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The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
A. Bakke Initiated
 Wrangell'S First
 Veteran, ". ". Il

Andrew Bakke, we'll known Wran=
 ge0 fisherman, became the first veteran of World War II to join the American Legion in WrangeI and the second in the Territory. Home last week with his honorable discharge in his pocket after ser vice on the East coast, Andy" was initiated into Merlin Elmer Palmer Post of Wrangell at ceremonies in the Legion Dugout Monday night presided over by Commander Har- vey c. McKowan. Andy. discharged for physical disability. is a brother of "Tink' Bakke. charter member of the local post and veteran of World War l.
 The affair brought virtually all the old vets left in town out to welcome home Wrangell's first vet eran of World War IT. Legion has been seeing most of the focal boys in the present conflict off to the wars with appropriate affairs and have now launched their program of welcoming them all home again. More than 80 of Wrangells men are now in the armed forces aside from a good1y number serving in the Army Transport and other non-mil-| itary service organizations. The old boys of France days already have picked out their corner (the one near the stove) to sit in on the when the lads of World War II come home to dominate the Legion.
 To honor those men out doing their bit for their country, Legion naires decided to erect a plaque inI the Dugout bearing the names of alll men in service. As addi-I tional men go, their names will be added
 At it's next meeting the Post will voted to help the Rev. Ben Judd, Jr., of the Presbyterian church in his program for clearing off the val cant property back of the church for a park, ultimate goal to estab fish it as Veterans Park, in hon or of the boys in the service.
 Adjutant Julius Mason reported to the Post that with the help of she Auxiliary the bonded indebted ness on the Legion premises was now paid off.
 At it snext meeting the Post will be host to members of the selectiVe Service Board and its highly effic- tent clerk, Mrs. Celia Theile, at al dinner to be. served in the Dugout | Selectiye Service setup draft board to you) includes Judge R. J. Sur att, Chairman, Walter c. Waters, c. Don Miller, George T. Barrett and Lew M Williams, members; Van H. Fisk, Appeal Officer, and Dr. John H. Clements, Medical Officer
 Joe Kranse of Ketchikan, member of the Alaska Man-Power Commis- sion and a Legion veteran of World War 1, was present for the even ing's festivities which was eonclud- ed with a typical Legion feed, af- ter which Comrade Krause outlined | some of the work and problems of the Man-Power Commission
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
FRANCE BOMBED
LONDON

LONDON - Whirlwind fighter bombers, escorted by Spitf r e S, strewed explosives in the freight yards of Abbeyille Thursday after noon in a raid from which every plane returned, the Air Ministry said today.
 From FOlkstone. in southeast England. reports said the rumble of heavy explosives rolled across the English Channel this morning and vapor trails were seen high a. boye an area west of Boulogne in dicating a big raid was in progress.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
FIRE SIREN PROVES HOLY MISLEADING

CARLSBAD, N. Mt was pub licized, in advance that Carlsbad was to have a nine a. m. pause for prayer" every day. The fire siren was to be sounded, as a reminder. On the first day four volunteer fire men sprinted madly to their posts when the siren screamed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
WRANGELL MEN BACK
 FROM WINTER OUTSIDE

Henry Bowm9n, one of Wrangell'F top flight fishermen, returned home yesterday after spending the winter in Seattle, coming in on his vessel the Tiny Boy. Aboard with him re- turning to Wrangell after trips Out side Were Leonard Talbeck, Warren Gartley, Carl Messinger, Joe Bige- low, Emil Peterson and Henry Ron ming,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
GERMANY CALLS ON
 ADDITIONAL FRENCHMEN

BERNIE A dispatch from the French frontier to Gazette Laus- sane said the Nazis were speeding up their forced labor program with which they are bleeding France of manpower. They have now extended the program to include another eight classes covering men in the 24-31 age group.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
.TRAVELERSi

In bound on the Canadian boat were Mrs George Sumption from Seattle, Mrs Myrtle Sivertsen, A. Early and X. Lundberg from Ket- chikan, Geipglv to l, Skagway were John Kaer, Doris and Marion Neil- son; for Juneau, Fred Hanford, Ma bel L. Morgan, Salesman MaeEaeh- eFn,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
VICHY TOTTERING :?

