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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31
DOWNED FOR CHURCHILL

Slim Freitag, ace test pilot
for Howard Aircraft, is convinced
he was the first private citizen in
Washington to know when Prime
Minister Churchill would arrive in
the Capital.
Slim was putting a new How
ard ship through its PAGES at a
Washington airfield for a group Of
Navy officials. 1t was an important
test on new type of plane in
which the Navy is greatly inter-
ested He was flying low when sud-
denly he was urgently signalled to
land. When he brought down his
plane, he was told to get it off
the field Immediately
What's the trouble?' he asked.
The Presidents arriving" was
the reply.
Il guessed then and there" claims
Slim" that Churchill was in a
plane nearby. Otherwise the Presi-
dent and his party wouldn't have
been there. And I was right"
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FUTURE OF Gee

Nothing got out about it, but the
Senate Military Affairs Committee
had hot discussion over abolish
ing the Civilian Conservation Corps.
The proposal was made by able
young COP Senator Styles Bridges
OF New Hampshire, outspoken pre-
war supporter Of the Presidents
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Daily Lessons in English % Sg L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do Il laid there until my
father walked there until father WOKE
OFTEN MISPRONoUNCED: in
FINE, not in FIN.
MISSPELLED: Occur; occurring
SYNONYMS: Destiny, fortune, lot doom
STUDY
vocabulary each Todays word
surrounding They
discovered that crcumvenion futile
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IIVUlNN LilQULItL ROBERTA LEE

Is it offer his in bus woman?
This which become obsolete However
still gentlemany breeding
to give his seat to a
preference n the
hostess
No; hostess asks if prefer light dark
instead of lemon with
Should letter of application be written by hand typewriter?
A If possible it should typewriter.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31
20 YEARS AGO f{ yfr EMPIRE

JANUARY / 1912
DR.. r. " Ellis recently
married Seattle, North
the Spokane Kechikan to
Catherine Mcmahon school arrived here on
the Ambassador for a
H. Shepard, handling the the mail boat
Etebeth accompanied by Hanes on
Phillips represent Eebeth had
aground then ref1oated
Joe Kende proprietor the Dairy who had been on
visit to his former home the three months was
charge his
business
Julius the corner
of Third Streets 20 odd disposed
of the balance his hardware dealer and retired
from active business for the present
Weather High cloudy colder
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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
District Land Office


Anchorage, Alaska
Nov. Z, 1941.
Notice is hereby given that How
ard Erickson has made application
for domestic under the Act of May
g. 1884 (48 Stat, 800 Anchorage
Serial No. 09955, for tract of land
described as Lot d of the Tee Har-
Dor Group of Homesites situated on
the east shore of Favorite Channel
and the west shore of Tee Harbor,
Alaska, Plat of u. S. Survey No.
1888, containing 456 acres, and it is
now in the files Of the U. s. District
Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
Any and all persons claiming adj
versely any of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claims
in the district land office within the
period of publication or thirty days
thereafter, or they will be barred
by the provisions of the statutes.
FLORENCE L. KOLB,
Acting Register.
First publication, Nov. 26, 1941.
Last publication, Jan. 81, 1912.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31
TWO WINSTON CHURCHILLs

There are now two Winston
Churchills in the United States.
One is, or was, in Washington, and
the other is in the little town of
Cornish, N. H.
These two men have been con-
fused for the last 40 years. The
name is exactly the same, and the
two men are exact contemporaries.
One is an American, the novelist,
author of Richard Carvel," THE
Inside of the Cup and The Cri-
sis This Winston Churchill leads
a quiet, retired life, while tn e
other, the visiting Prime Minister.
lives turbulent life, in the midst
of the greatest crisis the world has
ever known.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DECEMBER 81
Cary l.. Tubbs
Effie Lindstrom
Lee Smith, Jr.
James T. Burnett
George T. Dudley
Albert l.. Fisk
Mrs. Mabel Schmitz
Mrs. Carl Lundstrum
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT. OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
District Land Office

