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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-18
Without Glamour
tNew York Times.


 An American private in an English village pub remarked to one of this newspapers reporters, Drew Middleton that the didn't like to hear war called fancy names Other soldiers profanely agreed They
 just didn't care to called the spearhead of democ- racy" or to be lectured on honor" and glory They intended to do what they had to do, which was to beat these Germans because it's gotta be done They did not regard the prospect romantic
 The very fact that the subject could come up reveals the chasm between the soldiers and the civilian The civilian, and for reasons that seem good to him, is prone to the words the soldier doesn't like The civilian has sense of nferiority. Because of youth age bad eyesight weak heart or an essential occu- patton he is not asked to fight. The Army and Navy won't have him. So he has easier time of it than the soldier He is not to blame but his conscience hurts him Glorifyng the soldiers and the soldiers job makes him feel better But to the soldier he seems to be say: Never mind the rain mud snow dust thirst, hunger malaria tedium and general dscom- never mind the stink and orrorjust fix your mind you lucky devil on the beautiful, glittering gen. eralities
 The soldier is not thinking of generaties He is thinking of how to get through the next day, hour minute how to keep on going, how to do what he has to do without getting killed His is dirty unhappy dangerous work and, being human he doesn't like it. More honor to hin-but there go: he doesn't care for honor as a word but only act. In the long years he may acquire perspective and realize that he and his dead comrades really the spear head of democracy and that their conduct really and glorious But not He is too close to the fact.
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WC to Hold Tea For NeWMembers
 On Next tuesday

Women Of the community WHO are interested in the organization are invited to attend the Juneau Woman's Club annual hospitality tea next Tuesday afternoon.
 The tea. from 2:30 until 500 o'clock given in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, ! is a yearly event to compliment members who joined the club dur ing the current season. During the 1943-44 year the names of 3 wo- men have been added to the Juneau Woman's Club roll call
 Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Henry Harmon will sing several songs. She will be accompanied by Mrs Charles Popejoy, who also will play several piano solos
 Because this particular tea is be- ing arranged by both the hospital ity and arts and crafts committees, a feature of the afternoon will be dH HUI ildi tdAh Us MI D. OOC "C4 ner. Mrs. Werner will display her art work
 Mrs Mildred Hermann. past pres ident of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs and Mrs John Mccormick, current president of the Juneau club. have been asked to pour.
 New members of the Juneau Wo- mans Club who will De feted are the Mesdames C. s. STagerty. VII liam Byington, Robert Sanford, Frank Marshall, Jack Fletcher, Frederick Paul, Silas GlockIe, D. " O'Connor, Theresa Sanborn. Edna
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-18
20 YEARS AGO f{Tr {rIm EMPIRE
MARCH IS, 1924

MARCH Is, 1924
 there
  Harbo o
 A Seattle dispatch from Washington D e. Agriculture which Alaska deve the Maanuska Fairbanks districts They said to appear others when the States and a superior quality.
 the winter hauled Stewart readiness the of navigation trip He expected o be
 To purchase additional equipment for the Juneau Cold Storage Com a visit
  their husbands the Eks the matches teegraphc consecutive the Kehikan The 2785 Ketchikan first 2675 team Ketchikan according left Alaska Fair banks attend this Grand Igloo.
 report: cloudy.
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LIQUOR SALES DECLINE

While the amount of money paid out by the Am erican public for liquor in 1943 greater by far than in any other previous year, the number of gallons consumed was 100000 less than the total for l942
 On per capita basis. every American spent s46 for hard louor in l943 That's almost 20 per cent above the S39 they spent the before; nearly 80 per cent higher than the 1889 average.
 The figures aren't bad as they look, however While the cash involved has skyrocketed larger and larger part of it has gone into Government taxes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-18
SUCCESSOR TO GEORGE
 BRIGGS

