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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-12
20 YEARS AGO FIFE FIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 12. 1924

President of the Juneau Chamber M S. Whit Secretary Executive Committee meeting
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-12
..MoyK STARS IN POLITICS

' The activity of Orson Welles, { Frank Sinatra, Ann Sheridan and "a lot of other movie and radio stars in the recent campaign has caused repercussions among the movie going public. One irate
 novie-goer recently wrote to Harry fWarner of Warner Brothers, de- ,manding that movie stars be sup pressed when it came to expressing their political opinions.
 To this Harry Warner replied:
 Dear Madam In reply to your letter of the 9th, am very much surprised that anyone would refuse to go to see picture because the star in it had publicly expressed .his political point of view
 T think your letter would be fitting in any Nazi or Japanese country, but thank God there is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-12
MODERN ETIQUETTE 0y ROBERTA LEE

WORDS "Who lit the lamp" Saya the lamp?"
 OFTEN N1SPRoNoUNCED: MOL, MO- in ON.
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Dyspepsia Observe the r. not DIS
 quit discontinue
 WORD three times and is yours Let us each Toda word Nothing but good can emanate iron thinking"
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SAVE THE PIECES

of your broken lenses and send them to Box 468, Ketchikan, Alaska, They will be replaced promptly in our large and well equipped labora- tory. c. M. and R. l.. Carlson.
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sons, such as university professors of
the social sciences and justices of
state supreme courts, and whereas
justices from some two-thirds of the
states have served as referees; and
WHEREAS the said controversies
are of great Importance to the parties,
involving rates of pay, working condi-
tions, seniority, tenure and other mat
tiers often affecting the entire future
of the railroad employees concerned;
and
WHEREAS the National Mediation
Board has fixed the compensation of
referees at $4,000 per day, which is
less than the daily salary of the SUI
preme court justices of many states,
and amounts to not more than $4,000
to $500 as the referees compensa-
ton incident to each important con-
troversy, and
WHEREAS the said referees COM
pensation of $4,000 per day, with the
insufficient allowance of $500 per day
for expenses at Chicago amounts, aft
er the deduction of expenses and in
come taxes, to approximately $40 to
$50 per day, which is small compensa-
ton for the responsibility involved in
the settlement of questions involving
thousands of dollars and often the
entire future of thousands of en-
ployees, and is fixed by federal author
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conditions, he will be paid the average
daily pay he earned in the previous
three months. Time taken off to seek
safety in AFRAID shelters will be
counted as time worked. If worker
is delayed coming to work because
of transportation tie-ups, he will be
paid the standard daily wage"
thine taken off by the worker TO
participate in the activities of air de-
Tense or in afraid work at the fac
tory will be counted time worked"
IF a worker who has been ordered
to report for work by company or
factory is killed ath work, during the
rest period, while on his way to work
or during field trips, or while engaged
in air-defense activity, his case will
be given the same treatment by the
government as those who die at work
His family will be given coincidence
money of 500 yen in addition to the
regular health insurance payment In
the case of special work, his family
may receive upward of 1000 yen in
cash"
"If a worker should become i'll as a
result of injuries during raids, he will
be given an appropriate sum of money
in addition to his regular health insur-
ance payment"
Payment of special bonuses may
be made to those who participate in
AFRAID defense An average of 10
yen will be given for each time a
worker goes on air defense duty"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29

You cannot control what you do
not oWni
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
REPORT OF WORK
IN SUPREME
COURT FOR Week
DECISIONS:

December 19th-Mnnie Tarrant "
Helena Building and Realty Company.
Appealed from Lewis and Clark coun-
ty, Helena. Majority opinion prepared
by Justice Hugh R. Adair. Justice
Left Erickson dissented.
Held: June Taranr, minor, was
killed while operating an elevator for
the respondent. Her mother brought
suit to recover damages under a COM
mon law liability theory. The realty
company defended upon the theory
that there was no common law liabil-
ity but that the only remedy was
through the Workmen's Compensation
Act This cause was reheard by the
supreme court and its former holding
was reversed and it was held that the
respondents contention was correct,
that the legislature by including min
ors whether lawfully or unlawfully
employed within the Workmen's Com
pensation act had in this case pre-
cluded an action for damages under
a common law liability. The judg
ment of the district court was af-
firmed.
December 19th-State ex rel. H. C.
Hall v. George Niewoehner. An orig
inal proceeding arising out of facts
occurring in Lewis and Clark county,
Helena. Majority opinion of the
court per curtain. Justice c. F. Nor
ris indicating dissent
Held: George E. Newcomer, White
Sulphur Springs attorney found guilty
of contempt and fined $250.00
ORDERS:
December is. Court denied petition
for rehearing in Antoinette Hartman
v. Della Mimmack. Appealed from |
Gallatin county and heretofore re-
ported in these releases.
Prepared and released by:
PETER MELOY, Marshal
Montana Supreme Court.
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nese roots are strong and that farm.

