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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
NATIONAL LOOP CUTS
 TRAVELLING

NEW YORK, March 21-An 154- game schedule for 1945, that will involve approximately 3h million fewer passenger miles than the similar-sized 1941 program, has been announced by the National League
 Ford Prick, President of the Ma tional loop, says the Leagues ath- letes travelled six million passenger miles during the campaign that closed a few months before Pearl Harbor. This year, he estimates, they will occupy railroad seats for not more than three million.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
ARMY, NAVY WILL OBEY
 (URFEWLAW
Tell Personnel 10 Stay Out Out of New York Night
 Spofs Alter Midnigh!

NEW YORK, March 21. - The Navy, following the Army's lead. di- rected its personnel to observe the nationwide midnight amusement curfew.
 Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia recent ly extended New York City's to one o'clock in the morning. He con- tinued to defend his hour of toler- ance" that he granted night spots and theatres.
 He said of the President. who spoke in favor of the midnight clos ing yesterday, He's running the country. I'm just running the city,"
 Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Third Naval District Commandant an- nounced that Navy perosnnel found in amusement places after midnight will be notified by shore patrol men they are violating the curfew. The War Department ordered soldiers last night to stay out of amusement places after midnight.
 The American Red Cross was founded May 2l, 1881
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 21.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is GA, American Can 93A, Anaconda 3lA, Beech Aircraft II, Bethlehem Steel rag, Curtiss Wright 55s, International Harvester 76s, Kennecott 37, North American Aviation 10, New York Central 23A Northern Pacific 20lk, U. s. Steel 62as.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 155.30 rails, 51 1.38; utilities, 2764.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
REFUSAL TO OBEY ORDERS BRINGS1
 YEAR SENTENCE
Four Negro WACS Get Sen. fenee and Also Dis-
 honabIe Discharge

FORT DEVENS, Mass, March 2l Convicted of refusal to obey orders, four Negro WACs were sen- fenced last night to year of hard labor and to be dishonorahly discharged.
 The quartet contended they were ordered to perform menial tasks at Lowell General Hospital because of their color.
 Two white WAC officers were members of the seven-man court the First Service Command said and disclosed that a similar sen- tence was imposed last August when a white WAC was convicted of the same offense.
 Poppaea, Neros wife, used white lead and chalk for face powder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
ALASKA TRADING POST OPENS

MT. and Mrs. Lee E. Swift have opened a new place of business in Douglas under the trade name Douglas Trading Post" It is lc- cated in the former Warner Gro- cery Store and is well stocked with many of the needed household SUD- plies and furniture. MT. Swift plans to buy and sell anything including real estate and cars.
 The SwiftS have moved from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
NELSON, 5NEAD STILL KN0TTED
 AT CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 21- Sammy Snead and Byron Nelson, the two top men of golf. again wound up all-square, in their sec saw 18-hole playoff for first place in the $l0000 Charlotte Open. They both fired 3-under-par rounds. The two are to engage in another play off today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
H0CkETT HAS
 TIGHT CLASP
 ON S0x POST
Former Indian Boasts Best PIate Record Amonq
 Pale Hose Veterans

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 21- Rolypoly Oris Hockett is perhaps the brightest spot in the Chicago White Sox spring training picture especially if he picks up his hitting where he left off with the Cleveland Indians last year.
 Swapped by the Tribe for yer satile Ed Carnett, Hockett has the center field job with the Pale Hose all wrapped up. Hockett's .289 plate average is the best holdover record on the roster.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
BOWLING

The Elks' bowlers fell before the Finance team last night on the Elks' Club alleys, 2566 to 2702 and the Engineers beat the Subport keglers, 2678 to 26l2
 High bowler for the Elks' was Henning 589 points; for Finance Bachman, 569; Support, Salvus, 528 Engineers, Nichols, 559.
 Complete scores follow:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
TELLER WILL LEAD GREAT
 LAKES TEAM

GREAT LAKES, H., March 21- Chief Specialist Bob Teller, former Cleveland pitcher, will have charge of this training center's baseball team for the approaching season, it was announced by the Athletic Office Teller has just returned from Pacific sea duty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
CERTIFICATE FILED

