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EDITORIAL
From Alaska
To England
(Juneau Empire)
Major Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
whose "beat” as head of the
Army Air Corps has several tim
es included Alaska, is now off in
a new direction. The General
has b-en sent to Britain for staff
talks and first-hand observation,
in his capacity as Deputy Chief
of Staff representing the air ser
vice. A few other ranking of
ficers, including Major Gen. Jam
•es E. Chaney, have been abroad.
But more air otfic rs of senior
rank in both Army and Navy ser
vice could well be sent over
promptly to supplement the faith
ful work of our air attaches in
Britain and elsewhere.
With each new development of
the Blitzkreig and each intensi
fication of the sea war op. Eng
land's lifeline, it becomes in
creasingly aparent that new tech
nical d velopments and new tac
tical uses of the air force play
a dominant role in modern war.
There can be no question that our
own a:r force must be equipped
to master whatever may be
brought into play against it. It
is imperative that th: latest
changes in the use of such a force
should be known by direct obser
vation to our flying officers. This
knowledge can best be acquired,
despite the risks involved, by
activ . participation as observer
with the British.
In The Merry,
Month of May
j
(Philadelphia Record)
It's a little early, but we for
mally inaugurate the summer
silly season with a story from
Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Heath r C.
Thorpe, guide at the Museum of
Science, reports that birds known
as sapsuckers are falling prey to
villians among their own species.
It seems that sapsuckers open
the bark of birch tr.es when the
sap is running. They then sit
back and let the air get into the
sap so it can ferment. After a
few days they begin drinking the
fermented sap and get roaring
(or do we m-an screeching)
drunk.
"The birds,” says Miss Thorpe,
“become oblivious to obstacles
8-.id frequently fly head-on intc
trees, breaking their necks.”
Apparently, this has been go
ing on for years in west rn New
York. Now comes the new part:
“Others become the prey of
watchful villian sapsuckers, who
have marked off private bars for
themselv s. She saw a villian sap
sucker knock off 11 of his fellows
who w< re fluttering about blind
ly, probably looking for a street
car.”
This story should make us all
feel closer to nature. Humans
aren't the only ones who can
stumbl into a clip-joint. Hail to
thee, blyth sapsuckers. We feel
happy as a bird.
The Tanks
Bejjin To Roll
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(Juneau Empire)
A rash of photographs in every
newspaper in America heralds
lh2 fact that at last we are be
ginning to get delivery on mod
ern tanks — the backbone and
.gristle of mechanized warfare.
Out of a plant five city blocks
long and two blocks w.de, big
enough to produce a thousand
passenger cars a day and stand
ing where there stood only the
heavy gumbo of a cornfield last
September, tanks are rolling in
Detroit. Four months ago the pi
lot model of the M-3 25-ton med
dium tank which the Chrysler
Corporation will build for the
Government was only a bundl
of blueprints. It now rolls off the
assembly line fuli-armed and
ready for combat.
Remarkable as is the machine
itself, with its maneuverability
over almost any conceivable type
of gr and and its gr at and ver
satile fire power, the swift exact
ness of its production and of Hie
tank arsenal to produce its
counterparts in ma s construc
tion is more remarkable still.
It was on June 9 of last year
that William S. Kr.udson asked
President K. T. K ller of Chry
sler by telephone, “Will you
make tanks?'' He received an
answer typical of the spirit of tile
automobile industry, “Yes, where
can I se_ one?”
In the months that have inter
vened since the automobile in
dustry was asked to participate
on a large scale in the defense
program there ' has b en unin
formed talk of delay and some
public impatience because de
fense materials had net begun
to pour out of Detroit by magic.
But the magic wa- working and
the spell of “make-r ady” was
being woven. Now the time of
production is at hand, and the
M-3 tanks from the n w arsenal
are symbols of the coordinated
effort of mass production which
will be more tremendous than
anything of th: kind that the
world has ever seen.
‘“Auto Output to Be Cut Twen
ty Percent for Defense.” Twenty
percent for defense but not one
thousandth perent of a spark
plug for tribute.
GRIEF AND POUNDS WEIGH HER DOWN—a bit dejected Is the usually-gay
Mrs Ruth Pontico, circus fat lady who went to a hospital in Tampa, Fla., to have some of her excfess
weight reduced so she could go on tour. She weighs 800 pounds. But the hospital bed broke down and
L. the medical treatment was postponed. Note the little dog at the left. _
BIBLES IN SERVICE, TOO-Specia! ••Service" edi
tions of the bible which the Gideon society Is sending to U.S.
soldiers and sailors on land and at sea are stacked up at a Phila
d-Iphia plant, where a workman is giving them a last squeeze,
liie society plans to send out 1,000,000 copies, bound in brow n for
the army, blue for navy, white for the forces in Hawaii.
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Negro Shot
In Florida
Lynch Case
m
QU'NCY, Florida, May 13—A.
C. Williams, 22-year-old N"gr
i charged with a saultirg a 12
year-old white girl, was found
-hot to death - veral hours after
a band of men seiz'd him in a
second lynching attempt when
the first failed.
The first lynching attempt
. am; *hei fcui whit n a -. ar 1
i with uist is. locked Offic
ihn Davis in 2 cell of rh county
j il and took Williams with
them. The Negro was found short
lv after midnight in a Negro
residence by Sheriff Luten who
said there were eight or ten bul
let wounds in the body. Lut n
, -aid the attackers apparently
left him for dead.
The Sheriff then sent out an
ambulance to take the N.uro to
a hospital in Tallahassea. Aboir
five miics out of Quincy the ve
hicle was forced to halt by Sev
ern! men and the wounded Negro
pulled out and taken away.
RAILROAD GIVES EXCURSION
WHEN AIR RAID COMING
KUNMING, China. May — A
railway line running from Kun
ming 25 miles ; the southwest
is operating “air raid excursions”
which star: whenever Japanese
planes approach the city.
For 1 :ss than an American c-;nt
city dwellers are carried to the
countryside. They detrain and
matter over the landscape, visit
ing temples or resting until the
1 raid is ever.
Th train also “scatters” itself
i ? mg the track, leaving the ears
lang intervals.
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NEW YORK, May 19 (/Pi — In
'■•r, -weeping demand for
tei in the navy’- history, even
nycef dmg the drive- of World
W". : '*?. the naval recruiting
eerv '- -'-ned ■> nation-wide call
r r ,,a. 09 additional enlistments
by June "0.
Tlie Chinese renortedly use
Ives ' carry re y a-uv like car
"ier pigeons. The n xt rt- p for
he cr!ifjy Chinese ?* tn train the
ho - tn ding the enemy if he
rie- o intercept the message.
CLEANUP NOTICE
May 19th tn 9»“Tj, ftas been de
ignatrd bv tlie Common Coun
cil os CLEANUP WEEK.
Property owners are hereby
requested to dean up their prem
ises during this period and place
debris at some convenient place
j near the sidewalk, where it can
j be picked up later by truck or
wagon. If this is done, your de
bris will be hauled away free of
charge.
The Health Committee of the
I Council, as well as the Police De
j partment, will make a survey of
the town from time to time and
report those who fail to cooperate
in this attempt to make our town
a cleaner place to live in, as well
as to improve the sanitary con
ditions, thus guarding, to some
extent against disease.
It is hoped that all will real
ize the importance of this under
taking. and that each will do his
part in cooperating with the city
officials, to the end that Nome
might have a more presentable
appearance when the first boat ar
I rives.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
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