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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
I ALL AP Q Q s A
 JUDGE SAID TO FAVOR ACCUSED
P TO- osecutor e Objects to Presence of President
 of Court Martial

SEATTLE, Aug. 17.-At the court martial trial of Lieut.. James A Hirschfield of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa, &C., cused of having failed to report drunkenness on the part of fellow officers, charges of prejudice have been preferred against Capt. Flu gene Blake, Jr., San Francisco, oi the Coast Guard Service, president of the court. The complaint was lodged during the course of the trial Saturday by Commander F. w Towle, San Francisco, of the Coast Guard Service, who is acting as prosecuting attorney at the pro- ceedings.
 What Caused Objection
 The action of the President of the. court. to which the prosecutor took exception, occurred when Lieut.. Carl G. Bowman of the Tallapoosa was on the witness stand. He is to be tried later on the charge of drunkenness and is one of the of ficers whose misconduct Lieut.. E.rschfield is accused of having failed to report. Lieut.. Bowman had testified that beer could be smelled all over the ship when the craft was at Kodiak and he was being questioned further by Commander Towle concerning the use of in- toxicating liquor by officers of the vessel, vixen Capt. Blake interposed with the statement to the witness that he need not answer any ques- tion if the answer would tend to incriminate him.
 Prejudice Is Charged
 Commander Towle thereupon de- clared that Capt. Burke's statement and attitude had tended to preju- dice the four other members of the court against the prosecutions case and the Commander formally ob- jected to Capt, Blake's continued presence as member of the court martial.
 Capt. Blake and his four asso- ciates of the court were inclined Saturday to overrule the prose cutor's objection, but, instead, the court adjourned until today to give the prosecutor opportunity to pre- sent in detail reasons in support of his objection.
 Immediately after adjournment Saturday, John J. Sullivan, Seattle attorney, who is Lieut.. Hirschfield's defense counsel, characterized the prosecutors objection as ridicu- lous and suggested that "Towle and Blake hold peace confer ence."
 Today the court martial over ruled the objection of Commander Towle and held that Capt. Blake was competent to continue as Presi- dent of the court.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
Viceroy Denies British Or ficials Have Broken
 Delhi Pact

BOMBAY, India. Aug. 17.-Twen- ty-seven delegates, representing In- dia, sailed from Bombay for Eng land Saturday to attend round table conference on Indian affairs with British. officials in London. The departing delegates felt de- pressed over the refusal of Mahat- ma Gandhi, Tn dian Nationalist leader, to accompany them.
 Gandhi went to his retreat at Ahmedabad with the announcement that he would stay there until the government puts me into prison"
 Gandhi refused to go to London because. he declared, the British government representatives in h. dia had violated the Delhi pact by compelling peasants to pay taxes under duress.
 Lord Wilmington, Viceroy of In- dia, Saturday issued statement denying the, Delhi pact had been violated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
TRACT LET FOR s1,OOO O,OO0
 DAM AT CLEELU
Government to Apply Sur plus Revenue to Other
 Federal Projects

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. IT, Contract for construction of the power and irrigation dam at Gle Elum, Wash, to cost $1 100000, has been awarded by the United States Department of the Interior to Winston Brothers of Minneapolis, Minn. In awarding the contract, the federal government outlined the policy that will be followed in op- erating the project after it's com- pletion.
 The announcement of the federal government settles long dispute between it and the State of Wash ington.
 The state objected to imposing on the CleElum project financial obligations of any other projects, so the CleElum power rates could not be kept comparatively low. The federal government has de- cided that revenue derived from the sale of CleElum power, after pay ing operation and maintenance ex- penses, shall be applied first, to the cost of construction of the CleElum project; second, to the cost of the Moxee Valley power plant. in the state of Washington, and third to the deficit in the cost of constructing the Yakima project in the state of Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
Bad Weather May Be En- countered on Last
 Part of Route NEMURO SWARMS WITH NEWS AND PICTURE MEN Colonel and Wife to Stay at Two Smiling Beau
 ties'' Hotel

