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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-19

I see by the last Peoples Voice that
there is a movement started to repeal
the primary election law. Special in
| terests would like to get the old con
vention system back, which was one
of the most rotten ways devised by
men to nominate candidates. Men
of both parties would get together,
and nominate wet men on both tickets
that were for the special interests.
Moral people did not get anywhere.
The men selected by the county con-
vention for delegates to the state
convention, were men working with
the machine. The state convention
mating the kind of men for state
office, that would do the biding of the
bosses, that were running the state.
Those men that gave us the primary
election laws were far-sighted, and
would give us moral men for candi-
dates, but they missed in not making
it a closed primary like the Oregon
closed primary election law. Where
the democrats and republicans had
to vote their own tickets there are
heavy penalties for violating the law.
Our primary election law, if amend
ed so as to make it a closed primary,
so the machine republicans could not
get over and vote the democratic
ticket and nominate their kind of can
didates, or vice versa.
The interests realize that if the
people followed my advise and put up
good men on the democratic ticket,
and the republicans and democrats of
our church people of our farmers and
wage-earners, organized Ia
Dor, and the consumer, and then solid
ly vote the democratic primary ticket.
Then in the November election, vote
for the best men on either ticket. |
hope no liberal or progressive will
sign or circulate any petitions to re-
peal the primary election law, and
until we get a closed primary let our
church people, liberal and progress
5ive men and women, with all our
strength vote the coming primary
(democratic) election and truth and
Justice will prevail. l am working
solely for the sake of humanity.
When Governor Cooney was in Of
ice during the legislative session in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-19

the people insist cnging political party labels
might easily possible to improve and extend the
democratic by eliminating parties altogether and
holding election without party labels at which
ddates getting majority would win public office with
provso of candidates could be had if
sary establish majority This writer doubts it are
ready that step today but interesting speculation
for people of independent impulses.
If you believe in popular rule in democratic government
this republic in majority rule will ask peril
questions of fellow who asks to sign primary
petition and of those questions should be- Who
pedde this trash and how much being paid
your work against popular government?The Western
News.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-19

this state better place in which to live place where de-
may and develop if is to become
other than catch phrase.
To accomplish that the first thing that must be done is
for each citizen of the realize that HIS
and HER job to take in the election this year. get all
available information concerning candidate for office
and to vote for the most likely elected conduct the
affairs of that office that the greatest the greatest
number will result.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-19
OPINIONS OF READERS

Publications heading imply
with opinions expressed Letters SUD
subject matter
effectively Anonymous letters Will
Names will on request
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
VAST PROGRAM IS
MAPPED BY ICkES
FOR POSTWAR ERA

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
told President Roosevelt his depart
ment has blueprinted a vast public
works program, much OF which
could be launched within 80 days
after victory.
In his annual report, Ickes said
he had planned power and irriga-
ton projects which would keep
48O, 900 veterans employed for three
years, 225, 900 at construction sites,
255 900 at plants and factories to
provide materials for the jobs and
projects, the completion of which
will open farm settlement oppor-
tunities for 10000 families.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
BEA(HHEAD
TROOPS IN
new MOVE
Units Today Are 19 Miles
Southwest Of GoaI-Air
Attacks Launched

ALI ED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS. Jan. 29.--The American
beachhead troops, striking toward
Appian Way and the main rail line
to the Casino front. have advanced
within light artillery range of Cis-
terna, astride of both arteries, IL
miles northeast Of Anzio.
At the same time other Allied
forces are pushing north from Anzio
up the Anziate road and captured
bridge two miles beyond Carroceto,
where the British routed German
unit on Thursday
The Allied forces are now about
10 miles southeast of Rome and IL
miles north OF Anzio.
The Germans launched heavy air
attacks against shipping on the
beachhead yesterday and again suf-
fered badly at the hands of the
Allied Air Forces. Twenty-one enc
my planes were downed over the
area.
Fourteen more enemy planes were
downed during heavy bomber raid
on Ferrara.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
WE5T(0A5T
AR0U5EDAT
ATROCITIES
Demands for Retribution-
Military Warns No
Violence

