The White Falcon - 10.03.1945, Blaðsíða 3

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Postwar “Pioneer Boom” Is Seen For Alaska—With
Nearly ill! Spare lies Open To Homssteaders
“There’s nothing tiie matt-
er with Alaska that a little
woman wouldn’t fix” — suck
was the judgement of one
American soldier stationed
in the Far North. If shared
by even a small portion of
men who have seen duty
there, it may mean Alaska
is in for a postwar pioneer
boom.
Writing in the St. Louis
1 ^
Post-J)ispatch, Capt. Rich-
ard L. Neuberger, author
and newspaperman, likens
Alaska’s possibilities to ear-
lier settlement of the Ohio
valley, the Northwest Terri-
tory, the Missouri country
and the Pacific seaboard.
Now that frontier is Alaska.
balls which were grown in
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the shadow of the Arctic
Circle. .. . Beets, carrots and
cauliflower thrive at Fort
Good Hope, and a dairy
herd flourishes at Aklivik,
near the shores of the Arctic
Ocean .... The Forest Ser-
vice estimates that a million
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acres of the timbered Kenai i
peninsula will maintain live-;
stock grazing comparable
with eastern Oregon and
Montana.”
Many advocates of Alask
an expansion hope the Govt,
will set up an Authority to
help veterans settle Alaska,
with funds to clear land, bu-
ild fences and barns, string
telephone lines and survey
roads and railways. “In the
(last, the Govt, has subsidiz-
ed railroads and farmer's
through land grants, dams
and canals,” Neuberger rea-
sons. He concludes: “Then
why not assist men in settl-
ing' Alaska?“
HITLER PULLED FAST ONE 01
HINDENBURG'S WILL SAYS NEWSMAN
He says:
“Today Alaska is dotted
with vast airfields, harbor
installations and guns and
artillery of all caliber ....
The Army has pioneered a
remarkable new air ferry
route to Fairbanks, Nome
and Soviet Russia. Ports and
docks stud many of Alaska’s
coves. A telephone line foll-
ows the Alaskan Highway
and for the first time Alask-
ans can converse with the
continental U.S.”
The Governor’s office at
Juneau reports many inquir-
ies from servicemen asking
bow to acquire land in Al-
aska, mostly farmland. The
usual answer: Practiallv all
of the Territory’s half-mill-
ion square miles are still
available to homesteaders.
The land is fertile, but und-
eveloped— you must build
your own roads, clear your
own fields.
“Successful farming is
possible in the North,” Neu-
berger asserts, “I have eat-
en potatoes as big as base-
Berlin Awarded ‘'First
Ending a 12-year secret,
AP correspondent Louis P.
Loehner disclosed recently
that Adolf Hitler hoaxed the
German public by releasing
only part of Pres. Paul von
Hindenburg’s “political
will.” The people were thus
led to believe that Ilinden-
burg wanted Hitler to head
the Reich, whereas the old
general actually had made
it clear that he favored re-
storation of German mon-
archy.
Before the army chiefs
could get together to confer
on the situation created by
Hindenburg’s death in 1934,
Hitler had proclaimed him-
self Hindenburg’s successor.
The men in the army were
compelled to swear an oath
of personal loyalty to Hitler
who then arranged for a ple-
biscite to “prove” to the
world that the German pe-
ople approved this step.
“What was released to the
world as Hindenburg’s will
actually was only the first
of several parts of that docu-
ment,” Loehner now asserts.
“It spoke in general terms
of the necessity of German
unity and unified leader-
ship .... The Nazis inter-
preted this to mean that
Hindenburg saw his life’s
dream of German unity and
leadership realized in Hitl-
er.”
Loehner, who secured his
information from an un-
named anti-Hitler exile, said
that “as an old military man,
Hindenburg solemnly ad-
monished the German pe-
ople to see to it that the bure-
auracraey remain uncorr-
upted and incorruptible ....
This may be interpreted as
a direct slap at the Nazis.
