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Evening star., 1946-01-11
New Political Disorders
In North Iran Probed
Ry the Associated Press,

L9 tne ASsoclaIed PresS,
TEHERAN, Jan. 11.-Iranian Off.
cials investigated political disorders
in three Northern Iranian towns
today after cabinet member in.
dicated the government would reject
a British-American proposal for a
tri-power inquiry into the country's
troubled internal affairs.
Five persons were killed and nine
wounded in Trans latest disturb
ances, which took place at Zenjan
200 miles northwest of Teheran; at
the Caspian Sea town of Chalus
65 miles north of Teheran, and at
Kazvin, 30 miles northwest of the
Iranian capital.
Rejection of the British h-American
suggestion for an international in
vestigating committee was promised
IN Parliament by Finance Minister
Hagir, amid cheers from the
deputies. His statement came after
two deputies had attacked the pro-
posal, declaring they were opposed
to foreign intervention in Iranian
affairs.
Evening star., 1946-01-11

Conadr. Van zandt said he favored
compulsory military training and
the expansion of ROTC programs.
by necessity, the United States
must maintain large military force
Army, Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard" he said, "and selective serv-
ice is the only method I know Of
gaining sufficient manpower."
Tentative orders call for Comdr.
Van Zandt to report to the Bureau
OF Personnel in Washington to serve
on the. Selection Board.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Lawrence Tibbett, Jr.,
Divorced by Wife
~ the Associated Press

% the Associated Press.
LAS VEGAS, New, Jan. 11.-Mrs
Ernestine Tibbett has been granted
q divorce from Lawrence Tibbett, jr.,
son Of the operatic baritone, on
grounds Of cruelty.
They were married September 10,
1912, in Pasadena, Calf. Mr.. Tibbett,
who Is being discharged from the
Army, plans an acting career on
the New York stage. while Mrs. Tib-
bett said she is planning Hollywood
motion picture work.
Evening star., 1946-01-11
Van zandt Favors Keeping
Selective Service System
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Jan. H.
Comdr. James Van Zandt, former
Pennsylvania member of Congress
and past national commander of
Veterans Of Foreign Wars, arrived
here last night after 81 months in
the Pacific as commander of LIST
Group 10.
Evening star., 1946-01-11

The man with the hoe" is be-
ing replaced on some Southern cot
ton farms by an adaptation of the
wartime flame thrower, which can
burn weeds in cotton fields at far
less cost.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16
Nuptiais Held At Naval Base

At 8 candlelight ceremony held Saturday, March g, at 7 o'clock at Chief Frank Cyr's home at the Naval Operating Base, Miss Zita Marie Crnlch daughter of MT. Nick Crnich and Mrs. Hell en Crnich of Roslyn, Washing ton, became the bride of John Walter Urban, Chief Commissary Steward, United States Navy. The double ring civil ceremony was performed by Commissioner G. W. Bubendorf.
 The bride wore a turquoise wool suit with a brown yelled half hat and brown accessories She wore 6 rope of pearls and pearl earrings Her corsage was of fresh gardenlas. Her attend ant, Mss Irene Brooke, wore Navy Blue suit with g pink blouse and 8 pink feather hat Her cofsage was of gardenias and carnations. Best man was Chief Pharmacists Mate David Harris. The house was decorated with
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16

bouquets of fresh daffodils and tulips.
 Following the ceremony a rec- option was held at the Chefs club. There the guests danced to music from the Hammond Elec- tric Organ. Later m the evening a buffet lunch was served at which time Chief and Mrs. Ur- ban cut their 6ve-tiered wedding cake.
 Townspeople who attended the wedding and reception inclu- ded MT and Mrs. Harry Christ ophersen, MT. and Mrs. Bud Metzgar, MT. and Mrs. Kimball DeYoung, MT. and Mrs. Jack Metzgar, MT. and Mrs Joe Nor ino, Mir. and Mrs. G. w. Buben- dorf, Margaret Cook, Gertrude Raumaker, Dr Eugene Sullivan, and Patrick Lynch
 After the 18th of March Chief and Mrs Urban will be at hom. at MEMQ-CCB at the Naval Base Mrs. Urban has been em- ployed at Bert's Drug store in Kodiak. She formerly lived at RosIyn, Wash and Chief Urban is from Meridsn, Conn.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16

