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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
HELLO WINTER

Winter is supposed to make its official start throughout the northern hemisphere at 9:45 o'clock tonight
 That is the time, according to best in- formed astronomers when the will have reached its southernmost point and will, a re- suit give we residents north of the equator our shortest hours of daylight of any day during the year
 With the ground constantly for the past month we in Juneau have been enjoying CD winter for time Which seems to signify that the marks in almanac announcing the first days of each solar milestones and are not particularly indicative of the weather. We can't remember ever having seen our first sunshine of the year the day designated the first day of spring, have the first leaf fall from tree the first day of autumn and cer- tanly the first snowfall of the year seldom if ever waits for the first day of winter.
 It's a little disconcerting, however to realize tb7i the shortening of the days will get longer non on, and what has been done about all the pisIs had for that serious reading and car neutrv ard other work going to get done dfrne the long fall evenings?
 My Gosh it will be spring again before we know t crop of bombers will be bursting into boom oug Selective Service number will be called and then we'll have absolutely leisure time. The sands ir Inc hour glass running too fast We wish old Sol would take long vacation in the s5}fth We're rot ready for him to start that trir forth q1te vet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
Less Bologna, Please
Philadelphia Recordl

Philadelphia Record) The Navy Department has at last decided tt give the public some real inside information" recent announcement reveals the following: sailors hat is supposed to be worn exactly fingers width above the eye brows. (No allowance for difference in loca- tion of eyebrows width of fingers?
 Mixed pancake flour is included in avia- ton ratons for Navy pilots flights. fSelf-rising flour?)
 Bologna purchases by the Navy for the current fiscal year will total about 2,535,000 bounds
 We think the public would be glad to swap a pig hunk of bologna for a little real news.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
Copyright, 1941)

sent to Scribner's Commentator at Lake Geneva, Wis. This paper, it has now been revealed, operated a sensitive short wave receiving set capable of picking up even the faintest messages from Berlin.
 Meanwhile, in Washington, Con- gressman Fish's office has been in touch with other isolationist con- gressmen, where favorable fan mail has been picked up and turned over to compiling centers which added to the master mailing list.
 Ham Fish's secretary, George
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

of Strongarm men Insiders are crediting Federal Security Admin istrator Paul McNutt with an inn portant victory in the appointment of Watson B. Miller as head of the Old Age Insurance Bureau of the Social Security Board. Miller, close friend of McNutt and for mer Rehabilitation Director of the American Legion, replaces John J. Corson, who was shunted to an- other job at $1,OOO a year less pay.
 Copyright, 1941, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
HOROSCOPE "The stdrs incline
 but do not con,pep
TUESDAY. DECEMBER B

TUESDAY, DECEMBER B
 Adverse planetary aspects rule today. Weather conditions may in- terfere with holiday plans. Dan- ger of accidents is foreseen. There may be a sense of futility among men who survey their plans for the future.
 HEART AND HOME: Women should be fairly fortunate under this sway which may be unfavor- able for the men of their families It is a good day for last minute shopping. Girls may expect much pleasure in dances on this date which stimulates romance and en- courages sentimental points of view. It is not an suspicious time to begin any serious work, but should be lucky for plans affect ing the future.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Owners of plants engaged on Government contracts should pay special atten- tion to watchmen and to safe guarding devices, for the stars presage fires and sabotage. Evil portents extend from Detroit to the Atlantic Coast. Industrial cen ters on the Pacific Coast also are under malign influences, but dan gers are not so great as elsewhere Immense. losses by fires are fore told. especially when there is a cold spell in the East or Middle West.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Pride in the nation and its great achieve ments will kindle enthusiasm iI previously apathetic citizens of the United States as they awaken tc the perils that every day come closer to the land of a free people It is the custom of Americans tc keep their eyes shut to distant dangers, but when they see what is happening they perform wonders in vanquishing an enemy. This country is the only one on the globe which never has been defeat ed in war, a fact that Japan anc Germany should consider.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Desperate economic conditions vii continue to cause revolutionary ef. forts in the subjugated countries From Norway down through ths Balkans there will be determined uprisings. In the first three month. of 1942, astrologers prophecy tha secret organizations will multipl, as hatred of Hitler foments re. volts. It is said that the Feuhrel will not discover that he is actu ally beaten, even when all tn. tides of war turn against him ant that he will die declaring his vic tory. Persons whose birthdate it i may expect perplexing year il which there may be deceptions O. betrayals in financial matters. Children born on this day prob ably will be artistic and even in clined to mysticism. They ma, have outstanding talents, but ma, lack initiative.
 Copyright, 194D
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
MODERN ETIQUETTE by ponrprA LEE

