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o. Is the Pacific ocean higher than the Atlantic ocean at the Pan- anna Canal?
 A. Usually it is. In the month of February the mean levels of the two oceans are the same; but through out the rest of the year, on account of current, tidal and wind influences the mean level of the Pacific ranges above that of the Atlantic, and is as much as one foot higher in October.
 @. What is a 'Liverpudlian?"
 A. An inhabitant or native of Liverpool, England.
 o. What is the past tense of the verb diver"
 A. "Dived" is the preferred form; "dove" is used colloquially in parts of the United States.
 o. What were Finland's financial losses on account of the war with the Soviet Union?
 A. The stimated loss is 27.824,- 100000 markkas. The par value of the markka is approximately Al cents.
 @. Who is given credit with James Monroe for formulating the Monroe Doctrine? !. A. John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State. He suggested and even formulated many of the statements in President Monroe's Message to Congress, December 2, 1923, which is the basis of the doc Urine.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
DREW PEAR s O N
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If you want a copy of the book let "CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS" send to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thir- teenth Street, Washington, D. c. Enclose four cents in postage.
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Whats s Your I. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
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National 
"Free France Campaign Starting In Washington
BY BRUCE CATION Waterbury Democrat Washington
 COrrespOndent

Washington, Dec. 5-A new cam- paign aimed to bring about recog- milton of the free France" regime of Gen. Charles de Gaulle is about
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR Never say, ''We took in show" say. "went to a show"
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Copyright, 1940, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
18-MONTH AIR RECORD

Saturdays crash of Pennsylvania Central Air lines transport northwest of Washington constituted the first fatal smashup the commercial aviation in- dustry of the United States has experienced since March 6, 1939
 In IT fatality-free months up to August l, the planes had flown 4,262 passenger miles with out injury to passenger crew Many additional millions of miles were added last month up to the time of the crash the last day of August
 Saturdays accident at LowetteSville Virginia, killing 25 persons will long be remembered the one which ended a unique record, which it never be hoped to equal again.
 Untold caution, untold checking and rechecking of equipment, untold care the part of dspatchers and fers contributed to the record of which Amer- aviation be proud The commercial air transport industry has proved it can be safer than railroads automobiles It has proved it's right to its growing share of the U. s. passenger transportation business
 But despite and prudence, accidents will happen. That the accident which ended the record so far from the one which started it is a tribute to tfe arpanes and airnen of America
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20 YEARS AGO fME FIT EMPIRE
SEPTEMBER 4, 1920

SEPTEMBER A. 1920
 River roads Alaska Commission Dbursing Officer made the trip over the roads
 spend two months doing hospital south the steamer Spokane.
 Malony, Maony and MT and Mrs F. d. weeks Juneau to leave on their homes Seattle
 Smith proprietor of the Juneau Music House had pu confectionery and to move the o that location.
 of the Presbyterian Missions in Territorial Commissioner of Education Meteorological the United States Weather Bureau the Victoria.
 candidate election to the Legislature Repre- Division arrived Juneau from Haines H. returned here the Admiral Evans after spending a Ketchkan business.
 Weather Highest lowest 5O clear
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FARLEY AND ITALIANS

Jim Farley continued working fol Roosevelt right up until his resig- nation as chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee. One of the last things he did was to ask Tommy D'Alesandro, dynamic Congressman from Baltimore, to visit the Italian districts in the big cities and campaign for Roosevelt
 Congressman D'Alesandro has six children, of whom the fifth is named Franklin Delano Roosevelt DAles- andre, and he is just as ardent a rOOter for the President as the name implies. He has told Jim Farley that the Italian districts can be swung to Roosevelt easily.
 NOTE-Farley also asked Sena- tor Tydings of Maryland, against whom Roosevelt once waged a vig- orous primary campaign, to make some speeches for the President. Tydings said he would be too busy. However. he is not bolting to Will kie.
 Copyright. 1940, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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Editorial
(The Nome Nugget)

(The Nome Nugget
 Alaskas per capita cost of enforcement of liquor control is the lowest and its from the liquor trade is among the highest, if not the highest in the nation It has less "boot-leggng" and less en- forcement problems than vast majority of the States in which the trade is legaliZed
 Examples of economic results in typical State monopoly systems include: sIdaho@ it's population is estimated 445000 On a total volume of $3 546 0OO in 1938 the net earnings of the State approxi- mately $1.2O per capita; New Hampshire, with a volume crossing about s450OO00 earned 90 cents per capita for a population of 465OO0; Oregon's earnings approximately SIPS per capita on a sales crossing slightly more than $4,o0O0OO to a model monopoly state, gross sales of almost ST. 100000 earned net of $40 per capita a popu- ation estimated at 1563000
 Administrative expenditures including costs of enforcement in these monopoly states averaged ap- proximately $1 per capita per year. This, however, does not include interest in capital invested in stocks, storehouses, warehouses; rectifiers, botng and labelling plants and other property.
 The figures for AlaskaS system of private sale under Government control and regulation are strik- ing in comparison. Based on an estimated 10000 population in 1888, the cost of enforcement 36 cents per capita; the gross revenue $3.67 and the net earnings $3.31 per capita.
 The Territory has capital invested and force of four supervise and control the admnistra- tion and tax provisions of the law.
 For the life of us, can't figure out what the Territory will gain by going into the monopoly liquor business.
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ALL THINGS TO ALL WOMEN?

