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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-21
O. H. WOOD, CRAB GAMER
OF HOONAH IN JUNEAU

o. H. Wood, owner and operator
of a crab cannery at Hoonah, ar
rived in Juneau yesterday and is
here for short time on business.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-21
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR INFANT SET

Funeral services for Howard Lind
say, Jr.. infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard G. Lindsay, will be
held at 1890 o'clock Saturday NOR
ming in the Chapel of Charles W.
Carter Mortuary
The Rev. Walter Soboleff will
conduct the services,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-21
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are todays Dow
Jones averages: industrials 99.73
rails 24.17, utilities 1895.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-05-21

The Daily Alaska Empire has the
largest paid circulation of any Al
aska newspaper
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
23Injur!ed
in Rail Crash
III Pullmon Cons
hurtls from Troeks

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Jan.
12-(R-Twenty-three persons
were injured when IL cars of
the Florida East Coast railroad
all-pullman Florida special left
the tracks north of here yester-
day.
All but three were treated at
hospitals for minor injuries and
dismissed. The three were admit
ted for observation.
Railway officials blamed a
broken rail for the derailment
of the New York-to-Mia train
and said there was no indication
that the track had been tamper-
ed with.
Two of the cars overturned
as the train ploughed to a stop
The three diesel locomotive units
remained on the rails.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Seek Solution
10 Car Problem


WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-(R
The House Small Business
committee today ca n vasse d
methods for keeping automobile
dealers in business, even though
passenger car production has
been curtailed by the conversion
Of the auto industry to strictly
war purposes.
The committee was called into
session only day after the OF.
flee of Production Management
announced appointment of a
management labor subcommit-
tee charged with working out
plans for the conversion.
Cyrus Ching, vice president Of
the u. S. Rubber Company, will
be chairman and the group will
meet in Detroit whenever he
calls it. Members will be Edsel
Ford, president Of the Ford Mo-
tor Company, c. E. Wilson, pres
ident of General Motors, c. C..
Carlton. vice president of the
Motor Wheel Corporation, Wal
ter p. Reuther, and Richard
Frankensteen, vice presidents Of
the CIO-U n tied Automobile
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12

was a well-known publisher. But
I'm an incurable pedagogue at
heart-always have been."
For many years, it seems,
Nine. Litvinoff taught harmony
and composition to five and six
year-olds in a northern Russian
town. She has some striking
photos of her pupils-one a little
Tartar girl who, she says, has
great musical talent. Although
the two Litvinoff children a
son, rs, and a daughter, %
were both educated in the u. S.
S. r., Nine. Litvinoff confesses
she didn't become absorbed in
experimental education tech
niques till they were well-grown.
Nov I have a darling grand
son to watch develop" she
smiles, producing a snap of one
year-old Pavel Litvinoff. at pres
ent in Kuibyshev with his avia-
tor father. 1--WE had to stop Civ
ing him cod-liver oil, he became
so plump-as YOU can see."
TEACHING METHODS
INTEREST HER
Madame Litvinoff has her sharp
eyes ever on the alert for inter-
esting new teaching methods,
wherever she can ferret them
out. In the United States she ex-
poets to learn a great many val
liable things and is already plan
ming to visit American schools.
The handwriting book she is cur
rently engrossed il was publish
ed by an English woman and
advocates introducing kindergar-
ten children to writing by let
ting them make designs from the
basic letter forms.
Aren't the patterns perfectly
lovely?" comments Nine. Litvin-
off, leaning forward in her bou-
doir chair, her voice high-pitch-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Workers, and George F. Adde's,
the unions treasurer.

All except Ching were men,
bers of an origina, ten-man CONS
mittee-five for labor and five
for management - which was
deadlocked over a union propo-
sal that the Job be done under
joint industry-la bor-government
supervision.
In the meanwhile the House
group called officials of the Ma
tional Automobile Dealers As
ISOLATION to tell what they be-
lieve should be done for the ma
tion's $4,000 dealers, hard hit
by the governments plan to dis
continue pleasure car produc-
ton.
Committee chairman Patman
(D-Tex) said dealers already
were going out of business by
the score and that his group
feels that the government has
a distinct responsibility to the
public to see that this necessary
dealer service Is maintained"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Utica Notes

