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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
DUKE AERIAL SCHOOL
is TO BE ENLARGED

Durham-Inclusion of aeronau-
teal engineering courses in the
curriculum of the Duke univer-
sity college of engineering be-
ginning next fall was announced
this week by Dean William H.
Hall, Of the college. The enlarg-
ing role of the college of engi-
neering in the program of train
ing for national defense and the
normal development of the col
lege's scope of work make the
move necessary at this time, It
was stated.
To provide quarters for the
courses, construction will begin
Immediately on an aeronautical
engineering laboratory building,
to be situated in the engineering
college group on the east cam
pus. It will be completed next
summer and suitably equipped
before the 1941-42 session. The
aeronautical courses to be offered
next fall will be optional in the
mechanical engineering depart
ment. They will be open to jun
Tors and seniors.
The new aeronautical engineer
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
FIT. BRAGG WILL HAVE
LARGE FIRE DEPT.

Fl. Bragg. FIT. Bragg, which
will this year become the third
largest city in North Carolina,
may well claim to have one of
the most efficient and modern
fire fighting forces of any COM
munity in the state. Seven mod
ern fire trucks carrying an ag-
gregate total of more than two
miles of fire hose are located in
five fire stations spotted through
out the post and five more trucks
will be in operation by mid-year,
when five additional fire stations
are opened.
Fl. Bragg fire fighting equip
ment is manned by 1913 soldiers
working under the direction OF
Capt. George Pickett, fire mar
shall, and civilian fire chief and
two civilian assistant fire chiefs
These three civil service en-
ployes are professional firemer
hired to teach the soldier fire
fighters professional methods
Harvey A. West and Arthur E
Farlow, formerly Of the Greens
boro fire department, are chief
and assistant chief, respectively
and G. L. Cox, who was with the
Durham fire department.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06

Major General J. L. Schley, chief
Of engineers of the United States
army, in his annual report.
No new work is proposed in the
report on any North Carolina
waters, the chief engineer ex-
planning that past projects in that
era have made the rivers and har-
vors of the state adequate to care
for the present traffic.
The report recommends an ap-
preparation of $58,755,35O for new
work and $52,411,210 for mainte-
nance of existing river and har-
Dor projects, 100000 for power
installations on the Missouri and
Columbia rivers, and $196,0OO,-
900 for flood control work
throughout the country.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
AMSTERDAM GETS HEAVY
FINE FOR IT'S DISORDERS

Amsterdam, (via Berlin),-The
German military authorities fined
the city of Amsterdam 100000
guilders (nominally, nearly 3d.
OOO,OOO) as penalty for recent
disorders against the nazi occupa-
ton.
The city must pay the money
within a week and then collect
within six weeks from inhabi-
tants who are in the $5,0O0-a-year
class. Thus approximately 5000 of
Amsterdam's 100000 citizens will
pay the bill.
If the payments are not made
promptly, further reprisals will
be levied, it was stated.
The towns of Hilversum and
Zaandam also were fined a total
amounting to around ST 100000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
AWARDS GO
TO ROGERS, STEWART

Hollywood. A nimble-footed
Charleston dancer turned drama
tic and a lanky actor Hollywood
once kept buried like a case are
the new queen and king of the
movies.
Ginger Rogers and James Ste
wart are their names. They are
the newest winners of the awards
signifying best given by the Aca-
DENY of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences.
Ginger was better than any of
her acting sisters in 1910, her fell
lows believe, because of her por-
trayal in kitty Foy3e."
And Stewart impressed them
by his work in ''The Philadelphia
Story"
They, as we'll as a score of 9th
ers, were called to the podium
of a banquet hall damned with
celebrities and fellow workers
Thursday night to be handed sta
tuettes a foot high which have
been dubbed Oscars.
"Rebecca" was the years best
motion picture, in the opinion OF
the academy's $4,000 voters.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
Review State World During Week

Hampshire, landed at Bristol al
ter flying across the Atlantic to
his new pest.
With Winant came his assistant,
Benjamin Cohen, and President
James Bryant Conant, of Har-
ward university, who is on gov
eminent mission to collect scfen-
tific information for American
defense needs.
Spruce in the uniform of field
marshal the king impulslvely
reached out and pumped first WI,
nant's hand, then Cohen's.
Il am glad to welcome you. he>
said, warmly.
Winant's navy blue overUoaS
and gray suit both were rurnpleG
after the long journey and hIs'
white collar was a little the
worse for wear.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
EX-KING ALFONSO
DIES IN ROME FRI.

