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Evening star., 1940-11-20
Merit Milestone

After a long and rough legislative
Journey, the Ramspeck civil service
bill, extending the merit system to
approximately 100000 employees of
non-civil service Federal agencies,
has been enacted by Congress and
sent to the White House. While the
bill as it emerged from the Capitol is
not perfect one by any means, it's
purposes, in broad perspective, are
so desirable that presidential ap-
proval is fOregone conclusion. The
administration has backed the legis-
lation from the beginning. The bill,
in effect, will blanket into civil serv-
ice the employees of a number of
agencies which started out as emer-
gency organizations but which have
taken on very permanent appear
ance. But the blanketing will be done
on merit basis. through nom
competitive examination system.
Those who fall below a minimum
grading will be subject to dismissal,
their places to be taken by eligibles
appointed from civil service COM
petitive examination rolls. 1t is esti-
mated that about one-fourth Of those
who take the special tests will fail
The Star has supported this plan
because it was a long step toward
adoption of the merit system
throughout the Federal service and
because it removed from patronage
influence thousands of Government
employees now subject to the demoral-
tzing operation of the spoils system
The Star has objected, however, to
the efforts to include in the bill
provision barring benefits of the
legislation from employees of the Dis
trict of Columbia and tWenty-one
States whose civil service apportion-
ment quotas have been exceeded.
The House adopted such a provision,
as incorporated in the Nichols
amendment, but the Senate rejected
1t. A compromise provision was
agreed upon in conference and this
compromise finally was approved by
the House and the Senate. The re-
vised amendment will work no geo.
graphical discrimination on employees
now in the service, but will do so
with respect to employees appointed
to take the places of those who fail
In the n-competitive tests. The
compromise, at the same time, will
superimpOSe the "blanketed" en-
ployes on existing State quotas,
which means that in the case of the
District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and nineteen other States the
already overflowing quotas will be
considerably augmented - and the
chances of future appointment rem
dered correspondingly remote.
This compromise version of the
Nichols plan was much to be pre-
ferred, of course, to the more drastic
original amendment-but the scheme
In principle is just as wrong, just as
violative of the fundamentals of free
competition and fair play underlying
the merit system, as was the original
amendment. There is little merit in
merit system which seeks to
substitute geographical considera-
tions for traditional civil service
qualifications. 1t is unfortunate that
Congress, in its commendable desire
to enact the Ramspeck bill into law,
should have felt obliged to compro-
mise on so important principle.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

ences on the questionnaires which
are being placed on their cars.
Only in this way can plans be de-
veloped which will make more ac-
cessible the facilities of community
life and open the doors of the city's
merchants to those wishing to do
business with them.
Evening star., 1940-11-20
Favors Permanent Closing
OF Chain Stores.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To The Editor OF The Star:
If the employees of chain grocery
stores would keep the stores closed
permanently. they would render a
great service to the public and con-
tribute in a considerable measure to the
solving of the unemployment problem.
These stores have grown in size until
now one large store employing less than
a dozen men will do the business of
20 independent stores in which so to
100 men might be employed.
J. w. HAYES.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

back to work with renewed deter
mination to fulfill its obligations as
the representative and guardian of
the peoples interests.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

At discussion of Robert Brown
ing's poem, "Woman's Last Word"
one of the participants, although un-
familiar with the work, ventured the
prediction that whatever 1t was, she
got It.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

highway alone, but as this highway plus
q skein of pack trails which also play
their part in maintaining Chinas re-
distance,
Evening star., 1940-11-20
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a pseudonyn for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Nth
Uie1D to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