Harmony Circle of the WSCS
of the Methodist church will
meet on Monday evening at 8
o'clock with Mrs. L. r. Hirth
as hostess at her home, 1884
James street, Utica. Assisting
will be Mrs. Richard Dobat and
Elda Schoonover. Dorcas Cir
Gle will meet on Wednesday
afternoon, Jan IA, at 2:30 with
Mrs. Harvey Webb, 1928 Cass
avenue. The progressive dinner,
given by the Mizpah Bible class,
will be held on Monday evening,
Jan. 10.
William Michael was out
Thursday for the first time hav-
ing been confined to his home,
SOIL Cass avenue, for over a
week with illness.
Mrs. Dwight Stoddard has
been very i'll at her home on
Lincoln avenue.
Entertaining on Sunday DR..
and Mrs. L. r. Hirth had as
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Don
w. Brady and children, of Sa-
ginaw.
Congratulations are being ex-
tended to la Liebenow of Utica
who has been chosen as one of
two Good Citizens to represent
Alexander Macomb Chapter of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution in the annual Good
Citizenship Pilgrimage. The an
nouncement was made Wednes-
day at the Chapter meeting in
Mount Clemens. The selection
was for character, leadership,
cooperation and patriotism. Miss
Liebenow Is one of the four
highest in scholarship in the
Utica high school, and will COM
pete with other girls in the state
for q trip to Washington, D. c.
The Mems Club of the Con-
gregational church met for a
$50 dinner in the church dining
rooms Thursday evening. Serv-
ing the meal were Frank Chap
oton, Earl Dawson. Donald Mich
ael and Robert McMichael.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Ie,,s Nay
] S,. Their
~ Medicine

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. fz-(R
SOLDIER may Be carrying their
own medicine into battle soon
for prompt action In treating
wounds Of war.
DR.. Guy .. Caldwell. profess
or Of clinical orthopedics ut Tu-
lane University medical school
here. today announced the sue
cessful control, experimentally,
Of gas gangrene in compound
fractures by the immediate ap-
plication of sulfathiazole.
1.-THE treatment could be made
effective in battle by giving ev-
cry soldier q vial of sulfathia-
xole to be applied to wounds as
q first aid dressing before the
arrival Of first aid units and
ambulance crews" he said.
''n proved successful in actual
clinical use, Il would be Of i'm
measurable importance for civil
ians during air raids and similar
emergencies"
The key to success lies in ap-
plication within IN hour, Cald-
well said. Most of the effec-
tiveness Of the drug Is lost If
the treatment Is delayed any
longer.
The discovery of an agent to
combat gas gangrene Is of partic-
ular importance. Caldwell as
serted, not only because no.
thing satisfactory has been found
before, but also because q drug
killing that bacteria also will
destroy all other types of infec-
ton.
The treatment has been used
experimentally by two Aus
tralian doctors, in camp hos
pitfalls, and is under way at Char
ity hospital here, he said. Am
balances m q king emergency
calls carry sulfathiazole, he said.
and IL is applied Immediately.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Bolivian Mines
Under Army Rule

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 12-
R-Violence growing out of 2
dispute over distribution of ST.
10000 in taxes collected from
a wealthy Bolivian resulted in
three mining distric' being held
today under a state of siege
martial law.
The government said It acted
to suppress violence in Po.osi,
Sucre and Oruro districts. It's &C.
ton occurred yesterday and sew
eral hours later it said complete
tranquility prevailed.
Residents of the districts had
demanded that the taxes. collect
ed from Simon Patino, tin mag
nate, be used for provincial pub
lie works. The government ear
marked the fund for q federal
building program.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
State


