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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
eHoroscobe "The stars incline
 but do not compel

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888
 Good and evil planetary aspects contend in the horoscope for today, according to astrology. Business should be extraordinarily active
 Portents of deception and intrigue are discerned for international re- lations, but there will be many ex- pressions of goodwill from foreign powers. M
 This is not a favorable sway for ocean travel, but promising for aii transporta tion. Naval matters may be disturbing as the new year be- gins.
 This is a date most promising tc merchants, engineers, contractors and manufacturers. Banks will profit as ambitious projects begin for 1939.
 Next month the United States will face severe tests in progressive and liberal policies.
 Women will find this a lucky day for entertaining.
 Unexpected difficulties obstruct- ing his colonial ambitions will be encountered by Mussolini in Abys- sinia.
 Saturn the reaper is to bring a balancing of accounts in human experiences as the old year ends, and surprising events are forecast Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of hard work and increased returns. Women may lose valuableS.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be keen, energetic and successful Subjects of this sign are studiouS and industrious.
 Hervey Allen. novelist, was born on this day 1889 Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Albert Abrams, physician, 1863; Joel Chandler Harris, author, 1848.
 Copyright, 1938)
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That Door Just Isn't Open Any More
Philadelphia Record)


 That b-a-n-g heard round the world the slamming shut of the once Open Door in China.
 And our diplomats present a rather pathetic picture as they pound their fists metaphoricaly on the door and shout:
 You can't do that to us!"
 Fact is the Japs have closed the Open Door The sooner we face that-and also the fact that it's going to stay cosed-the better for the U S. A. and for people,
 Last January Ted O Thackery, former publisher of the Shanghai Post and Mercury, pointed out that the Open Door wasn't going to be open much longer, no matter who the war in China
 If the Japs won, they'd close it. If the Chinese won they'd close it. And if Russia decided to Iake over China, they'd close it.
 That door just isn't open any more.
 Whats more in common honesty, we might rec ognize that the 'open door policy was fraud rom it's very start The whole presence of foreign Powers in China was matter not of preserving Chiha put of exploiting the country.
 The "open door policy merely set up system for division of the spells.
 Of course the story never put just that way. Cur own activities as well as the activities of other Powers in China always have been well coated with altruism We Occidentals even set ourselves up as martyrs by talking about The White Mans Burden
 Yet now that Japan has taken that burden off the white mans back-the white man IS sore as blazes
 That's because it wasn't burden.
 That's because the Western world is worried less over the fate of the Chinese than over the fate Of those vested foreign interests in China which are just about to lose their vests.
 From the Treaty of Nankng, in l842, by which the British compelled the Chinese to submit to the importation of opium down through the Hay Treaty of 1899 and the Nine-POWer Pact the Occden- tai role in China has been sorry one.
 If we are sincere-yeS, if we are sensible-We should be glad that role is over. We may not Ike the idea of the Japs in control of Chinese commerce. El1t ie only
 War with Japan.
 Is America prepared to embrace that alternative to preserve the shoddy policy of the open door?
 If so the longer delay the more munitions we sell Japan, the tougher the job we are laying out for ourselves.
 But if we do not intend to go to war with Japan over the "open door policy and everybody including the State Department, knows we don't
 Then it is time ceased the warfare by mail which has characterized relations with Japan for the past years Dangerous as well as futile is the role of international common scod. We gain no points win no friends.
 The American phrase for such a situation is Put up or shut up" And that's what we should do To yammer, roar-and then do nothing-is to advertise to the world that Uncle Sams bark is much much than his bite.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
on YEARS AGO Ao From THE EMPIRE
nECEN1RER I 1Q18

