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Evening star., 1937-03-27
GROUND STUDIES
MADE AT SAMOA
Clipper Crew Ready to Start
Final Lap of Trip to
New Zealand.
BY EDWIN c. MUSICK.
Captain, Pan-American Clipper.
nv . ~ r%hn

l captain, Pan-AmeTlCan NHppeE.
| BY Radio to The Star.
PAGO PAGO, Samoa, March 27.-
Ground studies-surveys of approaches
| to landing-were made yesterday at
this third station on the 7,000-mile air
trade route under survey by Pan
American Always tween the United
States and New Zealand.
The lay-over here is affording us an
excellent opportunity to familiarize
| ourselves with tide and other charac-
| teristics OF beautiful Tutuila Harbor,
which are as essential to flyers as to
mariners.
Our research into such meteorolog
| ical records as are available, supple
mented by those of more recent date
| compiled by our own new station here,
are centering on the interesting ques-
ton of the period of visibility of THE
Rainmaker." the highest peak in this
mountain group, particularly during
the seasons of greatest rain, haze and
fog Our studies have been satisfac-
tory and indications are that this will
become one of the most important air
landmarks in the South Pacific in fu-
ture years.
Ship Routine Maintained.
| Ship routine was maintained aboard
the clipper yesterday, with everything
in readiness to continue Cur flight
| over the remaining stage of 1900 miles
to Auckland, but the weather on the
course ahead is still not of the best
for the purpose of aerial survey.
Weather of kind which will afford
| greatest visibility is of more impor-
tance on the last stage of our flight
than on any others because of the
fact our route lies across long series
Of coral island groups. which we must
survey.
Our flight will mark the first time
that many of these islands ever have
been observed from the air and their
contours must be carefully recorded,
also all other general aspects, includ-
ing hArbors for future service to air
pilots.
Plan to Study Haapai Group.
We are particularly desirous OF
studying the condition of the Haapai
group and the Tonga.abu group These
lie in the first sector of our plotted
course, south-southeast from here All
available mariners reports are that
anchorages are few in number in the
Haapai group, although this nay not
be fact and the reports due entirely
to the limitations of surface explora-
ton.
One of the special duties of officers
on watch during this part of the
forthcoming flight will be to check and
verify all possible sheltered waters af-
forded by these stepping stones across
the South Pacific.
The speed with which the storm
that has been centered for the last
several days north of the Island OF
New Zealand moves off our projected
course will determine the time of our
take-off. II We leave here at dawn
tomorrow, as now seems possible, we
shall cross the international dateline
in the early hours of the morning, and
although our fight should require no
more than II ora 13 hours, we will
arrive at Auckland Monday evening,
which means we will have practically
no Easter at all.
Copyright, 1887, by the North Amerlc n
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.J
Evening star., 1937-03-27
LAND AT BASRA

BASRA. Iraq., March 81 (P.-Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived
in their sports monoplane. at 9:35 am
t4:35 am. E. S. T) today and took
Of again shortly for an undisclosed
destination believed to be Baghdad.
The Lindberghs, returning from
India, spent last night on the Bahrein
Islands in the Persian Gulf.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
$2,711 PAY ROLL STOLEN
Gunmen Tie Two Messengers to
Hot Steam Pipes.

NEW YORK. March ~ LP)--Three
gunmen took a s2,7ll.9 .95 pay roll from
messengers Of the Court Press, Inc !,
yesterday and escaped after tying their
victims to hot steam pipes.
The messengers, Irwin Liberman and
Daniel Hughes, each %, were held up
at the lobby Of a building at 1870 Cedar
street, where the Court Press has
offices on the second floor.
They were backed into a dim fire
we'll, serving as an inside fire escape,
and tied with wire to steam pipes. Both
suffered minor burns before Hughes
worked himself free and then released
Liberman. They were bound about
fve minutes.
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DIVORCE GRANTED
TO MRS. BINGHAM
Judge Trammell Signs Decree at
Miami on Grounds of Mental
Cruelty.

ky the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, March 27.-Judge
Worth M. Trammell granted Mrs AL
former Senator Hiram Bingham Of
Connecticut today.
Judge Trammell signed the final
decree this morning after transcript
of the testimony, in which Mrs. Bing-
ham charged the former Senator with
mental cruelty, had been filed.
She sought no alimony.
Bingham's attorneys had read into
the record general denial Of the
charges, although he did not testify.
He has been Ill in Washington.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
LOST.

