character
as being different from the char
acter which will make a man out
standing in civilian life" And they
maintain it goes deeper than that.
Not only does it include the quail
tiles of gentleman" explained one
academy spokesman, "but it also in
cludes those fundamental charac-
teristics of promptness, of discipline,
OF responsibility, of courage, of hon.
esty and of sacrifice without which
no military organization can sue
cessfully function"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
BY PETE ZURLINDEN.

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. Is. - The
United States Naval Academy's 5000
regular midshipmen don't know
what it means to take things easy.
Approximately $50 days out of the
year, they arise at 6:15 am, work
like beavers for Is hours and SO
minutes, and then tumble into well
come cots to rest for another day in
the life that leads to an ensign's
commission.
They are entitled to 50 Sunday
liberties during the year, plus an adj
dltional two to four weeks vacation
leave during the summer, If the
superintendent deems it advisable.
Saturdays they are free at noon.
But despite these brief interludes
for recreational purposes, these
youngsters, almost all between II
and 81, usually labor from dawn
until long after dusk under a train
ing schedule every father would like
his son to have.
Because of the war, the pace is
necessarily swifter than in peace
times. But this daily Academy pro-
gram is so we'll balanced that few
midshipmen go stale or lose interest
Here in the cradle of the Navy"
the midshipmen receive first-hand
practical instruction In every i'm
portant naval subject from an up
to-the-minute faculty. To keep the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
0pA Sets Rent Policy
Of Granting Increases
To Entire Areas Only
Henderson Turns Down
Landlords Requests
For individual Action
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The ONCE of Price Administration
has laid down the principle that it
will not grant rent increases to in
dividaul landlords to compensate
for higher operating costs, ruling
that any such adjustment will have
to be applied generally throughout
4 defense rental area.
The policy was stated yesterday
IN denying a protest of the Lake
more Co.. Cleveland, for ceiling re-
lief on grounds that its taxes had
been increased, though there was no
general tax boost in the Cleveland
defense rental area.
Two other denials were issued by
Price Administrator Henderson, one
OF them holding that the Bellevue
stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, could
not increase rents for $50 rooms
which the hotel said were priced too
low, and the other denying a pro-
test of William F. Chatlos, Bridge
port, Conn.
Normal Conditions Cited.
In the decision on the Cleveland
case, Mr.. Henderson said:
I'm any limited period the move
ment of rents bears no direct nela-
tionship to increases or decreases In
property taxes or other costs. II q
particular landlord encounters I'M
1oreseen expenses, he cannot. In a
normal rental market, offset this bv
increasing his rents without ad
versely affecting his competitive
position in relation to other land
lords.
To allow such landlord to charge
higher rents today-rents which he
could charge only because of the
abnormal pressure for housing Gre
ated by war activities-and at the
same time deny corresponding in
crease to other landlords, would in
effect allow him to exploit the alb
normal war economy to gain a type
OF relief and a relative advantage
over competing landlords, which he
could not have had in a normal
rental market"
Yardstick Set.
Mr.. Chatlos based his protest on
the claim that his costs, and costs
In the Bridgeport area in general,
had risen since the maximum rent
date. April l, 1941. In denying this,
Mr. Henderson laid down the years
1899 and 1910 as a general yardstick
for judging the operating position
Of landlords.
The OPA chief held that the rental
properties represented by Mr.. Chat
los and others In the area will be in
"far better" position under rent
control than in the years 1899 and
1910, the two years Immediately
prior to the sharp impact of defense
activities,
ut was not the intent OF Congress
nor is 1t the purpose of the rent
administrator to guarantee to land
lords or oher persons better finan.
cial position than they would have
enjoyed in the absence of the pecul-
lar economic conditions created by
the war" Mr.. Henderson said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
Park View Defers Election

The regular monthly meeting of
the Park View Citizens Association
was held last night in the Park
View School. A scheduled election
of officers was postponed until the
January meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
Kansas City Diaries
Demand Higher Ceiling
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 15.-If the
OPA doesn't raise its ceiling, the
milkman threatens to quit here.
The Milk Service Association,
made up of Kansas City pasteurizers
and distributors, said it's members
were being squeezed between a low
OPA ceiling price and higher buy
ing price of milk, enforced by the
Agricultural Marketing Administra-
ton.
"Of 278 diaries that produced and
distributed their own milk few
years ago." the statement said,
fewer than Is are left and the re-
mainder are going out of business at
q rapid rate"
The milk dealers. saying they real
lied their responsibility to the pub
lie and the war effort, called on
consumers to petition their Con-
gressmen before the whole struc-
ture Of milk distribution collapses. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
Cruiser Seumon Returns