DECEMBER ', 1918
 R. R. Young, agent of the Pacific Coast Coal Company, received word from s. Howard Ewing, formerly of Juneau and for many years agent for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, that he had recovered from serious attack of influenza.
 pr. Emil Krulish, head of the Red Gross relief expedition which had come north to aid in the fighting of the Spanish influenza epidemic, arrived in Juneau on the Cedar.
 The Alaska troops at Camp Dodge were being transferred to another Eastern camp, according to tele- gram received.
 H. G. Weir arrived on the North western from Seattle He was regis tered at the Gastineau Hotel.
 A. Greenbaum, who had been on business trip to Ketchikan, re- turned to Juneau on the Northwest ern and was staying at the GaStin- eau Hotel.
 Roy Rutheford. a lumber man, formerly of Fairbanks, arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern and was registered at the Gastineau Hotel
 The following staff officers were elected for the 1919 Totem of the Juneau High School; Mary KaShe- varoff, Myrtle Jorgenson, Roy Tor when, Dorothy Troy, Bud Smith, Belle Hood, Emmett Connor, Charles Perelle, Marion Summers, Vivian Sparling, Gertrude Nelson, Elvi Torvinen and Nadia Kashe- yaroff.
 Weather: highest 31; lowest 32; snow.
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Try an Empire au
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

ADNERIISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received at the City Clerks Office, Juneau, AL laska, until 400 PM, December 21, 1888, for the construction of con- crete pavement and sidewalks for the City of Juneau and will then and there be opened and publicly read aloud. Bids received after the time fixed for opening will not, be considered.
 Plans and specifications may be examined at the office of the Pa cific Builder & Engineer, 3103 Ar cade Square, Seattle, Washington. A set of plans, specifications, and forms may be obtained at the City Clerks Office, Juneau, Alaska, upon deposit of $500 The full amount of deposit for one set of documents will be re- turned to each actual bidder within a reasonable time after receipt of bids. Other deposits will be refund ed with deduction not exceeding the actual cost of reproduction o1 the drawings, upon the return ot all documents in good condition within 30 days after the date o1 opening bids.
 Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashiers check or bid bond with authorized sure ty company as surety) made pay able to the owner in amount mol less than 5%o of the amount of bid The City of Juneau reserves the , right to reject any or all bids, anc to waive informalities.
 No bidder may withdraw his bic after the hour set for the opening thereof, or before award of con. tract, unless said award is delayed for a period exceeding 30 days.
 It is estimated that there will b' available for the work to be don, under this advertisement substan tially the sum of $110000
 ETTA MAE KOLASA,
 City Clerk.
 Juneau, Alaska. First publication, Nov. 30, 1888 Last publication, Dec. IA, 1888.
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LOOK and LEARN
 By A. c. Gordon

1. Who wrote, "Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been? 9 What is cerography? 3. What color symbolizeS North ern Ireland?
 4. What is the oldest branch of the U. s. Military Service? 5. Which country has the great est railway mileage per capita?
 ANSWERS 1. John Greenleaf Whittier, in Maud Muller"
 2. The art of making characters or designs in, upon, or with wax. 3. Orange.
 4 The Marine Corps. 5 Canada.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT

Serial No 09253
 Tn the United States Land Office for the Juneau Land District at Anchorage, Alaska.
 In the Matter of the Application of FRED E. BRANDES, citizen of the United States, to purchase public lands under the Act of May 26th, 1884 (48 Stat 809). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fred E. Brandes has filed ap- plication, Serial No 09258, in the United States Land Office at An chorage, Alaska, for patent to land hereinafter described under the pro- visions of the Act of Congress of May 18th, 1884, (48 Stat 809) for land situated at Angoon, Alaska, and more particularly described as follows, to-Wit:
 All of Lot Eleven CID, Sec tion Twenty (25), Town ship 50 s, Range 67 E, Copper River Meridian, containing 1.36 acres; and Lot Six (6), Section Thirty-six (36), Township 50 s, Range 67 E, Copper River Mer- idian, containing 3.21 acres; | both of said lots being located at approximately Latitude 570 3O' N, Longitude 134o 35' ". and being the same land elim- mated from the Tongass Ma tional Forest as Homestead No. 4O8 under executive order dated December IA, 1887.
 Any and all persons claiming ad' versely any of the above described land should file their adverse claim with the Register of the United States Land Office at Anchorage Alaska, within the period of pub lication or thirty (30) days there after, or they will be barred by tn, provisions of the statutes.
 Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, thi 9th day of October, 1888.
 GEORGE A. LINGO,
 Register. First publication, Oct. 26, 1888. Last publication, Dec. 21, 1888.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
BLOWING OFF STEAM