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. IT. = Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying from New York City to Tokyo, are now at Petropavlovsk, capital of Kamchatka. They are remaining there tonight. They ar- rived in their plane at Petropav- lovsk Saturday night at 10 o'clock, Pacific Standard time, according to message that was directed by Mrs Lindbergh to the radio station on St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilofs, in Boring Sea, and that was intercepted by the radio sta- tion at Ochiishi, Japan.
 Petropavlovsk was the Lindbergh's next scheduled stop from Kara ginsk, Siberia, which they left at $50 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Pacficic Standard time. The dis tance between the two places is 554 miles.
 From Petropavlovsk, the Lind- berghs are scheduled to fly to Me- muro, Japan, and then from there to Tokyo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
Both Political Parties Begin
 to Formulate Their Plans ! for Nest National Campaign
By SCOTT C. BONE Former Governor of Alaska

chairmanship. Robert Lucas, Ken tuckian, executive director, is man. aging the preliminaries, with Sim con D. Fess, venerable Ohio senator, the nominal head, who desires to be relieved. M
 Politics is a costly and waste full game Millions are expended in a somewhat helter-s skelter fash ion. The weakness of party organ ization is that it is not continuous. Framed hastily, it goes to peices at the end of a campaign, and everything starts anew when the next quadrennial contest arrives.
 Singularly, the Democratic party though out of power, has been the more militant in recent years Re- publican insurgency has contribut- ed to this end and obviously handi- capped the C.. O. P. Norris, La Toilette and willfui group of obstructive senators, have been conspicuously in the saddle. Not until the President made his In-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17

The two great political parties are just beginning to formulate plans for the 1892 national cam- paign. For the moment, they are waiting on issues. They will avoid a contest over prohibition, if they can. The Democrats have an initial advantage in organization. They have a chairman in John Jacob Raskob, who, if not acceptable to all elements, nevertheless, is an aggressive leader and can command funds for the battle. To his genius is ascribed to some extent the vast gains made in the off year struggle of 1930, when the Republican maJ- ority in congress was practically wiped out. His publicity depart ment, equipped and maintained out of his private purse, was most effective and contrived to keep the majority on the defensive. Pre- liminary to the big combat, he Is engaged in wiping out the deficit hanging over from the Smith Hoover campaign. The Republic ans are still undecided as to their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
CROWD AT NEMURo

NEMURO, Jauan, Aug. 17.-Radio messages to the wireless station at Nemuro from the steamship Koku- sai, which is returning to Nemuro after having delivered gasoline at stations for s. Yoshihara's proposed flight from Japan to the United States, are to the effect that Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh spent Saturday night, Sunday, Sun day night and Monday at Petrop- avlovsk, Russian Kamchatka, and that they are spending tonight Monday nighD there. Col. Lind bergh is studying weather reports and forecasts. Tn the flight from Petropavlovsk to Nemuro, the Lind berghs may encounter bad flying weather.
 ap a n ese newspapermen and photographers are swarming all over Nemuro. They will be crowd ed around the spot where the Lindberghs make their first landing in Japanese territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
NEW YORK CITY CAUSES SESSION
 OF LEGISLATURE
Committee Investigati Gotham Affairs Wants
 More Power
DATE OF CONVEYING
 FIXED AT AUGUST 25
Report to Governor Says Beneficiaries of Graft
 Hamper Inquiry

NEW YORK, Aug. IT. = New York's Legislature has been called into special session by Gov. Frank lin D. Roosevelt. The call was is- sued by the executive late Satur- day afternoon and the time set for the converting of the lawmakers is August 25.
 The purpose of the extra session, as announced by the Governor, is to afford legislators an oppor- tunity to consider giving more power to the committee appointed at the last session of the Legis- lature to investigate the govern ment of New York City.
 In report to the Governor, the committee said that it could not get to the bottom of the vicious, corrupt system" unless the com mittee's powers were enlarged. The committee declared that the bene- ficiaries of corruption in New York City had thrown every obstacle possible in the path of the investi- gators.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Closing quotations today on the New York Stock Exchange were: Alaska Ju- neau 17A, American Can 93ss. Ana conda Copper 24A, Bethlehem Steel 40A, Checker Cab 8A, 8A, 8$4 Curtiss- Wright 3, Fox Films 1874 General Motors 38, International Harvester 38A, Kennecott Copper 17%, Packard Motors 67s, Standard Brands 19, Standard Oil of Cali fornia 38k, Standard Oil of New Jersey 39ss, United Aircraft 28A United States Steel 89h.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
SOURDOUCHSOF NOR I'll HEADED
 BY FRANK LOWE
Stampede Association Plans to Unite Pioneer
 Organizations

