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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Denolncement of Nine-POWer
 Treaty Is Indicated by Japan

TOKYO, Nov 4.-Japans For eign Office spokesman disclosed to- day that Japan considers obsolete the Nine Power Treaty, of which the United States is a signatory, guar anteeing territorial integrity in China
 It is strongly intimated that Ja- pan may denounce the Treaty.
 The spokesman also revealed that Japan is considering replacement of the treaty. signed in Washing ton in 1922, with new 3-power pact among Japan, her puppet empire Manchuokuo and her new regime in China, envisioning the displace- ment of the Chiang Kai Shek Gov ernment.
 Such a new pact ostensibly will be guarantee of China's territorial integrity after cessation of the pres ent Japanese-Chinese "undeclareo war"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
WAGE CUT ON
 US. RAILROADS
 IS WITHDRAWN
Nearly One Million Work CTS Are Affected by
 Today's Decision

CHICAGO, H., Nov. Al. J. Policy, President of the Associa- tion of American Railroads, an- nounced early this afternoon that the major railroads of the nation will withdraw the pres ent notice of a 15 percent wage cut for nearly 100000 workers.
 PelIey said he was sending a telegram to President Roosevelt informing the Chief Executive that "the railroads were taking this action not because they have agreed to the conclusions reached by the Fact Finding Board, but because they recog- nize the gravity of the situation and also because they hope that cut of it will come thorough CO., operation of all concerned for a sounder and more equitable transportation policy in this country"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
AYERS SOME REPUBLICANS
 MAY GET IN
Frank Knox Makes His Prediction on Next
 Tuesdays Polling

CANTON, Illinois, Nov. 4.-Frank Knox, Publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who went down in the Democratic landslide two years ago when he was candidate for Re- publican Vice President, predicts that 60 or TO Republican candidates for the House, out of 432, and six or seven Republican candidates for the Senate, out of 35, will emerge from the nationa lelection next Tuesday.
 Chairman James A. Farley Of the Democratic National Commit tee, several days ago predicted that perhaps 50 Republicans might be elected to the next Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
YUKON CONSOLIDATED
 GOLD co. IS MINING

Operations of the Yukon Con- solidated Gold Company will con- tinue until the middle of this month, according to reports received from Dawson today.
 The Yukon Consolidated is now operating nine dredges and a tenth is under construction. Employees at the present time number around 450 men including dredge, pipeline and point crews.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04

SHUNGKIANG, Nov. 4.-Japan's announced intention of bringing China into an economic and politi- cal bloc for domination of East Asia, brought angry retorts from Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's Government.
 China will continue resistance un- til Japan abandons the policy of aggression and encroachment, mem- bers of the Peoples Political Coun- cil. now in session here, declared.
 The Council members said there
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
WORD RECEIVED HERE

PWA officials here also an- nounced the award and said the paving will be nine blocks long, down Anchorage's 56-foot wide main street. A ribbon of concrete will be put down the center line for a 22- foot width and the sides of the street will be of asphalt, the first such street in Alaska.
 Preliminary work will be begun by the first of December, but the job is not likely to be finished until next summer with winter freezing preventing work.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Boettigers Are
 Expecting Stork
Daughter of Presiden n Roosevelt Looks for
 Child m March

SEATTLE, Nov. 4. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt are going to have a new grandchild next March.
 The Presidents daughter, Mrs Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, revealed that she is expecting a child In a signed article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer published by her hus- band, John Boettiger.
 Mrs. Roosevelt, visiting here foi few days, promises to return here for the event.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Declares Japan Hood'cinking
 World Regarding Government
 Proposed for Conquered China

is no hope of a respectable compro- mise with Japan at present.
 The Chinese spokesman also said the Japanese statement concern ing an economic and political bloc is an attempt to "hoodwink the western countries into the bellef Japan is fighting to protect the world from Communism"
 The spokesman also said that for 15 months the world has witnessed how the Japanese have tried to cre- ate new order "by killing and bombing civilians.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Mrs. C. Vaughan, Heroine of World War, Passes Away
Chauffered Field Marshal Haig Through Many
 Conflicts

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 4. Y Mrs. Catharine Vaughan, B, who chauf- feured Field Marshal Haig through several World War battles and re- ceived three wound strips, the Croix de Guerre from France, and the Silver Palm from Great Britain for bravery, is dead here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
SkagWay Pioneer
 Is Found Dead in
 Creek Near Cabin
Willis Hern, 8l, Apparent ly Stricken by Sud-
 den Heart Attack

SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 4. = Willis Hern, 81, father of Perry M. Hern, of Skagway, and an oldtime resident of this town, has been found dead in creek near his cabin. Death was apparently from a heart attack.
 Hern came to Alaska in 1913. He lived at Glacier Point until 1926 then came to Skagway where he re- sided since then.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Labor's Chief Question Is---
 Who's Head of the House?