feels able this Christmas knows he will his friends? something little money. A gift should not be gauged by its cost When a 0 a Brown? A. No; the a married Brown
 Isn't always suspicious of his friends their private habits A philosophy $
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
THANKING SCANDAL

Few congressman realize the notifications of the franking scan- dal on which one of their fellow members is scheduled to testify be- fore a grand jury.
 Ham Fish, the witness, who is the congressman from the Presi- dents own district and a grandson of a Secretary of State, may not know all the ramifications either But he may be able to throw light on some rather large checks which presumably had something to dc with financing this much ramified propaganda.
 For long time around the cap- ital it has seemed strange that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
TTTPF'S STILL TIME

#tats litaf? You say you've overlooked buying that carton of snoose for Uncle Oscar?
 Gl course there's still time You still have two days shop and stores are going to be open eve nnss. these est few days, just to give you an opportunity to buy tl1ose last-minute presents.
 We'll grant t little late in the season for getting eiss Q friends snd relatives in the States by Chriauaa anless weather permitting. you can get them thIoHsh by airplane But aren't going to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

let that bother us because the holiday lasts clear through New Years day and we think it's a lot of fun to get gifts during that entire time.
 If you did your shopping early, you are among those few fortunate folk. But we've never known one of those early shoppers who didn't forget something. So scratch your head little and remember what you forgot, then jog down town and get it and be glad we logged your memory and you still have tima to make the purchase
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
LITvINOv's BEVERAGE

When Maxim Litvinov held his first press conference as Soviet
 Ambassador to Washington, there was a dramatic stage setting Before he entered the room, flood lights were set up, spotting the AmbaS ador's desk, on which rest ed shiny silver thermos jug and glass Behind the desk, a bronze bust of Lenin On the walls, oil paintings of sleigh scenes, dark forests, and bright-eyed peasants
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

Hill also told the grand jury that lie had spent total of $12,00O in about six months for reprints of isolationist speeches inserted in the Congressional Record. These were mailed out to those on the master list Hill did not testify, however, as to who paid him the money.
 When this is disclosed, Congress and the public should have bet ter idea of who is behind this, the most ramified and carefully organ ized mass propaganda attempt this country has ever seen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
20 YEARS AGO fME FIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER g. 1921

DECEMBER 22
 William Hallala necott family during the holidays.
 H F. Dawes member of the law firm panied by his bride the Admiral while vacation trip MT Mrs visit Petersburg for short time before coming Juneau
 Major C. Gowals Engineer Officer the Alaska Road Com on returned here hurried visit o
 several previously of his health Calexico border according letter received here by his parents Mrs M George
 The Juneau High School quintet opened the basketball by defeating the soldiers of IT IL On the school White Homqust. Weather: High, 31; low 24; colder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
The Ambassador entered, tn,

The Ambassador entered, the newsmen rose He sat, and two stenographers prepared to take his every word Before speaking, he removed the stopper from the bright thermos jug to pour him. self drink He poured-but instead of water, a stream of yell low fluid filled his glass All during the press conference he slipped with the relish of man who, after days in the desert, has reached an oasis at last . It was orange juice In the Soviet Union, oranges are so rare that most peasants don't know the word.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

