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Evening star., 1940-11-14
200 Registrars
Receive Tests
Tomorrow
Doctors Are Named
For Examinations
At a Hospitals

Organization of examination STATS
to compile physical reports on more
than 200 classified registrants at
four designated District hospitals
tomorrow night was under way to-
day as the city's 25 local draft boards
neared completion of their quotas
for the November 27 and % induc-
tions of selectees.
Examining physicians to serve at
Emergency, Garfield, Freedmen's and
Providence Hospitals, beginning at
7 O'Clock tomorrow night. were
named last night by local selective
service officials. with chief exam
iner appointed for each staff.
Examinations at Emergency, which
will handle registrants of boards
l, 3, 8. g. 10 and IA, will be under
the supervision of DR.. Linn z. Coo
per DR.. Stewart Foster will be the
chief examining physician at Gar
field, which will be visited by regis
trants of boards 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13
and 20.
Five Boards at Freedmen's.
Freedmen's, center for registrants
of boards II. II. IS. 19 and 25. will
have as chief examiner DR. j. A.
Keene Chief examiner named for
Providence. which will handle regis
trants from boards Is, II. 49, 81. %,
% and "a, was DR.. R w. Conklin.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox. selec-
tive service executive for the Dis
trict. said yesterday that boards will
be given permission to have certain
of their registrants visit a hospital
other than the one designated for
them should such a move be de-
sired
The examining physicians to be
on duty at the hospitals tomorrow
night were selected from the so ply
sicians appointed by the District
Commissioners to serve with draft
boards in connection with the selec-
tive service program.
Physicians asked to report to
Emergency were: Doctors R. H. Har-
mon, J. J. Stanton. E. w. Nichlas,
B. L. Hardin, jr.: H. R. Schreiber,
w. B. Daniels, w P. Argy. w. A.
Mess, Fred Repetti and I. H. Mis-
tretta.
Clerks to Be on Hand.
Asked to report for duty at Gar
field we're: Doctors c. w. Culver. B.
w. Leonard, c. w Harnsberger,
J. B. Marbury, A Fife Heath, H.
M. LoWden, Allan E Lee. Harry
Zehner. c. B. Ethridge and S.
Benjamin
Freedman's examining physicians
were: Doctors F. H Trigg. D. M.
Harper, William c. Goines. F. A.
Turner. U. B. Martin. Theodore
Pinckney and J. F. Dyer
The following were asked TO re-
port TO Providence. Doctors NJ. H.
Prospect. F. w. Braden, E. Y: Da-
wilson, c. J. Bovine, r. r. Hotel,
E. S. Crisp, G. I. Eppard. A. S.
Schwartzman and j. H. Elvin.
The physicians. will be permitted
to use their own assistants for the
examinations, it was pointed out,
although sufficient clerks will be
provided by draft headquarters and
local boards to assist physicians in
listing data on registrants
The Districts quota for the first
two inductions is 81 men.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Rainbow Veterans
To Dance Tomorrow

Rainbow Division Veterans will
hold their 22d annual autumn
dance at 10 pm. tomorrow at the
Indian Spring Golf and Country
Club, with the national president,
William S. Nevius of Wyandotte,
Mich, as guest of honor.
Col. Davis G. Arnold is honorary
chairman of the Dance Committee
and Elmer F. Neagle is general
chairman. Other committee men,
bers include Harold B. Rodier, Irv-
ing H. Silverberg, James H. DAILY,
NJ Manning Marcus, Bentley Null
ford and Walker Il. Colston.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Treodwoy Names
To Annapolis Son
Of 1917 Appointee

Representative Treadway OF
Massachusetts, yesterday ap-
pointed to the Naval Academy
the son of a man he appointed
to the acedmy % years ago, an
act which Navy officials believe
sets precedent.
TIE young man designated
is l7-year-old Joseph Francis
Bolger. jr., son of 1t. Comdr.
Bolger, now stationed at Long
Beach, Calf. The youths home
is in Adams, Mass. The father
was appointed to the Naval
Academy in 1917.
Representative Treadway was
reelected last week for his 18th
consecutive term.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Boiling Field Contract Let

The War Department today
awarded a contract to the Merando
Co. of this city to construct a S52,-
483 mess hall at Boiling Field Con-
tracts to the amount OF s2,067,3 ,353
were awarded to widely scattered
firms for miscellaneous ordnance
and Quartermaster Corps items.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Lecture on Eskimos