POR TIL AND, Ore, Aug. IT, Frank Lowe of Vancouver, B. C., was elected president of the Alaska Yukon Sourdough Association at the conclusion in Portland Satur- day of it's third annual Stampede.
 J. J. Wilson, of Calgary, Canada; A. J. Eckelman of Portland, B. J. Parker of Vancouver, B. C., and George Gilroy of Seattle were nam- ed members of a committee to take action toward affiliation with the Alaska Yukon Sourdough Associa- tion all sourdough organizations in the United States and Canada.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
WOMEN BATTLE
 FOREST FIRES

SPOKANE, Aug. 17.--With homes threatened by two forest fires, women of lone, north of Spokane, grabbed axes and shovels and aided several hundred men in fighting the conflagrations. Glowing cin- ders and blazing brands were show cred on lone from nearby flaming forests. The wind shifted and carried the fire away from the town just before the whistle of the Tone lumber mill was to signal for the evacuation of the place.
 The fire had leaped the Clark river. Twenty-Five fire-fighters were trapped by the flames, but escaped when the wind changed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
|INDIA'S ENV0YSNEW ZEALAND 60 TO L 0ND0N FLYER HURT IN
 WITHOUT GANDHI CRASH IN JAPAN
5. C. Chidester, Routed via Aleutians, Seriously
 Injured

TOKYO, Aug. 1T. Misfortune has ended the effort of c. c. Chi dester, New Zealand aviator, to blaze a new air route to England by way of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, His plane crashed Sat- urday near Katsuura in Waka- yama Prefecture, Japan He suf- fered serious internal injuries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
PICKED UP BY AMATEUR

SEATTLE, Aug. IT. = A radio message that told of the take-off of the Lindbergh plane from Kara ginsk at $50 o'clock Saturday after noon, Pacific Standard time, for Petropavlovsk and that was direct ed to the radio station on St. Paul Island was picked up in Seattle by Harry Carney, radio amateur operator, and also by the United States Naval Radio Station, near Bremerton, Wash.
 An hour after the take-off. the plane was reported making 95 knots. at an altitude of $500 feet. Visibility was unlimited.
 The St. Paul radio station re- ported that the steamship Presi- dent Cleveland, voyaging between Japan and Seattle. was causing in- reference on the planes frequency. At 8:20 o'clock Saturday night. Pacific Standard time, the St. Paul station reported it no longer could read the planes messages.
 The only hotel rooms vacant are those that have been reserved for Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh. The name of their hotel is the Nibiki Ryokan, which translated into Eng fish is The Two Smiling Beau ties"
 On landing at Petropavlovsk, the Lindberghs had flown a total of 5.622 miles From Petropavlovsk to Tokyo the air line distance is l,510 miles. Nemuro is scheduled as the planes last stop before reaching Tokyo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
New Torture Invented
 by Bandits of Swatow

SWATOW, China. Aug. 17.-A new torture has been invented by bandits of this district for victims whose relatives fail to pay ransom.
 This was revealed when district guards raided bandit camp in the hills. Several of the rescued cap tives had been made stone deaf by liquid cement which had been poured Into their ears and alowed to harden.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
TO ELY
 SOUTH TUESDAY

The seaplane Wrangell, Pilot Anscel o. Eckmann, arrived from Ketchikan at 10 o'clock this morn ing to take care of Juneau busi- ness until the seaplane Petersburg returns from Yakutat. aN <,
 The Wrangen left for Taku at noon today with Lee Smith. Jack Metzgar and E. Fremming, who are to remain there for about a week on a fishing trip. The plane is scheduled to be back today. It expects to leave for Seattle to- morrow morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
W0 M A N TO TRY TOKYO SEATTLE DIRECT FLIGHT
Juanita Burns to Co to Japan by Steamship
 Very Soon

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. IT, Juanita Burns, Los Angeles avi- atrix, announced today that within month she would attempt non- stop solo flight from Tokyo to Ee- attle.
 She declared that she would go from the United States to Japan by steamship and that she soon would sail for oriental country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
PRINCE GEORGE OUT
 FOR SOUTH SUNDAY

