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groups of citizens under the au-
thority OF the State, and I'd per-
version of representative govern
ment.
Drawing a line of demarcation
between the functions of private
and public police systems, the COM
mitee remarked sharply that it is
IAN indefensible position for pri-
vate persons to assume that pri-
vately paid armed guards are en-
titled to usurp the province of pub
lie police power. No pretense of
protecting the State against supe
posed dangers or of preserving law
and order or blatant assertion of a
private economic interest can justify
private usurpation of State au-
thority."
Critical of Girdler.
The committee was pointedly crit
ical of Tom NJ Girdler, chairman
of the board of Republic Steel, as
responsible for espionage, intimida-
ton and similar anti-labor policies
applied for the company by their
police department.
when the company controlled
police systems cover several States
and affect the activities of thou
sands of workers." the committee
said, ut is the place of the Federal
Government to intervene.
I'm recommending legislation the
committee is scrupulous not to in
terfere with the right of the en-
ployer to police his premises or en-
ploy persons for legitimate func-
tions of protection. The committee
does not feel that at this time the
Congress should undertake detailed
regulation of the personnel and con-
duct Of the police systems of en-
ployers. Rather it should define
those practices which have led to
the infringement of civil liberties
and industrial disorder and make
their commission an offense. In
only one respect does it seem ad-
visable to regulate the personnel
which employers may hire, and that
Is to prohibit the employment as
armed guards of persons who have
previous criminal records showing
. tendency toward violence or the
dangerous use of deadly weapons.
Legislative remedies = should
be aimed to prohibit the practice
OF labor espionage and the shadow
Ing, coercion and intimidation of
workers in ordinary times and to
restrict company police to com.
pany property during times of strike.
A statutory prohibition of these
practices by private police systems,
carefully defined, will also cover the
similar practices of detective and
strikebreaking agencies"
The committee is composed of
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, of
Wisconsin and Senator Thomas,
Democrat, of Utah.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
School Award Given

BALTIMORE, Feb. 13 R.-The
exhibit Of the Montgomery Blair
High School was given first place
today In contest Of conservation
exhibits held by Montgomery County
schools and the Chevy Chase school
was victorious in the elementary
classes.
Displays Of the winners will be
exhibited at the outdoor Life Fed
Grafton show here February 1926.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Dr.. Borzun to Speuk

DR.. Henri Martin Barzun, author
and lecturer, will speak on THE
Evolution of French Literature Since
Symbolism and the Abbaye Group"
before the University of Maryland
French Club at $3.50 pm. Wednes-
day in the Agriculture Building at
College Park.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Girdler Sees America
bemoaning Lack Of
Metals for Steel
Republics Chuirmun
Denies War Profits
Benefit Industry
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The time
might come, T. M. Girdler, chair
man Of the Republic Steel Corp,
predicted today, when the United
States would gladly give all the gold
in Kentucky vaults for pile of des-
perately needed manganese and
chromium.
This time" he said would be war,
and the prediction was made in a
speech to the American Institute of
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
He explained this country is either
wholly or in part dependent on for
eign countries for 7 of the IL i'm
portant nonferrous metals used in
making steel. The seven are chro-
MUM, nickel, tin, manganese, CO.
bait, tungsten and vanadium.
Manganese enters widely into steel
making and chromium Is an essen
tial of stainless steels. Mr.. Girdler
said the United States uses 40 per
cent of the worlds chromium, but
its own production is insignificant u
It uses 20 per cent of the world s
manganese, but produces very
little"
The impression prevails" he said,
that the steel industry looks eager
ly to profits from war. That is not
true.
war brings no genuine prosperity
to the steel industry. Any temporary
profits which may come from ex-
treme activity of plants during a
conflict such as the World War are
of no lasting benefit to the indus
try"
Mr.. Girdler declared the mining
industry is being throttled in many
cases by ruinous taxes. Fe quoted
a study showing that the tax collec-
tor takes ~ cents out of every dol
lar paid for Lake Superior iron ore
delivered at lower Great Lakes ports.
The tax, he said, Is twice the actual
cost Of producing the ore.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Recovering From Burns

