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Evening star., 1942-09-25

We need many of these powerful,
last little boats to cope with the
treacherous submarine type of naval
warfare fostered by our enemies.
everybody can help pay for more
SUP chasers by putting at least 10
per cent of his income into War
ponds. Buy bonds and stamps every
pay day. Buy them from your bank,
your post ONCE, or from your ONCE
or factory through the payroll say
angs plan.
United States Treasury Department.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23
KODIAK DIARY .

Last week we mentioned the
 t that the Rotary was having ot of fun lining members for rious and sundry offenses :.
 Ire never going to mention at subject again ... we've .rned our lesson. we're chast- ed this week we inocently mt to lunch and got fined 25 nts for being late .. the other ys wouldn't let us sit at the me table with them, and then led us 25 cents for being snooty Id sitting alone ... then Ray artin read the article from last eek's Mirror and we were fined cents on each of four different tlnts. including that remark a. ut Ray Martin being the reedy" sergean -at-arms D at really hurt was the lunch F got Bill Dickey had taste Fly prepared a special plate of Ferything we don t like. white cad, sauerkraut and weinies, Irrots and one chilled baked 'tato :. before lunch was over ey saw the error of their ways
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Store Entered
 Late Last Night

Hearing the noise of broken glass below Pajoman's apart ments shortly after midnight, Floyd Olsen went out side to investigate and discovered that the glass window in the rear doorxof Bert's Drug store had been broken. Reaching in and unbolting the door Olsen flashed his light in the rear stock room and saw the form of a man on the floor. Going outside he fired signal shots which brought w. G. Slawson. city police officer, and a number of others to the scene.
 Entering they discovered the man, in the dark, lying on the floor. He was taken to the Mar shal's office where Jack King, deputy U. s. Marshal. acting in the absence of Paul Herring, said he would be held for investiga- tion. His name was given as Greenleaf Thornton, member of the Signal Corps. Officers said he had apparently been drinking heavily and that he had a slight cut on one arm and torn clothing evidently from the glass in the door.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23
Youths To Register In June; More Ship Sinking Claimed

Washington (P) - President Roosevelt has set June 30 as re gistration day for men between the ages of IS and 20. This will complete present registration of the nations manpower for both fighting and non. comDatant war duty. Men IS and 19 must re- gister between 7 a. m. and g p. m. on June 30 and they will not be subject to military draft un- til they reach the age of 20.
 Approximately 40,000,000 men between the ages of 20 and 65 registered in the 4 previous drafts.
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overnor Visits Here On Inspection Tour

Governor Gruening, recently returned to Alaska from Wash ington, D. C., arrived by plane here the forepart of the week to inspect defenses and make sur- vey of various steps being taken locally to prepare for emergencies and protection.
 At the Governors request Mayor Nick Miell called meet ing Tuesday afternoon at the Bank of Kodiak where the Gov ernor heard various reports of activities being undertaken here.
 w. J. Erskine, chairman, Dls- aster committee of the Red Cross, and Rev. Gregory B. Morony, chairman, local Red Cross chapter, reported on Red Cross preparations.
 The Red Cross has made pro- visions for food for emergencies, first aid, and clothing. Already in the Red Cross warehouse arc stocks of clothing and emergency supplies for disaster use On the way is complete equipment for I25 hospital beds, which Dr. A.. Holmes Johnson, first aid com mittee chairman, plans placing in the Griffin Memorial hospital, Dr. Johnson a'so reports that Kodiak has been designated as a b ood plasma center for the vlc- i lnity and that the Red Cross IS sending large quantity of the blood plasma to be kept hefe- The fist aid committee of the Civil Defense group has been designated the same as the Re l Cross first aid committee and 1t will work and report to Dr. Johnson.
 As soon as the present first
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orms Delayed:
 New Draft Rules