oGlNG4ktlA1l 1f1IND OHT I'VE
District Land Office
- Anchorage, Alaska
oct. "a, 1941
Notice is hereby given that Albert
F. Bixby has made application for a
domestic under the Act of May 26,
1884 as Stat. 8oS} Anchorage Serial
No. 09091 for tract of land de-
scribed, as U. S, Survey No. 2448
situated near the head of Funter
Bay, Admiralty Island, Latitude So
Is, 30" N, Longitude 1874 80 W.,
containing 499 acres, and it is now
in the files of the U. S. Land Office,
Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all
persons claiming adversely any of
the above mentioned land should
file theirs adverse claim in the dis
trict land office within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, or they win be barred by the
provisions of the statutes.
FLORENCE L. KOLB,
Acting Register.
First publication, Dec. IT. l941.
Last publication, Feb. IL, 1912.
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WATCH NIGHT SERVICE
AT METHODIST CHURCH

AS has been customary for years
among Methodists, the Juneau
Methodists will hold the annual
Watch Night service tonight in the
church auditorium.
The services will start at 1880
o'clock and continue to midnight
according to the Rev. w. H
Matthews, Jr. There will be no
preaching but there will be pray
ers, testimonials and rededication
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their own power"
Today our pursuit planes can
not even reach Hawaii under their
own power.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31
FINDS sCOwLoAD

A scowload of airplane spruce
was recently found off Cape Cha
con by Ted Benson and towed to
Metlakatla where it may be
claimed by the owner.
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON
~ FINAL ACCOUNT

A hearing will be held at ten
o'clock am. on February %, 1912,
in the United States Commissioners
(Ex- Officio) Probate Court for the
Juneau, Alaska, Commissioner Pre-
cinct upon the Final Account of
JAMES w. McNAUGHTON as the
executor of the estate of Mary v.
McNaughton, deceased, and all per-
sons are required OF file ON or before
said hearing, their objection, if any,
to said Final Account or to any
particular item thereof, specifying
the particulars of such objections;
and, at said hearing, said Court will
adjudicate and determine who are
the heirs and distributes of said
decedent, and all persons are re-
quired to show cause why said es-
tate should not be distributed to
Mary Jean McNaughton and James
w. McNaughton in accordance with
said decedents last will and testa-
ment dated November 81, 1910. =
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Deem
Der 30, l941
'e FELIX GRAY,
United States Commissioner and
Ex-Offfcio Probate Judge.
First publication. Dec. 81, 1871.
Last publication, Jan. 81, 1912. i
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MARRIED YESTERDAY

Fausto NJ Paulo and Clara M.
Kinch were married yesterday af-
ternoon in the Federal Building by
U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1941-12-31

The rabbit industry is booming
since the demand for pelts used
by hatters and furriers has in
creased.
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to come, he left no doubt about
his confidence in ultimate success.
Tomorrow: The Years Bou-
quets.J
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Washington
Merry
6o-Round

Continued from Page One)
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Weather: High, IS; low s5 cloudy and colder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
new YEAR GIVEN
NOISY WELCOME
Governmental Offices
In City Plan To Observe
Holiday Today

New Year was ushered in with
the bang of fire-crackers, the blow
ing Of horns, singing and cheering
in Wilmington last highland the
whole program went off without the
slightest tinge of Formally.
However, with that part over, the
city prepared for the usual quiet
observance of the holiday today.
Several of the churches welcomed
in the New Year with watch serv-
ices last night, and others arrang-
ed for special services this morn
ing.
All governmental offices, city,
county, state, and federal, plan
ned to close today, while a large
number of the retail stores were
slated to observe at least a half
holiday for their employees.
The local branch office of the
Carolina Motor club, Miss Minnie
A. Payne, manager, said, will be
open today from 9 a. m. until 4
p. M, for those persons who de-
sire to secure their 1941 state auto
tags.
All the banks of the city, ABC
stores and general offices of the At
CONTINUED on Page Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
STATES BANKERS
TO AID DEFENSE
Credit Resources Will Be
Placed Behind Develop
ment OF Factories

