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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
FISH TRAPS IN BRIT. COLUMBIA
 ARE DISCUSSED
Pros and Cons Taken Be- fore Ottawa House of
 Commons Committee

OTTAWA, Feb. MA petition against the use of fish traps in British Columbia waters, signed by 1,794 fishermen and others has been taken before the Standing Committee Of Marlne and Fisher ies of the House of Commons.
 Howard Greer, Conservative of Vancouver South, suggested that only traps at Sooke, B. C., are un- der consideration and that these only affected the Fraser River run.
 A. w. Neill, Independent, of Con- mox, Alberni, contended that ev- eryone in British Columbia is af- fected, that it is a national prob- lem.
 c. F. Goodrich, President of the Sooke Harbor Fishing and Pack ing Company. the first witness be- fore the committee, stated that To- cation of traps at the present site at the southern end of Vancouver Island is the only way possible to intercept the sockeye before the swing into the waters of the Unit ed States. He said that in one day 52 purse seine boats had been seen returning to American ports with catch of 10000 sockeyes which he claimed were 150 percent larger than the whole catch of his company that year. He suggested the Canadian government should encourage the use of traps so Can ada could get large Share of the catch.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
Crash Inquiry
 Is Adjourned
Missing Parts of Airliner, Now in San Francisco
 Bay, Must Be Found

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Feb. IT. The Governments inquiry into the air liner crash here week ago has adjourned. Maj. R. w. Schroe- der, Department of Commerce In- spector, said the inquiry will not be resumed until missing plane parts. buried in the bay, are re- covered.
 Testimony was given yesterday that Pilot Tom Thompson was too good a flier to hit the water acci- dentally and they declared the right motor must have failed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
Police TOrtures Are Laid Bare Before Japan, House Peers
Flushed Silence Prevails as Aged Victim Attacks
 Government

TOKYO, Feb. 17.-Kisichi Kok- ubo, aged p, amid the hushed si- lence of the members of the House of Peers, drew from his own ex- perience in bitterly attacking the new government in allowing the Japanese police to use medieval tortures to force confessions.
 Kokubo said he was tortured some years ego for an alleged po- litical crime.
 Kokobu cited cases in which the police hung their victims up by the heels, poured water down their nostrils and burned them on the forehead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
SHIP REPORTS TROUBLE; AID
 IS INDICATED

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. IT. - The Italian steamship Dora wirelessed to the Coast Guard Headquarters here this afternoon saying trouble is being experienced in navigating.
 The steamer is out from New York for Mediterranean ports.
 The vessel gave her position as 21O miles southeast of Nantucket 
 The craft gave indication for ves- sels to stand near.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
L|NDBERCHS FORGED DOWN,
 SAND STORM
Flier and Wife Reported to Have Made Safe Forced
 Landing Late Today

JERUSALEM, Feb. 11.-Reports received late this afternoon from Baghdad said Col Charles A. Lind- bergh and ms wife made safe forced landing in a sand storm near Rutnah Wells in the Syrian desert.
 Earlier in the day, the two Amer ican fliers, after quick visit to the pyramids and Sphynx, had ta- ken off for Cairo and planned on a 8OO-mile nonstop flight to Bagh- dad, but ran into fierce sand storm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
BIG FREICHTER GOES DOWN IN COLUMBIA RIVER
Another Large Craft Goes Aground on Sand Dur ing Early Morning CREW OF DOOMED
 BOAT ALL SAVED Disaster Is One of Worst in Recent Months on
 Oregon Coast

