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coast line and the jungle stream beds where the gold lies.
 Much of the actual searching is being done by natives, called pork knockers" who are grubstaked by the Europeans and Americans. So powerful is the age-old lure of gold, however, that Guianan au- thorities have found it necessary to warn would-b0 prospectors from the United States that they must expect the most difficult job inn aginable.
 The commissioner of land and mines acknowledges that intrepid adventurers may strike it rich quick, but they must expect to encounter jungle that is much worse than anything in Africa" battle insects that inflict intense suffering and lifelong disease, and match a thorough knowledge of mining and geology against the talent of the tropics to conceal it's riches more adroitly than any other natural setting in the world
 With three gold rushes exerting their heady tonic on the world at the same time, and bearing in mind what gold has done in the past to tFa course of mankind, historians and economists are holding their hats and speculating over what the post-World War II boom might involve.
 They discount the fact that gold
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HAMMERS IN WIN, REALLY,
 OVER SEALS
(By William Weatherby) (Ap SPORTS WRITER

The Seattle baseball club, that haven for athletes seeking work since Jo Jo White took over re- vamping job, isn't looking for a pennant this year but gets kick out of walloping the boys who are
 Manager Whites remodeling has hcen short on dividends and the Rainiers have dived deeper Into, the Pacific Coast League cellar, but Seattle faithful numbering 5,502 wildly cheered their clubs 5-1 de- Hating of the San Francisco Seals last night
 The defeat left the leading Seals, pompous after their severe drub- ping of the challengers last week, only three games ahead of the winning, second place Oakland Acorns.
 Seattle and San Francisco last met in June when baseball enthu-
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ELKS BEAT
 MOOSE IN
 DRIzz

After a two week rain enforced vacation the City League resumed play last night with the Elks doub- ling the Moose 10-5 and stretching their lead to a full game over the idle Legion.
 With the shower that started at game time lasting for two hours and a sloppy wet field both teams committed four errors.
 O'Reilly for the Elks struck out seven allowed five hits and walked five, while Floberg struck out seven and allowed but six hits, was lack ing on control and walked nine.
 The game was called because of rain at the end of the sixth in- ming.
 Friday night finds the Elks meet ing the Legion and with the Legion hot to wipe out that one game lead which the antlered tribe now holds.
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pennypruden
 Is in Juneau

Everybody in the Middle East is curious about Alaska" Penny Pruden, food commentator for a radio staticn in Cincinnati, Ohio said today.
 Coming to Juneau by Pan Ameri- can Cl'rrer, Miss Pluden brought mila-lcag list Of questions to answer for friends bac. home.
 They want to know about farm ing in Alaska, possibilities of start i2g a tobacco distributing center, opening a tannery" said Miss Pru- dcn. T asked if anyone wanted to 20 mushing with me in Alaska and rfndsmonhIm broke loose. Everyone wanted to jCn the partyl'
 Miss Pruden has conducted 300 cooking schools in 30 cities in Ohio. Kentucky and Indiana She recently completed 2,600 consecu- tive l5 minute programs for wo- men During her 23-day stay in Alaska, she will collect stories of interest to w-msn for her radio plosrams this fall
 Miss Pruden is visiting Alaska with the Pan Pacific Good Neigh Dor Tours and will arrive in Sitka on August l3; Petersburg, August IS; Wrangell, August IT and Ketch- il.an, August p.
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STANDING OF CLUBS
B. B. LEADERS

