1 Governor Grueniii" Tr!!s
Of Price Control Plan
URGES ALASKANS TO STAY IN TERRITORY;
TELLS RATE HEARING DETAILS
Appointment of Mrs. Mildred R Hermann of Juneau j
as regional director of the Office of Price Admin'stra-1
lion in Juneau, was announced recently by Governor:
Gruening.
Mrs. Hermann, widely known throughout the Terri
tory, will head an organization which may grow to on*
standing importance in preventing inflation through
the stabilization of prices and also be in charge of ra
tioning if and when rationing becomes-necessary in Al
aska. The OP A will start with an office only in Juneau
but it is likely that offices will soon be established in
various towns throughout the Territory.
Mrs. Hermann is a practicing attorney in Juneau and
has been active in Territorial politics for many years
She has hern a candidate for election to the legislature
cn the Republican ticket. She is probably known am ng
women primarily as past president of the Alaska Fed
eration of Women's Clubs and r s been active in rep c
senting the viewpoint of the consumer.
The G ive n.;r told the Rotary Club recently that
the OPA had indicated an intention of stabilizing p’.ic
es in Alaska at the level of last March.
Saves Alaskans 3 Million
“But Ln view of the fact that was the month freight
rates were 45 percent higher, and since then have been
lowered, I believe it would be more fair to the consum
er to stabilize them at the level of last January 6.” he
said.
The 45 percent increase in freight rates was made
effective January 7 and was subsequently reduced to n
25 percent increase in western Alaska.
The governor said the decrease of the freight boost
from 45 percent down to 25 percent plus the ordered re
duction in basic rates of the steamship companies saved
Alaskans about $3,000,000 a year on their freight bills.
“Divide this total among the 40,000 whites who must
pay it and you can see it is a substantial saving for ev
ery one of them," he said.
The governor said he devoted much time to priorities
for the mining industry, besides fighting the freight
i rate increases.
Sees Further Curtailment
“It is apparent that all industries which are not es
sential to the war effort are going to be curtailed and
the gold mining industry will be suspended after this
year," he said.
“There, I sought to interest the War Production
Board in prospecting for strategic minerals." A repre
sentative of that board with $500,000 is now on his way
to Alaska. It is my hope that gold operators who arc
shutting down will transfer their activities to strategic
minerals."
The federal funds will probably be used as a grub
stake lor Alaska miners who are familiar with the
country.
“This may lead to u more diversified mining industry
in the Territory, something which is very desirable,"
he commented.
“Stay In Alaska"
In answer to a question relative to evacuations, the
governor urged Alaskans to stay home.
“This is no time to become panicky,’ he said. “One
cannot run away from a total war. We are just as safe
here as anywhere on the Pacic coast. If the time comes
when evacuations are advisable, the military author
ities will make that fact known.
“Besides, the Army cannot operate efficiently in a
vacuum. Civilian services must be carried on and it
is our job to do that. It is not American, it is not pa
1 triotic, nor is it courageous to try to run away. We
must stay here and like it."
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MACAR7HUR in NEEDLEPOINT-Julia Syir.
sky-*mith. Russian-born sculptor and artist living in the l nited |
States, created this original needlepoint design forming the image
of General Douglas Ma« Arthur, America’s No. 1 military hero. I
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ANTICIPATION IN
MADAGASCAR
| For once the British made an
! effort t«, got there first: when
they announced they were laying'
hands on Madagascar. Thu*, on!
the h* e]s <if a Iliiler-Mu-'s d'ni ,
j meeting that seemed 10 presage I
| some great new evil and a par-|
i lev of Madagascar-hungry Jap
i anese din1 omits in V chy, the;
Pr'ti-h antleipgted one likely
Axis move.
j The .1 p*. unque«ti nahly want
led Madagascar, for Diego-Suarez I
j the French naval base at the!
