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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
Wars Wastefulness
Washington Starr

Washington Starr
 Recent revelations regarding loose handling of wartime contracts to corroborae Controller Gen. eral Lindsay Waren's testimony before the Mead committee regarding the statutory breakdown and the abuse vastly broadened authority by procure ment agencies under the guise of war" How wide spread these breakdowns and abuses probably never will be fully known will there be unanimity of agreement in assigning responsibility in devisng future safeguards.
 MT. Warren believes that Congress paved the way for these conditions when it wrote the emergency procurement laws providing for "cost-plus" con- tracts for contract termination procedures and for contract renegoaton He expressed the opinion that such laws virtually allowed contractors to dupe the Government whenever they fit Insofar un- scrupous contractors are concerned, the Controller General is correct in his thesis But it is only fair to remember that Congress gave the war-prosecuting agencies of the Government the leeway they felt they must have in rushing preparations to wage winning war.
 There is an old proverb which says that haste makes waste" and the haste demanded by all-out preparations for war is no exception to the rule Congress would have been liable to severe criticism had it insisted that the red tape of peacetme pro- curement methods be rgidy adhered to in frantic efforts catch up with and exceed the potential of enemies not bound by red tape thrift. It was inevitable that suddenly expanded procurement agencies should make mistakes should be victimized at times should suffer from a few incompetent if not faithless employees This does not mean of course that such conditions to be condoned that better procurement laws and better administration of them in time of impossible. There lessons to be learned from our experience in the recent war just as we profited by lessons of World War I, and the Senate War Investigating Committee is serving highly useful purpose by focusing attention some of the outstanding contract involving alleged abuses.
 Controller General Warren suggests the need for giving his office greater authority than it had during World War II in checking administrative travagance and nefficency with view to protecting taxpayers against unbrided and illegal expenditure of public funds That is sound advice from official who has demonstrated his capabilities a watchdog of the Treasury And if it is practicable carry into wartime at least if not all of these safe guards against waste without hazarding the Nations security that further step should be considered in the light of past experience
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
20 YEARS AGO fHE TIT EMPIRE
AUGUST 29, 1926

California death of Judge J. R. a leading citizen and Alaska.
 100000 the national
 
 advertising twenty
 Vancouver B. C., MT P Suzor wit wife, passenger the Princess Louise.
 R. R. of the J. G. White had engaged power Alaska for the six 
 Secretary conferred with Premier NIuon Vop Secretary of the Italian Treasury during his Rome
 Ketcikan with large in Alaska represented exception Anchorage and Nome
 Whittier Deputy U Collector Customs his wife son and daughter are returning home aboard
 report: Highest, lowest 45
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VETERANS VARY

Maybe he was young, ike 20- year-old Ed Halpin who landed at Normandy, H-hour, D-day, crawled on his belly up the beach and said: Dammit, no matter what place the Army picks to put sol diers, it always picks a place that looks like Oklahoma" Or maybe he wasn't so young, like Jake Priv cit, a 37-year-old Pfc, who was killed in the battle of Luxembourg and left wife and five kids back in Blytheville, Ark.
 Or maybe he's just memory in photo album now, or a dogtag stuck on a piece of wood near a tiny town whose name you can't pronounce. Or maybe half his face was torn away and he's ashamed to walk down the streets any more because other people are whole and he's not.
 Or maybe he came through all right. Maybe no one ever shot at him. Maybe he wonders why he was in the Army-what he did. There was John Padgett, a rifle man from the Blue Hills behind Chattanooga, who squirted tobac- co juice on bunker of the Sieg- Tried Line and said: Beats hell out of me what I'm doing here ex- cept I always did kinda have an itch to pat my behind at that feller Hitler"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
Happenings
 Al \ aines