when a letter was written to Con- greSsman Day of Illinois (who wrote a book for a Nazi-financed publishing house) the name of the writer immediately turned up on master mailing list, which was used to send out all sorts of iso- lationist, pro-German propaganda.
 The same was true if you wrote to Senator Wheeler or Senator Rey- holds or various other isolationists. Probably they, personally, did not know that their mail was going into common pool. But certain names were purposely misspelled in letters to congressman, and the same misspelled names immediately turned up on the master mailing list.
 The Justice. Department already has thrown some light on how this master mailing list originally was compiled, namely in the offices. Of big motor company. There, a battery of selected stenographers was kept working on the top floor during the fall of l94O sorting over the mail of Lindbergh, ex-Senatol Rush Holt, Senator Nye and others No company employees were al- lowed on the top floor except these stenographers, who were sworn ts secrecy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED Do not This book is somebody's else" Say, This book somebody elses"
 OFTEN NfISPRONOUNCED: Patronze Pronounce the in 
 OFTEN MISSPELI Condescension; observe the sc.
 SYNONYMS: Humor. wit satire, pleasantly
 WORD STUDY: three times it yours vocabulary Today WARINESS evil cautiousness ITO determine religion warine -Spat
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

very happy to make speech.
 That will be easy for me-" he said. i've been a strong supporter of the Presidents foreign policies all along"
 At the last moment, however, the plan was abandoned. For propa- banda purposes in Europe, in vieT of the grandstand staging by Hit Ter and Mussolini in declaring wal against tn GU. S., government lead CTS decided to act on the war reso. lutions without any discussion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

Mrs. Mary Hawkins and infant son were dismissed from the Gov ernment Hospital yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

Josephine Johnson of Douglas was discharged from the Govern ment Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

Margaret Severtson, of Ketchi kan, a surgical patient, was dis charged from the Government Hos, pital on Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

SHORT WAVE RADIO Afterward this master list was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22

Clarence Geddis was discharged from St. Ann's Hospital Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
HOSPITAL NOTES

Alex Laita was admitted for sur gery to St. Ann's Hospital on Sun day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-22
By BILLY DeBECK

Empire Classifieds Pay!
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31

Coast and spread like a forest fire
which did not burn itself out until
late in 1919.
Today, the scientists suggested, the
viruses which cause influenza in a
variety of different forms are hiding
like bear in Information waiting for
the right kind of weather to strike
out. The scientists did not know
when or where the epidemic would
strike, but they expressed themselves
as quite certain it would come.
The st. Louis research men added
the concentration of more than 1,500,-
900 men in training camps through
out the country would complicate the
problem of control as badly as dur
ing the period from 1916 to 1918,
when truckloads and carloads of cof-
fins were not uncommon sight in
towns and cities near army camps.
However, they added, diagnosis Of
true influenza is made easier by new
techniques and laboratory facilities
which promise to reduce the morbid
ity and mortality from the disease to
much lower level than it was a
quarter of century ago.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31

world. )"
"How pathetic it sounds! Bulmer,
I am sure, will make great play with
that! Who, then inherits her money
if she dies ?"
81 don't know. l haven't thought"
Poirot said reprovingly: Gone
should always think of these things 2"
Has she made will, for instance?"
Peter Lord flushed. He said I'M
certainly: "I-I don't know"
Hercule Poirot looked at the cell
ing and joined his fingertips. He re-
marked: at would be we'll, you know,
to tell me-"
"Tell you what?"
Exactly what is in your mind-no
matter how damaging it may happen
to be to Elinor Carlisle"
"How do you know"
eyes, yes, 1 know. There is some
thing-some incident in your mind!
1t will be as we'll to tell me, other
wise 1 shall imagine it is something
worse than it isl"
cts nothing, really"
eve will agree it is nothing. But
let me hear what it is"
Slowly, unwillingly, Peter Lord al
lowed che story to be dragged from
him-that scene of Elinor leaning in
at the window of Nurse Hopkins
cottage, and of her laughter.
ITO be continued)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31
NATION IS WARNED
OF FLU EPIDEMIC

