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Evening star., 1939-04-02

gone crazy trying to get a picture OF
four dimensions in their heads. This
is different. The mind, as Enstein
himself says, revolts against the fifth
dimension.
The fourth dimension may have
been like a magnet pulling to the
madhouse. The fifth dimension
drives the mind back into the
prosaic world of the senses again. A
picture of its physical reality is too
high a hurdle for any intellectual.
acrobat,
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Obstacle.

The Obstacle.
They tell us that poverty's needed to
bring
A poet HE true inspiration;
That hunger assists when you're anxious
to sing
A song that will startle the Nation.
And so it occurs that all things truly
great
Escape when I struggle to think 'em
Because It's my very unfortunate fate
To be cursed with moderate income.
'Tis also declared that the muse comes
by stealth,
Like an angel to comfort and serve us
When we really fall into delicate health
And our tempers are high strung and
nervous,
All useless, alas, is the pie that I eat
'Tls mournful beyond any question
I ne'er devise things that are lofty or
sweet
Because can't get indigestion.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
A Chustened Fuehre.

It was not to be expected that Adolf
Hitler would miss the spectacular
opportunity of a battleship launch
Ing to make instant reply to the
Anglo o-French-Polish coalition formed
to checkmate the Nazi goosestep
across Europe. The Wilhelmshaven
address is not devoid of the mailed
fist note in tune with the militant
occasion, but it will be searched in
vain for indications of German in
tentions to proceed to the limit with
the program of aggression and con-
quest which has characterized Hit
lerism from Austria to Memel.
It is unmistakably wiser Fuehrer
who presided at the birth of the
Reichs newest 35,OOO-ton man-of-
war. AS if meaning formally to at
test his acceptance of the peace
keeping role in which events in Lon
don, Paris and Warsaw have suddenly
cast him, the author of "Mein
Kampf" now announces that the next
Nuremberg party congress will be
called "the convention of peace"
Necessity, even in international pol
1tics, is sometimes the mother of in
vention.
The most belligerent note struck at
Wilhelmshaven was Hitler's threat to
denounce the 1885 naval limitation
pact with Great Britain, whereby
the Reich accepted ratio of thirty
five per cent of Britains tonnage as
"a permanent relationship" Recently
the Germans decided to avail them
selves of the pact's escape clause"
which permits them to build up to
parity with the British in submarines.
If Hitler meant by this truculent ges-
ture to indicate that the Reich will
now proceed to engage in unlimited
naval competition with Great Britain,
he is indulging in hope illusory to
the point of absurdity. A Germany
on the verge of economic and
financial bankruptcy, overtaXed,
stripped of foreign exchange, starved
of gold and facing semi-extinction
in the export markets of the world,
cuts grotesque figure in threatening
to keep pace with the might of Brit
ANNA as a naval power
Having brandished a club of sand
in Great Britain's direction, the
Fuehrer spits defiance at Poland by
laundering about the burning" that
awaits those who pull chestnuts out
of the fire for Others" Then, in the
spirit of the bully who busters that
'if you want to make anything out of
1t, come on outside" Hitler cries that
mo power in the world can ever
again force us to our knees" He
invites any so inclined to venture the
effort. No one power can, but four
or five powers might-and unques-
tionably will, if Germany resumes the
tactics exemplified by the seizure of
Czecho-Slovakia.
That the Berlin Rome axis sees the
writing that was written on the wall
in London last Friday, and has no
immediate intention of challenging
its message, is as clear as crystal in
the Wilhelmshaven speech. Hitler is
not conquered, but he gives tell-tale
evidence of being chastened.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
Beyond the Mind

