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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
3-BULLET DEATH IS
 pUzzLING
Andrew Holm, Veteran Miner, Found Dead
 Weapon Is Missing

Police this morning found the body of Andrew Holm, 6l, one legged veteran Gastineau Channel miner, on his bed in the Perelle Apartments with three bullet holes in the vicinity of the heart-but the clements of evidence added up as confusingly as the opening para graphs of dime novel mystery.
 Holm's body was found lying, back down, on his bed in the basement apartment which for years he had shared with Mrs. Ler.a Perelle, owner of the Seventh Street apart ments until her death month ago
 There were three bullet holes in the left side of his chest, two of the slugs apparently passing through the body, but police were unable to immediately locate the holes those bullets would have made.
 Only One Gun Found
 The only gun located in the apart ment, which was locked from the inside, was .32 automatic in the drawer of a dresser in the kitchen, although Holm reportedly had an- other pistol.
 Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents wrapped the gun in paper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
Plan Talk Comes
 Up, London
Com mon Citizenship for French and British
 Still in Wind

LONDON, Sept. Excitement At lee, Lord of the Privy Seal, assured members of the House of Commons today they will have opportunity for the fullest discussion before any kind of a union proposed by France is put forward regarding the United States"
 Just before France signed an ar- mistice, Germany announced Win ston Churchill had proposed form of British French union with com mon citizenship.
 Atlee said Churchill is prepared to give such assurance to any dis. cussion If ever such far-reachine scheme is put forward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
HASpLAN FOR HELP,
 DRAFTEE5
Program Is Advanced to Remedy Minor Physical
 Defects of EnroIIees

WASHINGTON, Sept 19.--A $25,- 100000 program to remedy minor physical de ects of prospective draftees so they may be able to enter the armed forces has been sug- gested.
 The move was started at a special meeting of health officers of the various states now comforting here. The suggestion, with details, was made by Dr. Thomas Parran, Sur geon General of the United States Public Health Service, and received most favorable comment and in terest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
N ANY IS TO BUILD
 DRYD0(k5
President Signs LegisIa lion for Construction
 at } Places

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19-Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed legislation authorizing $23 100000 worth of Navy drydock construction in prep aration for the day when the United States battle fleet will include the 45OOO-t ton battleships.
 One huge graving dock will be built in New York harbor and an other in the Caribbean Sea while extensive improvements will be made at the South Boston Navy Yard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
(By Associated Press)

The British Fleet blazed into ac- tion today on the Mediterranean. smelling Italian troops along the Libyan-Egyptian coast. while on the home front, London's bomb-strafed millions surveyed the havoc of the fiercest night long assault. Many victims aNe feared entombed in southeast London where a German bomber crashed with full load of bombs. and the subsequent explo- sicn demolished several buildings. The official estimate placed the city's killed last night at 30 with over $50 seriously wounded.
 Retaliation
 British war planes retaliated for the Nazi raids with smashing attacks on the German Invasion Ports" the Air Ministry reports, leaving the Nazi-occupied French Coast in flames for miles. The hardest hit by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
PARKS ENROUTE

George A. Parks, District Cadas- tral Engineer of the Public Survey Office, has left Fairbanks for Val deg. Later he will fly to Cordova to take steamer which will bring him to his Juneau headquarters about October 1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
One German Plane, Load ed with Bombs, Crash-
 es, then ExpIodes
MANY BUILDINGS
 ARE DEMOLISHED
British Fleet Makes Sud- den Attack on ItdI-
 ians on Coast

BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 19. = Anti-aircraft fire opened on three London fronts tonight, indicating that German bomb CTS were attacking the city for the 18th consecutive night.
 Many Lond0ners were already in air raid shelters when firing began as dusk fell, though no new alarm had been sounded since morning. Many people began to fill subway benches and platforms, ready for the worst.
 From habit, people trooped to shelters although no alarm was sounded and went to the sub ways despite official warning against using such places for refuge. s.'s~
 The Ministry of Home Secur- ity said that Nazi air raids had failed to cause any serious dam- age to London shipyards or heavy industries.
 Capital damage caused to ar- senals has been negligible the Ministry said after study of the situation, though it declared that German raiders had de- stroyed two percent of L0ndon's oil stocks and seriously admit ted, however, that London had taken a terrific drubbing and production has dropped in the metropolitan area
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
STERLING COMING

Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Com mission, who has been in Interior Alaska all summer, is due to re- turn here Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-19
CALIFORNIA
 AREA SHAKES

REDONDO BEACH, Cal. Sept. l9. No damage is reported to have resulted from minor earthquake shocks felt over Southern Califor- nia late yesterday.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
THE NAZI PACE

With the Germans at the outskirts of Paris in the fifth week of Hitlers lightning war, it is still permited-n fact it is ones dutyto keep up heart. For us the watchers it is not of standing around waiting for miracle on the battlefield. There is nothing else we, the outsiders can do in the next few days except wait and hope; and per- haps the thing hope for is something less than a miracle.
 One way to keep up heart is to argue, bold as 1t may seem on the face of the returns that the German bitzkreg not quite "bltz in the crisis of the moment apt to assume. In other words the Allies in great danger, but after all they not ptted against an enemy incomparably more powerful and more swift than were the Ger mans in 1914 Those motorized columns of Hitler's made good time to the Channel and making good time in their present drive, but the pace of the German march Paris in 1914 very fast too.
 The Naz army may be travelling one-haf as fast again Klucks army did in August, 1914 but the Nazis not moving five or ten times as fast as they did 1914; which is the state of mind into which we are apt to fall when the is at it's worst.
 One difference between the 1914 timetable and todays is that the present started with the armies completely mobilized and concentrated where as in 1914 1t was ten days, after the formal war declarations before the French and Germans came into serious contact It was on August Is, 1914, that the Battle of the Frontiers began. That would be the 1914 base line corresponding to Friday May 10, l940 when the Germans marched into Holland. On August 31, 1914, which would correspond to May 25 in this years war Von Kuck made his historic sWerve away from Paris to the east; and his scouts were then less than 20 miles from the French capital In those days before the blitzkrieg the German Army performed extraordinary marches-on foot; as for that matter they did last September in Po- land according to Berlns proud claims. Roughly one might say that in 1914 the Germans between Brussels and Paris made almost as good time as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
20 YEARS AGO fME HIT EMPIRE


 Ohio, nominated President Convention Chicago tenth ballot after eight preceding between Illinois Hiram Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts, was named the Presidential nomination.
 Whitehos being held up by backward information received from Whiteose White Pass and Yukon 
 in the city City the Gastineau Hotel spend their summer vacation With relatives.
 Attorney J. L. Backsrom who had returned a Gasineau Hotel
 merchandise broker was passenger on the CHy o IT a commercial trip
 firm of Roden and Dawes lawyers left on the City Seattle for Petersburg
 Highest 54; lowest 47 cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
Whose Guns Are Those?
Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Cleveland Plain Dealer)
 The Second Amendment to the Constitution says that the right of the people keep and bear arms shall not be infringed This is part Of the Bill of Rights Most of the other rights granted in the flfst ten amendments taken advantage of by the agents or dupes of foreign rulers who grant no such privileges to their own subjects
 Fortunately the American people do not have to give up their civil liberties in order to keep those liberties from being turned against them Whoever indulges in freedom of speech immediately makes himself known and if his use of that freedom is legal-as it is when it incites to riot or calls for the overthrow of the Government-he can be properly dealt with by the law.
 But unlike words, guns and ammunition can be hidden in cellars and closets So it is natural and right that Attorney General Jackson, with the fate of small European democracies in mind, should seek to find out just who possesses arms in this country Congress should adopt immediately his proposal of national firearms registration law. Loyal Amer- cans who guns will lose nothing by telling the Government about it. Only the hirelngs of the dic- tators, along with few thugs, will be handicapped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

