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Evening star., 1939-06-01

WHY SACRIFICE YOUR PROPERTY?
Brick or frame. GOOD or bad condition
We can sell for cash If reasonably priced
Can Dupont 1855 A. D. TORRE REALTY
CO, 1925 North Capitol St
S,BEDROOM HOUSE . BATHS; QUIET.
white neighborhood: close to transporta-
ton. Call Mr. Moore
ADELBERT w. LEE.
1343 H St NV Dist. 1900
personally will pay oash for your 3, c.
property. white or colored G g. DUTY
lO24 Vermont ave National 44S2
WE HAVE CASH BUYERS FOR YOUR d
G. property if the price is right Frame or
brick, large or small condition immateriaI
R. A. HUMPHREYS,
SOS No. Cap Realtor Natl OS1s
Evening star., 1939-06-01
HOUSES FOR SALE.
DO YOU WANT

A center-hall, Groom. 2-bath home with
really large rooms. in one of our pret-
tiest suburbs. and at a very attractive
price? Then call Wisconsin 5s1l or Ad-
Evening star., 1939-06-01
$6,950.
4 Bedrooms-2 Baths.
TakOma Park Md

$500 Above the 1st Trust of 81 500
Will purchase this semi-detached home: 6
rooms bath. hot-water heat, large lot. 10
clated on Allison street NV. Call Wis
Evening star., 1939-06-01

SHEPHERD PARK LOT
Price. 50 $50. Close to 18th and Kalnlia
road Call Mr. Schirmer
THoS. E. FARRELL CO.. Realtors.
72l 10th st. NV. National O765.
Evening star., 1939-06-01

NEAR Goth AND F SITS NV
Convenient to the Interior Department and
many other Government buildings-A very
excellent detached brick home on large lot.
over 80 feet front, nicely Handicapped The
house contains Is rooms. baths auto
matte heat and Is in excellent condition.
The property has been most reasonably
priced for a quick sale.
For full particulars see
SULLIVAN BROTHERS.
Evening star., 1939-06-01

OPEN FOR INSPECTION 4-8.
PRICED TO SELL TERMS TO SUIT
1902 27th st. NV Near Wardman Park
Hotel. Eight rooms, garage, modern THOS.
D. WALSH, INC. s15 11th st. NV. Dis
trict 1887
Evening star., 1939-06-01

WoODsIDE PARK, S1.35O
70'x1T5', facing 100 parkway. Block to
bus. ROBT. GAYLOR. Shepherd 2145.
Evening star., 1939-06-01

BUILDERS ATTENTION!
Columbia 1865
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Alaska Road Would Help
Safeguard Security Is
View Expressed
COOPERATION HELD
EXAMPLE TO EUROPE
Hope TO Start Building At
fer Joint Meeting at
Ottawa, December

SEATTLE, Aug. 15.-Congressman
warren G.. Magnuson told The
Washingtonians, Seattle club, to-
day that the Alaska International
Highway would do much to safe
guard the peace and security OF the
continent.
He said: what great example
that would be for the United States
and Canada to set before the rest
of the world. Europe's disputes are
all based on important territories
and frontiers, yet we have possibly
the greatst undeveloped frontier IN
the world. I should think it would
make some of these European pow
ers ashamed of themselves if We
Canada and the United States
should develop it by peacefully sit
ting around a conference table"
He declared a life line Alaska
ward would benefit the Navy as
much as money spent on the most
powerful cruiser.
Magnuson said the United States
and Canadian highway commissions
will meet in Ottawa in December
"As result of that meeting we hope
to sell the idea completely and in a
short time thereafter get the high
way underway"
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BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-These
are the days of the great congress
sional filters. Brave Senators who
never have WINGED under the ex-
change of oratorical punches on the
Senate floor dread what they will
find at home when they begin meas
uring the support they will have
next year.
Some ABS House members return
to the same situation.
The reason for the worrying Is
this: While there are two sum-
mers between now and the 1910
elections, there is only one sum-
mer between now and the next
primary. And that summer is the
present one.
A few members of Congress live
in states where the primary comes
late next year, so they will have
an opportunity to put up case
after the 1910 session OF Congress.
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JAPANESE FISHING
IN BRISTOL BAY
STILL DANGEROUS
FrieIe Urges Establishment
Of American Rights TO
0ffshore Fishing