The Haines Cutoff is still off cially closed due to the repair work which is being done to tEe slide at A Mile. However, the road is still pasSable and cars are coming through. Several cars were in town over the weekend, coming from Wkitehorse and Anchorage.
 MT nd Mrs. Vance Phillips, ST, and son, Vance, Jr., arrived in Haines a few days ago from An chorage for visit with Mrs Phil lips mother, Mrs. Raymond Smith. They travelled from Anchorage in their private jeep, taking three days for the trip. They plan to leave Haines for the return trip to An ichorage this week MT. and Mrs Phillips are former residents of Haines, MT. Phillips having been employed by Foley Brothers and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
DEMAND RESPECT

As a former enlisted man CH Yank, the Army weekly, have just finished helping edit book, called "Yank: The GI Story of The War" to be published next spring. With the words above I tried in the book to describe the man who went into the Army and the man who went out. I don't think he has changed much.
 Except he may have learned that a mans color, which didn't mean anything on the line, means some thing in South Carolina, where a former soldiers eyes were gouged out with a policemans club be- cause the former soldier was guilty of being born black.
 Or maybe after fighting for De- mocracy he thought it should be practiced in his own back yard, and maybe that is why he took things in his own hands in Athens, Tenn
 Maybe he cannot understand why a country which can make unbe- lievable things like atomic bombs and level whole islands to make airfields cannot level slums or build houses for people who do not have a place to live.
 Maybe he listens to the people who say the war is bore, and they are tired of hearing about it., and maybe he wonders why it is that we should somehow be asham- ed that once this country did great things. Maybe he wonders what happened to the great men and the great dreams.
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DEFEATED FASCISTS

Maybe he didn't know what Fas- cism was-maybe he did. The GI did not destroy Fascism. But he helped defeat the Fascists and he took away their guns.
 He was part of an Army that left it's footprints on three contin- ents, a hundred islands-deep in history With his allies he saved the world, and hoped to God he'd never have to do it again.
 He had learned the ache of lone liness, the ache of exhaustion, the kinship of misery. He had learned how to sleep in the mud, tie a k5lGt, kill a man.
 And, having learned all this, if he got through all right the soldier came home and took off his clothes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
WANT PEACE

Probably he gets a cold feeling deep in his belly when he hears statesmen talk about another war He may feel like the CT who wrote big and black on the walls of the old fortress at Verdun;
 Austin White, Chicago, H., 1918
 Austin White Chicago. Ill, l945.
 This is the last time I want to write my name here"
 (CoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MSUSED say said that really the last will receive Say LATEST
 MISPRONOUNCFD EdelWess. Pronounce a-de-Vis, ATE DELL unstressed VICE. first syllable
 (opmost Peek look slyy) Pique Gesentmen pronounced the PEAK and PEEK.
 SYNONYMS Guide veb) conduct direct escort lead pilot
 "Use a Let vocabulary mastering word each day Todas word incapable expressed drifting ineffable beauty"
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LOOK and LEARN Szy c. GORDON

| Where the highest inhabited the message along of a human  first alpahbet Europe? 4 Which is the most poisonous snake in the world? Which the favorte wild the
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MODERN ETIQUETTE $oprprA Sg LEE

wedding how they
 Yes the first envelope is used protection for the invitation and unseaed The held the invitation the table which the towards the plate?
 The cutting edge of the knife should point towards the plate
 Should letter congrauaon be when receiving a a
 A. Yes and this note letter should be written promptly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29
R0BBING THE BLIND

CHICAGO, When Sam raul isl. 68. walked into the lobby of the county building, tapping his white cane, he was directed to line up in front of the cashiers window to pay his property tax of S83.
 A man volunteered to assist Faul- isi and he took the $83 he was holding and stood in line for him.
 When Faulisi presented his tax statement he told the cashier his newly acquired friend would give him the $83. But the cashier told Faulisi, who is blind. his good Samaritan" had disappeared.
 Monograph Records. H 0 m e Beautiful
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

Plans have been completed for a public banquet to be held in honor of Delegate E. L. Bartlett, upon his arrival in Haines in the near future. The banquet is to be held in the gymnasium of the Territor- ial public school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