Registration of men between le ages of A. and 65 was post oned again this week when the eeessary forms failed to arrive ! the Cordova, A new registra- Dn date will be set by the loral bard as soon as the material is n hand.
 A number of new announce lents were made from the 1'err- Orlal headquarters of the Sel- >tive Service system this week. acluded were a number of re- ent occupational deferments ermissible, which include the Flowing:
 l. Ship cons truction-159 oc- apations are listed as necessary D war production, ranging from nglesmith to woodworker, rainee.
 2. Coastal, intercoastal and off, hore water transportation 50
 
 itical occupations, ranging >Om able seaman to wiper.
 3 Approved training program pr mariners.
 4. Coal production-62 occu- 'ations. ranging from plaster to Fielder.
 5. Railroad transportation 3 occupations, ranging from ap- 'fentice to yardmaster.
 The national Selective Service
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Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23

New Orleans (R)-A sea cap tain arriving here expressed his belief that 2 torpedoes sank his medium-si sized cargo ship and that the sub crew had been tip ped in advance of his vessels movements.
 At least 21 members of crew were carried to death in an am- azingly swift sinking which oc- cured in the Gulf of Mexico May 16.
 Captain Henry Rowe attach ed signifgance to the fact that the sub not only attacked with out warning but did not surface
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23
ol<yo Bombing Led By AIaska-Born FIier

Washington (P) )- Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, former Alaskan, was revealed this week as the leader of the Amerlcan air raid over Japan a few weeks ago. This was disclosed when the fier, noted also for peacetime speed exploits, received in person the Congressional M ed a l of of Honor here.
 In a statement released by the Whitehouse Doolittle described the historic mission and said little trouble was experienced in reaching objectives or from Jap planes.
 One of our planes target, Doolittle asserted, was a navy yard south of Tokyo where "one salvo made a direct hit on a new cruiser and one battleshlp under construction" and left it in flames. One bombardier, the General said, "strewed incen- diary bombs along a quarter mile aircraft factory near Ma goya."
 Doolittle said the squadron of American planes came in just over the housetops and dropped bombs at 1900 feet. The low lev el of flying. he said, made 1t difficult to observe the results of the bombs. He declared it ap- peared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. We would have liked to have tarried and watched later develope- ments of the fires and explosions but even so we were fortunate to receive a fairly detailed re- port from excited Japanese radio bfoadcasts. It took them several hours to calm down to deception and accusation
 Doolittle said part of his party observed a ball game in progress at one point. The play CTS and spectators didn't start to run for cover until just as the field passed into view.
 Both the President and the War department have left un- answered the important question the Japs would like to have an swered-the solution to where the raiding squadron was based.
 Jopoac Doolittle famed neacp
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23

The above Associated Press dispatch did not mention hero Doolittle's Alaskan birth. but confirmation of the above was received last night by the Mirror from James uncle, Gus Borgen, of Ketchikan.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23

Washington (P) - Rubber Coo1dinator Arthur Newhall re- ports that the government may ultimately have a registration of autos to haul workers to and from war plant areas where other facilities are lacking.
 Newhall asserted that he saw no need of requisitioning tires this year or in 1943 and in any case they would not be taken to be ground up for reclaimed rub Der but only as means of solv- ing the transportation problem
 R-Masses of German reser- yes were flung in to action after Nazi tank assaults failed to check the Russian offensive in the eleven day battle of Khar-
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Cannery w ages
 Show Increases

Cannery workers wage scale for the current season show an increase of 15 cents an hour over last year, and for packers an increase of 3 cents a case. Pro- vision is also made that any members dong longshore work during the season shall be paid at the rate of SIPS an hour.
 Following are the new wages
 With Bd & Rm. Without Warehousemen 80 90
 women 70 80 Packing Table 80 .9L Sinners .85 .95
 Crew .85 .95 Hand Packers .12 IA per case
 Anyone desiring work in the cannery for the coming season should contact the secretary at the Union hall from ? D. m. to 4 D. m. Christine Larsen, secre- tary of the Cannery Workers union, recently returned from the Cannery Workers conven- tion in Seattle.
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after sinking to obtain inform ation about it's victim, possibly indicating that the sub officers already knew the ships identify and it's sailing plans.
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James Doolittle, famed peace time stunt flier, was born in Nome, Alaska. His father, Frank Doolittle, worked as a carpenter for a number of years in Seward, and was a well-known pioneer of Nome.
Kodiak mirror., 1942-05-23

