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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
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German Communique Says Engagements So Far
 Unimporfanf
lRx Associated Pressl

Germany today dismissed the war thus far on the Western front as devoid of military importance because it failed to develop any sub- stantial fighting between the Allies and Germany.
 The first phase of the war" has been terminated by complete with drawal of the French from German territory is the report in today $ German communique.
 The communique minimizes the French-English military activity on the yves ter front wh ich h was launched September g.
 The French military report to- day says All is quiet" in the west but asserts the French are still on German soil and makes no spec fife claims concerning front line positions.
 The German communique admits there has been air and artillery fighting on the western front but engagements involved nothing ot importance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
ALASKA FOR
 REFUGEE5IS
 STILL PLAN
Secretary Iekes Says Re. port May Co Before
 hi. Committee

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said the Governments report on Alaska as a possible haven for Europe's policial refugees will prob ably be placed before the Inter national Committee on Refugees here. President Roosevelt will make the decision however, the Secre- tary said.
 The report was prepared last July by the National Resources Com mittee and said many refugees could be rehabilitated in Alaska by private funds.
 Secretary Ickes said it will be necessary for Congress to alter the immigration quotas to permit of the establishment of the Alaskan Foreign Colony since most of the immigration quotas are exhausted.
 Native Americans who wish to enter such a colony will be given equal opportunity and encourage ment, Secretary Ickes said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
THE CHRISTIAN HERITAGE

It is not yet certain just how far Hitler has invited the Russians into Europe. But it is certain that he admits his aims in the east are Tim ited." It is certain that the toe of the Russian boot has been planted firmly at the Rumanian gateway to the Balkans, and Stalin is closer to Warsaw than any Russian before him ever got, save by military con- quest.
 Keep this point in mind: The old Russia of Catherine professed. at least, to be Christian Russia. But not so Stalin; he professes atheism. And Christianity is still living force in western Europe and has affected history time and again.
 It was the Christian heritage that enabled the Austrians to summon up the courage to beat off the Ot- toman hordes at the gates of Vienna in 1929.
 It was the Christian heritage that more or less bound England, France, Austria and Spain together against the Russian advance on Poland in the days of Catherine II, eve n though Catherine was powerful enough to dub Poland her doormat to Europe. Her legions did wipe their feet on the Polish doormat. But they never entered the door to the west ern world
 And it was the same Christian heritage that finally dismembered the great Ottoman empire that Solyman built. Eventually the west ern powers divided it among them selves as ruthlessly as the Turkish soldiery had split up and conquered
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
FRITZ KUHN
 K WITNESS
 DIES PROBE
Declares Bund Is Fighting Communists Approves
 of New PdCt

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Frit2 Kuhn told the Dies Committee to- day that his German American Bund is still fighting Communism and Communists in this country al- though he wholly approves of the new Russo-German pact.
 The perspiring leader of the Ger man-American Bund made the dec- laration of approval of the Russo German pact amid excited exchang- es between the witness, his counsel, and committee members.
 Kahn asserted in. response to questions, there is no significance in the fact that a majority of the Bund's II units are located in areas occupied 90 percent by United States munitions industry.
 Representative Joe Starnes, of Alabama, precipitated an outburst when he asked Kuhn whether the Bund was still fighting Commun- ists.
 MT. Stanes, am surprised at you and how Congressman don't know any better than that Kuhn exploded
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
Ross SheeIy
 Resigns Job
 Al Maianuskd
Describes Situation al Col. ony as Acute for
 Two Reasons

PALMER. Alaska, Oct. 19.-Ross L. Sheely, General Manager of the Government sponsored Matanuska Colony submitted his resignation few hours after he described the settlements situation as acute be- cause of the destruction of crops by an early snowfall and freeze-up.
 There is no indication of any con- nection between the two develop ments, Sheely said. but his own farm, the second largest in Alaska, required attention.
 Sheely said some of the colony's dairy cattle will have to be slaugh- tered because of insufficient feed for the winter
 Attempts, Sheely further said, will be made to hold such losses to tho minimum.
 Losses to hay, potato and other root crops are particularly severe. Sheely added.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
Ambassador Warns Tokyo American Patience
 Is Near End
STRONG, REMARKABLE
 DIPLOMATIC SPEECH
Japan s Acts Destructive of US. Hopes for Peace
 Is Warning