The c an a d ian National Lines steamship Prince George, Capt. N. MacLean and Purser Bert Robe son, arrived in port at 1:30 am. Sunday from Skagway with a light list of passengers. It sailed from here for Vancouver at 3 am. ii
 Only one passenger boarded the steamer here - Julius 'Seguin for Prince Rupert. s @f
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
HANDRAHAN RETURNS

J. A. Handrahan, investment broker, returned to his headquar- ters here on the steamer North western Saturday night after a brief business trip to Ketchikan, Petersburg and Wrangell. MT Han- drahan will be guest of the Cas- tineau Hotel until the end of this week at which time he expects to be called to Skagway and pos sibly Whitehorse, Y. T.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
LIFE LOST WHEN SEAPLANE SINKS

SEATTLE, Aug. 17.-Al Mace, 43 years old, of Seattle, was drowned here today when a seaplane, in trying to take off from Lake Un- ion, capsized and sank. Four other residents of Seattle aboard the air. craft at the time of the accident. were rescued uniniured.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
FLIES
 TO PEST ZONE

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 15.- Health Officer Sutherland left for McGrath by airplane Saturday to investigate the report of an out break of smallpox 40 miles from there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
TWO BIG SHIPS ARE CHRISTENED BY MRS. HOOVER
Boats Are First of Six of United Fruit to Cost
 $21, 100000

NEWPORT. NEWS. Va, Aug. IT.
 Herbert Hoover Saturday afternoon christened the steamships Talamanca and Sevogia. One hour apart, they went down adjacent ways The vessels are the first two of fleet of six that the United Fruit Company is going to have built at a cost of $21, 100000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
GLIDER INJURIES TEN ON GROUND

WYIUSING, Pa, Aug 17-Ten persons on the ground were injured, five seriously, when a glider air craft, operated by Capt. Fred A. Pippig, of New York, an aviator with the German Army during the World War. was caught in down. yard air current and crashed to sarth. Tipping was slightly injured. He was arrested and was held on .harges of aggravated assault and battery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
GIRL NEEDS s25 WEEKLY

NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-No matter what the movies or novels say about. New York, unless a girl can earn '$25 a week she should stay back home and live with the fam- fly, says the welfare council.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
J. J. JENNELLE
 TAKEN BY DEATH

SEATTLE, Aug. 17-John J. Jen- nelle, aged 56 years, prominent in the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest, died in Seattle today. He had not been ill long.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-17
TO REDUCE ATMOsPHERICs

LENINGSAD.-- The laboratory iirected by the Academician Man. telstamm and Professor Papalessi 'eports it has developed radio quipment which tends to reduce or Eliminate atmospheric discharges.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Rolph May Yet
Get Airplane

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 4. dlp)
Although Sunny jim" Rolph.
Californias flying governor. has
no airpfane Of his own, he probably
will have one before the year is
over.
Several organizations arc plan
ming to present the governor with a
private plane for his own use. it
was disclosed at the executive off,
ices today.
The 1881 state legislature provid-
ed a hangar at the local airport
for Governor Rolph, but turned
down $4,000 appropriation for
his plane. The governor, seeking
to learn the names of legislators
who voted against the plan, made
the discovery he said, that no roll
cali was taken on the bill. a viva
voce vote have decided against it.
State Printer Harry Hammond
has designed new official letter.
head for the governor, to replace
the present formal stationery with
the state seal.
The new letterhead bears a re-
plica Of The state capitol building
with tiny airplane circling about
the dome.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
COL0RED YOUTH
CHARGED WITH
ATTACKING Girl

LOS ANGELES, June 4. UP
Clarence Hadley, 14-year-old col
ored youth Of Duarte, was held in
county Jail today facing serious
charges in connection with an al
legged attack upon Betty Barnes,
Is. also of Duarte.
According to authorities Hadley
admitted he waylaid The girl on
her way home from school
The Barnes girl. who is white,
told deputy sheriffs that the col
ored youth had threatened her with
violence if she did not submit to
his demands.
She said she was walking on the
highway near ranch on which she
resided when young Hadley crept
up behind her and, grabbing her.
threw her into a gutter. When the
girl screamed, young Hadley pro-
duced pairing knife and threaten
ed to cut her, according to the vic
TINS story to officers.
The Hadley boy was arrested later
in Monrovia. Miss Barnes was
confined to the Monrovia hospital
suffering from shock. Physicians
said the girl had been attacked but
the colored boy denied this.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Police On Trail
OF Check Artists

