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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-12
BRITISH, ITAL0
PACT PROBABLY
Be SIGNED SOON
Agreement in Patching Up
Three-Year-Old Quar-
rel Reported Near
FRANCE is LIKELY
TO FOLLOW ACTION
Accord Contains Several
Major Items Including
War in SIP ain
Bu Associated Press

Great Britain and Italy are re-
ported ready, barring a last minute
hitch, to sign on Saturday an agree
ment patching up the three year old
quarrel that started with Premier
Benito Bussolini'S invasion of Eth
iopia and was continued because OF
the Civil War in Spain.
On the agreement, British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain pins
hopes on winning Mussolini from
the Rome Berlin alliance and res
toring him as a counterweight to
Hitler's ambitions in Central Eu-
rope.
Parliamentary quarters in Paris
predict that France will follow Great
Britains lead in conciliating Italy
and recognition of the Ethiopian
conquest.
The British and Italian accord is
said to contain mutual recognition
of Italian and British interests in
the Mediterranean, Suez Canal and
Red Seas areas and withdrawal OF
Italian troops from Spain.
Pledges are also to be made re-
garding Italy's hating of anti Brit
ish propaganda among the Arabs
in the Near East and other points.
If the three n ations, Great Brit
ain, France and Italy get into a sure
agreement it may ease fears of the
Fascist-Nazi threat.
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improvements
For HarbOrs in
Alaska Are Up
House Committee Approves
of Projects at Skagway
Also Unalaska
By J. j. ECKLES
Secretary to Delegate Dimondo


WASHINGTON, April 4-(Spe-
cial Correspondence AT a meet
mfg of the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors March 30 two
new Alaska hafbor improvement
projects were taken up and approx
ed for inclusion in the general riv-
er and harbor bill expected to be
enacted before the present session
Of Congress adjourns. The two Al
aska projects passed upon at this
meeting were the Skagway harbor
and the Unalaska harbor, on both of
which reports favoring certain con-
struction were made to Congress
by the Chief of Engineers about the
middle of March.
Authority for the preliminary eX-
aminations and surveys on which
the reports were based was obtained
through the efforts of Delegate Di-
mond, who succeeded in having the
harbors at Unalaska and Skagway
included as items on which surveys
were authorized in the river and
harbor Act approved August 30,
1885. AS a member of the House
Committee on rivers and Harbors,
the Delegate was present and fol-
lowed up his sponsorship of both
projects through the meeting of
the Committee in which they were
approved for a classification in the
bill which will authorize their con-
struction when enacted into law.
At SkagDay
The Improvements recommended
at Skagway are expected to serve
a two-fold pupose in that they will
afford flood protection to the town
from the Skagway River and also
prevent the shoaling of the bot
tom at the wharf Construction sug-
gested by the Chief of Engineers to
accomplish this will be a "rubble
breakwater 1900 feet long across
the tide flats just east of the pres
ent river mouth; continued on the
north by a reverted earthen dixie
extending upstream 6,70O feet to
high ground on the east side of the
river The dixie is required to pre-
vent overlapping of the low river
banks, with resultant flood damages
within the town. The dixie and
breakwater in combination will div
ert flood-waters of the Skagway
River from the town and from that
part of the harbor used by the larg-
er type of shipping. The estimated
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SALMON DISPUTE STILL IN CONFERENCE
Proclamation

The general health, happiness life, safety welfare
of each of citizens depend wholesome surroundings
and good living conditions accumulaons
vacant lots yards industries and homes not only disease
breeders but potential fire hazards city should stimulate
its civic pride by Transforming every danger signal into
beauty spot.
THEREFORE l. H. l. Lucas Mayor of the City of Juneau
do hereby designate and proclaim the beginning April 25
Prevention Cleanup Week call upon all civic and
associations educational Institutions both private and
public the citizens general active part the
constructive program planned for community welfare.
testimony whereof 1 hereby sign my and Seal
of Office this 18th day of April 1888
(Signed) H. l. LUCAS,
Official SeaD Mayor.
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Air Mail Service
To Interior Step
For Development
Inauguration of Juneau
Fairbanks Route Hailed
as Great Movement
Mrs. David NJ. Hare
BY j. J. ECKLES
to Delegate Dimond


