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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-07-27

Unhurriedly, he reached the passage, crossed
it, and came to the glade.
He fed slowly and leisurely on the succulent
moodi When he had had his fill, he left the
glade. chose cool bed of leaves on a small
plateau; then he dozed and waited.
1t was hours before the men arrived at
the stream. The Okapi's keen hearing fol-
lowed them as clearly as if he had been able
to see them. He listened intently while they
followed his footprints in the mud. lost them
at the edge of the water, turned back, tired
and dispirited, for their long march to the
plantation.
His large blue eyes, which could glaze
with demoniacal fury or CLEAN as softly as a
kittens, had never been blander.
LAY after day, Steve had sent his men after
the Okapi on chance that he knew was a
slim one. They we're plainsmen: and though
they had remained many years with him, the
jungle was still for them an alien, hostile
world. I'm just wasting time" he thought
after week. Better try with pits" And he
set all his men to dig one here, one there,
on every path preferred by the Okapi.
1t was long job, as each pit had to be
dug twelve feet long and deep and five feet
wide, and covered with masking of sticks
and leaves so that it looked no different from
the surrounding ground. But at last ten of
them were completed A boy went at dawn
each day to inspect them, and often Steve
went with him. Once only. in the very begin
ming thew found marks that showed where
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~0TEvE never thought of the big Okapi as
- geological freak; he thought of it as
~ the creature it most resembled "a
horse A damned smart horse; a bigger,
tougher version of an Irish hunter he'd once
had.
as he looked at the havoc wrought in his
coffee nursery covered all the categories of
man, beast and devil.
It's just pure cussedness," he concluded
resentfuly.
Steve scratched his rusty red head and
thought He couldn't waste any more time
hunting the beast He'd have to let the ma
tives take crack at it.
"Mutoni," he ordered his head boy, take
six men. and 60 after that Okapi I'll give you
a good matabishd if you get him.
Yes. Bwana," the boy answered dubious
ly. But -" Steve paid no attention to him.
He squatted down and examined the nibbled
seedlings, salvaging what he could.
For some weeks now the big Okapi had
been making fool out of Steve. Steve had
tried scarecrow, first; the Okapi had used
his heels on it. He built stout palisade all
around the nursery; the Okapi had battered
a gap through it. He'd put out nooses of
strong fiber rope; the Okapi's footprints had
skirted them insultingly, no matter how cum
ningly he hid them
Steve hadn't wanted to kill the animal
until he got boiling mad And he hadn't really
boiled until the night the Okapi destroyed
Steves pet passion, a bed of grated seedlings
he'd been experimenting with. Then Steve
had gone into the house and got his gun. And
for six mortal days he had hunted the Okapi
without ever 50 much as a glimpse of its
hide.
Then, Yesterday, he'd decided he'd have
to quit for awhile. At night as if to pull his
leg, the Okap had come back and eaten two
more rows of seedlings.
Steve's coffee plantation was in a place
where unusual things could be expected If
you let drop of ink fall splam in the middle
of map of Africa, it would run out in little
tentacles much the way the equatorial jungle
spreads over the mountains and lowlands OF
Belgian Congo. In one of these little spurs
Steve had cleared his plantation - cleared it
from giant trees and monstrous masses of
tangled vegetation - twelve years before.
People had said he was crazy. His first crop
had proved he wasn't. But by that time the
bottom had fallen out of the coffee market,
and Stoves grandiose plans shrivelled like
drying prune But he liked the place, and
he liked to live way off there by himself.
When he got mixed up with people, he always
got into a fight Here in this remote planta-
ton, he could do as he pleased. He sold
enough coffee to pay the wages of his native
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Harris Ewing Photo.
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the building is to be more utiIi-
torion in character thon the
first unit, which will form the
front Of the structure, foeine q
beautiful formal pork extending
neorIy to the Interior Depart
ment.
One Of the Iotest Of greet
Washington developments, the
Southwest Triangle, moy one
doy serve to boIonce and even
to rivol the Mall TrioneIe, from
which it is separated by the
Nall. 1t hos been set aside to
provide sites for Federal office
buildings, three Of which have
just been completed under
pressure 10 provide spoee for
emergency purposes. The Aeri-
culture Department oIso hos
been given large and beautiful
quorters in the Southwest. od-
joining the older morbIe build
ing in the Mall. Rising from
O clutter Of old buildings. some
Of them omone the ueIiest in
Washington, the new Southwest
Triangle holds promise of q
long needed development for
O neglected oreo Of the Copitol.
With assignment Of sites in
the Northwest Rectonele ond
Southwest Triangle, the posi-
biIities for future major build
ing projects in downtown Wosh-
ineton have been foirIy we'll
exhausted. PIonnine officioIs
now ore looking to the develop
ment Of long -neeIeeted Eost
Washington and neorby Vir-
qinio and Maryland for needed
room. Development Of Eost
Washington. in accordance with
pIons for Eost CopitoI street
and the sports center oreo,
would be in accordance with
proposals Of George Woshine-
ton and Mai. Pierre ChorIes
L'Enfont for the establishment
Of the Federal Copitol. The
Copitol Building. foeing cost,
shows how little the founders
anticipated the greet growth to
the north and west which hos
left Washington unbalanced
from the stondpoints Of popu-
lotion, troffic ond general in
terest. Major development Of
Eost Washington, with proposed
motor porkwoy connections to
Baltimore and other cities.
would do much to improve the
beouty and Iiveob|eness Of the
Nations Copitol. \
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Powerful RAF Squddrons Pound Brest Where Bdf-
 t|eships Sheltered
HUGE LINES OF FIRES
 REPORTED BY B0MBERS
Shipping Off LeHdvre Also Attacked-Two German
 Tankers Sent Down

