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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
TEA IGNORING
 MRS. GRUENING
 THIS AFTERNOON

Honoring Alaska First Lady, Mrs. Ernest Gruening, tea is being given this afternoon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel by Mrs. Robert Bender and Mrs. Edward L. Bartlett.
 Due to the early arrival of the Yukon, Mrs. Bender, who had plan ned to leave aboard the steamer for Ketchikan on business, was un- able to be present and her place in the receiving line was taken by Mrs. J. A. Hellenthal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
British Advance
 Finn Aid
Relaxes Previous Rule
 Against Export of X War Materials

LONDON, Dec. 11.-Reliable sourc- es said Great Britain has agreed to allow Finland to purchase British war material despite a previous rule against export of war goods.
 Relaxation of the ruling has taken on special significance in view of the fact that the League of Nations, meeting today, will hear Finland's demands that Russia be declared an .e e.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
Rifle, Pistol
 Club Dinner

The annual dinner business meet ing of the Rifle and Pistol Club will be held tomorrow night at 6:3O o'clock at Percy's Cafe and not only members, but all others interested are requested to attend, of course paying coverage.
 At the business part of the even- ing, election of officers will be held.
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leuion Riles for
 Bud Anderson
 Here Tomorrow

American Legion services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary for I. R. (Bud) An derson, well known Juneau man who pass away last Saturday morning.
 All members of the American Le- gion and Legion Auxiliary are re- quested to meet at 1:30 o'clock at the Dugout before the funeral tomor- row.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
WAR DONATIONS

LONDON, Dec 1.-The arrival .. of 1000 barrels of Canadian apples for British troops and their famils ies is announced in London today.
 The apples are donated by thes growers of Nova Scotia
 Also announced today as the do-' nation by the wife of Canadian High Commissioner, Mrs. Vincent Massey, is ton of clothing for French children evacuated from the from tier zone.
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this throughout inc northeastern portion acic there being intensity latitude AS degrees and 830 inches prevailed This general distribution attended by precpa the Aeutans southeasward to California generally fair weather the interior and portions of Alaska.
 continued above normal the Alaska Rail- belt southeastward Southeast Alaska
 Juneau Dec 12-Sunset 8:3) sunset, 3:08
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A sss+ Hs.ff ss 1si 7ETs He
 SrocK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. II. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 65s, American Can III, American Power and Light AZ, Anaconda 301s, Bethlehem steel 8l, Commonwealth and Southern IA, Curtiss Wright 10, General Motors 53A, Information al Harvester 597s, Kennecott 377s, New York Central 17&, Northern Pacific g, United States Steel 661s, Pound $3.91.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
WlLDES TO SPEND
 HOLIDAYS IN SOUTH

Gordon Wildes, PWA Office. En- gineer, left today on the Yukon to spend Christmas with his son in Tennessee. He will spend six weeks leave in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11

AMERICAN women spend about $25, 100000 annually for bathing suits of either the water or sun bathing variety
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
ELKS BOWLING

Bowling resumes at the Elks to- night with three matches on sched- ule: Butchers vs. Amazons, Fos- ters vs. Editors, and Engineers vs. 6nipes....s ss. .s .-..-t. ...1s.s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 147.05, rails 31.24, utilities 2489.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11
ROAD MAN OFT

Tom Carr, Alaska Road Commis- sion employee from Fairbanks, was a through passenger on the Yukon, headed Outside on leave. <
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-11

