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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-08
GOOD NEWS

Here is good news for the Amer icas.
 One week after Brig, Gen. Rus sell Maxwell was removed as head of the Export Controy Administra- tion a n the redtape- -stymied agency was placed under the con- trol of Vice President Wallace s Economic Defense Board. more than one-third of $l7OO00,OOO worth of Latin-American orders were cleared for shipment.
 For personal reasons there has been no public announcement oi this action, but it is one of the most important developments in a long time in the furtherance of Good Neighbor relations.
 South American countries are now
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point Tom Campbell stepped in on behalf of Raskob. There are not many places in the U. S. A. where you can buy 100000 acres at one clip, and Campbell is a shrewd buyer. To prevent competitive bidders, he is arranging for the development company to pay up its delinquent taxes and then turn over the land to him.
 Under the law, the owner has the first right to redeem his land, and this arrangement of paying up taxes first has kept the property from being boosted in price by open bidding. Even \ more important, 1t has prevented. the U. s. Gov-
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in the throes of a complete reorien- tation of their foreign trade. Ger man, Italian and Japanese elements are being eliminated and buyers are increasingly turning to the U S. for goods. This makes the prompt filling of orders of utmost importance.
 But under Maxwell, the Export Control Administration became a bottleneck of long drawn out delays and endless irritations. More than $l70,0 100000 worth of Latin- Amer ican business booked by U. s. firms was stalled on docks while the EGA leisurely fiddled with clearance certificates.
 But once Wallace took over, the situation changed overnight. Under the two-fisted direction of his principal assistants, Executive Director Milo Perkins and Lieut.. Col. Royal B. Lord, brilliant Army engineer things began to move fast and furious Working day and night, they are rushing through hundreds of certificates, clearing more than $6o.00O,O0O worth in one week.
 R e ms of export applications. which under Maxwell had been pretemporarily rubber stamped ''li- cense refused" were reconsidered and approved. The decks are not cleared yet, but Perkins and Lord have made good start at getting them cleared up very soon.
 NOTE-The State Department, whose Munitions Control bureau under Joseph c. Green is one of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-08
MERRY-GO-ROUND

A few days after the Germans in- vaded Russia, State Department official bet that the Nazis would not take Moscow before August 15 After he had won that bet, he made another. with October 1 as the date. Now he has won that bet, and is betting that Moscow will not be taken before spring, if at all Several high-up public servants are wearing little gold boxing gloves presented them by public-spirited Dr. John A. Ross of Detroit. He has given them to Henry Wallace, Wendell Willkie. Bob Jackson, J. Edgar Hoover and several others as token of their championing the cause of the public.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-08
FIODLNN LlluOlIIL ROBERTA LEE

O. Is it act of refinement talk a
 A. No refinement guilty home quiet breeding. speak benefit of stores the street considered height
 What is important thing civilians relations with navy people?
 A. The necessity recognizing of all officers
 O When asking girl for ask her where would like
 A. No; the should will know whether expensive restaurant
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LOOK and LEARN %sy sy c. GORDON

What American greatest IS a g. What is the of B. Which is the the to poets? What of worlds chice used for making chewing gum?
 ANSWERS
  degrees voga Pegasus
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ernment from stepping in, for the settlers had asked the Farm Security Administration to make them a loan with which they could have taken over part of the land.
 Farm Security is still trying to make a deal with Campbell, while Senator Chavez of New Mexico, for humanitarian as we'll as political motives, is trying to prevent the eviction.
 But meanwhile Campbell ha S called for bids to build fence round the Sangre de Cristo grant.
 Copyright. 1941. by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
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20 YEARS AGO fTE TIT EMPIRE

