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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10
ALASKA IS TO
+ SAIL SATURDAY

Steamer Alaska will sail Satur-
day morning from Seattle as
scheduled
This is according to radiogram
received this morning by Agent
Glenn Hyner of the local office
of the Alaska Steamship Company,
direct from the Seattle office OF
the company.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10

Miriam soIovieff 49, Francisco vionis lodged
two bullets father ower)
Francisco killed his wife
daughter enraged
Mrs Solovieffs rejection efforts
scovieff pracicing shooting
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10
TIDES TOMORROW
MORGANS MAKING
TRIP TO 5I1kA

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Morgan and
son Tommy Jr., sailed on the North
land last night for Sitka.
Morgan is making the trip as
combined business and pleasure
trip, returning with the Northland
tomorrow
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10

Empire Want Ads Bring Results.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10
BOUND FOR ASYLUM

Aboard the southbound Yukon is
John Sommers Jr., quarterbreed of
Nulato, who is being taken to
Morningside Asylum from Nulato,
having been adjudged insane. Dep
uty U. s. Marshal Dan Egan is
taking him south, accom- :
panied by guards Patrick Driscoll
and Vern Brickley.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-10
(lIThER0 ON TRIP
10 HISTORIC CITY

--lgEs s1ksNs1
Russell Clithero sailed on the
Northland for Sitka expecting to
return on the vessel tomorrow
Clithero is to be manager OF the
new Sitka Hotel and wants to see
how things are coming"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
ALIEN REGISTRY
TO OPEN AUG. Y
Searching Questions Will
Be Asked Non-Citizen
As They File

WASHINGTON, July 26- Up -
Aliens probably will be asked Is
questions when they go to post
offices to register and be finger
printed between Aug. q and Dec.
~.
An official familiar with the
huge task Of signing up $500, 90
non-citizens said today that plans
virtually had been completed, but
that the nature. Of the questions
would not be disclosed for several
days.
It was reported, however, that
there would be two or three
searching" queries intended to
bring out each Aliens fundament-
nj attitude toward the United
States.
Six Of the proposed questions
will not be applicable to aliens I'm.
der IA. This group, to be represent
ed by parents or legal guardians,
will not be ingerprinted but must
be registered.
Solicitor General Francis Biddle,
assigned. the job Of co-ordinating
the immigration and naturaliza-
ton service with other justice de-
partn Mt units, called key immi-
grafton and postof1ce officials to
Washington this week to discuss
final preparations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
TO use
FRENCH WARSHIPS
Are Being Manned Entire
ly By Free French
Naval Forces

LONDON, July 26-(R-The Brit.
ish admiralty announced tonight that
steps are already well advanced for
manning French wal ships which ar
rived in our ports before the sign
ing Of the armistcie between France
and Germany"
The announcement added: "a num-
Der Of French ships of varying sizes
are now being manned and prepar-
ed for sea entirely by officers and
men of the free French naval forces
headed by Admiral Meselier.
HE was appointed to this post by
General de Gaulle ON time ago.
One ship manned entirely by French
men has already been at sea TAX
ing an active and successful part in
operation" (The British recognize
Gen. Charles de Gaulle as 1.-The lead
er of all free frenchmen.")
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
GERMANY DENIES
OFFICIAL REPORT
Foreign Office Says DNB
Wrong As To Recognition
Of Breton Autonomy

BERLIN, July 26-tR1Foreign
Office sources fatty disavowed to-
day the German official news agen-
cy's report that Germany had CIV
en- recognition to an autonomist
movement in French Brittany.
These sources said the newspa-
per in Rennes, France, which DNB,
the official news agency, had quo
ted On the matter had slipped
this idea through when nobody was
looking, land that DNB in turn had
circulated it without authorization.
DNB reported yesterday that a
separate military governor h a d
been appointed for Brittany, west
ern peninsula OF German-occupied
France, where an autonomist
movement long has been in exist.
ence. and quoted the movement S
newspaper, L'Heure Bretonne, as
saying this means German auth
critics officially recognize the ex-
istence of Brittany"
The neWs agency also said the
executive committee of the Breton
national council had adopted a plat.
form for the new separate state
to be organized in the future
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
AYEN0L RESIGNS
AS LEAGUE HEAD
Realities OF Present Make
Office Unnecessary.
He Declares