Declaring that the question OF
japanese fishing in Bristol Bay is
no closed issue, H. b. Freile, presi-
dent of the Nakat Packing Com
pany, who arrived in Juneau this
forenoon from the Nakat cannery
at Waterfall. urged again the pas
sage of the bill before Congress
that would claim for the United
States water in Bristol Bay of less
than 100 fathoms in an attempt
to prevent foreign fishing off the
coast of Alaska.
Because little has been said
about japanese fishing this year,
we have a tendency to allow our
selves to be lulled to sleep on the
question, when, as a matter of
fact, it has assumed more seri-
Gus proportions than ever before"
Mr.. Friele said today.
The cancellation by the United
States of its trade agreement with
Japan threatens to have a serious
effect in Bristol Bay. Without the
trade agreement to observe, the
Japanese may feel now that there
is nothing to keep them from fish
ing in deep waters off the Alaska
| coast"
1t was Mr.. Friele who first flew
over Japanese fishing vessels in
Bristol Bay in 1887 and brought
back pictures of foreign operations
as first conclusive proof of jap
anese activities off the coast of Al
aska.
To study the habits of salmon,
conditions OF water, tides, tenn
perature, two large seine boats I'M
| der charter to the Bureau of Fish
cries have been fishing in Bristol
Bay this summer and while so en-
gagged are laying a scientific claim
to the offshore fisheries for the
United States. This is to offset any
claim the Japanese may have made
to their rights to offshore fishing
because OF the study their fisher
men, scientific and commercial, had
made, Mr. Friele explained.
Mr.. Friele flew to Juneau this
morning With Nick Bee, president
Of the Peril Straits Packing Com
pany, and A. p Wolfe. Hood Bay
canneryman, aboard Herb Mum
ters plane.
|! After a poor season at the West
ward and slow season in South
east Alaska, fish are beginning to
come in throughout southeast dis
tricts and indications are that there
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POPE OFFERS SERVICES

PARIS, Aug. ia report that
Pope Plus offered his services as a
mediator in the Danzig dispute is
published today by Paris news
paper.
The newspaper described the Pope
as being greatly alarmed over the
situation. Other sources suggested
that Premier Mussolini himself
would request the Pope's aid in or
der to claim the credit as peace
maker in case of success.
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Given SIdpping by Japan
csc Senfry-Nippon Of
fetal Apologies
ORDERED TO SHED;
DUMP VEGETABLES
Turns Back on Stripping
Chinese : Makes
Soldier Angry

TIENTSIN, Aug. 15.-Mrs. F. M.
Richard SO. American widow, re-
ported today she had been subject
ed to an "unprovoked" slapping at
the hands of japanese guard
when she sought to en- ter the
blockaded French concession yes
terday.
Japanese Vice Consul N. Nishida.
visited the American Consulate in
an effort to adjust the matter and
it is understood the Consulate is
dissatisfied with the explanation
and has forwarded a report TO
Washington.
After the incident, Mrs. Richard
telephoned the American Consul
late, which in turn called Nishida,
who went to the barricade and
apologized to her.
He offered further to take her
home in his car, but she declined.
Incident Explained
A native of San Francisco, who
has spent "a years in China, Mrs.
Richard said the incident occurred
as she appeared at the barricade
with vegetables to be used in her
small canning business within the
concession, but the japanese des-
ignated the vegetables as fruit,
which is prohibited goods in the
blockaded area.
She was detained an hour, she
said, while Japanese searched the
room in which she operated her
canning plant as a supplement to
her income as a teacher of English.
Sentry Is Rough
An account of the incident fol-
lows that the japanese sentry ig-
nored her identification card issued
by the American Consulate and
written in japanese.
One Japanese ordered her to
shed her clothing while another
japanese ordered her to dump her
vegetables. This she was about to
do when she noticed a Chinese in
front of her removing his trousers
while being searched
The japanese sentry apparently
became angry when Mrs. Richard
turned her back on the Chinese
and started to dump the vegetables
in place other than that desig-
mated by the sentry, and the slap
ping followed.
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Liner Beats
Deafh;printe
Robert Wins
Ship Races Into Prince
Rupert with Man
Seriously III

KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Aug. IS
The palatial Canadian National
liner Prince Robert arriving here
last night with BIS tourists aboard,
brought word of a race against death
up the Canadian coast when Preston
Leslie. Of Los Angeles, California
State Inheritance Tax Appraiser.
became seriously i'll with an attack
Of pneumonia.
The Prince Robert sped at % and
"a knots an hour and reached Prince
Rupert at 1890 o'clock Sunday night
instead of O'Clock Monday morn
ing.
Leslie was removed from the liner
and taken to a Prince Rupert hos
pital, accompanied by his son
Harry.
Leslie is not expected to recover,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
GEO. SURVEY
Will EXPAND
ALASKA WORK
Bill Passes 10 Permit Of
Strategic Mineral F.,
Investigations

