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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-17
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
F. 0. E. CHRISTMAS PARTY
 MAKES A HAPPY EVENT

Douglas Eagles and Auxiliary members celebrated the Christmas season in true Yuletide fashion last night with Santa Claus and light ed tree, games, and contests, and prizes and refreshments. More than fifty members of the organiza tion were present for the fun.
 With Mrs. Marcus Jensen in charge of the entertainment. first contest was of Names" and was won by Mrs. Tauno Niemi; Doto Brown car- ried off honors at cards, naming animal prizes went to Mrs. Dale Fleek; cootie winners were Mrs. Leonard Johnson, high score; Mrs. Gust Erickson; twelve tables of players were engaged in the latter game
 Old Santa, in the person of FL ton Engstrom, presided over the distribution of gifts from the tree with the assistance of Mrs. A. J. Balcg. Then followed siging of Christmas songs, accompanied by Ernst Oberg at the piano. Refresh- ments of ice cream, cookies and cof- fee were served.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
And Now tor the Third Giant

And Now tor the Third Giant
 Eric and Santa rode happily back to town after imprisoning the giant who wished to build a wall as high as the sky. They were followed by hundreds of dancing people who had been under the spell of the giant. Now they returned to their homes.
 Fries winged horse dropped them back down on the lawn beside the castle of the good, gray Queen. Santa sat down to work on some more dolls houses. Eric chuckled and handed him the magic knife which the locket had given him.
 This should fly faster for you than your own knife said Eric.
 Santa was so pleased his cheeks turned pink. He took the knife and then said aloud. Now I want to carve a doll house that will have windows that open and shut, kitchen faucets that run real wa ter and music box on the mantle that will play a tune
 "Goodnessp laughed Eric. That must be for a special little girl.
 Tt is," said Santa. She has written me for such a house three years now. And she should have it. She takes care of her baby brother while her mother works.
 Eric Was Worried
 But Eric was worried. He was thinking of the third giant. He decided to use the last wish the locket could grant him. He snapped open the locket and said, Help me for the third and last time, little friend
 Immediately he saw in the locket three little crows no big ger than pin heads. The voice cf the locket said, Take these. They will become big as real crows Take them to the giant with no heart, and tell him the birds need singing lessons. ;
 Eric said goodbye to Santa who looked up seriously and said This is the cruelest of the giants, Be careful. And come back soon as you can. You must be back ct least by Christmas Eve if you are to be made king of your home land.'
 Eric promised. He bowed to Santa and then he bowed to the good, gray Queen in her tower. He mounted his horse and flew straight to the giant with no heart
 Pleased the Giant
 Eric rode boldly up to the giants left ear and shouted, Sire, I come from east of the sun where the fame of your fine voice has spread. Here are the three birds which are my kingdoms best singers. But we hear you are bet ter. So my queen has asked me to bring the birds to you for sing ing lessons
 That pleased the giant. He took deep breath and sang very loudly It was dreadful noise, but Eric smiled and said, That is sweeter sound than anything in our kingdom. Now, Sire, will you give this first bird lesson
 Let me hear him. said the giant importantly. T must know
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EAGLES PARTY

It was decided at a meeting of Douglas Aerie IF, FOE. last night to hold an event of a certain kind some time before Christmas and a committee composed of Norman Rustad, Dale Fleek, Leonard John son. Tom Cashen, Claude Erskine and Robert Bonner, Jr.. is working on the affair. Final arrangements will be announced later.
 A New Year hi-jinks was also de-
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CITY TO HAVE TREE

Plans are on foot today to have a fine big tree brought in to be planted at the corner of Third and D Streets, the main intersection of the town for a Christmas tree, May or Kilburn said this morning. <
 The tree will be lighted up as us- ual and according to plans made at their recent meeting Christmas carols will be sung around the tree when it is ready.
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BY# SlCRtD ARNE

THE STORY so FAR: Eric, a fisherman's son, has set out to imprison three giants who have bcwitched whole king dom. He has defeated two. Now he must take the third, and most terrible giant.
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COMMUNITY s. S. TREE
 NEXT SUNDAY MORNING

The annual Christmas tree exer- cises of Douglas Community Sunday School will be held next Sunday forenoon at the regular Sunday School hour Of 10 o'clock in the City Hall building.
 Due to lack of space, Mrs. Henry Schlegel announced yesterday only parents of the Sunday School chil- dren are invited.
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what mistakes he makes before can teach him
 Eric held out the first bird. It preened its wings and this is what it sang:
 Tell us good sir, where you keep your heart.
 There is one comes near it will rend it apart
 "What!'' shouted the giant That's impossible. It is safely hidden in a castle back of the East Wind
 Eric needed no more. He whis- pered to his winged horse. Take me to the castle back of the East Wind"
 TOMORROW: The Magic
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BARAN0F TREE
 R SHINING FORTH