BOSTON BULL--Male. brindle and white.
green collar vicinity Chevy Chase. Md.
Reward. WIS. I553-W.
BOSTON BULL dark brinole. male, an
sver1DSpe ''Bobo." Phone Alexandria 145,
r. 70 3If Lloyd lane, Alexandra,
-
eNes4lH SETTER white with faint lemon
ppots;Iiost near Bethesda Md; answers
eane Dolly !" CAN Bradley ls0-W. Reward
FRATERNITY PIE-Triangle shaped en-
EaYed w. l.. Coiwe!l Jr. W. l.. CoiwelL
katlonal 6SSs 2s*
GLASSES Folding. in Clanin's case on
Stn st, between and NV. on Friday.
Reward. Georgia s544.
ley HOLDER, brown leather, containing
= car keys. :! Yale keys, / large brass key
end ] small key J. James Dellcatessen.
$u6 18Th st. sc. Lincoln l0271.
LOST in bank. 9th and G SITS. NV. March
-. mans pocketbook. Finder please re-
vDyn drivers license and papers Name on
pa pers In book. Keep money. Wisconsin
f4ih. 2ss
MANILA NVELOPE-National Archives.
containing letters and papers OF value only
10 the undersigned; lost in Diamond cab,
Thursday noon. Kindly return to Wood
yuf Sanner Post. 1901 Calvert ST. NV,
suitable reward.
Evening star., 1937-03-27

Girls Enroll in Y. NJ. C. A. Glass.
COLUMBUS, Nebr (Pl.-The floors
Of upstairs apartments in Columbus
shuddered. SO did the people who live
downstairs.
The reason. The Young Mems Chris
tan Association announced 145 young
women were enrolled for tap dancing
classes.
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FederalCourt that
he would retire
at 10 if named to
the Tenth Circuit
Court of Appeals.
Senator Burke,
Democrat, of Ne
b r a S k a, S a ! d
Y e S t e r d a y he
d i d n 0 t a p
prove elevation OF
a judge who con-
cedes he is so
near the age of
Senility that he is
willing to quit in
two years. VIII
lianlS was So last
Evening star., 1937-03-27
|ADV|SORYOP|N|ONS|
by COURT URGED.
Senator SchWe|Ienbach Pro.
poses Justices Pass on
Pending Legislation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A proposal that the Supreme Court
give advisory opinions on the consti-
tutionality Of pending legislation
evolved today out of debate over the
Roosevelt judiciary bill.
Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat,
of Washington, drafted . resolution
asking the nine justices to agree to
express their views on the legality Of
major bills before Congress or just
adopted.
It would prevent long delays and
uncertainty, he said.
Schwellenbach contended a prece-
Hughes letter to Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, Of Montana doubling the
constitutionality of dividing the court s
work between two or more groups of
justices.
This is clearly an advisory opinion. .
he said, ION matter which has never
been presented to Congress"
The idea, he added, was advanced
when the Constitution was drafted
President Washington later asked the
court, he said. series of questions on
treaties with France, but acted before
getting reply.
Discussion Relaxes.
Discussion of the Presidents bill re-
laxed during the Easter week end, al
though compromise proposals con-
tinued to be offered. Both sides re-
NAMED adamant, however, against CIV
ing ground on basic principles.
Senator Connally, Democrat, ot
Texas, a foe of the Presidents pro-
| posal, suggested a constitutions
amendment fixing the size OF the Su-
preme Court at nine authorizing val.
untary retirement of justices at 7C
| and requiring them to leave the bench
at IS.
He explains it "just so happens" the
amendment would be in line with Mr.
Roosevelt's objectives inasmuch a!
| it would bring, on ratification. immedi.
ate retirement of five justices who by
| that time would be over rs. He con.
tends the people rather than Congress.
should vote on any court change.
The only thingI am hesitant abou
is that some one would say am weak.
ening In my opposition to the Presi.
dents BILL" Connally said. II an
not, at all"
Favors State Conventions.
Connally expressed a preference fol
action on an amendment by Stat,
conventions instead of by Legislatures
although he said he was not sure tn,
amending clause of the Constitution
allowed Congress to call convention
and arrange for election of delegates
Belief that this could be done wa.
voiced by Senator's Burke, Democrat
OF Nebraska and O'Mahoney, Demo
crat. OF Wyoming, opponents of tn,
Presidents bill.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
VIOLENCE FLARES IN DETROIT