Rome (R)-The, Italian com mand said in a special commun- lque that it's sub the Barbarigo sank a U. $. battleship of the Maryland class with two torpedo hits off the Brazilian coast yes terday. No confirmation from any other source bears out the claim.
 The communique said escort ing vessels in a U. s. naval formation did not reply to the attack The attack was asserted to have occurred at 2::50 m. Rome time 100 miles west of the Brazilian island of Fernando Noronha, 125 miles off the east ernmost extremity of Brazil
 Washington (P)-The Pres ident declared the government will do everything 1t could to prevent what he termed unWar ranted pay increases in private plans. A half dozen steps might be taken, the President said, but he did not enumerate any of them
 At hls press conference the President reiterated again that the war would be a long one and cautioned against over op- timism one week and over pes simism the next. The war, public opinion and the news go up and down and things appear big at the moment but more should be done to prevent this. It is war effort fluctuations, he said. that have caused a tendency of over statement on the part of Amer ican people.
The union times., 1942-02-14
Men Who Lead Labor:

Peter Benard, of draft board 23A Bridgeport, gave his son Stephen his ticket into the army. That's Petef Benard, Bridgeport Central Labor Union president and vice-president of Local 277, Motion Picture Oper- ators. This mans war is his seat of
The union times., 1942-02-14
Co-Op Books
 Are Selected

NEW YORK-Out of a hundred books recommended by the Cardinal Hayes Literature Committee as out standing books of the year were five books in the field of sociology. Of these five, two were on the co-opera- tive movement. The books given this distrinction were Cooperative Plen- ty" by the Rev. J. Elliott Ross and "Co-operation, Christian Mode of Industry" by Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, OSB.
 Coming at the same time as the selection by the Cardinal Hayes Com mlttee was statement by the Most Rev. Aloisius J. Muench, Bishop of Fargo and president of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, in which he characterized co-operatives as powerful factors for the establish ment of a well-balanced social order
The union times., 1942-02-14
Hartford Men On
 New Committee

Col. Samuel H. Fisher, state de- fense administrator, announced the creation of Committee on Unity and Amity, under the State Defense Coun- cil.
 The purpose of the Committee on Unity and Amity is: CD to interpret the moral and spiritual meaning of the present world crisis; (2) to demon strate and further promote unity of the people in loyalty to our govern ment (3) to foster unity and anity amongst all men of patriotic motive regardless of racial or national origins (4) to endeavor to create the will for just and lasting peace; and (5) to promote a common effort for the preservation of the sacred rights of man in a society of free men.
 Col. Fisher appointed Rev. E. Dent Lackey as the official representative of the State Defense Council on the committee. The members of the com mittee are: Rabbi Abraham J. Feld- man, Temple Beth Isreal; Rev. Rus sell J. Clinchy, Minister, the Center Church; and Rev. Arthur P. Hanley Assistant Pastor, St. Justin's Church all of Hartford.
The union times., 1942-02-14
Membership Of StateI.L.C. To Buy Bonds
Garment Workers To Vote On 5%o Reduction Of
 Weekly Earnings

Connecticut's members of the In ternational Ladies Garment Workers Union will go over the top in its quota of the $25,0OOOOO the Inter nationals General Executive Board has pledged to raise through the sale of Defense Bonds to its 300,000 mem bers throughout the country, Jacob Banach, the organizations state mana ger, said this week.
 Meetings of all the Union mem bers in Connecticut will be held within the next few days to vote on the Unions proposal, that the workers authorize their employers to make weekly deductions from their pay, an amount equal to 5% of their weekly earnings, for which they are to receive Defense Stamps. representing the full value of such deductions. Each member of the Union is called upon to lend to the Government a minimum of two weeks earnings to be invested in Defense Bonds and Stamps.
 MANUFACTURERS BUY
 Full cooperation was voted by the Connecticut Dress Manufacturers As
The union times., 1942-02-14
Hotel Workers
 Win $5OO,OOO

