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0PA COMMITTEE
OPPOSES PROGRAM
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lization Saturday for the entire
field of reconversion. In announc-
ing the formula, OPA promised
that aluminium ware, washing ma
chimes, and irons would return
TO the market at about 1912 prices.
The formula provides that OPA
will grant price increases to
manufa c .urers to compensate them
for increased costs since 1871 when
necessary to stimulate production.
But increases, instead of being
passed along to consumers, must
be absorbed by wholesalers and
retailers when their margins OF
croft permit.
The committee said the mer-
chants twill not have sufficient
margin left to absorb increased
costs for merchandise and still
let government price controllers
hold the line at only the consumer
level" 1t quoted its economists
as saying that rigid control OF
almost all prices twill impair the
incentive to produce and thus ad-
versely affect the number of jobs
as well as the supply of civilian
goods
They fur her stated, in answer
to charges that retailers are max.
ing greater profits than ever, that
IS per cent of retailing's wartime
1.ofits resulted directly from
service to customers that had
to be dropped during the war,
hut will now be resumed-and that
they are services that will pro-
vide many of the jobs for return,
ing war We Grams and peacetime
reconversion.
Thus most of their profit mar
gin automatically will cease to
exist during this next, transition
year" they said. They also point.
ed out tina, reported profits before
taxes for retail corporations were
substantially below wartime
earnings of all other corporations.
Figures were presented to docu-
mem the squeeze which the com,
mittee SAND OPA stated putting on
retailers in 1912. So IA this year,
it said, OP has allowed "a gen.
eral Increases ir costs of mer-
chandise all but three of these
the merchant has rad TO pay out
of his own pocketbook since he
must continue to sell at his war
time ceilings"
The committee also pointed on
that. during 1945, OPA has allowed
3,911 special price advances fol
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states will benefit.

states will benefit.
Housewives will benefit from the
stepped up schedule of factories
suddenly freed from war work.
Electrical time-savers will begin
to come back this fall - mixers,
refrigerators and all the rest. They
will not be abundant until 1916.
But the simple things like scis-
sors and knives will be pouring
into hardware stores very shortly.
And vacuum cleaners will be fair
ly plentiful by Jan. l.
Prompt and aggressive expan-
sion by American business - to
create jobs-was urged by the re-
search committee of the Nation
wide committee for Economic De-
velopment today.
Timely action bys business may
make difference of several mil
lion jobs" during the worst Of the
changeover period, said special
report of the business organiza-
ton.
The group also asked Federal
help in paying the fare of laid-oft
workers stranded where they can
not find jobs.
The Federal government had
given financial help to child care
centers where children could be
parked while their war job
mothers were at work.
These funds were ordered cut
off. The action was protested.
The White House said Congress
would be asked to continue the
child care centers by giving finan-
cial help where cities can't carry
the expense.
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HURRICANE TEARS.
UP TEXAS TOWN
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(COntlnueQ lTOm rake OACJ
there was placed at half million
dollars.
Port Lavaca suffered damage to
every house and building. Many
were destroyed completely. The
town of 2,O6s is about 100 miles
Northeast of Corpus Christi. The
place was practically Inundated
Seadrift, community Of 437 just
below Port Lavaca, suffered great
ly from winds up to 1875 miles an
hour. Mountainous tides nearly
swamped the little town.
At Freeport, on the coast about
60 miles directly South of Houston,
2O,OO0 were evacuated. Only a
lone store remained open as the
storm approached.
The advisory said the storm
would pass near Houston shortly
after midnight.
Houston, a metropolis Of 455, 900,
is crowded with varied industries,
many of them born OF wartime
Likewise, the surrounding country
side for miles is mushroomed with
industrial plants.
The advisory added:
winds of hurricane force will
be experienced in the area ano
strong Southeasterly winds ano
possibly gales East Of the Houston
Galveston area to Lake Charles,
La.
Hurricane warnings are dis
played North of Port Arkansas ;
Galveston and Southeast storm
warnings East of Galveston tt
Lake Charles"
Gales were forecast as far inlane
as Lufkin, about 300 miles inlane
in East Texas.
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TWO DEPARTMENTS GO
ON 4O-HOUR WEEK AS
PRESIDENT DIRECTS
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the week beginning Sept. ..
During most of the war the In
terror Department worked 48
hours and since early in July has
been on a A hour schedule.
Postmaster General flanagan
announced an immediate switch
from A to 40 hours in that De-
partment. 1t applies, however, to
departmental workers only and
MT to letter carriers and other
field service" workers.
The War Department order, for
civilian personnel, applies through
out the continental United States.
All three departments, as near
" as possible. will be on a Mon
day.through Friday schedule.
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WAR PRISONERS
WILL Be FREED
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of freed Australians until next OF
kin had been notified, which might
be several weeks after they are
available to correspondents IN ia
pan.
A statement that interviews with
the recovered Australians would
be permissible only in the presence
of a representative of the Austria
liam Director General Of Public
Relations brought a sharp pro
test from correspondents from the
Dominion. The Australians insisted
they be accorded freedom of in
terviews subject only to norma
censorship channels.
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Governor Cherry Makes
First AiriineS Flight