LONDON - The Spanish radio quoted ia a broadcast today a re- port from Vichy that according to political circles crisis in the French government is Considered imminent"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
MUNDY HOME

0. c. Mundy, we'll known Wran- gell fish buyer. returned home this week after a short business trip ta Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-03-26
JOHN KAER TO WAR JOB

John Kaer, long employed by Campbell Bros4 .. here, left this week for Skagway where he plans to en- ter war work.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Samuel Grafton

political love affair, for Mr.. ODonnell
has long distinguished himself, or at
least marked himself, by his savage
attacks on the concept OF the four free
doms. as formulated by Mr.. Roosevelt.
Furthermore, Mr.. ODonnell's interest
In the future of Hong Kong has hitherto
been extremely mild, to say the least.
So now We have Senator REYNOLDS
passionately upholdling the Atlantic
Charter, and John O'Donnell strenuouslv
bothered about the four freedoms and
the territorial integrity of China. The
pro-lsolationists have turned to moral
!dealism in a big way But it should
oe noted that they are using moral
ldealism, not TO promote international
action, but to block it.
Hhese men have fought international
cooperation for years. They did so, at
nrst, In the guiSe of practical" charac-
tiers, tough babies, hats on the backs Of
their heads, so to speak, cigars jutting
out, chins rough, no globaloney and no
nonsense. That having failed, they now,
IN effect, are donning starched pima
fores, holding punches of flowers in their
hands and piping of the rights of men
in an unpracticed idealist treble.
1t is another exercise in the dark
science OF obscurantism, that which
holds the use of almost any argumen-
tative bait justified, so long as it leads
the victim to the appointed place.
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Autumn Bunks

The riuer bank has its autumn GOLD
leaDes at their best,
Fading ,Dith the light, fading as the
sunset comes on
All things come to it fnally-au thinos
come to rest;
So it shall be 1Dith these leapes betors
the dnWn.
First it 1Das rain, then the frost; they
are losing their hold.
LeaDes, do not 90, De say But no
1Dords can stem
The drift that must shoWer doUn II, q
riuer OF gold;
No words OF ours haze the po,Der that
Dould strengthen them.
Soon in light, the banks and not the
trees tDiH shine.
Soon they tDiu dull-the autumn haos
tDiH be broWned.
The tops OF the trees wiH drop them
along their line:
The rnkes of the dnd DiH spread
them on tDdter and ground
DANIEL s1fYTHE.
Evening star., 1943-12-09

to keep the Federal Government from
having the power to act. Small ma
tons rights" are being used by Rey-
nolds (and Hearst, be it added to keep
the four great United Nations powers,
America, Russia, Britain and China,
from having the power to act Under
this conception, the Atlantic Charter is
distorted into charter of anarchy.
What could appear more attractive to
the anxiously rowing isolationist eye?
American isolation of course, is trying
to figure out some means of fighting
the declarations of Moscow, Cairo and
Teheran, and the States rights, or At
lantic Charter doodle Is the best it has
found so far.
But one columnist is working a kind
OF variation of the same game John
ODonnell has suddenly set up in busi-
ness as a defender of the four free
doms, especially of one of them, free
dom OF speech. Mr.. ODonnell declares
that this freedom was violated at Cairo,
where press correspondents were not
permitted to talk to the heads of states
He hints darkly that England is trying
to avoid returning Hong Kong to China,
and that Chang Kai-shek was kept
from talking to the correspondents be-
cause he might have said something
about Hong Kong. thereby spelling VIM
ston Churchill's afternoon.
We have here another strange new
Evening star., 1943-12-09

