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Evening star., 1940-01-11
"BERwYN HEIGHTS, Md.

Dear Sir:
"A New Year resolution to write q
letter to you is being kept hereby.
Bird watching is not new sport with
me, but bird feeding is. have INDUCED
in it only since I became truly rural
resident.
I'm August, with the help Of my small
grandsons, I established the Mamma
House.
I'VE used a crate, one of those with one
wide and two small panels at the ends
and three-inch Stats on sides and bottom.
I'VE took the Stats of the sides and
Tapped them over the spaces on the bot
TOM. braced it across the top and put on
an A roof, which we shingled with pieces
cut from composition shingles.
Then we painted it dark green and
set it on well-braced two-by-fours under
the big gum tree in the yard
"The feeding tray is about 20 by "a
inches. About feet high. We put an
old 4 by Photographic tray in one
corner for water This isn't entirely
satisfactory and shall try the pie tin
on the ground, as you have suggested.
But the feeder does business. And how!
Not being supplied with other feed,
at first we put out bread crumbs. Our
first visitors were catbirds, family of
five.
"They came every day and all day for
several weeks and then quite suddenly
were gone.
"They and the jays were our first reg
ular boarders. The jays are still with us.
Cardinals, too.
"A Jay and a cardinal perched to-
gether on the edge Of the feeder in this
last snowstorm is picture to remember.
X 44
1--WE had towhees but they are gone
Robins and other thrushes, too, but not
often in the feeder. I should explain
that the feeder is on the very edge Of
our lot and the ones beyond are wooded.
I'VE scatter feed about the ground as
we'll as keep the feeder supplied.
when the snow came, and was
anxiously looking the situation over, Won
dering where should put the extra, a
cardinal flew down and peered sugges-
lively under the front steps.
II acted at once. Some snow had
blown into the feeder but put the
mixed grain and sunflower seed on top
and scattered it not only under the steps
but under a pile of boards and beneath
the big oil tank back of the house. In
very short time the snow about all these
places was embroidered with bird tracks.
And a very pretty pattern it makes.
\
II haven't the sort Of window sill
feeder want yet, but the makeshift is
well patronized. Titmice are feeding
there this minute.
THE jays like the fat from the Christ
mas goose which fastened to the oak
outside the dining room window. Many
juncos, the titmice. and the white
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Insists That Fashion
Is q Dictator.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Now this dictator, Fashion, is usually
spoken Of as a dame, but II she is fem
inine, she surely has strong arm. We
may not shout Hell Fashion" but waist
lines and hemlines certainly 60 up and
down at her decree.
Heads may be surmounted by a stove
pipe or q pancake Cor even 'in the bag'')
without the firing of shot. We suffer
the tortures of the inquisition for curls
and then to counteract their softening
effect, we daub on the war paint and
fare forth with awful-looking claws or
talons.
We spend our good money for clothes
to freeze in when warm clothing would
cost no more and maybe less. Then If
we must get out in the fresh air we hold
our breath and dash from one hot house
to another.
We may not reach pinnacles Of fame,
but we must topple around on pinnacle
heels. We must 60 with our toes out
scoopins up dtt-not from poverty ana
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Defends Soviet Russia
Against Press Criticism.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I have no hopes that this letter will
change the attitude of the press. I
only write it as an expression Of my
very strong disagreement with the re-
cent pro-war articles and editorials
which have been appearing in the
columns of what we had previously ac-
cepted as being anti-war papers.
The same people and the same news
papers which could rouse little, if any,
indignation over the rape of ETHIOPIA,
the bombing Of Guernica in Spain, the
slaughter in the bull rings of Badajoz
and Seville and many other towns in
Spain, the bombings there of many
acknowledged military objectives;
the invasion of Austria by Germany, Al
bania by Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland.
China and all the various border read
justments that came as result, seems
to have suddenly gone mad with hys-
terical rawlings over the Finnish-Soviet
incident.
The press seems to have taken an at
titude that we are ut war with the
Soviet Union. "You may have any point
of view you want" they say, "but If it
isn't the same as ours you are
scoundrel, Boshevist, an alien, and
probably even an atheist and you should
be investigated by the Dies Committee,
the Department of Justice, and then
thrown out of the country"
We are supposed to believe that the
Municheers Of 1898. the non-interven-
tionists in Spain of 1896. and the
"Donr-Let's-O Offend -Them-Boys from
Geneva" for the past 20 years, and, also,
the "Keep-the-Door-O Open-for- -Us-Too
Boys" of China have all suddenly be-
come the defenders of the faith. the
seekers of the Holy Grail Of democ-
racy. Only the Soviet Union. which
helped Spanish democracy to defend
itself, which is helping China today,
which called for collective action on the
part of the "democracies" to stop the
various acts of aggression-only the
Soviet Union. we are told, is killing
democracy.
hints that sympathy and funds for Fin
land are not enough, but that Finland
needs arms and men.
This letter is an explosion against
this hypocrisy. 1t Is not nearly as long
as I would like it to be, but I hope
that it is at least loud enough to be
heard by others and taken up. E.Y.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Goddess Nations Doomed
To Failure, Writer Holds.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Many reasons are being put forth for
Russian defeats in Finland The Os-
servatore Romano, official Vatican
organ, Vatican City, in listing its seven
reasons, fails to mention the most i'm
portant of all, namely, that Stain,
Russias Neronic dictator, signed an
official decree in 1882 ordering Almighty
God to get out of the Soviet empire,
not any later than May l, 1897; "and
the very conception God will be banish-
ed from the boundaries Of the Soviet
Union" the decree is said to read. We
have not heard that he succeeded in
purging the Almighty, but at least he
is not asking His advice or help. On
the other hand, more than three-fourths
of the people of Finland are publicly
confessed believers in Jesus Christ.
Russia has taken hold Of a "red-hot"
wire. Stain is challenging God through
Christian Finland and consequently his
helpless hordes are destroyed by the
thousands and we realize that mot in
numbers shall be your strength, but in
the power Of God." No nation which
defies, denies or ignores the King Of
Kings can prosper. q. 8.
January {,
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Roots of Weakness