Empire Want Ads Bring Results.
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Today's News Today-Empire
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ifgEoiif iI the past
Evening star., 1939-02-26

merely timely novel: the ironic
perception of the unchanging nature
of political folly which made The
Wild Goose Chase applicable to
governments of all times, even while
it dealt specifically with the prob
lens of governments todav-that Is
not to be found in it. 1t resolves
itself into satire on the methods
used by Fascists to usurp power
And in the main. it follows truth
so literally that it deprives its read
ers of any sense of irony or detached
understanding.
1t tells of the efforts OF scholar
to form a government and put
through a plan for the Specialization
of property. This plan is intended
to result to the betterment of all
classes. The scholar is a classic
liberal. He belongs to no party and
allows himself no class feeling. He
wishes to defend and insure the con-
stitutional rights of every citizen
rich and poor alike. He'has turned
to the socialization of property as
the best method available for break
ing an unemployment crisis, but is
firm in his determination to reim-
burse the private owners and to
protect them from loss or outrage
According to his delightful plan, no
one will be poorer for the govern
ment's taking over, and the country
itself will be much richer. So he
accepts the Office of chancellor and
Evening star., 1939-02-26
WASHINGTON.

Fiction-"Rebecca," Daphne Du
Maurier; "All This and Heaven
Too" Rachel Field; Disputed
Passage" Lloyd C. Douglas:
Three Harbours," F. Van Wyck
Mason; The Death of the Heart"
Elizabeth; The Wild Palms.
William Faulkner.
Non Fiction Your income
Tax" j. K. LASER: Economic
Program for American Democ-
racy," by seven Harvard profess
sors; "When There Is No Peace"
Hamilton Fish Armstrong: "A
Peculiar Treasure" Edna Ferher;
DAYS Of Our Years" Pierre Van
Paesen; "Ramparts We Watch
George Fielding Eliot.
BOSTON.
Fiction-"All This and Heaven
Too "Rebecca.' Disputed Pas
sage Three Hsrbours." DAN
ger Signal Phyllis Bottome.
Non -Fiction-"Alone,' Richard
E. Byrd: "A Peculiar Treasure"
Listen, the Wind" Anne Morrow
Lindbergh; with Malice Toward
Some" Margaret Halsey; Horse
and Buggy Doctor" Arthur E.
Hertzler.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Through Embassy Eyes
BIZ Martha Dodd. Ne1O YORK;.
Hdrcourt, Brace & Co.

Bu marina UOdd. Ne1O YORK;
Hdrcourt, Brace e. Co.
Although a reviewer Is likely to
pick up the memoirs of wives and
children Of men in the public eye
with feelings of trepidation, Miss
Dodd has been extremely successful
in presenting an outspoken account
Of over four years in Nazi Germany
as the daughter of former Ambas-
sador William E. Dodd. Fast mov-
ing from the first page, it first offers
the Germany that an attractive
young woman in an embassy house.
hold would see, a Germany of par
ties. excursions, celebrations, Am
bassadors, generals, secret service
men and newspapermen. But Miss
Dodd manages to paint these scenes
and faces with the swastika as a
background.
Events in the Nazi regime which
followed her departure in 1894 are
foreshadowed in what people did
and said at these parties. Miss
Dodd was Intellectually sufficiently
curious to recognize approaching
fury as she poured tea for Nazi
leaders.
At first she found many things to
admire In Germany: later she saw
the influences at work there as q
menace to civilization. Through
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Brief Reviews of New Books

HALEY, assists at the solving of a
crime committed at a fox hunt
Average.
THE CASE OF THE GREEN FELL
HAT. BY Christopher Bush,
New York: Henry Holt g. Co.
An unofficial expert who. helps
Scotland Yard solve another. About
the usual unofficial expert thing.
THE CASE OF THE PERJURED
PARROT. BY Erie Stanley
Gardner. New York: William
Morrow &, Co.
Another Perry Mason story.
Lively.
POEMS.
MIRAGE WATER. BY Lord Dun
sany. Philadelphia: Dorrance g.
Co.
Short poems, quiet and pointed.
INTERPRETERS POEMS. BY John
Curtis Underwood. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Vers libre, serious and not par
ticularly memorable.
COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT
FROST. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
Complete to date. Beautiful edi-
ton.
DRAMA.
THE GENTLE PEOPLE. BY Irwin
Shaw. New York: Random
House. Q
The Group Theater's successful
comedy, now in book form.
THE BEST ONE-ACT PLAYS OF
1888. Edited by Margaret Ma
yorga. New York: Dodd Mead
& Co.
A fairly good collection, including
works by Maxwell Anderson, Alfred
Kreymborg, Paul Green and others
TRAVEL.
ONE HUNDRED VACATIONS
COSTING FROM $50 TO $500
BY Horace Coon. Garden City:
Doubleday Doran.
Just what 1t says-practical and
immensely helpful.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
What Is Being Read Today?
Best Sellers in Woshinqton and Other Cities
CHICAGO.

