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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-11
REDS WON'T
 QUIT, SAYS
 U. 5. ENVOY
Ambassador StandIey Ad. mits People Are Disdp-
 pointed in Allies

MOSCOW, Aug. 11.-United States Ambassador William Stanley said today that he had found disappoint- ment among the Russian people be- cause the Allies haven't established a second front in western Europe.
 But no such sentiment has been encountered among the Soviet of ficials. I have not found the slight est indication that the Russians have any idea of quitting he said.
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All Communications Busy Short Report Received
 Today, Washington
ALLIED OFFENSIVE
 ON SEVERAL FRONTS
Land Battle Also Raging in New Guinea Against
 Enemy Occupation
(By Associated Press)


 Tn these five words, the United States today received word indicat- ing that American Marines are beating off furious Japanese coun- ter-attacks in the five-day y-old bat tie of the Solomon Islands, 900 m-les northeast of Australia.
 As Allied Naval Air Forces cov- cred the long range invasion to dislodge the Nipponese occupation forces on the Islands, Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin today announced that with at least an even break, the struggle may marx the turning point in the Far Pac- fife conflict. He. said that Allied gains so far have apparently great ly outweighed the losses.
 The Australian government n spokesman disclosed that shipments of supplies of the highest possible value which will revolutionize the offensive operations in the North" have arrived in Australia.
 Axis Propaganda
 Meanwhile, in typical Axis propa- ganda broadcasts surpassing even Japan's extravagant claims. the Berlin radio today asserted that
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Appointment of Leahy
 As "Chief of Staff r 10
 FDRIs Significant Move

might solve the problem of an overall commander in chief by des- ignating President Roosevelt. CThis it is argued, would avoid jealousies between Army and Navy officers in this country and in allied nations Of the four great national leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, it is contended that Roosevelt is the only logical choice for such a post.
 (4) Close advisers to the Presi- dent have said frankly, and the President has admitted. that he actually is taking a big part in the strategy of this war so far as the United States is concerned.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. H. A commercial airplane, taking of at a lake near Naknek crashed at p. m. last Saturday, injuring SIX aboard. They were ferried by scoW and speedboat to nearby hospital then brought to Anchorage where two are reported to be in critical condition.
 Robert Claypool, 24, of Anchorage, the pilot has leg fracture and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-11
Plane Crashes af Takeoff On Lake Near Naknek;; Six
 Persons Injured, 2 Critical
brain concussion.

brain concussion.
 George G. Suddock, of Seattle, official of the American Gan Con- pany at Naknek, suffered leg frac- ture and head injuries. Both are in a series condition.
 Others hurt are Clarence M. Witt, of Portland, American Can Company employee, arm and forehead in juries; Mrs. Vern Savage, of An chorage, arm and shoulder injuries and those who sustained superficial injuries are Mrs. Sigrid Walthers, former beauty shop operator at Ju- neau. now residing at Anchorage, and Douglas Kerr, of Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-11
CHANGE OF NAME IS
 GRANTED BY COURT

The petition in U. s. District Court here for William James Wal lace to change his name to William James Darlin has been granted by Judge George F. Alexander.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-11
NAzIS KILL
 pARI5IAN
 'TERR0RI5T5'

VICHY, Aug. 11.-German author ities in Paris have announced the execution of 93 ''terrorists in British pay" as result of series of anti German attacks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-08-11
BY JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-There may be good deal more to the appointment of Admral William D. Leahy as President Roosevelt's per sonal "chief of staff" than meets the eye.
 Consider these factors: CD No President in the history of the na- tion has ever had personal chief of staff, yet constitutionally every President is commander -in-chief of the Army and Navy.
 (2) Many Navy officers I have talked to consider Admiral Leahy the greatest naval strategist this country has developed.
 t3) The talk has been going around that the United Nation
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(Ed. NOte-This is the first of series of MERRY -GO-ROUND col umns on the submarine menace and the reasons why Hitler has been able to establish his Second Front at our front dOOr.)
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The W ashingtUn Merry Go Round

By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert s. Allen on active dutyo
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Axis Propaganda

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
OF WOMEN
ARE SEEN NEEDED In
NEW ENGLAND WAR JOBS