“Hitler cried like a baby
when he saw his hopes dash-
ed by the will. But then he
discovered the document
was addressed ‘To the Ger-
man Reichschancellor.’ Hin-
denburg naturally meant
to be punctiliously correct,
and hence had addressed his
political will to the head of
Germany’s political govern-
ment. But of course he as-
sumed the Chancellor would
re^al its contents to the
German people. Instead,
Hitler revealed only as much
as he deemed expedient.”
Prize” As Most Heavily
Bombed Target In Europe
Berlin has been awarded
“first prize” as the “most
heavily bombed target in
Europe,” says the War Dept,
in announcing the official i
score against the German
capital.
The AAF alone has plast-
ered Berlin with a total of
15,116 tons of bombs in the
past 11 months, while an ad-
ditional 10,000 tons have
been dropped on the same
target by the RAF.
e Moscow
Next to the German capi-
tal. the heaviest bombed
cities of Europe include:
Munich, 12,672 tons; Vienna,
12,310; Cologne, 11.455;
Brunswick, 9,943, and Lud-
wigshafen, 9,412.
The great land area of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics has helped to protect her from aggressors, from
Napoleon to Hitler, just as the seas have protected Eng-
land. The Soviet Union occupies 1/6 of the earth’s land
surface, 8,819,791 sq. miles, nearly three times area of the
continental U.S. (3,022,287 sq. miles). Her population is
192,695,710, compared with 131,699,275 for the U.S.
%
When The Leaders Met ■
WHO WHEN WHERE WHY
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL August 1941 At Sea Draft Atlantic Charter. i
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL December 1941 Washington Map global strategy, pledge no separate peace, outline declaration of United Nations.'
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL June 1942 V/cshington Plan invasion of North Africa.]
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL January 1943 Casablanca Decide to demand "uncondi- tional surrender."
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL May 1943 Washington Plan intensified drive on Japan, invasion of Sicily. „
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL Auqust 1943 Quebec Name Lord Mountbatten to Southeast Asia command,1 study global strategy.
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL September 1943 Washington • Map closer cooperation with] Russia.
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL CHIANG KAL-SHEK November 1943 Cairo Plan to strip Japan of half- century's conquests, pick Gen Eisenhower as invasion chief.
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL STALIN Nov -Dec. 1943 Teheran Plan 3-way blows to crush; Hitler.
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL INONU December 1943 Cairo Discuss Turkey's role. ,
ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL September 1944 Quebec Plan disposition of defeated Germany, advance Pacific strategy.
ROOSEVELT
CHURCHILL
STALIN
,<S
February
Crimea
1945
Map program for final de-
feat of Nazis and occupa-
tion of Germany after the
Reproduced above is the first clear photo we’ve received
of the h s-oric B'g Three meeting which took place recent-
ly at Yalta. Seated are: Prime Minister Church 11, President
Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin. Left to right, in rear, are:
Adm. Sir Andrew Cunningham, Adm. Ernest King, Air
Marshal Portal and. Adm. Will 'em D. Leahy with other
I high ranking Allied off.cers. (Photo by U.S. Army Sig.
Corps.)
GERMAN
ANOTHER
DISGUISED AS YANK MEETS
GERMAN—DISGUISED AS TANK
A CNS story says that a'
German soldier disguised as
1 a GI slipped within Ihe Am-
erican lines recently to dis-
Real GIs found them a few
minutes later wrestling in
ti:e snow.
i
rupt communications. Once1
inside, however, lie changed
his mind and surrendered to
the first American sergeant;
he met.
2o:i Boos Eid laager
St’IIio Undertaken
Hating Protest
“I’m a German,” lie said.
“So am I,” the sergeant
replied, “you traitor!”
SUCCESS STORY
A want ad which appear-
ed last week in a Birmingh-|
am, Ala., paper carried the
following announcement:
“For sale, one pair of shoes.
Going back to Mississippi
just like I came.”
The Navy announced this
week that a thousand Sea
Bee members of the 34th
Constr. Bn. ended a two day
hunger strike Monday in
protest against alleged dis-
crimination in awarding
p omolions to the rank of
Chief Petty Officer. Veter-
ans of 21 months’ service in
the Pacific, the Sea Bees
were said to have resented
a plan lo give the ratings to
men brought in from out-
1 side battalions.