davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-04-19

The disturbance that was over Lake
Huron Thursday morning has advanced
northeastward with 9 trough, extending
southwark and southwestward of the
MASSACHUSETTS coast, Eastport. Me. l00S.S
millibars (29.79 inches). The disturbance
that was over Mississippi has moved slowly
northeastward to Tennessee. Nashville.
trough extending southeastward and south
ward to northwestern Florida. warm
front extends from the Tennessee center
east-northeastward to Central virginia.
Pressure is relatively low over the Plains
States. Fargo. N. Oak, 1O119 millibars
t29.SS inches). and over the Southern
Plateau. A high-pressure ara is moving
ACKNOWLEDGMENT over the upper Lake
region. Escanaba, Mich. 1920 millibars
t3O.1s inches) and pressure is high of the
South Atlantic Coast. Hatteras, y. G.
1915 millibars (30.05 inches). and over
the Northern Rocky Mountain region
Havre. Mont. 1020.3 millibars t30.l3
inches) During the last "a hours rains
have occurred In the Middle and East Gulf
States. the Middle Atlantic and North At
lantic States. the lower Lake region and
in the Ohio and middle Mississippi Valleys
Temperatures have fallen in the upper
Ohio Valley, the lower Lake region, Western
Montana and portions of the Gulf States
while they have risen in the upper Missis-
sippi Valley the Middle and Southern
Plains States and the Southern Rocky
Mountain region
Evening star., 1940-04-19

in speaking out against inefficiency,
bias and corruption on the bench.
1T is the most mischevious sort
of legalistic wool gathering to i'm
agine that the courts, in order to
protect themselves against the press,
must be allowed to invoke pro-
cedures which ignore the priceless
guarantees of the Bill of Rights"
In Los Angeles, where the Times
writer's were fined for contempt and
in some other cities,' Mr.. Coghlan
said, lawyers have been urging the
courts to more frequent use Of
their asserted powers of contempt
as means of restraining the press.
"The legal profession furnishes
exclusively the personnel of the
courts. 1t furnishes many of the
leaders and perhaps a majority of
the members of our State Legisla-
ture and of Congress. The number
of executive posts in the Govern
ment which are filled by lawyers
is immensely out Of proportion to
the number filled by other profess
SionS.
Lawyers Taken to Task.
$50 1t is manifest that if the legal
profession as a whole had exercised
itself in behalf of reform of the
judiciary and the criminal law, there
would be no occasion for most of the
newspaper criticisms which are
piously deplored as undermining
respect for the courts.
I'VE say to the legal profession,
Physician, heal thyself. Ceace be-
ing rituahstic medicine men, intent
on preserving hierarchic perquisites
and paralyzing technicalities and
take the lead in bringing institu-
tions abreast of the magnificent
progress that has been made In
science and industry
Although many of the st. Louis
Circuit Court judges are ornaments
for any court in the land" he said
there are others who are mere
creatures and tools of the political
machine that lifted them from OBJ
scurity and placed them on the
bench, to positions of public trust.
And yet, in view of their obvious
shortcomings, their open failures to
fulfill their duty, how can there be
public confidence on the part of the
newspapers or any one else in pup
pets such as these?"
The editors met this morning at
breakfast in the Willard Hotel for
shop talk in "streamlining news
papers," with Ben M. McKelway,
managing editor of The Star, as
chairman. Speakers included Neil
H. Swanson, managing editor Of the
Baltimore Evening Sun; Douglas G.
McMurtrie. director of typography
for the Ludlow Typograph Co.. and
John s. Knight, president and edi-
tor OF the Akron (ohio) Beacon
Journal
Evening star., 1940-04-19
BY w. H. SHIPPEN. JR.

