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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
ELECTRA COMES IN WITH SEVEN ABOARD SUNDAY
Plane to Return to Interior Tomorrow-Ailing Can
 dle Oldtimer Aboard

With seven passengers aboard the PAA Electra plane. piloted by Jerry Jones and Walt Hall, flew from Fairbanks to Juneau yester- day. arriving here at ? o'clock in the afternoon The plane is to re- turn to the Interior tomorrow af- ternoon, following the arrival here from the South of the steamer AL aska.
 Coming to Juneau aboard the plane yesterday were: w M. Od- on. Harry Sheepperd Mrs. Mary Cswthorne R. O. Bullwinkel, M. Iniesen, Robert J. Casy. Louis Lar son. oldtimer of Candle. was also a passenger from Fairbanks. He is ill and is enroute to the Pioneers Home at Sitka. On the planes arrival here he was taken immed- lately to St. Ann's Hospital by am bulance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
NORAH IN PORT
 HERE ENROUTE
 SOUTH SUNDAY
Canadian Steamer Has But Ten Out of Skagway-
 Takes B More Here

Carrying ten southbound passen- gers from Skagway, the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Norah arr rived here from Lynn Canal Sun day morning at one o'clock, and sailed south at o'clock, after talk ing aboard thirteen more passeng- CTS southbound from Juneau.
 Leaving Juneau aboard the Nor ah were Mrs. T. Cashen, Floyd F. Volk, MT. and Mrs. w. c. Mo Carthy, Joe George, J. K. Popow, the Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Sandal, J. Harrison, F. Thompson, T. Thor nicroft, J. L. Morrison, J. G. Tel ford.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
GUBSER IS OFF FOR ARCTIC;T ITO START
 WOLF CAMPAIGNS

With an intensive campaign directed against wolves and oth- CT predatory animals mapped out for spring and summer. Harlan Gubser, district agent for the Game Management Division of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey. is to sail from Juneau for Seward aboard the steamer Alaska.
 From Seward, MT. Gubser will go to Anchorage, Fairbanks and the Kuskokwim country to set into mo- tion the predatory animal program being undertaken comparatively by the Territory and the Biological Survey
 After contracting agents in those sections, MT. Gubser will shift the center of his activities to the head of the Colville River. where a cam paign against the wolf menace is to be got underway by the Terri tory, Reindeer Service and Biolog- ical Survey. MT. Gubser already has an assistant, Logan Varnell, in the Colville River district ready to con- centrate efforts against the wolves throughout the Arctic region on the reindeer ranges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
MARTIN MAKES
 DIRE THREATS

OSHAWA, April 12.-Homer Mar tin, President of the United Auto mobile Workers of America, threat ened possible new strikes in the United States General Motors Cor poration plans here last Saturday night, if the strike of the 3,70O Canadian GMC workers is not set tied amicably
 Martin said: If they don't make cars in Canada under union condi- tions they won't make them in the United States. We will give them time to make up their minds"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
Highway from Anchorage
 to Palmer Closed by Mud

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 12. . The Anchorage-Palme highway is now officially closed to allow the frost to leave the ground which is now soft, making the highway almost impossible due to mud. The Alaska Railroad is operating daily trains while the highway is closed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
EVELYN BERG HERE
 WITH 400 TONS OF
 CARGO FOR JUNEAU

Bringing about four hundred tons of cargo to Juneau, half of it gen. eral merchandise, and most of the remainder building materials, the Alaska Transportation Company freighter Evelyn Berg arrived in port here from the South at 3 p'- clock this morning, and is due to sail south for Hoonah about mid night tonight. From Hoonah, she will make her way south by way of Wrangell.
 Docking here first at Femmers Dock, the Evelyn Berg, Capt. Alden Hansen, shifted this morning to the Juneau Commercial Dock, and is tc shift again late this afternoon to the Alaska Juneau dock from where she will sail tonight.
 Lode ana placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
Drought Victims
 Move Westward
Face Stiff Problems, How ever, as Excluded from
 Relief Regulations

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Fed- eral relief leaders said today, that
 100000 drought victims who have woved westward face a stiffcr strug- gle than the early pioneers, be- cause the lack of free land forces them to cluster at the outskirts of cities and are thereby excluded from relief regulations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
Hughes, at 75, Still Is Trying
 For q Niche Beside MarsIialI's s
By MORGAN BEATTY ZAP Feature Service Writer)