A birth certificate filed with U $. Commissioner Felix Gray today shows that a son, Erwin George Lott, was born to Norman Lott ano Nellie Brown Lott, both of Yakutat on October 8, 1944.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
JA(0BSG0ES
 STAR GAZING

NEW YORK, March 21-Promo- ter Mike Jacobs has already pre- dicted gate of seven million dol lars for the anticipated postwar return bout between Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his most pestiferous challenger, Billy Conn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
kELTNER I5
 NAVY BOUND

MILWAUKEE, Wise, March 2l- Ken Keltner, third baseman for the Cleveland Indians. has passed his Selective Service physical and is ordered to leave tonight for Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
TAKING NO CHANGES

BRISTOL, England = Many mer- chants, alarmed by wave of burg laries, have taken to sleeping in their stores. One haberdasher was robbed four times of stockings and other rationed goods.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
POLICE COURT NOTES

In City Magistrates Court this morning Guy Robert Syth was fined $25 on a charge of drunkenness and Gilbert J. >Patzer was fined $25 on a drunk and disorderly conduct charge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
oEs INITIATE THREE

Three candidates were initiated last evening at a regular meeting of Nugget Chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern Star with Helmi Bach, w. M. presiding. Those initiated were MT. and Mrs. William Cuth- bert and James I. Parsons.
 A good attendance was enjoyed as well as a large group of visiting Juneau members, including the Worthy Matron Lyna Holland and Worthy Patron Ralph Wright. Refreshments were served under the direction of Alice Poor, Geneva Ann Parsons and Evelyn Kronquist. Banquet table and hall decorations were St. Patricks Day colors and designs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
GUARD MEETS TOMORROW

The Douglas Unit of Territorial Guards will meet tomorrow evening at 730 o'clock at the Natatorium The Governors trophy match SCOT ing will be completed. Dress will be coveralls. leggings, ammunition belts and rifles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING

A school board meeting has been called for this evening at 7:3O o'clock in the office of the Super intendent at the School. pr. James Ryan will be visitor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21

their home where they have lived for several years into the upstairs apartment of their store location.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21

The American Red Cross was founded May 2l, 1881.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-21

Poppaea, Nero's wife, used white lead and chalk for face powder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
Safety Engineering

It is good to see pictures of the first new model automobiles in four years be- ginning to appear in the papers. And we find it particularly good to see a broader, sturdier bumper on the fronts of at least two of them. We hope it's symptomatic of new trend.
 We've achieved tremendous additional speed in the air during the war years And we've built up a great yen for surface speed among the motorists who have been keeping to maximum 35 in the hope of prolonging the life of aging cars and thinning tires.
 Automobile makers could probably build much faster postwar cars, but we rather hope they won't. In the last post war years our traffic casualties exceeded our annual military casualties since then. And SO, since the automobile makers can't engineer sense and caution into the postwar driver, we hope that they will engineer little more slowness and safety into the postwar car, and leave the speedways in the skies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
You Can't Eat Subsidies

The farmers of the nation have had more uncertainties to contend with, over which they had little or no control, than almost any other industry. Many farm is now so regulated as to price and out put that its entire profit must come from a subsidy check.
 This does not mean that subsidies are a sound national policy, or that opposi- tion to them as national policy should cease. They are the inevitable result of war and debt. They aim to temporarily ease the shock during the transition pe- riod when the purchasing power of money falls as cost of production and govern ment climbs. But it is folly to believe that planning which refuses to recognize that political handouts in the form of subsidies which seek to hide the true cost of either production, or debt, from the consuming public, will secure a balanced output or sound economy.
 If there is no incentive other than sub sidies to encourage a farmer to produce, the American bread basket will suffer accordingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16