Freedom is sweetest after a battle.
Ask the men who helped restore
Louisiana to the Union, or smash
the Pendergast machine in Kansas
City.
You put up a good fight, Roy"
grinned James M. Thomson, pub
Usher Of the New Orleans Item and
Tribune, papers which delivered
telling broadsides at Huey Long
and his successors.
You were in there pitching your
self, Jim," replied Roy Roberts,
managing editor of the Kansas City
Star. LAS for my part in the Kan
sas City fight, it was small COM
pared with that of the good ladies
OF our city. " = We owe it all to the
ladies, God bless them!"
The meeting occurred yesterday
at the National Press Club, during
the 18th annual convention of the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors. At about the same time, bands
were blaring down the streets of
Kansas City, heralding the capture
of City Hall by the cleanup party,
and in Louisiana citizens were be-
ginning to estimate the extent of
newfound civil liberties.
Thomson a Native Virginian.
Mr.. Thomson, a native of the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, who
broke in as a cub reporter on the
Washington Post before the Span
h-American War, said that after
"l2 years of dictatorship in Louisi-
ana, we'll be freer than anybody
for quite spell now"
For years, he said, the people
"felt like the Czechs or the Poles
must feel under Hitler. The regime
of the Long machine in many ways
paralleled that of Hitler, Mussolini
or Stalin-not quite as rough, but
equally as effective"
The Inauguration of Sam Jones
as Governor of Louisiana next
month, Mr. Thomson said, will
spell the end of machine rule for
Louisiana. Nor does he believe the
State will ever return to the old
order.
TOO many politicians have gone
or are going to the penitentiary,"
he said, land too many voters now
know the full value of their civil
rights. Louisiana will never return
to machine rule!"
In Kansas City, Mr.. Roberts said,
the reform forces recently won q
10000 majority and yesterday they
took over the City Hall.
Women's Vote Did 1t.
~-We went from one of the worst
to one of the cleanest administra-
tions in our history "* and we owe
it all to the woman voters!"
The little group in the club
lounge was joined by Ralph Cogh-
Ian, editor of the st. Louis Post
Dspatch's editorial page. It was
Mr.. Coghlan whose criticism of a
judges ruling in recent criminal
case won him sentence of 20 days
in Jail and a fine of 5000 on a
charge of contempt of court He
was at liberty under bond pending
an appeal to the Missouri Supreme
Court.
Don't worry, Ralph" grinned the
veteran publisher of the Item and
Tribune, they'll never get you in
jail. They thought they had me be-
hind the bars once, but I fooled
them"
Mr.. Thomson referred to an early
libel law in Louisiana which pro-
vided that an editor in libel case
be tried in the jurisdiction where
the complainant lived. That meant,
he. said, that an editor might be
Evening star., 1940-04-19

1910 level Of about 100000 per-
sons month.
Political implications were read
Immediately into the Presidents re-
quest by Republican critics.
Chairman Otter, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, of the Republican
Congressional Committee said the
discretionary authority sought would
be "only another one of the in
stances so aptly defined by Justice
Cardozo as a vagrant and uncon-
fined power and which, in an elec-
ton year, might offer temptations
that I feel certain the Democratic
party would not care to deal with"
Fish Comment Is Caustic.
Representative Fish, Republican,
of New York asked on the House
floor whether another campaign
slush fund" was in the offing.
Does it mean that another 500.-
900 people are going to be padded
onto the pay rolls during Septem-
ber, October and November at pub
lie expense?" he asked.
Although there was sharp conflict
Of opinion among members of the
Appropriations Subcommittee con-
sidering the relief estimates, DEM
ocratic House members generally
supported Mr.. Roosevelt's sugges-
ton.
Representative Woodrum, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, acting chairman of
the subcommittee. however, ex-
pressed the view that If the $975,-
100000 were made available for ex-
penditure in eight months it would
all be spent in that time Mr.. Roose-
welt had suggested that a pickup
in employment might make addi-
tional relief funds unnecessary.
WOodrum to Expedite Bill.
Although influential House Demo-
Gratis said the Presidents request
might delay final disposition of the
relief bill, Mr.. Woodrum issued a
statement asserting that it would
be expedited.
The House meanwhile began de-
bate today on a bill to extend the
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Editors
Continued From First Page }

Huey Longs great ability, prodigi-
GUS industry and outstanding ca
pacity for handling people in mass,
as well as political bosses and fnan-
ciers, had operated in New York,
Illinois or any other State, it is
probable that he could have estab-
lished a dictatorship more easily
than 1t was established in Louisiana,
for Louisiana essentially is one of
the most conservative States in the
Union.
Mr.. Thomson recounted events
since Longs assassination and the
practices used by the politicians
who inherited his power.
Voters Finally Rebelled.
Machine power was broken re-
Gently with the election of a new
Governor and indictment of more
than dozen State officials and the
head Of the State university.
Louisiana's largest newspapers,
even those which competed against
each other, co-operated in over
throwing the State machine, he
said.
None of you know what is ahead
Of you," he said. 1.-THE people of
Louisiana are not different from
those of the rest of the United
States. We just happen to have
been the guinea pig in the laboratory
IN which the experiment of de-
stroying democracy was tried out.
No thoughtful man could have lived
through the past IL years in Louis
lana without thinking how the con-
dition there could be duplicated in
other States"
He continued:
Politicians, promising the people
bread and circus, destroyed the
liberties of the Roman republic. In
time of panic unemployment, anxiety
and distress Huey Long, one of the
ablest politicians of a generation,
came promising LouiSianians to
share the wealth. Imagine this ap-
peal made to the small farmer, with
cotton 3 to S cents pound. And
imagine the same appeal to the
anxious millions in New York with
the emphasis changed from rural
disconte1t to industrial discontent.
"Go after the interests and preju-
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Roosevelt Speeds
South, Ready for
Emergency Return
@se
Watches European and
Pacific Situations on
Warm Springs Trip
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Star Stad Correspondent,


s ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOsE-
VELT'S TRAIN EN- ROUTE TO
WARM SPRINGS, Ca, April 1s.-
With the United States Govern
ment unqualifiedly on record as op-
posed to any revision of interna-
tional spheres of influence In the
Pacific and frankly fearful of what
may yet be in store for Europe's
'war-plagued nations, President
Roosevelt speeded southwark today
Tor brief vacation at the Warm
Springs Foundation.
Due to arrive late this afternoon,
the Chief Executive has given orders
that his special train be held in
instant readiness for a quick dash
back to Washington if his worst
Tears are borne out abroad.
1889 Remark Recalled.
One year ago as he left Warm
Springs, Mr.. Roosevelt aroused a
tempest of criticism by a farewell
remark to the effect that he would
be back "if we don't have a war"
The war which he then feared has
since materialized and the fact that
he still finds 1t possible to take a
vacation was obviously affording
him small comfort as he announced
his plans yesterday.
That the Pacific balance of power
specifically involving Japan, Great
Britain, the Netherlands and the
United States-is in the forefront
OF this picture was made evident
by Mr.. Roosevelt's verbal indorse-
ment of the formal declaration is
sued by Secretary of State Hull ON
Wednesday night, making clear
that this Government would con-
slider any indication of protective"
aggression in the Far East inimical
to peace and to our interests.
Apparent Warning.
Stripped of all camouf1age, this
pronouncement apparently was in
tended as a warning to Japan
against any thoughts OF seizing the
Dutch East Indies should Europes
war suddenly spill over into the
Netherlands.
Mr.. Roosevelt gave a final indica-
ton OF his concern as he boarded
his train in Washington last night,
bidding good-by to the party which
accompanied him to Union Station.
He assured the group he would hurry
back if and when the next nation
Is invaded.
To permit him to maintain fire.
quent contact with Washington and
his foreign affairs reporters" ad-
vance arrangements had been made
for telephone connections with the
Presidents train at every sizable
town en- route.
At Gastonia, N. c., his first call
was put through, presumably to the
State Department..
Evening star., 1940-04-19

Federal crop insurance program to
cotton. 1t now is limited to wheat.
After three days Of debate the
House yesterday overwhelmingly ap-
proved the Logan-Walter bill to pro-
vide for uniform procedure by Fed
eral administrative agencies and for
speedier court review Of their orders.
The measure went to the Senate
by the topheavy vote of $50 to 81,
but leaders there have made no
plans for its consideration. A some
what similar bill passed the Senate
last year, but that action was re-
considered and the bill restored to
the calendar.
Minton to Oppose Bill.
III be against the BILL" said
Senator Minton, Democrat, of In
diana. Il don't think you can write
one bill to cover all Government
agencies any more than you can
prescribe one dose of medicine for
all patients
The House brushed aside Is
amendments to narrow application
of the bill by increasing the number
of agencies exempted, and rejected,
273 to LOG, the request of Acting
Speaker Rayburn of Texas, the ad-
ministration floor leader, to send the
measure back to the House Judiciary
Committee for further study
I'm following this idea of punish
ing somebody for doing something
that. we don't like, we may make a
mistake Mr. Rayburn said. AL
things considered. I think it would
be a good thing for the House and
Congress If this bill went back to
the committee for q little more
study"
Summers Defends Bill.
But Chairman Summers of the
Judiciary Committee replied that
with more and more powers con-
centrated in Federal bureaus I'VE
have got to make it possible for
the citizen to resort to the only
place under Anglo-Saxon systems
of government that an aggrieved
persons can come to-the courts
The bill would require the Gov
ernments l3O-odd administrative
agencies to follow a common pro-
cedure in promulgating regulations
and in granting hearings to ag-
grieved persons and would speed up
the initiation of appeals to the courts
from such orders.
Evening star., 1940-04-19