Fiction-"All This and Heaven
Too" "Rebecca." Disputed Pas
sage Three Harbours," Song
of Years. Bess Streeter Aldrich
Non-Fiction-"A Peculiar
Treasure, Alone" Benjamin
Franklin" Carl Van Doren;
with Malice Toward Some"
Listen, the Wind
NEW YORK.
Fiction-"All This and Heaven
Too" "Rebecca," Disputed Pas
sage Danger Signal Three
Harbours."
Non-Fiction-"A eculiar
Trea sure" DAYS of Our Years" ;"
Alone" I'VE Saw 1t Happen" I3
correspondents Of the New YORK
Times: "Consultation Room, :"
Frederick Loomis.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction-"All This and Heaven
Too "Pebecca,' Address Un-
known" Kressman Taylor; Dis
puted Passage" The Long VAL
ley" John Steinbeck.
Nom -Fiction-"Days Of Our
Years Our Battle" Hendrix
Willem Van Loon; when There
Is No Peace" Consultation
Room" with Malice Toward
Some"
ID 1O2QN
Evening star., 1939-02-26

may contrive to read him with bene-
ft. Otherwise, you will probably
wonder at the fury with which he
announces his somewhat belated
discoveries He tears his passion to
tatters and seems likely to put his
readers to sleep.
His book is not a long one, but,
even so, the greater part of 1t is
given over to furious attack on the
German and Italian systems of die
tatorships. in the course of which
Mr.. Mumford says absolutely moth
ing that every one does not already
know. His great point, however, is
to outline future plan of action by
which the United States can fight
these systems without actually going
to war. And for that plan he harks
| back to Thomas jefferson, offering
us nothing more or less than nom
intercourse.
jefferson, he admits, failed when
he tried to apply that punishment
to Napoleon. But our country today
would not fail. he asserts. because
we are now so large in world trade
that our refusal to deal in any way
with any given foreign country
would certainly affect that country
seriously. In Jefferson's time we
were too unimportant for our COM
merce or our attitude to matter, he
says. Europe could afford to laugh
at our high-minded snub. But now
the shoe would be on the other foot,
or so Mr., Mumford sees it.
His plan for non-intercourse is
pretty complete: 1t includes an un-
qualified embargo on trade with the
Fascist governments. the withdrawal
of all Of our nationls from Fascist
countries, the liquidation of all our
/ investments in them, the withhold
ing Of passports from citizens seeking
to travel in them, the prohibition
of entrance to our own land of Fas-
cist citizens Except refugees. the
refusal of entry to our ports to all
vessels from Fascist countries. the
deportation of all nationals of Fas-
cist governments unless they accept
our citizenship and the cancellation
of the citizenship of naturalized citi-
zens who hold the Fascist doctrine
of dual allegiance. In other words.
we would ignore em. For America.
they simply wouldn't exist. We would
be pure and proud We would put
those who disagreed with us in their
proper places. And how!
Could we do it? Certainly, if we
all felt as furiously on the subject
as does Mr.. Mumford, we might
make the attempt. But at present
it is open to doubt that the great
body of the American people feels the
active savage hatred that would be
necessary to get popular support
for such an action. Most of us are
disgusted by conduct of the dicta-
tors; we feel adherence at their
persecution of minorities and con-
tempt for their f1agrantly untruthful
propaganda. But we do not sit up
nights hating the Fascist nations as
Mr. Mumford seems to do.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
NOVELS.

