davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-09-03

as II inches wide at the base. The
teeth which run along It's sides are
from two to four inches long.
Most sawfish swim about the
warm waters Of the oceans. There
are many in the Gulf of Mexico,
and some in the Mediterranean
Sea. Now and then one of them
visits the coast of New Jersey.
Sawf1sh like warm water, but they
seem to care little for deep water.
Seldom are they found in the deep
er parts of the ocean. They 60 into
bays and the mouths OF rivers.
Sometimes they enter the Missis-
sippi and go upstream for several
miles.
Tales have been told OF sawfish
attacking whales and slicing OF
steaks" The truth seems to be
that they cut into whales at times
but they do not depend on whales
for their food supply. Whales spend
their time chiefly in deep water,
not in the shallow water favored
by sawflsh. I
The food supply of sswfish Is
made up largely of sardines, mul-
let's. anchovies and other small fish.
The mouths Of these fish are small,
and are on the underside Of the
head.
Sawf1sh are OF little value as
food. but sportsmen sometimes try
to capture them to get their inter-
esting saws. When one of these
| fish Is harpooned, it may pull 4
small boat for several miles. Be-
fore taking it aboard, men in the
boat try to kill 1t with rifle bullets.
That is safety first idea.
Fsr NATURE section Of your scrap.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Twins Entering Navy
Measure IdenticoIIy
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--Just to be
certain, naval officials examined
twins Clyde and Claude Reed again
when their measurements showed
each was exactly:
Sixty inches tall, weighed 1T
pounds. had 31-inch normal chest,
"a inches expanded and 21-inch
waist.
Evening star., 1943-09-03
Natures Children
By LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
DnCv rr~TrYvp
ROSY TETRA.

fHyphessobrycon rosaceus)
From British Guiana and Brazil.
this handsome fish has become a
favorlte member OF the aquarium
clan. It's scientific name is pro-
nounced Hy-fess-o-bry con rosa
cues-roSy.
Rosy reaches length OF one and
three-fourths inches. 1t is one OF
the gentlest and best behaved
aquarium fish known. The male
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Paige. aren't yrW wo..,I a..u,lt
DcniSOn?"
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mean: You'd hr urhaluy if any
thing happened 10 lima. wouldn't
you
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on Their own deck. Paige hylG oprn
lhe n"aNy GC"r ana ihry walked
INTO the corridor. ALREADY n,urkv
ana D!u"-i"ar"d even in luil-aitrr-
noon. "iut heavens. Ably. nothing
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-01-12

W"dcrn war reporting began with the
Mexican wal and The Associated Press grew out
OF the experience.
Never had the world seen such initiative in
news gathering up to then. The newly invented
'clcctro magnetic telegraph was in operation in
dozen or more cities and in addition American
newspapers employed pigeons. ponies and boats
10 speed the news Of the fighting al Monterey,
Vera Cruz, Bucna Vista and Mexico City.
A New York newspaper offered $500 an
hour for every hour that pigeon could deliver
the news ahead Of its rivals. Two others sci up a
dispatch system using 90 bloodcd horses TO
cover the 1000 miles to the Mexican front. Often,
riders were anbushcd by Mexican gucrfilIas. Fast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
0PA Agents Police Area
In Poultry Dealers Revolt

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12.-OPA
agents policed the wholesale dis
trlct today as retail live poultry
dealers entered the second day of
voluntary business shutdown in a
mass revolt against what they
termed ''black market" activities.
The district was quiet, contrasted
with yesterday when shouting DEM
onstrators jeered poultry-laden
trucks leaving the city for New
York. Stones were thrown and other
minor disorders developed.
David NJ Feldman, attorney for
the Philadelphia Retail Live Poultry
Dealers Association, said only S
per cent of the city's live poultry
stores have failed to join the shut
down. and that several hundred
butchers have closed their poultry
counters in sympathy.
Mr.. Feldman has charged that
sales by some Philadelphia whole
salers to New York dealers have
been made at 5 to Is cents above
ceiling prices. He said the Phila-
delphia dealers would keep their
shops closed until the OPA stamps
out any "black market" transac-
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
Swedes Mine More Copper
German Coal Used to Produce Metals
To RepeI Possible Nuzi Attack

