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Valley frontiersman., 1950-12-08
ANSWER FIRE ALARM AT EXPERIMENT STATION

The Valley Fire Association an sWered a call at the Matanuska experiment station Thursday af- ternoon to put out conflagratlon in the milk house and boiler room there. Considerable damage was done to the building which was gutted by the fire. No other buildings at the farm were threat ened, volunteer firemen reported.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-12-08

"A number of Anchorage mer- chants and others have shown great interest in securing space to include a Palmer outlet in ex- tending their operations" MT. Hagen said. Rental space will be available to commercial stores on the first floor with the second and third floors to be devoted to of fees. The basement and the street or first floor are to be con- structed of concrete, MT. Hagen said. Architects for the building are Sherman & Sons of Anchor age.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-12-08
233 Residents Within Proposed Boundaries Sign for Incorporation

Plans for the incorporation of Palmer as a city of the first-class which got under way here last week end with leading business men of Palmer urging the move, will gather further momentum this week end when the steering committee plans to meet with an Anchorage attorney to work out legal aspects of the incorporation.
 Petitions circulated by Pal
 mer businessmen this week up
 to press lime today had been
 signed by 233 residents within
 the proposed boundaries of the
 city, and an additional 78 resi-
 dents who. although they do
 not reside within the proposed
 boundaries. wish 10 add their
 support 10 the move. Proposed
 boundaries are: on the south
 the line takes in the south end
 of the Fair grounds: on the
 west. Lucas subdivision and
 part of John Bugge subdivision
 also Bailey and Hill streets: on
 the north. Swanson street. but
 Hoes not fake in Sherrod's farm.
 and on the east by the Mata-
 nuska river.
 At Chamber of Commerce meeting Wednesday, Al Hagen, member of the steering commit tee, gave a report on the status of the move which brought on al lengthy debate and discussion among members present. MT. Hagen asked that the Chamber go on record as approving an cleo tion by the people of Palmer to settle the long-standing issue of incorporation. He also asked for contribution of $50 from the Chamber to help cover costs en- tailed.
 Carl Rasmussen, acting man. ager of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association, stated that he felt that a report on proposed financing of a city, boundary lines and possible taxes be given the Chamber before that body went on record as approv- ing the efforts being made for incorporation. MT. Rasmussen said, in opposing the proposed motion, that about one-third of the property that will be taxed G1 the incorporation carries) is owned by the farmers here who will have no vote and that he tContinued on Classified Page)
Valley frontiersman., 1950-12-08

Extensive plans for remodel ing the Valley theatre are also a part of the construction planned, MT. Hagen said. The entire front of the theatre will be modernized to conform with the outside appearance of the new building. Interior decora- ton of the theatre, the install lation of new projectors and a new screen will make the the atre completely modern also, MT. Hagen added.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-12-08

Basketball at sym at 7:30 pm. Palmer to meet Anchorage for second railbelt confer ence game.
Evening star., 1950-10-29

organized reserve units include
the same type of non-d divisional
outfits found in the National
Guard.
Many volunteer reservists have
been called to duty since the
Korean outbreak. but no divi-
sions. At present. although the
Army is ccrduc--.y a Reserve
recruiting drive. Reserve divi-
sions are largely paper divisions.
Latest available figures give
the Organized Reserve 10000
officers and 115,000 men. The
Volunteer Reserve had total
of $4,000 officers and men.
There were 78.402 inactive re-
servlsts. These are men who
are unable to keep up certain
routine activities required Of ac-
tive reservists. The Honorary
Reserve consists mostly of re-
tired officers and men.
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N. 6. = Notionol Guard
ORC Organized Reserve Corps
RcT- Resimsntol combot Team