' The following are the batting and pitching leaders in the two Major Leagues as of the start of the resent week.
 National League Walker, Brooklyn, .375; Iiopp, Boston, .365
 Pitching-Dickson, St. Louis. l0- .769; Rowe, Phillies, 11-4 .T33.
 American League Batting Vernon, Washington, .357: Williams, Boston, 35l. Pitching - NewhouSer, Detroit. 20-4, .833; Ferriss, Boston, 18-4, .813.
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mortgage on the old homestead and put money in the bank.
 Nations Outlook Changed
 Manufactured goods scared i'll the United States, and foreign eX- ports expanded heavily. The na- tion's entire outlook was changed.
 Gold has been a major political issue for generations. In 1900 ths United States went on the gols standard, and 35 years later, Di the famous gold clause cases, the supreme court. by 5-4 decision. upheld going off the gold standard to inaugurate the managed cur rency' program.
 So when historians and econo- mists look at their barometers, they cast a wary eye toward gold. They are not in agreement as to the effect of an increased supply of the yellow metal on world af- fairs, except that it is likely to be great.
 The goth century reincarnations of treasure-seekers of the ages are thinking mainly of the chance to gain fabulous personal wealth in the pots O gold at the end of the rainbows in Canada, British Guiana and South Africa, but like their adventurous counterparts of other centuries, they may unwit- tingly be stirring up new world economic forces of whirlwind pro- portions
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Boston Red SoX marched another step closer to clinching the pen nant with a so romp over Phila- delphia behind Tex Hughson's five hit pitching
 Two uEsarrod runs on three St Louis errors helped Detroit record a 3-1 victory over the Browns de spite a fcr-hit pitching jos by Jack Kramer.
 Chicago's White Sox enjoyed one of their best hitting days of the season, bowling over Cleveland 1l-1 on l6 blows good for 24 bases.
 Scores and batteries:
 National League
 Brooklyn ?, New York 5; Gregg, M9ltcn 'CD, Hatten C8) and Ed- wards, Kcslo and Cooper.
 Chicago 3; Cincinnati o; Passeau and Livingston Stanceu Mauney (9), Eaffensberger Q2) schan2 Q2) and Seminick.
 American League
 Philadelphia C; Boston B 5 Fow- Ter, Griffith C8) and Rosar; Hugh son and H. Wagner
 Detroit 3; St Louis l Benton and Richards; Kramer and Helf Cleveland l Chicago II; Gromek, Webter C5), Center C5) and He gen, Jordan C6) Lopat and Hay es
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GUARDS PLAN
 RIFLE SHOOT

Capt Hank Harmon has anounc- ed that a registered shoot will be held by the Juneau and Douglas units of the Territorial Guard Thursday evening at the Menden- hall Rifle Range.
 The shooting program will con- ast cf firing from all positions on the 2c0-300 yard ranges, including rapid fire. All scores will be re- corded and kept for future refer ence. Selection of team members for rifle matches will be determined by Thursday nights records.
 All members are requested to re- port as early as possible to take ad- vantage of the daylight. The range will be set up and ready to go at 5 o'clock.
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WEEKLY LUNCHEON OF Z BpW( IS TOMORROW;
 SUE STEWART, GUEST

The weekly luncheon of the BPWC will be held tomorrow noon in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel
 Miss Sue Stewart, who was dis charged recently from the WACs, will be the guest of the club.
 Members are reminded to take their contributions for the boxes that are to be packed on Saturday.
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Replaced Schmitz.
} Replaced Doepke.

Totals 9 l8 3 4 Replaced Sweeney.
 a" Replaced Pasquan.
 "#" Replaced Floberg.
 Summary - Doubles, Metcalfe; double plays, O'Reilly to Dillhoefer to Snow; Griffin unassisted; hit by pitcher, Werner; walked by OReilly 5; by Floberg g; by Coch- rane 2; struck out by OReilly '; by Floberg '; umpires Parker, Wal lace. Time of game two hours.
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5eryieemen' Scrub

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The Colum- bus Red Birds were late in arriving here for an American Association league game with the Kansas City Blues, and fans were getting inn patient.
 So gang of soldiers left their seats in the grandstand, jumped down onto the playing field, and proceeded to take a drubbing-an in the spirit of keeping the cash GUS toners entertained.
 New store hours 8:30 to 5:30 at . r,,nn,l Xnllip unrnWarn CnmnanV
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FORMER GERMAN
 CHANCELLOR DIES

BONN, GernGrv, Aug. Will helm Marx. 82, veteran statesman who was Chancellor of Germany in l923-24 and 1926-23 under the Wei mar Republic, died here Monday.
 He had been inactive politically since 1928.
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By JOHN F. sEMEOWER