LONDON, March 31.-The Brit ish Air Ministry announces power full squadrons pounded German occupied parts of coastal territory, especially Brest where it is said the 26,OO0-ton German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are known to be sheltering."
 Both craft are said to have played leading role in preying on Great Britain's supply lines in the At lantic.
 The Air Ministry said the Brest docks were "strafed from all direc- tions by medium, large and very large bombs"
 Huge lines of blazes were seen when the last of the British Air Force bombers turned homeward this morning
 Daylight raiding by the British Air Force then took place today and the bombers attacked shipping off LeHavre where the Air Ministry reported at noon today that bombs scored many direct hits and two huge German tankers are said to have been fired and they probably went down.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Foundations Country
 Undermined
Monopoly Com mite e Gives Final Report
 After Three Years

WASHINGTON, March 31. = A Monopoly Committee, submitting its final report of study in pro- gress for almost three years said, today. "The concentration of eco homie and political power is under mining the foundations of both free enterprise and free govern ment' in the United States.
 The committee asked that the policy of permanent decentraliza- tion" be halted. Such concentration is offered in legislative program, much of which is aimed at curtail- ing monopolistic practices.
 One of the objectives of the study was to ascertain causes and pos- sible remedies for recurrent busi- ness depressions. In this connection the committee rejected Government spending as remedy, proposing ill- stead the encouragement of private enterprise to use private capital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Saloon Bond, Tax Committee Bills Vetoed
Governor Issues Statement on DisdpDrovdl of
 Two Measures

