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La gaceta., 1941-05-29

metedora. "a pueblo de Cuba,
en- un 80 por ciento, apoya a
Estados Unidos Y la causa de-
mocratica."
Batista fue electo con ell a.
pogo del partido Comunista y
recientemente nombr6 para
un alto cargo a Juan Marine
Ito, lfder n1mero l de los CO.
munistas.
La gaceta., 1941-05-29
PARA LA MUJER DEL HOGAR

noroea al deepcdirsc dc las al
mas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
DAYLIGHT SAVING IS
 NOW URGED
President Requests Con- gress for Legislation
 Electricity Shortage

WASHINGTON, July 15-Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con- gress for legislation to provide for daylight saving time upon such regional or national basis for such part or all of year that might be deemed necessary in the interest of national defense
 The request is made in letters to Speaker Sam Rayburn of the House and e-President Henry A. Wal lace, Presiding Officer of the Sen- ate.
 Supporting the recommendation, the President gives figures to show the effects of year around daylight saving with a probable reduction of 736,O00,00O kilowatt hours in the use of electricity.
 The President also sent letters to eight Southern Governors telling them of the need of daylight sav- ing time and declaring the coun- try is faced with serious power shortage by the impending national defense program"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
.MUNITIoN SUPPLY
 IN U. S. LACKING
 FOR TOTAL WAR;

WASHINGTON, July 15-Under Secertary of War Robert P. Patter- son today told the Senate Committee on Military Affairs last year brought great progress to American defense production. but flor total warfare of the kind raging in Europe, we have never enough munitions"
 Patterson submitted to the Sem ate defense Investigating commit tee q review of the Army's expan- sion work in the fiscal year ending June 30.
 The present army. he said con- sists of nearly a million and half soldiers, including nine triangular divisions, one of which is completely motorized, eighteen square divisions, two cavalry divisions. four armored divisions, and various other troops engaged in specialties and manning overseas garrisOns.
 The Army Air Corps now has an enlisted strength of 167,000 men with the rate of pilot training in- creased to 30,000 a year.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
HEARING ON FISHERIE
 ANNOUNCED
Dr.. GdbrieIson 10 Be in Juneau September 18
 on Regulations

Hearings on Alaska fisheries reg ulations for 1922 will be held in Juneau September IS, according to an announcement by the Fish and Wildlife Service today.
 Fishermen, vessel owners, can- nerymen and others interested in the industry are invited to attend the hearings and present their views.
 Dates and places of other hear ings will be as follows: Ketchikan, September 10; Wrangell, Septem- Der 12; Sitka, September 15; An chorage, September 24; Cordova, September 27; Kodiak, September 30, and Seattle, October 20.
 All hearings will be conducted by Dr. Ira Gabrielson, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Assisting him will be regional representatives of the Service for the various Dis tricts and Seton H. Thompson, As sistant Chief of the Division of AL aska Fisheries. D. c. Trip will serve again as reporter for tbe hearings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
0pM Revises
 pIant Plans
 ForAIunlinunl
Plans Given 10 War De- pariment Recommends
 Site Sniff 10 Tacoma

WASHINGTON, July IS The aluminium plant previously planned for North Carolina will be built instead at Tacoma, Wash, if the War Department accepts the re- vised recommendations from the Office of Production Management expanding the nations aluminium capacity by seven new plants and 6O0,0O0, 900 pounds per year.
 Recommending the shift. OPM cited that power was short in the Southeast, and announced that the power authorities in the Grand Coulee and Bonneville areas recent ly made available an additional bloc of electricity for aluminium production.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
Russian Forces Totally An- nihi!ate Three Ger
 man Regiments STEEL RING DRAWN
 AROUND LENlMGRAD
Turkish Reports of Evuaea- lion of Moscow De-
 nied df Capital
(By Associated Press)


