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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
Cordova Takes Pointed Shots, Rate Hearing
Declares VISA Positively Has No Right to De-
 termine Issues

CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 23.-Tht Cordova Chamber of Commerce, ir two hour discussion, declared the forthcoming hearings on Alaska freight rates were "unwarranted ano unjustified"
 Following are arguments whicl Chamber officials say they will present at the hearings
 l. The War Shipping Administra- ton is stepping out of bounds in applying for rate hearings for ship ping lines which the VISA has said it soon will return to private own CTS after four years of war opera ton.
 2. The hearings are unjustified because neither VISA nor any other agency or group of experts can pos sibly determine what the cost of operation of shipping lines will be under private ownership.
 3. Cost of operation of lines un- der VISA and wartime conditions cannot be considered an accurate in- dex of what costs will be under pri- vate management in peacetime. The VISA, the Chamber officials assert ed, has said the lines cost millions to operate in wartime and private ownership must have higher rates to stay in business.
 
 PfepOSterouS Altitude 4. To base rate changes on cost of operation figures of VISA for the last four years would be preposter- ous. Officials said VISA had oper- ated vessels of Alaska lines all ovel tie Pacific and in one instance even to the Mediterranean. Adverse labor conditions, strange shipping lanes and premium costs all added to VISA expenditures and therefore should not be considered in fixing peace time rates, the Chamber asserted.
 Chamber members admitted that costs to private ownerships pro- bably would exceed those of prewar Aoyot DoS dsoDNA OOA Illt pCODlt of Alaska should not be penalized by an increase in rates, which they contended already were the highest in the world for similar service.
 Government Subsidy
 The Chamber suggested govern ment subsidy should peacetime op- eraticn by private owners prove un- feasible under current rates.
 The Chamber added that in view of the fact that the government is fighting to keep down imitation, "un- reasonable" boosts in rates to Alas ka would have a direct inflationary effect and seriously curtail postwar development in the Territory
 Members asserted they would tes- tify that under normal conditions and peacetime operation salmon loadings from Alaska points were much greater under private operation than under VISA management.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
NAVY TO REDUCE
 DISCHARGE POINTS

WASHINGTON, Nov g The Navy plans to reduce the discharge point score for enlisted men from fl to 38 on Dec. 1.
 It will lower the score to 37 on Dec. Is and to 36 on Jan. l. The changes will make another l50,00O men eligible for release, the depart ment announced
 The change will not affect some specialists, including key punchers and shore patrolmen, nor enlisted women.
 For some ratings, the score will drop only to 39 on Dec. l and to 38 on Jan. l. These are water tenders. machinists mates, chief commissary stewards and ships cooks and bakers. In the Seabees. how ever, these ratings will be dis charged under the new reduced scores.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
IT. GEN. PATCH LOSES BATTLE FOR HIS LIFE
BemedaIIed Vet Who Led Forces Across France,
 Germany, Is Dead

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 23-- It. Gen. Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr., 55, bemedalled veteran of two wars who led the victorious drive of the U. S. Seventh Army across France and Germany, lost his battle for life Wednesday night.
 The high-tempered, slightly built six-footer, Sandy Patch" to his friends and his men. who trium- phed in the Pacific theater as well as on the European continent, died of pneumonia in Brooke General Hospital here He had entered the hospital Nov. IA.
 At his bedside, where an oxygen tent had been used to combat what hospital authorities called a special type Of pneumonia, were his wife, Julia Lillell Patch his daughter, Mrs. Charles M. Drummond his widowed daughter in law, Mrs. Alexander M Patch, 3rd, and his brother, Maj. Gen. Joseph Patch. The generals son, captain, member of the U. s. First Army in France, was killed Oct. p, l944, while assaulting enemy positions.
 Patch was an Army man from an Army family. Son of an officer, he was born Nov. 23, 1889, at Fort Jo,oh,ca Ari1 and wac appaiptpd to the U. s. Military Academy from Pennsylvania in 1909. In the First World War he participated in the Aisene- -Argonne offensives.
 Gen. Patch held the Army Dis tinguished Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Croix de Guerre with Palm, the French Legion of Honor, Order of Con- mander and the Ecuadorian Abdon Calderon Star, First Class.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
CRIME WAVE IN NEW YORK
 GETSSERI0U5
SIayinqs Total 66 in "A Days : LawIessIess,
 Violence Prevails

