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"The Pacific World"
(New York Times

New York Times)
 From the beginning of the war there has been evidence of spirit of cooperation in many fields of endeavor Industry has achieved it's astonishing production by whoe-hearted cooperation between peacetime rivals Scientific societies and scientists of many individual companies, have shown a commend able spirit of mutual help in research. The newest example of such cooperation has been among nine societies concerned with the physical and natural world: The American Geographical Society, the Am erican Museum of Natural History, the Arnold Ar boretum the Blue Hill Observatory, Carnegie Museum Chicago Natural History Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology the New York Geological So- ciety and the Smithsonian Institution. This team work has resulted in book, 'rhe Pacific World, the earnings of which to go to the American Committee for International Wdlife Protection.
 Edited by Fairfield Osborn the new book is pub lished at time when, as before, interest is centered the great region that stretches rom our own Western shores to the Orient from the cold mists of the Aeutians to the South Polar Seas Un- usual in concept and especially so in treatment the book presents a fascinating picture of the climatic physical and ethnologica life of the countless islands which dot this vast eXpanse. Their peoples, thelr strange animal and bird life and the extraordinary mutitudnous life of the ocean which laps them are reviewed through text and striking cartographlc and illustrate treatment in way which seems certain to lead to better understanding of area which thou sands of our fighting men seeing at flrst-hand and to which thoughts of most Americans are turned with hope and speculation. "The Pacific World shoud help our knowledge of a region that must play an important role in the future of the United States.
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WRITERS BUSY

Outside columnists are busy predicting this and that about the coming national election which doesn't concern Alaskans much since they have nothing to say about it. However the campaign action is inter esting.
 Damon Runyon is one of the first to come out on record conceding the election to Dewey. Runyon supported Roosevelt previously Runyon also discounts the announced 3 to betting odds in favor of Roose- welt saying of the boys will handle bets yet it's too early. Meanwhile, news of one West Virginia physician who bet $5000 against $8,O00 that Dewey
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20 YEARS AGO fHE {yGm EMPIRE
AUGUST 2s, 1924


 sailing the the Steamship had handled 1924 according om quarters.
 A Aso- announced Walker Secretary During the meeting officers for the next the ionw o
 Mary visiting Alaska to give her n a days Parish Hall of the amusemens for the Southeast Alaska planned for the event year expected anything previously at similar affairs
 the Juneau cable from o'clock in the morning the those during the week
 Special Collector of Customs left on the Alaska Prince Rupert official oun He expected to pc a
 report High 50 low, AT; rain.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office

DlStflct Lana OIIlce
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 August 4, 1944.
 Notice is hereby given that Thomas A. Morgan, has made ap- plication for a Homesite, under the act of May 26, 1884 (48 Stat. 80O embraced in plat of U. s. Survey No. 2546, situated between Fritz Cove Highway and Auke Bay ap- proXimately 50 chains S.W. of the Junction of Fritz Cove and Glacier Highways, NV. of Juneau, Alaska, containing 085 acres, and it is now in the files of the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska. Anchor age Serial 09861.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims in the local land office at Anchor age, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, otherwise they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 FLORENCE L. KOLB,
 Register. First publication, Aug. Is, 1944. Last publication, Oct. II, 1944.
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will win is reported by another columnist.
 COP penman Frank Kent is taking slices at the bought vote' which he claims numbers between 100000 and l5OO0000 sure votes for Roosevelt un- less the Republicans get busy. The bought vote, :, according to Kent is made up of the 3,5o00OO on the Federal payroll and their four friends apiece. These replace the 3OOO0OO WPA who with their friends gave Roosevelt 100000 sure votes in 1886 and 194O Kent gave Roosevelt only 35 percent of the free vote in the last two elections compared with 65 percent of this vote for his opponents In other words he says the Roosevelt gang stays in power through use of the taxpayers money
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 District Land Office