Kristineberg mine is run by Ger
man coal to produce strategic metals
to be used for war in case of attack
from Germany. Some features of
mine operation are modelled on Ger
man methods, but chiefly on Ameri-
can methods. Sven Thorne, mine
director, spent six months in Amer
lea studying our mining methods
before Kristineberg was put into
operation.
Imported Miners.
Some Swedish American miners
came over to Lapland to work
for him. Six hundred feet down in
the mine yesterday, party of
American neWspapermen found two
Swedes from Canada boring into
zinc ore. Kristineberg's population
is 757. The company provides the
miners with medical services. Kon-
sum, great Swedish cooperative,
runs one store and private enter
prise another.
The miners paid piecework pro-
ductlon with no minimum hourly
wage guarantee.
The mine is 12O miles from the
nearest town and railway. 1t is
reached by narrow dirt roads, diff
cult to keep free from snow during
the long winter, for that reason the
long ropeWay was constructed and
operations began a month ago.
Each bucket requires 10 hours to
make the 60-mile journey.
Kristineberg is a part of the great
Lapland mining development, now
in its infancy. Workers are being
brought in from Middle Sweden.
Boliden, ropeway terminus, sends it's
own and Kristineberg' concentrates
on to Ronnskar on the Gulf of
Bothnia, where they are smelted
and shipped by boat to Southern
Sweden industries.
Boliden produces gold and silver
as well as copper and zinc. Ores
occur as arsenates. During the war,
Boliden is experimenting with a new
arsenic insecticide and wood preser-
vative said to be better than creo-
sote, and termite-proof. American
experiments on preservation are
now being made in the Forest Prod
ucts Laboratory in Wisconsin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12

frontiers, and power.
We are, I think, wasting our
intellectual energies trying to find
the answers to the wrong ques-
lions. Such questions are: What
shall we do with defeated Ger
many? Or, what concessions
shall we make tc the Poles or to
Russia? Or, does Austria belong
to the Danubian basin?
None Of these questions is
soluble except in the framework
of European solution. There
fore we must ask ourselves the
leading question: What do we
wish for Europe?
Question Is Avoided.
We are avoiding that question.
We are saying, Europe will have
to decide that when she is liber-
ated. That is intellectual cow
ardice. For what will be the
status of Europe after liberation?
The whole economic and politi-
cal structure Of Europe has been
changed by the Nazis. And all
the Kings horses and all the
Kings men will not be able to
put humpty-dumpty together
again-on' the pattern of 1889.
The questions we must ask
ourselves about Europe are: Do
We want strong, prosperous
Europe or poor, weak Europe?
Do we want Europe which, in
the future as in the past, will
be a source of new wars?
If our answer to these ques-
tons is that we want a prosper
Gus, modern, peaceful Europe,
then we must create a New Eu-
rope, recognizing certain prin-
ciples that we, ourselves, long
since have accepted.
A prosperous, modern and
peaceful Europe is incompat-
ible with the re-establishment of
20-odd sovereign states, each
with its own army customs, cur
rency and diplomacy.
1t was such 2 Europe that
disintegrated in this war, and
such Europe will disintegrate
again before the first push of a
strong power.
Hitler's Strongest Weapon.
The strongest political weapon
that Hitler has in his armory
is his program for the unifcation
of Europe. Hitler started this
war for Germanic lebensraum
and the hegemony of a master
nation and by his brutality to-
ward conquered peoples has
alienated them. But Hitler will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
Ruling Holds Taxicab
is Common Carrier
Driver Loses Appeal on
DisorderIy Conviction

Ruling that a taXicab is a COM
mon carrier, the Municipal Court
| of Appeals yesterday affirmed the
conviction of a taxicab driver on a
disorderly conduct charge.
The appellant, Sam Morris, had
sought to appeal lower court con-
viction following testimony from a
young Government worker that he
had used indecent and profane
language while she was a passenger
in his cab.
His chief contention was that an
occupied cab cannot be considered
a public place within the meaning
of the statute, and, therefore, no
offense was committed.
The appellate court, however,
held that public vehicle plying
its business on a public street is a
public place within the meaning
of the statute
During the trial, Morris denied
making any indecent remarks to
his passenger.
The Appeals Court said, I'VE
think there was ample justification
for the trial judge finding such re-
marks indecent and obscene"
The opinion was written by As
sociate Judge Andrew Hood and
concurred in by Judges William
Richardson and Nathan Clayton.
A LITTLE Want Ad" in The
Star brings a LOT of results. Ma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
BY BLAIR BOLLES,