length, on the other side Of which Is
Bulgarian territory and Greek terri
tory occupied by German and Bulgarian
troops. The actual defense Of this
frontier can be shortened to line OF
something over 200 miles, SO as to
cover both Adrianople and the ap-
proaches to the Dardanelles. The Ger
mans have established considerable
depots of military supplies in the
Balkan Peninsula and have done
good deal to re-equip the Bulgarian
Army. The latter is intact, has not
been used in the war, and is fully mo-
bilized. 1t probably can put into the
line something like 18 divisions, at
least equivalent In strength and equip
ment to the average Turkish division
and composed of good fighting ma
terial The extent to which this force
could be SUPPORTED by German troops
is uncertain, but it does seem likely
that II the Germans decided to make
great effort they could put 12-15 di-
visions into Bulgaria, with the neces-
sary air support. More than this they
would probably not care to risk in view
OF the other demands on their reserves
However. the frontier Of European
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Thrace is not the only defensive re-
sponsibility Of Turkey. Along some
400 airline miles Of the coast of Asia
Minor, the Turks must keep watch and
ward against possible German attacks
from the closely adjacent islands of the
Aegean Archipelago, all of which are
now in German hands. Even If these
attacks are not likely to be in great
and they might threaten the important
Turkish seaport Of Smyrna, where even
temporary German occupation might
do enormous damage to the docks and
port installations.
The Turkish Army has been consid-
erably improved in the matter of arma-
ment and equipment, especially during
the past year. 1t probably has fully
mobilized about % divisions of all types,
Including one armored division: these
are not equipped on the German stand
ard, but are capable Of giving q good
account of themselves. In addition the
Turks can probably call up some 1920
reserve divisions, for which they have
ample weapons as far as rifles, machine
guns and animal-drawn light field or
mountain artillery is concerned, but
which would be almost wholly deficient
In medium and heavy artillery, self
propelled guns of all sorts, tanks, ar
mored cars, antitank and antiaircraft
weapons. and would be short of motor
transport as well. The Turkish air force
is reliably reported as having So squad
drons of fighters and bombers Of OBJ
solescent type (such as Bristol Blen-
helms and Hurricanes), in addition to
certain number Of reconnaissance and
training units Some additional planes
have probably been sent to Turkey
recently.
The question, therefore, which the
Turkish government must answer be-
fore it takes the plunge is whether 1t
can defend Thrace and the vital straits,
plus its Anatolian coast, from German
attack until help can arrive from Allied
sources. That help cannot come very
quickly. Itmust come most Of the way
Evening star., 1943-12-09
This Changing World

known only after the Nazis have been
defeated.
It is unlikely that any actual treaties
were signed. But matters which had
kept Russia somewhat aloof from her
other principal associates, matters which
have been worrying England and the
United States In their policies toward
Russia, must have been freely discussed
and definite agreements reached involv-
ing many enemy nations as we'll as some
Of the group belonging to the United
Nations.
Premier Stain did not 60 to Teheran
merely to shake hands with President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill:
The groundwork of the conference had
been laid for several months and was
finally decided at the Hull Eden -Molotov
conference st Moscow. Some of the five
agreements signed by Secretary Hull stih
require clarif1cation.
The principal concern of the Ameri-
can people in regard to Europe Is an
early end of the war, with adequate
peace arrangements to give us conf
dence that there won't be another war
for years to come. Hence, it is assumed
that any suggestions from Premier Sta
lin and Prime Minister Churchill giving
the appearance Of such \ guarantee
must have been acceptable to President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hopkins, his chief
political aide.
Britain is in a different position. Mr..
Churchill has stated emphaticany that
besides a lasting peace, Britain's vital
interest in the war is to maintain her
empire. Hence, 1t is assumed that Rus
sia gave the British leader assurances
In that connection.
Compensatory assurances must have
been given by Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill to the Soviet leader. 1t is an
open secret that Moscow is wholeheart-
edly supporting forms OF government
patterned after her own in Eastern,
Evening star., 1943-12-09