Veto of bills reducing the bond on liquor dispensaries and creat- ing Special Legislative Tax Con- mittee was announced today by Gov. Ernest Gruening in a pair ot statements.
 One of the last sections of the 18th Territorial Legislature was tc elect members of the Tax Commit tee which would have made a study of Alaska tax problems and report its findings to special session Those chosen to serve on the Com mittee were Senators Norman R. Walker, o. D. Cochran, Edward Coffey and c. H. (Alabam) LaBoy- teaux and Reps. James V. Davis, Howard Lyng, Harvey Smith and Leo Rogge.
 The Governors statement on the liquor bond veto was as follows:
 Pocket Veto
 T have given a pocket veto to Senate Bill No. 57, An Act to amend Subsection A, of Section 13, of Chapter 78, Session Laws of Alaska, 1887, as amended by Chapter 70, Session Laws of Alaska, 1889, by reducing the amount of the penalty of the bond therein provided for to $5OO.00.'
 The bill would reduce the bond of $2,500 required of an establish ment dispensing beer, wine and hard liquor, to $500. The bond be- comes forfeit upon violation of the laws of Alaska pertaining to sale of intoxicating liquor. By fixing the bond at $2,500 the 1899 Legislature wisely made it costly to violate such provisions as the sale of liquor to minors, to intoxicated persons and to habitual drunkards, and the prohibition against minors and in- toxjcated persons being found on the premises. The $2,5O0 bond has accomplished these objectives fair ly well; obviously no proprietor oi a liquor dispensing establishment is going to take any chances where the forfeiture of $2,500 is involved Reducing his risk and the possible penalty 30 percent is letting down the bars and inviting the intoler- able abuses which inevitably ac- company the uncontrolled dispens- ing of hard liquor In Alaska, with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Final Note of Warning May Be Issued Soon Alter
 Midnight Tonight
DEADLINE NEARING
 FOR GENERAL EXODUS
Germans, Italians Stream ina Out of Lifile Ball.
 kan Kingdom Today
(By Associated Press)

Germany today sounded a warn ing to Yugoslavia over the vague ness" of that Balkan Kingdoms s position since King Peter the Second overthrow the pro-Axis government.
 A German source in Belgrade said the Reich intends to wait only until the last of it's 16,000 to 10000 na- tionals have left the country before serving an ultimatum which it IS said will carry a short time limit Tn demanding demobilization of the Yugoslavian Army, now estimated at 12O0, ,OOO men. Failure to demoblilze will precipitate immediate hostil- ities.
 Belgrade source said that mid- night tonight is reported to be the deadline when all German nationals must leave Yugoslavia.
 German Ultimatum
 Authorized sources in Berlin said Germany has shown "unexampled patience in determining the facts of the overthrow of the pro-Nazi gov ernment and Yugoslavia must real ize there can be an end to this magnanimity and at a time when martial events preclude that the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
YUC05LAvIA I5 PLANNING
 NEW ACTION
Will March Through AL bdnid if Germany
 Attacks Greece
lBy Associated Pressl

Unofficial advices tonight report that Yugoslavia's new Premier General Simonvic, has threatened to march on Albania if the Ger mans make an attack on Greece.
 It is said the Premier has told the Italian Minister that "Yugo- slavia is not going to be enclosed and if the Germans go to Salonika. the Yugosiavs must get to sea by way of Albania
 In Belgrade, early this evening the general situation is desperate, practically hopeless regarding fur- ther peaceful negotiations with Yu- goslavia and also the threat Yugo- slavia may march through Alhania. r
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31

WASHINGTON = If you travel from Paris down the route of the Simplon Orient Express through Milan, Trieste, Belgrade and Nisch, each city will seem dirtier, more tawdry and more Oriental until finally, in Salonika, you think you have come to the jumping off-place of Europe.
 But if. on the other hand, you approach Europe from the Mediter- ranean, via Gibraltar, Algiers, Nal ta and Patras, as one of the Merry Go- Founders once did, then Salon ika-despite it's dusty quays, its mar row twisting streets, it's towering mosques-will gleam forth like a Mecca of modern civilization.
 No matter what the approach, Salonika was one of the most strate- gic cities of southeast Europe long before Hitler massed his rnechanized forces near its borders.
 Named Thessalonica for the sister of Alexander the Great, the city lay on the main road between Rome and the East. at the head of the long arm of the Gulf of Salonika Alexander himself travelled over the road from Macedonia enroute to Persia.
 The Slavs swept down from Serbia in an attempt to capture 1t in the 7th Century; then the Bulgars in the 9th century The Saracens took it in e04, followed by the Normans of Sicily in the 12th century, the Greeks in the 18th century, then the venetians. Finally Maurad, Sultan of Turkey. captured the prized city cf the Aegean in ,1430 and if. re
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, March 31.-An- swering the fan mail:
 Mrs. B. M., Montgomery Ala. = That report that the army is going on field rations' apparently IS true but it is not what lot of peo- pie think and doesn't mean that the boys will be living on chocolate bars and canned corn beef. I'm told here that the field ration switchover from the present gar rison rations" is just 9O-day test. The actual food will be just as good and perhaps in some instances bet ter than the boys are getting now. Under the garrison system, each mess officer is allowed certain amount of money to feed his men, Within certain prescribed limits (the meals must have the required number of yitamins, etc), he can make up his own menu. With 40 or 50 mess officers on big post
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
HEINTzLEMAN TO
 FLY 10 CAPITAL

