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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-20
Navyprobes
 Boarding of
 J. S. Vessel
Destroyer Rushed to Scene of Holdup by Mexi-
 can Gunbodt

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 20.-The United States destroyer Stack is enroute to investigate the boarding of the American freighter Herman Trasch by armed forces from a Mexican gunboat.
 The vessel wirelessed that it had been halted about 70 miles off Aca- pulco, which is located on the west coast of Mexico. The Herman Frasch reported that it had not been allowed to proceed
 The United States Naval District headquarters at San Diego said that the incident would be reported in full to the Navy Dpartment by the Commander of the destroyer Stack
 The owners of the freighter, the Un.cn Sulphur Company, can give no reason Ter the reported action 3y Mexican authorities.
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B allie Fleet Is Again of On Maneuvers

HONOLULU, Aug 20-The main units of the United States fleet have started to steam out of Pearl Harbor for another stage of in tensive sea operations.
 The new maneuvers are expected to last about a month. The fleet has been stationed in Hawaiian waters ever since completion of the annual war games last April The fleet remained for a series of maneuyers apparently su d d enly scheduled in light of the European situation.
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CABIN BURNS

The cabin at Old Chatanika which had been the home of John Nickel son for years, recently burned to the ground. Mekelson escaped but lost all of his possessions.
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Petersburg Waier Reserve Measure
 Passed by House

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. - The House has passed and sent to the Senate the bill withdrawing from public entry 1,600 acres in the Ton gass National Forest for Petersburg's municipal water supply reserve watershed.
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NEIL BLANTON ON
 VISIT IN JUNEAU

Neil Blanton, University of Wash ington student. is on the Princess Charlotte and will spend about month in Juneau visiting with his brother and sister-in-l Dr. and Mrs. w. P. Blanton
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FOUND DEAD

E. M. Bondixon, 70, oldtime resi- dent of the Northland. was recently found dead in his bed in his cabin at Fairbanks. He had suffered from diabetis for some time. Bondixon was veteran of the Spanish Amer ican War.
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lishment of Japans new order in the East and further declare that the accord is proof the United States no longer doubts that Germany will win the present war over Great Britain.
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errifit
 Explosion Kills Four
Cartridge Filling Plant Blows Up-S Shock FeIf
 Over Wide Area

GIBBSTOWN, N, J, Aug. 2O- Four men were killed in an eX- plosion this afternoon that wrecked the cartridge filling building at the DuPont Company's Repauno dyna- mite plant.
 The explosion shook build1ngs over wide area and shattered win dows five miles distant
 About 1900 pounds of dynamite exploded
 The plant was totally destroyed
 The cause for the explosion is not known.
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JAPAN IS
 W0RkEDUp
 ON ACCORD
Newspapers Gel Jifiery Over Canadian-Unit-
 ed States PaCt

TOKYO. Aug. 20. = Japanese newspapers today professed alarm ever the United States and Canada defense accord.
 The newspapers declare that ulti- mateiy grave disturbances may be caused in the Orient.
 All newspapers urge early estab-
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BACK TO NYAC

Mir and Mrs Morris Gale, recent arrivals in Juneau who flew to Fairbanks via PAA Electra, planed to their property at Nyas.
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GIRLS MOVE

Roberta Dooley and her sister Patricia have taken an apartment in the Baranof Hotel.
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VISITS JUNEAU

Cldye Concver. of Anchorage, is visiting in Juneau for few days He is @ guest at the Gastineau Ho- tel.
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Casualties Of British
 Announced

LONDON. Aug. 20.-Prime Min ister Winston Churchill announced today that the total British dead, wounded or missing thus far in the war is 92000.
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 Empire classlrieds bring results.
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The Daily Alaska Empire guaran- tees the largest daily circulation oi my Alaska newspaper.
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OUT OF SEASON GAME RIGHTS FOR
 INDIANS, ESKIM0S

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. The House has passed and sent Senate ward the bill permitting Indians and Eskimos to take game out of season when sufficient food is not available
 The existing law allows taking of game out of season only when the need is absolute"
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BOARD AND
ROOM GIRLS

