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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
ALBANIAN BORDER RAIDS

Once month 1t became the prob- lem of the Yugoslav Government to pay it's officials along the border, and once a month also it was the delight of the Albanians to lie in wait for the horse-drawn kola which carried the cash. And once when Serbian employees remained unpaid for weeks, the government finally appealed to us of the Quaker Relief mission to carry nine million paper diars from the railhead to. the AL banian mountains-a trip which in this case was entirely uneventful except that the box of dinars lay Some historians go as far as to claim that there is language similarity between Albanian and the American Indian, while others think the AL banians may be the lost tribe of Israel.
 It remains fact that the Alban- Iar, faced with the problem of glean-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

ing a living from the widest moun- tains of Europe has lived more by his rifle than his blow, and in an- cient times comprised the backbone of the Sultan's janissaries.
 However, modern warfare, the ma chine gun and the airplane have kept the Albanian strictly to his mountains. In the reshuffling of boundaries which followed the last war, the aggressive young govern ment of Yugoslavia, a favorite of Woodrow Wilson, was able to carve out a sizeable chunk of Albania for itself.
 It was in this borderland area of Serbian Albania that one of the Merry Founders first learned to respect the Albanian fighting prow- ess. The Yugoslav Government had
 over this region in name, but actually had no more control over it than Japan has over inland China. Serbian officials living in these bor- ter towns sat at night with their shades down, fearing Albanian at tack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compe"
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 31

TUESDAY DECEMBER 31
 Benefic aspects rule on this last day of the year. It is a fortunate date for capitalists and for busi- nessmen between whom there is a sign of close cooperation in the new year.
 Heart and Home: Women are subject to good planetary influ- ences today which should bring them kindly tributes from friends, and pleasant social contacts. It is an suspicious date for entertain ing, but the new year will not bring good fortune if welcomed by excessive drinking of toasts and riotous night club celebrations There Is a ign for the making of good resolutions which seems to promise that many reforms will be lasting.
 Business Affairs: Men of large
 fairs are subject to the most arcmising direction of the stars. While labor is under adverse as- poets which indicate strikes, there is a sign that old disputes will be satisfactorily settled in the new year Theaters and other places of amusement will profit as crowds seek surcease from war fears in recreation. This day lis read as promising for employees who seek promotion or added remuneration
 National Issues: Solidarity of aims will distinguish the people of the United States in the coming year The need of careful spend- ing of billions will be constantly voiced by statesmen. Taxes and the cost of living will rise through the winter and economies will be wise for persons of all incomes. Mexico is to cause test of good neigh borly relations, but the Americans will continue to maintain unity of defense plans.
 International Affairs: Astrolo- gers are predicting an entire change in the government of Ger many. The Nazis are to gain know. ledge regarding their actual condi- tion as it becomes more and more one of enslavement. Secret methods of transmitting facts will arouse public resentment and encourage revolutionary uprisings which will cause much loss of life. Unrest and hunger will accent general discon- tent. In Hitler's horoscope Mars in conjunction with Uranus is an evil portent which may foreshadow the loss of his life.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of steady progress with unexpected bene- fits. Extreme care in correspondence is advised.
 Chl4oren born on this day prob ably will be artistic, fastidious, thoughtful and talented Many writers and musicians belong to this sign
 Copyright, 1940)
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FlODLNV LlluULllL ROBERTA LEE

Should working office give inexpensive Christmas
 She should wish him Christmas she is
  addressed to him is all e Should a young eating public place with girl, if another his table? A. It isn't unless the other is much older. O. Is it all right for guest to conversation with another introduction? A. Yes, this is perfectly all right
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

OFTEN MISUSED: Do makes difference to Say difference IN THE LEAST)."
 MISPRONOUNCED Fugitive fl-jiv, in both IT first unstressed) syllable
 OFTEN ISSPELLED R. Occurred Rs
 SYNONYMS Banter (noun), badnage, railery rdcue.
 STUDY: a three yours" Let TodayS the Tt required considerable exirpae the weeds"
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}. Birch
 Dies On
 Sabbath