GENEVA, July 26.-LR-Joseph
A. c. Avenol, Frenchman who has
been secretary-general of the
League of Nations since July /,
1898, announced his resignation to-
day, stating the realities" of the
present times made his office no
longer necessary.
Thus Avenol signed what may
may well be the formal death sem
tence of the League as a political
body-a death it has been dying
steadily since 1892, when Japan's
armies were sent into Manchuria.
Avenol submitted his resignation
last night in a telegram sent to
the governments of the Leagues
member states.
Stating that until September, 1896,
when he visited Premier Mussolini
at Rome, he had believed certain
inevitable reforms would enable the
League to regroup the forces
which were moving away from it,"
"Avenol's wire declared the duties
of his office now mo longer justify
maintenance of political high direc.
ton, which no longer Is consistent
with the realities of the situation"
Avenol said he would announce
the date when his resignation be.
m effective after a meeting of
the supervisory committee he is call
ing for next month.
Avenol was elected unanimously
as secretary-general in October, 1882.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
r. IL. To Make Tour
Of Defense Projects

1925 class at once, as might be
done under the pending bill.
Other details of the same bill &C.
cupied the senate military commit
tee.
It studied penalty proposals that
would impose five years imprison-
ment, and fines up to $10,0 900 for
any man between 10 and 65 who
sought to evade compulsory mill
tary service if the measure be-
comes a law.
Having decided to recommend
passage of the Burke-Wadsworth
compulsory service bill in princi-
Pile, the committee devoted its ses-
sion yesterday to the question OF
job security for conscripts W h 0
would be called too the colors for
service.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
BUILDING
STILL INCREASING
Residential Construction In
N. E. Booms During
First Six Months
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
nv HENRY AVERILL

RALEIGH, July 26.-Residential
construction in North Carolina has
consistently oomed during first
six months of this year; but this
upward curve has been badly bent
backward by an even more dras-
tic slump in the cost of non-resi-
Dental building undertaken during
the same period; an analysis OF
statistical reports from the Depart
ment of Labor reveals.
Sum total of all new construc-
ton work in 81 cities of more than
10, 900 population shows that there
were issued through June 1888
more building permits of all sorts
than during the first half of 1889;
but the estimated cost of the 2.268
structures authorized this year was
ST. Isl, 40; less than in 1889.
Explanation of the tremendous
slump in non-residential construc-
ton lies in the completion last year
of huge public construction pro-
jects. Those familiar with details
are unanimous in accounting this
years construction record as much
more gratifying from the stand
point of private building projects.
The Labor Departments report
for June was consistent in similar
ity to those of previous months;
indicating continued private resi-
Dental building, while confirming
the steady decline in the value Of
proposed non-residential construc-
ton.
Summary of the reports show
that through June 80 there were
issued permits for 1888 buildings
to cost So, 848, 819, against 1880
Buildings at a cost Of $40, COG, 299 in
the first half of 1889.
On the residential side, this year
has a tt tai that reached 1882 build
ings to cost S. 1924, 900 against 1,41a
buildings to cost 81, 480, 1O6 last year
an increase of 1863 buildings and
So, 344, 1874 in estimated cost.
On the non-residential side, the
picture was quite different, with
decreases both in number of build.
ings authorized and cost Of those
to be erected. The totals we're 48e
buildings to cost S ,023, 819 for this
year as compared with 512 build.
ings and an estimated cost of &c.
126, 1913 last.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
Britain To Increase
Blockade OF Europe

LONDON, July 26.-GP-Great
Britain has decided to reinforce her
economic blockade of all German
dominated Europe by rationing the
trade Of neutral countries Ito the
bare minimum necessary to their
existence" it was reliably reported
today.
The British plan, it was said,
would make VIRTUALLY impossible
re-export Of goods to German.occu-
pied territory through neutral chan
nels.
The details will be announced
early next week and will be imple-
mented very soon," it was said.
The navicert system, hitherto con-
fined to shipments from the United
States and certain other American
countries Of pre-certified European
destinations will be extended to W.
err "all goods proceeding from any
part of the world to European
areas"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27