Mrs. Janet Saunders, formerly employed at the Polar Bear cafe, |s,new secretary for G. W. Bub- Pndorf, local U. 8. Commissioner md accountant. Mrs. Saunders Fo ked for several years in legal PRces in the States before com |ng o Kodiak to be with her parents, MT. and Mrs. M. H. |mith
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16

Clifford Mowrey, ex-service- nan who manage the Orpheum beatre during R. R. Lunday's pcent trip to the States, is now |mployed at the Northland Pho D Shop.
 Carey Hayter, who has been |orkiBg there, is eaving soon for Faldez to visit her mother.
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16
Go To Church

|reek Russian Orthodox Chuc oh
 Rev. Gregory Gleboff A cordial invitation is extend ? to all members of the church \ attend the services
Kodiak mirror., 1946-03-16

A cordial invitation is extend ? to all members of the church attend the services
 CATHOLIC SERVICES Father Vincent Edge, s. A.
 HOSPITAL CHAPEL ass on Weekdays 6:30 am |oly Hour Friday 2 to 3 pm EOTRE DAME de KODIAK
 CHURCH
 ass. Sundays, Holy days 10 am atIons of the Cross & Benedic- Pn- Fridays 7:30 pm structlon & Benedictlon ndays 7:2O pm struction in Christian Doc De for Children Fridays 4 pm PoRp onBELX |ass Sundays 8 am
 PRAISE CHAPEL. Rev. John Marshall |nday School l0:4Ol |nday Morning Worship 11:4O' |nday Evening l Eyangelistic Service 700 | ednesday Evening Prayer & Praise 700 oDday & Friday Evening Class for Young People 700 COMMUNITY BAPTIST
 CHURCH ". Gregory s. Morony. Pastor
 Sunday March l7 fl IS Sunday School. Classes for
 all ages.
 :l5 Morning Worship ,ermon: The Agent of Reconstruction 0 Christian Fellowship League E
 J. o. Y.
 Intermediate, High School \
 and Young People'sgroup < 80 Evening Gospel Hour ! lymn-sing
 IE Danger nday Children's choir E 'sday: N 30 Inter. Camp Fire Glris :l5 Boy Scouts Troop 625 5 tuesday h 80 ST. Camp Fire Girls HI 30 Vesper Hour. Prayer 2 ible Study in the Book o N Inns M lay R 30 Girls choir M 30 Church Choir
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
Thinqs 70 Remember

Back IN the terrible days If blood, sweat, and tears, when the Nazis
were at the Channel, three Americans were putting out a magazine
whose aVoWed purpose was to keep us from lifting a finger in Brftain's
defense. Their slogan was Steps Short of War-Mean War" and their
headquarters we're at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where they had gone
in order to escape from refugee dominated New York" The journal
was Scribners Commentator, which sometimes published reprints from
Ralph Townsend, Douglas Stewart, and George E. Eggleston. Were
they just good Americans expressing a legitimate minority point of
view? Or were they al sinister a rev as some of US ocalv SUSPECTED
The full story has not yet been told, but the subsequent careers of the
three champions OF America First are worth passing notice. Mr.. Town
send was hauled into court soon after Pearl Harbor for having served
as a paid agent of Japan without bothering to register as such. He
was duly convicted and has served his time. In 1943 Stewart told q
special grand jury that his magazine was financed by two contribu-
IONS IrOm al unknown donor" which we're left N a little table bv
the door. At Nurnberg last June, the former frs ecretarv of the
German embassy at Washington claimed credit for the donation. but
Ter "a no little table IN his testimony. He said that he had personally
handed some Sl5OOO to Stewart at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New
York; IN consequence Stewart has just been indicted for perjury And
what bOu EggIestOn ? The transcript of the Nurnberg testimony links
nm to the sam transaction, but he has not been called to account He
remains, IN facL the respectable associate editor of the resnectab1e
Readers Digest, with a respectable circulation of nor than fen
million CAdVtD.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
TAXPAYERS DONATED
$88 MILLION FOR GENERAL
MOTORS PROFITS

