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The Washington Newsletter OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
 Delegate from Alaska
Washington, Aug. 28, l937 Alaska Development Plan

Senator King if Utah called up House Concurrent Resolution No. A. which had passed the House several days before and asked for its immediate consideration. No objection being heard, the bill was passed. This resolution re- quests the president to prepare and submit to Congress at the commencement of the next ses- sion a plan for the development of the resources and commerce of Alaska. In the case of this resolution the Senate Committee on Territories had approved the bill in the evening before but the report had not yet been printed and the bill was not on the Cal endar.
 Senator Schwellenbach, who had introduced companion res olution in the Senate, said that he would call up the House reso- lution as soon as it could be reach ed. However, before Senator Schwellenbach could be recogniz ed by the chair, Senator King, who is a member of the Territor- ies Committee of the Senate, secured recognition and asked for immediate consideration of the resolution. Under the rapid fire procedure which is frequently in vogue on the closing day of a session, in less than 60 seconds the resolution was passed.
 Work has already commenced on the preparation of the plan called for in this resolution. It is likely that the original draft will be made by the Territorial Planning Council, and then the plan so drafted in Alaska will be sent here to the several depart ments interested for further ex- tensive study.
 Bill to Abolish Fish Traps
 In response to my request to Chairman Bland of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, requesting further hearing in the next session on the bill to abolish fish traps, H.R.  1859, Br. Bland has written me as follows:
 T will try to set hearing a few week in advance of the next regular session in order to give you sufficient time to have wit nesses present. You will be not flied when a date for the hearings has been fixed"
 Public Building Program
 For Alaska
 The Third Deficiency Bill pass ed on the last day of the session
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CHINESE, DELEGATE TO LEAGUE ASKS JAPAN CONDEMNED
 ACTS AGGRESSION
(By The Associated Press)

GENEVA, Oct. 1, - China fatly asked the League of Ma tions' advisory committee on the Sino-Japanese war, to declare her the victim of Japanese ag- gression.
 The resolution was presented by Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate to the League
 Demands Condemnation
 He demanded that the com- mittee condemn the violation of international law and contract ual obligations 'sof which the re- solution accuses Japan" and
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condemn the illegal o.ockade or Chinese coasts.
 He further insists that the com mittee declare the facts consti- tute a case of external aggression.
 Plan Course of Action
 The resolution was introduc- ed soon after the creation of a sub committee to formulate a definite plan of action in the con- tlict.
 The United States was made a consultive member. A report is expected before the League As semlbly adjourns. it was stated
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Japanese Consider Further Warming Foreieners More Severe Aerial Attack
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated PreSS)
 SHANGHAI. Oct. 1. The are reported to be con- a further stringent warn ing to foreign powers, to evac- uate Nanking completely or face the danger of even more deter mined air raids.
 Interfere with Program
 The official central Chinese news agency said that the Warn- ing was based on the grounds that Japanese efforts to avoid in- ficting damage in the interests of third powers in the Chinese capital, had been the cause of Japans csc planes being shot down by anti-aircraft guns
Evening star., 1937-07-01

interpreter. ANY peasant could do
as good as that"
While in their tent. incidentally
I increased my foreign vocabulary 100
per cent; learning that "djiekuje (pro-
nounced jann-coo-yahn. I think
means thank you"
Hearing that the French contin-
gent had arrived, I determined to try
out my "parlez-vous" on them. In
the midst of my question one boy
turned to the other. signing, "Ah, ces
garcons charmants," which cut short
my speech and my visit.
Scouts from Mexico entered camp
in their own bus They will continue
to the World Jamboree, taking the bus
on the boat with them across and
back.
I had an interesting written inter-
view with the leader of the Scouts
from Lithuania, consisting of four
| questions:
@. Will you please write your name?
A. K Laucius.
@. How do you like 1t here?
A. Very nice.
Q. Are you going to the World
| Jamboree?
A. No.
@. How much does it cost you all to
come? mo answer, owing to shortage
| of English.)
The six Scouts from Lithuania have
| fashioned a wonderful image, right in
| the ground, Of Casimir, King Of Lithu-
ania in the eighteenth century and
i the patron saint of the Scouts. Using
| for material Lithuanian moss and
mussel shells. charcoal from the Mid
west, and good jamboree dirt, they
have made each detail perfect, down
to the fingers OF his hands. The image
shows Casimir stretched full length
on the ground, praying, his hands
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Janboree Snapshots
Taps Sounded From Monument Startle
Arena Workmen.

