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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NORTHBOUND

HON AIDOOND . zapora scheduled to arrived . at 2 o'clock tomorrow morn . ing. . Princess Louise scheduled to . arrive late Friday afternoon or evening.
 . Admiral Rogers scheduled to . arrive Monday.
 SCHEDULED SAILINGS . Yukon scheduled to sail from . Seattle September 10 at g a. m. Norco scheduled to sail from Seattle, Sept. 12, 9 p. m. ( Admiral Evans scheduled to sail from Seattle September l, IA at 10 a. ,n. { SOUTHBOUND SAUINGS { Northland due in port about ( 5 or o'clock tomorrow ( morning and sails south (
 at 8 a. m. . Aleutlan scheduled SOuthbOund .
 September 12. . Admiral Watson hedule d (
 southbound about September .
 13. .
 LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth leaves every Thurs .
 day night at D. m., for .
 Sitka and way ports. . Pacific leaves every Thursday .
 at 10 a. m, for Petersburg. .
 Rake and way ports. . asss .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08

E. Singhauser left St. Anns Hos pttal yesterday having been a pa- tient in the institution one week
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
ROGERS IS NOW
 ON WAY NORTH

SEATTLE, Sept. B. Steamer Admiral Rogers sailed for South eastern Alaska ports at 10 o'clock this forenoon with 21 first class and eight steerage passengers.
 Passengers aboard the steame, booked for Juneau are Harrison Potter, D. H. Philips, Harry Brown and one steerage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
GOOD PLACE TO LIVE

You don't have to torture your neighbor when you wish to cook your favorite corned beef and cab bage, if you live at the Eureka Apartments. This building is fire, water, air, sound- and odor proof. Apartment now available, another on the 18th Phone 32. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
IS OFF
 ON BUSINESS TRIP

Charles Anderson, Manager of the Juneau Business College, $ cn business trip to Skagway. There are several students for the col lege already lined up in the Lynn Canal metropolis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

Gastineau Vernon L. Glaze, Portland, Ore. i; Gler: Darlington, M. E. GreenloW MT. and Mrs. ". o. McCreary, Seattle; Oscar Broomstedt, Cosmo- oolis, Wash; Michael McKallick, Chichagof; L. M. Carrigan, O. Jensen, Juneau.
 Alaskan S. Lingard, Taxu: Ernest Hohl- han, A. T. Davis, Juneau.
 Zynda Conrad Enge, Petersburg; James c. Truitt, Seattle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08
TIDES TOMORROW

Albert Vile, we:l-known merohan- disc broker who makes his head quarters in this city, has left on a business trip to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-09-08

J. H. Dindrichsen who recently retired here from the Bureau of Public Survey after 30 years active service, left Juneau on the steamer Queen for Seattle. He will go to Indigo, Cal, to live. He owns a date ranch near there.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
HEARINGS ON REPEAL
OF TAX BILLS URGED
Federation of Women's Clubs Sends
Resolution to Senate and House
D. c. Groups.

Hearings on the measure to repeal
the substantive law for a 60~40 fixed
proportion Of Federal contribution to-
ward support of the District and on all
the other So-called MapeS bills are
urged by the District Federation of
Women's Clubs in resolutions sent to
the Senate and House District Com
mittees.
The Georgia Avenue Business Mems
Association registered opposition to any
legislation that will increase taxes and
particularly to the four measures from
the Mapes Committee.
Clubs filed its Endorsement of the
Police Women's Bureau bill, the Cap
per bill to establish a board of inde-
terminate sentences and parole for the
District, the Capper bill to control the
sale of firearms and the Mcleod bill
to require motorists to show financial
responsibility.
The Washington Central Labor
Union has submitted to the House Dis
trict Committee its Endorsement of the
legislation on which hearings were
held last night authorizing merger
of the traction facilities in the District
The Bowman bill to abolish alley
dwellings was Endorsed by the District
Federation of Womens Clubs and by
the Washington Welfare Association
The latter organization mentions Navy
place as locality in which these alley
dwellings should particularly be cleaned
ont
Evening star., 1932-01-28
vOIIVE BRANCFF' PETITION
OF 1775 TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION
Copy Signed by 45 Members of Continental Congress
Was Effort to Avert American Revolution

