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Evening star., 1939-03-01
BY Edgar Rice Burroughs
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For II. 6 Patent NHre
BY Mormon Marsh
BY Bud Fisher

Peter as politely as he knew how.
I'm fact, 1 don't think I've seen
you before. Would you mind telling
me your name? Mine is Peter Rab-
bitt." go
You don't need to tell me yours"
replied the stranger, with a twin
kle in his eyes. Il know it. You
look very much like your cousin.
Jumper the Hare. am very we'll
acquainted with him. My name Is
Shipper Crossbill. These are my
family and friends"
He nodded toward the other birds.
I'm ever SO pleased to meet you.-
said Peter.
(copyrisht. 1o3o)
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was hopping about in the Green
Forest, hoping that there he might
find some sign that the reign of
Jack Frost and Rough Brother
North Wind would soon end. But
there wasn't any that he could see,
and he was getting a wee bit dis
couraged. Not only had he seen
no signs of Mistress Spring but he
had seen no signs of anybody. There
wasn't a sound. After a while Pc
ter actually began to feel lone
some. He was just thinking about
visiting the Old Orchard or else
going home to the dear Old Bridr
Patch. when he caught = glimpse
Of some one moving In q pine tree
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strangers were. Presently the one in
the bright coat followed some of
these little brown particles down
to the snow-covered ground.
Like Old Friends.
II dropped something" said he,
Just as If he and Peter were old
friends.
What did you drop?" asked Pc
ter, eagerly, seeing this opportunity
to get acquainted.
"A seed," replied the bright-coat-
ed stranger. "A pine seed. don't
believe in wasting food, so I've come
down after it."
Il don't believe I've had the pleas
ure Of meeting you before" said
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"Bv nv great, leaping, pop-eyed

"By my great, leaping, pop-eyed
grandfather. I don't know those
people!" he exclaimed under his
breath. "I've never seen them be-
fore. I've never'even heard of them.
I wonder where they have come
from. I wonder if sweet Mistress
Spring has some new messengers
to take the place of Winsome Blue
bird. Anyway, they are little, and
50 there is nothing to fear from
them. I guess III see If I can
scrape acquaintance with them.
NV gracious, just look at the color
of the coat of that fellow who seems
ia be at the head Of the party! I
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Bedtime Stories
WHAT DID
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Peter Rabbit hadn't been able to
discover any signs of the coming of
Mistress Spring, and he was get
ting uneasy. He is like all the s2st
of us at this season of the year
tired of ice and snow and anxious
for the coming of warm weather.
So Peter was given to wandering
about rather uneasily. hoping and
hoping that he would find some-
where something to make him feel
sure that Mistress Spring was on
her way.
On this particular morning he
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wonder if he has been hurt and got
IL

wonder if he has been hurt and got
his coat all stained"
He started ahead, hopping along
rather slowly and keeping his eye
fixed on the strangers, who were
having the best of times among the
pine trees. to judge by the chatter
ing going on among themselves.
They took no notice of Peter. He
wasn't sure whether they didn't
see him or just considered him q
stranger in whom they had no in
terest AS he drew near he heard a
continued shipping sound, and he
noticed that little brown particles
were continually falling from that
particular pine tree where the
Moose Pass miner., 1939-06-29

Vi sitting editors and their wives if any and other members of their fomi lies, who came to Alaska in the Nati onal Edit Association group to hold their 1889 nat ional convent on, were hand somely enter tained in Seward and expressed themselves as delighted with this section of Alaska.
 This was the 54th annual convention of the organi zation which is composed of ed- itors of metropolitan daily and weekly papers. The organi zati on has 4 1000 mem bers and repre- sents l2 1000 newspapers.
 ". H. Conrad, 1938-l939 president ,head- : cd the touring convent toners acc omponied by Mrs. Conrad and their two sons, Brooks and Collins Conrad. W.H.Conrad is editor of the Star News at Modford, Wis.
 Howard ". Palmer ,editor of the Green wich (Conn) Press is slated to be the next president and will be elected while on the tour, the association holding it's official sessions on ahipboard. Mrs. Palmer accom- panied Mir. Pa liner to Alaska.
 Alaska will profit greatly from the visit of the editors. Almost every state in the Uni on was repre- sent ed and the edi- tors will eevote columns upon columns in their newspapers 70 telling of what they saw and learned about fl shing, mining ,trap ping, sc emery and hospitality in Alaska.
 Tony Galento proved to be no "white hope." Not many fight fans entertained any hope that he would knock out Joe Loui s but almost everybody hoped he would.
 An aerial survey of routes north from Hazlet ton ,Briti sh Columbia wi II be initia- ted July 8 by the int ernat onal joint com mi ssion the proposed us. to Alaska high way. It is expected that the trip will require six days and the findings of the fliers will be discussed when the comni S sion meets July 90. Routes will be con sidered and financing of the project.
 Oldest and most deadly home brew is scan6al.
 -Hought on (Texas) Line.
 Friends are like commodities they last longer when not used too often.
 Denver Post.
 M. P. Butler, Seattle ontractor, sub nitted bio of $2l4, 884 for const ruction of the 2O56-foot Lowell Creek tunnel at Seward. That figure being almost $25 ,oO0 less than the engineers stimate, Butler will probably get the cont ract The tunnel is to protect Seward property against floods on the creek.
Moose Pass miner., 1939-06-29
THE OLD ST VE.
By Nj. R. s.

