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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29
ROOSEVELT PROTECTS POLES

President Roosevelt, however, ob- jected. He cabled Churchill he could not agree to these terms. Churchill then held up the whole matter while U s. Ambassador Winant brought the treaty back to Washington. Following on his heels came Foreign Minister Molo- toy. He wanted two things: sec ond front in Western Europe to take the heat off Stalingrad; also an agreement on the partition of Poland.
 Molotov got neither The British opposed the first and Roosevelt opposed the second.
 The second front was finally de- cided at Teheran. At that time a compromise was also proposed whereby the Poles were to give up East Poland and be compensated with slices of East Prussia, Pom erania and Upper Silesia at the eX- pense of Germany. Roosevelt tried to keep on the sidelines regarding this part of the Teheran talks, and Churchill was supposed to carry the ball when it came to persuading the Polish government in exile to accept this compromise. This was what was behind Churchill's re- cent talks in Moscow when he sum- moned the Polish premier and put the screws on him to accept the Teheran compromise. It was also behind his recent speech in parlia-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29
Washington Merry
 Go-Round

(Continued from Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compel"
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30
 Adverse aspects dominate today which may be mentally disturbing to many who measure the years accomplishments The wise will look forward not backward.
 HEART AND HOME: This is a day for positive thinking that avoids regrets, News that seems to indicate prolongation of the war may be depressing, but the seers forecast surprises that promise final victory earlier than formerly pre- dicted.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS Gradual reconverSion of war industries is to solve employment problems in the first months of the new year. As result of severe training in tech nical tasks many returning service men will prove to be extremely ef- ficient.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: There is a sign indicating that many bars will be let down in our immigration regulations. Despite union labor protests, relatives of American citi- zens will be admitted in small groups, it is forecast.
 
 INTERNATIONAL FAIR s: According to the interpretation of a sinister omen, power politics will be apparent in important diplo- matic conferences early in l945. Conflicting aims of United Nations members will cause anxiety when the Congress convenes.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of bene- fits and progress through new as- sociations. Many home worries will prove groundless.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be endowed with definite talents and independent charac- ters. Love Of books will enable at tainment of high positions in edu- cational circles.
 Copyright, 1944
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29

The Elks announced they would give the annui Years Eve admission S1 50 augmented orchestra of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29

sent to new Polish borders, giving Russia her previous provinces in Poland up to the Curzon Line. This meant that Poland would be split in half
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DECEMBER 29

DECEMBER 29 Marlyn Edwards George E. Sheeper Charlotte Soule Elmer J. Jacobsen
 Hilda Larson Mrs. M. T. Cramer Elsie Jennings Mrs. Mae Bowling Arthur T. Daniels F. F. Fremming
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-29

Tax relief in the sense of Federal tax reduction is a remote prospect according to Representative Doughton and Senator George, chairmen of the Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Com mittee in Congress.
 AS a matter Of fact, the experts in Washington point out more taxation is needed safeguard
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-28
PAY CHECK LOSER

Times Photo
Florence Darnell, 20, of 241S w. Grand
Blvd, signing warrant against Jack
Schultz, rOOmer in her mothers house
who, she charges, stole her SAIL check.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
Soviet Reveals System,
I0f Air Bases Across
Siberia 10 SakhaIin
BY EDDY GILMORE.
Ansneiatad prass vs : rorreenn,. 49,

