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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
"Reprisal"

(New York Times)
 The Naz fliers have finally succeeded in hitting the monumental ceners of British civilization They call this act "reprsal" and in sense it is It is reprisal not for anything that the R.A.F. has so far done to German cities but against civiliza tion itself for daring to exist Britain is nearest and most defiant. She gets it first Let those who believe in compromise" be patient This attack is directed at every nation and every individual su- perior in thought in deed, in hope, in faith to the jealous tribe of barbarians who have seized Germany Britain is being punished for having created, many generations, the tradition of civil liberty: therefore the Commons Chamber of the Houses of Parliament is military objective.
 Britain is the mother of immortal dead, honoring her poets her artists her scientists her philosophers more than her fighting men: therefore Westminster Abbey is legitimate Nazi target.
 The British Museum has housed the records of all past civilization, and shining among them the great souls of men who helped set free the thoughts of all mankind: in Nazi world this cannot be tol- erated
 These treasures more exclusively British than is the song of the nightingale the love par ents for their children sunset over the Western Ocean. They belong to all of good will. They belong to Americans, people made up of almost every race on earth but speaking Anglo-Saxon literature, deriving laws and institutions from Anglo Saxon sources.
 When great British memorial is violated when British library, museum ancient church is de- stroyed polluted, the shiver through own libraries, churches and museums. We are exempt because British power still stands between us and Nazi air bases. We shall remain exempt under condition: resolute defense carried in force into the Naz lines
 For this total is grimy symbolic It does not aim to destroy the works of the free spirit of the past alone It aims to wipe out the free spirit itself. so that no new memorials to freedom no new libraries of liberty, no new buildings dedicated to the brotherhood of man shall ever rise again any, where
 Shall we turn from the flames of London to dis cuss ways and means of getting along" with vic- torious Nazi Germany? Let those who value a treacherous safety" talk of such a compromise. There is for it in words spoken to Americans with he'll"
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the only instance of the peculiar squeamishness of authorities to deal forcefully with the Jap problem.
 Terminal Island, part of Los An geles harbor, is one of the Navy's key West Coast bases. Off Terminal Island is the anchorage of the U. S. fleet. On the island are the fleet air station and aviation field; petrol cum docks where Navy tankers load up to supply the fleet; docks and piers of Los Angeles Harbor; Beth lehem shipbuilding yards; numerous small yards working on defense orders.
 In addition, the Government is spending tens of millions of dollars for a breakwater, new piers and docks, drydocks, Navy shops and warehouses, and one of the largest shipbuilding yards on the Pacific Coast.
 In the midst of this vital military area live 5000 Japanese, native and foreign born. Most of them are fishermen. whose boats ply the wat CTS occupied by the fleet. The Navy pays no attention to them.
 To demonstrate the possibilities of sabotage, an official one night rowed to major oil dock without encountering yard or patrol boat, and after placing chalk marks at various spots, returned without be- ing detected.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
WAR NOTES

U. $. observers in Germany report that the Hess flight to Scotland is making bigger impression on the German people even than was ex- pected. Everyone in Germany is talking about it. But inside word
 is that the British have spoiled the effect somewhat by hurling so much propaganda at the Germans The effect of Hess weird departure was so stupendous that all the British had to do was keep quiet and let the German people do their own propagandizing. .. The Germans show absolutely no sympathy for the Italians; on the contrary, they gloated over every Italian defeat
 {. The French aren't advertising it but they were careful long ago to transfer their 400O,000.OO0 gold marks (one billion dollars) from Martinique to Dakar. Maybe they remembered that several billion was still due Uncle Sam on war debts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
THE LAST FULL MEASURE

Memorial Day was born of an old war, among people who still mourned their youthful and un- timely dead Those boys whose faces had scarcely felt the who lay in the fresh graves in the churchyards and the military cemeteries. The horror and anxiety of the were not forgotten. The North could remember when its shattered vol unteer regiments fled headlong from the field of Bull Run, when Lee came to Gettysburg when Burnside left 1500O men dead and dying the slopes of fredericksburg when Grant at Cold Harbor lost 5000 men in ten minutes And the South de- feated broken in the end remembered too. It was yesterdays news today's sorrow, tomorrow's fore boding. There healer but time. We feel a melancholy but not bitter grief
 For old, unhappy, far-off things,
 And battles long ago
 The last battles of our War Between the States were over 75 years ago. Can think forward and gain moment of serenity as we contemplate a time when all who march in todays more dreadful battles will be dead or immersed in the tranquility of extreme old age when todays fever and hatred will be something written in books and softened in memory and when there will be wreaths on the graves and memorials of those who during these past few days in struggle which may have seemed to them beyond hope of victory yet died for liberty?
 A great part of history is record of mems an- guish; nor does the written portion tell the whole story of broken lives. The girl who weeps for her dead sweetheart, the widow the motherless the old couple lingering the official telegram, the crippled the blinded the broken in body and soul-who shall write of themP Yet history does pour the sand and dust through her fingers and retain flecks of fine gold, purified beyond all further contamination
 She records that in all ages men have been found who valued some goods of the spirit than life itself who stood firm against the rage of the oppressor and died for a dear memory and a vision
 Let not glorify wars, past present It is better to live for ones country and for ones love of freedom than to die for them It is better to prevail by and justice than by force of But it is well, also, not to forget that in history and in the history boiling in hels caldrons across the water the lovers of peace and of freedom the tenderhearted, the chivalrous, the young who thirsty for life, have offered and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