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Stephen Birch, 68, Chairman of the Board of the Kennecott Copper Corpora ton and Barden Copper Company also President of the Alaska Steam ship Company and Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, died Sunday.
 Birch was also member of the Board of the Alaska Development and Mineral Company, a Director of numerous railroads and the Utah Copper Company.
 Birch was native of New York City and resided at Mahwah, New Jersey
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our sincere appreciation to all our neighbors and friends for their kindness ard sympathy shown us in the loss of our dear husband, brother and son,
 JOHN B. BERNHOFER Especially do we wish to thank the American Legion, Elks Lodge and the Sisters of St. Ann's Hos pital; also all donors of the beauti- full floral offerings. 7~ MRS. JOHN B. BERNHOFER. MIR. AND MRS. E. A. FILLER, MIR. AND MRS. JACK GOULD, MRS. MARY BERNHOFER. '.
 adv.
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LOOK and LEARN sAy c. GORDON

l the average 150 contain? the "Over There? B. What is the meaning of the Jewish term Kosher? Which e-cent a hummng
  ANSWERS l gallons M usually referring 4 weighs
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

Good news for Churchill: The Republic of San Marine (32 square mies in northern Italy is not and has not been at with Great Britain, it was announced in New York last week by Consul Gen. era Ercole H LOcatelli.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-30

A shark caught off Florida in 1912 weighed 26,594 pounds.
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

Continued from Page Oue)
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Since the Nazpaerned laws went into effect in once gay Paris becoming and familiar
 capital At the top two signs are displayed m ioun lain shop that it is Jewish enterprise left change m aFrench and aCathohc Below work
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Weather: Highest, ss; lowest, 32; clear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
NOTICE

To Whom It May Concern:
 The undersigned hereby gives notice that I will not be respon- sible for any bills contracted by Beatrice Krause, my wife, after this date. Any credit given her will, be on her own responsibility for which I refuse to pay.
 Dated January 31, 1940. adv (Signed) c. R. KRAUSE.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
SURVEY SHIP
 |5 LAUNCHED

Designed for work in Alaska, the E. Lester Jones, Coast and Geodetic survey ship built at Astoria, Oregon, was launched last Monday.
 The new vessel will be commits stoned for service shortly after her launching and will be sent to Alas ka with the rest of the fleet.
 Named after Col E. Lester Jones, director of the survey service from April Is, 1915, until his death April g. 1929, the new ship was christened by Miss Mary Lawrence McArthur, a great-grand- daughter of Lieut.. Commander William Pope McAr,- thur, who commanded the schooner Ewing in 1849 during the execution of the surveys first Photographic work on the Pacific Coast in the vicinity of Mare Island
 The E. Lester Jones is wooden auxiliary survey vessel eighty-eight feet overall with a beam of twenty one feet and a draft of eight feet and is a twin screw diesel job. She will be used as 9 tender to one of the larger survey vessels in extensive surveys in Alaska. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02

 TALE TOLD

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Feb 2.-Ladies. that fox around your neck may have been shocked to death
 Uncle Sam, mindful of his many responsibilities including those of the little foxes, winces at the thought of painful deaths suffered by ami mals in the name of feminine beau tification, and is doing something about it.
 Experts at a government fur ami nal experiment station here have invoked the aid of electricity to end the earthly careers of foxes, martens and other small fur bearing animals.
 Ira N Gabrielson, chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, praises the shocking" technic, saying it op- crates quickly and humanely."
 One hundred and ten volts of cleo tricity, the same as commonly car ried on commercial cirQutts for household use, does the job. Two electrodes are applied to the bodies of the foxes, switch is pulled, and the animals die in two to six seconds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
CLAIM GOLDEN
 GATE BRIDGE E
 BOMBER PROOF

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-Direc- tors of the S37,O0o,oO0 Golden Gate bridge have turned down a proposi- tion by Lloyd's of London to write war risk insurance on the structure They don't consider the bridge needs it.
 As explained by Russel G. Cone, maintenance engineer the few vital points in the bridge are so small that the possibility of high flying airman hitting them with a bomb is infinitesimal. Moreover the cable holding up the bridge is round. which would cause bombs to glance off except in case of a square center hit.
 Moreover, it was pointed out, no bridge in the world is surrounded by heavier defensive fire than this. Six forts and two army air fields are nearby.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
Trout Displayed Here Reporledly
 From LoeaI Lake

There's only one answer Cali fornia and Florida will have to take a back seat for boasting of winter weather-two Juneau trout fishermen celebrated the advent of February by catching trout in Aux Lake yesterday.
 The trout. two nice cutthroats of Is and II inches, respectively, were on display this morning at Thomas Hardware in true summer fashion.
 They were caught by Armand Duncan and Bob Smith of the Alaska Laundry yesterday but Duncan, after saying he caught the fish in Aux Lake at the inlet, backed up when he found he was being interviewed.
 How do you know I even caught them in Aux Lake?" Duncan grinned.
 At any rate, California and Flor ida take notice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
Business ! Session ,,,,. For Rainbow Girls