We note with interest letter from Mrs Mildred Hermann published in the Alaska Fishing News. Says the letter:
 One thing you might do is to get the idea out of peoples minds that I am working for Territorial control. I not lifting finger for Territorial control. My position is that that is a thing for the people to decide through their vote the refer endum If they vote for Territorial control and I member of the Legislature, I will do my best to see that the best possible control bill is drafted and passed. If they vote against it. will accept that vote as a mandate
 This leaves wondering whether this is the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
HOROSCOPE "The stdrs incline
 bat do not compe"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Adverse planetary aspects rule strongly today. It is date for safe- guarding financial resources. Fore sight should be keen, but the un- expected is likely to happen. Acci- dents may be numerous.
 Heart and Home: Letters today will bring more happiness than social contacts. Women should conserve their strength, for the nerves may be sensitive and the judgment un- trustworthy. Inclination to overdo will be compelling to many house. wives who should use their heads as well as their hands. Girls should delay search for employment. The stars encourage a critical attitude among persons who have influence over human destiny.
 Business Affairs: This should be a favorable date for commercial transactions of minor importance. Unusual demands upon manufactur- CTS as well as extraordinary read justmentS in trade relations ar presaged. In days of prosperity fore sight should prompt careful prepar- ation for future exigencies. Extreme caution should be exercised in choos- ing men and women for trustworthy positions. fs
 National Issues: While many Gov ernment officials mark time until after election day, events of supreme importance for the future will cause sudden aWareness of those dangers stubbornly denied by isolationists. Intensive training of Army, NlWy and Air forces will prove most sQe- cessful The United States, in mech anized methods of warfare, is to prove superior through strange in ventions.
 International Affairs: Although astrologers have foretold weaken ing of colonial ties the British En- pire is to realize splendid royalties from dominions and cOlonieS-as- surfing ultimate victory. Canada is to gain greatly in importance and to be closer to the United States than ever before. Italy will lose prestige through internal disturb ances while France will suffer ex- treme humiliation through Nazi power over its customs and institu- tionS.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of hard work which will be fortunate in it's re- suits. Dangers in automobile travel are indicated.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be serious and thoughtful, talented and industrious. Success will come to them Girls may be fond of dress and display.
 Copyright, 194O)
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same Mrs. Hermann know the one who agitated throughout the session of the last Legislature through nightly radio addresses, for Territorial control and who turned a recent Womans Club newspaper of which she editor into a tract for Territorial liquor control and for the election of Mrs. Hermann 70 the Legislature
 Can it be that, even more than the Territorial liquor control which she has contended is so righte- ous, Mrs Hermann wants votes for herself?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
DEFENSE BLOW-UP

If certain legislative and admin istrative snarls in the defense pro- gram aren't cleared up quickly, there is going to be blow-up in the Defense Commission that will knock a dent in the Roosevelt ad- ministration. Some fast footwork and placating White House palaver has kept the explosive situation un- der cover so far, but it is very serious.
 ' Inside fact is that William Knud- sen. who gave up s300,000 a year General Motors job to become de- fense production chief. is getting reStive over the delays he is en- countering. He has made no threats but he has also made it clear that unless he gets action he does not intend to continue in a position where he could be blamed for lack of production.
 A "plain operations man" as he describes himself, Knudsen worked out a schedule of production fol tanks, guns, planes, armor plate And the other vital essentials fol tiefense. But these plans. partly heca1,se Of tax delays. partly be- ea,,se Of business sit-downs, have eu,cormtered repeated obstructions
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LOOK and LEARN %sy c. GORDON

S produced he
 government should the people? thinly scattered people in the world? many 
 of meaning "dweers in the mountains"
 ANSWERS
 |. Twenty
 people support the government but the should not the people The Eskimos.
 IF years.
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vored "appeasement" in the ex- treme.
 The Germans he described as a great race, doing many fine things for Europe. He said it was neces- sary for us to deal with them.e
 The British he described as caus- ing most of the trouble in Europe. It was absolutely necessary, Cudahy said, to get the British to change their tune.
 One thing that seemed to im- press the Ambassador particularly was that the Nazis put troops around the Catholic churches in Belgium to prevent FreemaSons and Pro- testants from coming near them.
 NOTE-While in England, Am basSadors Cudahy and Joe Kennedy compared notes, found themselves in substantial agreement. e"
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The Balloon Barrage
(NeW York TimeS)