CASSOPOLIS- R-Warren
w. Reynolds, 90, died Sunday of
a heart attack at his home here.
He was believed to be the eldest
living graduate of Michigan
State College.
o.
COLDWATER- R w. c.
Bailey, 80, who had published
the Coldwater city director for
the past AZ years, announced his
retirement Sunday.
o.
FRANKFORT-(R-The Ann
Arbor Railroads carferry serv-
ice was resumed Sunday as five
vessels stuck in a field of slush
ice near the Frankfort harbor
entrance were freed. The carter
ry Wabash, a mile from the har-
Dor, broke a path through the
ice and released ferries 3, S, 6
and 7.
o
MUSHROOM (R William
A. Desterhouse, Al, president
and manager of the L. c. Com
pany of Muskegon, died Sunday
at his home. He was a World
War veteran.
MARQUETTE (R Wake
field high school debaters. win
ners of four consecutive contests,
captured the Upper Peninsula
debate championship in an elm
ination tournament held during
the weekend at Northern Mich
igan College. Runner-up honors
went to Ishpeming in an extra
debate that broke a three-way
tie with Iron Mountain and Es-
canada.
JACKSON - (R Relatives
were informed here Sunday of
the death of 1O4-year-old Jacob
L. Loeb, former clothing mer-
chant who retired in 1910, at
Daytona Beach, Fla. He began
his business career in Jackson
with a push cart in 1859.
o.
SAULT STE. MARIE - (R -
Forty truck drivers and handlers
returned to their jobs here Sun
day, ending a five-day-old strike
after four coal companies had
granted them a temporary con-
tract. The strikers, members of
the United Construction Work
ers (CIO), were granted recog-
milton, pay of 80 cents a ton for
hauling coal, seniority rights and
a weeks vacation.
o.
MT. PLEASANT-P)-Prof
K. p. Brooks of the Central
Michigan College science depart
ment announced Sunday that all
second-semester courses in
physics and chemistry would be
explained to comply with gov
eminent requirements in the
war emergency.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Prisoners Flee
Ancient Jail
Four Tunnel
of HillsdoIe Cells

HILLSDALE, Mich, Jan. IL
- (P) -Sheriffs officers and
State Police searched today for
four prisoners who escaped
from the 80-year-old Hillsdale
county Jail by burrowing their
way through the 20-inch east
wall of a rear cellblock yes
terday.
Sheriff Frederick Marshall
said the quartet, three of whom
were ex-convicts from southern
Michigan prison. useed an alum
mum table knife and a can
opener to remove mortar and
bricks partially hidden by
steam pipes.
For several years, he said,
prisoners have been permitted
the run of the cellblock. instead
of being confined to cells. Nine
other inmates denied knowledge
Of the escape efforts and re-
ported their clothing and other
articles had been stolen.
Fank G.. Sutcliffe. 35. of
Jackon, who was sentenced in
circuit court here Dec. 16 to a
four to five-ycar term for
breaking and entering and was
awaiting trial on fourth
felony count.
Peter Dobos, %. of Mt. Pleas
ant. who was awaiting trial for
auto theft and parole violation.
Kenneth Kelley. II. Of Hills
dae. who was awaiting trial for
auto theft.
Lynn Wells, 20, of North
Adams. who was serving 80
days for leaving the scene Of
an accident. He also faced re-
turn to prison as parole
violator.
Dobos was paroled Oct. / and
a month later was arrested at
Owosso on a charge OF stealing
his parole officers automobile.
He escaped from the Shiawassee
county jail but was recaptured
30 minutes later. Kelley picked
the lock of his sell at the Hills
dale Jail last November and was
at liberty two days.
Sheriff Marshall said the men
made their getaway In q stolen
automobile.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
CiuiiHan Defense
Food Gardens
are Planned

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-LP)
The Office Of Civilian Defense,
mindful Of agriculture depart
ment warnings that even Amer
ica's bullying food bins may be
taxed by this wars require
ments, has in preparation a "vic-
tory garden" program which will
encourage city jewellers to grow
their own vegetables.
Taking q leaf from the records
Of the First World War, the OCD
will sponsor gardens divided in
to plots and worked by individ-
ual families, who will receive
the produce they grow. Sur
pluses, It was suggested, could
be turned into school lunch fare
and m = d Q available to meet
emergency food needs.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
u. S. to Fix
Used-Tire
Prices
WASHINGTON. Jan, 12-(P)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-(R
Government price officials
worked today on a plan to fix
maximum prices for used tires
after laying down a ceiling on
charges for tire retreading to
halt exploitation" of the pub
lie.
Leon Henderson, the price ad-
ministrator, announced the re-
tread price schedule yesterday in
a statement saying that prof
iteering in the used and retread
tire business had become so fla
grant it "cannot and will not be
allowed to continue"
The schedule goes into effect
next Monday and Henderson said
it would be followed shortly by
an order limiting the resale price
of used tires.
Persons retreadin. c. top cap
ping the COOKIE tires commonly
used on low priced passenger
cars may charge no more than
$3.50 if best grade comeback is
used, or $6.45 If they work with
second grade comeback. Re-
treaders apply new rubber on
tire tread surfaces and side walls,
recappers to only the thread sur
face. Both use a material called
comeback.
If dealers sell retreaded tires
they may charge the maximum
retreading fee for the type in
volved, plus $3.50 for the tire
carcass.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12