Anchorage, Alaska
 July II, 1914 Notice is hereby given that Otto Olin has made application for a homesite under the Act of May 26 1884 (48 Stat. 809) Anchorage Serial No 08405, for a tract of land sit uated on Meyers Chuck Harbor near South end of Cleveland Peninsula Alaska, in Meyers Chuck Elimina- ton, Plat of U. s. Survey No 2573 containing 053 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the district land office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes.
 FLORENCE L. KOLB,
 Register. First publication, Aug. 2, 1914 Last publication, Sept. 27, 1944.
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consideration in ordering dinner, you can do wonders. In this case, MT. and Mrs. Berle secured the wine cellars of several cities, final ly produced a vintage equal to Beaverbrooks
 Very proudly, when the big night came, and Beaverbrook and General Harold George of the Air Trans port Command arrived for dinner Berle held up the wine to the light It was a real triumph for old fashioned diplomacy.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE 0y yRoRrRrA LEE

something dcourteous towards person. excuse me-?
 No on anothers pardon Excuse me the somewhere
 is at of a which should be first to follow the 
 and last her escort If is usher, should first
 method for indicating to the waiter that uhavef
 the blade in, alongside the fork
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HOROSCOPE E "The stdrs incline
 but do not compep'
THURSDAY, AUGUST "A

Benefic aspects rule today which should be fortunate for the Fed eral Government and those at the heads of War and Navy Depart ments.
 HEART AND HOME: Aged per- sons should benefit this day which 1 inspires respect for their advice. Honors will be bestowed this year l on elder statesmen and officers of the First World War, for events will bring appreciation of past ser vice.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Capital is to show a distinct regard for justice in apportionment of profits as war readjustments are made. Deere ease in selfishness among heads of big business is forecast. Between employers and employees tolerance and understanding are to prevail
 l NATIONAL ISSUES: Secrecy or uncertainty which several political candidates have maintained regard ing their views on postwar planning may cause unfortunate boomerangs on Election Day. The stars are read as favoring frankness and courage in the expression of opin- ions
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: s !: Progress toward victory for the ] United Nations may be impeded at this time Illness among troops in 1 the Pacific war fronts may be a factor in retarding advancement in certain areas. Hitler's s turn marks a pause or two before his defeat is accomplished.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of pros perity under fortunate vibrations lthat assure success.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be talented, forceful and generally lucky. Charm of person. ality will aid both boys and girls.
 Copyright, 1944)
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

MISUSED: He incapable of lift ing He UNABLE to lift the table
 OFTEN MSPRONOUNCED: Handkerchief hangker ch IF, not CHIEF.
 OFTEN broh) Bullion uncoined silver.
 successfune achievement attainment complshment, prosperity.
 WORD STUDY: a times yours" Let each Todays word charge credit fault virtue One vice Of darker shad imputed to himenvy" y"-Mscauay
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HuLL's NEW COP AIDE

Henry P. Fletcher, newly appoint ed special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, was chairman of the Republican National Con- mittee in 1856. At the time, he remarked:
 T wish we could trademark the word Republican so other outfits could not use it. We cannot do it under the law, but We can re- pudiate any organization that trades under the name of the Re- publican party"
 He forthwith issued a press re- lease denouncing the Allied Repub-
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NAZI PRISONERS AND JEWS