In time of war or near-war
the Army looks to three sources
to build up it's strength: Cd En-
liStments, CD the draft. (3) its
Strength in reserve"
Strength in reserve is of two
kinds-the National Guard and
the Organized Reserve Corps.
Just what are the Guard and
the ORC?
First. an important differ
ence:
The Guard is a joint Federal
State project. The Federal Gov
ernment trains. equips and pays
the men, but the States must
provide the men and the ar
mories for their training.
Guard troops are State troops,
available to the States in case
of emergency such as riots,
floods. ETC., but they may be
"federalized" in case of national
need.
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Guard as of June 80, 1850, latest
released by the Department Of
Defense. was 30,114 officers and
295,862 enlisted men, a total of
325,976.
The Organized Reserve Corps
consists of three main sections:
Active, inactive and honorary.
Tie Active Reserve is of prin-
ciple interest at this time. 1t is
in turn divided into Organized
Reserve and Volunteer Reserve.
Organized reservists are men,
bers of divisions or other units.
Volunteers are individuals who
are available for service but are
not members of any particular
unit. They are usually special
lists of some kind-doctors, den-
fists, communications experts,
etc.
All reserve infantry is organ
lied into 25 divisions. none in
regimental combat teams. Other
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Ladies' Oriental Shrine

Su-Zu Court Of the Ladies
Oriental Shrine of N. A. will par
ticipate in the following activi-
ties:
Monday-Past High Priestess
Spoon Club will be guests Of the
Hi-Lo Club at a banquet at the
Sphinx Club. The Stunt Com
mittee will meet with Mrs. jose
phine McManamy at 8 pm.
ThurSday-Day sewing for Grip
pied children in Shriners' hospitals
from 10 am. to 4 pm. with Mrs.
Freda Womeldorph.
Friday-Northeast community
sewing for crippled children In
Shriners' hospitals at 1880 pm.
with Mrs. Cora Welch.
Saturday-Spaghetti dinner, 8
to 8 pm, at Joppa Lodge Masonic
Temple. Benefit the convention
fund of the Patrol of su-Zu
Court.
Evening star., 1950-10-29

and Turkey conquered, Poland
subjugated, our armies reunited,
the Black and the Baltic Seas
guarded by our vessels. you must
make propositions separately and
discreetly. first to the court of
Versailles. then to that of Vienna,
to share with them the empire of
the universe. If one of them
accepts-and it cannot be other
wise. so as you hatter their pride
and ambition-make use Of 1t to
crush the other: then crush, in it's
turn. the surviving one. by engag-
ing with it in a death-struggle,
the issue of which cannot be
doubtful. Russia possessing al
ready all the East and a great
part of Europe.
XIV. "H-which is not likely
both refuse the propositions of
Russia. you must manage to raise
quarrels for them. and make them
exhaust one another; then, profit
ing by decisive moment, Russia
will bring down her assembled
troops on Germany; at the same
time two considerable fleets will
set out-the one from the Sea of
Azov. the other from the port of
Archangel-loaded with Asiatic
hordes, under the convoy of the
armed fleets from the Black Sea
and the Baltic. Advancing by the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic
Ocean, they will invade France
on one side. while Germany will
already have been invaded on the
other. These countries conquered,
the rest of Europe will easily pass
under the yoke, without striking
a single blow.
XIV. Thus Europe can and
ought to be s,Ibdued -
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By Hermon Allen

be attached to divisions or other
combat organizations as needed.
The first Guard units to be
called into Federal service dur
ing the Korean emergency were
non-divisional outfits which
were used to bolster Regular
Army divisions or to replace
similar Regular Army units sent
overseas.
Later four divisions and two
regimental combat teams were
called in.
The divisions were the 28th
(Pennsylvania), the 40th (Cali-
formal. the 43d Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Vermont)
and the 45th (Oklahoma).
The regimental combat teams
were the 196th (South Dakota)
and the 278th (Tennessee)
Strength of the National
Evening star., 1950-10-29

Gated increase in cost of additions
planned at Washington-Lee and
Hoffman-Boston Schools" Mr.. Joy
explains.
Although the contracts haven't
been let, an architects analysis
has indicated the cost will be
about 100000 over the original
estimates because Of more remod-
cling and extensive additions ne
cessitated by questions raised by
the court in the Hoffman Boston
equal-facilities case.
"As to the increased local funds,
reassessment does not raise
taxes. The power to raise the tax
rate and therefore raise taxes lies
with the county board.
I'm any event, the earliest pos
sible date any additional funds
would be available would be July
/, 1851. Buildings must be ready
by the fall of 1851 to house the
children"
School Board members compiled
figures from other communities in
Maryland and Virginia. showing
Arlington is paying less on an
average than most of the other
places for its school construction.
The Co-Ordinating Council for
School Bonds, made up of IL
county wide groups including the
Chamber of Commerce, Civic Fed
Grafton and League of Women
Voters, has this to say in a PAM
phlet urging voters to cast their
ballots for the bond issue:
THE best thing to do is to visit
the new schools Chose built under
the previous bond issues) your
self. If you come away with ques-
tions still unanswered in your own
mind about full value received,
feel free to call upon the school
administration"
Evening star., 1950-10-29

