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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
dixie COMPLETED
AT BOAT HARB0R;
DREDGING Next
City Work Finished with
Connecting Of Bulk
head Of Rock

Connection of the north ard south
Of the rock dixie at the
rear 81 the Juneau small boat har-
Dor was made tnls morning the City
contract thus being completed about
six weeks after It's start.
Ben Rodebaugh was contractor
Some 1000 yards OF rock from the
Alaska juneau mine went into the
100 foot bulkhead
Today the City went to work wild
ening the Government breakwater
next to the Douglas bridge, so that
the top OF the rock may be used
for two-way automobile travel as
one approach to float which is to
be built at the harbor.
Next step in development Of the
harbor will be dredging Of the basin
by the U. S. Army. Meanwhile, con-
tractors are getting out float logs
and piling for the floats which the
City is to install at the harbor.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
SEATTLE PAPER
GIVEN ORDER BY
CIRCUIT COURT
Echoes Of Guild Strike on
ost-Inte|Iigeneer Heard
Back Pay Decision

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March %.
The Circuit Court of Appeals has
ordered the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer to reinstate Frank Lynch
and advance him all of his back
pay.
The court also instructed five
newspapers of the Hearst string to
cease and desist unfair labor prac-
tees.
Lynch was among the strikers of
the Seattle Poet Intelligencer in
August, 1886.
The opinion was on the petition
of the National Labor Relations
Board which sought enforcement of
its order of January 10, 1887.
The court also ordered the per-
sonal representative of the late Phil
ip Armstrong, who was also strik-
er, to be given Armstrong; back
pay.
Lynch was photographer and
Armstrong dramatic critic on the
Post-Intelligencer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
PROMOTION OF WATSON BY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS
CAUSED FR0WN, ARMY RANKS
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March 23-The
Army was more than a trifle peeved
when Col. Edwin Watson, the Pres
ident's aide, was promoted to a
brigadier general There would have
been even more fuss if it had not
been announced at the time that
he would move into retirement at
once and clear the way for another
to be promoted. In retirement he
will become a presidential secretary
The Army-and the Navy, too
have always wrinkled a bronzed
nose at white House Soldiers" The
Navy disliked it when President
Wilson made DR.. Grayson rear
admiral, and didn't like it much
better when President Roosevelt
recently made DR.. McIntire, the
White House physician, rear adj
miral and surgeon general of the
Navy.
The Army thought it was free of
white House" promotions until
Colonel Watson was moved up.
His career record seemed to be
good enough, but harness-hard-
ened Army men felt he hadn't been
out with troops enough since the
war to qualify him for a general
ship ahead of clusters of other
fighting men.
The Armys viewpoint was not
the Presidents. With Jimmy Roose-
welt in the movies and Secretary
Mcintyre not too robust, Secretary
Steve Early has been swamped.
Army men like Colonel Watson as
a person and SO does almost every
one else. He is a sort of White
House Grover Whalen, affable and
pleasing.
He will get $4,000 a year as sec
rotary, more than two times what
he would draw in retirement as a
brigadier general He can be put
on active duty whenever the Presi-
dent needs high ranking mill
tary aide. He likely will need one
when the King and Queen of Eng
land arrive. Watson probably will
be secretary one hour and general
the next, just as in Gilbert and
Sullivan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
INDEPENDENCE
FOR SL0vAk1A
IS INDICATED
Treaty Is Signed Between
Germany and Little Ma
tion Regarding Future

BERLIN, March pa treaty has
been concluded between Germany
and Slovakia.
The treaty provides that Slovakia
retains the status Of an 'auton-
omous sovereign state
Germany will not establish a for
NAL protectorate over the region
as she did in the case Of Bohemia
and Noravia but agrees to protect
Slovakia in case Of attack by any
side whatsoever
Slovakia will have her own For
eign Minister and also diplomatic
representatives abroad.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
GIRL uses RAZOR
WHEN DATE LATE

