POST-WAR WAVE
OF
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National Magazine Predicts
West Coast Will Be Hard
Hit by Folding Industry
New York (U.R) The
west coast will be hit by a "dis
astrous" wave of unemployment
after the war unless prepara
tions are made beforehand to
take up the- slack In jobs that
will occur when the shipbuild
ing and aircraft industries
"fold," the magazine Fortune
predicted today.
The magazine, in Its latest is-
Who looks after
those Beehives
There's a question on which
the experts always hook the
common people. They say!
"What form of transportation
Is used daily by the most Amer
icans?" Vou say: "Automobiles"
... or "Trains" ... or "Street
cars" ... or, mayhap, "Roller
skates." . "
Then the experts laugh
ha, ha! and give you the right
answer: Elevators! For, as our
British friends would say, we
Americans travel oftenest by
lift. This couldn't be a fact save -for
the beehive activity that
goes on in office buildings.
Throughout the West, partic
ularly, office buildings are bee
hives of war-work just a trace
less war-busy than die Army's
beehive Pentagon in Washing
ton. Count the doors, some day,
that bear the mark "U. S."
Think how many other doors
marked "Blank Company" or
even just "John Smith" must :
lead to war operations .that
couldn't be done without
Tot most people take fot
granted the near -miracle that
office buildings keep on run
ning, riow do they keep the
windows washed? ... the floors
clean? ... the busy elevators
running? .... all their endless
"housework" done?
Well, that "housework" tag
may! tell all For women have
taken over almost entirely.
Things once considered strictly
a man's job, the women are do
ing with skill and dispatch.
Some aren't easy. Some involve
danger. The women say "What
of it!"
To those who keep the bee
hive going workers and wor
ried management both we'd
like to give a humble salute.
I flag, wMi S rtan.
warded ro our Rldlnond XtflMfy
"GREAT SCOTT"
News for Mothers!
M.M . has received another
Shipment of the "GREAT SCOTT line of
CHILDREN'Sand BABY'S SHOES
Raqlnq Flood Waters Sweep California
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This Is not Venice but the main street of Vlsalla, Calif, where swollen rivers and streams have virtually lnun.
dated the town, cut off all transportation and forced evacuation of hundreds of families marooned In outlying
districts. No casualties were reported and reclamation crews, employing baled hay, sand bags and bulldozers,
have plugged most of the St. John's River levees.
sue devoted entirely to the Pa
cific coast, said that while peace
time industry eventually will
use the 800,000 shipyard and
aircraft workers plus those of
the 800.000 local servicemen who
will seek .industrial employ
ment, the pre-war working force
of the west coast covered by
unemployment compensation
was only 1,900.000 against 3,
100,000 in 1D43.
Can Be Avoided
If steps are taken ahead of
time to absorb the surplus post
war working force, "most of the
trouble can be avoided," For
tune said.
"Both" private and public
maintenance and capital expen
ditures," it said, "need to 'be
anticipated for several years
ahead and concentrated as much
as possible' in the years imme
diately following the war.
"Congress should decide now
what assistance it will give to
state and local public works.
Action now would enable com
munities to get ready. Irrigation,
power, airport, highway and
similar developmental projects
must also be anticipated, and
as many as possible scheduled
ahead for the early months of
peace.
Joint Planning
' The magazine called on the
Building industry and state, lo
cal and federal governments to
plan jointly -the dismantling of
the "Jerry-built war towns and
the establishment of permanent
communities to take their place
"Unemployment compensation
and, perhaps, aid to workers
who want to leave congested
areas in search of job opportuni
ties elsewhere need to be re
examined with the inevitability
of unemployment in mind,", it
continued.
. Jobs Heeded
Jobs . will be needed in the
five largest west coast cities
for an extra 500,000 persons af
ter the war. Fortune estimated.
A post-war labor force of 3,-
16Z.B0U compared wnn z.oio,
900 in 1940 is expected in and
near the cities of Seattle, Port
land, San Francisco, Los An-:
geles and San Diego.
The magazine made public in
its latest issue results of a poll
conducted among businessmen
nn the future of west coast busi
ness. Nearly 80 per cent of the
west's leading executives expect
post-war employment in their
companies to be greater than
pre-war, and nearly 34 per cent
believe it will be even higher
than in wartime.
PFC. JOSEPH ZAMRZLA
WOUNDED SECOND TIME
For the second time in recent
ralorivM have received
word that Pvc. Joseph L. Zam
rzla has been wounded in action.
The soldier was first reported as
having suffered sngni wounas
,m1a servlns with an Infantry
unit in Belgium and later was
.IA 4 - hami heeri aerinuslv
wounded Jan. 14. No further
details have been received.
Oft 7amrla la the ftnn of Mr
and Mrs. W. J. Zamrzla, 139
Portland avenue, and his wife Is
mnlHno her home with her Bar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Dee Jones.
Longview, Wash.
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For the third time in 48 hours, American forces hit west coast defenses
on Luzon, thrusting ashore at Nasugbu Bay, 13 miles south of Manila, to !
outflank Japanese holding the city.
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Aboard the USS LST 309 In
an, English Port (Delayed) "It
Could Happen to You But It
Didn't"- is a revised version of
the old hit tune, now the theme
song of this battle-worn landing
ship. Her crew sing it as they
rest up in this British port
where the LST 309 is drydocked
for repairs.