DETROIT CFP) - General Mo-
tors continues to pay dividends to
the duPonts and other stockholders
in 1916 because of huge rebates to
the corporation from federal tax
payers, it is admitted in Chairman
Alfred P. Sloan's third quarter re-
port.
The first nine months of 1916"
writes Sloan, resulted in an oper-
ating loss of STA, 422, $50, before a
credit of $88,435,O 900 for U. S. in
come and excess profits taxes"
Sloan's financial statement for
the nine months shows that GIN
handed out cash dividends to it's
stockholders - despite operating
losses totaling $50, 994, $40. In
other words the American taxpay-
ers were compelled by act of con-
gress to pay these $50, 900, 900 in
cash dividends and So, 900, 900 to
the corporation to boot. GIN work
ers, who unlike the stockholders
have to work for their dough. suf-
fered huge cuts in take-home pay
n in many cases unemployment
In the same period.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18

It's just too bad that the people
OF this great nation didn't vote to
establish Socialism before the col
lapse of capitalism made some type
OF social controls unavoidably nee
esSary. For it is because the people
did not turn to Socialism in good
time that they now find themselves
divided and without a positive plan
for doing what now must be done.
The people may still have time
to establish a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
aged socialized economy by using
the political power that was bought
for them with the blood of their
ancestors. But there is a larger
chance now than there was a quar-
ter of a century ago that they'll
have to win economic and social
justice by conflict, sacrifice and
suffering. That's the penalty of
rejecting Socialism. It's just too
bad.-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
Is This Subversive Doctrine?

During the war Uncle Sam went in strong for educating GI. Joe
It was even decided to give him a dose of economics" In order to be
sure GIL. Joe read the right textbook, the War Department polled the
colleges and universities.
1t was found that more than a hundred of these institutions used
Economics; Principles and Problems" the joint work of two professors
one at the University of Pennsylvania and the other at the University
of Illinois.
All went well until some champion of free enterprise" read
the book and discovered what he regarded as "subversive doctrine"
including the following paragraph:
Our goal is a thorough-gong Federal inheritance tax, leaving for
the heirs (apart from a modest provision for direct dependenk) little
Federal income taxes, with very considerable increases in the high
income brackets"
Right there the war started. Imagine suggesting heavy income
and inheritance taxes for the very rich! The wall Street Journal
broke out in a rash. Other papers took it up.
Secretary of War Patterson attempted to appease the critics He
printed a list of the colleges which had OKd the book. He didn't
get anywhere.
Finally he surrendered and curtailed the entire educational
program of the army, in order to ditch the offending book.
A tempest in a teapot? Yes, but it proves that the reactionaries
are out with their butcher knives, ready to spear any progressive idea
which may pop up-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
WAGES NOT Cause Of zoom in Prices
O. P. A. Makes Surprisingly Frank Admission; How
Business Secured Increases Exceeding Boost
in Workers. Eurninqs

Propagandists insist the wage increases, obtained by labor after
VI Day, are responsible" for the shocking rise in the cost of living
during the past year.
Organized labor and this newspaper have consistently maintained
that such claims ire basaess. Now OPA has come out with an official
report confirming labors position.
The report analyses developments the price front since the end
of the war. 1t cites many factors which have sent prices soaring. It
reveals that wage increases were not the principal cause.
After VI Day, it was the policy of the administration to encourage
wage increases, to offset at least part of the loss in "takehome pay"
This was to be done without boosting prices.
The extremely favorable profit record of most branches of in
dustry demonstrated the feasibility" of the administrations plan, the
OPA contends.
Some big companies went along, but certain major Industries in
sisted that wage increases were impossible unless price increases were
granted
In February the administration yielded to that pressure and {
deluge of prices advances followed.
The net result, according to the OPA, was that "n industry after
industry the rise in prices by June, 1916, exceeded-in some cases
very substantlaly-the increases necessary to offset wage increases
during the same period.
In fact, for IS major industries actual price increases, I'D to June
1916, aggregated three and a half times is much a. necessary
to offset the rise n hourly earnings" the report disclosed.
Then OPA takes another look at profits, and makes this observa
taxes, at a annual rate, broke all records"
While industry was reaping these profits, the advance in prices N
tc June forced real wages OF workers down Is pr cent below the
Wartme level Of January, l345, the OPA frankly admits.
Inc report is confined to the period up to June 80 but even at
Iat lat TIT OPA warned that further price increases would have
70 81 limited II the country hoped to avert serious trouble"
Is it any wonder that workers, finding it more difficult than owe
TO make ends meet, deem it necessary to demand further in
creases in the contents of their pay envelopes ? - Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18

gram that it was not until this
letter arrived that we realized with
a shock and some awe that in Mil
Waukee the Slovenes have gone
"Naprej" for 35 years. Knowing
full we'll the great expenditure of
energy necessary to maintain an
active club for SO many years, we
Of "Zarja' can only take off u
hats to our fellow singers in Mil
Waukee and wish them the same
measure of success we enjoyed here
in Cleveland when they swept up
the hall after the crowd had gone
on Dec. is. Perhaps at some flu
ture date we a arrange for an
exchange of guest singers.
Birth
With the addition of a baby boy
a happy triangle was formed at
the home of Albert and Lena Fa-
tur. This latest addition to the
"Zarja" circle arrived one week
before the concert, but the proud
papa did not falter once during
the program. Congratulations.
A. TURKMAN.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

