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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
LODGE
MEMBERS MEET

Perseverance Rebekah Lodge held
its regular business meeting last
night in the LO.OF. Hall, with
Noble Grand Peggy McIvor pre-
siding. Plans were made for food
sale to be held May 8 with Mrs.
Josephine Spickett as chairman,
assisted by Katherine Hahn.
Appointed to serve on the re-
freshment committee for the April
% meeting were Sigrid Dull, Chair
man, Ethel Loken, Rebecca F'eero
Munge Rudolph, Winnifred Han
nah, Esther Fremming, Rondi Pc
terson and Catherine Hahn, en-
tertainment
| All girls interested in joining the
Drill Team are asked to call l66 and
notify Irene Mckinley, and the
next meeting of the Club will be
announced later.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
STUDY
0F(RIlhE
TOLD NOW
Increase in Arrests Of Min.
or Girls, Boys Among
Revelations

WASHINGTON, April Is. The
Department of Justice announces
there was an estimated total Of
,436,748 major crimes committed
in the United States during 1912
Crimes against the person showed
a To percent increase during the
first. full year of war over the
prewar average for l939-l94l.
Director J. Edgar Hoover, of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation re-
vealed a crime was committed every
1919 seconds, on the average, dur
ing 1912 A felonious homicide oc-
CURED every asa minutes, and
rape was committed every So min
uteS. Some other felonious assault
was inflicted every 1909 minutes,
while a citizen was robbed every
liz minutes. A burglary occurred
every l97 minutes during 1912, and
someone stole an automobile every
314 minutes.
The FBI study disclosed. Mr.
Hoover pointed out, that during
1912 crimes against the person in
creased 70 percent, while crimes
against property decreased So per-
cent, compared with the 1939-4l
average. Murders increased 1.6 per-
cent; negligent manslaughters, l.3
| percent; aggravated assaults, TIC
percent; and rapes, ll.2 percent.
There was decrease in burglaries
Of 1872 percent. Robberies dropped
SO percent; car thefts, sd percent;
and larcenies, 30 percent.
Arrests of minor girls during 1912
increased 55.7 percent over the
previous year, while arrests of boys
under 81 decreased 36 percent
Fingerprint cards received at the
FBI of arrested women increased
21.7 percent over 1941, and male
arrests decreased 10 percent.
Director Hoover, in stressing the
alarming increase in crime and de-
linquency among women and girls
revealed that FBI figures show ar
rests of minor girls for prostitution
increased 64.8 percent during 1912
over 1941 Arrests of girls under 81
for other sex offenses increased
l04.7 percent; vagrancy, l24.3 per-
cent; disorderly conduct, 696 per-
cent; and drunkenness. 1913 percent
In burglary, larceny, and auto
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
DOUGLAS
NEWS
NEW OFFICERS ARE
ELECTED BY DIWC

Members and guests enjoyed a
very pleasant evening last night at
the home of Mrs. j. O. Kirkham
who, with Mrs. j. r. Guerin assist
ing, was hostess for the April meet
ing OF tne Douglas Island Woman's
Club
Principal business Of the session
was Clece.on OF officers. for the
l943-44 term, as follows: Presi-
dent, Ais. Norman Rustad, Vice
President, Mrs. Glen Rice; Secre-
tary, Miss Jean Ackerson; Treas
urer, Mrs. Sam Devon.
Final papers of incorporation for
the Douglas library were received
and duly signed, completing that
matter The Importance of the sec
ond war loan drive was emphasized
at the meeting. Magnus Hanson OF
Juneau was awarded the s25 bond
disposed of by the club.
Following consideration of other
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
SHELDON, MCLAUGHLIN
MAKE OFFICIAL TRIP

Leaving on a routine official trip
through Southeast Alaska by the
first available steamer is r. E. Shell
don, executive director, and John
T. Mclaughlin, research and infor-
nation representative, both of the
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission.
They will visit Ketchikan, Wran-
gell, Petersburg and several smaller
places including Klawock and pos
sibly Tenakee. 1t is expected the
trip will take ten days or two
weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
RUSSELL MAYNARD
BACK FROM SITKA

