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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-31

TOM AND JERRY BATTER Made to order, during holiday sea- Bakery. adv.
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TOM AND JERRY BATTER

Made to order. during holiday sea = son.-Sully's Bakery adv
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20 YEARS AGO fTr TIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 26, 1920

DECEMBER 26, 1920 What thought the actual beginning another the Katala district indicated when Consolidated Oil Fields application Office 2 through director
 and the Alaska Film Exchange a well Christmas of the First Ma 
 entertained hundreds the big Eks the Palace Theatre and gifts presented all passengers City o
 The Rev C. E. Rice, of Durango Colo, expected
  Church, according Bishop P
  having Miss Dorothy Haley Miss L. Laugn left the City of Seattle 
 Weather: Highest 37 lowest, 37; clear
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TODAY'S DECISIVE BATTLE

In the past there have been Is decisive battles which molded the history of the world Today there is only one, the battle of armament production On its outcome depends the future of man. Unless this industrial victory is won there will be no military or political triumphs for Britain for Greece for any part of Europe or the Americas.
 Nothing must be allowed to interfere with this struggle for an increased output of arms-neither governmental red tape special privileges for labor nor special favors for business. Unless victory is achieved the government may take hitherto un- experienced dictaoral qualities labor will be reduced to the status of serdom and business will be shack led completely to the service of the state.
 There must be an avoidance of competition be- tween the government and private industry, for in such contest lies disaster. The country already has a taste of it in the announcement that compe- tition for skilled workers at naval shore stations and army posts may increase costs on rearmament jobs by $20O0OOO0oO And the taxpayer pays without receiving extra ship an extra plane in return Translated in of the present military struggle such an increase is the in it's effect mil- tary defeat
 This sort of thing must be avoided in the two new government owned arpane assembly plants which the Army Air Corps has recommended. With the government going directly into manufacture, the potential dangers great This nation would do well to follow the example of Canada which has been ey/eptonally successful with government-owned armlar>ent factories of kind another. In the Dominion the most competent leaders of private in- dustry available are placed charge and the plants run as private factories
 Tn addition a rigid system of priorities should be put into operation. After all, only the government realizes what is needed first, what is most important for the immediate future In this it must use its authority, for it is no secret that America is low in armaments of all descriptions.
 This battle will not be won unless labor fully cooperates There is tendency to look leniently on labors nsistence retaining all social gains of the New Deal Too great an insstence-to the point
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Seeing What You Pay TOT in Taxes
(Philadelphia Record)

To the taxpayer tnele is such thing as a good tax. But there better taxes and worse taxes. And the best kind of tax is for definite purpose--a definite project which the taxpayer can see and touch
 We are, of course, going to pay for our defense program There is way in a democratic country, to pay the bill except by taxes In a dictator coun- try you can have capital evies and fiat money and confscation of property)
 The people, believe won't object to these necessary increases in taxes if they made a defense tax, not just part of the general tax bill If you live in small town, and the town decides to buy fire engine you know what the extra cents on your tax bill for. You can take look at the fire engine, and feel better about it.
 This country right is buying fire engine, $1OCO0000 000-a-year defense fire engine. The best way make people understand that is to boost the present special 10 percent defense-tax levy on income taxes This, we believe, would be better than boosting the normal rate which starts at four percent.
 Other tax increases may be necessary, too as in the corporation income tax.
 But all changes should be made on the basis of special defense taxes Then the taxpayer will know what he's paying for, and there will be better chance of dropping the special levies when the pres ent emergency is over
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of striking and crippling the defense effort-may become the means of losing all Of them.
 The Judiciary Committee of the House of Rep resentatves is now canvassing possible legislative curbs strikes in defense industries. Those who oppose such action fail to grasp the full significance of the world battle now in progress. French labor kept its soctl gains. Where is it today? Is it bet t. ol now than it would have been working more than 40 hours week for the French republic? Here is tragic lesson that has been repeated in every industrial nation in Europe.
 Furthermore nation which calls its man power to battle is certainly entitled to tell the working man safely at home that he has right to strike if in doing he is going to undermine the flow of goods to the man in uniform
 Business has been forging ahead in the defense program but like the rest of it has apparently yet realized that the battle of the machine shop cannot be won with a business as usual mentality. Senator George, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, underscored this the other day when he remarked that there must be "reali- 2atlon of the need for action, by placing industry a 24-hour basis, and by eliminating anything that nterferes in the lace of the emergency"
 This is Americas battle IL must be successful if Britain is to stand and continue the fight for It must triumph if the rest of the world is to es- cape the present plight of Europe and if Europe is SnoW freedom again in our time.
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HOROSCOPE "The sturs incline
 but do not comper
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27