(northern end of Ihe Island, isj
j the key to the western half of
! the led fin Ocean. Diego-Suarez
'snuggles in a broad, light-house j
studded bay, and it affords the)
navy of th<> nation which controls j
P a fully equipped submarine:
station, a 20,000'Uin capacity dry-'
dock t nearest equivalent: South
31’ntnn, England), radio stations, |
. a largely equable climate, a rnili
; tary hospital, a good water sup
ply. a hig power plant and me-'
! teornlogica! station.
Madagascar is potentially a
great air base. ton. The 980-mile
long island has four well-equip- ■
i pod major (i Ids. at Diego
Suarez. I vain. E rt Berge. Ma
j junga. The island’s 35,000 white l
population has been stud bv some!
| to he 98 percent anti-Vichy but i
| its governor for some months has
1 been an ardent Vichv-man who i
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has put De Gaulists in ja'l.
The real significance of Mad
, agascar is that its lee shore shel '
' ters the 250-mile wide heavily-j
| trafficked Mozambique Chan- j
i nel, which, if the island were in
j Jap hands, would seem to Allied
! shipping like the neck of a bottle i
i if poison. From the island the
, Japanese could play hob with Al-;
I lied sh'pping bound either for
I Suez or India. But for once the i
I Jap had been beaten to the'
; punch.
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BATTLE OF
' I
AUSTRALIA
Author great battle was coming
in the south Pacific. The United,
Nations had reports that Jap task
j force was assembling in the Mnr
j shall Islands, a round 2.500 miles
, southwest of Pearl Harbor, 2.100
! from Australia’s northern tip.
\ From there the Jap could hit at
i the U. S. Australia supply lino,
! at the islands (close to that
! route east of Australia, or even
i at Pearl Harbor itself. From.
I there also he could sweep down
\ and join the New Guinea-New
Britain forces in an assault on;
Australia.
Faced with these dispositions,
Douglas Mac.Arthur in Australia,
Admiral Chester Niniitz at Pearl
. Harbor, and all the other Allied
j leaders from San Francisco to;
Calcutta, had a tough decision to
i make. They had to guess whatj
shell the pea was under.
Meanwhile the inscrutable foes
sat in the golden seat. The of
fensive was still in his hand. He
i gave a fine exhibition of hiding
! it by much ado over a wide area.
| His planes roared as far east as
j the new U. S. base on New Cale
i donia. were routed by fighters
! His bombers whammed alter
j nately at Port Moresby and north
Australian ports. U. S. and Aus
I tralian pilots whacked right back
destroying the Jap’s planes
wholesale, as many as 30 at one
clip.
But the Jap came back with
more. He poured in still more
planes from the place where the
shot-up planes earpe from. His
resiliency worried Allied strat
egists as much as his multifar
iousness.
Toward end of week of May 11
his lanes scouted the east coast
of Australia, in which he had
never seemed to be interested af
ter years of exploration there by
pearl fishermen and other char-1
actors in the service of the Jap
Navy. At Townsville on the east
coast, two Jap planes were pick-1
ed up one day by U. S. anti-air- j
craftsmen. They were at 30,000.
feet and they were away before;
pursuit could get up and after j
them. Australia looked harder at1
its own defenses on that side. Ifj
the Jap once got past the mine-'
fields between the mainland and:
1,260-mile-long Great Barrier'
Reef, eastern Australia would be'
an inviting place for him to land, j
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WAR DIMS C T WHITE WAY —The (ireat White Way of New York's Times Square
virtually surrender lie night as arms dim-out orders threw the switches of famed electrie signs.
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The above map shows the area of the !>i gn-Suutw. naval I f e on u ' em Mad
agascar, which the British occupied to v vli Japanem e. e in rf i f<>, and sulv
sequent preying on Allied shipping lam s
MADAGASCAR'S ( MT! ' L WIIKKI] BUITISM I,\v?>
This is a view of Tananarive, capital of the French island of Madagascar, strate
gic Indian Ocean outpost, where British troops landed. British came ashore on the
island's northern tip and rnwd toward * ^ n;o al hase at Diego-Snare/._
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