Carolina isolationist, had been made Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee.
 Glass was unable to attend the meeting of the Democratic Steering Committee which nominated Rey- holds, but left strict instructions that his vote was to be cast against him. Later Glass went to the Sen ate floor to take part in debate on the foreign ships acquisition bill and to vote against the Vandenberg- Clark amendment, which would have banned the transfer of Axis vessels to the British.
 After the amendment was beaten, he picked up newspaper. Suddenly jumping up, he smashed the paper to the floor, then put on the fieriest exhibition of pantomimic fury news papermen have ever witnessed. His eyes blazed and the corners of his mouth danced with whispered ex- pletiveS.
 Noting Glass agitation, Senator Happy" Chandler of Kentucky rushed over to ask the trouble.
 "I1l tell you what's the matter" snapped the Senator from Virginia Its the alleged Democratic leader ship of this chamber. I just read that Barkley and Jimmy Byrnes voted for that blankety- blank Rey- holds as chairman of the military committee.
 Fine leaders they are, selling out to the isolationists. Then with a contempuous glare at Reynolds, seated nearby, Glass added, Why, the first vote he cast after being made chairman was for this isola- tionist Vandenberg amendmend."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

On top of ths maelstrom of con- troversy sits the statuesque Paul McNutt, who as Federal Security Administrator and ruler of the Pure Food and Drug Administration in- nocently inherited the row from Henry Wallace
 Latest development is the hiring of Frank McHale. Indiana campaign manager for McNutt, as a lawyer and/or lobbyist representing the corn sugar bloc. McHale, staunch Democrat, has been retained by staunch Republican Will Irwin, former Republican National Com- mitteeman from Indiana. Irwin is President of the Union Starch and Refining Company of Columbus, Ind, which makes corn sugar prod uctS.
 McNutt has been sitting on the egg for solid year. It is expected to hatch very soon one way or the other.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 bat do not compel"
FRIDAY, MAY 30

This is a day of many portents. There is a sign most fortunate for the Navy and aviation is under a good direction of the stars. Labor is subject to evil omens which may cause workers to be unJuStly judged. M
 Heart and Home: Good feeling should permeate the family under this sway which tends toward in- sight and sympathy. Unselfish help to one another is encouraged under this configuation which is fortu- nate for informal social entertain ments. Hospitalities should be fre- quent but they should be without pomp and ceremony. Economy should rule, because money should be turned toward relief projects Of every class. Fashion will begin to frown upon any extravaganza or self indulgence.
 Business Affairs: Again the shop with small capital will flourish, the seers prophecy. Neighborhood trade will gain in cities and towns. Pros perity will overcome old feuds among rivals in trade. The sum- mer, which is to be the last sea- son in which long established so- cial and domestic customs prevail and generous living is widely en- joyed, should be time for simple recreations and the breaking down of class barriers, it is forecast.
 National Issues: New trends in education will be suggested and earnestly discussed in coming weeks. Practical courses for fitting students for special vocationS will be advocated more convincingly than in previous times since in the next postwar period, it is be- lieved,' government will superintend to great extent the choice of work for each rising generation. Thus the overcrowding of the professions and the misfits inevitable in pres ent days will be avoided. Unem- ployment is to be a problem scien- tifically solved, if the seers are to be relied on.
 International Affairs: In this menacing month which is read as most decisive regarding certain as- poets of the second World War Fire will strive to maintain neu- trality. The May conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus m ans a chance of Fires support of Brit ain, but the square of Mars is for bidding. The death of leader may complicate relations with London. However, better conditions appear promising. The coming summer threatens economic depression which is serious.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good fortune, but there will be much that is exciting in the passing months.
 Children born on this day prob- ably will be sentimental and sensi- tive, generous and exceedingly in- telligent. They may have careers that keep them much in the public prints.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

taxpayers expense. But now a way out" has been found.
 It is an obscure little item in the legislative appropriation bill provid- ing an annual "airmail expense" fund of $50 for each member of Con- gress. Under it the boys nominally will pay the regular six-cent rate like the rest of us. But they won't have to shell out themselves. The rest of us will do that for them through the $50 'airmail expense" fund for each Congressman.
 NOTE: Another illustration of Congressional economy" will be re- vealed soon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
Daily Lessons in English %. v L. GORDON