NfhA AN@tuAC JCANAtC vvAisSAI
 WASHINGTON, April l2.-Chie Justice Charles Evans Hughe reached the age of 75 yesterday April II, with the guiding hope oI his lifetime seriously obscured b, an era of social unrest.
 That hope often has been dis cussed privately by close Washing ton observers, and long has beer an .open secret among those who know him best.
 Simply stated, it is a desire to be recognized by historians beside the great John Marshall as Hughes the Chief Justice" & {
 Parents Disappointed
 The visions of the man who be- gan his career as youthful prodi- gy were disclosed first to disap- pointed parents long before he en- tered college. They wanted him to become a Baptist minister, follow ing in his fathers footsteps. But young Charles took up the law.
 He has been drafted into many other pursuits, including the Cover norship of New York, the Secre- taryship of State, the Republican Presidential candidacy. But the guiding light always was the same the brilliant fame of John Mar shall. the man who in Washington's day established the Supreme Courts equality among the other branches of the government.
 lie accepted an Associate Justice ship on the Supreme Court bench, but that wasn't quite enough. When the opportunity came to take the guiding scepter in 1880, he accept ed
 Purpose is Disclosed
 At once his purpose was disclosed, and his first efforts as Chief Jus tice was to seek speed and effic- iency for the Court. He drove him. self and his associates unrelentingly until, two years ago, he had brought the Supreme Court abreast of it's work. He submitted the proof of this accomplishment recently in his letter to Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, opposing the Presi- dents plan to enlarge the high tri- bunal
 By 1873 the political and econo- mic horizon were alive with the signs of changing age. The New Deal had come, and with it train of social and humanitarian and economic legislation that represent ed vast departures Right along with the New Deal was developing within the Supreme Court itself a four-man die-hard opposition to all of the departures.
 The turmoil was reaching a cres- cendo just as Hughes was preparing to take his second step toward inn mortality. He began pressure on his colleagues for a unanimity of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
OPEN BIDS TONIGHT
 ON B.B. GRANDSTAND

The playground committee of the Juneau Fire Department will meet with the trustees at o'clock to- night in the office of Frank Met calf, for the purpose of opening bids for building the new grand stand at the ball park.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
SITUATION QUIET

OSHAWA. April 12.-The situa- tion is quiet here. No efforts have been made to open any of the plants. Tickets are onduty also Mounted Police.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12

A guinea hen will not lay eggs in a nest touched by a human being.
 From 1924 to 1886 more than lo,- 100000 people visited Lenin's tomb in Moscow Red Square.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12

pronouncement by Hughes himself at one time that public men in po- sitions similar to his own probably should step down when they have passed the 18th milestone.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12
Change in Price of Gold Silly Gossip"
 Declares Morgenthau

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Sec- retary of the Treasury Henry A. Morgenthau, Jr., in discussing ru- mors of the change in the price of gold, said: We know of no plans about changing the price of gold" He also added that it was only silly gossip" concerning the na- lions monetary policies that have been circulated in recent weeks.
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 Boars imported from Russia now run wild and are hunted for sport on the Monterey peninsula. Calf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12

Approximately 15,000 homicides are committed in the United States each year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-12

Lode ano placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
BOYS CHARGED
WITH THEFTS
IN BRAWLEY

Bad company and late hours were
blamed for their entrance into
crime" by two little boys arrested
and charged with blrglarizing two
service stations in Brawley.
Through tangle of blond hair
the 10 and 12-year-old brothers
gazed in awe at fingerprint evidence
which trapped them. Their bur-
glarizing Melted them S1.5O in cash,
a wrench, some lamp bulbs and an
empty gallon can.
The youngsters told Deputy SHEER
if Joe Lizarraras that they would
go to bed at 8 o'clock every night.
wait until their parents were asleep
and then go forth with companions
they declared influenced them for
the worst.
Three billfolds allegedly taken
from q Brawley dime store were
found in possession of the boys. They
said the money containers were
given them by third boy who adj
mitted taking them from the store.
Juvenile authorities are inyesti-
eating their case
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