WATERFOWL, N. Y. March %
Dorothy E. Parody's feelings grew
warm and her feet cold as she
waited for Arthur D. Gravelin, two
hours late for a street corner rem
devious.
The twenty-four- year-old woman
slashed her forty four year-old ad-
mirer of six years with a razor.
Today she admitted she struck
because Gravelin kept her wait
ing, pleaded guilty to second degree
assault and received an eight-month
jail sentence. Gravelin is recover
ing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
Italian King Practically De-
mands Settlement Of
African Colonies
PEACE Is WANTED But
NATION KEEPS ARMING
Fighting Strength Must Not
Only Be on Land, But
on Sea, in Air

ROME, March 23.-King Victor
Emmanuel today told the members
of the new Legislature that Italy
has notified France there must be
, a settlement on questions now divid-
ing the two nations.
Some listeners gained the impress
sion that the italian Government is
awaiting French moves toward set
tlement of the issues regarding
colonies.
King Emmanuel said Italy wants
peace to last "as long as possible"
but Italy must develop her African
Empire.
The King declared that in view
of the circumstances it is necessary
that Italy continue rearming ''in
sky and on land and sea-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
FISHERMEN ARE
Identified BY
THEIR JERSEYS

LONDON, March 23.-Fishermen
around the coast of Great Britain
can be identified by the woven pat
terms of their perseys.
The patterns have been handed
down from mother to daughter for
generations.
Mrs. c. w. Thompson, who has
made close study Of the various
patterns, said, "if a fisherman is
drowned it is known by the pattern
of his jersey which village he comes
from"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
Nazi Chief Makes Import
ant Statement But
with LoophoIe
SPENDS EIGHT HOURS
IN AS0UIRED SEAPORT
Makes 1riumphdI Entry al
MemeI-Has Repaired
Damage" Done
MEMEL, Lithuania. March %.
Adolf Hitler concluded his

MEMEL, Lithuania. March %.
Adolf Hitler concluded his
eight-h0ur visit 70 this Baltic
Sea port, his latest addition TO
his expanding deal when he de
parted this evening aboard the
German torpedo boat Leopard
for an undisclosed destination
Hitler arrived here this morn
ing aboard the German battle
snip Deutschland, accompanied
by large part of the Navy.
Hitler formally welcomed war
lost Menel back "into the great
German Reich"
Lithuania Yielded the port,
part of its 1,088 square miles Of
territory, yesterday.
After a triumpraI landing.
Hitler indicated Germany's swift
absorption Of one stretch after
another of European territory
may come to halt.
Hitler gave this indication in
an eight-minute speech to the
MemelIanders after he stepped
triumphantIy ashore.
II believe that now. in the
main, we have arrived at the
end of this unique process Of
reparation," Hitler declared.
Previously Hitler explained
that Germany, while not want
ing to harm no one, was COM
PEELED to repair the damage"
done Germany.
Hitler's assertion that the
period of reparatfon might be
at an end, is apparently yelled.
however, by the phrase Gin the
MAN," which left q loophole for
possible further PREPARATIONS.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
RUSSIA READY
TO PLACE name,
WAR AGREEMENT
Will Sign British Sponsor
ed Declaration for
Consultation

LONDON, March 23.-Russia has
notified Great Britain she will sign
the British sponsored declaration of
immediate consultation among in
terested powers in event of possible
further German aggression, the So
Wet Embassy spokesman says.
The spokesman said Foreign Com
missar Litvinoff announced his ma
tons decision at Moscow to Sir
William Seeds, British Ambassa-
dor.
The British Cabinet, however, is
reported to have failed SO far to
make up its mind on this issue.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
NIPPON ARMY
IS ADVANCING
ON z FRONTS
SIashing Offensive Report
ed Progressing To-
ward Nanehang

SHANGHAI, March %. - The
Japanese Army, in a slashing Of
fensive northwest of Kiangsi is re-
ported to have continued to advance
southwark in the direction of Nam
chang.
The Japanese are also reported
to have advanced along a 100-mile-
long east and west battlefront with
the objection being Winning which
is holding out despite a terrific artil-
lery and aerial attack.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
CUTTER HAIDA
TO GO SOUTH
Coast Guarder 10 Have An
nuaI 0verhauI-Ledv-
ing tomorrow