by rail. Turkey has no open sea port
with rail connection with the interior
anywhere west Of Mersina, which is 75O
miles by rail from Istanbul Mersina
Is port OF limited capacity, where
cargo has to be taken off in lighters:
Alexandretta. better port, still has to
handle cargo by lighters, and is a little
farther away by rail. Direct rail con-
tact with Syria, Palestine and Egypt
Is available.
1t must be presumed that steps have
been taken already to build up reserves
OF 1uel, lubricants, bombs and spare
parts at Turkish airfields, so that some
Allied planes can be flown in to offset
German air power on Turkeys western
frontier. But when this has been said,
the fact must be faced that for the
rest, Allied fighting power will hardly
begin to make itself felt either in Thrace
or on the Aegean coast for approx.
mately eight days after the call for
help goes out from Ankara, and that
would be moving pretty fast, and would
assume that the Allied divisions are
standing by in Syria, that the trains
are all ready, that the Turkish railway
system works with an efficiency 1t has
not always displayed. that 1t Is strongly
supplemented by ship movements into
Alexandretta and Mersina, and that
there Is in short. no hitch anywhere be,
tween starting point and finish line. /
Can the Turks prevent any irrepara.
BILE disaster for eight days? Can they
keep the Germans from taking Smyrna,
or reaching the straits, or burning
wooden-built Istanbul to the ground for
eight days? Possibly. But great deal
depends on the Bulgars. If they throw
themselves wholeheartedly into the bat.
tie on the German side, and are backed
up by a strong German Army, the
Turkish risk is very great. But it is q
temporary risk. The risk the Bulgars
run In doing that would be the risk Of
what would happen to them when the
inevitable day Of reckoning arrives. VIII
Bulgaria take that risk now? y
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Evening star., 1943-12-09

It is possible that sometime in the
future when President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Harry Hopkins
become once more private citizens they
may decide to publish expurgated
memoirs. The world then will be ac-
quainted with some Of the more i'm
portant features forming the topics OF
conversation between these men and
Premier Stain.
From available reports only four men
know what was said within the thick
walls of the Russian Embassy at Tehe-
ran. There were long conversations
among the heads Of the American, Brit
ish and Soviet governments. Military
affairs In connection with the immedi-
ate prosecution OF the war probably oc-
cupied no more than a third Of the
time.
That the geographic and political
aspects Of the world of tomorrow formed
the main topic of conversation is be-
yond doubt. What actually was de-
cided by the three men representing
countries with such different philoso-
phies is a secret which will become
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Gould Lincoln

Southern Democrats who put through
the Connally-Smith antistrike bill
These Southern Democrats insist that
II Senator Byrd were put up as candi-
date for President, by an independent.
Southern Democratic party. he would
carry the South by a big vote. The
Southern Democrats would much pre-
fer to vote for a ticket OF their own
than to go over to the Republican party.
Northern and Western Democrats in
Congress admit they do not like the
storm kicked up by Senator Guffeys
attack on the Southern Democratic
Senators. They consider that it has
put an end to any compromise on the
soldier vote bill, with its Federal ballot,
which was thrown out in the Senate
for substitute proposed by three DEM
ocratic Senators from the South. This
substitute leaves to the States the duty
OF getting the soldier vote, through the
absentee ballot course. The House IL
expected to support the substitute.
4 4
Senator Byrd believes the States will
so amend their election laws as to
vote in the 1914 elections. He said he
Woolo JOaIl Will l1lc otliCI otudtOIS WHO
supported the substitute bill in letter
to all the Governors Of States, urging
that they recommend to their State
Legislatures the necessary action.
The row in the Democratic ranks in
the Senate and the House is bitter 1t
Is reminiscent of the controversies that
developed among the Republicans in
Congress when the Progressives split with
the Conservatives. and the "Sons OF the
Wild Jackass" kicked the Republican
House to pieces This was after long
Republican reign. just as the present
rumpus among the Democrats comes
after long control Of government by
the Democrats
Evening star., 1943-12-09

OF Senator Byrd and other Southern
Democrats Is that the New Deal party
has used them at election time, taken
their votes and then thrown overheard
the principles for which the Democratic
party has stood. In addition, the New
Dealers have started throwing bricks
at Southern Democratic Senator'S" as
though they were beyond the pale They
have, the Southerners say, attempted to
invade the Southern States, to force on
them Federal antilynching laws, and to
rewrite their election laws with their
antipoll tax bill and more recently with
the Federal soldier ballot bill
The proposal to form q Democratic
party Of the South is still nebulous. 1t
may never be carried into effect. But
the potentialities are there. 1t will be
interesting to see how the Southerners
are treated from now on by the New
Dealers in Congress and the admins
tration. 1t Is fact that no other
Democratic Senator rose to the defense
of Senator Guf1ey when the Virginia
and North Carolina Senators started
working on him on the floor Of the
Senate. incidentally, Senator Guffey
was one Of the first shouters for
fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt
A deep-seated anti-New Deal and
anti-Roosevelt sentiment exists In some
Of the Southern States-perhaps all OF
them. But certainly In Virginia and
Texas. Indeed, some Of the Democrats
predict that Republican candidate for
President could carry these States
against Roosevelt
They qualify this assertion however,
by saying that Wendell L. Willkie, the
Republican nominee in 1910 and up to
now q candidate for the 1914 election,
would be defeated. They regard Mr..
Willkie as second Roosevelt They did
not like the sneering way in which Mr..
Willkie referred in a recent speech to
Evening star., 1943-12-09
PIedoe to Korea