Robert H. Carter, SO, a Capital
Transit Co. mechanic, was improv-
ing today from burns received last
night when gasoline he was pouring
into carburetor of a bus became
ignited. The accident occurred at
Maine avenue and o street S.W.
Mr.. Carter, who lives at 1851 q
street Sc, was treated at Emer<
gency Hospital for burns on the
hands
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Speaker 10 Announce
House Committee on
Reorganization
Group to Resume Work
On Proposal Defeated
Lost Summer

Speaker Bankhead probably will
announce tomorrow the personnel OF
the House committee that will re-
sumo work on the administration
Government reorganization program
defeated in the House last summer
Although there are reports at the
Capitol that House leaders planned
to leave out of revised bill the
controversial proposals to abolish
the General Accounting Office and
the Civil Service Commission and to
replace them with a new auditor
generals Office and one-man Civil
Service administration, indications
today were that the program Is not
In definite shape.
1t is considered more than likely
that at the outset the House will
consider measure confined to CIV
ing the President general reorgani-
zation power, with some congress
sional check on the orders he is
sues. At the same time, however,
there is no certainty that the
changes in the General Accounting
ONCE set-up and in the Civil Service
Commission will not be revived later
in separate bills.
Favors Old House Plan.
Representative Cochran, Demo-
crat, of Missouri, who headed the
Reorganization Committee last year,
said today that, speaking for him
self, he still favors the old House
plan of setting up a new auditor
general without abolishing the con-
troller generals Office, but to give
Congress an auditing agency direct
ly responsible to it.
1t is expected the members of last
years committee who are still in
Congress will be reappointed, with
three new members. Mr.. Cochran
said there have been no discussions
of procedure, but emphasized his
own view that the general reorgani-
zing power should be handled in
a separate bill as the House origi-
nally considered it last year. The
Senate made an omnibus bill of
Vie VARIOUS proposals..
President Roosevelt, meanwhile.
forwarded to Congress report by the
National Resources Committee which
he said demonstrated the need for
q permanent planning service.
He stated his views in a letter
addressed to Representative Cochran
and to Senator Byrnes, Democrat. of
South Carolina. chairman of the
Senate Committee on Reorganiza-
ton.
The letter said:
II am sending you the enclosed
progress reports of the National
Resources Committee because it is
more than the usual annual state
ment of Federal executive agency.
Problems Reviewed.
This report reviews the prob
lens and progress with which
planning agency has been con-
cerned during the last five years.
It demonstrates the usefulness of
the kind of planning service which,
as I have recommended to Con-
gress, should be provided as per-
manent establishment within the
Federal Government.
II hope that this report will be
helpful to you and your colleagues
on the Select Committee on Gov
ernment Reorganization in the de-
velopment and enactment of appro-
pirate legislation to provide for
continuation, correlation and decen-
tralization of planning work"
The National Resources Com
mittee urged that national plan
ming be predicated on a "co-ordi-
mated public policy" based on the
views of both local and national
governments.
Evening star., 1939-02-13

some administrative policies.
Mr.. Goldsborough was born in
Greensboro, Md, in 1877, was grad
uated from Washington College in
1899, and began the practice of law
in Denton, Nd, in 1901. He served
one term as States attorney for
Caroline County.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Snake Falls on Driver

Driving peacefully along a road
in the district Of Tondern, Ger
many, a'motorist was hit on the
head by snake, evidently dropped
by flying bird, the reptile sliding
into his lap, then to the floor, where
the man knocked it unconscious
and took 1t to a ZOO.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Old Bible Used

Burnet r. Maybank, who early in
1889 became South Carolina's 98th
Governor, was sworn in with an
old Bible that had been In his
family for $50 years.
Evening star., 1939-02-13

GRAND CANYON, ARIZ.-BLIZZARD-T TRAPPED YOUTH RES
CUED-Packed out sretcher strapped pack mule
Paul Des Jardns 49, OF Detroit ch brought to the rim
OF the Grand Canyon yesterday Des Jardns Casimer
Poltark o. also of Detroit trapped terrific blizzard
hike into the canyon Des Jardns serious
amputaon of both Wrephoto
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
ITS DU(E'S MOVE; ANY
 HE MAKES MIGHT START
 REDH0T EUROPEAN WAR
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March 30. = If there were interesting questions D Europe instead of merely appaiilng ones, one interesting question would be whether Mussolini has not waited too long to press his demands for territory.
 An official to whom we talked said: "If I could answer that, l could tell you whether there will be war in Europe"
 The implication was that what Hitler now is doing in his march toward the East does not carry the threat of war that Mussolini's ac- tivities do. Hitler is moving in on little fellows whose independence it is impossible to save without run ming the risk of a world war.
 But if Mussolini moves, that is another question. There is virtual ly no move he can make of any importance which does not at once carry threat to Britain and France. And the meat on those bones is tender meat, not to be prodded roughly, even by totalitarian states.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
Italian Steamer Is Board ed, Ransdtked of
 Food, Clothes GUERILLAS TAKE
 ] JESUIT PRIESTS Bloody Warfare Continues as New nfi-Brifish
 Trouble Looms

