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EDITORIAL
Our Lights Burn Brightly
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Johannes Heinrich Chxi^tofer
Dau, a German author, in 1823
wrote a little book with the
thesis that North .America was
destined to be the salvation of
Europe. His idea was that Eu
rope was overcrowded and that
Jife that would become increas
ingly difficult. But here was a
virgin continent here there was
enough land to provide food and
to spare for all comers.
That was not the original idea.
But Herr Dau wrote of purely
material things. He spoke of
bread and meat, of clothing and
of fuel—the prime necessities.
That America might be the sal
vation of Europe in a higher
sense did not occur to him. He
did not see that we here should
be the repository and guardian
of the high ideals of freedom for
which mankind has toiled thru
the ages. Now in Europe liberty
has been ground under the heels
of tyranny; that life, liberty,
and the pursuit of individual
happiness should be counted as
things worth while is not consid
ered for a moment by the dictat
ors. "Men, in their view, are mere
elaves of the state.
Their ideas and ours are as far i
apart as the poles. Here the bea-,
con lights of freedom still bright
ly bum. They shine across the
Atlantic and their rays may yet
illuminate the dark continent of
Europe. Its lights are out. But
they may be rekindled at our
over-buttling flame,
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FEDERAL RESERVE IS BUSY
WASHINGTON. Jan. — The
l^ederal Reserve System has re
commended th: repeal of the j
Presidential powers to revalue
the dollar and issue greenback
‘anoney, in a program designed to!
prevent inflation and higher pric
es which might result in huge de ‘
Terra spending.
The Federal Reserve System
also advocates among other pro
posals requirement of Congres
sional action on gradual increas
of taxes until the Federal Bud
get is “balanced” or until the
Government tax collections pay
the Government’s expenditures.
Trade On
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Highway
Is Proposed
When Completed It Will Provide
; Continuous Hard-Surfaced Road
For Nearly 17,000 Miles
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WASHINGTON — A highway
, to be 16,847 miles long when com
1 pleted connecting the two Ameri
can continents is under construe
tion. It’s northern terminus is
Fairbanks, Alaska, the southern i
end Buenos Aires, Argentina,;'
with another terminal at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. It will be the j
i longest highway ever pLanncd by J
j man.
I This vast highway began to bej
, a dream back in 1924 and while |
; there have been many delays and
j great difficulties to be overcome, i
; it is reported that there are now
11,407 miles of the road in oper-1 ,
I ation. '
Build 600 Miles Yearly
With only 5.440 miles still to go 1
the Latin Americans claim they ; *
are building 600 miles a year *
and construction is being pushed c
in the United States and Canada.,
Although delayed by war prepar |1
ations the promoters believe that'3
the vast highway can be complet s
ed in perhaps five or six years. |v
At present there is uninterrupt j
ed traffic over 4.312 miles of mod |
em road between Hazleton, Can;
ada and Mexico City, and Pan-!11
ama City is modernized. Only j v
one-Jourth of the 7,900 miles f
from Caracas, Venezuela, re- j11
mains to be moderized.
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Darien Section Difficult jb
Most difficult pert of the gnat j
highway however is still to be'
constructed. . The dense Darien ] b
Indian country remained uiv; a
known to white men until last!
summer when a North Carolina f.
school teacher named Tewksbury : F
chopp d his way through it and fi
found that the land was passable, t
The great interprise still needs v
the expenditure of a vast amount s
jf capital and labor but as there
are only 5.440, mile still totally v
unimproved, there is no doubt t
that tho necessary money and e
! machinery and labor will be ob- c
tained. j
When completed this highway £
REFUGEES FROM WINTER —Havana*bound are
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., at left and Prince and
Princess Hohenlohe of Poland, shown at Miami Beach, Fla. Biddle
was U.S. ambassador to Poland until the German occupation of
that country. The princess is the daughter of Mrs. Biddle; her
husband is attached to Polish embassy in Washington.
Guardsmen Are
Safe On Shore
Two Guardsmen Took Heavy
Pumtneling in Small Boats
48 Hours in Storm
POINT ARENA. Calif. — The
10 Coast Guardsmen who were
lost at sea for 48 hours on a mis
sion of mercy, began completing
their own rescue through the
heavy «urf after being picked
from their open boats by the
cutter Ariadne.
Roy Herling, 21. the first sea
man to reach shore scrambled up
a battered pier from a motorized
suitfboat and onto the ground
with the comment:
“Oh boy, does this solid stuff
'eel good."
He was followed a’most im
m:diately by Ronald Hieber, 23,
whose blackened and nearly clos
ed eyes attested to the purpmel
ng the Coast Guardsmen took in
he heavy seas which nearly,
wrecked the two sjnall open
xiats. , ,
Bulkhead Hit Him
Hieber explained his black eye
>y saying "A bulkhead just up
ind struck me.”
The men were landed by three
'ellow Guardsman from the;
i^oint Arena station, making the
irst of a series of shuttle trips
Detween shore and the Ariadne,
which stood about half a mile off
ihore.
will give the 257.641.059 inhabi
tants of Alaska. Canada, the Unit
ed States, Mexico, Central Am
erica and South America a com
plete lsneof land traffic unpar
alle’:d in history.
cnrw TAKFN OFF
SCHOONER BY COAST GUARD
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SAN FRANCISCO —The crew
of 22 men was taken off the dis
p’il d schooner Stanwood by the
C': st Guard Cutter Shoshone
whose seamen braved the high
s-'n-s in smal boats to make the
rescue.
Commander H. G. Bradbury
of the Shoshone radioed the trans
Lr was made at 9:54 a.m., after
th lumber cargo and a cylin
drical tanks were swept off the
•fterdeck.
The schooner’s entire stern was!
awash wTien lifeboats pulled
alongside.
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TEN MISSING COAST
GUARDSMEN RESCUED
SAN FRANCISCO — The 10
Coast Guardsmen missing for
nearly 3fThours follofvirtg ’a fies-!
cu assignment in ga’o lashed’
sens saved themselves' from the1
mountainous waves which’threat i
Tned to swamp their lifeboat.|
The CuU.er Shawnee located thej
men off Eort Bragg. Two of the;
guardsmen vyere 1 painfully but
iot seriously .hurt. ' •
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GERMAN SEA RAIDER
ROAMING SO. PACIFIC
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BERLIN. Jan. — The German!
High Command acknowledged i
i Nazi warship is preying on'
-hips in the South Pacific.
The communique savs the sea
raider has sunk “ten enemy mer
chantment totaling 64.000 tons.”,
The crews of the ships are i
said to have be n taken to safety
n a South Sea isle.
The communique denies thej
-ea raider is flying the Japanese
flag.
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YOU D PR OBABLY LOOK THIS W AY, TO O—With the draft less than two months old. Uncle Sam’s new army of
soldiers still lacks the precision that generals dream about, and this squad at Fort Ord, Cal., encountered the usual trouble with
“Shoulder Arms.” The man in center seems most bowed down v ith responsibilities of the army’s manual of arms. At Fort Ord, 12.500
men already are housed in a tent camp, and some 30,000 more are expected when permanent buildings arc completed.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight and Thursday followed
by light snow beginning late tonight.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 5 Lowest temp — -2 Precipitation _ 0
Total precip this month — T Total since Jan. 1, 1941, — T
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight.._... ... - 3 94 S-3 Clear
8am ---— - _ -1 93 N-3 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m ____ _ 2 88 S2 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:46 a. m. Sunset 2:28 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 20 Lowest temp —*10 Precipitation — T
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