Human senses are strait -jacketed
In three dimensions.
East and west, up and down,
north-and-south bound all things
that man can see, hear, smell, taste
or feel. They came close to bounding
all things man can imagine.
Yet because Creation seems three
dimensional to man is no evidence
that it is so in fact Actually for the
past twenty years there has been
fairly conclusive evidence that it is
not-that in reality it is four-di-
mensional continuum. No man can
create a physical picture of such
universe.
For a long time before Einstein
mathematicians had created such
space figure out of their heads and
on paper. A mathematician is privi-
legged to play with as many dimen-
sions as he wishes without being
obliged to produce any physical real
ity for any of them. One of the great
revolutions in human thinking came
when it was demonstrated that this
postulated four dimensional world
0f the 'geometricians fitted better Ger
tain observed phenomena than did
the actual world of the senses.
Perhaps just as great revolution
will come with the full realization of
the implications of the masters
latest achievement-the correlation
of physical phenomena with the fig
ure of a fifth -dimensional creation.
Later on, it may be, he will be obliged
to ascribe physical reality to six,
seven or even more dimensions.
Lots Of folks, so 1t is said, have
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outlined in his annual message to Con-
gress, calls for nothing more than a
smoothing down of the rough edges Of
existing New Deal programs and for con-
tinued spending of borrowed money in
the hope that such spending will gen.
crate recovery in private industry that
can absorb the unemployed and that can
produce a national income of $80,000,-
100000.
Few people outside the White House
circle of advisers think that this pre-
scription will solve the country's prob
lens. Even those advisers are beginning
to have their doubts.
(oopyright, 1e3o.)
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Science discovers that low tones
can be heard a greater distance than
high ones. Shucks, the fair sex has
known that for ages. Witness the
pitch it uses in the simple words mo"
and "Ves"
Evening star., 1939-04-02

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Evening star., 1939-04-02
SAYS Uncle Eben.

Says Uncle Eben.
Dewdrops in de daytime,
Stars dat shine at night!
Every hours q playtime
When de weather's right.
I amt covetin' no mo-
Riches, cause you see
Earth's . great big jew1ry store
Where everything u freel
Evening star., 1939-04-02
The Student,

"Is your son proficient in any foreign
language?"
"Weu," answered Farmer Corntossel,
IT dunno as he's much on French or
German, but he can understand every
word of a sports broadcast"
Evening star., 1939-04-02
The Uplift.

To dwell In bliss we cannot fail
When our endeavors healthy
Have put the sinners all in jail
And made the righteous wealthy.
Evening star., 1939-04-02
A Reminder.

"Bliggins says that his boy is wonder
fully smart"
eyes, answered the elderly man, "but
Bliggins ought to know better than
to build any expectations on that. I
can remember when his father said
the same thing about him."
Evening star., 1939-04-02
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Entered as second class matter post once,
WaShington D. C.
Evening star., 1939-04-02

Evolution is a convenient Sort of
theory" said Hi Ho, the sage Of China
town, "if you believe in 1t you can
advance some interesting ideas and If
you don't. you have better opinion
of your remote ancestors"
Evening star., 1939-04-02
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Spring Crop.

Spring Crop.
II suppose you have studied all the
authorities on social and economical
questions?''
Not quite ALL" answered Senator
Sorghum. The graduation essays are
not out yet"
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years will largely be restored to him. The
reason for that expectation Is found in
the inherent difficulty Of getting a ma
jority of 531 members OF Congress to
agree on anything unless there is strong
executive leadership. Congress shines
during period when obstruction is
chiefly to be desired, not when positive
action Is required
If Congress succeeds in demonstrating
to the country that it has no magic
formula, the President apparently would
like to find some way to demonstrate
that the businessmen Of the country
likewise have no formula that can prom
ise recovery. Mr.. Roosevelt's advisers
would like to have an opportunity to ask
business leaders and financial leaders
for the public to hear-exactly what
steps they want taken to assure. the re-
covery that means full employment.
Then they would want to know exactly
how the business and financial leaders
would take those steps in democracy
where workers and farmers have a vote.
The obvious feeling in executive de-
partments of the Government is that
both Congress and the leaders of business
and finance will founder and lose stand
ing in hurry If they are put on the spot
by a demand that they advance their
specific plans for dealing with present.
day problems.
But then there arises a question con-
cerning whether the President himself
would be able to offer much more than
the members Of Congress or the leaders
Of private industry.
PreAdent Roosevelt's prescription, -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
PLEAD GUILTY 10 VIOLATION OF
 WAGE, HOUR ACT
Governments First Grim inaI Prosecution of Law
 Proves Successful