the Russian people as called up
hereafter to hold sway over
Europe. My reason for thus
thinking is, that the European
nations have mostly reached a
state of old age bordering on i'm
becility, or they are rapidly ap-
preaching it; naturally, then, they
will be easily and indubitably con-
quered by a people strong in youth
and vigor. especially when this
latter shall have attained it's full
strength and power. I look on
the future invasion of the Eastern
and Western countries by the
North as a periodical movement,
ordained by Providence, who in
like manner regenerated the Ro-
man nation by barbarian inva-
slons. These emigrations of men
from the North are as the reflux
of the Nile, which, at certain
period, comes to fertilize the i'm
poverished lands of Egypt by it's
deposit. I found Russia as rivu-
let, I leave it as river. My sue
cessors will make of it a large sea,
destined to fertilize the impover-
ished lands of Europe; and it's
waters will overflow, in spite of
opposing dams, erected by weak
hands, If our descendants only
know how to direct it's course.
This is the reason I leave them
the following instructions.
I. Keep the Russian nation in
a state of continual war, so as to
have the soldiers always under
arms and ready for action, ex-
cepting when the finances of the
state will not allow of it. Keep
up the forces; choose the best
moment for attack. BY these
means you will be ready for war.
even in the time of peace. This
is for the interest of the future
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Russia.
II. "Endeavor, by every possible
means, TO bring in, from the
neighboring civilized countries of
Europe. officers in times of war,
and learned men in times Of
peace, thus giving the Russian
people the advantages enjoyed by
other countries, without allowing
them to lose any of their own
self-respect.
Divide Poland
iii. "On every occasion take q
part in the affairs and quarrels OF
Europe; above all, in those of
Germany which country, being
the nearest, more immediately
concerns us.
Nv. Divide Poland, by exciting
civil discord there; win over the
nobility by, bribes; corrupt the
diets, so as to have influence in
the election of kings; get parti-
sans into office-protect them;
bring to sojourn there the Mus
covite troops. until such time as
they can be permanently estab-
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The ORC is strictly Federal.

At present there are 27 in
fantry divisions in the National
Guard, and 20 regimental COM
bat teams. none at full strength.
An Army division at full
strength totals something over
1900 men. formed into three
infantry regiments with various
artillery. communications and
service units added. A combat
team is a little DIVISION" con-
sisting of regiment plus just
those artillery and supporting
services it needs to make 1t
fast-striking. easily movable
force.
The Guard also includes in
Vulnerable mon divisional"
units such as quartermaster and
signal companies, military po-
lice battalions, searchlight and
laundry units, ETC.. which may
Evening star., 1950-10-29

Challenged as a Napoleonic
hoax, an alleged Will of Peter the
Great nevertheless comes out of
the distant past as an outline of
Russian policy strangely parallel
with today's events.
Peter the Great" writes Bern
ard Pares in his history of Russia,
is still a national hero, and no
wonder, for Stain has plenty of
kinship with that enthroned revo-
lutionary." Perhaps it is more
than interesting coincidence-this
kinship of purpose with the "en-
throned revolutionary" whose
spirit still dominates Russia.
The document known as "The
Will of Peter the Great" for more
than a century has been a matter
of controversy. Genuine or not,
it does outline plan of world
conquest important to restudy in
these days. The similarity of the
Soviet foreign policy and that of
Peter the Great has an actual
basis in fact.
Imposed Poll Tax
Peter the Great was nearly
seven feet high and broad to
match: "he ran rather than
walked" we are told again by
Bernard Pares. His handsome
face twitehed with the storm that
ragged within. He took Russia and
threw her into Europe" He died
in 1725. He found Russia a land
of serfs. little better than slaves;
they were sold at auction and
families were separated; they
were exchanged for horses. For
disobedience, owners could send
serfs to Siberia or to the army.
He made the Russian Army and
Navy and waged war for Al years.
In 1921 he signed the peace of
Nystadt with Sweden, which Sc
cured for Russia Karelia with Wy
borg, Estonia and Latvia. He
forced all the gentry into the
State service, he created Russian
industry by imperial decree and,
appointing the directors of fac
Evening star., 1950-10-29
By Melvin D. HiIdreth