The nation was warned yesterday
to brace itself this winter for AN cpl
demic of influenza which may be as
severe as that of 1918 and 1919.
1t may not kill as many people as
did the epidemic of the first World
War, when hundreds of thousands
died from the disease, DIR. S. Edward
Sulkin, DR.. Joseph F. Bredeck and D.
David Douglas, of the st. Louis (Mo. }
Health Division told the American
Public Health Association Wednesday
at Atlantic City, but all scientific in
dications point to rapid and wide
spread epidemic sweeping the coun-
try in the coming winter months.
The scientists said they were not
trying to "throw a scare" into peo-
pie, but analysis of the present situa-
ton revealed a minor epidemic of flu
swept eastward from the West Coast
probably having originated in Hawii,
a year ago. 1t has lain dormant dur
ing the summer months possibly
building up its virulence.
Exactly the same situation existed
in 1915 and 1916, when the Spanish
influenza" broke out on the East
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31
ESCAPEE FROM PRISON
CAPTURED NEAR CAMP

Russell Townsend, 20. of Pocomoke
City, Md, who escaped October 9,
from a Virginia State prison camp
near Abilene, Charlotte County, was
captured Tuesday afternoon about
five miles from the camp, according
to L. B. Ward, State resident highway
engineer.
Russell Townsend in the Accomack
October term of Court, 1888, was Civ
en- 10 years for entering the store of
Leroy Slant near Sanford, inflicting
several shotgun wounds to the body
of the aged merchant, from which it
was feared for some time the victim
would not recover.
Also with him at the time was
Woodrow Wilkins, who also was Civ
en- ten years. 1t was Townsend who
confessed to the shooting of Sanford.
The escapee was caught near the
camp by Captain M. L. Denton, con-
vict camp foreman, Sergeant, j. r.
Burnett and ]. E. Fitz of the State
road force, as he was washing an
automobile near a stream in a woods.
Mr.. Ward had led a hunt in Char
lotte county since Monday night when
the escapee was reported to have
gone to the home of Captain Den
ton and told Mrs. Denton that her
husband wanted his pistol and sawed
off shotgun to use in hunting an es-
! capped convict. Officers reported that
the guns were found in Townsend's
possession when he was captured.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31
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aunt would have wished it. But the
old lady's estate isn't wound up yet"
Poirot said: "Then we can wash out
the money angle. Mary Gerard was
beautiful, you say. With that there
are always complicatins. She had ad-
mirers ?"
Probably. 1 don't know much a.
bout it."
"Who would know"
Peter Lord grinned. "I'd better put
you on to Nurse Hopkins. She's the
town crier. She knows everything
that goes on in Maidensford."
II was going to ask you to give me
your impressions of the two nurses"
"Well, O'Brien's Irish, good nurse,
competent, bit silly, could be spite
full, a bit of a liar-the imaginative
kind that's not so much deceitful, but
just has to make a good story out of
everything"
Poirot nodded.
Hopkins is a sensible, shrewd,
middle-aged woman, quite kindly and
competent, but sight too much in
terested in other peoples business!"
eff there had been trouble over
some young man in the village, would
Nurse Hopkins know about it,"
"You bet" He added slowly: Cali
the same, I dno't believe there can be
anything very obvious in that line.
Mary hadn't been home long. Shed
been away in Germany for two
years."
"She was twenty-one?"
EYES,"
"There may be some German COM
plication."
Peter Lords face frightened. He
said eagerly: "You mean that some
German fellow may have had it in for
her? He may have followed her over
here, waited bis time, and finally a.
chieved his object?"
"It sounds a little melodramatic, i"
said Hercule Poirot doubtfully.
"But it's possible?"
"Not very probable, though"
Peter Lord said: 81 don't agree.
Sine one might get all het up about
the girl, and see red when she turned
him down. He may have fancied she
treated him badly. It's an idea"
"It is an idea, yes" said Hercule
Poirot, but his tone was not encour-
aging.
Peter Lord said pleadingly: go
on, M. Poirot."
"You want me, see, to be the con-
jurer. To take out of the empty hat
rabbit after rabbit"
"You can put it that way if you
like"
"There is another possibility" said
Hercule Poirot.
go on"
"Some one distracted a tube of
morphine from Nurse Hopkins case
that evening in June. Suppose Mary
Gerard saw the person who did it,"
"She would have said So"
"No, no, mon cher. Be reasonable.
If Elinor Carlisle, or Roderick We'll
man, or Nurse O'Brien, or even any
of the servants, were to open that
case and abstract little glass tube,
what would any one think? Simply
that the person in question had been
sent by the nurse to fetch something
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31

