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Evening star., 1941-10-09
Educators Ask End
OF N. Y. A. and C.C.C,
After Defense Work
Agencies Are Praised,
But Federal Control
Of Instruction Is Seen

The Educational Policies Commits
sion, policy-making body of the Ma
tional Education Association and the
American Association of School Ad-
ministrators, fayors discontinuance
of the National Youth Administra-
ton and the Civilian Conservation
Corps after they have completed
their defense training programs.
In statement yesterday the
commission said that the agencies
had performed "a notable public
service in meeting the urgent de-
mands of an emergency situation"
but added:
1T does not follow that because
an agency does good job on tenn
porary emergency assignment, 1t
should therefore become a perma-
nent part of the governmental
structure and of the educational
system"
Asserting that both the N. Y. A..
and c. c. c. were moving in direc-
ton of performance the commits
sion foresaw the possibility of
permanent Federal system Of edu.
cation, controlled from Washington,
paralleling the public school systems,
and competing with them for funds,
staff, and students"
The commission recommended
that the more important functions
Of the N. Y. A. and G. c. G. be given
over to other agencies. It proposed
that vocational training and other
forms of education be transferred to
State and local educational agen-
cies; employment on public works to
general public works agencies, and
the N. Y. A. student work program to
the appropriate educational agen-
cies."
Evening star., 1941-10-09
fe-Soving Glasses

Two life-saving classes for SWIM
mers are being organized, the Red
Gross announced today. .
James Cope will instruct a junior
life-saving class from II am. to 1
pm. on Saturdays in the Ambassa-
dor Hotel pool. Miss Lillian Smith
will lead a senior class from 7:30 to
$50 pm. on Tuesdays at the same
pool. The only charge for these
courses will be for pool admission.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Extension Of Youth
Work Program Urged
By Owen D. Young
Federal Aid to Be Needed
Again When Room Ends,
Commission Told

Continuation Of Federal youth
work programs as lorm of produc-
tive activity that CO D be fitted into
the national defe Sc effort was
recommended by c ven D. Young,
chairman of the A merican Youth
Commission, yestero ".
Mr.. Young spoke 1t the opening
of the commissions 'wo-day meet
ing in the United Suites Chamber
of Commerce Buildily, which is
being held to consider he commits
sion's general report on tn care and
education of the Nations Nth after
six years of research, experimental
programs and demonstration prof.
eCtS.
The commission was expected to-
DAY to pass on the report which, it
was said, would not be made public
Immediately. Funds for the COM
mission, set up in 1885, expire at the
end of this year.
There is no doubt whatever" Mr..
Young said, that the most funda-
mental problem of youth is precisely
the problem of full employment for
all employable workers. For most
young people, true freedom will
never exist until we establish con-
ditions which will maintain an
abundance of employment oppor-
tunlties in a free labor market"
The sooner the general problem
OF full employment is solved, he
said, the sooner it will be possible to
dispense with public youth work
programs or to reduce them to the
point where they can be carried on
exclusively to provide needed Gov
ernment services.
Increases in adult unemployment
by dislocations of peace time in
dustry in some parts of the country,
he warned, are apt to cause a cor
responding increase in youth un-
employment as adult, experienced
workers become available for de-
fense industries.
IF we could be assured that we
would never need them again, much
could be said for winding up the
work programs at the earliest date
at which we reach full employ
ment," Mr.. Young said. But the
prospective situation is not likely to
be so simple. If we reach full en-
ployment during the present period,
it will be under circumstances
which we hope will remain highly
abnormal"
When employment is no longer
sustained by military expenditures,
he said, Eve shall again need the
work programs to relieve unemploy-
ment."
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Analysis OF udUc dedtH w.
90 wtu be published upon COM
pletior of official investigation.
The place: Fourth and M streets
s.w.
The accident: A 39-year-old col
ored woman was injured fatally
when struck by an automobile as
she was attempting to cross from
north to south curb of M street at
west side Of intersection. Striking
vehicle was moving west. Inquest
testimony of witnesses was that vic
tim was "hurrying" and that car
had green traffic signal. She was
picked up 19 feet west of point of
impact and taken to Casualty Hos
pital, where she died two hours later
of crushed chest, ruptured spleen
and kidney, hemorrhage and Shock.
Autopsy revealed she had been
drinking.
The time: About 1O:15 pm, Octo-
ber /.
Weather conditions: Clear night.
The street: Dry, straight, level.
The vehicle: A 1941 sedan, brakes
In satisfactory condition. Inquest
testimony of witnesses indicated it
was being driven at moderate speed.
The driver: A 16-year-old girl with
two years driving experience. She
did not testify, but police told coro-
ner's jury she made statement in
which she declared victim paused
Evening star., 1941-10-09
FootbuII Purty Planned

