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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
FALL INTO WAFER! LOOK OUT FOR THAT
 DOPE

It seems strange, but when the nice weather comes our way, many people fall into the bay!
 That may not make sense to all, but to Ludwig Nelson, local jewel CT, it does. It's very simply ex- plained by the fact that nice weather keeps the sportsmen busy; and when people are busy with out ings, more accidents occur in. which watches are ruined by water. The most common of those accidents seems to be falling into the ocean with the timepiece on while fish ing, boating or otherwise.
 During the summer months Jeweler Nelson has been wringing his hands in despair because of the numerous watches brought ir for repair on this account. Since salt water is fatal to watches, re- pairs are impossible in most eases
 Because of this fact, MT. Nelson has provided some rules on What To Do Until the JeWeler Comes. In all events, the watch should never be allowed to dry with the salt water in it, as that makes saving the watch almost impossible
 If the owner is unable to get the watch to a jeweler immediately, he should first open it. Next the watch should be rinsed in some fresh water. Upon removing 1t from the fresh water, it is desirable tc place it in a can of kerosene ii that is available. However, the im- portant item is to keep the ail from the watch.
 Nelson is hoping that the above instructions will prevent additional grief for both watch owners ano watch repairmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31

WEST NEEDS STEEL Close down? Hardly. The West
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31

had to have steel And it has steel. Fontana is operating today still
 bearing the tremendous burden of wartime evaluation It is producing at as low an operating cost as any plant in the nation It will continue to produce steel, because steel should be made in the west. I can't tell you how all it's problems are going to be met. I only know that they will be met as they arise, and that the destiny of the West isn't to be sold short because there's trouble. Fontana cannot make its full contribution to the West when it is comparatively throttled by the Great Steel Corporation buying the
 Government-oWned Geneva steel plant at twenty cents on the dol
 lar and Fontana being forced to
 pay the Government ne-hundred cents on the dollar of it's war cost
 Fontana now is a gateway releasing
 some of the great potential econ
 omic strength of our western coun- try. It couldn't be done .. but it's being done.
 I have never had so much fun with anything as have been hay ing with the automobile business.
 They said we couldn't do it. But show windows all over the country are giving the answer to those who said we couldn't do it. The most friendly of critics said it would take us year to turn our first cars off the assembly line. We did it in seven months They said we couldn't get any steel to make the
 cars. We got some. Not enough, it's true. They said we couldn't get a staff together. But we did. They said the cars wouldn't run. The
 cars run. They said the car would
 be a crackpot job. They now know
 that it's the most practical and
 modern car being made anywhere.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
20 YEARS AGO FTE TIT EMPIRE
AUGUST s1. 1926

AUGUST Seattle buyer returning from the that the mink plentiful in the Yukon Valley during 20 years. the office of the United  Juneau returning south the Princess 
 total of 5435 visitors registered the
  A. P. Kashevaroff Curator. Harry I Alaska a trip Petersburg
 sommers spending the the returned the Leivers and Mrs. Nina Mcconnell sisters of Miss Jcrgensen will be married Leslie White arrived on o the wedding. Weathe report: High,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
JUNEAU W0MAM'S
 CLUB MEETING IS
 WEDNESDAY NOON

The Juneau Woman's Club will hold the first meeting of the com ing season at 12 o'clock noon next Wednesday, September 4, at the Baranof Hotel, and all members are requested to attend.
 It is urged that reservations for members and their guests be made not later than Tuesday evening by phoning either 299 or Red 483.
 An average of 41 tons of steel is used in the construction of one mile of standard two-lane con- crete highway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
CONFUSED THINKING