Secretary Ickes has hired a suc- cessor to George N Briggs. of Hop kins letter. fame The successor is pr. Wesley c. Clark, Ph. D., of Syracuse University and the War Shipping Administration
 Clark had read the Hopkins letter" story carefully, and when Ickes fired Briggs, Clark noted the Ickes quip in the papers: So now am looking for new secretary"
 Promptly, Clark sat down and wrote letter to Ickes. Dear MT. Secretary-I am writing in answer to your ad in tonight's paper" And he sent the letter to Ickes' home, Headwaters Farm, Olney, Md.
 A few days later. he got a phone call at his War Shipping office in Washington. It was from Ickes of flee. Are you Mir Wesley C.. Clark" Yes" Are you a statis- tician?" Yes Do you work for war agency?' Yes" Well, we've been calling all over town for you. Secretary Ickes would like to see you" (There are two Wes- ley c. Clarks in War Shipping. and this one had given only his home address,
 Clark went to Ickes' office. and they chatted for some time. Ickes showed him where his office would be, and showed him his secretary But if you don't like her, we'll get you another one" Ickes said. How about it? Do you want the job?'
 Clark smiled MT. Secretary he said, T don't know about the work ing conditions. I can be pushed just so far, and after that I blow up'
 "Oh," said Ickes well get along I'm not the irascible curmudgeon the papers make me out to be-
 So the deal was closed. Ickes now has new "grammarian.'
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There have been some price boosts, of course but they have not compared in ratio to the tax increases The liquor buyer has been making great contribu- tion to the cost of government.
 Advocates of national prohibition doubtless will use the figures quoted above in reviewing agitation for more restrictive liquor laws On the face, they make good fodder for such mill But the important fact to be remembered is not monetary totals it is the amount Of liquor involved The country con- sumed some IT per cent less in l943 than in 1922.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-18
kINY PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Sunday Afternoon and Evening

e~Af1 l:00-Andre Kostelanetz. l:30 Lutheran Hour. 2:00-Lutheran Hour. 2:30-Lutheran Hour. 3:00-Bob Crosby. 3:05-Music for Sunday. 3:30-Fanlily Hour. 4:00-Voice of Prophecy. 4:30-Light Concert. 5:00-News Rebroadcast. Selected Music. 5.30-Radio Bible Class. 6.00-Old- Fashioned Revival Hour 7:00-Nevs Reoroadcast. 7:05-Pause that RefreSnes. 7:3o-NBC Symphony. Sign of.
 Monday Schedule p Personal Album l2.i5-Song Parade. i2 30-BerE g. Alaska Federal News. i2 2-z5-Muzcal Bon Bonz. .Oo-Spo-light Bands. l.f5-MeIody Roundup
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raisins for the military and lend- lease,
 The wine business is watching for the forthcoming action of War Food Administration on the 1914 grape crop. WFA is now working on cherries and prunes, will soon get to grapes. Even if some grapes are allowed for wine. the shortage will not be relieved before next year.
 Meantime, the Big Four whiskey distillers are fast buying into the wine business. Schenley has al- ready acquired between 12 and IA percent of the total U. S. wine production. National Distillers is another big wine investor. These two plus Seagrams and Hiram Walker, which have made smaller investments, now control about one fourth of the wine industry.
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Daily Lessons in English v %. L. GORDON

Mrs. Brown attended the meeting Say wife of Dr. Brown OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED: Cartridge IS
  avarous and yours" Let  EMBRYONIC; rudmentay udevoped Our plans still in embryonic
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American propaganda - should be a plank at the peace table, Hopper urges.
 Copyright, 1944, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc)
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Lomen. w. J. Smythe, Calvin Pool. Arthur Hedges. Ralph Martin, George Folta. Ray Nevin, Joseph Boyd, Frank Kelly, Katherine Nor dale, E. McCarron and the Misses Helen Johnson, Catherine O'Con- nor and Alice Brandebury.
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VIUULKN CtIuUlIl! ROBERTA LEE

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TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide 303 a. m, 62 feet. High tide 9:05 a. m, 140 feet. Low tide 4.06 p. m. Is feet. High tide-10:4l D. m, 129 feet.
 TIDES MONDAY
 Low tide 4:25 a. m, 50 feet. High tide-l0:26 a. m, 15.1 feet. Low tide sos a. m, 0.1 feet. High tide-l137 p. m. 147 feet.
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RUMMAGE SALE

By American Legion Auxiliary at Legion Dugout, 10 am. Thursday, March 23
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MARCH Is First It. Hal c. Mauze Olaf Peterson Albert Shaw Mrs. Eni Allen Alice Murray Ryder Converse Chester Shanks MARCH 19
 John Cass Dorothy White Mrs. Agnes Anderson Phillip Sauers Ray Everson Mrs. Lillian Mitchell
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Washington Me1FY- 6o-Round

tContlnueo rom Page one)
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Weather report: High, se; low s5; cloudy
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
Board Penalties
Holders of
Beverage Permits