The Battle of Bunker Hill again be- comes an historical fact with the ap- proach of June IT, the anniversary of that event which took place in TITS. In the Charlestown district of Boston, Bun- ker Hill stands as a memorial to the celebrated battle when as history re- lates, 2,5O0 Americans under Col Pres colt and Col. Pepperell occupied the elevation where they had entrenched themselves against two attacking Bri- tish columns The casualties were bad on both sides The Bunker Hill monu- ment stands on Breeds Hill the cor nerstone laid by the Marquis de Lafay- cite in 1925, and stands 220 feet in height as you probably have noted on your his torical tour of Boston and vicinity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16

From now on it would be advisable to make way and room for the military men. Hotels are going to allot return ing soldiers more rooms. So the casual traveller and New York City visitor might do better by staying at home. Also the G. P. (general public) is urged to slow up on travel this summer, because there won't be room for all, and it is suggested that the soldiers get first choice on reser- vations and Harvey Restaurant service, those who contemplate train trip through the southwest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16

and threw his weight behind lit- tle- e-business-de Sturges |. Riddle reminded the Board that Congress, in setting up the Sur plus Property Board had ruled against any concern which the Attorney General considered a monopoly. ALCOA, said Riddle, was exactly that This seemed to be conclusive But another backstage fight followed -. Some Board members objected to nam ing ALCOA by. name in the order withholding its machine tools They won their point. The final order merely referred to cOmpan- ies making aluminium and aiumi- ma Day after this order was issued-June 7-the Board held a secret session and adopted reg ulations by which little business protector Sturges was barred from further meetings Sturges was not present to object Then the Board wrote up it's minutes making it appear that he was present Sturges, however, has registered a protest, making 1t clear that he did not concur in barring himself from Board meet ings.
 Interesting aftermath is Colonel Howses attempt to get a Few Counsel replacing Sturges. Dis couraged, the latter wanted to go back to Yale-but not until Octo- ber. Not waiting until then, Howse rushed to pick Col. Joe Johnston of Birmingham, Ala, son of famous Liberty Leaguer Tourney Johnston, to whom the big utilities paid large amounts to fight the Tennessee Valley Au- thority Colonel Johnston, law partner of his father and seeing things the same way, actually called on Sturges to say he was replacing him as General Cour- sel-even though Sturges wasn't leaving until october But
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
Election Sideshows

Only one thing can be said for ex- aggerated, vituperative political cam paigning. It stirs up partisan excite raent and helps get out the vote. And this technique of the SideshoW barker IS so successful that even in times of crisis like the present, when sober thought is a prime necessity, it is employed as freely as ever We had dose of it i'll our last presidential campaign. And now England is getting some of the same. With the end of the European war and the imminent elections, the name-calllng has broken out like family row that explodes as soon as the guests leave. AS usual, both sides claim all the virtues and warn of their opponents treachery. But this time the feeling is perhaps even sharper because of the Labor Party'S plan of modified state socialism. MT. Churchill warns that socialism won't brook criticism, and that some sort ot Gestapo will appear in the United King dom if Labor triumphs. MT. Attlee. La bor's leader, holds the Tories respon- sible for child labor and sweat shops, un- employment, and badly housed, fed, and clothed nation, in presenting his case for collectivism.
 All this is the same old assortment Of melodramatic half-truths. And it re- minds us again that we're still waiting for some politician, American, British or otherwise to make speech in the following vein
 No political system in itself can guar antee you all the good things in life. And no economic system is so perfect that it can run itself. State socialism has been a great thing in Sweden, bringing down prices, breaking up monopolies, and still letting private business live. Nationalized industry was tried once in the United States when the government tried to run the railroads during the first World War, and made a sorry, expen- sive, confused mess of it. It all de- bends on the men who operate the Sys- tenn The machinery of state social ism can't guarantee low taxes, high liv ing standards, and a bath tub in every home. Neither can the machinery of capitaliStic democracv State socialism in itself can't legislate away depressions, greed, corruption and incompetence. A manent prosperity into being.
 The best thing system of government can do is to leave people free to choose the best men for the job of running that government, and free to change them if they fail. That means finding men of integrity and wisdom who don't think that access to consumer goods provides all the answers, and who believe na- hon's critical concern for it's ethical prin- cipals is more important than two cars hi every garage. And that means the slow task of broadening and improving
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16