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. Is R.-
Peter G. Petrie, jr, f1rst-class sea-
man, who was attached to the
cruiser Boise when 1t blasted Jap
anese warships in a battle in the
Solomon Islands, has come home for
the first time in five years. On a
30-day furlougil, he will spend
Christmas at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-15
Lothrop Stoddurd to Talk

Lothrop Stoddard, foreign affairs
writer for The Star. will address
Cooley Mccullough Post, American
Legion, at the Legion Building, 2437
Fifteenth street NV, tonight. He
will be introduced by Past Comdr.
Charles Kohen. The public is in
vited.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
HOUSE 0kEHS RECORD NEW
 TAX MEASURE
Only Senate Approval of Compromise Now
 Needed

WASHINGTON, Oct. q. = The House finished work today on a record high tax bill which will dip deeply into the pocketbook Of the average individual, cash registers and the nations business.
 Final House action on the bill was given in a standing vote o1 l30 to 3. The bill as adopted was a compromise report which adjust ed the 500-odd differences with the Senate concerning the wartime revenue raising measure.
 Meanwhile, the Treasury's experts estimated that the measure would bring in $6.881 100000 in new funds. Chairman Robert L. Doughton, of the House Ways and Means Com mittee, reported it will yield a gross of ten billion and net eight billion.
 The increase will make the total to be collected in Federal taxes in l943 roughly ,O00,000,00O
 The House action left only the Senate approval of the compro- mises necessary to complete the congressional action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
Nazi Submarine Base ai
 Lorienf Is Heavily Hif
 ByU.S.FIYine Forfresses

LONDON, Oct. 21.-United States Flying Fortresses bombed the Ger man submarine base at Lorient on the south coast of Brittany today. Three of the big bombers are re- ported missing after the raid.
 The enemy air base near Cher bourg, on the north coast, also was attacked. The operations were sup ported by Allied fighters.
 Some enemy opposition was en- countered.
 Lorient has been used as a base for German submarines operating in the Atlantic and the Bay Of Biscay.
 Vichy quickly broadcast it's own version of the Lorient raid, as- serting that RAF planes caused more than a 100 deaths and in- juries to $50 persons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
BRITAIN HAS TWO
 NEW SHIPS
Anson and Howe, 5, ,OO0- ion Baff|ewagons,
 Joint Fleet

LONDON, Oct. 21. Two new 35 Ooo-ton battleships, the Anson and the Howe, are now with the British fleet, the Admiralty has disclosed.
 The Anson has already seen ac- tion with her high angie guns against German aircraft on the Arctic convoy route to Russia.
 It is understood that the com manders of both ships are en- gagged in friendly rivalry as to which first engages the German battleship Tirpitz.
 The disclosure of the new ships reveals that Britain has finally restored it's Navy to it's original pre-war strength of 15 battleships and battle cruisers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
Positions of Enemy Camps Are Unchanged in
 AIeutians NO NIPPON AERIAL
 OPPOSITION NOTED
American Fighter Planes Have LittIe Work to
 Garry Out

ALASKA DEFENSE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Oct. 2l-Pilots of the latest group of Liberator bombers which have been daily pounding at the Japanese attempt ing to reinforce the enemy garrison on Kiska Island report that enemy positions are unchanged on the Aleutian isle.
 The Army announced that this group, one of several which are conducting the raid-a-day tests against the invaders, is led by Capt. Lynn R. Moore. His flight noted hits in the camp area and one especially heavy explosion which may have been the gasoline dump.
 Capt Moore's flight, like all of the others since october 3. met no aerial opposition while dropping it's l2 tons of bombs on the Japa- nese.
 In Trout Lagoon
 The latest attack was concentrat-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
All of Serbia Declare d Under Martial Law
 Puppets FRANCE E FACING
 CRITICAL PERIOD
Laval Has Only il Days Left 10 Meet Nazi De-
 mands for Workers

BERLIN Oct. 21-All Siberia is reported to be under martial law as the tide of unrest and uncertainty continued to sweep through oc- cupied Europe from Norway to France and the Balkans with rising momentum.
 Advices from France today pie tured that unhappy land as enter ing upon her most critical period since the l940 armistice with Ger many, with only II days remain ing to Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy government, before he is ex- pected to try compulsion to meet Hitler's demands for French work CTS.
 Frenchmen have protested pub licly their transportation to the Reich to fill gaps in the German war production industries, vacated as more and more Nazis are sent to the front. Many of the protesting workers have been shot by Vichy police. The Gestapo staff in this area, alone, has been increased by 500 agents.
 Martial law was decreed by the puppet Serbian government at Bel grade after the Nazi military com mander in Serbia announced num- erouS arrests because insurgents have attempted to organize for re- volt against the occupation author ities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
American Bombers Strike df Jdps from Aleu-
 fians 10 SoIomons
SOUTH PACIFIC FIGHT
 STALLED, TIME BEING
New Blows Are Struck af Invaders on New
 Guinea Front

