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conference on McNutt'S statement
but on the question of how best to
use manpoWer, he declared there
are a lot of people who are not
aiding in the war, that it is a mat
ter for soul searching and that it
people won't search their own
souls someone should do it for
them.
Asked about a suggestion from
Selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey that 4Fs be drafted for
work battalions, particularly for
harvesting, Mr. Roosevelt said that
left out a lot Of other groups.
| Help with harvests is needed. he
added, from manv others-high
school boys and girls and even
newspapermen. Everyone who pos
sibly can should be helping to win
the war. he said.
Asked directly how his views on
rational service jibed with Nc.
Nuts statement, the President
said he would first have to read
what the manpower chairman said
because there might be some other
sentences in it.
Opposing a national service law
now, McNutt expressed the opinion
there might be real merit" in
TIE idea of job controls over AIS
In testimony before a House Mil.
itary Subcommittee. the chairman
OF the War Manpower Commission
also said there was "every pos
sibility,' as a result of the Ar
my's demand for younger men
that occupational deferments will
be denied Oh seriously restricted
later for all men under % OF
even 30"
McNutt's emphasis on greater
use of 4F's-men deferred as I'M
fit-and on the Army's demand
that inductees be young was re-
peated in an address during the
day by Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey.
Continued on Page Seven; Col. g.
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B0MBERS BLAST
PACIFIC BASES
292 Tons OF Explosives
Dumped On Bismarck
Sea Targets

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest p cific, Wednesday,
March 29.-tFt-Allied bombers
dumped 292 tons of explosives in
swings over enemy bases around
the Bismarck sea areas, headquar-
tiers announced today.
The bombers hit Kavieng, New
Ireland, Rabaul, New Britain, jap
anese positions on Bougainville is
land in the Solomons, and the
prime bases at Wewak and Hansa
Bay on the northeastern New
Guinea coast.
Heaviest hit were the New Guin.
ed coastal points, where the Allied
planes air ady have dumped
around $500 tons of bombs so far
this month, greatly reducing Jap.
anese air and supply operations
In the latest raids, 7 tons blast.
ed the Wewak installations and "a
tons smashed the enemy gun po'
sitions at Hansa Bay. Rabaul, a
daily target of Solomons-based
planes, received 46 tons and other
aircraft from the South Pacific hit
Kavieng airdrunes and defenses
with so tons.
Strikes at the japanese troop and
gun positions around the Allied To.
rokina beachnead perimeter or
Rougainville totaled SO tons Of
bombs.
Other planes ranging to Kama
ma in Dutch New Guinea set an
enemy cargo ship afire.
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expanded capacity" said the re-
port.
Early this year the scale of the
bomber attacks was increased
enormously ana as of March l the
monthly production of single en-
CINE fighters had been cut two
thirds below the Jan. 1884, level
twin-engine fighter capacity slight
ly more; and bomber capacity by
one third, the review said.
''That does not mean, however, "
the Army explained, "that Ger
man combat aircraft production
had been permanently reduced to
that extent
When a plant is bombed out, the
Army explained, top-flight German
production men rush in to deter
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K ey Black Sea Port, Falls
Torres Advancing On us Mile Front,
E. ~ Fails To Challenge Air Armada
Army Says Aim OF Great Bomber Offensive
Is To Destroy German Air Force Entirely

mine whether it is better to re-
build there or move equipment and
personnel.
Production may be lost only foc
the time necessary to move the
workers as a second or third shift
into another factory.
Assuming for purposes OF illu-
stration that only three production
complexes-an assembly plant fed
by component building factories
exists for a certain type of plane
the report concluded that serious
impairment would result only when
the third had been knocked out.
And even that would be only
temporary, it was pointed out with
the first and second plants being
rebuilt or Others being erected.
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BODY OF PRETTY
BLONDE IS FOUND

