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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
MOnkeying With Nature
Philadelphia Record)


 Just about every time man starts monkeying around with nature he gets into trouble
 There is the classic example of rabbits in Aus tralia Introduced source of food, and sport, the rabbits almost took over the country. And man didn't do much better when he imported the prickly pear into Australia, with the hope that it would be effective hedge to keep rabbits out of fields Like the rabbits the prickly pear had native enemies in Australia; it spread dangerously over cult- vated areas.
 Then there the bright idea of importing starlings into America to drive out English sparrows so look at Free Library.
 And now the countrys fruit trees are threatened with destruction from the gypsy moth, reported spreading from New England westward and south ward. The gypsy moth got it's start from a tray full of eggs blown out of a laboratory in Medford, Mass.-where it being studied a possible source for native silk industry
 . The only thing left for monkeyers- with nature to do is to train starngs to eat the gypsy moths.
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-' " 1lAAAku Fl AInF .9i JUNWv uAukt .r WILL JOIN RCAF
Sitka Rotaridns Honor Man Who Is Going to Fighto
 with Canadians =. 's.

r SITKA, Alaska, Nov 21 = The Rotary Club of Sitka in effect dedicated last Tuesdays meeting. to Jimmy Claire, who was about to depart for Vancouver, B. AUs where he will enter training t in the Royal Canadian Air Force, President Bob Jernberg, in intro- ducing young Claire, remarked that he is the first Sitkan to join up with the Canadian forces, and per haps the first Alaskan to take this step.
 Tom Tilson was welcomed back from his extensive trip through the States, where he covered all of the western section and travelled east to Indiana.
 James Betty and Joe Fisher. of the National Resources Planning, Board, Juneau, were guests of the. club and Harold Foss, Juneau arz Shiteefa ~,'ts e,~sS -AFhe elub-aecepted the challenge
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
HITLER CARVES TURKEY

The reported new French hook-up with Hitler comes at an especially bad time for the British which undoubtedly is why the Nazis put the screws on Vichy so vigorously. Under these circumstances the Nazi squeeze on Turkey can be expected to tighten almost momentarily.
 In fact, the more the Nazi drive in Russia bogs down with weather, the more likely is Hitler to take the easier, warmer, short cut through Turkey toward the oil fields of the Caucasus-and also toward the Brit ish oil fields in Mosul and the Euphrates Valley.
 For months the Nazis have been bringing small boats down to the Aegean via the Balkan railroads and the Danube, and are reported almost ready for landing party at tacks on coastal points in the Middle East.
 Preparing to meet this, Gen. Way ell has been sending a constant stream of endorsements from India, most of them to Iran, Iraq and Pal estine. The British say they are in fairy good shspe-though still woe fully weak in tanks.
 Faced with this crisis, the Turks, as usual, continue to be the enigma of Europe. Diplomatic betting is they bow to Hitler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED IN
 GAS CHAMBER
Duchess Spinelli, Mother of Three, Dies for Murder
 of Young Gang Member

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Nov. 21-- Haggard and grim faced, the Duchess" who ruled a gang of killers and robbers, was executed today in the states gas chamber.
 She was Evileta Juanita Spinelli, 52, the first woman to die by law in California.
 The state supreme court denied last minute legal attempts at 9:55 o'clock. five minutes before the execution took place, to free the woman. .-. ..
 The mother of three children, Mrs. Spinelli was convicted of di- recting the murder of Robert Young, l9. member of the gang. who was drugged and thrown into the Sacramento River Mrs. Spin elli was convicted in April, 1940, and previously had two reprieves from execution.
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T SneT that the current shoulshoe south Further

 n MeV that the current shoud'sbe south Further examining this peculiar phenonena II observed that what eddy whirl in the current that for a time went backward, but not for long Looking further out into the river saw the great majestic current turn to the southward in it's regular and inevitable
 Just so with the of freedom, for a time it seems lost but the whir in the current does not continue long or far but soon finds its way back in the right direction toward its inevitable goal
 Nations that do not recognize the irrepressble continual and everlasting flow of the of free- dom toward a greater freedom, must close their eyes to history and for time plunge themselves into ruin which only time can cure t-s .y.
 If we desire in the United States to bring free dom to all nations, should prepare ourselves to be the great power which when the terms of peace written. We should also know what peace can endure and what peace will the seeds of another war"
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F1VDLNN LiIuULIIL ROBERTA LEE