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2l.-Allied domination of the skies over the vast Pacific Battle Front appears to be growing mightier as Ameri- can bombers slugged Japanese in vasion bases from the Aleutians to the Solomons.
 The fury of the Allied bombing of enemy troops and supply con- centrations in the Solomons seems thus far to have stalled, at least temporarily, the full force of the Japanese thrust to retake the Am erican-held Guadalcanal airbase and thus win air control of the southwest Pacific.
 United States bombers dropped explosives on the embattled island of the invaders on October 18 and October l9 and started fires at the Japanese Rekata Bay base on Santa Isabel island, 150 miles to the northwest.
 Jap Concentrations
 Enemy warships and auxiliaries in large numbers still are report ed in the Solomon area but have attempted no further landings on GuadalcanaI.
 In the Aleutians, meanwhile, the Navy said that in the Aleutians, Army Liberator bombers dropped l2 tons of bombs on enemy install lations and a beached ship in Kis- ka Harbor on October Is. Many fires were reported in the camp area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
COM. N. {. LESLIE
 AND FAMILY LEAVE
 FOR SEATTLE TODAY

Commander Norman c. Leslie, formerly in command of the U. s. Coast Guard cutter Haida and re- gently transferred to the Coast Guard District office in Seattle. left today to take over his new duties. He was accompanied by Mrs. Leslie and their daughter, Jane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
OFFICIAL VISIT
 FOR ELkS TONIGHT

Fred G. Harmon of Wrangell, Dis trict Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler will make his official visit to the Elks' Lodge of Juneau tonight, with the meeting scheduled to begin at o'clock promptly.
 All Elks are asked to be in at tendance at the meeting. There will be initiation also.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21

ed on Trout Lagoon and the main Kiska camp A number of cargo ships already are beached in that area.
 The Japanese positions in Ger trude Cove where the Jap rein forcement attempts are concen- trated also are unchanged.
 The American fliers reported that they were met with continu- ing anti-aircraft fire, but that most of the Japanese scurried for cover at the sight of the big planes.
 Accurate strafing by the Alas kan raiders earlier this month has taught the Japs to find protec- ton when the US. Army fliers pay them a visit.
 The pilots believe that the Japs even are using bomb craters as shelters and sometimes put up tents and other such improvised protec- ton.
 Fighters Stay Home
 The number of fighter planes es- corting the American raiders re- gently has been reduced. and the fighters which do go along find little to do. Occasionally they find ships trying to get away or radio shacks to turn their machineguns on, but the lack of fighter opposi- tion reduces their duties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
The w ashingtUn Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tMajor Robert s. Allen on active dutyD

Washington, DC, to Major Ro- bert s. Allen, Third Army, Lees vile, La, Dear Bob: Your farm has just produced the record total of 72 tons of eating corn, all of which was put in gallon tin cans and will go to the Army.
 You were lucky to get the corn cut and canned at the right time, because labor has become scarcer than isolationists in Western Mary land. I have lost my one farm hand, who now commutes to town and makes twice and sometimes even three times as much as the $3 a day I used to pay him. So I can sympathize with the farmers in the recent farm parity fight.
 While I sympathize, however, l don't agree with them. It seems to me that the slight increase in farm prices they would have won, would have been mere drop m the bucket compared with what has to be done to get labor back on the farm. Increased prices might have enabled me to pay $3.25 m- stead of $3 But it would not have come anywhere near matching the $7 to $10 a day which some work CTS. are getting around the city
 It seems to me that farm labor has got to be drafted, or else spared from the military draft, or else some other very drastic step must be taken if we are going to have enough food next year to feed ourselves and England, and the Russians, and, above all, the Army.
 One solution would be to draft about 30,000 of the red tape a1- lists, government publicity experts and bureaucrats here in Washing ton, and let them help feed the nation.
 Farmers Could Teach Army
 The farm lobby put on a spec tacular show, however. If the war were as carefully organized as the farm lobby in Congress we should be winning big victories. Nothing was left to chance. Charley Hol- man, of the Federation of MIX Co., operatives, handled Congressmen from Wisconsin and midwest dairy regions. Ed Babcock, of the Ma tional Council, buttonholed Con gressmen from New York.
 Upstairs in the gallery sat Ed O'Neal, of the Farm Bureau Fed eration, surrounded by l5 lieuten- ants, Fred Brenchman, Of the Grange, Charles Bennett, publicity man for the Grange, and W. R. Ogg, of the Farm Bureau, were buzzing around like bees.
 Has anyone seen Reed?" asked Holman as Representative Reed of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
CHINA IN
 GRIP OF
 FAMINE E
Thousands Dying in Honan Province Where Battle
 Ruins Crops