 Adverse aspects dominate today. The judgment is not to be trusted under this planetary rule which encourages depression and lack of 3onfidence in the nature. It is an suspicious date for seeking change and recreation.
 Heart and Home: This configu- ration may incline women to feel sorry for themselves, if they are disappointed in any of their am bitionS. It may be rve-straining to reason with homekeepers. Girls may be difficult to guide in choos- ing either husbands or vacations. Practical plans for the coming year should be carefully formulated be- cause foresight now will prove for tunate in a world in which his tory is plotting out ideals and tra- ditions, as well as cities and na- tions.
 Business Affairs: American in- dustry is to prove greatly superior in methods of production in the new year when manufacturing will break all records. There will be continued prosperity which will make possible amazing deeds of kindness to foreign war sufferers. The fame of the nations generosity will have it's. handicaps, for refu- gee problems will increase in the new year. Commerce is to grow, but its channels will change great ly.
 International Affairs: Russia will continue to be puzzle in Europe. Stalin's horoscope seems to indi- cate that his health will be under mined, a throat trouble being the likely cause. Uranus is in a place rresaging changes in government personnel and another purge is probable. Workers under the Soviet will be pushed into extraordinary activity A new phase of socialism has been foretold.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of busy, event. ful year. Certain men will be prominent in defense preparations. Women will be fortunate in friends as well as finances.
 Children born on this day will ha frank peperOlc trllStwOrthU and intelligent. These natives of Capri corn have the probability of sue cess through life.
 Copyright, 194O
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Welcome Aid
Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Alaska gets $3000000 and Washington $1,159,000 worth of new airport work under the 40 million dollar alocation announced by the Civil Aeronautcs Authority
 The program covers non-rnilitary airports.
 Airports generally when originally established, were not planned for the huge planes now being developed. Many communities have been unable to develop and maintain the facilities required
 Alaska, particularly dependent upon air transport for it's development is further handicapped by terri toral status
 The program, whole, indicates a well come acceptance by the national government of its responsibility for nation wide development. In the case of Alaska, especially this step will bring added safety to those who necessarily travel by air will speed the development of the Territory and will add substantially to defense facilities.
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without candles. It must smell oi not evergreen"
 This year, however, she has voWeo sc safety and consented to electrify the tree on the second floor. The President told her that it was nor sensible. The big tree downstairs was cut in northern Michigan ant sent as a gift to the Roosevelts b. the Fort Brady CCC Camp. It i 70 feet high.
 If Christmas spirit were registere n a thermometer, 1t would sho 8 steady rise in the last Is year The Coolidge boys were too old 1 go in for Santa Claus, and the gif from the frugal President to th White House secretariat were re 7gnized es hand downs whit Cal had previously received himse
 The Hoover Christmas was warn er, for the lugubrious MT. Hoov really tried to unbend on Christm day The most expert unbendil was done, however, by his secretai Larry Richey, who burst out of tht fireplace in the East Room O
 hristmas morning, to the deligi.
 Peggy Anne and Peter, the Pre- dents grandchildren.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-26
HAMS RIDE
 SHORT WAVES
Are Hunting Down Outlaw Stations, Be drehing
 for Spies, Traitors
AP Feature Service