NEW YORK, Nov. 23-A 30-year- old man was shot to death early today in Manhattan's Greenwich Village section while the largest armed automobile police patrol in New York Citys history started an all-out effort to check steadily rising wave of lawlessness and vio- lence.
 Police said the man, whom they identified as Rocco Loscalzo, was shot in the back five times. The staying brought to 66 the number of persons who have met violent death in the last "A days.
 In another eruption of violence, a 20-year-old youth, Philip Beceiro, was shot in the right side by police while attempting to escape arrest as suspect in series of early morning burglaries in Brooklyn. Police said he was in serious con- dition
 Search continued for the slayers of Al (Bummy) Davis, former boxer, who was shot to death early We'd nesday morning by bandits in the robbery of a grill, and of l6-year- old Susan Scanga, who was beaten and shot to death Tuesday night.
 Meanwhile, police still probed the death of an unidentified man, about 45, whose body was found yesterday in the Queens Midtown automobile tunnel under the East River. At police, headquarters, the belief was expressed that the body had been tossed from an auto mobile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL STARTS
 NEW AGITATION
Woman Member of Con gress Gives Speech,
 Presents Resolution

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 - Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas tD-CalifD demanded today that this country invite Russia and Britain to a Big Three atomic bomb conference.
 We can afford to split the atom, but we cannot afford to split the Big Three Mrs. Douglas said in a speech prepared for House de- livery
 She described as a "disappoint- ment" the recent Anglo-American- Canadian statement proposing to turn over to a United Nations com mission the problem of working out atomic bomb controls.
 Such a commission lis useful but not likely to be adequate" Mrs. Douglas said, because it Ifs no sub stitute for direct consultation be- tween the heads of states
 In a resolution released with her speech. she proposed that Presi- dent Truman invite the British and Russian Governments immediately {. in order to discuss the common danger created by atomic weapons and to plan for the joint approach by these three nations to the other members of the United Nations"
 Across the capitol, meanwhile, members of the special Senate com- mittee on atomic enegry--just re- turned from an inspection of atomic plants in Tennessee-ar- ranged to begin public hearings next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
Ru DANIEL DE LICE

NUREMBERG, Nov. 23.-The veil of mystery around the powerful German industralists who became merchants of death for Hitler's schemes to rebuild the German ar my was lifted by American prose- cutors today at the war crimes trial of 20 top Nazis
 Heads of the vast Krupp steel cm- pire and the I. c, Farben chemical trust, Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Dcdd charged agreed to finance the Nazi party as an antidote to Com munism and later ccoperated in secret rearmament program.
 ScIldcht Gets Red
 Defendant Hjalmar Schacht was red-faoed as he heard himself des- cribed frcm German documents as the financial wizard who was secret ly appointed as ''plenipotentiary for war economy" in 1895 and won the praise of a Reich general as "the man who made reconstruction of the German army economically pes Sible."
 The head of the great Krupp works, Gustuv Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach--who was indicted but thus far has escaped trial because of illness-was shown by German records, Dodd assorted. to have aid- ed in raising campaign funds for Hitler in 1883 and to have declared after Hitler's ascension to power that German industry puts itself at your disposal"
 Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel de- nied earlier that he participated in the Hitler cabinet meetings that planned the Nazi flood of aggres- sion
 May Snn,nlon Americans
 With the prosecutions attack on Germany's industrial and financial leaders. Dr. Rudolf Dix, Schacht's counsel, declared at a recess that he was considering summoning American businessmen as witnesses for the defense.
 Dodd linked German industrial leaders and Schacht, former Reichs- bank president. directly to the Nazi party even before the election
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
HUNGRY MAKE RAIDS::
 FOOD TAKEN
MdeArthur Orders More Arrests : Prominent
 Men Surrender
By MURLIN SPENCER