@ right to all stationery you residing n a A patrons the this akin forgotten
 
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HOROSCOPE E "The stdrs incline a
 but do not compe"

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22c
 Benefic aspects today are in the balance with adverse influences. After a morning of obstacles bet ter planetary conditions will hold sway. ff
 HEART AND HOME: Through the day women may encounter de- lays and even disappointment in their plans. Girls will borrow trouble about the boys in uniform, but good news is indicated by afternoon. This is a favorable date for letter writing but not for love missives The evening is propiti- ous for love affairs which may be more happy for those most con- cerned than for parents. Again the seers forecast marriages tn a t unites young folk of different social planes.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Un de T this configuration financiers, bank CTS and employers may be anxious regarding money trends. AS the national debt increases and there appears to be no end of the need of vast war expenditures there may be temporary perplexities, but the stars seem to presage amazing dem- onstrations of American resources. In the new year there will be mM acles performed by ~the UbitN States which will conduct such | pageant of power as has never been previously set in motion.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Unity of thought and loyalty of purpose will be required of all citizens as 194l draws to an end. Patience with obstructionists will end as the naG tion takes on the greatest task in all history-the rescue of the whole world from waste and ruin, Foresight will carry conviction that the war must continue for more than a year and that a decade of supreme test must intervene before normal peace conditions can be restored while the rebuilding pro- cesses in many lands will proceed slowly. ..i
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ST A xr,t,. of i,,oral,l1Io l.,x d,, ships and astonishing events March will be a critical month for Bril- tain and the Allies. Owing to the Mars Uranus conjunction the, Unit ed States may expect setbacks and difficulties. April and May will bring great contests of strength Through the terrible struggle which will destroy millions of the worlds young men, wiping out their po- tential service in useful careers, it is prophesied that the economic rights of all peoples will be estab- lished with equal access to raw materials"
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of varied experiences. They should not act from impulse, especially when they fall in love.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be studious and imagina- tive. They may succeed as writers, but they must be safeguarded against accidents.
 Copyright, 194D HitRN
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THE ARK ROYAL

The British had good reason for carefully holding back some of the story regarding the sinking of the Ark Royal. All of the facts still are not out, and will not be for some time. But the best inside informa- ton is that the sinking was a far grayer event than appeared on the surface, because 1t marked the be- ginning of a wholesale Nazi sub marine campaign in the Mediter- ranean. st
 Not published swas tine fact that the British had six destroyers guard ing the Ark Royal at the time it was hit. 2{i r7tfffts fG 7
 Airplane carriers of this kind are not heavily armored. are extremely vulnerable, and are so hard to re- place that they are carefully guard ed day and night.
 Therefore, the Nazi submarine which sent the giant carrier to her grave probably was one of a nest of subs which lay in wait with engines muffled.
 With France fully in the NaZi embrace, this kind of warfare is what the British will have to face in the Mediterranean. Counting Ital- ian submarines. and the undersea craft which the French fleet will doubtless add to Germanys, Hitler will have a total of about 200 subs in the Mediterranean.
 Almost equally important, he will certainly have the advantage of French naval bases, which with the Italian, Spanish, and African bases he already commands, ,s will provide
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bers who voted aye"
 Later, Dingell told an isolationist colleague: T would have voted for that bill today if I knew it meant my defeat for reelection tomorrow. NOTE: Other House members who underwent terrific isolationist pres sure, but stood their ground, were Representative John Cochran of Missouri, James Barnes of Illinois, Joseph Casey of Massachusett, Bert rand Gearhart and Jerry Voorhis of California, Jack Houston of Kansas and William Schulte of Indiana. Copyright, 1941, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Incl
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED His house equally Say His house equally good" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Adedecamp Pronounce addekamp AM principal syllable
 (fanasca maket place. SYNONYMS Enlarge augment, expand extend. WORD STUDY "Use three times and Let mastering each Today
  Tt ncive high Pronounce in ICE n
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21

report that a bottle had been passed around while the committee was holding it's final closed-door meet ing on the mutilated price-control bill.
 Steagall raised his right hand and said solemnly:
 Boy, I can't remember when I took my last drink-it's been so long ago"
 At this point Price Administrator Leon Henderson walked up.
 How about you, Leon?' asked Steagall.
 Henderson, who has little time for the flowing bowl during his l6-hour working day, also raised his right hand.
 q can't remember either,n he grinned, but for different reason. I am too busy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
ON LONG VACATION