Pretty 22-year-old Dorothy The
resa Matelis is back in her native
America after five years in Europe,
during which she once was ques-
toned by the Nazis on suspicion
that she was a spy.
Miss Metals, a native of Balti-
more, of Lithuanian descent, is
visiting her brother and sister-in-
law. Mr.. and Mrs. Valtine Metals,
at "A Seaton place NV.
Miss Matelis went to Lithuania in
1885 and studied at the University
of Kaunas.
Evening star., 1940-04-19

It was just after the Germans
had taken Austria that she was
stopped at the border between Aus
tria and Yugoslavia and put under
the third degree
They made me undress," she re-
called. Somebody apparently had
signaled me as spy suspect, but I
was released after a short time and
allowed to continue my Journey"
Miss Matelis is an accomplished
linguist. She speaks Lithuanian
which she describes as one of the
oldest languages; German and
Italian.
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Religious Dromo Tonight

A religious drama, "The Dream
Of Pilates Wife will be presented
at 8 o'clock tonight at Central Pres
byterian Church, Sixteenth and
Irving streets NV, under the direc-
tion of Frances Yerby Pannill. A
chorus directed by Mrs. Roy w.
Prince will be part of the per-
formanCe.
Evening star., 1940-04-19

zoo ADDITION LOOSES PLUMES-Ths weary traveller six
pumed bird of paradise arrived the yesterday from the
other side of the world tail feathers Included in
the shipment from Java in the Dutch Indies sickle
billed bird OF paradise and Malay apr with one
which the Zoo obtained from the National Geographic Smith
sonian expedition to the East Indies The specimens
arrived IN New York several days long journey
They were obtained through dealer Batavia attendants
hope the birds Of paradise will regain their gorgeous puaee
soon Star Ataf, phot,
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Congress in Brief
TODAY

senate:
In recess.
Banking Committee continues
hearings on proposed regulation of
investment trusts.
Naval Committee hears testimony
on proposed fleet expansion.
Campaign Investigating Commit
tee meets.
House:
Considers extending Federal crop
insurance to cotton.
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Weather Report
Furnished by the I


tonight, with minimum
shifting southeast tomorrow.
Vrgnashow tonight tomorrow; slightly cooler in
north
West ViginiaShowers tonight and tomorrow; slightly
south portion tonight
Evening star., 1940-04-19
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital lcurrent month to datel:
Evening star., 1940-04-19

FOREIGN STATIONS,
Tsmperstugo, HNo&6nA
(Noon. Greenwich tina. to1ASJ
Hofts (EayaD. Asores - 90 ~
tcus5snt shssssa11uap |
a:s 5:i:s: ST. ::s.' s'!s!i i;:;;: = i
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
ELk5 SUMMONED
FOR CEREMONY
OF INSTALLATION
Turoff 10 Be Installing o.
fi1er for Local Lodge
tomorrow

Three hundred members of Jul
neau Lodge No. 420 today were sub
poenaed to attend tomorrow nights
Elks installation of officers. impress
sive looking documents, complete
with fancy seal, were mailed to all
members and many other well
known Elks of other lodges.
L. w. Turoff, District Deputy
Grand Exalted Ruler, will be in
stalling officer.
New officers to be installed are as
follows: Howard Simmons, Exalted
Ruler; Earle Hunter, Lead in G
Knight; Arthur Adams, Loyal
Knight; Floyd Fagerson, Lecturing
Knight; M H. Sides, Secretary; Will
liam Franks, Treasurer; George
Shaw, Tier; John H. Walmer, Trus-
tee, and George F.. Freeburger, Al
ternate Delegate to the Grand
Lodge.
Appointive officers will be named
by Simmons and installed at the
lodge session tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
Hollywood Sights And Sound5
BY Robin Coons-

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 1.-The scene in Tom Browns
School Days completed and Sir Hardwcke and
Josephine Hutchinson holding a
viii smile, Sir Cedric?' asked Freddie
Sl Cedric aughted I'm grinning a Cheshire you
ask smie! With that tips forefnges
TO dsend his lips, and struck a pose.
1t rather shocking however amusing. me mean.
Maybe others I better should know
that the they pictures plays
shouldn't feel watching Sir Cedric, that watching
austere aloo religious gentleman play
Shadow and Substance" That he n
films reverend fellow whom unbecomng
But Sin ced hal assures me that the mantle of holiness
placed ms shoulders America that actually
thing but ascecand this despite his presy
supernatural roles like Mr.. in Timer
will remind oo that he has been happy viii
lainies THE Hunchbacl Becky Sharp
in THE Invisible Returns"
Still that should doff hat ask
blessing.
Actually Sir Cedric thoroughly human amable
chap neither sanity vanous Once when he here
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
THREE WIVES TO
JOIN HUSBANDS
NOW IN KODIAK