One of the best things the American people do to assure continuation of democracy is blow off occasionally Every four years blow off at a national election which tones up for a whole. In the meantime we find lot of other ways to exhaust our pent up emotions At the present time in Juneau we are resortng to citizens meetings which are an excellent medium for getting that heavy burden off the chest and starting out with better feeling n the morning But it appears that in the national picture the now justly famed Dies committee which was named to investigate unAmerican activities is the principle avenue of letting off steam and if it doesn't accomplish anything else it will have served worthy purpose as pressure-relief group
 The Dies committee is in session again and prob ably will be until around the middle of the month report on one of it's recent sessions told in the New York Times is revealing, interesting and for most of us a bit amusing. Here's what happened al the fireworks, name-cang session, according to the Times
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes, prodded by an intimation that his interest in the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union made him Com munist called the Dies hearings "a side show that had gone beyond the bounds of proprlety and decency" He called Chairman Martin Dies Texas Congressman, "outstanding Zany."
 Representative Dies countered by calling MT Ickes a master of abuse" who literally reeks with the venom of hatred Washing tonians could not recall that the Secretary and Congressman had ever met socially. They were sure that after these exchanges the two men would be uncomfortable in the same
 
 Alice Lee JemiSon, whose code name is "Po- cahontas" spoke for the American Indian Federation She attacked recent legislation which she alleged sought to restore the h. dianS to state of communal bliss" John Collier, head of the Indian Bureau, accused Miss Jemison of being agent for a racket that obtaining money from the Indians to finance bill through Congress.
 Sam Baron, former Socialist and cores pondent in Spain for the Socialist Call de- nounced alleged Communist influence in LOy- ast Spain the slogan of peoples front" and the "totalitarianiSm" of Communists. Norman Thomas chairman of the Socialist party, 'Tepudated' by telegram all Socialist connection with MT. Barons testimony.
 Representative Dies who has repeatedly attacked as radical many New Deal aides, placed in the record article alleged to have been written in 1881 by David J. Saposs, NLRB economist, that asserted "the world cannot be served by captalistic devices. MT Saposs retorted: q entertained such views and so I couldn't write such views" Other interesting revelations may be eXpecta from the committee which is looking into things among the list of witnesses reported summoned Gypsy Rose Lee, strip tease artist
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
BRITISH COLUMBIA BACKS INTER NATIONAL HIGHWAY WITH CASH

Concrete evidence that British Columbia is in full accord with the proposal for building the Inter- national Highway through it's Territory from the States to Alaska was revealed yesterday when the provincial Legislature voted s25,0O0 toward prelim- mary survey for the proposed route.
 Under the leadership of Premier Patulo, British Columbia has been from the start friendly extend
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
OUT FOR WINTER

MT and Mrs Alex Mathieson oi Flat, passed through Juneau this morning on the Princess Norah boarding that vessel at Skagway after flying to Carcross from Fair banks
 The Mathiesons are mining in the Flat area and plan to spend the winter Outside
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07

The last Ice Age. which began at least 30,000 years ago, is slowly dis appearing. as the glaciers keep or melting; but in Antarctica enough ice remains to encase the entire earth in a layer 120 feet thick.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07

Hitler announces he will put Germanys gigolos to work pouring concrete on his western frontier fortlfl- cations. Too bad he can't find something for crooners to do.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07
eHatby
 Birthday

The Empire ertendS congratuld- tionS and best 1DiSheS today, their birthday anniUerSdr? o tue tollot0- ing:
 DECEMBER 2 Mrs A. R. Edwards Carolyn McAlister Ethel Fukuyama l Lois La Casa M Frank A. Olson Rudolph A. Shinnberg
 Jacynth Sey
 Mary Loken Robert Arnold Hildre Robert Sarovich
 Echo CangaloSi
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MORTEN HOFSTAD DIES

Morten F. Hofstad, 82, passed away recently in Petersburg. He was born in Helgeland, Norway, and had been long time resident of Alaska. He went to Petersburg about ten years ago from Wrangell where he owned a store He also lived for a time in the Interior near Fairbanks and during his AL aska residence had a varied and interesting career.
 Varied filings for baked apples might be: brown sugar, jelly, jam, prunes, dates, coconut mince meat or sausage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07

A Californian reports that he has developed a white tomato. That glad shout you heard is from the ham vaudeville actor who has found that red stains don't launder easily from white shirt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07

Scientists show members of the Royal Photogra- pc Society of Great Britain how odors can be photo graphed. picture of corned beef and cabbage would be interesting and surely appetizing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-07

King George and Queen Elizabeth have accepted the invitation to visit the United States next June Whats this a payment on the debt?
Evening star., 1938-02-19
SEARCH CONTINUED
FOR WOMAN SLAYER
Colored Youth Wanted in Connec.
ton With Murder of Bal.
timore Resident.