nese roots are strong and that farm
ers could look forward only to tenant
holding inasmuch as much of Hok
kaido's land belongs to the Imperial
family and to the gigantic financial
cliques (Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumito-
MOI.
Perhaps the most compelling rea-
son, however arises from Hokkaido's
long, cold winters and comparatively
dry, cool summers: climate unfavor-
able to the cultivation of rice. I'm
der this circumstance, farmers going
to Hokkaido find 1t necessary to start
an entirely new way of life.
Intensified air raids and indicated
food and industrial shortages, how
ever. have now combined to produce
a situation transcending the individ-
ual Japanese farmers reluctance to
migrate. Hokkaido is farther re-
moved than Honshu from American
B-29 bases. 1t provides haven for
Japanese AFRAID eyacuees, at the
same time giving them an agricultural
and industrial plant to develop for
war purposes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
COLONIZATION OF HokkAIDo

COLONIZATION OF HOkkAIDO
Japanese authorities have tried fol-
many years to encourage a flow Of
population from the congested main
land island of Honshu, on which
Tokyo and other large industrial cen
tiers are concentrated, to the com
paratively sparsely settled island OF
Hokkaido, just north of Honshu.
Last week Premier Gen. Kuniaki
Koiso's current regime appeared on
the verge of launching new move-to-
Hokkaido drive, with the impetus be-
ing compulsory this time instead Of
voluntary The government, accord
ing to the Tokyo radio, will ask the
new Diet to vote increased Hokkaido
colonization funds for the three-ply
purpose of aiding the air raid evacua-
ton program and boosting industrial
and food production.
Hokkaido is the home of the short,
light-skinned and hairy Ainu, the in
digenous race of Japan, whose mem
bers are apt to be more European in
feature than those Japanese whose
makeup is predominately Malayan or
Indonesian Sometimes called Jap
ans neglected frontier" Hokkaido is
susceptible of agricultural and indus
trial development, but-despite gov
eminent efforts in the past--it has
failed to attract colonists on large
scale.
Hokkaido is the second largest of
tell .fcfp Tor
Proper, but the density of its popula-
ton (96 per square mile) is far less
than that of the three other main
islands-Honshu, Shikoku and Kyu-
shu. Out of a total japanese popu-
lation of about 100000 Hokkaido
accounts for only 100000. It's de-
veloped wealth comes form mining
(coaD, fishing, forestry, dairy farm
ing, sheep-faising and agriculture
wheat and potatoes). The average
size of a Hokkaido farm is said to
be almost 80 arces, unusually large
for the Far East
Efforts to colonize Hokkaido began,
with the establishment of the Imperial
regime in 1868, for military reasons
as well as to relieve the increasing
population pressure in Honshu's agri-
cultural districts. Across the Tatarsk |
Strait from Hokkaido lies Russian |
Siberia.
Although the Japanese government /
established the Hokkaido Colonization |
Bank to grant loans to agricultural |
colonists, also carrying out such prof
ects as calling in Danish farmers to
stimulate the dairy industry, Japanese
farmers displayed singular lack of
interest in moving northward. A
number Of reasons have been ad-
vanced for this reluctance to migrate,
including the explanations that Japa-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
Other Measures

