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Evening star., 1941-06-23
800 0rganists Begin
Registering for 5-Day
National Convention
Concert at Library
Of Congress. Reception
On Initial Program
P. Wirephoto.

Registration of 800 delegates ex-
pected for the five-day, second ma
tional biennial convention of the
American Guild of Organists of the
United States and Canada opened
at the Wardman Park Hotel this
afternoon.
Delegates will go to the Library
of Congress at $50 tonight for a
concert at the Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge Auditorium by E. Power
Biggs, organ soloist, and the Cor
don String Quartet. Three Mozart
sonatas for organ and strings and
the first American performance of
a new work for string quartet are
on the program.
A reception honoring general Off
GERS and council of the guild will be
held at the hotel at IL pm. Chan
ming Lefevre of New York City is
the guilds warden, the highest off,
Ger.
Vice President Wallace will greet
the convention at 9 am. tomorrow.
Christopher S. Tenley. chairman Of
the gathering. and Mrs. Ruth r.
Vanderlip, dean of the District
chapter, will be or the program.
Hugh Porter will speak on guild ex-
aminations.
AT II am. delegates will go to the
National City Christian Church for
a recital by Joseph Bonnet, Paris
organist. The wardens luncheon
to deans and regents will be held at
the hotel at 1890 pm. and other
delegates will lunch at l pm.
The afternoon meetings will be
held at ST. Adams Church at 3
O'Clock and the Washington Cathe-
dral at o'clock. Donald c. Gilley
vii, speak or The Administrative
and Choral Problems of the Volun-
teer Choir" at the former and
Catharine Crozier will give a recital
at the latter.
The Army Band and the WASH
ington Choral Society will enter
tain the convention delegates in the
Aztec Garden at the American
Union Building at 9 pm. tomorrow.
Mrs Roosevelt has invited dele
gates to the White House for IL am.
Friday.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

keep it going, he had dropped
part of his life insurance, posted
one policy as collateral for a
loan, borrowed heavily on the
rest. But the tide had turned.
Now, facing a lower income,
he had the problem of keeping
up his premiums.
I happened to think of what
my agent had once accomplished
In a similar case and phoned
him.
Twill you talk to Jim?" I
asked. Even though there won't
be any business in it for your"
"Of course" he said. "Be glad
to do anything can."
This is what he did. First, he
rearranged the premium dates to
make it as easy as possible for
Jim to pay the premiums. Then
he persuaded him to make regu-
lar savings bank deposits, to be
used to pay premiums when
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Bank
Halls S35,0OO,000
Credits for Finland
Lack Of Shipping Space
And Freezing Order
Are Cited as Reasons
BY the Associated Press.

BY Inc hsSOClHleu FTcso
Warren Lee Pierson, president Of
the Export t-Import Bank, said to-
day transfers already had been
stopped on the banks $35 100000
credits to Finland.
Refusing to tie this situation spe-
cifically to the week ends events,
however, Mr.. Pierson said, I'VE
don't have to look for new reasons.
Finland hasn't been able to get
shipping space lately if it did buy
anything here and besides President
Roosevelt's orders freezing CONT
mental European funds prevented
any transfers"
Mr.. Pierson said he doubted If
much of the latest s5,000,000 credit
to Finland-a food loan-had been
used. Most of $4,000 900 of credits
previously given were used up, how
ever, since parts of them were
granted in the fall of 1899.
The new Russo German war
front raised questions about the
disposition of 13 merchant ships be-
longing to Baltic nations moored in
United States harbors.
Treasury officials, who exercise a
strict control over the departure
of foreign ships, said it was stand
ard procedure not to permit such
ships to depart without asking the
Maritime Commission whether 1t
intended to take them over under
a new law.
Speculation centered about
whether the United States might
permit the departure of two Es-
tonian, one Latvian and one Lith-
uanion ship for the service of
Russia, which dominates those
countries, and whether new orders
would be issued to hold nine Finn
ish ships which are here. The Finn
ish ships all came here in May and
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Legislators Debate
.5evering Relations
With Axis Nations
Two Democrats and Two
Republicans Talk on
Air Forum Broadcast