Police in Washington and other
nearby cities continued their lookout
today for colored youth wanted in
connection with the murder in Balti-
more Thursday of Mrs. Sophie Pagan,
62-year-old widow.
Scores of colored men were ques-
toned by Baltimore police yesterday
and last night in search for a youth
about 20, who was seen by neighbors
washing windows at Mrs. Fagan's house
about two hours before her body was
discovered. She had been nearly de-
capitated by two slashes across the
throat and the body was severely
bruised
j. Charles Pagan, her son, an attor-
ney in Baltimore. expressed the belief
robbery had been the motive for the
crime, since money which he said she
usually kept on her person could not
be found.
Police pointed out, however, that her
earrings, valued at $500, we're not
taken and purse containing about
Sl1 was found in the disarrayed
kitchen where the body was found.
Baltimore police have furnished de-
scriptions of the suspect to nearby
cities on the belief he may have fled
to another town.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
TAPPONNIER GETS
3-T0-15-YEAR TERM
Waiter Given Maximum Sentence
in Staying of William NJ.
Harris.

Louis ]. Tapponnier, %, waiter.
today began service of a 3-to-15-year
prison sentence imposed yesterday by
Justice Jesse c. Adkins of District
Court following the mans conviction
a week ago last Sunday of man.
slaughter.
Deliberating slightly more than a
hours, a jury reported at IL am. on
the Sabbath. Tapponnier had been
charged with first-degree murder in
connection with the shooting last Oc-
tober IL of William M. Harris in a
Ninth street cafe. He was prosecuted
by Assistant United States Attorneys
Charles B. Murray and Cecil Hefiin.
The sentence was the maximum per-
mitted by law.
The shooting occurred shortly be-
fore am. Two hours before the
Staying both Tapponnier and Harris
had been arrested following a fist
fight in the same restaurant. Tap
ponnier's attorney, James A. O'Shea,
said there would be no appeal.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Veteran of Indian Campaigns
Is Taken to Hospital for Aid
Judge Continues Case
of Vagrancy Until
Foot Is Treated.

A 75-year-old wanderer, penniless,
foot-sore and weary, was sent to Gal
linger Hospital today from Police
Court, where he was taken on a
vagrancy charge by officers whose
sympathy he had won with his stories
of Indian fighting in the old West.
Judge John P. Mcmahon continued
the case for 10 days and ordered the
defendant, Albert Nelson, to the hos
pital for treatment for a foot injury.
Nelson said he was veteran of the
22d Infantry during its campaigns
against the Sioux, Black Feet and
Crows in Montana.
Police found Nelson yesterday in a
dilapidated lean-to which he had
erected on a dump in the 1900 block
OF Wisconsin avenue NV.
The white-haired Wanderer had
been regaling children of the neigh
borhood with tales of Buffalo Bill,
Wild Bill Hickok and other picturesque
characters of the days of his youth
when the West was wild and woolly."
For their part, the children fed the
hungry man with sandwiches and
cakes gathered in raids on their
mothers pantries. Officers D. N.
Bradshaw and G. o. Miller took Mel
son to No. precinct.
There police listened to his stories
and Clipped in to buy him an extra
meal Nelson was taken to George
town Hospital to have an infected foot
dressed.
Police hoped the old man might
be given a pension or a berth at the
Cd Soldiers Home if his stories of
Evening star., 1938-02-19
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press.