DETROIT, MARCH % Up -
Sheriff's detectives questioned a
Detroit physician tonight concern
ing the death Of Joyce Raulston,
attractive 14-year-old blonde schoo!
girl whose stabbed and battered
body was found on a refuse dump
this morning.
Detective Thomas Gentle said
an anonymous tipster named the
physician as the girls assailant
No formal charge had been placed
against him, however.
Attempts also were being made
to trace a man who telephonec
the girls mother Monday morning
with the information Joyce is
married and has gone to Califoc
mia" and the owner Of tan auto
mobile which passer-by reported
having seen coming from the dunn
in the early hours today.
Tire tracks led to the top Of
short hill at the foot of which lay
the girls body Doth lungs punctur
ed by stab wounds and with par
| of her clothing ripped away. Shoes
skirt and parts of underclothinl
were discovered about 100 feet dis
tant.
Officers said it appeared tn.
girls head had been battered witt
concrete block that lay near thu
body.
Sheriff's deputies said there wal
evidence the girl fought desperate
ly with her assajlant on the lionel.
dump. There are no houses within
two blocks Of the scene.
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ARS0NIST CAUSED
BLAZE IN FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3D.
R-An arsonist turned a Fourth
Street hotel INTO whirlwind OF
flaming death today.
Twenty-Five persons lost their
lives and some of the 80 injured
may die.
Police agreed with Fire Marshal
Frank Kelly that there was no
question the blaze in the New Am
sterdam hotel was set; that five
other fires last night, and five Sum-
day night also were the acts OF
q fire bug.
The deaths occurred just after
midnight, and u hours later only
one person had been identified.
A policeman who helped remove
the corpses said ''you could tel
they were human beings. But tha'
was ALL"
The fire turned the three-storJ
building into a huge torch. Some
victims never got out of thell
rooms. Others leaped, screaming
into flame-filled light wells. 9th
orc nanic-stricken, ran into cor
ridors and piles up, body on body
in area-ways where they suffocat
ed and then burned.
Some leaped from windows am
M anv received grave injuries. On
- tho two women victims of tn
fire died that way. She was MRS
Mamie Pulosky 43, wife of a Nav!
man. Firemen saw her standing II
a third-floor window, her clothln
in flames. They cried to her no
to lump but she slipped into tn
darkness and crashed to death OF
tn esidewalk.
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Ration Point Values
Heads To Quit Guessing
To Be Cut By OPA

WASHINGTON, March 28.-
R-The Office of Price Ad-
ministration announced tonight
that the ration point value of
ready-to-eat hams will be re-
duced from three to two points
per pound next month.
Ration point values for fresh
and cured hams will remain
unchanged.
April point values for all
meats, fats and cheese will be
announced later this week.
They will become effective
April 2.
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WASHINGTON, March 90 R -
Elimination of enemy air opposit-
ion to the Allied invasion forces in
western Europe has been the main
objective of the bomber offensive
against Grmany since last July
1, the Army said today.
The campaign now has reached
such point, the report said, that
the Nazis must decide whether to
defend their factories or hoard
their planes to meet the invasion.
In an analysis of the bomber
strategy, the Amy made it clear
that continuing operations against
aircraft factories are necessary be-
cause of the tremendous recupe-
rative powers" of German indust-
ry.
At the beginning of 1913, the
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M'Nutt Wants Military
OF Ready To Eat Hams
When War Will End

WASHINGTON, March u.s.
R)-Manpower Chairman Paul
v. McNutt wishes American
military leaders would stop
soon.
predicting the war will be over
He told the House Military
Committee today that every
such prediction moves "many
war workers to leave war jobs
and seek a place in civilian
production, and makes more
difficult the task of recruiting
workers from non-essential I'd
essential activities"
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BAREFOOT

WASHINGTON, March %. Up
The country will soon go bare
foot unless some of the $4,000, 600
cattle on hand are slaughtered for
leather. Representative Hall R-
NY) told the House today. "Well
I'll soon be warm interjected
Representative Rankin O-Miss).
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Roosevelt Still FavOrs
A National Service Act

WASHINGTON, March -QF9-Presdent Roosevelt
indicated today that he still favors enactment OF
service legislation although Manpower Chairman Paul "
McNutt told Congress there present need for it, The
Chief Executive declined direct comment at his pressrado
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FORECAST