BULLETIN = PortlaHd. Ore, Feb. 17.--The gale swept Co., lumbia River claimed the Ital- ian motorship FeItre early to- today in collision with the freighter Edward Luckenbach.
 The Feltre immediately sank up to her promenade deck.
 The bow of the Edward Luck enbach is stove in but 1t is believed she is not otherwise damaged. She is aground on the sand bank.
 The crew of the Feltre Is re- ported to have been rescued. The crash occurred in one of the worst storms In years with the wind raging at a velocity of from 45 to 50 miles an hour.
 The scene of the collision is about 40 miles down the river from here and five miles above Longview.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
First OfficiaI List of
 Good WiU Contest Girls to
 Appear Thursday; Hurry In

visit the beautiful Pacific Coast and Old Mexico may still do so and with the contest officially open ing tomorrow immediate entry is imperative.
 Votes Cost You Nothing
 Votes in the Daily Alaska En- pire's Good Will Contest and On To Mexico Tour will not cost subscrib- CTS of the Empire one cent. You will get them when you pay your subscription and with the votes you receive you should support your favorite in the On To Mexico race.
 And now for the prize trips. when
 Continued on Page Six)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
When Dentist Says It Won't Hurt,
 Maybe He's Right

CHICAGO, Feb. T.-Dr. H. w. Oppice, teacher in the Dem tai Department of L0y0la Uni- versity, told the Chicago Dem tai Society today that pain is mostly imagination when one feels the dentist go to work.
 Actually, there is very little pain in modern dentistry" Dr. Oppice said. "The vibration of the drill creates a sensation that registers fear in the brain. Anticipation causes more pain than operation"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17

With nominations in the Daily Alaska Empires Good Will Contest and On To Mexico Tour arriving hourly. contestants are reminded that there is still time for their names to appear in the first official list of participants which will ap- pear in Thursdays Empire, if there is no further delay in filing a dec laration of intention with the Cir culation Deartment of the Daily Alaska Empire.
 Still Chance to Enter
 Girls who so far have neglected to take advantage of the oppor- tunity offered by The Empire to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
TWO MATTSON
 SUSPECTS ARE !. NOW REPORTED
Dead Man Found in Cali fornia Answers Descrip-
 tion-One Held, Idaho

QUINCY, Cal, Feb. 17.-Plumas County Coroner John Moody today expressed the opinion that the body of -whiskered man found dead last night in box car may be that of the Mattson kidnaper. After the Coroner's inquest it was declared that the mans death was caused by cold and starvation.
 Moody, who sai dthe dead man answered the kidnaper's descrip- ton. reported that the man had treated his fingertips with acid in an apparent attempt to prevent hls identification by fingerprintine and had shaved his eyebrows in such a way as to change his ap- pearance.
 Federal Bureau of Investigation officers in San Francisco said that the case would be investigated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
TO HEAD sITKA JOB

Arriving in Juneau on the Alaska from Seattle, MT. and Mrs. E. Warren and their child are stop ping at the Gastineau Hotel, await ing transportation to Sitka, where MT. Warren will supervise work on the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge Company project there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
DOW, JONES AVERAGES
Independent Offices Appropriation Bill
 Approved by Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. r. The Senate has passed the billion dol lar independent offices appropria- ton bill without debate and sent it to the House for consideration, with the Senate amendments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
STRONG OFFENSIVES
 ARE REPORTED HURLED

LONDON, Feb. 17.-According to radio advices, the Spanish Insur- gent forces have hurled strong of fensives on two fronts in the civil war, both menacing the core of the Spanish Governments Terri tory.
 In the south, forces of Gen. Fran co forged steadily onward.
 In the north, the Insurgents are fighting to complete isolation of Madrid from Valencia, attacking by air and land to break highway com munication.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
NURSE GOES THROUGH

Miss Ila M. Foster. government nurse. is among the passengers on the steamer Alaska. booked for Seward from Seattle.
 Miss Foster is accompanying q party of discharged patients from Morningside Hospital to their homes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
TO WALL
 SPAIN IN; 26
 NATIONS AGREE
Saturday Midnight Is Dead line for Volunteers Who
 Race to Beat It

LONDON, Feb. l7.-Twenty six European Nations have cemented far flung plan to wall Spain in from the world while foreign vol unteers raced to beat the Saturday midnight deadline in the war zone.
 Sympathizers of both sides in Spain's civil war hurried against time to join the fighting forces.
 The International Non-Interven- ton Committee has approved of the volunteers ban and plan to completely blockade the berian Peninsula by March 6.
 Only Portugal, insurgent sup- porter, declined to ratify the agree ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
vAGRANT HELD

TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Feb. T.- A swarthy Tacoma boxmaker sent to jail here on vagrancy charge is held pending questioning in con- nection with the kidnap and mur- der of little Charles Mattson taken from his home in Tacoma December 27.
 Police Chief Howard Gillette said that the man told rambling stories of living in Tacoma a mile from the Mattson home.
 He claimed he spent Christmas at a CCC camp in Lewiston, Idaho, and the following Sunday in Walla Walla, Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
CRASH IN DARKNESS

PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. 17.--The Italian motorship Feltre sank in c collision with the Edward Lnchen-' bach during a gale shortly before 3 o'clock this morning.
 All hands of the doomed ship were saved as the craft shuddered down to the Columbia Rivers bottom with hole stove in the side and sank up to the promenade deck in 35 feet of water.
 The Edward Luckenbach was pro- ceeding up the river after having crossed the Columbia River Bar in one of the fiercest gales of the win- ter.
 The Feltre was oceanbound down stream.
 Escape, Night Clothing
 The majority Of the crew, those not on watch, escaped in their night clothing, the majority being taken aboard the tug Warrior and taken to Rainier, Ore. There were 40 in the crew of the Feltre and not one life was lost.
 Oiler Baltzaro Agnelo, received an ankle injury. He said
 The two ships crashed in the darkness and bowling gale. Swells were high. Water poured in upon us. The lights went out and the engines stopped.
 All Hands on Deck
 q shouted for all hands to make the deck. I found flashlight and with its aid we made for the upper decks. At that time water was up to our shoulders. Had we been at sea all hands would have been lost.
 We owe much to the crew of the tug Warrior. That vessel braved the immense swells of the river in the gale and rescued us"
 The Edward Luckenbach is in command of Capt. Edward Murphy and carries crew of 38. Her net tonnage is 5,087 compared to the 3,773 tons of the Feltre, commanded by Capt T. T. Raniere
 From advices, it is believed that the main channel of the Columbia River has not been blocked by the sinking of the Feltre.
 The accident is one of the worst in many months. since the Iowa went down at the mouth of the river on January l2. 1886. Her crew of 30 was lost at that time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. IT. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14ss, American Can 108h,. American Light and Power 13A, Anaconda 57as, Bethlehem Steel 86as, Calumet and Hecla 1874, Commonwealth and Southern 3A, Curtiss Wright 7A, General Motors 67h, International Harvester 104h, Kennecott 62A, New York Gen. tral 44A, Southerp Pacific 49as, United States Steel 105, United Cor poration SIS, Cities Service A, Pound $4.891z, Republic Steel 341s.
 DOW, JONES AVERAGES
 The following are todays Dow, Jones averages: industrials l87.98; rails 58, utilities 35.15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17
LUCKENBACH FLcATED

PORTLAND, Feb. l7.-The Ed ward Luckenbach was pulled off the sand late this forenoon on a rising tide and then headed for Longview
 Capt. Murphy told the news papermen there was a ''cross in the whistles"
 I. Turppa, river pilot aboard the Feltre said that although the gale was bad he whistled his intention to pass to port and said the Ed ward Luckenbach responded. He refused to comment further.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-17

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
The President Considers
\ Special Session