Two Democratic and two Republic
can Representatives last night de-
bated severance of diplomatic rela-
tions with the Axis powers on the
American Forum of the Air. broad
cast by Station VOL from the VIII
lard Hotel.
The Democrats we're Representa-
tives Dingen of Michigan and He
bert of Louisiana. Opposing them
were Representatives Fish of New
York and Shafer of Michigan.
Representative Hebert declared
that ''if the Axis powers desire to
test the mettle of the American peo-
pie and the courage of the President
of the United States the way Is
open to them. They and they alone
are to make the decision of whether
or not they desire to continue diplo-
matte relations with U.S."
To this Representative Fish said
the recalling of our charge DAFT
fsires and the Embassy staff in Ber-
lin and severing diplomatic relations
with Germany is only important as
final step TO war" However. to
do this, would be a serious blunder
and against our own interests"
Representative Dingell stated that
''if the accumulation of incidents
and transgressions on the part of
the Axis powers, including the re-
cent piratical and murderous attack
OF the Germans upon the Robin
Moor, is considered sufficient and
advantageous to sever diplomatic
relations I presume that the Presi-
dent would have chosen that course. ="
He added that events of the future
and American public opinion will
decide our course and whether or
not we shall sever the f1imsy tie of
diplomatic relations"
Representative Shafer declared the
issue meant: Shall we immediate
ly engage in a two-ocesn war with
a one-ocean Navy and an inads-
quately trained and underequippeI 1
Army?"
Evening star., 1941-06-23

they came due. Into these went
a definite percentage of every
bit of income he got, before he
had a chance to use a dime for
anything else.
Jim's first reaction was that
this might be all right for others
but that he didn't need to play
psychological tricks on himself.
But my agent stuck to his point
and won out.
"I certainly wish I'd let some
agent do all this for me before"
Jim told me, when he saw how
the plan was working out. "Oh.
I'm not out of the woods yet. But
l spend less time worrying and
more running my business
which helps more than you've
any idea 80"
Unfortunately, he died eight.
cen months later. 1t was a tragic
shock, of course, for his family.
But the insurance guaranteed
them financial security, and his
business passed to his oldest son
and his son-in-law as a going
concern-neither of which would
have been the case, I am con-
vinced, If life insurance agent
had not been "glad to do any.
thing he could"
This Is an institutional sdversisem.ns
BY the Institute Of Liz Insurance, so
East <2nd Street.. Nsv York, n. x.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Attorney George Leaving
Government Service

John M. George, attorney in the
solicitors Office of the Veterans
Administration for nearly a quarter
of century and familiar figure in
Government cases at District Court,
announced today he is leaving the
Government service to engage in
the private practice of law here.
Colleagues at the Veterans Ad-
ministration presented Mr.. George
with a gold watch as a token of
esteem. He is one of the oldest
legal practitioners in the National
Capital, having been a member Of
the bar for 4s years. He makes his
home at 1911 North Garfield street,
Arlington, Va. Mr.. George served
as assistant corporation counsel for
the District for u years and was in
private practice for IL years before
joining the Veterans Administra-
ton,
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Finland
Continued From First Page

Bucharest message to a Vic
news agency said Gen. Ion Antor -
escu of Rumania had assumed com =
mand of all German troops there 8
well as of Rumanian forces and thu Z
the mobiliza ton of Rumanian forces
was continuing.
Previous messages reaching Lon
don said Gen. Antonescu had turned
over his premiership to Mihail An
tonescu, undersecretary of state for
education, TO devote himself fully TO
the army.
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich
quoted the Berlin correspondent Of
the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuricher
Zeitung in this estimate of Soviet
Russian forces on Russia's European
frontier:
lib infantry divisions, 20 cavalry
divisions, 40 armored brigades
Stationed in reserve in European
Russia, the dispatch said, are q in
fantry divisions. five cavalry di-
visions and one armored brigade.
Moscow's Far Eastern Army was
estimated at 26 infantry division,
eight cavalry divisions and ave ar
mored brigades.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Turks See Profits
For Them if Nazis
Defeat Russians
Ankoro Government Stoys
Neutral; Friendship
For Reich Stressed
BY the Associated Press.