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. U.P)-
California police today manifested
a keen interest in the movements
OF woman giving her name as
Mrs. William Morford, in custody
at Eugene, Ore.
According to word from Eugene,
She may be the Mrs. William Nor
ford who is wanted in a dozen
California cities for elaborate and
profitable bad check operations
conducted with her husbands as
sistance. The Morfords, according
to Santa Rosa and Eureka police,
would drive to suburban camps,
pretend interest in the property and
buy it with a large check. Further
to build up quick credit, they would
buy a neighboring ranch, the
checks sometimes as much as S15.-
600. They would then cash a series
of small checks, police said, and
drive away before the large checks
were returned without funds"
They are said TO have operated also
in Burbank, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Governors Seek
Higher Honors
Continued from Page l.

once the more dominant figure, has
been assigned now to the second
table. Therefore, unless a governor
has a striking and exceptionally
forceful personality or is governor
of New York, which makes him ex-
officio a presidential possibility. he
has hard going competing with a
senator standing on the gigantic
national sounding board at Wash
ington.
Yet statistics show that after the
early booms run their course, sena-
tors for one reason or another, fall
behind. The chances favor the
governors. OF "a men nominated
for the presidency by major parties
since the Civil War, plus the can
didacy of the elder Robert NJ. La
Toilette of Wisconsin in 1924, ex-
actly half were governors or former
governors. Five were senators, in
eluding La Toilette. who became a
national figure first as governor of
Wisconsin. Blaine. Benjamin Har-
rison, and Harding were senators
before they were nominated for
President. Garfield was elected TO
the senate but before he took his
seat, he was nominated for Presi-
dent and resigned.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Lindbergh May
Tackle Pacific
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panion who is skilled aviatrix
Ever since the pair were married
Mrs. Lindbergh has flown with her
husband and recently received a
pilots license in her own right.
State department officials en-
phasiZed that the tour had no Of
ficial significance, being merely an
adventurous pleasure trip for the
personal enjoyment Of the Lind
berghs.
The jaunt will be the third inter
national tour the flying colonel has
made since he came into the spot
light four years ago by spanning the
Atlantic alone in his Spirit of st.
Louis. Following that famous Jour-
ney, he flew to Mexico and later on
a goodwill trip around Central and
South American countries.
Lindbergh came here yesterday
and discussed his flight plans at
luncheon with Castle He called the
under secretary by phone from New
York early today and amplified the
plans he had outlined earlier.
The flyer asked Castle to make
known his plans.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Runaway Girls
Taken To Jail

Flaming youth and old age, 18
and %, complicated married life
for Gussie Galloway, the 18-year-
old Phoenix runaway told Tom
Sharp this morning after he ar
rested her and Annie Wahlstrom,
II, on the streets of FL Centro.
Her husband is % years old. the
girl said, and is too old to under
stand her desire to "go places and
DO things" So she left him, and
came TO FL Centro, bringing the
other girl with her. She has been
married twice, said Mrs. Galloway.
Sharp arrested the two girls here
after they alighted from a fast
freight truck coming from Phoenix.
They looked like runaways. said
the district attorneys investigator
so he took them into custody. At
the county Jail they admitted they
ran away from Phoenix, the Gala
way girl from her husband and the
Wahlstrom girl from her uncle
with whom she lived.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Gambling Dealer
Killed AT Reno

RENO, New. June 4. U.P)-W H.
McCracken, a gambling dealer, was
shot and killed here today by Will
liam Graham, prominent gambling
man and an associate of Jack
Dempsey's in the promotion of
prize fights here.
Graham, himself was wounded in
the exchange of gunfire which
killed NcCracken.
After explaining the shooting
was result of quarrel over
gambling matters, Graham was
placed under technical arrest.
Graham claimed that McCracken
sought him out and fired first, the
bullet striking him in the left arm.
Graham then drew his revolver
and fired three shots into Nc
Cracker.
The shooting took place in the
Haymarket club, gambling place.