g, 1921
 bowling tournament of the Es Lodge Robertson H L. Faulkner and M L Burton On the A Whittier.
 Cahl whist her Douglas home Mrs A. taking William winning second Kemmeing D. B. Femner and Mrs north a visit here transferred to the Northwestern freight clerk
 perform balancing the meeting Douglas High
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General Motors and is a leading figure in the duPont organizations owns big farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. But recently he has been credited with an ann bition to run for the Senate from New Mexico, a state which sent Bronson Cutting, wealthy New Yorker, to the Senate, and where Secretary of War Pat Hurley also is making political medicine
 Tom Campbell, who is helping Raskob. is probably the worlds big gest wheat farmer. operating 95,0O( acres in Montana. He also was hired by the Soviet Government to organize it's mass-production wheat farming on ten million acres.
 Raskob and Campbell now plan the same type of production agriculture in New Mexico. They already own 2l6,000 acres and are getting 100000 acres more in a manner which has brought harsh criticism from the U. s. Agricul- ture Department.
 Raskob Acres. in Taos County, is populated by the descendants of the original Spanish settlers, living on a grant which New Mexico knows as Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christi Although squatters, they had lived on the land for generations, tol- erated by a development company which agreed that they could live adjacent to the rivers.
 U. s. KEPT OUT
 This company. however, became
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instance, by Major Quisring's party in Nor way, do not conform to reality
 Parliament, the President and the gov ernment have repeatedly stressed that our war is intended as a defense precisely of that democratic community, in the shelter of which we have become self-respecting nation. And we should defend our freedom by deeds"
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RAsKOB's 100000 ACRES

The biggest current land purchase in the United States is now being egotiate by John J. Raskob chairman of the Democratic Ma tional Committee when Al Smith tried to defeat Hoover. Ironically his associate in the deal is Tom Campbell, one of Hoover's close friends.
 It is a deal involving 100000 acres of New Mexican land, forcing hundreds of small farmers to join the vast army of migrant workers
 Raskob, who helped build ur
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suit, the event immediately aroused the curiosity of the newsmen.
 "Snappy suit, you got there, MT Secretary" remarked a correspond ent.
 "Yes, it's pretty nice, isn't it?" replied Jones. And it was bar gain. waited until the end of sum- mer when prices are cheap before buying it.
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the worst bureaucratic bottlenecks in Washington, made strenuous undercover effort to get control of ECA, but was rebuffed by the White House.
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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eHGtty
 Birthday

OCTOBER 8 Mrs. A. F. McKinnon Doris Irene Cahill Russell McGee Mrs. O. H. Hatch
 w. B. Kirk Gloria Gudbranson Mrs. Walter Swensen T. F. w. Fulton
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U. S. KEPT OUT

This company, however, became delinquent in taxes, and at this
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
Eden, Gen. Dill Arrive
In Egypt For Meetings
u. S. Planes Reported
Flying to Singapore

NEW YORK, Feb. 20-tR-
The Herald-Tribune says ap-
proximately 200 American built
Lockheed and Consolidated
planes, originally intended for
the British Royal Air Force
in England, are being flown
from California ports across
the Pacific ocean to Singapore.
The paper says it learned,
too, that 70 Curtiss P40 pur-
suit planes, latest and fastest
standard American army air
corps fighters, are being trans
ported by sea to Nationalist
China, while IL retired United
States navy pilots had landed
in Dutch East Indies to act as
flying instructors.
The bombers intended for
Singapore are being flown to
Hawaii by American civilian
pilots taking various routes
from such ports as San Pedro
and San Diego, the Herald-Tri-
bune says. They were built on
the Pacific coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
new FRENCH RULE
PROPOSAL REFUSED
Plan Sought to Reach Nazii
Understanding Without
Restoring Laval