WASHINGTON = G o al The magic cry is echoing around the globe again. Through the ages it has sent men scurrying to the re- motest parts of the earth without thought of personal safety, only the hope of sudden riches.
 Currently three great gold rushes are going full blast, the latest one starting within the month. Already they reflect all the color and glaiaor that have made Trausvaal, California in '49, the klondike and Australia names which quicken the heartbeat Of fortune seekers such ultra modern trimmings as the airplane.
 And gold i5 up to it's cd tricks of playing hide ard seek with man, for the new strikes are char acteristically in hard to reach places - Yellowknife ill Mort h Canada, the Orange Free State in Che center of the Union of South Africa, and in tropical British Guiana in South America.
 The new gold prospectors are no less intrepid than the immortal Forty-Niners and their other fa- nous forebears. They possess bet ter and quicker means of getting at their quest for fortune, how ever, than the prospectors of old ever dreamed of.
 Newest Find in Africa
 The newest find. made within the last two months. is Ill the high treeless plains of the Orange Free State. Adding savor to the golc rush in that quarter is the sprin- king of diamonds which have been found lying around loose near the gold strikes among the rocks of the Vaal river.
 Odendaals-Rust is the scraggly little village which suddenly has burst on the map in true gold rush fashion. The first deposits found yielded more than 62 ounces of gold, or about S2,179 per ton
 Gold is not new to South Africa by any means, for the nearby Transvaal has the richest gold fields in the world, but the yield is only quarter ounce of gold to the ton.
 The new bonanza skyrocketed small plots of land in Odendaals- Rust from $20 to $4,S00 in a day. Speculation is rife, fortunes being won and lost within hours.
 Prospectors and spectators are pouring into the area via airplane in a fashion that contrasts amaZ- ngly with the fortune-hunters Xho after 184S swarmed into Cali fornia via the laborious wagon trails, by the yet more tiresome boat trip around South America or through the disease-ridden swamps of Panama.
 : Another in Canada The closest rich strike to the United States is at YelloWknife, Canada, which is south and east of Port Radium on Great Bear lake, site of the uranium mine that is SC vitally strategic to Canadian United States defense plans, and Norman Wells on the Mackenzie river, whose stock in trade is black gold-oil.
 Gold was discovered at Yellow knife in 1888, but the war slowed development. Now it is booming with the board sidewalks, frame hotels, and glittering glamor that IS reminiscent of the Klondtke, cnly this time the supply lines are almost all by air and the airplane is the routine beast of burden.
 For the prospector who likes to seek out the toughest assignment of all, however, British Guiana is' the big challenge. Flying boats are all that have made the strike accessible at all. They ply back and forth between the center of South America s northeastern
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Three Major Current Gold Rushes Revive Drama and ClamOr of Historic B0nanza5

perpetually tantilizing "come-on.'
 Scientists throughout the ages have tried alchemy. the attempt to convert other substances Into gold, a quest that has some remote relation to the sort of experiment tation that led to splitting of the atom and the discovery of the atomic bomb.
 Minute quantities can be eX- tracted from the sea, but at such expense that it is not profitable. On the other hand, fabulous mug gets have been found, such as the "Blanche Barkley." weighing 112 pounds, and the "W ell om 0 Stranger" found in Victoria and weighing 183 pounds.
 No single factor has been more spectacular in the affairs of men. for gold has been q driving force that has caused adventurers to risk everything in it's quest. II is perhaps natural that the United States, the worlds wealthiest na- tion, has been particularly af- fected.
 The endless search for gold was one of the things stimulating Co., lumbus to discover the New World, and the Spanish conquerors to exploit it Spanish preoccupa- tion with gold, on the other hand, left the way open for others, notably the English, to colonizs and sink deepe. cultural roots.
 Gold and California
 Discovery of gold in 1849 in the Sacramento valley quickly boomed Califarnias population from COOS to over S6,000, and brought that state into the Union. The climax of gold speculation on Wall stree- resulted in infamous Black Fri day" when in 1868 Jay Gould and
 Jim Fisk tried to corner the market.
 III l1lS SlAliC0 LilC AlCShiCo LiOii4 Mexico to Canada yielded such discoveries as Nevada's Comstoclc lode and the Black Hills rush of 1874, which brought on the final fighting with the Indians and the frontiers classical tragedy of Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn river.
 Discovery of gold in 1897 on the Klondike river and at Cape Nome in Alaska had amazing results.
 Within five years $100000,0oo worth of the precious metal was mined, and economists credited the resultant fall in the value oe gold with starting the boom of the American farmer who sold his wheat and corn at new high pricea. .xll
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Mohawk rugs, $58.50 to S75.00 at Juneau Young Hardware Company.
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New store hours 83o to 5;30 at Juneau Young Hardware Company.
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Empire Want Aos or!ag ~esurtsl
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
Wage Hike Urged
For Oil Workers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 =
(LPA)-A 15-week dispute be-
tween $4,000 CIO oil workers
and 25 companies operating 40
refineries and four oil pipelines
came closer to settlement last
week when President Truman's
fact finding panel recommend
ed an 1870 wage increase.
Indications were that the rec
concentrations, which would
raise huorly pay from $1.20 to
$1.41, would be accepted by the
union which has already signed
new contracts providing for the
1870 hike with Sinclair Refin-
ing and the Texas Co.
Negotiations, were continuing
last week with the majority of
the rs firms, all of whose plants
were seized by the Navy last
October after Schwellenbach
failed to settle a strike. The
Navy was pushing negotiations
which in several instances were
said to be delayed only by fringe
issues.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25