TOKYO, Nov. 23-An American Army warehouse was broken into by rioting, hungry Japanese at Sendai today, while warlords whose dreams of conquest had brought incipient famine surrendered one by one to allied jailers.
 Two hundred Japanese laborers including women. ransacsed the Army warehouse, taking food and ether items. Sendai police reported The police arrested l80 persons including 94 women. There was nc indication that there were any Americans guarding or near the warehouse at the time.
 There have been similar out breaks in recent weeks on Hok- kaido, northernmost home island but none involving American stores have been reported. Sendai, on Honshu, is within 200 miles of Tokyo
 NULL iAtiiiohi iAOAoCt otCtthSp4 tj Pearl Harbor Premier Tojo, sur rendered this afternoon at Sugamo Prison. He is the third of Il war lords newly listed by Gen. MacAr- thur to surrender on war crimes charges and he protested:
 We believe in our innocence
 MacArthur's headquarters today ordered the Japanese Government to apprehend Col Tadashi Kawa- shima, formerly with the Japanese Sixth Army headquarters at Han- kow, and deliver him to Sugamo Prison.
 With Koiso's surrender. 29l Japa- nese and non-Japanese prisoners now are held on war-crimes com plaints at Sugamo and Omori Prisons. Omori holds 4l non-Japa- nese.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
The W aShinqton
 Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON The situation inside the office of fumbling War Reconverter John Snyder is so bad it can't go on much longer. It got so confused the other day that It. Gen. Levin H. Campbell Jr., chief of ordnance, and one of the ablest executives in the War De- partment, walked out of Snyder's office. Campbell had been loaned to Snyder to help with the recon version job, but the mess was too much for him.
 Another climax came last week when Snyder informed Truman secretly that he would not testify for the administration supported bill to raise minimum wages to 65 cents an hour. Snyder was to have been one of the key witnesses. The bill is considered one of the most important pieces of legislation on the Truman calendar, and aims to keep buying power at a high level to prevent depression.
 Snyder, after backing and filling, finally wrote his boss in the White House a confidential memo saying that he did not believe in the 65- cent -minimum- wage law, that some employers couldn't afford to pay it, and that he could not testify.
 How long Truman will go along with his old Missouri National Guard friend remains to be seen. He has been very patient so far
 CNote - Many capital observers believe Truman's most serious mis- take was firing Henry Morgenthau as Secretary of the, Treasury. When Morgenthau departed. Fred Vinson
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov B - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 8&, American Can 102, Anaconda 43i2, Curtiss-W Wright 8A, International Harvester 96ia, Kennecott ATE, New York Central 30A, Northern Pacific 32Ts, U. s. Steel 787s, Pound $403is.
 Sales today were l.350,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today were as follows. Industrials. l87.82; rails, 6303 utilities, 37.9l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
No Newspapers in
 Seattle for 5ih Day

SEATTLE, Nov. 23.-Seattle resi- dents are without newspapers for the fifth straight day. The striking A F. of L Typographical Union con- tinues to picket the three dailies and no new developments are reported.
 The U. s. Cancellation Service has offered to assist in attempts to settle the strike.
 President T. K. Garrison of the Seattle local of the L-Typographi- cal Union sail he had informed A. L. Peterson, U. s. Conciliator, his strike committee was ready to meet with representative of the news paper at any time.
 His strike committee is in contin- uous session, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
FBl 10 Have Birthday
 Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reveals to- day that in the year ending last June 30, the FBI laboratory conduct ed more than 136,000 crime detection examinations. Tomorrow will be the 18th anniversary of the laboratory which began in 1892 with a single technician and one microscope. To- day it has more than one million dol lars worth of equipment and em- pioyes the services of dozen of scientists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
LANE ALEXANDER
 IN pHILIppINES