SANITY JOTTINGS: The Wind
has been rustling through d
waste baskets recently, searching
for evidences that there are a good
many level heads in America. Point
of departure and basic criteria were
provided for the Wind by Leonard
Lyons, in his syndicated column
of November 81. Mr.. Lyons tells
of one Robert Irwin, a triple-mur-
derer, deemed incurably insane by
psychiatrists," who lis not pro-
gressively deteriorating as they
predicted" This was proved re-
Gently when Irwin was asked his
preferences in magazines and
books. Irwin requested Time, Life,
Readers Digest, and How to Win
Friends and Influence People" A
we'll man, obviously.
Taking it from there, the Wind
looked in or Assistant Judge w. C..
Purcell of the Recorders Court in
Durham, North Carolina, who last
October % suspended sentence on
two University of North Carolina
students who had celebrated a
birthday by indulging in beer, gin,
Whiskey and wine and then swip-
ing $500 worth of clothing" from
a Durham haberdasher. Judge
Purcell called this adventure a
college prank and on that same
October % sent to the roads for
80 days two Negroes convicted of
stealing eight pounds of lard.
On the other hand, Illinois Cir
cult Judge Harry Fisher, in award
ing unemployment compensation
on October 7 to 1900 workers who
struck against Montgomery Ward
in 1914, stated that the men had
a perfect right to refuse to
work on purely patriotic grounds"
Now listen here, Judge. 49,.
Senator Fulbright," sagely OBJ
serves the Stevens Point (Wiscon-
SIM Daily Journal, is a sincere,
able man. unfortunately he is
afflicted with a mental handicap as
serious as a lost leg would be
physically. He is a Rhodes schol-
ar So that's what a mental han
dicap is! Mr.. Lyons, can you apply
that somewhere?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18

on the Nebraska prairie damning
John L. Lewis and his miners to
the hottest corner in traditions
hottest hell
Wait a minute, brother. When
John l.. Lewis was a baby the
coal-mine owners made slaves of
the miners. The miners wage was
small, and he didn't receive his paw
In money. He lived in a chicken
coop shack which was owned by
the coal company.
He bought all necessities for his
household from the company
store at exorbitant prices. At the
end. of the month he was usually
IN debt to the company. Today the
organized coal miner gets his paw
In cash-not much, but enough to
eventually buy a modest home for
his family.
And now that his days of slav-
cry to the mine-oWners are ended
he gives credit where it belongs
credit to the evangelists for or
ganizd labor Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
ALWAYS OUTS

Major industries throughout the
nation have cried long and loud
that strikes, industrial strife and
other ills attributed to labor, are
directly the cause of the lack OF
consumer goods OF all kinds.
AS a matter of fact, the United
States Department Of Labor re-
fuses this inane argument, by
pointing out that labor stoppages
Of all kinds, in the year since VI
day, have totalled only 1.6 per cent
of the total available working time.
In other words, only 10 per cent
of the lack of goods can be at
tributed to labor stoppages OF al.
kinds. Double or quadruple that
figure if you will, and that still.
doesn't explain shortages.
The honest fact remains h
with the damned up flood of buy
ing power ready to swoop down
on stores and market places, manu-
facturers and warehouse men are
unwilling to loosen up their mer-
chandise, preferring to wait unit
the next congress will cut then
income taxes. - The, Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
WHAT ARE THEY
PLANNING? OPERATION
RUSSIA?