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credited to It or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-11-20
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Entered as second-class matter post ONCE.
WASHINGTON. D. c.
Evening star., 1940-11-20

lOWcu IIlcu Rdlly UeCkeO ledOnOrSeS
single file, over narrow mountain trails.
Even the Ambassadors Road, over which
the Kings of Burma sent tribute to the
Emperors of China, was only irregularly
paved with stone blocks, several feet
long and foot wide, laid end to end,
rainy season.
Now the modern gas CARTS" as the
natives call them, each carry the load
of IS or 20 ponies and passengers besides,
but the old methods have not been given
up. Not only by trucks. but by coolie
back and pack horse loads, foreign arms
and munitions and American gasoline
have been imported for the last two
years. AS is not generally known, these
unofficial means of transport also
worked during the past summer, bring
ing IN machines. equipment and raw
materials for the dozens of new, modern
factories, arsenals and co-operatives, in
these regions which until recently were
considered the most backward in China
The coolies and pack trains do not
use the motor highway, but the old
stone paved paths which meander along
roughly parallel to it, and have the
added advantage of being difficult to
spot from the air. While we hear about
several thousand trucks being ready to
cross the border on the day the road is
opened, an equally important volume of
goods will continue to pour into Yunnan
by pack train from Bhamo and the
Upper Irrawady and other Burmese
centers from which the intensely diff
cult terrain makes the antiquated meth
DDS the only practical ones. The Burma
road" must not b oonstdored - Q anGl0
Evening star., 1940-11-20
WASHING GTON. DC.
WEDNESDAY November 20, 1910
The Evening Star Newspaper Company.

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Chicago once: 435 North Michigan Ave.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03
END BEFORE BEGINNING

Two old settlers, confirmed bache-
lors, sat in the backwoods. The con-
versatien drifted from politics and
finally got around to cooking. 81
got one of them cookery books once,
but I could do nothing with it,
"Too much fancy work in it, eh?"
you've said it! Every one o.
them recipes began the same way:
Take clean dish > and that
settled me-"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03
Popular APro,, for
Beginner to Make

HERE'S one to begin on.
= = you've never done any Sci
ing. Pattern No. 1Sz7-B consis'
Of just three pieces that no 4
gether to become the most prac1
cal and comfortable Of pinafo,
aprons-and It il q pretty thing
look at, too. slim-waisted an
bright with braid. Il buttons !
the shoulders and slips ON ovI
your head. And then It stays pu]
No fumbling over complicate
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03
Time to Quit

"You want to stop now?" said
the golfer.
why. we've played only five
holes!"
It was her first day at golf, and
she said: well, the pro told me
that the par for the round is TO-
and I've played that number al
ready!"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03

cross-buttoning effects, no slipping
and sliding. 1t protects the top as
Swell as the skirt of your dress.
n Three or four aprons like this, in
percale, calico or gingham, will
make your home life much easie1
and happier. It's a nice suggest
ton for occasional gifts, too, and a
sell-out at club or church sales, bel
cause it's the type every woman
wants! Send for the pattern right
this minute, and you'll be as en1
thusiastic as is everybody who has
tried it!
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1927-B
is designed for sizes "a, SO, 38, 10,
AZ, "A, 46 and 48. Size SO requires
2as yards of 35-inch material with
out nap; 10 yards of ricrac. Send
order to-:
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03

Boogy-Do you believe in that old
saying about "seeing ID believing?
Woogy-Certainly not. For in
stance, zee you every day.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03


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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-03
Isn't This Why
You Are Constipated?

What do you eat for breakfast?
Coffee, toast, maybe some eggs2
What do you eat for lunch and
dinner? White bread, meat, pota-
toes? It's little iconder you're con-
stipdted. You probably don't eat
enough bulk" And bulk"
doesn't mean the amount you
eat. It's a kind Of food that forms
q soft bulky" mass in the fntes-
tines and helps a movement. II
this Is your trouble, may we sug-
gest q crnichy toasted cereal
Keilo0O's All-Brdn-for breakfast.
An-Bran is natural food, not q
medicine but it's particularly
rich In bulk" Being so, it can
help you not only to get regular
but to keep regular. Eat An-Bran
regularly, and drink plenty of
water. Made by Kellogg's in Battle
Creek. II your condition is chron-
&c. 1t Is wise to consult a physician.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Graft, Midway Across Pa Cifi( for Russia, Re-
 turns 10 Port
CAPTURE BY BRITISH
 I5 BELIEVED FEARED
Warning Issued from En- bassies at Washington
 Calls for Move