VICHY, France. Feb. 2e.-(R,-
Friends Of former Vice Premi n
Pierre Laval said today a proposal
for reaching a F'rench-German un-
derstanding without restoring Laval
to power in the Vichy government
had been rejected by Otto Abetz,
Adolf Hitler's ambassador in Paris.
These sources asserted the sugges-
ton was laid before Abetz in Paris
by the present vice premier, Admiral
Jean Darlan. Abetz, they added, re-
Piled that LavaIs return with full
powers in the French government
was a necessary preliminary to any
agreement between the two nations
Darlan returned to Vichy ON
Paris today and went Immediately to
the official residence of Chief If
State Philippe ~Petain for two-hour
conference. He was said officially
to have had a purely informative
visit" in Paris with the German am
bassador, labor union leaders and
others, presumably including betz
and Count Fernand De Brinon, the
Vichy governments representative n
the German occupied city.
Relations between France and Ger
many appeared to be right back at
the impasse that resulted in Decem
Der from Petain's sudden removal
from Office of Laval-a leading p D.
ponent of broad collaboration with
the NaZis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
|JUBALAND CAPTURED
Plan Thorough Review Of
African and Eastern Medi-
terranean Matters

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 20.-LP-For-
eign Secretary Anthony Eden and
General Sir John Dill, chief of the
British imperial general staff, have
arrived in Egypt, it was disclosed
tonight, for a series of momentous
conferences involving the entire mill
tary and political situation in the
Middle East.
simultaneously the British an
nounced they had wrested from the
Italians control of all lower Jubaland
by crossing the treacherous Juba
river in italian Somaliland.
Preceded Drive
Edens last visit to Egypt preceded
the whirlwind drive of the army of
the Nile into Libya.
Now, following up that series of
victories and coincident with the
present vigorous thrusts into italian
Ethiopia and Eritrea,
sources said Eden had
returned with Sir John at a time
ripe for a thorough-going review of
and eastern Mediterranean
matters. Long conferences with mill
tary leaders were scheduled.
Qn London the likelihood was
seen that the visit might transcend
purely African affairs and aim at
stiffening the attitude of Greece and
Turkey towards the shadow of
German invasion.
(Greece is understood already to
have received firm assurances that
Britain is able to bolster the Greek
campaign in Albania with men as
we'll as planes.)
The British gave this picture of
their current East African cam
paigns:
Crossing of the Juba river, con-
sidered a real military feat in view
Of its tricky currents, has put all
lower Jubaland into British hands.
While one force crossed the river
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
N. E. LEGISLATORS
TOUR FORT BRAGG
Delegation Views Parade
And Inspects Posts Con-
struction Projects

FAYETTEVILLE, Feb. 20.-RH
The North Carolina general as
sembly kicked up the dust on one
of Uncle Sans largest and fastest
growing. army reservations this al;
ternoon in a quick motorized tour
tour of Fort Bragg, scene of a
$50, 100000 defense expansion pro-
ject.
The legislators. legislative en-
ployes, wives and newsmen-up-
wards of $50 persons-visited the
fort upon invitation of representa-
tive Cook of Cumberland and Of
fcials of Fayetteville and Cumber-
land County. The trip was made
by bus and automobile.
Feature event of the trip came
in a strictly military drill on the
main parade ground by six COM
paries of the 41st engineers (ne-
gro regiment under the command
of General Jacob L. Devers and
1t. Col. J. E.. Wood. The regiment
band strutted it's stuff in maneu-
vers that brought extended ap-
plause from the assembled law
makers who stood in chilled,
late afternoon wind to watch the
review. Standing at attention with
the commanding officers in review
of the drill were Brig-Gen. Rene
De R. Hoyle and speaker of the
House Null.
The visitors were welcomed at
the entrance of the fort by Mayor
Hector C. Blackwell of Fayette-
vile and officers of the fort.
The inspection trip included
visits to a fort recreation hall;
a company mess and spotless kit
chen, scrubbed as clean as a fresh
ly starched apron; headquarters of
the air observation unit of the
Ohio National Guard; drill grounds
of the ninth division; infantry, ar
tillery and cavalry units; and
countless construction projects. 1t
was payday for many of the civil
lian workmen at the fort, and sew
eral times the legislative caravan
was slowed down on the winding
roads Of the tort by scores of men
Logging it for pay windows.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
Army yOrders