We are living in rapidly
changing times. We do not
bind ourselves to support of
only the measures outlined
above. We. shall support any
measure which is designed
to advance the public good.
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thy without any option by the ref
erees; and
WHEREAS the state of Montana is
vitality concerned with the operations
of the National Railroad Adjustment
Board because three major transcon-
tinental railroads entirely traverse
the state and other major railroads
also operate extensive mileage within
the state, and the operation of these
railroad systems directly or Indirect
ly provides employment for thousands
of Montana citizens and contributes
greatly to the wealth and the well
fare of Montana and it's communities;
| and
WHEREAS many of the controver
sizes coming before the National Rail-
road Adjustment Board for adjudica-
ton arise in Montana and affect di-
rectly the interest of railroad en-
ployees in Montana, and of their or
CARNATIONS, and of the towns and
counties in which they reside, and of
the state of Montana, to which the
employment, pay and working condi-
lions of its citizens are of such vital
Importance; and
WHEREAS all controversies COM
ing before the National Railroad Ad
justment Board, wherever arising, are
of direct and vital interest to the
railroad employees of Montana, their
organizations, communities, counties
and state because the awards theron
become precedents for the settlement
of like controversies; and
WHEREAS it is therefore to the
interest of the railway employees of
munities, counties and state, that the |
justices of the supreme court of Mon
tana, in whom as elected officers of |
this state they have confidence, should |
be among those state supreme court |
justices and others who are called |
from time to time by the National
Mediation Board to serve as referees
for the National Railroad Adjustment
Board pursuant to federal law; and
WHEREAS such infrequent and
temporary service is not contrary to
the constitution or statutes nor in
with the judicial duties of
said justices;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED:
That this organization fully endorses
such service as referees for the Ma
.ional Railroad Adjustment Board by
Justices of the supreme court of Mon
ana designated therefor by the Ma
ional Mediation Board, whenever in
heir reasonable discretion they can
20 serve without detriment to their
shares of the work of said
,ourt; and
That this organization heartily com
nends those justices of the supreme
ourt of Montana, who in addition to
heir full share of the work of that
curt, as its records and reports amply
how, have performed a distinct pub
ic service as referees for the National
railroad Adjustment Board, and have
hereby assisted in accomplishing the
eneficient public purposes of the
Hallway Labor Act
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Legislative Board of Montana
R. c. LOTS, chairman and state
representative, Great Falls
E. HOBBS, vice chairman,
Great Falls.
ALEX DUNLAP, secretary,
Miles City.
Patronize the Cooperative in your
is there to serve you'll
You cannot control what you do
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
TEETH-sHEppINe MALINeERERs

The German High Command has
issued an order directing soldiers with
false teeth to keep their dentures in
their mouths at all times, day and
night, except when it becomes neces-
sary to clean them, the British radio
reported recently.
The order indicated that some of
the battle-weary German troops in
older age groups are destroying their
false teeth in the hope of being with
drawn from the line until new teeth
can be provided.
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Inside the Axis
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them.

them
Meanwhile, the Stockholm Svenska
Dagbladet reported that a number OF
these provocateurs had been uncov-
cred among the leaders of a resist.
ance group in Namsos. The members
of the organization acted in good
faith. unaware that they were being
led by Nazis.
1.-THE organization received weapons
from British planes, which were ac-
tually German planes" the newspaper
said. They (the leaders) issued
pamphlets put out purportedly in the
Norwegians' interest. On one occa-
sion, the leaders even faxed an arrest
and an escape so that the person in
question could reach Stockholm with
the Gestapo at his heels"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
A SAMURAl SAGA

According to the Tokyo Domei
agency, large group of worship
pers" went to Sengakuji Temple last
week to hold religious ceremony
marking the 243d anniversary of the
death of the AZ ronin warrior out
casts) who avenged their feudal lord
and then committed hara-kari
The story of the AZ ronin, which
serves as the plot for a well-known
Japanese stage play, has been pre-
sented by the Japanese as a graphic
illustration of the code of Bushido
(The Way of the WARRIOR.
This national saga begins with an
ly in the 18th century between two
courteirs, Lord Asano of Ako and
Kira Kozukenosuje. Insulted by Kira,
Asano drew his sword and killed Kira
The matter might have ended there
except for the fact that it was a CAPT
tai crime to draw ones sword in the
palace. Asano was morally bound to
commit hara-kari, which he did.
Under the code of Bushido how
ever, Asano's followers were also
bound to avenge their masters death.
After stalking their prey, the follow
ers-47 of them-went to Kira's house |
one night, burned down the the house |
and then beheaded Kira This done, |
the AZ ronin took the head to Asano's |
grave and reported" to their lord |
that they had executed his enemy.
But this act of the ronin was also |
a capital offense. They had drawn |
the sword on the domain of the Sho-
gun (feudal military goyernor). So |
they also committed hara-kari in ex-
patton of this crime.
Explaining the heroism of the AZ
'onin, Domei pointed out that while
hey had broken the law, they had
out the Bushido dictate per-
hitting vengeance by the friends, re-
atives and isciples of those who are
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
LOOT SURVEY