Veteran of four invasions, the
309 has worked the beaches ol
Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Nor
mandy. During all these opera
tions, and 22 trips across the
English Channel since D-day
with reinforcements for allied
armies in Europe, not one man
has been lost through enemy
action.
Local Man Aboard
Among her lucky crew is
Robert H. Hyde, 21, MOM3C,
USNR., of Jacksonville, Ore.
Hyde and his shipmates recall
two high points of the 309's
colorful career. At Salerno, a
nearby Liberty ship loaded with
bombs was set on fire by Nazi
air raiders. The 309 went full
steam ahead, through minefields
churned up by a recent storm
and Just made the beach when
the Liberty ship blew up. At
Sicily, she also was dive bombed
an4 because of heavy seas was
compelled to drop anchor and
"take it" before going into the
beach. Bombs hit so close thai
men on the guns were soaked
to $3.45
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Flanks Nips
The new thrust broke open the back
U. 8. Sixth Army veterans movuu
the north.
with water sent up .by the
splashes.
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Officers and men of this ship
apparently believe they haven't
done enough. In a recent war
bond drive they bought over
$8,000. worth of bonds one of
the highest figures in the entire
amphibious fleet based on the
United Kingdom.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Smith of Jacksonville, Hyde was
employed by a local cleaning
firm before joining the navy in
July, 1942.
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IN LUZON LANDING
Cooperation and gratitude of
the Filipinos in their dealings
with American troops of libera
tion were described in a letter
from Pfc. Arthur L. Hakkerup
received recently by his parents,
Mr. and mVs. John L. Hakkerup
of Prospect.
"From the very first day of
our landing," Pfc. Hakkerup
wrote, "the Filipino people came
down 'from nowhere' to help the
Yanks dig fox holes, do our
laundry, bring us chickens and
fresh eggs. It was a grand ad
venture after being away from
good food and civilization so
long.
"Even the most hardened 'city
slicker' In the army is moved
with pity and sympathy for the
Filipinos, who are so full of
emotional joy on the day of their
liberation."
Pfc, Hakkerup also described
some of the treatment accorded
the native population by the
Japanese during the time the
enemy occupied the areas in
which our troops are operating:
"When you hear their stories
of Jap atrccities; how the Japs
would slap them for no reason at
all, and when they were sick
the Japs would accept no ex
cuses for,not working their rice
fields. Some pleading Filipinos
like Americans, would have
their heads held under water for
one-half hour intermittently, so
they would not forget to bow to
all Jap soldiers.
"It makes you sad to see old
Filipinos, walking skeletons,
having lived in the hills three
years to escape the Japs. Little
children, with only a ragged
gunnysack over their shoulders
and everything below the waist
exposed.
Describing the courtesy and
courage of the Filipino popula
tion, Pfc. Hakkerup said, "400
years ago the Spanish put cul
ture and schools, churches, in
the Philippines Indians were
running around in New York
400 years ago. The people are
very religious and have a high
moral code.
He told how one Filipino child
"brought us a G. I. flashlight
that fell off a vehicle. What hon
esty after three years of tor
ture!"
Saying that he was "safe and
well." Pfc Hakkerup concluded
the letter with "God bless the
navy for doing a good job."
1 Enclosed in the letter were
some Japanese and Filipino bills
which he sent home for souven
Irs, remarking, "A complete is
sue of their 'medium 01 ex
change' was ararnged by trad
ing unessential underwear, de
hydrated can of eggs ana a lew
cigarettes.'
Pfc. Hakkerup has been in
the army four years, three of
which he has spent in the South
Pacific.
MISTAKE
New York, Feb. 5 U.P.)
Daniel TIerney, 37, was held in
$500 bond today for hearing
Wednesday on a charge of dis
orderly conduct. His wife com
plained he hit her with a five
pound steak, bruising her Up.
She said she waited in line three
hours to buy what hit her. '
doling tlm for ClaMlfled Ada u
am Too Lata to Claailfy 12:30
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At Craterian
Now playing at the Craterian
is "Something For the Boys," in
Technicolor, with Carmen Ml
randa, Michael O'Shea and
Vivian Blaine. The film ends to
morrow night.
NOMINATED FOR
Hollywood, Feb. B. (U.R)
The heart warming motion pic
ture "Going My Way," whose
star, Crooner Bing Crosby,
pulled the highest box office re
turns of any actor in 1944, to
day won the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences' nomi
nations for seven coveted "oscar"
awards.
For his performance' In the
picture Barry Fitzgerald became
the first actor in academy his
tory to be nominated for awards
tor botn the best performance by
an actor and the best perform
ance by a supporting actor.
The picture also was nominat
ed as best movie of the year, the
best written screen play and the
best original motion picture
story. Its director, Leo McCarey,
was nominated for achievement
in directing and the tune
"Swinging on a Star" was nomi
nated best original song.
Approximately 9,000 ' mem
bers of the film industry will
participate in final balloting
t eb. 10 to select the winners, to
De announced March 15.
The psychological chiller
"Gaslight" also was nominated
as best picture of the year, and
its stars, ingrld Bergman
Charles Boyer, and Angela Lans
bury, nominated for awards as
best actress, best actor and best
supporting actress, respectively,
HONOR ROLL
The following pupils of Roose
velt school were on the honor
roll for the third six weeks'
period of the first semester:
1-B Jannon Van Valzeh. Jo
anne Classen, Carol Ann Lewis,
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1- A Susan Bagley.
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honor roll for the entire first
semester:
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