 How many people have you fed?
 Where are the cooks who have labored over you, bPlonning the workers daily bread?
 Tell of the early days you witnessed;
 Days of the rush, the hurry, the boom, Time of great enthusiasm,
 Dri wing toward g certain doom.
 Time is stamped in your title, Old Stove, ISpelled in capitals, CHARTER 0AK," leone are the lids, the oven rusted, Bare as the early miner' s poke. Grim and defiant though left to decay. Far in the future a scrap of iron Points to the cause of that early day. 1 mesites to c total of lo8.9 acres, Iranging in size from less than one-half lacre to Is acres in both the Chugach and fTongass Nati onal Forests in Alaska, will be fopened for entry by signature of President Roosevelt. Officials of the Nati ional For lest Service state that per sons now living lon home sites will have prior claims to the land.
 Of the 25oo phea sant eggs and 100 Chuck Tar eggs shipped into the Matonuska Valley Ito be incubat or -hatched, 528 pheosants were
  lis thought that these birds can survive the winter feeding on what is left in the grain fields and the farmers hope to have their aid in keeping down cutworms and insects.
 Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees first base man, wi II never play baseball again. He had check-up at the Mayo Clinic, fo1loW9 ing an illness, and it was found that he is suffering from chronic infanti1e paralysis.
 As many as 100 new residents are said Ito have moved to Kodiak since the construc- tion of the naval base became certainty. Many are living in tents while homes and st ore buildings are being erected.
 Walt Mason, humori st poet, died in San Diego recently ct the age of ". He is survived by one daughter,
 tornado fin Minnesota jumped 25 miles of count rysiec but on either side of it's jump killed 10 persons and injured more than 50 people last Sunday. Anoka,a town of 5000 suffered the most, five persons losing their lives and around 50 buildings being demoli shed. Other towns in the ne+b +lta orv,o6o were Core Oran. Maple-
Evening star., 1939-01-13
German
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jecting them to dif1erential treat
ment on the basis of such classifca-
ton, irrespective of measures ap-
piled by other nations to their own
citizens on the basis of differential
classification of their own citizens. :"
The United States, in effect, re-
peated that she did not admit Ger
many's right to treat American Jews
in Germany differently from Ameri-
can citizens In general.
AS to taking up individual cases
of discrimination, this Government
said it was prepared to examine
and settle on the basis of prevailing
treaty provisions cases which in the
opinion of my Government are vio-
lations of such treaty rights"
Specific Cases Listed.
Mr.. Gilbert. the State Depart
ment said. submitted with the note
number of specific cases of al
legged discrimination against Jews.
This action was IN response to a
section of the German communica-
ton to the United States. 1t said
that the United States Embassy at
Berlin had not informed the tor-
eign Office of a single case in which.
in its opinion, such treaty rights
had been violated"
The German note also declared
that there was no general principle
in international law according to
which a state would be bound to
refrain from discriminatory treat
ment of foreign citizens
based on race or creed"
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Settlement Offered
In Individual Cases