With Miss. Barbara Hermann, Worthy Advisor presiding, mem bers of the Order of Rainbow Girls will meet tomorrow at the Scot tish Rite Temple for business meeting and balloting. The session will start at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
kODTfs COAST
 TAXES 8 OR
 VOYAGE SOUTH

The steamer North Coast came in from Sitka in the fog last night with 28 passengers for Juneau and sailed, still in the fog, this morning, with 33 southbound passengers from here.
 Arrivals were Ray McGraW, R. w. DeArmond, Ben Grytness, J. w. Gucker. Fred Laubscher, Mrs. H Ws Hegdahl J. M Randolph, Ed Shaffer, Dave Fenton. Ernest Paddy Nick Kitka, Roswell Edenshaw Rus sell Atwood, Henry Bahrt, John Me Lain, Mike Carry, R. D. Peterman, Bob Patnode, F. McGowan, A. Han sen, o. s. Larsen, Vera Beach, C. H. Metcalfe, George Fenton, A. Ha- majhi, Lillian Smith, Sol Lachman, E. g. Evans.
 For Seattle, passengers were: Will bert Piper, Amer Rydeen, L. V. Phipps, Don Victor. Mrs. Don Vic tor, Don Victor Jr.. V. L. Hoke, Mrs. Hoke, MT and Mrs. H. E. Le- Blanc. Della Shurtleff, Rod Darnell Mrs. Darnel, V. Anderson. w H. Robinson, Mrs. Lloyd Hildinger, Jack Hawkes.. Mrs. Jack Hawkes., Jackie Hawkes., Agnes Jones, Mrs. Gail Liston, Mrs. Earl Hunter ST, Fred Tiedt. Mrs. Tiedt, Glenn Tiedt, Fred Charon, Herbert Whitfield.
 To Glenn Neitzert George s. McKean, Mrs. Grace Thcrsen, Florence Willis, w. T. Stewart.
 For Wrangell-Cecil Garber
 For Petersburg-Chris Christen- son, Mary Lott.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
REBEKAHS INSTALL
 KETCHIKAN OFFICERS

New officers were installed re- gently by Revilla Rebekah Lodge at Ketchikan as follows:
 Beatrice Gwin, past noble grand Selma Olsen, noble grand; Betty Quist, vice grand; Dj,a Mckay, recording secretary; Margaret Dan iels, finance secretary; Marguerite Nystrcm. treasurer; Roxanna Mo Cain, right supporter to the noble grand; Marjorie Morris. left sup porter to the noble grand; Alice Larsen, right supporter to the vice grand; Martha Bugden, left sup ported to the vice grand; pr, Kath- ryn Fuller, chaplain; Celeste Gerde warden: Alpha Moran, conductor Lucille Ingman, inside guardian Eunice Hunsperger, outside guar dian; Edith Schallerer, musical
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
NorihIand Is
 Juneau Bound

SEATTLE, Feb. 3. - Motorship Ncrthland sailed for Southeast AL aska ports at II o'clock this fore neon with 42 passengers including the following booked for Juneau:
 c. A. Cramer, Charles Petry, John Walso, MT. and Mrs C. R. Shipp, MT. and Mrs. Bert Alstead, Edward Paine, Ralph Coffin, Phil lip McKanna, Gordon Gray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
PARTY FOR FINNISH HRELIEF ON
 TOMORROW p. M.

As a benefit to the Finnish Re lief Fund, members of the Sons of Norway will sponsor public card party tomorrow evening at the I. O. o. F. Hall and a crowded auditorium is expected.
 Starting at 8:30 o'clock, bridge, pinochle and whist will be in play and prize awards will be made at the close of the session. Refresh ments will also be served for the occasion.
 Arrangements for the social are in charge of Mrs. Pete Hammer, Mrs. w A. Rasmussen and George Jorgenson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
kazis StuiiIe Y
 of 1S Seized Ships

BERLIN, Feb. 2.-The newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine zeitung said today that the crews of seventeen or eighteen German merchant ships halted by British warships since the war began had succeeded in scuttling their ships and the eighteenth was made so unsea- worthy that the British had to sink her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
Gamblers on Run
 After Texas Raids

FL PASO, Texas, Feb. 2.-Gam- blers hit the ground running here.
 Most of Fl Paso's faro dealers, croupiers, dicemen and card sharks ducked over to Juarez, Mexico, as Texas Rangers conducted surprise raids.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide-2:55 am, AS feet. High tide-9;17 am, 15.2 feet. Low tide-3:59 pm, 10 feet. High tide-10:32 pm, 13.2 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
LOCAL SAILINGs

. LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth scheduled to sail every
 . "Wednesday at D. m for Sit . ka and wayports. . Dart leaves every Wednesday
 . at a. m. for Petersburg, Port Alexander, Rake and way Q ports.
 Q
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
. . . . . NORTHBOUND

NORTHBOUND Taku scheduled to arrive some time tomorrow, possibly early in the afternoon.
 . Northland due Tuesday. SCHEDULED SAILINGS Mount Mckinley scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow at 9 a. m. Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle February 6 at 9 p. m. . North Coast scheduled to sail from Seattle February at 10 a. m.
 . Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver at 9 p. m. February 9. SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Alaska scheduled Southbound Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-02
ALERT GOES SOUTH

ALEhI JULES SUUIH
 Coast Guard patrol boat Alert has sailed south from Ketchikan for her new base at Alameda.
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Evening star., 1940-09-07

never would have acted the way
they did, killing people, robbing
trains and banks, had they not been
angered by mean old corporation.
The main object of When the
DaltonS Rode" obviously was the
production of a movie that moves
With such material as the boys Gre
ated, it would seem to be an easy
thing to do, but the truth is that
the picture moves only by fits and
starts. Moreover, the script which
was handed to Director George Mar
shall never masked a single turn
in the story, thus creating highly
impressive absence of suspense. In
a lame way, the authors did try to
avoid that fate for their story. Every
few minutes they would have some
character say, THE Daltons are in
California" but it only means that
the Daltons always are just around
the corner. Sometimes it would
have been better if they really had
been in California.
Universal assembled an expensive
cast to act out how bad conditions
were in Kansas when the Daltons
rode In addition to Miss Francis,
the studio hired Randolph Scott,
Brian Donlevy, Andy Devine, Brod-
erick Crawford, Frank Albertson and
the like. All of them struggle with
admirable energy to bring the thing
Evening star., 1940-09-07

things until the party asks him to
besmirch the fair name of his
benefactor. Then he resigns with
a right to the jaw and is thrown
out of the party-hterally, landing
on his face on the sidewalk.
Director Alexander Hall has made
q gay and sometimes spicy affair
of this screen adaptation of Michel
Duren's French farce, 'Liberte Pro-
visoire," and Miss Young, Mr.. Doug
las and the others enter into the
notwithstanding with full relish.
Once you get over the shock of wit
Messing such frivolity in Paris, you
should relish it, too.
You should like especially Miss
Una O'Connors maid, in. that mo-
ment when Mr.. Douglas and bot
tie of brandy SO win her to Com
munism that>she goes on strike and
marches, with a slight list to port.
out OF Miss Young's luxurious fiat,
singing THE Internationale. You
also should be happy to note that
the movies are trying to drive a
wedge between Moscow and the
Nazis. 81 thought Communists
never bathed." Miss Young sneers
once. That" snarls Mr.. Douglas, +"
Is Fascist propaganda!
y II
High point of the Earle's stage
show is that moment when Sammy
Evening star., 1940-09-07
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Palace-"Boom Town." excite
ment in the oil fields, with Gable.
Tracy, Colbert and Lamar: HOS
am, las, 4;20, 7 and $40 pm.
Earle-"He Stayed for Breakfast. ."
Loretta Young and Melvyn Douglas
kid Communism: GAS am, 1910,
2:35, S, 7:30 and 10 pm. Stage
shows: Ills am, 1:45, 4:lO, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Keith's when the Dalton's
Rode" life and times of some we'll
known bandits: 1l:50 am, l so. $50,
$50, 7;;5O and $50 pm. March of
Time: 1880 am, 1870, $3.50, $50,
7:30 and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Captain Caution" ad-
venture on the high seas IL am,
1:45. 4:30, 7:05 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 12:4o, 3:25, 6:1O and 8:55
pm.
Metropolitan =" They Drive By
Night" and find excitement hauling
produce: HIS am, 1:20, 3;25, $50,
TAO and GAS pm.
Columbia-'I Love You Again" !"
Myrna 10y and William Powell in
a gay romantic comedy: IL am.
los, $40, $40, TBS and 9:35 pm.
Little-"Mayerling," Boyer meets
Darrieux: II am, 1:I0, $40, $50,
7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Cross Roads "Smilin' Through"
revival of the well-known senti-
mental play: $40 pm.
Roadside-"East Lynne" the pop
ular melodrama group in a rare and
notable tear-jerker: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