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29.-
Vows of vengeance and demands
for retribution swept the war con-
scious Pacific Coast today as the
reaction to the horror stories ri
Jap atrocities mounted to new
heights
SO acute was the feeling in many
localities on the West Coast, home
of more than 100000 persons of Jap
ancestry, that Lieut.. Gen. Emmons,
Western Defense Commander, eau
toned against individual retaliation
in this country, stating "it will do
more harm than good"
Meanwhile, angry citizens gath
cred on the street corners at Tule
Lake, California, six miles from
the segregation center housing l5,-
600 Japs proven to be potential or
suspected disloyalists, muttering re-
newed demands that the military
again resume control over the Gen.
ter
The War Department recently re-
linquished control of the relocation
camp.
And at Manzanar relocation CEN
ter in Southern California, r. p.
Merritt. project director, said the
evacuees are very much disturbed. .
At the same time, in Arizona
centers, guards were frightened and
the internees were forbidden 10
leave the grounds
At Rivers, Arizona, Jap internees
condemned the atrocities and said,
I'VE have 200 men out in the Pa
cific. If they fall into Jap hands
they will be treated worse than the
Americans
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
SERIES
f SALES ARE
NEEDED NOW

Series E. bond sales today stood
at $118,700, but reports on sales
made last night were not complete
Total sales reached the 1902 ,667
mark. but there was still a long
way to go in Series E if the $4,000
quota for this type of bond was to
be reached.
Juneaus Masonic Lodge and
Order of Eastern Star take over
booth sales tonight, and tomorrow
night, the Townsend Club Pioneers
of Alaska and the Douglas Eagles
will have charge of booth sales.
Monday night, the CLIO and the
Federal Employees, Association
handle the booths.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
DE(LIN E In
SALMON PACK
IS EXPECTED
Gold Winter Of 1942-43
Blamed for Poor Pros
poets in Sc. Alaska

WASHINGTON, Jan 30. = The
1914 salmon pack will be about 200,-
900 cases under that Of last year,
Ira NJ Gabrielson, Director of the
Fish and Wildhfe Service estimated,
and attributed the decline princi-
pally to severe weather.
In his report to Secretary of the
Interior Ickes, Gabrielson said the
sharpest decline is expected in the
pink salmon runs in southeastern
Alaska, where the exceedingly cold
winter of 1942-43 is believed to have
killed a large percentage of the
species.
The outlook is better in central
Alaska, where the pack may be as
large as last year Normal runs are
expected in western Alaska.
Gabrielson predicted pack OF
100000 cases.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
EVACUATION
OF BERLIN
IS PLANNED
Raj Battle 10 Erase Ndzi
Capital Successful
Yanks Hit Frankfurt

LONDON, Jan. 29.-The Eighth
American Air Force sent the great
est number Of heavy bombers in its
history well over 800--in a thumb
erous assault against industrial
Frankfurt, even as Berlin smoked
and burned anew from last nights
second heavy Royal Air Force blow
in a row.
Fighter escorts probably number
ing several hundred, accompanied
and assisted the Liberators and
Flying Fortresses in the blow on
Frankfurt. Losses were not an
nounced Immediately
Swedish reports said the complete
evacuation OF burning Berlin is con-
templated by the Nazis, who clamp
ed a tight censorship on details OF
the second successive devastating
Raj blow.
I'VE have gone through one of
the most horrible nights since the
English raids of humiliation began
against Berlin said the Stockholm
newspaper Aftonbladet's Berlin cor
respondent.
Disastrous fires are blazing in
the shattered city, he wrote, adding
that the Nazi censorship prohibited
him giving a detailed picture of the
damage and the number OF victims.
All the Swedish correspondents
made ii clear that the attack was
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
RED 5kIMEN
MOVING TO
TRAP NAzI5