I wonder if we're not guilty of the most confused thinking the world has ever seen. It is high time we were realizing that we are still men, not labels, capable of setting goals and achieving them; willing to fight for the things in which we believe-not with treaeherous wea- pons, but with the vitality of our own beliefs and the strength of our purpose.
 Not long ago we contacted the steel industrialists of the East in a search for sheet steel. In the pro- cess we got irritated and we think they did, too. We wanted sheet steel to build automobiles. They said they couldn't give it to us We thought we knew why. We didn't like the reasons. But they didn't call us Anarchists and we didn't call them Fascists. Maybe we thought they believed in Prin- ces of Privilege They didn't give us the sheet steel we wanted; we got it another way. Our production is continuing on its way without the world falling about our ears.
 Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Take an example from our own experience. The West has always needed a steel industry. In 1942 we built Fontana Steel Mill, in the face of obstacles which, in terms of tomorrow, couldn't be overcome But it was built for war production with the money we were forced to borrow because no one else would build it. When the war ended, the West needed the con- tinued operation of that mill. We were told Fontana was hopeless a steel industry in California would be a dead duck" Comparatively it couldn't be done. We couldn't con- tinue to operate. Our fixed charges would eat us up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
Daily Lessons in English v. v E. GORDON

MISUSED: him day" Say, him yesterday" MISPRONOUNCED: Horrd Pronounce the o in OF,  OFTEN NISSPELLED: Opuence; Opponent; Ps watcman guardian, gatekeeper custodian STUDY three times yours" Let
  distance; uson "The of this lonely
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
ALASkA P0TTERy TO HAVE DEMONSTRATION HERE ON MOLD MAKING TUESDAY

The regular monthly Ing of the Alaska Potters will be held On Tuesday evening in their club rooms in the basement of the A-B Hall
 Mrs. Katherine Hagmeier will give a demonstration in making and using plaster of paris molds which should be of interest to every member.
 All members are urged to be pres ent and to take any pieces of their work ready for biscuit firing.
 Erie Stanley Gardner, detective story writer, practiced law for P years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
LOOK and LEARN zsy c. GORDON

How fast do of the cirrus clouds travel the g. Which bird is the greatest enemy of the mouse? Which is the largest city Ohio? what purpose a pulmoor used? What is a newspapers chief revenue?
 ANSWERS: l miles
  Cleveland respiration artificialy O advertising space.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
MODERN ETIQUETTE koprprA Sy 1rr

O. a girl when selecting a gift for man?
 principal when selecting something that this likes not something that like The may prefer $5 a $50 watch.
 regularly, church. should this family if invited?
 A. Yes; is the courteous thing to do
 Is permissible yawn stretch while the presence others?
 A. No; it $ very impohe to do
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31

things it is good to talk to you about in Drew Pearson's column while he is on vacation. Those are things which help us remember Drew's slogan: To work, fight, give, to make Democracy live.
 (coPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
PLANNING COMMISSION

We hope the City Council will see fit to adopt the resolution offered by the Juneau Chamber of Com merce calling for planning commission to be estab lshed It will a continuity in carrying out long range programs in spite of changing administrations although such a commission would act advisory body. At any rate, the City Fathers do no harm by trying it out
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
The Washington Merry-Go-Round

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26
ing Center Has Many Services For Veterans
Employment Office Gives
Veterans Special Service

previous service and civilian train
ing. The rating books are published
by the Division OF Occupa.ional
Analysis, and the manning tables
OF the Department o: Labor.
One large factor which Is given
attention during the interview is
any disability the veteran might
have. A special table OF apt.udes
and abilities for those with par
ticular handicap is consulted when
necessary.
II a Job is available in which the
veteran shows interes. and has the
necessary experience and qualhica-
lions, he Is given a card and re-
ferred to an employer. A few days
later a check is made to see II the
veteran is hired. and II not, why?
II hired, his card is placed in an
inactive file. II no., the veterans
employment representative at
tempts to find another Job Cor him.
In cases where no Job is open at
he time, the interviewer will call
an employer who uses such en-
ployes to see what the future out
look is for that type Of employ
ment.
As for the industrial employment
outlook. USES officials assert that
at present many feeder plants are
affected by the General Motors
shutdown, which creates some I'M
certainty in the industrial picture.
However, job prospects should
brighten up in the near future.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26