BERLIN. Jan. 13 (E0.-The German
government disclosed today it had
declined to assure the United States
that all American citizens in Ger
many would be treated alike re-
gardless of race or religion, but said
it had offered to seek amicable solu-
ton of individual cases.
The issue was raised by WASH
ington's request for assurances that
the Nazi anti-Jewish DEGREES of No.
vember would not affect Jews hold
ing American citizenship.
U. S. Right Recognised.
The German government in its
note of December 80 recognized the
right of the United States to estab-
nsh certain political principles with
in its own borders, said the agency.
TT is a different question, how
ever, whether such principles possess
binding force for other governments
concerning measures falling within
their sovereignty" the German note
continued.
obviously this would be the case
only If such principles either cor
responded to generally recognized
principles of international law or If
they were made the subject of spe-
cial arrangements between indi-
vidual states.
There exists, however, no general
principle of international law ac-
cording to which a state is under
obligations to refrain from differ
entail treatment Of foreign nationals
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Civil Service Anniversary
To Be Marked Monddy

Speeches by members of Congress
and the civil service commissioners
will feature mass meeting to be
held Monday by the American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees in
observance of the anniversary of the
Civil Service Act.
The meeting will be held in the
Labor Department Auditorium at 8
pm.
Speakers will include Senator
David I. Walsh of Massachusetts.
Representative Robert Ramspack of
Georgia and Commissioners Mitchell.
McMillin and Ordway of the Civil
Service Commission.
The civil service commissioners
will be given reception by the A.
F.. G. E. next Saturday at $50 pm.
at the Kennedy Warren Apart
ments.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

on e basis of race or religious faith
or other characteristics.
Denies Germany Unique.
The DNB communique then as
serted that the German government
neither was the first nor the only
one which considered differential
treatment necessary under certain
circumstances It did not indicate
any other instance, however
In no case. the German govern
ment insisted, had differential
treatment been accorded because of
foreign citizenship.
Special measures had been ap-
piled to certain categories OF for
eign nationals only when German
nationals Of the same category were
subjected to these measures" the
reply said.
1t added that for reasons of spe-
cial readiness to oblige Germany
had, wherever possible, conceded
more favorable treatment to for
eigners than to her own nationals.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Won't Retreat Inch
Reported Duce's Stand

PARIS. Jan. 10 (Py.-Premier Mus
solini was reported authoritatively
today to have refused to retreat
one inch" from Fascist colonial de-
mands on France in his talks with
British Prime Minister Chamberlain
In Rome.
Dispatches 10 the French foreign
Office said II Duce fatty had in
formed both Mr.. Chamberlain and
the British foreign secretary. Wis
count Halifax, that he would press
actively Italian territorial demands
on France.
This information, the Rome re-
ports said, was conveyed to Mr..
Chamberlain before the reported
delivery of message to Mussolini
from Reichsfuehrer Hitler urging
him to pursue his aims peacefully
for one year.
French officials, however, said
they knew nothing of such a mes
sage, reported from informed Ger
man quarters in Rome.
Conference Plan Rejected.
Reports from Rome to the Quay
d'Orsay said Mr.. Chamberlain had
rejected an Italian suggestion for
a four-power conference among
Britain, France, Germany and Italy
to settle Mediterranean questions.
They said also that the British
Premier had left Mussolini no doubt
that Britain firmly supported
French resistance to any territorial
demands.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