 Hitler's invasion forces are de- clared today to have been hurled back 19 miles along the strategic Dnepr River when Russian troops launched a major offensive. The Soviet Command spoke con- fidently of "the bloodthirsty Fascist hordes whom we now smash" Rus sian military dispatches said Red troops, striking back along the cen- tral front and guarding Smolensk and Moscow, have crossed the Dnepr River at several points in the south.
 Soviet war bulletins declared Rus sian troops have won a victory in the annihilation of two German and Rumanian artillery regiments and an infantry regiment driving toward Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine.
 Enveloping Leningrad Berlin reports said German tank corps are menacing the city of Nov. gorod, 100 miles south of Lenin- grad, and are drawing ring of steel closer around Leningrad itself. Nov gorod is 50 miles from the main Leningrad- Moscow rail line.
 The German Command, again us- ing single sentence to describe the mammoth conflict, declared. "Op- erations in the east are steadily pro- gressing."
 A dispatch from the front and timed a. m. today and published in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. said the Russian drive to the vest ward is continuing. The dispatch reported that Soviet troops have re- captured the town of Rogachev on the west bank of the Dnepr River, 130 miles southeast of Minsk. The area has been the scene of some of the bitterest fighting in the strug- gle.
 DNB Claims Victory
 DINE asserted that Soviet attempts to maintain the defense front on the Dvina -Dnepr river sectors have been smashed by Nazi attacks. Stall in's Command, in laconic com munique, said merely Violent fight ing ragged all night on the central and northern fronts"
 Dispatches from Rome said an Italian expeditionary force of IA long trainloads of infantry, artillery and tanks is moving to support Hit- ler,s invasion armies.
 Since Friday, authoritative quart- CTS in Moscow have declared em- phatically that there is no truth of diplomatic reports from Ankara, Turkey. that the Soviet Govern ment is preparing to flee to a pro- visional capital in the east.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
|fkes Labels
 Lindbergh as
 German Eagle
Secretary of Inferior Says FIier Tries 10 Break
 Down U. 5.

NEW YORK, July 15-Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said Charles A. Lindbergh's passionate words are to encourage Hitler and to break down the will of his own fellow citizens to resist Hitler and Nazism.
 Tt makes one realize what a menace he and those like him are to this country and its free insti- tutions whether they know what they are doing or don't" he con- tinued. ttf3
 The outspoken Secretary of the Interior referred to Lindbergh as the Knight of the German Eagle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
GRAND JURY SETS TRIAL
 FOR SPIES
B Men 10 Go Before Court on FBI Charges of
 Espionage

NEW YORK, July 15-Thirty- three persons. rounded up in an FBI spy hunt last month, were indicted by Federal Grand Jury today and ordered to trial in Sep tember on charges of espionage.
 Six others were similarly indict- ed. but U. s. attorney Harold Ken nedy said they are at large in for eign countries including Germany and Portugal. The B are accused of conspiring to transmit informa- tion to a foreign government
 Thirty -one of these are addition ally accused of a second count of acting as agents of foreign gov ernnient without having registered with the State Department,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
I W0 SEAS
 DANGEROUS
 SAY RUSS
Action Taken Against Ndzi Warships- Keeps v|adi-
 vostok as Open Port

TOKYO, July 15-Japan's Am bassador in Moscow, Yosh Itsuga Tatekawa, has informed the Jap anese Foreign Office the Soviet Navy has declared the main water zones facing the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, especially off Kam- chatka, are dangerous for naviga- tion and are designated as free routes for ships bound to Vladi- voStok.
 Iichi Kishi, acting spokesman for the Cabinets Board of Information, said: "The reason seems to be Rus sia is preparing against the pres ence of German warcraft in the Sea of Japan" E
 The acting spokesman said the Soviet Union has not been in- formed of Japans attitude toward the Russian Navy's action but add ed he did not expect protest at this time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
EARL NEuRU LEAVES
 ON INSPECTION TRIP

Earl A. Neuru, sanitarian in the division of Public Health Engin- eering. is leaving for Sitka today on the North Sea and will be gone about a month and half. He will conduct general sanitary inspec- tion in that city and also inspect the canneries in the district. He will then go to Ketchikan for fur ther inspections.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
Juneau Visitor Here
 From Inferior Trip

Returning today on the Baranof from a few weeks trip in the In- terior was Mrs. Flora Allen who is guest of Mrs. Mary Keith Caw- thorne. Mrs. Allen is public school teacher in Portland, Ore, and will stay in Juneau several more weeks visiting. She left Juneau with Mrs. Cawthorne but spent most of her time at Circle Hot Springs and then joined Mrs. Cawthorne on the re- turn trip,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
We're Just
 Born 45o Years Too Lafe

