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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-29

know of Alaskans who served in the Pribilofs and were happy if they received mail five times year. Others served in northwest Alaska and came from the Panhandle thousands of miles away. Men from the northwest served in the southwest and fellows from the southwest stationed in central Alaska AL most all of them served in the Aeutians at time or another The majority their homes for two years or more. These Alaskans worked side by side with the from the States and stood the same hardships In spite of this we apparently are not entitled to receive the same reward. And the reward we have worked, fought and died for is to come home and begin working and planning for the future of Alaska
 Those are for writing this letter, and you the residents of Alaska, have relatives or friends in the service who have worked and fought to protect your privileges. Now it is your turn to fight for our rights and we confident that our people haven't forgotten will you fail the servicemen who need your help"
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In the Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Num- Der One.
 Before FELIX GRAY, Commission CT and ex-officio Probate Judge, Juneau Precinct.
 In the Matter of the Last Will and Testament of LAWRENCE s. KERR, Deceased.
 NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned was, on the 18th day of July, issued Letters Testamentary as Executor of the Last Will and Tes- lament of Lawrence s. Kerr, de- ceased.
 All persons having claims against the estate of deceased are required to present the same, with proper vouchers attached, to the under signed at Juneau, Alaska, within six months from the date of this Notice. DATED at Juneau, Alaska, this 4th day of August, 1945.
 J. w. LEVERS,
 Executor of the Estate of
 Lawrence s. Kerr. deceased. First publication, August 8, 1945. Last publication, August 29, 1945.
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supplies of certain foods that will now be available with the ending of the war. I do not mean that America is not now going to have a few choice steaks and butter and cheese occasionally upon its great table. But the end of the war does not mean that we can afford now to be selfish in world of want.
 Perhaps something of the spirit of Ashley's book about the depres- sion is still with me today as I think about the lessons of the war, and the need for America to retain some of those lessons through the generations that lie ahead of us. Perhaps the war has helped us better to understand what William Allen White, the sage of Emporia, Kansas, told us, "that happiness is from the heart out, not from the world in."
 (Copyrisht, 1915. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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POINT SYSTEM

From Camp Kanchrapara, India, we have received a letter from Pvt Douglas M Blanchard of Skagway, Alaska who has been appointed spokesman for group of Alaskan servcemen stationed in that Private Blanchard and his friends, appealing to their home folks to see if they can't do something about the discrimination of the discharge point system against the boys from Alaska Here, then, is his statement:
 T was elected spokesman by numerous Alaskans in the China, Burma and Indian theatres. We are from the towns and cities of Alaska, and wish is to return home as soon possible
 Our reason for writing this letter is to tell you how the point system has been unfair to us, and requests for change of policy haven't been effective. Our hope is that the people of Alaska will take action and bring about fair treatment for their boys in the services
 The President of the United States made this approximate quotation: Any man in the Armed Forces regardless of color creed who served outside the limits of the continental United States shall receive extra credit The Alaskans given over seas pay and were authorized to bars adopted didn't receive the points to which should be entitled This change of policy hardly makes and the 50 percent loss of points lengthens our time in the Army approximately a year
 "The reason we were given was that Alaskans were serving in their home towns. That is absurd, for very small minority of that fortunate.
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Wake Island
(NeW York TineS)


 phrase much used to describe the condition of enemy troops on by-passed Pacific islands is that they have been left to "wther the vine" The STA sick and wounded (only fourteen of the latter Japanese who were evacuated from Wake with United States Navy permission recently gave the 1ull con- notation to that expression. The smell of decay from the hospital ship Takosago was so strong ac- cording to American officers that men on the deck of a United States destroyer 1000 yards downWlnd were sckened by it. An American medical officer who was among the American boarding party said that at least 15 per cent of the 974 were in such state of malnutriton and illness that he doubted they could live than few days.
 The conquest of that small coral atol by the Japanese during the first two weeks of the war has cost them far than the ships and men they lost in those first attacks. Since our conquest of the Marshalls the small enemy garrison-it well may be that the o74 evacuated were the total Of sur vivors-have been cut off from all but submarine contact with supporting bases Apparently the Japa- nese command could not even spare the submarines to keep them supplied by that means. They have been under intermittent air and attack since the first raid by Admiral Halseys carrier planes cruisers and destroyers February 24 1922 Several hundred of them perhaps a thousand more may have been killed and cremated or buried.
 The conditions for self -suffciency on Wake prob ably were poorer than on many of the other by passed islands, such as Wotje Maeoap and Jaluit of the Marshalls But not great deal worse. The problem of retaking those islands does not seem as great as it once did now that we know in what terrible condition the garrison on Wake
 If it is true as appears probable that the men on the Takosago the last of the enemy on Wake then that island could be taken back at any time our forces want to send in landing party Wake is not needed The battle has moved lar to the west Wake no longer has either tactical or strategic significance It might be possible to wait until Major Devereaux and the survivors of our original garrison of 400 Marines, who have been held in a Shanghai prison camp, are freed before making the landing. That would be poetic justice, to let them retake the island they defended courageously three and half years ago.
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AMERICANS A CAN'T BE SELFISH