TACOMA, Wash, April g. - The American freighter Wildwood, which docked here late Saturday, turned back in mid-Pacific while headed for Russia with a cargo valued at $4,500,000
 We had been warned by Embas- sies in Washington, D. c. to pro ceed no further" F. R. Claek, Pres ident of the American Foreign Foreign Steamship Company said.
 The 5000 ton freighter is believed to be the first American ship di- rectly affected by Great Britain's blockade.
 American shippers have been warned that the British have already taken two Russian ships to Hong kong and the Wildwood might be the next vessel to be seized by British warships now in Oriental waters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
! VESSELS SENT DOWN,
 SEA BATTLE
German and British Sea. men Survivors Land
 ed, Norway Port

OSLO, April 8. A Norwegian schooner has docked at Lillesand with between 40 and 50 German and British seamen aboard and also half a dozen bodies on the deck following a battle in the North Sea in which a British vessel and German sub marine were sunk.
 According to the crew of the schooner, two submarines attacked a British vessel. So close was the schooner to the scene that she was damaged slightly from the explosion of torpedo.
 Lillesand is on the southeast tip of Norway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
DEEP PLOT
 IS LAID TO
 BRITAIN
Planned DYndmiting Dan- ube River fo Prevent
 War Be Carried South

BERLIN, April g. = Authorized German sources revealed today that details have been received from for eign correspondents describing what is claimed to be a gigantic British plot to make the Danube impass- able to carry war into the Dan- ubian Basin in Southeastern Eur ope.
 These official sources claim the plotters planned to send half doz- en barges, loaded with dynamite. up the river to blast the channel and blow up bridges.
 It is alleged that more than 100 British Army, Navy and Air Force men were arrested by the Rumanian police before they had time to go through with the plot.
 These advices assert that the chief plotter is the English Vice. Consul at Bucharest, who it is claimed is actually Chief of the British Secret Service in Rumania
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Stinnefi Tells One Good
 Reason for Great Britain
 ToDe|ay Her Clipper Line
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, April 8-Note to Juan Trippe: Heres an inside story you ought to know
 Commercial aviation people in Washington are saying that the one big reason England is making so much fuss about the United States continuance of weather broadcastS in the Southern Atlantic is not fear Germany will profit by the news but their grim determination to hold your Pan American Airways back while their competitive hands are tied by the war
 They even say that all that mail trouble at Bermuda was just one more effort to make your eastward hop an obstacle race.
 They point to the British Lions squaWk at our putting Coast Guard weather observation ships directly under your route to Horta after you had been driven off the landing rights they had granted sbu in Ber- muda
 And they point to the Allies dis tress at continuance of weather broadcasts from Horta, Italy, Spain and Portugal - information that couldn't possibly be military se- cret.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Noied Sage
 Alfor Takes
 Curtain
William Faversham, Lead. ing Man for Many Fd-
 nous Women, Dead

NEW YORK, April 8--William Faversham, 72, leading man for Maude Adams and many other fa- nous women stars, died yesterday as the result of coronary embolism, in Long Island rooming house not far from the luxurious mansion where he once lived.
 Faversham made and lost several fortunes. He was born in London.
 During the past several years. Faversham played in few movies including Becky Sharp
 Faversham was married three times. He is survived by two sons, Phillip and William, Jr.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
T0RNAD0ES HIT TWICE.,
 LOUISIANA
Four Known Dead, Many Injured, Property Dam-
 age Reported Large