ed with enthusiasm. "And look
at the beautiful penmanship they
develop later!"
Does she disapprove of the
typewriter, then? you ask. But
definitely no, is the reply. Every
thing in its place.
I nearly always type my own
letters" she explains. And quick
as flash she is at her portable
to prove it.
while you children play
around with your lights and
lenses" she losses over her
shoulder, ~ may as we'll get a
real letter out of the way" And
on 60 her horn-rimmed specs in
earnest.
Although it is quite evident
that clever, cultured Nine. Lit
vinoff can cope with diplomatic
receptions and dinners like a
veteran, it is plain that a receiv-
ing line is not her favorite post.
Neither is the fashion salon. No
best-dressed" queens, ne d
tremble for their crowns, for the
Soviet ambassadors wife simply
isn't interested. Her Washington
sojourn will be devoted to stur-
dier duties.
Teaching English to members
of the Embassy staff is one self
appointed task. Anwsering CORE
spondence, keeping informed on
the double-quick march of inter-
national events, anotht
Then there is the vital Job of
speech-translating for her Max
i'm. Not above letting slip an 'oc-
casional ooh, heck!" herself, you
can bet your defense bonds that
Ivy Litvinoff has her canny ear
on the alert to snap up pungent
American slang and figures of
speech to weave into future am
bassadorial utterances.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12

of Marine recruits waiting for
a train and bought them 10
cartons of cigarettes.
To q spectator who compli-
mented him, he explained:
"that's the least I can do. You
see, I had q son In the last war.
He didn't get any medals. They
decorated him with machine
gun bullets"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Nine. Litvinof Packs the Punch
into Soviet Enjoys Speeches
BY ELEANOR RAGsDALE



WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE
Soviet Embassy's new First
Lady, Madame Maxim Litvinoff.
is frank, informal. and chockful
of interests. An Englishwoman,
the former Ivy Low, she's the
one who's responsible for her
ambassador husbands punchy
English that has caused newsmen
to marvel. Not only Is her
casual conversation full of crisp
humorous phrases which he
picks up-but she is chief trans
lator of his important English
speeches.
Maxim speaks topnotch Eng
lish, himself" Madame Litvinoh
explains with knowing look
But he's far too smart to trust
himself when it comes to those
special little phrases and idioms
that only a native can handle
surely"
For her first exclusive inter-
view since she became chate-
laine of the gilded, rococco Sow
let Embassy, Nine. Lltvinoff
hustled in, red-cheeked and un-
ceremonious, calling Hospitality:
Come along with me. I'll be
changed in jiffy. Photograph
ers never like black" And in
less time than it takes to say
"Tovarich," she had bundled
everyone into the embassy ele-
vator, left for her apartment, and
returned to the music-reception
room robed in a soft grey and
white chiffon. She was definite
ly ready for action, lights, cam
era-and questions. Though l
may not answer them ALL" she
warned.
MARRIED LITVINOFF
IURING HIS EXILE
This black-eyed. forceful wo-
man, who can chatter fluent
Russian, never saw Russia till
she was thirty. Her husband and
she met when he was exiled in
London before and during the
last war.
Maxim was the first Russian
I'd ever known, admits Ivy Low
Litvinoff. II think that's prob
ably why I married nina sort
of instant sympathy" She never
expected to be able to live In
Russia, and was tremendously
excited" when, after the Revolu-
ton, her husband was called
back to his countryside new U.
S. S. Rand she went with him.
She then started to learn Rus
sian-and one can imagine she
learned it in record time to judge
by the dispatch with which she
does everything else. She's not
content to pose with just any old
book that happens to be lying
around, for instance. 1T might
Just as we'll be one I like" she
says, and goes theoretically into
her bedroom to find one.
She finds a manual on teach
ing handwriting to pre-school
and primary children. And that
starts her talking about her
greatest interest-the education
of very young children.
Most people think Of me as
from a journalistic family-be-
cause my uncle, Sir Sydney Low,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
NO TIRE SHORTAGE HERE

WINSTED, COnn.-Tlre ra-
tioning isn't going to bother
Anthony Bernado as long as
sub-freezing temperatures pre-
vail.
He took four cast-off tires,
stuffed them with sawdust,
wired them to the rims of his
car and. through a slit, soaked
them with water. 1t was 20
below zero at the time and now
he has solid tires.
They're a little bumpy," he
said, "but so are the roads"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
BENEVOLENT BUDDY

