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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-27
TWENTY EIGHT PASSENGERS
 LEAVE HERE ON ALEUTIAN

With 28 passengers from Juneau, the steamer Aleutian sailed for the Westward from Pacific Coast Dock at 5 pm. yesterday Capt. O. C.. Anderson is master of the Aleutian and Joe Large is purser. "A
 The outbound list: o.
 To Seward-C. R. Gallagher, B. M Hayiff, E. E. Sommers, G. Ger mon, K. O. Scribner, Mrs. K. O. Scribner, George Kolendick, Gil Rich, Mrs. Ella H. Still, Eldon Barders, Russ Theisen, L. w. De- vine, John Seppanen, E. Bellinan Aleck Koskola, A. Koskola, D. Wes- ton, H. Simmons, G. s. Pulford, E. w. Doughty, Peter Labor, A. H. Leonard.
 To Valdez-W. Kain, Dora Liv- shekoff, A. L. White, John Doe.
 To Cordova-Mrs. E. Duvall.
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JUNEAU MEN AGENTS
 FOR FISHING FIRM

Articles of incorporation were filed with Territorial Auditor Frank A Boyle today by the Oceanic Fisher ies Company, Inc, of Seattle with Alaska headquarters at Kodiak, op- erations at Raspberry Straits. AL aska agents are R E. Robertson, M E. Monagle of Juneau and Clyde R. Ellis of Anchorage
 The company is capitalized for $100,000 with the following listed as incorporators M. Macobs, Alton Goings and Dwight Goings. t
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PATCO MAKES
 EARLY FLIGHT

With three passengers, Everett Novel; representing Blake, Moffatt and Towne, and Joe Morrison, air. port manager at Whitehorse for the PAA, on leave to visit relatives in Telegraph Creek, for Wrangell, and Mrs. Lois Whitten for Petersburg, the Alaska Air Transport seaplane Patco, flown by Pilot Sheldon Sim mons left Juneau at o'clock this morning and returning at a. m.
 At 9:30 a. m. the Patco again took off with Sam SamarZich and Wick Vukonich for Chichagof, and Carl Ivan for Hirst Chichagof.
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! } { lToR Rs!'.!.:'':.1 sM:z'':.1 FOR SALE-Thorobre water span
 iel puppies; inquire 407 Calhoun
 Avenue or write Martin Bloxham,
 Juneau.
 FOR SALE-50-ft. cruiser, 45 hp. engine, sleeps six. All equipment. ! S70O cash. Better hurry. Call at l Brownies Barber Shop. l FOR SALE = 44la acres patented mink and chicken ranch. Stucco house. 120 mink pens. Chicken houses. Glacier Highway. $2 2,5oO co. Colt Island, patented. 115 acres, s2000.00. Al Forsythe, City. FOR SALE = Lunch counter and range hood. Call l73. FOR SALE-Five-ro furnished house on Willoughby. Telephone 72
 FOR SALE-Star motor equipped with water cooled manifold, gear pump and oil cooler. $6500. Box 436 Phone 2403, Douglas. 4------------- ------------------- FOR SALE-Fine garden soil. Tele- phone 1903.
 FOR SALE IF h.p. Evinrude, $450O. Ehrman w. Bliss. 48l South Franklin St. FOR SALE-Highway residence on two and one-half acre tract, close to Juneau. Large house, partly furnished. Good garden ground in fine shape. Easy terms. P. O. Box 1852, Juneau. l FOR SALE-Eighteen it. speedboat hull, first class condition. Rea- sonable, address 20. Box 53l, Jl- near.
 FOR SALE-Ulusually nice High way residence on two acre tract four and a half miles from town. Five room house fully furnished. Oil neat. Moderate terms. Allen Shattuck.
 FOR SALE-A-1 16-ft. outboard motorboat, $75. Also 21a horse- power stationary engine, $45. Phone or write J. B. Burford x Co, Juneau, Alaska. FOR SALE Ten-room furnished house, also five-room furnished house; close in, 3rd and Frank
 lin. Good tenants, reasonable. Terms can be arranged Address P. O. Box 1906, Juneau. FOR SALE-A-1 Underwood type writer, $25; coil bed springs, $5; E. washing machine. $20. Opposite Cash Cole Dock. second story apt. FOR SALE - Six-room furnished house with bath. real bargain; terms Write P. O. Box 2276, City FOR SALE - Two houses corner Sixth and Main, to be wrecked or removed from lot See J. F. Mullen.
 FOR SALE-1930 Willys Knight roadster, Al condition, $l5000. See Bill Rudolph, Sanitary Groc. FOR SALE-Atwater- Kent combin- ation phonograph and radio. s25o value, for $65 cash. Phone 393 after pm.
 FOR SALE = Two residence view lots, reasonable. See Martin at light company.
 WANTED ! WANTED Experienced woman for general housework. Phone 039 two | short one long. | WANTED First class waitress
 Call Juneau Coffee Shoppe. EXPERIENCED young wom n i wants general housework. soc hour Phone 380l.
 WANTED TO BUY-One acre on Douglas Highway, near Bridge.
 Phone 238.
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BARR PLANE IN FROM ATLIN, IS OFF AGAIN