We have had throughout the war enough to eat in America. It has not always been just the particular types we would like, but it has been good food and it has been nutritious. We have learned that the foods we could get would do the job even if they didn't include a lot of choice steaks.
 We found that they gave us the energy to carry on the tremendous tasks of wartime We shared our favorite foods to help win the war. Surely we can share now to help win the peace. do not mean that America will not get additional
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not c01npe"
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30


 Benefic aspects are affected by certain adverse currents today The Navy is under a most fortunate direction.
 HEART AND HOME
 Girls are subject to the best plane tary influences today and it should bring to women of all ages heart warming experiences. It is lucky wedding day but the ceremony should be performed at noon or be- fore sundown Not an suspicious date to think of new positions in the business world
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS
 There is a sign that presages trouble between employers and em- ployees, but the seers foretell a prosperous Autumn. War indus tries will reconvert to normal work with fewer dislocations than have been foretold.
 NATIONAL ISSUES
 Unemployment insurance will be the cause of difficulties. Many per sons will be slow to seek work, es- pecially if change of environment is necessary.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
 The United Nations Charter comes under a configuration that presages ultimate good. Future revisions and amendments are prophesied but it is to work wonders in international accord.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year in which un- expected rewards will be received Children born on this day pro- bably will be bright and lovable. They will have world opportunities in the development of their careers.
 Copyright, 1945)
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20 YEARS AGO fTr {rYT Fl. EMPIRE
AUGUST 2s, 1925

AUGUST 29 1925
 music including Forida" they planned to night with tourists from two steamers in port, a expected.
 Chris a guest registered from Codova.
 birthday with party with the Elsie Margaret Megar Mary Ellen Mary eanpete Whit
 Doorthy Bakke Mary Claire Helentha Mary Casey Mary Elizabeth Terhune
 incoming the Admiral Evans
 Judge Hozhemer on business returned Hart also passenger to Ketchkan.
 Admiral Watson in port from the westward wn passenger available first class passenger space points Seattle Ed Cofey an passenger from the Westward.
 gsad Princess Alice from the south
 completed public grounds Tn the National Forest Service One survey Glacier Highway and the by Deputy Super visor Smith, Hendrckson and L. J. Barrett
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it's wealth of resources. As a people we have always been little waste ful, perhaps because our resources have been so great All through the war years, for example, we threw away the richest garbage in the world, despite food shortages. We did, however, learn some valuable lessons in food conservation and use. Now that there are hungry mouths all around the world Am erica cannot afford to be reckless and wasteful with the food supply with which she is blessed. America cannot afford to forget some of the lessons learned during the war.
 d.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

MIsUSED not "The facts needed were accorded Say given to me-"
 OFTEN Camphor Pronounce kam-fer as in kamp-fer.
 OFTEN Ireparable; three Rs and two As
 disclosure uncover ing
 "Ue word three times and it is yours Let us each day Todays wod RAUCOUS e could hear the raucos voice or people, ro-ku O in SOFT).
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LOOK and LEARN %ss c. GORDON

l. Where the U. S. batteship Maine destroyed? 9 How many make half pint of banana oil? 8 In what war was Remember the Maine" a slogan? 4 What is meteor? B. What country was nation shopkeepers"?
 ANSWERS: l. In the harbor at Havana, Cuba in 1898 g. None, banana oil is not derived from bananas. g. In the Spanish American 4 dsntegrated comet. g. England.
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FlVDLKN lllQUlIIl ROBERTA LEE