TOKYO. Oct. l9--United States Ambassador Joseph Grew declared today, American opinion, based on facts. not propaganda, believes that many things injurious to the United States which have been done and are being done by Japanese agen- cies are wholly needless"
 It was one of the strongest and most remarkable diplomatic speech es in Japanese-U. s. relations
 Grew, who recently returned to his homeland for visit and for a meeting with President Roosevelt, said his talk came straight from the horses mouth"
 In addressing 250 members of the America Japanese Society, often sounding board for authoritative discussion of American Japanese re- lations, the Ambassador asserted:
 Yelled War Threat
 "They dhe American people, re- gard with growing seriousness the violation of and interference with American rights by Japanese armed forces in China in disregard of treat ies and agreements. They feel the present trend in the Far East. if continued, would be destructive of hopes they sincerely cherish for an orderly world"
 Grew asserted this opinion was unanimous in the U. s, and that as such had a profound effect on Gov ernment policies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
EUROPEAN WAR WILL NOT BE DECIDED VIA BALTIC SEA, IS BELIEF; NO LANDING FORCES

an ideal spot to make a landing. Under a naval barrage, troop ships could sail right into port and un- load men and cannon. That is a dream situation for navy.
 Breaking into a fortified port is another thing. Shore guns have tremendous advantages over naval guns. They are concealed. The navy is in full view Sighting and ranging devices for shore guns are greatly superior to those that can be in- stalled on ship.
 Take Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as an example The water all around is zoned off. The coast guns know in advance what ranges and deflec- tion to set off to hit ship wher- ever it may be seen. Land guns, on fixed bases, are far more ac- curate than naval guns rolling at sea. Their range normally is equal.
 Any landing the British navy would attempt likely would be along some unfortified shore. It would be necessary for the heavy ships to stand offshore and lay down a barrage to keep defending forces back while troops landed. Troop ships, conveyed by destroyers and cruisers, would crowd closer into shore. put men out in small boats, and trust to naval fire to keep enemy light and heavy artillery fire and machine gun fire to a mini- mum
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
Golden Cafe Fair May Be Kept Open;
 Soliciting Funds

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. l9. Mayor Rossia has approved a $350- 900 contribution from the city of San Francisco to keep the Golden Gate Exposition operating next year.
 Directors will decide within the next day or so whether to close it permanently October %
 The Mayor recommended that S300,000 for the fair be included in the city budget, and that $5o,0OO be paid out of the publicity fund.
 The city's promise brought funds raised by supporters of the fair to nearly a million dollars. About $7O0,- 900 more is necessary if the exposi- ton is to reopen,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
NAVY PLANES IN CRASH; 4
 MEN KILLED
Bombers from Aircraft Car rier Lexington in Ae-
 Cident in South

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 19 - Two Navy planes collided and burned at Murray Lake near here, at o'clock this morning, killing four men, two from each plane.
 The planes were bombers from Squadron 2, of the aircraft carrier Lexington, on a practice flight.
 Three of the occupants of the two planes killed have been iden- tified as Ensign Theodore Smith 24, of Kansas City; Ensign Harold Pence, p, of Hillsboro, Illinois, and Chief Ordnanceman Edward Eakins, 33, of San Bernardino, Cal.
 There were no witnesses to the crash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
AGREEMENT SIGNED