The North Canada Air Express Pilgrim plane flown by l.. F. Barr arrived yesterday afternoon from Atlin, B. C., with one passenger, Einar Tattley, and took off on return flight to Atlin with a. ton of freight at one o'clock this 'af- ternoon a;.s s..s ai
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-27

FOR RENT-Four room furnished apartment. Telephone 23l or see Bert Caro-.
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GIANT LINER :. QUEEN MARY
 J. s. BOUND
Over Two Thousand Pas sengers Aboard Ship
 on Maiden Trip

SOUTHAMPTON, May 27.-Queen Mary, Britain's 80,773 ton liner, sail ed at ABA o'clock this afternoon for New York City on the maiden trip across the Atlantic.
 The Queen Mary has 2,139 pas sengers aboard for the United States.
 Thousands cheered as the liner was warped away from the dock.
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. Q Q . . . . c TIDES TOMORROW
TWO HALIBUTERS
 SELL AT SEATTLE

SEATTLE, May 27.-Two hali
 but schooners arrived from the western banks today. The Polaris brought in 35,OO0 pounds and sold for 81a cents straight; The North ern brought in 39,00O pounds and sold for SIS and cents. lAa sl.s
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FOR RENT - Three-room apart ment, partly furnished. Telephone 385
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FOR RENT Furnished, steam heated room Seventh and Frank lin. Phone 68l.
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FOR SALE-50-ft. cruiser, 45 h.p. engine, sleeps six All equipment. S700 cash. Better hurry. Call at Brownies Barber Shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-27
TO VALDEZ

Baria Levshokoff, who has been receiving medical treatment in the Government Hospital, was discharg- ed yesterday and sailed on the Aleu- tian for Valdez.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-27

FOR SALE-Ulusually nice High way residence on two acre tract four and a half miles from town. Five room house fully furnished. Oil neat. Moderate terms. Allen Shattuck.
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FOR -Thorobred water span iel puppies; inquire 407 Calhoun Avenue or write Martin Bloxham, Juneau.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Whv Not Invite Him?

Overton Harris of New York City
should be invited to Washington as a
guest of the city and be permitted to
exercise in full the authority that he
possesses in his own bailiwick. But who
is Overton Harris and why should he be
invited to come to Washington?
Overton Harris is a magistrate and
he holds forth in the Washington
Heights Police Court on 151st street.
On Sunday he was listening to the Or
derry testimony in a disorderly conduct
case when the quiet and dignity Of his
court were shattered by a series Of fiend-
ish explosions from the street. Looking
out of the window the magistrate saw Po-
liceman Michael Darienzo trying to start
his balky motor cycle. The magistrate
ordered the policeman forthwith into
court and charged him with violation
of the anti-noise ordinance.
The policeman protested the charge
and may take his case all the way to
Mayor La Guardia. But regardless Of
Evening star., 1936-12-17
A Move Toward Equity.

Senator Kings sympathetic agreement
with the Board of Trades proposal that
the District henceforth be placed on
an equal footing with the States and
Territories in the ALLEGATION of highway
funds will be shared, it is to be hoped,
by other members of the new Congress
who study the equities involved.
The practice of eliminating the Dis
trict from distribution Of bounties or
grants probably resulted from the fact
that at the time these grants, especially
for highway building, were inaugurated
the District and the National Govern
ment were following systematic and
satisfactory plan for dividing Capital
City expenses between them, represented
In the fixed ratio. 1t was doubtless held
that part Of the United States payment
under fixed ratio represented the special
sbnsation Of the United States toward
Evening star., 1936-12-17
C-Men and Their Critics.