Several hundred alumni Of the
University of Minnesota and the
University of Illinois will meet at
Hotel 2400 at 2:30 pm. Saturday
for the second football party of the
Minnesota State Society to listen
to broadcast of the Minnesota-Il
linois football game. There will be
cheer leaders and cheering sections,
it was stated.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Gus Kahn, Song Writer, Dies;
COMPOSED JoIson's 'Mummy'

tributed such hits as Nanny.
which Al Jolson introduced; MY
Buddy" which was Kahn's favorite;
Memories" Pretty Baby" mo, No
Nora" "Carioca," !" Beside a Babbling
Brook" Flying Down to Rio," Il
Never Knew" Love Me or Leave
Me" "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby"
I'm Through With Love, My Blue
Heaven" and 1T Had to Be You"
Surviving Mr.. Kahn are his widow,
Evening star., 1941-10-09

BY the Associated Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Oct. O.
Gus Kahn, 54, one of Americas best
known song writer's, died of heart
attack yesterday. ...
With Walter Donaldson, Mr.. Kahn
turned out some or Tin Pan Alleys
best-known popular compositions be-
fore he came 10 Hollywood eight
years ago to compose for the movies.
The Kahn-Donaldson duo con-
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Why Must They Die? No6 so oots Lost pef Ys" Sc


Analysts OF traffic death No.
90 will be published upon COM
pletion of official investigation.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Ten Woshinetonions
On M. |. T. Deans List

Ten Washingtonians were among
$50 students at Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology placed on the
deans list, it was announced here
today.
They are Robert D. Arnold of
Western High; Ralph S. LaVallee
of Central; Palmer P. Derby, Gen.
trail; Howard M Bollinger, jr., Wood
row Wilson; Henry r. Brown, jr.;
Robert P. Richmond, John T. Shu-
tack, Sidwell Friends; Herbert G..
Twaddle, Western; William Hahn,
Evening star., 1941-10-09

quickly into its path, police were
told.
Coroner's Jury verdict: Death 70.
suit Of negligence on part Of de-
ceased: driver exonarated.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

after stepping off curb. Police said
driver told them she thought victim
would wait for car to pass. She
swerved car to left In attempt to
avoid pedestrian when latter moved
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Grace, a daughter, Irene, and son,
Donald
Mr. Kahn was born in Germany
and came to the United States when
he was years old.
Evening star., 1941-10-09
Mine Crews Decline

Half a million fewer men are
working in British coal mines than
at the end of the last war.
Evening star., 1941-10-09

Western and Woodrow Wilson, and
Charles F. Leiserson Of Western and
Woodrow Wilson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
AT SEA IN WARFARE. REACHES PEAK
Shipping Register Gives British Figures
 Since War Began
(By Associated Press)

With Hitler's spring offensive against British shipping just begun, the authoritative Lloyds Shipping Register lists British, Allied and neutral shipping losses for the first 18 months of the present war at 1,245 ships. totalling 1882 900 tons, or 100000 tons more than the Allies lost in the first two and one half years of the first World War.
 Lloyds also reports that against the British losses, 422 German, Ital- ian and Axis controlled ships, ag- gregating 2,028,00O tons were sunk up to March 2.
 Lloyds figures are compared with the claims advanced March 13 by the German commentary Dienst aus Deutschland that German destroy CTS, submarines and war planes de- stroyed 100000 tons of British ships since the present war started and also about l2.OO0, 900 tons of ships of Norway, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Chief Executive Makes Im- portdnt Address on h.
 ternaiiondI Affairs
AMERICA MUST HELP
 OUT ON VITAL BRIDGE"
Inference Is Given Supply Ships May Be Under Con-
 voy Across Atlantic