alert Senator Lister Hill of Ala bama heard about it. Lister knew all about the Johnston fam- fly in Alabama. He phoned War Mobilizer Fred Vinson. That was the end of that Johnston will not be General Counsel of the Surplus War Property Board So rages the battle of big busi- ness vs. little business. Before it is is over it will cause Harry Truman more headaches than anything he ever investigated in his heyday as Senator-unless he moves in to clean it up.
 Ad0Ing fuel to tine flames mean while is the appointment of mo- nopolist w. Stuart Symington of St. Louis to be Surplus Property Chairman Not only has he been cited by federal judge for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, but some interesting letters written by him have now turned up Symington believed in writing letters, also believed in destroying them. However, here is one which wasn't destroyed :. Writing to an associate regarding his plans to monopolize the park ing meter business by establish ing sales prices and methods" the new Surplus Property Chairman wrote:
 Perhaps you are a little too definite in point 4, when you state is to establish sales prices and methods? This is the kind of statement Broussard might use in wrong fashion because of his ig- norance of the great importance of making the vehicular develop ment. Kindly destroy this letter" All of which leads some Sen ators to wonder what chance lit tie business will have under the new Surplus Property Chairman. Copyright, 1s45, by The Bell Syn
 dicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
Selected Poem
THE WOODEN WALK (Yetza Gillespie in The Christian Science Monitor)

THE WOODEN WALK 1etza Gillespie in The Christian Science Monitor It was not built to scale, nor planned From any print of blue. + Untroubled by rod or rule The wooden walk just grew When bricks were harsh and hot or cold, The blanks were warm and sweet, Or silver, slippery cool with rain I To lawlesS unshod feet.
 : The handrails wore their forest coats, Knotted with amber gum Creviced for clinging hands, and soft For woodpeckers to drum E And oh! it was adventurous To wdend SO high way Above the brook where ferns and moss Were secrets kept all day The walk has gone where all things go Worn out by little town; But safe in memory it stands, Wearing leafy crown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
Prospects of a Long War

The Japanese defense of Okinawa has served to quiet most of the Wlshful talk about an early surrender that was so prevalent month ago. And General Stilwell, in recent statement from that embattled island, has blown the last wisp of rosy cloud away by showing the bad logic of most of our estimates of Jap weakness.
 The general points out the foolishness of expecting mass disintegration of mor- ale from an army which displays such individual stubbornness and determina- tion. He rightly discounts the hope that Japan will quit once the ''voice of the peo- pie" is raised. The people are not likely to overthrow easily a strong, ruthless military clique that came to power by means of assassination and can preserve power in the same way. And General Stilwell views the Jap suicide attacks not as something born of desperation, but as something which the Japs be- lieve is an effective tactic. We some times forget in this country that an expendable commodity human life is to the Japanese.
 In predicting a war of perhaps two more years duration, General StilWell did not mention Japan's official "ac- knowledgment" of the complete destruc- ton of her greatest cities, since it is un- doubtedly propaganda calculated to make America complacent. But, propaganda aside, it is beyond question that our air attacks have cause tremendous devasta- tion Yet Japan fights on The Japs are doomed and their government sure ly knows it. It is senseless, suicidal war they fight, but they seem now to have made their decision. At this stage of the game, the Japs appear less de- featist-minded than the Germans did at approximately the same stage of their progressive downfall And D-Day ln Japan has not yet arrived.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16

cred with blossoms and the limbs later sagged with fruit.
 People and institutions will often bear fruit even after they have been torn from the tree whose roots go down into the ground. Institu- tions started by some vigorous per- sonality may go on for quite a while on the momentum which dur ing his lifetime, that outstanding person had generated. A business occasionally keeps going after a strong hand has left the helm be- cause of the reputation it built up. Occasionally children of godly, churchgoing parents separate themselves utterly from the church ana yet continue to live fine and upright liSes. But their children
 usually show the evil effects of this separation. The limb of the apple tree matured the friut that had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
so YOU HAVE AUTOINTOXr-
 CATION?