WASHINGTON, April 4.-(Spec-
ial Correspondence = Inauguration
of the long sought air mail service
from Juneau to Fairbanks on April
26 will mark another definite step
forward in the success that has
resulted from the consistent efforts
of Delegate Dimond and many
others to extend air mail routes
in Alaska and to establish through
air service from the States to the
Territory.
Announcement of the award of
contract to the Pacific Alaska Air
ways-the only bidder for the serv-
ice-Was made by the Postmaster
General on March 30. The weekly
scheduled service will leave Juneau
en- route to Fairbanks shortly after
the steamer arrives on Tuesday,
and in order to provide the greatest
possible time to patrons replying 20
communications received, the south
bound flight will leave Fairbanks
each Sunday in time to connect
with the steamer southbound at
Juneau and due in Seattle Thurs
day. Flying time between Juneau
and Fairbanks is approximately
four and half hours, which will
clearly advance the delivery of mail
carried by air to the interior five
days over present steamship and
railroad schedules.
Qualification
The Delegate has expressed par
ticular qualification that the new
service will be initiated with the
customary domestic air mail post
age rate of cents per ounce,
instead of with surcharge which
the Postmaster General is author
lied by law to fix at any rate not
to exceed 80 cents per ounce or
Is cents per half ounce The sur
charge applied to delivery of mail
to Honolulu from the States is set
at 20 cents per ounce, and it was
thought that under the authority
of law granted the Postmaster Gen
eral a similar rate might be set
for this service in Alaska. AS it is
with the regular 6-cent air mail
postage letters mailed in the in
terror of Alaska will have the bene-
fit of the expediting service south
to Juneau and also all connecting
domestic air service in the States.
With these connections letters mail
ed in the East can be delivered
in Fairbanks in five and half
days. This timing, of course, cannot
be mad every day of the week, but
will require that letters be mailed
early Friday each week in any
eastern city. The round-trip time
required on this basis will total
only IA days for the air mail reply
Continued on Page Severn
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Vote Confidence
In Da|adier, His
National Defense
French Premier May Be
Granted Request to Rule
Nation by Decree

PARIS, hr1 f2.-The Chamber
of Deputies today geve the National
Defense Government. of Premier
Daladier a vote of conf dence, SIG
to 5.
The vote came after the Premier
promised the French Government
will keep armament factories oper-
ating in spite of the wave of strikes
involving 10000 men and more
than 100 plants.
The Socialists reserved opinion
on Daladier's request for the right
to rule France by decree until Aug
ust 1. The vote today indicates he
will get his decree powers without
the support Of the Socialists.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-12
FARMER RUNS
AMUCK
FIGHT, STREET
One Deputy Shot Down
Another Reported Crit
ically Wounded

CAMPTON, Kentucky April 12.--
I. N. Combs, Jr., 19-year-old farm
err, who killed Deputy Sheriff w
M. Perry and wounded Deputy
James Dykes critically in a gun
battle on the street, is held in close
quarters after he surrendered.
Deputies were attempting to ar
rest young Combs after he had
been elected from a restaurant for
drawing a revolver.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-12
Weather Bureau
Recommendations
Are Turned DOWn
No Stations for Anchorage,
Ruby-No Extra Help for
Juneau, Other Points

WASHINGTON, April H. The
House Appropriation Committee to-
day rejected the Weather Bureaus
recommendation for $4,000 APP
preparation for weather bureau sta
lions at Anchorage and Ruby, Al
aska, and also rejected the assign
ment of one additional employee
each for the stations at Juneau,
Fairbanks and Nome
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MEDIATOR SEES
ACCORD NEAR IN
FISH TROUBLE
Packers Representative Is
Not So Optimistic, Fears
Little Accomplished
BOTH GROUPS SILENT
AFTER NIGHT SESSION
Basis for Adjustment Is
Proposal that Unionists
Accept Best Offer

SEATTLE, April Pr will pre-
dict that by Thursday this salmon
dispute will wind up"
This was the statement made by
Federal Mediator Joseph Cheney
this morning as he left for his
home in Yakima. Cheney conferred
on the controversy until nearly
o'clock this morning, but following
the conferences spokesman for both
groups were non-committal on the
prospects for settlement.
Arthur Ellsworth, speaking for
the packers, said
II can't see anything particular
accomplished but we are not get
ting the groups of packers together
for nothing"
Cheney plans to return here
Wednesday night.
The present basis for settlement
is that the mionists return to work
at the 1896 wage scale, 10 to 20
per cent under last years scale,
and that a fact-finding committee
make a further award at the end
of the season if deemed warranted
ALASKA PACKERS DIVIDEND
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12.-AI-
aska Packers cut the quarterly divi-
dend to 81 a share from the 50
the last three years in
declaring a dividend payment on
May 10 to stockholders of record
April 10.
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ASKS REJECTION
WAGE, HOUR BILL
American Federation Pre-.
sents Request to House
Labor Committee