vigorous defensive war, but at the
same time to keep open the door of
reconciliation; to hold the sword in one
hand and the olive branch in the other
Thus the petition to the King to call
off his minions came to be known as
the "olive branch" 1t was ordered en-
crossed and signed on July 8, ITS, and
Richard Penn was sent to London with
one copy while duplicate was for
warded in another ship.
Penn and Arthur Lee sent Lord Dart
mouth of the Colonial Office copy"
by post on August 81, retaining the
original" to present to the King The
copy" which is unsigned, is probably
the one still in the Dartmouth family
archives at Patshull. IN September
Penn and Lee handed the original to
Dartmouth. but were told that the King
would not receive it. This signed copy
is in the public records Office in London.
The "olive branch" of seven pages,
was written by John Dickinson of Penn
sylvania, author of the famous farm
ers' letters" and among the signers were
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John
Adams, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin,
Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and
Thomas Jefferson.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
LEWIS KEEPS HOLD
OF MINE SESSION
Attacker of Administration
of Union Forcibly Elected
From Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 78-Ad-
ministration forces in the United Mine
Workers Of America retained control Of
the biennial convention today, although
for 10 minutes yesterday afternoon the
unions meeting presented scene Of
riotous disorder.
Forcibe election of John Hindmarsh
of Riverton, Ill, from the convention
hall climaxed the disturbance, which
began when he made bitter attack
on John l.. Lewis, president, and other
international officers, for failure to re-
organize the non-union fields in West
Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ken
lucky.
Verbal exchanges between Hindmarsh
and Vice President Philip Murray oc-
CURED when Murray started to reply
and when the Illinois delegate refused
to resume his seat, his election was
ordered.
Companions came to Hindmarsh's aid
and clashed with the sergeants- arms
Several fist fights started. Minor rows
and arguments broke out during which
Henry Schuster, delegate from Scran-
ton. Pa, also was pushed out Of the
auditorium.
John Boylan of district l, Scranton,
who was presiding, finally restored
order
During Hindmarsh's criticism of the
international officers, he said, I'VE don't
like to advocate reduction of wages,
but the policy Of no backward step in
Pennsylvania and Ohio was fatal to
unionism in those fields" When Hind
marsh denied he believed reduction
now proposed should be accepted by
the anthracite miners Murray shouted
that he lies in one or the other" and
the disturbance was precipitated.
The convention adopted by sections
the report of the international officers
advocating Federal control of the IN
dustry and approving the six-hour day
and five-day week.
Van A Bittner, chief international
representative in Northwestern West
Virginia, in a speech before the conven-
ton, defended his statements as to the
policies of the union made at a hear
ing before the Interstate Commerce
Committee Of the Senate in 1928, which
had been questioned by a delegate
earlier in the session. He also defended
the present international officials and
declared the union reached the zenith
of its power under the officers now
heading the union
IF any man has any guaranteed
policy for getting the West Virginia
miners into the union" he concluded
God bless him"
Evening star., 1932-01-28
A. A. A. GUIDE SERVICE
GETS OFFICIAL @. X.
D. c. Bicentennial Commission
Sanctions Plan to Care
for Visitors.

The District Bicentennial COmmiS
sion announced yesterday it had given
It's official sanction to the guide service
for visitors to the Capital this year.
organized under the auspices of the
American Automobile Association. Full
responsibility for the guides and for
the service they will render is to be
assumed by the association.
DR.. George c. Havenner, executive
vice chairman of the local commission,
SAID a prime purpose in the establish
ment of the guide service is to provide
competent men and women to conduct
Bicentennial visitors to points of inter-
est in the Capital The guides are
undergoing a course of training by the
A A. A.
Under plans now being formulated,
the guides will be available for visitors
who wish to use their own automobiles
70 make tours of the city. The guides
will be competent drivers, and each will
carry full insurance for any liability
which may result
Requests for the guides will be made
direct to the hearquarters Of the
American Automobile Association, and
no street soliciting will be permitted.
The service will include also group OF
carefully trained hostesess, whose work
will be guiding parties of women
Evening star., 1932-01-28
HOLDS CHILD MUST
HAVE DEFINITE ROLE
Miss BERTHE Backus Addresses Girl
Scout Dinner Presided Over
by Mrs. 0. O. Kuhn,