Julia Jane Alexander. daughter of Judge and Mrs George F. Alex ander of Juneau, has arrived in the Philippines to serve the armed forces as an American Red Cross Assistant Field Director
 Until her Red Cross appointment Miss Alexander was with the AL aska Department of Public Welfare as an Administrative Assistant, and previously was personal secretary to the Governor of Alaska. She at tended Grant High School, Port land, Ore, and Northwestern School of Commerce, in Portland. before coming to Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
NOTTINGHAMS RETURN

Returning to Juneau on the Steamer North Sea were MT. and Mrs. F. G. Nottingham, son-in-law and daughter of MT. and Mrs. A. J. Goodman. The young couple, who have lived in New Brunswick, N. J., near Camp Kilmer where Nottingham has been stationed for the past year, after being trans ferred from Duck Creek, will make their future home here. He recently received his discharge from the Army at Fort Jay, Governors s Island, N r.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Tongass in port.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tonight.
 Yukon scheduled to sail from Se- attle tomorrow morning
 North Sea sailed for Sitka this forenoon and will return here late Sunday night or early Sunday morn ing bound for Seattle.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from &c., attle November 28.
 Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle December l
 Denali scheduled to sail from &c., attle December 5.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
TRuMBo HERE ON FURLoUGH

Pfc. William H. Trumbo is home on a short furlough from Fit. Ben ming, Ga, where he has been sta- toned the past six months, and with Mrs. Trrmbo and baby daugh- ter, is visiting at the home of his wife's parents. MT. and Mrs. H. L. Mcdonald. He plans to be home until about Dec 20. when he will report at Fort Lewis. Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
CORRESPONDENT HERE

Russell Annabel, of San Fran cisco, United Press correspondent for the Alaskan and northern Canadian region, has arrived here by Woodley Airways plane from Anchorage and expects to remain a few days. He is guest at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
CHIMNEY FIRE

At 12:3O o'clock this morning, alarm Is called the Volunteer Fire Department to South Franklin Street to extinguish a chimney fire which probably would have proved a serious blaze had it not been extinguished in tinic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
HAWAIIAN ARRIVES

Walter J. Manahan, manager of the Northland Transportation Company, is guest at the Baranof Hotel. from Seattle. Accompanying him is George B. Davis, also of Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
TACOMANs IN TOWN

Here from Tacoma, Wash, as guests at the Baranof Hotel, are; MT. and Mrs. w. w. Lesley, MT. and Mrs. Ingval Werner and their small son, Ted Werner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23
FROM sITKA

Andy Lorentzen, whose Sitka bakery recently burned, is guest at the Baranof Hotel after arriving here by plane from Sitka. Another guest at the Baranof is Frank Til- son, Sitka merchant. C. M. Peterson is also registered at the Baranof from Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-23

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05

the raj AEahal, and came up with results that were pczHling 70 him. He never got any dumber than be- fore ve started.
 He also knocked himself out. try- ing to make us comfortable, as dld col. 0. B. Allen, Mat. James w. spser, lJr., and Capt. Philip R. Warth, ali of whom had their own jobs to do on the pioneering world flight
 ft should not be long before you. as a tourist, can see the world In week, but I wouldn't recommend it. Take two weeks and youu see more and remember 1t better.
 All I know for sure about the globe is that It's round, has people In it who wear turbans, tarbooshes, sarongs and grass skirts, according to locality, and that its bigger than I used to think. Otherwise the world is Q blur to me, the pants I wore around 1t are bagging at the knee, and three Shofers in 2S,27o miles aren't enough, even though they came every other day.
 So much for the world and all I saw in 1t. The prettiest thing in 1t Is Q bed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05
M ottress
 Appeals ToOthn1on
BY FREDERICK 0. OTHNdAN limited Press COFFesnOndant