WASHINGTON, April II. = The
American Federation of Labor has
urged the House Labor Committee
to reject the Wage and Hour Bill
proposed by the Subcommittee.
President William Green, of the
AFL, said the bill will give the
Fee deral Government dictatorial
control over the relations between
employers and employees.
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EMPLOYERS IN
WEST ALASKA
FACING PROBE
About 300 Delinquent on
Filing Old Age Pen
sion Reports

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 12.-
o. s. Sullivan, Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue in Alaska, reports
there are 300 Southwest Alaska en-
ployers who are delinquent on fill
ing their annual old age pension re-
ports under the Social Security Act
An investigation has been started.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-12
v|CE-PRES|DENT
GARNER OPPOSES
PUMP PRUNING
Makes His Objections at
Conference Held at
White House

WASHINGTON, April II. - Vice
President John N Garner is re-
ported opposed to pump printing"
of expenditures and further in
creasing the United States indebt-
edness.
The objection is reported to have
been interposed at White House
conference on the proposed relief
and expenditure boosts.
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T.J.FINNECAN
PASSES AWAY

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April r.
Thomas J. Finnegan, brother of
Jack Finnegan, died here on Sun
day. He was a former Division En-
gineer on the Alaska Railroad was
employed at one time by the Alaska
Road Commission and was for
mer star ballplayer.
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Allocate Money
For bPR Roads

WASHINGTON, April IL. = The
Forest Service Department has al
located 1927 900 for Alaska con-
struction of roads and trails. 1t is
part Of the proposed seven million
dollar agricultural department ap-
preparation bill.
The reported ALLEGATION of $227,-
900 is part of the regular $350,000
annual appropriation to the Bureau
of Public Roads for forest reserve
roads and trails, according TO
bureau officials here.
MINING MAN TO WESTWARD
c. A. Whitney, widely known min
ing man of the Forty Mile country.
is a passenger aboard the Yukon,
returning to the Interior for the
seasons mining operations.
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Japanese Planes
Discovered Over
Soviet Territory
One Craft Is Forced Down
in Chase-Pilot Is
Under Arrest

MOSCOW, April 12.-Russia has
protested to the flight of IL Japan
csc Army planes over Soviet Terri
tory bordering on Manchuokuo, near
Polavaka.
Soviet planes gave chase and
forced one plane down. The Jap
anese pilot was placed under ar
rest Immediately He said he be-
longed to a japanese squadron from
Korea.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-12
Navy Transport
Has Narcotics;
Seizure Is Made

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, April IL.
United States Narcotics agents
have seized narcotics valued at $50
900, reported to have been SNUG
gled ashore from the Navy Trans
port Chaumont.
An unnamed member of the crew
has been arrested. The Chaumont
Just locked here last night from
Hawaii.
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TAKU SQUADRON TONIGHT

Taku Squadron, Sons of the Le-
gion, will meet at the Dugout to-
night at 7:30 for transaction OF
regular business, it is announced.
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Continued on Page Two
Evening star., 1938-11-20

When any one mentions Thanks
giving, we usually think OF Pilgrims,
turkey and cranberry sauce. Thanks
giving should, however, have another
meaning for the many Americans
who will sit down to a feast this
Thursday.
We should remember that the real
meaning Of Thanksgiving is to be
thankful for our many gifts. At
this critical time especially, all
Americans should be thankful that
they live in free country, headed
by President elected by the people,
instead of being ruled by dictator
We should be thankful that we
are able to worship as We please.
instead of being arrested because We
believe in God. We should appreci-
ate the fact that we have freedom
of the press and can read the truth
Free speech is thing unheard of
in some countries, but in America
we take it for granted. We should
be thankful for this, and also for
our court system, which assures
us fair trials. and for our economic
freedom. and for our many luxuries
such as automobiles. radios, etc
which we constantly take for
granted.
But most of all. we should be
thankful that we live in a peaceful
country which does not want war,
and which is trying its best to stay
out of war!
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Posers
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior Page Editor,