CHARLOTTE. N. c.. Aug. 81
tP-Governor r. Gregg Cherry
was among several guests on the
firs. ope-ational flight Of South
Eas. lAirlires. Inc, which took CIT
from Douglas municipal airport
here today, thus inaugurating reg
uraly scheduled daily air line ser
vice 70 eight cities Of The state
with Charlotte as the hub.
TIE Governor boarded the plane
at Gaston:a along with L. B. Hol-
lowell. former law partner Of the
Governor and 8. T. Dickson, ex-
ecuiive secretary Of Gastonia
Chamber OF Commerce, for the
initial flight 10 Ashevile, Western
terminal.
Goldsboro officials were on hand
there to greet the plane routed
Eastward by way Of the Green's
boro-High Point and Raieigh-Dur-
ham airports.
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NATIONAL MEAT
PICTURE CLEARS
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ton" that the public is unlikely to
paw more for cars made this year
than what they paid in 1912 Tor
1912 cars.
There is something to note here;
The present ceilings on 1912 cars
are higher than the prices charged
in 1912 for 1912 cars. The differ
ence between those prices and the
present ceilings was allowed by
OPA for this reason:
To reimburse dealers for the ad'
ded cost from rationing, principal
~ for storage.
On the new cars-accordlng &c
Bowles - this increase would be
knocked off, since storage would
no longer be involved. and the
prices on the new models will be
about what the prices on the l942
models were in 1912.
The present Navy strength is g..
3S9. 900 men. So-dropping 2,839, OOt
would leave 10000 men and 3D.
900 officers.
Navy Secretary Forrestal told a
news conference the Navy is re-
visins its discharge point system
to provide credit for overseas serv'
ice.
This factor was omitted when
the discharge plan was announced
few days ago. This plan, For
restal said, will be revised WITHIN
about two months to include the
overseas service credit.
The President-in letter to the
Senate and House Military com
mittees-put crimp in a Capltol
Hill movement to halt the draft
for men 10 through Is by declar
ing the war was over.
Such step would end military
service for drafted men six month:
after it's passage. This Woule
mean: Men still overseas woulc
be due release.
If this happened, Mr.. Truman
said, tragic conditions" would re
suit and II am confident that the
Congress will take no action which
would place the armed forces II
such a position"
The President not only wants the
draft continued but volunteering tt
increase. This would enable NOR
veterans to get out of the Army
Mr.. Truman also moved to pu
the product of German and. Japa
nese brains-seized enemy scienti
fic developments-at the dispose
of American industry. This woul'
include patents.
Beefsteaks and chickens were o.
their way back. The Kansas Cit
and Chicago stockyards had thel
biggest cattle run in months today
Traders said it would mean NOR
meat in the butcher shops.
In nine states all poultry had t
be "set-aside" so the governmer
could get first claim on it for tn
, armed services. This is endee
Now poultrymen can sell to- C
william buyers.
Trade experts promptly sal
everything pointed to a chicke
surplus soon. A surplus would dro
, prices below the OPA ceilings.
Suspension of the set-aside orde
affects Delaware, Maryland, Vii
; ginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas and Missouri
, But consumers in many othe
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SIDESF1OW

BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.-(P)-
Policemen, technicians, and doc.
tors at two hospitals vainly tried
'oday to remove a brass nut from
the thumb of Gilbert Crosby, 4 IL.
but Baltimore newspaperman,
recalling a similar case years ago,
came to the rescue.
Paul Broderick, assistant city
editor of the Evening Sun, hearing
reporters account of the affair,
rushed 10 Johns Hopkins Hospital,
and made a suggestion to physi-
clans working unsuccessfully over
the anaesthetized boy.
They hurried Gilbert to the hos
pitfalls dental clinic, applied a
dental drill with an emery wheel
and after 80 minutes the half-inch
nut came off.
MIAMI, Fla, aug. 27.-(P)-A
census of fleas on rats is to be
taken here. 1t is to be a part OF
an experiment with DOT, power
full insecticide developed during
the war.
Traps are to be set in 20 build.
ings and rats caught. Their fleas
will be counted and the rodents
released. DOT powder will be
spcinkled on all rat trails. Their
the rats will be trapped again
and the decrease in their germ
carrying passengers noted.
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individual manufacturers, process
sors. &C., increases which also
must be paid by the nations store
keepers" These especial reltefs'
so far this year exceed by more
than three times the total OF
similar advances in costs in 1912,
it said.
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THE NAME OF ROVER
GOES TO THE DOGS

AURORA, Ill.-lPf-Rover +, =.
ing It's punch as a name fer - ~. 10"
a survey of the city clerks Ns s
ords shows. Only one Pover wv
found among the $50 licensed ~, Sa'
In this community. 'Vs'
Most popular is skippy, with II.
variations of Skipper and Skin ~. ,'
lowed by the old and eldarira W. :.
vorltes Laddie, Spot and Pal 40
Other names, rejecting inrr
ence or inspiration of one so I-.''u u.
another, include Flicka, Co.. "
Bambi, Dopey, Sarge. cants;s'
Navy, P ooc h, Bum, Falla srs
Hedy. VIM
The WAVES have freed sn5m
n ~
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TUESDAY, AUGUST % ,o,.
to cult his job to do #

10 GUT MS Job to do ii.
Raymond E, Donley resi,r.,
United States Civil Service u c. ne
mission because he could M. C y
SUIT quarters fos his wife ts I'M: sna
two-year-old daughter. Ha .s ' ana
that that he is "resigning comp1e Ssia
from government service" ans .'.e y
return to his home at 1rt.. VIII
Pa. H!kens,
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FIRST AIRLINES
TAKE-0FF TODAY
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soon as possible with 4 five-cent-a'
mile fare as the goal.
Departures from the Pennington
FLYING Service field are scheduled
at 9:52 a. m. and 1928 p. m. Ar
rivals are slated at s:S7 a. m and
S:I3 p. n. daily.
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The last battle between white
men and Indians in the Wyoming
country occurred IS years ago.
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Four states have the violet as
their official flower, four the gold
enrol and four The rhododendron
or mountain larual.
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ROANOKE, Va, Aug. 27.-P)
One government official solved
his housing problem, but he had
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The WAVES have freed sO.sn
men for sea and overseas duty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
REMOVAL OF GEN.FRANC0
 DEMANDED
Acting Soviet Ambassador Wants Him Tried as
 War Criminal

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 = Acting Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V. Mo- vikov has called for the removal of Gen. Franco as head of the Spanish Government and said he should be tried '"as a war criminal" :"
 Novikov, charge d'affaires of the Soviet Embassy in Washington and acting ambassador in the absence of Andrei Gromyko, addressed IT, 900 persons at a Madison Square Garden rally sponsored by the Spanish Republican Government in Exile.
 Prof. Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party's execu- tive committee, addressing the rally by radio from London. urged the democracies to withdraw their rec ognition of the Franco regime and recognize the Spanish Government in Exile, now functioning in Mexico.
 The Russian representative said Franco, through actions against the Soviet Union, had put himself on the same level with Hitler and Mussolini and, in the same measure as they, is subject to prosecution as a war criminal"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
MORE HORRORS
 OF NAzI PRISON
 CAMP DISCLOSED