Headed for six months vacation Tn the States, safter seven years at Golovin, on the Seward Peninsula, IIr and Mrs. George Folger passed through Juneau Wednesday on the Aleutian. The Folgers operate a trading post at Golovin for the Lomen Commercial Company, and also serve as weather observers there for the U. s. Weather Bureau. Golovin.
 MT. Folger is also postmaster at
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a total of 35 Axis submarine bases sprinkled strategically around the Mediterranean.
 In contrast, the British will have only Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, and few ports in Egypt, Palestine and Syria.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
NOVEMBER 21, 1921

NOVEMBER 21 1921 mail Estebeth coated
  River Whehorse o'clock the morning the temperature degrees there N Scott officially open Catholic which had articles display. Agricultural College University baled to la day before town vacation the Sprague cabin Mendenhan Weather: High.
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of member Capt. J. R. Tate, U.S.N., for return bowling match, which will be held November 24. The naval officers and the Rotary Club have divided former fracases on the alleys with one win each.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21

The birth date for England in .l940 was 14.6 per 1000, a decline of percent from 1889.
 The Statue of Liberty was un- yelled October 28, 1886, in the presence of 100000 people.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-11-21
LOOK and LEARN Say c. GORDON

Which is the leading cotton growing State Union? 2. Which is the largest gland in the body? Who the greatest comedian of silent motion pictures? 4. What by catholic taste"?
 If standing at the North Pole direction id he facing? ANSWERS l. 9 liver. 3. Charlie Chaplin. 4 5. He would be facing south in all directions
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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takes good mechanic al Hamilton Field And takes better mechanic the of the Air Force Reason The fields kitchen thoroughly mechanical Potatoes and the dishes wahedal by machinery There
 machines to gallons of juice and other machines grind up hamburger Private pictured the potato it's work two minutes time "peeing effective rubbing process
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5. He would be facing south in all directions
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS, Ell CENTRo, CALF.
Farm Program on
Wartime Basis

tChicaso baSis1 at the following
approximate levels through June
30, l943
Hogs 50 per hundred weight:
dairy products. on the basis OF
butter. 81 cents per pound; chick
cns. Is cents, and eggs, % cents a
dozen.
The expanded program. he said
also provides:
l. Continuation for 1871 and
1912 of the existing corn loan pro-
gram which puts a bottom of 81
cents 4 bushel under corn.
,. Continuation of the policy OF
making loan corn available to pro-
ducers at the loan rate plus car
rEing charges.
3. Permitting producers in COM
mcrCial corn areas to increase ecre-
age up 10 their usual total with
out receiving corn payments.
4. No corn marketing quotas
Tor The l94l crop.
Under the plan, farmers viii be
urged to:
increase pork production by
feeding Logs to heavier weights
and by increasing farroWing of
pigs
increase dairy production By
feeding COWS more grain and by
milking more cows.
Encourage additional production
Of poultry by increasing the 6iza
OF flOcks.'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
IL Rescued from
Wrecked Airiiner