The large Christmas tree of the Barancf Hotel is now shining forth en the marquee over the Franklin Street entrance.
 The silver spray, with the gay lighting system, makes the tree one of the most noticeable at night time cf any of the present out-of-door decorations.
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SNYDER MOVES

Francis Snyder has established his bachelor headquarters at the Chas. Schramm cottage on Mob hill and will make the residence his home during their absence.
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Although the name ''marihuana" commonly is applied to one certain type Of plant, in reality it is an old Carib Indian name for all kinds of fiber plants.
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While Nazi war planes drop their cargoes of death on London, babies go right on being born. This tot is shown short time after his arrival in the war-torn city during an air raid. He is being bathed by mem- Der of the corps of nurses stationed
 throughout the city.
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cided on with Charles Tuckett head
 ing the committee on arrangements.
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4-ROOM furnished house, oil heat, close in, S3750 monthly Phone Black 415.
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FOR RENT

BROOM steam heated apt. and bath. Klein Apts. Phone Black 763.
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FOR RENT-Furnished apartment. Close in. Reasonable. Phone Red 295.
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WHY SUFFER With your feet? Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. Stoves.
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FOR RENT-Furnished apartment in Triangle Bldg. Phone 3.
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FOR RENT-Steamhea 2-bed- room modern apt. Call. 452.
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BROOM furnished house, oil heat, oil range, on Gastineau Ave. Apply Juneau Paint Store.
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FOR RENT - With unobstructed view clear to Taku, apartment, furnished with electric range and reefer, heated, and rents for $50 month. Kilburn Apartments, Douglas.
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NOTICE

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. showing skr route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Go adv.
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3-ROOM furnished, heated apt. and bath. Phone 704.
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 4-ROOM furnished house, oil heat close in, S375O monthly. Phone Black 415.
 FOR Furnished apartment Close in. Reasonable. Phone Red 295.
 FOR RENT - With unobstructed view clear to Taku. apartment, furnished with electric range and reefer, heated. and rents for $50 a month. Kilburn Apartments Douglas.
 BROOM furnished house, oil heat oil range, on Gastineau Ave Apply Juneau Paint Store. FOR RENT-Furnished apartment in Triangle Bldg. Phone 3. 3-ROOM furnished heated apt. and bath. Phone 704. FOR RENT-Steamheated 2-bed- room modern apt. Call. 452. BROOM furnished apt oil heat. Phone Black 490. BROOM furnished apt. TAG w. 12th. Phone Blue 279. 8 ROOMS and bath, air condi- toned, heated, electric washer. laundry, new oak floors, electric range, frigidaire, nicely furnished. Call Windsor Apts. BOARD & ROOM, $50 per mo. Steam heat, dry room and shower bath, two in room for $45. Ju- neau Rooms, phone 472 FOR RENT-Furnished room, 325 APARTMENT for rent. Phone 723 Sixth.
 FOR RENT-Furr:sne rooms. hot and cold water Orpheum Rooms, Mrs. Anna Anderson, manager. NICE CLEAN rooms, steamheated- upstairs, 20th Century Market. Rate: $16 single, $20 double. STORE space in Decker Bldg. Phone Blue 465 BROOM furnished apt. Steam heat, hot water day and night. Electric range and frigidaire, laundry conveniences. Phone 132, Douglas.
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BROOM furnished apt, oil heat. Phone Black 490.
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Dowager Queen Mary of Britain has disposed of her expensive Daimler car and now is driven around in a light automobile of American make.
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LADY wants work by hour or day. Phone Blue 510.
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BROOM furnished apt. TAG w 12th. Phone Blue 279.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
More Than A Gesture

The exploit of the British battle fleet sta
toned at Alexandria, when it made a foray
into the Mediterranean, blasted Italian con-
centration points and sought to lure Mussolini's
navy into a fight, obviously was more than a
gesture to prove that the disputed sea is still
unmastered by the Axis powers. It did that
but it also indicates that the British strategy
is to let the Italian land forces gather at
chosen points with little or no opposition so
that the fleet may destroy both supplies and
soldiers with its big guns.
The Alexandria dispatch, telling of the voy.
age, says: 'The fleets mighty guns burst
against Italian land positions after it had made
a three weeks sweep of the Mediterranean
and Aegean seas" Further, it quotes a British
officer as saying: In the entire $500 mile
trip no Italian warship appeared and though
the fleet was frequently Swallowed by enemy
planes, they made no attempt to bomb u.s.
It would appear that the Duce's fleet is hap
py to remain under the protection Of land bat.
teries, but it is hard to see how it can hope
to obtain mastery of Mare Nostrum'' by these
tactics. Nor is it easy to see how the Italian
land forces can conquer Egypt and cut the
suez canal as long as they take up positions,
and bring up supplies, in places where British
ships and British fliers can destroy them as
quickly as they mount sufficiently to justify
attack.
1t may, indeed, be the purpose of the Axis
policy and military and naval command. Thu
far the best that has been accomplished by
Marshal GRAHAM is the penetration to desert
posts well within the range of British naval
guns, and the Italian navy has nestled in ports
without risking battle. Conquests are not made
by these methods.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
The Changing War Scene