Regional Forester B. Frank Heint- zleman will leave on the Lodestar to- morrow enroute to Washington, D, O., to attend a meeting of the ten Regional Foresters, beginning next Monday.
 After the meeting the Alaska For ester will remain another ten days in the Capital on business and re- turn to Juneau after stopping few days in Portland anc Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
GREAT SEA
 BATTLE IS
 REPORTED
British Sink Five Fascist War Vessels in Three
 Days, Mediterranean
(By Associated Press)

Great Britain's Royal Navy ha: struck blow at the Axis on the sea and the British Admiralty claims victory in the greatest sea battle of the present war in a three-day clash in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
 Five Fascist war vessels were sent down in the sea battle.
 It is believed that over 1,500 Ital- ians perished as the result of the sinking of the vessels. Over more than 1000 Italian sur vivors were picked up, the Admir- alty announces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
pAA TO MAKE
 FOUR SEATTLE
 WEEKLY
CAB Considering Pan Am eritan Request for Ian-
 ana-Anehordge Run

SEATTLE. March 31.-The Civil Aeronautics Board is considering a Pan American Airways request for authority to establish branch air line from Tanana Crossing to An- chorage.
 Joe Crosson, General Manager for the Alaska Division of Pan Amer ican, said on his return from Wash- ington, D. C.. that the company will start May making four flights 9 week from Seattle to Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Master Menu Prepared
 Now for Army Boys in
 Training, Many Camps

you can see what the commissary is up against So they are going to try having master menu pre- pared at each camp (the test is being made only at the large ones) and this will be issued to the mess officers Then everybody will be eating the same and the commis- sary can get breathing spell and maybe a kind word or two from the men who make the daily purchases Actually, small money allowance will continue to be made to the mess sergeants so they can vary the master menus little. So you see most of the boys won't even know the test is being made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
MORE PARTICULARS

PORT OF ALEXANDRIA,, Marct 31.-His Majesty's Warsprite. flag ship of the British Mediterranean fleet, and other fighting ships oi Great Britain, paraded into the port of Alexandria this afternoon apparently unscathed after the vic torious Battle of the Ionian Sea in which at least five Italian war; ships were sunk under the blarine British guns and three or four other of Italy's biggest cruisers and per haps three Italian destroyers were so badly damaged they are cripples Three aerial torpedo hits wer, scored on the crack new Italian battleship Lttorio and left tn. 35,000-ton capital ship so heavil, damaged that the vessel is be, lieved useless.
 Acknowledged by Italians
 The Italians acknowledge the 10,, 000-ton cruisers Zara. Plume ant Pola and destroyers Maestrale, Vi cenzo and Zioberto have been sunl by the British fleet but declar, that at least one British craft wa sunk and at least two other war. ships were damaged.
 The 150-inch guns of Great Brit. aims battleShipS are said to have turned the Italians cruisers into 2 mass of flames when the Fascis fleet was surprised heading east. ward in the Mediterranean.
 After the battle was over British officers said they could still heal heavy firing and surmised that il the darkness one at least of thu
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31