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Great Bri- tain, France and strategic Turkey, the latter one of the Allies World War enemies, tonight signed a treaty for mutual assistance in the eastern Mediterranean for minimum period of Is years"
 The action put into formal in- strument agreements a among the three nations made earlier in the year to assist each other in the event of aggression leading to war in the Mediterranean area.
 Prime Minister Chamberlain an- nounced the signing of the agree ment in the House of Commons.
 Turkey is obligated to aid France and Great Britain if they go to war and in fulfillment of their guar antees to Greece and Rumania,
 Turkey remains free, however, of any obligation to go to war with Russia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. - So great is the superiority of coast de- fense over naval power in attack that authorities here discount all most 100 percent the persistent stories that the British fleet may attempt to force a landing on the North German shore.
 They don't discount the possi- bility that the British fleet may break into the Baltic sea and shut off German trade with Sweden, so important because of rich Swedish iron But even that would be a hazardous task and might cost Britain half it's navy
 Attempting to land an armed force in the face of German power along the Baltic or North Sea would be one of those tasks no Navy would undertake if any other avenue of attack remained. Au- thorities always leave one avenue open. A Britain hard pressed in other quarters might make the desperate attempt at shore land ing. Odds against success are high.
 Long ago Germany saw tine pos sibility that a British fleet action might be launched against her in the Baltic. She took protective steps. Taking Danzig was one im- portant step. As free city Danzig was not strongly fortified against naval attack. Polish forces there failed to beat off one German bat tleship. You can almost bank on 1t that by now Danzig is well forti- fled.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
STREETS OF GOLD

ORANGE, Cal, Oct. 19.-Streets surfaced with gravel from a local rock crushing plant may be said to be paved with gold. A curious en- gineer took a sample of the mater ial and found it assayed $40 ton in gold.
 Such values in large quantity would make mining of the sand deposit profitable.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
Collects Perfume

NORMAN, Okla, Oct. 19.-Having discovered a way to place odors on paper and make them stay there, Dr. Ralph Bienfang, professor at the University of Oklahoma, makes a hobby of collecting scents. He has more than 250 of them, gathered from all parts of the world, on file. They include such rare fra grances as the scent from oil of rose and neroli oil distilled from bitter orange.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
STORM WARNING

GALVESTON, Texas, Oct. 19. = The old-timers along the Texas coast say therel be some bad storms soon. Fishing has been unusually good The o.t.'s say that always is a sign of foul weather ahead,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
SOvIETS ARE MARCHING IN
 ON EST0NIA
We'll -Versed Troops Are 10 Occupy Various Mili-
 tdry Bases

MOSCOW, Oct. 19.-Picked Soviet troops, we'll versed in Russian Com munist theology, are proceeding on schedule through Estonia to occupy military bases granted by the little Baltic nation to her huge eastern neighbor
 Tass dispatches received here from Talinn said the Russian sol- diers have been received in a friendly manner They started the march yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
COUNCIL TO MEET
 TOMORROW NIGHT

The regular meeting of the Ju- neau City Council will be held to- morrow night at 8 o'clock at the City Hall. Only routine matters are pending, according to City Clerk Harley J. Turner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
A PORT WOULD HELP

More than a year ago Germany crowded Lithuania out of MemeL That is another Baltic seaport that undoubtedly was only lightly armed until Germany took over.
 An undefended port would be
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
} 3-NATI0N PACT GOES
 ON TONIGHT
Mutual Assistance Agree. menf fo Be Signed by
 Allied Powers
lRy Associated Pressl

The British Foreign Office an- nounces that a treaty for mutual assistance between Turkey Great Britain and France will be signed tonight
 It is admitted that the signing of the agreement is most powerful pact as it virtually gives the Med- iterranean to the Allies and blocks possible aggression ideas by Rus sia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
Business Is Good, Thank You

BROOKSVILLE. Ky. Oct. 19--A Brooksylle druggist displays this sign on his front door: Through this door pass the best people or earth-my customers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19

Germany provides 3,101 and Italy 2,671 of Australia's population in crease of 9,l37 from immigration in 1899.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19
DANGEROUS WORK

But for a navy to stand offshore and pound away at land troops is risky business. Undoubtedly every submarine in the German navy would be concentrated on the fleet
 A half dozen, breaking through the screen of destroyers and cruisers, could ruin the British navy in a half hour. And they would try to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19

The sun has a diameter of 864,- 100 miles,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19