clasped together. His features and
robe are fashioned (by hand, Incl
dentally) in dirt, surrounding his
head are broken bits OF mussel shell
and fur on his robe Is moss, kind Of
gray, tiny bush. Circling the figure
are designs OF the Scout badge Of
Lithuania filled in with the shells. On
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Cows Shot to Prevent Tests,

NYACK, N. Y. lP).-Apparently
victorious in a five-year battle, two
officers Of the State Agricultural De-
partment arrived at Robert Gihson's
farm to administer tuberculin tests to
his two COWS.
They tried to keep their visit secret,
arriving at 5 am. in an effort to out
WIT Gibson, who had opposed the
tests. But Gibson won"
He had shot the COWS at am
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Must Swear ALLEGIANCE.

STUTTGART. Germany, July !
P),-The official German news agency
reported today that Catholic priests
and Protestant pastors who refuse
to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler
may no longer lecture in public schools
OF the state of Wurttemberg,
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StdI lieu as Iney
nearly stumbled
over a "ferocious
monster" tied up
to the gate. On
closer inspection,
it turned out to
be a lifelike dog
made of logs.
One Polish eX-
hibit was a huge
h a n dc arv d
eagle, the symbol
of Poland.
"P o ! a n d is
n o t e d for its
carving" said the
stenographer- h
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the face especially great care had
been taken. He almost seems to
breathe.
Miscellany.
The guard At the Washington Mon
ument places the number Of Scouts
going up ut over 1000 4 day .
Swedish boys look just rs were
expected-big and blond For In
spection. Canadian Scouts line up
facing each other in two rows, over
so to a row It Is either very hot
or very wet at the jamboree.
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BY GORDON ENGLEHART.

Local Scout assigned to cover the Jamboree
for The Star.
w YORKMEN on the arena
M looked up to heaven. They
" " could plainly hear the clear
notes of Gabriel's trumpet
moaning Taps" However, they
quickly went back to work when they
discovered it was only some Scout
practicing bugle calls at the top Of
the Washington Monument.
Visitors to the Polish camp were
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Foreign visitors to Britain in Apri
totaled 26,932, 4 record number.
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England wants cheaper airmail.
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Visitors to the Polish camp were
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Field Force Of WPA
Will Shift Nov. !

tcohtinued from r-ass one,
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CHAPTER Is

BUT TINS love for Alma
waxed, growing to- dimensions he
would never have believed possible.
Certainly his brief courts1ip of
Esther, when success had perhaps
come too easily, had brought him
nothing like it. All his senses
were quickened, he began to see
and feel things with the eyes and
nerves Of a poet. The summer
clad trees and woods Of West
Shilston, which he had been wont
to regard with a passively pleas
urable contemplation, became sud-
denly vivid and moving to him,
were invested with moods and an
active life corresponding to his
own newly enriched inner life, and
forming background for it. In
this golden, glowing state of
heightened perception he lived
more fully than ever before; it was
an Indian summer of romantic
youth, more fragrant for it's late
coming.
Only once did he approach a
revelation of his emotions to the
object of them. Hearing from an
Independent source that she was
going to Westbourne one Satur-
day afternoon, he drove to the
town himself, and by lettering
near the car park she was almost
certain to use, he contrived an ap-
parently accidental meeting.
It transpired that neither of
them had anything particular to
do, and his suggestion that they
should walk out Of town up the
high cliff path to Single Head
was accepted without denur. A
great wind blew off the sea, it
was too loud in their ears, the
struggle up the cliff too exacting
for them to speak; but both were
aware of an identity of tingling,
wind buffeted, sensation, an en-
veloping isolating communion of
physical experience not to be rem
dered in speech. They flung
themselves down on the short,
wiry grass at the top with the
laughing abandon of children.
ooh, Almaw exclaimed Tim
with half-smiling gravity, as they
recovered their breath. "Why
why didn't I meet you 20 years
ago."
Her face, as she sat with knees
drawn up, looking out to the dis
tant sea horizon, was averted from
him. She, did not speak at once
and he thought for a moment she
was not going to answer him. But
presently she said:
Twenty years ago. :. was q
little girl of IL then, at school.
was too good at tennis an6
hockey; it made me conceited anC
bossy. don't think you'd have
liked me much at IL, Tim"
Fifteen years ago, then"
IT think I was beginning to be
nicer then"
"And was married" He
shrugged his shoulders. Hel
frank eyes net bic.
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ct had a talk with Esther yesterday"