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Ad- ministration forces are today lined up solidly against any attempts to cut the seven billion dollar fund the President has asked to provide implements of war to the embattled democracies.
 The lineup follows the Presidents call for urgent passage of the lease- lend program as against the opposi- ton which is hcstitating on voting the full amount requested.
 The Administration has lined up forces in the House which begins debate on the measure tomorrow. It is predicted full approval of the program will be given, possibly by Wednesday, ...s ~ Some sources question the need for so much money immediately.
 Important Speech
 Saturday night. President Roosc- welt made a speech that was one of the most strongly worded he has ever delivered on international af- fairs and various statements con- tinued to monopolize comment to- day, evoking speculation as to his future plans.
 The American people. the Presi- dent said in his speech, recognize the extreme seriousness of the sit- uation and that Is why they de- manded and got the policy, unquali- fled. for an immediate all-out aid for Great Britain, Greece and China, all governments in exile whose homelands are temporarily occupied by aggressors. Prom now on. that aid will be increased. and yet again increased. until total victory is won."
 America's Wll
 The President also made the state ment that America's will to work and sacrifice depended on survival of vital bridge" of boats to trans port supplies.
 This statement is interpreted by some as limiting of conveys but Ad- ministration supporters doubt that intention.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
SLANG NOT ENCOURAGED BYARMY, NAVY, N0TEvEN
 AIR CORPS, BUT 1T E USED
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, March :7-If I said that the Army encourages slang, I'd probably have the Army right on my neck. Officially, it doesn't even recognize slang as fit conversation.
 I'd hate to think what would happen to young trainee, intro- ducing his mother to his sergeant with, "Mom, meet the top kick" Or what would happen to some rookie who saluted his second lieutenant with, "Hiya Shavetail"
 Nevertheless, if you go prodding around = off-the- record, strictly you may discover that among the men who bawl out orders are quite few who think that army slang is pretty fair thing. Why? Be- cause slang is the off-duty con- versation of the initiated. Let's go back to the high school or col lege fraternity or sorority. There are words, winks and hand clasps that mean something. Those on the inside have something on those on the outside. The former belong; the latter don't.
 Consequently, those who are wise in the Army and Navy, do not dis courage slang. It's the language of the service-almost foreign and rookie is pround when he mas ters its A-B-C's. In other words, slang that the outsider and new conner do not understand is a good morale builder. Aside from the fact that the military forces have no time for teaching perfect English, there also is recognition of this importance in military ;lang.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Canada Is Building Air Bases, Stretching from
 Points South 10 Alaska

OTTAWA, March IT. = Tractor trains are moving lnto the Canadi- an Northwest with 800 tons of equipment and material to build a new series of air bases stretching from Edmonton and Vancouver to Alaska, the Canadian Air Ministry and Transport Department an- nounces
 Air Minister c. c. Powder told newsmen at a conference scme time ago that such bases will be built as part of the defense pro- gram recommended by the Joint Canadian United States Defense Board. The announcement today however, is the first disclosure that work on the bases has started.
 The official statement said the stations will be fully equipped air. dromes, dotting two routes, one on either side of the Rocky Mountain barrier.
 North of Edmonton. on the east erly route, airdromes will be con- structed at Grand Prairie, Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, and Watson Lake on the Yukon Route.
 The route on the western side of the Rockies runs north from Van couver to Kamloops, to Williams Lake, Prince George, and then joins the eastern chain at Fort St. John to Fort Nelson, Watson Lake to Whitehorse.
 An airdrome will also be built at Smithers, near Prince Rupert and within range of Prince George and coast points
 Powder said that if the Pacific Coast ever became theatre of war, Canadian and United States fighter planes could be moved-rapid- ly to Alaska"
 The new airdromes will have landing strips 4,0O0 feet long, 800 feet wide and full lighting equip ment for night flying, and com plete radio system to guide the aircraft over the route in all kinds of weather along the chain.
 New fields are being laid out at Watson Lake and fields at Grand Prairie, Fort St. John. Fort Nelson and Prince George will Dc enlarged and improved.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
CANADIANS
 ON JOB AT
 GIBRALTAR
Hard Rock Miners Cutting New Defenses, Sub-
 ferranean Town

