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GETTING LOW
The Japs evidently are running a little low on the
material needed to suff bombs with. This was indicat
ed recently in a grimly humorous dispatch from Bris
bane, Australia.
It told of how bombs dropped by the Japanese pilots
on New Guinea were found to have contained Austral
ian beer bottle caps, used razor blades and rusty nails.
That doesn’t mean Japan is about to collapse from
lack of raw materials.
It does mean Japan is using every last ounce of her
material resources.
It means, further, that the overwhelmingly superior
resources of this country won’t mean a thing unless
they are put to work.
High-grade scrap iron lying unusde in junk yards
won’t beat a nation that has figured out a way to use
old bottle caps.
‘After the Viar—Full Employment'
Bv Nat. Resources Planning Board
Proposals for maintaining full national production
and employment after the war, without disastrous dis
location and depression such as followed the last war,
are made in a pamphlet, “After the War — Full Em
ployment,” just published by the National Resources
Planning Board. Author of the pamphlet is Dr. Alvin
H. Hansen, Littauer Professor of Economics at Harvard
Unversity and Special Economic Adviser to the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The pamphlet will be followed soon by a study deal
ing with the problem particularly as it relates to Alaska
This report, entitled “Post-War Economic Develop
ment in Alaska,” will be the first publication of the
Alaska Regional Office of the National Resources Plar
ning Board, established last July with offices at Juneau
One of the major conclusions advanced in “After
the War—Full Employment” is:
“We shall have, when the war is over, the technical
equipment, the trained and efficient labor, and the
natural resources required to produce a substantially
higher real income for civilian needs than any ever
achieved before in our history. Whether or not we
shall, in fact, achieve that level of income will depenc
upon our intelligence and capacity for cooperative
action.”
Pointing out that the immediate aim of the Ameri
can people, a military victory, is not enough, the pam
phlet states that social disintegration and, sooner 01
later, another international conflagration would be the
result of a post-war decade of economic frustration anc
mass unemployment.
“When the war is over the Government cannot jusi
disband the army, close down munitions factories, sto^
building ships, and remove all economic controls. We
want an orderly program of demobilization and recon
struction. The Government cannot escape responsib
ility. To fulfill its responsibility it needs the hearty co
operation of business, labor, farmers, and the profes
sions in the great task of developing a vigorous, ex
panding and prosperous society.”
Outlining the scope of a positive governmental pro
gram looking toward full employment whch would per
mit private enterprise to operate at high output levels
Dr. Hansen points to many objectives which have spec
ial revelancy in Alaska.
“There is plenty of work to do. We need to carry or
extensive research. . . .to create new products and de
velop new processes. We need to rehabilitate and mod
ernize our transportation system—by land, water anc
air. We need continued advance in the techniques ol
production, distribution, and transportation; in shon
in all those elements that enter into a higher stand
ard of living. We need to rebuild America. .. . Many
public developmental projects open fresh outlets foi
private investment. We need a public health program
including expansion of hospital facilities. . . . We neec
a program to improve and extend our cultural and re
creational facilities. . . . We need a program to im
prove arid extend our cultural and recreational facil
ities. We need an enrichment of the material and spir
itual resources of our American way of life. We have
seen how it is possible to mobilize the productive caf
acities of the country for war. We can also mobilize
them for peace.”
After a discussion of the national debt, the public
debt, taxation and other related factors, the pamphle
outlines the indicated policies, with respect to botJ
the war period and the post-war period.
Copies of “After the War—Full Employment” may
be obtained from the Juneau office of the National Re
sources Planning Board on request.
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Third Selective Service Lottery Is
Held Today In Washington, D. C.
The third national Selective Service lottery will be
held in Washington March 17 when order numbers for
the registrants who enrolled this month to swell this
| Nation’s vast pool of potential manpower will be de
termined, National Headquarters, Selective Service
System announced today.
In all probability approximately eight or nine thou
j sand capsules will be drawn in this first wartime lot
tery since 1918 and the third since enactment of the
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.
Under present plans, the order numbers of the reg
istrants who enrolled as of February 16, will not be
; integrated in the old master lists as were the order
numbers of the men who registered on July 1, 1941.
in the second Selective Service Registration. Conse
quently it is not expected that any of the February
registrants will be inducted in the imediate future.
It is contemplated that registrants in the third reg
istration will not be called until they have answered
their questionnaires and have been classified, which,
probably will not be before May according to expect
ations of National Headquarters. Prior to May, all
War Department quotas necessarily must be filled from
men 21 to 35, inclusive, who registered in 1940 and '41.