MT. William L. Jahn, Superinten- dent of the Territorial Public School of Haines, returned here from Juneau, where he has spent the past two months.
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The Washington 
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sand and prayed: God, let me get hit tomorrow but not bad, so can get out of this" Maybe he didn't fight at all. Maybe he built latrines in Mississippi or cranked a mimeo- graph machine in Manila, taking chicken, knowing that you can't kill the enemy with a shovel or book at more than ten paces; still wanting to go home.
 He was often bored; he wasn't all ways brave; most times he was scared.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

feeling silly; jigged, stopped, squat ted, put some blood in bottle, be- came a civilian.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

The bowling contest between the residents of Haines and CAA last Saturday night resulted in victory for the Haines team. Following the tournament, picnic on the beach was thoroughly enjoyed by all who participated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

Utah Construction Co.,, during the budding of the Haines Cutoff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

Word received from California Of the death of Jud Winn, leading citizen and lawyer in Juneau and Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

Arriving in Haines this week on the Estebeth were Simon Hellanthal and John A. Nyman, of Juneau They are leaving Haines in Judge Hellenthal's car, for a trip over the Haines Cutoff and Alaska Highway to Fairbanks and Anchorage. From Anchorage MT. Nyman will fly back to Juneau. Judge Hellanthal will re- main in Anchorage for approximate ly one month, after which he will return to Haines over the highway and will ship his car back to Ju- neau. MT. Nyman plans on re- turn to HaineS later for the purpose of taking up matters dealing with Internal Revenue work and tax matters.
 Mrs. Edith Sheppard and son Jay of Skagway have been visiting in Haines during the past week. They returned to their home on the Es- tebeth Tuesday.
 Willard Simineo returned to Haines from Juneau, where he had gone for medical treatment
 The schoolhouse building at One Mile, purchased by Forest H. Young was moved Tuesday to the new location on Main street. A new basement will be put under the house and remodeling will be done this winter The structure will be used as a residence.
 Mrs. Laura Bolton and sons, Rob- ert and Edward are leaving soon for Anchorage, where Mrs. Bolton will join her husband.
 A surprise bridal shower was given Miss Katherine Holder last week at Haines House. Games weIr played and prizes given Miss Hold CTS prize was a shower of gifts Candy and punch were served. Miss Holder and Robert Houseman will be married September 26.
 MT. and Mrs. Milo Fountana of Iron Mountain, Michigan, landed at the Haines Airfield in a new Fay lorcraft which they are delivering to friends in Fairbanks. They plan to spend a week in Fairbanks and vicinity big game hunting and will then return to Iron Mountain via PAA.
 A farewell party for MT. and Mrs. Joe Hamilton, Jr, was given by the staff at Haines House in their new recreation building last Friday eve ming. Movies and slides of MT. and Mrs Hamilton's were shown. Refreshments were served and the attendance was large. MT. and Mrs. Hamilton left Tuesday on the Es- tebeth enroute to Metlakatla.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

The French Consul for Canada, of Vancouver, B. c. MT with wife, passenger the Princess Louise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

Monograph Records. Home Beautiful.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-29

over 100000 of salmon sold during the national ne advertising campaign year to 205o00 last used Gt adverse-even twenty az
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M s. Whittier Deputy U s. Collector of Customs, his augher returning home aboard the Princess Louise
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
Holds Petty Officer For
Violation Of Macy Regulation

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81 (ANP)
Chief Steward Walter w. Roll
Inns, colored petty officer at the
United States Naval academy at
Annapolis, finds himself in a mud
die charging with aiding and abet-
ting violation of naval regulations.
The charge grew out of the court
martial of white musician who is
also under similar charges.
Testimony was given that the en-
listed man had been seen leaving a
commissioned officers club. He was
also accused Of spending the night
in the quarters Of a colored steward
employed at the North Severan Of
ficers' mess.
The whole thing grew out of a
party held at the club on the night
of Feb. 9. 1t is said that on the MORN
naval lieutenant leader of the
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
JOURNALISM SCHOOL
IN PULSE