LUENBERG, Sept. 25.-A witness testified today that the Nazis pick ed hundreds of women as guinea pigs for extremely painful artificial in- ecmiraticn experiments at concen- traticn camps and willed the weak by injecting gasoline and disinfectants into their blood streams.
 The new disclosure of horrors came from a Polish Jewess, Helena Ham, ermerz, testifying against Josef Kramer and A other defendants &C., oused before a high British military court of mass murder at Belsen and CsWiecim.
 In low, steady voice, the 25year old witness told of naked women be- ing hung up by the legs and dangling helplessly while the artificial in- semination experiments were con ducted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
HARD PEACE FOR JAPAN
 GETS 0kEH
A(heson MatArfhur Con- froversY Ends : Nip-
 pons Must Pay Now

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-A hard peace for Japan had official, if indirect, okays today from both the White House and the Senate.
 The Senate's 69 to l approval yesterday of Dean G. Aeheson as Undersecretary of State was inter- preted widely on Capitol Hill as a roundabout endorsement of the tough Japan policy Acheson has championed.
 Similarly, President Truman's clarification of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's authority was looked upon as notice to the Japanese that they will have to obey American orders without question.
 Acheson's confirmation came yes terday after a short lived fight by Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican whip. Wherry sought to sidetrack the assistant secretary's s promotion back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
 Wherry contended Acheson had rebuked MacArthur for estimating that he could get along with 100000 troops to police Japan six months from now
 In the sometimes bitter debate that followed, however, the Ne- braskan said his chief objection to Acheson was that the latter seemed to be fostering a policy for social and economic revolution in Japan That Wherry said, may take hun dreds of thousands of lives before it is put down"
 Chairman Connally D-Texas) of the Foreign Relations Commit tee, jumped into the debate with the assertion that he, for one is willing to go in there and teach the Japanese that the will to wal will not pay them dividends"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
Navy Men Captured
 On kiska by Japs Are Liberated

SEATTLE, Sept. 25--Mrs. George Gagnon says her brother and at least five others of the 10 Navy men captured by the Japanese on Kiska in June, 1942, have been liberated from prisons.
 She received the news in letter from her bro.:.cr, Roland L. Cof- field, 32, veteran of D years in the Navy.
 Coffield mentioned that five of the men were aboard a transport in Tokyo Bay September l6 and she has learned from other sources, she said, that three more of the ex- prisoners were safe aboard a hos- pital ship.
 Coffield. who attended the West ern Washington College of Educa- tion before joining the Navy, had been on Kiska three months assign ed to the radio station there when the Japanese arrived. He was as- signed medical work while a pris- oner in various camps in northern Japan, he wrote, and was given bet ter treatment than many prisoners received
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
 OF ARMY
 REDUCED
President Truman An- nounees Cut in Forces
 as of June 30, 1946

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-A cut of 550000 in previous estimates of the size of the army next July 1 was disclosed today by President Tru- man.
 He asked Congress to cancel $28,- 692 FTP GOO in War Department ap- propriations and said the revised figures contemplated reducing the Army to a strength of 1850, 900 by June 30, 1946. The War Department had set it's demobilization goal at trimming the army to 2,500,000 by that time.
 A White House announcement said the recommendation cuts are due to decrease in the strength of the Army and to reductions in supplies and equipment as result of Japan's surrender.
 In addition to the President's pro- posed cut, an additional $500 0000,- coo will be returned to the Treas ury by the War Department from funds available in special replac- ing accounts.
 Tie cuts contemplate reducing the Army to a strength of 1,950,000 by June 30, 1946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
OIL WALk0UT TESTS LABOR
 DEPT. SET-Up
Congress Shelves Action 10 LiberaIize Unem-
 pIoyment Benefits
(By The Associated Press)

U. s. Conciliators. Labor and Management representative gather ed in Chicago today to tackle one of the major disputes on the Na- tion strike scene--the oil industry walkout.
 Other prime developments includ- ed:
 l-Secretary Schwellenbach, de- claring The time (for action) is short told the Chicago conferees their meeting cannot fail.
 2-As the nationwide total of work CTS idle in strikes and shutdowns hit 35o,0c0 the House Ways and Means Committee shelved all legis- lation proposing liberalization of un- employment benefits.
 3-Chrysler Corporation and CIO United Automobile Workers repre- sentatives in Detroit opened the first formal negotiations of the Un- ions demand for a 30 per cent wage increase in the automobile industry
 The Chicago oil strike conference provided the first major test of the Truman Administrations postwar wage policy under a reorganized La bor Department and strengthened Cancellation Service.
 More than 30,000 CIO oil and re- finery workers are out in seven States in demand for a 30 per cent wage increase.
 In Washington, the Ways and Means Committee put aside Presi- dent Truman's request for liberaliz- ed unemployment benefits by a IA to 10 vote. The strike feature was the deciding factor in the rejec- ton, Rep. Knutson. of Minnesota. ranking Ways and Means Republi- can, told reporters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
Sear(h for New Mineral Resources Urged; Some
 Near Vanishing Point
RPB MA.5o3