DR.. Riley D. Moore will deliver an
address, AT Home with the Eski-
mos" Saturday at the League for
the Larger Life, 1404 Massachu-
setts avenue, to which the public Is
invited.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
urkey Shoot Saturday

The Anacostia Lions Club will
stage a turkey shoot Saturday at
2 pm. at Piscataway, Md, it was
announced today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
St. MihieI
Off Today;
Base Cargo
Major George. and Staff 10
Reach Seward April
1O-Big Load

SAN FRANCICO, Cal, April L.
The Army transport st. Mihiel sails
at five o'clock this afternoon with
engineering structural equipment to
speed development of the Fairbanks
air base.
The vessel will also carry Major
Edward George, Construction Quar-
termaster, three other officers and
Is enlisted men specialized in Air
Corps and Finance.
1t is expected the st. Mihiel will
arrive April 10 in Seward.
The Quartermaster Corps expects
the peak of construction work to
be reached in June and a thousand
men will be at work.
Equipment on the ship includes
caterpillar tractors, scrapers, steam
shovels, wood working machinery,
air drills, cement, lumber, reinforc-
ing steel and also a small obser-
walton plane.
After discharging cargo the st.
Mihiel will return here to sail north
again on a Is day schedule through
the spring and summer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
Seattle Accident Ends in
Blast OF Flame from
Exploding Tanks
PRIVATE CRAFT WAS
OWNED BY STEVENSON
Young Feminine Pilot Was
Cora Sterling, Well
Known Aviatrix

SEATTLE, April l. - A private
airplane crashed into a sawdust pile
at 1870 miles an hour Sunday, taking
the lives of five persons, including
Cora Sterling, Is, Washington's first
woman transport pilot
The other dead are four children,
Janet and Charleen, 8 and 4 re-
spectively, the daughters of King
County Commissioner Jack Taylor;
and James 10, and Allen, IA, sons
of Charles Taylor, nephews of the
Commissioner
In Air Is Minutes
The four were in the air with
Mrs. Sterling for a fifteen minutes
sightseeing trip arranged by former
Commissioner John C. Stevenson,
cnetime candidate for Washington
Governor, and VIII oowned the single
motored four passenger ship which
crashed.
The plane was flying at about 500
feet and suddenly sideslipped while
making a sharp vertical bank and
crashed at full speed in lumber
yard a short distance from Boeing
Field.
Mystery Crash
Witnesses differed as to whether
or not the plane caught fire in the
air from a backfire, or simply
plunged to earth with the motor full
one and as it struck the gasoline
tank exploited, making rescue of the
victims impossible.
The ship was reduced to ashes
aud twisted metal, and the bodies
we're recovered only after more than
an hour.
C0llarses at Scene
Stevenson, watching the flight
from the field after having taken
the ship up himself twice earlier
collapsed at the scene of the wreck.
Miss Sterling was described as an
excellent pilot and flew regularly.
She had obtained license when
she was eighteen.
Commissioner Taylor said he had
remained at home while his wife
took the children to the flying field.
Premonition
Taylor said he suddenly had a
premonition and telephoned the air.
port and asked if everything was all
right
Taylor got a reply: There is a
plane down south of the field, Mr..
Taylor, but we do not think it is
the one your children are in"
Taylor then rushed to his auto
mobile, drove to the field, looked at
the wreckage and turned away Sob
bing
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
Robbers
Pull Off
Big Haul
Drill Through JewelrY
Store Vault : Escape
with Stones, Cash

LOS ANGELES, Cal, april L.
The police estimate the value OF
the quantity of loose precious stones
stolen from a downtown jewelry
store, in which the robbers used
blow torches, crowbars and drills,
at between 100000 and 100000.
The sum of $4,000. in cash was
also stolen.
Deputy Chief Homer Cross said
apparently a woman had secreted
herself in Mushroom adjoining the
store and then let in four men who
broke through two partitions, then
drilled the middle of huge iron
vault, avoiding setting off the vaults
alarm.
The robbers left through the front
door with their loot. The opening
and closing of the door started the
alarm which summoned the police.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
JAPAN, US.
RELATIONS
STRAINED
Refusal 10 Recognize New
China Regime Cause
Of Bad Feelings
(By Associated Press