/ Aud10u FKeSe WET Eoffoeponuoog.
| MOSCOW, Oct. THE Russian
people learned today that the Soviet
Onion had set up vast system Of
lu-weather air bases stretching from
1.-THE big island OF Sakhalin, north OF
Japan, northeastward through ST.
IBERIA.
Thus the Soviets have strong air
protection In the Far East because
these fields, which now handle the
streams Of passengers, freight and
mall could be converted almost I'm.
lmediately for military operations.
The newspaper Izvestia announced
this wartime accomplishment, which
provides air transport from the half
Russian, half-Japanese island Of
sSakhalin, on through the peninsilar
province Of Kamchatka and to Kol-
syma, In the northeasternmost COR
lner of the Soviet Union.
I flew over q section Of this net
work IN the spring Of 1943 as the
first correspondent permitted to
view these excellent airdromes.
Under the most difficult condi-
tons, Russian workers have built
excellent airflelds.
landed on three Of them In 4
Liberator converted into . passenger
plane and found them large enough
to accommodate the biggest aircraft.
They are built to maintain flying the
year around.
/, Rain and sleet made no difference
to landing operations. Izvestia's an
linouncement said pilots sometime fly
in weather so degrees below zero
ito keep up schedules.
| From the Soviet half OF the island
lof Sakhalin to Kolyma Is as far as
from New York to Omaha, or from
San Antonio to Duluth.
| The far northeastern airlines con-
meet with the greatest Soviet Siber-
ian port Of Viadivostok, which Is
east Of Sakhalin Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
Dehydruted. Compressed
Meat Process Announced
BY theAssociated Press.

BY tne ASeocldteo ffesSs
Development OF methods OF de-
MIGRATING and COMPRISING boned
meats so the weight and bulk is
only thirds of the original
quantity, was announced yesterday
by the Agricultural DEPARTMENT.
research division.
The experiments were conducted
as q special wartime project In CO.
operation with the American Meat
Institute, the University Of Chicago,
and other agencies.
Dehydrating reduced the weight
of the meat 60 to 10 per cent, the
department said, and subsequent
processing for packing reduced the
volume IS to 70 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
Weather Report

District Of Col,lmbia-Sunny and
cooler with low humidity and breeze
today, temperature reaching low
70s in the afternoon. Clear and
cooler tonight. Fair and cool to-
morrow.
Maryland and Virginia Sunny
and cooler with 10 wtumidity today.
Fair and cool tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac River clear. Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
slightly muddy ut Great Falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08

Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Highest 81, at 8 Pm; yesterday, year
ago, "a.
Lowest. SO. at $40 am; yesterday,
year ago, 43.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90 on June Is.
Lowest, II, on January 8.
Tide Tahlas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
BILLFOLDS IN COLOI

complete pocket file keep everything poee from keys
and coins to shopping lists and bills Coorf .Lody Buxton
styles for women, with costly removable Mooic Purse"
tor with siocks Uniform The neat trim "Reosor"
mon like
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
VINO Stresses
Jobs for Vets

Increasing attention toward as
sisting discharged servicemen to
obtain employment is being given
by the War Manpower Commission.
Manager Tom Finney, who also
is chairman of the Selective Service
Re-employment committee for the
south part of Imperial county, said
Saturday that whenever a man
who resides in this county Is dis
charged his office receives notifica-
ton.
Seventy five notices have been
sent by his office to these veterans
and twenty have replied. A few of
the latter had jobs but Finney was
able to extend assistance to the
majority who answered. He presum-
ed that those who did not answer,
either had jobs or were out OF the
valley.
Finney cites cases of procuring
employment for disabled vets, one
in particular had lost an arm and
was placed in the Forestry service
Special attention is being given
the rehabilitation of these veter-
ans" Finney declared. There's
some kind of a job for everyone
regardless of his handicap.
IF at all possible we try to get
the man back into his former job
If not, other employment is found,
Finney commented.
Next week Finney will go to Los
Angeles to attend a VINO meeting
where special emphasis will be di-
rected toward the vets rehabilita-
ton and employment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
AN OUTRAGED PUBLIC
SPEAKS OUT

Willful suppression of the news of this
wars greatest tragedy-the death of 410
brave paratroopers by our own antiair-
craft fire in the Sicily campaign-is the
last straw. When the account of this
whole affair finally gets into every home
through the columns of newspapers there
will be tide of public Indignation that
will not be appeased by any excuse at
Washington or any explanation from the
White House.
But for the courage and temerity OF
an army sergeant, it well could have
been held back forever from the people
Think Of it. Eight months ago, this
terrible thing happened. In the mean
time the administration, Smarting under
a terrific blasting from the public on
withholding other war news, had prom
ised to mend its ways and give the pub
lie the bare facts and tell the story when
1T happened This promise was kept no
sbetter than a thousand and one other
spromises since the war and before the
war.
. How long can the White House play
athe public as a sucker?
;. Just as long as the public keeps on be-
ing a sucker.
:, And now seems the time for an end
sof it.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
WHY WAR AT HOME?
(Christian Science Monitor)