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 28.-The Governments c first criminal prose- cution for violation of the Wage and Hour Law has endeJi in pleas of guilty and imposition of fines totaling $1,500.
 The pleas of guilty were entered to Federal indictments charging the Brown Contract Stitching, Inc, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Shoe Com pany, and Nathan Brown, Treasurer and General Manager of the cor poration.
 The indictments charged failure to pay the required 25 cents an hour minimum wage, falsifying rec ords, failing to keep the required records and then putting the goods thus produced into interstate com merce.
 Brown was fined $1000 and the corporation $500.
 Government agents contended the corporation saved between $700 and $I ,O00 through evasion of the law.
 Counsel for the corporation ad- vised Judge Brewster that full resti- tuition will be made to the em- ployees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
Azana 0uiis President
 Spain Govt.
Resignation Formally Pre- sented Following Fran
 co.'s Recognition

COLLOGNaS SOUSSALEVA, Feb 28.-Manel Azana, in letter made public here, announces. his resigna- ticn as President of the Spanish Re- publican Government
 The letter is addressed to Diego Martinez Barrie, President of the Republican Parliament.
 Azana, who came here yesterday from Paris where he has been since Gen. F'ranco's troops cleaned ur Catalonia, withheld publication of his resignation until after France and Great Britain formally recog- nized Gen Franco's regime as the legitimate Government of Spain.
 The resignation showed that Az ana's hand shook when he wrote it on paper torn from school note book
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
GEN. FRANCO
 GIVES OUT
 HIS POLICY
Tells Great Britain His Government Will Be
 Independent

LONDON, Feb. 28.--Prime Minis ter Chamberlain read in the House of Commons this afternoon tele- gram from Gen. Franco, asserting that the newly recognized Spanish Nationalist Government will main tain it's independence.
 The Prime Minister read the mes- sage during a bitter debate on Great Britain's recognition of the Franco regime during which Laborite oppo- sition charged that Italy and Ger many would dominate in Spain.
 Chamberlain also said Gen. Fran co had given the British assurances against general reprisals on strictly political offenses."
 The Prime Minister defended re- cognition of Gen Franco after Cle- ment Attlee, Labor leader in the House of Commons, offered motion to censure. accusing Chamberlain of playing a smart trick"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
REFERENDUM
 FOR WAR IS
 NOW WAIVED
Twelve Unified Siafes Sen ators Submit ResoIu-
 lion, People 5 Vote

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Twelve Senators have proposed a constitu- tional amendment to give the people the sole right to declare an overseas war
 The resolution provides for a na- tional referendum as to whether such a war shall be declared and when Congress deems a National crisis exists"
 Those signing the resolution are Senators LaFollette, Bone, Clark Of Idaho, Clark of Missouri, Dona- hey, Murray, Wheeler, Capper, Fraz- fer, Nye, Lundeen and Shipstead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
NO CHANCE
 IN DOLL AR
 VALUE NOW
Secretary of IredsurYMor genihau Makes Siafe-
 menf 10 Congress

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Secre- tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau told Congress today the Administra- tion has no intention of changing the value of the dollar unless an emergency arises.
 The Treasury Secretary read 8 prepared statement before the House Coinage Committee on President Roosevelts request for extension of his power on changing the gold val ue of the dollar to operate two bil- lion dollar sterilization fund.
 Secretary Morgenthau asserted that it is unwise for the United States to tie it's hands" by perman- ently fixing the gold value of the dollar when no other important country in the world has taken such action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
RUM BATTLE SLOWS WORK
 FOR SENATE
Vote Six to Two on Ld- Boyiedux Bill Wolf
 Bounty Endlfed