Broad expansion of U. S. Geologi-
cal Survey work in Alaska was an
nounced today by Dr. Phillip S.
Smith, Chief Alaska Geologist with
that department.
DR.. Smith is a passenger aboard
the Aleutian, going to the West
ward and Interior.
In Juneau today, DR.. Smith con-
ferred with DR.. John Reed, survey
geologist who flew here last night
from Hirst. DR.. Smith brought the
information here that on the last
day of the Congressional session,
the "war materials stack pile bill'
was passed.
Under this bill, as it finally pass
ed, $10,000,00O a year will be ap-
propriated for four years for the
procurement by the War Depart
ment of certain strategic minerals
and other war materials. The ap-
preparation has been made for this
year, but not for the following three
years.
The Geological Survey will be
given $150,000 year of this sum
for the investigation of strategic
mineral deposits in America. The
Bureau of Mines will be given $3.50,
600 year, with the purpose not
clearly known, but believedly fol
operation and development OF
mines.
Strategic mineral survey in AL
aska will be concentrated frs tor
tin, in the vicinity of Cape York
on Seward Peninsula, on nickel in
Southeast Alaska, and on chromite
Also, antimony will come under the
survey.
DR. John Reed, now nearly COM
pleted with mapping work in the
Chichagof area, and far enough
north of Chichagof to be in the
nickel area in the vicinity of va
kobi Island, will Immediately" con-
centrate survey work for the rest
of the season on nickel. He ex-
poets to return to the island tomor-
row.
j. B. Mertie, Jr., now surveying
tin deposits at Cape York, will con-
tinue his work under the new APP
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can trade treaty of 1911 convinces
knowing observers that the Amerl-
can State Department is trying to
kill 10 birds with one stone.
Whether Mr.. Hull's note accom-
plishes it's purposes can't be known,
of course, for some time. But it Is
generally agreed that these are his
targets:
/. To keep Japan guessing and
thereby strengthen the American
position in the Far East. Nobody,
least of all Japan, can guess what
attitude the United States will take
toward an embargo against Japan
at the end of the six months period
required before the treaty is re-
pealed. Mr.. Hull has long tried TO
keep other nations guessing about
American policy, because it's al
ways an advantage in information
al poker TO keep the other players
in the dark about your hand.
2. To observe strictly interna-
tional law and thereby accent, by
contrast, the inference that Japan
is among those outlaw aggressor
nations the United States has SO
often condemned in recent years.
Japan's aggression in China. for in
stance, is condemned as a violation
of the nine-power treaty guaran-
teeing the integrity of China.
3. BY using the word "abrogate.
and by adopting a mild tone, TO
take step from which 1t VIII
always be possible TO recede with
out losing prestige, or without in
viting Japan officially to charge
that we are using bluff and unfair
economic pressure. Abrogation, In
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
COR|NNE JENNIE
ARRIVES HOME

Corinne Jenne, daughter of Mrs.
Crystal Snow Jenne, arrived in Ju-
neau this afternoon aboard the Prin-
cess Alice.
Miss JENNIE, talented violinist,
graduated in June from Mills Col
lege then took postgraduate
course at the University of Cali
fornia at Berkeley.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
BASEBALL TODAY

The following are scores of games
played this afternoon in the two
Major Leagues:
National League
Philadelphia 4; Boston 3.
Brooklyn 8; New York 5.
American League
Washington 2; New York 3.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
Relatively Calm on Threat
ened Front-Rumors
Are Circulated
NEGOTIATIONS OVER
DANzIG ARE REPORTED
Prof. Carl Bruekhdrdf Is
sues COMMUNICABLE
Going 10 London