the meantime I've no doubt that
the best possible thing is for her
to have you with her instead Of
the nurse"
Tim got up, and put his arm on
the older mans shoulder.
you've made me enormously
happy, Harold" he said.
So the nurse departed, and
Tim returned to the big double bed
room on the first floor. In grad
ual, abusive way the thing got
about, the reasons for the pro-
longed separation and it's happy
termination. Tim gained a good
deal of credit from it.
Tins change of front was by no
means a matter Of impulse. He
was glad enough to have it regis
tered in this fashion, and given the
construction he desired. But he
had actually made up his mind,
after prolonged heart searchings
two days earlier. He had done so
quite suddenly, since it had fol-
xOW04 6SS q 41k1tu114 CO1O 14O4y VI LILO
decision to kill his wife. a@.
The. question as to how long he
would have been able to sustain
the negative burden of wife who
had become physically repulsive to
him must remain speculative. It
is arguable that the mental proc
esses leading up to his ruthless
conclusion were merely accelerated
by his swift and devastating pas
sion for Alma Shepherd.
He had called with Esther at
Maybank within a week Of the ten
mis- party. Others had been pres
ent and the occasion had lacked
complete informality; specifically
it might have seemed that the
friendship so promisingly begun
had lost ground. Alma had paid
him no special attention; it was
indeed to Esther that she seemed
more eager to make herself agree
able. The latter attracted while
still little mistrustful, had final
ly surrendered to the other Wom-
ans warmth and charm, and had
said as much after they had left.
Tins response had been per-
functory. He had felt himself
pushed a little into the back
ground, and was out of humor.
Fer the next two days he thought
very little Of. Alma and then an
unexpected encounter in the High
street had sent the blood rushing
to his head. He knew that he was
lost.
But. as always, his outer man.
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ner showed nothing of this. Na
rather stately handshake and
deprecating smile had indicated
only artless pleasure at :. casual
meeting. But the time was propi-
tious for improving the occasion
without unduly forcing the PAGES
he had just finished his work, she
had been doing little shopping.
His suggestion of an adjournment
to the lounge of the William and
Mary, the smart new hotel, had;
come naturally enough, and over
dock glasses of an excellent Anon;
tillado they warmed to each other;
The encounter was followed by
others, due sometimes to chance,
ming, and their friendship ripened
and was ratified. Tins behavior
was a model of propriety. He was
free with little gifts of flowers, but
he made her no. other presents. /
He showed more than his usual.
skill in determining his attitude on
every subject Of common contro-
versy, and, by delicate1y feeling;
his way a step or two ahead, he
created an air of active participa-l
ton in her opinions rather than Of
faccid Indifferent assent to them.
He took for granted her own
view of their relationship as al
thing pleasantly unconventional
but fundamentally harmless, yet.
divining that her Internationally.
was only skin deep, he never tried
to make love to her.
Very often they met at The VIII,
derness, to which she became a.
fairly frequent visitor, and he was
at first afraid that her habitual
candor would lead her to reveal to
Esther more about their outside
meetings than he thought desil-j
able. But his fears were ground
less. Alma was sufficiently Of the
world to know when candor should
be tempered with discretion.A BY
tacit understanding Esther was
told just enough to inoculate her
against the poison of gossip, and
no more. Her nature was not
naturally jealous and suspicious.
She had always been too sure
about Tim to worry seriously about
other women, and the habit Of II
years was not easily broken. She
liked Alma Shepherd, and after
time she could no more see her as
a rival than Phyllis Grantley or
any other woman friend of long,
standing.
Ito Be COntinued)
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Happily married, though.