Boston ULNS).-The New England
Council says that some 80 per cent of
more than 10000 additional workers to
be employed in the New England states
through June of this year must be
women.
A bulletin issued by the council says
that selective service calls will take
out of factories an increasing number
of "occupational deferments," leaving
places that must be filled by women,
by older men, by foreign-bOrn and
aliens, by Negroes and by physically
handicapped persons.
At the same time production sched-
ules will be stepped up to 24-hour, z
day operation in many plants not at
present on three shifts.
Industrialsts We're urged in the bull
letin to study production schedules in
order to determine the kinds and num-
Der of workers necessary to meet such
new schedules.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
LABOR PRAISED BY ROOSEVELT

|DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has spoken. Those
4 intrusted with supervising the job of war pro
|duction for the Army, the Navy and the Maritime
Commission also have spoken. They have spoken
with one voice.
They have declared in clear and unmistakable
language that labor is doing fine job for Amer:
ica, that there is strike problem because there
are no STRIKES that the forty-hour week should be
retained as standard because it does not limit
working hours and that there is no reason why
time-and-a-haf overtime should not be paid fol-
work in excess of forty hours a week.
They have not only presented these facts to the
American public. They have also stated fatty that
there is no justification for enacting compulsory
Legislation restricting labor's rights and destroy
ing labor's standards.
Commander and his trusted aides should
convince any honest American!
But the labOr-haterS in Congress and the press
are still continuing full-blast their vicious cam
paign to crush labor and shatter national unity.
The enemies of labor now claim support from
the people "back home" They point to the mys
terious flood of messages which has been pouring
Into the offices of Senators and Congressman de-
claring that the signers will not vote to re-elect
members of Congress who do not vote for a law to
abolish strikes and the forty-hour week.
We call these messages mysterious" That is
because they are all worded identically. They are
printed or mimeographed on various types ano
colors of cards and paper to disguise the fact that
they have the same secret origin and sponsorship
Certain cowardly and skulking interests which
do not dare to come out into the open are behind
this campaign. They are duping and deluding the
|ctizens who sign these messages. They are cap
|talizing on the public misnformation" which
they helped to create and which the President
himself is now trying to dispel. They are trying
Ito put the heat on Congress.
This secret and dastardly campaign should be
investigated and exposed by Congress itself.
But meanwhile the men and women of labor
have glorious opportunity to help themselves, tC
encourage their friends in Congress and to put the
fear of public wrath into their enemies in Con
|gress.
The way to do this is for every union member
to write to his Congressman and Senators and tel
them what's what.
Write in your own words! Write from the
heart! Write the truth! But write Immediately
Delay will only hurt you and every other
worker in America. Let the mighty voice of labor
speak!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
DANGEROUS TREND

ORGANIZED LABOR and the 'little man. gen
~ orally are face to face with trend dangerous
lin the extreme. This is no exaggeration The
forces of reaction are in full cry, in Congress- in
the press and elsewhere, hebent on destroying
many of the hard won gains won by the common
people through years of struggle. And this is
being done in the name of patriotsm
Representative Smith of Virginia, arch-enemy
of union labor, is leading the assault. Defeated in
initial attempts to kill all hour limitations in Fed
eral legislation, he has returned to the attack and
lis pressing legislative proposals perhaps more
vicious than anything he has advocated pre-
|viously.
President Roosevelt War and Navy depart
Iment chiefs, war production heads-all men who
know at first hand that progressive legislation is
not holding up the effort, are fighting the eff
fort to destroy the gains of decades. They have
been given valiant support by Speaker Rayburr
|of the House of, Representatives, who has de-
nounced current moves to destroy labor legisa-
tion as providing valuable ammunition for the
Axis
Hitting back at demands for banning strikes
|Rayburn pointed out that production stoppages
have been reduced to about zero regardless of
what is said by some writer's and speakers" On
March II, he said, there were fewer than 100 of
some 100000 war workers on strike.
Not content with seeking to kill labor laws, the
|reactionary forces are striking blows at all legis-
lation intended to help sharecroppers, tenant
farmers and others of the poor the humble and
the dsinherited.
Unless labor and all progressive and enlight-
ened forces join in mighty protest, there is real
danger that almost irreparable harm may be done
to progress in this country.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
JOBS FOR GARMENT WORKERS
SHOW INCREASE IN NEW YORE

Albany, n. y. ULNS) S).-Factory EN-
by more than two per cent between the
middle of January and the middle of
ebruary, Industrial Commissioner
Frieda s. Miller reports. Total pay
rolls advanced by more than three per
cent. These increases We're due pri-
maIily to seasonal activity in the ap-
parel industries coupled with further
expansion of defense production. A
few industries adversely affected by
government restrictions on raw ma
terials reported fewer people at work
in February. Outstanding examples of
such industries are the sugar retneries
and some of the rubber industries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
SERVING THE NATION