NORTH CAROLINA: Wednesday rain
and continued cool. South Caroline.
Wednesday cloudy with somewhat warm
er in south portion in afternoon.
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Fashion
washington POST

washington POST
New York the magalopolis of the earlier twen-
tieth century has been in something of eclipse
since the beginning of the war, although perhaps a
temporary eclipse Since it is neither great center
of mass industry like Detroit Baltimore a great
center OF world politics like Washington, the focus
of world attention has shifted elsewhere Not quite
year ago special committee reported to Governor
Dewey on an alarming decline in trade. Since then
the situation in New York has greatly improved and
the small industries of New York enjoying some
thing of a war boom Meantime the city has been
busy with plans for the future. And of these,
announced the other day, is prodgious to make
the late World Of-Tomorrow seem like the world-of
the day before yesterday A special committee head
ed by Mr.. Grover Whalen has proposed the construc
tion at cost of 8s million dollars, of stipend
Gus municipal auditorium and exposition center
in the new functional" style. Chiefly it would SEEM
the project is for the benefit of the garment industry
but also it would serve the purpose of attracting
more conventions 1t would contain, among other
things, landing ground the room for hecopter
planes and somewhere below terminal for bus lines
All this is apparently part of program for con-
solidating New York's Importance the fashion
capital of the universe. Even before the fall of
France, New York had begun to challenge the pre-
emnence of Paris in this field although it had itself
an increasingly serious rival in Hollywood AS the
virtue of this project it would depend, should
think, the part that fashion in clothing will play
in the world after the Just it appears to
play very little part with large portion of the
population in uniform and the shape and style
of civilian clothing has been pretty well standardized
by necessities Fashion, of course, is permanent
phenomenon in any civilization But the import lance
of fashion as an industry is pretty we'll dependent
upon the rapidty with which fashions change. This
in turn is dependent upon the degree of general
prosperity.
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CAPITAL CHAFF

AGM tAllied Military Govern
men0 is facing tough problem
regarding 100000 tons of oranges
and 100000 tons of lemons waiting
to be picked in Sicily and southern
Italy The fruit is ripe, but men
can't be spared from the front to
pick it. Meanwhile, we are forced
to ship a certain amount of dried
citrus to Italy After the an
nouncement that each of sixteen
Soviet republics would run its own
foreign affairs Alexander Kirkland
of the Philadelphia Inquirer posted
in the State Department press room
list of Secretary Hulls appoint
ments for the day. Beginning with
such names as Korokilov and Mar
shevsky, the Secretary of State was
receiving Soviet ambassadors every
quarter hour for four hours
THE Shortest Route to Japan" is
the slogan of the Korean Affairs
Institute, which has just opened
offices in Washington. 1t is urging
use of Korean bases only six hun
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WLB UNDER FIRE

committee of the House appointed to investi-
gate executive agencies accuses the National War
Labor Board of policies highly dangerous and men
acng to the system of private enterprise and the
constitutional right of judicial review of admin
strative decisions"
The committee charges that the board has granted
wage awards regardless of the ability of the employer
to pay them. that it has granted excessive awards
for back wages for services already rendered and
paid for: that it has arbitrarily assumed power to
compel employers and unions ito execute contract
to do anything that the parties might voluntarily
do; that despite specific instructions to take no
action in conflict with the National Labor Relations
Act it has violated that act by ordering IAN employer
against his will to encourage membership in union
by requiring continuance of membership COR check
off as condition of employment; that it has
assumed jurisdiction all types of interstate and
interstate business, matter how remote from the
war effort and finally that in violation of consti-
tutona rights it has imposed compulsory arbitration
The committee concludes by recommending legislation
Ito limit and define the powers of the National War
Labor Board in such specific terms that policies of
the nature outlined above shall be prohibited"
Though the committee overstates its case in some
points its report and recommendations regarding
WLB deserve close study. But admitting the extra
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CLEANLINESS NEXT TO
GOODNESS