WEST HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. Every hour of the day and night sharp ears are listening in on the shortwave radio bands, searching for the voices of spies and traitors.
 The ears belong to members of the American Radio Relay League, which has headquarters here. The league has 25,00O active members among the nations amateur radio operators.
 Once ham" overhears an il- legal station communicating with foreign agents it can be easily To- cated with directional equipment.
 League officials cautiously concede they have an understanding" with the Federal Bureau of Investigation under which members report suspic- ious stations, but the extent of such counter-e espionage remains a secret.
 Work with EGG
 The leagues chief activity is in a close relationship with the Federal Communications Commission which works with the FBI. Many EGG field observers are former ARRL. members.
 Counter-espionage work of the league is chiefly by official observ- ers," some 200 highly experienced hams" with elaborate equipment whose "self policing" is on volun- teer basis.
 They watch for violations of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-26
"RICHEY CLAUSo

Larry, whom they did not for or linute recognize, was about tf lost genial and effective Sant 'laus ever to scramble down White House chimney. He prepare 1T the part with all the skill ths nee had made him a successf, turns detective. And he so ove, yhelmed Peggy Anne with gift nat she turned some back to hir aying, Won't you please give tn @ poor little girl, Santa?o an arfy was forced to retire with par i his burden.
 Christmas spirit rose to a sti' ariner degree when the F. D. Roc 'Veits came in and, instead of hir. ng the professional reader enoaoe ehe Hoovers to read the Dicker ohristinas Carol> the reading wa aKen over by that master of dra 4atlc art, Franklin D. Rocsever
 Last night, for the eighth time ir He White House. the President req, 1at famous story of how the Christ. las spirt converted a wretched ol, user into a benevolent gentleman socseVeit knows many passages D, cart and he makes the patbo D pathetic and the humor so heart. nat even the eldest children. wb,
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amateurs code of conduct which the league recently summarized thus:
 l. Do not talk about the war over the air, or discuss any happenings that might have a military signi- ficance.
 2. Do not use any code or cipher.
 3. Do not permit anyone except members of your immediate family or other licensed amateurs to use the microphone.
 4. Sign each transmission with your assigned call.
 5. Scrutinize domestic traffic of fered you by strangers; if you are approached by any agent of a sub versive group or an agent of for eign country, communicate immed- lately with the FBI or A.RR.L.
 There's a Law
 Incidentally, league officials point out that any member who reports hearing suspicious signals, while he may be performing patriotic duty, technically is violating law pun ishable by a $10,0O0 fine
 This law makes it an offense to report anything heard over the air except broadcasts intended for pub lie use or the distress calls of ships at sea.
 Many of the "ham's' in the league are members either of the Naval Communications Reserve or of the Army Amateur Radio System.
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en back by poor visibility while the two cutters Ariadne and Shawnee continued to blow through high waves and binding rain.
 Other Coast Guardsmen took to cars to search the beaches and coves where the lost motor lifeboat might have met destruction or found a haven in the storm.
 The missing Guardsmen left Point Arena Christmas Eve to aid the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-26
LOOK and LEARN s&y c. GORDON

a limerick? history a judge physical strength? g. What is the weight bale cotton?
  give the ship? What the territorial ANSWERS: O and fifth also the third  g. 48O pounds. Captain
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: say you me Say, you N1ISPRONOUNCED Guxoc both i KICK, o NOT, syllable OFTEN MISPELLED: Casserole two S's and ROLE, ROLL SYNONYMS Graphic vivid picturesque forcible well deneaed WORD STUDY: Use mastering Today PACHYDEFM hood animals usually having thick
  n TT, syabe.
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have heard the story a score of times, find themselves laughing and crylng, as they dld when they Inst heard Scrooge declare that "eve4y idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, ana buried with stake of holly through his heart"
 Copyright, 1940, by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, nIc.l
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storm battered steam schooner Stan wood, now enroute to San Francisco in tow of the cutter Shoshone.
 They last were seen 1925 a. m Christmas Day when mountainous seas forced them to sea again after they had attempted to put back to Point Arena Cove
 The Daily Alaska Empire has tn largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.
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FIODANN LIIOULlIL ROBERTA LEE