Enroute to Kodiak on the steamer
Yukon are three Juneauites who
will join their husbands in the
boom town
Mrs. Roy Hoffman will be met
at Erskine's dock by her husband,
former Assistant Chief of Police Of
Juneau, who went to Kodiak several
months ago to engage in the plumb
ing business.
Another passenger on the Yukon
is Mrs. Ralph Merrill, the former
Mary Wildes. She will join her hus-
band who is an employee of the b.
F. Kraft Co.
Mrs. Svende Thorpe, nee Ann
Morris, ais osailed this morning on
the steamer Her husband is doing
construction work at the Air Base
in Kodiak.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02

Busy Today

The local Fairchild seaplane was
busy today with fair weather and
long passenger schedules.
Early this morning, John Amund-
sen flew to Skagway to bring in
James Truitt, Jr., U. S. Engineer.
On Amundsen's return, Simmons
flew the ship to Sitka with ]. G.
Yost and H. B. James outbound to
Sitka and Fred Mattson outbound
to Hoonah.
2. Avon and j E. Boyle were flown
in from Sitka and then immonS
went out again with Joe Ringili for
Hidst and Steve Martin for Chich-
agof.
Another trip to Funter Bay and
possibly one to Kake and Ketchikan
is scheduled for this evening.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
SERIOUS
CHARGES
UTTERED
Revolt Against Govern.
ment F0ments-PeI-
ley Involved

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Repre-
sentative Samuel Dickstein of New
York today charged before the Dies
Committee that Villain Dudley Pei
ley, head of the Legion Silver Shirts,
is tied up with a number of riny
officers in a fantastic effort to over
throw this government
Representative Dickstein appeared
voluntarily before the Dies Com
mittee and said in a formal state
ment:
Il have evidence to prove it.
charge Pelley with being the mott
waiting force behind the fantastic
desires on the part of Army men
like Gen. Mosely to lead a revolt,
backed by Army men, against the
Government"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
UNION Oil TO
BEGIN PROJECT
ON TANKS SOON

Work is to begin shortly on five
new large storage tanks for the I'm
len Oil Company here on the Alaska
Juneau rock dump, according to Dis
trict Manager j. E. Boyle, who flew
in from Sitka this afternoon with
Shell Simmons.
Boyle said the construction fore
Northland this evening and steel
workers will leave Seattle soon.
Boyle is a guest at the Baranof
Hotel and will be here for several
weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
MtCAFFERTY HERE
FOR SHORT VISIT

:
Frank McCafferty, well known
former Juneau resident, arrived on
the Yukon from the South this
morning for combination business
and pleasure visit of several days
here.
McCafferty and his family moved
TO Santa Barbara, California, sew
eral years ago, but still retaining
considerable Juneau property in
terests, he came north regularly to
look after his business here and re-
new acquaintance.
A guest at the Baranof Hotel Nc
Cafferty plans 40 stop in Juneau
a week or longer.
Poultry raising in Texas is $45,-
COO, 000-a-year business and the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-04-02
Bio polIateI1 10 Be Held
AiWrangeII During June;
Whites Are 10 Be Invited

WRANGELL, Alaska, April q
Breaking a tradition of centuries,
Wrangell Indian people through
their spokesman Chief-Elect Kuda-
make, has invited their white
brothers" to join them in a potlatch
at Shakes Island, their ancestral
home on June and June 4 at which
time Kudanake will be elevated to
full Guardianship.
The first invitation being dis
patched by Kudanake, he said
through an interpreter, will be to the
Big Chief of the White People,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Kudanake further said: Big
Chief of White Brothers must be
first recognized or no White Broth
ers would be permitted to partici-
pate in the potlatch. This is Gus
tom of the Native people. F"
Precedent Set
The invitation will be rendered
in the traditional way, one Chief
to another, and it will be the first
time in history that the Whites have
been asked to join in the festivities
which will include ceremonial dane
es and two days of various native
observances.
Outstanding Ceremony
The outstanding ceremony viii be
the elevation of Kudanake to the
position of original Chief Of the
Shakes
Invitations are also to be sent
to Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes, Commissioner Of Indian Al
fairs John Collier, Gov. Ernest
Gruening, members of Congressional
Indian Affairs committees in beth
the Senate and House, heads of the
Coast Guard, the Navy and the
Army, noted ethnologists from Can
ada and the United States and many
ctner noted persons, and Indians
from Cape Spencer to Ketchikan.