State board OF equalization re-
Voked or suspended liquor licenses
of three concerns in Imperial val
ley.
Miguel Aguilar. operating Mikes
Place at 942 Main street, BraWley,
had his permit suspended for 10
days ION evidence showing he per-
mitted persons to possess alcoholic
beverages for consumption on the
premises in restricted hours.
In Ell Centro Angelo Buglitsis,
Eucalyptus Canal and San Diego
highway, has had his permit re-
voked on evidence that he permit
ted patrons to consume alcoholic
beverages on the premises without
proper license.
Salton Sea Lodge of Elks, No
627, located at 1862 East State
street, Ell Centro, was listed as hav-
ing its license suspended indefinite
ly ION evidence showing disorderly
operation of premises and licensee
permitted patrons to possess alcohol
beverages for consumption on prem
iseS in restricted hours"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
Commercial Banks
Show Loan Gains

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20. UP)-
An increase in commercial loans
made by state banks during July
Indicates that reconversion of in
dustry has already started in Cali
fornia," Benjamin C. Corlett, state
banking superintendent, declared at
a governors council meeting today.
He said the increase, $15,000000,
was slight, but significant" He
added that the assets of state char
tered banks are at record high
point of $2,95000,000.
For the first time, Corlett said,
they passed the previous record at
tanned in 1926, when many more
banks were operating under state
charter than now, including the
giant Bank of America.
Frank C. Mortimer, building and
loan commissioner, reported a Is
per cent increase in assets of build
ing and loan associations since
January, 1943.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
CAME UNDER WAGE RULE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %. lUPJ
The 10th regional wan labor board
announced Monday that firms with
eight or less employees in the auto
mobile repair and tire industry in
Arizona, California and Nevada had
been placed under the wartime fed
eral wage sterilization program. The
action, instituted at the request OF
representative of the industry and
employees, was taken to prevent la
Dor stealing and inflationary wages
the board said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE

los ANGELES, Aug. %. CUP)-
Some 200 fire fighters narrowly es-
capped being trapped Monday when
a faSt-moVing forest fire made a
sudden, explosive leap over a half
mile canyon at San Marcos Pass
near Santa Barbara to set an
other forest ablaze and move men,
acingly towards the almost inacces-
Sible wilds of the Los Padres Ma
tional forest.
The fire, which has already burn
ed 10000 acres on five mile front,
is one of three blazes raging out of
control in southern California, while
two other fires Succumbed to the
efforts of dog tired forestry crews.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
EIGHT DIE IN CRASH

FAIRMONT ARMY AIR BASE,
GENEVA, Neb., Aug. 20. CUP) --
Eight crew members of a Bit
bomber, assigned to the Fairmont
air base, were killed Saturday when
their plane crashed near Farming
ton, New Mexico, Colonel George A.
Blakely, base commandant, an
nounced Monday Those killed in
cluded First Lieutenant Timothy j.
Cayanaugh, San Francisco, and Ser
geant Jose r. Flores, Cotton, Cali
fOrnia.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
TO ABANDON FLIGHT SCHOOL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. CUP -
The war department announced
Monday that the Cal-Aero flight
school, Ontario, California, will be
abandoned by the AAF on Septem-
Der Il. The school will become the
property of the Defense Plant Corp.
which probably will release it to the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, as
soon as it has been received from
the AAF, the war department said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
Lost. Found, Sirayed

LOST-Three and four ration books,
B gasoline book, tire inspection
slip, belonging to Charles Burli.
return 10 RdtlOn Board. 81
and chain lost in FL
Centre Monday. Finder call 994.
$50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
Cards of Thanks

WE WISH to express our since
thanks and appreciation for floral
offerings and sympathy during the
period of illness and recent death
of our husband and father.
Mrs. Mulvey
George G. and Carl Mulvey
$50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

RELIABLE woman to care for
baby during Gays while mother
works. Phone 2164-J after $50
pm. 9-3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

WANTED-News correspondent in
CaleXico and Holtville. Write or
apply to E. E. Hale, PoSt-PresS.
8-31
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

WANTED-Relable housekeeper to
care for two children and light
housework. House furnished and
salary. Must be available Sept.
lst. Write Post-Press Box SO.
$50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