oy lho hosoSiotco
CHICAGO, Feb. l9.-Wheat prices
staged a strong recovery from early
fractional declines today. rising as
much as li2 cents from the low points
Of the first hour to almost cent above
the previous close
SnoWfallS that in some places in
winter wheat territory were reported a
foot deep had depressing effect and
caused the early downturn, with May
wheat falling to 9ls. and July to 877s.
Selling was moderate. however, and
after it was announced that 100000
to 100000 bushels of hard winter and
Pacific had been sold for export and
securities offered a show Of strength
short covering caught the pit bare of
offerings May wheat advanced to
1914 and July to 89ls and then mar
ket backed and filled around this level.
Overnight moisture. supplementing
that received in the Southwest earlier
in the week and coupled with fore
casts of possibility of more precipita-
ton next week frightened the wheat
crop prospects considerably. traders
said. A decline of Us to l5s cents
at Liverpool on increasing Australian
offers and weakness here yesterday
was largely ignored.
Corn prices advanced fractionally.
strengthened by indications of in
creased export business and declining
country offerings apparently because
OF bad roads and strength in hogs
which favored feeding operations.
Corn export sales we're estimated at
200 900 bushels in addition to a vol
ume yesterday reported around mil
lion bushels, the largest single days
business in several weeks.
Oats and rye markets were quiet
while provisions were lower with
packing interests reported sellers.
Around midsession. wheat was ls-as
higher compared with yesterdays
finish, May, 92a4; July, sss4, and
corn was ss-5s higher, May, 6O.;
July, 6134.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Police Adopting Camera to Get
Speeders' Tag Number at Night

Mr.. Foote said he planned to place
the equipment in three or four cars
operated by each Of the 10 troops in
Pennsylvania.
The camera would be set up close
to the windshield of the ghost" car
and could photograph through the
glass OF the windshield. getting the
license plate Of car in front or of
vehicle coming in the oppsite direc-
ton.
Flashlight equipment would be
synchronized on headlights at the
front of the police car to take pic
lures at dusk. If headlights on the
offending car were so bright the ordi-
nary flashlight bulb could not pierce
them after dark, an infra-red screen
would come into play. There would
then be no flash to divert the driver.
The speedometer in the police car
would also appear on the photograph
through . mirror arrangement.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
FRENCH WIVES FREED

PARIS. Feb. 10 (P.-Emancipation
of French women from their CEN
turies-old obligation to 'obey" their
husbands became effective yesterday
with publication of the new civil
rights bill for women in the oficial
law journal.
The law, which modifies the Ma
poleonic code. still acknowledges the
husband as chief of the family" but
drops the obligation of the wife to
promise to obey and rules that "a
married woman has full exercise Of
her civil capacity"
Under the old code married wom-
an, like a child or an insane person,
was denied civil rights.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Six WOrkn,en
Erect Steel
House in Week
Pretabricated Expe.
rinuental Dcelling
Costs $4,000.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Feb. l9.-Six work.
men. on the job only week, put
finishing touches today on an expert
mental all-steel. prefabricated house
in suburban Clarion.
Starting from the ground up, they
constructed the concrete block founda-
ton in one day; the walls and rafters
in another and had the dwelling un-
der roof by the end of the third.
Windows and plumbing fixtures re-
uuired two more days and today the
workmen devoted to decorations.
The Blaw-Knox Co. designed and
manufactured the house during seven
months of experimentation. Engineers
for the firm said present cost was
about $4,000. but that costs probably
would be reduced as production in
creased
The dwelling has four rooms. kitch-
en-dinette; two bedrooms and living
room. In addition, there is bath
and a utility room for the furnace
and laundry. There is no cellar.
The design of the experimental
house is Colonial, but engineers said
20 exterior designs are possible and
that rooms may be increased to five
or six without difficulty.
Similar houses will be developed
in a new community to be constructed
near Clarion for workman employees
in Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corps giant
new s60,000,00O Irving works, now
nearing completion.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Ex-Pittsburgh Mayor Offers
Economic Rents to End Slump

'As an example" he said. "a firm
here in town pays $500 day for
corner location. and pays gladly be-
cause all roads lead there. Now
the community created that advan-
tageous position and the community
should get some of that revenue, above
what is collected in taxes from the
owners. 1t shouldn't go into private
pockets.
Then take another location not SO
available The business occupying
that site doesn't take in as much
and pays less rent. So the State
would collect less economic rent"
Mr.. McNair resigned as mayor, re-
tired briefly from the public eye, was
defeated in the last mayorality cam
paign and then announced his candi-
dacy for the Democratic nomination
for Governor.
He said he had been receiving a
great many" offers of assistance in
his campaign and that most of them
were from the banks of the creeks
and the grass roots voters.