Strikes that grow out of wars between
labor factions seem particularly untime-
ly today. Yet here and there unions con-
tinue to do battle with their rivals, and
often work-stoppage chops down war
production severely.
Two recent such instances occurred in
Massachusetts. The worst tieup, run
ming 62 days in the old textile center of
Fall River and making thousands idle,
was ended only through Army seizure
of 10 mills. Three months ago the sec
ond most stubborn walkout, this time in
the chief leather center of New England,
similarly refused to be pinched off save
by Army occupation of 13 tanneries.
Both strikes were born solely of juris-
dictional rows In each the smaller un-
ion struck to prevent further moves of
its opponent designed to wipe it out
The hour seems certainly at hand for
labor organizations to drop their inter-
union hostilities for the duration. Where
there is already a bona-fide labor organ
ization, the labor movement should agree
to let things stand until the war is over
1t would be better for labor in the long
run if unions in these isolated but too
frequent disputes helped the Nations
fight by ceasing to fight among them
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

and the growing manpoWer needs OF
the armed services.
The accent was on youth. This
was on the authority of President
Roosevelt. The army recently has
been getting too many older men
who, it claims, are unfit for the
rigors of the battlefront.
Policy Outlined
Mr.. Roosevelt laid down the latest
official draft policy at his news
conference Friday when he said that
the chief shortage of the armed
services was for men under 26.
When you are over 26, the Presi-
dent said, you are much too old
meaning a man over 26 is not the
physical specimen needed for the
heavy-going days of war ahead.
The chief executive went on to
say that few people have reached
the status Of being indispensable
by the time they are 26 years old.
In turn, he added, those under 26
are indispensable on the battlefront.
This all added up to this basic
picture of the draft situation as OF
today:
The government is going to dip
heavily into the ranks Of the 348,-
600 men who have occupational de-
ferments, who are under 26 and
who are non-fathers. AT the same
time, to meet the insistent and
growing manpower needs of the
armed services, older men and
fathers will be used to bridge the
remaining gap between supply and
demand.
TO DEFER SPECIALISTS
At the same time, the President
made it plain that the truly essen
tial industrial specialists under 2f
will continue to be deferred. He
posed the examples of an engineer
engaged in some highly special prof.
ect and a young chemist who has
been working on some particular
research vital to the war effort.
He added quickly, however, that
the percentage of truly essential
workers under 26 was relatively
small, and that the, bulk of the
men under 26 were now more needed
by the army than in their industria
Jobs.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison
500, 900, 900 XVIII.
Peter Edison

100000 XVIII.
There were numerous delays. Pro-
duction of first metal was sched-
uled for May, 1912, but was not
achieved till Aug. 81.
There were minor extravagances,
such as 700 executives, 100 of whom
drew over $4,000 a year. Stenog-
raphers' desks cost $95.
The ore contained greater i'm
purities than estimated. Construc-
ton and the mines at Gabbs, esti-
mated to cost $4,000 900. actually
cost $7,00O0OO.
Highly inflammable peat used in
the process had to be brought from
British Columbia and stored in
100000 wooden warehouse which
had to be abandoned because of
fire risk
SO THEY CALLED FOR HELP
Salt deposits, at first declared
available, were found not to exist
and new sources CT supply had to
be developed in Death Valley.
Housing was supposed to be de-
veloped by private capital. Such
as were built, at cost of $1,000 per
unit, were of flimsy construction
which it is said will last only a
few years, and Defense Plant Ger
poration had to authorize expendi-
lures of an additional $6,000,00O for
facilities. Architects fees of $25,-
900 were paid for identical designs
on 1000 demcuntable houses at $25
per house, and so en-.
The whole thing was SO bad that
in October, 1912, deal was made
whereby DPC brought in Anaconda
Copper Mining Company to buy
52R per cent of Basic Magnesium's
interest for $4,000 to bring order
cut of the chaos. New management,
construction of a pilot plant for
much-needed research have re-
suited in saving of several millions
of dollars. The plant got to capac-
ity production rate last July
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
INDUSTRIAL VICTORY
(Riverside Daily Press)

