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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
Barbara Hermann to Take Up Pharmacy Al Univ. of Michigan

To enter her third year of col lege Miss Barbara Hermann, daughter of MT. and Mrs. R. R. Hermann left Juneau this morn ing on her way to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she will enter the University of Michigan.
 Miss Hermann took her freshman and sophomore years at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon where she majored in bacteriology. This year, as a result of her summers work with her father, owner of the Juneau Drug Company, she will take up pharmacy in addition to her bacteriology studies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
WAGE BILLS READY FOR
 CONGRESS
Senate, House Committees Approve Bills for
 StabiIizdtiOn

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 The Presidents demands for prompt stabilization of living costs are a step closer to fulfillment as both Senate and House committees are approving the bills which will grant him unprecedented authority to control wages, salaries and farm prices.
 The two measures which are scheduled for Congressional action next week differed somewhat in their bestowal of authority on the but both carried out in general the administration wishes. AS the two committees rejecting the farm bloc demands for a new, higher formula for parity, raising the ceilings on farm products.
 The legislation was approved by the Senate Banking c m m i t e e which has fixed November l as the deadline for Roosevelt to exercise the proposed powers for control over the cost of living. It was de- toured through the agriculture com mittee and a Republican conference on its way to the Senate for con- sideration. Monday.
 The House Banking committee almost simultaneously approved a similar bill, but with the provision adopted by the War Labor Board in the Little Steel Case forbidding wage or salary increases to employees earning 15 percent more than Jan- uary 1, 1941. This amount is equiva- lent to the rise in living costs since then.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
GAMES FRIDAY Pacific Coast League

Los Angeles 2; Sacramento 10. San Francisco 10; San Diego 4. Only two games played Friday.
 National League Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 1. Only one game played Friday.
 American League No games scheduled Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19

LOST-Finder of sewer tape be- longing to City of Douglas that was taken from corner of 4th and E Streets, Friday evening, please return to City Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
WCTU Meeting Is
 Set for Monday

Women's Christian Temperance Union will meet at D. m. Monday in the home of Mrs. Willis R. Booth on Fourth Street, according to Mrs. w. H. Matthews. Jr.. secretary.
 Mrs. H. L. Wood will report on temperance activities in the Terri tory, especially in Ketchikan. In- terested friends are invited to att tend the meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
WHARF REPAIRS PLANNED

At a meeting of the Douglas City Council held the first of the week, plans were made with Joe Ellson, Manager of the Douglas Fisheries Company, to work in conjunction this fall on repairing the City Dock, particularly the portion where a warehouse is to be constructed and also proceed with building the struc- ture.
 Having finished up all local busi- ness connected with this season s pack, Ellson departed during the week for Seattle to confer with other officials of the company, but before leaving he told the City Council he would be back by the first of Octo- Der to aid in carrying out the plans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
BLOWS UP AND LOSES,
 9TH INNING
SfrikeoutKing HaIIeff Goes Wild Cincinnati
 Takes Game
(By Associated Press)

Big Jack Hallett Strikeout King up from the International League, blew up last night in the ninth inning after a brilliant hurliug duel with Johnny Wander Nicer and Cincinnati scored four times to de- feat Pittsburgh.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
SACRAMENTO SCORES WIN
 OVER ANGELS
Sad Sam Gibson Gets Vic- tory, His Two Hundredfh
 in Ten Years with Seals
CBY Associated Pressl

Sacramento continued doggedly to play for the Pacific Coast League championship as the Solons reg istered the second straight victory over Los Angeles Friday. The vic tory evened the series.
 Four games are left and the Angels stiH need one more win to clinch the pennant.
 Sad Sam Gibson registered his two hundredth victory in 10 years hurling for San Francisco as the Seals, battling to remain in the first division spot, walloped San Diego in a battle of home runs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19

in the Red Cross workroom. Reg istration will take place during the coming week and the classes will be started shortly thereafter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19