from it. The matter would pass
straight out of Mary Gerrard's mind
again, but it is possible that, later,
she might recollect the fact and
might mention it casually to the per-
son in question-oh, without the least
suspicion in the world. But to the
person guilty of the murder of Mrs.
Welman, imagine the effect of that
remark! Mary had seen; Mary must
be silenced at all costs! I can as
sure you, my friend, that any one who
has once committed a murder finds
it only too easy to commit another!"
Peter Lord said with a frown: GIVE
believed all along that Mrs. Welman
took the stuff herself :"
"But she was paralyzed-helpless
she had just had second stroke"
ooh, I know. My idea was that
having got hold of morphine somehow
or other, she Kept it by her in a re-
ceptacle at hand"
"But in that case she must have got
hold of the morphine before her sec
ond attack and the nurse missed it
afterwards"
Hopkins may only have missed the
morphine that morning. 1t might have
been taken a couple of days before,
and she hadn't noticed it."
"How would the old lady have got
hold of it,"
"I don't know. Bribed a servant,
perhaps. If so, that servants never
going to tell"
"You don't think either of the nur-
ses were bribable?"
Lord shook his head. "Not on your
life! To begin with, they're both very
strict about their professional ethics
and in addition they'd be scared to
death to do such a thing. They'd know
the danger to themselves"
Poirot said: "That is So" He add
ed thoughtfully: at looks, does it
not, as though we return to our NUT
tons? Who is the most likely person
to have taken that morphine tube?
ElinOr Carlisle. We may say that she
wished to make sure of inheriting
large fortune. We may be more gen.
erous and say that she was actuated
by pity, that she took the morphine
and administered it in compliance
with her aunt's often-repeated re-
quest; but she took it-and Mary
Gerard saw her do it. And so we are
back at the sandwiches and the emp
ty house, and we have Elinor Carlisle
once more-but this time with diff
ferent motive to save her neck"
Peter Lord cried out: "That's fan
tastic. I tell you, she isn't that kind
of person! Money doesn't really mean
anything to her-or to Roderick We'll
man, either, I'm bound to admit. I've
heard them both say as much!"
"You have? That is very interest
ing. That is the kind of statement I
always look upon with good deal Of
suspicion myself"
Peter Lord said: "See here, Poirot,
must you always twist everything
round so that it comes back to that
girl?"
"It is not I who twists things round;
they come round of themselves. 1t is
like the pointer at the fair. It swings
round, and when it comes to rest it
points always at the same name
ElinOr Carlisle"
Peter Lord said: "No!"
Hercule Poirot shook his head sadly.
Then he said: "Has she relations,
this Elinor Carlisle? Sisters, cous-
ms? A father or mother?"
"No. She's an orphan-alone in the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31

We have one of the finest eQuippea
plants on the Shore for turning 0gt
high class printing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-10-31

Engagement of Rosalind Russell,
film actress, to friedrich Brisson,
Hollywood theatrical agent, has
been announced by the actress
mother, Mrs. James E. Russell of
Waterbury, Conn.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-07-18
New Method of Purifying
Oil Exhibited on Coast

A new method of purifying oil in
a gasoline motor has been perfected
by Judd H.. Brubaker of Los An
geles. The device, it is claimed,
mixes water with gasoline and feeds
it to the motor, resulting in the de-
struction of the sediments formed by
sulphuric acid before they reach the
crankCaSe.
The process is simple, said Bru-
baker, land can be adapted to any
motor" The attachment consists of
an S-shaped pipe with bowl fas-
tened TO its side like a carburetor
float. The bowl is connected to a
tank containing water. The water is
fed to the motor through tube in
the bowl
In the line is a set needle that
regulates the flow of water" When
the motor is idling the flow of water
is stopped, eliminating any chance
of rust forming in the cylinders. AS
the throttle is opened the air current
speeds up and draws the water
through the tube from the bowl. The
water breaks up in the pipe just as
the gasoline does and together they
60 into the combustion chamber
where the water is turned to steam,
joins the chemical action of the
burning fuel, and is taken out
through the exhaust.