the motors and instruments before
deciding to begin the 28,000-mile
trip scheduled to terminate at Oak
land, Calf.
Miss Earhart lifted her plane, the
same one that crashed March 20
and halted her first attempt to Cir
Gle the globe from the runWays at
Municipal airport at 1855 am. est.
The first planned stop was San
Juan, l,181 miles from Miami. At
her base speed of $50 miles an hour,
she would reach the Puerto Rican
capital in eight hours. She was ac-
companied by her navigator, Capt.
Fred j. Noonan. former Clipper pilot.
Last March II, Miss Earhart took
off from Oakland on a westward
flight around the world. It failed
when she crashed at Honolulu after
a tire blowout on the runWayS.
Reversal of her route on the pres
ent hop-to the eaStWard-Will car
ny her past the worst anticipated
weather sooner than if she were to
make another attempted westward
flight The worst weather Miss Ear
hart foresaW was in Africa. where,
it was explained. flying conditions
grow worse daily at this season. The
route Of the flight was near the
equator most Of the way
A crowd of $50 gathered at the
airport at dawn for the start of
the flight. Delay of nearly an hour
was experienced when minor repair
work was necessary.
The plane, with q capacity for
LOO gallons of gasoline, carried 900
gallons on the comparatively short
hop to San Juan.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01


j. H. Sanford, 80, chief petty Of
ficer in the U. S. Navy, was in
Stantly killed in the crash.
Laverne Keller, AZ, driver of the
truck, was rushed to the La Jolla
hospital, suffering from what high
way patrol officers said was a
broken neck.
R. w. Woodwork, marine pri-
vate,, and Jack F.. Smith, electri-
clans mate, were taken to the
naval hospital in San Diego, suf-
fering from intercranial injuries
from which ambulance surgeons
said they could not recover.
Three other sailors, Lawrence E.
Watson, David Grossman, and Will
son B. owens, also were said to be
so critically hurt they may die.
The accident occurred when A.
F. StorrS, 30, Los Angeles, driver
of the bus in which 81 sailors and
2 marines were returning to the
naval base in San Diego from holi-
day furloughs in Los Angeles,
ploughed into the rear of the heavy
truck and trailer, one mile south
of the sWank Del Mar resort hotel
Those who sustained minor in
juries, such as cuts and abrasionS
from flying glass, and bruises, were
r. S. Cousins, Charles Harris, Nor
man Tapsten, Albert Brocato, Jas.
Scruggs, Clarence Corris, R. P.
Thurston, David Lands, Arthur
Benedict, Clyde Fox, Charles Gross,
G.. d. Schultz, and w. H. Hazard.
StorrS was taken to San Diego
where he was booked at the coun-
ty Jail on a charge of negligent
homicide.
Deputy Coroner David Gerhson
said, after he hal questioned the
driver, that StorrS apparently fell
asleep at the wheel of his vehicle,
just prior to the crash.
The entire side of the bus was
clipped away by the impact with
the heavy truck and trailer, and
the big passenger vehicle rolled
down an embankment and lay on
its side in the ditch.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

written decisions
The court ruled:
|. That it would not. as requested
by the government, consider a low
err court ruling which ordered the
Tennessee valley to trial in the
Tennessee Federal District court in
an attack brought by the Tennessee
Electric Power company, and other
utilities.
2. That it would not--as request
ed by both the government and
utility-hear the Electric Bond and
Share company, test of the Utility
Holding company act until the cir
cult court of appeals has first heard
the case.
g. That is would hear--despite
the protest of the government-an
appeal by two utility concerns from
a District Of Columbia court of ap-
pealS verdict which denied their
right to challenge constitutionality
of Public Works Administration
power loans to municipalities.
The latter ruling was thought to
assure a direct decision in the fall
on the pWA power policy.
The District OF Columbia court of
appeals. held that the power conf
panieS had no right to challenge
PWA loans since they could not
complain of municipal competition.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
NINE WON EN-
THREE MEN ON
MeIvER JURY
Group Named in Quick
Time to Consider
Forgery Case

Nine women and three
men comprise the jury be-
fore which F. H. McIver,
former Imperial Irrigation
District treasurer, will be
tried on charges of embezzling
S2,265 in district funds and on two
counts of forgery.
The jury was selected from a
panel of go men and women order
ed to report in Judge R. D. Nc
Pherrins court at o'clock Tues
day morning. The selection was
completed at 11:50 o'clock, less
than three hours after court con-
vened.
Court adjourned at noon until
9 o'clock Wednesday morning.
+ McIver and his attorney, Walter
w. Hoy of Los Angeles, were down
from Los Angeles. District Attorney
Elmer Head and Deputy District
Attorney R. I. French represented
the state.
In his questioning of the jury
panel, Head pointed out various
points in the grand jury indict-
ment citing IA counts against the
man who had been connected with
the district since early in its his
tory.
Members of the jury are: Elmo
Bailey, WeStmorland; Mrs. Stella
Ballard, Brawley; Mrs. Shirley An
derSon, Calexico; Denton D. Copen-
haver, Seeley; Mrs. Beth M. Slice,
Ell Centre; Mrs. Frances M. Muir
ply, Brawley; Mrs. Helen M. Con-
sole, Calexico; Mrs. Lula B. Mid
dleton, Brawley; Mrs. Maggie j.
Hackleman, Ell Centre; Mrs. Jean
Swerdfeger, Ell Centre; Mrs. Muir
riel Schwegel, Imperial; Roy Bonn
erS, Calexico.
McIver was indicted on II counts
of embezzlement and two counts of
forgery by the Imperial County
grand jury following a lengthy
investigation Of the treasurer's ac-
counts after he was defeated for
reelection early this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

