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| bardment. but no important targets
were said to have been hit and dam
age was slight
A government spokesman brand
ed Russia S allegation that German
| troops had attacked the Soviet
through Northern Finland "a de-
liberate lie"
This was Finlard's retort to the
Red Army communique today which
said: Finland has lent her terri
tory TO the German Army and air
force. For the last 10 days concen-
trations of German troops and
planes have been proceeding on
these borders Of the U. S. S. r.
Reply TO First Protest Awaited.
The second Finnish protest was
handed to Pavel Orlov. the Soviet
Minister TO Helsinki. while Finland
still waited for an answer to her
first, delivered Monday over the
bombardment of the Gulf of Bothnia
port of Turku-a target again to-
day-in Southwest Finland Orlov
had said he would inform his
government of the protest.
German warplanes, seeking out
Russian outposts in the Baltic area,
were said to have bombed Hango,
leased from Finland as a base in
the 1910 peace treaty, similar bases
in EStonia and to have left gigantic
fires raging in Leningrad
Russian artillery at Hango was
heard firing at targets IN the Baltic.
according to reliable reports. This
might mean either a German air
or naval raid on the baseD
The official Finnish position is
that the republic not only is fulfill
ing its treaty obligations with the
U. S. S. R. to the letter but even
is granting the Soviet special con-
cesSions in order to foster friendlier
relations
First Alarm at 1:2O.
The first air alarm in HelSinki
sounded at 7:20 am and three times
more before noon the sirens warned
the populace to seek cover.
Many Soviet bombers of the
United States Douglas type were
sighted flying with strong fighter
escorts.
Most of the raiders turned out
over the Gulf of Finland to escape
a thunderous ground barrage from
the capitals anti-aircraft batteries,
but there were heavy explosions and
pail of smoke toward the east.
The port of Turku, Tampere and
Lahti also were attacked. Alarms
sounded twice at Riihimaeki. rail-
road junction northwest of Helsinki
The Firms showed no signs of
panic. While many ran into shelters,
the streets were crowded with spec
tators shading their eyes to watch
the warbirds in the cloudless sky.
Twenty minutes later second So
Wet air squadron of II planes. also
coming from the direction of Hango.
attacked the city.
Crowds in the streets cheered as
one of the hombers was shot down
by a Finnish fighter and the rest
scattered under heavy groundfire.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Bridges |soIationist Stand
Unchanged by Soviet War
ne fha NJ,

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-
Harry Bridges says the war be-
tween Germany and Russia has not
changed his opinion that the United
States should stay out of the cur
rent conflict. q
Asked by newsmen for comment,
the California C. I. o. director whom
the Government seeks to deport
as subversive alien said:
Nothing has Nappened to change
my position. am 100 per cent in
favor of the C. I. o. position-no
participation in foreign wars and no
overt act that might entangle us
in participation overseas.
Il am still against the arming
of American merchantmen and
sending them into belligerent zones,
where they may create incidents
that can be used to whip up the
country into going into war.
"The c. I. o. has not changed
It's position, and I doubt II 1t will"
Evening star., 1941-06-25
DR.. E. 6. Switzer Heads
Baltimore Synod
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md. June 25.-The
Rev. John L. Nixon of Baltimore
will discuss THE Church and Ma
tional Defense" today at the after
noon session of the five-day con-
ference OF the Presbyterian Synod
of Baltimore.
The Rev. DR.. E. Glenn Switzer.
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Bel Air, Md, succeeds the
Rev. DR.. Bernard Belskamp of
Washington as synodical moderator
Other newly officers are:
Vice moderator. the Rev. Edwin L.
Smelling of Darlington, Md; stated
clerk, the Rev. George M. Cummings
of Washington; permanent clerk.
the Rev. A. Brown Caldwell of
Baltimore. and temporary clerk. the
Rev. John Jackson Brown of Mil
ford. Del,
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Motion 10 Take Case
Of Chi|d-Beating
From Jury Denied
Defense Says Prosecution
FoiIs to Produce Evidence
To Convict Mother