O. Is all o or better leave of the glass?
 drink all of should throw the head n the glass.
 o Should woman a her while he paying the taxi fare? is A. wait with her O. Is obligatory that enclose note with gt friendly is of place.
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down the street or across the city
 One day my next door neighbor, Bob Mccormick, turned to me and said, T hate to think about the end of war coming, because when it comes you and I will quit driv- ing downtown together. You'll have your car, and I'll have mine and we'll only see each other occasion ally. That's too bad"
 Yes, that was too bad And that was only one of the incidents of neighborliness which we had de- veloped as a result of the war and which we might lose again. All along the streets where you and I live, there are housewives who have formed little shopping clubs, who have either ridden to market in a car owned by one of them, or who have all walked together to the shopping places, doing their ship ping jointly, visiting as they went along, discovering something in life that had not been there before.
 * *
 VICTORY GARDEN BLESSING
 How many women improved their figures as they walked to market! And think what Victory Gardens did for men
 Like Drew Pearson, I will per- haps be away from Washington when this column is printed, away on a short vacation While I am gone, someone will be moving my lawn During the war had to mow my own lawn. I couldn't find anyone interested in taking care of my particular little piece of property. And strange thing happened I found that I could mow it as well as anyone else, that I could mow it quickly, and that could learn within short time exactly how each particular sec tion could be best moved to de- velop the best cut of grass. And I found out also that when I moved it myself, I not only improved the lawn, I improved my own diges- tion.
 I'll miss that now that the war is over, because I'll tell myself that I'm too busy to do it when I can hire someone else for the job. I suppose that my wife will miss something, too, because she used to walk to market and carry her groceries back home in a basket.
 As for myself, shall reflect upon the fact that an automobile sales man used to be able to sell me a new car each year. I thought I must have one. Surely car that had gone past Is or 20 thousand miles would no longer be reliable, even if that entire distance had been upon city pavements. But when the war came I learned that automobiles will go 50.000, or 100,- coo miles and still be pretty de- pendable as means of transpor- tation.
 And tires, too. I used to believe that tire that had gone past 10000 miles had practically worn out it's life And yet on my car I
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REAL VALUES OF LIFE

Do you remember back in the years of the depression that Henry Ansley out in Amarillo, Texas, wrote a book, T Like the Depres- sion."? Frankly, I liked his little book, because he told of the bless ings that had come to him with a reversal in his financial situa- tion. He told of the discoveries that he had made as the period of wild prosperity passed and the long months of depression set in. He told of the farmers who had gone back to living on their farms instead of living off their farms. He found that the quantity of money man had was not always good yard-stick to measure his happiness.
 The war has done something to all of us. It made us appreciate some of the real values of life that many of us had lost sight of. We all complained a little about the war, didn't we? We were a little disappointed when we found that the stocks of new cars were frozen, but we discovered that the old car was lot better and would run a lot longer than we had thought. We complained about gasoline rationing and tire ration ing, but we discovered that car pools gave us an opportunity to get acquainted with our neighbors.
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CAR-PooL NEIGHBORs

I remember my first experience with car pool. We had two automobiles at our house; our next door neighbor had two automobiles at his place. We were not well ac- quainted, mostly because it wasn't necessary, until the war came along. Then my next door neighbor and I and two others, who hereto fore had gone to our offices by separate means, found ourselves fused together into a car pool. We were irrevocably tied to each other We had to rise at the same time in the morning, leave at the same hour for work, and return home together in the evening.
 I am sure that at first we all resented a little the fact that we lost our freedom of action, but we gained a great lesson in neighbor- Illness. We found out that the people who lived next to us might be just as interesting and attrac- tive, just as pleasant and just as companionable as the people whom we had always known who lived
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little more in the traditional Am erican pattern that had started this country on it's way to becoming great nation.
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had a set purchased in May of 194O. They now have gone more than 50,0o0 miles; have been re- capped twice, and are still pretty fine looking tires. Five years of service, and still good.
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WAR THRIFT

WAN lnhlT
 Maybe that's typical of the les sons of thrift we needed to learn during the war-lessons that as a great nation we need to retain as the years roll along. Our children too had a few little lessons in thrift. For example, through the public schools there were great groups of youngsters out gathering up waste paper; sorting it into bundles; carrying it on their backs to a central collecting point; and turning it in as their contribution coward winning the war. hope they do not have chance to forget some of those lessons of thrift that they need to remember as long as they live, if their future lives are to be happy.
 America has been prodigal with
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The W ashington Merry Go Round

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Weather: Highest, 53; lowest, 50.
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Chris guest at the Alaskan Hotel register Cordova.
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Graves was an incoming passenger the Admiral Evans
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
DuBdrry Drama
On Air Tomorrow

An exciting radio drama about
Nine. DuBsrry. famous beauty
who dominated the gay. corrupt
court Of Louis XIV Of France, VIII
be heard over Station WJLB at
1870 a. IN. tomorrow when
FRONT PAGE DRAMA goes on
the Atf.----------------.---.-
Although often pictured as
wickedly immoral DuBarry was
no worse than the time she lived
in. She became the symbol OF
that corrupt era by virtue OF her
matchleSs charm and compelling
beauty. Incidents. IN her colorful
life have been woven into an en-
ticing radio play. based on a story
from the files Of The American
Weekly, great magazine that
comes with The Detroit Sunday
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10

