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The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23
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the Yukon this week.
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Two months ago R. R. Robinson
of the U. S. Forest Service went
south TO enjoy his annual vacation
anticipating lots of sunshine and the
stuff the travel catalogs tell about
Result This week Robinson was
north bound on the Yukon for Jun
eau. with this commentaries in
California. way below zero IN Iowa,
New York and Washington, and
freezing in Florida citrus crops des-
troyed all through the south. Give
me Alaska. the land of winter sun
shine and warm weather. Where do
they get that stuff about Arctic Al
aska. this sunshine hurts my eyes. y
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23
WRANGELL SIXTH IN SIZE

1904, Petersburg, fifth, 1888, and
Wrangell, sixth, LAP. Recording
districts in some instances show lar
ger populations but those districts
include large areas other than the
towns proper. The census summary
follows:
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY :

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The. Sentinel extends birthday
greetings this week to.
Julius Mason, Feb. %.
Mrs. Joe Pettferew. Feb. 27.
Fred Hanford. Feb. IS.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23
NIB. sTITMP HOME

After being south since before the
holidays, Mrs. P. L. Stump return
ed home last week and is again in
active charge of her beauty shop.
She reported a fine time, with the
holidays spent in Ketchikan with
her sons and their families, and
thence south to California.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23

Word has been received that Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Scanlon, former
residents of Wrangell now living in
Geary, Indiana, are the proud par
ents of a baby daughter, Sharon
Lee, born February 2.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23

Wrangell maintained its position
as the sixth largest town in the Ter
ritory, according to summary of the
1910 census released by Census Su-
pervisor ]. P. Anderson at Juneau.
Juneau heads the list with 5,748,
Ketchikan, second. 1901, Anchor
age, third, 3,488 Fairbanks, fourth,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-23
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HOTEL ARRIVALS

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Registrations at the Wrangell Ho-
tel the past week were: R. Brown,
Fred Dolphin, Mr.. and Mrs Maurice
Hoff. Charles MeDermott.
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AtHone

President Roosevelt this week gave to
the United States . new definition of
his aims in arming America
American He repudiated the conten-
Policy ton that his policy is inter-
ventionist. I'VE will repel
aggression against the United States or
the Western Hemisphere" he told Con-
gress in asking for an additional 81
848. Ill ,957 for building up United States
arms. 1.-THE people and their repre-
sentatives In Congress know that the
threats to our liberties, the threats to
our security, the threats to our way of
life, the threats to our institutions Of
religion, of democracy and of interna-
tional good faith have increased in num-
Der and gravity from month to month,
from week to week and almost from day
to day.
'The principal lesson of the war up to
the present time is that partial defense
is inadequate defense. If the United
States is to have any defense, 1t must
have total defense. We cannot defend
ourselves little here and q little there.
We must be able to defend ourselves
wholly and at any time. That we are
opposed to war is known, not only to
every American, but to every government
in the world. We will not use our arms
in q war Of aggression; we will not send
our men to take part in European wars"
The President did not say whether
he made his firm statement against in
tervention out Of recognition Of the fact
that the Monroe Doctrine, which is the
basis for . policy Of United States de-
tense Of the whole New World, has q
prescription against American particle
patton In European wars. However, the
day following the presidential announce
ment, Secretary of State Hull disclosed
to his press conference news of German
diplomatic Intervention In American af-
fairs.
Germany advised three Central Amer
lean governments, Guatemala, Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA, to take no
GeTmon action at the coming Havana
Threot conference that would be
contrary to neutrality. Sec
rotary Hull characterized these warm
ings Is . species Of intimidation Of free
nations with full sovereignty. In effect,
Mr.. Hull cautioned Berlin that there was
no theory under which she might thus
attack the sovereignty, freedom Of action
and integrity Of any American republic.
The day the President sent to Congress
bis new defense message, Wednesday, he
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LONDON.-1s the invasion of Britain
q boastful threat uttered by the jour-
nalists and propagandists of nation
intoxicated by the largest and strongest
draught of wine of victory ever quaffed
by any people? Or Is 1t a settled project,
the plans for which are maturing and
will in due course be put into operation?
That is the question which is being can
vassed and conversed about wherever two
or three Britons are gathered together.
Is it coming? If so, how soon? Where
will the blow fall? How can it be most
effectively repealed? have met no one
who believes that the attempt can
achieve real success by overrunning and
occupying this country. Nevertheless.
the British people are preparing as they
did, in the days of the Armada and Of
Napoleon against real peril which Is
hanging over their destinies.
Portents Of Invasion.
Does Hitler really intend to make q
genuine effort to conquer our island?
There are unmistakable signs of prepara-
ton by him for such an enterprise. There
are many shrewd observers who think
he will strike quickly before we can
complete the organization, equipment
and training Of our army.
On the other hand, there are those
who maintain that the whole energy Of
Germany has until quite recently been
concentrated on the destruction Of Hol-
land and Belgium and the overthrow Of
the French Armies, and therefore that
he has not been able to make the neces-
sary preparations for SO gigantic and
difficult an operation. Their view is
that it will take time to stage 50 auda-
cious and. so novel an undertaking as
the landing on the shores Of Britain Of
large force, adequately equipped In the
face of powerful and vgilant fleet.
Air Supremacy Needed.
Complete supremacy in the air alone
would give invasion q chance Of being
effective. That, the Germans have not
yet succeeded in attaining. Although 1t
Is acknowledged that they have numer-
ical superiority. the quality OF the Brit
ish airplane has been 50 demonstrably
better, and the skill and daring Of the
British pilots have been 20 superb, that
German supremacy in the air has not yet
been sufficiently established to create
such favorable conditions as are essen
tial for successful landing. In the teeth
Of an overwhelmingly formidable neet.
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By David Lloyd George.