Surprise orders came through
from Divisional headquarters in
Seattle late this afternoon for the
Coast Guard cutter Haida to sail
Immediately to Puget Sound for
annual overhaul.
The Haida had planned to sail
on preseason halibut patrol Mon
day, but will leave for Seattle at
8 o'clock in the morning instead,
expecting to be back within a few
weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
WORK STARTED ON
100000 BRIDGE

KITTERY, Me. March 23.-Work
has begun on the proposed three mill
lion-dollar "double-decked" bridge
linking Maine and New Hampshire
across the Piscataqua River.
The five-mile-long span will be
constructed with the help of WPA
funds and with appropriations voted
by both states. Two years will be re-
quired to complete the bridge whose
upper deck will carry four-lane
automobile highway, and lower rail-
road tracks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
HUNGARAN IN
SL0vAkIA; NOTE
MAKES PROTEST
Armed Forces Reported 10
Have Crossed Over
Boundary Line

BUDAPEST, March %. = The
Slovakian Government has protest
ed to Hungary against the entry
of Hungarian troops into Slovakia
and the protest drew reply that
the vague boundary question was
responsible.
The Slovakian protest said the
Hungarian troops crossed the 'front.'
Ter from Carpatho- Ukrania, occu-
pied by Hungary last week in the
breakup of Czechoslovakia and en-
gagged in military action on Slovak-
ian soil.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
PACT
Between JAPAN,
ITALY, GERMANY

TOKYO, March 23.--Japan and
Italy have concluded cultural
treaty STIMULATING an exchange of
cultural works through science, art,
music, literature, theatre. photogra-
ply and radio.
A similar pact has also been sign
ed by Japan and Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
Train Is
Struck by
Landslide
Fireman Killed when To-
tomotiye, Two Baggage
Cars Forced Off Track

OSCEOLA, Wis., March 23.-F'rank
Dietl, of Minneapolis, fireman, was
killed, and Engineer Walter Robin
son, of Minneapolis, was seriously
injured when landslide forced the
locomotive and two baggage cars OF
500 Line passenger train off the
tracks near here early this morn
ing. &8S
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
GLASS GOES TO SEA
IN new WINDSHIELDS

NEW YORK, March 23.-"Around
the horizon" visibility is featured in
. 1899 motorboat models now on dis
play. Jay w. Smith, president OF
Chris Craft Corporation, said yachts
men, as much as motorists, demand
ample vision for the pilot and lam
mated safety plate glass windshields.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
20 PROJECTS
ARE TIED UP
BY WALk0U1
Strike Called by Union in
Chicago Halls Much
Construction

CHICAGO. H., March 23.-The
Bridge Structural and Iron Work.
ers Union has called a strike on 20
construction jobs in Chicago as the
result of a controversy over the
handling of the steel work on the
SAC, 1000, 900 subway
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
ATTY. GENERAL
PLANS CHANGE
IN PATRONAGE
Would Put Federal judges
on Sort Of Merit Sys-
tenn for Future

WASHINGTON. March 23.--At-
torney General Frank Murphy is
working on changes in setup Of
Federal courts that will hit patron
age minded members of Congress
right where 1t hurts.
The Attorney General wants to
introduce the merit system into the
courts. taking upward of 1000 nice
plums out Of the patronage basket
at the outset.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
sovIETs ELECTRIC TRAINS

MOSCOW. - Electrified railway
lines in the U.S.SR. at the begin
ming of 1889 totaled 1890 kilometers
GLOSS miles,. Another 172 kilomet-
ers are expected to be electrified
this year.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
FAST FOR FUGITIvEs

LEEDS, England.-Sixty girl stu
dents here ate dry bread for a
week and sent the sum saved on
butter to help Spanish refugees.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
JAPAN WILL Be
NEUTRAL IF WAR
RACES IN EUROPE
Inner Government Report.
ed 10 Have Agreed
on Future Policy

TOKYO, March 23.--The jap
anese Inner Government, COM
posed of five key Cabinet Min
isters, is reported to have agreed
informally upon a policy of neu-
trality i'm event of war in
Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
TONGUE TWIsTER