A new program has been de-
signed at the Ypsilanti office OF the
United States Employment Service
which gives to the veteran a four
fold service In obtaining employ.
ment following discharge.
The plan involves first. a friendly
reception: second, attempts 10 min
imlze waiting; third. personalized
service. such as contracting a pos
sible employer II no suitable post
is listed in the USES files; and,
fourth, a follow-up, after the yeter-
an is placed, in an attempt 10 de-
termine II the veteran is satisfied.
Thus. the principal difference be-
tween the routine sor the veteran
Job seeker, Is that the exseryice
man is offered a more personalized
service.
USES officials feel that non-yet-
Grams will not mind II the veterans
are accorded this little better at
tention. To date, they report. few
complaints have been registered
about this special service.
Local USES offices, through the
cooperation OF the Selective Serv-
ice, the armed forces, and the Fed
eral Office Of Veterans Retaining
and Unemployment, receives a
form containing information about
each veteran shortly after he is dis
charged.
Local officials OF the USES point
out that the special services can be
accorded the veteran with the great
est speed only II he makes himself
known as veteran Immediately
upon entering the office. In most
cases, the veterans are recognized
by the discharged button. but in the
event he Is not noticed. he should
Immediately ask for the veterans
employment section.
The process Of getting a Job
through the USES is this: Once
known as a veteran, he Is seen by
a special interviewer. These inter-
viewers are veterans themselves
many Of them only recently return
ing from active service-and there
fore are interested in and familiar
with veterans,affairs, and the prob
lens facing those just discharged
from the service.
Careful attention is paid by the
interviewer to the type OF work the
ex-seryice man was trained to do
while In service and his peacetime
employment record. Through the
use Of special applied rating
books"-one each for Army and
Navy-an attempt is made to place
the veteran in the type of work for
which he is best qualified through
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26

and advice on veterans problems
may be obtained.
Blank Forms Available
The center at 1T S. Huron St
has blank forms on hand for insur-
ance reinstatement with physical
examination. without physical ex-
animation, conversion OF term in
surance to permanent insurance,
Insurance death claims and waiver
for disability. Blank forms for
all claims such as hospital and
domiciliary care, disability pension
for the veteran, pension for wild
ows, dependent parents, children,
funeral expenses, tombstones and
flags for funerals.
Blank forms for education, pow.
er OF attorney, state benefits, lum-
Der priorities, change Of address
forms and application forms for
mastering out pay.
The Director Of the Counseling
center will notarize papers free
of charge for veterans and has
the authority to sign up veterans
for the Veterans OF Foreign Wars.
Disabled American Veterans and
the American Legion. All this
service is free TO the veteran as
the financial support for this Of
flee comes from the Community
Chest Fund, the City of Ypsilanti,
and the County of Washtenaw.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26

These veterans are representatives
OF the United States Employment
Service, the Ypsilanti Veterans
Institute, and the Ypsilanti Coun-
ell OF Veterans Affairs.
The talks will consist OF three
minutes by Paul Ungrodt, Chair
man OF the Veterans Council, who
will explain Federal. State and
local agencies. Mr.. Mummery who
will speak IL minutes on National
Service Life" insurance. Mr.. Yam
kee speaking about Veterans Leg
islation". Bayard Buchen OF the
Counseling Center will talk on
Claims. Jack Bomber OF the
USES. will speak on Employ
ment and On-the-Job Training"
Daniel Muntean OF the Veterans
Institute will talk about High
School and Cooperative Training.
Branch office
A branch office OF the Ypsilanti
Counseling Center has been open
ed at Willow Run. This office will
| be open from ] p. m. TO p. m.
Mondays for the present. AS the
conditions warrant additional hours
will be added II Is located In an
office at the Health Center near the
Rental Agency.
Walter Daschner, Counselor from
the Ypsilanti Center, will be in
charge.
Refunds Coming
Property tax refunds to veterans
under the revised homestead ex.
emption law may begin in two or
three weeks through the local
governments. according TO Mr..
Buchen.
Blanks will soon be issued local
assessors and tax collectors. Any
veteran who owned his home dur
ing the time OF his service In the
armed forces may now receive a
refund on part OF his taxes.
Can be Hospltalized
Emergency disqualification for
veterans without service connect
ed disabilities is available for
Michigan veterans. Two veterans
from Ypsilanti who needed emer-
gency disqualification have receiv-
ed It by applying at the Counseling
Center at 1T South Huron ST. The
counselor will telephone the State
Office OF Veterans Affairs in Ian
sing, obtain approval and issue
forms for the hospital and doctor
to fill out and return.
A veteran at the Normal College
was sent TO Boyer hospital for an
emergency appendectomy under the
Federal benefits OF the Veterans
Administration because he was en-
titled to such under Law No. 16 as
a disabled veteran attending an ed
ucation training institution.
Another veteran received aid
this past month in obtaining al
lowance OF $50 per month back
pay for a step child. 1t was neces-
sary to procure certified copies Of
birth certificates, marriage license,
and notarized affidavits.
The veterans counseing center
will assist the veteran In obtain
ing addresses OF government agen-
cies, school which are approved by
the Veterans Administration and
local addresses where assistance
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26
Meeting For Those in Eastern Half
of Washtenaw County
to be April p