Rome. Former King Alfonso
XIII of Spain died Friday after
Is days of the agony of angina
pectoris, and last night his body
lay in the hotel bedroom which
for decade had been his place of
exile.
His weakened heart stopped at
11:50 a. m. (4:50 a. m. est Fiji
teen minutes before the end all
that remains of his family had
gathered about him-all save the
Infanta Christina, who was at
Turin awaiting the birth of an
other grandchild of the dying
monarch.
Alfonso was lucid but spent
and weary, and could only look
at theim-at the estranged former
Queen Victoria, at his son and
designated heir to the throne of
Spain, Don Juan; at his son
Paine and his daughter, Beatrice.
It seemed to those about him
that he was clearly resigned, and
he died calmly and appearing I'm
afraid, true to his proud, ancient
Bourbon blood.
The final expression of his life,
made with the last of his
strength, was to thank with grave
courtesy the three physicians who
had worked over him so long.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
5000 ITALIAN TROOPS
CAPTURED BY BRITISH

Cairo, Egypt.-The capture of
an aggregate thus far of 5000
Fascist troops in Italian Somali-
land and a further British thrust
up the Juba to occupy Bardera,
100 miles from the rivers mouth,
was announced last week end by
British general headquarters.
have given the British control OF
The advance was declared to
all the Upper Jubaland, and a
cleanup of scattered units in this
vast area was pursued. .
The fleeing Italians had been
based either at Bardera or at
Mogadiscio, the Somaliland CAPT.
tai and major Indian Ocean port
seized some time ago to enable
the British to claim an effective
control of the entire colony.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
$4,000 ARE HOMELESS
FROM RECENT QUAKE

Athens, Greece. - More than
$4,000 persons were said to be
homeless this week in Larisa as
a result of violent earthquake
which shook Northern Greece
Saturday.
Reports from the earthquake
zone said Larisa was wrecked,
building stumbling down as the
earth moved.
The project at Larisa in an ap-
peal for help telegraphed auth
critics in Athens that nearly two
thirds of the city's population of
10000 were driven into the
streets.
Casualties, he said, were not yet
determined but other sources said
the violence of the shock indi-
Gated they would be heavy. The
people were abed when the tenn
blor came.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
SPANISH EARTH PLACED
ON ALFONSO'S GRAVE

Rome-A tiny bag of Spanish
earth was placed Sunday in the
initial casket of Alfonso XIII, for
mer king of Spain, as his coffin
was closed in preparation for a
funeral service Monday.
Alfonso's coffin was sealed in
the presence of members of his
family. A small, glass covered
opening was left above the face
through which a thousand or
more Spaniards coming for ser
vices later this week may have
a last view of their monarch.
After temporary interment, the
final burial place will be Ell Es-
corral, Spain.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
BLIZZARD TOOK MANY
LIVES LAST WEEK END

Towering snowpiles lined slip
perry highways in the middle At
lantic states last week in the
wake of a blizzard that took at
least % lives and extended over a
1,OOO-mile front. Clearing skies
brought a forecast of continued
cold weather.
Along the west coast, an extern
sive storm followed gales and
torrential rains that struck SIM
ultaneously with the eastern snow
storm, and disrupted wireless
communications over the Pacific
ocean.
Generally fair but unseason-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
WOMAN'S PURSE STOLEN
IN PATROL WAGON SAT.