The public generally. more concerned
with results in law enforcement than
with who should get the credit, will join
with Attorney General Cummings in
deploring petty criticism" of j. Edgar
Hoover and his G-men in connection
notorious, gun-fiourishing desperate.
The important thing is not whether
the Federal agents or the New York
police or the New Jersey police con-
Quoted the raid individually or in unison,
but whether the objective of that raid
was achieved.
That the foray was highly successful
is best attested by the recapitulation:
A bandit and his woman safely in Jail, q
confession solving numerous bank rob-
berries and kidnapping obtained-and
not an innocent person harmed in per-
forming the exploit.
Those are results that tend to build
up public confidence in law enforce
ment-and none can deny that the
special agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation have played a major part
in promoting healthy respect in gang
land for the law.
AS matter of fact, the Attorney Gen.
eral says, there Is no foundation for
anonymously-voic charges that F. B. I.
agents double crossed" the police in
New York either as to time or manner of
the capture of Harry Brunette.
The agents saw their man go into an
apartment and they went in and got him.
If they had let him get away, it may
be wondered if police would be as willing
to share the blame as some Of them
now are to grab the glory.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

the merits of his case, 1t is plain that
man of Magistrate Overton Harris spirit
and determination could be of great help
here in Washington. The number of
unnecessary noise makers in Washington
is practically unlimited. The number
Of officials, on the other hand, who are
willing to make any protest or to enforce
any Of the anti-noise regulations-such
as the regulation against unnecessary
automobile horn blowing-is practically
zero. What Washington needs is
group of officials who are determined to
cut down some of the unnecessary street
noises by enforcing available regulations.
Why not make Magistrate Harris the
guest of Washington for few days, give
him the keys to the city and tell him
to go the limit?
Evening star., 1936-12-17
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
RY THOMAS r HENRY

nerve impulses from the point of stimulus
up to the brain. He has traced such an
impulse from the point where the leg of
a frog is touched to its touch centers,
and from the eye to the optical center
when light is flashed against the retina.
These experiments, it is explained in
the report, tend to upset the old reflex
theory that nerve activity resulted only
when a stimulus activated nerve fiber,
which sent an impulse to excite the
nerve center in the brain, from which
another impulse was sent back to COM
plete the circuit. Instead, it is found
that the nerve cells in the brain are
pulsing electrically all the time, at a
regular cadence. When a stimulus
affects nerve fiber it disrupts the
rhythm of the pulsing cells.
1t is not known, DR.. Gerard explains,
whether the nerve cells discharge an
impulse to the nerve fiber whenever they
are beating, but the partial evidence
accumulated to date indicates that they
do not. Nerve impulses resulting from
stimuli can control the beat, as can also
blood chemistry changes. An increase
of potassium in the blood will increase
the beat and an increase of calcium
slow it down.
The change in voltage produced by
the pulsing of the nerve centers, or by
stimulation of nerve fiber, is measured
by means of an electrode placed in the
brain. The electrode is connected with
an amplifier which steps up the tiny
amount of electricity generated by the
nerve action, and with an aScillograph
which records the measurement.
A new instrument, crystal ink-writer,
consisting of a fine pen connected with
a crystal which vibrates in unison with
changes in the electric potential, has
been developed In the University of Chi
cago laboratory. The changes in poten-
tial which DR.. Gerard measures are from
a five-millionth to an eighty -millionth of
a volt. So rapidly does the crystal ink
writer record that 1t has shown there is
only lapse of one fifty-thousandth of
a second between the stimulus received
and the change it produces in the nerve
cell rhythm.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