Annual initiation e the freshmen was the principal business of the Douglas School Board at a special meeting held last evening, according to a report given. Miss Warren, Superintendent, told the boaEd that the main event of the initiation was scheduled for next Friday night. Wearing of costume imposed on the frosh by sophomores will be limited to one day only this year instead of a whole week as in former years.
 Plan of costume which freshmen must appear in on Friday must be submitted to the board for approval by the sophomores.
 A public reception for the teach CTS was also planned by the board and is scheduled for next Tuesday night. To be held in the school assembly room there will be pro-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-19
American League
Women of Moose
 Will Meet Here

Women of the Moose will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the Moose lodge rooms. Initiation and a pro- gram are scheduled on the evening program, and lunch will be served.
 All Brother Moose are invited.
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Fair Practice Group
Wins JurisdictionaI
Battle With McNutt
Mocleun Committee, Not
VINO, to Set Policy in All
Discrimination Cases

The Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practice today
won victory over Paul v. Nc
Mutt, chairman of the War Man.
power Commission, in their con-
troversy as to which section of
the commission would handle
questions relating to discrimina-
ton based on race, creed, color,
national origin or alienage.
Mr.. McNutt announced that an
agreement had been reached between
his Office and DR.. Malcolm S. Mac
Lean, committee chairman and pres
ident of Hampton Institute, Hamp-
ton, Va, that the committee would
handle "all policies relating to the
enforcement and effectuation" deal
ing with discrimination, and such
policies shall be binding on the
commission.
The decision virtually wipes out
two divisions of the commission-the
Negro Manpower Service and the
Minority Group Service. The Man.
power Service is headed by DR.. Rob-
ert C. Weaver and the minority
branch is in charge of Dr. Will Alex
ander, former Farm Security admin
istrator and vice president of the
Rosenwald Fund.
Both DR.. Weaver and DR.. Alex
ander are widely known for their
activities in their respective fields
It is probable that these officials will
be transferred to other divisions of
the commission.
The Manpower Commission chief
said it was further agreed that all
field personnel of the commission
dealing with the problem of dis
elimination would be combined with
and become part of the committee s
field staff.
DR.. MacLean manifested satisfac-
ton with the agreements and ex-
pressed the conviction that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's intention to
strengthen the committee and
MAINTAIN 1t as an organization
entity has been fully met"
The committee was set up last
year by the President to develop
better racial relations in the war
effort. In July it was transferred
from under the White House direc-
tion to the War Manpower Com
mission. The transfer was pro-
tested and Mr.. McNutt and DR..
MacLean are reported to have held
several conferences with the Presi~
dent. =
Evening star., 1942-10-27
| Bay State Man
|Grows Coffee
| In Backward
" the Associated Press.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct. 81
When friend complained of the
coffee shortage to Carmello Capillo
he just grinned:
why don't you plant some your
self?"
They're hardy folks in this old
fishing port-been going down to
the sea in ships for better than
three centuries-but that Of -hand
remark surprised them.
THE soil right here in Glouces-
ter is perfect for coffee raising" !"
said the 56-year-old soda water
concessionaire. TITS just what folks
around here never tried to raise
coffee beans before"
Sure, Mr.. Capillo said, two years
ago he bought some unroasted cof-
fee imported from Mexico and, as
an experiment, planted it In his
back yard in the spring. BY Sep
tember, he said, the plants had
yielded 20 pounds of beans.
They looked like string-bean
vines,' he said. Il picked the beans
shelled them, and had them roast
ed, Got seven pounds of the best
coffee I ever tasted"
Milton c. Allen of the State Ag-
riculture Department said he would
send couple of experts down to
find out more about it.
Evening star., 1942-10-27
D. c. Pastor Sees Peril
In Church Group Peace
By tie Associated Press

bE lI'E NSSOCla ted PreSS.
CINCINNATI. Oct. 27.-The Rev.
l.. H. Christian of Washington told a
convention of Seventh Day Advent
lists today the allies are winning the
war but great church groups are
getting ready to win the peace and
in this there is danger"
DR.. Christian, vice president of the
denomination, said such groups
have themselves been as intolerant
as any tyrannies in history"
Evening star., 1942-10-27
University Park Area
Dedicutes Ruid Siren