The latest defeat inflicted by the
Firms upon the Russians on the
"waistline" front ranks as one OF
the most disastrous of the war now
raging in Northern Europe. From
Finnish reports Of the spoils taken,
the men slain and the prisoners cap
tured, the Russian Forty-fourth
Division appears to have fled IN
confusion, leaving its equipment
living where it fell on the battlefield.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce,uell.

throats feed all day. The cardinals are
most IN evidence early and late. There
are others, but not in numbers.
"A word about the phoebes and pewees
and am finished. I noticed that you
named them as the same. But surely
they are different. The phoebe we used
to find nesting year after year among
the timbers of an unused shed in the
North.
There Is no mistaking its emphatic
CALL But although we never found
pewee's nest, believe that they build in
bushes. I have heard their call but
could not be sure that heard the right
bird. This is according to Reed, whose
book, "Song and Insectivorous Birds East
of the Rockies" we found most useful
and when the children were small and
getting to know the birds.
"Our book is much worn and would
like to get new copy. 1t is pocket size
and gives note, nest and range. Its
colors are very good. It was published
by Doubleday, Page, in 1915. This in
formation is for the one who asked
about book. And here make another
resolution: To ask at book stores II this
book is out of print. I'd like to have
copies for my grandchildren.
"Yours truly, E. P. B."
The confusion as to phoebe and pewee
is more apparent than real.
The bird most of us know as phoebe is,
indeed, the phoebe, but among its other
common names are the following, each
in use in some part of the country:
Phoebe bird, pewee, bridge pewee,
water pewee, barn pewee.
The pewee known to most Of us is,
indeed, the pewee, but more often de-
scribed as the wood pewee.
Both the phoebe and the pewee are
f1ycatchers, the former inches in length,
the latter 6A inches. Both birds are
gray above, yellow white below.
Those who come from certain sections
of our land naturally enough call the
phoebe the pewee, or the bridge pewee,
or the barn pewee. These names refer
to its habit of utilizing the structures of
man for nesting sites.
Ornithologists find this habit of great
interest. The bird has more or less given
up using natural sites, in order to take
to man-made, beams, which are believed
to offer some protection, by soaring away
natural enemies, such as owls. But at
the same time the bird has not seemed
to realize that a nest against paint Is
very, very conspicuous.
Our correspondents idea as to scatter
ing feeding at different points is good
one.
Birds are not particular where they
find food. The sure thing is that they
will find it, wherever it is sprinkled
Under shrubs. porches, beneath trees, in
fancy or plain feeding stations, on the
sidewalk, front porch-it makes no
difference where seed and grain are put
The main thing is to put 1t out
Evening star., 1940-01-11