It is devoutely to be hoped that Pres
ident Roosevelt, who admitted the other
day that he is considering calling a spe-
elal session of congress in November,
viii decide against it. We are inclined
decide not to call such a special session.
TO believe that the President will finally
The belief is based on his own promises
during his western tour that the federal
budget will be balanced during the fis-
cal year beginning July l.
1t has been the recent history of con-
gress that it is the greatest money spend
ing organization in the history of the
United States. The only way to keep
congress from spending additional money
at this time, it seems, is to avoid a special
session. When congress is not in session,
we at least can blame some specific
agency for spending our money When
congress Is in session, We sometimes don't
know whether to blame congress, the New
Deal or someone else.
The President wants legislation for an
eyer-normal granary plan, minimum
wages and hours, governmental reorgan-
lzation, regional planning and court re-
form. None of these things are so i'm
mediate in their emergency that they
cannot wait until the regular session
All of them were hanging fire at the
last session of congress. They were not
enacted for one of two reasons; their
supporters We're not sure they would pass
without additional pressure on. congress,
or congress considered other things more
important In view of these facts, it is
hard To consider these items on the emer-
gency list.
The best way for the federal govern
ment to balance the budget during the
next fiscal year-in fact, the only way
is by retrenchment. The budget will
be balanced if existing expenditures are
cut down. The earliest beginner at arith-
metic should know that budget cannot
be balanced by additional spending.
1t is time now, it seems to us, to let
the nation go ahead under its own power
for while.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
Bruce Cation Says:
- Shiftinu Trends That vex Business Men

Nor could the baking industry fore
see that these same women would
decide that bread was fattening-
and thereby knock sizable hole
in the annual sale of that commodi-
ty.
You could go on citing such ex-
amples all day, and when you got
through you would begin to under
stand why business executives so
often get gray hair. Ordinary COM
petition a business man expects. He
can meet that; it's part of the
game. But when some new habit or
idea suddenly carries his customers
entirely away from the whole in
dustry of which he is part, he is
next to helpless.
Such shifts are characteristic of
American life. They offer fortunes
to the men who can foresee them
and get in front OF them, but
they mean the biggest kind of trou-
BILE to the men who get caught in
the squeeze.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
Make Fire Prevention
Week a Success

There is one way in which Fire Preven-
tion Week in Ell Centro could be made
an outstanding success, surprising ev-
erything else ever attempted here. 1t
is a simple way and one that would not
take great deal of anyone's time.
1t would, briefly, see every resident
and business man in the city make sure
that his own place is free from the
constant danger of fire through defec-
tive wiring, excess refuse or other things.
If every man and woman in the city
took the job of seeing that the place
where they live, or where they operate
their business, is safe from fire, then
Fire Prevention Week would have achiev-
ed its ultimate goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
Privacy for the
Duke and Duchess

When the Duke and Duchess of Wind
sor-he is the former King Edward
arrive in the United States in November,
Americans will have their chance to
demonstrate this countrys innate sense
of fair play 1t can best be demonstrated
by allowing the royal pair to retain
shred of the privacy for which they
have a distinct liking. a.a
1t is inevitable that the newspapers
will cover their visit thoroughly, but it
is to be hoped that the minority of news
papermen who make up the yellow
fringe" do not disgrace their profession
and their country with tactics which
would do no credit to a Peeping Tom.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
S u M M o N S

SU M M o N 5
No. 1855
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT Plaintiff
VS..
JAY P. BURGER, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. R.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO:
JAY P. BURGER. T. KIMURA,
HARVEY H. SAzUKI, FRED j.
MICHEL AND LOUIS B. STEINER,
A co = PARTNERSHIP DOING
BUSINESS AS GEO. A. MICHEL
CO., FRED j. MICHEL, LOUIS B.
STEINER, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANP, a Corporation, AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY. Co.
partnership, Defendants
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days il
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified thai
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiffs
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the com.
plant, as arising upon contract, Oh
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this goth day of May, 1887.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
tSEAL) County Clerk.
So 10 II "a o 8 Is % 20 N S
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
Other Editors Saw
TURLOCK Is BENEFITED BY
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Sacramento Bee