Ell Centre lodge during the services
at the chapel and at the burial at
Evergreen cemetery. Two present
and one former superior court judge
and three attorneys officiated as
pail bearers. All of the men were
friends of long standing and had
recognized his legal ability over
long period. The palloearers we're:
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson. Judge
r. d. McPherrin, Judge A. c. Fin
ney, Ross Z. HickCoX, Harry Hor-
ton, and Don Bitter.
After teaching in various parts
of Che United States, Brown went
to Yuma in 1884 from Utah and
went into partnership with w. o.
Huson, attorney. In 1895 he was
Instrumental in establishing the
Yuma Sun. Two years later he be-
came district attorney of Yuma
county. The law partnership with
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

Houson was dissolved in 1899 when
Huson went to the Spanish Amer
lean war. In 1901, Brown went to
Cape Nome, Alaska, during the
gold rush.
He came to Imperial Valley 30
years ago and became a member
of the law firm of Conkling and
Brown, as q partner of M. w. Con-
king. The partnership was disconr
tinued when Conkling was elected
to the superior court bench in
Imperial county.
He practiced law in this county
until his failing health, forced his
retirement. He was the dean of
the Imperial County Bar Associa-
ton and one of the most highly
respected legal lights in southern
California. He was a life member
of the Yuma Elks lodge.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
CONGRESS GOES
OVER F. VETO
ON INSURANCE

WASHINGTON, June l. UP
Congress today OVERRIDE President
RooSevelt's veto of bill to extend
for another five years the war-risk
term insurance Still held by more
than 10000 world war veterans.
Among those who voted against
the veto was Thomas Ford. D., Cal
The house voted TO override the
veto by an overwhelming roll call
vote of 1868 to ID. A few hours later
the senate also voted to override,
90 to II. A two-thirds vote was
necessary IN each house.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

on an approaching DOydllSJ air
plane or WarShip.
1t was said that Germany's fu-
ture action depended entirely on
developments. For the present, it
was said, the government was sat
isfied with it's bombardment of Al
meria in reprisal for the BOMBING
of the battleShip Deutschland by
Spanish LoyaliSt airplanes. Any
further provocation, however, will
be met with further reprisals it
was made plain.
REFUGEES FLEE
RUINED CITY
Copyright 1887 by United Frsss)
ALMER1A, Spain, June |. UP
Long columns of refugees. made
up of men and women who feared
another German bombardment
from the sea. wended northward
from this ruined, CSserted city
today. SO abject was their fear,
that hundreds had spent the night
in caverns in the rocky hills over
looking the mediterranean.
Among the hundreds seriously
wounded by the 300 shells that
came crashing into this town of
As 900 population before dawn yes
terday, were several Americans,
members of a social service organ
ization. The official toll stood at
20 dead, 100 wounded critically, SO
wounded less seriously. Bodies still
were being taken from the ruins
and there was no assurance that
the final death count would not
be higher.
Not one house in Almeria escaped
the bombardment. Forty nine hous-
es were destroyed totally and more
than 100 were useless wrecks.
Shrapnel burst over the city in
clouds while thousands of men,
women and children ran about in
panic, looking for shelter.
The Red Cross hospital inside
the city was in ruins, and where
it had stood was a mass of mashed
wood, medical paraphernalia, and
broken bodies.
The refugee columns now were
stretching out northward toward
Murcia, and the leader of the med
ical unit told me that it was a
continuous column reaching out for
10 miles along the Murcia highway.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
Halt Tax Evasion F. r. Asks Congress

summon witnesses and compel their
testimony in an investigation of
tax evasions estimated to have
cost the government between 5000
100000 and $4oo,OOo,0OO in revenue
this fiscal year.
The president included in his
message, a letter from Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Morgen-
THAI, ir., which cited the principal
types of tax avoidance and eva
sion disclosed in a preliminary stu
dy of income tax returns for the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

est and losses on loans to taxpay-
ers by their personal holding COM
panies or family trusts.
5. Creation of multiple trusts for
relatives and dependents.
6. Formation OF husband and
wife or father and children part
nerships.
Z. Getting up of tax free pension
trusts of which the only benefit
Charles are small groups of officers
and directors in the high income
brackets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