NOVELS.
CARSON OF VENUS. BY Edgar
Rice Burroughs. Tarzana: Bur-
roughs.
AS Said-Burroughs.
SUMNER OF GOOD HOPE. BY
Georgiana Philips. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
A sentimental light novel of the
quest of young divorce for a new
husband, overtones being supplied
by the cuteness of same young
Divorces two children. Harmless.
SNOW WATER. BY Dorothy Gar
diner. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran & Co.
One of those epics of America
this time of irrigation. Lusty and
all that.
SUCH WAYS ARE DANGEROUS.
BY Constance Wilcox Pignatelli.
New York: Robert M. Mcbride.
An unsophisticated young heiress
In the midst Of a willy crowd. Tol-
cradle.
MARTIN VALIANT. BY Warwick
Deeping. New York: Robert
M. Mcbride & Co.
Story Of beautiful young woman
and handsome. virile priest, in a
setting of the Wars of the Roses. BY
Warwick Deeping.
NEXT TO MY HEART. BY Helen
Topping Miller. New York: D.
Appleton Century.
Story of struggles of girl who Is
too fascinating. The old stuff.
THIS STRANGE LOVE. BY Phyllis
Gordon Demarest. New York:
The Macauley Co.
Story about the old race between
love and ambition. Bunk.
MYSTERIES.
MURDER IS NOT ENOUGH. BY
Susan Wells. New York: Simon
& Schuster.
There are yachts in this one. Also
millionaires.
DOOR NAILS NEVER DIE. BY
Anthony Wynne. Philadelphia:
J. B. Lippincott Co.
The Harley street physician, DR..
Evening star., 1939-02-26

1eelng. Speclncally, ne says that
Cardinal Seipel started on the road
that led to Hitler's victory and that
Dollfuss and Scnuschnigg continued
on that fatal way and his book is
given over to tracing, step by step,
the route by which the three leaders
brought their country to it's doom.
This is unaccustomed reading. for
most commentators up to now have
stressed only the tragedy Of the
Austrian people and blamed only
the ruthless German invaders.
Mr.. Gedye, to be sure, stresses the
tragedy of the Austrians, but in a
qualified way. AS he sees it, the
Austrian workers-the members Of
the Social Democratic party. that
is-are uniquely the betrayed. They,
he says, constituted 40 per cent Of
tho population and they, alone
Evening star., 1939-02-26

among the various political groups,
were loyal to Austria's democratic
constitution. It was in opposition
to them. he charges, that the various
steps were taken which led the way
to the Nazi triumph. The various
leaders, from Seipel to Schusnigg,
either feared or hated the Socialists
and, in order to crush the Socialist
party, kept factional warfare so
alive among the electorate that,
when the crisis came, there was no
united front to present to the we'll
disciplined enemy.
Seipel, says Mr.. Gedye, gave the
democratic government only lip
service while plotting for the res
toration of the Habsburgs. Dollfuss,
In his turn, allied himself with the
Italian Fascists, kept alive the anti
Evening star., 1939-02-26

typically American eyes she presents
the Nazi personalities of the day:
Goering and Goebbels. whose wives
are rivals for the unofficial post Of
first lady Of Germany; Rolf Diels,
dramatic looking, scar-faced chief
Of the secret police, and the recently
deposed DR.. Hjalmar Schacht-to
name only few. She describes her
friendship with Louis Ferdinand,
Evening star., 1939-02-26

son Of the former Crown Prince Of
Germany, and tells about . visit
to the palace in Potsdam.
Miss Dodd's book will interest it,
readers everywhere, but should be
particularly popular in Washington.
where 50 many people have either
been, are, or hope to be members
Of . diplomatic household.
v. K. q.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