controlling all Southern Catalonia,
brought Gen. Frances troops within
10 miles of the Mediterranean and
80 miles of the vital port of Tar
ragona.
A swift thrust through from Falset
ernment's heavily fortified coastal
regious south of the Ebro River.
Situation Grows Graver.
Private reports from the govern
ment capital said the situation ap-
peared even graver than last spring
during the insurgents first cam
paign through to the sea south of
the Ebro, when many feared govern
ment resistance would collapse.
Government dispatches acknoWl-
edged that after 80 months of civil
war the fatherland is in dam
ger" and made public yesterdays
extensive new mobilization orders.
These DEGREES, applying to men
up to so years of age, were reported
privately to have disrupted Cata-
lonia's industries. which have been
carried on by older men while young
men were at the front.
Tension and confusion in BARGE
lona's dwindling territory was said
to have been heightened by throngs
of refugees from the battle areas on
highways already jammed by mill
tary movements.
One Highway Still Open.
Only the main coastal highway
north from Tortosa through Tara
gona to Barcelona remained open
as q path for retreating troops and
refugees out of the menaced lower
Catalan region through a bottle
neck between Falset and the sea.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Sonny Boy Case
Defendant Is Slain
By Brofher-in-Law
Killed Ny Sister, Man
Tells WiImette Police
In Confession
n the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, JAN 13.-The brother
(n-law of DR.. Gordon E. Mordoff,
elderly defendant in the notorious
Sonny Boy" baby paternity case in
1886, was held by police today as the
confessed slayer of the prominent
physician.
Walter L. Storms, deputy chief of
Chicago detectives. said the confess
sion was made by John Quinn, 63,
shortly after his arrest last night at
his South Side home. A pistol was
found in the rear of the home.
Police Chief Cloyd Mcclure of
suburban Wilmette, scene of the
shooting yesterday, said Quinn
blamed the 52-year-old physician
for the death of Mrs. Mordoff three
years ago. Chief. Mcclure quoted
Quinn as follows:
He killed my sister. She died
from broken heart caused by worry
and disappointment. He took her
life so I snuffed him out"
Served Six-Year Term.
Detective Joseph McCabe said
Quinn was former convict who
had served siX-year term for rob-
berry in the Illinois Penitentiary at
Joliet
The slayer fired two shots as he
entered the physicians Office in the
suburb. DR.. Mordoff fled down a
corridor and stumbled into the re-
ception room of DR.. Floyd L. Nc
Grath's Office, with the slayer in
pursuit.
From the entrance of the recep-
ton room the gunman fired a shot
which shattered the glass of an
inner Office door. DR.. Mordoff
swung open the door and was stand
Ing in front of the startled DR.. Nc
Grath when the slayer fired
fourth shot. The bullet pierced DR..
Mordoff's chest and spent its force
against DR.. McGrath's abdomen,
causing bruise.
The sensational Sonny Boy" case
resolved around the paternity of a
-year-old boy who had been
reared by the Mordoff's S since he was
3 months old.
DR.. Mordoff Claimed Child.
DR.. Mordoff claimed the child had
been born to his wife, Madge, at the
home Of her parents in Minneapolis.
Miss Margaret Mann. "a, contended
she was the mother of the child.
Miss Mann, who married Ray Al
fred Fletcher during the litigation,
testified the boy was born out of
wedlock in a Chicago orphanage.
that she had boarded Sonny Boy"
at the Mordof home and that SUBJ
sequently Mrs. Mordoff kept the
child and represented him as her
own.
Circuit Judge Rudolph Desort
ruled Miss Mann was the mother
of Sonny Boy The boy, named
Reginald Arthur Mann, now is in
her custody. DR.. Mordoff had
foster daughter, Margaret Mary
Mordoff, 10, as well as one son.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Insurgent Danger
To Barcelona Grows

HENDAYE. France. Jan. 13 P.-
Generalissimo Francisco Frances
armies threatened early conquest OF
all lower Catalonia today as their
steady advances intensified the dam
ger to the Spanish government capi-
tai, Barcelona.
The insurgent drive into Falset,
an important town of 5000 inhab-
itants in the heart of a road network
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Col. Frederick Meors
Dies in Seattle

Col. Frederick Mears, U. s. A., re-
tired, brother -in-law of Brig. Gen.
Jonathan M. Boatwright, died
Wednesday at his home, in Seattle,
Wash, the War Department an
nounced here today. Col. Mears,
who received the Distinguished
Service Medal for his work in or
ganizing Army transportation facil-
tiles abroad during the World War,
served in the Once of the Chief of
Evening star., 1939-01-13

that the. club plans to devote its
entire welfare fund to the purchase
Of glasses.
Working for more than a year to
get the program under way, the club
has enlisted the aid of several local
hospitals, the School Board, the
District Health Department and the
Guild of Prescription Opticians.
1t was explained that although
free clinics have been examining
the eyes Of school children and
issuing prescriptions for some time,
it has been impossible in many
cases for the children to buy the
prescribed glasses.
The club will supply the glasses
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Rome
Continued From First Page.)