Refusal of the United States to
recognize the three-day old Cen
trail Government of China" estab-
lished at Marking with former
Chinese Premier Wang Chang We.
as the head of the japanese spon-
sored regime, has placed a new
strain in the relations between
Washington and Tokyo.
The japanese Foreign Office
spokesman described as abrupt
the statement in which American
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
late Saturday announced the atti-
tude of the United States toward
the regime.
The statement tersely said the
United States would not recognize
the sponsored All Chinese-Japanese
regime headed By Wang Chang Wei.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
World Sind
Forecast in
Radio Stunt
Publicity Man Takes Page
from Book Of WeIIes
and MartianS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April l.
An announcement that the world
will end at 3 p. m. Monday, April
L. released by Franklin Institute
Director of Publicity William Cas-
tellini and broadcast last n i g h t
over local radio station, sent
thousands of frightened persons
hurrying to their telephones to get
additional details.
The announcement was read after
the Jack Benny program in which
he mentioned Orson Welles and the
Marian invasion farce in connec-
ton with last weeks sunspot.
Castellini said over the air: 'Di-
rectors of Fels Planetarium in this
city. would confirm this as no April
Fool joke and explained today he
wanted to rouse interest in the OPP
ening of the Planetarium show.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
GIamor Girl
ReveaIsShe
Wed Convisl
Torch Singer Moffett Talks
New Hubby Headed
for Big House

NEW YORK, April Adelaide
Moffett, blond socialite torch singer
whose father is a former Federal
office administrator, today confirm
ed she and william Buckner, Jr.,
cafe society playboy- promoter, who
is about to go to prison for mail
fraud, were married secretly Feb
ruary 8.
The two had a short honeymoon
at Key West, she reported.
Buckner is already in a Federal
detention house awaiting transfer
to Pennsylvania Penitetiary to serve
an IS months sentence
Mrs. Buckners first husband was
killed in a fall from an apartment
window.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
LIGHT VOTE IS
FORECAST FOR
CITY ELECTION
Polls Open from 9 Until 7
Time Argument TO
Be Settled

Juneau voters Will so to the polls
tomorrow to elect Mayor, three
Councilmen and a School Board
Director and to register their an
swer to the question Shall Jul
neau time be changed permanently
after April 30, 1910, to Pacific
Standard Time by advancing it one
hour?"
Polls will be open from 9 O'Clock
in the morning until 7 in the
evening. Polling places arc as fol-
lows: First Precinct, City Fire Hall;
Second Precinct, Gross Building
next to Gastineau Hotel; Third
Precinct, Barlow Building near
Home Grocery
Under Juneau's permanent regis
tration system, anyone who has
registered in a City election since
1885 will be eligible to vote.
All liquor selling activities must
cease during the hours the polls
are open, under a new Territorial
law.
Those filed for election are as
follows:
Mayor
Harry l. Lucas dncumbenD.
Edmund j. Krause.
Council
(Three to be Elected
Ralph Beistline Gncumbent.
Harry Lea GncumbenD.
G.. Emil KrauSe.
Floyd Fagerson.
School Director
Grover VIM (incumbent
Russell r. Hermann.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
SMELLS SMOKE, DISCOVERS
HIGHLY INTERESTING FIRE
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, April This IS
the story of a big stink in the Unit
ed States Senate.
Sedate Senators, walking through
the second floor halls of the Capt.
toll past the door of the Senate mill
tarv Affairs Committee, shifted the
odor and scowled. The noses OF
Senate guards, catching the pungent
aroma, twitched. Everyone around
looked apprehensively at the closed
committee room No one dared in
vestigate. The committee was IN
secret session.
1t smelled like something burn
ing. 1t was something burning
a fistful of stenographic abraca-
dabra that told what may have
been one of the strangest secrets
of the day-the exact formula OF
Lester P. Barlows liquid oxygen
carbon aerial mines.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
ALLIED AID
TO FINLAND
WAS SOUGHT
France Made Request on
Sweden in March 10
Transport Troops

STOCKHOLM, April Foreign
Mip.ster Gunther told the Swedish
Parliament today that early in
March, French Premier Daladier
sent a personal message to King
Gustav asking permission to trans
port Allied troops through Sweden
to aid Finland
Gunther said that King Gustav
replied that neutrality made it i'm
possible for such transportation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
AMENDMENT ON
TRADE PROGRAM
KILLED IN SENATE

WASHINGTON, April l. - BY a
three vote majority, the Senate last
Saturday killed the amendment
which would require the Senate's
ratification of any trade agreement
of the reciprocal trade program.
This is a victory for the Admin
istration forces.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
No Triple
Alliance
Ispossib|e
Italy Is Reported TO Have
Turned Down Proposal
Made by Hitler