Attention! Forward march! March
right through these posers. = You
won't find them very hard!
l. Who was Florence Nightingale?
2. (a) What Is male sheep
called? 90 A female sheep? (c) A
baby sheep?
3. What is venison?
4. Who was Venus?
S. Who is United States Secretary
Of the Navy?
6. Who invented the cotton gin?
Z. What is the largest river In
South America?
8. What is a comptometer?
ANSWERS.
I. The founder Of the nursing
profession and famous for her work
in the Crimean War. 2. ca Ram,
90 eve, (e) lamb. 3. The meat Of
an animal of the deer family. 4.
The Roman Goddess of Beauty.
S. Claude Swanson Of Virginia. 6.
Eli Whitney. 7. The Amazon, In
Brazil. 8. A calculating machine.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Weekly Contest
Prizes Totalin9 SIS Are
Awarded for Best
Contributions.

Boys and girls are invited to write
and draw for the Junior Page. Sub
jects may include adventures, hob
bies, pets-in short, anything of in
terest to our readers. Written con-
tributions may be in the form Of
letters, stories, poems, jingles or
even bits of news concerning the
activities of boys and girls anywhere
in the Washington area. Cartoons
also are acceptable If they are well
drawn.
The authors of the best five con-
tributions published each week will
be awarded prizes Of 81 each. Here
are the rules:
l. Each contribution must bear the
name, age, address, telephone num-
Der df any and school Of the au-
thor. This information must be
placed at the beginning of written
contributions and on the back of
drawings.
2. Letters, stories, ETC., must be
written on one side of the paper.
Drawings must be in black India ink
and must be mailed fiat.
3. No contributions will be re-
turned.
4. The Star reserves the right to
publish any contributions received,
whether or not they are awarded
prizes.
5. Address contributions to the
Junior Page Editor, The Star,
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV, Warrington, D. G.
Evening star., 1938-11-20

bit of the pumpkin vine and leaves,
made of green paper. attached to
the pipe cleaner stem.
Big Chief Mud in -the-Eye. who
also will look well on the Thanks
giving table. is common clothes
pin with painted clothes and face.
His feet and arms are pieces of pipe
cleaner. and his hair and bonnet are
made Of colored crepe paper. He is
ready to go hunting with his bow,
made of pipe cleaner covered with
brown paper, and his matchstick
arrow. He stands on a milk bottle
cap.
His squaw also is made Of a
clothespin, but she is dressed in a
crepe paper skirt and blanket. She
carries a sleepy papoose on her
back, made of cardboard and crepe
paper Her skirt is red. as is the rib
bon on her black hair. The blanket
is brown.
Get busy now and see how good a
job you can do with these Thanks
giving favors. You can make a cart
and team of turkeys for the center
Of the table and a nut cup for each
guest And a happy THANKSGIVING!
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Pumpkin Pie
PRIZE CONTRIBUTION.

oy w AVDA mOHh1SS, IL, OF OIL
Jefer"on street NV: Truesdell
School, -~aun
1t Was Thanksgiving, and every
body was happy except Mary Anna
and her brother. Leonard. They
were poor-and very hungry.
Walking along a dusty country
road, they noticed the sweet scent
Of hot pumpkin pie. They followed
it to a farm house, then stood sniff
fing.
Suddenly. the door opened, and
out walked plump, rosy-cheeked
woman.
Hello" she said. Wont you
come in and spend Thanksgiving
with me? 1 have no children. and
it gets very lonesome for me some
times"
Two very eager and happy young
sters cried. "Oh, thank you very
much!"
The kind woman took Mary Anna
and Leonard into her house, washed
their faces and hands. and gave
them a lovely Thanksgiving dinner.
When they had finished. she gave
them each q plateful of food to take
home-one for their mother and one
for their father.
But best of all. she gave them
each a big pumpkin pie!
Evening star., 1938-11-20
History's ScraPbook
FLORENCE b. ALEXANDER
THANKSGIVING.