LONDON, March l7.-Another contingent of Canadian troops has arrived at Gibraltar to help rush the job of making new fortifica- tions, the War Office announces.
 Among the Canadians are hard rock miners, members of the Royal Canada n Engineers Tunnelling Company who have been trained to the job.
 The new arrivals will work with the first Canadian detachment of sappers who have been there since the start of winter, cutting new defenses out of the rock and build- ing a subterranean town estimated ao permit the Rock of being able to stand a siege of 18 months at least.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17

Another bill passed by the Legis- lature ran up against the Governors veto power today. when Senate Bill No. IA. by Senator O. D. Cochran oi Nome, was sent back downstairs without approval.
 The bill would have raised the ex- emption from inheritance taxes. In a lengthy veto message, Gov. Ernest Gruening declares the bill aims to tighten still further the already light inheritance taxes of Alaska and "in its present financial condition the Territory can scarcely afford to abro- gate already established sources of revenue"
 The veto letter, addressed to Pre- sident Henry Roden of the Senate, is as follows:
 T am returning without my ap- proval Senate Bill No. IA, An Act to amend Sections 3096 and 3ll0 of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1883, re- lative to inheritance taxes"
 This bill aims to tighten further the already light inheritance taxes existing in the Territory of Alaska.
 Section l of S.B. No. IA amends Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1883, sec tion 3096, which sets for the exemp- tions allowed under the Alaska In- heritance Tax. The paragraph head
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Twenty-eight Divisions of Nazi Troops Prepared
 10 Make Move BRITISH LANDING
 THOUSANDS OF MEN Military Experts Return 10 Belgrade After Touring
 Frontier Areas

BELGRADE, March 17.-Military experts just arriving here after a tour of the Balkans, estimate l6 Nazi Divisions of perhaps 240,000 men, are now massed or within striking distance of Bulgaria's front fer, ready to cross into Greece.
 The experts also said that in ad- dition to these Is Divisions. there are 12 Divisions, of about 1S0,000 sol- diers, fully equipped, in occupied Rumania.
 Against these German forces the British are pouring 1000 men on the Greek mainland. Already about 100000 British troops with fighting equipment have been landed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Thyssen Is
 Surrendered
 To Germany
IndustriaIist Who Aided Hitler, Then Fell Info Dis-
 favor, Is in Detention

VICHY, France, March 17.-In- formed sources said Fritz Thyssen. German industrialist who helped bring Hitler to power. then fell into the Fuehrer's disfavor, has been sur- rendered by France to Germany.
 Thyssen is now believed in a Dachau concentration camp.
 The informed sources said Thys- sen, who was a refugee. was handed over under terms of the French German armistice. He had been liv- ing at Cannes and was arrested last December by the French police.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, March 17.-St Patrick's Day dawn ed bright and clear over the north west after Saturdays terrific wind storm that took at least 48 lives.
 The death list was increased by three this morning by the finding of the bodies of MT. and Mrs. Ludwig Foss and daughter Roselyn, 18, on the highway near Lockhart, Min nesota. Like so many others of the dead. their car stalled in the storm and they were trying to walk to safety but walked to their death.
 The death list in Minnesota is given out at IS with the North Da- kota death list placed at 30 this morning.
 With the stiffness in the air came increasing cold, p below at Bemidji, Minnesota, and degrees below zero at Rochester.
 Snow blows still buck huge drifts piled up by the wind storm although the snow fall was light.
 The terrific wind at times reached 85 miles an hour and piled snow deeply on many roads, blockading them and thus hampering the search for the reported missing per- sons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
American IsArresied
 By Nazis
Reported Held in Berlin, "Sus-
 pieionsof Sabotage"

BERLIN, March 17.-The DINE, official news agency, announces that young American newspaper man, Richard Hottelet, has been arrested "on strong suspicious of espionage" in favor of an enemy power. The agency says the Unit ed States, quite naturally, is not the enemy power referred to.
 The DNB declined to amplify tn charges. stating that particular will be brought out at the trial.
 Hottelet has been in the emplo. of the United Press for four years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
ARCHIE SHIELS SOUTH
 AFTER BUSINESS TRIP

Archie Shiels, President of the Pacific Alaska Fisheries. with of fices in Juneau, sailed south on the steamer Yukon. He was ac- companied by Mrs. Shiels. who joined him here several days ago, They are enroute to their home in Bellingham.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
MORGAN L0SE
 IN COURT CASE