This nations greatest contributions to
the war so far have been industrial and
mechanical. 1t is a reassuring thing that
they have been made so largely by the
voluntary action of Independent manu-
facturers and independent labor There
has been, as everybody knows, some en-
forced or accidental idleness, but rath
er small fraction in comparison with
the big job. The Truman committee,
touching on this matter, says:
Some regulation of war production
was necessary as a war measure, to win
a war which we feared would thrust upon
the United States the RECOMMENDATION OF
totalitarian principles of fascist nations.
Any attempt to create for peacetime pro-
duction RECOMMENDATION more complicat
ed and more difficult than that which
we have had during wartime would be
most unfortunate and contrary to the
principles of democracy. The committee
believes that we should have confidence
in the operation of the free democracy
for which the war is being fought. The
committee therefore believes that man.
ufacturer should be allowed to make
any article he desires to make and any
thing he has the facilities to make
The testimony of this war shows that
American industry has won, for itself
and our allies, the greatest of its victor
les
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILIETT

The letters I receive from mar
ried service men are SO concerned
with the problem of whether or not
they will come home to find their
wives unchanged that I've often
wondered if their wives were writ
ing them the wrong kind of letters.
Apparently many of them are.
In an interview with a New York
World-Telegram reporter, Frederic
March, the actor, who has just
returned to this country from a
33 ,oO0-mile tour entertaining SOL
diers, laid down a letter writing
law to wives because he thought
they needed to be told.
He said that everywhere he
went soldiers showed him letters
from their wives, and he soon no.
ticed that the letters that salts
fled the men themselves were the
letters that said over and over
again, Il love you"
Probably the thing that happens
to the letters of great many
wives is that as time goes on and
they become better adjusted to liv-
ing alone, their letters become more
and more impersonal
FIRST LETTERS A PLATERN
They find out after a time that
they can get along fairly well by
themselves, and that knowledge
coupled with the fact that they
try to make their letters cheerful
must often make them sound
pretty cold.
1t seems to me that the safest
way for q woman to avoid having
that happens to her letters is for
her to keep carbon copy of the
letters she writes her husband the
first month he is away from her
Then she can use them as a pat
tern to aid her future letters.
There is no constraint in those
first letters. Time, and the ad-
justment that comes with time
hadn't touched her reaction then
She missed her husband, ano
she wanted him to know it. She
didn't try to hide her feelings. Sc
they are good letters-the kind
of letters man wants to get from
the most important woman in hi;
life.
Used as a pattern for all future
letters-they could be indispensa-
BILE in bridging the gap caused by
months or years of separation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Everybody simply loathes bombing as
a form Of warfare. But if we are to get
rid of war, we must fight with every
available weapon and with relentless ef-
ficiency until the powers of darkness are
overcome.-Dr. B. S. Batty, bishop of
Fulham England
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
SHIPyARD INAUGURATES
.CHOWMOBILE' SERVICE

NEW YORK, March l8. lUP)--
A modern Observation-Disclosures
line version of the Vests old-time
chuck wagon-has been put in op-
Grafton al the huge Brooklyn yards
of the Todd Shipyards Corp.
The chowmobile, stated with a
crew of eight, serves hot meals pre-
pared in the yards cafeteria TO
workers right at the scene of their
jobs.
"Hot plates-Where you want 'em,
when you want EN- is the motto
of the new service. The company
plans to use II of the big green
restaurant vans.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
PRIVATE PRESSES PANTS
FOR DOUBLE OR NOTHING