AMITE. Louisiana, April B. - Citizens and relief agencies toiled today to clear away the tangled de- bris of a tornado which left three dead and 25 seriously injured and property damage estimated at half a million dollars.
 Another tornado at Barataria, 100 miles distant, killed at least one per- son and another is missing.
 Heavy damage was done in both storms whicn struck early yester- day morning.
 Six square blocks in the business area were flattened here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
BRIDGES TO GET REVIEW OF HIS
 CONTEMPT CASE
Hiqhest Court 6rants Peti- lion of Coast CI0
 Chieftdin

WASHINGTON, April 8.-The Su- preme Court of the United States has granted the petition by Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast CIO chief tain, to review his contempt of court conviction for sending a telegram to Secretary of Labor Perkins i'll which he criticized a decision made by the Los Angeles Superior Court.
 By the decision he claims he was deprived of the freedom of speech.
 Bridges was convicted in a Los Angeles Court and given the alter native of paying $125 fine or serv- ing five days in jail.
 The California Supreme Court upheld the conviction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
FAMOUS JEWISH EDUCATOR,
 DR. CYRUS ADLER, K DEAD; PUBLISHED BOOK ON NAzIS

PHILADELPHIA, April 8.-Dr. Cy- rus Adler, 76, famous Jewish educa- tor and pubicist, died yesterday at his home here.
 Cyrus Adler, son of a small town merchant, saw a need for Jew ish scholars whose studies could be made socially valuable to the Jew ish people, and devoted his life to that end. He was the head of two institutions of learning, Dropsle Col lege for Hebrew and cognate learn ing in Philadelphia and the Jew ish Theological Seminary Tn New York.
 In 1907 he helped found the Amer ican Jewish Committee and became it's chairman after the death of LOUIS Marshall in 1929 He was co-chalr- man of the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine 1929-3D and served on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University in Jeru- salem and on the National EXecu- tive Bard of the Boy scouts ot America. He was the founder, Sec retary C892-98) and President (l898- 1922 of the American Jewish His torical Society.
 Publishes Book
 Internationally recognized as spokesman for his co-religionlsts, pr Adler in 1883, as chairman of the American Jewish Committee, pub lished "The Jews in Nazi Germany The book presented 50 much docu- mented data dealing with Nazi at tacks on the Jews that it became known as a white book on the subject.
 Adler described Naziism as "evi- dence of a national inferiorlty com plex' but argued that "prejudices must not be fought merely with ap- peals to passion and resentment, however justified passion and re- sentiment may be"
 At Peace Conference
 
 After the World War Adler went to the Paris peace conference With Marshall They presented there the pleas of the Jews for recognition oi their minority rights and privileges in the nations formed or recon structed under the Versailles pact.
 In 1930 Dr. Adler formulated for League of Nations commission a plan to settle the trouble between Jews and Moslems in Jerusalem over the use of the Wailing Wall, Hebrew shrine reputed to be the last vestige of the Temple of Solomon. The ap- preach to the wall was owned by the Moslems and there was bloody riot ing over the right of the Jews, en- route to the wall for prayer and lamentation, to traverse that section of the Holy Land.
 Moslem- Status
 The League took a hand in the
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
ONCE UP ON A TIME

England certainly has some his toric precedents to worry about. In the 40 years that followed 1920 American clippers stole march on world shipping that made the sea going English seaSick.
 Those old clippers, for which your modern ships are named, MT. Trippe, used to make five trips over thou sands of miles of ocean while the British were making >our.
 The Sea Witch" 9 days out of New York, around the Horn, docked at San Francisco, trip that never had been made in less than l50 days, The lightning" logged 436 miles m one day and knocked all other speed records into a cooked hat.
 It took a Civil War and the ad- vent of steam to break the back of American supremacy of the seas. You can bet any Britisher who knows his maritime history hasn't forgot ten now.
 Is it any wonder, then, that the British are looking on the achieve ments of these modern clippers and feeling pretty green? Britannia may rules the waves but 1t looks now as if, before this war is over, Ameri- cas- rule of the transoceanic airways will be so firmly established that no
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
SUPREME COURT REFUSES REVIEW
 ON NLRB ORDER
Republic Steel Must Rein state Employees Who
 Went on Strike