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Mar. Fl
(ANP) - March edition of Pulse
magazine featured an Adventure
in Journalism" with photographs of
students of the Lincoln university
school of journalism. There were
illustrations of press conferences,
interviews, reporters at their desks,
rewriters at the horseshoe.
Continuation of the production
line of the Line DIN Clarion, official
laboratory publication of the school,
was pictured by students getting the
publication "hot off the press" And
then circulation. Editor Angie
Moore, senior journalism student
from St. Louis, takes the spotlight
in center photo hard at work. The
two-page layout is illustrative Of
what is accomplished at the only
school of it's kind in the middlewest.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
CLERGYMEN ACCEPT
INVITATION TO JOIN
MINISTERS ALLIANCE

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Mar. 21
(ANP)-Negro clergymen of this
city have accepted an invitation to
join the Inter-denominational al
lance of White ministers following
the adoption of motion to lower
the color bars to Negro churchmen
by the Rev. l. P. Martin, historian
of the Holston Methodist confer
ence.
"Mr. Chairman" said Rev. Mar
tin, II shall share with you today
a matter that has rested upon my
mind for some time. l move, sir,
that we, as ministers of Christ on
earth, invite all the Negro ministers
of Knoxville to join this alliance
with us on absolute terms of equal
ity and without any discrimination
or bias whatever"
The motion passed without a dis
senting vote or discussion. When
asked why he made such motion,
he said:
"All human beings are made in
the image of God, not his color.
There are no two ways to heaven,
one for whites and another for col
ored."
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
COAST (I0 CONVENTION
PLEDGES FEpC AND
ANTI-BIAS FIGHT

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 21 (ANP)
The local fight for FEPC moved
into high gear when nearly 200 dele
gates from CIO unions in this area
attended the anti discrimination
conference held in the CIO building
Sunday, under the chairmanship of
Oliver Boutte, San Pedro port
agent of the National Maritime
union.
Mrs. Charlotte A. Bass, editor
publisher of the California Eagle,
Joined with CIO leaders in the aI1--
out battle against discrimination.
eve call upon the CIO for coor-
dinated decisive action in the Short
Fontana case, the San Francisco
Festus Coleman case, and the Henry
laws restrictive covenant case" she
said. "Those interested in the minor
ity struggle must rally the support
of all people to enact real working
fair employment practices commits
sion in California on basis for
providing jobs with decent pay for
ALL"
Further action against discrimin-
alton by the CIO was requested by
Father Dunn, author Of the pamph-
let, "Sin of Segregation" and Loy-
ola university faculty member.
Labor, itself, is a minority move
ment and the cause of labor will
never be secure so long as any form
of racial discrimination is tolerated,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
SHUTS PLANS TO PUSH
LEGISLATION IN
SOUTH AMERICA

CAPETOWN, South Africa, Mar
81 (ANP)-Premier Jan Christian
Smuts told the house of assembly
here that the Union of South Africa
will proceed with legislation de-
signed to restrict Indian land tenure
and immigration regardless of In
dia's intention to cease trade rela-
tions with South Africa. The bill
will be introduced in the house of
assembly here next Friday.
SHUTS announced that he will take
personal charge of the measure,
which is applicable to Asiatics as
we'll as Indians, and explained that
the high commissioner for India
here had been kept fully informed
of the governments intentions. New
Delhi has suggested conference
"to explore an alternative solution"
to the problem, but SHUTS said the
Union government could not agree
to this method of dealing with a
matter of essentially domestic pol
icy.
The Cape Times, local paper,
described the action of the govern
ment of India as an ''irreparable
blunder," and added that the "pol-
icy of the government Of South
Africa cannot be dictated from
Delhi"
While his government deplored
India's action, "it sees no reason for
altering its plans and it intends to
proceed with the Indian bill, which
will be introduced into this house
next Friday" Smuts said.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
VOTE issue HEARING
SET FOR ALABAMA

NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 81 (ANP)
An appeal hearing on a suit
against the Macon (Ala.) county
board of registrars, charging men,
bers with barring qualified Negroes
from voting, is scheduled for the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals here
April IL. William P. Mitchell, Mont
gomery, who brought the suit,
charges that the board of registrars
refused to qualify him for voting
solely because of race, color and
previous condition of servitude.
He seeks a declaratory judgment
permanent injunction, and $4,000
damages.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
NATIONAL HEALTH week
PUBLICATIONS IS
ANNOUNCED