A defense motion that the child
beating case against Mrs. Evelyn M
| Stewart, accused of beating and
burning her 7-year-old son. be taken
from the jury, on the ground the
Government has failed to produce
sufficient evidence, was denied today
by Justice T. Alan Goldsborough in
Criminal Court No. l of District
Court.
Defense Attorney Paul j. Sedg-
wick contended that to sustain the
| charges the Government must show
permanent injury resulted from the
beating, and that the act was ac-
complished through evil motives.
The court cannot grant your
motion to take the case away from
the jury" Justice Goldsborough said.
THE jurors will have to consider
this case"
Points to Government Testimony.
Justice Goldsborough pointed out
that Government testimony has
tended TO show the child was beaten
10. or Is minutes and that he
screamed while he was being burned
in tub Of hot water.
The jurist also disagreed with a
North Carolina court decision, read
by Mr.. Sedgwick, which asserted
that if parents, in Furnishing their
children. had to face criminal prose
cution, government in the home
would be disrupted and the veil
would be drawn aside for public
gaze to inquire into domestic life
The Governments contends Mrs
Stewart whipped her SON. Jimmy
and placed him in a bathtub OF
water so hot that he was burned
seriously enough to require hos
pitaliZation.
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| spokesman said. Within the near
future, he predicted. a solid eastern
front will have been established
against Communism
This. he said. is indicated by
Hungary's rupture of relations with
| the U. S. S. R, Slovakias S partici-
patton in the fight with the Ger
man army and also the active par
ticipation of Finland and Rumania
Authorized German sources said
Finland had proclaimed herself az
war against the Soviet Union and
that fighting already is in full
force. This was not corroborated
from Helsinki)
The Germans and their allies
were said to have been favored by
the fact that the Ukraine and Bal
tic states. Russian outposts. con-
tanned non-Russian peoples and
races which only unwillingly ac-
cepted Bolshevism and welcomed
the opportunity to reject it.
One informed source expressed
belief that the Russian high COM
mand already is cut off from con-
tact with some of its armies and
that the cutting Up process is ad-
vancing on schedule.
Silent on Specific Details.
The war bulletin, again issued
from "the Fuehrer's headquarters. u
reported every weapon in the Ger
man arsenal pitted against the
! Soviet forces on land, at sea and in
the air, but it still was silent on
specific details of developments.
(The German communique,
heard by Reuters. British news
agency, on the radio in London
said today that Adolf Hitler is
on the Russian war front)
DNB, official news agency, said a
single German air feet yesterday
destroyed 108 Russian armored We
hicles. Yesterday DNB also report
ed destruction of 280 Russian tanks
in two sectors. (T'he implication
was that these figures did not rep
resent the Russians total loss.
lerely destruction on three sectors)
Soviet rail lines and rolling stock
again were successfully bombed"
yesterday, according to German
sources.
Railroad Cars Fired.
Seventeen railroad cars were said
to have been hit at one unSpecified
place and some set afire and six
others, all loaded with troops and
war materials. were said to have
been wrecked in another air smash
One German air fleet reported it
had destroyed II Russian locomo-
tives and had bombed railroad sta
tions and switches.
D.N.B. added that the air force was
blasting a way for the army along
the whole front, bombing and ma
chine-gunning troop concentrations
and Yeinforcements and leaving
many roads Uttered with wreckage
Air warfare apparently was being
waged heavily by both sides.
The communique acknowledged
that single Soviet bombers had
raided the East Prussian cities of
Koenigsberg and Memel, destroying
some buildings. There were fatal
tiles, it said, but these were "pri-
marily among war prisoners
Nazis Repeating Victories.
Between the lines of terse official
announcements, a public hungry for
news from the front cleaned story
Of head-on collisions between massed
armored units OF two OF the most
highly -mechanized armies in the
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Cavalry and Planes Beot Back
7 unks, Soviet Newsmun Says

self-sacrifice. but numerical super
iority assured the enemy advance.
Soviet bombers and destroyers
appeared in the sky with lightning
speed, attacking the enemy infantry
and tanks and pouring down death
dealing fire.
The enemy losses were tremen-
dous and the enemy, shaken, stopped
IN confusion.
Then our cavalry charged with
indescribable courage. crying For
the fatherland! For Stalini"
The dispatch said the light bri-
gade charge drove the attackers back
into Rumanian territory and the
Soviet forces occupied Falcha.
Evening star., 1941-06-25

wholly secondary" the spokesman
said.
That goes for all rumors con-
corning uprisings in these regions
against Russian dominance. or for
nation OF governments. OF course,
there is no question of Germany
recognizing anyone while military
operations are under way"
The internal political affairs OF
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were
termed events purely of local char
acter on which Germany expresses
no attitude.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
BY the Associated Press.