Observers at Fort Knox, Ky, have been shocked at the way Nazi prisoners have carried their Fuehr- CTS racial theories into the heart of America A group of prisoners is assigned to the officers restaur- ant at Fort Knox, and make effic- tent walters. But whenever a Jew ish officer enters, they refuse to serve him.
 We will not serve people of that nationality they say
 Non-Jewish U. s. officers have taken no steps to change the ideas of these young Nazis, are inclined to treat the matter as a joke.
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transit?" asked Senator Kilgore.
 General Clay said he did not know
 And how much have you stored at advanced bases?" asked the Sem ator from West Virginia. V Again General Clay confessed he did not know.
 Tn other words" concluded Sen ator Kilgore your estimate of 19 months to two years supply If small arms is based solely on what you have in the arsenals of this country. How can you say, then, that the conclusions of the War Production Board are not correct?"
 General Clay had no come back.
 NOTE-Word has come to the Mead Committee that the Army Air Forces have stored up immense quantities of supplies, partly be- cause they refused to take supplies ordered by the Quartermaster Corps and insisted on ordering their own. It's reported the Air Forces have one whole warehouse of toilet paper, another warehouse full of brooms and mop handles, and at one time had so much lumber that the Army had to buy more land on which to store it. The Senate committee plans to probe deeper into proposals to put disposal of all surplus property into the hands of one man With big-business af- filiations.
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One of the most powerful State Department negotiators for postwar peace plans is shrewd, agile Adolf Berle, one of the few remaining original Roosevelt brain-t -trusters. As Assistant Secretary of State, Berle has been in charge of vitally important negotiations with Brit ain, Russia, ct al, regarding the worlds future air lanes.
 Entering Harvard when he was only in knee brooches, now married to wealthy wife, Berle Is brll- liant conversationalist, knows all the tricks of diplomacy However, those who sit across the table from him wonder whether he is not too much the fashioned, sparring jockeying diplomat; whether he fully realizes the fact that the lives of several million boys of the next generation rest partly in his hands
 To many, Berle's interest in the outward trappings of diplomacy seems more important to him than the main objective of constructive peace. For instance, Berle recently spent considerable time planning a dinner for Lord brook. Beaverbrook handles British nego- tiations for air, and when Berle was in London, his lordship gave him a dinner. It was done in the Beavers" best manner, which meant that he dug into his pre-war cellar and brought out his rarest vintages.
 Recently, when Berle returned the honors and dined Lord Beaver brook in Washington, the Assistant Secretary of State was worried He was up against the difficulty of equalling the Beavers" wine. In the U s. A., where wines are now scarce, it is not easy to produce vintage wine, especially Rhine wine, which no longer can be im- ported from Germany.
 However, when money is not a
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lican Council, an organization made up of anti New Deal Democrats, anti-New Deal Negroes, and others supporting Ali Landon but bitterly opposed to Herbert Hoover.
 NOTE-State Department gossip is that Hull appointed Fletcher as direct slap at Wendell Willkie who may succeed Hull-if FDR is reelected.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, IncD
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LOOK and LEARN sGy c. GORDON

Do trade always the direction? welt" of a stocking? Faithful Yellowstone National 
 Fronnw is Rhine River overflow? B. is he largest reptile the United States?
 ANSWERS:
 towards Equator especially every Front he Lake O The
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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Have portrait artist take your picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite Federal Building, Phone 294. adv.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AUGUST 2s

AUGUST 23 Timothy Hillerman James w. McNaughton N. J. Bavard Glenn A. Edwards Clifton F. Brown Mrs. B. R. Glass Ruben Ramberg Florence Thompson Addie T. Truman
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

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TIDES TOMORROW

High tide 4:53 a. m, 14.2 feet. Low tide -l1:03 a. m, 2.5 feet. High tide 5:11 D. m., 15.1 feet. Low tide III 35 p. m, 2.5 feet.
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Weather report: High, 50; low, AT; rain.
Evening star., 1944-01-13
Samuel Grafton