New York.-A woman taken to
court in a patrol wagon Saturday
searched her purse on arrival and
complained $42 had been stolen
from her en- route.
Startled police quickly grabbed
the only other passenger" an 49,
year-old unemployed negro youth
who had been arrested for disor-
derby conduct.
He meekly yielded up the $40
and was jailed on a grand lar
ceny charge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
BRITISH DOWN THIRTY
PLANES OVER ALBANIA

Athens, Greece.-British planes
shot down more than 80 Italian
warplanes over the southern Al
anian battle front Saturday with
out a single loss to themselves,
the Greek command announced
tonight at the close of four
months of war.
This extraordinary aerial sue
cess-the biggest victory ever re-
ported for a single British squad
ron in the Greek-Italian war
was said to have paralleled local
successes for Greek ground for
ces.
Italian tank attacks were re.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06

ably cold weather extended into
the deep south, dropping the mer-
curry to A at Miami, while the
middle-west enjoyed almost bal
my weather with temperatures as
high as 81 in Nebraska and Iowa.
Weather experts said the east
ern storm, at its height Friday
night extended 1000 miles south
from Nova Scotia and 1900 miles
out to sea.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN
GIVEN WARM WELCOME

London. - King gorge vi
swept stiff diplomatic Formally
aside Saturday and went half
way across England to greet the
new United States ambassador to
his court, John C. Winant, with a
hearty handshake.
The meeting place was wind
swept railroad platform between
London and Bristol. Winant, the
shaggy ex-governor of New
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06
N. c. RIVERS, HARBORS
MAY GET FUNDS

Washington. AN ALLEGATION OF
ST, 438,95O, to be expended dur
ing the fiscal year beginning July
l, next, on maintenance work on
North Carolina rivers and harbors
was recommended this week by
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06

pulsed, the Greek command re-
ported, and one tank was des-
troyed.
The British had announced ear
lier that 26 Italian planes-in for
nation much bigger than the R.
A. F. attacking unit-were known
to have been destroyed and that
nine others were crippled.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-03-06

ing laboratory will provide facili-
ties not only for regularly en-
rolled engineering students, but
those participating in the civil
aeronautical authority program.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08

WASHINGTON-SCENE: COCK tail lounge of Washington's sWanK MayfloWer hotel.
 TIME: Late evening.
 PERSONS: Bob Reynolds, isola- tionist Senator from North Carolina, and Major x of the Quartermaster Corps.
 The two men had been in the cocktail lounge for some time and they were feeling no pain. They had reached the stage of exchang- ing gracious compliments with one another. Major x threw ari arm around Repnolds and congratulated him for his isolationist stand.
 "You're great guy, Bob" cried the Major, land you're doing a marvellous job I think you're tops! You've got courage. You're in there fightin'. Why, there's a hundred thousand men backing you up.'
 Get out!" replies the Senator from North Carolina A hundred thous- and men? Better make 1t a hum dred million!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
MU550LINII5 PROUD OVER
 SONS DEATH
Funeral Procession Moves Over Flower Strewn
 Streets in Pisa

PISA, ITALY, Aug. 8+Premier Benito Mussolini has sent the body of his son, Capt. Bruno Mussolini to Predappion, the Il Duces home town for burial after the war hero's funeral procession had moved to the station over flower strewn streets
 Mussolini arrived here early this morning and immediately went to the darkened room in the Fasciest headquarters where Bruno's body lay in state with his two compan- ions who died yesterday in the crash of plane or a test flight.
 Mussolini paused long before the open casket and those in the room said afterwards that This severe face expressed emotional pride but also his intense sorrow"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
BIG TAX
 INCREASE
 E ASKED
Secretary of Treasury Ask Revenue from More
 Millions of People

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. - Advo- eating an "all out tax program for defense" Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau today asked Con- gress to tax millions of additional persons with small incomes, by cut ting personal income tax exemptions and stiffening other taxes, for in- stance, married couples, corporations and many others.
 Morgenthau told the Senate Fi- nance Committee that the revenue from taxes approved by the House, should be increased from its pres ent $3,2O6, 200, 900 to at least $3,- 500,000,000 Morgenthau also hinted strongly that he would like the tax revenue even above that estimated amount.
 Morgenthau estimated that it will be necessary to raise at least $2,- GOO GOO 900 more than expected if the Federal Government is to pay two- thirds of it's operating costs.
 John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, testified that the anticipated expenditures of the gov- ernment for this fiscal year will be $22, 900 ,000, ,O0O and the estimated de- ficit will be about $12,O00,000,000. ] To meet two-thirds of the cost, at that rate, Sullivan said the estimat- ed revenues will need to be boosted by about S5 60O, ,000, 900, including the amounts contained in the pending bill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
(HUNGkING BOMBED BY
 JAP PLANES
Air Raid Shelter BIasfed- Eight Formations
 Attack City