WASHINGTON, July 26. Up
President Roosevelt said today he
would leave tomorrow on his first
inspection of defense establishments,
in the vicinity of Norfolk, Va.
He told Of his plans while, on
Capitol Hill, the senate military
committee went to work on methods
of curbing peacetime draft dodgers
under the pending CONSUMPTION bill.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he would leave
late tomorrow evening on the yacht
Potomac, and after cruising down
the Chesapeake Bay, on Monday
would inspect the Norfolk Navy
ward, a fleet training station, forti-
fications at Old Point Comfort, Va,
the Army's Langley Air Field and
it's experimental work, and the New
port News shipbuilding and Dry
Dock company.
The President told reporters in
his press conference he had asked
Chairman Vinson D-Ga) and Chair
man Walsh D-Mass) of the house
and senate naval committees to &C
company him.
He said he would return to Wash.
ington Tuesday.
Discussing, at the instigation OF
reporters, an order under which ex-
ports of petroleum and petroleum
products, scrap iron and other scrap
metal, will be licensed, the CHIEF
executive said no embargo was in
volved and that the whole thing was
purely a matter of national defense.
In response to inquiries, he said
he had heard of no Japanese pro
test against the licensing of oil
shipments and that there was nc
connection between the new order
and the British closing of the Burma
Road over which China has been
getting war supplies.
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Of
New York City told the house mill
tary affairs committee meanwhile
that he favored calling high school
graduates for military training be
fore ordering men in the 18.to-2s
year old class.
LaGuardia said this would NEAR
less d%islocation in industry and few
er claims for exemptions than ii
the government called up all Of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
RETAIL PURCHASE
VOLUME GROWING
Centers OF Heavy Industry
Show Best Pickup In
Consumer Buying

NEW YORK, July 26.-R-Con-
sumner purchasing continues to
make an 'auspicious showing" for
this season, said the Dun & Brad
street weekly trade review today.
1.-THE nations first summer heat
wave produced a strong belated
demand in retail stores for various
types of seasonal merchandise"
the survey asserted.
"Comparisons with last years
level of retail volume were not en-
tirely favorable for all cities, al
though the total for the country
was up approximately 6 to II per
cent.
Ion the whole centers of heavy
industry had the best relative show
ing from the point of view both of
dollar and unit volume. All broad
regions showed some year-to-year
Increase, the margin being broad
est for the middle west and north
west, narrowest for tn Pacific
coast.
ACTIVITY in wholesale markets
failed to reveal any significant
change in retailers buying policies,
although sentiment was said to be
somewhat more cheerful as a re-
suit of the rapid movement of sea-
sonal merchandise in the past
week. Mail orders picked up and
there were numerous rush calls for
merchandise to round out stocks
for clearances and special August
sales" /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
Heat Wave Oddities

CHARLOTTE, July 26.-R-
Maybe it's the war. but more like.
ly it's the heat. Anyway news
from the Carolinas has its light.
er side
N. D. M. Clark of Fayetteville
looked twice when two thermo-
meters, side by side, registered
ITO degrees and 101 degrees.
Clark said the n showing ITO
advertised a popular cooling
drink while the one that register.
ed nine degrees lower was the
gift of a coal dealer.
Six members Of a Dunn family,
headed by the 80-year old family,
were convicted of public drunk
enness and disorderly conduct.
w. s. Lyon, Greensboro magis-
trate, received a letter addressed
to Justice of Peace, or Prob.
Judge" from a Hopedale, Mass,
woman asking Information
about my ex husban" from whom
she said, she had been separat-
ed since 1888. The woman said
she heard ex-hubby had re-mar-
ried in Greensboro and 1.-The only
thing I am trying to find out is
it true because I would like to
know if I am free to do like
wise. With your corporation I am
sure yol would know. If so mott.
fly him, also that it is quite o.
K. by me-"
A Greenville, S. c., negro, jilt-
ed by his girl friend, burned all
her clothes when she went out
with a rival.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
F. D. R. DISCUSSES
REFUGEE PROBLEM
He Says U. S. May Ask
Pledge For Safe Pas
sage OF Children