CHUNGKING, Oct. 21-Stricken with one of the worst famines of modern times, Chinese are dying by the thousands in the battlefield province of Honan, where million are reported officially to be on the verge of starvation.
 Reports brought to Chungking of ficials by Government relief workers said that IS million persons have be- come famine refugees and clog the roads from Honan into Shensi and Hupeh provinces and the roads are strewn with the dead and dying.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
Question of Are We
 losing inc War Gets
 Very Vague Answers
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 = There has been a lot of pep talk" piped out of Washington since Pearl liar Dor but none of it's caused much here. The other day when listed, tough minded As sistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph E. Bard said plainly that we are losing the war, the national capital went back on its heels and began to take stock.
 I don't believe have heard any question more often asked here since Bard drove that one to the chin than: Do you really think we are losing the war?"
 I have asked it many times my self and have tried to confine the query to people who should know about it. But the sub
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
EARTHQUAKE FELT TODAY,
 CALIFORNIA
Earth Rocks from Moder ate Intensity 10 Sharp
 Movement

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Oct. 21.- An earthquake of moderate inten- sity, described as varying from gentle rocking at inland points to a fairly sharp motion on the sea- coast, was felt through most of Southern California at 8:25 o'clock thIs forenoon.
 Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon there were no reports of casualties or property damage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
OFFENSIVE
 STAGE SET
 FOR ALLIES
Prime Minister Smuis Says Time Ripe for Great
 Smash

LONDON, Oct. 2l.-Field Mar. shal Jan Christian Shuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, told joint meeting of the House of Commons and House of Lords. that the Allies have ar rived at the offensive stage of the present war.
 Shuts said that from all &C., counts, the majority official, the German army is bleeding to death i'll Russia and the stage is set for 5he last offensive of the war for the United Nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
FIRING SQUADS
 ACTIVE
YugosIavians Being Shot DoWn-Rev0It Threat
 Heard in Belgrade
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESs)

According to reports reaching Ankara, Turkey, German firing squads have executed 13 more al- legged revolutionaries in Yugosla- via and threats of a revolt in Bel grade, capital of the conquered Balkan nation, has forced the Ger mans to strengthen the city's gar rison at least by two regiments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
J. s. MARSHAL MAHONEY LEAVES FOR KETCHIKAN
 TO ATTEND COURT TERM

w. T. Mahoney, U s. Marshal, lett last night for Ketchikan to attend the term of the U s. District Court to be held there upon the arrival of the court party.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
LAPS FORGED TO RETIRE

MacARTHURS' H EADQ UAR- TIERS, Oct. 21. = Allied ground forces have forced the Japanese to retire north of Templeton's Crossing, l2 miles south of Koko- da in New Guinea.
 At the same time, Allied bomb- CTS, continuing to strike out at Nippon outposts are believed to have inflicted extensive damage in a new blow at the Japanese base of Buin in the northern Solomons, continuing with air support of ground troops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
Latest Week -0Id Offensive Against VoIgd River
 City Is Failure EPIC BATTLE WEARS
 SUCCESS FOR RUSSIA Estimate 70 Percent of Hif- |er's Troops Lost in
 Siege Attempt
(By Associated Press)

In the European War, Hitler's latest week-old offensive against Stalingrad is reported dwindling as cold rain drenched the cemetery like streets.
 Russian Headquarters announced that Red Armies have held their lines unbroken for 48 hours. This is the 58th day of the siege.
 AS the din of battle subsided with Nazi attacks growing successively
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
GREATER NAVY
 BILL I5 FINISHED
 IN HOUSE TODAY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 The House completed it's work today on the supplemental appropriation bill authorizing another Is million to build greater Navy.
 Senate approval later in the week is expected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21

John W. Fielder, mining mar from the Fairbanks district, was n Juneau today for several hours on his way south for the winter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21
EXCUSE PLEASE
 HUMBLE BOMBS

AN ALASKAN ARMY OUT POST, Oct. 21.-On the barrel of enc of the heaviest field guns ever
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21

The Amazon river is 1000 miles long.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-21

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