MILWAUKEE-W hen two
soldiers emptied their wallets
at a railroad station to purchase
tickets back to camp, a hand
somely dressed man handed them
a $50 bill for fare and walked
away.
He then went over to q group
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
COULDN'T BRING 1T HOME

PHILADELPHIA-An argu-
ment over division of the spoils
meant a trip to Jail on larceny
charges for three men who ad-
mitted stealing a 10;pound piece
of bacon from wholesale house.
They got away with the ba-
con but stopped at nearby cor
ner and argued about who would
keep it. Two patrolmen heard
the noise and hauled them in.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
FAST TALK

FAST TALK
OGDEN, Utah-A pistol toter
confronted Mrs. Edwin STRAIT
ford, daughter of Ogden police
chief Rial c. Moore, as she an
swered a knock at the door.
There followed this @. and A.:
"Is your husband homer"
Eyes"
"Has he a gum"
eyes, and here he comes"
The gunman fled without wait
ing to see.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
FIREMEN, SAVE MY

KANSAS CITY-Fire destroy
ed a car belonging to c. w. Cra-
mer of Chicago two miles from
suburban independence, but fire
men weren't entirely too late.
They arrived in time to salvage
all his nearly new tires.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12

At Marshalltown, Ia, q stalk
OF corn grew to q height Of %
feet 10 inches In 1910.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Minute
Mystery
Solution
SOLUTION

Jack Landon. His action in
running directly to the billiard
room when he could not pos
sibly have had other than
guilty knowledge where Hal
len was, betrayed him.
THINK THE FIRST WIS
DOM IS TO RESTRAIN THE
TONGUE. Cato.
(Press Alliance. 1nc.)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
ABOUT FISHERMAN

Among the states OF the
Union, Ohio ranks second in
the number of fishermen. Its
total of 627 ,972 Is exceeded only
by Michigan's 858,362. In point
of revenue derived from fish,
ing licenses, Ohio ranks sixth.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-29
40 Million Dark Americans

Hemisphere
and the islands that included the plan for hemisphere
solidarity" there admittedly million and individuals
who identified with the darker racial and this does not in
clude Mexico, whose subjects swarhy Indians
whom Sir Stafford Grips offered the famous posdaed check The
rights of these people must be if there
to be any lasting peace.
This glorious United America
been repeatedly warned that racial against darker people
recy recognizes that the tissues of fairness the Negro
armed forces and industries is major issue.'
Adversely exploitation poverty misery and color anahes have
embtered the hearts of fifteen million swart souls the United
States sixteen million in Brazil four and onehaf million Cuba
and millions the islands of the Caribbean and the
tered South American countries This bitterness will gradually result
hemispher
men 1t clearly that there will be solidarity of the hem
spheres the Western World until the despcae systems and customs
of the white world ameiorated abolished.
Representative John M the Congress scarcely
month that "sad things have been happening whose
officers and bureaucrats failed abreast and ho showed
fexiby stodgness and prejudice Since that time Burma
has fallen.
Forty vitality
Good Neghbo and in PanAmeranism They wit
described the largest Negro nation EARTH
of the inside fight that the United States
PEELED gain place to stand fucrum and lever Vene
ue Colombia Ecuador Central and Peru with their hetero
population also have their attentions fixed All the world
watching liberty
this continent great
fct that interest and that stake will fix the rights and privileges
of nations unborn.
recognition
of the hemisphere plight recognized by this nation
Southland fanaca Northern bent cling
ing to the sins of yesterday and they well make that er
sins will find them out"
appears dawnng horizon
and change in the relations of Out of the shell
of dark folk the United may
to Rio Sunday morning gain inspiration and hope the
knowledge that color lines wiped
the side of and harmony it be done the
Americas, it can be done here.
"GOd mysterious way perform
burgh Courier.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-05-29

Blackburn, Edith Massie and Edith
Camp.
Saturday was a very special day
in the "Play Center; the birthdays
of Rochelle Armstrong and Violet
Ann Mester were observed. The
honored guest received gifts, and
ice cream and cookies were served
to all.
The Aeolian Jubilee Singers will
render a group of selections on the
program of the Self Culture Club
at the Crispus Attuck Home, May
28tth. Although the WPA has
called in all music teachers and
directors in community houses, we
are very grateful to Miss Eide
Crump for keeping her group in
tact, at least until they have filled
all pre- arranged engagements,
Thursday, June 18th, will be OBJ
served as Stewardship Day." Two
very outstanding speakers have
been secured for that day. See next
weeks notes for, full announce
ment. ,,. .s.,