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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
GREAT DRIVE ON
 CRIME BEGINNING
 IN NEW YORK CITY
Attorney General, Hea a d G-Man Are All Giv-
 ing Aid to Dewey

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Federal Grand Jury members are hearing the first witnesses this afternoon in what Attorney General Murphy described as the greatest drive on organized crime in the history of the United States.
 Attorney Cahill declined to ad- init or deny that the fjrst witnesses are underworld leaders from Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago who are familiar with the manners and ac- tions of Leopard" Buchalter, the industrial racketeer who has evad- ed capture for more than two years.
 Head man Edgar Hoover has come to New York to assist Prose- cutor Dewey and Police Commis- sioner Valentine in the investiga- ton and is in conference with Jus tice Department agents in the New York area. Some of them have bee hunting Buchalter since the day he dropped out of sight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
CURB EXCHANGE HAS QUIET DAY;
 TRADING SLACK

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.-Prices on the curb exchange were lower today after a session of dull trading. The market was featureless. Prices de- clined through lack of demand ra- ther than excess of supply. The curb market moved in sympathy with the big board but there was no haste to get rid of shares. All departments of the market were affected
 The bond market eased lower to- day in dull trading. Although the tension abroad was blamed for the lack of demand there was no rush to get rid of foreign securities At no time did the market break sharp ly. but neither did it show any rallying power
 A feeble furry of buying lifted some market leaders to the plus sign area just as the days market was closing.
 Brokers said the whole list would average slightly lower for the day. However, either desire to place stocks in a more favorable position or a mild demand, bolstered the market at the end The volume was less than half a million shares.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
TERMINATING TRADE PACT WITH JAPAN Is INDICATION
 MORE JOBS ARE COMING UP
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. = You could never tell from the tone of the note terminating the U. S.-Jap- anese trade treaty that the State Department was delivering warn ing left jab with indications that more was in reserve.
 It gives the impression that Sec retary Hull was sitting late in hls office one night with half eaten sandwich on a plate at his side. Plumbing over a handful of treaties he comes to one with Japan. Well, we'll" seems to say, this one ap- pears to be bit out of date. Hey, boy, run over to Ambassador Horin- ouchis and tell him this trade treaty is so old it stinks and we want a new one"
 The tone of the note is just that casual. Diplomacy has it's tricks and this is one of them. It is the timing that counts. When the thing is all strengthened out once more and everybody decides to be closest friends, there will be no hard words in print in connection with the treaty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
ROOSEVELT LOOKS OVER
 200 BILLS
Is Studying Late Measures Passed by Congress-
 Makes Statement

HYDE PARK, N Y, Aug. 8. = President Roosevelt arrived here at SPA o'clock this morning and mot ored to his country home to spend several days work on some 200 un- signed bills prior to his New Eng land coast vacation aboard the Tuscaloosa. The bills were passed in the closing days of Congress.
 President Roosevelt claims ful- fillment of all of his objectives of his 1897 Court reorganization pro- gram.
 The President unexpectedly is- sued a statement saying the "at- tacks recently made on the Supreme Court by ultra conservative mem bers of the bar show how alarmed they are at the liberal ideas already prevailing"
 The Presidents comment was oc- casioned by his signing of the bill that created an Administrative of ficer to oversee the affairs of all Federal courts. The measure was one of seven, parts of his original proposal Six parts have now been enacted. The seventh, the President said, has been accomplished through the Supreme Court itself since the Snnate killed his Supreme Court bill two years ago.
 The President today named four new Federal Judges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
TENSION IS !. INCREASING
 OVER DANzIG
Poland Gives Out State- menf-GermdnY Makes
 War like Reply
(By Associated Press)

Polish and German newspapers today exchanged bitter words cen- tering attention on Danzig anew, while military forces across most of Europe engaged in war maneuvers or prepared for drills.
 The Berlin newspapers attack on Poland warned that challenges from Poland would result in ac- quaintanceship with German weap- ons.' The warning followed trou- ble over customs in the Free City and also melting" comments of a Warsaw newspaper.
 The pretext for the attack was an editorial in the conservative War saw newspaper Czas which said:
 "The guns of the Polish army are facing Danzig and will be used should the authorities of the Free City refuse to abandon the danger ous road they are now following on orders from outside"
 The Warsaw newspapers said Polish Customs officials on the Dan- zig East Prussian frontier have been ordered to wear uniforms and carry rifles so "all may know who they are"
 Today Great Britain's anti-air- craft defenses are being manned against a make-b believe attack by enemy bombers which will sweep in from the sea tonight for a test of the islands air defenses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
BLAND WILL
 HEAD THOSE
 MAKING TRIP
Five Democrats, Two Re- pubIiedns Will Con-
 pose Study Party