Scientists declare that If the arctic
region could be painted black there
would be a notable rise in its tenn
perature. In fact, they claim to have
proved their thesis by sprinkling q
square mile Of snow with coal dust.
Brrrr! Think how cold Pittsburgh,
Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland
used to be.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

The Moscow newspaper which is
the organ of the Red Army discloses
that this force is using textbook on
Operations in Winter Conditions"
This proves afresh to all patriotic
Russians that the Firms are lot of
double-crossers, for the volume in
question was written by Finnish
generals
Evening star., 1940-01-11

Whether the human body is really
a fuel-burning engine remains a
moot point with scientists. In any
event, it positively will not run prop
erly on alcohol.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

There was nothing at all unneu-
tral about the recent gift Of $4,000
pairs Of skis from the Swedes to the
Firms. Just holiday remembrances
for admirable friends.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
January 5.
Notes Adherence to
Jackson Tradition.

Notes Adherence to
Jackson Tradition. ~
To the Editor Of The Star:
One thing which pre-eminently stands
out all the way through the Presidents
jackson Day dinner speech this yeaS
was strict adherence to Jacksonian tras
dition which has 1t that jackson once
said, "Never explain anything, It is q sign
Of weakness"
ROBERT KERN WILLIAMS.
January ..
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the tDrtter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn, for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-01-11

and who write the letters for the brass
hats to edit and sign.
A check will show that the turnover
Of civilian employees in these depart
ments Is enormous. It would be in the
interest of national defense to remedy
this situation and incidentally to remove
some Of the "hang-dog" attitude Of
hopelessness which permeates these de-
partments. -.
FORMER WAR DEPARTMENT
ENdPIOYE.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
JUNEAU MAN I5 IN
 GOOD FORM FOR
 ANCHORAGE RACES
Moreau Places Sixth in SIaIom and Seventh
 DoWnhiII Races

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. l9.- Red Holmberg of Anchorage won both the slalom and downhill races Sunday in a field of IT skiers in the All-Alaska Chugach ski meet in con- nection with the Fur Rendezvous.
 Reinor Huttaula and Al Bystrom of Fairbanks tied for second place in the slalom and Bill Dean of Fairbanks placed second in the down hill race.
 Ralph Moreau. of Juneau, who placed sixth in the slalom and sev- enth in the downhill events, was adjudged in best form
 The races were run in the noun tains, 50 miles from Anchorage, over a perfect $500 foot course.
 Jumping and cross country races are slated for today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

game and being replaced by the high man out of the second five.
 A special lodge meeting, two dances, a ladies night and a ban ouet will be held for the enter tainment of the visitors, it was an- nounced today by Chairman Ray Ward of the Bowling Commit tee.
 Matches Scheduled
 The first three game match of the five-match series will be rolled tomorrow night at 8:30 O. clock, with two more matches to be rolled Thursday at and 7:30 o'clock, one on Friday at S:30 and the final match at 3 o'clock next Sunday afternoon.
 Total pins for the entire five matches will decide the outcome,
 Regular matches in the Elks League here will be postponed for Tuesday and Friday nights. They will be made up at the end of the season. Tonight's matches, Mail Clerks versus Builders, Brewers yer sus Fosters, and Butchers versus Mallards, will take place as usual.
 Tomorrow afternoon the visit ing keklers will have a chance to Timber up their bowling arms on the local alleys prior to the evs- ming match.
 Lodge Wednesday
 The Ketchikan team will be guests at the lodge meeting We'd nesday evening and later are in- vited to attend the Shrine dance at the Scottish Rite temple. Open bowling will follow the lodge ses- sion.
 Thursday will be ladies night at the club, members being urged 10 invite their wives to enjoy the fa- cilities of the club and to watch that evenings match.
 The DOWlulB UdliqucI VIII DO iiCiO at the Baranof Hotel at 6:30 O. clock Saturday evening in honor of members of the Ketchikan and Juneau teams.
 Members of the Juneau Elks team, announced late this after noon by Ward, are as follows Gig ures are averages for the season.
 Claude Carnegie, 180; Mike Ugrin, ITS; Harv Iffert, l76; Fran cis Riendeau, l73; Dr. A. w. Stew art, I'll; Leonard Holmquist, I'll; Lou Hudson, ITO; "Shavey' Koski, ITO; Bob Duckworth, ITO; Martin Lavenik, 168.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