Many services are available to veterans through the Up
SLANT counseing center housed in the American
Legion headquarters at III S. Huron St. Bayard Buchen
is counselor.
On April % 1916 at 80 p there will be meeting
veterans friends and relatives from the eastern half
of Washtenaw County in Ypsanti High School auditorium
This meeting will consist of five short talks on veter-
ans benefits by experts who World War II veterans
These talks will be followed by hour and half of ques
tnns and answers by panel group of eight veterans.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26
PLAN HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Oklahoma City-UP-Home own
ers on farms and in communities
OF less than $500 population in Ok
lahoma will spend an estimated
s31 100000 by the end OF 1850 to
improve present electric services
and home plumbing. according to a
survey reported here.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26
'G.e.s.! NOW PITCHING

Decatur, Ill.-UP-The Decatur
Commies. members OF the Three
Eye professional baseball league.
have signed a lanky young pitcher
named George Bernard Shaw,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-03-26
You'll Like Ypsilanti
"Where Commerce And
Education Meet

The above slogan has been used with sim
cere purpose by this community for many
years.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

bia and other evils so vigorously
that the political and the religious
bodies, Protestant and Catholic
alike, took fright and began to
view Negroes with a more humane
eve. 1t was positively not love of
democracy or love Of Christ that
had caused them to see the light
but the fear that Communist Zero
city, then SCATTERING capitalism in
Russia, might some day hit Ameri-
ca If certain evils were not cor
rected.
As for Mr.. Green's OrganiEa-
ton Che was not then presidenO
IL was most reactiOnary, even
kukluxish, where Negro workers
were concerned. Fear Of the CLIO
and Communism has brought
some change in the AFL in the
past fifteen years. However, 1t
still has racially Fascist unions
as the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers and the Railway
clerks.
Sure, the Communists are out to
capture Negro support. And so are
the Democrats and the Republi-
cans. And sure, the Communists
intend to set up a dictatorship on
the Russian model. But while such
a dictatorship looks most horrible
70 the average white American, it
will brighten Negroes little. The
Negroes already live under a jim
crow dictatorship directed from
Dixie through Washington. This
means that where the white Ameri-
can has only one big problem;
how to make a living, the Negro
has two, namely, how to make a
living and the color problem. This
last, the Communists promise to
abolish, which means that all
Americans will at least get an even
start in sharing existing evils,
As il looks to me the rise Of a
Communist empire over the earth,
as did the British empire, is in
eyitable unless the imperiahst pow
ers change greatly. CommuniSm's
best nourishment is British inn
perialism and American color pref
udice. Take Latin America where
the bulk Of the people are colored,
or mixed. The American good
neighbor policy, strongly favored
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Elections Around the Corner