SHANGHAI, March 30,-Piracy and Kidnapping reports and rumors of imminent campaign against the British, shared importance today in dispatches detailing severe fighting in fearfully war-scarred China.
 The Italian steamer Romolo re- ported that pirates had raided the ship at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
 The Romolo reported that the pirates took baled cotton, chickens. goats, and nearly all the clothes Of three hundred Chinese passengers.
 Messages received by Augustinian officials from Ranking said that seven Spanish Jesuit priests are be- ing held after capture by Chinese guerillas in the wild Lake Taihu region.
 Continuous bloody battles ragged throughout Northern Kiangsu Prov ince and Southeastern China as Japanese officials reported that Nip pon armies had advanced southward along the Kan River after occupy ing Nanchang and Wuning
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
FRENCH-ITALIAk
 RELATIONS NEAR
 BREAKING POINT
Fastists Say DaIadier "Wants an End" 10
 All Negotiations


 ROME, March 30.-Premier Mus solini today affirmed Italy's inten- ton to remain lin prison in the Mediterranean" while Fascists stud jed with disfavor the address of French Prime Minister Daladler made last night.
 Virginia Gayda, leading Fascist editor, summed up Daladier's speech with the assertion: He wanted to shut tight the half closed door" on French and Italian negotiations.
 Mussolini spoke only briefly on the question during an inspection tour of Calabria Province in the toe of the Italian boot.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
BOAT EXEMPTION BILL
 SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, March 30.--Just previous to his departure yesterday afternoon for a To-day visit to Warm Springs, President Roosevelt signed the bill exempting seagoing vessels less than 200 gross tons from the International Convention requiring certification of competency for all watch officers.
 The legislation was passed under a provision of the convention, spe- officially permitting exemption oi such vessels by national. laws or regulations.
 The convention was signed at the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1886 and was ratified by the United States last year.
 During hearings on the bill be- fore the House merchant marine committee, representatives of com mercial fishing vessels were it's prin- cipal advocates.
 Representatives of the industry asserted that requirements of the convention would bankrupt it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
PICKET LINES
 AT KETChIkAN
 START FRIDAY
Letters Are Sent 10 All Es tabIished Firms Deal
 ing in Supplies

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 3O Officials of the Sub-district Coun- cil of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific sent letters today to machine shops, steamship agents and trap wire factories. saying that picket lines will be established at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning against all firms doing work for the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry.
 The action is in accord with a similar move by the federation in Seattle and San Francisco against "stalling."
 Union officials here said picketine will probably be confined to the two wire factories which manufacture wire for traps but maritime police will patrol the waterfront and start picketing any steamship line or other firm found doing work for the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
Senator Holman
 IsDead
We'll Known Legislator. Seward Pioneer, Sul-
 Gumbs During Night

Senator Joe Holman, pioneer Seward resident and Alaska Legis- lator. died last night, according to word received in Juneau today by The Empire from Seward.
 The pioneer Sewardite had been ill since his return from the Four teenth Session of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau. Death was caused by heart trouble.
 Holman has been a Seward resi- dent since 1905. when he first came to Alaska and built log hotel that still stands in the Gateway City.
 He was born in Germany on May IA. 1873. From 1924 to 1929 he was la member of the Seward City Council and served in the capacity of United States Deputy Marshal in Matanuska and the Bristol Bay region from 1885 to 1888.
 An esteemed statesman, Senator Holman has been characterized by the humanitarian motives of his legislative enactments. and his hope for bright future in Alaska was based on belief that a lessening degree of Federal interference in Alaska will bring a greater measure of prosperity and happiness to AL askans
 He was Speaker of the House in 1885 after having served in the 1883 session of the House. He was elected to the Senate last year and his death comes in the middle of his term, leaving an unlocked for vacancy to be filled in the upper house for the l941 Legislature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
CAR0LE LOMBARD, CLARK GABLE ARE
 WEDDED IN UTAH
Two of Hollywood $ Brighesi Stars Steal
 Away for Ceremony