Dedication exercises for a new air.
RAID siren for University Park, Md,
which is atop the community school,
were held last night at the school.
Purchased with town funds and
money realized from the sale of
salvage, the siren is manually oper-
ated, but it is planned later to have
it operated from the No Control
Center at Riverdale.
Evening star., 1942-10-27

Exquisite
paternschooe
signs formal enough for living
Mbbab
Adjustable loop
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Evening star., 1942-12-24
Four New Nurses Aide
Glasses 10 Open Here

The Red Cross nurses aide pro-
gram, considered one of the best
means Of relieving the hospital per-
sonnet shortage in the District, will
be increased next month by four
new classes, it was announced today.
The announcement was accom-
panied by a report that the need
Tor nurses aides now is more an
parent than ever.
The first of the new classes will he
held at the Walsh House, 2O20 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV. from to
pm. Mondays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays beginning January 4. A Sec
ono class, also at this address, will
be taught from 10 am. to noon
Mondays, Thursdays and SATURDAYS
beginning January l8.
For the convenience of residents
OF the Southeast classes will be
oponed at Chamberlain Vocational
School on Potomac avenue. Begin
ming January 25 they will be held
from 10 am. to noon MONDAYS
through Fridays. Interviews for en-
rollment have been scheduled for
these hours at the Chamberlain
School on January S, 6, 8, u, l3, Is,
l9 and 20.
A new class for colored women
will begin at Freedmen's Hospital
January l8. 1t will continue for
Two hours daily, convening at 10
am. Interviews will be held at the
Walsh House January 5, 6, 8, II and
l3.
Evening star., 1942-12-24

! that the administration ought to step
aside for big business men and let
them run the production side of the
war effort, and that the administra-
ton is not doing enough to protect
the small business man; that the pc
riod of war should not be used to
put over fundamental social changes,
and that it should be used to wipe
overtime pay legislation from the
Federal statute books; that business
organizations ought not to be both
cred with questionnaires about their
internal organization during this
crisis, and that every Federal bu-
reau ought to be quizzed, reorganized
and cut down one-third during the
very same emergency.
This type of augmentation is 60
ing to play tery great part in the
campaign of 1914. The world situa-
ton is lusciously full Of elements of
confusion, and well-suited to the
needs of those who make confusion
a deliberate political method.
Encyclopedia of Nothing.
Thus it Is possible for one man.
swinging one pair of arms, on one
platform, to tell the housewife that
Government muddling compels her
to pay too much for food, and to
tell the farmer that Government
muddling doesn't give him enough
money for his produce.
And, as a kind of peroration, he
can (and almost certainly Will add
that the judgment of the military
has to be final and that politicians
meaning the party in power, ought
to keep their hands off, and also
what does the Army mean by send
ing all that stuff to Europe and
denying equipment to our poor boys
on Guadalcanal?
The thing is so ripe for this kind
of presentation that it will be mir
acle if any degree of popular clarity
can be maintained in the campaign
of 1914. I am not defending the
New Deal especially, in saying this,
for it has made mistakes, but I am
Evening star., 1942-12-24
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 24.-The story of
Eric Fraser, a middle-aged home
guardsman, that he substituted for
the rear gunner on bomber in an
RAF raid on Duisburg Sunday
night, started something.
First, the story made a splash
In London newspapers.
Second, Fraser was guest of honor
at a banquet and received a check
for f25 ($100) from his employer
as reward for his exploit.
Then last night the Air Ministry.
Which usually does not bother with
denials, said in a formal statement
that FraSer's story Just wasn't so.
Preliminary inquiries have pro-
duced no evidence which would sup
port his statement and in no cir
cumstances would any one except a
trained air gunner be allowed to
man a turret in a bomber on an
operational flight" the Ministry
Evening star., 1942-12-24
I'd Rather Be Rioht'
Freebooters Using Seven-NeedIe Compass
To Confuse Voters on AZ Campaign Issues