AbSUtIHttU
MOSCOW, June 25.-In q modern
charge of a light brigade, Russian
cavalry, supported by Soviet war
planes, beat back tank-led attack
and won victory on the Prut River
front, a Russian war correspondent
said today.
The story from the correspondent
for Izvestia, Soviet government or
gan, was the first from the Ruman-
ian front and said the attack against
Soviet territory developed from the
Rumanian town of Falcha.
The enemy crossed the river" the
correspondent reported. Our border
guards defended the frontier with
Evening star., 1941-06-25
0. P. M. Names Stevens
Contract Co-ordinutor

Robert T. Stevens, New York in
surance executive and financier, to-
day was named co-ordinator of the
o. P. MS Defense Contract Service
in New York City. He served in
Washington as policy board chair
man of the N. r. A., and last year
was a member of the National De-
fense Commission staff in charge Of
textiles
The o. P. M. also announced that
r. c. Allen. consultant on ferrous
minerals, has been granted an in
definite leave of absence to return
to his position as executive vice
president of Oglebay, Norton & Co.
Cleveland.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Egyptian Line Found Disrupted.

BERLIN, June Is [P,.-German
reconnaissance flights were reported
today to have found that service on
the rail line between the British
naval base at Alexandria and the
port of Ismailia on the Suez Canal
had been disrupted by a German
bombing raid Monday night.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
TripoH and Bengosi
Roided, British Claim

CAIRO. Egypt, June 25 lP.-
Furnishing British air raids on
Tripoli. capital and chief port of
italian Libya, and Bengasi, strong
hold on the Libyan coast, were re-
ported today by the r. A. F.
The communique said number
of fires were started at Tripoli,
where planes of the fleet air arm
bombed the railway and quay. The
loss of one British plane was ad-
mitted.
Evening star., 1941-06-25

Cattle and other live animals are
being sold on the basis Of height
instead Of weight In Nicaragua.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Naxis Repeatinr Victories.

Between the lines of terse official
announcements, public hungry for
news from the front cleaned a story
of head-on collisions between massed
armored units OF two OF the most
highly-mechanized armies in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-16