The intelligence quotient Of an indi-
vidual, long supposed to constitute
measure of Unborn mental ability very
little affected by any outside influence,
is profoundly altered by education.
Such is the finding reported to the
National Academy of Sciences here by
Dr. H H Newman. professor of zoology
at the University of Chicago, on the basis
of studies of identical twins whose innate
qualities should be precisely the same.
During the past seven years DR.. New
man, with his associates, DR.. Frank N.
Freeman and DR.. K. j. Holzinger. have
been studying several pairs of identical
their heredity is the same, but, because
they have been separated in infancy,
their environment has been different.
Recently Dr.. Newman undertook to
establish correlations between the differ
ences found in the twins Of each set
with the known differences in their en-
vironment, using three factors-educa-
tional environment, social environment
and physical environment.
The most significant correlation was
between differences in education OF the
two twins of set and their intelligence
quotient. Fifty per cent OF the total
difference between the I. Q. ratings OF
two such twins was found to be due to
differences in their education; 10 per
cent to differences in social environment;
IL per cent to joint social and educational
differences; 9 per cent to physical health
differences, and 10 per cent to unknown
causes, which are probably prenatal. A
positive correlation between social en-
vironment and rating of the twins on
intelligence tests was found. This cor
relation, DR.. Newman believes, indicates
that the cultural elements in the social
environment have bearing on the train
ing Of the intellect.
The correlation between temperament
and social environment, the University
of Chicago professors found, was negli-
gible. In attempting this correlation,
they believe, they were trying to obtain
a quality not directly related to any
ratable influence in the environment
Also there was no significant correlation
between educational differences and tenn
peramental differences. The only cor
relation found between differences in
physical environment of the two twins
of a set and their physical qualities was
in body weight, in which respect en-
vironment showed large and positive
influence
Some of the negative findings, DR.. New
man stresses, are as significant as the
positive. Other investigations, for ex-
ample, have found differences in the
head size and stature of children Of
immigrants, assumed to be an effect of
environmental change. They found no
such differences in twins reared together
or apart.
So strong do the electrical sensory CEN
ters Of the brain pulse electrically that
when the brain of frog Is removed from
the skull and kept on wet cotton its
olfactory center will keep on pulsing.
according to findings reported to the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences by DR.. Ralph
w. Gerard, physiologist of the University
Of Chicago. With delicate electrical in
struments he has beep able to follow
Evening star., 1936-12-17
National Capital street financing which
made other grants unnecessary.

National Capital street financing which
made other grants unnecessary.
But when the Congress substituted the
lump sum for the payment under fixed
ratio, enacted the gasoline tax which
has become the chief source Of street
revenue, and the size Of the lump sum
began a steady decline while the ex-
penses of National Capital streets and
highways steadily rose, there no longer
remained any logical reason for ex-
Guiding the District from highway grants.
This was partially recognized by Con-
gress during the depression years, when.
as a part of its extraordinary efforts to
create employment, Congress included
the District with the States and Terri
tories in grants for highways and grade
crossing elimination. But the current
years appropriation again ignored the
District, except for grade crossing elm
ination.
Highway grants to the States are
made according to a formula which
assures equal treatment for every State.
The funds concerned, of course, are
paid through national taxes, to which
the District contributes in an amount
exceeding more than each of half of the
States. There is every reason why the
District should share equally in the dis
tribution, especially when the extraordi-
nary obligation of the National Govern
ment toward the National Capital street
system is otherwise unmet.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Shooting Stars.
BY PHrLANDER JOHNSON.
Mutual Forbearance.

Mutual Forbearance.
The man who doesn't think my way
I scarce restrained a sneer,
When various things he had to say
Impressed me as so queer.
sometimes thought his state Of mind
Revealed a sorry plight;
I also felt surprised to find
Sometimes that he was right.
The man who didn't think my way
What patience have shown!
How oft have I concealed dismay
Meath a persuasive tone!
Imagine my surprise to see,
At last, the truth so grim.
That fellow thinks the same Of me
AS have thought of him!
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Roosevelt '|Elected.''