California has 40 dog shows [ year,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-19

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Evening star., 1939-01-18
School Duys

The proposal for a few periods of
school to teach members of Con-
gress better to understand their
unique status as legislators for
community as we'll as a Nation will
appeal to those Washingtonians who
have seen even the District Commit
tee room as bare as Mother Hub
bard's larder on meeting days.
Examination of the proposition as
it is to be put to Speaker Bankhead
reveals that such a school" would
have an excellent faculty" Repre-
sentatives Jennings Randolph and
Everett Dirksen both have taken it
upon themselves to become familiar
with the needs of the community
and their responsibility under the
Constitution for the operation Of it.
A wise addition to the school" per-
sonnel would be a good, old-fash-
ioned truant officer and the curric-
ulum could we'll include National
Representation and Fiscal Equity as
major courses, with parking meters
and such subjects as electives or
choice courses.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Urges Installation of
Penny Parking Meters.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The traffic problem will not be amelio-
rated until the parking situation is i'm
proved Parking is no longer problem,
but rather an emergency and should be
approached as such. believe half the
cars on the street are just being driven
around waiting for an opening at the
curb. 1t is not unusual to drive five or
ten blocks before finding space.
The space from the Commerce Build
ing to the Red Cross Building could be
made to accommodate another 10000
cars Many other uttle-used spaces could
be turned over for parking and lot of
obsolete buildings taken down.
The parking meters are a step in the
right direction, but there should be penny
meters. Twelve minutes is long enough
for business stop and that would care
for five cars an hour instead of one.
know it to be fact that where they
have meters taking in both nickles and
pennies more than half the money taken
in is in pennies Then why not have the
meters handle five cars instead of one
per hour? I suggest that We try few
blocks for pennies. A PARKER.
January IA.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the Uriter, although the use OF
q pseudonyn for publication is
permissible. Please be briet

The clerks and civil servants of the Gov
ernment who had enjoyed long and Sc
cure tenure of Office became alarmed at
the clamor of new men for their posi-
tions. Doubtless the major portion Of
them had opposed the election of Jack
son and looked with feelings akin to
contempt upon him and his followers.
With hunters instinct, Jackson scented
his prey. Determined to have none but
his friends in Office, he made clean
sweep expelling old employees to make
room for men fresh from the people,
This was new custom. Other Presi-
dents had discharged few officers for
engaging in opposition politics. They
had been careful in making appoint
ments not to choose inveterate enemies,
but they discharged relatively few men
on account of their political views and
partisan activities. BY wholesale re-
movals and the frank selection of officers
on party grounds Jackson estab-
lished the spoils system at Washington
The famous slogan To the victor be-
longs the spoils of victory became the
avowed principle of the National Gov
ernment"
The cause Of the Jackson-Van Buren
depression, I should like to add, was
imitation, for which jackson was re-
responsible. He wrecked the United
States Bank to that end. J. W.T..
January 13.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Sincerity by Wire