been scanned and men have spent years try
ing to trace the legend down-much as in
the case of Captain Kidds storied treasure.
The treasure-hunters at Lebanon have unwit-
tingly done important work in unearthing
many buried cities. but they have ignored the
more fugitive relics Of prehistoric cultures
flint tools, and bones of extinct animals.
Nearly twenty years ago the Arab owner
of some land near Antelas went to work
eagerly, convinced that he had discovered the
treasure-cave of the legend. But his eager
ness turned to disgust when years of digging
yielded him nothing but big pit and lot of
old pieces of flint and bones.
Father Doherty, examining the flints and
bones discarded as worthless by the Arab,
recognized them exceptionally well-pre-
served Old Stone Age implements and bones
of long-extinct animals
The Jesuit expedition leased the land hired
and trained native diggers and went TO work,
excavating the debris that had fallen into the
original pit we'll as making a large sound
ing straight down from the surface with a
tria-trench to the side
They were rewarded almost at once by
finding large numbers of flint implements
hatchets. AIDES lancepoints. barbs, their
Clipped edges bearing unmistakable marks
of Old Stone Age workmanship. They found
thousands of bones Of animals rhinoceros
gazelle, goat deer. wild boar bear. hyena,
bison, and panther. The only wild animals
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wolf and very curious and rare beast known
in Biblical times as the "coney."
Some of the bones were shaped into i'm
plements. Others obviously had been dis
carded after the animal was eaten. There
were thick deposits of ashes from fires. 1t
was obvious that the limestone cave had been
used by successive tribes for thousands of
generations Its floor gradually had been
covered and its mouth narrowed by the &C
cumulated geological and cultural layers of
the ages
Father j. Franklin Ewing, s. j., of New
York. went from the University of Vienna,
where he had been doing research work in
paleontology. and joined Father Doherty as
co-leader Of the expedition.
They built headquarters shack and set
tied down to a long job. Bit by bit the
treasure-troYe in the scientists workroom
piled up. They found curious small spiky
blades of flint, which they theorized might
have been harpoon barbs. They even found
a-shells pierced with holes, apparently to be
worn as ornaments. The cave-dwellers must
have gone to the nearby sea to get them. or
possibly obtained them in trade from trav-
elers since very few remains from the sea
have been found in the site. VI. ~
All the finds were carefully photographed
and catalogued.
Comparative studies were made of the
LAYERS of rock and sand in the surrounding
country. and it was established that the lay
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ers in the cave had probably accumulated at
the rate of about an inch every twenty-five
years Thus it possible to gauge the rate
at which the excavations were rolling back
the curtain of time.
1t was at the 3O0OO-year level that the
diggers came upon several large rounded
stones placed close together.
BE careful here" Father Doherty told
Fouad Yemin, who was welding a pick on
the rocks prehistoric man often covered
his dead with rocks like these. There may be
remains here"
The native nodded and went stolidly on
with his digging. while Father Doherty de-
seconded the ladder to the bottom of the mar
row sounding AS the priest was coming up
again, few minutes later, he heard the ma
tive suddenly cry out.
Father Doherty leaped to his side and
other diggers crowded around. There, under
and between two OF the rounded stones, was
the unmistakable shell of human skull.
Fouads pick had knocked off the top of 1t.
The priest-scientists sent the native work.
ers away for four days and. with infinite care.
Clipped the rock and earth away. . A little
below the skull, they found complete thigh
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1874 by Weekly Britain Rights Reserved
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Alfy PiloAobi hPh''''
measured. and diagrammed every detail Of
their find Then they went on with their
deep sounding. returning repeatedly to the
two skeletons to make further studies Of
them. They were afraid to chip away more
of the stone surrounding the bones for fear
of damaging them. Finally they coated the
protruding bones with parafin and plaster
of Paris and again with cement against the
time when II would be possible to remove the
whole block of stone.
They dug further-down to the 70,OO0-year
level without finding further human skeletal
remains, but finding invaluable cultural rel
les and indications that more and greater
discoveries mighb be expected. They had not
vet reached the bottom of the layers of hab-
itation At length at the end of two seasons
of work. lack of funds and the circumstances
of the European war, with its effect on Sy-
ria compelled the Jesuits to suspend opera
tions until Father Doherty should go back
to Boston College and make further arrange
ments.
He plans after making his reports to
various scientific societies and congresses, and
getting further authorization from his supe-
riors at Boston College, to go back to Syria
equipped to enlarge the sounding and remove
a block of limestone weighing more than
ton with the two skeletons still in IT.
He will bring the block back to America,
and will begin the tedious process of stone
dissection The stone will be taken apart
piece by piece with dental drills and other
small tools; the greatest care is necessary
since some small bones may have become al
most part of the rock with the passage Of
years.
Then after full critical analysis Of the
remains. it will be possible to give Lebanon
Man, his exact place in the scale between
Neanderthal Man and modern man. Present
studies establish the Syrian skeletons to rep
resent a period similar to that OF Auri-
gnacian Man in Europe.
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Strange Discovery Of an ArcheoIogisf
Priest on Sacred Mt. Lebanon Which
May Throw New Light on Mans Begin
nings: Human Fragments So Old They
Will Have to Be UnscrambIed
With Dental Drills
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in Java years ago. from which
Pithecanthropus Erectus was recon-
structed.
They named the skeleton Egbert
though its sex still remains to be
determined.
The next day they went back 10
work, leaving Egbert imbedded in
the rock, and soon found another
skeleton nearby-a lower jaw with
several teeth in 1t, rib bones, and
a long bone from one of the limbs.
Like the first, it was the remains Of
a child.
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bone, then the complete bones of for
II was the skeleton Of child about
or eight years old, they decided. Piecir
broken skull together. they were amaz
see that IL closely resembled the skull
modern infant
The skull was complete-there w
need to reconstruct important missing
as in the case of the famous brain-cap
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-05
Committee Members Are Opposed to Settling
 North with Refugees TRY AMERICANS FIRST
 IS PLEA BEING MADE
Sub- reorganization 10 Take Legislation and Make
 If More Acceptable