Miss BERTHE Backus. principal of Alice
Deal Junior High School, told a group
of Girl Scout leaders at their annual
dinner meeting at the YsW. c. A. that
Girl Scouts should supply the subStl-
tute for broken homes
In present-day living. she said, there
was need of security, personality and
responsibility in the home life and
community life of children in order
that they may learn to give, and not
Just to take.
The child of today is afoat," she
said. Children need an anchor; they
must feel that they belong somewhere
and that they have definite part in
things"
Mrs. Oliver owen Kuhn, president of
the Leaders Association and captain of
Troop. No. II. presided. Mrs. B. F.
Cheatham. chairman of Camp May
Father told Of plans now being made
for the Summer at the camp. Scholar
chips" are to be offered there. accord
Ing to a new policy inaugurated by the
Camp Committee in cooperation with
the Community Chest.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 28.-John Han
cocks flourish, which stands out so
boldly on the Declaration of Independ-
ence, is just as stoutly affixed to the
"olive branch" petition to George III
a COPY of which will be sold at public
auction here tonight.
This copy, which was signed by As
members of the Second Continental
Congress at Philadelphia in IT'S, includ-
ing 25 who signed the Declaration OF
Independence a year later, is the prop
erty of George c. w. Fitzwilliam OF
Milton, Peterborough, England.
The petition is described by Randolph
G. Adams. custodian of the William l..
Clements Library, at Ann Arbor, Mich.
as virtually the last official effort OF
the Colonies to head off the American
Revolution. Lexington, Concord and
Bunker Hill already had been fought.
The Second Continental Congress had
assembled in Philadelphia to decide
what should be done next. On June
10, ITS, John Adams of Massachusetts,,
Delegate to Congress, wrote his friend,
Moses Gill, In Cambridge: Il find the
general sense abroad Is, to prepare for
Evening star., 1932-01-28
CITIZENS ASSA|L
MAPES MEASURES
Rhode Island Avenue Group
StrenuousIy Objects to
Fiscal Relations Change.

Strenuous opposition to the manner
in which the Mapes bills were passed
by the House and especially to the
proposed change in the fiscal rela-
tions basis between the Federal Gov
ernment and the District. was voiced
by the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association at their January meeting
last night.
Adopting a resolution presented by
the Legislative Committee, the aSsocia-
ton declared that irrespective of the
merits of the Mapes bills the associa-
ton condemns with all the vigor Of
United States citizens the railroading
of these bills through the House, and
commends the American attitude of
the Senate committee"
Fixed Ratio Demanded.
The resolution further asserted a
fixed ratio of contribution is the only
fair and just method of determining
the fiscal relations basis. It went on
record as opposing the change proposed
in one Of the Mapes bills unless and
until Congress shall determine and fix
a fairer and more equitable ratio than
proper findings of fact and conclusions
as to the Federal Government obli-
CATION to its Capital City"
An income tax lis not Objectionable
in principle when designed to supersede
taxation of personal property" the
resolution continued, but the asSocia-
ton nevertheless opposes any tax legis-
lation designed to raise more than the
District of Columbia's proportionate
part of the sum necessary to support
and maintain the Federal territory"
Would Relieve Other Burdens.
A gasoline tax Sufficiently high to
bear its proportionate part in the gen.
eral tax scheme"-provided the funds
raised in this manner shall be used
only for road and street improvement
and repairs, and in lieu of the present
law providing for the assessment OF the
cost of such improvement against abut-
ting property, was indorsed by the as
Sociation.
Five specific objections to other
MapeS legislation also were set forth in
the resolution, copies Of which are to
be sent the District Committees in
Congress, the Commissioners and the
Federation Of Citizens Associations.
1He ASSOCIATION also lnQOTSeQ tNe
Capper anti-weapon bill and the bill
providing for the National Aboretum.
Proposed laws to abolish capital pun
ishment and extend the power Of the
Commissioners were opposed.
Rudolph Memory Honored.
Retention in the budget of S250.00
item for the completion of the Taft
Junior High School was urged upon
Congress in a resolution passed by the
association. Other resolutions paid
tribute to the memory of former Com
missioner Cuno H. Rudolph and eX-
pressed regret at the retirement of
Capt. C. L. PlemmonS, twelfth police
precinct.
All of the officers Of the association
were reelected for 1882. They are: E.
G. Sievers, president; Charles R. Allen,
first vice president; Mrs. c. E. Chan
ming, second vice president; Julian F..
Belfield secretary; Wallace E. Perry,
financial secretary: Mrs. H. S. New
man. assistant secretary, and William
S. Torbert, treasurer. Thomas j.
Llewllyn and w. H. Dunn were again
named delegates to the Federation Of
Citizens Associations.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
HEROES Of CHURCH
WILL Be H0N0RED.
Pageant to Commemorate
Valiant Service Given
by Presbyterians.