WASHINGTON, July 90 Up -
Asserting that the United States
had a deep desire to do everything
possible to help remove children
from England, President Roose-
welt said today the administration
eventually might ask for reason
able assurances that refugee chill
dren could obtain safe passage to
this country.
The first step, he told a press
conference, involves providing per-
haps 10, 900 children in Britain
with passports.
The next step, he said, would
be to find out what the British gov
eminent would be able to do about
sending the children to the United
States, or perhaps Canada, in
British vessels.
A little later on, the President
continued, the stage might be
reached when the United States
would ask for reasonable assur.
ance that if American vessels
went over to evacuate them, there
would be no torpedoings.
There are three sides to the
problem, the President said, on be-
ing asked for comment on legisla-
ton pending in congress to permit
the use of American vessels in
war zones to bring out children.
First, he said, there is the atti-
tude of the British government,
then our own deep desire to do
everything we can, and finally
there is the safety Of the children
to consider. The latter, he said, is
the crux Of the matter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27

BRIEFS
Star-NewS Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
HENRY

RALEIGH, July 26.-Of North
Cardinals smaller cities (2,500 to
10, 900 population as of 1930) Bur-
lington led in value OF building per-
mis- issued in June, according to
the department of labor's stats.
teal division.
Burlington has permits calling
for expenditure of $118, 1874, tn e
largest part of it for non-residential
construction. Lexington took sec.
ond place with a total of $40, 425.
Henderson and Morganton led in
private home constr uction, each re-
porting nine units during the
month.
The tremendous preponderance
Of one-family residences over all
residential types is shown by q
summary of building permits for
the first six months of this year.
This shows that there were author.
lied, in the 81 cities of more than
10000 population reporting, a total
OF 1,520 one-family residences, this
comparing with 100 permits for 2
family and II for multi = family
three or more) dwellings.
Some people often wonder what
the state service officer, Frank M.
Sasser, with headquarters in Char
lotte does. Here's his report for
June, which may throw some light
on the subject.
Letters written $40; folders re-
viewed 1876; examinations IA; hos
publications 8; Office interviews 3;
appearances before rating board,
l55; new cases handled IS; old
cases handled 1926; compensation
rs; S d compensation
$804.58; back compensation ST..
49,.
The service officer, you NAV
have gathered, looks out for the in.
terests of disabled war veterans.
Ronald Hocutt, director of the
highway safety division, is highly
pleased over the highway commits.
sion's approval of a half million
dollar program for making rail.
road crossings safer. (The com.
mission approved expenditure OF
$4,000 for grade crossing elimin.
atoms and SOS, 900 for electrical sig.
nails at others).
Hocutt called attention to the
steady increase in crossing fatal.
tiles this year. There were Is
deaths in train-car crashes during
the first six months, he said.
The director said the simplest SO.
luton of the crossing is still obedi.
ence to the well-known Stop, Look,
Listen" injunction on so m a y
crossing signs; but the engineering
solution, Of course, is the elimin.
alton Of the crossings altogether.
I'VE are vastly pleased that the
state highway commission has seer
ut to provide funds for more work
OF this nature" said Hocutt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
FREE BARBECUE

G0LDsBOR0. July 26.-F5-
When Levi Hamilton, operator
OF negro undertaking establish.
menta in this section, advertised
a free barbecue for elderly par.
ents" he thought he was set to
feed all who might come.
He barbecued IL pigs, bought
125 pounds Of corn bread, 1875
pounds Of slaw, made two barrels
OF lemonade and bought 625 pap.
er plates.
But 1000 persons accepted his
invitation and the last 375 got
barbecue on paper napkins.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
COOP INSPECTED

LENOIR-Off1cials of the rer.
ly organized Cornelius Mup,,-
corporation inspected the Csi.
well Mutual Electric co-opersty.
set-up here. The Cornelius cornor,
alton recently was allotted s2Cm
in federal funds for constructs,
of lines in Mecklenburg, Lincoln
Catawba, Rowan, Cabarrous AMI
Iredell counties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
Third Victim Of Auto
Crash Dies In Robson