WASHINGTON, April 8.-The Su- preme Court of the United States today refused to review the National Labor Relations Boards order di- recting the Republic Steel Corpora ton to reinstate 5000 or more Ohio employees who participated in the 1887 Little Steel" strike and left in effect the Circuit Court order sustaining the reinstatement orde of all of the strikers except 40, who were guilty of violence.
 The Republic Steel Corporation is suing the CIO and affiliates for ST. 500000 for damages in connection with the strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
TWO ARE KILLED,
 MYSTERY AFFRAY

SEATTLE, April 8.-A mysteri- ous double shooting took the lives of John Zolatun, Russian, and Dav- i'd Jensen, both 45, Saturday night.
 The two bodies were found in the Zolatun home.
 Relatives said the two men had known each other but not inti- mately.
 Coroner Mittelstadt said Jensen was apparently shot first and zo- latun then discharged a shotgun with a stick while holding the muzzle against his body.
 Mrs. Zolatun, who was visiting friends, said she had never seen Jensen before
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Russia Now
 Terrifying
 NewS Setfion
Reported Building Permd- nent Line Close 10 Man.
 Choukuo's Border

TOKYO, April 8.--A dispatch to the newspaper Asahi from Ksinking, Manchouquo. says Soviet Russian forces are erecting permanent for tifications which extend to within three miles of Manchoukuo's border with Outer Mongolia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Dies Jtarfs
 New Drive
Ninety Subpoenas Served Communists, German
 American Bund

WASHINGTON, April 8-Chair- man Martin Dies announced that the House Committee probing un- American activities, ordered 90 sub poenas served during the past week end in a general drive against the Communist Party and German American Bund.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Ho|zakfeI
 Passes Away

VANCOUVER B C., April B. Prank Helzakfel former accountant of the Guggenheim company in Alaska, died suddenly today in a hotel room here It is said he had been in ill health for the past three years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
ESTEBETH E IN WITH TWO

The motorship Estebeth came in from the island run Saturday af- ternoon shortly after o'clock, bringing in two passengers.
 Arrivals were Gus Jordan from Tenakee and Antone Iyerson from Hoonah.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
MANY VISIT (((
 CAMPS YESTERDAY

The CCC open house yesterday at Montana Creek and the Juneau crewhouse attracted about 100 visi- tors to inspect the Corps quarters, to see some of it's work and to par take of coffee and doughnuts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
CROKEN GOES SOUTH

Howard K. Croken, for the past seven years attached to the Signal Corps office in Juneau as opera tor, left for the south on the Yu- kon. He has been transferred to the Seattle office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-08
Western Section of Seandi- navia Denied Use of
 Warning Reich BRITISH, FRENCH
 IN JOINT ACTION Flow of Ore 10 Be Stopped Is Plan = Is Aet of
 ReprisdI

LONDON, April B. The British and French governments announce that three areas off the Norwegian coast have been mined.
 This is said to be the first move to deny Germany use of territorial waters for shipment of vital Scan- dinavian iron ore to Germany.
 The areas reported to have been mined are off the Stadtlandet Pen- insula, also Bud and Vestfjord.
 The action is said to be in re- prisal for Germany's brutal and il- legal campaign against shipping of all nations in which 150 vessels have been destroyed with nearly 1000 neutral lives lost.
 The Bud and Stadtlandet Penin- sulas are on the west coast of Nor- way, both south of Narvik, the Nor wegian port for the leading of Swed- ish ore.
 The mines are intended presum- ably to block German ore ships from using the waters close inshore for passage to the Reich.
 Stadtlandet is about 128 miles north of Bergen, the farthest point south in Northern Europe at which United States ships are now allowed to call under the neutrality law. Bud is about 30 miles farther north.