WASHINGTON, Mar. 21 (ANP)
- Announcement was made here
last week of three publications to
be used in connection with National
Negro Health week, March 81 to
April 7. They are bulletin, a pos
ter, and school leaflet, and may
be obtained from the NNHW COM
mittee, U. S. Public Health service,
Washington, or from the superin-
tendent of documents, government
printing office.
A limited number of free copies
are available for local health week
committees, organizations, institu-
tions, and interested persons, and
additional copies may be obtained
from the government printing office
1925 per 100 for the bulletin; 81
per 100 for the poster, and 80 cents
per 100 for the leaflet.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
West VIRGINIA
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

INSTITUTE, w. Va, March Fl
(ANP) - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
recently returned to this country
from the United Nations organiza-
ton meeting, will deliver the COM
mencement address at West Vir-
ginia State college here May 26, it
was announced this week. President
John w. Davis said it is expected
that the theme of Mrs. Roosevelt's
address will be international peace
and the common welfare of mankind
for which she has constantly worked.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
MAN, 80, ACCUSED
OF AUTO ROBBERY

Ernest A. Thompson, 38, of Bar
louisville, KY, pleaded innocent to
charges Of transporting stolen car
from the Kentucky town of Troy,
where he was apprehended by state
highway patrol officers.
According to charges, Thompson
stole a 1941 model car in Kentucky
and drove it across the state line,
federal offense. Thompson testi-
fled when arraigned in The United
States marshaPs office yesterday
that he was on his way to Detroit
to seek work when arrested in
Troy on March 5. He was held in
Troy for FBI officers.
His trial has been set for March
27, before U. S. Commissioner
Charles Ozias.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
WAR BOND SAFEGUARD
DRIVE SET

Dayton and the Miami Valley soon
will launch campaign to safeguard
war savings by protecting residents
from get-rich-quick schemes.
Miss Hazel Nolan, manager of the
Dayton Better Business Bureau,
said the drive is part of nation
wide program and will get under
way here around April 80.
A statewide campaign was
launched in Columbus today fol-
lowing meeting between Gov.
Frank J. Lausche and his advisory
committee on conserving war saw
ings. Three committees were set up
to prepare programs and informa-
ton for local communities.
H. G. Hudson of Wilmington,
president of the Ohio Bankers as
sociation, told the governors COM
mittee that banks and building
and loan companies are refusing
loans for real estate at present in
flated values.
The Dayton Better Business Bu-
reau's campaign will provide infor-
nation to the public on means of
safeguarding their war savings.
This will be done through various
committees to be set up next
month.
Data will be prepared by the
master committees and channeled
through to committees in the var
ious fields.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-03-21
(LEvELAND'5 CHAMPION
BUCKEYES open
SPRING TRAINING

BIRMINGHAM, Mar. 81 (ANP)
The Cleveland Buckeyes, Negro
world champions, opened spring
training here in answer to the call
issued by Ernest Wright, owner
and Wilbur Hayes, general man.
ager, following a recent meeting in
Chicago.
Avelina Canizares, sensational
Cuban shortstop, is the only missing
member of the 1945 squad. Cant
zares cast his lot with Mexico, said
Jimmie N. Jones, publicity agent.
His shortstop position will be filled
by Billy Horne, recently discharged
from the navy. Johnny Burks, for
mer manager and catcher for the
champions, has also returned from
the service. He will divide the re-
ceiving duties with manager Quincy
Troupe, who is on his way home
from Venezuela accompanied by
prospective talent for Cleveland's S
Buckeyes.
Among the 1945 regulars return
ing are outfielders Willie Grace,
Sammy Jethro, and "Buddie" Ar
mour. Infielders are Archie Ware,
Johnny Cowen, Parnell Woods;
pitchers are Willie and George JEFF
ferson, Ugene Bremen, Frank Cars
we'll, Lowell Harding, John Brown
and Duro Davis.