President Roosevelt was elected" on
When the people went to the polls on
November 3 last they did not vote directly
for the President; they voted for presi
dental electors in each State. These
presidential electors make up the "elec-
toral college"-although that appellation
Is not bestowed in the Constitution
which balloted on Monday for President
that being the date set by the law under
the lame duck amendment to the
Constitution.
The presidential electors, as directed in
the Constitution, met in their respective
States to cast their ballots; they did not
all, nor do they ever meet together at
any time. The next step is to send their
ballots to Washington to be canvasSed
at joint session of the House and
Senate, when a final determination is
reached as to the election of President
and Vice President.
The machinery has been declared cum
bersome. The electoral college has been
dubbed fifth, and unnecessary, wheel.
The argument is made, and with some
reason, that the presidential electors
might well be discarded end the people
permitted to vote in each State for
the presidential candidates themselves,
rather than for sets of electors who have
been selected to represent the candidates.
Under the original theory of the Consti
tuition the presidential electors were
supposed to be men of high standing to
whom the final choice of q President
could be left. Any attempt on the part
of presidential electors today to exercise
their discretion would be followed by an
uproar that would shake the Nation.
After the election by the people the
electors have only cut and dried duty
to perform. They must cast their votes
for the candidates to whom they were
pledged when they were named for places
on the ballots.
In New York, for example, there are Al
presidential electors The number ranges
down to three for some of the smaller
States. If some of the voters desired to
cast "write-in" ballots for presidential
candidate whose electors were not on the
ballot 1t would have been necessary in
New York to write in the names of At
presidential electors. In the brief time
given each voter to mark his or her ballot
1t was obviously impossible to undertake
such feat.
Proposals have been made to change
the Constitution so as to permit direct
vote for President and Vice President.
Senator Burke of Nebraska, chief ex-
ponent of the six-year single term for q
President of the United States, might,
II he desired, include in his single-term
amendment provision eliminating the
presidential electors.
Doing away with the presidential elec-
tors would not necessarily mean a change
In counting the electoral votes according
TO States. Each State now has one elec-
toral vote for each Representative in the
House and one for each Senator. 1t is
possible, under this plan, for candidate
to be elected President by a majority of
electoral votes although he had only a
minority of the total popular vote cast
the country over. This has actually
happened on occasion.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Footsteps,

Footsteps.
I watched q baby toddle on unsteady
feet.
And turned to watch an old man
totter by.
Life lies between-youth pirouettes with
laughter sweet,
Manhood, strong vital, moves along with
footsteps fleet;
The tempo changes as the motives die.
For aeons babes have toddled, age has
tottered by;
Aeons ahead it will be Just the same;
First steps in life achieved with an
exultant cry,
Life stepping out with q prolonged and
weary sigh
Yet in his vigor man may not walk
= lamel
Evening star., 1936-12-17

There has even been suggestion that
the world must return to puritanical
standards in order to improve its morals.
1t cannot be imagined that moral ideals
would be improved by the revelation of
neighbor tied to ducking stool or
sitting in the stocks.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Some of the art that has resulted from
relief enterprise has not served to relieve
the feelings of critics who resent most
attempts at modernistic pictorial express
sion.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Old Stuff.

From the williamsport Sun.
A young Italian says that he can in
crease his blood pressure by mental
effort. There's nothing new in that.
Mental effort on the part Of most men
would increase blood pressure to the
extent Of inducing apoplexy.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Demands inevitably increase when gov
ernmental relief is made available. There
may be even a request fer reduced cover
charges at New Year eve parties for
the benefit of unprosperous patrons.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
American "Honesty."

From the Pontiac Press.
The Wheeling, w. Va, hotel manager
who must spend $4,000 a year to replace
the souvenirs" the guests take probably
had his own idea of the traditional
inherent honesty of the American
people.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

1t is always hard for a genuinely pop
ular man to keep entirely out of politics.
David Windsor may still have difficulty
in maintaining the privacy to which as a
private citizen he is entitled.
Evening star., 1936-12-17

Texas was years ago regarded as re-
mote and socially uninfuential. 1t has
IN recent years been asserting a political
Importance in proportion to its geo.
graphical size.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
For Remembrance.

"A man in your position has to under
stand human nature pretty we'll to make
so many unfulflled promises without
losing every friend!"
There is only one great principle of
human nature" answered Senator Sorg-
hum, that you have to understand. A
citizen likes a souvenir of esteem and
even if you can't give him job, a
promise is at least something to re-
member you by
Jud Tunkins says bein' good loser
keeps a man cheerful, but as habit it
gets tiresome.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Keeping Europe Worried.

From the Omaha world Herald.
It isn't so bad so long as Hitler con-
fines himself to scrapping the Versailles
treaty. 1t Is the chance he will begin
scrapping something else that worries
Europe.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Point of View.
Quaintness.

AuhAtuCSSs
It's all wondrous masquerade
In which we mortals mingle.
Discoveries are often made
Which cause the pulse to tingle.
Disguises lead to much complaint,
Illusions must diminish,
And people whom we once called quaint"
Are Business, to the finish.
"De man dat wants to live without
workin," said Uncle Eben, sis purity sho
to declar' de foolishness OBJ his ambition
by playlp' golf or drivn' auto"
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Big Opportunity Ahead.

From the Chicago Daily News.
Baylor University has made Vice
President Garner a doctor of laws. He
should doctor them to good purpose
when he soas back to washington.