The court last fall refused to
rule on the direct question of the
legality of the loan and grant pol
icy when brought to it by the Duke
Power company. Instead it decided
the case on technical grounds and
sent it back for retrial
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
RAIL R D s.
ASK BAN ON.
Bio CKAD { s.
Accused
OF Buying Huge
Store of Guns

CLEVELAND, June |. U,P)
Three railroads today pet
itioned Federal Judge Sam
uel H. West for an injunc-
ton to prevent members of
the CLIO. Steel Workers union
from blockading freight shipments
to and from the Republic Steel cor
poration's plants at Warren and
Niles, o.
An action also was filed i'll Coun-
ty court here by q stakeholder of
the Republic Corp. who charged
that the company'S officers had il
legally spent more than $1000,O00
for machine guns revolverS, tear
gas bombs and ammunition and
for employment of company thugs"
detective agencies and private po-
lice to combat the unioniSts.
These legal skirm1shes were be-
gun while sporadic battles contin-
ued on the Ohio front of the seven
state steel strike. Sheriff Roy
Hardman of Warren said 1000 pick
cts engaged large number of men
in brick bat fight at the Repub-
lie plant there. Two men suffered
head wounds. Clashes were re-
ported elsewhere.
Republics Warren and Niles
plant, still operating, have been ma
jor centers of trouble The company
has been delivering food to the
men there by airplane, assertedly
because piCkets stopped railroad,
commercial truck and parcel post
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

calendar year 1886.
The evasion devices enumerated
by Morgenthau included:
1. Formation of personal holdings
corporations in nearby foreign
countries and islands.
2. Creation of closely held for
eign insurance companies.
8 Formation of domestic person.
al holding companies, incorpora-
ton of yachts and country estates.
4. Artificial deductions for inter-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
WEBB LEADS
CAMPAIGN ON
POWER PACT

Sam Webb was elected chairman.
Monday night. Of committee 81
Holtville citizens organized 90 sup-
port and work Tor approval June
l6 OF federal fiuanCna contracts
for development, ~ AN Amfrlcan
canal power
Mark Rose, Imperial lrrigatl9a
District director f.om the Hot
vile district, was speaker
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

whether there would be open hear
lngs.
Efforts at evasion of tax liability
have been 80 widespread and SO
amazing both in their boldness and
their ingenuity, he said, that
further action without delay seems
imperative. The president address
ed a special message to congress
which was read while he still was in
Hyde Park.
Mr.. Roosevelt urged congress to
grant the treasury full power to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01

n preliminary inVeStigatlOn which
he said revealed methods employed
to escape federal taxes.
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr., said the treasury
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
Valley Leaders
Mourn Passing
Of G.. l.. Brown

Last rites for Charles L. Brown, 49, pioneer Imperial
Valley attorney who died Friday night conducted
from the Lemons chapel at 80 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
with the Rev. Harold E. Doty pastor of the First Baptist
church officiating The Elks ritual followed by the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
NEW DEAL PLEAS
BEATEN AS COURT
ACTS ADVERSELY

WASHINGTON, June l. (UP)-The supreme court
concluded its 1867 term today by acting adversely
New Deal pleas in three important power and utility test
cases brought before it.
The utility actions involved court orders rather than
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
ONE DEAD TWO DYING
III DEL MAR CRASH
Entire Side of Big Passenger Bus Sliced
Away as Machine Flows Into Truck;
Driver Feared Asleep
90

DEL MAR Cal, June l. (UP)-One killed,
two others dying four seriously injured they
probably will die and 10 others sustained minor in ures
when bus enroue from Los Angeles to San Diego crash
ed into the of southbound oil truck and trailer here
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-01
FORD CHARGES

FORD CHARGES
SAN FRANCISCO. June |. UP)-
The management Of the Ford Mo-
tor company assembly plant at
Richmond, Cal, where 150O work
ers have been on strike since last
Wednesday, was charged today with
violation of the national labor re-
lationS act. -.