CAMP ADAIR, Ore, March 13
(UP)-Pvt. Wade Franklin of a
service command unit entered the
pants pressing business recently af.
ter an unsuccessful game of dice.
The sign on the barracks bulletin
board said
you now have pressing plant
in the barracks Pants, Is cents;
shirts, Is cents; ties, Is cents;
blouSes, 25 cents.
PSI will even roll you double
or nothing"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
COMPENSATION
Cleveland Plain Dealer)

cleveland Plain Dealer)
The Democrats are expected to hold
their national convention in Chicago de-
spite its high summer temperatures.
Evidently they feel certain the heat of
the city will be offset by the coolness of
Col. Mccormick.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Draft PIon Eyes
Men Under 2b

WASHINGTON, March 18. CUP)
The government Saturday pre-
pared to speed up the induction Of
deferred single men under &c, using
both them and fathers to close the
gap between the present draft rate
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

& 1t is not unreasonable to think of the
war being over at the end of another 18
.anonths, but whether it is over in six
months or six years it is wise to have
program under way for return to peace.
Charles E. Wilson, president General
Motors.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE; The foil0ping edit
OriaIs are presented as interesting G1in-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

Anyway. Mussolini has escaped "The
Ides of March" in his old home town
where the Shakespearean warning was
directed to a predecessor despot. That
gent failed to heed the warning and got
caught in the storm.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

The full sad story of Basic Mag
nesium, Inc, one of the larger ex-
travagances CT the war production
effort, is finally revealed through
publication of new, special mag
nesium report from the Senate's
Truman Committee to Investigate
the National Defense Program
Final cost of this project is esti-
mated at $133 100000, or nearly
twice the original estimates.
I'm presenting the complete de-
tails regarding the construction OF
the Basic Magnesium project,
summarizes the Truman report,
1.-The committee fully realizes that
what has been done is a part OF
the past and, although vast sums
of the taxpayers money have been
wasted, no specific recovery can pc
ccnstructively suggested at thls
time"
The record goes back to 1886
when Basic Refractories, Inc, mead
ed by Howard Eells, Jr., OF Cleve-
land, O., leased deposits OF bruclte
and magnesite ores in Nevada. The
magnesium deposits were held by a
subsidiary, Basic Ores, Inc, at a
book value of 5000. This was the
egg. Later, DPC was to buy cut
the Eells interests in these ore de-
posits for $450,000, on an appraisal
of 81 100000.
On July 10, 194l, the under secre-
tary- of war recommended that an
agreement be negotiated between
the War Department, Defense Plant
| Corporation and Basic Refractorles
for a project of a capacity OF H.
100000 pounds, to cost sos 3,oZO,o3o'
I'm the opinion of the committee,
says the Truman report, this was
one of the most outrageous ana un-
justified contracts proposed in con-
nection with the war program and
represented a wholly unWarranted
gift of government funds by De-
Tense Plant Corporation to newly
organized corporation which had no
financial resources and only the
most meager experience and talent
WASTE, MISTAKES, WASTE
How justified this comment may
be is best illustrated by the COM
mittees long and detailed report on
the progress of construction.
The plant site was chosen neal
Basic properties at Luning, New.
300 miles from the mines neal
Gabbs, New, to which there was nc
transportation whatever. Ore hao
to be backhauled from the mines
to Ogden, Utah, thence to Luning-
$50 miles at Sc ton.
A 40-inch pipeline over the noun
tains to Lake Meade and two pow
er transmission lines to Boulder
Dam, estimated to cost $8,000,000
actually cost over $12,000,000.
BY 1945, new power sources will
have to be developed to supply the
plants capacity requirements of l..
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

3 That soldier who declaimed ''the war is
FALL over except the fighting has it all
Z pretty well summed up.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

+. One thing may be counted on as GER
.tain in attempts to learn which way the
4"political wind" is blowing these days
:straight toward Washington, D. c.