off with dramatic flash that will
do credit to the Daltons, but they
succeed only in fooling themselves
that it is not just another game of
cops and robbers.
There are some good, if standard,
stretches of acrobatjcs which the
youngsters will like in when the
Daltons Rode Most exciting Of
the lot is when the boys jump their
horses off moving train after they
have held it up. Earlier, the trick Is
done in reverse wher the gang
jumps off its horses orto a moving
train. Then, too, there is that one in
which the bandit is knocked off the
Stagecoach, catches the rear axle
as it passes over him and climbs up
to attack from the rear
There has been an effort to get
the spirit of comedy into the picture.
1t consists mainly of presenting
Andy Devine as a he!lion with the
girls from the gulch, a sort of
Squawking elephant for whom, or
with whom, the gals are always fight
ing furiously. 1t never really sue
ceeds in being very funny, not even
in the sequence in which shotguns
are implied by couple of hairy
male relatives of a debutante from
the hills.
Miss Francis, the girl in the buggy,
remember, is in the film for romance
purposes. She is the apex of a tri-
angle which is composed otherwise
of Scott, the lawyer friend of the
Daltons, and Bob Dalton, the giant
older brother and leader of the band.
1t is Bob's consistent attitude
throughout the film that anyone
who gets his gal will do it over his
dead body, which is precisely what
does happen.
If the climax of when the Dali
tons Rode" is not the most dramatic
of the season, which it easily is
not, it certainly can claim to be the
noisiest. If the Kansans who finally
wiped out the Daltons in that his
toric battle represent the average in
American craftsmanship, Mr.. Knud-
sen has a terrific job getting NUM-
tions production up to safe level.
1t must have taken 500 shots to the
Dalton, but Universal never stopped
firing until it got them all.
One sort of envies them as they
fall, one by one.
One of the most interesting seq
ments of M. of T.'s canal defense
picture is that area of it devoted to
Frances Guiana penal colony, a
likely trouble spot in that the people
there are very unhappy and might
be we'll disposed toward Hitler. The
expressions on the faces of the in
mates makes it clear how far movie
performances have missed the &C
tuality. You really have to be that
mean. 1t can't be acted.
Evening star., 1940-09-07
Candidates in News
At the Trans.Lux

Candidates for high Office are much
in the news this week. that is much
in that portion of the news reported
pictorially at the Trans-Lux. In
Tennessee, President Roosevelt
speaks at the dedication of Chicka-
mauga Dam, the dedication of Great
Smoky National Park; in Des Moines,
Henry Wallace makes his vice
presidential acceptance speech; in
Mexico, the two candidates in a
presidential election already over,
claim victory.
There is comment. too. on the
transfer of so over-age destroyers
leverage but still mean -looking) to
Great Britain for sea bases to boil
ster our hemisphere defense-com-
ment by the news reels and by Lord
Lothian. The cameramen in Eng
land have visited an r A. F. base,
seen interceptor pursuit ships take
off and do battle with an invading
horde of Nazi bombers.
Short subjects on the new bill in
clude the current Information
Please" the one in which Clarence
Burlington Kelland plays a return
engagement as guest expert. For
vicarious travel fans there's a reel
on a State close to home Historic
Virginia" with shots OF Mt. Vernon
and restored Williamsburg. Other
subjects are Fishing In Hawaii and
"The Bookworm Turns" one of the
brighter recent color cartoons.
H. M.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

were pOdStiIlS IlOW OOVlcb UucCIlhIll-
cal wizardry enabled sign factory
to step up production to meet in
creasing demands for its output.
(The signs all announced Elevator
Out of Order.')
Mr.. Douglas, the capitalist who
knocked the five-year plan right
out from under Carlo In mi
notchka," is on the other side of
the fence here, to be convinced by
Miss Young that sometimes other
pastures are greener If she Is in
them. When Mr.. Douglas becomes
a fugitive from the law in Miss
Young's apartment Gall the while
obeying all the Hays office con-
ventions, of course, his days as q
Communist, though he knows 1t
not at the time, are numbered.
Feed even a fellow traveller on
steak, champagne and smoldering
glances, the picture moralizes wit
tily. and he will travel no further.
The comic admirer OF Lenin and
Stain impersonated by Mr.. Douglas
does not give in without struggle,
you may be sure. He makes a
speech on the slightest provocation,
or with none at all, and his hatred
of the ruling capitalistic class is
not diminished much by the fact
that the lovely Miss Young's ex-
husband is a banker. In fact, he
does not change his mind about