The first Thanksgiving lasted
three days.
Since the origin of New England
was religious. it was only natural
for Gov. Bradford to call the Pill
grims together after their first
harvest to give public thanks to
God-not merely for their abundant
crops, but for their new home. their
new freedom, their new opportuni-
ties. After each days Thanksgiving
services, there was "a community
feast Of wild turkeys. venison, fish
and maize, and many Indians were
present as honored guests.
In this age of running water. elec-
trio lights, automatic heat, etc, the
blessings for which the Pilgrims
gave thanks seem meager, indeed.
Their homes were little more than
shacks. crudely built Of handhewn
logs; they had no stoves, only fire.
places burning wood, which they
had to chop and drag from the
forest: no lamps, only wicks set in
oil; no plumbing, only springs from
which to carry water. Their furni-
ture was negligible. They had few
implements. little money, no luxu-
ries-only hardship. judging by mod
ern standards. Yet they had trust
in God, and gratitude to Him for
the blessings He had permitted their
energy, courage and persistence to
produce. And they had, above all,
humility.
In the years that followed, a day
Of thanksgiving was usually selected
by the churches or by the Governors
Of the various States. 1t was not
until 1889 that a day of national
Thanksgiving was designated by
George Washington in a presiden-
tial proclamation.
80 do recommend and as
sign Thursday, the 26th day of
November next" President Wash
ineton wrote. Ito be devoted by the
people of these States to the service
Of that great and glorious Being
Who is the beneficent Author of
all the good that was, that is OF
that will be. ="
Space limitations prohibit pubh-
cation of the full text of the procla-
nation, but teachers, students and
others interested may obtain copy
of it by sending 4 self-addressed.
stamped envelope to History's
Scrapbook in care Of the Junior
Page Editor of The Sunday Star.
Evening star., 1938-11-20

or candy. Each wheel consists of
four milk bottle caps glued together,
then pierced with q nail to attach
them to the wooden axle. The axle
is a fiat piece of wood attached
to the bottom of the container
with wire. The whole cart is covered
with orange crepe paper. while the
pumpkin stem is q short piece of
pipe cleaner covered with green
crepe paper.
The turkeys have pine cone bodies,
pipe cleaner legs and heads and
feather tails Turkey feathers give
a very realistic effect. Curve the
ends of the legs into feet and glue
them to milk bottle caps so they
will stand up. Then hitch the tur-
keys to the cart with string.
The little pumpkin nut cup is
made in the same manner as the
cart. except that IL inch section
Of cardboard mailing tube is used
An old napkin ring also would
serve. A round piece Of cardboard is
glued on for a bottom. then the cup
is padded with cotton and covered
with orange crepe paper. The cover
is padded milk bottle top with a
Evening star., 1938-11-20

so many different things at one
time or another that I can't re-
member all of them"
Among the collections that Mar
garet can recall, however, are books,
scrapbooks, post cards. postage
stamps, coins, handkerchiefs, pro-
grams of various affairs that she
has attended, souvenirs Of cities
which she and her relatives and
friends have visited, and lust plain
knickknacks"
The "knickknacks" include ar
ticles which, for one reason or an
other, don't fit into the classiflca-
tions into which she has divided her
variegated collection of collections
such as miniature dogs and other
animals. ornamental dolls. bottles Of
various sizes and shapes and badges,
buttons and pins bearing just about
everything from dogs to flags.
Margaret's scrapbooks contain
photographs and biographies of
movie stars, daily short stories
clipped from The Evening Star and
covers from This Week. the maga-
zine distributed with The Sunday
Star; historical data pertaining to
the United States in general and
the District of Columbia in particu-
lar, and clippings of newspaper ar
ticles describing the activities of the
Shriners.
But the bottles are Margaret S
newest hobby. She has them "in
the form of people, animals and
many other odd shapes she says,
adding:
Il have two bottles of which
am very proud. One is a small bot
tie that was made by one of the few
glassblowers in the United States.
1 saw him blow it from a tube of
glass. The other one is small cut
glass needle bottle with little gold
top. 1t belonged to my grand
mother. and was used to hold needles
when they were not in USE
Altogether, Margaret has about Is
bottles at present, and she keeps
them on a small, round mirror in
her bedroom.
Margaret, senior at Eastern High
School, came here from Philadel-
phia about four years ago. She also
has lived in Ashland, Mass; New
castle. Me-, and Portsmouth, N. H.,
and mementos Of those places are
among her collection of souvenirs.
Evening star., 1938-11-20
Learns About CITY
Bu AVANELLE GALLEY, II of

BIZ AVANELLE GALLEY, II OF zoos
Clinton street NE; Tatt Junior
High School.
have lived in Washington about
hve years. During this time, my
grandfather and other relatives
have visited us. BY showing them
the Nations Capital, have learned
q lot about it myself.
Some Of the places OF interest
that we have visited are the Capitol,
the White House, the Supreme
Court. the Smithsonian Institution,
the Cathedral, the Monastery, the
Monument and the homes of WASH
tngton and Lee. OF all these places,
the one I thought most interesting
was the Smithsonian.