In an instructive article of Food Pads and Fallacies published in the Health Education Journal of the Los Angeles City Schools for De. cember, 1914, Drs. Henry BorsooH and Roger Stanton dismiss Auto Intoxication" with this illumlnatlns comment:
 "Before we leave the subject ot constipation, a word about auto intoxication'. It is a name gwen the notion that the body poisons itself by absorbing toxic substances from the intestine. The reader can be assured that what the body ap- sorbs does no harm. The liver sees to that. Discomfort accompanying constipation is the result of nerv- OILS reaction. It has nothing to oo with the absorption of toxins"
 Dr. Borsook is professor of olo- chemistry in California mstltute or Technology, and probably many readers are familiar with his excel- lent, popular book ''vitaminS, puo- lished by Viking Press, New 1ork' 40
 Contrast the scientific truth Of that statement with the weird ef1ect of the following statement made Dy Dr. John Harvey Kellogg o1 Battie Creek in his book "Colon Hygiene published in Battle Creek in 1915:
 ". but it is impossible to
 have constipation without intes-
 tinal antointoxication. The fact
 that the symptoms of toxemla do
 not occur in every case is no evl-
 dence that they are not present"
 Come to think of it - hope this will not set you worrying about the matter - the fact that we have closed the refrigerator door is no evidence that the little light inside is out. Suppose it burns on for hours and hours, using up electric power to no advantage. Maybe you had better have a quick look before you go to bed, and make sure.
 Maybe it is not fair to go back thirty years to quote the Sage o1 Battle Creek in this fashion. l hate to do it, because I have always held the name and fame of Dr. Kellogg in high esteem. I still have a great deal of admiration and re- spect for the teachings of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. But thirty years ago. when I read his book Colon Hygiene" and pencilled notes on the margins as I read, thought the doctor was a bit obsessed by the standardization" theory - which was then of some vogue even among regular medical practition-. CTS.
 Today, however the view express ed by Drs. Borsook and Stanton in the passage above quoted fairly represents prevailing medical opin- ion.
 The "autointoxication" idea is ex- plotted now by Charlatans, diet humbugs, colon filling stations and vendors of certain laxatives.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
 Scar

I find an error in your statement. A scar on the forehead of a child WILL grow toward the hair line as the child grows older. had a scar from deep cut on forehead when I was five. Now at g the scar is up over the hairline any style of hair dressing conceals it com- pletely. CMrs. J. A. L)
 Answer-I'm happy to publish your statement. Prevention of scar and treatment of scar are discussed in booklet Cosmetic Blemishes", mail- ed on written request (no clipping if you inclose ten cents and stamp ed self addressed envelope.
 Milk, Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Fowl,
 Meat
 Recently had all my teeth ex- tracted. Due to not eating meat, is eating more than two eggs day harmful? H. M
 Answer-Meat or not meat, eat as many eggs day as you like. So far as nutrition is concerned, milk, cheese, eggs, pork, beef, mutton. fowl and fish are virtually the same food. It is a sad commentary on our boasted Yankee intelligence that a person hardly of mature age must be deprived of his or her teeth.
 How to Gain Weight
 l am almost eighteen, hoping to enter the service. I'm 70 inches tall and weigh 143 pounds. Can I get by at that weight? If not, would you give me information on gaining weight? (H. A)
 Answer-You should get by - that is the average weight of boys Of your age and height. For pamph- let How to Gain Weight" send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress
 (Copyright 1945 by John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
Views Of The Press

init of any form of organizational adjustment, large or small, for which necessity may arise" He would begin now to streamline his household, and now is the time to begin. But, of course, each unit of the crazy structure has developed a vested interest in its preservation with influence at the Capitol. And Washington is getting hot. So the country is being told that it must endure the waste and confusion at least through another summer. A little bit hard to take, is it not?
 The optimistic suggestion is put forth that the reorganization pro- posal will fare better after our legis- lators have had some rest. One would think they had been fighting on Okinawa.