KINGMAN, Utah, March 30 = Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the brightest of all of Hol- lywood's film stars, were married here late yesterday afternoon.
 The two walked into the Marri- age License Bureau an hour before the ceremony was performed and so startled the woman clerk that she could hardly speak.
 Gable drove his own automobile here from Hollywood. The couple made no announcement informing their friends of their plans.
 The marriage was the third one for Gable and the second for Miss Lombard.
 Gable gave his age as 38 and Miss Lombard as 2l.
 Gable vas only recently divorced by his wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
London Has Impression Lion Will Roar If
 Nazis Go East
CHAMBERLAIN SPEECH
 AWAITED, TOMORROW
Debdte on Foreign Affairs Monday May Reveal
 Polish Stand

LONDON, March 30 = The inn pression in the deep end of London is that Great Britain might fight if Germany invades Poland.
 Officials wouldn't discuss the matter, but reliable sources said ''The British Cabinet is now con- vinced that a bold course is the best course"
 Informed Parliamentary circles said Chamberlain will make state ment on the European situation to- morrow morning in the House oi Commons, not waiting for the full dress debate on foreign affairs scheduled for Monday.
 It is expected that Polish Am bassador Count Raczynski will be heard on his country's position on the situation in an interview with Foreign Secretary Halifax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
SUPPORT UNCERTAIN

When he had the undivided at- tention of Germany. Mussolini was in a better position to press his claims. But he always had to make up his mind whether he could de- pend upon Hitler's support in event he pressed his demands for African and Mediterranean territory. It has been a tough decision to make France and England have not made it any easier for him. They have made very plain to Mussolini the risks he might run in event he guessed wrong as to Hitler.
 For some weeks now segmentf of the British home fleet have joined the French fleet and the British Mediterranean fleet in pa trolling the Mediterranean, They have patrolled it almost as if wal already had begun.
 The patrol has had two effects One has been to prevent any mint laying by Italy in the path o1 French or British operations. Per. haps none was intended by Mus solini but he is being told, in tht language of battleships, that h' cannot do it.
 The other effect is psychological Both Germany and Italy have tre mendous air power but they hav' not yet demonstrated that the,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30

VICKSBURG, Miss, March 3o.-- A line of motor cars plunged mto the Clear Creek Bayou last nigh' as the result of bridge being washed out.
 Four persons were killed, eight in- iured and five are missing.
 Six or more cars dropped 5O iee' into the Bayou which had been swelled by torrential rains. The floodwaters loosened the bridge ap- proach and the bridge itself col lapsed.
 The washout was not discovered by the drivers of the cars in the in- tense darkness and the machines following each other in close or der, plunged one by one into the Bayou.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30

PILOT POINT. Alaska, March 30 With the nearest United States Marshal 100 miles away, Pastor H. L. Wood, of Juneau, Alaska, Super in Alaska of the Missions of Seventh-day Adventists, assumed law enforcement duties and depu-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
TAX RECEIPTS
 OVER ESTIMATE
 BY PRESIDENT
RooseveIf's Calculations on March Income Levy
 Are Far Exceeded

WASHINGTON, March 30. = March income tax collections will run over the half Billion mark, ac- cording to figures compiled today, exceeding by more than s75,0OO,OOo the sum President Roosevelt figur- ed in his budget estimates.
 Although above budget estimates, collections Jagged behind March Of last year when $723 100000 was the sum received.
 The deficit for the last fiscal year amounts to $2,321, 100000, with the public debt now calculated at S39,- 972,0O0.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
AIDS FISHING FLEET

SEATTLE, March 30. Puget Sound boat operators expressed sat- isfaction at the signing of the bill exempting vessels of less than POO gross tonnage from carrying watch officers with, certificates of compe- tency.
 Harold F. Lokken, Manager of the Fishing Vessel Owners Association, said the original bill would have made fishing almost prohibitive as vessels would have to carry dead- weight crewmen who knew seagoing but nothing about fishing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
SELLING WAVE
 HITS MARKET
 IN FINAL HOUR
Leading Issues Drop from One to Four Dollars
 or More