=
swelled to 1000 before the Premier
arrived. 1t stretched all the way
down the right side of Saint Peters
Square, lighted by dazzling sun, and
along one wing of the famous Ber-
mini Colonade. The cheering spec
tators included about 1000 members
Of the British colony in Rome.
To spare Mr.. Chamberlain long
walk up several flights of stairs his
car was driven around the basilica
to the very door of the papal palace.
Significance in Visit.
Diplomats credited the visit to the
pontiff with greater significance than
previous courtesy calls by British
statesmen because efforts in behalf
of conciliation and peace have been
cardinal points of Pope Plus decla-
rations.
Mr.. Chamberlain's conformance
with tradition that heads of gov
ernments visiting Rome shall also
pay respects to the Pope was in con-
trast to Chancellor Hitler. who did
not 60 to the Vatican on his visit
to Rome last spring.
Visit Termed Success.
Some British quarters here said
that Mr.. Chamberlain's visit to Mus
solini was to be considered a success
since 1t appeared, from reports of
Hitlers message, that war had
been averted for at least year.
Mr.. Chamberlain is leaving for home
tomorrow.
1t was on Lord Halifaxs invita-
ton that the American and French
Ambassadors spent half an hour
each with the British foreign secre-
tary to receive a summary of the
conversations which closed with no
new Italian pledges for peace and
no further British commitments.
Mr.. Phillips was particularly in
terested in learning what reaction
the British found to a suggestion
that Mussolini help advance plans
for settlement of European Jewish
refugees in African colonies, includ-
Ing Italian Ethiopia.
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Spain
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miles from Tortosa. from the newly
captured inland towns of Falset and
Montblanch.
TarragOna Isolated.
Generalissimo Frances insurgent
forces were reported to have iso-
lated Tarragona. important Cata-
lonian seaport, by intense aerial and
artillery bombardments.
The bombardments. in conjunction
with the infantry drive a few miles
from the coast, were said to have
cut many government troops from
their bases and to have paralyzed
the Barcelona militiamens retir-
ing defense thrusts.
In Southwestern Spain, govern
ment forces succeeded in circling
the important mining city, Penar-
roya. according to Barcelona COM
muniques. Penarroya was reported
under heavy fire from government
operating from heights to
the north. So
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Club Launches Eyeglasses
PROGRAM in Schools

With health and public school
officials cooperating, the Reciprocity
Club launched today its welfare pro-
gram to supply free eyeglasses for
school children whose parents are
unable to provide them.
The club announced the start of
the program at dinner meeting in
the Mayflower Hotel last night.
Theodore S. Grape, first vice presi-
dent of the club and chairman of
the Welfare Committee, explained
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Hawthorne and W. P. A.

Hawthorne must have had
premonition of our w. P. A., for a
passage in his notebook reads: ITO
find all sorts of ridiculous employ
ments for people that have nothing
better do do-as to comb out the
cows tails, shave goats, hoard up
seeds of weeds, etc., etc."
Evening star., 1939-01-13

on the recommendation Of the hos
pital clinics.
Children between kindergarten
and the sixth grade will be provided
with glasses according to the present
program. although the club pro-
poses to enlarge its service to the
eighth grade as its welfare fund
grows. The club hopes to be able
TO supply 1000 pairs of glasses a year
at a cost of between $2,500 and
5000.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

Engineers here for short periods In
1918 and 1919.
Brig. Gen. Boatwright, now sta
TONED at Fort Clark, Tex. served as
commander of the Sd Cavalry ut
Fort Myer. Va, from July, 1896, until
last December,
Evening star., 1939-01-13

Running of charcoal buses in
Japan may be continued after the
emergency gasoline rationing is
stopped.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

Cuba shipped over 100000 pounds
OF grapefruit to the United States
IN . recent month.
Evening star., 1939-06-24
1920 Nebraska avenue NV; to cost

1920 Nebraska avenue NV: to cost
$500.
Representative r. L. Doughton
House of Representatives owner
A. L. Burnette, designer; Hines En-.
gineering Co., Investment Building
builders; to erect one 2-story brick
concrete and cinder block dwelling
1928 Nebraska avenue NV; to cost
$500.
Representative R. L. Doughton
House of Representatives. owner;
A. L. Burnette, designer; Hines En-
gineering Co., Investment Building
builders; to erect one 2-story brick
concrete and cinder block dwelling
1880 Sherrier place NV; to cost
$500.
Representative r. L. Doughton
House of Representatives, owner;
A. L. Burnette, designer; Hines En-
| gineering Co., Investment Building
builders; to erect one 2-story brick
concrete and cinder block dwelling
2339 Nebraska avenue NV; to cost
$500.
Representative R. L. Doughton
House of Representatives, owner;
A. L. Burnette, designer: Hines En-
gineering Co., Investment Building
builders; to erect one 2-story brick
| concrete and cinder block dwelling
1927 Nebraska avenue NV; to cost
$500.
Washington Housing Corp, 800 H
street NV, owners and builders;
George T. Santmyers, architect; tc
erect one 2-story brick and cinder
block fiat, 1910 Third street Sc; tc
cost $1,000.
]. A. Jordan, 1924 Quesada street