THE MEN now under the flag of the American
merchant marine are adding d new luster to
their calling.
Daring sudden death from lurking Axis war
craft these hard-bitten sons of the seven seas go
grimly about the task of keeping precious supplies
moving to the far-hung forces of the United Ma
tions, asking no quarter and giving none as they
uphold in full measure the traditions of the
service.
True they get gratuities for Drawing the dam
gers Of war; but so do others in less hazardous
walks Certainly it is more than the lure of a few
dollars that keeps one man at his post sinking
freighter, or that sends another back to the lob
when his ship has been lost and comrades have
fallen in a hail of steel.
In every war; the American seaman has been a
proud figure. Once more this nation can take pride
lin his accomplishments
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
WHAT MATTERS MOST

WE CANNOT take this war too seriously. We
W cannot do too much. Until the is won
and the Japs and the Nazis get the licking that is
coming to them, nothing else matters, nothing else
is important, nothing else is worth living for"
"What we have done so far is not enough.
Sustained morale is not enough. We must have
minds and hearts al-out in this war effort. The
people of America must rise to new heights Of
determination. The spirit that makes for victory
must burn ever brighter until the day Of our final
success. We made Of stern stuff. We can do it.
"The force of millions Of determined Amer
leans, fired with the will to victory, is force un-
like anything else in the world. With all our petty
differences and personal preiudices stand unit
ed today IN our nations cause. We may not agree
on details but we are unanimous that this is war
that America must and will win"
The differences and the details wait. The
JOB of every one Of us is TO get busy and do what
= , ever we can to help turn out weapons. Then thing
lat matters most now is continuous and uninter-
pied production for victory.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26

ABOR DOES not charge that the newspaper
~ publishers, the radio commentators and the
demagogs, in and out Of Congress, who night and
day seek to divide Americans into hostile groups
and muddy" public thinking until almost any
thing may happen, are Hitler's payroll, but they
should be, for they are certainly doing his work.
Let it be emphasized at the outset that Labor
does not object to criticism of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, the labor movement, or OF any lndl-
Vidual or institution in the land.
Decent criticism, based on facts will help, not
hurt. But Labor does condemn the flood OF lies
and half-lies which continues to engulf the nation
Hitler certainly likes it; every American
should abhor it.
For example, Fl. V. Kaltenborn barcd over
the radio last Sunday afternoon:
"The people feel we are losing the war. They
believe the men in Washington who make our
laws and the men who administer them do not
measure up to the needs of the day. And the
people are doing something about it. Mass meet
ings are being held or announced in hundred
separate communities to create what might be
called peoples lobby to win the war
If that statement was not played up" on the
front page of every NaZ controlled newspaper in
the world, Htler's publicity men were 'asleep at
the switch
OF course Kaltenborns claim was brazen
lie. The people Of the United States have not lost
faith in President Roosevelt or the Congress of
the United States. Anyone who says they have
lost faith in their chosen representatives is either
a fool or traitor. kaltenborn may make his
choice.
1t is true that some people believe what com
mentators like kaltenborn say. They also take it
for granted that their local newspaper is telling
them the truth. Those people may be ''Jttery,'
- but the masses are calm and are proceeding about
the job OF winning this war
katenborn unctuously declared that one
was organizing the peoples lobby few min
utes later he let the cat out of the bag. He re-
vealed he had been down in Oklahoma and had
discovered that the Daily Oklahoman,' news
paper published in Oklahoma City, started the
campaign to lombard Congress with demands for
the outlaWing Of strikes and the setting aside of
the 1O-hOur work week on government work.
Other Southern papers took up the ballyhoo.
Sweatshop employers throughout that entire sec
ton printed postal cards carrying the demands"
and launched drive to delu2e members of Con-
greSs.
That's all there is to Kaltenborn's peoples
lobby Howard HopsOn, once powerful utility
magnate, did the same thing when President
Roosevelt was seeking the enactment of law to
restrain the thievery Of the men and corporations
who unoaded billions of worthless stock and bonds
on the American public iopson was exposed and
is now in the penitentiary.
If q congressional committee will take the
trouble to investigate kaltenbornS peoples lob
by" it will discover the same nauseatng situation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
"SNIPING" AT LABOR ASSAILED

Detroi t. - Denouncing attacks on
labor, George Meany, American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor secretary-treasurer,
the full unity which is so essential, all
this unwarranted sniping at labor on
the part of foolish or vicious men
should cease for these baSeless attacks
have one outstanding effect, and that
is to breed disunity, and he who pro-
notes disunity is an enemy of America,
whether he realizes it or not"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
SWISS MARITIME HOURS SET