If, while the February registrants are being classi
fied, the War Department requests men in age groups
from 21 to 35 years, the quotas will come from the
1940 and 1941 registrants. If the request is for men of
the 3rd registration, the calls will be filled by the
February, 1942, registrants.
i Serial numbers issued to the new registrants by the
local boards, in the manner prescribed by Selective
Service Regulations, will be marked T-l, T-2, and so
on, to designate the Third Registration enrollees, and
the numbers in the capsules drawn in the third lottery
on March 17 will begin with the number 10.001.
This beginning with the 10,001 number is because
some 9,000 numbers were drawn in the first lottery
and 800 in the second. It was decided, therfore, by Na
tional Headquarters, to use numbers from 10,001 up to
between 18,000 and 19.000 in the third lottery.
Capsules-containing the numbers drawn in the lot
tery of March 17 will be green—the same color as the
registration cards used in the third registration. The
drawing will be made in the Interdepartmental Audi
torium, Washington, D. C., a Government building
and the scene of the two previous Selective Service
drawings. '
When the March 17 drawing is completed, the Mas
ter List for this Third Selective Service Lottery will
be forwarded to State Directors of Selective Service,
and by them to local boards, so that local boards may
set up their individual order lists.
According to current plans, the first numbers will
be drawn by high officials of the National Government,
amid solemn ceremonies in keeping vdth the gravity
of the times. Representatives of the armed forces and
members of Congress are certain, also to participate
in the drawing. The program in general Grig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, Director of 'Selective Service, lias
announced, will duplicate, for the most part, that
‘ which was carried through the two preceding lotteries.
The ceremonies will be open to the public, accord
ing to the General, and publication of numbers drawn
and registrants affected will be permitted in commun
1 ities where the registrants reside.
General Hershey pointed out that “publication of
order numbers, or even names, in communities, is au
thorized, as such publication will not reveal exactly
the total number of registrants enrolled throughout
the Nation in the February registration—information
which is still restricted by the War Department.”
The number of capsules used for the drawing wall
be determined by the highest number of registrants
reported by any local board, that is, for example, if
one board reports 8,000 newr rgeistrants it will be nec
essary to draw at least that many numbers. However
as only one local board will have this highest number
I of registrants in all probability, and many local boards
will have only a few hundred, lottery statistics could
not convey any helpful information to enemy nations,
l the General said.
In the first two Selective Service lotteries, capsules
were drawn from the historic goldfish bowl that was
used in the first lottery of the World War in 1917 and
it is planned to bring this same container to Washing
‘ | ton from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where it
■ is kept, for use in the March 17 lottery.
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THREE SONS —The former Lady Banbury of England, now
Mrs. Sigfried Burhmayr, 26, wife of a Franconia, N. H„ ski in
structor, poses with her newly-born triplet sons at Littleton, N. H„
hospital. Boys are Sigfried, Charles and Norbert.
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COT HIM DOW N—News that his wife had given birth to
triplet daughters put George I. Naylor, Jr., of Seattle, Wash., in
bed, to recover from the shock. His mother, offering him a drink,,
said he suffered from the excitement plus a cold.
THEY WOULD READ YOUR AD
TOO, IF IT APPEARED HERE
NENANA ICE POOL
WELL ORGANIZED
The Nenana Ice Pool organiza
tion has started functioning in
prepaartion for the great annual
spring event. Tickets can be had
at the Nome Drug Store, Polar
Bar, the Navada saloon and at
Jack Solomon’s.
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Rules governing the 1942 Ice
Pool contest are:
Nenana Ice Pool closes April 4,
1942, midnight.
No refunds for rejected tickets.
No silent partners will be re
cognized as winners.
Key ticket—Name of combina
tion signed on front of ticket,
placing as many names as con
venient on back; making your
combination list as follows:
Key ticket Serial No.
Name of Combination
Names
ICE MOVED AT NENANA
1917— April 30 . 11:30 A.M.
1918— May 11 .9:33 A.M.
1919— May 3 .2:33 P.M.
1920— May 11 .10:46 A.M.
1921— May 11 . 6:42 A.M. ,
1922— May 12 .1:20 P.M.
1923— May 9 . 2:00 P.M.
1924— May 11 .3:10 P.M.
1925— May 7 . 6:32 P.M.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 P.M.
1927— May 13 .5:42 A.M.
1928— May 6 . 4:25 P.M.
1929— May 5 .3:41 P.M.
1930— May 8 ..7:03 P.M.
1931— May 10 .9:23 A.M.
1932— May 1 ..10:15 A M.
1933— May 8 .7:30 P.M.
1934— April 30 .2:07 P.M.
1935— May 15 .... 1:32 P.M.
1936— April 30 . 12:58 P.M.
1937— May 12 .8:04 P.M.
1938— May 6 .8:14 PM.
1939— April 29 .1:26 P.M.
1940— April 20 .3:27 P.M.
1941— May 3 .1:50 a.M.