Immediately the Fascists take him
for ride.
In the course of describing that
ride Mr.. Warner describes all the
various methods Of the Fascist
parties as the world now knows
them, including false propaganda,
force. terrorization, imprisonment
and finally murder. AS far as the
reviewer can make out, the setting
down of these by now well-known
outrages is the only purpose of the
book
So the work must take the place
OF virtual determination of certain
events in recent history, rather than
of a satirization of the crudity of
mems minds when they begin to
worship power. 1t is consequently
the smaller and the more deserving
OF eventual forgetfulness.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

Biography Considers Eden's
Late Political Saintho0d
Gedye Dispels Idea of Austria's
Martyrdom in Immensely
Circumstantial Work
By Mary.Ca arfer Roberts,
Anthony Eden
BY Marv.Carfer Roberts.

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s any Mr. v E m work xoS saqa % aa ae aG c
life history Of other former British ca ign Minister as M now Living
those things which quickly tossed off sensational style catch
bss9nng sometimes sGesty
gone through Johnsons
at n s ass
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fully and she still that the Eden elevation
sn na has n % a u % N w e nog nsts eR
black the
OF personality enters largely into the issue.
ss s ts
n and p se vs sova
play the difference its greatest potentianty.
speech speech sSFs BY Speech ei.'@'
That himself directly M len phss7ns
fails somehow to show us any other reasonable for Mr.
By Zee o1ns @ M s Psn m ms 5
indicate that particularly idsalic
M sa ges n20a % M
shrine M of that saint of m quite And when
perfectly orthodox His distinguished
johnson
HIS good good delivery his family
sns n M 1Gnsa @ h aid h mot to Or sn
puts
And curioy in the Interpretation of this book this mo-
echnicaty a
method
holding conversations with the Italian relative
differences between felt should
be called decide questions with which Mr. Chamberlain
preparing to deal directly.
When Out of Office
actually
contradictory principles
indeed until Mr. Eden Of office that the
collective partyand believers collective security
the world
But that he does in that position
unquivocaby. THE
while Chamberlain
all normal occasions
which includes the inevitable
Victor Gordon LnnoX writing Affairs follows authority
In his belief that Edens day is by done
the natural
OF public affairs must necessarily with the normal
is both commendable regeabe that this
written little
because the works sobe will certainly with
the intelligent 1t is egretable because that
1T large public which ought to
To that large he
ook would 40 good deal to debunk the atacnes
the halo and probably Mr. himself
ENDS accomplished But
written again before becomes
reels that when it does become
legend and push the erstwhe
into oblivion The facts meanwhile as to want
them. - ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ " "
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Betrayal in Central Europe

By G. E. R. Gedye. Nev York: Harper Bros.
Mr. g. r. Gedye of those Journalism who
give color to the craft Since 1929 foreign
correspondent for Vienna 1881
served the London Telegraph
Inc Times ned MIN because he oupoken his dispatches
the Naz expelled him almost they got into
has written book. What possibly could be
The he to tell virtually
the Of the
might retelng
have already been the time But Mr. edye takes
erent the events He does
land which governmental virtue has been wantony thrown
ons
the triumph Austrian
leaders themselves could
more brains and honesty Vienna and bg
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Switzerland and the World War
By Pleasant Alexander StovaN

By Pleasant Alexander StovaH Savannah: Mason Inc.
. The author of this agreeable the late
Alexander SovaI Minister
Journalist and founder
Inc the record
at bern 1t not originally designed pubca
ana SO informal
wc however deserves be
tepuonc curing the World island Of
conflct-s both interesting
MR. stova wrote OF Switzerland before the outbreak
"nen diplomat the granting
quiet was the country Then he discussed
hodmg Dr. Muhlon
responsible for conflict into
the Swiss
rounded begerents
OF avao of prisoners the
mpaes OF the Swiss pepa these subjects which
atnton result of
country at peace with the sound Of constantly air
people carrying an immense load of responsibility
AS informally
anecdotes
the admiral OF the Swiss Navy there
really Swiss Navy
bit pure imagination On the whole
combines history and entertainment
Evening star., 1939-02-26
The Professor
By Rer Warner. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf.