BERLIN, Aug. Is. - Germany's
war game mobilization was sched-
uled to reach peak strength of two
million men today, but there APP
peared to be little likelihood that
August IS would be Der Tag Day"
the day for Hitter to strike.
The Nazi press and radio were
relatively calm and gave no clue to
the truth behind various rumors
concerning the Danzig dispute with
Poland.
These rtlmors included a report
that Danzig League of Nations
Commissioner Burckhardt was try
ing to arrange negotiation of the
dispute before the deadline set by
Hitler and another said that Burck-
hardt had conferred with Free City
President Greiser.
Burckhardt Talking
According to advices received
here, Prof. Carl Burckhardt, High
Commissioner of the League of Ma
tons at Danzig, has issued COM
munique stating he has had short
conversation about internal Danzig
questions" and while in Germany
discussed various proposals with the
League of Nations General Secre-
tary
Burckhardt denies that he Is 60
ing to London but has had talks
with Albert Forster. Danzig Nazi
leader. and Arthur Greiser, Presi-
dent of the Danzig Senate and Pol
ish High Commissioner Gen. Mar
ian Chodacki.
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Motorcycles
Al Whiiehorse,
New York Bound

WHITEHORSE, Y. t., Aug.
&c. C. "Slim" Williams and
Jack Logan, motor cyling from
Fairbanks to the Worlds Fair
at New York City, arrived here
Sunday, rested over Monday and
plan to start off again today
CarcrOssward.
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CONGRESSIONAL JITTERS
ARE BEING EXPERIENCED;
TROUBLE FACED BACK HOME

But most won't have any such
opening. Any door-to-door an d
picnic-to-picnic visiting must be
done this summer. Next year they
will be tied up in Washington
while the enemy is loose at home.
That situation really has the
pudding up in the neck of whole
clusters of members. Two-thirds of
the Senate can always laugh at the
other third which comes up for
election. They can laugh, but usu-
ally don't. They know how it feels
to come up to the firing line and
have TO bid again for the old job.
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Fish Committee To Probe yapanese Lncursion
ROOSEVELT pR0(LAIM5
THANKSGIVING DAYF0R
NOVEMBER q, NOT 30

CAMPOBELLO, l S l. A N d, New
Brunswick, Aug. Is. = American
President Franklin d. Roosevelt
said he will advance Thanksgiving
day one week, proclaiming 1t to be
on Thursday, November %, instead
of Thursday, November 80. The Pres
ident of the United States has shat
tered another tradition.
President Roosevelt said the peo-
pie have been complaining there is
too long an interval between Labor
Day and Thanksgiving day and too
short a period between Thanksgiv-
ing day and Christmas.
President Roosevelt recalled that
the final Thursday in November was
set definitely as the holiday date
only after the Civil War Previously
the day was celebrated variously,
sometimes in October
The President also said that in
1910 he will set the second Thursday
in November for Thanksgiving Day.
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AWP

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-The "AWP
Project" sign on construction JOB
here mystified residents familiar
with PWA and WPA work. The
explanation: A. w. Phillips, con-
: tractor, adopted his initials as
trademark.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
NO TURKEYS

PROVIDENCE, r. l.. Aug. Is. =
Turkey raisers protest to the change
in the date of Thanksgiving Day.
They assert that the crop will not be
ready any earlier.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
MRS. sHEELOR HOME

Mrs. Edith Sheelor returned to
Juneau aboard the North Sea after
a vacation trip to the States.
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ASHURST AGITATED

What they do chuckle at is the
agitation of those members who
never are in much danger and yet
have the finest spells of prediction
torment. Senator Ashurst of Ari-
IONA is a sample. Outwardly he al
ways is bubbling. But already his
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ROAR GOES UP

NEW YORK, Aug 15.-The an
nouncement of the change of the
date to observe Thanksgiving Day
created a furore, especially to foot
ballers who foreSee mixup of sched-
ules. Many "big" games must either
shift dates or be played in compare
tive privacy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-15
Traps, Season Change,
Herring Fishing Stat
ed for Scrutiny
JUNEAU HEARINGS
SET sept. II, II
House Committee 10 Visit
Territory on Coast
Guard Cutter