static and were vague. Soon after The Empire appeared on the streets Saturday afternoon announcing that Davis was lost and many planes were making a search interest in- creased and minute inquiries by telephone were made at the En- pire office until word was re- ceived Davis had been located alive in his wrecked plane and rescue parties had arrived at the scene.
 First Word Comes
 An Associated Press dispatch to the Empire from Anchorage was received early in the evening sta.- ing that the Davis plane had been found in the mountains and a ground party is believed enroute Searchers said smoke is there and believed Davis is alive"
 Davis Alive
 Shortly after receipt of the An chorage dispatch, an Associated Press dispatch to The Empire from Cordova said:
 Davis found beside his wrecked plane on Rabbit Creek, near Por- tage Pass, believed only slightly injured in the plane crash into the mountainside Wndlife Agents Col lins and Rhode with another man succeeded in landing small planes in a 70-foot long clearing near tne spot and are putting Davis in their plane. planning an early takeoff from precarious point for return to Anchorage. Meanwhile CAA h. spector McWilliams, above the wreck scene, in another plane, is relaying details of the rescue ef- forts"
 A sigh of relief went up when the Associated Press dispatches gave the result of the finding of Davis and then his rescue.
 Davis has wife and four chil- dren in Anchorage.
 It is presumed that a down draft caused Davis to crash on the snow- covered mountain side.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
Ex.REp0RTER
 SHOWS THEM
Replaces Red Ink 10 Black on Ledgers of One
 Airline

NEW YORK, Feb. 19-A one time newspaper man, who has re- placed the red ink on air air. lines ledgers with black, credits a good part of his success as an ex- ecutive to his training as a re- porter.
 "A man must pay attention to de- tails" says Sigmund Janas, presi- dent of Canadian Colonial Airways, operating between New York and Montreal.
 "A reported scrutinizes t h Q smallest item on a police blotter. It may develop into big news story. An airline executive must watch the little things which may spell the difference between profit and loss. When we discontinued serving afternoon tea aloft. and complaints began coming in, we started it again in a hurry
 Janas is a graduate of both the University of California and yhe University of San Francisco and t University of San Francisco. He worked as a reporter in Sacrament to and San Francisco, and is a former chief deputy for the Cali fornia Superintendent of Banks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
(hangeDate Of Territorial
 Legislature
House Passes Dimond Measure Which Is Now
 Sent fo Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The bill introduced by Alaska Delegate An thony J. Dimond changing the law governing the converting of the ses- sions of the Alaska Territorial Legis- lature has won House approval and has been sent to the Senate.
 The converting date of the Legis- lature is changed from the second to the fourth Monday in January in each odd year and special sessions of the Legislature are limited to 30 days instead of IS days and the time of the notice for a special session has been reduced from 30 to Is days. The Governor of the Territory is permitted to give notice of special session by telegram or radiogram.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
SEAMAN SENTENCED
 TO FOUR YEARS ON
 CONTRIBUTING COUNT

Raymond s. German, seaman, this afternoon withdrew plea of not guilty to an indictment for contributing to the delinquency of minors and entered plea of guilty He was sentenced by Judge Gorge F. Alexander to four years in Me Neils Island Federal Penitentiary
 Jack Ayres, similarly changing his plea this morning on charge of assault with a dangerous wea- pon, was sentenced to 20 months at McNeil'S.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
 ARMY HEAD
 IN JUNEAU