RALEIGH, Dec. 31.-R-North
Carolina bankers, in a move which
NAV mean additional large-scale
industrial expansion in the state,
announced today that the full
weight of their credit resources
would be placed behind the 'legiti-
mate development of Tar Heel
factories to meet the demands OF
the defense purchasing program.
The announcement was made by
the State Bankers association,
which said that a committee on
s'bankers national defense loans"
had been appointed to meet AL
legitimate" demands for credit in
connection with industrial develop
ment under the defense program.
A statement issued by the asso-
citation said the committee has
been set up to assist the Federal
Reserve bank in carrying out the
task assigned to it by the national
defense commission of making
what amounts to a complete in
ventory Of the manufacturing plant
facilities of the nation, and max
ing available to purchasing off
GERS of the Army and Navy the
facilities of these plants to supply
Continued on Page Two; Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
IS CLOSER
Editor Diplomat Plans To
Return To Mexico Post
Within A Month
BY w. JoYNEs VEGETARIAN

RALEIGH, Dec. 81. -R-Jose-
phus Daniels, a dyed-in-the-Wool
newspaper editor though he is am
bassador to Mexico, clipped papers
TODAY at his old editorial desk as
he described relations between the
United States and Mexico as 1.-The
best they have ever BEEN"
The 78-year-old editor-diplomat
said he would return to his post
within a month, and plans to write
two more volumes of his reml'
niscences.
"Feeling Is Closer"
'"The feeling between Mexico and
the United States is. closer and
relations are better than ever be-
fore and growing better all the
time" Daniels said. This is also
true of the United States and rela'
tons with all countries south Of
the Rio Grande."
The good neighbor'' policy Of
President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Hull, followed by the Ha-
vana agreement, Daniels said,
has brought about a continental,
solidarity that had been the dream
Of statesmen for 100 years."
IT am quite confident" he said,
that future relations between the
United States and Mexico will be
more cordial, cooperative and
friendly than they have been.
president Cardenas, who retired
recently after six years of service,
and President Camacho, recently
inaugurated, and the leaders OF
thought in Mexico have shown an
earnest desire to cooperate in the
truest spirit in the good neighbor
policy and it is strengthening all
the time.
"Too long did the people of the
United States and the people of
Pan-American countries have their
eyes turned exclusively to Europe.
They understand now it is first and
foremost that this hemisphere see
eye to eye and work together.
"I am certain 1910 will see a
cementlI of relation such as en-
visioned by Bolivar and Monroe
and other statesmen of a century
ago."
AS he talked of International af-
fairs, the blunt-nosed scissors that
lC0ntinued ON Page -Four: Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
500Fascists
Are Captured
In Campaign
Reinforcements Are Beaten
Back And Italian Tank
Attack Is Repulsed
MANY CRAGS TAKEN
Better Weather And Wide.
spread Activity OF War;
planes Aids Greeks

ATHENS, Jan. 1-Wednesday)
-R-The Greek army pounced on
enemy reonforcements and cap
tured 500 prisoners in disloding
Italians from heights near the key
town of Klisura, in central Albania,
a spokesman declared early today.
The reinforcements, the spokes-
man said, had been rushed to the
Klisura sector to halt the Greek
advance on that mountain junction
Of the road leading to Valona, Ad-
riatic port now the main objective
of the Greek offensive.
Tanks Repulsed
A general headquarters commu-
nique reported the repulse of a
tank attack by the Italians on an
undisclosed sector.
One. tank, eight guns and other
material were taken, the commu-
nique said, and reported in add.
ton that two Italian airplanes were
Shot Town on Tuesday.
In the coastal sector north of
Chimara, Greeks army of III e
SHOWS was reported to have cap
tured all the fortified crags after
an anguished five-day battle.
Capture of the 500 near Klisura
brought to 1900 the number of pris.
oners taken within the past few
days, the spokesman pointed out
"You read last nights Commu.
nique about the Italian battalion
captured with its commander ano
his entire staff, in all 700 mer
with equipment, this occurred ir
the Drinos river sector" he said
"Other units of our troops re
pulsed the enemy after stiff re-
sistance on his part on heights
near Klisura. Five hundred sol
diers and officers, belonging te
fresh troops Italy sent in order tt
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
SPENDING 100000
Force OF 1870 Men Engaged
In Grading Runways And
Working AT Quarry
BY SAM Raglan
Staff Writer)

An almost barren savannah that
was good bird-hunting territory
thirty years ago is finally-after
fifteen years of m~anicuring be-
ginning to look like an airport.
1 am referring to Bluethenthal
Airport, located a hop and a skip
out of Wilmington on the Gordon
road-and when the present face
lifting job is yer it will be about
as nice a field to glide a plane
into as you will find in this section.
There has been a lot OF talk
about Bluethenthal Airport recent
|ly-talk that Uncle Sans Army
might want to use it for defense
purposes. Whether the boys in
khaki will use the field, I don't
know, but currently 5000, 900 is be-
ing spent to give New Hanover
county an airport that will meet
lust about any requirements.
I went out yesterday to have a
look at what's going on at the field
and found something like a nun
dred men working. They were
! Continued on Page Three; COL 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
ITALIAN FACTORY
DICTATOR CHOSEN
Nation Takes Action To
Tighten Her War Econo-
my Another Notch

ROME, Dec. 31.-R-Italy tight
ened her war economy another
notch today by establishing a vir-
tual dictatorship over her indus
try.
This all-powerful post fell to As
year-old Renato Ricci, minister OF
guilds and veteran Fascist party
stalwart. He will have the final
say in the handling and distribu-
ton of all raw materials and will
determine which products are to
be turned over to the Army and
which may be left for civilian con
sumption.
The announcement of the strlc1
control over industry followed by
four days the appointment O.
Giuseppe Tassinari, minister OF ag'
riculture, as dictator of food with
control over production and con
sumption, exports and imports, ane
distribution to both civilians ane
the armed forces.
Still another decree, published to
day in the official gazette, clampee
down severe contol on the slaugh'
ter Of cattle and hogs. The live
stock section of the National Fed
grafton of Provincial Consortium:
was assigned the task of determin
continued OIL Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Airport Runways Paving
Nav Be Finished March |
Defense Council Will
Convene Here Today

A meeting of the executive
committee of the Wilmington
Defense Council was called for
this morning at IL o'clock
in the Cape Fear club, corner OF
Second and Chestnut streets, by
r. b. Page, general chairman,
yesterday.
Members are B.. B. Cameron,
Julian Fields, AL Jones, Chief of
Police j. C. Rourk, Sergeant j.
r. Smith, w. M. Hewlett, w. ID.
McCaig, j.. Holmes Davis, Louis
T. Moore, Fred Willetts, the Rev.
Walter B. Freed, F. P. O'Crow-
ley, j. N. Alexius, Sheriff c.
David Jones, Chairman Addison
Hewlett and other members of
county board, Mayor Thomas e.
Cooper and other members OF,
city board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Josephus Daniels Lauds
Mexican-U. S. Relations
Mexico Makes Payment
To u. S. For Damages

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-(R
Mexico today made its seventh
payment of $4,000 on the settle
ment of approximately $5,OOO,O 900
to United States citizens for per-
sonal and property damages dur
ing revolutions between 1910 and
1920.
The half-milliOn dollar check
was presented to Secretary OF
State Cordell Hull by DR.. Francis
Castillo Najera, Mexican ambas-
sador, before an audience OF
photographers and reporters in
the secretary's office.
The ambassador also presented
a check for $24,40O to the secre-
tary representing interest due in
the settlement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina - Mostly C | o Il d y
Wednesday and Thursday followed by
rain Thursday and in the mountains
late Wednesday or Wednesday night,
slightly warmer Wednesday,.
(By u. s. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 p. m. Yesterday
Temperature
1870 a. m. 43; 1880 a. m. 81; 30 p. m.
Sc; 7:30 p. m. so: maximum So; mini
mum 81; mean 4S; normal Al.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. IS; 1880 a.. m. 81; 1:30 p. m.
40; 7:30 p. m. &c.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p m.
600 inches; total since first Of the
month 2.92 inches.
Tides for Today
(From Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast anG Geodetic Survey.
High Low
------- IA lila
12:26p 7:40p
Inlet $685. 10 :15a 3.50a
1O:2Sp 4:26p
Sunrise lisa; sunset 5:14p; moonrise
AS a; moonset 9:21p.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c.,
at 8 a. M, Dec. rs, ILL., feet.
Continued OH Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

Greeks Gust ~Italiazs From Heights Near Klisura
r. Raises Possibility
OF British-United States
Materials Arms Trade

cllned to believe that general
provisions would prove the most
workable.
A little earlier the Presidents
secretary, Stephen T. Early, told
reporters that Mr.. Roosevelt
probably would discuss the lend.
~ing.leasing plan in his annual
message to the new congress, to
be delivered in person on Mon
day. But. he added, Mr.. Roose-
welt probably had not decided
whether to go into detail or
cover the subject in a general
way. In any event, he added,
the entire proposal would be put
before congress soon after the
session begins.
The day also brought a strik-
ing development in the aid-to-
Britain program with the an
nouncement that England had
purchased three new flying boats
(Continued on Page Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-(R
The possibility of receiving
payment in raw materials for
some of the war implements that
may be loaned or leased to Great
Britain was raised today by
President Roosevelt, as congress
squared away for a battle-royal
on the whole lease-lend program.
At a press conference, Mr..
Roosevelt said that rubber, tin
and other commodities might
prove acceptable repayment for
American fighting machines sent
to England and destroyed beyond
repair by Nazi bombs. The prin-
cipal problem just now, he indi-
Gated, was drafting legislation
which would assure the return
of the implements or their equiv
alent in other goods.
He thought it would prove
particularly difficult to include
language covering the details OF
future contingencies, and was in
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
500 Victims Of German
Sea Raiders Are Rescued

SINGAPORE, Malay States, Jan.
1-(Wednesday)-REFive hundred
men, women and children landed
by German commercial raiders
Dec. 81 on the Emarau Island of
the Bismarck Archipelago have
been rescued by an Australian ship
and taken to- Australia; it vas an
nounced officially today.
The rescued persons included
British, French and Norwegian ma
tionalities. There were 70 women
and seven children in the group.
Admiral Sir Godfrey Layton,
commander-in-chief Of Britain's
China station, said the situation
was not as alarming as it first ap-
peared as the survivors came from
ships over several months and not
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

West End cheered and sang as
the old year passed on.
The great ring in Piccaduly-
its blazing lights of former years
extinguished for the War-had
its jewellers but most OF the
bomb- Wearied residents remain
Year.
Through the night, search
Iightsand anti-aircraft guns yer
idle in the peace which Brlton
knew was only temporary.
Bib Ben's IL calm notes t0lllng
the hour echoed through the
city's streets.
The New Year began WITHOUT
a sign of German activity over
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

The seventeenth month of the
wal in Europe opens this New
Years day with grim portents
from both London and Berlin that
it will be fought to a finish; that
1871 will see the crisis, the begin
ming Of the end.
The arch foes who ~personify the
British-Axis struggle, Prime Min
lister Churchill and Adolf Hitler,
have given victory pledges to their
people and announced that there
will be no peace without victory.
without utter destruction of one or
the other and all he stands for.
"Peace?" said Churchill, glow.
ring at the wreckage left by Ger
man bombs in the city of London.
when we have beaten them"
Nov this war will be carried
on to it's ultimate consequence"
Hitler numbered in a New Years
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
CROWDS IN LONDON GREET NEW YEAR
WITH CRY OF TO HE'LL WITH HITLER

bombs of the sort with which
German raiders wrought so
much havoc in London Sunday
night.
Announcing this intention,
Herbert Morrison, the minister
of home security, nevertheless
urged the people not to wait for
"all that" but Immediately to
form a civil defense home guard
so that not a single building in
British towns would be left UNI
watched.
"CompuIsion," he said in a "a
dio broadcast, twill apply to
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

from a sudden wave of sinkings
within the last few weeks.
The passengers and crewmen
were from the following ships:
Ragitane, HOLLYWOOD, Notou, Ring
wood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster,
Vinni, Turkaina and Komata, it
was said.
The admiral said both the Brit
ish and Australian navies were
well aware of the activities OF
the raiders and appropriate meas
ures are being taken"
He said that in view of the vast
expanse of ocean to be covered 1t
might take some time to bring the
raiders "too book but that they
would be accounted for eventual
ly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

Britain, apparently because of a
continuation of bad weather
which grounded bombers Mon
day night. The Dover Strait
pathway of bOmbers-Was cloudy
and fOggy.
Behind the blackout curtains
and double doors, night clubs
we're jammed with cheering,
sing civilians and members OF
the armed forces. and there was
many a quiet home celebration =:
Hardly noting the truce"
such it was, the government
busted itself with steps to com
pei every Briton to particlpate
in defense work against HE