There is no longer any doubt that the Nazi
campaign against Britain has had to be al
tered. Hitler may yet attempt to land an army
in England but the great damage the Royal
Air Force is doing at channel concentration
points as well as to German industries and
supply %centers, together with the approach OF
bad weather, make such a venture doubly
hazardous.
As an alternative it is thought that with
such aid as Mussolini can give him Hitler may
transfer his chief activities to the Mediter.
ranean zone. An attack on Gibraltar by way
of Spain is limited. Large reinforcements for
Marshal GRAHAM in north Africa and substan'
tial increases in the air force operating IN the
area are f~oreseen. The idea is that, failing to
reduce Britain by direct attack. the Fuehrer
will next concentrate upon driving the British
from Egypt and by cutting the suez canal
starve them into surrender. There is no as
surance that this is his plan, but military OBJ
servers agree that it may be his new strategy.
If he should, indeed, start such a campaign,
he would find it necessary to withdraw large
forces from the channel coast where he has
assembled his armies for the invasion OF
Britain and the bombing of London. And to do
that would expose the channel ports to with
ering attack by the British and the probable
establishment of a British b%ridgehead on the
continent. Even though it begins to appear
that Hitler is growing desperate, it is not like
ly that he would be guilty of such a tactical
blunder. He wants the British swept from
Egypt. He wants the Suez canal put out OF
commission. He wants mastery Of the Med
iterranean. But it is not probable that he
wants any Of these things at the price Of the
channel ports from which the British could
start a continental offensive and with new
equipment and strengthened air force carry
the war into Germany.
1t appears more likely that Hitler will give
such aid as he can, without weak
ening his forces opposed to England, in the
hope that some good fortune will give Grazi-
ami the advantage in Africa, and continue his
own separate onslaught across the channel.
AS the Battle Of Britain now stand it is not
unreasonable to believe that either by air or
land, or by both, he will fail to break the will
OF the British people, and without doing that
the conquest of Britain will be impossible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Efficiency Cottages

The Bradenton, Florida, Herald announces
a building project which contains a fine sug-
gestion for Wilmington's city planners. Engi.
neered by an Indiana lake resort operator,
the plan is to erect up to 40 efficiency cottages
all in the modern style, with the conventional
accommodations for comfort and home enjoy
ment, but with no waste space to entail house.
keeping drudgery.
There will be a living room, one or two bed.
rooms, kitchen, shower bath, with a central
heating plant to provide warmth and hot water
at all times. The cottages will be furnished in
the best approved manner even to inner
spring mattresses, and will fill a long-felt
want of many visitors who prefer quarters
better than the average tourist camp and not
quite as expensive as furnished bungalows.
New arrivals in Wilmington are shocked at
the lack Of desirable furnished small homes
and apartments. Something like this venture
at Bradenton ought to improve the situation
materially. Properly exploited it would as
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
More And More Gold

Having moved over the $21, 600. 000, 900 level
last wek, monetary gold holdings of the Unit
ed States already are well on the way to the
next milestone, with no signs of a real let-up
in the acquisitions apparent, says the New
York Herald Tribune.
This newspaper points out further that there
Is a small flood of public and private studies
OF the matter under way, but nothing conclu.
sive has yet appeared. The contention that
gold is a desirable commodity and is bound
to remain such is present in all the surveys.
Some of them, indeed, are nothing more thar
lengthy demonstrations of that truism.
A few studies 60 so far as to maintain tina,
the future OF gold may vary in accordance with
a British or a German victory in the war,
Occasional suggestions are made or the re.
distribution of our gold stocks through foreign
loans or even through gifts. In virtually all
studies it is commended that the United States
Treasury should continue to buy the metal al
S35.
The chorus for Redistribution of convertibility
Is getting louder, most arguments being thai
this would prevent currency tampering.
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For Needy Pupils

Generous Wilmingtonians who contributed SO
magnificently when the Red Cross issued its
appeal for aid for war refugees in Europe.
will not be less generous when girls of the
Junior class at New Hanover High school ask
them today to contribute to the fund solicited
by the schools P~arent-Teacher association for
the benefit of needy pupils.
Here is something We can do for our own un.
fortunate children. Reduced to fundamentals,
1t is not charity. These youngsters are helping
as much as they can. But the family circum-
stances are not equal to the drain upon its
slim finances imposed by school attendance.
The fact that the children are nevertheless
IN school is evidence of their worthiness and
the high purposes of their. families.
The p. I. A. is seeing that they get good
lunches, for their minds cannot function at
par IN the class room if they lack sufficient
food. It is also seeing that adequate clothing
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
The Coastal Fair