Russell G. Maynard, Director of
the Territorial Department of Pub
lie Welfare, arrived home yester-
day from Sitka, where he flew last
Friday to confer with Eiler Han
sen, superintendent of the Pioneers
Home, relative to procedures Incl
dental to the entrance Of persons
to the home from the various sec
lions of Alaska General business
of the department pertaining to
general relief and old age asSis-
lance was also conducted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
MRS. MARY JACKSON
dies; RESIDENT OF
DOUGLAS VILLAGE

Mrs. Mary Jackson, T-year-old
native woman of Douglas, died this
morning at her home in the native
village.
Long a resident of the Gastineau
Channel area, Mrs. Jackson out
lived most of her relatives, the
closest surviving being two nieces,
Mrs. Ole Tang of Tenakee and Mrs.
Sandy Stevens of Juneau.
Birthdate of the deceased is Civ
en- as September, 1865.
No funeral arrangements have
as yet been made, the Charles w.
Carter Mortuary announces.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

Il
war supplies moves in wooden
crates and boxes.
The principal ingredient OF nj
tro-cellulose explosives is cellu-
lose, which comes from the. pulp of
American trees. It's used in block
buster bombs, in depth charges,
and even in small arms ammuni-
ton. The list of other war uses for
wood is almost endless.
Lumbermen say, however, that
there's plenty of raw timber and
the estimates of the most pessi@
mistic back them up.
Forest industry representatives
here give you these figures. In
l94l anticipating defense needs)
they jumped production from 20
billion board feet to 35.7 billions.
In 1912, the output dropped to "a
billion.
The decline they lay to losses in
manpower, shortages in equipment
and unfavorable weather
DR.. Wilson Compton, spokesman
for the American Forest Products
Industries. calls the 1912 production
"a notable achievement.
The industry, he says, yielded
SO percent as much lumber as in
1941, but did it with is percent
fewer workers in the woods ai'
Perhaps it. really isn't strange
that controversy has arisen over
the lumber situation. Although
lumber has been one of our great
industries since the first block
house by the first colonists, this is
llumber's first war. .a a
I In World War l, numbering wasn't
\ even considered an essential in
! dustry. That isn't hard to under
stand when you think in terms of
\ rubber, high soctane gasoline and
the many other things the uses of
which have multiplied thousands
OF times in this sli-o global war.
y O. -
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

theft during 1912, there was an
increase in the average value of
property stolen per offense. Al
though the number of thefts from
autos decreased 20 percent in 1912,
bicycle thefts increased 10.1 per-
cent. An increase of 90 percent
was. registered in shoplifting. and
there was 1876 percent increase in
pocket picking. While there was 4
PA percent decrease in the number
Of robberies of stores and other
commercial houses, highway rob-
berries increased lis percent in
1912.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
Win
Over Yankees
Also Giants
Brooklyn lakes Double
header for Champion
ship Of Community

NEW YORK, April IS. = TIL e
Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the
New York Yankees to l yester-
day afternoon and then used most
ly second stringers to defeat the
New York Giants to in an ex-
hibition doubleheader which raised
$4,000 from 35,3O1 baseball fans
for New York's Civilian Defense
Volunteer Office.
The two wins gave the Dodgers
a cleancut claim to community
championship.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
SCATTER WATER SYSTEM
STOCKHOLDERS TONIGHT

A meeting of the stockholders of
the Scatter Water System is being
held this evening at 7:30 o'clock at
the home of Alex Holden, 1916
Evergreen Avenue, at which time
a board of directors will be elected
for the ensuing year. All persons
interested in the system are in
yited to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
LARS Peterson REMAINS
TO BE SENT OUT SO(