ROME, April 1.-The belief is
expressed by we'll informed circles
that a Rome Berlin Moscow TRAN
gle is a speculative impossibility.
Diplomatic observers take this to
mean that if Hitler suggested new
friendship between Italy and Russia
at the Bremen Pass conference last
month, the proposal is definitely a
failure.
The same sources also dispel re-
ports Of a plan to share control of
the Balkans among the three Die
tator Nations.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
H.k.C roken
Transferred

Howard K. Croken, for the past
seven years operator in the Juneau
office of the Signal Corps, United
States Army, is leaving here one
week from today for Seattle, where
he has been transferred.
Croken has made scores OF friends
while doing his hitch in Juneau. Mrs.
Croken, who has been prominent in
social affairs and has many friends
here, went south last week to es-
tablish her home in Seattle and get
all settled, awaiting her husbands
arrival there.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
BIG SOVIET
WAR BUDGET
IS REQUESTED
Fifty-seven Billion RubIes
Is Demand Made
for Defense
(By Associated Press

Russia's Parliament has been asked
to approve a record defense budget
of 81 million rubles.
The normal ruble value is about
20 cents, but the currency is not
quoted now on the regular foreign
exchange SO no basis for accurate
conversion of the amount into dol
lars can be ascertained.
The increase in the budget asked
is about 16 million rubles over the
budget of last year.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
UTTER FUTILIT

It happened the other day. Here's
how. Senators Nye and Gillette and
Representative Church of Illinois
are sponsors of a resolution to look
into the possibilities of the Barlow
bomb. The resolution came before
the Senate committee. Mr. Barlow
was called in.
Mr.. Barlow is an inventor and
temperamental. On occasion, he can
be very outspoken On that occas-
ion he was so outspoken that he had
the Senators gasping He not only
described the death and destruc-
ton which his invention will cause
He declared that the nation which
owns it will be impregnable and Gre
ate in the world sense of the utter
futility of war. And then Mr.. Bar
low tossed a verbal bomb, just to
give the Senators an idea of his
capabilities. Without even lowering
his voice to a whisper, he reeled
off the chemical formula of his in
vention.
Agast committeeman asked: Have
you told this to anyone before? To
representatives of any foreign pow
er?" Mr.. Barlow said emphatically
nc.
The committee passed motion
to have the testimony burned. A
wastebasket was placed on the COM
mitteeroom tangle, the stenographic
report dumped into it, A match was
applied and while the committee
looked solemnly on Mr. Barlow's Sc
cret went up in smoke.
Reporters smelled the smoke and
a story but when they arrived, GRIM
faced Senators shook their heads
through the haze and held up shush-
ing hands to silence questions.
DEMONSTRATION?
The liquid oxygen-carbon aerial
(Coptioi1ad IN pppe Gixl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
TAKES LEAP FROM
FLAMES 10 DEATH

WASHINGTON April Michael
Jones SO, leaped three stories to his
death this morning and two women
were burned fatally and unrecog-
nizable in a 100000 apartment house
fire.
Five others we're injured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
President
HasBeen
Very Sick
Combating Intestinal In.
fIuenzd Is White
House Report

WASHINGTON, April l. The
White House discloses that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been seriously i'll
combating intestinal influenza dur
ing his recent sickness.
The President is visiting his Hyde
Park home this weekend and is 60
ing to Warm Springs about April
H.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
FOOD, FUEL
RATI0NING
In FRANCE
Subsidies Are Also Pro-
posed for Increasing
Birth Rate

PARIS, April France will put
into effect a three point program
calling for issuance of food and fuel
ration cards and stimulation of the
birth rate with subsidies in an at
tempt to double the present rate.
1t is estimated haat half mill
lion women are employed at present
in war industries.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
Stock QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April 1. = Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 6as, American Can
1855, Anaconda 29as, Bethlehem
steel 76, Commonwealth and
Southern IL, Curtiss Wright 7/8,
General Motors 81, International
Harvester 58A, Kennecott SO, New
York Central 16, Northern Pacific
8, United States Steel 58ss, Pound
1884 3/4.
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
The following are today's Dow,
Jones averages: industrials 147.72,
rails 3073, utilities 25.10.
Canada's population is 1876
600.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
ENV0YS0F
BRITAIN IN
Trek HOME

LONDON, April :. British ENJOYS
are now on the way home from
Southern European nations to get
instructions from the British Gov
eminent.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
Crests Of Rising Waters in
East Expected Dur
ing Today
HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES
FLEE TO HIGH GROUND
Thousands of Acres of Cali
fornia Farms Again
Inundated
(By Associated Press