Party to the effect that his party will
win this fall with anybody the con-
vention chooses to nominate" Doesn't
it matter what the man will stand for?
There is kind of gleeful confidence
here that President Roosevelt has been
beaten on points, so to speak: that
there has been sufficient accumulation
OF small political advantages by the
opposition to sweep it in next Novem-
Der, regardless of the issues
This game of scoring small points.
steadily, consistently, day after day, is
exactly what marks and degrades the
current congressional record. In Lon
don, at this time, Labor Minister Bevin
picks certain numbers from a hat, once
month All youths whose registration
cards match these numbers, have to 90
down into the mines to dig coal, re-
gardless of their wealth or social status.
But our congressman, with, of course,
many, though not enough, honorable
exceptions, are busy trying to soften the
draft, to prove that they love the
farmer by raising his prices and that
they love the taxpayer by keeping his
taxes down. See what I mean?
They are murmuring that the war is
softer than it is. They are saying that
two plus two equals lollypop. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has just said that two
plus two equals four, and now we shall
see what we shall see
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Iney 90 not ike the attitude OF Wlllkle
extremists who seem to say "our man
or nothing" Disunity, some Of the more
seasoned Republicans say, may spell de-
feat for the party at the very time when
unity may well mean emergence from
the political wilderness.
They believe in an aggressive cam
paign-against the Democrats and New
Dealers. They liked enormously the
speech made by Representative Halleck
of Indiana, the youthful and dynamic
new chairman of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, to the national
committee members and State chair
men. His declaration that Republican
victory in November will speed up the
winning of the war, the return of Amer
ican fighting men to their homes, and
the elimination of bureaucratic regi-
mentation to them set the keynote of
the coming campaign. Mr.. Halleck
coupled with these promises another
promise that the military and naval
leaders, actually fighting the war, will
not be disturbed if the Republicans come
into power.
Not all the bitterness in Republican
ranks comes from the Willkie faction.
The vociferous isolationist group-of
which Col. Robert Mccormick and his
Chicago Tribune are examples-are
playing their part. In a front-page
editorial yesterday the Chicago Tribune
hailed the selection of Chicago for the
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Nazis Appear Goaded
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

duce these methods as tactical sur
prise at the moment when they might
be expected to do the German cause the
most good, thus depriving us Of the
opportunity to develop adequate coun-
termeasures.
This reasoning applies to most of the
so-called secret weapons" Their actual
effect in battle is enormously increased
If to that effect can be added the effect
of surprise, and their moral effect Is
likewise increased If they come upon
the opponent Unexpectedly and give the
men opposed to them the idea that they
are being attacked by something new
and terrible, something they have never
experienced before and against which
they have no defense.
Perhaps the outstanding instance of
failure in this regard was q German
failure. On April %, 1915, the Ger
mans made the first considerable use
of poison gas in war. Having assembled
some 5000 cylinders of chlorine gas,
they launched gas cloud more than
five miles long, borne by a favorable
wind, against a sector of the Allied line
on the Ypres front held by the French
45th and 87th Divisions and the 1st
Canadian Division. The actual success
obtained was all that the inventor of
this scheme could have imagined. The
Allied troops had no defense whatever
against gas. The 45th Division in par
ticular, composed largely of colored
troops from Algeria, broke in panic.
More than 5000 casualties resulted and
vast gap was torn in the Allied lines.
The German military leaders appar-
emily had never really believed in the
new weapon. and they followed It up
only cautiously, with patrols protected
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captured excess war profits, and, maybe,
balance off by hiking the tax on soda
pop. There is, however large body
of congressional opinion which thinks
that this Is no time to raise the tax on
soda pop.
So the debate goes, pop, pop and pop.
1t is into this warm, amiable and
mushy atmosphere that the President
has intruded his proposal for a law
which can force any American, he or
she, to go to work in designated war
factory BY the congressional reaction
to this hard proposal we shall have the
answer to the great question of the
hour: who's electioneering now?"
The quarrel between President and
Congress is not quarrel between right
and left. 1t is battle between atti-
tudes, fight between hardness and
softness, between consequence and in
consequence. This Congress is not op-
posing the President on any lofty ques-
ton of principle. 1t is merely trying
to prove that it is nicer than he is,
kinder than he is, softer than he is;
all at a time when niceneSs and kind
ness and softness are the widest forms
of inconsequence.
I am afraid that this mood of in
consequence shows up very strongly in
the statement by Mr.. Harrison Spangler,
national chairman of the Republican
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Still Deadly