ANKARA, Turkey, June 23.-
Turkey, land of peace surrounded
by war, was pledged to neutrality
in the German-Soviet Russian con-
flict today and some quarters here
had visions of greater Turkey if
her new-found Nazi friends should
win.
Millions of residents of Turkish
blood live in a wide strip across
Asia from the Soviet Caucasus to
the Chinese wall. 1t is this terri
tory on which some Turks had their
eyes.
Supposing the Germans are VIC
torious, it was suggested privately
that the German occupation might
stop along the mountain, range
traversing Upper Georgia and
Azerbaijan, about so miles north of
Baku, Soviet port on the Caspian
Sea.
This would leave an area to the
south, embracing many Turkish res
idents, as a peace conference plum
for Germany's loyal friend, although
this territory does contain oil the
Nazis themselves covet.
Turkey Stays Neutral, ,.,
Meanwhile, the Ankara govern
ment, tied to both Germany and
Russia by non-aggression pacts, yes
terdsy proclaimed its determination
to toe the line of strict neutrality
in the new war between her mighty
neighbors.
Stressing Turkeys friendship with
Germany was the statement by For
eign Minister Sukru Saracoglu that
his government would sign a new
commercial treaty with Germany as
a followup to their non-aggression
agreement of June 18.
Ankara authorities said Turkey,
also friend Of Britain, would not
allow the British fleet to pass
through the Dardanelles into the
Black Sea to harass German opera
tions. They expressed the belief
that anyway the British would re-
frain from any such request.
Weighing the opposing naval
strength of the Germans and Rus
slams in the Black Sea, observers
said the Soviet feet was far stronger
than the combined Nazi and Ru-
manian units.
Russia Has Battleship.
The Red fleet was said to include
battleship, one new cruiser and
three or four old ones and 20 de-
stroyers. On the other hand, the
Germans are said to have only a
few pocket submarines and the Ru-
manians less than dozen Destroy
ers, some torpedo and patrol boats
and a number of armed auxiliary
cruisers.
Rather than test between the
rival naval forces, these informants
said action in the Black Sea would
find the Soviet seapower matched
with the German air force.
The Soviet passenger ship Swan
etzia, which left Istanbul today for
the Russian Black Sea port of
Odessa, hurriedly put back to Is
tanbul upon radio instructions from
Moscow.
She was nearly out of the Bos-
porus when the order came.
With her radio blaring propa-
ganda songs from a Moscow station,
she returned to her berth, within a
stones throw of the Rumanian boat,
Bessarabia.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Soldier Takes Tank
Borehonded, Using
Turzon Tree Tactic
ny the Associated Press

WITH THE ARMY IN TEN
NESSEE, June 23.-Army Of
ficers are recounting the feat
of q sergeant who tackled
tank barehanded during war
games in Middle Tennessee.
Sergt. Wilbur Vandergoot of
the 7th Engineer Battalion, in
the usual Tarzan and Western
movie style. dropped from a tree
to q speeding enemy" tank,
reached into the turret and
grabbed the commander by the
neck.
The surprised officer, in trying
to shake Sergt. Vandergoot
loose, caused his tank to collide
with another. With the help of
mates, the sergeant then cap
tured the crews of both ma
chimes.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

Three years
ago my friend
Jim Raines
came to me
very much
troubled. His
business of
which he was
the sole owner
had been in
bad shape. To
Evening star., 1941-06-23
British Women Upbroided

Women of London are being
urged not to be slack in their dress,
some having appeared in exclusive
restaurants In informal attire and
minus stockings.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
'Chutist Jumps 26, 400 Feet

Jumping from an altitude Of
26,400 feet, a parachutist in Russia
delayed opening his parachute for
81, ,160 feet and attained maximum
speed of 343 feet per second.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
John n. WiIes Dies

KANSAS CITY, June % LP-
John H. Wiles, 80, vice president
and treasurer of the Loose-Wiles
Biscuit Co., died yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
INSTITUTIONAL ADVERTISEMENT
When the Lawyer
Called in an Agent %.

Dear Mr. Johnson As lawyer often find life insurance play
ing the lives of clients One columns
which described the service good agent render reminds
Of an experience of my
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
PhA pEhNk FROM
 SEATTLE DUE 70
 LAND HERE TODAY

Northbound, PAA Lodestar is sitting in Prince George this after noon waiting for improved weather before continuing on to Juneau and the Interior. Passengers booked for Juneau are T. A. Davies. Sam Asp, Mrs. Ray Stevens, Arthur Ladd, Bradley Schoelten and Capt. Al Monson. Through passengers to Fairbanks are Ruth Tucker n d Kenneth O'IIara Passengers booked to leave Juneau for Fairbanks upon the ships arrival are R. J. Som- mers. Mrs. s. J. HeImanson and Ann Hamby.
 After arriving from the south late yesterday a southbound Lodestar is scheduled to leave Juneau this af- ternoon with through passengers Dale Doherty, Patty Shae, Ieasmus Nelson and Charles Ciauson. Pas sengers arriving m Juneau this morning on the plano are FTed Caeslin and Joe Render Passen- gers leaving Juneau are MT and Mrs Keith Wildes, Jerome Cysew- ski, Willard W. Beatty and Robert Egelkrout.
 A southbound Lodestar due tc leave here yesterday is still in Jul naau waiting fol weather.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
Civilians Wanted
 For Post ExehanQe