MSUSED: If Bill here would help us" Say here, would help
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pronounce UR, U FUR, al CARE.
 Tailess. Observe the Us.
 Forbid, prohibit, interdct, inhbt.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
CORN LOBBY vs. SUGAR LOBBY

It hasn't emerged through the war news headlines. but one of the big gest battles of the farm blocs has been taking place between the Corn group of the Middle West and the Sugar Cane group of Louisiana and Cuba. The row is whether corn sugar cdextroseD can be used in sweetening canned fruit without announcing it on the label.
 The cane sugar lobby argues that corn sugar cannot be used without notice on the label, and the corn sugar lobby argues that it can.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MAY 29
 George A. Parks Lockie MacKinnon Lynn Jackson Marjorie Turoff Esther Martinsen Miriam Lowe
 John Lowell Marilyn Jackson F. D. Haroldsen Timothy Draper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
GLASS AND REYNOLDS

Peppery Senator Carter Glass of Virginia explodes easily, but not in a long time did he reach a higher boiling point than when he learned Senator Bob Reynolds, vocal North
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
BEGGING TROUBLE

Criticism is widespread over the Governments failure to stop the flow of U. s. oil to Japanese war ships and planes. But this isn't
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

President Roosevelt seems to be moving closer and closer to actual hostilities He seems to have about given up hope of maintaining diplomatic re- lations with Senator Wheeler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

Sale of monocles in this country has increased more than 50 percent since the outbreak of the war according to the Community Opticians Association of New York. Union now?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

It is rumored that Japan is getting ready to pull out of China There is just little matter of in- ducing the Chinese to let go of the Japanese tail
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-29

are now offering what Abraham Lincoln called "the
 last full measure of devotion"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

automobile ride, waded into the reservoir over his protestations.
 Delivering his charge slowly and patiently, Judge Foster reviewed the prosecution and defense claims and cautioned the jury to show no pre- | judice because Spell was a Negro, nor sympathy because Mrs. Strubing was white.
 He instructed the jury to decide the case solely upon its merits and after a careful consideration of the testimony presented by both sides.
 Both Mrs. Strubing and Spell ap- peared calm as the jury filed from the courtroom into an adjoining room for it's deliberations.
 Spell faces maximum penalty of I 30 years for crime which he in- sists he did not commit. Mrs. Stru- ping, he testified, enticed him to have improper relations with her.
 Mrs. Strubing testified she was at tackled three times at her home when Spell called her from a show erbath to demand money. Then, she claimed, she was taken to West chester County, N. Y, and thrown into a reservoir to drown.
 In its summation, the state branded the story of Spell as pre- posterous" and ridiculous.
 Woman No Wanton "He wasn't a tool in the hands of a wanton and laScivious wo- man." States Attorney Lorin w. Willis told the jury of six men and six women. "She was lady of breeding, and culture, and social po- sition, and acquittal of Spell brands this woman as unfit to associate with decent women, her name and reputation shattered and ruined be- yond hope of repair.
 Tt stirs my blood to see him sit there, a smirk on his face"
 Defense Counsel Samuel F. Fried man asked the jury to use your minds and not your hearts" in de- ciding Spells innocence or guilt.
 Mrs. Strubing's first thoughts when she was taken to doctors office after being found wandering near the reservoir, Friedman said, were not that this brute had raped her, not that she had been bound, gagged and that he tried to drown her in the reservoir, but only will I get a disease will become pregnant, what will my mother say will my husband hear about it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
Secretary Knox Has
 Warned Crisis Nears
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He said the Germans have ob- tained effective" results in their bombing of industrial sections.
 Earlier, Knox replied directly to the recent testimony of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, stating that the flyers proposal for a negotiated British German peace at the present time ''is wild fancy
 He talked again of the perils of in- vasion of the Western Hemisphere if Britain falls, and said the dang CT was particularly imminent in La- tin America. Such an attack, he said, might come "very soon unless we take steps to prevent it"
 He said it wouldn't take long, for Germany to acquire South American bases, with the aid of the German population" in countries there, if the British fleet succumbed.
 Senator Guy M. Gillette, D., Ia., protested that the United States, in peacetime, required two years to eS- tablish adequate docking and repair facilities at this country's base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He asked how Germany could be expected to carry out an effective offensive without
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31