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. Four of the members of the House Mer- chant Marine subcommittee who will visit Alaska for six weeks study of the fisheries accompany ing Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia, are Representative Am prose J. Kennedy, Democrat, Mary land; Mon O. Wallgren, Democrat, Washington; Frank w. Boykin, Democrat, Alabama; George N. Seger, Republican, New Jersey.
 Representative Lindsay c. War ren, Democrat, North Carolina, who expected to accompany the group, said that he would be unable to do so. Representative J. Hardin Peterson, Democrat, Florida, may take his place on the committee.
 Representative Richard J. Welch, Republican, California, ranking minority member of the Merchant Marine committee, has not defi- nitely accepted his place on the subcommittee. If he declines, Rep- resentative James c. Oliver, Re- publican, Maine, may be asked to take the other Republican assign ment.
 There Will be seven members of the committee, including the chair man, five Democrats and two Re- publicans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
FLAMES RAGE
 OVER REGION
 ALONG
BIazes Are Reported in Many Seltions-High
 Wind Prevails

PORTLAND. Oregon, Aug B. Uncontrolled flames are seething today before winds southward along the Oregon Coastal range leaving path of hot ashes where once were green forests and fields.
 Other forest fires are shoulder ing, ready to be famed by winds, or are outside of the wind zone. but roaring.
 Conditions are becoming critical.
 It is estimated that upwards of 18,000 acres have been already swept by the flames.
 There are fires raging in Wash- ington and threatening many local ities.
 One fire near the Wolf Creek highway travelled three miles be- tween dark and dawn, making a total of almost 10 miles in 48 hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
THAT NEW DEAL SETBACK;
 WYATT IT MEANS, EXPLAINED
By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-You can come as close as anybody else to solving the third term puzzle, if you'll just hold the 1939 Congress sional Record up to the X-ray of history.
 The 1889 record-all 20 pounds of it-is proof that Presidential influ- ence with Congress is on the down grade. The President lost about as many big battles as he won on Capi- tol hill this year, notably his fight to keep American foreign policy out of the strait-jacket of law.
 That's not a good sign for the New Deal. AS long as congressional dis agreements continue, he can't be sure that the New Deal will last beyond his two terms. He will be ap- prehensive that part of this pro- gram, at least, will be discarded.
 Franklin D. roosevelt is defin- itely President with purpose and a program or pattern for carrying it out-Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Each raised cry in the land and tried to bend the will of the nation toward his ideal.
 With Jefferson, it was the Com mon Man." with Jackson, "The People," with Teddy Roosevelt, the Square DeaI;" with Wilson. the New Freedom" and with F.DR., the New Deal"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
BRITISH BOMBER
 CRA5HE5;; } DEAD

LONDON, Aug. 8.-The War Of- flee announces that the three crew members of the Royal Air Force twin-engined bomber which crashed at Beachy late yesterday have all been killed.
 First reports indicated that five men were aboard the army plane. The big bomber crashed on the edge of cliff and plunged over the precipice into the ocean far below
 A woman vacationist walking along the cliff top was killed when struck by a piece of wreckage hurled from the plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
REPRESENTATIVE OF TOKYO PAPER
 TO COVER PLANE
Flies North with PAA- Says Americans Aren't
 Sympathetic