MAN for meter reading and COL
lecting. Work in Ell Centric. No
experience necessary, preferably
4-F or discharged serviceman
Availability certificate required
Phone 10 or call at 135 So. 9th,
Ell Centre. 9-3
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

GOOD WAITRESS wanted. Must
be fast, top wages, teady work.
Phi. 7, Jacumba. $50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

WANTED-Man for plowing and
general farm work. Write Box
1865, Ell Centre. 8-25
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

EXPERIENCED waitress wanted,
full time or short hours, no Sum
Gays. Hotel California. ga
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
o--Help Wdntec

SITUATIONS: For
competent office woman, who ap-
preciates good working conditions
in an office where work is never
drudgery. Includes tipping, record
keeping, correspondence, and a
variety of other duties. To a
young woman seeking perma-
nent place in an office where
clerical skill and creative ability
are highly valued, this is an ex-
ceptional opportunity. See Mrs.
Stacy at DESERT MAGAZINE,
636 State ST. $50
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

COMBINATION saleswoman and
office worker. Must be over 80.
Permanent position. Also tire
changer. b. F. Goodrich Co, TIT
Main, Phone 9l3. tt
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29

10 OR 20 ACRES of pasture for
sale. 90 acres of land for sale or
rent. l.. A. Bright, mile So. of
Ell Centro and Y mile east. 8-29
FOR SALE-3-room modern house,
separate store building grocery
stock and fixtures. Frigidaire
equipped. Lot 58x1OO Come look
it over. Possession at once Must
sell, moving to Arizona. Real bar
gain. j. H. WARNER, SIS S.
Maple, Escondido, Calf. 6-27
FOR SALE-8O acres in good dis
trict, fertile land, excellent DRAIN
age and improvements. Price
$13,5000, IL miles east from Bonds
Corners on Highway, Hunick
Place. 9-1
ONE BTDROOM house at 835 Holt
Ave, Holtville. Almost new, COM
pletely modern with good concrete
foundations. Large garden plot
and chicken pen in rear. $1,000
cash if bought before Sept. 5th.
Write or see Preston ScrogginS.
Rte. 2, Box 40, Ell Centre, Calf.
9-5
3 BEDROOM MODERN HOME
Large living room with open fire
place. Concrete foundation, ex-
cellent water system. 2 acres.
yard equipped for chickens and
rabbits, horse corrals, plenty of
shade trees. About 2 miles east
on HOltVille Highway. first house
west of Red Star Auto Court.
Phone 3704-J-4 A. C. Walton.
81
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-29
WASH TUBBS

9oR NEARLY go
SECONDS THE
LleERAIoRS MUST
FLY A STRAIGHT.
LEVEL COURSE,
WHILE 60MeARDIEes
LINE UP THE TAR.
GET IN THEIR
eoMSSlGATS...
HIGH OVERHEAD.
JAP plANE-TO-
PLANE 6oMSERS
Aee RELEASING
eAoO-o DIRECTED
6oMBS...
Montana labor news., 1944-08-31

an appreciable rubber content.
Bukhanevich, however, had observed
that the natives had a habit Of chewing
grass. He tested the grasses that they
chewed, and all showed some rubber
traces but not enough. In the little
mountain village where they found
themselves on the last day before their
return to Moscow, Bukhanevich noticed
the village children chewing away with
particular relish. The plant they were
chewing proved to be a local sort Of
dandelion, a plant Bukhanevich had not
yet tested.
what is its name?" asked Bukhane-
vich.
"oh it has no name" the children re-
piled. Its Just ordinary chewing grass,
kok sagyz".
The kok sagyz plants and the seeds
brought back by the Bukhanevich ex-
pedition were distributed to agricultural
stations Overnight, kok sagyz the weed
from Central Asia, became one Of the
most important plants in the country.
Bukhanevich received a large money
prize and government honors.
Two years after its discovery in 1888,
large scale planting of kok sagyz was
begun; and from this large scale plant
ing information poured in. The speed
with which this knowledge was gained
was due to the Soviet linking of scientific
experiments with practical field work.
The scientific minded, practical farmers
on the Soviet eollectives poured in re-
ports to the research centers, supplying
data which would have taken long years
to work out in the laboratories. Tt is
such collaboration between planter in
the field and researcher in the field sta
ton that made kok sagyz, like other
Montana labor news., 1944-08-31
new SOURCES OF
NATURAL RUBBER
FOUND In USSR