It is therefore surmised by those who
are of this opinion that the Germans will,
first of all, utilize to the full their nu-
merical superiority In the air during
the next few weeks, in order in the
first place gradually to break down the
resistance hitherto offered by our nirn-
BILE fighting airplanes, and in the next
place to destroy our shipping, our ports,
our factories, and our means of COM
munication. Finally, they hope to de-
stroy the morale of the population by
the terrors of incessant bombings. =
When the Germans conclude that these
objects have been sufficiently attained
it is then and then only-so it is con-
tended-that they will launch their plan
for the invasion Of Britain. But it is
comforting to bear In mind that If they
mean to make their attempt this year,
weather conditions will only remain pro-
pitious for another three months. Even
during these months the weather will
gradually become more and more pre-
cariouS.
Pilots Can't Tell.
There are signs, this last fortnight and
especially this week, that the enemy have
started their bombing campaign in real
earnest Their new method of mass at
tacks on conveys has been beaten of on
one or two occasions with heavy losses
to themselves. German reports of the
results achieved by these raids are, I
am convinced on reliable information,
grossly exaggerated.
That is inevitable on both sides. It is
not necessary or justiflable to impute
deliberate mendacity to either side.
Pilots who drop bombs from great
heights whilst they are dashing along at
hundreds of miles an hour cannot pos
sibly ascertain, with any approach to
accuracy, what Is the extent of the dam
age they have effected. They perceive
that they have scored q hit on or near
their objective, but they have already
passed miles beyond the object of the
attack before the, flash and, smoke of
explosion have cleared sufficiently to
enable them to judge what has actually
happened.
I have read German reports of dew
astation wrought on military detectives.
industrial plants and shipping by their
planes In certain localities. On inquiry
into some pf these cases. I have ascer-
tanned that their bombs had often fallen
hundreds Of yards away from the object
Ut which they had aimed. At night 1t
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Struggle for Mediterranean Mastery Continues While Invasion England
Review of Forty-Fifth Week of War
Bv Blair BolIes,