the Nazi motorized columns between the Mouse and the Channel in this
 That is as far as need carry the argument It may be that Hitler by now has won his war, but it is not something that can predicate on the mere basis of his blitz tempo. The Allies, by
 their own confession in greater danger than they ever were in the last war, but it is not because they are confronting enemy speed with which there has hitherto been comparison. In 1914, three weeks after the declaration of war, Il days after the first great clash of the armies the Ger mans thought they had the war won. They began shipping army divisions from France to the Rus sian front
 It was the defeat of Poland in Is days last Sep tember that brought bhtzkrieg to the fore with its hurtling bombing planes, it's high-speed tanks its steel fingers" slashing and ripping through the enemy But in the older style, Germany would prob ably have beaten Poland in approximately the same 18 days In 1866 Prussia overwhelmed Austria in Is days In 1870 the Germans overwhelmed France and took Napoleon III prisoner in 32 days On the 34th day of the present campaign the German columns have not yet won the for Hitler
 Today the Allies stand in grave peril against German speed and momentum. But the German impact is not incomparably greater than anything hitherto known not incomparably greater than the German rush of 1914, which in the end broke down. This is all that can be said, but it is per missible to say it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 District Land Office
Anchorage, Alaska.

Anchorage, Alaska.
 May 31, 1940.
 Notice is hereby given that How ard Stabler, has made application for homesite, Anchorage 08585, under the act of Congress approved May 26. 1884, for a tract of land embraced in U. s. Survey No. 2340, situated on the Eagle River Highway about 13 miles northwest of Juneau, in lati- tude 58' 23' 20" N. and longitude 134' 40' w. containing 0.52 acres, and it is now in the files of the United States Land Office, Anchorage, AL aska. Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 GEORGE A. LINGO,
 Register. Date First Publication, June 12, 1940. Date Last Publication, Aug. 2, 1y4O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 bat do not C cyqnpeW
THURSDAY. JUNE ls

Adverse planetary aspects domin- ate today. Superstition regarding the thirteenth may reappear as accidents and disappomtments mark this date. It is most unlucky for initiative Beginnings of all sorts should be postponed
 Heart and Home: Impotence may be prevalent under this sway. In the household, falls and injuries are likely to be numerous. Aged persons may be especially unfortu- nate. The stars are especially for bidding where romance is involved. Men being in great social demand, will be critical of women. Again the spirit, so strong under war in- fluences, will be evident in femin- inc initiative in love affairs.
 Business Affairs: Many American exporters will feel the bad effects of curtailed shipping facilities due to war. Certain agricultural regions will suffer, especially in the South and Far West. Orange growers may meet serious problems in this years crop sales. But the general trend in the business world will be prosperous, especially for manufac- turers. Cloth producers will profit in the autumn when uniforms will be in even greater demand than at present.
 National Issues. AS party feeling intensifies, world events will pres age supreme tests for the United States Government Leaders of vision and experience will be need ed as never before in history, the seers forecast. Pacificism will be- come the cloak for subversiVe teachings and movements of grave potentialities. Labor leaders are counseled to put patriotism above union or partisan considerations. A tragedy growing out of contest for power is prognosticated for man who aspires to leadership.
 International Affairs: Battles of hideous consequences are foreseen for the end of the month. Wash ington will receive secret informa- tion of great importance regarding plans of German war lords. A sud- den move by Mussolini will cause consternation. Between the Italian dictator and the King of Italy there will be a serious conflict of opin- ion in which the Pope will support the King August is read as a time of crisis for Italy and a change in Fascist theology.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of un- certainty. Caution and tact in business as well as in social mat ters are recommended.
 Children born on this day will be reliable, systematic and fond of detail. Many will succeed in sci ence, especially in research work These natives of Gemini will be highly intelligent.
 Copyright, l940)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