SELECTED army officers from the
United States, Canada, England
and other British Empire countries
have been attending the first course
of the British Commonwealth
Staff College," at Kingston, Onta-
rio.
The purpose of this new staff
college is to train the brains OF
the American and Empire armie;
to think and act as one in the plan
ming and Waging of war.
Little is being said about the
college publicly, but some Other
countries - particularly Russia =
are probably drawing their own
conclusions. = The Chicago Union
Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
JUST TOO BAD

We know that the fellow who is
forever saying Il told you so' is
not likely to be popular. Neverthe-
less, we can not help pointing to
the present economic anarchy, So
clal conflict and legalistic confus-
ION that cha~racterizes the Ameri-
can scene as an example of what
happens when a people persist in
gong the wrong way.
Not only the miners, but almost
every other group of masS-produc-
ton workers are either striking or
threatening to strike. In Oakland,
Calf, a general Walkout of all AFL
unlonIstS stands as a revolt against
the actions Of Iegally-constituted
authorities Despite the fact that
previous wage gains resulted in
higher prices n lower living
standards, the recent convention of
the Go sounded the intention of
nat great body of workers to set
the upward spiral of initiation still
another round.
Even though they are united in
Federations and Congresses of La
Dor, the various component parts
fight their battles for higher living
standards without an overall plan
hat would prevent a resulting
heavier burden upon their fellow
unionists.
And the lawmakers, even those
so-called "reactionaries'' who pre-
dict that labor is leading the way
to disaster, have demonstrated no
ability to stave off the calamity
they say is just ahead.
what we want to emphasize now
IS that we came to the spot where
we now find ourselves under a
capitalist private = profit economy
and after a long record of elections
IN which Socialism was rejected.
We also say that the troubles
that are now with us and those that
loom on the horizon are just what
we Socialists have been warning
would happen if capitalism was
permitted to run its crazy course
to a finish.
Old-party voters who cheered
When they ''Won their votes
against Socialism have nobody but
themselves to blame for what they
are getting and will continue tc
get.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
A SUGGESTION FOR Mr.. KNUDsEN

Twenty per cent cut in income taxi That's the promise made by
Congressman Harold Knutson, who for 80 years has represented a Min
nesota district in the House and who will be chairman of the Wage and
Means Committee as soon IS the new Congress convenes.
Everyone hopes MI. Knutson and his colleagues will make good
but this is a appropriate time to ask a question:
Does Mr. KnutsOn near a horizontal cut, which will give citizens
with modest incomes and the very rich the same percentage of relief
or does he mean there will be 20 per cent reduction in the total amount
collected and that the relief will be distributed on the basis of ability
to pay?
These arr two very different propositions. A horizontal cut will
mean a great deal to the rich man and mighty little to the man in the
lower brackets. Even under the existing heavy rates, the rich man has
plenty, but the workers and others in the lower brackets are sorely
oppressed.
We hope Mr.. Knutson will remedy this situation. He a n do that by
advising Congress to increase the income tax exemption to about So 600
for a married man, plus an allowance for each child, and about S., 500
for a single man.
That would aid men and women of modest means, but it would also
help business, because it would give the masses of our people more
money with which to buy the necessities of lfe-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18
A GREAT PROGRESSIVE
ON THE COAL STRIKE

Out on the Western prairies. at
Columbus, Nebr., former Congress-
man Edgar Howard, at "a, is still
writing editorials for his paper.
Once he was secretary to William
Jennings Bryan. Then he served
worthily in the National House of
Representatives. Always he was a
gallant, straight-thinking, straight
shooting Jeffersonian Democrat,
who never bowed his knee to Spe-
clal Privilege or yielded to the
hySteria of the moment. Last week
he wrote about the coal strike and
John Lewis. Here are some OF the
things he said: =.
Did you ever hear of the coal
miner who saved enough money
to buy a yacht? No, but you have
e in the newspapers and maya
zines pictures of the coal mine
owners who have more than one
sea-going pleasure boat.
Better keep this fact in mind
while watching developments in
the present strike of the soft coal
miners. Also all of us who are
kicking John l.. Lewis and his
miners in the face might see at
least a shadow of right in the &C
ton of Lewis and his miners if we
should remember the situation in
the mines before organized labor
began to have just a little soft
voice as to wages and working on
ditions.
Often now l hear men out here
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-18

In our judgment, 80 per cent of
the money is wasted. 1t provides
jobs for a lot of young men and
young women who like the glan1or
and the easy-going ways of official
life, but SO far as spreading our
governments propaganda in the
rest of the world, the enterprise is
practically a complete failure.
AS we have said repeatedly, the
way to make the United States
loved in every land is to set a good
example: Treat other nations de-
Gently and generously and demon
strate that we know how to pro-
vide for the welfare of our own
people.