What would happen if CfO and AFL leaders sat down to- gether again to try to harmon ize the House of Labor? In this third and last article on union labor's schism, Preston Grover writes of the prospects for peace among organized working men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
Baranof Hotel
 To Celebrate At Flag Raising

Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, flag raising ceremony will be heio atop the Baranof Hotel, celebrating completion of the construction job to the extent that the roof is now finished over the fourth floor and interior finishing work will begin
 Maybelle George, daughter of Wallis George, Secretary Treasurer of the hotel corporation, and De- maris and Lois Davis, daughters of James V. Davis, Vice President, will raise the Stars and Stripes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
STOCK IS GIVEN BIG CONTRACT
 AT ANCHORAGE
Awarded ,000 Job for Paving and Other
 Improvements

ANCHORAGE Alaska. Nov. A. The Anchorage City Council has awarded a $95,O00 contract to R. II. Stock Company, of Wrangell, for paving Fourth Avenue and in- stalling a light conduit system, also certain sewers and water mains.
 Work is scheduled to start De- cember 6 and may be completed by July of next year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
.W|NDS0R$ TO
 LIVE IN PARIS

PARIS, Nov. 4.-Freinds of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor said the pair will live here. They have taken home with the intention of occupying it permanently.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Nov 4. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9ss, American Can 101, American Light and Power 6la. Anaconda 36. Bethlehem Steel 68, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6ss. General Motors 40ss, International Harvester GA: Kennecott 45A, New York Central 19A, Safeway- Stores 26ss. Southern Pacific 1878, United States Steel GAS, Pound $4.76.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
STILL A FIGHT FOR CONTROL


 As the price of reconciliation Lewis demands that all 32 unions be chartered in AFL before they begin negotiating terms of union jurisdic- ton. With his new strength he probably would have voting control in the merger. He then could de- eide jurisdictional disputes in favor of his own industrial unions. That would weaken the craft unions and leave many craft officials jobless.
 Green refused. He proposed in- stead that only the old CIO unions be rechartered at once. That would assure Green a majority and leave Lewis fledgling industrial unions to the mercies of the old line crafts Lewis would not accept.
 There are dozens of points of conflict. The Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America (C1O) Is in the mems clothing field now oc- cupied by the United Garment Workers of America (AFL).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04

Lucille Fox, who has been south on her vacation, returned home aboard the Princess Norah.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
WORKERS WANT PEACE

The newly chartered AFL seafar- CTS union is bitter rival of the Ma tional Maritime union (CIO). Sever al AFL crafts claim jurisdiction in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are todays Dow. Jones averages: industrials l52.l0, down 21; rails 3176, down .80 util- ities 2360, down .35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
INVESTIGATION
 IS STARTED IN OAKLAND CASE
Terrific Explosion Occurs Below Waterline, Out
 side of Ship
6 DIFFERENT PROBES
 REPORTED UNDERWAY
Four Members of Crew In- jured - Ship Appar-
 ently Is Sinking

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov {. - Evil dence of possible sabotage arose today as six separate investigations got underway into the sinking yes- terday afternoon of the German liner Vancouver, of the Hamburg American Line, after terrific ex- plosion, below the waterline.
 Four members of the crew were injured in the blast.
 Eight passengers on the ship were not harmed.
 District Attorney Earl Warren. after an investigation, said:
 We are of the opinion that the explosion was not in the engine room or aboard the ship anywhere"
 German officers and crew mem- bers declared the blast was not acci- dental.
 Capt. w. Moessinger said the ex- plosion was damned suspicious"
 Three members of the crew, standing at the control board in the engine room, six yards forward from where the blast occurred, said the detonation must have happened outside of the ship or they would not have been alive to tell the story.
 CRIMINAL SABOTAGE
 OAKLAND, Gal, Nov 4. = Baron Manfred von Killinger, German Consul General, with headquarters in San Francisco, declared that yes- terdays accident was "an act of criminal sabotage and this was re- sponsible for the explosion
 The Consul General further said that small clique is aiming to destroy, by secret warfare, the basis of ordered society and T deeply regret the attacks against my coun- try which have now resulted in a concrete disaster
 The ship, now anchored in the harbor, is reported taking water faster than three pumps can dis charge it.
 Members of the crew declare that bomb fell on the ships deck. -
 CLAI MTWO MEN KILLED
 HAMBURG, Nov. 4.-Officials of the Hamburg-American Line said two members Of the crew of the Vancouver were killed in boiler tube explosion after leaving Ham, burg on September but maintains that this has nothing to do with yesterdays sinking of the vessel in the harbor of Oakland, U.S.A.
 The newspaper Borksen Zeitung captioned the explosion From The Land Of Gangsters." The newspaper commented on the peculiar stan- dards of morality in the United States and the American habit of interfering in the happiness of totalitarian states
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. The clash of policies and personalities certain to develop around the coun- cil table that seeks to harmonize AFL and CIO will make the parti- ton of Czechoslovakia look like a game of pinochle by comparison.
 Neither side has backed down an inch from those forlorn days last fall when three negotiators from each side met day after day in the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington. Their conferen c e cracked up on shoals which have grown even larger since to inter- fere with reconciliation. Stripped of all parsley, the issue is: Whose outfit will rule, and what will be its policies?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-04
THEY SPLIT IN 1885