WASHINGTON, Reb. 20-The Wal
Department released the following Or
ders yesterday, dated Feb. II:
COLONEL
Kroner, c. A., Qnf), relieved detail in
Inspector Generals Dept, detailed as
member General Staff Corps, Wash
ington. D. c., March 1.
LIEUTENANT COLONELS
Lambert, J. L.. Cav, Chicago, ILL.,, to
lst Armored Division, Ft. Knox, Ky.
March 3.
Wright, R. O., Cav, Norfolk, Va, to I'd
ArmoreG Division, Ft Benning, Ca,
March 3.
Tupper. J. L., Inf, welch W. Va,
to CCC, Indianapolis, Ind, March 1.
Hutchinson. G. E., Inf, Ft. Bragg, n
G., to retirement, July 81, upon own
Burkhead, H, Sig. Corps. to e4th Sig
Battalion, Ft. Geroge G. Meade, Nd,
instead Camp Claiborne, La.
Stiley. J. c., c. A. c., Ft. Rosecrans
Calf, to c. r. Replacement Center
Camp Callan. Calf, March g.
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Liner George Washington
Is Ordered Back to Duty

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - Up -
Like an old fire horse recalled from
a pasture, the historic liner George
Washington was ordered out Of re-
tiremen. today to serve in the Navy's
growing transport fleet.
1t will be a familiar service to the
34-year-old vessel. Built in Ger
many for the North German Lloyd
Line, she was seized by the United
States government at Hoboken, N. j.,
upon the outbreak Of the World war,
and converted into a transport.
Eighteen times the George Wash
ington went back and forth across
the Atlantic before and Immediately
after the Armistice, ferrying 48,37S
passengers to Europe and bringing
back 1925.
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Fo sward
Haiinan Island
Troop Transports Steaming
Southwark from For
mosa and Japan
ANSWER BRITISH MOVE
Small Contingents Of Jap
Soldiers Have Entered
Indo-China Recently

SHANGHAI, Feb. 21.-(Friday)
-RHJapanese troop transports
were reported steaming southwark
today from Formosa and Japan
herself, headed presumably for
Hainan Island-a likely way sta
ton in any drive that might be
made upon Singapore-or for
Northern French Indo-China.
The story was heard here without
confirmation but, coming as it did
so soon after the arrival of heavy
Australian reinforcements in Sing
apore, it was accepted in some
quarters as indicating japanese
answer to the British action in
Strengthening that vital Pacific
base.
Enter Indo-China
Small contingents of japanese
troops in recent weeks have been
steadily entering Indo-China, which
lies next to Thailand (Siam), a
country which in turn dominates
the land approach to the Malay
Peninsula and to Singapore itself
Gin London the British broad
casting corporation attributed to
the Japanese news agency a re-
port that representatives of he
government and the Japanese high
command lad conferred over 1.-The
latest developments" in interna-
tional relations.)
In all the uneasy Pacific area,
the military and naval situation
appeared extremely fluid.
Bangkok, Thailand, reported that
Is units of the Japanese fleet were
known to be operating in the Sia-
mese gulf. The Japanese them
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Capital Sees
Naziis Pushing,
Japs Into War
Both Latest Army and Navy
Fighting Planes Will Be
Sent to Fleet
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
Germany Seeks to Divert
u. S. Attention from the
British Air Program

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2O.-R-
Swift steps will be taken to
strengthen American air power in
the Pacific, it was reported here
today, while Shanghai accounts
told of new Japanese military
movements southwark.
Both Army and Navy fighting
planes of the latest type are to
be dispatched to the Pacific fleet,
General George c. Marshall, chief
of staff, was said to have dis
closed to the senate military at
fairs committee at secret ses-
sion.
Some committee members said
he described the Far Eastern situ-
alton as serious and asserted
Army and Navy chiefs had no in
tention of stripping American de-
lenses to speed up war equipment
deliveries to the British.
Nazis' Hand Seen
One committeeman said Mar
shall left the impression that the
administration believed Germany
was urging Japan to enter the war
and to come to grips with the
United States in the Far East in
order to divert American .,atten-
ion from the British aid program.
This was one reason, it was re-
ported, that reinforcement of the
air strength of the Pacific fleet
was in prospect Immediately.
Discussing England's needs, the
Army chief of staff was said to
have told the committee that what
the British wanted most was the
long range American bombers now
coming off the production lines.
He was reported to have OBJ
served that they were considerably
better planes than were being pro-
duced six months or even three
ago.
reinforcement of air fighting
units in the Pacific and legislation
just passed by the house for build
ing up defense outposts at far
away Guam and Samoa were re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
ALLEGED RACKET
LEADER APPEALS
Missouri Galloway Is Sen.
fenced to Six Months in
Jail, Fined $1,000