Berne, SWitZcrland.-Belie it or
not, Switzerland has Il merchant ma
rine and has issued Il series of regula-
lions for ships sailing under the Swiss
Ilag. Working hours in port are fixed
at eight hours daily with Saturday
afternoon work to be paid as overtime.
Working time for the catering and
kitchen staff is 10 hours daily on land
and at sea. The men are entitled to Il
siN-day holiday after one year of con
tinuOus service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
nNIN EAMJI Jap Ioccripfio ion uo,.&b ~

II 1NE FAMIIIIAK deScTlptlOn worthy OF thOu2h1
" concerns the struggle for efficiency in Wash
ington, and on this subject famous writer says
"it is not struggle between isoationists and in.
terventionists radicals, and conservatives, ole
dealers and new dealers, capital and labor the Ad
ministraton or the public" But he finds the
struggle actually is between energetic men" anc
passive men"-the struggle between lve-wires
and the dead-wood. That's very good analysis
of the situation in Washington, and undoubtedly
it may be extended to include all parts Of the Unit
led States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
w II A T N EXT?
.*#****#****s+******|*&#*

Oats can now be prOCessed into
stuccO and plaster. says Forbes
Magazine. First the oats are pull
verized, then mixed with water
Zone pound of oats to 20 pounds Of
water) and cooked until jellylike.
SaSsafras oil is added to prevent
mold growth, old newspapers or
rags to give consistency. The fin
ished product can be applied like
stuccO, or nodded into boards or
bricks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
PLANT ADOPTS ATTACK SLOGAN

Bristol, Pa.-Fleetwings, Inc, aero
nautical manufacturer, is no longer IA
defense" plant. Painters removed the
words from factory signs and inserted
attack plant" The company president,
Frank de Ganahl, explained: Attack
is the order of the day, not defense.
We are. alta cking production more
vigorously each day so that our armed
forces can attack the enemy soon and
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-26
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Social security is lone of the great
purposes of the nations fighting for
freedom and for civilization based on
respect for human personality" says
an international survey entitled Gap
proaches to Social Security" just is
sued by the International Labor Of
flee.
The study, which deals with recent
developments in the field Of social Sc
curity, is preliminary to a series of
studies on different branches of social
security which are being prepared by
the lilo for the next meeting of the
lnter-American Committee on Social
Security scheduled for Santiago de
Chile.
War and brutal aggression have
driven home recognition of the fact
that it is the clear obligation of the
nations of the world to eliminate the
causes of social insecurity. Rational
economy of manpOwer is the essence
of social security. Prevention of time
lost in production and adequate medi-
cal care for workers and their fami-
lies represents vital war measure, as
it speeds up the output of armaments
and the launching of ships.
In it's current study, the lilo at
tempts to show what has been achieved
and what still must be done to insure
reasonable security for all who need
it. "The idea of social security springs
from the deep desire of men. to free
themselves from the fear of want. TO
realize this idea, the causes of in
security must be removed wherever
possible and the individual must be as
sured of that protection against the
common risks of life which his own
efforts do not avail to provide" the
ILO points out in it's survey.
The study describes the various so
cial security schemes throughout the
world that have proved their practical
bility. In order to give it broad view
and stress the essentials, the exposition
has been highly condensed and simpli-
fed Guidance is afforded for immedi-
ate action as well as for lOng-range
planning of postwar social economy.
The information, which includes the
most recent developments, in the field
of social security, is grouped under
three headings. First is taken up the
principal types of social assistance
then comes social insurance, or COM
puIsory mutual aid. The branches of
social Observation-Disclosures cOmpen-
sation, sickness insurance, pension in
surance, unemployment insurance-are
considered with respect to their or
ganiZation, scope, benefits and finance.
X X X
Strong demands for the establish
ment of minimum wage for British
railroad workers in view of the
steadily mounting cost of living have
been voiced by John Marchbank, gem
eral secretary of the National Union
of Railwaymen and chairman of the
Management Committee of the Inter
national Transport Workers Fedora
ton.
Appearing before the Railway Staff
National Tribunal, Marchbank pointed
to the rise of 30 per cent in living costs
and added that wage adjustments were
tagging behind. The railway labor
spokesman urged a uniform minimum
wage of So per week and pressed for
equal pay for the $4,000 women who
are doing mems work on British rail
roads.
The demand for minimum wage
and equal pay for women is also
strongly supported by the Railway
Clerks Association and other trans
port unions