(New York Times)
 On that fateful Sunday in September when the war began, Londoners saw their blue sky studded with hundreds of slvery sausages floating high that they looked like daytime stars. These were the units of the mysterious balloon barrage, the trump card the British had played up to that time in protecting their metropolis against maraudng bombers The balloons have now come into the news with concentrated attack upon them by German fighter planes above Dover.
 One German pilot said in Berlin recently that those pesky things finish you if you happen into them" That is their purpose. They float at varying heights high 10000 feet from steel cables attached to mobile trucks the ground. But it is the cables, and not the balloons supporting them which brings certain destruction any raiding plane that strikes them. Strung up at half mile intervals over the sprawlng London area the cables and baons spaced irregularly that plane attacking the city at 200 or 300 miles an hour r low medium altitude is certain to hit of them from whatever direction it may
 By night the cables are a lurking terror, for pilot cannot them he rushes toward them; by day they a handicap if not danger, for they compel raider to climb so high that his aim is in- accurate No doubt the balloons themselves vul- nerabe to raking machine gun fire from above, but they can be hauled down at speed of 1,400 feet a minute-twice the speed of the express elevators in the Empire State Building-and if of them is destroyed replacement can be sent up in matter of minutes. Their mobility is not the least of their assets for the trucks carrying them be moved anywhere, and the enemy never knows from night to night where he is apt to strike them
 There has been report thus far of a large scale attack the balloons although the furious raids pounding England suggest that the decisive struggle is at hand Whatever the scale and inten- sity of the air attack may be- the British have to believe that the balloons will be effective in the skies the anti-aircraft guns and the determined army of defenders the ground.
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

MSUSED: T expect had good Say SUPPOSE had good tme EXPECT properly refer the Saturday"
 Pronounce aklar first unstressed A CARE accent last syllable
 whole oD. Awl Ca tooD.
 eucdate interpret make plain
 a three times and 1t yourS Let us word each day Todays word uncommunicatve Pronounce in first Listening observing replying in retcent monosylabes
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FlUULKN LIluULIIL ROBERTA LEE

educated sprinkle his and phrases? A. welbred He is merely trying impress learning mod
 
 O. Is right a person his left hand?
 easily the knife the right
 the maximum length of time to stay a
 A. o minutes
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WAR-IS-HELL DEPARTMENT

British pilot who made forced landing near a laundry kissed by 43 laundry girls before he escaped
 One hundred censors have been added to the staff at Bermuda, the contingent filling a whole hotel
 Marshal Goerings magazine is appearing on paper made from potato vines
 The Yorkshire Observer reports an increase in nudism due to the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
Former Senator
 Of Oregon Dies

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-W. Jona- than Bourne Jr., 85, United States Senator from Oregon from 1907 to 1913, is dead here.
 Bourne was author of the Parcel Post Law.
 Death is attributed to complica- tions arising after his hip was broken in a fall in his residence six weeks ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
C. Gaiti Casazza
 Is Dead in Ita|y

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Madame Frances Aida, opera singer, re- veals that she has received cabled news of the death in Ferrarra, Italy, of her former husband, Giulio Gatti Casazza, long time manager of the Metropolitan Opera House here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
Armed Merchant
 Cruiser IS Sunk
 By Nazi torpedo

LONDON, Sept 4.-The British Admiralty announces that the l5,- O0O-ton armed merchant cruiser Dunvegan Castle has been tor pedoed and sunk.
 Warships landed 250 survivors at British ports.
 The Dunvegan Castle was form erly in the London East Africa pas senger service.
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5isier Mary Leona
 Laid 10 Rest Today

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. A. Funeral services are held today for Sister Mary Leona, 75, former mis- sionary worker For many years she travelled in the Kootenay Dis- trict and became known in the Far North from Nome to Dawson. She travelled the rugged country mainly by foot.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-09-04
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SEPTEMBER 4 Charles D. Beale Harley Turner Jr. Robert Dalton
 Sig Olsen
 Mrs. Frank Dick Daniel R. Steele Sam Gazaloff Clyde E. Gordon
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ITALIAN DIVERS
 STRIKE BRITISH