N+tAN%
But the historic railroad will
have 10 DO SOM mighty huffing
and putting to catch up with the
song Of the same name.
The whole country is singing
IL. and right now the catchy little
ditty apparently is outpulling the
hgxcaFs when it=confcS TO hauling
in the money.
a slightly embarrassed railway
executive pointed out today tina,
this was Just a temporary condl-
ton. and he certainly didn't
expect things to stay that way
Harry Link. manager OF the
firm publishing the song, revealed
that "AtchiSon. Topeka and Santa
Fe' had sold 1000 900 copies and
2.0O000 records. It's still going
strong,
"It has already earned over
$3.50, ,OOO," Link said. "It'll reach
81 900. 900 easily"
The tune was first published
July ].
The railway official said from
July l until the present date his
outfit had been operating lin the
red He added. however, that this
didn't present true picture Of
the old railroads financial condi-
tion because Of an extensive
amortization program during Sep
tember.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
T.. of M. Plea
0y0FFuIed

ANN ARBOR, Nov. 9-PreSi'
dent Alexander q. Ruthven'S pro-
test against interference by local
OPA officials, who demanded that
boarding prices at University OF
Michigan league houses for co-edS
be lowered 10 1941 ceilings has
been overruled by Washington
OPA, Hicks Griffiths, attorney for
the Detroit OPA office, said today.
Griffiths said that top OPA Of
ficials agreed that the league
houses were subject 10 the same
price ceilings rulings as res
taurantS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Woman, 65, Cleared
OF Hif-Run CHARGE

Mrs. Anna Barker. 65. 2360C
w. FordSon. Dearborn, was home
today with her record cleared OF
charges she was a hit-run driver,
The case against her was dis
missed IN traffic court when Re-
ceiving Hospital records proved
the victim. George Keolean. u,
of 10l7 Kitchener, had received
only a slight blow when her car
struck him at Kercheval and Con-
ner oct. 22 She said she stopped
after the accident and the boy
told her he was not hurt.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Held in Army Theft

BOSTON. Nov. 9 QNS)-The
FBI announced today the arrest
of Robert c. Russell, 30, of Aiken,
s. c.. on charge of embezzling
$4,000 in federal funds while
employed as a civilian transport
agent aboard the army troopship
Belle Isle. anchored off Greenland
in early October.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Stores Open Monday
Despite Celebration

Retail stores throughout the
Detroit area will remain open as
usual Armistice Day. Nov -,
Charles E. Boyd. secretary Of the
Retail Merchants Association, an
nounced today.
Boyd said stores had regularly
been open during their normal
business hours on Armistice Day
and no exceptions were planned
this wear.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Lock Plant Locked

STANFORD, Conn. Nov. 9
CrNSl-The Stamford plant of the
Yale a. Towne Manufacturing Co.,
one of the nations leading lock
manufacturers. was bolted tightly
shut down today as striking union
leaders asked for federal concilia-
tiOn.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Strike Ends at Nosaq

A strike of so workers al the
Nosag Spring Co., 2l590 Hoover,
called Nov. 5 over the discharge
Of member of UAW-CIO local
155, ended yesterday after con-
Ciliatio of grievances.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Insurance Club Party

The 1O-year-club Of Standard
Accident Insurance Co. employees
Is holding its annual ThankSglV-
ing party today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-10
Song Rings Bell; Trsn. Run in Hole
.AlcIliSOrl. Topeka Diffy
OutDuIIS Its Railroad

NEW YORK Nov. (UP)-Pul that whistle. ring the bell,
md ee ON our av with the Atehison Topeka
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-06-09
WESTSIDE COUNCIL
TO HOLD ANNUAL
ELECTION JUNE II

The regular meeting OF the West
side Human Relations council VIII
be held Monday. June II at pm.
Al the Loihrop Branch library.
West Grand boulevard. at West
Warren The annual election OF Of
fieers Will ne held A report CT the
ail-out e.,srt for additional recre-
ational facilities will be mace. All
interested ciiizens are invited 20
attend and supper the mo' ement.
The MEMBERSHIPS dgl,c is also
under way SO far the largest
nAnb,r of m islln, haze 5oca
ported by Mr. lsn Grave, AMI
T " Ross For Information re-
garding memberships, call Mrs.
Gertrude Henderson Tyler 1894.
The Westslde Human Relations
council is co-ordinating com
muriiy council and solicits mem
bcrships not only from individuals.
hat also from churches. soho Is.
lahor social and civic organiza-
tiors
Rev s. n Davis chairman Nrs.
T. Todd reporter.
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