WASHINGTON, March B. The House Immigration Committee has decided to rewrite the Dickstein bill which was destined to authorize the settlement of Alaska with thrilled quotas of European immigrants.
 The decision came after the Com mittee members disagreed regarding it's provisions.
 Chairman Dickstein said he would appoint a subcommittee headed by representative Charles Kramer of California to work with the Interior Department in drawing up a sub- stitute measure.
 The present Dickstein colony bill provided that all unused iminigra- tion quotas for the past six years could be granted admission to the territory where the immigrants would have to remain for five years or until they became citizens.
 Measure Attacked
 Representatives A. L. Allen of Louisiana, L. Beckworth of Texas, Noah Mason of Illinois, Kramer and Thomas F. Ford of California, at tackled the measure as written.
 John Trevor, head of the Ameri- can Coalition, said he represented more than 100 patriotic and civil or ganizations. He said the bill would permit entrance of TOO to 1000 Euro
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-05
British Aid Bill Changes
 Arepuf0yeF
Senate Approves of Two Amendments Giving
 Congress Control

WASHINGTON, March 5. -- The Senate this afternoon adopted an amendment to the British Aid bill designed to tighten Congressional control of the purse strings and requiring the President to obtain specific congressional approval be- fore committing the Government to future expenditures.
 The Senate also approved of an- other amendment terminating the bill on July l, 1943, or any earlier date approved by majority of both houses of Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-05
FOR COMMON DEFENSE

WASHINGTON, March 5--Negn- tiation of a mutual assistance agree ment between the United States and Mexico gives the North American continent a common defense front from the Arctic Circle almost to the Isthmus of Panama.
 Mexicos negotiations follow the recently concluded joint defense pact between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, thus providing protection for both Southern and Northern Hanks of the continent.
 Military, Naval and Air force ex- perts of the United States and Mex ico, the State Department discloses, are already at work on a specific plan for cooperative defense against aggression.
 It is believed that the agenda in- cludes Mexico's air bases being avail able for the United States for any use necessary, and also that Mexico will construct new or enlarged naval bases on both the east coast and the lower California coast. protection to the Panama Canal approaches at one or two strategic points on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-05
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 5. Y No matter how the future evaluates Italy,s losses in Libya, one thing is certain-she certainly lost a heap of history.
 At first glance you might not think this important, but behind it is the terrible wound to Italian pride Back of that may be dam aging effect on Italian morale.
 Probably there is no colony m the world that has a stranger story than Libya-all of it--but for the purposes of this column we will consider principally only Cirenaica, the eastern half, which already has fallen to the British Four great civilizations have flour ished on her soil-the NeOlithic date stone age), the Phoenician, the Greek. the pre-C Christian era Roman. But in Cirenaica, except for the Neolithic, whose crude stoneware has withstood the ray- ages of sand and time, and the Greek, whose walled cities and temples have been unearthed by archeologists, all records have van ished.
 Moving back from those few gardens by the sea. which now are Libya's only remnants of agricul- tural splendor, into the desert and barren uplands, one finds it almost impossible to believe that Libya
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-05

WASHINGTON-Since his report to the White House, Harry Hopkins has been just as tight-lipped regard ing his London mission as he was over there. However, here are some of the things he told the President.
 First and most important, Hop- kins definitely stated his conviction that the British would be able to hold out against the Nazis He thor oughly agreed with Wendell Willkie in spiking isolationist claims that Britain would crack up, submit to a negotiated peace, and leave the U. s. A. to hold the bag after voting "all-out" aid.
 British morale. Hopkins reported, is holding up admirably under the Nazi air bombardments. This is es- pecially true of the working classes. Labor unions are cooperating whole heartedly with the government in combating the Hitler propaganda that Britain is fighting an imperial istic war.
 Tremendously bolstering British morale have been recent successes in North Africa, the visit of Wendell Willkie, plus the prospect of the lease-lend bills passage.
 Hopkins also told Roosevelt that the British army was in excellent fighting form and well equipped to stand off the Nazis when they att tempt to cross the Channel.