Columbus arrived in America just a year too late to bid on a contract posted on the Federal Building bulletin board here this week.
 Across the bottom of the bid call, a slip of typist's fingers accom- plished the following:
 Tn no event shall this contract extend beyond July 30, l49l."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
GEMMILLS VACATION

Lynn Gemmill, Assistant United States Attorney, and Mrs. Gemmill sailed south for a several weeks vacation on the southbound Princess Louise this morning. The Gemmills will visit relatives in Seattle and Wenatchee, Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
Unt|e Sam Concluding Big Ba||yhoo Campaign;
 Is Real Super Salesman
By JACK sTINNETT


 WASHINGTON, July IS The biggest ballyhoo campaign the Gov ernment has conducted in at least 20 years, perhaps ever, is under way.
 It's the campaign to peddle to the public billions of dollars of de- fense savings bonds and stamps.
 From kindergartens in the lit tie red school houses to the mar ble halls of high finance on Wall Street, from the cash-and-carry counters of the chain groceries to the old gray United States Treasury Building, the bonds and stamps are now on sale
 It is estimated that more than $10,000,000 of free radio adver- tising already has been contribut- ed. This ranges from the 10-second announcements that interSperSe the soap operas to full one-hour show (which will run into September that contains more dollars-and- cents talent than the richest com mercial sponsor in the country would be likely to buy.
 The amount of newspaper ad- vertising, from one-line slogan ads to full pages, couldn't even be rougly estimated.
 A direct mail advertising cam paign, now in the experimental stage (to determine, by sampling groups of 100000 or so prospec- tive buyers, what letters and pam phlets get best results), will be launched before the year is out. THOUSANDS OF SALES TALKS
 A speaking program that will take the sales talk into every civic, patriotic and fraternal club from New York City to the hamlets is already steaming. The movies are grinding out shorts. Posters spat- 'er the scene wherever you look md pamphlets and booklets now ,r soon may be had for the taking rom hundreds of counters in every community.
 Behind this great sales splurge Eugene w. Sloan. a two-fisted World War field artillery captain, who started his career as a shoe
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July IS. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is AZ. American Can 88A, Anaconda 29A, Bethlehem Steel 76A, Commonwealth and Southern F, Curtiss Wright g, Gen. eral Motors 387s, International liar vester 54la, Kennecott 38A, New York Central 1874, Northern Pacific 7k, United States Steel 58%, Pound
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
HERE ON SHORT TRIP

Mrs. Robert Jernerg will arrive from Sitka on the, Northland. She will be in Juneau for a few days on business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
BRIGHTER ' I5 TIED UP
 BY STRIKE
0duna af Dock in Valdez Over Dispute Regarding
 Hiring of Workers

VALDEZ. Alaska, July IS - Freighter Oduna, Capt. Goetz, has been held here since Sunday eve ming by strike.
 The dispute Is over the question of whether the Mates or Sailors Union does the hiring of the dock workers.
 The Seattle office is expected to make a decision in the case some time today.
 The same trouble took place at Hidden Inlet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15

WASHINGTON-With Germany making its inroads upon Russia largely through the use of tanks, Secretary of War Stimson has been giving a lot of thought to develop ing an American weapon which would stop what he calls the Ger man mastodon.'
 Also he has been having hot row with some of his own ordnance men over the purchase of a new and trackless tank which Stimson thinks may be the answer. The Chief of Ordnance, General c. M. Wesson, opposed purchase of the new tank as far too expensive.
 However, General Benedict Gro well, Assistant Secretary of War during World War I and now War Department adviser on material, went over Wessons head to Secre- tary Stimson himself.
 "An eight-wheel tank has just been developed" General Crowell told Stimson, that is wonderful thing. It may be the answer to Germany. It has been turned down by Ordnance, but think you ought to see it."
 So Secretary Stimson went over to Ft. Meyer and saw it demon strated, later sent it down to Fit. Knox to General A. R. Chaffee, Chief of the Armored Force. Then he went to Ft Knox, personally, and conferred with General Chaffee, who was enthusiastic. wanted the Army to order IT tanks immediate ly. But Ordnance wanted to order two at the most, considered the price far too high.
 TURNED DOWN LEWIS GUN
 At this point Stimson harked back to the days when he was Secretary of War in the Taft Ad- ministration.
 There is always balance to be attained between what the fighting forces want and what the War De- partment in Washington wants them to have" he explained to friends, and the trouble with the Ordnance office is that it is so deluged with people who want to win the war with new inventions, that it gets rather callous.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, l28.19; rails, 29.64; utilities, 1867.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15