With bombs diplomacy busy prologue
OF his English while
marked for slaughter but ready the knife into aaker
bombs to drop, nerve-corroders England
In his favoe city Munich Hitler talked
Balkan control
official mind the substitution of Fascist
Republic dead after received
supply lines from Near East He massed troops Spain assault
coperaton the Portugal
quetng dominating all Russia
first isolatng and then, apparently invading England
the Atlantic another Franklin
preparation defense what United the
Western Hemisphere announcing plainly
take in wars He
for American He requested National Guard
divisions His Army chief of Marshall uni
versa conscrpon Secretary War, Henry simson,
the cabinet the
State
American conference scheduled for July 20 at Havana.
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watched Henry Lewis StimSon take the
oath as Secretary of War. Next day he
watched William Franklin Knox take
the oath as Secretary of the Navy. Mr..
Stimson won Senate approval by vote
opponents of both nominations criticized
the men as interventionists. The defense
message makes them the aides of de-
clared non-interventionist.
Nevertheless, the well-established poll
icy of material aid to Britain still con-.
tinues. Friday the Advisory Commissions
of the National Defense Council an.
nounced that directors of the Packard
Motor Co. had approved a general
arrangement" for production of 5000
Rolls Royce airplane motors for the
United States and Great Britain-3,0O0
for the United States and 5000 for
Great Britain. However, the Packard
plant will not begin production for 10
months. The announcement came after
more than three weeks of negotiations
on a contract which Henry Ford had
previously declined on the ground that
he would make munitions only for the
United States i
To arm America in the sky, contracts
for $100000,000 have been let, the Dee
tense Commission said, Id
MiIitory the first of a series Of
Troinine orders expected to yield ths
United States Army and
Navy $4,000 planes in two years. Gen.
George c. Marshall, chief of staff, q. s.,
A., appeared before the Senate Military
Affairs Committee in favor of the aim
of the pending universal conscription
bill. He said it would be best at the
start Of the civilian army draft to enroll
between 100000 and 100000. He de-
tended CONSUMPTION on two grounds:
First, it provides democratic basin
for selection of soldiers; second, it makes
possible the maintenance in peace tims
Of suitable defense force without thu
expense involved In q large permanent
increase in the standing Army. This
Army strength today Is 2500OO men.
On the heels of this testimony came
an announcement from the White House
that President Roosevelt, as soon az
Congress passes legislation to make Il
permissible, will call up four divisions
OF the National Guard and one-third
Of the Guards whole anti-aircraft per-
sonnet for extended training: A bill
containing such authority is before Con-
gress. presented by Chairman May Of
the House Military Affairs Committee.
Congress, in recess until July 22 out of
respect to the Democratic National Con.
vention, which President Roosevelt does
not plan to attend, is expected to pass
the bill as soon as it reconyeneA The
four divisions would represent an corners
OF the country. The first National Guard
division includes men from New York
and New Jersey; the second. Tennessee
and North and South Carolfnav the
third, New Mexico, OklaAoma,.Arizona
and Colorado: the fourth. Oregon, wash
ington, Montana and Idaho.
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LLOYD GEORGE OUTLINES BRITA|NS HOPE
All Depends Thwore Attempt

is almost impossible for pilot TO ascer-
tain with any precision what his bomb
has hit.
Moreover, as anti-aircraft guns and
fighting airplanes multiply-and they
are rapidly doing so-factories, ports and
railways will be better protected and the
mischief done by these raids will tend
more and more to diminish.
Morale Won't Be Undermined.
AS for the workers and their families,
shelters are everywhere multiplying and
improving. The knowledge that they
are available gives sense Of security to
the population and the feeling of terror
created by bombing is diminishing per-
ceptibly where precautions OF this kind
have been taken. The Anderson shelters
have been conspicuous success. do
not, therefore, believe that the morale Of
the people can be undermined to the
point of disnay and panic.
We must, however, face the probability
battles to fight on the continent OF
Europe, their immense air force, over
and above what is reserved for the pro-
lection of their own industries, will be
free to devote its attention to Britain
alone. Our shipping will thus suffer and
so will our factories. Production will be
temporarily impaired, but as initial din
culties have been largely overcome and
output is consequently on the upgrade,
the results will not be as serious as they
would have been even few weeks ago.
Supplies Are Arriving.
Besides, war supplies are arriving from
America and the Dominions, and will
continue to grow. The more formidable
character Of the attack now developing
on our shipping will necessarily AFFECT
adversely our food supplies. But what
with our own harvest and the reserves
built up during the last four months we
have no dread Of the next winter.
Invasion is therefore the immediate
danger. If that Is 'thwarted, we shall
get through to the spring with q larger,
better trained and better equipped
army at home and in the Empire. It win
be an army numbering millions, with ex-
perience Of actual fighting, and heart
ened by infiicting on the victorious
legions OF Germany the hrst reverses
they have sustained.
BY the spring there may be develop
re-. YYovn r.ropcH p>S. c.aN
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The NeutruIs

