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Evening star., 1939-04-09

What do you think of our young LADY,"
Audreys cheeks famed. Dad ~ she
said, helplessly. "Oh, Dad, please e-''
Miraculously, Mr.. Walton created diver
sion just then by dropping lighted cigarette
on the rug. But the situation was still dread
full enough, for the older people were return
ing to their unfinished bridge game, rallying
one another gaily. And had Audrey been left
on raft in mid-Atlantic with this young
man she could scarcely have been more ap-
palled
Audrey Mrs. Reynolds said, eyeing her
mildly, why don't you take Gene to the
other side of the room? Then your talking
won't disturb the rest of US
"Oh sure! said Audrey. She smiled at
her guest miserably and led the way without
word. He followed her. They seated them
selves with extreme care.
rs that chair comfortable"
Eyes. Oh, yes"
well, if it's not" Audrey said, after
pause, Il guess that chair in the other room
is more comfortable"
''Oh, this is comfortable all right"
She permitted an expression of deep anxiety
to fade from her face. Then. smiling as if
abstractedly, she began to trace design with
her fingertip on the arm of her chair For the
first time in her life she confronted conversa-
ton as social problem - not as simple
and natural process. like breathing Blu,
there was nothing in the world to say .
Il suppose you 60 to high school," he OBJ
served, bit abruptly.
''Oh, yes, I'm going to Medville High
suppose you'll be going too?"
mo, he said I'm going back to my regu-
lar school next semester I'll be graduating,
as matter of fact
"Oh, see," she said
But the way she said that had somehow
closed the topic like banged door. And now
Evening star., 1939-04-09

u UDREY REYNOLDS sat at a table by thu
~ window of her bedroom. She bit of
q - the end of bar of milk chocolate ant
then picked up her fountain pen - with al
air of almost insufferable boredom ''In 1873,
she wrote, ''the Turks signed the treaty O
San Stefano which was. on the whole ;
sensible treaty. She put down the pen. bi
off more chocolate and stared goomil,
through the window.
Norma Ramsay had emerged, suddenly
from the house across the street. At the SAM
time Bill Newman appeared from nowher
on his bicycle, languidly weaving semi-circle
down the sidewalk This circumstance seemed
to startle Norma almost out of her senses
but in moment she had recovered herself
For while she stood on the sidewalk talking
to Bill swishing her skirt bit and tossing
back her long straight bob of sand-coloret
hair. Then the two went their separate ways
with Audrey's eyes following her best frien'
in cold disapproval.
Mad about men," she said to herself
bitterly. Make cat laugh"
ton, to the treaty of San Stefano
This was not Audrey's normal mood. Their
was something wrong with her lately, as sh
realized we'll enough in the back of her minc
There was no obvious difficulty. She was
after all, the most popular girl in Medvill
High. She herself liked almost everybody, i
a casual kind of way and she had always ha
a splendid time. But something had gon
wrong within these past few weeks, somethin
that she could not explain, something tha
1t was linked, in some way with the curiou
change in Norma.
But because of British opposi-
tion," she wrote, with steadily wan
ing interest, "a conference was
assembled to revise the treaty of San
Stefano -"
She broke off. 'Yes, Mother" she
said.
Mrs. Reynolds stepped into the
room and closed the door. She had
that placating look. Nov. darling -" "
''Oh, Mother l don't have to meet
those WaltOns, do H.
Mrs Reynolds smiled family
You'd think it was some sort of
cannibal tribe downstairs in our liv-
ing room."
Audrey maintained martyrs 81
lence 1t would be embarrassing even to explai
why she hated to meet new friends of tn
family. Her father would say: We'll! Wha
do you think of our young LADY," The
there'd be all those sickening questions abor
how old she was and how tall she was and a
the rest of it.
Anyhow, Mrs Reynolds resumed, that
not the point. wouldn't insist on your meet
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Walton - although. as
say, they won't eat you - but they've got
son about your age who's just got here "
''Here2"
why not, for Heavens sake?"
''Oh, no reason - only he must be kind {
weird, that's all"
why weird?"
'Oh, tagging around after his father an
mother he just must be kind of weirt
that's ALL
Don't be silly, darling. He's come over t
drive them home - because they let him us
the car. And he's a very nice boy. They jus
moved here last week and he doesn't kno
any of the young people, so you must pu
yourself out to be pleasant, Audrey. Was
your face. come downstairs and be my deal
sweet-tempered little daughter. I'm sure
don't know what's got into you lately"
Evening star., 1939-04-09