CHUNKING, CHINA, Aug. B. About 140 Japanese planes, coming over in waves, smashed Chunking and it's suburbs today.
 A bomb exploding near a water front dugout caved in an air raid shelter and killed more than l5 Chinese, injuring many more. Air raid wardens dug in the debris to rescue trapped survivors in an- other cave-in south of the city
 The eight raiding formations flew directly over the safety zone on the south bank of the Yangtze river but no bombs dropped there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
Secretary Hull Asserts Ger many Seeks Conquest,
 Western Hemisphere
BERLIN IS MAKING
 PLANS FOR EXPOSE
Japanese Spokesman Says Nation EncirtIed-U. 5.
 Planes Ready
(BY ASSOCIATED PREss)

The Far East crisis boiled along today with torrent of charges and counter charges.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull said Germany is looking with long ing eyes on the Western Hemis- phere for further conquest and as- serted also that Japan is alone re- sponsible for any encirclement of itself on the Pacific.
 These comments were made by the Secretary of State at a con- ference with the newsmen follow ing receipt of statements made by official spokesmen in Berlin and Tokyo.
 Berlin Accuses FDR
 Berlin sources said campaign will be launched soon to expose what the Nazi spokesmen described as the ruthless power in politics of President Roosevelt, not only in the United States but in Latin Amer ica.
 The Japanese spokesman asserted that Japan is encircled by the United States, Great Britain and The Netherlands.
 Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared that his country stands with abated breath in the most vital hour of her history"
 Menzies proclaimed that the war has taken a most ominous turn but that Australia is immeasureably better equipped for defense now than in 1939.H
 Ready to Strike
 A Reuters dispatch from Singa- pore quotes Ministry of Informa- ton there as declaring that Am- erican fighter planes are now being delivered at British bases in Bur- ma and provides an answer to Japans new strategic move in Indo- China
 The Ministry of Information at Singapore, according to the Reut- CTS dispatch. also said that the United States built planes are ready to chop to bits any Japanese bombers attempting to attack the Burma Road, also will be able to smash any Japanese air attacks sent out from the newly acquired bases in Indo-China."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Aug, 8.-Before this dries, you are going to be hearing a lot about the CADS. l mean the Civil Air Defense Serv- ices.
 A national committee headed by Capt. Gill Robb Wilson, who is also president of the National Aeronautic Association, has had plans for the CADS in the works for quite whole. For some req son the national defense people haven't turned on the green light for the CADS, but it's coming.
 saw a preview of the plans the other day The underlying idea is to organize civilian aviation for an emergency.
 Captain Wilson, writing in Ma tional Aeronautics magazine, gave a better description of civilian aviation in the United States than I can: What is it? It is 82,000 cer- tified pilots. It is 50,000 student pilots. It is 25,0O0 mechanics and airport personnel. It is 3,00O,0o0 model builders. It is light plane model industry. It is 22,00O cer- tificated civil aircraft. It is 2,0c0 airports and landing fields out side those serving military and scheduled flying" The list goes on, including all the niasaz4.-s,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
OFFICERS OF. FRENCH ARMY
 ARE INTERNED
British Ch aree Failure 10 Release Officers Cdp-
 tured in Syria

BEIRUT, Aug. 8-General Dentz, vichy High Commander of Levant states and 34 other senior Vichy officers in Syria and Lebanon were interned in concentration camps to- day.
 British, occupying authorities an- i.ounced the French officers have failed to live up to last months armistice agreement and return all British and Free-French officers captured in the Syrian campaign.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
Commander of Russia n Sixth Army Captured
 in Oil Lands
BRITISH TROOPS TO
 GROSS AFGHANISTAN
Soviet Marshal Calls Upon Peope to Spill Blood
 for Blood
tBY ASSOCIATED PREss)

Hitler's Command reported to- day that German troops, knifing deep into the lower Ukraine, have annihilated Red Army forces trapped southeast of Uman, l25 miles south of Kiev, and have cap- tured more than 30,O00 prisoners and the Supreme Commander of the Russian Sixth Army.
 Earlier unofficial Nazi reports said Kiev itself is surrounded but the Command report indicated the main German thrust is directed as cutting off the Black Sea port of Odessa, some 40 miles below Uman.
 A mystery concerning the over night bombings of Berlin, the 18th there since the beginning of the war, developed when London said Russian warplanes attacked the German capital and by contrast the Germans said the raiders were undoubtedly British" The Brit ish said no RAF planes went near Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
Aefing Secretary of Navy Declares Drastic Steps
 Must Be Taken
SITUATION MAY BE
 PLACED BEFORE FOR.
Union Officials Blame Men as No Authorization
 Given for Walkouf
(By Associated Press)

Ralph Bard, Acting Secretary of Navy, said this afternoon that un- less labor and the management set tie the dispute in the Kearny ship yards steps must be taken which is one way or another" to get pro- duction resumed there.
 Bard said the strike of the CIO at the Federal Shipbuiiding and Dry dock Company at Kearny is holding up $493, 100000 worth of work on naval and merchant shipbuilding.
 A Defense Board official last night indicated the strike might be re- ferred directly to President Roose- ve It.
 Another Walkout
 In another strike development, several hundred AFL workers walk ed out from $100OO0,000 worth of defense work at the Curtiss Wright Corporations propeller division at Caldwell, New Jersey.
 At Caldwell, Harold Pearson, or ganlZer Of the AF'L international AS- sociation of Machinists, and Alfred Thurston, official of the AFL Metal Polishers Union, both unions in- volved at the plant, said their unions have never been authorized to walk out and added that they will inves- tigate the strike immediately.
 Officials of the plants said the entire prodution of defense orders are imperilled and several thousand other employees are out of work as the result of the walkout.
 The plant officials said the work CTS asked for more money but made no specific demands and have not presented their requests in writing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
Big projetts
 Gel Approved

WASHINGTON. August 8-The House Rivers and Harbors Committee has approved of the s285, 100000 St. Lawrence Seaway and the $160,000.- GOO Florida Ship Canal included in the Omnibus Rivers and Harbors bill soon to be submitted to Con- ereSs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
NEW UNIT
 M0BILIzE5
 IN CANADA
Authority Granted 10 Or. qanize Sixth Division
 for Active Service

OTTAWA. Aug. 8.--Defense Min- ister Ralston announced today that authority has been granted to pro- ceed for mobilization of the Sixth Canadian Division, Active Army Service.
 Ralston asserted also that all necessary precautions will be taken by the Canadians for defense of the Pacific Coast section in view of the Far Eastern situation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
JOE MEHERIN RETURNS

U. J. Meherin, representative of Hill Brothers coffee, returned to Juneau yesterday by plane after weeks business trip to Ketchikan. MT. Meherin says that business is booming in the fishing city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
PLAYING POLITICS

The extent to which party pol itics is being played in Congress with vital problems of national de- fense was graphically illustrated in the House the other day.
 For eight years the most persls- tent enemies of the New Deafs labor laws have been the House Republicans. Last Congress they voted as a bloc to scuttle the Ma tional Labor Relations Board ano for years such party leaders as Representatives Hoffman of Mich- igan, Coffee of Nebraska, Taber oi New York, Short of Missouri, anc Rich of Pennsylvania have filled the Congressional Record with bitter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
STATE SENATOR THROUGH

Washington State Senator Ernest c. Huntley and his wife went through Juneau last night on the Prince George. They are in Alaska on vacation trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
NEW CERTIFICATES

NEW CERTIFICATES
 The first step would be to have the Civilian Aeronautics Admins tration reclassify all airmen's cer- tificates. The new certificates would require proof of citizenship, oath of allegiance to the United States and such positive Identification as fingerprints and photographs. And the first job of the CADS would be to see that no one took off or tight ened nut on an air jalopy with cut one of the certificates.
 From there on, the CADS would take over the job of guarding radio range stations and the 2,O0( airports which, not being mili- tary or scheduled airline airports would not ordinarily be subject te military guard. The CADS alse would learn how to make these airports unsuitable for enemy ust in case of invasion
 A courier service, with mer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08
(AD5 Coming Info Nofite In Short Time, No Pooling;
 Green Lighf Be Given Soon

journals, and national and local flying organizations.
 This is the backlog out of which civilian defense proposes to carve the CADS. with a Wing" in every state, composed of flights, squad rons and groups in the smaller centers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-08-08

Louisiana has 4,794 miles of navigable waterways.
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