The body of Lars Peterson, who
died at Todd April as the result
of heart attack, will be shipped
south on the next available trans
portation for burial in the state of
Washington, presumably Olalla,
where the wife. and daughter re-
side, it is announced today by the
Charles w. Carter Mortuary, where
the remains were prepared for
shipment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
DIR. GEORGE HAYS ONCE III
AGAIN IN LOCAL OFFICE

DR.. George Hays, liaison officer
for the Territorial Department Of
Health, has returned to Juneau
from Anchorage, where he carried
on departmental business, follow
ing conferences held in Seattle re-
Gently. Making the round trip by
plane, the detour to Anchorage was
necessitated by weather conditions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
is MEETING TONIGHT

The Missionary Society of Mem
orial Presbyterian Church will
meet at the home of Mrs Jake
Cropley this evening at 7:30 o.
clock.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
issues delicious refreshments were
served by the hostesses.
RcBINsoNs TAKE APT.

Mr., and Mrs. Don Robinson have
taken one of the Kilburn apart
ments for their summer residence.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
MRS. ARGER HERE

Mrs. Catherine Anger is a visitor
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Milton Valeson, for a months visit
from her home in Tacoma. Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

The Daily Alaska Empire has the
largest paid circulation Of any Al
aSka newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

Actors in ancient Greek TRACED
les wore high soles to give them
added height.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

Roman functionaries had Off
cial boots of varying colors to dis
tinguish them from lesser folk.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

Chang Kai-Shek American
KaiShek and co-shaer with
direction the and bitter struggle with Japan
she welcomed to California by Gov
Mayor Angelo Rossi et The
distinguished Chang exchanged pleasantres
greeting officials before pungmg
public addresses
famed
the world outside OF
ssmo Chinese nationals delight in calling
her smiled graciouy wildly her
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
THE YAKOBI

will leave Juneau for Petersburg,
Port Alexander and Way Ports
EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 6 AM.
Please have all freight on City
Dock Tuesday, before PM.
For Information Phone 513
MARTIN FEST.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15
War Is whiting Into
Nation S Wood Supply;
Demands Are Outlined

Continued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-15

war supplies moves in wooden
crates and boxes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
LABOR DAY, l943
America is on the road to victory!

victory!
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
THE PEOPLE ARE NOT CONVINCED
~ GnlI

REPORlS FROM OUR H2hLlng men overseas
~ indicate that they labor under the delusion
that the folks back home don't know war IS
going on and that we are solely concerned with
our stomach needs These mismpressons prob
ably are logically deduced from the distorted pic
ture they have received of the pubics reaction to
latiOning, food shortages and eXorbtant prices.
Rightly or wrongly the average citizen belleVeS
the whole policy Of food control and distribution
has been badly bunged. He believes that much of
the scarcity Of food products is aItcialy created,
and is due to manipulation and conSclenceleSS
profteerng to make the consumer pay through
the nose He feels he is being played for sucker
and that his patriotism is being imposed upon,
that he is in the middle of squeeze play engineer
ed on the one hand by food professors from the
farm to the retail distributor and on the other by
bungling and cOnniving governmental bureau
Gratis.
The average American is still not convinced
that the food shortage is as acute as it has been
represented to be- that grade labelling must be
abolished or that current high prices are justified.
He feels that while rationng and less food for the
civilian population is inevitable because OF war
time demands if politics and organized greed were
more and better grade food at somewhat lower
prices
We do not believe the average citizen is in
Ordnately selfish or unwilling to make commen-
surate sacrifices to help win the war We believe
that most of us would 90 on diet of bread and
water and wear patched pants and scuffed shoes
if we were thoroughly convinced it was necessary
and would help win the war. But the American
people, through bitter experience, have become
enlightened skeptics, which postulates both warri-
ness and vigilance on their part, and such is a
democratic reaction to autocratic and predatory
tendencies which all war time economies evnce to
an inOrdinate degree.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
CRIX OF THE TROUBLE