Widely separated sections OF the
Nation have been inundated by
spring floods which have taken, up
to noon today, eleven lives. Clearing
skies and cooler temperatures give
promise of early relief.
Six are dead in Pennsylvania, four
in New York and one in California.
Central and Eastern Pennsylvania
cities along the Susquehanna and
Monongahela Rivers are the hardest
hit in the eastern flooded sections.
Crests, well above the flood stage,
are expected during today.
In California
Til IS of acres of Northern
CalifC farming land the
Sacram olCo river are coyereq Tor the
second time in one month.
Scores of families have been fore
ed to seek higher ground.
Clear weather is forecast after
one week of heavy rain.
Back East Again
Hundreds of families in South
and Central New York State have
been forced from their homes
A state of emergency has been
declared at Bingham, N Y.
Seven hundred families have been
removed from the low ground at
Johnson City.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01

This year 100000 trees will be
planted in the southwestern dust
bowl"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01
GASOLINE TANKS EXPLODE

WILKESBARRE, Pa, April l.
Hundreds of gasoline tanks exploded
in the flood area this afternoon
temporarily adding to fire hazards
with the rising waters. The gaso-
line broke into a furious blaze and
many buildings were damaged. No
persons were injured, according to
reports.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01

Canada's population is 1876
MOO
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-01

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The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15
Mir0W Air Service
 Activities

Pilot Jefford with the Reindeer Acquisition Unit carrying C G Burdick and Sid Rood landed in Shaktoolik this afternoon and will leave for Unalakleet this ev ening, and expect to return to Nome tomorrow.
 Pilot Chambers landed at Mar shal this afternoon on his regular mail run and is expected in Nome this weekend.
 Pilot SaSseen left Anchorage this morning and is expected in Nome this afternoon and will leave for Anchorage Wednesday with a load of passengers, and ex poets to make two round trips this week in time to meet the boat this week end at Anchorage.
 Pilot Sasseen arrived Nome to day from Anchorage with the Mirow Air Service Lockheed Vega plane which was flown to the States last summer and given a complete overhaul and rebuild. Tomorrow Pilot Sasseen is sched uled to make a flight to Wales to pick up a load of excess mail.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15

The PAA mail plane arrived Nome today from Fairbanks at about 12:30 with mail, but no first class, due to the cancellation of the January 9th sailing of the Mount Mckinley from Seattle.
 On the return flight the plane carried for Fairbanks, MT. and Mrs. Lars Rynning and Miss Lily David for GoloVin.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15

The Democratic Club of Nome met at the city hall Sunday af- ternoon and in accordance with it's bylaws completed election of permanent officers for the next two year term. Re-signing of the roll of the club for the same period took place, and next Sun day, at 2 pm was set as the life for the next meeting.
 The newly elected officers were as follows:
 Chairman M J Walsh
 Vice Chairman Fred w Yenney
 Secretary Gene Kell
 Treasurer John Lichtenberg
 Sergeant-at-arms Clyde Cock burn.
 Discussion of the coming pri- mary election ensued and com mltteeS are reported to be work ing toward getting a full ticket filed. Reports are expected to be made at next Sundays meeting concerning candidates.
 Senator o D Cochran address sed the meeting declaring that his candidacy to succeed himself for another two-year term would be filed at an early date. Expres- sions were also expected from other leading Democrats as to their filing dates.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15

The Nome Drug Store Holiday Gift drawing of the $100 in gold nuggets will be held this even ing at the Nome Drug Store at 800 pm. The nuggets have been on display at the Store for over a month and are as nice col lection of nuggets as you can win anywhere, or dig for that mat ter.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15
Wien Airlines
 Activities

January l3-A flight was made to Taylor with a load of freight and mail.
 January IA - Frank Whaley made a flight to Marshall re- turning to Nome today. B B Mo- zee and Mrs. C C Tanner made the round trip. A native girl was also brought to Nome.
 Two trips are scheduled for points north tomorrow. A trip is planned for Fairbanks the latter part of this week.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-15

U s Marshal B B Mozee left Nome Sunday morning via Wien Alaska Airlines plane for For tuna Ledge to pick up a 10-year old Eskimo girl found insane by a jury last week. Mrs. C C Tan ner travelled at matron.
 The party remained overnight at Fortuna Ledge and returned to Nome today.