Water expands one-eleventh of its volume in freezing,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15
TURNED DOWN LEWIS GUN

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-15

BUY DEFENSE BONDS
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
PROTECT SECRETS.
| KNOX ASKS NATION
Navy Chief Points To Dan
ger OF Loose Talk And
Press Reports

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Up
Secretary Knox, in a plea for the
protection of military secrets, as.
serted tonight that "a sentence spo-
ken or printed might wreck an ar.
senal, sink a battleship or destroy
the lives of many who are working
night and day to make America
secure against all enemies. potential
or otherwise"
The Navy secretary expressed this
thought in a statement which urged
the people and the press to guard
against unintentionally passing along
information on vital matters to "po-
tential enemies, within or without
our borders"
Such information, he said, gives
ready assistance to the agents of
belligerents who are potential ene-
mics, in their plans for possible OBJ
struction, sabotage and the ultimate
destruction of human lives"
"The Navy department" the sec
retary added, "is making what we
hope to be a proper distribution of
our ships, aircraft and personnel to
cope with any situation should any
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
NAZIS. TAKE TEN
DANISH T-B0ATS
Naval Vessels Given Up
Under Strong Protest,
Stockholm Declares

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. g.
(Sunday)-LR-Th Stockholm news
paper Dagens Nyheter said today
that after heavy German pressure"
the Danish government was forced
to deliver about 10 torpedo boats
from the Danish navy to German au-
thorities.
1t said the ships got German crews
last Wednesday and that Danish Of
ficers aboard the vessels lying in Co.
penhagen harbor lowered their flags
to half-staff before the Germans
went aboard.
Danish acceptance, the newspaper
said, was under protest and followed
presentation of the German demands
several times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Churchill's
War Plans
Are Awaited
Prime Minister May Rally
British Forces To New
0ffensives Today
AIR WAR DWINDLING
Invasion Dangers Cited;
Three Nazis, One Brit
ish Plane Lost
By DREW MIDDLETON

LONDON, Feb. S.-P)-The vast
garrison of this island fortress,
cheered by the Bengasi triumph of
the Army of the Nile, waited to-
night for Winston Churchill to rally
the armed forces to other cam
paigns in 1941 and, perhaps, to ex-
plain where Britain stands in rela-
ton to France.
Churchill speaks over the radio
at 9 p. m. Sunday g p. m. e. S. T.).
Thrust And Parry
Warfare on the British front
dwindled to an aerial conflict of
thrust and parry. Today lone
German fighter-bomber dived out
of the thick Dover Strait fog, bomb
ed and machine-gunned coastal tar
gets and in turn was knocked down
by anti-aircraft guns. A German
seaphne, off the southwest coast
was shot down by fighters, officials
said. One British fighter was lost.
A third German plane, a bomber,
was shot down off the east coast
by fighters, the ministry of in
formation announced.
This slight activity followed last
nights 3-hour RAF raid on the
docks at Boulogne, Dunkerque,
Calais and Ostend. Official sources
said thousands of fire bombs and
many heavy explosives were drop
ped on the crowded docks at Bou.
logne and on the harbor railway;
that fires sprang up at many
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
FRONT ST. WORK
PREDICTED HERE
Connection OF Main Trade
Artery With Shipyard's
Road Considered

An indication that the river road,
which connects Sunset Park With the
southern portion of the county, join
ing the Carolina Beach highway at
Oak Hill school house north of
Shows cut, will be connected with
Front street in the near future was
seen yesterday as workmen pro-
gressed rapidly in building a conc 2te
bridge across Mill creek at Greenfield
lake.
The bridge, which crosses the
stream just west of the Third street
culvert over the stream, is the north
ern terminus of the road at the pres
ent time, but observers there yester-
day saw the road has been graded
southwardly to Sunset Park, through
the park along Tyler street to Cen.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
GREEKS RESUME
ALBANIAN DRIVE
British Raid Valona In Air
Attack And Direct Ar
tillery Smelling