Formation If 9 volunteer com mittee of civilians to assist in per sonnel administra tion for Army Post Exchanges throughout tn e Ninth Corps Area was announced today at the headquarters of Ma ior General Ernest D. Peek, Com manding General of the Ninth Corps Area, at the Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.
 Members of the committee will interview civilian applicants for employment at such post exchange activities as general stores, meat markets, vegetable markets, ser7- ice stations, restaurants, barber shops, laundries, and tailor shops.
 Formation of the committee was considered necessary to decentral- ize personnel activities under the new War Department system of centralized administration and CO., ordination of operation of post ex- changes. The new regulations pro- vide that, in so far as is practi- cable, all employees of post ex- changes be civilians. It was em- phasized that employment will be possible only as vacancies occur.
 Member Of the committee in Alaska who receives applications for employment and will interview ap- plicants is Curtis c Shattuck, Shattuck Agency, Juneau, Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
Dinond, Ryan Are
 Behind Sti,edUie

James Ryan, assistant civilian defense administrator in Alaska, and Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska $ Delegate to Congress, are flying be- hind schedule in their return to the Territory, it was learned today.
 According to information at the Governors office, Ryan and Di- mond spent the night in Minneap- clis Minnesota, last night ard planned to leave there this morning for the next lap of their trip here. They are flying in Ryan's plane.
 Ryan left here about a month ago, en route to New York and Washington, D. C., to consult with Ficrello LaGuardia, Civilian De- fense chief, in an attempt to secure arms for Alaska home guard com panies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE
 IS THREAT
Renegade Communist Kih- ed by Unidentified
 Assassin

VICHY, Sept. 5.-Mounting ter rorism held the threat of civil strife today, as in German occupied Paris the outbreak claimed a new victim
 lie was Marvel Clifton, former Communist who turned against his party. Clifton died in a hospital as the result of an unidentified assassin's bullet.
 The death was another in se- ries of shooting attacks which both French and German authorities have been striving to stop.
 Since the first outbreak, when Laval and Deat were wounded in Versailles on August 21, the toll of the violence has been raised to three dead and at least six wound ed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
MEDIATION, R. R. STRIKE
 I5FAIL|.URE l.
Union Refuse Any Arbifra- lion : Issue Now Goes
 Direct to President

CHICAGO, III. Sept. 5-Mediation in the wage dispute between the Nations major railroads and their 1,250,000 employees has ended in a failure, less than three hours after the employees had given a general strike authorization to the 19 var ious unions.
 In announcing attempts to reach an amicable. settlement has ended, the National Railway Mediation Board disclosed that the offer for arbitration was rejected by the unions .
 This brings the controversy direct up. to President Roosevelt who has authority to appoint an emergency Fact Finding Board.
 No strike may. be put into effect
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
AGENCY 10 DISTRIBUTE
 CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-A new federal agency has set out to en- list even the smallest industrial plants in the national armament manufacturing drive, it was an- nounced this evening by President Roosevelt as he revealed the crea- ton of a division of contract dis tribution in the Office of Produc- tion Management, headed by Floyd Odlum, New York financier.
 The White House statement said the new agency has been formed to further the determined drive on the part of the administration to help smaller business units of the country to obtain their fair share of defense orders and to pre- vent, so far as is possible the dis location of industry and the unem- ployment of workers in plants where production has been cur tailed by shortages of priorities material"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO
 REOPEN HERE MONDAY

Reopening of Douglas schools IS scheduled for next Monday morning Tor beginning of the 194l-42 term and according to announcement made by Supt. Calvin Pool schedule for the day will be as follows; S;3o A. M. meeting of teachers to make tentative arrangement oi classes; at 1O:3O A. M, enrolment of pupils who are expected to be on hand at that time; l o'clock to 3 P. M.,reg- ular class work High School pupils who have not previously registered are expected to do so Saturday be- tween hours of g A. M. to 3:30 P M.
 After Monday the following sched- ule will be in effect; From $40 A, Nj. to Noon; 12:55 to 3:35 P. M. at 3:45 special bus will leave for con- venience of highway pupils
 An increased attendance over last. year is being anticipated following preliminary survey made by 5upt Pool.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