KRISTINEBERG, Lapland, May
IL (By Wireless) The longest aerial
ropeway in the world begins at this
new settlement in Lapland's woody
mountains, where reindeer used to
feed. Over its 60 miles each day
| travel 900 buckets of copper, zinc
ore concentrates and iron pyrites,
carried by electric power on cables
slung between concrete stanchions.
The cable runs to a place called
Boliden for further processing.
American newspapermen were
| shown the place yesterday and to-
day. The Kristineberg mine that
produces the ropeway's freight
represents Sweden's thinking about
the future-a future which leading
officials of this country think will be
closer bound to the United States.
About Latitude of Nome.
The outlook for Lapland is not
unlike America hopes for greater
| exploitation of Alaska or Russian
undertakings in Siberia Kristine-
berg, 80 miles south of the Arctic
Circle, is about on the same latitude
as Nome. Ice is thick on the lake
outside my window.
Kristineberg's flag is hauled down
at sunset, 9 pm, but it remains at
least twilight until sunrise, about 3
am. Kristineberg operations began
in 1889 and now help save Sweden
from copper famine at time
when the country requires the
metal for it's defense program.
Produces All Its Copper.
PreWar Sweden used 10000 tons
of copper yearly, importing $1,000
tons. Sweden now imports none and
produces $4,000 tons, 1000 from
Kristineberg.
Postwar mine operators expect to
emphasize iron pyrites as a source
of sulphur for Swedish pulp mills.
Prewar Sweden imported sulphur
from Texas, impossible to get now
in this country, which is practically
cut off from the New World. A few
miles to the west and to the north
is Nazi-occupied Norway, a barrier
between Sweden and the Allied part
of the globe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12

regidor, or whether the morale of
the Germans will collapse, has
not yet been ascertained.
Most observers believe that
unless the defeat in North Africa
can be Offset by quick victories
on the Eastern front, there is
more than a $3.50 chance that
German morale on the home
front will begin to deteriorate.
Our defeats in 1941 and early
In 1912 in the Pacific strength
ened the fighting spirit of the
American people because we had
just been drawn into the war and
had not even started to fight.
Defeat After Four Years.
The Tunisian disaster hits the
Nazis after almost four years of
war and extreme privations. 1t
comes after the German people
had been educated" to the idea
that Hitler and his legions are
invincible.
The emphasis placed by the
Nazi chiefs on the terrific dangers
Germany faced last winter when
the Russians began a powerful
counteroffensive is believed to be
used as preliminary antidote
for the Tunisian disaster.
The German commentators and
some official communicates have
indicated for some time that the
Tunisian battle was Holding"
operation and the few successes
Marshal Erwin Rommel had
against the Americans and the
British 9th Army two months
ago never were extolled as vital
victories in Nazi high command
communiques.
There are no sufficient signs as
yet that our victories in North
Africa have affected the German
civilians to the point that they
want to give up. We shall learn
soon, however, about the state of
Nazi morale and will find out
whether the nation still is behind
Hitler, determined to fight to the
last man. or whether it believes
that the time has come to throw
the beloved" ruler in the trash
can.
Russia Key to Morale.
Those who have studied Ger
many in the last few years are Of
the opinion that if, within the
next few weeks, the propaganda
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12

goguery of the worst sort into the
opinions of the court.
Freedom of utterance is abridged
to many who wish to use the limited
facilities of RADIO" says the Frank
furter opinion and he thereby justi-
fles abridgment of the rights of
radio. 1t may not be long, there
fore, before the present Supreme
Court will be saying of newspapers
and magazines: Freedom of the
press is already abridged because
everybody who wants to write for or
contribute to newspaper cannot do
so because the space available for
such communications is limited
On that basis the court could deny
the first amendment and justify
regulation Of the press and any
other means of communication.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
Pilot Killed, Six Saved
In Crash of Bomber
By the Associated Press,

49, '4iS hSoOCldttu PTeSS.
SHREVEPORT, La, May 1.-THE
pilot was injured fatally, but six
other crew members parachuted to
safety when medium bomber on a
routine flight from Barksdale Field
crashed and burned 2 miles south
west OF here yesterday
The field public relations office
withheld the name of the dead pilot
pending notification of relatives. but
announced that the following crew
members had jumped to safety:
Second 1t. Robert R. Murray, CO.
pilot, of San Antonio. Tex; First 1t.
Joseph M. Coyle, navigation in
structor, of Pottsville, Pa: Second
1t. Daniel T. Sufana, bombardier, of
East Chicago, Ind; Staff Sergt.
Michael j. Sikora, gunner, of Can
ton, Ohio; Staff Sergt. Orville Hahn.
radio engineer, of Bloomfield, XIV.
and Staff Sergt. Earl C. Pitman, en-.
gineer, of Boise City, Okla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
United States Of Europe Must Be Established,
And Democroeies Should Prepare Way Now