C. T, Shelby. N C--There is no set schedule of promotions in the Army. At time like this. with the Army rapidly expanding, promo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31

The United States had 37, ,336,- 890 dwelling units at the tune oI Cne
 1940 census.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
MORE SEIZURES ARE MADE

WASHINGTON, March 3l---Sev- enty German, Italian and Danish ships were seized by armed forces of the United States over the weekend to protect them against acts of sa- botage by their crews, The Treasury Department made this statement late this afternoon after a compila- ton and said 28 Italian, two German and 36 Danish ships were taken into custody by Coast Guard. Army and Navy at ports in the United States and Canal Zone.
 Four other Danish vessels are said to have been taken over by the Navy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31
Italian, German, D Ddnish Graft Now in Hands of
 Government
.5YSTEMATIC PLOT OF
 SAB0TAGE DISCOVERED
Protests Are Expected 10 Be Received from Pow
 CTS of Axis Alliance

WASHINGTON. March 31-- The United States Government has taken over all Italian. German and imnob- ilized Danish ships in American ter ritorial waters.
 The Coast Guard and other Gov ernment units, took the sudden ac- tion over the weekend, seizing 66 vessels in all after the Naval Intel- |ligence service uncovered a syste- matic plot of sabotage. Twenty -eigiat of the vessels have been flying the Italian flag.
 The unofficial report says 20 Ital- ian ships have been quietly put completely out of business" by the crews.
 In the series of dramatic raids exe- cuted on taking over the German, Italian and Danish ships. all Axis shipping, it is said the tonnage to- tals over 300,00O tons. The discovery of the systematic plot of sabotage of the ships makes the seized vessels legally forfeit to the United States Government. The seizures were made by the United States Coast Guard and the Marines with fixed bayonets, and also regular Army units.
 Informed quarters predict the Governments action might lead to violent Axis protests and possibly open rupture of relations between the United States and Axis, Alliance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-31

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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-10-16
RESOLUTION

Declaring the amount of taxes that
may be raised by levy at the maximum
of the electors to be insufficient and
declaring the necessity Of a levy in
excess of such rate.
Be it resolved by the Council Of
together with the Township Trustees
Of the Township of Malta, State Of
Ohio, two-thirds or more of the mem-
bers elected thereto concurring.
Section One: That the amount Of
taxes that may be raised by the levy
of taxes at the maximum rate author
ized by. Section $685. of the General
Code 9 Of Ohio, on the taxable property
insufficient to provide adequate care
of Malta Cemetery which is under the
joint supervision of said Township
and Village, that taxes be levied on
and Village for the period Of five
years, at a rate in excess of such
maximum rate authorized by said Sec
ton $685. of the General Code.
Section Two: That it is necessary
to levy tax for five years beginning
with the, current taxable year 1941
and for the years 1912. 1943, 1914 and
mill on each dollar of the tax valua-
ton Of the taxable property Of Malta
Township and the Village Of Malta,
by Section $685. of the General Code.
Section Three: That the Clerk be
and he is hereby directed to certify a
copy of this resolution to the Deputy
State Supervisors and Inspectors Of
Election of Morgan County, Ohio, in
order that said Supervisors and In.
spectors of Election may make the
necessary arrangements for the SUBJ
mission of such questions to the elec-
tor of said Township and Village as
provided by law
Section Four: That the Mayor Of
the Village and President of the Trus-
tees be and they hereby are directed
to cause notice of such election to be
published as required by law
Passed September 4th, 1941.
Approved:
S. B. SHERIDAN,
President of Council of the
Village of Malta.
EZRA MCDANIEL
FRED DAVIS,
President of the Board of
Trustees of Malta Township.
Attest: Ernest Price, Clerk.
BY order of Board of Elections Of
Morgan County.
p. G. BALL, Clerk
J. d. LIGHTHIZER,
9O4 Chairman