Further pickering over the Sem ate's old stumbling block, liquor legislation. slowed progress in that house late yesterday and today, with the quarrel at times approaching the point of bitterness.
 In spite of this difficult, how ever, the Senate today passed Sem ate Bill No. IT. prohibiting sale of liquor to natives, and Senate Com mittee Substitute for House Bill No. l. the wolf and coyote bounty meas ure.
 Yesterday afternoon the Senate adjourned in huff in the midst of considering Senator O. D. Coch- rams bill setting up permit system for liquor purchases, after the body split four to four on whether other liquor bills held in the Nome Sem ator's committee should be reported out before action was taken on his own bill.
 Four to Four otildtuE 1cItOy 0uiktdit lCd tAlC move to dislodge other liquor bills, moving that Cochran's bill be con- tinued in second reading until all other bills dealing with liquor leg- islation were reported out of the Education Committee. The Senators refused by a vote of four to four to sustain ruling of the chair that Sullivan's motion was out of order, and then divided [ four to four to defeat the motion. Tn acrimonious debate which pre- ceded taking of the vote, Senator Cochran was referred to as "arbi- trarily setting himself up as the judge of all liquor legislation before the Senate" and bills of Senator James Patterson held in the com- mittee were term "very poorly drawn"
 After his motion to delay the Cochran bill failed. Sullivan sud- denly moved for adjournment, the motion carrying by vote of five to three.
 Another Attempt
 A similar attempt today to bring the buried bills out of committee was made by Senator Joe Hoffman who moved at ll:l5 o'clock this morning that the Senate recess ito give the Committee on Education an opportunity to report out con- troversial liquor bills." The motion l failed four to four. Tt seems to me-" Senator c. H. LaBoyteau said, that those bills are doing pretty well right where they are"
 The Senate even divided four to four on a motion to expunge from the journal the record of yesterdays sharp argument over Sullivan's mo- ton to hold back Cochran's bill until other appeared.
 Pass" Vote Challenged
 Senator Cochran. himself, sought
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
NIGHT SES5I0M pUSHES THROUGH
 16 HOUSE BILLS
Representatives Work Un. fiI Near Midnight on
 Heavy Calendar

Tired Representative went home from their workday chambers last night shortly before midnight after increased efforts to get all House bills possible under the wire and into the Senate before tonight after which time that body will refuse to accept any more measures from the lower chamber
 From 3 o'clock yesterday after noon until recess for the night, talk ing only a short time out for din- ner, the House passed sixteen bills, killed four, tabled one an consented to the withdrawal of another.
 Most significant, perhaps, of all measures passed in this hectic night oil session, was Representative Cor don's chain store measure, which sets up a graduated license tax on stores belonging to chains.
 Representative Drager opposed the Legislation on the grounds that its bound to hit grocery stores as well, and we don't want high grocery prices again out our way"
 The measure is patterned after an Alabama law which Representa- tive Gordon said had been upheld by the Supreme Court.
 HabituaI Criminal Bill
 Still another important measure getting the green light on it's way to tn Senate Chambers, was Me- Cormick's habitual criminal bill, House bill 18, substitute, will make it possible for courts to find frequent criminal offender an habitual and rid the Territory of his type.
 The $60 limit on pensions, boost of $15 over the present limit, was also given House okem, passing with out a dissenting vote The measure does not provide arbitrary doling of the miximum. but makes. that much pension possible in cases where medical attention is needed in ex- cess of living expenses.
 The Fourth Division was split on House bill l09 asking that $25. .000 of Fourth Division road funds be earmarked for survey of the Alaska end of the International Highway
 Spencer and Rogge objected to the use of road funds for the work, while Gordon and Lander upheld the ap- plication of monies as sensible ges- ture to Congress to give an indica- ton of Alaskas desire for construc- ton of the International Highway
 The measure passed, nine to seven. Rifle Team Bill Killed
 First bill killed in the late after noon session was House bill 104, ap- propriating $1,l45 for financing an Alaskan Civilian Rifle team for com petition at Camp Perry.
 House bill IA earmarks $l5,000 of
 (Continuea on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
TWENTY YEARS FOR SAB0TAGE,
 ARCTIC FLIGHT
Radioman Is Conyiefed of Failure to Send Re-
 poris 10 Levaaevsky

MOSCOW, Feb. Radioman M M. Vozensensky, convicted of sabo- tage in Arctic communication lines during the attempted Moscow over the North Pole flight to Fairbanks Alaska, has been sentenced to % years imprisonment
 Vozensensky admitted that as op- orator at Tikhaya Bay Station, 56C miles from the North Pole, he failed to give Sigismund Levanevsky and his companions weather reports dur ing the flight. The fliers disappeared and no trace has ever been found.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
DEFENSE OF 5UEz CANAL TESTED IN
 JOINT MANEuvERS
British and Egyptian Arm ed Forces Consolidate
 in Movements

CAIRO, Sgypt, Feb. 28.-British and Egyptian armed forces joined today for the first time in intensive maneuvers to test the Suez Canal zone defenses.
 The maneuyers are expected to show progress Egypt has made since she started modernization of her de- lenses two years ago under Brit ish guidance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
BILL. TO EMPLOY A[ASKA CANNERY
 WORKERS PASSES
Al Least One Third of Elm. pIoyees Would Be
 Residents