NEW YORK, March 30.-A selling wave hit the stock mar ket in the final hour of trad ing today and leading issues dropped from S1 to S4 or more a share after a day of creeping declines.
 Brokers are not quite sure as to the reason for the rush to liquidate but said it apparently was touched off by selling orders from London where private cab les said there are reports of in- creasing tension between Germ any and Poland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
JUNEAU PASTOR TURNS OFFICER; PLACES GUARD
 OVER MURDERER OF GIRL

tized two guards for Tim Murphy of Aleutuk, who he reported, shot and killed his stepdaughter, Annie Olym- pic, following her marriage to Willie zungunak.
 Murphy became angry at the mar riage and the shooting followed, it is reported by Pastor Wood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
Garage on First Floor of Structure Also 6uffed
 with Contents
PERSONAL EFFECTS OF
 BOOMERS ARE BURNED
Fire Depdrtm e nj Plays Five Streams of Salt
 Water-2nd Alarm

NOME, Alaska, March 3e.-- The first disastrous fire since 1884 when the city of Nome was wiped out, occurred late yester- day afternoon when fire com pleteIy destroyed the Nome Ho- tel and Nome Motors Building on Front Street opposite the Nome Fire Department Station. The loss Is estimated at S50,000, not including personal belong ings of some twelve persons 0c- cupying apartments on the se- cond floor above the garage which is also a total loss.
 The building and furniture loss is estimated at s25.0oo and loss on caterpillar. auto part and general equipment Is placed at S25,000. The loss is partially covered by insurance.
 Nothing was saved except on, taxi auto, the property of Keitl Hedrine.
 Origin Of Fire
 The fire was started by ga pump back-firing when pumpinl diesel oil into the tanks of the heat ing plant of the hotel and garage An explosion resulted and fire sprea, rapidly throughout the entire build ing, forcing everybody to flee fo safety with only the clothing thel had on their backs.
 The Fire Department played fiv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
FDR SPEAKS TO NEGRO STUDENTS

TUSKEGEE. Alasbama. March 30 President Roosevelt today told students and facusv of the famous Negro school. Tuskegee Institute that he is proud of what it's gradnat- es have done in human services.
 The President. also stressed the need of cooperation between States and Peoples in this work.
 The address was made while the President was enroute to Warm Springs, Georgia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
.HATCHET FIGHT
 CAUSES DEATH
 OF KODIAK MAN
Mike Boskofsky Is Killed in Trading Post Bat-
 file Yesterday

CORDOVA, Alaska, March 30.- Assistant U. S. District Attorney H. P. Noggle said today he had re- ceived word from Kodiak of the vio- lent death of Mike Boskofsky, of Kodiak.
 Boskofsky was said to have been killed in hatchet fight at trading post last night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
MU5ICA BROTHERS FACE PENALTIES,
 SECURITIES LAWS

NEW YORK, March 30.-Three surviving brothers of the masquerao- ing swindler, F. Donald Coster Mus ica, have been indicted with SIX others on charges of mail fraud.
 Also, the nine are. charged with violations of the Securities Ex- change Commission law on conspir- acy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
HONOLULU LEG OF CHINA HOP
 IS COMPLETED
California Clipper Arrives af Island Port This
 Morning

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.- The. huge California Clipper flew over Honolulu this morning and landed gracefully in the harbor at SPA am.
 This is the first leg of a San Fran cisco -Hongkong flight with the larg- est passenger load ever to fly the Pacific Ocean.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
CANADA-U.S. TRADE PACT
 APPROVED
House of Commons Aets FavordbIy on Agree
 menf After Debate

OTTAWA, Ontario, March 3O.- The House of Commons has rati- fled the Canada United States trade agreement signed last November. The ratification followed a debate that lasted one week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-30
BRITISH NAVY AIR EXPANSION
 IS ANIMATED
Chamberlain Drops Hint that Such Plans Are
 Being Considered

LONDON, March 30.-Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain today in- timated to the House of Commons that Great Britains Navy Air force W llibe considerably expanded
 In answering question as to such expansion, Chamberlain said "A statement will be made at time when conclusions have been reach- ed"