Ichitaro Takata, pint sized Jap anese edition of newspaper man passing through Juneau today on his way to Nome to join the world girdling Japanese aerial tour, stop ping long enough to assert that Japanese feeling toward Americans in the Orient is just like it used to be before the trouble in China. '
 However, Takata, bespectacled little Nichi Nichi aviation reporter, with an embarrassed wry smile, added: Even though you people aren't exactly sympathetic with us at present"
 Takata arrived on the Columbia this morning and flew to Fair banks with Pacific Alaska AirWays. From the Golden Heart city he will fly to Nome and join his round- the-world flying countrymen and his boss, Takeo Ohara, "the peo- ple's envoy" long time chief of the aviation department for the combined newspapers Osaka Main ichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi.
 Operates 12 Planes
 Airplanes to Takata are nothing new, he will proudly tell you. His combine operates 12 air planes, he says, flor news pur- poses" and an elaborate little fold CT he left at The Empire, says the far flying goodwill plane is crewed by six of Japans foremost avia- tors, all on the staff of Nichi Nichi combine.
 The plane, due in Nome for re- fueling after flight from Tokyo and more northerly Nemuro on August 15, is twin-motored trans port monoplane that looks like well known American transport planes.
 It's power, the folder says, is gen. erated by Gold Star motors of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Works of 800 horsepower each, giving a cruising speed of 26O kilometers an hour.
 Goodwill Flight
 Purpose of the flight is labeled
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
PREVIOUS FIGHTS

It is significant that our two great est Presidents, Washington and Lin- coln, were men with a purpose, but not a program. Their purpose was to hold the nation together So en- crossed were they in that task that they had precious little time to cut out patterns or programs for the future.
 Up to Franklin D. Roosevelt, every President with both program and a purpose, save one, not only fought while in office to make them stick, but also carried the struggle beyond their tenure in the White House. Oddly enough, each chose the same course of action. Each put his chosen disciple in line for the White House, and then fought for the election of the disciple.
 Only Wilson failed to do that, and it wasn't because he didn't want to. It was because he was a wreck, as one close to him expressed it, when the time came to choose a successor.
 JefferSon-the one man who open ly condemned the establishment of line of succession in the White HouSe-actually held the reins in
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
FOREIGN NEWSMEN SURPRISED

The denunciation of the treaty. effective in six months, caught Washington by surprise. Only cou- pie of days before, certain foreign correspondents had cabled home the administration was not likely to show an especially firm attitude in it's foreign affairs until the breach in the Democratic party had been healed enough to permit show of solid front on such things as arms embargoes. The defeat on the arms embargo repeal was accepted as a blow to administration influence in European affairs, sign that isola- tion was again in the saddle.
 But our disposition toward isola- tion has applied principally on the Atlantic side. On the Pacific side it is different. Neither trade nor the fear of entangling alliances governs our relations with the Orient. Sen- timent has controlled from the be- ginning Of course merchants with dollar investments in the Orient have had different viewpoint. But sentiment and it's ally. philanthro- py, have been the controlling mo- tive with the public and with long line of national administrations. U. s. investments in China. except in the Shanghai area, are dominant ly missionary and educational. Ex- cept in Shanghai and Tientsin most of the Americans in China are mis-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
ALASKA QUEENS
 TAKE SEATTLE''
Will Fly. 10 San Francisco Monday with Chaper-
 one on AirIiner

SEATTLE, Aug. 8.-Irene Reen- strom, blonde and pretty 19-year- old Miss Alaska, arrived here to- day from Seward and asked a shipside welcoming party to please take her up in an elevator and give her ride on street car.
 This is Miss Reenstrom's first visit Outside since she was tiny girl-so the committee acquiesced and gave her both the elevator and streetcar rides.
 The pretty lass is travelling in company with just as pretty Jane Gordon, Miss Fairbanks, who will help Miss Alaska reign at the San Francisco Exposition August IT.. She was born in Seattle and at tended the University of Washing ton.
 The two Alaskan queens will fly south by airliner Monday, chap eroned by Miss Lulu Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
NET E OUT FOR
 "BIG VI0LAT0R5"

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. B. Assistant United States Attorney General Rogge, set his net today for persons he described as Big Vio- lators," in Louisiana political scan dals. A Federal grand jury under Rogge has returned indictments against former Governor Leche, po- litical leader Seymour Weiss, and ex-University President Smith. The Federal official said today that the investigation is picking up speed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
CABINET CRISIS,
 THE NETHERLANDS