Juneau September 6i06 am, sunset 745
 Relatively inland Southeast morning had fallen during the "A hours Keteikan Codova and continued to os Due to the influence pressure Atka rain had fallen from the Aleu- tan the Clear partly cloudy prevailed raly elsewhere Alaska The rainfall st hundredths inch which The highest temperature yesterday reodei at Fairbanks and the lowest last night Mostly overcast skies with moderate ceilings good for local patches Juneau prevailed over the Juneau Ketchikan airway this morning.
 indicated relatively and second low center of 294O north and 176 degrees west and the "A hours
 pressure inches located at Al degrees west and high crest extended noheastward into o Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
231 MILLION IS VALUE OF AUG. ExpoRIS
Huge Increases in Canned Fish and Gold Shown
 Over Year Ago o

Products of a total value Of S23,- 565. .791 were exported to the States from Alaska during the month of August. it was reported today in the monthly summary of shipments by the Department of Commerce, James J. Connors, Collector Of Gus toms. oi
 This compared with products val ued at s18,647, '39 exported from the Territory during August of last year
 Items showing big increases were canned salmon and gold. Total value of the canned salmon sent to the States in August was $19,944, ,722, as compared to S15.846, 1885 in August of 1e4O. mute testimony of the bumper run of salmon in Alaska this sum mer.
 Total value of gold exported in August was $2,323,778, as compared to S1,76O,368 in August of last year.
 Again last month, huge increase over a year ago was shown in the exports of fish oil. In August fish oil from Alaska valued at $282, ,807 was sent to the States, compared with value of $93,359 for the oil sent out the same month year ago.
 Following is the list of exports and their values:
 Fish:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
BEATrY TO LEAVE

D.. Willard W Beatty, director of education in the Washington, D. C.. office Of the Bureau ot In- dian Affairs, will be a passenger on the next southbound PAA Lode star, headed for the national capi- tai. Beatty has been in the Ter ritory during the past several months inspecting Indian schools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
Dinner Tonight Is Get t-1ogether Party

This evening four women who lived together prior to their mar riages are having, with their hus- bands, a get-together dinner in the Iris Room of the Baranof Ho- tel In the party will be MT. and Mrs. Stan Grummett. MT. and Mrs. Vance Blackwell, MT and Ms. Dewey Baker, and MT. and Mrs. Ralph Mize. Today also marks the
 Mize's seventh wedding anniver-
 sary. #
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
THE WEATHER
(By the U. S. W atber Bureau

U. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS
 Juneau vicinity: Partly tonight and Saturday in creasng tonight about 48 degrees highest Saturday light to gentle variable 
 Southeast Alaska Clear partly cloudy tonight and Saturday somewhat poio Saturday; gentle moderate southery
 Wind and weather along Alaska tonight and Saturday, Dixon Entrance southwest ery winds partly cloudy Hnchnbrook mod crate souhwesey winds Hnchnbrook to Res ureon Bay moderate souheastery winds partly cloudy; Resurrection Bay outheay winds, local rain s#
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
MARINERS HUNTING

MT. and Mrs. Jack Warner em- parked on the Cheechako Wednes- day for Q couple of days hunting cruise with expectations of return ing tomorrow. Next week Warner planned to go to Tenakee for an extended vacation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
TAX BILL
 IN SHAPE
 IN SENATE
Action Takes Place This Afternoon Gle airing
 Field for Passage

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. - The Senate this afternoon killed the amendment in the- record breaking tax bill which would have prevented husbands and wives owning com- munity property of splitting their income in order to reduce taxes.
 The amendment was defeated by a voice vote and cleared the way for final action on the tax measure.
 The Senate approved by a 35 to 32 vote levy of s5 year for the use cf automobiles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
ARMY EXAMINATIONS

A board of officers tonight will meet to examine M. J. Whittier and Joseph A. Mclean, as to their qualifications for promotion in the National Guard it was announced today by Major Graham. Whittier is candidate for the grade of cap tain, while Mclean seeks a first lieutenancy, both in headquarters detachment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
EASTERN STARS

Stated meetings Juneau Chapter No. ?, Tuesday, Sept g, 8 p.p., pre- ceded by homecoming dinner, 6:3C pm. All stars and escorts invited For reservations call Mrs. Talmag4 or MT. Jack Messer.
 HELEN WEBSTER, adv. Worthy Matron.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-09-05
KAKE FAMILY HERE

Thomas Skeek and family prom inent Rake natives, were in Ju- neau today, visiting and shopping. Skeek reported he has just com- pleted a successful fishing season.