TheatergOers See Clash Of Drivers in
Cab Dispute.
DETROIT, March q (P).-Violence
hared today in labor dispute among
drivers OF the Checker Cab Co. here.
A taxicab which Robert Germer
told police was taken from him by six
men was found hanging on the edge of
a breakWater at suburban Crosse
Pointe Farms.
Theatergoers last night witnessed
a spirited brief clash as, police said,
non-union drivers attempted to de-
stroy signs carried by pickets.
Evening star., 1937-03-27

portation. They provide for recogni-
ton of the Midwest Taxicab Drivers
Union. organized by the strikers, as
bargaining agency for its members,
Unemployment of the strikers without
discrimination and adjustment of
wages anG. working hours by joint
arbitration board Decisions of the
board will be retroactive to the time
the men returned to work.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
MORE GRAIN is USED
Increased Amount Required In
Production of Liquors.

Production Of Liquors.
An increasing amount of grain from
farms is being used for whisky, beer
and alcohol
The Agriculture Department re-
ported today that more than 100000
600 bushels of corn, barley and rye
were used in the last fiscal year to
produce alcohol, distilled spirits and
fermented malt liquors.
This compared with about 85,000,-
600 bushels the previous year and TO-
100000 bushels two years ago.
Evening star., 1937-03-27
SENATOR ANSWERS
CRITICS OF JUDGE.
Prompted Williams State
ment He Would Retire at
70, Thomas Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, OF
Oklahoma said today he had prompted
the written statement Of Judge Robert
l.. Williams of the Eastern Oklahoma
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Strikes

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
Only One Inmate
 In This POorhOuse

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. A. The Indiana Department of Public Welfare soon will close a uniqus penthouse in Ohio County.
 There is only one inmate, mar seventy mine years and i'll.
 This lone occupant of a twelve room institution on a 104-acre tract of farm ground has been receiving the undivided attention of a super intendent and matron since the death of companion inmate, Jan uary 9, at the age of ninety three
 The institution is operated un- der the obsolete contract system which provides that the county commissioners shall furnish the farm, buildings and seed while the superintendent provides the stock and tools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
BRAINS WORK
 i DURING SLEEP

NEW YORK, Aug. 4.--Students may fall asleep in class, but their brains go right on working, any way.
 This was proved recently at New York University, where Prof. c. c Clark gave the first public demon stration in this city of the electro encephalograph, or "brain-wave' machine.
 Using a pretty coed Marion Greene, as the subject, Professor Clark hooked up the machine, turn ed out the lights and ordered Mis-: Greene to close her eyes and relax AS she obeyed the instructions al oscillograph recorded the brain waves on moving ticker tape.
 As Professor Clark instructed Miss Greene to "open your eyes, or "close your eyes," the wave. length of her mental responses en- larged or flattened out on the nov ing ticker tape which was projected on a screen.
 The professor admitted that ht wouldn't know just what the ex- pertinent proved until there was some way to interpret the recorded brain waves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
TANK HOMERS
 BLAST WHITE S0x' DESIGNS
Gehrig Opens Game Mum.
 Der 1900 with Circuit < Smash-Cubs Win
(By Associated Press)

Employing the time honore d .homerun technique-hit em where they can't possibly be-New Works s Yankees blew down Chicago's White Sox in both games of their double header yesterday in Manhattan. Homers won both games for the Tanks and swelled their league lead to seven full games. Bill Dickey hit his nineteenth four-base blow of the season with three on in the eighth inning of the second battle, while Joe DiMaggio got his num- Der thirty with two on bases in the seventh inning of the first game. Tony Llzzeri whacked out a circuit clout in each of the games yesterday.
 Lou "Ironman" Gehrig, Yank rst-sacker, starting his 1900th consecutive ball game, hit homer in the first inning of the opener , In the National League, the Chi cago Cubs. employing homers by Lee. Hartnett, and Demaree, sub | jueated the Phillies to stretch their leading margin to seven games over the Giants, who dropped g tight ten-inning tussle to the Gin cinnati Reds.
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Sport SInzsts