THE EVIDENCE against the Little Steel For
mua mounts daily. TO most Of us it is almost
unbelievable that any public official in possession
of the truth about living costs can have the gall
to defend that formula
Not one Of us wants imitation. We are not in
favor of mitatlonaly measures We know, how
ever, that imitation is upon us to q great degree
We find it present every day when we buy the
things necessary to sustain life and health. Or
ganiZed labor would like to find a method whereby
the air could be squeezed out of the inflated prices
We would be willing to 90 back to January, 1911
insofar as wages concerned if the prices in
existence at that time were restored.
1t is a waste Of time to tell labor that it will
get hurt IF we have imitation. Labor las already
been hurt by inilation it is getting hurt more and
more every day. We are beginning to realize the
cold hard fact that the only Line that has been
held is the Line against wages Congress has con
structed immense barriers against the workers
while permitting the farmers and the Industrial
lists to make millions out Of this war. Many Of the
millions Of dollars now being piled up in Wall
Street came out Of the skins of the working people
and out Of the hides Of those other working
people who are now in uniform, fighting this war.
We do not want runaway wages; neither do we
want runaway prices. We want fair, honest deal
and we are not getting it under the Little Steel
Formula,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
WHERE IS THAT MONEY?
SOME RADIO commentators and politi

SOME RADIO commentators and politicians are
~ repeating fairy story that too many people
ARE beginning to believe 1t goes something like
this: 'The workers have more money than they
ever had in their lives etc.
Yes, the workers have more money, but that
lis only half of the story. The cost of living has
risen by leaps and bounds. Taxes are higher than
ever before in our nations history. And the work
ing people are buying more government bonds
than ever before.
Actually, the worker is not as well off as he
was q year ago, for the War Labor Board has
succeeded in holding wages down, but the OPA
has NOT held prices. There is greater degree
Iof initiation right now than a month ago, due
Largely to price increases, some Of which were
authorized by the OPA.
Finally, money is not wages. The real wages
Iof the worker grows less each week, as living
costs go up. Measured in terms of purchasing
power, the workers have less not more, than they
had when Little Steel was concocted.
Here some facts, however, that the radio
orators and politicians do not mention: profits are
lat an all-time high and war millionares are being
made at a record rate. The common people of
America are fighting this war, they are producing
the war goods and the ships, they are building
the planes, they are transporting the supplies to
the places they are needed most. They are doing
practically ALL of the sacrificing that is, if any
body is really making any sacrifice except the men
IN uniform and their immediate families
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
WINNING THE PEACE

THERE ARE notable indications of the growing
realization that there must be some kind of
world organization to deal with problems con-
corning all nations and to maintain the peace.
First there the Senate resolution sponsored
by Senators Ball. Burton, Hill and Hatch, two
Republicans and two Democrats, setting forth a
foreign policy for the United States and advising
that we assume our international responsibilities
and participate in maintaining an international
police force. The resolution advises the United
States to take the initiative in calling meeting of
the United Nations to organize to win the war,
to establish temporary governments in countries
retaken from the Axis, to administer relief and to
establish machinery for the peaceful adjustment
of disputes.
More recently Representative Fulbright intro
duced short resolution that Congress favor the
creation of international machinery with adequate
power to establish and maintain just and last
ing peace among the nations and that the United
States participate therein. The House Committee
on Foreign Affairs unanimously approved the
resolution.
We know these non-partisan precedents indi-
cate that the trend of thinking in Congress fol-
lows that Of American citizens generally.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
IT'S WARING THIN, MAYBE