Take it from 1t Col. Jimmy
Roosevelt, the Presidents son, the
first thing a fighting man thinks
about after a hard battle is bath.
Jimmy, who distinguished himself
with the Marines in the South Pa
cific, was recently telling friends
about some OF his war experiences.
I'VE had pretty tough time of
it on Guadalcanal, as everybody
Knows Jimmy related. After one
OF the first hard battles was over,
some of us were taken aboard a
Navy ship. The first thing they
offered us was square meal But
we weren't hungry We had man
aged very well on our K rations.
What we all wanted was bath.
But 1 guess the soap and water
sharpened up our appetites, for we
just about cleaned out the ships
larder afterwards
Copyright, 1914, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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PACT BETWEEN Low
COUNTRIES

One healthy sign for postwar CO.
operation is an agreement being
negotiated backstage between the
small countries of Western Europe.
1t is n toms union between Hol-
land, Belgium and Luxembourg, to
become effective Immediately after
the war
Diplomats OF these countries in
London and Washington are work
ing out deal whereby these small
neighboring countries would reduce
all tariff walls. On the surface, this
may seem just plain common sense,
which it is, but in terms of pre-war
European politics, it is sensational.
Hitler forced Austria into an
anschluss with Germany before the
war and, from purely economic
point of view, it worked For years,
the smaller countries of Europe
faced hazardous economic and po-
litical problems as separate entities.
If they were linked together in a
sort of United States of Europe, a
lot OF European pickering would be
eliminated.
The new Low Countries pact will
be wholly friendly to both England
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON
PETITION FOR LETTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION

In the United States Commission
er's Court for Precinct of Juneau
Division Number One, Territory
of Alaska IN PROBATE.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
Drawn BENSON also known as
BROWN BENSON, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
JOHN B. BENSON has filed in this
court his petition for letters of ad-
ministration upon the estate of
Drawn BENSON, deceased, pray
ing that said estate be administered
as large, solvent estate, and that the
same will be heard on the 18th day
OF February, 1914, at 1000 o'clock
in the forenoon of said day, at the
courtroom of said court at Room
5l3, Federal Building, Juneau, Alas
ka; and all persons interested in
said estate are notified then and
there to appear and show cause, if
any they have, why the prayer of
said petitioner should not be grant
ed.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 18th
day of February, 1914.
probate SeaD FELIX GRAY.
U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge, Juneau Precinct
Territory Of Alaska.
Petitioners Attorney,
WILLIAM L. PAUL, JR.
First publication, Feb. Is, 1914.
Last publication, Feb, rs, 1914.
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make any bones about it, He says
that. an Air Force officers "efflc-
iency report is affected by "activ-
tiles by his wife" The activities
in this case refers to joining the
Gulfport Field Women's Club. Col
onel Jewett last month sent out a
circular letter to all officers under
him. virtually ordering their wives
to join the club.
He even went so far as to warn
that. lin the event that any OF
ficers' wives do not wish to belong
it is desired that their husbands SO
state in a letter TO the commanding
officer, such letter to be submitted
prior to the 5th of the month fol-
lowing the date the officer reported
to the station for duty
And then, apparently afraid that
his subordinates might not take
the hint in the e-too-subtle
warning, Colonel Jewett laid it right
on the line by invoking the author
ity of General Arnold.
ACTIVE participation in the work
of the Women's Club is matter in
which higher authority, including
the Chief of the Air Forces, is Wit
ally interested" warned Col. Jewett
bluntly. And every officer in the
Air Forces may expect to find his
efficiency report affected by the
manner of participation in these
activities by his wife"
So there it is in black and white
Apparently, according to the petit
coat school of the Army, bravery
around the tea table as well as
bravery on the battlefield influences
promotions.
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70 YEARS AGO f frfm EMPIRE
FEBRUARY 18, 1924