Presbyterians who rendered valiant
service in the early history of the
United States will be honored at din
ner here April 13, it was decided by
the National Capital Presbyterian Com
mission of the General Assembly yes
terday.
Among George Washingtons asso-
ciates whose services will be commence
rated at the dinner will be eight sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence
several Of his generals and host OF
Presbyterian officers and soldiers in the
Revolutionary Armies, including scores
of Presbyterian fighting chaplainS, 10
of whom subsequently became modera-
tors of the General Assembly.
The national commission, of which
Dr. Albert Joseph Mccartney, pastor of
Convenant-FirSt Presbyterian Church,
is chairman, Is inviting PreSbyterianS
prominent in official and business life
of the Capital and other cities to serve
as sponsors for the dinner. Three mem
bers of President Hoover's cabinet nine
Senators, nearly 60 Representatives and
many high officials are numbered as
PreSbyterianS.
Among the eight Presbyterian signers
of the Declaration was the Rev. John
Witherspoon, the only clergyman among
the signers, whose brave speech for
immediate ratification halted the wav-
ering when Congress was hesitating
about signing that instrument. Wither-
spoons monument, with the words Of
his brief but stirring speech on the
base stands at Connecticut avenue and
N street northwest. in front of the
Covenant First PRESBYTERIAN Church
1t Is planned to commemorate the
Witherspoon speech and other pictur-
esque incidents in Presbyterian history
In pageantry at the dinner. Among
these will be the well known Revolu-
tionary story of the Rev. James Cald-
well, chaplain Of the New Jersey forces,
who, when wadding for the muSkets
ran low, brought hymn books from his
church TO supply the lack and dis
tributed them to the soldiers with the
cry: Give them Watts, boys!"
Evening star., 1932-01-28
CONCERT WILL AID
MUSICIANS RELIEF
Four Famous Artists to Give Pro.
gram at Library of Congress
Tomorrow.

The benefit concert which Is to be
given at the Library of Congress to-
morrow night at 845 pm. is being
planned especially to raise substantial
sum to be given to the Musicians
Emergency Aid of which Walter Dam
rosch is chairman. The Musicians
Emergency Aid, in cooperation with
the Musicians Foundation of which
Rubin Goldmark is president, aims to
give immediate aid with all funds
available to musicians throughout the
country who are in need.
Four of the worlds most famous
musical artists are giving their services
for this concert tomorrow night. Nina
Koshetz. Russian soprano; Harold
Bauer, American pianist; Paul Kochan-
ski, Polish violinist, and Hans Kinder.
Dutch cellist and conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
NEW VENUE SOUGHT.
IN HAWAII SLAY|NG.
Representative Chapm a n
Prepares Tentative Draft
of Resolution.
IIEIIT- COL CT. GEORGE.