 THE HAGUE. Aug. S.-Christian Historic Party Leader De Geer, is reported to have failed today in new effort to form a cabinet for The Netherlands.
 Queen Wilhelmina asked De Geer to try to form government after the failures by leaders of the Cath ollie Party and former Premier Col ijn's Anti-Revolutionary Party. The former Premier was understood to have blocked the efforts of De Geer to form a coalition of Catholics with the third important party, the Socialists. His own group con- trols only handful in parliament.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
STEINHARDT NOW U. S. AMBASSADOR
 TO SOVIET RUSSIA
Assumes Charge of Embas- sy Which Has Been Vd-
 cant for IA Months

MOSCOW, Aug. 8. - Lawrence Steinhardt, new United States Am bassador to Russia, has assumed charge of the embassy which has been without a chief for IA months.
 Steinhardt was previously Ambas- sador to Peru. He succeeds Joseph Davies, Ambassador to Belgium.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
Attorneys for
 BridgesGiven
 Clear Rulings
Defense Plainly Told Jusf What Evidence May
 Be Introduced
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Aug.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Aug. 8. Defense ttorneys for Harry Bridges, CIO labor leader, in the present deportation hearing, receiv- ed clear-cut rulings today from presiding examiner Landis on is sues to be considered.
 The defense received instructions it could not go extensively into qualifications of organizations or interests, hunting out subservice activities unless it could show di- rect connection between improper inducements allegedly offered Gov ernment Government to appear against Bridges and Government officials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
BASEBALL TODAY

The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues:
 National League Cincinnati 3, T; Chicago ', 5.
 American League Philadelphia 2: Boston g. Chicago 5; Detroit 3. Washington 2: New York 4,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
INVADING M0NG0LS
 REPORTED REFUSED MANCH0UkU0 AREA
Eight Hundred Sharp shooters Engaged in
 TWo-hour Battle

TOKYO, Aug. 8.-A Doemi dis patch from Singking reports that 800 invading Mongol sharpshooters have been repulsed by Japanese Manchoukuo forces.
 The battle lasted for two hours. It was fought near the confluence of the Khalka and Khortsen riv- CTS on the western boundary of Manchoukuo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
ALASKAN MEASURE
 APPROVED BY FOR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-Presi- dent Roosevelt has approved of the bill authorizing the Secretary of In- terior to sell timber and mineral products of Alaskan lands reserved for educational purposes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
HARBoR MASTER

Capt. c. A. Smelling, Harbor Mas ter with the Alaska Steamship Com pany at Seattle. arrived here aboard the Columbia this morning to stop ovef heye between boats for a visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
OPERATION I5 FATAL
 TO BRITISH AUTHOR

LONDON, Aug. 8.-Leonard Mer- rick, 75, British novelist who won particular attention of his fellow writers, died today following an op- eration,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. g. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7A, American Can 102, American Power and Light 5as, Anaconda 263s. Bethlehem Steel 60as, Commonwealth and Southern 15s, Curtiss Wright SIS, General Motors 48, International Harvester 52A, Kennecott 36A, New York Central 14al, Northern Pacific 9%.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-08
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 14l10, rails 2876. utilities 2655.
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Evening star., 1939-09-05
Football Squad 10 Be
McDonough PaAbearers

The Georgetown University foot
ball squad will act as honorary
pallbearers at the funeral services
tomorrow for the Rev. Vincent S.
McDonough, S. j., 50, former faculty
moderator of athletics, who died
Sunday in the college infirmary.
The office of the dead will be re-
cited at $50 am. followed by
requiem mass at 10 am. The Very
Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, university
president, will officiate in Dahlgren
chapel Burial will be in the Jesuit
Cemetery at the University.
Members of the faculty. students
and alumni will attend the services.
The honorary pallbearers will be
headed by Joseph R. Mellendick,
captain of the football team.
A widely known figure in the world
of collegiate sports, Father McDon-
ough died of a heart attack while
listening to radio news of the Euro
pean war
Father Mac" as he was known
to thousands of Georgetown Uni
versity alumni came to the school
in 1916 and directed athletics at the
Hilltop until 1928.
Father McDonough is survived by
a sister, Miss Louise McDonough,
and brother, Joseph B. McDonough
both of New York City.
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Maj. VIC. Morris, &,
OF Army Air Corps
Dies in Dayton
Officer Had Become
III During Routine
Flight From Here