In the three weeks several thousand Minnesota Americans Of
make up their f whom they viii
racial question e., lSo:
things which Intelligent Negro voter. must consider The liberty
in election for extending equal
eSss and Ss family Sas his
S @ RgS Se WIZ TIS fs soao
Minnesota Negroes they largely in Duluth
na and csnpaS The
We sRS q 1
fa d $ B fS To
% Sn Sms that
this hope Of the EG; S S S S
they usually Go % debating the cSns sSG hsH d EsD
Douglas dem Call Vito HETssntOSO .IS n M T W1YS Sm
the few daring to speak up in behalf of fair play and
Negroes are offered no alternative Congress
to sSS elect AGAINST the SO OPe and
gresham IN Minnesota except Hagen Cfokto Minnesota
T Ts So1f la as
for him Duluth certainly no. woe @ % Negroes and
61 dEsR F y dared %so"
%
no ne less aS' for SS ali American citizens
give n % unbiased report ali the candidates. It's up
the $ pSIsn q aS not RSs
we will give in our next two
Douglas Hail must nave pretty gooo
Judd in Congressional When paper ike
tsS sRSSp %S Sd sSDy st Ss Sef Snsaa is
isn't Of reelection rs he
might be.
Paul Robeson great that told President Truman just
several million Negroes in his White House
Harry Truman didn't like but what
be denied by anybody Paul simply reminded
Mr.. Truman that England Is an imperaistic nation
Suspeng Sleeping Car Porters from the AL
the ALL convention in Chicago
would have throwing "Brer Rabbit in the briar patch
MANY porters hafe aaon its policy the
race question straight forward friendly
Sixteen ALL unions still bar Negro
by bylaws rituals That's the why the Portes
probably would have cared much the AL had
international
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18
Frank Starkey Is
Called Friend of
Common People
Another View of
u. S. Communists
THINKS ALL POLITICAL
PARTIES ARE BOOB TRAPS
BY J. A. ROGERS
In The Pittsburgh Courier

In The Pittsburgh Courier
William Green, president Of the
AFL, warns Negroes against the
Communists. He says, "They are
out to foment a revolution in Am
erica and they regard Negroes as
candidates for front-line positions.
They are willing to promise you
1.-THE Negroes) the moon to convert
you into tools and catspaws for
their revolutionary aims"
l think Mr.. Green is right, but
at the same time feel his advice
is largely futile. About 1882, The
Crisis Magazine had ~ leading Ne
gro editors say what they thought
about Communism. One Of them, a
conservative Republican office
holder, said that the Communists
were speaking up against Negro in
justices and it was not human ma
ture TO oppose those who are fight
ing your battles. That makes sense
to me.
l am not a Communist and there
is not the slightest chance Of my
ever being one. Nor for that mat
ter am l a Republican or a Demo-
crat or a member of any ism, po-
litieal or religious. l see them all
as groups which represent certain
phases Of human nature and all,
while having some good qualities,
have mixed in with their creeds 4
whole lot Of dogma and clap-trap,
new and old, for holding and entic-
ing boobS, to which l cannot sub
scribe.
Now, having got that off my
chest, I'll say this. And it Is not
going to be something I read, but
what | saw and experienced. Com
munism struck America about
1919, two years after the Russian
revolution. l recall well that the
Communists attacked lynching and
other injustiees to the Negro more
vigorously than the Socialists, who
had been in the lead, were doing.
The Communists fought Negropho-
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-10-18

laying and nte
munes which they migrated No. msled by their
enlightened ieades.who Lead Tor PrGht s. hut h ara tho m
eePon to the rule Suffice to one Of our greatest evils Of today
onasm Of facilitating the exploitation Of the ignorant and
In sections today
wards helping cOlored people to build coore schools churches
initiated they encourage ored people to form eOOTed divisions
frustrated follow Seldom
do these people realize that this of fortng
possible Peter collective will find such
arguing about the uSss OF Jim CTGwm and ton
embrace the thing they fight instead Of seizng opportunity
people their being beings nothing
past years
people the deep South and have been simply Mortified at the
because they have to be for there is in it.
For many ,Ss most S.5 the % s SaGs ]
who South for the most cOnated and capable
best schools the nation The cooed teachers and students with
whom they worked prfted from the association degree absolutely
Of white
cOoFed folks falling bunk that institution college
founded for cOCd people cooed should have the teach
United States whites They live together
and The white black hides behind
tons is an arch enemy Of mankind "O'"A f'
disgusting squabbe identity
president Of University Hghfautng among
people quite vocal having coored head Of Fisk
argument asnne We should be seeking openings apa
-
Fisk than then the
lots of white colleges have their faculties ed
One Of the most tragic things in the world is for white or cood
children the elementary school through college
work students groups
ever to have Fa emo IN TINS na8n must Degn %1th tega
of the laws under which we live
sound is to vegetable and human life.