MOSCOW, Jan. 29.-Red Army
units west of Novgorod and but 20
miles from the Leningrad- Pskov
railway are smashing forward
across country white with a new
snowfall toward the last supply ar
terry for all the Germans pinched
between Lake linen and Lake
Peipus. Lake Peipus forms part OF
the Estonian border.
With the Leningrad-Moscow line
almost completely in Russian hands,
the Leningrad-Viteb railway sew
cred by General Meretskovs forces,
and General Govorovs units astride
the Leningrad- Tallinn east to west
line, Red Army skinner pushed the
drive close to the last bottleneck
below Leningrad
This battle over difficult country
west of captured Peredolskaya on
the Leningrad- Vitebsk railway is a
repetition of the Soviet strategy of
the autumn and winter in the
Ukraine where their constant aim
was to cut the German commune
cations.
Already cut off are the Germans
in the Chudovo sector on the Len
ingrad to Moscow railway, while to
the south at Lake linen another
large body of the enemy at Staraya
Russo faced the distinct possibility
of being isolated. Likewise the Rus
sian drive down the western shore
of Lake linen toward Shimsk is
aimed to reach the Staraya Russo
garrison.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
u new Fish
CAN N cries
FOR ALASKA
Move Is Recommended by
Salmon Industry Con-
sultant Group

SEATTLE, Jan. 29.-Twelve adj
ditional salmon canneries will be
operated in Alaska this year if a
plan recommended by group OF
the salmon canning industry's con-
sultants is adopted.
The recommendation described
as "the relaxed plan" compared
with that of last year, provides a
10 percent increase in the overall
labor supply for the industry, ac-
cording to Ralph Ferrandini, Field
Administrator for the Alaska area.
The coordinator leaves tonight
for Washington to submit the plans
to Secretary of Interior Ickes and
Ira N. Gabrielson, Chief of the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
The consultant group has been in
session here since December /, dis
cussing every angle of the indus
try. On his return the coordinator
is going to Juneau to meet repre-
sentativeS of the United States
Employment Service and War Man
power Commission to discuss plans
for the enforcement of the man
power quotas III the canneries.
Ferrandini is official chairman of
the consultant group w C. Arnold
of the salmon industry, presiding
chairman; and August Buschmann,
industry, subchairmap. Other mem
bers are H. B. Friele, Joe ZURICH,
Guy Graham. Eric Fribrock, Will
liam Reynolds, Leo Kreielsheimer,
E. M. Brennan. Frank Marshall,
Archie Shiels, Guy Helferty John
Wise, Laurence Freeburn, and Fred
Gunderson.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
Editor White
Passes Away

EMPORIA, Kansas, Jan. 29 -
William Allen White. IS, famous
Editor of the Emporia Gazette, died
quietly at his home here today
White had been in falling health
for nearly year and friends and
associates have known for some
time that his condition was danger
GUS
The Editors only son, w. l..
White, made the announcement OF
his fathers death.
Mrs White, the Editors close as
sociate in the operation Of the
Gazette for nearly half century,
was constantly with him during his
Illness.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
p|FFLE!.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The first
Japanese reaction to the United
States disclosure of brutal Japanese
treatment of war prisoners is from
Tokyo, a Domei agency says the
information is for American con-
sumption and the charges are a
mere recurrence of the enemy's
vicious propaganda
This has been recorded by the
Federal Communication Commits
sion and Tokyo counter charges
with stating "bestial acts OF terror
ism and inhumanity have been re-
peatedly perpetrated by the enemy
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
5HAKEUp FOLLOWS
ARGENTINA BREAK

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 20. Gen.
Arturo Rawson has resigned as Ar
gentinas Ambassador to Brazil as
part of the upheaval OF the Ar
gentina Government which has al
ready resulted in the resignation of
three Cabinet Ministers and three
other officials since severance OF
diplomatic relations with the Axis
Nations on last Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
BY HOWARD FLIEGER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. = The
boom in war babies has hit its FIRST
slump.
The census bureaus files show
decline in one months total births
for the first time in 1913. 1t came
in October, when 199775 babies
were born. That's 5000 fewer than
in September and the lowest rate
so far recorded for the year
But it's still several thousand
higher than the number OF new
babies which was arriving IN the
nations homes in the years before
Pearl Harbor. For example, in 1910
Ia typical pre-war year-births
averaged about II month per LOCO
population. BY 1912 the average
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
The W ashinqton
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
(Najor Robert Q. Allen ON active dutyJ