He is an interesting Kid He S interesting CHILD"
 Marital Pronounce ma-tal both AS as it AT accent first syllable
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Crystallze two Ls
 SYNONYMS: Odium, hatred contempt detesaton
 times and is yours Let us each Todays word ENCROA OACHNdENT domain of another gradual intrusion country the encroachmnts o civilization"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
LOOK and LEARN S%y c. GORDON

1. years there in decade? toxicology? g. America named? 4 are used in watches?
 the most extensive fishing groos oi any other in the world?
 ANSWERS: 1. that treats of poisons.
 Amergo Vespucc Italian navigator who lived rom l4o2 to 1512. A. Because of and resistance to wear Canad
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

on the north side of Tenakee Inlet, approximately 2h miles east of Tenakee Townsite, latitude STAT N. longitude 135o 5o08' w. and it l' now in the files of the U. s. Lana Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and II no protest is filed in the District Land Office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter said final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued. FLORENCE L. KOIlB,
 Acting Register. Publication dates, May 1-8-l5-22-29. June 5-12-19-26, 1940.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR General Land Office

DISTRICT LIND OFFICE
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 April g, 1940. Notice is hereby given that Fred Richard Henning, entryman togeth- CT with his witnesses, Norman B. Cook, and Burford Carmichael, all of Juneau, Alaska, has made final proof on his homestead, Anchorage serial 08036, for tract of land em- braced in U s. Survey No. 2l66. sit- uated on Point Louisa Beach about l6 miles from Juneau, containing OPS acres, latitude 58' 23 N. longi- tude 134' 43' w. and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, An- chOrage, Alaska.
 If no protest is filed within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, in the district land office, the final proof will be accepted and final certificate will be issued.
 FLORENCE L. KOLB,
 Acting Register. First publication, April 24, l940. Last publication, June l9, l940.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial
 Employment Service for this qualified worker.

STEWARD-CHEF-Age 46, sim gle. Years of experience as cook, chef, steward, in camps of all sizes, take responsibility for com- missary, beverage dispensary, din- ing hall, purchase supplies. Gan handle any camp, lunch room, etc. Call for ES 121.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
StuII Iswanied

Information as to the where abouts of H. L. Stull is wanted by Mrs. Siegrosser, 1924 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, III. In writing to the Empire for information, she says she has an important letter for him. He is believed to be somewhere in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
United States Department of the Interior GENERAL LAND OFFICE

1ElNEItAh 1f1INJ OrFlOE
 District Land Office
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 February IA, 1889. Notice is hereby given that Elise us Laurensen has filed an applica- ton for homesite under the get of May 26, 1884, for a tract of land embraced in U. s. Survey No. 2363, serial O8675, situated on the north side of Tenakee Inlet about 2A miles northwest Of Tcnakee, latitude 570472O~N. Longitude l35o IF West, containing 487 acres. Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above men, tioned land should file their ad- verse claims in the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 FLORENCE L. KOLB,
 Register (Acting). Date first publication, June l2, 1940. Date last publication, Aug. 2, 1940. |Altlis adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
MODERN ETIQUETTE 'y ROBERTA LEE

bridegroom
 These words are synonomou the formal heaier genuine express o sympathetic joy
 a dinner and IS seated between his which is he expected to attention?
 Neither He should equally possible O. calling and luncheon invitations? Yes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
Salute to San Francisco
(NeW York TimeS)

Last years experience showed that there was plenty of room in this country for two Worlds Fairs, and that neither at opposite ends of the nation, would tip the continent AS matter of fact each balanced the other, and many travellers found an opportunity to take in both The same pleasant experience may be repeated this year. for the Golden Exposition has just opened it's doors again for what may prove even a lveer than the last. Our great Worlds Fair and picturesque Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay have had to change their character somewhat because of the war abroad but both have broadened their popular appeal. This may out to be of the unexpected virtues of necessity. New York has already found a successful approach to second problems and heartily wishes the same success to San Francisco.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