Though heavy, American losses in
Tuesdays air assault on Germany
were not nearly so heavy as the
Nazis would have the world believe.
The Goebbels propaganda machine,
with a special trumpeting calculated
to lift up the dropping spirits of the
Reich home front and Hitler's satel-
lite allies, had credited the Luft-
waite with destroying 1856 of our
planes, including 124 four engine
bombers. This would have been a
grievous expenditure, if true, but
we can all rest assured that it was
not true, and we can be thankful
for that. For as officially announced
by United States Army headquarters
in the European theater, the fact is
that we lost five fighters and fifty
nine Flying Fortresses and Liberia
tors, or less than half the number
claimed by the Germans. The seri-
BUSINESS of these losses, moreover, is
somewhat mitigated by the fact that
more than TOO of our heavy bombers
took part, so that the fifty-nine lost
Zone under the record Schweinfurt
expenditure) represented less than
nine per cent of the total. In addi-
ton, excellent" bombing results
were achieved and over 100 enemy
fighters were shot down, despite the
Goebbels report that the Luftwaffe
had lost only nine planes. These
figures, however, do more than DEM
onstrate once again that the Nazis
can never be believed. They show,
as well, that Germany's air defenses
though not so successful as
claimed-are still deadly and that
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Riga-for several hundred years were
moved into East Prussia to facilitate
the enforcement of the Russo German
agreement which permitted the U. S.
s. r. to incorporate "constitutionally"
those states into the Soviet Union few
weeks later.
Other mass migrations have taken
place in the last few years. A number
of "unpatriotic and recalcitrant" Lithu-
anians, Latvians and Estonlans, particu-
larly those belonging to the middle
classes, were moved to Siberia, according
to reports regarded as trustworthy.
In the new proposal to bring about a
views which would permit Poland to
enter into an alliance with the U. S.
S. r. and Czechoslovakia, it has been
suggested by the Poles in Moscow that
Poland be given compensations at Ger
many's expense. The Polish government
in exile is not enthusiastic about the
proposal because it means bringing too
large minority population" within the
jurisdiction of the future Polish govern
ment
Moreover, the same government,
which is not likely ever to get to
WdiodW again, OcllcFcS Tile FOleS may
have to be settled in some other part of
the Soviet Union. The Poles are de-
scribed as reactionary because they
refuse to come under the Russian zone
OF influence. And there are quite few
million such reactionaries even today all
over Poland.
\
Many quarters regard as propaganda
hi ty,t hnr t~ l~;,
American and British authorities to the
effect that the Polish "chauvinists" would
be transferred to areas where they can
do no harm to Russia, the protecting
power of Poland. According to the blue
print, plans are already afoot in Moscow
to move all the disturbing elements in
the future free Polish republic to Siberia
in the Lena River area and to Russian
TllrkeStan
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Lord Curzon

Current discussion of the boundary
between Russia and Poland brings
back into the news for the moment
the name of one of the most notably
remarkable men of modern times.
His name was George Nathaniel,
Marques Curzon of Kedleston. Born
in Derbyshire almost exactly eighty
four years ago, he was educated at
Eton and Oxford, became private
secretary to Lord Salisbury in 1885
and entered Parliament in 1885.
From 1891 to 1892 he was underSec-
retary for India and from 1895 to
1898 undersecretary for foreign af-
fairs. Meanwhile, he married the
beautiful Mary Victoria Letter of
Chicago and Washington. His grow
ing capacity for public business was
recognized when at thirty he was
appointed Governor General of
India, difficult post, in which he
served until 1905. Subsequently, he
was the chief lieutenant of the
Marques of LanSdowne in the House
of Lords, member of the Asquith
and Lloyd George cabinets and sue
cessor to Balfour as foreign secre-
tary, retaining office until 1924. He
wanted to be Prime Minister when
Bonar Law retired, but Stanley
Baldwin was chosen instead.
No such meager skeleton outline of
his career, however, will suffice to
suggest Lord Curzon's tremendous
power of personality. He was a
pillar Of strength to the British
Empire all his life. To understand
the significance of his achievement,
it is necessary to know that his
first and greatest conquest" was
himself. He was small and frail in
body, sickly from childhood. After
his death in 1925 it was reported that
he had suffered with curvature of
the spine so grievously that it would