The Japanese Natural Resources
Survey Chamber has been recognized
and expanded under the new name of
the Wartime Resources Survey So
ciety" to speed up comprehensive
survey" of occupied East Asia's ma
turai resources, according to the
Tokyo radio
The society, It was disclosed, is
studying means of putting the occu-
pied areas on a self-sufficiency basis
and at the same time, increasing their
production of critical materials to aid
the Japanese war effort.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
"DIsAsTER ALLOWANCES

With the Japanese mainland now
undergoing intensified air raids, Jap
anese authorities are now confronted
with problem similar to that which
has plagued Nazi officials in Ger
many: keeping all of the war workers
in danger zones reporting for work
regularly despite the threat of raids
at any time
A liberal series of disaster allow
ances' have been promulgated to miti-
gate IA i'd absenteeism. The allow
ance regulations, as disclosed recently
by the Tokyo Domei agency in Ro-
manized Japanese dispatch, include
the following:
when a worker reports for duty,
but cannot work because of factory
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Opinions Of

Continued from Page TWO
expired and you will find enclosed
Two Dollars to apply for the following
year.
We should not expect to get all the
good things we desire in one big
swoop and not let our disappointment
dismay our effort for more and better
things, but rather take a cheerful
aspect of the situation and be happy
for the good that has been retained.
1t is more and more apparent the
important part the Peoples Voice" is
playing for progress in Montana and
for its people.
Sincerely yours,
CARL H. CHRISTENSEN.
st. Ignatius, Mont, Dec. 81, 1914
Please find enclosed M. o. for The
Peoples Voice and may the subscrip-
tions increase 1000 fold).
Yours,
HENRY F. SPATHMAN.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

Charles Boyer. there are intima-
tions In her latest picture that she
Is growing up into q kind Of Irene
Dunno, girl with = song In her
heart. a family wise little smile on
her lips and something . little bit
knowing in her eyes. 1t is an alto
gether pleasing prospect and makes
you like His Buffers Sister" more
than you otherwise would.
4 \ \ 4
It was inevitable that the butler
who always has been such an en-
gaging character in previous Durbin
pictures would become the eventual
theme Of one. A pleasing theme he
makes, too. with Pat oBrien to play
him in the brother version and five
Of Hollywood's more capable char
acter actors to impersonate him In
various other forms. There are
enough buffers In the picture to
make q buffers ball, which Is just
what Universal does make Is the
climax Of the narrative.
Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty
Reinhardt have written an agree
able fable for the talents Of Miss
Durbin, Franchot Tone and the slew
of buffers.
They started with the idea that it
would be quite funny, indeed, to have
Miss Durbin as O'Brien's talented
kid sister, to have O'Brien as a
butler to Tone who, in turn, is a
highly successful popular composer
Evening star., 1944-01-28
By J. w. sTEPP.

The most that Riding High"
achieves is to get Dorothy Lamour
out Of that sarong and into some
thing resembling a dress. The
transition, specifically, is from
jungle to Western prairie and, by
the tusk Of the leading elephant in
Miss Lamour's last picture, we Ia
ment 1t.
In Riding High" Paramount has
draped a musical around Miss La
mour's provocative shoulders. II It
were not for that young lady's in
herent ability to draw big boxoffice,
the film might well have proved
her shroud-which only looks like
a fascinator. Technicolor is Its only
real assets, and OF course by this
time people have grown accustomed
to experiencing that tutti-frutti
treat on the screen. In connection
with assets and liabilities, the Aims
almost total lack Of solyency seems
all the more incredible in the face
OF the presence of Victor Moore,
Cass Daley and Milt Britton's band
ordinarily pretty funny enter
tainers in their separate ways.
Someone's productive genius at
Paramount must have taken a holi-
day. Certainly some cog in the
wheel could have given Mr.. Moore
reasonably clever things to make
appear cleverer as only Mr.. Moore
can. Robin and Rainger might have
been expected to write something
more ingenious than a song-com-
posite for Miss Daley to mutilate
with her old hilarious dexterity.
And at least one effective Groom
tune for Miss Lamour to burble.
And who In the audience hasn't seen
that dance spectacle wherein scads
Of chorines simulate the military in
their steps? The girls here are
dressed roughly like the Mounted
Police and execute their pedal
cliches as Miss Lamour, marking
time, chants something like go
Get Your Man"
1t is bafning how Mr.. Brittons
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Better She'd Worn a SarOng