King George VI of England was second in command of one of the turrets on the battleship Ceiling wood at the great naval battle of Jutland in the World War.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

The Germans say that the American republics should have protested to London and Paris and not Berlin against the invasion of the Low Countries which goes to confirm the suspicion that in the Third Reich black is white and the rises in the west.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

The area of the City of Lon- don is 677 acres; of Greater London, 443,455 acres.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

The old Greek philosophers thought of earth air. fire and water as making up the universe. Ii occurred to the Greeks to make silk stockings out of these things.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12

Dutch princesses take refuge in London. All neutrals looking to their heir defenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-12
United States DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE DISTRICT LAND OFFICE

hIlCIIOIdgt, AIdSkd.
 April 12, 1940.
 Notice is hereby given that Alex ander Stephen Heydek, entryman, together with his witnesses, Jack Jourdan and J. A. Berg, all of Tenakee Springs, Alaska, has sub mitted final proof on his home stead, Anchorage serial O7207, for land embraced in Forest List 8-1O2, HE. s. 239 New serial 2381. con- taining l9.36 acres, and situated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

Six sont hangers plonned to meet existing demends from
the Districts Noono Guod eviction squad
ron other activities This the first honeo with oched steel
ironing neo completed ond steel erected for shops and
offices adjoining the structure to the right These hon9ors
will accommodate larger oners thon in service yet
contemplated. Star Staff Photo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

General Dir looking towod northeast shows tremendous
Of the with relation the greet Yods
foreground ond the beyond The terminal building
center Of opo with Of the Mount Vernon high
eeor visible sne the left edge Of the Note close
the oiport downtown Washington The right
foreground hos been designated for possible future development
q seoplone terminal. i Photo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-01

Field side Of the Washington National building looking
the portoy poved oodne potom from the Iondne
graceful structure longer tho either the Copo Union Stotn The
eeno section behind the ofdne will be CLOSED in high for
full length providing
beyond The curved front pooI cneeoIs the right end Of the building
which will be the dining The floors the left will
house offices and technical Passenger boeeoee ond mo will
be along the field level Stars Photo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-08
EVERGREEN COURT
INSTALLS STAFF
Mrs. William MOrdo In
Quoted as Royal Matron;
Committees Announced

Mrs. william II. Mordo was seat
ed as royal matron and other new
officers were installed at public ex-
ercises conducted by Evergreen
court, Order Of Amaranth, at the
Masonic temple Saturday night.
More than 200 persons attended.
Mrs. Edward Mraz, retiring royal
matron, was presented q past ma
irons jewel. She and Mrs. Mordo
received other gifts and flowers. The
presentations were made by Mrs.
Alfred Hensel, Alfred Hensel and
william II. Mordo.
Mrs. Mordo announced the follow
Ing appointments: Marshal Ia east,
Mrs. Ralph Harvey; marshal In west,
Mrs. Thorn Corby; standard bearer,
Mrs. ErVa Hardt; prelate, Mrs. Mae
Estelle Winters: truth, Mrs. Herbert
q. Taylor; faith, Mrs. Margaret
Kennedy; wisdom, Mrs. Elizabeth
Macintosh; charity, Mrs. Mildred
Davies; musician, Mrs. Adelene
Russell; historian, Mrs. Lillian Pres
colt; warder, Mrs. Pauline Slater;
sen tinel, william l.. Clarke.
Assisting III the ceremonies were'
Mrs. Louis Wenzel as uncrowning
natron and Mrs. Viola Wheeler Of
Seymour, past grand royal matron,
as browning matron. Grown bearers
were: Mrs. Felix Rodeck, Mrs, Seth
Bailey and Mrs. John Qresswell.
Guards were: Layton A. Rose, Felix
Rodeck, William Clarke and Seth
Pailey. Mrs. Frank Huber and Mrs,
Claire Miner also assisted.