We'll, what did you talk about, Audrey"
'Oh - everything"
We'll, don't see what you had against
that nice boy!" her mother persisted.
"Oh. didn't have anything against him
exactly"
But now Mr. Reynolds attempted un
successfully, to suppress yawn. TO bed,
everybody" he said, suddenly. ITO bed.
to bed"
That was what he said every night But
Audrey had never obeyed so readily. She
kissed each of her parents, and said good
night to them gently, as if they were very old,
old people who had been good to her when|
stairs She went into her room and closed
the door.
She stood supporting herself against this
door for moment, looking quite blankly|
into space. Then, with sudden start she|
raced to the mirror. So! This - Mis' - was
what she'd looked like.
She put more powder on her nose and
brushed her hair. She considered her refec-
ton earnestly for moment or two. Then,
obeying some obscure impulse. she threw back
her head. parted her lips little - and con-
templated the result with yelled and eng-
matte eyes. Then pricked by a sudden doubt
she picked up hand mirror and studied her
profile. More or less relieved, she abandoned
the profile and tried now. the effect of lower
ing her chin and looking up at herself with al
wonderfully tender and wistful expression !
Slowly the reflection faded from her sight
She was far very far away
This is it, she whispered. This is being
in love . :. this is being in love -
Evening star., 1939-04-09

single pair of shoes that don't look as if they
belonged to some Boy Scout or something?
Great big, old flat at-heeled shoes ANYBODY else
in this town -
"Wouldn't be seen dead in" her mother
concluded with puzzled smile. But last
Saturday tried to persuade you to do some
shopping, and you wouldn't hear of it, You
and Norma had other plans And what's
more -
She broke off. Audrey's attention seemed
to have wandered. Audrey seemed to be
observing her own fingernails as if she had
never seen them before,
This, as Mrs Reynolds reported afterwards
to her husband. was merely the beginning.
Something extraordinary had happened to
Audrey. She was no longer Audrey She was,
in fact. no single personality, but a bewider-
ing succession of personalities all vaguely
reminiscent of Vine Street and Hollywood
Boulevard. She had been trying out several
new ways of wearing her hair She had new
smile too - not the old swift grim but faint.
slowly deepening smile that was all COM
passion and tenderness There had even been
change in her voice. once pleasant little
piping voice, but now given to husky and
mysterious undertOnes
Naturally, her parents could not let these
things pass without quizziCal word or two
But Audrey was almost beyond reach of the
ordinary human voice She was living in
long, scarcely interrupted day dream. a dream
which transcribed minor details of time and
space and concerned itself, mainly, with the
scene of the next encounter with her loved one.
The course of the dream, varied in subse-
quent developments. began with the sharp
peal of the telephone. whenever the tele-
phone actually did ring, Audrey allowed her
Evening star., 1939-04-09

On the following morning AudreY
Reynolds came down to breakfast ad
usual. Neither of her parents noticed
any tremendous change in her. She
greeted them with vague smile
and slipped into her chair. She picked
up a spoon and held it poised, for a
moment or two, over her grapefruit.
Then, without the slightest warning,
she turned on her mother. Look -
she said. in desperation. Look
Mother. I've simply got to have
something decent to wear I've got to,
that's all"'
Mrs. Reynolds put down her coffee
cup. She had never been so COM
pletely dumbfounded in all her life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Bridges Hearing
 Is Ended
Special Examiner Goes East Will Make
 Recommendations