riding HIGH" Paramount picture
starring Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore
and Dick Powell. directed By Qeorge Mar
Phillips and Art Arthur, based on the play.
Ready Money" By James MONTGOMERY.
At the (,a oitnl
Evening star., 1944-01-28

winners at Belmont and in order
to give, himself full swing at that
interesting pastine he has reduced
his duties as butler to a minimum,
They consist chiefly in kidding the
boss. being very stern with his al
Turing young sister, converting his
employer to an identical taste in
whisky and cigars. O'Brien has q
fine time for himsef-and more
Importantly, for you-in the role.
A slick element of suspense has
been worked into the relationship
between the characters of the maid
and the composer. She has taken
the job, Of course, merely to snatch
at the first chance to let him hear
her voice, but so many Illustrations
overtake her that eventually you
begin to believe she never will get
an addition. 1t is just at that time
that she does get her opportunity
and the suave, aloof young COM
poser is as thoroughly demolished
by the experience as any prince
charming ever mas been.
While the emphasis of His But
ler's Sister" Is on the farcial imag-
inings of the script writer's. there is
time for four vocal interludes
which reveal the increasing matur-
ity and quality Of Miss Durbin's
voice. Puccini's Turandot" is the
most musically alluring Of the melo-
dies which have been chosen for
che picture, but the most heart
warming is Victor Herbert's when
You're Away" and the most pleas
ing to those who like only new
music, "In the Spirit Of the Mo-
ment." In the latter Bernie Gros-
man and Walter Jurman have
written an adequate number for
Deanna to grow up on. The fourth
song session is a spirited thing in
volving a medley Of Russian music
which requires a vocal animation
not heretofore asked Of Universal's
popular Cinderella.
His Buffers Sister, all told, Is
a very winning girl.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Favorite Arrestee

Lana Turner got herself three
parking tickets in day-and from
the same cop, too.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

crooner's audience enraptured. q
music czar explaining, Koussevitzky
rehearsing his Bostonians, George
Gershwin and Art Tatum 'enchant-
ing their followers. 1t is compre-
hensive and entertaining.
On the stage, Gene Ford's show
has color and variety in generous
quantities. The President is saluted
in the overture, Galente and Leon
arda dance as If they were in q
ballroom. Ray English dances and
cracks wise, June Lorraine imper-
sonates and Pat Brewster does q
very frantic hep-cat routine de-
signed to please the kiddies, age 13-
10.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

Of musical comedies. Within that
framework they have created . lot
Of funny business, interrupted peri
odically by . modest number of
sentimental interludes.
y &4
One Of the more pleasant aspects
Of His Buffers Sister" is that the
dramatists have bothered to create
some essentially comic characters.
Deanna, as a maid who enchants all
the buffers on the 81 floors of the
composers Park avenue apartment,
Is naturally the outstanding one. The
devastation she creates among the
gentleman's gentlemen is completely
understandable.
Almost as amusingly conceived is
the butler played by O'Brien. He
is very smooth butler, even as but
lerS 60. His obsession is picking
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Pony Girl Choruses
NAV Be New Trends
4y the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
That delight of the good old
days. the pony chorus, will be re-
vived for "1ncendiary Blonde" the
story Of Texas Guinan.
A pony is q chorus girl who
averages 5 feet 2, has a waist Of %
inches, doesn't tap dance, eats
steaks and chops like other girls
eat potato chips, and likes rufiies
and fiounces with lace.
She Is said by studio dance men
to have more rhythm than the
skyscraper showgirl type being ex-
plotted in present movie musicals.
She may be the new trend.