, suggesting that If it be beaten. 1t be
/ beaten for a reason, and not for a
! careful collection of no-reasons; ;
! also, 1t seems a matter of public i'm
portance that if it be beaten, it be
| beaten by something definite and
clear and positive, and not by an
encyclopedia of nothing definite and
nothing clear.
To take a simile from the holiday,
the method of the obScurantistS is
to dress a platform like a Christmas
tree and put something on it for
everybody. But to do this they must
continuously rob Peter to give a gift
to Paul. They argue that the only
way we can make up for the sacri-
fees of our heroic boys in the service
is to cut wages at home.
Bait Many Hooks.
But then they turn around and
rob Paul in order to give a hand
some little present to Peter. They
argue that in spite of the needs of
the heroic armed services for rubber
and gasoline, of course and Of
course, this rationing of rubber and
gasoline at home looks fishy to them,
and there must be something un-
necessary at the bottom of it.
Thus does the obscurantist bait
his many hooks. He extends his left
hand for the voters damp little paw
on the plea that under his leader
ship America will sell goods to the
whole wide world, and he extends
his right hand for yet another
voters hot little fingers, on the plea
that under his leadership America
isn't going to buy anything from
anybody. The situation makes it
easy for him to march resolutely
up and down the street at the same
time, giving out the opinions that
we can't trust the allies who have
been with us all along, and that we
should have trusted the enemy three
years ago when he said he wasn't
mad on US.
In the next period of our political
life men Of goodwill in both parties
have got to establish unclarity itself
as an issue, like tariff or Indian
affairs. The obscurantist, convinced
that the war and the world are
meaningless, will firmly try to lead
us to nowhere, following a compass
with seven needles. He will have
something for everybody, and
nothing for anybody, in a pale, be-
lated American echo of the OBJ
scurantism of the last 20 years,
which has brought Europe to the
doorstep Of hell.
Unless we make this man himself
an issue, and not his political
trinkets and knick- -knacks, he is
going to cast the biggest shadow in
the country during the next two
years, the years of life and death,
the years that are pregnant with a
century.
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Baruch Gives Million
To IS Organizations
For War Relief
Army and Navy Societies
Get $780, 900 Apiece,
With $50, 900 for USO

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Bernard
M. Baruch, a poor boy from South
Carolina who started out in Wall
Street in an obscure position and
struck it rich, has given away ST.
100000 in Government bonds to Is
relief societies.
The widely-known philanthropist
and adviser on national economic
matters is believed to have increased
his annual contributions consider
/ ably this year, although he would
not allow himself to be quoted on
his former philanthropies.
Called Easy TO Make
Once a friend quoted Mr.. Baruch
who is now 70, as saying: ut has
always been easy for me to make
money, why shouldn't I give it
away"
The contributions disclosed yes
terday were:
Army Relief, 100000; Navy Re-
lief, 100000; Merchant Seamen's
Relief. Red Cross. Russian Relief
Society, United China Relief and
British War Relief Society, each
100000; American Friends Serv-
Ice Com nit ttee (Philadelphia-
Quaker, $4,000; Joint Distribu-
ton Committee (Jewish), $40 900.
Greek War Relief, $4,000: Nor
Weglan Relief, Inc, (Chicagop. $10.-
600; American Friends of Czecho-
sloyakia, $4,000: American Com
mittee for Christian Refugees
$4,000; Catholic Committee for
Refugees from Germany, $4,000
and Unitarian Service Committee
(Boston), $4,000. A balance of
$4,000 was earmarked for later.
Money Now Available.
Letters were mailed bv Mr.
Baruch to the various recipients
Tuesday, advising them that the
money was Immediately available
at the Central Hanover Bank and
trust Co. in New York CITY.
In his letter to the Russian Re-
lief Society, the philanthropist said
! am not supporter of the Mos
COW system of government. but 7
am great admirer of the bravery
Of the Russian people and I am
deeply grateful for what their
efforts mean TO me-"
Evening star., 1942-12-24