WASHINGTON = Back-stage riv-
airy between Speaker Sam Rayburn
and Vice President Wallace, both
possibilities as Vice Presidential
nominees on Roosevelt fourth
term ticket, was intense just before
the Jackson Day dinner.
Southern Democrats had planned
to stage a great ovation for Ray
burn as the main speaker, bring him
to the fore as FDR's next running
mate So when Northern Demo-
Gratis insisted that Wallace also be
invited to speak, the usually genial
Sam was boiling mad. Even in the
reception room. just outside the
ballroom, where Mrs. Roosevelt,
Postmaster General Frank Walker
and other honored guests assemb-
led, the Speaker Of the House was
still swearing quietly under his
breath.
Wallaces friends, in turn, had
urged that he shouldn't risk Of
tending the President by coming out
for the New Deal, which the Presi-
dent himself had declared dead.
Despite this, the Vice President
prepared a very brief speech to the
general effect that the age-old
struggle between human rights and
property rights was still continuing
and would continue until human
rights came out on top.
Without exactly saying so, he
conveyed the impression that no
man or President had trademark
on the name for that struggle, and
that the New Deal" had been pro-
NOTED under Washington, Jackson,
Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt
Wallace also decided to memorize
his speech-much against the adj
vice of his close friends. 1t turned
out to be a fighting speech, only
flaw being that the Vice President
got few lines twisted near the end.
However, that was nothing COM
pared with the way Speaker Sam
Rayburn, who read his speech.
stumbled. Nobody knew why Ray
burn had such a hard time. He did
not even use up all his radio period.
Afterward however, the Vice Presi-
dent gave the explanation.
You told me I should not mem
orize my speech. he gently chided
one adviser But it was lucky l
did. for there was no light on the
reading stand, and the glare OF the
spotlight was so bad couldn't read
thing. If I hadn't memorized
the speech, would have had the
same trouble Sam Rayburn had
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
CONTINUING
PACIFIC AIR
0FFENSIvE5
Jap Bases Raided "a Days
This Month : Many
Planes Down

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Jan. 29.-Japanese
planes destroyed and damaged at
Rabaul in the sustained air often
sive this month were raised to 800
by the downing Wednesday of be-
tween % and 80 of go enemy fight
ers, as more than 100 Allied bombers
and fighters raided the Jap base.
Headquarters announced that at
tacks have been made "a out of the
last 26 days, Allied planes flying
from the Solomons to smash Jap
Continued on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
Boom in War Babies
Hits Slump; Men Are
Now on War Fronts

was above 20 and it'll be higher in
1913.
In December of l941 the census
bureau recorded III 1856 births, about
average for normal times. but by
the next September the number Of
new babies had gone to le9,789.
You can count on your fingers and
see that's the first month that the
outbreak of war could have had any
direct effect on the size of fam
lily.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
GREEN AND LEWIS SHAKE

One Of the longest and bltteresI
feuds in American labor history
came to an end when William
Green, President of the AFL, and
John Lewis, dynamic boss OF the
United Mine Workers-who parted
company in 1935-met secretly the
other day and decided to bury the
hatchet.
Here is the way close friends OF
the two labor chiefs reconstruct the
meeting:
Lewis shook hands with Green
and said: Bill, neither of us is
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
NAURU ISLAND BLAsTER

PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29.--The
Seventh Air Force bombers resumed
the air offensive in the mid-Pa~
cific by blasting Nauru Island west
of the Allied-held Gilberts in a
daylight raid hitting Wolfe, Mill,
and Maleolap atolls in the enemy
held Marshalls.
The raid on the phosphate pro-
ducing Nauru is the first since De-
cember %. No American losses are
reported by Admiral Nirnitz on this
raid The raid on the Marshalls
was the 22nd consecutive daily at
tack this month. One American
dive bomber was shot down by
ground fire at Mill.
No Japanese fighter opposition
was encountered on any of the
raids.
Medium bombers started fires on
ground facilities at Wolfe, and dive
bombers and fighters bombed and
strafed the airdrome installations
and gun positions on Mill
Heavy bombers dropped 20 tons
of explosives on the important
Taroa airdrome at Maleolap atall,
causing extreme damage.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29