csc cOmpetltlOn Win tne American
fishing industry off the coast of AL
aska will be investigated by the
House committee which sails Sun
day for the Territory to investigate
its fisheries.
Committee sources said Alaskan
fishermen have complained Japan
ese boats had invaded the waters
which Alaskans thought should be
reserved for their exclusive use.
The committee also will investi-
gate the use of traps for taking
salmon the ACCESSIBILITY of changing
the salmon season, the effect of her.
ring fishing on salmon fisheries and
whether traps set by the large cam
neries are encroaching on the rights
of individual fishermen.
To Legislature?
The committee also will hear tes-
timony on whether the control of
Alaska's resources should be turned
over to the Alaska Legislature in
stead of handled by Congress as at
present.
The committee plans wide swing
around the Gulf of Alaska. Hear
ings are scheduled at Cordova, An
chorage, Kodiak, Sitka, Juneau, Pet
ersburg, Wrangell, Craig and Ket-
chikan.
Upon returning to the States fur
ther hearings will be held at Seattle
and San Francisco in addition.
The Committee
Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland of
Virginia and subcommittee members
Representative Ambrose j. Kennedy
of Maryland, Mon C. Wallgren OF
Washington, Frank w. Boykin OF
Alabama, George N. Seger of New
Jersey, James C. Oliver of Maine
and Alaska Delegate Anthony J..
Dimond will sail from Seattle on
the Coast Guard cutter Ingham.
Their itinerary is as follows:
August 22-Leave Ketchikan.
August 81 - Arrive Cordova via
Wrangell, Petersburg, Taku Inlet
and Juneau.
August 81 and 28-fiearings.
Fish on Mountain?
August 29-Arrive Anchorage via
Seward for trip to Mount Mckinley
National Park.
September / = Return Anchorage
for hearings September 2.
September 3-Auto trip to Mata-
nuska.
September 5-Arrive Kodiak via
Seward.
September 6 and Hearings.
September 9-Arrive Sitka.
September and 10-Hearings.
Hearings at Juneau
September 11-Arrive Juneau.
September IL and 12-Hearings.
September 13-Arrive Petersburg
for hearings September 13 and IA.
September IA = Arrive Wrangell
for hearings September Is and 16.
September II = Arrive Craig for
one-day hearing.
September 18-Arrive ketchlKan
via Metlakatla.
September 10 and 20-Hearings at
Ketchikan.
September 23-Return Seattle.
Hearings at Seattle ar scheduled
September 25 and at San Francisco
September %. The committee plans
to be back in Washington by Octo-
Der 3.
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BY MORGAN M. BEATTY
WASHINGTON, Aug Is. = The
of the Japanese-Ameri-
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Smyrna times., 1939-01-26
5-MEMBER PARK
BODY FOR STATE
New Commission Sought to
Protect Senic Beauty and
Preserve Wild Life
NAME FIVE IN NEW BILL

Creation of a State Park Com
mission Of Delaware to preserve
and protect the scenic, historic,
scientific, prehistoric, and wild
life resources of the state and to
make them available for public use
and enjoyment" is provided for in
a bill introduced Monday after
noon by Senator Burton S. Heal.
The commission would consist of
five members, who are named in
the bill as follows: Ann 3. DUPONT,
who would serve until May 2,
1911; II. Rodney Sharp, to serve
until May 2, 1912; Mary w.
Thompson, to serve until May 2,
1913; John B. Jessup, to serve un-
til May 2, 1914, and Charles w.
Cullen, to serve until May 2, 1915.
Upon expiration Of the term Of Of
fee of each of these the Governor
would be authorized to appoint the
members of the commission for
full terms of five years each. The
would serve without pay, could
employ as many persons as DEEM
ed necessary to carry out the pur-
poses of the act. The bill would
set up an appropriation Of $4,000
for use of the commission. The
beard also would be authorized to
apply to federal agencies such as
the WPA and the PWA for fnan-
cial aid in its projects. The pur-
pose of the act, Senator Heal eX-
planned is to develop the state
lands for prks and recreation cen
ters. While the ocean front land
south of Rehoboth Beach is not
specifically mentioned it is under
stood it would be within the juris-
diction of the commission to have
establishd there resorts camping
sites and recreation centers Sem
ator Heal said another project
which would be considered is the
development of the land lying be-
tween the Governor Printz Boule-
ward and the Pennsylvania Rail
road tracks in Brandywine Hun
dred. He said the scenic beauty
along that stretch including the
view of the Delaware River is so
attractive that in summer the land
has become popular with motor
lists, tourists and picnickers.
Smyrna times., 1939-01-26
LOSS OF BRIDGE LINKING TWO
PARTS ST. GEORGES FRETS MANY

Bridge is rebuilt and reopened to
traffic. Residents about the canal
are not alone in fretting. The
travelling public who are forced to
make detours around st. Georges
and put to loss of time and incon-
venience in not being able to fol-
low the dual road thru to Will
An impatient public
awaits action on rebuilding the
bridge or tunnel and hope to see
work of reconstruction started
soon. st. Georges is still being
visited by many sightseers, view
ing the wreckage of the bridge and
the operations of the Philadelphia
Salvage and Derrick Company and
the U. S. Engineers. Only. a small
part of the bridge structural steel,
which fell in the canal, has been
removed as yet, as divers are able
to work only a few hours a day
because of the swift running tides