WASHINGTON, March 17-Ar- thur Morgan, dismissed by the Presi- dent many months ago as Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, failed today to obtain a Supreme Court review of the decision up- holding the Presidents action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
COLLATION. AGENCY
 lICENSlNG BILL K
 SIGNED INTO BOOKS

Another bill passed by the 18th Territorial Legislsture became law today with the signatures of Gov. Ernest Gruepipg being attached to Rep. Frank dordon's bill bonding and licensing collection agencies. A bond of $2000 is specified and m annual license tax of $50 for each agency or branch imposed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
ROME WILL BE BOMBED,
 E WARNING
British Air Forces Will Make Attack # Athens
 Is Air Rdided

ROME. March IT. Reliable sources tonight declared that Great Britain has warned both Italy and Germany that British Royal Air Force bomhers will attack Rome if Axis planes bomb Athens.
 The warning, 1t is said. had been conveyed to Berlin and Rome through Vatican channels.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17

WASHINGTON Even among Britain's best friends there is some grumbling over the hard bargaining over land for the erection of U. s. air fields and naval bases in the West Indies.
 U. s. naval officers point out that whereas our 50 destroyers were com- pletely equipped = including paper towels, canned goods, typewriters, cigarettes laid out in officers mess rooms-all the United States got was the right to bargain with local West Indian governments and British real estate agents.
 Instead of being given British crown lands, the United States has had to buy land from private owners for it's new network of island bases. Thus the 125 acres purchased in Bermuda will cost $1 ,500,000 - or Sl2,OOO per acre. In comparison, residential property five miles from the District of Columbia costs only $1 200 an acre.
 Even aside from the high prices charged. the mere acquisition of land for U. s. bases has been diff ficult, particularly in Bermuda and Trinidad, where an appeal finally was made direct to London.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
LANGUAGE IN THE MAKING

There is one other angle before ye go on. There isn't a lexicogra- ,her who doesn't appreciate that
 lang is just part of the growing pains of living language. Almost yesterday, nuts meant oceans
 walnuts and such. Today, nuts means also what are you trying to feed mel" Tomorrow, oceans. wal nuts and such may have to be re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
SPORTS ys. DEFENSE

In Trinidad, U. s. Army and Navy officials picked. an area of II square miles on the Northwest Peninsula as naval base, and 18 square miles in the center of the island for an air base. But the local government of Trinidad objected, saying the use of this property would "disturb the normal life of the community" by interfering with certain holiday and sports activities.
 Replying, the State Department hinted that protection of the Vest ern Hemisphere was more important than the playing fields of Trinidad.
 The dispute dragged on so long that the Governor of Trinidad wis., tied the United States, where he was finally convinced that the Army and Navy had to have this property, would not take certain swamp areas offered by the Trinidad Government. In the end he yielded, but at a cost of $3,000, 900. This is what the Unit ed States will pay for about 29
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
MRS. IRVING HOMEBOUND

Mrs. Wilbur Irving is passenger aboard the Northland, returning from business trip to the Pacific Northwest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Bill Cutting Inheritance
 Tax Vetoed
Governor Kicks Cochran Measure Downstairs
 with Reasons

The Senate refused today to override the Governors veto on the inheritance tax bill. Senate President Henry Roden voted with Senator O. D. Cochran, the author to override the veto, while the other six Senators vOt- ed against.
 Cochran, saying he resented some of the statements in the veto message, declared: "The Governor seems to have gone out of his way to tell us the Terri torial interest was not cOnsideerd in the passage of this bill"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
Terrific Gale Sweeps Over Northwest Leaving
 Trail of Death
NORTH DAk0TA HEADS
 LIST WITH 30 KILLED
Huge Drifts of Snow Block dde Roads, Hdmpering
 Search for Missing

ETIN GRAND FORKS, March 17.-At 3 o. clock this afternoon the death toll from the windstorm has been placed at 55.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17
TWO BATTLE5HIp5 ARE T0RpED0ED,
 MEDITERR RANEAN
lRv Associated Pressl

Informed Nazi sources in Berlin report German warplanes have tor pedoed two British battleships in the Mediterranean off the island of Crete.
 The German High Command makes no mention of the reported torpedoing of the battleships, how ever.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-17

Seventeen percent of the worlds tin comes from Bolivia, a
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