Specific mention OF Korea in the
Cairo communique represents what
well might be called the development
OF an international conscience. The
United States, Great Britain and
China have joined in a declaration
that: I'm due course Korea shall
become free and independent" Only
those individuals whose memories
reach back to the events of third of
century ago will comprehend the
tremendous significance of such a
statement. 1t literally was infeasible
at the time when Korea was being
absorbed by Japan between 1905
and 1910.
The people of Korea, naturally, did
not submit to their own enslavement
without protest They repeatedly
appealed to "the great powers for
help against their traditional enemy.
But the powers did not respond.
They were busy with other problems
which seemed to them more i'm
portant. In the circumstances, Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt spoke for
the whole world when he declined to
intervene on the ground that: "It
was out of the question to suppose
that any other nation, with no
interest of its own at stake, would
do for the Koreans what they were
utterly unable to do for themselves"
The view thus expressed was univer-
sal. 1t was accepted even in Korea
for a while.
But humanity at last is learning
the error of refusing to be interested
in the proceedings of aggressor gov
ernments. The taking Of Korea by
Japan, it currently is realized, was
an act Of defiance of the entirety of
civilization. Every nation had an
interest in the prevention OF the
crime. The facb that nothing was
Evening star., 1943-12-09
Constantine Br01Vu

Central and Southeastern Europe. We
know that Russia regards the Baltic
States, part or the whole Of Finland,
together with an important portion Of
Poland, as integral sections of the
Soviet Union.
She needs and wants access to the
warm seas-that is, the Mediterranean
and wishes to avoid formation of an
other Gordon sanitaire" by establishing
subservient governments In Yugoslayia.
Bulgaria, the remainder of Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Rumania.
These governments need not appear to
the generally uninformed public as the
creations of Moscow, although they are
manufactured In the Soviet capital.
They can be presented to the outside
world as representing a popular reaction
against their governments in exile
which have failed to bring peace and
order
That something along these lines was
agreed at Teheran is obvious from the
fact that the British government Is now
endeavoring to convince the Yugoslav
government at Cairo to make some
arrangements" with the newly created
Partisan government in the mountains
OF Yugoslavia. Also, the Poles in exile
are urged to cease their "convulsions"
and discuss with an open mind" the
future Of their country with the Mos
COW government.
The Rumanians, Bulgarians and the
Hungarians are enemies. Hence, there
will be no objection by the United
States and Britain If the underground"
movements in these countries. which is
almost entirely in sympathy with Russia,
pattern their future form of government
after that of Russia
All these are, Of course, speculations.
No one outside the four master minds
who were closeted for many hours to-
gether in the Russian Embassy at Te-
heran will know for q long time what
has been decided
Evening star., 1943-12-09

SOuIQeln
Democratic Senators led by Senator
Byrd and Northern Republican Sena-
tors, led by Joe Pew of Pennsylvania
touched OF the spark
Threats Of a revolt in the South
against the Roosevelt New Dealers have
been rife for long time. Several
Southern Governors, including Gov. Sam
Jones OF louisiana more than limited
at 1t earlier In the year. Now, according
to Senator Bailey. such revolt Is just
around the corner. If 1t happens the
jig is up so far as fourth-term election
for President Roosevelt Is concerned. A
Democratic party Of the South, which
placed presidential electors in the field
pledged to Southern Democrat for
President-Senator Byrd, for example
undoubtedly would carry a number OF
the Southern States. Without these
Southern States a Roosevelt candidacy
could not prevail next year.
The contention of Carafor o;lo,, .nS