Starting with the 1940 fishing season, every cannery in Alaska will have to be manned by at least one-third resident workers, if Sen ate Bill No. 67 which passed the Senate yesterday afternoon is passed by the House, signed by the Gov ernor and upheld in the courts, where 1t is certain to be challenged.
 The bill, by Senator Henry Roden, declares it the policy of the Terri tory that at least B 1l3 percent of the crew of every salmon, her ring or other aquatic products cam nery or saltery must consist of per sons who have been residents of Alaska for at least year.
 Canperies last year employed IT. GOO persons, according to w. C. Arnold who was given the privilege of the Senate floor to explain sal mon canning industry opposition to the bill yesterday. Thus, il the Dill becomes law and is made to stick, employment will be given to 5,661 residents.
 Changed tO One-Tbird
 The percentage was reduced from 50 to B 1i3 by unanimous consent of the Senate. on suggestion of C. H. LaBoyteaux. MT. Arnold argued that the Territory could not furnish the large number of workers which would be needed under the 50 per cent requirement. and expressed doubt whether even B ll3 percent of the employees needed in the canneries could be furnished at the out-of -the-way places where they would be needed
 Telegrams protesting passage of the bill have been received from various unions at Seattle and Port land. It is to loosen the "strangle hold" of these outside unions, It was brought out in Senate discus sion, that the bill was passed.
 The measure received ulaill- nous vote in the Senate.
 Effective in 194O
 One amendment made just before final passage was provision that the act should not become effective until February IS, l940. The in- dustry, therefore, will have at least one more season of operations under the present system,
 Abuses under that system were abundantly cited and vigorously deplored during the discussion of the Roden bill yesterday. Some union contracts are even drawn to provide that no residents of Alaska are to be given employment in can neries here. The unions have forced operators to agree to a quota sytsem" whereby the number of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
TWO KILLED,
 TUNI5 CLASH
Several Reported Wound. ed in Skirmish with
 French Genddrmes

TUNIS, Feb. 28.-Two Tunisian natives are reported to have been killed and several wounded in a skirmish with French Gendarmes behind the French defense lines fac- ing Italian Libya.
 The French newspapers report the clash occurred near Sids Mannsour, midway between Gafsa and Gabes, in the Southern part of this North African Protectorate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
ANOTHER SWAT
 DEALT BY NAH,
 BABY CkMpkIGN
ChiIdIess Couples Are 10 Be Fined Forty Per-
 cent Income Tax

BERLIN, Feb. 28.-The Nazi Gov ernment today announced new baby campaign tax effective April l.
 Nearly 1,500,O00 childless couples will be penalized by 40 percent income tax.
 Bachelors and spinsters are also heavily fined by new tax.
 All Jews. whether having children or unmarried, are similarly taxed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
ARAB, JEWISH
 TERRORISM IS
 SPREADING OUT
British Troops, Aided by Planes, Engaged in
 Frontier Clashes

JERUSALEM, Feb. 28. = British troops are acting to put down the latest new wave of Arab-Jewish ter rorism which is spreading.
 Thirty four have been slain during the two days of this week as the result of bomb explosions.
 A fight is in progress today be- tween troops and large band of Arabs on the northern frontier of Palestine.
 Royal Air Force planes are aiding the soldiers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
Brif. Airmen Meet Death,
 Plane Crash
Accidents Since First oi Year Number 28 with
 50 Killed

LONDON, Feb. 28--Three British airmen were burned to death when a Royal Air Force bomber crashed today.
 Another Royal Air Force plane, single-seater, crashed near Canter- bury, but the pilot parachuted safe- ly.
 The first accident brought the years Royal Air Force fatal crashes to 28 with 50 deaths.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-28
CARDINALS GET READY, ELECTION
 CATHCLIC HEAD
ContIave Begins Tomor- row for Choosing Sueees-
 sor 10 Late Pope Plus

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 28.-Car- dinals have arranged their affairs for voluntary imprisonment in a conclave to select a new Pope. The conclave starts tomorrow.
 The Cardinals met briefly today in congregation as they have done daily since the death of Pope Plus, then turned individually to their personal affairs.