tories. allotted so many peasant
souls as serf labor; he imposed an
endless network of taxation cover
ing everything from birth to
death; he shaved their boards and
curtailed their flowing costumes;
he instituted and regulated by
imperial order the first social gath
erings; he reformed the alpha
bet and edited the first news
paper.
Peter the Great imposed the
burden of the poll tax on the peas
ants. he also founded the internal
passport system (Which exists to-
day. whereby no peasant could
travel except for limited distances.
The property of the peasant was
at the disposal of the master and
serfdom continued in Russia until
1861. Although he lived almost
like a peasant himself. everything
that he did went to the profit and
authority of the throne. He i'm
posed on the country a standing
army and a huge and cumbrous
administrative machine, which
rested on the basis of serf labor
and serf taxation, and, to use the
striking phrase Of Engelmann, his
torian of serfdom, the immense
weight of the superstructure
pushed the supports that upheld it
deeper and deeper into the
ground" Worst of all, he put the
succession Of the throne at "the
whim Of the last holder and died
before he himself could make any
disposal of it,"
Taxation and Serfdom
Writing in the American Slavic
and East European Review, Dimi-
try v. Lehovich refers to the
document of Peter the Great as
forged. He says: The first refer
ence to this document was made
by Charles Louis Leisure, of the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
who, at Emperor Napoleon's COM
mand, produced in 1912 a propa-
ganda book against Russia entitled
'Des Progress de la Puissance
Russo Leisure, a clever diplomat
presented his story with caution:
1T is rurnored that there exist
in the private archives of the Rus
sian Emperors, some secret mem
oirs written in the hand of Peter
I. where the projects conceived by
this sovereign are plainly revealed,
and recommended to the attention
OF his successors, some of whom
have in effect followed them with
what may be called a religious
persistence
May Serve as Guide
He also says: Peters will re-
ceived wide circulation both in
England and in France during the
Crimean War, and by order of
Napoleon III, many copies of the
document were posted on build
ings in Paris and throughout
France. The myth was revived
again in England during the
Russo Turkish War of 1878 and
finally reappeard in Germany dur
ing the First World War in 1914.
This forged paper. used as anti
Russian propaganda, seemed to
annoy considerably the imperial
Russian government, especially
during the war of 1877-8."
Nevertheless, if it is a forgery,
it was prepared by one with an
uncanny sense of Russian policies,
but, If it is genuine. it might serve
as guide to these United States
in these turbulent times.
Here. then, are extracts from
the will:
I'm the name of the Most Holy
and Indivisible Trinity, we, Peter
the First, Emperor and Autocrat
OF all the Russias. ETC., to all our
descendants and successors to the
throne and government of the
Russian nation:
God -. allows me to look on
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Notable Remarriaqes
Second Weddings Frequent in Washington
Among the Executive and Legislative Figures
By John CIoeett Proctor