Increased revenue from the sale OF the peo-
pies power generated at Don Pedro dam is
credited in a large de gree for a new low tax
rate in the Turlock Irrigation District
Directors of the district on Monday fixeu
the tax levy at $3.50. This is "A cents per S100
on assessed valuation below the 1867 rate
and is the lowest OF any irrigation district in
California having facilities for water storage.
generation of electricity and providing drainage
TO maintain a mean water level.
Like Modesto, her sister district Turlock
has been able steadily to decrease her tax rate
since completion of Don Pedro and the jointly
owned power generating plant and transmission
lines. Sale of power has brought profits that have
reduced the Modesto districts tax rate by so
per cent since 1928 while Turlock's rate has
been lowered from $3.50 fourteen years ago to
the new record levy of $3.50.
Efficient management and officials convinc-
ed of the benefits of public ownership have
played no small part in the outstanding success
of both the Turlock and Modesto districts
Not only profits from the sale of power
reducing Turlocks tax rate from year to year,
but this revenue is a material aid in cutting
down the bonded Indebtedness, which officials
of the district hope TO retire by 1860.
Tulock's creditable record in the field of
public ownership, like that of Modesto should
be highly gratifying to the people of that dis
trict.
It is an achievement that should attract the
tunity for such an enterprise is presented.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08
Famous Sayings =
New York Day by Day BY o. o. Mcintyre

48 hours before he awakened him
on the stage of the opera house.
I tossed off my first whiskey neat
over the bar with Boone, while in
terviewing him for our local daily.
While talking to him I began to
feel light-headed and floaty and
thought he had given me the eye
and did I get away in a hurry! A
block or so down the street it
came upon me all of a sudden that
was mildly Sloshed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08

erick the male milliners. with the
Dorothy Parker fair for snappy
talk. Those taxi driver brawls that
turn the air blue mean nothing.
Just their way of relieving the
monotony.
What became of Rexford Guy
TugWell? Or do you care? Not
many can get angrier in print than
Gen. Hugh johnson. The hearty
old Roman of West 10th street-Jim
Moore, of the restaurants. Kath-
arine Cornell hasn't looked day
older for the past ten years.
Top among the popular music
radio orchestras: Meredith Wilson's.
Gals with those paper leis. A study
in calm-Joseph P. Kennedy. Floyd
Gibbons doesn't walk along the
streets = he breeZes. And Jules
Glaenzer zooms as though just fir
ed out of a cannon.
Those hesitating ladies along the
sidewalks that Grandma used to
call "soiled doves and Grandpa
called rips" Who remembers when
all the Childs restaurants looked
precisely alike? Singers come and
go but Lawrence Tibbett is still in
there pitching.
Barratry: There has been coolies
of deserved criticism lately for Bar
associations and their alleged shield
ng of crooked shysters. There are
not many whose lives are cast in
the Broadway section who do not
know a shake-doWn lawyer or SO.
Rascals who live by prompting
cabaret and show girls in the art of
blackmailing occasional philander-
ers on their nights out. The con-
scienceless guild is said to garner
several millions, despite the passing
of the anti-heart-balm law some
time ago. Respect for law is diff
cult without respect for its prac-
titioners, and cerainly there are a
number roaming the town who
should be behind the bars.
Owen WiSter recently passed his
77th birthday, hale and hearty, in
Wyoming. Few know the man so
identified with the rugged plains
of the west was originally an effete
fastener. His first trip west was
in 1885 for his health, after gradu-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-08

Just as If We didn't have enough
other things to worry about these
days, we are now invited to view
with alarm the fact that mother
doesn't begin to hustle around in
the kitchen the way she used to.
The invitation comes in the form
of an address delivered before a
recent convention of the American
Gas Association by a veteran gas
company executive, Walter c.. Beck
jord.
The good old days of sized
breakfasts, says Mr.. Beckjo jord,
seem to be gone forever. No longer
does the sturdy citizen sit down
to a table full of bacon and eggs,
cornbread, potatoes and fried corn
meal mush, as in the good old days.
Instead he looks respectfully at a
glass of orange juice, a plate of
toast and cup of coffee and calls
that skimpy combination his morn
ing meal
Mr.. Beckjord and the gas COM
panies draw cards in this situation,
of course, because of the fact that
when mother cooks a big breakfast
she uses a lot of fire; and when,
as and if, she is using gas range,
a lot of the gas company's pro-
duct is consumed. The orange juice
toast and coffee combination. on
the other hand burns very little
gas-none at all, as Mr.. Beckjord
remarks sadly, if there are electric
toasters and percolators in the
house.