ROME, Sept. 4.-Mussolini's High Command reports today that newly formed squadrons of Italian Pic chiatelli," little divers, attacked British warships in the Central Med- iterranean, scoring hits on a battle ship, aircraft .carrier cruiser and a destroyer. s \
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told that the amortization problem which has held up the construction of several new defense plants, would be handled by Congress in sep arate bill. But at the last minute Treasury tax experts objected to this and insisted that the matter be included in the excess (war profitS) tax bill.
 Next Knudsen was assured by Congressional leaders that the tax bill would be passed by August IT. But first the Republicans recessed to attend the Willkie acceptance ceremonies at Elwood; and then last week, on the verge of finally reporting out bill, the House Ways and Means Committee got into a brawl and the legislation was post poned again.
 REC LOAN DELAYS
 While this dilly -dallying was go- ing on at Capitol Hill, Knudsen was having other difficulties with Fed eral Loan Administrator Jesse Jones.
 The REC was given wide powers by Congress several months ago to make loans to industry for defense purposes But whn KnudSen sub
 
 mitted list of plant expansions that needed financing, Jones baked
 He objected on the ground that one-third of the output of the plants would go to fill British war orders. Knudsen pointed out that this was not impairing U. s. pre- paredness, but on the contrary was providing the country with vital productive capacity at the expense of the British. Fa
 Still Jones, despite the Presidents policy of extending every assistance to the British, didn't like the idea }c4 lending U. s. Government money
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BAREFOOT BOY

Six months ago there was some expectation that Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court might be pried. loose from his marble re- treat to run for the presidency on the Republican ticket. But what is he doing now?
 Latest reports describe him as wading barefoot in the soft sand and shallow pools of Brandywine Creek.
 Roberts has a country estate at Kimberton, near Phoenixville, Penn sylvania. In the long summer re- cess of the Court. he spends his time there in the leisure of a coun- try squire,
 Justice Roberts loves the feel of sand and soft mud between his toes. and takes no shoes to the Brandywine or the Octoraro
 On these two creeks, he and his friend Frank B. Foster venture forth in canoe. The creeks are seldom more than waist deep, but for safe tvs sake. the two dignitaries post a chauffeur at the nearest bridge so that, in case of emergency, he may act as lifeguard.
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invasion from Hitler if England failed. Only about ten of the let ters were critical
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A Los Angeles theatre owner, recently returned from tour of the Far East reports that Malayan girls patterning their clothes after those of Dorothy Lamour Sarong way from home.
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Sin and style reportedly are taboo in Paris now The Germans don't believe in the ordinary popular miSdemeanOrS
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to aid factory expansion for the British.
 NOTE-Much of the tax delay in Congress is the result of business opposition to any real tax program, and some of Knudsen's advisers are strongly with them on that. How ever, Knudsen personally is not.
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Washington kerry-
 Go-Round

tContinued from Page one)
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DOLLY. BACK

Dolly Gray returned on the Aleu- tian from Valdez after spending a few weeks in Fairbanks.
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APPEASEMENT AMBASSADOR

Regardless of whether Ambassa- dor Cudahy was misquoted by the British press, there is no doubt that his backstage conversation with State Department officials fa-
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Emprs caassuieds bans results.
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Weather: Highest, 55; lowest 50; clear.
Evening star., 1940-05-21
Naval
Continued From First Page.)

40 hours. 1t also would vest dis
cretion in the President to lift the
48-hour limit, with overtime pay, If
he finds national emergency to
justify it.
Authorize the President to suspend
application of the Walsh -Healy Act
where he finds 1t prejudicial to the
defense program. This act applies
only to private concerns holding
Government contracts, and enables
the Secretary Of Labor to prescribe
the working conditions.
Civil Service Amendments. y.9
The committee also adopted ten
tatively two civil service amend
ments. One provides that whenever
the Secretary Of the Navy finds sub
versive influences in navy yards, he
may order dismissals without filing
charges.
The other amends the retirement
law to permit retired experts in navy
yards or the Navy Department to re-
turn to work, resuming their pay
roll contributions to the retirement
fund. When the emergency is over,
they could either withdraw these
new contributions with interest or
use them to obtain a higher retire
ment annuity.
The House bill also contains pro-
visions designed to speed ship con-
Struction and repair by permitting
contracts without competitive bid
ding under certain conditions and
making other changes in the laws
governing payments to contractors.
Union "Wil Go Along"
N. P. Alias, president of District
No. A, International Association of
Machinists, representing many navy
yard workers. said today his or
ganization is going along" with the
section lengthening the hours in
Government yards for the period of
emergency.
1--WE are not asking for overtime"
said Mr.. Atlas, land would rather
see more men put on, but If skilled
men cannot be found quickly enough
we agree 10 Changing the nOurS, with
overtime"
The hour amendment Is necessary
primarily because of the eight-hour
law of 1892, which provides that me-
chanical groups in the Government
cannot exceed that limit except in
time of extraordinary emergency,
the definition of which would not
f1t the present situation.
Asked to the White House
meeting were Chairman Walsh
of the Senate committee, Chair
man Vinson of the House COM
mittee, Admiral Harold R. Stark,
chief of naval operations; Rear Ad-
miral John H. Towers, chief of the
Navy Aeronautics Bureau, and Rear
Admiral Ben Morell, chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks.