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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
SENSE IN CENSORSHIP

Action to revoke the license of commercial pilot who flew newspaper photographer over the crippled British battleship Malaya as it limped into New York harbor for repairs on April is the latest move in the struggle between the Navy and the press over the "gentlemen's agreement censor ship which Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has sought to impose newspapers.
 few days before the British warship which was struck by torpedo the high seas reached shores, the Navy crcularized the press in the New York asking editors not to mention ar rivals in the United States of British vessels Such information, the Navy said, might be of value to Britains enemies. Most New York newspapers printed nothing when the Malaya steamed slowly past the Statute of Liberty to anchor in plain sight of the German consular offices. But one or two city editors couldn't resist the temptation One of them sent photographer out in a plane to record the arrival of the vessel The picture was featured prominently on page l. The staffs of other news papers grumbled. Meanwhile thousands of persons had seen the Malaya in the harbor Hundreds had talked to Malaya sailors ashore in New Yorks bars These seamen wearing "Maaya" in inch-high let ters on their hatbands, not reticent in telling how they had helped shell Genoa few weeks be- fore and how they had later been struck by tor pedo while on convoy duty
 Now the Secretary of the Navy has filed com F-~AAS the pilot who flew out the battleship The fier is accused of three violations flying below 500 feet over New York harbor flying below 1000 feet over congested part of New York City and flying closer than 800 feet from another plane in flight Very likely the pilot is guilty of all these technical violations of the regulations But we have looked carefully at the Malaya photograph in this weeks Life magazine and would be willing to testify that the plane wasn't any closer to the ship than numerous photo planes have been to other ships in New York harbor in the past. We are still waiting too, to learn whether Secretary Knox has filed a complaint against the other plane within 800 feet of which the photo plane is accused of flying If the photo plane within 500 feet of some other plane the other plane must have been within 500 feet of the photo plane. The Secretary, we are convinced IS not motivated by any desire see that air safety regulations are complied with He is rather trying to scold the press for failing to hide British battle ship up it's editorial sleeve
 Censorship is thing the American press doesn't Know very much about But it knows enough to be convinced that no such system as the Navy's will ever work. If it is really important that certain information shall not be made public definite and explicit policy must be laid down by the Navy To ask newspaper editors to be good fellows and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

not publish anything about ship movements, shore base construction vessel contracts anything else concerning the Navy is asking something which newspapermen, however willing to cooperate, will never be able to carry through to the Navys satis faction. One gentlemanly newspaper keeps still and itself scooped by rival. Or all newspapers might keep still and then see the precious informa- ton out fully illustrated in a national maga- zine
 The Empire has Navy censorship work, or Army and Navy pointing out that national defense attempt to work In preparing recent Progress and Development edition, we sent letters to the work the biggest thing happening in the Ter ritory this year and asking that we be furnished with articles telling exactly much about Alaska Army complied promptly with an excellent review of its activities in Alaska, telling its arbase struction story as it wished it told and not we sure, giving away any secrets valuable to potential enemies. From the Navy, by contrast, we received curt note: There is additional material which we wish to have published at this time" What could The Empire do? We couldn't pretend the Navy wasn't building bases in Alaska. The work had been widely pubicized in national magazine ticles. We had to write story from what infor- nation had at hand. If this story met with the approval of the Navy, it would be a coincidence
 We think that every American citizen will agree with that the Army policy in this particular mat ter was so far superior to the Navy that there is comparison
 If must have censorship in the interest of the national safety, let's have it. But let's not have indefinite half censorship that nobody follow and which accompishes no good purpose.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26

This is a day of mixed planetary influences. Caution should be the watchword, especially in making financial investments. There is a promising sign for spring theatri- cal attractions on stage and screen Heart and Home: Fashions of long ago will contrast sharply dur ing the summer with uniforms worn by women. Public service will absorb the energies of many young girls who will reveal unusual abil- ity in numerous professions largely monopolized by men in time of peace. Many wartime conditions will prevail through the summer for which college girls should pre- pare with the aim of succeeding in public service. Defense programs will enlist women of all ages, it is foretold
 Business Affairs: There is an evil portent read as presaging loss es on the high seas. Commerce will be heavy, however, despite diff culties due to the world war. Fame for the United States Navy is prognosticated. Officers and men are to demonstrate their superior ity in surprise attacks from secret enemies operating while neutrality exists. Food supplies in immense quantities will be sent to starving war victims.
 National Issues: Public; health will again be widely discussed, San, itary provisions in military reser- vations as well as in cities will be of wide concern. Agitation to pre- vent excessive use of alcoholic bev- erages in Army training camps will gain emphasis. Prohibition will be advocated, but the seers forecast a new method to restrict the use of hard liquors. Girls who drink will be frowned upon so generally that cocktail parties will lose their popularity among smart young folk.
 International Affairs: According to foreign astrologer who has studied the maps of Hitler and Stalin, any German Russian pact will be of short duration. The So- viet government is to change many of it's extreme Communistic points of view. The stars appear to indicate that Stalin will be the gainer in Axis cooperation and that he will outlast Hitler and Mussolini in retaining power, although he has the possibility of tragic death.
 Persons whose birthdate it is probably will have a year of rare good fortune and happiness. They should guard against accidents and avoid nasty decisions.
 Children born on this day may be talented in music. dignified and ambitious. They may be deeply emotional and should be wisely guided by parents and teachers. Copyright, 194D
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

are reported to have come via French Tunis (only 90 miles from Sicily.
 6. That in addition to the attack on Suez renewed efforts at invading England seem to be in the making
 These are some of the desperate ly discouraging reports that have been placed before the President reports that make his Cabinet mem bers believe the conveying of mer- chant ships across the North At lantic by the U. s. Navy is neces- sary immediately, or it may be too late
 They are equally convinced-and so is the President-that the first de- fense of the United States continues to be the British fleet; that once the British fleet falls, the United States plus the Monroe Doctrine would be open to simultaneous attack on two oceans with only a one ocean navy to defend it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
D. U. N?
(Philadelphia Record)

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 The question of Union Now" is agtatng the Daughters of the American Revolution, attend ing their annual Continental Congress in Wash ngton
 While move was afoot to form Daughters of Union Now, opinion among the delegates was re- ported divided this countrys uniting with the English-speakng democracies. Our best guess is, however that resolutions will be offered calling Revere Wrong Way Paul. remaining their Con- tinental Hall Oliver Wiswell Annex"
 While the gals perfectly correct in con- sidering that the Revolutionary War is over and asking British citizen to make the opening address for the first time in history, this country isn't ready yet to call Benedict Arnold hero George Washington a Fifth Columnst undermining the British Empire.
 So, hope the D.A.R. sticks to its knitting for Bundles for Britain and comes out with good resounding resolutions against Communism, sabotage and sn-wthout trying to fight the Revolution all again. from the wrong side.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
MERRY-GO-ROUND

In addition to making a bare muckle reply in Golfers to Colonel Lindbergh's recent Letter to Ameri- cans" which urges an appeasement policy toward the Axis, Wendell Willkie also will take the stump in the Midwest against other isola- tionist leaders. He will use Rush. vile, Ind, his campaign headquar- ters, as base of operations. . Pres ident Roosevelt has just completed his own landscape design for the new Naval Hospital, outside Wash ington. He worked on it with a large wooden drawing-board, like a pro- fessional draughtsman, rcoacentrat
 ing especially on a pattern of roads connecting the hospitars 12 build ings. All had tobe accessible, yet the grounds could pot be cut by too
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
BRITISH REVERSES

Specifically, here are some of the things they think the public should know:
 ]. That London has been as bad ly battered by recent air raids as Coventry; that the city is such a shambles that even the British, as tough as they are, heroic as they are. are beginning to wonder how long they can hold out without help.
 2. That British airplane produc- ton, because of the raids, has fall en far below that of last autumn probably under 1000 planes month tHitler is reported producing 5000 month)
 3. That Britain has been so hard up for modern mechanized equip ment that she could not fulfill her promise of tanks and aircraft to Turkey. This was why Turkey did not carry out her pledge to aid Yugoslavia.
 4. That Turkeys new pact with Germany will reveal secret clauses permitting the Nazis to use vital Turkish railroads to get troops to Syrla--a long step toward the Suez Canal
 3. That the French in North Af- flca show signs of cooperating with Hitler in carrying supplies across the Mediterranean, thereby aiding Axis attacks on the British. In fact. Nazi munitions for the desert campaign
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
ROOSEVELT THE POLITICIAN

Inside the Cabinet, Secretary Hull is not the only man worried about the war situation Even more wor- ried at least more articulate, are Republican Cabineteers Stimson and Knox, Democrat Morgenthau, and ex-Republican Ickes. In some de- gree, furthermore, the entire Cabi- net shares this work.
 Some are greatly concerned al the Presidents inactivity Though faced with desperate catastrophe, they feel that he has been waiting for public opinion to catch up to him.
 Roosevelt always has prided him self on keeping his ear tuned to political gromd-swells, being able to feel the public pulse. He knows
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

when 1t is dangerous to get too far ahead of public sentiment, and when he is in step with it.
 But today. some White House ad- visers believe Roosevelt is applying too much smart politics to gauging public opinion, instead of getting out in front and forming pubic opin- ion himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

York Cotton Exchange. He wanted to prove that Clayton had cornered the market, but Clayton said it was only hedging" and Smith lost the bout
 Will Clayton was born on cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss He quit school after eight grades, and stud- jed shorthand. He still remembers having as client an itinerant ora- tor named William Jennings Bryan. He distrusted orators then, and he
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

today the map of Europe resembles that of 1904 when Napoleon had swallowed the entire continent ex- cept Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey. Those same five countries are the only ones standing today.
 Napoleon at that time was working with Russia. It was not until 1911 that he turned against Russia, and the tide later turned against him Remembering that, perhaps, Cordell Hull has been woonig Russia, the country he hates, but the only strong ally to whom the democracies now can turn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

still does.
 That's why he joined the Liberty League when Roosevelt came into office. His contributions were gener- ous, but they were cancelled out by his wife. She, Susan Vaughan Clay ton, is great admirer of Roosevelt, and for every dollar Will gave to Jouett Shorse, Susan matched it with a check to Jim Farley
 More hedging!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
MILLIONAIRE BUYER

The New Deal has brought lot of professors to Washington. but not many millionaires. Will Clayton be- longs to that smaller company.
 His office is on the top floor of the Lafayette Building. Jesse Jones put him there with a title, Deputy Federal Loan Administrator" but forgot to give him a salary Will Clayton didn't say anything, so he works for nothing-not even dollar a year.
 At the beginning, he tried to spend the $500, 100000 that Congress hand ed the Export Import Bank last year. But Latin America wouldn't take it. Will Clayton says we did such a whopping business with Latin Amer ica last year that they don't need credits any more. So now he's buy ing rubber and other strategic ma- terials.
 Clayton comes from Houston, where he owns about as much prop erty as Jesse Jones, which is saying a good deal. He's tall, 1.-the and slender, like center on aAasketball team though he's 60 now.
 He and Jesse are good friends. but he and Cotton Ed" Smith are not. The Senator from South Carolina staged an official investiSA ton of sS}ayton's operations on the New
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

many roads .. Popular source of hand-wrought iron ware for Wash ington antique lovers is Collins Forge, in Pennington, Conn, oper- ated by Laurence Colline, college graduate and former newspaperman. ... Just before sailing for South
 America, Douglas Fairbanks got
 some straightforward advice from Alzira Vargas do Amaral Peixoto, daughter of the President of Brazil.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
LOOK and LEARN C GORDON

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

APRIL 25
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

attempt of three desperate cnvcts Sing Sing prison Ossnng Y police arrested two accompce Edward Kernan left and William Wade both they charged with first degree smugged pistols handcufs the prison Four result of the break prison guard Os snng policeman of the escaping convc John Wate
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

Weather: Highest s8; lowest, 3s; cloudy.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Vinson 10 Offer Bill
For New Navy Bases
To Cost 81 Millions
Facilities Are Sought
For Mosquito Fleet
And 48 'BIimps'
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
A S67065 900 program for estab-
lishment of a number of mosquito
fleet" and Fighter -than-air" bases
was on its way to Congress today
with Navy Department approval.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Affairs Committee said he
would introduce the necessary leg
islation Monday to authorize the
work.
Selection of the sites for the bases
for torpedo boats and other small
craft for harbor defense would be
left to the Secretary of the Navy.
Mr.. Vinson said, haWever, the
Navy had recommended that bases
for lighter -than-air craft be estab-
lished in the Norfolk Cape Hatteras
area at an approximate cost of
s5,2O5 900; in the Boston area at
a similar cost and in the San Fran
cisco area at cost of about
59O5 900.
Auxiliary servicing sites for
lighter-than- air craft would be es-
tabnshed at various locations, not
yet announced, at cost of about
s75O,OOO.
Mr.. Vinson said the lighter-than
air bases we're needed in connection
with the Nays program for pur-
chasing 48 additional "blimps" in
the next two years, to be used chiefly
for coastal patrol work.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Preparations Pushed
By Thai in Event
Peace Talks Fail
Delegation OF Toxic
Reported Told to
Expedite PorIeys

BANGKOK. Thailand, Feb 2l.-
Thailand is pressing preparations,
it was understood tonight. against
the possibility that the Toxic peace
conference, seeking a settlement of
her conflict with French Indo-China,
may fail to reach agreement be-
fore February 25, expiration date
of the already extended armistice.
The head of the Thai delegation
to Toxic was said to have been in
structed to expedite the talks.
No details we're disclosed concern
ing Thailand's preparations, but the
press prominently displayed news
of warlike preparations in neigh
boring countries and stressed that
Thailand is pursuing her policy of
friendship for all
"a Japanese army spokesman
said yesterday that British re-
Inducements of the Singapore
fortress was "belligerent action
against Thailand. which is CO.
operating with Japan in bring
(See INDO-CHINA, Page 2-X)
Evening star., 1941-02-21

By the Associated Press.
LIMA. Peru, Feb. 2l.-Fifteen pas
sengers aboard a Condor airliner
were reported today to have been
stranded for two days in the Sechura
Desert in Peru many miles from
civilization.
Among the passengers is John
Lear. Associated Press staff writer
attached to the New York Office. who
is making a tour of Latin American
countries.
The plane. which was not equipped
with wireless, left Iquitos on
February 18 en- route to Lima.
Condor Co. officials said it had come
down in the vast desert region be-
tween Piura and Chiclayo.
Originally, the plane had been
scheduled to leave Iquitos February
II, but had been held over a day
because of weather conditions which
pilots flying between Lima and
Northeastern Peru described as
worse than any they had expert
enced before.
The plane landed at San Martin
formerly Tarapoto) on the eastern
slopes of the Andes and stopped
there overnight, taking off again
early Wednesday for Lima.
Company officials, after informing
Evening star., 1941-02-21
IS on Plane Reported Stranded
Two Days in Peruvian Desert
Begged in Sond, Airner With Passengers
Around 1t Sighted by Passing Pilot

inquirers merely that the plane had
been held up by bad weather,
finally acknowledged today that it
had made a forced landing and was
stranded at an unfreQuented spot,
where it was sighted by Capt. Carlos
Martinez de Pinillos, a pilot for the
Faucet Airline flying between Lima
and Piura.
Capt. Martinez de Pinillos said he
saw the plane begged deep in the
sandy wastes with the passengers
around it. He said he circled twice
around the marooned party and that
the passengers waved at him.
AS far as he could determine, he
said. everybody appeared safe.
So far, the party has been stranded
two nights and two days, apparently
without either food or water.
Condor officials said Pilot Roy
Warner took off this morning in a
special plane to try to land beside
the airliner and that if he found it
impossible to land he would drop a
parachute with water, food and
medicines.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
London Cogers Beut
St. AIbuns, d to II

The Landon School basket ball
team employed an air-tight zone
defense throughout to defeat st.
Adams School, 24-12. at the st. AL
bans gymnasium this afternoon.
Paul Baker, rangy center for Lam
don, and one of the Districts lead
ing schoolboy scorers, paced his
team with a brilliant floor game
and took scoring honors with eight
points.
The home team scored only one
field goal in the second half and
that came within the last minute
of play. Bill Terry, center for the
host team. scored six points to lead
the losers.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Merchant Ship Radio Officers
'DisIoyoI' to U. S., House Told

ganization. was 100 per cent Com
munist controlled"
r. A. Wincour, vice president OF
the American Communications AS
sociation marine department, ap-
peared earlier in opposition to the
measure, asserting that its objective
was to create a vast surplus OF
operators so that men would be
forced to take jobs they would
otherwise refuse"
Under questioning, Mr.. Wincour
said his union did not require affl-
davits from members that they were
not Communists or bund members
because our members political be-
liefs are not our affair"
He said he did not believe re-
uuirement of an affidavit from union
members that they do not belong tc
such organiza tions would serve any
useful purpose"