One of the really good novels of
last year was THE Wild Goose
Chase" by Rex Warner. a young
English schoolmaster. That book
dealt with the state of the world
when regimentation and the ma
chine age shall have shut down upon
us a bit closer and our liberties will
be all but gone and our thinkers all
plotting revolution-one way or an
other. 1t was an allegory, In which
a young hero set out to lead the
people back to the natural joys of
life by overthrowing the monstrous
civilization which had, more or less
accidentally, grown up, and from
that came the title; the quest of
joy by the method of revolution,
Mr.. Warner seemed to say, is a wild
goose chase. His book-a first one
was brilliant and marked with
memorable promise. The reviewer
took up the successor with great
interest.
She Is sorry to have to report that
1t Is pale thing beside THE Wild
Goose Chase" It has a distin-
guished style and 1t is shrewd and
plays close to the truth. But the
great fire of imagination which
marked the earlier work is lacking.
1t is sufficiently talented, but it is
not work of genius.
1t has some likeness to its prede-
cessor. It, too, is concerned with
the political situation Of our world.
1t, too, is set in an imaginary coun-
try which might well be any of the
modern democracies. It, too, de-
scribes the efforts Of one man to
solve the problems Of civilization by
changing government. But 1t Is
Evening star., 1939-02-26
PIERRE VAN PAASSEN.
Author OF days. Of Our
Years" (HiHmdn-Curl.

democratic Heimwehr and abolished
parliament as movements against
the Socialists; finally. quite unpro-
voked. according to this book, he at
tackled the Vienna workers in the
civil strife of February. 1884, broke
up the Social Democratic party and
the trades unions and. incidentally,
committed political suicide. His sue
cessor, DR.. Schusnigg, likewise sinned
against the workers in Mr.. Gedye's
eyes in that he neglected to restore
to them the rights of which Dollfuss
had shorn them.
The Social Democrats, Mr.. Gedye
assures us, were loyal to the republic
and bitterly opposed to union with
Germany. If they had been included
in any government prior to the
putsch he says, they would have
given Austria such union and
strength that Germany would not
have dared to attack or threaten.
AS it was, they were Systematically
oppressed and their oppressors were
too weak numerically and too divided
morally to resist the pressure which
Hitler finally put upon them. 1t all
makes pretty complete case, as it
is told here, but a reader will re-
member, of course, that it is in the
conditional mode. That makes it
necessary to view it with, at least,
some difference.
Mr.. Gedye also departs from the
orthodox view of the Austrian situa-
tion in his memories of anti-Semitic
prosecutions ante-dating the Ansch-
luss. Most of us think of the Aus
trlan Jews as unmolested before the
Hitlerian victory, but this book as
sures us that they were by no means
so. Austrian Storm Troopers were
actively engaged in abusing Jews
long before March, 1888, it tells us,
and this they did with the COM
placent approval of the Austrian
people. who, in Mr.. G. E. R. Gedye's S
estimation, are long way from
being the golden-hearted folk of
their legend. He finds some bitter
amusement in the fact that many of
the Austrian leaders who counten-
anced the prosecutions have, for
their own part, since been sent off
to concentration camps where they
will have to suffer with their own
erstWhile victims.
1t is an immensely circumstantial,
detailed work. It bears evidence of
hasty composition and repeats itself
often in a somewhat confusing
manner. But there is a bracing
quality about it's unorthodox view Of
the matter which commends it.
Evening star., 1939-02-26
Men Must Act
By Le1Uis Mumtord. Nep York
HHTnOHrf Prnoo D ~

H1Tcourt Brace & Co.
Under this heroic title Mr.. Num-
ford brings to the world the astound-
ing news that Fascism is a doctrine
quite inimical to democracy and that
Fascist officials are often rough, un-
pleasant people. If you have not
seen any foreign news dispatch for
the last five years, or if, in an equal
period of time, you have not opened
any of our own periodicals which
give space to political matter, you