Maj. william c. Morris, 48, Army
Air Corps, died last night in Miami
Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio, after
a brief illness. He became i'll Fri
day while on routine flight from
Washington to Wright Field, after
stopping at Patterson Field, the War
Department announced today.
Mai. Morris since June 9 this year
had been on duty here in the Office
of the Air Corps chief. He was
native of Harrisburg, N. c. He made
his home here at the Kennedy War
rem.
In 1921 he was graduated from the
Air Service Pilots School and from
the Air Service Pursuit School.
Three years ago he attended the Air
Corps Tactical School and was rated
as military airplane pilot and air
observer.
In 1911 he attended West Point
Military Academy for year and
then enlisted in the aviation sec
ton of the Reserve Corps. In 1917
he went into the signal section of
the reserves and the following year
was made a second lieutenant in
the aviation section of the Signal
Officers Reserve Corps and went on
active duty. He served in the World
War and in 1919 was transferred to
the Regular Army. In 1920 he was
commissioned a second lieutenant
of the Air Service. He was pro-
NOTED to a major August IS, this
year.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Maurine G..
Morris, he leaves a daughter, Mari
lyn, and his father, z. A. Morris.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, the War Depart
ment said.
Evening star., 1939-09-05
John A. Cook, 78, Dies;
Funeral Tomorrow

John A. Cook, 78, Washington
resident IS years, died yesterday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs
S. H. Wood, 213 Varnum street NV
He was a native of Alexandria, Va,
and had been in the sightseeing and
hotel business before his retirement
five years ago.
Besides Mrs. Wood, he leaves
three other daughters, Mrs. c. L.
Williams, Mrs. D. E. O'Connell and
Miss Ann Cook; son, Walter Cook !;
a sister Mrs. Kate Deahl, and two
grandchildren, Thomas Herb and
Walter Wood, picture editor Of the
Washington Post.
Funeral services will be held at
$50 am. tomorrow at Mrs. Wood s
home, followed by mass in ST. Ga
briels Church. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-09-05
day test are eagerly awaiting the

day test are eagerly awaiting the
outcome.
The unusually large number of
candidates and the recent death Of
John Paul Earnest, chairman Of
the committee, have been factors
In the late date in announcing the
results. When the examination for
the bar is given next, in December,
the new rule, under which q maxi
mum of five attempts are allowed,
will be effective-three times as a
matter of right and then two
other tries, with the permission Of
the committee, following years
study
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Handsome Oversize Persian
Kermanshah Oriental RUGS

You considerably because these made special
enable the finest floor coverings prices
Closely Of fine wool with <o pile Each
Individual its intricate design and beautiful blending
reflects the superb quoity Of true OrientoI rugs
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Legion Official Feurs
u. S.-Foreiqn Alliances

BY the Associated Press.
WICHITA, Kans., Sept. 5.-Frank
E. Samuel of indianapolis, national
adjutant of the American Legion
told Kansas veterans yesterday the
Legion's only concern about neu-
trality IS that the United States be
kept free from any alliance which
of itself, might draw this country
into war"
The Legion has taken no part in
congressional controversies over neu-
trality legislation, Mr.. Samuel said
Evening star., 1939-09-05
WALKING Toverns' Banned

INDIANAPOLIS up. - Indiana
bans walking taverns at it's State
Fair.
William Jackson was arrested yes
terday as he wandered through a
crowd of 100000 persons at the fair
grounds. Police said he was selling
Evening star., 1939-09-05
North ireland LoyoI
To Britain, Says Premier
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BELFAST. Northern Ireland, Sept.
5.-Prime Minister Lord Craigavon,
speaking in the Northern Ireland
House Of Commons, pledged yester-
day thst there is no 3lackening" in
the loyalty Of Northern Ireland
(Ulster) to Britain in wartime.
A soldier of listers territorial
forces, meanwhile, was shot and
gravely wounded by a gang as he
walked along North Queen street.
Other assaults on soldiers and at
Evening star., 1939-09-05
Bar Test Results
Expected Monduv

Results of the June bar examina-
tions are expected to be announced
on Monday.
Former Judge Ralph Given, Sec
retary of the Committee on Admis-
sions and Grievances of District
Court, today indicated the COM
mittee anticipates the results can
be made public the first of the
coming week. There is a posi-
bility, however, that they may be
delayed. Nine hundred and sixty
eight persons who took the three