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 The war took big slice out of this country's mineral resources.
 Commercial supplies of some minerals are near the vanishing point, and careful conservation must guide the future of many others, report of the Interior Department asserted today
 We have been depicting the cream of our mineral resources at terrific rate, and discovery has not kept the pace with production, the report said.
 From now on our attention must be directed to the search for deep- seated concealed deposits and tc our low-grade resources"
 The department estimated, fol instance, that there is less than a years supply of mercury and two of manganese.
 It said commercial reserves oi lead would run out in 12 years even at the pre-war rate of use Silver reserves are ample for only Il years, zinc 19, and copper 34.
 On the other hand, the report said, this country has enough bi- luminous coal and Ignite to last 4,300 years at the pre- rate Supplies of nitrogen, magnesium and salt will last indefinitely, it said.
 The department said that in the five years ended last Jan. l, the United States mined 469,235, ,00O long tons of domestic iron ore the greatest amount ever produced by any nation in a similar period
 Estimated commercial reserves of iron ore have been depleted only 35 per cent in all, the report said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
30 SORRY, LADIES!

TOKYO, Sept. 25 So sorry, ladies.
 Japan is worrying more about food just now than about supplying silk hosiery and lingerie.
 The Japanese Ministry of Agri- culture announced today plans for further conversion of mulberry (silkworm-food acreage into hu- man food production. Between 1940 and 1945 nearly 100000 acres of mulberry land went into food pro- duction, and plans announced today call for conversion of another 350,0O0 acres.
 That doesn't leave much food for silkworms. In -war-and pre- nylon-days, Japan's mulberry trees filled 1925, GOO acres-of which L. 150,000 has been or is being con- verted to food crops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
The W ashington
 Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-If Congress is really interested in Investigating military efficiency rather than in political recrimination, it will probe the disastrous Battle of the Bulge as well as Pearl Harbor
 Casualties at Pearl Harbor were only around 5000. But casualties in the Battle of the Bulge totalled around 6O,000. And just as Pearl Harbor set us back in the Pacific, so the Battle of the Bulge delayed victory in Europe. Gen. Eisenhower had hoped to finish in Germany in the winter, possibly by Christmas but disastrous, overwhelming losses during the first two weeks of the Ardennes offensive helped drag out the war.
 How many extra American lives were lost as result of the spurt given to German hopes is not known. But what is known is that U. s. supply officers immediately placed huge orders for more tanks more artillery, more of almost everything as result of the heavy supply losses in the bulge. That is one reason why acres and acres ot surplus supplies are scattered over the country today.
 What never leaked out at the time of the battle is that 20,00( U. s. Infantry troops were flown straight from the United States into the bulge by the Air Trans port Command, Losses were SC heavy and men so tired that suf- ficient shock troops were not avail
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
ROBERT S0MMERS, JR.
 IN CADET BATTALION

FARIBAULT, Minn.-Robert Son. mers, Jr., son of MT. and Mrs. R. J. Sommers of Juneau, has been in ducted into the cadet battalion at Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. The school began it's eighty sixth year with a chapel service at which the Rt.. Rev Benjamin T. Kemerer. Suffragan Bishop of Minnesota. spoke.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-25
FRITZ WIEDEMANN iS CAPTURED IN CHINA; I5 ENR0UTE TO U. 5.

MANILA, Sept. 25.-Fritz Wied- emann, Adolf Hitler's confidante was captured in Tientsin. China brought here and today was enroute to the United States, Army author ities announced.
 They said the former German consul at San Francisco eventually would face trial in Germany as a war criminal.
 Authorities reported Wiedemann would be taken to San Francisco but the time of his arrival there was not given.