O. If has friend who has maid, wouldn't all b presumpuous.
 fhcud dinner his the table leaving
 Net unless is necessary o C. Is it envelope, addressed years o age? Yes
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upon the Presidents turkey m the White House kitchen.
 The stately mansion had never known any such invasion since the Christmas of 1886, when Andrew Jackson threw open it's doors to the orphans of Washington.
 It was "Old Hickory's" nephew, Johnny Donelson, who inspired the idea. Johnny, aged 6, was spend- ing Christmas at the White House, and he was worried lest Santa for get to come. Die you ever hear of a Christmas when Santa didnt come?" he asked President Jack son.
 .Yes. Johnny, I have, said the cid slider. Once l knew a htIi toy who had never heard of Sahtf Claus, and this little boy never hat a top in his life. And when Ii. mother died, he was left alone | the word was that little boy
 This prompted the President to send out an invitaion to all orpnans to come next day for Christmas party. and after he had distributed gifts with his own hands, he staged a "snowball'' fight in the East Room, with snowballs of starched cotton.
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 ADRIFT IN
 BIG STORM
Ten Coast Guardsmen at Sea-PIanes. Cutters,
 Cars in Search

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 26.-A storm at sea thwarted an aerial search today for ten missing Coast Guardsmen 130 miles northwest from the Golden Gate.
 Two amphibian planes were driv-
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MRS. RoosEvELTs CANDLES

When the Theodore Roosevelts came to the White House, there was plenty of festivity, but no Christmas tree. The explanation given to the children was that tree with can dles was fire hazard.
 But the next year, the Roosevelt boys led TYR to a closet, opened the door, and surprised him with Christmas tree sparkling with eiec- tric lights. They had conspired with the electrician and prepared the first electrically lighted tree in the White House.
 Today, there is always an cleo trically lighted tree in the East Rccm, for display purposes, but the intimate tree, in the second floor hall. used to be treated with a fire proof solution and lighted by car- dles. Mrs. Roosevelt insisted "A Christmas tree doesn't seem right
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Washington Merry- Go-Round

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
German Alien Enters
Plea Of Guilty to Kid
mapping Of de Tristan
Child; Sentencing De-
ferred Until Friday.

Redwood City. Cal. Oct. l.-(AP)
Wilhelm MuhlenbrOich pleaded
guilty today to the kidnapping OF Marc
de Tristan, 8. but sentencing was
deferred until Friday. He faces lie
in prison without hope OF parole.
The hearing took only four NM
uteS.
Joseph Bullock, one Of the two
court-appontcd attorneys for the
4O-vear-old German alien, told Judge
Maxwell McNutt that MuA!2nbrolca
had been informed Of his rights. that
attorneys were careful to explain
to him the magnitude OF MS CRIME
and the punishment that must be eN-
acted but. Bullock continued. Mum
lenbroich insisted that there be no
delay and argued that he must plead
guilty at once.
rs that correct" the clerk asked
Muhlenbroich. .;
The defendant nodded emphatI-
cally. ~
The clerk asked for his plea.
Guilty. sir" MuhlcnbroIch an
swered. He stood erect and was
completely composed.
Judge McNutt then set Friday
October 4. at 10 a. M, as the time
for sentencing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
Mexico Ends
Coup Plan
With Death
Old Friend Of losing
Presidential Candidate
Is Shot to lJeafh BY
Police and Soldiers to
Hne n Revolutionary
Plot.

Monterey, Novice. OCT |Np\-
Police and soldiers '~r'~" "''~' 10
death Rri"adiCr G"r"""l H'>"'-"" r..
zosa, cid friend of .Tr,Hn hndrcu Al
MANN. losing candidate for nreci-
dent. to smash what t""" declared
was 4 revolutionary plot - "cizo thc
garrison. governors pnlac" and other
state and local offices here.
Authorities said they pow had re-
stored order and that al was quiet
in Monterey.
Several persons were reported I'M
der arrest.
The newspaper TEMPO S"id mil
itary authorities Gcsc"nt" - Ear
zosa and his adhcrcnts art"r one Of
the latter, alarmed by the proper
tons of the purportcd plot, had
tipped off police.
Zarzosa was reported to have en-
tered Monterey secretly, timing his
coup for early this morning.
ZarzoSa was commander Of the 3lst
infantry battalion, but had been Civ
en- leave to help Almazan in his cam
paign for presidency against General
Manuel Avila Camacho, the admin
iStration nominee.
Another man with Zarzosa also was
killed in the gunfight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
Three New Measures In
CONSUMPTION Program