sometimes only a couple of platoons perhaps 100 or 150 men, attacked al various points.
 There was little news of the Brit 1h drives in east Africa. An an- nolmcement at Khartoum that the British had occupied an important position in the Agordat- -Barentu sector in Eritrea was taken to mean that the British force was maSsing an preparation for an attack at the weakest point in the Italian line.
 Military authorities said the Brit fsh, were continuing to press on the Italian Barentu- u-Agordat line and that a little farther south the Ital- fans were still retreating from Umm Hagar.
 In the southern Ethiopian from tier, informantS said, British troops were approaching Moyale, which they had evacuated last summer, and the Italians were making a stand. To the east, it was said, British were well inside the Italian Eomaliland frontier, meeting little resistance.
 Next British Stop
 Informants said that the next British stop along the coastal road in Libya after Derna was Apollonia, 40 miles to the west. They said the Italians showed stronger resistance at Derna than at Sollu, Badria and Tubruk, presumably because they were fresher.
 In Albana, it was said, the Ital- fans had changed their tactics and were launching series of counter attacks in an attempt to regan the initiative. Informants asserted that the attacks were not very success ful. They said the Greeks had re- pulsed them and made new small gains.
 The war office lacked confirma- ton that the Italians were evacu- ating the Tepelini area of Albania but informantS said that an evac- Mation was not improbable in the Circumstances.
 Greeks Get Control Struga, Jugoslavia, Jan. 31.-(UP) -Frontier reports today said that Greek forces in the Tepelini sector df Albania have won control of the Important heights of the Maljizi mountain, nine miles north of Tepe- mi, as well as the adjoining Lefinia liver valley.
 : Reports from Athens said that Italian troops had started to retire from Tepelini in the direction of VAlona.)
 In the coastal sector, it was re- ported, the column operating in the Slsica Valley overcame strong Ital- fan resistance and drove forward to a point mile northwest of the con- 1flerce of the Susica and Prajsekit Giver&
 This column now is about 12 miles
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such facilities.
 Benefit of Doubt
 Suppose they did lose a couple of capital ships-they would have so many" Knox said. "The only safe thing to do is to give us the benefit of the doubt"
 Without revealing any naval se- crets, isn't it a fact that American naval strategy has never contem- plated defense of the Philippine Is- lands because of the distance in- volved?" Gillette asked.
 we have admitted that its de- fense would be difficlult but we've never brushed it aside," Knox re- piled.
 In reply to questions by Senator Claude Pepper, D., Fla, Knox said that "the present sorry state of world affairs had pretty clear be- ginning in 1881 when Great Britain failed to support us in sustaining the nine-power pact" The reference was to the Japanese invasion of Manchukuo, but he added that it would be unwiSe to withhold aid from Britain now because of that earlier incident.
 Pepper and Knox agreed that a peace dominated and dictated by the Axis powers" would be worse than the Versailles treaty, and each added he was mo defender of the Versailles treaty."
 Senate Democratic Leader Alben w. Barkley referred to the bills provision empowering the president to carry out the measures objectives notwithstanding any other law" He asked Knox to compile a list of navy laws which would be affected by the bill.
 Seek Better Warplane
 Knox said that during the last several months reliable information has reached the navy that there has been a Hull" in German warplane production because the Germans were trying desperately" to turr out new, more effective aeria weapon.
 According to this information, he od1O, 1CSCAlV OAAoAoAA PAcAAC PAOAOt- tion, together with the American output, actually exceeded that oi Germany, which already had built up it's capacity to a point where il need not fear diminution of pro- ductive facilities.
 Gillette asked Knox if he was frightened by a "bombastic" speech this week, in which Admiral Erict Raeder of the German navy tolc Bremen shipworkers that after the war, Germany would have a huge fleet and strong overseas bases. Knox replied that he was mol frightened but did not wish to gam ble with the nations safety by un- desestimating German strength Earlier, he had indicated his belie1 that Raeder had meant Germany would seek bases in this hemisphere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-31
City Charter May Be
 Again Made Target
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Main street several years ago. He was hurt when he fell from a burn- ing building into an areaway and is at present incapacitated.
 Retirement of William O'Rourke 8 city employe of more than 25 years service, at $50 month is also asked.
 Fire, Police, Teachers
 Amendments to those sections of the city charter relating to the Po- lice, Bremen and Teachers Retire ment Pension Funds are also sought. The two service departments pen- sion fund would be changed so that men might be retired after 25 in- stead of 30 years service. The limit was extended two years ago under the Culhane charter amendment. Supernumerary policemen on regu- lar duty would be allowed to count this service towards retirement.
 The text of all the blank bills filed today must be submitted by February l8 to comply with legisla- tive rules, but Senator Egan be- lieved that they would be available in complete form long before that time.
 JudGeship Resolutions
 A resolution was presented in the House today naming William K. I.awlor Judge of the Waterbury City court. He is ct present q prosecutor ln tho court
 Senator samuel Malkan Of New Haven offered 6 resolution naming Joseph Bernblum judge Of the Naugs atuek borough court.
 Senator Clarence Y. Baldwin Of Woodbridgo offered q resolution naming Thomas 2, Noary Judge Of