Chick Hafey's courageous come back is one of the Eighlights of the current baseball season.
 Hafey was counted out by every one but himself two years ago, when series of sinus operations seemed to write finis to his baseball career. His eyesight was bad-so bad that the dozens of pairs of glasses he tried proved little help.
 The hard-hitting outfielder, who had won the National League bat ting crown with the St. Louis Car dinals in 1881, was going along in fine style with the Cincinnati Reds early in the 1895 campaign. Then he caught the flue wniie taking part in a rainy Thinning game against the New York Giants. That brought the old sinus ailment back with a vengeance. In nine days his weight went down 35 pounds.
 More. operations. i.len back to his California farm to try to build himself up for the comeback. It Was long, discouraging task. The rapid improvement in Chicks condition during the winter promp- ted him to seek another trial with the Reds. Tie Cincinnati man. agement was none too enthusiastic. When Hafey reported at camp, he was just another ballplayer trying to win a berth.
 It took him some time to adjust his batting sights but before long Manager Chuck Dresscn saw he could help the Reds. At first il was only in the role of an occas- sional pinch-hitter. but eventually, when the youngsters on whom Dres- sen had counted failed. Hafey was inserted in the lineup. Today he is one of the leading hitters on the Reds roster and bat ting in his old clean-up spot Chick isn't certain just how long the cure is going to last, but he's hoping He's had hopes before and seen them fade. He's 34 now and an- other punch from old Man Sinus would just about prove a finisher
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
SENATOR SET SEALS DEEPER
 IN THIRD SPOT
Homer Wins for Padres Oakland Hurler Limits
 Angels to One Hit
(By Associated Press)

Bewildered as to how the Sena- tors overcame six-run lead to nose them out, the San Francisco Seals widowed deeper in the Pa- cific Coast Leagues third place today.
 San Diego is still riding high after walloping Portland with the aid Of Williams homer with two men aboard, while the Angels are bemoaning their winning streak, broken yesterday by Bonham, Oak land righthander Bonham saw his chances for "no-hitter' go by the boards in the eighth, when Mesner slashed a single for the Angels only hit of the day.
 The lowly Missions continued their winning streak at the expense Of the Seattle Indians.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League

Sacramento 8; San Francisco T Missions 5; Seattle 2. Oakland l; Los Angeles 0. san Diego II; Portland 3.
 National League Philadelphia 1, Chicago 4. Brooklyn 4, 4; Pittsburgh 5, 10. New York 2; Cincinnati 3. Boston 2; St. Louis 5.
 American League Chicago 2. 3; New York T, 5. Cleveland 2; Boston 13. Detroit 1; Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 8: Washington 3, twelve
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
11-Pound Weight
 Can't Break Glass

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4. = Lead weights that bounce off glass like rubber balls are among the won- ders of Pittsburghs famed Mellon Institute
 Tn the glass exhibit at the insti- ute an eleven-pound weight falls seven feet, strikes the glass and bounces harmlessly away. The glass is specially tempered and will hold mans weight.
 All sorts of glass abound in the institute.
 There's -withstanding glass, sound-reducing glass. bullet proof glass, glass to keep off frost, and document glass to prevent impor- ant papers from fading.
 Reducing the weight of a ship by thousands of pounds is "battleship" glass.
 And. say the Mellon Institute re- search experts. a livabie glass house isn't so far in the offing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
GOTHAM MISS RATES
 TABLE TENNIS TOP
 POST FOR 4TH YEAR

CHICAGO, H., Aug. 4. = Ruth Aarons, of New York City, has been named for the top spot among the nations women table tennis stars, for the fourth straight year.
 Mayo Rae Rolph, of Portland, Oregon, was rated sixth and Geor- gianna Fossas, of Seattle, has been ranked twenty-first.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Louise, on which they are passeng- CTS, was in port. tI '
 Richard E. Krop., prominent att torney who is a Past Potentate of Medinah Temple in Chicago, his wife and two daughters, the Misses Marion L. and Katherine E. Kropf, of the American Color Type Com pany and Chief Rabban of Medinah and Adolph G. Foss, vice president Temple, and his wife, compose the party. :.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
OFF TO THE
 YACHT RACES
By GARDNER SOULE AP Feature Service Writer