SAN FRANCISCO.-An arbitra- tion award by Ansley K. Salz gave $500,000 in pay raises to 1,500 en- ployes of the 200 members of the San Francisco Hotel Owners Assn. The raises are retroactive to Aug. 1, 1o41.
 In June, 1941, the association signed an agreement with the Apartment & Hotel Employes Union and the Hotel Service Workers Union (both A.F.L.) giving the union shop. Wage demands were referred to an arbitrator.
 The 20 hotels of the Hotel En- ployers Assn. are not affected by this ruling and are still on strike, with IS of them picketed.
The union times., 1942-02-14

sociation, who passed a resolution en- dorsing the Unions plan. At that meeting a groupl of manufacturers bought $12,000 worth of bonds.
 The Union members in the state have also volunteered to make ul garments for the Red Cross when ever they are called upon, free oi charge. A few thousand of such gar ments have already been produced.
 The Union is also conducting First Aid Classes at its headquar- ters in New Haven, under the supervision of Red Cross instruc- tors. Similar classes are now being organized in other cities in the state.
The union times., 1942-02-14
Fisher Names
 Housing Board

A state housing committee of three members has been named by Col Samuel H. Fisher, state defense ad- ministrator, to work with General Sanford H. Wadhams, housing chair man for the State Defense Council. The. committee consists of Russell H. Allen, executive secretary of the Hartford Housing Authority; Henry T. Kneeland, Hartford realtor and Connecticut chairman of the National Committee on Housing Emergency and Donald Sammis, of Stratford, president of the Fairfield County Planning Association.
The union times., 1942-02-14
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

A resolution calling for stringent educational program to acquaint the people with the full significance of the situation during our coming 60 days of grace" proposed by Harry Kretz- mer, chairman of the Glastonbury Fair Rent Committee, was adopted.
The union times., 1942-02-14

Full cooperation was voted by the Connecticut Dress Manufacturers As
The union times., 1942-02-14
Sheffield Farms Company Union?

WASHINGTON.-Operation of a company union has been charged against the Sheffield Farms Co. of New York, one of the country's larg- est milk distributors by the Federal Trade Commission.
 The firm is charged with organiz- ing milk producers into an Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Assn. for the purpose of busting farmers CO., operative organizations.
The union times., 1942-02-14
FIGHT CITY ORDNANCE

BEDDING, Cal.-Prompted by To- cal A.F.L. unionists, the State Fed eration of Labor is launching a court fight against city ordnance which requires every solicitor for dues-pay- ing members of an organization to ob- tain license from the city council.
 The license is granted only after the council is satisfied that no CO., ercion will be used.
The union times., 1942-02-14

operation for the duration. He's .also chairman of the A.F.L. sub-commit- tee of the US. Defense Savings Com mittee for the Park City. After all, this is only Pete's third war since he was born in Quincy Mass, in 1879.
 Pete's dad, Stephen Peter Ben- ard, taught Pete his unionism. Dad was president of the Stonecutters local in Stony Creek and later In- ternatiOnal president. Father and
The union times., 1942-02-14

son were asked to leave the town by the anti-labOr clements after a long strike in which the Stonecut- ters asked for a daily 25c increase from the $2.25 they were receiving. A union motion picture operator today makes that much in an hour.
 ORGANIZED LOCAL
 Pete, who resigned as president of Local 277 in favor of John Connors, organized 277 in 1912 and obtained its charter in 1913. Naturally, the To- cal has purchased $2,0O0 in Defense Bonds. Another son, John, is a mem Der of the executive board There are three daughters besides Stephen and John, and four grandchildren.
 GOVERNORS FRIEND
 Pete has been an organi4Fr for the Retail Clerks and is an honorary ALI. organizer. He is also a mem Der of the US. Defense House Com mission. He is an enrolled Democrat and counts Gov. Robert A. Hurley among his friends
 Among the unions he has been in- strumental in selling Defense Bonds to, are Lobal 488, Electrical Workers, to the tune of $7,000; and the Car penters $3,000.
 He's now trying to get the movie houses to hold morning shows for the kids with an admission of 10c for which the children will be given an equivalent amount in stamps. Total intake, of course, will go to Defense
 P.S.-Pete got married in 1900 or his birthday, Oct. Y.
The union times., 1942-02-14
.C.R.&L. Men In Bridgeport
 Keep Moving
Two Join Armed Forces John M. Hurley Heads
 Credit Union