Missouri Galloway, negress, al
legged head of the numbers racket in
Wilmington, gave notice of appeal
yesterday afternoon to the supreme
court on the sentence of six months
in Jail and $1,000 fine handed down
by Judge John J. Burney III New
Hanover superior court earlier in the
day.
She posted an appearance bond Of
$1,000 and an appeal bond of SIS.
Passage of sentence came after
jury took only ten minutes to reach
verdict of guilty of violating the
lottery laws, thereby affirming a re-
corder's court conviction of the
woman about two months ago when
80 or more persons were arrested in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
ITALIANS ASSERT
BRITISH REPULSED
Claim Surprise Effort Of
Motor Columns in Libyan
Desert Downed

ROME, Feb 20.-(R-A British
motorized column plunged deep into
the Libyan desert in surprise ef-
fort to wrest the Sufra Gases from
the Italians but it's attacks were re-
pulsed, the italian high command
reported today.
Cufr;, lies on a caravan route some
500 miles south of Bengasi, on the
Mediterranean shore, the last main
italian port captured by the British.
Free French forces from the Chad
territory have operated in the VI
cinity Of Cufra in previous raids.
1t consists of group of Watered
Islands" in the desert, notable as
the headquarters Of the Senussf
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Banks Here Will Remain
Open Tonight, Saturday

banks will be open tonight from
6 to $50 o'clock for the exclusive
purpose of cashing Camp Davis
payroll checks. No other banking
transactions will be accepted to-
night.
The decision of the banks to re-
main open Saturday followed in
line with the program of public
service announced by the Whining
ton Clearing House association
some time ago. Demands for bank
ing service have greatly increased
in recent weeks and member banks
stated that in the interest of the
public they would be open for
of business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
GREEKS, ITALIANS
STAGE GUN BOUTS
Athens Men Consolidate
Minor Gains in Central
Section Of Albania

Athens, Feb. 20.-LP)-Litt1e ac-
c rrNy vas reported today from the
Dleek.ltallan warfront in Albania ex-
I, sept lof artillery dueling and con-
Solludllon Of minor Greek gains in
central sectors.
ne Greeks organized new advance
rYsi'lohS there, it was said, and
.opped UP nests of Italian resist
" ~Hee which remained after last
tb VEN offensive. Despite this
VI. 0s'' the Albanian front has not
-cusea c materially for weeks.)
:, oieeh artillerymen were credited
Nv W.. Viie front report with capsizing
rot.' I's IN Which Italian units were
soaHs across an unidentified river.
ybonsS 5ores dumped from boats by the
aro1 lll'ie were said to have been
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-21
F. D. R. Invited To Visit
Nearby Defense Projects

North Carolina chief highway en-
gineer, assured marine corps Off.
cials the state would cooperate in
road improvements in the vicinity Of
the training center.
Later, the governor was a lunch.
con guest of Senator Josiah w.
Bailey, members of the states con.
gressional delegation, former Cover
nor o. Max Gardner and Comptroller
General Lindsay C. Warren were
present.
Bailey escorted Broughton to the
senate floor where he was introduced
to various senators.
Discussing the marine highway
program, Broughton said port facili-
ties at Morehead City probably
would be used to carry supplies to
the base and roads would be in-
proved from that place as well al
New Bern.