SAN FRANCISCO, Gal, Sept. 12. The deportation hearing against western CIO leader Harry Bridges has ended after being in session since July 10.
 Still unquestioned was the man the defense charged with heading a conspiracy against Bridges to dis credit the labor movement, Attor- ney Larry Doyle.
 Doyle was due in San Francisco yesterday but wire from Cheyenne, Wyo., was received that he could not arrive until today. Doyle also was due to show why he should not be cited for contempt for ignoring a subpoena.
 The defendant, Harry Bridges, was placed on the witness stand for the fourth time in yesterdays session.
 For the fourth time he denied un- der oath that he is or ever has been Communist or advocate of overthrowing the government by force. He denied that he had at tended any of 20 or 30 Communist meetings with former Communist organizer Miles Humphreys, gov- ernment witness. Humphreys said he had seen Bridges at many meetings.
 Law school dean, James Landis, the special examiner at the Bridges hearing, ordered deposition taken from Doyle when and if he arrives in San Francisco.
 The defense charges the former Portland Special Prosecutor with most of the evidence against Bridges, most of it allegedly by improper methods.
 The Harvard dean left for home last night He gave the government and defense attorneys until Sep tember A to file briefs. He said he would make his recommendations in the Bridges case to Labor Secretary Perkins by October 24.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Employees, Western
 Union, Are on Strike; May Be Nationwide

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. = The strike of the San Francisco Western Union employees threat ems to develop into a nation wide walkout.
 The national President of the C1O American Communications As sociation, Mervyn Rathborne, de- clared a national strike against Western Union might be called next week unless the company agrees to bargain collectively with the San Francisco local of the union.
 The union demands recognition, higher wages, reduced hours and other concessions. The company said it would bargain only with the association of Western Union employees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
OFFICERS ELECTED
 BY AUXILIARY OF
 AMERICAN LEGION
Six Juneau Women Are Chosen for Various
 Positions

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 12.- The complete list of officers chosen by the Auxiliary of the American Legion at the convention here is as follows:
 Elizabeth Nordling, of Juneau, President.
 Florence ONeill, of Cordova, First Vice. President.
 Ruth Morgan, of Ketchikan, Sec- ond Vice-President.
 Betty Mccormick, of Juneau, Sec retary- Treasurer.
 Madge Driscoll, of Fairbanks, His torian.
 Gertrude Bradford, of Wrangell Chaplain.
 Lulu Wortman, of Sitka, Sergeant at-Arns.
 Edna Raynor, of Anchorage, Ma tional Executive Committeewoman
 Esther Gullufsen nd Marian Hendricksen, of Juneau, Alaska Department Committeewomen
 Mildred Culver, Eunice Hahn, Lu- cille Stonehouse, Ina McPhee, Ruth Chase, Edna Policy, delegates to the National Convention.
 Most of the Legion Convention delegates left aboard Monday morn ing's train for home via Anchorage and Seward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
SENATOR B0RAH
 pLANST0 FIGHT
 LIFTING EMBARGO

. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12--Iso- lationist Senate Leader William E. Borah, has arrived in the capital determined to fight any attempt to lift embargo on arms shipments to warning nations.
 Borah's return to Washington came as President Roosevelt con- sidered calling of a special session of Congress to revise the neutral ity law.
 The Idaho Senator vowed he would try to block any attempt 10 revive the Administrations plan to lift the ban on arms shipments.
 Senator Borah led the fight last July which resulted in the block ing of neutrality consideration at the last session. The ldaho Sena- tor said that without waiting for any special session of Congress he would carry on his own fight against repeal of the embargo law by appealing to the people.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
! premiers
 AreHoIdinQ 5etrefMeet
Chamberlain and Da|adier Conferring with
 Big Council

PARIS, Sept. 12.-British Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier, somewhere in France" are meeting with the Su- preme British and French War Councils.
 The communique issued from Premier Daladier's office said two other members of the Council at tended, Gen. Gamelin, Commander in-Chief of the British and French armies, and Lord Chatfield. British Minister of Coordination of De- fense
 Premier Daladier left the War Ministry in Paris shortly after lunch today noon, accompanied by his military aide. They travelled out of Pari; in a powerful military car.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Secret Meeting of Two Powers Indicates
 Heavy Offensive POLES SAY GERMANS
 HELD AT STANDSIlLL
French Bdttering Siegfried Line Smelling Indus
 trial Town
lBy Associated Pressl

Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier are holding a meeting of the Supreme Council of the French British War Council to- day in France.
 Secrecy surrounds the meeting, held while Germany is reported to have made sweeping gains in Po- land and action on the Western Front seemed to foreshadow a French British major offensive.
 A French communique said the council confirmed completely the determination of Great Britain and France to help Poland.
 Close Around Warsaw
 A German communique said Nazi forces were closing around Warsaw and had crossed the rail- way due east of the capital.
 Another announcement said Poz- nan, and other former German cities in western Poland, have been captured, cutting down the size of a huge loop that encircles the territory which has still held out, despite further German penetra- tionS.
 French dispatches from tn e Western Front reported advance French guards had driven wedge into advance Qualifications of Ger many's Siegfried Line, in heavy fighting.
 City Is Shelled
 The wedge was reportedly driven east of Saarbrucken, where artil- lery today pounded the German industrial city.
 French reports said the city's de- lenses have slightly turned"
 German Army Field Headquar- ters announced a three-front of fensive has been launched in Po- land east of Lodz and northeast of Warsaw
 Contrary to German claims, however, the Polish General Staff said German forces have been fought to a standstill, at least tenn porarily.
 The German Supreme Army Con- mand declared however, that its
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Twenfy-fwo Men Drift Two Day af Sea Affer Ship Hifs Mine, Sinks

AMSTERDAM, sept. 12. - Twenty-two crew members of the Dutch steamer Mark have reached the safety of Danish, soil after two days on the high seas in open life boats.
 The Dutch steamer WIS blown up when it struck a mine off the Danish coast.
 The captain and other officers were wounded but all hands man. aged to escape the sinking craft in two lifeboats. One of the boat loads was picked up yesterday by Danish Coast Guard ship and the other lifeboat reached shore during the night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Mafanuska
 Gold Strike
 Is Reported
Biggest Mine in World, Claims Engineer of Colony Buffe

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12.-- Matanuska colonists report they are doing preliminary digging to deter mine whether mining is feasible on Massive Butte around which the farms are scattered.
 Civil Engineer Antone Anderson said the prospect assays $2.15 per ton.
 Colonist Lauren Smith is credited with the discovery on the Butte now used as grazing land.
 Anderson said "If the proposi- tion is tenth as big as it looks this will be the biggest gold mine in the world"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
SUBS SCORE BIG TOTAL,
 SHIPS SUNK
New 9,OOO-ion Tanker Is Lost by British fo U-
 Boat Affacker
(By Associated Press)

Allied shipping losses approached the 100000 mark in tonnage today as another British vessel was re- ported torpedoed
 The British Ministry of Infor- nation reporting on Germany's un- ceasing submarine warfare, an- nounced the British tanker, Inver- iffey, 9,400 ton vessel, was torped- oed and sunk near Havre yester- day
 The crew was rescued by the Standard Oil tanker R. G. Stewart, and later transferred to the City of Joliet. bound from New Orleans to Antwerp.
 The Inveriffey was built in Ham, burg. last year, and has been run- ming between the Gulf of Mexico and England.
 One other casualty reported was the blowing up of the 2,700 ton Fin fsish bark. Olivebank, about l05
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
A SHELLS, ONE TORPEDO SENDS
 ONE SHIP DOWN
Rescued CreWmdn Tells of YouthfuIness of U-
 Boat Attackers

HORTA, Azores, Sept. II. = Twenty-four survivors of the British ship Gartavon have arrived here aboard the Swedish ship Castor.
 The Gartavon was sunk 300 miles off Ushand, France, while enroute from Gibraltar to England.
 The rescued crewmen remarked on the extreme youthfulness of the submarine officers and crew, who fired A shells and one torpedo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
BRITISH TROOPS
 LAND IN FRANCE
Are Reported 10 Have AL ready Taken Part
 in Advance

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The Minis try of Information announces that British troops have landed in France and taken part in the advances in German territory
 How many men are in the expedi- tionary force and other details are not announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Goes
 To Fronf Now