 In 1885 when John L. Lewis, then an AFL vice president, formed the Committee for Industrial Organiza- ton, the moderate differences might have been patched up between lead- CTS less crusty than Lewis and Will liam Green, president of the fed eration. Already there were sever al industrial unions in AFL, nota- bly Lewis coal miners and David Dubinsky's Ladies Garment Work CTS
 But in the other mass industries, such as steel, automobiles, and tires, where Lewis wanted to or ganize the labor on mass basis were certain old-line craft unions Green insisted they should be al- lowed to keep their separate iden- tity apart from any mass union.
 Lewis pulled nine industrial un- ions out of AFL with million mem- bers, the bulk of them coal miners The CIO quickly brought in or or ganized g more unions to a grand total of 32 and a membership of perhaps 3,8O0,000, and it swung ac- lively into politics, in sharp viola ton of an old AFL credo.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
Males for Next Season
Should Be Chosen Early

If one desires to hatch ones own
eggs next year, now is the time to
select the cockerels that will be need
ed, says writer in the Missouri
Farmer. AS the chicks grow, the
topnotchers of the flock begin to
show up. They forge ahead of their
fellows, and plainly indicate that
they possess more vigor, faster
growing and feathering qualities
than their brothers. These are the
ones to mark for breeding purposes.
Out of hundred males there will
be a half dozen or so of these top
notchers. These should be kept
throughout the summer and then
next fall culled again, since sew
eral of them will fail to maintain
the pace set by the leaders. A few
more than will be needed for the
matings next year should be kept,
since one or two might die in the
interim. In selecting cockerels for
breeding purposes, vigor is the all
important consideration. Lacking
this quality, male is worthless be-
cause his offspring will be unsatis-
factory.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
Weedy Milk

From the standpoint of herd man.
agement there are two things that
can be done to prevent weedy-fa-
vored cream. One is to keep the
cows off the weedy pasture for from
three to five hours before milking.
That may in some cases mean that
the COWS will have to be taken off
the weedy pasture at noon and in
the evening before retiring for the
night, during the time. that the
weeds are at their worst stage, says
Hoard's Dairyman. The second way
to avoid weedy cream is to provide
the cows enough good feed so they
will not be forced to eat weeds.
When cows have access to a good
pasture, they will usually leave the
weeds alone. If the pasture is short
it should be supplemented with hay,
grain, silage, or green feed. A com.
bination of these two methods is ex.
cellent. Turn the cows on the weedy
pasture after milking but transfer
them to a good pasture or to a
yard where they have access to
other feed three or four hours be-
fore milking. ~.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
Aviators Meet Few Birds Flying Above
An Altitude of Five Thousand Feet

How high do birds fly in their sea-
sonal journey? Actual evidence
above the earth is still scanty, and
only since the development of the
airplane have definite altitudinal OBJ
servations become available, writes
Eleanor Allen in the Portland Ore
gonian. Earlier observers main
tanned that most normal migrations
took place at heights above $4,000
feet. They attempted to justify their
theory by an uncertain belief that
flying became easier as altitude was
gained. Aviators, however, are op-
posed to that theory, as it is found
that with greater altitude there is
increasing difficulty in maintaining
speed and height.
From considerable number of
records based on the experiences of
airmen, it has been found that it is
exceptional in flying to meet with
birds above an altitude of 5000 feet,
and that the bulk of migration is
performed below height of 5000
feet from the earth.
Birds occasionally fly at great
heights. DR.. A. F. r. Wollaston, when
on the Mount Everest expedition in
1921, recorded godwits and curlews
at 10000 feet. 1t also has been re-
corded that an observer making pho
tographic observations of the sun at
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
Cross-Breeding

For many years American poul-
trymen have, by crossing different
breeds, produced chicks that show
sex differences by the different col
ors of the males and females. Rhode
island Red males, for example,
crossed with Barred Rock hens pro-
duce black female chicks with black
shanks. The males, also black, have
yellow shanks and a white spot on
the head. Another example of cross
breeding for sex determination Of
chicks is the crossing of rapid-feath-
ering Single-Comb White Leghorns
with slow-feathering Single Comb
White Leghorns. The male chicks
have small primary wing feathers.
Females hatch with larger pri-
mary wing feathers. Cross-breeding
has its limitations, however. Two
breeding lines must be maintained.
Generally the poultryman wants but
one breed.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
FARM
Tories
SHOULD BE READY
FOR THE HARVEST
Have Equipment in Repair
To Handle Fruit Crop.
BY M. B. Hoffman, New York State
College of Agriculture.
WNU Service