draftecs would be given an oppor-
unity 10 promotion above scr
gcant's grade. General George L.
AIarshali said that plans are being
made fol candidates schools which
picked enlisted men might attcEid for
the last three or four months OF their
wears training to work for heute-
nant's commissions.
The chief OF staff also announced
that nine tactical corps would be
created to control the training of the
regular Army and National Guard
units into which draft uainees Will
be absorbed.
BY that method training Will be
separated from the supply and
housekeeping" functions now per-
formed By III" commanders OF nlne
Army corps areas. which are Gc"-
graphical regions. The ta"'i"al r":2.
xiii consist Of army d;v..'"n~. mi
geographical regions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, oct. l.-North Catoil'l' ,
General fund revenue for Septemner
eoarcd more than 30 per cent over
the same month of last year, accord
mo TO the Department of Revenue S
comparative collections report rep TT coH as
practically all induces polnte4 TO t Gecl
tinued Improvement in Tar Heel
The September increase was va ,, the
greatest (speakine in terms 90 90 PEI, PEA
centages) since December i90?, a tta
has been surpassed only twice IN ,I ulie
,wenty-one months since Decew ne a. u,
1888. December 1888, was up ou,Jo
nrr cent over December, 1885; W ,nao
January. 1899. topped January 1850
by 3917 per cent. .,,a o,ror,1
At the same time that me , g'''[ ,h d.
.uad tax collections !et'c"e" '''''
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
Holland Gets
New Reprieve

Raleigh. Oct. 1.-(AP)--Sheprose
Holland, under sentence of death for
the murder of his stepson in Duplin
county, will get new reprievc to set
his death date for January "a due
to continuance of a case in DuplIn
county against two men charged with
conspiracy to murder the child.
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill
said today the new reprieve would be
necessary as Hollands death date
now was fixed at November 8.
Yesterday at KenansVille judge
Leo Carr ordered the trial Of Ralph
and Mott Sutton, charged with con-
spiracy to murder Ray Goodman
Holland, the stepson, continued until
a special term of court starting No
vember Is.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01
No End in Sight to
Bombs Which Have
Fallen on London For
Is Days and Nights.

London. Oct. 1.-(AP)-With no
end in sight TO the bombs which have
fallen on London day and night for
% days. Britain'S capital is prepar-
ing for the severest winter Of war in
its history.
lis plan is three iold-to combat
the German raiders with the strong
est possible defense weapons. to
speed up an exodus Of women and
children 10 more sparsely settled and
thus less bombed areas. to give those
who must stay the utmost shelter.
After another night-long series Of
attacks. broken off just before dawn.
LondOn'S anti-aircraft guns roared
into action again this morning
against scattered German bonnberS.
Early this afternoon bon"bS fell in
= thickly settled southwest London
district and there were believed to
have been casualties.
One German plane. believed TO
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-01

Washington. Oct l.-(AP)- The
War department Incorporated III It's
CONSUMPTION program today three
more measures TO facilitate the train
ING of men drafted for service. 10
encourage their initiative and to los
ter their morale.
Top item was creation Of an en-
tirely new peacetime system OF army
tactical corps commanders whose
principal Junction. will be to tram
regular Army. National Guard and
drafted troops.
The Army made known yesterday
its intention Of giving trainees an
opportunity to qualify for Officers
commissions and also announced the
allotment OF s2.225lG1 20" athletic
euuipment. books aC...''"2 C;]'" "rd
motion n;ctr"H t',crt:@~ - provide
ADDITIONAL entertainment in camp.
Disclosing for the first time that