BERLIN, Sept. 12-Field Mar shal Goering has left for the East ern Front to join unit of the air force in Poland.
 Goering as Air Minister is Su- preme Commander over the Air Forces. It was announced that Goering had completed tasks in connection with his post as chair man of the Ministerial Council.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Italy May
 Now Join
 With Nazis
Fascist Newspapers lndl- cate Nation 10 Step
 Into War
tBy Associated Press)

Great Britain and France look with worried eyes toward Italy as the Italian newspapers dropped pre- vious neutral stand and adopted a tone favorable to it's axis partner, Germany.
 The Allies fear that the, swing in sentiment of the controlled Fas- cist press indicated that Premier Mussolini has decided that the time has come for Italy to take an actual part in the European war.
 The Italian press has heretofore viewed German war news with friendliness and has until now re- trained from adopting critical att titude toward France and Great Britain. The newspapers are now es- pecially caustic in their criticisms of the plans to blockade Germany and predicted failure for the whole plan.
 The newspapers hinted broadly that Germany will not be isolated from her friends. Work on an in ternational highway to connect the centers of the axis powers difectiy was spurred by further executive or ders. Some of the plans for recon struction of certain portions of the road have been thrown out and in- stead the workers were ordered to concentrate on sections which so far are unopened Most of the activity on the road work is going on in Italy.
 The Italian press stated that the road was not large factor in their plans and that there were other ave- nues of transportation.
 Conference Is Called
 Shortly after the Italian papers appeared on the streets the British envoy to Rome appeared at the Ital- ian foreign office and had a 45- minute conversation with Count Ci- ano. The topic of their conversation was not discussed but it was as- stunned that the British representa- tive had inquired about the mean ing of the new tone and it's possible relation to Italy's future foreign policy.
 Earlier today Italian newspapers hinted broadly that there was a pos sibility that Italy might side with Germany as soon as a definite line of supplies had been established for Germany from Russia. First a path way must be cleared across Poland so that the supplies may travel across the country without inter ruption.
 Soviet Russia's Moves
 Another mysterious element to the European situation was added by the sudden outbreak of military activity by Soviet Russia. Vague and unsat- isfactory explanations were given out by high Soviet officials who stat ed that the army was being concen- trated along the Polish frontier to prevent retreating Polish soldiers from entering tho U.S.S.R.
 British observers believed that the Russian mobilization might be a warning to Germany that this is where the Polish border stands, and Russian territory begins However most military observers do not con- cur with this viewpoint and choose to believe that the commercial pacts and friendship agreements were but a small part of far-reaching secret agreement that undoubtedly exists. It is believed that perhaps Poland might be slated for partition between Russia and Germany. It was believed possible that when the Germans have conquered the area the Rus sians will move in to police it and then allow the Germany army to be free to fight France and Britain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
Ban Flying
 Over Canada

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 12.- The Civil Aeronautics Authority headquarters here has received 8 radio from Washington, D. C., to notify all Alaska pilots they cannot fly over Canada without special per- mission due to the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
HITLER HEARS MACHINE GUNS
 WHEN AT FRONT
Ch anceIIor Lands from Plane Visits Front
 German Lines

BERLIN, Sept. II. - Chancellor Adolf Hitler has flown to the Polish front the official German news agency DNB announces.
 Hitler landed in a plane behind the German lines bet---Sn Lodz and Warsaw and travelled within mile of the front where he could hear the staccato chatter of machine gun fire"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
HOPKINS IMPROVES

ROCHESTER. Minn., Sept. 12.- Commerce Secretary Harry L. Hop kins is reported somewhat im- proved. Hopkins has been in the hospital for treatment for more than a week. He was suffering from an abdominal ailment. Phy- sicians said that he probably would be out in about another week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12
HARRY WATSON ON
 WAY TO FAIRBANKS

Harry Watson, Secretary to Gov. John w. Troy. left on the Aleutian today for the Westward, enroute to Fairbanks on a brief business trip. Mrs. Watson accompanies him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-09-12

Panama Canal traffic tolls for the first seven months of 1889, its 18th anniversary year, totaled a little more than $13,00,000.