Harvest time is busy time for
the fruit grower. He has to esti-
mate the crop, plan for dependable
pickers, and have on hand the need
ed supply of baskets, boxes, pads,
nails, liners, and similar equipment.
Everything included: in the equip
ment of harvesting and packing
should be in good repair ahead of
time. Ruts and rough places in the
orchard roadways should be re-
paired to prevent bruising the fruit
when it is hauled from the orchard.
The right kind of picking ladder is
big satisfaction. For peaches,
prunes, and small apple and pear
trees, the stepladder is desirable.
A stepladder, wide at the base, mar
rowing toward the top and with a
single leg for support, is the east
est to place among the branches.
For mature apple trees, the rung
ladder with wide base and COM
ing to a point at the top is the most
satisfactory. The larger ladders
should be made of light wood. Bass
wood makes an excellent ladder.
The type of containers used in
handling fruit has a great influence
on the amount and severity of bruis-
ing. In general, picking containers
with rigid walls cause the least
bruising.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
SYNOPSIS

Richard Exon poor young Enghshman,
befriends elderly Matthew Gering. who at
his death, gives him a statement claiming
he, Gering, is Rudolph Ebert Virgil, Count
was betrayed 20 years before by his twin
brother, Ferdinand, whose sentence for
forgery he himself served. Ferdinand ap-
propriated his title. property and daughter.
Before he dies. Gering tells Exon there Is
family secret. known only to the head OF
Brief, by doorway none can ever find.
Exon inherits his uncle's fortune and sets
out to right Gering's wrongs. En- route
he encounters Percy Ebert Virgil, son
in conference with Inskip. a diamond
merchant. He engages valet. Winter,
who hates Percy and meets by chance at
garage. John Herrick, who is linguist and
who as youth served as page at Gering
wedding, and had visited Brief. Herrick
quarters at Brenda Revoke's farm at
Raven, few miles from Brief and make
their plans. They find the castle almost
inaccessible. They see closed car &C.
cupied by Percy Virgil, a chauffeur and
woman. Hearing dog scream, they see
the chauffeur f1ogging it, just as horse with
girl astride bounds along the path and is
telled by strung wire. The girl, uncon-
scious. is picked up carelessly by the
chauffeur and woman, who then run away,
after dropping her. Exon rescues the girl
and carries her to his waiting car. He identi-
fies the girl as Elizabeth, daughter of the
disowned Gering, tells her of her cousins
plot to abduct her and takes her to Raven,
where he tells her the story Of her father
and promises to go the limit to help her
right her fathers wrongs. Incredulous at
first, Elizabeth gradually wins faith in her
benefactor. Percy Virgil brings the police
to Raven. announcing that two strangers
are being sought for the kidnapping Of
Elizabeth.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
BANNER SERIAL FICTION
Q Dornford Votes

have been turned to stone. Then a
SILVER ran through him, and hand
went up to his mouth.
But the police had no eyes for
him. The two were staring at Her
rick as though they would read his
soul.
cat what times" said the ser
geant, "did you enter and leave the
estate?"
eve entered at four and we left
about half past six"
There was an electric silence.
Then
81 am bound to inform you," said
the sergeant, "that what you have
just admitted makes your position
most grave. The outrage was COM
mitted this morning at six o'clock"
"Perhaps," said Herrick, cit was
not committed by u.s."
The sergeant shrugged his Shout
ders.
81 shall have to-"
II think it is clear" said Virgil,
"that this gentleman is telling the
truth" The two police stared upon
him as though he were out of his
mind. 81 mean, if he we're guilty,
he would scarcely have made an
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-01
wNU Service

AS the answer went down, saw
Virgil wipe his face.
Zone of the three" said Herrick,
twas a woman. She had a dog on
lead"
"A dog?" cried the police, togeth-
er.
IA long-haired, black-and-white
dog: mongrel, about that size"
Struggling with his emotion
''Sir," cried the sergeant, 81 beg
that you will forgive me if I have
seemed something short. I have to
do my duty, and your interest, in
Brief seemed strange. But now I
know that you are telling the truth.
The dog you describe was found at
large in the park"
Respectfully thanking Herrick and
handing him back our map, the SER
geant begged that he would describe
''the delinquents you so providen-
TALLY saw''-and Herrick complied
with a gusto which did my heart
good.
His picture of Percy Virgil was
actually taken from life. Lazily sur
veying his victim, he drew a merci-
less portrait of that unprincipled
man: and I find it hard to believe