BITOLJ, At The Yugoslav-Albania
Border, Feb. 8.-(P)-British activity
was noted today on the northern
sector of the Albanian battlefront,
with the Greeks taking the initia-
tive from Podgradetz to Moscopolis.
Heavy artillery fire began at 4
a. M, shaking houses in this bor-
der town.
Big squadrons of British bombers
in continuous waves bombed Italian
positions and in some areas block
ed Italian reinforcements and sup
ply trains.
'Valona was heavily raided by the
British, and observation planes cir
cled the city for a long time, di-
recting the fire of long-range bat
teries which began firing at the
port yesterday.
In the central sector, several Brit
ish long-range batteries arrived to-
day. They Immediately opened a
bombardment on italian communica-
tions far behind the front.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
SENATE YET TO ACT
Upper House Committee
To Hear Willkie Then
Debate Measure
HOUSE DEBATE BITTER
BY RICHARD L. TURNER


WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-R-By
a vote of 260 to 1e the House to-
day passed the momentous bill
empowering President Roosevelt
to lease, lend or otherwise transfer
the sinews Of war to embattled
Britain and other nations whose
defense he deems "vitaP' to the
defense of the United States.
On the final vote, 236 democrats
and "a republicans were recorded
for the bill. Voting against it were
1855 republicans, 25 democrats. l
American labor, 3 progressives
and 1 farmer-labor.
Climax of Week
The measure went through, and
or to the senate, at the climax of
an historic weeklong controversy,
which found most of the opposi-
ton coming from the republican
SIDE of the wide center aisle. Dem
ocratic leaders, seeking the largest
possible majority to increase the
prestige of the program abroad,
met this situation with a success
full strategy of yielding one con-
cession after another to the critics
of the measure.
Senate supporters Of the bill won
their first test when the foreign
relations committee voted 10 to 5
to wind up its public hearings on
Tuesday after Wendell Willkie tes-
tjf1es.
Consequently, the bill as passed
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
TEN MEN BURN
IN DALLAS FIRE
Salvation Army Hotel Is
Transformed Into Death
Trap By Blaze

DALLAS, Tex, Feb. g. Up -
Nine men and a youth, victims of
a fire which transformed a Sal
walton Army hotel from a wintery
refuge into a death trap, will be
buried in a mass funeral next
week.
The services were set tentative
ly for Monday or Tuesday, but the
death list may grow before then.
Among the IS homeless tran
sients who fought their way,
screaming with pain into the
streets or leaped from windows Of
the second story hotel, several were
burned SO seriously they may die.
More than score are in a hos
pital.
Every victim of the fire will
have a decent Christian burial, >"
Said Brig. Gen. George Gilks, di-
visional commander of the Army
for Texas.
The ninth victim was the fires
hero, Julius Benson, Al, night
watchman at the building. He suf-
fered fatal burns while rescuing
three men
The fire started in small room
where a chemical was being
sprayed on clothes of the tran
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
JAP NAVAL PLANE
D0WNED In CHINA
Admiral Osumi And Other
High Jap Officers Are
Reported Killed

CHUNGKING, China, Feb. S.-R)
Chinese military authorities said
tonight that Japanese naval plane
which crashed in south China, kill
ing Admiral Mineo Osumi and other
high Japanese officers, was shot
down by Chinese irregulars.
They added that nine bodies had
been found in the wreckage along
with a number of documents.
SAIGON, French Indo China, Feb.
reach.
ing here from Singapore, Britain's
great Far Eastern naval base, said
today that the British have con-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
ITALIANS PLAN
DRIVE IN LIBYA
Loss Of Bengasi Admitted
But Major Base Said To
Be OF No Value
(By The Associated Press

ROME, Feb. 8-The official Ital-
ian radio reported tonight that a
Fascist offensive against the Brit
ish was being prepared in un-
specified areas of North Africa.
The high command acknow-
lodged the loss of Bengasi, saying
that the town had been evacuated
to spare the civilian population,
after two days of "extremely bit
ter battle in which both Italian
and British losses were "severe. :"
The Duke of Aosta, the viceroy OF
East Africa, returned today to Ad-
dis Ababa after a flying visit to
the Italian lines in Eritrea, where
Fascist troops are striving to hold
Cheren on the road to Asmara, the
Eritrean capital, against the Brit
ish advance.
AS to Libya, further British
drive-perhaps to the capital of
Tripoli-was envisaged here, the
newspaper Lavoro Fascista de-
claring the British would not win
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