The easternmost battlers in the Medi-
terranean fight were near territory pre-
senting dangers both to England and
to the axis powers. The agitation in
the, Balkans, reached by sailing due
north from Crete, which the Russians
created in their recent seizures in Ru-
mania disturbed Germany with threat
of war area at Germany's rear. Hungary
menaced Rumania by indications she was
prepared for military seizure of Transyl-
vania, lost by Hungary to Rumania after
World War.
Hitler invited Hungary's two big wigs,
Premier Count Paul Teleky and Foreign
Minister Count Stefan
Hungary Csaky, to conference at
Restroined Munich. There the visi-
tors met Hitler and For
eign Ministers Ribbentrop of Germany
and Ciano of Italy. The Hungarians
agreed to restrain their appetite for
Pennsylvania. The Premier told his
countrymen when he returned to Buda-
pest that Hungary had entered a deep
friendship with Germany. The press
suggested that Hungary had been prom
ised an important role in the final set
tlement of European problems Rumania
was inclined to feel that Hitler at
Munich had been looking out for Ru-
mania's interest in preventing Transyl-
vanian war. Apparently it was a double
diplomatic triumph for Hitler.
German diplomacy is the most subtle
and sinister the world has known since
the Byzantine Empire succumbed to the
Turks. AS Hitler sweetened Hungary, he
threatened Portugal. The Star learned
that he and italy had informed Portugal
that either Portugal must cooperate
with the Axis and permit Axis control
of the little nation on the Iberian penin-
sula's Atlantic coast or submit to Axis
military control. Portugal was expected
to submit.
These diplomatic steps followed what
by now is recognized Hitler formula.
For war he employs q one-two punch
the first punch diplomatic, the second
military. Before he invaded Poland, he
came to terms with Russia. Before he
invaded Norway, he made arrangements
with Denmark. In the midst of his
war against France, he received the in
valuable surrender Of the Belgian king.
Now as prelude to total war on Eng
land, he has triumphed in Hungary, is
at work on Portugal and can claim q
complete victory in France-all in q
weeks time. $
On Wednesday the people Of France
heard from their Premier, Marshal Henri
Petain, who was given
Petoin Is the political command Of
Dictator France so that he could
surrender: France to Ger
, many, in a radio announcement that
the Third Republic was dead and that
1t would be replaced by dictatorship
modelled on totalitarian lines and run
from Versailles. 1.-THE international
capitalistic system is out-moded." the
marshal said. 'The base Of our new
state must be work, the family and the
fatherland." The base Of the old state
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was the motto, once revolutionary.
'liberte, egalite, fraternite, liberty,
equality, fraternity. The French gov
eminent will be decentralized and run
through the old provincial system Of pre-
republican France, which had 80 prov
inces. Pierre Laval was named the Vice
Premier. President Albert Lebrun loses
his position.
In the midst of these German sue
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Admiralty pictured the result as swift
rout of the enemy and announced that
Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, COM
mander in chief of the British Mediter-
ranean fleet, had signaled that there
were no casualties among the British
ships engaged.
Rome had different story to tell Of
the battle of the Mediterranean's OPEN
ing rounds. Italy claimed
Novol victory after 48 hours of in
Bottle termittent shellfire,s tor
pedoing and bombing. The
Italian score sheet listed bomb hits on
the H. M. S. Hood, worlds largest war
ship, 42,100 tons, and the aircraft carrier
Ark Royal, $4,000 tons, as well as the
sinking of British destroyer. The Ital-
ians also admitted losses of their own
the sinking Of the destroyer Zefnro, 1,073
tons; hit on an unidentified warship
in an engagement which killed % Of
the crew and injured 60; loss of a sub
marine and four planes, one of which
was forced down on neutral Greek ter
ritory and three of which failed to re-
turn to their base. Through the week
the fight continued.
The field of the battle is the whole
length of the Mediterranean, with three
general zones where the battle has ragged
undersea, on the sea and in the air
Meditegr1en, DeaHns'
4 pd0f Ct1: ~ the I ian y,
-under the foot Of the Italian boot. md
in the Western Mediterranean south of
IN Balessfd 1ilaAda md east Of
| Gibraltar. The sea battle front is 1900
miles long. And. the only news of it
given to the outer world comes through
the official disclosures Of the two gov
ernments participating. To this low ebb
has war showed the information re-
sources of American newspaper readers.
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between Fire and Northern Ireland on a
mutual defense scheme canon de
Valera, Fire Prime Minister, declines to
give up Fire neutrality. Lord Craivagon,
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, a
belligerent as part of the United King
dom, refuses to entertain the suggestion
that the six counties under his govern
ment become neutral.
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cesses, Britain was having diplomatic
difficulties, centering in the Far East.
Monday Japan threatened armed action
against the crown colony of Hong Kong,
island on the China coast, If Britain
refuses to close overland route from
Burma, British Asiatic colony, to NUM-
tons for Chinese government at Chung
king. Britain made concessions. At the
same time London enlisted non-Aryan
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support of Halle selassie, deposed em-
perior of 1talian-se seized Ethiopia, in
pressing war against axis in Africa
London promised him return to his
throne
At Britain's immediate backdoor was
another problem. Fire, the neutral
dominion in the British Commonwealth
of Nations. London, fearing German in
vasion via Ireland, hoped for agreement
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Nature made Gibraltar fort The spit
IN miles Its
eH thn the of modern artillery
OF
Gun ports dinple the poke
commanding the straits directions
the great fortress.
Gibraltar has knon siege The French and Spanish besged the
fort TOR four from 1879 7S3
redouot But that before the explosives
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OF gained
bot l t points, h
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tsee LLOYD GEORGE. Page c-so
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-17