County or district fairs are, in the last anal
ysis, the show windows of the community. AS
the merchant displays his choicest wares in
the windows Of his store, so the community
displays its best at its fair, that all who attend
may see, and take note, and know where to
90 for true values when the time comes to
buy.
This is why it is interesting and hopeful to
learn that plans are already afoot for the
Coastal Fair here in mid-October. Under spon-
sorship of the American Legion post Of Will
mington, this exhibition promises to top all
similar enterprises here in previous years.
Residents of the coastal region will have op-
portunity to view what their neighbors have
accomplished on their farms. what advance
industries have made, what improvement
there has been in herds and soil products.
what the housewives have achieved through
home economics.
There is, perhaps, no source Of encourage
ment for rural jewellers to do better in their
field Of economic activities equal to the COM
munity fair. This years fair here should car
ry the entire area forward toward higher goals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Shipment Of Cotton
Will Be Sent Here

The federal government has au-
thorized the release of a shipment
Of cotton and ticking for use in the
New Hanover county mattress max.
ing project sponsored by the extern.
sion service of the North Carolina
State college in Raleigh, Miss Ann
Mason, home demonstration agent,
announced yesterday.
The county project will start with.
in the next two weeks following
the holding of a leadership training
school here on the project of Good
Bedding by Miss Pauline E. Gordon.
extension home management and
house furnishings specialist.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
ITALIAN VESSELS
FIRED BY PLANES
British Bombers Hit Ships
During Attack On Ben
gasi Harbor, Libya

CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 2O.-R-
The Royal Air Force command an
nounced tonight that it's bombers
had set three large ships aflame
IN an attack last night on Italian
shipping in Bengasi harbor, Ital
ian Libya.
A concentration of invading Ital
ian motor transports near Sidi Ear.
rani, Egypt, was bombed for four
hours, it was added, and in Ethio.
pia a fire was started at DiredaWa
airdrome.
The attack on Bengasi harbor,
the Raj said, was put h O me
through an anti-aircraft barrage.
Slight damage" to buildings IN
the British pr~otectorate city OF
Aden was caused by an Italian
night raid, it was acknowledged,
out there were no casualties.
British officers coined the name
hedgehog today for 4 formation
oelng employed by the Italians in
thelr advance into Egypt.
The hedgehog" consists of a
oetachment of infantry surround
ed and protected by an oval-shaped
ring OF light armored cars carry
ing antl-alr and anti-tank guns.
Inc unit moves across the sands
-Where the Italians have b ee n
narassed by land, sea and air
WIN the ability to throw out its
qullls-its armored cars-when at
a
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Star-News Program

Consolidated Ctty-County Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highuay from WrightsviHe'
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Ertension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel. wid.
81 Turning Basin, With ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
Orton Plantation.
Developmen OF Pulp Wood Produc
ton through sustdined-yie1d methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency, supported BY one
Countrywide tar.
%Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital
adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF native grape gro1ing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sonatorium.
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is available, that glasses are provided for
those with subnormal eyes, that medicines
are available for those who need medical at
tention but have no means for paying the
cost, To give this service it is necessary to
have money-$300 was needed last year-and
to get it the association looks to the public.
Tag Day offers the opportunity to support
this very worthy cause. Be sure to have your
quarter or dollar ready when the junior girls
give you a winning smile on the streets today.
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Quotations

It's surprising how fast a fellow can spend
a quarter in the penny arcade. - Bobby
Grant, boy of the Typical Cleveland Family
chosen for a guest trip to the World Fair in
New York.
It's all clear, but I'm going to wait tor some
of that tea.-King George vi, after spending
an air raid in q shelter.
There are more politicians in business than
there are in politics. Former Gov. Philip
La Toilette of Wisconsin. 2
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suredly draw many summer visitors who want
to be near the ocean without being part of a
resort community and cottages probably would
be leased by some permanent residents who are
now unable to find quarters to their liking.
The Bradenton project is expected t.. involve
the investment of not more than $780, 900. That
is not a prohibitive amount here. Wilmington
capital seeking profitable investment might
find a good outlet, and fair net revenue,
through similar employment.
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EXAMINED

VlCHY, France, Sept. 2O-LR-
FORMER Air Minister Guy la Cham
pre- was examined by the magi-
strate of the little frontier town of
ceret last evening when he arrived
rom the United States with his
wiie, it was reported tonight. He
Will be taken under guard to Rom
TO stand trial in the war guilt
prosecute