COVENTRY, England-More than
20 years after it was embedded,
shrapnel was removed from the ton
que of a Great War veteran here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23
BOMBS AND DEBT LIMITS

The Navy has officially conceded
that a bomber can sink a cruiser.
That doesn't include heavily armed
battleships, however. The Navy
won't give up THAT ship, not on
paper anyway. But as to cruisers,
whose armor isn't SO thick, Ad-
miral Leahy, chief Of operations,
Continued on Page Five)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23

Farmers in the United States re-
ceived a cash income Of $3.50, 900
from hops in 1888.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-23

The 1913 head Of purebred Here
ford cattle sold in Texas in 1888
brought $685.. 1892.
Evening star., 1939-05-04

Arizona, where the three-ring cal
endar was started.
Some heavy spring frosts in Texas
in the last few years gave the clue
to the changeable nature of the
rings. Frosts were found to mark
tree with different kind Of ring
jagged line of broken tissue cells.
This was found under the micro
scope.
With the dates of severe frosts
known for several years 1t was pos
sible to know the exact time between
frost rings. In between the frosts
were the supposedly annual" rings,
with virtually always too many Of
them.
Weather Influencing Factor.
Weather maps indicated the rea-
son for the extra rings. 1t appeared
that a tree lays down a completed
ring whenever its water supply runs
low and starts a new one when 1t
gets rain again. This accounted
for several appearing in one year in
the recent dust bowl drought.
Trees in the Texas experiment re-
ceived some natural rains and also
some irrigation.
DR.. Clock found evidence that
when a tree receives continuously
adequate moisture all summer, 1t
may lay down only one sharply de-
fined annual ring.
In addition to those that came
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Theory That Ring on Tree
Reveals Years Age Disproved
Some Timber Found That
Puts on Five Circles Annually

fore, that the markings represent
not only ages but lot of other
complications in the life of tree
In the climate where it grew.
The first result will be to re-
examine some sensational discoveries
of recent years in which tree rings
showed the apparent dates of
vanished civilizations in the Ameri-
can Southwest, the rainfalls of CEN
turies ago and the cycles of sun spot
and other periodic weather shifts.
The story of the oldest tree, a
sequoia which by its rings started
to grow in the year 1904 B. c., still
may be about right, but there is no
assurance.
The discovery was reported by DR..
w. S. Clock and DR.. E. L. Reed of
Texas archaeological College, Lub-
book, Tex. DR.. Clock is one of the
scientists who worked with the orig
inal group at the University of
Evening star., 1939-05-04

with each period Of moisture in q
summer, he observed many partial
rings, which he named lenses. They
appear as result of unidentified
upsets in the feeding of trees.
The trees studied in Texas were
yellow pines, the same trees used
to make the original calendar of
tree rings. and Arizona cypress.
DR.. Clock and Dr. Reed concluded
that more exact studies of the
anatomy and physiology Of trees will
be necessary to learn the historical
meaning of the markings.
This historical dating was orig
mated by DR.. E. A. Douglass, profess
sor of astronomy at the University of
Arizona. He wanted to study the
sunspot cycles and found in tree
rings a record of wet and dry sea-
sons occurring about once each II
Evening star., 1939-05-04
By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,


ALPINE, Tex, May 4.-The dis
covery that telling the age of a tree
by the number of its rings is like
trying to tell woman's age by her
looks was announced today to the
Southwestern Division of the Amer
lean Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
The discovery upsets one of mans
oldest beliefs that trees put on one
ring each year. They are visible
when the trunk of a tree is sawed in
two.
Trees were discovered in Texas
that put on five a year. Hardly any
were found that failed to add at
least two annually.
Other Information Revealed.
The discovery does not exactly
scrap all mans tree ring lore. 1t
shows something not suspected be-
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Divorce Suit Centers
Around Tuttooed Thiohs