The tentative draft of a resolution
calling for a change of venue for the
four Americans charged with killing a
Hawaiian in Honolulu has been pre-
pared by Representative Chapman,
Democrat, Kentucky.
Chapman. however has not definitely
decided to present the resolution, al
though he is giving it serious consider
alton. He wants any mo- he makes
to be beneficial to the four defendants
and said if he thought the step to-
ward venue change would not help
them he would not press action.
The KentuCkian prepared the draft
of his resolution after reading reports
from Rear Admiral Stirling that Judge
CriSty has influenced grand jury to
return indictments against the quartet.
One of the four. Lieut.. Thomas H.
MasSie. lives in Chapman'S district in
Kentucky. In addition. Mrs. Granville
ForteScue, society woman and MaSSle'S
mother in-law, was indicted along with
two naval enlisted men.
A deliberate charge that Judge CriSty
of the Territorial Circuit Court and
Otner unnamed persons uSeu SlIOllS III
f1uence to obtain the Seconddegree
murder indictments was made by
Admiral Stirling. commandant of the
Hawaiian naval district
He stated his charge in detail in a
report to the Navy Department, which
Immediately made it public. The Amer
lean defendants are charged with killing
a native assailant of Mrs. Thomas H.
MasSie.
Stirling said Judge CriSty refused to
accept a verdict of no true bill" and
refused to allow the jury to consider
a manslaughter bill. During one recess.
said the admiral, grand juror opposed
to Indictment was appointed police
commissioner and taken off the jury
against his protest. Later the judge
gave the jury his view Of the effect
upon the community if they failed to
indict. One juror was given to under
stand that, under a Second-degree in
dictment. the defendants might be
turned over to the Navy for trial. This,
said Stirling, influenced the final
decision.
A move was started in Congress some
time ago to have the case transferred
to the United States. 1t was dropped
pending developments, but may now be
renewed.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
ARRANGEMENT DUE
IN HAWAII SLAY|NG
Mrs. Fortescue and Others
to Appear in Court
Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, January 28.-M r S.
Granville Fortescue Of New York and
Washington and her three naval CO.
defendants will be arraigned in Circuit
Court here tomorrow on an indictment
charging second-degree murder for the
lynching OF Joseph KahahaWal'
Hawaiian.
ATTORNEYS for the society matron,
Lieut.. Thomas H. MaSsie, her son-in-
law, and E. J. Lord and A. o. Jones,
enlisted men, seek to quaSh the 1ndlct-
ment on the contention the grand jury
was "coerced" by Circuit Judge A. M.
CriSty This matter, too, will be taken
up tomorrow.
Seeks Release on Bond.
Defense Attorney Montgomery Winn
also indicated he would seek release on
bond of Mrs. Fortescue and Lieut.
Massie, who with the two Others are
confined to the U. S. S. Alton at Pearl
Harbor, naval base.
Kahahawai was one Of the five youths
arrested last September for crlminally
assaulting Mrs MasSie. A trial jury
was divided evenly on the question OF
their guilt They were awaiting retrial
when KahahaWai was slain. The other
four. fearing for their lives, went to
Jail voluntarily-they had been out on
bail-but yesterday decided to risk re-
appearing, and left the city prison. They
will be tried again.
The adVisability of transferring to
naval courts, the trial Of the three naval
men accused with Mrs Fortescue was
discussed yesterday. But, beyond the
fact that this possibility was considered,
Barry S. Ulrich, special prosecutor,
would reveal nothing. He did not in
dicate whether both naval and civil
authorities were involved in the
discussion.
Expect Congress May Act.
Official circles also suggested the
possibility of Congress enacting special
legislation under which the case could
BE- transferred to a United States
District Court on the mainland
Along with the defense criticism of
the handling of the grand jury. came
Ccnsure by Rear Admiral Yates Stirling,
lr.. commandant of the fourteenth
raval district, in his report to Wash
ingtOn. D. c. He refused to comment
upon his report. published in Washing
ton, which charged Judge Cristy twice
refused to accept the Jury'S finding of
no bill
Meanwhile Charles F. Weber, re-
tired army man. prepared to take over
HOnolulu's police force as acting chief
when the new police law becomes
effective next Monday. He was
appointed yesterday by the recently
created Police Commission.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
AIR BASE BIDS OPENED

Navy Studies Estimates to Pro-
vide Pacific Airship Station.
Bids for construction of giant
helium container and ,00O-gallon
elevated water tank at the new Naval
Air Station, Sunnyvale. Calf, future
West Coast airship base, were opened
Yesterday in the Navy Bureau of Yards
and Docks.
Nine bids were received for construc-
ton of a 1000, ,000-cubiC foot gas holder,
the lowest being that of the Stacey
Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati, for
Sl14,487. Six bids were received for
the water tank, the lowest being the
S9,970 bid of the McClintic Marshall
Corporation, Bethlehem, Pa.
Bids for construction of sewer and
water systems and the helium and
boiler plant buildings at Sunnyvale will
be opened February and bids for the
administration building and dispensary
and barracks buildings on February II,
Evening star., 1932-01-28

when matters Of interest to the rife
and pistol shooters of the country will
be acted upon.
Brig. Gen. G.. A. Fraser, adjutant
general of North Dakota. who sue
ceeds Benedict Crowell of Cleveland,
Ohio as president of the association,
will be toastmaster at the dinner.
Reports to be submitted by c. B.
Lister, secretary-treasurer of the asso-
citation, show that the business depres-
sion has had only negligible effect on
the sport of shooting during the past
year.
Evening star., 1932-01-28
WOMAN'S PLUNGE PR0BED

Police planned today to question
Louise Houston, 25 colored, regarding
her plunge last night from the roof of
1909 Seventh street.
The woman, who lives at 121113
Seventh street. dropped from the roof
when a second precinct policeman went
to the house in response to a report
that a man was trying to break in.
1t was while the officer was pursuing
the man, he reported, that the woman
hurtIed from the roof. Suffering
back injury, she was treated at Freed
mems Hospital