in the present. Grenville Clark
is reported to have made an
other draft of bill for universal
service.
Admittedly the manpower prob
lem is a tough one. One way
to make it tougher is to under
take to draft labor. 1t is easy
enough to argue that if it is
right and proper to draft the
youth of the Nation-and some
of the older men, too-tO fight,
it is certainly right and proper
to draft men and women, too,
to work in the plants making
war munitions, in the shipyards
and on the farms. The theory
cannot be denied. This country,
however, has been run on the
ories for some time, and not all
of them have proved workable
or beneficial.
Probably no step could be
taken that would go further to
making the people Of America
angry than a step which would
give the bureaucrats the right
to line them up and say where
they should work, for whom they
should work, how long they
should work and for how much.
Seen as Last Resort.
Members of Congress have
Just had demonstration Of reg
imentation run riot, over matters
not so serious as where and how
the people shall work, and the
effect it has had on the people.
Discussing the question of labor
draft, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike expressed the opinion
that no such step would be taken
unless it was demonstrated that
the country could not get the
necessary weapons manufactured
at a time when the country was
losing the war. 1t would be a
last resort-a final gasp.
In the first place, these men,
berS Of Congress point out, the
country is producing war ma
terials, and other essentials in a
big way. A tremendous job of
Transforming this country from
peacetime production to war pro-
duction has been under way, and
great results have been attained.
1t Is true that the demands for
more and more workers will in
crease, and that many men will
be drafted into the military
service in the coming year who
are now engaged IN productive
work. However, it is equally true
that merely by passing labor
draft law it will not be possible
to increase the number of men
in this country, or women either.
Free labor, the years have DEM
onstrated, produces far more
than compulsory labor, and its
products are not only greater
but better. If men and women
are paid adequately they will
work-and certainly they will
work when it is a patriotic duty.
Supporters of a labor draft point
Evening star., 1942-12-24
Broader Insurance
Program for Worker
Urged by AItmeyer
Ssh Head Says u. S. and
Britain Map Postwar
Employment Plans

Members of the Social Security
Board said yesterday the United
States and Great Britain were de-
termined to set their sights against
the enemies at home-"Want and
the fear of want"
The job to be done here, declared
Arthur j. Altmeyer, board chair
man, in a network radio program,
is to broaden our Federal insurance
system so that it will be open to
millions of farm workers and do
mestic workers and others who now
have no chance to share in it and
to see that the rights Of servicemen
are protected"
Mr.. Altmeyer urged stronger,
safe and fairer program of unem-
ployment insurance to meet the
shock of postwar readjustmentS."
1--WE need" he added. insurance
protection for the worker who is
disabled and for his family like
that we now have for the family
Of worker who dies. We need to
strengthen the protection of chill
dren and, in general, to make sure
that there are more nearly equi-
table standards Of public assistance
IN all parts Of our country"
Mrs. Ellen Woodward. member of
the board, said Mr.. Altmeyer was
not making a tabloid" Beveridge
report. She added, however, that
Britain and the United States are
determined, each in its own way, to
implement the fifth plank of the
ATLANTIC collaboration be-
tween all nations in the economic
field with the object of securing,
for all, improved labor standards,
economic advancement and social
security"
Mrs. Woodward asserted that the
country's worst shortcomings are
in what we are doing for children
the limit for Federal matching
money is lower for dependent chill
dren than for the needy aged or the
needy blind"
The broadcast was a part of a
Christmas program staged for staff
members Of the board III the In
terror Department auditorium.
So you want Toxic bombed again?
Well, bombs cost money, so help buy
some with War bonds and stamps.