VERO BEACH. Fla. April !
CUP)-Pilot Gerald O'Brien and A.
G. Mcintyre. a passenger. the last
OF IS persons to be removed from
a wrecked Eastern Airliner in
swamp southwest of here. were TAX
en- to a hospital today for treat
ment.
O'Brien, who had saved his pas
sengers by bringing the Mlaml-to-
New York plane down right side W
in a thunderstorm. was seriously
injured and was carried into the
hospital at Fl. Pierce, 20 miles to
the south. on stretcher. Mcintyre
however, was able 10 walk with
assistance.
The two men were taken by fla
bottom boat to a highway where
an ambulance picked them up ano
took them TO Fl. Pierce.
The Is passengers and three crew
members of the plane had waited
in waist-deep water since 9 am.
Yesterday for rescue. Most Werl
injured and all suffered from shock
and submersion. The only way 10 geJ
TO them was by boat.
Rescuers worked from a road
two miles from the scene OF the
wreck, on the northern fringe OF
the great Everglades. The zig-Zas
course the rescuers had 10 follow
from the road, made it five-mlle
trip TO the plane It was such a
tedious process keeping the prop
ellors cleared that some rescuers
poled their way along.
Flares were strung out along thH
whole route to aid in the work, but
lust after the first Il persons had
been rescued and brought TO this
towns 20-bed hospital, and Dr.. {.
B Hardee and a nurse had gone out
aboard a frog boat to attend the
two victims at the scene OF the
wreck, a heavy fog closed over the
swamp.
At 6 pm, half an hour after the
plane was due at New Yorks La
Guardia Field, an E.A.L. pilot, Dor
Johnston. sighted the Wreckage
from a searching plane and mes
saged the news that she was right
side up people are walking
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
GM Strike Ends
Al Four PIdnts

some employees in the receiving and
parts department would return TO
their jobs Immediately.
The Fisher Body plant and the
Chevrolet parts. passenger car and
truck plants were affected by the
strike over the status OF 26 welders
at the Fisher plant The Chevrolet
truck assembly line had been turn
ing out trucks for the u. S. army
when the strike was first called
March ID. After two days OF partlGl
operation, the iour plants closed
down completely March 2l.
The dls..ute arose when 26 weld
ers at the Fisher plant quit in pro-
test over suspension of a membe"
who complained of alleged speed
up" practices. The management ac-
cused the union of trying to effect
a SLOW down
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thai Hungary collaborate with Ger
many in an attack upon Jugoslayia.
Another rumor. which was flatly
denied in advices from Budapest
was that the Hungarian war min
ister. Gen. Charles Bartha. had
followed the example Of Teleki and
taken his own life. This was con-
t1aoicted in adyices from Budapest
Which said that Bartha was present
today at ceremonies at which D
L2dislaus Bardossy took the oath
Of office to succeed Teleki as prem
ier.
Whatever the developments of the
immediate future the Jugoslav pop
ulace faced them today with ire
mendous confidence and staunch
internal unity bolstered by action
OF DR.. Vladimir Matchek, Croat
leader. in swearing allegiance to the
new regime
Matchek took his oath of office
today as vice-premier Of the ma
tional union cabinet and the cab
met shortly thereafter went into
an informal session.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
Fourth Educational
Meet Held Here

More than 10 Imperial Valley
flax harvester operators and flax
growers Thursday afternoon at
tended the fourth in series of
educational meetings at the Edgar
Implement store i'll El Centro.
Bert Purdy store manager and Of
ficials from the International Har-
yester company, discussed adjust
ments necessary for efficient opera
ton of their machines.
Their discussions were followed
by short talks by Frank O. Bey-
schlag. county farm advisor, L. G.
Goar. Meloland experiment station
superintendent and j. p. Fairbanks,
extension specialist in agricultural
engineering.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04

OAKLAND, Calf. April 4. CUP
"A two weeks strike of the CIO
United Auto Workers union that
closed four General Motor plants
here was ended today and the 22OO
employees began returning to work.
All four plants will be running
at full speed by Monday, 1t was
reported.
Terms of the peace agreement
were not announced. A union MEM
bership meeting last night ratified
the truce arranged by negotiators
for the union and management
assisted by Omar F. Hoskins, fed
eral conciliator.
Frank Slaby president of union
local rs. said the negotiators would
meet again today to iron out minor
details" Of the settlement, and that
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
Salary Boosting
Bill Approved

The California assembly county
government committee gave a do
pass" recommendation to a bill in
creasing the salaries of the Imperial
county auditor and district attorney
it was announced in Sacramento
Friday.
Listed as senate bill 406, the
measure provided for increasing
the salary OF the county auditor
from $2,4OO to $4,000 year and
and that of the district attorney
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year but pro-
hibiting the district attorney from
engaging in private practice.
If passed by the legislature the
new salaries will not become eff
fective during the present term but
will do SO after the next election.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04