LUMBERTON, July 26.-tR-
1nez Ivey, Is, Of Proctorville, died in
a hospital here last night, the third
victim of a Sunday automobile &C
cident. Her companions, Carlton
Lawson, 20, and Miss Eula Britt, 10,
both of Long Branch, died earlier in
the week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
Carolina Men,.
Shorts
Thy The Associated p,o-

EDENTON sbjng,o,
Chowan county courthouse Non
in 1857, are being sold as so, quit
IRIS to raise money for the F sJuvsa'
Band and Boy Scouts. Tba 0snNa
ture is being renovated and sRs u.
paired. anu =
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
WESLEYAN METHoDIS1s

C~OLFAx-The annual sessio.
the North Carolina c~onferero. y
the Wesleyan Methodist cb,,,s q
will open here August 6. ~
Charles H. Babcock of Los w. "
geles, Cal, will be the prin, ~
speaker. Rl
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
ROTARIANS

ATLANTIC BEACH-The l&h
district Rotary assembly adjourn.
ed today. DR.. Henry R. Dwire Of
Duke university was the princirl
speaker at the annual banquet last
night,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
GREATER ALBEMARIF

ELIZABETH CITY & w.
Mari has been elected eyec,a %a'
director of the Greater Albernos.
association. s
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
WINDSTORM

MEBANE- A windstorm dam
aged the fairgrounds here, Sevs,.,
refreshment stands and the man.
ticket booth were demolished snI
the main exhibit and the po,,l.r,
buildings were damaged.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
MELONS SHIPPED

Observation-Disclosures of w.+.,
melons by boat to northern ms,,
kets is under way here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-23
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down the German fish supply.
Customers who used to buy fish
several times week are luckily if
he can let them have it once a
month.
He must make his expenses on
a greatly reduced volume, yet he
cannot raise prices to cover his
spread, for the government has
pegged the price of fish so the
poor can afford to buy it, even
though they get it only once a
month. Neither can he lay off a
clerk or reduce his wages by cut
ting down hours. The government
won't let him.
Nor can he even go out of bust
ness Che must run it from &C.
cumulated savings, if any unless
some bureaucrat decides he should
be put out. Then his store is de-
clared non-essential to the conduct
of the war-he must liquidate.
take down the sign which may
have been on that location for gen.
erations, and he and his clerks
must take whatever jobs they can
find, or the government designates.
This little man, who probably
wasn't brave enough to fight Boil
sheviks in the streets himself in |
the old days, but was glad to pay
the Nazis to do it for him, is
powerless and confused today.
But he is very mistrustful of the
Soviet pact. OF course he is con-
stantly threatened if ne grumbles.
so he seldom does. But he was
sincere in his fear of bolshevism,
and if the time ever comes when
he is free TO speak or think, it will
be very evident that he regards it
as a constituencies betrayal.
Tomorrow: Reaction of the
working class to the Soviet treaty.
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long as Rome was at the mercy
of both Viking and Saracen. The
popes therefore cast around for
some ruler who could act as their
protector. Their choice quite nat
urally fell upon the young and
ambitious Frankish King, and he
was asked to act as the worldly
champion of the spiritual domain
Of the church.
On Christmas day of the year
500, the pope solemnly crowned
this barbarian chieftain from the
wilds of Europe as the successor
to the glories of the old Roman
emperors.
But the empire over which
Charlemagne the Great was to
rule was To be Of German origin,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-23

for now it had become the turn
Of North Europe to take the lead
ership in international affairs.
And in a rough and ready way
the scheme worked-it divided the
world into two halves-a pope to
look after the spiritual salvation
OF the people, and an emperor to
take care of their worldly needs.
The arrangement was for the
people, but neither by the people
nor of the people. But az nobody
cared, this did not really matter.
Once more there was a policeman
willing and able to maintain order
and that was all anybody asked.
Next: The cycle begins again
Democracy grows from the feudal
system.