no doubt that the republics of the Western
Hemisphere are now more closely knit for mu-
tus1 aid in emergency than ever before, as a
result of the action at Havana Rejection OF
the amendment shows that the lower branch
of congress is in accord with the governments
policy as defined by Mr.. Hull.
There is no reason to expect prolonged dis
cussion of minor changes made by the house
when the National Guard bill is again before
the senate. No material alteration was made
in the original text. The bill should go to the
White House in a few days for the Presidents
SIGNATURE. Mr.. Roosevelt, if we know his
views, recognizing the need for speedy and
thorough and large-scale military training VIII
let no grass grow under his feet before al
liking his name. The United States is car
ried a long way on the road to national de-
tense by this vote in the house, and that vote
cannot fail to be helpful to the American peo-
pies morale.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-17
Free Sterling

The present rate of disappearance of free
sterling leads foreign exchange experts to pre-
dict that by the end Of the month all contracts
will have been settled and the medium will
disappear, at least for all practical purposes.
The free sterling market has been so small
for the last several weeks that it's actual inn
%portance has been slight. One day last week
only 1000 pounds were traded and for an hour
and a half on Wednesday there was not a
single recorded transaction. The price has
almost reached the official rate and is ex-
pected to remain around present levels until
the existing contracts are settled.
Banks will have ID settle open transactions
by the month end and the great bulk of free
sterling contracts entered into before July 8
will probably be settled this month.