Happily marrteG, thougn'
Eyes. -.
IT was married too.
"And not so happily"
She was silent for moment:
did you ever read 'Antic
Hay ?" she asked suddenly.
years ago."
"That youth in it. Cum
bril-. - She plunged into an
intimate account Of her married
life. She instanced the mild and
melancholy one" in Aldous Hulk
ley's novel, learning the reality of
love from supplemented crea-
ture by whose side he slept for an
entranced night without stirring.
To Cecil Shepherd that sort of
love had been the only reality.
"She's ripe for me-" thought
Tim exultantly. IT don't believe
she's ever had an affair, for all her
sophistication. But the chance
won't last forever. It will soon be
too late. :"
90. It will soon be too late. "
He had awakened suddenly in the
darkness the next morning, with
the echo Of his own voice ringing
in his ears. It was 3 o'clock, the
hour before dawn, and in the
deathly, hushed stiffness of that
summer night, his irrevocable
resolution was made. He was
quite calm, a little sorry for
Esther, but quite inflexible. His
purpose seemed to him neither
very dreadful nor very new; it
was as if he had been waiting for
a sign, and was now merely rati-
flying a decision reached months
before.
Before the summer was out
Esther must die.
So drastic and perilous a plan
had indeed not come quite out of
the blue to the devious mind of
this intensely respectable profess
sional man. He had toyed idly
with the idea of murder for many
years, though he had never before
had the occasion to give his specu-
lations a concrete relation to his
own life. But as solution of per-
sonal problems in the abstract it
had always appealed strongly to
him by reason of its directness
and fnality.
Life to him was a stream of
sentence, flowing briefly in the
sunlight, before returning to an
everlasting tunnel of black moth
ingness. It followed that every
mortal soul must be- prepared
when need arose to do battle to
the death for it's individual happi-
ness; for the opportunity would
not come again. /. F. Tim Ken
nedy's life had hitherto been a
happy one. He had not indeed
been born to aff1uence and leisure
He had had his difficulties, but he
had been. aware Of his power to
combat them by patient industry
and skill, without hazard.
The current of his existence had
long flowed, with no violent effort
into peaceful channel. And sud-
denly the stream had been rough
ly diverted; no amount Of patient
waiting would get it back into the
channel again; either it must
waste and spend itself in stony
places, or he must drive it back
by force, by sweeping away thu
obstacle. No other alternative
presented itself to him.
His lack of scruple was not due
to any positive cruelty, Of which
he was entirely free. Presumably
it derived from a Fundamental
callousness, but of a kind thai
transcribed the ordinary. He was
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Bv BRUCE H A WILT ON
4, ern nX CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