Continued from Page One
and destroy the only chance this country has
demOcracy-the unions
Did Hitler crush the labor movement in Germany?
Then the interest will seek to crush here
Did Hitler coordinate" the workers of Germany?
Then blinded indusrialiss will seek to do it here.
Big industry has declared the unions. 1t has
plotted its planned its strategy and is
ceeding according to plan.
Who naive that they believe big business entered
this struggle with the unions of America because of prn
cples? Not principles, but "the public be damned"
Who except the unthinking of the opinion that
This economic struggle which finds labor fighting for the
very right to live in the dignity of human beings pos
sby believe that there has been cOlsOn between the
great industrial interests and the financial behind
them? Indeed, "the public be damned"
And SO it's war, economic war; that leads to
body knows where but which help but bring loss
to all particularly those whose very future humans
forces them to fight for the things which they dare not
surrender to the forces of reactionary ndustriasm
Unless this movement be stopped, unless industry
accept its full social responsibility to its workers and the
naOn unless government cuts off from the mighty the
taxpayers subsidy being used to fight millions of
Americans and their families, then heading for the
bitterest fight this country has ever known.
Labor does not seek want all-Out, knOck-dOwn-
anddragout fight with industry, but to all nents and
purposes organized industry is uniting for aOut finish
fight with labor.
Jay GOuldS cOunterparts the Wilson's, the FarIeSS
and others of GOuld type still live with They have
learned nothing since his time before his time They
still say, "the public be damned"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
ASsoiIs Anfi-Lahor
Groups

NEW YORK (LPA) - Mat
thew Woll, Init. hoto-Engrav-
ers Union president and AFL
vice-president, spoke in favor Of
such conferences to promote bet
ter understanding of mutual
problems as the recent Labor
Management parley, whether in
the, domestic or international
field, as a sound basis for world
harmony. -
Addressing his membership A
his annual message, Woll said,
Much remains to be oone, and
the road that has to be travelled
may be difficult at times But
employers who stand in the way
of this cooperation, who pro-
mote anti-labor legislation and
fan the fires of class conflict, are
as dangerous to the American
system as the most subversive
Communists now secretly plot
ting to take over our industry
and Government"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
Anti-Labor Bills
Flooding Congress

establishing equality between
workers and employers.
Another, by Rep. John Ran
kin ID. Miss.) would outlaw
union shop" contracts. One by
Sen. Josiah Bailey Cd. N c.
would wipe out the Natl. Labor
Relations Board. A bill by Rep.
Clare Hoffman Or. Mich.) would
establish 60-day cooling off"
periods before strikes would be
called.
Smith Joins Too
A proposal by Congressman
Howard Smith ID. Va.) would
prohibit sympathy strikes, juris-
dictional strikes, or boycotts;
deprive foremen of the right to
organize, provide compulsory
"cooling-off" periods, and per-
NIT wholesale damage suits
against unions for various petty
reasons.
These are just samples OF the
kind of bills with which Con-
gress was deluged during the
first fortnight of its 1946 ses-
sions.
M e an w h lie, there were
speeches galore ranting against
labor from the sponsors of these
bills, and from many other un-
ion -baiters, including Senator
James O. Eastland ID. Miss),
Congressman Roger c. Slaughter
ID. Mo-, Congressman Robert
F. Rich Or. Pa, Congressman
Walter G.. Andrews (R. N. V,
Congressman Ralph Church (R.
Illinois,.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
Ship Workers
Seek Raise