FEBRUARY 10, 1924
Mining planned to put 100
its daily production to
Fred Sor
Manager of extended
Information relative the local
direct General Manager Bradley according to
Admission the of Alaska the
School Salem not to be permissible
this by the Indian Field Service OF
according made HARDWOOD
students in the school at this
m however if they
esired.
w the Company, who
combined vacation and bust
home according
company
Alaska Commission office Fairbanks
Seattle stopped off
Petersburg and expected in Juneau shortly.
Education left the
visit that vicinity.
A.
after a to Washington.
Weather High, 10; low, IT;
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HOROSCOPE
"The stars incline
but do not compel
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
The stars today shine With kindly
light upon the inhabitants of the
planet Earth. 1t is time for rest
and relaxation.
HEART AND HOME Prisoners
returned from Axis concentration
camps, among them heroines who
have undergone terrible perils, will
unconsciously set examples to be
emulated by American girls. The
stars presage spiritualizing forces
which assure better world.
BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The need
for rare minerals will give new i'm
petus to the mining industry Vet
eran prospectors will again be COM
petitors in field now widely &C.
cupied by scientists.
NATIONAL ISSUES: Astrologers
foretell high general standard OF
income when postwar reconstruction
programs are realized.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
This month will offer the most Sc
we're tests of our fighting mems
superlative courage and resourceful-
ness. A sign presages a brief per-
iod of inactivity and slight reverses
which will preface the most sweep
ing victory in history
Persons whose birthdate it is have
the augury of a year of ups and
downs. Health should be watched
and changes avoided.
Children born on this day will
probably be highly nervous and alb
normally sensitive. Extra prepara-
tion will be required for the sue
cessful careers awaiting them.
Copyright, 1944)
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of its decisions must also recognize that Congress
itself including of the signers of the present
report must bear part of the responsibility for this
ordinary lengths to which the board has gone in many
Let us look at the powers conferred upon WLB in
the Connally- Smith Act itself
Sec. 7 "a. The National War Labor Board
. established by executive order numbered COLT
in addition to all powers conferred on it by Sec
ton ca OF the Emergency Control Act of 1912
and by any Executive order regulation issued under
the provisions of the act of october g 1912 and
by any other statute, shall have the following powers
and duties
What Congress did in its haste, in short, to
throw wholesale and give the effect of statute law
all the executive orders regarding the board issued
prior the passage of the Connally Smith Act For
that matter, far the ambiguous wording just
quoted above goes, it may have pre-validated law
any future executive order granting powers to WLB
under the Emergency Price Control Act.
The spectacle is familiar one. Through haste
laziness. unwingness inability to define its
policies, Congress delegates powers in reckless,
wholesale fashion and then is shocked at the results
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MODERN ETIQUETTE by ROBERTA LEE

O. What expenses for the
wedding?
Wedding marriage license ties gloves and bouonnere
his family and his
attendants the church. the honeymoon trip
do?
if her guests slow in eating
finishes eating about the
they do
@ prefix written when "Jr is used after
name?
A. Yes is necessary both Mr.. and Jr
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Daily Lessons in English Sy /. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED say, What did do that
orr" did that?"
OFTEN MsPRoNoUNCED: Haste; pronounce the
r s
OFTEN Column; UMN Volume; UME
sleeping, inactive inherent
times and is yours Let us
each Todas word
INERT inactive life
happiness"
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dred miles from Tokyo AM
erican zionists point out that Pal
estine has contributed more to the
war effort than any other country
in the Near East, including the
manufacture of land mines.
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and Russia, will get military support
from them and probably also from
France 1t is hoped that the group
later will take in such countries as
Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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Alex Kupoff left st. AIMS Hos
pital yesterday after undergoing
surgical treatment.
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HOSPITAL NOTES

John w. Grant has been dis
charged from ST. AIMS Hospital
following medical care.
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w. F. Brown, surgical patient,
left st. AIMS Hospital on Thursday
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Washington
Merry
6o-Round

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Arthur Walther has been dis
charged from st. AIMS Hospital.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

FEBRUARY 10
G. H. Skinner
Paul F.. Schnee
Mrs. William Maier
Mrs. Carl Wilson
Violet Johnson
Martin Munson
H. F. Cameron
Mrs. Bessie Snyder