use any slogans for his own end.
Today he is using progressive
ideas preached by modern iber-
ais for the past quarter of a
century.
We, on the other hand, have
let the concepts of Mazzini, Ro-
maine ROLAND, Kleist, BRAND,
and even of the Christian church
gather dust.
maine ROLAND, Kleist, BRAND
We are supporting an 18th
century concept for Europe, not
Goth century one. The United
States of Europe must be created
if Europe is to survive. The his
toric tendencies, everywhere, are
toward the creation of larger
units. But, the great democrat
cies choose reactionary policies,
timid, unimaginative, uncreat-
i've.
Hitler is unifying Europe by
sword and fire for the sake of
Germanic power Why should we
not project the unification of
Europe for the sake of Europe,
and the world?
There is nothing new in this
idea. The most illumined spirits
of Europe have preached it for
half a century. Tt has been for
warded by examples outside Eu-
rope-the United States of Amer
lea, the emergence of the British
Commonwealth out of Empire,
and, lastly, as the most modern
example of fedora ton, the Union
of Socialist and Soviet Republics.
Swiss Example Cited.
Europe is cultural, economic
and historic entity. It's charac-
teristic is that OF unity with d.
versity. Its most truly represent
alive state, and its most stable
one, is the little confederation of
Switzerland. And the greatest
honor you can dc Frenchman,
italian, German, Dutchman.
Czech or Pole is to call him a good
European.
The division Of Europe into a
score of sovereign states has re-
suited in two Europes-the highly
industrialized and modern west
ern and central states that have
lived by exporting goods, and the
backward agricultural southern,
southwestern and eastern states
that have, for generations, ex-
ported people. The world has
not wanted to accept either the
goods or the people, and the dis
unity of Europe has made it i'm
possible for them to feed and
serve each other.
The tyranny of Hitler has
broken this spell. Hitler has been
forced by the logic of his own
war to accomplish historic
act, 1t is foolish to underrate it.
1t is necessary to break the
tyranny, but not again to disinte-
CRATE Europe. We must Europe
anize every nation, re-establish
Europe's historic yearnings for
freedom and equality; free Eu-
rope from the hegemony of
dominant power; and emerge
from this war not only as the lib
orator of the nations, but as the
unifler of free Europe.
If we do, we shall be beloved
for all time. If we do not we shall,
I fear. have all Europe against
us, the day after tomorrow.
CTo be cortinuedD
Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12
This Changing World
Defeat OF Afriko Korps Hos Stunning Effect
In Germany, but Depth of Gloom Is Unknown

machine of Herr Goebbels Is
given the opportunity to blare out
some great victories against the
Russians, Africa and the Mediter-
ranean soon will be forgotten and
the hopes for limited victory
which might bring about a nego-
tiated peace will rise again among
the war-weary Germans.
We must not overlook the fact
that while the Mediterranean is
all important to us today, the
Importance of that area has been
greatly minimized in the Reich.
The German people have been
educated to look on that theater
of operations as something which
will be taken care of in due
course, after the Russians have
been destroyed.
Ever since June %, 1941, every
means of propaganda at the dis
posal of the Nazi government has
been bent in telling the German
people that Russia must be de-
stroyed. When this feat has been
accomplished, the Nazi propa-
ganda told it's people, the rest will
be easy.
The victorious German armies
then will turn wherever needed
against the Allies in the Mediter-
ranean or against the British
fortress. But Russia must be
crushed first.
In the other theaters of war the
Nazi forces were fighting only de-
fensive operations and if some
sectors were lost this was of
slight Importance.
New Drive Expected.
The European fortress is suff-
Gent strong, the Germans were
told, to repel any attempt of the
Allies to invade Germany while
the German armies were driving
to Moscow. The drive to Moscow
was not successful, but the Nazis
appear determined to start all
over again within the next few
weeks.
American observers believe that
German morale is bound to crack
this summer if operations in Rus
STA fail. Only then will it become
evident In the minds of the Ger
man people that the war is ire
trievably lost and that they might
Just as well change the mask
again.
But unless the Germans are
defeated in Russia, the prospects
of an early Allied victory in
Europe are extremely slim. Ac-
cording to competent observers,
it is immaterial whether we take
Sardinia or Sicily or even Italy.
Allied operations in these areas
cannot affect Nazi strategy or
compel the Germans to withdraw
troops from the eastern front.
They do not care much about
those southern regions at the
fringes of the European fortress.
But an attack in full force
against Western Europe unques-
tionably would upset all present
calculations and the Nazis'
chances of smashing through the
Russian defenses this summer
would be considerably reduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-12

SiOns has had
a S t u ming
effect on the
G e r m a n
h o m e front.
But whether
the gloom
prevailing in
the Reich has
been m or e
t h a n tn q t
prevailing in
the U nj t e d
States when
we lost Ba-
faan andC0r.