time. His first wife, whom he
married on April 7. 1847, was Mar
tina Martin. daughter of Col. Rob-
ert Martin Of Rockingham County,
N. C. She passed away on jan
uary 10. 1858. leaving three chill
dren. After lapse of nearly four
years. Mr.. Douglas, on November
20, 1856, again stood before the
parson and plighted his troth.
The Star announced the fact as
follows:
"On the goth instant. by the
Rev. j. B. Byrne. Hon. Stephen A.
Douglass of Illinois, to Adele
Cults, daughter of J. Madison
Cults"
The Miss Cults was a descend
ant of the sister of the handsome
Dolly Madison, and she is said to
have inherited the family beauty.
Senator Douglas was a pioneer
in building operations and. about
1851 bought two blocks of ground
between New Jersey avenue and
Third street, and H and K streets
NV. Here, on the south side Of
I street, Judge Douglas built him.
self home, and subsequently
built a residence on the opposite
side of the street, on the north
west corner of Second and I.
where he and his second wife lived
until he passed away, June 3. 1861.
Five years later Mrs. Douglas
became the wife Of Gen. Robert
Williams. and Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague gave. in their honor.
matinee with dancing at her IA
ther's residence, COL F street NV.
Daniel Webster. after his first
wife died, married Caroline lie
Roy, a New York lady, tall, with
brown hair. and beautiful. She
presided over his household here.
and accompanied him to Europe,
where she dined with the Queen.
She always addressed her husband
as "Mr. Webster" and his ia
vorite term for her was Lady
Caroline"
| Houston Marriage Failed
Gen. Samuel Houston, United
States Senator and first President
of the Republic of Texas. who.
while in Congress. lived at 2107
Pennsylvania avenue. in one OF
the six buildings" When he first
fell in love. he was the youngest
Governor the State of Tennessee
ever had, for he began his term
at the age of "a.
Being Governor Of the State,
and good looking besides, he was
naturally regarded as good
catch. and when he fell in love
with a pretty girl at the State
capital and proposed to her, she
accepted him. The Governor soon
found out that his wife loved an
other and that she had been
forced by her parents to marry
him. He left the high Office he
held and. telling his wife to get
divorce on the ground of desertion.
went to the frontier and Joined a
tribe of Cherokee Indians.
He married a squaw. according
to Indian custom, and soon be-
came a chief. He was drinking
hard and going from bad to worse.
when one day he was told Of the
troubles in Texas and the battle
of the Alamo was described to him.
He Strengthened himself up, ac-
cording to the story. and went
forth to his brave and distin-
guished career in Texas. His first
wife. according to reports, got a
divorce. but whether she married
the man of her choice the writer
does not know.
Evening star., 1950-10-29
Really Following the Course Set by Peter the Great?

lished there. II the neighboring
powers start difficulties, appease
them for time. by parceling out
of the country. until you can re-
take in detail all that has been
ceded.
". "Take as much as you can
from Sweden. and cause your
selves to be attacked by her so as
to have a pretext for subduing
her. To accomplish this. sever
Denmark from Sweden, and
Sweden from Denmark, carefully
keeping up their rivalries.
vi. Always choose as wives
for the Russian princes, German
princesses, so as to increase fam
lily alliances. to draw mutual in
terests closer. and, by propagating
our principles in Germany. to en-
! list her in our cause.
War With Turks
VII. England requiring us for
her navy, and she being the only
power that can aid in the develop
ment of ours. seek a commercial
alliance with her. in preference to
any other. Exchange our wool
and the productions of our land
for her gold, and establish be-
tween her merchants, her sailors
and ours continual intercourse.
This will aid in perfecting the
Russian fleet for navigation and
commerce.
VIII. Extend your possessions
toward the north. along the Bal
tic. and toward the south, by the
Black Sea.
TX. Approach as near as pos
sible to Constantinople and it's
outskirts. He who shall reign there
will be the true sovereign of the
world. Consequently. be contin-
ually at war-sometimes with the
Turks. sometimes with Persia.
Establish dockyards on the Black
Sea; get entire possession of it by
degrees. also of the Baltic Sea.
this being necessary to the ac-
complishment of the plan. Hasten
the decline of Persia: penetrate
to the Persian Gulf; re-establish,
| if possible, the ancient commerce
of the Levant through Syria, and
make your way to the Indies
they are the emporium of the
world. Once there, you can do
without the gold of England.
Friends With Austria
X. Seek. and carefully keep up,
an alliance with Austria; ac-
quiesce, apparently. in her ideas
of dominating over Germany; at
the same time clandestinely ex-
citing against her the jealousy of
the neighboring provinces. En-
deavor that the aid of Russia
should be called for by one and
the other, so that, by exercising a
kind of guardianship over the
country, you prepare a way for
governing hereafter.
XII. 'Give the House of Austria
an interest for joining in banish-
ing the Turks from Europe; de-
fraud her of her share of the
booty, at the conquest of Con-
stantinople, either by raising a |
war for her with the ancient
states of Europe, or by giving her
a portion, which you will take
back at a future period.
XII. Attach to yourselves, and
assemble around you, all the
united Greeks, as also the dis
united or schismatics, which are
scattered either in Hungary, Tur-
key or the south of Poland. Make
yourselves their centers, their
chief support, and lay the founda-
ton for universal supremacy by
establishing kind of royalty or
sacerdotal government. The Sla-
vonic Greeks will be so many
friends that you will have scat
tered among your enemies.
XIII. Sweden severed, Persia