Any American citizen has an un-
challengeable right to send a tele-
gram to his Representative or Sena-
tor at any time stating his views on
any public issue
Several times in the past four or
five years the telegraph has been
used as medium of Nation-w wide
referendum. An example is the pres
ent flood of pro and con messages on
the Spanish arms embargo issue.
This is perfectly legitimate and
proper. The only valid criticisms it
would seem, are that such a ref
erendum is apt to be extraordinarily
expensive and that 1t places extra
burdens on already overworked con-
gressional secretaries.
Much Of this expense and labor is
unnecessary. 1t has been suggested
that the telegraph companies prepare
appropriate form messages on every
issue of national significance that
arises. Such forms could be labeled
simply A and B-referring to texts
already deposited in their Washing
ton Offices All it would then be
necessary to send over the wires
would be a single letter, together
with the name of the legislator for
whom the message was intended.
The appropriate printed or mimeo-
graphed form message then could be
delivered without delay. This should
greatly diminish the expense, save an
enormous amount of routine labor on
the part of operators, and still leave
the companies with neat profit
1t is also in order that message A
and message B be provided on paper
Of different colors so that secretaries
would be saved the labor of glancing
at each telegram in order to place it
in the proper pile. With little
Standardization of procedure it
would not even be necessary to count
the messages. The reds simply
could be balanced against the green's
in the pans of scale. Thus Sena-
tor would learn that there was five
pounds more of sentiment in his dis
trict on one side or the other-and
make his speeches and cast his votes
accordingly.
At present, of course, none of these
messages actually are read. Nobody
expects to find in them any novel ar
guments or any gems of literary ex-
preston. They are simply placed in
piles and counted. This of course, is
as it should be. We are living in a
machine age, an age of standardiza-
ton and efficiency. The telegram
senders deserve the best that public
referendum engineers can provide
for them in the lines of cheapness
and speed-for after all the fact that
they have spent some of their own
good money to acquaint their Repre-
sentatives with their views is evi-
dence of certain minimum of sin
cerity.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
David Lawrence Article
Wins Commendation.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I seldom sympathize with anything
David Lawrence writes. But I am now
glad to admit that he has balanced the
account and has made me his debtor
by writing that article, Democracy Is
Served by the President" which you
published in The Evening Star OF Jan
uary II.
Mr. Lawrence, referring to significant
keynote in President Roosevelt's mes
sage to the Congress January 4, makes
mention of the fact that never before
has a President linked religion to de-
mocracy as thing worth fighting for
It is, it seems to me, forward-looking
approach to the solution of the problem
of human government to link up, If not
to identify, religion and democracy.
To my way of thinking, true religion
is democracy and true democracy is re-
ligion. More power to the evangels Of
good news to men! The time rapidly
arrives to prepare for Armageddon-
great conflict between the progeny Of
the PHILOSOPHERS Of love and hate!
ERNEST D. MacDOUGALL.
yaruarv -
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Plea for Economy

1t has taken long time to formu-
late clear-cut issue between the two
schools of thought seeking to control
this country's fiscal policies, but now,
thanks largely to the exchanges be-
tween Senator Byrd of Virginia and
Chairman Eccles of the Federal Re-
serve System, the fundamentals of
the controversy can be clearly per-
ceived by ALL
The picture has been confused for
the past six years because of the in
sistence by the President, and most
of the other responsible New Deal
officials, that, despite large "emer-
gency" disbursements of borrowed
money, balanced budget remained
the administration primary con-
cern-a much-to- be desired goal that
was to be attained in the immediate
future. But now all of that has been
thrown overheard and the adminiS-
tration has embraced the thinking of
Mr.. Eccles, who would borrow and
spend Indefinitely, hoping that at
some unpredictable future date the
national income will rise to a point
where Government income and outgo
can be balanced without the pain of
additional taxes.
This philosophy was attacked Mon
day night by Senator Byrd in a Ma
tional Radio Forum address. Long
an opponent of governmental ex-
travagance, he contended that the
fallacy of pump priming" as a fixed
national policy has been shown by
experience to be tragic failure. In
this day of astronomical fiscal calcu-
lations it is difficult to visualize the
enormity OF the cost of that unhappy
experiment, but Senator Byrd stated
1t in simple terms when he pointed
out that the payment of $500 OOOO,O 900
q year on the principal of the ma
tional debt would, in fifty-six years,
only retire the deficit so far incurred
under President Roosevelt.
Perhaps the greatest danger to
which the Virginia Senator alluded is
the casualness with which the New
Dealers would add new billions of
debt to the appalling total of some
forty-four billions already recorded.
AS Senator Byrd said that debt can
not and will not be paid by the New
Dealers nor by this generation of
taxpayers. 1t is liability easily in
Cured today, but one which can be
liquidated only by the sacrifices of
generations yet to come The Ameri-
can people must realize that their
children and their grandchildren
may be faced with emergencies" in
their time as grave or graver than
that of today. Elemental Justice re-
quires that they be given chance to
work out their own problems and if
they are to have that opportunity.
the present generation must stop
piling up debts for them to pay.