WASHINGTON April i lUPl-
The administrators farm program
was converted to a wartime basis
To-Day to make the United states
the "larder' as we'll ~ the arsenal
Of demOcraoice."
Prices for pork. dairy and poultry
products will be p2gged at highe~
levels during the next two years to
stimul9tc production so Americans
vii be assured OF adequate food
supplies and help can bc given the
anti-2Xls nations n feeding their
civilian and military populations.
Secretary Of Agriculture Claude
r Wickard announced the new
plan last night and said the depart
Mont would purchase on the open
market pork. dairy and poultry pro
duets to support long-term prices
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
AirIiner Makes
Forced Landinu

Continued from Page Onel
Springer brought the two-motored
Lockheed- Electra plane in without
using its retractable landing gear
officials said.
The forced landing was made in
perfect flying weather, indicating
possibly some mechanical trouble,
officials said. emphasizing, how
ever, that no definite cause had
been learned.
Names of the passengers and the
other member of the crew, first
officer, were not available lmmed-
lately.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-04
Britain, Germany
Ready for Epic
African Struggle
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cd by the swearing in of DR.. Vladi-
mir Matchek. Croat leader as vice
premier in the new government,
The British have a strong force
in Greece which was reported on
the northern Greek frontier ready
to oppose any German thrust de-
s,gned to sever communications
between Greece and Jugoslavia
through the important Vardar val
ley.
Turkey called up two new classes
of men to the colors, speeded all
defense preparations and prepared
to lift the age limit at which men
can be recalled for 1eservist duty
from As to so years. Elaborate anti
aircraft defense practice was con-
tinued in the 1stanbul area.
The curtain appeared about to
rise on an epic struggle between
crack units of the British and Ger
man armies which would test to
the Utmost the daring and strategy
of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, Brit
ish commander in Jhe Middle East.
News of the British evacuation
of Benghazi. capital of Cyrenalca.
appeared to cast light on two i'm
portant factors in the battle TO
come. These are:
1.-The British apparently have
withdrawn the great bulk OF the
Imperial army of the Nile from
Libya and transported it to Greece,
leaving only a minimum protectlVa
force in the western desert.
2.-The Germans have succeeded
in transporting an important battle
force, possibly two or three armor-
ed divisions, to Africa.
In this situation British pressure
to clean up East Africa so that
the forces employed there can be
brought back to Egypt for deploy-
ment either in Libya or Greece has
been intensified.
The Italians now hold only two
major positions in East Africa. one
is MassaWa, the port of Eritrea,
which is expected to fall at any
moment. The other is Adds Ababa
capital of Ethiopia, which now IS
cut off and almost cncircled at a
distance by a half dozen fast NOV
ing British columns and their Ethl-
opian allies.
The italians in East Africa have
little or no hope of successful resist
ance against the British. Their al"
force almost has been wiped out
and there is no route by which they
can get supplies or reinforcements
Whether Premier Benito Mus
solini's commander, the Duke OF
! Aosta. will insist on a last ditch
fight is uncertain. 1t seems certain
that this course has been urged by
Rome in order to keep BRITISH
troops busr as long as possible. Or
the other hand each day the figh'
goes on the chances increase tna'
Britain's Ethiopian allies may ge'
out of hand and launch a bloody
revenge upon their one time 1tal-
ian conquerers.
Conquest of East Africa Woulo
free possibly $1,000 to 100000 Brit
ish troops for operations elseWher'
and. even more important. Woult
allow the British to transfer tht
Royal air force and South African
air force squadrons now employed
on this front to key positions ives
of Egypt and in Greece.
There has been no authoritative
indication of the seriousness OF th'
threat Of the German Panzer dlvl'
sions in Africa beyond that implied
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around and waving"
1t was almost midnight when the
first survivors reached this town,
which had a hospital but no doc
tors, until five were summoned
from nearby towns. Eight Of the 20
hospital beds were occupied when
the airplane passengers began to
arrive.
Or. Grille. inventor Of The sys-
tom OF blood TRANSMISSION used
throughout the world, and OF the
nerve block" system OF aneSthesia,
by which operations are performed
without the usual shock to the
nervous system. suffued a bruised
chest. His wife had a black eye.