Continued From Page p
Mss Van beside him and Daphne.
holding fast 70 her husbands nro-
tective hand. When the ceremony
Was finished and Lee Brent took
his bride IN his arms. the other
two couples were looking at each
other with such sympathetic devo-
ton that there were no witnesses
70 then kiss except the minister
and Mss Van
It had gwen Miss Van the great
est happiness she had ever known
to see the three girls she loved
satisfactorily married. Denied a
husband herself. she considered
marriage the most priceless boon
life could offer
And next best 10 experiencing
actual motherhood was the JOY Of
offering her loving service 70 these
motherless girls. So proud she was
Of them So pleased with the ma
turity and grace they were acauir-
ing that she had little time 10 wor-
~ about Joan.
While the presence Of johnny.
running in and out between trims.
affectionate and cheerful as Joan
had never been. filled her Gun n
Overlooking. AS long as Svbil and
John were both working they need
ed her to make q home for them
After John became a pilot. IL
might be better for them to have
a little place Of their own. But
when that time arrived something
else would turn up. Miss Van as
sured herself. She had an endur-
ing optimism that no misfortune
could completely daunt.
Faith and Lee were leaving that
night for California, stopping to
visit his parents in Colorado. And
since their train left at six there
was no time to waste.
She had worn her travelling suit
of gray with flattering fox collar
which made her sufficiently BRIDE
like, she insisted when Daphne had
pleaded with her to wear veil. AS
they passed through the train on
the way to their drawing room, no
one could have mistaken them for
anything but a newly married cou-
pie. Reaching it. Lee disposed OF
the porter and closed the door
Alone at last" he grinned.
You might at least try to be
romantic this once" she reproved.
"I'n bet Dudley Manton didn't talk
like that when Daphne and he
were married"
IN bet Daphne didn't feel like
you do about it. either" he boosted.
Are you insinuating that I did
NOT marry you for your money,
Mr. Brent ."
IF you did, you're going to have
an awful shock" he assured her.
Because this honeymoon Of ours
is going to take everything I've
saved for the past three years
"Oh, well, darling you can make
more as soon as we get back" she
said And I'm a perfect fiend for
saving it. Wen have another fund
built up before you know it"
"A fund for what ?" Lee de-
manded.
Who knows ?" Faith asked
calmly. AS Miss Van says, life is
full of surprises If we Just wait,
no doubt we will have a use for it"
mo doubt, he agreed and draw
ing her close to him, he whispered,
when I think how we almost lost
each other l am inclined to think
Miss Van is right Our love must
be part of beautiful pattern"
And you call yourself CYNICAL"
Faith murmured. Look. darling,
the train is moving Our journey
has begun"
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Hitler, 1888 1910

Today marks the conclusion of
Adolf Hitler's first seven years in
the chancellorship Of the German
Reich. 1t would be blind and
captious critic who would say that
the septenary does not comprehend
one of the most remarkable epochs
in European history. It is true that
the amazing fruits of Hitlerism are
now at stake and may be lost as a
result of the war he so wantonly
provoked last September. But
meantime they stand as an amazing
achievement in the era of lawless-
ness and aggression with which his
name will always be associated.
Hitler since 1888 has increased the
area of Germany by 153,830 square
miles and its population by Al $50, 900.
In consequence of the annexation in
1888 and 1899, in turn, of Aus
tria, Sudetenland, Czecho-S -Slovakia,
Memel and East Poland, Nazi rule
now holds sway over roundly 100,-
100000 souls, though, through the
acquisition of Czechs, Slovaks, Mo-
ravians, Bohemians and Poles, they
comprise far from that homogeneous
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Coptcin Taylor Bronson

It is with sincere regret that
Washington learns of the retirement
of Captain Taylor Branson, leader OF
the Marine Band since 1927. He has
earned the gratitude of the public
by a lifetime of service to music, and
many strangers as well as numbers
of loyal friends are saddened by the
thought that illness has prompted
him to relinquish the baton which
for nearly thirteen years he welded
with distinction to himself and to
the corps in which he is an officer.
A native of the Nations Capital,
always domiciled here, Captain Bran
son began his professional career as
director of high school band in
the Northeast section of the city.
Experience gained with that coura-
geous junior enterprise resulted in
his enlistment in the Marine Band
as a second class musician. His in
struments were clarinet and violin.
Promoted to first class In 1911, he
rose to be second leader in 1921.
Now he is to be succeeded by a son
of Captain William H. Santelmann,
whom he himself succeeded. The
traditions of the Marine Band there
fore are certain to be kept intact. A
bridge has been built between one
generation Of artists and another to
the honor and the qualification of all
concerned.
Presumably, the interest in the
music of Latin America, which Cap
tain Branson so notably developed,
will survive his retirement. It also
Evening star., 1940-01-30
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceUell.