The next month-October, 1912
brought the bumper crop Of war
babies, 214.497 BY that December
the birth rate had leyeled off to a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-29
A MARSHALL
AT0LLS ARE
UNDER RAID
Shore Installations, Gun
Empld1ements, Air
fields Attacked

PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 29-Army
and Navy bombers and fighters
struck four atolls of the Marshalls
on Monday and speeded up expand
ing attacks on the Jap Pacific
bases, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
reports.
The raids were directed against
shore installations and gun EN-
placements and airfields on Wolfe,
Mill, Maloelap and Ailinglapalap
atolls.
The bombardment involved a total
of seven strikes during the day,
bringing to II the number of raids
in three days.
All attacking planes returned de-
spite anti-aircraft fire and inter-
ception by zeros.
Thirty Jap fighters attacked the
u. S. Seventh Air Force of Mitchell
medium bombers over Taro airdrome
and Maloelap atoll but all Mitchells
escaped after carrying out the at
tack. One Zero was shot down.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-10-02
Hearings Friday
On Textile Wage
Increase Demand

Charlotte, Oct. 2-(AP)~-HcarIncs
will be held OctbOcr 6 in Washington
by the National War Labor Board
on wage ircrCaSe demands of the
Textile Workers Union of America,
CIO, in 23 cotton textile plants Of
the south, Il. r. Lawrence. southern
regional director Of the TWU, has
announced. .
Demands of the union include:
Sixty cents an hour minimum
wage, ton cents an hour increase to
all ClasslflcationS above the mini
mum, guaranteed hourly rate Of pay
for piece workers, seven cents an
hour third shift bonus and vacations
with pay.
Hearings were conducted during
the spring by a group composed Of
l.. G. Reynolds, Johns Hopkins Uni
VorSity, Baltimore, representing the
public; William p. Jacobs. Clifton,
S. c., representing industry; and
Frank McCalister, Atlanta, repre-
senting labor.
Among North Carolina mills in
cluded in the list are Harriet Cot
ton Mills, Inc. Henderson: and Hen
derson Cotton Mills, Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-10-02
Eastern Air
Seeks Rights
Below Border

Washington, oct. 2-tAN)-E3St-
err Ar Lanes, Inc, through its pres
idcnt, Captain Eddie Rickcnbackcr,
asked permission today for admission
to McNlco and the Caribbean as the
only American air line able to give
effective competition to the en-
trenched moropoly' Of Parliament
can Always, Inc.
RickcnbaCker testified at a Civil
Teronautlcs Board hearing IN post
wal Latin-AmcTiCan routes over
spirited protest from Fred J. knaucr,
counsel for several other air lines.
The attorney said Eastern had chang
cd its proposed rCutings without SUI
ficiCnt notice and that copies of the
RiCkCnbaCkcr testimony were no dis
tributed until shortly before the
morning session.
A request by Grace Lines, Inc
Cor a temporary adjournment was
denied 10y Examiner Francis Brown,
who said, however, he thought it
most unfortunate that Eastern had
been unable to cooperate as fully as
most of the other applicants.
Eastern's decision not to press noW
for routes on the South American
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-10-02

Washington, oct. 2-(AP)-The
amy ain forces announced today ii
had dropped its mjtIicnth ton Of
bombs in this war, This total Was
reached September % in the attack
on the synthetic oil refinery al Nersc-
burg, in the center Of Germany.
Almost half the total. 1872, 600 tors
has been dropped since D-Doy "a
June 6, General Henry II. Arnold,
chief of tho AAF, reported.
Citing figures covering all bomb
inss from December 6, l94l, TO Sep
tcmber %, of this year, in Az tho
atrcs, Arnold noted that hitting the
enemy with this great tonnage has
not been without cost,
There have been 72,0G0 air force
battle casualties-dead, missing, pTls-
Oners and Wounded-and $500 non
battle casualties, made up Of dead,
missing, sick and injured.
Overall plane losses amount to up-
proximately $4,000. OF these, a.