- an ego1st IN the most absolute
sense: he had no real belief in the
existence of any sensations, emo
lions, or thoughts, which he dio
mot feel in his own organs, his own
nerves, his own mind. He re-
garded the world as medium for
the exercise Of his personality and
the fulfllment of his desires. He
would have hesitated to put it even
| to himself that he was the only
entity with a positive conscious
existence on the planet, but sucn
was his private faith.
It followed that the only deter
rent likely to affect him was fear
of discovery and it's consequences.
And here his vanity came to re-
assure him. He had read many OF
the volumes giving verbatim re-
ports of famous murder trials, ana
had reached some decided concl'1"
sions about these cases.
The chief thing to strike him
was the enormous amount OF
bungling by these poor murderers;
blunders committed either through
stupid complacency, or lack of at
tention to detail, or insufficient
planning, or the recklessness Of
passion. They would buy their
poison at the chemists nearest to
their place of residence. Or they
would spoil by stupid reiteration
an originally bold and ingenious
method, bound to incriminate
them once the connecting link was
discovered. Or they would stab
or shoot recklessly, with no
thought of a line of retreat.
Bolder, but ultimately as fatal,
were the attempts made to con-
ceal the existence of a crime by
hiding or destroying the body.
The mechanical difficulties were
formidable, and even if they were
overcome, others remained. Several
had not escaped because of the
failure of the police to identify
the body of their victims; even
the failure to produce a body at
all had not in a recent case inn
peded a conviction.
Why had all these attempts
been foredoomed to discovery?
Tim Kennedy believed he knew
the answer-lack of simplicity.
There was some excuse for this
when the intended victim was
domiciled under roof other than
the destroyer's natural opportu-
nifty was lacking; it had to be
artifcially created, and the at
tendant risks enormously in
creased.
But this plea could not be urged
in the case of a wife, husband,
a parent, an employer, a servant,
or anyone living in the same
house. In such a case the actual
continuance of death, granted
the necessary resolution and irl-
fexibility Of purpose, was the
easiest thing in the world. There
was no artificial conjunction to be
planned; you had your victim on
the spot. The fear Of spying eyes
was reduced to n1inimum; it
could by care and opportunism be
practically eliminated.
Only, of course, this enormous
ly strong position carried its own
disadvantage. Granted that the
act itself presented the least pos
sible difficulty, the very existence
of the opportunity brought you at
once in the range of suspicion. It
therefore became necessary to
provide cause Of death, eand
more important still, to suggest d
means Of implementing the cause
which did not admit dispfoof-
Il ITO Be Continued)
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Tim Kennedy graduated into would
be homicide from the school OF arm
chair murderers. With a lucrative den
ton in a small town near London, Tim
at middle age, feels happy and secure.
Then Esther is run down by a, truck,
returning home weeks later a physical
wreck, with. all her former beauty
wife and is greatly attracted by Alma
',nepherd, widow and a new client
He rnaneuvers to invite her to their
annual tennis party. Tim assures
Esther that he still loves her. He be-
gins to see more and more of Alma
who Esther now considers friend OF
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NEVERTHELESS, within a
month Esther had her way about
getting rid of the nurse.
It came about like this. One night
Tim and DR.. Harold Arkwright,
who had dined at The Wilderness,
stayed up late playing chess.
Esther had gone to bed early, and
the two played on, in almost COM
plete silence, until Tim found his
queen hopelessly compromised, and
resigned. It was their second game,
and he had lost both. He had
played badly, without his usual
cautious concentration, and Ark
wright was unable to take much
pleasure in his success.
"What's on your mind tonight 2"
he grunted.
"Just off color, suppose"
Usually Tim took his defeats
hard from this physician-uncle of
.Esther's, though with complete
external serenity. But tonight he
was Indifferent.
~, scare to play another?"
"Good lord, no, it's nearly one"
"Well, have spot before you
GO"
He always offered a last drink,
which Arkwright habitually re-
fused. But for once the usual re-
fusal was not forthcoming.
"An right, I don't mind if do. -
He fingered his glass thought
fully. The two men had always
been friendly but never intimate,
and after a few minutes the 81
lence became uncomfortable.
There seems to be something
on your mind for that matter"
said Tim at last.
The doctor answered abruptly.
II had a talk with Esther yes
terday."
''Oh, yes?" Tim looked up at
him quickly.
"It's pretty difficult. I've al
ways been rather keen on minding
my own business, especially with
married people, but it looks as if
I've got to put my oar in here.
You see, I'm not only Esther's doc
tor, I'm her uncle, so I suppose ]
have bit Of responsibility.
Do you mind if ask you a very
personal question:"
Tim met his eyes candidly.
"Of course not, Harold. &C
ahead"
DO you regard. your normal
married life as at an end?"
"Not for a moment"
Good" Arkwright grunted in
relief. "I didn't want to put the
idea into Esther's head, but, OF
course, it was a possibility, and no
body would blame YOU"
He looked at Tim thoughtfully
"Of course, quite a lot can be
done to her." he added. "But she'll
never be quite the same, you
know"
do you think I don't know
that?" Tim leaned forward. "Look
here, Harold, we've never opened
up to each other much. We're
neither exactly demonstrative men
But since this has come up, I'd like
to say this. Nothing that's hap
pened to Esther makes any differ
ence to me at all in any way. She's
the ONLY possible woman for me
So long as it's better for her Tn
prepared to stick it out. I'm only
living half a life at present. But ]
want to get back to normal as
soon as it can be DONE"
"You mean that? ?"
absolutely"
swell, get back right away.
Esther told me you had scruples
but that's all nonsense. I'm wor-
ried about these Nightmares she's
getting again. We may have to &c
farther af1eld about them. But in
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CHAPTER IA

NEVERTHELESS, within a
month Esther had her way about
getting rid of the nurse.