Do the birds have a knowledge Of
spring long before man?
Let us hope so, for that first real spring
song of the cardinal, or redbird, coming
over the snow in the early morning, was
mighty sweet.
To hear such things at their best, one
must hear them out where they occur,
in the open air. That is one of the fine
things about walking along! Nothing
will ever quite take the place of walking.
A human being is more of human, that
is, he is more natural; he has time to
be himself and to take others for them
selves.
Consider that first real redbird song,
unlike any that has been heard since
last summer
1t might be heard from indoors-but
mostly it isn't.
The pedestrian could congratulate
himself that morning that he was the
only one in the neighborhood who had
heard it.
Another good feature was that he saw
the musician, himself.
An old friend, that cardinal The
passerby had been seeing him every
morning all winter, right where he slept.
He knew on just which branch of the
forsythia he perched all night long.
1t is not very often that any one knows
exactly where bird sleeps.
All the scores of them, which patron
lie any reasonably well stocked feeding
station, fly away as darkness comes on.
feeding place. This is a queer thing.
You would think they would remain
close at hand, to be the first at the
food the next morning.
The fact is that practically every one
of them. regular visitors at a station,
flies away as much as a block or farther,
to sleep.
The longer one studies this phenome-
non, the surer one will be that most Of
the birds at station 60 far away, maybe
miles, in order to roost.
This particular cardinal was always
clinking away each morning, just before
o'clock. but this was not the spring
song.
Do you know how cardinals clink?
We do not mean the real spring song.
which was heard this cold morning for
the first time but the metallic. Sinking
sound which these birds always make on
waking up
It is an odd sound almost as If made
by metal against metal.
All cardinals do it on waking, before
they have started moving around.
Perhaps it is something like the Cats
purr, that odd murmur which denotes
feline satisfaction.
Anyway the cardinals indulge in 1t
just before they leave the perch for the
day Birds seldom return to the favorite
roost until evening; the roosting place
Evening star., 1940-01-30

Is a place for sleep, and for nothing else
1t is odd. how they sleep. You would
think they would fall of, If they really
went to sleep, and of course they really
do go to sleep, just as all living things
sleep.
The muscles of the legs are so attached
to the claws that they tighten the grip
when there is slight downward slump
caused by the relaxation Of the body
In this way the bird securely anchors
himself to the bough or other perch
usually the former, of just the right size
to suit his individual claw size
He cannot fall off, in other words
until he wakes up. This is another o1
natures neat little adaptations.
No species, except perhaps the blue
as the cardinal.
Its brilliant coat is just made, SEEM
ingly, for such display.
Fortunately for most gardeners who
60 in for feeding the birds, there will be
more cardinals in evidence during q
snowy spell than in just ordinary
weather. This is not due at all to the
fact that they might not have been
seen without the white background
There is never any danger of any bird
lover overlooking the cardinal 1t is
too bright, much too colorful, for that
Some specimens, we feel sure, are
never regular feeders at any station
exception when the ground becomes
covered with snow and ice. There will be
bird, here and there, which prefers
to eat In the old-fashioned way, off
natures bounty But when the snow
comes down and it sees the others get
ting good feed-and it can find little If
anything, it thinks at last it may not
be bad idea to join the gang.
This means that during a deep snow
almost any garden where feeding is
going on will be sure to have more than
one male cardinal
A correspondent has poised the ques-
ton: Are the male cardinals polyga-
nous?
He had seen what seemed to be many
females with one splendid male.
No, the cardinal is supposed to be
homogeneous.
What the observer takes for females
often are young males which have not
yet 60 their full coloring
1t is very easy to become confused
over the resemblance of these young
birds to the females. There is a period
In any young birds life, after 1t has
left the f1edgling state, when it might
be almost anything, even another
species. This period roughly CORE.
spends to the so-called gawky age ir
children.
There are few birds which winter
with us any more interesting than oul
cardinals, and it is we'll to keep in minc
that the sure way to attract them il
to put out sunhower seed.