Regattas have been held since 170O. In 1794 one was interrupted, a British newspaper" of the time explaining why: Last week some gentlemen who were taking cruise in a schooner around the Isle of Wight fell in with the Dugomar, French privateer, and were taken into Dunkirk, where they were stripped of everything valuable and set at liberty"
 The Royal Yacht Club sponsors British entries in Americas cup races. One of the clubs early commodores, the Earl of YarbOr- ough, believer in strict man-of-war discipline. In 1885 he offered the Admiralty a gift of $5,000 if it would grant him a warrant to flog his men.
 The New York Moderation So- ciety chartered steamer to follow the 1885 races, but took along a person of immoderate humor. This worthy in turn took along the dum- my figure of woman, which he threw into the sea. Taken for real body, the dummy caused conster- nation among the excursion fleet
 Skilled professional crews man Americas cup yachts today. Once however, things were less compli-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
KRIECER KAYOES JOE DUCA, SIXTH

NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Solly Krieger, 166, of New York, scored a technical knockout over Joe Duca in the sixth round of their ten- round ring mix here last evening. Duca, who halls from Paulboro, New Jersey, weighed in at 159 pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
SIMMS GETS NOD
 FROM TEXAS LAD

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. A. Eddie Simms. 198-pound Cleveland CT, outpointed Tom Beaupre, 196. of Dallas, Texas, here last night in ten rounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
PROMINENT CHICAGO
 GROUP ARE VISITORS

A Chicago party of six, Including two men high in Wid-West Shriners organization, visited in Juneau Tuesday night while the Princess
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Beef cattle raisers should select type smooth in conformation and blocky in build. advises F. w. Bell, animal husbandry expert at Kansas State College.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04
American League

FLEISCHMANN'S GINS (Dry or Sloe) cost no more than ordinary gins! --adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Sir Thomas Lipton, who spenl $15,OOO, ,O0O vainly seeking the Amer ica's Cup. came closest to winning in 1920-with Shamrock ". Best three of five races decided. Lipton's yacht won the first two, and fin ished 19 seconds ahead of the Reso- lute in the third. But Resolute's time allowance wiped out the mar gin and the U. s. yacht eventually won the series.
 From 1851 to date, the U. s. has won every race, and every race o1 42 sailed except five. The U. s lost one race to Livonia in 1871, two to Shamrock W in 1920 and two tt Enterprise in 1884.
 In 1851, the yacht America wor the first cup race-from IA boats In 1870, g U. s. yachts started against the Cambrai, first British challenger. Nine Americans fin. ished in front of the British entry
 The 2-foot, solid silver Americas cup, emblematic of world yachting supremacy, was originally offered by the Royal Yacht Club to be sailed for by all nations over the club. own course-around the Isle ol Wight. The race was sailed or that course just once-in 1851.
 Enterprise, successful defender of Americas yachting laurels ir 1880, cost $700,000 Enterprise solo for junk in 1885, went for $5,000
 Crew members of yacht gC through one of the most terrible grinds in sport, from morning unti night on a race day. Few amateur yachtsmen can stand the work to which the average Corinthiar is not accustomed. The strain hurts most in the hands. which must bt tough as leather to manipulate the sails. Once up, sails do not neces- sarily stay up, but may come tumb' ling down after af moment aloft Experienced yachtsmen with hard iened muscles find their hands he- come raw under the ordeal.
 The New York World in 188' sent a diver down to measure tht Scotch cutter >Inistle, ctlailcngel for the Americas Cup. There wa! a discrepancy of IS inches betweer challenge figures and actual meas iurements. The races were held af. ter a row.
 In 1851, some Americans tried tt secure bets on the race but thu Englishmen would not gamble However, Commodore Stevens o1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

cated. The Defender, U. s. boat in 1895, had a crew made up entirely of fishermen from Deer Island, Me.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Shamrock W had crew of pro- fessional British shippers, each with his own opinion as to what every move should be. An army with too many generals, you might have said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Although cotton production sag ged in other Panhandle counties last year, Castro County, Tex, gin- ned 2,334 bales, or nearly twice the plumber in 1885.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

Purchase of land for Federal for ests was first authorized in 1911. {
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Al Rights Reserved b, Th. Asso'

the America bantered Ramsey, the English yacht builder, into betting the price of a jibboon, and persuad- ed the maker of a flying jib to risk the price of that article. This was the extent of speculation on the first race.
 This is from a New York news paper of 1887-just 50 years ago: "A marked feature of the races was the amateur photographers. They fairly swarmed on all the excursion boats. Every now and then some elderly person would be startled by hearing an ominous click and turn suddenly to behold the fierce-look- ing instrument turned upon him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-04

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Skilled professional crews man Americas cup yachts today. Once, however, things were less compli-