Brig. Gen. John T. Dillingham;, head of the Salvation Army in Alaska, and Mrs. Dillingham;, will be given a public welcome tomor- row night at 7.30 o'clock in the Salvation Army Hall and the pub lie is invited.
 Brig. Gen. Gillingham and Ad- jutant Stanley Jackson, in charge of the Juneau Salvation Army work. returned today aboard the Alaska after an inspection trip to Yakutat. Haines, and a brief stop at Skagway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
Busy Week Is Arranged for
 EIks BowIers
KeiChikan Team 10 Arrive Tomorrow-Entertain-
 menf Is Planned

A week of bowling and enter tainment has been arranged b. the Bowling Committee of the Juneau Elks Lodge for six bowlers of the Ketchikan Lodge who will arrive here on the steamer Yukon tomorrow for the annual inter-city pin tournament.
 Ten local bowlers, the top ten in the regular standings of the Elks League, will make up the Juneau team. The top five will bowl the first game, with low man dropping out after every
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
FRENCH RAILROAD
 BOMBED BY JAPAN
 PLANES, TWO DAYS
Bridge, Tunnel Severely Damaged-Two Gov-
 ernments Protest

HONGKONG, Feb. 19-Japanese dispatches report the French oper- ated Hanoi Running Railway was bombed Sunday for the second suc- cessive day.
 One bridge and also tunnel were damaged severely by the Japanese bombers.
 Both the French and American governments protested to Japan over previous air attacks on the railroad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
TWO WOMEN ARE
 ARRESTED AFTER
 SECRET INDICTMENT

Norma Hiers and Thelma Gregor have been arrested on bench war rants issued after the women were secretly indicted by the Grand Jury, it was announced by the U. s. Marshal's office today.
 Both are charged with selling liquor without a license. Norma Hiers was arrested here and Thel- ma Gregor in Fairbanks on a telegraphic warrant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
WALLIS GEORGES
 ON WAY OUTSIDE

MT and Mrs Wallis George sailed on the Alaska this morning for a several weeks visit in the States
 The Georges will go to Califor- mia and fly east to New York.
 They had planned to go south last week, but missed the Princess Louise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
SHIP BROWN BEAR
 DUE AT 8 TONIGHT

The Alaska Game Commission vessel Brown Bear is due here at 8 o'clock tonight for weeks stop over enroute to the Aleutian 1s- lands. Capt. John Sellevold and As- sociate Refuge Manager Douglas Gray are aboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
GRANDJURY ABOUT READY TO ADJOURN
Members Visit Jail, Begin Work on Report 10
 District Court

Adjournment of the Grand Jury appeared imminent this afternoon as members returned from an in- spection of the Federal jail and be- gan to prepare their report to the Court.
 This morning Agnes Espeseth was excused from further service on the Grand Jury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

Der, cannery supplies from other Alaska industries !. "a big part goes to pay taxes. It is money which benefits Alaska's pro- fessional people and merchants in the form of trade for services and goods.
 The continued prosperity of such good customer means continued prosperity for Alaska business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

OVER $10, 900, 900 IS SPENT IN ALAS KA in one average year by the Canned Salmon Industry. And that creates more business for aN Alaska.
 Of the money which the Canned Salmon Industry brings to Alaska part goes di- rectly to more than II GOO workers for their wagesss part purchases wire, lum-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
WAREHOUSE PERMIT
 ISSUED TO W. IRVING

Wilbur Irving obtained building permit today for construction of Sl,2O0 warehouse and garage at his new dock at 30 Willoughby Avenue. Don Abel is the builder. A permit has also been granted Rice and Ahlers to install an oil burner at All West 18th Street for John Lowell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
GILBERT THROUGH

Jack Gilbert, prominent Alaska canning official, is a passenger on the Alaska southbound after at tending to business matters in Cor dova.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses have been is sued by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray to Warren Eveland and Vir- ginia Dudley, and to George c. Bassford and Mary M. Jako
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
GALLANT IN TOWN

The Rev. G. E. Gallant of Skag- way, arrived on the Alaska for brief visit in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
JAZZ IS BACK

Cash Cole returned from a trip to Hoonah today aboard his boat Jazz
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

Today's News Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

Empire classifieos bring results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19
DAVIS HITS SNOW SLOPE
 OF FM0UNTAIN
CAA Pilot Pinned Down in Cdbin-Sh0ofs Him.
 self Free

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-19

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