ATLANTIC CITY, N. ]. Jan.
21 CLPA) - A straight 36-an-
hour increase for the nations S
475,000 shipyard workers was
asked by the Industrial Union
of Marine e. Shipbuildinq Work
ers-CIO in substitution for its
original request for a pay boost
of II &c "acrosS the board" plus
an additional 800 hike The
modified offer was placed before
the Shipbuilding Wage Stabili-
zation Conference which has
been placed before the Ship
b III | d ing Wage Sterilization
Conference which has been con-
sidering wage issues in the in
dustry since Dec. 4.
The IUMSWA's 18th annual
convention, attended by 800
delegates, ended here with the
reelection of President John
Green and John j. Grogan, vice
president, and Ross d. Blood,
secretary treasurer.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
Premium Pay
For JoiIed
Reporter

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 -
LPA)-Time- -and-a-half pay for
nine days spent in Jail isn't pro-
vided for in most union con-
tracts, but if the Washington
Newspaper Guild-CIO has its
way that's what William Flythe,
police reporter for the Times
Herald here, will receive for his
stay in the pokey.
Flythe was instructed by the
city editor to get himself arrest
ed and locked up in order to
prove that the District jail,
which has had more recent es-
capes than commitments, was a
pushover for prisoners who
wanted to smuggle in escape
tools. Flythe had himself picked
up as an ordinary drunk and
after being sentenced smuggled
in a file, hacksaW blades and
acid in his fountain pen.
Contract Gives Overtime
After nine days he was re-
leased and with his story writ
ten he field an expense account.
Under the Guild contract which
specifies time-and-a-half for
overtime Flythe received an
other eight hours at the extra
rate. But because Flythe was
locked up for "a hours a day
the Guild grievance committee
has demanded l6 hurs al time
and half, amounting to three
days extra pay for each day he
was salted away.
The battle between the Guild
and the front office is now in
full swing, but Guild officers
contend that no matter how the
company wriggles, the contract
has them manacled.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-01-25
Anderson Plans
Food Price Hike

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 -
UPA)-How much do you want
to pay for butter?
How much you will have to
pay for butter will depend on
how far Sec'y. of Agriculture
Anderson is allowed to carry
out the price raising program
which he has laid out for him
self for the next few months.
About six weeks ago, Ander-
son put over an increase of be-
tween 5 and 6 cents per pound
for butter all over the country.
This was done by stopping the
butter subsidy which the gov
ernment had been paying to but
ter makers. OPA Immediately
allowed the ceiling to go up, so
that consumers would be able to
pay the amount which the gov
ernment had previously been
paying.
Now, Anderson is suggesting
that the ceiling be raised again.
This would give the butter pro-
ducer a chance to clean up on
butter sales. However, it would
mean that you would be pay
ing 6 or 7 cents more than you
are now having to pay, if you
can find butter in the store.
That still doesn't finish off
Mr.. Anderson's plan.
After putting through this in
crease, Mr.. Anderson would
again raise the price by remov,
ing the subsidy which is now
paid to the farmer for all dairy
production. Anderson woul d
wait until the first of March, or
maybe even until April l be-
fore doing that job, but when 1t
happened, the price of butter
would go up another IL or Ia
cents pound at retail.
Butter isn't the only thing on
Mr.. Anderson'S raise the price
up" list. In spite of his specific
promise to a labor committee
some time ago not to remove
food subsidies, Mr., Anderson is
moving to take off all food sub
sides, except the one on sugar,
which are now being paid by
the government. He hopes to
have them off early this year
while the country is still pros
porous and you can still afford
to pay higher food prices.
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Al Kenngo++
Comes Back
continued from Page I

NOhNlhutu iIOiU age
Texas and Campbell, KY He
went overseas to Guam in Nov
ember, 1914 and served air
bases there until Nov l945. He
left Guam the same month and
received his discharge Dec. 3,
f945.
Al lost no time reporting back
to the job, returning to work at
Champion on Dec. II where is
employed in Dept, G.. tool room.
He says that loafing was worse
than being in the Army and
preferred going back to work
instead of waiting for several
months.
Like many other veterans
who served in the South Pacific,
AL says that getting back into
civilian habits is the toughest
part of coming home. Al is liv-
ing with his parents at iii
Coventry.