Induction, defense, and the re- newal of their C. R. X l.. contract are keeping the members of Di- vision 459, Bridgeport Bus Drivers Union, busy these days. Frank Col lins and Donald Ragotte. C. R. & L. drivers, have entered the Navy and Army, respectively, after a party in their honor given by feI- low union members.
 Many of the drivers are attend ing the First Aid courses sponsored by the C. R. X L. Company.
 The tentative contract worked out by the State Board is being presented to the membership this month for dis cuSslon and approval.
 VOTE DIVIDEND
 The C. R. & L. Credit Union affili- ated to the Division voted dividend ot 31a8o for the past year at its an- nual meeting. It has over 300 members who have saved better than $21,OOO since its inception one year and nine months back. Members credit Thomas Walsh, secretary-treasurer, with mak- ing the Credit Union so successful.
 Officers of the C. R. & L. Credit Union Board of Directors follow: John M. Hurley, president James Thorp, vice-president; and Walsh, Henry Fly, Lester c. Parfitt Robert Smith, and Francis Broder. ick are the other members of the board.
 John Brown, Paul Kovacs, and
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BricklayerS

Continued from Page One) and George Masterson were elected to the arbitration board. The election was supervised by International Un- ion Deputy Edward Bontempo, Mod orator John o. Pierson, and Box tender Joseph DiLorentis.
 The membership expressed gratif- cation, after the election meeting, over the election of Danaher. Several men referred to him as dynamic, !" aggressive" and a spark plug of the labor movement"
 DINNER FOR CAFFNEY
 A testimonial dinner will be given for Gafney at a later date. He was president for two years. Skipp, Camp bell, Vincent Clark, Frank Ferrucci, and Mercugliano were appointed to make the arrangements.
 Danaher and DiLOnardO are both veteran officers of Local 6. The new president has previously served as international union depu- ty, trustee, and as corresponding secretary for nine years. The finan- cial secretary has been trustee, treasurer, as we'll as financial sec retary in his g years of continuous membership.
The union times., 1942-02-14
air Rent Boards 1n Bridgeport Neqv Haven Getting Result

Ernest Robinson form the credit committee, with George Guest, Samuel Robertson, and Robert Mead, the supervisory committee.
The union times., 1942-02-14
State Session
 Hears Foley And Cebhardt
Government To Intervene Where Committees Fail
 To Function Properly

The Fair Rent Committees of Bridgeport and New Haven are successfully carrying out the tasks assigned to them by Col. Samuel H. Fisher, State Defense Admins trator, the Elm City with less pulp licity and fanfare than the Park City committee. The unit in Hart ford, however, has expressly asked for federal intervention which will come after 6O-day period per- mitted for an attempt at more pro- gress on the part of local units. STATE CONFERENCE
 These are the considered opinions of Edmund R. Gebhardt, chairman of the New Haven Fair Rent Com mittee, and Edward V. Foley, mem Der and director of the Homes Reg lStration Bureau, who attended and spoke at the statewide all-day con- ference held in Hartford last week to consider critical rent situations in several towns besides Hartford.
 NEW HAVEN IS OK.
 The New Haven committee has settled l23 out of l54 complaints to date to the satisfaction of both the tenant and the landlord in- vOlved, according to Foley. The re- Inainder are being heard and dis cussed now. Foley declared that only four or five landlords have been found tough. Both men be- Iieve the record of the committee is outstanding, after hearing the reports of the l6 committees pres ent at the conference. There are IF such committees in all in Con- necticut.
 Karl Borders, chief of the rent sec tion of the Office of Price Admins tration, predicted at the conference, that a Federal administrator would be sent in to set up necessary machin- cry to enforce the rent regulations as provided in the recently passed price control bill. In all probability a man already on the fair rent com mittee would be designated for the particular locale to be called "de- fense rental area"
 Gebhardt thought it possible that New Haven, Bridgeport, and Bristol where committees are functioning sat- isfactorily might not be included.
 Several alternatives to Federal administration were suggested at the conference. The ma ajority of the people present indicated that they were not in favor of such a de- velopment. Attorney Alfred Kotch- en, secretary of the Hartford Fair Rent Committee, asked the confer ence to go on record in favor of proper legal authority to enforce the decisions in rent controversies, a procedure urged on the last ses- sion of the State legislature by the New Haven Central Labor Council. No action was taken on this pro- pOsal since it would involve a spe- cial session of the General As- sembly.