MR.. ROANE WARING, head of the American
1'A Legion, which is fine body of men, is doing
the Mussolini act, talking for the whole Legion
as if he WERE the Legion, which we don't believe.
Mr.. Waring says there must be no world police
force, almost before anyone has suggested any
such thing:
Then Mr.. Waring quotes Vice President Wall
ace saying that social revolution is on it's way
and the devil and all his angels can't stop it." To
which Mr.. Waring makes this amazing retort.
'The devil and his angels may not be able to
stop the social revolution, but the American Le-
gon will"
Mr. Warng has done a lot of talking since the
king makers selected him to be National Com
mander. But his pontifical pronouncements are
getting bit thin-and foolish.
IF social revolution is the way it will be
because of deep causes and not even the American
Legion can stop it without getting at the causes.
But, aside from that, when Mr.. Waring talks
about social revolution he should define his terms.
In the past ten years we have had lot Of social
revolution - real genuine social revolution. Not
even the American Legion stopped it and most of
its members are a lot better off because Of it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
ESTABLISHING SOUND UNIONISM
IN THE LIBERATED COUNTRIES

Thousands marching Allied
Who will establish
That is the labor
today the will determine speed
Millions
has
The pledged
industry quickly
BATTLE FOR CONTROL
of the will they will
o in
unions of the occupied countries find the
by tuls and politics Il o
o and
those forces which inue class warfare and division
standards of the workers plan the family
the
capture peoples
completely their Moral
It
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will n providing
fortified
nio
their gives discipline inner
liberty |
confidence throughout the is above personal
of
personal social racial national rernaomh change
CREATES
1t builds unshakale
be altered by pickering interest
o quality o ng o ma
Through
make
In of freedn
mion only
the liberation their but the American labor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
STAR SPANGLED BANNER, PERHAPS

REPUBLICAN National Committee Chairman
Spangler leaves good deal to be desired in the
field of craftsmanship when he takes the Presi-
dent to task for his fve-point program for de-
mOblliZcd service men.
Chairman Spangler cries aloud to the effect
that the President is playing politics by laying
down such 4 program at such a time.
Couldn't it be that the President put into his
speech something more than partisan program ?
Couldn't it be that he was stating in fairly con-
crete terms the convictions of a nation?
And could it be that Mr.. Spanger was peeved
because Mr.. Roosevelt was first to put the pro
gram into words publicly?
The nation would feel better and perhaps pro-
duce better if we had fewer such outbursts as
that from Mr. Spanger, who may be very fine
person, but who shows more and more tendency
toward form of myopia in the field of politics.
After all, Mr.. Roosevelt is President and it is
his business to be looking ahead in such matters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
CLEVELAND TO TRAIN WELDERS

Washington, ID. c. ULNS).-In an
effort to improve the quality and
quantity of shipyard welding work,
the United States Maritime Commits
sion has accepted the offer of the
Lincoln Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio,
to train and instruct welderS in ship
yards engaged in Maritime Commits
sion work. The company will furnish
training facilities in Cleveland includ-
ing the necessary equipment and staff
for training supervisors and teachers
who will operate the various welding
schools in Maritime Commission yards.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
INCENTIVE TO DISLOYALTY

4 ID AMERICA rejoced over Che capjtulation Of
Mussoln except Wall Street.
The news of the downfall Of Italy's dictator
"Was construed in financial quarters as another
broad step toward victory,' says an Associated
Press dispatch, and as result stocks dropped
from 81 to $5 a share
This is a curious phenomena
If good news from the war fronts is bad news
for Wall Street there can only be one reason
fear of losing fat war profits. Since war industries
are working almost entirely for the Government,
these inflated profits are being made at the eX-
pense OF the people of the United States. We sub
NIT that it is up to Congress- to this ncen-
tive to dSloyaty from the pockets Of the specu-
latorS and profteerS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
JOBS in ILLINOIS STILL RISING

Chicago ULNS).-Increases of IL
per cent in employment and IT per
cent in payrolls were indicated for
Illinois industries in the period be-
tween May Is and June Is, State Di-
rector of Labor Francis b. Murphy,
announced. The current increases mark
the fifth consecutive month of gains
in employment and payrolls and con-
tinue the upward trend that has pre-
vailed for year. The index for all
reporting industries Indicate that EN-
ployment is approximately 9 per cent
higher than Il year ago, while the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics estimates an
increase of approximately . per cent in
total nonagricultural employees during
this period