The story Of the successful quest IoI
new sources of natural rubber ana uLle
high production already achieved IS Iolu
in tbe August issue of Soviet Russia 10
dav. The article, by William MaA"eil
Jr., says in part:
R,ibber was major problem for the
PLANNERS of Soviet Russia's ndusOrlaI
development There were no home
sources Of supply, and to meet TINS pro
bleno. the Soviet government embarked on
two ventures 2 the manufacture OF syn
fhetic rubber and the planting OF crops
yielding rubber.
Tn synthetic rubber production the
Soviets have had great success. Fiisy
soviet scientists succeeded in EXTRACTING
1.rbner from an alcohol base But since
+be alcohol was distilled from potatoes
in,nortant as a food crop, Soviet scent
lists sought and found new ana cheap-
or methad. The new Soviet technique
devised bv Professor Favorsky derives
isoprene from acetylene Wilcn II. ~
tnrn is derived from water, coal ana Ilille
stone. Today the USSR holds llIsO
place in synthetic rubber production.
However synthetic rubber remains
more expensive than natural rubber ana
is not as satisfactory for a NUMBER OF III
dustrial uses. Therefore, Soviet lhouSv-
nv has turned to native kauchuKonossl'
or rubber-bearing plants.
A satisfactory native rupper-peallils
nlant was found in Central ASIA. II was
a weed known locally as kok sagyz, OF
chewing grass. resembling and related 10
+be common dandelion. The rubber is
found in the root. ,,
intensive search for new natural
rubber sources began in 1929 during Uile
First Five-Year Plan. In that year three
main Soviet citizens confounded Jhe
scientists. one of them was rallroao
man in Kazakhstan in Central ASA, an
other was a surgeons assistant III Az9I-
baidzhan in the Caucasus. Ihese wv
evnerimenting with the plant hondrilla,
extracted rubber from it. The thlIu
man was a worker j ma rubber factory.
TI1nting in the Kara Tau mountains III
central Asia he established that COM
mon weed in that locality, name Tau
saovz. or mountain grass, was hau-
ch1Ikonos. or rlbber-bearing plant.
On January II. 1881, there came into
being a committee Of scientists one o.
whose chief movers was Academlclan ~
I. Vavilov. 4,.;,.+,,
In the next three years some thirty
major expeditions were organized which
collected and studied nearly 5000 specl-
mems. These came from over 1000 spec
les belonging to 3l6 plant genera. Oh
The nearly 5000 specimens collected over
eoo contained at least a trace Of rubber
A Kauchukonos Department was es-
tablished. Thirteen farms were turned
over to it for experimental cultivation OF
the plants discovered. Research institu-
lions in rubber planting were organized
Montana labor news., 1944-08-31

Soviet agricultural triumphs, possible.
It was found that the rubber in kok
sagyz averaged four and one-half per
cent Of the root weight; that it can be
extracted the first year after growth
which makes it highly important in the
war emergency years; and that the rub
Der content gains both in quantity and
quality if the root is permitted another
one or two years growth. SO far, the
best method found for extracting is to
dry the root, powder it and then by grav-
ity or oentrifuging, separating the rubber
out in water or alkaline solution.
These methods are so similar to beet sug
ar extraction that it has been possible to
CONTINUED on page 13)
Montana labor news., 1944-08-31

at Moscow and Margoshev with branch
es in the Ukraine, the Caucasus and
Central Asia.
on July day in 1881, there were six
young men and women on the express
to Frunze, capital of the Kirgiz Soviet
Republic in Central Asia. The six were
rubber hunters whose qualifications as
researchers had been approved by the
Moscow Rubber Institute. Similar groups
were travelling to other parts Of the vast
country on the same quest. The leader
Of this particular expedition, Bukhane-
vieh, was only twenty-five years old. He
was worker in a Moscow aniline dye
factory
His five comrades were young work
ers Of similar interests They were on
their way to spend their vacation in eX-
amining the flora of the mountain bor-
derland that touches on Chinese Sinki-
ang. They climbed steep mountain
slopes; they descended into deep ravines
Their herbarium began to overflow; but
up to the last day Of their expedition
they still had not found any plant with