Washington, Oct. 6-(UP)- The subject today is beds. Those soft, warm things, lined with white, into which you crawl, wriggle your toes, and 90 to sleep. Blessed sleep. With. out four engines roaring on the porch, Or clouds bouncing by like bullets.
 My experience with beds lately has been limited to trying on for size the sultan's couch in the one. time harem of Q palace in Casa. blanca; 1t was c little bumpy, but I was getting used to It when the man told mo to climb back on the flying machine.
 That sets . record, I think: Around the world with only four minutes. flat, in bed.
 The diobester, four-EIlotored DCs 64 on tho first regularly scheduled globe. .girdling passenger flight, swooped down here last night, back where the flight started six and one.third days and 23,27e miles ago. The band played, and the pas. sengers barred their teeth in wooden smiles designed to prove that fly. ing around the world Is easy (the double.dyed ii-rs), (CQ)
 This afternoon the second weekly world flight of the Air Transport Command leaves Washington Na. tional Airport for Trlpoli, Cairo, Abadan, Calcutta, Running, Ma. niia, Guam, Honolulu, San Fran. cisco and oil points east and west. Travel is broadening (you'd Dc sur- prlSed how you fill up a seat after six days and nights of sitting in same), but once around the world is enough for me.
 The plane was changed i've times. Twelve dIffertnt crews Steered uS through sun and storm. More than 100 passengers got on and of at various stops. Only five army officers who had to 60, and three news- paper reporters who didn't made tho whole trip. You'll pardon me for saying SO, Inez Robb of the Inter- national News Service and Paul Miller of the Associated Press, but sometimes think reporters are dopes. Surely there's an easier way to earn Q living than this.
 Col. M. 8. White, chief surgeon of Arc headquarters who rode along to see what so much high.flying would do to us. concluded that 1t had little effect on brains like ours. He gave us daily physical and naent- al tests over oceans and contineentS, above the Himaiayas and skirting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05
Guest Speaker
 At Rotary Club

At c luncheon meeting of the An. sonia Rotary Club held ct the Y. M. 0. 4. Ansonia, William Amelung, manager of the sales department Of the Chase BraSt O., was the guest speaker. He spoke on the dc. velopm:n of the brass industry in tho Naugatuck Valley and it's flu. ture.
 Mir. Amelung iS c veteran of World War IT, and c colonel with the Des. 'ignation of Metals and Minerals Branch of the Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05

REcoNVERSIoN Strikes are threatening LOGGING the entire automobile DOWN industry. General
 Motors is being steci- fcalIy singled OMt for attack to enforce un' reasonable demands. Some of our plants have already been closed and shipment of mate- rials from the plants of many of our supPliers has already been stopped by strikes.
 The interests of all Americans should be considered. This is not only General Motors problem. It is a national one as we'll. If our plants are closed by strikes the strikes will be against the interests of all the people of our country as much as they will be against General Motors.
 AFTERMATH While the war is over, or WAR the aftermath of war pre- i- sents big problems. Waris terribly wasteful in blood and treasure. This one was especially SO. It was not prosperity even though to some it may have seemed to be. And the immediate aftermath of such war cannot be prosperity either. The cleanup, the mopping-up, the reconversion still re- quire hard work, patience, understanding, and some sacrifice on the part of all of us. INDUSTRY Our fighting men crushed ON THE JOB our enemies with the huge
 quantity of weapons pro. duced by American industry. But that is behind us. We would like to have been better prepared for peace, but the terrific demands of the war for men and materials did not make this possible. Now we have planned second all.out effort and stand ready and anxious to do an equally impressive job. PROBLEMS or American industry has REc0NVERSIoN proved its ability to
 perform. It has the know.how, the resources, the courage to ~push ahead. But even with these fine assets it cannot do the job alone. It must have the goodwill and backing of the people of our country.
 Our second all-out effort to meet critical situation will bog down unless the real facts are recognized and sound measures promptly taken to solve the problems. Temporarily, Wbils vs ere EaIidStirg tbs aSr, tbsrs sbOGld bs sound NGtiOnSl ssge-pries policy tO HSbilizs SWd sxtend tbs economy.
 DANCER OF The most serious threat we INITIATION face is that of runaway imitation. The danger comes from three sources: first, the wartime and current tremendous deficit spending of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05

Chile has granted many new tar If concessions to the United States be made available to American firms,