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 4.-Swim-
ming parties were out of the ques-
ton SO long as Helen j. Nordin
retained certain tattooing on her
thighs, her wealthy investment
broker husband, Carl o. Nordin,
alleged in a cross-complaint for
divorce yesterday.
Mr. Nordin said his wife ignored
his pleas that she consult surgeons
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Film to Be Shown

The Farm Security Administra-
ton will present THE River" dra-
matte motion picture Of the Mis-
sissippi River, at the weekly lunch
con of the Washington Round Ia
BILE at 1890 pm. tomorrow in the
National Press Club auditorium.
Evening star., 1939-05-04

regarding removal Of the tattooing,
which he said embarrassed him
greatly. They married about 10
months ago.
Mrs. Nordin is suing for $1,000
a month separate maintenance.
Evening star., 1939-05-04

years in close correspondence to the
sunspots.
The new discoveries indicate that
much more than sunspot cycles can
be read when the tree ring mys-
teries are solved.
Evening star., 1939-09-07

Thousands. suffering from arthritis pains
eral Water. direct from famous Hot
Springs. Arkansas. Mildly Alkaline. Deeply
over 80 years. Phone MET. 1862 for ease.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
/MEt. 1862. 14O5 X St. NV.
Evening star., 1939-09-07

also totaled 100000. Kaiser Will
helm referred to them as CON
temptible little army and they
later came to wear the proud desig-
nation of the Old Contemptibles. /"
Another vital development of the
day has been the official announce
ment of Japan that she does not
intend to be involved in Europe'S
war. This will be relief to the
Anglo-French allies, who have been
concerned over the possibility that
Japan might throw her weight to
Germany.
1t is generally understood through
out Europe that Herr Hitler is pre-
pared to enter peace conference
as soon as he has finished the con-
quest OF Poland. He definitely
doesn't want war with England and
France
The idea that peace might come
under such conditions is a forlorn
hope if words still have any mean
ing. The Anglo-French brother
hood has pledged itself up to the
hilt to defend Poland and if that
pledge is fulfilled it means war
until Poland is again free.
What is perhaps more to the
point, Britain has sworn to destroy
Nazi-ism, quite apart from the Po-
liSh issue.
The zone over which the battle of
Warsaw Is being fought is of such
strategic Importance that it has
been cockpit for centuries. Dur
ing the early part of the World War
there were many fierce engagements
between the Russians and Germans
along the front of the Bug and Wis
tula rivers. In this area, too, Mar
shall Pilsudski staged his great coun-
ter-offensive against the Bolshevists
in 1920 and paved the way for
Polish independence.
Vistula Poles Lifeline.
In fact the whole line Of the Wis.,
tula River, from the Port of Danzig
down through Warsaw and on
southwark through Krakow to the
Polish border, is the strategic life
line of Poland. The Vistula is the
main objective of the Germans.
Once that is taken the back of the
defense is broken.
The Poles suffered a heavy loss
when the Germans captured the city
of Krakow in the Southwestern cor
ner of the country. This ancient
capital of the Kingdom of Poland,
and residence of the Polish Kings, is
one of the 10 military districts of
Poland and has extensive fortifica-
tions. The Vistula is navigable up
to this point.
Krakow always mas been held to
be one of the most important points
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Social Changes Held
Influence on Health
,y the Associated Press.

by the Associated fTeSS.
CAMBIDGE, Mass, Sept. L
Declaring individuals suffer physi-
cally as well as mentally from too
rapid social changes, a Harvard
scientist said today ut seems prob
able that )" diseases of coronary
arteries. gastric ulcer and duodenal
ulcer are most frequent in unstable
societies"
AN index formed by adding
appropriate measures of the Incl
dence of these diseases and of di-
vorce. and subtracting a measure
of attendance at church, nigh.
sometimes run more or less parallel
with an index of industrial develop
ment," DR.. L. j. Henderson asserted
in an address before the Fifth Inter-
national Congress for the Unity of
Science at Harvard
Speaking on the relation of
physiology to the social sciences,
DR.. Henderson contended that many
of mans ills stemmed from break
down Of his routine by conditions
prevailing in rapid social changes
Wages of female silk spinners in
Japan have been increased during
the war.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
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